The House of Stewart
I’ve been posting podcasts that Jon Stewart has done in conjunction with his Apple TV+ series, The Problem with Jon Stewart. They’re on hiatus now, preparing for Season 2, but periodically he’s doing podcasts in the interim. Since this one is video, I suppose that makes it more a videocast than podcast, but whatever you want to call it, this is Jon Stewart and Judd Apatow mostly talking about George Carlin and Apatow’s documentary, and then veers into other topics about comedy. It’s quite wonderful. And smart and thoughtful. Helping, too, is that a bunch of clips of Carlin are included. And they’re beyond wonderful.
At one point, Stewart talks about how hard it is just to make a career as a comedian. And then how even rarer it is to have Your Moment. But, as he then continues with utter awe about George Carlin, “The fact that you’re relevant for 50 f*cking years…and after you die, you’re still relevant – I don’t know what to make of this.”
My favorite line of Carlin’s, which they reference here, is that he said his goal was to cross the line…and have the audience glad that they crossed it with you. And, as Stewart adds, that last part is what’s so hard and the work of an artist.
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