"Will Forte"

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Speaker 2 Hey, well, good morning. Hi.
Oh, did I wake you? No, no, no, no. I was just in the middle of.

Speaker 2 Well, I can tell you what you weren't in the middle of, combing your hair. Does my hair look messy? Oh, look at the back.
Oh, yeah, it's kind of sticking up.

Speaker 2 Well, it's morning time, and I haven't gone through my routine yet. So you just literally rolled out of bed and sat in front of the mic? Yeah, is that okay? Do you sleep next to the mic?

Speaker 2 I sleep in the booth, yeah. All right.
What's the name of the show we're doing today? Oh, shit, we're doing Smartless now. Yeah, right now.

Speaker 2 Welcome to Smartless. Smart

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Speaker 2 Oh, I got to read this. Wait, well, I got to read this text that Jason sent me the other day.
Uh-oh. Okay, so I was just, I'm back from Chicago, right?

Speaker 2 So when I was in Chicago, I'm staying at this hotel, and I put the slippers on that they provide inside the hotel room, and I took a shot of my feet in the slippers, and I said to Jason, hey, dumb shit, is this how you do it?

Speaker 2 Right? Like, you, because he doesn't want us, you know, he has a fear of step walking around hotel rooms. Not a fear, just a practicality.

Speaker 2 He doesn't want to walk barefoot on hotel rooms. Same way I wear shoes on the subway, you know? Okay.

Speaker 2 It's a little different. There's a lot of traffic in a hotel.
Quick sidebar, quick sidebar. Last time you were on the subway.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, you know, okay, we got our answer. Thanks very much.
Thanks for calling. Calling.
So I said, so I texted him. I go, I took a picture of it.

Speaker 2 And in the background of the picture is my tennis shoe with the little orthotic lift in it because I'm wearing that. Quick sidebar.
Last time you played tennis.

Speaker 2 You can call them sneakers. Okay.
Okay, so in the photo, in the background, is my shoe with the little orthotic lift in it, like an old man. So I go, did I get it? Listener, let's be clear.

Speaker 2 This is a, this is a, a pad that he straps on to the bottom of whatever shoe he's wearing so that he can match the height of his unnecessary walking boot that he's wearing because he's got an injured little piggy.

Speaker 2 That's it. That's right.
That's a small toe that just hurts a little bit. So in the photo is the, is the, is the slippers.
And I say, hey, dumb shit, did I get this right?

Speaker 2 Like, kind of making fun of him, but not really. So then he goes, you did get the slipper part right, but this is still very, very wrong.
And I go, that's my shoe. You jealous?

Speaker 2 And he goes, no, I know. I'm talking about the friggin orthopedic riser on it.

Speaker 2 And I said, I know, that's because of my fucking boot on the other foot, the one I'm going to ram up your blown out asshole.

Speaker 2 And he wrote, I know, I'm saying enough. Chop the toe off or develop a terrible limp.
It will not be worse than the cruise ship medical wear.

Speaker 3 Boy, I was hot that night.

Speaker 2 The cruise ship medical wear. You're still wearing a walking boot unnecessary.

Speaker 2 And this one. You're sitting.
And that colour. You're on sitting.
Sean. Sean, by the way, who said they went on a hike recently with Sean and he wore the boot?

Speaker 2 Who was it who you went on a hike with recently?

Speaker 2 But Sean, seriously, do we have an ETA, any sort of prognosis as to when you can stop the nonsense? Does the doctor say you're just stuck with this the rest of your life?

Speaker 2 No, no, no, like three months, but I don't care. What do I care? What do I look like? I mean, it's like, I got that.
Again, one more time on the injury. What exactly? What is it?

Speaker 2 It's a little tiny tear on my second toe underneath it. Right, so you have the whole boot.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You ever seen pictures of guys hitting the beach at Normandy?

Speaker 2 That's me. None of them had a boot.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So here's the deal. So our guest is somebody that we've all known for a long time and we all have adored for a long time.
Andy Richter. It's not Andy Richter.
And we love him more than we love Andy.

Speaker 2 And if Andy's listening, he knows that that's okay.

Speaker 2 He's a guy who started, he didn't start when he graduated from UCLA, he didn't immediately go into comedy. Chase Utley.
He went into not Chase Utley.

Speaker 2 Fucking Jesus. We're not doing the guessing game the whole time.
He went into finance originally. Then he started going to Groundlings and he started performing in writing.

Speaker 2 Then he got a couple of great writing jobs. He started writing on that 70s show, Third Rock from the Sun.
He then submitted, he ended up writing on Letterman. Spike Firston.

Speaker 2 He wrote on Letterman, Wally's brother, Spike. No.

Speaker 2 He wrote on Letterman, then he left that. He went back to LA, and then Lauren Michaels saw him performing, asked him to audition for SNL.
He was already a writer on many comedies, and he said yes.

Speaker 2 And thank God he did because he's brought us so many great characters over the years,

Speaker 2 not the least of which one, there was a recurring character that he then ended up making a movie out of, and he's now making a series out of it. It's our friend Will Forte.
Oh, Will Forte.

Speaker 2 look at this more comedic royalty

Speaker 2 smartness I know look at look at Will Forte Will one of my favorite things about Will is he used to his outgoing voicemail message used to be Will and I think John Solomon's singing Will

Speaker 2 Forte

Speaker 2 beep and then went into the beep that was it is that right Will

Speaker 3 it was my uh ex-girlfriend Amy Keene she sounds a lot like John Solomon.

Speaker 2 Yes, yeah, so so forte Forte, I meant it when I say we've all known and loved you for a long time.

Speaker 2 Everybody I know who knows you feels the same way, has great affection for you.

Speaker 2 You're one of the warmest, kindest, sweetest guys in this business, and you offset people like Bateman, which is nice.

Speaker 2 So would you. That was the butt.
No, there's no butt. That was the burden.
That was, because I haven't, this hasn't been unanimous from what I'm understanding from the people I talk to. Wow.

Speaker 2 But you keep going. You're talking to nicer people.
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 No, I know.

Speaker 2 Will knows who they are. Wait, you've got a list.
You know who the exact people are who don't like you.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I got a, you know, let's hear a couple of them. It's like Sean Spicer is

Speaker 2 a fan.

Speaker 2 Sure, sure. But Forte, honestly, can you, and let's go around the room here.
And I'll start.

Speaker 2 I'm pretty proud to say there is not a person on the globe where I feel like I got a, I got to, if I see them coming down the street, I'd cross to the other side of the street.

Speaker 2 Like that I just don't get along with that person. We've got a lot of baggage.

Speaker 2 um it's gonna be a nightmare if they make eye contact with me uh i don't have any any enemies i guess is what i'm saying do you guys will are nett

Speaker 2 you're saying that because you know i do well i just i'm just curious i don't think i don't think i do i i'm trying to think i don't think that i have any no i i don't think you do i i mean i no i don't think you do

Speaker 2 no i haven't i have no enemies no forte forte i certainly wouldn't cross the street because of anybody.

