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Danny Devito and Lucy Devito Talk New FXX Adult Cartoon ‘Little Demon’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 10, 2022
Little Demon is an American-Canadian adult animated sitcom created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla that premiered on FXX on August 25, 2022. The series features the voices of Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito, and Lucy DeVito. The Devito family stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about the show.
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wow man it's uh that's a trailer for The
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the new animated series little demon is
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out on fxs never thought I'll say those
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words the new animated series little
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demon
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um
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and the executive producers and stars
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are here with us today I want to start
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with the father real quick Lucy if you
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don't mind okay DB I want to let you
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jump in well I'm gonna do a tandem uh
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like uh buddy buddy let me see if I can
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see here because Tracy's kind of like oh
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my bad
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taxi oh okay you're gonna start with
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your favorite
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took a breath this is one of those this
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is not an interview yeah yeah let me say
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this [ __ ] everything I pray yeah we're
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here we're here take your time
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he's a young man growing up in Oakland
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California there were certain shows that
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kept my attention right and it was
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certain
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um stylings of Comedy that really
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appealed to me that I was happy about
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because I liked comedy from all walks of
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life I didn't like one in particular
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kind of Comedy I didn't just like what
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Richard Pryor did you know what I mean
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right I didn't just like what Paul
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Mooney did I didn't just like what Robin
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Williams did but I love situation
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comedies where the timing was impeccable
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I recognized that as a young kid and
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watching taxi I got to know
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um our next guest in such a way that I
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thought I knew him you know uh just
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because I related to his comedy timing
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you know and then as I watched his
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career throughout the years young black
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guy out of Oakland you beautiful just
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paying attention to the work he was
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doing I was feeling it yeah yeah I felt
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it you felt it absolutely yeah when uh
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taxi started in 1978 wow the day before
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no no it's years when there were three
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networks ABC CBS NBC
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you know
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our lead-in was three freeze company
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yeah it was like a big show
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and so
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the show's on a Tuesday night I believe
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when we premiered
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Monday you were Danny walking around the
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street you know I'd done a couple movies
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that did Cuckoo's Nest but I was oh
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people looked at me and went you know
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this is you know Danny walks in it's no
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big deal Cuckoo's Nest was like 1974
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four years ago it's like a great
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magnificent Jack Nicholson though yeah
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no it was a great no an honor to work
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with him but the what I'm getting at is
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that because of the way it was then with
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the television situation where were
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three networks we had and you know you
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guys will know all this stuff we had a
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60 6-0 share damn on a Tuesday night so
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like the next day
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the next day when you walk into a
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supermarket you know go get yourself you
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know some cookies or whatever you know
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you're you're Louie you walk in it was
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Louis De Palma you were Louis everywhere
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Louis this Louis that they people play
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the song Louie Louie I was like you know
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just like Louie it all the way down the
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road and I knew it was going over you
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know all in all the different cities and
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I'm sure Oakland was big on it too it
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was a Working Class People uh you know
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basically uh
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the writing was like just off the charts
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and that's what you rely on you know
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when you're an actor and you you know
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you've got other people you have the
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other actors are in there with you and
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you're supporting each other and that's
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all flowing and you're surfing and
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you're doing the thing with together
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you're all moving in and out it's all
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the vibe but you always have to have
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that material to lean on and we had taxi
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we had Jim Brooks at Weinberger Stan
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Daniels Dave Davis these guys were Mary
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Lou Hannah 12 Mary Lou the cast was off
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the charts was off the chart really Judd
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her should Tony Danza Mary Lou Henner uh
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Carol Kane we had you know Andy Kaufman
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yeah you know what was Andy like like on
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set was he like you
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he's exactly the way he didn't imagine I
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mean Andy was like a trip he was uh very
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you know solitary kind of on his own on
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his own he was very like he walked into
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a room and he would change the whole
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like it's almost like some kind of weird
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animal walked into the room you look at
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that you've never seen before
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you know like you go in the room and
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people usually say hello you know like
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this or that or like here we are yeah
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okay we're all sitting here we're having
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a good time Annie would come in
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nothing you'd be like what is this and
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who brought them
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get here where is there a hole in the
