1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Jeremy Piven is coming to town. He is coming in August. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: He's going to be at the Asta Theater Wednesday, August six. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: Tickets are available through ticket Tech and he's joining us 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: this morning. Good morning, Jeremy Pivet. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: Hey welcome Jeremy. 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 3: Thank you guys. 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: How are you Have you been to Perth before? 8 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 4: I've never been to Perth in my life, but I 9 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 4: can't wait to go. 10 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 3: I've heard incredible things. 11 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 2: Well it's not to happen. 12 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 5: My distant city have been different to anywhere else. But 13 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 5: and there's a lot of love for you here, man. 14 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 4: I can't wait to feel it. I want to get 15 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 4: there and make people laugh. And we need it right now. 16 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. 17 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: You'll definitely feel that that the aster. It's a great 18 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: venue to do a show. What what kind of things 19 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: do you cover off in your in your stand up show? 20 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 4: I talk about I do topical stuff, observational stuff, stories, impressions. 21 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 4: I'm all over the map, I'm everywhere. 22 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 5: Right, We've said, you nailed it. We need a laugh 23 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 5: right now. But there is a lot of stuff going on. 24 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 5: Is funny, just funny? Is it get a little bit 25 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 5: harder as people get a bit more sensitive. 26 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I think you just don't even go there. 27 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 4: You just speak the truth as you know it, and 28 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 4: that's going to be polarizing, and you know not everyone's 29 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 4: gonna love you, but you just jump in. And I 30 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 4: think right now, if if you get really offended by 31 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 4: someone making jokes, that's on you. 32 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: Yes, you know what I mean, absolutely, why should it 33 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: be the jokers? But turn off? Don't this whatever, Do 34 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: what you gotta do. But it's nothing to do with Jeremy. Jeremy, 35 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: You've been around for quite a while now, So if 36 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,759 Speaker 1: I don't, I don't mean any offense. The first time 37 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: I saw you was in the best show of the nineties, 38 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: the Larry Sanders Show. Yes, that must have been an 39 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: incredible experience to work on that show. It was such 40 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: a novel concept. 41 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 3: That was a brilliant show. 42 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the backstage life of a talk show 43 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 4: that was so good that people even thought it was 44 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 4: a real talk show. Gary Shanling was a genius, and 45 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 4: I played the head writer, and I was right out 46 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 4: of college and it was just an incredible experience for me. 47 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 3: I just learned so much. 48 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 4: It kind of kicked off original program programming at HBO, 49 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 4: and then I did Entourage for about a decade with them, 50 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 4: so I've been at HBO for a while. 51 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, that Ari Gold character. When you first read that, 52 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 5: did you just go this is for me and no 53 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 5: one else is getting their hands on it because it's 54 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 5: such a classic character. 55 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 4: You know, you would laugh because the way they used 56 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 4: to do it, you would only get the pilot and 57 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 4: then they would green lighted and then so in the pilot, 58 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 4: Ari Gold had one scene and he wasn't even as 59 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 4: fleshed out as he became. So I knew what it 60 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 4: could be because my agent was Ari Emmanuel, who the 61 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 4: characters based on, so unbeknownst to me, I had been 62 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 4: doing you know, I was like a drama tour. I 63 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 4: had been doing my homework for a very long time 64 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 4: on the character. And so I got very lucky and 65 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 4: I knew. I knew intrinsically what Ari Emmanuel slash Ari 66 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 4: Gold was like, and the dualities of that character who 67 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 4: thought was a pig, but he was really monogamous to 68 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 4: his wife. 69 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 3: He was all bark and no bite. 70 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 4: He was you know, hot tempered and all those beautiful things. 71 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 4: So I knew that if we got it right, that 72 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 4: people would be fascinated with the backstage life of Hollywood. 73 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, some of his verbal barrages script together words. I 74 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: didn't think I'd ever hear all in one sentence. 75 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: But was there much had lib involved in ari? On 76 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 2: your end? 77 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 3: You know, I am my background. 78 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 4: Part of my background is sketch, comedy, improv and all 79 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 4: that stuff, and so I've been writing on my feet 80 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 4: my whole life, and I love to be able to contribute. 81 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 4: But Doug Ellen, who wrote it, wrote a very tight, perfect, 82 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 4: beautiful script, and you know, he he didn't want me, 83 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 4: you know, he wanted me to stick to the script, 84 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 4: and I was honored to do it. 85 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 3: And then I would kind of beg and plead for 86 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: a free. 87 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 4: Take and I would I would kind of go off 88 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 4: and every once in a while, like I would say 89 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 4: something in an improvisational moment like let's hug it out, bitch, 90 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 4: something like that, and it would kind of make it in, 91 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 4: but not not a lot. 92 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 3: Not a lot. So I you know, That's why. 93 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 4: I'm doing stand up, so so I can let my 94 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: hands go and just you know, have fun and freestyle. 