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Adam Scott: From Step Brothers To Severance

April 30, 2026 / 01:01:24

This episode features Adam Scott discussing his experiences with Coachella, his role in the series Severance, and his work in various films including Step Brothers and Big Little Lies. The conversation touches on the challenges of being a parent at music festivals, the intricacies of acting, and the dynamics of comedy and drama.

Adam Scott shares his thoughts on attending Coachella with his daughter, describing the difficulties of navigating the festival and the lengthy exit from the parking lot. He reflects on the impressive performance of Justin Bieber and the nostalgia of seeing artists like The Strokes.

Scott discusses his role in Severance, explaining the unique premise of the show and how it resonates with current work-life balance issues. He emphasizes the collaborative nature of the production and the creative freedom he experienced while filming.

The episode also highlights Scott's comedic background, particularly his experiences on Parks and Recreation and Step Brothers. He recalls the improvisational atmosphere on set and how it shaped his approach to acting.

Throughout the conversation, Scott's humility and passion for his craft shine through, making for an engaging discussion about his career and the entertainment industry.

TL;DR

Adam Scott discusses Coachella, his role in <i>Severance</i>, and experiences in comedy films like <i>Step Brothers</i> and <i>Big Little Lies</i>.

Episode

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Once Bieber ended, we took an hour to
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find my daughter and her friends.
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Finally found them, got them in the
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cars, and then it was 2 and 1/2 hours to
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leave the parking lot
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>> just to get out. So, we didn't get to
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bed till like 5:00 a.m. I remember the
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very first church chat. I remember
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exactly where I was. You
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>> serious?
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>> 100%.
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Can we talk about Carcenio really quick?
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>> Sure.
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>> Sure. Because Carinio,
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that was deep into your run, but I
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remember being like, "Holy shit." And we
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realized we were both big YouTube fans
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>> and no one else really wanted to talk
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about it with us. Like our wives were
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sick of hearing about YouTube. I
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remember shooting a scene uh at a dinner
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table and John C. Riley and I kind of
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started improvising and going back and
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forth and it just started sort of
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flowing and it was really fun, really
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funny. And after cut, I remember we
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looked at each other and he was like,
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"See there, that was fun, right?"
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Okay, so we had Adam Scott on Dana and
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uh
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>> pretty cool dude. Very interesting. Uh
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obviously the big one is severance right
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now
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>> which you have watched and I tried to
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explain him. I thought it was like the
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office. It is not.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah. He he he breaks down severance for
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us in a way that David and uh others of
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his ill.
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>> Yeah. I said tell me let's say I'm a
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two-year-old.
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>> Yeah. Let's say I'm a baby in a baby
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creat.
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>> Tell me about seven. How would I get it?
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Uh, also obviously famously in some
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biggies like Step Brothers, um, does
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comedy, does drama,
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>> does good-looking.
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>> Yeah, he's a he's an uh extra extra nice
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person, very humble, and uh likes to
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laugh a lot and and he asked us some
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questions, too. So, we always like that.
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But yeah, he's an absolute delight and
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we talk about Big Little Lies. We talk
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about obviously what
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>> Parks and Wreck. We We try to get him to
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make fun of Rob Low.
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>> Yeah. And his new scary movie that
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sounds really cool coming out. Yeah. And
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we talk about Rob Low and his
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handsomeness effect and stuff like
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>> what's his new movie?
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>> Hulum. Hulum. So anyway, I hardly knew.
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Enjoy this podcast.
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>> Yeah, it is very scary. The trailer is
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scary. The movie's scary. We try to
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break down what it's like to do a horror
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film.
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>> Uh here he is. Adam Scott,
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>> are you in witness protection right now?
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>> I mean,
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>> it's fine. We've had it before, Adam,
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but uh you're you're definitely on the
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run, right?
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>> I am.
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>> Are you on the Are you doing re-shoots
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for Hokum? I thought it
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>> Thank you for joining me. This is great.
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>> Hold on. I have to turn on a light.
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>> Yeah, let's get Let's light you up. How
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about that?
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>> Well, let's get the union. Grievance.
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Grievance. more time to fix my hair.
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>> You know, Dana, if you move something on
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the set, it's a grievance to the union
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if they don't do it.
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>> Ah,
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always yell grievance on set. It's
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funny. I like get the curtains open.
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>> Let's wake it up.
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>> There we go. Isn't this nice?
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>> Wow.
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>> What? You have earphones in or I can't
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see what you got in.
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>> I have uh AirPods.
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>> He's a pro.
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>> Have you seen those before? They're
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>> They're really cool.
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>> I'm not always out at the parties. I
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don't know what AirPods are.
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in a pod. You know when you fly and you
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have a pod. That's my pod.
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>> By the way, I went to Coachella.
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>> I brought my daughter to Coachella.
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We in the first weekend. Did you guys
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didn't go, did you?
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>> Wait, this Coachella was
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>> I want to hear about this. Yeah, I
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didn't go.
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>> Oh, cool. What happened?
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>> It is I hadn't been in 23 years or
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something. Dude, it is a nightmare. H.
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>> That's exactly what I thought it would
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be.
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>> Oh, a a nightmare.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Anyway, it just way too old to go to
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[ __ ] Coach.
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>> It's like Burning Man with music kind
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of, but that has music. It seems like
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what? How many ouses? How many outouses?
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Five.
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>> So many like fleets of toilets.
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>> Okay, let's tell the audience. Coachella
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is at a polo field three hours out of LA
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already starting on an inconvenient
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foot.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Then when I went
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>> I went to actually Old Chella which was
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remember
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>> Oh, you did see I went with Paul
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McCartney and Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
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>> Rolling Stones. That sounds good.
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>> Unrealc.
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>> Rolling Stones.
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>> But but your the one I went to was three
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nights were McCartney, Stones, and The
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Who and then they did it again.
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>> Um but it was the walking alone. I don't
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know if it's still that way, but you
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can't get near the [ __ ] place.
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>> No. And we once Bieber ended, we took an
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hour to find my daughter and her
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friends, finally found them,
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>> got them in the cars. And then it was
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two and a half hours to leave the
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parking lot
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>> just to get out. So, we didn't get to
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bed till like 5 a.m.
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>> Just after just so people know, it's not
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hyperbole. 2 and 1/2 hours. You get in
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your car, it's 2 and 1/2 hours before
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you exit the parking.
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>> Two and a half hours till we inching out
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like out of
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>> I know. I get it. But you think an hour,
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maybe 90, but three hours sitting still
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for an hour and a half and then inching
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along for another hour
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>> and that was like the VIP parking or
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whatever, which is gross.
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>> Best of the best of the best. That's the
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funniest part. What about Did you stay
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>> in uh Madison Club? Where do you stay
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even out there?
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>> We stayed we had like an Airbnb
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house that we actually it was like a got
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through a friend or something. So we had
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like a a house for you know bedrooms for
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my daughter and our friends and
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it was and then the nights we just went
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to pick them up and didn't even go to
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the show. We only went one night because
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we were like forget it. Just the even
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that was impossible just going to pick
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them up.
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>> How would you ever meet someone and find
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where they were?
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>> No. And no phones work because
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everyone's trying to use their phone. So
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phones do not work. So there's no way to
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communicate.
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>> Yeah. They just completely shut down
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on everybody.
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>> Doesn't it sound fun?
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>> Did you It does sound kind of fun. But
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did you have any moment where the hair
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stood up in the back of your neck like
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this is worth it? Look at this [ __ ]
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show.
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You know,
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>> I was there. I I was really happy to see
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The Strokes and really happy to see
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David Burn and
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>> he was great.
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>> Um
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>> Yeah.
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>> And then the Justin Bieber show was very
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was impressive the set and he was
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charismatic. I just you know my daughter
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and wife and all my they love him. So
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>> sure. Uh that was uh it was uh I mean so
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many people like
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hundreds of thousands of people.
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>> It's too much. It's worth
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>> [ __ ] nuts.
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>> And they love Bieber. Did he come out in
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his boxers or did he put a hoodie on or
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what did he do?
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>> He had uh like these shorts, leather
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shorts, and then boots. So there ended
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up being about this much leg between the
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shorts and the boots.
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>> Yeah, I saw I've seen that look.
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>> Uh yeah, he did it. I thought he did a
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great job actually.
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>> Did you know how many songs roughly
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>> for Justin Bieber?
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>> Yeah.
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>> I don't know.
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>> I don't know how many I knew.
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>> I I Oh, that that I knew.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Oh, two maybe.
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>> Lots of low pieces.
