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Then there's uh Lake Superior. I always would retort with that when people threw
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me with Titty Kaka or ani tell us a little bit what it was like to work with Dana Carvey. You know, you're being by a
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thorn, you know, and you're like, okay, you know, and you're just like, what?
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>> Okay, I'll I'll I'll add some spice to that. >> Give us a couple different versions of
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that. So, Lake Bell, the lovely and talented Lake Bell, who uh Lake >> starring right now in The Chair Company
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with Tim Robinson, which is just an absurd, >> funny, >> brilliantly offkilter abstract.
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>> Right up my alley. Right up my alley. >> Yeah. And uh yeah, we we talk about her
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name. I mean, it it it is her name. It is kind of the coolest name you could have in show business when it's not made
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up. Lake Bell. You definitely need a hookie name that is a great >> short.
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>> Yeah, just >> four letters. Four letters. There's just something.
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>> It's like a movie jury duty, you know, just get like boom boom and it helps. Uh
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she's also been in It's complicated. She's in so many movies. She's sort of
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woven in where >> you just go, "Oh, right. She was in that one. She was No strings attached.
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There's old movies, new movies, um TV shows >> and a director." Oh, she was in Secret
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Life. >> Secret Life of Pets with Mwah. And uh we talk all about that. >> And she's uh what's interesting about
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her, I think, is um she's got a whole lane of getting hired to do things and
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then she's just producing andor directing things constantly. And that's >> uh by design and very smart. Then you
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can kind show business is less emotionally violent when you're just like doing your own work at the same
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time. Yeah, any anytime it's just waiting for the phone to ring is tough. That's the hardest part about show
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business. Um, anyway, here she is. Uh, lovely person. Lake Bell. >> Bell rang soon.
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>> Is that her? >> I am. Yeah, it's her. >> I don't have any idea what she looks
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like. Is that her? >> Oh my god. >> No one. >> She looks uh like Well, it looks
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gorgeous. >> An AI almost. >> Listen, I do what I can. I I can't
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believe this. I'm just so glad that this is working. >> I I am too. It's amazing.
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>> I know. >> Soon as I heard >> here, let me put this here. >> I feel like there might be a compliment
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coming. So, keep going. >> Oh, >> wait. Is this >> Do I need to have these on?
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>> Yes. Engineer. >> I think so. I know that you hate it. Everyone hates it, but I think it helps.
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doesn't look cute. >> We had this hockey player on and he didn't have him and we and we we
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couldn't talk over him because everything stopped. We have to wait for someone to talk, which you should do.
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>> The hockey player's name was Wayne Gretzky. >> All right. >> You know, I don't want
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>> I didn't even say that. >> I'm not trying to flex. >> I don't want to get
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>> I don't want to flex. I don't want to get handsy. I don't want to have these
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phrases exist. The latest one is slop. I hear it a lot. It's slop. Slop means
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just massive content that is just slop. It's just people love to watch slop.
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>> You know seven is done. Did you know? Did you hear about that? >> Who's done?
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>> 67. >> No. No. You know it's done. Oh, you didn't even Were you not aware of 67?
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>> I was, but I'm glad it's over. >> I heard I heard the two numbers. But
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what was it about again? >> He's heard of the two numbers. I heard the
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>> he's heard of >> when I was No, I remember something like 67 was a code or something. What was it?
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I mean >> like it was like a meme or something and then somebody said it at a at a kind of
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sporting event of some sort because I also asked the question to my children and I have teenytiny children that are
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right in the 67. >> Do they know about it? >> They I hear about it all the damn time.
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It was a hot >> Christmas gift was a t-shirt that said 6. >> Oh, no, no, no.
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>> But apparently the adult >> Thank god it's over. It's over, right?
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>> It's over. >> Okay. Uh I have Oh, I was going to say like because you're also a director. Do
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you feel >> Wait a minute. She's an author. People who don't know Lake Bell because I did
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kind of look you up a little bit. You know, preparation author, writer, director, actor, and voice actor.
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>> Yeah. Uh, am I missing anything? >> I mean, I'm a mother, which is my
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>> Oh, well, like as a director, is it too wide on me? I feel like it's showing too much
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of my whole body. >> I do feel that we're getting a lot of the wires in the backdrop. You could
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punch in. I'd like you over here. >> Yeah, >> I've never seen those in my life. And
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you saw them in one set. Let's come around if we can for a twoot and then just pan.
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>> Yeah, let's just cross cover. Cross >> and um so what what's your happiest
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place in your creative world is when you're writing your book >> start I guess we're doing it
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>> well no we don't we'll start and not start there's it's we don't really know
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what we're doing yet but is that kitchen real or is it like a backdrop >> my I'm in my office and it has a
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kitchenet so there's a >> somebody invested well >> the rich get rich
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>> whoops Can I have a >> never seen anything like this? Who lives there? Bezos.
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>> Okay. Well, listen. >> His muscles live in the other room and he lives in that.
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>> Guys, come on now. I The kitchenette is great for making >> If it has ETT on the end, that means
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it's not >> kitchenet makes me happy. The word makes me happy. If you're checking in kind of
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a B-level motel and there's that kitchenette just seems relaxing. Well, I feel I feel very relaxed and and welcome
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if there's a kitchenet. You're in a guest room has got a kitchenette. You're
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like, I've made it because >> Yeah, >> it really gives you that access point
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to, you know, the world is your oyster. You could make a you could make a tea. You could microwave a piece of toast.
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>> Yes. If I'm on the road, I go for residence in kitchenette. And then you
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don't really leave as much because you go, I can kind of handle [ __ ] >> Yeah. right here
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>> and you don't add advant Have you ever made an omelet in the kitchenette and
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just thought to yourself about the main >> These are viewer questions >> to about the main kitchen as you're
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flipping the omelet you know what >> [ __ ] the main kitchen >> the you know what's fun about that is
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that's where all the like funky mugs go. So, I've got like a very s I love mugs
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and I like a funky mug like you know a don't mess with Texas or like you know
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you go to like I have a a mug a dentist gave me a mug once with like a a big smile with braces on it like what a mug
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you know >> and it's like >> I like a good like you know it's like
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you travel somewhere and you get a mug and I >> Yeah. So all of the good funky mugs live
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in the kitchenette. The main kitchen, she's curated. She's got a real point of
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view. There's a visual, >> right? Is where the funk >> and you also don't want to mess up the
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main kitchen. So it's good to come do some dirty work in here. >> So I just want to make a quick note,
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right? Rap song called Funky Mug. Okay. >> Okay. Go. >> Well, mugs. I have a great old You know
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what my best mug is of all my goofy ones? Larry Sanders. It's all faded. >> I mean,
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>> why we got that? Must have been like a gift bag at the end. I don't know. I
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love it. I love it >> because Mark Marin, he he gives a mug. I'm just saying you guys
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>> Oh, smart. We don't have to give Jack. >> I I was on a show. I don't remember
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getting a mug. >> Oh, they just to special mug. No, no, no. Not a mug. >> You have to You have to You have a bone
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to pick then because those mugs are excellent. I And I I do ceramics. So, like I've got mugs.
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>> I've got mugs. ceramics on top of >> ceramics, too. And you write your
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automotive thing. I can't. Your resume made me tired. What are you doing? >> What were you do you take a nap every
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day? I mean, look, >> I do like actually. >> Oh, listen to this. Like, that's
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>> uh when I was going through your uh extenuous resume, is that a word? And um
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>> it is now >> golden arm. And guess who? Well, we don't name drop on the show. John Ham
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hit me out of the blue and I go, "John, I'm looking at your goddamn name on this
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stupid IMDb and he was so effusively positive about you." >> I am. Yeah, he's he's great. I think
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that is nice. That makes me feel good. I do think >> I'm generally like nice.
