The Kominsky Method

For Kominsky

... with Behind, uh, yeah, with The Kominsky Method with Alan Arkin, I said, "Man, what a chance, uh, what a chance to work with two comic geniuses," to be-

Yeah.

And I would watch Alan Arkin talk about Jewish, uh, Jewish humor.

And the title of the article is Lori... looks back on Scientology Sheen and Roseanne.

In his just-published memoir, Sitcom, Chuck Lorre doesn't turn his life into a joke, exactly, though the voice that fueled stories as Desperate as Desperate as Mike and Molly, the Big Bang Theory, Mom, and the Kominsky Method also knows how to land a punchline in autobiographical prose.

And for a story that chronicles Laurie's literal rags to riches rise from, as he describes in the opening chapter, quote, an alcoholic, acid freak, pothead, college dropout, failed musician, unquote, with near fatal colitis to a career that generated enough hits for him to be anointed the king of sitcoms, the book is remarkably short.

The memoir portion runs just 181 pages, 30 of which are devoted to some of Laurie's signature vanity cards, those brief, humorous, and often pointed messages he wrote in the space.

I was so humiliated.

It was a decade of my life.

In 2019, after a character on his Netflix series, The Kominsky Method, appeared remarkably fluent in church lingo, reports surfaced of pre-TV career church membership.

Laurie's comment to The Hollywood Reporter at the time was characteristic.

In the LAist app, I'm Larry Mantle.

Coming up a little bit later, this hour, Chuck Lorre, who's developed so many popular sitcoms, Two and a Half Men, and, boy, the list goes on and on, Kominsky Method, and so many others.

We'll be talking with him about his career of sitcom development and his personal life as well.

But we begin with the challenges facing the Dodgers, down two games to nothing in the best of seven National League Championship Series.

Uh, well, maybe not all your favorite shows, but many of them I assume.

The Big Bang Theory, The Kominsky Method, Two and a Half Men.

Uh, one of my new favorite shows, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

It's so great.

You know, you, you include three pilot scripts in your book, which I love.

I told you this yesterday when I saw you.

Um, you include the pilot of, uh, uh, Kominsky Method.

Mm-hmm.

I've realized now that I have, as professionally, um, a really good batting average.

Uh, I made a lot of, besides the television series, both Streets of San Francisco and The Kominsky Method, which I made later in life, and all the films, I've got a lot of hits in there.

Um, so I'm, I'm proud of that and feel proud to continue the generations, uh, from when my father started.

Are you making any movies?

Oh, yeah.

The Kominsky Method.

Yeah.

Yeah?