Episode 22 - Ben Schwartz
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Think of any great comedy project in the last decade and Ben Schwartz probably had something to do with it. Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation, Clyde on House of Lies, Rutabaga Rabitowitz on BoJack Horseman. He was even a voice consultant for BB-8 in the new Star Wars film. On the show Ben talks to Sam about his roots in the Bronx, the enduring genius of the late Gene Wilder and Harris Wittels, being a hustler in Hollywood, and the best advice his father ever gave him. Music for the by @Vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: http://krishnabalashenoi.com/. Learn more about the show at http://talkeasypod.com
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. |
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| 0:36.6 | wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to go and Hey everyone, welcome to Talk Easy, a weekly podcast of intimate interviews with the people shaping our culture today. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm Sam Fricoso, thank you for being here. |
| 1:08.8 | This week for episode 22 of the show, we have one of the most prolific voices in comedy right now |
| 1:13.8 | Mr Ben Schwartz. You've likely seen Ben in numerous projects including |
| 1:19.5 | playing characters like John Raffio on Parks and Recreation, Clyde on House of Lies, or |
| 1:25.2 | Rudebaga Rabitowitz and Bojack Horseman. He was even a voice consultant for |
| 1:30.0 | BBA in the new Star Wars film. In today's comedy scene, Schwartz is seemingly everywhere. |
| 1:36.8 | He's written scripts for major studios, regularly performs at the UCB theater, and is a frequent |
| 1:42.4 | podcaster on shows like comedy bang bang and |
| 1:45.5 | If I Were You. |
| 1:47.6 | Most recently though, he's in a new movie out in theaters and VOD called The Intervention. It's a movie about, as you could probably guess, a group of couples |
| 1:55.9 | getting away for a weekend to sit down with two friends whose marriage is falling apart. |
| 2:00.3 | This marriage intervention is long overdue. |
| 2:03.4 | It sounds even more insane when you say it out loud. |
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