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>> Yeah. >> As a person. I mean, would you >> Yeah. I've seen you out and about and you're
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always very friendly and very light >> and I think I like the word agreeable.
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How is this person? They're they're agreeable, you know? They're they're
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easy. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I would say that I would I would say >> and she's a laugher, I think, if I
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remember. You like >> Yeah, I can I will give a good laugh. I I feel like that is a a quality that especially
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within comedy, it's nice to have people around who also will give give it give a
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laugh. >> Right. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Because if if if you're stiff and
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sometimes you just want to be the funny one, it's always nice when other funny
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people laugh. >> Yeah. Because you know when you're standing in like a a group of comedy
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people and everyone's each other >> and they're being really fun and they've
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got a little they've got a little um a little turned up side grin because they're thinking I'm going to say the
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next funny thing. I'm sharpen what I I'm gonna sharpen tool in my head. Oh, I'm
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listening to what he said. Okay, I'm gonna and everyone's thinking what am I
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gonna say next? you know, and >> it can be kind of like sweaty. I don't
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know. You know, >> I don't like group shows. I I I I do some dates with David. I don't like it's
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19 comics in a green room. What could go wrong? You know, >> it's like a comedy competition and I I
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don't like it. The guy who the >> man or woman on this podcast who laughed
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the hardest is kind of interesting. It was Larry David. >> I think I heard that episode. Yes, I was
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hearing that he was a great laugher and I thought I love Larry even more for that.
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>> I know he's so brilliant and then he sort of like he curled up on a little
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ball and he was redfaced and he fell out of his chair. Very interesting. But uh but our guest today is Lake B Lake Bell
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Lake. >> Has any ever met another lake person first name? >> Yeah. So it's interesting because when I
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was come when I was growing up it was so bizarre. I mean, people were like the amount
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>> they can't get their head around it. >> They could not they were like this is
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not okay with me. >> Whoa. >> What? You know, and I had a story I would tell people that my you know, my
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parents were hippies and I was on a lake and they thought, "Oh, let's do it."
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>> And that was not at all the truth. I'm from Manhattan. And my dad's like a Jew
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who belt the fish and my mom was like, you know, a kind of read war in peace while working at Sabes and was a model.
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You know, >> the bees. >> Yeah. >> Lake is a cool one, but you have cool
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names for your kids. >> Well, it's like a movie star name. And you know, I mean, it's it's very
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memorable. It's really tight. And the word the big L and the big B. >> It's just it has a lot going on.
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>> Four letters, four letters. >> Yeah. four letters, four letters, two
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nouns. And and then I think I saw it on a lot of like um signage when I was a kid. I always wanted to be an actor, but
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I was like, "Oh, it's already up there." So [ __ ] we're halfway there.
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>> It works. It works up there in the big time. >> Yeah. Lake Titty Kaka Lake, you know,
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that was >> Now we're talking Lake Balls of Plenty. Remember that one in Winnipeg?
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>> Oh god. Really? I don't >> Winnipeg. I just went off Titty Kaka.
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You're right. >> Yeah. Yeah. Tittaka. And um then there's uh Lake Superior. I always would retort
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with that when people threw me with titty kaka or an area. >> You know, the admin Fitzgerald took
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place on a lake, I think. >> Yeah. I mean, listen, lakes are of great import. They're much more robust than a
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pond. >> No one's named Puddle, is it? >> And they're rare in the western US
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>> as a >> You were called Puddle. >> Yeah. My stepfather used to call me
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Puddle because he's like, "One day maybe it'll grow into a lake."
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>> Oh, that's cute. >> That's cute. You know, David, um, you know, sometimes
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you want a little pickme up, right? Oh, yeah. Especially, right? >> But you also want something that
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actually tastes good. Do you know where I'm going? >> Yeah. >> Comment.
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online at 5hour energy.com or Amazon. >> Should we talk about Secret Life of Pets
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and what happened? >> I mean, >> for a second, we just we worked on something together.
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>> Yes, it was f I mean, >> were you together? >> No, we never recorded together. This
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really blows it for people. I think people want to know that all the minions are friends and I think they want to
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know that all the people hang out because I did some and we did them in different days and I was like, "Oh, no.
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I kind of wanted to be together." >> Yeah. There's no there's no it's it's a
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lonely job in a way, but then you get thrown together in promotion. So you're
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recording these >> huge like either TV TV shows or or movies where they're these animate like
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larger than life characters and oh my god the the rapport must have been terrific ask you on the junket they say
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you know do was it so fun working together >> you guys have a blast the chemistry
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>> that's a perfect junket voice what you just did >> tell us a little bit what it was like to
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work with Dana Carvey >> yeah Dana must be non-stop laughing like well his booth was two doors down and
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four months after my >> I don't know. >> I know. One time on on Hotel
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Transennsylvania, we did it. Oh, a couple people remember. I heard some applause.
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>> Um but we we did it all in the same room. And >> no, you didn't.
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>> They quickly found out it was a horrible idea. We were doing like scenes and
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we're all talking. It was Kevin James and Adam. We're like blah blah blah
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blah. And we're just going through like scene after scene and then we go we'll
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do some pickups and we did everything again by ourselves. >> Well, by the way, then it goes back to
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the like green room. A bunch of comedians in a green room. You don't you wouldn't want to record an an animated,
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you know, show that way because everyone's sitting there going, we're so
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>> Did you understand, David? Because when I was in the two, I wasn't quite sure
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what my character was doing. Yeah, I didn't connect it to any I would I didn't even understand. I just knew that
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was the line and they directed me, but I you get kind of lost like what >> you just came out of a cave and you're
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all wet. >> Yeah, >> that's what that's what it's like. And
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then when we did that one uh Emperor's New Groove, it it went three years I did
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it. And so at the end I'm like I don't even know what's going. They go you can
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ad liib. I go I don't know what the scene is. I don't >> You're like you're falling down yell
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scream. I like when they go right before you leave, let's get some ooze and o's.
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>> That's the best. >> Someone stepped on your tail. >> The industry term is You ready? You
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remember they're like, "Let's get some efforts." >> Oh, efforts. When you're falling down a
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hole, >> this is just for people. I I've probably been spoke about before, but it's an
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interesting thing about doing voiceover work. You're behind a glass. You're in a
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booth. You're seeing like 10 people in front of you and they're straightfaced
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and very serious and you go all out with your take and there's a delay. So you're still
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looking at an oil painting and then they then you see them like they're laughing
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on Zoom from France. >> Just you can't hear them. >> They go silent laughing and and thumbs
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up >> and you like that one. They go one more and you go >> Yeah. It's so awkward.
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>> I mean, I do I do uh Poison Ivy on Harley Quinn for DC. It's like a
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>> That's right. >> Yeah. And they That is all kind of improvis. Oh, look at him. He read um
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the res. Oh, notes. Um >> Oh, yeah. We got >> if necessary. I didn't think we'd need
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him much with you and it's working out beautifully. So tell me about you're
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that character on heart of >> Well, I just was going to say like in there they really like the
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improvisational >> vibes. >> Oh, okay. >> And of course you're alone. So you're
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>> sometimes I have the director read with me just so that I can I don't know. You
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know, it's like you don't know how to improvise with nothing even though I've
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gotten really good at it where you just are like I don't know. Can you give me
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an idea of where we are? And they're like, "Okay, so you're in Gotham and
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it's kind of like >> funny." >> Kind of like a brothel, but like they're
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all made of plants and like you're being [ __ ] by a thorn, you know, and you're
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like, "Okay." You know, and you're just like, "What? Okay, I'll I'll I'll add
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some spice to that." >> Give us a couple different versions of that. >> Yeah, that's great.
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>> It's fun. >> Look at your sleeves, though. What's going on?
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>> Yeah. So, we've got >> that's a bit of a >> like don't worry about it.
