‘Big Mouth’s’ Brandon Kyle Goodman Embraces ‘Love and Chaos’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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From his breakthrough gig as a writer for Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ to his breakout role as Walter the Lovebug on the new spin-off ‘Human Resources,’ Brandon Kyle Goodman has a lot to say about what it means to be Black and gender-nonconforming in comedy right now. In this bonus episode, Goodman opens up about how he knew his only path to pop culture success would be writing for himself, reveals how his own coming out story came to life on ‘Big Mouth’ and shares his reaction to Netflix’s handling of the Dave Chappelle debacle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and we have got something a little extra for you at the end of this week. |
| 0:13.4 | After that really great talk with River Butcher about what it is like to be a gender non-conforming comedian right now, |
| 0:20.4 | I really wanted to invite actor, |
| 0:22.1 | writer, and comedian Brandon Kyle Goodman on the podcast to continue that conversation. |
| 0:27.6 | Brandon, who, like River, uses both he-him and they-them pronouns, is a writer for one of my |
| 0:33.7 | favorite animated comedies, Big Mouth. |
| 0:36.6 | And one of the stars of that show's brand new |
| 0:39.2 | spin-off series, Human Resources, which premieres on Netflix today. On both shows, Brandon plays |
| 0:46.7 | Walter the Lovebub, who he describes to me as the definition of love and chaos. I'll let him explain. |
| 0:54.9 | Love is smothering like a rogue nurse who's taken mercy into her own hands. |
| 1:00.7 | Wow, I guess I have a lot to learn about love. |
| 1:03.5 | I have an incredible idea. You should learn about love from the bug who knows the most about love, |
| 1:10.0 | and that bug happens to be grabbing you by the |
| 1:13.0 | collar right now are you gonna kill me oh better honey i'm gonna teach you so i hope you enjoy this bonus |
| 1:21.4 | episode of the podcast and we'll be back with another new episode on tuesday here's me with Brandon Kyle Goodman. Well, thanks for doing this. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm a huge Big Mouth fan and fan of yours as well. So it's exciting to have you here. I have to admit I was |
| 1:38.8 | kind of skeptical of human resources just when I heard the concept announced. I was like, I love Big Mouth so much. |
| 1:45.2 | I don't know how it's going to live up to that. And I just got to watch the whole first season and |
| 1:50.3 | really, really, really enjoyed it. And I think you guys really nailed it. So yeah, how did this |
| 1:56.0 | all happen? How did human resources happen as this new show out of Bigmouth? |
| 2:03.0 | We came in for like the first day of season five, at least this is my experience, |
| 2:07.3 | and there was already kind of talk about this spinoff and introducing these two new characters, |
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