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On Larry King Now,
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actor and comedian David Koechner.
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It is a desperate film,
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but we have all had times in our lives
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when we've felt desperate,
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so, thematically, we can all relate to it.
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Right now, one could say that
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we are living in dystopian times,
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and this is somewhat of a dystopian movie.
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I'm not known as a political comic,
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so I think it's unfair for me personally to go
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and do stand-up where they're expecting something else,
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and do a political assault.
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Eddie Murphy was, like, two people in front of me
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and he turned around and smiled
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and said, "Hey, man, how you doin'?"
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I was so happy that he knew who I was.
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Plus.
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I can wiggle my ears, you ready?
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Yeah.
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Here you go, you in?
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(Tom laughing)
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Is that considered a talent?
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That's all next on Larry King Now.
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Welcome to Larry King Now,
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I'm Tom Green filling in for Larry.
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My guest today is actor and comedian David Koechner.
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David got started studying improv
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in Chicago with Second City.
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He was then cast on Saturday Night Live
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and was a regular guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
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David's also known for his roles in films
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like Anchorman, Dukes of Hazzard and Talladega Nights.
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His new film, All Creatures Here Below,
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is currently in select theaters.
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This is awesome, I'm so excited to talk to you today.
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I mean, you've had such an amazing career.
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You've done so much hilarious stuff.
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Do you love doing these talk shows,
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do you like doing talk shows?
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Sure, I like talking.
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I mean, again, it's doubly exciting 'cause it's you.
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You and I have never actually worked together,
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so this is working together for the first time.
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Absolutely.
Yeah, it's nice.
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We're improvising.
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We finally got to do something together.
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You started in improv.
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Yeah, because I've known you for years,
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I met you years ago 'cause you used to be
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at Morra Brezner's, same agency.
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I remember, we used to run into each other there.
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Not to talk about me,
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but that was sort of a very discombobulating time for me,
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'cause I had just moved to Los Angeles and--
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And your career shot sky high.
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It was a weird time, yeah.
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'Cause you're like, wait,
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I'm being offered all these things,
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all the things are happening for me.
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You wanna try, probably, to maintain some kind of control,
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'cause your career, in your shows, you would create chaos,
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but I'm sure that in real life,
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you were trying to control the trajectory.
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So much easier now that they're not offering me anything.
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(laughing)
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We had fun at the Saturday Night Live
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40th anniversary party.
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That was a crazy party.
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Yeah, three or four years ago?
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Yeah, everybody was there.
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You'd be lookin' in one corner,
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there'd be Paul McCartney talkin' with Keith Richards.
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I remember Jay-Z and Beyonce
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were standing in front of their table
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and there was just a long line of people,
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they were so accommodating,
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'cause there was a long line
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of people wanting to meet them.
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It was like a wedding.
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They were standing there being very polite
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and people just would come by, say hello,
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They're like royalty, right?
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I shook Jay-Z's hand at the party.
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The line was too long for me.
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I was just walking past, he was standing there,
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and I just shook his hand and I kept goin'.
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That's the way to do it.
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Prince played later that night onstage,
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I think McCartney was up there, too.
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Crazy.
Unbelievable.
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You're never gonna see stuff like that.
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You were on Saturday Night Live.
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Does that stuff still shock you, then?
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You say that's crazy, it must've been crazy--
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Well, it's surreal because there's
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so much showbiz in the room, right,
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and you wonder who's acting one way or the other
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or who's acting normal.
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'Cause there's a lot of normal people in show business,
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there's a lot of insecurity in show business.
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I think the more insecure you are,
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the more you have to act like you're at arm's length.
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Yeah, 'cause I got very nervous at things like that,
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sort of a social anxiety.
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You're talkin' to people and you don't know what to say.
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Of all places, that particular night,
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you could be anxious.
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Do you get anxious at things like that,
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or do you not get anxious like that?
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Yes and no.
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I'm more loud than anything.
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I cause anxiety, I think, more than I'm anxious.
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Although, when I was walking in,
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remember when we were being sat?
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You still had to walk in that long line, everybody does.
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Eddie Murphy was two people in front of me
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and he turned around and smiled
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and said, "Hey, man, how you doin'?"
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I was so happy that he knew who I was.
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That was my fun moment for the night.
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Was it fun being on Saturday Night Live?
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Yes, although it's, yes.