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>> It's like >> Plymouth Rock. I mean, sort of a >> It's called fashion and I'm not
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>> It's kind of a pilgrim village that's trying to make friends with Native
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American look. >> I don't know. It works. >> Finesse. >> What color is it if you had to guess?
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>> What color? >> Yeah, >> I think it's dark green. >> It's actually dark. It's navy with
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black, which is my favorite combo. >> God, more proof I'm color blind.
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Everyone navy with black is your favorite color. >> Yeah, I love the tension.
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>> Don't hate my jean jacket. >> I I like what you got going on here. I
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love >> It's hard doing this, right? We're all looking at ourselves. We're looking at
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ourselves. >> I don't like it. I'm gonna just How do I go off my >> It's impo possible not to
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>> on Zoom I know how to just go and then I get rid of my face and then the problem
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is we're all actors. We're all looking at oursel like what do I look at my
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face? Do I >> I'm only looking at me the whole time. >> I know. I see you. I see you looking at
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you. >> I don't even know like on Spade has never looked at me or you. I don't even
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know what Dana looks like in real life. >> He's not sure who our guest is today.
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>> You've got a hair light. You've got a backlight. That's >> This is a new thing like that you should
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incorporate into your movies you direct because >> Okay. >> This was a happy accident. I like it. It
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was a light behind me because it was so black behind me and then it kind of >> glows up the hair. So I said, "Hey,
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>> they do that a lot with the ladies. They do Yeah. Hair light they call it.
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>> So that you do that. So it's just like a little crest of like >> It's not bad.
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>> Yeah, it's pretty. It's It's quite elegant. >> Is mine poured on a little hard back
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there? But I don't know. Maybe it could go down. >> It's a It's a It's a It's a little
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celestial. It's a little uh angelic, but I I like it. It feels like they could
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kind of fly away. I mean, there's a sense that >> they're Yeah, some of these these are
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>> very French. I think it's very French. >> It's a one-way street. Once they jump
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out, they're not coming back. >> Yeah. Can you go >> I've got a bit of a mully going on?
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>> Do you like Do you have a team? If you go to an award show or something, do you
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have a team? >> Talk about it. >> Oh, >> you have a good team.
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>> Oh, honeys. Girls, girls. I >> Oh, please. >> Girls, you have no idea what kind of
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team I have. Um, one of the greatest teams. Um, no, I do. >> That's good hair though. You have to
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>> I did I did my hair today. I'll be honest for you. For you, gentlemen.
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>> It's great. >> Thank you. Um, but no, I do. I do a team. But I have to be honest with you.
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Going to when someone goes, "Hey, can do like for instance, Golden Globes are
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coming up and >> Yeah. >> Oh, you know, are you gonna go to the thing on Friday or whatever?" you know,
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and I the amount of of just pomp and circumstance that I need to go go through just to get to the
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freaking party. >> I'm like, I don't even know if I can afford to go to that party cuz hair and
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makeup, styling, >> car, you know, cuz can't just you gentlemen can throw on a key.
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>> Sometimes you're like, who do I bring? Is it all by myself? >> I go alone a lot. I actually go alone. I
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kind of been enjoying rolling up >> because you run around so much. Usually
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just go to someone for bass. You're like both talking to people. You come back,
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say hi. Hey, what's going on? Blah blah. Then you go because you both know different people. Yeah. But if you
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don't, it feels weird sometimes to be constantly in motion. >> Yeah. >> Hey. Hey. Hey, Lake Bill. Nice to see
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you. What's up? You have 10 seconds to make a connection. >> Hey, Lake Bill. How you doing, man?
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>> Everyone calls her Lake Bell. Hey. Hey. Hey. It's M. Bell. How are you?
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>> I have three seconds. What's up? Let's have a profound moment. >> I mean, I've seen, you know, I recently
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went to a thing at like the Chateau or something and I saw a fellow person who was going through an an I have an early
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problem. So, I get places a way too early. >> Good. >> And like I was early for this podcast
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and >> Yeah. And I have um an exboyfriend who actually told me that, you know, um who
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was like, "You're too hot to to show up this early. Like, you have to be very
00:23:31
late. You have to like get it's not okay." And I thought that was very sweet. But um
00:23:36
>> that is true. But I do like people that just get things going because it's so
00:23:40
hard to be cool and wait. It's so hard. >> I don't guys I'm just It's like I I
00:23:46
don't know what it is. I don't know if it's like cuz I don't have ADHD cuz my
00:23:50
daughter does and my son does, but I just can't. I get there way too early because I'm nervous I'm going to be
00:23:55
late. So, it's probably peopleleasy, I guess. I don't know. >> Um, it could be tactical. Like, I like
00:24:00
to get there early >> so that I can leave early and go, "Hey, I was You know what?
00:24:07
>> Yes. >> Well, you can kind of see people come in and it's not as overwhelming as walking
00:24:11
to a packed >> [ __ ] place. sits bumper to bumper and you're like, I can't even get to the
00:24:16
point where I can't get. >> But I will say I like this this Golden Globes thing because first of all, if
00:24:22
you go to a party for let's say it's the Golden Globes. Now, >> a party is almost as bad as an effort as
00:24:29
a look for going to the Golden Globes. It's pretty much around the same budget,
00:24:34
around the same everything. Now, if you go to a party, you have to think, am I going to go to a party Friday, a party
00:24:39
Saturday, and Sunday after the show? >> So, three looks for if for a female,
00:24:46
right? >> Whoa. >> Do you do your hair three times? >> Yes. >> Is there anything you save on the
00:24:53
>> There's no saving. Okay. The only thing I would say is that I style myself right
00:24:57
now. So, that has been kind of because it's like an art form, right? Like, yeah,
00:25:03
>> I like I'm a visual person. I enjoy this [ __ ] So, like, I'll give it a go.
00:25:08
>> And so, I buy the only >> the only the only thing I I splurge on is like I you know, I get [ __ ] that's um
00:25:17
secondhand. So, I like buying consignment. >> Oh, cool. Yeah. >> And vintage. I just It's like fun. It's
00:25:24
like finding Yeah. in a you know it's like I watch those guys with the metal
00:25:28
detectors who like look in dirt and find things like I I can watch this >> find your dress.
00:25:33
>> Yeah. So that's similar. It's scratching a similar >> inside baseball but I've not been I
00:25:40
don't go to a lot of war shows but the last time I was at the Oscars Whoops. Um
00:25:46
you walk out in the red carpet just for people listening and then you stand there and then there's a wall of people
00:25:52
screaming. I mean, they're waiting for Timothy Shalame or, you know, Jodie Foster or something and there's this
00:25:58
wall of people screaming at you. Do you pivot and kind of smile and they're going like like screaming like just a
00:26:06
hoorde >> and you pivot? Do you have a face that you put on? Can we see it?
00:26:11
>> I do. I do this. >> Okay, good. Okay, here it is. >> Off. Earphones off.
00:26:15
>> Lake Bell. Here, here. Here. >> I like this pleated pants outfit. Oh,
00:26:21
>> here. Over here. Over here. >> This part. You're not supposed to see
00:26:24
this part. >> Are those purple? I'm not even going to guess. >> No. No. The They're They're another
00:26:28
shade of of blue. >> You know what's cool about you is that you don't you don't you you don't you're
00:26:35
not sweaty. You don't seem to try. You don't seem to care about being a star.
00:26:39
>> I mean, you you're one of those celebrities that just sort of there's a
00:26:43
coolness factor to that. You're not needy, are you? I mean, >> I'm not thirsty.
