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winning comedy series enters its third season, 10 lowers a welcome wagon has arrived tonight. i sit down with ted lasso himself, jason sudeikis. i think we all have had lasso in us to discuss his white house visit shouldn't be afraid to ask for help ourselves surprising origins of his beloved character company comes to me and says hey , we have this commercial. we want to do his career in comedy gift to get to work somewhere like staying alive and his kansas city routes. everything goes through there. grab your biscuits. i'm glad you like it. you're a f c. richmond, jersey. and get ready to believe cnn primetime that ted lasso phenomenon jason sudeikis, one on one starts now. i'm jake tapper in washington where tonight we're going one on one with comedian and actor

jason sudeikis and a cnn primetime special ted lasso phenomenon. the show is now in its third season, boasting 11 emmy, setting new viewership records and bringing a level of success that got sudeikis and his castmates invited to the white house. i sat down with sudeikis for a wide ranging conversation at audi field, the home of d. c united while he was here in washington, where, of course, we touched on the new season of his show, which is produced by our sister company, warner brothers and is the first time sudeikis himself has run the creative side of the show. we also talked about the importance of mental health, which is a focus of ted lasso. his own meteoric career rise from community college basketball to saturday night live to today and what it's like to play joe biden and then meet him in person. so first of all, thanks so much for doing this. absolutely thanks for having this is the craziest thing like i didn't realize the show has only been on for 2.5 years. yeah

that's nuts, and you number one. premier and apple tv plus history 11 emmys. i mean, in 2.5 years long, 2.5 years, though, for everyone, you know that's the trick and, you know. by hook or crook and good fortune. you know, i've that treadmill is not ceased for me just through the writing process and editing process. yeah, so and not just myself, but you know, like, you know, my friends, brendan joe, like we we've been at soup to nuts. so yeah, it's been a lot. i made this you believe it is man. legend can i get an asset? do you think we talked about how that 2.5 years has been a very long 2.5 years for the entire literally the entire world? yeah do you think that the fact that that premiered in august 2020 right in the thick of covid is one of the reasons people connected to it so much so quickly? i think it's one of the reasons they had the opportunity to and but there are things in themes in that show in the in our show that that were percolating well, before you know, we all had to sit and really kind of take a look at it

all and feel well it within ourselves and within our own homes and within our own. you know, like vessels as human beings. most times. change is a good thing. i think that's what it's all about said it before, like, i'd hate to think we, you know, commodified that chaos. but if we provide a little bit of like sanctuary or like hope that that was unintentional, i would have much rather, you know, kids could have gone to school, you know, you know parents could have gone on date nights. people still go see plays and sporting events. but yeah, if we gave them the opportunity to, like, sit at home and find something together than happy to oblige, but not just the fact that we were all at home. the i mean 2020, in addition to covid like it was a very nasty political year, and there was all sorts of it was just it was very difficult. um and your show. represents something. you know what i mean? when you talk about a refuge, it's not just a refuge. it's a so i remember one time. so you're you're folks are very nice. they send us biscuits, and then they send us shirts and mugs and everything still look

good. go ahead, take a nibble, so we have a belief sign in the office and one time i just saw one of my producers. just like touch the sign like ted last not knowing i was i could see her just touch the sign. and she was having a tough day. and like that helped you must hear stories like that all the time. all the time all the time. i mean, i've read stories. people come up to any of us that are on camera that they recognize and connect to the show. i believe in hope. i believe in belief, and they meet us with themes of the show that you know that we didn't have written on our writer's room, you know, but they were just in the way we attached attacked the writing or the jokes or the way the characters would interact with each other. do you i believe in miracles. and if you do. and i want you all to circle up with me right now. and it's all a lot of it rooted in the like the improv mantra of yes, and you know, saying yes to someone in supporting it versus trying to

