- We are back with Melissa McCarthy and
Ben Falcone everybody.
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That was a look at their new Netflix series
"God's Favorite Idiot",
and joining us now are their co-stars from the show.
You know one from Talladega Nights and Iron Man,
and the other from True Detective
and Veep, say hello to Leslie Bibb and Kevin Dunn.
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- Your hair!
- Oh my gosh.
We're gonna have to talk about your hair for a minute.
- You realize when I... I just screamed that
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when I was in Australia, I did her show,
when I was with them! Yeah!
We were all in Australia, I did your show,
and it was so weird to be
on zoom that far away from you.
So it's so nice to be...
- So you play Satan.
- Yeah, Satan.
- What does one do for research for that role?
Just, do you read the Bible? Or...
- No, I didn't read.
No. I did read that!
I did look at the demonic book that,
that we referenced this book.
So I did a deep dive.
Cause there's like all these different words for Satan,
so I looked up...
- Like Lucifer, all those things
- DDD. Demonic deep dive.
- Beelzebub, I think there's a lot of 'em.
- There is a lot! Right?
And so, but I don't know if you're playing
somebody that's so evil,
I don't think evil people think they're evil
or they're bad.
Right? They think kind of think they're good.
And so...
- I think they're called narcissists, but yeah.
(laughter)
- We see them all the time
- All the time!
- They're just out and about.
- So I don't know.
I wanted her to be a little bit like
Tracy Flick in "Election".
- Yeah.
- And I think she desperately wants like friends.
I think she's obsessed with, I think she really feels
like she's gonna get Melissa on her side.
She's like, she's like, I could see it.
- Probably.
- And I think she just really wants to be,
like picked for the team.
And I don't think she ever is.
- And then burn you alive.
- And then burn you alive!
- But with a smile!
- She'll turn on you really fast.
- That was a great movie.
Yeah. Can I get you something?
Yeah. Burn you alive.
Light the couch on fire.
- I just think that'd be a more,
like a more fun role to play.
- It's so fun and these guys let you do anything,
they're so fun to work for because don't like,
they let you try, anything, right?
- Just we don't have a plan going in.
- Yes you do!
- They're just like do something.
- No, I love that.
But do you think that y'all do that because you
are those kind of actors, you like a little bit of,
I mean your whole life is improv,
I think, your children would say.
- I have to say when you have, I mean,
when Ben and I, think when you have like,
people like this,
and we have such a great cast.
- Yeah.
- It's like, here's the roadmap, but like
you don't hire great people and be like
don't do what you do.
Yeah.
- It's very fun, like going on set and like going
through a scene that you're gonna go in the next day.
And then like hopping on and then going,
like rehearsing?
It's so ridiculous.
- Yeah, it is.
- Because you, like, you get halfway through it
and you would just start talking.
- Welcome to my life, Kevin.
- I know. It must be terrible.
- It would just change,
the whole scene would be a different scene
but it was be like,
that's good.
- So you, Kevin, you played Ben's dad.
So do you think that he'd make a pretty good son?
No pressure in answering, he's right here.
- He was a fine son.
And we covered a lot of ground in the sauna.
- [Ben] We did.
- Yeah. It was so fun.
I mean, just when we were talking about setting it up
and when Ben mentioned it, when he called me,
it's just an odd thing.
I had just finished building a sauna
or was in the throws of...
- Did you say you built a sauna?
- Yeah. That was my Covid project because...
- Okay. I just love how you were just like, oh yeah,
and then I built a sauna.
Like that was very flippant.
- [Melissa] The odds are that are like,
they're so crazy.
- It was so weird, cause it was like, yeah,
I'm doing this thing.
And you know, you play my dad and you,
and we sit in the sauna and talk.
And I said, you know what I was just doing today?
I was hooking up the heater, the final heater to
the sauna because there was nothing to do.
I was, there was no work.
We were locked down and my wife was like, wow.
- [Kelly] You need to do something.
- She had bought me a book about
building a Finnish sauna and said...
- Not inside the house!
- Yeah. Outside. Yes. Outside. Out!
- So, yeah.
- I feel very lazy. I didn't learn,
I didn't build anything nor did I learn a language.
You built a sauna, and the first time you said
Finnish sauna I was like, like a finished project.
And I was like, oh no, he means like Finland.
- The Finns.
- Like the Finnish.
- Yeah.
- Oh my God, I thought you, I thought you meant,
I went Tim 'The Toolman' Taylor,
I thought she was like, you need to actually finish the job.
Like I thought you went there to oh, okay,
like I finish.
- As opposed to a, yeah.
- What makes it Finnish in its look, versus a normal sauna?
Now I'm curious.
- It's not just, it's not what the look is,
it's just how it's vented.
- Ooh.
- It's pretty basic.
It's just, you know...
- The Finns, right?
- They're really great with venting.
They know how to vent!