I can’t believe that it has been almost a year since we here at UPROXX consummated our bro crush on Community’s Jim Rash with a live discussion, but I guess time flies when you’re competing with a thousand other perverts while trying to get Gillian Jacobs to marry you in the comments of her Q&A. Ah, young love. Ever since that glorious chat with Rash, he has evolved into Oscar-winner Jim Rash, and in July he will pop his cherry as director Jim Nash, with The Way, Way Back, starring Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell.

But all this talk about Rash and not a mention of his other half, Nat Faxon, who co-wrote the Academy Award-winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Descendants, with Rash and Alexander Payne. Faxon has since become the star of the critically-acclaimed and therefore cancelled Ben and Kate on Fox. Faxon is also one of the stars of Broken Lizard’s Freeloaders, directed by Dan Rosen, which was released on DVD last week, and because we’re all cool bros, we were able to get our hands on an exclusive clip from the special features.

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Yesterday at Sundance, during roundtable interviews for Cedar Rapids (another solid comedy from Miguel Arteta, review to come), I got the chance to talk to veteran character actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. He plays Ronald Wilks in the film, but is probably most famous for his role as Senator Clay Davis in The Wire.  Me being the internet jackass that I am, my first question was about the strange type of fame that comes with being a phenomenon amongst internet jackasses.  You can hear the exchange in the clip above (full transcript below), but here’s the short answer to the question “how often do people on the street come up and do your ‘sheeeeit’ line from The Wire?”

“It’s rare that I go a day without someone doing it.”

He seems to be a good sport about the whole thing, saying, “You put it out there, you gotta be prepared to deal with it.”

Which is good, because he seems like he could cut a man in half with his masculine baritone.  (He does the line at 2:08 of the interview. Listen as the assembled reporters try to stifle our squeals of delight). The best part of the interview came later, when I asked him what question he’s most sick of hearing during press tours.  His answer was polite and diplomatic, but the basic gist of it was, “People mostly ask me stupid sh*t about The Wire.”

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