Fran Lebowitz Interview

[@rosemaryparker2567]

Life involves getting away from your problems by listening to Fran it works.

[@barbarafaulder9087]

Some times I feel like she’s Debbie downer. So much negativity. 🙅🏼

[@Medina-bk2fo]

she'd be Ursula Upper if we lived in that kind of world. Getting it out and looking at it does a world of good. Pretense and denial never work. @@barbarafaulder9087

[@sabrina-hu4ri]

​and ... hilarious.

[@sharonmassey2923]

This was great! I always find it very satisfying to listen to Fran. She is "self-actualized", a term created by the late psychologist, Abraham Maslow, which he defined as "being independent of the good opinion of others". She exudes freedom, and that's rare to see.

[@kayumochi]

I think you are on to something ...

[@prideandrade1667]

@@kayumochi what do you mean?

[@alisonmorris4599]

Carl Rogers

[@MushrooMilkshake]

Yeah, we've all seen the pyramid. Basic stuff, yawn.

[@sharonmassey2923]

@@MushrooMilkshake We have all seen it, have we? You may be dozens of percentage points off on that. It may be basic and boring to you, and yet hardly anyone behaves in a self-actualized way. Really, look how unnecessarily snotty you have been. Where do you fit on the pyramid? Certainly not at the top.

[@dabeage]

I'm with her.... Fran Lebowitz for Supreme Court Justice!!!

[@barbarakozera4564]

I’m 74 and believe it or not I just recently started listening to her interviews on you tube after watching her and Martin Scorsese on Netflix. She’s good.

[@marycahill546]

One in a million. She is so .... herself.

[@elcruzer5514]

Fran you are the Queen of Snark. I have so much respect for you. You're truly an original and 1 of a kind. Never change.

[@patriciax3677]

very well put... and how many of us are that? In this post trump America, we should all strive for that., With the degree of simple-mindedness and extreme anti-intellectual propaganda aimed viciously at anyone who thinks at all, it's a real achievement that we've come through it. Now, let's clean up that vicious crap.

[@catherineo2134]

Love Fran's authenticity, insight, wit and humor. She is a complete original, a standout, in our culture of wannabes, copycats and political correctness. Fran Libowitz owns her individuality and intellectual sovereignty with profound humanity. The candid shot of Fran with Andy Warhol in 1971 reveals her youthful beauty and innate charisma…still evident, though this photo really makes me wish she never started smoking. Hat’s Off to Fran! - Cheers, Catherine O

[@sandramalone3522]

So well put Catherine.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

The fuck she even do? People talk about her like anyone should give a shit. All I hear is meaningless cliche mental masturbatory bullshit and who gives a fuck nonsense about New York. Self congratulatory back patting is all that is. Yawn.

[@stellapatchouli6652]

Most unusually interresting. To me, Fran Lebowitz is more beautiful than any Miss Universe. And im a straight woman. That level of intelligence, humor, world knowledge -is more of a blessing than a $million dollars falling out of the sky on ones lap!💖

[@senseofwonder4734]

God love her! Bet it would crack Fran up for a minute to know she has such a big fan in this divorced single mother living in of all places, Arkansas😉 Fran's observations are the insight we need. Please live forever Fran, the world needs you!!!

[@Kindlyone777]

👏😃

[@meohmy8065]

i love fran and can listen to her all day...and i do sometimes while i work...i find her comforting...she reminds me of my jewish aunts who are long dead... so it's nostalgia ... she thinks people hate her... we do not... we love her... fuck all to the rest of them...

[@dddelorey]

I love how Fran Lebowitz blames Andy Warhol for everything bad in culture presently. She is right.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

Pretentious try hards criticizing other pretentious try hards. Who cares?

[@rcosmic9993]

I LOVE when you zoom in and put her in black and white. It adds to the humor

[@estellamoore9207]

I love you , Fran. Please take care of yourself. It was a pleasure listening to you speak on utube. I wish you the best and keep doing what you are doing.🤩

[@patriciax3677]

just hope she isn't targeted by one of the insane trumpie nuts...they're all over the place now, like the virus.

[@cherylhutchinson7769]

True!

[@jamessheridan4306]

It's been quite some time since I've seen/heard anything new from Fran Leibowitz. Thanks for posting.

[@lucysweeney8347]

Thank you Fran...your 'Franness' /Frankness is so damn refreshing...it's like breathing clean 'mental 'air.Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin in Summer 2022.Meantime every good wish to you and all there.

