In this candid dialogue, essayist Fran Lebowitz weighs in on bravery in art. Timelessly hip, sardonic, and New-York-to-the-marrow, Lebowitz was recently the subject of Public Speaking, a documentary film by Martin Scorsese.
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@networx79919 жыл бұрын
I could listen to Fran Lebowitz forever.
@kirbywebb5 жыл бұрын
NetworX me too - i love her
@karenpatella24174 жыл бұрын
Me too
@hannelorehainke76753 жыл бұрын
Karen Patella o
@constancemiller37533 жыл бұрын
We won't have her forever. Plant a tree.
@treyquattro3 жыл бұрын
you think so but then you'd become like Fran with Warhol, and who wants that?
@oatmealhoney74463 жыл бұрын
I'm running out of content of hers to listen to. I've listened to entire days of her talking while I'm at work and am getting down to the end lol. If she had a podcast... wow.
@debbievoss34965 ай бұрын
Pray tell what your work is!
@RKhere979 күн бұрын
@@debbievoss3496 +1
@harrybroadbent18063 жыл бұрын
On to my 7th, hour and a half Fran Lebowits interview
@mckaylaferguson3096 Жыл бұрын
I simply cannot stop.
@AlistairAVogan4 ай бұрын
She is particularly sharp in this interview.
@maureenharrison12613 ай бұрын
Same
@darlington97383 жыл бұрын
there is this one person on the left who aplaudes everything fran says and i think it might be me
@pinwheelart28253 жыл бұрын
Ah...everyone looks at me like I have two heads when I say I don't like Warhol.😂 Thanks Fran.💖
@Lolabelle593 жыл бұрын
Fran is so spot on about everything, especially Bloomberg's bicycle paths on sidewalks, replacing New Yorkers with tourists and NYU gobbling up the Village. Love her.
@mck20215 жыл бұрын
Fran is fantastic. She is so right about how business is worshiped. Business people running health care is what has destroyed it.
@lindawolfe28853 жыл бұрын
True. I was a registered dietitian for decades. When I first started practicing in 1981 most if not all hospitals were nonprofit. At some point, in the mid to late 80’s I think, hospitals began to convert to for profit status. Hospitals were always run as a business of course. We had to keep the lights on and water running, but our bottom line was to best serve the patient with the goal of healing. That changed. Hospitals became top-heavy with administrators who had the final say in decision making. So those of us with expertise in healing had very little say in what happened to patients. It was a nightmare. Still is. In my opinion we need universal healthcare/Medicare for all, and all healthcare should be nonprofit.
@davidrose18382 жыл бұрын
amen amen! we need to start a *fran please stop smoking cause we want to have you around as long as possible cause we all so badly need your voice!!!!!!!!!
@michaelhall5429 Жыл бұрын
@@davidrose1838 the lady wants to smoke. When she starts making you smoke them for her, I'll speak up for you.
@caroldraper50174 ай бұрын
I love that she’s a sloth because I am too.
@caroldraper50174 ай бұрын
Yes! I would love to be a grammar corrector!
@lolabow54213 жыл бұрын
She’s an amazing voice for the public schools
@SeeTimeRun39111 жыл бұрын
Fran is fascinating and refreshing. She said one thing about her upbringing that sticks in my head, and is probably key to who she is today as an intellectual. She said, "When I was a child, NO book was off limits to me." She was free to explore the written word and to formulate mature observations and opinions about life and the human condition at a young age. When I listen to her, I don't feel so different from the norm because I identify with her in a lot of ways. I to am... An Observer.
@sbloome775 ай бұрын
And now books are being banned…the dumbing down of America
@animasuzie2 жыл бұрын
Who references Harry Potter when interviewing an adult ? 👀 . Fran, effortlessly chic, set the tone all the way through. Fran for president of everything.
@patriciatapia1710 Жыл бұрын
Fran said she was a promiscuous reader, you dont know if she has read harry potter. let her be the snob, you stay on your lane
@tutonelylesnaranjo63113 жыл бұрын
Lebowitz is authentic, rejuvenating.
