RE-RELEASE - Lauren Lapkus

0:00Dana Carvey:What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, Rugged, full-size Tundra, and legendary 4Runner. All with space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work side to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs. Meaning bigger savings at the pump, without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Blue Book.

0:42which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in that's toyota affordability buy smart drive for less and trade for more shop toyota.com at your local dealer for deals and details vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year for more information visit kelly bluebooks kbb.com toyota brand average resale value is 53 % versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota. Let's go places.

1:15Dana Carvey:Let's go places. All right, Dana, we have a friend of the show, Lauren Lapkus. Lauren Lapkus. Good Lauren. Missy with me. Woo, a billion minutes. Yeah, we really got a lot out of that movie. And Lauren was such a delightful, fun, hilarious addition and the star of the movie. and did great. She's on Stewart Fails the Universe, which I think is a big bang spinoff. And that was a huge show. Not a bad way to go. But she's always good. She does tons of improv. She did it before our movie. She's done it after. She's really good at it. And she just tells us everything. And we get to talk about all these behind the scene things about the movie we did and just we cracked up.

2:02She's such a sweetheart and really good to have her on.

2:06Dana Carvey:fire firecracker she's a firecracker yeah and also just very sweet and kind of unassuming and humble yeah she had two kids she got married she's just doing she's getting the best of both worlds right now and uh here's here you go Lauren Lapkus

2:28yeah

2:28Dana Carvey:I'm just into this dynamic so like uh did you guys know each other before wrong Missy Just a little bit No we met We met Okay We met in Hawaii right Oh yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah So then you do this movie Global Smash That's what I say Global Smash Well you know Wasn't it It was like a billion minutes You know It was a billion minutes Yeah I like saying Global Smash Very casually Did this thing Global Smash I did this thing People watched it For a billion minutes They never turned it off One person Because it was a Big funny Silly comedy And you know They don't make them like that as much. They really don't.

3:06Dana Carvey:That's a cigar. That's the problem. It's this metaphorical cigar. But I find that in the kind of like war zone, it's like the army, not literally, save your letters, but how bonded you get when it's your 18th hour on the set. I mean, so you guys have a thing that you share. And so I'm just wondering what it's like to reconnect now for the first time since the premiere for Wrong Missing. it means so much it's so fun i love seeing you i'm so i was such a fan of david forever and so i literally auditioned for the movie because your name was you know listed as being in a movie i mean not that i wouldn't audition but i was like i have to audition for that um and so i was so excited when i got to work with you well when they do this was it it wasn't quite covet yet right it came out during it came out literally the first like month of covet or something insane Well, you, so what do you do?

4:02You self tape or you go in those days? No, I went in. That was nice. I mean, that's the thing. I miss that so much because we don't ever go in anymore. But I went in and auditioned for Tyler who directed it and a room full of people that I didn't know. Grady was there, I think. Oh, okay. Good. Yeah. So, and I saw a bunch of people I knew there, which is always the fun, you know, part of going in these things. And now we don't do that anymore. And we just do it in a black hole in our house and send it out and nobody watches it. It's great. your baby does the off camera yeah no but you know when we were doing wrong missy when it came up so i read it and i was like okay well i think adam was like this is really funny but i think you're more the straight man do you like i said i want to do that i want to try that because it's kind of fun to be that i always say like ben stiller and meet the parents or you know so fun there's crazy shit going on react someone just react because it's if you can get a laugh of her then a reaction then back to her like you can get double yeah and of course everyone's nervous because i'm like this is all riding on missy and uh i saw some stuff some tapes and then there were some names talked about like and adam was really about like let's get someone that's not just a total household name no offense to lauren but you know hey no just someone that's not like oh it's for sure isla fisher because that's kind of that type of character yes yeah it's great of course uh yeah then there was someone from ireland i saw lauren did i tell you that no i don't think so there was someone from ireland that had a really accent that would be good honestly adam sent it to me and he goes this one's pretty funny and it was and i was like so wow really from ireland like people are getting their tapes in and uh at least something's working adam got it and was laughing at it and then uh they were like oh nope somebody just came and did great and uh And it was you.

