TOM'S DIRECTOR CHATS! MIKE WHITE! TODD HAYNES! KELLY REICHARDT! MARY BRONSTEIN! MATT JOHNSON! BENNY SADFIE!
The Best Show with Tom Scharpling
Forever Dog
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 331 minutes
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We've compiled some of Tom's best conversations with some of the top directors today including: Mike White (The White Lotus, Enlightened), Todd Haynes (May/December, The Velvet Underground), Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Wendy and Lucy), Mary Bronstein (Yeast, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show The Movie), Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems, Good Time).
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| 0:00.0 | Bess |
| 0:02.0 | So |
| 0:05.0 | Keep on laughing with the radio |
| 0:10.0 | On Tuesday night |
| 0:12.0 | On Tuesday night |
| 0:14.0 | When all the other days |
| 0:15.0 | I've got you down |
| 0:16.0 | You'll feel alright |
| 0:18.0 | You'll feel alright |
| 0:20.0 | Over on the bus show |
| 0:25.5 | over on the |
| 0:30.4 | show |
| 0:31.2 | the show |
| 0:33.9 | most of the time you go and people say things are funny and they're not funny. |
| 0:47.2 | They're half funny. |
| 0:49.0 | They're funny adjacent. |
| 0:53.0 | Not anymore, though. Finally, I'm telling you, I saw this movie, Nirvana, the band, |
| 1:01.8 | the series, the movie. It was the funniest thing I've seen in a, literally in a theater in years. |
| 1:10.9 | Everybody was having a good time, just like the old days. |
| 1:14.3 | It was just like the old days all over again. |
| 1:16.8 | People laughing in the theater, having fun. |
| 1:20.2 | So I can only say as a preamble to this conversation, |
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