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wall how did the door ain't even open
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what
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oh he was like he was a but a beautiful
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guy you know really sweet uh genuine
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beautiful guy and uh you know it was uh
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the whole cast was it was a lot of fun
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five years we did the show five years
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yeah congratulations Danny DeVito was
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here oh thank you you got a Golden Glow
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for that one right yeah yeah golden gold
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yep you say like it's nothing
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got that water roses can I name stuff
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and you could just talk about it sure
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where the Roses was like a a lot of fun
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to do it was like you know I worked with
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Michael and Kathleen in uh romance in
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the stone and denial
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I used to watch that movie like I used
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to show it all the time uh on cable when
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I was growing up I mean in so many other
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movies and you know I was going through
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my collection I'm a huge cinephile by
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the way so I was looking at all my DVDs
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and Blu-rays I'm like all right which
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one am I gonna take and I decided on
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twins because oh baby rest in peace Ivan
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Reitman who just yes recently and so I
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figured you know this one probably means
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the most to me and uh yeah this is the
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one I grabbed but I mean we we have to
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reset because we haven't even announced
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who's here yet
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I just said this ain't gonna be your
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regular situation yeah I prefaced it
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with that guy we gotta let people know
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you speak of the devil and he shows up
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luckily we don't have the actual devil
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but we've been talking about this show
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ever since Rio permanent came by about
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two weeks ago and with us right now we
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have Danny DeVito his lovely daughter
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Lucy DeVito who plays the Antichrist and
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she's going to be playing in blonde I
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believe coming up which is premiering in
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the Venice Film Festival this week yeah
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and I'm also a part of the critic Choice
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Association I like to brag a little bit
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we gave you the icon award I believe
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back in 2011 so it is an honor and
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absolute honor to be the both of you and
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to have you here on the show with Sway
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in the morning please welcome Danny
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DeVito and Lucy the video
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oh come on now on FX
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the devil and his daughter yeah
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so you're the Devil's Child huh yeah
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what what I have a daughter Danny was
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she anything like the role she plays oh
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yeah oh yeah this is Art imitating life
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[Music]
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into the DeVito Pearlman house that's
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the sweetest she's the sweetest and uh I
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have three uh uh her sister uh Gracie
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also adorable and I have a boy uh Jake
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who's also a producer on little demon
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he's working with us the three of us
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have been working on this for a while
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we're really excited about it it's a
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real family yeah it is yeah it is
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congrats it's so funny we just had um
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Bianca Lawson here now her dad is
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Richard Lawson actor forever her mom is
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Denise Gordy obviously from the Gordy
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Berry Gordy that family Legacy and she
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was saying her mom wanted her to go to
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Brown University and become an attorney
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and we were like what music family
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acting how did your mom want that is did
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you have a choice or did you just I mean
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with the comedic timing in your family
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alone like I I think you were probably
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just born funny yeah I mean we grew up
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in a really ridiculous house
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it was just sort of like ingrained in me
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but funny enough I did go to Brown
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University
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yes studying what I did a theater and
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art history yeah yeah yeah oh my gosh
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yeah no like because I think that my
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parents they were both
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um they were very supportive of me going
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into the business but not as a kid okay
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you know very much like go to school get
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your education see if you like it see if
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you like anything else
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um and
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um so I've I worked really hard in
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school and you know decided I still
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wanted to be an actor wow
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um you know so here we are oh congrats
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that's amazing thank you for sharing
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that yeah yeah if your daughter doesn't
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act up the par what do you say oh she
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had she does okay
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well there's a lot of that we do it
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again we can't do it again yeah yeah
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it's really been fun doing this together
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you know it's uh we've worked together a
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couple times in little things here and
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there and also you know just being
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together always messing around in the
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house whatever was going on and uh when
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this came along a little demon was uh
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actually Lucy's got a couple other
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friends who are writing the show who are
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we call the demons these people are like
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the young kids who she went to school
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with or yeah
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Darcy Fowler Seth kirschner and Karen
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Valor the creators and they came to us
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with this idea and when Lucy called me
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and said you know would you like to play
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the devil