5:54And then we went out to Hawaii. And the funny thing, the first thing I noticed, I mean, you have to see the wrong miss. You two really get this. So everyone has to watch it real quick if they didn't. But the first day I knew Lauren was great because we had that, I think it was our actual first date in the movie. Yeah. We had the wrestler. Yeah. What is it? Oh, Roman Reigns, who's turned out to be such a sweetheart. Yeah, he's so nice. And he was at the bar and then I come in and then you're being an asshole to everyone. Why I even like you is the funniest part of the whole movie. It's so true.

6:29Like nothing good happens between us. The red flag store went out of business within the first two minutes of the movie. You're yelling. You're like just talking to me like, hey, sorry. Quit eye fucking me. She's like screaming to someone across the room. And I'm like, hey, hey, hey, don't yell at me. And then it's like charming to me. Yeah, what is your character? Yeah, you're like broken.

6:53You're playing yourself, basically. I'm myself. She's herself. And then I try to sneak off into the bathroom and climb out the window. And then I think that was the first night because I fall out of the window and break my ankle or leg. And then I'm laying in a puddle. That was the worst. And we're shooting it. I'm like, God damn, I forgot. I don't really like doing movies. It's so fucking hard. The first day. I'm doing a night shoot on the first day And then everyone's above me You know when you're laying on the ground You're like don't step on my head or something Because no one's paying attention to me I'm like guys first team You are so funny though when you're upset Which is maybe a problem

7:34Dana Carvey:That is a thing Well I'm in a puddle Dana And I'm like shaking And they're like hey Did they put a blanket on you? It was like freezing cold. I'm like, why is it cold? I'm in fucking Hawaii. And you had like a stunt foot on that was like fake so I could snap it. Oh, yeah. But there was something weird about that too. Like it was like attached to your leg or something. Oh, right. You had to take my fake legs, stuck up my jeans and my wang. And then she's like breaking it. I'm in a puddle. I'm freezing. And they're like, you're shaking on camera. I'm like, I can't not. I'm a person. And I'm freezing.

8:11I'm a person.

8:12Dana Carvey:Were you number one on the call sheet initially And then they moved Lauren's name up to number one No it was Lauren They did that in post Retroactively She was number one I got to the set that day And I go hey can I call a quick meeting And then suddenly you hear a typewriter White out You could do a better typewriter sound effect than that King King He's the king But you all From old Hollywood At a given point I think some Old Hollywood guy Said to me You gotta see this girl It's like that She's like Jim Carrey Had a baby She's fucking great This girl That's so nice Yeah It's like Jim Carrey Had a baby just alone Just sits up With no one else Oh Righty then Had a baby With just some weird person Yeah but yeah so from that first day when i think you know lauren and i'll speak for her for the rest of the podcast but that'd be great she if you're if i'm right tyler the director would come in and say like this is like tyler the creator yeah he comes in and goes tyler the director is that that's his rap directing name yeah and he'd go uh hey um i just want the audience to know that it is the director and he'd go hey lauren maybe on this one a little drunker or something and then she'd do it and i'd be sitting there going fuck she's good and then he'd go maybe a little sexier and then maybe a little and then just take after take plus we're doing wide medium close up over the shoulder so she's got to do like a thousand takes i'm like fuck she's gonna burn out this is tough because she's ad-libbing her ass off we have a funny script she's doing and then once you get that okay to do whatever it's the best she was really bringing it though i'm just saying letting me talk because it's compliments thank you probably won't say i love it no i'm like thank you so much that's so nice no i mean it was it was it's pretty phenomenal i just wonder from your point of view and you've done a lot of stuff but you obviously you're in a big adam sandler produced show happy madison you got david spade and the whole whole thing but from your point of you when you started being directed by Tyler, the director, what was his name?

10:28Yeah. Tyler, the creator.

10:29Dana Carvey:He's going to love this. Tyler Spindell. Tyler, I know. I met him, I think, in DC. Incredibly humble guy. So you're probably, when are you feeling really comfortable? Like, okay, I'm really, I'm getting to do stuff. Are you, when are you feeling good? Like, you know, you're landing. Are you going back to the monitor and checking yourself? No, I don't think so. But I think on the first day I felt good because I because the character is so big and I have to like go. You have to commit so hard. Once I was like yelling in the restaurant, like you were talking about, like, I feel like that I felt good because it's like you have to just feel like I have.

