very amusing guy, doesn`t tolerate fools. He actually enjoyed himself in the Kevin Pollack show, laughed and told funny stories. Part of his act was admonishing Kevin. Best was with Ricky Gervais, those two got on like a house on fire.
I think with Ricky its different because Ricky is such a massive fan. His greatest success is hugely influenced by Christopher's sensibility. Also Ricky did that "meet your idols" series when he was just coming up and was fan boying really hard at that point.
Guest reminds me of Rowan Atkinson. In interviews (when they are not playing a character) both are rather serious and have a very dry humour when making jokes. Many interviewers expect them to be ‚funny all the time‘ guys and are confused when they don‘t put on a comedy show like Robin Williams (who I admire as well) used to do in late night shows.
"I think you're done!" He's definitely snarky but it's usually down to Rose or whoever being kind of an idiot. Guest likes to have fun with people whether they realize or not. He's sparring with them verbally, comedically -- poking them a bit to see what's there, or IF there's anything there. Imagine that the interviewer is instead Harry Shearer or Rob Reiner or Billy Crystal, and you start to see what he's doing... when he's not being serious, which is most of the time.
I don't think he's a prick or grumpy at all. He just has a very dry, British style of humour and it doesn't always come off as if he's being funny if you don't get it. His mind works, as most geniuses minds do, in a way that is a little a-skewed from our minds.
No .... he doesn't suffer fools well & it makes for a hard interview. He should know that, though, & maybe do less interviews, ha ha. He's certainly, maybe playfully, being rude many times here
Mitch Farkas I agree completely. I love LOVE this guy’s sense of humor. He’s a New Yorker with enough wit to be associated with British humor. I love Ricky Gervais Tracy Ullman. All wonderfully funny.
IMHO The thing about Christopher Guest is: Chris knows he is the smartest person in the room, and he never lets the other people in the room forget it. He could lighten up a little and make the situations in this podcast a bit easier for everyone.
@@julietteyork6293 I regret making the post saying that Christopher Guest never lets people forget he is the smartest person in the room. I think I was too harsh.
Yeah, Rose can't seem to grasp the difference between a person and a character they might portray. To Guest, the whole concept of the interview is ridiculous since you don't see flight attendants or mail carriers being interviewed on late night talk shows to discuss their jobs and being highly praised for it.
Oh yeah, he's got no time for idiocy of any kind. What was the Charlie Rose shit about? You don't trust him because he leads a normal life? How do you respond to that?
interviewer has guest on a show: so you're from New York, you moved out when you were 21, you're first car was a chevy Camaro and your dog at the time Rosie had just turned 3, is that right? hey bill! do we have that photo? can we pull the photo of the dog up?
I don't find him rude but rather uncomfortable/self conscious being asked questions. So to soften up the serious atmosphere a bit, he inserts facial expressions and quips as a form of comic relief and reverse distraction.
I feel a little bad for DAG because he seems like a likeable guy. But with all of them, I always come back to the same thing: this is your job. He was told Guest was a difficult person to interview. So maybe the standard crap on note cards isn't going to work. Do your homework.
Christopher doesn't appear to mess around.......pretty straight forward stuff really.......inane questions and interviews sometimes from what's presented here.
Bill Streett, good compilation. I enjoy Christopher Guest's style during the interviews. More interesting than the usual bantor that permeates talk shows.
I love Christopher Guest, don't get me wrong, but if he were not famous, rich & in the entertainment industry, he would probably get the crap beat out of him twice a week for acting like this in everyday life.
Christopher Guest, Jerry Seinfeld and to some degree Norm MacDonald are all incredibly funny and entertaining interviews, because they are so sharp and just murder anyone who asks stupid or repetitive questions.
@@rob_3417 Actually, if you have heard Harry Shearer or Mike McKean being asked about him, they'll tell you that Chris love the work on the product, just not what follows. He is more comfortable being with his friends in interviews, just not the one-on-one.
He has that Chevy Chase snark about him, only he's a much better ad libber. Unlike Chevy however, I don't think he ever crossed the line into being completely obnoxious.
I am a huge fan of Guest in terms of his work. What I am NOT, (like many on this thread and others)is a sycophant type of fan who finds fault in everyone but the common denominator.