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>> He's got his own charisma now. That's
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sort of like
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>> there was this troubled time, I guess,
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or he's been around and there's a sense
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like you don't know what he's going to
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do. Yeah, like exa exactly like what he
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did at the Grammys or whatever. He just
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came out. So there's something about him
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that's very brings you in. You're like
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what's going on with this?
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>> It was fascinating too cuz he's like a
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legacy. It's been like 20 years now. So
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all these people the audience just had
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feelings, you know, like these people
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grew up with him. So it was
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>> and he he was really a good performer
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and really kind of disciplined and
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charismatic. I thought it was really
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interesting and really good.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I thought what he did was a cool
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idea and also with all the crazy stuff
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in quotes going on with the record
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industry and all the things and
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>> all the people involved and he was in
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the middle of it like everyone has a
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sort of pulls for him going
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>> what what have you been through like
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what is the life of Bieber even though
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he's got all the money in the world and
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>> and all the fame and
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>> the girls still love him and you think
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you'd grow out of that and he he hasn't.
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they still go crazy for.
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>> Yeah. And he he was so young when he
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started that I can't even imagine going
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through all of that at that age. But
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then also the the YouTube thing where he
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went on a computer and
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>> like kind of surfed YouTube with the it
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kind of brought this like intimacy and
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kind of I thought it was pretty pretty
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smart way to do it. That's charismatic
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because you was playing a YouTube like
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we all do at home and yet there's
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100,000 people out there. Hey, listen
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this one, you know, and so that's also
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very makes.
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>> He and I have had the same sort of
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>> career exact
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>> trajectory. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I I sometimes call him beeps part
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two, you know. It's just a friendly name
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of my boxers on stage when I do stand
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up.
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>> That's right.
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>> Can I a keyboard?
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>> Yeah.
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>> My 20 second Bieber story. Yeah. So, I
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think I was either hosting or whatever,
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but Bieber was maybe 14 or 15 and he's
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somehow on SNL
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>> and Lauren, we should have a church chat
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with Bieber. But his mom was very
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religious. So, we had a meeting in
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Lauren Michael's office with Justin and
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myself and Lauren and and his and had to
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kind of convince her that it's not
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satanic because the church lady gets a
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little hot and bothered in her PG-13
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way.
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>> She sure does. Cute. She does. That's
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what we're all waiting for.
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>> We want that, Adam.
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>> I am a man in a dress, you understand?
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>> But we want it's why we tune in.
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>> But Bieber was so good at it. He his
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acting was fantastic and he was funny
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and Yeah. Anyway, so that's my Bieber
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story.
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>> You know, Adam, when I watch church
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chat,
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>> Yeah.
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>> And I wasn't on SNL, but I'm at home.
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I'm always thinking, I hope this guy
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[ __ ] up and says something that will
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irritate the church lady.
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>> Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> So then the church lady will start to
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get mad and bring up Satan.
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>> Oh yeah. That's that's what
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>> almost always happens.
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>> But also I remember the very first
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church church chat. I remember exactly
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where I was.
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>> Serious 100%. because it was so clear
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this was a brand new era of SNL
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starting. It was so crystal clear. I was
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in middle school and we were watching
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the brand new Was it the very f your
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very first episode? The very first
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episode of the cast. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. And Phil, we had Phil Hartman in
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there and Sigourney Weaver was the
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>> uh the host. So, and Victoria Jackson
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>> came out and did this whole and I try
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and Jesus and this and that. Pause,
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pause, pause. Well, isn't that special?
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First time I said it on TV and I got a
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big laugh and went,
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>> "Yeah."
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>> But, uh, that was just lucky because it
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was at home base and it involved a lot
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of the cast. So it was like a a perfect
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thing for our show, you know, because
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guests were coming on. Sean Penn and
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tried to beat me up and I beat him up,
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you know, stuff like that. So it was a
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moment in time, but I guess you were at
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the age where you could see it from
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young eyes.
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>> Well, it it was it was immediately that
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Monday at school, everyone was saying,
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"Isn't that special?" And Satan did did
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you say did was say Satan was in that
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first
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Church chat, too. Told you
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that Satan something like that, right?
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I don't know. Lauren thought the
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reverb was a bit much. I don't know why
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>> the reverb is key. It has to echo. It
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has to echo back.
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>> And for a while, Lauren, shouldn't she
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have a a proper name, you know? And so,
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for one episode, she was Enid Strick. No
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one knew what that meant. It took and
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then that went away and then it was
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right.
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>> I don't remember that. the church lady.
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Like I thought the cone heads, the
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church lady. I don't know.
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>> I like they wind up and go.
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>> Well, I wonder where you acquired that
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information. I thought
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>> Well, could it be is the wind up?
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>> Yeah. Well, could it be? And then the
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leap
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>> jump in.
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>> Yeah. You lurch.
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>> Yeah. There's kind of a turn towards
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them, right?
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>> Oh, yeah. Wind up. Wind up. and then
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lurching. You know, it's hard on the
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director to get that properly. You know,
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that timing of that.
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>> Let's run it again and dress.
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>> Anyway, welcome to uh Church SL Church
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Chat the podcast where we go over every
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episode of Church Chat. My guest today
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is
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>> uh what would you like to talk? Okay,
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I'll give you topics.
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>> There's obviously severance. I've heard
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of it. I guess it's doing well. Uh
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>> oh, good, good. Go ahead,
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>> Dana. Let me tell him that I'm so I
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naively
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and stupidly and adorably thought
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Severance was going to be like The
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Office.
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>> Oh, like a like a comedic sort of
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>> Yeah, like a goofy comedic. And I was
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watching it going,
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>> "Sure."
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>> Huh?
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>> Wait a second.
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>> This is different. Severance has a great
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weird book. It's a smart show. I'll
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leave it at that.
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>> Satan. Dana, what are you doing?
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>> Yeah. Is it Satan? I was doing
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>> you're doing me watching it.
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>> I love it. I mean I was you know look
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looking at the origins of it and just
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one of the co-producers are he was
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working in a cubicle on a show and sort
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of the sort of life suck of that of what
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am I doing and
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>> and it sort of came from there in this
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work life balance there's all this a lot
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of interesting things beneath the actual
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characters acting and stuff. So
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>> yeah, I think also it it came out in
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February of 2022, right, when
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>> sort of everybody was just getting back,
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you know, kind of going back to work or
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staying home and kind of that whole
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culture was defining itself as the show
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came on. So I think it also struck some
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sort of a chord with people figuring out
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their work life balance as we were
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>> because they there was everyone took a
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year off kind of in the peak of co it
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was a shutdown and then you and then you
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know people were working from home and
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then then there's been this is going on
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now in corporate America could I get
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three day three days at home you know I
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mean I'll come in twice a week if you
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want but uh so yeah it was very precient
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and very uh of the Now, um,
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>> yeah,
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>> for many men, uh, the shift can happen
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gradually or all at once, workouts feel
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harder. Yes. Uh, energy dips. Recovery
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takes longer. Even routines haven't
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changed. One major reason is
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testosterone levels can start declining
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around age 30, dropping at 1% each year.
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But it's not just about how much
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testosterone the body produces. It's
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also about how much is actually
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available to use. A protein called SHBG
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binds to testosterone and can limit how
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sent you. It's called Flying the Wall.
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Can you explain sort of that hook of
00:17:36
when you go to work in the elevator?
00:17:39
>> Yeah,
00:17:39
>> I know. I was any any and audi and
00:17:41
implants. Anyway, go ahead.
00:17:43
>> Yeah. Um, any Audi implants. That should
00:17:46
have been the tagline. Any Audi
00:17:49
implants.
00:17:52
Um
00:17:53
the uh yeah the it was like it was it
00:17:56
was January in 2017 when Ben Stiller you
00:18:01
guys know obviously he called me and
00:18:03
just sort of told me the basic idea of
00:18:06
it which is there's a procedure you can
00:18:10
have done where you get a chip in your
00:18:11
head and when you go to work you have no
00:18:14
idea who you are in the outside world.
00:18:16
Uh, and then when you leave work, you
00:18:18
have no idea who you were or what you
00:18:21
did at work. So, your lives, your life
00:18:24
is split into
00:18:25
>> two separate tracks.
00:18:27
>> Great setup.
00:18:28
>> Yeah. It's
00:18:29
>> Yeah. It's such a great simple idea.
00:18:32
It's like a great Twilight Zone episode
00:18:34
or something like
00:18:35
>> Yes. And you understand it easily.
00:18:38
>> Yeah.
00:18:38
>> And uh and when he So, he calls you
00:18:41
which is must be very flattering.
