"Paul Rudd"

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Speaker 1 So listen,

Speaker 1 this is, I know know Sean's favorite part of the show, the cold opening for fun, yeah. The chat shoe.

Speaker 1 Well, but no, no, no, that, that

Speaker 1 is his

Speaker 1 really favorite part of the show is what follows here. After the fun music, he gets to do his coffee chat.
But right now, he sort of welcomes the listener in. Right, yeah.
How you doing? How's that?

Speaker 1 Gets a sense of everything, asks everybody how you do it.

Speaker 1 And then, like, a little funny quip, like, what's the bit going to be? You know what I mean? Yeah, or I could do a dad joke. You know,

Speaker 1 I I could do like something like, I could do something like that.

Speaker 1 Or I know you could do that, yeah, or you could just say to our audience, you could just say, hi, hi, welcome to Smartless, welcome to Smartless. Smart

Speaker 1 Smart

Speaker 1 Less

Speaker 1 Smart

Speaker 1 Less.

Speaker 1 I have to say something. Okay, This year,

Speaker 1 you guys, both of two of my best friends in the whole world, you, both of you, are doing some of the best work I've ever seen you do.

Speaker 1 I'm hanging out with Will on the set of his movie, and I've seen some footage. And Will, the work is truly, truly incredible.
This is what I'm hearing. Truly incredible.
Mind-blowing.

Speaker 1 I've never seen it. People are going to be blown away.
Not surprised. And Jay, when I and then Jay, when I sat down and watched Black Rabbit, I've already spoken about it.

Speaker 1 It's so, this year is so exciting. I'm so excited for for people to see both of you in these two incredible pieces.

Speaker 1 And I know you cringe when I say this: pieces of art because I do believe that there's

Speaker 1 coming from

Speaker 1 the Tony Award-winning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that's not why I said it. That's not why I said, no, but you set the tone

Speaker 1 for us. You kind of let out, and you know, what a performance! Green and Spicy from the Damascus theater.

Speaker 1 And now, and now

Speaker 1 Watch him go back.

Speaker 1 That's as he's getting yanked out.

Speaker 1 Nobody thought.

Speaker 1 I have a good, wait, I have. When do we start recording this episode, you guys?

Speaker 1 I got a hard episode.

Speaker 1 Wait, listen.

Speaker 1 Sean, your guess is going crazy.

Speaker 1 Do you want me to, I know I'm going to get there, but do you want me to ask you guys a thoughtful question that we can riff on, or I have a joke, or we can just get to the guy.

Speaker 1 Choice of pattern today, huh? Yeah. What do you want? What's now? You've had some time? We haven't done one of these in a couple of weeks.
I guess you've got some.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
I'd love a dad joke. I'd like a dad joke.
Okay, well, this is the, I have, okay, I can do a dad joke.

Speaker 1 I can also do a good, this is a great joke I just heard yesterday. Fuck, you have genres of jokes, too?

Speaker 1 You have subsections?

Speaker 1 All right. So

Speaker 1 this guy, this patient is in your, that patient is in a urologist's office, and the doctor says, well, the result is that you got to stop masturbating.

Speaker 1 And the the patient says why and the doctor says because I'm talking to you

Speaker 1 I love it

Speaker 1 oh wait and then I got way too long like that but I don't have it you know what it's old how about this rust why yeah go ahead why did the Mexican why did the Mexican take anti-anxiety medication

Speaker 1 careful for Hispanic attacks

Speaker 1 oh that's all right that's okay I feel like that's okay I feel like that's great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But also,

Speaker 1 for the record, no reaction. Absolutely zero reaction.
Story of my life. Ready here.
You're in America Gaffawing now.

Speaker 1 Guys, my guest today, who's far funnier than I am, grew up in the Kansas City area, and he's a diehard

Speaker 1 Kansas City Chiefs fan. He's the co-owner of a candy store in Rheinbeck, New York.
Paul Rudd. And he once said his

Speaker 1 bring up eight hours of sleep. You got a very good thing.

Speaker 1 People often still mistake him for Ben Affleck. He met his wife when looking for a publicist after filming Clueless.
It's the hilarious, delightful, and widely talented Paul Rudd. What?

Speaker 1 Paul?

Speaker 1 Wait, did you guys hear it? Slight reveal. That's

Speaker 1 his mouth.

Speaker 1 Slight reveal. This is long.
Wait, how did you know he was

Speaker 1 city?

Speaker 1 Guys, there's only a few. There's Claire McCaskill, there's Rob Riggle, there's Jason Sidikis, and there's

Speaker 1 how do you know that? Paul, do you get mistaken for Claire McCaskill a lot?

Speaker 1 I get a lot of her emails.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it's usually when they talk about the three from KC,

Speaker 1 the big three, it's sadaika as me and McCaskill.

Speaker 1 How has it taken this long for Sean? I feel like this is Sean's fault. You don't make your deal any earlier than now.
And now finally you've given us a manageable price. Aline Kashishi

Speaker 1 was rough in the negotiations. She tanged us up on that.

Speaker 1 Are you with Aline too, Paul? Yeah. Yeah, there's a package.
That's your manager. That's great.
Always. She's great.
Great. Back when she was my agent when she was an assistant.

Speaker 1 That's how far back we go. Yeah.
No way. Oh, wow.
How about that? Wait a second.

Speaker 1 So she was working the phones for the real agent, and that real agent kind of siphoned you off on the junior slash receptionist. ICM.
It was right on, right, since kind of clueless. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. Wow.
And wait, I want to go back because I didn't know you own a candy store. Can you talk to me about the candy store, please? Sure.
Like where is the address on it?

Speaker 1 Well, it's called Samuel's Sweet Shop and it's in Rheinbeck, New York.

