"Seth Meyers"
SmartLess
September 28, 2026
Can I hear me? It’s the wonderful Seth Meyers. Irons in the fire, squirrel in parentheses, and accepting the cookies. “You can’t put a price on a smile,” … on an all-new SmartLess. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.
Speakers Sean P. Hayes, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Seth Meyers
Sean P. Hayes (0:05)
I've heard this for years, being in the Hollywood business that for every 100 auditions, you'll book one job, so just keep going and keep going. And I thought, gosh, for every 100 episodes of SmartLess, there's always one good one. So we got about three in the can.
Guys, guess what's coming up in a couple weeks?
Will Arnett (0:44)
Yeah, yeah, I know, we gotta mention, we gotta mention the listener.
Sean P. Hayes (0:45)
Oh my God, the Hollywood Bowl. We're gonna be at the Hollywood Bowl October 17th.
Will Arnett (0:51)
And not just there, like not hanging out, actually doing a show at the Hollywood Bowl.
Jason Bateman (0:54)
Stage, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sean P. Hayes (0:55)
And if you don't have tickets yet, you go to smartless.com/live, is that right?
Jason Bateman (0:59)
Wait, what is it?
Sean P. Hayes (1:01)
smartless.com/live.
Jason Bateman (1:04)
Oh my gosh, that's pretty easy. And for that, they're gonna get a double guest, is that right?
Will Arnett (1:09)
Yep.
Jason Bateman (1:10)
Two guests.
Will Arnett (1:11)
And we got some fun surprises.
Sean P. Hayes (1:13)
Yeah. Really?
Will Arnett (1:14)
Yeah, we got some fun surprises.
Jason Bateman (1:16)
All for the price of one ticket.
Sean P. Hayes (1:18)
Yeah, all for the price of one ticket.
Jason Bateman (1:19)
And a nice, beautiful October, October 17th, right? A fall night out there under the stars.
Will Arnett (1:24)
It's gonna be gorgeous. And yeah, you buy a ticket, and you can't put a price tag on a smile.
Jason Bateman (1:30)
What a great sell. Will, you're the best. Anyway, it's gonna be a great night, hopefully as great as this next guest coming up. Guys, let's get to the episode.
You can hear me now?
Sean P. Hayes (1:45)
There he is.
Jason Bateman (1:46)
Listen, listener and guest, I'm so sorry.
Will Arnett (1:49)
You spent all night on your computer in incognito mode for we don't know why, but we just don't.
Jason Bateman (1:55)
I had to change all my settings and all my usernames.
Sean P. Hayes (1:59)
Sorry.
Will Arnett (2:03)
If you got hacked, it would be the most boring hack for a hacker. It would just be all baseball stats.
Sean P. Hayes (2:08)
And list of like movie stuff. Yeah.
Jason Bateman (2:12)
And you know, when I get all the cookie alerts, you know, would you like to reject all cookies or whatnot?
And I do. I do reject them. I know Sean, you don't.
Will Arnett (2:21)
Quick question, Sean, have you ever?
Jason Bateman (2:23)
God be, yeah.
But I don't have any secrets. And you know, so like my instinct is to accept the cookies because then I don't get ads for things that I don't need. You know, like skin rashes and things like that. I get ads for.
Will Arnett (2:47)
JB, but you don't have secrets, but you used to be, there was a time where you were just built on secrets.
Jason Bateman (2:53)
Yeah.
Well, I think I was doing things at a time when we didn't have phones and things to photograph us. And even then I wasn't, I was never a bad boy. It's so boring. Even my bad days were boring.
Will Arnett (3:11)
When you say bad boy, like the idea of you like in a leather jacket and then you flip the collar up, you know.
Jason Bateman (3:18)
Or like could you imagine me ever trying to like mix it up with like a paparazzi guy that gets too close to my face and I take a swing at him like Sean Penn. And then I just get my ass beaten, you know, repeatedly.
Will Arnett (3:28)
I can see, I could actually see that. Wait, have you ever owned a leather jacket quickly either of you?
Sean P. Hayes (3:34)
Of course, yeah. Yeah, I have.
Jason Bateman (3:36)
But they were soft and suede. They weren't even like manly.
Sean P. Hayes (3:40)
Lamb skin. Mine was lamb skin back in the 80s.
Will Arnett (3:44)
No, no, no, I'm saying leather jacket.
Sean P. Hayes (3:45)
Yeah. Oh, I see.
Jason Bateman (3:46)
Okay. I think I had like a veal skin vest.
That had velcro closers on it.
Will Arnett (3:58)
Tonight we got a beautiful veal skin. What else do we got? Chef is preparing a beautiful veal skin.
Jason Bateman (4:04)
Yeah. Now, Will, I feel like it's been a while since you've had an update on your love life and domestic life.
Will Arnett (4:13)
Oh, yeah.
Sean P. Hayes (4:14)
What's going on there? We always talk about Sean and I's personal life.
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