Christopher Guest's Awkward Interview with David Alan Grier (1997)
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- An episode of NBC Later with David Alan Grier as guest host interviewing Christopher Guest. You can cut the awkwardness with a knife. From February 21st, 1997.
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Guest's wife has talked before about how quiet and reserved her husband is, and how he likes to go to France because he doesn't know the language so he can just can sit and read the paper rather than have to converse with anyone.
Hahaha now I have to go to France
@E.A. de Ruiter one of the top 3 I guess. Le Monde? Le Parisien? Le Figaro? Then I'll have to find one more lefty for balance haha
@E.A. de Ruiter i actually think french is the most beautiful spoken language and would have to try to speak it even if i sounded ridiculous. Just out of respect for the history and sound i would feel i have to try
@E.A. de Ruiter I actually took a little 5 week intro to Portugese adult ed course many yrs ago. It was difficult for me to do the nasal whine sounded Asian influenced. Then sometimes I could hear what sounded like Russian influence. I thought it would be easier for me because I had studied Latin but without an Italian background I struggled. Very lyrical language with lots of topography so to speak...
His wife, Jamie Lee Curtis?
Met him in real life and he really doesn't like to talk to people in general. He is a brilliant character actor.
@Zooba57 Is Mr. Guest as handsome in real life as he looks onscreen? Was he dressed in a suit and necktie when you met him?
@@kathrynfauble9053 On the set of ALMOST HEROES where I met him, he was dressed casual, button down shirt. He is handsome with his white hair. I was an extra in ALMOST HEROES playing an Aristocrat at the party that Chris Farley and Matthew Perry attended in the movie. Farley was very nice and told me I reminded him of Jon Lovitz. Great fun. I think Chris Guest is very talented. He seemed quite serious on the set. Happy I got to meet him.
Christopher Guest is brilliant, my overall fav funniest writer director producer actor, muscian, multi talented, please give us more CG love u.
@@Zooba57 Directing is extremely stressful and nonstop problem solving. From my little experience, it's creatively fulfilling but kind of the least "happy and friendly" I've ever been
Come to find out he's a luciferian
It isn't that bad. It is just that we have gotten accustomed to being fed talking points and phony good cheer from actors on these sorts of junkets.
yeah, its awkward but Christopher Guest is one of the all time kings of awkward comedy.
I agree it isn't that bad. This is nothing compared to say Billy Bob's awkward train wreck Q TV interview.
Rich Zito no one said it was bad. They said awkard.
Agreed. “Awkward” has become a buzzword. Imagine: we’ve come to a point in this culture where hearing people talk in their own voices rather than phony valley girl/tech bro speak is considered “awkward”. A normal conversation is considered “awkward”. When Grier starts talking about selling out at 7:23, the milieu he describes is common these days. And nobody points this out. In its own way, we’re living in the 50s all over again.
Very entertaining, very funny, not awkward at all. It appears that the beholders' eyes make a difference.
Hear, hear.
To be fair to Dag, this is one of the few interviews were Christopher Guest laughs.
I think people want him to be "funny" during interviews, but he's a down to earth serious person in 'real' life.
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Christopher Guest does not do anything for people who want him to be funny. He makes his films for the people who appreciate them, and they will stand the test of time.
A little too serious
You know what this kind of show is
So go with the flow or say no to the effing interview
Being sour with someone as nice as David is the opposite of "down to earth"
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...and he's married to a lady (?) who has creepy pedo pictures on her wall.
Well, I can see why David Alan Grier doesn't have a talk show.
Actors as talk show hosts is a terrible idea
The sarcasm is strong in this one.
This is nowhere near as painfully awkward as Guest's Charlie Rose interview.
I barely made it halfway through before I just had to shut it off. Reminds me of a Harrison Ford interview. These guys are just on a different level and refuse to "shmooze". And Grier was all over the place... so put off by Guest's demeanor that he lost his cool and never recovered, constantly cutting off Guest mid-sentence and trying to be cute. What a trainwreck.
Relax, your mind is playing tricks on you. Don't feel attacked. Same shit happens to me. An IllUSION, delUSIonn..
