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Speaker 3: Jeff, Yes, here we are.
Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Garland and you're Susie Sman. Oh no, Susie Smen.
Speaker 2: You're Jeff Garland.
Speaker 3: And this is I love that you corrected it, like
Speaker 3: you went in for the correct like people, Wait a minute,
Speaker 3: that's a woman's name, and all right, whatever.
Speaker 2: A boy named Sue? Season five, episode eight.
Speaker 3: Do you know that song? I know, you know it's
Speaker 3: a Johnny Cash song. Yeah, but do you know that song?
Speaker 3: Which is a great song. It's about a guy who
Speaker 3: had all these trouble being named Sue, and then he
Speaker 3: gets get into a fight with a guy at a
Speaker 3: bar and it turns out to be his dad who
Speaker 3: named him Sue, and then they make amends and they
Speaker 3: move on. But it's really funny. It's a great song, and.
Speaker 1: This is a great episode. Yes, how's that segue? This
Speaker 1: episode is near perfect.
Speaker 2: I think it's.
Speaker 3: Deftly an all time favorite with great cast people.
Speaker 2: And Larry has told me it just very well might
Speaker 2: be his favorite.
Speaker 3: To be in real time. He texted you this morning
Speaker 3: you told.
Speaker 1: Him yes, and told me yes, and he told me
Speaker 1: that and he is in particular no in this episode.
Speaker 3: David Hall of Fame performance so funny, by the way,
Speaker 3: each of us have, all four of us have really
Speaker 3: strong moments in this all four of us. Yes, but
Speaker 3: Larry as the Orthodox Jew, are you kidding me? And
Speaker 3: there was one phrase that I caught him up. I
Speaker 3: remember what it was, but I knew Larry knew, but
Speaker 3: it was so believable. Yeah, I mean, And this.
Speaker 1: Was directed by Larry Charles this episode. And we start
Speaker 1: out that Larry is with Richard Lewis at his bedside,
Speaker 1: and Lewis is, of course in black silk pajamas.
Speaker 2: You know, I love that he's like in black silk pajamas.
Speaker 1: And Lewis says to him, you look fantastic, and Larry, well,
Speaker 1: I was never a drug addict or an alcoholic. I
Speaker 1: never slept with a lot of strange women, although I
Speaker 1: would have liked to. But like he's digging it into
Speaker 1: Lewis it's kind of mean, you know, because Lewis was
Speaker 1: a drug addict and an alcoholic and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And Lewis says, are you're gonna give me
Speaker 1: the kidney knot? And Larry says, well, what about Louis Lewis,
Speaker 1: who is still in a coma? And Richard Lewis says,
Speaker 1: you know, coma's a unpredictable and I'm so low on
Speaker 1: the kidney transplant list that there's a list for getting
Speaker 1: an organ donor. And Lewis is very, very very low,
Speaker 1: and he says, look at look at the Mick, and
Speaker 1: he shows a picture of Richard Lewis with Mickey Mantle,
Speaker 1: because Mickey Mantle got a liver transplant. If you re right,
Speaker 1: I do yes, And he would, you know, because he
Speaker 1: was Mickey Mantle.
Speaker 2: He got the liver immediately. He didn't have to wait
Speaker 2: on a list.
Speaker 1: And there's a ball in front and Mickey Mantle got
Speaker 1: his liver boom, and Larry says to Lewis, well, if
Speaker 1: you were a bigger celebrity, you'd probably go.
Speaker 2: Up on the list.
Speaker 1: So he's really being kind of mean to Lewis, but
Speaker 1: it's funny and Richard says, to see that ball, that's
Speaker 1: the mix five hundredth home run, and it's in my will,
Speaker 1: it's yours, and it's worth around twenty grand.
Speaker 2: And we see the nurse in the background listening to
Speaker 2: all this in.
Speaker 3: All sincerity, Mickey Mantle's five hundred home run ball at
Speaker 3: that point, in that time, that would probably be worth
Speaker 3: three hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, now, way more. I mean
Speaker 3: probably ten million dollars. I'm to a collector that probably, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: come on, it's the Yankees. There's two quintessential Yankees oh three.
Speaker 2: Four Choe Tamagi, Babe Ruth, Babe.
Speaker 3: Ruth, Georgia Maja, Luke Carrig and Mickey Mickey Mannal yeah,
Speaker 3: and so Mickey Mantle's five under the home run ball.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry if you're a Yankee fan, which they're the
Speaker 3: most popular team in all of baseball. They're also the
Speaker 3: probably the least part they're just by the way, I
Speaker 3: have so much respect for the Yankees, and I'm sorry
Speaker 3: that I know that's your favorite team. Not this season, well,
Speaker 3: the Cubs. This year was kind of heartbreaking, but I'm
Speaker 3: used to that with the Cubs. Although it was a
Speaker 3: great accomplishment this year, it's not called Baseball Talk with
Speaker 3: Susie and Jeff anyhow, Yeah, you never know how high
Speaker 3: that ball could go. It could go up to like
Speaker 3: fifty million. Let's say you're a billionaire and you love
Speaker 3: Mickey Mantle and the Yankees, and to you then where
Speaker 3: would you stop? Where would you stop? Ya?
Speaker 2: So what's it to you?
Speaker 1: So the nurse is in the background overhearing this discussion
Speaker 1: about the ball and how much it's worth. And then
Speaker 1: I love this moment where Lewis says, do the mick
Speaker 1: running around the basis and Larry does that little run
Speaker 1: that he does, which is his invitation, which is great.
Speaker 3: I love when real relationship stuff comes into play, right now.
Speaker 3: I make Larry do things that kill me all the time,
Speaker 3: and a lot of them make it into the show.
Speaker 3: And that's one between Larry and Richard that they've laughed
Speaker 3: about for hours, and here it is in the show.
Speaker 3: And by the way, so damn funny, so damn funny.
Speaker 2: So funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Larry says to Richard, do you like
Speaker 1: this sweater? And Richard says, if you're doing an Andy
Speaker 1: William summer show, which is such a Lewis line.
Speaker 3: Oh, that is such a Lewis line. You say, such
Speaker 3: a Lewis line. There's only two people who did humor
Speaker 3: like that, okay, where they would do the reference that
Speaker 3: hipsters would get. Lenny Bruce Richard Lewis list stops there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I'm pretty good at it. But these guys, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean home Richard Lewis when he says like I
Speaker 3: for that moment, there is nothing, as far as I
Speaker 3: have concerned, there's nothing funnier Richard Lewis saying it's not
Speaker 3: just Andy Williams, It's Summer Special Special exactly.
Speaker 1: It's the detail. It's the detail that's that's what you
Speaker 1: can't teach. That's what is just in Richard Lewis's crazy
Speaker 1: comedic brand.
Speaker 3: You know, as time goes on. He's always been a
Speaker 3: hero of mine since I'm a kid. But I appreciate
Speaker 3: his comedy more and more and more and more all
Speaker 3: the time. It really I gotta tell him that. Well,
Speaker 3: he knows I love him and he's a he means
Speaker 3: the world to me, both off stage and on. But
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell him that because his comedy, especially on.
