-I follow you on Twitter. -Thank you.
-You're funny. You're welcome. Yeah.
And I suddenly really got into the World Cup this year.
Are you a big soccer fan -- or football fan?
-Love the World Cup.
-You do? -Oh, I love the World Cup.
And I like soccer.
I was more of a Gaelic-football guy.
Have you ever seen -- Yes, that's right.
-Yeah.
-That's right, four people. -That's a rough --
-Gaelic football is a sport they just play in Ireland.
It's played a lot by farmers, people from the countryside.
Very rural. -Yeah.
-Very rough, brutal, but beautiful,
like a big wave or having a --
-That's fantastic.
-Having a statue fall on your nuts or something.
-Oh, wow.
-It's quite -- I have a lot of injuries from it.
Broke my nose a couple of times.
This finger is a different size than this finger.
Different kind of ankles.
And I have the skeletal structure of a very old giraffe.
But great sport. You should try it.
-You should definitely try that.
-If you like wresting or death.
-You watched the World Cup.
I saw you were tweeting live when France won.
-Yes. I was happy to see them win.
It was good.
The last time they won was in 1998,
and I was living in Paris.
And the whole thing was in Paris.
-That's right. -And so that was quite exciting.
-I mean, they just partied like crazy?
-It was pretty big.
I was working in an Irish bar at the time,
and trying to get home was kind of tricky afterwards.
And kind of a million people went out onto the street.
And they shut down the subway,
and there was no traffic and everything.
And so, you know, we were pretty tanked
and we went looking for somewhere to sleep,
because we were never going to make it back to our place.
So, we walked to the river
and we tried to get on somebody's boat.
And this guy kind of jumped out, and he was like...
[ Shouting in French ]
...which means, "My family are on the boat."
-Oh, so you can't sleep in there, yeah.
-So, he said, "But the dinghy."
And he had a dinghy out the back of the boat,
and we slept on his dinghy, six of us,
'cause he was French, as you could probably tell.
-Yeah, yeah. That was a good accent.
Yeah, I could tell. Yeah.
For a second, I thought it might have been...
-That was good, right? -...Mexican.
No, I was great. Yeah, absolutely.
-I don't know a lot of French, but --
-"Trabajo" sounds like a word. Yeah, yeah. Of course.
-And, so, we slept on the dinghy
and then kind of woke up the next morning,
and somebody pulling off this kind of sheet that they
put over us, this rubberized sheet,
that we wouldn't get drowned.
And the Eiffel Tower was there,
and we were like, "This is living.
This is --"
-I mean, that's the way to do it.
-We're in heaven, and it's French.
-Is that right? I did not know that.
That's very interesting.
-I mean, they've been telling us for a while.
-Why were you in Paris? Were you vacationing there?
-You know, it was odd.
I went on a show not unlike this.
There's a show in Ireland called "The Late Late Show,"
which is a really long-running talk show.
And they do this thing where the host does kind of
an Oprah throughout the course of the show,
where he's like, "Oh, and we've got, like, this stuff,
and everybody in the audience can have one."
You should do that, by the way. That would play well.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Who wants some gin and blood?! -Gin and blood, yeah.
Half the audience did like it, yeah.
-They did this thing where they said,
"Okay, we've got tickets for this ferry that are going
from Rosslare, in Ireland, to France, to Cherbourg,
and we've got four tickets for everybody in the audience.
And we were kind of drunk students at the time.
And, so, 16 of us headed off on a ferry to France for a day.
We said, okay, we would go for a day.
It was kind of a booze-cruise kind of a thing.
And we arrived in France, and I had never been abroad.
I had never been out of the country before.
I was probably 19. And I thought, "Oh, it's nice.
They've got bread and wine and cheese
and all of this kind of stuff."
And I said, "Let's go to Paris for the day.
Everybody with me?" And everybody was like, "No."
So, I went to Paris on my own
and ended up staying for five months.
-What?! This is a great story.
-It was kind of wild, I suppose, looking back on it.
But I thought, "Okay, well, I'll go and see
a couple of the sights and then I'll go back
on the train and get back on the ferry and go home."
So, I went to the Eiffel Tower and I was walking around
and I was about to jump back on the train
to go home, and somebody went, "Chris!"
And it was a girl that I knew from home
who had been on some exchange program.
And she's like, "Oh, yeah, I'm about to go home, as well,
but let's go out tonight."