Speaker 3 You know, I'm trying to be better about just confronting issues when they come up.

Speaker 3 Life's about getting better. And I think for a long time I was, I don't know, just scared about stuff, try to avoid it, but trying to be better.
But, you know, yeah, there are certainly people who...

Speaker 3 I don't know, bad breakups or something, which might be an awkward situation.

Speaker 2 Did you used to be the kind of person growing up where you did keep it all inside? You were like, oh, I got to keep good face and I can't. And then it just bursts out like craziness.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. No, I would, I would, oh, sure.
I'd keep stuff in. You know, I wanted all situations to have a nice little tidy bow on them.

Speaker 2 Kilauea. Kilauea used to be your, your handle in high school, I understood, right? Yes.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Quite the volcano. Well, actually, Forte, that bring, you bring up an interesting point.
You do like to wrap things up. And I, this is something I've always admired.

Speaker 2 Will, you're often the last person to leave a party.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 2 Is that a fair assessment? He loves loves to clean. Well, he, he almost, no, but he cleans up relationships.
Like he talks to everybody. He says goodbye to everybody properly.

Speaker 2 You never do what they call an Irish goodbye. You never slip out.
You go, and especially if you've been talking to somebody, you make a point, which is really nice.

Speaker 2 I contact and you say, great talking to you. I'll see you later.
I have to go. Like you say all that stuff.
Mostly people would be like, all right, I got to go later. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 If I was the host of the party, that would put up a flare for me. I'd be like, okay, this guy clearly broke something really expensive.
Well, I remember,

Speaker 2 you know what, Jason, the first time I noticed it was one time we had, there were a bunch of people at your old house and you're in Amanda's house. And I remember Forte was there.

Speaker 2 Sean, I think you were there too. And you guys had like a party or something.

Speaker 2 And I think I was staying with you and Amanda, and Forte was by far the last person to leave.

Speaker 2 You literally said goodbye to everybody. I was like, you know what's so funny too?

Speaker 2 Because I think people think it's cool to like stand in a corner and not connect with people or leave early, like you said.

Speaker 2 Well, I think the cool thing is to stay and be the last person and be gracious and extend yourself and talk to everybody. And right, I think that's the cool thing to do.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and that's sort of my point.

Speaker 2 Will, you always make time for people. You always have conversations that are engaged.
You're not flitting around. Like you engage with people.
That's important to you, right?

Speaker 3 Yes. I mean, sometimes I feel like I've gotten worse and worse at it.

Speaker 3 I think I would do exactly what you're saying all the time. Now having a baby makes it easier to not feel bad if I have to leave early.

Speaker 3 There are just times you just have to get out at a moment's notice.

Speaker 3 And yeah, it was almost an illness how I said goodbye to people at parties. It was like, you know, I'd start saying rounds.
Oh, I didn't say bye to this person.

Speaker 3 They're going to freaking hate my guts the next time I see them if they notice that I've left without saying goodbye. And then.

Speaker 2 And now you're not getting invited to parties because of it. They're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
You invite Forte. He's going to stay all night shaking your hand and helping you clean up.

Speaker 3 And then I do a second round. It's like, it was hugging that I had to say goodbye to people.

Speaker 3 It was almost like a new party.

Speaker 2 We haven't left yet.

Speaker 2 When we were doing Brother Solomon, which we can get into in a second, hold it for plus. When we were, yeah, hold it for a plus.

Speaker 2 You're going to be holding a long time.

Speaker 2 I love that movie. I will say it every time.
I know. And you were the first and biggest fan of that movie, Jason.

Speaker 2 So we were shooting Brother Solomon, and and I remember one day I was like, Forte was always like grabbing, making sure, or he'd leave me notes on my car in anagrams, like really long, right?

Speaker 2 So, and he's, remember for a while you were speaking in anagrams.

Speaker 2 Oh, yes. Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 That was a long time ago.

Speaker 2 That was a long time ago. It was like 15 years ago.
And Forte would go,

Speaker 2 I-W-T-T-Y-L-W-Y-G-B. And I'd be like, when he'd go, I'll talk to you later when you get back.

Speaker 2 Right? Just a couple of times. For a while, for a couple months.

Speaker 2 Hopefully. For a while while he was talking like that.
So anyway, those are acronyms, right? Acronyms, not anagrams? No, no, no. Yeah, that's an acronym.
Sorry, that's an acronym. That's an acronym.

Speaker 2 That's right. Sorry.

Speaker 3 Googling anagrams. I am sorry to call you out on that, but I...

Speaker 2 No, no, no, I'm glad you did. You're absolutely right.
I said anagram, right? Yeah, it's an acronym. Sorry.
Wait, Will, didn't you have like a kind of an

Speaker 2 openly about it, and we can cut any of this if you don't want. Didn't you openly talk about having OCD? And was that one of the OCD kind of things that you would do? Something like that?

Speaker 3 That didn't fit under OCD. That was just a weird thing that I just liked.

Speaker 2 That was just a party favor.

Speaker 3 I mean, certainly it got stuck in, I just got stuck in that gear for a while. And it just like my brain would naturally, instead of hearing, hey, it was great seeing you, I'd go, H-I-W-G-S-Y.

Speaker 3 And I got pretty fast enough.

Speaker 2 He got really

Speaker 2 there. Like that was good.
That was really good. And

Speaker 2 I think it sort of tickled something in your comedy brain. And once it was active, like you couldn't turn it off.
But anyway, my point is, so I remember thinking, like, fuck Forte.

Speaker 2 We were shooting downtown. I'm like, I'm not going to let him say goodbye to me.
So I got in my car and I drove like 30 yards away. And I run out.

Speaker 2 They rapped. I ran out, got my car 30 yards away.
And Forte, I see him come back to the trailers. And he's kind of looking around.
And from 30 yards away, I honked.

Speaker 2 And he looks up the street and I went, and I just drove away. Like you got the win.
And I'm like, I'm not going to let it. What a dick.
Hey, Will, I think I'd be remiss.

Speaker 2 I want to, I want to, I know you're probably sick of talking about it, but I think my sister Tracy and a lot of viewers are kind of fascinated with origin stories of a phenomenal SNL alum like yourself and what the process was about getting the show and how did it come about?

Speaker 2 Because you are one of the best, most legendary people to come out of there. You had the best characters.
You were always, always so funny in every sketch you did. And so what was that like?

Speaker 2 I know, again, boring question for you, but really exciting for me.

Speaker 3 So what is, so how did you get the best?

Speaker 2 Like, how did you get the part? Like, how did you get the role? What was the process? What were you doing at the time? Yeah, what was your situation?

Speaker 3 So I was writing at that 70s show.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's right, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 I had been writing for like four or five years and had been on a ton of different shows that kept just getting booted after 13 episodes.

