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Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Paul Rudd

Tue, 06 May 2025

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Paul Rudd is a yeller. Amy hangs with the star of 'Friendship' and talks about what songs get a Bar Mitzvah moving, working on 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'Parks' together, and going too big. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: John Hamm and Paul RuddExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, Francis X Bernal Jr., Justin Nardecchia, and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode with Paul Rudd?

0.049 - 18.131 Amy Poehler

Hi, everyone. This is Amy Poehler. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. We're going to talk to the great Paul Rudd today. I've known Paul for a million years, and I love him. You love him. America loves him. The world loves him. We're going to talk about some cool stuff today. We're going to talk about how he almost lost the part in Clueless because he had— a bad haircut.

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18.951 - 35.661 Amy Poehler

We're going to talk about how dumb comedy is our favorite kind of comedy, and maybe it's not as dumb as you think. And we're going to get into the absurdity of existence, because that's what we do here. We go deep and then we get really shallow. And we're also going to talk about his film Friendship with the great Tim Robinson, which is coming out soon. So check it out.

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35.882 - 43.106 Amy Poehler

And we're going to start this episode the way we always like to, which is a fan or a friend or someone who knows our guest so they can tell me what they think I should ask.

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43.697 - 67.521 Amy Poehler

We have a very special guest, another member of the Handsome Man Club, and that is Jon Hamm, who has known Paul Rudd forever and I believe is calling in from the set of a film right now where he is about to get on a hot air balloon. This episode is presented by the Toyota Grand Highlander. Life is going to throw grand challenges your way, and the Toyota Grand Highlander is ready for them.

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67.881 - 93.394 Amy Poehler

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93.915 - 105.998 Amy Poehler

So it'll look pretty sweet in your driveway. From daily routines to life-changing adventures, it's up for every Grand Challenge. Learn more at toyota.com slash Grand Highlander. Toyota, let's go places.

106.338 - 108.859 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

Toyota, what do you say?

114.514 - 115.174 Jon Hamm (clip/audio)

Polarino.

115.835 - 122.658 Amy Poehler

Cam, please explain to me what we're seeing right now.

Chapter 2: How did Jon Hamm and Paul Rudd first meet?

1806.195 - 1807.196 Paul Rudd

Well, I didn't want to interrupt you.

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1807.216 - 1813.562 Amy Poehler

Okay, thanks. But what is so fun about it is it is so stupid.

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1815.324 - 1819.588 Tim Robinson

This most stupid, stupidest movie ever.

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1819.988 - 1836.824 Amy Poehler

And don't forget, in the middle of that movie, there's a—it stops to have a music video. With Nora Jones, who sang the song from that movie that Adam Scott and John Stamos show up and do cameos in because they come to the studio.

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1836.884 - 1845.328 Paul Rudd

Yeah. The video for the song that's on the soundtrack of the movie is in the middle of the movie.

1845.708 - 1852.512 Amy Poehler

And then Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, the actors, show up to be like, what's happening here? Yeah. And we're wearing sunglasses.

1852.532 - 1857.915 Paul Rudd

Yeah, and a soul patch. You had a soul patch? Yeah, I had a soul patch. But it's like, yeah, us in our street clothes.

1857.955 - 1861.777 Amy Poehler

In our street clothes. And then our buddies also come to, like, play with some of the buttons.

1861.817 - 1867.7 Paul Rudd

Yeah, they're in this mixing boards, and we're just, like, hanging out, goofing around with Nora Jones.

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