you can jump in anytime you want. today larry king it's jeff garlin and wendy mclendon covey to a comedic forces a line for the new comedy the gold birds i never thought i'd be on a network show it's not i'm not i can network kind of guy you're a cable guy you know. and then i get the script and i'm like oh my god this is great i am not jewish i'm not jewish. and yet i'm i'm playing one on t.v. is doing right look overbearing mothers there you know first of all and i had one plus so you're everywhere i'm everywhere what was it like to i was going to hug your dreams to anybody deserves me just me you know right you know i want else really when you think about it when you think about all of showbusiness who deserves major success or anyone else know that's all next on larry king now.

welcome to larry king now to look forward to this because he's one of my favorite people jeff garlin the actor comedian writer producer director he's everything best known for his role as larry david's manager jeff greene on h.b.o.'s hit series curb your enthusiasm which should never go off the air the show he also executive produced now jeffers returned to t.v. as marie goldberg the perpetually ant was patriarch and a.b.c.'s new hit comedy the goldbergs in july descriptor right away love it love it love it love it i think some of what you just said. tell me about well actually i was there i would be shocked. i never thought i'd be on a network show it's just not i'm not i can network kind of guy and then i get their

script. as i was writing right look i'm always going to do curb i can still do curb your enthusiasm that was part of my deal with. ok so what i always thought that was the kind of show i.b.m. you're a cable guy you know. and then i get the script and i'm like oh my god this is great i got to do this so we worked it out and every script i get very excited now the concept is it's you a wife kids three kids and my father in law were the goldbergs and more in the takes place in the eighty's but i'm more concerned with the stories and the characters being about something solid something that's tangible in terms of you could make it today and it would work and the eighty's happens to be the backdrop and the mother is a very jewish mother. well i used to always say about never heard anyone use the joke until until the show is the same point as in front of mother that's my mother

. and that's what we do on the show so she's quite this mother mother one mclennan cover just wonderful she's a big ball of wonderful all my life i never heard of the term the jewish father right there's always the jewish well jewish father when you really think about it try staying out of the way mine does and i was i may have saw you earlier when you were young my dad just let my mom you know whatever as long as she doesn't bother him and they can watch a ball game which is what i associated with this character is like you that you're like yeah i don't know what's good i want to be left alone and that's what i think most jewish fathers would be left alone you say yes to your wife. no matter what. are you having fun doing it as it played out to the original script or what it's because i was going out and better which is really exciting and the work is a little bit hard for me because i have to learn lines which you didn't have to do

and never had to do a curve they just gave you know i'm a stand up i pretty much go off and start talking i don't really have much but. you and second city i was in second city also so i'm an improviser but with this i work really hard i have a dialogue coach and she and i work very very hard to like the character i love the character and i like the character because i can associate with a lot of it but all you know he calls us kids morons and he's yelling all the time that's not me i'm very affectionate with my kids my dad was affectionate to work with stephen colbert sentences and i would work he has but it's not just you going to coco bear and i work together we were on stage together many times but we worked in the box office at second set every second city selling tickets selling tickets and taking reservations yes that's where we did most of our work with stephen koepp there in the box office the funny thing is that i actually did do forty things but i remember if somebody was a jerk to me on the phone because that's where it was on the phone ok i would tell

them that i'm putting them in the puppet section of the hardest section as puppets of marionettes they go what is this i go well during the show from the ceiling marionette strap up drop down and puppets come out so i would mark that i would put p.s. next their name was rarely on there and they'd know puppet section so i would show up on the puppet section i just to watch and you'd have these people who were jocks but the whole show they'd be looking everywhere for it i loved it with. how did you meet larry david and the gentle lovemaking seminar disposed of both of us try to tone it down we were comedians in new york that's how i first met him he was a stand up larry larry's a great stand up. and then he came up with how to put you into the show how to curb your enthusiasm curb your we you know i was writing a show in

a suite of offices with a mutual friend of ours alan zweibel and. he's we asked me to lunch one day. alan can go so just the two of us at lunch and i had been on the road with dennis leary and jon stewart helping them make their comedy specials. i was developing the specials with them so we were start talking about comedy whatever and he said h.b.o. is talking to me about doing something i said well if you do a great thing to do would be behind the scenes of a making of an h.b.o. special and i was going to direct it i was going to be in it and that was his idea that i play as manager. yeah you know it's a great thing when you bring an idea to a genius oh yeah i mean why did a show why does that show work we went on vacation took all the tapes and just watched two reasons why obviously it's funny and two it's a reverent and when i say irreverent not irreverent just for reverend sakes but

