#the rhythm is the same as hawkeye's speech in 'chief surgeon who'

[majorbaby]

Interview with Larry Gelbart on Charlie Rose, 1998

#i don't know what to say about this lol so i'm just putting this clip up and rambling in the tags #today is larry gelbart's birthday and i've spent the last year consuming much of his body of work #i recommend watching the first bit of this interview because he explains his approach to comedy #which boils down to 'in order to write comedy you need to be funny' #and then he proceeds to make a bunch of these kinds of jokes #and you can hear hawkeye in his voice. the light self-deprecation / #the biting wit / the way he treats the interviewer like an improv partner #he's not anticipated his answers he's performing them on the spot #he goes on after this to wax poetically about MASH but he ends on a punchline as usual #the rhythm is the same as hawkeye's speech in 'chief surgeon who' #anyway yeah i'm weird about this old man #happy birthday ty for [gestures] #larry gelbart #oh also early MASH is jewish i will explain later