11:05I was still nervous that day, but like the feeling of I have to just fully commit takes over. And then so I feel like it made me feel confident because also Tyler is so open to, you know, adding your own humor and stuff, which is great. And it's getting laughs. Well, yeah, getting laughs is amazing. Of course, that feels so good. And then you feel like, OK, it's working. But when she gets a big laugh, I go, no more of that. He pinches me really hard under the table. And I go, hey, come on. She gets a big laugh, Dane. And then I go, maybe maybe I could say that on this take. And she's like, I'm sorry, what?

11:39Dana Carvey:well that was me walkie-talking with Dex during the production you know all I'd hear was like I don't know man oh yeah that's me I don't know I mean I know but I remember about halfway through because Lauren was doing this every day and we were having a good time and like dopey Johnny Farley's there and Swartzen is there Jackie Sandler where it's totally fun so it's that It's definitely fun. It's hard to be in Hawaii, but I was finding ways to complain, shockingly. Why is it hard to be in Hawaii? Well, I'm saying it's sarcastically. We're in Hawaii. We're doing a movie. Every dream situation. But then toward like the middle, actually toward about two thirds way through, I was looking at what we had left.

12:22And I'm like, I think this might be funny because you're doing it out of order. But I go, we still have this threesome scene. We still have this. We still have her like falling off the cliff. I go, I think we are in pretty good shape, but you just never know. No, it's so scary making something and then you just have no idea how it'll turn out. I mean, I'm so happy. It's funny. I just moved, Dana. I know. Tell us about it. You don't realize how bad your bedding has gotten until you try to put it to the next spot and it's falling apart. You got to replace it. I used to wrestle with the sheets. I understand.

13:00Completely slipped off the corners, pillows, no support. I thought I needed a new mattress, but the fix was upgrading what actually touches my skin. I switched to bowl and branch. Difference is immediate. Their signature organic cotton bedding is completely breathable and remarkably soft. I started with the sheets, but quickly added their pillows and waffle blanket to complete the setup.

13:23Dana Carvey:Now I get the feeling crawling into bed is the best part of my day because the fabric actually gets softer every time I wash it. It completely transformed how I rest. Upgrade your sleep with Bowlin Branch. Get 15 % off your first order plus free shipping at bowlinbranch.com slash fly with code fly. That's BollandBranch, B-O-L-L-A-N-D-B-R-A-N-C-H. .com slash fly. Code fly to unlock 15 % off. Exclusions apply. Drink up, baby. Fantasy Football Happy Hour is here to get you wins and have some laughs. Matthew Berry here and my podcast, Fantasy Football Happy Hour, has the sleepers, bust, and start-sit advice you need to win your league.

14:13Dana Carvey:We're diving into the tape. We're crunching the numbers to bring you sleepers. Bust weekly start-sit advice. Whether you're defending a title or desperately avoiding last place, I've got you covered every single weekday. The bar is open. It's Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry, wherever you get your podcasts. August is a good time to reset your wardrobe. Everybody knows this. It's before the busy autumn rush, Dana. That's right. And that kicks in. My favorite place to buy and upgrade my closet is Quince. they're all about high quality sustainable essentials built to last and designed for everyday wear they specialize in timeless staples that work harder for you ultra soft organic cotton teas premium mongolian cashmere yeah i like a little charcoal gray cashmere crunix sweater put it on repeat take it with me on the run i was blown away by how thick soft juicy and luxurious the knit feels.

15:09It fits perfectly, easily transitions my casual day at my desk to a nice din din.

15:16Dana Carvey:I like everything I'm hearing. If you're still hanging on to worn out basics, Quince makes it incredibly easy to elevate your style with premium denim and tailored chinos starting at just$60. They managed to keep prices 50 to 80 % lower than similar luxury brands by working directly with the ethical factories and cutting out the middleman entirely. Plus, they offer amazing hotel quality bedding and sleek travel gear. Upgrade your everyday. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers or go to quince.com slash fly. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK, too.

