Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - RHYS DARBY: Never Losing Humor, Lighter Side of Life & Starbucks Line Reading

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

Rhys Darby (Flight of the Concords, Our Flag) joins us for laughs, insights into a lighter side of life, and more laughs… look it up. Rhys talks about the comfort and comedy he was brought up under by his single mother and why he ultimately had to leave New Zealand to achieve his dreams. We also talk about humble beginnings on Flight of the Concords, the greats of improv on set, and his Yogi Bear inspired aspirations. Thank you to our sponsors: 🛏️ Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/inside 👕 Quince: https://quince.com/inside ⚕️ Lumen: https://lumen.me/inside ❤️ Betterhelp: https://betterhelp.com/inside __________________________________________________ 💖 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/insideofyou 👕 Inside Of You Merch: https://store.insideofyoupodcast.com/ __________________________________________________ Watch or listen to more episodes! 📺 https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/show __________________________________________________ Follow us online! 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/insideofyoupodcast/ 🤣 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@insideofyou_podcast 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/insideofyoupodcast/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/insideofyoupod 🌐 Website: https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Two L's. Two L's. Pernance TAY. How's your mental health? How's anxiety, stress? Are you coping pretty all right? It's okay. I'm finding ways, as we all are.

Are you still going to therapy? I am. I had a session this morning. Better help. I love it, man. I think I think I told my therapist what my last name actually is pronounced this week. Teas.

Yeah, I don't think he knew. It was like, tell us, Mr. Tell us. Yeah. Well, good for him. Yeah, but just educate me. I thought there was going to be something deep. I told my therapist this today. No, but like I have one of those names where if you look at it, people and you know people,

because I've had people that I've known for years, like, that assume that it's pronounced a certain way and then suddenly I say, no, it's actually this, because they've only seen it written down. Yeah. Well, that happens on the podcast, right? We read names and we're messing them all up. Yeah. Thanks for listening.

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So I'm hoping we get to make that. We're still a long ways from there. In the trades, it never means anything other than, hey, this is, this might have. happen but you know how things have go and so but i'm enjoying it i'm enjoying the process i'm not so concerned about well look is it going to go as as i am like hey this is cool let's just keep having fun keep creating and hopefully it will continue and then i have another yeah so it's like you know work it's been it's been cool i'm just kind of i'm sticking in my guns on just doing what i want to do good what i'm passionate about what uh drives me so that's good uh all right why this this guy reese derby is

he's so funny he's just a naturally funny talented guy I remember I saw him on what we do in the shadows and I was like who is that that guy is awesome

I just love it he has so much presence and a stand-up is brilliant it was enjoyable to have him here on the podcast yeah he's a favorite of mine yeah I know that

yeah we got a picture with you yeah we did I know I'll share it let's get inside of Reese Darby it's my point of you you're listening to inside of you with my

Michael Rosenbaum. Inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum was not recorded in front of a live studio audience. Do you hate when people say, oh, you're Australian? Yes. You do. Is it because you hate Australians or you just would? Well, I'm not Australian. I know you're in.

It's naive of people to, you know. know, assume. It's like there, it's a lot of Americans. They don't have, they don't have an ear for accents. Right. And so they get all of a difference. If it's not American sounding, it's, there's two, it's either, you know, Scottish, you know, English, but they get those mixed up. Yeah. Obviously Irish and Welsh, they have no idea. Yeah, it's tough. But like if somebody said, you know, if you're from the South and something to go, hey man, I've been, you know, know, I was taking my dad's truck last night over to the farm, you know, and you go, oh, are you from, like, Tennessee?

And they're like, they don't get pissed. They're like, no, I'm from Mississippi or something else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there is a sort of competition or, what is it, a rivalry with New Zealand and Australia, especially for like football. Yeah, 100% sports rivalry. But also, you know, we're two separate countries. It's not like two separate towns.

I know. My analogy was not. Good. Yeah, that was not great. But, yeah, we're not like a couple of streets away. Oh, no. There's a whole ocean between us, the Tasman. But the accents are not dissimilar completely.

They're not a million miles apart. What's a distinct? How would you say, give me an example of a, can you do an Australian accent? Oh, yeah. I mean, they're not that far apart. So if I couldn't. So why would you get mad? But they're not far apart.

Well, because the ideologies of the two countries are so far apart. Ah, I gotcha. You know, and I don't want to go into it too much. No, I don't because I don't even talk politics or anything. It's not that. It's just that I always notice when I go, oh, are you from Australia? No. No.

Yeah. Is it no, no? No. No. No. No. Sometimes I hear no. No.

Nah. No. Well, look, I don't have a very thick New Zealand accent. You don't. No. No. Because I've lived out of the country for so long, and it's a month's smoothed out, and I play a lot more kind of, you know, he could be from anywhere in the Commonwealth.

Did you? Yeah, I get it. And also, mainly it's about, you know, New Zealand, the strong New Zealand accent back home is, it can be quite hard to listen to. Give me an example of how would that sound? Oh, I can't even do it. It's really tough. Oh, I can't even do it. Yeah.

it's hard because, you know, when I don't, it's, I don't really, I haven't lived there long enough recently to really know. So it kind of goes fast. They do speak really fast. But I, that was a great accent. That's a character. I don't know what that was. I don't know, but you should listen to the recording after because that's your next character.

Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I just said, it was in my head, I heard all these New Zealanders listening going, who was he, what is he doing there? That's nothing like us. Yeah. Were you always a crack-up? Were you always funny?

