This British guy is an amazing straight man. Woody loves him.

Woody's mind moves so fast. It's amazing to see how long he can go just making all of that up. And there are so many really solid lines here.

This is the greatest thing of all time thank you

- But what about the smell? - He didn't mind that so much 😂😂😂 so brilliant... Genius

This is great. Woody's sincerity in this interview moved me.

I think this is the one of the best interviews anyone has ever done! Kudos to Woody. Complete humour, honesty, irony, boldness, doesn't give a shit, anti-establishment, able to manage stupid questions, unique, true comic, genius, sharp bullet speed IMPROV.

Richard Ayoade owes everything he's ever done to this interview.

Woody Allen's genius is totally displayed in all it's geniusness!!

This is an anti-interview played liked an interview. Someone said this joke got old early but it’s a series of jokes hinged around a deadpanned center, and most are refreshingly hilarious in a way that’s charming.

Incredible, and it was indeed improvised. You laugh out loud, just like in his movies if you're a fan.

there was a time I was impressed by woody without having the words to say why.i am still impressed by woody but still unsure how to express why.i feel like I am on the top layers of the Unconsciousness that deep black hole that woody resonates...lucky guy to have found a theatre to stage the whole clumsiness, awkwardness, silliness ,the yearns, that paranoia, the alieness, the where il am? where am heading? and why... Thanks.

love it, the interviewer johnnie just takes everything literal, credit to woody for playing on that, brilliant!

We love you, Woody! You're the best!!!!!!!!

I think a 2023 Woody Allen interview would be identical, word for word. Even though this was entirely fictional in 1971. And very funny.

26:55 is the bit you're looking for

Brain like a razor.

MR It’s almost perfect improv between the two of you. He really starts to jazz, playfully, like a cat playing with a ball, but you never relinquish control. Chairing it perfectly. JH Woody suggested we do something different - I’d ask whatever I liked and he’d answer with whatever he liked. MR You keep rolling with it until the 12-minute mark which is when he finally breaks you and you call for a cut saying “I need a cigarette!” JH He and I obviously enjoyed the tennis and only once or twice do I detect a glimmer of a smile from Woody - whereas I, off camera, was able to giggle as much as I liked. All the interviews I’d done up to that point were done without me being in shot so I hadn’t been miked up. I wasn’t in shot on this one, but I felt it might be necessary for the questions to be heard… hence the mike. The whole thing was improvised. MR When you resume filming, his responses to your questions become increasingly absurd and farcical as the taping continues… JH A lot of other interviewees did their bit and pushed off, but I felt that Woody wanted to go on until one of us won. MR One curious point is an answer where he’s deadly serious, which is after you ask if he watches his own films, which of course - famously - he never does. Presumably you had to salvage 3 to 4 minutes of functional material to use from this footage for the programme itself? JH There are a few leaders later on which must have been the bits I salvaged. The film editor would add those bits to the untransmitted footage and tuck it away God knows where.

I think the interviewer knew what he was getting. He was playing along and enjoying it. Woody was in a silly mood and being generous.

‘I would like to be found dead, face-down in the street.’ 😂😂😂

Brilliant even the interviewer is so finding it so hard not to roll on the floor laughing. Well The Brits and Americans of British Decent laughing their butts off.

Allen was a world-class troll before the world existed (in the internet context).

Thanks for the laughs, from the films mentioned to these hilarious 'takes'.

Surréaliste! Very interesting ✨

This is great.

He is absolutely playing on the fact that the Brits think Americans are dumb. He is trolling this interviewer with a perfectly straight face and the interviewer is taking his sarcasm literally :P

21:13 " Are you following this? Because it's important."

Very Bob Dylan-esque! I wonder if they ever met.

3:22 any ambitions in films? ... no, I would like to be found dead, face down in the street.

In New York you take a written test and a physical....and if you pass then you're allowed to be Puerto Rican.

he's just non-stop :D

He was great then and i still like his movies.

It was a mistake to think I could watch this while eating

This is amazing!!! :D

Super funny and intelligent.Absurd and hilarious like Marx brother’s duck soup

"I usually edit blindfolded". haha

This reminds me of the Time Magazine interview of Bob Dylan that was in "Don't Look Back". I wonder if it was intentional.

27:10 Woody described living with a horse. Q: But what about the smell? A: He didn't mind that so much. Watch the face. Not a crack of emotion. And yes, others have hit that beat as well; but other than perhaps Steve Allen, he might have been the first.

anybody remembers Potemkin? those were the days , the swingin 20s🤣

unlike net trolls allen trolling face to face on a world class level:D

I do not understand why he does not like his own film Manhattan. If he doesn’t like it he can at least take solace in the fact that many people do. Myself included.

Lol.... I can't stop laughing

this is just like those interviews with Johnny Rotten..or even JPG&R

Hilarious!

Most people when they don't want to do an interview: *don't do interview* Woody Allen:

I'm at 4.21 and I'm thinking, is the interviewer in on this? 😁

Woody has the same exact mannerisms and looks 50 years ago, then what he does now. He's just got gray hair now is all...SBN RESONATE

What a smart bada$$ Woody was in his early career! ! Delicious ♥♥

Good ol Woodrow

i have decided that i believe Woody didn't do it I'm calling a MJ

Da Man!

20:23 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Really told straight out that he thought

Noam Chomsky is cool

Hilarious.

When asked if it was a high budget movie i would have said. "The 7 minutes in NY was"

The last Trigger line.....

I assume this was a set up. It reminds me of Chris Morris

“Where do you get your ideas?” “I plagiarize them.”

The interviewer sounds like Peter Cook

He started in SNL, right? :) I have listened to this interview like 20 times now, it's so intense.

Is Woody channeling Lou Reed on an interview cuz yea think he is

An anti-interview.

13:42 Hannah Gadsby?

Let be him Let be not unRude.. I donate

comedy talk - 13:25

Since 1971 his balding froze.

ixnay

This was amusing for a couple of minutes but gets old fast. Interesting to observe the improvisation though.

The interview is cute at the beginning but it gets boring , when , his answers become predictable its kind of childish , not smart!

Hmm..? Woody Allen plagiarized everything created by Groucho Marx down to the glasses and nose.

This joke gets boring after awhile.

He has a great sense of humor, except when it comes to children.

Total nonsense. rude. Publishing this does not make any sense ( to me )