Speaker 1: This show, well, when we were when we were coming up,
Speaker 1: you know, Richard Lewis was like a king.
Speaker 3: Well remember Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he sold that Carnegie Hall in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3: Ask him now, if you're a tickety tech I love
Speaker 3: saying it wrong, a TikTok person. You could sell out
Speaker 3: a week at Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 2: But you know who cares those days? It was different?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, well of course, and all those days everything's over.
Speaker 1: But when when I was coming up, you know, Richard
Speaker 1: was no, I mean heed it, he was it.
Speaker 3: And then he became one of these stars that came
Speaker 3: out Jane Lenno, the other from Late Night with David Letterman. Look,
Speaker 3: Richard Lewis was always a big deal, but once he
Speaker 3: started doing the Letterman Show, he became an actual star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, star.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: So, and now we get to call him friend, which
Speaker 2: is lovely.
Speaker 3: I really I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Still, I'm going to actually call him when we're done
Speaker 1: and tell him how we were raving about him.
Speaker 3: And by the way, he enjoys that more than mister
Speaker 3: Richard Lewis.
Speaker 1: And Lewis says to Larry, I love you, Larry Man.
Speaker 1: If my cousin stays in that coma, I'm depending on you.
Speaker 1: And you just cut to Larry's face, which is just
Speaker 1: pure terror, you know.
Speaker 2: And he's in the hallway of Lewis's house. He's leaving.
Speaker 2: And Lisa, who is the nurse who is played by
Speaker 2: Mo Collins.
Speaker 3: And Mo Collins fucking awesome. Yeah, she's just great and the.
Speaker 2: Love terrific actress.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: And she says that was nice of him to give
Speaker 1: you the ball, and then she tells Larry that she
Speaker 1: used to date Jeff.
Speaker 4: You have a good time with him, well until things
Speaker 4: got you know, intimate, it was fun, you know, he was.
Speaker 3: He's kind of a slam bam, thank you, ma'am kind
Speaker 3: of guy.
Speaker 4: Right, No, not really at all. No slamming, no bamon,
Speaker 4: no thanking the mam. She was a little it was
Speaker 4: short lived, was the problem.
Speaker 3: He was like that.
Speaker 4: I mean it was dark, but honest to god, it
Speaker 4: was like that.
Speaker 3: What are you kidding?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not kidding, Jeff. Yeah, very small, very small.
Speaker 4: It's like a peanut, that little.
Speaker 3: Very you know. Wait, way too much information here, Okay.
Speaker 4: I actually thought you would have known that.
Speaker 2: Can I know such a thing.
Speaker 4: I just would think that the something that friends men
Speaker 4: would talk about.
Speaker 3: Nobody ever talks about that.
Speaker 2: She says it was very short lived.
Speaker 1: And then she does this, she holds up her fingers
Speaker 1: for people who can't see that are just listening into
Speaker 1: like an inch mode, which is the symbol for very
Speaker 1: small penis. Yes, and she's like, I thought you would
Speaker 1: have known, which is bizarre.
Speaker 2: Why would he not? Yes, if Jeff has a small penis?
Speaker 1: And next thing we know, Jeff and Larry are sitting
Speaker 1: on either side of Louis Lewis's Okay Cooma bed to
Speaker 1: start this.
Speaker 3: Scene being one of the most popular scenes in the
Speaker 3: history of the show, Okay, I would say, that's my
Speaker 3: number one of people coming up to me asking me
Speaker 3: to do that in pictures, we'll get to it. But
Speaker 3: as you're a fan, you know what it is. But
Speaker 3: the idea that Larry and I are sitting and having
Speaker 3: a conversation on either side of the bed, not even
Speaker 3: acknowledging the guy who's in a coma between us, Lewis Lewis,
Speaker 3: So that's set up A yeah, is already a home run.
Speaker 2: Even it's a visual that's very funny.
Speaker 3: Even if we just ent a regular conversation, the scene's funny.
Speaker 1: But then so Jeff says, you know, comes run partictable,
Speaker 1: and Larry says, hey, I ran into uh Louis's nurse Lisa,
Speaker 1: and she said she had a thing with you. And
Speaker 1: then Larry tells you that she told me that you had,
Speaker 1: you know, this big, a very small penis, and Jeff
Speaker 1: immediately gets offended, as he should, and says.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, big vagina, gigantic vagina? What big is
Speaker 3: vagina known to man? Huge? You're kidding? Are you telling
Speaker 3: me the truth? It's gigantic, gigantic.
Speaker 5: So why is she going around making this.
Speaker 3: Is because maybe she's afraid that you'll find out she
Speaker 3: has a big vagina. Why would you even do that?
Speaker 3: I don't even know nipping it in the bud? How
Speaker 3: dare she? I'll tell you what. I bet you there's
Speaker 3: a ton of guys out there who've been labeled with
Speaker 3: small penis. I bet your fifty percent, isn't it? And
Speaker 3: it's a big vagina, yeh? Think of it biologically?
Speaker 5: Why should they be as many big vaginas as there
Speaker 5: are small?
Speaker 3: Right? These big vagina ladies are getting away with murder.
Speaker 3: See this is the thing about impro But this is
Speaker 3: the thing about improvising when you're really being true to it.
Speaker 3: I put zero thought into what I was going to
Speaker 3: do with my hands, you know what I mean. There
Speaker 3: was no like what do I do? Or it says
Speaker 3: in the script Jeff makes a v or there's nothing
Speaker 3: about it. And then in the moment, no, it didn't
Speaker 3: say that, didn't say it in the outline, but in
Speaker 3: that moment, especially because I'm playing worked up, and if
Speaker 3: you listen to last recording you can see I can
Speaker 3: get worked up. It was just boom and then both
Speaker 3: my hands like a giant vagina, and then Larry repeating
Speaker 3: it back to me, back and forth. And it introduced
Speaker 3: something to the zeitgeist. And I'm not I'm talking about
Speaker 3: Larry's writing. If you will, Yes, people come up to
Speaker 3: me with the big vagina hands, and I'm talking about
Speaker 3: now it's slowed down to once or twice a month,
Speaker 3: but it used to be once every few days. Well
Speaker 3: you know, has it? But the premise of because small
Speaker 3: penises have always been a small penis, small penis. But
Speaker 3: you never hear big vagina. Now we never hear big
Speaker 3: At his desk as he's writing this goes I mean,
Speaker 3: at first, I don't know what small penis, how it
Speaker 3: came into his mind or whatever, or if he's searching,
Speaker 3: but then it occurs to him, No, big vagina. That
Speaker 3: alone is what I'm talking about Zeitgeist. Because every man said, yeah,
Speaker 3: one about that?
Speaker 1: What about then you two go into it, you two
Speaker 1: like fifty percent labeled small penises might just be the
Speaker 1: big vagina, and why shouldn't there be as many big
Speaker 1: vaginas as small penises? And you say, these big vagina
Speaker 1: ladies are getting away with murder and they ate.
Speaker 2: Larry's like, they love this, they love this, the.
Speaker 3: Small penises and from now on on this yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: This from now with the v in the hands.
