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Life is Short with Justin Long

Susie Essman ❤️

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Justin talk about her early comedy days in New York and meeting Larry David, how she helped develop her "Curb" character Susie Greene's personal style, and what happened when HBO decided to put a real-life billboard featuring her likeness in LA.


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0:00.0

Well, as I told you all last Friday on life is shorter, I recently went to Mexico City, but I didn't tell you a little funny thing that I noticed as we were leaving.

0:19.0

There were a lot of Houston Astros fans at the airport because they had just played the Rockies, the Colorado Rockies in Mexico City.

0:26.2

It was a big deal and a lot of people came down, flew down from the Estatus Unitos for the game for the partido and they were wearing you know shirts and

0:35.2

stuff and jerseys and this couple I saw as we were going through security they had these

0:40.4

hats they were hats of the World Series trophy.

0:45.6

Have you ever seen the world's,

0:46.4

you know, the weather that looks like, it's got those lines,

0:48.5

it's like, it's tall, it's big.

0:50.7

Yeah, it's huge.

0:51.9

It's huge. It's huge.

0:52.4

And so they had these, it looked like a long crown coming off their heads and

0:57.0

and it's at Space City and had all these little chachis on it like a baseball and a best someone hitting and there were a little

1:06.3

like kind of springy things that were on it that were kind of bouncing up and not it was

1:10.5

outrageous I was trying to figure out what it even was, you know, like and then I put it together that oh space city

1:16.5

Houston and world's me but they were they were wearing them the whole time that I saw them milling about they got through security

1:24.4

but the funny thing about them was that they never smiled they just walked around kind of like with these like

1:30.8

humorless expressions it It was really odd. I thought that might be an interesting thing to have to do if we lose our bet next to whoever loses the bet, our NFL bet next year.

1:41.8

May I remind you, you lost the last year's bet

1:46.2

and you still haven't done anything.

1:47.5

Look at this thing.

1:48.8

They just seemed like they weren't enjoying them.

1:51.4

I don't know.

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