@johncooper36363 жыл бұрын
Yes, I could listen to Fran forever, but not to these lackluster interviewers. I have yet to find one challenging, prepared person to interview Ms. Lebowitz. But I'll still be listening... :)
@nem07633 жыл бұрын
I thought Eleanor Wachtel on CBC radio was a great interviewer as always
@carmenjones55284 жыл бұрын
I wish more people would really listen to her.she is a critical thinker and a excellent observer of humans,culture,politics.like people only get information on things they agree with. She has a good understanding on Bloomberg having been and is a new Yorker. She's not distracted by all the giggly gadgets of distraction. She reminds me of the importance of being a critical thinker.
@slowflowheat11 жыл бұрын
Any video of Fran Lebowitz gets a mandatory like from me.
@darlington97383 жыл бұрын
fran seems to be in such a good mood 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰!!!!!
@kingjudah273 жыл бұрын
Such a genius. I absolutely adore Fran.
@coltdaggabuzzbuzz11 жыл бұрын
I know! It's almost uncomfortable to watch. But I love hearing Fran so I'm trying to forge through it lol.
@sungeunjin783 жыл бұрын
I love this hell of woman!
@ytugtbk10 жыл бұрын
Fran is such a great wit. Love her POV that her reason for being is to make fun of all people.
@tammiepulley71673 жыл бұрын
“The only people who love to write are bad writers.” I’m going to frame that and hang it on my wall.
@pkspalding Жыл бұрын
Living a continent away from NYC listening to Fran is like being back downtown for a spell. Wonderful experience
@DavidFMayerPhD9 жыл бұрын
She is marvelous!
@elcruzer55144 жыл бұрын
I wish I could think and express my so well. Much respect. She's legendary.
@davidrose18382 жыл бұрын
you can you can thinking wisely and expressing those thoughts just takes practice.
@heatherlavalle68713 жыл бұрын
She always reminds me, I’m just a 40 year old kid. I don’t know anything.
@heid66833 жыл бұрын
She was like this at 30 and only got better , lol
@Beckola113 жыл бұрын
Check her out as David Letterman's guest. There is a compilation that starts in the early 80's . She was so funny and witty while using few words. It's a great video here on You Tube.
@Loulou______3 жыл бұрын
I wish she spoke about her personal life. I’m sure she has some amazing stories!
@verenas35363 жыл бұрын
there is a netflx series with her. pretend its a city. very amusing. and she talks also about her personal life.
@dantronix19795 жыл бұрын
I love her. Brilliant.
@1trschaefer783 жыл бұрын
So much wisdom & humor!!
@catherinelucente72852 жыл бұрын
Fran is so right about grammar. My former classmates and I attended 12 years of private, Catholic education before going to college. We are friends on FB, so we have discussed how brutal our teachers (both nuns and lay people) were whenever we answered their questions incorrectly. We were hit with rulers; we had our hair pulled; we had chalk thrown at our faces; and then, the worst punishment for each of us was when we had to stand in front of the class with our back facing the class, draw a circle on the chalkboard at our nose’s height, place our nose in that circle, and stand there during the entirety of the class period. So yes, we know our grammar, and we can write in cursive with fountain pens. 😳😂 We also had to attend mass every Friday morning. Since we had started grade school in the late 1960s, this was a time period when all girls and women had to wear chapel veils or mantillas. If we girls forgot to bring our own, the nuns would bobby pin a sheet of Kleenex on our heads. This made no sense to me. The point of wearing veils was to honor and respect God. How could a piece of facial tissue be a sign of honor and respect?! 🤪🤭
@michaelhall5429 Жыл бұрын
Didn't you read all of the verses in the bible where Jesus hit some kids because they weren't dressing correctly or got an answer to a question wrong? The good lord wants us to suffer until our grammar and appearance are precise and correct. That's how you know all the nuns and priests are right
@easywind40444 жыл бұрын
I agree with a surprising amount of her ideas.