Speaker 1: And then the doctor enters and the doctor tells him
Speaker 1: that he's on to him. It's the same doctor that
Speaker 1: we saw last episode. I'm on to you, mister David.
Speaker 1: You're waiting for this man to die so that you
Speaker 1: don't have to give mister Lewis the kidney, by the way.
Speaker 2: And Larry's like, pretty good work. No, no, no, no, you
Speaker 2: got me.
Speaker 3: First, he denies it. Why would you say something like that?
Speaker 3: He goes, you know, the doctor goes, no, I know it,
Speaker 3: and then Larry just there's a beat and he goes, hey,
Speaker 3: good work, good work, you're right work. And then he
Speaker 3: turns to me to be impressed with the doctor, like,
Speaker 3: did you see the good work he did? Very fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And then you ask if he and Cheryl want to
Speaker 1: go skiing with us because you rented a chalet, and
Speaker 1: he's like, no, it's too much of a schlep. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And then both of you see George Lopez in the
Speaker 1: hall of the hospital. Yes, and George Lopez did in
Speaker 1: fact have a kidney transplant in real life.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes. By the way, his wife at the
Speaker 3: time gave him her kidney and Lopez gave him her kidney. Yes,
Speaker 3: which I say is the ultimate of giving. Yes, the
Speaker 3: only thing I would be a heart transplant, but that
Speaker 3: would mean one of you were dead, even the one you.
Speaker 2: Can live with just one kidney. So yeah, ladies.
Speaker 3: And gentlemen, we only have one heart.
Speaker 2: Only one heart.
Speaker 3: Keep it up. Hold on, I've got a message.
Speaker 2: Some people's are large.
Speaker 3: No, keep it open and keep it warm. What if
Speaker 3: I close everyone of my stand up shows with that?
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, You know we all have one heart.
Speaker 3: Let's keep him open and keep them warm. Good night, everybody.
Speaker 1: Well, do you know what I always hated when a
Speaker 1: comedian would apologize, you know what, we kid because we
Speaker 1: love or whatever they would say.
Speaker 3: I always porch belt, and actually.
Speaker 2: I hated it.
Speaker 3: No. The only guy who did it that I just
Speaker 3: love the way he did it was Rickles, because Rickless
Speaker 3: would talk about we love each other people, and then
Speaker 3: he would sing a song like a ballad of some sort. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I love that and and by the way.
Speaker 1: That's fine for him. I never felt like I wanted
Speaker 1: to apologize.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no you it would be false.
Speaker 3: I like ending with gratitude for them, because now especially
Speaker 3: I actually thanked the audience for even leaving their homes.
Speaker 3: Forget that they came to see me to congratulate them
Speaker 3: on leaving their homes. You know. But there was a
Speaker 3: guy in Chicago who used to say, everybody, you know,
Speaker 3: as I liked, I swear, this was his ending every time,
Speaker 3: and of course every comedian made fun of it. Everybody, hey,
Speaker 3: thanks for coming to night. And as I always say, live, love, laugh,
Speaker 3: and that was his closer every time, And of course
Speaker 3: moments before he closed. Comedians would run into the room
Speaker 3: to watch him do it to hear yes, it was fun.
Speaker 2: Because comedians are mean in a good way.
Speaker 1: So George Lopez tells him he feels great, and you
Speaker 1: guys say, Louis is at the bottom of the list,
Speaker 1: and he Lopez says, if somebody's got to step up,
Speaker 1: if you're at the bottom of the list, your fuck.
Speaker 2: But then he gives the information that there's a guy
Speaker 2: who's the head of the Kidney Consortium, which is such
Speaker 2: a thing as the Kidney Consort.
Speaker 3: By the way, how funny you say that, because when
Speaker 3: we were doing the scene that was a big topic
Speaker 3: of discussion with us of like what we consortium? Can
Speaker 3: you know I don't remember it was in the script
Speaker 3: or how should George it's consortium if I believe.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But anyway, he said, George says, there's
Speaker 1: a guy who's the head of the kidney Foundation and
Speaker 1: he could be gotten to so you should buddy up
Speaker 1: to him, kiss his ass. His name is Ben Heineman.
Speaker 1: And then Larry's at home and Omar Jones is there,
Speaker 1: and he asked, Larry says, can you get me some
Speaker 1: information on this guy? Ben Heinemann and Cheryl enters and
Speaker 1: she meets Omar for the first time, and Omar closes
Speaker 1: his at shadcase with the handcuffs in it, and he leaves,
Speaker 1: and Cheryl bought Larry a new ski jacket and Larry
Speaker 1: tries it on and Cheryl says, you could wear it
Speaker 1: when we go skiing with Susie and Jeff, and Larry says, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go too much.
Speaker 1: Schlepping, and then he's Larry sees a bag, a plastic
Speaker 1: bag that Omar left and it's edible undies in the
Speaker 1: bag and he goes running out to give it to Omar,
Speaker 1: but he's missed him, so he just stuffs it in
Speaker 1: the ski jacket.
Speaker 3: Can see it.
Speaker 2: Try the ski jacket, he guess.
Speaker 3: I want I want to say about this. If this
Speaker 3: were the only funny thing in the episode, it's worth
Speaker 3: the journey. There's so many gems through this episode that
Speaker 3: it's kind of hard to believe. And also to set
Speaker 3: up edible underwear for something that happens later. And also
Speaker 3: what I love about it is Omar Jones the way
Speaker 3: we've estabbed edible underwear, but again I buy that, like
Speaker 3: I'm going on the journey with that.
Speaker 2: He's a religious man. Yes, you know we've established Oh.
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm always complaining about this, this and this, like
Speaker 3: bongos in Larry's bedroom what have you? But this, I
Speaker 3: buy this is all good. Like I don't think what's
Speaker 3: he doing? Like you never know? But still loved it.
Speaker 3: Keep going.
Speaker 2: So he puts the box in his coat pocket.
Speaker 1: And then Larry's in his office on the phone with
Speaker 1: Omar Jones and he's finding out about Hyneman. He's a
Speaker 1: Yankee fan, he's an Orthodox Jew. He's got a gold Cadillac.
Speaker 1: He gives him the plate number, and you walk in
Speaker 1: and you guys try to figure out how are you
Speaker 1: gonna befriend this Ben Heineman And Larry's if I could
Speaker 1: save his life, like for example, if you, Jeff push
Speaker 1: him off the roof and I save his life, And you're.
Speaker 2: Like, at what point?
Speaker 1: At no point does he ask you about the fat
Speaker 1: guy who pushed you off the roof, you know, But
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, not that, not that version.
Speaker 3: Larry makes it easy for me. We throw each other softballs. Now,
Speaker 3: his softball to me is unintentional, whereas he he hats
Speaker 3: the scenario, having no way idea what I'm going to
Speaker 3: say back. But all I have to do every time
Speaker 3: is just question what he just said the logic. Speaking
Speaker 3: of logic, all I do is question what he just said.
