David Simon on His Favorite Characters from His Shows and More

David Simon on His Favorite Characters from His Shows and More - Late Night with Seth Meyers

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9 жыл бұрын

The Show Me a Hero and The Wire creator sits down with Seth in a digital exclusive.
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David Simon on His Favorite Characters from His Shows and More - Late Night with Seth Meyers
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@siphillis 3 жыл бұрын

Omar is the most charismatic and memorable character, but Freamon and Colvin are probably the ones most worth emulating. Competent, creative, focused, and unconcerned with glory or recognition.

@MarcillaSmith 2 жыл бұрын

Cutty?

@diegopachon8051 9 жыл бұрын

Bunk Moreland was my favorite character, and knowing he was based on a real person makes him even more amazing!

@1b0o0 5 жыл бұрын

A lot of the main characters are based on real people. In fact, Donnie Andrews, who inspired Omar's character, appears in the series. bit.ly/2MA2ses

@Toadspring 3 жыл бұрын

gotta love the bunk

@Eyk3344 2 жыл бұрын

@Atlastheyote222 2 жыл бұрын

@@Toadspring I literally came here to comment that. Gotta love the bunk

@Toadspring 2 жыл бұрын

@@Atlastheyote222 they say great minds think alike haha

@jeffwilson3363 5 жыл бұрын

The wire had so many amazing characters..Bubbles, Stringer, Tommy Carcetti, Bunk, McNulty and of course Omar....just amazing.

@themanwithnoname5325 3 жыл бұрын

All of these comments and I love how many people’s favorite characters are all different. Amazing, a true testament to the greatest of the wire

@TheTricktracktruck 2 жыл бұрын

Word

@improbablywrong 5 жыл бұрын

D’Angelo Barksdale. Wish he stayed longer

@TheFreestylaaaH 4 жыл бұрын

D'Angelo was such a good character. A great soldier for his uncle but also smart, self aware and not entirely ruthless like Chris and Snoop.

@lawrencengugi3290 3 жыл бұрын

Dont we all..

@matthewdar886285 2 жыл бұрын

Wallace

@MA-rf6bd 5 жыл бұрын

How’s no one saying Bodie such a underrated character

@xorpe7172 5 жыл бұрын

Mohammed Ahmed I love Bodie

@SKULLCRUSHERnr1 4 жыл бұрын

Bodies death still hurts

@akxnehtgdfbdfb7448 3 жыл бұрын

Bodie fought back against the honorless way marlo was running west baltimore

@robertbaratheon2193 7 жыл бұрын

Slim Charles anyone?

@garyodriscoll7988 7 жыл бұрын

Kenard is tougher than him!

@omertadmn 6 жыл бұрын

"That was for Joe."

@robertbaratheon2193 6 жыл бұрын

Gary O Driscoll ha! Maybe one day as he evolves or gets a cap when he's in his late teens after he gets out.

@Collins1118 6 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah. Slim, Omar..Bubbles...so many great characters. Many will say Omar, that an easy one but Slim was definitely one of my favs in a small and maybe underrated role.

@nanka2002 6 жыл бұрын

yep, count me in....

@ASAPCOCKYUPTOWN 8 жыл бұрын

Gotta love david simon his book the corner changed my life

@missbelled6700 3 жыл бұрын

Cannot say just how much I respect the man for acknowledging and trying to work around the pitfalls of releasing meaningful art to an entertainment-hungry public. Really wish the attitude was more common.

@Asidders 5 жыл бұрын

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@Pawsomekids1 4 жыл бұрын

Seneter 😁😁

@justinshalu8034 6 жыл бұрын

Bodie was my fav character

@foxsake6634 4 жыл бұрын

Bodie was the true essence of The Wire. Absolutely love that character, not my #1 personal favorite but up there with the best.

@stevenbulmer6424 4 жыл бұрын

Justin Shalu ,Bodie was good,very very good.

