Danny Kelly

1 sketch, 15 claims, and 8 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)

Fond of fake ads, commercial bloopers, gag-heavy dinner scenes and low-budget grounded comedies. Dislikes CGI gags and glossy blockbusters. Always stirring a hot take, like Talladega being too Hollywood.

Stances

Comedies should lean on practical gags, not CGI
NASCAR is better than he thought
Dinner scene is the most rewatchable

Humor: Deadpan nit-picking, odd-pairing bits like Tom Brady as the announcer, and fantasy football asides.

In their words

“I find that we overrely on CGI to convey humor now.” (1:21:37)
“My favorite scene is probably the dinner, honestly.” (0:44:23)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Rewatchables

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Their claims

Showing 1–15 of 15 claims.

people (scene-stealing cameo): Will Ferrell → Zoolander. Ferrell's Mugatu is arguably the funniest person in Zoolander.
“He is arguably the funniest person in that movie in some of those movies, like the Mugattu in Zoolander.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:15:05 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (quote source): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Road House. Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House.
“I used to fuck guys like you in prison.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (dated reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Highlander. Highlander is one of several pop-culture references in the film that has aged.
“The movie Highlander is referenced.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:10:17 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (same team): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Same Ferrell/McKay run; Talladega came right after Anchorman and the hosts rank which has aged better.
“My hot take is that this movie has aged better than Anchorman.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:19:11 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (practical vs CGI): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Neighbors 2. Practical comedy in Talladega contrasted with CGI gags that fail, such as in Neighbors 2.
“I find that we overrely on CGI to convey humor now.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:21:37 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (practical effects): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers.
“I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (lived-in look): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Superbad. Older comedies like Superbad feel lived in, unlike shiny modern streaming movies.
“when I watch super bad. I'm like, I feel like I'm there at a normal high school”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:59 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): John C. Reilly → Steve Carell. Hearing Reilly was almost Brick, the hosts say Carell now owns the role.
“I kind of can't, you, it can't not be Steve Carell now in the brick roll.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:23:55 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (remake what-if): Christopher Nolan → Days of Thunder 2. Joking that Nolan should dark-knight the NASCAR comedy by directing Days of Thunder 2 with Tom Cruise.
“Dark Knight, Talladega Knights.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:33:11 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
people (cast overlap): John C. Reilly → Days of Thunder. Reilly appeared in Days of Thunder and in Talladega Nights.
“I mentioned that John C. Riley was in both Days of Thunder and this movie.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:34:04 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Roy Lee Farrell → Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell's father, a saxophonist and keyboardist with the Righteous Brothers, has a song in the film.
“the Will Ferrell's dad played sacks and keyboards with the righteous brothers for like 20 years.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:35:44 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career timing): Jack McBrayer → 30 Rock. Talladega was 30 Rock's first year; McBrayer became Kenneth and was in Forgetting Sarah Marshall two years later.
“This is the 1st year of 30 Rock. And he became Kenneth.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:46:26 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (running gag): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Forrest Gump. Gump later becoming a NASCAR driver on a lawnmower.
“Of course, Gump later in life becomes a NASCAR driver.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:47:27 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Boogie Nights. The Playgirl photo-shoot gag prompts Boogie Nights.
“It's called boogie nights.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:58:11 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Blades of Glory. Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies.
“No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–8 of 8 fun items.

fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Most rewatchable scene: the Baby Jesus dinner grace. Hosts say it's quotes per minute; Danny credits the scene with popularizing 'ape shit' and wildly theorizes about Jay-Z.
“Quotes per minute that still stick to this day.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:45:33 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Test-screening legend: the head of NASCAR laughed at the driver's wife line and then everyone else laughed.
“no one would laugh until he laughed”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:55:46 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Will Ferrell: Hot take that the film is too glossy and Hollywood, and that comedy is better practical than with CGI.
“it felt like it was too high budget.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:20:38 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Adam McKay: McKay as Terry Chevaux, the race driver who keeps stopping for a burger and a phone call, was the Dion Waiters candidate and a surprise cameo.
“Terry Chevaux, is Adam McCann?”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:31:55 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Product placement: Sony reportedly did not charge Wonder Bread, Old Spice or Perrier, and hosts still wonder if it's the most product placement in a movie ever.
“Sony did not actually charge brands like Wonder Bread, Old Spice or Perrier to feature their products in the movie.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:34:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: The slow comeback scene: Ferrell's hesitant 26 miles per hour pace is an homage to the actors' real terror in a test drive.
“he's going like 26 miles an hour”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:36:17 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly: On a three-hour track rental they each drove 60 seconds, came back pale and silent, tried to leave, and Reilly pushed them back into the car.
“Will Ferrell did a run for 60 seconds and came back and was silent and white as a ghost.”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:36:46 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Plot unanswerables: where did Ricky's $21.6M go (Carly and Cal embezzled?), does the slingshot work, did Dennit's dad die, why is Talladega not special.
“Where's all his money?”
The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:48:00 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)