-Billy, it is always great to see you.
Thank you for coming on the show.
I appreciate this.
-Jimmy, I am so happy to be here.
This is the most immersive Zoom I've been a part of.
[ Laughter ]
It feels like you guys are really there.
-No, these are real people! -All of this stuff.
-This is all real! Yeah, we're happening!
-This is incredible. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I always love talking to you,
and I was talking to you backstage,
and you said that you had some dental work.
-There was -- I don't know if anybody --
Well, I guess everybody has experienced the last year
or two years differently.
I've experienced a little stress during this period of time.
And, apparently, the way that I've gone about managing
that stress is trying to grind my teeth into powder at night.
And so, I go to the dentist, and my dentist says, she says,
"Well, I think there's
maybe a little something going on down there,"
which doesn't sound like a very technical thing to me.
So I thought, "Well, there is, yeah.
It's my teeth.
And she says, "No, no, the bone right there.
I see a little bit of a shadow."
So I said, "Okay. Well, what should we do about that?"
Like, maybe take a different picture or touch up the picture?
-Yeah, let's just try it again, yeah.
Maybe the shadow will go away. -You touch it up,
you got Photoshop, any of that stuff will work.
-Yeah, of course, yeah. -She doesn't have Photoshop,
so she sends me to her brother.
It's a family dentistry practice --
right around the corner, by the way --
if you need a referral, I'll stay afterwards.
[ Laughter ] They're fantastic.
Meet me afterwards. Walking distance from here.
-We're doing a podcast afterwards talking about it.
-And the guy looks at the photo with the little shadow,
and he says, "I think there may have to be an extraction."
Now, that's the first time I've heard that word at the dentist.
-An extraction. -An extraction.
-I think the worst I've done is a root canal.
-Yeah, I've done a root -- and this tooth already
had a root canal on it so -- Yeah, it was deep territory.
-So, an extraction. -But I haven't heard
the word extraction -- Well, I --
perhaps when I did the movie "Charlotte Gray."
I'm doing a plug for all my films right now.
[ Laughter ] -Out on blu-ray right now.
-Cate Blanchett. That's right. She was --
-The Criterion Collection is coming out.
[ Laughter ] -Might have to have been
extracted from France, in occupied France.
-That's correct. -No, that was not
what this was about. So he says,
"You're gonna need an extraction."
And I said, "All right. Well, can we do that next week?"
And he said, "Sure." I come in, and he starts
to numb me up, and he -- I was like,
"How many needles you got over there, boss?
Like, it looks like a lot." And he goes,
"Well, I'm gonna have to pull your tooth out
and then scrape out any infected bone,
so I'm gonna numb you up for about nine hours."
[ Audience groans ] "And in order to numb you up
for nine hours, it could take about 45 minutes
for me to stick needles in there to shoot your face full of --"
What do they -- novocain. -Sure.
-Novocain. And so I said, "All right.
Well, that sounds awful." [ Laughter ]
And I was waiting for him to say, "I'm gonna knock you out."
He didn't say, "I'll knock you --"
He said, "Would you like a little nitrous oxide?"
And I said, "Well, I have never had nitrous oxide."
And he said, "Okay. It's fine."
You just put this thing on your nose, breathe into it,
and see how you feel.
Some people feel a little claustrophobic, he says.
-You never had nitrous? -Never had nitrous oxide before.
Big mistake, error in judgment on my part in life.
[ Laughter ]
So he pulls out this contraption,
puts it on my thing. You know, I've got --
Like, it's like the Bane mask but it's on your nose.
[ Laughter ]
Like it's the worst D.C. villain everywhere.
It's like, "Batman, it is my time."
[ Laughter ]
Bane nose is like [high-pitched] "Batman, it's my time."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. So you get --
-So I got this thing on my nose.
And he goes, "Do you feel anything?"
And I go, "No." And he goes, "All right."
And I see him turn the little knob, and he goes,
"All right, take a slow, deep breath in."
And I'm like -- [ Breathes deeply ]
And he goes, "Do you feel anything?"
I'm like, "Well, this sweet Caribbean air."
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
-You're off. You're on vacation, buddy.
-I'm like, "Is that a steel drum I hear in the background?"
[ Laughter ]
"Let's get a piña colada and get this party started."
-What were you like? -I was chatty.
So, he and I talked a lot because it took the 45 minutes
to get my mouth all numb,
and I learned that he was a wrestler in college.
[ Laughter ]
Which I actually took great comfort in,
because I wrestled in high school,
and it was really hard, so I thought, "If you did it
in college, you must be accomplished."
-Yeah. -It came in handy
45 minutes later when he's got his foot on my chest
trying to rip out my tooth. -Oof.
-The funny thing -- This is the funny thing
about getting a tooth out. Well, with me anyway.
Mine didn't want to come out.