Speaker 2 Well, sorry, sorry to stop you and even go further back. How did you start writing on comedy series? Like what was, you graduate UCLA.

Speaker 2 Oh, then how do you start writing on a comedy, on a big network comedy?

Speaker 3 Okay, so I

Speaker 3 you mentioned as you were introducing me

Speaker 3 that my dad was in the financial industry. So I just jumped into that.
I thought, oh, I'm going to try to, you know, sell stocks and bonds. And I just, I hated it.

Speaker 3 It was, everyone was really nice, but it just was. Can't see why.

Speaker 2 It seems really fun.

Speaker 2 Super fun.

Speaker 2 The danger and the intrigue. The people are incredible.

Speaker 2 People in the financial sector are so interesting. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 By the way, my dad is in the financial industry well.

Speaker 2 No, I know. I have a lot of friends in the financial industry and they're

Speaker 2 they all know your dad and they say your dad's really interesting. Oh, so you weren't being sarcastic.
No, of course not.

Speaker 3 That is sarcasm. And I was

Speaker 2 the folks I've met are fascinating. Let's make the record clear.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Okay. Okay, me too.
No.

Speaker 2 No, let me just say, Dan Dees is the most interesting man in finance. Go ahead.
The most. The most.
Okay. Okay.
So go ahead, Will. So you're working finance.

Speaker 3 There's some kind of Dees nuts joke in there, but I can't.

Speaker 2 Oh, God, that's right. Okay.
I know. Look how interesting D's nuts are.
Something like that. I'll work on it.
Keep going.

Speaker 2 Keep going. Yes.
Or hey, Dan Deez nuts, right? I mean, there's just that.

Speaker 2 Let's workshop it right after this

Speaker 2 podcast. So, Will, so there you are.
So there you are. There I am.
You're in finance business.

Speaker 3 You're looking at numbers, ingesting numbers, crunching numbers.

Speaker 2 You're standing in front of a mirror naked, and you're like, what do you want to do with your life?

Speaker 2 And I just couldn't. Why are you aroused?

Speaker 3 Go ahead. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And so

Speaker 3 I just, I don't know. I don't even know at what point in my life I realized I wanted to do comedy, but it must have been years before I was, you know, everyone loves movies.

Speaker 3 Everyone loves TV shows, but I particularly loved SNL, obviously, and

Speaker 3 Letterman.

Speaker 3 So years down the road.

Speaker 2 And you you knew that you weren't unfunny based on school and whatnot. You were making kids laugh.
You knew you had a sense of humor, but how did you channel that into writing?

Speaker 2 How did you get an opportunity? Yeah, because it's a big jump from finance into being a comedy writer.

Speaker 3 Well, I first started out like, oh, the easiest way where I don't have to put myself out there is too much is to just start writing stuff.

Speaker 3 So I just started writing with this partner, Ann Blendon, was my writing partner back then, and now Ann Hutchinson.

Speaker 2 We're doing a lot of applause tonight.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 it was just such a great release, too, for this hellish job. And then I started, I don't know, I started realizing, oh, I think I'd love to try to act out the stuff that I write.

Speaker 3 So somebody told me about the Groundlings. My friend Scott Thomas, I think, was the first person who told me about the Groundlings.
And I went and checked it out.

Speaker 3 And the very first Sunday show I went to, which is the Sunday show or the newer people. It's like you work your way through the Groundling system, make your way into the Sunday show

Speaker 3 if you climb the the ladder. And the Sunday show is like the minor leagues.
And then from the Sunday show, you make it into the main company.

Speaker 3 And the Sunday show that I saw right before I took my first Groundlings class was Will Farrell, Chris Katan, Anna Gasdyer. Wow.
I think, no, Parnell was not.

Speaker 2 No, Parnell. Yeah, Parnell.
Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 It was

Speaker 2 just this.

Speaker 3 amazing group of people that I had no idea. Oh, this is going to be like the future of comedy.
Yeah. That's insane.
You just started seeing this really funny show.

Speaker 3 And I said, oh, this is, this looks like fun.

Speaker 2 And they were probably hilarious. Oh, they were amazing.
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 And there were a ton of other amazing people. That's the craziest thing about this.
Like, along the way, you go through the whole groundlings. Some of the funniest people didn't make it.
You know,

Speaker 3 it's just, there's such a luck element to it as well.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

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Speaker 2 And now back to the show. So then there at the Groundlings, there's some sort of a scout, perhaps, from 70 Show or some sort of...
Yeah, how'd you get that packet in there?

Speaker 3 Nope, as I was doing Groundlings, I was still trying to write stuff. I met Matt Rice is my agent.
He was, he had taken

Speaker 2 a very,

Speaker 2 he's a friend of the show. Matt Rice is a friend.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's, so I went to UCLA with him and dated one of his very good friends, Amanda Glazer. Right.
And so met him.

Speaker 2 Do you cross the street when you see Amanda Glazer? No.

Speaker 3 You guys do. No, no, no.
For sure.

Speaker 2 No, same strategy. No.

Speaker 3 I think we're on good terms. At least.

Speaker 3 Yeah. No, no.

Speaker 3 We haven't talked in a long time.

Speaker 2 Well, she'll reach out to you after this, for sure.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But I think fondly of her and hopefully she'll.

Speaker 2 Check your voicemail. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So anyway,

Speaker 3 we had known each other through Amanda Amanda and also we were in fraternities. I was a fraternity guy and he was a fraternity guy.

Speaker 2 We'll double back to that board.

Speaker 3 And yeah.

Speaker 3 So we were right next to each other.

Speaker 2 Really quick, I just went back at the ground links. We have a mutual friend, Carrie Aisley, and she was telling me there was one thing that you used to do where

Speaker 2 there was a sketch where it was a spelling bee and you just spelled a word and didn't stop for like 10 minutes and just picked random letters and it went on and on and on. Yes.

Speaker 3 It was, I actually, they'd let me me do it at the SNL finally. I did.
They put it up like five times and finally, I think just to shut me up and not have me put it up at the table readings again.

Speaker 2 Did it make the cut? Did it make the show?

Speaker 3 It made the show. It was, it turned out doing really well.

Speaker 2 Can I just say in the middle of this as a sideline, this is on this topic of finally, you know, we'll put it up five times.

Speaker 2 During the writer's strike, in the end of 2007, early 2008, they did a show, a live SNL at UCB at the old theater on 26th Street.

Speaker 2 And because there was no, they weren't airing any shows, so they did a live SNL, not for broadcast. Mike Sarah was the host.

Speaker 2 And basically, they just picked sketches that had never made it to air, that were like favorites of the cast and the writers and everybody, but that had never been picked.

Speaker 2 And I don't know, there were probably eight or nine sketches.

