| Rob_Corddry: | Hello Internet people, I'm naked right now. I love chatting on the Internet because I can wear as little clothes as possible. |
| pumpkin: | Q: What is the strangest thing you've seen at the convention? |
| Rob_Corddry: | The strangest thing I've seen at the convention was Joe Scarborough running up to me with open arms and then hugging me. I was engulfed in "Scarborough country." For those of you who don't know who Joe Scarborough is, he's horrible -- but smells nice, very musky. Like speed stick ... |
| ael: | Q: Hi Rob! First of all, the "Rob Corddry's Boston" skit was just brilliant (Tuesday Night's daily show). My question: How did you get your start in the "business"? Was getting the hell out of Mass. key for you? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I was a theatre major, an actor in New York for about 10 years. Then I got into comedy and took improv classes at "The upright Citizens Brigade Theatre" and started a sketch group called "The Naked Babies" and just pounded the pavement. As far as Mass, I love Boston and it's only fitting that I return here for the convention. |
| Rob_Corddry: | ... and Go Sox! |
| Troop19_nut: | Q: How are you? How is your brother Nathan? I am one of the Smith's |
| Rob_Corddry: | I'm great. Nate's great ... which Smith are you? |
| DemDame: | Q: Hypothetical: If you could have any one First Lady from history mix you a martini, who would it be? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Mary Todd Lincoln ... because apparently she was insane ... and manic depressives mix the best cocktails. |
| JimBob: | Q: Are Democrats funnier than Republicans? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Democrats are usually funnier, but Republicans are easier to laugh ...AT |
| Rob_Corddry: | also ... Republicans love a good fart noise. |
| Kol: | Q: Are the interviews on the daily show real? Do the people know what the daily show is? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes, all the interviews are real. People will do just about anything to get on TV, they don't care how they look. |
| jayjay: | Q: Rob is John really only 4 feet tall? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Jon is actually in my pocket right now ... |
| The_Kevster: | Q: Rob, big fan...big fan...hey, have you ever just cracked up laughing during a daily show interview? What goes through your mind when you're asking a question? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I almost cracked up once and I had to pinch my thigh to keep from laughing. But really the only thing that's going through my head is a follow-up question to whatever crazy thing that person is saying. |
| jess: | Q: Favorite Red Sox player? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Present day: Johnny Damon ... Past: Yaz |
| Troop19_nut: | Q: Angelo |
| Rob_Corddry: | Angelo, Sorry you couldn't come to the show ... hope Brian didn't hate the "Father Green" joke the other night. |
| jayjay: | Q: Rob has been on the show gotten you "any"? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yeah ... my wife has really been giving it up ... |
| pumpkin: | Q: Rob, who's your least favorite celeb in town for the convention? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Oh boy ... well, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are pretty irrelevant now, aren't they. And Ben Affleck really must be stopped. But worst of all, Alfie Woodard ... I mean, who's with me? |
| academyave: | Q: There have been quite a lot of carrot top sightings all around town, have you had the privlidge of meeting that comic genius...... |
| Rob_Corddry: | I actually did a commercial with Carrot Top, or as his friends call him, Scott. I call him Carrot Top. |
| akimbo: | Q: Hi Rob! I'm a huge, ignorant fan - do you Daily Show guys each write your own material? Or do you have writers and collaborate? |
| Rob_Corddry: | The studio bits in front of the green screen are written by the writers, but the field pieces where we interview people, are more collaborative. |
| iluvrob: | Q: What do you make of all the B-list actors running around the convention? Who are they? Why are they here? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I look up to the B-list actors, because I'm a D-list actor. But, to be fair, I'm on the A-level of the D-list. |
| Richie: | Q: Who is funnier and/or tougher, Vince Vaughn or Will Ferrell |
| Rob_Corddry: | Will Ferrell is funnier, Vince Vaughn is tougher -- Vince is a scary dude. |
| slickricky: | Q: Have you run into Mike Moore? If so, did you chat for a bit? What about? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I haven't run into Michael Moore, but I did run into Al Franken, sort of a Michael Moore light. |
