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In an interview with Jennifer Lawrence

just published in a modest academic quarterly

called Vanity Fair,

the actress took control of the conversation,

put an important question to her own interviewer.

Do you like Curb Your Enthusiasm, she said.

Do you like Larry David?

I'm in love

with Larry David.

(audience laughing)

And I have been for a very long time.

Oh, smart kid.

Wait. It gets better.

I worship Woody Allen,

but I don't feel it way below the belt

the way I do for Larry David.

I like the use of the word: way.

Way. Yes. Way.

Maybe she's referring to her knees.

Any reaction, ethical or otherwise?

Well, I would say it's a shame

that I'm about 40 years older than she is.

What?

Oh, no, no, I don't think ...

This is a magazine they publish in the Book-offs.

Don't worry. It's okay.

No, I don't think I could do it.

I couldn't do it.

Immense relief.

One the one hand,

it's very flattering.

On the other hand,

it's kind of a shame.

Yeah.

In terms of timing.

In terms of timing, yes.

Okay.

But I think would have fun

watching the reality shows with it.

I think that would be fun.

The housewives of Atlanta, you know.

I want to find a way to discuss

the whole of Larry's career

and he grew up in Sheepshead Bay

in deepest, darkest Brooklyn.

This is correct.

Son of Rose and Morty David.

Just as we were coming out

I asked you did your parents ever go to see you

in your early days,

very brief, as a struggling stand up comedian

in places like Catch a Rising Star

and all those places that were so popular

with your peers in the 70s.

Yeah.

So, they must have been there every night

to see you and support you.

Not once.

First of all,

I wouldn't let them come

because if they saw me bomb

they would have jumped off a building.

That would have been the end of it.

I flew them out to Los Angeles once.

Front of the plane?

First class, front of the plane.

I flew them out First Class.

I put them up in a beautiful hotel

overlooking the ocean in a nice suite

and I called my mother.

I said, 'alright, I'm going to come pick you up'

'for dinner at six-thirty.'

She said, 'we're at the Days Inn in Santa Monica Boulevard.'

'You don't need to fly me First Class, Larry.'

'I don't need the hotel like this'.

So, they went to a 50 dollar a night hotel.

What did they want you to be?

When you were growing up in Brooklyn,

your father was in the, as we call the Schmatta business.

Yes, my father was in the garment business, yes.

What did he do?

He sold men's clothing.

Garments?

Garments. Suits, sport jackets, things like that.

All the stuff I had zero interest in.

Right.

My mother actually wanted me to be a mailman.

That was her dream.

Best case scenario, you know,

because you have benefits,

you always have a job.

Right.

Any you know,

I don't think I wouldn't have been a very good mailman.

That credo of the sleet, the rain, the hail, the snow.

The hail would have gotten me for sure.

I would not have delivered in hail.

I would have called the boss.

I would have said, I know about the creed,

but it's hailing out.

Are you crazy?

Foom! It will kill you, that hail.

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