You know, it's been in there 48 years or however long.
It was stubborn, and I got to see him trying to work on it,
and I'm on the nitrous, so everything's fun, you know?
[ Laughter ]
-And you're seeing that angle.
-I'm like, "You're having trouble, aren't you now?
Suckah." [ Laughter ]
-And he's like, "No, you're the --"
-He's like, "I don't want to explain it."
He should have just turned off the nitrous at that point.
So he pulls it out, and that was not the end of the procedure.
-No. -Okay.
It turns out, when they pull it out,
your whole, like, skull, that's a resonant chamber,
so you don't just feel it, but you hear.
So you hear -- [ Audience groans ]
Any of the vocalists over there,
they know your skull is a resonant chamber.
So I had that reverberating through my ears
while he starts then drilling with his hands.
-Whoo! -So I'm now a bionic man.
I've got a metal -- I'll show the camera right over here.
-Camera, yeah. Camera one? -Are you guys ready for this?
[ Audience groans ] -Wow.
Wait. What is that?
-That's a titanium implant at the moment.
[ Laughter ] Oh, you mean --
Oh, you mean behind that? That's a gold tooth, Jimmy.
You don't have any gold teeth? -Wow!
Dude, you are like -- You're like Johnny Depp.
You're like "Pirates of the Caribbean."
-Get yourself a gold tooth. -Yeah.
-So this -- Yeah, this will stay in here.
Because, also, they have to do a bone graft.
"Where does it come from?" That's my question.
-Bone-graft material? -Yeah, I got it in my jaw now,
and it only occurred to me afterwards that I've got
somebody else's bone in my jaw now.
-Wow! -Yeah, like, could it be
an animal or... -It could be.
-Yeah, well, so anyway, I got to go back to him.
He's gonna pull out that part of it.
That's exactly the look I had on my face.
-I had a bone graft of a -- -So, what kind of bone?
-Like a pit bull. [ Laughter ]
-I feel like there's somebody here who knows better.
-No, it really is. -It was a pit bull?
We got a pit bull? -Feel it. You can feel it.
[ Barks ] -Oh, my --
[ Laughter, cheers, applause ]
-Hook, line -- Hook, line, and sinker right there, buddy.
Hook, line, and sinker.
[ Laughs ]
Hey, um, you -- Hook, line, and sinker, buddy.
Hey, you won the Emmy last year.
Congratulations, by the way. -Well --
[ Cheers and applause ]
And I would give you every award if I could.
-No need to mention it. I feel pretty confident
that's what most of us will remember 2024.
-Yeah, no. This is -- you did win the Emmy.
You are phenomenal in this, and I love the whole show.
-Thank you. -I love the whole plot of it.
I love the whole story line of it, but when you came on,
you just -- your acting is so good,
it's like you're not even reading lines,
it's like you're making these lines up.
I go, "Did he write this?" I mean, you're phenomenal.
-It is the craziest part I ever read.
It was so exciting, and I feel so grateful
to Kerry Ehrin and Mimi Leder and Jen and Reese
and everybody who allowed me to do it.
It was a really once-in-a-lifetime --
I'm old enough to know how lucky I am
when you get a part like that, and I knew I was --
I do my best not to screw it up. -You are so good.
I love the -- My favorite scene was you
and Alex -- Jennifer Aniston... -Yes.
-...singing "Nothing's Gonna Harm You."
-Because you're a song-and-dance man yourself, aren't ya?
-When I'm around -- It was just good and, just,
I loved it, man. You're great.
What's happening in season two? -Well, season two,
I think, basically -- Well, we started to shoot,
and then, we had to shut down,
because we started shooting in February out in Los Angeles.
-Oh, wow. -And then, things got
pretty serious, and so, they shut down production.
I flew back to New York.
And they rewrote the entire season to try to, you know,
write about what was happening in real time.
And the season takes place right after Alex and Bradley
have disrupted the network and said,
"We've had enough of this. We need a change
in the power structure," and so, season two is about
how they put the pieces back together during a pandemic.
-Yep. I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Billy Crudup in the new season of "The Morning Show."
Take a look at this.
-That was pirate television, and it has no place on our network.
-This really is The Land that Time Forgot.
All right. Well, I did my best, but I cannot drag you idiots
kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
You're just so caught up in ruling over
your rotten little fiefdom that you don't even see
the world that has sprouted up all around you!
All right. Well, enjoy broadcasting your cave paintings
to the last remaining savages who are still watching
over-the-air broadcasting. The rest of the world,
they've moved to the cloud,
and it is [bleep] gorgeous up there!
-Cory, if you'll excuse us,
we have a television network we need to fix.
-Well, get out that superglue.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah. That's how you do it!
Billy Crudup, everybody!
The new season of "The Morning Show"
premieres tomorrow on Apple TV+.