-Our first guest tonight
is the talented actor and writer, you know,
from such shows is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
and films like "Horrible Bosses,"
he stars in "I Want You Back," which premieres on
Amazon Prime Video February 11th. Let's take a look.
-People like to be my friend. I'm extremely affable.
You know, in college, all the girls were like,
"You're such a good friend." -Oh, darn it.
-But, but but the point is,
people like to be my friend. -Right.
-I get in his head. -That's exactly right.
You get in his head and then you make him realize
that Jenny isn't that great. -She's not that great.
-Yeah. And that I am the one that got away.
-Hey, do you really think we could do this?
-Yes, I do. -I'm in if you're in.
-I will seduce Logan.
You will friendship, seduce Noah and we will win back our people.
-Alright.
-Please welcome to the show, Charlie Day, everybody.
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Welcome! It is lovely to have you here.
-It's good to be back with people.
Right? Isn't it nice to be in a room with people?
-Yeah, at a distance. -At a distance.
Yeah, it's nice that this gap is just perfect.
You realize this is why castles had moats.
You know. -It was COVID protocol.
-Yeah, you know, very early.
It was plague protocol.
They were going to be, yes, if they had the plague.
You had to be very determined to get in the castle.
-Yeah, exactly. -He's coughing a lot,
but he's he's getting across that moat.
Yeah, well, anyways. -You --
We met in this building in 2011 when you hosted "SNL,"
which was fantastic. It was a fantastic week for us.
We were huge fans of yours. Did you enjoy that time?
-Yeah, that was like the greatest time in my life.
It's been a while. What's going on?
-Yeah. -You know, I think it's time
to have me back. -Right? Yeah.
I mean, you've been very busy.
-I've been busy. -It was an excellent episode.
Have you gone back and watched it?
-You know what? I've never watched it.
-Okay. -I've never watched it.
And not because I don't like watching myself, which I don't.
But no, because it was such a good time and it's such an it
like it was always a dream for me to be on the show
and I didn't want my viewing of it
to replace my memory of the experience.
-Yeah. -So, no, I've never seen it.
I hear it's good. -It's really good.
You did a really good job. -Thank you.
You are the head writer still at the time.
-I was the head writer at the time. Yeah.
-And then did they fire you?
Right after that episode. -Okay.
-Yeah. -Oh, I'm so sorry.
-I was like. -I'm so sorry.
-I kept trying to pin it on you. And they said,
"No, it was your responsibility."
-You think you think that guy's funny? All right.
You, but you do.
You're an executive producer on "Sunny."
So you do have to. Let's give it up for "Sunny" about it.
I mean, mind blowing.
-Oh, 15 years. -15 years.
-Yeah. -It is there's not
a lot of shows -- there are No shows, no comedies.
-Season 1 I was six years old. -That's amazing.
Because that's the thing you were I mean,
because you were playing 10.
-Yeah, I look, I looked bad for six. Yeah.
-Everybody did say that.
Yeah, there's a six year old looks rough.
-He's heavy. Does he smoke? Yeah.
So you -- but you do have to watch yourself in episodes.
How has that been not just watching yourself,
but watching yourself over 15 seasons?
-I developed like a weird sort of almost like, you know,
Rickey Henderson used to talk about himself,
or he'd be like, "Rickey stole a lot of bases."
-Yeah. -So I'm like that
where I'm like, I don't think Charlie would do that.
Let's let's get Charlie going over there.
It's a different human being to me.
Yeah, I need to disassociate from that.
-That's probably healthy.
Considering everything that happens on that show.
-Yeah, considering he huffs glue and eats cat food.
I think it's good for me to...
-I love -- I talked about this with you this summer
because we we have not seen each other since 2011.
Then we ran into each other on the beach this summer.
-And now somebody told me that you're not a beach person.
-I hate the beach. -Then you looked like
Bobby Kennedy meets Tom Hanks in "Cast Away."
You look like the most beachy man
I've ever seen in my life. Like, you had, like ripped shorts.
And you came out of the ocean with driftwood and you said,
I just made that I made a fire and pizza
and like little 10 kids running around.