00:26:47
>> I just want to make I think I'm like a working actor. Like I feel it like you
00:26:52
know what I mean? Like I don't I go on the subway like I go to the grocery store. So I don't feel
00:26:55
>> that's what how how I see you and also you ride and direct and do all the other
00:26:58
things but a lot of people live or die by this how their heat as a celebrity. It's like a really huge deal. You don't
00:27:06
seem to >> doesn't bother you. >> It doesn't. And also I have two little
00:27:11
kids right? So >> yeah, >> a mom and I to boot I have kids that have had
00:27:19
>> some heavy [ __ ] happen. >> We we know about your book and I thought
00:27:23
it was I read some of the the quotes and they they teared me up. I mean it's like
00:27:28
the way you couched seizures was so beautiful. I mean you're a great writer.
00:27:35
>> Thank you. I I think that the context of that has always, >> you know,
00:27:41
>> yeah, >> I've had kids now for 10 years, so it's like all of it, even when I'm directing
00:27:45
and they're like, "We lost a location. Oh my god, we're freaking out. You know,
00:27:50
it's going to, you know, everyone's the actor is going to be so upset. We can't
00:27:56
Oh my god, I don't know what to say." And I'm just like, >> "This is a cool job.
00:28:02
Like I've seen I've held my my ch both of my children in different states of
00:28:08
>> are they dying or not, you know? >> And so I think contextually I'm like
00:28:13
we're going to find another location. >> Yeah, we're going to be fine.
00:28:16
>> It's a movie. You know, >> it does put it in perspective when you
00:28:20
go there are a lot worse problems right now. I wish everyone wouldn't freak out
00:28:23
so hard because we're wasting freak out. >> Also, for all the time that we just
00:28:27
freaked out about that, we could have been like, you know, like let's see what's across the street. Let's see. Can
00:28:32
we talk to Let's talk. >> And it's funny. They always figure it out.
00:28:35
>> They all You always figure it out. So I'm like, >> you see the movie, you don't see a
00:28:38
[ __ ] blip. >> No. And frankly, just if we're talking inside baseball about directing for a
00:28:44
second, it's like often times there are moments where, okay, you did lose that
00:28:48
location and then >> whatever for or like we have to reshoot this scene because of blah blah blah,
00:28:54
and you're going, "Oh my god, I I can't think of a worse piece of information
00:28:58
for my editor right now." But whatever it is, it always ends up kind of exactly
00:29:02
as it should be. It's it's always great, you know, especially when you have to
00:29:06
revisit something >> or you get a new location and then >> you just make it work and then no one's
00:29:12
the wiser that sees the movie and they go, I don't really care about that stuff. Is is the movie working?
00:29:17
>> But also in life, like now with parenting and [ __ ] like that, you're
00:29:20
just like, well, you know, a lot of the times we come up against moments where it's not as you planned. it's not how
00:29:29
you thought it was going to be. This person kind of did this and you you thought they were going to do that. All
00:29:33
of those expectations >> are what get in the way of it. If you could just kind of
00:29:38
>> sort of >> adapt and adjust. I mean, that's the that's what I'm always trying to, you
00:29:43
know, sort of teach to my children too. The adapt is such a >> roll with stuff. Okay, now we'll deal
00:29:49
with this and then this and really think of life as a kind of a series of problems in a sense. You know,
00:29:55
>> it's hard to watch kids get so much anxiety also because you go, "God, this
00:29:59
is the your worst thing and it's really nothing in the big picture." But to this
00:30:03
point in your life, like high school especially, is very hard. >> Yes. >> And you go, "Fuck, I wish I could talk
00:30:07
you down and just to say >> you won't really remember almost any of this problems. Young
00:30:14
people are nostalgic for the analog world. I I hear this a lot." And they'll
00:30:19
watch Grey's Anatomy like crazy because they don't have iPhones. They don't have
00:30:24
Instagram. They don't have So, the toxicity of that and now you raising your young people through this is a
00:30:30
whole other set of challenges. >> I have a It's funny. I went and got um
00:30:34
just talking about nostalgia. So, I don't know if you guys go to Vidiots, which is a really cool art house theater
00:30:39
in Los Angeles >> and um also a nonprofit that does >> um that kind of preserves DVDs and VHS
00:30:48
tapes. Mhm. >> Um, I go and take my kids to go rent DVDs and >> Oh, cool.
00:30:56
>> of I then bought myself, you know, for the house a little combo, a TV and DVD.
00:31:03
>> DVD player. Oh, wow. Okay. >> Right. You plug it right in. You see
00:31:06
this is the device it's on. It goes right. >> I thought those are already gone. It's
00:31:10
crazy. >> Yeah. And the idea of not scrolling. What are we going to watch? I don't
00:31:15
know. I've already seen that. >> Like this is it. This is what we're
00:31:18
watching. >> We just rented it. We're putting it in. And then >> choice
00:31:22
>> called Deborah. Um, and so I'm like, you have to be very delicate with Deborah.
00:31:27
>> And so you press the button on. You wait. >> Okay. Now wait. Now press eject and
00:31:35
wait. You know, >> there's a lot of waiting. Put it in. >> Press it. You know, it's like everything
00:31:42
is so consist. >> Don't push it. It kind of pulls it from your hand. And if you go really lightly,
00:31:47
it kind of sucks it in. >> I think it's >> it's great. We at one point only had a
00:31:51
Blu-ray player when we moved up to this house and uh and we just quickly bought 10 Blu-rays and so I guess we're going
00:31:58
to watch The Godfather and and then you're you're committed to the movie and
00:32:02
it really is when you're on live streaming and watching all these shows, you're like,
00:32:06
>> I don't know. You feeling this? Okay. And then boom, you're gone.
00:32:10
>> You're out. Yeah. It's What is that? It is actually feeding our short attention
00:32:15
span and it's just like >> yes >> I feel like it's like it's it's actually
00:32:20
flexing and and it's flexing a muscle that we shouldn't >> which is to just bail you know. Yeah.
00:32:28
Talk about adaptation and being adaptive. It's like >> let's talk about the chair company. A
00:32:32
perfect uh >> introduction to that which my wife and I watched the first two episodes last
00:32:39
night. >> Oh, you did? She and she did not have to watch the second episode unless she
00:32:44
wanted to. >> And so we both fell in love with it. It's so the reason we loved it and it
00:32:50
didn't make us wander is because it it's full of so many surprises. It's Tim
00:32:54
Robinson in full quirk >> and you and others and so it keeps going places you don't expect.
00:33:01
>> So I think it's great and it's been picked up for season two I heard.
00:33:05
>> So you're in a hit. Um, I will say that, um, I'm not really in the first
00:33:12
episodes. I'm kind of like, you know, it all unfurs. So, >> that's what I shut up, Barb.
00:33:19
>> Exactly. >> Yeah. He yells up the stairs like, "Oh my god." Yeah.
00:33:23
>> Shut up, Barb. You know, >> he's so bananas. Everyone acts like it's
00:33:27
normal. Okay, cool. >> Yeah. That's the thing is I think being a straight man, you know, straight woman
00:33:34
to his really just chaotic, wonderful, misanthropic, koginly tornado of a character.
00:33:43
>> So stressed at all. >> So stressed and like shooting with him. He's not like
00:33:49
that at all. I don't know if you know him personally. >> I don't know him at all.