Speaker 1 And it was, it was, uh, it was started by a guy named Ira.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he was, it was just this sweet guy. And

Speaker 1 he passed away, sadly, when he was very young. And

Speaker 1 we didn't want the candy store to kind of go away because it's, it's not not a big place not a big town and and all the high school kids would work there and everyone needs a candy store and so uh jeffrey dean morgan and hillary burton who are neighbors of mine um uh yeah let's

Speaker 1 yeah um i know me some jeffrey dean you do

Speaker 1 i like all his performances and what

Speaker 1 anyway we all we went in and another guy named andy ostroy uh we we went in and bought the candy store and now we uh

Speaker 1 now rheinebeck is uh

Speaker 1 can't walk there from the city, right? That's a, that's a, that's a trip. You can, it'll take you a while.
Yeah. Yeah.
You'd need a lot of candy to fuel it. Yeah.
Is it it's like a two-hour drive?

Speaker 1 It's about a two-hour drive. Yeah, about an hour, depending on if you're leaving from the upper west side, it's about an hour and 45.
Well, I'll leave. I'll get a head start.

Speaker 1 The uh, Jenny Slate also owns a small store like upstate New York. Like Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 Oh, never mind. Moving on.
A general storage. She's a general storage.
Some researchers. Correll.
also. So are we going to start going down, Sean?

Speaker 1 You want to start listing people who also own businesses? Come on down to UT5 and let us know.

Speaker 1 Paul's got a candy store in Rheinback, okay, started by I. And that's it.

Speaker 1 Wait, so go back. So

Speaker 1 you met Aline that way, and then you met your wife because you were looking for a publicist. Is that right? Yes.
Well, I was the director of Clueless.

Speaker 1 You were the director? Oh, Amy Heckley.

Speaker 1 So Amy Heckley said after we filmed Clueless, I knew nothing about anything. I still don't that much, really.
Were you clueless? I was clueless. Well done, you.
Welcome to Smartless.

Speaker 1 Guys, we're cooking with gas tables. Emphasis on Smart.
I mean, yeah. By the way, I love Julie, your wife, Julie.
She's awesome. Oh, thank you.
And she loves you. Julie, that's what it is.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 She loves you guys. And she said, say hi, and she also said, say nice things about her.
So I love my wife

Speaker 1 and she's an avid listener. And then we just hear the page flip.
And then you

Speaker 1 and now it's enough of her. And so,

Speaker 1 yeah. So what were you talking about? I was talking about meeting Julie, looking for a publicist on Clueless, Amy Heckerley.
Paul, you're upstate.

Speaker 1 So you meet your wife, Julie, you meet her through, she's your publicist. We've been through that.
I mean, let's just get down to the here are the brass. Nobody really cares.

Speaker 1 You are a guy who has been

Speaker 1 working at the highest level for over 30 years. And I mean that in a way, you have been consistently doing stuff.
Comedy, drama, all this, like, right, always. No missteps.

Speaker 1 No missteps. Yeah, no, I wonder if you.
No, not even, not even Hollow. No, Halloween 6, not even that.
I saw that. You were fucking great in that.
That was 75 years ago. That was so funny.

Speaker 1 That was the first thing I ever did. The first movie.

Speaker 1 No, was it really? Is that true? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now, had you seen the first five parts? Were you missed in the storyline? I've seen all of them. I saw all of them.
You saw them all. Yeah, I love them.
I saw the first and loved it.

Speaker 1 There were five more. Is there anything else? No, there's

Speaker 1 even more than that. Yeah.
The first is a classic. When you get to six,

Speaker 1 plot holes. What are you talking about? I love that.
There's some shark jumping. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Do you end up getting killed in that one, spoiler? No, I survived.

Speaker 1 Do you get a good shot in on him?

Speaker 1 I remember, yeah.

Speaker 1 We have a, we get into it. We had some scrapes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, now, because you've done so many movies, do you really truly remember? Sorry, what Jason's asking.
No, wait, I want to wrap.

Speaker 1 What was the weapon that you guys were tossing with? Oh, you and Mike Myers? I think I hit him with a pipe. Okay.
I think I maybe hit him with a pipe. That's a good choice.

Speaker 1 So you stun him for a second, but then he continues. By the way, he runs.

Speaker 1 It didn't kill him. No, that's what's horrifying about Mike Myers is that he never runs.
He just walks because he's going to get you.

Speaker 1 He's going to take his time. Did you ever do a tie-in around Halloween at the candy store with like photos of yourself from the Vestiel Sword movie? That'd be good.
That's a great.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Will. That's a great movie.
I don't know. I haven't done it.
Yeah. I haven't really done that yet, but maybe you will be this year.
Write this stuff down.

Speaker 1 So you end up surviving six, but was not

Speaker 1 in seven.

Speaker 1 Did you know?

Speaker 1 They didn't ask me about seven. They did like a cast change like Fargo or I think they might have.

Speaker 1 I want to say in seven, it might have been Josh Hartnett. They did a white lotus swap.
That might have been H2O. Oh, H2O.
I remember that. That came back strong in 7.

Speaker 1 If I had been a reviewer of 7 and that you weren't in it, my headline for my review would have been all trick and no treat. Oh, geez.
You know? Oh, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, Paul, you're in a pretty special episode of Smarts so far. We're only 31 of you.
That's really sad. And we are not even

Speaker 1 29 of which my microphone went down. But

Speaker 1 I did want, I know. But can I know also how fun it is.
Just, you know, when to listen to-we're only halfway through.

Speaker 1 To listen to you guys before I come on and to hear the jokes, which I really, really liked. Did you like my urologist joke? I did like the urologist joke.
You're the one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm a fan of the dad jokes. I heard one not that long ago that I really liked, which was

Speaker 1 where do McKid melons go

Speaker 1 for the summer?

Speaker 1 Where? Where?

Speaker 1 To John Cougar's melon camp. Nice.
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 I've remembered my urologist joke. Guy goes in for a prostate exam.

Speaker 1 No, Jesus. No, this is.

Speaker 1 Watch this, Paul. Not going to happen.
We don't have any like a good prostate exam joke. No, Paul, watch how you bled in the joke.
Keep going, Jason. Watch this.
Go. I will

Speaker 1 fall right

Speaker 1 before I cross. Right before I chest the tape, I will fall.
Here we go. So guy walks into urologists.
Hey, he's got to get his prostate exam. And so he's got to lean over the table.

