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Steve Buscemi’s ‘Park Bench’ Was Doing Viral Talk TV Before Viral Talk TV Existed
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Steve Buscemi’s ‘Park Bench’ Was Doing Viral Talk TV Before Viral Talk TV Existed

The Hollywood Reporter·Jennifer Levin·about 14 hours ago
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A decade before Kareem Rahma clipped a microphone to a Metro card and started asking New Yorkers for their Subway Takes , Steve Buscemi created an Emmy-winning talk show by chatting with folks on a park bench. Buscemi had come up with the idea after directing a series of promotional shorts for the band Vampire Weekend, during which he met carpenter Geo Orlando. “I pulled him into the scene, we went on a park bench and did a little scene with the singer Grimes,” Buscemi told Time in 2015. “Geo was so natural and just a great sidekick, if you will, that I said to my producing partner and our producing team, ‘I think I can build a whole show out of Geo and I on park benches.’ ”  AOL Originals thought so too, and Park Bench With Steve Buscemi debuted as a web series in May 2014.…

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