Will Arnett

Yeah.

And my wife and kids don't live there.

That was probably the biggest clue.

No, I performed.

I went to the Comedy Cellar almost every night for about six weeks and performed under the name of Alex Novak, kind of in an attempt to understand what it was like, A, to do stand-up, because I'm not a stand-up, and I'd never done it before, and B, to see what it was like to do it through the eyes of somebody who's

never performed in any capacity really.

Um, so that was kind of, that was the assignment for me.

Well, I think some did, Terry.

Um, some people recognize me and were confused as to what I was doing because I would, uh,

They'd introduce me as Alex Novak, and I'd sort of reinforce that, say, hi, I'm Alex Novak, and people would laugh nervously, the people who did recognize me.

The people who didn't recognize me, I guess, was just because they're not fans of my films or TV shows.

Certainly people were, you know...

A lot of my set, especially that first set that you played in the clip where I'm talking about getting divorced, I think it did confuse people and people would be Googling me in real time trying to figure out what was going on, thinking like, oh, wait, I didn't know this guy got married again.

Yeah.

Well, I tried to be sensitive to the material.

So I was using sets that we had written for the film.

So I go out and I do the first set, and then during the day, I'd be at home a couple blocks away in New York, rewriting the sets and trying to figure out

really trying to get it to a place that worked for the context that we were looking for, which is this guy who's never done it before.

So I'd go and I'd rework it and rework it.

And then, you know, one night I might go out and go around the corner to the underground, all part of the comedy cellar, and do the third set.