Hollywood Handbook - Clark Duke, Our Inside Job Friend

Episode Date: November 2, 2021

The Boys catch up with CLARK DUKE and discuss his role in Inside Job. 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 head gum podcast so you know it's been a while obviously uh sure but i've got it i've got to do it right i've got to get back in the tube with the big gun and swim down and put the i'm putting the bubbles in the in soda i gotta put the bubbles in the soda and i'm swimming the bubbles in soda. I've got to put the bubbles in the soda, and I'm swimming through this big tube. With a gun. With the big gun, you know,

because they're having these supply chain issues. Yes. Have you been hearing about these supply chain issues? Yeah, so hard to find soda gun. You can't. Bubble gun. Well, they're running out of soda that has bubbles, so they're saying, put the gun on, bubbles so they're saying put the gun on put

the suit on put the gun on i'm just going down to swim in i've got the gun and i said you know and i turn and i turn to bill gates and i say hey what does this button do and he's all no no no don't touch that you know how he talks yeah no no no don't touch that. You know how he talks. Yeah. No, no, no, don't touch that. My invention. No, don't touch it. My device. Now, Hayes, you've known me a long time. Clark, you can actually answer this too.

You know me for a while. Real long. Right. If you tell me don't touch that button, what do you think I'm going to do? touch that button what do you think i'm gonna do i think you're gonna respect my boundaries and not touch the button probably right uh haze you know me a little longer clark what's your guess of what i'm gonna do when you tell me don't touch that button i think you're you you're gonna lick your hand and smear your hand all over the the but i was what i was way first yeah first i first i kind of hover my hand over the button i go i'm not touching the button that's right whoop and he's sweating bullets hard to tell

because he's in soda yeah but from his face he's got that sweat face right? finally he's flushed, he's red yeah he's red oh he's beat red man so I lick my hand, I smear it over the button and all the bubbles

start coming out shaped like nude human beings and i'm real human beings nude human beings i don't mean to be nude i don't mean to be disrespectful of the way i describe this i mean we don't usually get where they on this show like photorealistic nudity or like impressionistic? This is a great question. Or like cartoon nudes or... Or like a cloud.

The way a cloud looks like something. Yeah. Or like some parts are very, very, very realistic. This is what I wanted to say. The graphics were extremely advanced on certain areas. Wow. Clearly more time had been spent on certain areas. The faces were big cartoony sort of family guy faces.

It all looked... Or American Dad, if you will, you know, whatever. But definitely like a Seth MacFarlane show. In that universe, yeah. The way the Flintstones would have looked if we had ever gotten the Flintstones we deserved. We'll get it. We'll get it.

We'll get it. It'll come. The Seth Flintstones is coming. Any day now. Have you gotten over that? Have you been thinking about that, Clark, when they announced that Seth MacFarlane was going to do a big Flintstones reboot?

I haven't even heard of that. Iscfarlane was going to do a big flintstones reboot and i haven't even heard of that is that real that was going to happen that was around 2012 am i right hayes yeah was he going to do animated or live action and animated animated and so and you think about the way technology has advanced since the Flintstones were first on. So think about this. An iPad now, right? Right. Is that bugs? Is that bugs walking on a rock? It's probably like something with a big eyeball, you know, and like a flat tail. There's a visual.

Wait, hang on. What the fuck? Hang on. No, you're the hang on what the fuck hang on what the fuck are you talking about an iPad is something with a big eyeball and a flat tail yeah they'd have an animal that represented the uh you know

like the modern thing oh like you're facetiming on it no I'm just talking about there'd be some creature that they called an iPad. Okay, so you maybe haven't seen the original Flintstones. It's not so much about the Flintstones. They wouldn't have a creature named a dishwasher. What they had was a woolly mammoth

that its trunk would be shooting water out of the dishes. Yeah. But they usually had, they have fun with something, something that represented most modern, uh, technology. Absolutely.

It was just like a little critter of some kind. There's no doubt about it. That's what I, yes, but it would go from, it would resemble the job that the technology did. Yeah, go ahead.

Exactly. Yeah. It wouldn't go from, they wouldn't go from the name. Gotcha. To create the design of the technology did. Yes, exactly. They wouldn't go from the name to create the design of the character. They wouldn't say, okay, iPad, it should have a big eye and a pad that's like a flat tail.

They would go from the functionality. I see. If you were in, like, when did the original Flintstones air? The 70s or something? I think it was way before that. No, it was way before that no it was yeah it was way it was way before that i mean they like there's like they're dinosaurs everywhere so at any at any point when they're if you're in that writer's room and they said what's going to be a

tv and then somebody said like i said is it bugs and you had said i guess it's a guy drinking tea with a v-shaped tail with With a flying V guitar, yeah. Hit the bricks, pal. Yeah, you're looking for a new job. I know we're only a couple minutes in. I'd like to formally apologize to everybody, you guys, the listeners. Yeah, for my Flintstones. Seth MacFarlane.

