I recently discovered Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, a weekly Internet-only series hosted by…well, you can probably figure out who hosts it. Each episode, Mr. Pollak sits down with some friend in show business and they talk for however long they feel like talking…usually at least an hour, sometimes much longer. There are little games but mostly it's just honest, uncensored conversation. They've done a little less than a hundred of these, some (natch) with folks who don't interest me at all. But I'm really enjoying the ones with folks who do interest me. Pollak's a good (though occasionally fawning) interviewer and the format allows time and space for something in-depth and revealing.
How do you view these? Many ways but a good starting point would be the show's website where you can find a list of past episodes and links to watch them on YouTube. They're also on iTunes and I figured out how to get them on my TiVo. (You need to have TiVo Desktop Pro installed and be hooked up to the Internet. Then you go to "Video on Demand," then you go to "Free VOD and Web Videos" and they're in there. Let an episode download in full before you start watching it.)
You can also watch one right here. I've embedded Kevin's conversation with Craig Ferguson, which runs close to an hour and 45 minutes. I learned more about Mr. Ferguson than I ever have before…and I'm not sure where I'll ever learn more…
