What’s Good: Mike O’Malley

The Good Place: The Podcast

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Michael Schur, Tv Production, Behind The Scenes, Philosophy, Parks And Rec, Tv & Film, Nbc, Comedy Writing, Entertainment Comedy, Kristen Bell, Tv, Manny Jacinto, Brooklyn Nine-nine, Mike Schur, William Jackson Harper, The Good Place, Marc Evan Jackson, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, Good Place, D'arcy Carden, Writing, Good Place Podcast, Acting, Stories, Entertainment, After Shows, Comedy, Tv Writing

4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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During the show’s hiatus, host Marc Evan Jackson shoots the shirt with celebrity fans and cast of The Good Place. In this episode, Mike O’Malley talks about his multifaceted entertainment career, from acting, to playwriting, to showrunning and more. Mike also talks about his near-casting as Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation and how Mike Schur makes it up to him. Mike O’Malley names the Innocence Project for his “What’s Good?” segment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Place the Podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean. Today we're
0:16.4	continuing our What's Good segments, talking with someone who's been great in tons of stuff.
0:20.4	Yes, dear, my name is Earl, Glee, Meet Dave, Welcome to the Family, Justified, Sully,
0:25.5	and the new YouTube original Wayne. But listeners to this podcast best know the guard to the
0:29.9	gateway to earth, the doorman, Michael Malley. Michael Malley, Welcome. Everything is frog.
0:36.1	Mark, thanks for having me. It's great to be here with you guys. It's great to talk about the
0:40.9	Good Place, which I was so proud to be a part of. I've been trying to work with Mike Scherre for a
0:47.0	long time. Is that true? It is. I actually met Mike. He's a fellow Red Sock fan and I had met
0:55.4	him through some mutual friends many years ago at a benefit for the Red Sock, Spawson Red Socks.
1:05.3	He was touted. He was at that point, I think, working on Saturday Night Live and was touted as
1:11.8	a really, really funny guy, which he is. And when he was doing Parks and Recreation and that was
1:18.3	being cast, I was up for the role of, let's see, I put it out of my hands. Yeah, Ron Swanson.
1:28.0	And it was between me and Nick Offerman. And I tested for it and I didn't get it.
1:33.0	I was about to bring that up. And I was concerned that I would be picking a scab.
1:37.7	Well, no, I mean, I drive by Nick's mansion every once in a while. And I just, you know,
1:44.7	I look at what it would be like to live in a house with 25 rooms. But it's Megan's mansion.
1:51.3	Well, no, I saw the inside paperwork on that. And no, yeah, it's Megan's mansion too. But even if
1:58.0	they got divorced, I don't want them to get divorced, but they would both have two pretty good
2:02.4	mansions. Yeah, they'd be fine. But yeah, I was, I really wanted to do that part and broke my heart.
2:08.8	And so I didn't forgive Mike for a long time. Okay. I really still haven't forgiven him.
2:14.8	I was fascinated to learn that because in Googling, I saw that you did one episode, which we'll
2:19.6	talk about of Parks and Rec later. But in just putting together, like looking for video clips of it,
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