For my Flintstones boo-boo. Yeah, for what now? my Flintstones boo-boo yeah for what now? your Flintstones boo-boo for your boo-boo, your Bam Bam boo-boo oh right yeah you know what I did watch one of the live action Flintstones movies recently and I gotta say

just say which you can say which one on this show you can say which one. On this show, you can say which one. They're really fun. I mean, I miss when they used to spend that much money on sets. You know, like you'll never see that again because of green screen stuff. That'll never happen ever again, them building all that shit.

No, they will never build I mean they're not going to make rocks anymore it'd be like the Mandalorian it's a wall of you know LEDs or whatever never again Clark Duke to the Mandalorian this ain't it chief

that's the pull quote from the episode Clark Duke has something to say to john favreau and the mandalorian crew this ain't it chief take a note from viva rock vegas a much more successful period piece right right part of that was they had even then they were kind of getting away from that stuff but they had mark addy as fred flintstone in that movie they're not gonna you don't think they're gonna like back they're not gonna skimp on the sets oh are you talking about was there a there was a third one that was not john goodman yeah that's viva rock vegas oh i'm sorry i i just

assumed that was the this the subtitle of the second one then john goodman the movie you're referring to is called the flintstones but didn't they i thought they made a second one. The movie you're referring to is called The Flintstones. I thought they made a second one that had the original cast. No? I don't think so. Viva Rock Vegas. Well, it's a prequel. Theoretically, this is the second one.

Yeah, that's right. Okay. Kristen Johnson is Wilma Slaghoople. Stephen Baldwin in the mix Stephen Baldwin inserted himself yes wow he came to play

so yeah they're gonna what are you not gonna the set honors the cast right like you need a set to honor you know I think Mark out wouldn't look right every part of himself you put mark addy in front of like some cheap dime store set and it rings false i feel like i gotta issue a second apology to everybody to to the listeners to you guys to the other

flintstones booboo apology other flintstones booboo yeah i hope this isn't the whole podcast is gonna be this just me um and it's almost make me wonder if we should talk about something other than the flintstones i'm not ready to yet just me misremembering the flintstones well what did we say you know you said i got this show i want to promote it and we said i don't know clark we're kind of backed up we've got a lot of guests coming up he said oh i'd really like to we said okay just do us a favor kind of brush up on some of your flintstones facts before you get in here and what happened exactly what we were afraid of yeah no i'd say i'd take full responsibility for it in that movie here's how you name something in

the flintstones universe yeah here's how you do it and this was you've got catch once just not letting this go you've got you've got alan coming he's already on set playing the great gazoo right this is in viva rock uh but you also need someone to play like a live Vegas type performer. So who are you going to parody? Of course, the classic, the Vegas staple Mick Jagger is the performer that you choose to parody in Viva Rock Vegas. Okay. Because if you're going to Vegas, especially at that time... You're seeing the stones.

At times out of time, the Rolling Stones are going to be planks at Caesars or something like that. There's also... They have stones in their name. Which is very helpful when you're doing a Flintstones name. That's very fertile territory, yes.

But you can't just call him Mick Jagger. And you can't just call him Mick Jagger. And you can't just call him Mick Jagger Stone, can you? You cannot call him Mick Jagger Stone. Could you call him Rock Jagged? You split the difference and you call him Mick Jagged. Okay. Is that really what they call him? Like a very jagged rock.

Mm-hmm. Mick Jagged. That is the name that they used, yes. You know what Sharon Stone's name would be? I don't know. Did they do that too? That was an SNL sketch, yeah. Oh, okay, yeah. that was an snl sketch yeah oh okay yeah that was an snl sketch well that's howie berry's character's name in the first movie is it yes yes no yes her name

is sharon stone you know what oliver stone's name would be you know what they call the rock what dwayne jagged clark and to everyone welcome to hollywood handbook an insider's guide to kicking butt and dropping names in the red carpet linebacker how is this industry we call show this what up what this is the show same you remember clark you were here was that that was the outro right we're done that you remember exactly that used to be the outro that is now the beginning of the show nope it's up top now okay yep when we start recording it's the and it's i don't know you know whatever you think about keep going pretend i'm not here keep whatever you think about other stuff that he's done there's you know there's a famous comedian who would say you know you get your you take your closer when you think you've got an hour and you get you take your last five

minutes your closer your best stuff you move that up to the front now you got to beat that what's your new closer wow now move that up to the second part andrew dice clay Or who were you referring to? Yeah. It was Louis C. Clay. Which incidentally is his Flintstones name as well. Oh, wow. So that's how you develop your time. So we used to have this closer, this really strong closer and now we're actually, we put

that at the beginning of the show. And now the rest of the show is even better. Clark, you were last here seven years ago to the week is that right to the week to the week wouldn't it be nice if we had sort of an in-house uh like history or just like someone who was kind of charged with like coming up with interesting little factoids. It's like the announcer for the baseball game is just, like, sitting there. And he has headphones on, but there's no voice in them. And he's just charged with coming up with all the statistics himself. He just has to know everything.