Speaker 3: And it's funny. So he does that for me every time,
Speaker 3: and for me, I will say things where I know
Speaker 3: where he's gonna go with it, and it's fun. I'm
Speaker 3: just obviously it's fun. But he makes it easy for
Speaker 3: me to have those moments with him. He sets you
Speaker 3: up well unintentionally because you know normally, but you know
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I do think though, Jeff, that you know and I
Speaker 1: notice it, you know more in the later seasons. We've
Speaker 1: been doing this together, all of us for so long
Speaker 1: that we read each other's minds. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: dialogue of the unconscious going on at all times.
Speaker 3: I think one one of the best ones I ever
Speaker 3: did was him with the dishes in the water, and
Speaker 3: I say, you have special hands. You don't remember that
Speaker 3: you were in the scene.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I got it, but but I just tell him,
Speaker 3: what do you have special hands? Something about him and
Speaker 3: dishes and hot water and the owl keep going oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 1: And then we see Larry comes up with an idea,
Speaker 1: but we don't hear what it is. We just cut
Speaker 1: to you guys are in a parking lot looking for
Speaker 1: the cadillac. Now, of course this doesn't make sense. How
Speaker 1: would you know where the guy's cadillac was unless it's
Speaker 1: his place of work or something.
Speaker 3: June set us up, but good.
Speaker 1: Set us up, okay, And we see the first attempt,
Speaker 1: you smash into the tailgate and it's nothing. Nothing happens,
Speaker 1: and then you get out of the car because you
Speaker 1: don't want to stay in the car and get whiplash.
Speaker 1: You tell him to try again and he gives it
Speaker 1: a good smash this time in the airbit goes off
Speaker 1: and he's all full of crap all over his face
Speaker 1: and you have to pull him out of the car.
Speaker 3: We shot that's a Pacific Design Center. Very interesting buildings, yes,
Speaker 3: but we shot that bag exploding. Oh my god, with
Speaker 3: Larry with the powder. He's such a sport with all
Speaker 3: this ship. Yeah.
Speaker 2: How many times did you shoot that? Probably just once
Speaker 2: or twice more than that really.
Speaker 3: And then at a certain point all we had to
Speaker 3: do was have the thing already blown up and Larry
Speaker 3: getting out. But it was it was that was difficult
Speaker 3: to shoot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's a lot of choreography for that kind
Speaker 1: of a thing, you know. And then we see that
Speaker 1: Larry leaves a note on the windshield of the Cadillac.
Speaker 1: And next week cut to again pleasant music and where
Speaker 1: is He's Deli?
Speaker 3: Which no longer exists as far as I know.
Speaker 2: Right, it was a centemon.
Speaker 3: It was also a regular deli, but we've created an
Speaker 3: orthodox deli. And then Larry comes.
Speaker 1: In and Larry, Larry's wearing a like a short sleeve
Speaker 1: striped shirt, which is not his style at all.
Speaker 3: Also tucked in, tucked in.
Speaker 2: Tucked in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And and he walks in and he's you know,
Speaker 1: s Ben, And all of a sudden he has this
Speaker 1: accent which is like, I don't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It's the funniest thing I've ever heard of my life. Mister, mister,
Speaker 2: how are you, sir?
Speaker 5: What a great, great pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 2: It's nice to meet you.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have that sit down please, thank you.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm I'm a little late you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a misfit it was for you?
Speaker 3: To leave that note on my car. Well, how could
Speaker 3: I do anything less than that.
Speaker 5: I'd have to be a sociopath to hit somebody's car
Speaker 5: and then and then go away into the night as
Speaker 5: if nothing happened.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: What happened? I was listening to Jewish radio and they
Speaker 5: were talking about Israel, and I got so worked up
Speaker 5: I lost control of my car.
Speaker 3: May offer you so much, please, Marty Manus, Please it's
Speaker 3: kosh if you know that.
Speaker 5: Oh, say wait a second, hello, no, no, no, no, no, uh,
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you for that invitation. But I cannot
Speaker 5: go to the baseball game on the Sabbath. I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: it's impossible. I'll take a rain check. However, Oh okay.
Speaker 3: He didn't know what the accent was gonna be until
Speaker 3: he opened his mouth.
Speaker 2: I guarante did it.
Speaker 3: That's the point about improv You cannot prepare. And I've
Speaker 3: already told stories of Richard Lewis writing stuff down on
Speaker 3: a card and like sticking it where the sugar is
Speaker 3: at a table, and then Larry or I pulling it away,
Speaker 3: him getting pissed. But he's so much better, you know,
Speaker 3: being in the moment.
Speaker 2: Ben Heineman is played by Stuart Penkin.
Speaker 3: Stuart Penkin very funny actor, delightful man. But when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, he was in a movie called Hollywood
Speaker 3: Knights with Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Wooll, Tony Danza, and he
Speaker 3: played this nerdy guy who to me was the funniest
Speaker 3: thing in the movie.
Speaker 2: He's brilliant as Ben Heineman.
Speaker 3: Oh he really is, no, no brilliant, you know.
Speaker 1: So they introduced themselves and Ben speaks some Hebrew, to
Speaker 1: which Larry's response was, he's just clearly does not know
Speaker 1: what the hell he's talking about.
Speaker 3: But not only that, he doesn't put a big spin
Speaker 3: on it. He doesn't lightly so you wouldn't notice.
Speaker 2: And then he goes into this whole story.
Speaker 1: I'd have to be a sociopath to have just walked away.
Speaker 2: I was listening to Jewish radio.
Speaker 1: I got so worked off by lost control of the car.
Speaker 3: Jewish radio.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then Ben, very gracious, can I offer you
Speaker 1: some lunch?
Speaker 2: It's kosher?
Speaker 3: By the way, forget that Larry wrote the episode. Okay,
Speaker 3: his performance in this episode top the bottom.
Speaker 2: I mean fantastic.
Speaker 3: I mean it's this may be his best performance in
Speaker 3: the history of the show. I think it could be.
Speaker 2: It could be.
Speaker 1: And then Larry's phone rings and he's like, excuse me
Speaker 1: a minute, a little flip vote. I cannot go to
Speaker 1: the baseball game on the sabbath. And then you know,
Speaker 1: because he knows the guy's a Yankee fan, and that
Speaker 1: Ben Heineman tells him he watches television on the sabbath
Speaker 1: and Jeff.
Speaker 2: You're not looking.
Speaker 1: Larry goes like this, then some more fake heep brew yes,
Speaker 1: and then Ben says, there's two things that I love,
Speaker 1: by the way, stuffed back.
Speaker 3: By the way, Larry loved the scene with you and
Speaker 3: him on the couch with the yeah. But later you
Speaker 3: have seen he loved how much it made me laugh
Speaker 3: like he was. He was so happy that he was
Speaker 3: destroying me, destroying money. No, but I mean I would
Speaker 3: approach the table, you know when usually notes are given whatever,
Speaker 3: with tears in my eyes. And it just thrilled him that.
Speaker 2: He killed me just so I wasn't here. So but
Speaker 2: it was just so funny.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, stay tuned, and we're back, and
Speaker 1: then Ben says, there's two things in my life that
Speaker 1: I love besides family, I love baseball and I love skiing.
Speaker 2: And Larry's like, oh my yammacka almost fill off.
