May 21, 2025 • 9 mins
Actor and comedian Jeremy Piven loved his chat with Clairsy & Lisa a couple of months ago, he came back for another one. This time the guys talked about a movie he made with his sister called The Performance which is still yet to get a release date. As well a him upcoming stand up show at The Astor he also answered Lisa's question about the new tariffs Donald Trump is imposing on movies made outside of America. Plus find out who makes him laugh and his experience with a driverless car.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jeremy Piven is coming to town in August. Tickets are
available through ticketech for his show at the Asta Theater
on August six, and we are being treated to a
reprise of Jeremy with Us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello, how's it going? But how's it going with you?
Welcome back? Oh man, I'm living the dream right now.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You've been.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You've been doing some shows in California this past week
and touring the US over the next couple of months
before heading here. Are you when you lock in a show,
is it locked in? Or do you leave room to
tweak it as you go along?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In terms of the material, it's you know, it depends
on where I am. I mean, I like to immediately
hit the ground running and just walk around to town
and get a sense of it and then really address
what my take on that town is. You know, Like
I was just in Cleveland and I was staying at
the fourth Seasons, but it was Cleveland, so it was
(00:57):
two seasons and they didn't have there were some seasons
missing there was. It went right from winter to get
me THETI Oh sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Sorry, Hey, Jeremy blush. We laugh at you, but who
do you laugh? Who makes you laugh on a regular basis,
and it can be someone in company history.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh man, that's that's a great question. You know, I
was just so lucky out of college to work with
like the great Gary Shandling and all of these incredibly
brilliant people. So I and and and Jerry Seinfeld. You know,
you know, a guy in my twenties like just working
with these with these masters, these legends, and uh and
(01:46):
you know I I get up in in La and
New York and they throw all all the comics on
the sets together. So you know, the nicky Glazers of
the world, who really deserve all the success that she's
getting because she works very hard and she's really funny.
Your guy, Jim Jefferies always really makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Is now. When we spoke to you last time, we
were talking about your movie, which your sister wrote and
directed you in the performance. And after we spoke, I
went and watched the trailer. May I say magnificent, But
then I'm a big tap dancing fan. The movie is
about a gifted Jewish tap dancer who's recruited to perform
a one night engagement in nineteen thirties Berlin. You know,
(02:30):
has to obviously put on the show of his life.
What I'm confused though, what's the story with its release?
Where can I watch it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Wow, you've read my mind? Yeah, and everything that I'm
going through right now. You know, at a certain point
you get to an age everyone does or they don't
where you have to drop all of your expectations and
and and just a how I guess without being too
(03:01):
ethereal like the universe and the divine timing to take
over because it is the best work I've ever done,
and it's time for it to come out. And so
we're we're just trying to figure that out right now.
So I, by the way, I'm not dancing around an answer.
I just don't know the answer, but it is. You know, listen,
it took me ten years to get the money. Yeah,
(03:24):
and you know, to learn how to tap dance. Yeah.
And by the way, every year I said, no, I
got better at tap dance. So that's an example of
divine timing. I wanted to happen, and it happened when
I was ready. And now that everyone hates Jews again,
it's time to release my movie. But I really want
to say it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Good luck because it deserves, you know, when you consider
some of the rubbish that gets released in the cinema.
My word, I want to say this.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know what you're talking about, Black Adam, what
do you mean by that? To come on? There's been
some great stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Too fair, I'm the jermy, what's going on? I might
have say some footage like well, there's been a bit
of footage circulating lightly about people like Denzel Washington and
even Tom Hanks getting upset with PEPARAZZI. Do you get
trouble with him handing elan? How do you deal with him?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You know? I used to listen, I'm still single and
I'm two hundred years old, and people say to me,
you know why you're still single? And I say that
I've been married to my work and then my work
decided to see other people. But I digress. Hold on, Sorry,
I had to slip that in there. Yea, No, you
know I used to. I used to look at I'm
(04:32):
I'm I'm a stage actor from Chicago. I don't know
what the equivalent in Australia would be. Probably Perth. It'd
probably be Perth like a guy, you know, like a
local guy just grinding or you say grafting, you know,
on the stage, and you know, I won the fresh
Face of the Year award at forty years old, and
I said, thank you so much for this award. There's
(04:53):
nothing fresh about my face, but thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I appreciate twenty year old suist.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you have any thoughts on the potential tariffs on
films produced diversars coming into the US EU? Are you
worried about the industry at all?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know, I think the great thing about worrying is
it doesn't do anything. So all I can control is,
you know, like, for instance, there's this war overseas, and
you know, everyone somehow is a an expert on world politics,
you know, which is adorable. And I just think that,
(05:36):
you know, it's nuanced, and people aren't willing to I
think that people are really some people are hell bent
on identifying an oppressor, getting out there and making it
known that they're on the right side, and it's like, well,
hold on a second. I think that it's a little
more complicated and nuanced, and so I'm just open to
(06:00):
the truth. What's really going on, what's happening. I can't
control any of that stuff. I can just do the
best work that I possibly can. By the way, this
is the most politically correct answer in the history of it.