00:33:53
>> Assume he's I assume he's not. >> No, but you never know. He was on SNL
00:33:58
for a while and wrote >> it's funny classically did not use him right or something because look at all
00:34:03
the [ __ ] he's done. It's so >> but the people's reaction to his
00:34:07
character and you being one of them is you know the laugh is often on someone processing madness that we don't get a
00:34:13
chance to as just viewers from home you know like so you've you know I can see
00:34:17
how it's I don't know where it's going but you know I'm going to
00:34:21
>> I'm so excited you know for you to to unfurl the other ones that the fact that
00:34:28
you're on number two. Have you seen any of >> I finished number two. >> You finished number two. Okay. It gets
00:34:34
it's goes not where you think ever. And I think what I love about the show and
00:34:39
being a part of it is that it is unique in its tone. >> Yes. And it surprises you. There's a
00:34:44
piece in there which doesn't give away the plot or anything where he's driving
00:34:48
with somebody and he does a satire basically about live streaming or just non-performative
00:34:57
people who make millions of dollars or something. It's sort of X-rated rapping,
00:35:01
but it wasn't rapping. and they're just talking. You know the moment I'm talking
00:35:04
about like that was really surprising. It was just a great moment to put that in there and it was just really laugh
00:35:11
out loud funny >> the way the guy >> Yeah. It's also like the the the camera
00:35:17
work is so excellent. Um Ashley >> um the DP like has such a well also I give credit to Andy D. young as well,
00:35:25
just the director who did Friendship. Um, if people have seen that um >> and it has such a um sometimes almost
00:35:34
like Lynchian like you'll see it's like it gets >> David Lynch is brought up Mohalland
00:35:39
Drive for some of the Reddit people talking about it. >> Yeah. Quirky quirky.
00:35:43
>> Yeah. And when you I don't know if it's up for best comedy, but when you see a
00:35:46
comedy that you actually laugh at, which is honestly rare. >> Yeah. Well, we're all snobs, but when
00:35:53
you laugh because it's not predictable and you're and there's something out of
00:35:57
the blue, you throw away lines right and left where you're like, >> "Oh my god,
00:36:01
>> these kids were getting drunk with their teacher at the and you're like, what
00:36:04
their teacher?" Like they just throw away stuff that's just so weird and and
00:36:07
no one mentions it. You go, >> right? And it's tiny little throwaways that you're like on my birthday, you
00:36:14
know, like like that was a per that's a perfect example of like >> what makes there's no reason what a
00:36:22
random laugh and then everyone just keeps going and you go >> because I I've worked with um uh HBO
00:36:29
before and I've obviously done a ton of comedies and that usually I feel like
00:36:32
the the the flavor and the general kind of movement of the >> uh music is like clean, keep it clean
00:36:44
and then bring it on back and then oh you flood that line go again you know it's like faster you know cleaner
00:36:50
tighter >> and with this >> I really felt like I was in a different sheet of music like I I I I was not
00:37:01
Yeah, it was a different it was like jazz riffing because there were moments where you know he might flub and I was
00:37:09
like, "Oh, I see they they're gonna use that take." >> Yeah, they'll keep it because it's real.
00:37:14
>> Yeah. Because it felt And so the kind of awkward the tension of that >> and long pauses and weird things where
00:37:22
normally they go, "Can you just tighten that up? We'll just got to keep it
00:37:24
moving." And you're like, "No, >> looks like that. It's just
00:37:29
>> you could strangle that comedy in a second with a different director. You
00:37:33
completely beat the [ __ ] out of it." And so I I'm I'm envious because I I don't
00:37:38
think I've ever been in that situation, but I know what you mean. And I think
00:37:41
that the the genius of Marlon Brando, what a weird reference, is he tried he tried to get it ad hoc. He tried
00:37:48
discover in the moment. He didn't want to be locked in. He wanted to he'd have
00:37:52
it on a orange or he peel it and get his line, whatever to deconstruct the idea of it. And then obviously when you're
00:37:58
doing takes and you're discovering it real time like you like are going >> this is real for me right now. This is
00:38:05
not like I rehearsed it. >> It does pop and I can feel that. That's what I'm feeling when I'm watching the
00:38:11
show I guess. >> Yeah. We don't rehearse at all. So only if there was a stunt or something you
00:38:15
know with but but even I mean we'll rehearse the stunt but we'll never rehearse the lines like before you know
00:38:22
>> Clint Eastwood >> or Woody Allen really you know. >> Yeah. You just you'll be in the moment
00:38:26
and you'll say it for the first time then and >> and it makes people good because even on
00:38:31
those Clint Eastwood movies they say when I come to the set you know I've had
00:38:34
guys that do 15 20 takes so you're basically almost carrying your many sides to the real shooting going well I
00:38:41
know we're not using the first eight >> I know >> and which is such a bummer because in
00:38:44
comedy you're like sometimes things just happen and now I've got to recreate them
00:38:48
because of continuity and I'm like >> if you can just get rehearsal even it's
00:38:52
half the time it's the funniest cuz that's the first time it's real back and
00:38:55
forth. >> Yeah. >> Shoot the rehearsal. I was in a movie once. Yeah. Always shoot the rehearsal,
00:39:00
right? So, >> don't even tell them. It's just on >> for you as a director and then you're
00:39:04
seeing this style or maybe you've seen it before. Does it influence you? Do you
00:39:09
try to emulate it or do you do it yourself? Anyway, >> I'm really interested. I mean, I learned
00:39:12
how to direct by being in the [ __ ] trenches of a >> trillion different sets and
00:39:19
>> yeah, >> how people are are operating, but not just within, you know, the within the
00:39:26
director's brain, but, you know, how they're relating to the rest of the
00:39:28
departments, you know, and how actors are feeling, you know, with different things. Oh, that performance I like I
00:39:34
can tell the way that act the way that director just spoke to this actor really got that great performance or actually
00:39:41
botched it like >> Yeah. >> And so we and also obviously as as actors we're kind of like I know what I
00:39:47
like and what I don't like, you know. >> Um >> well if you're tuning into that which is
00:39:52
different because most people are just worried about their lines and the actors are just doing it. If you're adding, I'm
00:39:58
tuning into the director, not only talking to me, but how he's dealing with the DP, how he's dealing with the other
00:40:03
departments, that's when you start to learn about directing because >> all that stuff is like you're on
00:40:07
blinders if you're an actor. And then you go, wait, what do you even do back
00:40:10
here? And there's so much so many things happen. Someone comes up with two pieces
00:40:14
of carpet, this one or this one, he's like that one. You're like, okay. And
00:40:16
you go, oh, this is for a scene in three weeks they're working on. And >> there's story boards. There's so many
00:40:22
things to go over. >> Yeah. >> A lot of work. I think that also, you
00:40:26
know, if you have access at all, um, for instance, when they say, "Okay, you can
00:40:29
go to your trailer and we'll call you when you're ready." You know, it's like
00:40:32
you have the access to be like, "Oh, I'll um go ahead and just get a chair
00:40:35
and I'll sit here and just get a tea and watch." >> I want to watch them flip it over to the
00:40:39
other side and see how they do it, how fast they do it, who does what. >> It is quite a rush though, right? Like
00:40:45
when you have an idea about a scene and then you get the first rough cut of it or I felt good but you don't know and
00:40:51
you go, "Fuck, it's working." And This is great. You're bringing people into
00:40:56
the edit bay. What do you think? They're laughing or saying this is great. And so
00:41:00
that's the rush of the [ __ ] the hard work of director. So hard. But you work
00:41:06
for that. That's the moment, right? >> Well, yeah. It's been interesting like
00:41:09
having the kids on sets and stuff where they're looking at it and they're going,
00:41:12
"Oh my god." You know, I have to explain this is a scene that will be probably
00:41:18
five seconds. Mhm. >> All of these hundreds of people are here. >> We're all work. There's all of this
00:41:26
work. All these trucks for these five, >> you know, >> right? >> That's the funny thing about you got an
00:41:32
eighth of a page one day when you go in, you go, it's still the same hair and
00:41:35
makeup. It's still the same everything. >> Everyone's coming to work.
00:41:39
>> Everyone's coming. >> It's just to get a look, a reaction
00:41:41
shot. An eighth of a page can also be like, you know, you know, she comes in, she takes her, you know, she she she
00:41:50
take she makes a tea, she sits down and she calls her mother. Okay, fine. You know, and there's like three lines or
00:41:56
something like that and you're like, "Okay, I'm going to be in and out for
00:41:58
this one." But, you know, it's not true. >> Hilariously true. Even I I remember
00:42:02
those superhero movies, they said, "We do about a fourth of a page a day."
