6:00

make it because of work. I don't live in Sag

6:02

Harbor. So finally I kept pushing

6:04

it. I must have pushed it like I don't know a

6:06

dozen times to the

6:08

break that we just had over. So I'm

6:11

like all right it'll be a Tuesday because it had to be

6:13

a Tuesday. Like it'll be a Tuesday, live will be off, I'll

6:15

be able to work from home. I can go there it's 9.30

6:17

in the morning. I go in, they

6:20

take my phone, you go through the whole

6:22

metal detector, I sit down and there's like 20

6:24

people sitting there and there's something going on at

6:26

the front like in front of the stands and

6:28

then there's the judge. So I sit

6:30

down and I'm

6:33

like listening to a judge just rattle off a

6:35

bunch of like this, he broke this law and

6:37

this happened and this number this blah blah blah

6:39

and then he said did you understand everything

6:42

that I just said to

6:44

you Mr. Timberlake. And all

6:46

I see is the back

6:48

of his guy's head and

6:50

I'm like nah that's not,

6:52

there's no world that that's

6:54

Justin Timberlake. There's no

6:56

chance in hell that's Justin Timberlake. I'm like there's

6:58

a man in Sag Harbor how funny with the

7:01

last name Timberlake. The judge says okay so

7:03

we will return blah blah

7:05

July 26th we're gonna schedule for you to

7:07

come back. Does that date work for you

7:09

Mr. Timberlake? And the man nods his head

7:11

and says yes and I'm still like how

7:14

funny that there's a man in

7:16

Sag Harbor named Timberlake and I'm

7:18

watching him at an arraignment right

7:20

now. So the judge says

7:22

okay we'll adjourn blah blah blah and we'll

7:25

come back on the 26th. I watch a

7:27

police officer walk around the front of said

7:29

Timberlake uncuff him. I see a pair

7:31

of handcuffs come off the guy turns

7:34

around and it's Justin Timberlake.

7:36

Unbelievable. Walks out pissed by

7:38

the way walks out of the courthouse everyone

7:40

says so now I leave

7:45

I'm still not even know then the prosecutor

7:47

comes over to talk about my case I'm

7:50

like I just saw Justin Timberlake walk out

7:52

of the courthouse and just got arrested for

7:54

DWI. I'm like what the fuck is going

7:56

on? I go and then

7:58

I'm standing in line to pay And

10:01

then I'm like, I got to kill her. I'm not

10:03

going to bother her. She's on vacation. I'm not going

10:05

to bother her. I was just waiting for you to

10:07

text, call something. And then Mark calls me. Because we

10:09

were in Atlanta, so Mark was

10:12

filming this TV pilot. And I'm

10:14

just like, when you're a Hollywood

10:16

wife, like I like to call

10:18

myself, when you're a Hollywood

10:21

wife, as I am, you realize

10:23

that your day is sort of

10:25

spent rattling around

10:27

in a hotel room doing

10:29

nothing, waiting for your spouse to arrive.

10:31

Right, in Atlanta, waiting for your spouse

10:34

to arrive. And so

10:36

I'm just sitting in bed

10:39

watching the news like a

10:41

Hollywood wife. So Mark calls

10:43

me. And I'm barely on with him for

10:46

like 10 seconds. And I say, where's Kelly?

10:49

Kelly on. Put me on speaker phone. And

10:51

as Albert is telling me this story,

10:54

MSNBC is on the news in front

10:56

of me. And it was

10:59

like Albert was narrating.

11:02

I viewed it in the news. The

11:04

news was on. But what Albert was

11:06

saying was showing in

11:08

the news, complete

11:10

with, are you ready? They

11:12

show Billy Joel leaving the

11:14

American hotel. And I was like,

11:17

are you kidding me? Full

11:19

circle. This is so nuts. This

11:21

is so mental. So there's like

11:24

Billy Joel leaving the American hotel.

11:26

Albert's telling me about Billy Joel.

11:28

Outraged. He's outraged. They're

11:31

showing the courthouse. They're showing

11:33

Timberlake in Cops. Albert,

11:35

like I keep looking for Albert. Because

11:37

I just want to see Albert walking

11:39

in. No, although the sad thing is I was

11:41

driving home. This is like a half hour later. I

11:43

see racing at like 50 miles an

11:45

hour, the ABC news man, rushing up.

11:47

And I wanted to be like, sorry. You should have been

11:49

with my friend. Just let them interview you. I'm

11:52

sorry, but we left. Josh

11:54

is ready. He's ready. Oh my gosh.