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came up here
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um we we uh put her to work we actually
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asked her to uh come up with a question
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to ask you two oh really yeah oh great
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yeah and I want to share it with you
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right now here's your mom Lucy okay
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you guys wait
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this episode of the show I mean don't
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you really think about that every time
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you're getting together to play you know
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to do the voices on this show don't you
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want mine
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absolutely absolutely we love every day
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and by the way when you're not there
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we're thinking about you
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and every show you're not in is missing
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a piece yeah yeah really a piece of our
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heart absolutely you know but Rhea
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actually is in little demons she's in
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episode nine there we go we have uh we
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did 10 episodes and it's on FXX and it's
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on Thursday night and then it goes to
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Hulu when when it finishes its rooms
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yeah yeah but we have leaned on many
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many friends like you know Arnold was in
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one last week so Arnold did an announcer
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and it's the it's it was a what a trip
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working with Arnold you know what I mean
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yeah what was that like oh it was great
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you know Eve oh yes I just want to do
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Partners oh you guys down here I'll do
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it right away and he didn't have to do
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anything he just stayed home and we sent
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him a microphone you know so it was
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really good but we also have Mel Brooks
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wow that was like that's legendary yeah
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yeah
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he asked me to be in a he's doing a show
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called The History of the World Part Two
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and he asked me to play Czar Nicholas
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it's like three four lines so I said um
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good chance right now is my chance I
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said look Mel I'll do yours you do mine
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I scratch your back Jersey
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that's the way it works the absolutely
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the way we roll okay so I said
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absolutely so there was a part of a
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millipede and I give him a party Lucy
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yeah yeah he plays the millipede he
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plays the millipede Arnold
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Schwarzenegger that's
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I bumped into Dave Bautista I said one
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you know I don't know a year or so ago
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you know just hanging out and friendly
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there was a part in it Ibaka this buddy
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of mine who goes on a bachelor party and
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it's in the you know in the little demon
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I call him up as you want to do yeah Dan
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right away
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so it's like I I feel like it's gonna be
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chock full of like little tidbits of
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here and there you know what I mean wow
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Danny and Lucy DeVito you just bump into
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us if y'all need extra voices
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you got a radio show interview you got
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to do it little demon yeah we're here
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for XM yeah for being the Antichrist get
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an interview yeah yeah she get her own
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podcast yeah
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you know that's a great idea be a hell
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of a cameo yeah
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oh that guy takes over a radio station
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yeah yeah very good like
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Danny let me ask you about working with
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John Travolta yes Johnny yes yeah what
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what what his I've I've been a fan of
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his since Greece
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um Saturday Night Fever welcome back
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Carter okay and he he always seems
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eccentric to me you know just in
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everything he does what does he like on
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set though uh well I've I've done a
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couple things with him
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um one was I wasn't on the set all the
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time but he was in Pulp Fiction yes I
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produced that movie he's he's a really a
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choice
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I swept that under the rug bro I
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produced that movie I'm sorry but I
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don't mean interrupt you bro
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that was the first time we worked
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together and then actually one time we
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worked together he did a dog movie or
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something where I we had voices in a dog
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movie I was in that movie but I had a
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small part I played a Chihuahua I think
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I'm not sure anyway the idea is that
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well we got we did get Shorty together
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that was like the first movie that we
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were really on set and what a true guys
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really nice very genuine really good
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very solitary you know kind of kept
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himself but really good very good with
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people are you like that on set are you
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just I I why a little bit more
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gregarious okay yeah I like you know
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like say hello and go chat you know and
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talk to everybody sounds like sway just
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go around and say hello sometimes to
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everyone I talk to everybody I'll admit
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it I talk to everybody yeah that's me
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bro I'm perfect for this little demon
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seriously can I ask about that um
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because you talked about Andy Kaufman in
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his sort of awkwardness when he would
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come on set but then you also brought up
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um how much fun the both of you have had
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with all the guest cameos and voices and
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people who have chipped in for little
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demon and I was actually reading there
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was an article about uh James Gunn who's
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uh behind Guardians of the Galaxy and he
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said that he refuses to work with
