today on larry king now it's lisa kudrow the emmy winner is branching out on the wrong with not one but two t.v. shows on the star studded line of over hit series web therapy well as someone makes the mistake of saying oh i've seen live therapy and i like it that i hunt them down on moving beyond friends oh well we cry you know the whole time that whole last episode was almost impossible to get through plus i take i took myself so seriously that they found great if in ten like me you have to maybe then she said has been it's all ahead on larry king now. best known as the light hearted and carefree phoebe on the hit sitcom friends lisa

could grow but is the creator producer writer and star of her own online and cable series called web sarah b. it's now in his third year on showtime it airs tuesdays at eleven pm and she's the producer of the celebrity genealogy series who do you think you are on t.l.c. also on tuesdays at nine eastern eight central you control tuesdays is the tour of just here to go tuesday nights around. how did that work that just happened right just happened you know before we get good nothing like phoebe or you want to vassar to you could be phoebe right now yeah i'm not when that whole friends thing started and we had the whole cast on and see it again did you ever think that it would be even a hit oh no when it started no i thought it was just you know one of many many pilots that don't see the light of day and then even if they ordered six episodes that might be as much as it as a cast because it doesn't matter if it's good or not you know what i do work i

think it worked well really good writing and good chemistry amongst the actors i think that's why did you like being phoebe yes i did it was because it lightened me up that's why i really light and be happy and maybe. you know life so a lot easier and i played a lot of girls before that you know but not for ten years straight but life is a lot easier you know when you don't. think this is the page to be ignorant but it does it's a healthier is that the part you you tried out for yes sometimes they switch things with you didn't pass right now i tried out for that and i even thought why feel more like i'm rachel green you know that like jewish american princess i mean i feel like that's more maybe like i'm aware of the whole like ross rachael thing i was just like the character and i called them up and said don't you think maybe and they would know we found a phoebe that was hard in their loans are like it's fun of you with something for

so long to close of the chapters and then years to insisting yeah oh well we cried for you know the whole time i mean that whole last episode was almost impossible to get through it was the most watched show of the year you know well was it probably and it's still playing everywhere right yeah that's good to still make good money yeah i mean it yes. but now tom i'll ask to do web therapy and you think you are which i want to move to know. by the way is on a successful sitcom or anything it's on the pages of it as it's written yes for friends i think so but then also i think it's you know what the actors bring to it . well there you have to enhance it but first it's was there well here they allow you to change change groups we were allowed to pitch jokes during rehearsals yeah sure yeah we do it their way first so they could see it and then we could pitch other stuff tell me about webster p.

you produced that show right we crew don ruth's standard content scan i created web therapy so and that's an improvised show so it's a little bit so we write an outline you know with the stories and the care you know for the characters and the story points and then when you know the actors we just improvise and you know don will let us roll for like twenty minutes and we go all over the place and try to have a different time you are see on the right i play fiona wallace is very manipulative and judge mental dismissive like you know everything a fair fist should not be judged based on anyone you know no i didn't actually she have any redeeming qualities. well i think. that's a great while i kind of am interested anyway in people who are completely unapologetic about their agenda or how bad they are you know thinking

maybe they're coming off a certain way and they're not at all but you know she's very unapologetic about that it's what i want so i don't understand why you're not doing it you know that makes me you're one of the producers of it right so yeah did you all come together on this how do you knew the genesis well you know we were asked if we wanted to do a web series and the answer was no but i kept because they were mostly like failed pilots say you know get chopped up into five minute minutes and put on the internet that's like two thousand and seven you know or before but i kept thinking about it and i just you know well the internet that's the thing you would have to like hi it should be about the internet somehow if it's on the internet i think and you know it's funny you know people are getting stuff done on the internet like kind of the into many things well entertainment is one thing but you know they're trying to find dates and you know husbands wives and there's certain personal stuff so what's

