Full panels for "Going Dutch" and "Animal Control"
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00:00Just let us think. Dennis Leary, Joel McHale. Thanks. How are you? Thanks for coming to free
00:05lunch, everybody. Free lunch. Thank you, Variety. Take some bottles home with you guys. I'm glad
00:11you could make it, Joel. Thank you. Thank you so much. Joel barely made it because of the traffic.
00:17Yeah. We're so lucky to have it. Yeah. I have a crushing fentanyl problem as well.
00:24You're racing from one job to the next. Yeah, I sell it everywhere.
00:28Joel, you have five, six jobs. Yes. You like to work.
00:34It's running away from myself. So if I stop working, then I feel like I am not important
00:40anymore. So I can't relax ever, as you can tell right now. And you keep taking more. You've
00:46got the 1% Club coming. What is the 1% Club? Thanks for asking. Fox was like, don't bring
00:53up the 1% Club. Just talk about animal control. It is a group of people that have more money
00:58than other people. And no, it's a game show with 100 contestants and you start asking questions
01:04that are harder and harder until you get, we've asked 100 people. Only one person got
01:09this right. And are you shooting that, let me guess, in Hungary? Is that where it's being
01:13shot? We shot on an oil platform off of Santa Barbara. Ah, there you go. That allows Joel
01:20to actually murder the losers in every game. So it's a very good television. Yeah. You
01:26just push them off. It's terrible. It's murder. God forbid we shoot a show on a lot in Los
01:32Angeles anymore. God. Like an Irish Army base. What are we talking about? Yeah. Thank
01:39you. Yeah. Well, Dennis, it is personal for you to head back to Ireland where you guys shoot
01:44going Dutch. That's where your family's from. And so it's, it's, it's kind of personal when
01:50you shoot the show. That's got to be nice. Yeah. It's great every day. Literally. I'm
01:54not kidding. My, my parents are from Ireland. So, and I'm like eight million cousins there
01:59and they literally, I would get to work and they'd go. So there's eight O'Sullivans here
02:03that want to sit in the chairs and by the monitors. And the next day you're like, um, is
02:08anybody coming today? Yeah. There's four O'Leary's at catering right now. They just drive
02:12over without telling me. So every day there's members of my family in chairs going like,
02:17Oh, I know that guy in the crew. I went to school with him. Cause you know, there's only
02:21fucking 4 million people in the whole country. You say how many of them are really family
02:24members and how many? Well, they all look like me. That's all I can say. So we all, I might
02:30be your cousin. We look alike. We look like retired Swedish soccer coaches up here. Great.
02:38We are actually. How many of your relatives ask you for money? Uh, just cone.
02:42He's the only one for some reason still thinks after all these years. So, so how, how long
02:49have you two known each other? Uh, uh, pre Fox a verse? We, we dated, we dated in 94 when
02:59we were on that, uh, it was before talk soup. Yeah, it was before talk soup. I got on that
03:04gig. Um, we didn't know each other. I only admired him from afar. We met at a charity gig in
03:12New York. Yes. Uh, the Michael, Michael J. Fox. Yeah. That I was hosting and you
03:16were performing at. Yeah. I did great for the first three or four minutes and then
03:19it bombed. This is how I know how much, by the way, that Joel respects and admires
03:24Dennis Leary is normally when someone says you're on talk soup, then you remind them
03:28that it was not talk soup. Right. It was the Chelsea Handler show. Yes. It was fashion
03:35police. Uh, no, uh, now I don't recall. Now it's been 10 years. So, but no, Dennis is part
03:42of the shaping of my childhood when he was on MTV and he did a rant about how much he hated
03:47Seattle when Seattle was at its peak and, uh, in grunge and, and, uh, Microsoft had just
03:53released windows 95. And then I remember thinking, I kind of agreed with you how annoying we are,
03:58but then I was like, well, we rule your life. That was how old were you then? Uh, I was 11,
04:0611. No, I was like 22 or when that, when Nirvana hit on in 91, I was 18. Yeah. Okay. That. All
04:14right. When nevermind came out. I'm so much fucking older than him. That's, that's his nice way
04:20of saying that. Yeah. But your hair is real. God. No, that's true. That is true. Yeah. It's yeah.