@neyder93093 жыл бұрын
Is it ironic that I'm glued to my phone watching Fran Lebowitz?
@rr7firefly8 жыл бұрын
Fran is right on: Too many wanna-be writers inflicting their "clever" writing on us. Everyone thinks they have something important to say and they try too hard to present it in hip parlance. The truth is that today there are very few people who can write like Molly Ivins, Erma Bombeck, Art Buchwald, or H. L. Mencken.
@sonjalewis30473 жыл бұрын
And recently "experts" are told by their publisher(?) that they must do creative mental gymnastics to come up with new metaphors--and far worse, pad their writing with repetitive details AND 200-page "scientific" non sequiters.
@rr7firefly3 жыл бұрын
@@sonjalewis3047 An older woman in my neighborhood pre-plans all of her conversations so that she can drop one or two clever lines into them. She calls them "bon mots" (BAHN MOES). I was with her at lunch one day and she ran through the same shtick with each person she encountered. Word for word. God, she is a pathetic nobody.
@lizziebkennedy75053 жыл бұрын
@@rr7firefly she really pushed your buttons.
@patricias51223 жыл бұрын
@@rr7firefly Hmmm. That's kind of a really sexist and ageist remark. What do you care, if she practices her comments beforehand? Why do you care?
@rr7firefly3 жыл бұрын
@@patricias5122 Why do you care? (Fair question.) Her age and gender are incidental to fleshing her out in the description. I could have said she was small in stature and an alcoholic and maybe then you would come down on that. Where does it end with you?
@Hermesvenus098 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Brilliant! Thank you, Ms. Lebowitz.
@stephenwilliams12693 жыл бұрын
Fran Lebowitz is fantastic.
@hayleyannamathieson72613 жыл бұрын
Fran is fabulous. 😊
@dddelorey11 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading
@c.e.schlink99336 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!!! Love Fran.
@markwardel67519 жыл бұрын
I agree with almost everything Fran Lebowitz says...and almost everything she says is amusing....unlike the interviewer.
@dennisdeemii2 жыл бұрын
the interviewers that try to be clever or think that it's a "dialogue" drive me crazy
@glennfromthebronx5 жыл бұрын
Fun and thoroughly enjoyable interview. I remember Fran well from her TONIGHT SHOW and David Letterman/12:30am...NBC show appearances in the early 80s. It's nic to see her apparently "putting herself out thre" again. Just saw a youtube video from a conference in Australia. way to go Fran! Her 15+ hour plane ride. I'm so glad I wasn't on that plane. (no smoking)
@patricias51223 жыл бұрын
Dave Letterman understood how to interview Fran Lebowitz: The normally garrulous Letterman just kept his mouth shut and let Fran talk!
@MrMjwoodford7 жыл бұрын
'That must be the way everyone wants it because that's the way it is.' This would only be true if people had control.
@caesarvolz69453 жыл бұрын
Wish I had a dollar for every time the interviewer says, "exactly".
@dennis_duran3 жыл бұрын
I wish she lost a dollar every time she said “exactly”
@LaoZi2023 Жыл бұрын
Ohh, Fran makes me laugh!! She weaves honesty and satire so seamlessly!
@leftylibber2 жыл бұрын
So refreshing to know there are others loathe to camping. Fran is hilarious and so relatable.
@michaelhall5429 Жыл бұрын
I both love camping (the rougher the better) and love Fran. The good thing about her, is she's funny even if she isn't relatable.
@jmcc2k108 жыл бұрын
very clever lady
@colinmclennan14658 жыл бұрын
I kept thinking the interviewer was Laura Linney
@Loulou______3 жыл бұрын
Me too
@sanfrangirl053 жыл бұрын
Yeah.
@alimandi23 жыл бұрын
The problem with the interviewer is that she thought she could match Fran's wit. This is the result.
@Ktwood13 жыл бұрын
unduely harsh .
@carolynrobe59572 жыл бұрын
@@Ktwood1 Well she tried a few little jokes....so who could match her wit, pray tell... Ricky Gervais?
