How We Met John Cho | S3E06 "I'm Not That Guy"
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What is the premise of the bonus episode and why did the hosts finally get John Cho on the show?
This idea that there's some road that I'm supposed to be following or that I'm that I'm supposed to be creating. Like um what will what will appear uh past that tree is what will appear and I will be and and and whatever it is I will deal with it as gracefully as I can with enthusiasm. And what I get from that is what I put into it. And I'm trying to do that because uh uh because uh I look back and I thought I was engineering. I thought I was trying to go places but that's not what was happening at all. You know, like things were given to me, the opportunities uh showed up and and I did the best I could.
Or pericio. New York City. When I see you Please permit me to tell you everything. New York City.
Welcome to a special bonus episode of How We Made Your Mother. I'm your producer, Alec Lev, and here's what happened. We had wanted to speak with John Cho, the voice you just heard at the top, for our discussion of season three, episode six, I'm not that guy, in which John plays Jefferson Coatsworth, luring Marshall over to the dark side of big corporate law and away for Marshall's dream job at the National Resource Defense Council. We couldn't make our schedules work to have John join us for our recording, but then we were able to talk to him just a little while after that recording. And rather than just talk to him for a few minutes as planned, Josh, Craig, and John had a fantastic discussion that stretched out over half an hour.
We played you a segment of that interview in our full rewatch of episode six, but we can now present the full talk to you here. Important to note, the New York Knicks had sadly just lost game three of the NBA finals the night before our chat. Go next and Go John.
I'm in my uh basement uh in uh Los Angeles, California. Where are you guys? It looks very New York
with the brick.
Uh we're in New uh Craig's and Tribeca. I'm in Fort Green in Brooklyn. We're we're East Coasters now. Oh wow. Oh, so you're living
you're living
the
life you told of yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We pretended we were in New York for uh many years on stage twenty two of the Fox Lot, and then we decided maybe we should uh we should live there. We should see
what this New York place is all about. Wow, that's wild. Hey, how's um uh uh I gotta ask, uh just cause I've been uh watching the finals, what's the vibe? Oh,
uh no one, but very inspirated today. Yeah. Uh it's super fun. There's like a dive bar down the uh block from me. Um and they put out a huge flat screen, and I was walking my dog, and there were like a hundred and fi fifty people just on the sidewalk. That's so wild. I
wish I was there. Uh I I want to see it. I I I honestly go on YouTube. Um and type in Nick's fans going crazy.
Yeah.
And I'm not sure if you're not your joy
where you can find it. Yeah. Are you a New Yorker?
John, like where d why why are you so attached to the Knicks? Or do you just like do you just like the NBA Finals, whoever's it? Like where are you from? I
don't even uh I'm I I was born in Korea. I never lived in New York. Um You never
lived in New York?
I never lived in New York. Um and you know, I always wanted to, but every time I I always say when I visit, I realize well well in my twenties when I was visiting, I was like, Oh, it's good that I don't live here. I think I might die from Booze and drugs.
Like
when I was in my twenties, I felt like I would have gotten into so much trouble.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's too much to do.
Don't you think LA keeps you just on the side of safer because you have to drive? I do. I agree with you. You know what I mean? Like New York is you can get everywhere it's without getting behind a wheel. Yeah.
And that four AM thing versus two AM, it those are two huge hours. It's
good to shut down it too. It's good to shut down it too. There was some real How I Met Your Mother wisdom in that.
Yeah, we did an episode in season one called Nothing Good Happens After Two AM. Like that was the title of the episode. And it's uh you you're that's exactly what you're saying, and it's true. It's the truth. It's so true. I was like, Wow, these these hours matter.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the premise of the bonus episode and why did the hosts finally get John Cho on the show?
0:02–6:25
2
How did John Cho describe the experience of playing the charming villain Jefferson Coatsworth in “I’m Not That Guy”?
6:25–16:25
3
What did the hosts and John Cho notice about the writing rhythm and density of the HIMYM episode?
16:25–25:57
4
Why does John Cho think performing without a studio audience changes the comedy dynamic?
25:57–35:16
5
How do the hosts reflect on career longevity, rejection, and the “road” of an acting life?
35:16–39:50