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Video: John Waters Makes us ‘Carsick’ on ‘The Colbert Report’

June 11, 2014 By Thelma Leave a Comment

I saw John Waters perform his hilarious and filthy Christmas spectacular at Poughkeepsie’s Bardavon Theater a year ago. Afterwards, my husband and I went backstage and bumped into Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz in the greenroom. Not quite Divine returned from the grave, but still.

Never underestimate how far and wide Waters’ appeal stretches. What I love about John is how funny and connected he is in the moment, and how widely read and culturally savvy. He now has a new book, a combination of fiction and travelogue about hitchhiking from Baltimore to San Francisco called Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America. Here he is with Stephen Colbert doing the dog-and-pony show and nailing it:

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I’m betting the highlight of my summer culture calendar will occur when Waters interviews “Filmmaker on the Edge” David Cronenberg at the Provincetown Film Festival. I think Waters is a great interview but what I discovered at Provincetown on Cape Cod is that he was also a terrific interviewer.

Filed Under: Books, Movies & TV Tagged With: Carsick, David Cronenberg, John Waters, Provincetown International Film Festival, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

Interview: Marlo Thomas

October 5, 2010 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Marlo Thomas, 72, star of iconic sitcom That Girl, daughter of comedian Danny Thomas, and wife of chat TV’s Phil Donahue, has a new book. Growing Up Laughing: My Story and The Story of Funny alternates memoir and interviews with comedians including Joy Behar, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine May and many others. We sat down at her Fifth Avenue penthouse to dish about her current projects, including newly launched http://www.marlothomas.aol.com/.

 Naturally, she cracked me up. More unexpected: I made her laugh, too.

Thelma: Are comics born or made?
Marlo: There may be a gene somewhere but it has to do with how you’re brought up. My sister, brother and I have the exact same sense of humor. I can fall over laughing from their emails. A lot of it does have to do to your family’s approach to comedy.
T: In your book, comics repeatedly talk about how funny their families were…
M: Jerry Seinfeld said his father had a joke file. Chris Rock said his grandfather was a funny guy who drove a cab and Chris would drive in the cab with him. Robin Williams‘ mother pulled pranks. Most of them had somebody funny in their family and there was a lot of laughter around the kitchen table.
T: I was teasing my daughter because a recent study said you should have dinner around the kitchen table at least 3 times a week or your children are more prone to smoke pot.
M: That’s funny
T: But it didn’t say any thing about how if you sit around the table your children could become comedians.
M: hah hah hah hah hah. Well, it’s true. Jerry Seinfeld said that the dinner table is a great stage. 

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Filed Under: Books, Celebrity Tagged With: Chris Rock, Danny Thomas, Huffington Post, humor, Jerry Seinfeld, Marlo Thomas, Stephen Colbert

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