The Interview Show With Mark Bazer

Sometimes it's good to meet your heroes. WBEZ, Chicago's wonderful public radio station, brought director Rob Reiner to Chicago on Sept. 17, as part of its Events series. Reiner is the author of the new book "A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap." Some 800 people filled The Music Box to hear Reiner discuss all things "Spinal Tap," along with share a few stories about "The Princess Bride," "The American President" and more. Like when Harrison Ford built hi...

Evan Dando, frontman of The Lemonheads, has a memoir out, "Rumors of My Demise." He made Chicago—more specifically our show on Oct. 5 at FitzGerald's, in Berwyn—the first stop on the book tour. The Lemonheads also have a forthcoming album. He didn't perform any songs off it on our show. Instead, in between talking, he played a couple Rolling Stones covers and even some Steely Dan. (He outs himself in the book as a closet Dan fan.) Thank you to FitzGerald's and their team for everything....

Sarah Spain is one of my favorites, she is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning sports journalist; is the host of the first ever daily women's sports podcast, iHeart's “Good Game with Sarah Spain;” and has been a jack of all trades in her more than two decades in the sports business. But here we mostly talk about Sarah's first book, “Runs In The Family,” which tells the truly unbelievable story of Deland McCullough. He’s the running backs coach for the Raiders, but the book tells the incredible ...

Our interview with author Samantha Harvey. Her latest book is "Orbital," which won this past year's Booker Prize. We recorded the interview at FitzGerald's, in Berwyn, right outside Chicago, on March 20, 2025. Next on our live show front is a show at The Hideout, in Chicago, on May 30, with Austan Goolsbee, Sarah Spain and the band Moontype. More at: https://hideoutchicago.com/event/the-interview-show-with-mark-bazer-6/hideout-chicago/chicago/ Learn more about The Interview Show With Mark Baz...

Our interview with actor Carrie Coon, from Jan. 10, 2020, as she prepared for "Bug" at Steppenwolf Theatre, in Chicago. Filmed at The Hideout, also in Chicago. Originally aired on WTTW, Chicago's PBS station. Our next live show is March 20 at FitzGerald's! https://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/tm-event/the-interview-show-w-host-mark-bazer-ft-samantha-harvey-jonathan-weismen/ Learn more about The Interview Show With Mark Bazer, including how to see our next live show at theinterviewsho...

We thought we'd revisit this interview with the late chef Charlie Trotter from ... 2010. June 4, 2010, to be exact. We had a great time that night at The Hideout. Chef Trotter has very much been on people's minds of late — thanks to the "Love, Charlie" documentary (of which video clips from this interview appear!) that's now on Netlfix (https://www.netflix.com/title/81633762) as well as word that Trotter's son is resurrecting his namesake restaurant. Charlie Trotter changed fine dining in Chi...

The first podcast episode from the long-running live, Chicago-based talk show The Interview Show With Mark Bazer! Interview guest is: — Actor Robert Sean Leonard (House, Dead Poets Society), who is in the Goodman Theatre's production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, alongside Helen Hunt and Ian Barford. More at: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/ Musical guest is: — Sima Cunningham, who is one half of the duo Finom along with Macie Stewart and has a new solo record out called High Roller. ...