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Welcome to Smartless Live. I was pathetic. He tried to come out last and make some big entrance. No, no, no, no, no. I got I got I got caught up back there. Uh anyway. Hey, I'm here now. Hey. Hi. Uh why hey well hey welcome Philip d uh Los Angeles. One more crack at it. Get one more crack at it. Let him have one more crack. Um guys we're so excited we're here and thank you for coming out tonight. This is very exciting for us.

I gave Sean a big smack across the face right before we came out, and I'm just waiting for her to hit me back. So just pardon me if I'm over here. It was so loud, I can't believe you heard it. A little bit red okay. Sure it is. It's become kind of a tradition. This is how we do. Just keep him in a clean. It was so fucking hard. Fix your mic. All right, so we're very thrilled to be here. Huh? Fest pilot. Okay, that's good.

Very happy to be here. Let's get to it. This is our second time here at the Avalon. Thank you for having us. Let's say it. What's that? Thank you guys for c I'm gonna do a little set. Okay, go for it. Um This should be good. Um thank you guys for coming. Look at these. We got our nice uh we we want to thank our sponsors. We got a nice uh stuff to sit on from Ashley. Yeah we got some nice stuff from. Skinny Pop! Right Yeah. Well yeah, T shirts. Got a couple t shirts here. Look alive everybody.

Fighting. We're sorry there's no there's I don't know. Close, very close. I couldn't get it We got more coming. We got more where that came from. Right. Oh. Um Jason leaves tomorrow. I le I leave yes. I going to go work um tomorrow. Yeah. Um'cause this isn't work. This is fun. Um I'm gonna go I have to leave my family for a good long

Um this is uh it's high class problems and no I'm not complaining. Um but it's hard because I've been home for like a year. Now I'm not gonna be home for three weeks It's exciting because you're gonna direct a film that he right? Yeah. And it's very to us it's very thrilling. To you it's work, but to us it's very thrilling that you're gonna get behind the camera again and wow us with this other talent that you have that not a lot of people have. And uh it's very exciting.

I think everybody's happy that you're going behind the camera again, you know? 'Cause you're a good director. Yeah. Right, that wasn't a compliment, was it? Did he sneak in an insult? Um but you just got back from working away from home for a long time, but you had Scotty with you, so uh all you missed was Ricky. Yes, I was c we were gone for three mu three months. We just got back last week. And uh but Amanda will be with you in New York, right?

Uh no, she's gonna be here. Um Franny's gonna be with me uh that's nice for a little while and then um Amanda and Maple are gonna come out for a little bit. You know what, just just email me the itinerary, we're good. Yeah.

Um what did you what did you end up doing with your dog when you were in New York for We left the dog um nobody knows actually. The dog is still missing. No, that we we left put the dog in a uh what's it called? Uh when you're bored the Yeah. Yeah. No, when you board them. No, I'm just saying what it felt like for the dog. No, we we yeah, it it's cost a fortune, but he was with other dogs and he could play and he was good. I've been happy.

He seemed happy when we talked to him on the phone. Yeah. just meeting for the first time, what's happening? This is the weirdest. I know. Well it's different than the podcast. We are gonna have a guest that's gonna come out here in a second, so that's why we're all separated. We do have a guest. Sean and I don't know who the guest is. I really guess it is a he. Wait. We never know. Every once in a while somebody who on our Except for like the presidents of the United States.

We knew. Yeah. Um but but we gener we we really don't know, and so it's always a surprise. And we do never talk about what we're gonna talk about. The difference with this h though is that usually you guys, we guys, I don't do it, but you guys when I bring on a guest, um when we do you can Okay. I see you I see you guys uh typing on your computer, uh quickly googling that person as soon as they I don't know.

No, but not because they don't know it, but like to like come up with like questions and stuff like you're not gonna have that. ДИНАМИЧНАЯ МУЗЫКА No, it is a bullshit. I see type type typing away or Sean definitely does that. I do it b but if I don't know the person it's like if a sports person comes up I do not do that. How dare you accuse me of that? What are you basing that on? No. I'm looking at I'm messaging people, dude. I'm busy.

Playing Um yes, you're just gonna have to wing it with this fellow. I mean I don't you uh I don't know who it is and so You're gonna like him. I like him. He's a friend of mine. I just have a little something I brought with me that I want to show everybody. Oh boy, he loves to prepare. Yes. This is So today today only eight hours ago uh at eleven oh five AM this morning, Scotty and I chatted with a friend of ours who Did you say shattered? Yeah. You can't hear ourselves up here. I'm so sorry.

I we brought a friend over and we just shat everywhere. At eleven oh five, we both uh happened to chat. No, no, uh we chatted with a friend of ours and a friend of ours and a friend of the podcast and it's pretty unbelievable. And we cut together, Scotty cut together this twenty-second video to show you what we did only eight hours ago today. This is what happened. Are we going to the tape? Yeah. Yeah. Hello to everybody at the Avalon. That is so cool. Can you see my reflection?

So this is like our Kitchen table. This is our this is how we warm up food. Oh we got some garlic and onions. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. So That is so Yeah. So for forty five minutes we just were just chatting. She showed us around, she showed us the Russian astronauts and the Japanese section and the I don't know. It was crazy. So that how cool is that to see our our government, you know, tax dollars at work? But Forty five minutes you talk? Forty five minutes we hung out with her today.

What was there a phone number? W No, she she she sends us a link to uh like uh not Zoom but something else. But wait, yeah, what Google Meet or whatever. So wait, I wrote down these things. She uh they they are moving five miles a second.

And they rotate the earth every ninety minutes. That's how fast they're going. Isn't that crazy? And I said, What experience you're working on? She said, something like astronauts get blood clots, so they're doing something of that. And they're growing they're growing crops like Matt Damon and the Martian and they're

And they're DNA therapeutics, protein crystals, future propulsion systems. But what's fascinating is that she said when you go up there, something happens to the back of your eyes because there's no gravity and it flattened the back of her eyes. So she doesn't need glasses on Earth anymore. Isn't that amazing? She doesn't need glasses. And so she has twenty, twenty visions. What's that book you're reading? I just saw you. Okay.

It's my phone. Anyway, I just wanted to share that with you because that happened today. How are you because I remember when she was on the podcast. Yeah. We must have covered this. But remind me, how are you friends with an astronaut? Because of the podcast. What's with the look on your face? It's so shitty. Why are you mad at why are you mad at him? He doesn't know anybody. He doesn't he never leaves his house. He barely knows his dog. He knows Scotty pretty good.

And by the way, you just described yourself and you were describing me. Yeah, isn't that wild? Anyway, isn't that cool? I can't believe you can actually communicate with so she's currently on the space station. September. Wow. And I'm complaining about going to Jersey for free. Yeah. Exactly. But you we we can talk to her again, like we can hop on there. I asked her tons of questions. She loves it. They love it.

