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Speaker 1: episode description. Okay, so I'm Susie Esmond.
Speaker 2: And I'm Jeff Caerlin.
Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and we're here for season four, Episode two,
Speaker 1: Ben's birthday. And we start off with Larry in rehearsal
Speaker 1: tapping with the choreographer played by Patrick Bristow.
Speaker 2: Who, by the way, Groundlings.
Speaker 1: Groundlings very very funny and has some real gem stuff
Speaker 1: later on, which.
Speaker 2: Is why for years before this I was up whenever
Speaker 2: I did comedy stuff. And he is just he's hilarious.
Speaker 3: It's very funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, he would be a working class comedian, do
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? He's not, you know, and
Speaker 2: he will make any project you do as.
Speaker 3: This funny, funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the first line that he says in the
Speaker 2: episode is thank god you stopped.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm not even gonna get into what's wrong with
Speaker 4: the actual choreography. I'm gonna start with your shoes Okay,
Speaker 4: I told you to get Kipezia Jazz, I will get
Speaker 4: those shoes today. You're gonna get the shoes, but you're
Speaker 4: also gonna get the steps. So we're gonna break it
Speaker 4: down one more time and just watch only my feet.
Speaker 2: Thank god you stopped. Yeah, thank god you stuffed. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry gold from the get go right.
Speaker 1: I love that Larry doesn't understand and I kind of
Speaker 1: agree with him.
Speaker 5: Why can't you just do this?
Speaker 3: And he shuffles around, like, what.
Speaker 5: Do you have to do?
Speaker 2: The tap? Why can't you just go this? And by
Speaker 2: the way, you've seen your share of Broadway shows? Do
Speaker 2: you think it doesn't make a difference. Really, No, it
Speaker 2: does make a difference, of course it does. But I
Speaker 2: understand his logic though, because he.
Speaker 3: Can't I just shuffle around?
Speaker 2: Why do I have to do so?
Speaker 1: Then the pianist walks in and it is blind Michael,
Speaker 1: who we met.
Speaker 3: I think it was in season one or two.
Speaker 2: Where Richard Joys one. I believe Richard Lewis and Larry helping,
Speaker 2: and he's very unrealizarious.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And he walks in with a woman on
Speaker 1: his arms, and that is Patrick Kerr is the actor
Speaker 1: who plays Michael and Jackie Hoffman and Jackie Hoffman who's
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean she's Second City. But here's what I want.
Speaker 2: I want to say about Jackie Hoffman. When I first
Speaker 2: moved as a young comedian and improviser to Chicago to
Speaker 2: do the Second City theater, other people had the same
Speaker 2: dream and they came and you. But you started, you
Speaker 2: got lucky if when you got there you got a
Speaker 2: job as a bar back, a server. Yeah, you can
Speaker 2: make a living. But they only gave those jobs to
Speaker 2: the actors that they believed in. So for a long time,
Speaker 2: Jackie Hoffman and I were the box office employees. Okay,
Speaker 2: hold on. One other person joined us for a long time,
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert. Really, so the box office at Second City
Speaker 2: at that time was Jackie Hoffman, uh, Stephen Colbert and myself.
Speaker 2: Which is really funny. Yeah, because to a degree, one
Speaker 2: degree or another, like, Jackie is really big in New York.
Speaker 1: She does a lot of Broadway, she does a lot
Speaker 1: of one woman shows shows all the time, and she's
Speaker 1: been on Broadway in many, many things. Yeah, I recently
Speaker 1: saw her in the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof. She
Speaker 1: knows Yiddish yes, she was terrific.
Speaker 2: No, she's but I also she played the maid something.
Speaker 1: In in in with with the behind the scenes viewed.
Speaker 3: With that, she played Joan Crawford's maid, but.
Speaker 2: She gets hired. She was she was in I forgot
Speaker 2: the name of the movie Birdman or whatever with Michael Keaton.
Speaker 2: She shows up in every New York movie, always cast
Speaker 2: it appropriately, Like when you see her do these parts,
Speaker 2: you think, I can't imagine anyone else doing this part. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So she comes in and she is Michael, who is blind.
Speaker 1: She's his girlfriend, and Larry looks at him. He's like,
Speaker 1: you see on Larry's face, this guy looks familiar and
Speaker 1: then he realizes who he was and he says to him,
Speaker 1: I helped you move with Richard Lewis three years ago.
Speaker 1: Turns out Michael is the rehearsal pianist, right, and he
Speaker 1: introduces He says, this is.
Speaker 2: My girlfriend Ronda. Hello, and Larry, Hi, can you believe it?
Speaker 2: I hooked up with a model boy? You lucked out?
Speaker 1: Can you believe I hooked up with a model? I
Speaker 1: love this guy, Patrick Kerr.
Speaker 2: I love his voice. I love no he's great, A
Speaker 2: lovely man too. By the way, Who better than Jackie
Speaker 2: Hoffman to bullshit a blind guy that she's a model
Speaker 2: and Angenoux? Do you know what I mean? Who better?
Speaker 2: Because immediately it's gotten boom. You know, she's a character
Speaker 2: actress and it just and I never thought that somebody
Speaker 2: could do that realistically, could lie to somebody who's blind
Speaker 2: as to what they look like.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, that's how Larry's brain works, because he thinks,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if this woman was blind? And
Speaker 1: I told her I looked like Paul Newman. You know,
Speaker 1: that's how his brain works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why he put it in there. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And then Ben enters and he's introduced to Michael, and
Speaker 1: Michael introduces his girlfriend Ronda, and he says hands off
Speaker 1: to Ben.
Speaker 2: Right. So that's all good and fine, But I want
Speaker 2: to say something about Ben Stiller, his greatness as an
Speaker 2: actor and a director. I don't know if you watched
Speaker 2: his show Severance. I have seen it. It is subtle,
Speaker 2: it is beautiful, but as an actor, his reaction, he
Speaker 2: doesn't say a word like the woman I said in
Speaker 2: the last episode, who did it all with her face? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who's very handsome? But he says it all with his face,
Speaker 2: so he says hands off, and the look on Ben's
Speaker 2: face is the laugh, and then he turns to Larry
Speaker 2: and this begins a relationship that goes up. It's a
Speaker 2: roller coaster. Yes, it's a true, true roller coaster.
Speaker 3: And that's a delight to watch.
Speaker 2: Well it is, but Ben is sot. He's such a
Speaker 2: wonderful actor. I hope he acts again.
Speaker 1: He invites everybody there to his birthday party, right, and
Speaker 1: he says his birthday was two weeks ago, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna do it Saturday and no gifts. And Larry's like,
Speaker 1: why have it at all? If it was two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: why have a party at all? What's the whole point
Speaker 1: of it? And he's at lunch with Richard Lewis and
Speaker 1: Larry's brings up to Richard Lewis the total scam that
Speaker 1: Michael introducing. You know, Lewis knows Michael also because he
Speaker 1: was with Larry when they moved him episodes ago, and
Speaker 1: the total scam. He introduced her as a model, and
Speaker 1: that she's bullshitting him.
