- Time to get to my first guest.
He is a very funny guy,
you know from "New Girl",
"Let's Be Cops" and "Jurassic World".
One of the best franchises ever.
His new show is an animated series
for Netflix called "Hoops".
Give it up for Jake Johnson everybody.
- Hey.
- What's up beard game?
Love it.
- Thanks, how are you?
- I am so good, you look normal.
That's a relief, I was scared
because of your Instagram profile picture.
(laughing)
- [Jack] That's right, yeah.
- But okay so wait, your dad
almost believed it was you.
There's a text exchange.
- Yes.
- Right?
Can we talk about this?
- Yeah and you know, my dad's ridiculous.
He, I honestly, my buddy Jeff Baynor
who I played cards with,
he made this of all the
guys we play Zoom with
and he sent it to me and
so I sent it to my dad.
'Cause it kind of looks like him.
And I couldn't believe
his ridiculous response.
The response to that is obviously,
you look like an old man, that's funny.
His was, "did you dye your beard?"
(laughing)
I mean what an idiot.
Did you dye your beard?
How about the teeth and the
eyes and the rest of the face?
I mean, quarantine has
aged me, but not that much.
- Well yeah, it has,
it's not that bad, yet.
That's awesome though, I love it.
That's so something my mom would do
when I'm trying to do something funny
and then I'm like, "wait, what?"
- Yeah, it honestly threw me.
I'm like, did I dye my beard?
No, it aged me 40 years, pal.
- It's like, you opened up the crypt
from "Indiana Jones" and it
sucked the youth out of you.
I was like, good call back.
Okay, good movie.
So wait, speaking of parents and kids,
you did something pretty cool
at the start of quarantine.
You were a part of the movie
"Into The Spider-Verse",
which by the way, I love.
Like it's my favorite Spiderman,
including all the real life ones.
Like it was done so well.
And you're so funny obviously, given,
but you sent voice
messages as your character
to kids to help them through
the hard time, right?
That's so great.
- Yeah, you know, honestly it started,
it was one of those kinda weird things
that the beginning of the quarantine,
now we all kind of know what it is,
but those first few weeks
in March were scary.
You know, I was laying
in bed and I just didn't,
I'd never, I didn't recognize the world.
And I did one of those things
without fully thinking it out.
I don't know if this ever happens to you.
- Absolutely.
- But you know, you just
don't, you don't realize reach,
and media is gonna get
involved in certain things.
So I was gonna post this
and of my followers,
I thought maybe 1500 people would write.
And over the course of the quarantine,
I would get to everybody.
And instantly people started writing back
and I sat in the bathroom and you know,
"Hey, this is Peter Parker,
how ya doing, Kelly?"
And you know, "We'll get through this."
And a couple of days later I woke up
and there were about 35 to 40,000 emails.
(laughing)
And the problem--
- I'm like,
Okay, there's a lottery.
- Yes, but the problem
with it was, you know,
the easy solution was I
wanted to just be like,
well, obviously I can't get to it.
The emails were so heartbreaking.
- Oh no.
- So I contacted my agent, Jay Gassner
and asked for help and he did something
that was really cool.
He got the IT guy at UTA,
this guy named Eugene.
And they got all these agents assistants
who were all home too.
And everybody volunteered their time
and we pooled all the emails together
and I made as many as I could.
I just kept making voice
notes and sending it to them.
And they did like mass sending
to people of the same name.
And we sent out over 40,000 emails.
- Wow, it's like Spiderman
Santa Claus, I love it.
- Yeah but it was really,
you know, this guy,
Eugene Lee and these assistants
at UTA really helped out.
And it became like a really fun community
in this quarantine.
So it ended up being a really cool thing.
- We got fans.
- Ah, that doesn't track.
- These people believe
in you guys and so do I,
now that these people do.
So listen, a lot of people
are saying that Tarver High
is gonna win tonight.
- Yeah Coach, you said that.
- And a lot of people
are saying it's because
they're better at
basketball than you guys.
- Yeah Coach, you said that too.
- But what I say is screw those
people because we got fans.
(Group) And go.
- All right y'all, I'm back
hanging out with Jake Johnson.
And that was a look at
his new show "Hoops"
that you can see on Netflix right now.
So Jake, you voice a
loud-mouth basketball coach
in this new show.
So where did you find the
inspiration for your character?
- Yeah, well this one came,
this was Ben Hoffman's idea.
Ben Hoffman came to me about
eight years ago with this
and we have been putting
it together ever since.
And Chris and Phil, the guys
who produced "Spider-Verse"
produced this one too.
And this, if there is an
inspiration, you know,
obviously this was written,
there's a character it's
based on, Ben created him,
but my uncle Eddie growin'
up, I grew up with,
my mother had nine brothers
and sisters in Chicago--
- Are y'all Catholic?
- Irish Catholic, yeah.
- Okay, I was like, whew.
- My father, it's an interesting mix.
My father's kinda Russian Jewish
and my mother is Irish Catholic.
So the mix is pretty wild, but my dad,
my mom's family had these
huge Chicago characters
and my uncle Eddie was
who I loosely based,
you know, Coach Ben off of.
- Yeah, that's fun to
kind of pull from that.
