on larry king now big bang theory simon helberg there's nothing like a group of geeky sayf i fancy show you what real passion is they will follow you to the ends of the earth middle earth and every other earth do they treat you in that kind of all inspiring way yeah there are definitely moments where it feels a little bit sycophantic i've had my share poles at comic-con and i don't know if i was cloned i'd led a very clumsy sad ridiculous existence for a while i'd i think that i had the perfect girl in front of me and then i decided to throw it all away to come to so my oats and i couldn't so one note plus it's an honor. i thought this was your show you did a lot of i don't really know what no means but all next on larry king now.

welcome to larry king our special guest simon helberg the actor and comedian you know him as howard well what's on t.v. is number one comedy the big bang theory the c.b.s. smash hit just finished its seven season simon also stars in the upcoming i am i alongside his wife jostling who also directed the film i am eyes inside theaters and available on demand june thirteenth then another project does well we'll talk about all of that coming up what an ending to the big bang what happened to show. we have a they won't sell us so hopefully it's nothing too sinister or depressing i was it was it was a touching ending you know off on a on a train and who knows. i hope he's i hope he's happy wherever he's spending i it is

surprise that cast. well nothing surprises us anymore i mean we ended a season where i shot up into space so i think it was in relation to that it was it was nothing too shocking but. you know we're we're hoping we're hoping returns i hope frameworks splay i'm a success of that show. it's so hard to break down i think that there are some obvious components the writing is tackler attention to character and and keeping things truthful run by chuck lorie steven leno bill pretty their genius show runners and they know how to develop characters at a pace i think that people like to watch television at which is slowly that's why we're still on these characters don't make huge leaps every every week it's takes six years for sheldon the older girl's hand or when you're dishing for it you know i mean did you think it would be what it is. i i had done so

many pilots and things that didn't go on to have have a fruitful life i wasn't i wasn't cynical but i just was i think it was the first time i kind of was present about it and i thought hey at least i got to do this pilot and when we shot the episode i thought it was a great week rehearsing but when we shot i knew something something was happening the audience connected in a way that was you know i mean there's nothing like a group of nerdy geeky psi five fans to show you what real passion is they will follow you to the ends of the earth and middle earth and every other earth so we knew we had something like that at home me tell you what one of you costars in miami alex said. about the show it's a show about the rest of us the shows i watched as a kid with lots of the tried to people who you know up in different permutations in our shows not our shows about the other people who don't fit in agreed yeah yeah

it's the it's the underdogs and it's not commenting on these people it's communicating from their point of view and i think there was an initial kind of backlash from people thinking that we were making fun of. these characters are making fun of nerds or outsiders and the truth was if you saw the writers room they'd be the first said look no further when you got kids did you see it was to only did you fit that role it was sort of the breaking point for me i was i was kind of i was a little tired of playing such nerdy cliche kind of characters but i didn't feel that this was a cliché version of it i felt that it was in that world so i was kind of torn because i wanted to break out you know you get a lot of. parts that are just trekkies and they're very generic and two dimensional and i thought i just want to you know i don't necessarily think i'll get collin

ferals rejects but i could at least do something outside of it and i thought all right this seems special and they they flesh these guys out so that they're real people and feel over of feel really lucky to get to do we could be having flown so and. he he did absolutely he was part of the original groundlings and was was a character actor is a character actor and so i grew up around i grew up kind of going to the groundlings i guess and on that stage and know brooks and mel brooks and my dad was in a lot of mel brooks movies and so i think you know at a certain point i played music a lot my whole life that's what that's what i thought i was going to do and i thought well god i don't know i i've always i feel like i'm kind of in this world a little and i audition for a school play and girls laughed a lot more with me at me and people liked it and i just felt like i

should go study this and vote. for he he's an he's an amazing he's an amazingly tuned intense. man and incredibly warm and friendly. he's there's almost it's like he has perfect pitch for but for sitcom writing. he's tough in the sense that he he knows what works and he that's what he wants and is he's like that i love it i mean i you know i was intimidated by him for a while i think people are and it's not because he had it was was mean or you know did anything that really warranted my being intimidated it was just that he was a prolific guy and he carries himself and he's a perfectionist and he if something doesn't sound or hit the way that he wants

