"Guys With Kids" Cast Keeps On Their Toes

I mean, I could tear you down and beat you up right now. I guarantee you they would crack up. But I won't do it.

No, do it. Tear me down.

I'm Oliver Trevena here with Young Hollywood at Universal Studios on the set of Guys With Kids, NBC's new show. Let's check it out. Here with the house Jesse Bradford, how are you?

I'm I'm good. Thank you for that lovely compliment.

I I meant it. I meant it. Straight man to straight man, Jesse Bradford is a very handsome man.

Exactly. Yes.

And we are we are on the set of Guys With Kids.

We are.

Jamie Lynn Sigler, how are you?

I'm well, thanks. And you?

Always lovely lovely seeing you. Always. Always a pleasure. And we're in your apartment.

This is this is my apartment. Pretend apartment. Because that's the world that Jamie lives in. I hope I would hope it's my apartment. Otherwise somebody really loves me.

Aaron Hayes, how are you?

I'm good. How are you?

I'm wonderful. We're here on the set of Guys With Kids.

It's true. We are. This is real. This is really happening. We're in Hollywood Universal. And Aaron is a star on the show. Huge, huge star on the show. Did you hear that? They just called action. So, that means we have to talk quietly, I think. Let's whisper talk. Shall we whisper talk? Mystery on the set. What's going to happen in the center of your name? I don't know. We're going to get really crazy. Tempest Bledsoe, how are you?

I'm good, but I was trying to take a nap. I'm here in my pajamas and here you are.

You are. You are. Are these really your pajamas or your outfit for the show?

A little bit of both. I like that. No. Uh yes, I'm actually wearing it for the show. But anytime I can put on pajamas, you know, I like to do that. But I had to get up out of bed to come see you, so.

We feel very special here at Young Hollywood. You are a single dad on the show.

I am the single dad on the show. The other two gentlemen both have uh wives and and you know, bigger families than me.

How's that make you feel?

Like my character's going to date lots of girls and that makes me strong or something.

Brilliant. Brilliant. And you are Emily.

I'm Emily. I gave one of the guys their kids.

That's brilliant. Well done. Well done. You and you gave them two.

I two, yes.

Two kids?

Yes. Correct.

What are the kids' names?

Violet and Freddy. So, we have an eight-year-old little girl, Violet, and a 17-month-old. A handful.

threw that out there. Was that a guess?

Yes. Okay. Um it it is a handful, but a lot of fun.

I have one kid on the show. But he is played by triplets.

Ah.

Most of which mostly just one cuz he's the most mellow child that's ever been born. I love that. I want to take him home. He's a perfect uh perfect actor.

You're not a guy, obviously, but you're in the show. Um and you have kids in the show.

Four. Four of them. Boys.

Wow. All under seven. Anthony Anderson plays your husband, your lovely husband on the show. And he's actually the one that stays at home with the kids.

He is. We're showing uh something that a lot of families are doing, but you don't see on television often. Uh we have a father who is staying home and parenting his children and raising them every day. And I get to escape and go to work.

The way the world has changed. Men of 2012.

Yes. And for the better.

For the better. I love that. How long does it take to film one episode?

Five days is our full process for one episode. But we we rehearse for three days. And then we do some shooting and filming the day uh on one day. And then the next day we bring in a live audience. And we do the whole show in front of them. And then we're done.

It's a lot of improv, isn't it? Cuz you you don't know what's happening. It's got to be.

I mean, the babies talk out of turn, obviously, and um do things that we're not expecting them to do. And it actually is really funny. It's real life, you know, it's funny in babies. It's real. They're real babies. They're real life babies. They're not robots. No.

Yeah, babies will do anything at any moment. So as an actor, you have to be very present and be prepared to go wherever they're going to go. Because they're not acting, you know. Sometimes they're they don't want to be there and they're uncooperative and they're messing everything up. And other times, what they do that you didn't expect is gold. So it's it's cool. It adds this wild card element to the whole thing that is both frustrating and kind of interesting too.

And you have two kids in real life.

I do.

So this is very easy for you.

Yeah, this is easy because if they cry, you give them to a hand. When they cry or dirty their diaper, I just hand them off. And I get another one.

Brilliant. Brilliant. The Hollywood way. I kind of like that way myself as well. This is straight up Hollywood mother. I mean, did you have any idea what you were getting yourself in for with all these kids and knowing that it was going to be like this on set when you first read the script and got attached?

No. No, the script was originally just called Guys. They didn't tell you about the kids. See, that's how they got you.

Sneaky Jimmy Fallon. Yes. And also Jimmy Fallon, producer. How's that?

Awesome. He's so much fun. He's such a cheerleader. He's super excited about the show and super excited about everybody. He's the nicest guy, warmest, nicest guy, uh easy easy guy to work for.

Everyone's saying that, so it must be true.

It is true. He's really really sweet, very enthusiastic, um really looking forward to the response that the show is going to get. It's a real reflection of his humor, which is very well-intentioned and warm and funny. You know, not the kind of tear you down, beat you up kind of thing.

Not over the top.

Yeah, no, no. No one likes that.

Well, people do like it, but we're not going to give it to. We're not going to do it. I mean, I could tear you down and beat you up right now. I guarantee you they would crack up. But I won't do it.

No, do it. Tear me down. I can tell you want to in your eyes. You're like, you've got this little twinkle.

I kind of do want to give it to you, you know, right here. But I won't. I don't. No.

Okay. Well, we will wrap this up then because you're getting quite violent and that scares me.