Richard Kind on John Mulaney, Larry David and More

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

You might recognize Richard Kind from sitcoms like ‘Mad About You’ or ‘Spin City.’ Or from his voice work as the imaginary friend Bing Bong in Pixar’s ‘Inside Out.’ Now, he has become the ultimate late-night TV sidekick on ‘Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney,’ which wraps up its first season run on Netflix this week. In this episode, Kind talks about what it’s like to be just famous enough to work all the time but not famous enough to play himself on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ He also shares showbiz stories about almost getting cast on ‘Seinfeld,’ playing Rudy Giuliani in the film ‘Bombshell’ and offers up some very strong opinions about Woody Allen.

This episode was originally published on July 14, 2020.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh.
0:06.6	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:09.1	Over the past few months, there is one show that has brought me more pleasure than anything else on TV.
0:15.1	Every Wednesday night at about 7.01 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Netflix,
0:20.2	John Mullaney begins a new episode of his truly
0:23.3	game-changing late-night talk show, Everybody's Live. And every week, right there with him for the
0:29.1	entire episode, is his sidekick, the great Richard Kind. So, with what I very much hope is just
0:35.9	the season finale and not the end of this brilliant
0:38.5	experiment airing live tonight, Wednesday, May 28th on Netflix, I thought it would be the
0:44.2	perfect time to revisit my very fun conversation with Richard Kind.
0:49.2	When we talked for this podcast in the summer of 2020, Richard, who currently has over 300 acting credits on his
0:56.1	IMDB page, did not know if or when he would ever be able to work again.
1:01.0	But because he is perhaps the hardest working character actor in Hollywood, he got out of his
1:05.9	house and has been busier than ever over these past five years.
1:10.0	And nothing has let him shine brighter
1:12.2	and show more of what makes him so special
1:15.0	than Everybody's Live with John Mullaney.
1:18.0	So before we get into our conversation,
1:20.6	let's listen to a clip from Everybody's Live
1:22.9	that host John Malaney called
1:24.9	The Best Richard Kind story ever.
1:28.1	I was on a date, and the lights were very low, and I'm nodding.
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