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Speaker 1: Ricky Gervase gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of
Speaker 1: Fame today. It is the twenty and thirteenth star on
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Walk of Fame sixteen twenty eight Vine Street.
Speaker 1: If you want to go, if you're in LA, won't
Speaker 1: you head on over. It's today at eleven to thirty Pacific.
Speaker 1: If you're not in LA, or maybe you're in LA,
Speaker 1: just don't feel like leaving the house. I understand it'll
Speaker 1: be stream live on Walk of Fame dot Com. The
Speaker 1: La Times caught up with Ricky gervas. He also is
Speaker 1: playing the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday. Cool place to see Ricky.
Speaker 1: His last appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three earned him the Guinness World Record for highest grossing
Speaker 1: single stand up performance. The La Times asked Ricky, Hey,
Speaker 1: you've spent your career pushing comedy boundaries as there have
Speaker 1: been a moment where we thought, oh, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to defend this one. Ricky said, no, it all comes
Speaker 1: and goes. It's cyclic. People get nervous and that's just
Speaker 1: always been there from day one. People get worried, and
Speaker 1: I say, well, this is why it's okay. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: an executive producer or a broadcaster just want some ammunition
Speaker 1: to defend it. But sometimes they don't know whether it's
Speaker 1: okay or not. They just don't want to get complaints.
Speaker 1: If I can go okay, listen, this is why it's okay,
Speaker 1: then they often trust me because I can defend it.
Speaker 1: It's not me sitting in the room going what's the
Speaker 1: most offensive thing I could say to get the BBC
Speaker 1: burned down? There's always a point to it. Offence comes
Speaker 1: from people mistaking the subject of a joke with the
Speaker 1: actual target, and they're not usually the same real smart
Speaker 1: by Ricky there. We're human, so we react to buzzwords
Speaker 1: and we're cautious of taboo subjects. That's why they're still taboo,
Speaker 1: because we're cautious of them. I do that on purpose
Speaker 1: as well, particularly with my stand up where we talk
Speaker 1: about contentious issues and taboo subjects, because I do want
Speaker 1: to take the audience to place they haven't been before.
Speaker 1: I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it,
Speaker 1: think about it, and then I've got to misdirect them.
Speaker 1: It's like I take them by the hand through a
Speaker 1: scary forest. But it's okay because they always laugh. If
Speaker 1: we're going out there and saying things that were really
Speaker 1: offensive and no one was laughing, well that would be odd.
Speaker 1: That's what politicians do. Politicians say awful things and they
Speaker 1: mean it and no one laughs. Comedians say things they
Speaker 1: don't mean. Everyone laughs, and they get the same treatment.
Speaker 1: I don't go out there to try and ruin the
Speaker 1: audience's evening. I go out there and I make a
Speaker 1: joke and it's crafted. We're human, though, and we take
Speaker 1: things personally. But you shouldn't because I think comedy is
Speaker 1: at best in intellectual pursuit. You should go well, that's
Speaker 1: a bad subject and I don't agree with the punchline,
Speaker 1: But does it work comedically? It's a magic trick, it's formula.
Speaker 1: You can't argue with chemistry. No one goes well, I know,
Speaker 1: I laugh, but I don't agree with it. Well, it
Speaker 1: did what it does. That's the joke, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to change the joke or the meeting. I think
Speaker 1: the only form of censorship as an audience is your
Speaker 1: right not to listen. You just don't have to watch.
Speaker 1: You could leave, not buy my stuff, not buy my tickets,
Speaker 1: and that's absolutely fine. You can turn your TV off,
Speaker 1: but what you can't do is make other people turn
Speaker 1: their TV off. That's the difference. And then people complain
Speaker 1: about something you're doing in the privacy of your own home,
Speaker 1: even though if they had to go up to their
Speaker 1: attic and stand out a step ladder and look through
Speaker 1: binoculars to see it, they'll find it. People sometimes seek
Speaker 1: out the offense, and that's actually where people can get
Speaker 1: addicted to being offended. They like it, it makes them
Speaker 1: feel live. The news even picks it up. They say, oh,
Speaker 1: fans weren't happy. Three fans weren't happy. Good stuff. Maybe
Speaker 1: a little more from that. Tomorrow. Nick Kroll was on
Speaker 1: Armchair Expert with Jack Sheppard. Kroll explained the process of
Speaker 1: trying to organize John Mulaney's intervention. Kroll said it was
Speaker 1: so scary and brutal to go through because he was
Speaker 1: in New York. I was in la who was at
Speaker 1: the height of the pandemic, So it was incredibly stressful
Speaker 1: to be in the midst of the pandemic trying to
Speaker 1: literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of
Speaker 1: different people together friends from college. Kroll's wife was about
Speaker 1: to give birth, and I was shooting don't worry Darling,
Speaker 1: which there was no stress there. That was a very
Speaker 1: controversial filming that I don't have time to get into.