J B are were you thinking about like How fluid would move differently if you were up there, like in your face and stuff. No, I the you do look puffy when they do those those little hits from out of space. I wo I wouldn't be into it. Yeah. I just do radio for my Exactly. Sorry guys, camera's not working again. That's... Ready. from space. No, I don't care about this is just a bit. I don't care about All right. So There's no vanity. Do you have any more bits? Any more uh stuff for you?

Pre tape, Sean. I always have tons of stuff. I just said that we never do anything planned and then you did a went to a video package. Well I w I wanted to make sure I wanted to make sure I left space for her, but I didn't know how to plan it. Oh my god, I can't find my intro that I wrote for the What Yeah. Yeah. This is so real. Michael, bring me those cards down, please. God damn it. Unreal. I just quit smoking recently. No you didn't. What? SMOKIE! Maple Bateman. Yeah, Mabel!

All right, this is gonna be a disaster tonight. Um all right. Freestyling now. Intro the guest. It could be short. Um this guy I'm an actor. I there's supposed to be written for me and that I know I'm in deep sweat right now. Um okay. So uh this is a fella. Um he is extremely I think he's one of the greatest comedic actors we have. Full stop. Okay. That's that's a that's a good start, right?

See me vamping. Um but he doesn't just make you laugh, he makes you cry sometimes. Look at what else the all the phones are up. What's going on? Feel like Ariana Grande. Um Uh he's been nominated twice for an Oscar for fancy movies, right? Not just the comedy stuff. This guy's a big shot. He's also writes and directs movies, done a few of those. What is it, Ryan Reynolds? No, he hasn't written or directed a film yet. Um

And um and I have found that while he's incredibly talented, his heart's even bigger because we've become friends over the past few years. Um you know him from Forgetting Sara Marshall. You know him from uh n uh knocked up, forty year old virgin. Um you know him from Super bad money ball, wool Wall Street, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Jonah Hill.

I'm sweating. I'm like, what is he gonna say, dude? How are you? I was already nervous and like oh he already fucking Yeah. Yeah, what were you thinking Jonan, what were you thinking backstage when Bateman blew it with the intro? It's just a total wipeout. I I I I'm just coming back out here, uh like In crowds and stuff. My wife's here. Jason's gonna hook me up and he's like, Oh, I don't have an intro. So I'm sitting back there going like he's gonna go, He's a guy.

Yeah. That I'm friends with that I text with and like I was like, oh fuck. He probably wrote something nice and now it's gonna get like dumbed down to you know You know how to improvise. I don't I'm all right at the improvising, but you're you're the you're the Mac Daddy. You and Vince Fawn, no one better. Brilliant. Ever. Um All right. Right, so you're not in front of c you're not in front of crowds all the time. You're not up in LA, you're down in San Diego for the most part now.

Oh yeah, so okay, so real quick before we go any any further, my my wife is here, my best friend and business partner Matt Dines is here. Shout out to my beautiful wife, Liv. Where is she? What's up? And then so so I live in a very small town in San Diego and it's amazing and my neighbors are incredible people and when we had our first kid we moved out there three years ago and um uh

My neighbors are so cool. I I want to leave LA and raise a family outside of Los Angeles and and um outs away from entertainment so I can maybe come back and then you know go back and forth. And my neighbors are so cool, they never like treat me weird or ask me about my job or anything. And my neighbor is one of my great friends, Doctor Sean. Uh he never he w he never asked he's here tonight. Whoa. But hold on.

He never bothered me or was like, oh, what's this person like? And then like after like a year, we were in the sauna just chilling like two dads. And he goes, he goes, can I ask you one question? And I was like, yeah, sure, man. And he's like, Is Jason Bateman a cool guy? And that was his one question about show business. And I was like, Yeah, he's an amazing guy. And he and and he goes, He's like he's like

It's fucking cool. I'm a big fan of his. So shout out to Dr. Sean and Dr. Bob and Heidi and Laura. I love you guys. Well. You know what? It sounds like J B you might be able to get in that sauna with these guys. Listen, I love that song. One more. What do you think, Dr. John, you think JB's good in the sauna? I get super nice in the schmitt. Yeah, nice to see you all. Thanks for uh Thanks for having me. Jonah, thank you for doing this. This is a very easy no. And you said yes.

You know, you could just say, Oh, I'm down in San Diego now, you know. Now will you stay overnight or will you drive back? We're staying at a hotel, we brought both our kids and We have a new little baby who's like uh just a loop brand new baby and then we have a almost three year old, both boys. That's so nice. So now what d what do you miss about LA? When you come up, what do you like to do?

City Walk. I grew up here. It's I LA was such a cool place to grow up in the nineties because you could like Um, you know, you could go skateboard downtown or you could sneak into a movie premiere, or you could go sneak into a comedy club and see like Chris Rock or some you know, you had access to like show business stuff, but you had access to like punk and and and and skating and graffiti and all the like naughty stuff and um there was no internet. It was just so awesome and and and it was

Were you you were skating, right?'Cause your first film, mid nineties, which is awesome. That like you certainly were at least familiar with the skating culture. Were do you do you know your way around a skate park? I I mean yeah, I I still skateboard every day, like come on. You do, really? Okay,'cause my daughter Maple is we I I took her to the skate park this morning, Pedlo over there in uh in the valley. Um she's working on um Pop Shovitz, Ollie's. She just dropped in uh last weekend.

Um You're already better than I ever was. When I say a skateboard every day, now with my son we surf skate, which is like way easier. It's like um like like I don't do tricks or anything anymore. I'm too old, I'm forty two. Let's not go crazy. I'm not on a long board, Jason. I'm on a short shorter board. You were part of that skate culture just a little bit.

I loved it. Yeah, it was amazing. Like s anything skating, hip hop, and comedy when I was a kid, I was like anything about any of it, all I could do. Did you cross paths with Spike Jones at all back in the day? Well I I did a ton and Spike is my biggest mentor and one of my best friends. Incredible director. What a nice guy too.

He's like one of the most amazing people and and I and uh before I directed mid ninety I wrote mid nineties at his apartment. Oh really? And New York. We were both living in New York and um I basically spent like five years uh You know, after kind of what was it like I've been gone for a while, so I'm kinda coming back and I'm like excited because I got all like serious for a while and um

And I wasn't that happy. I wasn't that happy and then I met I had my family and I got happy and now all I want to do is be funny again, you know? So like it's uh You're always funny. It's a freaking blast to just like that's why I said yes. I'm like, I wanna go fucking be funny in front of a crowd and that'd be awesome, you know.

