Hollywood Handbook - Adam Pally, Our Close Friend

Episode Date: October 28, 2013

Sean and Hayes share their thoughts on the new "Batman," explain why Halloween is too commercial, and tell us how their adventures have inspired many films during their segment "The Right Stuff." Then, ADAM PALLY of The Mimby Project, The Happy Enders, and Saving Woodstock drops by to give listeners a scoop on what a day on the set of The Mimby Project is like, answer Sean & Hayes’ question regarding sports on TV, and explain why he doesn't pull any pranks on the set.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. reach for my mold scheme, it goes straight in the tub. Oh, no. And so I have people transcribing it. I have backups, but it's so scary. Oh, gosh. Hey! Hi! What up, what up? Welcome to Hollywood Handbook, an insider's guide to kicking butt and dropping names in the red carpet linebacker hallways of this industry we call showbiz.

I'm Hayes Davenport. I'm here with Sean Clements. We're here to give you the scoop on the entertainment business. This is our fourth episode. It's been fun. It's been rewarding so far. Thank you all for listening.

A lot of early success already. People are starting to have some really amazing success stories from listening to this show. Yes. We always appreciate, people have gone on iTunes and when they write their reviews,

they sort of talk about what the show has done for them. And that is why we do this. That is the only reason we are doing this. It is not about the money. It is not about fame. It's about helping you guys out to sort of get to the place where we're at. We've been given so much.

Yes. And we want to give a little bit of it back and not too much we want to we want to speak on something uh we're a little early on this news maybe but we might as well get it out here you may not have broken to the general public but uh there's a new batman yeah Yeah. In quotes. Yeah. And this is one of our favorite heroes. What an amazing character and story the Batman is. He's a very impressive man. Really. All the stuff that he's accomplished.

Inspirational. Yeah. And I'm a mega fan of all the incarnations. I mean, I don't want to get too deep in here, but Frank Miller, you guys might not know that name, but my true comic book heads do know he did some neat stuff with the Batman. And I just worship him. And so we were really excited to find out who the next Dark Soldier was going to be. And we had a lot of ideas for it. We took meetings with people.

You know, they asked us, but I guess they weren't really paying attention because they went. Didn't quite listen. They went with Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck, he's going to don the cowl, take off his director's cap, which actually fit him pretty nicely. And now he's going to don the cowl. Only one word comes to mind when I think of this decision, and that word is fail. And I've got another word for it, epic fail.

What they say, they say that this is a town of epic fails and epic wins. There's wins and there's fails, and I know which category this casting goes in, and the fail whale from Twitter is spraying his water spout all over Ben Affleck and the studio's face. Our whole thing is that Batman is supposed to be one of the tough guys. He's tough. He beats guys up.

He's punching and kicking. He's crashing his car. Yes. He doesn't care what he does. He doesn't. He's sort of the Hayes and Sean of the crime fighting world. Because we don't give an F. And we just do what's right.

And a lot of times, we're the acting and screenwriting heroes that this city needs. And maybe not even the one it deserves. And we do that. There are just so many other options for who could have done this. Some of the really tough guys out there. Maybe someone actually tough. Who should have been the Batman. Thank you.

Yeah. For example, how about one of these Metallica guys? Yeah, couldn't it have been one of these Metallica guys is being the Batman? There's no tougher guys. Nothing's tougher than rocking so hard. On the drums and the guitar and singing. And the bass guitar and talk about singing. So it could have been one of the Metallica guys.

It could have been, and I hate to say this, but what about Kim Jong-un? Yes, what about Kim Jong-un? Who's scarier and tougher? Who puts the fear of darkness into the whole United States? Yeah, and who's rich and can afford all those gadgets? Yes, and has many ladies who are interested in him in society. That's right. Or what about a tough guy like Bo Jackson?

I was thinking Charles Oakley. Sure. But Bo Jackson is so strong, I could really see him being the Batman. Yes, him breaking bad guys over his knee like bats. the batman yes him uh breaking bad guys over his knee like bats and is that another connection to be forged between bo jackson and the traditional batman yeah do you work some baseball bats batman leaves the baseball diamond he's finishes swinging that bat then he becomes another bat moving between the worlds of bats is that an interesting theme? It is. Or, how about that Elizabeth Smart? Not much tougher than that.

Imagine if she could survive being kidnapped for six months. I think she could handle the joke man. I agree. I don't think she'd have much trouble with the joke man. Name somebody tougher than Elizabeth Smart. I defy you. And she could have really pulled that off. Mm-hmm.

