Dan Hopper
@danhopp
Writer of comedy & sports stuff. Host of THRILL OF DEFEAT: The Only Pittsburgh Sports Page: Letterboxd:
The opening scene from Apocalypse Now was entirely improvised by the actors on the day of the shooting. The scripted line was "here we are in Vietnam, ladies" but on one take, they decided to go "all out" and destroy the jungle. Francis Ford Coppola loved it so much, he kept it in the finished film
I wrote for this and it premieres today! Check it out if you also get annoyed that regular Jeopardy has like 1 sports question per episode and it turns out to technically be a geography question and you're like COME on!!!
Patrick in the Ryan Murphy Gianni Versace story taping a podcast, no idea he's about to be next
(To anyone who comes near the water cooler) Did you hear about faith-based AI company Gloo?
We need a name that really conveys “we are not criminals who will rip you off and/or murder you”
Who could forget the summer we were all saying Bart’s hit catchphrase “Watch it, dude.”
Me putting my toddler's puzzles & stacking rings together really fast while cleaning up
Troopers with shotguns posing around a pile of “#87 THE KID” shirts like they’re bags of fentanyl
Trump's "rarely discussed, but deeply important religious beliefs" is such a funny description for a book