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Stand-up comedian and actor Nick Pupo likes words, but he doesn't know as many as he'd like to. This is a podcast is about that. Each week Nick brings new words and talks about them. It's learning without being boring.
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Stand Up Close And Personal is three open mic comedians from Orlando, Florida discussing all things comedy. How do you write jokes? How do you deal with a heckler? What do you do if you're bombing? Nick Pupo, Tom Feeney, and Clay Robertson have no idea. However, they do their best to sound like they know what they're talking about.
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Joe makes Nick watch The Evil Dead from 1981! Blood splatters and body parts fly in Sam Raimi’s notorious 1981 directorial debut! The Evil Dead is considered to be one of the great splatter films of the 80s, with so much graphic violence and gore that it was placed on the Video Nasty list and banned in the UK and banned many other countries (until …
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Joe makes Nick watch Wes Craven’s underrated 90s classic The People Under the Stairs from 1991! This one combines horror, a wickedly dark sense of humor and social satire to form one of the wildest entries in Craven’s stories extensive filmography! *Correctio: Mommie Dearest (1981) starred Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford Next episode in early 2023! S…
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Joe made Nick watch Takashi Mike’s Audition (1999) and holy sh*t!!! Miike is a prolific director who works in a wide variety of genres, but Audition is the movie that put him on the international map! This one changed horror, influencing the likes of Eli Roth when he made Hostel and introducing the world to just how hardcore Japan can be! It’s a cr…
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Joe makes Nick watch the ultimate Halloween party gone wrong movie - Night of the Demons! (1988)! Featuring b-movie queen Linnea Quigley, this campy, creepy, fun possession flick draws on a host of popular films that preceded it, including The Exorcist, Demons and The Evil Dead and the results are a great time! Next episode 10/31/22! Sources: https…
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Joe makes Nick watch the movie that started everything! With its atmospheric direction and iconic score, John Carpenter’s Halloween kick-started the slasher genre and changed movies as we know them! Next episode on 10-17-22 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film)#Plot The Last-Drive In On Shudder Episode: Joe Bob’s Halloween Ho…
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Joe makes Nick watch Eli Roth’s bizarre, hilarious, blood-splattered directorial debut, Cabin Fever (2003)! Next episode 10-10-22! Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_Fever_(2002_film)#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Roth https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303816/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cabin-f…
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Joe makes Nick watch Rob Schmidt’s 70s throwback backwoods road slasher Wrong Turn (2003) and boy does he not care for it! Next episode 10-3-22 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong_Turn_(2003_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Schmidt https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295700/ https://the-artifice.com/wrong-turn-2003/ https://www.proquest.c…
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Joe and Nick watch Stephen King’s Pet Sematary! Written by King and directed by Mary Lambert, this one really delivers on the ghosts, gore and ghouls! Next episode on 9/26/22! Sources for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary_(1989_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098084/ https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/04/228715/pet-…
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This week Joe makes Nick watch James Gunn’s (Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad) 2006 directorial debut! This slimy, disgusting, slug-filled and hilarious tribute to 80’s B horror movies is one of the great under-appreciated examples of sci-fi horror comedy. Enjoy Slither! Next episode available 9-11-22 Sources for further reading: https://en.w…
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Joe makes Nick watch Greg McLean’s often overlooked and highly underrated killer crocodile movie Rogue (2007)!!! They talk crocs, growing up with alligator-infested lakes and rivers in Florida and the often sketchy making of this modern classic of a monster movie! Next episode on 9/5/22! Sources for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro…
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Joe makes Nick watch Tom Holland’s queer vampire classic Fright Night from 1985! Next Episode: Rogue (2007) will be released 8/29/22 Sources for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fright_Night https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089175/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/2019/6/19/the-boys-next-door-the-homoeroticism-of-frig…
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Joe makes Nick watch the film that spawned not only the modern zombie film, but the entire modern horror genre, George A Romero’s groundbreaking film Night Of The Living Dead! Next episode 8/22/22 Sources for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead The Last Drive In Season 4 Episode 1 https://hauntedmtl.com/vision/tl…
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This week our hosts watch and discuss the movie that kicked off the modern horror-comedy sub-genre, modernized the werewolf sub-genre and launched the Academy Award for Best Makeup, An American Werewolf In London! Next episode 8/15/22! Sources for further reading: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/ https://www.comicon.com/2019/12/22/an-american-…
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Joe makes Nick watch one of the films that helped to develop the movement known as the New French Extremity, Alexandre Aja’s stylish, intense modern slasher High Tension. A member of the “Splat Pack,” Ajá pulls no punches in this gore-filled, blood-soaked early 2000s masterpiece! Next episode available 7/8/22 Sources for further reading: https://en…
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Moving into the slasher subgenre, Joe makes Nick watch the iconic 1982 Giallo Tenebrae, a tense, violent, stylish whodunnit by the Italian Master of Horror, Dario Argento. Next episode Monday 8-1-22. Sources / Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebrae_(film)?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giallo?wprov=sfti1 https://www.imdb…
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Comedians Nick Pupo and Joe Chlapowski love to watch horror movies. Nick is a horror rookie and Joe is a lifelong horror fiend, and every week Joe picks a movie that Nick has never seen and they watch it and talk about it. This week they're doing a deep dive into Don Coscarelli's 1970s cosmic horror masterpiece Phantasm. *Episodes contain spoilers*…
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Get the hell out of here, 2014! Do we wrap up 364 days with a witty stand up comedycentric year in review? Nope. Same ol' SUCAP struggling to down play the fact all we want is attention while hopefully stumbling across something insightful? Yup. Nick and Clay are forced to continue their duet as Tom wanted to postpone recording to do some writing, …
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