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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Lewis Black - 05/02/23

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Legendary Lewis Black on how he got through the last few years. 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

Hey, this is the moment, I'm Brian Coppelman, I really have people on a second time, but

0:09.0

Lewis Black is his stature's only grown in my mind, a total, always been a legend, one

0:14.4

of our smartest comedians and commentators on what the fuck is going on in the world.

0:21.8

And Lewis, you know what's so great is like so much of the special, the subtext, there's

0:27.4

lots of subtext running through the new special is tragically I need you coming up May

0:31.2

second. So there's lots of subtext running through it, I'm going to ask you about lots

0:34.8

of it. But one thing is that we feel like we as a culture don't even bother making

0:40.2

the minimum fucking effort. And we get it. It's like some believable. Yeah, we don't want

0:46.8

it even make the smallest. And so you get rewarded. Now one gets rewarded for making the

0:52.0

minimal effort because I've seen this with people in the pack. I watched the whole fucking

0:56.4

special before having you on, man, because I did the minimum you're supposed to do, which

1:01.8

is, and I, I think that will separate me from 80% of the people you end up talking to

1:07.3

on the promo tour. Well, it's also amazing on the promo tour or what you do now when

1:13.3

you do interviews a lot of the time, especially radio, some, and what's left of newspapers

1:20.1

is that they, they haven't even read the Wikipedia page. You know, and it's kind of like

1:28.5

after, you know, it's, I've been doing it 40 years, 30, 40 years, and they go, and when

1:35.7

did you decide to get into comedy? It's, and why did you decide? It's like, seriously,

1:40.8

guys, I'm not, you know, it's, I get it when I'm, when I'm 40, but now I love the one

1:47.9

where, because I get interviewed when the next season of my show is coming on or whatever

1:53.4

the thing is, and my pet peeve is when they'd say, and I can imagine to you, why don't you

1:57.3

introduce yourself?

1:59.3

Do that, they've never done that to me, they, they're not, that's a foul, you know, tell

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