Name: JOHN C. REILLY Talks Step Brothers, Empathy, New Album
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JOHN C. REILLY Talks Step Brothers, Empathy, New Album' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-09. Transcript available.

JOHN C. REILLY Talks Step Brothers, Empathy, New Album

You're 6'11".
6'2".
6'2".
How's it fit?
That's nice, dude.
For Hollywood, that's a Hollywood 6'8".
Well, people over 6'8" don't actually care about how tall they are.
Oh, they don't care.
It's the shorter people that are like, "I'm 5'8 and a half!"
5'8 and a half is...
I would...
I'm a...
Thank God I'm 5'10".
Every inch is so like...
I used to put 5'10 on my resume because I didn't...
That is so annoying.
I hate that.
You wanted to be below 6' so you didn't seem too tall.
My culture is not a costume, sir.
You can't...
Well, I imagine like...
You're a real culture warrior.
I didn't know that.
Only about this one topic.
Adam Friedland Show.
Oh, my.
Adam Friedland Show.
Oh, my.
Adam Friedland Show.
Oh, my.
Adam Friedland Show.
I'm right today.
Adam Friedland Show.
I'm Adam Friedland.
I'm going back on the road.
End of this month.
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Get tickets at emeraldcitycomedy.com.
There's a link in the description below.
Guys, also, Happy New Year.
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Just buy the crap so we can get Obama on the show.
Did you get the album?
Awesome photo.
Did you get the album to your life?
My guest this week is Mr. Romantic himself.
John C. Reilly.
He's hitting the road in 2016.
You can get tickets.
2026.
2016 was 10 years ago.
Guys, it's been a long year.
This is not January.
January 15th.
This is January.
What day?
Or December 15th.
This is December 15th.
My brain is shutting down, guys.
This is the last thing I have to do in the year.
I'll be back second week.
Okay, nothing.
My guest this week is the legendary actor John C. Reilly.
His new live act, Mr. Romantic, is hitting the road in 2026.
Get tickets at Mr. Romantic dot com.
They're also selling these awesome Mr. Romantic black plates.
What is it?
Open it up.
They're also selling these.
They're also selling these.
This is so stupid.
This is one of the stupidest ones.
It's not even black.
I didn't look at it.
I had nothing for this one.
I could do all these on one day and then this one.
In one minute.
Okay.
Guys are also selling these Mr. Romantic black plates.
It's not black.
No, I'm leaving your copy as you wrote it.
Play with the vital record in a way that damages it.
No.
Please enjoy my conversation with John C. Reilly, guys.
Thank you.
Boogie Nights.
Awesome.
That boy had a big penis.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor to introduce a legendary American actor
and now folk artist,
John C. Reilly, everyone.
Give it up for him.
Be big.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
The talk show debut.
How are you?
Thanks for having me, Adam.
I'm good.
I'm good.
It's thrilling to have you here.
I don't know.
You've been tricked or something?
I feel like I lied in a make a wish scenario and now I'm like you have to hang
out with me.
No, I wasn't tricked.
Someone said this is a good idea.
Well, you were lied to him.
But I've never seen your show.
I have to admit that.
Really?
Yeah.
Was I supposed to do homework or something?
Oh, no.
Well, I thought you were a member of the manosphere just like me.
Like I thought you were.
You were a member of the manosphere.
I do.
I thought we were going to talk MMA.
I thought we were going to talk.
What's that?
The sex changes or something?
I don't know.
It's disgusting.
I'm trying to stay abreast of contemporary topics, but yeah.
I don't know.
I don't pay attention anymore.
I don't have much to say about MMA other than it's too violent.
Really?
Yeah.
I think they're not violent enough if you ask me.
No, I've only watched it like recently and it kind of, there was something
there.
I didn't expect for something to be there, but I was like, there's something
about like
these guys who are like, they put everything into it and it's a, there's a
passion that I,
that was a discernible.
Well, when I was a kid, I was a wrestler for a while because like one of the
only kind
of sports that we thought was cool in my tough little neighborhood in Chicago.
And wrestling is one of the most humiliating things to lose at.
Yeah.
I meant.
Because like a baseball team, like you're like, well, I missed the bat and some
of the
other guys also got struck out.
So our team lost.
When someone beats you at wrestling, you have tried with every ounce of
anything you have
to get them off you and you failed and you would get pinned and you've lost.
So it's so deeply humiliating that, yeah, I don't know where I'm going with
this.
Were you like Andy Kaufman?
No, like real wrestling.
No, no, no.
Except the way you're talking about the humiliation was as if.
Well, it is.
Yeah, yeah.
You want to wrestle?
I can show you what it's like.
You're a tall glass of water.
I don't want to wrestle.
I don't want to wrestle.
No, I love you, dude.
I'm a huge fan, man.
It's really cool.
I mean, historically, I'd say probably since I was 15, my favorite movie's
probably been
Boogie Dines.
I think it still is.
I think it's kind of that and Barry Lyndon are my two favorite movies.
Barry Lyndon.
Barry Lyndon.
They're kind of similar movies, right?