00:18:44
>> Yes. very um you know I think I remember
00:18:48
he called me and he may have been on a
00:18:52
trip with you David. I think you guys
00:18:55
were January 2017. I think you guys were
00:18:59
like on a trip with like Sandler and
00:19:03
those guys doing I don't know. I I
00:19:06
>> we might have been at the Netflix skiing
00:19:09
thing where we all went
00:19:10
>> Oh, maybe that's what it was. Maybe
00:19:11
that's what it was. Um, which uh I just
00:19:16
remember because I was at Sundance and I
00:19:19
had to step outside to take the call and
00:19:21
I was standing in snow while he was kind
00:19:24
of telling me this weird idea
00:19:26
>> uh of this uh Dan Ericson's idea and uh
00:19:30
so I just and I remember the Muslim ban
00:19:33
had just happened so that was on TV
00:19:35
inside which is why I had to stay. So
00:19:37
anyway, it was just like a marker in
00:19:38
time. I remember exactly
00:19:41
uh what day it was.
00:19:42
>> I remember because I saw him and I said,
00:19:45
"Do you have any show ideas?" And he
00:19:46
said, "No, by the way, do you have a
00:19:48
phone? I need to call Adam Scott."
00:19:50
>> That's right. So, you're just an
00:19:52
integral part of it
00:19:54
>> from the very start.
00:19:55
>> Nothing on your mind for anything we
00:19:57
could do together. He goes, "No."
00:19:58
Anyway, I got to make this call.
00:20:00
>> That's right. And uh but how how how fun
00:20:03
to first of all Ben who's a super smart
00:20:04
guy and proves it again because the show
00:20:08
I feel like immediately was a kind of an
00:20:11
interesting hit.
00:20:13
>> Yeah.
00:20:14
>> Oh yeah.
00:20:15
>> Yeah. Which was a a huge surprise to us
00:20:18
because it kind of felt like you know
00:20:21
you never know if something's gonna
00:20:24
>> work or not um
00:20:27
>> at all. And this felt like it was really
00:20:31
weird and we made it in a bubble during
00:20:34
the pandemic. So,
00:20:35
>> we had no sense of how people were going
00:20:37
to react to it or if critics would hate
00:20:39
it. I just assumed people would make fun
00:20:43
of us and it would no one would watch
00:20:46
it. I feel like that's a good default
00:20:48
position and then you're just pleasantly
00:20:50
surprised if anything happens with
00:20:52
>> Keep your low low expectations going in
00:20:55
in Hollywood and then when when it's a
00:20:57
hit, it's magic.
00:20:58
>> If I've ever had anything work, you go
00:21:01
people say,
00:21:02
>> did you know it was going to be a hit?
00:21:04
You go, there's no idea at this point. I
00:21:07
know anything is anything. And also,
00:21:09
it's not edited and you're just shooting
00:21:11
scenes and there's so much trust in the
00:21:13
director and then the what edits they're
00:21:15
going to pick and how they're going to
00:21:15
put it together, the music and the
00:21:17
marketing.
00:21:18
>> There's so much out of your
00:21:20
>> control. So, if something works, it's
00:21:22
almost a miracle because and when when
00:21:25
things come together like that, it's
00:21:26
it's such a gift because you're doing
00:21:28
your job very well and then you see the
00:21:31
cast acting, you're like, "This seems
00:21:34
cool. Everyone's good."
00:21:35
>> Yeah. It still means nothing
00:21:38
>> because you just don't know.
00:21:40
>> No, I've been a part of things I've been
00:21:43
a part of things where it's just like,
00:21:44
"Oh man, this is this is really
00:21:46
clicking. This feels
00:21:48
>> this feels great." And then nothing.
00:21:52
>> Nothing.
00:21:53
>> Just complete silence.
00:21:55
>> Do you want to name that project or No,
00:21:59
>> we all have them. And and there's even
00:22:01
like the indies you do where you don't
00:22:03
even hear from those people ever again.
00:22:06
>> Like you the movie never even comes out.
00:22:08
Like you just never hear from them. That
00:22:10
happened.
00:22:11
>> Always good news travels fast in this
00:22:13
business. Bad news travels very slowly.
00:22:15
You don't even know if it's coming out.
00:22:17
Oh, it came out a week ago. Oh, it did?
00:22:19
Yeah. Really? It was good. I think with
00:22:21
severance, you know, the the consistency
00:22:24
of tone from the brain trust, whoever
00:22:27
the, you know, obviously it's Ben and
00:22:28
the brain trust kept it really
00:22:30
consistent. Hey, should we speed it up a
00:22:32
little bit here? I don't know if you got
00:22:33
notes, you know. Uh, could we get the
00:22:36
plot going a little further because
00:22:38
right now, you know, but it stayed in
00:22:40
its lane. It never patronized you. It
00:22:42
never tried to. So, that created this
00:22:45
mystery that was so compelling, the
00:22:47
smallalness of it, you know.
00:22:49
>> Yeah. Ben really I mean Dan Ericson uh
00:22:52
yeah is a brilliant writer and and Ben
00:22:55
really was sort of we were kind of
00:22:58
finding those first few weeks or first
00:23:01
month
00:23:01
>> producer too by the way sorry to
00:23:03
interject but you're a producer so
00:23:04
continue
00:23:05
>> you can say you these stories
00:23:06
>> yeah so you're with Ben and you're
00:23:08
you're part of that whole
00:23:09
>> Yeah there's more than just Ben I didn't
00:23:11
mean to just say
00:23:11
>> yeah but but at the beginning it was
00:23:14
really Ben spearheading like figuring
00:23:17
out the tone of this place in this world
00:23:20
and not quite knowing and we were just
00:23:23
kind of
00:23:23
>> it was just sort of trying stuff out
00:23:25
until we kind of found it and it started
00:23:27
feeling right and couldn't quite
00:23:30
>> articulate it but it we knew it when we
00:23:32
saw it and kind of felt it and just kind
00:23:34
of continued
00:23:36
>> once we figured it out. Because
00:23:37
sometimes you get you get hit with a
00:23:38
good idea like that and then the really
00:23:41
fun is you know when ideas stick with
00:23:42
you and you get excited and then you
00:23:44
want to talk about it and I'm sure now
00:23:47
you're all running with a great idea and
00:23:49
that's one of the most fun things even
00:23:50
in comedy is like
00:23:51
>> oh this is the setup okay go we all oh
00:23:55
what what if we did this what if we did
00:23:56
this and someone's kind of got to steer
00:23:58
it make the final call but that's the
00:24:00
real fun and then when it's working it's
00:24:01
so fun
00:24:02
>> and then you're getting drawn to Turo
00:24:04
and and Christopher Walk and you Crazy.
00:24:08
>> It's crazy.
00:24:10
>> Crazy. Don't know what I'm doing.
00:24:13
>> I still can't believe Christopher
00:24:15
Watkins and and John Turo. It's so
00:24:19
>> Yeah. I mean, these are like iconic. Did
00:24:22
you have any uh lunches with
00:24:24
Christopher? Any exchanges with him?
00:24:25
Because we all we all love Chris and
00:24:27
we've all had funny moments with him
00:24:29
because he's he's a one oneoff in
00:24:32
acting.
00:24:33
>> I just Yeah. just the the great I mean I
00:24:37
didn't really have a ton of scenes with
00:24:40
him. We had scenes where we were both
00:24:41
there and
00:24:44
I just I'm I uh I'm just so afraid of
00:24:49
saying or doing something that he would
00:24:50
think is lame
00:24:53
>> of course I would too. I've done it.
00:24:55
>> [ __ ]
00:24:56
>> But you guys have worked with him. He's
00:24:57
such a sweet person.
00:24:59
>> Oh yeah. SNL a lot. I I saw him last
00:25:03
year. I was doing Biden on SNL.
00:25:05
And I ended up at a wardrobe fitting
00:25:08
hanging out with him on a couch. He was
00:25:09
just there and I got to talk to him for
00:25:11
an hour. And at one point I just said,
00:25:14
"Um,
00:25:15
>> do you paint?" And he goes, "Of course
00:25:18
all old actors paint.
00:25:20
>> We all paint."
00:25:21
>> That's great.
00:25:21
>> You know, stuff like that.
00:25:23
>> He He didn't He looked at my phone.
00:25:25
Don't have one. You don't? And he
00:25:28
doesn't watch TV. I go, "What do you do
00:25:29
at night with your wife? She watches."
