The Kristian Harloff Show - Bobby Moynihan Interview

Episode Date: February 14, 2022

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Welcome back to an episode of The Big Thing. This one is exciting. I had a chance to talk to Bobby Moynihan, I think back during the Jedi Council days. And Ash Crosson had introduced us and he came on. And when I tell you that he could hang in Star Wars, this dude can hang in Star Wars. And then he was in Star Wars.

And he's doing a lot of other stuff. Obviously, you know him from Saturday Live. and now he's got Mr. Mayor on the show, season two is coming up very soon. And I want to talk to him about that. I want to talk to him about some stuff with Saturday Live. You guys know I was a massive Saturday Live, especially during the years that he was on.

So I want to talk to him about that. The interesting thing about Mr. Mayor that I really want to know about the combining of politics, shooting it when they did getting cast, so many questions I have for Bobby that I want to talk to him. And yes, we're going to geek out about the book of Boba Fett. So that and a great many things, as the evil emperor Papatine once said, let's do it. It's the big thing. That's Bobby Moyni in it.

What's up, everybody? Welcome back. Big thing. And I don't want to even do all the things I got to do normally up top of you, you know it. Show a little class. Will you subscribe? Hit the notification button. That's what you need to do.

Just asking for an ounce, an ounce of class. Can you do it? Well, my next guest. has a lot of class. He is the one. He is the only. Bobby Moynihan, ladies and gentlemen, Bobby Moynihan. What up, Bobby? What's up, buddy? How are you?

Good to see you. Good to see you. We were just talking about it off air. I think the last time that I saw you, we were moving through, I think it was Chicago celebration. And you were, as if you were Mr. Mayor, you were being shuffled through super fast. And yeah, was that just kind of a whirlwind for you, that celebration? that was yeah it's it was absolutely insane it's very uh to be a star wars fan and then like have someone

go like hey we're gonna you're gonna come to a star war celebration and then they bring a car for you and then they bring you up an escalator this is my exact recollection as you can tell up the escalator they opened a door and it was just star wars it was just like billy d williams talking to Ian McDermott and the entire animation side. And so, yeah, it was just like being thrown into Star Wars space camp for two days. It was one of the best experiences ever. You just didn't get thrown in for two days. You got thrown in it now.

I mean, maybe for that, for that, obviously the celebration. But you got in, you're in the family. Like, you're part of the Star Wars Sopranos now. It's yeah, it's crazy. It's been super nice. I think I've five or six animated characters, a species named after me. It's fantastic. I know that you did visions recently, right?

Yeah. Yeah, Tatooine Rhapsody. That's right. It was the second episode. Did you work with James Waugh at all? No, no, I didn't get to. I didn't get to. Okay.

James? Yes, yes, yes, completely. Sorry. It's okay. Sorry. I'm complete, yes, 100%. I worked with him on a couple of things. He got me involved with writing on the Lego Star Wars special, the Christmas special.

Awesome. So James Wa is my college friend. We went to Florida State together. No way. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, James is a great dude. Really great dude.

And he, and so funny when he went from Blizzard over to Star Wars. And we talked a bunch of times, as you know me. I read all the novels and the books. And he's like, what are the novels that I should be checking out of him? going in for the interview and and yeah man he's just he's got such a great mind for it so i'm glad you had an opportunity to work with him yeah he's fantastic when you said that i pictured someone completely different for a minute and i was like no i wish i got really no sorry very confused no he's the best yeah uh everyone there has has been has been wonderful that's good yeah and then between

that and then bad batch you worked on also um yeah yeah so there's so did you work in philoni at all Yeah, I got to work with him It was that was originally It was resistance Right Was Filoni I got to meet him For that

And he cast What they cast me as Orca in that And I got to meet him And then he put me in Um Rebels I was in the last A season

Not Rebels Clone Wars I was in the last season of Clone Wars And then came back for Badbatch And also Um

Missing one Oh, Tales from Galaxy's Edge. I'm Cecil Slack. Dude, you have to be losing your mind because I know how much of a Star Wars you are. So you've got to be loose. That's great, man. Eventually,

you're going to pop up in one of these shows, the live action ones. I mean, it would be. I mean, I would, that my dream is to play an alien. I just want to be inside of a creature. A hundred percent,

dude, that would be, I could see it. And, but right now you're busy. You're doing, even when I was asking as we're going into it, we're talking about what you're watching.

I don't really have a lot of time to watch a lot of shit because I'm working. And, And network TV, that's a grind. That's a grind. And you, so you're in season two now, Mr. Mayer. It's coming out. And I wanted to ask you, as I was thinking about, I was just walking, I was walking the dog down the block. And I was thinking about, yes, I was coming down to, to do the interview.

I was like, you know what I'm so curious about when it comes to certain ways that people auditioned? Because you've been around for so long, you know, in the comedy world and with the NBC team. With this role, because I remember you got announced in the show as being cast. It was like 2019 or whatever it was. And you, did you have, because of your relationship with Tina and other things, did you, did you get a phone call for like, hey, we think you'd be great for this? Or was this just, hey, the agent, your agent sends you the script and says you should go in, you know, we'll call Tina and we'll see what happens. Yeah. No, I got a, I'm many, many years ago at this point.

