The song “Two Shots” owes a lot to Hamilton, and you’re friends with Lin-Manuel Miranda. So this was the first time ever where I really wanted it to sound like I’m nailing it, and I wanted to hit those choreography moves. I don’t have to be on pitch all the time. Or when I’m doing Comedy Bang! Bang! with Scott, it’s just me being foolish. When I do Dewey, I can get away with murder it doesn’t matter.
It’s a whole different thing from when I’ve sung before. And I have songs on iTunes and Spotify now, which is insane. In high school, I was in the school choir, but that’s it.
And then Kat Burns, who did all the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend choreography, did our choreography, and I recorded the songs in a real studio. Fiora Cutler was my vocal coach, and Jon Lajoie, who you know from The League, wrote these incredible songs with Jack and Chris. So we got a vocal coach and a choreographer.
But Yasper thinks he’s great and the one to crush it. Why was this different for you?Īll my stuff before is “What’s a fucking animated duck sing?” Or, “What if Jean-Ralphio is sing-songing?” But he’s not a singer. You’ve sung before as Jean-Ralphio or as Dewey on DuckTales. But it’s been fun to be a part of a show where people are talking to me and it’s not just about the comedy, but them being really into what comes next and who did it. I’ve been basically playing werewolf with all my friends for the past few weeks. My manager literally said, “Well, I know it’s not you, because we would have known while you were filming.” So tomorrow night’s going to be really fun. I think it’s Walt!” But mostly, I get texts from friends being like, “I think it’s Walt.” Chris told me not to tell anybody. Occasionally, the people outside my hotel will be like, “Watched Episode Four. I’m in a hotel right now and making, so I’m barely seeing anyone. Have you encountered many people over the last few weeks who have told you who they think the killer is? When I’m in the shower, I sing a little song : “I’m just a boy in the bathroom…” And Chris kept in just five frames of both phones being in the thing, so if you paused it, you could see that. This is very nerdy, but throughout the whole show, I had Xavier’s phone in my left pocket and Yasper’s phone in the right pocket, and sometimes you see my character by mistake start to go for the phone on the left and then quickly pull out to pick up the right one. But if you go back, you can see me blow my cover and try to save it. But if you rewatch Yasper in that moment, it is me realizing, “Oh my god, there’s a video of me killing somebody!” And then Aniq looks at me, and I have to make it look like I’m reacting to him.
At the end of the second episode, beginning of the third episode, I tell Sam Richardson that there is a camera in the Private Eyes movie poster. How conscious were you throughout of playing it so it would make sense that you were the killer, but without tipping your hand too much? Schwartz and Richardson in ‘The Afterparty.’ So Yasper is like, “This is why I did it! Can’t you see?!?!?” I loved that moment. My favorite villains are the ones who don’t know how delusional they are. My favorite parts of those whodunnits are the confessions: “I did it! Yeah, it was me!” And I got to do that! And I dropped all these things throughout the show, I wanted you to not think it was me, and then to see a real dramatic turn, to get in his head. Hopefully that makes it more exciting, so tell me what you’re into.” We get on the phone, and I said, “I’m so excited. Not as, like, a cartoon character pretending to do it.” And then the email ended with, “Also, you’re the killer. Then the email says it’s going to be a murder mystery, and I’m like, “I love Knives Out, I love Columbo, I can’t wait.” Then he said, “Every episode’s gonna be a different genre, and yours is going to be a musical.” Now, oh my god, I was so excited, but also terrified: “Oh, I have to sing and dance, and I have to do it well. I love Lord and Miller, I loved their animated stuff, I love their live-action stuff.
Chris emailed me and he said, “Hey man, I wrote this role with you in mind for a TV show.” So I’m already in. The only time I got to work with Lord and Miller, I played a banana in The Lego Movie. What was your first reaction when Chris Miller reached out to you about doing this show? Do you understand what I’m trying to say?
Tony has a kid! Tony has family! He has support. You don’t know if Yasper’s working on himself yet. He’s going to therapy, he’s working on himself. I heard that you watched the finale of the television program The Afterparty.ĭo we want to talk about the comparisons between Tony Soprano and Yasper yet, or no?