"I have thousands of those [...] that are pretty good."
October 17, 2019 10:19 PM   Subscribe

 
"Where’d you learn this skill?"
"I don’t know. But I’m glad I did."
posted by komara at 10:24 PM on October 17, 2019 [25 favorites]


Genuine LOL, thank you
posted by cali at 10:24 PM on October 17, 2019 [3 favorites]


Fuckin’ deepfakes, man.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:44 PM on October 17, 2019 [2 favorites]


I watched that a couple hours ago. Fun interview! And the historic dab is indeed historic since it involves
[spoiler] MULTIPLE SAUCES!

posted by acidnova at 10:49 PM on October 17, 2019 [5 favorites]


Apparently my thing in life is the Smartest Dumbest Shows on the planet:
- The Hot Ones
- The Good Place
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:39 PM on October 17, 2019 [9 favorites]


What Paul Rudd refuses to admit is that there can be only one, and it is Paul Rudd.

(Seriously, he's a few years older than me and there is no grey in that beard of his. Unlike mine.)
posted by zardoz at 1:11 AM on October 18, 2019 [3 favorites]


The photos are hilarious, and Paul Rudd is so charming and engaging.

But I just want to build an altar, with 21 candles, to his GLORIOUS FREAKING HAIR. I wish *I* had that glossy pony's mane.
posted by taterpie at 1:20 AM on October 18, 2019 [12 favorites]


What Paul Rudd refuses to admit is that there can be only one, and it is Paul Rudd.

(Seriously, he's a few years older than me and there is no grey in that beard of his. Unlike mine.)


Yeah, for real. If you really wanted to sell the premise of a Highlander reboot, you'd cast Rob Lowe vs Paul Rudd.
posted by Caduceus at 1:48 AM on October 18, 2019 [16 favorites]


I've been a Hot Ones fan since the early days. There is a very good interviewer hidden under the hot sauce. This episode was one of the first real laugh out loud's I've done while watching the show. I have spent the day gradually introducing the family to the camera trick. The kids and partner all had the same reaction.

Paul Rudd seems like such a down to earth person too.
posted by greenhornet at 1:56 AM on October 18, 2019 [7 favorites]


There are two things that make Hot Ones great. One is, the interviews are really well researched and engaging. The crew does a deep dive on the guest, so they always bring out more than any other interview show. You get anecdotes and responses that go deep.

The other is the wings. They really pace the show and give it a story, which starts off pleasant and then turns on the guest around the 7th or 8th wing (and the 8th wing has been Da Bomb for the majority of seasons). The later wings are so scorching hot that it brings out a visceral reaction in every person, and it’s always different and fascinating to watch. Paul Rudd did really well compared to some of the guests.

But yeah, a half hour interview show is one of the most fun things on YouTube. Go fig.
posted by graymouser at 2:42 AM on October 18, 2019 [7 favorites]


hand butts lol
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:12 AM on October 18, 2019 [3 favorites]


Just wait 'til he does this to Mac & Me.
posted by delfin at 3:50 AM on October 18, 2019 [5 favorites]


Jaffa Cakes are not biscuits! The rest of the video is good though.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 4:29 AM on October 18, 2019


Jaffa Cakes are not biscuits! The rest of the video is good though.

This is correct. They are pizza.

And if you want to get technical they are pizza sandwiches.
posted by srboisvert at 4:34 AM on October 18, 2019 [3 favorites]


So if Jaffa Cakes are chocolate-orange-pizza, are pizzas cheese-cake
posted by EndsOfInvention at 4:36 AM on October 18, 2019 [4 favorites]


The hero we need
posted by the painkiller at 5:14 AM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


Paul Rudd is handsome, youthful, and for sure genetically blessed. But there is a high probability of some gray coverage happening on his head (and probably the beard, too.) He is a mortal man after all (also as I am a person with dark brown hair who colors their hair dark brown, there is a lack of highlights that gives it away to a certain extent.)
posted by 41swans at 5:52 AM on October 18, 2019 [5 favorites]