Speaker 1: You can google it. Krol said. Then John was running
Speaker 1: around New York City like a true madman. I was
Speaker 1: so deeply scared that he was going to die, and
Speaker 1: I was trying to orchestrate all this, combining all the elements,
Speaker 1: the going of these things, like the intervention person, where
Speaker 1: he was going to go, who was going to be
Speaker 1: at it. You're all of a sudden going back to
Speaker 1: being like, oh, that's why I've been an inconsistent friend
Speaker 1: for the last X amount of time. This explains that,
Speaker 1: And so it gives you both empathy for them an
Speaker 1: also tremendous amount of anger because they've been lying to you.
Speaker 1: Kroll talked about being on the film with Malaney and said,
Speaker 1: both of us crying, me just being like, I'm so
Speaker 1: scared you're going to die. And so I felt him
Speaker 1: feeling the same way, but also just like yay New
Speaker 1: York Streets blogs, Doug Gordon is mad at John Mulaney.
Speaker 1: He was commenting on the Millennie episode from ten days ago,
Speaker 1: and said if that one was the only episode you'd
Speaker 1: ever seen, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the show
Speaker 1: was shot live at a community board meeting in New
Speaker 1: York City. After all, the conversation, which featured some of
Speaker 1: the most accomplished people in entertainment, quickly to send it
Speaker 1: into a competition to see who could most gratuitously equate
Speaker 1: Big Apple bonafides with complaints about all the ways in
Speaker 1: which bicycles have ruined New York. I'm gonna jump in
Speaker 1: before I get more into this. Okay, I'm from New
Speaker 1: York City. I'm also very, very very pro bike lane.
Speaker 1: Understand that I'm very pro bike lane. If you want
Speaker 1: to see bike lanes work, go to Chicago, where bike
Speaker 1: lanes work. If you want to see where bike lanes work,
Speaker 1: go to Montreal where bike lanes work. If you want
Speaker 1: to see how bike lanes work, go to Vancouver, which
Speaker 1: even has side streets that are biicles only. It is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Love a good bike lane. New York City bike lanes
Speaker 1: it don't work at all, especially in Manhattan. Too much
Speaker 1: chaos doesn't work. They're not really They're more often than
Speaker 1: not not protected bike lanes, and when they are protected
Speaker 1: bike lanes, it pushes out the on street parking so
Speaker 1: that if you're driving a car, you have to like
Speaker 1: creep out through the bike lane and then passed where
Speaker 1: the cars are parked and you can't even see the
Speaker 1: oncoming traffic. And then add in Manhattan pedestrians like me
Speaker 1: who jaywalkt will it's complete chaos. Bike lanes Manhattan do
Speaker 1: not work. The Gordon writes. The stated theme of the
Speaker 1: program was is uber good? Setting aside that The Evening's
Speaker 1: question has been known for more than a decade, it's
Speaker 1: a resounding no, at least for people who care about congestion,
Speaker 1: carbon emissions and public transit ridership. Only an he barely
Speaker 1: bothered engage with the Walker. The editor of torched a
Speaker 1: new site focused on the infrastructure changes and policy choices
Speaker 1: being pursued by Los Angeles as it preps for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, Sir Mlanie's talk show is just chaos
Speaker 1: and he can't focus on it doesn't work. Respectfully disagree
Speaker 1: with the friend of the show and the Great New
Speaker 1: York Times writer Jason Zinnemann Millenie show does not work.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, does not work. The topics do work. I
Speaker 1: don't know why we are the least bit surprised. John
Speaker 1: Mulani could not hold a meaningful conversation about Uber, so
Speaker 1: Gordon Wright's after Walker offered one reason why Uber is
Speaker 1: not good because of the congestion and the undermining of
Speaker 1: public transit. Mullenie asked Walker how she got to the studio.
Speaker 1: When she answered that she took the bus on the train,
Speaker 1: Mullaney seemed positively shocked. This is a dystopian nightmare, he explained.
Speaker 1: Walker never got a chance to defend the La Metro.
Speaker 1: I went downhill from there. From the perspective of public transit,
Speaker 1: Amy Sidis and Sigourney Weaver offered pure windshield perspectives, so
Speaker 1: Daris By mentioning that she takes ubers to visit her
Speaker 1: godchildren in New Jersey transit accessible Maplewood, New Jersey, and
Speaker 1: Sigourney Weaver emphasizing that she prefers yellow cabs fine enough.
Speaker 1: Natasha Leone joined the panel. Mulaney asked her about Uber,
Speaker 1: but Leon turned to the conversation of where it was
Speaker 1: perhaps always destined to go plastering her classic New York
Speaker 1: accent so thick that she should be forced to go
Speaker 1: before the city's Landmark Preservation Commission. Leon stated, but I
Speaker 1: don't like his bicycles in New York. I think we
Speaker 1: need to shut down the bike lanes that allows Sigourney
Speaker 1: Weaver to knock cyclists who don't use the bike lanes anyway.
Speaker 1: Richard Kind chimed in and said, and get rid of
Speaker 1: the electric bicycles. They're the worst. They're killers. Fact check
Speaker 1: from Doug Gordon, they are not killers. Comedy show guys.