9:56 Eugene Levy from SCTV . . . and other films. As a Canadian I'm so proud of what SCTV did and the comedic power that they had.
Christopher Guest is notorious for being aloof and often difficult during interviews. DAG was on his toes as usual and got the best out of him.
I thought it was a very good interview. The tension of Guest's nature was defused by DAG's sharp wit
Craig Grounds more like dull proddling. "are you really a lord...ahahahaha??" pathetic. guest sensed the anxiety and dialed it down.
Guests usually try to engage and be entertaining or, at least, informative. Guest was zero here, but I still think it was all a skit.
@@zachanscom8616 Maybe so...maybe not. You and I...will most likely never know.
Chris Guest KILLED!!!!
Not that awkward. Christopher Guest is always a difficult interview, even for those who are adept. Just ask Charlie Rose, if you can locate him. Guest has his own cadence and the trick is to keep pace.
Seems like Guest was being himself. Grier did ok. To me it was interesting. Greir can make me laugh just with his facial expressions. Some awkwardness is better than phony banter.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but where was the awkwardness? Now I’ve seen several Harrison Ford interviews and those are somewhat uncomfortable to watch. Like pulling teeth without Novocaine.
He's not trying to make this interview easy for Grier. Almost as if he gets off on seeing people struggle with his way of thinking. Like it's weird.
I love DAG, but have to say in this interview, he really doesn't seem prepared, his questions feel improvised, and they're not the kinds of questions that get Guest to really talk about his process, interests, etc..
I’m a huge fan of both guys. Poor DAG. Chris was giving him absolutely nothing on the returns. Grier tried to do his best to scramble and did it as good as anyone could
It's always really interesting to me when 2 people don't mix lol
I don't know why he agreed to conduct this interview, when so few of the potential audience for his films are likely to be watching this.
Christopher Guest makes the Terminator look joyful. Guy's just ice incarnate.
Love the guy and the movies. But Guest was a bit of an ass from the beginning. "Germ of an idea" is not a unique phrase and Guest certainly knows it. I think he was on this promo junket and just was tired of talking about it. Grier isn't great but with a difficult guest you sometimes lose your focus...unless you're one of the great ones.
Some people are comfortable doing these things and some people aren't. All in all, he did well enough.
I Love Chris Guest. The strangest celebrity crush ever. But it's true.
Strange to who? It's a big world. Everybody likes somebody.
I love him too. It's not strange at all. He's very attractive.
brilliant interview
Were there no tailors in 1997?
Dan Colella lmfao
Actually, yes. All the tailors were starving up until Berlin Wall- destroyer/fashion slave David Hasselhoff appeared in an extremely tight-fitting and well-tailored pair of swimming trunks in that Swish Pants Sponge Boy Sequel ca. 2004 or whatever.
David's show is still running strong right? 😆
Why is there never any mention of Christopher Guest being an English Lord.?
Yeah, Grier was not a good interviewer. He didn't really pay attention to what Guest was saying. He didn't play off of him like a good interviewer should. He was too caught up in himself.
I didn't really enjoy this interview...till I turned my speaker up to 11...then it was much funnier.
Why not just make it go to 10, & make that setting the loudest?
I think Guest is ok here. He is just being deadpan. Not everyone has to be slapstick all time.
Now we're talking
Love Guest. Grier is great, too. Grier kind of talks over Guest a bit, but Guest is also being overly catty. I think Grier is truly a huge fan and a bit nervous and he caught Guest on a bad day.
icallmybabystp lol guest is like that in every interview
They can't relate to each other because they operate on two completely different levels of intellect and comedy. Guest is way ahead of Grier and always has been.
Great interview
He is the Greg Popovich of actors
Jay Torr. Good one.
I don't get it.
I haven't seen enough of either of them, but I get the impression that Guest is just as deadpan as a straight man and it's the audience who isn't getting it. I actually like these pointed questions as opposed to the more ubiquitous fawning, ass-kissing, and chimpanzee flea-picking that goes on these days.
This interview is so much better than anything Conan O'Brien has ever done, not to mention a few others whose mechanical segues are so plastic and phony they ruin the bits. Grier knows what he wants to ask, but he's freeform enough to let his guest Guest riff a little. It's not really awkward if you realize what's going on and why.