it's it's it's not remotely politically correct it just does it's a it's an intelligent man operating from an aide. but that's those he's themself you know larry's a lot like that no no no he's the he'd hate me for saying this he's a gentleman. and he's a great guy and i don't know how much of a gentleman the character is i think he's a good guy the guy in the show but larry's a great guy i mean certainly it's like him because you know he's funny in the same way sometimes but larry is very thoughtful and considerate and your career is going to spiral now be on cable you know a hit in the i'm going to be gigantic they're going to be enormous enormous it's going to be it's actually already ready it's almost impossible to stop me you could actually have your agenda today could be i'm going to slow down the jeff garlin train you can't you deserve it that is what he deserves make just me you all right

you know i want else really when you think about it when you think about all of show business who deserves major success j. . anyone else nope you grew up in chicago river to colorado and you have never seen a world series victory sixty nine was my first heartbreak that's where they blew the planet yeah yeah yeah yeah i remember forty five i was twelve years old the last of the tigers in seven games yes what is it like to be a cubs fan. this is. there's two levels of being a cub fan there's the years where we're not bad we're pretty good and it's kind of fun and then there's also hopeless years at least now i have theo epstein in charge and i feel confident but i have to say there's been a number of years where the team is hopeless and you look at the front office and the ownership and you go this is just all hopeless and hopelessness hopelessness is

not enjoyable i was one of the bidders to be one of the owners of the dodgers until someone to begin you know to own them on a piece of the cubs i want to only a cubs completely i want to be the sole owners of those dollars is what is successful as i'm going to be i will own the cubs under the weight of a go go in empire i am good buy him out i well i'm not empire yet but i will be and i will buy everybody out he just wrote directly just second film dealing with idiots yes take this personally because it's about terrence of little league players yes one of those parents yes they just little league now yes this is i guess putting them down who the parents yes. why do you do this when you were a little league parent you know this is a what when you say little league i by the way in my movie i couldn't say little league because it's an organization that was in this ever going to love it and i was kidding is not an i'm sorry but. to be smoove who plays only

on curb your enthusiasm. jamie kirk lighted a version on no it worked it just was a little indie movie and you know you negotiate she is terrific how's about your podcast why haven't i been interviewed get on your podcast as they say in sweden i'd love to have you know you got me all right when you do it like once a month twice a month interview people with a you do it i do it at largo which is a restaurant theater. and a couple of our and i've had michael moore larry david love the you know what do you literally interviewing guy i would have father i have great questions for you like talk about lenny bruce talk about miami. talk about a deli's talk about a good bagel i know a lot of big i know but i know every day caught on and on not eating wheat right now on makes me too fat we have some questions for your twitter questions ok. what

was your insight you write a book called the claudia choir are my choirs daughter could be i know going my quit was a great pitcher with the earls yes what was your inspiration for i want to one day tease with one of my favorite movies. my inspiration was a lot of hurt and unrequited love built up over time one woman in particular actually who went on to be a big t.v. producer and director yeah it was it was mostly based based on my harp she was actually the original producer which was ironic but we sort of fell apart but i still like her she's a little game. if you only knew right it's a little game little game not big enough much time for that larry i don't know for i why no no no why on why do we not have much time i'll take more time yeah you know ted koppel used to be able to do that ted koppel used to be the one who turned to the camera go i want to inform the affiliates i'll be going through fifteen

minutes over this evening i used to do that and he would be in and sometimes you you can't do it on the internet you can't just put your fist down on these guys right screw it yeah you're a very caring. first good you are in the affiliates on this will emerge good you ever kissed. linda klein stein behind my house and morton grove illinois how we probably six one of them have until in the clients i don't know i'll wish good things for our greatest stand up you've ever seen in person and this is going to surprise people because my favorite all time comedian is richard pryor what have you alan king of the best i saw him live and i was blown away i couldn't believe how great he was alan king started opening for judy garland at the palace and right he was a master he was angry and he did great bits about airplanes and insurance i know

