The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Chelsea Peretti Talks "First Time Female Director" | Awkwafina On “Kung Fu Panda 4”

Episode Date: March 10, 2024

Comedian and actor, Chelsea Peretti, joins Ronny Chieng to discuss her directorial debut in her new film "First Time Female Director" and the challenges that come with making a movie. And actor and co...median, Awkwafina & Ronny Chieng flip roles in their chat about “Kung Fu Panda 4.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday?
Starting point is 00:00:50 I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. My guest tonight is a comedian and actor who wrote in directed the new film first-time female director. Please welcome Chelsea Peretti. The people love you. The people have spoken. Wow. You're very beloved. Yeah. Yeah. The people love you. The people have spoken.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Wow. You're very beloved. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Does this chair vibrate? Uh, yeah. We're a question.
Starting point is 00:01:42 I think I saw an ad on Instagram for this. Yeah, we tried to keep our guests happy. Thank you. So, Project's first-time female director. Yes. Film? It's also, you're also a first-time female director. This is going good.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Could I get the regular host? Oh, right. We said we wouldn't roast each other. Yeah, yeah, I know, look at us going at each other now. For some people director, you had a really Larry David Kirby enthusiasm by. Right? Very handmade. Was that intentional? Was that a lack of budget? I'm trying to spur him to come after me because I'm a big fan of Ronnings. I just want to say that. I really am.
Starting point is 00:02:23 I am a huge fan of yours too. I'm I'm not. No we we never met but you are very nice to me over the pandemic. I DM you over over Instagram and I was a huge fan of yours watching your comedy specials and I love your music album that you released. Thank you. Thank you. It was about coffee concept album. Yeah it was a coffee concept album, one of those. Yeah. So, uh... You did during the pandemic. It was a pandemic. Yeah, it was a pandemic. It was a pandemic. Yeah. It was a pandemic. Yeah. It was a pandemic. It was a pre-pandem. And then when the COVID happened, I was like, I was like, why did I was a music. Thank you. thin. to the thin. A. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. the th. the th. the the th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the pandemic. the the the the the the the the the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the pandemic. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the the the the the the among many things is that I mean you but you're stand-up comic yeah so you're starting these comedy clubs and all that right here in these city streets yeah on the streets yeah man
Starting point is 00:03:12 when you do comedy you're in especially when you're starting out you're in a bar full of like drunk people yeah yeah if you're lucky sometimes if you're lucky usually it's a bar full of junk men. Yeah. And then you moved into directing a movie. You know, how do you get that skill set? It must be, you know. All it really took was decades. So if you have decades to spare, you too might be able to do that.
Starting point is 00:03:40 No, but I wrote for TV, I wrote for Parks and Rec and Amy produced this movie. Sorry, yeah. Don't just say Amy like Madonna. Oh, Amy Polar, yeah. I know you're on first name basis with her but. It would be weird if I always called her Amy Polar. Yeah, Amy Polar brought you on this and is that is she the one who kind of like championed you to do this? She is, yeah. championed you to do this. Yeah. Right. So I mean what how did what how did this project come about because it's very meta I don't want to like misdescribe this
Starting point is 00:04:07 very meta kind of your first first time director directing a play in the movie yeah in real life your first time female director directing the movie so I mean I was well that's pretty accurate. Yeah that was a good description but what was the inspiration for this? The inspiration well I challenged myself to. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I was. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was........................................................................................................ the.. the. the. the. the. the. the. this? The inspiration. Well, I challenge myself to write a fake excerpt of a play at UCB Theater in Los Angeles, which was a southern rural drama. And it was a fun night. It was very silly. We did a really pretentious Q&A afterwards. And then I was like, could I make this into a movie?
Starting point is 00:04:42 And so that's kind of the origin story, if you will. And that's how you start that's that's that's you that's that's that's that's you that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's how you start you start you start you start you start you that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's to into a movie? And so that's kind of the origin story, if you will. Right. And that's how you start. And people who don't know, making movies is very hard. I mean, forget the making it, just trying to get it up and going. I tried to get to get him for my movie, and I was told he's offer only. That's when an actor thinks they're too good to audition. So I was like, whoa, whoa, this one hurts. This one hurts. Yeah, but I am awful only.
Starting point is 00:05:10 You are. Yeah. You are. So why didn't you make an offer? Why didn't you make an offer? Why didn't you make an offer? Well, I was waiting. That's a good follow-up question.
