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Speaker 1: episode description. So, Hi Jeff, we're back.
Speaker 3: Hi Susie, we are back.
Speaker 1: And we're on season four, episode nine, The Survivor, Yes.
Speaker 3: Which is probably one of our top ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: People mention this to me still now. Back then it
Speaker 3: was maybe our most popular episode up until then, because
Speaker 3: people constantly were talking about that episode for a couple
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 1: And I think even though it's a great episode, I
Speaker 1: think more than the actual episode itself, it's the conceit
Speaker 1: of the episode. Hich is so with the you know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I completely agree with you. But people to
Speaker 3: this day come up to me and say that's their
Speaker 3: favorite episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we start out Larry is at the dry cleaner, Yes,
Speaker 1: and the woman behind the counter is Gina Gershan. Well,
Speaker 1: he's thanking you. Oh my god, what the hell are
Speaker 1: you doing? Get out here? You are such a smock.
Speaker 1: Can't you do anything?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Is it? So hard to keep this with that, cos.
Speaker 2: How did Gina Gershan get this part?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Okay, So aren't you friends with her?
Speaker 2: You were friends with her?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: I hosted what I think is the first. I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure I was a roast master of the very first Comedy.
Speaker 1: Central roast was that the Dennis Leary Rose. Dennis Leary Rose,
Speaker 1: I remember that.
Speaker 3: And she did like a song song.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So that's how I met her, and she was very
Speaker 3: nice and all this and that. So when we were
Speaker 3: looking for some and for that part, the Hasidic woman
Speaker 3: who is beautiful and sexy, she came to mind. I
Speaker 3: called her and I said, would you like to be
Speaker 3: on the show? I think you'd be perfect, and we're
Speaker 3: all talking about it and everybody really wants you, and
Speaker 3: she said, i'll let you know tomorrow. And the reason
Speaker 3: being is she didn't know the show. You've never watched it,
Speaker 3: never heard of it. She called Dennis Larry, you know,
Speaker 3: and said, what about the show? He said, I have
Speaker 3: to do it, you know, the way he talks about
Speaker 3: you gotta do it, you gotta do it. And so
Speaker 3: she did it, and that episode is how we became
Speaker 3: very close.
Speaker 1: I created you you were acquaintances with her before that
Speaker 1: aquaint prior to and I knew that you were friends
Speaker 1: with her, but that came after the fact.
Speaker 3: Yes, because of this episode we became tight.
Speaker 1: And may I just say she was absolutely terrific in
Speaker 1: this episode one another episode two she did. She did,
Speaker 1: but it was one of the castings where you know,
Speaker 1: in retrospect, you couldn't imagine any other person, no other person.
Speaker 3: And I wish we could have had her on more.
Speaker 2: I love her, you know, well it was a limited
Speaker 2: limited part.
Speaker 3: Well she did do another episode she did, she did.
Speaker 1: So she's yelling at her husband Shlomo, you know, in
Speaker 1: a very Jewish with an accent, you know, a foreign accent.
Speaker 3: She's got hold on though it may have been a
Speaker 3: foreign accent, but it was a made up no no,
Speaker 3: but but no, no, it's not that. It's just that
Speaker 3: that is a tone that every man who's married to
Speaker 3: a Jewish woman knows. And even though I tell people
Speaker 3: you're nothing like your character, you have to have moments
Speaker 3: like that. You just do.
Speaker 1: It's built yeah, no, it's.
Speaker 3: Built into your DNA. Every Jewish woman has that side
Speaker 3: where you go, oh, okay, okay, okay. And so the
Speaker 3: guy who was cast.
Speaker 1: As her husband is such a schlipper.
Speaker 3: He looks like at I think to myself, well, this
Speaker 3: had to be pre arranged because it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: What the casting of him, no, her calling him shlomo, no, the.
Speaker 3: Fact that he was married to her.
Speaker 1: He's such a slo Okay, he's such a shlomo. And
Speaker 1: let me just say, I have gone In my family,
Speaker 1: we call it going Susie Green on somebody, and I
Speaker 1: have gone Susie Green on every one of my children
Speaker 1: at one point when they were teenagers, and at my
Speaker 1: husband at least once a year.
Speaker 2: But that's about it.
Speaker 3: I got to be because that's not you.
Speaker 2: No, But everybody has an anger threshold.
Speaker 3: Larry hates when I tell people he's nice. I know,
Speaker 3: and I don't know how. You're probably like it that
Speaker 3: I tell people you're one of my closest friends.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, because who wants to be that shrewish character?
Speaker 1: I mean, I love playing it, but who wants to
Speaker 1: be it? So here is Anna is her name, and
Speaker 1: she's screaming at with the babushka and the accent, and
Speaker 1: Larry's looking puzzled and she starts to flirt with him,
Speaker 1: you know, in this very very kind of way. Larry
Speaker 1: looking at him and he needs to clean the suit,
Speaker 1: he tells her because he's renewing his vows ten years married,
Speaker 1: and she says them, you're pretty fit, Larry, You're very fit,
Speaker 1: you know. And I love how she flirts with him,
Speaker 1: because it's there's no sign at all.
Speaker 3: There's someone who has been doing that to me. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm in a very I love my Sari, my girlfriend,
Speaker 3: but there's a woman lately who has been It's somewhere
Speaker 3: where I go on a regular basis, and she does
Speaker 3: that to me, tells me how good I look, how
Speaker 3: nice I look? That day? She said how fit I look?
Speaker 3: And I began as it started being completely ignorant too,
Speaker 3: because I assume no one ever looks at me that way.
Speaker 3: But it's become very apparent. So is it very unusual
Speaker 3: for me?
Speaker 2: So does she wear a babushka?
Speaker 3: No? Okay, I almost sound disappointed, but nonetheless no.
Speaker 1: So Anna continues to flirt with Larry. He's very fit,
Speaker 1: blah blah, and she says he'll have it for him tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and he asks for his ticket. Shere's no need for
Speaker 1: a ticket. I know you he's special. She's not going
Speaker 1: to forget him, and he doesn't need a ticket. Then
Speaker 1: he goes into the Rabbi's office, and that's played by
Speaker 1: Barry Gordon.
Speaker 3: Yes, who, by the way, was a child.
Speaker 1: Actor I know in a thousand clowns.
Speaker 3: Jason Robards, right, and I didn't what got when the
Speaker 3: Academy Award for that Barbara Harris, Yes, I think she
Speaker 3: won the Academy Award for that.
Speaker 1: Terrific acsupporting actor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, actually, to me, a Hall of Famer, speaking
Speaker 3: of improvisers, a Hall of fame.
