Stefon, SNL, Al Pacino, & Justin Timberlake: Emmy Award Winner Bill Hader

on Mary King now pony Manville hater on being a master impersonator I live on the lower Lower East Side I'll drink your bill you know I gotta tell you my my roommates a horse we are building the new New Orleans Wow on leaving Saturday Night Live just became kind of a thing of maybe now's the time to to go Plus so I got to dress up as three me go and I got to walk into a dressing room and there's Chevie Jason Steve Martin dresses the three amigos arguing how to do the solution that's next on Larry King now welcome to Larry King now I am looking forward to this that me nominated actor and comedian famous for hilarious impersonations on Saturday Night Live he recently left the show after eight seasons he stars in the to do list in theaters now reprising his role as the voice of Flint Lockwood and the animated feature Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 that's in theaters September 27th he's Bill Hader hi Bill hi this is a big honor my honor it's not only first about this this the t-mobile things yeah everywhere and tear how did this happen for you I I got a phone call saying you know do you want it you know you get offered commercials and stuff and you kind of go I don't know you know I first got to know I was like I don't know if I really wanted to do that or I know you know whatever and then this thing happens when the doctor hands you your first baby and you look at the child and you go I will do whatever I will do all every what do you want me to do this you know and then they said you wanna do t-mobile commercials and I said absolutely I like t-mobile and then they were actually really funny these guys these guys from Canada Adam and Dave they wrote him in and they were really really good and you shot him all in one day it's we basically shot him in one day around the LA Times building and Silver Lake it was like in his 13 spots and they're running everywhere apparently yes probably the most exposure you've ever gotten it really know most people know most people yell out t-mobile to me now was that set out how did you discover Stephan well it came from two different places one was John Mulaney who co-created that with me he's a great stand-up and he used to write at SNL and he really deserves a lot of credit for Stefan because so much of the the just you know the word playing that is him and he had got an email from a guy saying hey you should come to this club this club has everything like rooms full of broken glass blah blah New York's hottest club is wish or whatever it was called and so he would read out this email to us as a joke and then I separately had would go to this coffee shop and Chelsea every morning and there was a barista there who kind of talked like that and he was like hi how are you and he was always telling me that his life and he he said I live on the lower lower Eastside like I get it I'm with youing him so I'm doing him so I was doing that around the office John Mulaney was reading that email and then John had the smarts to say let's combine those did anyone think that gays would be offended I know satire is a thin line yeah no one no one was really was really offended that I know of the nice thing that I heard actually I've had a couple of gay men stopped me on the street and say how much they liked it and that the joke wasn't that he was gay necessarily a lot of times you play you know what the joke is that he's gay the joke is really that I think he's on a lot of drugs and what he saying may not be real and he's bad at his job yeah and I do kind of to get cuz I'm a naturally very nervous person especially doing the live show I get very kind of amped up and and so that character is easy to kind of you rehearse it yeah I am someone who walks around constantly reading my lines really constantly walking around just running it and running it and never cracked up the other people around hosta oh yeah yeah when I first did Stefan you see the cue card guy like this and then on the other side was Andy Samberg and John just like laughing I'm pointing at me especially when he changed his stuff on the cards to me to make me laugh why did you leave why did I leave well it was a very pragmatic thing actually my wife and I she's a filmmaker and she was constantly going out to LA and I was constantly going out to LA and we have two kids and so it just became kind of a thing of maybe now's the time to to go you do that did this film you were in right yeah the to-do list that's my wife's movie and we were just always coming out to Los Angeles and I you know we had a very very short discussion about us living in LA but me still trying to do Saturday Night Live and it was just like fixham Oh she'd have bit it's an impossible I don't know I can't even move to Brooklyn like I have to basically live right by 30-round her salon you're and you're constantly getting pulled in you know and at all hours very unpredictable schedule you don't have to be on every show to you can't you do appearances can't Stefan come back too sometimes possibly yes he will I think he possibly will isn't he possible as a character beyond Saturday Night Live Wow Stefan sitcom sitcom I haven't heard that one people always talking about movie stuff on sitcom would actually be pretty good like do it like yeah yeah do a multi-camera and it's yeah and he has like a normal neighbor and stuff what kind of occupation does yeah what's the home be so whatever it is he's bad at it we did have an idea what for a movie we were trying to do we talked a little bit about an idea for a movie and then we were kind of like I don't think it'll work but we did have one funny scene that was making John I laugh which was Stefan coming out to his family and his parents were like blue-collar people from the Bronx and he's like mom dad you're probably wondering why I haven't gotten married yet you just