I love how Stephen is just like fu*k shoelaces...imma rock dem Velcros.
@amazingsupergirl71253 жыл бұрын
Well when you have pain it’s practically impossible. I have stretchy laces and just shove my feet in.
@puffyshirt68110 жыл бұрын
It's funny because everyone says George is a great interviewer--which he is--but the funny this is he does very little talking during his interviews. He asks a 10-20 word question and whoever is sitting across from him suddenly tells him and his audience their entire life story, and Strompoloujpuopluopuolous just sits there and listens. Hence, best interviewer working today.
@Numenorean92110 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the goal of a good interviewer is to say as little as possible while staying on point and he succeeds beautifully.
@HandsOfCinderblock10 жыл бұрын
That is actually also a fundamental aspect of journalism. Let the interviewee do all the talking and you'll be golden. Strombo keeps it simple and keeps it real.
@TurquoiseStar176 жыл бұрын
Seems like some interviewers now, they just try to prod the questions in a certain direction so they can get reusable soundbites. Strombo's never really been like that :)
@roder513 жыл бұрын
George is also Canadian which makes him a good listener too. Americans talk too much.
@SanDmaNTheFreakTrucker10 жыл бұрын
I'm not at liberty to say he's the greatest author ever because I haven't read every authors material (obviously) but I will say he's the greatest I've experienced.
@tookool4school9 жыл бұрын
i just wanna have tea with him and my life will be complete.
@jfallas8 жыл бұрын
+Bananasauce Or over ;-)
@metalheadlazz8 жыл бұрын
+Jorge Fallas that would be if she wanted to have a slice of pie with him 😁
@rd58rd587 жыл бұрын
the guy is the most repetitive and childish writer.
@sunsetbeach76 жыл бұрын
+rd58rd58 jealous much? this guy don't write fluff. He adds depth and things in society weaved know his books that has changed our culture. If you want fluff, read Danielle Steel.
@dkupke6 жыл бұрын
I remember in jr high we had an assignment to write about how if we could meet any three people from history who would it be, what would we do, etc. I wrote Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alfred Hitchcock and that we would have tea and biscuits in Dracula’s castle.
@Anna_Stetik10 жыл бұрын
What I would give to be able to sit on a porch, in the evening, with a pitcher of lemonade, and listen to Stephen King tell tales like the inspiration for Cujo. He is so interesting, and he knows how to tell a story.
@scyllaandcharybdis7 жыл бұрын
Ma'am! I salute your comment!!!!
@vinnievee57104 жыл бұрын
I thought too much cocaine is what inspired Cujo. I’ve heard King doesn’t even remember writing it. He certainly is brilliant though and so interesting to listen to in interviews or when speaking. Great writer and great guy
@angelkalathas10 жыл бұрын
God, I wish I could meet him. He's one of the reasons I'm trying to be a writer myself
@TheOriginalMoc10 жыл бұрын
im reading the shinning now and im loving it.
@benja278310 жыл бұрын
I never saw before an interview with Stephen King, but I absolutely loved it. This guy is an icon
@TrickWithAKnife10 жыл бұрын
Fantastic interview. A brilliant storyteller and a well read, thoughtful interviewer.
@ShadowCrowX9 жыл бұрын
I miss when this show was a full hour and the interviews were longer. George's interviews are awesome! He gets the most authentic side of his guests out from his line of questioning.
@hopeschannel6 жыл бұрын
This dude is a millionaire and dresses like he eats at mcdonalds I love it
@smoothcriminal286 жыл бұрын
When you exude brilliance and have nothing to prove, things like that become irrelevant.
@aaqilian5.0856 жыл бұрын
regardless of how much money one has, there are only so many kinds of clothes. did you expect a gold suit?
@dkupke6 жыл бұрын
Gonna sound disrespectful AF, but its the old saying abut “You can take the trash out of the trailer park but can’t take the trailer park out of the trash.” Stephen King had a pretty backwoods hick kind of upbringing and he lives that to this day even if he has money like few could dream of.
@MsButterflysting5 жыл бұрын
Was thinking my dad wears his pants that high, same sneakers too. Button up tshirt. They're a year apart & 5 states apart-gotta be generational.
@theoschommer35305 жыл бұрын
He's worth like 50 mil too lmao
@thomasminot861310 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best interviewers I've ever seen, and a really interesting interview.
@Gr8Layks10 жыл бұрын
I like a few of King's books. My favorite, however, is "On Writing..." It's a primer on how to write, and how he writes. Excellent!
@KishorTwist8 жыл бұрын
My favorite book of his entire bibliography is Different Seasons.
@immaculateboy8 жыл бұрын
That's on my To Read list!
