This interview itself is very Lynchian with the inappropriate laughing and bad jokes. Leno is like a character Lynch would create to hyperinflate the surrealness of talk show hosts.

@MrJimmyTide

4 жыл бұрын

Leno is the arm.

@drumsno

4 жыл бұрын

It really does feel paced like his movies. This clip is odd in an unintentional way

@MnMS1904

4 жыл бұрын

B A and the set design gives lynch vibes

@69angelmouse

4 жыл бұрын

i love how i know exactly what you mean

@awm6598

2 жыл бұрын

It's David Lynch's world. We just live in it.

I love David Lynch. The audience are just laughing nervously.

@MrPostm

7 жыл бұрын

No, they're just Leno fans

@septixskeptix1107

6 жыл бұрын

Crowd coaches. Some late shows even pipe in laugh tracks for the psychological suggestion factor. Leno really isn't as funny as the audience makes it sound.

@SmokeymcJoint420

6 жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you have such a genius in a room full of idiots.

@globalfamily8172

4 жыл бұрын

I think the satire is what's funny. He makes everyday things seem interesting.

We can all agree on one thing: Leno is the worst, right?

@JoeEnigma

8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Longmire I thought Britta was the worst :D

@cybersecurity7466

8 жыл бұрын

+JoeEnigma holy shit are you a stalker? how would you know I'm a Community fan???

@JoeEnigma

8 жыл бұрын

Sam Longmire Isn't everyone? they should be

@cybersecurity7466

8 жыл бұрын

+JoeEnigma are you fucking with me? like do we know each other? because it's not a terribly popular show...

@gfox9295

7 жыл бұрын

Rare endangered Community fan checking in here.

The laughing in this clip is stranger than it is in “Rabbits.”

@LastOfTheBret

3 жыл бұрын

This show was probably the inspiration for that scene

@andreasnssjohnsen6023

2 жыл бұрын

it's excactly like rabbits!

@zacharywhite5631

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsimpson4120 No...? It's just that they seem to laugh when something funny isn't happening and go dead silent when something funny is happening. Gives it a really off-kilter, almost Eric Andre Show-esque vibe.

@xFuzzyxPicklesx

Жыл бұрын

@RDS yes

Lynch is the smartest person in that room

@TeaDrinker3000

7 жыл бұрын

By a mile, right?

@73reider

7 жыл бұрын

That's not an endorsement it is America after all......

@YouMustYouLust

6 жыл бұрын

Lynch is probably the smartest person in most of the rooms he walks into.

@Brewzerr

5 жыл бұрын

CazzSDMF - You’re the one who can’t even spell the word “you” properly. Sort your shit out.

@johndowns3839

4 жыл бұрын

Dr John was quite sharp and very cool, but you gen-whatever schmucks don't have a clue, do you?

David Lynch: *breaths* Audience: Bursts out in uncontrollable laughter

Horrible interview, horrible audience. Treating Lynch like a weird, circus freak. His magic is clearly lost on them.

@Cazz8203

6 жыл бұрын

stevenaball333 cause lynch sucks

@antihinduismisbased

6 жыл бұрын

CazzSDMF no. He is awesome to me.

@luisburgos9512

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty pretentious

@natalieb3270

5 жыл бұрын

@@Cazz8203 no, he doesn't.

@Brewzerr

5 жыл бұрын

CazzSDMF - He “sucks”, you say? What the fuck have you ever done that gives you the credentials to make a claim like that? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

The older I get the more I love David Lynch

This video is so surreal.. it's almost like a David Lynch movie. Kinda fcking trippy

@Brewzerr

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Just the very idea of David Lynch being interviewed by Jay Leno is bizarre enough. I would have to think that the irony was not lost on Lynch when he agreed to do this.

He's so right about not thinking until a certain point, I hit that point just a year or so back.

@wa3096

6 жыл бұрын

i was so happy when he said that i honestly thought i was alone with this idea

@nimazsheik5152

4 жыл бұрын

That part hit me, I've been feeling the same till my late 20s

@ratpatooti5080

Жыл бұрын

It happens every few years. You look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking before.