more personal than fair p. that's just the worst idea in the world to do therapy online and then because the thought was everyone's attention span is really short so i thought ok three minute therapy sessions whole areas and because it's the internet and completely unregulated anyone can just say i do this i provide a service are you enjoying doing it oh yeah oh it's the most fun and you win it right yeah so we're improvising it and it's really fun i mean when an actor comes on they're not there more than a half a day so you know what we have telling like this they don't we are doing you see what we will say like for example you know we're talking to meg ryan and like so we have this we want to do a hoarder you know person who's a hoarder. obsessed with fiona's has a strange husband kip and and she said that sounds really fun and we showed her you know the story points and you know but then she adds to it she says i think she should be a really happy hoarder and doesn't even acknowledge that she's

a hoarder you know she calls herself an archivist she's a million doors see how do you as the surplus helper well i'm actually there for personal reasons because it has something of my husband's she bought on all day and i want to get it but then i also you know i i drug her. to see every i don't anything so i end of drugging her in like a mild coma which fiona says is you know the cause of what your condition is sort of like a brain injury i decided and i guess sometimes they do so like coma so i did that and you're welcome to you break up of doing this yes he's so good rose our guests lee so webb there be an enormous hit it was online and now it's on showtime i heard you make that transition what did you make of the transition well showtime thought that it would work you know on their network thank god and but it needed to be a half hour so we you know as a web series each character has three sessions and we factor it will just put those

together and that'll be a half hour but it longest any of them once was seventeen minutes so we all thought was a great idea but we forgot to do math now you'd never physically as i understand it in the same room as the actors right now on the right right we're on the same sound stage or in different sets meryl streep has done this it's really fun how do you get the guest stars well if someone makes the mistake of saying oh i've seen what therapy and i like it then i tracked them down i hunt them down what was it like to work with them meryl streep who has played every role as well as the awards show and as she played every role ever i know how was she on this fantastic what was her dilemma so while she also. so she was there not as a client but she was a gay conversion therapy just. as husband likes you know men but he was running for congress and that's not allowed so his backers made him visit this clinic. has been

run and she was a gay conversion therapy just do you do you take part you play you sit down the three of you devise what this is going to be we do but john roos came up with he comes up with a lot of them you know you have steve carell meg ryan billy crystal chelsea handler and met matt le blanc you're all from yeah what are you what what was his problem he actually did have a problem he was. online poker so getting handling problems his wife is threatening an intervention and he fact this will be easier i could tell her i'm in therapy but not really does it ever get serious. no. no no no i would be crazy that would be awful words what is this steve girl character steve corral is is a little romance that fiona had when she needed a good rest and laguna met him at the hotel and so they had one night which she was

happy that it was only one night goodbye but he seems like he's sticking around when the i just says no come on and do it. when do they learn what the shtick is going to be. usually saying hey come up with it no well sometimes it depends if like someone like steve carell said he would do it and then it was figuring out the schedule and then he was busy so we came up with something and we pitched it to him and he said yeah that's fine. just as simple as that yeah and then with other people you know we actually we had made whitman and darren criss who they're on this season and they're fantastic and they had this idea that there are. lovers they've been in a relationship for two years but have never been in the same room it's been online only own so bare and they're young so it seems like work right and it was there was really fun is there a particular episode guillotines told to. coming out well i mean look i love

everything with lily tomlin because louie tomlin plays on his mother so she's the best stats near the end i'm really looking forward to that chelsea handler oh my god she's because she was hilarious she played it was no problem so she said it's not a she wasn't a problem she was feeling this first husband. had the surgery. think connor's is in seems you know yeah the only character the this might lead to her own talk show to do so why not that's a really funny one there's nothing tuesday night is seven that's really eight we have nine. seven or ten i'm dr fiona the dr drew dr phil right hurting people as he goes oh ming people yeah i heard the menace his own twitter account yeah fiona has a twitter account yes dr fiona it's at dr fiona wallace is it easier to be fiona

than lisa. and i'm sometimes run into is yeah you know like i'm going to write you like or what i think she's horrible she makes me laugh but sometimes i have to say some of those ideas are mine like sometimes there is a little bit of you know and i get to say it as fiona where i can't say it as myself like i'm sure you're an adult now so by then to just act like lead and we'll forget about your childhood which was in that past where bowen's did you ever do anything much second city or i did groundlings it was an impromptu than that in yeah that's an improv sketch comedy you stand on stage in new orleans yo zone something yeah yeah that's what i did. next we've discussed. another project of the ever present please don't.

