{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 105 Larry Dorf, Netflix, The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window, Norm MacDonald, This Podcast IS A NEWS Source","description":"INTRO - Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron.  I\u2019m pretty excited about my guest for a number of reasons, number one being that I find Larry Dorf to be an extremely entertaining person that I\u2019ve known more than 20 years.  Did you hear that Larry?  That\u2019s a long time.  He\u2019s a funny guy and I\u2019m not completely sure that most of the time he\u2019s not really trying to be funny. A second reason, probably the main reason, is that Larry is one of the creators, writers and producers of the Netflix hit, \u201cThe Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window\u201d.  I feel pretty sure you\u2019ve at least heard of it and I\u2019m going to insist that you watch it.  It\u2019s a great title and a really, really bad hashtag. \u201cThe Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window\u201d is a parody\u2026 a satire of the suspense thriller novel genre like, \u201cThe Woman in The Window\u201d, \u201cThe Woman in Cabin 10\u201d, \u201cThe Other Woman\u201d and on and on. We talk about the fine line of walking between making fun of the genre and dropping in jokes and still honor the genre of a suspense thriller.  For example, this series is not like the movie Airplane with gag after gag.  In an interesting way, a suspense thriller or even a horror movie is not unlike comedy.  You have to have a setup where you get the audience to think you\u2019re going in one direction and then the surprising reveal is the punchline of a joke or the scare of a thriller.  How do you honor both? I found it to be a very interesting conversation and I hope you do too.   Finally, Larry was on this podcast once before, our most listened to episode by the way\u2026 and I tell him this fact.  It was when he and his partners were writing and producing \u201cMike Tyson Mysteries\u201d for Adult Swim\u2019s Cartoon Network.   On that episode Larry claimed to \u201cbreak the news\u201d that the show was not being picked up after it\u2019s 4th season.  We recorded that episode at the end of May, 2020 and that information came out in January, so this wasn\u2019t exactly a cutting edge news exclusive, at least we didn\u2019t think so.  However, apparently it had not been officially announced and somehow, there were a few nerdy news websites that actually sited this podcast, yes, THIS podcast to announce it\u2019s cancellation, thereby explaining the mystery of why that episode had more downloads than any of our other episodes. I don\u2019t believe him at first, so Larry proves this to me by sending me a link from his phone to a site called screenrant.com that sites The Modern Moron as it\u2019s news source.  How ridiculous is that?  This podcast is a news source? Please\u2026 I\u2019m just a journalist trying to be true to my craft. But the reason I bring this up is because of how pee in my pants giddy I become over this when I actually read it in disbelief.  You can almost hear my ego expanding\u2026  So, yes we were sited in the publication screenrant.com but it also appeared in The U.S. Sun. Their about page states: \u201cThe Sun.com is a US online edition of The Sun, Britain\u2019s largest newspaper.\u201d  We also appeared in a website called comicbook.com  How about this\u2026. A little publication called \u201cNEWSWEEK\u201d!!! EVER HEARD OF IT?  It has the same quote from larry and sites \u201cThe Modern Moron Podcast\u201d  however Newsweek did not create a hyperlink where the name is, so hey, Newsweek?  Lawsuit is forthcoming.  You\u2019re gonna want to put your best people on this case. By the way, Mike Tyson Mysteries, which you can still catch streaming on Hulu, has a 97% positigve fan rating on rottentomatoes.com.   Can we please not gloss over that?  That is a huge rating, from fans. Also, One of the voices of Mike Tyson Mysteries, was that of comedian Norm MacDonald who passed away in September of last year.  I ask Larry about working with Norm and he talks about how the producers of that show valued Norm\u2019s opinion on what was funny and how much they wanted Norm to have been able to see their Netflix hit.  From all the appearances and interviews of Norm after he passed, it seemed like across the board, not only did people love him for how genuine he was but how they valued his unique perspective on comedy and how hearing his laugh was the best compliment of all.  So, please enjoy this part 1 episode where I get a little too excited about being mentioned in a website.  It\u2019s THE Larry Dorf from the Netflix hit, and terrible hashtag, \u201cThe Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window\u201d and thank you for listening. Close - You know how movies many times have product placement in them and the production company can make a little money?  Well, this production had to have Corning Ware as a major donor because there was shitload of casserole dishes in this production.   Also, you\u2019re the first to hear the bombshell that  \u201cThe Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window\u201d is done.  It was a limited series with no season two.  I wonder if part of the allure they were going for included calling it season ONE?  Hmmm mysterious. How cool was the Amy Schumer story?  I wonder if she would do this podcast just to talk about Larry\u2019s show?  I mean this podcast is a news source now so she bound to listen to it. In part 2 we talk about what the promotions process was like in terms of doing interviews before the show was released.  They actually had to be coached on how to handle certain questions like a politician.  What it was like shooting a production on location during the Covid Pandemic. We talk about one of the executive producers for the series which was Will Farrell and there\u2019s an interesting story there.  So many reasons to tune in to part 2 with Larry Dorf and  \u201cThe Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window\u201d and thank you for listening.   The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window - Netflix  Mike Tyson Mysteries Cancelled After Four Seasons | Screen Rant - The Modern Moron sited as an actual news source!!!  From 'Venture Bros' to 'Metalocalypse'\u2014The Most Controversial Adult Swim Cancellations - Newsweek ","author_name":"TheModernMoron podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/themodernmoron.libsyn.com\/website","html":"