Speaker 1: This is smallsy surgery. Are we ready to go with
Speaker 1: Tonight's guest? Yes?
Speaker 2: Apparently the we've been told this is the most rigold
Speaker 2: thing that could possibly We've been told that we have
Speaker 2: to call him and that we isn't lined up.
Speaker 1: They're whole, They're a whold. Okay, let me just okay.
Speaker 2: So we've apparently connected to his hotel room and we're
Speaker 2: on hold waiting for Okay, So Tonight's guest famous as
Speaker 2: are Regold, twenty six Emmy nominations, fourteen Gold nominations, the
Speaker 2: most iconic two thousands TV series of all time, Entourage,
Speaker 2: Jeremy Piven. This is his hold music. So did they
Speaker 2: tell us how long we'd be waiting for the book?
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's ready.
Speaker 1: You know this feels very ore Regold.
Speaker 2: If I hope he answers the phone with you got
Speaker 2: gold like that would be iconic.
Speaker 1: You know what I should do while we're waiting.
Speaker 2: He's in New Zealand apparently at the moment doing a
Speaker 2: stand up shows. He's going to be here from this
Speaker 2: weekend kicking off his stand up shows. He's playing the
Speaker 2: Sydney Brisbane Perth, meloln and Adelaide. I really am patting
Speaker 2: here teg Dainty dot com for Jeremy Piven live in Australia.
Speaker 1: Do I keep Maybe we'll just.
Speaker 2: Play the let's just fade this down, Let's play his
Speaker 2: opener and let's see if he answers the firing, and
Speaker 2: let's listen to you with Jeremy Vinous.
Speaker 3: Years ago, I did a show called Angurache. Could you
Speaker 3: imagine if we tried to reboot that today in this climates.
Speaker 1: Too, Jeremy Purpan, I'd rive the sample.
Speaker 3: It contains the names of EAD agents. Anyone catches you,
Speaker 3: you eat it, COMPRENDI not if you understand what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: you can't just not.
Speaker 1: He's on his way to Australia. Please welcome to the show,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Piven. How are you? Thank you?
Speaker 2: This is very arigold for me to be connected to
Speaker 2: you in your hotel. Are you are we interrupted anything?
Speaker 2: Or you good to chat because I know you're travel No.
Speaker 3: No, I was. I was sitting staring at the phone
Speaker 3: doing absolutely nothing, and now we are on and everything
Speaker 3: is great in the world.
Speaker 1: Okay, fantastic.
Speaker 2: That's great to hear because I just was like, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe he's partying in the hotel room and we've interrupted,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't have wanted to interrupt your what day
Speaker 2: is it? Whatever day of the week it is plans. Hey,
Speaker 2: great to talk to you. And you're on your way
Speaker 2: to Australia with the with the whole stand up comedy
Speaker 2: shows that I am. You're going to be here this weekend,
Speaker 2: playing literally every every capital city around the country. What
Speaker 2: is your what's your favorite thing to riff on at
Speaker 2: the moment. There's so much material in the world.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you? What do you love?
Speaker 2: And the chance to pop off on stage about it
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the great thing about stand up is
Speaker 3: is you know anything that's happening in the moments you
Speaker 3: can I mean I literally just touchdown in New Zealand,
Speaker 3: so a lot of my stuff is you know, based
Speaker 3: you know in the fact that I live in the
Speaker 3: States and well you know everything that we're going through,
Speaker 3: but you know, things can happen to me on the
Speaker 3: way to the theater. You know, I just flipped and
Speaker 3: fall and go, my god, I'm getting old. This is
Speaker 3: how you know you're getting older. You could look at
Speaker 3: a woman in a short skirt and I would think, Wow,
Speaker 3: she's hot, and now I look at her and I go,
Speaker 3: I wonder if she's.
Speaker 2: Cold, you could you could have a fall at the
Speaker 2: airport and hurt your hip. Like that's all real possibilities, right, Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's not as funny as what I just said.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, there you go, brother. I think we
Speaker 3: should you and actually take this on the road.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 2: I have to ask, like, what's your what's your opinion
Speaker 2: on crowd work?
