00:00Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!
00:02Who would say that?
00:04Craziness.
00:04Mother f**k.
00:12You two suck at peddling meth.
00:14Well that one's easy.
00:16Breaking Bad.
00:18You two suck at peddling meth.
00:20Period.
00:21Each year Vince Gilligan would make these challenge coins.
00:26It has writing on it and designs on it
00:29that are just a memento of that group effort.
00:32I was in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth season.
00:35Playing Saul in Breaking Bad taught me that
00:37if you're gonna lie down with dogs you're gonna get fleas.
00:40You know Saul in Breaking Bad was kind of more fun to watch
00:44than a lot of other characters because he wasn't gonna die.
00:48Or at least he thought he wasn't.
00:49He felt he was outside of the sights
00:52of the cartel and the enemies.
00:54In the end he became in just as much danger as anybody.
00:58But for a great deal of my time there,
01:00Saul was a funny character who made jokes all he wanted
01:04because he wasn't scared.
01:07Have you ever seen us steal machinery before?
01:14Have you ever seen us steal machinery before?
01:16Have you ever seen us steal machinery before?
01:20This was a joy to do this.
01:22Of course it's a drama, but a light comedy drama.
01:26I love working with Bruce Stern who's a great cinema presence
01:29and a great guy.
01:30A joy to talk to and know.
01:31Bruce and I talked before I did Broadway with Glenn Gary Glenn Ross
01:35and he gave me great encouragement in taking that role on.
01:38I wrote down everything he said and I had it in my dressing room right there
01:44where I could read it every day.
01:45It's amazing when you get to work with Hollywood legends.
01:50You can't conceive of what I'm capable of.
01:52I'm so far beyond you.
01:54I'm like a god in human clothing.
01:55Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips.
01:59That is from Better Call Saul.
02:01A great scene.
02:02And hey actors, can you imagine being given a monologue like this to do?
02:07On film?
02:08Come on.
02:09I did nothing to deserve this kind of writing.
02:11Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips.
02:14Great drama and great fun and great character and great energy and great craziness.
02:29Craziness.
02:30The first scene that I did in Breaking Bad, when Saul has Walter White in his office,
02:36somewhere after half an hour, 40 minutes of shooting, the director yelled cut and one
02:43of the cameramen said, can I get a job on the sequel?
02:47And everyone laughed because I guess everyone was thinking this character is pretty great,
02:51pretty fun to see.
02:52From that point on, it was a joke that are they going to make a sequel with Saul?
02:58And every year, one time a year, Vince Gilligan would pull me aside somewhere and say, what
03:04do you think about that?
03:05Do you think there could be a show in Saul?
03:07And every time he'd ask me, I'd say, I have no idea.
03:11Hopefully you know that.
03:13And if you want to write that, I'll do it.
03:15It really wasn't until the finale of Breaking Bad, I'm going to say a year after, that Vince
03:22Gilligan and Peter Gould, who wrote the first episode that featured Saul, called Better Call Saul.
03:28They took me to lunch at the Chateau Marmont, famous Hollywood place, and said, we're thinking
03:34about creating that show.
03:36And what do you think?
03:37I said, first of all, you're going to have to make him likable.
03:40Saul isn't sort of fun on his own.
03:42He's fun in the context of Breaking Bad.
03:45And the other thing I said to them was, and don't forget, I'm 50 years old.
03:50So please don't write him as a 30-year-old, because I'm not 30.
03:54And of course, then they went and wrote him as like 30.
03:59They had to CGI the bags from under my eyes in like three scenes on Better Call Saul.
04:04So it's been a real effort on my part to get people to see me as the age that I actually
04:08am.
04:09Now that's in there.
04:11Don't just look at each other.
04:13That's from one of the best sketches we ever did on Mr. Show, The Audition.
04:17Now that's in there.
04:18Yes.
04:19Don't just look at each other.
04:20Yes.
04:21Exactly when we did it.
04:22When it comes to the writing of Mr. Show, these sketches like The Audition, Lie Detector,
04:28Talk Show at Sea, they're kind of perfect sketches as far as like classical sketch construction.
04:37And they are the hardest thing to write.
04:39We had incredible freedom on Mr. Show.
04:41Everything that I learned at SNL that I never got to use when I wrote on SNL, I used to make
04:47Mr. Show.
