--Hey everybody! It's me, Susan Blackwell! Today I'm side-by-side one of my
favorite Carnegie Holland yes y'all-in, rocking and rolling and comet bookin
and ass-kicking and weight lifting Broadway favorites. Look everybody! It's
Matt mother-f--king Doyle.
--Hey, guys! --Matt tell our friends at home where we are,
and what we're doing today? --We're in my apartment with my dogs, which
is like I think the easiest interview ever. I didn't have to go anywhere. I woke
up I took a shower, and you arrived. -- Your just rolled your lazy ass out on to your couch
--Yeah. --We are just chillin, we're looking
at comic books. We're getting into it
with Jacob and Layla the dogs. --The dogs.
-- 30 second life story! -- I'm gonna put 30
seconds on the clock and you have to tell me your life story.
Don't leave out the awesome parts. Starting how about right now?
--Okay so I
am a Masshole at heart. I was born in Manchester by the Sea. Yes that's a now a
major motion picture. Yeah so I'm famous. And then grew up in San Francisco
as well so I've really got the like liberal asshole vibe going on, and then
came out to New York after I went to school in London, and I wanted to be an
actor. --Ten seconds.
--And got Spring Awakening and all my Broadway dreams
started, and then they went through ups and downs and Here I am.
--There you go.
Super bonus what is the name of that autobiography?
--Oh gosh,
Masshole.
--Yes, yes! --Picture day!
--We're in your home. Do you have any pictures of you
when you were little? Just like mother ---- adorable pictures of you when you were
little? --Oh god...
--Oh, do I? --Oh, do I?
There you go. Picture day.
--No! --Yeah. Real. Can you see that?
--So yeah I... puberty happened
and wrecked me. I mean like.
--Who's that guy? --I don't know.
--I like him. -- Yeah he was sweet yeah, and I was like I was
bullied so bad because I, when I was in San
Francisco, I went to this small small school in Marin outside of San Francisco,
so like really obnoxious like wealthy community. They were like literally the
worst bullies in the world and they all skateboarded and they hated art, you know,
like art class was like the worst part of the day, and I was like this weird
future gay creative that they just like went after me.
--I have a message for this guy. I love you!
Your future's bright. And f--k those bullies!
--Yeah like literally
thrown in a dumpster. It actually happened.
--I got thrown in a dumpster, too! --Yeah, hey
--High five on it.
--What the what? What, the what the what --Matt Doyle you have co-created and are co-writing a
comic book?
--Yeah! -- What the f--king what?
I'm so excited. --Thanks!
--But let's dial it
back. Where did it all start?
--It all started yeah here it all started with
the first Adventures of Super Dude and Goo Goo Plugs because I didn't know what
a googlplex was back then, -- But you like the sound of that word?
--I liked the sound of
the word. I was about eight years old when I did these.
--Cut to -dun-dun-dun-dun
I'm loving it.
--Yeah! -- What is happening?
--So this is insane. So my best
friend and I, Beth Behrs, who is an actress as well, we grew up together in
California and like fell madly in love with each other and she knew I was a big
comic book nerd, so about three or four years ago, we were having a glass of wine
together and I had had this really weird dream about identical twins with
superpowers. And told her about it and over that like
glass of wine we kind of formed this little world together, and I said well
what do we do with this and she said Matt I don't know maybe we'll make it a TV
series or something one day. And then she got approached by a comic book company
shortly after that, and she was like whoa. --Unbelievable.
--Yeah and we got we got the deal. We
put the treatment together, got the deal, and then what does the title mean?
--Dents,
so identical twins with superpowers in this new world have been kind of shut
out of society and there's a whole genocide against them and everything, and
so it's like the derogatory term against them. That they're a dent in the natural
world.
--Look at what you made.
--I know! --The names of the villains
who are they new yeah
after named?
--After all of my middle school bullies, seriously. Like all of
them.
--Okay so there's that, and then on top of that you just major debut at
Carnegie Hall. What the what Matt Doyle?
Okay so for all of us that won't get to
make our debut at Carnegie Hall Blake ever in our lifetime, what the what was
that like?
--I was so nervous in the days leading up to it, but I would love to
Ally Ewalt who I got to sing with, who's incredible. She's so talented and I I
just love everyone involved at the New York Pops. They were so warm and friendly,
and so the actual day of rehearsal, I get out there, and I grabbed Ali's hand for
the first song you know. We're trying to just like practice and and I'm trying to
find the ease and I'm shaking like a leaf, and I was like this is gonna be
awful. I'm gonna get out there tonight and I'm gonna freeze, my mouth is gonna
dry up, all those horrible things that happen when I'm super nervous, and then I
walked out that night and looked out and it was so surreal and overwhelming, that
everything you ever hope happens, like you drop into it and you just enjoy
every second, did. And I had the best night of my entire life.
--So I heard this tale about you, that you were doing Book of Mormon during the day,
you were doing a reading at New York stage and film at night, and during the
presentation at the end of the first act, you just like... Laila you're killing me. Oh
my god. What the what Matt Doyle? What what happened?