Christopher Guest...the poor man's Chevy Chase. Guest wouldn't condescend a Letterman or a Carson, but sit him down with the lamest of interviewers and snark ensues. His first name should be Snarky.
I’m not so sure he’s being “snarky “. It might be that he’s simply more lucid and intelligent as compared to the lame questions ones usually asked during talk show host interviews.
Like many here, I don't think he's being "snarky". Looks like he just not very interested or practiced in the current "style" of interviewing. He's very much an improvisor, so I doubt that he has the pat, polished answers that celebs often furnish - the practiced, "fun stories" that are the staple of most programs covering light entertainment
As one who likes British humor i don’t mark down his attitude as British i mark it done as i’ll show you how board i am doing this therefore i’ll be rude but humorless. why in goodness do they bother interviewing him. He’s bore.
I’m sure interviews are a pain for actors but you don’t have to be a douche. Just play along, get through the questions and end it. No need to humiliate the interviewer on live television.
So...let me get this straight. The definition of snarky is now just being intolerant of having to deal with people being unprofessionally unprepared in an industry chock full of widespread pandering and ignorance? Hmmm.
Well...neither of them seems to know the definition of "germ". "a part of an organism capable of transforming into a new organism"...perfectly reasonable analogy...Grier wen to Yale...shoulda called him out on it. : )
Such a talented, different type of actor in an amazing improviser. Too bad he’s been married for way too many years to Jamie Lee Curtis, living in Malibu. He has become quite a leftist being a husband to an extreme leftist. I think that’s just made him more smug over the years. Plus he hasn’t done anything in a long time now. Plus his right hand man Eugene Levy only works with his own son now pretty much and that’s about it.
Some cultural insights for our American friends. Any reasonably intelligent person with natural comedic ability ( like the average Englishman or Brit as you insist on calling us) would get ' sarky' or sarcastic at the plethora of inept and brain-dead interviewers on US TV asking naff questions like they are on their first day in the job. (What is it with American Interviewers 'competing' with their guests for kudos? I am always amazed at the weird mentality of these US TV Ego personalities that get in their own way, always cutting off the interviewee when speaking or just being so blatently boring and stupid that they are asking for some mental 'face slapping' as a response.. subtley delivered in the disquise of comedy of course!. Look, the Brits take the piss ( make a joke) out of everything, INCLUDING themselves, and that includes individually 'taking the piss' out of oneself! GET IT? Probably not. This is why Brits and Americans are culturally so DIFFERENT. We don't take ourselves or anyone else too seriously. You should all try it ... it's very therapeutic and works much better than you lot popping prescription meds like candy! Christopher Guest's Nigel Tufnell is pretty much a caricature of himself as an English youngster. I guess he grew up in the UK ( in London or the South East ) due to his perfect 'estuary', state educated, English accent. Everyone was either in a rock group or wanted to be in a rock group in those days so there were many idols to emulate. I grew up 17 miles southwest of London in the same town (Bookham) that Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was born in, 5 miles from where Eric Clapton was born (Ripley), 8 miles from Paul Weller (Sheerwater), 6 miles from Jimmy Page( Epsom), 10 miles from Jeff Beck (Wallington) etc etc..it's in the water and its in the culture and its in the DNA. Chris can take the piss out of English rock-star stereotypes all day long. Taking the piss is a BRITISH NATIONAL PASTIME!!! xxx
Also, he didn't grow up in the UK at all. He was born in New York City and raised in New York City. He never lived a day of his life outside the U.S. His father is British however.
Charlie Rose just LOVED to hear himself talk.
That's why Christopher's response was perfect.
Ha ha! I love the fact he's so grumpy. Everyone (especially celebrities) are so concerned with being "liked." He doesn't give a fuck.
One thing he is is literal. Tavis mentions "dcoumentaries" and Chris thinks, I've never made a documentary.
For every time an interviewer was more in love with his questions than the answers. Very good, Mr. Guest.
Christopher Guest is my hero.
They took the piss out of that "Charlie Rose keeps interrupting while asking his question" at the end of For Your Consideration.
very amusing guy, doesn`t tolerate fools. He actually enjoyed himself in the Kevin Pollack show, laughed and told funny stories. Part of his act was admonishing Kevin. Best was with Ricky Gervais, those two got on like a house on fire.
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Hard to tolerate fools when you imagine you are surrounded by them.
