Danny Heifetz

1 sketch, 23 claims, and 7 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Rewatchables: 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly (guest)

Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded.

Stances

  • Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman
  • Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century
  • Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture

Humor: Sports analogies, mock research claims like Ape Shit and Jay-Z, and wry fantasy football asides.

In their words

  • “This is the defining comedy of my childhood.” (0:03:07)
  • “Will Ferrell actually, to me, is like the Steph Curry of comedy” (0:09:42)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 1–23 of 23 claims.

  1. unmapped (naming): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Step Brothers. Subtitle-heavy comedy era; Step Brothers was nearly titled with Catalina wine mixer.
    “I think Step Brothers was going to have the title, something about the Catalina wine mixer was going to be in it.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:02:42 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (collaborators): Will Ferrell → Adam McKay. They made only four films together as director and star.
    “Those are the only movies that McKay directed that Farrell acted in.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:06:31 · Danny Heifetz (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (split): Will Ferrell → Adam McKay. They fell out when McKay passed over Ferrell for the Jerry Buss role in Winning Time and cast John C. Reilly.
    “McKay didn't want Farrell and picked John C. Riley.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:07:51 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. theme (analogy): Will Ferrell → Steph Curry. Ferrell is the Steph Curry of comedy: highest three-point percentage while taking the most threes.
    “Will Ferrell actually, to me, is like the Steph Curry of comedy in that he somehow has the highest three-point percentage, even though he's also taking the most threes.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:09:42 · Danny Heifetz (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (successor): Will Ferrell → Tim Robinson. Robinson plays a similar cocky-idiot character but is more niche; quotes spread through memes.
    “I think he's kind of even trying to do the same character style of like the cocky idiot”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:10:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. people (scene-stealing cameo): Will Ferrell → Wedding Crashers. Ferrell as Chaz in Wedding Crashers is called the best part.
    “Literally the most best part of Wedding Crashers?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:15:30 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (repeated joke): Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (successor): Will Ferrell → Shane Gillis. Gillis is floated as the person who could be the next big comedy movie star.
    “I think it's Shane Gillis, although... I don't know.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:22:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (second banana): John C. Reilly → Will Ferrell. Reilly happily plays number two to Ferrell like Jeff Daniels with Jim Carrey.
    “Kind of like Jeff Daniels with Jim Carrey.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:25:54 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (lineage): Jay-Z → Blades of Glory. A host notes the Jay-Z and Kanye album Watch the Throne opens by clipping Blades of Glory.
    “think about watch the throne. literally starts by clipping Blades of Glory.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:32:54 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. industry (industry): Jay-Z → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. A host theorizes the Jay-Z and Beyonce song "Apeshit" (video shot in the Louvre) only exists because this film made "ape shit" a thing.
    “I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Apeshit without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:33:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (later work): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Vice. The Halliburton reference foreshadows McKay making Vice a decade later.
    “And then he went and made vice.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:50:39 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. career (career timing): Sacha Baron Cohen → Borat. Borat arrived three months after Talladega, which makes Cohen's role a 2006 marker and Apex Mountain moment.
    “Borat came out 3 months after this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:52:41 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (similar element): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Baby Driver. Hosts like shifting-gears-to-music moments, evoking Baby Driver.
    “Do you like the movie Baby Driver?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:54:06 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (funniest sports comedy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Happy Gilmore. Talladega is argued as second funniest or funnier sports movie, with Happy Gilmore as the challenger.
    “I think it's more universally loved than Happy Gilmore, and I think it's probably an easier sell to somebody.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:18:41 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. people (that guy): Gary Cole → Office Space. Gary Cole is the beginner-level that guy: Lumbergh and Ricky Bobby's dad.
    “he was Lumberg and fucking Office Space.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:27:38 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (product placement): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Wayne's World. Wayne's World's product-placement bit is condensed to one scene whereas Talladega's is constant.
    “But this movie, it's ever present.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:35:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. verdict (Apex Mountain): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Elf. Elf is Ferrell's biggest commercial movie; Talladega and Step Brothers compete as peaks.
    “But Elf, I think, is the biggest movie he's like commercially.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:41:07 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. career (career payoff): John C. Reilly → Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Talladega Nights greenlit Reilly's lead role in Walk Hard, an apex moment for him.
    “I believe this movie Greenlit, him getting his own star role in a movie, which is Walkhart.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:42:32 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. career (career timing): Jane Lynch → Glee. Her Apex Mountain moment is Glee.
    “I'd probably say glee for Jane Lynch?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:46:50 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. what-if (casting what-if): Tom Hanks → Forrest Gump. Hanks as Ricky Bobby would play like Forrest Gump adjacent, over-the-top Southern American.
    “Like, like Forrest Gump adjacent.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:47:23 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. theme (analogy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Seinfeld. Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one.
    “it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Days of Thunder. Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder.
    “Or just watch Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–7 of 7 fun items.

  1. fun, about Adam McKay / Will Ferrell: They were hired the same day at SNL, started Funny or Die and Gary Sanchez, then split over Winning Time casting.
    “they were hired at SNL and the exact same day.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:06:59 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Most enduring line: 'If you ain't first, you're last.' The hosts say it's now in the lexicon; one researched claim ties it to Vince Lombardi's 'winning isn't everything, it's the only thing'.
    “1st or last is now just a part of the lexicon.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:48:37 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Most 2006 thing: Nextel patch, Halliburton sponsorship, Circuit City, Yasmine Bleeth, sideburns with soul patch, the gay French villain. Winner debated between Halliburton and the French villain.
    “I think it's the making the villain a gay French guy.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:52:22 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Hottest takes: the funniest sports movie ever made; has aged better than Anchorman.
    “the funniest sports movie. Never made.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:18:03 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Molly Shannon: Dion Waiters winner: she is drunk in two or three scenes, steals each, and has the vibration speech at the race.
    “I think it's Molly Shannon.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:32:32 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Life lesson fight: 'first or last' versus 'you could be second, third, fourth or fifth'; the bit where Reese scalps the tickets he sent is called the best bit in any movie ever.
    “The scalping of the tickets immediately after finally showing up is the best bit in any movie ever.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:01:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Will Ferrell: Who won the movie: Ferrell, as the biggest movie star in the world and defining comedy guy; hosts lament the loss of the star era.
    “Farrel wins the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:58 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)