-Welcome back to the show. -Thank you so much. I really...
What's-what's go... what's going on here?
Oh, I just thought I'd just take it up a notch
-for this particular visit. -(applause and cheering)
What's going on? Want to see?
-I don't... -Pick it up a notch.
I don't know how I feel about this.
Like, normally when you come to the show...
-You look nice, normally... -Uh-huh.
...but you normally dress like-like,
you know, street casual, like...
Yeah, typically I do that.
What-What's the concern, Trevor?
-(laughter) -This is just like...
I don't know. This is sort of like
I'm trying to, like, steal the job
of The Daily Show host look type thing.
I... What? Are you kidding me? I'm looking at myself in the...
Oh. Oh, now I see it.
(laughter, applause)
-'Cause I guess... -Oh, no. How did... how did that happen?
Right. Like I'm just stirring up a rumor.
I'm... No. I'm kidding. I'm...
-Welcome back to the show. -It's good to be back.
-Happy to be here. -First things first.
-Congratulations. Season two? -Yes.
-Yes. Of Friends from College. -That's exciting.
-Yes. Very exciting. -Yeah. That's really exciting.
(applause and cheering)
-Very exciting. -Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
-Quick. -Like, this is a show about, like, a group of friends
who are the most abnormal normal people
you can come across, right?
Like, everyone's cheating on each other.
People are getting divorced, people are getting married.
-People... -Yeah.
But season one was basically about, like, infidelity
-and, like, people being shitty? -Yeah, season one was just...
just like, uh, a depraved French sex farce.
-It was really... -Right, right, right.
It was really crazy, and-and-and everybody...
It's about a friend group of six people,
who, every time they get together,
all their old psychological tapes play.
-Yes. -I mean, tapes being the term
-because it's... it was the '90s. -Right, right, right.
You know, so people still had cass...
Like, a couple of us still had cassettes.
-You know what I mean? -Yes, yes, yes.
And, um, and-and everybody... everybody...
They blow each other's lives up
whenever they're around each other.
And now, in season two, they're...
Certain people are trying to pick up different pieces.
-Right. -And-and certain things happen.
People go to new places.
Like you said, there's divorces,
there's marriages, there's separations, there's...
But now it feels like people are moving forward now.
It feels like it's a more, you know, like, reconciliatory vibe.
-Yeah. -It's like... it's like, "Oh, this is progress."
Like, people are growing.
Yeah, yeah, everybody's trying to...
Like-like, they're starting to... they're starting
-to try to find what the truce would be. -Yeah.
It's like... it's like the mil...
It's like World War II had just finished, and it's like,
"We've got to sign an armistice?"
You know what I mean? And so, everybody's doing...
-Everybody's trying to figure out what's gonna... -Right.
...where they... where they fit in the friend group now. Yeah.
One thing that people have commented on about this show
is that it is an amazing ensemble cast.
Like, we just saw it in that clip alone.
I mean, you have so many great actors,
not just comedic actors, but actors.
You guys look like you have too much fun on set.
We have an absolute blast. Fred S...
First, Fred Savage, first of all, you guys remember Savage?
-Fred Savage? -(cheering, applause)
Fred and I get to do scenes together all the time,
and, uh, Fred's in it, Cobie Smulders is in it,
-from How I Met Your Mother. -(cheering) -Right.
She's brilliant. And-and the other people in the cast,
there are people who maybe you've not have heard of,
like Jae Suh Park or Nat Faxon, are just... are amazing.
Annie Parisse. We just have a really fantastic cast.
And we... and the thing is that when you make something up,
-if you improvise on set, which is always welcome, -Right.
you'll hear Nick, who created the show,
in the back, he'll heighten what you said,
and then you'll improvise off of what he said,
and then he'll heighten it again. It's fantastic.
It just makes... it just makes for a more fun time on set.
Everybody's being collaborative all the time.
You are somebody who's doing extremely well,
and you have for a long time, in comedy,
but what I've really enjoyed is watching you, you know,
switch things up, you know?
Like you're doing now with the suit.
-(laughter) -Right, yeah, yeah.
-No, no, but... -I'm just trying to get into hosting,
-and, um... -No, I mean, uh...
Wait, I think acting... acting is better for you.
-Acting is better. -(laughter)
Acting is better. No, but really,
what's been really great is, I think a lot of people
do not know that you were trained in, like,
like, the theatre, like, you were... dramatic acting.
-Yeah. -And you started doing that.
You said you, like, I think it was at the beginning of...
uh, last year, you said, "I want to get into Shakespeare,
"and I want to do a Jason Bourne movie,
I want to be in action movies as well." A lot of people
were like, "Well, but you're the comedy guy."
But now we've seen you. Like, you did Predator,
and you acted in Shakespeare.
Like, you did a Shakespeare play.
Like, is that... is that your true passion?
Are you going into serious roles?
It really is my true passion. I, uh...
Not that I wouldn't do a television show.
-(laughter) -Yeah, that I'm... not quitting, uh, comedy.
But I-I, um, I'm a Shakespearean-trained actor.
I went to go do formal acting training,
and I always loved that.
Ibsen and Molière and Shakespeare
and all of that wonderful stuff, there's some...
-there's so much to mine there as a performer. -Right.
And so I'm trying to find my way back to more of that.
