#today is larry gelbart's birthday and i've spent the last year consuming much of his body of work
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Interview with Larry Gelbart on Charlie Rose, 1998
#i don't know what to say about this lol so i'm just putting this clip up and rambling in the tags#today is larry gelbart's birthday and i've spent the last year consuming much of his body of work#i recommend watching the first bit of this interview because he explains his approach to comedy#which boils down to 'in order to write comedy you need to be funny'#and then he proceeds to make a bunch of these kinds of jokes#and you can hear hawkeye in his voice. the light self-deprecation /#the biting wit / the way he treats the interviewer like an improv partner#he's not anticipated his answers he's performing them on the spot#he goes on after this to wax poetically about MASH but he ends on a punchline as usual#the rhythm is the same as hawkeye's speech in 'chief surgeon who'#anyway yeah i'm weird about this old man#happy birthday ty for [gestures]#larry gelbart#oh also early MASH is jewish i will explain later
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