Da’Vine Joy Randolph On "The Holdovers" | Eric Andre On His Extreme Transformations For “The Eric Andre Show”

Published Dec 2, 2023, 8:30 AM

Comedian Michelle Wolf takes over as The Daily Show guest host this week! She chats with her high school peer, Tony-nominated actress Da'vine Joy Randolph, to talk about her role as Mary in "The Holdovers." Also, Michelle sits with comedian, Eric Andre, to discuss his book "Dumb Ideas" and how he prepared for "The Eric Andre Show." 

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My guess tonight is the Tony nominated actors stars in a new film, The Holdovers. Please welcome, Davine joined Randolph. Okay, thank you mine, thank you so much for being here. It's wonderful to see you.

It's so good to see you.

Yes, we uh, we went to the same high school.

You high school?

Yeah, yeah, but we we were from i mean central Pennsylvania and you did this movie. You have to do a Boston accent in this movie. That was that hard to I mean, I'm someone who's terrible at accents, really, I mean awful. I don't know if you heard the Trump one. Yeah, but was it hard to get into the Boston accent? Was it hard to get out of the Boston accent?

It helped because we were filming in Boston, so that helped. But it was hard because the accent that I'm doing is like a seventies Boston African American dialect. So I'm not sading like Mark Wahlberg, you know what i mean. So everybody's walking around like Wallburgs and they're like and I'm like, it's different, it's different. So sometimes it would throw me a little bit, and so I just would have like certain key words that would help me get it back into it.

Yeah, do you can you share any in your key No.

I used to before they said action. I would be like, oh, mister Hannamna Hannam, and just say his name, and that would like kind of settle me back into it.

Is there anything you specifically watched or listened to get into that?

Like Summer is from Boston, and so I would watch a lot of her interviews and stuff like that because it was more to the time period. And yeah, a lot of YouTube clips and stuff like that, and that kind of helped me constantly have that in my head.

And that's great. You got to listen to Donna Summers and yeah, right, like Mark Wahlberg, and you've done I mean, you've done so many incredible things. You've got to work with so many incredible people, you know, Eddie Murphy, Paul GIAMAI, Steve Martin. Are there any other people that you're like really wanting to work with.

I really want to work with Bradley Cooper. I saw the trailer the other night of Maestro and it looks amazing. Yeah, the way that he just died I like people that just want to die fully in he resembles him in an interesting way, and I think that's both with the magic of you know, movies, but also his commitment to the role that it's just I was like, oh, he's really he's dedicated. So that was exciting for me that I was like, I would love to work with him.

Yeah, that's it. I imagine you want to work with other people at the top of their game. And yeah, I saw I saw Bradley Cooper in New York recently, and I like, it took me everything not to be.

Like, yeah, exactly, he's a handsome one.

Yeah, and then what about other roles anything that Like, I mean, you've done a mix of serious comedy.

I think I want to start getting into biopics. I think that would be really fun, and that I started off with singing, so I think that could be a really nice way to merge the two. Yeah, I think biopics and start playing some real women.

I'd be great. Get this lady some real women and your character Mary in this she's a she's a cook. Do you are you good at cooking?

I am good at cooking. I love cooking.

And that was kind of like not a deal breaker, but that was something that I said to the director Alexander Payne. I was like, if I do this, I really need real food. And so he was really cool about it. He was like, Okay, what is the Christmas menu? And I was like really, yeah, yeah, And so I cook in real life and real time. I cook soup, oatmeal, a roasted chicken, and ate like a breakfast because I'm hungover.

That's that sounds great. I want to be in this movie, you're I. I don't. I would like. I like to think I can cook, but I just don't. I don't do it because I don't like to clean up.

And I got to take somebody clean up for I know.

I need to make people to clean up from you, you know.

So that's the thing. You just invite people.

I'm like, oh my god, I want to cook for you clean up.

That's a that's a great.

Yeah.

I got to meet better friends and you. Okay, so you had to pick up smoking for this role. Did you have a hard You.

Said it, you had to pick up smoking, pick up you?

Yeah, the joy of an addiction?

Yeah?

Did you did you get addicted?

Did you have to really nervous about it. I was like, ooh, I feel like I might have that addiction gene.

What's gonna go happen?

And so they gave me Before we started shooting, the director sent over two big boxes of like natural fake ones, and it just wasn't working for me, and like because the it was fake and it looked fake while doing it, And so I started using American spirits because they have like you know, there's different like I call it gradients of addiction that nicotine.

