Jason Mewes on The Late Late Show
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Transcibed by bbruce

Craig Kilborn: Welcome back. My next guest resurrects his role as the talking half of Silent Bob and Jay in the upcoming animated version of Clerks, May 31 at 9:30. (run clip) This is Jason Mewes, right here!

CK: Oh, this. This, I can tell this is, later on is gonna be a fun Yambo. I can tell that.

Jason Mewes: Yambo?

CK: Yeah, we're playing Yambo. Now, so you play, you play the Jay, this is in the Kevin Smith movies. And you play, the character you play is what we call a pothead. And how do, how do you adopt, how do you talk like a pothead, in the movies?

JM: Nah, I don't think it's a pothead, my character. I'm losing my voice, too, can you hear it?

CK: Yeah, why are you losing your voice?

JM: I don't know.

CK: Screaming for Dave Grohl?

JM: Smokin' pot...nah. Nah, but I don't know why.

CK: Ok, well, you, it sounds kind of sexy for the ladies, I think so.

JM: I don't know man...

CK: So, then, it's gonna be animated. Is it gonna be as funny, animated, Clerks?

JM: Yeah, it's funny. But, it's not, you know there's not, uh, it's funny, I don't know people were sayin' it wasn't gonna be as funny 'cause there's no cussin', and stuff like that.

CK: It's hard to be funny when you don't swear.

JM: No, no, it's, it's, it's funny though.

CK: Is it?

JM: Yeah.

CK: I have, we have some lines here, that without swearing, these are lines for you to try on the new Clerks. We're gonna give them to you if you want to use them. Ah, this is your character. Go ahead and say, say that.

JM: I'm the freaking clerk here.

CK: Yeah, that's good, that's not swearing.

JM: Did you rewind the freaking tape?

CK: Yeah, yeah.

JM: Son of a bee-hive, what have you been doing with this old-folks tape for 12 days?

CK: Yeah, son of a bee-hive is the one I like. That's good. Freaking and frigging, I think, and son of a bee-hive, I think that flies, man, I think that works.

JM: Good.

CK: Walk them through. I found this fascinating. Your daily routine. 'Cause it's, it's specific, right?

CK: You live, you live where, in New Jersey?

JM: Yup.

CK: You live with your folks? or not? You live with your folks?

JM: My mom.

CK: You live with your mom?

JM: Staying at mom's, yeah.

CK: And tell us what you do, when you get up.

JM: Uhm... I have my TV schedule done. It's 9 o'clock's Lois & Clark.

CK: Lois & Clark at 9 o'clock...

JM: 9 to 10. 10 to 11 is Murder She Wrote. And then, uh, 11 to 12 there's nothing on, so that means I gotta play with my remote control cars. Gas powered remote control cars. And then 12 to1 is Matlock, 1 to 2 is Father Dowling Mysteries. 2 to 4 there's sometimes a 2 hour Matlock on, or not every day, but if the Matlock's not on that means I gotta go play with my cars again, or eat, whatever. Then 4 to 5 is another Murder She Wrote. 5 to 6 is Hercules. And then 6 and 7 is Matlock again. And then 7 o'clock, you know, is movies whatever, but who knows. But that's everyday Monday through Friday.

CK: So you like to watch, watching TV?

JM: Yeah, and then Saturday it's usually like the morning cartoons and stuff.

CK: How, how... How, how old a guy are ya'?

JM: How old am I? 25.

CK: 25, oh, well, that makes sense then, watching a little TV there. And what do you have to do when you have to work, when you do the Clerks and stuff, how do you watch it?

JM: I tape 'em. My mom tapes it for me. My mom, she's taping 'em right now, she gives everything the time off. And I woke up at nine today this morning and Murder She Wrote was on at nine, nine to ten. So it's messing me up, you know. So, so she's taping 'em now.

CK: So... Ah... Jason, and the fun continues. You have a special hobby I'd like you to tell the people about?

JM: Pornos!

CK: No, no, no... Uh. You're an artist or something? You paint?

JM: The models. Yeah it's called Warhammer. It's a game, uh, it's a game, I want to play the game though, but, the, the models that the game pieces models are little models, they're pewter models

CK: And you like to paint them? And what are they, what are the figures?

JM: Yeah and you glue 'em together. It's like a, I don't know there's all different stuff. There's one, it's like a stagecoach and uh, um, there's like a little coffin that comes in the back and there's like a grim reaper driving it. And there's like two bone horses, like the horses are like uh, boned, and you paint them and stuff..

CK: You paint, you paint them while you're watching Matlock? Or is it a seperate, is it a seperate thing?

JM: Yeah it's seperate. That's usually like 7, like after everythings off, 7 o'clock.

CK: Kind of a way to unwind after watching all the TV. Maybe a little bit of painting.

JM: Right...

CK: You need to keep you perspective from watching all the Matlock, so you go and get lost painting. Do you also paint dwarves? Is that, what that's part of some of the characters, the little figurines?

JM: Yeah, some of them, some of them there's a goblin, a Gamorkan, which has goblins, and then there's trolls.

CK: What's it like painting a dwarf? Is that, is that fun?

JM: It's fun, yeah, it's tedious, it's like little you know you have to do everything, like their eyes, and it's real small. You gotta get like nice real brushes and stuff.

CK: You gotta be careful kids if you paint over their eyes you might hurt that little dwarf.

JM: You don't want that, huh.

CK: Allright I don't know, should we even try to play Yambo later? I don't even know. We'll be right back with Yambo!

(Part 2 - Yambo)

CK: Ladies and gentlemen, America, if you're ready. It's time to play...Yambo!

[Announcer: It's time for Yambo, the brain teasing game of skill and intelligence, where Craig's guests Dave Grohl and Jason Mewes will face up against each other and against the clock. When the music stops, each player will have 3 seconds to answer Craig's question. Get 3 wrong and you lose, 3 right and you win. Get ready, it's Yambo time!]

CK: Who sang Gin & Juice?

JM: Uh... Snoop Dogg.

CK: That's correct! Name the brand of sandal popular with lesbian women.

Dave Grohl: Burgesas.

CK: That's correct! True or false: Andrew McCarthy is in the Breakfast Club?

JM: Uhm...false.

CK: That is correct! Who's the "Teflon Don?"

DG: ........

CK: Incorrect! Looking for John Goddy...Very tough. Another name for chick peas!

JM: Uhm... pea-peas.

CK: Southern most state in the United States.

DG: Florida.

CK: Southern most state in the United States.

DG: Texas.

CK: Incorrect! Hawaii!

DG: That's not a state! It's a resort!

CK: What is the capital of Norway?

JM: Uhm... Massachusetts.

CK: Incorrect! Who plays Matlock?

DG: ......

CK: Incorrect!

DG: No! Andy Griffith! It was Andy Griffith!

CK: He's the winner! He's the winner, he's the winner, right here!

[ANN: We have a winner! Jason Mewes is the winner of tonight's Yambo! Congratulations Jason, you are one of life's winners. We will be right back.]

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