TCB Infomercial - Episode #718: The very funny and multi-talented actor and comedian, Rory Scovel, joins Bryan & Krissy to discuss life, love and the pursuit of the improv! It's a deep dive into the world and perspective of Rory. Championed and produced by Conan O'Brien, his most recent HBO MAX special gained mainstream attention and critical acclaim. Plus, Rory helped Bryan deal with vicious roosters in the North of Spain! (It will all make sense once you hear it). RORY SCORVEL'S LINKS: Follow Rory on Instagram Watch "Religion, Sex and a Few Things in Between " on Max Rory Scovel's tour dates Watch EP #718 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are Rory Scovel's thoughts on vaccines?
I still don't know what's in the vaccine, and I'll never know what's in the vaccine. I'm not so stupid, I'm gonna go sit down to find out how fucking dumb I am. Yeah, I got the vaccine. Yes, I got all the boosters. If it saves my life, fine. If it kills me, great.
But the last thing you will ever see me do is Google what's in the vaccine and then sit there and pretend as though I understand the words that I'm reading. Whoa, Glorbosol, whoa, whoa, whoa, actually, whoa. Actually, that is like a big deal. I didn't know we were there yet with Glorbosol.
Glad that's in there, but I'll tell you what, that tetratranazine, that's got me wondering, who's really in charge?
On this episode of the Commercial Break.
The start of that show was when Amazon was getting into streaming shows. And I remember this was absurd to everybody because everyone was like, Amazon is where I buy packages. And yet they were going to now do TV. So it seemed crazy. But they decided to do this competition where they would give all these applicants a certain amount of money to make a pilot.
They would post all the pilots and whoever got the most views, the top two would like get a show. Yeah. And so these guys came up with this show. They hired me to play the principal. These are my friends on the lowest budget shooting something at a high school in Denver. And I didn't take it seriously at all.
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Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you.
Best to you, Brian.
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Chapter 2: How did Rory Scovel start in TV and improv?
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They're talking about it all, the fights, the failures, and the moments that changed everything. You can follow and listen to Rule Breakers with Serea on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. And hear, hear to the Rule Breakers for keeping life interesting. And Rory's here with us now. Thank you for your time. Very grateful to have you here with us today.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Where in the world are you located?
I am in Denver, Colorado. Mile high. As of, I don't know, six months or something. I love Denver.
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Chapter 3: What is Rory Scovel's connection to 'Those Who Can't'?
Yeah. It's so good. And you wrap this in such a hilarious package, but it's pointed and it's satirical and it's improvisational, I would imagine, at moments. And it's just really good. It's really sharp. And you go at it and the audience seems to be with you because it's hard to defend. It's hard to knock common sense. It's just hard to knock common sense.
Yeah, I'm addicted to it. Yeah, me too. In my earliest days of doing stand-up, I just always was drawn to hypocrisy, even my own. And I gotta say, you can become a better person through your craft if I'm gonna go on stage and talk about other people's hypocrisies that I'm confronted by my own. And I have to say also, if I'm gonna go on stage and talk about...
someone else's behavior, then I have to confront my own past behavior and reconcile, do I think I'm an improved person now? I think a lot of people just want to be born into a world where they go, this is what I was taught and this is who I am and this is how it is. It's wildly bland and incredibly boring. I think it's wildly more interesting for someone to go, I have made many mistakes.
And you go, well, then who are you now? Because if you're past those mistakes... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
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Chapter 4: Why is Rory Scovel excited about performing at Largo?
two doors down which is like half a mile away and she has internet that she then sends to like you know it's in it's like a wireless router so if certain parts of the house you might or might not be able to connect depending on what day or time or if the chickens are out if they're not or whatever
So I had downloaded – I had watched a couple of episodes of Those Who Can't, and I downloaded all the seasons onto my phone through TruTV, or I think it was TruTV. And I – The way that I did that is in the middle of the night, I snuck out of the front of the house and the chickens followed me and tried to peck at me.
They followed me and I went up to the other house and I started downloading your episodes. And you kept me sane through a good portion of this trip, which I really wanted to go insane. We're in the middle of nowhere, nothing to do. The kids are going crazy. The chickens are shitting everywhere and trying to kill my kids. And I watched your show and I loved it.
I just wish there was so much more of it. Was that a great experience making that television show? And so many comedians came on that show.
Yeah, absolutely. Those three guys, Adam and Ben and Andrew. It's so funny that the start of that show was when Amazon was getting into streaming shows. And I remember this was absurd to everybody because everyone was like, Amazon is where I buy packages. And yet they were going to now do TV. So it seemed crazy.
But they decided to do this competition where they would give all these applicants a certain amount of money to make a pilot. they would post all the pilots and whoever got the most views, the top two would like get a show. And so these guys came up with this show. They hired me to play the principal. These are my friends on the lowest budget shooting something at a high school in Denver.
And I didn't take it seriously at all. I showed up to wear the most ridiculous clothes and, I'll try to find a picture to send you guys of what I look like for the pilot that was never used. But I had them straight iron my hair. And I had kind of longer hair. And it was so creepy looking. I had a big beard. And I didn't take one scene seriously.
I set the lines, but I just kept trying to get them to break. Yeah. And we'd come up with stuff and we'd just keep shooting. But at no point did it feel like a job. Then they did the competition. They ended up getting either the most views or the second highest views. But Amazon just wanted to pick the two shows that had a celebrity on it. Yes. So the view thing never mattered. It never mattered.
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