But the humor do you find that the humor's coming from a more uh substantial place now? That that it's I mean, you're still you couldn't shake funny if you tried, but now you've got um a a whole deeper well of of reflection and knowing yourself more and you've you've peeled the onion and now you've got a bunch of other stuff to draw upon to feed your humor, yes? Yeah, I think I mean speak for me, that's fine. Um That's my specialty.

Guys, I don't need to be here. There's no intro and I just drive back to San Diego and go. I put the question and the answer in it and then I say Totally. No, that is a good that's a good Thank you. No, but it's more like um like if you're bummed, you don't feel like being that funny. Right. And if you're happy, the first thing I thought about when I got like like had my kids and was so stoked, it was like Uh

I I connected to back when I was just like twelve and I was just being funny f for fun. Right. And I was like, that's the thing I fell in love with my whole life. Like I I dedicated my whole life to learning everything about The Simpsons and comedy history. Who did you when you were growing up in the nineties, who w who were your influences? Who who were you like, God, that that guy is so funny or that show is so funny.

But Everything like anything good, bad or in between it was a little bit more than a little bit. But like you but you're so like Jason said, you're such a genius at improvisation. The first time I saw you was on a show called Campus Ladies. Yes. And one of my best friends, Carrie Aisley, is here. Is she here? She's right there. Carrie. Carrie. Yeah. Yeah. And you were on the show with her. Oh. I got hicc- Okay. You met Dr. Sean? Sean couldn't get them. You probably can't see him.

Carrie gave me a huge break. Thank you, Carrie. Gave me a huge fucking break when I was like eighteen. Yeah. But you but but I watched you on that show and I'm like, oh my of course you skyrocketed. You were A brilliant performer, actor, improviser, all of it. And I I was just like, who is this person? So you must have Mostly the Simpsons. I think the Simpsons is like the number one thing in the entire world. Like if anything's left an impact on my life, it'd be the Simpsons over there.

Some of the greatest comedy writing of all time. It's pretty it's like such a heavy weight.

But it was but that's that was obviously there's no acting in that except for the voices obviously. So if you like shook me in the middle of the night and like what do you do? I'd be like I'm a comedy writer. That's what I do. Like I write jokes every day. Like I go and write scripts like you don't know this'cause you just see the front side of it. But I'm most of my job is writing comedy movies. That's like mostly what I do.

And um When I was young, I would VHS record The Simpsons and then pause it on the writers and write them all letters. And and to this day one of my biggest mentors and friends is David Merkin. who's like an iconic Simpsons writer. And every time like you've been to a screening of early cuts in my movies for notes, like David Merkin comes to every single screening, every table read. And he was like my childhood hero. So I wrote them all letters.

when I was like seven, eight years old. And that was my dream. Like like if I had ri uh written for The Simpsons, uh that's like would have been more than enough for Did you write a spec Simpson script? Yeah, I've written a ton of specs. No. No, I never like sent it to them. I wrote them like Oh f yeah. As like an eight year old.

They can't receive if they c well, well there's an eight year old. Well then when did when did the uh when did the performance part of it start to take hold? Like when did you think that you could be in front of the camera? Gotta think all three of you were like hams, comedic hams, right? What what happened? Did you just drift off? I just He's anarchyptic. He said he said we're all hams. Yeah, we're all headed.

Like if there was like a party at my parents' house, I'd do like a comedy show. I feel like everyone here can relate to that. So it was just always like people were like, oh, you're you're funny. And then when I got to middle school, people's parents were like You should pull him out of school to my parents and like make them a comedian. Oh wow. Yeah, people would like say you're. You were going to schools where there were some people that were in the business, like the center and

I think I'm a Nepo baby, by the way. My wife and I were just laughing about this that I'm a Nepo baby. My dad's a fucking accountant. Ask these guys, he directs a lot of shit. Do you ever hire your business manager's son for a fucking black rapper or whatever? You hired Jeffy Goldstein to play like the heavy and um but like Wait but Jonah, how old were you when we met w we met when you were you were like a you were young? Will should we take a snack break?

Yeah, you were like hanging out at my school like uh No no no We were like a trench coat on? Yeah. No, that was it. Please tell me. No, it was that like um I'm leading by example. Yeah. Is that the Wigglers? No, so I went to the school called Crossroads, which is a like full leg up because if you grow up out here and go to this school, everybody's parents are in entertainment. So to be fair, it wasn't an abstract job. That was like my big leg up where I was like

Everybody's parents here works in entertainment. So if you want to like write for The Simpsons, that's not the craziest idea in the entire world, right? Huge leg up for me to just not be like show business as abstract and far away, right? Right.

Yeah, we were literally at it was Henry Winkle. We were doing the first season rest development, and I went over there for breakfast one Saturday, and you and Max were were So Max was like my best friend in high school is Henry's son and he's an amazing guy and a great director. Great director directs a lot of the Ryan Murphy stuff right here. Long story. Um the Charlie Hunnam show he just did was incredible. Um uh Freak mon monster.

Right. And he's an amazing dude. Yeah. And so I met Will and I remember meeting Will um You were a kid. I was so hyped cause a rest I was interning for his brother and a rested development had just come out. Jake Hoffman was another buddy of yours. Yeah. He he interned on arrested development, didn't he? Yeah. Dustin Hoffman's. Is that a TV show? Oh. Yeah. It's very funny. Jonah, Sean's never seen it. Never seen it. Not a bit. I saw the first episode.

You guys have the best job in show business. I'm so jealous of you guys because This is your joining us. We're looking to replace. But like you guys have like it's like being in a writer's room like you're just bullshitting with your friends, but you don't have to make the thing at the end. He just got paid like $100 million. You never have to like make the good jokes in or edit out the bad ones. Order food and Um wait.

So you wanna be a writer, you start doing it at eight, you're in a school uh schools uh where uh the pathway to uh entertainment industry is is not unreasonable, but at what age do you do you get the first sort of on camera idea and then it actually happens. Are are you still you're still in high school? I was 18, so like fresh out of high school I started working. And you get an agent? No, no, no. So it wasn't like that. I went to um

New school. I went to Boulder for one semester and got kicked out. My mom calls it her forty thousand dollar sweatshirt. Um Yeah. She's really funny. My parents are really funny people and and and awesome people, but they uh they uh So then I went to New School and in New York City and I started just performing in like in theater school, but then performing at bars and doing like kind of stand-up.

Yeah, like stand up and then like short plays and like they would let me perform at this bar called Black and White, which is an awesome bar. Did you do black and white? No. It was so fun. It was like the most fun time. And then I started getting like a crowd of people and I was already like It's on, dude. comfortable in front of an audience and then so going to a camera then is not that much of a of a leap.

