July 22, 2024 • 25 mins
Jason Kravits talks about his life as a character actor and discusses some of the roles he has played!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine Elvis.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Fifteen morning show, all right, the fifteen minute morning show podcast.
But it could be more, it could be less than fifteen.
I don't even know why we call it that, but
we do full house today. We've got Gandhi and Scary
and a.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Where did Nate go? Nate just walked out? What a
time to walk out as you're doing the intros. I
know that that's terrible. The hell's that going on?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We are special guests, of course, my partner, our friend,
David Katz is here, hi, And Jason Kravitz, the actor,
he's here, the actor.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hello, Hello, that guy, that guy guy otherwise known as
that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That guy.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, okay, so we'll explain what Nate, thanks for coming back.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Nate was getting me coffee, so I, you know, thank you, Nate.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I liked that I was introducing you and you just
ran out the door, like, okay, guys call well thank you?
So yeah, okay, let me make this all makes sense.
So the Carney Awards is an awards show that David
and his brother dreamed up in twenty fifteen. Was the
very first Carne Awards.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well that was down with the first show.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
We dreamed it up in two thousand and three or
four just to be.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Okay, all right, so what's it about?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And when we get into that, we'll understand why Jason
is here?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And is he here? Why is this guy here? That guy?
That guy? All right, go, David go.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So we came up with the idea we wanted to.
My brother and I were always fascinated by that guy.
We love that guy. Don't know his name, but you
see him in every movie, every TV show, whether it's
an actor or actress. And they never got their due.
They never won an Emmy, an Academy Award. And we said,
(01:52):
these people need to be honored. They're everywhere, nobody knows
who they are, so why don't we create a show
that honors them. And we thought that one of the
greatest characters and actors of all time was Art Carney
aka Ed Norton and a couple of one hundred other
movies and TV shows, and so we went to the
(02:13):
family of Art Carney, and we went to Art Carney
and he said absolutely, and that was the birth of
the Carney Awards and the road to get to November
of twenty fifteen was about ten to fifteen years in
the making, but we had our first show in Los
Angeles in twenty fifteen, and it was to honor people
like our guest Jason Kravitz. Where you have seen him,
(02:33):
you know him. People will walk by him on the
street and go, I know that guy. They don't know
where from or what his name is.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, let's be clear to honor people like me, but
not necessarily me.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That'll clear. Okay, I'm very clear order of the awards.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Wholeheartedly, but not yet across the stage.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, here's right. Now we're saying our guest is, of
course Jason Kravitz. Right, who Jason Kravitz. Now go google
Jason Kravitz, and as soon as his face pops up,
you're like, oh my god, that.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Guy, I know him. Yeah, And you look down your
IMDb list.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You you have had more work, arguably than most of
the actors that we.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Do know very well. You know, it's true. It's a
very true thing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
To be a working actor is a wonderful, wonderful thing,
it is, and you do work.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's good to have you here. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'm happy to be here. It's nice to worry I
don't think I ever. I think aspire to be that guy.
Let's be clear, I aspire to actually.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Have people know my name. But if it was know
my name or work a lot, I'll take work a lot.
You are very familiar to me. By the way. Here's
the thing.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
When people see you and they approach you, what are
some of the things they come up with where they
may know you?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Did you what's your name? Scooter? Did you go to Yale?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Do you live on Long Island?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Uh? Uh? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
My fa was on the subway.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Some guy looked at me and he said, excuse me,
are you Are you a lawyer? Are you involved with
the judicial system in any way? And I was like no,
and he goes, do you recognize me? And I'm like
you never, sere.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I recognize you from a TV show? Now that I'm
trying to I recognize you from Kurby Enthusiasm. Sure. Yeah.
But now when I say, like, oh, you were the
LOL lady's husband. Yes, yes, what was your name in
that show? That's a really good question. Remember what character
you played?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So many I remember there was another character that had
the last name Kravitz, and it wasn't me. That's what
I remember about that show. They used my name for
somebody else. No, there are a couple that people can
jump to. Uh, that's definitely one because that episode of
kurbyr Enthusiasm, the Palestinian Chicken episode, is one of the
top rated episodes of that series. I just happened to
(05:03):
have a nice spot on it. I was a guy
on the plane. I was on a plane the plane.
I've seen it on a plane. I've seen other people
watching it on a plane. That's weird to you get.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Walk up while they're watching the episode, just kind of
loiter around.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Can I get you a drink?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Can I get Uh? No, I haven't done that yet. Yeah,
it's a good it's a good plan.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But yeah, that one.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I had an episode that was very popular of I
was on an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond that was
popular called the Mentor, which I got to I got
to work with all those just incredibly talented people and
the one that seems to go well in other in England.
When I'm in England, they love the fact that I
was on the last episode of Friends. I had one
(05:47):
little bit after ten years. I never auditioned for that
show all for ten years, and then the last episode,
I get into Phoebe's cab about halfway through the episode
and get kicked out that if you're a certain age
and demographic, Gilmore Girls seems to be one that was popular.
(06:08):
I had a small thing if but you know those
are those are fanatic fans.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Wait what about the Law and Orders?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You've been in three of those.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Right, Yeah, I've been in all three law and all
three flavors.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And then I was on The.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Practice for which was a law show for a couple
of years, and that was the one that kind of
get me started in the business.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That was probably the one you were referring to. When
the guy came up to you and go, yeah, were
you a lawyer? He actually asked me. I forgot. He
asked if I was a parole officer.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's where be the first clue, Like, I should not
answer this question.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
David, Were Jason and I in the same SVU? I've
been a dead guy.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I don't remember seeing him in the background, but yeah,
a few years ago, Elvis played.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
A dead guy. I played dead Guy's VU. It was great.