00:25:32
What do you do? when he says magazines
00:25:36
every night. I mean you have many are
00:25:38
there
00:25:39
>> magazines. How many
00:25:40
>> magazines magazines that was
00:25:43
>> time
00:25:45
national inquirer National Geographic
00:25:48
you name it I'm looking at it
00:25:51
>> reading opening to issue time
00:25:54
>> table of contents
00:25:56
>> pages
00:25:56
>> moving turning pictures
00:26:00
>> words
00:26:04
>> what about when you got someone like
00:26:05
walking and you go I feel like he's
00:26:08
giving me a break I'm starting at 100%
00:26:10
coolness and everything I say to him,
00:26:12
I'm dropping to 92%.
00:26:15
>> You're going to go to lunch today and
00:26:16
it's 84. And I'm like,
00:26:18
>> he's losing cool points. So, I'm just
00:26:19
going to stay whatever thinks he can't
00:26:21
really hate me yet.
00:26:22
>> That's right. I I would
00:26:25
>> I if I say nothing, maybe he'll hold me
00:26:28
in. Maybe he'll just remember me. I
00:26:31
remember Oh, I remember one thing. In
00:26:33
season one, I had a scene that he was in
00:26:36
where I had a big speech that I had to
00:26:39
like rally the troops and he was
00:26:41
standing there and I asked if I could
00:26:43
go. There were a bunch of people on the
00:26:45
scene so they're going person by person
00:26:47
to shoot the coverage, right? So, we're
00:26:49
doing it all day and I asked if I could
00:26:51
go last cuz I wanted to get as much
00:26:55
practice as rehearsal or whatever as
00:26:57
possible at while they shoot everyone
00:26:58
else. And um I remember jump to Turo
00:27:02
being like why are you going last?
00:27:04
You're crazy. You're gonna be exhausted.
00:27:07
And and they're go but I was so I didn't
00:27:10
by the time I did it it was going to be
00:27:11
in front of Christopher Walkan and John
00:27:13
Zuro. So I didn't want it to suck. And
00:27:15
so and and I was having trouble with it.
00:27:18
I couldn't quite didn't feel like I was
00:27:20
you know when you're doing doing it and
00:27:22
you're just like something isn't
00:27:24
slotting in. It's just not. And then
00:27:26
finally, by the time they got to me, I
00:27:28
felt like I had at least found the shape
00:27:31
of it. And afterwards, we were we were
00:27:35
just hanging out, chatting, and Walkin
00:27:38
was walking behind me to just to get by.
00:27:40
And as he walked by, he grabbed under my
00:27:43
elbow and just gave it a squeeze and a
00:27:46
shake as he walked by, which
00:27:50
may have just meant, "Would you please
00:27:51
move out of my way?" But to me, it
00:27:54
meant, "All right." Yeah,
00:27:56
>> good job.
00:27:56
>> You got it.
00:27:57
>> Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:59
>> Absolutely. It meant that. And I'm
00:28:01
getting chills from that.
00:28:02
>> I want less like that. I want those
00:28:05
compliments.
00:28:06
>> He wanted the same after we did a sketch
00:28:08
at SNL. He got me to headlock and
00:28:10
between the slats and it was painful.
00:28:12
What are you doing? Ruined it.
00:28:15
>> But my We all have stories. I have a
00:28:17
very quick one I've told before, but you
00:28:19
might appreciate because it's very
00:28:21
Christopher Walkin. So, we're playing
00:28:23
aliens on SNL and it's a Jack Handy
00:28:26
sketch and every time our trapoor comes
00:28:29
down to say hello to the Earthlings, we
00:28:31
kill one of them accidentally, but we
00:28:33
don't know. So, so we come out and
00:28:35
there's farmers. What are you doing? And
00:28:37
we try to go, we come in peace and then
00:28:39
he has a line where he says like almost
00:28:41
like a cartoon. He goes, "Let's get out
00:28:44
of here." And and then we run back up
00:28:47
into the cardboard spaceship and he's in
00:28:50
my face laughing. so hard. He's almost
00:28:53
crying because he said, "Let's get out
00:28:55
of here." So last fall when I was
00:28:57
hanging out with him, I brought that up.
00:28:59
Let's get out of here. And he was like
00:29:01
just kind of like, "Yeah, I remember
00:29:02
that." So then when we're saying
00:29:04
goodbye, he's like 20 ft away
00:29:06
>> and I say, "See you, Chris." And then he
00:29:09
turns and he goes, "Let's get out of
00:29:12
here." God.
00:29:13
>> And then he did his head back and
00:29:15
laughed his ass off. Oh, that's crazy.
00:29:18
>> Laughing his ass off as he walked past
00:29:20
someone.
00:29:21
>> God, I love him no more.
00:29:22
>> I just want to insert something here cuz
00:29:24
you know, you're you're an incredible
00:29:26
actor. I just heard you tortured about
00:29:28
that scene. I mean, you're
00:29:30
>> Big Little Lies. I mean, you are you're
00:29:32
Thanks. You're like a A+ actor. I mean,
00:29:35
that's why you work a lot. You're I got
00:29:38
exhausted reading your Wikipedia page.
00:29:40
Christ sank. This guy's been in more
00:29:43
movies than Chaplain during the World
00:29:45
War II era.
00:29:48
>> Oswald and the prison transfer.
00:29:51
>> See, I can't do I can't do it. Yeah.
00:29:53
Yeah.
00:29:54
>> Christ sings. Give me a topic. I'll try
00:29:55
I'll try to fill like that since the
00:29:58
Oswald prison transfer.
00:30:00
>> That's right. That's what it is.
00:30:02
>> Okay.
00:30:02
>> Okay. Here's the guy who owns a local
00:30:04
strip club. He's got a gun. You let him
00:30:06
through. Who are they turning away?
00:30:08
>> Yeah. You're you're bringing you're
00:30:10
bringing the Scott kid into the flying
00:30:12
the wall perennialism.
00:30:15
Yeah. He's done a couple little chunks
00:30:17
in that career. Getting up in Reese
00:30:20
Witherspoon's face on occasion as the
00:30:23
grumpy husband. All right.
00:30:27
Bros.
00:30:28
>> Oh my god, that's incredible. I remember
00:30:30
the Off-White album. Uh
00:30:33
>> yeah, dude. He's a genius. That album
00:30:37
was everything. Talking about the big
00:30:41
gulp and 32 ounces of any fluid. Like
00:30:44
you could only you would only have that
00:30:46
if you walked directly off the surface
00:30:48
of the sun. Would you need that much
00:30:50
fluid in your life?
00:30:50
>> 44 o you can park your jet skis.
00:30:54
>> That's right. Oh my god.
00:30:55
>> Only drink with an undertoe.
00:30:58
>> That's right.
00:30:58
>> If you talk to him, we'll have these
00:31:00
conversations on the phone and he is
00:31:04
>> just like that. really. Ah,
00:31:06
>> yeah. He doesn't have to practice. It's
00:31:08
reference that special he did. I opened
00:31:11
for him.
00:31:12
>> Did you really?
00:31:13
>> And I was
00:31:16
there was that
00:31:17
>> ended up being Off-White album.
00:31:18
>> There was black and white, I think, was
00:31:20
one.
00:31:21
>> But what was on was that the one was the
00:31:23
Off-White album recorded?
00:31:26
>> I don't know if an album and a special,
00:31:27
but Black and White and Mr. Miller goes
00:31:29
to Washington. Is that one?
00:31:31
>> That's one. Yeah. And uh so I opened one
00:31:33
because he's my favorite comic at the
00:31:35
time.
00:31:36
>> Yeah.
00:31:37
>> Uh just mostly from the writing. And
00:31:39
then I and he was nice to me. And then
00:31:41
he had Schneider open one
00:31:44
>> and and then after that I started going
00:31:46
on the road with Dana.
00:31:48
What?
00:31:49
>> Oh, how fun. God, that must have been so
00:31:52
fun.
00:31:52
>> Well, I got to watch these guys [ __ ]
00:31:54
crush it all the time and I'm like turn
00:31:56
into a research paper of all of them.
00:31:58
Well, it just we you get into these when
00:32:00
you're on the road or even a movie set
00:32:02
or something, you get punchy and you get
00:32:04
into these rhythms. But Dennis Miller
00:32:07
and I both hated flying. So, I'd be in
00:32:09
front of him, he's behind me flying. He
00:32:11
goes, "Carvey, if you see or hear
00:32:14
anything, I want to be I want to be the
00:32:17
first to know." Okay? And then he had
00:32:20
this thing that he would do. You know, I
00:32:22
want to tell you guys without a doubt,
00:32:23
you're the ragiest muffin, bunch of
00:32:26
knuckleheads I've ever had the pleasure
00:32:28
to command. You know that trope from
00:32:30
movies.
00:32:31
>> And he would do that endlessly. But we
00:32:34
would laugh at the driest
00:32:36
>> weirdest stuff on when you get punchy on
00:32:38
those roads.
