-You know our first guest tonight from his work
on shows like "Community" and "The Soup."
He stars in the new film "Happily,"
which premieres in theaters, on digital,
and on demand on March 19th. Let's take a look.
-We are prepared to take full responsibility for our mishap.
-Mishap? -Yes.
-I think we're going to need some kind of
an explanation here.
-You see, every few years we encounter someone with a defect,
but two people with a malfunction,
that, that is what we call a rarity.
-Please welcome back to the show Joel McHale, everybody.
Oh. Oh, nice!
-Thank you! -Nice, thank you!
-Thank you. -This is so --
-Thank you, Fred.
Great to see you, Fred.
Thank you. -This is so refreshing.
-Hey! So... [ Laughs ]
-Whoo-hoo! -Whoo!
-Here you go, a little handshake.
There you go. Hi, buddy.
-Nice to see you. -I mean, that --
-Until you did it, I didn't realize how much I missed it.
-Ah. Whoo! Ah, "Late Night" so great.
Seth, you look incredible.
-Thank you. -Congrats on the kids.
It's just -- Thank you!
-That's it? -Thank you so much.
-He's out.
-Yes, thank you, alright. Thanks.
-You know, our East Coast viewers are not gonna celebrate
the fact that you're wearing shorts right now.
I think that's real show-off-y and a little mean.
-Well, look, here in Southern California,
it's, you know, almost late March, my friend.
I mean, it's mid-March.
But still, it is -- whew! -- time to break out.
I mean, we use umbrellas to keep --
I have to -- to keep from sunburning.
-Wow. Life is pretty -- -Sorry.
-Life is pretty good for you.
And, Joel, I'm not surprised.
I know you to be a hardworking guy.
A lot of people, well, it was a tough year.
They used to it to maybe celebrate inactivity.
That has never been the Joel McHale way.
-Oh, no. I am --
I feel like someone's gonna take all my money
away from me all the time.
I'm constantly running, like that joke you told
about the LGBTQ person running across Mississippi.
-Right.
-I am an obsessive-compulsive workaholic.
I feel like you're right there when you yelled at Scollins
and which now I'm going to use if ever a joke is a little --
every time, I'm just gonna go, "Scollins?
What the hell?" It doesn't grammatically --
What? Dick's size? It doesn't --
-Yeah. -I thought it worked great.
-And, by the way, if you ever tell a bad joke,
don't feel bad blaming Scollins,
'cause he would have written it. [ Laughter ]
-He'd be like -- But then do you self-loathe?
Because it came out of your mouth.
You're like, "Well, I give him one, I guess. But here we go."
-Oh, no, I don't self-loathe at all.
All my loathing is reserved for Scollins.
[ Laughter ]
-Scollins sounds like a disorder of the skin.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. Yeah.
-Like someone who wears a pair of underwear for too long
and then like, "Ah, [bleep], I got Scollins."
-Well, it's interesting. [ Laughter ]
So, we get swabbed every day coming to work.
And I keep, you know, obviously God bless,
I keep testing negative for coronavirus.
But I do -- I did test positive for Scollins.
-Oh, no! -Yeah.
Got it bad.
-Seth, do not scratch it.
That will make it worse, okay? [ Laughter ]
-I know. -It spreads it.
I can see you moving around a bit.
Like, "Ugh, my Scollins!" -Yeah.
I don't know what else to do about it.
Hey, was this true of you forever,
that you've always been a workaholic,
even before you found your way into showbiz?
-Oh, yeah. I have a real problem.
I would do --
I'm one of those people that had like 12 jobs.
I think that's why I never say no to anything.
And because -- so, I was -- I had a paper route.
Literally, I trimmed trees.
I had an espresso cart.
I was in the mob. [ Laughter ]
I sold heroin. [ Laughter ]
I lost my virginity to Charlie Sheen.
That was also a job. [ Laughter ]
So, yeah, a lot.
I did everything.
And I know -- because you're the same type of person,
because you're like 41 or 40. I know you're barely in your 40s.
