Fran Lebowitz on ‘Pretend It’s a City’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Larry weighs in on President Biden taking office, and remembers the lives of Larry King and Hank Aaron. Later, Larry is joined by writer Fran Lebowitz to discuss working on ‘Pretend It’s a City’ with Martin Scorsese, growing up in New York in the 50’s and 60’s, and much more (16:00). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Fran Lebowitz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back.
0:06.9	This is Larry Wilmore.
0:08.0	You are listening to Black on the Air.
0:10.6	Thanks for joining me.
0:12.0	Really appreciate it.
0:13.6	Really fun episode, man.
0:15.6	2021 is starting out.
0:17.9	Lots of fun.
0:19.6	Fran Lieberwitz is on today.
0:21.4	We're talking about her latest.
0:23.5	I was going to say biographical documentary.
0:26.4	But not really.
0:27.4	But this is the Martin Scorsese talk with Fran Lieberwitz called Pretend It's a City.
0:34.0	And it's all about her love for New York and all that kind of stuff.
0:36.2	But it really is about Fran Lieberwitz, which I can't get enough of, I don't know about
0:40.0	you guys, but I've always been a big fan of Miss Lieberwitz since her appearances.
0:45.1	On lettermen years ago, always entertaining.
0:49.7	And her writing, you know, still holds up, you know, all that stuff she wrote in the 70s
0:54.3	and everything.
0:55.3	You know, some of the stuff she's written since, but she's just funny.
1:00.1	This natural contrarian, but I love the way that her brain works.
1:04.6	And it's the way that her brain works.
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