@SKULLCRUSHERnr1 4 жыл бұрын

Finally someone!

@donaldsmith3926 3 жыл бұрын

The actor who played the character who shot Bodie didn't know why everyone was mad at him until the makeup gal told him 'I hate you, you're shooting Bodie today'.

@johntoner6684 3 жыл бұрын

What about wallace though...

@purplestate 4 жыл бұрын

I loved Frank Sobotka. Wee-Bey is underrated.

@tanveerhasan2382 2 жыл бұрын

*One man, one vote!*

@MastaPiff414 2 жыл бұрын

Like almost everyone, Season 2 was a chore for most of it til I could understand why the drastic change of environment. That said, Frank was a legend same as Wee-bay! Very underrated as far as characters on the Wire! There's too many to choose from tho!🤣👍

@arvindhmani06 3 жыл бұрын

Best characters for me were Bubbles and Duquan, and they were mirrors of each other in a way: one had an upward-graph story arc and the other a downward-graph story arc.

@natewylz8268 5 жыл бұрын

Michael Lee is easily my favorite character of the show. So much depth and beautifully written.

@vaahtobileet 4 жыл бұрын

His book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" was great. He spent a year as an embedded journalist on the Baltimore PD Homicide Unit. Really sad and really funny. Jay Landsman is a real guy and a lot of the stuff on The Wire was based on what David Simon saw there, like the cops using a printer or something as a fake lie detector machine to fool the dumbass suspects into confessing.

@rarebreed3229 6 жыл бұрын

Much love to David Simon. I'm going to check his new shows out.

@why772 4 жыл бұрын

Don't know about the best character, but Freamon is definetely one of the most likable

@why772 4 жыл бұрын

Except for Omar maybe

@copacetic9018 7 жыл бұрын

I think Bubbles was my favourite character.

@alchemic85 7 жыл бұрын

mcnulty for sure

@Comrade.Question 7 жыл бұрын

Cutty was mine

@chenzhensifu 7 жыл бұрын

Snot Boogie was mine, rip

@breezybreeze12 7 жыл бұрын

Copacetic kenard was my favorite

@robertbaratheon2193 7 жыл бұрын

Raúl Covarrubias Marlo sucks.

@bloodcurdling3581 5 жыл бұрын

Marlo,Slim,Chris,Snoop,Proposition Joe,Omar..damn..everybody..perfect show

@Jok3er271 6 жыл бұрын

Nobody likes Mike? Michael was amazing, I felt his character was so well written

@cassandrah-y7293 5 жыл бұрын

Yes! My favourite!

@hemanroczko1799 4 жыл бұрын

Not the best actor though.

@keeganantony9745 4 жыл бұрын

The best ending would have been Michael turning to be the new street-level Marlo/Avon than being the next Omar.

@nomongosinthaworld 4 жыл бұрын

His actor is fucking horrible lol. Almost every line he says sounds like a meme

@Toadspring 3 жыл бұрын

I like him but he’s not my favorite

@bv3365 5 жыл бұрын

Proposition Joe for me

@tomerbarkay2449 5 жыл бұрын

For me also

@johnnny704 4 жыл бұрын

The Deuce is soo underrated

@Orangelemonblue 9 жыл бұрын

this guy is amazing...loved Treme

@stephenanderson4276 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he mentioned Steve Zahn from treme underrated show.

@ReservoirPunk 4 жыл бұрын

Avon and Omar are my favourite characters. Amazing show.

@iandhr1 4 жыл бұрын

Loved Omar and Bunk.

@LydiLa222 4 жыл бұрын

My favourite characters were Stringer 💵; Avon 📟; Bodie♟; Slim Charles 🚘; Prop Joe💊; Omar💰; Michael🔫; Snoop 🔨; Lester 💻; Bunk 🚬and Frank Sobotka 🚚 EDIT: I forgot Wallace ⚰!

