Master/Class: Fran Lebowitz with A.M.Homes

[@networx7991]

I could listen to Fran Lebowitz forever.

[@kirbywebb]

NetworX me too - i love her

[@karenpatella2417]

Me too

[@hannelorehainke7675]

Karen Patella o

[@constancemiller3753]

We won't have her forever. Plant a tree.

[@treyquattro]

you think so but then you'd become like Fran with Warhol, and who wants that?

[@oatmealhoney7446]

I'm running out of content of hers to listen to. I've listened to entire days of her talking while I'm at work and am getting down to the end lol. If she had a podcast... wow.

[@debbievoss3496]

Pray tell what your work is!

[@RKhere97]

@@debbievoss3496 +1

[@harrybroadbent1806]

On to my 7th, hour and a half Fran Lebowits interview

[@mckaylaferguson3096]

I simply cannot stop.

[@AlistairAVogan]

She is particularly sharp in this interview.

[@maureenharrison1261]

Same

[@Lolabelle59]

Fran is so spot on about everything, especially Bloomberg's bicycle paths on sidewalks, replacing New Yorkers with tourists and NYU gobbling up the Village. Love her.

[@mck2021]

Fran is fantastic. She is so right about how business is worshiped. Business people running health care is what has destroyed it.

[@lindawolfe2885]

True. I was a registered dietitian for decades. When I first started practicing in 1981 most if not all hospitals were nonprofit. At some point, in the mid to late 80’s I think, hospitals began to convert to for profit status. Hospitals were always run as a business of course. We had to keep the lights on and water running, but our bottom line was to best serve the patient with the goal of healing. That changed. Hospitals became top-heavy with administrators who had the final say in decision making. So those of us with expertise in healing had very little say in what happened to patients. It was a nightmare. Still is. In my opinion we need universal healthcare/Medicare for all, and all healthcare should be nonprofit.

[@davidrose1838]

amen amen! we need to start a *fran please stop smoking cause we want to have you around as long as possible cause we all so badly need your voice!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelhall5429]

@@davidrose1838 the lady wants to smoke. When she starts making you smoke them for her, I'll speak up for you.

[@caroldraper5017]

I love that she’s a sloth because I am too.

[@caroldraper5017]

Yes! I would love to be a grammar corrector!

[@pinwheelart2825]

Ah...everyone looks at me like I have two heads when I say I don't like Warhol.😂 Thanks Fran.💖

[@SeeTimeRun391]

Fran is fascinating and refreshing. She said one thing about her upbringing that sticks in my head, and is probably key to who she is today as an intellectual. She said, "When I was a child, NO book was off limits to me." She was free to explore the written word and to formulate mature observations and opinions about life and the human condition at a young age. When I listen to her, I don't feel so different from the norm because I identify with her in a lot of ways. I to am... An Observer.

[@Seisenberg]

And now books are being banned…the dumbing down of America

[@johncooper3636]

Yes, I could listen to Fran forever, but not to these lackluster interviewers. I have yet to find one challenging, prepared person to interview Ms. Lebowitz. But I'll still be listening... :)

[@nem0763]

I thought Eleanor Wachtel on CBC radio was a great interviewer as always

[@lolabow5421]

She’s an amazing voice for the public schools

[@carmenjones5528]

I wish more people would really listen to her.she is a critical thinker and a excellent observer of humans,culture,politics.like people only get information on things they agree with. She has a good understanding on Bloomberg having been and is a new Yorker. She's not distracted by all the giggly gadgets of distraction. She reminds me of the importance of being a critical thinker.

[@tutonelylesnaranjo6311]

Lebowitz is authentic, rejuvenating.

[@darlington9738]

there is this one person on the left who aplaudes everything fran says and i think it might be me

[@neyder9309]

Is it ironic that I'm glued to my phone watching Fran Lebowitz?

[@kingjudah27]

Such a genius. I absolutely adore Fran.

[@darlington9738]

fran seems to be in such a good mood 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰!!!!!

[@pkspalding]

Living a continent away from NYC listening to Fran is like being back downtown for a spell. Wonderful experience

[@elcruzer5514]

I wish I could think and express my so well. Much respect. She's legendary.

[@davidrose1838]

you can you can thinking wisely and expressing those thoughts just takes practice.

[@rr7firefly]

Fran is right on: Too many wanna-be writers inflicting their "clever" writing on us. Everyone thinks they have something important to say and they try too hard to present it in hip parlance. The truth is that today there are very few people who can write like Molly Ivins, Erma Bombeck, Art Buchwald, or H. L. Mencken.