Were you always cracking jokes since you could remember? Yeah, I've always seen the lighter side of life and insisted on it. I like that. That's a great quote and insisted on it. I kind of feel the same way. I don't take myself too seriously. I don't like to take situations too seriously. Of course, there's some things like death, you might have to adjust.

But, you know, suits make me uncomfortable. I get a, I'm just, I just try to make light of things. Yeah. And that was, that was you? Yeah, definitely, especially, I guess you always look back at school, your school days. And when I was a kid, I mean, it may have been an undiagnosed kind of ADHD type thing or whatever. Maybe my tension wasn't quite there. I would, you know, when the teachers were raving on.

sorry teaching they were just bullshitting and giving us bullshit I would honestly I would sort of like you know I'd look I'd look around the room and I'd

doing other thinking of other things I used to do my friends used to get me to because I used to draw I'd just still draw now but like sketch drawings and little cartoons

and my friends would when a class was on when a couple of my mates that were in this class insisted on it they said do you do your cartoon while this is while we're doing this. So I'd be drawing little cartoons during class.

Did you get in trouble? No, no. And more kids wanted it, so I would hand them out. And then I have no idea what was going on in the class because I'd be just too busy working on my cartoon. So your grades weren't good? No, they were pretty average. Pretty, me too.

I remember I got into, we had a four point system in high school, like a 3.0 is a good average. 4.0 was straight A students. Right. I graduated with a 2-4. Wow. So that's very average. Yeah. A little bit more than average, but not much. You turned up. Yeah, I did. But I tuned out. Right. I just, I wasn't ADHD for sure. I mean, a lot of people will label themselves as that. But I mean, every therapist I've had is like, well, first of all, this is you absolutely, you know, you have this. And so it was incredibly difficult for me to focus. I mean, it was almost unless the teacher was really interesting. And, and really down the earth and put things in layman's terms. I remember this teacher talking about Romeo and Juliet,

and I was captivated. She was like, there was the Montague's and the Capulets. And these people were the rich and like the, and the way she put it and she included us and we participated. And I don't know if some classes all of a sudden, like how did you get a B plus in English? One semester and then you get D's.

It was because of a substitute teacher that came. Amen. Interesting. That interested me. I like that. And I think I'm the same. And I need to be captivated. I need, and I did quite well in English. That was my art and English for my top subjects. And I think it's because of the use of the imagination and storytelling. And it took me into different worlds and things you had to read. Yeah. Yeah. So it was kind of, but other things, mathematics, terrible, no interest. Terrible. Science. Science. I worked a little bit hard. We, on the journal, on like creating a nice science journal with pictures and things of test tubes. I worked out on the, on the title pages of my projects. Right. But no idea

what's going on inside. No. I remember in chemistry, I walked into the class and the first thing the teacher says is like, okay, uh, you have to memorize the entire periodic table. Oh, yeah. By the next time we come to class. I went down to the general admissions or whatever office and I switch to general science. Straight away. I'm like, if this is what's going to happen day one, no thanks. Wow, good on you. I don't want to work that hard.

That's confident. But I do know the, what's N-E, isn't that sodium? I don't know. N-A? No. F-E is. I tell you what you do, you know. N-A-H is the only one I know.

What's that? Nah. Nah. Nah. So you didn't get in trouble. Were your parents, were your parents strict? Well, it was only my mum with me. Dad, they split up when I was created.

Was that hard? I mean, obviously not, because it's all you knew. Yeah, I didn't even notice it. But growing up without a father, probably had... I noticed that, for sure, as time went on. I was the baby nine-year gap between me and the other siblings. And so that all kind of moved on with their lives. and I was like, so mum was essentially like a solo mum bringing me up.

And strict, no, she was a laugh riot. She was a good time. She thought you were funny? Yeah, and she was funny. Mum was funny. So you think you got your comedy, a lot of it from mom? Yeah, definitely. What would she do that was funny that made you laugh?

Just her look on life was the light aside, as I say. She, you know, she danced a lot. she was jovial and she didn't really care if I did my homework or not she was kind of like yeah um is she still with us no no unfortunately when did she pass um 2016 so that's not that long ago no was that difficult yeah that was hard uh it was a long time coming uh 80 80 80 years that took You know, when I talk to you, I almost feel like in a way I'm talking to Dudley Moore sometimes because I love to. Oh, great. Thank you. He was, Arthur's one of my favorite movies of all time.

Amazing. Amazing. And sometimes he would talk about something that's so tragic and then say something funny. And, you know, like I remember there was a prostitute he was at dinner with in the restaurant. And he goes, no, tell me something about yourself. And she says, when I was. my mother died oh god damn it don't they know what that does to children and it was like what when i was 11 when i was 11 my father left so you had five relatively good years you know he's like

making yeah yeah but uh you know so but i could tell it was hard for you right yeah um but what i wanted to say was that you know we she wasn't just suddenly oh now she's gone it was it was a slow there was a few years of decline. So we were sort of, we were prepared. But yeah, she wanted to get to 80. She's, I think it was, and she did, and we had a family get together and stuff like that. And then a few years after that, I mean, I can't remember because I, I, I, but it's about 80, 84 or something like that.

I think maybe 802. I don't know, you have to look it up. Here's, Reese. No one who is. I'm going to look it up. Did you imagine that? And just so if you're listening and you needed this information, here you go. Well, I don't want to get tested by my family when I get home.

Now, listen, you did say she was 84. It was 82. They will say that too, won't they? Yeah. Yeah. Will they listen to this? No, no, no. They don't listen.

