Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, Please welcome at Helms. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, welcome to the day show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Although it said welcome, it's it's a little weird because
Speaker 1: you you worked in this very same studio for how
Speaker 1: many years, like five for four and a half years. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like what you've done with the place. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Thank you very much. Yes, wished it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. We had a little pandemic in the middle,
Speaker 1: you know, touched a few things up, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but your stuff is still here if you want anything.
Speaker 1: I hope no one's moved into my office, right No, no, no,
Speaker 1: good because that's safely space. Welcome, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. By the way, I love what
Speaker 1: you have done, not only with the furniture, but with
Speaker 1: the show. You're crushing it, trying to Yes, I love
Speaker 1: what you've done with everything, um, because I mean, you're
Speaker 1: you're easily one of the funniest people around. You know,
Speaker 1: many people introduced to you, you know, through the hangover,
Speaker 1: but everything you've done has been so funny and rutherford.
Speaker 1: When I first read about it seemed like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: trying to throw it all away. Because it was a
Speaker 1: story of it. Really it seems like a crazy story.
Speaker 1: Is like I'm going to play a white guy who
Speaker 1: goes into a Native American community and basically like fights
Speaker 1: with them about their own land. It doesn't seem like comedy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really funny and it's a great story. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, I guess that was that was
Speaker 1: the challenge was to try to keep that character sympathetic.
Speaker 1: I mean it really is uh like that the show
Speaker 1: was born out of this observation just that people were
Speaker 1: kind of not listening to each other and being crazy
Speaker 1: and and and so we wanted to kind of depict
Speaker 1: somebody who who is having trouble kind of hearing opposing
Speaker 1: views or hearing some that maybe his interpretation of history
Speaker 1: is very wrong and uh and and yet also that
Speaker 1: that that's that can be a good person who wants
Speaker 1: to do better also, right, Can I tell you what
Speaker 1: I love about the show is that it's funny, it's poignant.
Speaker 1: It has I think I'll stand to be corrected, possibly
Speaker 1: the largest Native American writing room in all of television.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's like giants, it's up there, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not top it's up there, it's up there. You you
Speaker 1: you have like a Native American cost, You've done the
Speaker 1: thing that everyone says it's impossible. Everyone goes like, if
Speaker 1: you include people, then white people don't work. And it's
Speaker 1: like you're working, they're working. It's a great shows. I'm
Speaker 1: doing Okay, you're doing okay, Yeah, he's doing okay. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's another show called Reservation Dogs, which is also amazing, amazing,
Speaker 1: and that show has a ton of Native American writers
Speaker 1: and directors, a lot of our directors. We shared a
Speaker 1: lot of directors between the shows. Um and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's been an incredibly humbling experience for me. I think,
Speaker 1: I think before getting into this, I intellectually understood the
Speaker 1: value of representation and I would I would, I could
Speaker 1: talk about it very fluently and and advocate for it.
Speaker 1: But but being in this experience has just like really
Speaker 1: made a kick in for me in a way that
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's been. It's been incredible. It shows
Speaker 1: you know, because like the jokes that you're telling, the
Speaker 1: storylines that you that you have, it doesn't become something
Speaker 1: that it's not supposed to be. It becomes fresh, it
Speaker 1: becomes authentic. It's it's I mean, that's why I got renewed.
Speaker 1: Is it is what I think? You know, it's like
Speaker 1: season two, it's it's an exciting season change as well.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil anything for those I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the first season, but essentially, your character comes into
Speaker 1: this world where he's trying to preserve his name, the
Speaker 1: Rutherford name comes in realizes at some point that you know,
Speaker 1: his family doesn't stand for the best thing you know
Speaker 1: in the past. But as we're going into season two,
Speaker 1: the journey changes, like what can you tell us about it? Uh? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that you know we left at the end of season one,
Speaker 1: my character really had this like catastrophic identity crisis and
Speaker 1: uh and and I think going into and and all
Speaker 1: of season one, really I think my co creators Mike
Speaker 1: Scher and Sierra Teller ornellis that the three of us
Speaker 1: like really wanted to grapple with some big ideas. It's
Speaker 1: some big issues. Season two, we were like, well, we
Speaker 1: kind of did a lot of homework in season one,
Speaker 1: and this ensemble is so funny and our writers are
Speaker 1: so for let's just like lean into the comedy more.
Speaker 1: And so I think this season we still there's still
Speaker 1: a lot of very sharp satire that I'm very, very
Speaker 1: proud of. But it's also it's more joyful, it's sillier.
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know, when you say, lean into
Speaker 1: the comedy more, I'm excited at what. I'm also a
Speaker 1: little worried because I've heard I've heard stories about you.
Speaker 1: I mean at the Daily Show, you know with Jon
Speaker 1: Stewart when you were correspondent. You had a mole removed
Speaker 1: on camera for the show. That's true, Like actually, like
Speaker 1: the procedure on The Hangover, you allowed them to take
Speaker 1: out one of your teeth for the movie. That's like
Speaker 1: a real that really happened. Yeah, yeah, you see that.
Speaker 1: You see you were like, oh special effects, No, that
Speaker 1: was just him. It was just him being effective. That's
Speaker 1: all it was. So when you say lean and are
Speaker 1: you still willing to do the craziest thing? So season
Speaker 1: two of this show, I I remove, I get decapitated
Speaker 1: my head. It's like and and you know, thankfully, like
Speaker 1: we've got great doctors and everything. It's like, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: as you can see, but yeah, I go the extra mile,
Speaker 1: super committed, super method. Yeah, Like do your family and
Speaker 1: friends worry about you because I know people who go
Speaker 1: the extra mileful comedy, like does your dentist worry? Doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, do your doctor's worry? Yeah, I guess there's nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't know that if this is a good thing,
Speaker 1: but there is virtually nothing I won't do for I
Speaker 1: have no pride or dignity, and so that's a very
Speaker 1: freeing thing in Chowvizda. I think it's not just freeing,
Speaker 1: it's the reason you one of the funniest, most amazing
Speaker 1: people that we get to watch on screen. Thank you
Speaker 1: for being on the show. Thank you for joining me. Yeah,
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