[@sonjalewis3047]

And recently "experts" are told by their publisher(?) that they must do creative mental gymnastics to come up with new metaphors--and far worse, pad their writing with repetitive details AND 200-page "scientific" non sequiters.

[@rr7firefly]

@@sonjalewis3047 An older woman in my neighborhood pre-plans all of her conversations so that she can drop one or two clever lines into them. She calls them "bon mots" (BAHN MOES). I was with her at lunch one day and she ran through the same shtick with each person she encountered. Word for word. God, she is a pathetic nobody.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@rr7firefly she really pushed your buttons.

[@patricias5122]

@@rr7firefly Hmmm. That's kind of a really sexist and ageist remark. What do you care, if she practices her comments beforehand? Why do you care?

[@rr7firefly]

@@patricias5122 Why do you care? (Fair question.) Her age and gender are incidental to fleshing her out in the description. I could have said she was small in stature and an alcoholic and maybe then you would come down on that. Where does it end with you?

[@ytugtbk]

Fran is such a great wit. Love her POV that her reason for being is to make fun of all people.

[@Hermesvenus09]

Amazing! Brilliant! Thank you, Ms. Lebowitz.

[@slowflowheat]

Any video of Fran Lebowitz gets a mandatory like from me.

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

She is marvelous!

[@coltdaggabuzzbuzz]

I know! It's almost uncomfortable to watch. But I love hearing Fran so I'm trying to forge through it lol.

[@1trschaefer78]

So much wisdom & humor!!

[@dantronix1979]

I love her. Brilliant.

[@glennfromthebronx]

Fun and thoroughly enjoyable interview. I remember Fran well from her TONIGHT SHOW and David Letterman/12:30am...NBC show appearances in the early 80s. It's nic to see her apparently "putting herself out thre" again. Just saw a youtube video from a conference in Australia. way to go Fran! Her 15+ hour plane ride. I'm so glad I wasn't on that plane. (no smoking)

[@patricias5122]

Dave Letterman understood how to interview Fran Lebowitz: The normally garrulous Letterman just kept his mouth shut and let Fran talk!

[@sungeunjin78]

I love this hell of woman!

[@Loulou______]

I wish she spoke about her personal life. I’m sure she has some amazing stories!

[@verenas3536]

there is a netflx series with her. pretend its a city. very amusing. and she talks also about her personal life.

[@jordanconley3793]

Here's how you interview Fran Lebowitz: Ask her opinion about something and then shut up. Don't try to one-up her or add anything amusing. Just shut up. She's really not listening to you anyway since everyone pretty much asks her the same questions which always receive the same canned answers. I could not finish this because the interviewer was so annoying.

[@donniemoder1466]

A.M. Holmes did a perfectly good job in this interview, thank you very much!

[@istvanpraha]

I understand your point but this interviewer was OK, I've seen other people do it 10X worse

[@wanderinggeri8477]

@@istvanpraha The best endorsement she deserves.

[@Beckola11]

i agree and I don't believe she had a thousand more questions. Her laugh was an absolute annoyance. Thank God the students started asking the questions! Their laughter was appropriate.

[@patricias5122]

When did Americans get so nasty? Did social media unleash something in you? You can't blame it on Trump. Why write something so really vile, about a woman who has done nothing to you?

[@patrickmcgee357]

anyone wanna tally the # of times the interviewer says "exactly"

[@leftylibber]

So refreshing to know there are others loathe to camping. Fran is hilarious and so relatable.

[@michaelhall5429]

I both love camping (the rougher the better) and love Fran. The good thing about her, is she's funny even if she isn't relatable.

[@animasuzie]

Who references Harry Potter when interviewing an adult ? 👀 . Fran, effortlessly chic, set the tone all the way through. Fran for president of everything.

[@patriciatapia1710]

Fran said she was a promiscuous reader, you dont know if she has read harry potter. let her be the snob, you stay on your lane

[@alimandi2]

The problem with the interviewer is that she thought she could match Fran's wit. This is the result.

[@Ktwood1]

unduely harsh .

[@carolynrobe5957]

@@Ktwood1 Well she tried a few little jokes....so who could match her wit, pray tell... Ricky Gervais?

[@Ktwood1]

@@carolynrobe5957 Fran would be intimating to interview . And right she should not have tried any jokes . She probably looks up to Fran a lot and was nervous as hell .

[@LaoZi2023]

Ohh, Fran makes me laugh!! She weaves honesty and satire so seamlessly!

