From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Stand-up comedian Mike Barbiglia is used to having total control over his material,

so he found it quite disconcerting when documentary filmmaker Eddie Schmidt started following him around with a camera.

When you have someone else directing and editing and producing, your story, it's an

extraordinary level of trust.

And I felt deeply uncomfortable almost throughout.

And so it's a testament to Eddie that he's just a very zen person, that he talked me

out from the ledge probably five or six times.

Barbiglia and Schmidt talked to Eric Digggans about adapting a popular comedy podcast into the

new Peacock special, Good One, a show about jokes.

They also talk about sticking with the truth in autobiographical comedy following allegations

that Hassan Minaj falsified elements of his award-winning stand-up special, Homecoming King. But first we banter. Stick

around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined with my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello,

Matt. Hi there. So let's talk about Francis Ford Coppola, who had a longstanding dream to make this film called Megalopolis.

And he got some very A-list people, because, of course, he's a god in the movie world.

But he decided to do something at 80-something years old that you are told nobody in Hollywood should ever do.

And that is, he decided to pay with his own money. You know, OPM, other people's money, that's like the mantra in Hollywood should ever do, and that is he decided to pay with his own money. You know,

OPM, other people's money, that's like the mantra in Hollywood. And he spent quite a lot of it,

a hundred million plus, we understand. And they had this screening where I understand Coppola was

expecting, he invited all the studio heads and some relatives and actors and whatnot.

I am told he was expecting someone to just pick it up and say,

we will distribute this film, but that didn't seem to happen.

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