May 6, 2025 · 1:06:00

Paul Rudd on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with PR Paul Rudd

The Hang, in Short

John Hamm calls in from a hot air balloon set at 7 AM wearing a white tuxedo to talk about Paul Rudd. Somehow this is normal. He casually drops that he donated 15 tuxedos when he moved and still owns double digits, none of which fit except the one he's wearing. The real story: Hamm first met Rudd in St. Louis circa 1989 when Paul was dating his high school girlfriend's brother and looked like Michael Hutchens in a denim jacket with Duran Duran's Rio album cover painted on the back. Operating at a higher level. Hamm watched Paul become his first famous friend after Clueless hit. His question for Amy to ask: when did Paul stop freaking out about being good all the time? Then he literally floats away in a hot air balloon because he's on camera.

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  1. 0:00

    Hi everyone, this is Amy Polar. Welcome

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    to another episode of Good Hang. We're

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    going to talk to the great Paul Redudd

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    today. I have known Paul for a million

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    years. And I love him, you love him,

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    America loves him, the world loves him.

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    We're going to talk about some cool

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    stuff today. We're going to talk about

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    how he almost lost the part in Clueless

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    because he had a bad haircut. Um, we're

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    going to talk about how dumb comedy is

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    our favorite kind of comedy and maybe

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    it's not as dumb as you think. And we're

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    going to get into the absurdity of

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    existence because that's what we do

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    here. where we go deep and then we get

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    really shallow. And we're also going to

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    talk about his film Friendship with the

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    great Tim Robinson, which is coming out

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    soon. So, check it out. And we're going

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    to start this episode the way we always

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    like to, which is a fan or a friend or

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    someone who knows our guest so they can

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    tell me what they think I should ask. We

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    have a very special guest, another

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