-47!
47. -And you have that hair?
Your hair is perfect, and you didn't even have to pay for it
the way that I did mine.
Damn it! -Yours looks wonderful.
It was -- To quote Charlie Sheen,
it was worth every penny.
-See? This is -- I'm a big "Peaky Blinders" fan.
-It is very "Peaky Blinders."
Hey, you tried to get a little scratch on the side
playing a little celebrity "Wheel of Fortune."
-Oh, yeah. -We only have one photo,
but obviously, based on this, you were doing pretty well.
[ Laughter ] -Okay. Okay.
Paul Reubens doesn't have anything.
-Well, Paul Reubens, he's got that Pee-wee money.
He doesn't need anything. -Yes.
He's very rich.
And he's very -- Both Nicole and -- So, he won,
but this is how stupid celebrities
are on "Wheel of Fortune,"
is that there is a game where they start revealing a puzzle,
and they just start showing letters,
and then you guess it as it's being revealed.
All the letters appeared,
and none of us were fast enough to even say it.
Even though it was all right there.
It was just reading a sentence.
I totally [bleep] Scollinsed it, and --
[ Laughter ]
Then they stopped the show.
They were like, "This never happens."
"We can't -- We have to reload an entire new puzzle
according to the game show police."
-Yeah. -But I couldn't believe
I was there because -- Oh, go ahead.
Sorry. -The only thing I'd say,
you would think if you had three actors,
the one thing they would be able to do is read lines.
-You'd think. [ Laughter ]
But I'm dyslexic, so I can't read as it is.
That's why I went into acting.
Yeah. Oh, I guess Nicole -- Did she win?
-Look at how much fun you guys are having.
That's the least happy I've ever seen Paul Reubens, by the way.
-Yeah, I was so pissed that I broke Nicole's leg.
[ Laughter ]
-Wait. That happened the day of? -Yeah.
I was just so mad.
Oh, maybe -- This is how dumb I am.
I think she -- I don't know who won.
I just kept asking Pat Sajak when the last time
he flew commercial was. [ Laughter ]
And to which he was like "Can't remember, Joel."
[ Laughter ] And then they turned him off.
He's very nice.
He was like, "We're just playing Hangman."
And I was like, "You made all the money
in Hollywood playing Hangman."
He's like, "Well, that is true, that is true."
[ Laughter ] -Hey, this movie is --
I thought that was a very good clip,
because this movie, while very funny, is very dark
and has some turns you don't see coming.
Did you enjoy making it?
-Oh, I loved it.
I made sure I knew my lines.
I didn't Scollins a single thing.
[ Laughter ] And I was just -- No.
Look, I got to work with Kerry Bishé,
who is one of the best actors I've ever worked with.
And Stephen Root, who is -- You know Stephen.
He's working with your friend Bill Hader there on "Barry,"
one of the best shows on television.
And the movie's premise was so different.
It's a couple that's been married for 14 years,
and they have sex three times a day,
and their friends hate them for it,
and then it gets really different and "Twilight Zone-y."
So I said sign me up for that.
That sounds like the next "Endgame."
So I'm in.
-Well, I mean this sincerely.
I think one of the hardest things for a movie
to do these days is to go somewhere
where you did not see it going,
and it is really mission accomplished.
It's a great cast.
It's super fun to see you in it.
-I just mimicked
your performance from "New Year's Eve."
-Thank you. -It was -- You had so much sex
in that, that I was like, "That's how you do it."
-Yeah. I actually --
they cut out most of my sex stuff in the end.
But in the extended version -- -Oh, did you have Scollins then?
-I did. [ Laughter ]
They thought they could digitize it out,
but then in the end, they were like -- it was pretty --
It was just -- -No.
They don't have that technology yet.
-Thank you so much for being here.
Congrats on the movie.
It's always a delight to talk to you,
and I hope to see you soon.
-Seth, you're the smartest, funniest person on television,
and it really pisses me off.
[ Laughter ]