Nell Scovell in Conversation With John Oliver
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- Comedy writer, producer and director Nell Scovell sits down with John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, to discuss her new memoir - Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club.
Recorded on March 20, 2018 at 92nd Street Y.
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I didn't know who Nell was, but she apparently wrote some of my favourite jokes. Right on. Thanks Nell!
John is so damn skilled as an interviewer that he makes it look like a casual conversation between friends.
I think it actually might be a casual conversation between friends
It's his posh parrot personality.
This seems to be just that. But your point is valid. He does manage to pull this off with almost everyone (except perhaps Dustin Hoffman) where ever he goes.
Part of it is that they *are* friends, but John is also a great interviewer. Even when he chokes he still has more awkward British charm than Hugh Grant.
"It can be two things"
"Don't get too attached to Beth." 😂😂 good one aunt Pinky.
Speaking about mentor-ship, John is so very sincere and appreciative of Scovell's experiences. He is the reason i watched this.
Lenard Cohen said, "If I knew where good songs came from I'd go there more often."
Just discovered a new shero. What a brave, funny, talented woman.
"Julie, fuck you, stand up" - John Oliver 2019. I love this man, and it's fun to see him a little more relaxed. :) Btw, just went from not knowing who Scovell was to ordering her book.
I came here for John Oliver, I stayed for the wonderful conversation of two great (comedic) minds. I even went back to watch her on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She's pretty great!
I wish John Oliver would do this kind of thing more often, it's brilliant. Of course Nell Scovell deserves as much credit.
Nell Scovell-- what a brilliant human being.
That was awesome! Really funny while also really sincere and grounded. Never heard of Nell before but I plan to buy the book. Seems like it'll be a riot but also pretty heavy in the subject matter. I'm a 26 y/o male and she mentioned she wanted men to read it to help be more informed, and a book recommendation from John has gotta be top shelf.. LOVE John Oliver and Last Week Tonight!!
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I wasn't sure I could make it through the entire video in one sitting. I was wrong. Thank you both! It was amazing!
Did you work on Kids in the Hall in Toronto? Your name is familiar 😊
17:35 "Because of people."
Classic.
I just love John's laugh!
Came for oliver, stayed for scovell.
No pun intended.
Considering one of the jokes was about an extra set of hands doubling your sex life I'm not sure which pun you're talking about. :p
who is scovell?
xD
Jesus Christ, she's bad
Ok this objectively good. This lady wrote a classic simpsons episode. Being able to sit drinking on a saturday afternoon smokin some dank and digging into some lucid intellectual conversation, is wonderful. This makes up for taking the week off, see you next Sunday Jonny O.
This was wonderful. I could have watched them together on that stage for a long time, there just seemed to be such a natural flow of conversation between them.
I'd pay much money for a compilation of these dark jokes that never made it to air because of "people"
We should crowdfund for a mass printing of this book
@Dugan Studebaker very smart comment
I love British humor John is very good at levity.
Nell is ADORABLE!
36:09 “...came for The Simpsons, stayed for the feminism...” - great culture fit
Yuck
Maybe it says a fair bit about modern feminism that her favourite character of The Muppets is an abusive, violent and controlling on-and-of girlfriend.
Or maybe it doesn't what do I know?
@Jewels Star ding ding ding, we have a winner!
@@bigfan1041 Yay.
Wow was that funny. The talent that has been given a chance to grow from the soil of the Daily Show and tending by Jon Stewart is simply awe inspiring.
This was such an awesome interview - thank you both!
This has been greatly insightful and lovely :) Thank You
I love *The Adjustment Bureau*
16:20 just putting this as my own bookmark...one of the funniest lines ever
Love you John. Now I love Nell. Laaaate to the game apparently
Thomas Thompson me too!
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I think I just got a new idol!
Such a good book
Great interview!
My mos was 92Y. Only reason I clicked this.
25:49 That McConnell-joke killed me - she really saw that whole crap coming given the fact that she wrote that one for Obama once...😂
I nearly fell off my chair laughing when they read that one out...Brutal!