We might have been in the same suv at one point,
but I was driving it. Yes, Yes, that was me
n C.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I s I'm looking down your list. You've been in
a billion things. You were in Hall I loved Holston
by the way, that was a fun hunt. I mean
the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, a question based on that. So you're in all
of the like hundreds of things, right, Can I say hundreds?
Has it been hundreds?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I would go with dozens of several dozen, scores, scores
of thing, scores, gags.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I mean, how much notice do you get for these things?
Because it just seems like there's so many.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is the illusion of television, you know, when I've
done if I do five shows in a year as
a guest star on these shows, you may work for
five weeks out of the year, So it really is
a lot of And for every job you see on
that list, there's probably ten auditions that I didn't get
at least ten auditions, and there are dry spells that
go on for a while and then a couple things
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that will overlap.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But really there's I'm bored most of the time. So
back to the auditions.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
What is the biggest role that you auditioned for that
didn't that you ended up not getting.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Let me count the waves there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Of course, every actor has the story of oh it
was me, it was me, it was me, and then
it wasn't me, and gosh.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I try to put those out of my mind, to
be honest. But you know, thanks Nate.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Everybody's got disappointments. Like you know, like I said, I
was on the practice for two years. I was having
the time of my life. I started as a guest
star just one episode, charted into two, turned into five,
turned into two seasons, and I was having the time
of my life. And then I got a call from
the creator David Kelly one day, going, hey, I just
want you to know your character dies in the next episode.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And you're like, what, wasn't it a fantastic ending. It
was fantastic. I got gunned down in a parking garage.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Then it was the end of my paycheck. It was
like being uninvited to Thanksgiving dinner. It was like, you know,
wait a minute, I want to come back my parking space.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well, I know it's easy for us to laugh at that,
but for you, as a working actor, that was not
a good call to get.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, it's not And now I can laugh at it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
The funny part is I was walking out of my
therapist's office when I got the call, so I could
turn around.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And go right back in.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And yeah, and then I had to go to work,
and I was like, you know, I wrote a story
about it called called dead Man Working because it was
literally like they shot my death scene and then I
had to go back the next day and like film.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The courtroom scenes.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I was like, yeah, that's me, but it was it's
a real disappoint Yes, of course it's a real disappointment.
It's a fan but it also you know, then you
look back and you go that job gave me my career.
That's the reason I have all these other jobs and
that list is because I got to do two years
on this fantastic show and work with some of the
most amazing actors and some of the best writing I've
ever had. So so again, go go google Jason Kravitz,
(09:41):
who we're talking about now. What I love about the
Carnie Awards if we do have a lot of actors
coming out saying this needed to happen for many years,
and they they say, without.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
These actors, these stories wouldn't work. We need they're so necessary.
I mean, it's just the plots, the storyline. Nothing would
work without all of the levels of actors that are
involved with the play or with the show.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And that's one of the things David was loving most
about this project, right, David.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, And they're there.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You can't build a house without the walls and the
structures to keep the house up. We've believed the entire
time that you can't really do most movies or TV
shows without the character actors you excluded, of course, except
for me.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You guys, the term we used to use where.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You are the backbone of almost every movie and TV
show and you just cannot have a successful show without
your characters being in the shows.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I totally agree with that, and any producer listening and
director you should agree with that too.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And phone lines are open.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And you know what's interesting, as I've gone down the
path of learning about more of the character actors, and
there are many that I didn't know as well. What
really stood out to me was, for example, you said
you were just in the last seat the last episode
of Friends, Yet there could be so many people that
just remember you from that scene.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Richard kind our friend, Richard friend, Richard was on.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Mad about you. I don't know if anybody watched Mad
About You, Yep, he was on four episodes only. And
if you ask him what role do most people come
up to and recognize him, they'll.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Go, oh, we loved you, I'm mad about You. Yeah,
Yet he was only on four episodes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So you guys don't always get the biggest roles, but
sometimes you get the most memorable ones.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
It's it's always nice to be recognized, honestly for whatever.
I'll take one off and I'll take you know, if
I did a season or two on something, it doesn't matter.
It's lovely when people come up and say they remember
you in your work. It's it always means something.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
As an actor.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Are you able to watch another TV show or a
movie uh littered with a character actors and watch it
as a fan, or you looking at the show or
the movie and going, I would have played it differently,
I should have been that character. Are you able to
actually enjoy watching other actors?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
The only shows I can't watch are the ones I
auditioned for and didn't get. That's hard because then you're like, Nope,
can't can't support that. Nope, I don't even like. I
don't even like. I mean your show accepted. I had
a really great time, of course going to the Carnie Wards.
