Name: Why Danny McBride is Ending "The Righteous Gemstones"
Uploaded: 2025-03-12T18:00:32.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Danny McBride is Ending "The Righteous Gemstones"' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Danny McBride is Ending "The Righteous Gemstones"' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-12. Transcript available.

you have your last season of gemstones last season of gemstones i've been i
live in charles
like we talked about but so i've been out in la this week just running around
running my mouth
this is my last day of running my mouth it's wonderful oh thank you man i
really it really
is the best for last well it's nice you to say that and and lie to me but i
will say that
i waited in line one time to get a uh a photo with you like probably maybe 10
years ago somewhere
really where i think it was at comic-con oh really yeah shit it's pretty cool
uh i
know people when this show first started i think everyone thought you were on
the show they always
thought you were tony cavallero oh yeah tony's a buddy of mine yeah you guys
you guys had that
similar vibe i think i actually honestly when when the first season came out i
remember i had i met
with a reporter and they asked me what it was like to work with theo von did
they yeah and i was like
that that's not theo von oh i've had people come up to me and think i'm in the
gemstones 20 times
i'll play along with it i like yeah but um oh this dude's so awesome man tony's
one of the greats i
he's such a sweet guy he really is he's incredible put our face right there i
didn't even notice that
look at that one no wonder some people think this shit oh look at you dude look
at you that's
trevor wallace that's hilarious these days you don't even know this is the
magic ai look at that i'd buy
it i know um wow and it's very similar chests i know very similar um yeah how
do you i'm just noticing
how much more ripped tony is now like he was always strong but god damn that
dude got really strong over
the last few years yeah well he just has such a um him and uh him and divine
oftentimes in the when
we're shooting down charleston those guys have the same schedule and so every
day that they're not
working they're just fucking pumping iron together are they just getting strong
spotting each other
yeah how do you know when a show is done like this you know i wasn't sure with
this i mean i've been
really lucky with hbo that they've always been real supportive of the stuff i
want to do and they're uh
they're awesome partners to have in this and uh man i think it kind of just
came as we started
writing this season to me it just felt like it i felt like when i was starting
to write it like
everything i was kind of gravitating towards was like about closure and sort of
wrapping up these
characters like longer stories and so i kind of kept myself open while we were
shooting like in case
i got any other ideas of like maybe i'd come back and do another one but as we
kind of shot more and
more it just it felt like it was the end it felt like it yeah and i i don't
know tv is one of those
things too where it's a strange uh art form because if it's good the reward is
you just get to keep
doing it and doing it and doing it but sometimes that doesn't necessarily make
for the best story
you know just to have you know all right this is like the 10th time these
characters have almost
died you know like lost or whatever that's that show yeah where things can
overstay their welcome
and you know i mean it's people are getting hit with so many things these days
like there's so many
things uh vying for your attention it's it's a lot to ask an audience to like
stick with the show
for 10 years or something you know what i mean and just think that your tastes
in 10 years will be the
same as it was when the first season came out so for me i didn't want to stay
in it longer than we
needed to i never wanted to make it something where it didn't matter i always
kind of wanted to make
sure it was relevant and something we were all having fun doing and never kind
of uh evolve into
something that just feels like a job yeah was there something special that you
like to do for your crew
and stuff like that like you talk so much about like the guys that work for you
and work with you i'm
sure you use a lot of the same crew and stuff too because they're you develop
relationships you know how
people are going to work you know what people will be there for you on those
you know when it's 1 a.m
and you're like what the fuck are we going to do right now um what's something
you like to do for
them i've heard that you do nice things for them yeah we just like to party i
mean to me i feel like
it's one of those deals like to rock and roll uh but i do feel like you know
especially living down
there when you're asking people to come work on the show you're asking them to
like leave their lives
through the comfort of their home sometimes leave their spouse or their partner
and
come down there for you know six months to come work with you i've been on
stuff where i've been
on location and it's sort of like yeah good luck buddy you know you're just
gonna end up you don't
know anybody you're sitting in a hotel room it's the worst and uh so i always
just try to at a weston
yeah exactly i just try to avoid that i mean you obviously everyone's different
people want their
own sometimes people want to be left alone in the weston but i try to just make
everybody feel like
they're at home when they come there like try to make them have a good time and
ultimately it's like
you know for me it's the whole idea that we get to make this shit is so much
fun like i don't even
watch these things after we're done i don't even go back and watch any of this
stuff again my experience
with it is like the act of making it that's really feels like the climax to me
uh i'm in you know i'm
on i oversee like every cut of this show and in post but yeah once this stuff
like is done i'm kind
of done with it you know it kind of feels even the old movies from pineapple to
tropic it's like
i'll see them at the premiere and then i oftentimes just will never even see
them again you know i'll
see clips of things online and be like oh that's crazy i remember that but i
don't know i just i have
a lot of fun making this stuff i like collaborating with people like you were
saying those problems that
come up solving that stuff that feeling of accomplishment when you do sort of
dodge a bullet
like that's the excitement and the fun for me were the real life pastors that
you used to to uh that
you sent your um gemstone pastors like um like john goodman and um baby billy
do you send them
like did you have them reflect on guys did you go watch you get some front row
tickets to some
osteen or what were you doing you know what a lot of it was just like watching
videos and stuff and
then actually kind of went around and i did it i interviewed a few different
pastors uh just before i
told them what i was making a show about and just you know for my own ideas my
own insight and people
were responsive they they talked to me you know my aunt she actually sadly
passed away just a few
weeks ago but she was a minister uh so i talked to her a lot about the church
and uh really what kind
of church did she minister at she i think it was i feel like she was a it was
in atlanta and it was
just it wasn't a mega church but it was one of the sort of these uh you know
churches that can pop up
in shopping centers and not look like your typical church and she kind of moved
into counseling after
that as well and but uh you know i grew up in a household that was pretty
religious my mom was uh
she did like puppet ministry when i was a child she would like do the children's
sermons and stuff
like that oh really yeah and do they hide behind something to do that is you
out front it's like a
little we we had this like uh pvc pipe frame with felt over it yeah and they'd
hide behind there and uh
and my mom had like uh like boxes of these puppets and she would uh drum up
these little scripts and
you know kind of mostly bible characters uh no well sometimes there would be
but sometimes they would
just be these characters they would have to learn bible lessons you know
it's like characters like suddenly paul reveres in one of the scenes yes
exactly but it was uh
oh that's cool i grew up with all that stuff so yeah this is exactly that's the
kind of shit we do
right there that was it oh this is great huh yep and um oh my god yeah and the
guy on the right
obviously yeah he's learning stuff he's learning about the he's he's singing a
song about sinkhole
baby you know and about how jesus raised him up out of the sinkhole made him
into a little raisin
oh that's cool man yeah i'm trying to think if we had any puppets like uh
no what did we have we had a guy who's missing one finger puppeting's a lot of
shoulder work people
don't think about that gotta have a lot of upper body strength yeah you're a
fucking that's the french
bulldog you stay like that the drama yeah you're really building those
shoulders
you're really building those shoulders and you're building those shoulders and
you're building those shoulders