Noah Hawley (Fargo Week)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Noah Hawley (Fargo, Lucy in the Sky, Legion) is a screenwriter, director, and producer. Noah concludes Fargo Week and joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he balances the tone of comedy and violence, how having a fraternal twin has influenced his writing, and where his version of masculinity comes from. Noah and Dax talk about the importance of mentorship, why it’s important to share in decision-making, and why people don’t like to ask for advice. Noah talks about his awkward breakfast with the Coen Brothers, what the concept of “failing up” is, and how much he loves the creative process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert expert sign expert. I'm Dan rather and I'm joined by
0:05.4	modest mouse. Hi there.
0:07.3	Hi Jacques-Marie Maj.
0:09.5	Joc. She's your money's in her jazhary garage new sunglasses looking very cool.
0:16.6	Yeah and if you want to hear more which I know you do listen to the fact check.
0:19.7	How could you resist? Try not to skip forward all the way to the fact check right now
0:24.0	because you're so hot to hear about these Jacques-Marie marriage.
0:26.8	Today, to finish out Fargo Week, to close Strong,
0:30.7	and you heard the reverence that both of the actors we spoke to this
0:33.8	week have for this man Noah Hawley. Wow he is the creator and the showrunner and the
0:39.0	screenwriter and the director of Fargo he's so outrageously talented.
0:43.2	He's also a novelist, we'll get into this.
0:45.8	Maybe that was prolific writer.
0:47.1	No, we had, we had R.L Stein, I guess he sets the bar
0:50.3	pretty high for prolificness.
0:52.1	I'm just saying quantity.
0:54.1	The fact that Noah wrote six novels
0:56.9	while he was writing several different TV shows
0:59.5	just seems impossible.
1:00.9	That is a lot.
1:01.6	But you probably love him from Fargo. He also created and ran Legion.
1:06.0	Lucy in the sky, my generation, the usuals, his books just to name a few, the anthem
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