Dec 9, 2025 · 1:05:34

Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with JL Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Hang, in Short

Tony Hale joins Amy for the pre-game before Julia Louis-Dreyfus comes on, and immediately the conversation gets derailed by his homemade recording booth. He describes it as so sad that if you saw it, you'd think "he's on the witness protection program." Amy tries to make him feel better by insisting everyone needs a booth now, it's basically a COVID thing. Sure. From there they reminisce about meeting when his wife Mariel was an SNL makeup artist, then working together on Arrested Development. Tony breaks down the insane Buster/Lucille codependency, specifically the scene where Jessica Walter makes him inhale her cigarette smoke and exhale it on the balcony because she's on house arrest. He calls it a baby bird getting a worm. They compare that dysfunction to his VEP relationship with Julia, where she treated him like a mime but he only heard poetry. Tony's question for Julia: what did her mom do right growing up?

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  1. 0:05

    Hello everyone. Welcome to another

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    episode of Good Hang. We just have such

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    a pro. We have the queen. We have just

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    the hilarious, incredible, inspiring

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    Julia Louie Drifus joining us today. And

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    um we talked to Julia about so many fun

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    good things. We talk about season 4 of

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    her podcast, Wiser Than Me. We're uh

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    we're going to talk about um her Emmy

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    domination and how she just beat me year

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    after year. Um we're talking about how

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    many photos we have on our phone. Um and

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    spoiler alert, I have more. And um

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    you're going to hear her reject my idea

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    that she is the LeBron James of

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    television. So great episode coming up.

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    But before we start, we always like to

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    check in with someone who knows our

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    guest, who has a question to give me to

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    ask our guest. And we have an

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    incredible, sweet, super talented,

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    hilarious Tony Hail joining us. Tony,

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    who you might know from Arrested

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    Development, Buster Bluth. What a

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    character. Um, he played Gary on VEP.

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