Paul Rudd Does a Historic Dab While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

It's like a tip, it's a weather map, I have category seven storms, hey, what's happening everyone? First, we feast. I'm Sean Evans and you're watching the hottest

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, it's the show with interesting questions and even hotter

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, and today we're joined by Paul Rudd, he's an actor, writer and producer, he's been in some of the most beloved movies and TV shows on the last 25 years, from Judd Apatow comedies to the Marvel Universe, and you can see it in the new Netflix comedy, Living with Yourself. which will be released on October 18 Paul Rudd welcome to the show thank you very much Sean I'm excited to be here how do you feel starting this?

You are a friend of

spicy

food. I like

spicy

food. You know I don't. I don't avoid it. I'm not that crazy about plutonium and I know that's where some of this is headed, so I guess we'll see the cauliflower yell at the vegetables to be efficient here, as we mentioned in their intro, you've got this Netflix comedy living with yourself where you played two versions of the same character, what the challenges were and you filmed scenes with yourself and then you got some sympathy for the co-stars that you've had over the years. Playing two parts the way we did, there are a lot of different ways to do it.

I would record both characters' lines and then I would have something in my ear and I would act like a character and then the response would be a guy out of character. on the side you know, I would press a button to respond and then turn around and remember where I was standing, where I was looking, and then just act opposite to the sound. I read a quote of yours recently that I thought was really interesting where I said that a lot of the movies you find the funniest are classified as dramas and that some of the most dramatic things happen in mm-hmm comedies.

I mean, I think it's a pretty broad spectrum, but I'm actually talking about some of my favorite movies, one of the funniest movies for me of all time is this movie with spikes in a British movie and from the 80s, which is essentially a very sad movie, but every time I see someone who is experiencing something heartbreaking it's either some kind of struggle or some kind of emotional thing. and the way they approach it is through humor. There are many levels that I struggle on and I find that very funny, but I also find it relatable and I think that's when something can be funny but incredibly moving and heartbreaking at the same time.

Alan. Partridge or the Office I thought you knew that kind of comedy is funny, but it's actually a little sad too. Can I ask you some questions however you want because I think you are the most fascinating character within this setup? How many of these? You've done it? I think you're number 166. Okay, that's really impressive. Thank you. Do you feel different now than when you started? Does it affect you physically? If you know. I think what happened when I started was like a physical adjustment. to do this well and then I think I had a good couple of seasons there where I was just cruising.

I was just on cruise control. Lately I find that I am now once again climbing the hill as if I am once again challenged by sauces. I know, I think maybe the wheels are coming off the wagon or something, you're an athlete, you're a professional athlete, that's true, hey, this is a short window, right? I am impressed with your perseverance. I put a lot of city miles in, you know, I don't want to see what's going on under that skin, so Chris Schoenberger, who you met when you got here, has a relationship with Britishness that mirrors yours almost exactly, so when it was boy

does

it. family in London, his cousins ​​gave him copies of the Beano, he raided sweet shops and tried to get crunchy bars, yes, he even spent three months in Oxford, wow, that's crazy, growing up on tea, sc

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, Sunday roast and Yorkshire pudding . and all of those are my favorite things and it's very comforting to me because I've always grown up with that and that and I and I knew like my next door neighbors weren't

eating

Yorkshire pudding.

I knew that. I thought this is weird, I didn't know it was different, right, I guess a lot of people in Kansas City don't make Yorkshire pudding. This happens. I'll hit you with five cookies, please. Oh, hockey with five British biscuits, you rank them. From best to worst, okay mom, custard cream, mm-hmm, McVitie's chocolate digestive jam, Dodger Cadbury fingers and jaffa cakes, oh man, of those, my favorite would be McVitie's the child, only yes, and it's probably a toss up between that on Cadbury's fingers. a kid, Cadbury fingers are perfect right, they make great bourbon creamers, what was the first one you used to consecrate?

Yeah, those are cool too. I like them very much. A lot of people have Jack Jaffa cakes. Not so much to me. I don't want fruit on me. cookie, okay, so that's in the physical jelly, yeah, yeah, because the one didn't, the other one, which was the one we got the Jammie Dodgers, Jammie Dodgers, never did, Jammie Dodgers, I'm not even that sure of knowing what the Jammie Dodgers are and There are probably British people who say, well, you just lost your passport, the heartbeat of the pineapple, don't feel the pressure to eat them all and I'm worried that that way I was ready to get on with I know we will do it.