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Although I'm a bit of a, there's an Irish saying,
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you don't suffer fools gladly, and I certainly don't,
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and there were some people who'd made suggestions,
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there were people who I'd felt like were out of position,
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and I don't mind letting people know my opinions.
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That's not necessarily a place
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where people's opinions are welcome.
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I'd gotten asked to do a certain
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character three times, this was a talk show,
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and I said, "No, that's a terrible idea.
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"That's what's wrong with the show, we need more sketches,
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"not fake talk show parodies, in my opinion."
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They weren't asking me, they were telling me,
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although they put it in the form of a question,
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"How 'bout a Gerald talk show?"
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I mean, like, what?
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'Cause it's hard to, I guess, create comedy
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with a group of people like that,
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but that's what you do in improv, I guess.
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Right, now that's easy,
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but in that particular system,
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everyone's trying to get over, it's like wrestling.
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You're trying to get over yourself,
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so it can be very selfish.
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I was very fortunate in the year that I was there.
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There were a lot of new people,
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and they were very gracious people.
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There's Will and Jim Breuer, Chris Kattan,
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Mark McKinney, Nancy Walls, Nancy Walls-Carell,
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Norm McDonald, David Spade, Tim Meadows.
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Love Norm McDonald, he's from Ottawa, my hometown.
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So that's where you met Will, then?
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That's where I met Will, we were hired on the same day.
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And that's sort of where that all,
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the rest is history, so to speak.
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Well, yes, they've been very kind to me.
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I had to audition for Anchorman,
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they couldn't give me the job,
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'cause that was one of their earlier films.
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So later they could give me the job,
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but that one I actually had to win.
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I notice in all your movies,
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or many of your movies,
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you work with such strong other performers.
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Will Ferrell, Dax Shepard in your new show.
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Love Dax.
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He's hilarious.
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You must be havin' a blast workin' with these guys.
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This is a treat.
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So you're talkin' about Bless This Mess.
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Yes.
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Tuesday nights on ABC.
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So we've got Dax Shepard, who I've known
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for about 15 years, absolutely love him.
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There's not a person, I would think,
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in the world who could meet Dax
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and not fall in love.
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If you don't like Dax Shepard
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then I probably don't like you.
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I remember the first time I saw him on Punk'd,
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and I though, oh, this guy's hilarious.
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But he's also a sweetheart, a sweetheart.
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Dax, Lake Bell, awesome, this kid named JT Neal, awesome,
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Pam Grier, come on, and, of course, Ed Begley Jr.
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I tell ya, I couldn't love a person
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more than Ed Begley Jr., god.
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He's hilarious in the show
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and he's just the sweetest human on the planet, I believe.
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That's amazing.
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We'll talk about it more after the break.
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We'll take a break.
We have breaks?
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When we come back, do politics
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and comedy naturally go together,
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and is now a good time for comedians?
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We'll talk about that and more
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with my guest, David Koechner.
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You're watching Larry King Now.
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Stay right there.
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green filling in for Larry,
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and today I'm sitting down with
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comedian and actor David Koechner,
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and you have a new movie out right now.
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All Creatures Here Below.
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All Creatures Here Below, starring David Dastmalchian.
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You know David Dastmalchian,
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he was one of the sidekicks in Ant-Man.
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He's a great actor and he also writes.
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He wrote, this is his second produced screenplay.
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He wrote a thing called Animals
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a couple of years ago, very dark,
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and this one is dark and desperate,
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but it's beautiful at the same time.
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It seems like a real intensity to it.
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What's it about?
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Well, it's about survival.
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I don't wanna give too much away,
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but there's a young couple who are trying to survive.
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There's something going on between them
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and you're not quite sure what it is.
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There's something that seems to be missing with them
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in terms of their facility to navigate the world,
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and then he has a bad turn of events,
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and then they're on the run.
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Do you like playing serious roles, non-comedic roles?
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Oh, of course, 'cause I don't normally get to,
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but this one I did,
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and the complete opposite of this
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was a religious-themed movie
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a couple of years ago called Priceless,
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which I guess was dark, too,
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because it was about human trafficking,
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which I was happy to participate in
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because I feel like that's an issue
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that needs to be brought to light,
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'cause it's one of those horrors
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that people don't talk about enough
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and it's going on all day every day.
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In fact, there's an organization
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I work with here in Los Angeles
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called Children of the Night, Children of the Night,
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and they rescue young girls
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from the streets who are under 18.