I got a phone call from Tina Fey saying, hey, we have this idea for a show and we want you to play this guy, Jaden. And I went, what? and yeah and then cut to now we finally got to do that's awesome because yeah insane absolutely that that part of it is still more so than SNL because it's crazy to me well but when you do it because yes and I can understand that because again as I was thinking about it I'm like this dude has worked with so many like famous people through his times in Saturday Night Live and and and impersonated them as well probably to them but the other thing is I don't think it ever really goes away of like the all right um yeah i've worked with so and so but i'm

sitting across from sam malone right now and i'm working and it's like this is like he's a a legend in sitcoms do you ever does the imitation it is there like uh intimidation excuse me ever get there or it's no i've done this before let's do it i i have learned that it's it's better to just let it go to just go like a because I am definitely a person who still goes, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,

I'm definitely that person. But yeah, it's like with some people, it goes away super easy. With some people, it doesn't. Like, I'm,

with Tina, I definitely, if Tina was listening to this, I would be mortified. Because like, I just, all I want to do is impress her. I love her.

I think she's, she is the number one in my, in my comedy life. As far as just, I think she's a genius. So, yeah, like,

I always want to impress her. but I would also say this to her face. She might be the person in this business besides Keenan Thompson, and just the easiest person to talk to. She doesn't like make me feel anything, but the fact that she thinks I'm funny. Like that's like she's the coolest. I've heard that.

I've heard that about her. Anyone who's ever worked with her, she doesn't throw her weight around at all from what I've heard. I mean, I've never worked with her, but that's what her. I'm intimidated by her, but I don't think she's intimidating. Does that make sense?

100%. It's because of the respect earned. Yeah. Yeah. That in your head, you're just like, yeah, she deserves me to be scared. But she doesn't want you to be scared. Yeah, with like Lauren, when I would talk to Lauren, I'd be like, hi, Lauren.

Like a child. He would like, oh, Bobby. And like, you know, that was that was that relationship. Right. And, yeah, it's completely different. Like, Ted, like, yeah, Ted is more just like, oh, it's not like, oh, my God, oh, my God, that's Sam alone. The whole day, it's just like, wow, he's,

the nicest guy in the world, but more so what you realize is, oh, this is a person who has been working in this business for 50 years and knows exactly how to do it. And his chops just keep getting better and better. I mean, look at the stuff that he did on Curb and all that stuff in general. He's just, he's just. Yeah, and Tina and Robert are their own thing. And Ted Danson has been doing sitcoms his whole life. And to jump into their world and nail it is, is a feat.

And he does it easily because he's great. Well, and I also think, and obviously you're, you're a pretty humble dude and you should be getting a lot of the credit, too, because you've been watching, we're watching what you do. And a lot of the clips that I just watched beforehand, too. I've seen, I've seen episodes of the show. I watched with my daughter, by the way, too, who's 10. And she was, and I know sometimes it's like, maybe she should, maybe the humor is a little risque sometimes, but she still, she was, she was laughing. And I think what you do very well, and especially with this character where the character is communicating in communications, but maybe doesn't. do the, it doesn't have the best moves all the time, too. And I think, but it's also, and I don't know what I think I told you this last time,

you remind me so much of my friend Jay Burke that I went to college with it because even before I met you, like when you on Saturday Live, I was like, oh my God, this guy, we used to call him perm. And I said, I said, God, he reminds you so much of perm. And this character specifically certain ways and just, it's naive, but wants to do the good thing. And it's just trying to work. And then, oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that.

And so much fun things happening too, but it's got to be a lot of fun playing this character. Oh, it's the greatest. I mean, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's nice to go to work and not panic. Yeah. S&L was like, I got to, I got to, I got to do it. I think where else it's a lot, you know, like it was everything was like do or die. This is very much like, oh, I'm on like two geniuses show. I can relax and have a fun time.

Yeah, right. And play this silly idiot that I enjoy playing a great deal. And also the entire cast is insanely good. How's working on Holly Hunter? It sucks. Sorry. No, no, it's the greatest. It's the absolute. No, she's, I was not expecting, if you had told me two years ago that if somebody asked me, what's it like Holly Hunter and I would be like, no, Holly, my little baby.

Like, like, I love, like, she's, she's the best. Like, she's my little buddy. when you see this season, we have a lot of stuff together and like, she's my buddy, man, I love Holly's the best. It's so weird, but she's the greatest. She's the best.

It sounds like you're having a blast doing it in general because a lot of times, and it's not just network, it's, I think sometimes you, you, I think you're obviously, you're blessed in the fact that with Tina Faye producing the relationship that you had, the knowing, wanting to work, with her knowing what the writing is going to be like. But sometimes, you know, you hear these stories of, of, oh, man, what if I, what if I don't get along with people?

What if the comedy is? And what if the egos are too big, it doesn't seem like that's what's going on in this show. And I, and I don't think it, I don't think you're bullshit me either. I think that you're legit telling me like that, like, yeah, I like work with these people. It's, it's, it's, it's another TV lottery. It's like, I say this in every interview. It's a TV lottery. But it's like, yeah, I like them all.

We talk more outside of work than we do. inside of work and we just mess around and have a plan. It's the best. That's right. So it's March 15th. It's season two for everybody out there. Mr. Mayor. It's on NBC.

Yeah. And the character's name is Jaden Quapis. And so when you go in there, when you start, when Tina tells you she has this character for you, what kind of research do you start doing? Because there's a play of it. And you said this on another interview.