04:27It's glory. But this hair is fine. It's fine now. Yeah. No, what do you mean now? Right. I was,
04:32well, this is all transplant. I know, I know, but it's, it's, it's, I put it from here to here.
04:38Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a baby down here. This is, look, we both have as many Emmys as Jean
04:44Smart is what I want to say. There's been so many awards. We're never going to catch up to that
04:50train. Yeah. Um, well, I think they gave her another Emmy today. When did you arrive to this?
04:56Gave her an Emmy. Legend, legends on stage. Fucking legend. To, to, to, to us. Yeah. Yeah. Talking
05:02about your pube hair. Who can follow Jean Smart? They said, well, we could probably get Joel to talk
05:07about his pubic hair. That's probably a good thing after Jean Smart. And Dennis dating his cousins.
05:12Other than that, it's yours. Yep. See, and this is why your shows work so well together on Fox.
05:18That's a transition and thank you. Nice transition. Right. Uh, so when is, first off,
05:24when's the crossover going to happen in the, in the, in the Fox averse? I don't know. It makes
05:29perfect sense. The guys who are, who are the, the creators of animal control are guys I've worked
05:35with before. Bob, Rob, and Ted. Yeah. But great, great writers. Um, and we've actually,
05:40we discussed it at some point last year. I was like, you know, we could easily have
05:45these two shows cross over and they were like, yeah, no, it makes perfect sense. So let's,
05:49let's talk Fox into it. But they haven't, Fox hasn't mentioned it. It's just you and me
05:52talking about it. I'll fly myself to Ireland. Do it on your own. Yeah. As long as you pay
05:57for everything else. And, uh, and that would be, I will do it. I can guarantee you'll drink
06:02for free while you're there. Okay. Yeah. I can't drink Guinness though. Why kidding? I'm kidding.
06:08God of all the things to get a gas. Well, believe it or not, that was awesome. That was
06:16fantastic. He can't drink Guinness. Dennis, your family's in the audience. Yeah. Apparently
06:22yeah. Fuck. So how would, how would a crossover between your two shows look? I think we can
06:28meet in the middle and like get a ranch in Montana and our family has a helicopter and we defend
06:32it against all the encroaching developers. It would be a, it would be quite the episode.
06:37I think we could do it in 21 minutes. Oh no, it can't just be one episode. It's got
06:40to be like a fucking crossover couple of weeks, right? Deal. I mean, let's just go on vacation.
06:47Yeah. And just fucking shoot it. Yeah. I'll do that. You wear an army uniform. I'll wear
06:50an animal control uniform. We'll be, yeah. It's a ride off. And in the middle of it is this
06:54weird community moment because of Danny Pudi. Yeah. Which is just like, which you could use
06:59to, as that episode could push the community movie. Yeah. And I can keep calling him
07:03Abed. And then you could go like, who the hell is Abed? See, this is fucking perfect
07:09marketing. I do love that somehow Dennis got custody of Danny and in whatever split there
07:16was. So I got, I got to tell you, and we just hired one of your writers. Uh, we're trying
07:21to hire one of your writers from community. Oh yeah. Okay. Yep. So when you met Danny Pudi,
07:28were you like, Oh my gosh, I've never been more in love. That's how I, when Danny, now
07:34I'll be, Danny's the nicest person. He is the nicest. Not talented, but really nice. Yeah.
07:39Completely untalented, but a very nice. No, he is not only is the nicest guy in fucking
07:44show business. Kind. Okay. He's a really kind, loving guy, but he's fucking funny as shit.
07:49I mean, I have, cause we do a lot of improvisation and especially cause he's my right hand guy on
07:54the show. We're constantly, you know, interacting and there are so many outtakes of me, him doing
07:59something and me just losing it. Like just, or trying not to lose it where I can't talk
08:05or come up with a line. Cause he's so fucking good. He's so good. And a marathon runner.
08:09I am not kidding. And a great fucking dancer. I didn't know this. You didn't know this.