Speaker 1: Do people heckle you at your shows?
Speaker 2: Because the clips on TikTok you are very funny, and
Speaker 2: obviously you lean into like what people know you for
Speaker 2: and an actor and being in Hollywood, But do people
Speaker 2: heckle you at your shows?
Speaker 1: Do you encourage that or?
Speaker 2: Because I think in the stand up circuit, some people
Speaker 2: are like it's okay to be heckled. Other people are like,
Speaker 2: fucking shut up. This is my show, don't take me
Speaker 2: off my path.
Speaker 3: That's the great thing about stand up is that you know,
Speaker 3: at any moment someone could do. That's what makes the
Speaker 3: show unique. I will say though, that in the States
Speaker 3: people do it a lot more and it says a
Speaker 3: lot about a culture. You know, you can learn a
Speaker 3: lot about a culture. Like you know, when you're watching
Speaker 3: like sports and you have you know, people being interviewed
Speaker 3: and then you see the fans in the background that
Speaker 3: they're either like, you know, they're very well behaved or
Speaker 3: people are like lifting their shirt up and desperately trying
Speaker 3: to get on camera. You know, when I've been in Australia,
Speaker 3: people they're smart, they're present, they get the joke, but
Speaker 3: you've got to earn their last So I'm not just
Speaker 3: saying that because I'm here, but Australia, I was in
Speaker 3: Melbourne and Sydney last time, were two of my favorite
Speaker 3: places in the world to play, and mostly because they
Speaker 3: loved me and they thought I was really funny, which
Speaker 3: means they have really good taste, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel like you're flirting with us, and
Speaker 2: I'm on board that we do think you're very funny
Speaker 2: and we do enjoy you a lot. You've got because
Speaker 2: not only you've got two things, you got the stand
Speaker 2: up show, but then also you made a movie here too, right,
Speaker 2: I made.
Speaker 3: A couple movies, one of them Primitive War. Luke Sparks,
Speaker 3: who's a guy who lives out there not too far
Speaker 3: from the Gold Coast where we shopped this film last
Speaker 3: time I was here. Our film was going to be
Speaker 3: released the twenty first of August. The trailer has been
Speaker 3: blowing up. We just were a few days ago at
Speaker 3: Comic Con, first Australian independent film to ever go to
Speaker 3: Comic CON's huge and it went incredibly well. We were
Speaker 3: totally sold out, and there are other, you know, big
Speaker 3: movies that weren't sold out so well. I feel like
Speaker 3: we're onto something.
Speaker 1: That's so great, that's so great. You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously obviously the character you made famous being like a
Speaker 2: you know, Ari Gold, and then since Entourage, since then,
Speaker 2: there's been a bunch of shows that have sort of
Speaker 2: tried to do a sort of like a peek behind
Speaker 2: the curtain of how the you know, the sausage is made.
Speaker 2: But recently seth Rogen did this series called The Studio.
Speaker 2: And now that you've also now that you've made movies
Speaker 2: as well as TV series, I was curious to know
Speaker 2: how much of the movie making experience was How close
Speaker 2: was it to sort of like that series. As an actor,
Speaker 2: how close is it to you know, dealing with studio
Speaker 2: execs and the egos and you know, the people who
Speaker 2: trying to involve themselves in all of it.
Speaker 3: I know that when we were doing Entourage, you know,
Speaker 3: we had a lot of people working on the you know,
Speaker 3: the rating and the producing that were immersed in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: So and one of them to this day was his
Speaker 3: Mark Wahlberg's manager. So in a weird way, we have
Speaker 3: like a drama tour on set with us at all times.
Speaker 3: So what you're seeing was pretty authentic. Yeah, to the
Speaker 3: backstage life of Hollywood. And yeah, you know we if
Speaker 3: we didn't get it right, we would have heard about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah's true, that's true.
Speaker 2: You made a funny joke that I saw on TikTok
Speaker 2: about you saying like they would never make Entourage now
Speaker 2: because it's like five I don't want to I don't
Speaker 2: want to do your gear, but there's like five straight
Speaker 2: white guys on a billboard and it just wouldn't be made.
