A Conversation With Adam McKay

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.5 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jon welcomes his pal Adam McKay to discuss climate change and his film Don’t Look Up…and they barely do either. But! They do take a long stroll down comedy memory lane. From Adam’s start as a Philly stand-up, to his time with SNL and hits like Anchorman, to producing and directing Oscar®-nominated films, Adam’s fingerprints are all over 21st-century comedy.

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Hosted by: Jon Stewart

Featuring: Adam McKay

Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.

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Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos

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0:00.0	We started with a clap because our guest today never goes anywhere without a
0:05.9	applause. He is a man who will not leave his house unless you applaud for him.
0:33.3	Folks, it's a special edition of the problem podcast and we are back on television as well.
0:43.4	The Apple TV Plus show is on and our next episode is on the climate. This was probably a bad
0:50.9	choice but we filmed it from inside a burning tire. I don't know that that it may negate some of
0:57.8	the message but the rest of the message gets through. We have a wonderful conversation today
1:03.0	with the filmmaker and comedian in front of mine. Don't look up. Is his latest movie nominated for
1:08.5	8,000 Oscars in the that maybe an over exaggeration but it's it's close to that. He was the
1:17.5	former head writer for SNL and improv, impressorio. You probably remember from the big short and
1:25.2	all those unbelievably fucking hilarious will Farrah movies. So here it is. A special episode
1:32.7	conversation. I hope you enjoy it. Adam, okay. Adam, okay, how the fuck are you having Oscar?
1:45.8	You're you're a sketch writer. Now you're just you're rolling up fucking Oscars. I was even
1:55.6	where I was an improviser. I was in Chicago doing freeze-tag. My god, the lowest form of entertainment.
2:05.4	Actually, I was the lowest form. I was a guy. I was the guy who blows in the wind outside of
2:11.7	muffler repair shop. That was my that was my job for good six years. Everybody's got a grab cat.
2:19.4	Did you start in Chicago? You know, I started in Philadelphia. I was in college when the
2:26.8	stand-up comedy boom hit in the 80s around 86, 87. And you know, that was when the whole comedy
2:35.3	thing started rolling. That was like Letterman came on. The Simpsons God go in. Stand-up comedy was
2:41.5	everywhere. That's when I moved to the city to do stand-up was 87. 86, 87. That was it. And so
2:49.3	I was doing stand-up comedy. There's one other comic from that time you may have heard of. Oh,
2:53.5	there's a couple. Yeah. Paul F. Tomkins was kind of in your circle. He was serious. He was the
3:00.1	funniest of all of us. Right. Stand-up. But there was another bling patch. Yeah. All those guys
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