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Joy with Craig Ferguson

Jason Biggs

Joy with Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson & Studio71

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7743 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Craig's old pal actor and (now) director Jason Biggs joins the Joy Podcast for a bit of a chat about their lives. The duo chat about everything from being a kid actor in Hollywood, podcasting, raising families in Los Angeles and NY York, the influence of roles like "American Pie" and "The Late Late Show" had on them and even some James Bond talk. Jason gets candid about staring and directing for the first time in his upcoming film, "Untitled Home Invasion Romance". So, for an hour you can be a fly on the wall and watch some old friends catch up and share some joy. Have a question for Craig? Drop him an email at craigfergusonpodcast@gmail.com, send him a message on social media, or drop a comment below. _______________________________________________ Craig is also on the road. Dates and tickets can be found here https://www.thecraigfergusonshow.com/tour _________________________________________________ FIND CRAIG: Website - https://www.thecraigfergusonshow.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/craigyferg TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@craigy_ferg X - https://www.x.com/craigyferg Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thecraigfergusonshow WATCH THE PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/@thecraigfergusonshow About the Joy Podcast Storied late-night talk host Craig Ferguson brings his interview talents and singular world view to a discussion of the modern state of JOY, sitting down with notable guests from the worlds of entertainment, science, government, and more. How's our Joy doing? Bridled? On life support? Where do we find joy in a world that seems by any rational measure to be collapsing around us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come and see my brand new comedy hour.

0:05.3

Well, it's actually about an hour and a half and I don't have an opener because these guys cost money.

0:09.3

But what I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while.

0:12.4

Anyway, come and see me live on the Pants on Fire tour in your region. Tickets are on sale now

0:19.5

and we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout

0:22.5

2025 and beyond. For a full list of dates, go to the Craig Ferguson Show.com. See you on the road,

0:30.8

my dears. Hello, welcome to the Joy podcast. I am your host Craig Ferguson and this is my lovely

0:37.3

jacket that I'm wearing today, but I'll be taking it off to interview Joy podcast. I am your host Craig Ferguson and this is my lovely jacket that I'm wearing today.

0:39.2

But I'll be taking it off to interview my guest today, who is a movie star, an American icon,

0:45.6

and has recently become a director of movies. He's a national treasure and I adore him.

0:52.8

Welcome, Jason Biggs. I'm going to take my jacket off so I can talk to him without

0:56.6

sweating. Also, I don't want him to be intimidated by how awesome my new jacket is. So, it's all good. I,

1:02.9

you in the city for a minute? I have been, I've been filming this fucking thing. We've been everywhere.

1:10.4

Let me just say this, though. I will say this, that just as we ran into a gentleman the way in, it was talking to you about the old American Pie movies. And he said, I watched them. Then he talked like it was kind of porn. Yeah. He was like, I got, it's kind of shameful. That was the word he used, shameful. I don't want to advertise that I was watching them. I was like, oh my God. And I was like, stop, and then he kept going. I sometimes wonder, you know, when people, because people have sometimes seen to me, I saw that thing you did, that was really bad. Terrible. But these American movies, they're not bad. Yeah, I mean, they got, you know, they got progressively worse, I'd say. But you know what? And actually, that's not even true. That's actually not true. The first one is still, of course, I think, the best. And there were some, I don't know, I'm proud of all of them. There were some, you know, there were some moments in some of the movies.

2:02.5

It happens with sequels. It happens. Let me tell you. There's some movies I made that didn't go to sequel. For a reason, yeah. Well, let me just say this. I think we talked about the last time I was talking to you. I did a movie called Life Without Dick. No, I did do a movie called Live Without Dick,

2:18.3

which is also not a great movie,

2:20.1

but the one movie I'm going Dick. No, not that I did do a movie called Life Without Dick, which is also not a great movie.

2:20.1

But the one movie I'm going to tell you about was a movie called Life Without Dick, Sarah

2:25.2

Jessica Parker, Harry Connick Jr., me as an Irish mobster.

2:31.6

Okay.

2:32.2

Shocker.

2:32.9

Shocker.

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