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- (Lacey) When was the last time you guys were
genuinely nervous-I'm curious, if in your case,
I mean, you took on I guess it's the antidote to
the "Me Too" movement, with being "Not Me" movement?
(Timothy, Sacha and Don laugh)
But I am curious in that, and I believe that started
on some level as your idea, do you get nervous,
do you think about sort of where that line is,
what is that navigation?
- Well, I mean I think, like sort of specifically to
the show, I've never worried only because the writers
involved. They're so good at handling those kinds of things
and always making sure that the joke is on the right person
so I never, I think, having a backstop of talent, like,
like, like is in our writers' room, is, is, is incredible.
But as a performer I never really have got nervous about it,
just because ultimately the joke is never on any of the
people that he is saying terrible things about, it's always
on how he-how terrible of a person he is.
- (Lacey) He is. - (Jim) Yeah, yeah.
- Because it's politics and not only U.S. politics,
but then world politics, there is not a single thing under
the sun that we can't be cynical about. And moving forward,
like, I think I will miss that a little bit.
- There's no side to it either.
- (Timothy) Yeah.
- Everybody's on the frying pan.
- (Timothy) Yeah. - (Lacey) That's terrible.
- Everybody is in there. I will miss that level of cynicism,
but at the same time, I am looking forward to not being so
cynical about every single thing that you come in contact
(Jim Laughs)
- But yeah I do think that like, nobody in making a, like
the "Not Me" joke wants to have the joke on the victims,
you know, like, nobody would think that was funny, so I do
think that, like, from the beginning, it's just like, oh,
they found a really good way to do that. I just had, like
a dumb, I was, like in backyard, I was raking and I was
like, I had a dumb pitch and I called our showrunner, and
pitched him like the very beginning of it and then they
built it out into what it became.
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- (Lacey) Hollywood likes to sort of lock people in lanes,
they want something, a specific thing from you, most often
it's because its, you've given it to them before, what are
the things that you get approached for that you just say,
"Ugh, not this again!"
- I-I-I'm grateful for every opportunity, but I will tell
you I've turn down a bunch of offers and/or auditions for
things that are just bad versions of the thing that I'm
doing already, like, kind of like, if there's too much of a
Venn diagram overlapped by-, I do somewhat reject that out
of hand. - (Henry) Sure.
- (Timothy) Here's a, sort of, gangly guy who's gonna say
sexually inappropriate stuff in an office, then he's
gonna wear a suit. Like, OK, we'll I'm, I'm doing that
already.
- (Lacey) And a really good version of that!
- (Timothy) He's not as funny, so, like, I do like, I mean,
I'm sure we try.
- I've done several of the parts you've turned down.
(panel laughs)
- You know, there's that, there is that thing of I do,
although it does involve like saying "no" to work, which I
never ever thought I would be in a position to do, I have
tried to be cognitive of it, since the beginning of the
show, you know what I mean?
- Absolutely.
- Complete this sentence: "I know I made it in Hollywood
when..."
- I feel like everybody that I met, like you,
like outwardly, you look, you look at them and you think,
"Well that person, that's person's fine, like, they're
perfect. They're sailing, like they're never gonna have to
hustle, and then you meet them and they still hustle.
- You bet.
- Still after and it doesn't matter. So that feeling of,
like, I've made it in Hollywood, I don't know that actually-
- Okay, but you do sort of have your first dose of success,
and feeling like, "oh I can make a career of this."
- (Don) It's fleeting.
- (Timothy) I did go see Steve Buscemi at a party one time,
and I will fucking tell you, that was amazing.
- (Lacey) That's your moment, okay.
- That was some great shit, right there.
- (Lacey) I love it.
- (Timothy) There was one time where Paul McCartney, I mean,
like, at a Twitter question-and-answer session, somebody
asked him like, "what were his two favorite shows", and one
I think was, just like, a UK reality show, and then he
mentioned our show, and it's like, "those are my two
favorite shows", and I do think there was a moment of quiet
in the room. It was interesting to know in that moment that
you were a part of something that a Beatle noticed.
(panel laughs and agrees)
Like, that seemed like a gigantic thing, "you mean, I didn't
get to take the rest of the day off?", but there was a thing
like I grew up, I lived my entire life and it came to this
moment and a Beatle knew something that I did and that seems
in itself insurmountable.
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- (Timothy) I just feel like, I don't know if I had much of
a choice into the matter of like, I-I have always been
somebody like, I think, from when I was a kid, like was able
to see the serious things, I just have only ever been able
to deal with them through this lens. And there, like,
this lens of, like, I need to make myself comfortable in
this, by, by look-by coming at it sideways,
and there is, I don't know if you guys did, I had a
conversation with a friend of mine about this recently, but
like, it was like sometimes when like some comes up with
your family, I don't know if your a bomb thrower, like
sometimes throwing bombs, sometimes they explode, but it
just, I don't know when it happened, but just ever since I
was a kid, in whatever situation it was, it was, like,
"all right, well I'm just gonna put this in here and see how
that goes", like it is fun, and I do feel like-
- Taking that risk is great.
- There is a risk there, but, like, the reward sometimes is,
this is an impenetrable person, and you got in with that.
- (Henry) Right.
- (Timothy) That is a really amazing thing thing and I-
- (Henry) For sure, right.
- And whether or not, it's able, you can get to it in a
different way is certainly possible, but my way into it,
has always been through that.
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