{"id":13798,"date":"2012-01-25T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesunsetstrip.com\/2012\/01\/25\/thesunsetstrip-com-exclusive-interview-with-jeff-garlin\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:20:19","slug":"thesunsetstripcom-exclusive-interview-jeff-garlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesunsetstrip.com\/thesunsetstripcom-exclusive-interview-jeff-garlin\/","title":{"rendered":"TheSunsetStrip.com Exclusive Interview With Jeff Garlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>8 Minute, 52 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><p>Comedian, author and &ldquo;Curb Your Enthusiasm&rdquo; star Jeff Garlin visited The Sunset Strip&rsquo;s prestigious literary boutique, Book Soup, earlier this month to discuss the re-release of his weight loss\/&ldquo;going green&rdquo; chronicle, <em>Curbing It<\/em>.&nbsp; A longtime fan of Book Soup, Garlin hosts and moderates a monthly-ish book club dedicated to supporting the local landmark he so frequently patronizes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tBefore diving into a lengthy Q&amp;A session with fans and book club &ldquo;enthusiasts,&rdquo; The Comedy Store regular and Book Soup mascot spoke to TheSunsetStrip.com about his journey to a life of sustainable health and eco responsibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, this is a new book, a re-write..?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tIt&rsquo;s actually a re-release, but I added a little intro and added a last chapter. It&rsquo;s a new cover, and a new title that I&rsquo;m acquiescing to the demands of the publisher [laughter]. Although, I&rsquo;m happy to write the intro and the extra chapter; and I&rsquo;m fine with the title and the new cover. People seem to like it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The book sort of marries the topics of weight loss and environmentalism\/carbon footprint. The weight loss issue, being a personal one, is an understandable subject you would want to discuss, but &ldquo;carbon footprint&rdquo;? How does that factor in? Was there a particular event in your life, or way you&rsquo;ve been affected, that made you want to tie that topic in as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tNo, it&rsquo;s just being thoughtful &mdash; as being a human being, and a person who lives on planet Earth. But I&rsquo;m sure my next car will be a big V8.<\/p>\n<p>\tWhat I&rsquo;ve learned in terms of the green thing&hellip;I drive an electric car, a Nissan Leaf, it&rsquo;s nice if all of us do our best to recycle, and be conscious of turning off lights, get greener cars&hellip; but really the main problems that we have are caused by corporations. Really, they do all the crap that&rsquo;s causing the problems that we have today.<\/p>\n<p>\tIt&rsquo;s a little teeny thing when us individuals do things; but it&rsquo;s good, it all helps. But the big problem is the corporations, and not just here in the United States, but around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tPlaces like China. Places where you can&rsquo;t breathe. I mean, that&rsquo;s not because someone is driving a car that&rsquo;s wildly inappropriate. It&rsquo;s the industrialization of the world that&rsquo;s led to a less green world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And how do the two topics integrate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tWell, they don&rsquo;t really&hellip; Except for the fact that if I don&rsquo;t eat a piece of meat, I&rsquo;m being a lot greener because what goes into creating a piece of meat for me &mdash; between trucks transporting it, and the way that piece of meat is farmed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>\tThat makes a distinct difference if I make the choice to not eat meat. It&rsquo;s a good choice, but the more important thing is that I&rsquo;m healthy; because if I&rsquo;m not healthy it doesn&rsquo;t matter whether I&rsquo;m green or not. So there&rsquo;s no comparison as to which is more important to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonah Hill has been in the news recently with his tremendous weight loss &mdash;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tI wouldn&rsquo;t call it &ldquo;tremendous.&rdquo; If you weigh 500, 600 pounds and you get down to 180, that would be &ldquo;tremendous&quot;! I thought Jonah Hill was a sweet, chubby kid, whose body is just sort of changing into more of a man&rsquo;s body than a boy&rsquo;s body. I wouldn&rsquo;t use the word &ldquo;tremendous.&rdquo;&nbsp; That&rsquo;s all I&rsquo;m saying. It&rsquo;s commendable yes, and a big bowl of good for him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair enough&hellip; Well, with his slim down, there&rsquo;s been sort of this talk of&mdash;are people going to find him less funny now that he&rsquo;s not this big jovial kind of caricature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tYeah, <em>The New York Times<\/em> wrote a piece on that about me&hellip; As far as he is concerned and as far as I am concerned &mdash; I&rsquo;m not talking about opinion, I&rsquo;m talking about fact &mdash; we&rsquo;re both funny, no matter what.&nbsp; We&rsquo;re both good actors, no matter what. Weight doesn&rsquo;t matter for us. What weight adds to anyone is a level of vulnerability, but I think he naturally already has that, as do I.