I told you, man.
I’m gonna handle this right now.
I’m gonna handle it right now.
It’s being handled, watch.
Andi, what’s happening?
Hey, Donald!
What’s going on?
Oh, you know, just getting ready for the show.
Oh, this is how you start the set up, huh?
Yep!
Hey, listen, first of all thanks for having me.
Thanks for coming.
Best day ever.
Other than when I had kids.
[Laughing]
Or when my wife had kids.
I was wondering, can I do the Yoda voice at the beginning of The Star Wars Show?
I don’t know.
We’ve been using the same voice for like all of our episodes.
I know but I think I could…
Listen, just listen to what I’m about to do.
Okay.
It’s The Star Wars Show, baby!
It’s too cool.
Oh.
Yeah, way too cool.
Okay, how about this?
IT’S THE STAR WARS SHOOOOW!
A little too Oprah.
Alright, how about this?
The Star Wars Show, it is.
Hm, too accurate.
Okay.
Yeah, you need to make it a little more annoying.
Like, think cringe.
Embrace the cringe.
IT’S THE STAR WARS SHOW!
Nailed it!
I know.
Scott, you’re fired.
Scott!
It’s my job now!
This is The Star Wars Show with Donald Faison aka Hype Fazon!
Hello and welcome to The Star Wars Show, the only Star Wars…
Andi?!
Oh, okay.
Andi apparently shows up when television stars are here and then leaves immediately afterwards.
Uh, so I will be hosting by myself.
But don’t worry, I have a contingency plan for just this sort of thing.
Let’s go to the news.
See? Perfect!
It’s totally the exact same height, perfectly to scale, very flattering picture.
She’s gonna love that I did this.
Lucasfilm announced on Thursday that it is currently in development on a second live
action Star Wars series for Disney+, the company’s upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service,
starring the Jabba the Hutt loving actor, Diego Luna.
The new series follows the adventures of rebel spy, Cassian Andor, prior to the events of
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story during the formative years of the Rebellion.
In a quote for Star Wars.com, Luna stated,
Adding,
Except it sounded like a thousand times more cooler because it was coming out of Deigo’s
mouth and not mine.
The rousing spy thriller will explore tales filled with espionage and daring missions
to restore hope to a galaxy in the grip of a ruthless Empire.
The series will go into production next year, and a release date has not yet been announced.
Star Wars: Jedi Challenges has added a brand new Dark Side Expansion.
The free content update to the augmented reality experience lets you wield Kylo’s saber against
light side characters like Rey and Yoda.
Also new is a Ship Battles mode, where players can command capital ships in battles against
opponents in real-time local multiplayer matches.
For more information about Star Wars: Jedi Challenges dark side expansion, including
details on the new Kylo Ren Lighsaber controller, check out JediChallenges.com.
And for more breaking Star Wars news from around the galaxy, and your chance to purchase
one of these Andi Gutierrez standees…
How much would you pay for one of these?
Let me know how much you would pay for one of these.
We’ll sell them.
Head to StarWars.com/sws.
Everybody, look who it is!
You know who it is.
They don’t know who it is.
Hey! It's Donald!
Hype Fazon is in the building.
Hype Fazon.
What a fun character.
What a great character.
Great way to make your impact on the Star Wars universe.
I mean, if you’re going to make an impact, that’s the way to do it.
Right?
He’s the best pilot.
Best pilot on the Colossus.
He’s funny, he’s green, and you know it ain’t easy being green.
Dave Filoni has said that this is one of the only characters that he has every created
around a person.
So your personality and obviously your name were sort of the basis for it but everyone describes
Hype Fazon as arrogant.
Yeah.
Egotistical.
Yeah.
Not a good friend.
Me, me, me, me, go on.
Are they trying to tell you something?
No, I’m nothing like that.
I hope I’m not like that.
No.
I have hung out with you for a while today, you’re not at all like that.
I think it’s the name, Fazon.
Hype Fazon, it sounds like an egotistical…
So he’s one of those fun characters that I really like that’s sort of morally ambiguous.
You know, he’s kind of the bad guy but he’s not really all that bad.
Tell me a little bit about playing that character and making resistance.
You’re absolutely right.
He’s one of those guys that you have no idea if he’s on your side, is he against
you, is he down with you?
But I will say it’s a lot of fun playing Hype Fazon.