Speaker 2: Do you do you worry about cancel culture in in
Speaker 2: your stand up because like people can take those clips
Speaker 2: out of context, or are you like I've been doing
Speaker 2: this for so long, I could give a shit, you know.
Speaker 3: I think when you start, like there's this great quote
Speaker 3: about people that do the high wire, you know and
Speaker 3: they I mean, that's such an insane even thing to
Speaker 3: do with your life. And the moment they start thinking
Speaker 3: about anything other than just being in the moment, they
Speaker 3: they tend to fall. And I think, I think we
Speaker 3: stand up. You know, you're up there and you're conncion
Speaker 3: with the audience and you're having a great time, and
Speaker 3: you're making them laugh, and you're not getting in your
Speaker 3: own way or second guessing yourself. Otherwise it's just not
Speaker 3: going to be the best version of what it can be.
Speaker 3: I think we've been through a lot in the past
Speaker 3: four or five years, and I think that you know,
Speaker 3: we've seen the extreme version of people being triggered, taking offense,
Speaker 3: leading with feelings, and I think we're coming back to
Speaker 3: some semblance of normalacy, which which we listen. The number
Speaker 3: one in the States, number one viewed piece of content
Speaker 3: on Netflix was the Roast of Tom Brady, which was
Speaker 3: really launchy and fun and wild and and I think,
Speaker 3: you know, there are businesses out there and they don't
Speaker 3: want to fail, and so they have to look at
Speaker 3: what's selling, and what's selling is if we had a
Speaker 3: rule of my house growing up, my mom would say,
Speaker 3: you know, you can say whatever you want, as long
Speaker 3: as it's funny. And I think if it's funny, that
Speaker 3: means you have some insight into a truth about something
Speaker 3: that we can all share. So I think if you
Speaker 3: start thinking about, wow, is this going to offend someone?
Speaker 3: Because I'm not racist. I you know, I grew up
Speaker 3: in an integrated culture, you know, so it's not like
Speaker 3: I live in fear of like, wow, I'll be uncovered
Speaker 3: as some you know, something that would. I really have
Speaker 3: nothing to fear and love making people laugh like that.
Speaker 1: And I like that answer. I like that answer, So I.
Speaker 3: Think that's a really great place to be. You know,
Speaker 3: we all need to laugh now more than ever with
Speaker 3: everything going on. You know, it's like, you know, you
Speaker 3: can get angry, but anger is like a punishment you
Speaker 3: give yourself for something someone else did, kind of like
Speaker 3: burning your tesla. Oh yeah, good night everyone, Thank you
Speaker 3: for coming.
Speaker 1: I know I love that.
Speaker 2: I never would understand it. Yeah, I saw exactly what
Speaker 2: you did. Then I saw exactly what you did. Then
Speaker 2: you're gonna be here. Shows kicking off this weekend. TG
Speaker 2: dainty dot com for tickets. Final question for you, are
Speaker 2: they treating you like a rockstar in New Zealand. What's
Speaker 2: the hotel like? Are they rolling out the red carpet
Speaker 2: or do they lock up the booze in the mini bar?
Speaker 1: What's the story there?
Speaker 3: You know, I know that this is a very civil conversation.
Speaker 3: You were expecting ari gold, But yeah, no, no, no, I'll
Speaker 3: break out the ri gold when it when it comes
Speaker 3: time to get up on that stage.
Speaker 2: I'm just checking that you're staying in a nice hotel
Speaker 2: and they've they've given you a pillow menu because you
Speaker 2: deserve it. And I don't like a hotel that doesn't
Speaker 2: have a variety of pillow options in the room.
Speaker 1: If you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: There is a plateau of pillows. And because I'm in
Speaker 3: New Zealand, I actually have a sheep in bed with me.
Speaker 2: Apparently everyone off the plane gets one, so I'm glad
Speaker 2: that they have continued that tradition. You sir, are going
Speaker 2: to be here live in Australia over the weekend. Pleasure
Speaker 2: to have you on the show. Now, enjoy the rest
Speaker 2: of your night in New Zealand.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, buddy, I'll see you too.
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