-Our first guest tonight is a funny actor and director
you know from "The Mindy Project"
and movies such as "Sisters" and "Blockers."
He stars in the series "The Afterparty."
New episodes are available Fridays on Apple TV+.
Please welcome back to the show our very good friend
Ike Barinholtz, everybody!
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-Wow! Whew!
-This is -- We were just talking backstage.
We met in the late '90s. -Yeah.
-And this is the longest we've ever gone
without seeing each other in person, this COVID time.
-I have not been back in New York City in two years.
[ Cheers ]
-They -- What they saw --
They sensed the pander, and they didn't go for it.
-They didn't. I'm guessing these are all tourists, maybe?
-No, no, they're locals who hate that.
[ Laughter ] -Okay, well...
-They're like, "Don't even -- Don't give me that."
-"Yeah, yeah. Go Mets.
Right, yeah, I'm Yankee fan. Shut up."
[ Laughter ]
So I'm here to promote the show, but I'm also kind of here --
I'm here to get omicron.
-Okay, interesting. -Yeah, yeah.
-You kind of want it? -Well, I mean, this is probably
bad juju, but I'm not shooting anything right now.
-Right. -I'm gonna be shooting something
in a month or so. -So you got a window.
You got a omicron window. -Want to sneak in there.
I should've come here a couple weeks ago...
-When I had it. -...because you had it.
-Yeah. -And I want to pitch you
a business idea right now. -Okay.
-What if there was a ser-- Are you familiar with Cameo?
-No. Oh, yeah! No, I know -- famous people.
-Cameo, yeah. You can have a famous person
say "happy birthday" to you. -Gotcha.
-What if there was a service where, when a celebrity
has COVID... -Okay.
-...you pay X amount... -Okay.
-...they breathe into a bag or something...
[ Laughter ] -Oh.
-...send it to you, and you, whatever, lick the bag.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-But, like, think about it.
Like, who wants Seth Meyers omicron?
-That was a good omicron. -We want that, right?
-Very few symptoms. -We want that, yeah.
-I mean, like, I feel like this is a lot of money, right?
You like Kevin from "The Office"?
-Uh-huh. -He's not gonna wish your niece
happy bat mitzvah.
He's gonna give you the novel SARS-2 coronavirus.
-Wow! -Yes.
-You don't usually have good business ideas.
-This is good. -This is a great business idea.
-I'm looking for an angel investor,
and I would like to talk to you a little bit about that
after the show. -Now what gave you this idea?
-Well, I'm shooting this show,
and I just don't want to get it while I'm there.
-Yeah. -You know, I don't want
to miss work for it. -Right. It's like someone
who, like, schedules the day they want to give birth.
-Yes, yes. That's exactly what I'm trying to do.
-I think that's what women do. -They do that, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
We only have six kids between the two of us.
-One of these days, we're gonna ask some follow-up questions.
-Tonight, I'm gonna go to Scores gentlemen club.
-Oh, that's great. -Yeah, it's -- Thank you.
[ Laughter ]
I just figure that's -- -Those are real New Yorkers.
[ Laughter ]
The first time out, that was not,
and those are the guys who are like,
"Oh, I'd give it up for that. Support small businesses."
[ Laughter ]
-"It's actually called Rick's Cabaret,
but I appreciate the sentiment."
[ Laughter ]
-Is Scores still open? -I don't know if Scores
is still open, but I'm gonna go
somewhere tonight with Sarah Palin
and see what happens. -Oh, you are?
[ Laughter ] -That's great.
I'm so glad you guys are still friends,
'cause I know you have differing politics.
-But that's where, with poli--
With me and Sarah, the politics melts away.
[ Laughter ]
So great. -This is very exciting.
I do want to talk about "The Afterparty,"
but you have been in a writers room --
a Zoom writers room, sadly. -Yes, yes.
-But you are doing a continuation,
with the participation of Mel Brooks...
-Mel Brooks, one of my idols,
one of the funniest men of all time.
We're doing a -- [ Applause ]
Oh, thank you, yeah.
We're doing a TV series version of his film
"History of the World." -Which is thrilling.