Speaker 1 He's got to get the old.

Speaker 1 And so the doctor says, okey-doke, here we go. This time, Jimmy, no hard on.
And the guy turns around and says, my name's Bill. He goes, yeah, no, I'm Jimmy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's not even.
I've heard Jason try to tell that joke 50 times. It's a great joke.
Sometimes he's like, and the guy, Paul, says, and then Paul says, Jimmy, and he goes, Bill, I'm not Paul.

Speaker 1 I'm Jimmy. And I'm like, what are you? And I looked at him.
I'm like, what are you doing? Listen, I don't write.

Speaker 1 I speak. Wait, get, we're going to get to the point.
Okay, here's Sean. Sean, I'm going to grab the reins here.
So, Paul. What are you talking about? I've been trying to get it.

Speaker 1 No, because you've been, you're all gussied up on pop-tarts. Paul,

Speaker 1 so I was saying that you've been at the top of the level. So

Speaker 1 you start out of the gate. Sure, you do Halloween 6.
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 But then you do like clue, you just do so many movies. So how was it that you came? What was the thing? First of all, what was your first professional job?

Speaker 1 Not necessarily a movie, but how did you know? Like, it seems like you've been doing it at the highest level from moment one. But what was moment one for you?

Speaker 1 Like, how did you, how did you leave Kansas City? What was that thing? Did you? Oh, yeah, I didn't have any of those questions prepared. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 Well, fuck, we're 25 minutes in, man. Whose fault is that?

Speaker 1 Well, Paul's microphone.

Speaker 1 It is, totally. It's this weak connection that I have.

Speaker 1 Thank you for saying that, Will. It's not, it's, thank you, Colin.
I don't think it's totally true. I've made many missteps, and I've been very fortunate in many instances.

Speaker 1 But when I was a kid, I just loved comedians. I loved watching

Speaker 1 SNL and all of that stuff and listening to Steve Martin albums. And

Speaker 1 I think that, you know, when I was kind of in school, we had speech class.

Speaker 1 We had a radio and TV class. I loved watching the David Letterman show and I used to start making little videos like he used to do.

Speaker 1 And I used to perform in speech competitions. And when I was,

Speaker 1 I want to say about 16 years old, my neighbor in Kansas City said, what do you think you want to study? What do you think you want to, you know, pursue? And I said, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I like the arts and I like drawing and all of that. And he said, what about an actor? It seems like that's something that you would maybe like to do.

Speaker 1 And I think it was some kind of. lightning bolt moment where I thought, yeah, maybe that is what I'd like to do.
Because I certainly always liked funny stuff and movies and everything else.

Speaker 1 And it feels like from that moment on, I decided, oh, this is exactly what I'm going to try and pursue. And I then went to school for it and I studied it.

Speaker 1 And what was these, what was this humorous interpretation thing? Because we had something similar in high school, but it was called forensics. I don't know why it was.
Yeah, forensics, exactly.

Speaker 1 This is, it was called forensics in Kansas City, too. And sometimes I would tell people I study forensics and they think it's like what Quincy did.
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Quincy, Quincy medicine. For all the young listeners, Quincy.

Speaker 1 Do we know why it's called forensics, Sean? I don't. I don't.

Speaker 1 And in high school, people would be standing against a wall and talking to it.

Speaker 1 And I didn't know what they were doing, but they were rehearsing, but really close to a wall and talking to you a wall. I thought that was the weirdest thing.
But now I get it.

Speaker 1 They were just rehearsing their monologue or their forensics or whatever it was. You sure you weren't institutionalized? You weren't in an institution at that point?

Speaker 1 It looks like an institution. You may have still been at the hospital, Sean.

Speaker 1 It wasn't even comedic forensics.

Speaker 1 Well, there were different categories. There was dramatic interpretation, humorous interpretation, prose and poetry, improvised duet acting, and

Speaker 1 yeah.

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Speaker 1 So, Paul, I heard you were a DJ for a while, right?

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, barely. You know, I

Speaker 1 thought it was like a long time. I did.
I thought it was long thing. I really did DJ.
But when you say to people that, you know, oh, I used to DJ, that sounds like it was kind of a cool thing.

Speaker 1 But the way I DJed was not cool. It was like weddings and bar mitzvahs and stuff.
Yeah. Bar mitzvahs.
And by the way, eventually it was that. The first time I DJed

Speaker 1 was

Speaker 1 I was in high school. Just an ice warm truck.
And I went.

Speaker 1 nobody they're like what we don't even have equipment in this thing um we we uh i was trying to get a job as a waiter

Speaker 1 i was in high school and um

Speaker 1 and i went to different restaurants and i had really long hair and i didn't want to cut my hair because

Speaker 1 uh

Speaker 1 i i was

Speaker 1 i was a i was a cheese ball and i'm like i gotta keep this yeah

Speaker 1 you're crushing it and so and so I was getting rejected at every

Speaker 1 waiting,

Speaker 1 you know, application I'd fill out. Like, there's no way I couldn't get a job.
And I went to this bar called Stew to Bakers, which was like a 50s bar in Kansas City. Had to be 23 to get in.

Speaker 1 They didn't want any of the younger crowd. Wow.
Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They didn't even want new drinkers. You had to have at least

Speaker 1 23-year-olds who, like, who's going to go to a 50s bar anyway?

Speaker 1 um right but you have to be born in the 50s to get it to even want to go to this place

Speaker 1 that's funny and um and so i went to try and get a job and they said we're not hiring and i saw that they had a dj booth and i said do you need a dj because i also dj which is not true i didn't but they said um Actually, we do.

Speaker 1 But here's the thing. At Studa Baker's, every hour on the hour, we do these things called showtimes, where all the waiters hop on the bar and they do like

Speaker 1 bored in a hand jive or some dumb

Speaker 1 dance thing.

Speaker 1 Sean, we don't need to, the next sentence out of your mouth doesn't need to be, you mean like this? Like this. Yeah.
Or are they still in business? Or what are their hours? Had responses?

Speaker 1 Any of those sentences are no.

