Ep. 70 Will Forte Pt. 2: Last Man On Earth vs. MacGruber, Letting Go and Bill Murray

Welcome to part 2 with Will Forte on the Modern Moron!  We talk about what it's like to Create, produce, write and star in your own TV show.  I can't even tell you the hours that are put in to just one of those roles and to do all of them is just plain crazy.  We talk a lot about that experience of having your dream come true and having that dream be overwhelming.  He's facing that challenge and opportunity again with MacGruber which is going to be a limited series on a streaming network. We also talk about the new Scooby Doo movie that is now available to stream and that while the producers weren't looking for an imitation of Shaggy, Will felt obliged on his own to uphold the tradition of the character originally voiced by Casey Kasem. Remember that name?  That's is right in our demographic.   At one point Will is talking about the approach to doing a known cartoon voice and bringing your own take to a character while maintaining the integrity of what people know as a character and I begin telling him how to approach his own successful work.  Only a Moron would even attempt such audacity.  It comes so easy to me.   Then we talk about a Netflix documentary you should check out called "The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man".  It's a real feel good documentary about Bill Murray showing up at random times in random people's lives and really connecting with them.  Bill Murray is one of my all time favorites and I just can't say enough about how this documentary makes me happy that I held the right person in such reverence.  Will has had the opportunity to meet him during his time on SNL and even HE could muster up the nerve to say hello.  It was a really great way to wrap up a conversation with an equally great person in Will Forte. CLOSE One of the nicest people you will ever meet.  I know I sound prejudice because they're my friends but anyone who knows Will would say the same thing and that goes for Cheryl Hines as well who was on the show about a month ago and we all knew each other and performed together way back when before any of us had careers in front of the camera?  Let's change that to before they had careers in front of the camera. Thank you again to Will Forte… his new movie "Scoob" is available as Video on Demand or Streaming on Demand, I loved it, my daughter loved it, Will made Casey Kasem proud.  Be looking for a limited series return of MacGruber, will that include Kristen Wiig?  Hmm great question.  You would think I would have asked that right.  We both know better than to expect that...   see you next time.