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The Last Laugh

Tony Hale Starts Over

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

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

4.6661 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Emmy-winning actor Tony Hale opens up about the final season of ‘Veep,’ admits he would be “very surprised” if ‘Arrested Development’ continues after its most recent batch of episodes on Netflix and gives us a sneak peek at what comes next in his career. 

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1:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. My name's Matt Wilstein and I'm a senior writer at The Daily Beast.

1:08.0

My guest for this episode is the hilarious and talented actor, Tony Hale.

1:12.6

You know him as Buster Bluth on Arrest Development, which just returned for what is likely

1:16.4

its final batch of episodes on Netflix. More on that later. And he won two Emmys for playing

1:21.4

Gary Walsh on Veep, which just aired its final season premiere on HBO this past Sunday night.

1:26.7

I'm so excited for you to listen to my conversation with Tony, who I have to tell you is so different from his iconic characters in person that it's almost jarring.

1:34.3

And that is a good thing because Buster and Gary are both deeply awkward people and Tony is anything but.

1:40.3

So without further ado, this is the last laugh with today's guest, Tony Hale.

1:46.0

So you're telling me before we started recording that you were just in Vegas with your

1:51.1

VIPCast. So what was that like? I know. We went, actually it was about a month ago we went,

1:56.6

and it was so fun, we all adore each other a little too much.

2:04.0

And we had actually just finished shooting.

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