You had said, what this show is, it's good people trying to do good things. And it's written by. good people trying to do good things, which I thought was a great quote. And it's, um, you see that. You see that inside of the show, but I'm watching a lot of politics and maybe I'm just jaded. I'm not seeing a lot of good people trying to do good things. I know some people are trying to, but maybe it's because of the way that the media is a lot of times it's, we're focused on,

well, we're pretending. We're doing the good thing, but we all had this agenda. What was the show, is just watching a show with my wife the other day. Oh, uh, Ozark. Was Osar, are you what, did you watch Ozark? I haven't. I have. I have. I have a, four and a half year old. Okay. That's fair. I have to do it only because of work. I probably if I probably would be hard for me to do as well. But so but but Ozark. Ozark there's a scene where in season four, that's pointing too much, but Laura Linney is having a conversation of the politician. And what the politician is saying as far as how things get done and the money that's spent, it's just so crooked all the way around and you hear certain things. It's just it's just

infuriating, but watching this and as you say, good people doing the stuff in your show, what kind of research do you do and how do you play, how do you play Jaden inside of this research? I did almost no research whatsoever.

Okay. Either way. I know, I, politics is like for me is terrifying. Even more so in comedy, the cold opens at SNL was, or a weekend update was like, where I got my news and I shouldn't that that shouldn't have been that way I'm a little more educated now um

but like I feel like the our show isn't politics like it's like that it happens to take place at the mayor's office but like it's not that's it's not a politics show it's about like a bunch of people working together and like they I think everybody went to city hall together okay and uh met with people in the mayor's office, and I didn't go that day. I couldn't make it that day, and I felt awful.

So I did no research whatsoever. I don't even, I'm not even sure what a communications director does. But my job on the show is to be an idiot, so maybe that's, maybe that's better. It works. Play into it.

That's brilliant. I love that. You see why they ask me as a big dummy? A lovable dummy, a lovable dummy. It's, it's a lot of fun. man, Jaden Koppas on Mr. Mayer. It's March 15th, season two for you guys, make sure that you check it out.

But you mentioned a lot with Saturday Live. And obviously, last time we were on air together, we weren't really talking Saturday live. We were talking Star Wars. And we'll do that, too. But I just, well, I have to show you this. Right before we got on the air, I saw this, this picture. I don't see this.

Cryer said he's going to let his next role be Pete Davidson in the year 2050. And I said, you better grow an elephant penis if you're going to do that. I mean, Davey Davidson is crushing it in life. You got a chance to work with Pete for a little bit too. And he was, because you were there until 2017 and when he came in like 2013, 2014?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. So, but working with all the people that you worked with and the amount of cast members. And do you have, and I'm sure you get this question all the time. And I apologize if to do it again.

But one particular moment that stands out to you, not necessarily character, but like one moment, whether it was meeting someone, a sketch you did, like anything in general that really stands out. I know it's millions of, of memories. Just one in general?

Or you think when some of him, no, not Pete, Pete Davidson. I thought you were asking about, Pete's the greater. I knew a different Pete. I knew like Pete,

like little Pete who was like, hey, I'm here on the show. What's it like? Yeah. Now he's a completely, it's a completely different thing. He's like a,

He's like a mega star now. And I think, and well, that's, that's, I was there, but I knew, I was pre Ariana Grande, Pete.

Okay. Yeah, well, that's, say, that's the other thing, too, is that when you see people

coming in that, that's what that show can do. Like, that's what that show can do. And he didn't, okay. I hope he's doing all right. I love that boy.

I love, I love how open he is about, um, you know, mental health and, and things that he's talking about. I, I,

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a big fan of his as far as how open he is because he's, he, I realize when I look at Pete Davidson too, I realize that I'm old also because like Pete. Yeah, actually, yeah, that that is. How old are you if you don't mind me? I'm 45. 45 on Monday. So we come from the same school, you and I. That's where like, you know, when he I. 45, the school of 45. School 45. Like my daughter and I just saw that scene that he and, uh, Shalamate did the, the thing with the, they're doing the, the, the, they're doing the, the, you know, the.

ye and the it's hilarious but it's so over my head and it's this tic-tock generation that my my daughter was laughing her ass off and i'm going see like that's why he's hitting to that generation the same way that like sandler hit to me and like you know like that that type of thing so i i got it and i get why he's you know having the success that he's having but i just being there and just watching what that show is continuously is able to do is it's insane it's 75 right that's when it was it was it was first season? That was your, we're, yeah, 75. Yeah, this is, yeah, it's almost, we're so soon to be 50 years. That's nuts, man. That's another one though. We're talking about Star Wars family, you know, once you're in that family. So do you, when you left, do you still, I mean,

you keep up with a lot of people, obviously, but do you still keep in touch with, like, with Lorne and stay involved in all that stuff? And so, so it's like, I don't even how it works. Like, when they, when they, when they're doing events and things, too, do, you always, I mean, yeah, I've spoken to Lauren called me when I had my daughter. Like I speak to Lauren like, you know, like on occasions, you know, and congrat. A lot of like, like, how are you? Holidays and like stuff like that. But as far as like day to day stuff at S&L, no, no, it's like, it's a different world now.

That, that's, it seems like a hundred years ago. But like, I still talk to a bunch of people from there, you know, it's all, it's all, it's all wonderful. It is. It's the way that it's just, it's incredible how the show just, Karen, like 20 minutes ago. Yeah, I know you guys are boys. Do you know, do you know Mark Andrako at all? I do, I do. Yeah, because Mark And Draco is one of, I mean, a very close friend of mine and a Schmo down competitor.