The

wings

would be eaten with fear because I wouldn't eat all this. I wouldn't go crazy, so when Will Ferrell was on Bill Simmons' podcast, he said that the original Anchorman script was actually a survival story where a plane full of journalists film another plane that's full of monkeys and stars Chinese throwing weapons and then basically you guys had to survive on this mountain, yeah, well the orangutans pick you off one by one, that's true, news men vs. apes. I was going to ask, do you know anything about that? I thought he was just joking, no, it's absolutely true, I found out, it was already banned before the studio was given the green light because I think somewhere, from the beginning, they realized that it was impossible.

I think the idea was that all these journalists were flying there. some news convention or something and everyone was smoking some e-cigarettes that the whole cabin filled with smoke and the plane crashed now of course the plane was also carrying Chinese throwing stars and a lot of martial arts weapons and it crashes into a island inhabited by apes and then becomes obsequious to tell anti-ape journalists that I want to see that when he was sick, which could have been, yes, is it true that when they were filming the hot American summer they stayed at the campsite and we slept in the bunk beds, yes it was, it was this camp called Towanda and Perfect Dale Pennsylvania, it was a working camp, we actually had to shut down production for a week, almost a week, because in the middle of it a kid came let's celebrate. his bar mitzvah at camp, so you're on the clock, yeah, that's how high level our production was, we had to stop in the middle to let the camp take a hit like this kid rented it for his Bar Mitzvah, what are you doing? you do with ant man kills Thanos by crawling up his ass meme I consider it a missed opportunity you're from Chicago originally true that was rebooted here thanks honey sorry you're a sports fan II like bears yeah I love bears I'm a White Sox Fan, I like the Bulls, yeah, I mean, I grew up in the northern suburbs, but for some reason I became a Sox fan mm-hmm, but that's a lovely transition.

I love when that happens because I want to wear a wig to talk. the big nifty weekend, an annual event you co-founded to help raise funds for Children's Mercy Cancer Center, yes, in the ten years that you guys have been participating in the celebrity softball game, which one do you think Is it your greatest athletic achievement? a couple of years ago, where I think I recorded all three outs in the inning. Wow, everything else outside of that is just a mess. I don't think that record will be broken. Know? Once we did that, I came to this. taking batting practice and I got to Jeremy Guthrie, who was a Royals pitcher until I said, do you want to see what it's really like to stand in the box with a major league pitcher?

I told him yeah and he had pitched the night before but he was still throwing about 8590 miles an hour and it's impossible it's so hard and that's just a straight up fastball if you start mixing things up yeah that's what I knew He was going to come and he's giving out a bullet, beautiful piece of cauliflower. I was going to say that. It looked like a softball you just put in your mouth. It feels like that. I hardly harden the sauce or anything like that. This really is a turning point and then it looks like a dinosaur egg.

It was like yeah, not supposed to. To make that yours, you didn't make pieces, there's no wrong way, Paul, you're doing great. I'm pretty sure there is a wrong way and I think that was it. Probably all the Korean segments of our show called, explain that Graham we do a deep dive and I guess Instagram, which is impossible for you because you have no social media to speak of. We have a solution. We're going to take some photos of you with famous musicians, so I'll show you the photo and then you'll tell me the backstory,

does

that sound good?

Yeah, okay, first, you're sitting courtside at MSG next to 50 Cent. You have the opportunity to chat during the game. Yeah, he was super nice, really cool, by the way, Howard Stern sitting right next to 50 Cent. Yeah, yeah, it was great, he took a photo with my son, he happened to be sitting next to me, he was very friendly, and actually, months later, I was on a flight and he was on the flight, and then we said, Hi. , how are you doing? How are you? And then he gave me a pair of headphones. Wow, alone. Next up, do you have a favorite behind-the-scenes memory from this music video sketch featuring Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake?

I remember one when we recorded. We did it or we did it and Timberlake moved on and how crazy everyone went and me and I had those moments that I've had throughout my career where sometimes I just remind myself to get out of it and look at what What is hapening here. I'm doing this with Beyonce and Justin Timberlake and the other two guys I knew, so it was me and a big fan, but I thought I've never met these two, well you know what they say, we have to do this with Paul Rudd . No, that's what nobody says that, so whenever I get asked questions about the most popular ones, I always find myself rep

eating

these parables over and over, and I find that when I do that maybe I miss some of the nuances and you He is someone who has been doing press on television. and filming for 25 years, do you ever think about how much your narrative is shaped by the need to package the details of your life into these instantly accessible anecdotes?

Ice, great question, oh really, yes, after a

while

you get used to answering the same questions. you just think about it differently to say the same answer and at some point I don't know if that's how it happened or not, if that's really true or I've just answered that question so many times that it's now the truth or the way I I feel about it, a lot of people have asked me how to get started and I loved those Steve Martin comedy records when I was a kid and nothing like maybe I would want to do this for a living.