No, and then I got my first job in a movie called iHeart Huckabee's, which was like my first job. And Jake's dad Jake's dad, Dustin, was like, you should be a comedic actor. Actually, so how did that how did that come to be? How did you get in front of Dustin and w how did

It wasn't like a performance thing or anything. We were just I was just friends with his son and he would see me do stuff and I and was like and I make prank call CDs. I'd make prank call C Ds. I was like a ham. I was just like trying to be funny all the time. You were just making Dustin laugh around the house and he says us is the funniest fucking guy, but Albert was just Rob's friend. Right.

You know, and it and and Albert's Albert Brooks, right? So like so like Dustin was like, I'm doing this movie, here's I got you an audition. And so he got me in on this. You read for for the casting director. Yeah. She passed it on to David. David said, Yeah, great. And then you get on that set. And what's that like being on on a set? Are you just looking around? Well, David O was fucking nuts at that time.

Buck wild and I'm like homies with him. He's awesome, super nice guy. But at that moment in life, and I've had my own, trust me, he was buck wild, dude. There's like, you know, he was like screaming at Lily Tallman and Oh, it's online. It's online and shit. And and he'll talk about it. Like, you know, he's cool. He's one of the best directors ever. I mean, flirting with disaster and three kings. I mean, he's so goaded, it's insane. Um

And and I got on the set and I was like, everyone's screaming at each other. He the first time I walked on set, him and KK Barrett, the production designer, were joking around uh wrestling. And then it turned into a real fight. And it was like joking that like turned into a fight. And these guys are like fighting. And it was bef they were setting up my first scene to act in. And I was like, Hollywood is so tight.

I saw a fist fight on set once too that was crazy. It was so crazy. Can you say the name of the movie? Uh I don't remember. But yeah, it was this weird thing I did, but I was it was out in the desert. Listen guys. Where The point is, but I saw these two dudes, these two big dudes, like a grip and and a gaffer, get into it. And they ended up, they were arguing, and they ended up getting into a fucking fist fight. Wow.

Well full circle moment real quick, I want to give K K some shout out right now but I if I was like, if I ever get to direct movies, I'm gonna hire KK Barrett, and he did my newest movie outcome. He did. He was the production designer. The greatest production designer ever, one of them for sure. So that was like a full circle moment. It was like a dream of mine.

So from there, uh you do a great job in that movie. Um you have to wait till the movie comes out until the industry starts to see it, or does Word get out from like dailies and early cuts and stuff like that and get

My part was so small that like it didn't make a dent. It wasn't like people were like, you know, trying to give me jobs and shit. And my and then I met a guy named Peter Principato, incredible manager who is my former manager, awesome dude. And he and Will that's why I was looking at Will, sorry.

Legend and and he got me an audition for campus ladies and that was my second job was campus ladies and I got like three or four episodes on that and it was all groundlings people and on that show because it was like Will Forte and Maya Rudolph and like every dope person I was like in love with came on to the show. And then my life really kicked off when I met Judd Apatow. Right. So did those people kinda get in Judd's ear and say, Hey, you gotta check this guy out?

I think I was just starting to do like table reads. I mean, this is like inside baseball, so this might be so boring. If is this boring as shit? Okay. But so like when when somebody's gonna like has a script and they're thinking about making a movie, they'll get a bunch of really talented people around a table and they'll read it out loud and see if it makes everybody laugh and the parts like

the funny like 18-year-old. There wasn't a lot of like 18 me and Michael Sarah would be at like all of them together. You know? So um and like Seth and Jason Siegel, like all the young dudes would be at them. And then when Judd started blowing up was Um I auditioned for 40 Year Old Virgin. I met him and Seth. And then my life j from then on that day. I shot 40 Year Old Virgin. It's one scene in an eBay store. And it was rain it was raining that day.

So we were only supposed to shoot that scene for like an hour, but it was raining, so they didn't have a cover set. So we shot it a whole day, and I just improvised a whole day in front of Judd and Seth and Shawna Robertson, one of my best friends. Judd was like, what do you want to write? And I was like, you don't understand, all I want to do is write. So he wa he gave me a I had a t I pitched him two movies and he bought them.

And my parents are like, who is this guy who's molesting you? That I was living at home and I was nineteen. They're like, who is Judd Abbitow and is he like touching your wiener because like you're like a fucking A lot of time. over there. Stoner who like doesn't have a job and like why do you have a two picture deal at like Universal and you're you know like it made no sense. What were the films? One was called Middle Child which a lot of those jokes

I won't say, but i the movie maybe got swallowed into another movie. And then uh one called um one was about an imaginary friend, which is really clever script. And then neither of them got made. Right. But it but it like ingratiated me with those guys and then we went on this whole I hear this all the time, like just those two, like the title Middle Child and Something with Imaginary Friend with you writing it, where do those scripts go? Like why don't we resurrect them?

around I mean like I could probably try and clean one up and get it made but I have new new stuff. You want to take a look at it? I'll do the table raising. Are you are you accepting notes still?

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And now back to the show. Well what about what about the stroke of of genius luck that you landed in front of uh Judd Apatal like the one of the greatest sort of finders of talent and nurturers of talent. Thank you. You alone. I mean and there's what I'm doing. You could probably name twenty-five people right now that are household names that Judd has championed. Does like Kobe. I mean like he's he's so He's up there with Lauren Michaels as far as launching people into the comedy world.

Yeah, there was like me and my friends, but then there's like Lena Dunham and it went on like Amy Shu Yeah. uh saw s see something in these people and he's so great at like mining what you're going through. and helping you find your voice. And what he really did was he put me through Harvard education of directing comedy movies. So like now that I'm forty two and we have our own company, shout out Strong Baby. Um shout out Matt Dines, my bestie up there. Um and we produce the movies we make now.

I like know what to do because of Judd. Right. You know, so I'd go he'd ha and his he was blowing up. So my favorite thing was going to the table reads. because you'd have writers at the table reads and you'd dissect and give notes on the scripts and that's what I love to this day. I love like the Rubik's Cube of cracking and making better and making a comedy script better. So you're not burdened by the idea of writing. I love it. It's my favorite part of the.

process. But I mean, do you love the part where you're sitting in a room by yourself and you're staring at a blank wall and you're just trying to like trying to fill a blank page? Like to me that's the hardest thing in the business. I as as dickheadish and insane as I was when I got famous at like twenty two, like I don't take for granted a day that I get paid to write jokes. I actually think and I've

that part when I was twenty one or twenty two. But like I cannot believe I get to write jokes for my job. Right. I say it to myself every day. I'm like Structure and like character development and and and you know, all is lost on page seventy five and like all of this like stuff you've gotta like there's like uh It's the best job in the world. By the way, tell me if you notice everything exhausts him. Yeah. Dude, I if I was on smart list, I wouldn't fucking write script.

