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Speaker 1: the episode description. All right, so Jeff here, we.
Speaker 2: Are here, we are I'm Jeff Garland, I'm Susiasman, and
Speaker 2: we are doing the history of Kurby Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: And this is season three, episode seven. Yeah, the corpse
Speaker 1: sniffing Dog.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And we start out with Larry interviewing for a new
Speaker 1: chef because he's fucked up every chef already. And the
Speaker 1: guy is bald, and we see right away Larry.
Speaker 2: Is just in Gomez. Second city.
Speaker 4: Another second city.
Speaker 2: Yep. Lovely gentleman and very telling.
Speaker 1: Larry immediately feels an affinity for him because of the baldness.
Speaker 1: Look at you, Look at you?
Speaker 5: You wh when'd you start?
Speaker 3: Wasn't it?
Speaker 2: I started losing when I was fifteen.
Speaker 5: Fifteen, Wow, earlier than me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2: I actually like it. Yeah me too. Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: got a little sunscreen on.
Speaker 3: It's fine. Yeah, a lot of sunscreen, right, you can't
Speaker 3: go outside.
Speaker 2: With all the sunscreen exact.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, And they talk about the disparaging the guys
Speaker 1: with the hats up guys with the hat.
Speaker 2: That comes from Larry wrote a piece but I can't
Speaker 2: remember where, but it was basically about being bald, and
Speaker 2: the line that killed me is the hat has to
Speaker 2: come off sometime, and.
Speaker 1: He says it in this episode, the hat has to
Speaker 1: come off sometimes, and what do you Then you're fooling people.
Speaker 1: They think they're going out with a guy with hair
Speaker 1: and then they find out he's bald. You're misrepresenting yourself.
Speaker 1: So he's connecting with this guy, which is important. Monoxidil,
Speaker 1: no transplant, no two pay.
Speaker 3: Then Larry says, surprise, up the two pay people. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, if I'm going to be a sick megalomaniac
Speaker 5: right to round up people who I.
Speaker 3: Hated, they would be on my list, I would say
Speaker 3: get the two pay people.
Speaker 2: Absolutely to me, that's really funny. But he upped it
Speaker 2: by saying Hitler's henchman. They should have gone around and
Speaker 2: grab people's hair to see.
Speaker 1: To see if they're wearing a two pay hilarious. So
Speaker 1: we see that he has an infinity with this guy,
Speaker 1: and it's important for things that happen, not in this
Speaker 1: episode but later on in the season.
Speaker 2: But also there's never a moment where he goes, you're hired.
Speaker 2: We find that out later. I got this great chef
Speaker 2: right right, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: But we know seeing this interview that he's going to
Speaker 1: hire him because he so loves the guy.
Speaker 4: Because he's bald. That's all he needs. He doesn't care
Speaker 4: about the food. He cares that he's bulld well.
Speaker 2: He gets called out on it in a minute.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next they are out to dinner with Stu and susan
Speaker 1: browdie Don Stark and Amy A Kena, right, and we've
Speaker 1: met the browdies before.
Speaker 4: There was a whole incident prior that every.
Speaker 1: Time the check came, Stu would get up and go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, et cetera, et cetera. And they start
Speaker 1: to talk about that their kids want a dog and
Speaker 1: no freaking puppy because Stue never says fucking. He only
Speaker 1: says freaking, which is really annoying. And Larry tells them
Speaker 1: Jeff is looking to get rid of his German shepherd, Oscar,
Speaker 1: because I got Oscar when we were split up for protection,
Speaker 1: and now you're back in the house and you're highly
Speaker 1: allergic to Oscar and what a great dog he is,
Speaker 1: and he is a great dog.
Speaker 4: That was a beautiful dog.
Speaker 1: And the wine comes and Stu starts with his whole
Speaker 1: michig gos with the sniffing and the gargling and the
Speaker 1: swirling and the you know, the nonsense.
Speaker 3: This is like an elephant stick his head in the pot.
Speaker 1: How are you watching this routine?
Speaker 3: Stop it?
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, corks.
Speaker 3: Surely we need to send this back.
Speaker 4: It's like an elephant sticking his head in the pond.
Speaker 2: Larry, Yeah, I didn't remember that this was setting up for.
Speaker 3: For later, for later.
Speaker 2: This is the thing. Larry and I have a lot
Speaker 2: in common, you know. I guess there our money is
Speaker 2: maybe a difference and we look at something's different. But
Speaker 2: we have a very honest relationship. And just like we
Speaker 2: talked about the last episode about not going to bar
Speaker 2: Mitzvah's the idea of Larry collecting wine or me collecting
Speaker 2: wine and having a wine room, which he probably does
Speaker 2: in his house. I don't know what he used does, yeah,
Speaker 2: but it might have been there when he might have
Speaker 2: been there, yes, yeah, but the idea that he and
Speaker 2: I would smell the cork swish it around, because when
Speaker 2: I drank I would never do that, even a nice
Speaker 2: bottle of wine.
Speaker 3: I knew nothing.
