CraveOnline: Was this the long awaited Rob Corddry nude scene?
Rob Corddry: It’s not that nude, is it?
Well, we see your butt. We see a lot more of Riki.
Yeah, yeah, I would say Riki is probably the naked one here. I was more nude I think in Hot Tub Time Machine. After that, after seeing that on a 40-foot screen, that pretty much put an end to my nudity days. My ass is a mess. It’s disgusting.
Hell Baby is on VOD for most people.
Good. Thank God. I hope they have tiny televisions.
We don’t, we have huge HDTVs now.
Oh, god dammit, you’re right. Well, at least they’re not flat screens.
Do you have any ambition to do a full on drama like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey do?
Not as consciously as I feel like a lot of comedic actors do. I’ve done a couple of them, or at least played the dramatic role in a couple of movies, or played the comic relief in a couple of dramas. My motto in life, and literally I’ve written it down as my motto, is to do cool shit with people who aren’t dicks and genre be damned. The good thing is that I get to do a lot of different things. The bad part is that you lead a career as unfocused as mine and you’re not going to climb to the top of any one thing.
It seems like there is a “Rob Corddry type” that they go to you for, and that’s an achievement.
Oh yeah, sure. I think we’re all sort of in that thing. Me, Scheer, Huebel, Key, we’re all the usual suspects in a lot of rooms which is great. I will take that, but that Rob Corddry type, no, I don’t like that. Why? I’m not pricing them out, that’s for sure. I’m not offer only. I’ll audition for you. I’m great at auditioning. What about the Rob Corddry type who’s Rob Corddry? Fuck those guys.
I was once at an audition for a commercial at the time when Jim Gaffigan was the guy who was in every single commercial. I walked into the room and Jim was there waiting to go in and I was like, “Oh, god dammit, I’m not going to get this. I should just go home.” I got called in and I walked in and they go, “So hi. We’re looking for sort of a Jim Gaffigan type.” I was like, “I can get him for you. He’s right out there.”
Were they not seeing him?
Oh, they were seeing him, all right. They were probably psyched. They were just buying time with me.
So far in “Childrens Hospital” this year, there hasn’t been a lot of story on the actual Japanese medical base they’re visiting.
Well, there has but in the medical buildings on the base, there will be. Yeah, not a lot. It didn’t look much like a base.
They had their mystery episode, the wedding episode.
The wedding episode is completely gone. There’s one reference to Japan.
What’s coming up the rest of the season?
Owen, played by Rob Huebel, has a talk show. Of course, he’s always had this talk show as we are want to do. It’s sort of like a “Dr. Oz” type show live from Japan. We’ve done the USO show.
How about the season finale?
The finale now is an ambitious episode, really fun. Basically a battle ensues. Our incompetence leads to a full invasion of the base, by Americans. I’ll give you that little [spoiler].
Who directed the finale?
That was directed by the Daniels, two dudes, look them up [www.danieldaniel.us] because their videos, you’ll see, are very visual. So there’s a lot of really gorgeous explosions and stuff in this but they really are good and young and hungry. It was our first time working with them but definitely not the last time.
How different is Hot Tub Time Machine 2?
It’s a lot different. We go 10 years into the future and we don’t hit the same beats like a lot of sequels do, but we hit certain jokes or set pieces that have the spirit of certain things that were really popular on the first one. I think it’s way funnier and I think it’s more focused in that we found it already. We had no idea what we were doing on the first one. It just came out as this weird sort of anarchy comedy, things you don’t usually get away with when you tell a story. So this one we were able to capitalize on that. There’s no Cusack so that I’d say is a huge difference.
Does someone else take his place?
Adam Scott is playing his son from 10 years in the future, his son that was conceived in 1986 on the night with Jenny Stedmeyer.
Is Lou rich off of Lougle?
Lou is a billionaire a billion times over and practically owns New Orleans.
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