S4 Ep. 2 - “Ben’s Birthday Party”

Jeff and Susie discuss “Ben’s Birthday Party” from Season 4.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You can watch the original episode we'll be discussing in
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episode description. Okay, so I'm Susie Esmond.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I'm Jeff Caerlin.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hi everybody, and we're here for season four, Episode two,
Ben's birthday. And we start off with Larry in rehearsal
tapping with the choreographer played by Patrick Bristow.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Who, by the way, Groundlings.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Groundlings very very funny and has some real gem stuff
later on, which.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Is why for years before this I was up whenever
I did comedy stuff. And he is just he's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's very funny.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I mean, he would be a working class comedian, do
you know what I mean? He's not, you know, and
he will make any project you do as.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
This funny, funny.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah. And the first line that he says in the
episode is thank god you stopped.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Okay, I'm not even gonna get into what's wrong with
the actual choreography. I'm gonna start with your shoes Okay,
I told you to get Kipezia Jazz, I will get
those shoes today. You're gonna get the shoes, but you're
also gonna get the steps. So we're gonna break it
down one more time and just watch only my feet.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Thank god you stopped. Yeah, thank god you stuffed. I'm
sorry gold from the get go right.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I love that Larry doesn't understand and I kind of
agree with him.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Why can't you just do this?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
And he shuffles around, like, what.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Do you have to do?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
The tap? Why can't you just go this? And by
the way, you've seen your share of Broadway shows? Do
you think it doesn't make a difference. Really, No, it
does make a difference, of course it does. But I
understand his logic though, because he.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Can't I just shuffle around?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Why do I have to do so?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Then the pianist walks in and it is blind Michael,
who we met.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I think it was in season one or two.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Where Richard Joys one. I believe Richard Lewis and Larry helping,
and he's very unrealizarious.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yes, yes, And he walks in with a woman on
his arms, and that is Patrick Kerr is the actor
who plays Michael and Jackie Hoffman and Jackie Hoffman who's
you know, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I mean she's Second City. But here's what I want.
I want to say about Jackie Hoffman. When I first
moved as a young comedian and improviser to Chicago to
do the Second City theater, other people had the same
dream and they came and you. But you started, you
got lucky if when you got there you got a
job as a bar back, a server. Yeah, you can

(02:51):
make a living. But they only gave those jobs to
the actors that they believed in. So for a long time,
Jackie Hoffman and I were the box office employees. Okay,
hold on. One other person joined us for a long time,
Stephen Colbert. Really, so the box office at Second City
at that time was Jackie Hoffman, uh, Stephen Colbert and myself.

(03:15):
Which is really funny. Yeah, because to a degree, one
degree or another, like, Jackie is really big in New York.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
She does a lot of Broadway, she does a lot
of one woman shows shows all the time, and she's
been on Broadway in many, many things. Yeah, I recently
saw her in the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof. She
knows Yiddish yes, she was terrific.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
No, she's but I also she played the maid something.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
In in in with with the behind the scenes viewed.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
With that, she played Joan Crawford's maid, but.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
She gets hired. She was she was in I forgot
the name of the movie Birdman or whatever with Michael Keaton.
She shows up in every New York movie, always cast
it appropriately, Like when you see her do these parts,
you think, I can't imagine anyone else doing this part. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
So she comes in and she is Michael, who is blind.
She's his girlfriend, and Larry looks at him. He's like,
you see on Larry's face, this guy looks familiar and
then he realizes who he was and he says to him,
I helped you move with Richard Lewis three years ago.
Turns out Michael is the rehearsal pianist, right, and he
introduces He says, this is.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
My girlfriend Ronda. Hello, and Larry, Hi, can you believe it?
I hooked up with a model boy? You lucked out?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Can you believe I hooked up with a model? I
love this guy, Patrick Kerr.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I love his voice. I love no he's great, A
lovely man too. By the way, Who better than Jackie
Hoffman to bullshit a blind guy that she's a model
and Angenoux? Do you know what I mean? Who better?
Because immediately it's gotten boom. You know, she's a character

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actress and it just and I never thought that somebody
could do that realistically, could lie to somebody who's blind
as to what they look like.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, you know, that's how Larry's brain works, because he thinks,
wouldn't it be great if this woman was blind? And
I told her I looked like Paul Newman. You know,
that's how his brain works.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, so that's why he put it in there. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
And then Ben enters and he's introduced to Michael, and
Michael introduces his girlfriend Ronda, and he says hands off
to Ben.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Right. So that's all good and fine, But I want
to say something about Ben Stiller, his greatness as an
actor and a director. I don't know if you watched
his show Severance. I have seen it. It is subtle,
it is beautiful, but as an actor, his reaction, he
doesn't say a word like the woman I said in

(05:56):
the last episode, who did it all with her face? Yeah?
Who's very handsome? But he says it all with his face,
so he says hands off, and the look on Ben's
face is the laugh, and then he turns to Larry
and this begins a relationship that goes up. It's a

(06:17):
roller coaster. Yes, it's a true, true roller coaster.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
And that's a delight to watch.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well it is, but Ben is sot. He's such a
wonderful actor. I hope he acts again.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
He invites everybody there to his birthday party, right, and
he says his birthday was two weeks ago, but they're
gonna do it Saturday and no gifts. And Larry's like,
why have it at all? If it was two weeks ago,
why have a party at all? What's the whole point
of it? And he's at lunch with Richard Lewis and
Larry's brings up to Richard Lewis the total scam that