haven't met the right girl that's all was it I having it we did a show once with the cast of Saturday Night Live on the set and they all would talk about their auditions and how hard that was yeah what was yours like I had a weird thing where they came in saw they saw me and we're in LA Megan Mullally recommended me Megan my little she's amazing and been here she changed my life she really did change my life I was just doing a show her brother-in-law was in a show with me she came to see him and she was like you're funny and and apropos of nothing I didn't know her nothing she'd called Lauren and said you should come and see this guy in Los Angeles and he came in so you know Sega he's came and saw me and then I came to New York did a show in New York and then I did my actual audition which was terrifying and bill Bill Hader you see him in all the t-mobile commercials he's ever if you haven't seen him in t-mobile commercials you passed away and he he opened September 27th and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 we'll talk about some of his most memorable and personation after this you've passed away we're back with the brilliant Bill Hader he's one of my favorite people he's just really hysterically funny guy you have a crack-up you ever watch the show really lose it completely look oh yeah constantly Fred Armisen just has my number hello hello yeah constantly when we do the Californians that's catchy you constantly won't he'll never say a line with the same inflection so on it on air you know he's just going hey what are you doing like wait a minute like he just does this thing that he knows I have a very soft time you a kid who impersonated people no I am person family members when you're actually you know what my wife point out that my family when we talk know whenever we do all the voices of the people on the story so hey family Oh everyone in my family my sister is my mom my mom and my dad so when they when they you know they would be they won't be like I saw George at the supermarket they're like so I went to sue market and I saw George you know he was there from Oklahoma everyone you do it in person I just he was just with his Eliot Spitzer hobby controller how did I get to do him how'd you even doing it I remember when that scandal broke I walked into the office and everyone was like Oh guess who's gonna get to do his first cold open and it was Jim down he was my first ever saying live from New York it was so yeah they they threw me into that so how do you find someone like Spitzer you watch him that I watched that and just tried to get his voice and I'm either I get it immediately or I don't have it at all like I kind of I can work on a little bit and finesse it a little bit but usually it's like an immediate Blake I could get it I've interviewed some of the great impersonators over the years and some of them have told me it's not so much the voice as the characteristics of them yeah it is and it's good to watch them being interviewed instead of them act as big yeah the Al Pacino one came from him to give me any acceptance speech and he was just kind of being hose no give me thank you so much for we I think I did a thing about him my first thing was yeah it was like it was Anderson Cooper was my first line I think everyone in SNL was Anderson Cooper was doing a thing about Hurricane Katrina I said I was Al Pacino helping build a house and I said Anderson we are building the new New Orleans first house it I was a good friend he's I see him a lot we live a couple of blocks apart you doing perfectly Stefan married innocent right he was gonna marry Anderson Cooper and then Seth came in and and swept them away boiled it away you also do someone no one does I know him pretty well who in the world does Alan Alda well I did Alan Alda but I tell you this guy as British comedian Peter Serafinowicz I thought oh I did Alan Alda and then Peter Serafinowicz doesn't really get Alan Alda but uh howdy what is that I got there from crimes and misdemeanors that movie in one he kills others initially we wrote Alan Alda into a thing so William Shatner was in that show called I s s blank my dad says you know yeah and so we were gonna do a similar thing with Alan Alda called my my effing roommate is a horse and it was Alan Alda and his roommate was the second so how does he sound like you know I gotta tell you my my roommates a horse this is insanity you're in my bed thank you very much this is great this is great I love you boys have people told you have they have Pacino ever spoken to you no why would you be afraid he's your regular guy he's Al Pacino what was it like being directed by your wife it was great there's a shorthand to it you know I kind of knew what the tone she wanted for a movie it was awesome it was a weird thing where she had to direct me in a sex scene with rachel bilson which was how you awkward awkward but a lot of the crew was like your wife is very nice she's letting you have a sex with someone it looks like rachel bilson and she kinda was looking at me to like you're welcome you're welcome sex scenes are hard to shoot though aren't they because yes fifty hundred there's fifty people around right yeah and this was even a sex scene that was just played for comedy wasn't even like a for-real sex scene I don't get asked to do that a lot I'm usually the guy walking in on the sexy be like whoa excuse me I'm sorry your wife funny yes she's very funny he's very funny writer and and she does a lot of stuff that's a UCB theater she's an improv actor tell me about Flint Lockwood Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 the first one was a big hit right yeah so it does but his voiceovers different yeah different for me I've done a few I did Shrek 3x and I did of course the B movie with Seinfeld yeah it's acting yeah you move what do you find a difficult or different about I find it it can be very difficult it's kind of exhausting