And I know he and Taryn are pretty tight too. So I figured you guys probably run into each other. You know, last time we talked about, speaking to Taryn, last time we talked was that whole, that poor debacle that you went through with when the premiere at the Last Jedi when you got that whole thing. The worst. Do you remember that? Of course, how did I forget? Yeah, I was it, it was Force Awakens. It was the first one, right?

Oh, I think it was Last Jedi, wasn't it? Or was it, no. Last Jedi, that's the second one. Yes, yeah, because I made the third one, so it was the second one, sorry. Last Jedi. Yeah. So for people that I didn't know, can you give a little, because that was on, that was on the old show,

can you give a little rehash on what happened there? We got invited to the premiere of the movie for Last Jedi and I got all dolled up and excited and texted Taryn and said, can you give me the address for the parking garage? Last minute, I decided to drive for some reason. That's right. I don't know why. I don't know why. And I asked him for the address of the parking garage and I started driving and so excited and I was all pumped up at about 45 minutes into the drive. I was like, I've been driving for a while. And then hour and a half. And then I was like, what is going on? Why am I, why is this so far away? And then I just pulled up to some resident.

You're back. You're back. So, yeah, so you were driving for the parking lot. You, you're driving around for quite a while. Drove around forever, drove for like an hour and a half and started to wonder why I was still driving, pulled up to a residential home and was like, I've made a great mistake. three and a half hours later I got home realizing in some miscommunication I had the completely wrong address and ended up in like St. Louis Abispo, California or some crazy place. I don't even know where I was. How do you keep it together when you get home? Are you just like so pissed off? It was the most, the most silent I've ever been.

It was the most, it was the most. It was the most silence ever The only way I could explain it Yeah who can you get mad at You just mad at yourself So it's like oh that's the worst There was no anger it was just like Right

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And I sat there for like 45 minutes alone in my seat waiting for the movie to start. Because I was like, I don't, I'm not going to the bathroom. I'm not missing anything. Just making sure it's real. I was like, I'm here and I'm getting situated. Totally. And then so we're talking Star Wars. We might as well just get into.

I don't think we haven't had a chance to talk about either Mandalorian or Boba Fett. And for spoilers to those people who, when this air is, we'll probably be close to episode six, but either way, the last episode that did air was pretty much Mandalorian season three episode. I dug it. I think it's a great way for the shared universe. You're a big Marvel guy also, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I thought that this is a way for Lucas film and Star Wars to share their universe, pepperin, whether it's Asoka, Tyan rebels, Clone Wars. and I thought that this was a really great way to do it for Mandalorian. What were your thoughts on the episode?

Yeah, it was good to see again. It's interesting. It's, I love all of the new Disney Plus series and how experimental they are and how they're just trying new stuff. I trust John Favreau and Dave Filoni a great deal. And I loved it. Amy Sedaris,

I just want the Amy Sedaris series also. I just want Pellemoto series. but she's my favorite. But this episode was great. It was super fun. Do you ever have a chance to work with Amy? No, I wish. I wish.

So she's actually grown on me. Not as a comedic actress. She's always been phenomenal and everything you do with. The character has grown on me. And I said it because I think that one of my issues that I've had with some of the Star Wars stuff was that, especially in Boba Fett, some of the stuff seems a little too modern.

Like in some of the conversation or performances and it's not necessarily the actor's fault it's the way that they were directed but Amy's character I think was that kind of that mechanic stuck on Tatouine who's she's kind of like the crazy cat lady with all the droids yeah in my mind

there's no difference between her and the rank or keeper she's been Star Wars Canon forever she fits perfectly in my mind but like I see what you mean though like Bill Burr for me was was the one that did that for me but I think it's mostly just

because I know him so much as a comedian and I know I know that he fucking hates Star Wars. I'm sorry, I know that he hates Star Wars. So like that, like it was so weird to see that. It's funny though because I've heard interviews with him and I absolutely 100% before he was in it. I mean, you probably know better than I do, but it seems anyway that he before being cast in Star Wars was exactly that hated it.

They didn't want to talk about geek shit. Give me the fuck out of here, right? But Favreau and him have this relationship. and I think it was on that cooking show that Favre did he kind of asked him to do something and be a part of it and he did and I think that he got he's great he's great that last episode that he was in he had such a great arc with and it was it was such a good actor but it is bizarre yeah see Bill Burr say the word ass in Star Wars like it's just like it takes you out for a second where you go that's Bill Burr saying ass in Star Wars but then 10 minutes later he's right back in it yeah he's just such prolific comic that it's like he's so good um but but But watching him, the stuff that I got me, and I don't know the actor, but the, he's in beep, and he's in the, and he's the character that plays the mayor's like, like number one, the Twilock in, in, in the Boba Fett series. Dave, oh, God. Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, but he, his, his character take down.

Dave Filoni, but I know it's not. It's, I'll find it. Let's see. I'm just going to put, Jesus, I'm just why I love Google. I'm going to see what I just why I love Google. Dave Twilock Boba fat. And that's like David Paskase. Pascazzi, is that it?

Fisquian. P-A-S-Q-U-E-S-I. Yeah, so maybe I should play the, yeah, so maybe I should play the. Yeah, so he, he, his character takes me out a bit. And again, this goes back to that thing where it's not him. It's in the fact that it's when I see it, Twylic, and maybe I'm just accustomed to, I think it's comedy in Star Wars that you're feeling that's weird. It's hard to have, it's hard to do comedy in Star Wars because it's so weird.

