Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
One, two, three. My guests today, pretty good credits here, guys. Quiz Show. Oh, yeah. Heat. Who? The Birdcage. Are you afraid of my Guatemalan-ness? Spamalot.
Brockmire. My wife, Lucy, she was wearing a strap-on and she was plowing our neighbor, Bob Greenwald. And folks, I do mean right in the ass. Fastball misses. Just slow.
Count goes full. Three and two. And most notably, The Simpsons. Oh, that's cool. Bring an outside beer into my bar. Which was an animated show. from the Tracy Ullman. It's a spin-off from the Tracy Ullman show. That happened a long time ago. No, no, no. It's fresh on a lot of people's memories. Hank Azaria, everybody. He's also got a show called The Artist that's coming out on the network.
Well, I'm in it. Oh, you're in it. All right, great. Well, whatever. Go to Google him. Don't tell people how to live. Sorry. Let people do what they're going to do. I have many questions for you. That's like the point of all this. Yeah, that's why you're here. What's happening over here with you? What are you all about at the moment? I find you wickedly talented.
I've always got this, I just feel like it's not enough for you.
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Chapter 2: What challenges does Hank face with addiction and relationships?
You mean like I should have done more in my career? No.
I don't know.
I just feel like you can do so much and you're called upon to do some of it. Is that about right?
Yes. Yes. Yeah, I said to you earlier, you're like, yes, yeah, I've thought about this a lot because I'm a self-obsessed actor like everybody else.
Mm-hmm.
So you could look at me as either the most overachieving voiceover actor in the history of the world or a moderately underachieving movie star or lead actor, whatever, or even character actor. But it's just the way things went. Some of it's luck, some of it's my own temperament, some of it's... What's the temperament part?
Well, the perfectionism and the sort of... There were times where I got in my own way. And there were times when I was so miserable doing it that I sort of would have preferred not. There were times I was starting a movie and I was like, I'd give anything to get out of this. Like, the pressure felt so much to me that I just wasn't cut out for it.
And I actually would like, one of my favorite shows is The Honeymooners, you know, Gleason and Carney. And there's an episode where Ed's playing the piano because Ralph is learning songs for the, he's going on to the quiz show for popular music. And he and Alice start arguing over Ed playing. And Norton finally goes, why was I blessed with this musical talent?
And sometimes I felt that way about my own career. Like, I wish I wasn't good enough to be in this movie because the pressure of it is really hard. Oh, that's funny. That's very funny. By the way, I worked through all that, and now I'm happy where I'm at. You did? I did. I took a lot of therapy and program and sorting myself out.
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Chapter 3: How does Hank Azaria reflect on his career and Apu's character?
Do we do a thing that's...
We didn't know. Yeah. So the character froze. It would appear, but never say anything. Character hasn't uttered a word in nine years? Something like that. Still? Yeah. Still to this day.
Did they do a joke about it?
Like he had a throat problem? No. All that has been suggested, talked about, written, whole episodes were pitched. Like nothing ever passed muster. Yeah. Eventually we all decided to just leave Bad Enough alone. And it's like... We all kind of did our best with that.
And where it all ended up was animation in general, not just The Simpsons, sort of, not sort of, pretty much, if a character is of color, that person voices it. And there's not guys like me anymore who will be utility ethnic guy on your show. Yeah. the work gets spread around.
I see it as like smoking. I wasn't an adult, but we didn't know any better. Exactly. And I'm sure you've heard from a lot of people that were proud of Apu in some of these stations. They were proud of Apu.
Yeah, that might even be the majority. I really looked into this. I know. It goes about a third of third. About half the people... Couldn't care less. I don't know what up who is. Oh yes, who cares? I'd say another 25% don't like it or upset by it. Another 25% really love it. And that's about the way it, somebody even did a study on that. I'm like, those are real kind of real numbers. Yeah.
Because we all started looking into this. I'm sure.
I'm sure you felt like a piece of shit. Right. You must be like, I'm pretty bad. I'm a race. I'm a fit. Just brand me. I'm a racist. And I didn't know it or whatever.
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Chapter 4: How does Hank Azaria approach the topic of personal growth?
Yeah. Dr. Strangelove.
I'm sorry, Mr. President.
There's Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther movies. Now, to me, and there's Harindi V. Bakshi from The Party, the Indian voice. Now, to a kid, don't even say it. I'm not going to do it. You can play a clip of your cellars doing it if you like. To me, as a 15-year-old in Queens, worshiping voice guys like that, and him being the epitome to me, because he embodied these characters.
He didn't just do a vocal send-up. What's the difference between a German guy and a French guy and an Indian guy?
Oppression of that particular country at the hands of Western society. It's like it's algebra. It gets into algebra.
It does, but there is an answer. And it's viable. Well, in an American context, which is different from other contexts.
Yes.
in this country, it's interesting, right? The accent, so why can't I do the voice of a Luigi? Luigi's okay, he's a stereotype. I do Luigi, I know the Simpsons. How come I can do Cletus the slack-jawed yokel? That ain't complimentary to Southern folks in the least. He's kind of dumb. So, but I can't do Apu. And the simple answer is that in American context,
Those voices, while you might find them insulting, an Italian guy might go, I don't like that Luigi thing. Everybody who came to America had their turn to be hazed and low man on the totem pole. I'm Jewish.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Hank Azaria share about his relationship with fame?
I only know them from Gary Busey. Fear, F-E-A-R. F-E-A-R. That stands for false, evidence, appearing real. Gary Busey, that counts. That counts. Yeah, but so with Matthew Perry, I, again, didn't know him at all, but I'm watching it, watching how public he is about sobriety and going like, does he know he's lying?
Does he? I don't know, because obviously, I mean, he certainly helped me, helped a lot of people. Yeah. Sought up to a lot of people. And he brought me in. And that first year of my sobriety, he wasn't my sponsor, but... I leaned on him a lot, and he was definitely sober then, because you can't fake that. And he was very giving. But yeah, you know, I don't know why he couldn't...
Chapter 6: How does Hank Azaria reflect on his struggles with workaholism?
Let's put it this way. I don't know why he couldn't have been... Ultimately, he wasn't able to be as helpful to himself as he was to so many other people. Yeah. I don't know why. And I don't know what he told himself in those times.
He might not. You know what I mean? He might not. He might not know what he was telling. It might have been... Okay, we have here...
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Chapter 7: What parenting challenges does Hank Azaria discuss?
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Chapter 8: How does Hank Azaria use humor to navigate serious topics?
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row.co slash blocks um okay we have here workaholism yeah what you was it about pursuit was it about what were you working on meaning was it trying to get jobs was it having jobs running a lot whatever like whatever your process was getting a character what what's the how did it manifest itself because as an actor it seems like pretty inconsistent workflow
It's obsession with work. So when you're not working, it's all about getting the work. Then I was fortunate enough to get a point to where I was always working. I mean, I once went, I think, 22 months straight with no break. And the breaks were like recording Simpsons, like on the fly, and then back to the set or back to the play. Which is good, meaning feels good, right? Did it feel good?
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