Bill Hader

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q14537: 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: Knocked Up (2007); Adventureland. Count them as writer (1 film) 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.

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Starting Over: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
    “It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
    “It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

This Is 40: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
    “the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
    “This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Bridesmaids (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read). Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
    “And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Acting (2) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Paul Verhoeven → Bill Hader. Verhoeven is like Bill Hader, not Rich Little: he learned American blockbuster craft to smuggle in his own content.
    “If I can learn their language, then I can smuggle all the things I actually want to say into these conventional looking movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:18:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  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

None.