Unless you have been under a rock for the last ten years, you’ve at least heard of, if not seen the show Inside the Actor’s Studio. The highest rated program in the history of the Bravo network, the show offered and continues to offer audiences a glimpse into the lives and acting process of Hollywood elite. It’s so well known, in fact, that it eclipses, at least in notoriety, the hard-knocks school of acting that it was originally based upon. The name of the Studio’s famed mentor, the late Lee Strasberg, may fall easily from the lips of the subjects of the program, but it’s the host of the cable show, James Lipton, that is today inextricably linked with the Studio. Television has that effect. The show is seen in 79 million American homes and in 125 countries around the world. Writer, poet, dean, host, producer, James Lipton has been gracing stages and studios for decades, writing and acting in four Daytime Dramas, writing books and writing the 1967 Broadway musical, Sherry!, but it is his one-on-one sit down talk show with the giants of American theatre and cinema that has made him into a household name, a cult of personality that has been celebrated and lampooned, perhaps the highest honor in American popular culture. In recognition of a career that has spanned more than a half-century, for molding perhaps the definitive craft archive of our time, this year, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honors James Lipton with the Lifetime Achievement Award. At …

this guy uses every curse word he can think of