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Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Reggie Watts (The Late Late Show, Comedy Bang Bang) talks to Justin about his experience growing up in a biracial family in Montana, his early days when he was just getting started in comedy, and his love for John Hughes movies.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.0	I am a child of the 80s born in 78. You were born in 81.
0:18.0	That's when we experienced our childhood. So I loved 80s movies, music.
0:24.0	Some of my favorite movies had an actor named Michael Winslow.
0:28.0	Michael Winslow did these incredible sounds with his voice, like the sound of a dog barking in the distance or a machine gun that was so accurate.
0:38.0	It sounded like the real thing. He was a virtuoso with his famous for being in the police academy movies.
0:44.0	That's what people and space balls. Space balls. Life are the big ones, right?
0:47.0	Yeah, but I loved to me those were like some of the best movies. A police academy especially. I loved all of them.
0:52.0	I can name the titles, the subtitles of all seven. You're so proud of this.
0:56.0	Very proud. I got to one day work with Michael Winslow. I was doing a show called Ed.
1:01.0	He was a guest star on one of the episodes. I met him in the makeup trailer and I told him what a big fan I was.
1:07.0	He was very nice, very appreciative. I asked him, you know, you can't meet Michael Winslow.
1:15.0	He did not ask him to do one of the sounds, one of his noises. I asked him to and he said, sure, and he started humoring me.
1:23.0	He started doing the machine in like the distant dog. I can't do him obviously.
1:28.0	But that wasn't bad. The dog one. The first attempt was better.
1:33.0	Oh, sure. The quid while I was at. I was like, oh, that's great. A little while. I was like, you know, five to maybe ten minutes.
1:40.0	And then I had to go. I had to work and they were calling me to set. So I said, oh, Michael, thank you.
1:44.0	I'm going to head out and he goes, well, I'm heading out too. I'm leaving the trailer.
1:48.0	I walked out first. I opened the door and I heard this crying.
1:55.0	Like a creaky old door opening. I looked behind me and he was smiling. He was doing the sound of the door.
2:00.0	And I smiled and I started walking down the steps of the trailer and I heard,
2:06.0	oh, no, it's got that. And he was doing those sounds. And I kept walking and we're walking together now.
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