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THR pulls our comedy actors aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of their THR Roundtable interview. Find out how 'I Love Lucy' made John Mulaney want to work in show business or how Seth Rogen is a big fan of Bravo's 'The Valley.' Plus, Ted Danson reveals why he would want to be a butler and Julio Torres shares his real thoughts on having a trailer.

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00:00It's a really easy one for me. I'm gonna go with broadcast news. Both the writing,

00:15James Albrooks in his prime, but also all three of those performances, William Hurt,

00:21Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, are three of the best comic performances I've ever seen.

00:24I try to like steal it for forgetting Sarah Marshall, but one of the things that really

00:29struck me from that movie is that in a lesser movie, one of those guys turns out to be a

00:33villain. So the choice is really clear. But in that movie, everyone's just living in their

00:39full humanity and life is complicated. And so everything that we've tried to do writing-wise

00:44on shrinking and stuff I write is kind of that model.

00:47Oh, the thing that made me want to work in show business was I Love Lucy and watching

00:51Desi Arnaz's life as Ricky Ricardo, doing a show at night and having all day free before

00:58even considering comedy versus anything else or theater or film or whatever it was. I

01:02wanted to work at night in some kind of nightclub and not have anything to do during the day.

01:07And I accomplished that and then started this TV show where I have to work all day.

01:13For some reason, the movie Birth with Nicole, as in Kidman, was like incredibly captivating

01:21to me. And I weirdly reference it a lot. I feel like that era of American indie filmmaking

01:28was very seductive to me.

01:30For sure, Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone. River Phoenix ran the movie A Night in the Life of

01:34Jimmy Reardon. In Robocop 2, there is a kid about 12 years old that plays a drug kingpin

01:40that dies on a pile of money Scarface style and that performance as well.

01:44When I turned on, the first TV I ever owned at age 21, and it was the Dick Van Dyke Show,

01:52and Dick was literally tripping over the ottoman as I turned it on, is what made me want to

01:58become a actor.

01:59Honestly, it's probably Home Alone. I think it's one of the first movies I saw where

02:03like a kid was the star. It almost seemed like it was written by a kid. And I remember

02:07after I saw Home Alone is when I first started trying to write a movie. I like movies with kids

02:12beating up adults. And so I think it was my take on a kids beating up adults movie. Yeah.

02:18I have a little dog named Dash, who's my perfect boy. He's about this big. And we would be hanging

02:23out, and we'd be talking about just like how he's doing, and he'd lick my face, and then

02:29maybe we'd take a little walk.

02:30Well, if I didn't do this today, I would probably be at Michael's in Mission Viejo buying art supplies.

02:43There's been a request to make a car out of cardboard. I'm not sure exactly what it's

02:48supposed to look like, but we have an arts and crafts request from our son to make a car

02:53out of cardboard. I asked him if it should have a steering wheel, and he said no. And he got

02:56quite upset at that. The weekends are mostly driven by the kids. So, yeah, that's, you

03:02know, that's going to be a play date. That's going to be a, if you can link up with kids

03:08your kids like, as well as parents you like, that's, yeah, that's home run.

03:14When I have a day off, I am usually surrounded by Mary, at least three or four out of my four

03:23four kids, and at least three or four out of my five grandchildren. So, you know, eat,

03:29drink, be happy with them.

03:32I would hang out with my wife and my dog, and we'd maybe do pottery in our garage and watch,

03:40you know, we were watching The Valley and The Valley After Show this morning, and so we

03:44probably would have continued to do things like watch reality television throughout the day.

03:49Uh, yeah, we would hang around our house and watch reality TV and then do pottery probably.

03:54I always bring a coffee maker to every set that I'm working on because I like to leave

03:59no trace. I like, I don't like to ask people for things. I like to show up, do acting, and

04:05disappear into the night like a phantom.

04:07What's the thing I ask for in my trailer? I'm more of a wallet, keys, phone kind of person.

04:11It's not that I'm not difficult. I just, that's not how it manifests. I ask for like one sugar-free

04:17Red Bull, and then after I'm done with whatever it is, I like to drink one non-alcoholic beer.

04:24So, you know, pretty rock and roll stuff.

04:26I don't like trailers, and I don't like the idea of trailers. I think this idea that actors

04:30are like exotic animals that need to be contained, and they need to be like kept away, and like

04:36preserved. I don't like that. I feel like contractually they have to give me one, and

04:40then it ends up just being like storage. A dog would make me feel very comfortable. Other

04:44than that, no, just don't make it so cold. That's what I would say. Everyone, and that

04:48goes for hotel rooms too. It doesn't have to be 66.