it to he will just tell you there's no there's no beating around the bush. no one's creeping or. doing your sure well she's having a hard time and she's acting really tell her i told you this but she's. just interesting i'm sure those old clothes. i'm acting weird. a rehearsal we were doing for. me since you saw him with a few he was a few. i thought you. knew she'd been seeing and i didn't know it was at the funeral you know you should. know much about him know just which was to me book the missionary work of trouble. you don't think so. he's mentally ill that's

in a home. for a living apartment sorry didn't want to talk right. yes no memory of her. that held up. ah well that was a clip from simon's upcoming film your wife wrote and directed she's in the scene with you yes what's it like to be directed by you were five was there ever a time where i wasn't. she's not that is she's she's fantastic i was. i was very lucky we communicate we'd work together she's an actress obviously and we had worked together doing theatre so we knew how to talk to each other i guess professionally and creatively and it was incredible we we had an amazing time and you met. no we met actually. just at a party we'd gone to the same high school we're both from l.a.

and we didn't know each other in high school we met at a house warming party and she forced me to dance to thriller and it was dark which is where i do my best dance moves so things things worked out things worked out well and you know we when you went on do you co-directed a movie that's coming because we'll never have powers yeah when does that come that will come later this year we don't have a release date yet but we're doing with festival circuit now. well graphical true unfortunately it is yes it's about my proposal to her which was preceded by a horribly disastrous clumsy break up that i spearheaded i sense of the self destructed and through everything that i knew and loved the way which i think happens to sometimes to guys when they're having kind of a quarter life crisis i thought i had feelings for somebody else and immediately regretted the decision and came crawling back to her and she'd gone to paris and i followed her there and it was

a night she's out of the movie she's not in this movie this movie is me melanie lynskey plays the role of her alfred molina quinto you'll get over the yeah it's a fantastic it's a fantastic cast and it is a sad comedy because i lead a very. clumsy sad ridiculous existence for a while but i did on it together i think i did i yeah i i i just well i just i i i think that i have the perfect girl in front of me and then i i decided to throw it all away to the i don't know what is so my oats and i couldn't so one. i. i just realized that i had made a horrible mistake immediately but i can can continuously confessed all of my thoughts and every impulse that i had and every indiscretion that i had and i sabotaged my life co-directing work. it it

works i mean this is such a unique situation because we were telling a story that was about us and so it works you do a lot of planning ahead of time and then if you're if you're doing this kind of movie you have your wife sit there and direct you through scenes that are based on the most embarrassing parts of your relationship so basically i relieved all of the the terrible choices that i had made in front of her and she had to now tell me how to do it so she could say you know grovel more or that well you know this is me this is me spiralling into a pit of just darkness and neuroses how does your wife react to your film from big bang theory. in the most grounded way possible she kind of does

and doesn't let me know that i'm i'm famous which is which is good because i don't i don't think of myself as a as a celebrity really i don't know how how that works for other people you recognize that i am. i celebrate myself anyway even. for i was famous so yeah i know there's undeniable although it happened to me get there day i you know i'm recognized quite a bit but then the other day i was sitting in my car outside of starbucks getting off of the phone and a lady came up and asked me to roll down the window and i said i you know i don't please roll down the window she said are you taxi tax you know i drive a black car windows and so i thought i really regret not. what an adventure it would have been to come home to my my babies and that's all that's the only place i go but i would've gotten paid so i don't know about you baby is it ok what is his costar may be like think of simon's comedy will find out after the break plus the chinos in the house my friend al stay with us.

it's a. very hard to take. that back with me here.

