‘How To With John Wilson’ Is Back!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of this week’s season two premiere, the mysterious New York filmmaker behind HBO’s ‘How To With John Wilson’ breaks down how he made the most fascinating TV show of 2020. John Wilson reveals how ‘Nathan for You’ creator Nathan Fielder helped pitch the show to Hollywood executives, why he considers himself “completely different” from Sacha Baron Cohen, how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the season one finale and what fans can expect from season two.
This episode was originally published on November 26, 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and for this Thanksgiving |
| 0:10.0 | week, we are revisiting one of my absolute favorite interviews from last fall with the star and |
| 0:16.0 | creator of HBO's How To with John Wilson. I spoke with John Wilson a year ago this week when his bizarrely brilliant show was just about |
| 0:25.6 | to wrap up its first season. |
| 0:27.7 | This Friday night, the show has its triumphant return on HBO, something John wasn't |
| 0:33.0 | totally sure what happened after COVID totally transformed New York City. |
| 0:37.6 | Before we get to the conversation, here's John with a little recap of what happened after COVID totally transformed New York City. Before we get to the conversation, here's John with a little recap of what happened since his |
| 0:42.2 | show was on the air and why we should be so thankful to have it back. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey, New York. There's a lot of stuff that happened since the last season of the show ended. |
| 0:55.5 | You had to spend a whole lot of time inside and got really close with just a handful of people. |
| 1:05.1 | You got really good at cutting your own hair and discovered exciting new ways to entertain yourself. |
| 1:14.8 | But you still found a way to show up for work every day and treated yourself to a vacation |
| 1:21.8 | whenever it felt safe. And just when you thought that things were going back to normal, the nightmare just |
| 1:30.6 | seemed to continue. A lot of people thought that we wouldn't be able to make another season |
| 1:38.5 | of the show. But we did. And it still has all your favorite stuff from the first one. |
| 1:47.8 | New York looks more interesting right now than it ever has before. |
| 1:52.7 | And even though you lost a lot of what you loved, |
| 1:56.4 | it really made you appreciate what you still have. |
| 2:03.6 | So don't be upset if you feel like you missed anything along the way, because you don't always realize you're in the middle of history |
| 2:09.9 | until it's over. Hopefully by now you've had a chance to check out season one of this truly remarkable show, |
| 2:20.1 | and I can tell you that I've had a chance to see all six episodes of season two, |
| 2:24.6 | and it does not disappoint. |
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