Speaker 2: She's clear not a model.
Speaker 1: And Richard then brings up that his friend's daughter, so
Speaker 1: he's like uncle Richard, who's like a niece to him,
Speaker 1: wants breast implants, and that Richard is supposed to be
Speaker 1: doing a breast intervention, and he asked Larry to help
Speaker 1: him talk her out of Kim is her name? Help
Speaker 1: help me talk with Kim out of getting a breast enhancement.
Speaker 3: And then Richard says.
Speaker 1: To Larry, you never confide in me, right, which I
Speaker 1: found interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, you don't confide in me.
Speaker 1: And then his fake niece Kim shows up, and Kim
Speaker 1: wants ld to look at her reel, of course, and
Speaker 1: Larry says, out of nowhere that added Nicole Smith, what
Speaker 1: a pair of knockers on her?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can see the woman knowing what he's doing,
Speaker 2: the young lady.
Speaker 1: Right, But it was the exact wrong thing to say.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, it's a complete run. But that
Speaker 2: was also his character because he even said to Lewis,
Speaker 2: how do I approach this right?
Speaker 3: No idea?
Speaker 2: That was his attempt. He went from zero to sixty.
Speaker 1: Larry is the last person I would ask to do
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: See, I disagree. I think Larry is brilliant in uncomfortable situations.
Speaker 2: And I also think he's not as good as you.
Speaker 2: He's a great advice guy.
Speaker 1: Just like No, he is a great advice But I
Speaker 1: just know that he would feel so uncomfortable in something
Speaker 1: like that that I would never ask him.
Speaker 2: But if he had to do it, he'd be good
Speaker 2: at it. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that Larry and Cheryl walk into Ben's party and
Speaker 1: they see a table full of gifts and there's like,
Speaker 1: what I thought, no gifts, And Jeff and Susie then
Speaker 1: approach and he says, did you bring gifts?
Speaker 3: Susie's like, yeah, of course, and we brooke gifts.
Speaker 1: He said it said no gifts, and nobody means that
Speaker 1: right now. This is one of those those curb things.
Speaker 1: This is a typical curb thing of no gifts, Do
Speaker 1: you bring a gift? Everybody means bring a gift when
Speaker 1: they say no gifts, and it's bullshit.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, for the most part, no gifts parties,
Speaker 2: there's lots of gifts there.
Speaker 1: You know what I don't never see to if somebody
Speaker 1: a gift.
Speaker 2: When you get to a certain age that's really like no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you like gifts, but make them thoughtful. They don't even
Speaker 2: have to be expensive. Just make it a thoughtful gift
Speaker 2: to where my eyes will go big and go.
Speaker 1: Wow, Well, did you happen to be a terrific gift
Speaker 1: giver as am I?
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Yes, I'm a very good gift giver.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I gave you the Mickey Mantle card.
Speaker 3: Get me a Mickey Mano card.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then they're passing out or dures and there's a
Speaker 1: skewer with chicken on it, you know, like a kebab thing,
Speaker 1: and Larry takes the skewer and Ben and Christine enter
Speaker 1: and Larry's like, what.
Speaker 3: Do you do with these skewers? I don't know what
Speaker 3: you're supposed to do with the skewers, And he and Ben.
Speaker 1: Start to talk about the rehearsal a lot of dancing,
Speaker 1: and Ben's like, well, you have to work on the
Speaker 1: off hours. And you see Ben already is feeling like
Speaker 1: he's not doing enough, He's not carrying his weight, and
Speaker 1: Larry's it looks like a lot of effort, and Ben
Speaker 1: is saying, like, you're not putting the effort in, and
Speaker 1: we see the riftstore forward and Larry's just focusing on
Speaker 1: the skewer What am I going to do with the skewer?
Speaker 2: What are which is a natural question that I have
Speaker 2: to this day of what you do with the skewer? Yes,
Speaker 2: people come by, but what if you're stuck there and
Speaker 2: nobody's coming by. It's an issue, it actually is that
Speaker 2: has not changed, and.
Speaker 1: It's happened to me since we've done this episode numerous times.
Speaker 2: Say he was right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm standing here holding the skewer and I have
Speaker 1: no where to put it, and as usual he's.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, he's right with the setup, correct, Like those
Speaker 2: are one of the things, like people look at some
Speaker 2: of them and go most of them. It's like a
Speaker 2: release for people watching. I feel the exact same way,
Speaker 2: right right, you know our show, which is politically incorrect,
Speaker 2: but in a thoughtful way, not a shocking way and
Speaker 2: irreverent people watching especially today, if like.
Speaker 3: It gives them permission.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you know, crying makes you feel
Speaker 2: better when you're feeling bad. Yes, I think that the
Speaker 2: laughs from our show really do the same, yea to
Speaker 2: people in that way.
Speaker 1: In that way, tears are natural endorphins that are painkillers,
Speaker 1: as his laughter laughter, you know.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a big release for people when
Speaker 2: he takes something that's happened to them to the nth degree,
Speaker 2: you know, which he does.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then I start telling Larry about my new
Speaker 1: business that I'm making these sweatshirts that are dazzled and
Speaker 1: they're selling like hotcakes, and I've got a whole bunch
Speaker 1: in the trunk. You want to see them. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want to see them.
Speaker 3: He's not.
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, you're skipping the big point. What There
Speaker 2: are two times where Susie begins the doll Yeah, and
Speaker 2: this episode because you're wearing slightly loud clothes, your jacket,
Speaker 2: especially in the scene where you open up and show
Speaker 2: the things, but the bedazzling and those shirts of beautiful
Speaker 2: hold on. Not only, but not only in horrible taste
Speaker 2: and ridiculous, but that's the beginning of you having always
Speaker 2: some sort of clothing business. Yeah down the road kaftans,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, from this moment on, you have horrible
Speaker 2: taste and you are making things that are horrible that
Speaker 2: no humans should.
Speaker 1: Also had the soaps on business too, where I was
Speaker 1: selling like hand creams and I know, but you're entrepreneurial, I.
Speaker 2: Know, but you're wearing your outfits when you're doing the soap. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So it's a turn, it's
Speaker 2: it's a slight beginning to what we're gonna get with Susie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you saying.
Speaker 1: And I think season five is where it really all
Speaker 1: comes together, which we'll get to.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: Then Larry sees Michael, the blind pianist come in and
Speaker 1: Michael tells him Tuesday night he's doing a show at
Speaker 1: the Mint and it's show tunes, And he asked Larry
Speaker 1: if he thinks Ronda is beautiful.
Speaker 3: Ronda had walked away to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Hold on one. He asked him if he'll go, and
Speaker 2: Larry says, no, I've got a clan meeting.
Speaker 3: That, I got a clan meeting that speaking of the clan.
Speaker 2: Yes, And then and he doesn't believe Larry, like he laughs,
Speaker 2: he knows Larry's joking, ye, And then the look on
Speaker 2: Larry's faces, Oh, I guess they have to go to
Speaker 2: this fucking show.
