Episode 24: Larry David, Amy Poehler, and Randy Newman

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, three highlights from The New Yorker Festival: Larry David explains why he envies his sociopathic alter ego on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Amy Poehler describes the joys of doing comedy while nine months pregnant, and Randy Newman on why he still can’t understand why some people bridled at his song “Short People.”

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0:00.0	You're listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:08.2	You feel good?
0:11.2	Yes, yes.
0:12.8	I feel there's a lot of bright people here, maybe too bright.
0:16.2	Yeah.
0:16.8	It is bright.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:18.0	Relax.
0:18.8	Relax.
0:19.7	Welcome to the New Yorker. You're killing me here. No, I'm sorry. No, go. Welcome to the New Yorker. You're killing me here. No, I'm sorry. Go. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. This is a great day on the show. We've got three unique and hilarious people in live interviews from the New Yorker Festival. The great songwriter and troublemaker Randy Newman. comedian Amy Poehler from S&L and Parks
0:39.6	and Recreation, and starting off the Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian Larry David.
0:46.8	Now, if you've watched a sitcom in the last quarter century, you've got to know Larry David's work.
0:50.5	He was the co-creator of Seinfeld. I think that's the last TV show that everybody
0:55.1	watched. And after that, he created a show that a lot of people just couldn't watch because it
1:00.3	was too cringe-inducing. The show was curb your enthusiasm, and it was genius, a deadly satire
1:06.8	of privileged people and their first world problems. I spoke with Larry David in 2014, and we started at the beginning.
1:15.5	I want to sort of find a way to discuss the whole of Larry's career,
1:20.8	and he grew up in Sheepshead Bay in deepest, darkest, Brooklyn.
1:25.6	This is correct, this is correct.
1:27.9	Son of Rose and Morty David.
1:29.6	We were just as we were coming out,
1:32.0	I asked you, did your parents ever go to see you
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