@Justinicus243 жыл бұрын
Good for you. Ta sha nagi onanwai!!!
@druboy72019 жыл бұрын
yep, always a letdown when I get to the end of one of his books. never want them to end no matter how many pages they are.
@bristlethewolf569 жыл бұрын
His books are amazing!! But they are graphic enough to scare the crap outta you! And at the end of Cujo I cried! Poor, poor Tad...😭😭😭
@bristlethewolf569 жыл бұрын
Also The Green Mile must be read!!
@GreenRobotDancer10 жыл бұрын
I would love to meet Stephen king and I write my own books and I'm thinking of typing them next but Stephen king is my idol
@xMxRxPx10 жыл бұрын
Pogo the Clown? LMFAO!!!!!!! Nice John Wayne Gacy reference, Mr. King! lol
@robertgennaro80759 жыл бұрын
After I finished "it" I felt sad saying goodbye to those people but (SPOILIER ALERT) how they forgot each other at the end but remembered the love between them I feel is a beautiful metaphor for life when we pass on our memories may be gone but the love we felt for people will go on forever
@Claudia-jv3be9 жыл бұрын
Stephen King is amazing. I've seen most of the movies that were made for his books and loved them, and when I was in high school I read his books written under the pseudonym, Bachman, and I loved them. For some reason, I didn't read anything more from him until about two months ago, and now every third or forth book I read is Stephen King. The Shining, The Stand, Misery, The Long Walk - again, Rose Murder, and Mr. Mercedes. ALL of them great. Stephen King is amazing! :-)
@altabtabai569610 жыл бұрын
its great to see such interviewers. Knowledgeable and smart.
@GDug-rs5sh2 жыл бұрын
please george come back. so good. stephen is inspo
@supernintendochalmers66285 жыл бұрын
'The talisman' and 'black house' are fucking incredible. I read them about about once every year or two. Both wildly different genres that meet in the middle with such enduring depiction's of friendship. 😍 Wolf is probably my favorite character from any Stephen King novel.
@marystevenson931110 жыл бұрын
I love Stephen king. Love his books and movies. Under the dome I read, I loved it. Got 12 of his book. I'm reading doctor sleep which is his new book. And it's amazing read up to now
@sneaksauce10 жыл бұрын
just finished that book, ending was really good.
@MDkid110 жыл бұрын
The Cujo back story with the bike and the farmer was creepy. Imagine all the creepy things this guy has seen or experienced in his life in order to come up with the material he does?
@Aeghamedic10 жыл бұрын
Dimcle He saw one of his friends get hit by a train as a kid.
@RaptorRoll10 жыл бұрын
Aeghamedic But he doesn't remember the incident and doesn't consider it an influence in his darker works. How true that is, I don't know, but he believes most of his stories just come from a normal imagination of scary concepts.
@inthenameofjustice881110 жыл бұрын
RaptorRoll He married a feminist. That would inspire horror in me too.
@sirblumpkin616110 жыл бұрын
InTheNameOfJustice I think I love you haha
@Maialeen10 жыл бұрын
InTheNameOfJustice All the best people dislike people like you. And no. It wasn't funny to anyone of at least average intelligence.
@Kinsman197 жыл бұрын
Great interview. Stroumboulopoulos keeps the conversations genuine and cuts all the pomp, which is always appreciated. It's always cool to read the comments under interviews with Stephen King, and to see how much he's had an impact on us all. He's created this other (better) universe that we spend sizable chunks of our lives in. I wonder if he realizes just how much of an impact he's had. Probably hard to quantify.
@didina23210 жыл бұрын
I. LOVE. THIS. MAN.
@shanebondy306511 жыл бұрын
Christine is my favourite book by Stephen King, and the movie made it more awesome.
@adrianadrew40269 жыл бұрын
Stephen King is not a Futuristic Writer - he is all about the mind and shows what the characters go through.
@markcarrico790816 күн бұрын
“The Running Man” was sort of futuristic, and that was an amazing short story..
@sodarkfilms10111 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. Only read a handful of his work - he puts the pro in prolific!
@planetofether54624 жыл бұрын
George does the best interviews.
@acajudi10010 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the great interviews!
@johnplayersstandard9 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite interviews love it.
@MJLoverAngie11 жыл бұрын
Love this Interview. Thanx!
@user-hb2vp7rm7s3 жыл бұрын
I WAS DOING TIME IN CHINO CALIF ... C. Y.A.. 1996-2000 READING STEPHEN KING....WICKED ASS MIND
@jovandavidovic19 жыл бұрын
a priceless interview
@Portalse7en10 жыл бұрын
I've never heard Stephen king speak before, and I've got to say... That's NOT what I imagined he sounded like. It was deeper in my head.