Speaker 1 So you lied. So you lied, but you knew you had a stack of wax in the car.

Speaker 1 So I lied. And they said, well, here's the thing.
You got to audition because we do these showtimes. So I had to audition with a lip sync of a 50s song.

Speaker 1 Which one? I know you said it. So I chose Volar.

Speaker 1 Oh, Vol.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And

Speaker 1 which was, I just thought it'd be funny because it's in, you know, Italian.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 but I put on a tuxedo and a pompador to cover my long hair.

Speaker 1 My hair. Like an Elvis wig, right?

Speaker 1 And so anyway, I got the job. Yeah.
And then they saw that I had really long hair. And they said, you got to cut your hair.
We're a 50s bar, not a 60s bar. And I said, well, I won't do it.

Speaker 1 So they made me wear the Elvis wig every time I worked. Oh,

Speaker 1 the pompadour every time? Yeah. And it was also a really bad pompadour.

Speaker 1 So it was a really cheap wig. And so it started to lose its pompadour shape and it just turned into like a big, weird black tuft of something.

Speaker 1 And when I was working, people didn't realize that I had long hair and had to cover it up. So they just thought I was some young kid with this weird wig.
I don't know what they thought.

Speaker 1 But anyway, that started, that started my DJing career. Well, you know what?

Speaker 1 You reminds me, you make me think, you know, you hear about, you know, famously, Michael Jordan when he had his Hall of Fame speech.

Speaker 1 And then he, you know, he's being celebrated for being the greatest basketball player.

Speaker 1 And then he harped, he he really harped on like his high school coach who cut him from the basketball team and all the people who didn't like right like that. He still hung on to that.

Speaker 1 And I think we should get stickers made up and go around to these Kansas City establishments that rejected you.

Speaker 1 Stick it on the front window.

Speaker 1 This place rejected Paul Rudd. Yeah.
Right? Really let that stink linger on him. You know what I mean? Your hiring practices are ridiculous.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Ridiculous. Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 Speaking up, your original last name was Rud

Speaker 1 Rudsky. Rudnitsky? Rudnitsky? What is it?

Speaker 1 Rudnitsky. Down, like, way back, not while I was born or my grandparents,

Speaker 1 way back, great-great-grandparents. Yeah.
What? Rudnitsky. Polish?

Speaker 1 Like, Russian Belarus, that Eastern European, yeah. Have you done the thing where you do the whole look back and like, do you know, do you know, do you know your people?

Speaker 1 What they did, where they were, the wars they fought. Yeah.
And I found

Speaker 1 I found that it was mainly kind of like in an area of Belarus, yeah,

Speaker 1 something cool, a town called Holmec. Oh, well, imagine anybody's listening from Holmec, uh,

Speaker 1 your boy, you know, but no, wait, so Paul, you, you, let me tell you if I got this right, you were born in Jersey, moved to Kansas City, had a bar mitzvah in Canada, your parents were from England, yeah, so you were all

Speaker 1 in Canada. This is now I'm interested, yeah,

Speaker 1 I mean, mean why why so many different places well i

Speaker 1 being you know everyone in my family was kind of was british both my parents everyone was kind of around london my grandparents were in london but they we moved to the states um and then or my my parents did anyway uh most of the family went to canada And so I had grandparents and aunts and uncle in Toronto and in the GTA.

Speaker 1 No, he really knows it. I know it.

Speaker 1 And he said Toronto, too. This is

Speaker 1 real. I walk to the byway, get my Empire Strikes back cards in French.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Are you still a Maple Leaf?

Speaker 1 Pass the Mr. Submarine.

Speaker 1 This is all for you, Will. This is such good stuff, Pizza.
Pizza Nice.

Speaker 1 It's Mr. Sub, though, isn't it? Mr.
Sub. It's now Mr.
Sub. Did you live in Canada?

Speaker 1 No, but I'd been going there my whole life. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so most of my relatives were in Canada. So when I had to get a bar mitzvah,

Speaker 1 my parents said, well, just do it in Canada because that's where most of the family is. Where was it? In Canada? In Toronto? In Toronto, yeah.
No way.

Speaker 1 Paul, come home.

Speaker 1 Come home. Wait, and so your mom.
Sure. By the way, great.
Yeah. I will.

Speaker 1 So your parents, so your parents are in England. Your dad was a tour guide or something

Speaker 1 and was the vice president of TWA and your mom. Oh, no, he wasn't the vice president.
That would have been nice. No, he did work for TWA.
TWA was

Speaker 1 the airline

Speaker 1 TWA. Their hub was in Kansas City, which is why we wound up in Kansas City.
Oh, I see. Got it.
Got it. Got it.

Speaker 1 When my dad left London when he was a kid, he was about nine years old. And then they moved to New Jersey, his family, and they were in Patterson, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 But he eventually started working with TWA before I was born. And And he kept getting job transfers.
So we moved around a lot when I was a kid. I was born in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 And then I lived in New Jersey. And then I moved to Kansas for about a year.
And then I moved to California for a few years. And then I moved back to Kansas.
So we moved around quite a bit.

Speaker 1 But what about all the moving around and stuff? Was there like that? It's giving me anxiety. All the schools,

Speaker 1 all the kids. Oh, look at this.
Did you guys when you grew up?

Speaker 1 Did you grow up in one spot? Yeah. Did you always, I mean, Jason, you were always L.A.
Since I was seven, I've been in Los Angeles. Yeah.
Where were you before that?

Speaker 1 I was in Salt Lake City from four to seven. I was in Boston from two to four.
And I was in New York from zero to two,

Speaker 1 just

Speaker 1 outside in Rock.

Speaker 1 Oh, beautiful.

Speaker 1 But what about you adapting into all those different environments? Did you have a sibling to sort of protect you or did you do the protecting? I have a younger sister.

Speaker 1 She's two and a half years younger than me. And

Speaker 1 I think, yeah, we always were just kind of the new kids in school. We got very used to it.
We didn't really know any different.