It's a lot of fun and supporting all of my
friends who are up on stage. But it's very hard
for me to watch award shows now because I'm like, well,
(12:29):
I'm not what does this have to do with me?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't know and I don't care who wins.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Come on, let's I have friends in it, of course,
But no, I I love watching television, lots of I
love watching great character actors work without any kind of
jealousy or any any kind of connection to it. It's
I just think, you know, character actors are, like you said,
we are the backbone, and hopefully your show continues and
we get more recognition. I mean I loved you know
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who was there Richard Kainin got Wendy Mallet.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Bill Fickner. I might have been that year.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Jonathan Banks was there? Jonathan Banks google right now? Well,
Jonathan Banks was famously in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
He's that very intense looking bald guy that yes, yes,
he's incredible actor, and he's been around for a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Even longer than that, even long you go back to
the first Beverly Hills cop.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, he was one of the Hey.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
He was in h forty eight Hours, the original forty
eight Hours. He was a cop that get blown away
right in the beginning exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
He's been around for a long time and he's one
of my favorite actors. So I have a lot of
favorite actors in most of those our character actors who
can really shift and change.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I love that and a very nice man.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And one of the things that we've learned by being
with these actors is you guys seem to just be
very genuine, very friendly, very warm. I don't think there
was a character actor that we've met that that didn't
have those characteristics. Having said that, you've worked with some
maybe you will name or won't name. You've worked with
(14:06):
Nicole Kitten, You've worked yeah, I don't know if I
put Phili McDermott. Sure, and have worked around some of
these actors that perhaps don't recognize the character actor as
we do.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I've been very fortunate that most people I've worked with
on set just treat you as an actor. And you know,
there've been there have been one or two instances when
someone I won't name names, but I was doing a movie.
I was doing a movie where an actor came up
and was introduced to a group of us that were
character actors that were standing in this one scene.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And they said to her, you're gonna come up.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You're going to talk to these guys and they're going
to give you information and then you're gonna go. And
she came up and said, Hi, guys, how are you?
He said, fine, So what do you do? We're actors?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, I know you're doing that, but what do you do?
What do you what's your actual job? Like you and
these are like.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Working guys, Like I was probably the least working of
all these guys.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was like, we're looking at each other. Way did
that just happen?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But for the most part, people are very respectful. I mean,
Nichole was fantastic to work with you and McGregor when
I was working on Holston just a fantastic person to
work with. Loved working with him, and I had a
great experience when I did the Kaminsky method. This is
like the benefit of being a character actor. You get
to walk and work with like legends. So I was
working with Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin and it was
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like episode two and I'm sitting there with these two
legend legendary actors and just they like talking to me.
I'll give you one that's more recent. I'm going to
be appearing this on next season. This coming season's only
murders in the building.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh wow, Yeah, they're really fun. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So I have a couple of episodes and I got
to work with, of course, Steve Martin and Martin Short
in a couple of scenes. But the first scene that
I had to do with them, I just walked up
to them and they come out of the elevator and like, Hi,
what are you doing here? And I start talking to
them and I completely dropped all my lines.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I couldn't think of a thing to say. With the
first take.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I was like just like I'm like, he's Steve Martin,
Steve Martin, Sorry, can we go again?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Please? Can we get that?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And they were like yeah, whatever, They didn't care. They
were like, Okay, let's do it again. But it really
working with those that level of people and just like
suddenly you're going from like, yep, I'm just auditioning and
because now all of the auditions are at home on tape,
just auditioning for this thing on tape, I don't know,
whatever happens, and the next thing you know, you were
on set with some of the people that you've just
completely admired and they were your mentors in some way
(16:38):
from growing up. It's it's a really great experience. So
I still love that.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, I can't imagine what that's like, but I love
that you're here to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But Gandhi, you had a question thought.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I did so when you were on your three episodes
of Law and Order and the different iterations.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Were you the same character or do they make you
different characters.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Different characters this time or for those And it spread
over years too. I did the I did the when
when Law and Order the original recipe first ended, and
then before it came back, I was on the last
season of that. I just played uh, a lawyer, a
defense lawyer, and then I came back UH to do
(17:16):
SBU and oh CSI. I was a dead body.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I wasn't even a right dead body. The bodies read criminals.
We got together dead bodies.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'll tell you, Lying on a slab with a y
incision in February on Chelsea Piers in Manhattan is not
an experience I'd like to do again.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's exactly what I did.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
My favorite thing though, Jason is in makeup, the makeup artist.
I mean, they basically do dead bodies. And you should
have been here yesterday. This lady jumped off a bridge
into the Hudson River. She was purple, and I'm like,
I remember the time the guy jumped from the top
of the building. We had to put that bad back together.
I'm like, they were hilarious.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh I've had in my body, you know, I've been
blown away. It's it's a terrifying thing.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
How long did that private the practice ending when you
were gunned down?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That hail of bullets? Yep, how difficult. How long was that?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's a really funny story actually, because I went on
the day when they were gonna when they were going
to kill my character, and I, uh, I almost I
drove past the exit in La I was like, I'm
just gonna if I just go to San Diego. They
can't kill me if I don't take the exit. And
I thought, yeah, they could still kill me. So I
I went to set and they they they were setting
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up the dummy car that was going to get riddled
with bullets, and the guy comes up to me, who's
the who was doing all the effects, all the all
the pyrotechnics, and he he he was missing a finger,
which did not inspire confidence. And he's like, all right, dude,
here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna sit here in this
car like this. You're gonna put the seatbelt on like that,
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and then you're gonna hear bang ba bang, and this
window is gonna blow out, and that one's gonna blow
out your heel, the tire blow up back there.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
This thing's gonna go you'll see an explosion in the front.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Will be a guy right in front of you, about
fifteen feet away with a pellet gun of glass bullets.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But don't worry. There's three quarter inch plexi between you
and the windshield. It's all gonna go fine.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And I'm like, are you sure, and he's like, just
stay right in that seat and you'll be perfectly safe.