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Okay, wow.
Under 18.
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There's plenty of young girls
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who are forced into prostitution
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and this place gives them a way out.
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Children of the Night, look it up, donate.
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That's great that you get involved--
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Of course, so I did that because I did this movie
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and I started doing some research
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a couple of years ago for that one, Priceless,
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and you just look at it and there's horror after horror,
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so that's part of the reason I did the movie,
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and then I tried to get involved
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with the charity that would help.
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Now, let's get back to another dark film,
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All Creatures Here Below.
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Again, David wrote it, he stars in it.
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It's a low-budget movie, it looks beautiful,
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looks like a million bucks.
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Schiffli directed it, I think it's the second collaboration.
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He does an outstanding job, I would highly recommend it.
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Now, like I said, it is a desperate film,
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but we have all had times in our lives
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when we've felt desperate,
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so, thematically, we can all relate to it.
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Also, there for the grace of God go I,
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and so right now one could say
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that we are living in dystopian times,
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and this is somewhat of a dystopian movie.
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You studied political science.
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I did, I did in college.
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Do you get political in your comedy when you do stand-up?
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Not my comedy.
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I have one line in my stand-up that is political,
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but it's a misdirection, otherwise I don't,
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because I'm not known as a political comic,
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so I think it's unfair for me personally
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to go and do stand-up where they're expecting something else
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and do a political assault.
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'Cause it's polarizing.
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It's polarizing, do you do it?
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I don't really.
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I save a little bit of it for the end
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because I do know the president,
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'cause he fired me on The Celebrity Apprentice.
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Oh, thank goodness, oh, you know him.
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He fired me.
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'Cause I went out drinking with Dennis Rodman
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on the night I was the project manager.
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That guy is a douche, not Rodman.
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I've worked with Rodman, nice guy,
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but, yeah, Trump's a douchebag.
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Okay, tell me how you really feel.
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I wanna hear some insight from you.
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I've noticed that you have said
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some pretty opinionated things online, to the paparazzi.
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You've been chased down by, what is it, TMZ.
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There's some good guys
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and there's a couple douchebags there, too,
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and, you know what, sometimes you just feel like,
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all right, I'll give you my opinion.
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So when you talk about these things,
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do you see online, do you feel the sort of pushback?
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Oh, I don't look.
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I don't look at people's response.
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Why would I, I don't care.
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I'm a one-way street, so they can do whatever they want.
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I've lost, I don't know, 15, 20,000 people
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on various platforms because I give my opinion,
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and people go, "You're an actor,
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"just shut your mouth and do your thing."
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Okay, so now who are you to tell me to shut my mouth?
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You're just another person in the country,
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so now you have the right to tell me to shut up?
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Why, so you can have opinion, I can't?
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It is odd that somehow people have decided
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that comedians aren't supposed to have opinions,
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when, really, that's what comedy is.
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I've heard that it's even worse now.
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I don't play a lot of colleges currently, I had for a while,
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but I've heard that at colleges it's especially delicate.
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Like they're not willing to digest anything controversial.
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The irony there, I believe, is these children
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think they are being progressive,
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but actually they're being fascist
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by trying to stifle voices.
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As a political science--
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I didn't graduate, just so you know, kids.
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How do you make sense of all this, then?
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How did this happen?
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Here's how it happens, well, fear.
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There's a Bob Woodward book called Fear
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which describes Donald Trump,
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and that's how he won, by instilling fear into the populous.
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Saying brown people are going to hurt you,
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and now what we have is a large disenfranchised middle class
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because all the jobs went away,
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so this (bleep) comes in,
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people think he's gonna be the savior,
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and he keeps blaming the brown people,
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which they may have been thinking about in the first place,
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but then it allows them to go,
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"Yes, see, he says it, I can say it, now we believe it."
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Now, it's all wrong, of course.
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That's not the issue.
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The issue is multinational corporations
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that don't take care of people
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and don't keep their factories here.
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Now this yahoo hasn't brought any jobs back
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like he said he was going to.
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In fact, the irony is, he has all
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of his products made overseas.
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We had a perfectly good system put in place
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with the trade agreement we had
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with the whole Asian trade agreement,
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what's it called the TIPP,
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that Obama had put in place,
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and he explodes that thing.
