-Thanks for coming back to the show.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
I have a lot to discuss with you.
-I am very excited to talk to you.
But you know what?
The last Forte that you talked to before this was not me.
-This is kind of what I wanted to talk to you about.
-Yes. So we have a family friend named Tara.
And she was talking on the phone to my mom.
She was in this post office in Malibu.
And then all of a sudden, you came into the post office
and she came up to you and said,
"Hey, I'm talking to Patty Forte,"
and you grab the phone and talk to my mom
for a while. -I talked --
Yeah, she was like, "I'm talking to Patty Forte."
And so I go, "Oh, my God." So I grabbed the phone.
Yeah, we talked for like 20 minutes.
-She loved it.
-I was like, "How are you doing?"
-So excited. -"How's Will doing?
Are you excited about the grandkids?"
We talked about everything.
Talked about everything.
It was the weirdest spot.
I went to this weird post office in the middle of nowhere
outside of Malibu, because I needed a phone charger,
and I went...
-That's where you get your phone chargers.
-That's where you get your phone chargers, at the post office.
You don't go there to -- Who mails things anymore, right?
So I -- No, but I went to -- there was a store next door,
but it was like a surf shop
and I thought they would have a charger.
But then I go, "Why? They're surfing."
-You never know where a charger is going to be.
-You never know. And they were like,
"You got to go to the post office."
So then I went into the post office.
I saw Tara, who was very nice.
-This all makes sense.
-Thank you. -Yeah.
-I love your -- Your mom is exactly what I wanted to be.
She's so funny.
-She is a magical woman.
She is.
She's like kind of an adult version
of "Kids Say the Darndest Things."
Like, she... Like, the most recent one,
she said, "Willie --" She called me up.
"Willie, are you going to that Taylor Swift thing?"
And I said, "Uh, what? What are you talking about?"
She said, "The Taylor Swift thing.
Are you going to that?"
I said, "Mom, I don't have any idea what you're talking about."
"You know, the Super Bowl."
[ Laughter and applause ]
-That's the Taylor Swift thing?
-Alright. Apparently in Patty Forte world.
No, but she's the best. I do have one --
There's only one gripe that I have.
The woman cannot say the word "available."
-She can't say it? -She says "avaiable."
[ Laughter ]
-Avaiable? -Avaiable.
-Avaiable. -And so each time I hear it,
I go like, "Mom, there's a very noticeable L
right in the middle there." -Yeah, available.
-"You got to work on hitting that L."
But still it's just avaiable.
Avaiable. -Just doesn't do it.
-So nuts. But she's magical. She's the best mom.
-Yeah, she loves you. -And she's very smart.
Except for she's got a blind spot with "avaiable."
-Yeah. That's fine. She can do that.
Is she great around the kids?
The baby? How old are the girls?
-Oh. She's great. I have two.
I'm a girl dad. Got them both here on my socks.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Yeah. -That's Zoe.
[ Audience awws ]
And I mismatched my socks so I can have one on each side.
That's Cecilia. [ Audience awws ]
-Oh, my gosh, buddy, how old?
-So Zoe's three, and Cecilia is about 19 months.
-Ah, congratulations. -And it's the best.
And they kind of have that thing that my mom has.
You know, obviously with kids... -They can't say "available"?
-Yes, exactly. [ Laughter ]
My daughter though, the best thing the other day she came in,
I was taking a shower.
And she comes into the shower or not in the shower.
She comes right outside the shower.
Right outside the shower.
-Yeah. -There was glass separating us.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-And she's just kind of hanging for a second.
And she delivered some very sage advice.
She said, "Daddy, don't get soap in your vagina."
[ Laughter ]
And I thought that was, like, good advice.
-Great advice. -I listened to it
and had a good shower.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Does your mom have a special grandma name?
-No, Mom -- My mom just goes by grandma.
But my wife, Olivia, her mom, Denise,
she was fighting grandma.
-Yeah. My mom didn't want grandma.
-Yeah, exactly. -She goes, "It sounds too old.
