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Adam Scott - _Hokum_ _ The Daily Show · Mic Drop Comedy

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Please welcome Adam Scott!
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: Well, well, well.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Well, well, well.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry for scaring you so badly.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: You scared the shit out of me in this movie.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: How dare you?
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  Speaker 2: I know. I just felt like right now is a
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: great time to scare the shit out of people.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's exactly what we need. That's exactly what we need. Well,
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: so many people, including myself, have fallen in love with
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: you from watching you on Parks and Rec.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: And Party Down.
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  Speaker 3: So funny in Step Brothers. And then you blew us
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  Speaker 3: away with your dramatic.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Work in Severance.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: And now you're incredible in this horror film. Have you
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  Speaker 3: been wanting to explore a darker side, or is it
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: the state of the world that pushed you into it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess after Parks and Rec ended,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of felt like I wanted to... Because when
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: I started out, I thought I was going to be
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  Speaker 2: like a super serious actor. And then Step Brothers actually happened.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: And someone like fell out of the role and they
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: needed to cast it at the last second. So I
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: got that role and I didn't think I would. And
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: so that kind of set me on this kind of
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  Speaker 2: comedy trajectory or whatever. And so then a few years later,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to try something more serious. So I started like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at least try like... I auditioned for Big
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  Speaker 2: Little Lies and, you know, tried to get, you know,
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: just do something different, I guess. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You bring up wanting, setting out and thinking you were
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  Speaker 3: going to go down this dramatic path and not even
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  Speaker 3: really looking at comedy. Speaking of that, tell us about
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  Speaker 3: the great actor Adam Quartario.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam Cordero.
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  Speaker 1: Cordero.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm surprised you didn't get that right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so sorry. I did not do my research.
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  Speaker 1: We're a fake news show.
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  Speaker 2: Right, exactly. Exactly. Clearly.
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  Speaker 1: I do very little homework.
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  Speaker 2: Cordero was going to be my new name, my stage
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  Speaker 2: name for a while. This is a shortened version of
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  Speaker 2: my mother's maiden name. And I remember when I was
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  Speaker 2: in acting school, I wrote down Al Pacino, Robert De Niro,
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  Speaker 2: Adam Cordero. And I thought it sounded so cool. I
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  Speaker 2: even practiced my signature.
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  Speaker 1: It does sound cool.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I still might do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not too late.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think Adam Cordero would have been a different
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  Speaker 3: actor than Adam Scott?
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  Speaker 2: 100%. Yeah. Very serious all of the time.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be Method right now, probably.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right now I'd be here only because I was
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  Speaker 2: researching a role of someone that's a guest on a
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  Speaker 2: talk show.
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  Speaker 3: Which isn't so far off from what you did as
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  Speaker 3: a little kid. Did you, is it true that you
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  Speaker 3: stayed up late to watch Letterman every single night?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, every night. On a five inch black and
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  Speaker 2: white screen that I had in my room.
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  Speaker 1: Underneath the covers?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was the, yeah, because it was the 80s.
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  Speaker 2: So Letterman was on at 1230 and so no one
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  Speaker 2: was awake. And yeah, I would practice being a talk show.
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: I set my bed, put pillows on my bed so
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  Speaker 2: it was like a couch. And I would practice talking
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  Speaker 2: to Dave on my couch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And masturbating. I mean, I was feeling like it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: super cute. Yeah, OK.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: Now I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's believable. Now it makes sense, right?
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Now it's believable.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever get to meet David Letterman and tell
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  Speaker 3: him you masturbated to him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I did. Finally, like 10 years ago, I did
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  Speaker 2: his show. And it was a huge deal. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I did not masturbate on this.
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  Speaker 1: OK, OK.
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  Speaker 3: What a classy guy you are. I'm glad you had
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  Speaker 3: some self-control. I want to talk about this movie, Hocum.
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  Speaker 3: It takes place in Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Without spoiling anything, tell people what it's about.
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  Speaker 2: It's about a guy who's a writer. And he's going
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  Speaker 2: to a hotel in Ireland to spread his parents' ashes.
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  Speaker 2: And there may or may not be a witch in
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  Speaker 2: the basement of the hotel. Right? Yes. When I say
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  Speaker 2: may or may not, there is. Otherwise, there wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why you'd say that.
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  Speaker 2: There's a witch.
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  Speaker 1: There's a witch. There's definitely a witch.
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  Speaker 2: And you thought it was scary. You were scared.
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  Speaker 1: I was terrified. It's terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It's very scary.
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  Speaker 1: And you play, well, first of all, how did this
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  Speaker 1: role come about? For you.
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  Speaker 2: It just, it was a script I read. I love
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  Speaker 2: this guy, this guy, Damian McCarthy. His previous movie, Oddity,
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  Speaker 2: is terrific. And I was already a fan of that.