Love this interview. Lynch just doesn't care what people think.

@LanceABoyle

3 жыл бұрын

David Lynch and John Irving are geniuses.

He's a humble genius :P

Lynch is a grown man, I don't think he was offended by Jay.

@starduck8014

2 жыл бұрын

This sentence is fabulous X

Lynch's bit about habitual behavior is something William James wrote about. It's true. Give as much over to habit as you can, and you save your mind for all kinds of things.

@paultanner7671

8 жыл бұрын

***** That's the point. It only refers to things you're going to have to do anyway (or should be doing anyway). Waking and sleeping, eating, showering and haircuts and fashion, exercise, all that kind of stuff. Should be given over completely to habit. For most of us this would include work and money making.

@apapp1183

7 жыл бұрын

Annette Skandrick which book of his are you referring to?

@paultanner7671

7 жыл бұрын

I think he wrote about it in Talks to Teachers (it's got a longer title but googling that + his name would bring you to it), and probably in other places.

I see a correlation between the audience here and the laugh tracks in his "Rabbits" series...

@MrDaniCostas

5 жыл бұрын

damn

@StepSoftlyGhost

5 жыл бұрын

This makes an incredible amount of sense. It wouldn't surprise me if this was the influence for it.

@arizonaFIREent

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah that makes alot of sense now haha

@lucashoudini3532

4 жыл бұрын

yo wtf

"i like habitual behavior, because it frees my mind to think of other things" man, the crowd laughs at this? lol They would be dying in hysterics during a TED talk.

@alexandersimmo7033

2 жыл бұрын

The people in the crowd are there to see Jay Leno and not David Lynch. Says a lot I think.

@tothejazz4828

2 жыл бұрын

sigh

@JohnKowalskyDrive

2 ай бұрын

It's an old comment, but I think the crowd has those flashing signs saying clap or cheer in front of them right? No idea if that's actually a thing though.

“Jay, this is music to my ears” I’m dead 😹

"Is there a time that you start yearning for tuna?" - David Lynch

The Early stages of his epic hair transformation

This is brutal, I don't know why Lynch would ever have agreed to such an appearance. The audience is so unwilling to have an open mind for any kind of complicated discussion. Yes Jay, God takes credit for the tomatoes.

I could listen to David Lynch talk for hours.

Leno is treating him seriously but i feel like the audience is only laughing out of confusion not malice. I enjoy how much enthusiasm leno has for pasta

Y'know, I'm going to say that Leno was actually doing a really good job here. He makes a point to NOT laugh when the audience does, and takes Lynch's answers seriously while throwing a joke in here and there. Y'know, like a late-night host is supposed to. I normally dislike Leno a lot, but I think this interview is the best possible outcome of David Lynch doing a late-night show.

@RisforRockit

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, yasss... US talkshows just work that way. Doesn't mean it can't be different, and obviously between in-depth / smart shows (Dick Cavett, Larry King, Craig Ferguson etc) and light entertainment (Letterman, O'Brien, Fallon etc), there are differences, but generally it's absurd to think Lynch and Leno were ever going to have an intellectual debate. It's just not the forum for this.

@yorshka6955

Жыл бұрын

Jimmy Fallon is the exact opposite. Throwing in his fake laugh whenever he can.

@Lifesizemortal

Жыл бұрын

yeah they were vibing

Audience obviously knows nothing about him and Jay knew it, poked fun at him for laughs but kinda looked genuine in making the audience take him for who he is. Lynch kept composure. I love that guy.

Leno: "You don't seem like a Europe guy to me." Lynch: "It wasn't right for me at the time." Leno: "I know that you don't like to cook though..." Lynch: "I don't like cooking in the home. I like to eat cooked meals and hot meals, when available." This is like a well written comedy scene.

The audience are laughing in all the wrong places. David Lynch is just sitting there patiently while Leno struggles to get his words together

At the end when Leno says, "when you say 'wacko,' that's sayin something," I wanna punch him in the face/chin. He tells so many jokes at the genius Lynch's expense. I can't believe how well Lynch just rolls with the punches and has flourished despite it all.