Speaker 1 But like, did that shape your, at an age where you're kind of learning your personality and kind of what your, what your strong suit is and what isn't? You know, are you funny? Are you,

Speaker 1 like, did it, did you find that you were perhaps made you nicer earlier because you had to be accepted by these new groups all the time? Uh-huh. Yeah.
Possibly.

Speaker 1 I, yeah, yeah, I sometimes think that, you know, a good way to kind of ingratiate yourself or just not get your ass kicked is to just be kind of pleasant.

Speaker 1 And if you can make somebody laugh, then you can be accepted a little bit easier. Yeah.
I certainly was drawn and always have been drawn to people who are funny. I mean, my dad was hilarious.

Speaker 1 And I think that, you know, when I'd be, yeah, probably in some new school or something, I was, I'd go home and I'd listen to those Steve Martin records or. you know.
Yeah, that album, Get Small?

Speaker 1 Did you ever listen to that? Yeah. What about British humor? Because my mom's British as well, and she really shaped my, my taste in, in dry, kind of no-winking, you know,

Speaker 1 humor.

Speaker 1 Did your dad do that for you? Well, I think that, you know, some of the earliest

Speaker 1 things I can really remember laughing at was they used to show Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS. Yeah, I loved it.
My parents loved it, and we'd watch it, and I thought it was hilarious.

Speaker 1 I never really understood or thought in terms of like British comedy or a British sensibility, but I did always respond to that.

Speaker 1 And then, and then when Faulty Towers was on, it was just one of my favorite shows

Speaker 1 of all time. But it's like, you know, you guys like that? Monty Python's a great example because holy shit.
There's no way. You guys like Faulty Towers? Sean? Oh, Sean, you really like that?

Speaker 1 Fucking let the world know, man. Yeah, you guys discovered this.

Speaker 1 But like Monty Python, there's like, there's the broad half of the of the troop, and then there's like the dry half of the troop.

Speaker 1 Like there's Michael Palin, you know, being crazy and goofy, and then you cut to John Cleese and he's just blinking at him like you fool.

Speaker 1 Which were you drawn to? Was it the John Cleese side since you went to Faulty Towers? Well, Cleese is always, yeah, hilarious. I think that I think I just, there was an absurdity to it.

Speaker 1 And there was also something, it might have been the first time, and maybe why I was drawn to Steve Martin as well, but it was like, oh my God, there are grown-ups that are being completely silly.

Speaker 1 I remember that Twit of the Year competition as a kid and crying. I couldn't believe how funny it was to see these grown-ups acting this way.

Speaker 1 And I mean, there was still so much.

Speaker 1 with same with Steve Martin, where it was this kind of

Speaker 1 ridiculous, I'm getting happy feet kind of thing. Right.
Yeah. I want to know about glazing hams because that was one of your odd jobs out of school.
What do you mean, glazing hams?

Speaker 1 What does that even mean? It means exactly. It means glazing hams.
Yeah. Like, what does that though? What do you mean? Do you work at honey baked ham? No, that was our competitor.
Sorry.

Speaker 1 No, no. What do you mean glazing them, though? It's still touchy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a hot spot. Look, it's just, please don't bring that up to anyone at Holiday Ham Company because

Speaker 1 they had a real issue with honey baked. Wait, but how do you glaze a ham?

Speaker 1 Like, what do you do it's a whole process sean let's keep it clean here sounds like a youtube how-to video how do you glaze it is it like in a factory no no it was in a like a mini mall

Speaker 1 and um oh i see like personalized yeah there was it was like a it was a standalone store oh god baked i believe is a chain isn't it okay got it i just wanted to know about

Speaker 1 no i don't mean to besmirch honey baked no for sure no no no no no nobody took it that way no no no no thanks

Speaker 1 there's one thing i don't want to do do. It's piss off the people at Honey Baked Ham.
No. Old age.
Paul, you don't have a Target on your back now. Don't worry from the gang over at Honey Glazed, okay?

Speaker 1 I love. Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, no, no. What do you love? No, you go.
You go. What are you going to say? Guys, don't fight.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I'm going to

Speaker 1 go, Jesus. No, you go.
Is this a great place?

Speaker 1 It is a great place. It is the homer scene.

Speaker 1 I want to know where you worked. I want to know where you worked.
Oh.

Speaker 1 I worked at the holiday ham company. No, you're going to say something else about working.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I worked at this place. Yeah.
And

Speaker 1 it was a whole, when I say it was a whole process, I would get there very early in the morning and I would unload a truck filled with ham. Naked.

Speaker 1 These aren't glazed yet, right? These are unglazed. Oh, you're talking about unglazed hams.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 By the way,

Speaker 1 this isn't like

Speaker 1 pigs hanging in a truck.

Speaker 1 These were ham hocks. Are they hawks? Like Yumdi.
Sure. And they were cryovaced, vacuum sealed.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 And what I would have to do is unload a truck at like five in the morning, and then I would have to cut open. They would release them from their sheaths.
Yes, exactly. Cut open the plastic.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 I would have to put them. these entire ham hawks.
So far, I haven't heard one thing that we're going to keep in the episode, but go ahead.

Speaker 1 yeah no no this is absolutely it's boring myself as i even listen to myself so you're so there you are you're unloading you got a truck full of unloading so i got a truck so i got to put it on a thing i slice it i dice it a whole thing i got to cut it in half with a saw i put it on a spit and then i take a propane torch and a sugar sifter and i have to wear protective gear on my wrists same approach to acting same approach to your acting that's exactly right right that is how i approach all of my roles um how long were you were you longer in this job than you were

Speaker 1 at the Bevick's place, the 50s joint? Oh, at the

Speaker 1 Studebakers. Yeah, at Studa Bakers.
I went from Studebakers to Holiday Ham Company. So, you know.
Did you cut your hair before you were handling those hams? Sorry, can I ask?

Speaker 1 Did you have the long hair when you were handling the hams or did you have it? Yeah, they didn't care. No, but you had to put that shit in a net, though, didn't you?

Speaker 1 By the way, I think I had it in a net. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Net the hell. Yeah.
Yeah. It was in a net.
I was in the back. So if I was up front dealing with customers,

Speaker 1 there's no way that off.

