-Hey, guys.
Thank you so much
for being here.
You know, I'm so excited
to have you both on.
This is great.
And I want to talk about
the movie and get into that,
but, first, how are you doing?
You look great.
Pete, where are you?
Where are you quarantining?
-I am quarantining
in my mom's basement.
So...crushing it.
-[ Laughs ]
And how's it going for you
in quarantine?
Are you doing okay?
-I'm doing well.
Me and Judd released this video
to kind of try
and get it out there
that the movie's coming out.
And I mentioned
that I wasn't doing drugs,
that I was trying not to.
And then,
literally three hours later,
a lady rang my doorbell
with a full bag of weed
and gave it to my mom and said,
"I heard your son needs this."
So if you see this,
yeah, please do not do that.
-Nice.
-Because I will sell it.
-He's --
He's a drug dealer now.
-He's trying, folks.
He's trying.
Do not give him drugs.
-Yeah.
-Oh, my heavens.
I love that.
Three hours.
It's not bad, dude.
-Yeah, three hours.
They came from Bayonne.
-[ Laughs ]
-Yeah, they're like,
"We just came from Bayonne.
We just saw your video.
Congrats on the movie."
[ Laughter ]
-Judd, how about you?
You're looking good.
-I -- I made the decision
to try to get skinnier.
-Yeah.
-You know, I had a choice.
Go fat or go skinny.
I knew it wasn't
gonna level off.
It had to be full commitment
to fat or skinny,
so I exercise all day,
and then all night...
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, the ice cream comes.
Where did you guys first meet?
Do you remember?
-Well, when we were doing
"Trainwreck,"
I asked Amy Schumer, like,
"Who's funny?
Who should I know?"
And she said the funniest person
is this 20-year-old kid,
Pete Davidson.
And so,
we put him in "Trainwreck."
He has one line
just 'cause we wanted him
to be our Richard Dreyfuss
in "The Graduate."
Like, you know,
"Look, we knew he was funny
before anybody else!"
And so, he had this one
brief scene with Bill Hader.
-It was really crazy.
I was on set
for like maybe 12 minutes.
And I met Bill Hader.
And then,
about like a day later,
Bill Hader called me,
and he goes,
"I recommended you
to Lorne Michaels."
And I was like, "Why?"
I have no -- I barely had
any interaction with him.
And then, I got the show.
So I blame that and everything
else that has happened to me
since then on Bill Hader.
[ Laughter ]
-Why not?
Blame Bill Hader.
-It's all his fault.
-I feel like, Judd,
you're so good at doing this.
Getting a comedian and finding
kind of what they're all about.
How long is the process,
and what goes into this?
-Well, Pete and I were trying
to think of movies
to do together with his partner
Dave Sirus,
who wrote
at "Saturday Night Live."
It was another movie,
and then another movie,
and then, slowly,
this idea evolved.
And we shot it last summer,
all on Staten Island.
The entire time, Pete was trying
to get me to get a tattoo.
That was the most difficult
part of the shoot
was fighting off his attempts
to tattoo me.
And I can't get a tattoo because
I'm so hairy that you can't --
you wouldn't be able to see it
in like two hours
after I got it.
[ Laughter ]
-When all the hair grows back.
-And I was always nervous
that Pete would get tattoos
during the shoot,
that he would show up next day
like Post Malone
and our continuity
would go out the window.
-You didn't get any, Pete,
while the movie was being shot?
-Uh, no.
Well, I would get them, like,
after, like --
like, you'd be like,
"Hey, today, we're shooting
without a shirt,"
and I'd be like,
"Well, is this the last day?"
[ Laughter ]
And they'd be like, "Yeah."
And then, I would fill up spots
that we were
no longer required to have.
-Last day of the shoot, Pete
got his tattoo-artist friend
to come to set, and Pete set up
a station and said
anybody on the crew
could get a free tattoo.
-Yeah.
And we thought, like, you know,
maybe like three or four people
would get it.
But the line was like
four blocks down.
And, like --
It was just so weird.
We saw, like, this sweet lady
from, like, accounting
come out with, like,
a giant dragon on her arm.
[ Laughter ]
And he's like, "Yeah, I just
always wanted to get this."
-It's fun.
But, Judd, with all your movies,
it's like -- it's funny,
and I love it,
and I watch for the jokes.
There's so many hard laughs
in there.
But also,
there's a lot of heart in there,
and there's a good story
in there, always.
And I think you're genius
at weaving
all of that stuff together.
Are you happy that it's coming
out the way it is coming out?
Because June 12th,
it's coming out.
-Yeah, it's coming out
on video on demand.
I mean, we always love
having the movies in theaters,
but we really had the choice
to release it
really far into the future
or release it now.
You know, people are home.
They need something to watch.
I ran out of everything
I kind of planned to watch.