95 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: That's like a Robin Williams clause, isn't It didn't they didn't. 96 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: They often promise Robin a free take at the end 97 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: of him reading you. 98 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 2: Know, the script and let him go. 99 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: So that's what we can expect at your stand up show. 100 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, be careful what you wish for. 101 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 3: I love the freedom. I just love being able. 102 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 4: To just show up, grab the mic and just kind 103 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 4: of take off and and also selfish. You have people 104 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 4: get a sense of who I am. You know, they 105 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 4: may think, you know, how could you possibly know me? 106 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 4: You may know me from these characters, but you don't 107 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 4: know that I'm a stage actor from Chicago, and I 108 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 4: grew up on the stage, and I've got this amazing 109 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 4: family and and everything that went along with it. So 110 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 4: you know, it's it's a way of I know how 111 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 4: to give the people what they want, but I also 112 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 4: do it in a you know, in a way that 113 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 4: shows who I am and where I come from. 114 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm being an drive superfan. Might have to tell 115 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 5: a couple of papios to your incredible body of work, 116 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 5: because I did. When I said I was talking to 117 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 5: you that lied. Did Rixley actually get caught upset on 118 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 5: a regular basis with you yelling his nine min or? 119 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 5: He just sometimes just crack out. 120 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 4: You know, he Rex is a very interesting guy. I 121 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 4: mean he Rex was an assistant. 122 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 3: You know, he is Asian, he is gay. 123 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 4: He is a gay Asian assistant who was working in 124 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 4: the cat or as Ari Gold said Gaijan Gaijian, and 125 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 4: you know, he he just entered into that character and 126 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 4: we were like a perfect match for each other, two 127 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 4: people that you would never expect to be in the 128 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 4: same room together, and it was just magical. And to 129 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 4: Doug Allen's credit, he could see chemistry and then explore 130 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 4: and heightened to that, and you know, and then you know, 131 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 4: I've done the best work of my life now with this. 132 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 3: I don't know if you can see that. 133 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 4: I have this poster behind me the performance, which comes 134 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 4: out this year, and it's an Arthur Miller short story 135 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 4: that my sister adapted and I produced and started. And 136 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 4: you know, guys like you know Adam Garcia and Aussie 137 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 4: Yes is in my film. 138 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: With me and Robert Carlisle. 139 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 4: And it's definitely it's I feel like it's kind of 140 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 4: the best work of my life. And it took me 141 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 4: fifteen years to make, and I'm excited fifteen. 142 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 2: Years and it's a talented fam. 143 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, labor of love. 144 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 5: I read that you. 145 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: Have, But I just to play Keith Moon from The 146 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: Who because you play drums. 147 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: Is that something you still would love to do? Any 148 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 2: closer to that dream? 149 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: You know? 150 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 4: I wonder if I'm too old to play Keith Moon. 151 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 4: But then I realized Keith Moon, you know, was such 152 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 4: a rock star yea, that he looked way older. 153 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 2: Than he did he did did. 154 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, well maybe I can still you know, at one 155 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty years old, I can still play him. Yeah. 156 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, as long as you can drive a character a 157 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 5: swimming pool, you'll be real good. 158 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: Because he was a fascinating character, Keith. 159 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 3: Man, Yeah he was. He was definitely the original rock star. 160 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 161 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 4: And also, you know, a brilliant drummer. That story needs 162 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 4: to be told. There's a lot of stories that I'm 163 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 4: after right now, and I don't want I don't want 164 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 4: to say too many of them because I almost feel, like, 165 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 4: to be honest with you, sometimes when you say things, 166 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 4: you put it out into the universe, and like, you know, 167 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 4: you better be getting after it. Otherwise it's just talk. 168 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 4: Someone else can grab it and run with it. I 169 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 4: hate to be like a little bitch. 170 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: But to be cautious, No, keep close. 171 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 5: And I'm speaking of Keith of her podcast with Roger 172 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 5: Dultry and Pete Townsend recently, and I said that behind 173 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 5: everything else, Keith Moon was a He's a very he 174 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 5: was a very caring man, you know, very sweet man 175 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 5: to the people that he trusted. 176 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 3: I bet you know, I bet he was. 177 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 4: And he was also a brilliant musician and an absolute 178 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 4: beautiful lunatic. 179 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 180 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 4: Well, I think Ringo Starr said that that he locked 181 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 4: him in a house and put a rhino in there 182 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 4: with him that was smashing in the things, like there 183 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 4: was no one crazier. 184 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I love it. 185 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: Well, Uh, you can catch Shareing Me Pivot at the 186 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 1: ASTA Theater on Wednesday, August sixth. Tickets are available through 187 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: ticke Tech and the performance. How do we get around that, Jeremy. 188 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 4: You know what, I hope by the time I get 189 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 4: there with you guys, we have a release, we have 190 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 4: a release date, or I'll just bring the film with 191 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 4: me in my hands and I will make you watch 192 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 4: it's good. 193 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, we want to do that. Come in here coming 194 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 2: to the ninety. 195 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: Six A m all right, Jeremy, thanks so much for 196 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:17,119 Speaker 1: joining us this morning. 197 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 2: Been a privilege. 198 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 3: Man, Thank you. I'll see you soon in a few months. 199 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 2: Yes, thanks singing August, see you at the Dome's so good.