Leno is the arm.

It really does feel paced like his movies. This clip is odd in an unintentional way

B A and the set design gives lynch vibes

i love how i know exactly what you mean

It's David Lynch's world. We just live in it.

This show was probably the inspiration for that scene

it's excactly like rabbits!

@@robertsimpson4120 No...? It's just that they seem to laugh when something funny isn't happening and go dead silent when something funny is happening. Gives it a really off-kilter, almost Eric Andre Show-esque vibe.

@RDS yes

No, they're just Leno fans

Crowd coaches. Some late shows even pipe in laugh tracks for the psychological suggestion factor. Leno really isn't as funny as the audience makes it sound.

That's what happens when you have such a genius in a room full of idiots.

I think the satire is what's funny. He makes everyday things seem interesting.

By a mile, right?

That's not an endorsement it is America after all......

Lynch is probably the smartest person in most of the rooms he walks into.

CazzSDMF - You’re the one who can’t even spell the word “you” properly. Sort your shit out.

Dr John was quite sharp and very cool, but you gen-whatever schmucks don't have a clue, do you?

i was so happy when he said that i honestly thought i was alone with this idea

That part hit me, I've been feeling the same till my late 20s

It happens every few years. You look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking before.

Exactly. Just the very idea of David Lynch being interviewed by Jay Leno is bizarre enough. I would have to think that the irony was not lost on Lynch when he agreed to do this.

+Sam Longmire I thought Britta was the worst :D

+JoeEnigma holy shit are you a stalker? how would you know I'm a Community fan???

Sam Longmire Isn't everyone? they should be

+JoeEnigma are you fucking with me? like do we know each other? because it's not a terribly popular show...

Rare endangered Community fan checking in here.

David Lynch and John Irving are geniuses.

This sentence is fabulous X

***** That's the point. It only refers to things you're going to have to do anyway (or should be doing anyway). Waking and sleeping, eating, showering and haircuts and fashion, exercise, all that kind of stuff. Should be given over completely to habit. For most of us this would include work and money making.

Annette Skandrick which book of his are you referring to?

I think he wrote about it in Talks to Teachers (it's got a longer title but googling that + his name would bring you to it), and probably in other places.

damn

This makes an incredible amount of sense. It wouldn't surprise me if this was the influence for it.

Yeah that makes alot of sense now haha

yo wtf

The people in the crowd are there to see Jay Leno and not David Lynch. Says a lot I think.

sigh

It's an old comment, but I think the crowd has those flashing signs saying clap or cheer in front of them right? No idea if that's actually a thing though.

stevenaball333 cause lynch sucks

CazzSDMF no. He is awesome to me.

Pretty pretentious

@@Cazz8203 no, he doesn't.

CazzSDMF - He “sucks”, you say? What the fuck have you ever done that gives you the credentials to make a claim like that? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Yes, yasss... US talkshows just work that way. Doesn't mean it can't be different, and obviously between in-depth / smart shows (Dick Cavett, Larry King, Craig Ferguson etc) and light entertainment (Letterman, O'Brien, Fallon etc), there are differences, but generally it's absurd to think Lynch and Leno were ever going to have an intellectual debate. It's just not the forum for this.

Jimmy Fallon is the exact opposite. Throwing in his fake laugh whenever he can.

yeah they were vibing

You need to get laid... pronto!

Lilian Rebelle You must be from Europe. 😜

Guy LeDouche yeah true but I also wonder where was he (Lynch), in which country? there are big cultural differences between, let's say Italy and Finland. or Hungary and Ireland.

I feel like the cultural differences aren't much bigger than the differences between various regions of the US. A place like a small town in Alabama may as well be a different country than southern California. People even sound completely different. I guess to an outsider, we notice your similarities more than your differences. Of course you're not completely the same in our eyes, but yeah, more similar than you see yourselves.

geographically the US & Europe are equivalent in their range of diversity, culturally you could step into a village ten miles away in Europe and be in a completely different world, I'm furious that Americans, Britons, and other Anglo-Saxons continue to falsely equivocate Europeans (as a cultural entity) to America/Anglo-Saxons (as a cultural entity) I do use Europe as a cultural-geographic term but I'd never imply there's equal amount of cultural distance there as there is here in America; Australians and Americans have more in common than the Dutch and the Germans have in common

you dont know shit about david lynch and dont fucking pretend to.

@@benbeast123 I know he's current with the weather.

yes, youre right.....im not a big leno talkshow fan but the two seemed compatible here despite the scripted questions and leno tryinig to invoke laughs

@@camelgus It seemed fine to me for what it was. Surely Lynch knew what Leno and late night talk shows were all about. Lynch was on there to promote himself and his work, not for any deep philosophical conversation, and I doubt anything in this interview bothered or surprised him.