11:57

Our guest is ready. Our guest is ready. Look how

11:59

cute. is. Hi beautiful. How's it

12:01

going? You're beautiful. No

12:04

no no no stop. No no no I'm

12:06

looking at Josh Gad right now. Josh before

12:08

you logged on we were

12:10

talking about all of your credits and

12:14

how problematic they are and what? No.

12:16

We just want

12:20

you to be

12:24

the full face of a movie star

12:26

like enough hiding

12:29

behind animation enough

12:31

of ensemble casting I want you

12:33

to be like the next James

12:35

Bond. It's it's gonna

12:37

be a difficult task I

12:39

don't think I'm the type that they're

12:42

looking for for that particular franchise but

12:45

I appreciate you. Are you an

12:47

actor? I am. I don't know if

12:49

I'm a good one but yes.

12:52

Act like James Bond. For

12:56

starters I'm gonna have to take some British dialect

12:58

classes. You're fine. You can do it. I know

13:01

you can. So

13:04

before we get into everything you've got

13:06

going on Jan told me

13:08

something that fascinated me and I

13:10

was very jealous. You saw SpaceX

13:12

launch like right from your backyard.

13:14

This is the craziest experience I've

13:17

ever had. Okay tell me everything. Tell me everything. It

13:19

was so funny because I was over at

13:21

my friend Andrew Majors house. He

13:24

had invited our kids

13:27

go to school together. He had invited a bunch

13:29

of the families over for a dinner and

13:32

he comes running in and almost

13:35

like casually says

13:37

oh there's a rocket going

13:39

over the house and I thought he was

13:41

kidding and I go

13:44

outside and I started screaming

13:46

a bunch of expletives and

13:48

then I grabbed my phone because I didn't

13:50

think anyone would believe me which

13:53

people don't unless you have iPhone evidence

13:56

and so I recorded it and

13:58

it It

14:00

was really wild because I

14:02

grew up in Florida. And so

14:04

I remember vividly going to NASA

14:07

and going to the Kennedy Space

14:10

Center to watch launches, which

14:12

happened every few years. It

14:16

wasn't like a common thing in the early 80s

14:19

to launch something every

14:22

hour, let alone every day. And

14:25

so it was an event. And

14:27

so to now sort of just like

14:29

casually walk outside and

14:33

see, it's just, it's

14:36

so profoundly beautiful. Like the

14:38

actual rocket, you

14:40

know, heading towards space

14:43

is such a beautiful image and

14:45

so humbling. And at the same

14:47

time, so

14:49

disturbing in a way because it

14:52

made me realize that like, we're

14:54

now at the point where we're basically launching

14:57

metal objects into outer space,

15:00

like on an hourly basis. And that's a

15:02

little bit concerning. Like it feels like we're

15:04

done polluting Earth. So we're like, let's see

15:06

what we can do in space. So

15:11

let me tell you about that because I was

15:13

at a dinner party in Palm Springs,

15:15

okay? Forgive me if it sounds

15:17

bougie. And it was mostly people

15:19

my age. So it was like

15:22

older people. And

15:24

then there were these two young

15:26

kids, like, you know,

15:28

my kids ages, like, you know, in their

15:30

mid 20s. And

15:33

I said, so what

15:36

are you two up to? And

15:40

Mark said, oh, you're gonna

15:42

love their, he's like, you're gonna love what they

15:44

do. Tell Kelly what you

15:46

do. And they're like, we're space cadets.

15:48

And I was like, me too, same.

15:51

And they're like, no, we're actual space

15:53

cadets. They are

15:55

on space force. Oh my God.

15:58

They are cadets. They

16:00

are rocket scientists. Everything

16:03

they said, we were too stupid to

16:05

understand what they were saying. But I

16:07

said to them, I said, you know,

16:09

I saw that movie Gravity and it

16:11

scared the shit out of me. I

16:14

go, how real is like space junk

16:16

in outer space? They said, it is

16:18

a very serious

16:22

problem. It's gotta be just because if

16:24

you look- Keeps them awake at night. Yeah, if you

16:26

look at the amount of objects

16:28

we're shooting into space, there are

16:30

thousands of objects in orbit right

16:32

now. Isn't it funny

16:34

how we went from like space cadet being

16:36

an insult when we were children to

16:38

like now a badge of honor? Now being

16:41

the highest praise. Yeah. I bring

16:43

up outer space because my

16:46

publicist's name is Lauren Schwartz and I

16:48

greet her when I see her, which

16:50

is never because I never do anything.

