Name: Steve Buscemi's Greatest Hits, And The Parts He Didn't Get
Uploaded: 2025-07-24T17:11:06.000Z
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What? I'm over here, though, and I'm over here.

my first guest tonight is an Emmy and Golden Globe winner you know from Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Boardwalk Empire.

He now stars in the Netflix series Wednesday.

I mean, you are a scholarship student, right?

The school is in a financial pickle, and if we don't meet our fundraising goals,

I may be forced to let some of the scholarship students go.

I know how people feel about sirens, but I don't share that view.

Using your powers of persuasion for a good cause should be applauded.

We all want what's best for Nevermore, so why don't you take another look at that schedule of yours and see if you can squeeze this in.

Please welcome back to The Late Show Steve Buscemi.

It is such an honor and privilege to be here.

That's all I needed. You can go now, Steve.

You're all... And, by the way, thank you for being so stupid with me just now in the second act.

I just... I... Boy, we all need all the stupid we can get.

It is hard to out-stupid the world these days.

Like, you're a renowned, respected actor, but you also do the silly stuff, too.

Have you always been so open to, you know, up for whatevs?

I grew up on the Three Stooges and Jerry Lewis, and I, you know, this is...

I never thought that I would be a dramatic actor.

I always thought that I would, you know, just be doing comedy.

And I guess my work ethic came, you know, when I was doing a lot of theater stuff and performance art in the 80s, in the East Village days.

And everybody just performed in each other's shows, and it was just fun.

I just had friends who would say, do you want to get in trouble?

And that meant somebody probably had found a space in the theater and probably named a show and called the press, but we hadn't written it yet.

I used to perform a lot with my buddy, the actor Mark Boone Jr., and we used to get a gig first and then have to come up with a show.

My friend, you know, you've met my friend Paul Dinello.

He used to call me up and say, hey, do you want to go up tonight at Largo or something like that?

We just need to come up with something to write.

Your fans know some of your greatest hits.

Like for me, it's a small part, a fantastic part in Miller's Crossing,

Trying not to think of those, but were you good at auditioning?

The reason I wrote for myself, because no one would cast me.

I never knew if I should wing it, because sometimes I'd be good if I went in the room and I didn't really prepare.

And then the next time I do it, I would fail.

But I remember one time I was auditioning for Barry Levinson for the movie Tin Man.

And I went, okay, I can't just wing this.

And I studied the sides, the script, and went in there and did my reading, did my audition.

And he looked at me and he went, that was really good.

Let's do it again, but this time, try it.

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Steve Buscemi's Greatest Hits, And The Parts He Didn't Get

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