Brett Goldstein

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Actor, comedian, and writer Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) joins Ted Danson this week. They pay homage to the late, great George Wendt before getting into Brett’s HBO special “The Second Best Night of Your Life,” the relationship between acting and writing, and Brett’s experience going from the Ted Lasso writer’s room to playing footballer Roy Kent. Brett turns the mic around, asking Ted what it’s like to work with his wife Mary Steenburgen. To help those affected by the Southern California wildfires, make a donation to World Central Kitchen today. Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0	It's okay. There's a lot going on at the moment.
0:02.8	No, I'm an airhead.
0:15.8	Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.
0:18.6	Today's guest is a magnificently talented actor,
0:22.8	stand-up comedian, podcaster, and playwright, much, much more. Brett Goldstein is his name,
0:31.3	and if you're a huge fan of the other Ted, and I mean Ted Lasso, you know Brett for playing the footballer Roy Kent.
0:39.5	He also has written on that show and others including shrinking on Apple TV Plus and soulmates
0:46.3	on AMC, both of which he co-created.
0:49.7	Brett has a new stand-up special on HBO Max.
0:52.6	It's called The Second Best Night of your life. And I cannot
0:56.4	wait to talk to him about it. So let's get into it. Please meet Brett Goldstein.
1:03.4	Hi. Hi. Brad. Ted. Dancing. Can we not pretend that we didn't just start a conversation about George Went?
1:13.6	Yeah, you would like to talk about that for a bit? Yeah, I would just for my sake, and I know that
1:18.8	you know and work with Jason Stakes. I was, we could tell the listeners. I was with Jason in the
1:26.7	Ted Lasser writers room when the news came in
1:28.7	of George's death and Jason and the writers sat and watched like compilations of the best of
1:36.6	norm and told stories and I mean, I'm very sorry for your loss. He was, he was, I know from
1:43.6	Jason are wonderful stories, but he was also
1:45.5	individually so lovely to all of us
1:47.9	at Ted Lassoe, because he came to the premiere
1:49.8	and he'd be like, and he'd be like,
1:51.8	you'd get a thing saying, George wants to meet
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