he's best known for his emmy-winning run
as just jack
on the iconic sitcom will and grace but
sean hayes
is uh just jack of all trades sean has
teamed up with his pals and fellow
actors jason bateman and will arnett for
a brand new podcast called smartless
where he gets to ask the question but
today we get to
sean is at his home having breakfast in
l.a
what's on the menu sean well it's
blueberries with yogurt and some fiber
cereal because somebody turned
50. wait when was your birthday
oh june 26th oh my god how does 50 feel
by the way
i don't know you tell me
it feels amazing and no it's right it
does feel it feels really really good
i mean look nothing's changed i'm still
an idiot
okay so you've teamed up with these two
guys or have you all known each other
for a long time
yeah great jenna amazing opening
question thank you thank you
john i appreciate that no problem um
we've known each other about 20 years
and uh
we jason and i were sitting around and
talking about you know what can we do
together and
we both were like well's gonna do a
podcast let's you know get in on his
stuff
so we kind of all got together and had
meetings before the pandemic and
like let's do this and then the great
conceit about smartlist
is that one of us brings on a guest
and it's a surprise to the other two so
cool so one of us acts as a host each
episode and brings on a guest that the
other two don't know about it it's
really cool who was your first guest
who'd you bring on first
oh my gosh who is first i don't remember
we've done so many
julia louis-dreyfus will ferrell she was
on yes will ferrell was on yeah thank
you by the way
somebody's got a list yes tyson we just
had stacey abrams on which
she's like amazing i love that woman uh
neil degrasse tons of people um seth
rogen uh
uh uh mara gay from msnbc like tons of
fun people and interesting it's fun
talking about topics we don't know
nothing about
that's why it's called smart list
because we like to learn about stuff
like the audience does
so is it serious is it like a serious
thing you sound like you have some
serious guess or is it more laughing and
scratching
no you're you you sound you hear the
seriousness in my voice because it's 7
15 in the morning and you're eating
fiber one
you know fiber one always makes you a
little serious can you bring him over
wait and also this this this person gets
me up
every single morning let's see at uh
at seven eight oh no it's six a.m every
single morning
oh my god a new puppy what's that baby's
name no scotty scotty
the puppy's name is ricky ricky is so
cute he's a golden doodle a gold wait so
you're telling me hoda
and jenna.com wasn't taken
that was available huh because it seems
so common
and jenna.com wasn't luckily for us um
can we play a little game oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
you went forward since you're you're
having breakfast we're already playing
but let's keep going
okay um we are going to play this game
called shawn on the spot on the spot i'm
sure on this one okay so we're going to
give you a name and you're going to give
us the first three words that come to
mind
when you hear this person's name our
very first person is very important and
we love her
so be careful okay jennifer lopez
oh who doesn't love that not together
who doesn't love
her you have to give us a couple words
wait what what's this oh a couple words
to describe her
yes a fun dancer i don't know she's
great
wait where what's this picture of you
guys can you see
that's me yeah that's me that's from the
show oh wow that was like 75 years ago
look at how uncomfortable i am
it looks like a prom pic right
she was fantastic she was so game to do
anything on the show okay next
okay coming up next share
oh you could let sharon share like she
oh
two words uh uh
kind icon
is this in this picture is she slapping
you or is she uh that's right before the
slap that's like a prep before this last
she's embracing all right i got another
one for you
uh robert de
oh niro god um
uh two words um friendly
and had no idea who i was but that point
and by the way when i was called when i
was called up that night to go
you know i was hosting that night the
alec baldwin roast
they go somebody was up there going it's
sean hayes and robert was looking all
over from
us
so so what you're saying is your good
friend he stays
he stays at my guest house when we're
here okay what about madonna
madonna um
interesting icon
you know what's so funny to me sean
we're looking at all these pictures
of you with all of these people over
your career
i mean do you do you ever pause and look
back and go like holy moly
look at me yes and you know it's so
funny yeah um uh and i'm speaking to two
of them by the way this will go down and
one of my favorite
by the way yeah no jenna we've never had
the pleasure but hoda
we how much fun did we have on your
little podcast like it was
i laughed so hard with you it was so fun
i don't even know if you remember i was
on your podcast
on her radio show come on guys it's the
same thing
the radio siriusxm we did
yeah yeah it was so funny but anyway yes
i i look back and wait wow
we love that you shared your breakfast
thank you for eating with us
yes all right thank you guys
all right the first two episodes of
smartless route now with
new episodes every monday
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