-Yeah. Well, my wife loves the beach.
So I'm like making the most of it, but.
-The beach likes you. -Yeah.
Well, that's the that's the heartbreaking thing, right?
It would be like if LeBron James hated basketball, like...
-Yeah, yeah. -I'm built for it.
-You're made for the beach. -And yet I hate every second.
-The beach hates me. -The beach hates you.
-The beach is trying to scorch me and drown me.
-Yeah you. Yeah, the whole time you were, like, hunched over.
-Yeah, yeah, that's right.
I dug a hole and bury myself up, like, it's fine.
Let me know when the time gets up.
-Yeah, that's right. We had to keep moving you back.
-That's yeah, that's true. -You wait.
But we were talking about it, and I talked with Glen about it.
Like how hard it is to come up
with new premises after everything you have
put your characters on "Sunny" through over 15 seasons.
-Yeah, yeah, it's hard work. [ Both laugh ]
Yeah, you know, we lock ourselves in a room that well,
the good news is that we do do a lot of sort of political humor
not like on the nose,
but just like, you know, if there's a pandemic,
we're probably going to do an episode about it.
-Of course. -And the world keeps having
crazy [bleep] happen, man. -That's true.
Yeah. -Yeah. When you think
about the beginning, yeah, you're right.
It's like 15 years of things
that have been in the ether that we've been talking about.
-Yeah, it seems to be nonstop, you know?
So I'm just like, I have like episodes prepped for
when the aliens come and like,
Yeah, I know I knew this was going to happen.
I got a whole bit here. -Ready to go.
-Yeah. -So this is really a great movie
with Jenny Slate, who's absolutely wonderful.
-Yes. -It's a romcom of sorts.
-That's a romcom. Absolutely. -Great.
[ Laughter ]
I guess it's true. I was gonna say
It was based on what you guys do
and you try to break up a relationship.
So I think maybe that's like un-romantic, but of course,
that happens in romcoms all the time.
People are trying to get back with their original couples.
-Yeah, people. You know, the rom part
is that the rom isn't working out good for them.
-So then that becomes an that provides the com.
-Yeah, the com part is, yeah, it just comes naturally after.
-Do you like romcoms?
-I love romcoms, but it depends on the altitude I'm at.
-Interesting. -So if I'm in an airplane?
-Yeah. -First of all, I watched
"The Intern" on an airplane with --
-Anne Hathaway? -The little known actor.
-Yeah. -DeNiro?
-DeNiro that's his name. DeNiro. Yeah, Italian guy. Good.
-He's going to break through. -He's going to make it
this kid. He's going to make it.
-He's good. -I caught that on an airplane
and the whole time, I'm just [imitates crying]
He just wants love in his life. -I's think on an airplane.
-But. -Ooh, look at those.
Why don't you tell us that when you hosted "SNL"?
-I -- you guys were going a mile a minute.
I'll just trying to hang on. Thanks for having me.
I'm not going to bring any bits. You know.
-I think I've cried on an airplane
watching someone else's romcom like one seat.
Like through the gap of seats
and you just because again, sometimes to some degree,
a classic '90s romcom is almost a silent movie. You know --
-I've always said that. I've always said that.
-That's what we first collected on.
-I say this if only no one was talking.
And maybe someone was like playing piano in my living room.
-But like fast piano a little bit faster than you like it?
Yeah. -Yeah. Julia Roberts.
So you know she needs love.
Everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Exactly.
-The natural transition. -Just very natural.
-I pitched that for this movie, but they turned it down.
-They turned it down? -They said, "We want talking."
-Oh, well, I mean, the talking in the clip was great,
so I think they might have been right on that one.
-Yeah, I'm into the talkies. -Yeah, yeah.
You think the talkies are going to make it.
-I think the talkies, DeNiro, you know, it's got us --
-The talkies are going to make it, DeNiro's gonna make it,
aliens are showing up eventually.
-Absolutely. -Alright.
I have a lot more questions, we'll be right back
with more from Charlie Day.