March 25, 2025 • 9 mins
Entourage star Jeremy Piven is coming to Perth in August for a stand-up show at The Astor and gave Clairsy & Lisa a buzz about it... he, of course, talked about his time on Entourage and his desire to play Keith Moon of The Who.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jeremy Piven is coming to town. He is coming in August.
He's going to be at the Asta Theater Wednesday, August six.
Tickets are available through ticket Tech and he's joining us
this morning. Good morning, Jeremy Pivet.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey welcome Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How are you Have you been to Perth before?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I've never been to Perth in my life, but I
can't wait to go.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've heard incredible things.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well it's not to happen.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
My distant city have been different to anywhere else. But
and there's a lot of love for you here, man.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I can't wait to feel it. I want to get
there and make people laugh. And we need it right now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You'll definitely feel that that the aster. It's a great
venue to do a show. What what kind of things
do you cover off in your in your stand up show?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I talk about I do topical stuff, observational stuff, stories, impressions.
I'm all over the map, I'm everywhere.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Right, We've said, you nailed it. We need a laugh
right now. But there is a lot of stuff going on.
Is funny, just funny? Is it get a little bit
harder as people get a bit more sensitive.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I don't. I think you just don't even go there.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You just speak the truth as you know it, and
that's going to be polarizing, and you know not everyone's
gonna love you, but you just jump in. And I
think right now, if if you get really offended by
someone making jokes, that's on you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yes, you know what I mean, absolutely, why should it
be the jokers? But turn off? Don't this whatever, Do
what you gotta do. But it's nothing to do with Jeremy. Jeremy,
You've been around for quite a while now, So if
I don't, I don't mean any offense. The first time
I saw you was in the best show of the nineties,
the Larry Sanders Show. Yes, that must have been an
(01:50):
incredible experience to work on that show. It was such
a novel concept.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That was a brilliant show.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, it was the backstage life of a talk show
that was so good that people even thought it was
a real talk show. Gary Shanling was a genius, and
I played the head writer, and I was right out
of college and it was just an incredible experience for me.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I just learned so much.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It kind of kicked off original program programming at HBO,
and then I did Entourage for about a decade with them,
so I've been at HBO for a while.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Yeah, that Ari Gold character. When you first read that,
did you just go this is for me and no
one else is getting their hands on it because it's
such a classic character.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You know, you would laugh because the way they used
to do it, you would only get the pilot and
then they would green lighted and then so in the pilot,
Ari Gold had one scene and he wasn't even as
fleshed out as he became. So I knew what it
could be because my agent was Ari Emmanuel, who the
(02:54):
characters based on, so unbeknownst to me, I had been
doing you know, I was like a drama tour. I
had been doing my homework for a very long time
on the character. And so I got very lucky and
I knew. I knew intrinsically what Ari Emmanuel slash Ari
Gold was like, and the dualities of that character who
thought was a pig, but he was really monogamous to
(03:17):
his wife.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He was all bark and no bite.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
He was you know, hot tempered and all those beautiful things.
So I knew that if we got it right, that
people would be fascinated with the backstage life of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, some of his verbal barrages script together words. I
didn't think I'd ever hear all in one sentence.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But was there much had lib involved in ari? On
your end?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know, I am my background.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Part of my background is sketch, comedy, improv and all
that stuff, and so I've been writing on my feet
my whole life, and I love to be able to contribute.
But Doug Ellen, who wrote it, wrote a very tight, perfect,
beautiful script, and you know, he he didn't want me,
you know, he wanted me to stick to the script,
and I was honored to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And then I would kind of beg and plead for
a free.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Take and I would I would kind of go off
and every once in a while, like I would say
something in an improvisational moment like let's hug it out, bitch,
something like that, and it would kind of make it in,
but not not a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Not a lot. So I you know, That's why.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm doing stand up, so so I can let my
hands go and just you know, have fun and freestyle.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's like a Robin Williams clause, isn't It didn't they didn't.
They often promise Robin a free take at the end
of him reading you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Know, the script and let him go.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So that's what we can expect at your stand up show.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, I mean, you know, be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I love the freedom. I just love being able.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
To just show up, grab the mic and just kind
of take off and and also selfish. You have people
get a sense of who I am. You know, they
may think, you know, how could you possibly know me?
You may know me from these characters, but you don't
know that I'm a stage actor from Chicago, and I
grew up on the stage, and I've got this amazing
(05:13):
family and and everything that went along with it. So
you know, it's it's a way of I know how
to give the people what they want, but I also
do it in a you know, in a way that
shows who I am and where I come from.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, I'm being an drive superfan. Might have to tell
a couple of papios to your incredible body of work,
because I did. When I said I was talking to
you that lied. Did Rixley actually get caught upset on
a regular basis with you yelling his nine min or?