00:42:06
They're like the line is like, "The Batmobile tears through Gotham." and
00:42:09
you're like, "Well, that's going to take a while. >> That's a week. That's a week."
00:42:13
>> Yeah. They go the whole city. >> Yeah. So, that's why little things like
00:42:17
that. You're right. There's some where they'll go in a twoot and you're out of
00:42:21
there and you don't even notice it. You're like, "Oh my god, we're just
00:42:23
going to stay on a two shot." That's great. And then some you're like, I had
00:42:27
no idea this would take four hours. >> I know. I know. And I try to I mean, I
00:42:31
get people out. I move really quickly because I do think that in general I do favor uh people, you know, two shots and
00:42:40
shots and things like that and like playing it in the wide and you know, >> get two cameras running and see what
00:42:45
>> movie masters. Yeah, >> they work. I mean, it's cool because it
00:42:50
makes you pay attention if you're the audience. You're like, >> "Oh, yeah." And the actors love it. The
00:42:53
actors love it. We love it when we can come in and just be with each other and exist in the space. Oh, it's I if you
00:43:00
ever have need someone in a movie that I could do anybody. I'll do a Italian
00:43:05
waiter or something. But uh that you know when you watch old timey films there's a lot of moving masters. There's
00:43:11
a lot of two shots moving in and out. Of course Woody Allen really adapted that.
00:43:15
But old timey films to edit was like >> spooling 100,000 feet of footage to do
00:43:21
one little edit. So they really made sure that now it's in the the last 20 years.
00:43:27
I know. You know, >> I do like cross coverage for comedians, though. Like, we love that. We like to
00:43:31
be able to play and >> if there's a happy accident that happens and someone says something [ __ ]
00:43:37
hilarious, we got it. And we have a response to it, you know? It's like >> a real reaction. Yeah.
00:43:43
>> Yeah. Yeah, >> I had someone do uh on a movie kind of sabotage because I did my side and then
00:43:51
when they did their side they changed their lines and did all these things in ad lib and I was like oh so I have no
00:43:56
reaction any of this. That's like a little dastardly move. It it's really a
00:44:01
bummer to be on I mean like I've been you know I did a sketch show recently and the the budget was low and so it was
00:44:07
like they couldn't do two cameras running you know and it was like we're
00:44:10
just doing a quick set and I was like ah [ __ ] a because it's it's you're
00:44:14
really screwed kind of because >> [ __ ] a >> yeah [ __ ] a. I say to people, get get a crew of
00:44:23
three. Get like three actors together, do it on iPhones with maybe one sound person and just give yourself 12 days to
00:44:31
shoot, you know? I mean, yeah, >> sometimes these things are so magnificently done and then but there's
00:44:37
no they're there and you're flipping off immediately. >> Yeah. the you know
00:44:42
>> I think that's why also you know with chair company it's like you're
00:44:46
>> there is kind of an economy to how I mean yes we had like a full rig and
00:44:51
everything >> but there is an economy to the visual storytelling too you know it's like
00:44:56
she's using zooms you know it's like you're out here you're you're coming in
00:45:01
I mean that's just one shot but it's doing a lot you know >> I thought that show would be a little
00:45:08
more lowbudget only because it's just a funny guy to and he was also on what it was called I
00:45:14
think you should leave >> and so you just go I don't know what budget they're giving a guy who's just
00:45:18
funny because I don't know I mean sometimes they would spend on a big drama right
00:45:22
>> and so when you see these they're like >> they'll come up with something but it
00:45:28
looks great and I I kept thinking wow there's a lot happening here they're not
00:45:31
just >> it's not a cheap >> beautiful it's the first show too I was
00:45:36
going to say earlier that um it's the first show where I'm I noticed that in
00:45:41
the scripts, like when we're reading the scripts, I'm like, "Oh, this scene, this
00:45:45
whole scene, this like page and a half is purely for a joke." >> No. Or money for one joke.
00:45:53
>> Yeah. In a in a series, it's usually like, "Yeah, but why is this paying off
00:45:58
for the plot and like for this character to kind of like have an emotional arc and response in order to say something
00:46:05
about the No, >> it would be like, >> oh, we're just like there was this one,
00:46:09
I don't know if you've seen the the flashback Christmas, and this is not
00:46:12
giving away anything too much. >> Um, if you haven't seen it, a lot of
00:46:16
hand work here I'm doing. Um, and the there's a flashback to us at a Christmas
00:46:23
party. It's my my Christmas party. I used to be a lawyer. And they cast there's just a moment where like Ron's
00:46:30
talking a guy at the party, you know, and he's going, you know, get me out of
00:46:36
here. and they cast um an impersonator for Curly like from the sto >> and I don't think he's ever done
00:46:47
anything else except >> like >> yeah and you'll know you'll see it now
00:46:54
when you watch it. Okay. So, >> it's funny. >> And I remember coming to set and being
00:46:57
like, "Is he doing a" And they're like, "Yeah, he's a curly impersonator."
00:47:05
>> Okay. >> Like some PA. Yeah, he's >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He just he does
00:47:09
Cly >> just casual >> casual. And um and then they would do on set they would have him do this. He was
00:47:16
amazing. and him and Ron, him and and um Tim are talking and it's basically him
00:47:23
doing this kind of speech of [ __ ] Uh and he's chatting his ear off as Curly and they would turn up the curly
00:47:32
and then turn he had this actor turn down the curly and when they turned down the curly it it was almost like he
00:47:39
couldn't even he like couldn't find his line. You know what I mean? He was
00:47:44
always at this poor guy because he's like I do curly. All right. That's like
00:47:50
>> Yeah. Don't just curly. I don't I don't do shades of curly. Okay. I do
00:47:54
Shakespeare. I don't do depressed curly. I don't do bored curly. I do curly.
00:48:00
>> He was terrific. And you'll see in it. You really notice it's only for this.
00:48:04
It's tiniest lip. But boy is it good. But those textured things, even on SNL,
00:48:09
they'll have they'll bring a donkey in and it costs them five grand. And then
00:48:13
they'll go, "Just for a cutaway." And you go, "Ah, do we need the donkey for
00:48:17
sure?" But Lauren doesn't even question it. He goes, "No, I like it."
00:48:20
>> And then they're like, "Go find one." >> And everyone's like, "Oh, fuck." Because
00:48:24
it's so easy to cut it. They go, "That would save us so much." >> $5,000. We should be in the donkey
00:48:29
business. You'll be watching a rerun 20 years from now and you'll see the donkey
00:48:34
and you'll like be really really happy that >> you know like when they show like the
00:48:39
cold opening and then Lauren comes out and he's like talking backstage during
00:48:42
the monologue and behind him there's like Roman emperors and three donkeys and I never knew that they weren't in
00:48:47
the show. It was just like this is going to be the show and you're like oh that's
00:48:51
going to be a funny sketch. But he goes, "Uh, I need like an Egyptian backstage."
00:48:55
And then just all these weird things, people dressed in feathers. >> And then it's never a sketch.
00:49:01
>> Yeah. >> It's texture. >> Yeah. It's texture and it's so funny
00:49:06
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00:49:08
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00:52:38
come out and kind of shake hands or hug him or whatever, you know. >> Let's get this one fist bump.
00:52:43
>> And normally you kind of would go behind the slats and then but I was dressed as
00:52:47
Joe Biden. So I had the gray wig, I had the whole thing on. I'd go out and I'd
00:52:51
shake hands with Lauren and then to make myself laugh, I would do a side thing as
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fast as I could with tons of energy like jumping and skipping over to behind the
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thing just to make myself laugh that they're seeing Biden going like >> act nuts before he comes out like this.
