Hollywood Shuffle
1987 filmWikipedia
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Search complete. 18 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Hollywood Shuffle".
Oct 14, 2026
Thomas SenaHOST
Yeah.
Darin PattersonGUEST
Like, so much to the fact that it was, like, slightly referenced in things like Beverly Hills Cop and Hollywood Shuffle.
Thomas SenaHOST
[laughs] Yeah.
Darin PattersonGUEST
There was an episode that...
Noah FulkmanHOST
You know,, "You gotta see the baby." Talk about getting the role, working with Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David prior to Seinfeld.
Noah FulkmanHOST
She also worked in a couple of Robert Townsend movies, one of my favorites, Hollywood Shuffle, where she was a casting director.
Noah FulkmanHOST
She was also in The Five Heartbeats.
Noah FulkmanHOST
She appeared in Scrooge as Bill Murray's mother.
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Noah FulkmanHOST
Right.
Noah FulkmanHOST
Yeah.
Lisa MendeGUEST
I mean, we did Hollywood Shuffle for nothing with, um, no budget, and Sam Goldwyn Company picked it up, and I got my union card, and suddenly I didn't have to knock on doors, doors in LA, 'cause I was in a film that was popular.
Lisa MendeGUEST
So that was really lucky.
J SimsHOST
It's like...
J SimsHOST
You ever seen Hollywood Shuffle? Like Robert Townsend? Well, Hollywood Shuffle is basically, it's a comedy, but from the trailer, it just reminds me of Hollywood Shuffle because she's doing auditions and they asking her to do wild shit in the audition.
J SimsHOST
So it's like, it looked like she's going to be kind of going against her morals and stuff like that.
J SimsHOST
But star-studded cast like a motherfucker in the trailer.
EiliyasGUEST
And I know I sent it to like a number of people like in the past.
EiliyasGUEST
But then like also this other part of something that's just been like around since before the idea of the Twitters and the GIFs and the memes, which was like something like taking the clip from like Hollywood Shuffle, where they had like the Jerry Curl part.
EiliyasGUEST
And I just taken out the clip of like the curl, curl, do the Jerry curl.
EiliyasGUEST
And then just thinking about like how many times have like, I like laughed at that particular scene in my life.
RonaldHOST
And that was like, that was literally the first time I'd ever seen something about the continent that wasn't super stereotypical besides people I knew, you know, like people I knew like in passing.
RonaldHOST
Do the Right Thing, Hollywood Shuffle.
RonaldHOST
So they were like parodies of things that I saw in the 70s, like these like real... overly exaggerate me there was a like a lot of that and then people were just speaking normally and and like do the right thing and and like hollywood shuffle and uh last dragon doesn't count but i love that movie
Pierre BennuGUEST
what last dragon has to count sorry i just
RonaldHOST
mean it like in terms of people talking a very specific way and um it was just like i said you're
BJ ColangeloHOST
Um, but he is an absolute legend.
BJ ColangeloHOST
He directed Hollywood Shuffle.
BJ ColangeloHOST
He's a k- a stand-up comedian.
BJ ColangeloHOST
He directed Eddie Murphy Raw.
Vincent WilliamsHOST
You decide.
Len WebbHOST
Six Degrees of Durville Martin where I give Vincent two actors and he has six films or less to connect them to
Vincent WilliamsHOST
Durville Martin.
Vincent WilliamsHOST
You drop some matches and I'll say 72.
Candice HuffineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Okay.
Len WebbHOST
Okay.
Len WebbHOST
Beginning with, in six films or less, connect Durville Martin to...
Len WebbHOST
To...
DriftglassGUEST
Oh, I'm going to get you, sucker.
DriftglassGUEST
I think it was Hollywood Shuffle.
DriftglassGUEST
That's right, Hollywood Shuffle.
DriftglassGUEST
And the punchline is there's always work at the post office.
DriftglassGUEST
You don't have to put up with this bullshit.