He just sometimes just crack out.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know, he Rex is a very interesting guy. I
mean he Rex was an assistant.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, he is Asian, he is gay.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
He is a gay Asian assistant who was working in
the cat or as Ari Gold said Gaijan Gaijian, and
you know, he he just entered into that character and
we were like a perfect match for each other, two
people that you would never expect to be in the
same room together, and it was just magical. And to
(06:14):
Doug Allen's credit, he could see chemistry and then explore
and heightened to that, and you know, and then you know,
I've done the best work of my life now with this.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't know if you can see that.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I have this poster behind me the performance, which comes
out this year, and it's an Arthur Miller short story
that my sister adapted and I produced and started. And
you know, guys like you know Adam Garcia and Aussie
Yes is in my film.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
With me and Robert Carlisle.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
And it's definitely it's I feel like it's kind of
the best work of my life. And it took me
fifteen years to make, and I'm excited fifteen.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Years and it's a talented fam.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, labor of love.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I read that you.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Have, But I just to play Keith Moon from The
Who because you play drums.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Is that something you still would love to do? Any
closer to that dream?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I wonder if I'm too old to play Keith Moon.
But then I realized Keith Moon, you know, was such
a rock star yea, that he looked way older.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Than he did he did did.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, well maybe I can still you know, at one
hundred and twenty years old, I can still play him. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, as long as you can drive a character a
swimming pool, you'll be real good.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Because he was a fascinating character, Keith.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Man, Yeah he was. He was definitely the original rock star.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And also, you know, a brilliant drummer. That story needs
to be told. There's a lot of stories that I'm
after right now, and I don't want I don't want
to say too many of them because I almost feel, like,
to be honest with you, sometimes when you say things,
you put it out into the universe, and like, you know,
you better be getting after it. Otherwise it's just talk.
(07:58):
Someone else can grab it and run with it. I
hate to be like a little bitch.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But to be cautious, No, keep close.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
And I'm speaking of Keith of her podcast with Roger
Dultry and Pete Townsend recently, and I said that behind
everything else, Keith Moon was a He's a very he
was a very caring man, you know, very sweet man
to the people that he trusted.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I bet you know, I bet he was.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And he was also a brilliant musician and an absolute
beautiful lunatic.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, I think Ringo Starr said that that he locked
him in a house and put a rhino in there
with him that was smashing in the things, like there
was no one crazier.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, Uh, you can catch Shareing Me Pivot at the
ASTA Theater on Wednesday, August sixth. Tickets are available through
ticke Tech and the performance. How do we get around that, Jeremy.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You know what, I hope by the time I get
there with you guys, we have a release, we have
a release date, or I'll just bring the film with
me in my hands and I will make you watch
it's good.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, we want to do that. Come in here coming
to the ninety.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Six A m all right, Jeremy, thanks so much for
joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Been a privilege.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Man, Thank you. I'll see you soon in a few months.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, thanks singing August, see you at the Dome's so good.
Jeremy Piven is coming to town. He is coming in August.
He's going to be at the Asta Theater Wednesday, August six.
Tickets are available through ticket Tech and he's joining us
this morning. Good morning, Jeremy Pivet.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey welcome Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How are you Have you been to Perth before?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I've never been to Perth in my life, but I
can't wait to go.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've heard incredible things.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well it's not to happen.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
My distant city have been different to anywhere else. But
and there's a lot of love for you here, man.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I can't wait to feel it. I want to get
there and make people laugh. And we need it right now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You'll definitely feel that that the aster. It's a great
venue to do a show. What what kind of things
do you cover off in your in your stand up show?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I talk about I do topical stuff, observational stuff, stories, impressions.
I'm all over the map, I'm everywhere.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Right, We've said, you nailed it. We need a laugh
right now. But there is a lot of stuff going on.
Is funny, just funny? Is it get a little bit
harder as people get a bit more sensitive.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I don't. I think you just don't even go there.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You just speak the truth as you know it, and
that's going to be polarizing, and you know not everyone's
gonna love you, but you just jump in. And I
think right now, if if you get really offended by
someone making jokes, that's on you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yes, you know what I mean, absolutely, why should it
be the jokers? But turn off? Don't this whatever, Do
what you gotta do. But it's nothing to do with Jeremy. Jeremy,
You've been around for quite a while now, So if
I don't, I don't mean any offense. The first time
I saw you was in the best show of the nineties,
the Larry Sanders Show. Yes, that must have been an
(01:50):
incredible experience to work on that show. It was such
a novel concept.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That was a brilliant show.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, it was the backstage life of a talk show
that was so good that people even thought it was
a real talk show. Gary Shanling was a genius, and
I played the head writer, and I was right out
of college and it was just an incredible experience for me.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I just learned so much.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It kind of kicked off original program programming at HBO,
and then I did Entourage for about a decade with them,
so I've been at HBO for a while.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Yeah, that Ari Gold character. When you first read that,
did you just go this is for me and no
one else is getting their hands on it because it's
such a classic character.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You know, you would laugh because the way they used
to do it, you would only get the pilot and
then they would green lighted and then so in the pilot,
Ari Gold had one scene and he wasn't even as
fleshed out as he became. So I knew what it
could be because my agent was Ari Emmanuel, who the
(02:54):
characters based on, so unbeknownst to me, I had been
doing you know, I was like a drama tour. I
had been doing my homework for a very long time
on the character. And so I got very lucky and
I knew. I knew intrinsically what Ari Emmanuel slash Ari
Gold was like, and the dualities of that character who
thought was a pig, but he was really monogamous to
(03:17):
his wife.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He was all bark and no bite.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
He was you know, hot tempered and all those beautiful things.