tear him down and you know, like the etymology of the word sarcasm is about tearing flesh and we just didn't want to. sarcasm just didn't we didn't want to play. i mean, there's still moments of it in the show, but but we call it out a lot of times when it exists, and that's not okay. oh he means the opposite. i love it when coach to sarcasm. it's been a rough time for anyone. that kind of feels things and you know, i was fortunate enough to play. ah you know the character john keating and dead poets society on his off broadway production and so daunting task to play anything that robin williams did, but to play a character that his time out, seize the day and all this lovely stuff and how important words aren't ideas in a time when people were literally having a, you know, picketing in union square. just we could hear him. if we open up the stage door. you can hear people were you know we performed on election night 2020 16 and you know, regardless of where you stand, you know as a human being . you wouldn't be proud of necessary watching your kids, you know, fight like that on the playground. so it yeah, we're surrounded by it. and we weren't doing in reaction to it so much as just i don't know. like what

if just shake this hand, you did sort of lean in on each other and allow space and understand that sometimes people are angry , but not necessarily angry at you, but angry about something else. and what if you listen to it? and what if you understood and empathized and all the while trying to make people laugh while doing it? but just the thing i learned at second city is like, what's it about? besides what it's about? and what is it about? what is ted lasso about? if you had to explain it to somebody the way my son is, i've heard him explain to people is it's my dad plays an american football coach who coaches a professional soccer team. ah in london, and they say the f word a lot. i want to be a football pundit sounds telling a dumb suit like i know it'll track to a guy voice store. it's accurate, and the guy was like i'm gonna check that out. it's a good pitch good pitch, but it's about a little bit. no, no offense to your boy . it's about a little bit more than that. i agree. yeah, i agree. no, i gave him notes. does he take them? no just like his dad, do you? what do you think it's about? do you think

it's about kindness? i think it's about teamwork. i think it's about. i think it's about empathy. i think it's about listening. i really do. you know, it's about how we're all a lot more similar than sometimes we're led to believe based on news channels we watch or what music we listen to on the radio or the families that were brought up in whether whether they were helpful or hurtful, like we're all more similar than we realized. if you just figure out some way to turn that me into us. sky's the limit for you . that's just something that i got my good fortune as being a child of a travel agent. i got to travel young, you know, and so that allows for space of realizing oh, there's lots of different ways to view the world and yet, you know, we all lot of us. find jim carey. funny all over the wall over the world. you know, a lot of people find jimmy stewart, you know, heartbreaking at the end of its wonderful life, please want to live again. people understand why dorothy wanted to go home. i like that notion that when the lights are out like it's we're all dealing with the same stuff

, you know. so what's another interesting part about the show is that some of the characters that at the very beginning of season one you think are villains. and some of the ones that you think are you know the underdog he wrote for specifically thinking of rebecca and nate. they transform and by the end of season two. rebecca is somebody you're rooting for native somebody who's a little bit more complicated. maybe you're maybe you're not rooting for him anymore. everybody loves you. the great ted lasso. why? i think you're a joke. so what's what's behind that? i mean, i think it's a an attempt at trying to honor the mark twain quote of like every every person's life is a comedy drama and the tragedy and i may be getting that a little bit wrong, but but, yeah, you know, it's you never know what battle someone's you know, facing

within themselves, and, yeah, it was a little bit of a rope a dope, you know, we use, you know a the to have rebecca and jamie tart. i would say, do you know to be these? you know these archetypes early on of like these villains type and to make you sort of like we're conditioned to find antagonists in in entertainment, but unfortunately in real life, too, you know, and so yeah, kind of we wanted to give a reason why rebecca was that way. you know something that i mean, i think major league is a great movie. you know, it's a great baseball movie. and yet the show shares its dna, you know, by good fortune with major league in boulder, um, and at the beginning of major league, this woman wants to tanker team. here's a list of the players will be inviting to camp. this guy here is dead. cross him off then, and we just wanted to, you know, maybe give our version of why that this woman wants to do that husband truly loved only one thing his entire life. this club until lasso is gonna help

