Jimmy Fallon
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
Welcome back to the show and congrats on getting married. This is a big deal.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
We're part of the same community. We're both apes. I love it. This is my ape. This is yours.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
It reminded me of me a little bit because I wear striped shirts.
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"Howard Stern"
You kind of hit bucket. It was like it was not going great, and you was like, might as well throw it all against the wall.
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"Howard Stern"
But your audience is bigger today than it's ever been, and you're not doing all of those sort of shocking things. You're doing measured, deep... conversations, long-form interviews with very sophisticated people and like, so.
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"Howard Stern"
I would say that it would, in a compliment to you, that it was less deliberate or contrived or strategic for you to, oh, let's switch it up now and give the audience something they're not going to expect. I think it's, and I haven't known you for, you know, a thousand years, but...
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"Howard Stern"
it does seem pretty obvious that you have naturally just evolved into a more curious, serious, not as a pejorative, person who's interested in different kinds of questions and with different kinds of people.
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"Howard Stern"
But you weren't doing it as a ratings ploy. You were being sincere and genuine.
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"Howard Stern"
It doesn't matter whether it's comics or athletes or musicians or actors or whatever it is. You question them for us. as us, and it's a layman's point of view, and it's very curious, and you're listening, you have a bunch of fucking cards with questions on it, you're engaged in a conversation, and it was a true inspiration for us. It really was.
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"Howard Stern"
How old were you when you still didn't know whether your dad's eye was glass?
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"Howard Stern"
Here we go. That's us. You guys. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Thank you for being here. You guys aren't really fans. You're friends of ours. So that's very nice of you to show up. Thank you, everybody. Drive all the way out here to Long Island. Pay nothing. Really nice. Pay nothing. Right?
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"Howard Stern"
Did Jimmy and Molly somehow convince you and Beth that this is going to be great?
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And he's in the theater with you. You just starred in something. He didn't stick around and say, what a treat.
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"Howard Stern"
But don't you also find that your agenda is no longer to provide a show for your listener, but instead perhaps you hope that the people remaining listening to you on that particular day happen to be as interested in the person you're talking to as you are. In other words, you're not... That's right. Yeah, and it's a more honest sort of, you're not pushing, you're not pressing, you're just sincere.
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"Howard Stern"
But when I'm in the mood for a long-form thing, it's like there's no one better.
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"Howard Stern"
I have to say, I tried to be a guest on your show for so many years. I kept asking my publicist every year, just hoping, like, are things good enough in my career where maybe I could be?
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"Howard Stern"
No, no, no. But my publicist said, listen, Jason, we got news back. It's good news, bad news. Good news is he says he's a fan. Bad news is he says he just genuinely really has nothing he would like to know. No, no, no. I'm paraphrasing. But it was absolutely true.
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"Howard Stern"
So Sean should be an axe murderer, right? I mean, but he's... Let's see how this goes.
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"Howard Stern"
No, no, but seriously, it's much more interesting talking to somebody who's got, like, a weird, fucked up... Here's the thing.
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"Howard Stern"
You did have some sense that you... I had no sense. I was an idiot. You had a sense that your personality might be halfway entertaining. I didn't know.
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"Howard Stern"
So you weren't always this charismatic? You weren't always this comfortable in talking?
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"Howard Stern"
But is that the group that would, if anyone was going to get you starstruck, that or athletes or musicians? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Who? Who's the one that you haven't met you'd be like, uh-oh, I can't talk?
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"Howard Stern"
We could do this all day long. This is going great. Speaking of... Now, wait. So, speaking of... What is happening?
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"Howard Stern"
First of all, I don't think we've said it yet. I can't thank you enough for doing this. You don't do this. I've seen you do it for Letterman. I've seen you do it for Kimmel. You don't do this, and I can't thank you enough.
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"Howard Stern"
Beth, back me up here. Like, what are you guys doing? I know you're not out there, like, running 10 miles on the beach every day. Is it just jeans? I mean, you look exactly the same.
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"Howard Stern"
You want to go turps off? You want to go turps off? No, no, no. But you don't look like you ache or you're sore. I can't fucking. I'm a mess. No, no.
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"Howard Stern"
You seem like you're in great shape. Are you doing anything that we need to know about?
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It's incredible, the painting here. I don't know if you guys. Does people know? Okay. And the photography. It's like. Thank you. And the tiny sketching with the magnifying glass. I liked it.
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"Howard Stern"
Who's your favorite guitarist? Oh, Jesus. Just name one of them. A few of them.
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Was there a fork in the road where had you stuck with that instead of radio, you wouldn't have been that?
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Why do you think you're so well-adjusted? I'm not. I'm a mess. I'm still with the psychiatrist.
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"Howard Stern"
Do you think, do you, well, but like, I don't think that people know, like, if there was one misconception of you, do you have any idea what that might be? I mean, I don't know, but I will say that for me personally, given... your edge of humor, it was really exciting to get to know you a little bit and see how incredibly soft and chewy you are on the inside.
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"Howard Stern"
I had a lot of anger. But there's a choice to, like, not be fucked up and just know how to manage that.
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You know, your observations were spot on. I was speaking my truth. But it was sometimes painful for folks, and that was the funny part.
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"Howard Stern"
At this time, was there a plan for you to play the part? And they wanted to actually go another direction?
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"Howard Stern"
Will, you have my phone number, right? Yeah. And my email address? Yeah, I got it all. I don't like clips of things. Do you know who this is? You're too grouchy. He sort of clued me into it. It's our smart list on Moose Boosh today, right?
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"Howard Stern"
Everybody take a nice break. We'll record in about 20 minutes. What do you mean?
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"Howard Stern"
Here's what you can do. Let's get better than that. While you're being quiet and pretending that you're not here when we're doing... No, I'm not going to do it. If I have to be completely quiet, I'm not doing it.
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"Howard Stern"
Howard Stern, keep it going. Keep it going. The one and the only. The king of all media. Radio, podcast, television, film.
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"Howard Stern"
But he was also incredibly generous and empathetic and probably knows that we're nervous and we're dumb and we have a new show and he's the king.
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Tremendous amount of candor. Immediately he took the reins and helped us and he started talking.
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"Howard Stern"
But it's too early to do it now. We're still doing wrap-up. We're wrapped up. Okay, we're wrapped up.
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"Howard Stern"
Sorry about that, guys. Sorry about that. But the interview was fun, was it not? It was really fun.
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"Howard Stern"
Okay, you're yelling at me. I'm fucking nervous that you're gonna guess it and I'm gonna be all freaked out. This is coming out at your time, Howard. Five letters, was it five letters?
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"Howard Stern"
But if you get this, like, you're going to be in my life the rest of my life. That is what I do.
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"Howard Stern"
We're very excited to be doing, like, so we're going to do four live shows.
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"Howard Stern"
Every year. You know, we're going to do the... We're open to less, Scott, but that's fine. We'll do the regular sort of podcast on the computer thing, right? What do you watch it or listen to it on? Whatever it is. And then we're going to do four live shows. This is our first one. Very excited about it. On top of that... We've got our white whale.
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"Howard Stern"
You've also made Howard the second guest. When's the last time you weren't the lead guest?
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"Howard Stern"
So we called it... What you did for it, though, because we had all sort of heard that satellite radio was coming, and I was a little circumspect.
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"Howard Stern"
I was like, well, I don't know if I want satellite. I got to get a different radio. When you went to satellite, I was like, oh, it's okay now. It was like when Fincher went to Netflix.
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"Howard Stern"
People would ask me, who have you not interviewed that you want to? Howard Stern. Because he doesn't do this, and he's the man.