@Ktwood12 жыл бұрын
@@carolynrobe5957 Fran would be intimating to interview . And right she should not have tried any jokes . She probably looks up to Fran a lot and was nervous as hell .
@monocle88682 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
@RTDon6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Fran
@dellawolfdove89272 жыл бұрын
Fantastic...
@carolynwatters897010 ай бұрын
Fran Lebowitz is great! Love her!
@louisepotier27848 ай бұрын
❤ Thank-you.
@boglarkakovacs27934 ай бұрын
Great questions!
@patrickmcgee3578 жыл бұрын
anyone wanna tally the # of times the interviewer says "exactly"
@sbloome775 ай бұрын
I ❤ Fran Lebowitz
@Smarterthanyew3 жыл бұрын
There is no need to compare the interviewer to the interviewee..people reflexively compare women unreasonably all the time. For the record, the interviewer did a good job. A good one elicits the interesting answers you all love, and steers the topics well, which she did. God why are people so mean- spirited.
@annesaffer6299 ай бұрын
I love your comments about grammar! I am one of those Catholic school survivors, and yes, we learned grammar! I was actually fond of diagramming sentences. And, it drives me crazy how poor the grammar is, especially from public speakers - politicians, news people on radio and tv, the list is endless. No one has ever heard of a past participle. One helpful use for my grammar skills is when I read older literature - pre-Hemmingway - I can sort out the sentenceˋs subject and verb etc from the word soup they present as good writing. Why use one adjective when you can string together seven?
@janamitic51272 жыл бұрын
I'd gladly read a book called "Everything wrong with New York". Fran please write it
@BunnyMan45611 жыл бұрын
thank you for cutting out the questions! everyone should do that
@isaojable3 жыл бұрын
Intellectuals always refer to writers, authors or philosophers during conversations. Somehow, Fran Lebowitz never does that. I wish she would share her culture with the audience. I've been "binge watching" her for 3 days and noticed she frequently repeats the same little anecdotes, as if it was a rehearsed show. I’d love her to further develop her point of view on current political or social issues ; she is really funny and her views on american society are very on point.
@meeeeemz252 жыл бұрын
The thing is they ask her the same questions always. However, if you watch Public Speaking and Pretend it's a City, the questions are different.
@eunicem1542 Жыл бұрын
I agree with you. She does.
@easywind40444 жыл бұрын
Fran was born in late 1950. I was born in late 1950. I feel a connection with her because of this, an idea she would see as absurd I am sure.
@ladybug58593 жыл бұрын
She was born in the early 50s but still same era as your DOB
@newyorkone35848 ай бұрын
She was born in 1950.
@trschaefer10 жыл бұрын
She is SO funny!!
@MrMusicLover08123 жыл бұрын
"right, exactly"
@neatrizareco48075 жыл бұрын
Woooou!!!! I Just fell in love to this crazy lady. Im not an american, But OMG I LOVE HER... All ready devore everything that i find about Her.. I cant stop thinking about "you should be allow to think to hate someone, But not more" i love that.. To me is truth, Im allow to not like someone, But they are allowed to not like me too. So, fine. There is no need to exprese that, because Im not going to like it if someone exprese me out of nowhere that they dont like me. Im sorry, maybe i cant exprese myself in the right way. Please dont think that i dislike everyone and stuff. Just think that everyone haves the same rights that i do. So we have to LEARN to accept ourselves and BECAUSE OF THAT, we must accept others.
@mashomegula3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree with you more
@hayleyannamathieson72613 жыл бұрын
I completely agree.🌷
@kristin15333 жыл бұрын
Fran is there anything but crazy.
