Stepbrothers has so many of these moments where we're literally about to start laughing.

Our eyes are starting to water and we're starting to make these strange faces.

There's one where I can point out that Will almost fully loses it.

This is Good One. I am Jesse David Fox, senior writer at Vulture, and author of Comedy Book.

My guest today is John C. Riley, one of the great actors, comedies, or otherwise, of at least my lifetime.

We talk about Walk Hard, Stepbrother, Chicago, his creative relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson, and Mr. Romantic.

The cabaret character he's been performing as around the country, who recently put out an album of standards from the American songbook.

So here is John C. Riley.

I am here with John C. Riley. Thank you for joining me.

My pleasure.

So the first question I like to ask, what is the funny thing that happened to you this week?

Well, I was on Fire Island in New York, and we have a lot of family and stuff that comes out there.

We end up going out there every summer to this little cottage.

And when the ferry leaves and people that we love are leaving on the ferry, we always stand at the ferry dock and sing happy trails to you.

Everyone stand happy trails to you until we do it again.

And it's usually this kind of like, you know, sweet moment where, you know, and we wave goodbye.

Sorry, we waved goodbye to the person.

Well, this time, I was totally unaware of it, but someone was like late to the boat.

And we started saying, happy trails to you.

And this person was late.

And the guy was like, no, that's it.

No one else on the boat

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