Speaker 3: But Larry likes show tunes as do I.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I know, then walks away and he and
Speaker 1: Michael askes ld if he thinks he's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Larry's like, you know, what's the difference what she looks like?
Speaker 2: You can't see her anyway? What that's one of the advantages,
Speaker 2: right in the good hearing good hearing? What is that
Speaker 2: a myth? I thought blind people had better hearing?
Speaker 1: What's the difference what she looks like? You can't see
Speaker 1: her anyway. That's one of the advantages being blind. That
Speaker 1: and the good hearing. You know, it's just constantly making
Speaker 1: it worse and worse. Hearing, according to Michael, is a myth.
Speaker 2: Is this where he tells Michael that she's not an engeneue? No,
Speaker 2: because this scene she walks up.
Speaker 1: If I'm r exactly she does, so he hasn't told
Speaker 1: him yet, Okay, and then we cut to you and
Speaker 1: and Larry and I are out at the car and
Speaker 1: I'm showing him my creations.
Speaker 2: Wait do you see them? You are gonna die?
Speaker 5: Okay? Now is this cute?
Speaker 3: I mean, how much fun?
Speaker 2: Is this? Huh? Great?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: You know? Nice? Yeah, not going my cup of tea,
Speaker 2: but you know it's nice, all right? You know what?
Speaker 3: Fuck you and fuck your teeth?
Speaker 2: What whoever said you had taste? Mister hushpuppy rumpled suit.
Speaker 2: Look what, it's nice, it's just not you know, we
Speaker 2: all can't like the same things.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you when I showed him to Ben still
Speaker 1: or he happened to love them, right.
Speaker 2: Honey, he went nuts free, he went crazy for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has taste.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I think it's it's nice, it's just not
Speaker 2: stop right now.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: This scene is classic Susie.
Speaker 7: Yes, excited, excited, excited, and then excited and pissed and
Speaker 7: then excited, and you tell Larry to go fuck himself
Speaker 7: because he doesn't like them.
Speaker 1: Well, he says they're not my cup of tea, and
Speaker 1: I said, fuck you and fuck your tea.
Speaker 2: Right, But that's still I know, which leads us down
Speaker 2: the road. But I'm just saying this is the first scene.
Speaker 2: We've already established your your bite. Yeah, but at this
Speaker 2: point we see the levels how proud you are to
Speaker 2: show Larry you know, Larry's important to you, and then
Speaker 2: you turn on a dime and get you know, boom,
Speaker 2: I'm hitting you hard in the face. And also between
Speaker 2: that and these horrible shirts, this is the first of
Speaker 2: many quintessential Susie scenes. We'd never done anything like this
Speaker 2: before this. Larry knew this was funny, and he knew
Speaker 2: how great you were. This is when an actor does
Speaker 2: something in a small moment where the producer thinks to himself,
Speaker 2: all right, this is something I'm gonna run.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel about it is Larry knew
Speaker 1: how to use me. Larry knew how to use me.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt. I'm not saying that, I'm just saying
Speaker 2: the way it was portrayed in that scene we had
Speaker 2: never done before, and that's when he went he knew
Speaker 2: you were capable of it. You're so great at this part.
Speaker 2: But it was the first where he realized I don't
Speaker 2: remember if we had a conversation about it, but the trunk,
Speaker 2: the showing, and by the way, there are numerous trunk
Speaker 2: showings and coming up. You know your trunk.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then you know, fuck you, fuck you tea
Speaker 1: Ben still I love him. Then Larry goes back to
Speaker 1: the house and he sees Katie Huffman, who is the
Speaker 1: statuesque blonde, and Ben introduced Larry to Katie, and Ben
Speaker 1: leaves to go to the bathroom and Larry, you know again,
Speaker 1: talking to a beautiful woman. He can't help but be
Speaker 1: a ridiculous person. Yeah right, you know it's not really
Speaker 1: his birthday. It's you know, there should be a statute
Speaker 1: of limitations on the birthday.
Speaker 3: And then he goes on a skewer. I don't like
Speaker 3: a kebab.
Speaker 2: What do you doing it? The cordial thing he says
Speaker 2: about cordial because he can't be cordial. Oh no, Larry
Speaker 2: can't be cordial. That's what I wrote down. Yes, his
Speaker 2: character has an inability to go in and just be like, hi,
Speaker 2: how are you. Yeah, he can't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, the stick you stick yourself in the scrotum.
Speaker 1: You put it in your pocket, you stick yourself in
Speaker 1: the scrotum.
Speaker 2: I made a mistake because the proper thing to say,
Speaker 2: which Ben said, that's why you said Ben loved them,
Speaker 2: is to say, oh, those are lovely. Being cordial, he
Speaker 2: can't do it. But you say, what do you know
Speaker 2: in your hush mister hush? No you said mister hushpuppy
Speaker 2: rumpled suit. I believe you said. Maybe you said your shirt,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless that was awesome. And by the way, I
Speaker 2: also want to say at that party, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you remember this, And this is another time you
Speaker 2: saving me on a personal level, I was sitting down.
Speaker 2: There was a coffee table and couches around it, and
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there watching a scene and hanging out. This scene,
Speaker 2: isn't it? Whatever we were shooting, it's not necessary for
Speaker 2: me to have a thought try and make it better.
Speaker 2: It was purely something simple and exposition. And I was
Speaker 2: there mid scene. I got up and I banged my
Speaker 2: knee into the table. Oh, I remember so fucking hard.
Speaker 2: I've never banged like this before, and I screamed. But
Speaker 2: also you went and got me. You said, you know,
Speaker 2: rap up your pants now, and you went and got
Speaker 2: an ice pack. Put it on now. Mind you. It
Speaker 2: was literally before my eyes turning into a baseball on
Speaker 2: my leg. Yeah, And you said, just hold this here.
Speaker 2: Do not know heat? Because someone wanted to put some
Speaker 2: heat on it, And you're like, no ice. And I'll
Speaker 2: be damned if the damn thing didn't go down. But
Speaker 2: it's another time of Susie Esmond saving Jeff Garland. Even
Speaker 2: on that level, keep going, I'm a mother.
Speaker 3: What can I tell you?
Speaker 1: Well, so he totally alienates Katie Huffman. You see, she
Speaker 1: can't wait to walk away from him. The skewer you
Speaker 1: put it in your pocket. You said stick yourself in
Speaker 1: the screw to He's ridiculous. He clearly does not know
Speaker 1: how to talk to women and where, and the audience
Speaker 1: is thinking he's never gonna find somebody to fuck him for.
Speaker 2: The anniversary, which is good that they think that, Yes,
Speaker 2: But I also want to say he is obsessed with cutoffs.
Speaker 2: When the cutoff is like Happy New Years. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: we do that in the future episode what time you
Speaker 2: can call, what time you can't? But he loves the.
Speaker 8: Cutoffs statutal limitations, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And then we cut
Speaker 8: to We're in the kitchen and I'm playing telephone with
Speaker 8: all the kids, and Larry comes in and sits down
Speaker 8: and I don't want him there.
