-Our first guest tonight is a very funny actor, writer,
and director who you know from "The Mindy Project"
and movies like "Suicide Squad" and "Blockers."
He executive-produces and stars
in the animated series "Chicago Party Aunt,"
which is streaming now on Netflix.
Let's take a look. -Look at those paws.
What are you? A carpenter? -No, carpentry is just a hobby.
I'm actually a firefighter.
-Oh! Oh, gosh.
Back...room...now.
[ Buzzer ]
-Diane, you just broke every single rule in 12 seconds.
-Gideon, not now!
-This man is a hired actor. You knew this!
Diane, he has been role-playing all morning!
-You're an actor?
-I also played a coma victim on "Chicago Med."
-Oh! A double gush!
Okay, this is entrapment. I got witnesses.
-Please welcome back to the show
our very good friend Ike Barinholtz.
How are you, buddy? -My man.
-Look at that. Representing, Thank you so much.
-I'm representing, but I got a purpose here.
So, I've had this shirt for a while.
A few weeks ago, made a little chicken piccata for the family.
And I got... -You stained it.
-...stains here, here, and here.
-Okay, so, you want another one?
And this time we'll try to get it for you in your size.
-That's what I'm getting at. Hey, listen -- Okay, okay.
I've put on a couple pounds over quarantine.
Who hasn't? -You basically admitted
you're out there making piccata.
-Well, I mean, I have to feed
my people, Seth. My God.
Listen, X-L, whatever color you guys want.
I see the dark blue. They look real nice.
Adam Scott wore one. I would love one of those.
At your leisure. No rush. -Alright, thank you, buddy.
I am always genuinely so happy to see you.
I wish you were here in person.
But I'm so very happy about this project.
You are, of course, a son of Chicago.
-Yes! -And this is a loving --
a loving portrait of Chicago people, this cartoon.
-Chicago has given me so many gifts,
and I thought it was time to give something back
to the city of broad shoulders. -Yeah.
-And so, we -- you know, our friend Chris Witaske,
who you know, started this Twitter feed
many years ago called "Chicago Party Aunt,"
and it was funny and kind of goofy and stuff.
And we would interact with it.
And then, one day, our friend Richie Schwartz said,
"Hey, I think this could be a funny animated show."
And Netflix bought it,
and now this insanely stupid inside joke
between me and a few friends is in like 400 countries.
[ Laughter ] It's crazy.
-Would you admit that -- So, you were --
You were born in the '80s in Chicago.
-The late '70s, but thank you. -But so you were old enough
to appreciate the '86 bears,
and then you lived through the Jordan Bulls.
And I have always felt, even though I have
a great many friends who that is true of,
that you are some of the most insufferable people on Earth.
-Well, I mean, that comes --
That's a lot, coming from a Red Sox and a Steelers fan.
-Yeah, that's true.
-But, yeah -- no, Chicago fans, we are very entitled.
We still consider the Bears an elite football team,
even though the last time we won a Super Bowl,
"Miami Vice" was the number-one show on TV.
[ Laughter ] But, you know, we're babies.
We're definitely babies with our sports.
But we're sweet babies.
-How has Netflix been? You've worked with
a great many studios over your illustrious career.
This is your first time with Netflix.
How have they been so far? -I'm in the algorithm.
I'm in there now. I'm running stuff, you know --
-They've given you access to the algorithm?
-I now am the one who kind of -- behind the scenes,
me and Ted Sarandos are kind of moving stuff around.
It's fun. It's really cool.
It's so cool that it's in so many different countries.
The good thing about "Chicago Party Aunt,"
it's probably the same name in every other country.
You know, like, other countries
the show is called, like, "Aunt Lois in Latvia."
We called it "Chicago Party Aunt,"
so we just cut out the middle man,
so it's great that all these different countries
are gonna see the insanely silly jokes we put up.
-You, of course, had your fair share of parties
in Chicago over the years. And you had a pretty --
For a young man who wanted to be involved in comedy,
you got some pretty-early interactions with some legends.
-Yeah, well, you know, we both went through
the Chicago improv scene in the mid- to late '90s.
And it was super exciting just because you would,
you know, get to watch, like, Tina and Rachel Dratch
and Kevin Dorff onstage. But you would also get, like,
the old legends that would come back.
And I got to meet Chris Farley one time -- super cool.
Like, I walked into the e.t.c. Theater --
like, the other theater -- and it was dark.
And he was in there by himself, maybe smoking a joint.
I don't know. I can't remember. But I got to hang out with him.
And I remember thinking like, "I'm -- This is it.
This is the pinnacle of my career.
I got to meet Chris Farley."
And like four months later, we were at the Last Act,
the bar across the street, and he walked in and saw me
and goes, "Do you know where my brother is?!"
And I was like, "Oh, yeah, he's at this party."
And I said to my friend from high school,
"Do you mind if we drive Chris Farley to this party?"
And we were driving and he goes,
"I got to pee, I got to pee!"
And we pulled out, like, underneath the "L" tracks,
and I was like, "I got pee, too."
And as we're peeing, Chris is like,
"Do you want to play Swords?"
You know, the classic game Swords.
You're with your young friends and you're both peeing,
and you kind of... cross the streams.
-Yeah, it's a fun game. -I'm like, "Yeah, sure!"
It's a very fun game. I hadn't played it
since I was 7 or 8, but it's Chris Farley.
So we kind of played Swords for a second.
Then, he just turns and just pees all up my leg
and just started, like, cackling hilariously.
And, uh, yeah, still have the jeans.
Haven't washed them. Still wear them.
[ Laughter ] They stink.
But it's a nice memory. -It is a nice memory.
I have a lot more to ask you about.
We'll be right back with more from Ike Barinholtz.