{"id":46924,"date":"2023-07-08T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=46924"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:34:18","slug":"best-in-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=46924","title":{"rendered":"Best in Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is one of a few flicks that Christopher Guest had a hand in<br>putting together, and I think the funniest.<br>Mr. Guest has a superb comedic pedigree, he did a lot of work <br>for National Lampoon in the early days, both the magazine and<br>the radio show, also did a few movies along the way.<br>He was in Spinal Tap, the cult metal head parody of the 1980&#8217;s.<br>Did a few mockumentary style flicks, was\/is British royalty, and<br>the pinnacle of all that is wonderful, he married Jamie Lee Curtis.<br>Yep, he&#8217;s in the big leagues.<br>This whole movie is silly, Best in Show makes fun of the multitude<br>of professional dog shows that exist, especially the Westminster<br>event that takes the country by storm.<br>Even better, it parodies the people who follow such things.<br>This scene has the late, great Fred Willard as a commentator who<br>has nary a clue, about anything&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Best in Show (8\/11) Movie CLIP - Best in Show (2000) HD\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MeAMVy0ybYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of a few flicks that Christopher Guest had a hand inputting together, and I think the funniest.Mr. Guest has a superb comedic pedigree, he did a lot of work for National Lampoon in the early days, both the magazine andthe radio show, also did a few movies along the way.He was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46925,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46924\/revisions\/46925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}