Will Arnett

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 27 June 2021

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Will Arnett was bouncing around New York and Los Angeles for more than a decade doing dramatic work when he landed a role that put him on the path to comedy stardom - the hilariously buffoonish magician Gob Bluth on Arrested Development. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the actor about that breakthrough, the new season of his hit series Lego Masters and those pipes that have him voicing every commercial on TV.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.4	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.2	I am so excited to bring you this one this week.
0:12.5	For my money, he's one of the funniest guys walking the earth right now.
0:15.7	His name is Will Arnett.
0:18.4	You first fell in love with the man playing Joe Bluth on a Rested Development, the cult
0:22.7	classic series that has taken on new life in the last few years and gotten an entirely
0:27.8	new generation of fans during the pandemic, I think.
0:31.3	You know his voice from just about every other commercial on TV right now, whether it's
0:35.4	Reese's or GMC, you loved his voice work as Lego Batman or on Bojack Horseman on Netflix.
0:43.8	You loved him maybe in his role on 30 Rock.
0:48.3	He's currently hosting a series called Lego Masters.
0:52.2	It's the second season.
0:53.2	So he played Lego Batman thanks to his gravely deep rich pipes and then went on to be in
0:59.6	a couple of other Lego movies as well.
1:02.4	And so now he hosts this series on Fox called Lego Masters, which is really like intense
1:08.8	builders who build Lego and you'll learn it's Lego, not Legos.
1:13.4	Don't make that mistake.
1:14.4	Oh boy.
1:16.2	They build these elaborate designs that incorporate engineering and architecture and all these
1:21.5	things.
1:23.5	We also get into smartness his amazing podcast with his buddy Jason Bateman, who of course
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