Yes, of course he is aware of his eccentricity, and the best artists just happen to be on the eccentric side...artists are often also more sensitive. I guess this may have long hence been just a part of the artist's relationship with the public...to be partially the fool at the butt of the jokes. However, I still despise this aspect of people...but I guess it's part of how they cope with having their minds blown. On a talkshow though, I think Leno showed bad form here. Even if he was nervous about not having enough fluent conversation and material for funnyness to transpire, he should not have made fun of his guest. Besides, I think if Leno wanted to imply that Lynch was a bit wacko, then how would a wacko know better than "normal" people if something is wacko or not? As far as Lynch goes, I applaud him endlessly. His ability to "roll with the punches" must somehow be attributed to his habitual meditation. He's super-disciplined.

Yes, I believe that everything can be an art form in as far as it is done "artfully," which is also relative. I also believe that some mediums just happen to lend themselves to creativity more than others, ie the paint brush compared to the welding rod. Something about the flexibility of use to more practical functionality ratio...? Also, I think genius in all forms is milked out of people who were somehow different, or disturbed, more than usual, but they knew deep inside that despite what others might say, they had something special, so they managed to scramble to find their outlet(s) and just went for it. The artists who use these mediums have certain predispositions that make them abnormal. For example, many visual and audio artists alike experience some sort of synesthesia, which is the feeling of certain sounds as colors and vice versa. So, it doesn't have to be a mental illness that predisposes someone to genius, although it might have often been the case. But I think high levels of cognitive dissonance can be formed in the mind to pressure people to have breakthoughs, such as when someone's background highly contradicts their internal inclinations. This concoction could create a perfectly miserable environment for an artist to flourish lol, but the idea of the miserable "starving artist" is also changing. Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of things for the serious artists to rebel against and make statements with conviction about, but we the people are generally living in less oppressive conditions these days. I the best art acts as a sort of reflection of some aspect of humanity, so the artist sometimes has to process this on some level and spit it back out; the artist will be picking up on whichever underlying currents are vibrating through the cultural narrative at the time and express it somehow, contributing all the while to the Jungian "collective unconscious" if you will. In this way and others, I think art is very spiritual. Lynch speaks the unspeakable; in order to be able to do that and be aware of these "under the surface" things. Like you said, he is aware of his sacrifice of superficial concerns in lieu of that kind of access.

You all talk on "how an artist is", but it makes no sense because an artist is a person and there can be as many kind of artists as kind of persons are, such wideness can art encompass. Look that even in science, which is much more rigorous in it's standards, there are lots of personalities around, there's the Einstein kind, which is a nowadays classic (a genius with humour, compassion, taste for classical music, etc), the Michio Kaku kind, more eccentric, the Rupert Sheldrake, an avant-garde or something, the Richard Dawkins, polemic... Well in art you have sometimes someone like Lynch, who is quite an unique character with his strangeness in fims and all his meditation stuff, quite an unique combo there... You don't need to be strange or hilarious or contemplative or a sufferer, you don't even have to have lots or experiences or anything to accomplish "good art", because there are so many kinds of good art as tastes can be, and there are standards for every one of them... Maybe Lynch is a standard for himself :P

***** Well... I think I can judge any opinion as long as I am polite in my discrepancy. I appreciate your comment... It's true that most great artist did have some special issues, but it was just one gear assembly more inside the whole mechanism of their minds, I wouldn't think it was any crucial factor in finally producing the visions necessary to the creation of art... Maybe it just made their work more original in some of it's aspects

That experience can be extremely thin and nonetheless it can be wide as a planet in the artist's mind. It's not the external conditions that make great art or science of philosophy possible. It's the person's way of interpreting these conditions, any of them, what makes the difference. Maybe you are bored because there's no contrariety in our conversation. So next time I will troll the whole thing so it gets more exciting :P

Leno?!

This is an incredible comment.

his audience is insufferable,,,fat trailer sweat pants rubes

Leno is Leno. I think Lynch was probably delighted with the irony of doing this when he agreed to go on the show. I expect Leno to be a bore, no matter who he’s interviewing. I just love the whole surreal aspect of Lynch actually being on his show.

MirumExMachina dumber arch. You gotta love autocorrect.

Trogg Door fuck

MirumExMachina I also thought he was going to have a deeper voice and thought he would be British. He sounds like Rex from Toy Story

SwirlyJoe, He is from Montana.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7N6o8WLxJ-XnX0.html

one of the best sitcoms ever.

Yes, I watched it on KZfaq. The first episode is gold.

and unfortunately they represent the great majority of Earth. No Clue. lol :(

Your missing it... he's intentionally good at dry humor.

no he not

Thanks for the heads up. You should check out "The Hidden", If you are a Lynchian Twin Peaks fanatic like me.

What Lynch is talking about is an awakening when you see life from a different or expanded reality, or life in “the big picture”. You can never go back to the blasé of “normal” again.

Yeah, and leno completely misunderstood that line.

+Marina MM He gets him, he's just projecting what he thinks the middle american audience is thinking for comedic effect.

It’s a gem. But you can’t really be surprised network killed it once they saw.... 😆

David Lynch is hysterical.

djbethell No they dont lol

Watch Eraserhead. Please.

You're right, you don't know who he is