Speaker 1: Improtory, she was a second city. But I love Jeff
Speaker 1: how there's the Kofax Jersey, you know, hanging up in
Speaker 1: the Rabbi's office because of course the rabbi has the
Speaker 1: only you know, famous Jewish baseball player. Oh not the
Speaker 1: only I know, Greenbergen.
Speaker 3: Is the only other one that reached a level of sand.
Speaker 3: They were both great players.
Speaker 1: I love that that's on the wall. I just found
Speaker 1: that a nice little touch.
Speaker 3: By the way, Larry has never been excited when I've
Speaker 3: told him different famous people who told me they love
Speaker 3: the show, until I told him Sandy Kofax, of course,
Speaker 3: and then he lost his mind, which I initially did
Speaker 3: when I heard it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what that is, because I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that sports stars and rock stars are in a
Speaker 1: very different category than actors being impressed.
Speaker 3: Because there are peers like I know, Brad Pitt loves
Speaker 3: the show, he.
Speaker 1: Told me, and that's lovely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but by the way, yes he told me no,
Speaker 3: but it's not it's like Brad Pitt. I love Brad
Speaker 3: Pitt as a person and an actor. But that being said,
Speaker 3: and for the record, I'm not close with Brad Pitt
Speaker 3: like I am Gina Gershan. I don't want to make
Speaker 3: it out like Brad Bit and I.
Speaker 1: Are having How about Angelina? Are you close with Angelina?
Speaker 3: I don't know her. Okay, I made out with her
Speaker 3: at a party, but I don't really know her.
Speaker 2: Well, that's Deviger.
Speaker 1: So he Larry walks in singing some Hebrew that he
Speaker 1: has no idea what he's saying.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, if I may at the beginning,
Speaker 3: the first few words are.
Speaker 1: Very actively real.
Speaker 3: Yes, and then but I think I forgot what orthodox
Speaker 3: Jews call us secular Jews. I think that most secular Jews,
Speaker 3: which aren't religious but are Jewish and are happy being
Speaker 3: Jewish even though we're neurotic. We all fall into that category.
Speaker 3: Like I only know Dianu die Diano, you know, that's
Speaker 3: all I know.
Speaker 1: Muzzle tough and Simon tough, and Simon tough and muzzle tough.
Speaker 3: Okay, but yeah, those are the ones where I know
Speaker 3: the mazle tough. I would never remember Simon tough.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: And I'm way less religious than you.
Speaker 3: Either, I know, and I'm not just at all. So
Speaker 3: that's saying something. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1: So Larry sees a picture of a guy on the
Speaker 1: rabbi's desk and I think he said it was Eddie Silverman.
Speaker 1: I didn't catch the name, but I think he said
Speaker 1: Eddie Suliman. And it's the rabbi's brother in law. And
Speaker 1: he died in nine to eleven. That's Eddie Silverman.
Speaker 3: It's my brother in law. He yeah, he died on
Speaker 3: September eleventh. Oh my gosh. Oh I'm so sorry. Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 3: He was in the building. No, no, he was uptown
Speaker 3: on fifty seventh Street. He got hit by a bike messenger.
Speaker 3: It's awful uptown. Yeah, yeah, bike messenger. Let me just
Speaker 3: say something here. Larry's imagination always catches me off guard
Speaker 3: because remember, I'm watching this for the since it's aired
Speaker 3: the first time. Yeah, and when I see that premise
Speaker 3: being thrown out, and of course it's one of those
Speaker 3: things that will come back to yeah, you know, of course,
Speaker 3: you know, he lays down the thing, who the hell
Speaker 3: thinks of someone dying on nine to eleven in uptown
Speaker 3: New York? And actually that's midtown that the guy says,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless.
Speaker 2: Well uptown from the towers.
Speaker 3: So both up down from the towers. But yeah, midtown.
Speaker 3: It's just so funny. By the way, explain to the
Speaker 3: people where you are.
Speaker 1: I am now in the iHeart studio on West fifty
Speaker 1: fifth Street, and the bike accident occurred on West fifty
Speaker 1: seventh Street, two blocks north of two Black It's away, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And then we get that information, and as we know,
Speaker 1: because we know the show, we know it's going to
Speaker 1: come back in some way. And Larry then asked the
Speaker 1: rabbi about Cheryl giving him the pass. He feels troubled
Speaker 1: by it, and he feels almost as though she's challenging him,
Speaker 1: which she clearly is because she doesn't believe for a second.
Speaker 2: That he's going to get laid.
Speaker 1: The only one who believes it is you.
Speaker 3: But by the way, how about how great Barry Gordon is.
Speaker 1: Terrific, terrific, He's completely believable. As the rabbi, Yes, and
Speaker 1: Larry says, it's the only opportunity I'm going to get
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life, to ever have sex
Speaker 1: with anyone for the rest of my life. And the
Speaker 1: Rabbi tells him the story of Abraham and Sarah, and
Speaker 1: Sarah was barren, and Sarah said to Abraham, go to Hagar,
Speaker 1: have relations whatever you want, get laid, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: So Abraham set the precedent and.
Speaker 3: Okay, help her hold on the second here, there's no
Speaker 3: way that Larry David knew that story. No way I'd
Speaker 3: go to Vegas and bet everything I know. So Barry
Speaker 3: Gordon had to have.
Speaker 1: Improvised, improvised with knowledge probably.
Speaker 3: Or it was completely made up. It sounds familiar.
Speaker 2: I think it's true. I think it's true.
Speaker 3: But still that's not something that would have been in
Speaker 3: the outline. That's unless Larry had Laura do research on it.
Speaker 3: But nonetheless, I think that's something Barry Gordon improvised in
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately he's not on the show, but I would
Speaker 1: love to ask him that. And the Rabbi says accepted
Speaker 1: in the sense of anerosity, and Larry he's thrilled with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not a bad person. He's thrilled with that. And
Speaker 1: we establish that the Rabbi is coming tomorrow night to
Speaker 1: his house for dinner, which is a pre dinner before the.
Speaker 2: Revowing. What does that call whatever?
Speaker 1: And the Rabbi says to Larry, I want to bring
Speaker 1: a friend over who's dying to meet you. He's a survivor, okay,
Speaker 1: And Larry's like, of course, of course, of course bring
Speaker 1: a survivor.
Speaker 2: Why would he not? And then we cut to Larry's home.
Speaker 1: He's working on his lines because he's three days is
Speaker 1: the or four day whatever? A week's soon the premiere
Speaker 1: opening night is soon and there's a hubub outside the
Speaker 1: bedroom and Becky and her parents are arguing. Cheryl's parents
Speaker 1: are arguing, and Cheryl enters has it going? And Larry
Speaker 1: tells Cheryl about the Rabbi bringing the survivor, and then
Speaker 1: he wonders should they invite his father, NAT's friend Sally
Speaker 1: who is also a survivor, to survivors like to see
Speaker 1: each other?