And last year I played Horatio, uh, in Hamlet
at The Public Theatre opposite Oscar Isaac,
-and, uh, it was... -(cheering, applause)
it was... it was... it was a dream come true.
It was like coming home
and a brand-new dream coming true at the same time.
And I just want to be able to do more of that,
-you know? -That's amazing. Speaking of dreams coming true,
uh, my dream was to be in The Lion King, and I'm not.
-Um, and... -(laughter)
I see... I see that you are...
you are going to be in The Lion King.
Oh, this one. Oh, I am. I am gonna be in The Lion King.
You are gonna be in The Lion King.
How the (bleep) did that happen?
Can I just say this for a second?
Those cards felt really comfortable in my hands.
-I... don't know where this is going. -(laughter)
No, uh, hey, listen.
No, but on the real, though, I'm super excited for you.
-I-I-I am really excited. -Who are you playing?
I'm playing... I'm playing one of the hyenas.
I'm playing one of the hyenas. I don't... I don't know...
I don't know if I'm Cheech Marin or Ed...
but I'm one of them.
I'm definitely not Whoopi. I'm definitely not Whoopi.
-(laughter) -Definitely not Whoopi.
But I'm one of the other ones. Yeah.
That's, like, properly exciting, because, I don't know about you,
but The Lion King is one of those movies that...
it defined the childhood for many people.
Oh, absolutely. It defined... it defined...
(clears throat) college for me.
But, um... I, uh, but I, I...
It was really-- It is--
It's such a humbling honor to be a part of an actual--
like a real American classic.
And, uh, in my mind, I just went,
"It would be like remaking Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,"
except for five million times better.
I, um... No, it's-it's-it's so-- it's such a--
It's a part of a formative-- It's such an important film
in the formative part of so many peoples' lives,
and to have-- Did you guys see Jungle Book?
Did you guys see The Jungle Book?
The Jung-- Yeah.
It looks better than The Jungle Book.
-That's not possible. -(stammering)
-That's not possible. -Wh-- No, I'm sorry.
-Have you seen Jungle Book ? -I have seen Jungle Book.
-Jungle Book looks amazing. -No. This-- I understand.
(stammering) No, Trevor. No, Trevor. It's better.
-It's better. -It can't be better.
There's a guy-- There was a-- One of the women,
she was a PA on the movie, and she was--
I was looking at renderings in one of the rooms,
one of their kind of imagination rooms,
and there was a picture of a lion, a young lion,
laying on a tree branch taking a nap
with a meerkat and a warthog,
and she told me that her boyfriend came in,
and he was looking at this photo-realistic,
like, rendering, and he's going,
"It's a-- I mean, that's impossible.
"Those... No, see, the lion would eat the...
(laughter)
How's that...?"
She goes, "Honey, it's, uh, it's not a photograph.
It's, uh..."
"Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah."
Like, he-- It looked so real.
It looked like a National Geographic photographer
was like, "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity."
You know? It looks so real-- It can't even--
-It's gonna-- It's breathtaking. -This is, this gonna be amazing,
-Breathtaking. -because it's not just, um,
it's not just gonna be The Lion King as well,
-but you're also in Toy Story 4 as well. -Yeah.
-You are-- Like, you are just... -(cheering)
You are, you are living through my childhood dreams.
This is what you are doing.
-No, because that's-that's phenomenal. -Yeah.
Toy Story's one of the most successful franchises ever.
-Of all time. -You're gonna be playing a character there
-as well. -Yeah. Jordan, Jordan Peele and I
are in it together as partners.
We're playing partners.
-Ah! -Yep. Yep. -(cheers and applause)
It's great. Right in the middle of the movie,
our two characters go to the sunken place, and, uh...
No. (laughs) It's real dark in Toy Story 4.
Um, no. It was such a pleasure.
Doing voice-over in an animated film is the best thing,
because you can do--
You can overact and chew up the scenery
almost as much as you want because you'll never reach
the-the heights of what the, what the cartoon characters--
You can give your all to try to, to try to match the character.
It's really fantastic.
Where, you know, in real life,
you want to get a little bit subtler every now and again.
But it-- Jordan and I-- And Jordan and I had the opportunity
to act against each other.
-In those movies, very often, you're by yourself, -Yes.
-doing the lines. -Oh, but you guys were in the booth,
-like, doing the thing. -We were in the booth
-looking at each other, and it was... -That's gonna be amazing.
Oh, my God, it's so much fun. And Hanks, and all, you know,
Hanks and Tim Allen, all the old-- you know, the...
-Hanks, like Tom Hanks? -Like Tom, Tom Hanks, yeah.
-Tom Hanks. -Oh. The rest of us, the rest of us,
-Oh, you know, Hanks. -The rest of us have to say his full name,
-but, I mean, yeah, yeah, Hanks. Go ahead. -Hanks, yeah.
-You know, I'm so... -Hanks. Hanks is also...
-You know, Hanks is in it and so is Allen, -Yeah.
and, um, you know, I'm so close with this guy
that I've met one time for three seconds, um, you know.
Dude, I'm so excited for you. Congratulations, season two,
-That's there, buddy. -Friends from College.
-Please. Um, Lion King, of course, Toy Story 4,
and everything, man, congratulations.
I'm so happy, man. I'm so happy to be here.
You would make a great host of another show.
Uh, Friends from College is available on Netflix.
Keegan-Michael Key, everybody.