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Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I am pleased to be joined by a man who is legitimately a star of stage, screen, and television. Billy Crystal, good to have you here.

Pleasure to be here, Alice. And he's starring in a new show on FX, The Comedians, one of the shows of the exec producers. Ben Wexler's also here. Ben, thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. And one of the things I want to say to you, Ben, before we really get going to this, is that you worked on another show in some ways

that was similar to this, the good guys, which is about a generation gap between kind of an

old school guy and a younger guy, and the guy was kind of like in love with his persona.

Bratley Whitford doing Bert Reynolds. Yeah, and Colin Hanks' young opponent. And we had to pay the mustache, I think, I'd run an episode.

It was amazing.

Yeah.

But it just feels like that's one of the things

that kind of interests you,

must have interested you about the show a little bit,

that idea of that generation gap.

Well, we got sent this show from Sweden

called Herringrin and Olvisen, I think it was.

And, you know, we, Billy and I didn't know each other at the time. We each got sent this show separately. But the show itself was what, at least speaking for myself, that's what attracted me to this project. It was just hilarious on its own, on its own merits.

But it sounds like a kind of a Bergmanesque comedy. Oh, well, it's, yeah, I mean, not Ingrid either. Unfortunately, not Ingrid, we kept looking for it. But, you know, it really is at the center of it. It is a generational comedy. And, you know, both of those things, I think that's probably more of a coincidence than anything else, that the fact that both of those shows happen to have those, those generational divides. But this is, this show is sort of the hopefully laugh out loud version

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