Master/Class: Fran Lebowitz with A.M.Homes

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Күн бұрын

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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@networx7991 9 жыл бұрын

I could listen to Fran Lebowitz forever.

@kirbywebb 5 жыл бұрын

NetworX me too - i love her

@karenpatella2417 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@hannelorehainke7675 3 жыл бұрын

Karen Patella o

@constancemiller3753 3 жыл бұрын

We won't have her forever. Plant a tree.

@treyquattro 3 жыл бұрын

you think so but then you'd become like Fran with Warhol, and who wants that?

@oatmealhoney7446 3 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.

@debbievoss3496 5 ай бұрын

Pray tell what your work is!

@RKhere97 9 күн бұрын

@@debbievoss3496 +1

@harrybroadbent1806 3 жыл бұрын

On to my 7th, hour and a half Fran Lebowits interview

@mckaylaferguson3096 Жыл бұрын

I simply cannot stop.

@AlistairAVogan 4 ай бұрын

She is particularly sharp in this interview.

@maureenharrison1261 3 ай бұрын

Same

@darlington9738 3 жыл бұрын

there is this one person on the left who aplaudes everything fran says and i think it might be me

@pinwheelart2825 3 жыл бұрын

Ah...everyone looks at me like I have two heads when I say I don't like Warhol.😂 Thanks Fran.💖

@Lolabelle59 3 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.

@mck2021 5 жыл бұрын

Fran is fantastic. She is so right about how business is worshiped. Business people running health care is what has destroyed it.

@lindawolfe2885 3 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.

@davidrose1838 2 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.

@caroldraper5017 4 ай бұрын

I love that she’s a sloth because I am too.

@caroldraper5017 4 ай бұрын

Yes! I would love to be a grammar corrector!

@lolabow5421 3 жыл бұрын

She’s an amazing voice for the public schools

@SeeTimeRun391 11 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.

@sbloome77 5 ай бұрын

And now books are being banned…the dumbing down of America

@animasuzie 2 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

@tutonelylesnaranjo6311 3 жыл бұрын

Lebowitz is authentic, rejuvenating.

@johncooper3636 3 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... :)

@nem0763 3 жыл бұрын

I thought Eleanor Wachtel on CBC radio was a great interviewer as always

@carmenjones5528 4 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.

@slowflowheat 11 жыл бұрын

Any video of Fran Lebowitz gets a mandatory like from me.

@darlington9738 3 жыл бұрын

fran seems to be in such a good mood 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰!!!!!

@kingjudah27 3 жыл бұрын

Such a genius. I absolutely adore Fran.

@coltdaggabuzzbuzz 11 жыл бұрын

I know! It's almost uncomfortable to watch. But I love hearing Fran so I'm trying to forge through it lol.

@sungeunjin78 3 жыл бұрын

I love this hell of woman!

@ytugtbk 10 жыл бұрын

Fran is such a great wit. Love her POV that her reason for being is to make fun of all people.

@tammiepulley7167 3 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

@DavidFMayerPhD 9 жыл бұрын

She is marvelous!

@elcruzer5514 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could think and express my so well. Much respect. She's legendary.

@davidrose1838 2 жыл бұрын

you can you can thinking wisely and expressing those thoughts just takes practice.

@heatherlavalle6871 3 жыл бұрын

She always reminds me, I’m just a 40 year old kid. I don’t know anything.

@heid6683 3 жыл бұрын

She was like this at 30 and only got better , lol

@Beckola11 3 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!

@verenas3536 3 жыл бұрын

there is a netflx series with her. pretend its a city. very amusing. and she talks also about her personal life.

@dantronix1979 5 жыл бұрын

I love her. Brilliant.

@1trschaefer78 3 жыл бұрын

So much wisdom & humor!!

@catherinelucente7285 2 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

@easywind4044 4 жыл бұрын

I agree with a surprising amount of her ideas.

@neyder9309 3 жыл бұрын

Is it ironic that I'm glued to my phone watching Fran Lebowitz?

@rr7firefly 8 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.

@sonjalewis3047 3 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.

@rr7firefly 3 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.

@lizziebkennedy7505 3 жыл бұрын

@@rr7firefly she really pushed your buttons.

@patricias5122 3 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?

@rr7firefly 3 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?

@Hermesvenus09 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Brilliant! Thank you, Ms. Lebowitz.

@stephenwilliams1269 3 жыл бұрын

Fran Lebowitz is fantastic.

@hayleyannamathieson7261 3 жыл бұрын

Fran is fabulous. 😊

@dddelorey 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading

@c.e.schlink9933 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!! Love Fran.

@markwardel6751 9 жыл бұрын

I agree with almost everything Fran Lebowitz says...and almost everything she says is amusing....unlike the interviewer.

@dennisdeemii 2 жыл бұрын

the interviewers that try to be clever or think that it's a "dialogue" drive me crazy

@glennfromthebronx 5 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)

@patricias5122 3 жыл бұрын

Dave Letterman understood how to interview Fran Lebowitz: The normally garrulous Letterman just kept his mouth shut and let Fran talk!

@MrMjwoodford 7 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.

@caesarvolz6945 3 жыл бұрын

Wish I had a dollar for every time the interviewer says, "exactly".

@dennis_duran 3 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!

@leftylibber 2 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.

@jmcc2k10 8 жыл бұрын

very clever lady

@colinmclennan1465 8 жыл бұрын

I kept thinking the interviewer was Laura Linney

@Loulou______ 3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@sanfrangirl05 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@alimandi2 3 жыл бұрын

The problem with the interviewer is that she thought she could match Fran's wit. This is the result.