that was thing I wasn't expecting because especially flint lockwood I'm yelling all my lines it's the thing I always gives like bill that's grape it's a little more energy you know you just and you say the same line 80 times like with 80 different are you - to be all alone yeah and you never get to act a threat they don't they were alone yeah I was shocked at that yeah it was very strange Pixar I'm doing these two Pixar movies they will be in the room with you the writers at least and it's a little bit more of a back and forth we're like maybe you say but you know people are pacing around and then everybody be quiet and then you do your line and they go great okay now you know but most of it your justin'll you're just in a studio going like this more with the brilliant Bill hader's no other way to describe them right after this thank you we're back with Bill Hader he's left Saturday Night Live he's in the he's reprising his role as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs opens September 27th he's in the to do list directed by his wife he's in the t-mobile commercial seen everywhere in other words he is ubiquitous he is everywhere Bill Hader is in your life whether you like it or not he's also gonna be the voice of directions in your car yeah would you ever like to do serious work yeah I'm in a movie actually the two independent dramas last last year one is called the skeleton twins which is with Kristen Wiig I love she's terrific amazing and so but it's a very dramatic movie where we play East estranged twins who end up living with each other and and then a movie called the disappearance Eleanor Rigby with James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain based on the Beatles own yeah that's has the character's name don't repeat yeah but it's it was like doing comics usually a very good at serious because comedy is serious it is that's the it's it's not that funny if you're trying to be funny laughter that's uh that's kind of like the big rule you know it's I always think of I was in the movie super bad and there was a scene the movie where I walk in on there's the character McLovin with a girl and he ran away from me or whatever and I get mad and I was doing it really funny and the director Greg Mottola came over to me he's like bill that's your best friend and he ran out on you like play it serious and so I came in and I played it totally serious and like everyone was on the floor everyone was laughing the boom was coming in I was like what is the matter with you why'd you do that like why'd you do that man you know but it was like this little nerdy kid with his girl in bed and I don't know yeah it's a good lesson well Chevy night live fun no work or below yeah is very for me it was very nerve-wracking and then when it after was done it was like it was a combination of feeling very relieved and you really accomplished something what's it like and no one's perfect when the skit doesn't work and you know it's really not work that's terrible I mean hopefully you get that in dress like a dress rehearsal something bombs really bad and you're able to kind of go okay that didn't work thank you no thank God everyone won't see that but you know sometimes it does happen I learned over the years I Will Ferrel did a sketch that is only a dress rehearsal sketch where he played Gabe Kaplan and it plays to total silence and I remember Amy Poehler showed me that sketch when I first showed started at SNL and she's like when things aren't going well watch this and it is playing to total silence and he just digs in and takes his time and just you just see it switching his hair he's like I'm doing this for me you know and it is just great and it's great and that's what you do and I always think I just commit the hardest part in any comedic life is when they don't laugh right oh yeah no it's interminable oh yeah it's terrible you think now you've got it made no I don't think I'll ever think I just I don't yeah I hope I never feel like I haven't made you just want to keep working and you know just keep moving forward and just you know trying new things and because you're so funny like is there Tennessee you think you're typecast even though you got these two serious films coming yeah yeah I mean that can happen that can happen definitely I mean I don't I really don't know because I haven't I mean I don't know if I'm typecast I just kind of like I just like accept things like you know what I watch that mmm I'll go do it you know where there's a drama or comedy or those t-mobile commercials which I know I made a joke about baby thing but it is true when I read him on like these were really funny I won though when you left Saturday Night Live was there a departing night a day where you said goodbye well I said I said I was leaving I told more and I was leaving in February so I had while to kind of have it but there really wasn't we did that last Stefon sketch runs well for Henderson off to Anderson Cooper and then we came back in and we were married and everything and then the next sketch I was in was where I was playing a cop an old top and I ran and a you know and they took off the Stefon shirt and wig and just just whisked away that was it no was it and I was like no goodbye bill no well Tina Fey actually sent us a cake at her last read-through and that was very sweet and for me and Fred and and then because I think Jason was still on the fence and but yeah that was very sweet in the band The Flaming Lips came and played us a song last our last read through that was very emotional actually why was Saturday Night Live what it was it still is I mean it's kind of mean no one is it's it's there's nothing really like it in show business and there's pure show business you can learn so much and just it's the best entry-level job in the show business because in a week you go through all your everyone you know you're auditioning with your sketch Yui