Speaker 1 Yeah. There's no way they'd comb it out.
Yeah. Now,

Speaker 1 I can only imagine, though, you know, at least one or two of those long hairs were getting glazed into the ham.

Speaker 1 I just thought it would be a good Italian place called I Can Only Imagine. It's just cannoli.
Okay. So

Speaker 1 it's terrible. It's terrible stuff.
It's Saturday.

Speaker 1 It's Saturday, and it's free. And it's free.
So go ahead, Sean. Sean, get to your laundry list of questions and forget trying to have a conversation with Paul Rudd.

Speaker 1 Let me help you. Go down and fucking check off your fucking dog.
We got Paul fucking Rudd here.

Speaker 1 He's one of the most handsome, by the way, Paul. And I've seen it and stuff before.

Speaker 1 You always look so fucking good. So handsome.
You're so handsome. You're so good.
We're around the same age. What are you doing? Just honestly, just an email with an olive oil.
Olive oil bag.

Speaker 1 Eight hours a day. You say the most important thing is eight hours a day.
That's what you say. It isn't what I said.

Speaker 1 I think I said something about sleep once where it was like, oh, yeah, yeah, this is this, you try and get enough sleep, but I sleep a lot. I don't look at anything.

Speaker 1 You know what the secret is? What?

Speaker 1 Love. Yeah.
Oh, my God. That's our time.
That's our time.

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Speaker 1 No, seriously, Paul, anything weird ever happened on stage real quick before we're hunting?

Speaker 1 Well, yeah. You did a lot of theater.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you listen to the podcast, but I love good theater stories where something went wrong. Oh, of course.
Yeah. I do.
You get anything ready?

Speaker 1 Or you can sub it out for a Star Wars story if you ever on the story.

Speaker 1 I have lots of other questions of great theater stories. Yeah, yeah.
Something bad happened in the theater.

Speaker 1 Oh, something really bad. Yeah, no, no.
I actually,

Speaker 1 well, I've done a show where somebody died in the audience. On stage? Oh, in the audience.

Speaker 1 There was a death. There was a death in the audience.
There was somebody

Speaker 1 went

Speaker 1 to the bathroom in like the fourth row. That was an interesting thing to get a whiff of that during the scene.
No way.

Speaker 1 Somebody lost control of their battles.

Speaker 1 So not only did you kill, but you acted the shit out of that part. Nice.

Speaker 1 Bravo! Thanks, guys. Well, it wasn't me that did it.
Oh.

Speaker 1 No, that would be, actually,

Speaker 1 that would be horrible. Wait, what was the show? And Somebody Really Died? Somebody died last night of Bally Who was the show.
These were two separate occasions.

Speaker 1 Okay. Unless I'm conflating them and they shit themselves into it.
When they die, because that often happens.

Speaker 1 By the way, it's often,

Speaker 1 I think it even happens in the other order where it's like you die and then you squire swindle to shitting yourself. That's what shake that happens.
So wait, so the person died.

Speaker 1 I've had somebody, by the way, I've also done a show where somebody,

Speaker 1 in the middle of a scene, I heard a bunch of commotion in the audience and then didn't realize, it didn't subside. So it's like, what is happening?

Speaker 1 Only later came to realize that somebody in the front row of the balcony leaned over and puked on all of the people below the ball. Oh my.

Speaker 1 Swear to God. Yeah.
It was a show. It was a show called Grace.
And there was a scene. And I was doing it with Michael Shannon.
No. Michael Shannon had this long monologue.
We're doing the scene.

Speaker 1 It's just the two of us. We hear this noise.
We're both aware that like there's a commotion. But usually it dies down and it's getting louder and louder.
And Michael is

Speaker 1 pissed off and starts. screaming his lines at toward the direction of the noise.
To make a point. Which, of course, when Michael Shannon is yelling at you, like it's the most terrifying thing.

Speaker 1 It's the thing that did make everybody kind of quiet down.

Speaker 1 And then after this scene, I have to rush over to

Speaker 1 the wings to do a costume change. And I asked the stage manager, I said, What the hell's happening? What happened out there? And he's the one that said, Somebody threw up.
Somebody was drunk. Wow.

Speaker 1 Threw up over the balcony and it puked onto about 10 different people.

Speaker 1 I'm covered in bars.

Speaker 1 This show's not for you, huh?

Speaker 1 Fucking bad today.

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 should have seen the Lion King.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 Fucking wait, Sean. This is like your fucking dream come true.
I know. Million great fear stories.

Speaker 1 Wait, no. Talk about the person who died.
I mean, learn that after the fact. You're like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 They had to close down and then eventually they had to bring somebody, like a stretcher, to get somebody out of there. It's like, oh, wow.

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 it's weird. I mean, you know, you hear of people dying on stage.
Yeah. Yeah.
But you don't hear as much about people dying near the stage. Yeah, yeah.
But did you, so you stopped the show? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You stopped and they, right?

Speaker 1 We did not. You didn't keep going.
You kept going. I don't think.
Dude, are you kidding? Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 He killed. By the way, died.
The guy.

Speaker 1 We slayed him. Yeah.
Died nearing the end of the show. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm not so sure

Speaker 1 anyone realized

Speaker 1 until people were shuffling out of the theater. That one guy stayed.
It was like a nice, peaceful passing. Yeah.
It was definitely a courteous way to go

Speaker 1 for us, for the actors. That's a great.
Now, Sean, you have, I know you have plenty. I've told, I think I've told every single good one on here.
Is there one you haven't told yet?

Speaker 1 I mean, I'd have to think about it. Me and Reina are at the dinner feet.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 I've had,

Speaker 1 by the way, I had one.

Speaker 1 Now they're all kind of coming, they're flooding back. I did a scene.
I was lying on top of a bed. I was doing a scene.
I was lying on top of a bed and I'm

Speaker 1 with this woman, Rachel Weiss, was in the show, and I was wearing boxer shorts and a t-shirt. And all of a sudden, this had never happened before.
I heard the audience laughing.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, what is going on? I realized it's because I was lying on the bed. I had my

Speaker 1 leg up and kind of like,

Speaker 1 and I realized my balls were hanging out.