@neatrizareco48073 жыл бұрын
@@kristin1533 For sure she's not... Crazy insanely RIGHT it's what I meant. I truly found someone that I will never met, but I LOVE HER. Please don't think that I'm making fun of her. I truly admire her and the work she does. Greetings ☮️😊
@ifigeniaesprella79093 жыл бұрын
54:00 yes, translating is very hard, umberto eco wrote a book about it and he said there is a need of a perfect 3rd language to translate two languages and see if they corresponde. He said that according to studies the closest to a perfect language is Aymara, spoken in Bolivia 🇧🇴
@annabanannna4 ай бұрын
Homes has such a giggly laughter)))
@noneofyourbusiness82527 жыл бұрын
Fran: How did you get rabies? A.M.: (laughts) Exactly.
@MemberofThisWorld6 жыл бұрын
Letting the Interviewed person have to hold the microphone in the hand during the 80 minutes interview..does not qualify a nice idea...
@sandrashubs72823 жыл бұрын
Forgiveness means that you don't have to carry it anymore - it's on them - it's theirs and I don't have to waste my time on it.
@ladybug58593 жыл бұрын
I think she'd wonder how u put it on them
@raggmopp8573 жыл бұрын
I have favorite writers because there are so few good ones, as Fran Lebowitz says, therefore if I find an author judge to be a good writer, I read more in order to avoid reading a lot of bad books in search of another good writer. Actually, the theory that if it´s not good in the first 20 pages does simplify things.
@istvanpraha3 жыл бұрын
Can you stop complaining about the interviewer! She is OK! Do we expect her to not speak? she is not one-upping Fran
@sanfrangirl053 жыл бұрын
Kvetchers
@jordanconley37938 жыл бұрын
Here's how you interview Fran Lebowitz: Ask her opinion about something and then shut up. Don't try to one-up her or add anything amusing. Just shut up. She's really not listening to you anyway since everyone pretty much asks her the same questions which always receive the same canned answers. I could not finish this because the interviewer was so annoying.
@donniemoder14663 жыл бұрын
A.M. Holmes did a perfectly good job in this interview, thank you very much!
@istvanpraha3 жыл бұрын
I understand your point but this interviewer was OK, I've seen other people do it 10X worse
@wanderinggeri84773 жыл бұрын
@@istvanpraha The best endorsement she deserves.
@Beckola113 жыл бұрын
i agree and I don't believe she had a thousand more questions. Her laugh was an absolute annoyance. Thank God the students started asking the questions! Their laughter was appropriate.
@patricias51223 жыл бұрын
When did Americans get so nasty? Did social media unleash something in you? You can't blame it on Trump. Why write something so really vile, about a woman who has done nothing to you?
@theblondeone84262 жыл бұрын
she should be writing our textbooks
@paultreskow1613 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. ❤ Pt, Chicago
@LaMerryMary3 жыл бұрын
Interviewer reminds me of Laura Linney. Profile and voice!
@rcosmic99932 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I thought!!
@carolynwatters897010 ай бұрын
Fran Lebrowitz missed her calling...Stand up Comedian! I love her humour!
@hisomeonetrackingmuch13093 жыл бұрын
How am I just now learning about Fran Leibowitz?
@uptick8883 жыл бұрын
You must not watch Bill Maher
@hisomeonetrackingmuch13093 жыл бұрын
@@uptick888 I don’t. I think he is an a$$hole
@uptick8883 жыл бұрын
@@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 she’s on other shows too very popular lady for years..
@uptick8883 жыл бұрын
@@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 oh well..Colbert, letterman. Conan,Netflix ,Seth Meyers and several films..
@hisomeonetrackingmuch13093 жыл бұрын
@@uptick888 ya. Idk how I missed her all these years
@DanFontaine Жыл бұрын
She's so quick
@rudyspective18703 жыл бұрын
54:48 The question and answer section....
@rosalindmartin446911 ай бұрын
Fran is her own personality. Period. Personally i completely gulp down the quick snark and wit ... at times. She is clever as hell. When she gets stuff wasted wrong she spins so fast it's gone before you see it.
@sherrygaley46753 жыл бұрын
She’s funnier off the cuff than all other comedians put together.
