All That Jazz with Lin-Manuel Miranda

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 129 minutes

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It’s SHOWTIME, folks - and boy, are we jazzed about this episode! Broadway icon and actual Blank Check listener Lin-Manuel Miranda joins us to talk about what many consider to be Bob Fosse’s masterpiece, 1979’s “All That Jazz.” LMM surprises Griffin and David by bringing along an original copy of the film’s script, which offers some fascinating insights into Fosse’s blurring of the lines between memoir and fiction. We discuss the parallels between “All That Jazz” and LMM’s recent screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s “tick, tick…BOOM!” - two projects that are concerned with the creation of art in the face of mortality and self-doubt. Plus - Ben gets a very special birthday present.

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0:00.0	5-JECK WITH GRITTHIN AND DAVY
0:05.9	5-JECK WITH GRITTHIN AND DAVY
0:09.5	DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR TOO ASSLAG
0:12.9	ALL YOU EAT TO KNOW IS THAT THE AIR OF THE SHALL WITH GRITTHIN
0:22.7	No, nothing I ever do is good enough. Not beautiful enough. It's not funny enough, it's not deep enough. It's not anything enough.
0:29.2	Now when I see a podcast, that's perfect. I mean that's perfect. I want to look up to God and say how the hell did you do that?
0:36.6	And why the hell can't I do that? You think Joe Gideon would like this show?
0:43.1	Those guys, they're speaking to a deeper truth. I can't find. Not enough ladies on this show. Complaining to the angel of that. How is his shiter?
0:50.3	It was pretty good. You did a shiter. Yes. Yes. It's tension was, you know, these are quick impressions. I don't practice the impressions. You just saw the process of me scrambling for a quote last second.
1:03.9	That's great. And I usually try to pick one thing. And I feel like the shiter thing is he's always very nice. He's tightly well.
1:10.2	I mean the only shiter movie we've ever covered before is Lest Embrace.
1:13.7	Oh yeah, the Demi Hitchcock riff. But I think I said that episode. I feel like shiter just has such like his skin is so taught.
1:21.0	You know, it's when you say that I think this movie was delayed because of Lest Embrace. Really?
1:26.5	Yeah. Roy Shider was the guy. He had auditioned for like a week. Originally was Richard Dreifus. Yes.
1:32.3	Which just a magic. I cannot see how that would work. No disrespect.
1:38.9	I just could anyone from the moment they committed to it. And that's why it's happened. But that movie would have been inseparable.
1:45.0	He's good. He can play a prickly difficult person, but not like this.
1:50.0	I mean, the shiter casting is so bizarre. And you hear all the stories about like what it was what's his name?
1:56.4	Sammy Cohen, right? The agent who like pushed so hard of like I think shiders your guy and shiders so badly wanted to not play a cop.
2:03.2	Right. And show he could do anything else. Right. And they like did the meeting and they were like, well, he can't really sing or dance.
2:08.1	But you're right. He's the guy. Yeah. It was you coming to my house every week. Yeah. Right.
2:12.4	And we just go through every line of the script. Um, and uh, but yeah. But Demi's he was committed to Lest Embrace.
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