Speaker 2: I still know nothing. He knows nothing. And there's that
Speaker 2: curiosity of why the fuck are people into this?
Speaker 1: Well they are very much so, as you know, and
Speaker 1: Stu Browdie is very into it and clearly pretentious. And
Speaker 1: he sends the wine back. He says it's corked. He
Speaker 1: sends it back and Larry tastes. Larry says it's fine.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like the whole idea. Susan asks about the restaurant,
Speaker 1: and Larry says, and this struck me.
Speaker 4: I'm not allowed to talk about it. She gets bored.
Speaker 1: She gets bored so easily, and I know that was
Speaker 1: coming from real life. I'm not allowed to talk about Seinfeld.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Sari and Marla my ex. Oh, they've
Speaker 2: heard all my stories. They cannot take it.
Speaker 4: Well, it is an issue in a marriage.
Speaker 1: We've heard all these stories before, and well, we all
Speaker 1: have our stock stories that we tell.
Speaker 2: No no hold on. We have our stock stories that
Speaker 2: we tell. They not so much. We you and I
Speaker 2: and any other comedian has our things that we like talking.
Speaker 1: But I know what Jef note, Jimmy has his stock stories,
Speaker 1: myad and it takes a tremendous amount of effort for
Speaker 1: me when we're out to dinner with somebody and he
Speaker 1: starts telling one of his stories that I've heard many
Speaker 1: many times, to sit there.
Speaker 4: And shut up. It takes a tremendous effort.
Speaker 2: That's the hard part of a relationship.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: I haven't broken through that with my girl, Sari.
Speaker 4: It is one of the difficult things in a marriage.
Speaker 2: So frustrating. And by the way, when I start with
Speaker 2: the beginning of one of those things, even though I'm
Speaker 2: not heading there, she tunes out.
Speaker 4: You've got a new audience.
Speaker 1: It's you know, oh with Sari, no, with whoever you're
Speaker 1: telling the story. The unfortunate thing is your partner is
Speaker 1: an old audience and they have to hear it again and.
Speaker 2: They're sick of it. It's not like Seinfeld, where people
Speaker 2: want to hear their favorites. It's like, exactly, please shut
Speaker 2: the fuck up.
Speaker 1: So Larry mentions he's hired a new chef, and Cheryl's
Speaker 1: the one who says he only likes him because he's bold, right,
Speaker 1: and then the check comes and Stu picks it up,
Speaker 1: makes a big deal about it, and then Larry.
Speaker 4: This is a very interesting episode.
Speaker 1: It is Larry thanks Stu and does not thank Susan,
Speaker 1: and Susan is, well, you know what about me, You're
Speaker 1: going to thank me too.
Speaker 2: This has to be from real life by the way,
Speaker 2: it either happened to him or it happened to him
Speaker 2: kind of like that.
Speaker 1: And then it was like boom, Well it becomes an issue.
Speaker 1: From Susan's point of view, it's our money. Yes, he works,
Speaker 1: but it's our money. And I'm a part of a couple,
Speaker 1: and you thank me too, and I agree with her
Speaker 1: bottom Larry's.
Speaker 2: Agree with her. Larry is just ridiculously.
Speaker 1: Larry's point of view, he's the one who works. It's
Speaker 1: not her money and she doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I disagree with him on this.
Speaker 2: You agree with you, Yes, completely agree with you. It's
Speaker 2: totally inappropriate. And not only that they have children, correct,
Speaker 2: so it's especially inappropriate because.
Speaker 4: She's taking care of the kids.
Speaker 2: Whoever's taking care of the kids, man or woman. And
Speaker 2: I went through a period where I was not getting work.
Speaker 2: And so James, my son, my oldest for when his
Speaker 2: baby years into like early toddler. Marla worked as a
Speaker 2: casting director. I couldn't find a job to save my life.
Speaker 2: You took care of James, so I saw firsthand how
Speaker 2: much work, but I knew it, and so you know what,
Speaker 2: I got a comparison. It's like a movie producer. What
Speaker 2: I mean by that, if you're a producer of a movie,
Speaker 2: you're like, not executive. That's TV and that usually means.
Speaker 4: Creative, a line producer, but a movie is not.
Speaker 2: Called a line producer. That's what the producer does. They
Speaker 2: oversee everything, and the line producer works for them. You
Speaker 2: are in charge of all the shit that happened, everything, everything,
Speaker 2: and it is hard, and a director it's easier job
Speaker 2: after writer, even though those jobs take great skill in
Speaker 2: terms of the shit work. That's the producer. I'm glad
Speaker 2: if I taught anybody that, yeah, the mother, the wife
Speaker 2: does the shit work, does the work that allows or
Speaker 2: the husband that allows the other to do their.
Speaker 1: Thing, to do the thing and make money and also
Speaker 1: frequently be out in the world enjoying themselves, interacting with
Speaker 1: other people, while the caretaker is just talking to a
Speaker 1: two year old. It's a rough job. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite lines is when Cheryl says.
Speaker 2: Honey is our mind? Well this, I've earn the money,
Speaker 2: so what do you do?