00:53:11
Come on. So people sad. But um anyway, uh do that is >> No. Oh, that's the po that's the poem.
00:53:21
And guess what? By the way, the fact of the matter is I'm being serious right
00:53:26
now. I'm not getting around. Get your facts straight, Jack. That's it. >> My cheeks are I'm really happy that you
00:53:36
>> like, tell us that you're cars or not. >> We're easy wind up talls.
00:53:39
>> I know. We're winding up Lake because she's a good laugher. >> Well, that was really special. I feel
00:53:44
like I just got like a little >> You just got a private show. Oh, good. It's a fun song.
00:53:49
>> I know. That was a beautiful song. You're a great Biden singer. And you
00:53:52
know, I was at the 50th and that was special show, too. And I I had never, you know, I hadn't been to the show in a
00:54:00
while. And it was like, >> you know, I hadn't sat in the audience, you know, and really tragic to to have a
00:54:06
little >> It's wild. >> Yeah. And guess who stole the show? What?
00:54:13
>> Guess who stole the 50th? Well, >> with David's line for the writers, it
00:54:19
was their favorite line of the night when he was in the bleachers going, >> "Oh, I got a feel for it.
00:54:24
>> I got a feel for it." >> Oh, because I left the sketch during the
00:54:27
middle >> during the big John Melany musical >> and then I sat in the audience and they
00:54:33
go, "Where's SP?" That's funny that they broke the fourth wall in the middle of a
00:54:36
sketch. >> Yeah. And the way you did it, like you truly were exhausted and kind of done
00:54:41
with it and they're up there dancing for their donuts and you're just like, I got
00:54:46
it. >> Dana, I saw that that 50th was >> won something the other night.
00:54:52
>> It was Critics's Choice. I think it was nominated. I think it won. >> It was best 50th anniversary show.
00:55:00
>> That's a new category. >> We were the only one up for it. >> Yeah.
00:55:03
>> Are you Do you root for any movie at the Golden Globes? Do you have any kind of I
00:55:07
think that person should win or I think that movie are you a one battle after another. Are you a Marty Supreme? Yeah.
00:55:14
What are >> you? >> No, I I I you know I don't get I award season gets it gets me like hives. I
00:55:20
don't know. I I just >> Here's Lake at the party. Did you think that was good at the lead actor one? And
00:55:26
you go I I didn't see any. I don't know who won. >> Well, you know, sometimes you get
00:55:30
anxiety. They they say to you, you know, who are you rooting for? What if you >> Oh, good. I gave you the precursor. I
00:55:36
love them all. >> Well, it's gotten pathetic. I grew up with the Oscars and now there's like 25
00:55:42
award shows. >> Award shows >> and I feel like some of them I won't
00:55:46
name them, but that they've got their acceptance speech and sometimes they can
00:55:49
peak at a at the SEG after awards or something. Then by the time they get to the Oscars,
00:55:56
>> they're exhausted with their acceptance speech. You got to hold some
00:55:59
>> I saw that Sandler didn't win something the other night and I'm like, I want to
00:56:02
hear Sandler's speech. They should just call my Who's got a good speech?
00:56:08
>> What are you going to do? >> Cuz you know he he had a good one at the
00:56:11
Palm Springs. We just do Adam from 25. >> That's all he says and everyone goes
00:56:23
get out of here. >> People would love it. >> But you know anyway, it's a promotion
00:56:28
for the business. That's all it is. And >> yeah, >> and for fashion, I guess. I don't know.
00:56:33
Um I have to say for like if she the fact that she's grinding it out and and
00:56:39
killing it uh the duration it's just hard to stay >> in showbiz for this long and you're
00:56:46
doing a great job. >> Well, but you're doing she's very hard to do. She's doing it all of show
00:56:51
businesses though. You're doing every quadrant. You're not an actress waiting
00:56:54
for the phone. Did it ring? >> That's Yeah, I that is I it would drive
00:56:58
me crazy. I think when I feel um sedentary, like when I feel >> too um quiet,
00:57:06
>> I like to I think I do like control. I do like to creatively, you know, kind of drum up and so I'm
00:57:14
always writing. I got like >> Yeah. I mean, you I I think this audio book was very cool. I just looked it up
00:57:19
and listening to it. >> Inside voices. It was very interesting just about she was interviewing people
00:57:24
and talking about do you like your voice and how important the voice is and what
00:57:29
Yeah. >> Well, because I think in extension of my work with in a world, I've just always
00:57:34
been really >> um interested and curious about our speaking voice as this kind of calling
00:57:41
card >> for all the histories we've ever endured, you know, and >> yeah,
00:57:45
>> kind of, you know, we carry a lot. I mean whether you uh realize it or not
00:57:50
obviously accents and dialects and a little like how your vowels come out you know might cue that you grew up in
00:57:56
Philadelphia or you know things like that but then how we kind of puff out or peacock a little bit when we're you know
00:58:04
in different scenarios like I'm articulating a little more than I normally do you know right now I think
00:58:09
I'm also a little bit lower in my register in this moment talking about this because I'm speaking more
00:58:15
>> serious yeah Yeah, voices are fingerprints. >> Voice I mean you know someone from their
00:58:21
voice your whole life and even if they age or get the voice always sort of recognizable.
00:58:27
>> Yeah. And and also it can be really like it can make me crawl too, you know. I
00:58:33
have certain one, >> you know, if if someone comes in >> um for a job interview, you know, or
00:58:40
something like that. I mean to be a babysitter or whatever, you know, or or an assistant. And if their voice, I'm
00:58:47
very sensitive to it. So, it's like >> we're we're out on that job. Dana,
00:58:53
>> David has a cool voice. You know, I don't have a voice. I don't have a face
00:58:56
or a voice. I'm just neutral. I could go You could make me a character or make my
00:59:01
voice go. Lately, I've been doing Carrie Grant, leaving messages for a friend
00:59:06
just every day. Every day that you get the call. I hope you're having a good
00:59:09
day. Did you see one battle after another that the Caprio kids very good? See, but you're chameleon. So that is in
00:59:18
itself your vocal dexterity is like I'm in awe of that. You know, >> in two seconds it changes completely.
00:59:26
>> I It's fun. I don't really practice it or anything, but I'm working on Billy
00:59:30
Bob Thordon in in his land man character, you know. >> Okay. I don't I didn't see that so I
00:59:35
can't >> Yeah, it's another one that's I couldn't describe it, but it's it goes surprising
00:59:40
places. I have to say >> it's it's totally different than than your your show, but it it goes
00:59:48
surprising places and he's just great >> in inside voice. You know, I talked to
00:59:53
like the likes of iconic voices like um like Jeff Goldblum and like where did that start, you know, and like
01:00:01
Barrymore, you know, people who have been very >> imitated, you know, very impersonated
01:00:07
for sure voices. Yeah. >> Yes. I do Billy Bob in his T-Mobile commercial. Land Man.
01:00:14
>> I'm kidding. >> Okay. >> He does a T-Mobile commercial where he's
01:00:18
like from Land Man, right Dana? Have you seen it? >> Basically. Yeah. >> He's walking out in the desert. Come on
01:00:23
now. Whatever he's talking about. >> Yeah. You know, T-Mobile's got more. You
01:00:28
know what the [ __ ] going on here? Godamn it. No, he's they have the f-word, too. I mean, that's the same
01:00:35
your your show. It just those fly whenever they fly. or they fly >> and they do whatever you you know. Do
01:00:41
>> you find Dana that like to get into an accent or diale Sorry, now we're getting
01:00:46
into like my obsession, but like do you find that you you have a bridge uh phrase um because I find with accents
01:00:53
dialects I have like a a bridge or a phrase to get >> Oh yeah, >> a thousand%.
