cue to the viewer that it matters. may i ask a point, i am so inappropriately dressed for this occasion. we were going to let it go. i m not. we were in the edit room. i was in the edit room all day with my 250th episode of inside the actor s studio. this is how i dress in the edit room. it says arrested development because i was in it and they sent it to me. i m not advertise iing arrested development and wish i were wearing a nice appropriate suit for roger. roger might be amused and interested. you could be wearing a green turtleneck like he was in the early clip. there s something amazing about watching two people talk about movies and talk about art and talk about things they care about that is so compelling and so compelling i found myself today falling down a total youtube spiral in which i just watched. what did they say about good fellas and aliens and
interview with james lipton on inside the actors studio. as governor, you served only half a term. what s the right term of address? well, i ll tell ya, i don t know. and i m a half governor, or you could call me a maverick at large. you re very fond of shooting wolves from helicopters, which is understandable enough. have your views on gun laws or wolves changed at all? you know, jimmy, i believe that if everybody had guns, then there would be fewer guns in the stores. same-sex marriage, what is your view on that, please? well, the bible says it s gross. a lot of the wonderful, amazing people that i met in the audience at dancing with the stars seem to feel that way. right. but no. how does a woman like you make her way through a man s world? i don t think of it as a man s world or a woman s world
it anyway, so go ahead. slippery one. what do you think of tina fey s portrayal of you? it s the best one i never watched. thank you very much. thank you. joining me now, my friend james lipton, creator, executive producer, writer and host of bravo s inside the actor s studio which has received a record 15 emmy nominations in 18 years and you just saw why. jimmy, i feel like i can call you jimmy, because tina does or sarah palin does. that is absolutely stunning for me, because i know actors generally are very, very uncomfortable doing any kind of character out of the structure that makes the character work. set, makeup, all that stuff. was that was that did you warn her at all you were going to pull that on her? remember that my show is the only one, i think, of its kind that has no preinterview ever.
being mavericks or not being mavericks. may i be permitted just one more. okay then. but you know sometimes people ask me stuff and i don t answer it anyway, so go ahead. slippery one. what do you think of tina fey s portrayal of you? it s the best one i never watched. thank you very much. thank you. joining me now, my friend james lipton, creator, executive producer, writer and host of bravo s inside the actor s studio which has received a record 15 emmy nominations in 18 years and you just saw why. jimmy, i feel like i can call you jimmy, because tina does or sarah palin does. that is absolutely stunning for me, because i know actors generally are very, very uncomfortable doing any kind of character out of the structure that makes the character work. set, makeup, all that stuff.
was that was that did you warn her at all you were going to pull that on her? remember that my show is the only one, i think, of its kind that has no preinterview ever. that s why i do all those blue cards. so the guest never knows what s coming next. and neither do i. that s the secret, if there is a secret of inside the actor s studio but if i m going to ask them which might be embarrassing, i do ask them in the green room. by the way, i said, would you let me interview sarah palin and she said okay. and let me tell you something. you were talking about reality television, that was reality television. that was real. there wasn t one moment of that was scripted. that was an improvisation, and i was improvising with one of the two or three best improvisers in the world. that takes guts. it was fantastic, like sneaking into an acting class. and you could tell how real it was. and also, i mean she knew she could bail at any point.