Speaker 4: You pay her salary and she buy things.
Speaker 2: She spends the money that I've earned.
Speaker 5: She didn't work.
Speaker 2: I earned the money. Loving you is my job. I
Speaker 2: earn the money.
Speaker 3: It's just a fact.
Speaker 4: Loving you is my job, Larry.
Speaker 2: Which, by the way, it is it is. That's the reality.
Speaker 2: Because love comes and goes in a marriage. It does
Speaker 2: you always, on a bottom line, love them deeply. But
Speaker 2: in terms of romantic love, good buy one loves the
Speaker 2: other more switches and you both love each other crazy.
Speaker 2: Those are the great times. The dangerous times are when
Speaker 2: you both can't stand each other because if you don't
Speaker 2: hold out, you're gonna get divorced or split up. Because
Speaker 2: that's the dangerous period. And those happened, of course, you know.
Speaker 2: So that is Cheryl's job, no doubt about it, and
Speaker 2: a hard one with Larry.
Speaker 1: Yes, and a whole fight and sus and it's our
Speaker 1: money and Susan is nonplussed.
Speaker 4: And that's that scene.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I also want to say one
Speaker 2: more thing, because we've got scenes coming up with Amy
Speaker 2: playing a more extreme version of this. She is great
Speaker 2: at playing a difficult woman above an annoying, difficult, mean woman.
Speaker 2: And she is the sweetest woman ever. I love her.
Speaker 2: But boyle boy, can she play that part?
Speaker 4: It's cooled acting.
Speaker 2: But she also can play soft parts. You know, she
Speaker 2: was a mother on the Brooklyn Bridge TV series and
Speaker 2: she's done a lot of movies where she's not that,
Speaker 2: but on our show, she played that to the hilt.
Speaker 2: And yet I had so much fun with her. And
Speaker 2: she's a wonderful person. I just want to add that.
Speaker 1: And we cut to the restaurant with Mike York and
Speaker 1: Ted Danson and I had the opportunity to speak to
Speaker 1: Michael Yorke remotely and let's hear how he felt about
Speaker 1: working on Curby Enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: So Michael Jeff can't be here today, so it's just
Speaker 1: you and me. What are your memories of shooting this
Speaker 1: season season three on Curb Your Enthusiasm? How did you
Speaker 1: get this job to begin with?
Speaker 3: Well, Jelly, I got the job. It was from my wife.
Speaker 3: Oh really, She started watching the shows and said, this
Speaker 3: is something you really will to look into. It's such
Speaker 3: folid new different. So she called my agent the currently
Speaker 3: that little trick, and after that I was a ted
Speaker 3: down some investors.
Speaker 1: In Bobo's So I was in Had you done any
Speaker 1: improv before that? Yeah, you had, because you're known as
Speaker 1: as you know, you're a real actor.
Speaker 4: You know, we're just comedians. You were a real actor.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing you in Romeo and Juliet when I
Speaker 1: was a teenager.
Speaker 3: Hello, yes, well, well thank you. It's it's a strange
Speaker 3: business that we do. I mean, I love improvising. Some
Speaker 3: movies you get a chance to do that. Others you
Speaker 3: stick to the script.
Speaker 1: Yeah Shakespeare. He's a little hard to improvise with Shakespeare. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's a bit presumption ste isn't it.
Speaker 1: And what do you remember about being on set about
Speaker 1: about working on the show.
Speaker 3: Well, I remember I love being with Larry. I don't
Speaker 3: know why I find myself being very passive aggressive to him,
Speaker 3: and I guess it's twenty years ago. There certain things
Speaker 3: that weren't going right.
Speaker 1: And at the restaurant, yeah yeah, yeah, well he was
Speaker 1: fucking everything up, Michael, he was fucking everything up. Left
Speaker 1: and right firing the chefs and having the corpse sniffing.
Speaker 3: Dog in there. And boy, I'm so glad that you
Speaker 3: reminded me of that y and that's why I was
Speaker 3: a bit aggressive with him.
Speaker 1: But you know, the thing is when you're aggressive, because
Speaker 1: you have that beautiful English accent, it doesn't sound aggressive
Speaker 1: like when I'm aggressive with my New York accent.
Speaker 3: Oh. But anyway, it was fun to do one of
Speaker 3: those jobs where you look forward to going to work
Speaker 3: every day. See where it's going to turn up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it was. As you know, so much of the
Speaker 3: responsibility lies in the actor, right coming up with something worthwhile.
Speaker 3: So I think my favorite scene is the opening of
Speaker 3: the restaurant.
Speaker 4: The restaurant, Sure.
