Collaboration & Friendship / Seth Rogen + Evan Goldberg, Comedy Duo

Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

HITRECORD & Cadence13

Arts, Tv & Film, Performing Arts

4.4 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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“At the end of the day, I’d rather make stuff period than make stuff how I want to make stuff. And specific to us, I’d rather make stuff together even than stuff alone.” -Evan Goldberg My guests this week are the comedy duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. You've probably heard of their movies Pineapple Express, This Is The End, Neighbors, Superbad, Sausage Party, and most recently Good Boys. They’ve also ventured into the entrepreneurial space with their own cannabis brand, Houseplant. I’ve known these guys are a while, and have had the pleasure of working with them on 50/50 and The Night Before. Seth and Evan are unique in that they do a vast majority of their creative work as a duo. Because of this, I thought they would make the perfect pair for this week’s question. For this episode, Seth, Evan and I discussed a question from Pretince Martin Southwell from Springfield Illinois. Pretince asked, “Have you had people you didn’t get along with personally turn out to be good to work with professionally, or vice versa?” We talked about the origin story of how Seth and Evan’s working relationship began, how their dynamic changes when they work with or involve other people, how they navigate disagreements, and we even debated the existence of extraterrestrial life. If you have a question about the creative process, that you think would spawn a good conversation on this show, ask me on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter tagged #creativeprocessing, or by emailing [email protected]. New episodes are coming out every Tuesday through October 22, 2019. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Seth Rogen is an actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur and philanthropist whose films and TV projects have had an impressive impact on popular culture and box office returns. As an actor, his films have grossed over $930 million worldwide and as a filmmaker, his global box office success exceeds $850 million. Alongside longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg, Rogen produces film and television projects through their production company, Point Grey Pictures. Evan Goldberg is a director, screenwriter and producer. In 2011, Goldberg alongside long time collaborator Seth Rogen, founded Point Grey Pictures (PGP), a production company dedicated to creating multi-genre film and television content anchored in dynamic, authentic and passionate storytelling. Through PGP, Goldberg has produced a diverse slate of films such as 50/50, Neighbors, Good Boys and the Academy Award -nominated The Disaster Artist. In the TV space, Goldberg currently produces Future Man on Hulu, Black Monday on Showtime, Preacher on AMC, and The Boys on Amazon. LINKS FOR EPISODE: Connect with Seth and Evan: Twitter: @SethRogen Instagram: @SethRogen Facebook: Seth Rogen ReelStart.org HilarityforCharity.Org People Mentioned: Sammy Fogell (Childhood Friend) Sam Raimi (Director) Stanley Kubrick (Director) Jeremy Irons (Actor) Kevin Smith (Filmmaker) Jim Carrey (Actor) Kyle Hunter (Producer) Ariel Shaffir (Producer) Eric Kripke (Writer) Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (Filmmaking Duo) Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Filmmaking Duo) Bonnie and Terry Turner (Producing Duo) Johnathan Levine (Director) Alex McAtee (Producer) Sandy Rogen (Seth’s Mom) Judd Apatow (Filmmaker) Sam Catlin (Writer) Michael Shannon (Actor) Kevin Corrigan (Actor) David Krumholtz (Actor) Paul Sheer (Actor) June Diane Raphael (Actress) Jason Mantzoukas (Actor) Movies Mentioned: Pineapple Express (2008) This Is the End (2013) Neighbors (2014) Superbad (2007) 50/50 (2011) The Night Before (2015) Sausage Party (2016) Good Boys (2019) Spaceballs (1987) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) Evil Dead (1981) Bad Lieutenant (1992) Lolita (1997) Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Swingers (1996) Clerks (1994) Wayne’s World (1992) TV Shows Mentioned: The Larry Sanders Show (1992-1998) Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) The Boys (2019-) 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996-2001) Undeclared (2001-2002) Preacher (2016-) Other Mentions: Houseplant How Did This Get Made Podcast To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Creative Processing Podcast. My name is Joe Gordon Leavitt.
0:10.0	The idea of this show is to have a conversation about the creative process.
0:14.0	That conversation is spawned by one single question.
0:17.0	And that question comes from you out there on the internet.
0:20.0	And then I find a guest, or in the case of this episode two guests that I think will be particularly good at answering that question and then we talk for a while about doing creative things.
0:32.6	This week the guests are Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg.
0:36.8	You might know their movies Pineapple Express.
0:40.3	This is the end, neighbors, they wrote super bad. I was in a couple movies that they made 50-50 and the night before
0:49.0	sausage party. They recently produced a movie that just came out good boys. They're also venturing into the movie that just came out good boys.
0:54.0	They're also venturing into the entrepreneurial space with their company House Plant.
0:59.0	It's a cannabis company.
1:01.0	And despite being incredibly funny.
1:03.7	They're also very, very smart dudes
1:06.2	and I think perfect for this question
1:08.0	because of their partnership and the way
1:10.2	that they work with other people.
1:11.2	So the question this week comes from
1:13.4	pretense Martin Southwell from Springfield, Illinois. The question is, have you had
1:19.7	people you didn't get along with personally turn out to be good to work with professionally or vice versa.
1:28.0	Now I thought Seth and Evan would be particularly good at answering this question because first of all they're they're just
1:34.0	incredibly collaborative it's the two of them they do not everything together but the
1:39.2	vast majority of their creativity and work is done as a duo as this partnership so I wanted to hear
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