Rob Delaney
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57 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Rob Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're not in the ancient Greek phase where a naked man's body was like a thing of magnificence. For whatever reason, naked men's bodies are funny now. And so it's easier to make people laugh if you're naked and doing something silly.
Hi, Nikki Boyer.
Well, I'm at the point in my career where sometimes I get offered stuff. And this happened to be one that I was just offered. And so that was kind of shocking because everybody involved was so great. And the story was so rich and wonderful and unique that that this is easily the best job that's just been dropped at my feet. And I couldn't say yes fast enough. So that's how this happened.
Well, the source material was remarkable and true. And I felt that I'd had life experiences that would allow me to sort of operate honestly in that realm. And then the creative team behind it was just bananas. So, you know, you met us more than halfway.
And so, yeah, it just felt really special. I don't know. I can't kind of overstate that.
Yeah.
One of the first things I ever did, the Upright Citizens Brigade, you know, the comedy group, did an improvised movie like 15 years ago, or probably more. And my title in that was Whipped Cream Ass Man. But usually my characters have names. And for those of us listening who aren't screenwriters and don't spend time reading scripts and stuff, frequently...
a character might be introduced, and in their first line of dialogue, it would be under the heading of Neighbor Guy. And then Neighbor Guy would be like, my name's Matt. Right. And then subsequently, he'd be called Matt, you know? But then not in this, just eight episodes deep. What's this guy's name? Ah, who knows?
What I like about it, though, is that he very much does begin as Neighbor Guy. And while within the show, he certainly blossoms into a character who, you know... would have a name that Molly would know. Right.
But I like that he doesn't because then he's just sort of this like concept, which is he starts as an annoying neighbor guy and then turns into something more wonderful just because Molly gives him attention. You know what I mean? He turns into a real boy.
Yeah, well, that's good. In real life, I have roughly six to seven personalities I unveil for my wife. And it's sort of on a Russian roulette basis. It's like a revolver. Where's the bullet? Yeah. Who am I getting tonight?
I mean, I'm kind of one of those people who's like, I'll go pretty far to make people laugh, you know? And I wrote a show with Sharon Horgan called Catastrophe that... One of my favorites, by the way. Thank you very much. And that had a lot of simulated sex in it and my butt. So I was not infrequently naked on that show. So I had practice in the simulated intimate arts.
So I was fine with it, you know. And the good news is, is there's people doing stuff in the show that make what Neighbor Guy does look like, you know, checking your mailbox at the end of the driveway. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Well, that's more challenging because just being naked, for whatever reason, we're not in the ancient Greek phase of... where a naked man's body was like a thing of magnificence. For whatever reason, in our collective cultural relationship to bodies and sex and stuff, naked men's bodies are funny now. And so it's easier to make people laugh if you're naked and doing something silly.
So that's easy. Harder for the emotional vulnerability aspect. because, you know, that's really uncomfortable and really raw and tender. So this show, while I really loved doing it and really grateful to be a part of it, you know, there was a lot of crying when the cameras weren't rolling. Right.
And there were times when you had to, like, emotionally budget yourself during difficult days of shooting. Yeah.
It's really weird because I have had to simulate crying in jobs before where, like, you know, it just looked like I'm crying, you know? And on this, not necessary because it was so intense, you know?
Oh, sure. I mean, shooting in the penultimate episode when Molly's in the hospital and we know she's going to die was... Brutal, you know, really brutal. But it was also like it felt sacred. Oh my gosh, right? It felt honest and beautiful and real.
But, you know, it kind of felt like you're, honestly, it felt like you were in a lobby or the foyer of the afterlife, you know, because she's getting ready to move on. It was really, it was crazy.
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