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corporations are only day. most of the new alert animation scripts scare me a little but. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy at a brave thing rather that has bred dark in a court of law around online is a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. we're back with lisa kudrow we're here in los angeles where both of those reside.

if you had an unusual career trajectory in biology major producer you're a biology major a bass right yeah well biology. as i was fascinated first i was going to you know follow my father and my brother is in medical school and become a doctor and then i realized i didn't want to be a physician really but i still loved evolutionary biology so i was going to i still i stayed with it i was planning on going to graduate school joy dissecting frogs. no i don't like the dissection part i mean i did i had a great project i had to castrate rats just for the project site and i got good at that when it went to the acting budget so i mean when i was little and in junior high i like writing sketches and do here and there a run in l.a. yeah. but i put it all away for for high school and college and then after i graduated it just hit me that you have no responsibilities zero you don't have

mortgage kids now's the time to try something like that so when you say i'm going to try it where did you go and what did you do. well my brother's best friend is john levitz and so who is on saturday night live and and i said i think i need to try this and he was so that's great he was really happy and said go to the groundlings you have to go to the groundlings so you have a natural affinity for comedy yeah i thought you know i probably couldn't handle like a real acting class that might be too serious and so i yeah and i felt maybe comedy would be the thing to do then but comedic actors usually do well when they play serious parts somebody is harder comedy is harder i'm here to say now i have done a couple of dramatic roles and comedy is definitely harder tell me about who you think you are already doing that so that is a zone the b.b.c. right right and star on the b.b.c. and then how does it work so you take

a well known person and you trace their genealogy and then you find you know the different points of history that are interesting and that you can have find documents to support a story and there's always a story every family has a story or two you know how do you how does it work how do you find the person you trace you're going to trip well i mean we have people coming to us now who are interested in doing it and then we meet with them and find out what are you interested in knowing sometimes they don't know anything at all and whatever you find out be happy with and sometimes there's a family rumor about something you know or it's a little story we used to my wife is mormon and the moment church as a gift to be yeah i did my genealogy they got me back to great grandfather i saw the boat they came on your parents yeah all the passengers who were on the boat pictures of the boat yeah things i did in that sense that my grandfather yeah it's

hard i mean to just what do you what do you what do you use to trace well you can. we have census records so and then you have those passenger lists so i mean for like eastern america for eastern european jews it's difficult because of the holocaust and the records were mostly held in the synagogues and those were destroyed for the most part so there are no records at all but but sometimes you can find like with when it's palace where we were able to go back because they were well known rabbis in her family really and a ha and one of them was it was a rabbi of like jewish mysticism even you know so that was that was pretty cool ever come close to things that i'm bursting. with your grandfather was a murderer but we left actually because we heard my grandfather worked for meyer lansky so that's hard to verify. you know i didn't do this made it to

keep good archives no good model archives but now with this season though we actually we have people like trisha yearwood where we have a document. of her ancestor from like three hundred years ago really or more and he's on his way to hugh's you know criminal accused criminal and the his companion actually wrote about what they were talking about we have his thoughts and feelings about what he was about to face you know who gets that bounce unbelievable and is that show working will oh yeah it's a great it's a great show you're personalizing history you know i mean you trace is true of that oh you are we have to hold your children i have one boy he's fifteen fourteen and thirteen oh fun to see tech. yeah it's actually do you know right well yeah i mean when i say he's like he's not answering so what you call the house like oh