Speaker 2 And if there were nine sketches, eight of them were forte sketches that were all cast and writer favorites because they were so insane but couldn't make it onto the air because the subject matter was too hot or whatever, or they thought they were too esoteric or, by the way, just too funny.

Speaker 2 Just too funny. And of course, it was an unbelievably hilarious show, Will.

Speaker 3 That was, I mean, in all times. That was a fun night.

Speaker 2 That was an incredible night. Anyway, I'd love to have seen that.
So, Will Forte, with all of this comedic, brilliance, and you don't have to agree with it, just plug your ears.

Speaker 2 Do you feel like you where is it all? What's your outlet for all that stuff? Because you've got more in your brain than

Speaker 2 opportunity could possibly satisfy.

Speaker 2 So where is it going all? Where do you like to point it?

Speaker 3 The Smartless podcast.

Speaker 2 Yeah, good, good answer. Next question.

Speaker 2 Yeah, number two. Wait, wait, wait.
So, Will, I do want to get back to it. Sorry, and we've taken you on so many tangents here, but so you're doing this, you're doing the groundlings, whatever.

Speaker 2 You have a friend, you've got a packet, you send it to what? You just send it to Carcy Warner care of Radford Studios?

Speaker 3 I had done these weird cartoons. So I did these weird cartoons,

Speaker 3 showed them to Matt Rice. That was what made him say, oh, I think I want to sign you.

Speaker 2 And back then he was like, you're talking about sketch cartoons like New Yorker cartoons.

Speaker 3 Yeah, basically. Well, it was called 101 Things to Definitely Not Do If You Want to Get a Chick.
And it's just a bunch of dumb,

Speaker 3 like, do not kill their pets.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 3 Do not, you know.

Speaker 2 It's a good, good by the way it's a great note you know one to live by

Speaker 3 a bunch of really weird stuff and it was you know so anyway this thing got me my first couple jobs this this packet of sketches and so right as i was i had just made my way through the groundling system got my first job at the jenny mccarthy sketch show

Speaker 2 what what whoa whoa whoa that was on mtv

Speaker 3 and then went to letterman from that

Speaker 2 oh i'm so sorry about no i love her This is what eight and a half month old kids do. Yeah.
You're just, you know what you are? You're just a pacifier away from peace.

Speaker 2 Just they're plugs, little, little corks.

Speaker 3 So sorry.

Speaker 2 Okay. Don't ever apologize, Will.

Speaker 3 So sorry. Not for that.

Speaker 2 Apologize for a lot of other stuff. No, that little asshole needs to.
Hang on, Will. Jesus.

Speaker 2 Jesus, Will, but your mic is still on.

Speaker 3 No, I know. She needs, she's

Speaker 3 we put headphones on her so she could listen.

Speaker 2 Oh, she's listening.

Speaker 2 She's quiet because I give her the she's got notes.

Speaker 3 So went to Letterman from there, and this was working my way.

Speaker 2 How is Letterman? I mean, was that a dream come true?

Speaker 3 It was a dream come true. It was also,

Speaker 3 it was my second job. This is, I was terrified.
I did not do as good a job.

Speaker 3 I thought it was going to be a match made in heaven because this is like, he's my all-time, one of my all-time comedy heroes.

Speaker 2 He's the same, same, same, same, same.

Speaker 3 And just grew up, he was part of the formation of my sensibilities, you know, just dash of this, dash of that.

Speaker 2 What was the writing process like on that show? Was it basically writing monologues or coming up with top 10 things?

Speaker 3 No, at the time, there was a guy,

Speaker 3 Bill Schaft, was writing the monologue stuff. And we would do top 10 lists, we'd do viewer mail, we'd do

Speaker 3 sketches. So everything.
that was comedy stuff besides the monologues was was the writers and there was a team of I don't know, 12 or 14 or something like that.

Speaker 2 And you sit around a table every day or was it once a week or

Speaker 3 you would never sit around a table.

Speaker 3 You would write stuff in your office and then you'd turn it into

Speaker 3 some thing on a door.

Speaker 2 Oh, really?

Speaker 3 And then...

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was an interesting system.

Speaker 2 You mean like one of those little folder catchers, like on the outside of a doctor door? You'd just drop your ideas.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 3 That's exactly it.

Speaker 2 And you wouldn't work with the other writers?

Speaker 3 Sometimes you would. Sometimes you'd go in and write.

Speaker 3 I have

Speaker 3 a lot of guys I still am friends with. Rodney Rothman was writing there when I was there.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Carter and Craig, I don't know if you know those guys.
They were good friends.

Speaker 3 Everyone was really.

Speaker 2 Did Glazer write on Letterman before Conan or no?

Speaker 3 I don't think so.

Speaker 3 Glazer, though, he was on the Jenny McCarthy sketch show. Oh, he was? John Glazer.

Speaker 2 I think that was his second show he had worked on. John Glazer, one of the all-time funniest dudes.
Yeah. Will, do you miss Saturday Night Live? Do you miss

Speaker 2 the camaraderie, the writing of the sketches, the being in the sketches, the schedule?

Speaker 2 Snacks? Every week?

Speaker 3 The schedule, no.

Speaker 3 I miss all the people. Yeah.
But, you know,

Speaker 3 they become like a family. So

Speaker 3 you still keep in touch with everybody.

Speaker 2 But do you miss being on the show and getting your ideas out in that way?

Speaker 3 I was always nervous about the show. Yes, I do miss the show, but I also,

Speaker 3 there's not really a part of me that wishes i was still too much anxiety

Speaker 3 very stressful and and i was i watched fred i came in the year with with uh that fred came in too fred armison listener fred armison and and he just had such a joy to perform and and wasn't nervous at all and i was just shitting my pants all the time i was terrified it got better over the years but it still was something that was

Speaker 3 Just always terrifying for me.

Speaker 2 You were always very fastidious about it, too. Like you were when you you were in the, I remember pre-show, you would always be going over your shit or whatever.
You'd always be like really in it.

Speaker 2 Like you didn't,

Speaker 2 not to say that you weren't loose, but you were, you, it was important to you to do it well and do it right. Like you're, you're very meticulous that way.
And I mean that as a compliment, by the way.

Speaker 3 Well, it's, it, it, that can be a really good thing and a really bad thing.

Speaker 3 And, and, you know, sometimes it would be great because sometimes that level of preparation and, and trying to hit stuff in a certain way really works. And then sometimes you're just too tight.

Speaker 2 It just kind of seems like there's always a good balance between cast members that take it very, very loosely.

Speaker 2 Like in other words, kind of smiling all the way through it, almost laughing all the way through it. And then other ones that are almost off-book.

Speaker 2 You don't even need the cue cards. They're so well rehearsed and

Speaker 2 serious about it. It's a sort of a great little cocktail.

Speaker 3 But bottom line,

Speaker 3 the experience of a lifetime, it's what an honor to be there. But I'm happy to watch it as a viewer now because I get stressed.
Even when I watch it as a viewer, I go.

