![]() So basically it's inviting people around for dinner. ![]() It’s an interview show like ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.’ I love the one-on-one. We’ve recorded two episodes and I've been trying to get it made. I’ve heard you’re a great cook and you’re even looking into doing a cooking show? Whilst I'm not religious my blood is from that tribe. And then I sang the prayer for the bread against a backdrop of feedback and made my own melody. I didn't have much of family traditions in any way so I learned the prayer for the bread.Īnd when I was in Austria I announced that I was shocked this guy had gotten elected. I didn't grow up Jewish but a few times I had the challah and the wine and it was a fun thing. My grandfather was Jewish and he used to have the Friday night dinners. So it seemed strangely punitive to the wrong people. But it was the old Nazis in the country voting him in. People were canceling their shows to Austria in defiance. He had expressed views similar to the Nazis. There was this this politician Jörg Haider they elected. I read once you recited a Hebrew prayer as a protest at a concert in Austria. That would imply I under-think it on a different night (laughs). When you play a benefit do you change your setlist or is it best not to overthink it? They’re talking about what is it about the perpetrators? So you try to minimize it in the future. It just was like ‘ oh, your life's blown apart? Off to school, live your life, be a good person.’ What I like about both of these organizations is they're not political. No one ever stopped once to ask me about my mental health. Like every good artist I had a traumatic childhood. Ostracized, bullied, harassed, ridiculed. But what makes people get to that point? What have they gone through 400 times? They've been ignored by their communities. And for me it’s what is the background that leads people to do this? With the victims the atrocity speaks for itself. So it’s the vulnerability of these kids in school. Four kids in total, but three young boys in America. I'm thrilled to do this.īeing from the UK, what is your perspective of gun violence in the US? So he stopped being a musician to start this charity. Mark Barden, his seven year old son was killed in one of these shootings. And there's another organization called Sandy Hook Promise. I got asked by Artists for Action to perform. It's been 400 mass shootings in America this year, right? This is not political it's just humanistic. Well it’s important as a dad and as a human being. You’re in New York right now to perform at Artists For Action.
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