Gets like stronger and stronger.

So I had like the blue pack, which I think is like the lighter of them, and then like of how I wanted to hold it because she's an avid smoker, and so they were just I get it. They were like, the cigarette's gonna tell on you, Like if you don't know what you're doing, they can tell by how you're holding. They're like, she's lying.

She never smokes a day in her life. So puff puff. I was going, I.

Mean, good for you, thank you, and I smoked my life word good good. It's an absolute pleasure to have you on this show. It's so good to see you. I'm so happy to see all your success and I hope it keeps going and give this lady, real lady to my guest. Tonight is an actor and comedian who is currently on tour. He also co authored a new book about the making of the Eric Andres Show called Dumb Ideas. Please Welcome Eric Andre, Eric big Fan. I feel like, oh, thank.

You and your whole lifestyle, your whole Spanish lifestyle.

I have a very international lifestyle, that's I do. Yeah, and you would like to be an international body.

Well, you got to get me over there. Yeah, yeah, you got to get me over there.

We both would love to leave America.

Yeah, And it's scary here is Halloween?

Yeah, you know, but what I mean, what do you have to be worried about in America? Is someone?

Uh?

That is because I'm just I'm just a study abroad, you know, like I'm just going. I'm just going for the savice.

I want to. I do know. There's a lot of guns here. It's like the wild West. There's a kids.

Yeah yeah, not guns. Yeah, algebra, yeah that's yeah. It feels it feels weird to do.

Uh we at the end?

Is this the end of Are we at the Is this Act three of America?

I mean I kind of like to think so.

Like the things out it brings me great stress.

Because because then it means something new will come, you know, you know, out of the apocalypse, out of the actions wills China, and.

There's no problems over there, no.

No problems over there. And yeah, I agree, I am. You know. I was in an airport the other day and I uh, I was through security and I was like, huh, we're safe because there's no guns through security in Spain.

No.

No, in America. I think about it.

In America, they're sneaking guns all the time. The t s A. They're not the sharpest group and there're no disrespective agents.

Out there, hard working underpage.

But like you know, because stuff sneaks in.

Yeah, have you snuck anything?

I sneak? Yeah. Every every time I'm at the airports, they get a ton of weapons. Yeah, arm I have bring that right now. We have had no flightlist.

I often bringing that, you know, the stick as the ball with the spikes on the end.

Like a cat of nine tails, like a medieval like a that's good.

I'm thinking that, Yeah, that's kind of good. I just like to see if I can get it through.

Yeah, challenge the TSA.

I encourage all of you to challenge the TSA, make them.

Work for it. What's the worst that can happen, what's the worst that could happen?

What's the worst?

Just try it?

Yeah, well so that's you. You do pranks, you I do banks?

Yet I do banks.

Did you feel like writing this book was a prank on yourself?

Yeah?

I'm not a book writer. I'm not a book reader. The last book I read was Where's Waldough?

So I, uh, did you find him?

And I never found him? And that's why I stopped. I know, it's a lot of work.

It's a tremendous amount of work, you know. Yeah, this is not this is just work, But this is just this is like done.

We have a deadline. We had to have this written and out here. And this I feel like that is something that agents, agents love to push. You got to write a book.

Why do you want to?

Come on? Man, you got to write a book?

What do they want from me?

I feel like there's also no money in books?

No, you know, I mean we made so far seventy paces.

Seventy Yeah, that's not going to get you very far in Spain, getting farther than it would in America.

Yes, yes, so you asked me anything.

I'm an open book.

I'm spread eagle under the table right now. That's how coomfortable I am.

You like to transform yourself for your roles.

Uh, I got head to toe Filipino surgery, plastic surgery. Yeah, I completely changed my race nationally.

No, I gave him the picture of which Filipino you'd like to look like?

Yeah, I showed many packet so I could thought.

I was trying to remember the Filipino boxer. I'm going to very racist.

Yes, I've gained, I got I got gaunt. One season, I tried to look like McConaughey and Dallas Buyer's Club and that was that was bad. And then I got as like big and plump as I. I wanted to look like Red Fox drowned or something, and then I and then I got shredded. I got ripped like Dwayne the Rock Johnson for one season, and then it all went to ship. Then I went to Portugal right after I got ripped, which took me like half a year, and I just drank.

My weight and wine and it all all went back.

Now I look like a beautiful female orangutang with like blowing breast like d cup pendulous wow orangutang breast.