that's i don't want to bother anybody that's to understand on the phone but what happened to the phone it feels intrusive to them it's like you're going to make a noise in my house you're going to bother everybody and one of the parents and. they get no inflection i know everything's like has a going. but how does he deal with your fame. you know he's he's glad it's there as it serves him. you know how your kids are i mean yeah they though i was not spoiled they're not affected by it and sometimes they don't like it right well yes a lot of times i mean sometimes he wonders you know is she being nice or me because they're my mom and i know they've got they don't want to know i'll go to a dodger game and also you want to go on the field you know i'm going to home you have to go and see him it's ok that's not ok yes the comeback was a doctor

a kind of a mock documentary series united yeah only lasted a year but now other shows are coming back arrested development these are what about the combat coming that no that would be great but what happened to it well i don't i don't i'm not i'm but an on line that's interesting you know it's also up to michael patrick king we created the show together so he's actually pretty busy because he's doing it too broke or else you know on c.b.s. but we every time we get together we talk about like so well of valerie cherish says the character well it should be doing right now and. you know when we certainly have ideas that's for sure so i think yeah we need to talk about it more and see what we can do both couples social media questions eighty three to two on instagram wants to know what do you enjoy doing more film or television. well they're both good. i think they're both good i think there's

a lot of great roles and on t.v. for women to do what you do want to be doing movies and yeah i guess i do yeah yeah i mean movies are as out of town for such a long time so which you don't like and that you know. and meghan wall raven on twitter wants to know who came up with the lyrics for smelly cat the song on friends that their writers the very clever writers guy came up with the tune i came up with all the tunes for the duties do you like. producing as much as working on camera i like acting i like performing i like that more but i like producing who do you think you are just because it's like this fantastic history lesson i really do i love every stage of producing that show what kind of roles do you are you pitched . actually you know not so much just see not really oh yeah that's

a famous doing that i know so that i mean also i'm older so you know who wants to see that you know that old thank you know you look terrific things all right topknot photography on instagram what was was it been your biggest splurge my biggest splurge i think we should be a little money but if you did you ever buy something wild well i mean i have to say my biggest splurge is when i travel. so it's first class. not a baggage no i'm not there i haven't done that lately i have been so you shop. shopping i'm not a big shopper so what's this but i know what the travel to me about you know it's expensive travel for years i just as a changed my husband and i are very i don't know what it is but we're just like. that's kind of gross to say went on that that's not easy to do he's in finance.

with nine to five yeah yeah both of us are now the end of the show we call we be in the marshall we call if you only knew just a couple quickly you know the first boy you kissed i remember or was his name robby . we were in middle school or middle school and yeah it was a truth or dare or one of those games oh yeah oh then that's not his name dennis then someone else you forgot remember what happened to dennis i don't know if you have a favorite friends of the soda oh. i don't know too many there's a two hundred forty and you have a talent we don't know about no. funniest person you know. funniest person i know cracks you up. god well conan o'brian yeah i would he's way up there in the list as because he's so clever you know is there a curse word you overuse. that that's

just what scares you. what scares me ok scary movies be too scared to hate i can't do it i hate being scared cycloid could do the show for three weeks oh really psychosis or scene yeah yeah now i made the mistake of sings the movie seven and those sorts of them. i mean i could if i think about it before i go to bed i can't sleep the trouble with them is they're manipulating you the are you climbing up the stairs in the dark and some no i guess out of the director that's right because he's out to air out her mate costar you learn the most from oh really wow oh there's a lot of them though i have to say. oh which when the friends thing started which of that cuz the most it's courtney courtney cox i know because that's what i wanted to say like my kneejerk because we worked together for so long and she's very

helpful to you yes i think for all of us she kind of cept the tone because when we first started she said listen you know i mean we all got to help each other here you know like if you think of there's a funny way for me to do something let me know you know anything i think of like we got to let each other know help each other ok and. do friends remain friends yes. yes me do you are your parents proud of what you've accomplished they want you to get into this theater business they actually brothers and are your brothers a lawyer right my brother is a doctor doctor yeah and you know when i told them so i'm going to try acting as if they almost died from happiness it's like thank god because you are just going to have you know how to i to i took myself so seriously that they felt great if it's unlike me up maybe then she has been thanks lisa thank you lisa good girl great having you with us star for years on friends we have web sarah p.

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