Fran Lebowitz | Club Random with Bill Maher
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Why does Fran get annoyed about the hotel manager’s question about the day?
I got I got to LA, I don't know, I think Saturday, and the manager of the hotel, you know, greets me at the desk, comes to the room with me and the bellman has my luggage. The bellman's standing there and the manager asked me a question and I turned to the bellman and I said It's Saturday, right? And I could see him thinking, What a fucking country. Why am I carrying the bags of someone who doesn't even know what day it is? You know?
What you mean he th you're saying he thought he shouldn't be working on the weekend? No. Or that you were saying
carrying the bags and someone doesn't know what day it is. You're
so privileged that you don't have to know the day. I suddenly don't know what day it is. You always know what day it is?
On the road, no, I never do. Like I mean rarely do I rarely do.
And I'm a creature of you know, pattern and habit and I like the fact that on Monday I do this and on Tuesday I do this thing and Wednesday, you know, that's my life. But when I'm off, yeah, I can lose track of a day. And I think that's glorious. You know?
Well, I so I carry my schedule and say, Is this the day? Someone said, You're doing this. I said, No, that is on Sunday. They go, It's Sunday.
Hotel living. I mean you c you don't mind hotel living, do you? You do? I do. I
mean I'm at the Beverly Hills Hotel, it's one of my favorite hotels. Right. So I prefer really great hotels, but truthfully, I'd rather be home. But uh well I really rather be home. And it's not that my home is more luxurious than the Beverly Hills Hotel, it is not. No,
of course not. But
also at home I don't wait for the coffee.
I I'm I'm I Right. And it's not twenty dollars. For a cup of coffee. What? For a cup of coffee? In a hotel? Easily.
Excuse me. Thirty dollars. For the coffee in in the every hills hotel in the morning. Thirty dollars. You mean with a tip and just f just for the coffee? Thirty bucks. Come on. Thirty bucks. I pay it every morning. I mean I sign the thing every
pot?
It's a pot of coffee. It's not a giant pot of coffee.
Right. But it's coffee for thirty Yeah.
No, I know. It's thirty dollars. But uh I own an omelet, seventy dollars. The next day I thought, that's stupid. I'll get scrambled eggs, forty five dollars.
Right. You do know that people nowadays Actually Largely would love to be in a hotel because mostly where they go when they travel is Airbnb. Yeah. Well
that you know what they travel for something called pleasure. I travel for work. Otherwise, I know. But Do you want to go on vacations? Like if me a vacation, I'm home.
To be in an Airbnb, which is very popular, and I heard I f I know people who prefer it to a hotel. To me, it's just the most disgusting thing that's I agree. Totally disgusting. To be living in somebody else's house and somehow possibly seeing a pube on the soap, I would just jump out the window.
No, it's that and also usually they're on vacation doing that. And I always think, you know, you're in the airport. Well, you're not in the airport because you you go by a private plane. But if you go by commercial plane, you're in the airport and you're you see these people, they have three little kids screaming, five thousand pieces of luggage, and I always think, What's in that luggage? How many baseball caps do you need? Right. Like how many pairs of flip flops? Like, you know, you're dressed like a flip. five year old boy. And I think How bad is your regular life that this is more fun?
Oh I know. You know, I mean Well, just the idea of going on a vacation with a family. Yeah. Or just the idea of a family. What well Just the family itself. Yes. I mean I'm try not to be too snobby about that. I I I don't. I know, but honestly. You know, i it's personal preference. You can't deny that that we are just very different human beings. That's how we come out. We have a different chips in our brain for whatever reason. And for some people, the great joy in life is family.
How much does a coffee cost at the Beverly Hills Hotel and why is it shocking?
It's not w w the path we have chosen, but it's no less valid. Do you think it's less valid? No, I don't care what other people do. I don't
Like I am not that interested in other people.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why does Fran get annoyed about the hotel manager’s question about the day?
0:02–3:50
2
How much does a coffee cost at the Beverly Hills Hotel and why is it shocking?
3:50–8:57
3
What nervous thoughts does Fran have about a 25‑hour nonstop flight without smoking?
8:57–18:40
4
Why do Fran and Bill argue about families, kids at pools, and the “family‑centric” culture?
18:40–51:03
5
Why does the speaker compare Russia's size to its governance?
51:03–1:41:47