Simon Pegg
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Welcome back to The Daily Show. We all know I've got great opinions, but it turns out I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions. So here with another installment of In My Opinion is our good friend Charlamagne Tha God.
My guest tonight is a screenwriter, comedian, and actor who stars in the film Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. Oh my God, please welcome Mr. Simon Pegg.
I am very touched. In a good way. Yeah, thanks for coming on the show. Oh, my pleasure. Always a pleasure. What's tougher, making the movie or doing the press afterwards, man?
Yeah, I know. I don't know what day it is.
All over the world, right?
Thanks for coming. My pleasure. Thank you so much. I want to talk about one thing. Maybe the only thing we might have in common is you used to do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I did. Back in the day, live performer, doing stand-up comedy in these bars. I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, too. Did you? Yeah. I was at the Underbelly.
You hand out flyers begging people to come in to your show. And then maybe three people will come. And you're in this makeshift cave with mold and asbestos. And you're doing comedy with three people. And then you go watch other people's shows. And you drink all night. And you wake up the next day. And you do it all over again.
What's harder, that festival or Mission Impossible?
And then you go from that Edinburgh, which I was also. But my point is like you're with your goldfish in this small little room in this closet and then you're in Mission Impossible.
Edgar Wright and the great Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, starting with Shaun of the Dead, which was a kind of, I think, landmark independent comedy. I mean, was it independent? I mean.
Yeah, and that was, I mean, quite a label of love.
And I mean, you know, that's such a triumph of independent comedy filmmaking. And, you know, we look at, we're in 2025 right now, and we kind of look back on films with a lot of nostalgia, sometimes rose-tinted glasses. I mean, do you feel that was a moment in time? Is that replicatable?
Thank you.
They disagree. But, um... Boom! I will say, the one thing about... That is completely true. And all it takes is one really cool film to get people out again. And then you remember what it was like.
Because I forgot for a while until I went out to go watch a film again. I was like, oh, yeah, this is great. This is a wonderful thing to do. It's way better watching it on my toilet. On the toilet, you know? Mission Impossible on your toilet is just... Never watch Mission Impossible on the toilet.
Because it is kind of edge of it. See, I don't know. You talk about security with George Moreno. Yeah, man, they're on me for this. I can't give away any spoilers. I'm scared to talk about this. So am I. Yeah. So I don't know what we can say about it. Tom Cruise has a sniper on me. 24-7, in case I spoil the movie. I mean, I can, I guess, I'll keep talking until someone drags me away, I guess.
But, I mean, the movie is this current Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, part two, I guess. Yeah. Right? And it is, I mean, there's so many callbacks. It ties into all the movies.
Can we even say it?
I mean, I got to ask, like, when you're on, you know, Mission Impossible's kind of like the flagship movie franchise right now. When you're on it, is it, because you went, you know, you've not only seen Edinburgh, you've seen independent filmmaking. Yeah. When you're trying to get enough money to get a camera rolling. But in Mission Impossible, where it's just like...
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