You really paint a picture.

Yeah, I can see.

I can see why you're an otour. You're away with crows. Did you enjoy or getting fat as the best? I was gonna say that.

You do get depressed after a while, but I was eating melted ice cream, peanut butter, jelly sandwiches and pizza every night.

It's awesome.

Then you keep looking in the mirror and it's fun. At first, You're like, wow, it's crazy, I look gnarly, and then you get really you get really depressed. I also got rid of all my body hair that season.

I really see it all.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wax. I waxed my pubic hair. I shaved my head because.

The previous season I didn't brush my hair all year, and I didn't wear deodorant the whole time, and I grew up my fingernails like Freddy Krueger. So I was trying to do like the opposite of what I did the previous season.

How long did your fingernails?

It got pretty bad and my girlfriend at the time was not happy.

But what about all the backscratches you could give her? Uh?

Yeah, not a lot of match sketches. It was hard. Intimacy was difficult.

Nails about that, Yeah, I.

Just have trouble opening like Kansas soda with nails. So I imagine intimacy.

Is also intimacy. It's a challenge. It's not easy. And I stunk that year. I didn't wear I didn't wash my my outfit, my my wardrobe. I would like run circles in it and sweat into it. I didn't wash it for a whole year. And uh, and I didn't wear deodorant for the whole year. I was tough today.

That sounds yeah, Yeah, I was. I was gnarly. I was Oscar the Grouch.

Yeah, that sounds a lot.

It's kind of unnecessary too, Like you can't smell me through the television.

It was just to freak out the guests.

That's a really good point. I can't smell you through the not yet no, yeah, I mean hopefully.

So soon, very soon.

I did the guests like gag when they smelled.

You, or yeah they would they would remember. Uh.

I interviewed Amber Rose and she came out and hugged me, and she goes, you need to wash yourself.

It was repulsive. It was repulsive.

It was bad, that's a yeah. And she's worked at strip clubs.

Yeah, she smelled many a body odor that tickled dirt, tickled dirt nostrils. This is Have we started filming or is this like a is this a rehearsal?

And then I come back tomorrow I think, I.

Think, I think we're filming, and I just you know, as we keep going, I remember how much I'm terrible at interviews.

What are you talking about? You're very confident that that's a that's it? Why are you? Why are you so confident?

Why am I so confident? Oh? Well, you know, my big dick keep rolling over sharing when it's that long? And this feeling?

Right?

Am I right? Am? I?

Right?

No, I've got I feel like this is why I don't have a podcast, because I feel like you have to have guests on a podcast and people would be like, what do you want to talk about? And I'd have to be like, you're gonna have to bring it. I don't know what do you want to talk about? You came to my house, you're on my podcast.

Why don't you just bring your phone here and then record a voice?

My mom?

Repurpose this conversation that's your podcast perfect. I don't think Viacom would be stoked on it.

But yeah, but they don't have money to get lawyers anymore. Yeah, we're talking about you know, the the you know what, what do we got left? You know, I'm sure they'll keep that.

Yeah, I was gonna say that they'll keep that.

I what did you just start crying?

I should have like splashed water or something where they couldn't go back from it, you know, like like we're here.

Now, So what's going on in Spain?

In Spain? Okay?

Do you drink wine?

No? I don't really.

You stopped because it was a problem. You know, you got to a point where it was dark. They were like Jack Carroll Wax final days.

This is the fun thing about when when you don't really drink anymore, is that a lot of people It shows how many people thought you.

Had a problem, but you never did.

I mean, I don't know. Maybe I drank too much, but people were like you finally quits, and I was like I was like I didn't.

I mean, sure, but you're still doing drugs. You're doing I'm doing hard okay, and all that stuff.

I do the hardest. Only needle drugs.

Wow, yeah, yeah, and not just heroin steroids of zamb oh yeah, whatever you got any if it's any needle.

I've been doing so many starrups. My dick is used my bom.

These guys are marbles I do and modern recreationally. Oh yeah, I just I didn't want it to stop.

I just wanted to keep. It's going to be on the.

Cusp of COVID all the time, yes, right, covid edging that. Yeah, and kids, you can do that too. Where's my camera? Just my fingers in there?

Okay? An edge? Are you encouraging kids to edge? Is that what that was? I want my name taken off the show and my face blurre the release that has a book.

Call that's coming from a guy who's a book called dumb Idea and take us to air Conde Show Live or veilboard aircondrecar dot com. Take a quick pri.

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