Pamela Adlon: Getting Better All the Time

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

She wrote, produced, directed and starred in the hit series “Better Things” for five years. Nominated multiple times for multiple awards, she recently directed her first movie. She trades reminiscences with Alan, who’s known her since she was a kid.

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0:00.0	This program is sponsored by the Covley Foundation based in Los Angeles, California.
0:06.8	The Covley Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity.
0:12.0	I'm Alan Ulta and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.
0:27.7	The biggest thing that I learned when I took over my show and you know started running
0:34.2	my crew and being a director, everybody needs you to be able to make a decision and that
0:40.6	became my superpower.
0:42.9	So I went from you know, being home with my daughters who were like, get out of here
0:47.3	and not listening to me and I'd be like, oh my god, all these people are listening to
0:51.3	me.
0:52.3	That's their job.
0:54.8	That's Pamela Adlon.
0:56.8	And the show she's talking about is of course better things.
1:00.3	The hit television show that starred Pamela as Sam and actor raising three daughters and
1:05.9	caring for her mother in Los Angeles.
1:09.2	Pamela not only starred, she produced, wrote and directed and I have a personal connection
1:14.5	with Pamela.
1:16.0	I was close friends with her mom and dad since she was a kid.
1:20.0	Her dad Don Siegel and I wrote together and he was such a colorful character, even based
1:26.0	the character in the movie I wrote on him.
1:29.2	I loved reconnecting with Pamela.
1:32.9	This is so great to be talking with you again.
1:35.1	We haven't talked face to face even on Zoom or anything in many years.
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