Sounds like, by the way, you could use this if
you have trouble sleeping later, just use my answers. You'll
just be like, Oh, I'm so tired, I need that slope.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That was great. Yeah, But when you were in town,
you're getting the vibe of Perth, the vibe of the city.
You can go to the Swan River. It's very famous
and you can look at it from a place called
King's Park, and maybe go to our beautiful beaches as well,
even though the weather won'd be perfect that time of year.
You'll need to do a bit of that. But you
need to talk to locals too to maybe help you
with with your Perth vibe. As far as the show
is concerned, do you do a bit of that, you
(06:46):
catch up with locals when you're in town.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, that's the first thing I do is run around
and just get it, get a sense. I just immediately
start walking around and just get lost. And you know,
it's amazing just what you know, what happens to you
and what's revealed. You know, like today I was I
was walking, I was crossing the street, and the only
(07:08):
car that stopped for me was a way more car.
It was a driverless car. So so what I think
it's the I think it's the opposite. I think that
AI and machines will teach us how to be human, might.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Take you some manners again, maybeging better.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I was just so profusely thanking no one. It was
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well, we will stop for you here, Jeremy. We can't
wait for you to get to town. August sixth. Let
me know who. I need to write a stern letter
to to get help with the performance, because I want
to damn well see it and I will do what
I can to help.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And she wants to tip dance.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, listen, you know what it's. I know you're kidding,
but the reality is, well, you know, you know, to
be honest with you, I made the movie to show
it to people like you, and so that's who we
make it for. And I think they forget that. Yeah,
so you know, And and I think that right now
(08:11):
people feel the way you do in terms of they're
just wondering. They don't they're not connecting with any of
these movies or TV shows. And I made something that
I'm insanely proud of and you just got to have
a little faith in it and go, Okay, this is
something special and unfortunately it's incredibly timely, you know, where
there is a rise in anti Semitism and I'd love
(08:34):
to address it because anger is real, and you know,
anger is like a punishment you give yourself or something
someone else did, kind of like burning your tesla, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, well, I genuinely wish you uh well with that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And by the way, I'm jokes on you right now,
trying material.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Absolutely a bit of big guinea piggle for the woman.
Thank you, Jeremy Pivens you in August.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Thanks man, I'll see you very soon. Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And we did sign up for the last last ched
at least like a six hour dinner with you. So
the best next best thing is the second chat on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So we've no no thanks documented absolutely
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thanks man, all the best you guys,
Jeremy Piven is coming to town in August. Tickets are
available through ticketech for his show at the Asta Theater
on August six, and we are being treated to a
reprise of Jeremy with Us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello, how's it going? But how's it going with you?
Welcome back? Oh man, I'm living the dream right now.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You've been.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You've been doing some shows in California this past week
and touring the US over the next couple of months
before heading here. Are you when you lock in a show,
is it locked in? Or do you leave room to
tweak it as you go along?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In terms of the material, it's you know, it depends
on where I am. I mean, I like to immediately
hit the ground running and just walk around to town
and get a sense of it and then really address
what my take on that town is. You know, Like
I was just in Cleveland and I was staying at
the fourth Seasons, but it was Cleveland, so it was
(00:57):
two seasons and they didn't have there were some seasons
missing there was. It went right from winter to get
me THETI Oh sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Sorry, Hey, Jeremy blush. We laugh at you, but who
do you laugh? Who makes you laugh on a regular basis,
and it can be someone in company history.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh man, that's that's a great question. You know, I
was just so lucky out of college to work with
like the great Gary Shandling and all of these incredibly
brilliant people. So I and and and Jerry Seinfeld. You know,
you know, a guy in my twenties like just working
with these with these masters, these legends, and uh and
(01:46):
you know I I get up in in La and
New York and they throw all all the comics on
the sets together. So you know, the nicky Glazers of
the world, who really deserve all the success that she's
getting because she works very hard and she's really funny.
Your guy, Jim Jefferies always really makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Is now. When we spoke to you last time, we
were talking about your movie, which your sister wrote and
directed you in the performance. And after we spoke, I
went and watched the trailer. May I say magnificent, But
then I'm a big tap dancing fan. The movie is
about a gifted Jewish tap dancer who's recruited to perform
a one night engagement in nineteen thirties Berlin. You know,
(02:30):
has to obviously put on the show of his life.
What I'm confused though, what's the story with its release?
Where can I watch it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Wow, you've read my mind? Yeah, and everything that I'm
going through right now. You know, at a certain point
you get to an age everyone does or they don't
where you have to drop all of your expectations and
and and just a how I guess without being too
(03:01):
ethereal like the universe and the divine timing to take
over because it is the best work I've ever done,
and it's time for it to come out. And so
we're we're just trying to figure that out right now.