@Ktwood1 3 жыл бұрын

unduely harsh .

@carolynrobe5957 2 жыл бұрын

@@Ktwood1 Well she tried a few little jokes....so who could match her wit, pray tell... Ricky Gervais?

@Ktwood1 2 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 .

@monocle8868 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

@RTDon 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant Fran

@dellawolfdove8927 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic...

@carolynwatters8970 10 ай бұрын

Fran Lebowitz is great! Love her!

@louisepotier2784 8 ай бұрын

❤ Thank-you.

@boglarkakovacs2793 4 ай бұрын

Great questions!

@patrickmcgee357 8 жыл бұрын

anyone wanna tally the # of times the interviewer says "exactly"

@sbloome77 5 ай бұрын

I ❤ Fran Lebowitz

@Smarterthanyew 3 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.

@annesaffer629 9 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?

@janamitic5127 2 жыл бұрын

I'd gladly read a book called "Everything wrong with New York". Fran please write it

@BunnyMan456 11 жыл бұрын

thank you for cutting out the questions! everyone should do that

@isaojable 3 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.

@meeeeemz25 2 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.

@easywind4044 4 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.

@ladybug5859 3 жыл бұрын

She was born in the early 50s but still same era as your DOB

@newyorkone3584 8 ай бұрын

She was born in 1950.

@trschaefer 10 жыл бұрын

She is SO funny!!

@MrMusicLover0812 3 жыл бұрын

"right, exactly"

@neatrizareco4807 5 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.

@mashomegula 3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree with you more

@hayleyannamathieson7261 3 жыл бұрын

I completely agree.🌷

@kristin1533 3 жыл бұрын

Fran is there anything but crazy.

@neatrizareco4807 3 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 ☮️😊

@ifigeniaesprella7909 3 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 🇧🇴

@annabanannna 4 ай бұрын

Homes has such a giggly laughter)))

@noneofyourbusiness8252 7 жыл бұрын

Fran: How did you get rabies? A.M.: (laughts) Exactly.

@MemberofThisWorld 6 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...

@sandrashubs7282 3 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.

@ladybug5859 3 жыл бұрын

I think she'd wonder how u put it on them

@raggmopp857 3 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.

@istvanpraha 3 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

@sanfrangirl05 3 жыл бұрын

Kvetchers

@jordanconley3793 8 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.

@donniemoder1466 3 жыл бұрын

A.M. Holmes did a perfectly good job in this interview, thank you very much!

@istvanpraha 3 жыл бұрын

I understand your point but this interviewer was OK, I've seen other people do it 10X worse

@wanderinggeri8477 3 жыл бұрын

@@istvanpraha The best endorsement she deserves.

@Beckola11 3 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.

@patricias5122 3 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?

@theblondeone8426 2 жыл бұрын

she should be writing our textbooks

@paultreskow1613 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. ❤ Pt, Chicago

@LaMerryMary 3 жыл бұрын

Interviewer reminds me of Laura Linney. Profile and voice!

@rcosmic9993 2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I thought!!

@carolynwatters8970 10 ай бұрын

Fran Lebrowitz missed her calling...Stand up Comedian! I love her humour!

@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 3 жыл бұрын

How am I just now learning about Fran Leibowitz?

@uptick888 3 жыл бұрын

You must not watch Bill Maher

@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 3 жыл бұрын

@@uptick888 I don’t. I think he is an a$$hole

@uptick888 3 жыл бұрын

@@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 she’s on other shows too very popular lady for years..

@uptick888 3 жыл бұрын

@@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 oh well..Colbert, letterman. Conan,Netflix ,Seth Meyers and several films..

@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 3 жыл бұрын

@@uptick888 ya. Idk how I missed her all these years

@DanFontaine Жыл бұрын

She's so quick

@rudyspective1870 3 жыл бұрын

54:48 The question and answer section....

@rosalindmartin4469 11 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.

@sherrygaley4675 3 жыл бұрын

She’s funnier off the cuff than all other comedians put together.

@chetblack8315 7 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.

@ladybug5859 3 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

@dhsumana407 2 жыл бұрын

Well said Chet - from different perspectives including all involved including the observer or oneself - forgiveness and understanding to each person involved

@usinebeglaryan5661 2 жыл бұрын

Frantastic :))

@stevemole4976 4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if she has talked about step counting devices and the resulting conversation.

@photo161 3 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.

@oughtssought1198 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful is as beautiful does

@Daniel_Ilyich 4 жыл бұрын

A.M.Homes sounds like the actress Laura Linney.

@LLShiningOtter 3 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?

@TomKellyShow 3 жыл бұрын

I actually came to see what other people thought of the interviewer.

@joanmurphy9155 3 жыл бұрын

Dreadful

@marypinkerton3290 2 жыл бұрын

I try to catch all of her speak. Fine questions also.

@MrLaggy2000 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@lilie2277 6 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the book she mentions in her last Q&A?

@sohokitten1274 4 жыл бұрын

Shes smart🙂

@dsjump 10 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.

@EgbertWilliams 9 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.

@christinetrzcinski4561 7 жыл бұрын

boo hoo!

@glennfromthebronx 6 жыл бұрын

...I think they're old friends..so we "try to be kind". lol

@jamesallen4588 4 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.

@cynthiabelknap8655 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't help but notice that as well