-Do you like coming to New York? -I love coming to New York.
-You don't have a place here, do you?
-Uh...no.
-Wait. You kind of do? -No, I don't. No, I don't.
I've always wanted to. Now I think I'm too old.
I can't keep up with the city anymore.
I'm too tired. -Oh, please. Come on.
Are you taking in any shows?
Are you seeing any Broadway shows or anything?
Have you seen "Harry Potter"? Have you seen...
-I haven't seen "Harry Potter." I've been trying --
-I mean, you were in "Harry Potter."
-I was in "Harry Potter."
And, apparently -- I keep saying this.
Everyone is like, "Oh, don't say it's about Cedric Diggory.
It's a secret."
I'm like, "Isn't it a book?
It's a book already, right? I don't know.
-Yes. It is a book. -It's a book.
-Yeah, so people -- Yeah, all they have to do is
read the book, the spoilers.
Yeah, they go, "Don't tell me the ending."
You're like, "Oh, no. The Titanic sinks."
Yeah, okay, people know, people know, yeah.
-But, yeah, I mean, I've been intending to see it for ages.
It sounds amazing.
-Yeah. You should check that out.
Have you seen, like, any shows since you've been here?
-The only show I've really seen is the one next door,
The Rockettes, which I love The Rockettes so much.
-"The Christmas Spectacular"? -Real high-brow.
-No, it's fantastic.
-It's absolutely amazing. Yeah, yeah.
"The Christmas Spectacular"?
But that's not playing now.
I mean, that's -- Is it? Maybe it is. I have no idea.
No.
-the kid I went to watch it with was fast asleep the entire time,
and I was just absolutely enthralled with it.
-They are amazing, though, The Rockettes, aren't they?
But did you see the toy-soldier part?
-It was amazing. -That's the best thing ever.
I took a picture of it.
-I took a picture of that
and I did a slo-mo video of all the Santa Clauses.
It kind of looks like this sort of
absolutely terrifying Christmas.
-Like a psychedelic? -Yeah, yeah.
It's very, very, very trippy,
if you're in the right kind of mood.
-I like to see you funny, because you're a great actor,
obviously, in dramatic stuff,
but you're very funny in "Damsel."
-Thanks a lot. -And we've done bits together.
-Yes. -We were very funny.
I was doing an impression of you.
-I wanted to do another bit with you,
and I just get so scared.
Literally, 'cause, yeah, I really wanted to do
something funny, but there's something about trying to be
funny that's absolutely terrifying.
-Don't I know it? Yeah, every night, I try.
But, I mean, was it tough for this movie?
'Cause you're really good. You're really funny.
-Oh, thanks. -What was the tough scenes?
-I mean, I think the very first scene I did,
'cause I was acting opposite the director.
And we'd rehearsed and stuff,
but I don't think he quite realized
how hard I was gonna push, like,
my extreme desperation to be funny.
And it was this kind of long scene.
And just his look of just absolute terror.
"Who have I cast?" Like, "What are you doing?"
-"He's really milking this one. Wow."
-It's one of my favorites.
This is completely off the topic, but did you ever --
Never mind, never mind.
-You can tell me.
-No, I just always thought -- Like, did you ever see
this movie "Corky Romano" with Chris Kattan?
It's, like, one of my favorite movies ever.
-Chris Kattan? -Yeah, I love it.
-Yeah, it's fantastic.
-And the behind the scenes of that,
it's just one of my favorite things ever,
when he's just improvising, trying to make Chris Penn laugh.
And it's just -- I mean, I just see myself in that so much
when he's just --
-I love that you think of "Corky Romano"
when you think of comedy.
Chris is gonna love this. That's fantastic.
-"Corky Romano" is in my top three of all time.
-He's super-funny. Chris Kattan is one of the --
-He's the best.
-My thing that I became known for is that
I laugh during sketches.
I don't know if you heard that.
But we did a sketch called -- I don't know.
It was "Cowbell" is what we call it now.
And Will Ferrell was being really funny.
And Chris Kattan is in it. [ Cheers and applause ]
And Chris Kattan.
Chris Parnell's in it, Horatio Sanz.
They're all funny, and everyone's --
Christopher Walken.
Everyone's on their game. -Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-It was where Will's hitting the cowbell,
and his shirt's coming up.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-And I had like one line, and right before
I was supposed to say my line, Chris said something like,
"What's wrong with you?!"
And he was messing around with Will
and he knocked his glasses off.
And it was just a very funny -- Like, he was improvising,
but Will got into it, and so he knocked --
And then Will looked at me,
and I saw, like, the eyes of, like, a crazy person.
And I go like -- And so I started laughing.
I just totally broke, and I was like,
"I had one line the whole scene
and I totally messed up my line."
Like, "Yeah..." [ Mumbles, laughs ]
-Like, "Just get out, Jimmy! Get out!"
-Exactly. They're like, "Dude, you can't laugh."
I go, "But it was funny.
They're like, "Yeah, but you're in the scene.
You can't laugh at yourself."
I go, "I know, I know. I'm learning. I'm learning."
Also, when you're on a movie set, though,
no one is allowed to laugh.
-Yeah, no one's allowed to laugh.
And I didn't really understand that,
'cause it was two weeks in before I finally got
a single even titter from anybody.
And, like, you're literally just, like --
You're basically crying on set.
I mean, it becomes --
You're trying so hard to be funny.
It goes full circle.
I mean, you start doing, like, Octavia Spencer in --
Like, just kind of weeping
-Yeah, you're going for it.
You're like, "Oh, just please someone laugh at me, please."
Please, please." -Like, I'm very dramatic after.
-But you also have a good voice, too.
You got to sing. -Oh. Yeah.
Well...
-Well... -It's kind of singing.
-It is. It's singing.
It's singing. You've got the guitar.