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<\/p>\nThe greatest compliment for me, and again, that\u2019s one of those things I\u2019m sure if I were to say that to him he\u2019d probably be embarrassed by that. Give me a fucking break. It\u2019s just the way it is. I grew up with the guy. One time, he let me get behind his desk when he was using Twitter and I tweeted from Dave\u2019s computer to Fallon as he stood by. I\u2019m like, the fucking dream. This is the greatest. I\u2019m not suggesting that I think I\u2019m funny, but to be able to be there and laugh with somebody in that way, just to laugh along with him, is the greatest. So with the podcast, the fact that we are able to laugh together scratches the deepest of itches for me.<\/p>\n
And now SmartLess has been on for five years. Over 275 episodes. How have you changed as a host and as an interviewer in that time?<\/p>\n
[Laughs.] What\u2019s so funny is I\u2019ve read the comments less and less as we\u2019ve gone along, but certainly early on, people would say these guys are the worst interviewers, and those are the ones you focus on. You can have 11 people say you\u2019re great. The 12th person says you\u2019re a shitty interviewer, I\u2019m a shitty interviewer. And so I\u2019ll bring it up and then I\u2019ll get various things that Jason will say: Don\u2019t even read it. Which he legitimately doesn\u2019t. But sometimes it\u2019s unavoidable, and we\u2019re all human, and to suggest that people are impervious to any sort of\u2026it\u2019s absurd. But I don\u2019t think we\u2019re necessarily interviewers as much as it\u2019s you coming on and the four of us are talking to each other.<\/p>\n
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Okay, granted, but after 275 episodes, do you find yourself realizing: \u201cOh, I\u2019m actually using this to answer my curiosity about how these other people do it\u201d?<\/p>\n
Certainly. I feel like I ask a lot of the same questions. The responsibility to get into certain areas is much more incumbent upon you if it\u2019s your guest. [On SmartLess, Arnett, Bateman, and Hayes switch off who brings the secret guest, so two of the hosts are in the dark when the episode begins.] And so the freedom when it\u2019s Jason or Sean\u2019s guest for me is fantastic. They\u2019ll say the same thing, because you just get on and just roll with it. Generally, if it\u2019s a performer, it\u2019s, what was the first time you performed? Why did you think you could do it? And I think that we have the luxury as fellow performers that it\u2019s not just an interview. It\u2019s like, I have my story, what\u2019s your story? It seems so simple. And yet what it does is it usually opens up other areas and they reveal something that they did and something interesting. And I think that because we have a little more time, we have an hour, we then start to find nuggets or things that amuse us that they did or whatever, or it brings up something that Sean did that might be an opening to jab at him or Jason. None of this is by design. We\u2019ve never discussed what we do. Ever. The fact that I\u2019m doing this with you now, I\u2019ve never really articulated this in any way and it seems a little absurd to do it and it seems a little self-serving, to be honest, and embarrassing in a certain way. Again, I\u2019m not being precious about it, but it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
Has doing SmartLess changed you as a dinner-party guest or a person on a date?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think so because I\u2019m just as bad as I was then. Consciously, no. But I suppose subconsciously it may have occurred, if you can believe it, because there are a lot of people who talk about how much we interrupt each other\u2026. Well, I interrupt in conversation all the time. It\u2019s also three people and I grew up in a family of interrupters. I mean, that\u2019s just the way it goes. But, believe it or not, I think I\u2019m a better listener. Which people might say, Wow, you must have been really bad. But I think I am a better listener now. I think. If I can say that. I\u2019m not entirely sure, but maybe.<\/p>\n
The most steady work you\u2019ve had all these years is voice work. How would you describe your own voice?<\/p>\n
You mentioned to me earlier that you heard me coming in. What I think when I hear you say that is that I was loud and obnoxious.<\/p>\n
This dining room was silent. You could hear a pin drop.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it was deathly quiet. I would describe some of the people who were eating here earlier as simply cadaverous. But I don\u2019t know how I would describe my own voice. Obviously, to me, it\u2019s just my voice. But I know\u2014I had a girl wait on me at a table in Long Island about three weeks ago, and she said to me, she was probably 20 or 21, and she goes, \u201cDo you do animation?\u201d I was eating with my young son, Denny, and I go, yeah. She goes, \u201cAre you BoJack Horseman?\u201d She had no idea who I am, which was delightful. But, yeah, it\u2019s a weird thing, I have had people turn around in line at a grocery store when they hear me talking, and I never think about it in that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The greatest compliment for me, and again, that\u2019s one of those things I\u2019m sure if I were to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,1503,146,85,46,1619,73215,397,5098,6612,411],"class_list":["post-150587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-magazine","tag-men-of-the-year","tag-movies","tag-onecolumn","tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}