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Starting point is 00:06:07 Yeah, what do I say? So, yeah, when do you debut it? Uh, Friday? Friday, March 8th. Yeah, but you got into the festival. Oh, we got it to Tribeca. Yeah, which is hot. It's hard. It's hard to be a good movie. No, you can't.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Yeah, this is a hot crowd. This crowd is hot and yeah. Yeah, they're hot, they're a little old and they're a little bit, I appreciate it, but let's call it, you know, and they've been waiting out in the New York rain so they're really appreciate them waiting out. No, that's a compliment, thanks for, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, they, they that, that, that, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, they. Yeah, they. Yeah, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thooooooooo. Yeah, that, that, that, thatthat I really appreciate them waiting out no that's a compliment thanks for being so old and waiting out in your yeah and they love you yeah you're sweet you're sweet with them again a tender rapport yeah yeah yeah yeah so trade back it was great that's a huge I know you're understalling it but it's hard to it's hard achievement. I got a fake tan for it. Yeah. Very classy. Okay, and then now it's a premiering on?
Starting point is 00:07:07 A Roku March 8th, yeah. So I'm excited and I hope people enjoy it. Yeah, well, yeah, that's awesome. What was the most challenging thing you had on this on this project? God, not being able to get you in there. Passing me was the biggest challenge. Yeah. I love how you named it first-time female director. So like if anybody gives a bad review, is that like? Like, they're just sexist, right? Yeah, yeah. It's automatically sexes.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Yeah. That's what I'm always trying to set up. It's some sort of infrastructure like that. But it is weird like any title you think of the snooty reviews where they say like something like, you know, they always like use the title to slam the movie. Yeah, yeah. First time female director. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:07:49 I don't know, maybe it's harder. Yeah. Yeah, well, there's no reason to slam the movie. It was great. Well, there's no reason to slam. the truth. Yeah, I am. I've always always been there. It's a weird time because it's like everyone being like, oh, I love the movie. I'm like this. Yeah, you see, this is the com- that's how I know you're a comic.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Yeah, because comics can't take compliments. You cannot trust. You can't tell me. and he was like, we're at dinner and he goes, I love this comedian, he's emotionless. And the weirdest thing is I go, is it this guy? And I pulled up a picture of you. I'm like, do you mean rageful? Because that was the joke, but I guess I didn't hit. No, no.
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Starting point is 00:09:08 So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election, economics, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're gonna be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches.
Starting point is 00:09:33 And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. My guest tonight is an Emmy nominated actor and comedian who stars in the new film Kung Fu Panda 4. Please welcome the one and only Aquafina. All right.
Starting point is 00:10:12 All right. All right. Thanks for coming. That's good to see you. That's good to see you. Yeah, good, all right. Thanks, thanks for coming. That one, that's good to see you. Yeah, good to see you again.
Starting point is 00:10:30 It's great. So what's this? Comefu Panda? They gave you one like that when you came out? Yeah, they did. It was even louder when I came out. Right, right? So, that movie too.
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Starting point is 00:11:34 towarding figure in comedy and icon for all Asians, a colossal acting talent who deserves his own action franchise and my personal hero who I'm honored to even breathe the same air with. Please welcome, Ronnie Chang. Yeah, you hear that? You're today. Give me the audience. Give me that? Give me this question. Give me this question.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Give me some. Give me some. Thank you. Thank you, traders. Okay, here we go. I prepared some questions for you in case you... Your voice acting is so realistic. Did you go to Juilliard or something?
Starting point is 00:12:33 Oh, I'm glad you asked that. You know, I just think that sometimes with voice acting, you want to, you know, be as natural as you can, so, I'm kind of proud to say I didn't have any formal training in it. I just, you know, I just think authenticity is the key to good animal animation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, 100% that. I mean, this year we saw actors take on some incredibly challenging roles with Celian Murphy or Killian Murphy as Oppenheimer, Bradley Cooper, as Leonard Bernstein and Rahn
Starting point is 00:13:02 and Ronnie Chang in Kung Fu Panda 4. How do you... Yeah, keep it going. Yeah, keep it going. Yeah, keep it going. How did you prepare to take on such a big role? Well, you know, I've been kind of eating fish my whole life, so I feel like I knew what this character really tastes like and I kind of, you know, I channeled that into, I tried
Starting point is 00:13:37 to put a little bit of fishiness into... You live inside a bird. Yes, in this... spoiler alert. I live in a bird. So you know it's the actually the second marine characters that ever appear in a Kung Fu Panda franchise. Really? Yeah. Don't figure. It's hard to show under aquatic animals on land but while we figure it out. This is the fourth project you've done with me. How does it feel to always be below me on the call sheet? Okay, you know what?
