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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation. Jeremy Piven. He's been a

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Speaker 1: staple on TV and movie since the nineties, best known

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Speaker 1: as Ari Gold in Entourage. What a role. Well later

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Speaker 1: this year he's bringing his comedy tour to Australia. Here

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Speaker 1: he is.

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Speaker 2: Nice to see you, nice to hear you, Jeremy.

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Speaker 1: It's so nice to have you on the show. You

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Speaker 1: have so many fingers in so many pies. Looking at

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Speaker 1: the length and breadth of the projects you've done is

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Speaker 1: quite extraordinary. What are some of the funnier things you've

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Speaker 1: been pitched that you kind of said no to, like

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Speaker 1: early on with this, some unusual films that were thrown

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Speaker 1: you away.

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Speaker 2: I one time they came to me. You know, I'm

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Speaker 2: a huge Ricky Gervais fan and the British Office is

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Speaker 2: as brilliant a show and portrayal on his part that

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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it, And they came to

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Speaker 2: me and they said, would you have any interest? And

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Speaker 2: you know, the role obviously went to Steve Corell, who

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Speaker 2: crushed it and was absolutely brilliant. But I remember at

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Speaker 2: the time thinking, and this is just before I played

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Speaker 2: Ari Gold. I remember thinking, I literally I'm incredibly vain.

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Speaker 2: I'm wildly delusional. I think I can do anything, and

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Speaker 2: yet I can't do any better than what Ricky Gervais

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Speaker 2: did in the office. And so I said, no, I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to come in on it just because I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can't do any better than that. And you know,

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Speaker 2: after Corell did it, it's very obvious that no one

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Speaker 2: can and that Gervais is the king. No, I'm just kidding. No, Well,

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Speaker 2: you know, four hundred and sixty five thousand episodes later,

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Speaker 2: here is.

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Speaker 3: But your character Ari Gold, when you watched those early

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Speaker 3: episodes of Entourage, he's softer at the start and a

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Speaker 3: little bit goofy, but towards the end he's a full

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Speaker 3: on boll.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was very lucky in the way that Ari

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Speaker 2: Gold is a real character. He represents Mark Wahlberg. He

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Speaker 2: owns now, the UFC and the WWE and all that,

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Speaker 2: and he was my agent. He's a very specific character.

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Speaker 3: And how would he stand up these days? Do you think,

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Speaker 3: because now you can't talk to people like that anymore,

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Speaker 3: like in the workplace.

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Speaker 2: No, you can't. But I think, you know, I'm lucky

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Speaker 2: enough to tour doing stand up and it's just so

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Speaker 2: cathartic to get on that mic and make people laugh

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Speaker 2: and just kind of have no fear. And I don't

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Speaker 2: mean to sound too pretentious or ethereal or spiritual, but

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Speaker 2: I think the highest vibration is authenticity. And I think

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Speaker 2: that when you're on stage and you're really connecting with

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Speaker 2: the audience and making them laugh, there's nothing better.

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Speaker 1: What kind of stuff is tickling your fancy? What kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff do you think you'll be doing on stage?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm all over the map. The great

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Speaker 2: thing is is I can take something that's you know,

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Speaker 2: literally in real time and pull it out of the

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Speaker 2: headlines and throw it up on stage or things that

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Speaker 2: are going on in my life, you know. And you

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Speaker 2: know I'm on set right now, so I'm not in

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Speaker 2: that stand up gear. But there's so much. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: we're navigating Trump and Elon Musk and Kamala Harris and

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Speaker 2: all of her adorable accents. She's a brilliant actor. She

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Speaker 2: was just signed to an agency, you know, she's now

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Speaker 2: an actor. So I unpack all things American and then

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Speaker 2: juxtapose it to you know, the fine people of Australia,

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Speaker 2: which I love, and you know, impressions. Doing lines with

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Speaker 2: my mom, I mean running lines, Sorry, running lines. Don't

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Speaker 2: you know you don't want to do lines with your mom?

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Speaker 2: I run line I would run lines with Joy's Piven

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Speaker 2: and and she was my she.

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Speaker 1: Was my mother.

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Speaker 2: My she passed away recently and uh yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 2: every time I get on stage, I honor her and

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Speaker 2: it's it's a blessing.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that. When you say you're on

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Speaker 3: set at a movie at the moment, what can you

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Speaker 3: tell us what movie you're doing.

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Speaker 2: It's called Past Life and I'm shooting in Manchester and

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Speaker 2: it's just this really intense thriller. I can't tell you

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Speaker 2: too much, but I'm loving it. Last time I was here,

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Speaker 2: I was shooting mister Selfridge for years and I loved it.

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Speaker 2: And the people here, you know, I I really gravitate

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Speaker 2: towards them. They take it very seriously. You know. They've

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Speaker 2: all been to acting school, drama school. Unlike the Rock.

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Speaker 2: They've studied acting. And he's the highest paid actor in

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Speaker 2: the world, but never studied. I am very bitter. I apologize,

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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna I'm pack all of this on stage.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting older, I'm getting older. This is how you

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Speaker 2: know you're getting older. I used to look at a

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Speaker 2: woman in a short skirt. I will say, Wow, she's hot.

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Speaker 2: Now I go I wonder if she's cold.

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Speaker 3: You know, totally hear it, Jeremy, it's so great to

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Speaker 3: talk to you. Tickets go on sale this Friday. For

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Speaker 3: more information, head to tag dainty dot com. Jeremy Piven.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you guys. I'll see you very soon.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna come into the studio.

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Speaker 2: We would love it see you in July.

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Speaker 1: Whether you like it or not, well, how fabulous. Now

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Speaker 1: get back on set and do you

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Speaker 2: Work, yes, ma'am, yeah, bye, yeah,