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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

209. Jorma Taccone Returns: This Episode Sucks

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Since The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone was last on the podcast, he survived a nearly 20 foot fall from a ladder. Now Jorma tells the full ladder story and explains how the near death experience changed his life. Plus, Jorma talks about directing his new movie, Over Your Dead Body, starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving, and how he explained to his wife that he was making a comedy about someone trying to kill their wife. Mike and Jorma discuss whether being nice has helped or hurt their careers, and Jorma explains why if he says something “sucks,” it means he really likes it.

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0:00.0

this is what they don't tell you before you make a movie is stuntman they do the thing they do

0:06.9

the thing i did i tell you this right when like like i probably told it on our pie i guess but the uh

0:12.2

when we were doing harrod there was a scene where uh it's a montage of of andy's character rod getting

0:19.1

hit by different like he was like doing stunt like tests and then he, getting hit by different, like, he was, like, doing stunt, like, tests.

0:22.5

And then he just gets hit by this car.

0:24.9

And you're like, it's incredibly stupid.

0:27.2

And so I'm sitting next to the stuntman, and we're just waiting to, like, drive into a human.

0:31.3

And then the guy leans ever to me, and he's like, don't tell anyone, but he broke his ankle earlier, earlier today.

0:36.6

Yeah. Don't tell anyone, but he broke his ankle earlier today.

0:45.3

That is the voice of the great Yorma Tocone.

0:54.6

Yorma, one of my favorite writers, actors, directors, sketch comedians, wrote for S&L for many years.

0:56.3

He's part of the Lonely Island.

1:00.5

They made a movie called Pop Star, Never Stop, Never Stop, Never Stopping.

1:03.3

They made Hot Rod, which he was talking about there. He made McGruber, his new movie that is just coming out.

1:08.1

It's called Over Your Dead Body with Jason Siegel and Samara Weaving.

1:12.7

It is so funny.

1:14.2

It is in theaters now.

1:15.7

I think it's a great episode today.

1:17.3

I've known Yorma for a long time.

1:18.7

We're good friends.

1:19.8

I'm a huge fan of his work.

1:21.5

We really get in the weeds on writing and directing movies today.

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