(06:49):
Michael introducing. You know, Lewis knows Michael also because he
was with Larry when they moved him episodes ago, and
the total scam. He introduced her as a model, and
that she's bullshitting him.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
She's clear not a model.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
And Richard then brings up that his friend's daughter, so
he's like uncle Richard, who's like a niece to him,
wants breast implants, and that Richard is supposed to be
doing a breast intervention, and he asked Larry to help
him talk her out of Kim is her name? Help
help me talk with Kim out of getting a breast enhancement.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
And then Richard says.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
To Larry, you never confide in me, right, which I
found interesting.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You know, it's like, you don't confide in me.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
And then his fake niece Kim shows up, and Kim
wants ld to look at her reel, of course, and
Larry says, out of nowhere that added Nicole Smith, what
a pair of knockers on her?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, and you can see the woman knowing what he's doing,
the young lady.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Right, But it was the exact wrong thing to say.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, by the way, it's a complete run. But that
was also his character because he even said to Lewis,
how do I approach this right?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
No idea?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That was his attempt. He went from zero to sixty.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Larry is the last person I would ask to do
something like that.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
See, I disagree. I think Larry is brilliant in uncomfortable situations.
And I also think he's not as good as you.
He's a great advice guy.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Just like No, he is a great advice But I
just know that he would feel so uncomfortable in something
like that that I would never ask him.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
But if he had to do it, he'd be good
at it. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And that Larry and Cheryl walk into Ben's party and
they see a table full of gifts and there's like,
what I thought, no gifts, And Jeff and Susie then
approach and he says, did you bring gifts?

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Susie's like, yeah, of course, and we brooke gifts.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
He said it said no gifts, and nobody means that
right now. This is one of those those curb things.
This is a typical curb thing of no gifts, Do
you bring a gift? Everybody means bring a gift when
they say no gifts, and it's bullshit.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, by the way, for the most part, no gifts parties,
there's lots of gifts there.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
You know what I don't never see to if somebody
a gift.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
When you get to a certain age that's really like no, no, no,
you like gifts, but make them thoughtful. They don't even
have to be expensive. Just make it a thoughtful gift
to where my eyes will go big and go.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wow, Well, did you happen to be a terrific gift
giver as am I?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I didn't know that. Yes, I'm a very good gift giver.
Oh yeah, I gave you the Mickey Mantle card.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Get me a Mickey Mano card.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
And then they're passing out or dures and there's a
skewer with chicken on it, you know, like a kebab thing,
and Larry takes the skewer and Ben and Christine enter
and Larry's like, what.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Do you do with these skewers? I don't know what
you're supposed to do with the skewers, And he and Ben.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Start to talk about the rehearsal a lot of dancing,
and Ben's like, well, you have to work on the
off hours. And you see Ben already is feeling like
he's not doing enough, He's not carrying his weight, and
Larry's it looks like a lot of effort, and Ben
is saying, like, you're not putting the effort in, and
we see the riftstore forward and Larry's just focusing on
the skewer What am I going to do with the skewer?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
What are which is a natural question that I have
to this day of what you do with the skewer? Yes,
people come by, but what if you're stuck there and
nobody's coming by. It's an issue, it actually is that
has not changed, and.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's happened to me since we've done this episode numerous times.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Say he was right.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I'm standing here holding the skewer and I have
no where to put it, and as usual he's.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Right, Yeah, he's right with the setup, correct, Like those
are one of the things, like people look at some
of them and go most of them. It's like a
release for people watching. I feel the exact same way,
right right, you know our show, which is politically incorrect,
but in a thoughtful way, not a shocking way and

(10:55):
irreverent people watching especially today, if like.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
It gives them permission.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
No, no, no, no, you know, crying makes you feel
better when you're feeling bad. Yes, I think that the
laughs from our show really do the same, yea to
people in that way.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
In that way, tears are natural endorphins that are painkillers,
as his laughter laughter, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
So I think it's a big release for people when
he takes something that's happened to them to the nth degree,
you know, which he does.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yes, And then I start telling Larry about my new
business that I'm making these sweatshirts that are dazzled and
they're selling like hotcakes, and I've got a whole bunch
in the trunk. You want to see them. He doesn't
want to see them.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
He's not.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Okay, hold on, you're skipping the big point. What There
are two times where Susie begins the doll Yeah, and
this episode because you're wearing slightly loud clothes, your jacket,
especially in the scene where you open up and show
the things, but the bedazzling and those shirts of beautiful
hold on. Not only, but not only in horrible taste

