Will Forte Commits to the Bit
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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. And today we're going to find out what this sound is. I suck for my face paint. I suck for my face paint, face paint. Right after this ad. You're listening to DraftKings Network.
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed and shines around the world with the morning sun? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just be so... Restless?
Very simple. Train your sleep and become a morning person. With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health app.
Yo! How you doing? Dude. Just washed my hands. Good to see you, how you doing? Sorry, I like him.
Thank you for doing this on short notice too. Oh my god, I'm sorry it's so last minute. No, this is ideal. Were you coming from other stops on your press tour?
We started a couple weeks ago. Yeah. And did a big junket. And then we last week did the premiere and I did a Kimmel. And when we were working on this, we were doing it in like Beacon, New York. So when I saw you, that was why I only came down for a half hour because I came straight from work and had to go back.
I was going to say, when I saw you, it was at Sudeikis' birthday. This would have been the fall. Yeah. It was karaoke. You appeared out of the mists of upstate New York. And people were like, we don't know why Will is even able to be here right now.
I surprised him. Yeah, I was up there in New York and we finished it like... 10 so I just got in the car and I think I got there at 11 30 and I said I or maybe even midnight I said I can only stay for a half hour and I did I stayed and did a karaoke song you uh very memorably uh duetted with Jason Luther Vandross always and forever right
But then a kind of recent one that is one of our anchors now is Shallow.
which you've done, I know, on stage at his charity. I always get to do the gaga part.
So like trying to hit that, oh man, I have shredded so many people's eardrums trying to hit that note. I mean, my version of hitting it is just like bunting the ball.
The word that comes through that I heard at karaoke and that you were just describing when it comes to blowing out your vocal cords There's this through line of what I dare say is commitment. Like, you commit to this shit, man. Thank you. But what I have been realizing, what I've been finding out talking to people that know you so much better than I, of course, know you, is that this is part of your myth.
Wow, thank you.
And reality, it turns out. I have a myth? Genuinely, the stuff I've been hearing about, it all feels almost too absurd to be your life, but this is the case.
Well, I'm looking forward to diving in there.
So what I need you to know at the top here is that Will Forte is responsible for some of the most idiosyncratically bizarre characters in the history of American comedy. And he is also responsible for my favorite comedy of all time, which starred Val Kilmer and Kristen Wiig, and also isn't even really about the SNL sketch that inspired it. And so I will finally get to talk to Will about all of that in just a bit here. But you should also be aware that I have been doing a bit of reporting on Will. Because first of all, I'd never met him outside of that half hour karaoke. when he briefly left the set of his excellent new Netflix show with Tina Fey called The Four Seasons. And so what I did was just start asking Hollywood people why specifically they all clearly love working with him. as he made his way from The Groundlings, where he was improvising, and then Letterman, where he was a writer, and then That 70s Show, and Saturday Night Live, and 30 Rock, and Conan, and The Last Man on Earth, and also a serious, critically acclaimed film like Nebraska.
And at some point in this research, mutual friend of PTFO, Mike Schur, who wrote for SNL in the office before creating Parks and Rec and many other TV shows, told me something eye-opening. Mike told me that out of all of the SNL auditions he has ever seen, all of which happened to occur in front of the show's creator, Lorne Michaels, nobody has ever made him laugh harder than Will Forte.
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