@@tdsims1963 Right?? 😂 Just had to re-watch it - killed again.😂
@@florete2310 It's a pity it never got used...
@@tdsims1963 Well, at least it got read out loud in front of a huge audience... But you're right, a live roast of Count Turtleneck in the flesh - directly into his face - would indeed have been better though.
Seriously. And now McConnell has his head well lodged up Trump's -- ironically, STILL for the purpose of obstructing the Democrats.
This was excellent!
I have that same sock as the one John was wearing and that has really made my day
Great interactions.
That Mitch McConnell joke was savage! Loved it.
Anybody else get that beef AD didn’t skip?
john I love you😉
Totally late to this but I just bought the book on Audible based off this interview. Excited to read it!
J Lynn Not trying to be a dick, but I think you mean "listen to it". You don't read audiobooks, that's sorta the point haha
Jimmy: Teacher,.. do Farts have Lumps ???
Teacher: No Jimmy. Farts do Not, have lumps.
Jimmy: Ahh, OK.
Then may I use the Bathroom?
And get a new Chair... Please
That is so freakin funny!!!!!!!!!!
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So interesting, she's so cool. Question for 92nd Street... why have this video unlisted? I think the more exposure that Nell can get the better. I haven't read her book yet, but I'm planning on it after hearing her speak w/ Marc Maron. Fans of John Oliver should hear about her too. Any reason why it's not public?
Agreed, make it public, don't unlist it!
Video weirdly got published today.
Probably because she isn't funny
I thought this was a John Oliver interview. I was pleasantly disappointed.
This is so genuinely funny!
Sometimes being a good parent means knowing when not to. Example: teen - age rebellion.
Hell yeah
I just click the video because I saw John Oliver name lol
The Mitch joke was gold
I made laugh bto a lot of people when I was younger, even now I still like to make laugh.
48:36 HIRE MORE WOMEN! I said that before she did when I watched this. I remember reading a book about the history of Monty Python's Flying Circus and I was amazed when they got to Eric Idle's history where one of his first acts as President of The Footlights Revue was to admit women! The ultimate boy's club at an all-boys school was going to allow women to join and this was considered controversial! That's what makes this problem more mind-boggling in a place that puts women of the screen on a pedestal while not letting too many of them write for TV shows! Hopefully this will change over time but I'm ashamed to add my name to the list of people, mostly men, who have never heard of this remarkable lady. Great segment.
David T. Smith It wasn’t an all boys University generally at that time. There were all male and female colleges within it though.
@@nicoladavies3391 But that's like saying that Harvard wasn't an all boys school because of Radcliff College. Cambridge was the home of Footlights and Eric changed the status quo by admitting women into their ranks.
@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs I've only been watching this for 8 minutes and I've lost attention about 6 times already, going back and rewinding - and again I'd almost immediately lose attention/interest
She hasn't even made me smile yet.
Not only is she not funny; she's not interesting
It feels like I'm listening to some grandma who thinks she's funny, but is completely self unware of reality
Even while writing this I lost interest another 2 or 3 times
@@lockandloadlikehell All I can say is read her book "Just the Funny Parts" and judge for yourself. Some comedy writers aren't funny when they're answering questions in an interview format and are very funny in an informal setting. I remember when Art Buchwald was hitting the talk show circuit and I laughed when he was on The Mike Douglas Show but was bored to tears when he was on The David Susskind Show. On Mike's show, he discussed one of his columns (there are 200 Kissingers on call...or something like that) and Susskind was just asking questions. It depends on the venue...
My grandma used to say.. Here I sit all broken hearted, tried to sh** but only farted. Then I thought I'd take a chance, tried to fart but sh** my pants. 5 years later, I was diagnosed with crohns. That poem has been pretty much my life. She was great.
Low sound, but great conversation.