It was awkward at the beginning but picked up halfway. I think it took a little bit of back and forth before Guest warmed up to DAG.
Not awkward! Christopher's just really deadpan lol
It is funny that CG's voice is almost exactly the same as Lawrence Krauss.
They're both intellect-off-the-chart alpha males, David was trying to mess with Chris, and Chris's attitude was hey I don't care how this goes, I'm not the one who needs a TV show. "I cannot trip you up"? It's a bad host who tries to trip you up.
I don't think he meant that he was literally trying to trip him up.
Even bringing it up is weird. I love David, I'm just talking about this day, he was nervous, because he was basically auditioning to have this show.
That was so embarrassing that I nearly thought it was staged as a promo for the equally mocking "Waiting for Guffman." I was embarrassed, and Mr. Guest was visibly irritated, that Mr. Grier asked banal questions about Guests' royal title (which he clearly held no interest to him) or Black History Month and other impertinent points that took away, in true Guffman style, from the principal reason that Guest was there -- to talk about his movie. Guest, with his particularly wicked attitude, is giving Grier a lashing, which in my opinion is deserved. It often seemed that Grier wasn't aware that a bored Guest was toying with him like a cat. (As a host, Grier's also weak and facile, a talking head that doesn't really know how to make a conversation engaging). How embarrassing to watch Grier play the race card, confusing "black face" with creating an endearing black character. I'm not sure if it was on purpose when at the closing of the interview Grier cuts Guest off in mid-sentence (spot on the word "rage"); either way, it was crass.
I love Christopher Guest and his work, but he is just too dead-pan in interviews, almost at times to the point of being rude.
Yup
Right from the start, Guest seemed in a bit of a mood.
Idunno, I think a talented interviewer could make it entertaining - he evidently doesn't suffer fools gladly. Constant interruptions with ridiculous quips and pointless laughing doth not a good interviewer make. Grier is trying way too hard here and Guest is having none of it.
Would like to see Guest on Zach G’s Between Two Ferns. Let him see how it feels.
DAVID ALAN GRIER SO FUNNY ON CHRISTOPHER GUEST'S SHOW 1997 !!
Jeez that was painful to watch, though I must be a glutton for punishment as I watched the whole thing!
The tension let up after the talk about Spinal Tap, then they seemed genuinely alright.
I'm more shocked David Alan Grier was host of "later" at one point, and in 1997? I remember Cindy Crawford doing it for a while, pretty sure '97 as well.
I want to know whatever happened to that Chris Farley Lewis and Clark movie!
It’s called almost heroes. Classic movie. You can find it anywhere.
The host can't keep his mouth shut... he isn't interviewing Guest so much as interrupting him! Its hard to watch...
It's really not that bad or awkward of an interview. It's not like he went "Billy Bob" on him or anything. Part of the problem is Grier is a bad interviewer. I think Guest is just dryly having fun with it and not deliberately trying to be difficult or a prick.
It's not awkward in the slightest, it's simply polyrhythmic.
Please, no big words. You make my head hurt.
@E.A. de Ruiter haha I don't know, turns out my dad wrote that comment on my account I'll ask him.
ALL of Christopher Guest's interviews are awkward. Making it awkward keeps him entertained, while doing something he hates doing, which is interviews.
The only interview I witnessed him enjoy, was with his good friend Ricky Gervais: ua-cam.com/video/PhwLvcIR3Sc/v-deo.html
They genuinely enjoy each other's company.
the first Kevin pollak chat show interview he did is fantastic - there's moments of defensiveness/rudeness but also a LOT of content you won't find anywhere else, he really put a lot out there in that one
Grier is really funny and creative with excellent timing. That's what makes his "failure" as a host kind of "spooky". I believe he could have found his niche had he more time. How many seasons did this last? Oh, a day?, nevermind. He was great in Streamers and Amazon Women on the Moon! Love both of them. The comedians and the films. Also, a huge fan of Guest. Incidentally, long walks on the beach and pina colada's are definitely my bag, so if you're in the zip, mosey on over to the rolodex and dial toll-free..1800..stir fry deez nutz...in your mouth.