And all of those people are comedians trying to just make it sound natural. Yes. And I truly think that's, that's what it is. It's like, it's a mixture of you. Horatio did a fantastic job as the myth role. That's so hard. to do comedy in Star Wars. It's true, but I think there is certain comedy that can work, right? Like, you know, look, like, look, I always use the example of episode four with Han Solo when he's like,

I'm fine, how are you? A boring conversation anyway and shoots the thing. Like, that's, that to me is Star Wars humor. The, the mandolars, the one I reference all the time is when the Mandalorian is sitting talking to the Jawa's in the first season and it, they tease them on how horrendous his, his, his, him speaking Java is. And he tries to set them on fire. Like, like, that to me is like great Star Wars humor. stuff in Last Jedi with like, oh, your mother's on the phone. Wait, what? That's the stuff that doesn't play for me all the time. Yeah, jokes are jokes. They're hard, man. What do you know about it? What do you know about it?

Well, no, I'm just, I was kidding. I'm kidding with you, of course. It's so hard to do comedy, nonetheless, Star Wars comedy. I truly think one of the hardest comedies to portray. I'm sure. And I, and I joke with that, of course, and especially, from start i mean i stand up comedy and comedy store and all that that's where that that was that's my was my life you know so and i obviously you know you know what what what what what you're talking about you didn't stand up there huh that that's crazy i was my that was my that was my home i became i became

a regular there in 2002 it's how i met mark ellis um and it's kind of how i built all that stuff out but yeah man like going and just hanging out of the comedy club i just speaking of rebels and star wars and mixing in comedy i just had freddie prince junior on recently and And we were talking and just like like his pops. I'm like what he did. He told a great story on here about how he was on it. He was on it. His dad was on a date with Judy Greer and,

and oh my God. And the Joanna Kerns at the same time. And then. Greer? Yeah. That's true. Greer to the. I was going to say.

Pam Greer. Cam Greer. He was, he was, he did. It was a loki. It was a Loki alternate universe. Should not have told this story on the image. I'm sorry, Fred. I didn't mean,

do that. Pam Greer and Joanna Kearns. And then Richard Pryor comes in and like, it confronts him. It was a craziest story, but shit like that all the time that happened at the store. I can only imagine.

Yeah. Yeah. Some of that stuff is, is that's the, those moments where you just go like, I'm pretty sure I just saw Bill Murray wrestling Jay Farrow or you're just like, what's happening? Right.

Where you're just, yeah, it's insane. So, you know, speaking of which, you know, as I,

as we keep talking here, as you can tell with the show, I just, I'd like to have conversations more so than, hey, hey, bringing back to Pete Davidson thing. He told a story about Louis C.K.

Not too long ago, I think even in the stand-up act when he talked about how, I guess Louis C. was like, pretty much just called him out. kind of being a cock to him. And Pete then kind of took him the task in his stand-of thing, too.

Were you around during all that? Yeah, yeah. I don't necessarily, yeah, I didn't see any of that. That was not, I did not, yeah. Yeah, I don't mean to have you talk about all that type of stuff, but just when it comes to those crazy stories in general that you kind of run into, do you have, like, I guess going back to the previous question that I had for you,

do you have like a, one of the, something that you could tell on the year one of the craziest things that you remember that i cannot believe i mean i have a million little ones like there's that i that i've like the the top ones that come to mind are just like during the good nights um john mccain just coming over huge smile on his face slapping me on the back and saying always a pleasure to see you horatio and just like okay great like that happened and or yeah there's a million little weird thing a sarah When Sarah Palin was there, Sarah Palin was walking down the hall dressed as the moose. I was the moose and the Sarah Palin rap during the weekend update thing.

I was dressed as a moose. And I had the head off. And I was just walking down the hallway, like heading towards the studio. And I hadn't met her yet. And she just passed by me with two security guards and didn't say a word. But as she got right next to me, she just went, moose. I kept walking. I was just like, wow.

Wow. Elastic guns come. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there you go. Oh, man. A lot of our moments like a million, a bazillion of bazillion moments. Have you written a book?

Yes, but not about it. No, I'm sorry. Does that something you'd ever consider doing? I always, I always want, every like two months I go I want to write a book called my like my time at S&L the completely true stories and just write at all things. Bullshit.

I feel like it's been done. Yeah. That's what I would want to do or just write like this is how it went, but this is how I wanted it to go. So I guess what happens is you probably get as you get closer and closer, you just get because as you said before you just get so busy it's hard for you to to pick up other stuff and do other things especially with a four four and a half year old like so yeah yeah i've been busy i've been good and busy it's actually good i just tv is just ozark just gone by the wayside

but lots of other work and good stuff is coming i have i have like five things i really want to talk to you about in like two months all right i like to hear that i like yeah we should absolutely do that for sure. What are you, what are you been doing with the, uh, with the fam to, you know, for the last two years being able to, because that's, that goes back into the show, you know, the show, you get cast in 2019 and then the world goes upside down. Do you get nervous at that point with the show? Like, wondering if, oh, shit, is this, is it going to? Yeah. I think everything. I mean, yeah, I think everybody was nervous about everything. Yes. It was, it was terrifying. We would start and stop. I mean, we did four episodes, stopped for a year, came back, did two, you know, season one was crazy and then we never finished it. But we got lucky that we got to finish, we got to start and finish season two, like in a pocket of time where it was really safe and wonderful. And I'm really proud and psyched about that.

But as far as family goes, yeah, we've just been home to lots of costumes, lots of face painting. Yeah. Lots of, as of recently Enkanto all day long. Dude, it plays in my house. Not an hour ago in the backyard that we're talking about, we're still, we're not supposed to, but we're talking about Bruno.