| eesullivan: | Q: what percentage of the people "interviewed" on the daily show don't know the real deal? (i.e., that it's a joke) |
| Rob_Corddry: | Most people that we interview have seen the show, they just want to get their crazy agenda across at any cost. And ironically, I usually help them do that because their web sites get a million hits the next. |
| inky: | Q: I hear Mark Bellhorn is from Weymouth too. Any other famous Weymouths? Weymouthites? Weymoutheys? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yah, I heard that too about Mark Bellhorn ... Yes! Abigail Adams, wife of Pres. John Adams was from Weymouth ... but that's it. |
| Rob_Corddry: | and she was really hot ... |
| The_Pundit: | Q: Any interviews slated with Kerry's daughters? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I don't have an interview slated with Kerry's daughters but I was in a play with Alex Kerry 4 years ago. She's very talented. |
| jess: | Q: Lately my husband and I are getting all of our news from Daily Show. Do you have favorite news sources? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Let me tell you all to stop getting your news from The Daily Show. We are lying to you. |
| unknownman: | Q: I heard that you grew up in Boston. What part? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I grew up in Weymouth, went to UMass-Amherst where I lived in Southwest and then Theta-Chi, I'm a die-hard Sox fan. The thing I miss most about Boston are my nephews ... |
| MoveOn_Kid: | Q: I understand the Daily Show is now the top rated news show for the 11pm time slot- is it possibly it will move to an earlier spot, or be syndicated to network tv for a wider audience? |
| Rob_Corddry: | No chance at all, but that does reflect a frustration that people have with the actual news that they are turning their backs on the media and to shows like ours. |
| ZubberBrit: | Q: Are you a fan of riding motorcycles? |
| Rob_Corddry: | No, but my lesbian mother and her partner just bought two ... |
| J_B_Cougar: | Q: What are your thoughts on the Bush administration reclassifying felons in FLA as "insurgents" to avoid voting controversy? |
| Rob_Corddry: | It proves that the Bust administration will probably win because they will do ANYTHING to do so ... |
| Baci: | Q: Is Jon Stewart a Yankee fan? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Jon Stewart is a Mets fan ... to my endless frustration. |
| eesullivan: | Q: what do you think about mo rocca contributing to cnn and cnn.com? does this scare you as much as it scares me? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Mo Rocca is great at what he does and I'm looking forward to the day he takes over for Larry King. |
| Kerry04: | Q: Now do you guys have as much fun as you appear to be having on the Daily Show? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yah, it's a blast. I look forward to work (almost) every day ... |
| iluvrob: | Q: Will you be at the Republican Convention too? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes we will ... and I'm terrified. |
| ael: | Q: Are there any non-celebrities at the convention? From what i've seen only famous people are there. |
| Rob_Corddry: | Um, yes there are a few hundred thousand non-celebrities here. |
| buster: | Q: What do you do when you're not filming |
| Rob_Corddry: | I hang out with my wife ... that's pretty much it. :) |
| Rob_Corddry: | and we're very busy NOT having kids |
| zax2000: | Q: Do you consider yourself a New Yorker, a Bostonian or a Weymouthite? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I'm a Weymouthite who says he's from Boston ... and I love New York. |
| inky: | Q: Who's your top pick for a convention interview? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I would love to have interviewed the youngest delegate and the oldest delegate together. But we couldn't get them because I was too busy trying to figure out what a delegate is. |
| Fustian: | Q: Who would you rather be a speach writer for, Al Sharpton, Theresa Heinz Kerry, or Dick Cheney? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I would rather be a speech writer for Al Sharpton, because I wouldn't have to do anything ... |
| Jocko: | Q: Rob-Is it true you were beat out by Casey Affleck for one of Will's co-horts in Good Will Hunting? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes, it's true. We had a tickle fight for the part and I lost. Casey Affleck is a great tickler ... don't let anyone tell you differently. No seriously, I think Casey knew someone. |
| MoveOn_Kid: | Q: Do you think Fox News would ever hire someone from the Daily Show? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Actually, Fox tried to hire Steve Carrel ... and obviously he said no. |
| DailyShowIsCool: | Q: Who are your favorite protestors? (I like the anarchists myself--it's so fun to watch them try to get organized.) |