[@wondergirl3485]

Love you Fran Lebowitz, the world needs free spirits and free speech💥

[@AlvaSudden]

She walks everywhere, people. That's why she's healthy and sharp. Automobiles are the basis of ill health.

[@evanhughes1510]

Easy to walk everywhere when you are in NYC.

[@seymourbutts2530]

But she smokes, to cancel that out

[@patriciax3677]

@@seymourbutts2530 I don't smoke and wish, for her health, Fran wouldn't. But you're right and I hope she stops. I want her to live forever. We need her and more like her. She's about as smart and witty and real as it gets.

[@rudyspective1870]

@@seymourbutts2530 ; she does smoke, but she walks everywhere, she's not reliant on technology and she doesn't bother with social media (because she doesn't care). The modern stresses society has today she doesn't participate. So I say even if she smokes, for a woman in her early seventies she's mentally and physically far healthier than many of us.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

@@rudyspective1870 certainly more intelligent than her fans who eat this basic 101 shit up like it's the secret to life or some shit

[@dov111]

I can totally relate to Fran as I’m also very direct and no nonsense. Only difference between us is that she’s brilliant and so interesting to listen to.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

You both sound absolutely insufferable.

[@stevenorr54]

I love you Fran! Thank you for your mouth and your opinions and brains!!!!!! So refreshing in this cell phone zombie world. KEEP TALKING!!!!!!

[@MorrigansRaven3944]

Yep...social and observer. I love Fran's wisdom and honesty.❤💯

[@sandramalone3522]

What an exhilarating video. I'm a huge Fran Leibowitz fan so this made my day. Love her opinions as most of hers are the same as mine, and,....Fran is the epidemy of cool. No one alive is as cool as she.

[@jamiesanfilippo9569]

Epitome

[@joannek6267]

@@jamiesanfilippo9569 And it's Lebowitz, not "Leibowitz."

[@karenkaren3189]

Coltrane and Liebowitz. Two legends.

[@johnparadise3134]

19:24 “That type of central importance of food is a pleasure of middle age. It’s a replacement for sex. You know, I mean not a total replacement, one hopes.”

[@kkpaine]

OMG, how can anyone give this interview a thumbs down. Might disagree w/her….your right to……but no one has more wit and smarts and be so entertaining!!

[@seheabol]

The atrocious music

[@vikgrig8015]

seheabol atrocious? This is Coltrane.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

You all are far to easily impressed.

[@susannezami1446]

"Should I ever die"? I love you, Fran, even though you'll never see this interview or the comments anyone has left here about it. :-)

[@stellapatchouli6652]

She's a gift. 💖💞🌍

[@lvan_studio]

I can't live in the world without Fran

[@FriendofDorothy]

I see you have a gift for understatement.

[@TimWayneSF]

I wish I could hear this. The sound is so muffled. And the background music makes it even harder to hear her.

[@LS-ug1im]

Loved the interview. Hated the over the top screaming jazz as background music. Fran doesn't need music to do an entertaining interview.

[@thestreamoflife1124]

I love her a breath of smokey brilliance and reality .....and honest observation to a fault

[@kashesan]

Yes an "Informed opinion" is key.

[@joyceano5354]

I love her! And I love this video of her smoking while walking in New York to Coltrane's My Favorite Things.

[@fionamurray8347]

Love your Frankness, love your humour, love from Ireland 💕🍀 your hilarious

[@lucysweeney8347]

I love her too...her Franness!

[@AlvaSudden]

I read Interview every week, or however often it came out. A lot of it was fluff, fashion, colors on the page. But it was the best thing at the time. It was on newsprint, printed in bright colors, maybe the paper was a bit better quality than that. Not glossy. Just a medium-big format and whatever was in it was absolutely new. It was expensive for me, but I had to have it.

[@ramblinsteven2554]

I remember how substantial it felt in my hands while I read it.

[@keatsgipsy9991]

🥰 love her I do! I’m sure would roll her eyes and state I don’t even know her ha ha ONE OF A KIND

[@AAwildeone]

The REALLY fun time would be a conversation between Fran and Camille Paglia!!!

[@lucysweeney8347]

GREAT idea! I second that!

[@Paul5520]

Interesting lady, I like her outlook & attitude on life😎

[@lastdays9163]

Once, on trash day, on a street in Brooklyn, I found every issue of interview magazine in pristine condition. I took them.

[@johnparadise3134]

As much as I love John Coltrane, I wish he wasn’t playing in the background. It’s distracting.