Speaker 1: I have a little ski lodge and he invites Ben
Speaker 1: to your ski lodge. This scene is just it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Larry is with Lisa. He Lewis is with Lisa and
Speaker 1: he says, I spoke to her mutual friend. I mentioned
Speaker 1: the small penis and Lisa says, was he upset? And
Speaker 1: Larry says rather. He says, rather it was with your
Speaker 1: big vagina and he does the hand gesture again huge.
Speaker 1: You blame it on the small penis and you've got
Speaker 1: a huge vagina.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: And then he's talking to Lewis. This guy's ahead of
Speaker 1: the whole thing. He's gonna go skiing with me. He's
Speaker 1: a huge Yankee fan. Let me give him the mantle
Speaker 1: ball and Lewis is like, are you out of your mind?
Speaker 1: And then they notice that the ball is missing and
Speaker 1: Larry looks for it. It's not behind the cabinet, nothing, and
Speaker 1: he says, who's been here? And Louis says, you know,
Speaker 1: just the nurse, a few friends. And Louis says, I
Speaker 1: see her leaving in the same uniform. There's no pockets
Speaker 1: or anything. She couldn't have taken the ball, and Larry
Speaker 1: starts thinking unless and then Lisa enters the nurse and
Speaker 1: he's like the Mickey Mantle ball is missing, and he says,
Speaker 1: can a ball worth in the excess of twenty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars just disappear? And then she says, Jim, what are
Speaker 1: you driving at? And then he does his Perry Mason
Speaker 1: and he pulls his glasses off.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I'm driving at.
Speaker 5: I submit, you took that baseball, stashed it and you're
Speaker 5: unusually large vagina and walk right on out of here.
Speaker 3: So the way he plays this is like a great
Speaker 3: detective who's waited for this moment. Yeah to say in
Speaker 3: the parlor, in that he's sitting here, Cliro, he's barrow.
Speaker 3: And again the performance like this to me is Larry
Speaker 3: my favorite Larry David performance in this episode. Everything he
Speaker 3: does destroys me in this episode.
Speaker 2: And you're usually large vagina, it kills me.
Speaker 1: I agree, And Lewis's face is just you know, priceless
Speaker 1: there and then we cut to dinner at our house.
Speaker 1: It's the four of us having dinner at our house. Cheryl, Larry,
Speaker 1: Jeff and Susie and Larry says, have you seen my
Speaker 1: cell phone? He asks Cheryl, So we've established that his
Speaker 1: cell phone is gone. And then we start discussing skiing,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Larry's wants to go skiing,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited because Cheryl and I are going to
Speaker 1: go snowboarding, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And then Larry says, I hope you don't mind, but
Speaker 2: I've invited an.
Speaker 1: Orthodox Jew and his daughter, and I'm just like, what
Speaker 1: even Orthodox jewice? Just some random Orthodox Jew? And he
Speaker 1: tells us he's head of the Kidney Consortium. And I
Speaker 1: just say, let's just be clear. You know, do you
Speaker 1: want to get Lewis up on the list and you
Speaker 1: want to go get out of you having to give
Speaker 1: him the kidney? And I don't, I don't know to
Speaker 1: spend the weekend with these people. And Larry goes into
Speaker 1: a complete a queen scene, but he.
Speaker 3: Says, the cut the cutting, and I loved it. But
Speaker 3: that's not the worst part.
Speaker 2: Boom now.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting what I recall Jeff is in that
Speaker 1: scene we played out the whole thing where he told
Speaker 1: me I was going to have to play his.
Speaker 2: Wife and we went through that.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Yeah, So we went through that whole thing,
Speaker 1: but it's better that it was cut where it.
Speaker 3: Was, Oh, that's an effiicient cut. But you know what's
Speaker 3: funny to me, and I'm just noticing this now, is
Speaker 3: when you're quoting yourself, Yeah, you just are playing the
Speaker 3: part again. You're just like you're recreating what actually happened
Speaker 3: in the episode.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, but yeah, so originally we had gone through
Speaker 1: a whole thing where he tells us that I have
Speaker 1: to play his wife because he can't have the shiksa
Speaker 1: you guysha wife Cheryl. But that was cut, and that
Speaker 1: was a great cut. I remember when I first saw
Speaker 1: it, it was like, oh, that was smart. That was a
Speaker 1: really good cut. And we cut to the chalet and
Speaker 1: there we are sitting on a couch. I got some
Speaker 1: schmatta on my head and Larry has his arm around me,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, looking at it, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: get your fucking hands off me, and you and Cheryl
Speaker 1: are a couple, and Larry and I are a couple,
Speaker 1: and I sitting on the.
Speaker 3: Couch the least believable as Cheryl and I. Well, now
Speaker 3: like if you don't know and you're watching the show,
Speaker 3: which of these people are couples. They would pick you
Speaker 3: and Larry and they would definitely want to say you.
Speaker 2: And why not? What I disagree with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Well, for our viewers, there are many reasons.
Speaker 1: Larry says, she's a wonderful cook, my susie, and he
Speaker 1: puts his arm around me. And then Rachel asked how
Speaker 1: we met, and I say, at a Hillel function.
Speaker 2: Now, let me tell you this. I had no idea
Speaker 2: what Hillel is.
Speaker 1: I just pulled that word out of my head that
Speaker 1: I heard it somewhere.
Speaker 3: It's it's the Jewish groups on.
Speaker 2: The college campuses. But I did not know that when
Speaker 2: I said that.
Speaker 1: So when she came back and she said, oh, so
Speaker 1: you met in college, I was like, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: guess so. Because I didn't know what Hillel was. I
Speaker 1: just knew that it was an organization, so I just
Speaker 1: said hello. And then Larry starts talking about that he
Speaker 1: was in a band and he sang Jewish folk songs
Speaker 1: and Rachel, oh, let's say, we didn't even Rachel is
Speaker 1: played by Ariese Barr.
Speaker 2: We didn't even say that yet.
Speaker 1: Reese Barr is a wonderfully talented comedic actress. She did
Speaker 1: that whole series where she played Svetlana, which was a
Speaker 1: Russian prostitute.
Speaker 3: But by the way, she lives in Israel.
Speaker 2: She back and forth.
Speaker 1: She lives part of the time in Israel and part
Speaker 1: of the time in New York in la but really
Speaker 1: really funny. She does a lot of one person shows
Speaker 1: and a lot of different characters, so she's playing very
Speaker 1: talented and she's playing Rachel. She says, so, what songs
Speaker 1: did you sing? And Larry says, Noel Fish, hold.
Speaker 3: On sing here. When he says, Larry, David and the hipsters,
Speaker 3: well that's later.
Speaker 2: That comes up first.
Speaker 1: He says, the song skaffilter fish blues. My freaking back
Speaker 1: is killing me and it's making it hard to covel.
Speaker 1: And then Cheryl says, what was the name of your band?