04:50At the moment, what's in my trailer at work is my wife Mary Steenburgen, which is pretty

04:58cool. No one else has that in their trailer, so it makes me kind of special.

05:03I don't spend a lot of time in my trailer in general, and I sometimes go into other actors'

05:08trailers and I'm like, whoa, you got a whole thing in here. I put an espresso, I have an espresso

05:12machine in my trailer because I drink a lot of caffeine throughout the day. A little speaker

05:17where I listen to music sometimes, and that's sparkling wine. I don't have much in my trailer

05:23at all. I spend no time in my trailer. I wouldn't even get changed in my trailer. I had a little

05:26tent on set where I got changed, so I don't need much in my trailer.

05:30If I could switch jobs for a day, I would probably teach kids acting. I think over the past 25 years,

05:38I've actually acquired some skills and a way to prep and some things that I didn't know when

05:43I was a kid because I started so young. And so I would like to teach kids simple prep that I've

05:48learned that has been really helpful to me over the past decade.

05:52I always find excuses to do other things that interest me within what I do. And actually,

05:58I have a problem where I can't seem to find a hobby that is just a hobby, that I don't turn

06:04into something work-related. I think I'd be a producer and just do the same, a lot of the same

06:10stuff I do, but from a chair. Voice my opinion and not have to dance, you know?

06:13If I could no longer act, I would want to be a butler for people I liked. I love serving things

06:20that make people happy. I love making sure that the space they're in is kind of perfect in some sort

06:27of aesthetic way. I once went on a police ride-along and it was the worst, most terrifying night of my life,

06:32so not be a cop. I can tell you that much for sure. I hated it more than anything in my life.

06:40I would maybe work in like a comic book shop. That's something I've always been drawn to,

06:43a video game shop, sort of cave-like nerdy domains. If I could somehow be imbued with all the skills of

06:50an architect, I would love to be an architect. The studio, the TV show, cast. Because we're going to

06:57be seeing everybody and talking about each other's shows, and so I wanted to be as ready as possible.

07:02Besides my name, best books about Ireland. And I did it while driving. The last thing I googled

07:10was converting Vietnam currency to dollars, because I was just in Vietnam. Someone told me how much

07:17something was, and I was like, yeah. And then I was like, wait, is that expensive? It wasn't.

07:22It'd be restaurants. It's always food. I googled myself this morning. I'm cutting back on that,

07:29but I googled myself this morning just for a little pick-me-up. This is going to be the most

07:34boring answer, but on the way over here, I was listening to my lines for next week,

07:39because I record them. When I get the scripts, I record the entire script, so I can listen to it

07:43like a play. And then I do the entire script doing everybody's lines except my own, so then I can run

07:48it, like leaving gaps, and then I can run the whole show. So by the time I arrive on set, I've done,

07:53I've done the episode like a bunch of times. I started doing that on a movie I was really afraid

07:57of called The End of the Tour. I played What Would Edward Norton Do? Because I had no way to prep,

08:02like I had no training. So I just tried to imagine what a good actor would do, and I like made up a

08:07prep system. And I still use it to this day. And that's what I teach those fucking kids.

08:11If my co-stars ever heard my recordings, I think they would probably be offended, because I have to do

08:16like basically impressions of everybody on the show, so I know who's who. So yes, I've gotten,

08:20I've gotten actually pretty accurate I think at everybody, but I'm not going to do them now,

08:24don't ask. Music I listened to on the way here, I did listen to some music. Some of it that really

08:30spoke to me on the drive here, Vashti Bunyan is her name, and she's like, I think it's 60s.

08:35It's pretty eclectic and folky, but kind of mystical almost, and it's very cool. My ride over here was less

08:44than five minutes, so I listened to traffic for a little bit, and then I was here. I listened to

08:51an audio book about Ireland, just blasting it, driving in the HOV lane. My podcast,

08:59Where Everybody Knows Your Name, starring myself and Woody Harrelson, is the only thing I listened to

09:05pretty much all day. I was listening to the podcast, How Did This Get Made, with my friends,

09:10Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Scheer, and Jude David Rayfield. And I listen to it a lot, and it's funny because

09:15I'm good friends with them, but I don't think, I don't even think they know to the extent to which

09:19I like have their voices in my head. It's pretty weird. Yeah.

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