There's nobody ready to give him a piece of paper. Wouldn't it just would be nice? Or at least we have confirmation that that's true? Yeah, that's true. Great. That's really helpful. That's a very interesting factoid that I think it just about knocked Clark's glasses off when he heard that fact.

It was unbelievable to him. And just the way the universe works sometimes can be really funny and ultimately we're trying to make the show funny so if you notice something like that kevin or if again i was way off i i really every kind of preconception i had about the show was way off you thought that you thought it's changing the ending it's changed a lot yeah since you know i thought it was more of a dramatic thing. It's very different. It is very different.

You gotta laugh. That's what I'm going to say to you guys right now. You gotta laugh. You have to say that stuff. With this guy in the White House, dino old Trump. What was I promoting seven years ago do you know or

does anybody have uh we're just assuming you were here to promote something and not to just you didn't just want to hang with the boys i've heard these guys think they can keep up with me let's see maybe i can put it together actually maybe i'll put it together for you i'm just curious you know what was it was it numero dos it could have been dose probably hot tub time machine probably is that possible is that the right time because i'm trying to think i think so yeah um it was a few months in advance look when i i'll tell you some things never more things never more things change more they stay the same seven years ago i told my wife we're having clark duke on the show

who ain't my wife yet right today i said she said do you have a guest for the show today i said yeah we have clark duke she said the exact same thing both times what do you think i want a divorce she said that was that was not her response that is in an email that she sent me she's like this is immediately after the conversation i don't know why you keep talking about this guy i don't know who that is she was that recorded i'll tell you exactly what she said both times same and same inflection both times oh i loved him on g. Oh, yeah. Then we continued having a conversation where she went, did you ever watch Greek? This is both times.

I said, no, I haven't seen it. She said, oh, we should watch it. I'm going to save you some time. You don't need to watch it. I mean, it's a lot of episodes. It's a lot, man it's a lot man yeah it was years you four apparently was on for four years five five i think it was five okay she told me four and then found an article that said it's still the gold standard for college television shows and i thought wow i don't know of another

one say by the bell the new class felicity i feel like didn't they do a season of buffy where they were in college that might be the gold standard for college i think that would be that season of your right standard yeah the one buffy season yeah i would say i like that better than anyway i don't think you were promoting that. I think it probably... Yeah, it could have been Hot Tub 2, which thematically is really fun because I've spent most of the day today

with Mr. Christian Slater promoting this new show, Inside Job, and he was also in Hot Tub 2. Mr. Roboto himself. Yep. So you were saying that they don't... You were watching this old... The Flintstones movie and saying, like,

God, they really put their back into the sets back then. So they fucked you on the set on Hot Tub 2. So you could tell, yeah. We actually had to bring our own sets. Oh, my God. Oh, that's part of what made it an inside job. Because the actors themselves were doing a lot of the jobs

that the IATSE crew did. This I like. Every seven years, we should do this, Kevin. Write this down. Someone comes on the show to promote one thing, and then they come back, and they're like, oh, you thought that was good? That sucked.

Yeah. That one, that was garbage compared to this new thing that i have i think it could either be every seven years or every time i do something with christian slater oh it would have been nice in between if you had popped by to plug i'm dying up here if you had just stopped in you, I probably should have because nobody watched it. It would have helped if a couple people had seen it. Not nobody. Oh, then call me, Mr. Nobody. I, yeah.

I mean, I seen them all. It was not a popular show. I liked it a lot, but nobody watched it. It got canceled. Ask your questions, Sean. No, you got Dying Up Here questions? I know you have he has a lot of questions

lay him out are you really dead yeah so you actually are dying up here yeah yeah no that was the plan even if it had came back I was I was gone oof that was all I guess that's a win

for you huh nobody wanted the show without you I mean I think I guess that's a win for you huh nobody wanted the show without you I mean I think that's what happened yeah no that was the plan from the get go cause my guy was originally based on oh god I can't remember

his name now but he was the guy that jumped off of the riot house and landed in the parking lot of the comedy store and killed himself. This was a real guy. I mean, it's obviously not the way we do it in the show, but... Ron Shack? Yeah, his name is not Ron Shack, but...

