Quiz Show (1994)

David Paymer: Dan Enright

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• Dan Enright : How much do they pay instructors up at Columbia?

  Charles Van Doren : Eighty-six dollars a week.

  Dan Enright : Do you have any idea how much Bozo the Clown makes?

  Charles Van Doren : Well... we, we can't all be Bozo the Clown.

• Dick Goodwin : [Dick Goodwin questions Dan Enright about evidence of Twenty One being fixed]  Dan, I have it on the kinescope, it's clear as day. The man literally did a double-take.

  Enright : [laughing]  He did a double-take? And who told you this? Is this Herb again? Or is this the Greenwich Village Beatnik?

  Dick Goodwin : That's interesting, why is he a beatnik? Because he's not Charlie Van Doren?

  Enright : Yeah, you're damn right he's not Charlie Van Doren. You know, you got these crackpots coming out of the woodwork, you're snooping around asking questions. You don't have a shred of concrete evidence.

  Dick Goodwin : Dan, let me tell you something. In this envelope are all the questions that James Snodgrass was asked on Twenty One. The odd thing about this envelope is that he appeared on the show January 13th, if you recall. Yet, he somehow mailed this to himself on January 11th via registered mail. I'd say that's pretty goddamn concrete, wouldn't you?

• Herbie Stemple : Don't do this to me, it's humiliating.

  Enright : For seventy grand, Herb, you can afford to be humiliated.

• Dan Enright : Well, it's the damndest thing, but you've plateaued.

  Herbie Stemple : Plateaued? What - wh-what kind of word is that?

  Dan Enright : What, plateaued?

  Herbie Stemple : Plateaued.

  Dan Enright : Plateaued? Uh, it's well, it's like, uh, you...

  Herbie Stemple : You mean, people don't like me anymore?

  Dan Enright : No, no, no. It's not you, per se. It's just...

  Herbie Stemple : Maybe I should get my teeth capped

  Dan Enright : No, it's the nature of the show. They've already seen you win, and they want something new.

  Herbie Stemple : So, what are you saying? Th - You think they want me to lose?

  Dan Enright : Well, don't you think that's natural?

  Herbie Stemple : Joe Louis was the champ for 12 years. Nobody ever wanted Joe Louis to lose.

• Dan Enright : Charlie, Charlie, the only people who can implicate you directly are all in this room, just think about that, okay?

  Albert Freedman : You think that noodge is going to get me to talk?

  Charles Van Doren : He may be a noodge but he first in his class at Harvard Law School.

  Albert Freedman : [Making a masturbation gesture with this hand]  Oh, Harvard.

• Dan Enright : He blames Charles Van Doren for his downfall. And of course, the real downfall of Herbert Stempel has always been Herbert Stempel.

  Albert Freedman : Herbert Stempel, absolutely. Well, you met him. Does he seem stable to you?

  Dick Goodwin : Well, I definitely have an inkling of what you're talking about. He told me this whole story about how when a Jew is on the show, he always loses to a gentile, and then the gentile wins more money. Right? I mean, who could dream up a scheme like that?

  Dan Enright : A symptom of his Van Doren fixation!

  Dick Goodwin : The thing of it is... I looked it up. It's true.