Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
July 25 - 31, 2021 l 3
BY JAY BOBBIN
Dave Burd OF ‘DAVE’
ON FXX
If you were around me all day, I would try
to make you laugh the entire time – but also,
I’m sure we would have some genuine, real
conversations, too. I just think the better version
of any content, but especially this show, is one
that is more all-encompassing. If characters
weren’t fleshed-out, real people who had
significant thoughts and worries and fears, it
would just be a bunch of silliness. And you
wouldn’t really care about the outcome.
Since “Dave” essentially is about your life,
is it hard for you to reveal so much about
yourself so publicly?
I guess you could say it’s difficult sharing the
most inner personal information on national
television, but in a way, it’s actually not difficult.
It’s liberating, because I feel like if I share the
information, then I’m an open book.
Some famous names have made their
way onto “Dave.” For instance, what was
it like to have Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on
the show?
While “Dave” ostensibly is a comedy,
your semi-fictionalized alter ego in the
show also deals with darker aspects as he
makes his way through fame as a rapper.
How much thought do you put into
balancing that with the rest of the show?
Well, I don’t think I actively sit around and want
to embrace the darker elements of life. I think
everything is better when it’s real and it’s more
specific and it’s authentic. I don’t think I make
an effort to balance emotion with comedy; I just
try to have a perspective on what life is like.
Even when he says, like, “Hey, Dave,
where’s the bathroom?” ... in real life, I get
goosebumps that he’s even referring to me
by my name. At first, I didn’t know him. And
by the end, he brought me gifts. He is the
sweetest man. The guy has just so many life
experiences, and he’s done so many things
in his life beyond being the leading scorer in
NBA history. I’m a massive basketball fan,
so there’s that, too. And I just think he’s such
a legendary guy, I felt truly honored to be
sharing scenes with him.
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Questions:
1) Jingle writer
2) History
3) They are
all crimes of a
sexual nature.
4) Aerospace
engineer
5) Newman
(Wayne
Knight)
Answers:
Charlie
Sheen
1) What occupation enabled Charlie Harper (Charlie
Sheen) to live the life in a swank oceanfront bachelor
pad in “Two and a Half Men”?
2) As the title character in “The Education of Max
Bickford,” Richard Dreyfuss played a professor who
taught what subject?
3) What is “special” about the crimes
investigated by the detectives on
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”?
4) As the only one of the four male
friends without a Ph.D. in “The Big
Bang Theory,” Howard Wolowitz
(Simon Helberg) was often the butt
of jokes from Sheldon Cooper (Jim
Parsons). What was his occupation?
5) On “Seinfeld,” which of Jerry’s
neighbors was a mail carrier?
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