Ben Affleck. Or if you're even going to use a director, why not a truly spooky, scary director like Tim Burton? That I'd watch. I know he directed one of the original movies. I don't think he did. But he is spooky and scary and could really capture some of that living in a cave element that we love about the Batman. Or how about one of those Mythbusters?

Yes, finally. And this was my biggest pitch, and I pushed this one hard. They are not scared of any myths. And I've seen them bust open just about anything you could imagine. Things that I don't even think really are myths they go after sometimes. Because they're so brave.

Batman's all about making you question the establishment and challenging your beliefs. They are the original vigilantes. They operate completely outside the law. And everyone's trying to stop them. Yeah, that's right.

People have a lot invested in these original myths. Yeah, well, they sell... There's a lot of money. They sell newspapers. So, the verdict is in. Fail. It's Halloween week, which Sean and I, it's not our favorite week. Let's put it that way.

No, not the best holiday we ever came up with. Halloween, for us, is way, way too commercialized. Yeah. And I think people could probably guess, oh, Hayes and Sean, they're not going to like Halloween. And you know what we're going to say, that it was invented by Hallmark to sell more candy corn pumpkins. Yes.

It used to be all about playing tricks and bobbing for apples. And now it's all about who's got the best candy, you know? Oh, mommy, get me the hottest new candy. Ooh, ooh, yeah. Oh, give me more. Give me more free candy, which what is this teaching our kids? Yes. And then it's all about what's hot, what's popular.

I want the Powder Puff Girls candy airheads, or I want the one with the latest, the SpongeBob Hershey's kissing candies, and all of these, which are just made to sell more products and more of these shows. I went to see my daughter this past week from a previous relationship, and I show up, and I see that she's got bags and bags of these Demi Lovato Whoppers. You know, these new Whoppers that all these kids are eating. This is the candy to have this Halloween. You don't have to tell me. And I take Brooke aside, and I'm like, Brooke Shields, remember what this holiday is really about.

It's about playing tricks. It's about bobbing for apples. And what is this teaching our kids? Yeah, and I had to tell Steffi Graf the same thing about our kid because when I was over there, graph the same thing about our kid because when i was over there she had given my two daughter twin daughters beautiful girls both just wonderful and smart as whips but um she was letting them munch on this nerds rope and uh taylor lautner's shirtless torso is on the wrapper of the nerds rope. And what does that mean?

It's fellatio. Taylor Lautner's nerds rope sticking out of the bottom of his torso. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that that's sexual, Steffi. We've got a really exciting guest today. Adam Pally. You know him from Mindy Project. Mindy Project, the Happy Enders crew. The Happy Enders.

Saving Woodstock. Saving Woodstock. Very exciting guest. He's got a lot of stuff to say. He's going to be around a little later on Hollywood Handbook. Hollywood Handbook. So at this point, I'm furious. And I go, make up your fucking mind, asshole.

Is the apartment in Tribeca or is it in Soho? What I always say is it can't be both. Stop saying it's both. Yes. It's impossible. Anyway, I beat him up. Hey, Cody. Let the song.

You know there's more song left. Okay. Yeah, and you don't even need to. The song will stop when the song left okay yeah and you don't even need to the song will stop when the song's over so you don't need to guess as hard you don't need to just bail on the song like don't be nervous that it's not gonna end it will end yeah

the one thing you can't do is just completely drop the sound of the song out and force it to end and have it not feel really bad. I would say letting the song play to completion, as far as I'm concerned, is literally your only job. And so if you could just do your only job, and when we play the song, just do nothing.

That's a nice way to put it. Do nothing the rest of the time, and then do your one single job you do have during the time which is about 25 seconds uh during that 25 seconds that you do have to do that we would appreciate it and thank you we sincerely do appreciate it so we love you doing that and letting the song finish uh and you've been great at it up until today yeah but i i kind of liked it the way that i did it oh well that's interesting because it definitely matters what you like yeah i was just thinking this morning uh i wonder how cody would like the show to go he's our target audience. A fucking engineer.

I mean, I'm sorry. I just thought it was kind of cool how it just cuts out a little bit. Well, uh, next time you have a thought of what is kind of cool, do the opposite. Cody, correct me if I'm wrong, you have a podcast, right? Well, no.

But I do a lot of these. No, but you have your own podcast that you're the host of and you're listed on the earwolf site as the host well not really but i do that i do a lot of the other oh you don't wonder why why wouldn't someone give you a podcast that's important what you like i don't know yeah you're sitting here telling me that the most important thing about a podcast is what you think is cool and what you like. Seems like you should have your own podcast, unless it's not important. Huh. I hate to even think about that.