[@easywind4044]

I agree with a surprising amount of her ideas.

[@catherinelucente7285]

Fran is so right about grammar. My former classmates and I attended 12 years of private, Catholic education before going to college. We are friends on FB, so we have discussed how brutal our teachers (both nuns and lay people) were whenever we answered their questions incorrectly. We were hit with rulers; we had our hair pulled; we had chalk thrown at our faces; and then, the worst punishment for each of us was when we had to stand in front of the class with our back facing the class, draw a circle on the chalkboard at our nose’s height, place our nose in that circle, and stand there during the entirety of the class period. So yes, we know our grammar, and we can write in cursive with fountain pens. 😳😂 We also had to attend mass every Friday morning. Since we had started grade school in the late 1960s, this was a time period when all girls and women had to wear chapel veils or mantillas. If we girls forgot to bring our own, the nuns would bobby pin a sheet of Kleenex on our heads. This made no sense to me. The point of wearing veils was to honor and respect God. How could a piece of facial tissue be a sign of honor and respect?! 🤪🤭

[@michaelhall5429]

Didn't you read all of the verses in the bible where Jesus hit some kids because they weren't dressing correctly or got an answer to a question wrong? The good lord wants us to suffer until our grammar and appearance are precise and correct. That's how you know all the nuns and priests are right

[@stephenwilliams1269]

Fran Lebowitz is fantastic.

[@c.e.schlink9933]

Brilliant!!! Love Fran.

[@hayleyannamathieson7261]

Fran is fabulous. 😊

[@isaojable]

Intellectuals always refer to writers, authors or philosophers during conversations. Somehow, Fran Lebowitz never does that. I wish she would share her culture with the audience. I've been "binge watching" her for 3 days and noticed she frequently repeats the same little anecdotes, as if it was a rehearsed show. I’d love her to further develop her point of view on current political or social issues ; she is really funny and her views on american society are very on point.

[@meeeeemz25]

The thing is they ask her the same questions always. However, if you watch Public Speaking and Pretend it's a City, the questions are different.

[@eunicem1542]

I agree with you. She does.

[@dddelorey]

Thank you for uploading

[@tammiepulley7167]

“The only people who love to write are bad writers.” I’m going to frame that and hang it on my wall.

[@annesaffer629]

I love your comments about grammar! I am one of those Catholic school survivors, and yes, we learned grammar! I was actually fond of diagramming sentences. And, it drives me crazy how poor the grammar is, especially from public speakers - politicians, news people on radio and tv, the list is endless. No one has ever heard of a past participle. One helpful use for my grammar skills is when I read older literature - pre-Hemmingway - I can sort out the sentenceˋs subject and verb etc from the word soup they present as good writing. Why use one adjective when you can string together seven?

[@Seisenberg]

I ❤ Fran Lebowitz

[@markwardel6751]

I agree with almost everything Fran Lebowitz says...and almost everything she says is amusing....unlike the interviewer.

[@dennisdeemii]

the interviewers that try to be clever or think that it's a "dialogue" drive me crazy

[@dsjump]

It's embarrassing when interviewers try to be as witty as the wit being interviewed. They invariably demonstrate why the interviewee is the one being interviewed.

[@EgbertWilliams]

C. L. SM Cavett could be guilty of cheap witticisms and unnecessary tags to guests' jokes, but he managed to stay out of his own way for the most part. This lady keeps tripping on cracks in the sidewalk and then doing an impromptu tap dance to cover it. Annoying.

[@christinetrzcinski4561]

boo hoo!

[@glennfromthebronx]

...I think they're old friends..so we "try to be kind". lol

[@jamesallen4588]

It occurs all the time. The best interviewer I’ve ever seen was Dick Cavett. When he asked questions-which were a mix of prepared questions and questions prompted by the response(s) of the guest-he allowed the guest to decide when he’d finished responding or when the guest wished clarification of a question. You could sense that Cavett was himself quite knowledgeable and well-informed by his manner and equally by the questions he asked, but he never caused the listener/viewer to wonder who the guest was.

[@cynthiabelknap8655]

Couldn't help but notice that as well

[@MrMjwoodford]

'That must be the way everyone wants it because that's the way it is.' This would only be true if people had control.

[@Smarterthanyew]

There is no need to compare the interviewer to the interviewee..people reflexively compare women unreasonably all the time. For the record, the interviewer did a good job. A good one elicits the interesting answers you all love, and steers the topics well, which she did. God why are people so mean- spirited.