--How did you hear this
story?
--I don't know. I've got spies on the inside.
--So I I was doing a Book of Mormon
and I got like the summer flu and I had taken this vacation to go do Brooklynite
at the Vignette it was that Vassar. And I was so sick. So so sick but
I was waking up and pushing through and trying to sing really high notes, like
obnoxious Andrew Rannels notes.
--Yeah. --That I had created for myself thinking like
that's impressive. -- Not sustainable.
--Yeah exactly like no, raise it that will... --Higher, higher!
--Yeah higher! That will book me the job, and so I got out there and there was
like this really ridiculous final note of the first act where I just said no on
a G, and held it for so long. And as I was holding it in front of every every
important producer, every, like everyone my agent, my manager,
every person imaginable was there, I started to just wobble and shake and
everything went black. --G-G-G, and then you went whooo
And then what happened?
--I fell over. I fainted, I fainted and my co-star Alec had to catch me. But it
wasn't like did that happen? Like
--I heard I heard it was full music stand, like guhn-guhn-guhn. Like the whole thing
--I brought... -- went. And then that was the end of the first act.
--Who told you this??
--Haha!
--Who else you got? Who else you got in there?
--You can make a
lot of really delightful sounds, but who else you got in there? Any other voices
you got in there? --Yes.
--Who else you got in there? --I got Norbert.
--Give it to me. --Okay
[Norbert Leo Butz as Fiyero voice] Sounds perfect!
--That's what I thought we agreed on, Kathy.
If I didn't believe in you, I wouldn't have loved you at all.
I would often do
like Norbert singing Sweeney, which was always like...
--How's that sound? --Oh god. [singing] These are my friends
see how they glisten. Cause he just throws it away.
--[singing] Don't we get to be happy, Cathy?
At some point down the line or we get to relax?
Cathy.
[Matt singing] Celebrities doing celebrities .
--So you know how this game goes. We call a
celebrity in one of our phones, but as a
different celebrity. You're gonna prank call them. So first we have to pick who
you're gonna be, and who we're gonna call? --Well it should be Norbert.
--So we should
call Norbert as Norbert.
--Oh, my god. --So this is celebrities doing celebrities
prank calling celebrities. This is Norbert Butz and we're calling Norbert
Butz. You ready? You know what you want to say?
[voicemail]: Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice messaging system
--Nobert Leo Butz... is not available. At the tone, please record your
message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up or press one for more
options. --Norbert, its Norbert. How's it going man?
We should go meet the dinosaurs, Norbert.
So I was thinking maybe like after I see
you in the the amazing revival that you're about to be in, My Fair Lady, My
Fair Lady, Norbert. Ah, don't we get to be happy, Norbert? Kathy?
He's gonna be like
what the hell is that?! --He's gonna be like
Susan Blackwell does an amazing impression of me.
That's what he's gonna say. -- Oh God.
For the record, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. --Come on!
--Sounds perfect!
[Matt singing] Riff bath. --You are gonna sing
me any song of your choosing, but you have to let no note go on riffed.
--Okay well
I just finished Sweeney, and we always joked backstage.
--I love where this
is going.
--Just about what Joanna could be. --Please.
--So just like [singing] I feel you, Joanna. I
feel you. I was half convinced I'd waken, satisfied
enough to dream you, happily I was mistaken. Joanna. It's also like boyband
bad. --I love it
--because it's like a beautiful --It's O Town good.
--Yeah it's like oh town cause the melody is
actually like a sweet little ballad and then you throw some riffs in, and all of
a sudden we're in the 90s. -- I loved it.
Guess what time it is? --What time is it?
--It's time for
Susan's fantasy jukebox. I got your nose! You can have it back, but
first you gotta sing me a song. -- Okay
--Here we go. -- [singing] It had to be you.
--F--k.
--It had to be you. -- I feel like there's smoke in there.
I wandered
around. Finally found the somebody who could make me be true,
Could make me be
blue, or even be glad just to be sad thinking of you.
--Never stop singing Matt Doyle.
Keep going.
--Some others have seen, might never be me.
might never be crossed, or try to be bossed, but they wouldn't do. For nobody else
--This has been another amazing episode of Side By Side by Susan Blackwell
wit Matt Doyle. And Layla, and Jacob.
And Matt's nose.
--It had to be you!
--F--king golden.
[MUSIC]
--You got any Amy Sedaris in there? --Oh, of course!
Amy Sedaris is one of my
favorite comedians and Jerri Blank is, she lives in me. I've had to like avoid
Jerri Blank at all times in every show that I've done
--Because you're just like..
--if I think like Oh comedy, I just like resort to Jerri
--I thought you'd be like, I'm doing Sweeney Todd and
I'm playing Anthony.... you know it was like I pitching that to the director. Like
what if it sort of had a Jerri Blank flavor to it?
--Anthony just comes out and he's like, "But, Sir!"
--Yeah [laughs]