Don't you guys have like a mobile mobile company? Like, dude, if I was you guys, I wouldn't touch a computer the rest of my goddamn life. I live in Tahiti and fucking phone this in on Zoom. All right. I gotta work in Hollywood, which like doesn't exist anymore. So I'm like, I'm I'm like I'm basically a cobbler. I make comedy movies with and two other people.

Well, Jonah, tal talk to me about that. Like we I know you're were you're half joking about Hollywood being whatever you just said, like it's over, you know. Because that's the feeling out there right now is that You know, where is this going? And everybody's scared and everybody's like, what's gonna happen with AI? And especially in comedy, not especially in comedy, but like Oh thank God, a conversation about AI. Ha ha ha. Oh finally. Finally. You can't. No, but like what

You can put in a prompt. It says, Write me a joke that Jonah Hill might say on a stage with three other dudes. Like a you'll get like six jokes. So like is that gonna like affect the whole writing stuff and No, because you can't replace comedy ultimately is human human can fill that blind pain. And then you're just plusing it perhaps.

It'd be like having some grom writers in the writer's room. They'll write I'll write like fifty shitty jokes that you could rewrite or something. But they won't be They won't have the human experience that allows comedy to be funny because you gotta get dumped to to write a funny movie about getting dumped, right? Right, right. A computer hasn't been dumped. They know um

Maybe they have. I don't know. I shouldn't say that. I'm sorry to all the computers in the crowd and and um but like I I don't I don't worry at all. I also live as I I'm like I just go until they fire me. Like I I I'm so motivated by what I do and my family that like I just have two things. I have my family and writing comedy. Yeah, yeah. So like

I fit in on that. Well I'm here tonight. All right, so how close are we to super bad now at this at this point in Oh you mean like Yeah, in this in the story here where we're going to be able to do So it was 40 year old virgin and then a year later we made knocked up. And then two months after knocked up we made super bad. So like a year after I met Judd, we made super bad. I'm embarrassed I should know this And you guys were working with Michael right now. Who wrote Super Bad?

Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg wrote the most brilliant script of the first time. Yeah. And it it read it we all improvised and everyone comes up with great jokes on those movies, but their script that they wrote was like flawless. Yeah. But like do you remember m Michael Sherr going away to do that movie that was during done during the

No, but I tell you something, this is a true story. So so years ago, right before like the year before super bad There was a script that we were gonna do at at at a place I won't say'cause then you'll be able to know who is in charge. And and it was about it's this crazy great script that Mitch Hurwitz and I worked on with Jim Valley. And really, really, really funny. It turned out great. And I said to the guy who ran this particular studio, so this is two thousand super bad it was two thousand.

I mean pause for a second, you with the dates. He knows dates like Mm. So, yeah. Yeah. It's not. He'll tell you what what month was the film released in? Which one? Super bad, two thousand seven. Oh I that I don't know. I don't know. It was 2007. It's probably a summer release, right? Yeah, probably. But I remember going in and w and th this this thing that we were working on called for

This this dude, this character I was playing, and then these two teenage sons. And it was uh two teenage boys who were best friends. It was basically like a like like a three hander. And I said to the guy, this is before all that, but before forty year old virgin, I go. It should be Michael Sarah and this kid, Jonah Hill. No way. And he goes, What? No, man.

What are you talking about? And I swear to God, and a fucking year later or whatever it was, eighteen months later, Super Bad comes out and it's like a huge hit. Like normal. This dumb fuck. This fucking guy blew it and he got fired. Did he? You're out. I'll tell you after. Thank you. I'll tell you after.

Then you're gonna be able to do it. I met him at my friend's house and I I was bugging out, dude, because he was Job from Arresting Development. I was like, holy shit, dude. Like Like couldn't believe So good. These guys. Anyway. All right, so super bad happens. That's v very, very cool, very exciting, yes, but I would imagine Game changing too.

That's my question. Was it disruptive? Or did you did you flow with it pretty good? Because I know Michael Sarah was because arrested development was was was Right. finished the three seasons at Fox? 'Ca yeah,'cause we finished in in December of two thousand five. Um okay. So then that Are you allowed to say Rain Man? I remember Yes, Mary Lou Henner. Are we okay? Uh I remember Michael was just a little bit more than a little bit.

even though he'd already had some some fame, some notoriety from arrested development, Superbad was a whole nother level. Yeah. And there was a l level of adjustment for him, I know for sure. For you as well, was it was it comfortable uh for a bit? Or I mean it was exciting as hell, but it was crazy. It was just bizarre. You know, it was like Can't walk down the street anymore. Yeah, and Michael and I hung out every day still. Oh no we would go to cantors.

And Michael and I would just walk to Cantors and there people would fre we'd be talking about this shit like in the like our lives were like that movie. And people would see us and they'd freak out because it's like we walked off the screen. Into the deli. People think you're shooting a sequel It was just so bizarre. But but are you thinking'cause you're you're how old are you at that point? Twenty? twenty two. So you're not going to be able to do that.

I don't I don't think I'm not Will uh twenty two or twenty three. So you're at an age where you're thinking about, okay, I've I've I need to have a job, a career, I need to be starting thinking Five years, ten years in the future, I gotta provide, I gotta so this is are you thinking now this is I've got some momentum, this can be my career. Is it uh does it align with what your plans were, what your dreams were, what your goals were?

I uh was r obviously stoked because I loved the movie. You know, I didn't know if I'd get to work on shit I loved. Right. I knew I'd work in comedy in some capacity. Like I had the confidence enough to know like I am Professionally funny, even at like 18 or 19, whatever. But I didn't like super bad was like my dream. I was like what I wanted to see. Right. You know, so I c I c I was so stoked that Judd was in the position to make the cut.

Super Superman comes out, y uh you've got a pretty good idea that shit's working out. It's a huge head. I'm going to watch Комеді фічерсвора хуже бізнес. I'm gonna watch it tonight. Right after arrested. Yeah. Now that I have kids now that I have kids I'm like oh my god. Imagine when like my son, like who's three, like imagine him watching that movie. Oh my God. I never thought about that shit. People loved it. See you soon. Cool kids still watch it and stuff?

She loved it. That's it. She loved it a lot. She was very excited to be here tonight. But it was psycho. It was psycho. Like we couldn't walk around and and and and it was like so exciting and kind of scary. And then like you just cannot not become obsessed with yourself when something like that happens. It just is like it's impossible not to become like a weird So like a year. So everybody's going, You're the greatest.

You just have all your friends that you're still friends with from high school, but all of a sudden one of you people like respect and pay attention to. So like you just are kind of a Self-centered person because it's about you a lot of the time. Yeah. And thank God that time is over and it's not about me anymore. Yeah.

