Dinner for One: Paul Feig, Champion of Female Friendships… And Walking Sticks
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🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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We’re serving up something different today! It’s the second installment of our new “Dinner for One” series — a single, almost-unedited conversation with a luminary in arts and entertainment. This time around, Brendan talks with writer, director, and producer extraordinaire Paul Feig. Listen as the two examine how “Bridesmaids” led to more creative freedom when […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome to a dinner for one, this occasional series of one-on-one conversations, courtesy of us at the dinner party download. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, these are bonus, podcast-only, long-form conversations with artistic luminaries. |
| 0:20.3 | Loquacious looming luminaries. |
| 0:23.2 | And I think that exhausts our supply of L adjectives. |
| 0:27.0 | I think we're done. |
| 0:27.6 | Lovable, loquicious. |
| 0:29.5 | You won. |
| 0:30.8 | Luminous luminaries. |
| 0:31.8 | Okay, well, now we're done. |
| 0:33.1 | Great. |
| 0:33.5 | So basically, you're about to hear an almost unedited conversation with someone amazing, and that someone is Paul Feek. |
| 0:39.6 | Paul is beloved for creating and producing the cult favorite TV show Freaks and Geeks, along with his friend and collaborator Judd Apatow. |
| 0:47.1 | Maybe you've heard of him. |
| 0:48.3 | In addition to its excellent writing and direction, the show was known for launching some very big Hollywood careers, |
| 0:58.0 | including those of Jason Siegel, James Franco, and Seth Rogan. |
| 1:01.8 | All on Paul's speed dial, probably right now. I would love to have that phone. |
| 1:05.9 | And that's not all, because these days, Paul's probably best known for his feature films. |
| 1:09.9 | Most of them are rated comedies, most of them featuring female heroes. For instance, Bridesmaids |
| 1:11.7 | starring Kristen Wig, spies starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Ghostbusters reboot, starring |
| 1:17.1 | all of the above, plus the great Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. And guess what? His latest |
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