Yeah, you can't. You're the whole, that's what the whole song is about, that you're not supposed to. No, I'm just not good at it, Bobby. Don't do it. Don't. I just, the guy is, you know, he's hanging out with rats. I need to, you're talking about him right now. I'm sorry.

I apologize. I won't do it again. It is, it is the best one, though, because. the music is fantastic. Like, like, so it's good to have around. I was getting a little, some of,

some of them get old fast, but in Canada is good. It's sticking around. Lynn Manuel Miranda, man, that guy, it's like, write a tune,

man, he can write a rap song. It's, it's crazy. So I just watched over, whenever it was over December, watched Tick, tick boom with Andrew Garfield.

And it's, and, you know, it's about the guy who, Jonathan Marson, yeah, who, for rent and all and you can see because

it's Lynn's first or at least first feature I think that he's directed and you can tell the inspiration and you can tell like two musical geniuses this guy I mean it doesn't matter what it is he can write a song about it and you're singing it in your in your shower and you're living with kids are singing it it's it's

incredible to watch it really but Encanto is playing quite often here for sure it's it's amazing I ask you because I Have you ever met or worked with Gary Busey? No. I sat on a roof with him, Bobby, for twice in a matter of a week for two hours each time for a total of four hours. And it was...

Sounds about right. You're blessed. You're blessed. You got that time with him and no one can take that away from you. That's awesome. Have you ever talked to a bagel upside down? That is a shockingly fantastic Gary Bucy. that it he he would ask me something i asked him something what what and it was like why is it because

he just can't hear you or a little bit of that yeah back then he would say and i would and i would go well you know i think you shouldn't think you should just know i'm like but but but gary not wrong not wrong he's like uh there are people uh around looking what what is your name uh christian fine and he just go through and you say dog uh you mentioned your dog dog daring onward uh godly i'm thank you garry it's just he was he was something i mean just is a magical magical thing but i was asked to do a podcast with him and then realized i just can't because not and not just just because the man is so he's gary he's gary yeah he's gary and yeah maybe yeah maybe yeah maybe we're

we help Gary instead of making money of Gary weird Gary is yeah that was that was the thing is that he well he but he wanted to do the podcast honestly he was there he was there because he wanted to do a podcast but he just wants I think he just wants to do his thing you know what I mean he just wants to oh Gary's in charge I feel like of Gary I feel like you don't come in and go now you do this now now he's controlling the controls and there's no one else on that ship and that's fine that's for him man I wish I could do that yeah I need the the Gary comes confidence. I don't know if he eat all that though.

Yeah. Maybe not. But I was asking you that too. You're doing, you see doing the stuff within Canada to the family. And it's just like how for me, my, because my friend Kevin just had a,

had a kid recently and I was talking to me. I told him beforehand. It's like, it just changed your life, man. It's like, because there's always, you know, you can be with,

with your significant other and everything too. And of course you make them your priority. But it's so different when you have a kid. It's like how the focus, you just can't be selfish anymore. The focus just goes all into the kid. Yeah, the one thing, I hate this pandemic, but I, at the same, everyone does. But I, the one thing that has been good about it is it just, it gave me time to sit down and go, hey, take care of yourself and your daughter. And, and you, I got this time.

And I'll always have that. And that's, I don't know if, if we didn't have it, if I would be running around crazy still, you know, not thinking. it's a great point. My wife said it the other day. She was just like, when is it going to be? She's worried about it. I have a 10 year old and I have a four year old. And so my, my wife says the same thing. She's just like, are we like they're not when you look back or we're spending the time? And I go, honey, the one thing you can definitely look at is you go back for these last two years, the amount of time that we were able to spend with them. It's like it's, it was, it was a blessing and a curse at the same time with this, this thing because we get to spend so much time with them. And like you said, you'd take that type of stuff for granted.

Because for as busy as you are and running around, like, who knows during that time and that two years, how much you would, you might have missed. Yeah. It's, it's insane. I also feel like I'm going to choose jobs differently now. Like I, I, I, yeah, it's, everything is changed. Well, everything is changed. And, and you also, you're not the most important. person anymore. So, and that's a good thing. I never was. Oh, learning that. Yeah, trust me. You know,

you know what? It's learning that you always were. And that's what it is. It really is. Isn't that shitty? It's, it's. We were, we were the answer all along was we just had to take care of ourselves. We just had to figure it out. No, it is because it came. I always, you know, you go, as you, especially as you get older, you're looking through things and you're going, oh, I looked at this perspective. When I was in my 20s, what was so important to me and what I needed to accomplish and what I have to do and this. And then you're just looking at these, for me, these two kids are I'm like, well, no. And now I've got to make sure that they're the one on the, my goals and what I'm trying to do now is not for me. It's to make sure that they're good.

You know, that's, and that's what it ultimately comes down to. And I'm sure that it's, it's been the same for you. Yeah. It's, it's been, I think, a huge wake-up call for the world. I hope. Yeah. Hopefully. Or it'll just split us down the middle and we'll all kill each other. Yeah.

You're not wrong. Unfortunately, you're not wrong. But, you know, let's jumping back into some Star Wars shit. Into not something that doesn't want to make us kill ourselves. That's true. Nothing. Well, that's,

and that's why going into Star Wars. Escape, sweet escape. Yeah. Is there other stuff, though, besides with Mandalorian, Boba Fett, I mean, do you keep up with all the news that's coming out as far as the series? Are you just, when it comes? I mean, I like to think, I like to think I'm more informed than most, but less informed than the best.