@MJRGVR8 жыл бұрын
Just finished 11/22/63, couldn't put it down, Did nothing else for two days, had to finished it. Great book. There is going to be a movie.....
@SheenaJackson397 жыл бұрын
MJRGVR I'm only 60 pages in, and it's pretty hard to put the book down.
@stephanierott6710 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy hearing him talk about his life. It is hard for me to put the man in this vid with the books he writes. For over 30 years I have been a fan....biggest fan NO close hell ya!
@DrPlatypus111 жыл бұрын
This is the man that every talk show host should aspire to be like.
@jimm81766 жыл бұрын
Excellent interview. The interviewer is great
@farbrore8 жыл бұрын
king should be a voice actor..
@JakeParent10 жыл бұрын
Great interview!
@justintai87255 жыл бұрын
Brilliant interview
@jenna-m11 жыл бұрын
fantastic interview
@TheTacoPandemic9 жыл бұрын
I wish I had time to read more of his books.
@MikeRoberts19649 жыл бұрын
Read the short stories; They're a quick read and his best work, I think, especially the older ones.
@HandsOfCinderblock10 жыл бұрын
The only Stephen King book that I've read in its entirety is "The Shining". It's the little things that make it such a classic; the moving topiary was especially effective, in my opinion.
@Ekphrasys10 жыл бұрын
You should read "It", then!
@supernintendochalmers66285 жыл бұрын
Damn, these are fucking great questions.
@_yellow5 жыл бұрын
I like this interviewer, he's pretty good. Cheers
@ScinLaeca3588 жыл бұрын
His best book if you ask me - "Pet Sematary." Full of everything you expect from Stephen King in classic form - Indian burial grounds, salty Nor'easterners, walking corpses, heady scenes at funerals - and with a perfect ending. Because that's the thing with SK books in general; they tend to feature a huge elaborate epic buildup to an ending that can only be an anticlimax, and is. (I could spoil the thousand pages of "IT" in four words; three if I left out "fucking.") But Pet Sematary goes out with a bang, in a way that seems both inevitable and shocking. I think I've seen Mark Ryden's work illustrating Stephen King books, and that makes perfect sense to me - Ryden's from the "outsider/lowbrow" art set, and King's work seems like the equivalent in literature. I don't mean that as an insult.
@lucascontreras28409 жыл бұрын
zapatillas con abrojo. Lo amo.
@finnainsley90889 жыл бұрын
master or crypt tales. keep writing Steve!
@mattparrott89 жыл бұрын
+Jack Mehoff that username is as good as i.p. freely!
@finnainsley90889 жыл бұрын
Matt Parrott and Peter File and Moe Lester
@BullitCake10 жыл бұрын
Jim Carey should play Stephen King in his biopic
@unou58810 жыл бұрын
Michael J. Fox should lol
@sweeney6010 жыл бұрын
Christopher Butler I think he would be great, but I worry he might not be able to with his parkinsons.
@timothy79011010 жыл бұрын
sweeney60 Who has Parkinsons now?
@unou58810 жыл бұрын
timothy790110 Fox :P
@RussX5Z10 жыл бұрын
Ugh? I don't think so.
@xPhantom829 жыл бұрын
Big Ears Teddy really liked this!
@DOTA2FroggyStyle9 жыл бұрын
"Simpsons did it! SIMPSONS DID IT!" Also, why are they never talking about the DT :(
@EmeraldRuby211 жыл бұрын
an awesome one!
@OldHeathen19633 жыл бұрын
I'm not a reader, but I've read a lot of Stephen King books!
@anthonym4a111 жыл бұрын
george is really good at this.
@that70steen8 жыл бұрын
So Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Stephen King walk into a bar...
@TheSteadyready8 жыл бұрын
And H.P. Lovecraft says welcome boys what more can i offer you?
@Andrewflynn166 жыл бұрын
And drink the place dry?
@dkupke6 жыл бұрын
And then HP Lovecraft and HG Wells say “Here, hold my beer...”
@lunalu666lucifuge54 жыл бұрын
@WinterGirl and R.L.Stein replys :"Boys we have a gathering this midnight"
@lunalu666lucifuge54 жыл бұрын
Also Anne Rice lifts her hat and says :"Boys i guess you forgot my pint of blood "
@dataquester4 жыл бұрын
Maximum overdrive with acdc!!!
@Nr1from197810 жыл бұрын
Yeah I got the global wheater idea too in the book. I hope they turn it into a movie. Also the Dark Tower series. Love it.
@stipsazg6 жыл бұрын
Epic shoes!
@ncjackson195810 жыл бұрын
Genius.