+Landrew0 I'm guessing you have trouble being tolerated by just about everybody then? but don't worry old chap it's all in their imaginations.
I think with Ricky its different because Ricky is such a massive fan. His greatest success is hugely influenced by Christopher's sensibility. Also Ricky did that "meet your idols" series when he was just coming up and was fan boying really hard at that point.
The KPCS is great.. he did actually laugh numerous times which is more than the 0 times i’ve seen him laugh elsewhere
I don’t think he ever answered one damn question. Haha
I love how he calls out things without calling them out. He’s so bored with all the idiocy around him you can tell
Do you think he was “bored”when his son became a woman?
@@platogenova9573omfg, stop that.
Guest reminds me of Rowan Atkinson. In interviews (when they are not playing a character) both are rather serious and have a very dry humour when making jokes. Many interviewers expect them to be ‚funny all the time‘ guys and are confused when they don‘t put on a comedy show like Robin Williams (who I admire as well) used to do in late night shows.
Christopher being Christopher. Fantastic!!!
"This one's called 'Lick my love pump' ".
Christopher is an amusing Guest
"I think mine would look better in doubly."
This bloke is hilarious and cuts through the interviewers nonsense in the funniest way. Long live Nigel!
puts me off him tbh - they're doing their jobs as interviewers - and he should be doing his - petulant child
Nice of Charlie Rose to let Chris Guest analyze Charlie Rose's thoughts...
The Christopher Guest Show
...I dunno. What are the hours?
"I think you're done!" He's definitely snarky but it's usually down to Rose or whoever being kind of an idiot. Guest likes to have fun with people whether they realize or not. He's sparring with them verbally, comedically -- poking them a bit to see what's there, or IF there's anything there. Imagine that the interviewer is instead Harry Shearer or Rob Reiner or Billy Crystal, and you start to see what he's doing... when he's not being serious, which is most of the time.
"Good segue" was so funny
I don't think he's a prick or grumpy at all. He just has a very dry, British style of humour and it doesn't always come off as if he's being funny if you don't get it. His mind works, as most geniuses minds do, in a way that is a little a-skewed from our minds.
Agreed.
no...he;s a 'ur wasting my time' doosh...
No .... he doesn't suffer fools well & it makes for a hard interview. He should know that, though, & maybe do less interviews, ha ha. He's certainly, maybe playfully, being rude many times here
Mitch Farkas Bullshit.
Mitch Farkas I agree completely. I love LOVE this guy’s sense of humor. He’s a New Yorker with enough wit to be associated with British humor. I love Ricky Gervais Tracy Ullman. All wonderfully funny.
And to think he is a Baron and could sit in the House of Lords.
God dang I luv that dude. Probably the best human that ever lived.
Probably utter rubbish
It feels like he is interviewing the interviewers 😅
My guest is...Guest...who guessed?
Rose and Smiley, YEESH!
I see so much of him in David on Schitts creek.
fucking love christopher guest
IMHO The thing about Christopher Guest is: Chris knows he is the smartest person in the room, and he never lets the other people in the room forget it. He could lighten up a little and make the situations in this podcast a bit easier for everyone.
Yeah, being difficult doesn't equate to being smart. One might argue it just makes you a dick.
@@tolbydamit I do regret making that original post.
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@@julietteyork6293 I regret making the post saying that Christopher Guest never lets people forget he is the smartest person in the room. I think I was too harsh.
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I think it’s accurate and honest.
"Did you let the cast improvise at all?" Way to not do your homework, DAG
Yes. That guy deserved all the snarkiness he got.
He went to Yale you know
@@dachshund_gaming which makes this interview even more pathetic
@@GoWithHim1 dude was nervous give him a break
@@dachshund_gamingdiversity hire.
I love how he makes the interviews seem so pointless.
Yeah, Rose can't seem to grasp the difference between a person and a character they might portray. To Guest, the whole concept of the interview is ridiculous since you don't see flight attendants or mail carriers being interviewed on late night talk shows to discuss their jobs and being highly praised for it.
"It's not that much math, Kevin," sounds just like McKean's voice.
You gotta love the 1/schmaltz
I find it funny that someone so funny could be so dry 😂
I didn't laugh once...I winced a whole bunch of times
Really? It's not far-fetched. They've gone hand-in-hand for ages.
