Jason Sudeikis: JUCO Hoops, SNL & Why Apple Bet on Ted Lasso
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Who is Jason Sudeikis and what is his background in basketball and comedy?
Welcome back, all the smoke. Man, we got one of it's gonna be a good one today, Jack. I feel like, and I'm I'm excited because we just met him today, but he's the type of guy that just naturally you laugh from. It's not forced. Big fan of his movies. Welcome to the show, Jason Sadekis.
Thank you for having me. I've been a fan of you guys for a while.
Icons. Hey, well what are you?
That's I'm definitely the tin man. I'm definitely the tin man.
That's my problem. Oh shit. No, the feeling the I gu obviously the feeling is mutual. Like I said, uh it it it's great when we get a chance to laugh. We had Danny DeVito recently. We had Will Farrell before that. So it's just like these are the ones, especially as much as me and Jack smoke this morning, like
And he definitely came up in the Will Farrell episode when we talked about the uh Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live. How all y'all broke character in that on that scene. Oh, the one was Eddie?
Eddie,
oh
my gosh.
I mean those are my two favorite guys. I got to be at the SNL fortieth and I have a I have a photo that I took, you know, when we're saying doing the goodnights at the end from the 40th. You know, like I had just left the show. So I'd you know just graduated, so they didn't get to come back. And they're they're my two favorite guys to ever do the show. Like Eddie as a kid, Will as when I started, you know, doing trying to do improv and sketch and all that. And they're meeting each other, as far as I know, meeting each other. I should ask Will, because I have Will's number. I don't have Eddie's number. I don't think anybody got Eddie number. I don't think anybody got any numbers. Exactly right. And and it's them and I just snapped it like that and it's just them.
And so then ten years later, decade later, to be in a sketch with them was like you know Unbelievable. Little little me. He did a great job keeping it together though. Oh, I that's I I pride myself on that. That's always been my job when people ask me like, why don't you break? I go, 'cause I don't think any of these fuckers are funny.
Yeah.
Like my I'm bullshitting, but it's like I don't find any of this funny. I think it's I'm being I'm a I'm a police officer and I'm playing my part. Yeah. But yeah, I mean it's hard. And we and we'll Will tries to make people laugh. He's so impish in that way. Like in the show, like he's done that. I mean, I saw that when he would come back and host and stuff, and he just loves screwing around the second he walks into a place. It's like that's I I I gotta think he came out the womb like that. Two legends. Legends, two legends.
Well, I want to start off when we were doing our research. We almost found out that you and Jack almost played college basketball against each other in the community college days.
I found that out recently, too.
Talk to us about it.
I went there for a
week. So hey, keep it funky. I went there with two pounds. Butler. So we for a week. After I seen nobody really didn't have no money down there, I got I just lowered my prices. So I really took an L down there and I seen it wasn't no money. I left. So fuck school, fuck basketball. No, it's basketball was still cool. Okay. But I was just going down there to see if I can work that off. You know what I'm saying? It didn't work. But the basketball was the reason why I got a chance to go there. Yep. You know what I'm saying? And the season had already started. So I had to find another hustle. So I'm
sure they were a little different little different than your story, probably. I mean maybe some
similarities. I didn't go it sounds like we went to the same amount of classes. Oh no I mean
t I went to I went to Fort
Sky Community College, which was the Jayhawk Conference West. Yep. Butler, right? Is that right up the street? Jay was but Jay that's like Yeah, near Wichita. Yeah. But I think that might've been the Eastern Conference, I don't remember. But like like but all of them came after me after a senior year. Like Barton Co Barton County, you know, but uh Butler, Hutch, like all of those. Yep. When I but Ford Scott was the one, me and two dudes from my high school uh team in class.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Jason Sudeikis and what is his background in basketball and comedy?
0:00–9:41
2
How did Jason’s JUCO basketball experience shape his outlook on life and comedy?
9:41–20:00
3
What was Jason’s path to his first big break on Saturday Night Live?
20:00–34:07
4
How did the ‘Ted Lasso’ concept originate and evolve into a hit series?
34:07–48:15
5
Why did Apple decide to green‑light ‘Ted Lasso’ and how does the partnership work?
48:15–59:30
6
What does Jason think about the growth of women’s basketball and the WNBA?
59:30–1:09:48
7
How does Jason view the current streaming era and its impact on creators?
1:09:48–1:19:05
8
What advice does Jason have for aspiring creators and comedians?
1:19:05–1:23:10
Speakers
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