Jeff Garlin on Playing Harvey Weinstein: It’s Not Funny Being Compared to a Rapist

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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“Curb Your Enthusiasm” watchers know the scene: Actor Jeff Garlin is at a party and is mistaken for Harvey Weinstein. Now, he says, it’s happening in real life—still—and he is not a fan. In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, he tells Molly Jong-Fast all about it, plus why he’s over both conservative—and super liberal—comedy critics.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another special bonus episode of the new abnormal.
0:03.6	These are the bonus episodes we do for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast Membership Program.
0:08.0	And today we have an amazing episode with Jeff Garland, who you may know from his stand-up comedy,
0:12.4	or his roles on shows like Curb Your Adduziasmo, or The Goldbergs.
0:16.3	Hi Jeff Garland!
0:17.6	Hi!
0:18.4	Welcome to the new abnormal!
0:20.4	But that's what I like, the new abnormal. I adapt to whatever it is.
0:25.7	That's right! I was in California this week.
0:29.1	And on my flight home, I just decided to watch 15 episodes of Curb, which it's actually not.
0:36.1	Good on a plane for sure.
0:39.1	But I was stuck on the Harvey Weinstein episode.
0:44.7	Did that ever happen in real life?
0:47.8	Never. Not once.
0:51.1	Who cooked that idea up?
0:52.9	That was Larry David and Jeff Schaefer.
0:54.9	They came and asked me if I would be open to it.
0:59.1	And I said, yeah, that's funny.
1:01.4	What I didn't realize is, to this day, people will see me and go, hi Harvey.
1:06.5	And I go, what makes you think that's funny?
1:09.1	It's funny in the episode.
1:11.7	Truthfully, I don't, I mean, I resemble him enough.
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