04:48At SNL, it was very easy, especially for young writers, to get their ideas shot down very quickly
04:54by older writers.
04:55When I went to Mr. Show and I was in charge over there with David Cross, I sort of made
05:00it a rule that you don't shoot anything down.
05:03You have to talk about everything, you have to fully understand the writer's idea before
05:08you let it go.
05:10So it was a good thing to learn what not to do from Saturday Night Live.
05:14David Cross and I have made a documentary that's going to come out in a few months.
05:20We climbed Machu Picchu together and we documented it.
05:23It's really about a lifelong friendship and in the trenches of showbiz.
05:29The power, the costumes, the mythic struggles.
05:31No idea.
05:34Ah, The Incredibles 2.
05:36The powers, the costumes, the mythic struggles.
05:40Winston down.
05:41You can call me Win.
05:42I think he's similar to Saw.
05:43They are similar guys.
05:45The guy in Incredibles 2 is like an agent type guy, a mogul.
05:50And the whole gesturing and the kind of bigness of his presence is kind of a sleight of hand
05:59little move when you're trying to just get people to agree with you, whatever you're saying.
06:05Animation is a blast and you can do all kinds of variations on your lines and then they pick
06:09the one that they like.
06:10Give me the goddamn kitty cat bracelet, motherfucker.
06:15Who would say that?
06:17Nobody won.
06:18Give me the goddamn kitty cat bracelet, motherfucker.
06:23And I'm telling you what I love about this, the rage in this line and how ragefully I say
06:29it.
06:30It's every dad who's exhausted after a day at a park and the most precious thing to his
06:36daughter or son is lost in the cushions of the car.
06:41And he can't find that goddamn thing and the baby or the child is crying and he's losing
06:46his mind with rage.
06:48And it's not appropriate rage, but it just builds up in you.
06:53Life is a series of demands on you when you're a parent.
06:58It's great to be able to do a movie where you let it explode and you get that angry about
07:04something so minor.
07:06I do believe that the two Nobody films, actually the first half of each of them, is really more
07:13living in the real world-ish.
07:14As far as I know, the characters are not in the John Wick universe at all, ever.
07:20I do think the John Wick universe is a different plane of existence.
07:25While it's true that the endings of Nobody 1 and Nobody 2 are close to the John Wick universe,
07:33they are magical places where people can shoot a knife out of the air.
07:38That kind of magical stuff only happens in the cinema and in certain mythical, really, realms.
07:46My Little Women.
07:50That's from the movie Little Women.
07:51My Little Women.
07:55When I played Father March in the story, in real life, Bronson Alcott is a fascinating
08:02person who you can read about.
08:04There's a great book that's about Louisa and her dad.
08:09And I read that book before I played him.
08:11He encouraged his girls to become whatever they wanted to be.
08:17And they made a big deal about Bronson Alcott and how he built a desk for Louisa to write
08:22on.
08:23So encouraging a girl to write was already kind of like, you're out of your mind.
08:28So I went to the house where the Alcott's lived.
08:31It's still there in Concord, Massachusetts.
08:33I'm sorry to have to report to you.
08:35It's about 12 inches wide.
08:37It's a little piece of wood around this post in her little bedroom.
08:44And I kind of was underwhelmed.
08:46But it's still a big deal that he did it.
08:50And here we go.
08:51Hey, are you those two guys who have their TV show in Aurora?
08:56That's right.
08:57That's from Wayne's World 2.
08:58Hey, are you those two guys who have their TV show in Aurora?
09:02Wayne's World?
09:03Wayne's World.
09:04Wayne's World.
09:05I played a super nerd alongside my good friend Robert Smigel.
09:09And of course, we were friends with Mike Myers.
09:11Mike and I both got hired at Saturday Night Live.
09:14He as a performer, myself as a writer, within like two weeks of each other.
09:19We didn't write or work together much at SNL.
09:22And that's partly because Mike really worked on his own.
09:25But I liked Mike.
09:26He liked me.
09:27He came to see my one-man show.
09:29He knew I had aspirations to perform.
09:32He gave me this kick-ass prized role in his sequel to Wayne's World.
09:38There was a man who just gave up her or write a career that I really loved.
09:46When you put it in the ax hours, I really loved him.
09:48For the first time, I would say he did not enjoy everything at first, and I didn't realize it.
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