Name: John C. Reilly | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John C. Reilly | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-03. Transcript available.

John C. Reilly | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. You made
it weird. You made it weird. With Pete Holmes. Yes, you did. You made it weird.
You made it weird. What's happening, weirdos? This is a big one. This is John C.
Reilly, who I've been a fan of for decades. What is it? Magnolia? Step Brothers,
a movie I watch every year. Boogie Nights, The Sisters Brothers. He's in
everything. He's incredible. He's amazing.
Gangs of New York, I can't believe he's here. And he pays out. He gives us so
many wonderful stories. Changed my view of acting forever. Honestly, our
conversation about acting just shifted how I even think about acting, which was
awesome. So I'm so glad you guys are here. You can go see John C. Reilly. He is
on tour with a show called Mr. Romantic, where he plays a character on a
mission to fall in love with someone, anyone, at every single show. He's backed
by Grammy-winning musicians.
He's in a crackerjack band. He's amazing. It's so fun. Go see Mr. Romantic. Mr.
Romantic.com. Spell it out. M-I-S-T-E-R Romantic.com. Definitely give it a go.
Definitely check it out. Everything he does is amazing. I'm so glad you're here.
You want to see me? Go to PeteHolmes.com. I'm doing the Dania Improv in Florida
coming up very soon.
I'm also doing my show here in Los Angeles on May the 4th on Star Wars Day. May
the 4th be with you. Tickets to that at PeteHolmes.com as well. Got my Largo
show. Beck was at the last one. They're always so awesome. Go to Largo-LA.com.
I do that monthly. It's called Pete Holmes Living at Largo.
So whenever you hear this, I will be at Largo this month, which is one of the
great joys of my life. So hope you can be there.
And also at PeteHolmes.com, we are selling the last remaining vinyls of Dirty
Clean. And 100% of the proceeds are going to Homeboy Industries, a charity very
near and dear to my heart.
So that is an album and a special that has the bit like, that doesn't make any
fucking sense. You can get the vinyl of that while they last.
Last vinyl maybe I'll ever make. So go get that vinyl. Go do it. PeteHolmes.com.
In the meantime, so glad you're here. Enjoy the wonderful, the incredible,
hilarious, the thoughtful, the thought-provoking, John C. Reilly. Get into it.
That's all right.
When I saw you, here, hold this like a stand-up comedian.
The one thing I haven't done.
Yeah, that's true.
The last frontier. I will one day.
Will you?
I think so.
Here, what?
I mean, I kind of do it.
No, you do it with your...
I don't have to reveal much of my actual thoughts, my actual personality, so I'm
a little careful about that, but I think I could tell some fun stories.
If it's okay, we're just going to roll.
Is that okay?
Sorry, your name.
It's Katie.
It's Katie.
Such a genteel man.
You are.
People matter, Pete. People matter.
No, can I say one more?
It's all we got.
Yeah.
That's it.
That is what I say during Mr. Romantic.
This is all we have.
The machines won't save us.
That's right.
This is all we have.
But even this, that's why I'm glad to have this show as an excuse to dial in
and just make it small, just for the next whatever.
It's just us.
It's all we got.
There's a lot going on.
And that's enough.
It is enough.
It's going to have to be enough.
It's going to have to be enough.
I'm just looking at your Steve Martin cover there.
That was like, I think that one of the first records I actually bought as a kid.
I stole some before that, but I kind of think I stole a Rolling Stone album
before that.
But I bought that one.
And I have some amazing memories of listening to that record.
I was obsessed with it.
Everybody.
Like a lot of people my age at that time.
But I remember sitting with my mom on the bedroom floor.
She heard me listening to it.
And she's like, what is going on in here?
What are you laughing so hard at?
And I was like, oh, mom, you got to hear it.
You got to hear it.
And she was of another generation.
Her and my father are both like, almost like a World War II generation, even
though they weren't of that generation.
They kind of thought like that.
They co-opted it.
I was wondering how she was going to respond to it.
And we sat and listened to it.
And she loved it.
She was just cracking up.
And like, it was fantastic.
It was like that scene in Alice B. Toklas when they, when the in-laws
accidentally eat pot brownies.
And they're just cackling with laughter.
Yes.
Because if that had gone the other way, I remember listening to comedy with my
mom.
I remember Ace Ventura.
There's that sex scene.
Do you remember?
Have you seen Ace Ventura recently?
Yeah, not recently.
You know, it actually holds up.
Yeah?
I don't mean to say actually.
There's some stuff that doesn't hold up.
Don't get me wrong.
There's a whole, it didn't age well kind of sequence.
But there's, you know, a lot of it does.
And there's a part where they're just going at it like a hardcore.
It's like comedically big sex scene.
And I remember my mom like covering my eyes and stuff.
It can be so weird.
One of those, I did a comedically over-the-top sex scene with Jenna Fisher in
Walk Hard.
Yes.
And even though we're trying to be comedic and over-the-top, it was like, you
know, we're just, the whole movie is a satire on one thing or another.
But the satire in that scene was animalistic sex scenes between like long-lost
lovers or whatever.
So we're doing all this stuff where like almost kissing and then not kissing,
almost kissing and then not kissing.
And like breathing really close to each other.
And it was like, this is turning into a real sex scene.
This is kind of hot.
Even though we're trying to be funny, it's kind of hot.
Like throwing each other around the room and stuff.
Yeah.
It was charged.
Sometimes as a silly boy, when I'm actually having sex, it's tempting to be
silly.
You know what it is?