| Rob_Corddry: | I spent all week watching the pro-choicers picket the pro-lifers. Those are the only protests that seem to be happening here. |
| hilary: | Q: This is really random, but it turns out my mom was one of your high school history teachers in Weymouth. Mrs. Shields from "Origins" (ancient history). She said she got a kick out of you and that you were a "neat kid". |
| Rob_Corddry: | We actually thought about contacting your mom for the Boston piece I did on Tuesday, but we had to cut it. |
| adam: | Q: Do you think the daily show will have a big impact on the election? There's a lot more to laugh at on the republican side lately. |
| Rob_Corddry: | I don't take my job seriously enough to think that we'll actually have an impact on anything. We're really just "poop joke" guys at heart. |
| DailyShowIsCool: | Q: What's your biggest scoop this convention? |
| Rob_Corddry: | What's a scoop? ;) |
| cornellkid: | Q: If hell does manifest on Earth and Hillary is elected President, can it be a rule that her running mate must be a koala bear... or anything that will undermine her entire office? |
| Rob_Corddry: | It's hilarious how many people still hate the Clintons. Hopefully Hillary won't be President only because she'll be too old after John Kerry's 8 years in office and John Edwards 8 years in office. Sorry to be so partisan but this is an emergency people! |
| assman: | Q: is stephen colbert as creepy in real life as he appears to be on television? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes, Stephen Colbert is an onion skin of a human being stretched over a black abyss. |
| iluvrob: | Q: Has the success of Anchorman tempted you to leave the Daily Show for the fame and fortune of Hollywood? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes, still waiting for that call from Spielberg ... If anybody talks to him, give him my number. |
| unknownman: | Q: What do you think of the Big Dig? Now that it's coming to completion. |
| Rob_Corddry: | I think the Big Dig is the biggest and "boondoggle" in history and anyone that had anything to do with it should be shot ... simple as that. |
| Rob_Corddry: | apparently ... my mom has a question? |
| Denyse: | Q: Which politicians do you find easiest to crack a joke about? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I can say all politicians are easy targets because most of them are hypocrites and that's who we go after. Even the politicians that have the most integrity are easy to make fun of ... |
| pumpkin: | Q: Rob, love your stuff, but I'm perplexed that I don't remember you from Old School. Which part did you play? (and don't say Ferrell's body double for the streaking scene?) |
| Rob_Corddry: | I was one of the pledges that never said anything. They never told me it was a "talkie." |
| eesullivan: | Q: what's your favorite steve carrel line from anchorman? |
| Rob_Corddry: | "Why are we yelling! I don't know why we're yelling!" -- he was basically playing Ralph from The Simpsons. |
| Joe: | Q: Are there any Republicans who work on The Daily Show? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes, there are Republicans that work at The Daily Show. And Jon, I believe, is a registered Independent. We only SEEM left-leaning now because of the Bush Administration. |
| Richie: | Q: Worse place- the South Bronx, or the North Shore? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Worst place is the North Shore ... at least the South Bronx started hip hop. And don't give me any of that "Queens bridge" crap ... |
| axkixx: | Q: If you hire someone from NBC, FOX or CNN for the Daily Show, who would you pick? |
| Rob_Corddry: | I'd hire Shephard Smith from Fox and then I'd haze the crap out of him ... |
| assman: | Q: do you think the country should implement 'free speech zones' across the country? i like the idea of caging protestors behind barbed-wire from now on. |
| Rob_Corddry: | Hey, there's a free speech zone right here in my arms ... you sound like you need a hug. |
| assman: | Q: you were great in strangers with candy...aren't you making a movie out of that now? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Yes, I was great in Strangers with Candy and we are making a movie right now ... if i was Steven Colbert. |
| AlliS: | Q: What's the coolest thing about being back in Boston for the Convention? |
| Rob_Corddry: | Seriously, the coolest thing is just being back in Boston. I had forgotten how friendly and accommodating people are here. You guys have a really great town. I'm proud to be from Boston. |
| Rob_Corddry: | That's all we have time for ... It was great chatting with you. Now get back to work before you boss blames your shoddy work on me. |
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