i am the president and i think a society that case i think corporation kind of can get to consume because you can do i think the banks are trying to get all this all about money and i'm actually sick for politicians writing the laws and regulations to tax corporate bankers coming. here is just too much is a society. that. they were very good bunch yeah i mean in front of an audience by then we've usually gotten our giggles kind of out of the way it's all i mean simon helberg who plays while oh it's he he has the ability to make me laugh pretty much any time true you bring up why i cut her off she was saying such amazing things finally some truth i don't know i guess we

are very nice of her she's she always says she's my biggest fan but. i think she's my step that except that i guess i will accept that she's she's hilarious herself we all we break up from time to time but not as much as you might think there's a couple folks that do can all breaks up quite a bit but we're all we're all just kind of in the zone so your character is infamous for impressions conan o'brien said you do the best nicolas cage's ever seen nichols and i hope she's. well. it's an honor to be here although i thought this was your show you did a lot of who don't really know what it means but. oh yes all go with the flow. my dear friend is out but you know we spend a lot of time to give and i know you do well so i mean he do. you know the great you may have what do you remember about him probably not the. one girl she bring me

cafe au lait make my balls feel like concrete. what do you want. to reflect do you ever think of doing a top of the rock and doing bridge and i did do that at one point so i i did it. at probably when i was about nine hundred twenty probably for three four years into my early twenty's and i did a lot of characters and impressions and i. had a brief stint on mad t.v. which was not. not very pleasurable but yes i did a lot of that but then i kind of burns out i don't know it's a little league of bang theory has free golf fans were devoted fans yet are tricky for yes do they treat you in that kind of or inspiring way. yeah there are definitely moments where it feels

a little bit sycophantic i've had my hair cold at comic-con and i don't know if i was cloned but if there's anyone that could have done it it was the odd girl that plucked out a hair so yeah there is there's moments like that when when you're feeling other people's sweat on your skin that becomes a little intense go for the sandys encourage you. i wouldn't say encouraged. not discouraged but i think there's there is there's a lot of there's an understanding of what this business can be and the dangers of it and the trials and tribulations and just it's the rejection and i think any parent probably wants to protect their kids from that but so there was a cautious this too to the encouragement but but certainly you know you playing piano with fourteen i was actually i was playing piano yeah i was

a i played jazz mostly and i was weird little i had braces and i played rock i played on the sunset strip played at the roxy and i couldn't drive i couldn't have a driver's license and i was you know i didn't was to young to even be in there but i was the guy the nerdy savant like that all the handsome blond kids from to paying ask to be in their band so that they could get all the girls well i just soloed like a like rain when there are scrupulous and i. man i love oscar peterson i mean liking jazz at fourteen is. was not the recipe for being cool but i know you mentioned a strange kid i was i was but i went to an artsy schools of a except that it and then you try to play in rock bands so you can be cool but like i said i was i stuck out a bit but i played yeah and i played in the lobbies and plaited thai restaurants and i did a lot of those a big break. as an actor. i mean while certainly

nothing can be big bang was i started to i've been lucky enough to be working regularly since i was nineteen so i supported myself as a nineteen and worked. professionally but big bang before that was on the heels of that was sixty which wasn't a huge hit but it was at least i was. of becoming more of somebody people knew me but you children two little babies when i do i have yes i have a five week old son and i have a two year old daughter and it's weird even though i'm still in the phase where saying that either is going to make me cry or make me just shut down only a lot of children for two months apart home for they are mine are there like almost exactly two years apart so it's wild that this stage is like it's like guerilla

warfare i mean we just wake up to things flying and it's his name is what the name is adeline and my son's name is wilder jimmy moved to gene wilder and he's definitely a huge inspiration to my wife and i and billy wilder and we just thought was gene wilder kind of a comedic hero he definitely is he definitely is i think that he. think he's able to balance again just bring a sense of truthfulness to every character but nothing was ever too big the stakes could never been high enough for him you know it couldn't have been any higher i should say and you you watch somebody who's so enormous and yet so ground at the same time it's it seems that he's retired i guess seems to i've interviewed him a couple times she could be forgot i have i don't know where he is i wish i wish we could see him i would need to see him again what do you make of the big bang theory being banned in china. i think it's it's they won't release

a tremendous amount of information about what happened why do you guess. i think you know some of the some of the articles i've read seem to imply without sounding egotistical or anything that the show is such an unbelievable influence on the youth and the entire country that that i think the government is afraid. if we lose them to what that is the question that has never been answered but i guess people are incredibly i think it's making well i think what it is maybe is that it's giving them enough confidence to feel like they might actually fit in and have a place as these as outsiders and as. as as part of the human race and in the struggle that is a life and i think maybe that government the government fears that they will become empowered with their own self assuredness and banning is so do i don't understand and the good wife and game of thrones exists and you know i guess squishing