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, I had hold on hold on
Speaker 3: though I had to have whispered that to her, because
Speaker 3: that's like my relationship with Larry, like the way of
Speaker 3: giving him a home run ball. That's why I know
Speaker 3: for sure I would wager everything I owned that I
Speaker 3: wish to ask him what the name of the band was,
Speaker 3: because you know, there's no by the way, you know, Cheryl,
Speaker 3: there's no way she's going to ask that. She's my
Speaker 3: mouthpiece on that one. And then of course he says
Speaker 3: Larry David and the Hipsters. Now in the show, it
Speaker 3: cuts to me Cheryl and I nodding.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 3: Where in reality in that moment, the minute Larry David
Speaker 3: and the Hipsters comes out of his mouth and I
Speaker 3: do not break. I exploded. I could not, do you remember?
Speaker 3: I just I was what's the working? That is it
Speaker 3: inconsolable when you're laughter too? But I could not.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's inconsolable. But there's another word.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just exploded Larry David and then the
Speaker 3: hiking Hipsters, And.
Speaker 1: Then of course the hipsters went out on their own
Speaker 1: and became quite successful.
Speaker 2: And he just became Larry David.
Speaker 3: By the way, again, Larry, there's a term and improv
Speaker 3: explore in heighten, which means whatever anyone gives you, embrace
Speaker 3: it and then say something else that lifts it, and
Speaker 3: you go back and forth. And of course the hipsters
Speaker 3: went out on their own and they were very successful. Again,
Speaker 3: I explode with laughter and it's delayed.
Speaker 1: And none of that. The hipsters the gefilter fish. But
Speaker 1: none of that was planned. That was all in the moment.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting our audience know that. You know that,
Speaker 1: But I'm letting our audience know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But also part of the reason Larry laughs so
Speaker 3: much and breaks on the show is because he sits
Speaker 3: and he writes this, and then when it's actually happening,
Speaker 3: it tickles him, especially when somebody takes the ball and
Speaker 3: runs with it, you know, and it's a soccer game
Speaker 3: in his head, which is strange in a lot of touchs.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you.
Speaker 1: Did chuckle at that, you lose it, And then I
Speaker 1: say I was not attracted to him. I felt sorry
Speaker 1: for him. I had Rachmuna's pity. I taken stray animals.
Speaker 1: And Ben says, you remind me of my wife. All
Speaker 1: of a sholom, now, all of a sholem is like
Speaker 1: rest in peace is what that means?
Speaker 2: And Larry says, I would like to meet her, which
Speaker 2: is a You see Rachel ding ding ding going off.
Speaker 2: How did he not know what ali a sholem means?
Speaker 3: Well, very early on in the scene, she just is
Speaker 3: not buying Rachel is very suspicious.
Speaker 1: But that was a moment that I you know that
Speaker 1: I noticed and aggravated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, suspicious and very aggravated.
Speaker 2: She died six years ago.
Speaker 1: She passed away six And Larry's like, eh, eh, that
Speaker 1: whole thing, and Rachel's face is suspicious. And then Larry
Speaker 1: says to Ben, what do you do? And Ben tells
Speaker 1: him that he's head of the kidney Foundation, he says.
Speaker 1: Then Larry tells him about Richard Lewis.
Speaker 5: He says, I would give him my own kidney if
Speaker 5: only we were a match, but unfortunately that's the lass.
Speaker 3: That is not the case.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Okay, I would give him my own kidney
Speaker 1: if we were a match, but alas that is not
Speaker 1: the case. Like suddenly he's speaking in these biblical kinds
Speaker 1: of alas the case, and then some more Hebrew, some
Speaker 1: more that, and Rachel says, excuse me, because she knows
Speaker 1: he's faking it. He's not really speaking in Hebrew. And
Speaker 1: then we cut to time to go to bed. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I throw Larry's pillows on the floor, cut to
Speaker 1: Cheryl throws yours pillows on the floor.
Speaker 2: Same thing.
Speaker 1: And then I'm asleep and I'm tossing and turning, and
Speaker 1: he's tossing and turning. He can't seem to, you know,
Speaker 1: get comfortable, and so he climbs into bed and wakes me.
Speaker 2: Up and like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And he's like, my yeah, I don't give a shit
Speaker 1: about your back yet on the floor.
Speaker 2: Get the fuck out of the bed.
Speaker 3: Blah blah.
Speaker 2: Now coming up now is one of my favorite scenes ever.
Speaker 2: It's the next morning.
Speaker 1: Larry comes into the kitchen and Cheryl is cooking and
Speaker 1: he's like, what's that smell. It's bacon. He's like, what
Speaker 1: are you crazy? You can't cook bacon. These people are orthodox,
Speaker 1: they can't have bacon. And then he's like, how'd you
Speaker 1: do last night? She's like I was fine. He's like
Speaker 1: I missed you and they hug and just as they're hugging,
Speaker 1: Rachel Reese bar walks in and ret Larry says, good morning.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: This was season five. For the rest of the seven
Speaker 1: seasons that we had, every time I would come into
Speaker 1: the makeup trailer and he was there, I would say
Speaker 1: good morning and we would laugh because it was just
Speaker 1: so funny. And Rachel brings in the plates and she says,
Speaker 1: are these the plates that we ate the pot roast on?
Speaker 1: Last night, And Cheryl's like, yes, they you know, yes
Speaker 1: they are. And She's like, where are the milk and milkchi?
Speaker 1: How do you pronounce that milk plates?
Speaker 3: You're asking someone who's not he has no idea.
Speaker 2: And but Larry's backing up, Yeah, where are the milky plates?
Speaker 1: Like Larry's just backing her up, like starts ganging up,
Speaker 1: But yeah, where are the milky plates?
Speaker 5: You were told about the milk plates?
Speaker 3: Was you not?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: I have to bury the plate and we'll be done.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do what you have to bury the plate.
Speaker 2: Why would you.
Speaker 3: Bury a plate?
Speaker 2: What would you bury a plate? You have to bury
Speaker 2: the plate to purify. It has to go on your
Speaker 2: sure you probably.
Speaker 1: Have a whole set of china.
Speaker 2: Wash it and call it a day.
Speaker 3: Uh no, no, we can't wash it and call it
Speaker 3: a day. No, that's not how it works.
Speaker 2: Do you want to bury it? As the man of
Speaker 2: the house, you bury it.
Speaker 5: You'll bury, you'll bury. It's a little early for burying.
Speaker 5: I don't like to bury it before coffee.
Speaker 2: This is so Cheryl. She just says, why would you
Speaker 2: bury a plate? I love that? Why would you bury
Speaker 2: a plate?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And and Larry says, tell her, because Larry, of course
Speaker 1: has no idea, and Rachel tells her people.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, hold on, though Rachel nods at Larry to explain, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Garry comes. Then Larry reacts at Cheryl again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the milk plate. The milky plate sits like scream,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then Cheryl says, well, can't you just wash
Speaker 1: it and call it a day? And lar said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't just call it a day. And then Rachel says,
Speaker 1: would you like, as the man of the house, would
Speaker 1: you like to bury the plate?
Speaker 2: Lara?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, yeah, you bury. I don't like to bury
Speaker 1: before coffee. And then before she leaves, she's like, do
Speaker 1: I smell bacon? Larsay, no, I was a little guessy.
Speaker 1: I lit a match.
Speaker 2: And he says to Cheryl, you are a guest in
Speaker 2: this house. I love that whole scene.