@Egoblivion

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, of course he is aware of his eccentricity, and the best artists just happen to be on the eccentric side...artists are often also more sensitive. I guess this may have long hence been just a part of the artist's relationship with the public...to be partially the fool at the butt of the jokes. However, I still despise this aspect of people...but I guess it's part of how they cope with having their minds blown. On a talkshow though, I think Leno showed bad form here. Even if he was nervous about not having enough fluent conversation and material for funnyness to transpire, he should not have made fun of his guest. Besides, I think if Leno wanted to imply that Lynch was a bit wacko, then how would a wacko know better than "normal" people if something is wacko or not? As far as Lynch goes, I applaud him endlessly. His ability to "roll with the punches" must somehow be attributed to his habitual meditation. He's super-disciplined.

@Egoblivion

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe that everything can be an art form in as far as it is done "artfully," which is also relative. I also believe that some mediums just happen to lend themselves to creativity more than others, ie the paint brush compared to the welding rod. Something about the flexibility of use to more practical functionality ratio...? Also, I think genius in all forms is milked out of people who were somehow different, or disturbed, more than usual, but they knew deep inside that despite what others might say, they had something special, so they managed to scramble to find their outlet(s) and just went for it. The artists who use these mediums have certain predispositions that make them abnormal. For example, many visual and audio artists alike experience some sort of synesthesia, which is the feeling of certain sounds as colors and vice versa. So, it doesn't have to be a mental illness that predisposes someone to genius, although it might have often been the case. But I think high levels of cognitive dissonance can be formed in the mind to pressure people to have breakthoughs, such as when someone's background highly contradicts their internal inclinations. This concoction could create a perfectly miserable environment for an artist to flourish lol, but the idea of the miserable "starving artist" is also changing. Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of things for the serious artists to rebel against and make statements with conviction about, but we the people are generally living in less oppressive conditions these days. I the best art acts as a sort of reflection of some aspect of humanity, so the artist sometimes has to process this on some level and spit it back out; the artist will be picking up on whichever underlying currents are vibrating through the cultural narrative at the time and express it somehow, contributing all the while to the Jungian "collective unconscious" if you will. In this way and others, I think art is very spiritual. Lynch speaks the unspeakable; in order to be able to do that and be aware of these "under the surface" things. Like you said, he is aware of his sacrifice of superficial concerns in lieu of that kind of access.

@kopadenieve

9 жыл бұрын

You all talk on "how an artist is", but it makes no sense because an artist is a person and there can be as many kind of artists as kind of persons are, such wideness can art encompass. Look that even in science, which is much more rigorous in it's standards, there are lots of personalities around, there's the Einstein kind, which is a nowadays classic (a genius with humour, compassion, taste for classical music, etc), the Michio Kaku kind, more eccentric, the Rupert Sheldrake, an avant-garde or something, the Richard Dawkins, polemic... Well in art you have sometimes someone like Lynch, who is quite an unique character with his strangeness in fims and all his meditation stuff, quite an unique combo there... You don't need to be strange or hilarious or contemplative or a sufferer, you don't even have to have lots or experiences or anything to accomplish "good art", because there are so many kinds of good art as tastes can be, and there are standards for every one of them... Maybe Lynch is a standard for himself :P

@kopadenieve

9 жыл бұрын

***** Well... I think I can judge any opinion as long as I am polite in my discrepancy. I appreciate your comment... It's true that most great artist did have some special issues, but it was just one gear assembly more inside the whole mechanism of their minds, I wouldn't think it was any crucial factor in finally producing the visions necessary to the creation of art... Maybe it just made their work more original in some of it's aspects

@kopadenieve

9 жыл бұрын

That experience can be extremely thin and nonetheless it can be wide as a planet in the artist's mind. It's not the external conditions that make great art or science of philosophy possible. It's the person's way of interpreting these conditions, any of them, what makes the difference. Maybe you are bored because there's no contrariety in our conversation. So next time I will troll the whole thing so it gets more exciting :P

It is so weird when US citizens talk about Europe as if it was a country... Europe is such a big continent that it has very diverse nature , culture and people. Nevertheless, I love David Lynch! 😃

@CubanFury359

7 жыл бұрын

You need to get laid... pronto!

