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🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The mysterious New York filmmaker behind HBO’s ‘How To With John Wilson’ joins this very special bonus episode to break down how he made perhaps the most fascinating TV show of 2020. John 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 a possible season two. And yes, we talk about the foreskin restoration guy.
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0:00.0 | I'm always up before the birds and the kids. |
0:02.9 | Good thing Costa Express is always up too. |
0:07.0 | Early starts are easier with great coffee. |
0:09.7 | And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company. |
0:14.5 | Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep. |
0:17.2 | Oh, you legend. |
0:19.6 | Now that's a proper coffee. Should kick in Justin Samfut, |
0:22.5 | remember which end of the screwdriver to use. Hmm. Costa Express, quality coffee every time. |
0:31.9 | If you've been watching How To with John Wilson on HBO over the past few weeks, then chances are you're just as obsessed |
0:40.5 | with it as I am. And you also know it's kind of hard to explain. So I'm going to let John do it himself. |
0:48.4 | Hey, New York. HBO is having a hard time explaining what my show is, so I just figured that I just try to do it myself. |
0:58.0 | Usually the host of a TV show is right in front of the camera, and you can see exactly where the voice is coming from, which I guess people like. |
1:08.0 | But in my show, you never really see the host. |
1:11.6 | And that's because I'm actually behind the camera the whole time, |
1:15.6 | filming everything you see. |
1:17.6 | So, instead of having to stare at me for the whole program, |
1:22.6 | you get to see all the cool stuff that I like to film instead, |
1:26.6 | which I think makes it a lot more exciting to |
1:29.3 | watch. I spent a lot of time walking around New York, trying to find the answers to some of |
1:36.2 | life's biggest questions. Sometimes I talk to people that I meet out in public and ask them for |
1:44.0 | their advice. |
1:45.0 | Other times I'll just open up a door and see what's on the other side. |
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