me. burn it to the ground and you know you know it in the pilot why she wants to do it. but you don't know why. why, until you know you meet the person that's really kind of brought out this probably poured a lot of salt in a wound that existed well before he even had access to the shaker. then we're exploring with nate. you know the idea of what you do any person can overcome adversity to truly test their character. give them power and see what happens there. and it's not like i'm some kind of wonder kid. it's also sort of dabbling in the notions of like the intoxication of new fame, you know, and what that does people especially in this day and age, when they have access to whatever they want to see. you know, in a lot of instances, you talk about jamie tart jamie tart. obviously a character who's like a architect villain, and then you find out like he has an abusive father just made it easier for manchester city to kick you to the curb, and that's why he is the way he is part of the reason and, more importantly, how he's dealt with that abusive father because good and evil exists in the world. there's bullies in the world, you know, and there will always be there always has

been. it's our relationship to that good and evil and what we choose to take from and how we choose to go with. and so yeah, we're just you know, typing out people's choices and learning and memorizing and executing it so well, that yeah, i mean, nick mohammed, who plays nathan has caught so much guff online because they fell in love with him. am equally livid slightly night. oh, my god. he fell in love with him. but then he also brilliantly and bravely plays the inverse of that and i personally know i have thanked him for diving in like that, you know, same with, you know, anthony head who plays rupert, you know, and you know, hannah and phil, who played jamie all those people have to play those heavy things, you know. it's a tremendous amount of trust. they put it in us. you know the writers and creators of the show to, uh to play an unlikable part of themselves. the other thing, of course, is that ted is somebody whose struggles he seems very confident. he seems like why would he even take this job? but he's got he's he's getting a divorce. he misses his son. he has a panic attack to

breathe here again. i don't know what's going on. i'm sorry, honor at the white house beginning to hear people's stories. i couldn't understand not trying to hear that because i know that allows people to feel scene recognition of ted lasso. as being something of an ambassador for mental health issues. is that something you could have anticipated you? yeah no, none of this. we just we were just trying to make a show that we were proud of one of people that liked american football to like it people that like european football, or you know, like soccer, and we wanted comedy. folks like comedians hold their comedic integrity very near and dear and want to wield it properly. i don't know how to explain it other than it is what it always seemed to me like it was supposed to be and again by being fortunate to have someone like bill lawrence. see the work that brennan joe and i had done prior to working with him to say. oh, yeah, this is a show for apple to be, you know, the only company that we pit that we pitched to that said,

we'll buy it. i know i personally just had instinct of like, well. it's not going to be like that. it's gonna be like something else. up next. how jason sudeikis modeled ted lasso after some of the most important people in his life and how his upbringing led to him, creating this cultural phenomenon. i don't want them to come after me for, you know, lost wages, but but but, yeah. no, they're hugely influential. the new chasing business premier card is made for people like sam who make everyday products design smarter, like a smart coffee grinder. fresh beans for you, genius for more breakthroughs like that. i need a breakthrough card like ours. 0.5% cash back on purchases of $5000, or more unlimited 2% cash back on all other purchases and with greater spending potential, keep making smart ideas. brilliant reality. the new business premier card from chase for business make more of what's yours. for copd. boats flying high. you know how

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and get over it. the diamond dogs have struck again. give us the history on this older than 2013 those those ads. it's 2003 right. you came up with the character in amsterdam. that's not totally true. history would be, you know, i mean, everybody plays soccer. and i think in the states in the midwest, like when they're real little, but then i felt, you know, fell out of it. i didn't pay attention to the morning coach coach brendan and brendan hunter plays coach beard on the show. we're working in amsterdam and he had fallen in love over the last couple of years being a cynic being an american football family. i was a dumb sport. you played 90 minutes. 00 tie, but you know you have to live with five dutch dues and we're working at this theater. this english speaking theater called boom chicago and so brendan and i started to i wanted to play. tony hawk pro skater. so i asked everybody to chip in 20 guilders. i bought a playstation for the green room that we you know, that would be there half time and before the