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tI don&rsquo;t see a problem there. The problem for someone who&rsquo;s fat, and loses weight, and is no longer funny&hellip; Can you give me an example of that? Maybe Jim Belushi was funnier when he was fatter because there was that level of vulnerability? But in general, you&rsquo;re either funny or you&rsquo;re not. You&rsquo;re either a good actor, or you&rsquo;re not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;m sure before this most recent change in diet, you had made numerous other attempts at losing weight. What was the strangest, most bizarre diet that you remember attempting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tI never did ridiculous. I had a roommate once who only ate M&amp;M&rsquo;s. She thought that would be the way to lose weight, and I told her, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to get scurvy.&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve never even feared for someone getting scurvy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tSo I never tried a bunch of different ridiculous diets. The reason that I have kept my weight off, and I will continue to lose weight &mdash; I&rsquo;ll be it, slowly &mdash; is that I&rsquo;ve just changed my life. That&rsquo;s it. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your book club that you do here at Book Soup. How did that start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tWell actually, I was asked by Book Soup if I&rsquo;d be interested in doing some sort of book club; that&rsquo;s really how it started. It started off very early as people coming who hadn&rsquo;t read the book and wanted to ask me questions about &ldquo;Curb Your Enthusiasm.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now, most of the people have read the book, and it&rsquo;s a nice discussion. It&rsquo;s fun&hellip; And the important thing is they sell a lot more books, not just to people who show up for the book club. I wish everyone showed up who bought a book. But for me the objective is to sell books at Book Soup. It&rsquo;s very important as someone who lives in Los Angeles and loves this store that the store continues to sell books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tLots of people, whether they come or not, have heard about the book club. I want people when they think of books, to think of Book Soup. That&rsquo;s the purpose of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you go about making your book selections?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tThere&rsquo;s really no science to it. Someone will suggest a book to me. I&rsquo;ll know of a writer I like, a book I haven&rsquo;t read of theirs&hellip; This next book club is a nonfiction choice. It&rsquo;s been all fiction up until this point.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;m a big fan of your indie film<em> I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With<\/em>. Any future film plans in the works?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tYes, I&rsquo;m making a film in May called <em>Dealing With Idiots<\/em>. It&rsquo;s already financed, and I&rsquo;ll be going into pre-production in April&hellip; It&rsquo;s about little league baseball parents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>After the success of your first film, was it a little easier finding financing this time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tNo, it&rsquo;s always hard. God is it hard! It shouldn&rsquo;t be that hard. If you&rsquo;re not making <em>Batman<\/em> or something in 3D, it&rsquo;s hard to get your movie made. That&rsquo;s across the board. I don&rsquo;t care what budget it is: whether it&rsquo;s 500,000 or 50 million&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>\tA big movie, a &ldquo;tent pole&rdquo; movie, costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make. So that&rsquo;s what they are interested in. They want the big payout; not anything smaller. The great time for filmmaking in this country was in the &rsquo;70s, when real personal movies were being made by the studios, but now it&rsquo;s a difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I know you quit eating sugar, and have cut out a lot of things from your daily diet. What&rsquo;s the one thing you miss eating the most? The one treat that you really crave?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tI have to tell you &mdash; because it&rsquo;s a sensation, more than just eating sugar &mdash; I miss ice cream. And I won&rsquo;t eat sugar free ice cream, because that&rsquo;s like drinking a non-alcoholic beer if you&rsquo;re an alcoholic. It serves no purpose. It&rsquo;s dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\tSo I do miss that. There&rsquo;s a lot of sensations to ice cream beyond just getting a sugar high. So, without a doubt, ice cream. And vanilla, ironically. Just plain vanilla. I miss it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else people should know about you, the book, the book club, upcoming projects?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tI&rsquo;d like people to know more in general. I think everyone should go back to school. I don&rsquo;t want them to necessarily know more about me, but everyone should just know a little bit more&hellip; One more semester.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tWe should do a program in high schools, elementary school, colleges &mdash; depending on your level of education &mdash; where for free, you get one more semester. Anything you want to study for that semester. That&rsquo;s all. And you have to do it. Like a mean, controlling <em>1984<\/em> world where you have to go for another semester.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jeff Garlin is known to make regular appearances at The Comedy Store&#39;s &quot;16 Headlining Comics&quot; show. 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