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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Tim Herlihy: 4/8/14

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Tim Herlihy - 'Billy Madison,' 'Happy Gilmore,' and 'SNL' writer - tells Brian how he went from being Adam Sandler's college roommate to his creative partner. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now, the moment, with Brian Koppelman. moment don't you waste it on regret.

0:15.0

Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman.

0:20.0

Thanks for listening.

0:21.0

I'm going to keep this introduction short because I want to be able to spend as much time with our guest as possible.

0:27.0

The guest is Tim Hurley. I first heard of him through a sketch on S&L that starred Farley, Sandler, and Emilio Esteves.

0:39.0

And it's one of my favorite sketches of all time.

0:41.0

It's called The Hurley Boy.

0:42.0

If you don't know it, just put this down and

0:46.1

go to YouTube and watch the Hurley boy or Hulu I guess for SNL sketches. It's hilarious and Hurley he will swear I think when he gets here that it had nothing to do with him

0:57.4

that those guys even though he was SNL's head writer he says that that sketch is not based on him has nothing to do with him

1:05.3

I don't think that's true and I think he tried to convince someone to give their

1:10.4

grandmother a bath like the character does.

1:13.0

His, Hurley's rise in Hollywood to become

1:16.5

one of the, you know, most successful

1:19.5

and well-known comedy writers is not a typical one. He'll walk us through it but he was a

1:24.7

lawyer. I don't think he contemplated a career doing this or thought it was

1:29.1

realistic and yet he's become someone who's written movies that have made all of us laugh for a long time.

1:36.2

So he'll be here soon.

1:37.8

We'll talk about how he got where he got.

1:40.4

We'll talk about Sandler.

1:41.8

We'll talk about the Hurley boy

1:43.3

and uh... it'll all happen as soon as he gets here

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