Starting point is 00:14:10 Okay, okay. Okay, I didn't forget. Is that what he says? Is that what's it? All right, anyway. This is the fourth project, together. We have. Yeah, crazy rotations. We did Shang Chi. We did Kung Fu Panda. We did Kung Fu Panda. Wait, what's the other one? That's three. Oh, we did. You are on my show? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's on Alkina. Yeah. Oh, it's on. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm on. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's on. Oh, yeah. that's on. the. th. th. th. th. th. the th. the th. th. the the th. the the o. the o. the o'. the o'. the o'. the o'. the o'. the other. the o'. the o'. the o'. the o'. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the o'. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. the other. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. th. Oh. Oh. th. th. Oh. Oh. th. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh on that, by the way. Thank you for coming. You're such a cool icon, you know, from New York City, born and raised, Queens.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's your connection to New York City? Oh, what do you mean? I mean, I was from here, you know, raised here, but sorry, why, chef asked the question, but I meant like, you know, you had your family restaurant here, right? Oh, yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Yeah, my, my, yeah, my, we had a, the first Chinese restaurant in Flushing was called Lum's. Yes. Whose restaurant was that? It was my great grandpa. My great-grand, Jimmy Lum came over in the 1940s and then it kind of went out of business in the 80s. But yeah, yeah. Reaganomics, yeah. And then what was the, you grew up in the restaurant? You grew up in a restaurant because then they had an offshoot after Lum's closed my grandma opened a new one. And so I grew up like in the restaurant, like I would eat, that would, yeah. Yeah, so very much in the, in the kitchen, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, in, in, in, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, grew up in the restaurant and stuff, like I would eat, that would, yeah. Yeah, so very much in the, in the kitchen.
Starting point is 00:15:47 In the kitchen. I ate like a scoop of MSG one time, like just, like literally, it was crazy. Oh, okay. It was like a crazy. It was nuts. Yeah. Okay. This, yeah, this, uh, this, uh, this, uh, this new, I got, I gotta spend at least some, I gotta talk, talk you up, this movie a little bit, a Kung-Pan-O-Pan-Foak, because, you're,
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Starting point is 00:16:42 I don't know if you can't say say the you you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, say, say, say, say, you can't, say, say, say, say, you, say, the franchise forever I think. Yeah, I don't know if you can't talk about that but you want you want you can't say what's going to the spoiler? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think I think the movie just this one, I think I watched it a lot. I was a fan of Jack Black who's you know like kind of reprising this role. Yeah, I mean like he's really the real deal and so I think it's now speaking. It's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that's that's that's that's that's the the that's that's that's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.......................................................................... the.. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. I. the. the. the. the. I. really the real deal and so I think it's now speaking to I think the adults that that kind of watched it and you know they're moving on and stuff like change and stuff like that. Yeah yeah that's great I okay so we we kind of really lost steam in this one after the first yeah once we started being too sincere we kind of lost yeah okay when we're doing the bid it was great do you want me to be less sincere no no no no they it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they the the the the the the the th the th th th th the the the the the the the they're the the they're the they're the they're the the they're the the of lost yeah, okay We're doing the bid it was ready
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Starting point is 00:17:50 Only these people will know. You're gonna cut out. Okay. We'll cut out everything. Yeah. So what was it like? Working with Jack Black is I mean. No, do it. Just do the press thing so we can go home. Do the press thing. Do the...
Starting point is 00:18:06 I'm a 40. Just say, Jack's great, movies great. And you know, I was like, yeah. Just go, just go into press mode. Okay. What's it like, what can Jack Black? You know what, Ronnie, it was so good. And I love... And Kung Fu Panda, and, so good in it, right?
Starting point is 00:18:25 Thank you. Thank you. I'm happy for that. Hope we can sell a lot of stuffed animals and that thing. I don't know, because you would be interesting because you have to open the whole bird's mouth. Yeah, my stuff animal is actually like two figures and one. Right, that's cool. Yeah. Also, you know, Jack Black, interesting interesting his mom, his mother was one of the women who contributed to the
Starting point is 00:18:49 NASA polar program. She coded the the programs that let man go to the moon. Yeah. So you know way to go. Jack's mom. Totally. Yeah. Not just a physical genius. You know I got to meet him at the premier because I'm not famous enough to hang out with you guys in the studio. You were in the TikTok with them. You got in the TikTok. Yeah, no, at the premiere. Yeah, I met him at the first-eveh at the movie premiere.
Starting point is 00:19:11 It was very nice to see you there. Yeah, you were nice to keep up with him like. I mean he's so funny. Yeah he's super funny, very energetic. Also a bunch of other Asians in this movie. Yes. James Hong. No I meant that sincerely. James Hong's in it? Yeah. Legendary, James Hong. He's like 94. I think he's still in it. Yes. I mean he's he, we were at the grove and we went up the trolley and he, like, I think he was doing a bit, but he was like, oh no, they're stairs. But then he, I think he was joking, he ran up them. Oh yeah. He's like so sprightly, so much energy.
Starting point is 00:19:53 It's, yeah, it was so cool. Yeah, it was like, he I think he was the best, I think he was the best other Asian actor in the movie. Other than, other than... Other than... Yeah, Ronnie is incredible. All right, okay, you know what? Let's end this so we can go home. No, no, it's really good to see, man. You're honestly the best. I've known you for so long. You've always been really cool to me. Kung Fu Panda Four is in the natu.
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