(12:07):
and ridiculous, but that's the beginning of you having always
some sort of clothing business. Yeah down the road kaftans,
you know. Yeah, from this moment on, you have horrible
taste and you are making things that are horrible that
no humans should.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Also had the soaps on business too, where I was
selling like hand creams and I know, but you're entrepreneurial, I.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Know, but you're wearing your outfits when you're doing the soap. Yes, exactly,
you know what I mean. So it's a turn, it's
it's a slight beginning to what we're gonna get with Susie. Yeah,
you saying.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
And I think season five is where it really all
comes together, which we'll get to.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
We'll be right back. Stay tuned, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Then Larry sees Michael, the blind pianist come in and
Michael tells him Tuesday night he's doing a show at
the Mint and it's show tunes, And he asked Larry
if he thinks Ronda is beautiful.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Ronda had walked away to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Hold on one. He asked him if he'll go, and
Larry says, no, I've got a clan meeting.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
That, I got a clan meeting that speaking of the clan.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yes, And then and he doesn't believe Larry, like he laughs,
he knows Larry's joking, ye, And then the look on
Larry's faces, Oh, I guess they have to go to
this fucking show.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
But Larry likes show tunes as do I.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, no, I know, then walks away and he and
Michael askes ld if he thinks he's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Larry's like, you know, what's the difference what she looks like?
You can't see her anyway? What that's one of the advantages,
right in the good hearing good hearing? What is that
a myth? I thought blind people had better hearing?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
What's the difference what she looks like? You can't see
her anyway. That's one of the advantages being blind. That
and the good hearing. You know, it's just constantly making
it worse and worse. Hearing, according to Michael, is a myth.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Is this where he tells Michael that she's not an engeneue? No,
because this scene she walks up.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
If I'm r exactly she does, so he hasn't told
him yet, Okay, and then we cut to you and
and Larry and I are out at the car and
I'm showing him my creations.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Wait do you see them? You are gonna die?

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Okay? Now is this cute?

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I mean, how much fun?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Is this? Huh? Great?

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
You know? Nice? Yeah, not going my cup of tea,
but you know it's nice, all right? You know what?

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Fuck you and fuck your teeth?

Speaker 2 (14:53):
What whoever said you had taste? Mister hushpuppy rumpled suit.
Look what, it's nice, it's just not you know, we
all can't like the same things.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'll tell you when I showed him to Ben still
or he happened to love them, right.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Honey, he went nuts free, he went crazy for them.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yeah, he has taste.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I'm sorry. I think it's it's nice, it's just not
stop right now.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
This scene is classic Susie.

Speaker 7 (15:17):
Yes, excited, excited, excited, and then excited and pissed and
then excited, and you tell Larry to go fuck himself
because he doesn't like them.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, he says they're not my cup of tea, and
I said, fuck you and fuck your tea.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Right, But that's still I know, which leads us down
the road. But I'm just saying this is the first scene.
We've already established your your bite. Yeah, but at this
point we see the levels how proud you are to
show Larry you know, Larry's important to you, and then

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you turn on a dime and get you know, boom,
I'm hitting you hard in the face. And also between
that and these horrible shirts, this is the first of
many quintessential Susie scenes. We'd never done anything like this
before this. Larry knew this was funny, and he knew

(16:15):
how great you were. This is when an actor does
something in a small moment where the producer thinks to himself,
all right, this is something I'm gonna run.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
You know how I feel about it is Larry knew
how to use me. Larry knew how to use me.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Without a doubt. I'm not saying that, I'm just saying
the way it was portrayed in that scene we had
never done before, and that's when he went he knew
you were capable of it. You're so great at this part.
But it was the first where he realized I don't
remember if we had a conversation about it, but the trunk,
the showing, and by the way, there are numerous trunk

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showings and coming up. You know your trunk.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Okay, So then you know, fuck you, fuck you tea
Ben still I love him. Then Larry goes back to
the house and he sees Katie Huffman, who is the
statuesque blonde, and Ben introduced Larry to Katie, and Ben
leaves to go to the bathroom and Larry, you know again,
talking to a beautiful woman. He can't help but be

(17:21):
a ridiculous person. Yeah right, you know it's not really
his birthday. It's you know, there should be a statute
of limitations on the birthday.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
And then he goes on a skewer. I don't like
a kebab.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
What do you doing it? The cordial thing he says
about cordial because he can't be cordial. Oh no, Larry
can't be cordial. That's what I wrote down. Yes, his
character has an inability to go in and just be like, hi,
how are you. Yeah, he can't do it.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, and yeah, the stick you stick yourself in the scrotum.
You put it in your pocket, you stick yourself in
the scrotum.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
I made a mistake because the proper thing to say,
which Ben said, that's why you said Ben loved them,
is to say, oh, those are lovely. Being cordial, he
can't do it. But you say, what do you know
in your hush mister hush? No you said mister hushpuppy

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rumpled suit. I believe you said. Maybe you said your shirt,
but nonetheless that was awesome. And by the way, I
also want to say at that party, I don't know
if you remember this, And this is another time you
saving me on a personal level, I was sitting down.
There was a coffee table and couches around it, and
I'm sitting there watching a scene and hanging out. This scene,

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isn't it? Whatever we were shooting, it's not necessary for
me to have a thought try and make it better.
It was purely something simple and exposition. And I was
there mid scene. I got up and I banged my
knee into the table. Oh, I remember so fucking hard.
I've never banged like this before, and I screamed. But

(18:59):
also you went and got me. You said, you know,
rap up your pants now, and you went and got
an ice pack. Put it on now. Mind you. It
was literally before my eyes turning into a baseball on
my leg. Yeah, And you said, just hold this here.
Do not know heat? Because someone wanted to put some
heat on it, And you're like, no ice. And I'll

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be damned if the damn thing didn't go down. But
it's another time of Susie Esmond saving Jeff Garland. Even
on that level, keep going, I'm a mother.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
What can I tell you?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, so he totally alienates Katie Huffman. You see, she
can't wait to walk away from him. The skewer you
put it in your pocket. You said stick yourself in
the screw to He's ridiculous. He clearly does not know
how to talk to women and where, and the audience
is thinking he's never gonna find somebody to fuck him for.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
The anniversary, which is good that they think that, Yes,
But I also want to say he is obsessed with cutoffs.
When the cutoff is like Happy New Years. Yeah, but
we do that in the future episode what time you
can call, what time you can't? But he loves the.