Speaker 1: I clearly I'm pissed off at him about the you know,
Speaker 1: not my cup of tea thing, and he sits down
Speaker 1: to play telephone and the waitress leans over with huge cleavage.
Speaker 2: I love tits.
Speaker 1: That's funny to you, It's funny to say that in
Speaker 1: a room full of children.
Speaker 2: What the what's the matter with you? That's what he
Speaker 2: said to me. What did you say to him? I
Speaker 2: love pigs, I love people, Ammy, What did you say?
Speaker 2: I love pigs?
Speaker 1: Larry and he whips to the kid next to him,
Speaker 1: I love tits, and the kid announces I love tits,
Speaker 1: just when Cheryl walks in in the background, and here's
Speaker 1: this in the background, And what the kid had said
Speaker 1: was I love pigs. That's what it was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And you know, I go off on him with his sick,
Speaker 1: perverted mind, and Cheryl drags him away to sing Happy birthday.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I just want to say this. I've always
Speaker 2: been mischievous. And you're in first grade. Everyone since a circle.
Speaker 2: You're about to play telephone no matter what. Duck duck
Speaker 2: kuse duc duck goose, of course, but that's a little younger. Anyhow,
Speaker 2: whatever I heard didn't matter. I would whisper to the
Speaker 2: kid's next let's say it was why am I not
Speaker 2: surprised at this? Okay? What would be a thing that
Speaker 2: someone would say.
Speaker 1: In that I like pigs, that's what that's what Sammy
Speaker 1: said or whatever.
Speaker 2: So I would say I love skirt steaks, and you
Speaker 2: have to say it like that, so you pass it around.
Speaker 2: So you would do that at what age six? Seven, seven?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: And then also when adults played that, I would do that.
Speaker 2: It was like, why my attitude was a saboteur. I
Speaker 2: am a sabateur, but my thought process, even at the
Speaker 2: young age, is this is stupid. Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2: Because at the best, at the end, it's going to
Speaker 2: be a slight iteration. So I thought, I'm going to
Speaker 2: spin it on the sh I'm going to the bathroom,
Speaker 2: I would whisper, and then it would get to I'm
Speaker 2: going to the bathroom, and the teacher would be so frustrated,
Speaker 2: and then she looked.
Speaker 1: At you must have driven your teachers crazy.
Speaker 2: All except one psychology teacher in high school who was
Speaker 2: the only teacher in history that embraced me and told
Speaker 2: me keep being who I am. And I'll think of
Speaker 2: her name probably after the episode, But isn't that amazing.
Speaker 2: She's always been in my heart. A psychology somebody said,
Speaker 2: you're okay the way you are? Of course, of course
Speaker 2: a psychology teacher. Yeah, but yeah. It was like I've
Speaker 2: never in any class, even the other students who were
Speaker 2: all a year older than me. It was just I
Speaker 2: don't know how I was in there.
Speaker 3: Because were they a year older than you?
Speaker 2: They were like I was in the birthdays in June,
Speaker 2: so I was no, no, no, no, no, no no. I
Speaker 2: was in ninth grade. No, I was in tenth grade.
Speaker 2: They were in eleventh.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like I was.
Speaker 2: But even all the kids in that class were so
Speaker 2: thoughtful about me and my misbehavior and my add mind.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, you know what I used to get, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I used to get. The teacher would call my mother
Speaker 1: and they would say, she's a natural born leader, but
Speaker 1: she leads the class in the wrong direction.
Speaker 2: I don't think that can ever be topped. My funny
Speaker 2: story is not about me. It's about James when he
Speaker 2: was in preschool. And by the way, I was never
Speaker 2: sarcastic with my children, because children don't understand sarcasm. They don't.
Speaker 2: It goes way over their head. It's not right. But
Speaker 2: I would say silly things around the house although I
Speaker 2: was a present father. Marla and I get called to
Speaker 2: the school because she needs to talk to us about James.
Speaker 2: James is in class with all the other kids. She
Speaker 2: we're at the door and she says, we have a problem.
Speaker 2: And Marli, I believe, said, well, what's the problem? She said,
Speaker 2: James keeps saying bikini, Oh god, you know, which is
Speaker 2: one of my words that I've always loved. It's one
Speaker 2: of the funniest sounding words ever. But this little boy,
Speaker 2: who I never said to him, Hey, James, bikini whatever,
Speaker 2: he just kicked it out. Yeah, and he's always saying bikini.
Speaker 2: You talk about chip off the old block. But I've
Speaker 2: heard these before about people and what they write on
Speaker 2: the report or whatever. Born leader. But she's taking the
Speaker 2: children in the wrong direction. I have's that's amazing. That's amazing.
Speaker 2: And as for me, it's the right direction. It's our to.
Speaker 1: Well it was listen, we're comics. It's always a skewed direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So now they bring in the cake and everybody's singing
Speaker 1: Happy birthday except for who Larry and Ban of course
Speaker 1: notices and they've done in Cheryl.
Speaker 2: You know, Cheryl's so funny.
Speaker 3: Why didn't you sing? Why weren't you singing?
Speaker 1: Cheryl says, and Larry, I don't sing the birthday song whatever.
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't think he sings the bird.
Speaker 2: He doesn't. He doesn't sing. Yes, so do everyday the story.
Speaker 2: You were in New York, so you went there. I
Speaker 2: had a birthday party, I remember, with a food truck
Speaker 2: of this great Mexican food and Larry came. He looks
Speaker 2: at me. He's probably been there forty five minutes. He goes,
Speaker 2: I did it. Oh see you later, like he was
Speaker 2: doing it because he loved me, wanted to be no,
Speaker 2: but at a certain point I thought he's more so
Speaker 2: now than he used to be. Way more, way more
Speaker 2: change with that. But this was in definitely the era
Speaker 2: where that was not Yeah, okay, I did it. And
Speaker 2: then he left right away, didn't say goodbye to anyone else, nothing,
Speaker 2: He just walked out. God because I thanked him and
Speaker 2: I said, I know what you had. He came for you,
Speaker 2: and I told my much I appreciate it, and that
Speaker 2: was not shocked. But okay, I've done it, which is
Speaker 2: just so fucking funny. Yeah, it's him. Yeah, we'll be
Speaker 2: right back.
Speaker 5: Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: So then Larry is telling you about a golf he's
Speaker 1: giving you a golf tip he just heard, and he goes,
Speaker 1: he's with the skewer.
Speaker 2: He still has a skewer in his hand.
Speaker 1: All the way back to many many scenes ago, he's
Speaker 1: still holding the skewer.
Speaker 2: No, it's a I think it's a new skewer. He
Speaker 2: put the other one on the thing.
Speaker 3: He just happens to be got another skewer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he swings back using the skew were as
Speaker 1: the golf club and he swings to show you the
Speaker 1: golf tip, you know, something about the hands whatever, and
Speaker 1: the skewer sticks Ben in the and the.