Speaker 3: Well, that's the classic line.
Speaker 2: Do they talk about old times?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the survivors.
Speaker 1: Like this ridiculous things. But again that's Larry, how is
Speaker 1: belcan bells? And as compared to Auschwitz? You know what
Speaker 1: do they talk about? So do they like to see
Speaker 1: each other talk about old times? Or does it depress them?
Speaker 1: And Cheryl thinks that that he should be invited so
Speaker 1: and she says, how are your vows coming along?
Speaker 2: And Cheryl starts to read some of her vows. So
Speaker 2: this is what I have so far.
Speaker 5: May I always have the wisdom to look past your
Speaker 5: shortcomings and appreciate all of the goodness you possess. We
Speaker 5: promise to continue loving each other unconditionally, not only throughout
Speaker 5: this lifetime, but after death, through all eternity. We stand
Speaker 5: before you.
Speaker 1: What was that about a tournament?
Speaker 5: We we love each other throughout this lifetime, but after death,
Speaker 5: through all eternity.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is continuing into the afterlife.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 3: Idea for all eternity. Wasn't in my plans.
Speaker 2: Wasn't in my plan?
Speaker 3: And I had a plan for eternity.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I agree with Larry on this one.
Speaker 1: H I think till death do us part is enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is obviously all eternity, but time.
Speaker 3: Okay, but let's also establish this as any that's what
Speaker 3: that's what's important to her. You do it, that's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's no such thing as eternity, And Larry says,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. Larry says, I guess I had a different
Speaker 1: plan for eternity. I thought I'd be single in eternity.
Speaker 1: And he's like, can we can we take out the
Speaker 1: eternity a part in Cheryl's no, no, you're.
Speaker 3: Doing Cheryl doesn't say it like you.
Speaker 2: Well, she was very sure.
Speaker 1: She was very sure.
Speaker 3: That's the way you said no sounded like Susie Green.
Speaker 1: Okay, So she says, no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's better, that's much better. Okay, keep going.
Speaker 1: Then they're getting dressed for the dinner party and Larry's
Speaker 1: in a lovely tope soup suit.
Speaker 3: You say to you said, soup thought, have you had
Speaker 3: tope soup out of your air? One has a great
Speaker 3: tope soup top.
Speaker 2: They would.
Speaker 1: Only Californians know that we don't have that in New York, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, well, I'm just spreading the word of California.
Speaker 1: And the Rabbi is there with Colby at the dinner party.
Speaker 1: Who is a survivor? We find out from the TV
Speaker 1: show Survivor not by the way.
Speaker 3: No exaggeration. It's the only season of Survivor I have
Speaker 3: ever watched, was the one that he was on. I
Speaker 3: never seen. No, he's a lovely guy, lovely guy, and
Speaker 3: he was on the only season of Survivor that I've
Speaker 3: ever watched, And I had a million questions for him
Speaker 3: about what people thought of one another. You know, what
Speaker 3: was this like? What was that like? And I think
Speaker 3: I've told the Jeff Probe story on here before. If
Speaker 3: I haven't, we were both. He was guest hosting on
Speaker 3: Regi's and Kelly and you know, Regis wasn't wait who
Speaker 3: was he?
Speaker 1: He was he was a survivor, he was a Survivor
Speaker 1: winner or something.
Speaker 3: No, he's the host of Survivor Joe oh okay all
Speaker 3: these years and also a very nice guy. Early on,
Speaker 3: we're talking we're staying at the same hotel, and on
Speaker 3: the air he mentions not only that we're staying at
Speaker 3: the same hotel, but what hotel we're staying.
Speaker 1: At On the air, he says, in the air, and
Speaker 1: on the air, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, why did you do that? What were you thinking?
Speaker 3: And that's where I came up with the name I
Speaker 3: used to this day. No, obviously not at the front desk.
Speaker 3: The person would have to ask for this, and I
Speaker 3: changed it there. And it's been a delight because I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is how people find out where
Speaker 3: you're staying, but at least once or twice anywhere I go,
Speaker 3: someone will call the room just to see it's me.
Speaker 1: Could I guess the name? I bet you I could
Speaker 1: guess the name. I'm not going to say it now. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it now.
Speaker 3: I think I think it's it could be one of
Speaker 3: two names.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, we'll be right back. Stay tuned,
Speaker 6: and we're back.
Speaker 1: So he meets us Colby, who I didn't realize was
Speaker 1: actually on Survivor.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that he was in Australia. And then
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Colby says to him, ha's Jerry. It's like, that's the
Speaker 1: last thing Larry ever wants to hear. How's Jerry?
Speaker 3: You know? Well, by the way I get asked all
Speaker 3: the time. How's Larry? Yeah, where's Larry? Hey, Jeff. By
Speaker 3: the way, people use it as a joke, Hey Jeff,
Speaker 3: where's Larry? Yeah, if we would be And when we
Speaker 3: do go into the restaurant together, no one says a word.
Speaker 2: No, I know, they stare though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm saying we're all together at a restaurant.
Speaker 3: People are glued yes to every move, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Becky, Cheryl's sister is clearly starstruck by
Speaker 1: Colby and she goes running over and Larry then makes
Speaker 1: his way over to Nat and Sally, who was played
Speaker 1: by Alan Rich who was a terrific character actor for
Speaker 1: many many years. Yeah, many many years. And I actually
Speaker 1: looked him up and what I didn't know is he
Speaker 1: was an actor and then he kind of left and
Speaker 1: went to Wall Street and then he became an art
Speaker 1: dealer before he went back to acting.
Speaker 3: That's what we call a life.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well Rodney Dangerfield painted houses.
Speaker 2: Well, no, he sold a lunuums sighting is what.
Speaker 3: Oh so he was a tin man.
Speaker 2: He was a tin man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I thought heys thought he painted.
Speaker 1: No, No, he was a sales Okay, my ex.
Speaker 3: Father in law, who I still love and I miss him.
Speaker 3: He passed away a few years ago. He was a
Speaker 3: tin man. He was a tin man, and my career
Speaker 3: had stalled so much. This before kerb and I was
Speaker 3: so despondent about.
Speaker 2: How she thought of going into the business.
Speaker 3: So I said, tomorlaw my exe. You know, I said,
Speaker 3: if something doesn't move the needle for me in the
Speaker 3: next year, I'm going to go into business with your dad,
Speaker 3: which would have made him very happy and something I
Speaker 3: got to deal with ABC and it's been groovy since then.