Speaker 8 (20:08):
Cutoffs statutal limitations, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And then we cut
to We're in the kitchen and I'm playing telephone with
all the kids, and Larry comes in and sits down
and I don't want him there.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I clearly I'm pissed off at him about the you know,
not my cup of tea thing, and he sits down
to play telephone and the waitress leans over with huge cleavage.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I love tits.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
That's funny to you, It's funny to say that in
a room full of children.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
What the what's the matter with you? That's what he
said to me. What did you say to him? I
love pigs, I love people, Ammy, What did you say?
I love pigs?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Larry and he whips to the kid next to him,
I love tits, and the kid announces I love tits,
just when Cheryl walks in in the background, and here's
this in the background, And what the kid had said
was I love pigs. That's what it was supposed to be.
And you know, I go off on him with his sick,
perverted mind, and Cheryl drags him away to sing Happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay. So I just want to say this. I've always
been mischievous. And you're in first grade. Everyone since a circle.
You're about to play telephone no matter what. Duck duck
kuse duc duck goose, of course, but that's a little younger. Anyhow,
whatever I heard didn't matter. I would whisper to the
kid's next let's say it was why am I not

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surprised at this? Okay? What would be a thing that
someone would say.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
In that I like pigs, that's what that's what Sammy
said or whatever.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
So I would say I love skirt steaks, and you
have to say it like that, so you pass it around.
So you would do that at what age six? Seven, seven?

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
And then also when adults played that, I would do that.
It was like, why my attitude was a saboteur. I
am a sabateur, but my thought process, even at the
young age, is this is stupid. Why are we doing this?
Because at the best, at the end, it's going to
be a slight iteration. So I thought, I'm going to

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spin it on the sh I'm going to the bathroom,
I would whisper, and then it would get to I'm
going to the bathroom, and the teacher would be so frustrated,
and then she looked.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
At you must have driven your teachers crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
All except one psychology teacher in high school who was
the only teacher in history that embraced me and told
me keep being who I am. And I'll think of
her name probably after the episode, But isn't that amazing.
She's always been in my heart. A psychology somebody said,
you're okay the way you are? Of course, of course
a psychology teacher. Yeah, but yeah. It was like I've

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never in any class, even the other students who were
all a year older than me. It was just I
don't know how I was in there.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Because were they a year older than you?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
They were like I was in the birthdays in June,
so I was no, no, no, no, no, no no. I
was in ninth grade. No, I was in tenth grade.
They were in eleventh.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
It wasn't like I was.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
But even all the kids in that class were so
thoughtful about me and my misbehavior and my add mind.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
You know, you know, you know what I used to get, Jeff,
I used to get. The teacher would call my mother
and they would say, she's a natural born leader, but
she leads the class in the wrong direction.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I don't think that can ever be topped. My funny
story is not about me. It's about James when he
was in preschool. And by the way, I was never
sarcastic with my children, because children don't understand sarcasm. They don't.
It goes way over their head. It's not right. But
I would say silly things around the house although I

(24:05):
was a present father. Marla and I get called to
the school because she needs to talk to us about James.
James is in class with all the other kids. She
we're at the door and she says, we have a problem.
And Marli, I believe, said, well, what's the problem? She said,
James keeps saying bikini, Oh god, you know, which is

(24:26):
one of my words that I've always loved. It's one
of the funniest sounding words ever. But this little boy,
who I never said to him, Hey, James, bikini whatever,
he just kicked it out. Yeah, and he's always saying bikini.
You talk about chip off the old block. But I've
heard these before about people and what they write on
the report or whatever. Born leader. But she's taking the

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children in the wrong direction. I have's that's amazing. That's amazing.
And as for me, it's the right direction. It's our to.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well it was listen, we're comics. It's always a skewed direction.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
So now they bring in the cake and everybody's singing
Happy birthday except for who Larry and Ban of course
notices and they've done in Cheryl.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
You know, Cheryl's so funny.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Why didn't you sing? Why weren't you singing?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Cheryl says, and Larry, I don't sing the birthday song whatever.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
By the way, I don't think he sings the bird.
He doesn't. He doesn't sing. Yes, so do everyday the story.
You were in New York, so you went there. I
had a birthday party, I remember, with a food truck
of this great Mexican food and Larry came. He looks
at me. He's probably been there forty five minutes. He goes,
I did it. Oh see you later, like he was

(25:45):
doing it because he loved me, wanted to be no,
but at a certain point I thought he's more so
now than he used to be. Way more, way more
change with that. But this was in definitely the era
where that was not Yeah, okay, I did it. And
then he left right away, didn't say goodbye to anyone else, nothing,