And then he stepped back.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And went everybody cord.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I was left just sitting there in the car
on my own. Let's see all I could everybody was
hiding me on pillars, and all I could see was
the barrel of a pellet gun like fifteen feet.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
In front of me. I was like, my god, well
here we go.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
And we shot it and I said to the director,
this little french Man, and I said, as you know,
how do I act? What do you want me to do?
How do I act this? He goes, ah, yes, here's
what you do. You put your seatbelt on, you put
your hands on the steering wheel. You hear bang bang
bang bang bang bang bang. You do your sunny CORDIONI
in the toll booth imitation, and you die facing the
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camera tells you.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Like jerk or jerk around like your body literally Sonny Corse,
James Cohn and and that's what I did.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And we got it in one take and it was done,
and uh I went to the showers to clean up
all the blood and shrapnel and stuff. And by the
time I came out of but he gone home. And
I was like, well, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I want to see the scene now. I want to
see how Oh yeah, you can play dying. It's terrifying. Yeah,
well it's it's funny now.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
And I watch it because I'm like, I'm literally doing
sunny Quillia.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I've always wondered, like, hey, just jerk around like you're
a fish on a dock.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It isn't a difficult job.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Well, and it's been incredible to have you hear Jason.
This is I can listen to you talk about what
you do for a living for hours and hours and hours.
I think it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Are you gonna come see my show?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is this a thing that we should talk about? I'm
doing a show that you have it it Joe's pub Absolutely,
we love you. Yeah. This sounds like a lot of fun,
a lot of improv music. Tell everyone what you're doing
in the show a total This is.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
A thing different.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I took three of the scariest words to an audience, solo,
improv and cabaret and put them all together. And so
I'm doing I do a show called off the Top,
which is what it sounds like. It's all off the
top of my head. It is a night of like
a life story and song like you'd see at fifty
four below or some Birdland or something like that. But
(21:24):
it's all made up. My character's made up. The songs
are all made up on the spot. They come from
suggestions from the audience beforehand. And I have a great
band that follows me along and plays along, and then
I have special guest stars. Richard Kind has been a
guest star before f Marie Abraham did it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He certainly didn't. He was a genius.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
And this Friday, the twenty sixth, I will be welcoming
Tony Danza, a fantastic performer himself, and it's going to
be a blast. He's quite the character and he's actually
quite talented as a singer and dancer. So uh, it's
a really fun show. I've been doing it for a
(22:05):
long time now, and it's a it's a it's a
tightrope walk, but it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I can't imagine I would ship my pants, would shit
everyone's pants in a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
People say, what's the secret to making up like twelve
songs over the course of an hour?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I say, it's very easy.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Panic can stand on stage, everybody's looking at you, you
have a microphone and you better start singing something. And
but it's it's a it's a lot of fun. It's
a it's a fun night and it's I just got
back from doing it in London and I did in
la in the spring and happy to bring.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
It back to Joe's Pub, which is a great venue.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, Jason, how long will off the Top be ed
Joe's Pope?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Just for one night? One night only, Friday the twenty sixth. Yeah,
oh really, Yeah, no I need more.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Okay, I'll call me. I'll do it here, that would.
I'll come to a soybean farm in Jersey if I
have to.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You know, I can't imagine what it's like to walk
off the stage after doing a night of that and
you're like, first of all, you feel like you're just
you just got up out of the electric chair.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was on full beam. Yeah, but then you look.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
At yourself in the mirror and go, Okay, tonight was good.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
That was tonight was fun. You must love those nights.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It's a lot of relief. It's a very stressful couple
of days before the show to the show, but after
it's done, it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
The audience seems to have a great time, and I do.
I really enjoy it. So it's a fun night. I
hope people can come out and see it.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Take it in from of course at Jason Kravitz at
Jason Kravitz on social or do you do a search
for you.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Find me on Instagram? You could find me and I'm everywhere.
I'm done right that right, and I'm at Joe's Pub.
You could find that too, jose Pub and my name
or the Friday the twenty sixth. You'll find There's a
million different things to search and you'll find it. But
that's that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Congression. Come on, thank you well, I appreciate it. What's
up there, Nate.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Just as a final note, my favorite role that I
see you played, which I haven't seen is the show
Gravity where you played the credit card asshole.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yes, yes, that was back in the days when I.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
After a while, I started telling my agent, could just
I want my characters to have names? Could I want
to move on from like credit card asshole? Coffee coffee guy?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But did that name actually running the credits at the
end it said credit card asshole?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Did? And that was the part What did you do
as a credit card asshole?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I think I whoever the lead of that show was,
came to visit my office and I was basically I
was screwing him over because I was a credit card asshole.
I wasn't credit card nice guy. I was a credit
card asshole. You know, guys, That's how I don remember
that job completely. Actually it is a long time ago,
but yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You're still around, you're still doing that, you will here,
still moving along.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yes, Thanks Kravitz, thank you, Thanks Elvis, thank you all
very much.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Thanks Dame to do a search Joe's Pub or at
Jason Kravitz anywhere on social and you can figure out
how to go see him, uh doing off the top
at Joe's Pub again, Thank you again, and to Jason Kravitz,
we appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Thank you so much for the fifteen minute morning show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine Elvis.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Fifteen morning show, all right, the fifteen minute morning show podcast.
