FOLKS, MY NEXT GUEST YOU KNOW FROM VARRITY BLUE, DON'T TRUST
THE B IN APARTMENT 23 AND OF COURSE DAWSON'S CREEK.
PLEASE WELCOME JAMES VAN DER BEEK.
NICE TO MEET YOU, COME ON OUT.
(APPLAUSE) HEY, NICE TO MEET YOU.
>> GOOD TO MEET YOU.
>> Stephen: YOU ARE-- I WOULD DESCRIBE YOU AS DASHING RIGHT
NOW.
>> WELL, THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: YOU HAVE THE ENGLISH MUSTACHE, AND THE SUIT,
ARE YOU THE NEXT JAMES BOND?
>> WELL, WHEN I GREW THE MUSTACHE I THOUGHT I WOULD LOOK
LIKE PAUL NEWMAN BUT I KIND OF VEER A LITTLE MORE TOWARD
ITALIAN PORN STAR IF I'M BEING HONEST.
>> Stephen: BOTH GOOD LUCKS.
NEWMAN COULD HAVE BEEN ITALIAN PORN STAR, DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY
FROM HIM.
COHAVE DONE ANYTHING.
NOW YOU STARTED OFF IN THEATER.
WHERE DID YOU GROW UP.
>> CONNECTICUT, CHESTER, CONNECTICUT.
>> Stephen: DID YOU COME INTO THE CITY AND SAY I WANT TO DO
THAT.
>> YEAH, I DID.
I STARTED AUDITIONING WHEN I WAS 15.
I WOULD TAKE THE METRO NORTH COMMUTER TRAIN.
>> Stephen: AND YOUR FAMILY WAS BEHIND IT.
>> MY DAD WAS BEHIND T MY BAD PLAYED BASEBALL, SO HE
UNDERSTOOD CHASING A DREAM AND MY MOM WAS A DANCER SO SHE
REALLY ALWAYS BELIEVED IN ME, THANK YOU, MOM.
AND YEAH, SO THEY WOULD GET ME TO THE TRAIN STATION, I WOULD
TAKE THAT IN AND I AUDITIONED FOR, THEY WOULD JUST SAY GO,
GOOD LUCK.
>> MY MOM TOOK ME INITIALLY.
SHE DIDN'T JUST THROW ME TO THE WOLVES.
SHE TOOK ME N I GOT MY FIRST AGENT AND THEN THEY WOULD SEND
ME IN FOR COMMERCIALS FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, MY BATTING AVERAGE
ON COMMERCIALS WAS ZERO.
>> I COULD NOT BOOK A COMMERCIAL TO SAVE MY LIFE.
>> Stephen: IF YOU CAN'T BOOK A COMMERCIAL HOW WILL YOU EVER
WORK.
>> EXACTLY.
BECAUSE THAT IS THE STEPPING STONE, RIGHT, LIKE I CAN'T GET A
CORN POPS COMMERCIAL.
I WANTED THAT CORN POPS COMMERCIAL.
>> Stephen: YOU COULDN'T GET THE CORN POPS COMMERCIAL.
DO YOU REMEMBER, WHAT WAS THE COPY, DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU
WERE SUPPOSED TO SAY.
>> GOT TO HAVE MY POPS.
>> Stephen: CORN POPS.
IT'S NOT-- IS IT TOO LATE.
>> I THINK IT'S TOO LATE.
I THINK IT'S TOO LATE.
>> Stephen: WHAT WAS YOUR BIG BREAK, OKAY I MIGHT BE ABLE TO
DO THIS.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT, THE AGENT'S ASSISTANT AT MY OFFICE VICTORIA
SUBMITTED ME FOR AN EDWARD ALLBY PLAY.
>> Stephen: THAT SAY CLASSY START.
>> YEAH, AND I BOOKED IT.
AND SO I GOT-- I STARTED GETTING GOOD REVIEWS FOR THIS PLAY.
>> Stephen: WAS HE STILL ALIVE AT THE TIME.
>> HE WAS ALIVE, HE DIRECTED IT.
>> Stephen: SO YOUR FIRST BIG BREAK IS ED WAR ALLBY, WHO'S
AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF.
YOU GOT TO WORK WITH HIM, HOWL WERE YOU.
>> I WAS 16 YEARS OLD.
>> Stephen: DID HE GIVE YOU ANY ADVICE.
>> HE GAVE ME THE BEST ADVICE I'VE EVER GOTTEN.
I WAS NERVOUS ABOUT REVIEWERS COMING TO THE PLAY.
