Josh Gad

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 26 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Actor and comedian Josh Gad may be known best as the voice of Olaf the snowman in the two biggest animated movies in the history of Hollywood: Frozen and Frozen 2. But Gad originally rose to fame on Broadway, earning a Tony nomination for his role in the hit musical “The Book of Mormon.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Gad at his favorite bar in the theater district to talk about his journey from that show to his latest project, an HBO series called Avenue 5 set in outer space.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:05.7	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.8	I'm very excited again this week about our guest.
0:11.6	He's not only one of the best guys in Hollywood, he's one of the funniest guys in Hollywood.
0:15.7	His name is Josh Gad.
0:17.9	He became a star first in the Book of Mormon, the Broadway sensation that's still running
0:23.4	there right now.
0:24.4	He played Elder Cunningham.
0:26.4	It really put him on the map.
0:28.0	Then of course, his life exploded in 2013 when he was the voice of Olaf in Frozen, the
0:35.2	lovable snowman Olaf, the film that made more than a billion dollars in the sequel that
0:40.1	just surpassed it.
0:41.4	I think it's at like 1.3 billion dollars now.
0:44.0	It's Frozen 2.
0:45.5	My man is a box office draw.
0:47.8	He's also in a new show on HBO, a hilarious series from the same people who brought you
0:52.9	Veepe.
0:53.8	It's called Avenue 5 and it's set 40 years in the future.
0:58.0	It's about a luxury cruise ship for space tourism.
1:03.1	So it's a spaceship, 40 years in the future.
1:06.8	And he plays this guy named Herman Judd, who you'll hear about him as Josh and I talk.
1:13.4	He's an idiot.
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