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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

228 - Allan Havey (Actor & Comedian)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Allan has enjoyed a long career as a standup comic and actor. You may have seen him in Mad Men, The Man in the High Castle, Hail Caesar!, and anywhere top notch comics are found.



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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Tzango.

0:30.0

Check, check. I'm checking in from Topanga, California.

0:39.0

Somebody pointed out that I said California AA all the time and then I stopped saying it

0:43.6

and I kind of missed it. So I'm back in California AA.

0:48.8

This is a conversation I had with an actor, stand-up comic named Alan Havie.

0:56.2

If you don't know his name, Google him, you'll recognize his face. He's everywhere.

1:01.5

I met him at a party a couple of months ago at Jake Johansson's place and you know, it's

1:07.7

one of those things where it's like, I know that guy. How do I know that guy?

1:11.9

In LA, when you have that feeling, it often means they're in entertainment. You know, a normal

1:19.1

outside of LA life, it means, you know, the guy you met him at a party, you see him at

1:25.0

the grocery store or whatever you've seen him around. But in LA, it can often be like,

1:30.2

hmm, yeah, familiar. Well, not really. I remember I had that experience. I was sitting in a waiting

1:36.7

room when I was pitching TV shows. I was at the talent agency and I had just checked in

1:44.3

at the front desk and I was sitting there waiting for someone to come and escort me to the

1:48.4

office where the meeting was. And this woman sat down next to me and we started chatting.

1:52.8

She was really nice, kind of sexy. But I was like, where did I, and I said to her just

1:59.3

spontaneously, they're like, yeah, you know, you and I know each other. We've met somewhere.

2:02.9

And I saw, you know, there's this recognition on her face like you're not used to this,

2:08.2

are you buddy? If she was the woman from the office, the uptight blonde, kind of sexy ice

2:15.8

queen from the office, I don't remember the character's name or the actor's name, but she

2:21.2

is really nice. Anyway, the Alan Havie, yeah, he's been in all sorts of things. So I met him

2:27.4

at this party and then I told this story recently, maybe on Rogan's podcast, maybe here, maybe

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