My mother is a journalist, and "newspaper movie" is a running joke in her newsroom. Anytime you take an important call, talk about a source, etc, someone will dramatically quote this video
The editor should've turned in a swivel chair, got up and stared out a window with his back to them as part of the anticipation. That's a big miss. No Oscar.
thelinedrive Yep, she could get upset with him at the breakfast table, get up and do the dishes, and hint at some raw memory as the tears well in her eyes... while she looks out the kitchen window with her back to him.
I was waiting for him to do that! I swear dramatic turns in movies and shows are something I just can't help but notice. Some shows have absolutely put me off because of this.
arlingtonguy54 how about a scene where the lead guy feels paranoid & has to start walking quicker down the street & gets real scared he’s being followed
arlingtonguy54 they forgot the coworker that falls for him because she is the only one that can get him or the references to a hard divorce or the many empty relationships he has been.
Yes I was in Israel, but I flew from there to Cyprus a few days ago. I've heard about both of those places in Egypt though, they sound nice. I'm trying to figure out where to go next after here, open to the possibilities but haven't decided yet. Probably not Egypt, since I just spent a lot of time in the Middle East.
I was thinking the whole time, that no real life editor has THAT much authority. In the time it took him to flounder around making a decision, someone in the room would have slipped out to run the story anyway. The news waits for no one, after all.
.@@nolanboles8492 N-O-T Not that any editor-in-chief tends to act like that, but even if there's (c'mon!) - only a career-suicidal journey would go ahead to publish the story in her/his/their publication BEFORE getting the greenlight.
Odd, right?!! Given a certain type of people club NY together as some part of "Hollyweird". And they certainly are. But not in that sense! By the facts of history, NY is the Daddy of Hollywood.
as a journalist i will confess i have so done the: "snapping my fingers while on the phone" thing. but it was usually so someone could grab me a bagel and a cigarette!
Seth's "movies" are all AWESOME!!!! Very observant, and very-very smart, hence very very very funny. They really should make a real feature movie. The parody of everything.
Just when I was thinking “this is great, but not as great as the Boston, Oscar- Bait or Sorkin ones” I then find out Seth is playing the role of a black woman 😂😂😂 Oh the accuracy... Hollywood loves to whitewash.
shapen360 lol learn to take a joke??? It was a joke. The whole thing was a joke. I took is as a joke. But it’s a joke based on fact. Which is the point they were trying to make with their joke. If there was no fact to it, it wouldn’t be as funny of a joke. Maybe you should learn to understand the joke.
Awesome! Never before have I seen so many 'Newspaper Movie' tropes in a "film" that managed to tick every single box. But for God's sake, 'Mr. Editor' - just say the damned words..........."RUN IT"!!!
@Black Rod Ahh... Sounds like the creator's love-letter to his former employer which gave him "a break"?.. And why not? Hence, if that needs to be spelled-out: I'm not saying it was “shoehorned” or any other condescending word - just to implicitly criticise it.
Just in case I was the only one who didn't know what the fourth estate is (I thought is was a joke) - "The Fourth Estate is a segment of society that wields an indirect but significant influence on society even though it is not a formally recognized part of the political system" www.google.com/search?q=fourth+estate&rlz=1C1MSIM_enUS715US715&oq=fourth+estate&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2359j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The pregnant pause was a reenactment of every conversation I have with a particular coworker. C'mon, Dave, spit it out already! I asked you the time 'cause my Timex finally died!
leadspot of course you do, it actually showed journalism rather than waxing poetically about the nature of journalism without understanding how it works or the process the post would have to go through to verify the documents. Spotlight and Ron Howard’s The Paper are far and away the best journalism movies.
Karl Karlos Believe me when I tell you they really aren’t. It’s a surface level telling of the historical events with platitudes throw in to make what is going on seem more significant than it actually is.
thelinedrive Believe when I tell you your taste in movies sucks. Ps. It's almost as if you haven't seen the film. The Post is actually very low on the "historical speeches front".
