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Yet it was released in America straight to video.
Why didnt I hear about this?
The Wrong Guystars Foley as Nelson Hibbert, a milquetoast middle manager at a generic multinational corporation.
The cops know its a hired assassin (The Umbrella Academys Colm Feore).
I think I saw it probably early days in New York 2005 or something like that.
Hes so elastic in this.
He has a silent-film actors physicality throughout this whole movie.Yeah, hes great.
But then Daves going so big.
With the musical side of your career, theres a lot of dancing and physicality to it.
Its definitely a huge part of what I do.
Did you know that the cops singing by the dumpster are the Barenaked Ladies?Are you serious?
I had no idea.
But They Might Be Giants are sothem.
Its kind of like calling the Sugarcubes the B-52s of Iceland.
I can see the parallels.Because they both had guys that just spoke-sang.
And then you have [Einar Orn voice] Everything is going strange here!
And then you have the other higher-pitched vocalist.
Its kind of weird.
Yeah, and the female singers do a kind of exaggerated dolphin-singing.Dolphin-singing is a great way of putting it.
So its kind of similar.
Well, Im going to have to listen to them back-to-back now and really drill down on this.
Something about there being one week.Is it Flagpole Sitta?
Thats Harvey Danger.Oh, sorry!
I get them confused!
I think its great, the high stakes.
Im a sucker for it.
Im always ready, on some level, to do that.
In my car, Ive got blankets and extra water.
Hes just the worst, dumbest, most average man possible, and they really do a great job.
And with both of those characters, its a believable level of dumb.
With those types of roles, you have to be likable enough but also believable enough.
Theyre not so stupid that people are like,God, I hate this guy.
All Cops Are Bastards.Oh, right.
Yes, yes, yes, of course.
Theres definitely levels: singing cops, cops being stupid in different ways.
But yes, theyre ultimately not the people you want to get entangled with.
I asked, Whats up withThe Wrong Guy?
Its such a great movie.
Why isnt it more well known?
And he said, The studio fucked us over.
They just decided to put no money into marketing or advertising and shelved it in a way.
Which is crazy to me because its a very high-level comedy.
We were just speaking ofIdiocracy, and its right up there with that movie.
That was the dumbest shit Ive ever seen.
That is the epitome of dumb humor.
Its ridiculous, the tonality of it.
I think theres a very high level of intelligence behind doing that.
You have to really understand what youre doing and why itisstupid.
To me, silliness and absurdity is the highest form of humor.
This movie reminds me ofStellain the way a lot of the jokes hinge on tropes.
Like inStella, when people kiss, they always go, What are we doing?
And someone responds, I dont know.
The bank is threatened.
Wont someone think of the poor bank?A bully farmer so stupid.
Thats from the same world, the same way of thinking.
Or its reassociated in such an absurd way.
Some people will not get it.
Theyll go, Thats really stupid.
I dont get why thats funny.
Or theyll go, I know why its funny, but thats just stupid.
Which is, to me, still a success.
We were right under Canada, so we got a lot of Canadian programming.
Also, Enrico Colantoni.
Oh yeah.Whos in a bunch of shit now.
God tier.God, thats crazy, right!
That guy, he just went massive.
There wasnt a misstep.
I have some projects that are being pitched, theoretically.
And my app,WattsApp Im still trying to make it worthwhile for having created it.
Im always continually excited by it, or at least by its potential.
What does electronic music give you creatively that comedic-music performances dont?
What does collaborating bring?Well, Ive loved dance music ever since I was a little kid.
I got really steeped in electronic dance culture in the 90s, especially when the rave movement started happening.
So I was surrounded by DJs and used to go out to dance all the time.
Its fun to be able to create music that people can dance to.
I just want something that sounds like what I would dance to at a club.
What did you look for in collaborators for theLate Late Showhouse band?
Then I asked Steve Scalfati.
He did soundalikes as well, so he had to reverse engineer popular songs all the time.
I knew that he has the ear to produce any kind of music within seconds.
I auditioned drummers, and it wound up being Guillermo [E. Brown].
Shes one of the best musicians I have ever witnessed.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
