How to Be Funny According to Adam Scott

Are you? You're not a woman?

I am.

You're a woman?

Yeah. I'm that too.

Hey, with the man of the hour, Adam Scott. How are you, mate?

I'm great. How about you?

I'm lovely. Thank you for stopping in.

Thank you.

You are currently starring in Bachelorette.

Yes.

As Clyde.

Yes.

Which looks like a lot of fun.

Yes.

Yeah?

It was all of that. It was, it was very fun. Leslie Hedland uh wrote and directed it. She's uh very talented, very funny. And it was a it was a play before and I had seen the play a couple years ago and it was great. And um so yeah, I jumped at the chance.

I didn't know it was a play.

Yeah, there you go. That's come out at the end of the day. Much, much different than than the um than the movie.

Oh, we said that would be yeah, that would be hard to portray in a play. Yes. Yeah. And I don't know what age limit they'd put on it. What age rating? Yeah. Yes. Sir, I would

You get us there in two minutes. I I I think we might be meant for each other. And I'm not kidding. This guy

Yeah, the play was was just as filthy as the as the movie is.

Okay. Yeah.

I'll have to go and see it next time around. I brought my kids.

Great. It was great. Well you should. I think kids should see that at a young age. They'd love it.

Talking about fun though, did you have fun on set cuz the girls were a great laugh and they were saying how much fun the girls had?

Yeah, I did not.

You did not?

No. No, it was

Well, it tends it tends to be that way. The girls stick together.

Yeah, they didn't um

They didn't involve you?

No, I could tell they were having fun, Right. but I was not.

Did you think to talk to them about it?

No, no, no. No.

Why is that?

They I don't Should the whole girl power thing, isn't it?

Yeah. I deal with it every day. Yeah. It's difficult to talk to them. Right.

I find them frightening. And uh

Women in general?

Yeah.

Right. We could talk. We could talk about this afterwards. Okay. Maybe there's something. Are you? You're not a woman.

I am.

You're a woman?

Yeah. I'm that too.

Okay, so this is what's happening. I just died.

Yeah. You died and went to Young Hollywood heaven. So, for eternity, I'm going to be doing just this interview. You th okay, it's hell.

Um It could be way worse. Seriously? Yeah, thank you. I'll take that as a compliment. Um, you were in New York filming.

Yes.

Um, that was enjoyable at least, maybe?

It was, it was great. Lizzy and I have been friends for a long time and uh yeah, it was really fun. We just, you know, were filmed a lot of night shoots, right? It was a lot of that. Um, and I was shooting Parks and Recreation at the same time. So I was just coming back for like little two-day stints. It was really fun. And everyone's really uh good-looking, great-looking and really friendly.

Well, you should. Everyone?

The women and the men, everyone, it's a great-looking cast. Yeah, James Marsden is incredibly good-looking.

I don't like him to I don't like him.

I don't like him either.

I don't like him. They can stay well away from me. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You did mention on Jimmy Fallon once you feel when you're working with Megan Fox, you felt like you were covered in diarrhea. I did. Because was it a similar feeling on this? This set?

Yeah. I I pretty much felt like I was covered in something whenever I was around. We walking down, you know, James Marsden looks incredible. It's like working with a supermodel in a way. Like I kept leaning in and almost making out with him. Which, which happened in a straight way when they're that beautiful. Yeah, it's fine. He's he's a beautiful-looking man.

I know how you feel though, cuz I get people on the sofa and it's like, I'm, you know, if someone great-looking I'm sitting next to them. I feel like Yoda or something. It's just horrible.

What's Yoda?

Yoda. You know, a little green alien, weird guy. That's how I feel. I feel inferior to this to the human man that's sitting next to me. You're good-looking. I kind of feel that at the moment. You're handsome.

Oh, thank you very much.

Yeah, you're great.

Yeah, you're great.

Thank you. And I've talked about you on the sofa before.

Yes.

With Rachel Bilson.

Oh, yeah.

When you'd done the Old Funny or Die video, that was very good.

Yeah, thanks.

Very good when you were caressing her hairy chest. She was really funny in that. You were very funny.

Oh, thanks.

That was your first outing with a woman with a hairy chest, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, but not the last.

Not the last. Well, I'm still searching for it. Yes. I haven't come across it, but I'm sure I will.

Oh, I I can give you a couple of phone numbers.

Brilliant. See? I'll be helping you with talking to women. Mhm. You'll help me with the phone numbers for hairy chest.

I can hook you up with some hairy ladies.

I love that. Adam, I knew something would come from this. There we go. And it has. And it's brilliant. And it's brilliant. But we were also talking, you can get Bachelorette on demand.

Yeah.

And on iTunes. You don't have to wait for the movie theaters.

Yeah, it comes out in the movie theaters September 7th. That's it. Yes, that's it. But right now you can get it um in a variety of ways. Right. You can get it injected directly into your bloodstream as well. I don't know if you knew.

Where do you get that done?

You have to drive to my house and I have this whole contraption set up where I can put it in your bloodstream. I can put the movie inside of your blood.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

You're really talented.

It has nothing to do with talent. It's totally it's just science.

You are funny.

Thank you.

Do you it's comedy that you can't teach. Comedy that you can't teach. It's really Could you teach me comedy right now?

Yeah.

Go on then. Make me funny, Adam.

Okay. Uh, pick that decorative vase up. Um,

It's quite heavy, actually. Now, let's do the non-funny version of it. Just tell me where you're from. I'm from South of England. South of England. Yes. What's the name of the town? Hastings. Okay, see that wasn't funny. Okay. Um, if you want to be funny, Okay. you just scream, "Go fuck yourself!" and throw it at the camera.

Can I? Everyone's laughing.

Can I? Go fuck yourself! No, we're with All right, well I'll have been funnier if you did it. I enjoyed it. Okay. I feel good. Okay, good. Yeah, it was good. Good. You have you ever been a therapist? Cuz I I just felt like enlightened. Yeah. That's my enlightened. I think now you're going to achieve anything you want. You're amazing. Thank you. Brilliant.