Name: David Duchovny | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Duchovny | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-08. Transcript available.

David Duchovny | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

you made it weird with pete holmes what's happening weirdos this is uh this is
great
this is exciting this is a big one this is david dachovny you know david dachovny
you do
that's probably why you're here how exciting to the new people welcome to the
show to the uh to
the weirdos welcome back i'm glad you're here i love this chat david has a new
podcast out uh coming
soon i believe but you can subscribe to it now and you can check it out on the
podcast app or
wherever you get your whomever you get your podcast it's called fail better
with david dachovny be sure
to check out fail better i'm so glad you guys are here we really get into it
this this conversation
really stuck with me and i i hope you enjoy as as much as i did not much to
plug up top uh big thank
thank you to everybody in la not to plug but to say thanks uh at the wilshire
evil theater that that
was last night for me uh the day i'm recording this it was so close to being
sold out it was incredible
uh i'm so glad so many people came out it was over a thousand a thousand people
came to the show
melted my heart to see people in there it's hard you know i've been talking
about it on the pod it's
hard during a festival there's so many shows and um you guys really showed up
and it was really
heartwarming to me and an incredible show and an incredible show for matt mccarthy
and i had so
much fun with you guys so just a big thank you to everybody that came to the
show in la on may the
4th if you don't live near la and you want to see me i'm coming to chicago uh
we added a second show
on thursday i'm also coming to texas and pennsylvania all sorts of dates on pete
holmes.com
and if you are in la but you missed me or you want to come see me again i do a
monthly show at largo
go to largo-la.com and look for pete holmes living at largo that's always the
highlight of my month
trying out new stuff doing some soon some of the act as well it's always
amazing uh all right
and enjoy david dacovny i'm so glad you're here get into it i am thrilled to
meet you i'm a big fan of
yours um i i think you're very very funny i actually you know i just did a
movie with uh judy here
say what pressure i love judy i love judy grier judy grier is amazing and she
told me to watch the tv
set yeah which uh i did and i thought you were phenomenal in it and i'm also
friends with judd
and judd was like that's kind of me and i kind of saw you do a little bit of a
character study on judd
with the back problems and the you know the the heavy crown of the producer the
paunch and the paunch
of course yeah i had that was funny with that with that movie because that was
jay caston um writing and
directing and it really you know jake pitched it to me as this is kind of my
experience with judd on
freaks and geeks i was like oh yeah yeah i'll play i'll play judd you know and
nobody
fucking knew who judd apatow was yeah and the day we did the table read you
know the week before we
were going to start shooting we did a table read for investors because it was
cobbled together like
you know 20 bucks from this guy and you know it was just a true independent
kind of labor of love
film for the kasdan family yeah and we went to the screening the premiere
screening of 40 year old
virgin that night and i just remember sitting there and watching the audience
just go nuts and i was like
oh they're gonna know who just happened yeah that you're out of the bag i
actually started to play him
when nobody knew his name and then by the time the movie came out he was an
adjective there was like
apatobian yeah yeah yeah this is how uh jason alexander must have felt when
curb came out they're like oh
there it is there's the guy that i was kind of invoking the whole time and now
larry david is almost
well i don't know i i don't know if you'd say more famous but maybe as famous
as seinfeld i would say that
yeah and his in his in that way yeah i mean i was i'm sad that i never got to
be on that show
you would have been great on it yeah that would have been fun to do it seemed
like it seemed like
a bit of improvising which i like to do and yeah um but back to judy greer uh
just such a talented
such a talented funny beautiful woman i mean i just i love judy greer no she
was wonderful and
i'm glad she told me somehow i'd never seen heard of that movie and as somebody
working in l.a that's
you know i've created my own shows my experience i i worked with some really
with tbs i worked with a
very hands-off network and then with hbo i worked on like a like respectfully
hands-off network so i
didn't have the experience were the shows that you did i did a talk show called
the pete holmes show
that was on after conan and then i did a show that judd uh directed and co-created
with me called
crashing on hbo which was about being a comedian coming up in new york yeah but
in both cases we
didn't have the nightmare that is the movie the tv set of like getting noted to
death and all that sort
of stuff yeah i well anyway you're doing a podcast anyway i know like that
doesn't count you're what
is going why what's going on david why are you doing a podcast it's called fail
better am i getting that
yeah you don't you don't have to say it like that fail better like with a
question mark and an
exclamation point and it's underlined yeah no no it's a great title we say on
this podcast all the
time fail faster we say fail faster find the fun which i didn't make up oh what
is it
where's that from it's it was framed in a video game like an independent video
game company had
it framed as their mantra fail faster find the fun so if somebody was like what
if this game was
two-dimensional instead of three-dimensional do it they would just be like do
it uh get to the fail
because we know that that fail yields the result is that sort of the theme i
guess i mean i don't know
i mean one of the things that's interesting about doing a podcast as i'm sure