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  Speaker 2: It was a small horror movie, Irish horror movie, that
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  Speaker 2: I was super into anyway. And so this kind of
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  Speaker 2: came across my transom.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Do people say that? I, of course I know what
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  Speaker 2: that means. That's what was about to come out of
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  Speaker 2: my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: If you say so.
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  Speaker 2: This script came across my transom. Hold on, let me
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  Speaker 2: Google it really quick. Please do. And I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do it because I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure that wasn't an autocorrect?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, transom was an autocorrect.
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  Speaker 2: Was it Melody? Is that the name?
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  Speaker 1: Melody.
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  Speaker 2: Melody.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I love Melody.
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  Speaker 2: What the f * * *? What's he talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. No one knows.
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  Speaker 2: No one knows.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows.
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  Speaker 2: Good lord.
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  Speaker 1: So the director thought of you. So OK, your character
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  Speaker 1: is a difficult man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, an asshole. He's cantankerous. Yeah, he's OK.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, yes, asshole. He's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of an asshole. We still root for you because
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  Speaker 3: you're a great actor. But do you, when a director
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  Speaker 3: calls you and says, you're the first person.
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  Speaker 1: I thought of for this asshole, are you offended?
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: Because I'm not swimming in offers, but when I do
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  Speaker 3: occasionally get an offer, it's always for.
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  Speaker 1: Like an unhinged Karen.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And of course I immediately call my manager.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think I'm so unhinged?
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  Speaker 2: And you scream at them.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: And I scream at them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I wasn't sure why he thought of
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: me to play just an unruly prick. But I was
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  Speaker 2: excited to because I guess I played a bunch of, like,
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  Speaker 2: sweetly likable people over and over again. So it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of nice to... to revel in being unpleasant.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, you're also a very likable guy.
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  Speaker 3: So I imagine that that would be fun to explore.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's really hard just not to be so likable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry it's so difficult for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting rave reviews.
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  Speaker 3: One review said, Adam Scott does his best film work
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  Speaker 3: to date.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's very nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. New York Times says, Adam Scott is perfection. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's setting unrealistic expectations. People will inevitably be
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  Speaker 2: disappointed if they read something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Not true. What is it like being so perfect?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's really difficult. I mean, where do I start? Desi,
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  Speaker 2: it's so hard. You know, we all have to start somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: So the perfection is something I'm working on. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to trying to be less perfect, you know? We all
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  Speaker 2: do our best.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good luck with that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck with that. It takes place in Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that it being in Ireland makes it
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  Speaker 3: even more spooky because the buildings are so old?
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  Speaker 2: Like if you.
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  Speaker 3: Shot it here, you'd be shooting in like an abandoned
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  Speaker 3: circuit city somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: It has a different feel.
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  Speaker 2: Abandoned circuit cities are terrifying, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: This is true.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yes. Ireland is, like, the most pleasant, beautiful place
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  Speaker 2: on Earth, but we are out in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the countryside, and when the sun goes down, it is
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  Speaker 2: immediately terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's just... It's dark. I mean, when the sun
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  Speaker 2: goes down, it's dark, obviously. You don't say.
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  Speaker 1: There, it's dark when the sun goes down?
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  Speaker 2: Spoiler alert. Yeah, I know. But out in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the countryside, there are no streetlights, so it's really dark,
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  Speaker 2: and it's super scary.
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  Speaker 3: When you're in those scenes where you're having to be
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  Speaker 3: terrified and often you're by yourself, what kind of sense
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: memory are you doing? Are you thinking about Trump getting
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: a third term?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I just start screaming uncontrollably.
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  Speaker 1: It worked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, as a perfect actor... Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I will never let it... That's the only way I
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  Speaker 1: will ever greet you.
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  Speaker 2: From now on, whenever we see each other, you'll refer
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  Speaker 2: to me as... Perfect, is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 1: Mr. Scott, perfect actor. Oh my god, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything that you haven't done yet that you'd
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  Speaker 3: still like to do?
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good question. I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I really do think that, you know what I would
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  Speaker 2: like to do is play a talk show host just
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  Speaker 2: so I could, because coming here, was such a big
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: deal for me, just to be at The Daily Show.
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  Speaker 2: And the daily grind of a talk show, I think,
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: is fascinating. And I know it's not as fascinating for
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: everybody who works here. But I find that, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: probably not.
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  Speaker 1: You can say that again.
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: That's vodka in there, right?
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: Cigar.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Grizzled over it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's because one of my ways into wanting
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  Speaker 2: to be in show business was David Letterman. And that
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  Speaker 2: really caught my imagination. So I know that movies about
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: talk shows and movies about stand-up comedy are really tough
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  Speaker 2: to make work. They never quite feel right, but that
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  Speaker 2: would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here, let's switch seats.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, great, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: Got the L. I feel like I need some cards
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, grab the cards. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Am I reading it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're reading it.
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  Speaker 2: Hokum is in theaters nationwide now. Adam Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.