@tris421 3 жыл бұрын

Just missing Donut 🍩

@cicranelnaz 4 жыл бұрын

I think Cutty was my favorite character, but the best character in my opinion is Stringer Bell...

@Zennofobic 6 жыл бұрын

when Simon starts talking about the hopeful things he sees the government doing in the near future, I realized this clip wasn't from 2017

@bullmilk 6 жыл бұрын

Zennofobic Indeed. It was at the height of Obama's 'Arm the World Tour.'

@killuminatimind 6 жыл бұрын

Ziggy, body, D'angelo,slim Charles mcnulty ,Avon,omar ,carcetti, bubs,bunny,lester,bunk. That's my favorites

@jamesfarrell8339 6 жыл бұрын

If you never read his book Homicide Life on the street You should go and read it right away. A lot of the characters in the wire are based on real police men. He spent a year with the Baltimore homicide squad and then wrote about his experience. It is one of my favorite books of all time. He is just a incredible writer and can turn a story about inner city Baltimore Maryland and make it so it is relavent to the masses. I love the wire and I am going to watch the series again from front to back because it is incredible. Thank you for opening up a dialogue about the criminal system in the United States.

@jakebeninato9938 6 жыл бұрын

James Farrell It’s the greatest book ever written in my opinion. Opened my eyes to the real-world, and changed my perspectives on so much.

@DLSacks 6 жыл бұрын

Never read it, but I read The Corner. Heartbreaking stuff.

@jamesfarrell8339 6 жыл бұрын

DLSacks I am going to get the book and read it. Didn't they make a show about it.

@littlebigcommentary Жыл бұрын

@@jamesfarrell8339 never seen the show, but I highly recommend the book. The book is fuck'n dope, homie.

@leslierobtduncan7823 5 жыл бұрын

Steve Zahn................creatively and emotionally among best characters within a story for the story that I have observed.

@dimefever1006 7 жыл бұрын

My favorite was Omar! Crooks aren't built that way anymore!

@robertbaratheon2193 7 жыл бұрын

Dime Fever shocked no one is talking about Omar. Maybe it's the easiness of it? I fucking love Michael k Williams in all his roles. Second favorite is probably slim charles.

@williamdrouin8063 6 жыл бұрын

Robert Baratheon it's because he is the closest character to a (classic fantasy anti-hero)

@FoodLiquorCool 6 жыл бұрын

Dime Fever they never were. David Simon gave an interview that he wasn’t based off a real person, but instead was more of a literary mythological/romantic hero. Again, fictional.

@stempel2000 4 жыл бұрын

Omar, Bubbles and Bodie. Those three are so perfect... but also Snoop, Marlo and so many others.

@wills.1978 4 жыл бұрын

Genius

@AlbinoSausage 6 жыл бұрын

David and the amazing technicolour dream coat

@Poppin023 8 жыл бұрын

subbed to late night for this interview

@travisbickle1601 2 жыл бұрын

My ranking: 10. Shakima Greggs 9. Bubbles 8. Michael Lee 7. Bunk 6. Lester 5. Mcnulty 4 . Chris 3. Avon 2. Stringer Bell 1. Omar

@OntarioAndrews415 3 жыл бұрын

The Wire was the best. So many memorable characters.

@minigrande1939 4 жыл бұрын

Bodie got ALOT of love because he was loyal Mike because of his full character arc Stringer was just fantastic acting Snoop and Chris had fantastic dynamics So much more

@laluna5177 8 ай бұрын

Cedric Daniels will always be my favourite 😍

@dawolf4274 6 жыл бұрын

easy to say, Omar... and he is a fav. but Bunk & Lester were fucking great... the big Sgt. guy he mentioned was great also

@jeremyearly8762 4 жыл бұрын

Omar, Bubbles, Clay Davis, Stringer, and Bunk for me.

@leosanalien9904 9 жыл бұрын

He's promoting Show Me A Hero right? This show silently comes on air like True Detective a year ago, with one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, Oscar Isaac, like a year ago. And it's really good.