shows and after the shows, and brennan's like we get fifa too. i was like, all right, i'll get fifa. okay. and then we would sit and play. we were the only two that basically played that game and he was brendan and i, and he would explain to me like kind of like, not just the like, you know, basic strategy, but then also offer history because he is much like his character like very, um smart and holds a lot of information, and it does it with such enthusiasm that you can't help it. but sit next to the guy and have it rub off on you boots. i thought you said that the trunk of a car was a boot also boot. hold on now, if i were to get fired from my job, where i'm putting fleets in the trunk of my car boot for putting boots in the boot. i love that. i said, going in the fact that i got to be on a plane holding up my ipad, explaining the world cup two people this this past world cup as we were flying from where new york to l a and people are asking me questions and i knew the answers. i was like brendan would be so proud about additional time and so then when it came time, so that was just

in that, you know, four or five months that we work together there then when it came time i'll jump all the way to 2013 and they can add company called brooklyn brothers comes to me and says, hey, we have this commercial we want to do we have here a few few ideas. ted lasso on the new head coach. which of the tottenham hot spurs, and i'd like to talk to the queen, please. and the coach idea i liked i was kind of like what if we play more of a bumpkin versus yellow and screamer? more of like a guy that was used to from being from kansas, and they're like great games we're gonna get in the playoffs playoffs. again my job just got a lot easier ties and no playoffs. why do you even do this? can i bring on a couple of people? and it was boom joe kelly brennan hunt, and then off, then off, we went, and it was a little bit of the goldilocks methodology. yeah, of like, you know. i knew nothing about soccer. joe knew a little bit of both soccer and football , and brendan knew a lot about you know soccer, so it's like between the three of us. the whole stick of the commercials was doing what brendan had done

back in 2000 words like what is this team? hey that's three points. no points, no points. why not? gotta go in rob, you got to get it in there to get three points. lasso is from kansas. yeah. yeah yeah. yeah as are you. yes homers. that's all we're doing. so i met you through this charity. you do that iran with a bunch of other famous, uh, kansas, eric folks. yeah good, big slick, wriggle wriggle. eric stonestreet, heidi gardner from snl. also kansas city. some in the water like i mean, it's a proud i mean, you know, yes, celebrities, but also all you know kansas citians, which is great. so uh and i know your mom kathy, who's great, but ted is decidedly from kansas city, right? the kansas city area right? here is some of the best barbecue sauce in kansas city, which makes it some of the best barbecue sauce in the world. oh yes. yeah. i mean, we

sort of left it parts unknown. you know, i'm from overland park, which is a suburb of and it's. it's very confusing the folks from the outside kansas city in kansas or missouri. it's like both and that that confuses the hell out of them. but overland park, kansas parts 100% kansas and i went to school and play basketball community college in southeast kansas. you got to travel all over that that big wide state, but that's an important part of who you are. i think so. yeah, and what is it about? being from kansas that defines you. do you think boy? i mean, it probably starts first and foremost at home, you know, with my folks. i mean, you know, they're the character. ted lasso is a lot of my dad. it's like the best parts of my dad and the parts of my dad that i didn't necessarily, you know, um, were put in, you know, directly towards me. hey buddy, you got it to spin about that? my father didn't know his father. and so i think my dad, you know, didn't necessarily know how to be a debt, especially towards the sun and so, you know, you know, ted has that same situation going on his life, although he got him a

lot longer than my father did. they were curious they would ask questions. yeah. questions like . have you played a lot of darts, ted? which i would have answered. yes sir. every sunday afternoon at a sports bar with my father from age 10 to 16. we passed away. barbecue sauce. and so. when i see the way people speak about my folks when i see the way my folks speak about other people, even when they're not around, especially when they're not around. you know, they don't talk. sh it. you know they like they, my dad always allowed for space and he didn't do it. i don't think consciously . i think it was just innate to who he is, and he's just a kind, loquacious and from many of my youthful years mustachioed, you know, fellow from them. they're both from chicago. everything goes through there. you know,