Oh, man. Anyway, if you read... Kevin looks up the character name and goes... If you read the... It was based on a non-fiction book, and if you read that book, my character was sort of based on that guy. And that was always the idea, was that he was

just going to be there for a season or two. Mm-hmm. I guess, yeah, I had a couple other questions. You guys playing some pranks on set? No. Was it like a big family? No. It was kind of awful. You ever hung out with a bunch of

stand-ups? You ever just had a bunch of stand-ups sitting around? No. It's kind of awful. You ever hung out with a bunch of stand-ups? You ever just had a bunch of stand-ups sitting around? No, it's just so draining. It's just constant one-upmanship. I would say it was not like a family at all, no. Okay. So it wasn't like a family. Was it like a job?

Yeah, it was kind of like a job. More like work. Okay, got it. For a couple of years, yeah. They'd pay us to come in and act and then we'd go home and uh and you do that you know four or five days a week all right interesting all right yeah can't picture it i know it's it's not um we we should we would We would shoot, they would build sets on a stage. So this show, Inside Job,

is this like a family? Yes. Oh, awesome. That's awesome to hear. Yes, that rocks. Christian is daddy, we know this. What now? Christian's daddy. He actually does play a father on the show that's true he's yeah he's daddy um and mommy i'm uh lizzie

caplan lizzie mommy and then i'm maybe i'm would i be uh baby? Actually, maybe me and Lizzy are like brother and sister and he's just daddy. I don't know. Maybe there is no mommy. Just daddy and baby brother. That was the original title of the show, Just Daddy. Big sis. The show was called Daddy. No, Just Daddy.

Just Daddy in the house. Yeah, originally. I think in other countries just daddy just daddy and like in like in it's a padre solo and and you know some of the territories and um you know some places it doesn't translate literally so it's you know i don't know wow they're all on i'm sure they're all online if you want to google it uh wish we had honestly wish we had someone who could reliably do that but i know as you saw last time the result that he came up with was ron shack such a bad guess it was ron shack why do you make you make the same face every time you say the guy's name say it again what was my character based on he was based on this guy

surely he's based on well he's was based on this guy. He probably based on the guy whose name it was. No, no, there's a real guy. Anyway, I'm glad did you like I'm Dying Up Here? I enjoyed it. Oh, good. You watched the whole thing. Watched every episode.

So you intentionally pay for Showtime? At the time, what was going on for me with Showtime? You just like a Ray Donovan nut? I don't know if I'm a nut for enjoying Ray Donovan. I think the sanest thing that you can do is to tune in and watch some sense of sanity to know that you're actually in capable hands to have a fixer

like Ray Donovan at your disposal trying to hold it all together. Right. I saw Jon Voight at Jerry's Deli. He was on Ray Donovan, right? He was holding a rally and you went? He was actually just eating some soup.

But I said, hey, At that age, that's a rally. You know, Jerry's Deli went out of business. I'm really devastated. It sure did. During COVID. So like Green Blots and Jerry's. Also did.

Yeah, it's true. Brutal. Clark, seven years ago. Yeah. We talked about. You could still get soup in this town seven years ago. Yeah. It was a soup town back then.

No more soup uh we last time we talked about you having to have the conversation with john cusack that he wasn't allowed to be in hot tub time machine too and now it was my idea yep yep and how they made you tell him yep yeah yeah well it was my idea so it was my responsibility to tell him. He's still sore. He's mad still? He's still like sore. He's not over it.

But he must have seen the finished product and been like, yeah, I wasn't going to bring anything to this. You know, I'll joke aside, the weirdest part about that

is he actually did end up coming and filming something and then they cut it out. This is the truth, I swear. That's a nice favor. That's a very nice favor to John for the production to say, hey, let's just have him in here.

He'll just be happy. He just wants to be around set. He doesn't care about being in a movie. He's been in a lot of movies. We won't put it in the thing, but he'll get to come to set. It was like one day he showed up in the wardrobe but he'll get to come to set it was like one day he showed up in the wardrobe of another movie he was shooting i think is just a fuck you or like an easter egg

i'm not sure yeah and uh and then they ended up cutting it out and i was like i couldn't believe i couldn't believe any of it happened i couldn't believe that i couldn't believe that they only wanted him for the one day i couldn't believe he did it for the one day. I'm not sure they paid him a fortune. And then I couldn't believe that they edited it up. He showed up in the wrong clothes. What was the wardrobe? Frozen ground? I don't know. I'm reaching for any

recent Cusack movie. I don't know, man. This guy's in his fucking Frozen Ground clothes. Is he wearing... That's unseasonably... Is that his costume for Frozen Ground?

