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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

John Goodman

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

More than 20 years after “Roseanne” ended, John Goodman and the cast are back together for the show’s revival. In this episode of "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist visits Goodman in New Orleans to talk about how the reboot isn’t so different from two decades ago and how his life has improved in recent years after overcoming struggles with alcoholism. He also chats about what it was like to work with the Coen Brothers on the cult classic “The Big Lebowski” and the impact that movie has had 20 years on.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Guy's here with the latest episode of Sunday Sit Down.

0:06.5

This is the podcast where we give you the entire interview from my Sunday today show

0:11.7

where we give you seven or eight minutes because it's TV and that's all we've got time

0:15.0

for.

0:16.0

Now, you're getting the whole interview with some of the biggest stars on the planet.

0:20.8

We do about 45 minutes an hour, sometimes more with these guests and there's so much

0:25.9

line on the floor.

0:27.3

I wanted to scoop it all up and give it a home.

0:29.2

And so here is after two years on the air of Sunday today, we've got our podcasts.

0:34.0

The Sunday Sit Down.

0:34.8

I'm so psyched to bring it to you.

0:36.1

And today's guest is John Goodman, the great John Goodman.

0:41.1

We caught him right before Rosanne exploded when we talked the show hadn't aired yet.

0:47.8

So he had no concept on the other side of it.

0:50.0

He was going to have 25 million viewers for the first episode become this national conversation,

0:55.2

this national debate about what the show was about, what the success of the show meant

0:59.2

about the country, what it meant about Trump voters and people who don't like Donald Trump

1:03.8

back and forth.

1:04.8

He was right in the middle of it.

1:06.6

And this is the show, remember, that launched his career 30 years ago in 1988.

1:11.0

When he auditioned for Roseanne Barr, this show became number one eventually.

1:15.7

It ran for nine seasons, made him a star, but actually, you know, it brought with,

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