00:32:39
>> So, so you guys would was it just on
00:32:42
your off weeks you would go on the road?
00:32:44
Is that or was it just summer?
00:32:45
>> Summer time. Summer mostly, you know. I
00:32:49
don't you know for us we I did a tour
00:32:51
with him and Kevin did a lot of dates
00:32:53
with David.
00:32:53
>> Kevin Nean's great man.
00:32:55
>> Kevin Ne Dennis and Dana did this watch
00:32:58
sponsored tour and I was so [ __ ]
00:33:00
jealous. I'm like how fun these three
00:33:02
guys go hang out
00:33:03
>> and they play like where I'm from in
00:33:06
Arizona.
00:33:06
>> Really cool watches.
00:33:09
>> I'd go I'm sorry. I'd go watch swatches
00:33:11
get a bad rap but they're really but um
00:33:15
actually so they were killing it and
00:33:17
making good money and I was like a
00:33:19
summer you're on SNL and then your
00:33:21
summer is fun. I couldn't believe that
00:33:24
situation
00:33:25
>> 20 cities
00:33:26
>> but also you guys were just like that
00:33:30
was in the midst of SNL so people must
00:33:33
have been going nuts everywhere you
00:33:35
went. Not that they don't still, but it
00:33:38
must have been so fun and and electric.
00:33:42
>> Yeah, that was right after my first
00:33:43
season. So, it was
00:33:45
>> we did 20 20 cities. And I remember we
00:33:49
were getting 5,000
00:33:51
>> dollar or something. We we when we
00:33:54
finished 10, we had made $50,000. So, we
00:33:57
called it and we threw a little party at
00:33:59
the hotel. what we call halfway to a big
00:34:01
bill cuz to make a h 100,000 over a
00:34:03
summer was unbelievable. Halfway to a
00:34:07
big bill, Carvey. The way we're going,
00:34:08
just remember, show business is one
00:34:11
thing. It's all about securing
00:34:14
rectangular green back.
00:34:18
>> Is that real? Is that
00:34:19
>> That's dead real. Even if he said it
00:34:21
once, he said it a thousand times. Why
00:34:24
are you turning down this commercial?
00:34:25
Why aren't you doing this, Carly? This
00:34:28
This town will eat you up and spit you
00:34:30
out. Nobody cares about you. All right.
00:34:32
>> Oh, God. It's all about securing
00:34:34
rectangular brink. Thank you.
00:34:38
>> All right, back to the story.
00:34:39
>> Good advice.
00:34:41
>> Uh, yes. I would just I said it to
00:34:44
Marcelo. I said, make sure you have a
00:34:46
wall of money that can spit out passive
00:34:48
income at a certain point. So, you're
00:34:50
still working, but you don't do anything
00:34:52
for the money anymore,
00:34:54
>> you know? Right. You do it because you
00:34:56
want to. Yeah. There you go. Dana, he
00:34:59
was on Parks and Wreck. Is there any any
00:35:00
way you can make fun of Roblo?
00:35:04
How good looking? Was Rob Low better
00:35:06
good looking when he came out of the
00:35:08
makeup trailer or did it didn't matter.
00:35:11
>> No, they had to they had to when he went
00:35:14
in the makeup trailer, they had to
00:35:15
somehow take it down.
00:35:18
>> Take it down a little bit. 10%.
00:35:20
>> That's right.
00:35:21
>> Give him some.
00:35:22
>> It's a different trailer.
00:35:24
>> Tommy boy say bring it down about 30.
00:35:26
I'd whisper to the makeup.
00:35:28
>> Yeah, if you could take the
00:35:29
handsomeness.
00:35:29
>> A little ruddy would be nice. He really
00:35:32
is a beautiful looking person.
00:35:37
>> Unbelievable.
00:35:39
>> Yeah. Uh yeah, he is. He's He's Yeah, he
00:35:42
and um he loves comedy. He would love to
00:35:46
put prosthetics on and play some weird
00:35:48
character. Um
00:35:51
>> you know, he loves everything we do. He
00:35:54
loved being on SNL all those times.
00:35:56
>> Yeah. And in Wayne's world, he loved
00:35:58
being in Wayne's world.
00:35:59
>> He was so He was so perfect. and he's
00:36:00
just fun to hang out with. He reads a
00:36:03
lot. He wrote that great autobiography.
00:36:05
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. Uh I
00:36:07
love his line in Wayne's world when he's
00:36:09
kicking you out of the office and and
00:36:12
telling you you can validate your
00:36:13
parking. Uh
00:36:16
uh just what such an [ __ ] Um uh but
00:36:20
also speaking of the prosthetics,
00:36:22
remember him in that Soderberg Liberace
00:36:25
movie? He's so great. He plays the
00:36:28
plastic surgeon and I don't know how
00:36:30
what they did but they pull his
00:36:32
>> face back and he can barely speak
00:36:35
because his face is pulled back so
00:36:37
tight.
00:36:38
>> It's a great one. I like that. Instead
00:36:41
of going to makeup where they try to
00:36:42
make me look better and then I take it
00:36:43
off at the end of the night and start
00:36:45
crying what I look like. Rob gets to go
00:36:47
make me ugly but only for eight hours
00:36:50
and then I get to take it off and go
00:36:53
>> back to my beautiful self
00:36:56
person for a while.
00:36:57
>> When you have makeup on and you kind of
00:37:00
catch yourself in the mirror throughout
00:37:01
the day, you can convince yourself that
00:37:05
>> oh [ __ ] you know what? I actually I'm
00:37:07
I'm like those red spots and like and
00:37:12
then you and then when you wipe it off
00:37:13
you're like oh yeah,
00:37:15
>> [ __ ] Yeah.
00:37:16
>> Didn't Didn't Ben Stiller I think I I I
00:37:18
think I read this somewhere. Uh but uh
00:37:21
Ben Ben Stiller said about you that you
00:37:25
can with your physicality and your act,
00:37:28
you can play the regular guy or you can
00:37:30
play kind of the sexy handsome guy. You
00:37:32
can just through your you can change the
00:37:35
way you look and carry yourself and
00:37:38
transition from those two types of
00:37:39
roles. Did you do you remember that?
00:37:42
>> No. But that's very kind of him to say
00:37:47
if he did indeed say that. Um
00:37:50
>> uh yeah, I don't I don't I don't know. I
00:37:53
I I don't um I maybe that's a that's a
00:37:58
very generous uh st
00:38:02
pretty stout range. You've done a lot of
00:38:04
things, you know. Um, and you know,
00:38:08
sure, you know, no, you're terrific to
00:38:10
just u, you know, we want you to play
00:38:12
the uh, you know, the sexy, you know.
00:38:14
Sorry, I I I don't know why I'm punchy.
00:38:17
It's early here. I'm sorry.
00:38:18
>> Wait, wait, wait. The Carson, can we
00:38:20
talk about Carcinio really quick?
00:38:22
>> Sure.
00:38:23
>> Sure. Because Carcinio,
00:38:26
that was deep into your run, but I
00:38:29
remember being like, "Holy [ __ ] this is
00:38:33
like a brand new angle on you'd been
00:38:36
already doing Carson for a few years and
00:38:38
it always
00:38:39
>> scored." I mean, it was always
00:38:42
>> and then Carino with the fingers and
00:38:45
that was a brand new angle and
00:38:49
>> Yeah, that was
00:38:51
>> a comment and he he got pissed off. Is
00:38:53
that right?
00:38:54
>> Um, it was later. You know, that one he
00:38:57
was like, "They're making fun of our
00:38:58
senior as much as they're making fun of
00:39:00
us." So, he kind of was okay with that
00:39:02
one.
00:39:03
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good.
00:39:04
>> Hey, did you know that, Ed, a crib is
00:39:06
called a bed and a bed is called a crib.
00:39:09
Did you know that?
00:39:10
>> All right. Oh my. That was what I might
00:39:12
be my favorite thing I've ever done
00:39:14
because um I literally I had no sense of
00:39:17
trying to be funny. I was just
00:39:19
inhabiting the earnestness of you at
00:39:22
home and Phil was just this hysterical
00:39:24
laugh button.
00:39:26
>> My god, he's so
00:39:27
>> those kind of things. And um that that
00:39:30
was at the time, you know, this this is
00:39:32
a great escalatory
00:39:35
uh chapter for Carson and call him
00:39:37
Carcinho and do the
00:39:39
>> thing. What a funnier matchup name to
00:39:41
fit perfectly. Michael or someone to go
00:39:44
Cario and everyone like oh my god how
00:39:47
funny. Yeah.