But it could be more, it could be less than fifteen.
I don't even know why we call it that, but
we do full house today. We've got Gandhi and Scary
and a.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Where did Nate go? Nate just walked out? What a
time to walk out as you're doing the intros. I
know that that's terrible. The hell's that going on?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We are special guests, of course, my partner, our friend,
David Katz is here, hi, And Jason Kravitz, the actor,
he's here, the actor.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hello, Hello, that guy, that guy guy otherwise known as
that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That guy.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, okay, so we'll explain what Nate, thanks for coming back.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Nate was getting me coffee, so I, you know, thank you, Nate.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I liked that I was introducing you and you just
ran out the door, like, okay, guys call well thank you?
So yeah, okay, let me make this all makes sense.
So the Carney Awards is an awards show that David
and his brother dreamed up in twenty fifteen. Was the
very first Carne Awards.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well that was down with the first show.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
We dreamed it up in two thousand and three or
four just to be.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Okay, all right, so what's it about?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And when we get into that, we'll understand why Jason
is here?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And is he here? Why is this guy here? That guy?
That guy? All right, go, David go.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So we came up with the idea we wanted to.
My brother and I were always fascinated by that guy.
We love that guy. Don't know his name, but you
see him in every movie, every TV show, whether it's
an actor or actress. And they never got their due.
They never won an Emmy, an Academy Award. And we said,
(01:52):
these people need to be honored. They're everywhere, nobody knows
who they are, so why don't we create a show
that honors them. And we thought that one of the
greatest characters and actors of all time was Art Carney
aka Ed Norton and a couple of one hundred other
movies and TV shows, and so we went to the
(02:13):
family of Art Carney, and we went to Art Carney
and he said absolutely, and that was the birth of
the Carney Awards and the road to get to November
of twenty fifteen was about ten to fifteen years in
the making, but we had our first show in Los
Angeles in twenty fifteen, and it was to honor people
like our guest Jason Kravitz. Where you have seen him,
(02:33):
you know him. People will walk by him on the
street and go, I know that guy. They don't know
where from or what his name is.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, let's be clear to honor people like me, but
not necessarily me.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That'll clear. Okay, I'm very clear order of the awards.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Wholeheartedly, but not yet across the stage.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, here's right. Now we're saying our guest is, of
course Jason Kravitz. Right, who Jason Kravitz. Now go google
Jason Kravitz, and as soon as his face pops up,
you're like, oh my god, that.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Guy, I know him. Yeah, And you look down your
IMDb list.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You you have had more work, arguably than most of
the actors that we.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Do know very well. You know, it's true. It's a
very true thing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
To be a working actor is a wonderful, wonderful thing,
it is, and you do work.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's good to have you here. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'm happy to be here. It's nice to worry I
don't think I ever. I think aspire to be that guy.
Let's be clear, I aspire to actually.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Have people know my name. But if it was know
my name or work a lot, I'll take work a lot.
You are very familiar to me. By the way. Here's
the thing.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
When people see you and they approach you, what are
some of the things they come up with where they
may know you?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Did you what's your name? Scooter? Did you go to Yale?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Do you live on Long Island?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Uh? Uh? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
My fa was on the subway.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Some guy looked at me and he said, excuse me,
are you Are you a lawyer? Are you involved with
the judicial system in any way? And I was like no,
and he goes, do you recognize me? And I'm like
you never, sere.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I recognize you from a TV show? Now that I'm
trying to I recognize you from Kurby Enthusiasm. Sure. Yeah.
But now when I say, like, oh, you were the
LOL lady's husband. Yes, yes, what was your name in
that show? That's a really good question. Remember what character
you played?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So many I remember there was another character that had
the last name Kravitz, and it wasn't me. That's what
I remember about that show. They used my name for
somebody else. No, there are a couple that people can
jump to. Uh, that's definitely one because that episode of
kurbyr Enthusiasm, the Palestinian Chicken episode, is one of the
top rated episodes of that series. I just happened to
(05:03):
have a nice spot on it. I was a guy
on the plane. I was on a plane the plane.
I've seen it on a plane. I've seen other people
watching it on a plane. That's weird to you get.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Walk up while they're watching the episode, just kind of
loiter around.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Can I get you a drink?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Can I get Uh? No, I haven't done that yet. Yeah,
it's a good it's a good plan.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But yeah, that one.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I had an episode that was very popular of I
was on an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond that was
popular called the Mentor, which I got to I got
to work with all those just incredibly talented people and
the one that seems to go well in other in England.
When I'm in England, they love the fact that I
was on the last episode of Friends. I had one
(05:47):
little bit after ten years. I never auditioned for that
show all for ten years, and then the last episode,
I get into Phoebe's cab about halfway through the episode
and get kicked out that if you're a certain age
and demographic, Gilmore Girls seems to be one that was popular.
(06:08):
I had a small thing if but you know those
are those are fanatic fans.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Wait what about the Law and Orders?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You've been in three of those.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Right, Yeah, I've been in all three law and all
three flavors.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And then I was on The.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Practice for which was a law show for a couple
of years, and that was the one that kind of
get me started in the business.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That was probably the one you were referring to. When
the guy came up to you and go, yeah, were
you a lawyer? He actually asked me. I forgot. He
asked if I was a parole officer.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's where be the first clue, Like, I should not
answer this question.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
David, Were Jason and I in the same SVU? I've
been a dead guy.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I don't remember seeing him in the background, but yeah,
a few years ago, Elvis played.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
A dead guy. I played dead Guy's VU. It was great.