[@MemberofThisWorld]

Letting the Interviewed person have to hold the microphone in the hand during the 80 minutes interview..does not qualify a nice idea...

[@heatherlavalle6871]

She always reminds me, I’m just a 40 year old kid. I don’t know anything.

[@heid6683]

She was like this at 30 and only got better , lol

[@Beckola11]

Check her out as David Letterman's guest. There is a compilation that starts in the early 80's . She was so funny and witty while using few words. It's a great video here on You Tube.

[@TheJanaMitic]

I'd gladly read a book called "Everything wrong with New York". Fran please write it

[@colinmclennan1465]

I kept thinking the interviewer was Laura Linney

[@Loulou______]

Me too

[@sanfrangirl05]

Yeah.

[@jmcc2k10]

very clever lady

[@ifigeniaesprella7909]

54:00 yes, translating is very hard, umberto eco wrote a book about it and he said there is a need of a perfect 3rd language to translate two languages and see if they corresponde. He said that according to studies the closest to a perfect language is Aymara, spoken in Bolivia 🇧🇴

[@istvanpraha]

Can you stop complaining about the interviewer! She is OK! Do we expect her to not speak? she is not one-upping Fran

[@sanfrangirl05]

Kvetchers

[@easywind4044]

Fran was born in late 1950. I was born in late 1950. I feel a connection with her because of this, an idea she would see as absurd I am sure.

[@ladybug5859]

She was born in the early 50s but still same era as your DOB

[@newyorkone3584]

She was born in 1950.

[@RTDon]

Brilliant Fran

[@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309]

How am I just now learning about Fran Leibowitz?

[@uptick888]

You must not watch Bill Maher

[@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309]

@@uptick888 I don’t. I think he is an a$$hole

[@uptick888]

@@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 she’s on other shows too very popular lady for years..

[@uptick888]

@@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309 oh well..Colbert, letterman. Conan,Netflix ,Seth Meyers and several films..

[@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309]

@@uptick888 ya. Idk how I missed her all these years

[@carolynwatters8970]

Fran Lebowitz is great! Love her!

[@caesarvolz6945]

Wish I had a dollar for every time the interviewer says, "exactly".

[@dennis_duran]

I wish she lost a dollar every time she said “exactly”

[@noneofyourbusiness8252]

Fran: How did you get rabies? A.M.: (laughts) Exactly.

[@chetblack8315]

Forgiveness is looking at an event you obviously cannot forget from different perspectives. I forgave my father for leaving us when I was a child because I've been able and willing to look at that event from his perspective, my mother's perspective and then understanding why the event happened and not blaming any one particular person for all the things that lead up to the event. It's basically a removal of blame - that is forgiveness. It's not a removal of a memory of an event.

[@ladybug5859]

Thats a very good explanation because I have always said I don't need to forgive anybody because I never blame anybody I always figure it happens it happens for a reason and that's it so I really like your explanation because that puts in the details that I apparently go through because I do I will always think of it as a prism rather than a prison and as a prism the lights coming from Bryan many angles and these are all people's different feelings and why they act on those feelings is there a choice you may not respect them for that but you can understand is I guess so anyway yeah your explanation is very precise and succinct

[@dhsumana407]

Well said Chet - from different perspectives including all involved including the observer or oneself - forgiveness and understanding to each person involved

[@raggmopp857]

I have favorite writers because there are so few good ones, as Fran Lebowitz says, therefore if I find an author judge to be a good writer, I read more in order to avoid reading a lot of bad books in search of another good writer. Actually, the theory that if it´s not good in the first 20 pages does simplify things.

[@neatrizareco4807]

Woooou!!!! I Just fell in love to this crazy lady. Im not an american, But OMG I LOVE HER... All ready devore everything that i find about Her.. I cant stop thinking about "you should be allow to think to hate someone, But not more" i love that.. To me is truth, Im allow to not like someone, But they are allowed to not like me too. So, fine. There is no need to exprese that, because Im not going to like it if someone exprese me out of nowhere that they dont like me. Im sorry, maybe i cant exprese myself in the right way. Please dont think that i dislike everyone and stuff. Just think that everyone haves the same rights that i do. So we have to LEARN to accept ourselves and BECAUSE OF THAT, we must accept others.

[@mashomegula]

I couldn't agree with you more

[@hayleyannamathieson7261]

I completely agree.🌷

[@kristin1533]

Fran is there anything but crazy.