@ssnide

7 жыл бұрын

Lilian Rebelle You must be from Europe. 😜

@AABB-zb6dv

6 жыл бұрын

Guy LeDouche yeah true but I also wonder where was he (Lynch), in which country? there are big cultural differences between, let's say Italy and Finland. or Hungary and Ireland.

@MacGuffinExMachina

6 жыл бұрын

I feel like the cultural differences aren't much bigger than the differences between various regions of the US. A place like a small town in Alabama may as well be a different country than southern California. People even sound completely different. I guess to an outsider, we notice your similarities more than your differences. Of course you're not completely the same in our eyes, but yeah, more similar than you see yourselves.

@relytive17

6 жыл бұрын

geographically the US & Europe are equivalent in their range of diversity, culturally you could step into a village ten miles away in Europe and be in a completely different world, I'm furious that Americans, Britons, and other Anglo-Saxons continue to falsely equivocate Europeans (as a cultural entity) to America/Anglo-Saxons (as a cultural entity) I do use Europe as a cultural-geographic term but I'd never imply there's equal amount of cultural distance there as there is here in America; Australians and Americans have more in common than the Dutch and the Germans have in common

David is brilliant at appearing (and, I imagine, actually being) comfortable despite the fact that he's clearly "the weirdo" in the room. He seems patient with simplicity and banality, realizing it's just part of his job.

I was satisfied with the way Leno handled this. If your dog was going to interview Beethoven, you wouldn't expect a deep conversation; you'd just hope that the dog would be cute, wag its tail, and not poop anywhere for those 9 minutes

@andrew0wygant

Жыл бұрын

This is an incredible comment.

Leno is insufferable.

@MrRaretunes

9 жыл бұрын

his audience is insufferable,,,fat trailer sweat pants rubes

@Brewzerr

5 жыл бұрын

Leno is Leno. I think Lynch was probably delighted with the irony of doing this when he agreed to go on the show. I expect Leno to be a bore, no matter who he’s interviewing. I just love the whole surreal aspect of Lynch actually being on his show.

LYNCH: Suddenly, you have an original thought. LENO: _(lacking experience on such matters)_ Yeah, I know what you mean.

He is waay above and beyond Jay's comprehension in the conversation. Mr. Lynch is very direct and analytical in his answers.

@benbeast123

Жыл бұрын

you dont know shit about david lynch and dont fucking pretend to.

@Obscurika

Жыл бұрын

@@benbeast123 I know he's current with the weather.

I feel like Leno and Lynch would have had a nice conversation if Leno didn't try to make everything comedic. They seemed to have a lot of common ground personality-wise, but Leno kept ruining those potential moments of connection for comedic effect, as did the crowd laughing at things that didn't even seem to be jokes.

@camelgus

4 жыл бұрын

yes, youre right.....im not a big leno talkshow fan but the two seemed compatible here despite the scripted questions and leno tryinig to invoke laughs

@janso7979

4 жыл бұрын

@@camelgus It seemed fine to me for what it was. Surely Lynch knew what Leno and late night talk shows were all about. Lynch was on there to promote himself and his work, not for any deep philosophical conversation, and I doubt anything in this interview bothered or surprised him.

Jay is trying to make this guy out to be a total weirdo, but he might be the most normal person in the building.

73yrs old and still a better actor than most of the drivel out there, a director who has his finger fixed firmly on the pulse of the erratic underbelly of genius. What a wasted effort of an interview with history’s most underrated yet effective filmmaker.

That invisible sling on Lynch's right arm is very surreal.

My favourite Director of all time.... Thanks for uploading!

Such a handsome young fellow

@MeMe-td1ye

Жыл бұрын

Leno?!

His description of how he got from Montana to Philadelphia is a Lynch movie in itself.

I always imagined him having a really deep voice like Benedict dumber arch

@troggdoor8613

9 жыл бұрын

MirumExMachina dumber arch. You gotta love autocorrect.

