South Beach Sessions - Rob Corddry
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What is Rob Corddry's comedic background?
Kings Network.
Rob, I need the help of a comedic professional here. Okay, go ahead. I keep having comedians come in here and do this, and I go dive right into the deep end. I go into craft, or I go into their past and their pain, and I just need this one to be lighter. I need this to have more range, because I can ask you about your past, and we can make it biographical, but I just need your help making the feel of this energetically lighter.
You just don't want a downer show today. You're feeling like a...
upper an up show I want to grow I want to grow this show like this show this show is a platform it's been a good platform for comedians for people to get to know them but I also want them to have range because I have an interview style that just goes straight in for the deep end like I'll go you know I'll go with you with you I'd go I got start what was it like in 1995 to find out that your parents divorced and your mom was a lesbian I'll go right there yeah that's fun
I'm pretty much over that by now, so it's good. We could do that.
I'm just saying I dive into the deep ends instead of just doing what I should do now, which is saying, you know him, play hopscotch with me. You know him from old school. You know him from Blades of Glory. You know him from semi-pro.
How did Rob Corddry land his role on The Daily Show?
You know him from community. You know him from The Daily Show, Ballers, The Bookie. It's not The Bookie. It's just Bookie. The Holiday Inn commercials.
The Holiday... The Holiday Inn commercials? Yeah, you know, that might be on my IMDB, but I never did a Holiday Inn commercial.
No, you never did at all.
No, I would love to. I would jump at the chance to sell Holiday Inn to people because just I love money.
But you've been in a lot of stuff, and you've been in a lot of stuff that people remember. I don't know what it is that they come and talk to you about. I don't know which are the ones that they most often come to you and say, this is- Probably Hot Tub Time Machine.
I didn't even mention that.
What challenges did Rob face while working in Hollywood?
Yeah, yeah. Probably Hot Tub Time Machine. I'll get like a Lugal across the street. Somebody will say Lugal, or they'll be very serious. This is the- They're really trying to be fun and funny. But they'll go, hey, I looked up the weather today on Lugol. And I was like, right, the fictional Google from the movie. Right. Hot Tub Time Machine. Right. That's your legacy. It's it.
Yeah.
That's it.
How does Rob view his past roles in comedy?
I got to dodge shit like that.
Did you imagine your wildest dreams didn't look anything like this, right?
I don't even know what my wildest dreams were. I considered myself a pretty serious... Shakespearean actor when I first started out. And so. You were gonna be a thespian. I was gonna be, yeah, man. I graduated from theater school and I went to New York the next day, started doing Shakespeare and I was like, this is it. All I need to be making is this $200 maybe for a show, and I'm good. I can feed myself and just do the important work that no one gives a shit about. I can say that, right? Yes. You can let it fly.
Let go.
What insights does Rob provide about auditioning?
Let go. Good. So you were gonna be a, so the dreams looked like dramatic actor in the mold of whom? Like who are we?
Oh, like the Brits, you know? Like Patrick Stewart before Star Trek.
So you were gonna do it stuffy and then you end up on the set of Semi-Pro.
But then again, exactly right. I was like, whenever I would do Shakespeare, I didn't notice this until later on. that I was just always playing jackasses. I was always playing the clowns or the fools. People, douches, yeah, people that would trip over stuff. So it was kind of in the cards for me. I realized the one thing I wasn't good at was auditioning, right? It was one thing we weren't taught.
What is the significance of Rob's new show 'The Audacity'?
And so I just went out on every single audition I could to get better at it. And this was 30 years ago in New York. And I auditioned for a sketch group and got it. And that was sort of my first foray into comedy.
But when you're auditioning, you're doing so as a thespian, right? Do you not find yourself doing the funny?
I did everything. I would audition for things that were asking for black disabled women.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Rob Corddry's comedic background?
0:04–1:36
2
How did Rob Corddry land his role on The Daily Show?
1:36–2:16
3
What challenges did Rob face while working in Hollywood?
2:16–2:50
4
How does Rob view his past roles in comedy?
2:50–3:41
5
What insights does Rob provide about auditioning?
3:41–4:32
6
What is the significance of Rob's new show 'The Audacity'?
4:32–5:36
7
How does Rob Corddry describe the evolution of The Daily Show?
5:36–6:54
8
What lessons has Rob learned about success and failure in his career?
6:54–1:08:16
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