people's heads until they explode and that's ok that's fine we have some social media questions saw a movie a twitter wants to know what do you like most about well it's as a character. well i like that he's evolved i like that he started as one thing and has transformed completely into another and that was something chuck loria talked to me about and how fortunate we are and how rare that is to watch a character start as kind of a failed with oreo a sleazy want to be ladies' man and turn into actually a romantic a married man. and somebody who's who is actually starting to become aware of themself as opposed to just acting on every disgusting hormonal impulse so i think it's it's also he's got i guess he's kind of the joker of the group and i do enjoy . i do enjoy getting getting to break that silence with

a joke when when it's teed up like visiting daycares tweets what inspired you and your wife to make i am i. it was all my wife it was it was jostling wrote this brilliant beautiful script that was so unique and we got such an outpouring of support by everybody that read it but it is a very challenging thing to get movies made and she decided to try something that nobody we knew had done at the point at that point which was called kickstarter which now everybody is aware of and we raised one hundred thousand dollars on that which was a record at the time if you can imagine now it's like ten million dollars i think is the record or whatever but it was her drive to tell this story. and we got to be creative and in charge and produce it and she directed it and so we wanted to try try something new we two forty once you know if you're still living in charlie sheen's old manson if so you haven't talked to him. you haven't

is old i don't know how to answer that question. though there he had he his name was on. house that we bought but he he never lived there and the press likes to have fun with it i guess i am i never did i was not in communications and i am not currently in communication with charlie but i have met him on occasion and he was nothing but friendly when i when i tried tyro to each person b. imitate your christopher walken is great. i mean i enjoy i enjoy doing nick cage because i don't even remember what he sounds like anymore it's just in my head it's just this wild news in jersey boys club is he really seen it no i've sort of what effect what a fascinating thing that clint eastwood directed jersey boy i find that while he's amusing i know i know he's a musical good approval of great eight he looks amazing i just i find the shows the

best yeah you know way to up to you know it's it might be a departure from mystic river i'm just here and we had to finish the show a little game of if you only knew ok first person ever kissed first person a girl in seventh grade. it was in someone's closet and we were mostly name. her name was raina. yes and we were on our way to not scary farm. and there was nothing scarier to me than. to see a girl who will find out whatever knowing that i think we might be friends on facebook i don't even if she remembers it because i made a big deal out of everything you get go over the most he give the most. music stuff i'm a huge beatles fan and i i really have i don't know there's something i seek out over sometimes just looking at pictures of the beatles and imagining i saw a picture of them the moment before they crossed abbey road and i just i think i

stared at it for probably fifteen minutes trying to imagine paul mccartney played piano with us while you're now you're just just drawing it why did what was. what happened he had dinner and he came my wife sings and he wanted to hear was she sounded like you know a good house and i lay with her and i listened played with it played for her and then we got to play with it too well and then it was as a music together i mean to become a friend and i will tell them that i have a piano and my wife and i i'll do my best i'll tell you he would do it you never don't lease person you find the funniest man who makes you laugh. my gosh we were time at gene wilder that's a huge one for me. i'm going to say obviously woody allen. jerry lewis peter sellers those rickles people yes yes you know what don the other night is going to do our show soon you know i'm fifty years i mean that's a whole other level i mean some of the world. time travel or space travel. time

travel right yeah i think you like most about yourself. it's hard to pick something i don't like good thinking wallace. this just came off again yeah. there's my god i mean there's the commercial world is a humiliating one and i do remember standing standing in a room and being handed a tiny xylophone for a t.j. maxx commercial and being yelled at by the casting director just be funny do it like pee wee herman do you know who pee wee herman is go and i just remember standing there i had a tie that was too short for me and it was t.j. maxx and the worst part was that i wanted the job so that was what the hell was the best thing about being small i wouldn't know i'm an enormous. the best thing i fit easily into overhead compartments. thank you. thank you i

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