Speaker 3: The chepherd Duretts. That was subvine And I found myself
Speaker 3: saying these filthy lines in a very Shakespearean way. That's
Speaker 3: what I mean. From you, it sounds classy. Do you
Speaker 3: remember what it was that you said when you had
Speaker 3: to curse? Well, I can't repeat it. This is the
Speaker 3: Family Show. No it's not. I think you said something
Speaker 3: about Bollocks. Sounds so Shakespearean, Madam Bollocks. Do you do
Speaker 3: you recall what you said, or no, I know. It
Speaker 3: was every foul word I could you could think of
Speaker 3: ships I'm not gonna do it again being paid for
Speaker 3: it anyway. So I loved my brief encounter with Larry
Speaker 3: and his friends and co conspirators. Yeah, and I went
Speaker 3: off to make a film in the Croatia. And by
Speaker 3: the way, one weekend, drove up to Venice for a
Speaker 3: bit of our and our and there was a went
Speaker 3: to a lovely.
Speaker 4: Restaurant Venice, Italy, not Venice, California.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, last Serenissima. So anyway, there was this
Speaker 3: woman in the restaurant who gave me a funny look
Speaker 3: and started swearing in the most feared apple blue way.
Speaker 3: And I'm a bit shot and she said, well, if
Speaker 3: you can say it, I don't. Then I knew that
Speaker 3: the episode must have been aired, right, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4: And did that happen to you a lot?
Speaker 1: Did you get a lot of feedback from the episode
Speaker 1: just anecdotally?
Speaker 3: People loved it? Yeah, because he was so naughty. I mean, Larry,
Speaker 3: his great gift is being able to put in the
Speaker 3: words imagine actually saying it for them, So he doesn't
Speaker 3: great service.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, he says what people are thinking but
Speaker 1: afraid to say.
Speaker 3: Yes yes, and they need someone right now.
Speaker 1: And you know, you were such a great piece of
Speaker 1: casting because you know, Michael Yorke, this amazing actor with
Speaker 1: a British accent, with this group, with this crazy group,
Speaker 1: was so incongruous that it worked beautifully.
Speaker 4: You know, it just worked so beautifully.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for saying that, Susie, and congresations to
Speaker 3: you for my jog being involved in this monstrous good.
Speaker 1: Well, we're on season twelve now, I know. And you
Speaker 1: shot season three yeah, way back. It was two thousand
Speaker 1: and two through two thousand and.
Speaker 3: Three around there.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I actually have a picture of you and
Speaker 1: I at the wrap party. I should have found that
Speaker 1: to show you. Well, Listen, you've always been one of
Speaker 1: my favorites, from d'Artagnan to Tibblt to Cabaret to You've
Speaker 1: had an amazing career and this was a small blip,
Speaker 1: but it was memorable your season on Curve.
Speaker 3: Major blip. Thank you. Would you greet Barry from me
Speaker 3: in pact?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'll see him on Monday, I absolutely will.
Speaker 4: I'll send your love.
Speaker 3: Do. I told him yesterday that you were coming on.
Speaker 3: I was with him, I had lunch with him yesterday.
Speaker 1: I told him that you were coming on, and his
Speaker 1: face lit up at the mention of your name.
Speaker 3: It's such a great face too.
Speaker 4: As is yours, Michael, as is yours? Well, one time maybe,
Speaker 4: but are you still handsome?
Speaker 3: You're coming to me in Rochester, Minnesota? Really? Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm at the Mayo Clinic.
Speaker 3: Okay. I got some day rare disease which they treating,
Speaker 3: saving my life. So very grateful.
Speaker 1: So the prognosis is good. Yeah, that's fantastic. I'm happy
Speaker 1: to hear it.
Speaker 3: But you know, one thing it did was take away
Speaker 3: my balance and my memory. Ah, that's right. I'm so
Speaker 3: great to do this with your Susie. Sure mind the
Speaker 3: happening in the bounce to get it back, to load
Speaker 3: up the memory I did. Well. Luckily you can watch
Speaker 3: all that stuff and remember, I know you can look
Speaker 3: forward to you.
Speaker 4: So great to talk to you, Michael.
Speaker 2: Be well.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're getting treatment and you're going to be fine.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Susie. Much love to you, and keep warm
Speaker 3: in Minnesota. Yes, yeah, anyway, much love.
Speaker 1: Much love to you, Michael, and I will send your
Speaker 1: love to Larry on Monday.
Speaker 4: Great, so it was lovely to reconnect to Michael. He's
Speaker 4: an amazing man.
Speaker 1: So now Larry brings up how come this no partitions
Speaker 1: in the urinals?
Speaker 4: Larry is always.
Speaker 1: Obsessed with this defecation and the urination and always that stuff.
Speaker 2: By the way, you know what he doesn't find funny.
Speaker 2: He doesn't find scatological humor funny.
Speaker 3: I know he doesn't like.
Speaker 2: A diarrhea punchline or what have you. He fucking hates it.
Speaker 2: I know Letterman hates it too.
Speaker 1: And lu DiMaggio says in this it's not a bus station,
Speaker 1: another line that I love about, you know, people looking
Speaker 1: at you and in the urinals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're opening in three days.
Speaker 1: And then Jeff shows up with Oscar Susie's tiling.
Speaker 2: But but I also want to say this, Jim Stall, Yes,
Speaker 2: Susie Knockamora part of the team Second City to keep going.
