Stephen King Talks To George Stroumboulopoulos 

I love how Stephen is just like fu*k shoelaces...imma rock dem Velcros.

It's funny because everyone says George is a great interviewer--which he is--but the funny this is he does very little talking during his interviews. He asks a 10-20 word question and whoever is sitting across from him suddenly tells him and his audience their entire life story, and Strompoloujpuopluopuolous just sits there and listens. Hence, best interviewer working today.

I'm not at liberty to say he's the greatest author ever because I haven't read every authors material (obviously) but I will say he's the greatest I've experienced.

i just wanna have tea with him and my life will be complete.

What I would give to be able to sit on a porch, in the evening, with a pitcher of lemonade, and listen to Stephen King tell tales like the inspiration for Cujo. He is so interesting, and he knows how to tell a story.

God, I wish I could meet him. He's one of the reasons I'm trying to be a writer myself

im reading the shinning now and im loving it.

This dude is a millionaire and dresses like he eats at mcdonalds I love it

Fantastic interview. A brilliant storyteller and a well read, thoughtful interviewer.

The Cujo back story with the bike and the farmer was creepy. Imagine all the creepy things this guy has seen or experienced in his life in order to come up with the material he does?

Pogo the Clown? LMFAO!!!!!!! Nice John Wayne Gacy reference, Mr. King! lol

My favorite book of his entire bibliography is Different Seasons.

I never saw before an interview with Stephen King, but I absolutely loved it. This guy is an icon

I like a few of King's books. My favorite, however, is "On Writing..." It's a primer on how to write, and how he writes. Excellent!

I miss when this show was a full hour and the interviews were longer. George's interviews are awesome! He gets the most authentic side of his guests out from his line of questioning.

I would love to meet Stephen king and I write my own books and I'm thinking of typing them next but Stephen king is my idol

After I finished "it" I felt sad saying goodbye to those people but (SPOILIER ALERT) how they forgot each other at the end but remembered the love between them I feel is a beautiful metaphor for life when we pass on our memories may be gone but the love we felt for people will go on forever

yep, always a letdown when I get to the end of one of his books. never want them to end no matter how many pages they are.

Stephen King is not a Futuristic Writer - he is all about the mind and shows what the characters go through.

I love Stephen king. Love his books and movies. Under the dome I read, I loved it. Got 12 of his book. I'm reading doctor sleep which is his new book. And it's amazing read up to now

This is one of the best interviewers I've ever seen, and a really interesting interview.

Love this Interview. Thanx!

Jim Carey should play Stephen King in his biopic

its great to see such interviewers. Knowledgeable and smart.

So Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Stephen King walk into a bar...

master or crypt tales. keep writing Steve!

SIMPSONS DID IT

I've read the shining, misery, doloras Claiborne and Carrie. Any other recommendations? I tried Liseys Story, Duma Key and wasn't into them

I wish I had time to read more of his books.

"Simpsons did it! SIMPSONS DID IT!" Also, why are they never talking about the DT :(

Stephen King is amazing. I've seen most of the movies that were made for his books and loved them, and when I was in high school I read his books written under the pseudonym, Bachman, and I loved them. For some reason, I didn't read anything more from him until about two months ago, and now every third or forth book I read is Stephen King. The Shining, The Stand, Misery, The Long Walk - again, Rose Murder, and Mr. Mercedes. ALL of them great. Stephen King is amazing! :-)

'The talisman' and 'black house' are fucking incredible. I read them about about once every year or two. Both wildly different genres that meet in the middle with such enduring depiction's of friendship. 😍 Wolf is probably my favorite character from any Stephen King novel.

a priceless interview

zapatillas con abrojo. Lo amo.

Thank you for the great interviews!

One of my favorite interviews love it.

Christine is my favourite book by Stephen King, and the movie made it more awesome.

"I don't ever wanna be that famous." Lol

Great interview. Stroumboulopoulos keeps the conversations genuine and cuts all the pomp, which is always appreciated. It's always cool to read the comments under interviews with Stephen King, and to see how much he's had an impact on us all. He's created this other (better) universe that we spend sizable chunks of our lives in. I wonder if he realizes just how much of an impact he's had. Probably hard to quantify.

Just finished 11/22/63, couldn't put it down, Did nothing else for two days, had to finished it. Great book. There is going to be a movie.....