This was a great video. They're both so funny and it was enjoyable to watch them make each other laugh along with us. Here's my favorite Dorothy Parker quote one-time Dorothy Parker was invited to the White House to dine. A waiter accidentally spilled soup on her dress. She chastised him vigorously, pointing at him and saying "go away from me, and never darken my Dior again!" Another good one is, "That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say 'no' in any of them."
My perfect Algonquin Round Table? Dorothy Parker, GBS ,George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, known as The Master in the theater world, he was also exceptionally witty, Tallulah Bankhead, she and Coward were great friends, he called her Tallu, Robert Benchley, I've heard that he used to answer the by saying "Hello what's on your alleged mind, Cornelia Otis Skinner, who wrote a charmingly funny memoir titled Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, that I read when I was very much younger, and a drunken drop in by Zoe Fitzgerald, perhaps accompanied by her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald. All quite hilarious. But let's face it, you can't get funnier than John Oliver. I went to a marvelous party....
Love Nell’s reference to Weinstein and the level of abuse necessary to be heard. Thank you.
John Belushi believed no woman could be funny. I adored him on SNL as a very young girl. I got over it when I heard that years later. The ton of talented comediennes we have today would put that bastard to shame.
That blowfish episode always stuck with me
One of my faves, too.
Oh, oh... She's the interviewee?
Oh wow... I got into a lot of fights as a 3rd and 4th grader, they didn't stop till I got into advanced programs in 5th.
Found out years later that my parents had sit-downs with the teacher and principal where they tried to have me drugged, and my parents refused.
Lucky
The Grandpa Simpson joke IS in the episode though.
The fart joke she didn't tell, I recognize from a Dolemite album
Don't keep us waiting
I can't with his socks. He needs a desk.
so just saw this video in my subscription feed. and then see comments from a year ago. is this video that old?
Because people
Recorded on March 20, 2018 at 92nd Street Y.
Well, see your situation was quite similar to my current one...
It says it is from 4 years ago
She has really nice hair.
I wish these two would send some new talent to the Daily Show. They have everything but great writers.
parvenue
a person of obscure origin who has gained wealth, influence, or celebrity.
"the political inexperience of a parvenu"
I would have had one of three responses to mother
Dammit
Oops
come on babe we'd better go get married before this virginity thing wears off.
How many here are happy that Obama did not use that Mitt Romney joke, he is the only vertebrate Republican left, it would seem.
What? There's nothing in that joke that Romney wouldn't love; there's no insult. The punchline is about Obama's middle name.
@@dreamingrightnow1174 Sorry, I meant the one about finding Romney in Obamas rectum, causing congestion.
@@the_Giovanni_Jian Lol. I see. I'm with you on that.. I can't even imagine Obama making any kind of reference to his rectum..
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I know he was born way before 1954... but was that born in the Bronx thing a poke at Johnathan Harris?
Caiha H. Well, Oliver was born in 1977; I think the Bronx thing is that until he opens his mouth, he is a typical Jewish boy from the Bronx.
I don't think he was born way before 1954. I was born in 1954. I am 69 years old. I can't believe John Oliver is as old as l am.
You have to laugh at life. Because the only alternative is crying at the absurdity of it all, which I refuse to do.
why did they not laugh at ´holy shit´ when talking about mother Theresa?
Opthamologist /Laughtamologist or, the act of Laughtomologism ( trying out jokes, until they're just right... ie what about now, what about now, is it better now, is it funny or now?)
2 Chronicles 34:4
“And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.”
King James Version (KJV)
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2 Chronicles 34:4 Context
1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
People say I am very funny, but no one in my family was like that, as far as I can remember. It just arose in me out of desperation. The world has always seemed absurd to me. It is difficult for me to pretend to take seriously most of what is going on around me. Eventually I stopped trying, and became sardonic. But I do not think that is the trait of a really nice person. And yet, people say I am nice! I feel I know better.
In a way you're still upset with your family for that (or the kid in you).
For you to make peace with that, it should come from pardoning your family for making such a deep mark in your personality.
They didn't know it would have such a destructive effect on you.