That would mean you really screwed up. So you want me to play it out next time? Maybe. We'll talk about it. I actually did think that way of doing it was sort of good. It sounded interesting. It was edgy. Yeah.

So we'll go. We'll discuss it and we'll see what makes sense. Internally and we'll tell you what the best thing to do is. Before we do it. We want to do a segment. This is one of our favorite segments. It's some of our fans' favorite segments, but they keep

screwing it up. This is a good time to clarify something. This is a segment we like to do called the right stuff it's about writing about the craft of writing uh just sort of the nitty-gritty like basic tips on how to create a good script when we've seen our fans write this segment title out on the internet on the message boards and stuff they almost always spell it W-R-I-T-E. Yes. But our segment on writing, called

The Right Stuff, is spelled R-I-G-H-T. Because what you need to succeed is you need to have the right stuff. You need to have the right stuff when you're writing a good script. It doesn't make sense to spell it the other way. That doesn't make any sense. We would have called it The Writing stuff if that's what we wanted.

We're talking about the writing stuff, but specifically we're talking about the right stuff to do when you're writing. When you're writing. So something that we sort of thought was intuitive, but I guess people need to be told sometimes, which is fine. And that's why we do this is we're here to educate. Yeah. sometimes, which is fine. And that's why we do this is we're here to educate. Yeah. When we,

when you and I sit down, you know, there's that, uh, scary blank page, uh, you know, that you have to deal with and you say, what am I gonna, what script, what am I going to write a script about today? Basically. Uh, and I think the thing that we always draw from, which has, this is a tip that's gotten out there, is write what you know. Yeah. You've heard it said before, and you see it, every show, every movie that's worth anything has happened to the person who wrote it. Yes. You go into general meetings these days, and they're looking for an experience that you've really had so that you have a personal connection to it, so it'll be real. Well, I want to do something where there's a dad, and he's an inventor and it's like well what did your dad

do and it's like well my dad got hit by a bus and it's like well then that's the show is a dad who gets hit by a bus and that's how you write it you know if your dad's not an inventor go fucking screw with that story you can't write it it's It's not for you. So in some ways, the easiest way to become a writer is to just go out and live your fucking life. It's just to live. You know? It's one of the reasons that Hayes and I go on so many adventures and we really create environments for ourselves where we can have these experiences that are very relatable, that are very exciting. People love

adventure movies. Talk about some of the adventures we've had that have led to Okay, well Captain Phillips Captain Phillips is sort of on the surface, you know, the story about a guy who gets captured by pirates, it seems very fantastical, like it could never gets captured by pirates, it seems very fantastical.

It could never really happen. Yeah, it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that's really going on to people that you could relate to. But here, we are two of your best friends. Sure. And what Hayes and I did was we hopped on a boat. I don't remember his boat or my boat or which boat it was. But we went out on the water. It was my boat.

Or maybe it was, but we went out on the water. It was my boat. Or maybe it was mine. We partied our fucking dicks off for six, seven days. And then when we were kind of bored of that scene, we sort of butted up next to a pirate ship and played possum a little bit. Like we weren't as strong as we are. Yeah. And we let him grab us

we said let's see what happens now we did wind up having to bend the story a little bit we immediately kicked those pirates whole butts and made them wish they were never born yeah uh but where's the but that's the second act? Yes. We needed to stretch that out a little bit. Yeah. But we had the bulk of the experience that's in that film. And then we just interviewed a weak guy about, I think it was Engineer Cody, about how he would just sort of lay down and cry and piss himself if something scary like that happened to him.

And we were like, well, we'll put that in the middle. Do you have another adventure that we've been on that has made a good movie? Yeah, well, there was that time we went to that Knicks game. It was halftime. Yep, okay. And they said, we need a new coach. The coach is sick. And so they said, you you look you look like you know

your your basketball stuff yeah no shit sherlock you guys come on and coach the team and that became uh saving private ryan yeah and the same sort of narrative of going in returning private ryan the basketball the basketball uh back to his family his family which is the hoop yes and so you see how something that really happened to us became a story in a movie that people really loved yeah and it's just it's just an easy tip you just sit down and go has anything happened to me? And if not... Get up. Get up. Put down your phone. Detach from the screen you're staring at.

Unplug. Unplug. Go live your life. Oh, I want to go see a movie about somebody playing Angry Birds. Oh, that sounds good. Oh, I want to play... I want to pay 50 bucks or whatever movies cost now. Yeah. Something insane.

