Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"

The Gist

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today on The Gist, comedy legend Larry Charles returns to discuss the fragile nature of comic genius, theorizing why Sacha Baron Cohen lost his "superpower" to the Hollywood bubble, how a rough Brooklyn upbringing prepared him for the life-threatening chaos of directing Borat, and why Seinfeld succeeded precisely because its creators didn't know the rules of sitcoms. Plus, in the Spiel, the cacocracy surrounding Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem's ouster from Homeland Security, marveling at Noem's $200,000 horse-riding commercial and a highly suspicious $500 line item from a South Dakota magic shop. Produced by Corey Wara Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/⁠ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media:⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ad-sales@libsyn.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:08.2	It's the gist I'm Mike Peska.
0:10.3	Donald Trump, he says, is negotiating with the Iranians.
0:14.1	I know the joke is, who's left to negotiate with?
0:17.6	It's not quite a joke, given all the dead Iranians in leadership.
0:20.6	I mean, I'm sure there's
0:21.7	the head of the pistachio exporting consortium still around. Well, there is an answer to that. He's
0:27.3	a boss, Aragji, the foreign minister. I think it was out of the country at the time of the bombing,
0:32.2	so that means he's alive. Probably means he's not in actual contact with anyone who might hold
0:37.2	power, which probably
0:38.5	in Iran is just who holds the keys to the most underground missiles. But there is an aspect to
0:44.6	this that I think conventional wisdom gets wrong. And here, a very smart person, Tina Brown,
0:51.9	talks about Donald Trump and negotiating on the X-Files podcast.
0:56.4	Trump is now sort of drunk on this kind of kinetic action. I mean, he actually, negotiations
1:01.3	always bore him. They go on. He doesn't, he doesn't understand the point. So he doesn't want,
1:05.6	you know, he doesn't want to bother with these negotiations, essentially. Since Venezuela,
1:10.2	particularly, he really thinks that the answer
1:12.5	is to go smash bang, get in, you know, send the military. The military has become his wonderful,
1:18.0	shiny toy that he's in charge of. And it's so much sexier than draggy conversations in which
1:24.3	he doesn't understand how to kind of resolve. See, I disagree. I think Donald Trump
1:28.4	loves to negotiate, but he just loves to win at a negotiation. They say a successful negotiation
1:35.0	is usually one in which neither side can be said to win. Donald Trump doesn't like that.
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