John C. Reilly, Fred Armisen and Tim Heidecker Unite!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The hilarious stars and creators of Showtime’s ‘Moonbase 8’ are here to help take our minds off of politics. John C. Reilly, Fred Armisen and Tim Heidecker are individually three of the funniest people around and they’re even funnier together in their new show about a trio of wannabe astronauts stuck in the middle of the Arizona desert. In this episode, they talk about how their overlapping careers led to this triumphant collaboration, tease the possible return of their good friend Dr. Steve Brule and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week we're doing something a little bit different. |
| 0:11.9 | After a bunch of very political episodes over the past few weeks, I wanted to take a little breather, |
| 0:17.5 | and I couldn't think of anyone better to do it with than the three stars |
| 0:21.5 | and creators of the hilarious new Showtime series, Moonbase 8. I still can't quite believe that |
| 0:28.9 | it happened, but I was able to get John C. Riley, Tim Heidecker, and Fred Armisen all together |
| 0:34.5 | on one Zoom call to talk about the delightful escapism of their new show. |
| 0:39.3 | We also got into the various ways their careers have crossed paths over the years and what they each have coming up next. |
| 0:45.3 | In this clip from the premiere episode of Moonbase 8, which is available to stream for free right now on YouTube and on demand, |
| 0:52.3 | the three aspiring astronauts discuss possible solutions |
| 0:56.0 | to a very serious water crisis at their desert base. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay, so this is a dilemma, we're up on the moon, |
| 1:04.0 | we've got to deal with this, right? |
| 1:06.0 | We've got to find a solution. |
| 1:08.0 | So I've done in accounting for all the liquids |
| 1:10.0 | that we have up here that are drinkable. I've got 14 gallons of bottled water, I've done an accounting for all the liquids that we have up here that are drinkable. |
| 1:11.6 | I've got 14 gallons of bottled water. |
| 1:13.6 | I've got some juice, some of the water we use for our toilets. |
| 1:17.6 | All right, so let's show NASA that we know what we're doing. |
| 1:20.6 | What are some other ideas? |
| 1:21.6 | What about the vegetable oil? |
| 1:23.6 | There's some olive oil upstairs, canola. |
| 1:26.6 | You cannot drink vegetable oil. |
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