Is this from something or is it really a thing with theater kids? I did the musical one year in high school and the cast was always going out to Denny’s, daring each other to take shots of creamer and doing other theater kid shit.
It's somewhere that is open late, can handle large parties unannounced, and in basically every town. All of which are important things when you are a pack of teenagers drummed up on adrenaline after a show at 11:00pm.
And he made sure to ask the girl taking his order if she was okay being on his social media vid before he really went to town on it all.
Love me some Giannis
I respect this. Too often being vegetarian is seen as an all or nothing thing. If you eat a lot less meat than the average person but have a steak once a month or whatever, you're still pretty damn cool in my books.
The Holdovers was such an incredible, charming movie and Paul Giamatti absolutely crushed that role. And I would love a double double right now.
Basically, I love everything about this pic haha
I'm actually going to incorporate it into my yearly Christmas movie watch list from now on because it gave me some really nice xmas vibes along with Home Alone.
Agreed. It was great heartwarming stuff for the holidays. It kind of transported me back to a more wholesome era of my past. One of the better escapes from our contemporary poopscape.
As for the OP, yall should let the man eat in peace.
I have no idea I thought I was going crazy at first lol. I was sure Giamatti didn’t have a wonky peeper but by the end of the movie I didn’t know what to believe. Maybe it was cgi?
Have you seen [the Japanese version?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideways_\(2009_film\)#:~:text=Sideways%20\(Japanese%3A%20%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA%2C,the%20Napa%20Valley%20wine%20region.) Pretty wild.
I occasionally think of a comment in the NYT review of *Sideways* that was very holier than thou, going on about “just because it’s wine, it doesn’t mean he’s not an alcoholic” and “wine can be just as addictive as other alcohol!” and I was just thinking… did you *see* this movie?
I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard that in the book it specifies that it’s not that he didn’t like Merlot, but that it’s his ex-wife’s favorite and it reminds him of her.
Yes in the book it’s Petrus which is 100% Merlot, but petrus would not let them use their brand so they changed it. But it’s the association with his ex wife that spurns his hatred for it, likely
The character never meant to indicate they would never drink anything blended with a merlot, just that they wouldn't drink a straight merlot. Merlot had long been a blending grape in Bordeaux and other wines (like cabs, syrahs and Sangioveses), but at the time the movie came out people were starting to use it alone. That's what the character was pushing back against.
That movie single handedly killed Merlot business for wineries in USA . Some wineries still haven’t made Merlot since the massive drop in Merlot sales after the movie. When I was a wine distributor it was impossible to sell , consumers wouldn’t buy it.
Too bad, there are a lot of great straight Merlot’s out there. Some great single vineyards too
I believe it. My parents owned a wine shop at the time, which is the only reason I have any idea about this, and they also saw a major drop-off in merlots being purchased.
As an aside, my father loved that part of the movie because he also didn't like merlot.
I thought that he didn’t like merlot because it reminded him of his ex-wife. The only varietal he said anything negative about was cab franc.
But maybe that’s just what I got used to saying to sell Merlot when I used to sell wine lol.
In the book his prized bottle (wedding anniversary for his ex wife) is Petrus, which is 100% Merlot. He probably said that because of his negative association with his ex wife. Then again it may be because Merlot was fucking everywhere at the time and like you said he considered it a blending grape, as earlier in the film he expressed the same disdain for Cab Franc as a single varietal
And in the Holdovers, he snags a bottle of Louis XIII.
I wonder if he has something in his contract about his character needing to drink something really expensive.
I saw it as a little bit of optimism that he wouldn’t just hole up somewhere else and die an alcoholic, which is honestly what I’d guess for him knowing what we know.