The smoking cloud is literally true! In the sixties everybody smoked. the cloud started at the ceiling in morning and moved down until it was just 2 feet off the floor at the end of the day.
WHY is this so friggin brilliant?!!!!!!! The pregnant pause waiting for the Editor to say "Run it." almost took me out! I laughed a little too hard. *reaches for inhaler* Perfect, Seth. Perfect!
Honest Trailers!! Exactly what I was thinking.. but I was going to type "uh, Seth, Honest Trailers called asking you to cease and desist with the stealing of their schtick.."
They forgot to include the "token woman who proves she's a real reporter in the boys' club of journalism"
which is accurate
Oh yes, apply bellow and above too.
You forgot to include she has 0 personality besides confidence and gumption.
jh04100 And she is willing to spend a night in jail to protect her sources
They changed her to a white guy.
You gotta love that scene with Seth on the phone signaling his colleague while trying to put on his coat with an oversized bagel in his mouth!
He did a good job on it
Straight out of All the President's Men.
he also takes the phone with him.
That snapping fingers is so me when Im at the phone lmao😅
It was so brilliantly accurate
My mother is a journalist, and "newspaper movie" is a running joke in her newsroom. Anytime you take an important call, talk about a source, etc, someone will dramatically quote this video
Lmaooooooo
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where are your sources that this is true
@@frankiewilliams9844 The source has protection. 😊
The true hero is whoever wrote the music for the meeting scene at the end.
I was thinking the same thing! The music was priceless
@@sea8bass It actually put my daughter to sleep just now.
They were in-between Jason Bourne sequels - so they got him/her for half-price!
I agree...music awesome, acting, writing, sound engineering also!
Totally!
The editor should've turned in a swivel chair, got up and stared out a window with his back to them as part of the anticipation. That's a big miss. No Oscar.
ancilodon either that or mull everything over during his morning jog before his wife gives him the kick in the pants he needs to say “run it.”
thelinedrive Yep, she could get upset with him at the breakfast table, get up and do the dishes, and hint at some raw memory as the tears well in her eyes... while she looks out the kitchen window with her back to him.
@@ancilodon You could write a damn fine Oscar bait movie :D
But, you have to admit, he did every other damn actorly thing.
I was waiting for him to do that! I swear dramatic turns in movies and shows are something I just can't help but notice. Some shows have absolutely put me off because of this.
The last part where Seth, a blonde white guy, played the role of a black woman, was just priceless.
..., and the fact that she actually looks a lot like Amber Ruffin.
I'm pretty sure that was a dig at Ben Affleck in Argo playing someone that was a dark-skinned and stout Latino man in real life.
@@jeremyud or troy being played by an african-american when he is clearly a greek soldier
@@miguelrodrigues2705 Who?
I came here *just* after watching their "White Saviour" trailer, and that made this all the funnier!
"What's in your briefcase? Is it more folders?" Amber doesn't play 😂😂
Ashmita Nandy are you a fucking bot?
Apocalypse Now Hey! You're hurting my binary feelings!
Amber asking the right questions!
Ashmita Nandy you know it
Amber knows what we want to know
Was the scene where the reporter goes into a neighborhood bar for shots of whiskey and someone with information approaches him, cut?
arlingtonguy54 how about a scene where the lead guy feels paranoid & has to start walking quicker down the street & gets real scared he’s being followed
arlingtonguy54 they forgot the coworker that falls for him because she is the only one that can get him or the references to a hard divorce or the many empty relationships he has been.
Also where is that parking garage scene with Deep Throat saying: "Follow the money"? Or was it: "Follow that car", can't remember...
Follow your dreams. Follow your heart. Follow that cab. I will follow him, wherever he may go...
They had to cut that scene to have time for the scene where the reporter's ex-wife complains that he's too dedicated to his job.
Cliches brilliantly accomplished.
aren't u traveling through Israel right now? There are a couple of places u should check out next. Sharm Al-Sheikh and Dahab, both are in Egypt.