Speaker 1: Jeff shows up with Oscar Susie's tiling something and they
Speaker 1: had to get the dog out of the house and
Speaker 1: Oscar starts sparking. We have established that Oscar is a
Speaker 1: corpse sniffing dog that he used to work for what
Speaker 1: the fire department. I think or something. He's a for
Speaker 1: the Place Corps sniffing dog.
Speaker 2: And we find out in this episode he's fully credential.
Speaker 2: That's what the cop says.
Speaker 1: And he starts digging at something in the kitchen, smelling
Speaker 1: something goes crazy, and next week cut to the cops
Speaker 1: are there and there might be a dead body under
Speaker 1: the floor for all they know, because he is a
Speaker 1: corpse sniffing dog and they're going to need to dig
Speaker 1: up the floor and the restaurant's supposed to open in
Speaker 1: three days.
Speaker 2: We hold on one of the cops, not Second City,
Speaker 2: Kate Flannery, who I knew from Chicago. She was heavily
Speaker 2: involved in the Annoyance Theater in Chicago, which was a
Speaker 2: wonderful place that I also worked at. Kate Flannery, even
Speaker 2: though her dialogue was cut from the scene, she didn't
Speaker 2: say anything in the episode. But Kate Flannery went on
Speaker 2: to great success on the TV show of the Office.
Speaker 2: This was one of her first jobs, and it's just
Speaker 2: fun to see her there. And I'm sure if people
Speaker 2: watch this episode from.
Speaker 1: The office, that's a fun thing about these early seasons
Speaker 1: is seeing all these people that people then got to
Speaker 1: know that they didn't know at the time. And Jeff says,
Speaker 1: if there's a dead body under there, where fucked. And
Speaker 1: then Larry tells Jeff that the browdies are looking for
Speaker 1: a dog, and Jeff says, well, my daughter's in love
Speaker 1: with this dog. And Larry says he explain to her
Speaker 1: and Jeff then you then take your special whistle and
Speaker 1: you blow the whistle and Oscar comes, Larry starts, Larry
Speaker 1: starts petting Oscar.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's Oscar. Look at that it came.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that you really love it. A good boy.
Speaker 3: It's nice to be affectioned to something German. You don't
Speaker 3: get the opportunity that off, you know.
Speaker 4: And he says, it's nice to be affectionate to something German.
Speaker 2: But I also want to say, well, that's a great line,
Speaker 2: and it made me laugh. If we haven't established this,
Speaker 2: this is really big. Larry David loves dogs.
Speaker 4: Oh yes he does.
Speaker 2: I mean he adores dogs.
Speaker 1: He used to have a dog named Oscar, which is
Speaker 1: probably why Oscar's named Oscar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're all big dog people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a couple, but he melts around dogs.
Speaker 2: When I brought Sage to set, my dog who's a
Speaker 2: white cockapoop who I stole from the Goldbergs. I actually
Speaker 2: did another story another time, but he was all over
Speaker 2: her because and I split a we share a trailer with,
Speaker 2: you know, and he was all over Sage on the ground.
Speaker 2: Oh like talking in ways, it brings out a side that.
Speaker 1: People has two dogs that he's obsessed with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then we're at our house and you are talking
Speaker 1: to Sammy, our daughter, and I have to say, she
Speaker 1: was so fucking adorable, that little girl.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And by the way, later on when she was on
Speaker 2: the show, she didn't really love acting anymore. She was
Speaker 2: just doing it to But back then she was fucking adorable.
Speaker 4: And she's got seven at the time.
Speaker 3: She was great.
Speaker 2: In this scene, a seven year old pretending to be drunk.
Speaker 3: Are you chewing gum?
Speaker 1: And she's talking to you and Daddy doesn't feel good?
Speaker 4: And who are you gonna choose? She chooses Oscar.
Speaker 5: So you have to decide between whether you want Daddy
Speaker 5: or Oscar.
Speaker 3: Mm Oscar.
Speaker 5: You know, what what I'm saying is that if you
Speaker 5: say Oscar, Daddy won't be here. I know, you know,
Speaker 5: but you're choosing Oscar. I'm your dad.
Speaker 3: I just love that dog. Mm hmmm. I have to
Speaker 3: go to a bathroom.
Speaker 4: And she loves the dog.
Speaker 1: And then I recall because I was the other day
Speaker 1: when she said I have to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4: She really did have to go to the bathroom, and
Speaker 4: it ended the scene. It was like a perfect and.
Speaker 2: We cut to her going up the steps, you know,
Speaker 2: like to her room or the upstairs bathroom. But that
Speaker 2: was shot obviously after she went to a bathroom, but
Speaker 2: she really did.
Speaker 4: Was just acting. She was like, I have to go
Speaker 4: to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: But by the way, what was beautiful about that? Natural
Speaker 2: gave us a button on the scene. That scene was over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be right back, stay tuned.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: So now we're back at the crime scene at the
Speaker 1: restaurant and it's all dug up. There's piles of rubble
Speaker 1: and you just see that. It's like a nightmare. There's
Speaker 1: no way they're opening in three days. And Oscar found
Speaker 1: a bra. Nobody a bra. He's a bra sniffing dog,
Speaker 1: as Larry says, and everything the electrics dug up, and
Speaker 1: the gas and the plumbing, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: three weeks to a month before they can even open
Speaker 1: the restaurant.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I forget the gentleman's name who
Speaker 2: plays that person. He's been in so many films too.
