#the-paper-tv

#the-paper-tv

Gleeson and I met in New York in the early fall, when he was in town making promotional rounds for The Paper. The show was due to stream in its entirety on Peacock on September 4, followed by a November 10 broadcast premiere on NBC. He had slept for only an hour the night beforeowing to the nonstop bender that is a press junketand just finished crying. During a photoshoot, he'd watched clips of his work with Bill Nighy from their movie About Time.

Some comedians are simply born funny. When Will Ferrell appeared on The Late Show earlier this summer, Stephen Colbert asked him to name who he saw at his first concert and he responded Roddy Ricch with a straight face. Just a hip-hop guy, about five years ago, he joked. My first concert. It was enough to bring me to tears, and Ferrell did it so easilylike King Midas, but if everything he touched burst into laughter.