you know is that you don't
really know what you're doing or thinking or saying until you're out there
doing it so yeah
my sense was and this happened during the strikes of last year so my agent said
we can't do anything
for you you know nothing can be done but we can do podcasts do you ever think
about doing a podcast
because that's covered under sag after or whatever yeah and i was like uh no
but i guess i could talk to
somebody about it and i came up with a couple ideas and had a discussion with
the uh agent there and
then we just sold it it was like i wish the rest of hollywood was this easy you
know or or the people
making decisions could actually make decisions that quickly you know right it
was kind of beautiful in
that way and i'm working with this company limonada which is they've been
amazing and and
really collaborative but i mean my sense was you know i don't know what i'm
talking about i just know
that a lot of things are tinged with failure in the creative arts and in life
and um even even the
successes can sometimes feel like that and obviously personal failures as well
i don't know i don't know how to
process them i don't know you know we talk about resiliency and we talk about
all this it's not like
i have any answers all i'm doing is is having people come on and saying are you
interested in
this angle of the discussion yeah looking at your life as a series of failures
surrounded by occasional
successes whatever right and what did you learn how did you grow resilience if
you did uh are there
some failures that stuck with you forever that that continue to hurt you know
because we have this
narrative that yeah you know you learn from failure it's cool it's great you
gotta fail but some
failures really kind of stick yeah yeah what do you do about those so yeah that's
it's just that's just
the door opening i don't know what the i'm talking about i'm no expert in it i'm
not a psychologist
that's just i think it's an interesting angle on a discussion and that's kind
of what i'm going after
well i mean we've been doing this show for a long time and i i think you're
doing two things really
really perfectly actually one is being loose about your premise because the
premise is going to fall
away as i'm sure you've discovered the premise but also inviting the guests to
be vulnerable
yeah even if you don't end up talking about failures you're saying like will
you come on
in the spirit of someone who's willing to talk about their failures even if we
don't end up doing
that yeah it's just like yeah exactly and also i don't want to i'm not trying
to spring anything on
anybody i'm not interested in that's us too yeah it's not again i say it i go
it's not a gotcha podcast
in fact i'll say that to you even if there's something in a week and you go oh
i wish i
hadn't said that we just take it out this is something you know we're making
together and then
i feel like people actually do want to share and that was actually my first
planned question was
like how open is david dacovny why won't you love me gonna be on a podcast
because honestly i have you
on you're on my podcast right now yeah and i'm like how open is david dacovny
why won't you love me
going to be on my podcast well there's a couple of thoughts yeah i do because a
couple of things have
been have been nagging at me since i've started doing my own podcast which is
you know i don't
want to give away my good you know like i like you pete cool you know but i if
i come up
with something good i'd rather it was on my podcast so there's there's like
something oh well let me
give you a tip just do it on both nobody cares that's the other thing it's true
the problem
with doing a podcast now is is everybody is kind of hip to how to do a podcast
now or how to how to
speak on a podcast everybody's got their rap down pretty good and i'm so not
interested in that and
i'm not interested in hearing it come out of my mouth either so i guess i my
answer would be i try to
i try to address whatever questions you have in an original way i'll try to
answer them as if i'm
answering them for the first time yeah yeah i am but um the the other part of
the answer to that is
uh i i i think i i've lost it whatever it was i lost it but it was well how
open are you going to
be how open am i going to be you don't want to use your on my podcast i might i
know i'll be open
i'll be okay i know you wouldn't have said that if you were really going to
lock up the vault nobody
would think you're being right tight yeah yeah i i think um you know i think
everybody just goes
through this calculus now where they go you know we're we're all fucking whores
we want to entertain
you know and i want to make you laugh and i want to make your audience laugh
but the calculus now we're
like well is that laugh worth it you know is is is the laugh worth it well i
actually think that the
pod we're a comedy podcast but we also kind of lean self-helpy sort of stuff
and like one of the great
reliefs of this show is that we're not really trying to be funny we have like
huge laugh moments but
you'll as an artist you'll appreciate sometimes they have a 90 minute or a 45
minute setup to that moment
you know what i mean it's just kind of talking but then you actually score in
this like babette's feast
like a long thing that only has one punch line it's kind of like that and it
became its own art form
and like you i get angry that something podcasting that essentially was like
ham radio it really was
like dorky and kind of underground and like this is where we'll have
conversations that aren't slick
now the bigger the guest i have which is why i asked it of you because you're
very famous i was like
is david duchovny gonna play ball because if i have like somebody's like who's
your dream guest for
the show you could say matt damon but i'd i'd worry that matt damon has been
through the pr machine
and he's just gonna know the the and where to pull back but you know like where
where where's your line
um you know it just depends because like i said i i've got i've got kids i'v