WEBVTT - One on One: Mitch Silpa 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:14.520 I Am all In. Oh, Let's kiss you. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.160 I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.400 All Right, Hey, everybody, Scott Patterson one on one interview 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.120 I Am all In podcast I Heart Radio one eleven Productions. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:32.440 We are talking today to Mitch silpa who played Terrence 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.720 for two episodes in two thousand and three and two 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.960 thousand and four. He was Paris's life coach. She first 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.599 appeared season four episode two, Laurelized First Date, The Laurelized 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.000 First Date, Yale, and his last appearance was season five, 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:52.200 episode ten. But not as cute as Pushkin, Terrence's Paris 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.120 Galer's life coach of the summer four Paris begins Yale, 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.080 she strives to be a better person with the help 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.000 of Terrence. Terrence is a very zen and personality and 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.600 is able to calm paar Us down using very strange techniques. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.760 In reality, Terrence comes off as a very nosy person 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.160 who wants to control every aspect of her decision making process. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.440 He intrudes upon her relationship with Doyle as well as 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:23.040 her everyday activities, and drives Paris' roommates crazy. Mitch Silpah 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.000 is an American writer actor and director who starred in 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.199 NBC's The Rerun Show, and He has appearances this show 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.040 such as Brothers, Sisters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.199 Girls On with Her, One on One, Kitchen Confidential, Reno, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.320 nine to One One, Joey, and Two Broke Girls. For 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.959 the On the big screen, he made appearances as the 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.760 notable character Steve in the twenty eleven comedy film Bridesmaids. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.200 He also appeared in Spy, The Heat, The Way Out, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:59.360 Happy Time, Murders, Welcome to Me, Unforgettable, and The Boss. 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.600 He created, wrote, and produced with Jim Cashman, the Fox 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:09.200 pilot Amy's Brother, starring Michael Uri and Annie Mamulo. Silpa 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.000 Sorry Silpa also has been nominated for a Writer's Guild 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.919 of America Award for his work on Saturday Night Live. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:23.320 Mitch also is known for his impersonation of magician David 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.560 Blaine in the famous six part YouTube series David Blaine 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.200 Street Magic two thousand and six. The series was vastly 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:35.760 popular for the first video had over forty one million views, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.480 with the next two getting around sixteen million. Let's talk 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.320 to Mitch Silpa. Hey, Mitch, how you doing? How you doing. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:45.040 Good to meet you. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.440 Good to meet you too. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.600 Well, thanks for coming on. We appreciate the time, of course. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.880 How'd you get your start in this career? 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.920 Oh god, I god, that's a really great question. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.520 Like I always wanted to be an actor, but like 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.680 I didn't start like studying like until my twenties, and 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.240 then I went to I went, you know, I went 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.840 to an acting class in Hollywood, and then I went 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.679 to grad school at UCLA and got my MFA and 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.120 theater and then, you know, for like seven years after 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.320 my graduations, I worked at a hotel and did like 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.400 little plays, and then I found the Groundlings oh in 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:26.040 LA and started taking classes there and kind of worked 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.560 my way up there, and then I made it into 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.320 the main company and then that kind of opened up 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.200 a lot of doors from me. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.040 Oh sure. So if the people listening don't know what 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:41.320 Groundlings is, it's it's an extremely sophisticated improv group. And 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.440 what they did and Melissa McCarthy comes out of the 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.960 ground Rings, and a lot of our great comedic actors 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.480 and a lot of the great comedic roles that you 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.720 see in film in the last twenty thirty years came 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:58.200 out of Groundings or Second City brilliant, brilliant comedic actors 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.320 who are steeped in improv. There's steeped in writing their 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.520 own characters and creating their own characters. And Groundlings as 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.720 a really in depth and rigorous program. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.040 Yeah, it's intense. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.160 It's very very intense, and anybody that does well there 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.840 and comes out of there. And I remember as a 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:25.039 cast we went to see Melissa in her Groundlings performance 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:25.479 one night. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.320 I wonder if you came, because Melissa and I were 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.719 in it at the same time, and we were actually 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.000 before you get into the main company, you have to 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.840 go up through all their levels, but right before the 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.960 main company is a Sunday company, and she was like 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.960 six months ahead of me, and so she was she 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.600 got in the main company six months before me and 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.480 then but we were in a lot of main shows together, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.000 and she was actually got Gilmore Girls while we were 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.240 in Sunday Company. She was like one of the first 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.599 people that are like, oh my god, she's on a 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.000 TV show, like Melissa's on a TV show. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.480 But yeah, so yeah, I think I do think it 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:09.240 was a Sunday actually, and it was. We had a 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.600 wonderful time. We laughed, so hard our stops. It was. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.080 It was such a special performance that she gave. She 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:22.080 did three or four different characters. It was just absolutely brilliant. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.360 Yeah, Melissa was always somebody who was just kind of 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:26.520 on fire on stage. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.599 Like she's just like great, she's uncommonly gifted. Yeah, she 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.120 really is. Just she can do anything. It's just weird. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:37.479 It's kind of like. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.360 And she's such a good actress too. I mean, right, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.719 yeah that movie. Can you ever forgive me? 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.719 She was so good in that. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:53.000 Yeah, she could win multiple Oscars, just in dramatic category. Yeah, no, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.839 one of the I always said, because people would always 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.240 ask me, who do you think is going to be 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:03.240 the breakout are of Gilmour, And I always said Melissa 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:09.919 because of her ability to well, she was just she 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.599 just had this, you know, this warmth and she was 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.960 just great with everybody and this just awesome talent. And 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.120 once I saw on the groundlings, I went, I don't 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.080 know that I've I mean, she's as gifted as anybody 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.680 I've ever seen in the history of film. Like, she's 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.920 absolutely amazing. It's no accident that she's had the career 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.240 that she's had. It was inevitable, so so tell us 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.799 about the opportunities that opened up for you during Groundlings 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.760 or after Groundlings. How did it help. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.480 Well, the Groundings was well in a lot of ways. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.839 It's like it's just like personally, like as you mentioned, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.520 the training there is so rigorous and I learned so 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.440 much because I mean, improv kind of helps you with 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.920 like everything, I mean, even like life stuff. It helps 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.880 you have nothing else to like listen, you know, or 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.080 make positive choices. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.440 I mean those are like you know, improv rules. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.160 But so I grew a lot from that, and also 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:17.240 the opportunity to write for myself and produce my own material, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.280 like you know, helped me figure out that. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:21.520 Oh I also love writing. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.440 And my writing partner and I who came from the Groundings, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.200 we had sold to shows after we you know, became 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.480 alumni and we're just you know, the training at the 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.400 Grounding is you know, just having to having the limited 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.880 amount of time to write and produce sketches and put 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.280 it up that week and not keep anything too precious 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.680 and just having to do it teaches you a lot 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.440 to just do it because I mean, if you're writing, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.200 you can you can overthink something and then you know, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.560 become paralyzed and not write anything. So just a lesson 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.440 of like just do it, just crank it out and 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.840 do it, and if it sucks, that's fine. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.160 I mean you really learn. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.360 At first it hurts a lot when you put up 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.960 a sketch and it tanks, or an improv just tanks. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.360 But then you get used to that and it's like, yeah, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.680 most things don't work, you know, like and then you 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.000 you're just trying to find a few gems that do. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.720 And that's a you know, a big lesson. And then 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.800 and just being seen there opened up, like me getting 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.360 jobs and the people I worked with, I mean, because 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.320 like when Kristin Wig, who also came up with me, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.760 you know, when she eventually got Saturday Night Live and 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.720 she blew up and then she got to do Bride'smaids. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.800 She i mean offered me a part in that movie, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.839 which was the flight attendant in that movie. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.000 And that was the first time I had ever been. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.760 Offered anything in anything, and I could I'm like, I'm 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:00.600 being offered. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.320 But it also that came from her. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.440 But Paul fig and jud Appatol had known a little 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.000 bit of my work because of the Groundlings and because 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:14.920 of like a video that Mikey Day and Michael Nton 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.800 and I did that were these David Blaine parodies that 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.920 they were aware of. So when when my name came up, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.520 they're like, oh, yeah, that guy, we can let him do. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:25.160 The flight attendant. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.040 But from my point of view, it was like, I 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.880 can't believe I'm being offered something. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.360 I don't have to audition for this. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.839 By the way, after I'm done here, I'm going to 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.520 go look at those YouTube videos. So you in personal 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:37.000 da Blain thing. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.760 Yeah, it happened like right when YouTube was starting, and Mikey, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.760 Mikey and Day and Michael Naughton wrote these sketches and 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.319 cast me as David Blaine. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:48.920 We did it on stage. He goes, hey, you want 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.520 to shoot this in the back alley and put it 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.800 on this new thing called YouTube, and then it just. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:10:00.559 Like blew up. That's fantastic. H So let's talk a 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.920 little bit about Gilmore. How did how did you get 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:03.680 to roll Terrence? 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.560 I auditioned and it was like I hadn't had an 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.439 I mean, everybody at the kind of the groundling say 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.080 it felt like had gotten an audition, and I was like, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.800 I'm not getting an audition for Gilmore. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.160 Girls, and then I finally. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.480 Got one and I love the show and it was 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.560 for Terrence the part that I got, and I was 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.680 like really nervous, and I just wanted to do a 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.480 good job and I didn't want to like have it 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.480 get back to Melissa and like, I got a lovel 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.360 and I I remember I walked in, I did it, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:41.600 and I just remember people laughed and then I got it, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.760 and I still remember when I got it. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.720 I was like, oh my god, I got it, and 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.680 uh my agent. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.120 Goes, oh yeah, casting has a note They're like, don't 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.200 go too big. I'm like, oh did I go. I'm 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.680 like okay, I'm like, did I go too big? But 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.000 they're like, yeah, no, just it's it's a very grounded show. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.640 But you know, they liked that you did a character, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.040 but don't go too big. So I'm like, all right, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.560 don't go too big. But I mean that was basically it. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.120 I auditioned and I got it, and uh, you know, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.680 and I knew that Lauren and Alexis had seen the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.240 Groundling shows and you know, so I knew that they 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.800 kind of knew me. So it's still nervous, but it 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.640 was everyone was lovely, like it was such a lovely set. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.560 Mm hmm. Yeah. You could do your best work there. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.920 You feel very supportive, very lots of notes, lots of help. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.760 You know, you can't take anything personally. They're just you know, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.840 they're just trying to have the best show they possibly can. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.160 Absolutely, And it was also I knew going into it 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.400 just from Melissa that how we couldn't change like a 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.320 word of dialogue, like it's not the it's a you know, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.440 like so I knew. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.400 And luckily I had no speeches like everybody else did. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.079 I just had like lines, so it wasn't as hard. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.520 What do you remember about your scenes with Paris with Liza, 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:08.520 Oh my god. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.600 First of all, I mean I never knew her before. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.080 I thought she was delightful, Like I just thought she 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.240 was so funny and great and just very sweet. My 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.920 biggest memory is, and I was thinking about this, was 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.520 I did two episodes. In the second episode I did, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.640 there was a scene with Paris with Paris and Rory 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.520 and Alexis had it either a cold or something was 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:40.280 going on. She lost her voice during the scene, like 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.400 during rehearsing it, and we had to like go home 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.800 and come and then they needed me to come back 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.600 the following week to shoot it, and I just remember, oh, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:50.640 I got extra money. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.360 They have to pay me to come back. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.199 So that was a memory, Like I remember she lost 0:12:55.200 --> 0:13:01.880 her voice, but yeah, no, I I think that Liza 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.000 was just she's just so lovely, like really fun and 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:07.120 like funny. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.720 Yeah, those are fun scenes. Those are really fun scenes. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.120 Great concept to a life coach at that age. That's 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.400 that's fantastic. So you've been in. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.400 And also a terrible life coach. Like things I'm saying 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.000 are like so bad. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:30.199 So you've been in several Melissa McCarthy projects, The Heat Spy, Bridesmaid's, 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.760 The Boss tell us about that. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.439 Yeah, she and Ben also produced. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.200 We're one of the producers on a pilot that my 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.760 friend Jim Cashman and I wrote for our first pilot. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:42.280 They wrote that. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.680 We sold to Warner Brothers and Fox bought it and 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.360 we got it made. But they were they were producers 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.320 on that show too, So we've worked with them anyway. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.400 I mean they're they're friends, you know. Uh yeah, work 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.200 with them many times. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.360 Well, sorry, you had. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.040 A question there, no no, what happened to God's Favorite Idiot? 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.959 Is it still on? Is it? Is it still in production. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.080 No, I I don't know. I mean I had nothing 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.920 to do with that too, but it did airr and. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.640 It was great. It was just it was fantastic. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.680 I don't know if it was just was it just 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.240 I mean it was just the one season or is 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.800 it coming back for I don't I really don't. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.840 Have any information about it. Find out what you I'll try, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:27.560 I'll get back to you. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.440 I gotta know we want more of those episodes. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:31.320 Sure. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.360 So what's been your favorite movie that you that you 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:35.840 worked on with them? Melissa? 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:42.800 Oh god, uh, well, like Bride's Maids was so much fun. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.840 But also Spy was a blast too because I got 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:52.360 to go to Amsterdam for like three weeks and work 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.760 maybe four fun days. But it was that was so 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.400 much fun because Melissa and I got to have a 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.920 fight scene and like I got to like float like 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:02.760 when they you know, they put you. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.680 On wires, and that was it was a blast. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.600 And it was also Paul figue Is. I've been in 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:10.400 three of his movies. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.720 He's just like an angel man. He's such a gentleman and. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:19.360 Like a joy to work for everywhere, and it's always 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.160 funny to have a fight scene with Melissa. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.880 Oh yeah, I mean, tell us what that's like going 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.040 through the rehearsal process with her, you guys, tell us 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:27.640 about it, tell. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:28.000 Us about it. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.840 Well, it was not. It was surprisingly not a ton 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.160 of choreography. It was it was literally I don't even 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.760 remember us having that much like fight choreography. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:43.360 We were just like battling each other, like shaking each other. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.720 I mean, there's so much trust between us and the 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.240 plane shaking. It was just things were flying and she'd 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.760 get pushed down. It was not like a ton of 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.280 fight choreography. I think I had more of lessons about 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 how to hold the gun than I did. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.560 Like, our heart. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.400 Scene was pretty loose. It wasn't really I mean, we 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.640 could have easily gotten heart, but we didn't. We knew 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.760 each other so well that it just felt like silly fun. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:15.480 Right right. All right, So they a lot of people 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.600 recognize you as a flight attendant and Bridesmaids Steve or 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.440 Stove or Stove as Christian Week calls you in the 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.920 movie Bridesmaids. Uh, tell us what it was like filming 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:30.200 that scene with Kristen Week. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.920 Well, it was like it was I worked three days 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.400 in that movie and just to step on that set 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.480 felt like I mean that airplane scene was filled with. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:44.800 So many groundlings. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.680 It was like Kristen and Melissa and Ben Falcone and 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.480 Wendy McClinton Covey and Maya Rudolph and I mean in 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.280 Annie Mamelo, who wrote the movie, is that. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.920 We're all groundings. So it really it didn't. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.920 It felt like someone like wrote a growling sketch, but 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.520 someone gave us like a huge budget and they're like 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.080 Annie and Christen are like, we wrote this air this 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.359 airplane sketch, and you're the flight attendant. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.040 But it was a blast. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.520 It was like we got to shoot the scene. We 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.359 would do the scene like scripted the first take, and 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.240 then after that it was, you know, we would do 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.199 the scene, but it was so we could say whatever. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.919 There was one take. I remember Paul figue led us. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.199 What felt like he let us go on for like 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.240 nine or ten minutes. It was such a long time 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.720 until I think I broke but and I don't even 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.960 remember if anything it got in that the scene, but 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:44.280 it was it was just so much fun and you know, 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.679 and like you know, that movie was just a joy. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.280 How many takes did you do of that scene? Because 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.040 the comedy in there was incredible. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:55.800 Well, I mean there's different. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.880 I don't know how many now because it's been a while, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.639 but you know, and it's all broken up. And I 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.440 learned that shooting on this the airplane that we shot on, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.760 it was a real airplane that they dismantled. And the 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.800 trivia is it was the same airplane that was that 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.360 was airplane that they used on airplane And so when 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:21.360 we were shooting that scene, it's one of my favorite 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.560 comedies of all time. And I told Kristen when we 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.320 were shooting, I go, you know, that means this movie 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.840 is going to be a huge like as a joke, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.200 and then it. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.600 Really did turn out. But yeah, I learned that shooting 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.840 on an airplane, said, it's not easy because when you turn. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.040 The camera around, you they literally have to take the 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.080 chairs out and like then put them back in. It 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:47.640 takes a long time to turn the camera around. But yeah, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.399 I mean, I don't remember how many takes. I do 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.560 remember there was one take I think I picked I know, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.439 I remember I picked Kristin up. I actually picked her 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.840 up and put her back to her pet her backer's seat. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:00.919 And when I was driving home that night, I'm like 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.080 I literally just picked up the star of the movie 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:04.400 and even think about it. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.639 But uh, yeah it was. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.200 Were you able to give little suggestions that that popped 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.119 into your mind your comment? 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.840 No, I was too nervous to do that, but they'd 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:17.320 let me. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.600 Say pretty much whatever. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.760 And Kristen was always like saying something different every time 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.720 she would exit, Like I do remember the take that 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.040 got in when she said the line about its civil 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:30.240 rights it's the nineties. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.560 That was like the first time she said. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.400 That, and I thought that was just like, what what 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.360 here in the wrong decade? 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.840 I think I said, like like, oh, that got in. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.960 But it was just a joy. I mean like it 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:45.520 was like making a movie with friends. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.159 Oh man, that that just sounds. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.640 Like a dream situation. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:55.680 Yeah, but good on Paul fig for forgetting all of 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.680 those Groundlings people together. You know, that's that's actually kind 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.720 of a Ellian idea. You go to see the Groundlings 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.520 and you know, I'm gonna cast all these people. Yeah. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.080 Yeah, it was very cool. 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.720 And there's and the movie itself is like peppered with 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.040 a lot of it throughout the Groundlings throughout the movie too. 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.480 So it's also Kristin really like, you know, her first 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:19.199 big movie and she's like, you know, populating it with 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:20.920 a lot of the people she came up with it. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:22.840 It was very cool of her too. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.520 Yeah, that's great, all right. So we touched on this 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.600 a little earlier about the David Blaine YouTube videos that 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.679 you did. Street Magic has over forty one million views 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:34.400 on YouTube. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:35.160 Crazy. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.479 How did the idea for these videos come about? 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.000 Well, it was I'd love to take credit for it, 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:42.640 but I mean I could take a credit for one 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.399 thing in it. But it was mikey Day and Michael 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.320 Naughton wrote the sketch and you know, for a main 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.000 show at the Growndings, and we I think Wednesday nights 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.280 are pitch nights when we're writing new sketches. And they 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.639 wrote the sketch and they're like, we wrote the sketch 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:58.520 and we want you to play David Blaine. And I 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.280 knew nothing about him and care just remember him saying 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.399 he's just really chill. And then we did it and 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.000 put it up and then I'm like, was that okay? 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.720 He goes, yeah, that's perfect. And then that uh Friday, 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.439 the show, the scene got in and we did it 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.200 in front of an audience and this Tim Brennan, who's 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.640 in the Grounding. There was a cameraman on stage who 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.440 would get my reactions, but they're the only thing I'll. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:25.080 Take credit for that sketch. Was when they're freaking out 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.639 over I turned to this. 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:29.240 This is a long time they were freaking out, So 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:30.760 I turned and looked at the guy who was holding 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.560 the camera and just started like making these like intense 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:34.600