Oh yeah, he's got no time for idiocy of any kind. What was the Charlie Rose shit about? You don't trust him because he leads a normal life? How do you respond to that?
This is why despise Charlie Rose. And the sexual harassments stuff.
Guest gets "snarky" because he's bored with interviews
interviewer has guest on a show:
so you're from New York, you moved out when you were 21, you're first car was a chevy Camaro and your dog at the time Rosie had just turned 3, is that right? hey bill! do we have that photo? can we pull the photo of the dog up?
He's just doing his Billy Bob Thornton.
But Billy was actually pissed. I think Chris was just playing off the awkwardness.
charlie rose completely wasted this opportunity
I don't find him rude but rather uncomfortable/self conscious being asked questions. So to soften up the serious atmosphere a bit, he inserts facial expressions and quips as a form of comic relief and reverse distraction.
god, he decimates kevin pollak , pollak is like a drowning man there
He doesn't tolerate much bull...his time is precious obviously. ..love Christopher Guest. Very clever man.
Wow, Jamie Lee has a tough gig.
Kinda hard to hear Charlie talk at all, anymore. . .
I feel sorry for David Allen Grier. He really tried, but he didn't come across as believable at all that he was a fan of Guest's work
Mark Wilson Any idea what he was plugging at the time? What a car crash.
He mentions "germ leading into Waiting for Guffman", so that one :)
Jerzy Dankowski You are correct.
"believable at all that he was a fan of Guest's work" The idea that Grier didn't enjoy This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride is silly.
I feel a little bad for DAG because he seems like a likeable guy. But with all of them, I always come back to the same thing: this is your job. He was told Guest was a difficult person to interview. So maybe the standard crap on note cards isn't going to work. Do your homework.
Christopher doesn't appear to mess around.......pretty straight forward stuff really.......inane questions and interviews sometimes from what's presented here.
Bill Streett, good compilation. I enjoy Christopher Guest's style during the interviews. More interesting than the usual bantor that permeates talk shows.
Dr. House vibes...
Love his stuff. Seems miserable to be around. Ugh. Nightmare.
He's great and so very talented but a nightmare mix of British aristocrat, New Yorker and artist.
I love Christopher Guest, don't get me wrong, but if he were not famous, rich & in the entertainment industry, he would probably get the crap beat out of him twice a week for acting like this in everyday life.
He likely doesn't act like this in everyday life, though.
charlie rose talked more than his guests
Some interviewers are dumb, some are nice. He treats them all with contempt. He’s a funny comedian, but I guess he gets off on ranking them out.
How did I not know DAG had a talk show?
Because it looked terrible.
When did David Alan Grier have a tv show?
He didn't, he was guest-hosting as an audition which is why he was so nervous.
Christopher Guest, Jerry Seinfeld and to some degree Norm MacDonald are all incredibly funny and entertaining interviews, because they are so sharp and just murder anyone who asks stupid or repetitive questions.
cause you took advantage of a alki. that wrote you.
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It well known Christopher Guest doesn't like fame and doesn't like interviews.
Seems to enjoy them all the same
@@rob_3417 Actually, if you have heard Harry Shearer or Mike McKean being asked about him, they'll tell you that Chris love the work on the product, just not what follows. He is more comfortable being with his friends in interviews, just not the one-on-one.
He's not grumpy or being an asshole, he's just dryly making fun of interviews. Some people are so naive.
He has that Chevy Chase snark about him, only he's a much better ad libber. Unlike Chevy however, I don't think he ever crossed the line into being completely obnoxious.
He's not difficult at all just sees through all the bullshit
I am a huge fan of Guest in terms of his work. What I am NOT, (like many on this thread and others)is a sycophant type of fan who finds fault in everyone but the common denominator.
Well, here's your trophy.
Christopher Guest...the poor man's Chevy Chase. Guest wouldn't condescend a Letterman or a Carson, but sit him down with the lamest of interviewers and snark ensues. His first name should be Snarky.
Is this the guy who’s son transitioned to a female? I wouldn’t be so smug if I was him. One must look to the parents first in this tragic case
These are snarky? I don't get it. Gee, he was cute when he was young--love that dimple.