(26:07):
He just walked out. God because I thanked him and
I said, I know what you had. He came for you,
and I told my much I appreciate it, and that
was not shocked. But okay, I've done it, which is
just so fucking funny. Yeah, it's him. Yeah, we'll be
right back.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
Stay tuned, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
So then Larry is telling you about a golf he's
giving you a golf tip he just heard, and he goes,
he's with the skewer.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
He still has a skewer in his hand.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
All the way back to many many scenes ago, he's
still holding the skewer.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
No, it's a I think it's a new skewer. He
put the other one on the thing.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
He just happens to be got another skewer.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, and he swings back using the skew were as
the golf club and he swings to show you the
golf tip, you know, something about the hands whatever, and
the skewer sticks Ben in the and the.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Follow stick's Ben in the eye. Dick's Ben in the eye.
And it's bad. That was, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I remember how good Ben was that I thought he
really got hit in the eye.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Well, no, no, Ben is maybe the greatest of all the
guys who were comedians. Ben is phenomenal because everything he
does is nuanced, even something that broad, it's real. It
was real.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
It was so real in the moment, I remember thinking
he got he actually hit him in the eye. I
remember thinking that even though heline was.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
And then Christine looked at Larry and said, what's wrong
with you? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, okay, And next we cut to rehearsal and Larry
finally has the right shoes for his tap and the
choreographer Patrick shows him that he's doing the tap dancing,
but it's actually double time of what that was, and
he's supposed to speeding it up. And then they take
five and Larry complains to Michael about the tempo and

(28:09):
it's like the flash the guy in the red costume,
but he doesn't know what the flashes. He's blind, he's
never seen the red costume. And Michael tells him that
he's exhausted because Ronda and he had a fight all night.
And then Ben comes in with the massive patch and
eye thing and he's got to scratch Retina, and he
confronts Larry about not singing the birthday song, that he

(28:30):
didn't bring a gift, and everyone knows that no gift
is bullshit, That's what Ben says.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Come on, Larry, everybody knows that's bullshit. Bullshit. Yeah, how's
that bullshit? It's bullshit.

Speaker 9 (28:41):
You say no gifts, you bring a gift?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well, why did you even say it?

Speaker 9 (28:45):
I'm just saying this as a friend. You really have
a little ways to go when it comes to dealing
with people. Really, So you don't even shake my hand
the first time I see you, you know the theater.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yes, it's not on your hand, it's just sneeze. That
was a dry sneeze, Larry. It wasn't a sneeze. It
was I can't assume Jrhy I gotta assume what it's
air coming out.

Speaker 9 (29:02):
I'm not gonna put out my hand if it's full
of snotch, I.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Know its hair. I thought I saw some little speckles flying.
I would assume you would know me. Won't have to
know that. I'm not going to give you a handful
of snot to shake your hand. And by the way,
because you don't know snot speckles are coming out, I
saw snot speckels flying and everyone.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Knows no gift is bullshit, and that he didn't shake
his hand.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
It was a dry sneeze. And Larry carries.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
On about he saw speckles of snot coming out, and
you think it.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Was a dry sneeze.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
But I saw speckles of snot in the air, yes,
not speckles.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
And then we say, already this relationship is not going well.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's a roller coaster. Hi, Larry, Uh, what the fuck
did you do? Hi Larry, what the fuck did you do?

Speaker 3 (29:40):
It's literally like that exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Then we cut to Larry's at home and he's practicing
his dancing at home and there's a knock on the
door and it's Kim Richard Lewis's fake niece and she's
dropping off her reel and headshot to Larry, and Kim
is like, whoa, whoa, don't you notice anything? And she
clearly got her enhancement all right, And.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Don't they look real? She's like, don't they look real?
Check them out?

Speaker 1 (30:05):
They're good, right, and she lifts up her shirt to
show Larry.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Oh boy, that's it, that's it, it's all done already.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
That was fast, an hour in and out done.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Boobs genius. Don't they look real? I remember how you
said they were not going to look real?

Speaker 9 (30:22):
Do they not look real?

Speaker 3 (30:23):
You want to see them?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Check them out?

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Check them out? Look they're good right right?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Feel them?

Speaker 6 (30:28):
They feel totally natural.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Come on, Larry, don't be so tight. Come here, let
me feel them.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Check them out.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
They feel good, right, Squeeze them, give them a little.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
I will tell you who did that to me when
she got breast implants backstage at a comedy club, Brett Butler,
she got breast in plants and I was backstage and
she lifted them up and she told me to touch
them to feel how real they felt?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, what if I told you two maybe three times
I was asked to look and I was asked, hold,
and this is all I'm married. Different people you would know, Yeah,
the people you would know who wanted to show them
off and me to feel them. Now, I said no

(31:13):
every time I said please, don't you wants to do that?

Speaker 4 (31:15):
No?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
No, But I was like, please keep your shirt down
when I knew they were starting. No, because even if
there's no way, that's so disrespectful to your wife. Even
if so, I think, Larry, well go on. But Larry
the next moment is a victim. He's uncomfortable holding, very uncomfortable,
and very forceful about it.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yes, but white insistent.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Also on the side shot, you see he's really holding
her breasts. Yes, she's stopless and he's holding her breath.
And she's like, check them out. They're good, right, but
touch them and they feel totally natural. Squeeze them, squeeze them. Okay,
But I want to say this, itnt show business. Your
hands are on a woman's breasts. That's not acting. Uh, well,

(32:02):
I don't know what you mean. What do you mean
he puts his hands on her breast. There's no acting there.
Maybe what they're doing, but his hands are on her breast. Yes,
that's a real man's hand. An attractive woman's breasts, and
so for me a lot of times. By the way,
I'm not saying that that shouldn't be done in movies,

(32:24):
but it always makes me think. And a lot of
love scenes when they're actually naked and they have significant others,
what have you there? You're naked in bed with another
woman's right.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Though we know that there's a million cameras are it's
not exactly hot, but by the way.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Run it's so technical and now they even have a
person it works out every move.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
It's it's called an intimacy director or an intimacy advisor
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
When I was much younger, maybe even in high school college,
there was a movie called Tattoo with Bruce Dern and
Maud Adams, and the rumor out there was they really
had sex, and also Donald Suddent and Julie Christie and
don't look back, it was also out there that their
sex was real.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Someone well, maybe Donald Sutherland or Julie Christy. You'll call
in and let us know.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, See that's sarcasm, and I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
I'm not being sarcastic.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Where's our hotline?