Let me shell out 260 bucks so I can go watch somebody play Snake. That sounds like a great movie. Nobody says that. No one's ever said it. I said it just now in jest, but I was making fun of how people won't say it. And that I could write a movie about. Somebody making a comment that no one would ever make. That's liar, liar.

And I wrote that, and that happened to me. We're going to be right back with our guest, Adam Pally. Gotts. It's going to be a really great conversation with him. You've got to stay tuned. Close friend of ours. Really good friend. Very good friend, yes. He likes what we're doing

and we feel the same way. We're going to be right back on Hollywood Handbook. Hollywood Handbook. I watched Girls. Uh-huh. I've heard about that, yeah. It's pretty good.

But, I feel a but coming. Well, do it with men, you know? Guys, make that show, make that same show, but just have it be all men and have like a man who's like in charge and stuff. What up, what up? What up, what up? Welcome back to Hollywood Handbook.

What's good? We're here with our guest, Adam Pally. Hello. He's here. You know him from The Happy Enders, from Mindy Project. He's on Mindy Project now. we're here with our our guest Adam Pally hello is here you know him from the Happy Enders from Mindy Project he's on the Mindy Project now

Happy Endings it's not called Happy Enders it's called Happy Endings that's okay it's totally okay bloat let's just go do we start over?

no no no no it's fine this has never happened to us before I don't have many credits, so... Okay. We've known Adam a long time. Yeah, I'll say. Going back to

we first met at that audition for Freaks and Geeks back when it was... When they were developing it, it was going to be Cool Guys and Babes. Right. And we all read in that one scene the group kiss with Cindy Margolis.

Yeah, it was her, Donna D'Erico, Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford. And Kathy Ireland. Yeah, and it was those girls and the three of us, and we were arguing over who could do the hardest kiss. Yeah. And I remember when we were in that, feeling the side of your lips at him. Yeah.

Just thinking, like, this guy's really good. Yeah. You know, he's really funny. Yeah. We talked about it afterwards. Funny kisser. We were friends at the time, and I said, this guy's got something. Yeah.

And I actually think that show would have worked. And I said that to them when they changed it to Freaks and Geeks, and I think we were proven right, because that show fucking failed. Failure. Yeah. Not even a cult would follow it. It's got no following. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. And we've just been rooting for you ever since, man. Oh. We're so glad to have you here. Oh, thank you. So pumped. What's going on? Thank you.

You were on the Mimby Project set today. Did you say the Mimi Project? We said the Mimby Project. This conversation we have had before. This has happened, yeah. Really? With Jake Johnson when he was in here. Really?

I'd love to settle it once and for all. Yeah, there's some confusion about... You're having me and Jake Johnson on the same podcast within the same month well one episode apart we split you up by one episode good and that's about how the amount people can tell us apart is one like that's the minimum number yeah i'm like one week younger separation yeah and you both have fuzzy beards we're both we're both like uh one notch handsomer than David Krumholz. Mm-hmm. Okay. And not as big of a nightmare car wreck.

Yeah. To deal with. In life, yeah. Just a bad guy. Yeah, I don't know. I've never met him. So they're casting something. They'll say like, let's get Krumholz.

And then they'll be like, I don't know if we want to actually deal with that. It usually goes like this. They're like, oh, I don't know if we want to actually deal with that. It usually goes like this. They go like, the character breakdown comes in, and it's like a handsome, schlubby Jewish guy. Right? So first they're like, well, give it to Rogan. Sure. Right? And then Rogan immediately is like, no, I'm not doing this garbage.

Yeah. And then that goes down the list to Josh Gad. And then after Gad, they call Jake. And what usually happens is Jake will read it and say, I like or I don't. But if he doesn't, then they'll come to me. And then if I like it or I don't, either the project dies, because I'm the last rung on the ladder.

Last rung on the ladder, yeah. Or they'll give it to that sewer rat, Krumholtz. And it'll be like a $75,000 arthouse film that no one will see. So Krumholtz can't even find the ladder. You're the bottom rung, and then he's just feeling around in the dark corner. I hope there's a ladder around here somewhere. Every once in a while, he lands on it. So you turned down numbers, huh?

I turned down numbers like four times. They tried to get me like four times, and not even for the Krumholtz role. Yeah. The other guy. But then, you know, looking back on it, I still think I dodged a bullet. That show's a piece of shit. I mean, what kind of show runs for ten years and is never in syndication? That's true.

