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but you like that you want to hear the music I appreciate that what's going on everyone thanks for tuning in to a very special edition of the 404 show today I'm very lucky I've got two fantastic comedians uh maybe tempered luckiness quote-on-quote I admire you gentlemen a great deal you may know them from their work on the infamous MTV sketch show the state or Comedy Central's Reno 911 mm-hmm which had six seasons of glory mmm it's a five and then one that was that the fans hated one that was a divider almost beyond that line in the sand yeah or is the writers of the Night at the Museum movie which I tell people they're surprised by that they didn't know that it's a fun fact we have a pretty uh schizophrenic career I guess yeah eclectic what you call a crazy dude who's like wearing a tinfoil hat it's a bus station schizophrenic sure yeah not a not eclectic street dweller who say I made you up kind of career that's not a collective that's yeah yeah well there's nothing wrong with you guys you seem like very well-put-together dudes you're here because your latest collaboration is a film called hell baby yes which tells the ridiculous story of what happens to a an expecting couple expecting twins they move into a haunted house in New Orleans yes the movie was almost had a couple different titles yes one of the titles is something that keegan-michael key who plays for now and yes at one point he says folks just call it death boogie you all Hathaway and we almost called the movie house on down and everything the whole thing um but then it seemed like a little long yeah we almost know little baby - yes I'm gonna go out on a limb actually like hell baby - better than help hell baby - is pretty funny to me it makes more sense for we pitched it to folks and people were other didn't like a fuse we didn't really like hell baby how much either hell maybe two is growing on me baby it's only a small sort of edit I feel like yeah SEO wouldn't really kill ya yeah well we figured out a whole backstory that he'll maybe one was unreleasable press junket we know there was a he'll be well anyway I'd like to introduce you fine gentlemen Thomas Lennon robert ben garant thanks for being here thank you this is a pleasure I love your guys and stuff I've been watching since I'm a wee lad this date and all that special for me age that we meet a lot of people who were raised on the state yes you know yeah parents had left them unattended no say yeah your parents kind of left you unattended yeah yeah you basically raised yourselves yeah why are your cutters long dwellers yes the basement we are the basement tapes yes yeah I love it we were kids too we were only like cuz we were doing live by the time it was done yeah over with this it was canceled off CBS by the time we were 25 yes it's kind of amazing because it's a different it was it wasn't that long ago where in the grand scheme of things and the era of entertainment and what we have now right think about when the state was on there's no internet no the only and cable was fairly 24-hour enable HBO used to go off the air which kids don't know ones like Native American yeah but that's the thing if the state were to exist now I don't think well the birthday boys have a TV show yeah they do but I don't I don't know that we would have ever gotten into television subsequently everything that we do yeah if we hadn't been we we probably would have done like Funny or Die videos and stuff then that's the equivalent I mean because it was on your dive videos and and drugs and drugs sure yeah and it's that around and playing Goldeneye the state so I heard this where we were talking briefly before we went on that old and I double-oh-seven almost destroyed the state we lost Jan first heeda's and I was not Todd went off to Joe Joe yeah we just closed you just with the golden none of us had ever seen a video game like Goldeneye well just drop like flies yeah he would spend all night playing it and deafening stay playing it nobody went outside their throat comedy jokes I lived with like a really attractive like twenty-two year old actress I didn't pay any attention to her no those were the days because I was literally just sitting puffing on merit playing Goldeneye yeah that's it I mean how do you kill a guy in the wall zoom in so you like throw a hat every now and then call to each other on your landline to ask how you kill people on the dam so excited to slip your hands so it really like it just destroyed it's just that this rated product Goldeneye and missed missed yeah the the year that mist came out it put the whole group on hiatus for about six months yeah so they're all playing we're all separate dwellings playing miss so depressing and little did you know you're like you have this amazing opportunity you have youth it's a beautiful oyster when you like okay when you light the burner and you turn the heat up and then you walk to the rocket ship what is in the rocket ship code oh yeah because you gotta remember to switch for go play the piano first then light the burner meanwhile there's actual orgies happening in New York City like largest store he's covered with work and we're trying to figure out missed that's amazing you guys I know from there's a there's a telltale aspect of my life which is right around the time right after golden oh yeah I quit videogames forever really yes forever I never looked back like a drug subsequently been and I've had 10 or 11 films that got made yeah yeah and I can't help but notice that I feel like there's n TV shows a correlation four or five failed pilots yeah like there's a correlation yeah between me not spending like 14 hours at 16 hours a day wondering how to wandering around trying to have trying to kill the guy up on the up on the dam you guys are really making me question happy no no I know it's just a we're not even that entertaining anyway it's true no we have a lot of yeah how's their show going exactly well how about that all right well let's talk about what you guys have been working on for a little while hell baby no baby this is a genre that I don't think I've seen from you guys yet you guys have watching I could talk about