Holy shit. For the record, I was super vocal from the jump that he should be there. It's crazy to not have him be in the movie. Like I I maintain it was a bad idea. And it was well, I mean, it was proven out it was a bad idea. But yeah, the whole thing, that whole thing was so stupid, man.

It seems like it really seems like that one day god what did they get that they couldn't put in the one day that they had it for what happened there two hours it was like it was like a shot um the shot didn't work with the story it must have like tested poorly or something. Who knows, man? The movie's 93 minutes long. That's the magic number. And that's with the 20 minutes of bloopers after the credits that they left in, right? You gotta. You gotta. Even him fucking up that scene

a bunch of times, they're like, we can't. All the bloopers are just you guys being like, hey man, get your Frozen crowd shit off and get it to your hot tub time machine clothes. They make the new Star Wars trilogy and they bring Mark Hamill back to do all those sequences and then they're like, I don't know. I mean, honestly, I feel like that's basically what the new

Star Wars movie was. They need to bring Harrison Ford back. They brought all the original people back just to do nothing. I mean, I could just talk about how much I hate those new movies. They're so bizarre. There's shows for that. There probably is

i was literally had this conversation with my brother earlier like what happened to the guy the like 10 foot tall guys that sat in the throne in the second one like i've yeah by like the third one he's just like um they literally explain it with like oscar isaac looking into camera and being like somehow somehow, Emperor Palpatine has returned. And that's it. That's the entirety of the explanation. Well, Supreme Leader Snoke was defeated. This kid, you know,

between fucking Flintstones and Star Wars, it's like you don't have any of your war crimes. Explain what Snoke was. Explain what he was. Nope. Snoke was. Explain what he was. Snoke was a 10-foot tall man who sat on a throne, was a supreme leader, and was proudly defeated. He was a genetic strand cast. They said he was like a clone of something. Yes, he was created by Emperor Palpatine.

A clone of what, though? He was a genetic strand cast. He wasn't a clone. He was like a— These movies are like a year old, dude. It should not be this hard to recall. He was a little bit of Emperor Palpatine's spoozum. Basically, yeah.

Why was he 10 feet tall, though? Because you need him to be able to beat up guys. Yeah. You see how big the chair was? He was very strong to be that big. Yeah. Maybe they just had the chair and they were like, we spent so much money on this chair, we gotta

justify the size of this chair. That was Andy Serkis, dude. Did you know that? I did not know that. Yes, director of Venom 2, let there be courage. Andy Serkis was superior. He's not that huge. Yeah, that's how talented he is. Yeah, he's unrecognizable.

That's great. Family circus. Circus liquor. Put it out there. Circus of books. Emperor pumping cream. Just these are just leftover. Kevin, plug these in where they could go they you could really put those in any episode

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I mean, you're talking about Hollywood memorabilia. You're talking about ornate gowns in some cases. And so that was costing me a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. Stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to rocketmoney.com slash the boys that's rocketmoney.com slash the boys rocketmoney.com slash the boys hollywood handbook clark catch us it's been seven years it's been seven years if you had like it told me back then that we were all still gonna be kicking around out here oh my god what a blessing. It's all

gravy at this point. None of us should be alive. It's true. The speed we live at. I should have my lips wrapped around a tailpipe. You don't look a day over like five and a half years older. Yep.

I should be smoking a Jeep Grand Cherokee right now. Way I live my life, man. That's the only thing that makes sense. But here I am. JGC unfiltered. 40 and some change can you believe it I quit smoking a few months ago Clark wow

how'd we do it the book nah I just gritted my teeth and did it it's fucking awful if you grit them tight enough you can't cigarette won't fit I can still get some smoke through a bit.

But the cigarette is on the outside. Did you just leave a cigarette in? I floss daily. You have huge holes. There's plenty of air between the teeth. You're flossing too hard. There shouldn't be that much space. I could definitely smoke

a cigarette through my gritted teeth. 100%. Okay, well then start smoking again, Clark. I could definitely smoke a cigarette through my gritted teeth. 100%. Okay, well then start smoking again, Clark. I don't give a shit. Maybe I will. Good, I'm glad. I don't care. We're all borrowed time anyway.

The way we live our lives, huh? Us young Hollywood so-and-sos. You guys have been running pretty hard the last seven years, it sounds like. Yeah, running real hard and put away soaking. I read that LA was having its driest year on record. Yeah, because I got all the fucking juice. None left for the land.

And I'm shooting around fucking sucking it all up absorbing it man yep it's too bad sorry crops wait you're absorbing i kind of lost the juice man there's no juice left let's talk about i mean let's talk about these seven years for me okay i also got married. Oh, wow. Married again. I don't know if you're joking or not. Neither is he. Then married the first one again.