Nobody wanted to see it ever again. No, it was like, I think we've seen all these numbers. For a while, it was the only thing they wanted to see. Tell us about the show you're on now. What was it like on the... What's a day in the life on that show? It's great. I mean,

I get to work. My call time's usually around 7, 7.30. I'll show up around 9. Just because I like to... I think it shows power and dominance. Dem usually around 7, 7.30 I'll show up around 9 just because I like to I think it shows power and dominance. Demonstrates dominance yeah Scoop Troop get out your pens he's giving you the scoop. Hey if you're

if you want to know how to work in Hollywood these are all good lessons. So I'll show up around 9 9.30 usually with a smoothie to show that I've stopped somewhere before I got to the set. They'll tell me to go hair and makeup. I'll ignore it. I'll walk right into a blocking

rehearsal and if they're not there to block I will immediately throw a fit. And again, that's to show dominance but also to make sure that everyone knows that the talent has arrived. Alright. We'll go through blocking rehearsal. I'll half pay attention. Then I'll go into hair and makeup and demand that they come to my trailer.

Now, I've heard that you will, if you weren't happy with, say, the first half of a take, you will cut a big chunk of your hair off. That's true. So that they have to shoot it again from the beginning. That's true. This is a true story. When I was doing Iron Man 3, which i have a a small but very memorable uh cameo in um made over a billion dollars when i was doing that scene i was doing

a take with robert downey jr and he and he and he flubbed his line but it was on my coverage so i had my little nose hair trimmer that i always keep in my pocket because my nose hair grows if i don't do it every four hours and i just took off both eyebrows and it was in my cover so they were looking at me like what happened Shane Black yells cut he directed all the lethal weapons and uh he comes up and he's like what the fuck are you doing and I was like how dare he this is mine this take is mine I'm not here for very long. I want to make it special. Yeah, he's got the whole movie to club his lines.

Not today. Not today, Downey. Long story short, they shut down production for 10 days to wait for my eyebrows to grow back. I come in, I nail the scene, and that's all everyone's talking about when the movie comes out.

That's the only scene I know of from the movie. Put your pens away. Did Iron Man win? I don't know. It doesn't matter. I know Gary the movie comes out. That's the only scene I know of from the movie. Put your pens away. Did Iron Man win? I don't know. It doesn't matter. I know Gary the camera guy did that scene. That's a funny name, Gary. They should use that name more for comedy guys.

Yes. Not just for the serious leads in movies and stuff, for the funny people. Yeah. Every male character in any script i've written is named gary which can be confusing but fuck you if you don't get it you know and fuck you that's a good lesson to have that attitude towards anyone who's reading your stuff uh let's talk about um happy endings a little bit uh we're getting that right now yeah you're

getting it right i'm getting the feeling since you rattled that off with ease that you could have gotten it right before. Well, I have a big question, just differences between New Job and the old one. Yeah, yeah. Was Crafty better on Happy Endings than on The Mindy Project?

You know it's called The Mindy Project. And that's a good question. And Craft know it's called the Mimby Project. That's a good question. Crafty is way better on the Mimby Project. I'll tell you why. The network that it's on, Fox, likes the show. Thus, they promote it and do good things for its cast and writers.

Happy Endings, which was on ABC, that network hated that show, did not like it, because the president at the time did not develop it. So he had no skin in the game on it. So if it was a success, no one would say,

hey, it's that guy's show. So they took away our crafty. They give you poison. A lot of times, yeah. I mean, Alicia Cuthbert had to get her stomach pumped a couple times because she went over

to make an espresso and it was literally poison. Okay, so two different crafties. Sounds like the Mindy one's a little better. Yeah. I have a question about Happy Endings. It ran for three seasons, is that right? That's correct.

So you know how long it ran, and you have no problem saying the name, yet when you first introduced me, you flubbed it. Well, I've been doing computer stuff. Oh, so you've not been paying attention. Great. And it's a show, it has its fans. It's got a 7.1 here on the computer.

People obviously like it. A 7.1 in the Rotten Tomatoes. This is IMDb. On IMDb, it's a 7.1. Which is tomatoes oh so what's this is imdb an imdb rates is a 7.1 which is actually very good i'll take it um so some people must like it my question is what is it like that the show is mostly remembered as the show that allowed lamorne morris to be on new girl and kind of make that show big i don't know if it i don't know if that's what it's remembered for to tell you the truth well people say people say like they watch new girl they say okay this is like lamorne

morris's show how did this happen right i don't think anyone watches new girl and says this is lamorne morris's show well you have you're looking at two guys right now if that's the case i would say both of you are retarded. Because there is no way. Is there a history with him? 99.9% of people who see that show know him as the black guy on that show. And that's the truth. So this must be something. There must be a story behind this.

