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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

John Hamburg: 5/20/14

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

John Hamburg, writer/director of 'I Love You, Man,' talks about fitting in, being funny, and his rules for writing good scenes. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now, the moment, with Brian Koppelman. moment don't you waste it on regret.

0:15.0

Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman.

0:18.0

Thanks for listening.

0:19.0

And thanks for going to iTunes and saying you dig the show and if you if you haven't please do it's great

0:28.0

It's it's great thing for the show if you will go there and express that you dig it and rate it. Today's guest is John Hamburg, one of the

0:38.9

truly great writer directors working today.

0:43.0

Hamburg's movies include, I Love You Man,

0:46.0

along came Polly, safe men.

0:49.0

He wrote Meet the Parents,

0:50.0

He wrote Meet the Fockers, he wrote Zoolander. He's a genuinely funny human being.

0:57.0

He's also a very deep guy and someone I've been friends with for a long time.

1:04.0

When I first had the notion of doing a podcast,

1:08.0

I thought maybe I'd do it with Hamburg, the two of us together.

1:12.0

It didn't work out. He lives on the West Coast now, but I'm thrilled

1:15.9

that he's here today. I'm going to keep this short so that the rest of this can be

1:19.1

Hamburg and me chopping it up as they say. Thanks for listening. I just heard that back and I

1:28.0

realized I said chopping it up and that my son is just to tease me mercilessly for trying to be cool but I'm man enough to leave it in and take it.

1:39.0

All right, Hamburg will be here soon.

1:41.0

Are you here this weekend?

1:43.0

Yeah.

1:44.0

Do I want to wear the cans?

1:46.0

Yeah, you can wear the cans.

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