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What happened was, where they had made
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an agreement with the entire Pacific Rim
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where therein they could kind of keep China in check
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and also tryin' to make better wages,
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that was the one weakness in the thing,
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that they didn't have increase in wages
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for the people who are making all these projects,
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but now they tore that up,
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so there's nothing holding China accountable, right?
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We might be off topic.
It's okay.
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We're supposed to be talking about a movie.
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But anyway, this whole tariff thing
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that he's recently instituted,
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people don't understand, we're paying the tariffs.
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China's not paying the tariffs.
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Right.
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People don't seem to understand--
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On their goods.
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Huh?
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On the goods that come in.
Right, right.
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That is passed along to the American consumer.
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Anyway, we're off topic.
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It's a good time to talk politics.
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Very good.
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After the break, we learn more about David Koechner
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in a round of If You Only Knew.
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Check out his new film,
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All Creatures Here Below, currently in theaters.
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Don't go away.
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green filling in for Larry,
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and today I'm sitting down with
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comedian and actor David Koechner.
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Thank you, David.
Hello again.
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We'll have some fun in this segment.
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I wanna ask you one question.
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Do you prefer seeing movies at home or in the theater?
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I prefer to see them in the theater.
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Me too.
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I don't always have time to get out there--
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Right, but I love going to the movies.
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I watch them on the plane a lot these days.
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Right, I do, too, we travel a lot.
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Which I don't love, but--
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We see each other not on the road
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because I'll be either a week or two before you
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or I'll be a week or two after you.
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It's fun to chart each other's progress,
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like, oh, Tom's on the road again.
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Yeah, you see the poster, oh, David was just here.
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Or Tom's coming, yeah, which is kind of fun.
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Do you like bein' on the road?
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I do, don't mind travel at all.
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I don't mind airports, I don't mind flying,
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I don't mind hotels, I love meeting people,
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so all of it is fine with me.
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Although, I have a wife and five kids,
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which is difficult 'cause they tend
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to want you to stay home.
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Yeah, how often are you traveling doing stand-up?
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Do you go out once a month, do you--
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Yeah, about once a month,
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but it varies depending on, like that,
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I'm just doing this new television show,
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so I won't be doing any stand-up probably in the fall,
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or maybe once every five weeks,
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just because the show, you can't go on the road.
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Just being in front of a live audience,
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you've gotta be able to do that.
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I'm sure you bring that into your films and your TV.
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Yeah.
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You need to keep that muscle.
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But All Creatures Here Below, on video on demand
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and in the theaters May 17.
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Go see it.
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Go see it, it's a wonderful film.
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Absolutely.
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Okay, we're gonna play a rapid-fire
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question segment called If You Only Knew.
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Okay, if I only knew, go ahead.
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What is your guilty pleasure?
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Oreo Double Stuf.
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Oh, I just ate an entire box of that for breakfast.
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You did?
Yeah.
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I can see how.
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It was not a good idea.
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When I buy them at the store,
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I open them immediately,
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'cause they've got the flap,
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and then anytime I'm in line,
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I like to see how many people I can entice into eating one.
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At the grocery store?
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And they will never deny you.
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You don't even get out of the grocery store.
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Childhood celebrity crush?
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Linda Evans.
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Okay, nice.
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Secret talent?
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I can wiggle my ears, you ready?
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Here you go, you in?
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(Tom laughing)
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Is that considered a talent?
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That is good, yeah.
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Did you get it, camera A?
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Are you A camera, young man?
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You're three?
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Something we should all be paying more attention to?
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Politics.
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Who's in charge of what.
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Who's in charge of you?
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You're in charge of you, it's your money, you decide.
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A luxury that you can't live without?
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First class
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(laughing)
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It's nice, isn't it?
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Do you always fly first class, then?
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Yes, if I'm flying alone.
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I've got a wife and five kids,
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so if there's seven of us, no.
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A nice thing.
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Okay, best compliment you've ever received?
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Billy Bob Thornton said to me,
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'cause we worked together in a movie
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called Waking Up in Reno,
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and I think before that I'd had a chance to meet him,
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and he said, "You move me,"
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and I was like, what do I want in life?
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One of the great actors.
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Oh, I love him.
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So, to me, I'm like, I'm good.
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The strangest job you've ever had?
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Well, probably, I grew up in Central Missouri
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and my father was a manufacturer.
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He made turkey coops.
Turkey coops, yes.
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So anytime you see turkeys go down the road
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in livestock trailers, that's what we made,
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so maybe that's the strangest job I've ever had.