Oh, very cool. That's how they can't get you. So they say like... It's like double jeopardy. You say, okay okay i'm married to this person whatever you marry the other person they're like you can't do you can't do that you can only marry this person yep so you're like okay i'll marry this person again

they go oh wait we just said you could marry that person and you could only marry that person so like now i guess you are married twice so that's how you actually get them but we talk about marriage and you talk about the seven-year itch and it really is an itch to have clark duke on your podcast isn't it so are you talking about polygamy no no didn't i tell you i went back and married that first person again oh so you got rid of the okay all right nope no i didn't but i invited all the all the police to that to my to my remarrying again the first wife who i was already still married to yep but that takes them off the scent they forget we had the stuff that

we were like putting out there the food and stuff for this wedding they completely forgot about yeah the fact that I had married this other person and I'm still married to them and now twice married to one woman, married again. Good catering will cover a lot. I mean, I always see that on set. Oh, it's huge. Yeah. It's huge.

But they don't do that and it's all bring your own food for everyone else now. BYLF. Yes, for the entire set and the crew. This is this ISC shit. Let's talk about this, honestly. Let's get into it. I think it's all over already.

I think it's all... I agree it's all over for this entire industry. You wanted the crew to have four to five hours a night off max, right? You didn't want the crew to have like four to five hours a night off max right you didn't want the i'm just saying it's a privilege to do this like kids like you know for like little like there are lots of little kids that would love to be doing this let's put

it that way and they don't want to go to sleep anyway no yeah no kids you can't get them you can't get them into bed and what do they want to do instead of go to bed? Watch TV. Move the C-stand. So think about the magic, the privilege that you have to be involved in making TV. And you want to go to bed instead? Seems a little backwards to me if you talk to any kids. It's a perfect trade.

You have all these kids saying, I don't want to go to bed. And you have all these other... Teamsters. Yeah, these teamsters that are like, I want to go to bed right now. It's like, okay, great. I don't want to go to bed. I want to watch TV. Okay, we'll watch it from right here where it's being made.

Hold this big pole with a speaker on the end of it or whatever. And then you are watching TV. It's a reverse boom mic. It's got a speaker on the end of it i'll tell you something else about kids they'll watch the same thing over and over again they'll watch the same video 30 40 times so you guys you got a clark duke on set cracking everybody up they gotta get all the bloopers gotta keep going going back to one that's okay these kids don't mind where some of these teams

just are going like jesus christ can we get out of this fucking scene we were only supposed to shoot three pages today and you know i've been here since uh blah blah blah 1 a.m right so you know yeah but anyway sorry you were dunking on me with the reverse boom mic thing or whatever the speaker thing it's just a speaker on a microphone on a pole if you get the speaker on the pole that's a that's a it seems like you seems like you misspoke when you said speaker on a microphone i wonder if anybody else misspoke but got a pass freddie prince i was trying to think senior or junior senior that's ron shack freddie prince jr was uh was in the book i'm dying up here the non-fiction i think i think he was a clark i got a quote from you saying it's inspired by freddie prince so

you're ron shack character he's doubling all the way back was it based on freddie prince uh oh i think it was i think some of it was yeah still got you dead to rights no he's been furiously Googling this whole time. But did he jump off the top of the comedy store? No, he was not the guy that jumped. So that's someone else. All right, back to the lab. So, Kevin, you've had 20, 30 minutes.

Yeah. It's just so many people must have jumped off the top of the comedy store. What year was it? It was Richard Lewis's best friend, and I cannot remember the guy's name, and I feel like such an asshole now. Larry David. Yeah, that's Larry. No.

I guess they're frenemies. I guess they're more frenemies. Yeah, sure, they fight, but they're friends. I also saw Richard Lewis at Jerry's Deli one day. I'm really tore up about Jerry's Deli closing. I feel like that's the most newsworthy thing in the last seven years since I saw you guys. What is it? What's our order there?

Chicken noodle soup, beef brisket. Chicken noodle soup, beef brisket. Yeah, get the dip. Get the brisket dip. It the dip get the brisket it's all over though they went out they closed it's still so what happens if you go to that bowling alley now i don't know it's a good question i don't know if it's open or not right oh wait we got a text here on the screen steve steve lubeckin yeah yeah steve lubeckinubeckin. I didn't know how to pronounce it. I needed to hear someone say it first.

You texted Clark? It just popped up in the chat. Is there another person here? Yeah, Christy from Netflix. I don't see it in the chat. Yeah. Was it a private message? Oh, maybe it is.