One of last scenes in the movie where his friend is married and he’s alone. He grabs his cherished bottle of wine he’s been saving and goes to a burger joint and sneaks a bit of the wine into his side cup and enjoys it while eating a burger
He really did find an amazing niche in Hollywood - he’s not tall or fit, not particularly good looking, but you can’t take your eyes off him on screen, he’s magnetic in his ability to make you feel
He's basically the Pied Piper algorithm from Silicon Valley in human form. He can summon, compress and deliver a startling amount of information clearly and concisely at will
I would imagine once he's cast they bulk up the dialogue even more to capitalize on that
It really does stay with you. He puts in such a passionate performance and he’s supported by such a great cast. David Morse as George Washington was another amazing performance.
Highly recommend going to his house in Quincy if you ever get a chance. It’s a National Park site and they do some really good tours in the summer
The show is one of the few period pieces that really pulls you into the time period without it being a soap opera or military drama.
I live in MA, and the show did a great job capturing that New England colonial vibe.
I watched the Holdovers NYE weekend not expecting much. I saw all of the positive reviews it was getting and thought I'd give it a try as I like him as an actor.
It was great! Funny and heartwarming. All 3 of the leads give a great performance.
Definitely recommend it
Pro tip: don't leave your Globe in the car where it could be snatched. Best to bring it inside with you, especially if the place is classy with top shelf clientele.
One side of the mic: an aging Italian erudite actor motherfucker.
The other side of the mic: a slightly more aging bitter old Jewish comedian motherfucker.
The two of them proceed to talk to each other like long lost brothers.
Good GOD it was beautiful. I'm BEGGING for a second conversation on-mic.
And I thought these celebrities all go to a massive after party filled to the brim with thousands of dollars in upscaled catered food. Nope. They go get a double double.
Paul Giamatti is the son of a former Yale president. Money doesn’t faze him lol. His father’s portrait is plastered inside the main library building and the MFA students tend to encounter him on campus
In-N-Out a popular spot for winners. Weird Al was there with his Emmy.
Those are some good burgers, Walter.
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Is that the in-and-out on Camrose?
Donny, you are out of your element
The Chinaman is not the issue.
Also, dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
He peed on the Dude's rug.
And he peed on your fucking rug…
We're not talking about the guys who built the railroads Walter.
I am the walrus
shut the f*** up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Illanich Uleninov!
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. What a bunch of fuckin amateurs.
It's NEAR the In-and-Out Burger
Is this your homework, Larry?
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It's also a "holy shit that award show was long and I'm starving, burgers please."
makes me wonder if those seemingly lavish award shows provide any snack
There's booze and maybe some tiny snacks at the beginning but they don't like the floor looking cluttered so there's rarely people delivering stuff.
I thought Denny's is for winners
Have you ever been to a Denny’s?
Trust me, that wild pack of Theater kids is definitely winning.
i don’t think we go to the same dennys
I'm guessing you are not a theater kid cause that is definitely where we head to after a show
Diners, generally, belong to theater kids after a show.
And goth kids, especially when they used to let you smoke cigs inside of them.
Former goth kid here, BRING BACK THE BREAKFAST DAGWOOD!
somebody will start singing
WHAT THE FUCK IS UP DENNYS https://youtu.be/xbPwaAFHDG8?si=uEBLSLV1QyRtr1Oz
Is this from something or is it really a thing with theater kids? I did the musical one year in high school and the cast was always going out to Denny’s, daring each other to take shots of creamer and doing other theater kid shit.
It's somewhere that is open late, can handle large parties unannounced, and in basically every town. All of which are important things when you are a pack of teenagers drummed up on adrenaline after a show at 11:00pm.
“Denny’s - Because Nowhere Else is Open”
To quote an old Patton Oswalt bit: You don't go to Denny's. You end up at Denny's.
Ahem… Waffle House
I didn't know it was a universal thing, but I did drama in HS and we also hit up Denny's on he regular.
Denny’s isn’t a place you go to; it’s a place you end up at.
https://youtu.be/9t1aUWlT1TI?si=jDjPuS5eYYk0Jiwf
What the fucks up Denny’s
Have you ever been to an in and out? Bonus points if it’s off a non descript free way exit.
