Andrew Jay Cohen on Directing 'The House', Assisting Judd Apatow on 'Anchorman', and Saying 'Yes'

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4.3 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Jay Cohen talks about co-writing and directing his latest movie, The House. He recalls his time at Yale film school and then we go over his resume which includes working on films like Anchorman and Unfaithful. And he shares some insight into creativity and capitilizing on opportunities. He's the best.

Check out The House in theaters now. It stars Will Ferrell Amy Poehler, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, and Rob Huebel (Just to name a few...)

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to Resime on Podcast One. And soo, Oh, and it's resume, that's right. Sounds so good. My name's Chris Lachimana. I am your host for the day and once again this is the
0:36.4	podcast where we talk about that's right resumes, the career paths of the best people
0:41.6	in the world and today oh I'm excited we got Andrew J Cohen hey oh oh hey oh
0:48.6	Andrew just came out with an incredible movie you if you haven't heard about it, then you haven't been outside, you haven't been watching TV, anything.
0:57.0	Because it's called The House, in theaters everywhere.
1:00.0	Will Farrell, Amy Polar, Jason Manzucus.
1:05.0	You have like, I was thinking about, you have a super team.
1:08.0	You have the Golden State Warriors of comedic actors.
1:11.0	Oh, it's true.
1:12.0	Yeah, we have superstars, all-stars. Yeah. Full professionals. They, no, they lay it out there fully in this movie. I'm so proud. And, yeah, I just love everybody's performance. We had a great group of actors. Those three plus ton of other people. Nick Kroll, Rob Hubble,
1:30.0	Exactly. They're all... Like Andrea Savage. Everybody has their own show
1:35.2	Cedric Yarbrough who's on speechless. Rory Scovil who's got a Netflix special. Oh yeah, he's got one. Yeah, so there's these are
1:43.6	Black Belt's they are yeah. Oh yeah, so these are black belts. They are.
1:44.3	Yeah, black belts of comedy.
1:45.8	And it's a, why don't you give a quick premise of the film?
1:49.5	Sure, sure, it's about a couple who can't afford college for their daughter, so they start a casino in Jason Manzukkuz's house.
1:57.0	Which is high concept because it's a Jason Manzukuz's house.
2:02.0	And let's see.
2:03.7	So you wrote this movie and you actually directed it to.
2:06.9	You co-wrote it with Brendan O'Brien,
2:10.0	produced it, and directed it.
2:11.4	This is my feature directorial debut
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