Actor David Alan Grier, David Simon, and Seth Meyers on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with longtime friend of the show and multi-faceted artist David Alan Grier, who is currently appearing on FX’s “The Patient.” And we revisit two of our favorite segments: a conversation with “The Wire” co-creator David Simon, and The Treat with “Late Night with Seth Meyers” host, Seth Meyers.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	It's the treatment.
0:15.2	It's the treatment.
0:15.3	I'm being admonished by my guest, Tony Award-winning actor and former Detroiter, David Allen
0:20.5	Greer.
0:21.2	So much of work you've done has been as a dramatic actor of being claustrophobic situations.
0:26.6	Streamers, they would go to a soldiers play in a soldier's story for which you won the Tony
0:31.5	in the revival, and now the current thing you're doing, the patient, which is also about
0:35.9	claustrophobia.
0:37.3	I find so thinking about the way characters, so often you play these guys who are trying to figure out who they are in closed rooms as the world starts to infringe on that.
0:47.2	And I wonder how much of that is something you seek out versus these things coming to.
0:52.2	Because I ran to you in your play, you were telling me about the patient.
0:54.7	You said, I'm not going to tell you much about it.
0:56.2	I can't.
0:56.7	I've since seen it.
0:59.4	But you said, you've got to see this thing.
1:01.5	And I went, okay.
1:02.3	By the way, a comedy.
1:06.5	So wait, I come in.
1:08.8	I can tell you basically, you know, I come into the patient.
1:12.8	I haven't come on yet.
1:14.2	I come in like basically the second half of the season.
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