Ben Schwartz

It went great, but I was like, I think we pushed it. I think we pushed it a bit.

The beacon's huge, but it still feels kind of intimate. Beacon feels like you're talking to friends. Yeah. You don't need screens. You don't need any of that stuff. That's true. Anyway, it was the recession. So we did a recession musical opening number. You wrote this whole thing? Me, Dan Harmon, Rob Trout.

The beacon's huge, but it still feels kind of intimate. Beacon feels like you're talking to friends. Yeah. You don't need screens. You don't need any of that stuff. That's true. Anyway, it was the recession. So we did a recession musical opening number. You wrote this whole thing? Me, Dan Harmon, Rob Trout.

The beacon's huge, but it still feels kind of intimate. Beacon feels like you're talking to friends. Yeah. You don't need screens. You don't need any of that stuff. That's true. Anyway, it was the recession. So we did a recession musical opening number. You wrote this whole thing? Me, Dan Harmon, Rob Trout.

But Dan really did the, I got like, there's a bit that I wrote, which was probably coming up, which is he brings Anne Hathaway on stage. And I wrote that whole part of the song. Wow. And then I wrote a bunch of jokes for him to tell as like a monologue. Yeah. And my joke was going to be the opening of the Oscars. And it was lined up.

But Dan really did the, I got like, there's a bit that I wrote, which was probably coming up, which is he brings Anne Hathaway on stage. And I wrote that whole part of the song. Wow. And then I wrote a bunch of jokes for him to tell as like a monologue. Yeah. And my joke was going to be the opening of the Oscars. And it was lined up.

But Dan really did the, I got like, there's a bit that I wrote, which was probably coming up, which is he brings Anne Hathaway on stage. And I wrote that whole part of the song. Wow. And then I wrote a bunch of jokes for him to tell as like a monologue. Yeah. And my joke was going to be the opening of the Oscars. And it was lined up.

And then the writing team, I guess, that wasn't us three, nixed it and put something else there. But I was so excited that I was going to get jokes on too. Of course. But I started my career by writing jokes for Letterman. That's crazy.

And then the writing team, I guess, that wasn't us three, nixed it and put something else there. But I was so excited that I was going to get jokes on too. Of course. But I started my career by writing jokes for Letterman. That's crazy.

And then the writing team, I guess, that wasn't us three, nixed it and put something else there. But I was so excited that I was going to get jokes on too. Of course. But I started my career by writing jokes for Letterman. That's crazy.

That was good. That was good. I wrote this whole thing.

That was good. That was good. I wrote this whole thing.

That was good. That was good. I wrote this whole thing.

and i did it like ucb where he pulled her up from the crowd and he interacts like because the upright citizen brigade me and hot sauce would always like do like we would before we did a set we would start a heckle uh-huh and i would come out there and we would they would heckle me and then they would join me on stage and then we do an improv show yeah so it kind of starts where like he pulls her up on stage wow they kind of like make fun of whatever anyway how old are you here this is right i bet it was

and i did it like ucb where he pulled her up from the crowd and he interacts like because the upright citizen brigade me and hot sauce would always like do like we would before we did a set we would start a heckle uh-huh and i would come out there and we would they would heckle me and then they would join me on stage and then we do an improv show yeah so it kind of starts where like he pulls her up on stage wow they kind of like make fun of whatever anyway how old are you here this is right i bet it was

and i did it like ucb where he pulled her up from the crowd and he interacts like because the upright citizen brigade me and hot sauce would always like do like we would before we did a set we would start a heckle uh-huh and i would come out there and we would they would heckle me and then they would join me on stage and then we do an improv show yeah so it kind of starts where like he pulls her up on stage wow they kind of like make fun of whatever anyway how old are you here this is right i bet it was

2009. So I would be... Jesus, you got in the business early. I mean, well, I'm 43. Am I older than you guys? You look young, yeah. I'm 41. Thanks, guys. I'm doing press, so they make me look pretty. But 2009 would be 28? Yeah. Is that right?

2009. So I would be... Jesus, you got in the business early. I mean, well, I'm 43. Am I older than you guys? You look young, yeah. I'm 41. Thanks, guys. I'm doing press, so they make me look pretty. But 2009 would be 28? Yeah. Is that right?

2009. So I would be... Jesus, you got in the business early. I mean, well, I'm 43. Am I older than you guys? You look young, yeah. I'm 41. Thanks, guys. I'm doing press, so they make me look pretty. But 2009 would be 28? Yeah. Is that right?

I moved to L.A., and I got a job to write for his part of the Oscars. And then I got very lucky when I moved to L.A. A lot of things fell into place. I was in New York. I didn't want to leave New York. My family's here. I'm very close to my family. And I waited until literally the last second, and then I left New York. Were you happy you ended up leaving? Yeah, it changed my whole life.