Because it was the first time I've said it so many times in interviews, I think it's true, it may not be true, but it's such a limited window that you have a few minutes to talk and then it's just that. it becomes the default response and then late at night it's its own beast because then there's this implicit expectation to perform, yeah, it's someone with stage experience. Do you feel more comfortable in an environment like that than say like in a travel movie? No, it's all those things. It's always stressful and I think I learned at a young age that everything is artificial, you know, when I was a kid, I looked at Letterman and I like my God was amazing, I mean, he was amazing and he's amazing and I, but I think how cool it was to have friends come over and sit on the couch, it was later that I realized, oh, they're promoting something like they're selling this is it, there's a machine running and some of that commercialism that I was into when I started to do that and know that part of the job has become selling things and there are some things that are really fun to do, like I was really excited to do this and I was excited to have you and thank you and me and there are shows that I like and I also have something where I just can't answer anything serious, which is perfect in this environment, yes, absolutely, and then on the topic of Dave, I know you joined fan clubs in your life, the musical duo Scottish The Proclaimers and David.

Letterman, do you remember how you became one of Dave's disciples and what do you think is the strongest quality about him as an artist? I think David Letterman is single-handedly responsible for this country's sensibility and sense of humor in a way that he is not. I don't even get the credit, he gets credit and respect and everything, but I think he's a very important figure, especially in the beginning, honestand, unfortunately, but this says that I really didn't want to be there, yeah, you know, I always think about that, you know. It was a moment where I think he was competing with Leno and then there was a moment or maybe he liked it, he took his foot off the gas, but to me it was more fun than yes, and what he has is what I really find.

The attractive thing is that he has such an enormous intellect that his disdain for all of show business and all the nonsense that comes with it, is so in its right place that I just don't think there is anyone better, this is a great This is very great, you and I, the two of us here, are like the good Lord, our canoes, Pro the bravado.Spice Company, we're just a land on the Scoville meter, about 100k on this one, okay, does it taste like that? Yeah, make sure that when Larry King asked Judd Apatow to talk about something about Paul Rudd that no one else knows, he said you do this.

When you take pictures of celebrities you do this thing with your hand where you make it look like there's a butt floating above them, yeah how would you do it if I gave you my phone? Can you show me how you do it? the camera, yeah, so if I do this and I have you in my hand and I put my hand here to make it look like you're studying behind a guy or girl who's totally naked, there are things you can do, where did you learn this skill ? no, but I'm glad I did it now, yeah, okay, that's definitely a guy, you got a bull bag, yeah, after a

while

you start, you can, yeah, cool, expand, grow, I learned, uh, my pinky at the right angle, this is great. scrotum wait a minute you have more oh I make them work now is when you'll probably be able to appear on the show we'll try you know what you can we'll always run it with Randy yeah you You can always open this picture when you're on the subway, it's a little blurry , but you know you can.

She's going to be OOP, Jim, you know, that was gross. I have thousands of those photos of people that you wouldn't open. expect to see in those photos they are pretty good the lips really tingle well if you think they are tingling now this is the bomb and I must tell you it comes from Kansas City. I'm not sure if that's necessarily a point of pride mm -hmm I'll let you be the judge of that Kansas City huh mm-hmm Holman they make the bomb they make dabomb dabomb it's the one who didn't touch this button I've noticed it yes, scream Kansas City , shouts Kansas City Wow, yes we also have Patrick mahomes, don't judge us Justin, so I'm the theme of Kansas City.

I know you're a barbecue-loving Kansas City guy, which makes Joe's KC's z-man sandwich the best sandwich in the world. God, there's something there's something about this that's perfect it's a perfect sandwich the right levels of meat I'm not really a vegetarian but I'm trying to get better at this I should point it out because there is meat in this sandwich but it's its own, it's the right proportion of brisket, they put provolone cheese on it, it's good cheese with onion rings and original Joe's sauce, it's amazing and just the combination with the seasoned fries, maybe a tank seven on the side and you have it, oh, that's perfect.

Food As someone who placed at state on his competitive high school forensics team, what is his rebuttal to those who say Texas barbecue is better than Kansas City barbecue? There's a real rivalry and then there will be some in Tennessee that will say, hey, but come on, but. Come on, why are you arguing about your nonsense? We're the ones so I'm not complaining, but I know Kansas City BBQ is the best. I would also like to find another NFL stadium that smells as good, United's nicest smelling parking lot. NFL, that's what they say, that's right now, some of the people that are there in the game, no, I wouldn't, I wouldn't put my money down, no, I'll call Camaro a head for nothing, have you mastered the art of cook? in your navigation there is an egg and that big green egg not yet, I know, I haven't mastered it, I love it, it's just collecting dust in the backyard, no, I really tried it this summer, I really tried to get it, my kids do it they would achieve.