horror movies more like mom like when you're moving comes out we get very excited we tell there's oh you gotta see the orphanage you got to see dumb more than we get excited about like when a comedy comes out what a comedy comes out it's like oh yeah yeah work like work yeah I mean if I really you know get excited about it but horror movie feels like work horror movies feel like a vacation yeah it's really yeah so what's your favorite our all-time uh either The Changeling with Georgie Scott say what you want The Exorcist is very hard to top Thank You sixes for a time - yeah it'll still scare the balls yeah before anything happens what's real quiet it's real quiet the quiet ones orphanage is very quiet directed he didn't but it's beautiful creepy slow fantastic two times in orphanage that you'll get actual like the hair on your body will stand up really good if you ever seen the Exorcist three no was unaware of it's also rare see Scott okay Red Dwarf plays the Scorpio killer it's great I'll tell you right now if you don't gasp out loud and clench your butt super hard yeah it's got two great scares they're two of the best years in movies are in really weird your hand they make you wait for it wait you wait wait wait wait so long to leave you more than two but two of them are bonafide you can see the movie hundred times mama actually has a moment did you see mama now mom is terrific mama has a moment that sort of inspired by that long as a long hallway singing The Exorcist rewrite that they just make you sit and wait and you keep thinking something scary's gonna happen but you can't you know it's most on the book it's based on lead Legion book okay Gary's book I read that book and I got it out of the house I like took it to a donation place and gave it away because the fair enough and the movies good our film hell maybe is not as scary as that what was good for it to be sometimes scaring sure Yelp's rob corddry yells out I am so sick of being startled is exactly right yes it's not yeah when they cast came together originally we were gonna pepper it with some horror movie guys like some serious actors okay a head of the Vatican who sciences were thinking should but then like that he was the last best place and of maybe a serious actor and as you I have seen it thoroughly it's it's very silly it's between Exorcist three and the cannibal run - okay yes yes if you like if you'd like those films you're like man I wish somebody would mash up those two ideas because three animals been a void yeah must have been some weirdo who was planning for that yes yeah maybe and you so I I watched the film a couple days ago if you like if you're a fan of ghost dogs if you're a fan of zombie blowjobs yes oh yeah that's pretty so much better just goes dogs in zombie budgets in fact and the time for their like the release in Europe yeah let's call it yeah ghost dogs and zombie blowjob in Italian that'll be great yeah that's great all right well the blow jobs correctly ladies smoking and drinking no yeah whose letters a lot of paint thinner actually she does vintage porn which is I have you know it was a big long fight to get the rights to we magazine I didn't even know that was though you I it was a very good class will show when a young gentleman was interested in some pornography sure it was also thought-provoking yeah are you using enough Kirschwasser in your fondue sure who's that yeah and then they ladies yeah yeah it was just a better time it was a bush now we had to track down the guy who owned the rights to it when he picked up the photos just was slippery all the time drop the phone again it if you like all these things and my personal favorite making fun of Ashton Kutcher specific yeah we stopped for a while to do that in this movie long brachial where we we talk about Kutcher's choice of the kinds of cameras and printers that he endorses sure yes that improv actually went on for about 15 quite a bit longer were the four of a set around and talked about what camera I think we use and what printers yes sure no he's probably made more money off Nikon Oh without a doubt and we have in show business yes easily I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures of his house in a magazine yeah yeah always working out great yeah we give me all the problems we talk about in the film we also talk for a long time about making something called pizza salad yes where you take a Domino's Pizza toss it in a bowl with a salad right also from Domino's yeah and that's kind of not to spoil the movie but it's kind of the climax of and that wasn't product placement we had to go to dominos information them your permission about honey and we're like oh yeah I'm like well we're making this kind of gross horror movie okay already we're not excited for a long time they're changing their image you notice they're going digital with the whole like have you seen oh yeah you wouldn't you wait there's a little low the dude cooking yeah and he tells you to cracks jokes and stuff yeah and you could pick it could be like a minute oh well how much of hell baby were you sort of letting the actors because you guys you guys produce this film you wrote it and you directed it as well it's about 80 but we did a lot of improv the final cut is probably about 80% scripted okay a lot of the weird thing is some things that don't seem scripted are yeah and then something teaches salad big thing first draft long speech about how flat dr. pepper is still pretty good but the whole movie ends with this wonderful speech many of the characters know it's a dramatic sort of song about race relations that was that was totally as you're walking down the street you don't even get as much as hello right unless he looks at them in the most unbelievably early self-satisfied way and says for now hello yeah and it's the stupidest it ain't right it's out of nowhere and we're always like from like a cheesy like Hallmark Hall face but it is really the end of our movie yeah and that was improv that was young they just said that yeah I don't know why you would put that in the script it seemed a little very long yeah Riki Lindhome has a seven minute full frontal oiled up nude scene that is in no way trinsic to the