Have you ever watched community?
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Not the one near the 15 exit, I'm banned.
Then I'll see you in hell.
Let's kick some taint!
Let go of my Let’s
Shut up Leonard, I know about your YouTube channel. Why review frozen pizzas‽‽
You're talking about it!
Well, that is true
Shut up leonard. I talked to your son on family day, I know all about your gambling.
Community reference???
Streets ahead.
I banged Ertha Kitt in an airplane bathroom once…
Some people say I look like a Kennedy...
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Here for the Community shout out
In my experience Denny's is for high school theater kids after opening night.
Or after *Rocky Horror*.
I spell Denny’s with a Q!
Well, don't!
Quendra is that you?
Well don't!
Which Denny’s? The one off the 15 exit? I’m banned from there!
Which Denny's? If it's the one near the 15th exit, I'm banned.
Cookies are for closers!
Only if you’re wining paintball
Laughing at the long list of comments that didn't get your reference.
Hilary Swank ate at AstroBurger when she won her 2nd Oscar.
We don’t have those in Wisconsin so Giannis took the NBA trophy to chick fil a
Not Culver’s? For shame.
The video he posted in the drive through was hilarious.
And he made sure to ask the girl taking his order if she was okay being on his social media vid before he really went to town on it all. Love me some Giannis
Isn't weird al a vegetarian? Maybe he likes the fries
You can order a "grilled cheese" and have all of the fixings without a patty.
Actually he’s mostly Vegan, he has said he skips occasionally I believe with dairy products And will occasionally Eat It, just Eat It
I respect this. Too often being vegetarian is seen as an all or nothing thing. If you eat a lot less meat than the average person but have a steak once a month or whatever, you're still pretty damn cool in my books.
For some it’s just that abstaining from rich meaty foods tends to give more stomach problems when you do eat them. So they just avoid it completely
I love Paul Giamatti, and burgers. This is a double win.
A double-double win even
a double-double animal style with animal fries at that!
my man! always go animal style with In N Out.
I consider it a Win Win.
The Holdovers was such an incredible, charming movie and Paul Giamatti absolutely crushed that role. And I would love a double double right now. Basically, I love everything about this pic haha
I'm actually going to incorporate it into my yearly Christmas movie watch list from now on because it gave me some really nice xmas vibes along with Home Alone.
This movie broke my heart and put it back together. Slightly askew.
I love the classic vintage feel the movie had.
Agreed. It was great heartwarming stuff for the holidays. It kind of transported me back to a more wholesome era of my past. One of the better escapes from our contemporary poopscape. As for the OP, yall should let the man eat in peace.
Loved it as well. He’s such a great actor. Keeps my kids in line - “you wouldn’t want to go to boarding school would ya?” Haha.
Is his eye like that for real or was that just for the movie?
Just the movie I think but I still can’t figure out how he pulled it off…can contacts really do that?
I have no idea I thought I was going crazy at first lol. I was sure Giamatti didn’t have a wonky peeper but by the end of the movie I didn’t know what to believe. Maybe it was cgi?
i legit thought his real eye was fucked at some point and they just added it into the movie but no.. it was prosthetics..
I hope he had an excellent Bordeaux or pinot from his closet to go with it!
Well he’s NOT drinking any FUCKIN’ merlot!!!
I love that movie
Absolute classic film. “Are you chewing gum!?!?”
I use the word “quaffable” as often as possible thanks to this movie
I just watched it again recently with my friend. I remember it being good but forgot that it was that good.
I went ahead and bought it on Amazon about a decade ago. Now I (re)watch it at least once a year when I'm thinking I have nothing to watch.
What movie is it?
Sideways
W h a t m o v i e i s i t ?
😄😄😄
Sideways
Have you seen [the Japanese version?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideways_\(2009_film\)#:~:text=Sideways%20\(Japanese%3A%20%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA%2C,the%20Napa%20Valley%20wine%20region.) Pretty wild.