Speaker 3: I love that, but I'm saying it's one after another
Speaker 3: that you're killing me. Big Vagina alone makes the episode.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back, stay tuned. Okay, we're back. Now.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Jeff, I don't recall was
Speaker 1: the milk it plates in the outline.
Speaker 3: Sure that was the premise of the scene. I'm guessing
Speaker 3: that it was, because why else would you have the
Speaker 3: scene she has her plate ready, Yes, so it had
Speaker 3: to have been in the outline.
Speaker 2: The milket plates.
Speaker 3: By the way, place do you remember where this place was?
Speaker 1: It was in Malibu, and I will tell you about
Speaker 1: And can I tell you something would happen that night
Speaker 1: after we left and it was a very long day
Speaker 1: of shooting, and it was late at night, and I
Speaker 1: got lost driving home with no GPS up in the
Speaker 1: canyons of Malibu. I was never so scared in my life.
Speaker 3: I was unless there's a full moon, it's it.
Speaker 1: Was pitch black, there's no houses, nothing. It was one
Speaker 1: of the scariest moments of my life.
Speaker 2: Somehow I figured out how to get out of there,
Speaker 2: but it took me about an hour.
Speaker 3: So you didn't stop at one.
Speaker 1: Weep no, I had to keep and the no GPS.
Speaker 1: GPS is one of the greatest inventions.
Speaker 3: Take a step back. Listen to the way you're saying,
Speaker 3: no GPS. How could people not think you're religious? How
Speaker 3: do people not think.
Speaker 2: Yourself I'm Jewish, just not religious.
Speaker 3: Extra bonus Jewish.
Speaker 1: All right, that's fine, But I'm not religious, and I
Speaker 1: was not brought up religious, so I don't know about milk.
Speaker 2: It plates a.
Speaker 1: Reese was brought up I believe Orthodox and knows all
Speaker 1: about and spent a lot of time in.
Speaker 3: Israel, and Larry relied on her. I know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So next we're skiing and Larry's equipment, you know, he's
Speaker 1: got the skis and the boots and the schlep, and
Speaker 1: he's lugging a pit and then you two fall off
Speaker 1: the lift.
Speaker 2: It's all like a disaster. Jeff and Larry fall off
Speaker 2: the ski list.
Speaker 3: Can I say something, This was one of my saddest
Speaker 3: moments in the history of working on the show. Now
Speaker 3: watching it, it look fine. It was supposed to fit
Speaker 3: me physically a lot more than that, and I had
Speaker 3: never skied in my life. I never had skis on,
Speaker 3: and I was naturally awkward. Now in order we are awkward, yes,
Speaker 3: but if you can ski, you're comfortable in them.
Speaker 2: But if you're not used to them, you got these
Speaker 2: huge things on your feet.
Speaker 3: So I in order to be a good physical comedian,
Speaker 3: you have to be able to do what it is
Speaker 3: you're you know, you have to know how to ski
Speaker 3: in order to act like you're falling over. I couldn't
Speaker 3: do it, but I remember, well, you know, Larry Charles
Speaker 3: can get frustrated. But I remember Larry, it was the
Speaker 3: only time this ever happened in the history of the show.
Speaker 3: I saw them away from me, whispering to one another,
Speaker 3: and I know the conversation was, he can't fucking do this.
Speaker 3: I know he can't. Like they were frustrated with.
Speaker 2: Me falling off the lift or something.
Speaker 3: There's a lot more to it, and by the way,
Speaker 3: it didn't look so bad. It actually looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: But I remember there were supposed to be a lot
Speaker 3: more to it, and I couldn't do it, and Larry
Speaker 3: and Larry were so frustrated with me that I think
Speaker 3: that's the only time in the history of the show
Speaker 3: where I saw a producer and a producer and director.
Speaker 3: Larry Charles was both discussing how much I sucked. And
Speaker 3: I've never forgotten it, and I felt so I was embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Well, the scene worked fine, of you two.
Speaker 3: Falling off, I know, but at the time we didn't
Speaker 3: know it all right.
Speaker 2: Well, but it did work fine. I wasn't there that day,
Speaker 2: so you too full off the let.
Speaker 3: Did you even come to the ski day? Now? That
Speaker 3: was up in Big Bear.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then we see Larry snowplowing down and Rachel
Speaker 1: and Ben are at the bottom of the hill and
Speaker 1: Ben is finished and Rachel wants one more run, so
Speaker 1: he tells Larry go with Rachel one more run, and
Speaker 1: she's like, she doesn't want it, and then Ben tells him,
Speaker 1: I think I could help you move your friend Richard
Speaker 1: Lewis up the list.
Speaker 2: And Larry's I'm gonna faint. I know where you're going
Speaker 2: when you die.
Speaker 1: Right up there, mister, Right up there, there's an escalator
Speaker 1: up You're going on the escalip It's just so funny.
Speaker 3: By the way, there's a movie I forgot the original name,
Speaker 3: but in America it was released A Stairway to Heaven
Speaker 3: and it's a Powell Presburger movie. They're the directors. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and with David nivin a master I.
Speaker 2: Know that movie?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 2: I think Joan plow Wright is in that movie?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, and she plays opposite him. And the point
Speaker 3: is that is easily in my top ten favorite movies
Speaker 3: of all time, and it is so moving to me.
Speaker 3: I love that movie so much. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: now that I've been talking about I haven't seen it
Speaker 3: for a while. Popping that baby in maybe even tonight.
Speaker 2: Okay, look forward to it, I am.
Speaker 1: And next we have Larry and Rachel on the ski
Speaker 1: lift and Larry is, you know, making his ridiculous small talk.
Speaker 1: What do people have against whistlers? I can't draw, but
Speaker 1: I'm a very good doodler. Let's have a doodle contest
Speaker 1: when we get back to the lodge and you know,
Speaker 1: and she's just like a yeah yeah, and then the
Speaker 1: lift stops and Rachel's say, it's only going to be
Speaker 1: a few minutes. But then we see time passes and
Speaker 1: time pass and it's fifteen minutes already, and she's worried
Speaker 1: about Chick Sahama.
Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Shama down something? Though Larry Charles, however, he block this
Speaker 3: first off where they're sitting was closer to if they
Speaker 3: found nothing would happen type area, like yes, in the
Speaker 3: wide shot, but it looked like they were where they were,
Speaker 3: like it was shot yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So she starts saying that Shick Sahama is what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, which is sundown? And I can't be alone
Speaker 1: with you after sundown. You're a man and I'm a
Speaker 1: single woman. It's against the law. And Larry says, who says,
Speaker 1: and she says, hush em, hush em says, and he's
Speaker 1: just like, hey, it's extenuating circumstances. And she's like, there's
Speaker 1: no such thing. Five point forty one. It's another half hour.
Speaker 1: The sun is going down, and they're both freezing and hungry,
Speaker 1: and Larry reaches into.
Speaker 2: His pocket and lo and behold what's in his pocket?
Speaker 2: Edible panties? Yeah, he takes it out, starts to eat,
Speaker 2: takes a bite. It's pretty good, it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Well, those are clearly made out of licorice.