like, and i played sports. my sisters, you know, sang and danced, so i got to meet people from all different backgrounds, socioeconomic economic backgrounds, you know, blue, red, black, white male female. everything in between. it allowed me like the macro view that again. i mentioned earlier that we're all more similar than we are alike. you know that we are different. excuse me, and then just all those little touches throughout are all part of this show, you know, like, and it's not just me, being charged is like you know, the curator of things with being a co creator, and like and, like, you know, the you know, the guy that plays ted last on the show called ted lasso. i see it as an amalgamation of like this giant snowball of life. the happiest animal on earth is goldfish. you know why? hmm. no 12th memory. be a goldfish, sam. and just these are the things that i've collected. some leaves some stones. you know, a couple of band aids. you know what have you but also a few golden

nuggets there that that i don't necessarily think i created by certainly was if i was anything i was smart enough to hold onto or dumb enough to not let go of what sounds like your dad is a big part of the 100% yeah, and my mom. i mean, they're both like they're they're just very lucky. you know, you have no control over that. i don't think they should, you know, being the writers guild? i don't want them to come after me for, you know, lost wages, but but but, yeah, no, they're hugely influential. coming up, jason sudeikis reveals his biggest influences. why his first gig at snl wasn't the job he really wanted and what led him to comedy in the first place. i got out of a lot of you know the merits by, you know, talking my way out of it and making the teacher laugh. remember when i first started flying? and we would experience turbulence. i would watch the flight attendants. if they're not nervous, then i'm not going to be nervous. financially. i'm

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. expand your team with a fiber freelancer, bill. we're in antarctica. and this is cnn. you need to be able to use your wits more than your physical lot of people might not know this, but, um your uncle your mom's brother. was in the business before you were born in 75. so the eighties, one of the biggest shows in television is a little show called cheers, sitcom. everybody norman, i don't know him, cut the small talk and give me a beer. and norm peterson played by george went your uncle , you're growing up and uncle george's on tv and killing it every week. how much did that influence you to go into comedy? probably more than i realized, but even prior to him and alongside him being the older

brother having two younger sisters. i think i look towards comedy or movies and television , as, like older siblings, you know so as much as i was, you know, really raised by dancing vegas and kathy. today kiss and got, you know a bunch of uncles, bunch of ants and they're all remarkable, truly, like like there's not a, you know. ah turd in the bunch, but i was also raised by you know tom hanks and gene hackman and robin williams and michael keaton, bugs bunny and axel foley, murphy and all these guys remember vividly going to see beverly hills cop as a nine year old boy with my father because my father loved when a good guy, especially smartass. someone's great at their jobs. people that spoke truth to power and did it with like you know, it made people laugh. so when did you decide? i'm going to do this when i moved to chicago, like, you know , i played blast ball all throughout, you know, up until the community college and then i quit. i got red shirt at a community college, which is tough to do. it wasn't thrilling me the way it used to, but i was

doing this thing called comedy sports. so my transition from sports to comedy was this improv show in kansas city called comedy sports, which is basically whose line is it anyway? you know, uh and we place short form games and whatnot, and i had a knack for it and again, not wanting to be a child actor. i was always around funny friends. i always gravitate towards people that made me laugh. i love making other people laugh. i got out of a lot of, you know, demerits or jugs as they call them at my jesuit high school by talking my way out of it or making the teacher laugh and much like ferris bueller or bugs bunny or you know axel foley again, and i just, uh at that point, it was counting. okay i want to do this. but then i had this really amazing opportunity. i did this comedy festival in ireland, and it was with all the second city alumni. but then they had someone drop out to do these small improv shows in the back of these pubs, and they asked me if i wanted to do it and george had seen and bernadette had seen me perform. and people are kind of like and george would be like, no, i think he could do it. and then then they started playing short form improv games, which i had all these years of

experience. you know, they didn't say go west. they would just go to chicago was never go to la go to new york, like, go get like, get the biz was never that and george never push that all he did was really unknowingly to me. uh, at that point was when i dropped out of college, i was living in my parents' basement, and i was like, right in the silly newsletter that i'd send to friends that actual colleges when my mom and dad were nervous, especially my mom. georgia be like, no, no, he's if he if he keeps loving it like he can do something with this fighting, crime is higher. you need to be able to use your wits more than your physical and then you did in private second city you got to. yeah. and improv olympic and the annoyance theater moved to chicago. yes so that was may of 97. i'm in chicago in september. 97 like i was like i was like, okay. alright. live with my grandmother, south side and then just little goals at a time. never having this big idea, never never thinking and it's and it's in similar to the themes of the show that that mentoring nina always come from