15:58That's quince.com slash fly.

16:05but tell us about the time when we when you were wrapped in quotes and then oh my god they said can you stop by well because at the by the end i felt pretty beat up like i mean because it was a lot of physical stuff and i like waterboarding myself in the hot tub or whatever and like yeah that was a hard day remember when you couldn't sink in the tub no i couldn't stay I couldn't stay down. And then I was like going to cry. I walk in and she's supposed to be floating under the water, which is impossible to do. We found out. And she's coming up with that shit on her face for Hellstar. I couldn't do it.

16:39Every time I walk in, like, Lauren, we can see your nose. Lauren, you're not totally submerged. Oh, my God. She's like, well, I'm dying. I know. And I really hate being underwater, which I didn't tell anyone. I just was like, I'm fine. Like, I don't want to tell anyone because it makes me feel more pressure if people are aware that I don't like, you know what I mean? Like, it's just like the whole thing. Like, I'll just do it. I'll just suffer, you know, quietly. But then I was like texting you like, I'm crying. But it was hard. But yeah, at the end, I had to get in the ocean and the ocean almost drowned me.

17:08Like I had to like be knocked over by the waves. It was getting dangerous. I was being swept down and there were two guys who would like catch me on either side to make sure I didn't like fly off into the distance. But and I had like four stunt doubles who were amazing, by the way. I walked back. I walked this at my one half day. I wasn't working and I go, let's go to Sandy Beach and watch her get pummeled by waves. and then they go, I get there, I go, you know, I used to go, when I was in Hawaii, this is like a shore break, dangerous beach and there's signs everywhere going, do not walk any further.

17:36And they're like, let's get Lauren in. It literally had like cones all over the beach that were like from the city. It wasn't like our cones. And then I see a stunt man, a stunt woman walking up going, I'm out. And they're like, what do you mean I'm out? Or like get somebody else. They did have to tap out. I mean, because it was, they were doing it like a million times and you know, they couldn't take it. It was funny. But yeah, no, but it was totally fine at the end um what you were talking about though is that like i saw i'm like i'm done finally yes and i'm like oh you just have one more day uh just some like quick little special effect thing and then i get there and they on the way to the airport yeah yeah they put me in a in like a it's like a circle and i'm holding on with like i'm like holding on to all sides like i don't know what the fuck and then they started spinning it and they were just getting up like they wanted to get my face when i'm flying off the cliff and going around in circles and so they were spinning me in circles head over feet so I would like make crazy faces and I was gonna barf I mean it was crazy and I was so grumpy because I was just like I had I was like celebrating being done and then I had to get in this thing and get sick can you buzz by and just do like five seconds of you falling off the cliff and hitting the wall and you're like sure and then it's like three and a half hours later yeah yeah I remember going oh my god because I would try to stick up for Lauren because I knew she wasn't going to say anything.

18:52And I'd be like, I think maybe we're pushing her too hard. But you know, listen, when all the dust settles, it was all worth it. It was all worth it. And then I didn't get to do anything because of the pandemic. So, you know, I was happy it happened. I didn't even fucking celebrate. I lit a flare in my house.

19:09Dana Carvey:I lit a tea light. Did it open to a million minutes and build from there? You know, Dana. Or was it, how did it, or did it slowly get to the billion minutes? I think it was pretty fast to the billion minutes. Well, they go, well, you know, you can tell because Scott Stuber, who is running the studio, called because he called me on father of the year. And it's, you know, when the guys, the high ups call, they don't call you with bad news. They call and go, hey, wrong Missy is already number one. And I was like, oh, because they just started putting one through 10 at the bottom. Oh, yeah. So with father of the year, I didn't know.

19:44And he just goes, it's doing great. I go, it is? Is it started? And they go, yeah, it started this week. I go, oh, okay. It started. Because of Netflix, I didn't know. You know, there's no reason. And then with Wrong Missy and then Ted called and said, it looks like it'll be number one in the world by tomorrow. I'm like, what? And then I get people sending me a photo on DMs like number one in Italy, like from their TVs. And I'm like, holy shit. So cool. It's so cool. It was the best.