Like, I'm already
through the queue.
And now I'm just
looking for shows
that have like 700 episodes.
Like "Gunsmoke"
or every single
"Simpsons" season.
So I feel like it would be
terrible to hold the movie back.
-We need it,
we need it, we need it.
And, honestly, I was telling you
because I watched the movie,
and it's so perfectly --
I know Pete
just from doing the show,
and I know him, you know,
since he first started.
But in my brain, this is who
Pete Davidson is to me.
I think, like, it's perfectly --
You hit it out of the park,
dude, Pete.
You hit it hard.
-Oh, thank you.
-I loved it.
I thought it was just very you.
And I felt like this is what
I think your world would be,
even though I know
it's probably not.
But I felt like kind of --
I felt like -- it felt now,
it felt very topical,
it felt dangerous.
It felt --
And then, you know
who's unbelievable in it?
Maude Apatow.
-That's right.
That's right.
She plays Pete's sister.
-Fantastic!
-She gives it to him good.
-Yes!
-I thought when we shot it,
Pete seemed angry
when she would, like --
she's the one person
that gets to tell him off
in the movie.
-You guys are great together.
-Yeah, she really got to me.
[ Laughter ]
-Fantastic!
Pete, you guys,
those scenes look so real.
It was like brother and sister
going, "Get out of here, man."
Really, like, "No, I'm --"
Dude, I loved it.
I thought it was like --
She was -- And I've known her --
Obviously, Judd,
you've known her longer,
but I will take credit for
knowing her second-longest.
[ Laughter ]
-She's incredible.
She did all
of her homework, too.
She really hung out with my
sister and really, you know,
learned how much
she really hates me.
[ Laughter ]
And really, really portrayed
that well on screen.
-And still hangs out
with your sister.
Like, the movie's over.
You don't have to go drinking
with Pete's sister anymore.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, they're buddies now.
-It was just great.
You just set this perfect scene
for this thing.
Do you want to describe
to everybody what
"The King of Staten Island"
is about?
-"The King of Staten Island,"
it's pretty much like --
it's all fake, but it's also
pretty much true.
It's pretty much, like, my life
if I didn't find comedy.
Like, my dad passes away in it,
and my mom's a nurse,
and we really just wanted
to make a movie about it.
It just shows, you know,
how it hurts this family.
And we wanted to show how,
you know,
wonderful all these
firemen and nurses are.
And I think --
I think we did that.
-Judd, anything else you would
like to say about the movie?
-Oh, we're just so happy
to get it out there.
We were so lucky to get --
to work with a lot of, you know,
the firemen and firewomen
on the movie.
Pete's dad's best friend,
John Sorentino,
we made him an actor
in the movie,
and he was a consultant
on the movie.
Steve Buscemi, who used to be
a fireman, is in the movie.
And it was just
a great privilege
to just be around
that community,
because they really are heroes,
and they're the best people.
And I just so hope
that they like what we did.
-I want to show
a special trailer
you guys cut just for us.
Please enjoy.
Here's the trailer for
"The King of Staten Island."
-Well, dad's still dead.
-What are you doing
with your life?
-I want to become
a real tattoo artist.
-Your work
is mad inconsistent.
Obama ain't right.
♪♪
-We thought you could help Ray
get his kids to school.
Kelly, you okay?
-I'm okay.
-Oh, I trained her in the car.
She's not gonna break.
-You don't get to act crazy
your whole life
just 'cause dad died, okay?
-Your dad was a hero.
And heroes are necessary.
-♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Come on, try a little ♪
-♪ Nothing is forever ♪
♪ We can drive it home ♪
♪ With one headlight ♪
-"The King of Staten Island."
-I feel like I never live up
to anybody's expectations.
Hey, thanks for listening
to all this.
You're one of the few people
who treat me like a person.
-You're welcome.
♪♪
-Fantastic.
And, guys, thank you so much
again for coming on our show.
We give everyone an opportunity
to talk about a charity
or spotlight something
that's near and dear to them.
You chose Answer the Call.
Pete, why --
why Answer the Call?
-Answer the Call
is a great organization
because it helps the families
of those who lost lives
in the line of duty if you're
a New York police officer
or a firefighter
or an EMS worker.
And it's the same charity
that helped my family
when my dad died.
So we only thought it would
be right to pay it forward.
-Oh.
Oh, that's awesome.
I appreciate you
talking about that charity.
That's awesome.
Guys, the movie
is very, very funny,
it's heartwarming.
I love seeing you guys.
I can't wait to see you
in person soon.
Hopefully, we can.
June 12th, check out
"The King of Staten Island."
There they are, Judd Apatow
and the King of Staten Island,
Pete Davidson.
Bye, guys.
-Bye, guys.
-Thank you very much.
You're looking good, guys.