@kopfoderzahl08 7 жыл бұрын

its fantastic

@jamesfarrell8339 6 жыл бұрын

Leo Liu I was not in to it right away but as the show progressed I loved it. As with a lot of David Simon stories it has a tragic ending. Fantastic story.

@thegodinhere 6 жыл бұрын

Michael was his best character

@Christopher_J 6 жыл бұрын

thegodinhere I actually feel the same way. Michael (as others were) was a fascinating character; a great depiction of a character who was forced to evolve at a rapid pace by the harsh and dark realities of his environment and the people around him. It was sink or swim; survival of the fittest. The extent of his will [to survive] was evident in the scene where he got the jump on Snoop and blasted her in the SUV; then disappeared into the shadows. His story arc stands out to me whenever I reflect on the show!

@davidberko9379 5 жыл бұрын

so The Deuce ended up coming out first on HBO, I wonder what the one about congress will be called and how soon he'll be starting on it after the third and final season of The Deuce.

@bablubhargav2881 4 жыл бұрын

Yo why no one talking about Lester freamon my fav character, the way he investigate and solve the cases

@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv 4 жыл бұрын

This

@ArchitecturalAesthetics2046 6 жыл бұрын

Personal favorite stringer bell

@Asidders 5 жыл бұрын

ey yo lack that doo'

@xorpe7172 5 жыл бұрын

Giradox You nailed that

@neeravnaik 2 жыл бұрын

David came in as his favourite character Herc

@alimirza8252 2 жыл бұрын

My best characters: Chris Partlow Michael Lee Greek Bodie Bunk Omar Jay landsman Stringer Bell Randy Wagstaff Carver And BUBBLES...

@johnhopkinson4054 2 жыл бұрын

Omar and McNulty were the best characters,totally unique both of them..There has never been another cop that thinks like McNulty or acts like him,true original !

@leanmchungry4735 6 жыл бұрын

"I made a porno and nobody came"--David Simon. The Wire was great, but God made Simon for Twitter, he is the Charlie Parker of "Die of boils".

@kaatskillserenade 3 жыл бұрын

David Simon became an optimist leading up to the 2016 election lol

@shamshirhussain8198 Жыл бұрын

Avon, slim charles, bunny, frank sobotka, michael lee are my faves

@mroc7113 4 жыл бұрын

Omar, Lester, Bunk, Chris Partlow, Bubs, McNutty , Kima, Michael, Dukie, Bodie

@dricothomas3449 6 жыл бұрын

Do a sequel to the wire, David Simon.

@melsoloh 6 жыл бұрын

drico thomas wishful thinking. I have them on Blu Ray and ai can't get enough of them. Glad he's working on new projects 😊

@DesertBoxTurtle 6 жыл бұрын

Awfull idea. Ideas like that killed hollywood and videogame industry.

@theengineer9910 6 жыл бұрын

Pistol Shrimp yeiiiiiii u on point

@natewylz8268 5 жыл бұрын

@@DesertBoxTurtle really depends on the writer. Better Call Saul is a fantastic show that is right up there, of not better, than Breaking Bad. With a writer like David Simon, if he felt he could bring it back and do it justice, I would absolutely trust him. But you're absolutely right.

@punisher00109 5 жыл бұрын

Whats left to show? Its a cycle. The show made a full circle. We saw how each character ends, and how they begin.

@jizzosh1233 6 жыл бұрын

show about Congress? Sounds delish!

@lucasdossantos8817 Жыл бұрын

Shout out to Jimmy McNulty, he is a Very inspiring charater to me. I was abble to overcome alcohol abuse, because of him.

@makiburgess5733 3 жыл бұрын

Bubbles, Omar, Bunny, Randy, Michael, Namond, Dukie, Kima, Jay, Herc, Beattie, .... that’s just from The Wire.