The answer to your question then, Hayes, is it doesn't feel good, and there's a little bit of bitterness. And what I know must have happened is... You're putting words in my mouth. What I know must have happened is there You're putting words in my mouth. What I know must have happened is there was a meeting in some back room somewhere on Happy Endings where you guys went,

do we try to trade for LeMorn? I can assure you that that never happened. And I know you're in that room. Did you know you couldn't get him? Listen to me for one second. Scott is your name? No. Steve?

No. It doesn't feel good, does it? No, it doesn't. It doesn't feel good does it no it doesn't it doesn't feel good oh so you do know his name you knew you were getting his name wrong

did I get it right on Steve no but you said that doesn't feel good can I tell you something so that must feel okay when I walked in here and both of you guys introduced yourselves to me

you know what I heard Aryan blah blah blah blonde guys yeah and to a Jew that means there's a chance you could both turn on me

And walk me to a shower Which is my ultimate death So that's all I heard when you guys started talking What did you ask me? If I would rather have Lamorne? No Lamorne is a replacement of Damon Who we had in the first place I would not want to have him

Damon This is Damon Wayans' son Damon Wayans Jr. Is he not Damon Wayans' son. This is Damon Wayans' son. Damon Wayans Jr. Is he not Damon Wayans' son? He is Damon Wayans' son. Lil Damon. It's not Lil Damon. No, it's Damon Wayans Jr.

Okay. He's a talented guy. Yeah. He's very good. Very talented. Really funny. You guys had a great chemistry. Yes.

He's one of my best friends. His show is no longer on the air. We were on the same show. Okay. But Lamorne, once he got on New Girl, now that show is a really big show. Yeah. Sure. It wouldn't have been on TV without Damon.

Damon was in the pilot. And actually, Damon, now that Happy Endings is off the air, Damon is going to be back on New Girl starting next week. So they got him back right away. I don't know if they're phasing Lamorne out. I don't know why there can't be two black guys on network television. Or probably Lamorne wanted to go toe-to-toe with him. I don't think that's the case. I don't think that's the case.

I don't know why there would be a toe-to-toe conversation. I got a feeling. I'll text him about it, but probably they wanted to go toe-to-toe. I don't think so. That is a racist idea that you just had. It's Jordan and Kobe always said that they wished they could go head-to-head to prove who was the best. I think it's exactly like that situation. I think it's completely different.

Jordan was retired when Kobe was in his prime. That's why I'm saying they wish they could. Yeah, well, Damon retired from the New Girl pilot, and then... You're going to try to squeeze this in to make it right. It's not going to work. Yeah, Damon retired from the New Girl pilot, and then I think Lamorne straight out of high school got put in that show. Yeah.

Lamorne is like 50. Okay, he's not straight out of high school. Well, the show's been on for quite a while. New Girl? It feels like 50. Okay, he's not straight out of high school. Well, the show's been on for quite a while. New Girl? It feels like it. Yeah, that's what Jake told us. I'm glad that Jake was able to boast about how many episodes his show has run for. That seems really down to earth. Salt to the earth, that guy.

Let's reach into the popcorn gallery. Yes, let's reach into the popcorn gallery yes let's reach into the popcorn this is where we ask questions from fans I know it's like I know it's like the peanut gallery yeah I got it but it's like popcorn they serve popcorn at movies so this is the pop I put it together we have a question from Toby Keith Sweat and this was actually a question toby keith sweat yes this is one of our regular commenters toby keith's a country singer i i guess sweat is i understand the person's mashup name well this is his name but it just is easy to remember if you think about the two i get it uh this is a question that we've actually had for a long time. Mm-hmm. Which is, you look at the TV landscape right now, and there's

dramas, romances, actions. This is the longest I've ever waited for a question to be asked. Seriously, I just fell asleep. Well, it needs a setup. Dramas, romances, actions, thrillers. My question is...

You haven't even asked the question yet? Then this is Toby Keith Sweat's question also. And our question is, why is there no sports on TV? Yeah, very good. Yeah. Now, I've heard this complaint before. I, of course, I don't own a TV. You don't own a TV and you're doing a show about television?

You're doing... Well, it's not about television. It's about Hollywood success, but I think it's pretty interesting to not own a TV. There are plenty of people who can do a show about watching TV, but what about doing TV? Mastering TV. I don't understand what you're saying. Oh, yeah.