They're like rise and fall movies.
It's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like a Nimrod is like nature forces him upwards like a leaf being blown around
in the wind.
Is he a Nimrod at the beginning?
I think, yeah.
Eddie?
Yeah.
Eddie Adams from Torrance.
Yeah.
Well, he's a sweet boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
His mom's mean to him.
It's just a very special film for me because it's, yeah.
I mean, there's also a lot of Altman in it too.
And like, it just got me into movies, I would say.
Paul just made a new 70 millimeter print of Boogie Nights, which I highly
recommend.
You see, it was a revelation.
Yeah.
They screened it a couple of times in LA recently.
And I mean, the photography, of course, in a 70 millimeter print is incredible,
but the
sound was so much better.
Yeah.
You realize like a bigger negative has more room for audio information.
And it was, it was like, yeah, it was like another movie in a way.
It's really cool to like revisit movies like that in a cinema and like kind of,
because
I never saw it in the cinema, right?
I was like, I rented it from Blockbuster because I heard that it had sex, you
know?
Like I saw a taxi driver in the movie theater only recently.
I'd seen that movie a hundred times, right?
But I wasn't alive when it was like out in the theaters.
And it played like a comedy, right?
So, which is-
It played like a comedy in the theater?
In the theater.
Interesting.
And it is kind of funny.
Is that because everyone knows the movie so well already and-
Maybe.
Iconic lines and whatever?
Yeah.
Maybe it's like-
You looking at me?
It is funny to take a girl on a date that you're like creeping on to a porn
theater.
He called you a piece of chicken.
Yeah.
He called you a piece of chicken.
Yeah.
And like a pimp looks like Michael Jackson basically.
Yeah.
But like, yeah.
To think that this is what adults do.
Like this bizarre guy thinks that adults-
Like when you have a crush on a girl you take her to a dirty movie.
Like that is very funny.
Like-
Travis.
Travis Pickle might not be like your average date goer.
Yeah.
You know I worked with Jodie Foster and I think that was a really surreal
moment in her life
too.
I mean-
She came off doing Bugsy Malone.
This kid's musical.
She was like a 45 year old, like 10 year old.
You know what I mean?
In a way.
But you know why?
Because she was acting since she was literally a baby.
And she was the main breadwinner of her family.
So she's-
Yeah.
And in fact, she told me, I was like, because I love the movie Bugsy Malone.
I don't know if you've ever seen it.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, yeah.
This great gangster movie that's all played by kids and they shoot custard at
each other.
Have you seen the Biggie video that rips that off?
The Notorious B.I.G. video?
No.
The sky's the limit I think.
But it's all kids rap.
Like, and there's a little kid rapping-
Anyway, go ahead.
But Jodie said, I was like, what was it like I'm Bugsy Malone like this one of
my-
It must have been so cool.
And she was like torture.
And she was like, it was really hard because I was a professional actor.
I was someone who had so much experience.
I've been acting since I was an infant, literally.
Yeah.
And all these other kids were like sometimes, maybe, what's his name?
Scott Baio maybe had some experience.
But all the other kids were just like found off the streets.
Like, whatever, first time actors.
Yeah.
And they were just regular kids.
Having tours.
Yeah, and they thought she was like, they almost like treated her like one of
the adults
or something.
She got bullied.
Sounds like she got bullied.
A little bit, yeah.
A little bit.
It's interesting because actually like when I had a partner, Nick, who worked
on the show
with me and he's now doing other stuff.
But we directed kids.
Nick wrote this short that we made.
And it was amazing because the kids communicating intention to a child actor
and like a kid understanding
like emotion and intention is really difficult because you have to be really
emotionally intelligent.
Right?
Like, and the kids we had on it like got it.
And it's like, it was really incredible to like see it.
And like also to see Nick like communicating it over to them.
And, you know, like when you watch Disney Channel, right?
They're like, today I went to the store.
You know, they can remember the words, but it's difficult.
More like little robots.
Yeah, yeah.
And they've been practicing with their parents all day.
Yeah.
I've directed a lot of children's theater actually.
I wanted to go there.
I've worked with kids from all ages in theater.
And it's an amazing experience to watch someone like the therapeutic qualities
of theater and acting like with little kids that are not necessarily like I did
this at a Waldorf school.
And it was part of the curriculum.
It wasn't like these kids wanted to be actors.
Like maybe, maybe one of them had some interest or something, but all the other
kids, it was just what they had to do for class.
So I watched how acting can like bring someone out of themselves.
And we used to cast the plays in that way too.
Like, like, you know, we did like, we do like Norse myths or like Greek stories
or whatever.
And one of them was Thor betrayed.
And all the kids were like, oh, no, so-and-so, Adam should be Thor.
He's, Adam should be Thor.
No, certainly not.
Whatever.
I don't have it.
I don't have it.
And so, but we wouldn't pick that kid.
We would pick the kid who needed to be Thor.
Yeah, yeah.
Because there was something about him that needed to grow.
And so we let him be Thor.
And suddenly, you know, anyway, it was really beautiful.
That sounds like some p