I’ve been lucky enough to do vocal work in booths before and this is the most fun I have.
I get to have a lot of freedom.
You know, there’s something really cool about having your name in the Star Wars universe
and being able to deliver whatever it is that you want to deliver as that character.
You’re obviously a massive fan of Star Wars.
It’s alright, it’s alright.
[Laughing]
I mean, working with Robot Chicken, you’re on the Black Stormtrooper series, the original
Black Stormtrooper series.
The original black, before there was Finn, there was Black Stormtrooper.
You’re very into stop motion animation.
Yeah.
Is that sort of a hobby that you picked up?
Well yeah, from watching Star Wars.
Empire Strikes Back I wanted to know how they made the AT-AT walkers maneuver.
It was stop motion.
And I remember seeing something from like Star Wars to Jedi and they explained how everything
was on the blue screen or in front of a matte painting.
I’m a fan of stop motion animation and I do it in my spare time.
I bought a camera and I practiced and I practiced when I was a kid.
And then Seth Green started doing Robot Chicken and I went down and I interned at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.
That’s wild.
You interned at Stoopid Buddy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is while you have your acting career already going.
Yeah.
They were at a different place before they went to Stoopid Buddy but I interned there
while I was doing Scrubs.
That is so cool.
Yeah.
Always learning.
And it was really awesome to do the tour today.
It is pretty cool to walk into a place and it’s like this palace was built for me.
WHHAAATT?!
Oh my gosh, you could even sit something in there?
This is the dopest tour in the history of tours you guys.
Are you kidding me?
So now you’re in Star Wars.
I am in…[Laughing]
You’re here now.
[Laughing]
Oh man, that sounds awesome when you say that.
[Laughing]
Yes, I am in Star Wars, go on.
And you know, now you’re a father and your sharing Star Wars with your kids.
I’d love to know what that experience is like.
Like not only introducing them to something you love but being like yo, that’s me right there.
Right.
I kind of forced my kids into it.
They don’t have a choice.
No.
They don’t.
But now my son, Rocco, he loves Star Wars.
And he loves it to the point where he is always playing Star Wars.
I’ve introduced him to Battlefront.
He’s only five, I know, judge me.
It’s alright, I’ll take the hate mail.
But he plays Battlefront every now and then and he’s better than I am at it.
Like he loves Star Wars now and it’s the best thing for me because I love Star Wars
more than anything.
Mhmm.
Other than him and his sisters and brothers.
But uh… and my wife obviously too.
[Breathe]
Just lower on the list now.
The Stars just keep dropping.
It’s fine, it’s fine.
Well I love Hype Fazon.
He’s an awesome character.
Resistance is awesome.
I love that you love Hype Fazon.
He’s so cool!
He is cool.
And he’s got the coolest ship.
He does have the coolest ship and he’s fast and he’s green, come on.
What more can you ask for?
For him to be in Episode 9.
What?!
Andi, that was a great interview.
[Fake Andi voice] Thank you Anthony.
Everything you do is great.
You’re right!
You shouldn't flatter me like that on camera but you’re 100% correct.
Mutual admiration aside, a lot of you showed your love for Star Wars Celebration this week.
Marcus Dohring kicked it off with a tweet about his memory of running with the Willrow
Hoods on our stage, which is one of my favorite Celebration memories of all time.
Brianna Jones got to sit 50 feet away from Mark Hamill, I legally have to stay 75 so
you’re one up on me.
Ruben Ramriez got Carrie Fisher to smell him, and CallMeSnips debuted her Mortis Ahsoka cosplay.
And as always remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel, follow us on Twitter,
Facebook and Instagram.
Also, slight programming note, since next week is Thanksgiving in the states, and everyone
who works on the show would rather visit their “families” instead of making an award
losing short form variety show for Lucasfilm, priorities people.
So The Star Wars Show will not have a new episode next week.
But don’t fear!
We’ll be back the week after with both hosts in the same room at the same time!
It will be functionally the same.
I’m telling you I did a great job on this.
Thanks for watching, and excelsior.
I bet we could sell at least 100 of these.
You know, your delivery is a little flat.
Up top!
You can’t.
You’re cardboard.
It’s me, your incredibly funny uncle.
Womp, womp.
You can’t answer.
But I’m talking to you like you can.
It’s getting weird.