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certain people that he's had a bad
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experience with and you know just
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talking about like the Rapport you have
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with certain people it's like yes I'll
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absolutely do you a favor or you don't
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even have to pay me for this but is that
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kind of like the unspoken rule with
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Hollywood where it's like once a
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reputation gets out that somebody might
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be Troublesome or just not pleasant to
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work with people are kind of like
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straying from that like like I don't
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know what you're going to be involved
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with the project with certain people
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like that well let's back up to one
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point you said the thing about not
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having to pay me for something that
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doesn't apply with me okay okay
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but otherwise you know I'm a favorite
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guy I do favorites I do really favors
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they may be costly favors right no but
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yeah they're you know the business is so
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uh you know diverse people like jump at
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the chance to work with their friends
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you know people that they know and so
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like that's always uh like a plus you
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know if you're gonna go to work you know
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might as well people who you already
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know and already have a relationship
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with you know so then can you guys sense
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when someone is just trying to create
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this faux sense of connection to be in
16:06
your inner circle for that like have you
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ever had to deal with someone that you
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realize later on was fake like a phony
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exactly and they were able to sneak
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their way [ __ ] opportunist
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like how I'm trying to get on little
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demon right now
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yeah yeah but I I really been lucky with
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my uh you know the all years I've been
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doing this I like there's like a handful
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of people maybe four four or five that
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I'm gonna like you know keep in mind as
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the devil I'm gonna really
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yeah that's what's up yeah it's like
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it's it's uh you know once in a while
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you meet people but a lot of times it's
16:50
really good business I mean if you
16:52
really let people understand that
16:54
they're you're available to them you
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know so it's not if you're you know if
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you're fronting like a big uh kind of
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like you know stay away from me Vibe you
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know that you gotta go with the the flow
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you know so
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um so I I keep it open and you know and
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look for honesty and look for friendship
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and if it's there it's there and you
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know it's gonna you're gonna find out
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soon enough whether it's there or not
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you know it's gonna rear its ugly head
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you know and uh then you act accordingly
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Danny DeVito is here with us Lucy DeVito
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Round of Applause for that
17:32
your portrayal uh and Batman Returns of
17:35
the penguin
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was just
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baffling astonishing astonishingly
17:44
incredible yeah I loved every minute of
17:47
it yeah yeah it was good when Tim
17:49
approached me about it we started like
17:52
it from scratch what was what the
17:55
penguin was going to look like of course
17:56
he's an artist Tim Burton so he drew
17:59
like these great pictures of what Oswald
18:01
in his mind would look like and uh we
18:05
talked about everything every aspect of
18:07
it how he's a bird who can't fly he's
18:10
kind of an odd duck or bird penguin not
18:14
a duck uh and uh you know his mother and
18:16
father rejected him he had no life he
18:18
was raised by uh Penguins underneath the
18:22
Gotham City and you know he he stuck
18:25
with the people who really cared cared
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for him he was like a a bird out he was
18:31
out of out of place and so uh he had a
18:35
certain uh I think a hero in an odd way
18:38
uh Oswald really cared about the city he
18:40
cared about the underbelly of the city
18:42
the people who weren't appreciated
18:44
people who didn't
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he was For the Working Man for the I I
18:49
mean he may not see this in the movie
18:51
but I this is the way I approached it as
18:53
a guy who was there for the people who
18:56
thinking about the people who are like
18:58
um forgotten or not looked at or you
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know not noticed and uh the birds were
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you know part of my family and and I
19:06
embraced them and we had a great time
19:08
and PeeWee was your dad and peewee's my
19:10
dad not Peewee who I love he's really
19:12
good guy he's a PB uh Paul Reuben he's
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uh he did throw me away
19:19
[Laughter]
19:26
but the Penguins helped me big time you
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know and I don't roll it against him I
19:31
mean listen job's a job right man Danny
19:35
DeVito man that's I can't even believe
19:37
you're sitting here with me that's crazy
19:38
I'm bugging out right now I gotta ask
19:40
one last question because I love the
19:41
coverage of Sympathy for the Devil that
19:43
you guys use in the series so whose idea
19:45
was it to do the cover of that rolling
19:47
stone song I'm not sure I don't know
19:49
none of them neither of ours okay yeah I
19:53
wish I could take credit for it no all
19:55
right so can we do something before
19:56
y'all go because I know we only got a
19:58
few minutes and you got to go to your
19:59
next interview I can see somebody a
20:01
Handler looking at me
20:03
um in case Ria comes back
20:05
is there a question you can ask her it
20:07
doesn't have to be movie related it
20:09
could be who stole a cookie off the
20:10
cookie jar it could be anything
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hmm
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why don't you make me more French toast
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and you don't make it for me enough so I
20:25
miss that about our childhood
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I'm gonna follow up with pancakes
20:31
because I think Maria makes the best
20:33
pancake that you've ever had in your
20:35
life
20:36
but you gotta really coax her to do it
20:39
man I mean you gotta get off your butt
20:41
and make some pancakes woman oh he got
20:45
tough in it
20:48
we'll edit out the woman right yo listen
20:51
little little demon you guys make sure
20:53
you pay you watch this animated series
20:55
it's on FXX the DeVito family and
20:59
streaming on Hulu and streaming on
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streaming on Julissa honor to have you
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yeah thank you so much
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thank you man thank you we want to thank
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Bianca Lawson for coming by as well yeah
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check out Queen sugar the final season
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starts tonight on on network we want to
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thank DJJ smooth for blessing us with
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his mix today Jay smooth 007 follow him
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on social uh and Danny and Lucy DeVito
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man I'm coming over one of these
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holidays I'm gonna work my way
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all right we're doing it all right uh
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thank you to the whole Squad here today
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we're gonna end on that note and we have
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nothing left to say
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