@deathhzrd

9 жыл бұрын

Trogg Door fuck

@SwirlyJoe

7 жыл бұрын

MirumExMachina I also thought he was going to have a deeper voice and thought he would be British. He sounds like Rex from Toy Story

@tipsyviewer1495

5 жыл бұрын

SwirlyJoe, He is from Montana.

That audience (if there was no laughing editing done afterwards) has no clue ..

@azulo6

6 жыл бұрын

and unfortunately they represent the great majority of Earth. No Clue. lol :(

@globalfamily8172

4 жыл бұрын

Your missing it... he's intentionally good at dry humor.

"Hey, David.. I heard you were weird. Because I'm not weird... at all ..."

Love David Lynch. Jay Leno, not so much no...

Without Lynch, the IQ in this Room would be

30 years later Lynch doesn’t seem so weird in interviews.

He's 56 in this and looks so young....

@neondragon1633

Ай бұрын

no he not

I LOVED THAT SHOW "ON THE AIR". IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND.

@bergduck

8 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4F-0sSTj5yZnaw.html

@andrewmanford

7 жыл бұрын

one of the best sitcoms ever.

@1chienandalou

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I watched it on KZread. The first episode is gold.

Anybody seen Birdman with Michael Keaton? It's a total nod to Lynch. There's even the red lampshade from Mulholland Dr. and there are parts that remind me of Inland Empire. The end, however, is not really Lynch-esque.

@jdog7797

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up. You should check out "The Hidden", If you are a Lynchian Twin Peaks fanatic like me.

Don't look away. Let the fear wash over you.

Oh God, I loved On The Air!

On The Air was actually really great, wish it was picked up.

@1chienandalou

6 жыл бұрын

It’s a gem. But you can’t really be surprised network killed it once they saw.... 😆

A very sincere and revealing interview. It’s unnecessary to knock Jay or the audience to notice this.

Even when asked about food he manages to make it about developing film

I understand this because what he's saying is basically what I've understood as just waking up one day and figuring out you have no routine or you have no real plan, and the smart people develop some sort of plan and the really smart people unfortunately get caught in the decision of plans and then spend years either deciding or not deciding which in itself is a choice, but most develop a multitude of plans any one of which can be decided on at any time, or at least that's how I'm seeing it because I'm only 27 LOL and of course a person will always describe their own way as the most intelligent, even if that way includes no plan at all which in itself is a plan.

If anyones interested, David Lynch the Art of Life is a film that covers the period he speaks about and his living in Philadelphia. Worth watching especially considering how terrible this interview is.

"One day they realize that for the last so many years they've been thinking in a sort of normal way like other people, and suddenly you have an original thought." Definitely not a concept that only applies to small town folk. It might apply even more so to people living in big cities, not even realizing that they're on auto-pilot.

@chuckstone4753

3 жыл бұрын

What Lynch is talking about is an awakening when you see life from a different or expanded reality, or life in “the big picture”. You can never go back to the blasé of “normal” again.

@EditUnivers75

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and leno completely misunderstood that line.

His habit comment is great

I reckon Lynch got the inspiration for Rabbits from this experience.

Leno wouldn't get Lynch...Lynch is genius!

@mrzipdisk

8 жыл бұрын

+Marina MM He gets him, he's just projecting what he thinks the middle american audience is thinking for comedic effect.

Is this what inspired the Murray interview scene in Joker? Was the end of that scene what Todd Phillips thought should have happened here, because it really should have.

Jay Leno was a great host. His timing, empathy, studying and playing his guest. Very well done.

An interesting event is coming up in Washington DC...a fundraiser for the David Lynch Foundation (look up their website--they do great things for abused women, Vets with PTSD, kids in the worst schools, orphans, etc), and Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld are two of the guests...so Leno has come around and is helping Lynch do good work. Bravo, Jay, you have seen what a fine man Lynch is...

You will watch this clip and everytime David makes an effort to break the state of a consciousness in autopilot such that the moment begins to awaken in to a higher state of awareness that Jay or the audience become very uncomfortable and try to restore the autopilot mode of call and react as quickly as possible. Though, David's focus never falters and he persists in bringing your awareness back to the front with each word.

