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Best (Man) in Show

JF I've wanted to ask you [about making me the best man at your wedding last year]: How did that happen? What was the thought process?
KD We were engaged for a year, so we were planning on getting married. Jane was pregnant, we wanted to do it before the baby was born, and I got a call saying, ''Oh, by the way, you've got Friday and Monday off.'' [I thought], ''That gives us a four-day weekend, so here's our chance. Let's go to Vegas.'' First call: ''Jerry, we're thinking about doing it. Are you down?'' You're like, ''Absolutely!''
JF I remember that! Four o'clock in the afternoon!
KD Adrian [Grenier] wasn't going to be able to go because he and [Jeremy] Piven were working, so we grabbed [Kevin] Connolly and went out there for a few days and had a great time. It would've been nice to have all the guys there.
JF Because most of your family is back in New York, I looked at it as an honor to step in and be your family, because I do consider you family. I apologize to all my family members — it was the best wedding I've ever been to. I mean, the laughs and the emotion...
KD And the videotape we had... That videotape is just a crackup to this day. You could watch it 50 times and you're still going to laugh as hard.
JF I don't sing, I don't dance. Those things I just don't do in front of anybody, and for some reason I just didn't care that night.
KD You've actually got some secret dance moves. You busted out some stuff where it was like, ''Whoa. Where did he learn that move? Spinning on his head?''
JF It goes back to my freestyle days when I was 13. That's how you used to fight back in the day: You'd have a dance-off.

Team Dynamics

KD We agree on everything except for baseball.
JF We got the whole Mets-Yankees thing going on.
KD The Mets and Yankees are both going to be tough, but I think the Mets are the better team.
JF This is the first time ever that I've not looked at a Mets team and been like, ''I just hate them.''
KD The weird thing is you should be the Met fan because you're from Brooklyn and the Mets play in Queens. I should be a Yankee fan because I'm from lower Westchester County, very close to the Bronx, very close to Yankee Stadium, so it's reversed.
[They talk about the horrors of wearing the rival team's hat.]
JF I don't know if I could physically put one on for longer than two seconds.
KD I'll tell you what. I'm going to put it in print right now: If the Mets win more games than the Yankees, then you have to wear a Mets hat. [If not], I'll wear a Yankees hat. And I don't like wearing a Yankees hat, believe me.
JF Deal.
[They shake hands.]
KD I don't know if I can wait a whole season to see you wearing that Mets hat. Whoever wins the first two [Subway] series.
JF Once again, since we reupped, it's a deal.
[They shake hands again.]
JF That will be a sad, sad day in the Ferrara household if I have to rock a Mets hat.

Perking Up

JF You know what makes me a little upset?
KD Taxation on the perks?
JF All these events for the Emmys and stuff where you go to a gift lounge. I'm not trying to sound like a selfish pig, but they're so geared toward women. It's makeup and lingerie and jewelry, and it's all great, but when are the dudes going to get something?
KD Some TaylorMade golf clubs.
JF Maybe some suits.
KD Plasma TVs! And now they're taxing these things too. You don't know what to do with the stuff. You never asked for it.
JF It's almost like it's drugs. Someone tries to hand me [something], I'm like, ''Noooo, stay back. I'm not getting taxed on your free eyeliner.''

Spitting It Out Is the New Hugging It Out

KD There's a lot of good Drama/Turtle stuff in [the June 24 episode]. I love getting in your face.
JF You were spitting on me!
KD I was like, ''I'm sorry, man. I'll try not to spit on you. And you were like, ''No, don't worry, man — it's great for the shot.'' So I gobbed on you for a couple more takes... One thing that's never easy is the mouthfuls of dialogue that you got to spit out. I mean, we do eight pages a day.
JF I can look through a script now and say, ''I think I know how you're going to play this.'' I'm not always right, because I expect you to do something and you do something completely different that blows my f---ing mind and makes me laugh. Those big four-page scenes where it's one shot — it's almost like a dance, we're bobbing in and out from the camera, we're picking up the pace on the dialogue. Those used to be tough —
KD We'd be like, ''Oh my God, we got all these pages of dialogue and we gotta get it in one shot! What if we don't get it?''
JF We've had shots with the sun going down where we have 15 minutes to get these three pages in one shot: ''Ready, action, go!''
KD But now we look at the lines and go, ''Ooh, we bang out these four pages, we'll be at Brookside Country Club in no time.''
JF Good plug, by the way.