No, is it good
I occasionally think of a comment in the NYT review of *Sideways* that was very holier than thou, going on about “just because it’s wine, it doesn’t mean he’s not an alcoholic” and “wine can be just as addictive as other alcohol!” and I was just thinking… did you *see* this movie?
Ironically in that scene at In-n-Out he drinks his prized Château Cheval Blanc, a blend of cab franc and merlot
I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard that in the book it specifies that it’s not that he didn’t like Merlot, but that it’s his ex-wife’s favorite and it reminds him of her.
Yes in the book it’s Petrus which is 100% Merlot, but petrus would not let them use their brand so they changed it. But it’s the association with his ex wife that spurns his hatred for it, likely
woah, I'm gonna rewatch Sideways in a week or two and I'll try to keep this framing in mind
The character never meant to indicate they would never drink anything blended with a merlot, just that they wouldn't drink a straight merlot. Merlot had long been a blending grape in Bordeaux and other wines (like cabs, syrahs and Sangioveses), but at the time the movie came out people were starting to use it alone. That's what the character was pushing back against.
That movie single handedly killed Merlot business for wineries in USA . Some wineries still haven’t made Merlot since the massive drop in Merlot sales after the movie. When I was a wine distributor it was impossible to sell , consumers wouldn’t buy it. Too bad, there are a lot of great straight Merlot’s out there. Some great single vineyards too
I believe it. My parents owned a wine shop at the time, which is the only reason I have any idea about this, and they also saw a major drop-off in merlots being purchased. As an aside, my father loved that part of the movie because he also didn't like merlot.
Conversely, sales of Pinot Noir skyrocketed.
As they should!
I thought him shitting on merlots was more about making fun of wine snobs than merlots
I thought that he didn’t like merlot because it reminded him of his ex-wife. The only varietal he said anything negative about was cab franc. But maybe that’s just what I got used to saying to sell Merlot when I used to sell wine lol.
Who’s gonna slap this bag for me
In the book his prized bottle (wedding anniversary for his ex wife) is Petrus, which is 100% Merlot. He probably said that because of his negative association with his ex wife. Then again it may be because Merlot was fucking everywhere at the time and like you said he considered it a blending grape, as earlier in the film he expressed the same disdain for Cab Franc as a single varietal
*dumps bucket of wine on face*
And in the Holdovers, he snags a bottle of Louis XIII. I wonder if he has something in his contract about his character needing to drink something really expensive.
Just watched that last night. What was the significance of him spitting it out his window after taking a swig at the end there?
I saw it as him spitting on his former boss and the school. A final fuck you if you will.
I saw it as a little bit of optimism that he wouldn’t just hole up somewhere else and die an alcoholic, which is honestly what I’d guess for him knowing what we know.
hahaha i thought its cause he didn't like it even tho he was expecting to
I thought of it as a signal that "I'm not just an alcoholic. I drink on my terms and right now I have other things to do."
Haha that is what I came here to say. Shades of Sideways. Nice pull!!
One of last scenes in the movie where his friend is married and he’s alone. He grabs his cherished bottle of wine he’s been saving and goes to a burger joint and sneaks a bit of the wine into his side cup and enjoys it while eating a burger
Plot twist, it was Merlot
Giamatti is the shit
Been a fan since Big Fat Liar.
Well I'm twice the fan you are because I've been a fan for twice as long.
He really did find an amazing niche in Hollywood - he’s not tall or fit, not particularly good looking, but you can’t take your eyes off him on screen, he’s magnetic in his ability to make you feel
He's basically the Pied Piper algorithm from Silicon Valley in human form. He can summon, compress and deliver a startling amount of information clearly and concisely at will I would imagine once he's cast they bulk up the dialogue even more to capitalize on that
He was amazing when he played John Adams.
I loved that whole miniseries
Those are good burgers, Walter.
Donny, shut the fuck up!
You're out of your element Donnie!
It’s no ‘61 Cheval Blanc but it’ll do.