Speaker 1 Which is worse than actually like even your swan's penis. It's like when it's just your

Speaker 1 balls.

Speaker 1 By the way, it might have been just one ball, but it was loose. You know what's crazy about that?

Speaker 1 You know what's crazy about that? Your balls were showing in that show, and the show was the shape of things. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's exactly right. Nice.
That's exactly right. That was your show.
That was the shape of things. That's nice.
They were pendulous. I have one that's not as racist as the shape of things.

Speaker 1 It should have been, and the poster should have been your balls hanging out of your shoes.

Speaker 1 I think we've all seen the shape of those things.

Speaker 1 With the great Fred Weller, with our mutual friend Fred Weller, who we adore. Great Fred.
Yes. Great Fred Weller.

Speaker 1 You guys go back. Do you?

Speaker 1 You know, what's another one of mine? Mine is we were doing Westside Story.

Speaker 1 This isn't as funny, but we were doing Westside Story and, you know, the Jets and the Sharks, and when they negotiate the rumble, they say, you know, knives, guns, pipes, fists, whatever.

Speaker 1 And this one guy, Darren. Yeah, well, you just blew the joke.
But,

Speaker 1 you know, it's like that. So, Darren, Darren, my friend Darren, who's the most gayest man on the face of the planet and wears it with a badge of honor.
He's very, very, very funny.

Speaker 1 But he was a jet and he's trying to act tough. And, you know, during performance 250, they go, guns, knives, you know, pipes, fists.
And he just jumps out and he goes, purses.

Speaker 1 Same joke. Same joke as dance.

Speaker 1 No, I guess. I mean, I guess.
That's funny. You had to be there.
You had to be there. All right.

Speaker 1 So listen, when you're scrolling through, because you've been in, I'm going to go through before you leave. I just want, I mean, oh my God, I had all this.
You're in an hour 10.

Speaker 1 Let this guy get back into his weekend. I know.
Sorry, wild oats. No, but his credits, Your credits are fucking so.
Wet Hot American Summer and Friends. You run on Friends.
Anchorman.

Speaker 1 By the way, and then 40-year-old Virgin and Knocked Up and working with Judd Apato and role models and Ant-Man that you wrote. I didn't know you wrote Ant-Man.
That's crazy. No shit.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, one of them. One of the right.
One of the right. It was originally written by Edgar Wright, who I just worked with, who's the best.
That's the best. I love him.

Speaker 1 We love Edgar.

Speaker 1 And he's a friend of the show.

Speaker 1 He's a friend of the show. He should come on, Willie.
Adore him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, wait.

Speaker 1 What do you? I might need to be a two-parter. Yeah, I know.
There's so many things. I know.
But wait.

Speaker 1 You have to get into the fucking credits are crazy. I know.

Speaker 1 But anyway, so friendship. I don't have to get into my credit.
No, but it's incredible.

Speaker 1 The people,

Speaker 1 they want to know Paul. I know.
You know? They want to know about the moments and the movies. I can't believe they didn't mean to ask him about how years.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 you and Judd collaborated on so many of those movies that were huge seminal comedies

Speaker 1 that really

Speaker 1 defined.

Speaker 1 You think about at that time when you guys did 40-year-old Virgin, that really changed the trajectory of comedy films. Like it kind of went into a, started, it created a whole new lane.

Speaker 1 He was a great Judd Appetow. He launched all kinds of folks.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's great.

Speaker 1 The first time I ever met Judd.

Speaker 1 was it was it really is a weird thing i don't know if you guys feel this way about those steve burn records I know we've talked about them a lot, but it seems as if a lot of people in our generation, those albums had a big effect on them.

Speaker 1 Sure. Yeah.
And as did Steve Martin in general. And

Speaker 1 one time I was at a dinner and I was talking about fake names and how it's so

Speaker 1 difficult to come up with a perfect, funny fake name. And I said, a great example is Gern Blanston, which was from

Speaker 1 an early Steve Martin routine.

Speaker 1 And someone at the dinner said, Gern Blanston, oh, that explains Judd Appetow's email address. Oh, wow.
And

Speaker 1 I think at this time there was only AOL. I'm like, oh, that's hilarious.
Yeah. He's like, Gern Blanston.
I don't think he has this anymore in case anybody wants to email him.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 anyway,

Speaker 1 I went home and emailed Judd. I'd never met him.
No way. And I said, hey, man,

Speaker 1 nice reference on your email address.

Speaker 1 that's amazing and he emailed me back and that's how you guys started be and that's how we met and then and then that's amazing he emailed me back and said oh i'm glad you've emailed me it's nice to connect with you now i know who to hit up if i ever need tickets uh to a new nila butte play because i've just done a bunch of nila butte plays anyway we we anyway we kept emailing each other for about a year we became kind of pen pals never met each other and it wasn't until anchorman that i actually met him in in person oh

Speaker 1 that's crazy

Speaker 1 And when I went into audition, he was there. And it was a little bit like, you know, meeting your,

Speaker 1 your pen pal that it's like, oh my God. Wow.
I can't believe there you are. I can touch you.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to touch him, but

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 Now, your character in Anchorman looks very similar to the character in Friendship. Was that on purpose?

Speaker 1 No, it wasn't on purpose. Although in Friendship, in the script, the character that I was playing was originally called Brian, which was the name of my character in Anchorman.
Wow, wow.

Speaker 1 And I thought, maybe we should change that name just because I also have another mustache. The mustache was just something, it seemed like,

Speaker 1 oh, this is the kind of thing that this guy would probably.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, for sure. It was a weatherman.
He's a weatherman. It's really funny.
You're so good. And the movie is so great.
Well, I got to say, you know, Tim, it's really Tim.

Speaker 1 And it's Tim is so funny. And I don't know if you've ever watched, I think you should be, which I think.
I mean,

Speaker 1 he's a brilliant, brilliant. He's incredible.

Speaker 1 I mean, he really has his own take on all of this stuff.