Yeah. But you're skipping over a very interesting part where you're like You're kind of you're munching on all the junk food of all that fame and all of that access and relevance and whatnot. And then you start to think, this is a question, um, what should I do about dramatic work to make sure Smartest thing I did was be like Michael. Michael had Juno come out like two months later. Juno is like Michael Jackson, dude. You seen Juno?

Michael Sarah had Super Bad and Juno come out in like six months and it was like he really he was more famous than I was and and and he retreated inward and and I was like I I'm gonna watch Juno tonight too. Best movie about Alaska you will ever see. Soft spoken in N word? And but he he he is still I will say to this, he is top three best friends in the world to me to this day. A great man We still talk like once a week. Just finished directing a movie.

Yeah, he he's in post on his movie. It's gonna be amazing. Um he's so fucking brilliant and cool and a great human being. And um but what I did was I got offered a bunch of movies for the first time and I was like Comedy space or Uh all the comedies, yeah. And I was like, I can't make a m none of these are as good as super bad. Right. So I said what to my agent, what writing jobs are available?

And Sasha Baron Cohn was looking for writers for the Bruno movie. And I I auditioned for the writer's room and I What's the writer audition like? Uh it's like you get like a day sit-in in the writer's room. But I had been in the writers' rooms with Juds and those guys. So um I got the job and I was like super I was like arguably more famous than Sasha was at that time. And I was like

A pimpley writer in his writer's room for like six months. I would ride my bike to the lot over here on Formosa from my apartment on Fairfax. And people would be like, yo, and I would just go and write jokes because I didn't want to think about like the outside world. I didn't want to think about the pressure of like what do I do now? It's such a funny move to do that. To go to go from that to then all of a sudden just to be a writer, a staff writer on the brew.

It was the best time though, man, because it was like I I was like I just got to work with one of my heroes and pitch like I loved Bruno. Like when the Aller G show came out. It was like it was like when Arrested Development came out. I was like obsessed with Bruno. So like all of a sudden I was writing Jokes and like Mickey Mouse was saying my jokes. Like you know Sasha. Like it wasn't just like Someone cool. He's an incredible talent. Yeah, he's an awesome guy. He was an awesome boss.

I kinda wanna I kinda wanna get to I think you were trying to get to it, but man, you take a long time. Uh No, I do. I'm s I probably You're allowed to. You're supposed to be speaking. We want to hear from you. Live, am I being boring or no? No, this is fascinating. We love Jonah. Sean, is this one of your favorite episodes of Marcus or? Do we flip over to like Dax's podcast, Sean, or no? Do we keep listening to this or fast for

I wanna Joe, I wanna get into because then you go and you start doing interesting things like Wolf of Wall Street, in which you're amazing. Thank you. You're so dude. You're so don't skip around. Well, yeah. And by the way, Moneyball. Oh dude, Moneyball, first of all, the really hard film to make from that book is a great book. And you're th I remember thinking like they'll never do it. It so far it's so that movie's so great. You are so great in that movie. So you do Moneyball.

Well can I say one thing before that? I don't want to jump straight to there. Did we miss a credit? I know the question you're trying to do. So the question you're trying to ask is this, in my opinion, is this, is that I got I was working for Sasha and got offered all the big comedies. And and I got offered the hangover and Cyrus at the same time. And I did Cyrus. Yeah. This is why we need agents.

Because the hangover rips and is an amazing movie, and I love Todd. But like I was like Cyrus didn't. No, no, no. But it changed my life because I wanted to do dramatic movies and comedic movies. And that script and that part was incredibly and very deep and emotional and a lot like my work today. And guess what? Bennett Miller probably saw Cyrus and he probably did not see Hangover. So he saw Cyrus and he cast me a money ball. Yeah, we're letting him speak. Sorry, I get so excited.

Now we're now we're caught up. I'm just bridging the I'm just doing a little bridge. A little bridge work. Um but so then you work Ben Miller and then you'd work with Martin Scorsese on Wolf of Wall Street and with Leo DiCaprio. What would that must have been just a a a mind blow with the first day? Well Moneyball was unbelievable. Well yeah, of course. Like Moneyball was such a trip'cause like my I remember my dad was a fan of that book and he's like, How are they gonna make Michael Lewis.

Yeah, how are you gonna make this a a movie? And Steve Zalein. I mean Bennett Miller is Not like a household name, but if you make food He is such a brilliant director, the director of that film. I mean he hasn't made a movie that dude hasn't made a movie in years. Since Foxcatcher, I think, right? Yeah, since Foxcatcher. It taught me so much in

Okay. So all these guys I would just work for them and sponge for them and write for them and like Spike at that time I would just write for him for free for like five years, whatever commercial whatever like short film he was doing or whatever I'd help on because

I was just an intern for all these great directors that I'd get the chance to work with as an actor. And then also the comedy writers. I was like such a nerd where I'd meet someone who wrote on Arrested Development and geek out over them at the mall and they'd be like, What? You know? So it was I'm so privileged because I I just love the actual work of what I do. Right. You know? So then talk about that. Rare ass thing, you know?

Yeah, I mean you s uh so you're so incredibly lucky to have been on the sets of all these incredible directors. Um you find yourself cherry picking from them, finding

Marty's like another level. He's another level than everybody ever. I feel like there's a bit of a paternal um element there between the two. You guys seem so close and and it's warm, it's genuine. He did a great cameo in this in the last film. Um Using outcome, which is on Apple if you want to watch it. Great move. Yeah. Ghana Reese. Roger. Yeah. But yeah. I the fact that I call him Marty and don't have to stop and like apologize is psychotic to me, you know, like

Simpsons and Goodfellas, I guess, would just be the two things that I think are like if you had to like take my brain and freeze it, you'd cut it open. It'd probably be those two things. And so like, so you know, I got to direct him. This was the first movie. Did you give him a note? Huh? Did you give him a note at any point?

Get your shit together, Martin. Get your shit together. Time is money, man. No, I mean like he he came in so prepared. It was honestly the whole thing was so psychedelic, like him coming to set and me directing him. It was so psychedelic. It was like

childbirth. It was like you see like colors and stuff. You're like, this is so trippy. And um but then he interviewed me for Interview Magazine and he had to talk to me about the movie. And he loved the movie. And I directed two other movies which He liked but he didn't love. Yeah. Love he's like, this is a giant leap forward, and I love this movie. And that meant a lot to me. That was fucking so powerful. Uh the critics did not agree, but you know

I I am introduced on the toilet for the first four minutes of the movie, so there's that. But you know, like to have him love the movie was fucking rad. It was fucking cool and meant a lot. And he's just the best guy. You go through withdrawal after you work with him because

The poor, unfortunate other directors you have to work with after cannot compare. No matter how wonderful, prepared, and amazing they are. They just Is there a is there one thing that that is louder to you about the experience of working with him that that is different than other directors? Nothing comes within a billion miles. Excluded, right? So you know how like he's everyone's favorite director? Yeah. So his ideology and taste in life and everything is like your favorite person.

