Mike Myers

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q185724: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, which The Lost World: Jurassic Park credits them on.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Austin Powers (1997). Count them as actor (8 films) instead.

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.

Dana Carvey: 1 line

people (people) · them, directly: Dana Carvey ⇒ Mike Myers (the maker said so: Dana Carvey's recent revelation). Carvey feels Myers lifted Dr. Evil from him; they fell out and did not speak for years.
“he definitely took it from him and it was why they didn't talk for like 15 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Peter Sellers: 1 line

career (career) · them, directly: Peter Sellers ⇒ Mike Myers (the host's read). Myers' hero is Sellers, who also vanished into characters.
“his big hero is Peter Sellers, who was the exact same way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993): 1 line

people (people) · them, directly: So I Married an Axe Murderer ⇒ Mike Myers (the host's read). Fat Bastard rips off the Scottish uncle in Axe Murderer, then Shrek: one trinity.
“Fat bastard being a ripoff of the uncle and so I married an ax murder.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Nutty Professor (1996): 1 line

industry (industry) · them, directly: The Nutty Professor ⇒ Mike Myers (the host's read). Playing multiple roles was a 90s trend after Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor.
“Nutty Professor, I think is 96.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

career (career): Mike Myers → Albert Brooks. Speaker thought Myers aimed for Albert Brooks-style write/direct/produce, half serious, half jokey, with Axe Murderer.
“a little bit more of like an Albert Brooks type of thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → Peter Sellers. Myers' hero is Sellers, who also vanished into characters.
“his big hero is Peter Sellers, who was the exact same way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → Bill Murray. Myers may have fancied himself a Bill Murray who could do both quick-change and Stripes.
“he probably fancied himself a little bit more of a Bill Murray.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → The Love Guru. Myers waited too long and then Love Guru bombed in 2008; a long drought since.
“we get all the way to 08 and then love grew bombs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career comparison): Will Ferrell → Mike Myers. Ferrell tried Myers' playbook of turning an SNL character into a movie, but never got his Wayne's World.
“He tried to take a character from the show and make a movie out of it, and that was not successful.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → Inglourious Basterds. Myers lately works in two-day cameos like Bohemian Rhapsody and Inglourious Basterds.
“And inglorious bastards are both like, hey, wouldn't it be funny if you did this and showed up for like 2 days?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:28:26 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (3)

industry (industry): Mike Myers → The Nutty Professor. Playing multiple roles was a 90s trend after Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor.
“Nutty Professor, I think is 96.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Mike Myers → Jim Carrey. After this movie Myers passed Carrey as the biggest comic actor, as Carrey went more serious.
“I think he passed Jim Carrey, he was the biggest comic actor in the world.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Mike Myers → Will Ferrell. Ferrell probably takes over for Myers as top comic of his generation.
“He probably takes over for Myers after Myers's run.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (people): Dana Carvey → Mike Myers. Carvey feels Myers lifted Dr. Evil from him; they fell out and did not speak for years.
“he definitely took it from him and it was why they didn't talk for like 15 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Mike Myers → So I Married an Axe Murderer. Fat Bastard rips off the Scottish uncle in Axe Murderer, then Shrek: one trinity.
“Fat bastard being a ripoff of the uncle and so I married an ax murder.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

verdict (verdict): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Mike Myers. Who won the movie: Mike Myers (Heather Graham for the speaker).
“It's got to be Mike Myers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Mike Myers → Bill Hader. Myers' unmade Sprockets film mirrors a Hader/Mulaney Stefan movie that might have been.
“which is almost what happened with my players with sprockets”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Mike Myers: Wrote Austin Powers in three weeks after joking in an English accent to his wife in the car about whether she swung.
“then he wrote the movie in 3 weeks”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:29 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mike Myers: Possible career alternate: had he died after the third movie, remembered more fondly.
“I think he's remembered a lot more finely than he is now.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mike Myers: Kanye Katrina face traced back to an SNL infomercial sketch with Heather Locklear.
“It was the Mike Myers face.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)