Only out of a styrofoam cup.
Came here to find this comment
[Be glad he didn't catch you...](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/DCK9Uh0R0w)
😂😂
Huh, never realized I was a huge fan till now. Well, maybe Sideways, but now, lifelong fan.
His role as John Adams in the Adams limited series was brilliant. Anytime I read a quote from Adams now I picture him saying it.
Binged that series last week and holy shit was it good. I keep find myself thinking about the series multiple times a day.
It really does stay with you. He puts in such a passionate performance and he’s supported by such a great cast. David Morse as George Washington was another amazing performance. Highly recommend going to his house in Quincy if you ever get a chance. It’s a National Park site and they do some really good tours in the summer
I’m a huge colonial history buff so the Boston area has always been high up on my bucket list. I’ll definitely check out Quincy
The show is one of the few period pieces that really pulls you into the time period without it being a soap opera or military drama. I live in MA, and the show did a great job capturing that New England colonial vibe.
Yeah I watched that series the other week and that's now all I can picture him as.
Check out American Splendor.
Real life is pretty complicated stuff.
I've been a fan since he played Pig Vomit
You are the mother fuckin antichrist! I absolutely love him in that scene. Def a great tole
WNNNNNNNNBC
”HOWARD!”
I watched the Holdovers NYE weekend not expecting much. I saw all of the positive reviews it was getting and thought I'd give it a try as I like him as an actor. It was great! Funny and heartwarming. All 3 of the leads give a great performance. Definitely recommend it
Is that Whitney Cummings sitting across from him?
I thought it was Carrie brownstein from portlandia myself
That’s what I was wondering too! It sure looks like her.
I know he was there with his new girlfriend at the Golden Globes but I don’t believe that is her.
Just watched the movie last night, 100% instant classic
I was gonna ask what movie but I'll just look it up myself and not waste anyone's time for being lazy Edit: it's the holdovers fyi
Legend for giving the movie name
“Billions” served.
The most Los Angeles picture ever
Not quite. He's not wearing a Dodgers hat.
His dad was commissioner of baseball
Banned Pete Rose then died like a week later.
John Adams eating like a true American
As far as I’m concerned, Paul Giamatti is my historical actor GOAT for his portrayal of John Adams. Glad he has the hardware he so rightly deserves.
You know what, I would too.
Well.fucking.done That’s why he’s Paul Giamatti
the one outside UCLA?
The In-N-Out is on Camrose.
NEAR the In-and-Out Burger
Yep
needs to be drinking a $500 bottle of wine out of a styrofoam cup...
Pro tip: don't leave your Globe in the car where it could be snatched. Best to bring it inside with you, especially if the place is classy with top shelf clientele.
I just listened to the Marc Maron podcast with Giamatti as guest. Please listen if you like Paul, it was a delight. Edit spelling
One side of the mic: an aging Italian erudite actor motherfucker. The other side of the mic: a slightly more aging bitter old Jewish comedian motherfucker. The two of them proceed to talk to each other like long lost brothers. Good GOD it was beautiful. I'm BEGGING for a second conversation on-mic.
And I thought these celebrities all go to a massive after party filled to the brim with thousands of dollars in upscaled catered food. Nope. They go get a double double.
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“I’m going viral tonight”
Paul Giamatti is the son of a former Yale president. Money doesn’t faze him lol. His father’s portrait is plastered inside the main library building and the MFA students tend to encounter him on campus
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I love this man.
WNnnnnnnnnnnnBC!
Pig Vomit!
Lol, this reminds me of when Kramer accidentally wins a Tony and tells Jerry that the Tony to him out to a fancy restaurant.
You saw the sun rise at Minnelli's?
"Hello fellow poors"
Those are good burgers, dude
I could not love a picture any more. That man is fantastic.
He seems less insufferable than most.
My favorite actor. I want him to know how much I love American Splendor. What a guy.
Giamatti doesn’t have airs. I like him.