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RAINN WILSON talks Dwight, Clowning, Baha'i

We're going to talk about the film, okay?
Stop it. No, it's not that good.
It's really, some of them are rude.
Rain's team wanted me to pass along the message
he's totally fine to talk about The Office,
but he doesn't want it to be a main focus in the interview
and appreciate keeping that topic to more of a minimum.
We're talking about the Bhagavad Gita.
That's pretty true. They glean that.
But I'm happy to talk about The Office.
Well, no. I want to talk about your new film, Code 3.
You know how you talked about the Midwestern person saying thank you
and not really meaning it?
I'm so interested in hearing about your new movie.
Tell us about your movie.
Welcome back to The Adam Friedland Show, guys. Adam Friedland here.
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My guest this week is actor Rainn Wilson.
Wilson is, of course, best known for his portrayal of the buffoonish Dwight
Schrute
on the NBC hit sitcom The Office.
During the series eight season run, America reveled in Schrute's humiliation at
the hands of Jim Halpert,
who was played by John Krasinski from also the Benghazi movie, if you guys have
seen that one.
During one such episode, famously, Schrute's stapler was put in a gelatin mold
and it was hilarious.
Now, as everyone knows, one of my strengths as an interviewer is my natural
charm and charisma.
Practically every guest I've had on this show has left an interview in love
with me, which is frankly kind of annoying.
But my conversation with Wilson was perhaps the polar opposite.
It was contentious.
It was uncomfortable.
And after he left the studio that day, it came to my attention that he had
cyberbullied me.
On the popular social media app Instagram.
In a post that both doxxed and ridiculed our office's bathroom.
But it didn't end there.
The following week, Wilson sent me numerous threatening text messages.
Which in this current political climate has left me on edge and afraid.
But I didn't want to be a victim.
I wanted to put myself in Mr. Wilson's shoes.
Why was this beloved comedic actor being mean?
Perhaps the answer was right in front of us this whole time.
On NBC during prime time before Parks and Rec, I think it was eight on Thursdays.
Perhaps art bled its way into reality.
Perhaps he'd been driven insane after eight years of publicly broadcasted
torture.
Kind of like Heath Ledger Joker.
I'm not a licensed psychiatrist.
And in order to confirm my theory, I needed to consult with one.
So I called up friend of the show, sexual misbehavior expert, James Foley.
To see if my suspicions were proven correct.
James Foley.
James Foley.
Hi, James.
Adam Friedland.
Adam Friedland Show.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
I miss you, brother.
You doing well?
I miss you more.
I'm doing fantastic.
No, you couldn't possibly.
No.
But yeah, thank you.
Wait, quick question.
Okay.
This is kind of random.
But if someone played a complete joke or a clown or a buffoon for maybe eight
seasons
on a popular television show where America just loved laughing at them.
Just getting their comeuppance and just stepping on rakes.
Kind of like metaphorically speaking, having their pants pulled down and then
exposing their
minuscule genitalia to, I don't know.
Ignore that part.
If someone plays a heel, right, in an incredibly popular context on television,
let's say NBC
during primetime before Parks and Rec maybe.
Okay.
Would that potentially affect their real life?
Right?
I would think so.
I would definitely--
Yeah.
I would definitely think it would have a drag on their emotions.
Yeah.
Kind of like a Benoit situation.
I don't know who Ben was.
Chris Benoit from WWE.
Oh.
Oh.
Okay.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Okay.
Thanks a lot.
I will keep you.
I think that answers my question.
Okay.
Thank you, Jeff.
Okay.
Bye.
So what can we do as an audience where we see a beloved individual teetering
towards
self-harm?
We can all go and see Code 3, which is the new movie that he's in with Lil Rel.
It's in theaters now.
It's about an ambulance.
It's hilarious.
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Our next guest is a legendary Hollywood actor whose new film Code 3 comes out
this month on the 12th.
Please welcome Rainn Wilson, everyone.
Big noise!
Ooh, I like that.
With the drink.
You're like a...
You're like a...
They used to do that on the old talk shows with the cocktails.
They would come out like with cocktails.
Well, I think they were all hammered.
They were.
I think...
Yeah, what's his name?
Ed Sullivan.
I only did Leno, obviously.
I was not old enough to do Carson, but they would have the drink cart like down
the hall,
wheel in the drink cart.
Really?
Like with the shakers and the cognac and everything.
How was Jay?
You know, he was nothing but nice and supportive to me.
So I...
He gets too much crap.
I think he gets too much crap.
He was a really good...
Like first of all, when he first started as a comic, like especially in like
the late
seventies and the eighties...
At the store.
He was edgy.
He was edgy.
Or he was considered edgy.
Everyone from that era says there was one guy and by far he was the best and it
was
Mr. Jay Leno.
Yeah.
And for people my age, we're like, oh, the guy that's like Monica Lewinsky?
Yeah.
We're like, that guy?
Yeah.
The crazy?
The Democrats are crazy?
Yeah.
That guy was edgy?
Yeah.
But...
Yeah.
