Barry

Now, Stephen Root, I absolutely love.

And the last thing I saw him in that he was brilliant in was Barry, which is a side recommendation.

I would recommend that to people.

And.

It's like you build up the tension and then either you laugh or you scream, I guess.

But also as well.

um the thing I think that they've done really good well is I was looking at some of the people so the the main um executive producer as well as uh Kate Dippold is Hiro Murai who worked on Atlanta and Barry but they have had other directors as well and one of them um was andrew de young who worked on our flag means death and pen 15 so a comedy director but one of them was ty west who did things like pearl and um triple x and maxine so they've kind of big fan got both horror and comedy directors involved which i think is like for it for the a really good trait that it's got amazing also as well another thing to tell you on it Becca is obviously it's set now and most of the episodes are following the characters that I've mentioned but there is an episode so it's a 10 episode series and it has been renewed for a second series but episode 6 is called Our History and it's set in 1702 and it follows a character Sarah Westcott who marries Richard Warren who's the town's founder and also potentially the reason why the town is cursed though we don't necessarily know it's definitely him but um so that's a really interesting episode it's funny it's very dark and it's very bleak because it's set in that kind of a bit like i don't know if you've ever watched the witch the film the witch it's like that oh yeah i love that film but

it is bleak

Yeah, it's fun.

He was in Barry, which is great if you've watched Barry, which, by the way, is just a great show with Bill Hader if you've never watched Barry.

But, yeah, I love Gary Cole as an actor.

I promised you guys a couple of real quick of trade deadline news before we get to pick them.

stapler.

You've got to see the Bill Hader series that was on HBO called Barry, where he's a serial killer.

Yeah, I love Barry.

So, Steven Root is his handler in that show.

No, that's not true.

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Stick around for the scoreboard show.

Randy Rainwater, Barry, Kevin holding it down, and then...

Golding.

She was in Barry.

She was the main female lead in Barry.

It was very, very good.

So, yeah, looking forward to seeing her.

Before Silicon Valley, Berg worked as a writer for Seinfeld, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Berg co-created the black comedy Barry alongside Bill Hader.

Berg also co-wrote the screenplays for films The Cat in the Hat, EuroTrip, and The Dictator.

You may know Martin Starr from his roles as Bill Haverchuck on Freaks and Geeks, Roman DeBeers on Party Down, Bodhi on Tulsa King, and from his work in the films Knocked Up, Adventureland, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.

And I had a huge advantage, which is I just came in completely clean.

I had no idea who any of these people were, what was going on, and I could just take it for what it was on the screen.

So I remember a story you told with Barry, and about that great scene that's with Henry Winkler humiliates this actor-

Yeah

Yeah, good for us.

Have you watched Barry?

No.

Oh, my God.

Folks, I'm telling you, Barry is brilliant.

It's got Henry Winkler.

Oh.

He's try- well, you would love it as well.

Just hold your sides.

So how soon after SNL did Barry come about, and was that something that you were cooking up while you were doing the show or?

No, I was trying to write movies, and I had, I had written a movie for Judd Apatow that, like, didn't really work, and then I wrote f- something for Scott Rudin, and that didn't really work, and, um, and I was just g- I very quickly was like, "If I could learn, you know, I need to learn to write." So that's why I went and worked at, at, like, uh, South Park, and I did stuff at, um, Pixar a little bit just to see, like, how things can be written.

And then-

No, you have to...

I have a video.

We did an episode of Barry where, um, there was this little cr- the- the Karate girl episode, Ronnie, Lily, the, where there's this big fight scene.

It's like the whole episode's a fight scene, and this guy Daniel, who's, like, one of the...