Ben Schwartz
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260 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Ben Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I know. Hank Kingsley is fun. There's this scene where they do where he's asking... He's trying to get him to ask for... He's trying to either ask to be invited for a party and Hank comes in the room pretending like he has boxing tickets for the same night or like he's trying to offer boxing tickets. I wonder if we can find it.
There's also one where he like and he goes in his pocket and he's like, so Larry Sanders calls him out on it being like, let me see the tickets. Let's go. And he goes, huh? Because let me see the tickets. I'd love to go there. And he's like, I'm butchering this, by the way. If you find it, it's unbelievable. All right. I'm sure we've seen the scene. I'm sure you have. But it's them at the office.
Anyway. but he goes in his pockets and he only has pills and he's like cast embarrassing like, I don't have the tickets.
Hank Kingsley does?
It's just perfect. Apatow wrote on that show. There are so many great writers on that show. Oh, yeah. Everybody, like young Piven, young Duchovny. Sarah was on that show. Sarah did that show. Todd Berry the other day.
I just saw Todd Berry in L.A. L.A. setting of Todd Berry is very rare. That's gross. Very rare. This is it. This is exactly it. Wow. All right, Peters. I can't believe you found it. This is the exact scene.
Yeah, they were tight. That's amazing. I know he did – so, Shanley did these things on the DVD. You get this black box set of it where he did these incredible interviews with people from the show. But they were like slow, patient interviews. And he wanted them – if they felt uncomfortable, that's what they were. He just let them be what they were and he let them play for a long time. Mm-hmm.
And they're amazing. Some of the coolest interviews ever. Because he's interviewing comics. He's interviewing actresses like Sharon Stone and all these people that did the show. They dated for a while, too. Did they? Yeah. And then I think he did it with Seinfeld. I think he did it with Seinfeld. Yeah, right? I've seen that. Or was that maybe that was Seinfeld's coffee? No, no, no.
It was way before that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he did one with Seinfeld. But those are the coolest, especially if you like comedy, the coolest. He did one with Tom Petty. He was boxing with Alec Baldwin. The Alec Baldwin one? Yeah, Baldwin's like kind of trying to elf him. But he kept it in because he's like, he always talked, I remember when he did...
He would always talk about keeping everything in. He's like, yeah, but like even instead of adding it down, what if we just kept, let the whole thing breathe. Let people understand how we got there. Let it be uncomfortable for a bit. When he went near the end, I remember he always was pitching that. Like he was talking about how people would edit stuff down.
Like even when he was doing interviews or like a thing, he was like, how fun if you just kept that whole thing in and see what it felt like. That's what podcasts are.
Oh, it's so good. And Ricky went to his house before he was supposed to. Yes.
Yeah. It's great. It's nothing that isn't out there, but I think they were supposed to interview each other for each other's things. Yes, yes. And Ricky kind of set up and, like, did everything, and, like, he didn't have his contacts in yet. You know what I mean?
It was like... Pretty cringe. It is. It was... It wasn't... I don't think it was handled the best way. And Gervais does that big high-pitched laugh, and he goes...
But didn't he say also that like the office couldn't exist unless Sanders came out? Oh, wow. I think that's what Ricky said.
The best. I miss him so much. Yeah.
I mean, we would see each other every week for a long time. He had a basketball game. So like we went there. Sarah was the one who invited me over there for the first one. And I was really young. I just moved to L.A. and Sarah played my sister in a movie. And I play basketball. Back then I played basketball a lot, like multiple times a week. My favorite thing to do.
And then you get older and your knees hurt more, you know, becomes harder to do. And so we never talk business. We all just do whatever. When we're playing, everybody's really trying, really playing. And then afterwards, we'd all watch sports together. And that's when we'd do bits and everything. And the funniest people in the world are just in the room.
And then it becomes normal after a while because you're there every week. But he was the best. I could text him. I could talk to him about stuff. Have real conversations. We'd go on hikes and talk about real stuff. He's very... He just has a grasp on life and even looking at things. It's in such like a level that's so much more zoomed out than most other people.
So you just want to listen to him and stuff like that. Do you want to hear a sappy? Please, sap it up. Okay, so when he passed away, it was very sad. Very sad. He died? He did die. You didn't kill him, right? No, it wasn't me. All right, it wasn't you. Okay, so there was a funeral and there was this crazy funeral where everybody from Sanders was there. It was crazy.
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