We might have been in the same suv at one point,
but I was driving it. Yes, Yes, that was me
n C.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I s I'm looking down your list. You've been in
a billion things. You were in Hall I loved Holston
by the way, that was a fun hunt. I mean
the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, a question based on that. So you're in all
of the like hundreds of things, right, Can I say hundreds?
Has it been hundreds?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I would go with dozens of several dozen, scores, scores
of thing, scores, gags.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I mean, how much notice do you get for these things?
Because it just seems like there's so many.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is the illusion of television, you know, when I've
done if I do five shows in a year as
a guest star on these shows, you may work for
five weeks out of the year, So it really is
a lot of And for every job you see on
that list, there's probably ten auditions that I didn't get
at least ten auditions, and there are dry spells that
go on for a while and then a couple things
(07:48):
that will overlap.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But really there's I'm bored most of the time. So
back to the auditions.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
What is the biggest role that you auditioned for that
didn't that you ended up not getting.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Let me count the waves there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Of course, every actor has the story of oh it
was me, it was me, it was me, and then
it wasn't me, and gosh.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I try to put those out of my mind, to
be honest. But you know, thanks Nate.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Everybody's got disappointments. Like you know, like I said, I
was on the practice for two years. I was having
the time of my life. I started as a guest
star just one episode, charted into two, turned into five,
turned into two seasons, and I was having the time
of my life. And then I got a call from
the creator David Kelly one day, going, hey, I just
want you to know your character dies in the next episode.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And you're like, what, wasn't it a fantastic ending. It
was fantastic. I got gunned down in a parking garage.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Then it was the end of my paycheck. It was
like being uninvited to Thanksgiving dinner. It was like, you know,
wait a minute, I want to come back my parking space.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well, I know it's easy for us to laugh at that,
but for you, as a working actor, that was not
a good call to get.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, it's not And now I can laugh at it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
The funny part is I was walking out of my
therapist's office when I got the call, so I could
turn around.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And go right back in.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And yeah, and then I had to go to work,
and I was like, you know, I wrote a story
about it called called dead Man Working because it was
literally like they shot my death scene and then I
had to go back the next day and like film.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The courtroom scenes.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I was like, yeah, that's me, but it was it's
a real disappoint Yes, of course it's a real disappointment.
It's a fan but it also you know, then you
look back and you go that job gave me my career.
That's the reason I have all these other jobs and
that list is because I got to do two years
on this fantastic show and work with some of the
most amazing actors and some of the best writing I've
ever had. So so again, go go google Jason Kravitz,
(09:41):
who we're talking about now. What I love about the
Carnie Awards if we do have a lot of actors
coming out saying this needed to happen for many years,
and they they say, without.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
These actors, these stories wouldn't work. We need they're so necessary.
I mean, it's just the plots, the storyline. Nothing would
work without all of the levels of actors that are
involved with the play or with the show.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And that's one of the things David was loving most
about this project, right, David.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, And they're there.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You can't build a house without the walls and the
structures to keep the house up. We've believed the entire
time that you can't really do most movies or TV
shows without the character actors you excluded, of course, except
for me.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You guys, the term we used to use where.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You are the backbone of almost every movie and TV
show and you just cannot have a successful show without
your characters being in the shows.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I totally agree with that, and any producer listening and
director you should agree with that too.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And phone lines are open.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And you know what's interesting, as I've gone down the
path of learning about more of the character actors, and
there are many that I didn't know as well. What
really stood out to me was, for example, you said
you were just in the last seat the last episode
of Friends, Yet there could be so many people that
just remember you from that scene.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Richard kind our friend, Richard friend, Richard was on.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Mad about you. I don't know if anybody watched Mad
About You, Yep, he was on four episodes only. And
if you ask him what role do most people come
up to and recognize him, they'll.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Go, oh, we loved you, I'm mad about You. Yeah,
Yet he was only on four episodes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So you guys don't always get the biggest roles, but
sometimes you get the most memorable ones.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
It's it's always nice to be recognized, honestly for whatever.
I'll take one off and I'll take you know, if
I did a season or two on something, it doesn't matter.
It's lovely when people come up and say they remember
you in your work. It's it always means something.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
As an actor.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Are you able to watch another TV show or a
movie uh littered with a character actors and watch it
as a fan, or you looking at the show or
the movie and going, I would have played it differently,
I should have been that character. Are you able to
actually enjoy watching other actors?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
The only shows I can't watch are the ones I
auditioned for and didn't get. That's hard because then you're like, Nope,
can't can't support that. Nope, I don't even like. I
don't even like. I mean your show accepted. I had
a really great time, of course going to the Carnie Wards.