Speaker 2 How weird is it now, though, all these years later, and you start writing this,

Speaker 2 you know, you start this character, you and Solomon write this character, Magruber, this sketch. So fun.

Speaker 2 That is super, I know, there's not enough room for the applause. And

Speaker 2 you start this character, this running bit, which is so great. I love the way that the bit is always a runner in the show.

Speaker 2 So it's always a series of like three or four little minute-long things, right?

Speaker 2 And you do that over the course of a number of years, then you make the movie, and then now years later, you guys have just made the series.

Speaker 2 Magruber, is it weird to think like, we just wrote that as a bit

Speaker 2 and we're doing it now as 2021.

Speaker 2 Very weird.

Speaker 3 When we first did it, I thought the first one was like... It was fun and fine, but

Speaker 3 I don't think any of us ever thought this will be anything more than just a one-off little short that we do.

Speaker 3 I was kind of surprised that the audience seemed to respond to it.

Speaker 2 I was like, oh, you like this, huh? Well, MacGyver was a very big hit at the time that you guys launched that.

Speaker 2 Can I ask an in-the-weeds question?

Speaker 2 Is the Magruber and the whole thing, is it close enough creatively

Speaker 2 for you guys to have to cut in the MacGyver people on rights and licensing and all that stuff? Or did you get enough separation where you you don't have to worry about that?

Speaker 3 That was something that was

Speaker 3 tough during the movie because we trying to,

Speaker 3 I think there was a cease and desist letter, and then we had to make sure to go in and

Speaker 3 at the end of the day, with the movie stuff, especially, there was not a ton of crossover between

Speaker 3 what Magruber does and what MacGyver did. You know, it was it was a jumping off point.
And then it kind of, you know, the sketches, definitely, yes.

Speaker 3 But then once the, the movie version of it is so different than the sketches, there's like a whole different mythology.

Speaker 3 So the good thing about, you know, we just got a chance to do it as a series and we're just finishing editing it right now.

Speaker 3 But early on when we were trying to do this, the MacGyver people gave us their blessing. And so that was an awesome thing.
That was just like a green light and we didn't have to worry about it.

Speaker 2 one of my favorite movie quite literally cinema scenes of all time can I guess what it is and and and it's so forte it's beyond belief yeah go ahead and guess is it when he pulls his pants down in front of Ryan Phillipi crying no that was so funny Sean Sean get up and hubble into the other room push your chair away from the table okay okay breathe through your nose Sean I like that scene I think it makes me laugh so hard no it's it's when the guy tells him off and Forte's like fuck you and he takes and he goes whatever like 4 H C X Y 4HC.

Speaker 2 And it's the license plate of the guy who's told them off.

Speaker 2 And he keeps repeating it, right? And he's like, 4HC. And he keeps saying it.
And then way later, Ryan Felipe is going through Magruber's stuff and he finds this notebook and he opens it up.

Speaker 2 And it's page after page of just the license plate.

Speaker 2 And then killing the guy and blowing the guy.

Speaker 2 Page after page

Speaker 2 after page of that. His fucking license.

Speaker 2 That is hilarious.

Speaker 3 I still have that. That's one of the things.

Speaker 3 That notebook, it's KFBR 392.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. I had that notebook.
And then the Miata, we bought the Miata for like

Speaker 3 $1,000 from the production.

Speaker 2 Did you really? Do you still have it? Do you still have it? Yeah. No way.
Do you drive it? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Never drove it once, and then they had to tow it out of my garage to use it for the series.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's fantastic. That's great that you kept it.
Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Wow.

Speaker 2 Now, Will, let me ask you something about writing because, you know, one of my favorite TV, still having, one of my favorite TV shows of all time is Last Man on Earth. I've seen every episode.

Speaker 2 And when it came out, I was like, oh, finally, like a show that is, you know, because it's been a while, been like a dry spell since a really great comedy came along. And it was so funny.

Speaker 2 It was just so interesting and different and hilarious and laugh out loud funny. And did you have,

Speaker 2 and I know you wrote it and you started it and you directed a lot of them or all of them? I don't know. Is there.

Speaker 3 I didn't direct any of them. I was because I was too busy writing and doing all the other stuff.
So we had a bunch of wonderful directors.

Speaker 2 Okay. And so do you, isn't that, isn't that just all-consuming and overwhelming? And would you do it again? Or is there a part of you that's just like, you know what?

Speaker 2 It's so fun to just show up and act in somebody else's. By the way, is your daughter fighting a bobcat?

Speaker 2 Oh, here she is.

Speaker 2 Oh, here she comes. The little

Speaker 2 baby. Listener, we have a very beautiful baby here.
Looks like most babies, except the added beauty. Oh.
Look at that. She's playing with the microphone.
Will, she's incredible.

Speaker 2 Hey, Zoe, what do we have for breakfast this morning?

Speaker 2 Okay, that listener. That was nice.
She knows a cue when she hears one.

Speaker 2 Exchange numbers with Bateman, and he'll send her some tips on how to lose water weight or whatever, like all the good, you know, important.

Speaker 2 Oh, she's really, really

Speaker 2 cute. Will, she is absolutely gorgeous.
Yeah, she's so cute. Thank you.
Look at that.

Speaker 2 Sean?

Speaker 2 Sean, this is a great opportunity for us to talk about where we're at with the adoption conversations with you and Scott. Go ahead.
Oh, perfect. Yeah, I had a long question, but let's skip that.

Speaker 3 I'll answer your question after this.

Speaker 2 Okay,

Speaker 2 my motto is I'd rather regret not having them than have them and regret it later. I'd rather regret not having those than them? Well, that's a great sound bite.

Speaker 2 I mean, look, we're not looking to write something like, you know, above the wall, you know, at the door at a football locker room. You know, we're not looking for newt Rockne words.

Speaker 2 Something we could slap on the way out to the pits. Yeah, hey, look, remember, Sean said this? Yeah.
Yeah. When he died at the end of 2021, it's a war cry.
Oh, yeah. Sorry.
I know your death date.

Speaker 2 Sorry, I should have mentioned it. I know your death date.

Speaker 2 I fucking.

Speaker 2 I know my bad date. You know what? I had, there was a guy

Speaker 2 in high school. He took a lot of acid at this high school I went to.
It was not a, was not a real academic tower. But, yeah, this guy took a lot of acid.
and

Speaker 2 the kids we were in class with, he said, no, this guy, his gift,

Speaker 2 he can tell you your death date.

Speaker 2 He can pop up and

Speaker 2 close his eyes and he can tell you how and where you're going to die. No kidding.
You know, he was just a 10th grader like the rest of us.

Speaker 2 And so, yeah, one lunch or nutrition or whatever, I asked him,

Speaker 2 he said, I got you in a hotel room surrounded by a bunch of bottles.

