'The Big Picture' — Amy Schumer’s Career Arc, and ‘Snatched’ Director Jonathan Levine (Ep. 315)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey discusses comedic storytelling and Amy Schumer’s career arc, from stand-up comedian to movie star, with Jason Zinoman of The New York Times (0:50). Then Sean is joined by filmmaker Jonathan Levine (‘The Wackness,’ ‘50/50’) to discuss collaborating with Schumer on his new comedy, ‘Snatched’, his own career arc, finding his path, and dealing with bad reviews (14:20). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I'm really excited to tell you about a new podcast on the Rear podcast network.
0:04.5	On Monday, June 5th, we're launching something called Binge Mode.
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0:19.6	From theories to history, to their best impersonations of Robert Brathion, watch along with our
0:23.6	Thrones experts.
0:24.6	The 10th or step-sodes Binge Mode drop Monday, June 5th.
0:27.7	They correspond to season one of Game of Thrones, then every Monday after that we'll release
0:31.1	a new batch of 10 episodes leading up to the premiere of Game of Thrones season seven.
0:35.5	You can subscribe to Binge Mode now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever
0:40.2	you get your podcasts.
0:41.3	Hello and welcome to the Big Picture, a channel 33 movies podcast.
1:00.2	I'm Sean Fennesy, Editor and Chief of the Ringer.
1:02.6	Today on the show, I'll be talking with Jonathan Levine, Director of the Whackness 5050,
1:07.6	a recent Amy Schumer comedy snatched, as well as the pilot for Showtime's new series
1:11.7	I'm Dying Up Here.
1:12.7	But first I'm joined by Jason Ziniman, who writes the on-comedy column for The New York
1:16.1	Times, and also wrote the recent book Letterman, The Last Giant of Late Night, which I recommend
1:19.9	everyone pick up right now.
1:21.5	Jason, thank you so much for being here today.
1:23.2	Great to be here.
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