Harvey Brownstone interviews acclaimed tv, screen & stage actor Richard Kind.
Richard Kind is a renowned and beloved, multi-award winning actor whose exceptional body of work includes many iconic performances.
On the big screen, you’ve seen him in dozens of movies including “Mr. Saturday Night”, “Hacks”, “Quicksand”, “The Station Agent”, “A Serious Man”, “The Producers”, “For Your Consideration”, “Argo”, “Tankhouse”, and “Wolfs”, to name just a few.
On television, he’s best remembered for playing “Paul Lassiter” in “Spin City”, “Joey Rathburn” in “Luck”, “Sam Meyers” in “Red Oaks”, “Aubrey James” in “Gotham”, “Cousin Andy” in “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Captain Stan Yenko” in “East New York”, and of course, “Dr. Mark Devanow” on “Mad About You”, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
He’s won many prestigious awards for his work in “Andover”, “Auggie”, “A Serious Man”, “Hudson Falls”, “Detours”, and “Yes We Cannabis”.
Richard Kind is also highly acclaimed for his voice work in iconic animated shows like “Tom & Jerry: The Movie”, “A Bug’s Life”, “Garfield: The Movie”, “Toy Story 3”, “Cars 1 and 2”, “Tom Sawyer”, “Inside Out”, “Big Mouth” and “American Dad”.
On Broadway, Richard Kind has appeared in numerous shows including “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”, “The Producers”, “Sly Fox”, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “Kiss Me Kate” and “The Big Knife”, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
From December 11 to January 12, he’ll be starring on Broadway in Simon Rich’s brilliant play, “All In: Comedy About Love”.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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