Ben Schwartz
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260 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Ben Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's huge.
What does an intern do for The Colbert Report?
He was playing a character.
Wow. I did it more than anybody else. That's crazy. Crazy. By the way, my goal as someone who's a page on Letterman, when they needed someone, he would have his people. Yes. I always wanted to be that person. And they weren't even the most famous people. Sometimes they were, but sometimes they weren't. Who was Letterman's people for that?
There's a stand-up that came over every Christmas, I forget, and he took a football and he hits a meatball off the top of the Christmas tree. I forget who the people were, but he had his people. Bill Murray, anytime he came on, was amazing. Howard Stern would come on and be incredible, and he would come on a bunch of times a year. Tom Hanks was amazing on that show.
But I always wanted to be like the whatever. And then for Corden, I slowly became a thing when people dropped and I lived in LA. They're like, hey, can you come here today and whatever? I'm like, great.
Yeah, they do sometimes more than two guests. It never really, I've been on with so many people that they kind of use me as someone that could, let's say they have guests and like they need someone to like be a little bit funnier, you know, liven it up. I think that I've kind of helped with that. Comedic relief. I think a little bit or like to make people feel comfortable or whatever.
Yeah. Dude, come on. Wait, so who, is there some show that you- Fallon does it too. Is there some show that you always wanted to get on that like- Conan. Conan was the one. We got on Conan a bunch. We did that a few times. Yeah, because Conan had the coolest music guests and the coolest stand-ups.
our guy yeah yeah yeah yeah but i love letterman yeah i mean he's amazing i gotta ask though you did 17 cordons that's what i was let's see how many 13 could you do ferguson five times i bet wow i bet i've done every i did leno i've done ever i've been a guest on every talk show host that was dick cavett he was gone god i wish yeah me i went on tom snyder for three hours steve allen yeah me and steve allen really go back um
I kind of miss, I feel like. But I love late night. Like, I love late night.
I bet you guys go crazy. We're better. You guys are drawn to crowds. That's what you know. It's better. You want the laugh. You want the big laugh in the room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did one with Julia Roberts, which is really cool. Every now and then you're like sitting next to someone. That's banana. 13, 13 episodes. That's amazing though. What a TV. Yeah. It was, how was Julia Roberts? Amazing.
Amazing. You know, they take a picture of you like before you go on and you like, they take a picture of you and she like snuck into my picture and I kept it. I have it in my fricking, you know, like I have like a wall of like all these things. No, I never show anybody that.
You have to be famous to pull that move. It was so cool. I can't believe I have it. Damn. How's she look in person? Gorgeous. I bet. Incredible. Hubba hubba. She's amazing. Hachi machi.
Oh, like directors. I want to work with a lot of directors. Yeah. I'd love to work with Steven Spielberg. Oh. We were just talking about how we, what did we say? We was like maybe top three ever. Easily. It's got to be. Easily. It's got to be. I did a movie with Zemeckis who did Back to the Future. Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time. Come on. Yeah. What are your favorite movies?
The Power of Love. Never heard of it. Is that from the movie? Yeah, Huey Lewis. Oh, okay. I think that's it. Is it just him? I think the news as well.
Sure.
I think it's a top five movie of all time.
I find myself watching older movies now. I don't know if it's to connect with me being a kid, but I love watching older movies now more than I love watching newer. Give us a couple more. Stuff that I love? My top five is probably, I mean, listen. Ferris Bueller's up there, too. Ferris Bueller's amazing. Oh, yeah, I'm going on tour again. Back to the Future, probably Dumb and Dumber, Shawshank.
I'd put an animated movie in there, so probably Aladdin. Oh, great movie. Yeah, great movie. Robin Williams is amazing in that. And then there's a hundred other ones. Jurassic Park is probably there. Hell, yeah. There's some big is probably up there. Big. There's so many good. Gimme, gimme, go, go, bup. Sonic is out right now. I don't know when this comes out, but it's literally out this moment.
I just went to the first screening that the public could see. We just surprised people. It's great. I'm so happy with it.
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