and he sucked it to the socket that he was and he was a man of the people but i saw him in in chicago maybe fifteen years ago or so you know so not early on he was fall it was amazing you have obama on stage than i have ever bob on stage i think a more appropriate question would be how many times have you bombed on stage and i would guess the thousand what are the what's it like to bomb on stays there's true feelings if you care if you don't care meaning i don't care i'll bomb i'll throw it to the wind when i go up there i'm happy to but i'm not happy to bomb but i'm fine with it if it always chooses now there are nights where i'm not funny that hurts so if you ask me if i'm never not ever not funny that kills that's a deep pain after it's over but there are nights where i am so funny and so on and the audience just nothing as of yet and i say it's their fault you are one of my favorite people drag you to i graduations and everything happening to a look at your pod as you know curb your enthusiasm and continue with great success

on the gold and as they say in sweden larry enjoy your suspenders. next up jeff's on screen wife the lovely wendy mclendon tubby stay with us. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b.c. fox news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the right think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side with you is actually on here. and our teenagers we have a different breed. ok oh yeah because the news of the world just is not this funny

i'm not laughing dammit i'm not high. i don't know if. you got a sense of the jokes well handled it makes sense that i'm. in a life. time. pleasure to have you with us here today. wealthy british style the stock.

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welcome to larry king our special guest is wendy mclendon. you know her from our shows like reno nine one one and rules of engagement she's one of the breakout stars of the blockbuster hit bridesmaids in which she played the unabashed bridesmaid rita and now she stars as the overbearing fan. really matriarch in a.b.c.'s new comedy the goldbergs which urged me personally because i had a jewish mother and she was wonderful she'd forgotten everything i ever did in my whole life. get this part. you're not jewish i'm not jewish. and yet i'm i'm playing one on t.v. is doing i'm running a jewish mama but you know look overbearing mothers they're universal and i had one you bill i have a lot of areas like the drawing room over to try to produce the name yes yes but you had a nobody not an overbearing mother right and what happened was they came to me last

pilot season or right right before pilot season started and they you know i've been reading some scripts and nothing was really that great but they showed me this one i thought it was funny but then they showed me the whole movies of these people and that's what sold it for real i want to be one of these lunatics of them yes what's that concept it is. yes it is this is part of a resolution you just gave us a full season so that's great for a new show but adam goldberg the creator of the show someone bought him a video camera when he was a kid and he filmed everything that ever happened in that house so we have stacks of video tapes that he's converting to d.v.d.'s and he showed me. some embarrassing moments i don't know how it's family feels about this but we've seen them in their underwear and everything else i said this this is so insane that if i don't do this i will die on happy ok that leaves please give me this part and they did so it worked out i think it's working out and you have you have fun doing it i'm having

a blast doing. impromptu stuff have done a lot of improv and this is scripted this is scripted we have some of the best writers in comedy today people from everybody loves raymond the big sea. king of queens a lot of funny writers and so. they let us improv sometimes but it doesn't really need it the material is that it is of him alone between making fun of a jewish family and making it fun rather than fun yeah we're not we don't really play up on that and again the show is set in the eighty's and that's just a backdrop as well we don't really focus on those two things the family just happens to be named goldberg is there an ongoing conflict the mom is holding on so tight that she's actually pushing them away so she loves her babies she is the c.e.o. of that house but they want nothing to do with or the husband is jeff garlin and he

is and he what is he like he is such a dream on set ok i love playing his pretend wife he is very funny he's pants list most of the time in our episodes it's is he hands off party for mother to control him. to a degree but there they always form a united front even if he contradicts her right in front of the kids turn on a dime and say well that's what i was trying to say they're always there always a united front in front of the kids you have to play comedy show. so you don't you can't play it for let you know it's laughable you are playing it full exactly you have to be deadly serious have to be that woman yes you do have a holier than oh and she's a holy terror what a couple things about brothers but it's hard to get that world kristen way again animal of the two writers they got me into audition but the part was not necessarily mine they wrote it with me in mind but i had to go in and go through