Speaker 2: Actually an excellent character actor. He's wonderful and that must
Speaker 2: have been before he started working a lot, because to
Speaker 2: have him for that part.
Speaker 4: That was there is twenty years ago. It's two thousand
Speaker 4: and three that we shot this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Larry finds the silver lining now that they
Speaker 1: have to wait three weeks to a.
Speaker 4: Month before they can open up. Now they could get the.
Speaker 1: Splash guards for the YearIn als Well, by the way,
Speaker 1: if I may, Everyone is furious that it's going to
Speaker 1: take an extra mon but Larry's very happy just in general.
Speaker 2: But then it occurs to him we can now have
Speaker 2: the dividers and he's animal splash guard. Dad, Hey, let
Speaker 2: me ask you this.
Speaker 5: Can we get the do we get the splash guards
Speaker 5: in the urinal now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you think I'll do that?
Speaker 3: Blessing in disguise.
Speaker 1: Then Jeff comes running up to tell Larry Sammy chose
Speaker 1: Oscar and he's staying at the w hotel and Larry is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, coming to the rescue. He says, I got
Speaker 1: something to take care of, and.
Speaker 2: But hold on, hold on. You have to understand in
Speaker 2: that scene two things I want to talk about whenever
Speaker 2: I get really angry. Larry laughs, and there's even a
Speaker 2: moment in there of him laughing, going, you gotta calm down.
Speaker 2: But he laughed. I remember he laughed all through that scene.
Speaker 2: But there's something more important to me than I want
Speaker 2: to point out. So he says to me when he leaves,
Speaker 2: You're at the W Hotel. Yeah, I'm at the W Hotel.
Speaker 2: If I only knew what I did was the company
Speaker 2: I forgot their name. They owned the W Hotel. I
Speaker 2: don't remember what the name of the companies. They owned
Speaker 2: a bunch of hotels. I did a gig for them,
Speaker 2: a corporate gig at the W Hotel in Westwood, and
Speaker 2: it was outdoors, which is a horrible place to stand up.
Speaker 4: Let me explain that to people.
Speaker 1: Why that's so horrible, Okay, Because if you go into
Speaker 1: comedy clubs, you'll notice it. It's always a low ceiling
Speaker 1: because laughs hover, and laughs are contagious, So a low ceiling,
Speaker 1: the laughs hover and it rolls through the room. In
Speaker 1: a outdoor venue, the laughs go and it's horrible. It's
Speaker 1: a horrible thing.
Speaker 2: But also playing the theater like Rerice Hall at UCLA,
Speaker 2: the ceiling is a million miles.
Speaker 1: When you do these roasts with the grand ballrooms with
Speaker 1: these big high ceilings that are all so horrible, it's tough.
Speaker 2: The only place that I've performed at in that kind
Speaker 2: of environment is the Greek theater, and that, for whatever reason, works.
Speaker 2: There's an intimacy to the.
Speaker 4: Greek because the Greeks knew how to do it.
Speaker 2: Yes they did. But here's my story about the w hotel.
Speaker 2: I'm outdoors and I'm struggling. It's really hard outside. They're
Speaker 2: not digging me.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: At some point, somebody cue the person not saying we
Speaker 2: need to show the comedian respect. The waiters come out.
Speaker 2: They were singing waiters. They came out in a formation.
Speaker 2: These are like twenty waiters going through the crowd, but
Speaker 2: circling and.
Speaker 3: Dancing during your act.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was one of the worst shows I've ever
Speaker 2: had for numerous reasons. And there was a balcony where
Speaker 2: two people were watching in the building across the street,
Speaker 2: and I could see them laugh when I went have
Speaker 2: you ever seen anything like this? I saw them laugh hard.
Speaker 2: No one in the audience. I'm like, do you realize
Speaker 2: what's going The audience had no empathy from there, because
Speaker 2: I had. I was at the end. I had to
Speaker 2: wrap up during this death death. The people who before
Speaker 2: the show said, not only would you get paid, which
Speaker 2: was a hefty check tonight that they had to pay me,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna give you VIP and all our hotels.
Speaker 2: You pay the lowest price, we'll give you the best room.
Speaker 2: It was like this whole thing, you'll be this and
Speaker 2: we'll do this. It was like Wow. After that show,
Speaker 2: I went. My dressing room was a hotel room, which
Speaker 2: often happens when you worked at hotels. Nobody came up
Speaker 2: to the room. And when I left, I saw all
Speaker 2: those people. None of them would look at me, let
Speaker 2: alone talk to me. And so if I only knew,
Speaker 2: I wish I could go back in time and not
Speaker 2: use W Hotel. Say I'm at the Marriott, the Hilton, anything.