-Love it. Like, I'm a history head,
and we're doing it with Nick Kroll and one of --
-You're a history head? -I'm a history head.
[ Laughter ] You know me.
-I don't know if people who call it that are.
-Um... [ Laughter ]
I'm always -- I'm listening to podcasts and stuff.
I'm an H Head.
-"History head" is what a liar says on Tinder.
[ Laughter ]
-"I like going to the park, I'm history head."
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, I'm not on Tinder anymore.
-Oh, yeah? That's great. -Yeah.
-I'm glad you finally cleaved it away.
I know it was a really important part of your life.
-I'm just addicted to social media.
[ Laughter ]
-Hey, probably one of the reasons you're not on Tinder
is you have a beautiful wife and three children.
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
-And you just took them on vacation.
-We just went to Hawaii. Any Hawaiians?
[ Silence ]
[ Laughter ] We're gonna work our way down.
-Currently, yeah, we're at Mel Brooks, New York,
Scores, Hawaii. -Hawaii, okay. Remember that.
We went to Hawaii, which was great.
Kind of a pain in the ass to get to Hawaii.
It's a long flight. And I don't know if you've
had the joy of traveling with three children.
-We haven't done a flight yet since we had a third.
-Oh, it's so fun,
because they have to constantly go to the bathroom.
-Right. -And you are just constantly
walking to the bathroom. At one point, like,
I had my shoes off, and my daughter's like --
There's no like, "Hey, I kind of have to go to the bathroom."
It's just like, "I have to go to the bathroom right now."
-Yeah. -So I run her to the back,
and I step on the carpet in the back of the plane,
and within instants, like, my entire sock went soaking wet
in what can only, I assume, be urine.
-Yeah. -So that was not fun.
But then we got to Hawaii, and that was great.
-Great. -That was great.
We went -- We went on a kayak.
-Wow, that is such an unimpressive thing.
[ Laughter ]
Like, they have kay-- you can rent kayaks on,
like, the Hudson River. -This is a different kayak.
-Like, for you to be like, "You go to Hawaii,
it's a long flight, but when you get there,
they have soup." [ Laughter ]
-There's Wi-Fi. [ Laughter ]
But it was great. We went there, and then
one night, we went to dinner at --
Have you ever been to a Tommy Bahama's restaurant?
-I don't know if I've ever been to one of his restaurants.
-Everyone knows -- We love Tommy Bahama, don't we?
[ Laughter, scattered applause ]
-No one -- Literally since we have had
an audience back, you have now broken the record
for the amount of times you've gone to them.
[ Laughter ]
And not one of them has been even a little satisfying.
-I've got to give them something better than Tommy Bahama café.
-Yeah, they're like, "We don't know what we're supposed to do."
-I will say, though -- -They're like,
"We've been there, but we didn't like it."
[ Laughter ]
-Well, if you have been there, you know you would like it,
because you walk in at first, and it's like --
For me, it's fine. My dad,
it would be his dream restaurant.
-Right. -If only the monitors
were showing "Bosch." -Okay, right, sure.
-Then my dad would be in heaven, right?
So, I go, and it's amazing. I'm loving it.
And for dessert -- -What are you loving about it?
-The service is warm. -Okay.
[ Laughter ] The drinks were hot.
[ Laughter ]
But they brought out for dessert a thing called
a piña colada cake, and it's a piece of cake like that big.
-Okay. -It's massive,
and it's got whipped cream and pineapple, and I'm eating it up.
-"Only in Hawaii." [ Laughter ]
-But it's fresh pineapple. -Okay, that's better.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. -So, my daughter,
I'm giving her some. There was another family,
and this kid -- the 8-year-old boy
is walking over, he's eating it.
And the next day, I see a friend of mine,
I go, "Went to Tommy Bahama last night."
And he goes, "Me, too!"
I go, "How about that piña colada cake?"
He goes, "Incredible."
He goes, "I can't believe there's 2 cups of rum in it."
[ Laughter ]
So I got my kids drunk. [ Laughter ]
So I'm turning myself in to the local
Hawaiian authorities right after taping.
-Hey, we're gonna be right back after this,
and we're gonna talk more about your great new show.
That's Ike Barinholtz, everybody. Stick around.