Speaker 2 Middle age. That's awful.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then he just turned around and kept walking.

Speaker 2 And I'll just never, you can't unhear that, right? You can discount it, but you can't unhear it. And so you've spent your life trying to avoid that.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, that was probably had something to do with my decision to go ahead and stop the drinking. Sure.

Speaker 2 And you remembered it because it was so fucking

Speaker 2 forget stuff like that.

Speaker 3 By the way, I did a Ouija board thing in high school, just messing around.

Speaker 3 And it told me when I was going to die. It said that I'm going to die when I'm 73 by getting stabbed.

Speaker 2 Oh my God.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Wait, so you're going to, you are going to end up having some enemies. Yes.
You don't have any now. But I don't know.

Speaker 3 It's kind of fun. Or maybe it's a good friend.

Speaker 2 But see, like, you're never going to be able to forget that. When you turn 73, when you wake up that first morning at 73, you're going to say to yourself, well, now I got 12 months to watch my back.

Speaker 2 I got to watch my back.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm getting a friggin' like a bunker. I'm just going to wait out that whole year.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like a panic room. I always wanted to get a clock that counted backwards from like 80 years old, and it would tell you how many hours, days, minutes, seconds you have left to live.

Speaker 2 So you've already predetermined that you're going to take 80 and well, you just pick a random, like, let's say 80 because maybe because your grandfather died when he was 80 or 70, or 75 or 95 or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 And then you hit start and it counts backwards. Wouldn't that be wild to wake up and say, I only have this many hours left.
A lot of anxiety. Well, what's going to be enough for you?

Speaker 2 What's your number? Like, Forte, what's your number?

Speaker 2 If you go, if I died this age, I'm fine with it.

Speaker 3 I mean, I think I'd like 80 sounds. Like, you know, not that I don't want to live.
80's young.

Speaker 2 80s young. My dad's 83.
Jim Arnett. Yeah.
Yeah, for Jim Arnett. Let's hear for Jim Arnett.

Speaker 2 For me, it's going to be 90. Anything over 90 is going to be bonus, but I really feel like I can make it to 100.

Speaker 3 I got to say that.

Speaker 3 How is your family history?

Speaker 2 So far, so good. Knockwood.
Yeah. Dad's 85 and like a bull.
Okay. Awesome.
Mom's doing well, too. Okay, Sean.
I'm good anywhere between 75 and 80. Sean, Sean's dad is 85.
Sorry, he's doing 85 on the

Speaker 2 opposite direction of where Sean is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's going right.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like my, I have three of my grandparents died like 97, 97, 94.

Speaker 2 And my great-grandmother died at 105. Wow.
Wow. Yeah.
Oh, you're sorry. See, here's my thing.
You can't do the things you want to do after 80. Like, you can't do that.
That's not true.

Speaker 2 That's not true. But I mean, like, you know.
My dad's 83. My dad's very active.
He's out. He goes to the trainer a couple times a week.
Right.

Speaker 2 He's out cross-country skiing and snowshoeing and he's in Canada. Oh, right.
Trying to stay on brand. Oh, is that right?

Speaker 2 Willie, did you see the leafs last night? They just can't get the puck out of their own zone. You got to give her.
Yeah. Guys, you got to give her.

Speaker 2 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 Terms apply.

Speaker 2 All right, back to the show. So, Forte.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, so

Speaker 2 can I get an answer just for my question?

Speaker 2 Yeah, first double back to your question.

Speaker 3 So, back to that. Thank you, first of all, for the nice things you said about Last Man on Earth.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I love that show so much.

Speaker 3 That was a dream scenario of getting to

Speaker 3 have your own show and control it. Right.
And it was also a

Speaker 3 nightmare in terms of what it did to my physical and mental health. Because like I be just because of my mental makeup, like I'm very OCD.

Speaker 3 I'm a perfectionist, which would be surprising for people who see how I keep my body and

Speaker 3 basically everything in my life is not true.

Speaker 3 Nothing is perfect except for my little baby.

Speaker 2 Will, you look good. You always keep it tight.
Yeah, so do you prefer just showing up being an actor instead of all that control?

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, there's a wonderful part about that.

Speaker 3 You can just, like, if you have a lot of trust in the people who who are the directors then that's the best because you're you're just coming in doing a job you have a life outside of it you don't have to worry about all the post-production and doing sound mixes and right everything it's a tremendous amount of work that goes into this stuff and and if you're somebody who's got to have his fingerprints on every single part of it because you're, I don't know, I like very specific things.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 if you're willing to give up that control and with Last Man on Earth, I was not willing to give it up.

Speaker 3 And I was like, okay, I've entered into this. I'm just going to wait till it's done.

Speaker 3 And I would just go nuts.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 here's Forte's dedication. I remember going to some award thing or whatever.

Speaker 2 And you were, it was that part, I think it was maybe season two of Last Man, and you had shaved half your face and half your head.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Was that season two?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I had a big long beard.

Speaker 2 He had a crazy long beard and crazy long hair.

Speaker 3 And just everything was shaved on this other half.

Speaker 2 Completely, including eyebrow, completely shaved on that side of the head. And so from, from, if you, if you saw from the profile, he looked like you're like, you're like, oh, look at Forte.

Speaker 2 He's like, let his beard go and stuff. And then he would turn his head and you're like, Jesus, what the? It was incredible.
Yeah, it was really cool.

Speaker 3 So Sudeikis plays my brother on the show. And he, long story short, he, as a prank, he shaved off the entire side of my...

Speaker 3 one side of my body and left the other side very hairy.

Speaker 2 I did that once to a guy,

Speaker 2 a guy I passed out in my living room, shaved off his eyebrow while he was.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he didn't know until he got back to college the next year. Well, it turned out he was dead, right?

Speaker 2 He never found out.

Speaker 3 So, in the show, I didn't want to get him the satisfaction of knowing that he had burned me very hard. So, I pretended that I really liked it.
And

Speaker 3 I wore it for several episodes, but that meant that I had to frigging wear it in real life, you know, keep that hairstyle in real life for a month.

Speaker 2 Oh, God, that was so crazy. It was

Speaker 2 that's so cool, though. It was was so crazy.

Speaker 2 And then, so, who do you have now in the new season of Magruber? Who do you have?

Speaker 2 Because you mentioned, you know, you work with a lot of same people you got today because obviously somebody you worked with on SNL and he came on Last Man.

Speaker 2 John Solomon has been a collaborator with you for many years on writing stuff.

Speaker 2 Yep.

Speaker 2 And so is John John's part of this new Magruber series?

Speaker 3 Yeah, John, Yorma, and I are

Speaker 3 three

Speaker 3 original. Yorma was the one who had the original idea, which we then, the three of us all wrote everything together, me, John, and Yorma.
And then Yorma directed the movie.