Yes I was in Israel, but I flew from there to Cyprus a few days ago. I've heard about both of those places in Egypt though, they sound nice. I'm trying to figure out where to go next after here, open to the possibilities but haven't decided yet. Probably not Egypt, since I just spent a lot of time in the Middle East.
Tropes* There! FTFY ☺️
That editor tho.. he should really be in movies
He should not lick the cigarette so much When smoking. Disgusting! 05:49
During the whole " a very long pregnant pause," i could only think if the dude didn't end up saying "Run it!" I'd be so freaking mad...
i was expecting "Yeah - let's order pepperoni.'
I almost had a full fledged anxiety attack, waiting and anticipating the line😨
I was thinking the whole time, that no real life editor has THAT much authority. In the time it took him to flounder around making a decision, someone in the room would have slipped out to run the story anyway. The news waits for no one, after all.
#MeToo
.@@nolanboles8492 N-O-T
Not that any editor-in-chief tends to act like that, but even if there's (c'mon!) - only a career-suicidal journey would go ahead to publish the story in her/his/their publication BEFORE getting the greenlight.
As a journalist, I can confirm that this is 100% true...although I'll need the OK from the editor first before I can print that.
Did he give you that okay yet? 😮
@@ImplodedAtom We decided to switch it out with a local story about a squirrel that rode a skateboard. Up next...sports.
@@ImplodedAtom We're still waiting
6 months and the pregnant pause continues.
Run it !
I had to wait until he said "Run it!" I was in too deep!
You thought I was saying, ”we’re the state of Georgia?”
99thTuesday "Yes... "
The fourth state. And Georgia was the fourth state admitted to the Union. Great historical reference.
That editor meeting scene with the pregnant pause was so painful.
Tauriq Moosa exactly taken from the Post
The way he sucks the cigarette right after saying it is truly disgusting
Hollywood producers are already disliking this video for ruining their secret sauce ingredients.
Odd, right?!!
Given a certain type of people club NY together as some part of "Hollyweird".
And they certainly are. But not in that sense! By the facts of history, NY is the Daddy of Hollywood.
Where’s the editor’s Oscar!?!?
Where is it!?!?
That pause was the stuff of legend.
They nailed the "pregnant pause" thing
That scene took 102 seconds! 😅
and I wasn't bored one second of it or felt it to be too dragged out. well played!
Felt like the whole nine months!
starts @ 4:15
Not just pregnant, but also delivered and possibly even graduated from college.
as a journalist i will confess i have so done the: "snapping my fingers while on the phone" thing. but it was usually so someone could grab me a bagel and a cigarette!
How was the audience not laughing more?! They hit every nail on the head with this!
2:31 This guy is awesome. I don't care where or how but I want more of this guy.
he is in something else, is it tim and eric?
does anyone know his name?
Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed I like the way he says “yess..”
Seth's "movies" are all AWESOME!!!! Very observant, and very-very smart, hence very very very funny. They really should make a real feature movie. The parody of everything.
They're SO good! I think I've watched "Boston Accent" about 60 times and I still laugh (my whole family is from Boston).
Just when I was thinking “this is great, but not as great as the Boston, Oscar- Bait or Sorkin ones” I then find out Seth is playing the role of a black woman 😂😂😂 Oh the accuracy... Hollywood loves to whitewash.
He’s also playing a woman, too. Learn to take a joke.
shapen360 lol learn to take a joke??? It was a joke. The whole thing was a joke. I took is as a joke. But it’s a joke based on fact. Which is the point they were trying to make with their joke. If there was no fact to it, it wouldn’t be as funny of a joke. Maybe you should learn to understand the joke.
Milly, I think English isn't shapen360's first language. But if it is, then that's pretty sad.
Shapen360 shut up fkwit
Eva Pawlowska Umm...did you blinked at 5:56 or what? LOL
Awesome! Never before have I seen so many 'Newspaper Movie' tropes in a "film" that managed to tick every single box. But for God's sake, 'Mr. Editor' - just say the damned words..........."RUN IT"!!!