I don't think so. Your family doesn't follow your career. Oh, only from the Facebook updates. They don't watch things that you're in? Not really. The odd thing probably They watch fly to the concords Our flag means death

Yeah I don't know how many Some of them watch that I think But I don't know Yeah that's like your favorite thing you've done You've said Is that one of them? That's the biggest Most exciting

groundbreaking kind of thing I've done And you've got a lot of acclaim for that Like a lot of Yeah I've got I don't know A lot of acclaim But I've certainly felt the love

Yeah Did that feel good? Yeah, really good. I mean, because most of the shit we do, we never get, no one pays attention to it. Hmm. Right? Not me. You know, everyone looks at my stuff.

I don't know what guest you have here, but everyone loves me. Oh, yeah. Look at that. See? Moving into the comfy part of the interview. Yeah, I've just relaxed, guys. But I brought the mic with me, as I instructed to do. Inside of you is brought to you by Quince.

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I didn't think that was going to be my vocation at the beginning of time. I have gone through a few different idea jobs. Initially, I thought I was going to be a park ranger. Really? Did you have any experience in that feel? My brother-in-law is a park ranger in New Zealand. And so that's not the reason why I was going to. I wanted to get into it before him.

I think I was a big fan of the Yogi Bear and Jellastone Park and Boo Boo. Yeah, I know. And the ranger. And I thought that ranger, he was a nice guy, despite all the picnic basket theft. And I've always loved animals. And but I really only, when I was growing up in New Zealand, we have some beautiful parks, regional parks. call them. And there's many beautiful hikes. And, you know, the country is astonishing and it's scenery. But we don't have many animals. We have, it's a land of a million birds. We have

a lot of bird life, beautiful bird life. But not many mammals. And I always used to watch the nature documentaries on TV and you always see these beautiful beers and things, North American kind of animals. And that excited you. Yeah, I really wanted to be, if I was going to be a ranger, it would have been somewhere like Yellowstone, like in America. So that was, but then, you know, that, and I moved on from that dream. This is, this is, if acting would have happened, you could, you would have probably done that. You mean younger when I was, I mean when you were younger? I, I, I don't know.

I mean, I kind of, yeah, I thought, well, I, I was obsessed with watching British comedy, particularly Monty Python and stuff. for us. So I really wanted to be a, a sketch comedy actor pretty early on. But then I, once again, the whole New Zealand thing, I thought, oh, it's not going to really work for me over here. It's not what happens in this country. And then I found stand-up comedy. And I, well, I can do this. And I can, so it became like a one-person sketch act in front of a few people in New Zealand. And you can incorporate like animals, like, like, like, not actual animals, but noise. Yeah, definitely. And let's not forget, I was just a side notion of wanting to be in the military, which is what happened to me as well.

But brushing past that, because it, you know, it's a bit, I've talked about this in many interviews, but I did join the army and I was in there for four years and I loved it. Was it intense? It was intense. And I went into a regular force cadet school, which was an elite training school in New Zealand for non-commissioned offices. stuff like that. And I really enjoyed it. But it was during that time, I never lost my sense of humor and my dream of wanting to be in a sketch troupe. And so eventually, I got the confidence to leave that institution. I don't think I was like an adult enough to find my proper dream. So I needed

that extra bit of training and looking after, which is what the military did for me. Gave me a lot of confidence and structure structure which i do love and so then when i left i had all this confidence and i was um very a proud person i knew how to iron my uh clothes and fold confidence yeah so you have structure you have confidence and it gave you that step you maybe you needed yes yeah and so then off i went and i realized you can you can achieve your dreams you've just got to um leave new zealand saying that. No, let me take that back. New Zealand, it's amazing there, but I needed to go away. I needed to take my stuff to the world and then come back to New Zealand. You had to ceiling pretty early on and back home, and I wanted to go further. I wanted to see how far

I can take my dream. Well, it's also, it's like when I grew up, I grew up in a really small town and no one thought I amount to shit. No one really remembered my name. I was small. I was small. I didn't, but I knew that in small town, Indiana, I wasn't going to become what I thought I could become. Right. I didn't think that, you know, I needed to go to New York or L.A. or wherever it was. So I go back. I love going back to Indiana. But I understand what you're saying, you know. It's the same thing.

I think New Zealand feels like a small town for us, like an American small town. Yeah. Did you ever audition for Lord of the Rings? Is it filmed there? I did audition for The Hobbit. You did? Yes, for Bilbo Baggins. And what happened?

They went with Martin Freeman. It could have been me. Yeah. Sorry, I'm adjusting now. Did you give a good audition? Clearly not. It was a self-tape. And I even had a pipe.

Yeah, I was living overseas during the whole Lord of the Rings when the initial three came out. And, you know, he walked away with all those Oscars with the third one and everything. And it was, I think he had, I think he won 13 Oscars or something. Might have been 11. I checked that. That'll be my family again. Okay. You said 13.

1984. 13. Yeah. 13. Yes. Okay. So anyway, I was, I was living in the UK then. So I've lived outside of New Zealand for quite some time.

And then, but when the, and then I ended up back there, I'll go back and forth. but when I got back yeah just so happened to be the Hobbit where they were creating and I'm going to do The Hobbit and I thought oh here we go I'll be because I think I embody

the essence of that character you're not a fan but I know of Belbo yeah he's like he's in the shire in his little village and he's very happy he's a happy go lucky guy

and he's suddenly told you're going to go on this big mission and he doesn't want to leave He doesn't want to leave his little home. And he does reluctantly with his little group of hairy chaps. And off they go. I wish you were my teacher in high school. I'm in every course because you're delightful.

