Best Of: Jason Segel / Lisa Kudrow

From W H Y Y in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Moseley in Los Angeles. Today Jason Siegel In the comedy drama series Shrinking, he plays a psychotherapist who's having a nervous breakdown, but is continuing to see patients. Siegel talks about what he's learned about psychotherapy and himself playing a therapist. Also, Lisa Cudro. She's nominated for two Emmy Awards for the final season of the HBO comedy The Comeback, which she co-created. Lisa is best known as Phoebe on Friends, but long before that, she was performing as a kid for the people around her.

I imitated Lily Tomlin, Edith Ann, that character on Laughing. I'd go to slumber parties and to me it was like doing a show. And then lip sync songs, and then have everyone do it. I was like a cruise director. And book critic Marine Corgan has a late summer gift for us. Three new suspense novels. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Moseley Terry has our first interview. Here she is. My guest Jason Siegel is nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in the series Shrinking. The first three seasons are streaming on Apple TV.

When we first meet his character Jimmy, he's a psychotherapist who's having a nervous breakdown But continues to work with his patients. Believing he's having a breakthrough as a therapist, he intervenes in his patients' lives. He gives them inappropriate advice to do things Jimmy believes will change their lives for the better and prevent them from complaining about the same things week after week without ever making an effort to fix the problems. The reason Jimmy is falling apart is that his wife was killed in a car accident a year ago. His teenage daughter is in high school when the series starts. She accuses him of being so absorbed in his own grief

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