@itsjustthatawsome10 жыл бұрын
That's one hell of a last name.
@Danimal300zx11 жыл бұрын
This interview is 4 years old.
@chivalrouscam10 жыл бұрын
I watched Stephen king's "it"! IT WAS SCARY!
@sebastianlucas744910 жыл бұрын
i might meet him soon
@dereksmallsuk3 жыл бұрын
This dude's books will still be selling hundreds of years from now...... (or downloaded 🙄)..... Any fools who try to critique too much, better be VERY successful authors!! The dude's a genius.
@eddiedean504710 жыл бұрын
love the old man Velcro sneakers
@eamonnmaccionnaith57617 жыл бұрын
I've read the shining, misery, doloras Claiborne and Carrie. Any other recommendations? I tried Liseys Story, Duma Key and wasn't into them
@MrFacundo77 жыл бұрын
Éamonn MacCionnaith The Dark Tower, Pet Sematary, It!
@antipodal201111 жыл бұрын
A name that has more than one syllable.
@benisisballin7 жыл бұрын
Stephen king is a god. Been through a lot of shit
@StephEWaterstram10 жыл бұрын
Hi Boss! :)
@JON_HER6 жыл бұрын
This mf is a good interviewer where is he now??
@infinightsky10 жыл бұрын
I wish he would return to "the stand"
@mijles5 жыл бұрын
1:42 Did he just "Welcome buddy" Stephen King?
@yurismir110 жыл бұрын
Man I never knew Shawshank Redemption, the Green Mile and Stand By Me were Stephen King books
@Blackonblackicemin10 жыл бұрын
"I don't ever wanna be that famous." Lol
@TheKmkh11 жыл бұрын
i would think you would like the quirk(y) last names
@melissag13646 жыл бұрын
George was a great interviewer, what happened to the dude??
@squamish424410 жыл бұрын
If Stephen King wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, the series would be done by now even if it was eight 1500 page books.
@davidsandlin96867 жыл бұрын
valar I don't know. It took him over thirty years to complete the Dark Tower series. He took 20 some years between book 3 and 4. At one point he actually said he wasn't gonna even finish it and book three was it. He had lost the passion for the world he had created. The accident sparked him to complete the story he said.
@EthanRom11 жыл бұрын
Seriously, though. Would've been hilarious if some character actually said "this s like the Simpsons movie!"
@SheenaJackson398 жыл бұрын
Doctor Sleep is great. I like it better than The Shining.
@christinej.44047 жыл бұрын
Sheena Jackson Me too
@woonawoona7 жыл бұрын
the villains were soooo good.
@TheNikesbkid10 жыл бұрын
Simpsons did that shit rofl
@xPhantom829 жыл бұрын
He had to have been working on "Doctor Sleep" during this?
@hollywooda1114 жыл бұрын
Weather has nothing to do with climate, there's your first lesson Stephen.
@Venuscombust8 жыл бұрын
what kind of shoes is he wearing?
@Imightberiding11 жыл бұрын
What kind of name is Yan Quirk?
@lucyberger76257 жыл бұрын
His books are so brilliant but most of his scary stuff which was adapted to film and brutally murdered the quality of his stories.
@meurtri931211 жыл бұрын
sounds like he listens to fox news while he types.
@henrikpersson4698 Жыл бұрын
haha, nice comeback by george there. squeeeaaal like a piiig.
@S7EVE_P7 жыл бұрын
Part 2: 14:27
@oldnag5811 жыл бұрын
The 'Green Mile' is not based on real life.
@Raxoris10 жыл бұрын
Oh Stephen. I do question your judgement sometimes, but damnit, you seem like such a nice chap.
@happymushroom874010 жыл бұрын
Stroumboulopoulos? xD Our greek names are so hilarious. It basicly stands for "rounded guy." (The chubby type of rounded.).
@darnellputman90478 жыл бұрын
Stephen King: the American Neil Gaiman. So far.
@TomEbbsjamasteroids7 жыл бұрын
Getting hit by a car was his inspiration for Mr.Ferrari
@DarlingMissDarling6 жыл бұрын
Tom Ebbs lol "Mr. Mercedes"
@CormanToth11 жыл бұрын
What's it like being 12?
@celticarchie7 жыл бұрын
Going to see a dead body. Going to prison for a crime you didn't commit and getting repeatedly raped in said prison. In prison waiting to be executed for a crime you didn't commit. If that's NOT horror... then somebody needs to check their Funk & Wagnels.
@SpaceCattttt9 жыл бұрын
George really plays with my prejudices. I mean, he looks like he should be an idiot, but the questions are always great. Hmm... King is the king, of course.