When you have TV sitcom veteran Chuck Lorre and acting heavyweights Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas together on one stage _ reveling in the success of Netflix's "The Kominsky Method"'s Golden Globe win for best TV comedy _ one can't help but wonder what the memories might be like from their time on set.
The question, unsurprisingly, is met with a joke.
"Part of the joy of doing a show when you get older is you don't remember anything," Lorre told reporters backstage.
More seriously, though, he pointed to the first scene they shot of the comedy, which follows a pair of friends (Arkin and Douglas) navigating their twilight years in Hollywood. The scene involved Douglas and Arkin's characters seated for lunch at the Hollywood haunt Musso & Frank Grill.
"I was foolish enough to direct this episode," Lorre recalled. "And that was a moment I will never forget. I remember thinking I was fighting out of my weight class."
For Lorre, whose work has mostly been on broadcast TV with multi-camera hits like "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men" _ the sort of shows that can sometimes get overlooked by award shows _ "The Kominsky Method's" recognition on Sunday night was an uplifting moment he won't soon forget. (In addition to the show's win for comedy series, Douglas also won for his performance as aging acting coach Sandy Kominsky.)
"I'm absolutely stunned and amazed and delighted and grateful that our work was acknowledged and held up as being worthy."
And they're ready to shoot down any mischaracterizations about the show _ as Arkin did when a reporter began a question by suggesting that the show pokes fun at guys getting older.
"We're not making fun of guys getting older," Arkin said.
There you have it.