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So you worked--
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Oh, no, no, strangest job I ever had,
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I'll tell you this, it's in show business.
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I did the, Angie Tribeca,
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and in this particular episode,
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I'm a police commissioner who likes to visit prostitutes,
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and, God forgive me, her name, going out of my head.
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Anyway, she is a police officer
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and she has to change my diaper.
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Oh, okay.
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So she literally is holding
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my legs in the air powdering me,
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and I remember going,
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this is the strangest thing I've ever done.
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At least it was in a film, though.
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Well, yeah, TV show.
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It wasn't just in your private life.
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Something you wish you were better at?
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I wish I could play guitar.
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Okay.
Yeah.
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What's your funniest fan encounter?
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A lot of them, I'm sure you've had them, too,
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like people get overexcited for one reason or another.
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Is there a line everyone always
527
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throws at you from Anchorman?
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Obviously, Anchorman,
529
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and the The Office is very popular, too.
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Every once in a while it'll be something
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from Out Could or Run Ronnie Run or Waiting.
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It changes depending on the area of the country I'm in.
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What's something people don't know about you?
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I'm a Poli Sci major.
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Yeah?
Yeah.
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Well, we know--
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I'd say by and large they probably
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wouldn't know that, yeah.
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Absolutely.
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In our final moments, David Koechner will be back
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to answer your social media questions.
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Don't go away.
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Don't, don't go.
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
545
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I'm Tom Green filling in for Larry,
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and today I'm sitting down with
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comedian and actor David Koechner.
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Thank you, David.
Thank you.
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This has been fun.
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You're a delight, as always.
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I've had so much fun, have you had fun?
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I have.
It's been fun.
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It's a treat, I never get to see you,
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so this is, to me, a real treat.
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Yeah.
It's nice.
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It's kind of a fun way to hang out.
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With cameras--
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First time we've worked together, which is nice.
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Yeah, we're working together right now.
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We're working right now.
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We're working.
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Our job is to play, folks, not a bad job.
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Isn't that great?
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It really is.
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Do you sometimes say to yourself,
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"I can't believe that,"
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I mean, you've been doing this a long time,
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but do you ever still sort of pinch yourself
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and say I'm actually livin' the dream.
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You have to.
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And in Los Angeles, you have to remind yourself
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how beautiful the day is again.
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That's what I like to do.
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Okay, well, we're gonna end
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with some social media questions.
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All right.
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Bryson Knox on Facebook.
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He asks, would you be interested in reprising
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your role as sports anchor Champ Kind
580
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in the prospect of an Anchorman 3?
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You've been asked this question before, when's Anchorman 3--
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When we were promoting Anchorman 2,
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they were already asking, when's Anchorman 3?
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Yes, of course I would be interested in reprising that role.
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They're fun, yeah.
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Sarah Jane on Facebook.
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As a fellow Missourian,
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can you tell me how you got into showbiz?
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There's a lottery.
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I was a Poli Sci major at the University of Missouri.
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I realized I didn't wanna be a politician.
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I visited a friend up in Chicago,
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I always wanted to be an actor, this is before the internet,
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never knew how to do it, right?
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I'm from a very small town in Missouri.
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Visited a friend in Chicago, we went to see Second City,
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I saw that they taught classes.
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I'm like holy (bleep), that's how it happens,
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and I knew all these people from Saturday Night Live
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had started at Second City,
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so then I saved my money, moved up there,
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and started taking classes at the iO
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and Second City simultaneously,
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and that's how it happened.
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You watched SCTV growing up?
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Of course.
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What is it about Chicago that improv is so--
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I think because the work is important,
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and there were great teachers there,
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that's where Second City was,
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so that was a spawning ground for improv.
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It was because it was given importance in that town,
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where other theater communities
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might not focus on improvisation as much.
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@OddWhims on Twitter.
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What actor have you worked with
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that made you laugh the most?
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Well, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
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That would be hard to choose which one is funnier.
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Will Ferrell or Steve Carell?
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I came up with Farley, so I guess I'll pick Farley.
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Okay.
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That makes me laugh the most?
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Yeah.
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I came up with Chris, so we were students together.
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Oh, you did.
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He was devastatingly funny.
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Probably the funniest ever, for me,
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though, Steve and Will are just, again,
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same, devastatingly funny.
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And Adam Sandler just did a beautiful
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tribute to him on SNL.