Speaker 4: You know, but for this show, you were at the
Speaker 4: W Hotel.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, it was like when I saw it, it
Speaker 2: caused pain in my stomach.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Lara shows up at our house and Sammy
Speaker 1: answers the door, and she's drinking a thing of grape juice.
Speaker 1: She says, Mommy's next door and Daddy's not there.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is one of those situations
Speaker 2: completely normal and comfortable for her invite.
Speaker 1: She's not our whole life. Yeah, yes, he's like uncle Larry.
Speaker 1: So Sammy's drinking grape juice and she says, do you
Speaker 1: want some? And Larry says yes, and he follows her
Speaker 1: into the kitchen and he sees an open bottle of
Speaker 1: red wine, and she decides he's gonna sniff the cork
Speaker 1: and he's gonna gargle, and he's gonna do the whole
Speaker 1: mcgilla to Fruity to Oaki, and he starts to talk
Speaker 1: to Sammy about Oscar and getting rid of Oscar. Is
Speaker 1: there another animal? Do you want a rabbit? Do you
Speaker 1: want a pony, a turtle, a hamster? You could torture
Speaker 1: a hamster? How great it is to have a hamster
Speaker 1: that you could torture a little bit. And then Larry
Speaker 1: sees on the table the dog whistle. He gets up
Speaker 1: to pick up the dog whistle, and Sammy then inadvertently
Speaker 1: picks up Larry's glass of wine that she thinks is
Speaker 1: grape juice and she downs the whole thing. Next week,
Speaker 1: cut to a drunk, totally drunk Sammy, which she did brillilliantly.
Speaker 3: Come on, Sammy, what do you say? Oh, Oscar.
Speaker 4: Daddy?
Speaker 1: She was first year old drugs drug slurin where I
Speaker 1: want Daddy?
Speaker 4: I want daddy sluring a word.
Speaker 2: Larry, by the way, his character completely oblivious to the
Speaker 2: new one of my daughter being drug.
Speaker 1: And he's just happy that he saved the day, he
Speaker 1: fixed everything. Then he's in a car on the phone
Speaker 1: with you and with Oscar in the seat, and he says,
Speaker 1: you go home, everything's taken care of and he's the hero.
Speaker 1: And then he's at the browdies and Susan answers the
Speaker 1: door and she's immediately have something to say to me, Larry,
Speaker 1: And then Larry's like, I guess you're going to have
Speaker 1: to continue to wait if it's a thank you. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not giving in to her at all, and she
Speaker 1: won't take the dog until he thanks her. But then
Speaker 1: her son show up and see the dog and go
Speaker 1: crazy for the dog, and they fall in love with
Speaker 1: the dog, and she has to give in and take Oscar, please, Oscar. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, boys, okay.
Speaker 2: He says, no.
Speaker 4: Mind and he leaves Oscar there.
Speaker 2: I thought it was after this scene that he calls
Speaker 2: me and says everything's taken care of.
Speaker 1: Well, no, he says that before and then he gives
Speaker 1: her the dog and then he drives up the driveway
Speaker 1: and we hear that spaghetti western music and it's The
Speaker 1: Doll revisited.
Speaker 2: And by the way, can I say you were amazing
Speaker 2: in that scene. You were just so note perfect. You
Speaker 2: were perfect in that scene with everything he said. Your
Speaker 2: responses were at a high angry level, but every word
Speaker 2: out of your mouth was a gem. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: And because the most important thing in improv is listening.
Speaker 1: As you know, yes, so you can't have anything pre planned.
Speaker 1: You know, she stinks like a fucking whine up.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'll go I'll go on record to
Speaker 2: say that in life, listening is an essential quality every relationship,
Speaker 2: the skill that you need to have. That's right, but
Speaker 2: I'm saying is a human being listening is so important.
Speaker 2: But it's extra important in.
Speaker 1: Improv because as people already know. But I think every
Speaker 1: now and then we could reiterate we don't have a script.
Speaker 1: We have an outline and we improvise all of the dialogue.
Speaker 1: So he says to me, I thought she had a
Speaker 1: speech impediment. That that's the level of him understanding children.
Speaker 1: She was drunk and he thought she had a speech impediment.
Speaker 2: You know, so Larry, Oh, by the way, he says
Speaker 2: the line after you say speech and me, he says,
Speaker 2: I thought it was a speech impediment. And you're like,
Speaker 2: you've known her her whole life. And then he says,
Speaker 2: I thought she had a speech impediment.
Speaker 4: I've known the kid since she was born, and she.
Speaker 1: Suddenly developed a speech and peditate.
Speaker 2: We was so puzzling.
Speaker 3: Oh, listen before.
Speaker 1: I fuck you stole the dog, she said, Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: hysterical that her dog is gone.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's me for him to go there is just
Speaker 2: another thing. That's a great scene. Yeah, you're yelling.
Speaker 4: Scenes are always I quite enjoy them, I have to say.
Speaker 2: And like I said, you've gotten nuanced in different things.
Speaker 2: You'll go at it suddenly, but we can see the
Speaker 2: build and then you go at it.