Speaker 2: Follow stick's Ben in the eye. Dick's Ben in the eye.
Speaker 2: And it's bad. That was, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember how good Ben was that I thought he
Speaker 1: really got hit in the eye.
Speaker 2: Well, no, no, Ben is maybe the greatest of all the
Speaker 2: guys who were comedians. Ben is phenomenal because everything he
Speaker 2: does is nuanced, even something that broad, it's real. It
Speaker 2: was real.
Speaker 1: It was so real in the moment, I remember thinking
Speaker 1: he got he actually hit him in the eye. I
Speaker 1: remember thinking that even though heline was.
Speaker 2: And then Christine looked at Larry and said, what's wrong
Speaker 2: with you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And next we cut to rehearsal and Larry
Speaker 1: finally has the right shoes for his tap and the
Speaker 1: choreographer Patrick shows him that he's doing the tap dancing,
Speaker 1: but it's actually double time of what that was, and
Speaker 1: he's supposed to speeding it up. And then they take
Speaker 1: five and Larry complains to Michael about the tempo and
Speaker 1: it's like the flash the guy in the red costume,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't know what the flashes. He's blind, he's
Speaker 1: never seen the red costume. And Michael tells him that
Speaker 1: he's exhausted because Ronda and he had a fight all night.
Speaker 1: And then Ben comes in with the massive patch and
Speaker 1: eye thing and he's got to scratch Retina, and he
Speaker 1: confronts Larry about not singing the birthday song, that he
Speaker 1: didn't bring a gift, and everyone knows that no gift
Speaker 1: is bullshit, That's what Ben says.
Speaker 2: Come on, Larry, everybody knows that's bullshit. Bullshit. Yeah, how's
Speaker 2: that bullshit? It's bullshit.
Speaker 9: You say no gifts, you bring a gift?
Speaker 2: Well, why did you even say it?
Speaker 9: I'm just saying this as a friend. You really have
Speaker 9: a little ways to go when it comes to dealing
Speaker 9: with people. Really, So you don't even shake my hand
Speaker 9: the first time I see you, you know the theater.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's not on your hand, it's just sneeze. That
Speaker 2: was a dry sneeze, Larry. It wasn't a sneeze. It
Speaker 2: was I can't assume Jrhy I gotta assume what it's
Speaker 2: air coming out.
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna put out my hand if it's full
Speaker 9: of snotch, I.
Speaker 2: Know its hair. I thought I saw some little speckles flying.
Speaker 2: I would assume you would know me. Won't have to
Speaker 2: know that. I'm not going to give you a handful
Speaker 2: of snot to shake your hand. And by the way,
Speaker 2: because you don't know snot speckles are coming out, I
Speaker 2: saw snot speckels flying and everyone.
Speaker 1: Knows no gift is bullshit, and that he didn't shake
Speaker 1: his hand.
Speaker 3: It was a dry sneeze. And Larry carries.
Speaker 1: On about he saw speckles of snot coming out, and
Speaker 1: you think it.
Speaker 3: Was a dry sneeze.
Speaker 1: But I saw speckles of snot in the air, yes,
Speaker 1: not speckles.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then we say, already this relationship is not going well.
Speaker 2: It's a roller coaster. Hi, Larry, Uh, what the fuck
Speaker 2: did you do? Hi Larry, what the fuck did you do?
Speaker 3: It's literally like that exactly.
Speaker 1: Then we cut to Larry's at home and he's practicing
Speaker 1: his dancing at home and there's a knock on the
Speaker 1: door and it's Kim Richard Lewis's fake niece and she's
Speaker 1: dropping off her reel and headshot to Larry, and Kim
Speaker 1: is like, whoa, whoa, don't you notice anything? And she
Speaker 1: clearly got her enhancement all right, And.
Speaker 2: Don't they look real? She's like, don't they look real?
Speaker 2: Check them out?
Speaker 1: They're good, right, and she lifts up her shirt to
Speaker 1: show Larry.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, that's it, that's it, it's all done already.
Speaker 3: That was fast, an hour in and out done.
Speaker 2: Boobs genius. Don't they look real? I remember how you
Speaker 2: said they were not going to look real?
Speaker 9: Do they not look real?
Speaker 3: You want to see them?
Speaker 1: Check them out?
Speaker 3: Check them out? Look they're good right right?
Speaker 2: Feel them?
Speaker 6: They feel totally natural.
Speaker 2: Come on, Larry, don't be so tight. Come here, let
Speaker 2: me feel them.
Speaker 3: Check them out.
Speaker 2: They feel good, right, Squeeze them, give them a little.
Speaker 1: I will tell you who did that to me when
Speaker 1: she got breast implants backstage at a comedy club, Brett Butler,
Speaker 1: she got breast in plants and I was backstage and
Speaker 1: she lifted them up and she told me to touch
Speaker 1: them to feel how real they felt?
Speaker 2: Okay, what if I told you two maybe three times
Speaker 2: I was asked to look and I was asked, hold,
Speaker 2: and this is all I'm married. Different people you would know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the people you would know who wanted to show them
Speaker 2: off and me to feel them. Now, I said no
Speaker 2: every time I said please, don't you wants to do that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, But I was like, please keep your shirt down
Speaker 2: when I knew they were starting. No, because even if
Speaker 2: there's no way, that's so disrespectful to your wife. Even
Speaker 2: if so, I think, Larry, well go on. But Larry
Speaker 2: the next moment is a victim. He's uncomfortable holding, very uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: and very forceful about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, but white insistent.
Speaker 2: Also on the side shot, you see he's really holding
Speaker 2: her breasts. Yes, she's stopless and he's holding her breath.
Speaker 2: And she's like, check them out. They're good, right, but
Speaker 2: touch them and they feel totally natural. Squeeze them, squeeze them. Okay,
Speaker 2: But I want to say this, itnt show business. Your
Speaker 2: hands are on a woman's breasts. That's not acting. Uh, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean. What do you mean
Speaker 2: he puts his hands on her breast. There's no acting there.
Speaker 2: Maybe what they're doing, but his hands are on her breast. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's a real man's hand. An attractive woman's breasts, and
Speaker 2: so for me a lot of times. By the way,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that shouldn't be done in movies,
Speaker 2: but it always makes me think. And a lot of
Speaker 2: love scenes when they're actually naked and they have significant others,
Speaker 2: what have you there? You're naked in bed with another
Speaker 2: woman's right.
Speaker 1: Though we know that there's a million cameras are it's
Speaker 1: not exactly hot, but by the way.
Speaker 2: Run it's so technical and now they even have a
Speaker 2: person it works out every move.
Speaker 1: It's it's called an intimacy director or an intimacy advisor
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 2: When I was much younger, maybe even in high school college,
Speaker 2: there was a movie called Tattoo with Bruce Dern and
Speaker 2: Maud Adams, and the rumor out there was they really
Speaker 2: had sex, and also Donald Suddent and Julie Christie and
Speaker 2: don't look back, it was also out there that their
Speaker 2: sex was real.