Speaker 1: You know what, I had this discussion with somebody the
Speaker 1: other day because we were talking about the strike, and
Speaker 1: at what point does one say this isn't working out
Speaker 1: in this business. It's a little different for us because
Speaker 1: we were stand up so we could always go out
Speaker 1: and make it well.
Speaker 3: By the way. That's what I'm doing now. But you know,
Speaker 3: when I'm resenting actors now going into stand up, I
Speaker 3: know there's a desperation. Yeah, but the minute the strike's over,
Speaker 3: they'll lose interest because it's too hard.
Speaker 1: But as stand ups, that was the thing that attracted
Speaker 1: me to stand up in the first place, that you
Speaker 1: could always go make a living well.
Speaker 3: By the way, you know I'm a photographer. If people
Speaker 3: don't know that I am a serious photographer on the set,
Speaker 3: do you ever see me without my camera? It is
Speaker 3: constantly with me at all times. I put it under
Speaker 3: a couch cushion wherever in b between, and if I'm
Speaker 3: not on camera, I sit there and take pictures of
Speaker 3: the you know. Anyhow, the point being my dream Ultimately,
Speaker 3: unless something big happens television or movie wise, my dream
Speaker 3: is just to be a photographer and a stand up
Speaker 3: that That's all I do is is I'm a photographer,
Speaker 3: which I'll make a living off. And yes, I know
Speaker 3: I can do it now, but I haven't. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm giving it two or three more years. The same
Speaker 3: thing with this.
Speaker 2: To be an actor.
Speaker 1: To be an actor and sit around and wait for
Speaker 1: somebody to call you to give you a job is
Speaker 1: so so so difficult.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, the whole strike is so sad,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't be more impressed, especially the Writers Guild.
Speaker 3: Its Rider's Guild too. But the WGA has been on
Speaker 3: strike for so long.
Speaker 1: Let's hope by the time this airs it's over. By
Speaker 1: the time, yes, I pray it is. If it's not,
Speaker 1: the people are.
Speaker 3: They're so here's the thing. Their attitudes are high. Their
Speaker 3: real life has got to be low. And yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: they'll all want to be well.
Speaker 2: It's it's difficult to not make a liver.
Speaker 3: But they're holding up. It's so cool.
Speaker 2: I know they're just.
Speaker 1: I'm actually doing a little thing tonight for a benefit
Speaker 1: for writers.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do? Wear cotton?
Speaker 1: Yes, so I'm wearing cotton right now, darling. So Larry
Speaker 1: then invites Solly to the renewing of the vows, which
Speaker 1: is the next day, and Sally says, there's the other survivor,
Speaker 1: and he points to Colby.
Speaker 2: He said, he's from the.
Speaker 1: TV show The Survivor, And and let's also establish it
Speaker 1: Solly has a glass eye.
Speaker 3: Yes, by the way, that of course will come back.
Speaker 1: We'll come back because he doesn't have a glass eye
Speaker 1: for no reason.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And then we're at the dinner table with Colby holding
Speaker 1: cord about how rough his life was in the Deadly Steaks. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm saying, we spent forty two days trying
Speaker 1: to survive. We had very little rations, no snacks.
Speaker 3: Snacks that your thun snacks. They didn't need. Sometimes far
Speaker 3: week for a month.
Speaker 1: They they ain't nothing. Then from Ian I couldnt even
Speaker 1: work out when I was over there. They certainly didn't
Speaker 1: have a gym.
Speaker 3: I weren't.
Speaker 1: I mean, war my sneakers out.
Speaker 3: And then the next thing you know, I've got a pair.
Speaker 1: Of foot flops. Flip flop. We slip on the ground
Speaker 1: on the dirt. Okay, one hundred and eighteen degrees during
Speaker 1: the day, ninety eight at night with ninety eight percent humidity.
Speaker 3: Forty five degrees below zeof did you guys have.
Speaker 1: A bathroom a bedroom?
Speaker 3: We didn't have. Yeah, twelve people at a time with
Speaker 3: the goal and shit, well, I'm sure you had toilet paper,
Speaker 3: We had newspaper, We had mosquitoes, dams. You see this glass?
Speaker 1: I have you even seen the show? Did you ever
Speaker 1: see our show? It was called the Holocaut And Sally
Speaker 1: is getting incense. I was in the concentration camp and
Speaker 1: Kolby says, well, we didn't have snacks. Snacks, we had
Speaker 1: no snacks. It's back and forth and back and forth.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the Colby guy couldn't have been
Speaker 3: more humble and kind like. He was not impressed.
Speaker 1: He had in real life. Yeah, in real life, for himself,
Speaker 1: but not on the show. On the show, he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a little bit of an asshole. He's like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't work out, there was no gym. I woon't
Speaker 1: have to wear flip flops. He's saying to a Holocaust survivor,
Speaker 1: you know I mean bedroom. We had no bedroom anyway,
Speaker 1: And he says to he says to Solly, did you
Speaker 1: ever see our show?
Speaker 2: And Solly says, did you ever see our show?
Speaker 1: It's called The Holocaust?
Speaker 3: By the way, that's the exchange of the scene, right,
Speaker 3: did you ever see our show? Did you ever see
Speaker 3: my show?
Speaker 1: It's called the And then I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor.
Speaker 1: I'm a survivor. Back and forth, and they get very
Speaker 1: Sally gets all famished, and he knocks over the gravy
Speaker 1: dish onto Larry's mass suit.
Speaker 3: That is wearing for the renewed the Valves.
Speaker 1: And then Julie, Cheryl's mother, who I don't know that
Speaker 1: she has a name in the show beside Cheryl's mother.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe we'll see it come up.
Speaker 1: I don't think Paul or Julie do. I think they're
Speaker 1: just Cheryl's parents. But Julie says, someone get a sponge.
Speaker 1: She's sitting there and says, someone get a sponge. And
Speaker 1: Larry says, why don't you get a sponge? And Cheryl
Speaker 1: just looks at him with a death look.
Speaker 3: But Larry is just that gravy. He's one hundred percent right.
Speaker 3: Why are you suggesting when you can go get a sponge? Ah,
Speaker 3: mother in.
Speaker 1: Liwe she's not an old lady, she's not infirmed. She
Speaker 1: could get up and get a sponge.
Speaker 3: Any friend of mine that is very close with their
Speaker 3: mother in law, I'm enamored. I can't believe it. Wow.
Speaker 3: I mean I worked. I got along with my mother
Speaker 3: in law very well, but let's just say it was
Speaker 3: a bit of a challenge. I rose to the occasion.
Speaker 3: But most people I know roll their eyes when you
Speaker 3: ask about a mother in law. And then you talk
Speaker 3: to people, Oh, I love my mother in law. She's
Speaker 3: the greatest thing ever, And I'm like, how wow are wow?
Speaker 2: Jimmy.
