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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Back now to the

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Speaker 1: DOBR Saturday Morning Show with Larry MINTI welcome back actor

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Piven, who is best known as Arie Gold and Entourage,

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Speaker 1: is a very funny man who steals a scene in

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Speaker 1: every movie he's been in, and now you can see

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Speaker 1: him live. His stand up act is coming to New

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Speaker 1: York City. It's a different kind of audience in New.

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Speaker 2: York, the best audience actually, because the reality is I

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Speaker 2: mean I was born here, went to NYU, and grew

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Speaker 2: up in Chicago. But any excuse that I can get

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Speaker 2: to come here. The audience here are confident, vocal, sharp,

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Speaker 2: and they will give it to you straight. And there's

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Speaker 2: an old saying you got to go where you're loved,

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Speaker 2: and I really do feel loved here. I have to

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Speaker 2: say it. So that's you know why I wanted to

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Speaker 2: go to Sony Hall. It's intimate, about five hundred people,

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Speaker 2: and you know, you got to get your tickets fast.

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Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to come here and let people

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Speaker 2: know I'm going to be here and we need to

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Speaker 2: laugh now more than ever. And people don't realize that

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Speaker 2: I'm a stand up and you know, when they see

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Speaker 2: me playing our Gold or any of these characters, they

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Speaker 2: assume that I'm improvising when the reality is With Entourage specifically,

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Speaker 2: it was all written every word. But I was always

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Speaker 2: trying to like pitch jokes and ideas, and this is

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Speaker 2: a way for me to just have total freedom and

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Speaker 2: there's nothing better.

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Speaker 1: How many shows have you done so far? Are you

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Speaker 1: on the tour? Now?

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Speaker 3: I'm on the tour. Now. You know I do a

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Speaker 3: couple hundred shows a year. I do.

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Speaker 2: I do like to five to eight shows a week,

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Speaker 2: but that's nothing. Look at, New York has the best

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Speaker 2: comics in the world. That's just the way it is.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm jumping up on stage at the Stand

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Speaker 2: and various places around town all week.

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Speaker 3: And you know you can.

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Speaker 2: Get four five spots in a night here in New

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Speaker 2: York because you know, New Yorkers love their comedy and

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Speaker 2: you've got the comedy Seller and all the iconic spots

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Speaker 2: in the world.

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Speaker 3: So I love it.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you want to get tickets, and I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: gonna go. I love this guy, Jeremy DASHPIVN dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's Jeremy DASHPIVN. Got come. Yeah, that's how you can

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Speaker 1: get some tickets for the show.

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Speaker 2: And you and you caught me stretching, and I apologize.

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Speaker 2: But I'm getting older, and this is how you know

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Speaker 2: you're getting older. I used to look at a woman

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Speaker 2: in a short skirt and I'd be like, Wow, she's hot.

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Speaker 2: And now I'm like, I wonder if she's cold.

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Speaker 3: Good night everyone, Thank you for coming. Yes, enjoy the veal.

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Speaker 3: Yes she is cold? Can we tell I had sorry?

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Speaker 2: I had to slip in a joke because people are

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Speaker 2: like this guy funny, I no fun.

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Speaker 3: To spend my money. Hey, Ari, you're a douchebag. I'm

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Speaker 3: a douchebag because of you.

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Speaker 1: Ari.

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Speaker 3: Are you funny? Yes, I'm funny, sir.

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Speaker 2: No. I literally was just in Boston, another great town

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Speaker 2: where you know that in Philly, uh, you know, very

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Speaker 2: outspoken cities. You know you're gonna you're gonna get it straight.

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Speaker 3: And there was a dude.

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Speaker 2: I was at the Wilberth Theater there and I was

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Speaker 2: taking a selfie out front because I was on the

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Speaker 2: Marquee and this dude goes, yo, man, my girl love

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Speaker 2: rush Hour that scene and I go, oh, thanks man.

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Speaker 2: He was sitting down. I go thanks man. He goes yo, man,

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Speaker 2: do that scene for me. I swear to god. I

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Speaker 2: was like, I'm sorry. He goes do the scene right now,

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Speaker 2: and he lifts his phone up to record me. I go,

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Speaker 2: you want me to do a seven minute scene for you?