His so it's like it's not he doesn't just uh director's work is like their worldview. So the reason you love Marty's work is because you love him. Right. You love his lens as he sees the world through and like Yeah. His taste, his humor, his fucking real realness as

As you know like you see someone in life, I here's how I know I'll be friends with somebody. When you're like at the mall and you see someone and the person's being a fucking weirdo and you look to like the person you're with and you both see it without saying anything. Yeah. Marty sees the fucking weirdo that you see.

He gets it. Like he sees it all even though he's and he's Martin Scorsese at the same time. Right. You know, like he's as human and real as like the fuck is that guy doing? And he's also the biggest genius you've ever met. You you you're so and we're all so lucky to be immersed into the thing that we chose to do because we love to do it, right? And you've been

tr uh enjoyed tremendous success, both writing and acting and now directing and everything. W is there something and that really stimulates your mind. Like you said, there's my family and there's work, right? And that's all you care about, that's all you love. Yeah. We're gonna have friends. Swear to you. We got friends. Jason is my actual friend. Great friend. Yeah, yeah He is an amazing friend. For sure. But uh say more. I'm not sure. Look up to him very much. He's a

I would call him a mentor because I admire his relationship with his amazing wife Amanda and the father he is to his children. Yes. And he's great at his job. And they don't have to be mutual. True. He's a wonderful It is very true. He's gotta go to New York tomorrow. I don't know if you heard of what he's up against. Yeah. It's just uh he's gonna Send me the intro you wrote. I'd love to read it. I kind of remembered it.It was pretty cool. I interrupted your what was your question? No idea.

Okay, I'm sorry. No, no, no. It was oh no, no, no. I mean b to being immersed so so deeply immersed in what we'd love to do, there's gotta be other things that interest you.

Like I'm obsessed with space. Yes. And and sci-fi and all that. Are there what are the other things that when j when we think of Jonah Hill? Instead of instead of work and family, what is the thing that's like, oh you know what? It's skateboarding. What is the other thing that we're like, what? I didn't know that you absolutely love. Super great question because I would be li hobbies are a huge part of my life and happiness as well. So, like, um I love Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I love

Uh except my body is is begging me to not love it. Um 42 isn't my my wife is often like, you're not gonna become like a professional fighter. You know that, right? Like you're a comedian. But let me ask you something. If we got into it I would fuck you up. You'd fuck me up, right? I would fuck all Really? Right. And that's the best part. My favorite thing is people are like, oh, Jonah Hill, a fucking fat guy from Super Bowl. And I'm like, I would fucking annihilate you. I'm not kidding you.

Refuge. Try it. If you see me, try it. Every fight ends up on the ground. Bring it. Who's got it? Unless you are way bigger than me. Fucking fuck around and find out. And also um surfing. Surfing. But then your kids take all that you know, it was all that stuff like like pandemic, no life, selfish, have no family, no m wife. But then, you know, kids, it's your life, dude. Uh you know, like it's um

There is not a free moment. Like I ask permission now to go do my hobbies. I love it. You know? Because like if the kid needs the kids need Right. You know, but then you gotta fill your own cup. That's why I call guys with Jas like Jason to be like, how do you balance this shit? Right. I I have a secret fantasy of wanting to get into a fight. Um and because I've never been into a It's not a fantasy. I feel really bad for It's it's a think of it.

By the way, I'm being funny, by the way. I would fuck you up, but I am being funny also. You you start you you like jujitsu. I'm gonna start a new one called Ground and Pound. Yeah, we're gonna I'm gonna teach it. Underpound dot com is not what you think it is. Yeah. Get it now. Um yeah, I know I've never been in a fight and I've always been like that.

But dude, acting and like I hadn't acted in a long time and now I'm out there maybe gonna take a role and like start acting for other people. I'm so excited to act. Like Almost like I'm excited about to serve for Jiu Jujitsu. Because you've been away for a while or because of the directing and now you're gonna bring that perspective to the acting?

Yeah, like the like I haven't done a movie where I acted for another director. I did McKay's movie, Don't Look Up and then and then You People with Kenya, which was such a fun experience. I saw Lauren London today. Shout out Lauren London. I fucking love you. Um shout out Kenya, shout out McKay, shout out all the homies. And then um, what am I talking about? And then so Your hobbies. Yeah, like I was like I might take a job and I'm like, dude, I'm so excited to like

Just put on the t shirt you tell me to put on and go be funny. Yeah. Like I don't have to do like I I'm so excited like I was when I was young. And so it's a fun feeling, you know? Yeah it's it yeah, I do know. What about daddy stuff? Do you what's your favorite? You were amazing. I called you back you gotta see is this thing on? Will was so incredible. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And Bradley's just a amazing dude. Who don't you like? It's more like who doesn't like me.

What is your favorite part about daddy stuff? What what's your what's your what have you found is your favorite thing to do with your kid that you kids that you didn't think that you didn't know you were gonna love? I knew I was gonna love it. I just prayed that I'd be uh able to do it in the right way. You know, so I'm so proud of what I get to do.

Every second of it is so sick because like even when he's like three and crazy, because the one of the ones a little baby, you can only yell at him, scream yourself, horse at him so much. Swaddle gas. joke. How's your swaddle game? Are you a good swaddler? No. He no he's out of yeah, no, I'm not a good swaddler. I'm a good diaper. No. Swallow. Swaddling is one you you take and you wrap up in the well they're probably past the young ones probably past the swaddling now. Yeah. But like, wow.

No. That's on groundandpound.com. It's um ¿Vamos a swaddle? For real. A great swaddler and a great diaper um changer rupper. Making your kid like seeing your kid come up with something that he thinks is funny to make you laugh, like knowing that that's Like he wants he thinks of something that is funny in his three year old mind and then tries to be like da-da and then says, which is usually oh fuck or wiener, um,'cause he's my son. And Oh fuck.

And I'm like, family business, baby, get out there. Are you enjoying well he's still a little bit to you, but like are you I'll bet you're gonna enjoy starting to feather in like your sense of humor to him and like you know, he'll start to like pick up on that from you and it'll start to maybe become

kind of his sense of humor too. Like I remember I think it was m I think it was Map Maple was it you or was it Franny? I remember I'll never forget what time. Um say one of them said to me like Daddy how come you never smile after you say something funny?

And it was like, you know, just like kinda like well,'cause if you smile then you then you know it's a joke. But if you you know you don't smile then it's kinda dry and that's like sarcasm. Like it was like so weird that I I was trying to formulate what the answer would be to that. But like you don't know what the answer is to that. It's just like Your kids have never seen you smile. That's what it is. Think about how fucking traumatized they're not.