Why yes, I will watch a 30 minute YouTube video if it involves Paul Rudd. Also, I happen to have a different brand of chocolate orange pizza sandwiches in my house right now, and I am going to use this as an opportunity to eat them.
posted by Ruki at 5:56 AM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


A guy I dated in the early 2000s grew up with Paul Rudd as his best friend. He said Rudd is extremely nice, smokes too much (or did at the time), and he sent Rudd a play I wrote that eventually went to FringeNYC, a play I felt confidence in because Rudd wrote back to my then-dating-friend saying, "This is really good!" So I'll always have a soft spot for him.
posted by xingcat at 6:23 AM on October 18, 2019 [48 favorites]


"Where’d you learn this skill?"

Not from a Jedi.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 6:30 AM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


I'd assume that adolescent humor keeps you young except that it hasn't worked for me. AAA+++, would chortle again.
posted by theora55 at 6:47 AM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


I really like this guy, as I watched that video Your Song came into my mind, srsly.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world.


Now give me a printout of Oyster smiling.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:56 AM on October 18, 2019


Metafilter: My pinky, at the right angle, makes a great scrotum.
posted by xedrik at 6:59 AM on October 18, 2019 [14 favorites]


Yeah, I dunno, Paul Rudd obviously looks amazing, but also I've seen Clueless a lot so I know he's not actually a vampire (like Pharrell).
posted by grandiloquiet at 7:05 AM on October 18, 2019 [6 favorites]


Debating whether to send this to my teenage nephew.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 7:37 AM on October 18, 2019 [4 favorites]


I'll always remember Paul best as Celery Man.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:14 AM on October 18, 2019 [13 favorites]


I think the Paul-Rudd-is-ageless thing played better circa 2012, when he was more than fifteen years past Clueless but was still going for a clean-shaven, boyish look (e.g. this 2012 Hollywood Reporter piece). With that beard and hair he is clearly leaning into middle age now.
posted by crazy with stars at 8:27 AM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


My pinky, at the right angle, makes a great scrotum.

I think this is a non-commutative property but I am loath to check.
posted by srboisvert at 8:27 AM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


"This is dumb." "This is very stupid."

I just spent 30 minutes watching a ridiculous video and I have no regrets.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:12 AM on October 18, 2019


I'd forgotten he was in Romeo + Juliet, but watched it recently and there he was -- noticeably younger. So he isn't a full-on vampire; it's something else.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:14 AM on October 18, 2019 [5 favorites]


" it's something else." -- it's being the sort of attractive person who gets hired to be in movies and has the money and privilege to age well in the later 20th/early 21st century. I'm neither movie star looking nor rich, but even I look better than my parents or aunts did at my age.
posted by crush at 9:30 AM on October 18, 2019 [3 favorites]


one of my greatest regrets about the limitations of human existence and our puny lifespans is that i will never know for sure how future historians and anthropologists will misinterpret various aspects of our daily lives. will some neckbeard buried with his vast collection of funko pops be hailed as a king due to the wealth of grave goods? will popular meme images be classified as religious imagery? and most importantly will this iconic work of paul rudd incorrectly be dismissed as nonsense? or will it be properly noted in the annals of history as the finest and most valuable art mankind has ever created.
posted by poffin boffin at 9:32 AM on October 18, 2019 [18 favorites]


let's not forget that there is approximately the same amount of historical evidence that socrates actually existed as there is that ted cruz was the zodiac killer.
posted by poffin boffin at 9:33 AM on October 18, 2019 [5 favorites]


There are the rare humans who are talented, artists and deep thinkers, with something important and insightful to say about the universe. Then there are true revolutionaries, those who challenge us to transcend our human condition and become greater, to see beyond, to become gods ourselves. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Leonardo Da Vinci, Einstein, Paul Rudd.