So I knew that if we got it right, that
people would be fascinated with the backstage life of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, some of his verbal barrages script together words. I
didn't think I'd ever hear all in one sentence.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But was there much had lib involved in ari? On
your end?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know, I am my background.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Part of my background is sketch, comedy, improv and all
that stuff, and so I've been writing on my feet
my whole life, and I love to be able to contribute.
But Doug Ellen, who wrote it, wrote a very tight, perfect,
beautiful script, and you know, he he didn't want me,
you know, he wanted me to stick to the script,
and I was honored to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And then I would kind of beg and plead for
a free.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Take and I would I would kind of go off
and every once in a while, like I would say
something in an improvisational moment like let's hug it out, bitch,
something like that, and it would kind of make it in,
but not not a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Not a lot. So I you know, That's why.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm doing stand up, so so I can let my
hands go and just you know, have fun and freestyle.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's like a Robin Williams clause, isn't It didn't they didn't.
They often promise Robin a free take at the end
of him reading you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Know, the script and let him go.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So that's what we can expect at your stand up show.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, I mean, you know, be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I love the freedom. I just love being able.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
To just show up, grab the mic and just kind
of take off and and also selfish. You have people
get a sense of who I am. You know, they
may think, you know, how could you possibly know me?
You may know me from these characters, but you don't
know that I'm a stage actor from Chicago, and I
grew up on the stage, and I've got this amazing
(05:13):
family and and everything that went along with it. So
you know, it's it's a way of I know how
to give the people what they want, but I also
do it in a you know, in a way that
shows who I am and where I come from.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, I'm being an drive superfan. Might have to tell
a couple of papios to your incredible body of work,
because I did. When I said I was talking to
you that lied. Did Rixley actually get caught upset on
a regular basis with you yelling his nine min or?
He just sometimes just crack out.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know, he Rex is a very interesting guy. I
mean he Rex was an assistant.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, he is Asian, he is gay.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
He is a gay Asian assistant who was working in
the cat or as Ari Gold said Gaijan Gaijian, and
you know, he he just entered into that character and
we were like a perfect match for each other, two
people that you would never expect to be in the
same room together, and it was just magical. And to
(06:14):
Doug Allen's credit, he could see chemistry and then explore
and heightened to that, and you know, and then you know,
I've done the best work of my life now with this.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't know if you can see that.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I have this poster behind me the performance, which comes
out this year, and it's an Arthur Miller short story
that my sister adapted and I produced and started. And
you know, guys like you know Adam Garcia and Aussie
Yes is in my film.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
With me and Robert Carlisle.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
And it's definitely it's I feel like it's kind of
the best work of my life. And it took me
fifteen years to make, and I'm excited fifteen.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Years and it's a talented fam.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, labor of love.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I read that you.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Have, But I just to play Keith Moon from The
Who because you play drums.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Is that something you still would love to do? Any
closer to that dream?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I wonder if I'm too old to play Keith Moon.
But then I realized Keith Moon, you know, was such
a rock star yea, that he looked way older.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Than he did he did did.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, well maybe I can still you know, at one
hundred and twenty years old, I can still play him. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, as long as you can drive a character a
swimming pool, you'll be real good.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Because he was a fascinating character, Keith.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Man, Yeah he was. He was definitely the original rock star.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And also, you know, a brilliant drummer. That story needs
to be told. There's a lot of stories that I'm
after right now, and I don't want I don't want
to say too many of them because I almost feel, like,
to be honest with you, sometimes when you say things,
you put it out into the universe, and like, you know,
you better be getting after it. Otherwise it's just talk.
(07:58):
Someone else can grab it and run with it. I
hate to be like a little bitch.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But to be cautious, No, keep close.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
And I'm speaking of Keith of her podcast with Roger
Dultry and Pete Townsend recently, and I said that behind
everything else, Keith Moon was a He's a very he
was a very caring man, you know, very sweet man
to the people that he trusted.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I bet you know, I bet he was.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And he was also a brilliant musician and an absolute
beautiful lunatic.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, I think Ringo Starr said that that he locked
him in a house and put a rhino in there
with him that was smashing in the things, like there
was no one crazier.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, Uh, you can catch Shareing Me Pivot at the
ASTA Theater on Wednesday, August sixth. Tickets are available through
ticke Tech and the performance. How do we get around that, Jeremy.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You know what, I hope by the time I get
there with you guys, we have a release, we have
a release date, or I'll just bring the film with
me in my hands and I will make you watch
it's good.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, we want to do that. Come in here coming
to the ninety.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Six A m all right, Jeremy, thanks so much for
joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Been a privilege.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Man, Thank you. I'll see you soon in a few months.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, thanks singing August, see you at the Dome's so good.
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