Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. We have a comedy legend on today, a hilarious leading man, box office giant, and sketch comedian who I first saw on the stage at Second City and, you know, wanted to be like ever since. Steve Carell joining us. Steve and I are going to talk about a lot of things. We're going to talk about Second City. We're going to talk about Anchorman.
Chapter 2: What does Steve Carell think about being recognized in grocery stores?
We're going to talk about The Office. We're going to talk about the smooth tones of the baritone horn. And we are going to talk about his new HBO show, Rooster, out now. So we get into a lot of fun stuff. And before we talk to Steve, we talk to someone who knows Steve so we can speak well behind his back and get a question for me.
And we are joined by his old Second City buddy, his old roommate, a person who was there from the beginning and who is also another hilarious and famous Steve. And that Steve is Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert, bonjour. This episode of Good Hang is presented by Subaru. Some cars go the extra mile. Long-range Subaru hybrids take that to a whole new level.
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I just want to start by saying, you know, you were the senior to my freshman when I arrived at At Second City in Chicago.
Chapter 3: How did Steve Carell's experience at Second City influence his career?
And it was you and Amy Sedaris and Carell and Paul Nello. And you are all getting ready to go do Exit 57, which was... At the time, just the thought that you could go and be like the captain on stage and then go have your own sketch show.
Chapter 4: What memorable moments did Steve Carell have on the set of Anchorman?
It just felt like such a dream.
Chapter 5: What unique skills does Steve Carell possess as a performer?
We had no idea what we were doing. And we thought that the answer was, what if we just worked 24 hours a day? Wouldn't that make things funnier? And it made things weirder because you would fall into a chemo psychosis.
Yeah.
And not have any sense. And I go back and I watch those sketches. Now I go pick up the pace. Oh yeah.
Oh God. Yeah. I look at our old sketches and I'm like, you want to go six minutes on this? You really got it. You're going to stay up all night fighting for cuts. I think, I think we play a little better if it was half the time was second city where you and Steve first met.
Yeah, I was there. I mean, I worked there in the box office because I didn't have any job. I had gone, I'd done a gig overseas.
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Chapter 6: How did Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert's friendship evolve over time?
And then I came back with no money. I mean, literally, I was sleeping on a friend's floor. I didn't have a dime. And my friend, Ann Libera said, she was the box office manager. And she said, you can answer phones here. like two days a week if you need like basic cash. So I started answering phones and then I found out that you could take classes for free
if you worked there, even if you're like part-time like I was. And so I said, well, I mean, I never imagined that I would be at second city. Cause I was, I was real improv. I was, I was, uh, I had done, uh, you know, uh, IO. I had an improv Olympic and those people talked a lot of shit about second city.
Chapter 7: What challenges did Steve Carell face while working on The Office?
Yeah. There was a fun East coast, West coast thing happening.
It was like Lincoln Avenue, North Wells. Yeah. situation going on. And I was very much cross currents. That's where we would, I did a cross currents. Yeah. And, um, and I was like, no, man, I do. And then I went there and I saw the show and I went, Oh, everybody hears cares just as much as anybody else. They just happened to be sold out every night. And there's liquor. Right.
Like I kind of like this. And then I took classes and I didn't know Steve. Steve had gotten there a year, year and a half ahead of me, something like that. He was a little bit ahead of me in that. you might call it process or like kind of rep system there. And, uh, and I didn't know him at all.
A year later, a year after I started working there, I was invited to audition and I auditioned and I got into the national touring company, which was like a red letter day in my career.
Chapter 8: What insights did Steve Carell share about his new HBO show, Rooster?
I got into the tour co and, uh, I think I got hired like on a Thursday. And then like on Saturday, they said, can you go in at Northwest? Because there used to be the theater at Northwest. And I went, yeah, sure. I learned whatever I needed to learn as quickly as I could. I went up there and I met Steve kind of like from backstage watching him on stage. I met him in rehearsal. He's so gifted.
You know how gifted musically he is, right?
I did not. I did not know that.
If it's made of brass, he can play it. You're kidding me. I did not know that. He can pick up a tin whistle or a recorder. He can, he can play, he plays the, I understudied for Steve when I was at, when I was in Turco, I finally said like, I either going to put me, you're going to let me understudy or I'm going to leave. And Joy said, don't threaten me. I don't respond to threats.
I'm like, it's not a threat. I've been here for four years or almost four years at this point. And I love doing it, but I got to go figure out what else I can do. I hope this isn't a threat. And so literally the next day they said – I understudied like ETC or something. And then they said, Carell's got to go – he's got like a Brown's Chicken commercial.
Yeah, big deal.
Or something like that.
You could live off that for years. Oh, shit, man.
Yeah. We were all jealous. Oh, yeah. Wait, he got a bacon bit spot? And so – He's selling funeral insurance to children? Jesus, that sounds like a great gig. So anyway, they said, could you go in for Carell? And I said, he plays the euphonium. He played the baritone horn, which is like a little tuba. And he goes, he plays the baritone horn in that. Do I have to play the baritone horn?
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