@chetblack83157 жыл бұрын
Forgiveness is looking at an event you obviously cannot forget from different perspectives. I forgave my father for leaving us when I was a child because I've been able and willing to look at that event from his perspective, my mother's perspective and then understanding why the event happened and not blaming any one particular person for all the things that lead up to the event. It's basically a removal of blame - that is forgiveness. It's not a removal of a memory of an event.
@ladybug58593 жыл бұрын
Thats a very good explanation because I have always said I don't need to forgive anybody because I never blame anybody I always figure it happens it happens for a reason and that's it so I really like your explanation because that puts in the details that I apparently go through because I do I will always think of it as a prism rather than a prison and as a prism the lights coming from Bryan many angles and these are all people's different feelings and why they act on those feelings is there a choice you may not respect them for that but you can understand is I guess so anyway yeah your explanation is very precise and succinct
@dhsumana4072 жыл бұрын
Well said Chet - from different perspectives including all involved including the observer or oneself - forgiveness and understanding to each person involved
@usinebeglaryan56612 жыл бұрын
Frantastic :))
@stevemole49764 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if she has talked about step counting devices and the resulting conversation.
@photo1613 жыл бұрын
On and on she goes, does Fran.But just when I thought I had had all of her I could take, she suddenly made a particularly riveting statement and it became impossible to stop listening. In the ned, I was very glad I had persevered, as I suspect, will you.
@oughtssought11983 жыл бұрын
beautiful is as beautiful does
@Daniel_Ilyich4 жыл бұрын
A.M.Homes sounds like the actress Laura Linney.
@LLShiningOtter3 жыл бұрын
If we do not explore the monster within us if we are not aware of the darkness within us how can we possibly choose the light?
@TomKellyShow3 жыл бұрын
I actually came to see what other people thought of the interviewer.
@joanmurphy91553 жыл бұрын
Dreadful
@marypinkerton32902 жыл бұрын
I try to catch all of her speak. Fine questions also.
@MrLaggy20005 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@lilie22776 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the book she mentions in her last Q&A?
@sohokitten12744 жыл бұрын
Shes smart🙂
@dsjump10 жыл бұрын
It's embarrassing when interviewers try to be as witty as the wit being interviewed. They invariably demonstrate why the interviewee is the one being interviewed.
@EgbertWilliams9 жыл бұрын
C. L. SM Cavett could be guilty of cheap witticisms and unnecessary tags to guests' jokes, but he managed to stay out of his own way for the most part. This lady keeps tripping on cracks in the sidewalk and then doing an impromptu tap dance to cover it. Annoying.
@christinetrzcinski45617 жыл бұрын
boo hoo!
@glennfromthebronx6 жыл бұрын
...I think they're old friends..so we "try to be kind". lol
@jamesallen45884 жыл бұрын
It occurs all the time. The best interviewer I’ve ever seen was Dick Cavett. When he asked questions-which were a mix of prepared questions and questions prompted by the response(s) of the guest-he allowed the guest to decide when he’d finished responding or when the guest wished clarification of a question. You could sense that Cavett was himself quite knowledgeable and well-informed by his manner and equally by the questions he asked, but he never caused the listener/viewer to wonder who the guest was.
@cynthiabelknap86553 жыл бұрын
Couldn't help but notice that as well
@blackmantle5414 ай бұрын
Fran is one in a million but where did they dig up this interviewer?
@costrut6 жыл бұрын
hey, what book is she referencing at 1:18:25? I don't understand what she's saying
@LLShiningOtter3 жыл бұрын
Extremely different energies repentance and forgiveness are they not? Interesting interesting the difference that makes
@annakaravangelos77132 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the book that the last participant in the audience referred to? Something about art history
@tobalcmc6 жыл бұрын
18:55 some hard truths there...
@lysas7813 жыл бұрын
Yes, she should run for mayor.
@neobourgeoischristum55408 жыл бұрын
she wears selvedge denim hahaha too cool she knows quality
@emaan70233 жыл бұрын
And the boots too
@Medina-bk2fo5 ай бұрын
8:53 - 9: 40 she's exactly right about "thought crime" - her logic is sound.