I’m not so sure he’s being “snarky “. It might be that he’s simply more lucid and intelligent as compared to the lame questions ones usually asked during talk show host interviews.
It's not Guest.
Like many here, I don't think he's being "snarky". Looks like he just not very interested or practiced in the current "style" of interviewing. He's very much an improvisor, so I doubt that he has the pat, polished answers that celebs often furnish - the practiced, "fun stories" that are the staple of most programs covering light entertainment
As one who likes British humor i don’t mark down his attitude as British i mark it done as i’ll show you
how board i am doing this therefore
i’ll be rude but humorless.
why in goodness do they bother
interviewing him. He’s bore.
I’m sure interviews are a pain for actors but you don’t have to be a douche. Just play along, get through the questions and end it. No need to humiliate the interviewer on live television.
Very dry, but he's just not buying into the rationale of the interviews
If you were married to Jamie Lee Curtis, you'd be miserable too.
that david allen grier interview is awful. car crash of an interview
Where is he being Snarky? this is called being real, stupid question and stupid comments deserve to be mocked.
can you blame him?
So...let me get this straight. The definition of snarky is now just being intolerant of having to deal with people being unprofessionally unprepared in an industry chock full of widespread pandering and ignorance?
Hmmm.
But seriously, do you blame him?
Well...neither of them seems to know the definition of "germ". "a part of an organism capable of transforming into a new organism"...perfectly reasonable analogy...Grier wen to Yale...shoulda called him out on it. : )
It is disappointing that he’s a prick. He doesn’t have to be.
Genious but he is a jerk, poor JimmybLee Curtis.
ewwwwwww
All of them deserved it. Bad interviewers.
Such a talented, different type of actor in an amazing improviser. Too bad he’s been married for way too many years to Jamie Lee Curtis, living in Malibu. He has become quite a leftist being a husband to an extreme leftist. I think that’s just made him more smug over the years. Plus he hasn’t done anything in a long time now. Plus his right hand man Eugene Levy only works with his own son now pretty much and that’s about it.
There's snarky funny and there's snarky a**hole. I'm leaning toward the latter. A great disappointment.
You're in the minority, not necessarily saying that you're wrong but you are definitely in the minority.
He’s not terribly likeable here...or funny unfortunately.
He’s playing a character, he’s just trying to be funny.
Some cultural insights for our American friends. Any reasonably intelligent person with natural comedic ability ( like the average Englishman or Brit as you insist on calling us) would get ' sarky' or sarcastic at the plethora of inept and brain-dead interviewers on US TV asking naff questions like they are on their first day in the job. (What is it with American Interviewers 'competing' with their guests for kudos? I am always amazed at the weird mentality of these US TV Ego personalities that get in their own way, always cutting off the interviewee when speaking or just being so blatently boring and stupid that they are asking for some mental 'face slapping' as a response.. subtley delivered in the disquise of comedy of course!. Look, the Brits take the piss ( make a joke) out of everything, INCLUDING themselves, and that includes individually 'taking the piss' out of oneself! GET IT? Probably not. This is why Brits and Americans are culturally so DIFFERENT. We don't take ourselves or anyone else too seriously. You should all try it ... it's very therapeutic and works much better than you lot popping prescription meds like candy! Christopher Guest's Nigel Tufnell is pretty much a caricature of himself as an English youngster. I guess he grew up in the UK ( in London or the South East ) due to his perfect 'estuary', state educated, English accent. Everyone was either in a rock group or wanted to be in a rock group in those days so there were many idols to emulate. I grew up 17 miles southwest of London in the same town (Bookham) that Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was born in, 5 miles from where Eric Clapton was born (Ripley), 8 miles from Paul Weller (Sheerwater), 6 miles from Jimmy Page( Epsom), 10 miles from Jeff Beck (Wallington) etc etc..it's in the water and its in the culture and its in the DNA. Chris can take the piss out of English rock-star stereotypes all day long. Taking the piss is a BRITISH NATIONAL PASTIME!!! xxx
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Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross don't compete with their guests? They're even louder and more obnoxious and desirous of audience attention.
Also, he didn't grow up in the UK at all. He was born in New York City and raised in New York City. He never lived a day of his life outside the U.S. His father is British however.
Wrong. He pretty much exclusively lives in the Uk, and as a kid he went to the Uk all the time.
I feel asleep halfway through that