Jake Johnson on The Dink, Brad Gilbert's Emojis, and Roddick's Hidden Talent | Q&Andy

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Andy Roddick** (0:36)
Hey everyone, welcome to Q&Andy, here on Served. We have someone who I think is like the funniest person ever, not a tennis player.
He's a pickler. He's a pickler, he's one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Jake Johnson on the show.

**Jake Johnson** (0:56)
Welcome. Andy, don't call me a pickler, man.

**Andy Roddick** (0:58)
You're a, I have, so obviously he just popped up. You recognized him from New Girl. I actually just watched him on the Minx. I didn't realize how hard you rolled in that one. That was a fucking great show.
My favorite podcast, we're here to help. Just got something approved, Sunset PI, NBC and obviously a pickleball movie, The Dink, Jake Johnson.

**Jake Johnson** (1:22)
I'm talking to the star of The Dink, Mr. Andy Roddick, who steals the whole goddamn thing.

**Andy Roddick** (1:26)
That is, you want to hear a truth?
Yes. I've had the finished version in my inbox for three or four months, and I can't press play because I'm so mortified because I was, you know how uncomfortable I felt the entire time we were doing it? Not because of you or anyone else, just like this is going to be stupid. Everyone's seen an athlete cameo in a movie and they all look pretty stupid.

**Jake Johnson** (1:49)
I promise you and you know this because we become buds and I would love to roast you right now, especially on your show.
You're really good at it, man. I have a bunch of people have talked about, because we were talking for a while of, do we go, it was written for Andy Roddick and we go, do we go Andy Roddick? And we're like, or do we cheat and go like a Will Arnett type? And get like a committee, and that was the big battle with Sean, Josh and I forever. And then we did the meeting with you in red and we were like, I think Andy's going to bring it, but the big gamble for the movie is we're like, if Roddick's not funny, we're dead. Because you're the entire third act of the movie, the big moment with Ed Harris, I'm like, we're dead. And you brought the heat, man. I thought you were, not only that, but when you come on the podcast, you're a fan favorite, you've just, I never realized how funny you were, and I've become a huge fan, my man.

**Andy Roddick** (2:46)
Dude, I appreciate you. One obvious question when talking about preparation for The Dink, I'm assuming you went full method actor like Daniel Day-Lewis, is did you lose all self-respect when you had to be a pickleballer?

**Jake Johnson** (3:03)
Well, no. You know what, I was just hitting with the number one female pickleball player in the world earlier today.

**Andy Roddick** (3:10)
Anna Lee Waters.

**Jake Johnson** (3:12)
Hell yeah.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:13)
She's pretty cool.

**Jake Johnson** (3:14)
Yeah, that's very cool. She can play.
Honestly, what I had for me is I was new to tennis and pickleball, so I got to learn a lot about both. The thing that I will say about the tennis community that you and I talked about, that I find to be weirder than anything the picklers do, is how much you men talk about other men's legs.

**Andy Roddick** (3:32)
Yeah, so I have that as one of my questions actually.

**Jake Johnson** (3:35)
Andy, I have not gotten past it. The amount of times Brad Gilbert would not jokingly say to me, he'd go like, hey man, who's, by the way, Gilbert's the greatest guy on planet Earth.
But would literally go like, hey man, and he'll go, look at his legs, man. Those are some stems he can hit. I thought this is an obvious weirdness of Brad Gilbert. Then I brought up to you Roddick and you were like, it's all about the legs, man. I get it. I was like, you guys are all weird with legs.

**Andy Roddick** (4:01)
You're a bunch of perverts. Basically, one of my favorite parts was just bullshitting with Jake the entire time. I think we found a nice little momentum. Two, three days in, we found some of the same stuff funny, so I feel like the way I received it is that Jake came to me, he's like, fucking Gilbert keeps talking about legs. I'm like, yes, that's a sturdy set over there.

**Jake Johnson** (4:25)
Then what I hated is I would see a man in shorts, and I'm looking at those stems and I'm going, he'll never have a powerful serve.