It's funny of me because I was watching YouTube videos of people doing things in a green egg I had. I bought all the accessories, they're called accessories, is there anything that screams middle age like this? Yes, I need a second, little one, you need it. I see. why do people take a second and walk, feel free, you can always take a lab, no, we are locked in, locked in, touched in vain, that's what people always used to say in the 50's and 60's, like we all smoke their cigarettes , we didn't know. They were bad for us and when I was a child I said: come on, how could you?

How do you not know? I feel the same way about the bomb, you try that and immediately you know you know that's not good for you, yeah, yeah. I want to see what's happening in Gotti. So, heads, boys, cats, all these sides turn pinkish yellow. It's like advice. It's a weather map because storms come in category seven. What if we let them down? Because I haven't gone for that, in any case. You're setting a very high bar, whatever the reason, you know, people get very excited when someone manages to survive without water or milk. Great, it was thin air.

Okay, and as Tali Barry and Guy Fieri repeat, it's Viet II, right? I think it's Fieri, well probably not. I think if you were talking to him and you said Fieri would correct you and protect Yeti, oh, that guy, then that's a great introduction. You're right, Eddie, Dave, they were wrong all along? every time you hit it out of the park, man, which was a more memorable experience joining an all-Cantonese cast for Gen Well, they were both memorable because You know, they both changed the world as we know it by filming with an all-Cantonese cast in Hong Kong and this Jackie Chan-produced sequel to Generation X Cops was spectacularly weird.

I'm playing the head of the FBI. They want to bleach my hair blonde and I have to go after a robot, nothing about this quality screamed in any way, yes, oh, absolutely not. I want to go to Hong Kong for two months, that's a good second. I want to go to Hong Kong for two months and see what it's all about. and it was great, they were a great city, this is great, okay, this is yours, what if we put a little bit of each? Yes, let's try it, this is going to put me in the hospital, what are you going to do?

I'll show you right now. I know how smart you are doing this, yes you are torn. I'll make it a little puddle of hot sauce. Look at us. Hey, look at this. Look at us. Who would have thought? Not me, maybe these are accessories, okay? a bomb for Kansas City from Kansas City, can I brothers/sisters? I have a younger brother called Gavin, what does Gavin do? He actually works on the show that he does, yeah, and then, here we are now, 166 episodes later, doing on the 10 sauces. he rubs the cauliflower wings. I would like to point out that yours are much nicer than mine and they are falling off the board.

I like it, it looks like an abstract painting. Well, you want to see an abstract painting. But Jackson Pollock. Oh yeah, when we're done. filming this segment hey, I gotta say that's a great idea, it's a great idea for an interview, thanks, but I think you're a great interview, oh, thanks, you didn't even need the hot sauce. I appreciate it, but do you know if you have it. that's it you've got it and you've got it hey it's you so I'm running if you pass it like a that's a lot that's a lot that's a that's a that's a completely coated nice okay there dump this is very stupid but I would do it Point out that it was idea Yours, Paul, so being sick the rest of the day, okay, you breathe through your mouth, so yeah, it's like dry reading.

Yes, exactly, can you make yourself cry? Yeah, well, yeah, I probably will. I'm spilling, I'm getting a little wet, in fact, do the scene right now, oh God, I didn't make the seventh grade basketball team well, so Brett did it, Pat did it. Am I not good enough? You're killing me breaking my heart, it's not the hot sauce it's you, you're good enough, you should have made that team, you know what I'm going to practice harder, I'm going to work on my jump shot, I'm going to work on my ball handling ball and you know what's next. year I'll be on that list yeah you are yeah you know why you're good enough you're talented enough you're strong enough and Zi ball rod yeah what is it?

Look at you ten vegan cauliflower wings above ten vegan cauliflower wings below this camera this camera this camera let people know what you're going through in your life I have nothing to do, be careful with your eyes, yeah, that was another mistake, the finger may not have been the smartest, you know what was good for the scene, yeah. oh yes, we don't need the artificiality of the car again. I'm not going to sell anything. I'm here to celebrate. This is a celebration commercial. Hey, what's going on, fans? This is Sean Evans checking in and do you smell that fall? it's in the air no, I'm not talking about pumpkin spice, I'm not talking about sweet corn, I'm talking about the ultimate dab xxx because the pepper ax harvest is in baby, this is the hottest hot sauce we've ever made. three types of pepper ax I'm talking about chocolate X I'm talking about mustard X I'm talking about peach Why are you shaking that bottle?