It's a lot of fun and supporting all of my
friends who are up on stage. But it's very hard
for me to watch award shows now because I'm like, well,
(12:29):
I'm not what does this have to do with me?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't know and I don't care who wins.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Come on, let's I have friends in it, of course,
But no, I I love watching television, lots of I
love watching great character actors work without any kind of
jealousy or any any kind of connection to it. It's
I just think, you know, character actors are, like you said,
we are the backbone, and hopefully your show continues and
we get more recognition. I mean I loved you know
(12:54):
who was there Richard Kainin got Wendy Mallet.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Bill Fickner. I might have been that year.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Jonathan Banks was there? Jonathan Banks google right now? Well,
Jonathan Banks was famously in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
He's that very intense looking bald guy that yes, yes,
he's incredible actor, and he's been around for a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Even longer than that, even long you go back to
the first Beverly Hills cop.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, he was one of the Hey.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
He was in h forty eight Hours, the original forty
eight Hours. He was a cop that get blown away
right in the beginning exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
He's been around for a long time and he's one
of my favorite actors. So I have a lot of
favorite actors in most of those our character actors who
can really shift and change.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I love that and a very nice man.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And one of the things that we've learned by being
with these actors is you guys seem to just be
very genuine, very friendly, very warm. I don't think there
was a character actor that we've met that that didn't
have those characteristics. Having said that, you've worked with some
maybe you will name or won't name. You've worked with
(14:06):
Nicole Kitten, You've worked yeah, I don't know if I
put Phili McDermott. Sure, and have worked around some of
these actors that perhaps don't recognize the character actor as
we do.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I've been very fortunate that most people I've worked with
on set just treat you as an actor. And you know,
there've been there have been one or two instances when
someone I won't name names, but I was doing a movie.
I was doing a movie where an actor came up
and was introduced to a group of us that were
character actors that were standing in this one scene.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And they said to her, you're gonna come up.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You're going to talk to these guys and they're going
to give you information and then you're gonna go. And
she came up and said, Hi, guys, how are you?
He said, fine, So what do you do? We're actors?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, I know you're doing that, but what do you do?
What do you what's your actual job? Like you and
these are like.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Working guys, Like I was probably the least working of
all these guys.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was like, we're looking at each other. Way did
that just happen?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But for the most part, people are very respectful. I mean,
Nichole was fantastic to work with you and McGregor when
I was working on Holston just a fantastic person to
work with. Loved working with him, and I had a
great experience when I did the Kaminsky method. This is
like the benefit of being a character actor. You get
to walk and work with like legends. So I was
working with Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin and it was
(15:27):
like episode two and I'm sitting there with these two
legend legendary actors and just they like talking to me.
I'll give you one that's more recent. I'm going to
be appearing this on next season. This coming season's only
murders in the building.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh wow, Yeah, they're really fun. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So I have a couple of episodes and I got
to work with, of course, Steve Martin and Martin Short
in a couple of scenes. But the first scene that
I had to do with them, I just walked up
to them and they come out of the elevator and like, Hi,
what are you doing here? And I start talking to
them and I completely dropped all my lines.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I couldn't think of a thing to say. With the
first take.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I was like just like I'm like, he's Steve Martin,
Steve Martin, Sorry, can we go again?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Please? Can we get that?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And they were like yeah, whatever, They didn't care. They
were like, Okay, let's do it again. But it really
working with those that level of people and just like
suddenly you're going from like, yep, I'm just auditioning and
because now all of the auditions are at home on tape,
just auditioning for this thing on tape, I don't know,
whatever happens, and the next thing you know, you were
on set with some of the people that you've just
completely admired and they were your mentors in some way
(16:38):
from growing up. It's it's a really great experience. So
I still love that.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, I can't imagine what that's like, but I love
that you're here to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But Gandhi, you had a question thought.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I did so when you were on your three episodes
of Law and Order and the different iterations.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Were you the same character or do they make you
different characters.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Different characters this time or for those And it spread
over years too. I did the I did the when
when Law and Order the original recipe first ended, and
then before it came back, I was on the last
season of that. I just played uh, a lawyer, a
defense lawyer, and then I came back UH to do
(17:16):
SBU and oh CSI. I was a dead body.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I wasn't even a right dead body. The bodies read criminals.
We got together dead bodies.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'll tell you, Lying on a slab with a y
incision in February on Chelsea Piers in Manhattan is not
an experience I'd like to do again.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's exactly what I did.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
My favorite thing though, Jason is in makeup, the makeup artist.
I mean, they basically do dead bodies. And you should
have been here yesterday. This lady jumped off a bridge
into the Hudson River. She was purple, and I'm like,
I remember the time the guy jumped from the top
of the building. We had to put that bad back together.
I'm like, they were hilarious.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh I've had in my body, you know, I've been
blown away. It's it's a terrifying thing.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
How long did that private the practice ending when you
were gunned down?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That hail of bullets? Yep, how difficult. How long was that?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's a really funny story actually, because I went on
the day when they were gonna when they were going
to kill my character, and I, uh, I almost I
drove past the exit in La I was like, I'm
just gonna if I just go to San Diego. They
can't kill me if I don't take the exit. And
I thought, yeah, they could still kill me. So I
I went to set and they they they were setting
(18:34):
up the dummy car that was going to get riddled
with bullets, and the guy comes up to me, who's
the who was doing all the effects, all the all
the pyrotechnics, and he he he was missing a finger,
which did not inspire confidence. And he's like, all right, dude,
here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna sit here in this
car like this. You're gonna put the seatbelt on like that,
(18:57):
and then you're gonna hear bang ba bang, and this
window is gonna blow out, and that one's gonna blow
out your heel, the tire blow up back there.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
This thing's gonna go you'll see an explosion in the front.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Will be a guy right in front of you, about
fifteen feet away with a pellet gun of glass bullets.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But don't worry. There's three quarter inch plexi between you
and the windshield. It's all gonna go fine.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And I'm like, are you sure, and he's like, just
stay right in that seat and you'll be perfectly safe.