08:16So his, his mother is Polish. Okay. Thank you so much. What? Thanks for coming.
08:22What? Are you leaving? He's calling Danny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His mother made him take
08:29Polish step dancing classes, which then crossed over into Irish step dancing class. This is
08:36all in Chicago. And, and from there he just became, cause he's, he's built like Fred Astaire
08:41anyways. Right. And he's a fucking amazing dancer. He does all the different kinds of dance moves.
08:47Especially not a couple of drinks in him. Oh no. I've seen that. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
08:52This became a Danny Pudi appreciation panel, which is fantastic. He's here in the back. Danny
08:56Pudi. Danny Pudi. That's our camera operator. Well, you, both of you guys have a real murderer's
09:02row of fantastic talent, uh, supporting you. And, uh, uh, I imagine that that leads to some
09:08fun improvisation when you can do it. Do you mention, I mean, Catherine Tate is recurring on
09:13your show, just whenever she like speaks, uh, how do you not just break down? I, I, again,
09:20same thing with Danny because she's improvising in a fucking Dutch accent, which is insane. Um,
09:28but she, again, a lot of outtakes of me just laughing because I can't, whatever she just said
09:32to me is so unbelievably funny. She's our whole care. I feel like you and I both have this,
09:38this in common. We're, we're supposedly starring in shows where really nobody's really tuning
09:46in to watch us because we're the old guys. They're tuning in for all the young, talented
09:50people that make up the rest of the cast because your, your cast is really insane.
09:56They're so talented. So great. Cause I don't have to do anything or learn my lines or show
10:01up to work. It's great. No, there, you know, it's like we're the grandpas on the show and
10:07eventually that might be what the shows are about where they just take care of us. But,
10:10uh, no, no, no. I don't even think it's that. I think like, what are you season four now?
10:15Right. Season. I don't know. Can we announce it? Uh, you ready? Yes. I mean, well, let's,
10:22let's do it. The tension. All right. Get ready. Ladies and gentlemen,
10:27adolescence has been picked up for season five. Hilarious show.
10:33And we will be guest starring on season two of adolescence. Yes. We're going to go back,
10:39put it in the show. That's crazy. A lot of CGI, a lot of CGI, but all one take it's yeah.
10:45All one take. It's a lot of drones running into the actors. Yeah. Um, coming back for next season.
10:52For Mr. Schneider. Yes. So I'll make the announcement. Animal control is coming back
10:58for season four and I'll make 12 episodes, 12 episodes. Going Dutch is coming back for season
11:06two, five episodes, everybody. We five episodes, vignettes, really. But those are the most expensive
11:18vignettes you've ever seen. Um, yeah, but that, and then we are both co-starring in the musical
11:25version of adolescence for Netflix, the American version. It's all songs, all one take. It's an
11:31entire musical. Remember when NBC was only showing live musicals for a while? We're doing it. We're
11:36doing it. Bring it back. We're doing Chicago again. Love it. So, uh, this, this means, uh, yeah,
11:45you'll be, you'll remain gainfully employed, Joel McHale, which I'm excited for you.
11:48Oh my God. I'll make what? Gainfully employed beyond your five or six episodes. What do you
11:52have? Let's just, I want to just nail it down. So how many fucking shows are you in right
11:57now? Thank you for asking. There's animal control. Animal control. And the adolescence musical
12:01reboot. Okay. That's two. Writing. Uh, well, uh, let's, uh, the 1% club coming out June 10th
12:07on Fox. June 10th. How many episodes? Uh, 14. Sorry. 14. And, uh, and then, uh, house of
12:14villains. House of villains. Yep. How many episodes for a 10 or four? I don't even keep
12:21track. So let's, this is the more important question. Does your family miss you or do they
12:28not want you ever to be in the fucking house? Well, let's, let's finish the list. Cause
12:34there's yellow jackets. You know, when a river hits an ocean and you're not sure if it's salt
12:38water or fresh water there, they're, they miss me when I'm gone. And when I'm there, they're
12:42like, what I just, they bump into me and I'm like, they're like, who are you? And
12:46yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, they're like clean the sword collection out of the
12:50basement and just keep giving us the money. Yes. I throw them a bag of money and I run
12:53out of the house. Yeah. Okay. I got it. I want to finish the list. Cause he's got yellow
12:57jackets. He's got the bear. Um, well the bears over. Yeah. Crime scene. I'll bury you.