Yeah. Is that the way to put it? Like, I'm pretty good. I think I know what's going on in the books, but like I haven't read all the, you know what I mean? Like it's like sometimes I someone will ask a deep question. And I'm like, I'm not there yet, but I'll get there. Oh, wow. So you're probably more even in, last time I was reading all the books and all the comics.

I'm not reading the books in the comics either, but the TV shows and like, like for me, the ones that I'm really looking forward to. I try to get past on everything. All right. So what, so which series then are you looking forward to the most at the moment?

I mean, obviously, well, I almost said obviously Canobi, but then I thought about Asoka. I think both of those are going to be phenomenal. I just love Filoni and I can't wait to see that. And I think,

uh, Ashley Xstein is, is an absolute powerhouse, but I kind of love Rosario Dawson, as live as live action Asoka and I'm enjoying that I can't wait to see more of her in that role Well especially the fact I'm so curious

With that one that they announced Hayden Christensen coming back for that one Considering that Anakin's gone At that point so are they doing flashbacks Are they doing force ghosts like what are they doing So that He's gonna hop in a back to tank every 10 minutes And keep going back with

And they actually keep They show him every episode just murdering sand people that's it that's every episode only children just the dogs and the children i murdered them all and then padmy falls more in love with them every time he tells him everything he tells her um someday this ship is gonna come back i tell you one one day but it is it you know but that is a show that i'm looking i don't know why she sounded like joe pesci i probably she never sounded like joe pesci do you know how much money i'd pay to have joe pesci in star wars do you understand i now i want to see joe Pesci in the Amadala

outfit. He just wears the whole thing. Yes, he should be in everything. And absolutely every single thing. And they can, I mean, they got to do the better de-aging than the Irishman at least. So there was,

there was a quick shot in like two episodes back in Boba Fett when they're in the, in that canteena that just Jennifer Beale's character is the manager. where there's a Shadra fan with a little gray beard for one second. And I'm like, that's Orca. I don't care what anybody says.

That's live action Orca. He's cheating on Flicks. I saw it. I truly believe it. The character that I play on Resistance. I know, but why not? But that would be great if you say, but I would rather you. I wish, I wish it.

Well, I wish live action orca and Flicks would happen. Have you had any conversations about doing live action? I know you want to do it, but nothing. No, I audition. for the Obi-Wan series. I didn't get it. And you know what? I almost didn't send it in because I was like,

I am not right for this part, and I shouldn't send it in because I'm going to waste it and make them think I'm, I shouldn't have sent it in. I didn't get it. I'm glad I wasn't right for it. But, well, I mean, I mean, I don't even know what part it was.

I'm guessing, I'm guessing whatever part, Kumeel got. Okay. I have no idea. I'm pumped for that series for the same. Oh, I can't wait. But the, one reason I'm really excited for that season, that that series is because deboruchow is directing the whole thing.

Yeah. That. Oh, wow. Yeah. So, Debra Chow to me is there's three Star Wars television directors right now that can do no wrong. Those three television directors are Faloni. And even though I didn't, I didn't necessarily love it the second one that he did, the gunslinger one, but the other one, the Osoka one and the first one were out of control good. and I love Faloni.

Deborah Chow and Bryce Dallas Howard. I think they're all great. I just love the direction it's going in. Like, even like everyone says like Faloni and Favra, they can all do no wrong. Like I, there's,

I think there's some things that aren't great in these things, like little tiny things, but not even that. Meaning I love that they just take crazy chances. And no matter what, always go back to that original like McCorrie's source material and just go like, I don't know if this is going to work,

but it's good intentions from the start and like that and it usually work and it's the bad. Well, I think that the biggest I think everything you just said plays out in this season of Boba Fett, right? Because there's a lot of... There's a lot of risk that they take that

if you even read kind of the fan base that there's some stuff of people like, I don't know, it's still Star Wars, but it's not as good as Mandalorian. And then there's certain things that has happened in this series that I absolutely love. And there's other things like And there's other things they can do without, but then they come back and they do this thing of with the Mandalorian, but they tie in this whole universe together.

They show the shared universe and it just works. Don't you think, though, don't you think like it's so hard to be a Star Wars fan because there are people, there's toxic Star Wars fans. And I, and I'm going to go as far as saying, I think the only Star Wars fans are toxic Star Wars fans. because they just want everything to be perfect. And I do too. Like you just want it all to be perfect. And usually it is. So when it's not,

people go crazy. So I feel like when they say toxic Star Wars fans, they just mean Star Wars fans because- In general, right? Because we want it all to be great. You just love it too much. It's hard. It's a hard line to walk.

Like, it's like, this people are upset with this season of Boba-Fed? Are they? like like or the things that people are upset about it's like the only people who upset about that are the star wars fans and they love it they they love the they're silting back i love to hate it i'm not watching it anymore well i'll watch it next week but then you don't watch it next week after that but but this is why i don't know where you stand on this and i'm actually very very curious to get your thoughts on it if i've been saying it over and over and over again i if someone said you can only have star wars

television or you can have movies what do you take no hesitation i'm taking tv no no hesitation and I'll tell you why because of what you just said with a bad let's say a subpar episode of BobaFat you got to sit in it for a week if you don't like it and that's if you love it you love it but if you don't like it and then you get this episode

and you're raving about it and that one's gone like if there's a movie you got to sit in it for like two or three years and you got to hear all the bullshit on Twitter from everybody too and it's exhausting I love I think it's a fact that the Star Wars fans love Star Wars content, no matter what it is, they will take it and consume it.