[@johnparadise3134]

Julie Frazier, It is! And I love John coal train! And I love that song: My Favorite Things, but I always enjoy the studio version better than this live version. Even the studio version, which is one of my favorite pieces of music ever, would be unwanted in this video. And if I was trying to listen to that song I wouldn’t want to be watching or listening to the words of this video. The two just don’t go together. And a lot of people find coal train annoying under any circumstances. I am not one of them. Maybe you are? And if so, that’s your choice.

[@parisbreakfast]

Fran does not need background anything.

[@thestreamoflife1124]

Yes Fran's opinions are definitely correct and align very much 💯 percent with mine .. an independent thinker who cares not what others think or believe

[@XX-zk2lf]

Intelligent, witty, & a total babe.😂❤ Fran 2024.

[@tammiepulley7167]

Irreverent. Love her.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Magnificent!

[@PerryLMarrs]

It would be much easier to hear what Ms. Lebowitz was saying without the loud music.

[@rachelstark2391]

Ms. Lebowitz, if you would like or in need of a Chef, please be in contact...Albany, NY. Cheers, Rachel

[@anitabakker9383]

Thank you, I love the interview!

[@sammavacaist]

She will be the last of the professional intellectuals. 😔

[@IlIlIlIlIlIl..]

Thank God

[@MushrooMilkshake]

Good riddance. What a useless "profession."

[@elcruzer5514]

Very good well produced vid.

[@johntao6822]

Too bad about the sound quality.

[@davedammann741]

"My Favorite Things " encapsulates the theme of Fran Lebowitz.

[@pamm8608]

I loved Interview magazine. Even subscribed. Wish I had horded them. Ha ha.

[@vikgrig8015]

God, I wish I would live in New York.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

What's stopping you? Fuck NY

[@johnrandall7045]

Can you repost this interview with the background jazz soundtrack mixed lower or completely out?

[@vestcoat]

I agree, the music is distracting and really disturbing to people like myself who hate free form jazz. Fran does not need any embellishment at all!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE FRAN!

[@rolo5424]

I just discovered her yesterday and she was laying into Trump. I laughed at the things she came out with. She would hate me as i like Trump and would have voted for him if I was American, but I but I like the way she speaks her truth. And the fact she doesn't give a shit about what other people think. Love that. A lot of people fake that attitude but hers is the real deal. All power to her.

[@onlyrick]

@@S.Kowalchuk - Me too, plus I wear her jewelry!

[@maggieadams8600]

It's a pity most people don't hang on to the same car for decades, and aren't encouraged to do so, I can't stand the things myself.

[@cherylhutchinson7769]

I just love her wit. She's the best.

[@lindas.martin2806]

The sound on this clip is terrible, sad as she is soooo cool.

[@joshpuleston3086]

Great video, beautifully shot for the most part, but someone dropped the ball on sound 😅

[@logan97327]

5 years ago was such great times...

[@candibonney6200]

Fabulous Brilliant Woman Thank you 😊

[@aaronying4989]

13:25 can you imagine Fran being a cleaning lady lol. Can you just see her appearing at your door about to clean and looking at you with her eyes and hair and her stare. Lmao

[@MushrooMilkshake]

Whatever. Just clean the place, get paid, and fuck off. Who cares?🤷‍♂️

[@stevefoley9448]

Everything about her says(screams) New York.

[@lindas.martin2806]

i agree with Fran about almost everything except smoking. Does she care? NO! Do I care that she does not care? NO!

[@TheMonika1951]

My alter ego. (The video has terrible sound.)

[@pianoman551000]

Yes, Monika! Terrible sound!!

[@smallpicture]

That’s from years of smoking!

[@anneoneill280]

I find her so interesting and would love to follow her around for a day. I'm dying to know what her apartment looks like.

[@MushrooMilkshake]

Lol, get a life

[@matthewroman6166]

@@MushrooMilkshake God forbid someone be interested in another human being.

[@haoyando8254]

I admire you, Fran

[@pascaldefalco8042]

I do like Coltrane, I really do. Love him even. But MAN ALIVE how incongruous & dispensable is it to lace Fran’s words with such sonic rollercoaster-ride intensity?! What could possibly be the idea here, if not to annoy the listener? To make listening to her words as stressful as if you were hearing them while being repeatdly attacked by a swarm of killer bees? Do you really find her discourse that boring? Please, whoever made this, get a grip, or better, a course in documentary soundtrack. Thank you.