13:03Bears over. Right. Crime scene kitchen. If we get a pickup. Jesus Christ. So, uh, scream seven
13:09is coming. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. This guy hates his family.
13:13He does. No. Or I actually, I think they hate him. I think that's definitely. Actually
13:19the Conan has the same problem. He's constantly either doing the podcasting or overseas shooting
13:24episodes of his travel show. Yes. We, I've replaced my heart with 11 hummingbird hearts and that's
13:31what he hates. And it just, yeah. Yeah. That's great. So Joe, going into season four, I mean,
13:36this, this, this is, this show is gelled. We have a pretty good idea of Frank Shaw. He's
13:39unlucky in love. He's acerbic, et cetera. What, what are you excited about now? What's moving
13:44forward? What's sort of the next chapter for your character and for the show? Uh, we're
13:49going to be on some booby trap roller coasters and, uh, it time, you know, like a whole timing
13:54thing where you've got to diffuse the bomb and then release the toucans by a certain point.
14:00Uh, it's, it's one of the shows where I want it to be as funny as it can be that I
14:06obviously Grace, Vela, Ravi, Michael, and Crystal are some of the funniest people on
14:10the planet. And then we get Jerry D one of the funniest. Yeah. Jerry D. So funny. Fucking
14:15Jerry. And then Ken Jeong shows up. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, that guy, he plays Roman. And
14:20so we are, it's, we're so lucky that, uh, that you hear this all the time. Uh, uh, but it's
14:27one of those things where I think last season was our funniest season and I just want it to
14:32be great jokes and well-told stories. And if I can work with the Belgian, uh, Malinois
14:38that we work with every year, it's a dog. It's a very, I know what it is. Uh, and
14:43motherfucker. I'm sorry. Sorry. Uh, but then just giraffes and sloths and yeah, I'd love
14:50all that. Right. Penguins, you name it. Uh, I feel like the Ken Jeong thing is cheating.
14:55Like, it's just like unfair that you have him on your fucking show. You know what I
14:59mean? Well, what are you going to do about it? I don't know. Nothing. Why don't you have
15:03him come on and play Roman, the same character on your show? That's the tie in. Could be.
15:09Yeah. Could be. You guys like to see that? Could be. We haven't had lunch yet, Joel. By
15:15the way, I just want to say about, I think his cast is brilliant. The women on that show
15:18fucking hysterical, but Jerry D, if you don't, you've probably known him from animal control
15:24if you've watched that show, but he's a great standup comedian as well. If you ever, he's
15:27from Canada. If you ever get a chance to see him before we take over that country, apparently.
15:33But Jerry D is great. And he's, his character on your show is brilliant. Yeah. He plays, uh,
15:38my rival and, uh, he speaks, he speaks in punchline. Yeah, he does. He really is. He's great.
15:43No, you can bring it on. Great people. Josh Segura is another one who,
15:46Oh my God, which is, by the way, you stole from us because we, we first used him on Sirens
15:52years ago on USA, me and Bob Fisher. And then we used him in the Moody's. He's fucking brilliant.
15:58Yes, he's. He can do anything. He's brilliant. We only pay him $250,000 an episode.
16:05Just for that smile. You believe me? Uh, no, uh, no, he's been, he plays a man who was squatting
16:11in the, uh, in the, uh, top part of the top part of the house in the attic of Ravi and
16:16Michael's house. And, uh, then he's become this character, uh, that did really good. He's
16:22so funny that they just kept putting him in and more everything. He'll agree to be in
16:26it. Uh, we love him. Yeah. And Dennis, meanwhile, I mean, season two, uh, the relationship with
16:31your daughter obviously is, is really, uh, you know, sort of driving the show and, and, and
16:35a touching part of it, but you've got a great cast too. What are you kind of looking forward to?
