'The Chris Isaak Show'
Most of us know Chris Isaak the musician. Now, thanks to the return of his hit Showtime series, we're getting to know Chris Isaak the actor, Chris the Casanova, and Chris the comedian.
“I am playing myself a little taller than I really am," Isaak says.
“Extra” spent a day on the set of this zany dramedy. It’s a blend of fact and fiction that exploits Isaak and his band Silvertones' rock and roll life.
Amazingly, Isaak and his band kept rocking and rolling long after the cameras stopped and recorded their first album in four years. Chris says, “People ask me, when did you find time to make an album in the middle of a TV show. It's easy if you just don't have a personal life."
Who needs a personal life when you're professional life one is like Chris'?
“Green Day has been in my living room. We had Shelby Lynn, Goo Goo Dolls, it's a long list of talented people. Then there is me," Isaak explains.
In fact, every week a guest band or star pops in. The day we visited, it was sixties "I Spy" star Robert Culp who told us, “It feels to me like a modern spin on country western, which is my cup of tea."
Chris claims cable let's him shed his inhibitions. He says, “It's handled, I think, in a very tasteful and artistic way. We don't do things where people are naked, we do things where people are nude.”
And that's the bare-bottom truth about “The Chris Isaak Show.”
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