-Our next guest is an Emmy-nominated actress
and comedian you know from shows such as
"Broad City" and "The Good Place."
She currently stars in the third season of
the hit HBO series "Barry."
The season finale airs on HBO and HBO Max this Sunday.
Let's take a look.
-[ Whispering ] Sally.
Hey. Sally, wake up.
It's the whole home screen.
[ Gasps, laughs ]
Look at your freakin' face. It's huge.
That face is being seen everywhere this morning.
And you're still a 98% on Rotty T's.
-This is insane.
-It's all happening!
-Please welcome back to the show
our friend D'Arcy Carden, everybody.
[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪
Welcome back, D'Arcy. I'm so happy to have you here.
-[ Laughs ] -I know.
And, D'Arcy, it should be noted, you said,
you know, if Jeff Goldblum wants to stick around,
you would be happy with it.
-I'm not in charge here, but if he wants to stay, he can.
-Well, I think we're all very happy about that.
Let me just say, I have enjoyed this season very -- so much.
-Barry much? -Barry much.
[ Laughter ]
But this was a season, like a lot of great television,
that was interrupted by COVID.
So, how far into this season were you
when the rug got pulled out?
-When the thing happened? -Yeah.
-We were doing table reads, so we were about to start filming.
We were on the -- You know, L.A. lockdown
started on a Friday.
We went -- We did our table read on a Wednesday,
when it was still like, "What's going on?"
-Yeah.
-And we went to our little table read,
and everyone had like one individual hand sanitizer,
like that would fix it.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
And everybody was like, "Should we hug?
Should we not?"
And then a couple of actors and I got into Henry Winkler's car
and drove to lunch and, like, shared food, appetizers.
So we didn't know anything at that point.
We knew absolutely nothing.
And then we got the call that the world did the thing.
-Even after lockdown, if Henry Winkler asked me
to get in his car, I would.
For what it's worth. -You have to.
Yeah, you have to.
-I wouldn't say no to Henry Winkler.
-You know, like every morning, I called Jeff and said,
"What are we going to wear today?"
-It is...
And let me just stress, you might be
the first two people who have ever been on this show
that went black, yellow, and green.
-That's not a normal combo?
-And here you are together.
-I said, "I'll wear my pj's."
You wear a cool cardigan.
And our son will just wear a nice blue shirt."
-Mom, dad, why do you guys have to dress alike?!
-We laid out your clothes.
You refused to wear your black, yellow, and green.
-I know. I'm so sorry.
This is -- I want to say how really deeply excited I am.
A trailer just was out this week.
You are in a television adaptation of
"A League of Their Own."
-I am.
-A perfect film that I rewatched recently,
and I'm wondering --
Obviously, I'm a little bit older than you.
Did that movie mean something to you?
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It totally did.
You know, I played baseball as a kid
and I played a bunch of sports, and that one --
There was, like, so many good '90s baseball movies,
but this one really, really was --
meant something special to me.
Uh-oh. Oh, yeah. -Well, you have a photo.
You mentioned you played baseball, so I want to, um...
So, this is -- Is this a photo of you
that was then made into a button?
-You got that right. -Yeah, okay.
-Really just, like, I want to just point out
I did that myself.
-Yeah.
It's really nice. -I was a little kid.
I wasn't, like, a hairstylist, but I was able to create that.
Like, that's... -Yeah.
And, now, are you still -- -That's not nothing.
You're still doing work with BDT & Associates, right?
-Yes, yes.
-This is wonderful.
Also, I feel like a lot of people did --
in this era, did a lot of sports with turtlenecks, right?
-Yeah. Or, like, a nice mock turtleneck.
-Just a mock turtleneck, yeah.
-Can I just tell you that -- -Oh, yeah.
I'm sorry, Jeff.
I didn't mean to shout out your...
[ Laughter ]
-Another '90s movie that meant the absolute world to me
was "Jurassic Park."
Is "Jurassic Park." -Yeah.
-I'm a huge -- [ Cheers and applause ]
-It is nice, right? -As we all are.
-Yeah. -Nice segue?
-Yeah, very nice. -Thanks.
-You could do this. -Okay, great. Let's switch.
-You could do this. Very natural segue.
-I have to tell you, my parents took my --
I almost just said "children" --
my siblings and I out of school to see opening day of
"Jurassic Park."
And I was about that age, maybe --
Yeah, about that age, a little bit --
-So older than this.
Somewhere between these two ages?
Yeah, okay. Gotcha.
-I really like that part. So cute.
And then let's just look at the nose.
-Oh, yeah. That's great. That's a beautiful photo.
-Noses change, though.
-They do, yeah. Can we get a close-up?
-Noses change.
Noses change. They don't tell you that.
-They don't tell you that.
So, you got taken out of school. -Yes.
And we were watching the movie, and there was a moment
during the movie when you guys see the first dinosaur,
where, again, I was too old to have this thought,
but I was I was like, "Oh, dinosaurs do exist?
Oh, they always say they don't, but I guess they do.
Somewhere, they do."
-The funny thing about that is, that's exactly what
teachers say why not to take your kids out of school.
Like, you not only did you miss school,
you came back with, like, bad info.
-Totally. -Yeah.
-I didn't learn about any planets that day.