It's like you're just like naturally funny and happy. I don't know. I'm engaged. I'm engaged. So you'd be a good teacher. And by the way, you must. I'll write it for you. You write it.

You need to do a movie called The Park Ranger. Oh, yeah. You need to do a Park Ranger where you're the Park Ranger and you get into a lot of shit. And it's funny, but it's also really dark. Like you think, oh, this is this guy. He gets up every morning. He folds his clothes, stuff that he learned when he was in the Army. Yes.

And all these things. He's got this structure. And this is the way he does things. And then things start fucking up. All goes wrong. All goes wrong. And he has to deal with it. Okay.

The Park Ranger. Wow. Restarby, the park ranger. They don't do voiceovers anymore in that stuff, but... We can bring that back. Yeah, we can bring that back. But anyway, so go ahead. So you audition for this?

Yes, the Hobbit thing. And you learn your lines? I learned, yeah, I must have learnt my line, because I did a self-tape. So I did it all, I'd love to have a look at that and see how bad that really was. I'm sure it was great. I can't do accents. That's the thing. So I probably would have tried to put on an English accent.

Really? Because you did that, oh, yeah, what was that accent you did earlier? That was the New Zealand high pitch. The mythological New Zealand one. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I can do silly voices. Don't get me wrong.

I mean, I do a lot of silly voices. I do a lot of animation stuff, yeah. But maybe I should have just done that. Take some of that coffee. I could see you want it. No, I've hit some. I'm just now like it. Do you like it or you can be honest with me?

No, I really like it. It's a clean cup. I saw you kind of wiping something off. Yeah, it looks. No, it's good. I know. It is. feeling the bump the bubble bumps on it yeah it didn't sound app appealing to people listening it's

got bumps on the lid yeah but they're real bumps part of the factory design yes part of the fact they're not just like bumps dirt bumps food bumps but um well that's cool I mean you know your career it's pretty crazy because I feel like you're the guy that they're like bringing Reese he's the part he's this like they think of a name this part that you're the guy they go to like How do you pronounce his name for Flat of the Concords? I always fuck it up. Tyca. Tyca.

Yeah. Tyca. I have a feeling he just calls you for things. Yeah. Or emails. Texts. Yeah, texts. Yeah, but not constantly, which is good.

We've got a good relationship. So he only used me if he really needs me. He won't throw me and everything. And it's cool because, I do bring a certain thing to something that, and when it needs it, it's great to be that guy. You elevate it. Yeah, I think so. Like what we do in the shadows.

Yeah. I mean, that you elevated the shit out of that. It's so memorable. It's like people always quote that. Yeah. You know, we're were were whales, not swearwolves. Yeah. That kind of thing.

It's just a moment in the film where you've seen the vampires a lot and you're thinking, oh, yeah, we know what these guys are up to. They're pretty funny. Let's go. And then all of a sudden it turns out. a corner and then there's a werewolf gang of it's got a nerdy werewolves and yeah it was a really amazing turn that they made did you improvise that line uh no no i think that was given to us by germain right he's also genius yeah exactly are you close with him yes very much so yeah

yeah because you work on flight for for a while yeah yeah we're all buddies yeah i mean that's great to have such a talented group of friends You said you wanted to get in sketch comedy Did you have to get into a group And learn how to do it Or did it would just come to you? Did you ever have to take classes? No, I never took a class in my life

And that's one of them Yeah Because here people have to go to groundings People have to go to, you know Well, that's the advantage of the New Zealand thing So if I was dissing it before saying You've got to get out of there Don't

You part of the thing Eventually you do But growing up there It's a small place And you make your own fun you invent your own stuff and you train yourself with your friends and you go down and you put a show on and there's there isn't training facilities for acting and for improv and stuff like that yet we're you know one of the world's best improvising countries so we used to have this thing

theatre sports it still exists right and that was the improv world championships and you did that i didn't do it you did well i did some shows but i didn't compete oh okay i did compete in university improv wars which is the national like different

universities in New Zealand they would go up against each other and do the type of stuff back in the day in improv

you know I've got to love hate relationship with it the stuff you do on stage improvised things I was even

in an Australian version of whose line is it anyway we did a season of that was that fun yeah

absolutely was it nerve wracking um yes but that's part of the fun because you just don't know you definitely need confidence to just got to step out there and do some stuff and you have no idea whether it's going to be land yeah it's you think yeah it's really tightrope kind of walking you have a bomb you ever start doing something it just goes nowhere um kind of but not really because that's the whole thing with with uh theater sports is that you've got people around you that have to pick it up so

if you drop something like metaphorically and it's not worth someone to grab it and go and they'll they'll add to it and so you help each other so no one's you're not you're never there on your own you're in a you're in a team so basically you don't you know I don't think there's any games there might be one or two well there's a few things that you do on your own that's not true but generally especially with the TV show you're you're creating stuff together so if you go out and suddenly do something and it's not working someone will right it's because they're at that level where they're so good at it. They know what they're doing.

Oh, that's not working. I'll fix that. You know, and then the other guy, go, oh, thank God. You know, he's thinking and said off. Afterwards you go, oh, thanks for saving me there, mate. Yeah, what are you thinking with the fish thing? Yeah, there's no ocean. We can't create an ocean here on boats and we have that.