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Speaker 3: Sir?

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Speaker 2: You're a stranger. He stood up. He was six foot seven.

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Speaker 2: I looked at him.

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Speaker 3: I said, so, you've got the mokeajina skin and the

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Speaker 3: big broad shoulders. Let's put a dead animal on you.

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Speaker 3: Butter cream. Butter cream cracked again, butter cream?

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Speaker 2: What's blow the way? It's mystery means. I was like,

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Speaker 2: can I do it again? And he's like, no, no,

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Speaker 2: you only get one take.

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Speaker 3: Bitch.

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Speaker 1: Now, I heard you do interviews about this, about that

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Speaker 1: very scene.

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Speaker 2: You had lived that well that I have lived every

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Speaker 2: every single word. And that's you know when people are like,

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Speaker 2: look and I've been touring as a stand up for

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Speaker 2: ten years, and yet I've been on stage since I

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Speaker 2: was eight years old, and I've been writing on my

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Speaker 2: feet and essentially doing stand up like basically like Rush,

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Speaker 2: which our stand up comedy, because I'm improvising in real time.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker each made twenty million. I

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Speaker 2: made two hundred and seventy dollars for that cameo. And

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Speaker 2: I'm very bitter and that's why I'm here because I

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Speaker 2: need money.

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Speaker 1: Now I understand it. Early on, when you had these parts,

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Speaker 1: you would add lib if they didn't cut the camera

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Speaker 1: off because you wanted to stand out, and you did.

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Speaker 1: Every movie you were in early on, you stood out.

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Speaker 2: It's not about standing out, it's about making the most

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Speaker 2: of the moment. It's like every role is the leading

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Speaker 2: role in my mind. So even though my character in

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Speaker 2: Rush Hour had one line, may I help you, and

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Speaker 2: the character was saleswoman. Literally that's the name of the character, saleswoman.

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Speaker 2: I was the wrong gender and I had a half

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Speaker 2: a line.

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Speaker 3: So but it's but.

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Speaker 2: Like you're in the game. You're in the game, you're

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Speaker 2: you know you're gonna get a rep. So why not

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Speaker 2: just have as much fun as you can, you know,

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Speaker 2: the play the character like it's the lead, and just

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Speaker 2: start swinging for the fences. And then I was kind

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Speaker 2: of used as this guy where you know, if Cameron

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Speaker 2: Crowe and singles or say anything or any of these

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Speaker 2: you know movies that you mentioned with John Cusack, if

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Speaker 2: they needed some comedy, they would just call me and

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Speaker 2: just throw me in there and just have me improvise.

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Speaker 2: And so I was that guy for forty movies and

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Speaker 2: then I got Entourage, and then at forty years old,

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Speaker 2: I was voted the fresh Face of the Year, and

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Speaker 2: I was like, there's nothing fresh about my face, but

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Speaker 2: thank you.

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Speaker 1: Hey, so you were born here, you moved to Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Are you a Yankees fan a Cubs fan?

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Speaker 2: Well, look at look at God bless the Yankees and

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Speaker 2: and God bless the Chicago Cubs. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: jump on the bandwagon for the Yankees yet I love

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Speaker 2: them and I'm happy they're winning. I'm a Chicago guy.

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Speaker 2: I'm from the North Side of Chicago, so you know,

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Speaker 2: I would love to It wouldn't be great if we

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Speaker 2: both made it to the next round. Yeah, it's not

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Speaker 2: gonna happen this year, but well, let's let's have a

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Speaker 2: laugh at on the nineteenth together and we'll we'll raise

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Speaker 2: an adult beverage and celebrate.

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Speaker 3: Either way, I.

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Speaker 1: Would love that. Jeremy Piven is going to be performing

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Speaker 1: at Sony Hall on October nineteenth. You can get your

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Speaker 1: tickets at Jeremy Dashpiven dot com. It was really an

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Speaker 1: honor to meet you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you as well, thank you for the time.

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Speaker 3: This has been a podcast from woor