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Go backstage of the legendary 1972 production of GODSPELL with the new doc YOU HAD TO BE THERE!
Monday 9/28 at 7pm, followed by a Q&A with Director Nick Davis moderated by @TheSecondCity's @KLsecondcity!
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“[This]comes closest to fulfilling comedy fans’ ultimate time-machine fantasy."
Donald Liebenson reviews YOU HAD TO BE THERE: HOW THE TORONTO GODSPELL IGNITED THE COMEDY REVOLUTION: rogerebert.com/reviews/you-h…
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So I slept on it instead of tweeting this from my seat as I shook my head. Still embarrassed to have witnessed that 9th inning at Citi Field. I don’t care that our season is over, that was very weird to me. Situations matter. 1st inning, fine. The 9th to tie the game? No thanks.
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How cool is this? Ethan Cooper is a 2nd grader in So.Calif. A huge Met fan in Dodger territory. I’m flattered of course, but really impressed with his poise and passion. You crushed it, Ethan. You will be in the booth before you know it. Parents Josh and Sara should be proud.
This tweet really lands with me. It connects. And more than that, it fits my lane—And let me break it down for you in three ways: 1) You’re identifying a real trend; 2) you’re doing it with humor; 3)It’s the rare AI take that’s actually… human.
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Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Nick Davis's timely documentary THIS ORDINARY THING #ThisOrdinaryThing youtube.com/watch?v=6qcgS6xW…
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TONIGHT at 8:30 ET on JBS: @drgoldman speaks to Nick Davis about his documentary, This Ordinary Thing, which uses never-before-seen footage & testimonies to tell the stories of non-Jews who risked everything to shelter Jewish strangers during the Holocaust
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#YouHadToBeThere revisits the wild comedic legacy of 1972's Toronto production of @BwayGodspell 🎭 at @whisfilmfest bit.ly/4aGV8dY #WFF2025
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This week's BEST movie screenings in NYC
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"You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution..." is an exuberant and essential documentary for comedy heads. My review from @TIFF. tinyurl.com/39p8e5wf
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"I Was Very, Very Conscious That My Life Had Changed": These Mega Stars Take Us Back to Where It All Began in 'You Had to Be There' collider.com/godspell-you-ha…
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The 1972 Toronto production of Godspell is the stuff of legends.
@filmfest_ca chats w/ YOU HAD TO BE THERE director Nick Davis about bringing to screen this snapshot of Toronto's emerging comedy scene. #TIFF50 povmagazine.com/you-have-to-…
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My favorite pop-culture-history podcast, THE PLOT THICKENS by @BenMank77, is back today with the juiciest possible series: The tale of his uncle Joe Mankiewicz's disastrous effort to make CLEOPATRA in the early 1960s. I'm only 10 minutes in and it's clear this is an all timer.
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Amongst the many, many amazing things about The Beatles, one of the most insane things is that it was pretty much always just these four guys. Aye, Billy Preston played on a few, George Martin on a lot more. They had the odd guest, and classical musicians played things they couldn’t. But, when you put on a Beatles album, it’s mainly the same four guys making the music, whatever it might sound like. I know people will say “well, that’s what most bands do” But, most bands aren’t creating albums where they change genres multiple times. In fact, most bands don’t change sound from album to album, and instead find a style and run with it. Or if they do, they take their time with it. Radiohead might jump from OK Computer to Kid A, but they take 3 years to do it. The Beatles released all their albums in 7! Not only that, Radiohead use the roadmap of others, “let’s make this like Aphex Twin” “let’s make this like DJ Shadow” The Beatles were the roadmap. When they turn up at the studio and create Tomorrow Never Knows, there’s no precedent for that. It’s mind blowing how they did it. They always set out to make every song different, and pretty much succeed. That takes a special kind of genius, to write that many songs in that short a time without repeating themselves. This is one of the reasons they are actually underrated if anything.
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Something funny struck me when I watched Wayne’s World tonight. It was released in 1992, and though the humour and the dialogue feels very of that time, the music doesn’t , and I think that’s because they totally sidestep Grunge. There’s a scene Smashing Pumpkins, who weren’t really Grunge, are playing. But, apart from that there’s no mention of it. It’s the year after Nevermind, and Grunge was in full flow. Yet they go see Alice Cooper, listen to Queen and Zeppelin, wear Van Halen and Aerosmith t shirts. Obviously, they are more Metal Heads. But, having those bands in it keeps the music from feeling dated and makes that aspect of the film kind of future proof in a way Grunge wouldn’t have, which is a genre that completely belongs to that time and place and sounds a bit jarring to hear at any other setting . For all the talk of Nirvana being influential, I’ve never heard too much of their music in what came after, or thought they are a timeless band. They will last forever, but they belong to a certain time, just like the rest of those bands. Any film that features them becomes a period piece.






