Speaker 1: Comedy show Walker suggested the bus should have a lane,
Speaker 1: the bike should have its own very wide lane, and
Speaker 1: there should be a wider sidewalk. Natasha Leone said, that's insane.
Speaker 1: It's Manhattan. We don't have the space. Doug Gordon writ's
Speaker 1: classic windshield perspective. Leon clearly was not able to see.
Speaker 1: It's all the uber black Axls and Cadillac escalades, faring
Speaker 1: celebrities and other wealthy New Yorkers that are taking up
Speaker 1: all the space. Walker gets it until Doug Gordon it's
Speaker 1: a comedy show. I'm not even sure this is truly
Speaker 1: what these people believe and again if you want to
Speaker 1: hit rewind Johnny Max said he's very pro bike lane.
Speaker 1: They work great in Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, other places they
Speaker 1: don't work him in Httan. You want my real solution,
Speaker 1: I have suggested this. Let's take Park Avenue away from
Speaker 1: the cars and make Park Avenue. And if you've never
Speaker 1: been to New York Park Avenue, it has a park
Speaker 1: down the mill. Very nice. Let's make that bike lanes
Speaker 1: and more. John mulaney, he was at an event hosted
Speaker 1: by PAP. He was asked if he would like to
Speaker 1: replace Lorne Michaels once Lorne Michael steps away from SNL.
Speaker 1: The question if someday Laurna is hit by a bus
Speaker 1: and they say, you know, John Mlaney, you have to
Speaker 1: take over the show, no excuses. What's the first thing
Speaker 1: you change mulane? He deflected and said he's lived in
Speaker 1: New York for fifty years. You don't think he knows
Speaker 1: that to dodge a bus. Hng Wing talk to twenty
Speaker 1: seven East and said, there's a future of stand up
Speaker 1: that you might not have an other forms of creative expression.
Speaker 1: There's an audience there in the moment giving you an
Speaker 1: immediate or direct response. If you're a painter or a photographer,
Speaker 1: you might have a gallery show, but unless you're there
Speaker 1: with whoever's looking at it, you don't really know how
Speaker 1: they're responding to it. Would stand up. They's sort of
Speaker 1: an advantage that levels the playing field, and it's based
Speaker 1: on some sort of meritocracy. It's a very binary thing.
Speaker 1: Do they laugh or not. It's an everyday thing. You
Speaker 1: look at your notes, you try to sit down and
Speaker 1: write some new ideas. You tinker. It's kraft and you
Speaker 1: hone it habitually. Then you got open mics and test
Speaker 1: things out. It's like you're working the lab, making things better.
Speaker 1: He says growing up, he didn't want to be a comedian.
Speaker 1: He was doing things like hanging outside playing basketball friends
Speaker 1: or hanging out of the bayou catching tadpoles. No one
Speaker 1: was ever like he's the funniest guy in class. I
Speaker 1: was never seeking attention in group settings. I was more
Speaker 1: of a one on one friendships kind of guy. He says.
Speaker 1: The most joyful thing is writing a new joke. And
Speaker 1: from the Hartford Current. Bob gil wrote the screenplay for
Speaker 1: the original Back to the Future films and was a
Speaker 1: producer of Back to the Future the animated series in
Speaker 1: the nineties, plotted the stories for the Back to the
Speaker 1: Future comic book series, and now works on the Back
Speaker 1: to the Future musical, which I saw and loved, and
Speaker 1: it's coming to Hartford and you should go see it.
Speaker 1: All right, How did it come about? Gail said, we
Speaker 1: start the process by saying, there are certain things we
Speaker 1: can do with this material in the theater, and there's
Speaker 1: certain things we can't do, like we can't have the
Speaker 1: terrorist chase, But what else could we do? The problem
Speaker 1: we're solving there is that doc dyeing motivates Marty to
Speaker 1: go back in time. It could be something else, so
Speaker 1: we made it spoiler radiation poisoning. I didn't just ruin
Speaker 1: the musical for you, trust me. The musical does not
Speaker 1: contain the film skateboard Chase. Having seen the musical, I
Speaker 1: didn't even notice. Gail said, it's just too dangerous. Marty
Speaker 1: already has to sing, dance and be funny. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make him do skateboard stunts too, and staid we've got
Speaker 1: to chase through the school lunch room, which accomplishes the
Speaker 1: same thing. Gale things, changing it up a little makes
Speaker 1: it more fun. I don't want people to say I
Speaker 1: should have stayed home watched the movie. Some of the
Speaker 1: show's completely nuts. He insisted on keeping four songs Johnny
Speaker 1: Be Good, Earth, Angel, Powerful Love, and Back in Time.
Speaker 1: You can't go see Back to the Future Without those
Speaker 1: four songs. People would tear up the seats. Back to
Speaker 1: the Future the musical at the Bushnell one sixty six
Speaker 1: Capitol Avenue, Hartford performances June fourth through va. If you
Speaker 1: should go, It's a lot of fun. And then that's
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