"We Are Men" Stars First Date Dos & Don'ts

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The YH Studio welcomes the dashing and testosterone-filled cast of CBS's "We Are Men", Jerry O'Connell, Kal Penn, Tony Shaloub, and Christopher Nicholas Smith, and gets the scoop on their on-set chemistry... perhaps a little TMI? Also, find out which actor needs a Twittervention, which one may or may not have a provocative tattoo, and who has seen whom in their underwear! Plus, find out their first date dos and don'ts! Hosted by Nikki Novak (@nikkinovak).
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It's 2013. We're in the Young Hollywood Suite. YHN, the network. What up, what up?
My name is Kal Penn.
Uh, my name is Chris Smith.
Hey guys, I am Jerry O'Connell.
Yes. And I am also Jerry O'Connell.
I'm a very happy girl right now because there's a lot of testosterone. Great to have you guys here.
Good to be here.
Thanks for having me.
Okay, you're a welcome back guest, but the rest of you, first timers.
Yeah. Except for you and I. Well, we go way back. We go way back to 2008. You were my first interview.
First interview. Don't get carried away, people. Let's talk about we are men. So you guys, you all have so many credits. How is this show different from anything you guys have ever done? In a good way.
I can answer your question.
Okay.
You're in a speedo in a hot tub quite often, that's how it's different.
Well, yes. That's not that different.
That is very different.
Um it actually takes like a rather like uh like sort of a dramatic issue, kind of a somber issue, divorce, being alone. It somehow finds comedy through those uh very sort of tragic situations that that people go through and uh I
Wow. It's a rough room.
It's a rough room.
Is it just a rough room, or is that Is this sort of the way it's going? You give each other a hard time.
We're mean to each other now.
Really? I don't think that Jerry meant to emphasize the tragic aspect of the show. You're in this, you know, short-term housing complex. And I feel like there's a lot of guy elements like when a girl goes to a guy's apartment and he's single, there's certain things. Now what in your lives would be the most This is a multiple choice question. Would be most important? The hot tub. Okay. The barbecue. Pool table. Okay. Big ass TV. Okay. Or a leather couch.
I'm gonna go with option G.
Okay.
You're throwing another one in the mix. A full refrigerator of cold drinks.
Oh, forgot about that. Now, what are you filling it with? Coconut water, Snapple, Sunny D, the purple stuff, water, smart water, different kinds of beers, light beer, half a Visin, you know, you want your you want your lighter stuff, you want your darker stuff. You want to present people with options because that's when they feel taken care of. And that's really what a man is. Someone you you can take care of someone. Now, that's a man. Now, what about the dolphin tattoo? Is this true or not that you have a dolphin tattoo on your rear? That's what I tweeted.
Yeah. No, that is not true.
I take back this.
Yes. It's a It's a shark smiling, wearing sunglasses.
Where do you have this tattoo? Exactly. Is it on your butt?
Oh, man. Tune in. 8:30. Stay tuned. 8:30, 7:30, 7:30.
I actually can't believe I don't know that. I've seen you like naked.
It's a tweet, it was a tweet I made once and it may or may not be true.
We've changed in the same quarters.
It's not like I went to his house and examined his body and took photo, you know, it's not like I was like, "Yeah, where you from?" When did you see
We changed on set. Remember it was one of those days. Not naked. I mean, that's
We had to change on set in between scenes, and I had changed and he hadn't, and I was staring at him. And he got undressed, and I was like, "No tattoos, no tattoos."
Okay, good. Okay, so speaking of the Twitter, I actually have um some pictures on the monitor behind you from from a few of your tweets. This is actually was your tweet, Jerry, making out for the first time, and feeling a tongue in my mouth, telling my date things were moving too fast. Middle school memories. Okay, uh middle school memories was uh trending at the time. But was that true?
Um yeah, I mean, no, all my tweets are.
So you told this girl to slow it down?
Yeah, I I made out for the first time and her tongue went in my mouth, and I went, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, listen. This is moving way too fast." Since then, like, I've taught I have no problems telling K, saying, "Chris, when he's changing."
Yeah. And now, Tony, you do not you do not have a tweet for you because why? Why is that? You're not on Twitter.
Oh.
We ask him every day.
You've been
I knew you guys had the house. Kal supposed to be helping me.
Okay, so what let's help him get This is kind of a Twitter vention. For example, today, Tony was on a flight today that he came very close to missing. You could have been like, Just made my flight, almost closed the door. #madeit. Don't you just wish you were on Twitter now? Doesn't that just
I'm I'm ruing the day that I didn't get on Twitter.
Okay guys, we have a game for you. This is sort of about the first date, the sort of leading up, sort of asking your opinions about things in life. Question one. What should a woman wear on a first date? We want total truth here. Should it be like a short sexy dress? Should it be jeans, t-shirt, the no makeup thing? What do men really want to see? What do you guys really want to see on a first date?
I'm I'm a fan of snow pants. That's a great option. So I have to I have to say snow pants.
Okay. Snow pants.
I think it depends what you're doing. I think if you're going to like a Mexican restaurant, you should like dress in a sombrero and like uh dress.
Dress in costume. Okay. Okay, these are great tips. Snow pants, dressing costume, sombrero. I like this.
For me, it would be, you know, it's not so much what she's wearing, but what she isn't wearing.
Oh,
No, no, no. No, no. I'm not going there. I'm not making an amazing tweet. I am not going there. What I'm talking about is makeup. Not too much makeup. Okay? That's for me is kind of key because if there's too much makeup, then I'm wondering what's behind the mask. What's what are we hiding here? What are we hiding? And the other thing is that she should think about would be uh something that reveals uh that that doesn't cover up the hits.
Hey. Doesn't cover up the hits. Just give me put the hands down. What are you trying to say?
What I'm trying to say is just
Tony, just be a little more specific.
No, no. YHR is like, "ding ding ding ding" Uh, we're having some issues with Mr. Schlup.
It's been a long time since I've had a first date.
So, we're five episodes into shooting the show?
Yeah. That's right.
Yes. Yeah, it's a little bit of a nerve-wracking time because our show hasn't come on yet, so we want to make sure that people enjoy it. Um, I know I liked it. I mean, I'm a biased party, but uh we hope that the rest of the world does as well.
Well, the speedos will just keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
They actually have, man. They have been getting smaller. Yes. We did a scene. Kal and I did a scene last week and I put it on and I was like, "Kal, this is really small, right?" And Kal was like, "Yeah, it's really small." And then we actually shoot at a place that's like
Speedo is small. The speedo. Yeah. Okay, I got it. That was genitalia reference.
No, no, no. Not at all. No, we were we were shooting by a pool side, and we really shoot at this like temporary housing place. And um like a guy from like Brazil went, "Hey, man." And I turned around and he was like, "That's that's a really small baby suit." I was like, "Where are you from?" He was like, "I'm from Rio." And even where I'm from, that is, wow, that's small.
If it's small for Brazil, it's small.
Yeah, I know. It's small. The speedo.
Do you know what the you people you work with are doing like this? They want you to bow. Thank you all very, very much for coming into Young Hollywood.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Jerry O'Connell
Cast member of 'We Are Men', discusses speedos and first dates.
- Kal Penn
Cast member of 'We Are Men', jokes about refrigerators and tattoos.
- Tony Shalhoub
Cast member of 'We Are Men', target of a 'Twittervention'.
- Christopher Nicholas Smith
Cast member of 'We Are Men', discussed changing with Jerry.
- Nikki Novak
Host of the interview at the YH Studio.
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