It's a direct message. Yeah. Thanks for blowing up my spot. Don't privately message Clark. Okay, shit. Well, maybe it is. It's a direct message. Yeah. Thanks for blowing up my spot. Don't privately message Clark. Okay, everyone, your chat settings should be set to everyone. You want the text to come across all the screens, like superimposed. There are no secrets on Hollywood Handbook. Everything's out in the open.

Oh, wow. You want to chat something to me you chat it to hayes there's nothing you can chat in front of me that you can't chat in front of hayes we're that close what's your simpsons uh uh halloween name clark oh great good question oh i don't know how do you do that one it's spooky it's yeah it's you you put something in quote it's like james hell brooks oh oh right right right like the credits on the thing um clark clark book i was trying i was trying to think of stuff that rhymed with duke uh that's spooky too late um dark dark dark yeah Dark. Dark. Dark, yeah. Okay. Dark book. Dark book.

Dark book. Okay. Workshopping it, but yeah. Mine is, I think we did this previously. I think mine was Graves' Scab and Port. Oh, that's good. I think that's what it was.

That's really good. Kevin, I don't think you have one do you I can't you don't have one I mean there's no way you would ever like get in the credits of that show just nothing rhymes with Kevin yeah and they don't do it for like the end credits

so like do they I don't think they let them do a scary day I think they do I think it's everybody everyone gets a scary name this is this IATSE stuff is that what they were negotiating for to get two scary names

this year or something and they also want to go to bed this is insane let's actually talk about this let's be brave enough to talk about this you so you want to come up with the scariest name you can think of and then immediately go to bed uh that's a recipe for nightmares let me guess who's gonna have to let you crawl into bed with me in

the middle of the night when you get so scared by the name you came up with and dreamed about it's just not it doesn't make sense little kids would never want to cope with a scary day right before bed never I've been around some they don't like that what they'd like to hear before bed actually is that there's nothing scary happening that's true

that's actually what I like to hear right before bed sure yeah that's why you're above the line that's right yeah that's maturity man kevin scar welt that's pretty freaky clark i have a proposition for you it's a slight change of coffin scar welt coffin scar welt yeah kevin you had a question i'm sorry no it was i think it was actually not a question i think it was a a proposal is that what it was as a

proposition proposition okay it's like a question but more uncomfortable go ahead have you seen these people on tiktok that are doing like cosplay of like characters and movies and tv shows honestly no i don't know but no but go ahead i fear someone might do that to you in your next big role and do you need to get litigious my friend like but you want me to get litigious before like preventatively you you want me to stop it before maybe we start a tiktok to like give these cosplayers a heads up no no no you try to do that with me i will end you clark don't play that shit this is interesting so this is a legally binding tiktok account so i'm starting the tiktok and the tiktok is just a disclaimer warning other people yeah just a tiktok account so i'm starting the tiktok and the tiktok is just a disclaimer

warning other people yeah just a tiktok to basically say hey it's called litigious clark duke yeah you will be prosecuted if you cosplay as ron shack or any of my other characters well you know how the kids loved i'm dyingying Up Here. Yeah, that immediately took off on TikTok. The Zoomers, man. Yeah, the Zoomers couldn't get enough of that show set 50 years ago. Yeah, all the Zoomers dressed up as Goldie.

Yep. Forget it, man. The Santino Challenge. Yeah, his name was Bill. So you're a super fan. I mean, you're in there. Yes, he's the biggest fan of the show.

I have the show's number one fan. I think you actually might be, or number two at least. Yeah, that's why you say it. Number two, right behind Dave Flabat. Alright, now you're just googling no he's not I didn't google shit man look at my hands

uh probably no sorry go ahead I was gonna say probably my name is like strong gremlins does your character have a funny voice? On Inside Job? Yeah. No, it's really just my voice.

It's not me doing it. Sounds pretty funny to me. He sounds like a fucking... Like a fucking clown. No, it's just kind of, you know, he's like a really sweet, naive version of me, kind of. What was the best note you got in the booth? Louder, faster, once again.

Louder, faster, once again. That's actually the best direction you really get as an actor. That's for life, man. Yeah, if you're ever in doubt and you got to give somebody a note, just say, just try it. I liked it a lot. Try it again.

Let's try it. I'd like just to see what happens because we got that. Let's do one more and just try it like 30% faster. Let's just see what happens. It's a great note. You can't go wrong with that.

Louder, faster, once again. My eyes flutter open every morning yeah louder looking straight ahead again faster once again yeah spring out of bed hard cut louder faster fall fall into the hamper uh no not a funny voice um it is a really funny show though we're 48 minutes in. We should probably mention it. Yeah, so what's happening on the show? The show is about, it's an office

comedy about the people that work. They already did that. And you were in it. I know, I know. It's a office workplace comedy about these people that work at the shadow government, like the deep state that run.

