Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. That feels girl, that feels
Speaker 1: that feels absolutely wrong. Okay for appropriates, you think, So
Speaker 1: that's appropriates. That's what we're gonna do. It's just gonna
Speaker 1: be now of applause for you. That's overwhelming respect. That's
Speaker 1: what you deserve. That's how you make people feel you deserve. No,
Speaker 1: that's what you deserve, my friend. I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: this honestly. I mean this so honestly. I you know,
Speaker 1: I was, I was scrolling on my TV the other day,
Speaker 1: and you know, I was bouncing around everything between like
Speaker 1: YouTube and then going through Netflix and then bouncing like
Speaker 1: different apps and watching It's amazing to see the impact
Speaker 1: that you have had on the culture. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: not really with Key and Peel, some of the funniest
Speaker 1: moments and ideas still existing on TikTok kids loving them today,
Speaker 1: and then you move into like what you did with
Speaker 1: Keanu and then the new range of movies. I do
Speaker 1: want to understand this one of the funniest people out there.
Speaker 1: You were for a very long time putting out some
Speaker 1: of the funniest content and now it's just like scary
Speaker 1: ship is this fullbalanced what what happens? Is it weird
Speaker 1: that I think it's funny? Is it? I? You know,
Speaker 1: I think the comedy part of my career is still going.
Speaker 1: I think it's still active. Wow, and part of that,
Speaker 1: you know part. I talked about it as sort of
Speaker 1: like the difference between comedy and horrors the music, and
Speaker 1: it really does. It does feel like that, you know
Speaker 1: when when we uh sorry, I'm sorry, now I'm puturing
Speaker 1: Now I'm picturing the ceiling get out with the guys
Speaker 1: running like you know, he's running at the camera, he's
Speaker 1: like head on. But now I'm pting like means like
Speaker 1: Benny Hill. And it's funny. It's funny and it's very funny.
Speaker 1: And I could have done I was at the finish
Speaker 1: line with that film. My have gone either way, it
Speaker 1: would have been a very different film. Um. But but
Speaker 1: thank you for saying that. Yeah, no, I I I'm
Speaker 1: I love comedy. It became very uh complex somehow making
Speaker 1: comedy in this world as it is complex. I think
Speaker 1: making anything or getting anything accomplished in this world. It
Speaker 1: feels like you were the only person who wasn't surprised
Speaker 1: about the filmmaker you would turn into, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think it's because you came from this world of sketch,
Speaker 1: and sketch always seems unplanned and unprepared. It seems off
Speaker 1: the cuff, but there's so much work that goes into it.
Speaker 1: And and now you've you've turned into or rather you've
Speaker 1: been revealed to us as this film maker. Like when
Speaker 1: I was watching Nope, you're sitting in that movie theater,
Speaker 1: nobody knows what's gonna happen, why it's gonna happen, how
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. You successfully got people to not spoil
Speaker 1: any of the plot points. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: did that, because people who saw there like, have you
Speaker 1: seen Nope? I was like, no, I haven't, how is it?
Speaker 1: They're like nope. But you you create, like you create
Speaker 1: a feeling thank you well that you know I have.
Speaker 1: I just have this love of my audience. And I
Speaker 1: think when my audiences has been telling me and responding
Speaker 1: to because that that very thing is something that they
Speaker 1: love and that they're going to, uh, they're going to
Speaker 1: show up for it. And so you know when and
Speaker 1: and you know, you say, I knew, I you know
Speaker 1: when I made when I wrote get Out, I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't even know if they would let me direct it.
Speaker 1: I didn't. Yeah, that's that's how how much has changed
Speaker 1: in my life. You know. I was trying to push
Speaker 1: this thing and so I luckily I found a wonderful
Speaker 1: home and wonderful producers for it. But when I made Nope,
Speaker 1: that then I you know, I was like, Okay, now,
Speaker 1: hold on a second. They're gonna let me direct a film.
Speaker 1: You know, They're gonna let me direct a big movie.
Speaker 1: And so there's a responsibility there is there is there
Speaker 1: a pressure. Do you ever do you have a like
Speaker 1: feel the weights of your own pressure? Because get Out
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest movies that has ever been made.
Speaker 1: From that moment onwards, everyone is expected you to create
Speaker 1: the greatest movie ever made. There's always gonna be that pressure.
Speaker 1: There's always gonna be criticism. This is gonna be the critics.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that as well? Or do you find
Speaker 1: yourself just making what you want to make? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people hate get Out, and there's
Speaker 1: a certain who are these people? Well, they're out there,
Speaker 1: they are out there. Wow, I get I get I
Speaker 1: still get hate from from from that era. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that don't like the you know,
Speaker 1: the the agency that it brought interest me and other people.
Speaker 1: I truly feel that. And so you know, and and
Speaker 1: and and can you impeel as well? You know, you're
Speaker 1: you realize people are gonna respond, but there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be people who don't respond. And that's okay. That's part
Speaker 1: of the adventure of doing something risky, doing something you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to do, is that you're gonna be pissing
Speaker 1: people off. But that's okay. I wonder if some people
Speaker 1: are pistolf at what you illuminate in the stories that
Speaker 1: you tell, because it's one thing to create a horror movie.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to create thrill and suspense. It's another
Speaker 1: thing to to weave into that story everything that we're
Speaker 1: experiencing in real life. You know that there are themes
Speaker 1: of race, there are themes of of gender, there are
Speaker 1: there are themes like everything is encapsulated in the stories,
Speaker 1: like you you went and went, what if there's racism,
Speaker 1: and what if it's sexism, and what if there's also
Speaker 1: a monster which seems you know, which is the very
Speaker 1: much the real world. Once again a documentary, but no,
Speaker 1: I uh, yeah, you know. I mean this one wanted
Speaker 1: to be about this, you know, this idea that was
Speaker 1: sort of forming in my head that there's some people,
Speaker 1: there are some things in this world that are these
Speaker 1: bad miracles. These are these things that are so entertaining
Speaker 1: that it uh that were blinded to the danger of them.