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you seem so happy, shout carefree. so what's the word? i'm looking for? yeah partner. well, you know where i'm from. we're still vp. you know, easiest gig in the world were like america's wacky neighbor, you know, pop in with an ice cream cone. some aviator shades , just finger guns. at the end of the day. we're both joe freaking binds. so then, you know three you started snl, but you start as a writer, and you're not on air until 05. i think. yeah, that's correct. yeah for fun to do little things in the monologues here and there and play extras in different sketches, which was which was flattering, but, yeah, i mean, full on imposter syndrome. heroes of mine had been, you know, not hired or let go from that job. i didn't think it was going to last very long. i didn't unpack my boxes. i lived at 46th street. so i could get there and then you know, as i was ready to hop on a plane the

second they were like, yeah, we messed up. i knew it, you know, did you? did you think that you were going to be able to be on the cast? were you bummed that you didn't get it? i was bummed. i mean, there were plenty of times i called. my manager was still my manager now and i call him i go. i don't i don't think i'm doing this right and it's just like no you're actually in showbiz now, you know, not that i don't think you know the second city or, you know, that is show business. but i knew what he meant was really just it wasn't something that i thought i had a knack for because i had spent, you know the years prior really kind of developing learning my own voice. and so here i have been charged and being paid for it and at high, breakneck pace of writing for other people, but what i loved more than anything was the rewrite table like getting to like. try on a fred armisen character of maya rudolph character and then portraying it at the table and then having someone like tina you know, or dennis mcnicholas? oh, yeah. what's that? what do you say? we'll use that joke and then put that in. you can't help it that feels like it puts a little a little currency drops a quarter to in in the you know the artist

jackpot or, you know, slot machine and you kind of like, okay, we'll see what what else we got, and just kept little by little, but you know, i was disappointed, though. even though it's an incredible job, it felt a little bit like winning a gold medal in the court that you don't train as much for it. yeah you know you wanted to be on camera. you want to be on stage because that's what i knew, but it didn't feel like from a prideful place or but but maybe that stuff i haven't unlocked yet. i mean, there must be something to that. but i just wanted to do a do a good job i wanted to do you know, at any point try to reach my full potential, even if i even if i'm crazy and how much i think it is or silly and how little i think it is and live from new york it's saturday. in my view, you have done the best job biden that snl has ever done. petition jake. it's hard. it's art for me. for me, that's more of a dickhead thing to say to anything. sketch comedy is an art. i appreciate that. but it was also a different era of biden, as you acknowledged, when you did that skit, not not long

ago. is it weird meeting people that you've made fun of? i never thought i was making fun of him. i've never i don't think i've played anyone that i made fun of all due respect. this is a bunch of malarkey. i don't think i can channeling him channeling a common playing my dad with like fake teeth. and you know, they give me they give me a nice big choppers. i got these, you know, little tiny teeth. um you know, but i'm always playing a version of myself again. i'm not trying to fool anybody. i'm not trying to prank phone calls and get people in trouble. you know, like i met him, you know, and it was great. he was gracious, you know, and you know, as advertised, you know what i mean? it's a gift to get to work somewhere. like staying alive. it's a form of superpower to be able to impersonate or or or empathize, you know, physically and vocally, you know, and into someone. however, you want to put a channel someone if you will, um, i'd prefer you know to use it to celebrate what i like about them versus the other way. so i've been asked to do things remember? honestly, i can't think anybody have time ahead. that i just didn't have a connection to it. i didn't want to. it feels it feels mean it

