Episode #925: It happened one night
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2011
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It was a perfect TBTL storm, followed by a rainbow: the night we infuriated Rachel Dratch, were delighted by Anthony Bourdain, and made Easy Bread while taking personal phone calls.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Luke Burbank. I'm somewhere wishing I was eating carbs. I hope you're enjoying |
| 0:06.2 | this best of TVTL. |
| 0:08.2 | Seems like it's really popular these days to say things like, oh, that grossed me out. |
| 0:14.1 | I just threw up a little in my mouth. Or, um, ah, you're so funny. I just peed a little. |
| 0:23.2 | And it's like, you're a gross person. Why don't you pull yourself together and then |
| 0:30.7 | rejoin polite society after you've cleaned yourself up a bit. When you say those things, |
| 0:38.3 | you cause me to shed my uterine lining. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome back to T B T L. I feel warm and I'm levitating. |
| 1:03.4 | This is the show that's probably too beautiful to live. And we're very excited to have |
| 1:09.1 | here in studio with us. Rachel Dratch and Ryan Shiraki. Rachel is in this new movie, Spring Breakdown, |
| 1:16.4 | which Ryan, as, as fate would have it, directed, I understand. That's right. |
| 1:21.1 | And he wrote it. You wrote it and directed it. Well, we co-wrote. We wrote it together. |
| 1:25.0 | I was, I was going to ask about that because also the Amy Polar is in it. Yeah. And the Parker |
| 1:30.2 | Posey. And I was, I was wondering, did you write this movie for Rachel and Parker and Amy, |
| 1:36.7 | or is it the kind of thing where if you get one of them in the movie, they call their friends or |
| 1:40.2 | maybe Twitter them and then everyone gets on board? Well, we, um, Parker was just a lucky circumstance. |
| 1:48.2 | But it was, it was definitely written for Rachel and Amy. And it was conceived for them. And, |
| 1:56.4 | you know, they were, they were there from the very beginning. And then Parker came on |
| 1:59.6 | when we were getting it made. And, uh, you know, we were so lucky to, uh, to have a follow-up. |
| 2:05.4 | When you say conceived for them, were you, Rachel, were you guys, was it an extension of a character |
| 2:10.5 | that you guys were working on? No, it was more like, um, it was more like, sorry, I was just |
| 2:15.4 | judging by wearing these headphones. You know, first of all, they're called cans. Sorry, sorry. Yeah. |
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