The George Lucas Talk Show
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The George Lucas Talk Show is a long-running cult talk show in New York City that Patrick has produced and booked since 2015. Comedian Connor Ratliff (Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Dead Eyes podcast) hosts the show as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and he interviews real guests as themselves in a panel format. He is flanked by sidekick Watto, played by Griffin Newman (Amazon’s The Tick, Blank Check podcast).
The show ran for over 6 years at the UCB Theater in New York and has had guests like Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Hamm, Kevin Smith, Nicole Byer, Sonia Manzano, Ira Glass, Lea Thompson, Ben Schwartz, Peter Serafinowicz, Tony Hale, David K. Harbour, Emily VanDerWerff, D’Arcy Carden, Solo writer Jon Kasdan, Rogue One writer Chris Weitz, Meredith Vieira, and musicians like Aimee Mann.
Since May 2020, the show has been streaming weekly on PlanetScum.Live, with Patrick acting as an on-air co-host. The show has produced fundraisers including: a 30-hour marathon of every Star Wars movie, marathoned TV shows like Arli$$, 1600 Penn, Big Lake, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Muppets Tonight and raised over $215k for various charities and organizations.
“As 2020 continues to find new ways to fuck with us, one bit of sunlight is still streaming into our lives every Sunday. And because it’s 2020, it’s from a very unlikely source: The remotely-produced version of a comedy talk show hosted by “Retired Filmmaker George Lucas.””
“George Lucas has also given him an excuse to finally create collectibles. In typically obsessive fashion, he has recently produced both a vinyl GLTS soundtrack album and a limited GLTS-themed press run of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. The latter is happening entirely because actor Stephen Tobolowsky discussed his fondness for the book on a recent appearance with George and Watto. The former, meanwhile, required him to study up on music copyright law and track down the rights holders to the Star Wars Holiday Special songs so he could get permission to put them on the album. In the process, he discovered most of the songs had been written by Gillian Welch’s parents — surprising the singer-songwriter with the news that they owned the publishing rights.” - Alan Sepinwall
“The George Lucas Talk Show is entertaining and humorous, giving fans a quirky version of a George Lucas caricature. Ratliff plays the character of Lucas so well that audiences feel as though they’re really watching the filmmaker host his own talk show. The George Lucas Talk Show proves that “George Lucas” is the internet’s coolest and weirdest talk show host”.””