Comedy's not so comedy's not supposed to be fun in our house. Stop laughing. I mean you don't have to teach them shit. They just watch you. Right, that's what I mean. It's like you start to just like I don't know, I it's I just I'm uh I don't wanna go tomorrow. You're gonna be brilliant. Yeah, dude, like I would be having a nervous breakdown if my kids were going to college'cause I think about I start crying sometimes. I'm like a little baby myself because

I'll look at them and be like, if like you're a teenager and don't want to hang out with me, I'll I'll cry every night. You know, like the I can't imagine them. Well here's something that somebody said somebody said to me that sort of like uh got me off the ledge when when your kids go to college, you've got a long time to go. Um and maybe You're not going to college, let's be honest. Yeah.

Maple's got another four or five years, so I'm still uh the tiers are still pretty low. Um but when Franny, my eldest, left. I was like, I I'm not going to do well with this. Fortunately, she goes to school in town, so I'm okay. But somebody said to me a few years before she left, she said, you're not losing your four-year-old.

Like it's not your four-year-old is not leaving. It's an 18-year-old that's probably been spending a lot of weekends out at friends' house and stuff like that. So it gets feathered in and it's not like boom your your four-year-old, your ten-year-old is like leaving the house. It's you're actually excited for them to start you know, leave the nest, start flapping the wings and it's it's you'll

And you've like knowing you relationship with your daughters, you you've seen them blossom into these incredible people, so you're like go shred. Yeah. We're excited to watch them go. Play the guitar. Radical. It's all it's all a blessing.

Yeah. Um all right, we're we're about done here. These people they probably wanna pee or do something or get Hell out of here. Um in closing though. Done? Oh my god. Yeah. So boring.

Um talk to us about the film that's out right now and uh the film that's coming out. That you were I saw that one too. That one's fucking great. Um you guys are gonna have to wait a little bit longer on that because you're still in post on that. Um tell it Wilson also gives the best notes'cause he's such a great director. Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Incredible. And Will and I are Will and I are friends, but it's like a newer friendship. And then Shannon and I are gonna become friends.

That's right, right after. We're gonna yeah, we're gonna watch Super Bad tonight. Yes, right. बेड़ बेड़ माव Yeah. If you'd like the shit beating out of you, please let me know. Um Sean's got a single. Come on down to San Diego, we'll treat you right. San Diego so Jonathan can beat me up. Yeah. Traffic was a nightmare. Let's go. Um so Tell us about this.

Too funny. The new movie's called Outcome, and you can stream it on Apple. And it's Keanu Reeves and myself and Cameron Diaz and the great Matt Bomer who's incredible. And a bunch of amazing people. David Spade, Laverne Cox, really amazing cast. And it's a really funny movie and if you wanna enjoy yourself at home and then pause it and take a piss and get snacks and stuff, you can totally go do it.

But it's also got filmmaker stuff in it. Like you shot it beautifully and it scored beautifully and it's like it's it's you're doing it. Um now and this and then this next one. This next one is just pure stupidity. So it is just dumb. Tell them what the concept is. It's dumb. I'm about to go on a run of just the dumbest shit you've ever seen in your entire life. So I hope you left your brains at home. So um it's called Cutoff and Kristen Wig and I played two dumbass airs.

Rich ki rich kids in their mid forties who get cut off by their rich parents. Pat Midler and Nathan Lane. So Um it is like step brothers clueless trading places just So great. Classic comedy and Kristen Wig is the American treasure. I've been so lucky. My last two movies: Keanu Reese and Cameron Diaz and Kristen Wig and Bet Midler and Nathan Lane. I'm I'm the luckiest guy, but

It's gonna be in theaters. Shout out Mike and Pam and Jesse at Warner Brothers. And um, we are trying to bring comedy movies back to. Yeah. Yeah, man, it's fun. It's about time. I haven't been. We we've been there haven't been enough comedy movies getting made and I think it's about time and I hope that you're like le I'm glad you're I am dedicating the four till you guys make me stop till People laugh.

Want more of you more often, uh higher frequency, your breaks over, move back up from San Diego. But I promise to try and make a movie every year that's funny. Uh critics, do your best, you cocksuckers. And then the um And uh I'm gonna make people laugh, so fuck y'all. That's great. I love that.

We love you, buddy. Thank you. 전엘! 전엘! I love you dude. I'm sorry I was like that because No, that's okay, that's okay. Thank you. No, we gotta do the wrap-up. Yeah, do the round. We're gonna do the rap. Uh Sean, I find is the most genuine, warmest, sincere, attentive friend um I could ever ask to have. That's a true story. That's very. Will has all of that and just happens to make me laugh more than anybody I've ever met in my life. Thank you. You're pretty good. Uh Jason. Take your time.

It's gonna take a minute. To think of something? You are, you're so Jason, you know? Which is what we love about you. You're just you're the g no. Jason is such a sweet boy. This is awkward. And no, it's true. And he's and he's you've made such a great thing of yourself. You've really turned around I mean

You kinda grew up in the woods and you just you got out and you're a beautiful person and he's and I give him shit. We give him shit for being so, you know, uh being so but he's so squishy on the inside. Yeah. He is such a sweet boy. Yes, I love I love you because you also are a genuinely kind person and you really think of other people. And I you are one of the s you're grabbing my ass right now. Yeah And you're one of the smartest people I've ever known in my entire life.

And and yes, you're squishy inside. This fella is also super squishy, the funniest person on the face of the planet. Both of them are. And I love you guys both. I love you too. And I said Sean and I were texting last night about something. And I you know, you have those moments. What one of the great things is that about our friendship and I don't know why we're doing this, but uh

is uh we love each other and and uh I think it's the age that we've gotten to where we can tell each other that we love each other. Yeah and it feels uh really great to be able to do that. Yeah. And I said Sean sent me a text last we talked on the phone, then he sent me a really lovely text afterwards. And like Jason said, th you cannot meet a person who is more consistently supportive and kind than Sean Hayes. You can try.

No, constantly. He checks in on everybody he loves. He's always so selfless and it's unbelievable. And and JB's the same. I I feel very, very honored that we get to do that you guys listen to us. Yeah. Fuck around. I don't know if you guys get to work with your best friends. They are truly my two best friends. You guys let me work with them and have the greatest time of my life and talk to some of the most interesting people in the world. So we cannot thank you enough.

Yeah, we really, really appreciate it. Yeah we do. I also want to say sorry thank you to Bennett and to Rob and to Michael Granteri. Rob Arm Yard! Yeah. Thank you. This is a this is a Where's Bennett over there? Yeah. And where's Michael Terry? Michael Cherry somewhere. Michael Terry is somewhere. There's it is it is six of us, and our great partners is serious, but it is the six of us that make this thing happen, and so without them, we wouldn't have You didn't want to let another moment go.

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