So basically, the premise of the show is all the conspiracy theories are real and there is a deep state. Oh, shit. And it's like a workplace comedy about the people that... That's too late. Well, I mean, unless you want to get litigious, it's too late, but...

Oh, shit. I had an idea like this. Let's get that on the record. Get on TikTok, baby. I mean, if you had... Did you register it with the wga though you know me we don't always see eye to eye the uh wga and myself you're gonna you're gonna have a problem i don't know if you're gonna win that one i read i did register it with it separate

i registered it with nabisco does that sound right? No, I think you're thinking of IGA, the old grocery store chain. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're thinking of, yeah. Okay. The IGA, the grocery store. Yeah.

So yeah, I registered it on there. I just sort of found they had a little trademark signature, and I just sort of wrote down my idea next to that on one of the shelves on like a cereal box. So I think I can probably dig that. I can find that. And then you're going to be- I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. You're going to be forking over some of that sweet cash that Netflix gave you. And I want to hear more about the show. Mm-hmm.

But when you describe it this time, could you give me three in a row and just try something new on every... Just kind of put us in the voice booth with you. Right. So, it's an office workplace comedy set in the deep state of the shadow government. So, it's an office workplace comedy set in the deep state of the shadow government. So it's an office workplace comedy set in the deep state, the shadow government.

So it's an office workplace comedy set in the deep state, the shadow government. Really good. I do it fast. Yeah. Was there one you like? I mean, give me something like which one? Like, I don't want to just do all of them again. Split the difference between two and three.

Okay. So it's an office workplace comedy set in the deep state in the shadow three. Okay. So it's Office, Workplace, Comedy, Set in the Deep State, and the Shadow Government. Oh. That was the perfect mathematical center between those two reads. I don't know. I mean, if you guys are happy, I'm happy. I don't have anything else.

Any other ones? Yeah, no, I think we're good. We'll probably have you come back and do it for real next time. We might not use Office and Workplace. I just want you to know like when you like we might like choose we might choose between we wanted to write that in the script so we could get both but we're just gonna like lay those together and probably just say one because like office workplaces like those are kind of the same thing all right

adr anyways that's fun kevin uh is this the first person from The Office that we've had on the show for you to thank personally for your relationship? Because Kevin had a Tinder bio for a long time that just said The Office. That was all it said? The whole bio was just The Office. What were people supposed to gather from that? I don't understand. That it was, you know, they were down the clown can owns yeah just that the kevin's down kevin's down yeah

yeah the office the office but was it did you want that were you looking for someone that liked the office or you just wanted them to know that you liked The Office? Ideally both, right, Kev? Ideally both, okay. Clark, I think you overthought this a little more than they were. Yeah. They felt it. All of those swipe righties. Yeah.

It's a very popular show. I mean, I bet it probably worked. It probably went really well. So to Sean's point and Hayes' point, I have to say thank you for your service because, uh, you know, I would be the man I am today without you.

So wait, I wonder if that's what I was here seven years ago. That would have been about, about the right time, right? Office. I don't know. I don't know.

The office. You think you were promoting the office on Hollywood handbook? Yeah. They're trying to get the word out yeah clark if you wouldn't mind so it's it's season 26 you're the 48th lead in the show we got to get you out in front of people yeah we just uh we got to get some some on this thing. Could you go on the worst podcast being made? Is this the show?

Kevin, when will the show have premiered? This episode premieres November 2nd. Okay, so the show will have been out 11 days at that point? Something like that? Something like that, that yeah that's our sweet spot this is when in netflix time that's like seven years yeah that's our initial bump that's gonna be your second cycle then look out squid game you'll be so you'll be in the meeting on day 11 and they'll be like hey guys this the numbers are not really doing it and then you're like check your phone and then and then this printer just starts printing out sheets and sheets of paper and they're like hold on hold on and it's just that one long sheet with the dots

you know on the sides they're like squid game this is what everyone's talking about it's crazy it's a phenomenon i yes no the whole time i was reading it as squidgy me but hearing you say squid game i'm putting a bunch of stuff together i'm now getting snl sketches right i'm realizing what was being pushed to me on my homepage. Squidgy me. I think, yes. I think what happened is somebody wrote it down for me to tell me to watch it, but they put the two words too close together.

They didn't use the space bar. Yeah. No space bar. It was probably Kevin, honestly. Guilty. It was another Ron Sh shack type situation where he just didn't do that one last step bye hollywood handbook this week on the patreon carl and asan discuss the nfl the boys talk to matt apodaca about replacing me on the pro version

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