And then he stepped back.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And went everybody cord.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I was left just sitting there in the car
on my own. Let's see all I could everybody was
hiding me on pillars, and all I could see was
the barrel of a pellet gun like fifteen feet.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
In front of me. I was like, my god, well
here we go.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
And we shot it and I said to the director,
this little french Man, and I said, as you know,
how do I act? What do you want me to do?
How do I act this? He goes, ah, yes, here's
what you do. You put your seatbelt on, you put
your hands on the steering wheel. You hear bang bang
bang bang bang bang bang. You do your sunny CORDIONI
in the toll booth imitation, and you die facing the
(19:59):
camera tells you.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Like jerk or jerk around like your body literally Sonny Corse,
James Cohn and and that's what I did.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And we got it in one take and it was done,
and uh I went to the showers to clean up
all the blood and shrapnel and stuff. And by the
time I came out of but he gone home. And
I was like, well, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I want to see the scene now. I want to
see how Oh yeah, you can play dying. It's terrifying. Yeah,
well it's it's funny now.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
And I watch it because I'm like, I'm literally doing
sunny Quillia.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I've always wondered, like, hey, just jerk around like you're
a fish on a dock.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It isn't a difficult job.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Well, and it's been incredible to have you hear Jason.
This is I can listen to you talk about what
you do for a living for hours and hours and hours.
I think it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Are you gonna come see my show?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is this a thing that we should talk about? I'm
doing a show that you have it it Joe's pub Absolutely,
we love you. Yeah. This sounds like a lot of fun,
a lot of improv music. Tell everyone what you're doing
in the show a total This is.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
A thing different.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I took three of the scariest words to an audience, solo,
improv and cabaret and put them all together. And so
I'm doing I do a show called off the Top,
which is what it sounds like. It's all off the
top of my head. It is a night of like
a life story and song like you'd see at fifty
four below or some Birdland or something like that. But
(21:24):
it's all made up. My character's made up. The songs
are all made up on the spot. They come from
suggestions from the audience beforehand. And I have a great
band that follows me along and plays along, and then
I have special guest stars. Richard Kind has been a
guest star before f Marie Abraham did it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He certainly didn't. He was a genius.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
And this Friday, the twenty sixth, I will be welcoming
Tony Danza, a fantastic performer himself, and it's going to
be a blast. He's quite the character and he's actually
quite talented as a singer and dancer. So uh, it's
a really fun show. I've been doing it for a
(22:05):
long time now, and it's a it's a it's a
tightrope walk, but it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I can't imagine I would ship my pants, would shit
everyone's pants in a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
People say, what's the secret to making up like twelve
songs over the course of an hour?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I say, it's very easy.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Panic can stand on stage, everybody's looking at you, you
have a microphone and you better start singing something. And
but it's it's a it's a lot of fun. It's
a it's a fun night and it's I just got
back from doing it in London and I did in
la in the spring and happy to bring.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
It back to Joe's Pub, which is a great venue.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, Jason, how long will off the Top be ed
Joe's Pope?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Just for one night? One night only, Friday the twenty sixth. Yeah,
oh really, Yeah, no I need more.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Okay, I'll call me. I'll do it here, that would.
I'll come to a soybean farm in Jersey if I
have to.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You know, I can't imagine what it's like to walk
off the stage after doing a night of that and
you're like, first of all, you feel like you're just
you just got up out of the electric chair.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was on full beam. Yeah, but then you look.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
At yourself in the mirror and go, Okay, tonight was good.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
That was tonight was fun. You must love those nights.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It's a lot of relief. It's a very stressful couple
of days before the show to the show, but after
it's done, it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
The audience seems to have a great time, and I do.
I really enjoy it. So it's a fun night. I
hope people can come out and see it.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Take it in from of course at Jason Kravitz at
Jason Kravitz on social or do you do a search
for you.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Find me on Instagram? You could find me and I'm everywhere.
I'm done right that right, and I'm at Joe's Pub.
You could find that too, jose Pub and my name
or the Friday the twenty sixth. You'll find There's a
million different things to search and you'll find it. But
that's that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Congression. Come on, thank you well, I appreciate it. What's
up there, Nate.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Just as a final note, my favorite role that I
see you played, which I haven't seen is the show
Gravity where you played the credit card asshole.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yes, yes, that was back in the days when I.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
After a while, I started telling my agent, could just
I want my characters to have names? Could I want
to move on from like credit card asshole? Coffee coffee guy?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But did that name actually running the credits at the
end it said credit card asshole?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Did? And that was the part What did you do
as a credit card asshole?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I think I whoever the lead of that show was,
came to visit my office and I was basically I
was screwing him over because I was a credit card asshole.
I wasn't credit card nice guy. I was a credit
card asshole. You know, guys, That's how I don remember
that job completely. Actually it is a long time ago,
but yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You're still around, you're still doing that, you will here,
still moving along.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yes, Thanks Kravitz, thank you, Thanks Elvis, thank you all
very much.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Thanks Dame to do a search Joe's Pub or at
Jason Kravitz anywhere on social and you can figure out
how to go see him, uh doing off the top
at Joe's Pub again, Thank you again, and to Jason Kravitz,
we appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Thank you so much for the fifteen minute morning show
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