16:52

But if I were to ever see

16:54

her again, I greet her

16:56

by saying, I see all Schwartz's as big as

16:58

mine. And she's

17:01

so much younger than me. She has no

17:03

idea what I'm talking about. So she's like,

17:05

yes, yes, you always say that. The

17:09

Space Ball sequel, you're developing

17:11

it, you're starring in it, you're producing it,

17:13

you're writing it, is it happening? What can

17:15

you tell me? I've

17:17

never been more excited about anything I've

17:19

worked on. The script

17:22

is everything I think

17:24

we hope for and more. I

17:27

wrote it with these two

17:29

guys, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samet. And

17:34

it is truly an every way, ship

17:36

or form, a love letter

17:38

to not only Spaceballs, but to all

17:40

things Mel Brooks. It

17:42

is very much a sequel with a capital S.

17:46

And we have a

17:48

lot of surprises in store. Without

17:50

getting shot by

17:53

Amazon Space Force, I

17:55

will have to leave it there, but I will

17:57

tell you that. things

18:00

are progressing very quickly and we're

18:03

very excited. And Mel

18:06

is incredibly

18:09

involved. And

18:11

I'll share a funny story that I haven't yet shared,

18:13

but basically early on in

18:15

the process, because Mel wasn't necessarily

18:17

at the time up to date

18:20

on all of the latest Star Wars

18:22

films. When we were pitching

18:24

him the original conceit for what we wanted

18:26

to do with the film, at

18:30

the beginning he goes, I'm just telling you

18:32

now, I want you to really

18:34

go into detail. Cause I don't know a

18:37

lot about the new Star Wars films.

18:39

And I said, okay, so I

18:42

pitch for 40 minutes. It's

18:44

like literally like

18:47

I am a combat vet, just going

18:49

to war for in front

18:51

of one person. I'm sweating. I am

18:53

like getting into every line

18:56

and every beat and every

18:58

comedic set piece, every

19:01

reveal. And I'm painting

19:03

all of it and I'm speaking

19:05

to like how this speaks to a

19:08

certain Star Wars moment, et cetera. And

19:11

there's silence. And at the end of it, he goes,

19:13

wow, Josh, it

19:16

really sounds like you've got your finger on

19:18

the pulse. I

19:20

was like, okay, that is

19:22

the greatest compliment I

19:29

could have ever gotten. Even though there's no

19:32

context for it for Mel. He really just

19:34

trusted everything I had to say, but

19:38

it's been incredible. Mel is 98 years young

19:40

and has, I

19:45

can't go into detail just how involved he

19:47

is, but let's say very. And

19:50

it's been such a thrill to

19:52

get to see him literally

19:55

still on form in every single way.

19:57

Like he is so. so

20:01

effortlessly funny and so

20:03

unbelievably brilliant. And

20:05

he, I have a recording of him saying

20:08

to us, this is

20:10

incredible writing. And I want

20:12

to make it my ringtone.

20:14

I also have him on tape going, I don't

20:16

get this joke. I

20:22

don't like this. So that one I don't really

20:24

like. That should be your other ring for like

20:26

somebody, like for your agent, your agent. That's

20:29

very funny. He's very honest, but

20:32

he'll, he'll, you know, he'll,

20:34

he's just, he's, he's a legend and it's

20:36

been such a thrill and such a joy.

20:39

It's been so fun. And by the way,

20:41

you do an amazing imitation of Mel Brooks.

20:43

Thank you. I've spent enough time with him now where,

20:45

you know, in the first time I ever met Mel,

20:47

we were, I was, we

20:50

were doing a show called The Comedians, Billy

20:52

Crystal and I on FX and

20:54

Mel was a guest star. And

20:57

Mel comes to the, we're in the makeup trailer,

21:00

Billy and I and Mel. And

21:02

Mel looks at Billy and I and he

21:04

goes, you know what, Josh, Billy, the two

21:06

of you should come and do the producers

21:08

for me. And Billy goes,

21:10

Mel, all due respect, Josh and I

21:13

don't want to do the seventh national

21:15

tour of the producers. Without

21:18

missing a beat, Mel Brooks goes, well, Billy,

21:20

you're in luck. You'd be doing the eighth.

21:26

How about Josh going from

21:28

Billy to Mel seamlessly? That's

21:33

unbelievable. How many, how many

21:35

imitations do you do? Is it everybody you

21:38

meet? Are you just always a brilliant mimic?

21:40

I love imitations. I joke that like

21:43

I have so many useless imitations. Like

21:45

I unfortunately have so many imitations of

21:47

people who are no longer with us.

21:50

Like I do a killer Philip Seymour

21:52

Hoffman, but there's no appropriate place to

21:54

do a Philip Seymour Hoffman impression. Do

21:57

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21:59

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