Speaker 1: My mother loved Jimmy, right. And she used to say
Speaker 1: to me, you love me. No, she didn't love me.
Speaker 1: She used to say, you got so lucky with that Jimmy.
Speaker 1: And I'd be like, how about how fucking lucky that
Speaker 1: Jimmy got with me? Ma, okay, how about how lucky? No,
Speaker 1: you got so But he was very kind to her.
Speaker 1: You know. She liked him because he would go over
Speaker 1: and hang her pictures and fix things and all that.
Speaker 2: But all right, So it's the next day.
Speaker 1: The Rabbi wants to start the ceremony by noon and
Speaker 1: Larry's suit is missing. He can't find his suit, and
Speaker 1: Cheryl says, well, why don't you go get it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh, I know I'm wrong. Sorry, Cheryl went and picked
Speaker 1: up the dry cleaning and he's looking at the dry cleaning.
Speaker 1: His suit is not there because Anna didn't give him
Speaker 1: a ticket, so his suit is Schlowmo didn't give the
Speaker 1: suit to Cheryl with the rest of the dry cleaning
Speaker 1: because there was no ticket. And Larry's like, well, she
Speaker 1: didn't give him a ticket, and he says, but I
Speaker 1: see their van on Oh Campo all the time. Oh
Speaker 1: Campo was a block in Pacific Palisades, right, and maybe
Speaker 1: they'll open the store for me. And it's Shabist. Let's
Speaker 1: not forget their Hasidic and it is shabis. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 1: Larry shows up at their house on o campo. When
Speaker 1: he rings the bell and Anna comes. She's smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 1: Then she's got the schmatta on her head and she's
Speaker 1: lally again. She sees them, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: And he's sorry to bother her on the sabbath and
Speaker 1: he wants to get the suit. How can I get there?
Speaker 1: He says, I'll take you on piggyback and all. And
Speaker 1: Shlomo is at shuol, so would you want to come
Speaker 1: in for a drink? She's very very following the sabbath,
Speaker 1: and he said, I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm renewing my vows ten long years.
Speaker 1: They get the suit and he leaves, and he passes
Speaker 1: by you at the trunk of your car. Trunk is open,
Speaker 1: and he tells you about Anna and that he has
Speaker 1: the Rabbi's blessing because he apparently made a date with
Speaker 1: Anna to be his anniversary gift. And you say to him,
Speaker 1: you need to get a sheet. And I come out
Speaker 1: in rollers looking very attractive, and I'm like Jeffery bags
Speaker 1: in the car and blah blah blah blah. And then
Speaker 1: you call me over and you ask me about the sheet.
Speaker 3: How do make love?
Speaker 1: What do you mean to make love?
Speaker 3: How do they do it with.
Speaker 1: The sheet you're talking about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they put a hole.
Speaker 1: In a sheet and through that kidding you didn't know that.
Speaker 1: It's not a myth. They cut a hole in the sheet,
Speaker 1: the man puts the penis in. They can't touch each other, Larry,
Speaker 1: it's a religious thing that they do. What do you
Speaker 1: guys talk about? This is what you talk about.
Speaker 3: It just came came up, came up.
Speaker 1: Help me with the bags, all right, And I was like,
Speaker 1: this is what you guys talk about. Fucking through a sheet.
Speaker 1: That's how the hot seeds have sex. They put a
Speaker 1: hole in the sheet. That's something we've always heard. Let's
Speaker 1: just tell our audience who might be true. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's true. I don't think it's true, but I've
Speaker 1: always heard that. I don't know there is an urban legend.
Speaker 1: Let's say that the hacidam have sex with there's a
Speaker 1: hole in the sheet for the penis. They don't touch
Speaker 1: each other, the man puts the hole in the sheet,
Speaker 1: and that's how they fuck up.
Speaker 2: That's what we've always heard. I don't think it's true.
Speaker 1: All right, call viewers right in and tell us right in.
Speaker 3: When what world do we live? In here. We get
Speaker 3: a lot of letters down at.
Speaker 1: The step whatever. So you tell him he better show
Speaker 1: up with the hole cut beforehand, you know. And then
Speaker 1: we're back at his house and Cheryl tells Larry that
Speaker 1: her mother is not coming to the renewal of the
Speaker 1: vows because she's upset about the sponge comment. So Larry
Speaker 1: goes to apologize to mom. He calls her mom and
Speaker 1: that the survivor confrontation made him flumixed. And even though
Speaker 1: you were right by the kitchen, and she says, you
Speaker 1: don't like me, and you know, he says, I'm a
Speaker 1: people person. Come on, and he says, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: let's go, and she starts laughing, and but he also
Speaker 1: has to say, and next time you'll get the sponge.
Speaker 1: Next time you'll get he can't let it go. He
Speaker 1: can't let it go.
Speaker 3: Classic. And but my favorite moment in that scene is
Speaker 3: him grabbing her nose, like squeezing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: No. God bless him for getting out of that one.
Speaker 1: And next they're all in the limo and Sally is
Speaker 1: in the limo, Salia, Nat and Cheryl's parents and Becky
Speaker 1: and Larry and Cheryl and Cheryl has a big glass
Speaker 1: of red wine that she's drinking, and the sun starts
Speaker 1: glaring into Solly's glass eye.
Speaker 2: You could see him. He's making weird hold.
Speaker 3: On, hold on the setup is also see I never
Speaker 3: really noticed that she was drinking wine. I didn't know, Yes,
Speaker 3: But Larry is obsessed the way he's shaking.
Speaker 1: The way Sally is shaking, the way.
Speaker 3: Sally is shaking. That's all Larry can stare at.
Speaker 1: What Sally is doing is not is He's doing a
Speaker 1: discinesia kind of a thing which happens to people for
Speaker 1: various reasons.
Speaker 3: And I also go on record, and I'm being humble
Speaker 3: with this. Never heard the word discinesia. And let me
Speaker 3: tell you something. It sounds like an island I go
Speaker 3: to off to.
Speaker 1: Discinesia is involuntary movement. It happens like my brother has
Speaker 1: it from Parkinson's disease. It's not the trembling of Parkinson's.
Speaker 1: It's you get the discinesia with Parkinson's from taking too
Speaker 1: much of the medication, and that's when you start to
Speaker 1: get this. It's involuntary movement. The sun starts glaring in
Speaker 1: Sally's eye and Solly thinks that Larry is making fun
Speaker 1: of him.
Speaker 2: Why because Larry's doing what Larry starts doing.
Speaker 1: Weirds around like like to block the sun.
Speaker 2: He's doing this to block the sun.
Speaker 3: What is he doing?
Speaker 1: He's making me?
Speaker 3: Why are you making me?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, the light from your glass eyes, it's reflecting
Speaker 1: on me.