@perrywilliams3015 5 жыл бұрын

Omar Marlo and Stringer Bell my favorites all three of them as cool as the other side of the pillow

@someokiedude9549 4 жыл бұрын

Omar. He was the only gangster with class, same with Stringer.

@roguetomatofilms 5 жыл бұрын

Shoulda hired him to write the last 3 game of thrones seasons

@IndustryHarm 4 жыл бұрын

Marlo was really a genius though ...

@nomongosinthaworld 4 жыл бұрын

Nah Marlo was pretty damn stupid and uncivilized. Chris was the smart one

@erdem_1402 5 жыл бұрын

Bubbles and D'Angelo Barksdale

@jondrew55 3 жыл бұрын

Jokes aside, listen to the hope for the future in 2015. Anyone who followed David Simon in on twitter knows how badly things went sideways since then.

@Fabo100 6 жыл бұрын

Bubbles and Bodie all day

3 жыл бұрын

"He's my son!" - Jay Landsman

@abhishh1260 5 жыл бұрын

Stringer Bell man

@tbyrd12 9 жыл бұрын

Okay Sef Myaz.

@theengineer9910 5 жыл бұрын

Omar most def then Michael then Bodie then of course Slim

@garycoderre889 2 жыл бұрын

It's Slim Charles for best character

@holaquetal1918 9 жыл бұрын

so few views and comments...weird.

@melsoloh 6 жыл бұрын

holaquetal1918 I was thinking the same thing. Guy is a living legend

@lewiespearman 6 жыл бұрын

whatever happened to the show about congress?

@manaulhoque6507 3 жыл бұрын

musta got buried

@barnabalifonti9758 3 жыл бұрын

Dennis Wise

@AstonishingSodApe 3 жыл бұрын

For a man who enjoyed so much success, he slouches a lot.

@kera3849 6 жыл бұрын

Omar and Bunk

@brayleemcmahan8859 3 жыл бұрын

I always liked McNulty and he got a pretty happy ending I’d say

@matthewdar886285 2 жыл бұрын

He really did

@coreysmorgan8488 4 жыл бұрын

Definately Omar

@DawgHawk4891 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta be bubbles

@Kaspisify 2 жыл бұрын

"You made a porn show and nobody came" Underrated pun right there Mr Simon haha.

@MastaPiff414 2 жыл бұрын

Slim Charles.

@samanthab1923 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to the Congress show? The Deuce was OK

@Cbart23 4 жыл бұрын

snoop

@Pre_industrial 3 жыл бұрын

wallace

@TheRausing1 4 жыл бұрын

SNOOP the goat

@euanscotland 6 жыл бұрын

Ziggy

@vka337 5 жыл бұрын

Jay Landsman anyone.

@jakebee7205 3 жыл бұрын

Landsman

@AA-qb7ni 3 жыл бұрын

Omar was the greatest.

@Walid_mufc 3 жыл бұрын

Lester anyone ?

@katherynemero4118 2 жыл бұрын

Has anyone here seen anything from David Simon that isn't The Wire? (That's how the comments are reading..... And that really sucks.) Otherwise, the question should have been the favorite character from The Wire and not "all your shows."

@lizethwalker 2 ай бұрын

Poot, could drop a dope line and not have another line the rest of the scene

@boozer190 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody tops omar

@andreww5574 6 жыл бұрын

Spiros

@blucas4 4 жыл бұрын

Bodie Mike and Wallace

@UnimpressedGoose 5 жыл бұрын

As an ex addict hands down I gotta say Bubbles but at the same time Bodie. They both were such interesting characters. Bubbles story line hit deeper for me

@MrsRiggs-kl9uh 3 жыл бұрын

You should join buzzfeed video for "real ex drug addict reacts to bubbles of the wire" lol

@UnimpressedGoose 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrsRiggs-kl9uh lowekey I would actually do that if they ever made a series like that lmao

@manaulhoque6507 3 жыл бұрын

What about Waylon then