00:39:48
>> And the the title card and more to come
00:39:52
except it's all like neon and and like
00:39:55
they're trying to hip everything up.
00:39:57
There's no death
00:39:58
>> turtle.
00:40:00
>> Yeah.
00:40:01
An oil painting of a of a mongoose. They
00:40:05
have
00:40:07
neon lights and stuff.
00:40:09
>> The one that got him upset was when um
00:40:12
Susan Day was on and it was I didn't
00:40:15
think it landed anyway. I tried to get
00:40:17
it cut, but he Johnny didn't know that
00:40:19
the Partridge family was off the air
00:40:21
>> and that kind of bothered him. So, how
00:40:24
many she what she Well, we've been off
00:40:26
for 10 years. Yeah, you never know. But
00:40:28
over time,
00:40:29
>> that's so weird.
00:40:30
>> I I didn't like that it dinged him, you
00:40:33
know, cuz love Johnny, but I think for
00:40:36
the most part, he liked it. For most of
00:40:38
them, he thought it was funny.
00:40:39
>> Oh, that's great. That's great.
00:40:41
>> So, now is Ruben Concaid a regular cast
00:40:44
member now? No, he's that's over. He
00:40:46
died five years ago. That's we don't do
00:40:48
that show anymore, sir.
00:40:50
>> Okay. And now you have the buff.
00:40:54
>> Gentleman joined us, Adam Scott. He's
00:40:56
had success with a show called
00:40:57
separates. You know that they uh they
00:40:59
have dual lives.
00:41:01
>> I don't know where they pay channels.
00:41:05
>> Anyway,
00:41:08
>> back to our incredible guest,
00:41:10
>> Steph. And then we'll get to Hocom.
00:41:12
>> Yeah.
00:41:14
Rose first because is it called Hulum?
00:41:17
>> Hulum.
00:41:18
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hulum.
00:41:19
>> I I watched the trailer. Of course it's
00:41:21
good when it says nightmare fuel.
00:41:25
>> Yeah.
00:41:26
>> Of course.
00:41:27
>> That just gets you running out to the
00:41:28
theater.
00:41:29
>> Well, it does because the people that
00:41:31
like scary movies are getting immune and
00:41:34
they got a goose. But I got scared when
00:41:37
it goes deep in the woods. I go, "Uh-uh.
00:41:39
I don't know. I don't know."
00:41:41
>> Yeah. Why is someone walking in the
00:41:43
woods more than 10 feet?
00:41:44
>> Right. Anything that in the woods is
00:41:47
scary. It really is frightening. It's it
00:41:51
and I'm in it and I found it super scary
00:41:54
which is
00:41:55
>> when you read it, do you get scared
00:41:56
>> while you were shooting? You got scared?
00:41:58
>> Yeah. I'm two questions. When you read a
00:42:00
script, it's a horror movie. I don't
00:42:01
read them.
00:42:02
>> Is it scary? And you kind of like the
00:42:05
idea. Of course, it's got to all kind of
00:42:07
come together. And if you picture it the
00:42:09
way you read it, you probably go, "This
00:42:11
will be great if we can do it like I'm
00:42:12
picturing it."
00:42:13
>> Yes.
00:42:14
>> Yeah.
00:42:15
>> Yes. When you're reading it, if it it's
00:42:17
it's you. It's more an intellectual
00:42:20
thing, like, "Oh, I can see how that
00:42:22
would be super scary if all the pieces
00:42:25
come together." But I had seen this guy,
00:42:27
Damen McCarthy, the filmmaker. I had
00:42:29
seen his
00:42:30
>> previous movie called Oddity, which is
00:42:33
super weird and super scary. So, I knew
00:42:36
he would be taking
00:42:38
a side door into it and and and making
00:42:41
it scary in a in a in a strange way or a
00:42:45
different way. So,
00:42:46
>> uh so that that really helped kind of
00:42:49
ensure that this was going to be
00:42:51
interesting and scary.
00:42:53
>> By the way, uh right before we came on
00:42:56
air, I saw it's at 97%
00:43:00
on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:43:01
>> Oh, that's great.
00:43:02
>> Already.
00:43:03
>> Yeah. And I think the by line is a kind
00:43:06
of movie I'd want to see. I love the
00:43:07
idea of a writer is mourning his
00:43:09
parents' death and he's going to Dublin,
00:43:11
right? Ireland. Yeah. I mean, just that
00:43:14
feels like interesting, you know?
00:43:17
>> Yeah. That's part of what's cool about
00:43:19
it is it's a real story and a real kind
00:43:22
of character piece, but then it
00:43:24
>> takes a turn and it and it's super scary
00:43:27
and
00:43:28
>> uh so yeah, I think it's I think it's a
00:43:30
it's a really fun
00:43:32
>> ride. It's it has a lot of, you know,
00:43:34
jokes and stuff, too. So, aim to you
00:43:37
because again there's a lot of people
00:43:40
out there and you get like a guy luckily
00:43:43
I mean a horror movie would be fun for
00:43:45
me if I just read it and go if they just
00:43:46
did it like this I think it'd be work
00:43:48
but when you already see a blueprint
00:43:49
this guy's already done this now he
00:43:51
knows what he's doing.
00:43:53
>> Yes.
00:43:53
>> So you're half more than halfway there
00:43:55
and then you read it you go I like it
00:43:57
too
00:43:57
>> and then you so it's
00:43:59
>> not like you're an odd choice it's just
00:44:01
it's got to be someone then you do fit
00:44:03
kind of a writery that kind of thing.
00:44:05
So, good casting, good setup, and then
00:44:09
you've seen it and it's good that it's
00:44:10
scary. I mean, that's what everyone's
00:44:13
looking for these.
00:44:14
>> I would predict that right now in
00:44:16
Hollywood, there's people in rooms
00:44:19
uh working on projects and someone is
00:44:22
saying, "Hey, do you think we could get
00:44:26
Adam Scott?"
00:44:28
>> Oh, [ __ ] That'd be great.
00:44:31
>> He's really busy. I'm just saying if you
00:44:33
look at all your stuff, the range of it
00:44:35
and you're hitting it, you know, between
00:44:37
all these shows and uh I mean obviously
00:44:41
Big Little Lies was a a smash, you know,
00:44:43
it was one of those
00:44:45
>> everyone has to see it. It was so well
00:44:46
done
00:44:47
>> and your character was just kind of just
00:44:50
heartbreaking and it's just it's you
00:44:53
know human human. Yeah, that was one
00:44:56
where I was like Parks and Wreck had
00:44:57
just ended and I was having trouble even
00:45:01
being considered for anything that
00:45:02
wasn't comedic and I just wanted to try
00:45:06
something different. So,
00:45:07
>> yeah,
00:45:07
>> I heard about that and and just went and
00:45:11
auditioned and really wanted to to be a
00:45:14
part of it. So, I had to kind of prove
00:45:15
that I could do that to to to get the
00:45:19
the role and was happy I happy I did.
00:45:22
So, were you typ cast after Step
00:45:24
Brothers or anything where like he's a
00:45:26
comedian, he can't act?
00:45:29
>> Well, it was it was funny because before
00:45:31
Step Brothers, I hadn't really been in
00:45:34
hadn't really done a lot of comedy. I
00:45:37
was a comedy nerd since I was a little
00:45:40
kid, but
00:45:41
>> but had never I always kind of thought I
00:45:44
would be like a dramatic actor or
00:45:46
whatever. And but then step brothers and
00:45:48
the way those guys work after that
00:45:51
finished I was I kind of felt like I
00:45:53
never wanted to go back. It was so fun
00:45:56
>> and uh Will and Adam and John C Riley
00:45:59
and those guys. So uh that kind of
00:46:02
changed
00:46:03
>> me and it also kind of gave me a career
00:46:05
like I was able to finally like piece a
00:46:08
career together after
00:46:09
>> well that's a big one in the alltime
00:46:11
comedies. It comes up a lot. Do you uh
00:46:15
do people know you a lot from Step
00:46:17
Brothers or is it more Severance and
00:46:19
other stuff?
00:46:20
>> It's these days it's Severance, but and
00:46:22
there's always a Parks and Wreck, but
00:46:24
definitely Step Brothers a lot. Like
00:46:27
people love they just keep watching it
00:46:30
and uh on a lot of tour buses like
00:46:33
athletes and musicians watch Step
00:46:36
Brothers a lot.
00:46:37
>> Yeah. Yeah,
00:46:38
>> that's up in the rotation for sure.
00:46:40
Yeah. I feel like if I wasn't in it, I
00:46:42
it would be one that I had seen like 30
00:46:46
times, you know.