01:00:58
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Thousand%. >> You don't just jump in. You you got
01:01:01
>> a hook. Yeah. Yeah. You need a you need a little hook. And for Biden it was
01:01:05
that. Guess what? Yeah. And by the way, the fact of the matter is, come on. And so that got me into it and then I could
01:01:12
kind of talk like him. But that was a challenge. But anyway, it's always things are coming at me. I mean, know
01:01:17
Trump's been done forever. You know, I don't know if you guys are aware of
01:01:19
that. How many people doing an impression? So >> there's there's I think Pierce Morgan
01:01:25
has a very interesting voice. >> Uhhuh. >> And I think that Senator Kennedy has a
01:01:30
you know, obviously Bobby Kennedy Jr. I do, but yeah, there's a lot of people
01:01:34
out there. And there's regular movie stars. Anyway, it's fun. But um shall we
01:01:39
wrap it up? I don't know. I don't know if you have any other questions because
01:01:42
we think you you're a >> she mother with two children. >> Thank you for doing your hair.
01:01:48
>> She writes, she directs. She does. >> It's not quite the golden gloves. Now,
01:01:52
when you do a podcast, we had heard that when we have an actress on, they might not want to come on video because it's
01:02:01
they have to doll up. And I said, I think in podcast you catch a little bit of a break.
01:02:05
>> You You do. And you know somewhere in the middle >> want glam. And I was like,
01:02:11
>> I mean, I think I can do the glam. I can glam in my bathroom, you know, with my
01:02:18
curling iron and >> with a banana clip and a scrunchie and >> you know, but I don't know.
01:02:24
>> Well, you're photogenic. I mean, I'll just just saying it kind of casually.
01:02:28
You really have great features. Yeah. Um it's it just you I'm sure directors
01:02:34
say you don't have a bad angle probably you know um >> but uh yeah it's fine and I do think
01:02:40
we're all used to this and you know I have a couple ring lights in a window and I mean we're all kind of a little
01:02:45
more than the early days where it was pitch black and no one we were doing now you see people it looks like a studio.
01:02:52
>> Well I hope I get to see you guys at these parties. Yeah, >> I I do. I've quoted you often throughout
01:02:58
the years because when we did the press junket, you know, it's the awkward goodbye because we've been hanging out
01:03:04
all day with Bobby Moyahan and laughing and stuff and then it's like, hey, and
01:03:08
then you just said see you around campus. >> I Yeah, I did say that. >> And so I use that a lot.
01:03:14
>> Well, because it's kind of like >> it's fun, >> right? So, let's say a lot.
01:03:18
>> We're all at college basically. We're going to run into each other. We're in
01:03:21
show business, which is weirdly such a tiny group of people in the big picture. You know, there's not that many parties
01:03:28
or that many comedians or whatever. >> It's like a party and you see someone
01:03:32
who you don't you haven't met before, but you both are actors and you both
01:03:36
know that other are actors and you do the kind of like hi, >> you know, >> that's how I'm going to say hi to you.
01:03:44
>> Like I know, you know, we both know that we know each other. Here's Lake. When I
01:03:51
see her at the Golden Globe, I go, "Hi, Lake." And you go, "Hi, I know you from
01:03:54
somewhere." And I go, >> "Wait, where did we >> Yeah, we just
01:03:57
>> Well, the go, it's so nice to see you. When you don't know if you've met them
01:04:02
or not. >> Yep. >> We have when they give you a soft hug and you see that they're looking over at
01:04:09
a bigger celebrity, >> they're going, I got to get >> I've never had anyone even look at me at
01:04:15
those parts. They just go like this. >> Oh, come on. Usually they say, "Um,
01:04:20
could I can I get a freshen up?" >> They go to give me a hug by the shoulders and then they move me.
01:04:26
>> They move you over to the side. >> Bonitio. >> Benitio. >> One time we went to a party, David got
01:04:33
on my shoulders and I was like, you couldn't see me and then he was dancing around with a marach thing going on.
01:04:39
>> Look at me. >> Yeah. >> Well, like why is like so popular? Like
01:04:46
even I hear even more on every show and with just like No, you don't say it hardly at all. You said like maybe
01:04:53
twice. >> But like is really good. It was like really hard and I was like very scared
01:04:58
and I was like >> really hard. It's like really hard to >> I like when they don't finish it. They
01:05:03
go it's kind of like >> Yeah. they don't finish the sentence >> and you're like you just got to like
01:05:09
that's all you got to >> but that's been around since the 80s or 70s sort of called the valley girl but
01:05:14
it's even still this back with people from everywhere I don't >> it's still here it's I mean
01:05:20
>> it's better than the like I said it >> oh >> because we're kind of we're kind of
01:05:25
teasing it a little bit >> I'm gonna if I hear myself say I'm gonna
01:05:28
substitute lake for like it's like it's lake >> it's like >> it's like I didn't even know but it's
01:05:34
lake >> see if we can start a thing. >> Well, sometimes you're allowed to
01:05:38
utilize it as a a version of as if. It is like, >> right. No, it's it it has utility as a
01:05:46
word. >> Utility. >> Yeah. It's not completely, you know. All right. Uh, thank you, Dana. I made you
01:05:53
lunch. Come in the kitchen. >> Um, >> the the chair company on HBO, which
01:05:58
makes quality products, I have to say, you know, HBO is a big >> HBO doesn't [ __ ] around.
01:06:04
They don't they don't make shitty ones. And so this is uh HBO Max Jim Downey,
01:06:08
our friends on it. Timar >> Tell them >> Oh, tell him hello. >> You want me to I
01:06:16
>> He was my head writer when I was there. I had to report to him. >> Okay.
01:06:20
>> Crazy. We all We all kind of did. >> If you if you run into Downey, just go,
01:06:25
"What was it like to be a regular infantryman in George Washington's army
01:06:29
in the latter part of the war?" and he'll give you two hours. The guy goes
01:06:34
into libraries and colleges. He's from Harvard or Yale. I don't know. He's the
01:06:38
brainiac of all time in terms of American history. >> Really? >> He's fascinating to listen to. Yeah.
01:06:44
>> I I don't with him. >> I can't believe I ignore him so much.
01:06:47
>> Oh, you haven't. Yeah. You don't interact with him. You're at home.
01:06:50
>> Barb is >> Barb is over there. >> All right. >> Shut up, Barb. Barb.
01:06:57
>> Shut up, Barb. >> Trosper. Trosper. >> Yeah, Trosper. Barb. Prosper. Ron,
01:07:02
>> I'm Barbrosper. >> Even stupider. >> I'm Barb Trosper.
01:07:06
>> I remember I was like even the words like Fisher Rob >> is the name of the mall company.
01:07:14
>> Yeah, that's so dumb. Someone's working overtime on these dumb names.
01:07:18
>> Oh, it's so >> a chair company. Quick walking around the mall. There's something about a
01:07:23
mall. Walking around a mall. It's really funny. >> Makes sense. But it's like a robot. I
01:07:28
just kept being like I'm dyslexic. I was like pretty sure that like I couldn't
01:07:33
>> blind um Oh, there was something else like I kept saying a name wrong. Oh, this is
01:07:40
really fun. Sorry, last thing. But they would say like there's um the the the
01:07:46
girlfriend like the fiance of our daughter is named Tara, >> but we intentionally say it wrong. So
01:07:52
sometimes it's Tara >> and Tara. And I was like, "Is it Tara or Tara?" And they're like, "It's fine.
01:07:57
Don't worry about it." And I was like, "But is it?" They're like,
01:08:00
>> "Because that happens in real life. People say >> and it's just because we don't like her,
01:08:05
you know, >> I love people like that are in charge of this that are not control freaks and are
01:08:11
open to the mistakes and the weirdness and the quirky >> and we don't it's terror. Terror terror
01:08:19
t >> All right, Lake, thank you. I have to go microwave. >> I appreciate you coming on.
01:08:24
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