Katey Rich

1 sketch, 13 claims, and 3 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Starman with Katey Rich (guest)

Loves Jeff Bridges and 80s hunks, Karen Allen's performance, Oscar history and the quiet humanity of Carpenter's side characters. Cannot stand Oscar tribute clips she says she hated. A sucker for her sons' obsessions (Coco, Sing, Rocketman).

Stances

  • Karen Allen carries the movie and is the real lead
  • Carpenter gives every road character quiet humanity
  • Starman works because Bridges is both child and adult
  • The Starman TV show concept is insane

Humor: Warm, parenting-anecdote driven, self-deprecating, with deadpan Oscar-book asides.

In their words

  • “I'm holding the big Oscar book.” (1:49:47)
  • “Oh, no, I like, there's something about, I haven't been born in the 80s.” (1:41:51)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 1–13 of 13 claims.

  1. unmapped (voice role): Bono → Sing 2. Bono plays a lion and has an original song, expected to win an Oscar.
    “He knows he knows that Bono plays a lion and he gets the end in the billing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:18:53 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Rocketman → Sing. Katie's son knows Elton John's 'I'm Still Standing' from Sing, and the end of Rocketman is where it all ties back together.
    “It was Heron's a Voice and Sing. where it all ties back together. He sings I'm still standing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:20:26 · Katey Rich (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (archetype): Karen Allen → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Marion Ravenwood became the ideal everyone emulated; Allen felt overshadowed and said this role was as good.
    “everyone was like, oh, Marion Ravenwood is now the ideal.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:05:57 · Katey Rich (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (comedy): Karen Allen → Scrooged. Allen did no comedies until Scrooged and Animal Behavior.
    “Until Scrooge and animal behavior, which is right.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:06:47 · Katey Rich (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. career (career gag): Dean Cundy → Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. Cundy reportedly did not return for the Garfield sequel after attitude issues with Garfield.
    “which is why he didn't come back for tale of 2 kitties.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:32:55 · Katey Rich (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. industry (Oscar): Jeff Bridges → Crazy Heart. Crazy Heart won the Oscar over strong rivals, with True Grit coming a year later.
    “I just remember like when he's on the Crazy Heart Oscar Trail being like, he's doing true grit with the Coen brothers next.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:47:28 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): Ryan Bingham → Up in the Air. The Crazy Heart songwriter Ryan Bingham shares his name with George Clooney's character in Up in the Air.
    “the guy who wrote those song, the weird kind, Ryan Bingham, who's like in the movie as musician, that is the name of George Clooney's character and up in the air.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:49:09 · Katey Rich (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. people (director): Jeff Nichols → Midnight Special. Nichols made Midnight Special, called Spielbergian.
    “everyone was like, oh, this movie's so Spielbergie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:02:23 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. verdict (same story, better version): Starman → Midnight Special. Midnight Special is called Spielbergian but really Starman-like; its Adam Driver agent does the benevolent-government-agent role better than Starman's.
    “I'm like, God, that's so Starman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:02:29 · Katey Rich (0.45 sure it was them)
  10. theme (role comparison): Charles Martin Smith → Adam Driver. Driver's benevolent-yet-menacing government agent in Midnight Special works better than Martin Smith's unfocused scientist in Starman.
    “works a lot better in that movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:02:37 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (title): Starman → David Bowie. They wonder whether they had to talk to David Bowie before calling the film Starman.
    “Do you think they had to talk to David Bowie before they called this movie Star Man?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:25:11 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. craft (soundtrack): The Martian → Starman. The Martian uses Bowie's Starman and disco in its soundtrack.
    “Isn't it in a Martian, though?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:26:03 · Katey Rich (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. people (director): Ridley Scott → The Martian. Scott directed The Martian, a comedy winner at the Golden Globes.
    “directed by Richie Scott, who's a nice man.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:27:35 · Katey Rich (0.35 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–3 of 3 fun items.

  1. fun, about Jeff Bridges: Five eras of hot: babyface 70s, grown-up 80s, dad-handsome 90s, the Lebowski phase, marble-mouth Crazy Heart onward.
    “Bridges has had 5 distinct eras of hot.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:41:59 · Katey Rich (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Steve Martin: At the NY Film Critics awards he thanked 'so many distinguished critics and Rex Reed' after Reed's column about his win.
    “it is a great honor to have been given this award by so many distinguished critics and Rex Reed.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:53:20 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Oscars 1985: Prince arrived on motorcycles in a purple limo; Amy Irving's pregnancy was debated backstage; Bridges' mother told Sam Waterston 'we rooted for you too'.
    “Prince shows up at the red carpet with 20 uniformed escorts on motorcycles”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:53:54 · Katey Rich (0.45 sure it was them)