Great stuff. Only read a handful of his work - he puts the pro in prolific!

The only Stephen King book that I've read in its entirety is "The Shining". It's the little things that make it such a classic; the moving topiary was especially effective, in my opinion.

His best book if you ask me - "Pet Sematary." Full of everything you expect from Stephen King in classic form - Indian burial grounds, salty Nor'easterners, walking corpses, heady scenes at funerals - and with a perfect ending. Because that's the thing with SK books in general; they tend to feature a huge elaborate epic buildup to an ending that can only be an anticlimax, and is. (I could spoil the thousand pages of "IT" in four words; three if I left out "fucking.") But Pet Sematary goes out with a bang, in a way that seems both inevitable and shocking. I think I've seen Mark Ryden's work illustrating Stephen King books, and that makes perfect sense to me - Ryden's from the "outsider/lowbrow" art set, and King's work seems like the equivalent in literature. I don't mean that as an insult.

I really enjoy hearing him talk about his life. It is hard for me to put the man in this vid with the books he writes. For over 30 years I have been a fan....biggest fan NO close hell ya!

fantastic interview

This interview is 4 years old.

I. LOVE. THIS. MAN.

Brilliant interview

king should be a voice actor..

I've never heard Stephen king speak before, and I've got to say... That's NOT what I imagined he sounded like. It was deeper in my head.

Excellent interview. The interviewer is great

an awesome one!

I like this interviewer, he's pretty good. Cheers

George does the best interviews.

Big Ears Teddy really liked this!

please george come back. so good. stephen is inspo

Yeah I got the global wheater idea too in the book. I hope they turn it into a movie. Also the Dark Tower series. Love it.

This is the man that every talk show host should aspire to be like.

Epic shoes!

Hi Boss! :)

what kind of shoes is he wearing?

That's one hell of a last name.

I'm not a reader, but I've read a lot of Stephen King books!

I WAS DOING TIME IN CHINO CALIF ... C. Y.A.. 1996-2000 READING STEPHEN KING....WICKED ASS MIND

1:42 Did he just "Welcome buddy" Stephen King?

Damn, these are fucking great questions.

george is really good at this.

Simpsons did that shit rofl

This mf is a good interviewer where is he now??

i might meet him soon

love the old man Velcro sneakers

What kind of name is Yan Quirk?

Man I never knew Shawshank Redemption, the Green Mile and Stand By Me were Stephen King books

This dude's books will still be selling hundreds of years from now...... (or downloaded 🙄)..... Any fools who try to critique too much, better be VERY successful authors!! The dude's a genius.

I watched Stephen king's "it"! IT WAS SCARY!

Great interview!

Doctor Sleep is great. I like it better than The Shining.

A name that has more than one syllable.

If Stephen King wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, the series would be done by now even if it was eight 1500 page books.

Genius.

He had to have been working on "Doctor Sleep" during this?

Seriously, though. Would've been hilarious if some character actually said "this s like the Simpsons movie!"

George was a great interviewer, what happened to the dude??

i would think you would like the quirk(y) last names

Going to see a dead body. Going to prison for a crime you didn't commit and getting repeatedly raped in said prison. In prison waiting to be executed for a crime you didn't commit. If that's NOT horror... then somebody needs to check their Funk & Wagnels.

I wish he would return to "the stand"

His books are so brilliant but most of his scary stuff which was adapted to film and brutally murdered the quality of his stories.

Stephen king is a god. Been through a lot of shit

Stroumboulopoulos? xD Our greek names are so hilarious. It basicly stands for "rounded guy." (The chubby type of rounded.).

Maximum overdrive with acdc!!!

Part 2: 14:27

sounds like he listens to fox news while he types.

Oh Stephen. I do question your judgement sometimes, but damnit, you seem like such a nice chap.

The 'Green Mile' is not based on real life.

haha, nice comeback by george there. squeeeaaal like a piiig.

Stephen King: the American Neil Gaiman. So far.

King's a misguided communist but a good writer. Read many of his books. Great interviewer.

George really plays with my prejudices. I mean, he looks like he should be an idiot, but the questions are always great. Hmm... King is the king, of course.

Weather has nothing to do with climate, there's your first lesson Stephen.

Getting hit by a car was his inspiration for Mr.Ferrari