@@HelgaCavoli Thank you for your comment and for your kind interest in my story. What may have made a deep mark was perhaps that I climbed out of my crib when I was 13 months old (so it has been recounted to me) and fractured my skull after falling onto a hard floor. After that my speech was delayed for several months. And from around that time I seem to remember feeling detached. But who knows? Such a long time ago.
@@RalphDratman Most comedians come from dysfunctional families as they use laughter as a coping mechanism, also generational trauma can have a big effect on comedy which is why some of our best comedians are Jewish and Black.. Also 80% of your personality is developed within the 1st 3 years of your life. This is where 80% of your social downloading to the outside world and early infant trauma often plays a major role in being a critical skeptical thinker or not..
@@rrpearsall Well said, and thank you.
Ralph Dratman
Sometimes people are known as "nice" because they are skilled at maintaining the optimal emotional distance from others.
“‘You write like a guy’, that was the highest compliment.”
You might like a guy. Oh you mean I write slowly? I'll try to be more efficient.
Hello
Who says women can’t be funny? My wife is hilarious, and her sister is at least as funny.
Literally nobody. But that doesn't stop many shitty female comedians from pretending that is the narrative. Lucille Ball was literally the biggest comedy star of her era 60+ years ago. Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, I could go on. People have loved for decades, hacks just need to feel like they are failing because they are being wronged.
John Belushi once declared that women couldn't be funny.
But he's dead now.
@@w00tw00t4l00t literally wrong. Someone already mentioned belushi, add to that Jerry Lewis, one of the comedy greats. It takes seconds to do a search on guys with influence and power in their time that said women weren't funny. Female comics (and male ones, too, that knows this) are talking truth. Go check it out.
Time just in general never interaction with the kid i'm talking about people---- listening microphone speech to text program within words as if wishes.
Stop moving your hands ,....hands, moving,..........ahhhhhhhh,..shit. There it is.
The *wedding* ring.
Sonofabitch.
18:12 Mother Teresa was a monster who diverted donations away from the poor and to the church and her own bank account. She did not care about saving people's lives or making the world a better place. She wanted people to convert. One of the ways she did so was make them suffer until they did. She never saved anyone's lives in her house for the poor, instead she make their lives worse and allowed diseases to spread. She had the money to inact so much good for those people and the families, by helping to building infrastructure and hospitals. Instead she used that money for herself and church, and got cheap buildings with a bunch of cheap beds and let them die in agony while constantly pushing Christianity on them instead of helping them.
She is now a saint because of all the money she diverted away from the poor and into the church.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Where did you learn that conspiracy theory?
I wish Nell would of made episode 7-9 of Star Wars over Kathleen Kennedy
She doesn't have to degrade men to make female characters strong and interesting
That'd be nice... it would be nice if people had been nicer about Jar Jar, too. Darth Jar Jar could have been the best villain reveal of all time. Bumbling moron turns out to be mastermind at the level of yoda but for the dark side? But nope, and as a bonus side effect George Lucas literally left SW for good leaving us with Disney to make 7-9... so basically this is the fault of all those super-fan douches who cried and threatened and shit on people. :\
@@TheActionBastard Fan boys ruin art.
Jar-Jar Palatine. Tell no one.
i need to puke
I do not like this woman.
The joke's ain't funny must just be American humour
Obama "..he's the leader of the free world.." People keep repeating it. Seems like you're trying to convince yourselves every time.
When she wrote his jokes for the correspondents dinner, he was.
Nope... I can't take more than 10 minutes of this... Can't keep my eyes open YAWN!
Fuck off, no one cares what robots think.
Congratulations on having the attention span of a bloated flea
Wow, y'all are so upset!
@@kimberlysayer5113 your definition of "so upset" is pretty broad i'd say. Or maybe you just over-exaggerate.
@@WiseSageTnelis , My exaggeration hardly compares to the over reaction of telling someone to fuck off for daring to say they were tired, lol. But whatever. You do you, boo.
Ballet fart jokes are the best!