00:46:47
>> How much did they uh allow you to be
00:46:50
playful? Were you
00:46:53
>> obviously Will they'll put a camera on
00:46:54
Will and for 10 minutes or whatever?
00:46:57
Were you given some license to try
00:46:59
things? Because that is pretty heady
00:47:01
stuff for
00:47:02
>> on film, you know, that playful
00:47:05
>> completely. and they they gave that
00:47:07
license to everybody. And that's part of
00:47:10
what freaked me out is I had never
00:47:12
really done that before. So, it took me
00:47:15
a while to figure I remember I would
00:47:17
come to set with like jokes written on a
00:47:19
piece of paper that I had in my pocket
00:47:21
and I would pull it out during scenes
00:47:23
and during my coverage just cuz I wanted
00:47:26
to get and uh just didn't know like and
00:47:29
then you know after like three months or
00:47:32
so towards the end of the shoot I
00:47:34
remember shooting a scene uh at a dinner
00:47:37
table and John C. Riley and I kind of
00:47:40
started improvising and going back and
00:47:42
forth and it just started sort of
00:47:44
flowing and it was really fun, really
00:47:47
funny. And after cut, I remember we
00:47:51
looked at each other and he was like,
00:47:53
"See there, that was fun, right?" Like,
00:47:55
like I had finally kind of at least
00:47:58
started to figure it out. Um, and uh and
00:48:02
so like I said, after that, I just kind
00:48:04
of didn't didn't really want to go back.
00:48:06
And then parks and rack there is
00:48:08
improvisation and stuff too.
00:48:09
>> A lot of people stick to the word of the
00:48:11
script and they just say that's it. Cut.
00:48:13
Move on. And it feels like you're being
00:48:16
greedy. I've been on comedies where I
00:48:17
don't even want to be greedy. Even
00:48:18
something like grown-ups when it gets to
00:48:20
your you don't want to go I'm not trying
00:48:22
to take over here. You know,
00:48:24
>> everyone's kind of throwing each other
00:48:26
jokes. But especially if you're new to
00:48:28
their situation, you don't want to go
00:48:30
>> here's my 18 things I'm going to say
00:48:32
when you got to me. But you at least you
00:48:34
start to be prepared going if they cut
00:48:36
to me I guess I'm allowed to try stuff
00:48:39
or at least say do you guys mind if I
00:48:41
say this on this one or whatever
00:48:43
>> and then you get more relaxed about it.
00:48:46
>> Yeah. And then also Adam Mccay would be
00:48:50
yelling jokes from the monitors like
00:48:52
right
00:48:52
>> if there was anything they would always
00:48:54
have a bunch of great jokes to throw you
00:48:57
and
00:48:57
>> alts and Yeah. I would just say that,
00:49:00
you know, um, before digital, it was
00:49:03
kind of, you know, it was hard to, you
00:49:06
know, can I do more takes or could I do
00:49:08
a five minute take and it would run out
00:49:10
and stuff. It seems like 1922 in the old
00:49:13
once digital came in, you could
00:49:15
>> I I just think that and I don't know if
00:49:17
Brando created a way for him, the
00:49:20
greatest ever I suppose, to discover it
00:49:23
while the camera is rolling. In other
00:49:25
words, you're not rehearsing over there
00:49:27
and you, oh, we nailed it. You're like,
00:49:29
"No, right now when you were improvising
00:49:31
like that, it's new to you." And and how
00:49:34
do you like the high of that right now
00:49:37
it's happening? You don't have to act in
00:49:39
a way.
00:49:40
>> Totally.
00:49:41
>> Yeah. So,
00:49:42
>> that was the thing that turned it all
00:49:43
upside down for me shooting Step
00:49:46
Brothers was watching these guys and
00:49:48
their lack of preciousness that they're
00:49:50
just they'll do a take or two scripted
00:49:53
and then they'll just screw around. And
00:49:56
the thing that clicked for me, I was
00:49:58
like, "Oh,
00:49:59
>> these guys, they don't have to use all
00:50:01
of this. They're just gonna play and use
00:50:04
all the good parts. That's all it is."
00:50:07
For whatever reason, that hadn't I was
00:50:09
so like dead set on getting it right.
00:50:11
And
00:50:12
>> probably because I had such limited time
00:50:14
and small roles where I was always like
00:50:16
wanting to So watching these guys, it
00:50:18
was like, "Oh, you just [ __ ] around and
00:50:20
then cut together all the stuff that
00:50:22
works, all the great stuff, and then you
00:50:24
have the great thing."
00:50:25
>> Yeah. I never got to do that. I I think
00:50:27
it's I think it's such a great thing.
00:50:30
No, not really. Not like that. Not
00:50:32
because I didn't do a movie on digital
00:50:34
where there was time time just let it
00:50:37
run.
00:50:38
>> But yeah, you can really feel it. And
00:50:39
comedy is uh exciting in the way that
00:50:42
what you think is just a throwaway and
00:50:44
then you go to the preview and it gets
00:50:46
this gigantic laugh, you know. So
00:50:49
totally or a year after it's released,
00:50:52
you go
00:50:53
>> now I'm hearing that these are their
00:50:55
favorite jokes because now they've seen
00:50:56
it 10 times,
00:50:57
>> right?
00:50:58
>> And they like the minutia and all these
00:51:00
throwaways.
00:51:01
>> But I I agree. It's so much fun to do
00:51:03
that. It's very hard for the director
00:51:04
like McKay. The harder thing is what to
00:51:07
throw away because you're throwing away
00:51:09
a 100% great joke. There's sometimes
00:51:11
when it's like there's three
00:51:13
>> and you go, "This is funny for this
00:51:15
reason. This is better. This is more of
00:51:17
a weird one. Two of these got to go and
00:51:19
that's must kill you. It's tough.
00:51:22
>> Well, I remember I went to a test
00:51:23
screening of Step Brothers which was a
00:51:26
couple months before it came out and it
00:51:28
didn't totally work yet. Like this the
00:51:32
singing in the car scene wasn't in it
00:51:35
and it was just different and different
00:51:37
jokes and they were just trying
00:51:39
different things out and then a few
00:51:42
adjustments and it it totally works.
00:51:46
David, I'm curious with it like with the
00:51:48
wrong Missy, which is so great. Um, was
00:51:52
it were you guys improvising a lot on
00:51:55
that?
00:51:56
>> Yeah, especially Lauren who played Missy
00:51:58
because there's Schwarz and there's all
00:52:00
these people and it's an Sandler movie.
00:52:02
So,
00:52:03
>> at least we're all from that world of
00:52:05
let's do weekend and
00:52:07
>> the best is just she's more the crazy
00:52:10
one. So I was have to be more
00:52:11
restrained, but I would try to pitch her
00:52:13
jokes to be and she didn't need much
00:52:15
help. I mean, honestly, to get
00:52:17
>> someone to come in sort of out of the
00:52:19
blue, she' done a lot in LA,
00:52:21
>> a lot of improv, which really helped.
00:52:23
When the first day we shot, we were in
00:52:25
the first scene of the movie really, we
00:52:26
were on a date,
00:52:28
>> and she's yelling at this guy,
00:52:30
>> "Quit eye [ __ ] me." And it wasn't in
00:52:33
the script. Everyone and then when they
00:52:35
cut, we all laugh. And then the director
00:52:37
would go, "How about a little drunker?"
00:52:39
And then she go, "Uh, okay."
00:52:41
>> But that's where you have to be good
00:52:43
because
00:52:44
>> it isn't a line.
00:52:45
>> It's just play it like you're more Now
00:52:48
defend spade
00:52:49
>> now. And then she goes, "He'll come over
00:52:51
there and beat the [ __ ] out of you."
00:52:53
That's right.
00:52:54
>> I would I don't even know this girl like
00:52:56
But it's always fun cuz
00:52:57
>> it's a fun way to react against a crazy
00:53:00
person.
00:53:01
>> Totally.
00:53:01
>> So there's like two things going on. But
00:53:03
thank you for saying that, Ed. That was
00:53:04
really fun. all those movies hopefully
00:53:07
uh especially with Happy Men just you
00:53:10
try a lot when you can and like Dana is
00:53:12
saying I'd been there in movies where
00:53:14
they go can I try something they're like
00:53:15
we have 30 seconds of film left you
00:53:17
everyone's like if you want and you're
00:53:19
like sucks
00:53:20
>> we got to cram it in
00:53:21
>> that's different than just going you
00:53:24
know let's just keep going and but we
00:53:25
got to move on at some point
00:53:26
>> that's you know I think that stood out
00:53:29
because you know people say well you
00:53:30
know if you look back it's uh step
00:53:32
brothers and uh Tropic under and the
00:53:36
hangover and and there was sort of a
00:53:38
shift and that R-rated comedy with her
00:53:41
just popped and sometimes it just
00:53:43
happens.