He was rockin that hairdo over 20 years before it came back in fashion! Now everyone has it.

Boy.... Leno. YIKES.

Wish folks would lighten up - for me, Lynch's brilliance & humor come through just fine - Leno's just the talking head that happens to be with him.

“Oh my god! I heard you perfectly!!”

GREAT!

Who woulda thought this would be great combo

YOU'RE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT.

I feel like this inspired the bunnies show audience cheer scene from Inland Empire

......Cant bear to watch anymore at 3.02

Leno and his audience comes across as complete jocks. So cringey.

@youtubearchive3668

5 жыл бұрын

djbethell No they dont lol

*nervously trying to relate to David Lynch* “I like industrial areas”

Leno and Lynch are both having fun here guys

whenever people laugh at something jay leno says it's confusing to me.

Leno interviewed Lynch the same way he would interview someone from the midwest that makes statues out of pasta.

David Lynch AND Dr. John!!! Coolness apocalypse!!!

I actually really like this interview. The phrase about "hitting the head" is more about getting into showbiz than about Lynch being weird I think. And the talk about food was actually pretty nice, reminds me of the quinoa video. The laugh track is a bit disturbing, at some point I actually expected it to interrupt Lynch for no reason because it has a certain kind of rythm to it, but I feel like Leno and Lynch are pretty comparable and interesting to watch together, overall really interesting. Definitely agree that this is very 'lynchian'.

A pretty good interview.

Fire I must walk with Me.

So this is where his inspiration for rabbits came from

I like the fact that Leno looks like Billy Batts from Goodfellas, it makes that scene where De Niro and Pesci's characters stomp on his face with psychotic rage even better. He keeps looking toward to the dumb ass audience for validation of his jokes. "Yeah, I'm a funny guy aren't I? PLEASE, SAY I'M A FUNNY GUY!" What an utter knob Leno is.

Jay Leno comes off as a vapid clown in this interview

He does not suit their expectations so they prefer to just deny who he actually is. He had a normal happy childhood he is just creative and daring and likes to probe the collective consciousness sometimes. He's a carpenter too he could just go and build furniture if he wanted but that would bore him.

Lynch seems like a intentional buzz-kill. So dry. In a good way! And I appreciate Leno for not Mocking him. Wish they talked more about his films.

Lynch is an artist and no artist has all the answers nor does he control every situation

Is that Dr. John at the beginning of the interview? Holy shit.

Leno and all the squares in his audience cackling at him....

That hair is glorious

The popular kid trying to talk to the quiet kid

"I came back to Philadelphia which is the reverse of Europe."

I thought Leno was actually, for the most part, pretty well-behaved in this video. He definitely seemed more engaged than Letterman would be.

idk who David lynch is but I was not expecting that voice.. thought he was British and deep voiced

@devinbell4816

7 жыл бұрын

Watch Eraserhead. Please.

@labotamysausagedog

7 жыл бұрын

You're right, you don't know who he is

This is like a study in human consciousness and awareness. Lynch is literally decades ahead of the audience, who are accustomed to hambone and guffaw. Leno seems to understand Lynch’s artistic temperament though he will only allow himself to go so far as host. Being ahead of one’s time is not complicated - it’s mostly thinking circumstances into potential futures and extrapolating on the nature of life and people. It’s not for everyone but to the curious it’s magnetic.

Went there for 3 years, came back in 15 days. 3 & 15, the sockets Cooper could have used to escape the Black Lodge!

they don't get his sense of humor, they're looking for "jokes"

I used to watch it with Shawn Lane

Jay Leno is very intimated in this interview because he is a comic, where Lynch is an artist who can exploit that, however Lynch was a gentleman throughout. Lynch was very young director and Jay wanted to make a joke for his expense. Sounds familiar? Kinda like th joker scene i guess, but Lynch walked away just fine. edit: you'll never see this type of humiliation on TV today by a host. Jay is a dirt bag. Imagine a guest on the tonight show slamming him about conan on live broadcast? Love to to see his stand up then