Speaker 3: You're not making fun for me. No, no, no, I
Speaker 3: don't like this.
Speaker 1: Heel. I don't run any heel no, mom, hold it stop,
Speaker 1: the cat don't get and the car stops fast, and
Speaker 1: the red wine all over larry suit, all over Larry's suit,
Speaker 1: and then Sally gets out.
Speaker 3: Hold on, what does Sally say when he gets out?
Speaker 2: What I don't remember?
Speaker 3: He yells after the car got cocking off from yum?
Speaker 2: And what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Go take a shit in the oceans? And it's actually
Speaker 3: for Yiddish. It's like, that's the insult of being Yiddish.
Speaker 3: My grandma taught me that phrase, and I couldn't get
Speaker 3: enough of it. I sent it to everyone, including bullies
Speaker 3: at school, and they had no idea they and they
Speaker 3: were picking on me because I was Jewish too.
Speaker 1: So there's a lesson. When somebody's bullying, you speak Yiddish
Speaker 1: to them. It's disarming.
Speaker 3: Well, guy cocking off from Yum specifically, you know, but
Speaker 3: I feel bad for the swimmers in that area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's never a good idea to take a shit.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense.
Speaker 1: It's it's not an insult that makes any sense because
Speaker 1: who are you harming?
Speaker 3: The other swimmers, the other people in the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you're not, if you're not at the beach,
Speaker 1: what's the it's an whatever.
Speaker 2: Schol Malacham knew what it meant.
Speaker 1: Then they're in the rabbi's office and the rabbi tells
Speaker 1: them we're going to do this and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to say a prayer and then we're gonna break a glass.
Speaker 1: And Paul Dooley says, is that when we yell a
Speaker 1: matsa tough.
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 1: Can't we just say yippie or hallelujah?
Speaker 3: But nippy yippie? I know that's Paul Dooley's improvising. Paul's
Speaker 3: a brilliant improviser.
Speaker 1: Now, I'll tell you a story that happened just a
Speaker 1: few days ago. My husband, who is not Jewish, mentions
Speaker 1: we were in our apartment building and he mentions he
Speaker 1: thought that a woman who was Jewish lived next door.
Speaker 1: And then he came and he said, I realized she
Speaker 1: doesn't live next door because there's not a medusa on
Speaker 1: the door. And I said what, I had no idea
Speaker 1: what he was talking about. He said a medusa. He
Speaker 1: was talking about a messusa, obviously, but he called it.
Speaker 3: Think of a medusa on a wall, like, Oh, no,
Speaker 3: he said a menusa.
Speaker 2: No, no, he said, he said a menusa. He said,
Speaker 2: there's not a minus on the wall.
Speaker 1: I thought the medusa for that same reason, but he said,
Speaker 1: this is not a manusa. I'm impressed that he knew
Speaker 1: what a manusa was to be a misusa was to
Speaker 1: begin with.
Speaker 3: By the way, my son, when he was my older boy,
Speaker 3: when he was a little boy, he used to call
Speaker 3: it the computer, a computer ger and I never corrected him.
Speaker 2: I figured computer and.
Speaker 3: He want him to stop, and he did find out
Speaker 3: on the.
Speaker 1: Zone, we'll be right back, stay tuned. Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: And then the Rabbi says to Larry, isn't this something
Speaker 1: you could do about that stain.
Speaker 2: It's disrespectful.
Speaker 1: So already the Rabbi is a little you know.
Speaker 3: It's right in front of them with the bema. It's
Speaker 3: up on the bema. But what's right in front of
Speaker 3: the torah? What do they call that? Where you put it?
Speaker 3: Put the torah back in? I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's what he says.
Speaker 2: And then Julie.
Speaker 1: Says, excuse me, does anybody have a mint?
Speaker 4: I got a mint. It's in my pocket. Do you
Speaker 4: want me to hand it to you? It's loose, it's
Speaker 4: not in a package. What do you want to put
Speaker 4: your hand in my pocket and get it yourself? You
Speaker 4: got three options. You can do one of those two things,
Speaker 4: or you can refuse it.
Speaker 5: There you go, Cheryl, Honey, would you reach into Larry's
Speaker 5: pocket for an unwrapped mint?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 5: This is fine, thank you?
Speaker 1: A loose? And this is she's so off the wall
Speaker 1: at that character.
Speaker 3: You know, she's just so well A mint is And
Speaker 3: I'm sure this sounds like what Larry wrote this And
Speaker 3: this is so insane what this moment of the scene
Speaker 3: is to me. I don't know anyone who can imagine
Speaker 3: creating this scenario. I don't because there's nothing to do
Speaker 3: with the sponge. It's self contained and it's appearances.
Speaker 1: Because he has a loose, he has a loose mint
Speaker 1: in his pocket, but it's a loose mint, so he
Speaker 1: says it's a loose min.
Speaker 2: And then Julie asks Cheryl if she would no, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, no no, but say the three things that Larry's offers.
Speaker 3: You have three choices. Oh, okay, you can take I
Speaker 3: can get it out for you. You can stick your
Speaker 3: hand in my pocket, my pocket out, or you can
Speaker 3: refuse it. So three choices, right, and then she looks
Speaker 3: at show shoe.
Speaker 1: Would you reach into is fourth choice?
Speaker 2: Fourth choice?
Speaker 1: Yes? And then they're all ready to do it, and
Speaker 1: Larry says, let's roll, to which the Rabbi gets very
Speaker 1: very insulted.
Speaker 3: That was the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. That's
Speaker 3: what they said. That's right, because they decided to attack
Speaker 3: the people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know it's interesting because this is not
Speaker 1: going to air right now, but we are today. Is
Speaker 1: September twelfth, Yes, yes, it was September day after nine
Speaker 1: to eleven, which was twenty two years ago. And I
Speaker 1: think that people forget things like that, the let's roll
Speaker 1: and stuff like that because it was two years ago
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 3: Actually, I don't think people forget that. I think younger
Speaker 3: people have no.
Speaker 1: Idea, right, Yet, my kids don't all the.
Speaker 3: Things from September eleventh, not only where you were, Like
Speaker 3: when Kennedy was shot. I was alive then, but I
Speaker 3: was like a year and a half, so I really
Speaker 3: don't remember.
Speaker 2: I remember where I was.
Speaker 3: Where were you?
Speaker 2: I was in third grade. I was in third grade.
Speaker 1: Well, what I remember was I remember my teacher, Miss Costello,
Speaker 1: and the teacher next door, Miss Stenglass.
Speaker 3: Remember ironically, my teacher was Miss Abbot.
Speaker 2: Why is that ironic?
Speaker 1: Oh? Abbit?