[@neatrizareco4807]

@@kristin1533 For sure she's not... Crazy insanely RIGHT it's what I meant. I truly found someone that I will never met, but I LOVE HER. Please don't think that I'm making fun of her. I truly admire her and the work she does. Greetings ☮️😊

[@BunnyMan456]

thank you for cutting out the questions! everyone should do that

[@trschaefer]

She is SO funny!!

[@rudyspective1870]

54:48 The question and answer section....

[@photo161]

On and on she goes, does Fran.But just when I thought I had had all of her I could take, she suddenly made a particularly riveting statement and it became impossible to stop listening. In the ned, I was very glad I had persevered, as I suspect, will you.

[@LaMerryMary]

Interviewer reminds me of Laura Linney. Profile and voice!

[@rcosmic9993]

That's exactly what I thought!!

[@monocle8868]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

[@carolynwatters8970]

Fran Lebrowitz missed her calling...Stand up Comedian! I love her humour!

[@DanFontaine]

She's so quick

[@dellawolfdove8927]

Fantastic...

[@sandrashubs7282]

Forgiveness means that you don't have to carry it anymore - it's on them - it's theirs and I don't have to waste my time on it.

[@ladybug5859]

I think she'd wonder how u put it on them

[@sherrygaley4675]

She’s funnier off the cuff than all other comedians put together.

[@rosalindmartin4469]

Fran is her own personality. Period. Personally i completely gulp down the quick snark and wit ... at times. She is clever as hell. When she gets stuff wasted wrong she spins so fast it's gone before you see it.

[@Muldoonite]

what book is Fran referring to at 1:18:26 ?

[@parthkhare9960]

Were you able to find the name of the book ?

[@Muldoonite]

@@parthkhare9960 I was mistaken. Questioner: 'Your two books, I read them as art history.' She says: 'You read them as art history, you are an excellent reader.'

[@Muldoonite]

ah, gotcha. thanks!

[@stevemole4976]

I was wondering if she has talked about step counting devices and the resulting conversation.

[@annabanannna]

Homes has such a giggly laughter)))

[@boglarkakovacs2793]

Great questions!

[@LLShiningOtter]

If we do not explore the monster within us if we are not aware of the darkness within us how can we possibly choose the light?

[@lilie2277]

What is the name of the book she mentions in her last Q&A?

[@MrMusicLover0812]

"right, exactly"

[@mashomegula]

The right leaning conservative that I am still had to laugh at her brilliant wit as well as find a lot of truth in what she says

[@NorthEast81]

That interviewer is really awkward. Why was she picked to conduct this?

[@jackominty3633]

Because she's a writer, and she has a Lesbanian passport (dual citizenship, apparently).

[@johncooper3636]

agreed

[@matthewsyntax907]

Yes she’s hella awkward which is why she’s a writer; she’s a brilliant writer of several novels.

[@theblondeone8426]

she should be writing our textbooks

[@TomKellyShow]

I actually came to see what other people thought of the interviewer.

[@joanmurphy9155]

Dreadful

[@marypinkerton3290]

I try to catch all of her speak. Fine questions also.

[@louisepotier2784]

❤ Thank-you.

[@joyharmon1110]

I recognize the host but I do not know why. Anybody know her background?

[@Daniel_Zalman]

A.M.Homes sounds like the actress Laura Linney.

[@annakaravangelos7713]

Does anyone know the book that the last participant in the audience referred to? Something about art history

[@desirae8591]

Fran was amazing. The laughing into the mic by the interviewer starts to become overdone though as the interviewer should hold the mic away to laugh. Thank you for uploading this video.

[@eunicem1542]

Was? She's not dead!

[@desirae8591]

Lol I know. I just meant specifically in this interview. She was an amazing guest. I cannot say if she always is, but she was in this instance. Anyways, she probably is always amazing and a great guest so you are correct in that.

[@nickophonicnicky]

It’s really annoying to realize that the interviewer sometimes is lost with what to say after some of Fran’s pronouncements. It would have been wonderful to have someone interview Fran of her intellectual equal.

[@RoseBerliner-u6b]

Fran is the last man standing.

[@blackmantle541]

Fran is one in a million but where did they dig up this interviewer?

[@LLShiningOtter]

Extremely different energies repentance and forgiveness are they not? Interesting interesting the difference that makes

[@juliawest5528]

Thank you annie! Where thehell are you?

[@Medina-bk2fo]

8:53 - 9: 40 she's exactly right about "thought crime" - her logic is sound.

[@costrut]

hey, what book is she referencing at 1:18:25? I don't understand what she's saying