00:53:43
>> Great.
00:53:44
>> Just like any Rated ones out there.
00:53:46
Yeah,
00:53:46
>> it was really fun watching you play the
00:53:49
straight man in really really well. We
00:53:53
is so you were able to be the straight
00:53:54
man and really score and be hilarious
00:53:57
but also let her have all of this room
00:54:00
to just destroy. It was I appreciate it.
00:54:04
I went off of the
00:54:05
>> Ben Stiller, Jason Baitman, overwhelmed
00:54:09
guy. You know what I mean? Like they're
00:54:10
very good.
00:54:12
>> Meet the parents.
00:54:12
>> Ben going, "What's going Yeah. It's like
00:54:16
so uh it was fun to do something that
00:54:18
was that because usually I'm a [ __ ]
00:54:21
ham bone."
00:54:22
>> Um All right. Thank you. Oh, anything
00:54:24
else for this young man, Dana? Because
00:54:27
he's got to get back to
00:54:28
>> It's just just research.
00:54:32
that you do bands.
00:54:33
>> I did want to mention that cuz I I found
00:54:36
that you and Scott Arian do
00:54:38
>> Yeah.
00:54:39
>> these podcasts. Um are you talking was
00:54:43
the I guess the first one. Are you
00:54:45
talking
00:54:45
>> the first one? The first one was you was
00:54:47
you. Okay.
00:54:50
>> And are you guys deciding together? How
00:54:52
did that happen? Like I love you too.
00:54:54
Let's just do a podcast where we just
00:54:56
talk about you too.
00:54:57
>> Yeah. It was because we had uh on his
00:55:01
one of his podcasts I was just a guest
00:55:03
on it. I made a YouTube reference like
00:55:06
as a joke and he was like, "Oh yeah."
00:55:08
And we realized we were both big YouTube
00:55:11
fans
00:55:12
>> and no one else really wanted to talk
00:55:14
about it with us. Like our wives were
00:55:16
sick of hearing about you. So I was just
00:55:20
like maybe we just go through their
00:55:22
discoraphy together and uh and right up
00:55:26
to because they were supposed to have a
00:55:27
new album coming out. So and then end
00:55:29
with their new album. So we just started
00:55:32
doing that and then eventually had the
00:55:35
actual band on a couple of times.
00:55:37
>> Oh wow. Really?
00:55:39
>> Yeah. It was crazy. We went and saw them
00:55:42
in New York and interviewed them in
00:55:45
their dressing room and then
00:55:48
another time interviewed them at a like
00:55:50
the recording studio. It was wild.
00:55:53
>> Yeah.
00:55:54
>> I remember hearing in the name of love
00:55:56
just probably FM radio early 80s and
00:55:58
went okay.
00:55:59
>> That's how I felt when I first heard the
00:56:01
police as well. It's like this is new
00:56:07
>> you know and the theatricality and and
00:56:10
the
00:56:11
>> you know that you know where Cold Play
00:56:13
they have uh people influenced sort of
00:56:16
by that loose baseline they would do you
00:56:18
know it was kind of a new sound.
00:56:19
>> I love Cold Play too. I think they're
00:56:21
brilliant. But
00:56:22
>> how about the beginning of Sunday Bloody
00:56:23
Sunday went
00:56:25
>> Yeah,
00:56:29
>> it's amazing because it's all pretty
00:56:31
simple.
00:56:32
>> Uh, you know, kind of the post punk kind
00:56:35
of simple. No one's like shredding. It's
00:56:39
just really disciplined, but you put it
00:56:41
all together and there's a magic to it.
00:56:44
>> Do you remember?
00:56:44
>> The bass and the drums are such a great
00:56:46
>> I'll let you go after this.
00:56:48
>> Yeah.
00:56:49
>> Go ahead.
00:56:49
>> I don't need to go. You guys, I'm fine.
00:56:51
No, you you've got to go. They told us
00:56:54
he gets
00:56:57
>> uh but I went to YouTube in Arizona.
00:57:01
I was going after Police Academy 4 came
00:57:04
out. Dana, thank you. Oh, which answered
00:57:08
all the questions from Police Academy 1,
00:57:10
two, and three. And so
00:57:12
>> I was that your first movie?
00:57:14
>> That my first movie and I went and saw
00:57:16
it in a day with my friends in Arizona.
00:57:18
>> Yeah. And then we little sparse in the
00:57:21
theater. Then we
00:57:23
>> drove to UT Arizona ASU Stadium and two
00:57:29
trivia. They cancelled
00:57:30
>> rattling.
00:57:32
>> Oh,
00:57:32
>> they cancelled because it was the
00:57:34
governor didn't have Martin Luther King
00:57:36
holiday.
00:57:37
>> Oh wow.
00:57:38
>> So they we the show was canceled. They
00:57:40
wouldn't go on.
00:57:40
>> I remember that.
00:57:41
>> Then they came back and did Ratt they
00:57:43
did Rattling Hum.
00:57:44
>> Okay.
00:57:45
>> So I was in the audience.
00:57:46
>> Yeah. for Rattle and Hum.
00:57:48
>> Yeah,
00:57:49
>> at Sunundevil City.
00:57:51
>> Part of it like they did like maybe
00:57:52
Streets Have No Name or they I don't
00:57:54
know what they did, but
00:57:55
>> yeah,
00:57:55
>> I think they jumped around in Rattham.
00:57:57
Is that possible?
00:57:59
>> Yeah, but it ends with that big
00:58:01
Sunundevil Stadium show.
00:58:03
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:04
>> As far as I remember. the uh can I
00:58:05
mention uh I've mentioned this before,
00:58:07
but we rarely talk about YouTube, but
00:58:10
when I was hosting the MTV Music Awards
00:58:12
where David was writing on the show,
00:58:15
>> um did we did a remote YouTube
00:58:19
>> Yeah. played along with them. I didn't
00:58:21
even know if I was staying on the beat,
00:58:23
but that was quite a thrill.
00:58:25
>> Even better than the real thing.
00:58:27
>> That was right. Yeah. Bucket list.
00:58:29
>> I know.
00:58:30
>> That was incredible.
00:58:31
>> That was amazing. And I got to have a,
00:58:34
you know, a precall with uh Bono and I
00:58:38
kept calling him Bono accidentally. What
00:58:40
a [ __ ] [ __ ]
00:58:42
>> Nervous. It's Bono, man. Cuz we were
00:58:44
doing jokes like you you know, Lucky
00:58:46
Charms and all that kind of thing.
00:58:49
>> It's not I'm not I'm not booed about it.
00:58:52
I'm not booed about it at all. I'm not
00:58:54
booed about it.
00:58:55
>> Booed? Is that something?
00:58:56
>> You mean bugged? No, I'm not booked
00:58:58
about it.
00:58:59
>> Oh, don't boo. I go, "Should we do a
00:59:01
sequel to Wayne's World?" I wouldn't
00:59:03
touch it.
00:59:06
>> Hey, [ __ ] you. We'd love to have him on.
00:59:10
>> So, uh, it's crazy that you were able to
00:59:14
stay on beat via satellite with that
00:59:16
>> via moonlanding.
00:59:18
>> I had a monitor and it was just on a
00:59:19
wing and a prayer. It was kind of just a
00:59:21
basic in the pocket thing, but I I don't
00:59:23
I don't I don't know if I ever was
00:59:25
really in sync with him, but I guess it
00:59:27
appeared like I was. I remember watching
00:59:29
it over and over again. It was cool.
00:59:32
>> Jeez Louise. I'm gonna watch your stuff
00:59:33
over and over again. Okay. Big Little
00:59:35
Live.
00:59:36
>> Watch that again. Step Brothers Tonight
00:59:39
with the Wife.
00:59:40
>> There you go.
00:59:42
>> Um, so Hoko, I It sounds like a great
00:59:44
film. I know that, you know, they're
00:59:45
going to be like, "Did you mention the
00:59:46
movie?" Yeah, we did.
00:59:50
>> Thanks, you guys. Thanks for mentioning
00:59:52
it.
00:59:52
>> It's been a pleasure. I was so thrilled
00:59:54
when I saw your name come up because
00:59:56
it's just I just I just like what I like
00:59:58
what you do. I like the way your your
01:00:00
job as an actor and and you you are and
01:00:03
seem like a perfectly centered nice
01:00:05
person.
01:00:06
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01:00:09
both of you guys. So, I'm uh I'm really
01:00:12
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