And so we went out that night
and we went into this cocktail bar on the Champs-Elysées,
and it was the wildest place I've ever seen.
I was quite green, I think, and hadn't been away so much.
And, so, I asked them for a job,
and they kind of pan me off and said, "No, no, no.
You can't have a -- You know, we don't need anybody."
And I was like, "But I'm really good at cocktails,"
which was not so much the case.
Never done it.
-Good at drinking it, but not making it, no.
-Yeah. And they said,
"Well, come in for an interview tomorrow."
And so, I said, "Okay."
And I went in, and the guy didn't turn up.
And I kind of went over and I was like, "Is Marco here?"
And this lady was like, "No, I'm the day manager.
Marco doesn't work during the day."
And I was like, "What a dick, just to tell me to come."
And, so, it was kind of crazy,
'cause the World Cup had just started.
Then I was going over and talking to her,
and somebody just dropped a whole tray of drinks.
And I was like, "There's a little thing going on here."
And she said, "Why are you here?"
And I said, "I'm supposed to start work today."
And she said, "Oh, God.
Well, he never tells me anything!"
-'Cause she's mad at him, too. -Yeah.
And she's like, "Okay, well, grab a T-shirt."
And so she gave me a T-shirt, and I got behind the bar.
And it was a big bar, and there was a bunch of people.
And there was one guy from Ireland there,
and I was like, "Dude, I have no idea what I'm doing."
And he's like, "That's okay.
Just pull pints, and I'll make the cocktails,
and we'll work it out."
And then, that night, Marco comes in,
the manager for the thing,
and he's like, "What the hell are you doing behind a bar?"
And I was like, "Well, I did the interview with Annalise."
[ Laughter ]
-Dude, you're a genius! You are a genius. Why not?
-Yeah, that was crazy.
That's the kind of stuff you do when you're 19.
I know. When you're 19. Gosh. -Yeah, fun time.
-Well, I have to say, we had your pal, Rose Byrne,
your co-star.
-Oh, you had her on. -She was on the show.
-Did she say nice things about me?
-Yeah, absolutely. She definitely did.
"Juliet, Naked" is the name of the film.
-Yes. -And explain this film.
You're obsessed with -- Ethan Hawke is a --
-That's right.
Ethan Hawke plays a singer/songwriter
from the '80s, '90s, kind of a Jeff Buckley type of figure
that I'm obsessed with.
I'm a huge fan.
Rose and I are together in the film.
And he releases a new album, his first in 20 years.
He's this recluse. And I don't treat her very well.
I'm kind of just this kind of nerdy, music-y guy.
And she, you know, deserves better.
And, so, I kind of --
I'm more in love with him, really, than I am with her.
And we track him down, and it doesn't go very well for me.
-Not for you, but -- -No.
-But it goes well -- -But they get on great.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Exactly. It's great. It's good.
It's a good, like, romantic comedy.
Jesse Peretz directs it. It's fantastic.
-It's a really fun movie, yeah, and the music's great.
-You're great in everything I've seen you in.
"Get Shorty," is also you're very funny in, as well.
-Oh, thank you. -This is on Epix.
And we just had your co-star -- Ray Romano was just --
-Did he say nice things about me?
-Yes, he did.
-Weirdly, every week, we have people that like you,
just talk about you,
and, eventually, we get you on the show.
But he really did -- -Ray is the best.
-He is one of the funniest human beings,
like, whatever he's even saying.
He could just read a phone book and make you laugh.
-He's got the best voice.
He's got a voice -- I don't know.
You know, it's like a dog waking up.
You know, Ray's going... [ Yawns as Romano ]
[ Laughter ]
-A dog waking up.
[ Both speaking as Romano ]
-Yeah, let's see a movie. -Yeah.
-[ Normal voice ] Oh, but he's great.
He's so funny on the show.
[ As Romano ] Eh. Yeah, I know.
[ Normal voice ] But he's great.
And he plays kind of, like -- I love working with him,
because he's very present and he's kind of still
always looking for a punch line, and it's so kind of smart.
And he plays desperation better than anybody I've ever seen,
in a way that makes you feel like maybe he's quite desperate.
And then you kind of go to his mansion
and you're like, "Nah, he's doing all right.
-Yeah. He's doing just fine. -Yeah.
But he's the best. -It's a great series.
It's almost like watching a movie.
But that's how well done it's directed and shot.
-Oh, thank you.