felt mean spirited. and i've already been, you know, born into a vessel that's afford a great deal of privilege. and i didn't want to like, you know, use that in a negative way. it's not a pejorative imitation. you know, it's the camaro waxing gas machine. yeah biden of like, 15 years ago. yeah, yeah, the guy we got now from eight years ago, man. boost the biden past boom. yeah, when you leave the boss, he can't like that stuff that stuff has repercussions on a global scale, if not the nasdaq . so like biden, you look different than the other people have played it since me. i think it's been like mulaney, woody harrelson and jim carey, like all like great guys and all, like incredible artists within their own. so they're, like, lose the gig or whatever you know, it's like no, no like that's that's yeah, it was. it was never mind to begin with. you know, like i only got it because i happen to be but remember fred armisen calling me

in in 2008 when obama had selected, you know, president biden as his running mate. fred calm and go. hey, congrats. i was like, why would happen he goes. biden got picked biden and chris dodd. so what he does you played them in that halloween sketch. remember when obama came? i was like, oh, yeah. oh that's funny, so it wasn't like , you know, it just sort of it wasn't like tina to sarah palin. it wasn't like this automatic. we have to do this. it was already been already done it there already fitted me for the wig ground. not bad. not bad thing to fall into. and then yeah. then they get to play against tina's sarah palin in the in the 2000 election sketches. of course, because i practiced a couple zingers where i call you, jill. okay, great. and then i just got to like, you know, ducking, you know, bob and weave throughout and all that, but it's been fun to play elements of him. i mean, you know, be able to play joe biden and mitt romney and like in the same political season, darn it all the heck. you know that's range. oh, coming up the upsides

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sometimes we're allowed to feel or want to feel there is something worse out there than being sad and that is being alone and being sad. ain't nobody in this room alone, and i don't think i was always that way. or maybe i was, but i would only share it with with a few people sometimes maybe people i didn't know that well. um but i also didn't want to burden folks with it, you know, and i think any of us can feel that way. we don't want to burden our stuff. with other people because we don't think we're worthy of it. we don't think they want to hear it and i still struggle with it. i struggle with it all the time about like, how much do i want to give into the things i'm going through? or or believe? and how much do i want to, um offer that up to someone that i think it will be exploited. although you know i wouldn't make the argument that maybe it has, but, uh i just think it makes it makes living feel more lively. yeah. like it's. yeah

comedy, drama and tragedy. i mean, mark twain, sammy clem's he said it first, you know, do you, um, did it i mean, you went from being famous and successful to being wildly famous and successful? sure, yeah. i mean, yeah. 2019 before ted lasso. you know you're a film star. you're successful. we had a great life, etcetera, but now. i mean, this is a worldwide phenomenon. yeah yeah, i've clocked that now. yeah, i mean, again came up during a time when we were wearing masks a lot or were quarantined. so it was easier to walk the streets. 100% yeah. i mean, that must have, you know, like that is conspicuous as all hell, you know, said i'd like to go back in a time machine. go to the seventies. no one would notice me, right, you know, but like in this modern time, we all clocks some of the mustache unless it's you know, like the season three premiere. it shows that it's not fake. like you're cutting it. you want everyone to know that that's a real mustache? that's why we didn't it was never been. it was fake for the second commercial,

because i we didn't know we were going to get to do it and having a very late time and i'd rather have a real one. just cause just cause that's 15 more minutes. i don't have to be in the makeup chair, which means 15 more minutes. i can, you know, be asleep. you know, prior to an early morning, it's all it's all very, you know, selfish, but how has it been going from? i mean the explosion of your fame and success. i would say you were famous and successful before, but still this is a different level. i mean, you know puff daddy was onto some inmates about mo money. mo mo mo. problems and biggie, but again, it's the reaction to those problems so i can't. i can't complain. you know, i'll leave that to the professionals, but i feel like because of the themes of the show and those of us on again on camera have spoken about this were met with such you know, kind nino, kindness and grace and people share their stories or explain where they've held the believe poster where they have it like in appearance , you know, hospital room or in classrooms or where have you and that stuff is incredibly moving

