Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
How funny that only recently have I discovered comedian/actor/writer/director Kevin Pollak's long form interview program, "Kevin Pollak's Chat Show." It has been a companion for me over the last month while I complete my chart notes and administrative tasks at work after everyone else has left for the day. Funny because Kevin just taped his final shows last weekend. He did ten years of them, and in his words it was "enough already". Dammit.
It's fabulous. Each guest gets at least an hour, though many have gone well past two. John Landis went for almost three. Kevin sits across the table from his interviewee, armed with a "dossier" of info. that may span an entire career, or lifetime. Often, the guest will politely refute something - "That's Google information." There is plenty of time to expand on the things we already know, for them to reminisce about childhood in ways that often confirm what we love about them. Kevin has the guests play amusing games in which they try to guess "Who Tweeted" (was it Justin Bieber? Tyra Banks? Paris Hilton?) and also perform a bad Larry King impersonation, in which the talk show host reveals something rather embarrassing about himself.
There are hundreds of interviews. You can access them through his website (kevinpollak.tv), iTunes, or YouTube, where I've been working my way through candid, hilarious, and even heartfelt discussions with the likes of Michael McKean, Tom Hanks, James L. Brooks, and Alan Arkin, the latter of whom Kevin does a dead on impersonation. Pollak has also sported his hysterical impersonations of Joe Pesci, Christopher Walken, and Martin Scorsese.
You have to hear the interview with Jamie Lee Curtis. I always liked her. I love her now. What a no-bullshit soul search.
It's fabulous. Each guest gets at least an hour, though many have gone well past two. John Landis went for almost three. Kevin sits across the table from his interviewee, armed with a "dossier" of info. that may span an entire career, or lifetime. Often, the guest will politely refute something - "That's Google information." There is plenty of time to expand on the things we already know, for them to reminisce about childhood in ways that often confirm what we love about them. Kevin has the guests play amusing games in which they try to guess "Who Tweeted" (was it Justin Bieber? Tyra Banks? Paris Hilton?) and also perform a bad Larry King impersonation, in which the talk show host reveals something rather embarrassing about himself.
There are hundreds of interviews. You can access them through his website (kevinpollak.tv), iTunes, or YouTube, where I've been working my way through candid, hilarious, and even heartfelt discussions with the likes of Michael McKean, Tom Hanks, James L. Brooks, and Alan Arkin, the latter of whom Kevin does a dead on impersonation. Pollak has also sported his hysterical impersonations of Joe Pesci, Christopher Walken, and Martin Scorsese.
You have to hear the interview with Jamie Lee Curtis. I always liked her. I love her now. What a no-bullshit soul search.
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