Elaine May: Pastrami with a Legend, Revisited

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

How on Earth can you follow a "Lost Lunch" episode with Carl Reiner? Well, if you're Phil and David you revisit and offer a brand new introduction to your absolutely hilarious and inspiring 2022 lunch with a living legend, the one and only Elaine May. In her very first and perhaps only podcast appearance, the great Elaine May joins us for a "Naked Lunch" exclusive to discuss her long and groundbreaking career in comedy and in movies. Now 90, May insightfully and hilariously retraces the foundations of her game-changing improv comedy with Mike Nichols, her experiences directing movies like "A New Leaf," "The Heartbreak Kid," "Mikey and Nicky" and "Ishtar" and working with everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Walter Matthau to Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray on "Tootsie." Hear Elaine May's amazing stories, some of her iconic comedy bits, and her first-ever sampling of Langer's famous pastrami! To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com.

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0:00.0	David, I'm just back from Florida. I did Florida. I did Miami. That's the worst porn movie
0:10.3	of all time. Phil Rosenthal does Florida. But if I was to make a porn movie, that probably
0:15.3	would be the title. We can only hope. By the way, it's been pouring torrentially for weeks, and Phil came back and the sun rose today.
0:27.2	Yeah, it'll rain tonight.
0:28.9	Just warning you.
0:30.3	Don't get your hopes up.
0:32.0	What do we have today, David?
0:33.9	Well, we had no idea how we followed last week's episode because last week we went for a lost lunch, as I think William rightly called it, a lost lunch that we found with Carl Reiner. And people really loved it and his stories.
0:50.0	Well, yeah, that was kind of our first test of the naked lunch concept.
0:55.4	We brought microphones over to Carl's house where you and I've had lunch many times,
1:00.5	and George Shapiro was there, the beloved George Shapiro, and the beloved Carl.
1:05.9	And he was just fantastic.
1:09.1	So today...
1:09.5	I'm sorry, but one thing I want to say yeah the thing about the carl episode
1:13.6	that I found interesting was I got really positive feedback from three generations now three
1:19.1	generations of people in my family but yeah three generations who all were sort of moved by one
1:23.8	similar thing they said I knew how funny he. I had no idea he was a genius.
1:29.3	And the thing is literally like the discussion of science.
1:32.9	Yes.
1:33.6	And literally it's almost like he understood the science of laughter and the science of joy.
1:38.3	He was a deep thinker and beyond being just a funny guy.
1:42.5	All these guys are.
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