Speaker 2: And Costello?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, God that was an easy one.
Speaker 1: And I remember Miss Steinnglass came in and she told
Speaker 1: Miss Costello. And I was sitting there and I knew
Speaker 1: by their body language something horrible had happened.
Speaker 2: Wow, something hard.
Speaker 1: I could just see their body language, and I just
Speaker 1: knew something horrible.
Speaker 2: And then they told us what happened. They sent us home.
Speaker 3: And what was your feeling as a little girl hearing
Speaker 3: that it was?
Speaker 2: You know, I think that it was you. You don't
Speaker 2: really understand what what do you mean? It was just incredulbing.
Speaker 1: And then of course we sat around and watched the
Speaker 1: whole thing on TV. I mean I remember John John
Speaker 1: at the you know, at the funeral, standing in his
Speaker 1: little outfit, and you know all of that, I mean
Speaker 1: every and Caroline was probably a year younger than me.
Speaker 1: I remember being very concerned about her, you know, because
Speaker 1: I connected to her. I didn't connect to the mother
Speaker 1: in any way. It was horrible. You felt it. You
Speaker 1: just felt, you felt your parents, you felt that.
Speaker 3: Even though I wasn't. I mean, I was very young.
Speaker 3: I became so obsessed with John Kennedy. Not about the
Speaker 3: theories of who shot him. That didn't interest me, but
Speaker 3: just Kennedy, what a mystery, what a great man. And
Speaker 3: I used to not making this up. It was a
Speaker 3: recurring dream that John Kennedy's coffin was in our addict.
Speaker 1: Oh, I hope that, I swear.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I had that dream so much,
Speaker 3: so many times. Really, I never dreamt that I went
Speaker 3: up there, but it was up there with did you
Speaker 3: James going?
Speaker 2: Did you ever go up to look?
Speaker 3: I don't think we even had an addict. Oh, okay,
Speaker 3: So by the way, nine to eleven though, that's the
Speaker 3: next time that I think everyone in especially the United States,
Speaker 3: remembers exactly where they were at, exactly how they felt.
Speaker 3: I remember being very angry. I was on a show then.
Speaker 3: We were doing Curb but I was I was in
Speaker 3: Chicago when it happened.
Speaker 2: We weren't shooting Kerb at that moment.
Speaker 3: No, But I actually got hired this. This is what
Speaker 3: I got hired to be on a show called What
Speaker 3: About Joan? And I remember on September eleventh, we had rehearsal,
Speaker 3: so I thought, for sure it's canceled. No, they had
Speaker 3: us come in and they made us rehearse. But the
Speaker 3: way they justified it is a moment of fucking silence
Speaker 3: before we rehearsed for everything that happened. And I thought,
Speaker 3: and by the way, right then and there, I was furious,
Speaker 3: and I was I thought, I'm going to go home.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go home, and it's like, this will
Speaker 3: mean nothing if I stand up for this, because it's
Speaker 3: a corporate decision, not any individual.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know where I was. I was
Speaker 1: an ann Arbor, Michigan. I was actually in my hotel
Speaker 1: room watching CNN when I saw the thing. But I
Speaker 1: was in ann Arbor, Michigan doing the Vagina monologues.
Speaker 3: By the way, do you have a friend who made
Speaker 3: more fun of you for doing that show? Than me.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I made so much fun of you with you.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
Speaker 3: Because I thought, well, we actually come to it. Don't
Speaker 3: that already happened. That already happened the vagina mond Yes,
Speaker 3: it was in the episode with the incest episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're doing the vagina monologues. No, no, no, that's.
Speaker 3: Later on because I get Cheryl the job in the
Speaker 3: Vagina Monologues. But I gotta tell you, any right thinking
Speaker 3: man made fun of that show, just like the penis
Speaker 3: puppet show whatever that was called, where the guys performed
Speaker 3: puppets with their wieners. I forgot what that was.
Speaker 2: Well that's a little different.
Speaker 3: No, to do mon logs about your vagina.
Speaker 1: Not monologues about your vagina's monologues about female sexuality and
Speaker 1: being a woman in all different ways, not actually discussing
Speaker 1: my vagina.
Speaker 3: Well, no one ever saw it, no, of course not.
Speaker 3: I had no interest. It wasn't titillating for me.
Speaker 1: It was just it's not a titillating show. It's not
Speaker 1: a sexy show.
Speaker 3: Okay. The odds of me seeing the Vagina Monologues are
Speaker 3: the odds of me seeing cats. You know, it's just
Speaker 3: something that's just you know what.
Speaker 1: Jeff your luck.
Speaker 2: They're both closed. So Larry says.
Speaker 1: Larry says, all right, let's roll.
Speaker 3: What that's wrong? What did you say?
Speaker 1: What you know that my brother in law died on
Speaker 1: September eleventh?
Speaker 3: Dare you say something like that? With all due respect?
Speaker 4: Wasn't that just a coincidence?
Speaker 3: All right, we're all right.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that if you, if you, if you
Speaker 4: died uptown on nine to eleven, that it was that
Speaker 4: it was part of it.
Speaker 1: Let's roll, and the Rabbi gets very very upset, and
Speaker 1: he's like, my brother in law died in nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: How dare you say that?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: My brother in law died, And Larry's like, but he
Speaker 1: died in town, doesn't uptown death. That's part of the tragedy.
Speaker 1: And you know, the rabbi then he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: do it. He doesn't want to renew the vows. He
Speaker 1: has a little if he hiss, he fit and Larry
Speaker 1: goes on quoting the Bible whatever cass whatever he's saying,
Speaker 1: there's some quote for the Bible, and.
Speaker 2: They end up doing it.
Speaker 1: The Rabbi calms down and they end up doing the vows,
Speaker 1: and then they're in You and I are in the
Speaker 1: audience watching, they're in the temple and Sharon.
Speaker 3: It was for anyone watching because I love giving locations. Uh,
Speaker 3: that was that temple that's on? That's on? Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it still? Sunset? Yeah? Sunset?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah. And Cheryl does her eternity line, and then
Speaker 1: it's Larry's turn and he's just drawing a blank and
Speaker 1: the Rabbi says, speak from the heart, and he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, things are pretty pretty, pretty good, and you
Speaker 1: know your devoted servant, and uh, you know you want
Speaker 1: me to open up a bridge table, I'll do whatever
Speaker 1: you want me to do, I'll do.
Speaker 2: And she makes all the plans. She's with all Larry's wives,
Speaker 2: make the plans.
Speaker 1: We know that I'll love.
Speaker 3: You, makes the plans.
