-I love your voice, I got to to say.
-Really? -Yeah, I do.
-Thank you. I appreciate it.
-I mean, I like everything about you,
but I love your voice. -Thank you.
-Do you ever get away with being you --
like, if you're at Starbucks or something,
and then you just start to order, and everyone's like,
"Are you Paul Giamatti?" -Yeah.
My voice gives me away, evidently. Yeah.
I never thought I had a distinctive voice,
but evidently, I do. -Yeah.
-People get turned on by it. -I don't know about that, but...
-Well, I'd like to think people get turned on by it.
-Someone did out there, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
-Somebody definitely did.
Hello. [ Laughter ]
But, yeah, no. My voice definitely gives me away.
-Yeah.
-And it's a surprise, but it's nice.
-Have you ever heard anyone do an impression of you?
-Yeah. I've heard a lot of -- There's a lot of people --
Well, not a lot. There's --
-You look like you're psyched about it.
[ Laughter ] -Well, you know,
it's a disappointment to me, 'cause people will be like,
"Oh, this guy does a great impression of you."
And I watch it. I'm like, "That's not good."
I'm like, "That doesn't sound like me."
-Yeah, "I do a much better impression of me."
-Yeah, I'm like -- -"I'm me."
-And people are always so, like, "Nyah, nyah, nyah" --
it's kind of -- it's like Gilbert Gottfried.
I'm like, "I don't sound like Gilbert Gottfried."
-No, you never do.
-I never sound like Gilbert Gottfried, so I don't --
It never sounds right to me. -It's a different -- yeah.
I don't do an impression of you. -The only per--
You do great impressions. -But I don't do you.
-You don't do me, no. -I don't.
-I think I would be difficult.
The only person who does a good one is actually Damian Lewis,
who's on -- on "Billions." -On "Billions."
-He does a great one. -He's from England.
He's British. British accent. -He's an Englishman,
but he's a really great mimic. -Really?
-Yeah. He's amazing.
-You never try to do impressions?
You, yourself? -No. I'm not very good at them.
-But do you ever try to do them?
When you were a kid? -I try to do 'em.
I'm one of these people, I can get it for about 30 seconds.
-Oh, yeah. -And I'm like, "Ooh, ooh, ooh.
I sound like Brad Pitt." And then it's gone.
[ Laughter ] -See, I would do --
like, when I was a kid, if I watched something --
and still to this day,
if I watch somebody for, like, an hour,
or even a half hour, I can talk like that person.
-Oh, you can just do that? -Yeah.
-I mean, I would do that but --
I would want to imitate what I saw.
-You know, like "Rocky." -But I couldn't do it.
I couldn't get it exactly. I couldn't do that.
I couldn't mimic it. -I couldn't --
Like, I had a friend, and I would sound exactly
like my friend if I hung out with him long enough.
My mom was like, "Will you stop talking like Joey?
You sound exactly like Joey." -That's hilarious.
-And I do that, like, when I have
Jerry Seinfeld on the show. -You start talking like him?
-We both start. And he starts moving his voice
up to match my impression, so...
-Well, that's impossible to not --
-...by the end it's like, [ As Seinfeld ] "I know!"
[ Speaking indistinctly as Jerry Seinfeld ]
"I know! We're talking..." [ Continues indistinctly ]
[ Talking over each other ]
-Yeah, exactly. And it becomes a thing.
-Well, that's like when you go to England
and you pick up an English accent,
and you feel like a jackass, but you find yourself just
being like... [ British accent ] "Yeah, well, you know.
Good day, good day."
You know, you're like, why am I talking like this?
-[ British accent ] How many pounds is it? Exactly.
-Yeah, yeah. Is it? Yeah. -Everything's a question --
-Does it? Yeah? Can I have some? -Is that wrong?
-Really? Yeah. [ Normal voice ] You know, and you're just,
"Why am I talking like this?" -I saw something --
speaking of British royalty. -Oh.
-Paul McCartney has the number one album in the country.
-Wow, I didn't -- Wow, that's awesome.
-And the same week, Paul Simon...
-Uh-huh. -...put out a record as well.
-Amazing. -And so they put out some list,
this website, called the ring of the top ten Pauls.
-Uh-huh. -Guess who's on it?
Number five. -Number five.
-Paul Giamatti, right there. -Yeah.
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-Wow. -I'm, uh...
-A definitive ranking of famous people...
-This is a definitive ranking.
I question the criteria used to figure out...
-What are you talking about? -...who was what here.
Because I'm above St. Paul.
Apparently St. Paul is, like, down in the 20s
or something like that. -Oh, like that -- oh, really?
-Like the guy who's, like, the original Paul.
-Like Corinthians. -Yeah. I mean,
there wouldn't be Pauls if there wasn't a St. Paul,
and he's, like, way down the list.
-Oh, yeah. Of course.
-That seems [bleep] up to me, frankly.
[ Laughter ]
Oh, did I just -- -Yeah. Buzzer it.
-The whole thing is crazy. I'm ahead of Paul Rudd?
That makes no sense. -I don't think it's crazy.
This is great. You're in between Paul Newman --
-Like, I'm ahead of Paul Revere, for Christ's sake.
-But, really, at least you're better than Paul the Octopus.
-Oh, Paul the Octopus. -[ Laughs ]
-I mean, it's a ranking of animals named Paul?
-It's just great --
-Clearly, people just drew these out of a hat, basically.
-No. This is great. -I'd have preferred a dartboard.
-I think number five is perfect for you.
-Thanks a lot. [ Laughter ]
No, no, no, honestly -- -I mean --
-No, seriously, I appreciate that.
I'm not joking. -Okay, good.
-That's amazing. Thank you. -Oh, no. Uh --
-I seriously appreciate it.