Who is in your eyes when you think improvisational wizard? Who do you think of? Okay. First of all, who do you think of that you haven't worked with? And who do you think of that you have worked with? Well, Will Ferrell, I haven't worked with. But you think that's... He's pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah, I think he can... Danny McBride. Oh, yeah. To me, he's the best with that. Another one, I haven't... I love all his stuff, so yeah, for sure. The guy's genius.

So, yeah, I'd put him there. I got to improvise with him, but I didn't get the part, like, it was, I tested for it, and it was me and him, and I was so close, but, like, he started riffing, and I just was right there with him, and I was nervous, but I was like, I just went with it and it was so fun and it was so like you see how gifted he is. He's so relaxed when he does it. He just is throwing it around. But yeah, that was great.

But who else? Who else? Well, I would love to work with him too and see if I could give him a good run for his money. I mean, there's, I mean, you're kind of put me, I'm no good on the spot. But a lot of guys you've worked with are really good. Yeah. I mean, look it up. Look it up.

It's true. It's true. I mean, there's, I mean, that's what you do. When people, they want you to elevate something, they bring you in to elevate the scene and maybe improvise. They always, is it where they say, let's do it as written twice? And then, Reese, do your thing. Yeah, it depends who's directing. But generally these days, I'm kind of known for being able to go off the cuff and improvise and make things better, funnier, I should say. Not always better. Sometimes it's really annoying. It's so great that bit that went for 10 minutes, but we can't use it. Thank you, though. Thank you. Yes, we'll send it to you so you could watch it. It's for your YouTube's. Thank you. Your YouTubes.

But yeah, so these days, you know, and I'm doing different things now, like various, not in all comedy, like some stuff that's more dramatic, but there's a comedic element to it. You also host shit, like the Emmys, the 2020, right? Yeah, that was great. So the guy that constantly writes that one, he writes the monologues for the host. I worked with him. He did the old look it up. The old what?

The old look it up. The classic. I thought it was called look it up. And he figured out that what my sensibilities were and what I'm known for at physicality. physicality on stage and stuff and so he helped me create some stuff to do for that for that hosting job that were you know right in my wheelhouse so sort of impressions and things and so he he was good see that's important isn't it yeah it's not just hiring someone because oh they're good it's going I know what he's really good at his strengths and I'm going to write to that yes it's almost like

when a writer is writing something for an actor Yeah. They are writing to his strengths. I know he could do this. I know he could, you know. It makes such a difference. It makes such a difference. Yeah.

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Because you have one boy, right? I have two. You have two. Two kids. Two kids. Because I sat, you were you were in front of me in the plane. Yeah. But I didn't see you. I saw your wife and your son and I hadn't seen. You were like tucked away in the window. You were still sitting next to your son, but I just didn't see you. Oh, right.

And it was a real rocky ride in. And I remember your son just kind of looked at your wife like, and she goes, Are we going to survive this? It's all right. Yeah. Yeah. And I mentioned, and you just seemed like such a family guy. Did you always want a family?

it was an accident no no i i i guess so yeah i mean i you know when rosy and i got together you know we we got married and then and then yeah we didn't think twice about having children i think we both thought that would be awesome and so it just happened and then it happened again four years later so really happy to have two children two two boys that are really bizarre, artistic and funny. Did they want to be actors? Well, no, I'm not sure. The oldest one, who's Finn, he's in a rock band.

He's kind of... Is he good? Yeah, he's very cool, very good. He plays electric guitar? Yeah, he plays all the instruments. So he was in the, like, the jazz band at school. Oh, wow. His band is called Great Big Cow, and they're on Spotify.

I love that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I love that. It's so you. Oh, thank you. You know, that's great. Yeah, well, he is, he is a little me in some ways, and many ways.

And he's, so he's got his own, he's beating his own drum, literally. And then the little one is actually a drama now, too. So he's a musician. So they're going down the music route rather than, but I think that's, because that's one thing I don't do. And they've got those kind of talents from the mum. They're going their own way. Yeah, exactly. That's cool.

But they're taking comedy with them. So they're very funny and they're just doing something else and then pushing. comedy off to the... Do they think you're funny? Yeah, definitely. Do they laugh at you a lot? Yeah. Do you laugh at them?

Yes. You do? Yeah, yeah, they're very funny. I love that. I love that. I mean, is it, do you, do you ever get nervous when you're doing something? Do you ever get starstruck or nervous around a, when you're on a set with a lot of people and you know, it's like, oh, shit, man, I got to step up here?

Yeah, I think if you're slightly out of your depth. And so I, I, I never. am with comedy, but if there's some dramatic stuff I've got to do, or if there's a monologue that's quite serious. So when I did The X-Files, there was a piece there that I had to do in the graveyard with Dukofny. And it's, I was nervous there because, you know, he's such a idol, iconic. Yeah, and you love that show. Absolutely. So here I am in it. And it doesn't make sense to me. It's like when I did Yes Man with Jim Carrey, you know, idolized him. dude he's the other one i should have said is the improvising yeah yeah sorry jim if you're listening

to inside of you yeah it goes without saying he's amazing so when i was working with him as well that was the other time so those when you're working with your heroes and you're worried that you're gonna let him down yeah exactly and um so it was it was and and particularly with the with the second one with the X-Files there was some quite some dramatic moments there and it was a monologue and I hadn't done a lot of like learn a whole

page worth of writing kind of thing How long did it take you? It took me a good couple of weeks just walking around and just getting it in my head. How do they do that every week where they have to do it the next day? Well yeah you get better at it

and I've since got better at it as well. Yeah. See I'm dealing with that now over there's this project I was thinking about doing, but I was like, oh my God, I'm in every line of the, it's like, it's too much and it's good, but I'm like, I don't know if I want to suffer like this. Yeah, it's with a head, because you, you want to say it as it's coming out as it means a lot to you. And it's, you know, it's act, the art of acting. So it's, it feels real. I want to make it second nature. Yeah, exactly. That's how I like to word. Rather than you're

thinking, oh, what's the next word or what's this next? I wish cue cards were just, they were, hmm, what's the word, like in vogue. Yeah, right. Like, you could just, like, it's like, oh, I'm going to use cute card. Oh, oh, great, great, that's fine. And they just hold them up for you. And you just, and I can just read it and I don't have to worry every day. And I could kill it.