I just don’t understand why he hasn’t won a Nobel Prize yet and it reveals a deep bias, hatred even, within the Royal Swedish Academy that this hasn’t happened.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:56 AM on October 18, 2019 [7 favorites]


Oh yeah, he's the actor that repeatedly trolled Conan O'Brien with the clip.
posted by jjj606 at 10:24 AM on October 18, 2019 [12 favorites]


Why DiCaprio Despises Rudd (probably)
(with photo of Rudd highlighting the gray hair in his beard, or that he'd recently enjoyed a powdered doughnut)
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:14 AM on October 18, 2019


I'm pretty sure I learned this from Ze Frank way back when.
posted by lucidium at 11:27 AM on October 18, 2019


I'm pretty sure I learned this from Ze Frank way back when.

Also inspired by Mr. Tyzik.
posted by TedW at 11:30 AM on October 18, 2019


I'm a little disappointed that all y'all missed the Withnail & I shoutout in the full video.
posted by a halcyon day at 12:17 PM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


Okay, that's a stupid-silly delight.
posted by rmd1023 at 1:25 PM on October 18, 2019


Just a reminder that Paul Rudd is currently six years older than Max von Sydow was when The Exorcist was released.

Keanu Reeves, by the way, is now older than Buddy Ebsem was when he started playing Jed Clampett. While I am on the topic of those Hillbillies, Irene Ryan was 59 when she started playing Granny. Women turning 59 this year: Nigella Lawson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jane Lynch.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:15 PM on October 18, 2019 [6 favorites]


Argh. Ebsen. Missed the edit window.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:24 PM on October 18, 2019


Nicole Kidman and I are exactly the same age, and I would be mistaken for her father long before I was mistaken as her contemporary.
posted by maxwelton at 3:37 PM on October 18, 2019 [2 favorites]


I guess I got the lucky genes. I am the same age as (well, a few months older than) Vin Diesel, Matt LeBlanc, and Will Ferrell, but often get mistaken for being of age with Orlando Bloom, John Cena, and Tom Hardy.
posted by hanov3r at 3:40 PM on October 18, 2019


So, I grew a beard and grew long hair when I was 18 and keep that for decades. I was a nebulous sort of "somewhere around 35". In my late 40s I started to get grey in my beard and then I grew my beard out long and cut my hair short (I do still have hair), and I figure I'm going to keep this look and look to be a nebulous 60 for a couple of decades. My beard is nearly fully grey now, so I sometimes get given senior discounts at places without asking, and I'm only 51.

Also, Paul Rudd is charming and handsome and he grows a beautiful beard and how dare he only be a year younger than me!
posted by hippybear at 6:05 PM on October 18, 2019 [4 favorites]


Just a reminder that Paul Rudd is currently six years older than Max von Sydow was when The Exorcist was released.

Okay to be fair Max von Sydow was in old age makeup for The Exorcist! It was very good makeup but it could have been improved with a finger butt
posted by babelfish at 6:21 PM on October 18, 2019 [4 favorites]


Watching The Hot Ones over the years has been a surreal journey as the guests gradually transformed from "Niche Youtuber/Comedian/Artist who isn't nearly mainstream famous enough to get invited on early-seasons Dancing With The Stars" to "Oscar Winning Actress Charlize Theron".
posted by Justinian at 9:04 PM on October 18, 2019 [3 favorites]


is like three years still "over the years"? Y'all know what I mean.
posted by Justinian at 9:08 PM on October 18, 2019


Watching The Hot Ones over the years has been a surreal journey

Marc Maron nearly lost his mind about his Obama interview. Talk about a surreal journey!
posted by hippybear at 9:59 PM on October 18, 2019


is like three years still "over the years"

It's over the years but it has no depth of knowledge about the passing of years. I'll give it a soft pass but will invite a revisit in 2029.
posted by hippybear at 10:01 PM on October 18, 2019


Renee Zellweger and I are EXACTLY the same age down to the day and we always get together on our birthdays for brunch and whatnot.




No, no we do not.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 6:53 AM on October 19, 2019 [1 favorite]


Man I love Paul Rudd. We just started watching Living With Your Self last night. It popped up on Netflix, husband said “What’s it about?” I replied “I don’t care, Paul Rudd’s in it I’ll watch him in anything.”

He is a mortal man after all

outside
posted by billiebee at 2:38 PM on October 19, 2019 [1 favorite]


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