I want to be called like Gigi."
-Yeah. So she was going for Denny.
Like, Denny was what she wanted.
And we were like, "That's so close to your name."
I think me and my wife were fighting it a little bit.
And we finally said, "Okay, go to town.
Denny it is."
But the kids, they couldn't pronounce it.
So what ended up coming out was "Doodoo."
[ Laughter ]
So like... -You win.
-And so I had not pushed "Doodoo."
But then once it came out, I certainly pushed it.
[ Laughter ] Like, you know.
-She is not Grandma Doodoo?
-She is just Doodoo. There is no grandma.
-No grandma, okay? Not Grandma Doodoo.
-The great thing is like -- -Doodoo?
-Yes, Doodoo.
It's way easier to get her to come babysit
because she, like, feels like it's a time
when she can kind of brainwash them away from Doodoo
and get to Denny. And it's starting to work.
-It is starting to work. Yeah.
You were in the building not too long ago, by the way.
You were at Kristen Wiig's show on "SNL" when she hosted.
And you got to do a couple sketches, too.
What's it like when you come back?
Does it feel like you're home again?
-I mean, you must feel the same way. You get up there
and except for the cast, with the exception of Kenan,
there are so many people who have been there forever,
who were there when we were there.
-That's correct. -So it feels like home
and it feels like family, but at the same time,
you get in there and all the nerves kind of come back.
-It does? -I don't know if you --
I still have dreams about not -- like being in the hallway
and a sketch is starting,
and it's like I'm supposed to be in that sketch
and I don't have my outfit on,
and nobody's ever even shown it to me.
-You're running with a script. -Will, what are you doing?
And it's terrifying. -Yeah.
When I go and visit, even just the smell of the paint,
you know, because they repaint the floor every week,
it just brings me back to that.
And I'm just like, "Okay. Yeah. Okay. Focus up.
Yeah. Okay. I'll come out. And what camera do I look at?
Okay. I look at that camera," and it all comes back to you.
But it's the best. -The best.
-But also I get nervous at everything.
Like, we had to, for my daughter's school,
this place called the Growing Place,
they have a -- you come in
and read -- the parents read a book
to their kid on their birthdays.
So we came in
and I was super nervous reading "Green Eggs and Ham"
to a bunch of 3-year-olds. [ Laughter ]
I don't know. You know? No TV cameras, just like...
-You know, I wanted to ask you about this
is that I heard that you would always cut your own hair
through your 20s.
Is this true?
-I cut my own hair into my 30s.
[ Laughter ]
It was not a good idea. I did not do a good job.
But at some point -- -But why?
-Well, just at some point
I started cutting my hair in high school.
And then every once in a while,
my mom would make me get a legitimate haircut,
and then I would always come back and go, "Not as good."
And then -- But, I mean, I look at pictures
and it was way better than what I was doing,
but I still kept up with it. -Even on "SNL"?
-Yeah. So I go through college.
After college, I was like,
"Oh, I'm going to save money by cutting my own hair."
I get to "SNL" and they take you down.
It's like this -- The first day
they're taking these pictures to put on the wall,
and I'm about to get these pictures taken.
And the photographer said, "Hang on one second."
And then there was a huddle of all these people,
and it seemed like a real emergency.
And I was like, "Oh, my God, something must have --
Maybe there's a medical emergency somewhere."
-Yeah, or a lamp fell or something, yeah.
-Yeah, a lot of like, "What are we going to do?"
And then I realized that the emergency was my crappy haircut.
[ Laughter ]
So they took me back and they gave me a haircut and...
No way. -And this happened.
-Wow. And that's how this got invented.
But I have a picture of you
that you cut your hair right before picture day.
Yes. -I don't think it's that bad.
Here's young Will Forte.
[ Laughter ]
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Hey, it's pretty cute, that. -You do a job like that
and you're like, "Yeah, I'm a natural."
-"I'm a natural at this. I'm good."
Congrats on the new show, "Bodkin," by the way.