Well, I saw something
you posted about sauce,
you rate things by sauce.
So what does that mean?
And where did the sauce
rating system come from?
- You know, it started with,
I've been obviously with my
kids a ton during this break.
And so I find myself
cooking a ton of meals.
Cooking meals for kids
is such a thankless gig.
- Yeah, they think you're
like a short-order cook.
I'm like, yeah, I can't
just whip that up, so.
- As well as, I'll make things,
before I had kids, I just
didn't cook very much.
So I'll make something
that is really solid
and their response will
be after a bite, like,
"Nah, I'll take cereal instead."
And so we started, we've been watching
a lot of cooking shows.
And so my way of getting
cooking to work with my kids is,
rather than their themselves,
when I present them the food,
they're the judges on a cooking show.
- Oh my gosh, you're clever.
- Well it makes it all of a sudden
they eat the whole meal
because they're a judge.
So they'll say like, I like the texture,
but I don't love the
cheese on the quesadilla.
And I'll be like, "Thank
you, judge, how about you?"
And they'll have to take another
bite and blah, blah, blah.
We realized in doing this game,
we didn't have enough terms.
'Cause they would, they're
six, they're twins.
So their numbers aren't great.
So they would say like, I'd
say out of 10, what is it?
And they'd be like, "100 out of one."
(laughing)
Now that doesn't work, so
we created a sauce system.
- 100 out of one.
- And so we'd be like, all right,
so if you really like
something, it's extra sauce.
If you don't like it, the sauce was bad.
And so that's how we've been doin' it.
And then, you know.
- That's the most clever,
like you should write a
parenting book 'cause man,
my son, my four-year-old
is, I can get my girl,
my six-year-old to eat anything,
especially by bribe with some
kind of treat afterwards.
My son will starve.
He will literally look me
in the eye and go, "nope."
- It's so tricky.
- Like, okay.
Anyways, so I'm going to try this.
That's what I'm gonna do.
I don't know if he'll
get that at four yet,
but maybe by the time he's six.
All right, so can you, I
want to see how this works.
So if we, if you, you know,
give you some things to rate,
could you give me the sauces?
- I can and would you have any interest
in jumping in too?
I would love to hear if
you have anything too,
just jump out, I would like to
hear what your thoughts are.
- You don't know me at all, Jake.
I always have something to say.
(laughing)
- Let's get into it, Kelly.
- Never lack of words
happening around here.
So, okay, so what sauce
rating would you give
not wearing pants on a Zoom call?
Be careful, 'cause you can't
see the bottom half of me.
(laughing)
- I'm gonna give that some extra sauce.
(laughing)
So I gotta give that extra hot sauce.
- Are those like Captain America?
Like what--
(laughing)
- You know Kelly, let's just
say it's business up top.
It's party down below.
- I like it, I like it.
I actually do have
pants on, I was kidding,
but you're awesome.
And I think that's my
favorite thing I've ever seen
when people have mishaps
right now on Zoom.
- Me too, it's so funny.
- It's just so awesome, it never gets old.
- Zoom mishaps are hard funny.
- Oh, they're so good.
Okay wait, okay wait, next.
What does Max Greenfield
get of a sauce rating?
- I would say Buffalo sauce for Max.
And the reason is, is Max is
very good on certain dishes,
but I don't want Buffalo
sauce on my noodles.
(laughing)
- It's like, it's in doses.
- No, if I had deep fried chicken,
there's nothing better
than a Buffalo sauce.
- You know what, actually
dip it in the Buffalo sauce
and then some ranch and like I'm ready.
- You know what?
A little of that ranch
would be Lamorne Morris,
you dip 'em together,
a little Buffalo sauce
and ranch, that's perfect.
- It's extra, extra awesome.
Okay, so wait, finally,
this is our final one.
What would you rate toilet
paper that rolls from under,
do you get what I'm saying?
- No.
- Okay, I hate how people
have toilet paper rolling-
- Oh, the wrong way?
- Yeah, the wrong way.
It's supposed to go over the top, people.
Over the top.
- Well, I got a question
'cause I don't know
if I've ever seen that.
What kind of people are
you hangin' with Kelly?
- Dude, I change it
and you know what I do?
I probably piss people off
if I'm in someone's house.
- You change their roll?
- 'Cause I've been in someone's house,
I'm pretty certain I did this
at John and Christie's house
when we all had this coach
dinner and I'm owning it now,
but I went to their
bathroom and if I go to any,
it doesn't matter who you are.
I go in your house, if I look over
and the toilet paper's the wrong way,
you could be Meryl (beeping) Streep
and I'm turning that role.
I'm like, it's like a OCD thing.
Like it has to go over the top.
- Absolutely, a hundred percent.
- Yeah I say no sauce.
- That's a no sauce, c'mon.
- Yeah, you don't get any sauce.
It's bland and dry.
(laughing)
- So now Kelly, you have
taken over the sauce,
you're doin' it better 'cause
you had a little anger there.
- I know.
- It's dry.
There's no sauce, you're
ruining my chicken.
Now we're mad.
- It is so good to see you, Jake.
- Thank you, Kelly.
- Such a big fan.
Everybody y'all can
see "Hoops" on Netflix.
Check it out.
