CraveOnline: Did you see the first movie?
Rob Corddry: Oh yes. Oh yes. Like everyone else, I watched it on DVD because about four people saw it in the theater. It's true. Four. Check it. I encourage you to check it. I rented it. My friends were like, "Get high before you see it." And I didn't really smoke weed at the time because I get scared. I've gotten better.
CraveOnline: With practice?
Rob Corddry: Yeah, you have to break through that wall. So I watched it and that morning, I threw my back out so I had my wife leave work, go to a pharmacy, get me some Vicadin and come home, so I watched it choked to the gills. And there is no other way to see that movie, no other way. I had a blast.
CraveOnline: What surprised you when you met Kal and John?
Rob Corddry: They are literally their roles reversed. Absolutely, Kal is definitely the more serious one and John is a complete f*cking clown.
CraveOnline: Did you shave your tuft for the movie?
Rob Corddry: What are you talking about?
CraveOnline: We've discussed the tuft before.
Rob Corddry: Who's we? You and your wife?
CraveOnline: You and me, in previous interviews.
Rob Corddry: We've had this talk before? Let's have it again, man.
CraveOnline: Did you trim the tuft for the role?
Rob Corddry: This was the first time I actually, because it just grows, man. I am as God made me, but this is the first time that they actually made me shave it so I had to shave. I literally had the hair curtains the whole way around. I had to shave everything up here. It was really weird. I kind of liked it. I was like, "Oh God, yeah, it feels so much lighter." My wife was like, "No, you look ridiculous. You look like one of those douches who manicures his eyebrows. Grow it back." This is the truth, I have a standing appointment at Supercuts. Every other Thursday I go to Supercuts on Larchmont and they do it for me. They do this.
CraveOnline: So this was like your DeNiro transformation.
Rob Corddry: That's right, that was my gaining 40 pounds, shaving my tuft, as I believe you people have called it. Tuft, right?
CraveOnline: Had you and Ed Helms done bits together before? You were separate correspondents on The Daily Show.
Rob Corddry: That's what we were talking about. We did a bit on The Daily Show, a special called I Am A Correspondent, Please Don’t Fire Me. Steve Carell came back as the host and we had to compete in order to keep our jobs or one of us was going to get fired. At the end, they said, "We're not going to fire you. You're actually going to get married." And they married us. So I'm technically married to Ed Helms because Steve Carell has a license to marry in the state of New York. That and we worked together in a movie called Blackballed once before. Now we're just working together all the time. We did this and we're in a movie together called Lower Learning. That was my favorite scene because we shared an office for five years so being with Ed Helms is definitely a comfortable place. And he holds me. Every "cut" he's like, "Come in" and he draws me in.
CraveOnline: Who's the next breakout star from The Daily Show?
Rob Corddry: Well, that's implying that I'm a breakout star from the Daily Show.
CraveOnline: A lot of you are.
Rob Corddry: Well, I'm a huge Rob Riggle fan. We've been friends for 15 years. So I love Rob Riggle and I love Sam Bea. I love everybody there, Sam Bea and Jason [Jones]. The British guy I don't care for. What's his name? He might be one of the funniest people to ever be on that show, John Oliver. So I don't know, man. I'd say it depends. Thank God. The Daily Show always sort of, once there's a campaign, it's always a popular show but once there's a campaign, the numbers go through the roof. So I'm sure they'll all be on the show until after one of these three people is president and then there'll be a mass exodus.
CraveOnline: Are you good at keeping a straight face by now?
Rob Corddry: I always laugh after we cut, always for sure. I'm not saying I never break. I definitely break but I guess it depends on the character you're playing. That's a character that's just not conducive to breaking.
CraveOnline: Who's the guy on set who cracks everyone up the most, or cracks up the most?
Rob Corddry: Oh, Dave [Krumholtz] and Eddie [Kaye Thomas], Eddie more so than Dave. It almost was too easy. I was like, "Come on, you're just patronizing me now. That wasn't funny." You almost feel like he's cracking up so much just to make you feel better. Yeah, those guys probably.
CraveOnline: What about quoting Starship Troopers to Neil Patrick Harris?
Rob Corddry: That was a lot of fun.
CraveOnline: Were you drawing from personal experience?
Rob Corddry: I love that movie. Who's not a big fan of Neil Patrick Harris? Seriously, even before Harold and Kumar, who wasn't a big fan of Neil Patrick Harris? So that was a lot of fun. That was not a hard scene to do.
CraveOnline: What did you come up with that got into the movie?
Rob Corddry: It's hard to say. I've only seen the movie once. I wish I could remember. Hello Kitty was mine, but it doesn't make sense. After I said it, I realized, "You know what? That doesn't make sense because when you first see my character, I don’t know why his eyes look so strange, implying that I think he's handicapped. Is he retarded? They're like, 'He's Korean.' Which means I've never seen an Asian person before. So to be able to make the association between Asian people and Hello Kitty, that's pretty savvy for a guy that dumb." So I was like, "Oh, that's not going to work, that's not going to work" and they were like, "Oh, dude, dude, you're not making the movie you think you're making."
CraveOnline: At least Hello Kitty is Japanese, so it's the wrong kind of Asian.
Rob Corddry: And he's Korean. It's wrong for so many reasons. But Hello Kitty just sounds funny. Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty. It's linguistically a funny combination of words. It just doesn't make sense but apparently it doesn't matter.
CraveOnline: What other movies are you working on?
Rob Corddry: I've got a movie coming out in May called What Happens in Vegas.
CraveOnline: What do you play?
Rob Corddry: I'm the best friend. I'm a plot device essentially. I incite some action in act two. I provide some exposition and I'm a devil on the shoulder. Then I've got a movie called Lower Learning coming out and Patriotville which are two really small independent very funny movies that are still being cut.
CraveOnline: What are your characters?
Rob Corddry: Bad guy, bad guy. It's always either the bad guy or the best friend. That's the thing.
CraveOnline: Lower Learning is about school, so is it a bad teacher?
Rob Corddry: I'm the bad principal. I play an, I think, genuinely evil, another genuinely evil character. Does coke in an elementary school.
CraveOnline: Are you looking for any more TV projects?
Rob Corddry: What do you got? Let's do it. Pitch it. Yeah, for sure. I think I'm going to see this through right now. This is a weird time for TV. I'm a little bit afraid because I think networks are kind of freaked out right now. They have no idea what they're doing. They have no idea and usually at this time I think, historically, people will then take risks. Like, "All right, nobody knows what works anymore, so let's just try stuff" and no one's trying anything. They're like, "Noooo, do Two and a Half Men again." So I don't trust them frankly. I don't trust them. It would really have to be something pretty cool right now, today. If tomorrow, the climate changes, I'm not saying, "No, I will not do television, the small screen." It's just like this is a really awkward time for television. I'm just waiting for them to realize that multi-cameras work, for them to remember that multi-cameras are funny and great. Just because they're in front of an audience who's laughing doesn't make them any less real. Single cameras, sure, they are funnier at times for different reasons but they're not working. They're not working the way that it unfortunately matters. So I can't wait until people realize that or remember that because I loved doing The Winner more than I've loved doing anything. Anything. That was the most fun I've ever had, and I mean like better than Boy Scouts, better than the first time having sex because frankly it wasn't that great, first time trying mushrooms. All the milestones.