Speaker 1: Someone well, maybe Donald Sutherland or Julie Christy. You'll call
Speaker 1: in and let us know.
Speaker 2: All right, See that's sarcasm, and I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I'm not being sarcastic.
Speaker 2: Where's our hotline?
Speaker 1: What the fuck are you now?
Speaker 2: They're writing it, where do they write? What do you
Speaker 2: think Julie Christie isn't a curb fan?
Speaker 3: I bet you she is.
Speaker 2: Well what's her name? Kim Novak said when she retired
Speaker 2: and they said would you ever act again? And she said,
Speaker 2: only on curby your enthusiasm? And for me that was
Speaker 2: how can I write something that she's right for as
Speaker 2: fast as I can? Larry Shrugged, how about that? You
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Tim Novak? What the fuck? But
Speaker 2: by the way you watch the sex scenes, I don't
Speaker 2: think I've ever seen tattoo, but I've seen don't look,
Speaker 2: don't look now, ye don't look now, and it looks
Speaker 2: like they were having sex. It's it looks real.
Speaker 1: So luckily as a as a comedian, I've never been
Speaker 1: in that position.
Speaker 3: I have no interest.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I have directed a scene with a naked
Speaker 2: young lady and a naked man. It's a comedy And
Speaker 2: she had a patch over her vagina and breasts, and
Speaker 2: he was wearing some flesh colored underwear what have you.
Speaker 2: But he's still in bed with a beautiful young oznou
Speaker 2: with large breasts, a killer body. He's handsome as hell,
Speaker 2: and they're rubbing against each other. Yeah, yes, they're doing
Speaker 2: a scene. But what the fuck.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that people get aroused all the time. I
Speaker 1: don't see how you cannot.
Speaker 2: Well, though, that would be very embarrassing, you know. Ray
Speaker 2: Ramano once said to me one time, if you have
Speaker 2: a masseuse and she's even remotely attractive, you have to
Speaker 2: work hard the whole massage. That's noting. No, No, I know,
Speaker 2: to not get a boner, you have to work. And
Speaker 2: it's so true because I think any massuse is knocked
Speaker 2: up a category with how they look. Women.
Speaker 3: Women don't have to deal with that.
Speaker 2: It's not necessarily true. No, we don't have something that
Speaker 2: shows that you're want to know.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: In other words, if that happened.
Speaker 1: You, you might get excited or arouse, but it's not
Speaker 1: sticking up in the air, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Larry is touching her breasts, and we see
Speaker 1: Cheryl at the window seeing all of this, and Cheryl
Speaker 1: says to him, happy anniversary. Touching a breast is sex.
Speaker 1: You just had your anniversary game and it's over.
Speaker 2: Do you blame her in that moment.
Speaker 1: That she's absolutely on her side?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No.
Speaker 1: Men house runs by and Larry says it's a tit mouse,
Speaker 1: and Cheryl's like, you're.
Speaker 3: Obsessed with tits.
Speaker 1: He did tits in the in the telephone with the
Speaker 1: kids anyway.
Speaker 2: Then Michael calls, by the way, I know that term.
Speaker 2: I've never seen anyone use it.
Speaker 3: It's a real term, but I've never you know.
Speaker 2: And by the way, do you know how many times
Speaker 2: they in movies, old movies, they talk about a mouse,
Speaker 2: but when you see it, it's a fucking rat because
Speaker 2: little mice are actually cute. It's weird, but they're actually
Speaker 2: if you look at them, especially pet mice, they're really.
Speaker 3: Add like them. I don't like any of it.
Speaker 2: Cargo was walking down the street. I passed an alley
Speaker 2: in the city and there's a rat and baby, I'm
Speaker 2: exaggerating some the size of a pig and hissing it
Speaker 2: at me. Ye and I read I have a phobia.
Speaker 3: We're not going to discuss this.
Speaker 2: Did you know that phobia? I know someone close to
Speaker 2: me he's got a wreck inophobia.
Speaker 3: Truly, really okay, that doesn't I.
Speaker 2: Don't like spiders, but I hate spiders, but sometheless.
Speaker 1: I'm I don't like insects. They don't bother me. But
Speaker 1: rodents I have a phobia.
Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, when I grew up, no one
Speaker 2: more thing. People freak out from lizards. I never do,
Speaker 2: no matter what.
Speaker 3: Snakes don't bother me.
Speaker 2: Snakes freak me out. Oh any garden, run for the hills.
Speaker 2: That being said, and pull anything out that might be attacked.
Speaker 2: What have you? Well, no, I cleared the area. But
Speaker 2: like chameleons. You know it's I grew up with chameleons,
Speaker 2: so lizards are cool.
Speaker 3: I love coamellions in sou and sal So.
Speaker 2: You know what was great in Florida because I was
Speaker 2: born in Chicago, lived there as a kid, and explained,
Speaker 2: but high school, junior high school, and high school and
Speaker 2: college University of Miami, I lived there. I started comedy
Speaker 2: in Florida, so I lived there from twelve to twenty two,
Speaker 2: ten years of my life. And what was great about
Speaker 2: chameleons was they ate cockroaches, So they were my heroes
Speaker 2: because I fucking hate cockroaches. And you know, of course,
Speaker 2: the horrible palmetto bug, which for those of you who
Speaker 2: don't know, are large cockroaches that fly, hold on that
Speaker 2: fly a flying cockroach that's big.
Speaker 3: Shoot, all right, let's let's move on from this discussion.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: By the way, I enjoyed it. It was very revealing.
Speaker 1: So so Michael calls Larry. He broke up with Rhonda
Speaker 1: and he needs Larry to help him because he has
Speaker 1: nobody to help him. So then we have a whole montage.
Speaker 1: Larry's taking him to the supermarket, to the shoe store,
Speaker 1: to the laundromat.
Speaker 2: To buy glasses to eat pie.
Speaker 1: They stop at stop at the Greens, but please, but.
Speaker 2: I always want to say when he's at the cereal.
Speaker 2: By the way, that was written as a montage, unlike
Speaker 2: the special section where I said it was so disappointed
Speaker 2: that it turned into a montage, But that one was
Speaker 2: written as a mostage. It was all good until Larry mind,
Speaker 2: you know, talking when they're athlete. He pulls out a
Speaker 2: box of sea where the camera is and you can
Speaker 2: see Larry explaining the serial tim which is strange to
Speaker 2: begin with, but he's like, for those of who on
Speaker 2: YouTube can see me, and so the listeners, I'm just
Speaker 2: bouncing my lips. But the point being is that was
Speaker 2: a real montage which served a purpose. We got in
Speaker 2: twenty seconds fifteen seconds, which if you shot that regular
Speaker 2: you're looking at five seven minutes. So it did its job,
Speaker 2: and it's not important enough to have dialogue.
Speaker 1: Oh it was a necessary montage. Yes, that wasn't necessary,
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 2: Would it work?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I thought it was necessary to the story. We'll be
Speaker 2: right back, stay tuned.