And I never have to learn tons of lines. You're standing right there and I'm looking and I'm just going, look, I don't give a shit what you're, and I'm reading it. And no one would ever know. No one would ever know. I do my auditions. I do a teleprone. I have a little iPad and I read it and no one ever knows.

Yeah. Well, here's the thing that I do sometimes during the day, because I do a, a fair bit of acting. And I now feel like when I'm in real life, I'm in a scene quite often. So I'll fumble my lines or whatever at Starbucks. And I'll say, can I take that again? And then I'll go, what? He'll go, what are you talking about?

Oh, sorry, man. I've done that a few times. That's ridiculous. Yeah, it is. And I've done it at Trader Joe's. your regular words. Yeah, just talking to people and I'll... You're just like, I'll have a vanilla latte and it's like, oh, let me take that again.

Yeah, I wasn't happy with my delivery. Yeah, let me, I'd like a vanilla latte. No, that's too over the top. He's like, uh, sir? And then I'll go, I'm coming in again from the top. And then I'll walk to the front door and he'll go, oh God. And self-action, and I'll come in. No one makes me laugh like this.

That's the first time I think I've laughed. Have I ever laughed like that? Never on this shit. Three hundred fifty guests. Really? Yeah, that's fucking funny. Oh, my God. Do you ever, do you ever get depressed? Lightly, lightly. Have you ever been in your life, like, depressed for a while or had a lot of anxiety? You've not been like that? No. No. No. What is it about you that you don't get anxiety here? Always looking at the lighter side of life and insisting on it. I think. Is there a practice? do you do you meditate do you run do i do work out yeah i think i think it's important um to

achieve exercise every day yeah if you can because that's something that you can achieve if you're sitting there and you are feeling uh depression anxiety coming on i mean this is an old adage you know go and go and do a workout but i'm not the first one to say that but like i would go and do that um thinking that after that hour, you're listening to music, whatever you're listening to, just, you know, sweating it out, and then you've achieved something. And so if you do nothing else that day, you're constantly thinking, well, I've done that. Remember, I did that workout? That's going to be good. You know, there's something to be said about that. I really believe that. I always say, like, anything. Like, I went for a walk today, or I had a workout today, or I wrote 20 pages

out of a script today, or getting things accomplished, fulfillment. Yeah. You know, um... Fixing a light bulb that... I did this today. Yeah. Have something to accomplish. By the way, that's quite hard. Fixing a light bulb.

Yeah. Just replace it. How would you do? Would you have glue it together? I mean, you'd replace it. Open it up. Yeah, yeah. Get the filament and then just sort of, yeah.

You wrote a self-described autobiographical space novel. Yes. This way to spaceship? This way to spaceship. To spaceship. ship like an alien would say yeah and when did you write that uh 2012 when i thought the world was going to end did you really think the world's going to end yeah yeah i still think the world's going to end you do well i'm not a conspiracy theorist but like i i feel it's got to end eventually

i mean it's got to end like my mom used to say all good things come to an end yeah or well yeah i mean i don't know sometimes you look around you at the all the shit i mean look I'm so grateful and there's so many great things about this world, but there's also so many dark things. But there always has been. Yeah, always has been. You know, there always has been. And we forget that. I think so. I even said to my dad once, I go, it was never this bad. He goes, I live through the Vietnam War. You serious? Yeah. You know, it's like, it's one thing after another. So I think, you know, you get through it. But you really thought the world was going to answer. You're like, I'm writing this book. Yeah, I want to get my thoughts out there. And I was also giving advice to

people to sort of how to achieve their ultimate so that they could get invited to board this spaceship that was going to leave Earth because they're only going to take the best. I like that. Yeah. So it was kind of survival of the fittest. Yeah, exactly. Finding your true self and achieving everything you can. And I gave advice on fashion.

Why wouldn't you? In a movie In a book called This Way to Spaceship Let's have a fashion section I have a feeling this is really funny The book? Yeah Is it serious?

No, no It's funny It's not It's about my life It can't be serious It's this way to spaceship Yeah And then I got bored of talking about myself

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The title of the book, The Talented Fartor. Yes. This is a wonderful story about a little boy who's only gift, his only real talent, he's tuning, he makes his teeth sound like everything you hear in everyday life. So Little Michael loved Halloween,

but nothing frightened his friends more than when Michael would stink up a good scare. You hear that? Oh, I heard it. It is a lovely story, and it's beautifully illustrated by my friend Heath and Simon Schuster's putting it out. It's going to be in tons of bookstores and available on Amazon. I'm so proud of it.