several auditions and when you read it did you know who sturgill who would turn up . i know i thought it was funny but i have a weird sense of humor so you never know what anybody is going to respond to and then we did a lot of improv on that you think it was good i just thought well this is fun i'm having fun with my friends we're all getting paid i hope you know it's out of our hands after a certain point you know all of you burst into we. wrote what about women in comedy when i was a kid there was joan davis on the radio with probably even know her now and been a couple of b.b. ins came along but very few yeah is it wide open though it's pretty wide open and the material is getting better but my whole thing with women in comedy is you can't make something that's not funny funny ok and women are interesting creatures but you would not know it according to the books that are selling and the men's club

it's look fifty shades of grey in my opinion was a terrible book but everybody bought it so now there's a movie being made you can't do something with terrible material but it is unfair to say that women are not funny that's completely. unfair that we all have role models growing up i i love gracie allen i miss you a lot of the great comedian hilarious woman vivian vance and lucille ball come on and carol burnett we all have role models and it will say or they are funny is before them it was a close field it was pretty close especially in stand up and things like that what inspired the kid i was a funny kid and i learned early on that if i did funny things i could sort of jollied my parents out of punishing me some people funny people don't do improbable ok they give me me funny stand up show them broke we not true at the oh

you throw out a subject do you do it i was always pretty quick i was always pretty quick and i studied people and i still study people so i pick up those things i'm a great eavesdropper too that's one of my guy who if you're bored you listen to what i listen to everything and i save it up for when i need it. and i do think that helps with and do not end up no i've never done it that terrifies me the thumb doing it terrifies me why i would just like to score in chester like the best of all comedy on that stage old i just feel i can't freefall like that you like sheen i like scenes. ok you've got more films coming out one with adam sandler and another with tyler perry you're on a roll i'm on a roll yeah on i've got a christmas film out right now but it's a very tiny little christmas movie but it's got terran manning from orange is the new black and gold it's called all-american christmas carol and it's on i tunes and

comedy on demand yeah it's a comedy so you're everywhere i'm everywhere what was it like to i was going to hunt your dreams layers of like dog with. oh my gosh it was so much about it was way out of sound lower and drew barrymore in the hot georgia heat in august but it was so much fun it was like being on vacation he's a great guy he is one of the producers of our show you're going to i love working with tyler he works very fast he edits as he films so well do we have some twitter questions for you lisa clear once in a word female comedians throughout history did you most admire and did it the influence your style again i got to say gracie allen because she was so she played that ditz so perfectly and was just dry about it she she never did that wink wink thing towards the audience her mallon caught on great amazing. i don't know her just the cheek. the other the range they should go and lily tomlin

really. wants to know does the goldbergs my goodness though jude for your own one of the years. it does make me nostalgic i love reliving all those years as i mean i was a teenager then so now reliving it as a parent i sort of empathize with my. although now i was not a i am not a parent i just want to say i have no kids but as a parent on the show hold the kids on the go. they're playing a junior in high school a senior in high school and a seventh grader you like working with kids i love them they're good these are amazing kids. yeah they're they're pros we play a little game called if you only knew or just throw the group member the first ball you kiss yes it was his name his name was bob. and that's not a joke that it was a golf was that. it was in arizona it was on vacation it was just

a peck on the lips but that pack got me through the ninth grade larry what i'm a late bloomer what have been the bubba. who knows he's probably in jail. this is celebrity you want to be growing up i wanted to be donna dixon on the says she was gorgeous she was on bosom buddies she had. gorgeous hair and gorgeous i just adored her what keeps you up at night worrying that someone that i love will die yeah i worry about that oh if i don't want to live a very a friend yeah what's the hidden talent we don't know about. i'm double jointed in my armpits and i have managed to parlay this into absolutely nothing i don't want to see you know you ok but there are moments where it could be interesting. if you have a favorite moment in brazil. a favorite scene would probably

be the. restaurant scene where we're all eating argentine food and we can't really say because that was such it was it took us three days to film it and there were so much improv going on it was we left so hard during that whole thing as most embarrassing moment i'm not telling it's too embarrassing what's a guilty pleasure you enjoy. online shopping now and battens online shopping when you get off being in the bath is that a surprise when you when it comes sometimes it is sometimes i forget one thing. does that i want three things you want to i would. sunscreen a swiss army knife and my husband thank you doll thank you thank you i guess when we mclendon call the watcher along with jeff garlin in the goldbergs a.b.c.

tuesday nights nine eastern you can find me on twitter with kings things to see you next on. it was a. very hard to take i don't. want to get on here. why have you ever had sex with her make her look. like.

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