10/10 would watch
Hilarious! And trust Amber to be there when they swap the file. Love her!
"The 5th Season of The Wire"
Clever...LOL
why ?
Clever... or just accurate?
everything about the wire is clever)
@Black Rod Ahh...
Sounds like the creator's love-letter to his former employer which gave him "a break"?..
And why not? Hence, if that needs to be spelled-out: I'm not saying it was “shoehorned” or any other condescending word - just to implicitly criticise it.
I thought the fourth estate was time...
Fifth column!
Just in case I was the only one who didn't know what the fourth estate is (I thought is was a joke) - "The Fourth Estate is a segment of society that wields an indirect but significant influence on society even though it is not a formally recognized part of the political system"
www.google.com/search?q=fourth+estate&rlz=1C1MSIM_enUS715US715&oq=fourth+estate&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2359j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
str8Ball1n the girl in that scene is Kirstin wiigs doppelgänger
The Presidency - Congress - The Judiciary - The Press.
I thought it was Ringo Starr.
This is like honest trailers but they actually filmed it.
That blonde getup suits you, Seth 👍😆
Right?
Mama Mia ! I didnt like it. It's good for the sketch so he looks different but not permanently
very 'I am playing Robert Redford playing Bob Woodward'
Mama Mia ! Those sideburns. I wanna see a "making-of" with some makeup or hair person describing how they did... THOSE SIDEBURNS! 😜
Just one word, amazing!
That pregnant pause was two years old when it delivered...😅🤷🏾♂️
The pregnant pause was a reenactment of every conversation I have with a particular coworker. C'mon, Dave, spit it out already! I asked you the time 'cause my Timex finally died!
This should be an actual movie!
It is.
.@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music One??? 🤔
Now this is what I call a well made sketch.
yeah, I still love Spotlight more than The Post
leadspot of course you do, it actually showed journalism rather than waxing poetically about the nature of journalism without understanding how it works or the process the post would have to go through to verify the documents. Spotlight and Ron Howard’s The Paper are far and away the best journalism movies.
I like all the presidents men. Classic. Spotlight is awesome too.
thelinedrive Well, it's almost as if Spotlight and The Post are thematically different, isn't it? Personally I enjoyed The Post much more.
Karl Karlos Believe me when I tell you they really aren’t. It’s a surface level telling of the historical events with platitudes throw in to make what is going on seem more significant than it actually is.
thelinedrive Believe when I tell you your taste in movies sucks.
Ps. It's almost as if you haven't seen the film. The Post is actually very low on the "historical speeches front".
I got married, had children, and sent them away to college all in the pause before the editor said “run it”
It is ALWAYS important to get the grammar right! Rust me eye no!
Could maybe use a comma between me and eye.
I no write?
Aye love this language.
eye sea what you did their,
edit: had to much bad grammer and type o's
Watt?
I loved the build up for the last line X3
Bahaha!! Brilliant! “...so much smoking.” Reminded me of the smoking room you walk through at the Las Vegas airport. 😂😂😂
Just perfect. Every single trope, even for movies that aren't entirely about newsrooms. "Network," "Zodiac," "Quiz Show," heck, "Spiderman."
Amber only got one scene? I will NOT watch this movie!
And apparently the original main character looked a lot like Amber too...
Remember it's a trailer. She might come back.
Only one scene? Whaaaaat?!
Ok I was howling with laughter. This should be a real movie tbh.
That "run it" guy knows how to act.
Pregnant pause...it had enough time to gestate that I was sure it was going to give birth! :)
The phone scene was too real😂😂
This is actually really great
Best honest trailer evar!
This was exactly the pick-me-up I needed right now. Thank you, Seth and Team!
I love it when Seth makes common movie plotlines parodies! His Oscar Bait sketch is gold
kim06sweet lol yesssss
Me too. He nailed it with all of them. This, Oscar Bait, Boston Movie. It's downright eerie.