AND I WAS MILLING ABOUT ON STAGE ON A NIGHT I KNEW REVIEWERS
WOULD BE THERE.
HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP, HE SAID WHAT IS GOING ON.
I SAID I DON'T KNOW IF WHAT I AM DOING IS GOOD.
IF WHAT I THINK IS GOOD IS WHAT THE CRITICS THINK IS GOOD.
AND HE PUT A VERY FRIENDLY HAND ON MY SHOULDER AND SAID RELAX,
YOU'RE AMONG FRIENDS.
AND I JUST THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE WAY TO APPROACH
EVERYTHING IN THIS BUSINESS, IS DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE
SAY OUTSIDE, JUST DO WHAT YOU CAN TO HELP EVERYBODY OUT.
>> Stephen: WELL, THE NEW THING ARE YOU DOING, IS YOU'RE
PLAYING A GUY NAMED DIPLO.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: ON A VICELAND SHOW CALLED.
>> IT'S A VERY HUMBLE TITLE, WHAT WOULD DIPLO DO.
>> Stephen: OKAY.
SO HERE IS DIPLO, THE CHARACTER, THIS IS NOT YOU, THIS IS THE
ACTUAL DIPLO.
>> THAT IS THE GUY.
>> Stephen: WHO IS DIPLO AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
>> DIPLO, I EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE, THERE ARE TWO SCHOOLS-- THE
WORLD IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PEOPLE.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHO DIPLO IS AND PEOPLE WHO CANNOT
FATHOM THAT ANYONE DOESN'T KNOW WHO DIPLO IS.
SO TWO THE PEOPLE IN THE FORMER GROUP, I SAY DIPLO IS THE FRANK
SINATRA OF ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC.
IS HE A DJ, WORLD FAMOUS DJ, PRODUCER.
HE'S WORKED WITH EVERYBODY FROM I MEAN MADONNA, BEYONCE, JUSTIN
BIEBER F YOU LISS TO POPULAR MUSK AT ALL YOU KNOW HIS SONGS.
>> Stephen: OKAY.
>> BUT YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW HIS FACE.
>> Stephen: OKAY.
>> SO I WAS ASKED TO DO A COMMERCIAL FOR HIS TOUR, FORTH
MATTHEW'S BLOCK PARTY AND VICELAND CAME AND SAID WE THINK
THIS IS A SERIES.
AND I SAID IT'S NOT A SERIES.
AND THEN I PLAYED DIPLO, I PLAY A FAKE VERSION OF DIPLO, AND
BASICALLY WHAT I PITCHED TO THEM WAS PARABLES TO THE EYES OF A
CLOWN AND KIND OF, LIKE E-- JESS-- JESSUS SUCKS AS LIFE.
>> Stephen: LET'S PUT THAT AT THE BASE OF THE STATUE OF LIB
THE.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS CLIP.
>> WHICH CLIP.
>> Stephen: MEDICATION OR SOMETHING.
>> OH, MEDICATION SO BASICALLY WE-- DIPLO HAS NO PROBLEM WITH
US MAKING FUN OF HIM.
SO WE JUST WENT WILD.
SO THIS IS OUR IMAGINED VERSION OF WHAT DIPLO WOULD MEDITATE
ABOUT IF HE MEDITATED.
>> AND YOU WROTE IT.
>> YEAH, I WROTE IT.
>> Stephen: OKAY, JIM.
>> BEUDA SAID WE SHOULD HAVE NO MATERIAL POSSESSIONS THAN WHY
WAS HE SO FAT, WHY ARE MONKS ALWAYS ASKING FOR MONEY.
IF JESUS WAS ON TWITTER HE WOULD HAVE MORE FOLLOWERS THAN BEUD.
BEUD TALKED WITH A TWEET, SUPERSHORT AND CONFUSING BUT-- I
BET JESUS HAD MORE HATEDDERS THAN BEUDER, AND MORE FOLLOWERS.
[BLEEP] HATERS ARE-- WAIT, WAIT-- THERE WE GO.
-- WAS KIND OF CORNY, I BET THEY NEVER GOT INTO ANY PARTIES, I
BET WHEN JUS ES CULLED PUP, THEY ARE LIKE WHO DO HOW MANY YOU
GOT, 12, AND ONE PROSTITUTE.
(APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: CONGRATULATIONS.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
>> Stephen: WHAT WOULD DIPLO DO PREMIERS TOMORROW ON
VICELAND.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK, EVERYBODY.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH ROCK LEGEND JOE WALSH.