Jun 17, 2025 · 59:12

Will Forte on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

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The Hang, in Short

Will Forte apparently wore his step counter under his costume on The Four Seasons set like a court-ordered ankle bracelet, waking up at 5am to knock out his first 10,000 steps before shooting even started. That's according to Tina Fey, who joins Amy as the show's unofficial "best friend of the pod" for her third appearance. She tells Amy that working with Will on the Netflix show was easy because of their SNL osmosis, even though they never actually wrote together or had dinner alone. Tina also nails Will's personality: he's stupidly responsive to praise, lighting up like "a plant that nobody watered for a week" when you compliment him. Amy and Will get into his SNL audition, his silent Tim Calhoun character, and his incredibly weird pre-comedy life. Twenty thousand steps daily. Every single day of 2024. That's unhinged.

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  1. 0:00

    Hi everyone, welcome to another episode

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    of Good Hang. Um, very excited to

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    introduce our guest today. It is Will

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    Forte. Will, amazing actor, performer,

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    writer, and um my good friend who

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    started at SNL pretty much the same time

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    as me. So, we get into those early

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    years. Uh, today we uh talk about his

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    amazing SNL audition. We talk about how

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    he became incredible at Donkey Kong. And

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    we also talk about the Four Seasons, the

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    great new show that he's on uh on

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    Netflix currently with Tina Fay. And

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    speaking of Tina Fay, we are asking Tina

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    to join us and give us a question to ask

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    our guest Will Forte. And Tina is a

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    friend of the pod. This is her third

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    appearance and technically we probably

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    need to start paying her. Tina, hi

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    Betty. Can you hear me?

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    This episode is presented by Athleta.

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    Summer is here. It's time to get outside

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    and get active. And Athleta has just

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    what women need to move the way they

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    want. That's shorts for every type of

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