4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Comedian Julie Klausner is the creator and star of the Hulu comedy Difficult People. She tells us how her experience writing recaps of reality shows for Vulture informs her character on the show and why she and Billy Eichner, her friend and co-star, will never have a fight on air.
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0:00.0 | On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political side shows on the campaign trail. |
0:05.8 | You have this kind of asymmetrical warfare coming from a guy who's great at a soundbite, lousy at an answer. |
0:11.4 | Are you looking for your own billionaire? |
0:13.2 | Nope. No, I don't want my own billionaire. I'm going to raise the vast majority of the money. |
0:17.0 | Race yourself America for what? |
0:19.3 | King Trump. |
0:21.1 | I'm Warren Alney. |
0:22.1 | To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. |
0:25.2 | Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. |
0:30.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:37.0 | I get asked, like, are there celebrities that you're afraid of making fun of, |
0:39.7 | or are you afraid of burning bridges? |
0:41.1 | And I always think of, like, I have to build bridges before I burn them, don't I? |
0:45.1 | Like, no one knows who I am. |
0:46.8 | So I may as well just say what I really think. |
0:50.3 | Julie Klausner is actually not unknown anymore, thanks to her Hulu comedy, difficult people. |
0:56.1 | But she still speaks her mind through her show and on Twitter. |
0:59.8 | The writer and actor tells us how she went from a job recapping Real Housewives episodes |
1:04.6 | online to starring in her own show. |
1:07.3 | And she shares memories of working with the inimitable Joan Rivers. |
1:12.6 | But first on the news banter, the TV industry reshuffles the deck. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:23.8 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. |
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