16:38So I'm not, and I'm joking, but I'm not really joking as a producer on this thing. I can,
16:43I could easily see if Fox, same thing for you. I think season three or four goes, you
16:48know, we're kind of sick of the old guy. We're just going to go with the young people from
16:52here on out. My cast is just Taylor Mischiak plays my daughter. She's fucking insanely talented.
16:59Um, and I get away with a lot of my, uh, narcissism and my arrogance because it's played against
17:06her and Danny Pudi, who are two of the most likable people on television. Um, and then
17:12the rest of the cast, Hal Compton who plays Papadakis is this kid that we basically kind
17:17of discovered. He's fucking insanely good. Um, so we have a great cast. I mean, I, like
17:24I go to work, I was telling somebody before we came out on stage, like it's, we do a lot
17:29of improvisations. When I go to work in the morning, it's just, we're just excited. And
17:33I spend all day laughing my ass off or trying not to when the camera's running. So, uh, and
17:39I get paid to do that. So, well, not, not, not too shabby at all. So you go back to work,
17:45uh, later this summer. We start shooting the, like the beginning or middle of August, probably
17:50the same day. I think it's the 18th. Yeah. We're in Vancouver. He's in Ireland, obviously.
17:55Yeah. No, no. It's same amount of rain, just two different continents. Ireland as the Netherlands.
18:01Yeah. Yeah. It does work. It does work. So, uh, well, have you been? Oh, it's no one ever
18:09asked me, Joel. I appreciate that. Now what's, what's the name of your game show? It's the
18:152% club. Hey, I'm one up on him. It's, uh, you know, we, we try to just give a little more
18:21prize. Um, what, what show are you excited about this year? You know, the new seasons of
18:27animal control and going Dutch are really excited for it. Did you see the last season
18:32of slow horses? So slow horses is amazing. So what are your two favorite shows? Don't
18:38try to put it back on. No, no, no. I don't mind answering. Yeah. What's yours? Okay. First
18:42of all, it's complicated. I'm going to say this as a sports fan. I don't like waiting
18:47for week to week. I fucking hate that. So if you're going to have your show come out week
18:52to week, like the white Lotus or fucking severance, I'm not watching it until there's
18:56like 10 to watch. I don't give a fuck. And I, if you, even if like my friends are in
19:01these shows, they're like, Oh, you got to watch the next week and then wait. I'm like,
19:04I'm not fucking waiting. Right. I won't even watch my own show that way. Okay. I watch my
19:09show when it gets the fucking Hulu. Okay. Number one, number two, I waited for nine fucking
19:15weeks so I could watch the Celtics documentary. It's on HBO. It's fantastic. It's not just about
19:21the Celtics. It's like a history of the NBA and with a little, some civil rights mixed
19:26in there. That's a great show. I thought fucking severance was great. Uh, I was disappointed
19:32in the finale. I was, I thought the finale was a fucking mess. I love the show. I'm gone.
19:37I'm coming back because I love the cast. I think the cast is brilliant. I fucking, I always
19:42like white Lotus because I really like to watch the actors work. I think all the actors in
19:47the, when they, on those, uh, different cycles of that show are interesting. So, uh, uh, Fox is
19:54like, talk about the mass singer finale tonight, by the way, it is tonight, by the way. So
20:03is it? Is it? Is it really? It's tonight. Joe McHale is the hedgehog. Wait, no, no, no. What
20:09show or did you go like it? No, we're going to end it right here. No, what did you like?
20:12What did you like? Uh, watch your friends and neighbors right now. Jon Hamm really. Okay.
20:16I'm watching that. I like that. By the way, I think, I think, um, there's a lot of great
20:21performances in that series. I mean, Jon Hamm, Jon Hamm can be any kind of an asshole and
20:26he's still great to watch. He's so likable that even when he's a complete asshole, you're
20:31like, I love this guy. Uh, that romantic comedy Fargo he was in was amazing. Yeah. That
20:36was fucking. All right. There you are, pulling us off the stage. So I will say one more thing.
20:41What? They didn't pick a Pope today. So I'm throwing Dennis Leary's name in the hat. Dennis
20:46Leary for Pope. I agree. You'd be a great Pope.