DAG is the shit. So underrated. Christopher Guest is the one who made this awkward.
costanzaman42 Furthermore, they really are polar opposites personality wise. DAG is loud and in your a face with a sharp wit, Guest is very reserved and introverted. Guest wasn't giving much for DAG to work with and I think he did a good job of sticking it out and getting as much out of Guest as he could.
+costanzaman42 I love DAG. They both made it awkward.
I love him. But I don’t understand why he agrees to an interview if he doesn’t want to do an interview. Makes no sense. And it makes him look really bad.
I dint think he 'hates" doing interviews but rather he likes to show off his style.
Actually, Chris is not aloof or difficult. He is an introvert. He does not suffer fools gladly. He does great with sharp, intelligent and well-prepared interviewers. His sarcasm and brevity can be mistaken for coldness. This is a fun interview except that Grier keeps talking over him due to his nerves.
Oh my. This was really really bad. It is as if something happened between them prior to the interview.
this isn't awkward bad it's awkward funny. david alan grier was a young upcoming comedian having to interview a titan of his industry on a made up show with no point really. so for just killing time with a bad interviewer and a super sarcastic interviewee i thought they did fine.
Grier was already a twenty year veteran comic and actor, just out of his depth here.
Let Chris talk.
How do you think Chris Guest would fair w Eric Andre?
OK, i wonder, what was Greg Kinnear doing, during his time off of "Later", when celebrities took over as special guest host?
This would have been around January of 1997, as that’s when Waiting For Guffman, the film Christopher Guest is plugging, was released.
Greg Kinnear was most likely on the set of either As Good As It Gets and A Smile Like Yours, which were both high level studio films. Both of those films were released later in the summer and Winter of 1997.
DAG just talks too much and made the mistake of not focusing on the work.
That was so painful. About 90% David's fault. Very badly interviewed.
Yeah David talks about himself too much
I didn't realize Jordan Peterson was doing interviews in '97
LOL. Jordan was funnier.
Peterson is grossa
Nothing remotely awkward about this.
Is David Alan Grier taking the piss because there's never been a black person in a Christopher Guest movie ever
Grier was trying to make the entire interview about himself and how jealous he was and was making Guest somehow feel bad for his success, as well as blindsiding Guest with bizarre accusations of racism, especially the Crystal blues sketch. I get the feeling that Grier just doesn't like the guy - maybe he auditioned and didn't get a part - I have no idea, but the hostility from Grief is evident the moment Guest sat down. This wasn't Guest being aloof - this was Grier being an asshole and Guest having the calm and wit enough to handle it, which frustrated Grier even more.
Uhm he said that was one of his favorite sketches on SNL didn't he?
He's just being very dry humoured.
Christopher NOT a Guest. 😂
Ouch...this is hard to watch. Unprepared interviewer feigning laughter awkwardly slowly drowning in his own show. Christopher Guest playing it very straight and just giving him enough to bury himself with. Cringe......I almost couldn't watch.
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Misleadingly titled video, great interview. DAG is excellent.
I reckon the awkwardness is his English side coming out! (I say this as an English person..)
Wow - that interviewer is horrendous.
+Brad Hart david alan grier is fantastic in every measure the interviewee sucks
No. Guest is an ass in a number of interviews. He is obviously intentionally an ass. Brilliant comic, but would hate to be around him.
I don't get it. Wasn't the tension and awkwardness the intention?! DAG even says "They told me you'd be difficult" and he was, but I think it was part of the bit. Kinda like how that Craig Ferguson used to have "awkward silence" moments, on purpose, with his guests. It's funny as hell! Also, how is anyone blaming anyone here?! If it WASN'T a skit, it would be Guest taking the blame cuz he refused to answer or even play along with anything. I don't see Letterman or Carson doing better. If the Guest clams up and gives very short answers, what are you to do?
Grier blew it by not having real questions. He just mumbled on and went on tangents. Asked a lot of yes/no questions. I know he was a guest host --- but he should never be an interviewer.
I don't think this talk show lasted very long
David Alan Grier is a terrible interviewer. That’s why this didn’t worn
Seems more like tension and awkwardness that was brought into the interview. I love Guest and all his work, but he certainly had a bug up his ass about something, either directly related to Grier or took it out on Grier. He even mentions, “this is me having a temper tantrum.”
