The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds 167- The Past Times with Matt Lieb
Mar 27, 2026
Matt Lieb, stand-up comedian and podcaster who tours clubs and produces shows. He reacts to a 1924 Orlando newspaper with comic riffs. They joke about old film hype, lost movies and trailers, quirky local notices and weird news like Arctic adventures and servant taxes. Expect playful banter, touring life anecdotes, and laughs about historical oddities.
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Working Comic Hustle On The Road
- Matt Lieb describes working club doors and washing dishes while on the road as a comic who can't always do jokes.
- He says he sometimes does autographs covered in suds and gets confused fans, illustrating the pragmatic hustle of touring comedians.
Silent Era Spectacle Sold As Cultural Wonder
- The Orlando Sentinel hype for A Son of the Sahara shows early film marketing leaned on spectacle: thousands of extras, camels, horses and French cavalry.
- The paper touts 12,500 Arabs, 8,000 camels and 2,500 horses to sell an exoticized desert romance.
1920s Film Racism Hidden In The 'Twist'
- Reviews and plot summaries reveal A Son of the Sahara's racism: the European heroine accepts the hero only after he's revealed to be fully French.
- The twist exposes how whiteness was treated as prerequisite for romantic desirability in 1920s cinema.