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John Lurie on ‘Painting With John,’ His Accidental HBO Show

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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVAmong other things, John Lurie is a reality-television pioneer.A musician who founded jazz group the Lounge Lizards and who moonlighted as an actor in films such as Jim Jarmusch’s “Down By Law,” Lurie’s a polymath.

His first television series, “Fishing With John,” premiered on Bravo in 1991 and riffed on the fishing shows found across the local-television landscape in the late 20th century — TV that made fun of itself when that was still weird.

The show was born out of Lurie filming a fishing trip he took with Tom Waits in New Zealand. Its hallmark was over-the-top narration contrasted with mundane footage of white guys fishing.

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