But how come there's no sports? There's a lot of sports on television. Every channel, every network is anchored by sports. Well, that's what we... The reason, I'll explain this to you. The reason that you guys don't think there's sports on television is because admittedly, you don't own TV. I know, I do own a TV.

I have a great TV. Very nice big TV. My thing is, I'm barely, I'm home to sleep. So you're not watching. He's home to sleep if that. If that. What does that mean, if that? If that. Please, if that.

I'm on set. I'm on the lot. I'm on location. And I'm home to sleep if that. He's on just about everything except the couch watching his big nice tv which i've actually seen but if there was sports if there was sports well then i might buy one then i might have some some more time to well to watch my big tv let me tell you this is and this is just a tip you don't have to work in Hollywood to know this, but turn on your television whenever.

When the fuck ever. And you will find sports on some channel. And you can buy one if you want to watch sports. If you want to watch sports, they are there for you on television. Well, I'm on the fence. Because it sounds like a time suck. I think you might be thinking of TVs at sports games.

I'm not. I'll tell you this right now. We've been to those front row. Those have sports? No. We've been to those front row. And like the box. I know for a fact. And like the CA box. I'm not the one getting the message mixed here. The WME box as well. Sports TV.

The TV that has sports all the time. So, all right. The Gershnuk. The Gershnuk. You've got to be so pathetic to be repped at Gersh. That reminds me of a question, Adam. Who's repped at Gersh? Here's a question I had.

I wouldn't even be friends with someone that was repped at Gersh. I made that up. Is that an agency? It sounds like a fart, doesn't it? I was thinking of Grolsh Beer. Yeah. But here's a question that I think a lot of people will want to know. What did you get your commercial agent for Christmas last year?

You guys are so pleased with yourselves on these fucking questions. It's pathetic. questions it's pathetic the fact that you guys are doing this fucking podcast and are so fucking up your own asses about it is ridiculous what it was the question what did i get my commercial agent for christmas last year i wouldn't buy an agent a gift if he fucking saved my life he pulled me from under a bus i wouldn't buy an agent a gift. Because he's already getting 10% of my fucking money. Let's go back in the popcorn gallery. Yes, let's. Can you make this sound?

Thanks. Oh, yummy. Oh my god. Anthony Scontrino, one of our listeners, asks, he hears you're a big prankster on the set. What kinds of twisted pranks have you pulled on set? I don't know where Anthony Scantrino would have heard that but I've never

Anthony Scantrino I don't give a fuck if I messed up the Twitter handle. Do you even have listeners? Has this even been broadcast yet? This? No. This is we're recording it now to be broadcast later. but we asked some people for questions ahead of i've never pulled a prank on a set before ever even once i would

never do shit like that when i hear shit like that when i hear like about clooney pulling like putting like fucking cat litter boxes and taking shits in them and people's just i think it's disgusting like that's a place it's where you work you don't have to use shit for it to be a prank yeah i i know i know you don't have to use shit for it to be a prank well i agree with you that's disgusting and it's not the position of this podcast to judge how other people live but if you're using shit and that's the only way you know how to prank then that's not funny to me that's not what I'm saying what I'm saying is that I do not I would not pull a prank hang on Adam because you made a great point

I didn't make a point I if the only way you prank is by using shit then me and Adam don't stand for that this is your point is there are there any more questions from the fucking popcorn gallery there is one yeah There is one, yeah.

There is one more. I just want you both to know that I... I missed putting my children to bed tonight for this. Mm-hmm. And... You have kids? Yeah. I have two kids.

You play younger. Thank you. You're welcome. This is a question from Andy Meese, one of our listeners. With the advent of DVR and internet streaming, are you worried that people now have the ability to pause your show on the TV and you'll be stuck making a goofy face? No.

I mean, first of all, the technology to pause television has been around i'm pretty sure a good seven years at this point i don't own one that's been stated and i so no i i am not afraid of it you used to worry about it but now seven years later you don't worry about it anymore no that's not not what I'm saying. Why did you talk about how it's been around for so long? Face your fears, I think he's saying. Because of what? Face your fears.

Seven years ago, he said, I'm so scared of this. I did not. Probably what he did was. I never said that at all. What he probably did was. Well, you opened the discussion about the length of time it's been around. Probably for the past, you know, for six of those years, he was pausing it on goofy faces and just looking at it and saying, is this what people are doing? And then he just got comfortable with it.

Now, you both write in television, right? Oh, yeah. What the fuck are you doing here? Why are you doing this? What is this? What is this hole is this filling? How many people are going to listen to this? 10?

