Lewis Black: 6/16/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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🗓️ 16 June 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Black, the comedian, author, and playwright, joins us on the podcast this week to talk about his long road to living a creative life. The two discuss the night Brian saw Lewis at the Beacon Theatre and watched him perform a bit about Vince Gill and Amy Grant. They also touch on Lewis’s future with The Daily Show, beginning his career as a playwright, and how Lewis comes up with material. And to top it all off, Lewis gives us a few thoughts on religion and the time he once had faith. Topics this week: Inside Out The Moment's interview with Big Jay Oakerson (2/24/15) Todd -N- Tyler Radio Empire The Bob and Tom Show Lewis Black performs a bit about Vince Gill and Amy Grant Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation WTF's interview with Lewis Black The Nerdist interview with Lewis Black The Daily Show with Jon Stewart WTF’s interview with Jim Breuer My Transcendent Podcast Guest: Jim Breuer Redeems Himself on Marc Maron's WTF Atlantic Theatre Company Samuel French UNC Chapel Hill I Never Sang for My Father a play by Robert Anderson One Slight Hitch a play by Lewis Black The West Bank Cafe Yale School of Drama People this week: Lewis Black Willie Reale Jim Gaffigan John Oliver Kathleen Madigan Kevin Meaney David Letterman Richard L. Coe Jill Soloway Twitter: @briankoppelman Rate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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	This episode of the moment is sponsored by Stamps.com buy and print official US Post that's using your own computer and printer and save up to 80% compared to a postage meter.
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0:15.2	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hey, this is the moment, I'm Brian Copplement. Thanks for listening.
0:27.0	Before we get to Louis Black, I just want to take a minute.
0:30.0	I realize that since I've been doing this show and it's been coming to you through
0:36.7	slate if you're listening on the slate daily feed and you're not somebody who's been
0:40.8	listening for a while.
0:42.2	I haven't really properly introduced myself. One day I just
0:45.6	showed up in your feed and you were like, what is this? It's not really an interview, it's not really
0:50.0	a conversation. And so I just wanted to give you a little a context and if you are
0:55.0	somebody who's been listening for a while you know you can fast forward you know you
0:58.2	you have that little button what is it a 30 second fast forward go ahead and the context I want to give is that I started having these conversations with people with a microphone here because I've been having them without a microphone for a long time.
1:11.0	I was somebody who was a blocked screenwriter, a blocked writer really, a blocked artist until I was 30.
1:17.0	And when I was 30, my best friend and I went into a basement and worked for half a year and wrote the screenplay Rounders.
1:24.0	It was the first script we wrote together.
1:27.0	It's a long process, a long story, and how it ended up getting made
1:30.0	and becoming a movie after facing tons of rejection. I've told the story in many places, but when it happened
1:36.2	and I was able to live my life as a creative person and have gone on since then to make many movies
1:42.0	and television shows as a writer,
1:44.0	producer, or director. I promised myself that one of the things I was going to do was
1:49.2	reach out to artists who move me, creative people who intrigued me, and I was going to ask them how and why they do the
1:54.9	thing that they do. And I've always tried to translate that to my other friends. And part of the reason
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