Speaker 1: And so I wanted to make a film about the
Speaker 1: you know, the human response to these things and how
Speaker 1: we interact with it and how we we will chase
Speaker 1: it off a cliff. Wow, you do that with everything
Speaker 1: that Because when they told me you had a podcast,
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to be interviewing people. I
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be a conversation. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: he made a horror podcast. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: but that's but that's not possible. And then they send
Speaker 1: it to me and I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: terrifying because I just have to use my ears. We
Speaker 1: actually have a clip here. We can play a little
Speaker 1: bit for you. Just listen to you even close your
Speaker 1: eyes if you want to listen. I need to report
Speaker 1: an accident. This guy he's hurt his head. There's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of blood. I'm not sure if he yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he's definitely still breathing his head. His head looks like
Speaker 1: it's cracked. Jesus, there's blood everywhere. I'm sorry, what so
Speaker 1: thank important to say? Directed by mime O'Donnell, brilliantly directed.
Speaker 1: This was something you know, all of us at Monkey
Speaker 1: Pot Productions were very excited about, like trying to make
Speaker 1: the scariest horror podcast of all time. And you know what,
Speaker 1: people normally use podcasts for a drive. You know, some
Speaker 1: people play podcasts sleep I've heard and then this slides
Speaker 1: into your playlist, you know, and this is something we
Speaker 1: we we talked about in horror all the time, which
Speaker 1: is this idea that it's it's the things you don't
Speaker 1: see that that are the scaria. It is terrifying because
Speaker 1: you've created this podcast that is essentially it sounds real.
Speaker 1: It sounds like an actual conspiracy theorist, and we're following
Speaker 1: him and his journey of creating this radio show that
Speaker 1: sort of sets in a pre Trump world and he's
Speaker 1: talking about everything that's happening in he's digging into conspiracies
Speaker 1: and it feels too real. Jordan's it's and if this
Speaker 1: is brilliant and Tracy Letts wonderfully plays this this character
Speaker 1: and and this whole faustian thing. It ends up being
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give away what the what is
Speaker 1: going on? But then but there's there's something of yeah,
Speaker 1: ass yeah, as discussed we need to but it's it's
Speaker 1: a story that needs to be told in the sound
Speaker 1: medium because there is a sound element to this parasite
Speaker 1: and the it's scary when when you tell your stories
Speaker 1: and and this is something that I feel you've always done,
Speaker 1: whether it's in a sketch, whether it's in a movie,
Speaker 1: and now even in the podcast, it feels like you're
Speaker 1: commenting on the aspects of the world that we oftentimes
Speaker 1: take for grants to or ignore because they almost seamlessly
Speaker 1: happening to us, and you you take them, you amplify them,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes a horror we can't look away from. Like,
Speaker 1: why do you think it's important for us to focus
Speaker 1: on those moments, to focus on what's happening in real life? Well,
Speaker 1: it is, there's there's there. It's important for us to
Speaker 1: pay attention to the real life monsters. And I think
Speaker 1: it's important to too, and it's important for us to
Speaker 1: feel fear as it is, you know, so much of this,
Speaker 1: so much of this doom scrolling and stuff. It's it
Speaker 1: really is about us. Uh, the fact that fear is
Speaker 1: something we bury. Fear is something that we don't like.
Speaker 1: We don't like that feeling will we will converted into
Speaker 1: anger other things, and so anyway it signumbs us as
Speaker 1: we scroll. Yes, So yeah, did I answer? Did I
Speaker 1: answer the question with that? I? Well, can I just say, um,
Speaker 1: I've loved everything that you've created. I I enjoy how
Speaker 1: original your art is. I I also really appreciate you know,
Speaker 1: how you work with the talent that you work with.
Speaker 1: I mean Kiki Palmer. People have been loving her forever
Speaker 1: to see to see her in the movie, to see
Speaker 1: what you did with him. No, obviously, Daniel, you know
Speaker 1: we've loved them since forever. You don't just create a story,
Speaker 1: you also create stars. You know, you also give people
Speaker 1: an opportunity to shine on the screen. And I would
Speaker 1: love to know what you look for in these performance
Speaker 1: that you think well, I mean, as it does successfully
Speaker 1: convey the feelings that you're trying to get to the people. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, I'm also I'm trying to
Speaker 1: hitch my wagon to these moving trains. Right, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find people who are ready to do their the
Speaker 1: their greatest role, you know, and in that perfect place.
Speaker 1: So I very much. I'm so I'm so thankful that
Speaker 1: you know, the Daniels and the key Keys of the
Speaker 1: world will will come out and do it. But I'm
Speaker 1: also looking for somebody who is really smart enough to
Speaker 1: take over the character for me. I I do the
Speaker 1: work to build this character up to a certain point,
Speaker 1: and then I need somebody to come in and become
Speaker 1: the expert so I can ask them how does Emerald feel?
Speaker 1: And she can she can answer that question. We can
Speaker 1: kind of move from there. And so you know, I
Speaker 1: just I have very have the privilege of working with
Speaker 1: people like like Daniel and like a Key who are
Speaker 1: just you know, the best actors in the world. And
Speaker 1: then we have the privilege of enjoying everything that you
Speaker 1: will create together, the privilege of having you on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend, after you package will thank you again.
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