And that's the idea. You love science fiction? Yeah, I do. What's your favorite show? Right now, I guess I'm a big fan of, Star Trek Brave New Worlds Strange New World

So I'm not that much of a fan I just interviewed Simon Peg yesterday Oh really? Yeah We were talking about Star Trek and all that stuff You're a Star Trek fan I'm not a huge one Right

But I do like that Strange New World's show Did you ever meet William Shatner? No Yeah Not yet I'd love to meet him I also like Star Wars Yeah of course

I don't like Star Wars I like all of those things I like the alien Aliens movies Signed by the entire cast Everybody Bill Paxton Sigourney Everybody

Look you've got the thing I just look around these posters And I can tell you these ones I like All right let me ask you Jaws, yes or no Fright Night No Did you ever see it?

No It's great Oh it looks familiar Hoosiers Excuse me Hoosiers It's a movie about the Indiana basketball team. It's fucking great.

You'd love it, Gene Hackman. Lost boys. I've heard of that. That's about, it's a Peter Pan one. No. The Evil Dead. Oh, yes, I've heard of that, haven't seen it. Superman? Yes. The Return of the Living Dead. Where?

No, right next to you. I've never seen that. No. The Thing. Cool poster. Yeah, I love the thing. Escape from New York? Didn't see that. Well, you haven't seen any of these. The Exorcist? Yes. Yeah, I've seen that, very scary. Dracula. Love Dracula.

Nightmare in Elm Street. I'm not so sure about that one. So you're not a horror fan? No, I'm not a horror fan, I guess. Do you think it's weird that I have all these posters in my room? No, I think it's awesome. Do you get autographs? Do you keep memorabilia from anything you've ever done?

Yes, I try to, things that I'm being given. Yeah, why not? But not in the way you do, just looking around. Well, thanks. I appreciate it. This is amazing. I think your mom had a big influence in who you are today. Yes.

And I would say that's why, because I always say that, you know, you're a product of your own environment, right? So growing up, if you grow around, I grew up around a lot of dysfunction and things and that, I think, created a lot of anxiety and why I am the way I am. Maybe there's a lot of good things. These things comfort you that you've got collected. Yeah. Yeah.

And maybe with you, it was just easy. and it didn't seem like someone was telling you and parking at you and telling you to do your own work. And it was just like it was unconditional love. And that's why you're able to go about life, enjoying it and not taking it too seriously for the most part. Yeah. And raising a family and having this kind of lifestyle because you seem like you're just a happy person. You might cry after this interview. But, you know.

No, I don't. I'm pretty happy. And I think you're right. It's how you're raised and the environment you're in. and that sets you up for your outlook on life. You know, my dad wasn't really around. So I have that element to me, which means I'm very, very pro-women and a little bit wary of men, you know? And I think that's a good thing.

And you should be. Yeah. This is called shit talking with Reese Darby. These are my top-tier patrons. They get to ask a question. It's kind of rapid fire. Or if you want to answer something, you can take your time. Okay.

Go to Patreon.com slash inside eating and support the podcast. Appreciate you. Let's take a drink of our coffee real quick. How about that? All right. I love that. We're nearing the end of this interview. What to do. This is, damn, your mother never did that. Why should I start telling you what to do? Men, here we go. Men. Men. We talked about this. Don Gisa, what would you be doing if you didn't become an actor, comedian? Park Ranger maybe, right? Little Lisa, what is the most useless talent? you possess most of uh me no come on like sound effects although what sound effects do you make um well i can do a helicopter let me hear it i'm closing my eyes that sounded like it just went over my house there you go what else well there's many other sounds what's the best animal probably a crow. What's here?

I like that. You were going to this motive where your eyes closed and you're really excited. You were waiting for this. But it was like the most generic crow sound I've ever heard. You know what I have a talent doing? Okay. Hold on. Oh, here you go.

I'm going to give you this. This is my new book. And it's, you book. I wrote a fart book and it was all my farts. They're all my real farts. Really? And it's about this kid whose only talent is his, he can make his fart sound like anything. Oh, wow.

Like, here's his, you know, in band class. Amazing. So that's for you. You'll have to check it out. You don't have to check it out now. How many farts noises are in there? It's like a 10 or 11. Is there?

Yeah, and they're all mine. They're all original. They're all genuine. One is a beatboxing, a guy who could, he's like dancing to beat box music. So I kind of have real farts in, and I added a little, so I added a little dance beats. So it was real farts mixed in. That is telling. Look at some of the quotes there.

Look at Rain Wilson's quote. Look what he says about the book. This book is disgusting and horrible. I have read it 140. seven times. You've got Henry Rinkler. Yeah, old Rinkler. All right, let's get back to your questions.

Okay. Rachel D. Do you have any fond memories you're willing to share about working on flight of the concords? So many memories. I guess the one that springs to mind is season one, I didn't have a dressing room. So basically, yeah, it was low budget, which is odd for HBO, but I guess they were like, you know, get these New Zealanders, they won't know what money is. And so...

I'm sure. So there was a... Germain and Brett had a very... They had a trailer, but it was one of those half cabs. So they got half of it each, and they open the door. And they've got almost the size of not quite a walk-in wardrobe for them to get changed in. And they shared, though. They had one each.

And they were the leads. Yeah, they were the leads. And they had one of the leads. those each and then I used to have to get my costume on on their steps going down onto the ground yeah so Murray is getting his my costume changes I just I would just do it um out on the open and sometimes I'd be able to like go into one of their rooms if they weren't you know right and I'll get changed in your yeah you're changing outside in front everybody yeah yeah I don't I don't think that was the whole season but that's my memory of season one of of the low budget

Yeah. And I bet you never complained. Not once. You know, you're that kind of guy. I would have day one go, are you fucking kidding me? All right, I'm going to wiggle my dick out and everybody's going to see it. I was like, oh, it's nice to be outside. I don't, I don't think I would. That was like that on sunny in Philadelphia, always sunny in Philadelphia. I didn't have a trailer. I didn't care. I was a guest star. I came in one day and a few days. But I was like, wow, this is the lowest budget I've ever seen ever. Yeah. Nobody. It was just like, we're just standing there. there, ready to go. I mean, but hey, it was... I was happy to be working. Yeah. I'm happy to be fulfilling my dream. Yeah.