Sharon Scanlon Yeah, when we see people come out for these interviews, they’ve been backstage being either poured-over or neglected for hours in makeup or pre-interview (where the blue cards come from), so he might’ve arrived with a bug already up his ass or effectively had it placed there by the crew, before walking out to give this interview. Not to defend him necessarily, because he can be a prickly interview subject.
Temperamental artist
Nothing awkward at all
two pros being pros.
Chris just mocks David's over the top comedic style, cause it just wreaks of effort and overreach.. not to mention some typical schlock host questions and behavioral responses.
He is crazy. In a good way. I find it interesting when they talk about an upcoming movie project but never say the title of it.
Somewhat awkward but Christopher didn't give much.
Can he just play Nigel Tufnel all the time? So much more likable than Christopher Guest
Plus Nigel goes to 11
The more I see Chris Guest in person, the less I like him.
David tried to have a good interview here.
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I wonder if, initially, he was put off by Grier's CONSTANT chatter (possibly due to nerves?),.....instead of simply asking a question, and then SHUTTING UP long enough to let Guest answer it, rather than constantly talking over him.
Also, even though Grier goes overboard in praising Guest it, unfortunately, comes off seeming a bit insincere......and maybe that, combined with the fact that (almost) right at the start, Grier actually says to him, "They told me you were going to be difficult....." !!!
I'm sorry, but being told that during the course of an interview just CANNOT be helpful to ANY guest trying to make 'small talk', on camera, in front of a live studio audience....
However, to Christopher Guest's credit, he never checked out, and eventually 'warmed up' to Grier's "style", and somehow made it work.....
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Oh man, this show...even the start where 2 dozen people are told to try their hardest to sound like 200 hundred
Guest was such an unusual guy . I meet celebrities through work and met him in early 2000's.
He was really impossible to interact with .
You tell him you are a huge fan and he stonewalls you . He wasn't funny and I don't think he smiled let alone laughed .
And this was a charity event.
Shearer and McLean were brilliant though .
Maybe he not into the whole celebrity life but just loves the work of it. He literally like a former version of me where I just couldn't vibe with different personality types.
just do not show up. non baron von i wrote this girl.
It's not Grier. Christopher Guest actually did the talk show circuit for Guffman and you can tell that's not really this thing. His sense of humor is SO dry, it just doesn't work in this format.
Ok, I like them both. But DAG is awesome, and Guest was actually being a jerk here.
grier makes for a hilarious character actor but his personality, at least here, is fake and irritating. kudos to guest for handling it as well as he did
Grier should have asked him if his wife was born with a penis and/or balls.
??? What the hell are you talking about ??
Google it.
It's an urban myth don't worry about it.
Awkward? Mate, what's awkward about this?
David isn’t a good host. And for some reason his face and makeup not done. Very funny but never should’ve had a show at this point
Holy shit. That was awful. It all started within the first 5 minutes. "They told me you were going to be difficult." DAG should not have said that. But then again, who knows how far CG would have gone with his annoying rudeness if that had not been said. This is just awful. It does appear that CG started it all. He couldn't just accept that DAG sucked as a host. He just had to be a weird jerk about it. So uncool. And he kept up with his rudeness till the end, but not terribly so.
Guest gets kind of annoying after awhile.
In the '90's anyone would be offered a late night talk show. Almost all of them failed because they put more stock in the popularity of the host than the talent. These are a few that turned them down: David Spade, Cher, Bill Cosby(3 times), Louie Anderson, Rodman, Tom Arnold, and Hank Azariea (voice of Homer Simpson). LOL Arnold Schwarzenegger is now being courted & groomed for a new late show if he can get out of his NBC only contract. Don King and Spike Lee are supposed to be doing some project for BET, but Lee is being "difficult" (go figure).
Azaria is not the voice of Homer.
Chevy Chase being the most glaring example of this. His talk show was nothing short of abysmal.
Hank Azaria voices Moe, Chief Wiggum, Apu and Dr Nick on The Simpsons, amongst others. Dan Castellaneta voices Homer.
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