Let's all make fun of Terry Gross' Jay-Z interview!

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thanks for making my morning, guys

that's what terry gross said while towelling off

GROSS: You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan

lol

GROSS: Is he, like, Dame Diddy, Dame Daddy or Dame Dummy?

JAY-Z: He...?

GROSS: Oh, I get it, like you Biggie and he's Puffy

tbh he had it coming ever since he called her and the whole whyy crew out at Summer Jam

iirc terry gross burned a jay-z effigy in the studio

Did he do any other good longish interviews where he's his chatty, breezy, dry, charming, likeable and weirdly self-effacing

idk but he's pretty much like this all the time

No, she burned one with jay-z and a Fugee in the studio

That's how rumors get started man

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1232451687_11cebyr.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgC6uS_AA0A

MrMohamedsaccoh
2 months ago

what language is the woman speaking,it surely doesnt sound like english to me

lol

the latest new yorker has something about how you can't get into this bistro without waiting hours in line unless you're jay-z, because he owns it, and you can't get mayo on your sandwiches even if you're jay-z, because the chef is very particular about how her sandwiches are produced, but she has a deputy who keeps contraband mayo for favored guests like lou reed.

what kind of fucked up world are we living in

think that was the food issue? the latest nyer has jay-z content out the ying yang w/ a kalefa article abt decoded; the nyer in between had a shorter piece abt j reading at the ny public library

December must be code-named JayZember at the New Yorker offices.

the thing on his NYPL appearance was weird. about some old lady who sketches "impressions" of NYPL events?

lol yes & how she works bar mitzvahs & really likes the rap lyric its gettin hot in here/so take off all your clothes

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the latest new yorker also has a plodding 1500 word humour piece whose central joke, the only funny thing about it, is stolen from an episode of "friends"

central perk

x-post To be fair, that secret jar of mayo seems to be kept on hand just to cover for a mistake made by a server, who snagged some mayo special for Lou Reed against the wishes of the chef. So now they must perpetuate this horrible half-truth of having mayo on hand lest they risk pissing off Lou Reed. Which, come on, even Jay-Z wouldn't dare do.

I once interviewed Jay-Z, years back, and the dude couldn't have been more chill. Houses full of money probably does that to a guy.

I liked the odd angle of the NYPL piece but was surprised the factcheckers passed the line: "Jay-Z said that, as a boy, he listened to “everything from Miles to Thom Yorke to Ol’ Dirty Bastard.” Among other things, Jay-Z is apparently a time traveller.

xpost I interviewed Jay-Z in 96 and 99. The second time, he spent the whole interview watching TV over my shoulder. Maybe a bit too chill.

how old is he? I read somewhere he grew up with Tracy Morgan, which would make him around 50(!?)

they grew up in the same projects, dunno if that means they grew up "together"

wiki says Dec 4, 1969 so 41 in a couple days

that sounds right, he's clearly really young in the hawaiian sophie video

When 30 Rock gets cancelled I'm looking forward to a spin-off where young Jay-Z and Tracy solve mysteries with their nerdy gal pal Terry Gross.

where Jay-Z is Fred, Tracy Morgan is Shaggy, and Terry Gross is Velma.

fred shaggy velma water buffalo

he asked her explicitly why she asked softball questions of Al Franken (who was either running for or was already occupying political office),

That Bill O'Reilly interview was in like 2003 when Franken didn't even have his Air America show yet, much less hold office. He was still IDed as a comedian which is what Gross treated him as.

That Bill O'Reilly interview was in like 2003 when Franken didn't even have his Air America show yet, much less hold office

Wow-- was it really that long ago? Well, I remember that he was at least much more known in current events for political reasons than for comedic ones.

man though he'd already published the rush limbaugh book, the lying liers book...he was doing DFL (democratic farm/labor - the local MN branch of dems) fundraisers in Minnesota, we went to one back then....

it's pretty disingenuous to say "He was still IDed as a comedian which is what Gross treated him as."

he was a political figure....it's like saying "Micheal Moore is just a filmmaker, we treated him just like McG"

I don't think it's disingenuous--those were mostly political joke books, not policy books for a future Senate run. Gross would probably have given PJ O'Rourke the same treatment.

uggg pj o rourke i'd like to give him some serious treatments

but i mean o reilly wasn't running for office either, if you step back they were both just media dudes with clear political affiliations IMO...

and i'm not dissing franken, i'm super proud to have him as my senator

jay-z/ jon stewart interview was pretty great imo

GROSS: Have you ever met Charles Strouse, who wrote the music for the song?

JAY-Z: No. But someone just reached out like the other day, and said that he wants to speak with me, so Im going to reach out to him. I mean, just the other day, so - which is really cool. I was in the house trying to - I went looking at a house on the Upper East Side, and I saw this plaque on the wall. And Im like, wait a minute, that's my plaque. And I guess it was his house. This is a couple years back; I have to share that with him.

GROSS: Oh. Oh, you mean your Grammy. Is that what you're talking about?

JAY-Z: No. No. The plaque for the record, you know, our...

GROSS: Oh, the gold record plaque. The gold record plaque.

JAY-Z: Yeah.

GROSS: Yeah-yeah. Oh, okay.

(Soundbite of laughter)

GROSS: Okay. Okay.

JAY-Z: It was like, a lot of times platinum, though. But, yeah, that.

no doubt Gross is no stranger to making her political leanings felt, but she is equally "gross" with practically every guest.
If Franken sold crack as a youth and had a nude scene with Elijah Wood in some upcoming romcom, you can bet she'd be in there with the awkward questioning.

if someone made a montage of all the awkward questions she pulls on each guest, punctuated with a "YOU GOT GROSS'ED!"
i bet the impartiality complaints would disappear.

there are some amazing moments in the charlie rose interview too damn

GROSS: Is he, like, Dame Diddy, Dame Daddy or Dame Dummy?

JAY-Z: He...?

GROSS: Oh, I get it, like you Biggie and he's Puffy

― (ㅅ) (am0n), Thursday, December 2, 2010 12:21 PM (1 week ago)

lollll XD

GROSS: Rockefeller died of AIDS, that was the end of his chapter. And that's the guy yall chose to name your company after?

JAY-Z: Well...I--

GROSS: Put it together.

making myself laugh way too much at all the other great options

GROSS: I thought it was kind of the opposite, like this stuff is so good...

As annoying as Terry Gross is, I think she's underrated as an interviewer. The bottom line is that when you listen to people on Terry Gross, they get to talk a lot, and they tend to say more interesting things than they do elsewhere. And she doesn't waste time on softball/standard questions -- you can tell that the show does its homework and the interview is set up or edited in a way that it rarely covers well-worn ground. I don't know how much of this is attributable to Gross, but I do think something about her style gets people to relax and open up, especially since she's so self-effacing and mild.

would have been extremely annoyed if she hadn't sounded nerdy in this.

GROSS: Oh, the gold record plaque. The gold record plaque.
JAY-Z: Yeah.
GROSS: Okay. Okay.
JAY-Z: It was like, a lot of times platinum, though. But, yeah, that.

^this was hilarious tho

also nothing wrong with bitch/ho question and his response was A+