Speaker 1 (33:28):
What the fuck are you now?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
They're writing it, where do they write? What do you
think Julie Christie isn't a curb fan?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
I bet you she is.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Well what's her name? Kim Novak said when she retired
and they said would you ever act again? And she said,
only on curby your enthusiasm? And for me that was
how can I write something that she's right for as
fast as I can? Larry Shrugged, how about that? You
know what I mean? Tim Novak? What the fuck? But

(34:00):
by the way you watch the sex scenes, I don't
think I've ever seen tattoo, but I've seen don't look,
don't look now, ye don't look now, and it looks
like they were having sex. It's it looks real.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
So luckily as a as a comedian, I've never been
in that position.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I have no interest.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Hold on, I have directed a scene with a naked
young lady and a naked man. It's a comedy And
she had a patch over her vagina and breasts, and
he was wearing some flesh colored underwear what have you.
But he's still in bed with a beautiful young oznou

(34:41):
with large breasts, a killer body. He's handsome as hell,
and they're rubbing against each other. Yeah, yes, they're doing
a scene. But what the fuck.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'm sure that people get aroused all the time. I
don't see how you cannot.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Well, though, that would be very embarrassing, you know. Ray
Ramano once said to me one time, if you have
a masseuse and she's even remotely attractive, you have to
work hard the whole massage. That's noting. No, No, I know,
to not get a boner, you have to work. And

(35:16):
it's so true because I think any massuse is knocked
up a category with how they look. Women.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Women don't have to deal with that.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
It's not necessarily true. No, we don't have something that
shows that you're want to know.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
No.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
In other words, if that happened.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
You, you might get excited or arouse, but it's not
sticking up in the air, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, Okay, Larry is touching her breasts, and we see
Cheryl at the window seeing all of this, and Cheryl
says to him, happy anniversary. Touching a breast is sex.
You just had your anniversary game and it's over.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Do you blame her in that moment.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
That she's absolutely on her side?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah? No.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Men house runs by and Larry says it's a tit mouse,
and Cheryl's like, you're.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Obsessed with tits.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
He did tits in the in the telephone with the
kids anyway.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Then Michael calls, by the way, I know that term.
I've never seen anyone use it.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's a real term, but I've never you know.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
And by the way, do you know how many times
they in movies, old movies, they talk about a mouse,
but when you see it, it's a fucking rat because
little mice are actually cute. It's weird, but they're actually
if you look at them, especially pet mice, they're really.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Add like them. I don't like any of it.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Cargo was walking down the street. I passed an alley
in the city and there's a rat and baby, I'm
exaggerating some the size of a pig and hissing it
at me. Ye and I read I have a phobia.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
We're not going to discuss this.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Did you know that phobia? I know someone close to
me he's got a wreck inophobia.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Truly, really okay, that doesn't I.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Don't like spiders, but I hate spiders, but sometheless.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm I don't like insects. They don't bother me. But
rodents I have a phobia.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, by the way, when I grew up, no one
more thing. People freak out from lizards. I never do,
no matter what.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Snakes don't bother me.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Snakes freak me out. Oh any garden, run for the hills.
That being said, and pull anything out that might be attacked.
What have you? Well, no, I cleared the area. But
like chameleons. You know it's I grew up with chameleons,
so lizards are cool.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
I love coamellions in sou and sal So.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
You know what was great in Florida because I was
born in Chicago, lived there as a kid, and explained,
but high school, junior high school, and high school and
college University of Miami, I lived there. I started comedy
in Florida, so I lived there from twelve to twenty two,
ten years of my life. And what was great about

(38:06):
chameleons was they ate cockroaches, So they were my heroes
because I fucking hate cockroaches. And you know, of course,
the horrible palmetto bug, which for those of you who
don't know, are large cockroaches that fly, hold on that
fly a flying cockroach that's big.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Shoot, all right, let's let's move on from this discussion.
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
By the way, I enjoyed it. It was very revealing.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
So so Michael calls Larry. He broke up with Rhonda
and he needs Larry to help him because he has
nobody to help him. So then we have a whole montage.
Larry's taking him to the supermarket, to the shoe store,
to the laundromat.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
To buy glasses to eat pie.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
They stop at stop at the Greens, but please, but.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
I always want to say when he's at the cereal.
By the way, that was written as a montage, unlike
the special section where I said it was so disappointed
that it turned into a montage, But that one was
written as a mostage. It was all good until Larry mind,

(39:15):
you know, talking when they're athlete. He pulls out a
box of sea where the camera is and you can
see Larry explaining the serial tim which is strange to
begin with, but he's like, for those of who on
YouTube can see me, and so the listeners, I'm just
bouncing my lips. But the point being is that was
a real montage which served a purpose. We got in

(39:39):
twenty seconds fifteen seconds, which if you shot that regular
you're looking at five seven minutes. So it did its job,
and it's not important enough to have dialogue.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh it was a necessary montage. Yes, that wasn't necessary,
was it?

Speaker 6 (39:55):
It?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Would it work?

