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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
John Wilson described it as one of his all-time favorite documentaries, initially about R. Crumb but expanding to his family and past, which he found very impactful.
I would say my all-time favorite might be Crumb. Oh yeah, yeah, and yeah. I mean Crumb, Crumb just because you think the documentary is just going to be about Crumb and it was probably started out to...
— Episode: John Wilson
Episode: John Wilson
John Wilson described it as one of his all-time favorite documentaries, initially about R. Crumb but expanding to his family and past, which he found very impactful.
I would say my all-time favorite might be Crumb. Oh yeah, yeah, and yeah. I mean Crumb, Crumb just because you think the documentary is just going to be about Crumb and it was probably started out to be about R. Crumb the amazing sort of counterculture late 60s and 70s cartoonist keep on trucking guy and all that and you think in Mr. Natural you think that's what's going to be about and he is a documentary because he alone is incredibly fascinating and then you meet his brothers and then you find out about his childhood and then you start to meet several of his you know, his two brothers and what would have been a great documentary becomes to me one of the great documentaries of all time and really he had a lot of notes with me in so many different ways that when the lights came up I think I was crying and like had to be escorted out of the theater. You know.
I cannot agree more. It's also yeah, it's one of my favorites and it's really grim but it's also just like it, yeah it does so much right.
