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Life is Short with Justin Long

Ben Stiller 😜

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Ben Stiller (Severance, Dodgeball) joins Justin to talk about directing the AppleTV show Severance, how reviews for Cable Guy hurt his feelings and Justin impresses him with his impersonation of Vince Vaughn.


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0:00.0

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0:13.8

One of the potentially awkward pitfalls of a new relationship is

0:18.6

the time where you meet your significant others parents. Shout out to Arno Zimmer and

0:24.1

this immigrant family. Shout out to the Gibbons. You have a lot of them. Shout out. Linda Gibbons.

0:29.2

Not that many.

0:31.2

But it was always there was always a hint of some version of I know what you want to do with my daughter.

0:37.0

It's impossible to escape that and so what you are doing with my daughter.

0:41.4

Right. And there's always a degree of awkwardness. And once somewhere I remember I was in a relationship with a

0:48.3

lovely lady whose father happened to own the New York Giants.

0:52.6

The problem is that I am a New York Chets fan. We've talked about this.

0:56.8

I was asked very gently not to mention and I took my own cue just knowing who he was.

1:02.1

Not to not to discuss my love of the Jetson. So I had to kind of pretend that summer to be a fan of another team.

1:09.1

I think I was successful. I don't think he ever I don't think he cared that much. And it was easy because it was the summer or the season wasn't even going on.

1:15.5

I think you say, oh, it's easy because I'm naturally a trader and it's easy for me to change.

1:19.7

Change the change the legions. Yeah, I'm conviction. Yeah, speaking of having no convictions. Here's the show.

1:33.6

You're listening to life is short. I am your host with a few convictions just in long.

1:38.9

Life could be a dream sweetheart.

1:46.7

And with me as always is my equally convicted brother Christian.

1:50.9

Not equally. I'm more convicted when it comes to sports. Yeah, that's true. Sorry. I'm on zippin. That's a good ASMR thing.

1:57.0

My sweatshirt. Wow. This is a new which we're trying to branch into ASMR territory.

2:02.5

It was a summer that um was a summer of love. Yes. And a summer of

2:08.3

denying my love for the jets. Which well, not a bad thing. Well, obviously you cared more about the relationship

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