20:11Dana Carvey:Yeah, that was fun. It was the best. So you didn't have to do a press tour because of COVID and so forth and so on? Yeah, I did some stuff on Zoom, but I feel like my internet was like 1 % working and I'd be like, I don't know that like anything actually televised. Spade. Wrong. Yeah. What? You hate spade? Yeah. How many minutes did you do in Thailand? I mean, what was the total? I don't even know what minutes are good, to be honest. I don't know what's good. I saw some chart. You were top five. It was special. It was a special moment. All time or something. Right. It was so cool, man. It was something that minute-wise, we're all appreciate the minutes.

20:53We're all just looking for our next me and David Spade movie now. Yeah.

20:57Dana Carvey:Well, if it wasn't, okay, two questions. One, if it was a sequel to The Wrong Missy, what would be a pithy title rather than just Wrong Missy 2? Yeah. Like The Wronger Missy. Yeah. Or if they put you to, I'm just thinking out loud because I used to be a studio executive. We put you two We put these two beauts These two cutie pies In another film They play different characters Yeah I think we should reverse roles And you just do Missy And then that's it I think one of the The wrong mister One of the ideas was We get married And then you've calmed down And in the first scene We're having sex And we realize that you're Don't whisper we're having sex We're having sex twin sister who came to it came in so now now you're normal but you're playing your sister since the same movie again but i like that idea but it's but she's crazier and then you put a she puts a hex on me and then i spin out and go act like you and then that gets crazier shit and then we should have like we have like four quadruplets who are all like me and they're all crazy that's it a twin the wrong missus and it's two yeah and one is very cool and one is even crazier all right let's do it or i cheat and it's the wrong mistress and then she's crazy it was me and i had a mask on yeah exactly i mean there's so many ways there's just so much you work in a vegas hotel in the summertime and you have a mister and you go around the wrong mister missed them by the pool okay words to start with m-i-s it has to be familiar yeah i feel you know because you give me a pitch and then i can tell my head how many million minutes it is that one's like a million minutes yeah yeah I see instead of box office you gotta think minutes yeah it's great stuff okay you know alright that was our wrong Missy chunk you know our guest today does a show called Newcomers I do we thought this was interesting if I was not doing this podcast I'd wanna do a podcast like that yeah it's so fun so it's me and Nicole Beyer who's a comedian who's hilarious and she hosts nailed it if you've ever seen that cake disaster show.

23:14And we watch movies we've never seen that are very popular. So we did, we started with Star Wars because we had never seen any of it and we've now seen all of it. And then we did Lord of the Rings. Wait, we've seen all of one Star Wars or all of all of the things that can possibly be. No. Yeah. It's a lot.

23:33Dana Carvey:Yeah. Every movie? Every Star Wars movie? Every movie. I think we did something like 20 episodes or something. There was a lot. Jeez O 'Peezel. Yeah. I know I couldn't believe All the things But now I get every reference To Star Wars So it's really nice Because I You know Doing improv forever Like guys just Love to reference that They love that You just go along with it For years And then now I understand Okay let me give you A pop quiz Oh god Star Wars Was this from Yeah Chewie Get us out of here Sorry I think that's From the first one I can't too Chewie Get us out of here Chewie get us out of here Yeah That sounds like The first one Where's this one from?

24:13Ready? I love you. I know. First one. Oh, first one. What about where Chewy gets rabies? What about the one where the holiday special where Chewy's dad is like jerking off to like

24:24Dana Carvey:a movie or something? I don't know if that's a real Star Wars. I don't know if I've seen that one. Lauren. It's real. Chewy jerks off. There's like a grandpa Chewy and he's like watching something like titillating and he's like, like it's real. That's what I do. Jeez. First comes chewing, then comes jerking off. Landed on me, no. The force not happy, yes. Yes. Yeah, he always adds the yes or no at the end. It's very funny how they wrote Yoda. Force is strong, no. I know. Everyone did Yoda for a while. Classic Yoda. Yeah, well, we just - Do you do a Yoda, Lauren? Yeah. I've never tried it. I think it's like - Clear.