James Lipton was inspired to create Inside the Actors Studio by a chance viewing of a Pivot program on cable TV.
On Inside the Actors Studio in 2006, Chappelle lamented that his original Half Baked script was actually much better than the film turned out to be, specifically that he had intended for the film to be more adult-oriented, and thought that his script had been turned into "a weed movie for kids".
He next married Betty Weinberg, a teacher; their son is Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton.
According to Ross, herself, as related to the audience on Inside the Actors Studio on February 19 of 2006, she never did disclose the simplicity of her little ruse.
The show is directly based on the format used in similar television programs: the American Inside the Actors Studio and the French Les feux de la rampe, in that each episode features a cinema or theatre actor answering questions from the host, René Homier-Roy, and, at the end of the show, from members of the audience.
Screen Actors Guild | studio | Inside Edition | Studio Ghibli | recording studio | Studio One | Microsoft Visual Studio | Studio One (TV series) | Studio 54 | Sun Studio | Inside the Actors Studio | GameMaker: Studio | Studio Brussel | Studio 2 | Inside Man | inside forward | Studio B | Screen Actors Guild Award | Actors Theatre of Louisville | actors | The Ghost Inside | Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again | SCE London Studio | Muscle Shoals Sound Studio | Actors' Equity Association | Virtual Studio Technology | The Studio | Studio Tan | Studio Museum in Harlem | Studio |
Among the guests invited for the series finale, Bernard Pivot invited James Lipton, the host of the U.S. TV program Inside the Actors Studio, to participate with him in answering the Proust Questionnaire that Pivot had made famous.
Lipton adapted Pivot's use of a Proust Questionnaire to one that he himself used at the end of each episode of Inside the Actors Studio.