Speaker 1: She gets us, keeps us very busy. I will love
Speaker 1: you until death, till the day I die, and we
Speaker 1: don't know what happens after death. And he's skirting the issue,
Speaker 1: skirting the issue, and Cheryl just is looking at him
Speaker 1: like waiting, waiting, waiting, and then he very wisely because
Speaker 1: he wants his marriage to be successful, adds eternity, and
Speaker 1: then Larry goes to step on the glass and as
Speaker 1: he's stepping on the glass, he also steps on the
Speaker 1: rabbi's hand and there's blood spilling all over. There's blood
Speaker 1: all over his pants, and Larry says, somebody get a sponge,
Speaker 1: and he indicates to Julie, but of course she doesn't move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and by the way, this episode, there are so
Speaker 3: many moments you can end the show.
Speaker 2: There was right there.
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, there's so many outs.
Speaker 2: But there's a better out. Actually, I think that the
Speaker 2: out was really good on the show.
Speaker 1: And then they're at the We cut to there at
Speaker 1: the hotel and Anna opens the door in the robe.
Speaker 1: She's wearing a robe, and Larry h brings his suit
Speaker 1: for the dry cleaning. I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: the mistakes that he makes as amazing. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's coming to have an assignation with the woman and
Speaker 1: he just isn't it easier for her to just take
Speaker 1: the dry cleaning?
Speaker 3: I have never heard assignation. Your vocabulary is remarkable. What's
Speaker 3: an assignation?
Speaker 1: A trist a trist okay? Yeah, all right, and she's
Speaker 1: not happy about the dry cleaning thing.
Speaker 2: You know, she's not happy about it. He's coming a fucker.
Speaker 2: Don't bring your fucking dry cleaning.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna schlep your dirty fucking clothes to the
Speaker 1: dry cleaner.
Speaker 3: She says. The way though, it was interesting because she's
Speaker 3: really let Larry know, but this is so insulting to her. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because she's would do anything for Larry, but this is
Speaker 3: crossing the line.
Speaker 1: Well, she says, in fuck or suit, fuck or suit.
Speaker 3: Okay. By the way, also when he uses the phrase
Speaker 3: killed two birds with one stone, yeah, as if he
Speaker 3: was actually picking up something from her and he thought, oh,
Speaker 3: I'll drop this off.
Speaker 1: It's insulting.
Speaker 3: It's insane, it's insane, it's getting laid.
Speaker 1: It's insensitive. And then she says, let's go, I don't
Speaker 1: have all day. And so Larry goes into the other
Speaker 1: room and he comes back out and he's got it wrapped.
Speaker 2: In a sheet.
Speaker 5: To get the sheet, let the start, who brings the
Speaker 5: sheet to the hotel?
Speaker 1: And what's it? There's a hole there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because as would you believe?
Speaker 6: That's stupid shit?
Speaker 1: What kind the fucking idiot are you? The linen store?
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, we didn't have that line early
Speaker 3: on when I suggest told me he should get a
Speaker 3: satin sheet.
Speaker 2: He goes, yes, yes, he says, the linen store.
Speaker 1: And then she says, then there's a hole in it,
Speaker 1: and he says, yeah, because you're a Hasidic. And then
Speaker 1: you know, she's like, we that's bullshit, we don't do that.
Speaker 1: And then we hear rumbles, we hear an earthquake, rumble,
Speaker 1: and then next thing we know, they're out in front.
Speaker 2: He's wrapped in the sheet, she's in the robe.
Speaker 1: And who happens to be there who was staying at
Speaker 1: the hotel but Colby, and he sees him. He's like, hey, Larry,
Speaker 1: we survived.
Speaker 2: That's the app That's a great out.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great episode. It actually is a
Speaker 3: great out.
Speaker 1: It's a great episode from.
Speaker 3: There's no fat on that episode.
Speaker 1: It is so and even though there's a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, all back stuff with with all that, it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's very tight, very very tight.
Speaker 3: And by the way, like I said, and this is
Speaker 3: with Julie. There is it Julie the mother to.
Speaker 1: Play the action, Yeah, Julie with Julie.
Speaker 3: Those two moments could have easily been cut, both the
Speaker 3: I'm not going him apologizing could have been and the
Speaker 3: mint and the idea that those for everyone hears a
Speaker 3: little inside scoop, But it mostly happens to my character,
Speaker 3: which is and I'm not resentful of it. I just
Speaker 3: want to add that. But a lot of times my
Speaker 3: Comedy Gold or as you saw these two moments Comedy
Speaker 3: Gold cutting room floor because especially yeah, yeah, because we
Speaker 3: moved along. No, but it's also the season the arc.
Speaker 3: I already mentioned the scene. My favorite scene that's ever
Speaker 3: been cut from the show is late Larry and I
Speaker 3: sitting outside of the cemetery together.
Speaker 1: But just you know, I think when you have these
Speaker 1: these earlier episodes that are simpler in their construction, more
Speaker 1: of that stuff was left in. In the later episodes,
Speaker 1: the storylines get so complex that you don't have room
Speaker 1: for any of that stuff. Yeah, do you agree with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I can also say as because I'm laughing
Speaker 3: hard at these and I love every season, but I
Speaker 3: was not a fan of it becoming more intricate and complex.
Speaker 3: And look, our outlines started out at seven to eight pages.
Speaker 2: And twelve fifteen.
Speaker 3: No, they were easily always.
Speaker 1: Fifteen yeah to twenty and so that's.
Speaker 3: A lot of meat. I mean they were shooting off
Speaker 3: I say they we were shooting an episode, and we
Speaker 3: were shooting a forty five minute episode. Yeah, and so
Speaker 3: lots of stuff got cut.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And now like this past season, season twelve, I
Speaker 1: remember reading the outlines and thinking, this is a fucking monster.
Speaker 2: How are we gonna shoot this?
Speaker 3: By the way, especially the last like three episodes mon
Speaker 3: especially number ten, which I think, by the way, everyone
Speaker 3: can look forward to that. But I think I think
Speaker 3: that's a masterful episode. And how Jis Schaeffer pulled that off.
Speaker 3: I have no idea I agree at all the levels
Speaker 3: to it. But you read it and you go, how
Speaker 3: are we going to do this? And we did it?
Speaker 1: And we did it was amazing. And I don't know
Speaker 1: when this is gonna air, if this air is before
Speaker 1: that or after that.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, I think this show started airing,
Speaker 3: because there's way past that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in October.
Speaker 3: We're set to open in January of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: But with the strike, and I know we're gonna have reshoots,
Speaker 3: I don't know that that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. I don't know yeah, And speaking of
Speaker 1: final episodes of a season, next week we are going
Speaker 1: to do episode ten, which was also a big episode,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it next week.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about.
Speaker 3: There's some inside scoop that I have galls, so one
Speaker 3: of my favorite moments of the season.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned.
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