Nico P says, what's the one word or phrase you find, you find yourself using too often? That's a good one. I don't know. You'd have to look it up. What do you say? Like, I always say things like, you know, when I walk by and somebody's really loud, I just go, quiet. Well, go, quiet, please.

Do you? But people don't really think, what? Did he say that? Like, I do it in a way where it's like, quiet, please. Quiet, please. I think I say, oh, here we go, quite a bit. Oh, I always, you know, here we go. You know what else I say?

I say, my friend Kent always says this. Like, whenever he's like a stoner and I'll say, hey, how was it a concert? Was it good? He goes, oh, oh, yeah, dude. Oh, yeah, bro. So that's Kent. So it's like, oh, so now everybody always does it. Oh, oh, yeah, dude.

Wow. Jen T, you were so incredibly hilarious on screen. Oh, here we go. What types of comedies make you laugh and what is the magic touch required that makes a comedy worth watching? Yeah, so that's a good question. And I think it's... And I'll let Ryan answer. That would have been great.

Yeah, yeah. It's unpredictability. So, yeah, you're watching. something you have no idea where it's going to go and it always goes it's got to go somewhere that you don't expect and that's why when you think of fly to the concords the band meetings for a start why are they doing these meet sometimes we'd have emergency band meetings in the middle of a situation where i've got guys with me to and we'd do it would you know do a roll call ridiculous so it's the sublime the ridiculous and um uh things that shouldn't happen happening

but in a positive way. So get away from negative kind of elements and then you'll have a comedy. And also the other key is the players have to be, you know, funny. Absolutely. Yeah. This has been great. I mean, you're such, you have an electric person now.

I see why people want to hire you. It's just like, I want you on my set. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's just like you're easy going. I bet you're great with the crew. I mean, I'm, well, yeah, I'm friendly, of course.

I don't go out of my way to learn their names. Well, because when I'm working, I really, you know, the intricate details of what I want to create in a short space of time of how many takes I get to do something, especially if I'm guest starring, I want to make sure that I deliver, you know, the Reese Darby model of how things should be funny. So you really focus on set. You're not like, you're not like on set, like, hey, everybody, no. You're quiet. I'm quiet.

You want to save it. Exactly. You don't want to do like, oh, show that you're funny and then get on there and be disappointed, save it. Yeah. And that's my whole thing of like the old military thing of just like focusing discipline. And so I makes it look as though I'm, you know, a crazy guy who's trying to, you know, have fun with everybody. But it's not me like I will be completely focused in thinking about in my head, how can I make this funny? How can I make it funnier?

and I'll do the lines but I want to make sure that I can do another take or two or three I get better each take by the way so I want to kind of bring something that is going to be memorable so when this thing goes to ear

they'll go oh my God there's recent he's doing that amazing thing there so I want to have a chance to do that if I walk away and I've only done the minimum sort of thing so I feel like I've let myself down I love it so there's that but also just in general

all, if I'm, you know, if I'm on a job and I'm working every day, I'm not just sitting there just like focusing like a mental, relax a little more. Yeah, exactly. You know, get to know people a little. Yeah. And the people I'm working with, we're going to have fun and stuff like that. And so you've got to be, we're there to, especially with comedies, you've got to be happy and you've got to be having fun.

Otherwise, it doesn't come out that way when you watch it and you can see. 100%. So our flag, you know, the. that we all got on really well, and you can see that. You can see the relationships on screen. Yeah, great character. A bunch of Muppets. That relationship you guys have is just like, it's crazy.

Yeah. What's coming up next? Anything you want to promote? Nothing I can really, nothing I can promote other than, yeah, next year live work. So I am a stand-up as well as you know. and I haven't done a lot of regular stand-up. Yeah, because you were doing stand-up constantly for a while. Yeah, back in the day.

So I'm writing a new show now, and so I'm going to be touring next year with a stand-up show. And that whole thing whereby, as soon as you go back to stand-up and start writing a show, the phone's going to start calling, and they're going to want me acting in something. Of course. I'm hoping that...

No one calls. No one calls. Because if someone does and it's big, I'm going to have to sort of postpone or whatever because I don't want to miss out on doing my my other love, which is the acting thing. But it's fun to be writing my own stand-up again. I love it. Your stand-up is so funny. What's your handle on Instagram so people could follow you and for the tour and get to, you know. Yeah, at R-H-Y-S is my Welsh spelling of R-E-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-R-E-R-B. And you could, yeah, you have to follow this guy and see him do stand-up. So that's going to happen in the beginning of next year or

spring. Yeah, from March onwards, I'll be doing, I'll be touring this new show. This has been an absolute joy. Do you have fun? Oh, absolutely. You're so funny, man. I just, I'm really happy you came. I asked him when we were at a con. He's like, yeah, all right. Usually it's like, ah, just like that. Well, I liked your vibe straight away. I thought you're cool guy and funny and yeah you're good with my kid and everything and you know we're good judges of character as he is as well and oh that's awesome so we we just thought um yeah it was the right thing to do and i was right thanks for having me thanks for being there with amex platinum access to exclusive amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot track side so being a fan for life turns into

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