plot like yeah which my responses and yes I need to show you my note and why are you so mad at me the notes that I almost verbatim it was an interesting thing to pitch to her yeah how did that work it went amazingly well yeah well no convincing Ricky does a podcast called making it okay which is terrific podcast if you get a chance to listen to man she asked people like how you get into the industry and such and I realized that she has such a great she's like the sort of the live-action Janis from the Electric Mayhem okay so you're like that sexy there's gonna be weird sexy you're like a muppet that I want to take all our clothes off yeah cover an oil and make a film about how is that weird to say out loud that's weird I just want to say that's provocative yeah I'm gonna go with you'll read about myself weird yeah I don't feel good about myself because I was picturing myself sort of you know scenario did put it played out verbatim like so I said to Ricky um hey there's a scene in the movie a very funny character but the introduction scene is kind of weird just as a nudity I said yeah yeah I think when you're Ricky people creepy guys with mustaches frequently say I got if you want to be in a picture and she done it because he's sitting it could be and I don't know why I'm making fun of that because that's exactly what it's gonna be you know the pitch all right although it's not a sexual scene it's just long very long and they uh yeah you know and that really that seems about one it's about her being uninhibited it's also just so that fernell can come in one more time and say and it's perfect cuz it's right off camera just yeah that's really a lot of it's a you know it doesn't get a lot of fun make yeah he's your really good young I'm stressed about making it make sense and right following a bunch of like terrific structure that would make it really satisfying people really all got to be funny and normally a couple of people in the movie have to sort of play the straight man and we well you can check it out it's on demand right now and in theaters September 6 yep excellent so please do that I want to talk real quick about you guys recently did an AMA on reddit and you guys have never really liked everything yeah yeah it was pretty great like people have immediate interaction like immediate feedback great questions oh yeah Paul it was cool you brought some truly genius questions on the radio really funny yeah it took the pressure off but the fans were fun question if you google it is someone sent in a question that was just day-to-day - with a question mark and we answered it at length yeah day two we also answered at length did you see the our piece about Gotham City flippers no I did it might be a new show that we do someone asked why my character in memento was also in the Dark Knight Rises right you played and I said it's because I'm also I've moved from California to Gotham to start flipping apartments every time there's a supervillain attack right yeah yeah you buy up the properties near the bridge Bane blue real cheap I mean the Martinus name show blows up a ferry for people yeah you can get some deal places around our code on't yeah I've imagined that ten block radius around or you gotta be almost like the militarized almost giving it away but then a vinyl record stores come in hipsters move in the Renaissance begins and then Arkham there's a break and all the hipsters are murdered by the Riddler yeah that's also look out for I did I think red it's amazing specifically for the AMAs because John Malkovich did one a month back only changes your life a little bats pretty good you read that and the the you know to death oh yeah this dude and ever and because you're because you're trained and you're conditioned to read all of his responses in his voice yeah only your brandnew so far I need this gun to kill the president yeah exactly it's just like this never we got to talk about Reno we're almost out of time but I have to talk about Reno no you know that was a fantastic show on Comedy Central Tom you played lieutenant dangle who's there like a sexually ambiguous always ask what is whatever you find out about lieutenant dangle dangle makes out with a man sure in the pilot rolls like a these guys maybe got so many Kazi we don't know about there's no closet oh we know about it there's no closet for a GLAAD award we didn't win it but ah that make out is the thing that kept us off of Fox pretty much because we originally did the pilot for the year they wanted us all crazy time but we shot that show for Fox you know the idea is it would be a companion piece right after cops we know yes oh really to polar I got a sketch show that was cancelled and we're like well what if the slot would have been the right after coppers I think 9:30 p.m. on Saturday nights and we're like oh my god what if we just do the show that was on right before us but as a sketch show right Oh another weird thing about it is in the pilot of Reno we play the cops and all of the play every okay yeah it's kind of like a Little Britain yeah it really does feel like a sketch show you pull up to a house and walk in and we're also the people in the house that are doing a domestic dispute that's right like Harry played throwing hooker yeah we ended up phasing it out for the most part yeah there was a big comedy central note there like when they bought it three it's out on the show for three years right that's too stupid yeah cuz it was like a muppet show yes literally it's like the mullet show because we've always been putting on like fake like teeth and wigs and then we'd keep catching ourselves and it was pretty dumb yeah they have that power that we should put it on the internet because I think everyone would appreciate that we good parts of it are good yeah the one thing that stayed TT yeah yeah I wanted with the big floppy that's apparently good that good hair I've got that but you know I've got a nice ease but in my basement yes oh really those button to move had a lot of Reno stuff in my house just because it had to be stored somewhere so one of the things is a huge prosthetic behind mmm which I'm sure it could come in handy masturbate she did a spread and we yeah we're gonna