Even like Star Wars detours, it's not even out and people know all about it. It's like it never came out and people, Star Wars fans know all about it. And it's just so rabid. Like you walk into a store, any store in 2020. Well, maybe not now. Maybe in 2019. And there was a Star Wars product. in it any store.

I mean, it's, it is. It's one of the big, it's crazy. It is, but although I still look at it like, I mean, the least one, I think when we were growing up, baseball was still like America's pastime. And I think that, I think football has surpassed that in my opinion. I think in, in my analogy, Marvel is football. I think Marvel and the MCU has become, has surpassed Star Wars. Not for me.

I'm still, Star Wars is still my number one thing, but I think that, people get more excited for Marvel stuff than they do Star Wars, unfortunately. Yeah, Marvel is the Superman to Star Wars as Batman. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you. And oh, speaking to the Batman, are you, is that one you're looking forward to? I'm looking forward to everything except Colin Farrell as a penguin.

Yeah, let a fat man play the penguin. What are you doing? You're not making, giving me hot makeup to put, me in a movie. You're not making Chris Hemsworth is putting on fat suits. No one's making, giving me a muscle suit and making me a superhero. No, I, yeah, no, I don't

like the, I don't like it. You want to be ugly, live your whole life as an ugly person, pal. Oh, man. I'm, I'm trying to be funny. But, uh, yeah. No, I love Colin Farrell. Come on, pal.

When my sister got married 20 years ago, when my sister got married, I didn't drink and I had a couple beers and I was sitting outside at 3 o'clock in the morning in Long Island and a cop car pulled up outside of the hotel. And two cops got out and just opened the back door and let Colin Farrell out. And they were like, such a great time. So great to meet you, buddy. And he was like, great to meet you guys. and then he walked into the hotel and I was just like, must be nice, being beautiful.

Well, that was just some random, there was just randomly in Long Island. I don't know what. My sister's wedding, I was drunk and a cop car pulled up and Colin Farrell got out and went in the hotel. I have no idea. It wasn't Colin Farrell because you were hammered? No, it was him.

I've had situations like that. It was a billion person to him. And then I guess the last question before I let you go, speaking of being hammered, And again, I know that this is one that you get that you get all the time that with with drunk uncle, which is one of the most iconic characters, I think in Saturday Live history is so out to it. It's it's it's so good. And and again, apologies if you've answered this a million times over, but I just need to to know where did that where did that come from this for? And did you did you pitch that in in the room?

Like how did that how did that whole thing come about to where you were like, okay, I'm going to this is an idea that I have. Do you know Chris Gifford? No, I don't think I do. Chris Getherd's comedian UCB guys did a bunch of stuff. He was a friend of mine and I used to do a bit with him at this bar called McMahonus. Oh, yes, I know. I know where I would pretend. Yeah, I would pretend to be very, very drunk and I would just rap.

I didn't drink at that time. So I would just like pretend to be really drunk, sit at the bar and sing the song, let me clear my throat. I was just going, I pretend that I was crying just to make Chris laugh. It was just this dumb bit. I don't know.

I don't know how it started. It was just this weird, drunk thing that I would do to make Chris gathered laugh. And then one night at S&L, Colin Jose was like, you want to write an up? Oh,

that week I had written, I had, I had written a sketch that I thought was going to be like the next big breakout character. It was a suit salesman named Lionel, who I went to buy a,

suit and this guy was nuts. And I was like, this is it. This is going to be my next big character. And it bombed. Oh, man. Bombed at the table. And I was like, well, at least I got this silly drunk thing. I wrote with Colin at 5 o'clock in the morning.

And like then now that was the one that stuck. Yeah, I walked into Collins office at 5 in the morning. He was like, do you have anything? I got to write an update. And I was like, I don't know, like maybe like a drunk uncle, like just like that uncle that's always drunk but you know says weird and like an hour later he was like I'll write something up and he did and I read it once and was like yeah this is funny we'll try it I got this other thing though that's great and uh that bombed and drunk uncle did really well and now cut to that's crazy I have a

fun co pop of it right over there you that's great well do you get to a point though too where they're like because I always wondered this with us know like if once a character hits a lot like always um if it okay we want you to do drunk uncle again, you're like, again? Does it ever, does that ever happen? It never got there with drunk uncle for me. I feel like it was too precious. Yeah.

But like, I never, I'm glad. Kristen probably had that. I never had like a time where I was like, oh, they want me to do this again. Like, no, I was, I was always very happy to do it. No, I never, I never got there with any of the characters. I don't think.

Maybe like I was in, maybe I was in some sketches. and I was like, I don't think I want to be doing this one again. But it wasn't something like drunk uncle that I wrote or it was somebody else's garbage. Well, it was phenomenal. And thank you for giving him to us because it was so many laughs. And dude, thank you for doing the show. It was a pleasure to talk to you again.

Yeah, good to see you, man. And when you're, yeah, when you have those things to talk about in two months, let's do this again. Yeah, definitely. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, please check out Bobby Moynihan. see him on Mr. Mayor. It is March 15th for season two on NBC. The great Bobby Moynihan, we will see you guys next time. Don't forget, please hit that subscribe button, show a little, will you? And the notification button as well. It is the big thing. I am Christian Arloff,

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