Speaker 2 People would know Yorma just for Tracy in Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 Yorma is one of the Lonely Island guys and wrote and directed and performed in many sketches, especially, you know, they started those digital shorts at SNL.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Andy Sandberg, they're going to bug Lonely Island.

Speaker 2 Ticcone, last name?

Speaker 3 Tacone, yep, yep.

Speaker 2 Tacone. Tacone.

Speaker 3 Like, Like, he directed the movie and just did an amazing job directing the movie. And now there are eight episodes for this Magruber series, and Yorma directs four, John directs four.

Speaker 3 John's an amazing director, too, and directed a bunch of Last Man on Earths and wrote a bunch of them, too.

Speaker 2 He's John Solomon is a brilliant top of the heap. Yeah, brilliantly funny guy.
Both those guys. Where are we going to see this Magruber show?

Speaker 3 It's on Peacock.

Speaker 2 Got it.

Speaker 3 Peacock. That's correct.

Speaker 2 Wig's back, too.

Speaker 3 Wig is back. Yeah.
Wig is so. Kristen Wig? The three three main

Speaker 3 people, me, Kristen Wig, Ryan Phillippi are all back.

Speaker 3 And then Lawrence Fishburne has a big part in it. And

Speaker 3 Billy Zane is the bad guy. And Sam Elliott plays My Dad.

Speaker 2 Wow. Oh, my God.
Yes.

Speaker 3 And they're all amazing.

Speaker 2 Lauren Michael's still collecting a fee for this. Yep.
Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Lauren, it was so fun. Oh, good.
He makes this whole thing happen. Like, it's people,

Speaker 3 I mean, as you would imagine, this show just came, or the movie came out and just shit the bed so hard, just incredibly hard.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and Lauren's basically, what, three of the six feathers on the peacock? I mean, he's he is Mr. NBC.

Speaker 3 He's amazing. So he's, you know, his,

Speaker 3 obviously none of this would be. possible without it.
I mean, none of my whole career would be possible without him. You know, he's, he's,

Speaker 3 everything I have for Lord.

Speaker 2 I thank him for. Well, he's got good taste.
He's always been a champion. You really, you really tickle him, I think.

Speaker 2 He legitimately loves you.

Speaker 3 I love him.

Speaker 3 He's wonderful. So

Speaker 3 it's, you know, yeah, I mean, I hope I look back.

Speaker 3 My answer with Saturday Night Live,

Speaker 3 I hope, you know, yes, I am happy to be away from the stress of it.

Speaker 3 But God,

Speaker 3 what an honor to be a part of that show. And so many fun, wonderful people I'm still friends with.
Yeah, I told you earlier, Letterman and SNL, those were like my

Speaker 3 molded my sensibilities. And then to get a chance to work at both of them is

Speaker 3 a blessing to be able to work at just one of your dream jobs. I got to do two of them.

Speaker 2 Yeah, not a lot of people can say that. What kind of stuff do you want to do now? Now you're on the sort of the tail end.
Maybe you'll do more McGruber after this. I'm sure it's going to be amazing.

Speaker 2 We know that

Speaker 2 you want to live at least another 30, maybe 40 years. We never got an actual answer on you.

Speaker 3 Well, I'm 51 now and I have 22 years left to live.

Speaker 2 Oh, right, because you're getting stabbed at 73. Right, right, right, right.
Because I'm stabbing.

Speaker 2 So what are you going to do for the next 22

Speaker 2 years?

Speaker 3 When my daughter stabs me.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, you think it's going to be her?

Speaker 3 I think it's going to be Zoe.

Speaker 3 I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 That would be great. Let's get another look at it.

Speaker 3 Let's see if we can see it right now. Oh, my God.
She just came in the room.

Speaker 2 What do you,

Speaker 2 but I do want to get back into it. Where do you see yourself? Like, what do you, what do you want to do? Do you want to write more movies for yourself? Do you want to do sketches?

Speaker 2 It's such a weird time in showbiz, right?

Speaker 3 I mean, do you want to tell you, like, it's,

Speaker 2 as I said, it's all gravy.

Speaker 3 After, if I could have stopped after SNL,

Speaker 3 you know, everything after SNL was gravy, then, I mean, getting to do that movie, Nebraska, whoever thought I'd get a chance to do something like that.

Speaker 2 So, great. Do you want to do more stuff like that? Oh, sure.
I mean,

Speaker 3 I'd love to do everything, but the main thing, I just want to be in a situation where I can spend a lot of time with her growing up.

Speaker 3 So, you know.

Speaker 2 And do something, yeah, where you can be around her. And no family is important to you because you're very close.
Because I know you're really close to your mom and your dad.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. That's that is, okay, that's.

Speaker 2 So let's talk about your mom. I love your mom, first of all.

Speaker 3 I have an idea, by the way, about...

Speaker 3 Well, go ahead and tell everybody about my mom. Then I can tell you my idea.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Will. Let's hear about his mom.
Well, his mom's incredible. Patty, she's one of the nicest people ever.
She's got a lot of ideas, right, Will? Yep. She's got a lot of ideas.

Speaker 2 She's Patty with an I or Patty with a Y?

Speaker 3 With an I. Thank you for asking.

Speaker 2 And she's such a sweet, you know, open, kind, warm, loving person. And you guys are really, really close, which I love

Speaker 2 about one of the things I love about you instantly is how close you are with your family and close you are and good you are to your mom and she to you and it's just a great example of and she's you know she knows that she's such a big part of your life and everybody who knows you and who's friends with you knows your mom Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 And it's really awesome.

Speaker 3 She's the best. I mean, she's just a magical woman.
She's, she is, if you are somebody who doesn't love, not just like, but love my mom,

Speaker 3 there's something wrong with you. You're, I agree.
You're just somebody I don't want to be around.

Speaker 2 She's an absolute delight. I've always loved your mom.

Speaker 3 But she, so, so yeah, she does have a bunch of what I would say are very

Speaker 3 shitty ideas, just a bunch of shitty comedy ideas. And so she would always, when I was at SNL, she'd always say, oh, I have, Carol and I were talking and I have a great idea for this.

Speaker 3 And then just say this pretty bad idea. And I'd say, okay, mom, save that for the Patty Forte sketch show.

Speaker 3 So eventually I was like, that had happened enough times that I'm like, I got to do a Patty Forte sketch show.

Speaker 3 So as soon as time kind of opens up, we're going to do a thing which is basically it's a show which will follow her making her own sketch show. I mean, that's it.

Speaker 2 She will write everything.

Speaker 3 She will make every decision. And so I'll kind of be in there, you know, just like guiding her along the way.

Speaker 3 Like, well, I don't think that's a great idea, but if you want to do it, you know, and she and her friend Carol are going to write all the, and she's 70. She's about to be 78.
And

Speaker 3 Carol, I think, is 80 or 81.

