Joe Wengert, Our Close Friend

Hollywood Handbook

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Comedy

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Hayes start off by discussing this week's biggest question: Who is going to replace Letterman when he leaves and should you make a list about it? Then, very good friend of the show JOE WENGERT stops by to talk about what it was like to do a standup special, joke set-ups, plot holes, mic styles, Pierce Brosnan, and blue jeans. Also, stop holding your breath- the Popcorn Gallery is back with more thoughtful and poignant questions. This episode is sponsored by Audible.com. Go to audible.com/hollywood for a free audio book and 30 day free trial.

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0:00.0	So James Marsden takes like a huge swig of hand sanitizer and it's like did anyone order
0:11.2	a bunch of fucking pool water in their face and he jumps off the roof into the pool but
0:16.2	he hit like hit the side a little bit, a little bit of his head hit the side.
0:24.0	That's cool.
0:25.0	Hey!
0:26.0	Welcome to Hollywood Handbook.
0:27.0	This is Ciders Guide to kicking button, dropping names in the red carpet lineback hallways
0:30.2	of this industry we call showbiz, what up, what up?
0:32.9	We're here doing the show.
0:34.8	There's a huge amount going on in entertainment this week.
0:36.8	We have a lot of stuff to get to.
0:38.3	We want to get right into it.
0:39.4	There's no time to talk about anything else except the big news in Hollywood and what's
0:43.5	going on in movies, TV and entertainment and some of the new internet stuff, the new
0:51.3	media space and music a little bit.
0:54.6	The big thing this week, it's time to say farewell to David Letterman.
1:03.0	It's a sad moment for comedy fans and also people who work in comedy but don't watch it
1:09.0	that much.
1:10.0	Yeah, I was, a lot of people don't know, I was on varsity ski team with David Letterman
1:17.6	and we both wore our Letterman jackets and we made a lot of hay out of that and we really
1:24.0	laughed a lot about all the different jokes you could make and you can just imagine that
1:28.4	it was hours and weeks of those jokes.
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