David Krumholtz

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q356086: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Ice Storm (1997); Ray (2004); Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007); Inception (2010); The Judge (2014); Oppenheimer (2023); Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025); Mr. Irrelevant (2026).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Walk the Line (2005): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (parody target) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup.
    “for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parody of) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard is a beat-for-beat demolition of Walk the Line (and Ray), pairing contempt with affection.
    “it is such a perfect note for note, beat for beat, cliche for cliche, demolition of this kind of movie, with just the right amount of contempt and affection”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:28:10 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Man of Steel (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Judge (2014), which they acted in: Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read). The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Ray (2004): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (parody of) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Ray ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard arrived in the wake of Ray and Walk the Line and skewers their clichés.
    “that film coming out in the wake of things like Ray, and especially walk the line”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:51 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Rick Moody's novel: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Ice Storm (1997), which they acted in: Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read). Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it.
    “It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Ice Storm (1997), which they acted in: The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read). Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm.
    “They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

The Doors (1991): 1 line

  1. industry (marketing mimicry) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: The Doors ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard's poster of John C. Reilly was modeled on Val Kilmer in The Doors so it would pass as a real biopic.
    “the poster of John C. Riley is modeled on Val Kilmer in the doors, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:27 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Elvis (2022): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (prefigured by) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read). A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard.
    “there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parody of a parody) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read). Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star.
    “somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Swingtown (TV): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through The Ice Storm (1997), which they acted in: The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read). Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax.
    “That show has to be on Cinemax.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (parody of) · through Ray (2004), which they acted in: Ray ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard arrived in the wake of Ray and Walk the Line and skewers their clichés.
    “that film coming out in the wake of things like Ray, and especially walk the line”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:51 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (9) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): David Krumholtz → Oscar Isaac. The riff holds that Krumholtz's career was taken by Oscar Isaac, who was 5% less Jewish.
    “And Oscar Isa was like, what if 5% less Jewish?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about David Krumholtz: Father was a degenerate gambler whose favorite bar was Jimmy's Corner; the owner, a former boxer, trained young Krumholtz, who hated it. His brother, begging to box, balanced out and nearly went pro.
    “my father was talked about before, a degenerate gambling addict whose favorite bar was Jimmy's corner.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:02:05 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about David Krumholtz: Krumholtz plays bongos in a Grateful Dead cover band, Golden String Fiddle, at the Orange Lantern in Paramus, NJ.
    “I'm playing at the Orange Lantern in Paramus, New Jersey.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:16:43 · David Krumholtz (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about David Krumholtz: The Krumholtz-to-Oscar-Isaac riff.
    “And Oscar Isa was like, what if 5% less Jewish?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about David Krumholtz: His character is named Francis Davenport.
    “Crumholtz's character is called Francis Davenport, which is like the worst match for a Crumholtz ever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:20:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)