Speaker 2 And they're gonna freaking you're anticipating this huge comedic train wreck and that that will be the the fun of watching this slow moving collision with

Speaker 3 it's it's it's gonna it's gonna be uh that's zoe looking at daily it's just gonna be so amazing because it would be you know you'll kind of follow the process and then the very end of each show will be the actual sketch that she's created that's actually a really funny idea it's gonna be it's incredible i remember you told me about that a while ago and in my yeah you you asked if i if i and i said yes and i'm still yes oh yeah so each week we'll also like it will that that sketch will include you know some kind of uh comedy uh heavyweight you know then i've asked will to be in them oh my gosh in addition to a comedy jason sean if i if you guys would ever want it will make it very easy for you just a couple hours pop in be in a sketch with patty forte and carol anything you want you're busy wait jason are you saying you're very busy no i think that was what sean was gonna say Anything you want.

Speaker 2 Anything you want.

Speaker 2 I'm with Arnett.

Speaker 2 My three rules are: where do you want me to stand? What do you want me to say? And what do you want me to wear?

Speaker 3 Okay, we'll get to that later. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 Patty will tell you. Where do you want me to stand? What is it, Sean? Where do you want me to stand? What do you want me to say? What do you want me to wear?

Speaker 2 And I'd rather regret not, I mean, this is in addition. How long is this quote of yours?

Speaker 2 I'd rather regret not having where you want me to stand than to never regret not what you want me to wear. Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 2 In five, four, three, four, four, three, two, one, five, six, seven, eight. All right.

Speaker 2 Forte, let me just say, again,

Speaker 2 you're one of my favorite people. You're so delightful.
Every time I see you, if you text or you call, it just, even when I don't talk to you, I just get that feeling. I'm like, oh, I will, Forte.

Speaker 2 I'm so happy you're in the world.

Speaker 3 I feel that way about you guys. I was very excited to come on here because each of you individually are so wonderful.
And to have you

Speaker 3 in this unit is just like,

Speaker 3 it's almost too much for your eyes and ears to handle.

Speaker 3 Thank God we're not in the same room together. No,

Speaker 2 I know. It would be too electric.

Speaker 2 It would be far too electric.

Speaker 2 I loved seeing you and hearing you, talking to you, Will. It's been very, very too long.

Speaker 2 Yes. Yeah.
Well,

Speaker 3 hopefully, hopefully I'm in Atlanta right now, but when I get back to Los Angeles, maybe we can all forte together and hang on.

Speaker 2 I want to give you the opportunity for for today to say goodbye to each one of us individually. Go ahead.
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 Me first.

Speaker 3 Jason. Hi.

Speaker 3 It has been very nice talking to you. I appreciate the nice things that you've said to me.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 3 I'm sorry that I could not have been a better guest for you today.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm so glad that you came. And

Speaker 3 this is now

Speaker 3 I will improve. I will take steps to improve for the next time I'm on if I am ever given the chance.

Speaker 2 Okay, really. I love you.

Speaker 3 Say hello to Amanda for for me. Will do.

Speaker 2 And your girls.

Speaker 3 And then Sean.

Speaker 2 Yeah. My husband's name is Scotty, if you want to just say, Scotty.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Beam me up, right?

Speaker 2 Wonderful. Wonderful.
Really wonderful. Thank you.
And that's it.

Speaker 3 I love you, and you're wonderful. And

Speaker 3 I do would love for you to meet Zoe at some point.

Speaker 2 I want all of you to meet Zoe. Thank you.

Speaker 3 So please come over, meet Zoe, and I'm telling you, it's pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 Let Jason Talk you into it. It's the best.
But if you make the decision not to, you're wonderful.

Speaker 2 Thank you,

Speaker 2 thank you. I feel the same about you.

Speaker 3 And it's the right decision, whatever you do.

Speaker 2 Lovely.

Speaker 3 Will, Will,

Speaker 3 of all three of us, we've spent the most time together.

Speaker 2 You're like, you just mention our nets name, and Zoe goes off again. I think

Speaker 2 this is what we've identified the problem.

Speaker 2 She wishes I was there.

Speaker 2 Go ahead. Sorry.
Sorry, Forte.

Speaker 3 No, it's just it's, you know, in the same thing you just said about me, which is very touching. I feel the same way about you.
So I love you. You will always be a brother to me.

Speaker 3 And I want to see you more often.

Speaker 2 Same here. Same here.

Speaker 3 So thank you for letting me be a part of this podcast.

Speaker 2 Thanks for being here, Will.

Speaker 3 And today I feel smart more.

Speaker 2 Nice. Oh, that's nice.
After this experience. Smart more.
Thank you, Will.

Speaker 2 You're such a delight.

Speaker 2 Will, Forte, thanks for your time. Thanks for your love.
Thanks, Paul. We love you.
Love you. Have a great day and love to Zoe and everybody.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 2 Love you guys. Thanks, Forte.

Speaker 2 Happy Forte. Bye.
Bye bye. Bye, Williams.

Speaker 2 Boy, another world-class prick. I mean, did you just feel the anger and the hostility? Not one nice thing out of his mouth.

Speaker 2 Forte is, he really is. He's one of those people.

Speaker 2 I hope you guys feel the same way.

Speaker 2 When you see him, you light up because he lights up. He just exudes positive energy.
He's can't see him in a a bad mood. No.
Armison, the same way.

Speaker 2 It's amazing that those two were...

Speaker 2 They were a little bit of a duo on the show, would you agree? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Kindred spirits. Kindred spirits, but different, but came in at the, obviously, he said came at the same time.
Yeah, they were very kindred spirits. I didn't know he wrote on all those things.

Speaker 2 Like, that's that, that blew my mind. I was like, wow, I find that fascinating when people are.
have this history of being in the business before you get to know them as as a fan, you know?

Speaker 2 Like, he wrote on all of those TV shows, not just that 70s show, but so many other TV shows. When we did the Brother Solomon, there was produced by our friend Tom Warner,

Speaker 2 great guy. And I know, Tom Warner, one of the old time.

Speaker 2 Tom had hired, obviously, Will to write on 70 Show, so he was his boss there. And then years later, now here is starring in a film that Tom's producing.

Speaker 2 And I think, you know, it was like a very strange, like,

Speaker 2 he wasn't known as that guy. And all of a sudden, now he's doing this thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Very cool. I I know.
So delightful having people like that on, right? This is where this is where Sean's brain goes to buy right now. I know.
He's already starts to formulate.

Speaker 2 Two. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't have to.

Speaker 2 You know, you don't have to just crap.

Speaker 2 Bye.

Speaker 2 Well, he's not. We've done take a big bite out of the apple.
We've done that. We've done a Biden thing.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Did you see the way Zoe almost bited the microphone? No, no. um,

Speaker 2 here's the problem: because I noticed, I don't know about your guys, but uh, I wear my glasses whenever I can, but then I have to the reading glasses and take them on and off.

Speaker 2 And there you go, I wait. What I really need are a pair of

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