Jake Johnson
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408 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Jake Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I came up doing, uh, uh, improv and all that stuff.
And then when I started getting in the game a little bit, it, the goal was always, uh, to produce and to make the stuff with the same, like with people.
as opposed to just being an actor for hire.
So the jobs I'm going to take, I like being part of the whole group.
I did the same thing you and Theo do, Spade, where I've self-financed a lot of indies.
I like that whole game of it.
I like that whole...
self-reliance was it called yeah i directed that yeah yeah but those but also all the movies with joe swamberg drinking buddies and we did together at a lot sun never sets those are ones we produce we finance we put together so i like that more than it could be a fantastic
Well, it started for theater where we would go and you would write a show.
Like I was in a group called the Midwesterners, which we were doing and we would tour the country with it.
And so everything was about this little show that we would like take to a theater and have like nine people in the audience and be like, well, it's nine more than we had yesterday.
You're like building this little fucking grinding it out.
And so I've always viewed movies the same way and TV the same way.
So sometimes you jump onto a monster and it's fully produced by a big studio and it's fun.
But the dink came to be Sean and I, the writer were just having lunch and he pitched the idea.
There was nobody on Stiller liked the idea, but wasn't attached.
So he and I started developing it.
Then Stiller came on board to produce.
Then we just built it piece by piece until we had a movie.
So even though we didn't finance that one,
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