Speaker 5: Okay, we're back.
Speaker 2: And then Larry comes to our house.
Speaker 1: And so Larry wants to buy a one of my sweatshirts,
Speaker 1: one of my bedazzle sweatshirts. Ben was mad about the
Speaker 1: birthday song. And you know, I was right about the stricks,
Speaker 1: though I don't know what the sticks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he was right about the sticks.
Speaker 1: And you say to Larry, say the shirt is for you.
Speaker 1: Don't say it's for Ben, say it's for you. You tell
Speaker 1: him entred, and Larry tells me that he wants to
Speaker 1: buy a shirt he needs more flair, and I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: the red would look good. You're pale and pasty.
Speaker 2: How much sixty? But he did get a lot of
Speaker 2: sensive hold on though he buys the first one out.
Speaker 2: You well, I said the red would be good for him.
Speaker 2: He's pale and pasty, yes, but there was no looking
Speaker 2: at other ones he had.
Speaker 1: No interest, so he's like, how much is it?
Speaker 2: Sixty dollars? Hold on, wait, wait wait Indiana, Indiana. I
Speaker 2: know I actually I have that one. I kept that one,
Speaker 2: did you keep? Yes? I keep that one. Well, by
Speaker 2: the way, he says, I used to a friend of
Speaker 2: mine's sister went to Indiana the university, And you say,
Speaker 2: all the better the yeah, because you're excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, and I won't take his money. I'm like,
Speaker 1: laugh from me to you, Mike, gift you. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited that he likes the shirts, and I'm truly excited
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, oh, hold on, hold on a
Speaker 2: second here, uh in this episode, like when Larry's dancing
Speaker 2: and he grabs the breasts and this scene, we're both
Speaker 2: in new houses. Ours is a new house. That's right,
Speaker 2: His is a new house.
Speaker 1: Well, I told you why we had to have a
Speaker 1: new house last time, because they kicked us out after
Speaker 1: in season three when I was throwing your clothes out
Speaker 1: the window and screaming and cursing, and.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and that was the house tour house.
Speaker 1: No, no, yes, but that was when I'm throwing your
Speaker 1: clothes up there.
Speaker 3: I know when that was Larry, Joseph and Mary.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm just saying that's the one from
Speaker 2: the house tour, and then somewhere at a new house. Uh,
Speaker 2: and then Larry's new house. By the way, it's not
Speaker 2: the house anymore. No, no, but he mentions we had
Speaker 2: to what does he say about we moved the other
Speaker 2: We had to move because the other neighborhood they were
Speaker 2: filming all the time, right right, because we got kicked
Speaker 2: out of that house because of what's his name, Fraser
Speaker 2: who plays Fraser Kese Kelsey Grammar lived in the area
Speaker 2: and limited the amount. He passed a bill. This is
Speaker 2: a not a bill, but a local ordinance because he
Speaker 2: lived in Malibu. This is a guy, fucking Fraser who
Speaker 2: said you could only film this these this many days
Speaker 2: in a period of time. Well, you know what, didn't
Speaker 2: work for our schedule, so we moved. And by the way,
Speaker 2: he didn't.
Speaker 1: It is quite an imposition. I mean, we'll hold on
Speaker 1: to the house, we take over the whole block.
Speaker 2: Okay, but I agree with the one that we used
Speaker 2: to live in. Okay, but I want And by the way,
Speaker 2: when we were in the Palisades, all the houses were great.
Speaker 2: What I was going to do.
Speaker 6: Was.
Speaker 2: I have a difference of opinion in the Malibu situation
Speaker 2: because it was self contained. There were no trucks down
Speaker 2: the block that fit the driveway, and also the house
Speaker 2: was isolated, so he had to have only heard we
Speaker 2: were filming because we weren't loud. The only outside thing
Speaker 2: I remember shooting is I'll tell I'll talk about it
Speaker 2: in the future. Yeah. But there was a scene that
Speaker 2: was cut, and it was cut a while later and
Speaker 2: we had to reshoot it different lowcasian, different tone, and
Speaker 2: it's so scene that people will remember. Okay.
Speaker 1: So now, so I sell Larry the shirt and I
Speaker 1: say to him, which is the first time I said it,
Speaker 1: and I've said it so many times.
Speaker 2: All is forgiven. I said that to him so many times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So now we cut to rehearsal.
Speaker 1: Ben is rehearsing and the choreographer Patrick says, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: You get everything the first time. He's so askissy to him,
Speaker 1: and Larry comes in with Michael.
Speaker 2: I actually think the opposite. I think Ben does do
Speaker 2: it perfect every time.
Speaker 3: But Ben does it perfect because he rehearses.
Speaker 2: I know he works hard practice. And Larry is in
Speaker 2: a blitter. He doesn't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Larry brings Ben a gift Happy birthday.
Speaker 3: This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well you don't have to do that, Larry. I didn't
Speaker 2: have to. I wanted to.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry. Okay, let me just say I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 9: really no. No, I've been like stressed out of my.
Speaker 2: Mind and I stabbed you in the eye.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, I've been crazy about this thing, and
Speaker 9: I'm like getting into your space and I shouldn't get
Speaker 9: into your space. You're doing what you're doing. I'm doing
Speaker 9: what i'm doing. We're working together, we're gonna make it work.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, let's just let's be friends. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, And you didn't have to get me a
Speaker 2: gift on what is this? Open it up? Oh you
Speaker 2: got me a gift. I knew you liked it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's one of those. It's a sweatshirt with studs on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Indian And Ben apologizes.
Speaker 1: He says he's been stressed and uh, it's you know,
Speaker 1: He's sorry.
Speaker 2: They got off on the wrong foot.
Speaker 1: And he opens the gift and it's the sweatshirt with
Speaker 1: studs and Ben says, it's a sweatshirt with stuts.
Speaker 2: Okay, I also want to say him getting the gift,
Speaker 2: Ben apologizing the two of them, and Ben even says,
Speaker 2: let's be friends. And I don't know. If they hug,
Speaker 2: they hug, the hug they hug. And so this is
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about with Ben. Every scene is different,
Speaker 2: and it's nuanced from one scene to the next. Right,
Speaker 2: and this scene goes both ways because he's about to
Speaker 2: he opens the package. It's one of your shirts, and
Speaker 2: he was probably being courteous to you. Of course you
Speaker 2: showed him the shirts, and then it was interpreted by you.
Speaker 2: Ben Stiller loves the shirts. And then so Larry thought,
Speaker 2: oh this will work.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, and it's a sweatshirt with studs.
Speaker 1: And then they start to rehearse and Ben says to him,
Speaker 1: you're not Larry as for a script, and he says,
Speaker 1: you're not off book yet.
Speaker 3: You know there was that little.
Speaker 1: Dig there TM we go into the stage right stage
Speaker 1: left thing, which I have to say still to this
Speaker 1: day confuses me.