-But I did not know this about your parents.
They were super-cool Bay-area music --
More than fans.
They had a music magazine. -They did, yeah.
My parents had a music magazine called "BAM."
-BAM. -What the hell?
-I have every back copy of it. -Jeff, are you kidding?
-Yes. -Okay, you are.
But you -- Did you -- Do you remember BAM?
No, it's okay if you don't. Let's not do this.
-No, I kind of do. Yes, yes, yes.
-It was like in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
-Oh, wow! -Yeah.
-So it had a run. -Yeah, it had a really good run.
And, yeah, it was really a cool way to grow up,
because we got to go to concerts
and we would get boxes of tapes and CDs
and we would --
-And did your parents have an expectation that, as a child,
you were supposed to be cooler than your peers
as far as your music knowledge?
-They were kind of -- Yeah, absolutely.
-Okay. -Yeah. My mom especially.
It was my dad's magazine, but my mom was like...
She was -- She'd be driving in her little minivan,
and whoever was playing, she would be like,
"Who's playing drums on this?
Who produced this?
Who's doing backup vocals on this?"
And we would scramble.
Whoever could answer first was, like, mom's favorite that day.
-Wow!
And this is, like, '70s and '80s, like, rock 'n' roll music?
-Yes. Totally. Yeah, yeah.
Whatever -- It was old stuff, but it was like, you know,
whatever was new in California at the time
we were listening to.
-And you did as a -- You got to meet Huey Lewis.
-Yeah. A few times. Sorry to brag.
-That's a huge deal. I would be very excited by that.
-I've never met Huey Lewis. -Have you met Huey Lewis?
-I've never met --
-Okay, so you're telling me I'm the only --
Have you guys met Huey Lewis? You have. Okay, cool.
-Alright, great. -Yeah.
That guy frickin' rocks. Yeah.
-But how did -- Tell us the story of how --
Because -- I feel like you also met him in a unique way.
It's, one, exciting to meet him, but, two, the way you met him.
-I think I was about 5 years old,
again, a little younger than -- maybe about the age of tummy.
-Okay. -Tummy and nose, yeah.
We're thinking this age. -Okay, gotcha.
-My parents took my older sister, Laney, and I
to see Huey Lewis and the News.
And my dad was buds with him, so after the concert --
It was my first concert.
And after the concert, we went backstage, and everybody, like,
sort of couldn't find Huey.
And, apparently, he had had what he thought was
a bad concert, a bad show.
-Impossible. -Impossible. Thank you.
And then my parents sort of, like, lost sight of me,
little 5-year-old D'Arcy.
And I come around the corner, like, holding Huey's hand.
And, guys, he had a huge smile on his face.
I think I cheered him up.
-Yeah, a little -- I think if a 5-year-old comes --
I will say, that is kind of what I think about, like,
parents who have a music magazine.
They're like, "Oh, where's our kid?"
-Yeah, yeah, totally.
I'm like, "Also, keep an eye on your kid.
Keep an eye -- Maybe don't take your kids out of school and
keep an eye on your kid when you're backstage at a concert."
-That was also a middle-of-the-day Huey Lewis
concert that they'd taken you out of school for.
-Yeah, yeah. They took me out -- Yeah, it was the SATs.
-The teachers were like, "You know, they do, like --
They show movies at night, as well.
You could, like..."
-"You have a whole weekend." -"You could do both.
You could do school and go see 'Jurassic Park.'
-I think we needed to see the first showing.
That was the whole thing.
-And, so, at what time in your life -- And, again --
Well, I actually want to go back to "A League of Their Own"
to finish it.
You obviously had to play a lot of baseball.
-Yeah. -Did the skills come back?
-Oh, honey, they never left.
-Oh! [ Laughter ]
-I don't mean to be like that.
I don't mean to be like that. -That's great!
-Do you play baseball? -Do I ever, yes.
-You know what? You know what?
-Are you showing us how you play baseball?
-I'm just starting to play. I like to pitch.
-You know what? You know what's funny?
We got three Pittsburgh guys up here.
-We do. This is all Pittsburgh,
'cause you shot "League of Their Own" in Pittsburgh.
-We shot "League of Their Own" in Pittsburgh.
-And you fell in love with it. You fell in love with the city.
-I totally did. -All you got to do is go there.
-Yeah, that's true.
And that's -- For the audience at home,
all you gotta do is go there.
You'll fall in love with it. Were you born there?
-No, my dad was, yeah.
-Okay, daddy was born there,
but then you lived there when you were a baby.
When you were just about that age.
-Yeah, when I was -- Yeah. -When Seth was --
-When I was -- My ballet photo not available, yeah.
-And you grew up there. -I grew up there, yes.
I saw Roberto Clemente play at Forbes Field.
-Look at that. -Oh, my God.
-There you go. [ Cheers and applause ]
Pretty hard to beat that.
It's gonna be hard to top that fact.
What a delight to have both of you out here.
Thank you so much for being back, D'Arcy.
Thank you for sticking around, Jeff.
You guys, that's D'Arcy Carden right there.
The season finale of "Barry," in which she is fantastic,
airs this Sunday, June 12th,
and "A League of Their Own"
will be out this summer on Prime Video.
We'll be right back with more "Late Night."