-Congratulations. Six years is really amazing.
-It really is. What a treat.
-Your show did not just an incredible job of, I feel like,
reacting to what was happening in Silicon Valley,
but often predicting what would happen.
Like, here's, like, you from the first episode.
-Yeah, what can you say?
We have a bunch of, like, clairvoyant Precogs
working at the show as writers.
We have -- You know that scene in "Minority Report"
where there's that weird entity
that spits out the carved balls?
-Yeah.
-Yeah, that's -- -You've got one of those.
-That's Mike Judge, yeah. -Yeah. Oh, wow.
He just lays in, like, a bath of milk?
-"It's coming!"
-You've been here before saying that you wanted
"Silicon Valley" to end in the universe of "Game of Thrones."
-Oh, yeah. That would have been nice.
-Just, like, got all tied into an HBO family.
-Yeah, and then I had a sword and armor,
and everyone is like, "He's the hero, it turns out.
Oh. Okay."
-But now you have a new idea. -Yeah, yeah. Here's my pitch.
Okay -- And there's no time to make this happen.
But we end up in the "Big Little Lies" world,
and it turns out, we killed Skarsgard's character.
-Oh, wow. -It was us.
We are the little guys, and we did it.
And everyone is like, "Who did it?"
And we're like, "It was us the whole time."
-Wow. So all those women are innocent.
-They're totally innocent. -Oh, my God.
They've been covering for you. -Yes.
Time old -- A story as old as time.
♪ A tale as old as time ♪
-You -- I know you -- We met first --
-That's "Beauty and the Beast." -That's "Beauty and the Beast."
Which brings me to my question. -Oh, really?
-We met -- Well, we did.
We met as improvisers in Chicago.
-Yep.
-But did you ever -- the way you said "tale as old as time,"
was the theater ever a path for you?
-Yes, Seth.
I did cut my teeth upon the boards.
-You did.
-Oh, yeah.
Community theater of Nelson, British Columbia.
Boy, we know each other very well.
-Wow.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah. The stage. -They're happy to see you again.
Yeah. "When are you going to get back onstage?"
-Yeah. People must ask you all the time.
-Oh, yeah. It's a fun world, the theater.
It's a lot of, "Oh, oh! I haven't seen you in ages."
It's a lot of that. -Oh.
-It's like, "Oh, Tech Week."
"Oh!
Hands on your own props, guys, seriously.
Seriously."
-So if you go back to the theater,
you're going to fall right back into it.
-Oh, yeah.
I'm going to be stage manager, exclusively.
-Oh, that's -- Yeah, that'd be great.
You had another piece of work recently that -- very exciting.
-I've been busy, man.
I've been doing a lot of good stuff.
-Very. Not "Silicon Valley," not theater.
You entered the world of acting in a video game.
-Yeah, yeah. A lifelong dream of mine.
-There you go. -Yeah.
-So, this is just motion capture.
-Yeah. That's what it looks like.
-And what was the game?
-Well, it's, you know, a franchise
I'm super-well-acquainted with.
It's the "NBA 2K" franchise. -Okay, gotcha.
So now -- -Yeah, a big lifelong gamer.
Always wanted to be in a video game.
And I got the call being, "Hey, do you want to be
in the NBA game?"
And I was like, "You know I don't know
even how to play basketball whatsoever."
-Don't worry. I don't play. I'm a sports agent.
-Wait. So, you got cast in a video game --
-Yeah, to play a sports agent.
-And there you are in the video game.
This is so disappointing. -Yeah.
I'm just in a diner scene, you know?
-Yeah. You're not even in outer space or in a stadium.
-No laser guns, no nothing.
And I was like, "Oh, can you do a little something?
You know, pop that jawline a little bit more?"
"No, no.
We're going to make you look pretty standard
Middleditch right there."
-It also looks like the scene where the player
is firing you as his agent.
-Yeah. There's a lot of things,
and, you know, it's in the story mode, right?
And you make decisions, so there's a lot of scenes
where he had to do -- where we talk
and then we just enter this sort of static animation.
while this player has to, like, make his decision.
-Oh, I see.
So I'm at home waiting to press a button.
And what are you doing while I'm waiting?
-And I'm like, "So, Jay, what's it going to be?"
You just go to the sunken place for a little bit.
Yeah.
-You were someone -- When you were growing up,
were you on the Internet a lot?
Were you -- -Uh...
[ Laughter ]
-No, I feel -- As soon as I asked,
I was like, "Obviously --"
-Do you even have to? Yeah, yeah.
I've been known to, as a wee lad,
browse around the corners of some chat rooms.
-Yeah, yeah.
What was your chat-room life like?
-Oh, you know, just trying, you know, practicing flirting,
either with girls or people who I thought were girls.
-Yeah. Do you feel like you picked up some skills?
-Uh, yeah, pal. Yeah. I know how to talk to ladies.
ASL, babe.
I need that age, sex, location. -Oh, wow.
-Yeah.
-So, is that still -- And you found that that transitioned
very well into the real world?
-Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
-I go up right to someone's face and say, "ASL."
-Wow. -Uh, 37, male, here.
-Yeah. And then you're off and running.
-Yeah, like, "Ugh! Not for me. Got to be way older.
Got to be way older. I don't even see a fanny pack."
-Genuinely, congratulations on six seasons.
It's an amazing accomplishment. Thank you for being back.
-It was a dream to do this show. -It was great.
Thomas Middleditch, everybody.