Wallace Shawn
American actor and essayistWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Yancy BernsGUEST
I can't imagine he was talking about Dean Stockwell, or maybe...
Brandon PetersGUEST
Wallace Shawn was considered for the Beaumont role as
AaronHOST
well.
AaronHOST
He thought Dorothy might be an interesting idea for a while
Pete LozanoHOST
What other
Scott YoungbauerHOST
kind of movie would Wallace Shawn be playing this character in a medieval set movie, but not doing an accent?
Melanie VartabedianGUEST
Accent.
Melanie VartabedianGUEST
That straight New York, New Jersey, Sicilian accent.
Pete LozanoHOST
little kids seeing... wallace sean and just thinking he's the funniest guy what like because kids really we were all kids when we first saw this
Melanie VartabedianGUEST
and we still liked it and in
Pete LozanoHOST
college we were like this is one of my favorite movies you know so this is a thing that these adults right these adults are not playing for kids these adults are playing to make each other laugh right wallace sean is not an actor that's making kids laugh on purpose yeah but he just does because he's just Also, Wallace Shawn just has a larger-than-life personality.
Pete LozanoHOST
The
Carley ThorneHOST
We've talked about it a bit.
Carley ThorneHOST
When I was in New York a while ago, I obviously am a big fan of Wallace Shawn, which we talked about this.
Carley ThorneHOST
I went to go see his new play.
Carley ThorneHOST
He's working with Andre Gregory again.
Carley ThorneHOST
So Andre Gregory is like a film director.
Carley ThorneHOST
I feel like a theater director.
Carley ThorneHOST
And Wallace Shawn writes stuff.
Carley ThorneHOST
And usually the things that they write besides my dinner with Andre and there's one that's like Chekhov on 43rd Street or something.
speaker_2GUEST
And this is a film made in 1981, and I actually ordered a copy, a DVD of it, and I from time to time pop it in and I listen to it.
speaker_2GUEST
And, you know, he's describing the theater with Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory at theater.
speaker_2GUEST
And the beginning of the movie is about basically talking about his workshops in a forest in Poland.
speaker_2GUEST
And, you know, with all these unknown actors who don't speak English and all these exercises and his own personal spiritual journey.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
[clears throat] So Lear helps him out.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
[sniffs] Elwes, uh, Robin Wright, Andre, uh, crazy casting, Wallace Shawn, still going strong on the, on Young Sheldon too a few years ago, the great Wallace Shawn.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Carol Kane, his old buddy Billy Crystal, who he was friends with forever.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Billy Crystal was a guest star.
Kirk MinahanHOST
Elwes, Robin Wright, Andre... crazy casting.
Kirk MinahanHOST
Wallace Shawn, still going strong on Young Sheldon two or three years ago.
Kirk MinahanHOST
The great Wallace Shawn.
Kirk MinahanHOST
Carol Kane, his old buddy Billy Crystal, who he was friends with forever.
Kirk MinahanHOST
Billy Crystal was a guest star.
AdamHOST
A second bolt ripped the gantry in two, and with the vengeful laughter of Dark Lord Ganag ringing in your ears, you fell headlong into a portal of total darkness, a shadow gate, which leads to the forbidding twilight world of the Dazjarn Plane.
PaulHOST
The Dark Lord is played by Wallace Shawn in this.
PaulHOST
You know, he's played...
PaulHOST
Oh!
Alice WetterlundHOST
I want to know, like, did they try or what? You know, because also like this episode isn't just like her coming back and having to sit in the chair again.
Alice WetterlundHOST
It's it's it's Wallace Shawn.
Skyler HanrathHOST
Yes.
Alice WetterlundHOST
And I don't I think Wallace Shawn was in the original family business episode, but like maybe not as they wouldn't get to play off each other quite as much like this.
Alice WetterlundHOST
I'm like, why would you not want to come back to be in an episode with Wallace Shawn? Yes.
Alice WetterlundHOST
And it's so I'm like, what happened?
Skyler HanrathHOST
What happened?
14 MINS LATER
Alice WetterlundHOST
It's like Narnia.
KarishaHOST
I
ChrisHOST
always find Wallace Shawn funny, and this is one of the teachers that she's trying to make fall in love.
ChrisHOST
Her debate teacher, Mr. Wendell Hall, who gives Cher a bad grade, and her way to get around it is she decides that he has to get in a relationship, so she is kind of entrapping him and another teacher.
KarishaHOST
Miss Geist.
ChrisHOST
Yes.
ChrisHOST
Wallace Shawn, I always enjoy him.
ChrisHOST
He's just funny.
KarishaHOST
Yeah.
Elliott KalanHOST
And I remember – Andre Gregory is so poised throughout the movie, even as he's saying bonkers things.
Elliott KalanHOST
And Wallace Shawn is so like agitated in his performance.
Elliott KalanHOST
And yet watching at this time, it made me realize that Wallace Shawn is the character who really stands by his guns and seems to like have a strong way of thinking.
Elliott KalanHOST
Whereas Andre Gregory, even though he talks in a very poised way, kind of, Just whatever Wallace Shawn says, he's like, yeah, yeah.
Elliott KalanHOST
But also it could be, you know, yeah, you're right.
Elliott KalanHOST
And it could be like this, like he's much more malleable, even though he at first seems to be the more senior and the more poised and the more wise of the two.
Elliott KalanHOST
match lips, baby.
Elliott KalanHOST
But also, one of the fun things about My Dinner with Andre is that they are talking about theater and life and things like that, but the stories that Andre Gregory tells are bonkers.
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