Speaker 1 And that was just such a blast to kind of get to work with him and see what he was doing.

Speaker 1 Have you ever seen his show? What is it? Detroit? Is it just called Tim? Detroiters. Yeah, Detroiter's name? Time's Tim what? Detroiters is

Speaker 1 incredible.

Speaker 1 It's incredible.

Speaker 1 You would love him, Jason. I remember I met him when he was a writer on SNL.
And,

Speaker 1 you know, everyone, even at that time at SNL, said, oh, well, I mean, this guy, Tim Robinson, is the funniest. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And he directed and wrote and is an actor in this film, Friendship? He is starring in it. He didn't write it.
It might be the only thing I think he's ever done that he didn't write.

Speaker 1 However, the guy who directed it is a guy named Andrew, Andrew D. Young.
Yeah, he's.

Speaker 1 is he also wrote it and he's friends with Tim and completely captures Tim's voice. I mean, when I read it, I would have sworn that Tim wrote it.
Was there a lot of improv on the movie?

Speaker 1 I mean, there was some, but you know, it's like, it's funny when we kind of

Speaker 1 started Tim's, we were talking about it, and Tim said, let's take out all of the jokes. He wanted no jokes.

Speaker 1 And so it was very, it wasn't really like this perceived as this silly comedy. I mean, I know that Andy, the director, said that he envisioned

Speaker 1 the master, you know, the Paul Thomas Anderson movie. It seems like we could do like a weird comedy version, but very strange of that.
And

Speaker 1 so it wasn't really, there was certainly some improvisation, but

Speaker 1 it, you know,

Speaker 1 neither one of us was trying to really hit anything too funny. And I apologize.

Speaker 1 Can we see this now?

Speaker 1 It's coming out.

Speaker 1 Can't see it now. I think it's coming out in, I don't know, April or May.

Speaker 1 Where the fuck did Sean see it? I got a little screen. It gets a link.
So depending on when this airs, connections, perhaps. Yeah, so April, May.
It's a spring release on this, huh?

Speaker 1 Yeah, spring release. Like all the beautiful things that come out in the spring.
Well, we're really excited about it. We're really excited about you, Paul.
We love you. You're tremendous talent.

Speaker 1 I'm excited. Pasha about your career.
I think you're going to do great.

Speaker 1 Thank you. I'm so happy to be doing this.
And like, it's such a, you guys are so awesome. Show is so funny.
I'm so

Speaker 1 happy to be

Speaker 1 funny. Yeah.
I know.

Speaker 1 We broke a lean down and we got you here. Yeah.
No.

Speaker 1 Look,

Speaker 1 you guys have

Speaker 1 got a lot of people to talk to.

Speaker 1 I'm honored to be one of them. Wow.
We're very, very happy that you came here. Yeah, I'm honored that you're spending some Saturday.
I sure wish my connection was better. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Don't think twice about that.

Speaker 1 Don't worry about anymore about it. I'm not going to say anything at Honeyham's or your Wi-Fi connection.
None of it. Don't think much of it.
I'm not going to. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We didn't talk

Speaker 1 We didn't talk about the Royals. We didn't talk about the Chiefs.
We didn't talk about that. Yeah, nobody wants to talk about that.
We talked about Dodgers. Nobody wants to talk about that.

Speaker 1 By the way.

Speaker 1 You really want to lose the audience? Shut up, baby. You don't do it with Tim Rudd.

Speaker 1 You get two U's, you get two ups.

Speaker 1 I tell you who would turn the volume up: Jason Sadekis and Claire McCaskill. That's who you're right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 What's Bobby Witt going to do this year?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the great Dandee's, also of Kansas City fame, the Great Dandee's friend of the show. Gandee.
Yeah, I love Jandy.

Speaker 1 Double D.

Speaker 1 Paul Rudd. Paulie, you're just good to see you, my friends.
All the love to you and Julie and the kids. You're world class.
Tip-top. Thank you.
Tip-top, Paul. You guys are the best.

Speaker 1 And I can't wait to see you in person. It can't come here soon enough.

Speaker 1 We'll be able to do it. We're going to do a new candy shop soon.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're going to do a smartless outing. Let's do a live show from the candy shop.
Oh, there we go. Look, anytime you want.

Speaker 1 Claude Hoppers for all of you. For

Speaker 1 that's a good fake name. I know some.
Claude Hopper's. We're sweet on you, Paul.

Speaker 1 Oh, there it is.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 A beautiful button. What a button.

Speaker 1 A candy button. I'm on my way to, I cannot believe it.

Speaker 1 Polly, have a great day. We love you.
Goodbye.

Speaker 1 Thank you. I love you guys.
Thanks so much. Yes.
Thanks, dude. Take care.
Bye. Bye, pal.

Speaker 1 Paul Rudd. Paul Rudd.
What can you say? I mean, we've said this before about people, but that is an overdue of overdues. Yeah,

Speaker 1 should have been gone for us. It's almost embarrassing how overdue is it.
I feel bad I didn't get into his stuff, you know, like all the you didn't get into anything, Sean.

Speaker 1 This is one of the least prepared episodes I've ever seen you host.

Speaker 1 And I can believe a former, a former member, Jason, a former host of the year nominee, remember? Yo, for sure.

Speaker 1 Well, you know, but if he gets into the sugar like any fucking little three-year-old, you can't count on him. Guys, I've failed you

Speaker 1 I bet they are regretting that nomination a couple years ago in that gang when they well aren't you on that board too yeah the iHeartRadio yeah no

Speaker 1 these days I'm only bored when you're hosting you know what I mean yeah

Speaker 1 but uh I do think if if uh if we ever uh soften on the repeat guest policy you guys are enforcing like fucking live show he'd be a live show oh that's

Speaker 1 all be a good live show we could just go through all its credits and talk about funny stories yeah funny stories I love that. Yeah, I do like that man a lot.

Speaker 1 But, Willie, remember when he was talking about walking in Canada and he was walking on the what was it? Bye. Here comes a bye.
He was walking on the he went to the bye way

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