Youth

Brilliant.

I talked about Sharon Horgan's show, Youth, but I'd only just started it, but I just want to say I'm in it, watching every episode that's out, and I love it.

I really love it.

I started off by saying, "Mm, not as, like, the hype as, you know, it wasn't as what, as ex- what I was expecting." But honestly, it just gets better and better, and I love the depiction of her and her son.

You guys, we have got a great show for you.

Actress, writer, and star of Youth, Sharon Horgan is here.

Up next, Chanel and I head out on an Irish adventure to check out some time-honored traditions right after this.

Thank you, Connor.

Aren't they cute? I love it.

[laughs] Okay, we're gonna hold on our buddy, to our buddies.

Up next, star of the TV series Youth, Irish actress, writer, and producer, Sharon Horgan, right after this.

See you in a minute.

If you saw Catastrophe or Bad Sisters, she's an amazing Irish, uh, actress and writer and director.

This is called Youth.

It's right up our street, Patsy.

Mm-hmm.

It's on, uh, Prime you can find it.

Mm-hmm.

It's called Youth, starring the one and only, the great Sharon Horgan.

And then my guilty pleasure at the moment, it's back for a second season.

So she found herself.

single and divorced as she was about to turn 50 so she basically did what all good writers do and she made a show out of it made a show out of it it's called Youth she plays the role of Alex she's a divorced sandwich generation woman trying to date whilst being caught between her job as a literary agent her teenage son who's like bunked off uni basically started uni and left and her ageing parents and then she puts herself under a lot of pressure to find a partner before she's too old whatever too old might be And it is called Youth because people in their 50s say that the 50s is the youth of old age.

Oh,

I like that.

Um, what else? Oh, what else we got here? Um, the, uh...

I'm watching the show Youth on HBO D...

You haven't watched any TV.

You've been drinking at games and everything [laughs] so...

I posted something I thought was very funny.

I said, "If Shiano was coaching the Knicks, he would've told OG to stay back so Jalen could kick it back out to him for another three." Uh, some people laughed at that online, which is so true.

Uh, but I'm watching that show Youth.

Um, I forget everybody's name in it, but it's a, no stars in it.

Hi, how's it going? Good, thanks.

So your new TV show is Youth.

It's on HBO Max.

You wrote it, you star in it, you exec produced it, and it's so good.

exactly.

Okay.

Youth is on HBO Max now and there are new episodes up every Monday and it is terrific.

Well done and we look forward to what's coming next.

But the self-referential work has been there throughout, which is why it's so exciting that she's back with another one.

Youth, uh, Horgan's latest comedy series, which premiered on HBO two weeks ago, finds her in her 50s navigating familiar subjects in her work, sex, dating, parenting, aging, with a perspective that comes from someone who's lived these things and also written about them for the better part of her career.

[upbeat music] And she recently joined me to talk about that.

So here is my conversation with Sharon Horgan, a voice of a generation, at the very least.

Uh, thanks for having me.

Something that I was really thinking about in watching this show, the late Nora Ephron wrote a famous essay called I Feel Bad About My Neck.

And your character in Youth, Alex, a- has a preoccupation with the status of her own neck, with the necks of, of those around her on the bus, in a restaurant.

Of all the things that can go south in our bodies as we age, have you diagnosed in, in the writing of this show what it is about necks that, that stress us out so much?

And isn't that amazing?

very talented family basically I think we can say including Ali who's an amazing activist herself and we're going to move on to something that Eve Hewson was in Sharon Horgan created The Bad Sisters and now she's got a new series called Youth which is brilliant I interviewed Sharon recently Oh my god Oh my God, Sharon

Horgan.

Like, can I just say, one of the moments of my life was when I was at Electric Picnic and I was about to do a talk.