So I, by the way, I'm not dancing around an answer.
I just don't know the answer, but it is. You know, listen,
it took me ten years to get the money. Yeah,
(03:24):
and you know, to learn how to tap dance. Yeah.
And by the way, every year I said, no, I
got better at tap dance. So that's an example of
divine timing. I wanted to happen, and it happened when
I was ready. And now that everyone hates Jews again,
it's time to release my movie. But I really want
to say it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Good luck because it deserves, you know, when you consider
some of the rubbish that gets released in the cinema.
My word, I want to say this.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know what you're talking about, Black Adam, what
do you mean by that? To come on? There's been
some great stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Too fair, I'm the jermy, what's going on? I might
have say some footage like well, there's been a bit
of footage circulating lightly about people like Denzel Washington and
even Tom Hanks getting upset with PEPARAZZI. Do you get
trouble with him handing elan? How do you deal with him?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You know? I used to listen, I'm still single and
I'm two hundred years old, and people say to me,
you know why you're still single? And I say that
I've been married to my work and then my work
decided to see other people. But I digress. Hold on, Sorry,
I had to slip that in there. Yea, No, you
know I used to. I used to look at I'm
(04:32):
I'm I'm a stage actor from Chicago. I don't know
what the equivalent in Australia would be. Probably Perth. It'd
probably be Perth like a guy, you know, like a
local guy just grinding or you say grafting, you know,
on the stage, and you know, I won the fresh
Face of the Year award at forty years old, and
I said, thank you so much for this award. There's
(04:53):
nothing fresh about my face, but thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I appreciate twenty year old suist.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you have any thoughts on the potential tariffs on
films produced diversars coming into the US EU? Are you
worried about the industry at all?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know, I think the great thing about worrying is
it doesn't do anything. So all I can control is,
you know, like, for instance, there's this war overseas, and
you know, everyone somehow is a an expert on world politics,
you know, which is adorable. And I just think that,
(05:36):
you know, it's nuanced, and people aren't willing to I
think that people are really some people are hell bent
on identifying an oppressor, getting out there and making it
known that they're on the right side, and it's like, well,
hold on a second. I think that it's a little
more complicated and nuanced, and so I'm just open to
(06:00):
the truth. What's really going on, what's happening. I can't
control any of that stuff. I can just do the
best work that I possibly can. By the way, this
is the most politically correct answer in the history of it.
Sounds like, by the way, you could use this if
you have trouble sleeping later, just use my answers. You'll
just be like, Oh, I'm so tired, I need that slope.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That was great. Yeah, But when you were in town,
you're getting the vibe of Perth, the vibe of the city.
You can go to the Swan River. It's very famous
and you can look at it from a place called
King's Park, and maybe go to our beautiful beaches as well,
even though the weather won'd be perfect that time of year.
You'll need to do a bit of that. But you
need to talk to locals too to maybe help you
with with your Perth vibe. As far as the show
is concerned, do you do a bit of that, you
(06:46):
catch up with locals when you're in town.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, that's the first thing I do is run around
and just get it, get a sense. I just immediately
start walking around and just get lost. And you know,
it's amazing just what you know, what happens to you
and what's revealed. You know, like today I was I
was walking, I was crossing the street, and the only
(07:08):
car that stopped for me was a way more car.
It was a driverless car. So so what I think
it's the I think it's the opposite. I think that
AI and machines will teach us how to be human, might.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Take you some manners again, maybeging better.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I was just so profusely thanking no one. It was
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well, we will stop for you here, Jeremy. We can't
wait for you to get to town. August sixth. Let
me know who. I need to write a stern letter
to to get help with the performance, because I want
to damn well see it and I will do what
I can to help.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And she wants to tip dance.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, listen, you know what it's. I know you're kidding,
but the reality is, well, you know, you know, to
be honest with you, I made the movie to show
it to people like you, and so that's who we
make it for. And I think they forget that. Yeah,
so you know, And and I think that right now
(08:11):
people feel the way you do in terms of they're
just wondering. They don't they're not connecting with any of
these movies or TV shows. And I made something that
I'm insanely proud of and you just got to have
a little faith in it and go, Okay, this is
something special and unfortunately it's incredibly timely, you know, where
there is a rise in anti Semitism and I'd love
(08:34):
to address it because anger is real, and you know,
anger is like a punishment you give yourself or something
someone else did, kind of like burning your tesla, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, well, I genuinely wish you uh well with that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And by the way, I'm jokes on you right now,
trying material.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Absolutely a bit of big guinea piggle for the woman.
Thank you, Jeremy Pivens you in August.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Thanks man, I'll see you very soon. Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And we did sign up for the last last ched
at least like a six hour dinner with you. So
the best next best thing is the second chat on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So we've no no thanks documented absolutely
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thanks man, all the best you guys,
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