Apparently he wasn't, but he was always really nice to me and I would go on and
whore myself
out to promote my...
You fucked...
He...
He...
He prostituted you.
Yeah.
I really would.
Mr. Jay Leno.
He was...
Apparently he was the guy in the eighties.
So I let him...
Oh, really?
...have me.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did the same for Weird Al Yankovic.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And he'll go there.
He will go there.
Yeah.
He really does go there.
Actually, apparently he's the greatest guy of all time.
Weird Al?
Yeah.
Al is the nicest, sweetest guy.
You know him.
He's a friend of yours.
Well, I also did his movie.
That story about his parents dying and then him performing that night is the
most...
Did you know about that?
I didn't know this story.
Please tell.
His parents both died and then...
Do you want him on this show?
Because I can get him on the show.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes!
I...
Okay.
Here's another thing that gets too much crap.
Funny songs.
Parody songs.
Funny songs are like...
People are like...
Say it's the lowest common denominator.
Yeah.
It's the funny...
Adam Sandler's Hanukkah song?
Well, listen.
That one...
In this day and age...
Uh-oh.
We can't...
Come on.
It's too dicey these days.
You can't sing a Hanukkah song because of Gaza?
Yes.
Yes, exactly.
Why?
Out of respect for Hamas, I will not listen to it.
No, no.
No, but...
Tell the dead parents joke.
It's not a joke.
A story, sorry.
Um...
His...
His parents...
I think there was a gas leak and they both died.
And he had a concert that night.
And he went out and he was like, "I'm fat."
You know, he's like, "I gotta do..."
The show must go on.
Yeah.
And he was like, you know, living in an Amish paradise and I'm fat.
I...
I think I lost respect for him.
He should have canceled the show.
I'm sorry.
I think he probably should have canceled the show.
He should have canceled the show.
We're talking shit on this guy about his lowest moment in his life.
Al...
Al is the greatest guy alive.
I was in his movie, "Weird the Al Yankovic Story."
Have you seen that movie?
No.
Wait, no.
It's funny.
They wrote a fake biopic of Al Yankovic and it's got a great cast.
A lot of comic actors.
He's in that other movie.
It's the three letters.
VH...
VH...
UHF.
UHF.
That movie is so funny.
That's very funny.
But this...
This came out a couple years back.
"Weird the Al Yankovic Story."
It's very funny.
It's an alternate world as if Al Yankovic was more popular than...
And dated Madonna and was like the most popular pop star on the planet.
He should have been, if you ask me.
Right?
How is this interview going so far?
It's not an interview yet.
We're just...
We're just feeling...
We're like two dogs at the dog park sniffing each other's asses.
How is this show...
Oh, the show itself?
Going so far?
How is the Adam...
Curly?
Show, episode number 237 with Rainn Wilson, we're six minutes in.
How's it going so far?
I feel like, again, like we're two dogs at the dog park smelling each other's bums.
Okay.
And your shit...
It smells like roses.
Oh, right.
Okay.
Yours smells like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
Oh, thank you so much.
Is that good or bad?
I love a cookie.
I mean, chocolate kills dogs.
I mean, it's...
Mmm.
Good point.
Okay.
I was looking at your filmography and you were in a film directed by Mr. Rob
Zombie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Called, what was the name?
House of a Thousand Corpses.
Mm-hmm.
And, correct me if I'm wrong, did you wear costumes on the set?
I wore costumes, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And there was someone that was a costumer on set?
I imagine that there was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And her name was Amanda?
Could have been.
Friedland, perhaps?
It could have been.
Yeah.
Perhaps my aunt?
Yeah.
Your aunt Amanda?
Yeah.
Dressed me for that show?
Yeah.
And she said...
They laid out my wardrobe in the trailer for me.
I don't know how you guys put the clothes on.
Yeah.
It's usually laid out in the trailer.
You've got your trailer.
It says like...
She said.
Rainn Wilson.
And you open it up and there's your wardrobe is laid out.
And then a convenient person comes by and they're like, "Here's your pants."
And we steam those.
And if you can choose...
You can either wear these tennis shoes or these for this scene.
Yeah.
And there's a change of underwear in the closet.
Yeah.
Let me know if you have any questions.
And then perhaps...
Perhaps there's a vote on set of who in the production's...
Most fuckable.
And perhaps my aunt wins that vote.
Wow.
This is what...
I was told on the phone yesterday by Auntie Amanda.
And I just want to know, did you vote for my aunt or not?
I would have voted for Rob Zombie's wife, Sherry Moon Zombie.
Because she is smoking.
Okay.
You didn't vote for my aunt.
But I don't remember Amanda Friedland.
I would have liked...
Oh, okay.
I remember.
She said she saw you at Comic Con.
You were very nice.
You remembered her.
But...
You would have remembered that she was voted most fuckable on set.
Is that something that happens a lot in Hollywood?
You know, where the fellers get together and they vote for who's the most fuckable?
They do.
Yeah, yeah.
Every production.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Who...
It is.
Yeah.
Who won...
The only thing that happens in gold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I want to ask