Speaker 1: It's important not to you know, to have levels. You
Speaker 1: don't want to just be up people all the time.
Speaker 2: Right right, But this is what you were given early on,
Speaker 2: is to be up here. We had a scene with
Speaker 2: Larry coming to the door and you were like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: but then you lost your shit. But later on there's
Speaker 2: nuanced of it. They're very difficult scenes to film for
Speaker 2: one reason. They take a long time because Larry, when
Speaker 2: you yell on Larry, he doesn't just break fun.
Speaker 4: He gets the giggles.
Speaker 2: He no, he doesn't get the giggles. He loses his
Speaker 2: shit as you're yelling at him. And I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: on Rickard, nothing makes him laugh harder than when you
Speaker 2: lose your shit. Nothing. So let's say this scene should
Speaker 2: take forty minutes to shoot, it'll take an hour.
Speaker 1: You know. I always think that my character must remind
Speaker 1: him of like his third grade teacher or something, or
Speaker 1: somebody that yelled at him all the time. Is what
Speaker 1: my character must remind him of.
Speaker 2: I think, if I may, that that's possible. But you're
Speaker 2: not giving yourself enough credit for just being on the
Speaker 2: surface fucking hilarious.
Speaker 4: That's all, thank you, Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: So now he has to go back to the browdies
Speaker 1: and get Oscar back because I am fucking pissed, and
Speaker 1: he says, first of all, I was wrong. Of course,
Speaker 1: you've got kids, it's a full time job.
Speaker 4: I was dead wrong.
Speaker 1: Elaborate, elaborate, on and on, and she's touched, she's moved.
Speaker 2: And then the moment after she's moved, you realize he's
Speaker 2: set himself up, he's made his bad and now we'll
Speaker 2: come the destruction.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and you know it watching it, you know as
Speaker 1: an audience, exactly what's going on. And she talks out
Speaker 1: the dog is great, the kids love the dog.
Speaker 4: He's so sweet.
Speaker 1: And then he says the owner of the dog wants
Speaker 1: him back, and you know her kids, meaning Sammy, is
Speaker 1: broken up about it. And she asked, well why, and
Speaker 1: Larry says, well, the daughter was drunk when she said
Speaker 1: he could take the dog. And Susan Brady says, leave right.
Speaker 2: Now, leave or I'm calling them police.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry not getting me the dog.
Speaker 4: No, I am not really going to.
Speaker 3: Disappoint my dog.
Speaker 5: You really going to disappoint a little girl?
Speaker 1: Oh, Larry, do you go back and tell her to
Speaker 1: have another drink because she's not getting her dog back?
Speaker 4: Okay, tell her to have another drink.
Speaker 3: I love what she says, well.
Speaker 2: By the way, if she wasn't so vindictive, the door
Speaker 2: would have been closed and he wouldn't have gotten knocks
Speaker 2: an Oscar back. But because she's yelling vindictive things at Larry,
Speaker 2: he thinks of it and he blows the whistle.
Speaker 1: So walks away and he realizes he has the dog whistle,
Speaker 1: and he blows the whistle and Oscar comes running out.
Speaker 4: And I love that.
Speaker 1: Last scene where Larry pulls up to our house and
Speaker 1: then we see Jim.
Speaker 4: It's a high, high shot.
Speaker 2: Well no, but hold on, it's set up so slowly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I mean this is beautiful because it takes his time.
Speaker 2: I get out of my car, suitcase, jacket over my shoulder.
Speaker 2: I'm at the door and I hear someone pull up.
Speaker 2: I turn I lay my stuff down, I walk out.
Speaker 2: I see Oscar. And the minute I see Oscar, I
Speaker 2: know I turn around.
Speaker 4: I grab my suitcase luggage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I turn around and I'm walking out. That's
Speaker 2: when this sky shot where you've seen the whole story,
Speaker 2: the turn back, the walking to my car and leaving,
Speaker 2: and that's the end of the show. I thought that
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 4: Thing of it, and you know it was.
Speaker 1: This is one of those very well crafted half hours.
Speaker 2: Doubt Yes, the last two episodes are two of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Very well and the special section. And by the way,
Speaker 2: credit to Andy Ackerman, the director, because Larry is not
Speaker 2: ever going to say something like hey, put a camera
Speaker 2: up there.
Speaker 4: That's not his thing. He's not camera savvy.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Andy Akerman had to have thought of that.
Speaker 1: And I think it was a terrific ending because nothing
Speaker 1: needed to be said. You know, it was a silent
Speaker 1: movie moment and we got it all and it was
Speaker 1: just like a poor jeff.
Speaker 2: It is set a thousand words. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: Now I want to say that I'd like for a
Speaker 2: stand that way.
Speaker 4: There you go. But we have no wide shots. We
Speaker 4: have a still camera here.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: But it means just you can say thank you and
Speaker 2: then stop.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeffrey, no, thanks, thank you for listening me.
Speaker 1: This has been Susie and jeff.
Speaker 2: No, that's all time. My point is go silent, thank them,
Speaker 2: say nothing else. We'll cut out.
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