Speaker 2: Well, no, by the way, it did confuse me until
Speaker 2: I rewatched the episode, because I had forgotten exactly and
Speaker 2: it's facing out right left. That's what it is. That's
Speaker 2: why they'll say, if I'm standing on stage stage right,
Speaker 2: is my right? Yeah? Ok, yes, that's that's the uh
Speaker 2: each By the way, when I was in Second City,
Speaker 2: holy Craft, remembering that of which entrance and laying out
Speaker 2: the chairs.
Speaker 1: For people, just for our people in our listening audience,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of lingo in the theater. We're not
Speaker 1: really all that familiar because we're not theater people, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of lingo.
Speaker 2: Do you know. I was a drama major. I was
Speaker 2: an acting major in college, and I like, I wasn't good.
Speaker 2: I wasn't a good actor. You know, I was fine,
Speaker 2: especially back then. And I've got a whole story about
Speaker 2: that that I'm not gonna tell. What is it when
Speaker 2: you build the stuff, you build the wooden things, whether
Speaker 2: stagecraft stagecraft. We went from acting on stage and stuff,
Speaker 2: and then we began the stage crash craft portion. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm backstage and I'm like, we're building things. I quit.
Speaker 2: I quit. I quit. I moved to film from from
Speaker 2: acting because I don't want to build things. I want
Speaker 2: someone to build. I didn't have to do the scenic design. Oh, well,
Speaker 2: that takes real talent well as soon as the stage grow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is you know the same thing
Speaker 3: with film.
Speaker 2: I mean it is.
Speaker 1: They're all completely collaborative processes and so many people contribute.
Speaker 1: You know, you see our faces out there, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of other people.
Speaker 2: And a great crew. A great crew can make a difference,
Speaker 2: by the way, a great crew that not even making
Speaker 2: a difference, help set a tone for the set. Yes,
Speaker 2: like the groove that we had the past three seasons,
Speaker 2: which got better every season because we had one crew
Speaker 2: that was great, but they only lasted till Larry stop.
Speaker 1: We took we took a six year hiatus, and.
Speaker 3: Everybody scattered and had different jobs. It was hard.
Speaker 2: I think the only person Thomas the hair was going
Speaker 2: to be on their show Who did your hair? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who else came back after that? I'm trying to even run.
Speaker 3: John Party came back for one is a great camera.
Speaker 2: Man, and uh and Richard Tippetts.
Speaker 3: Richard Tippets of course, and Jonas came back.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay, So next we're at the Mint and Michael is
Speaker 1: playing the piano, performing and he's wearing the Indiana sweatshirt
Speaker 1: that I gave to Larry who gave it to Ben,
Speaker 1: who then Ben gave it to Michael the blind Man
Speaker 1: because he can't even see. Michael is really bad. He's horrible,
Speaker 1: really horrible. And people are out left and right singing.
Speaker 2: In a way that's passable. He's playing piano perfectly, but
Speaker 2: his singing is passable. Who wants to watch someone?
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to sit and listen to Michael singing.
Speaker 2: A fine Mione.
Speaker 6: Stand the world again.
Speaker 2: Turning up the lights. Okay, it's the outside.
Speaker 1: That Bucky star right, talk about pace, and people are
Speaker 1: walking out left and right. And before people start walking out,
Speaker 1: there's a whole series of you know, the camera goes
Speaker 1: to Ben and you see Ben pissed off at Larry,
Speaker 1: and then you see me making a gesture. Why is
Speaker 1: Michael wearing the shirt I give you? And everybody's managed,
Speaker 1: by the way.
Speaker 2: If I may, this is the first of many times
Speaker 2: you're doing that to Larry.
Speaker 1: No, not true. When happen I did it in the
Speaker 1: Dog where I said.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, theater, okay, my mistake. That was the first time.
Speaker 3: But I enjoyed doing that. I enjoyed making a figure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't hear a word you're saying, but we
Speaker 2: know what it could be. Of course I love that.
Speaker 1: And then everybody's walking out and Cheryl wants to go,
Speaker 1: and Larry's like it's gypsy, everything's coming up roses and
Speaker 1: that's it. Larry's the only one left. Michael singing and
Speaker 1: Larry's the only one left. But Michael doesn't even know it.
Speaker 2: No, it's fun. It's a beautiful ending. It's a very
Speaker 2: fun episode. And this episode really it's like the first
Speaker 2: time we did it was the restaurant. And by the way,
Speaker 2: and he mentioned the restaurant, as I've said before, No, no,
Speaker 2: it never existed.
Speaker 1: Well, now, interesting, you should bring that up because I
Speaker 1: brought this up last time when I you and Larry
Speaker 1: and I go out to the car and I'm going
Speaker 1: to show him the sweatshirts, I do say to and
Speaker 1: I remember we discussed it.
Speaker 2: I say to him, it's great because I could work.
Speaker 1: From home and take care of the baby, because I
Speaker 1: supposedly had a baby in the season before. In season three,
Speaker 1: that's the only time it's ever mentioned, and we discussed it.
Speaker 3: Larry and I discussed it.
Speaker 1: I said, I'll throw on something about the baby here
Speaker 1: because we've never mentioned it.
Speaker 2: And that was it.
Speaker 3: It's never mentioned again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, but did it make the cut? I
Speaker 2: didn't even Yes, it was in the cut. Oh really, Well,
Speaker 2: by the way, we firmly established Sammy getting drunk last season,
Speaker 2: for sure, but this season she's at the party, so
Speaker 2: that's kind of she's too old. It's about the baby
Speaker 2: that I had, Yes, right exactly. So the thing, Oh wow,
Speaker 2: that's surprising that he put it in, because if I
Speaker 2: would have said to him, shall we mention the restaurant? No? No,
Speaker 2: no no. And this one is the producer. You know,
Speaker 2: we live in a world this season after this, the
Speaker 2: season after this, Larry never did. The producers never mentioned
Speaker 2: you know. It's like every season is its own self
Speaker 2: contained wealth. It used to be the first two seasons
Speaker 2: is every episode was its own contained world, and then
Speaker 2: this is now seasons are contained, which we never stopped.
Speaker 1: Doing season season This is season four, This is the
Speaker 1: season five is one of my favorite seasons of all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: Which one is it? But which one is that Lewis
Speaker 2: needs a kidney the kidney, Well, there's one scene that
Speaker 2: actually I'm lucky enough Larry myself, you and Bob Einstein
Speaker 2: one of the best scenes ever Your Enthusiasm. We will.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorites. Also, I know it is
Speaker 2: so amazing. I mean really, as we're doing it, in
Speaker 2: between the takes, we burst out laughing, all of us
Speaker 2: because it was so fucking funny.
Speaker 1: So next next week we will do episode three and
Speaker 1: season season.
Speaker 2: Five, but the next and six, we're never stopping. By
Speaker 2: the way, you even after we go through season twelve,
Speaker 2: I think we should do a fantasy version and just
Speaker 2: make up a story about one night. Jeff Susie, I
Speaker 2: love you too, and everybody. I really appreciate you listening
Speaker 2: or watching. It's very kind of him. Bye.
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