The shot of them reading the paper in the bus looked like it was straight out of a Wes Anderson movie
Just add a more vibrant color palette and backgrounds made from miniatures, and the Anderson aesthetic will be complete.
2:50-3:06 the _entire_ scene as Robert Redford from All the President’s Men 😂😂
Wow, that pause was so pregnant, it had octuplets! LOL
1:23 the first ever jackal!
The smoking cloud is literally true!
In the sixties everybody smoked. the cloud started at the ceiling in morning and moved down until it was just 2 feet off the floor at the end of the day.
Amber saying "folder" is really funny for some reason 🤣😆
"What's in that briefcase?"
"Is it more folders?"
Seth, you should act in some movies...:D
Anoop Vasudevan He did! And he hates it..
Anoop Vasudevan only if he never breaks the fourth wall.
This deserves an Oscar by itself! Beautiful!
seth is just brilliant.
That was GREAT! The comedy, production values, everything!
PERFECT!! Definitely a Tear-jerker!!
“You thought I was saying ‘we’re the state of Georgia’??”
*shrugs* “Yes.”
😂😂😂
"Is it more folders?" Amber is so cute
I love this vignette because it’s a satire of flims made from the tiny percentage of the populace that still trusts journalists.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank You :) Now I'm in the mood to watch The Post :)
I wish Seth would still do these once in a while, they are classics
Good to see David Spade working again.
Pitch-perfect, razor-sharp observation. Brilliant writing, direction and acting. This team needs to give Armando Ianucci a run for his money.
the pregnant pause was hilarious
WHY is this so friggin brilliant?!!!!!!! The pregnant pause waiting for the Editor to say "Run it." almost took me out! I laughed a little too hard. *reaches for inhaler* Perfect, Seth. Perfect!
So technically "All the President's Men".
Love the guy who says, "Run it!" Great look, great voice.
Is this the Honest Trailer for The Post? The voice seems off.....
Honest Trailers!! Exactly what I was thinking.. but I was going to type "uh, Seth, Honest Trailers called asking you to cease and desist with the stealing of their schtick.."
All The President's Men and Spotlight are among my favorite movies... and I found this to be awesome.
Oh, and Zodiac, too, which is about half-newspaper, half-cop. I guess I like newspaper movies.
Well done Seth. This made it into the news here in the Netherlands.
da1stamericus what? how? why?
That pregnant pause is awesome 😂😂😂
Seth looks like Jameson Parker of Simon&Simon
Yes! I was trying to remember who he reminded me of here!
😂😂😂😂
100% accurate. Not even kidding. I do love a good journalist movie, and this is incredibly spot on!
i thought the chief editor was gonna huff on the glass wall and write: 'run it'
I just come back to this and Oscar Bait and White Saviour once in a while. So brilliant.
Amber Says What's in that folder
1:21 That boy is editing an already printed newspaper.
Seth is pulling a Eddie Murphy, doing all the important roles
Bless you Seth Myers and the entire team making these clips..🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
As a movie buff and a newspaper reader and a fan of newspaper movies, that was awesome.
In the thumbnail, Seth actually looks like Redford.
I'm standing up cheering. Can't wait to see this movie.
This is spotlight on.
What's so brilliant is it's all the convention and cliche, and not a trace of the story they're breaking in the whole thing. Nice!
This is fucking great, why don't we get more stuff like this?
I was hoping we would get another one of these! Satirical comedy at it's finest.
Are I crazy or does Seth look good with blond hair?
luckyDancer100 I thought he looked like young David Spade
Who knew Seth had such range, such vision!
"run it!" - the filter of the cigarette almost disappeared in his mouth ^^
who's the actor who played the editor?
That final joke nails an already great sketch!
AMAZING
I watched The Post yesterday and this is the best description of the movie you can find.
Brilliant
WHY ARE ALL THESE CLIPS SO GREAT THOUGH.
From the producers of "Boston Accent".