that you're creating something you're writing something you're communicating with people all that stuff and you're saying bombs or you'll have a giant hit and then the next week it you have a bomb and so it keeps you just humble and working and still trying to figure it out and it's the network's most successful show yeah but I think I mean I think it is it just keeps reinventing itself and it always stays relevant and Lauren Michaels is really smart and has a good heart he's a genius he really is yeah we'll we'll play a game of if you only knew next Bill Hader by the way who failed to mention is Emmy nominated actor and comedian for the hilarious impersonations on Saturday Night Live how do you feel about that it's great you'll go to the Emmys of course yeah it might make you the favorite who do you think is just stiffest competition Oh I mean it's last year is Modern Family and I think ed o'neill Zoar good good I'm predicting you're gonna win okay hey I've been right three out of ten time one thing I've been asked about your wardrobe seems to consist mainly of plaid shirts we have some pictures by the way oh good that was just two days ago do you feel strongly about plaid like I do about suspenders yeah is it part of you is it part of you that you're not wearing plaid today I know I'm Airi I'm wearing a shirt with a stain on it but the stain cost a lot of money to put an effective in if I did that yeah no this is an Italian sure why didn't you wear plaid today I don't know I I don't really think basically my short answer is I pay no attention to what I put on I'm gonna leave I'm from Oklahoma and it's just that's what you wear who cares and Oklahoma hotel beach that's big yeah is it where the wind comes down planes and the wave and wheat sure smells sweet I love Oklahoma as Mel Brooks would say Paulsen is it true that there's a tumblr blog dedicated to buying you new clothes yes it's called let's buy Bill Hader some new clothes yes that's true pick clothes for you no they just it's just basically just a big piece of advice to me Ryan Seacrest picks out buy jeans he does he didn't like the jeans I used to wear and he sends me jeans he says yeah impress you know Ryan's Ryan's jealous of bill because bills on TV more than here I don't know if you're having a good time where we are all right we have some social media questions for you Addison's 7h tweets dear mr. hater is there an impression you wish you could do but find too difficult ironically I I cannot do Christopher Walken which everyone can do Christmas what people do he's like a guy that everyone does and I tizzy Kim tweeted what's your most embarrassing Saturday Night Live moment well one moment I felt terrible was Kristen Wiig and I were doing a sketch with what we used to this thing called I forget what it is but we were two people interviewing Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Lopez says something and I was supposed to spit something in Kristen's face like I was too big spit taken to her face and a dress it worked perfectly it was perfect got a big laugh everything and on air I like went to do it and I fully missed her and it was just silence and I didn't know how to rebound off of it I just kind of was like that didn't work so when you watch it to actually put dress on the air sis from s were you intimidated to work on Saturday Night Live yeah first night what was the first thing you did that Al Pacino thing but we walked into SNL just audition they have a on 17 they have a giant wall of every single cast member and you walk by that on your way Telegraph yeah right one cat you once you know what's the one thing you're absolutely terrified of III mean going like getting up in front of people and performing is pretty hard for me we end the show with a game call if you only knew just quick questions what's your weirdest pre-show ritual I eat a Clif Bar and I drink two special shots when you do after the show right after the show I go home and I sleep and then I merely woken up by both my kids favorite impersonation do you have a favorite I liked doing Alan Alda and I liked doing Daniel Plainview from there will be blood there will be blood guy oh the Daniel day-lewis yeah yeah how do you do him I'm try remember how I did Lewis hi does a great movie I'll drink your milkshake yeah do you have a favorite SNL moment I had a crazy moment last year where Justin Timberlake hosted and all the original people came back to this five timer Club Steve Martin dan Aykroyd Chevy Chase everybody well Martin Short couldn't be there for the dress rehearsal he can only be there for the air and they had the three amigos introduced Justin Timberlake his second music act so Lauren said bill would you like to be the third three of me go so I got to dress up as three me go and I got to walk into a dressing room and there's Chevie Chase and Steve Martin dresses the three amigos arguing how to do the solution they were looking at it was like no no Jeffy it's this and it is like no no no it was this and then they got out a phone and watched it on YouTube well and that was pretty good what other quick thing you remember the first girl you kissed back in Tulsa yes what was her name Jennifer Dennis and she had to stand on a rock to kiss me because I was very tall oh wait I was three years old I don't know what happened to her she was very nice but I was no I was probably 12 and she was very she was very nice it was very it was like Norman Rockwell is she was very sweet she stood on the rock she stood on a rock so nice yeah is very Tulsa moment you don't stand on the rock you'll see them on cloudy with the chance of meatballs September 27th wish them luck at the Emmys I predict he wins and I've been right as I said three out of ten yeah thanks to my guess the very funny Bill Hader you can find me on Twitter at Kings things you

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Published: Tue Oct 23 2018