, because the same humanity that you that you felt that i've you know, spoken about. that's what people are meeting us with, right and you're just after the races, you know, and he tried to spend as much time and be as president was with people. you know, i read. you know everybody's messages that you know people are like, why do you have your dms open on twitter? it's like because people share these stories with me and like, and they moved me to pieces. i read. i read them all and sometimes there's requests that i can't get get get to all of them. but i want him to know that their that i sincerely to know that they're seeing their heard their red and they were, um moving, you know, and it's not anything that i believe any of us involved in the show. take lightly or take for granted. coming up next. will there be another season of ted lasso? people asking about, you know, extra seasons and stuff like that, and i get it. it's flattering. start stop, or is jason today he's hanging up his whistle for good. ever better

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step feels like you're floating skechers premium cushioning for extra comfort. skechers. glad step flax. hello, coach. really glad you decided. shut up. no decision has not been made about whether or not there's going to be a season after season three, diane i mean, that's those are decisions for a lot of people to make, including you. but but how are you going to feel the last time you perform as ted lasso? i mean that i would think that that would be that would be tough. and how do you think your fans would fans of ted lasso would yeah, i mean, impermanence is a big is another theme of the show. you know, i think one of the reasons ted liked being a college coach, because maybe, i mean, look, i'm not a psychologist, and i just sort of bs thing through a lot of the stuff. but just these things

make sense to me. is that being a college coaches? there's impermanence. you only get them for four years. i will have had my time with it. i've been lucky enough in most instances in my life been involved with things that when i no longer got to do them. i want to know that at least i did him as well as i could. well, i could, and our goal is to go out like willie nelson on a high. yeah you know, people are asking about extra seasons and stuff like that, and i get it as flattering. um and i get it from both a business standpoint and creative standpoint and a fandom as a fan of things and having grown up as a fan of these things of movies and television characters specifically, and so i get to hang out. i see all these, you know all my friends, you know, jeremy, who plays higgins, jimmy lance, who plays tranq crim, you know, like i get to hang out with these guys. nine hours a day still, you know, and i get to watch them and be excellent and like and make me laugh. make me cry, and i just try to support what openness and honesty and talent they've. they've offered to the camera that we've captured and then to give to people to let them do whatever they want with it, so i

haven't had the time to say goodbye to it yet, you know, and i know that, you know, it's nice to know there's a plan b there that you know if she hits the fan, i can i can help, you know. go to cameo and give pep talks you know? great keep that mustache 24 7 and, you know, view the world through that through the eyes of that character through the sole of that character, which is a very optimistic you know, some would even argue polyana way to view the world, but i don't think so. i think we all have ted lasso in us feel like we fell out of the lucky tree hit every branch on the way down. ended up in a pool full of cash and sour patch kids. i'm not, you know, daniel day lewis, man. i'm not meryl streep. i can't play early, so i haven't been asked to play something that it wasn't a tiny part of myself. and how do you how do you widen that lens and give it give it as much breath as possible? that's so it will never leave me. even if i don't get to play it. it's in there, and i encourage folks to, you know, find themselves. it's one of the neatest things seeing all the men and women, you know, guys and you know, kids and

adults dressing up like characters from our show and all different ways. it's a hoot halloween outfit a couple of real solid we worked hard on that when you won your second emmy, were you like i didn't believe it. i was shocked as hell. you still yeah. i mean, yeah. no it's you know, it's touched something with people that really has. i mean us as well. like it. it it is. it is. it is. i mean, i've said it and i'll say it again because i truly believe it. and i'm being cute is not to lasso is not show. it's not just character. it is a it is a vibe and the fact that people have picked up on that vibe, and it brought that vibe to their own. you know, schools and teams and communities and home and you know, and again themselves, as has been flattering because it's i can speak towards the spoils of it, and it's not necessarily you know the awards, but the rewards that have come from it for sure. thanks so much, jason. absolutely. thanks for having me. you can catch the new season of ted lasso on apple tv. plus i'll see you sunday morning at nine a.m. eastern for state of the union here on cnn, and sunday night joined cnn for a special night of er