Speaker 4 (39:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I thought it was necessary to the story. We'll be
right back, stay tuned.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Okay, we're back.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
And then Larry comes to our house.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
And so Larry wants to buy a one of my sweatshirts,
one of my bedazzle sweatshirts. Ben was mad about the
birthday song. And you know, I was right about the stricks,
though I don't know what the sticks.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Oh yeah, he was right about the sticks.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
And you say to Larry, say the shirt is for you.
Don't say it's for Ben, say it's for you. You tell
him entred, and Larry tells me that he wants to
buy a shirt he needs more flair, and I say, yeah,
the red would look good. You're pale and pasty.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
How much sixty? But he did get a lot of
sensive hold on though he buys the first one out.
You well, I said the red would be good for him.
He's pale and pasty, yes, but there was no looking
at other ones he had.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
No interest, so he's like, how much is it?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Sixty dollars? Hold on, wait, wait wait Indiana, Indiana. I
know I actually I have that one. I kept that one,
did you keep? Yes? I keep that one. Well, by
the way, he says, I used to a friend of
mine's sister went to Indiana the university, And you say,
all the better the yeah, because you're excited.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I'm excited, and I won't take his money. I'm like,
laugh from me to you, Mike, gift you. I'm so
excited that he likes the shirts, and I'm truly excited
about it.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Well, by the way, oh, hold on, hold on a
second here, uh in this episode, like when Larry's dancing
and he grabs the breasts and this scene, we're both
in new houses. Ours is a new house. That's right,
His is a new house.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Well, I told you why we had to have a
new house last time, because they kicked us out after
in season three when I was throwing your clothes out
the window and screaming and cursing, and.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yes, yes, and that was the house tour house.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
No, no, yes, but that was when I'm throwing your
clothes up there.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
I know when that was Larry, Joseph and Mary.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm just saying that's the one from
the house tour, and then somewhere at a new house. Uh,
and then Larry's new house. By the way, it's not
the house anymore. No, no, but he mentions we had
to what does he say about we moved the other

(42:33):
We had to move because the other neighborhood they were
filming all the time, right right, because we got kicked
out of that house because of what's his name, Fraser
who plays Fraser Kese Kelsey Grammar lived in the area
and limited the amount. He passed a bill. This is
a not a bill, but a local ordinance because he

(42:56):
lived in Malibu. This is a guy, fucking Fraser who
said you could only film this these this many days
in a period of time. Well, you know what, didn't
work for our schedule, so we moved. And by the way,
he didn't.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
It is quite an imposition. I mean, we'll hold on
to the house, we take over the whole block.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Okay, but I agree with the one that we used
to live in. Okay, but I want And by the way,
when we were in the Palisades, all the houses were great.
What I was going to do.

Speaker 6 (43:30):
Was.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
I have a difference of opinion in the Malibu situation
because it was self contained. There were no trucks down
the block that fit the driveway, and also the house
was isolated, so he had to have only heard we
were filming because we weren't loud. The only outside thing
I remember shooting is I'll tell I'll talk about it

(43:51):
in the future. Yeah. But there was a scene that
was cut, and it was cut a while later and
we had to reshoot it different lowcasian, different tone, and
it's so scene that people will remember. Okay.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
So now, so I sell Larry the shirt and I
say to him, which is the first time I said it,
and I've said it so many times.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
All is forgiven. I said that to him so many times.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Yeah, okay, So now we cut to rehearsal.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Ben is rehearsing and the choreographer Patrick says, it's perfect.
You get everything the first time. He's so askissy to him,
and Larry comes in with Michael.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
I actually think the opposite. I think Ben does do
it perfect every time.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
But Ben does it perfect because he rehearses.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I know he works hard practice. And Larry is in
a blitter. He doesn't know.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Okay, so Larry brings Ben a gift Happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Well you don't have to do that, Larry. I didn't
have to. I wanted to.

Speaker 9 (44:49):
I'm sorry. Okay, let me just say I'm sorry. I'm
really no. No, I've been like stressed out of my.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Mind and I stabbed you in the eye.

Speaker 9 (44:56):
No, no, no, no, I've been crazy about this thing, and
I'm like getting into your space and I shouldn't get
into your space. You're doing what you're doing. I'm doing
what i'm doing. We're working together, we're gonna make it work.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, let's just let's be friends. Okay, okay,
all right, And you didn't have to get me a
gift on what is this? Open it up? Oh you
got me a gift. I knew you liked it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(45:28):
it's one of those. It's a sweatshirt with studs on it.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Yeah, Indian And Ben apologizes.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
He says he's been stressed and uh, it's you know,
He's sorry.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
They got off on the wrong foot.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
And he opens the gift and it's the sweatshirt with
studs and Ben says, it's a sweatshirt with stuts.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Okay, I also want to say him getting the gift,
Ben apologizing the two of them, and Ben even says,
let's be friends. And I don't know. If they hug,
they hug, the hug they hug. And so this is
what I'm talking about with Ben. Every scene is different,
and it's nuanced from one scene to the next. Right,

(46:07):
and this scene goes both ways because he's about to
he opens the package. It's one of your shirts, and
he was probably being courteous to you. Of course you
showed him the shirts, and then it was interpreted by you.
Ben Stiller loves the shirts. And then so Larry thought,
oh this will work.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Go ahead, and it's a sweatshirt with studs.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
And then they start to rehearse and Ben says to him,
you're not Larry as for a script, and he says,
you're not off book yet.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
You know there was that little.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Dig there TM we go into the stage right stage
left thing, which I have to say still to this
day confuses me.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Well, no, by the way, it did confuse me until
I rewatched the episode, because I had forgotten exactly and
it's facing out right left. That's what it is. That's
why they'll say, if I'm standing on stage stage right,
is my right? Yeah? Ok, yes, that's that's the uh
each By the way, when I was in Second City,

