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Dan and Jeff's Friendship

Dan:
Jeff can't pass the butter without being special. Like, like there is-
Erin:
Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!
Dan:
There is, there are, his, his stories are like, like, like, he
Kumail:
That's so funny you're literally like 'Oh there's Jeff again'
Dan:
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not saying that in a punitive way, like I am his best friend, I have been hanging out with him forever. If you're asking me if I'm bored hearing about how remarkable he is I-
Kumail:
Little bit
Dan:
I mean I'm familiar with it, I know that he is
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Dan:
I mean you've heard of it, like you've been around here long enough to hear that he can't go out for drinks without meeting Vince fucking Neil. Everywhere he goes, he goes to Las Vegas and Neil Diamond goes like 'Hey wait, sorry I gotta stop singing, who's in the audience, hey you get over here' and he just goes and hangs out with Neil Diamond. It's not lies, he's not lying, it's just like after a while it's like aye aye aye
Kumail:
He's like a real life Forrest Gump. There should be footage of him like-
Dan:
I don't want it to stop, but I'm not like 'What the fuck? What?'
Kumail:
I bet six years ago there was one point where he was like 'It's all about community' and then he walked away
Dan:
Well he did, I mean he is like, when I first moved to LA, the reason Jeff and I are such good friends is because, we were both fucking broke ass vagabonds, and all we would do is got out for drinks and tell each other how talented we were. Like I'd be like 'You are such a good actor' and he'd be like 'I know you're such a good writer'
Erin:
And Jeff was like 'I see good things for you'
Dan:
We believed it enough. I look, I look back on how bad a writer I was when Jeff was telling me I was a good writer, and I realize that I owe my entire life to being convinced by him. Like I, it's kind of, I don't know if it's, there's something sad about it isn't it? No?
Jeff:
That was an amazing time
Dan:
It's either Dumbo's feather or it's like uh, something
Jeff:
Dan used to pay my bills and then when he had money, then he was broke and I payed his bills for a while and then we kinda went back and forth and we really like were keeping each other alive
Dan:
We'd go like 'Ah dude can I, I don't know how to say this because I'm proud, can I borrow $2,000 I'm going to get evicted?' 'Yeah no here you go, here you go' 'I'm so sorry' and then like, both, you know back and forth back and forth back and forth, like, like, like and every time what one person would say to the other is, 'Look it's not that big a favor, like I have money right now, you don't but I know you're going to because I know that you're a special, wonderful person'
Erin:
I mean that's beautiful but now are you bummed out because you know that he knew?
Dan:
Oh my god! Oh my god I just got that. He was cheating. I was an actual good person and he just knew?
Jeff:
Dan, I had to wait till you were ready, ready to learn that, to find that out for yourself.
Erin:
I fire five arrows!
Dan:
I mean I guess what's the difference though between faith and, and prognostication, I mean what, what is that? If you say to your friend, 'I know that you're gonna be president of the United States,' like are you a dick if you're psychic and you actually know? More than you are if like-
Kumail:
Or maybe you caused him to become the president because you already knew it was gonna happen, and then you told him
Dan:
That's the, that's the thing. I'm telling you I was really hacky when I was 26. I was not, I was like, like, like, like, you know Monster House had to be re-written by the lady that did Willy Wonka's whatever adventures. I sat there for two years trying to write a movie about a house that eats children on trick-or-treat and couldn't get through it without having a fucking nervous breakdown, with my head so far up my ass I never would've gotten through anything but I would go out for drinks with this guy that would go like, you know 'You're right, you're right, you're amazing, you're great'
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Jeff:
My favorite memories like of us, Dan is like when you were like writing Monster House and you just be, we're at the Drawing Room and you'd just be sobbing, crying because you couldn't finish the script about the house that is a monster and you were so broke one time I was like Dan, like you were really broke, which is amazing you'd make like $300,000 and then like, like six months later, penniless, like you had, but you had a Pac Man and a Centipede in your house, or your, in you apartment
Dan:
Yeah it wasn't six months, it was a couple years
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Jeff:
Do you remember when I told you, I said like, you wouldn't finish Deadlist, the script you were writing and I said, 'Write me the first like 40 pages of it and I'll pay your rent'
Dan:
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Jeff:
And you're like, 'I'll take you up on that' because that's where you were
Dan:
Yeah
Jeff:
And because, you wouldn't, you wouldn't finish it, you wouldn't get it out, you wouldn't like, click 'print' or you know, on anything like, feature stuff and I was like, 'You're so broke, I'll pay your rent for the next two months if you give me the script, and I won't show it to anybody,' and you're like 'I actually will take you up on that,' and you still didn't do it, you still didn't write it
Dan:
No I gave you, I gave you pages
Jeff:
I didn't read it. No I'm kidding
Kumail:
He knew it was shit
Dan:
Yeah no, I gave you, I gave you a manilla envelope with the pages
Jeff:
Yeah it was the best, it was the best time. I still think you need to make that movie
Dan:
Well, I'm going to

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