get a call from the Jim Henson people being like sexualize Janice really may have we're just gonna have our hands up there that's right you means that's our bad I'm curious how you guys feel about the characters on that show we talked about dangle for a bit and you played deputy jr. who's clearly visually impaired simpleton Jim well I'm from Tennessee and all of my uncle's think that's an impression of them oh do they really it's not that's not nice yeah they they think that I'm sort of do uncle who I can't quite understand I was in Vegas with Ben and his uncle was coming round the corner yeah I'm literally don't know what that was yeah everybody all around in there all right yeah we're going yet yeah yeah even that doesn't make I tell just agree yeah you're going on it don't do it so just agree yeah who's your guys favorite character outside of the regular cast I just want to tell you real quick sure Steve little oh the guy from the future yeah come on yeah they would not explain to me it was not excited me not explained to me he says like your mother did to me the way that we do auditions yeah for Reno is people come in and we just ask you in solving problems do you call us or - or did where we called about you and they say hello somebody probably called you guys about me and you say okay and then you walk up and then Steve little turns around and goes hey would not expect to be judge and you have no idea what to do like all I said is what if I don't have any clothes on I have cocaine great great it was not explained to me that's how we measure oh yeah came in and started trying to change her trying to change panties while we were arresting her for being drunk but she was like and she kept pulling different things that she wanted it was like she was really high and she couldn't decide what she wanted to be wearing and she was right you didn't like anything she had on but she also didn't like anything in the back no we just started and then we tried to pick her up and she we were like she could kind of go to limp in yes I grew up with one hand right uh so that was that was always very impressive keegan-michael key obviously was in hell baby yeah because of his he would always pretend to not know he stole things I'm not saying I'm saying that white male 35 years old yeah that's a great character the most it's so funny the most with with yeah toby huss you said what if I have like a do-rag in a packet he's really accurate to cops yes Jackson screams like always just screaming at somebody I'm great you're come the cops from Assam Big Mac yeah Nick swardson's always a lot of love Nick Nick is no one cracks himself up more than Nick you can he laughs at his own style you head it around but Nick it is funny and it's like why that's why I just but I just have you keep our camera mechanics to kind of after nick says something funny go to us yeah that's a good thing about the moustache if you go like this you can laugh in the moustache and it covers your face exelon nobody really knows what you're doing yeah you know the icon Street man right there Jim rash always made look look look jack plotnick esteem more mellow yes this is a goof I am doing this as a goof like even like Patton Oswald like like he'd never got the opportunity he'd always come in and he's like the LARP guy right yeah he's the dungeons dragster of escaping was the booze hammer of Galen booze hammer of Galen character and nobody ever got none of these guys got to just come and be their craziest you know come in just say whatever came to their mind and have like a 10-minute long insane scene right my favorite one of you we said hey Patton there's like could we will walk up to you and let's say there was a D&D game and somebody somebody got actually shot with an arrow or as it got so he go in the background there's a neck yeah and we will we'll just we won't interrupt you too much right so we ended up I think Patton told like a 20 minute story sure yes and you can see so what happened and then he talks for 20 minutes about 100 s which is the longer one for long I smoked an entire one yeah in the shot then you see me finish it start another one and then I finished that one off and he just tells the story and occasionally we ask him just to clarify something but that's about it yeah it wasn't an actual dragon or was it was really fun because sometimes sometimes we wouldn't even have a plan I have a plan no it just it seemed like it was a lot I hope it's it is there any you know hopefully it could come back through like a thing like Netflix yeah they offered us they have offered it and I don't know if that offers still on the table but at one point they offered it I will say it was before everything on Netflix exploded in the stratosphere right so we didn't really know what it that was it was Netflix was very early auditor and they're like what if you do more for these of like a Twin Peaks you know dude to do one sort of like during history that firewall episodes the only thing we know about is it starts with they find a body wrapped up in plastic yeah and dangle is on a discount cigarette like stop smoking chantix medicine it's like a knockoff from Canada yeah so it's like a sort of a beautiful art film version you might possibly alright it sounds like you guys got to get out of here okay for a second um I just want to thank you for being here are you kidding a pleasure everyone check out hell baby I think that's out on demand right now it's in theatres September 6 follow Thomas on Twitter at Thomas Lennon I'd say the same for you been with I'll write you a postcard this is the deal give me a call literally cut off from the digital known everything I respect I love it my phone barely even works hold out I'm gonna see if I got any comments about me on Twitter right now fair enough we got to get out of here seriously thanks so much for being here it was really appreciate thank you thank you blast yeah go check out the film that's gonna do it for this very special edition of the 404 show eight six six four four scene it is our number you can email us the 404 at cnet.com let me know what you think about these two fine gentlemen that'll do it for us thanks for tuning in we'll see you soon