Speaker 1: Yes, they look licoricish, that's what they did. And Rachel's
Speaker 1: how much time? And Larry offers her some of the
Speaker 1: panties and move that away from me, and then she says,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna have to jump, You're gonna and she says him,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to.
Speaker 3: Jump, and he says, what are you crazy?
Speaker 2: He says, what are you fucking nuts? Now very rare
Speaker 2: that Larry uses fuck, very rare.
Speaker 3: But in that instance, yes, it didn't stand out because
Speaker 3: now that's what I would say, that's what anyone would say.
Speaker 1: Jumping because ahash shem, it's it's ridiculous and uh and
Speaker 1: she she she takes out her phone. She gives him
Speaker 1: her phone, and she jumps and he continues to eat,
Speaker 1: and then he uses the phone to call Richard Lewis
Speaker 1: to give him the bad news. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: the kidney. He realizes now that he's totally alienated the
Speaker 1: Heineman's and the kidney is not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: And he says to him, I'm gonna call my cell phone.
Speaker 3: If you hear it ringing, pick it up. Okay, fine, fine, And.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, Lisa, the nurse, is propping up the
Speaker 1: pillows behind Richard, and he dials the number, and then
Speaker 1: we hear from Lisa's vagina.
Speaker 3: Clearly from her vagina, and Richard looks up like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is true. And the idea that Mickey Manno's five
Speaker 3: hundreds home run ball was stored in her vagina. That's
Speaker 3: quite end of the episode.
Speaker 2: And that's it.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I so enjoyed, like I really
Speaker 3: don't enjoy going back and looking at these guys do well.
Speaker 3: Mostly for me, it's the pain I know I was
Speaker 3: feeling as being very heavy and the pain I was
Speaker 3: in in terms of emotional but also I don't like
Speaker 3: watching myself, whether I'm fit or not. And then but
Speaker 3: this episode, I really couldn't get enough of it.
Speaker 2: You know what else, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Usually when I'm reward, I'm writing notes, writing notes, and
Speaker 1: I'm not really enjoying the episode. I was laughing out
Speaker 1: loud watching this episode.
Speaker 3: This is my favorite Larry David performance, and there have
Speaker 3: been many, and this is one of my favorite episodes.
Speaker 3: And of course I got to do something that people
Speaker 3: have reacted strongly to, and that's exciting for me.
Speaker 1: Whenever I tell Larry and I think Larry is a
Speaker 1: terrific comedic actor, and whenever I tell him and he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't act.
Speaker 2: I don't act, which is bullshit. He does act, of course.
Speaker 3: If I may. I don't know if this applies to you,
Speaker 3: how you feel about it, But I look at myself
Speaker 3: as a comedian who acts, and I'm a pretty good
Speaker 3: actor for a comedian who acts. I am not an actor.
Speaker 3: I am not an actor. I am a comedian who acts.
Speaker 2: I never really broke it down like that.
Speaker 3: Well I do. I've thought about it because I thought
Speaker 3: as an actor and I'm not so great as a comedian.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty fucking good as an actor. But comedians generally
Speaker 3: make the transition.
Speaker 1: Stand ups I'm talking about who are terrific. Robin Williams,
Speaker 1: the Jacket, you know.
Speaker 3: A lot do a lot do. I think it's more
Speaker 3: often than not comedians can transition to being really solid actors.
Speaker 3: But it was a great dramatic actor.
Speaker 1: You know, Alan King was a good actor actor. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you're on stage doing stand up and
Speaker 1: you're you're making materials sound fresh every time.
Speaker 2: That's acting.
Speaker 3: But I don't do that well.
Speaker 2: Most comedians do. And what were the other means? But Jeff,
Speaker 2: that's not true. You do you have bits that you do?
Speaker 3: No, I have bits that I recall. I have no
Speaker 3: sense of. The strongest I ever go is when I
Speaker 3: film a special where I have an outline but it
Speaker 3: still gives me room.
Speaker 1: Yes, but there are things that you have said before
Speaker 1: that you're saying again and making it sound fresh.
Speaker 3: No, it sounds fresh because I'm saying it could be
Speaker 3: something I haven't said in a year, and I'm recalling it,
Speaker 3: so it is fresh as I'm telling it.
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying, No, what was saying
Speaker 2: to me?
Speaker 3: I'm saying this is why I say for me, I'm
Speaker 3: a comedian who acts because I'm not. There's only one
Speaker 3: time in my career where I actually performed as an actor,
Speaker 3: and that was my HBO half hour. It was in
Speaker 3: a very difficult room. The first show. I ate it,
Speaker 3: I really did. I didn't have a good set audio,
Speaker 3: it was just and there were high ceilings, which is
Speaker 3: death for comedy. But I remember sitting backstage and I
Speaker 3: told my wife and my manager. I said, well, they go,
Speaker 3: how do you feel about the second? I go, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do great? And they say, oh, that's a good as.
Speaker 3: I go, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna do great because
Speaker 3: no matter what their reaction is, I'm killing. I am
Speaker 3: killing camera. You played Yeah, No, But I actually performed
Speaker 3: that night as an actor of a comedian who's killing
Speaker 3: because the second show went better but not good enough
Speaker 3: to show.
Speaker 1: Doing Doing stand up for television is a completely different
Speaker 1: thing than doing stand up live in a room where
Speaker 1: where you're doing this one thing at this moment, and
Speaker 1: it's never gonna happen again.
Speaker 2: It's not being filmed. It's a completely different thing.
Speaker 1: I never enjoyed doing stand up for television, never enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: To me, it was just it never felt good on stage.
Speaker 3: I enjoy you know, just audience. Yeah. Yeah, But even
Speaker 3: when I did like Letterman and stuff, I had a
Speaker 3: ball I mean different, Yeah, that's different. Well, you know,
Speaker 3: look it's my adhd. I cannot do the same thing
Speaker 3: every night. I remember I was doing one a very
Speaker 3: successful one man show in Chicago, and it got well reviewed.
Speaker 3: At the same time, Jackie Mason was doing his one
Speaker 3: man show in Chicago, so I had a night off
Speaker 3: he was performing. I went to go see him. Afterwards.
Speaker 3: I talked to him backstage and I was telling him
Speaker 3: about how I'm sick of my own voice, that my
Speaker 3: show is maybe half of what I was doing at
Speaker 3: the first place that I was improvising. And his response
Speaker 3: to me, what are you a schmuck? A schmuck, you
Speaker 3: got great reviews. Why aren't you going with your great reviews?
Speaker 3: You don't change a word because but he was able
Speaker 3: to perform precisely the same thing every night. I don't
Speaker 3: have that skill.
Speaker 1: I do not, But what I'm saying is that's an
Speaker 1: acting skill to make it sound fresh and make it
Speaker 1: feel fresh every night, like you do if you're doing
Speaker 1: a Broadway play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't look at it. I think you basically,
Speaker 3: we're really not even disagreeing to disagree, you're just wrong.
Speaker 1: Well, on that note, we're gonna say goodbye and we'll
Speaker 1: see you.
Speaker 3: Thanks everyone for listening.
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