That was sweet.
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Alex Pearlman on Twitter.
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What are your thoughts on Alabama
636
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and Georgia's abortion ban?
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It's despicable.
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It's horrible.
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You're gonna penalize women for doing what they
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should be able to do with their own bodies.
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It's the 14th amendment, I believe, the right to privacy.
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And will you continue to work on films
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that are shot in those states?
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(chuckles)
645
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It's not up to me, look,
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I don't have control over those things.
647
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I'm not in control of the balance sheet,
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so I can't decide how the corporations
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get to spend their money.
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Now, it'd be great for me if those corporations
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said we're not going to work there.
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As far as I know, Alabama doesn't have
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any movies being shot there.
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I do have a show in Alabama.
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Alabama's not a big hub for--
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For movies.
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Although I do have a show in Alabama in the fall,
658
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so I guess in protest, I could say I'm not going.
659
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I could be out there first to make a show of myself
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and put on social media,
661
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I decided not to do my show in Alabama.
662
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Although that's another thing where
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the fans would go, you know.
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Josh Steele on Facebook says,
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where do you get your ideas from?
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(laughs)
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Where specifically do they come from?
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The universe, who knows?
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No one knows where ideas come from.
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I know he wants something more concrete,
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but I think, philosophically, that's the way you're wired.
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Don't you think so?
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Yeah.
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Where do your ideas come from?
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You'd say, oh, I'm observing others,
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right, let's say, for instance,
677
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but I think the bigger question is,
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why do you have those ideas, right?
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Yeah, but maybe just more on a technical way,
680
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like do you write them down?
681
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For stand-up, if you think of a joke, do you write it down?
682
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It's usually something that happens.
683
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I think, oh, that's funny.
684
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Now how do you remember it for later?
685
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Do you write it down?
686
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I try to put it in my phone.
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In your phone.
Yeah.
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That's what I do, too,
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'cause you'll forget it, you won't remember it.
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'Cause you're not typically
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walking around with a pen and paper.
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There'll be, what was that idea I thought of earlier?
693
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Exactly, they do come in flashes, don't they, you agree?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Do they come to you in flashes?
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If you don't write it down right away
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then you just forget it.
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Sometimes they've come to me in the shower,
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where there's just this pure bolt
700
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of the whole thing written out.
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And you have your phone in the shower, of course.
702
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That one I remembered.
703
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There was a whole piece that came to me in the shower
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and I remembered it.
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What was it?
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It's my opening piece about a drinking buddy.
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It's about, you'll see my act.
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What is one thing that you haven't done yet
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in your career that you would like to do?
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I wanna play a villain in a superhero movie.
711
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Yeah, that would be good, the next Avengers.
712
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Yes, or whatever it's going to be,
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I'm going to be a villain that appears in every one of them.
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What's next for you, what are you working on now?
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Next for me is May 17th, video on demand
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and in theaters, All Creatures Here Below.
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After that, Bless This Mess is on,
718
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we got renewed for a second season on ABC.
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Congratulations.
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And what else am I doing, some stand-up sometime soon,
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but the next big thing, also, is BigSlick.org.
722
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It is a charity I do for Children's Mercy Hospital.
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David Dastmalchian, who is the star
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of All Creatures Here Below,
725
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will be a guest this year at the charity.
726
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We do a huge event with myself, Paul Rudd, Rob Riggle,
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Jason Sudeikis, and Eric Stonestreet, we're the hosts.
728
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We're all from the area so we do a big charity
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for Children's Mercy Hospital.
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We have a bunch of friends come in,
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we do a baseball game, we visit the kids at the hospital,
732
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we have a bowling tournament,
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and then we have a big auction
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and a big show where we raise
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usually $2 million for the hospital.
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Wow.
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That's the next big thing.
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BigSlick.org if you wanna donate
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and there's a lot of items online you can bid on.
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Amazing, thank you, David, thank you so much.
741
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Tom Green, we finally worked together.
742
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Great to work with you.
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Though my guess is it's probably gonna happen
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again and again and again once we break the water.
745
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I hope so, that would be a dream come true.
746
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Amazing, thank you, David.
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Thank you, sir.
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A big thanks to David Koechner
749
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and you can see David in his new film,
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All Creatures Here Below.
751
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You can also see him in the ABC comedy, Bless This Mess,
752
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it airs Tuesdays at 9:30 Eastern.
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We'll see ya next time.
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