(47:06):
holy Craft, remembering that of which entrance and laying out
the chairs.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
For people, just for our people in our listening audience,
there's a lot of lingo in the theater. We're not
really all that familiar because we're not theater people, but
there's a lot of lingo.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Do you know. I was a drama major. I was
an acting major in college, and I like, I wasn't good.
I wasn't a good actor. You know, I was fine,
especially back then. And I've got a whole story about
that that I'm not gonna tell. What is it when
you build the stuff, you build the wooden things, whether
stagecraft stagecraft. We went from acting on stage and stuff,

(47:47):
and then we began the stage crash craft portion. Well,
I'm backstage and I'm like, we're building things. I quit.
I quit. I quit. I moved to film from from
acting because I don't want to build things. I want
someone to build. I didn't have to do the scenic design. Oh, well,

(48:11):
that takes real talent well as soon as the stage grow.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is you know the same thing
with film.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I mean it is.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
They're all completely collaborative processes and so many people contribute.
You know, you see our faces out there, but there's
a lot of other people.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
And a great crew. A great crew can make a difference,
by the way, a great crew that not even making
a difference, help set a tone for the set. Yes,
like the groove that we had the past three seasons,
which got better every season because we had one crew
that was great, but they only lasted till Larry stop.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
We took we took a six year hiatus, and.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Everybody scattered and had different jobs. It was hard.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
I think the only person Thomas the hair was going
to be on their show Who did your hair? Yeah?
Who else came back after that? I'm trying to even run.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
John Party came back for one is a great camera.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Man, and uh and Richard Tippetts.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Richard Tippets of course, and Jonas came back.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Okay, So next we're at the Mint and Michael is
playing the piano, performing and he's wearing the Indiana sweatshirt
that I gave to Larry who gave it to Ben,
who then Ben gave it to Michael the blind Man
because he can't even see. Michael is really bad. He's horrible,
really horrible. And people are out left and right singing.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
In a way that's passable. He's playing piano perfectly, but
his singing is passable. Who wants to watch someone?

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Nobody wants to sit and listen to Michael singing.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
A fine Mione.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
Stand the world again.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Turning up the lights. Okay, it's the outside.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
That Bucky star right, talk about pace, and people are
walking out left and right. And before people start walking out,
there's a whole series of you know, the camera goes
to Ben and you see Ben pissed off at Larry,
and then you see me making a gesture. Why is

(50:46):
Michael wearing the shirt I give you? And everybody's managed,
by the way.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
If I may, this is the first of many times
you're doing that to Larry.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
No, not true. When happen I did it in the
Dog where I said.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Oh yeah, theater, okay, my mistake. That was the first time.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
But I enjoyed doing that. I enjoyed making a figure.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Yeah, we don't hear a word you're saying, but we
know what it could be. Of course I love that.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
And then everybody's walking out and Cheryl wants to go,
and Larry's like it's gypsy, everything's coming up roses and
that's it. Larry's the only one left. Michael singing and
Larry's the only one left. But Michael doesn't even know it.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
No, it's fun. It's a beautiful ending. It's a very
fun episode. And this episode really it's like the first
time we did it was the restaurant. And by the way,
and he mentioned the restaurant, as I've said before, No, no,
it never existed.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Well, now, interesting, you should bring that up because I
brought this up last time when I you and Larry
and I go out to the car and I'm going
to show him the sweatshirts, I do say to and
I remember we discussed it.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
I say to him, it's great because I could work.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
From home and take care of the baby, because I
supposedly had a baby in the season before. In season three,
that's the only time it's ever mentioned, and we discussed it.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Larry and I discussed it.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I said, I'll throw on something about the baby here
because we've never mentioned it.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
And that was it.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
It's never mentioned again.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, well no, but did it make the cut? I
didn't even Yes, it was in the cut. Oh really, Well,
by the way, we firmly established Sammy getting drunk last season,
for sure, but this season she's at the party, so
that's kind of she's too old. It's about the baby
that I had, Yes, right exactly. So the thing, Oh wow,

(52:41):
that's surprising that he put it in, because if I
would have said to him, shall we mention the restaurant? No? No,
no no. And this one is the producer. You know,
we live in a world this season after this, the
season after this, Larry never did. The producers never mentioned
you know. It's like every season is its own self

(53:02):
contained wealth. It used to be the first two seasons
is every episode was its own contained world, and then
this is now seasons are contained, which we never stopped.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Doing season season This is season four, This is the
season five is one of my favorite seasons of all
of them.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Which one is it? But which one is that Lewis
needs a kidney the kidney, Well, there's one scene that
actually I'm lucky enough Larry myself, you and Bob Einstein
one of the best scenes ever Your Enthusiasm. We will.
It's one of my favorites. Also, I know it is
so amazing. I mean really, as we're doing it, in

(53:43):
between the takes, we burst out laughing, all of us
because it was so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
So next next week we will do episode three and
season season.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Five, but the next and six, we're never stopping. By
the way, you even after we go through season twelve,
I think we should do a fantasy version and just
make up a story about one night. Jeff Susie, I
love you too, and everybody. I really appreciate you listening
or watching. It's very kind of him. Bye.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
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