Every night I get in bed with my wife just to sleep and I'm tempted, we'll cuddle
a little bit.
I'm always tempted to be like, like, just like, because it's so vulnerable and
so quiet.
You can't resist.
And in the same way, sometimes when you're having sex, it's really hard.
Not always, but sometimes I'm tempted to like reference something or something
that had happened that day.
I wish I was one of those people that could be kind of funny about sex, but I
don't think I am.
Like more of a silly bean in that way?
Yeah, I think it's more like it's a sacred bond moment.
It's almost like a spiritual connection to me.
No, it is.
That's why I was never like very good at like sleeping around.
I've been married for 31 years now, but when I was younger, like I'd always had
to be friends with the person.
And know them as a friend, and then it would move into sex or romance or
whatever.
Yeah.
And none of that, it wasn't like religious or anything?
It was just kind of like...
I mean, I grew up Catholic, but not really.
No, that was not what I was thinking about.
It was just more like, how could this be casual?
Yeah.
This is not casual.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm revealing my soul to this person.
And even biochemically, you know, neurologically, there's so much going on
during sex that is intensely bonding.
As an actor, have you ever done like gazing exercises?
Oh, yeah.
Stuff like that.
Well, you see how quickly...
And clown workshops, too.
You clown?
Yeah.
You clown, bro?
I was a clown when I was a kid, and I've been getting back into it lately,
because the show I do, Mr. Romantic...
Edit that out.
...the ostensible reason I'm here...
Edit that out.
...is kind of a clown show.
I don't wear clown makeup, per se.
A little rouge, but...
Not full clown face.
But it's a vaudeville act, you know?
It's kind of like an emotional magic act, all about love, and...
Have you seen it?
I've...
We were trying...
I know.
Come on.
Just walk out.
It's not like...
Do you want me to list the things I have?
You don't get to Largo very much.
You're not over there.
I understand.
I understand.
You're the first...
I've been out of town, seven-day spiritual retreat.
Wow.
Which is on like a non-dual retreat.
You're the first episode.
And this is how much I was excited to have you come on, because, of course, you
take a day to integrate, right?
You can't just come back from, like, all that meditating and stuff.
But this is the only day you could do.
So here we are.
And that is my commitment and love and excitement for you.
But had I not been away...
I could do it any day this week.
Honestly.
I know.
I don't know who told you that.
Son of a bitch.
Well, they didn't tell you it was a video.
I think they were all just trying to slot him into one day or something.
I did a few other interviews earlier today, but...
Oh, you've been chatting away?
A little bit.
Not too much.
Not too...
You're not burnt out?
And I'm not really...
I mean, talking about Mr. Romantic, the show...
Edit that out.
Is really like a labor of love.
It's like my own thing.
It's this thing that just came out of me.
So it's different than doing, like, press for a film that someone else directed
or whatever.
That would be so beautiful if we left that in the show.
I'm curious about your spiritual retreat, because I meditate every day.
I do transcendental meditation.
Yeah.
What was the...
What was...
Like silence or...
It wasn't a silent retreat.
In fact, I went in...
I was just telling my wife this.
I went in chewing nicotine gum.
I got, like, nicotine.
And day one, I was just like, I'm not feeling like I need it.
And it's so interesting.
And my wife joked.
It was like, yeah, because you were in rehab.
Like, she was like, that's why rehab works.
Like, all your meals are communal.
Right.
So, like, so much of addiction.
Your wife is not there stressing you out.
Take that.
Take that, sweetheart.
But, like, so much of it was being sharing, not being silent, was having time
with like-minded
people that are interested in, you know, having a firmly established center,
for lack of a better
way, to put it.
Sounds like a cult.
It was a cult.
Well, there were some...
No, I'm kidding.
But I've been studying cults lately.
I love cults.
Into it.
And...
Which one's yours?
Like, what's your favorite?
Well, you could, I mean, I would imagine some people think Transcendental Meditation
is
a cult, but it doesn't have some of the hallmarks of a cult.
Okay, well, remember the ceremony?
You've been doing it a long time, but there's that ceremony with the rice and
the incense and
there's the photographs.
Yeah, but that's, the thing about it is, there is no dogma about Transcendental
Meditation.
There is nothing you actually have to believe.
Yeah.
There's no God, there's no, there's none of that stuff.
All you have to do is just do this on a regular basis and it works, whether you
believe it or
not, which I was like, oh, great.
No dogma, no guru.
There is a guru because this guy, yeah, the Maharishi, like, sort of put it
together for
modern audiences or whatever, but...
And the Beatles.
Yeah, but for thousands of years before that, you know, it's not like it's
really his, he
just brought it to the people.
How did you get turned on to that?
I did it too, by the way.
I needed it.
Yeah.
I needed it.
I needed, I was just having trouble, my mind was just, too much traffic in my
mind, you
know, and the, I'm not really an anxious person, but I was having a lot of
mental pollution.
There's just agitation and I don't know, I don't know exactly why it came to me.
I remember I asked a friend, I was like, because I assumed he was all into this
new age stuff.
It was Mike White, actually.
I asked Mike, I was like, Mike, you do TM, right?
Can you tell me about that?
And he's like, actually, no, I don't do that.
I was like, whoa, why did I think you did it?
And then he told me about someone else who did, and they hooked me up with this
teacher
and I learned it.
But that's really the last interaction I had with the organization of Transcendental
Meditation.
Was being taught it?
Yeah, it was just meeting Penny.
Was he here in LA?
Penny.
Yeah.
Who taught?
Do you remember your teacher?
Her