[@jamesbotha5360]

I really do agree, it's so distracting and jarring, very unpleasant to the ear.

[@christyreinders2449]

Thank God I'm not the only one.

[@Jwilliamc89]

The background music could not have been more oppressive or distracting to the interview.

[@terrycote8879]

Lebowitz is an odd character: her reputation rests upon very little output. She's known mostly for two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. Metropolitan Life is better; funnier and sharper than Social Studies. Now I learn that she has written a children's book, which seems oddly appropriate. She talks about having had writer's block for an extended period of time in other interviews. However, she seems to have had time to globe trot sharing her views on myriad topics. She's more raconteur than writer.

[@colywogable]

She reminds me exactly of the 13-year old that thinks they're fascinating at the parents dinner party.

[@jackanaples]

colywogable She’s had a career as a public speaker for literally decades. So the thirteen year old is making a living at being fascinating.

[@tdsims1963]

That's a good observation. Thanks!

[@patriciax3677]

@@colywogable THE Difference is: she is fascinating.....smart, witty, confident (wish we saw that more in more women, it's a lovely thing). She's like a wise, witty unicorn. She was probably a feminist when she was 13.

[@colywogable]

@@patriciax3677 okay :) I believe it.

[@dabeage]

If there is a word one I could use to describe Fran, it would be 'wry.'

[@visnamacpherson5109]

Fran is so cool.

[@Jjackson628]

Fantastic love you Fran

[@sandramalone3522]

And love that music. Who's playing?

[@Usernameusername206]

OMG! I love her!😂

[@CrimeCurious]

Thank you.

[@juliemullen365]

More more more!👏❤

[@velocitygirl8551]

In a world of”one”

[@tutonelylesnaranjo6311]

Uniquely validating🌹

[@adriennebraxton-oq9iu]

Fran is INSANE!!!

[@adriennebraxton-oq9iu]

also lookin like anot*er favorite, Rut* *ordon!

[@guitarstrunged]

A shame the sound is so bad.

[@Meg-Jagger]

It's because it was actually written by a young person... That's why it resonates with young people.

[@michealcurrie8272]

Fran, Fran make them understand, the universal plan is what makes the demands.

[@mariafrancebraindamage3660]

Excellent Fran

[@cassiejahnke8445]

was this interview conducted when the film Public Speaking(2010) was released?

[@tutonelylesnaranjo6311]

great background music for an interesting take👍☀️

[@interviewervonartista570]

unfortunately, my informed opinion ia that the audio is not good..not crisp...but rather...muffled.

[@LINDAOZAG]

I found salt and pepper shakers in the salad bowl at Max's Kansas City, remember?

[@desertdetroiter428]

I love her so much that it hurts!! Lol, so witty, funny and perspicacious.

[@brianemigh9623]

Love to hear Fran talk, always, but the background music with this makes it nearly unwatchable.

[@5150Rockstar]

She’s like a female Hitchens

[@linjicakonikon7666]

Wasn't she on the cover of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks?

[@ryangates3992]

"If its 100 degrees and someones wearing a coat you give them a wide berth." good advice

[@keithnichols7926]

However, I suspect that Fran wears her coats in all kinds of weather.

[@velocitygirl8551]

Where has Fran parked her car all these years? I can’t get past that question. I literally showered lost in thought about this question AND THEN CAME BACK to this interview.

[@danielstoddart]

She parks her Checker in a garage that's between the East Village and the Bowery.

[@velvaalvarez9099]

Loved it, she's a hoot and mostly correct in her opinions.

[@majic4492]

She looks like an older version of Gene Simmons

[@almilligan7317]

Fran, words you love to hear, you are wrong.

[@patrickbateman580]

Handsome lady

[@velocitygirl8551]

SHOULD I ever die 🥰

[@davidkerns4245]

Fran, you’re a doll. Lose the cuffs so you rock the style you wore on Letterman. 😘

[@amyjanedoe]

12:15 had me lol’d allllllll the way out 🤣🤣🤣

[@MushrooMilkshake]

Maybe you should develop a good sense of humor.

[@GeorgeChipo]

She should hang out with Larry David.

[@patriciax3677]

she towers above Larry....his humor is fun or cute...Fran's is wild, extremely smart and wonderful

[@GeorgeChipo]

@@patriciax3677 I'm not comparing their humor, I'd just enjoy watching them argue about something.

[@xtenm]

Great interview. Horrific soundtrack