It's a big hit on Netflix.
Man, it's so good. It's so charming.
I love any true-crime thing and any stuff like that.
But, like, you play a podcast--
Someone who runs a podcast about true crime,
but you get involved in a real crime.
-Yeah, there is -- 25 years ago,
three people go missing at this festival.
I am a podcaster.
I hook up with an Irish investigative journalist
and an English research assistant,
and we try to -- we're just doing a fluff piece
on this thing, like a -- and we end up starting
to kind of unravel what actually happened.
-You become like a real detective.
Yeah. And it's set in Ireland. It's beautiful.
-Oh, it's -- Ireland, I love so much.
I feel such a connection.
-Bodkin is a fake, fictitious place.
-Bodkin is a fake place.
But it's set in West Cork.
So we filmed in this place called Union Hall,
and we got to spend so much time.
Everything is beautiful.
There was one exception to the beauty.
I was -- We were filming for like
a week stretch in West Cork,
and the work was putting me up in this hotel.
So I pull into the parking lot,
and the sun is setting.
There's this beautiful bay right outside the front.
I think we have a picture of...
-Oh, so this is -- This looks gorgeous.
-Yeah. So that -- I'm like -- I'm going to check in.
I'm thinking, "Oh, I'm going to get this,
you know, get to see that for a week."
I'm so excited. -This is the hotel website?
-That's the hotel. That's the -- Yeah.
So that's -- So, I go upstairs,
I'm walking down to my room and I realize, oh,
my room's on the other side.
Um. Huh. Well, you know, I'm one of the lead actors of the show.
[ Laughter ] And I'm from America.
They're probably trying to pull out all the stops.
There's probably a amazing view on the other side.
-Yeah. -And I open the door
and go to the window.
And it is a haunted cemetery.
[ Laughter ]
It's like -- Yeah.
[ Applause ]
-[ Laughing ]
-Shows you your place in the scheme of things.
-Wow. Was it haunted?
-I mean, all cemeteries are haunted.
-Yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-We all believe in ghosts.
-I love that it's a cemetery you're looking at.
It would only happen to you.
Well, I want to congratulate you on "Bodkin."
And I know the Internet --
Everyone wants season 2 and all that stuff,
so hopefully that happens to you,
but you're just fantastic in it, and it's good.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Will Forte in "Bodkin."
Take a look at this.
-There she is. We're on to McArdle.
-That's one of the terrifying McArdles?
She's a little old lady.
-Bronagh was married to Jon-Joe McArdle, an absolute psychopath.
And even he was scared of her.
-Oh, okay. W-W-Wait.
Are you sure that charging in there with a gun is a good idea?
-Yeah. You're right. Alright.
You should go.
-Uh, o-okay. Now -- -You go in.
You go in. Keep her distracted.
I'll go round the back and I'll get the jump on her.
-Seamus, come on. Do you hear yourself?
-It's only frightening if you think about it.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-David Wilmot. Amazing actor. -He's great.
I should also say...
I should also say the show is produced
by Barack and Michelle Obama.
-Yes.
-Wait, what? -Yes.
I got a special call from President Obama
just saying congratulations on the show coming out.
And it was so exciting.
And, you know, I'm just trying to keep it together.
So we're talking for a while, and I'm like,
"Oh, I haven't blown it yet.
I sound like a normal person."
And then he said something nice and I said,
"Thank you really much."
[ Laughter ]
And then the whole rest of the conversation, I was like,
"Do I -- Do I -- Do
I tell him I know that thank you really much is not what you say?
I know it's thank you very much."
And I just -- the rest of the way through, I was just --
I couldn't stop thinking about it even at the end.
Like, remember a minute and a half ago?
-"I didn't mean to say 'thank you really much.'"
-President Obama, if you're watching, I know it's
"thank you very much."
-But really, thank you really much.
Thank you really much for being here.
Let's make that a thing.
-Yeah. Thank you really much. -Thank you really much.
Will Forte! "Bodkin" is streaming now on Netflix.
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