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seven presidents marlon brando. i pledge praise over every day every day i'm just a little jewish more than. i wanted to get on the radio and that was sixty one years ago i had ample and leave god the lady three years old can't believe that a thanks for sticking around tonight on the big picture larry king i am honored to be in your company on r t america thanks to all of sado everyone else in that evelyn's. go by and thank you for watching and for keeping the conversation going between t.v. shows on twitter i am at holland cook and i offer stands if you follow me i'll follow you but don't just follow lead me to stories you think we should tell here on the big picture make this your show and if you can watch us somewhere else you can now also find us on direct t.v. channel three two one. question more. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that. fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most deluded society on politics as a species of endless a

something but you're convinced that they're going to find you out at any moment we got mad at marlon brando when he called it lying for a living yeah it is lying but it's you know the terrible philosophical problem is that the the reality part is just as much of a lie as you like to have done more dramatic roles i did a lot before film and television my whole theater career was mostly dramatic roles and i was longer than my film and television griff you have want to go back to theater yes. all the time but i have children and it's very hard to do you know if they're young when they get older i think i can probably go to broadway sure what isn't that the actor's biggest game be it live theater yeah i heard an opening as the director's gone yeah that's for sure the tough part about theater is if you're in a commercial production which lasts you know could last a year or something that's very difficult you're doing a show is a week and you have to figure out how to not go perfectly mad which happens i did i've done shows the last two years and i'm out there in the middle of the year one in the

brown did you ever try to get more brando oh marlon used to call me he would call me in the office and we would talk i'm never going to be on inside the actor's studio because lee strasberg said he trained me and i was trained as a model and i was trained come on we'll talk about what do you know about the american indian we had long conversations and driving. he had nothing else to do up there he didn't mark talk about acting. no he didn't he spit the bit. to use a question term and he decided that it wasn't a word the. patient despite the fact that for a few brief years he was the greatest live on the tonight show and he kissed when he said acting is lying for a living and he'd rather read the play than watch the play a lot of his contemporaries took umbrage with him and were saying it isn't like you know it in you know why it is in line for a living because what he was every single moment of of that moment you were in

in the book was that writing a joke for a politician ex-like dedesigning something stunning for marlon brando when he is past his prime. when we were writing for president obama, even though he had a sense of comic timing that lot of politician does not, you're still thinking about what is the line for him, so, for example issue think about a joke in 2013, he said one thing i all republicans agree on they need to do a better job of reaching out to minoritied. call me self-centered but i can think of one minority they should start with. liked the joke but we wondered whoa he president want to refer to him as a minority in public. not have been a question in jon stewart's writing room. of course you could say that but that was edgey for the president. to me humor -- one thing you learn is it's similar to other speeches. it's not just the words on payment, not just the speaker. it's the kind of combination of the person, the moment and the content. >> your introduction emphasized the use of the administration and your own opening remarks discussed an undercurrent of your naivete maybe, think was

pun the book was about writing a joke for a politician is like designing something stunning for marlon brando passed his prime. when we writing for president obama, even though he had a sense of comic timing that a lot of politicians do not, you're still thinking about what is the line, what is of the line for him? for example, i think about a joke in 2013, he said one thing all republicans grin is they need to do a better job of reaching out to minorities, called me self-centered but i can think of one minority they can start with. i like that joke but one of the things we were wondering is, would the president what to refer to himself, be comfortable referring to himself as a minority in public. that would not have been a question and john stewart's writing room. of course you could say something like that that that was edgy for the president in that moment. it was a step he had not taken before. to me humor, one of the things you learn about is it's similar to other speeches. it's not just the words on the page, not just the speaker. it's this combination of the person, the moment and the

put in the book was riding a joke for politician is like dining designing something stylish for marlon brando the copyright is gone. we're writing president obama even though he had a sense of comic timing that politicians do not you are still thinking about what is the line for him. for example, i think about a joke in 2013 he said one thing all republicans agree on is a need to do a better job of reaching out to minorities call me self-centered but i can think of one minority they should start with. i liked that joke but one of the things we are wondering is is what the president want to refer to soft and be referring to himself as a minority in public. that would not have been a question in jon stewart's but that was edgy for the president in that moment. it was a step he hadn't taken before. to me, humor, one of the things you learn about is it's similar to other speeches and not just the words on the page and not just a speaker but this combination of the person, the moment in the context. >> your introduction emphasize the use of the administration and your own opening remarks and your

call him a young jewish marlon brando. >> not the first time you played his son on screen.teresting because i felt like dustin was a totally different dad in this one. in a way it felt like a new thing. >> what surprised you about working with each other. >> besides dustin all the time is always putting for you as an arc, me and ben, i just loved him. we loved seeing each other every day. i loved seeing him. an amazing brother-in-law feeling and our scenes together i was so excited to do them. >> but that fight scene. >> yeah, hated ha. >> doesn't he play dirty. >> that's the way it was edited. >> he was dirtier than me in left me with a big bruise. >> we did get hurt. there was little safety on set. no precaution. wasn't any rehearsal. usually they have opportunity people and we were like, just, we'll be able to check in with each other, but then like the first time he's -- >> he said -- he said, i started the hard part. i literally -- i was telling ben there's one spot because we did about 50 takes and one spot that take three started to aggravate me already so i'd say if

brown did you ever try to get more brando oh marlon used to call me he would call me in the office and we would talk and i'm never going to be on inside the actor's studio why because lee strasberg said he train me that's a lie i was trained by the mob and i was trained to come on we'll talk about what do you know about the american indian we had long conversations with dr. what did he have nothing else to do up there he didn't like talking about acting no he didn't he spit the bit. to use a question term and he decided that it wasn't a word the. patient despite the fact that for a few brief years he was the greatest. live on the. we kissed when he said acting is lying for a living and he'd rather read the play than watch the play a lot of his contemporaries took umbrage with him and they were and it isn't like you know why it isn't mine for a living because what he was every single moment of of that moment you were in search of the truth which is the opposite of lying he was talking nonsense in the end he was talking absolute nonsense but he was a greatest for a while brooke drivers p