Terry Gross on Fresh Air interviews Larry David

I caught on NPR radio a few days ago, Terry Gross on Fresh Air and she was interviewing Larry David. They were talking about his show that has been on HBO for three years now. (Assuming I heard it right.) They played a clip of where Jason was on his show playing himself and talking about he was being typecast from his role as George. He was arguing with Larry David about it, and it was very funny. Jason was claiming that George was a jerk, a putz, a fall-guy and Larry David was calling it funny.

I enjoy the Larry David interviews I have seen and read, but I wish he wasn't giving funny answers to most things, not that there's anything wrong with that. :-) There was an interview with Michael Richards on the Charlie Rose Show years ago when the Seinfeld series was still on. He talked about the Kramer character and it was great.

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Here's a link:

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20021025.fa.ram

Click on "Listen to current show"

I'm not sure if it'll be available past Sunday 10/27.

^^^^^^ "Art is often hailed as the grandest expression of human spirit, but we know now ... that the grandest expression of human spirit is whatever it takes for a man or woman to rush back into a burning building to save more people."

In article , EastCoastGuyz wrote:

I heard the interview. Great stuff, but it's one of the problems with comedians, always being "on".

Jerry did once an interview on Letterman, except that he was really just doing bits. At one point Dave smiles and says, "Are you done?"

The one guy who seems to be able to get comedians to settle down and talk is Charlie Rose. He also is one of the few people who can/will do a whole hour with someone and there's the added benefit of no commercials. He's done great mostly serious interviews with Robin Williams, Steve Martin and Jim Carry.

James Lipton (Bravo's Inside the actor's studio) also does some good interviews with comedians, but they still tend to break into or are lead into doing bits or ad libs. I saw two,two hour interviews with Robin Williams and Mike Meyers that because they were so long we got to see a more serious side as well as some real funny stuff.