20 people? Even if it's 500? Even if it's 1,200? What are you getting from this? What is this doing? Even if it's 1,200, what are you getting from this? What is this doing? Even if it's 1,200, really, you think that's bad? I think it's inconsequential to what you guys are doing. Who cares?

Do something for other people, the people that are trying to get into the business. Hold on. You're doing this podcast for the people that are trying to get into this business? It's not for money. Got plenty of that. Do you? So what else could it be? Because otherwise I'd be like, what is happening here?

Why are we? I'm yet to know why I'm here. What am I doing here? Well, you could plug a project. Yeah. Is there anything you want to plug? Any plugs? Lots of people, yes, want to get their stuff to a wider audience.

I do have a couple things to plug. Thank you. I'm going to be performing with my band at the... What is... I sneezed. Sorry. I'm insensitive. A lot of actors, when they say they have bands, it gets a bad rap. But the truth is, if you ever listen to Dogstar.

Love Dogstar. If you ever listen to 30 Oddfoot Grunts. Love Three Seconds from Mars. If you ever listen, 30 Seconds, if you ever listen to 30 Seconds from Mars, they're really, really good. And I think that the fact that it's an actor doing it makes it even better. Bacon Brothers is like the sound of my soul. The best.

The best. The Jeff Bridges acoustic album is, I mean, that puts me to sleep every night. Anyway, my band is playing at the Roxy on Friday and Saturday night, and then we're going down to the Ice House in Pasadena on Monday and Tuesday, and then we'll be in Santa Clarita at the Melbourne on Thursday and Friday, and then the following Saturday we'll be down at Ducky's in Mont montclair california um and then we'll be doing a five-day stint uh up in irvine at felipe's risottos and then we're going to be coming down the coast to san diego where we're

going to be doing the lighthouse light brunch festival and then um hopefully by the end of the month uh we'll be kicking it back up to uh palm desert where we're gonna be um headlining our own uh uh chimichurros um and for people who haven't heard some of your stuff what's your sound it's kind of uh it's hard to describe it's kind of mumford and sons meets a white noise machine i don't know if that is getting the message yeah it's if mumford and sons sang all their songs through sort of a bunch of cotton yeah yeah kind of like that it's almost the mic and cotton it's like if you you know the sounds that they use to put babies to sleep? Yeah, a white noise machine, yeah. Mix that with the Lumineers.

Okay. And what's in it? We have a vacuum player, the guy that plays vacuum. And he also plays the drums with his hands. I guess all drummers do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And what's the name of that band, if people don't know?

The Adam Pally Project. Hey, it's been so great. Has it? It's been really good. It's been really fun having you here. Really? It hasn't felt that way, guys. We're always pulling for you everything you do

good thank you love people love hearing all that and for you to make that you know that last breakthrough you know what i mean what the fuck does that mean just to get to that big what that big place what's the big place what the fuck you know just to like really what career-wise just like career-wise just when you really okay do it all right you know i haven't i haven't done it yet to you but god like when you do you know who's gonna be right there uh and what do you guys write for a night of too many stars what's like your gig yeah we won an emmy for a night of too many stars you did yeah we were one of like 50 white dudes right that won an emmy for that is jewish white did you call jewish white no one of but neither of 50 white and i would not white and jewish dudes danny your eyes just popped out of your head when I said I would not call Jewish white.

I would not call Jewish white. So that's what we're saying. I would not. They're saying there are white guys and Jewish guys. Oh, so it's both. Yeah. Whatever. I don't know.

Smigel's a legend. Yeah, Smigel. You're saying Robert Smigel is that? I am not saying that Robert Smigel is not a legend. That's his project. So then you're saying that autism is not a good cause. You're saying it's for a bad cause? legend.

That's his project. So then you're saying that autism's not a good cause. You're saying it's for a bad cause? I'm just saying that it's like a hacky thing to call yourself a TV writer and that's like your credit. Well.

It's on IMDb. So I could, IMDb's like Wikipedia. I could put a JPEG up of like a fucking rotating fan and be like, I was in that. Not for too long.

They do actually check it and take it down. So you've posted some fake credits before. I've had some trouble getting some stuff on there that I think I was owed. And that fight's not over either. I'm not giving in. What do you feel like you're

missing out on, Brian? Just some stuff that I think was really more my idea. Chappelle's show. You believe that Chappelle's show named after Dave Chappelle created by Dave Chappelle

and Neil Brennan was your idea? Primarily, yeah. I had been working on a sketch show around the same time. Okay, I think I'm done here. Hey guys, thanks so much for coming by. Thanks so much for listening. Rate us on iTunes. Yeah, give them a good rating.

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