
Rob Corddry is one busy guy. He stars in the comedy series, “Ballers,’’ which is entering its second season on HBO, and he’s executive producing “Mr. Neighbor’s House,’’ a half-hour special on Adult Swim. We’ll also see him in the upcoming Paramount Pictures comedy “Office Christmas Party,’’ which hits theaters in December. Corddry recently took some time to chat with the Globe about his latest projects.
Q. Dwayne Johnson is your costar in “Ballers.’’ What’s it like working with “The Rock’’?
A. Well, that’s everybody’s first question, first of all. If it’s not, I’m like, I don’t know if you’re a terrible interviewer, or a really edgy one.
Working with The Rock is just as you would imagine working with The Rock would be. So you imagine like he’s as cool in person as the characters he plays, right?
Q. Yup.
A. Yeah, that’s about right. It all adds up. You can’t be that magnetic on screen and not have a magnetic personality in real life, you know? He’s not faking that.
Q. The season premiere of “Ballers’’ is July 17, and you play the role of Joe. Anything interesting happen in this new season?
A. It’s actually a really, really fun season. Our characters have been established so that heavy lifting is out of the way, so the writers were able to get right to the action. It’s a completely different arc this season. My character Joe . . . just thrives on excitement. He’s the id of the show.
Q. Tell us about “Mr. Neighbor’s House.’’ When is that going to air?
A. Not sure. We just finished shooting it this week. It’s a 30-minute special on Adult Swim. It’s basically like a really messed up kids show.
Q. You’re from Weymouth, right?
A. I’m from Weymouth, Massachusetts. I don’t know what they call it now. I think they call it The Dub.
Q. Not sure. I have cousins who live there. I’ll have to ask them.
A. Ask your cousin Sully, and the other Sully, and they’ll tell ya whether it’s The Dub or not.
Q. So you live in LA now. Is there anything you miss about Weymouth?
A. For sure. I got back about a month and a half ago, and I was there for a couple days and I got to see a lot of my friends who are still there. We all hung out, and it was a lot of fun. My mother was in town and she and I went to our favorite sub shop: That’s Italian Too in Weymouth.
That sub shop is what I miss the most about Weymouth. My friends I can text.
Q. What was the first concert you ever went to?
A. That’s a great question. [laughs] It’s slightly embarrassing. Actually it’s not, it’s pretty cool. It was actually the Monkees reunion tour. It was without Michael Nesmith, of course. It was awesome. A bunch of people opened up for them. Guys I had no idea who they were, like Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, and Herman’s Hermits. But it was great. It was at Sullivan Stadium, that’s where I saw most of my concerts.
But I think the best concert I saw, when I was a kid, was Madonna. She puts on a show, that lady!
Q. Was it “The Virgin Tour’’?
A. I have no idea. I don’t think so. I think it was after that.
Q. So you were a little bit older, then. You weren’t like, 8.
A. Bless you for thinking I was 8 when “Like a Virgin’’ came out. I was much older.
Q. My first concert was seeing the Beach Boys in 1986. Roy Orbison opened for them.
A. Cool! That’s a really good one. Where was it?
Q. At Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
A. Woohoohoo! That’s the real deal, right there. . . . Did Brian Wilson perform standing on sand?
Q. That’s a good question, I don’t really remember. I was 10.
A. Yeah, so that wouldn’t be a detail that you’d notice.
Who was drumming?
Q. I don’t know. But it was classic.
A. Good for you. It’s no Monkees, but . . . sure. [laughs]
Q. No, you beat me there, you totally beat me. So what’s on your bucket list? Is there anybody you’d like to work with?
A. That’s a hard question to answer, because there’s so many of them. Andy Garcia is in the new season of “Ballers.’’ . . . When you realize Andy Garcia is going to be in the whole season you’re like, oh my God, this is a dream come true, this is a dream I didn’t even know I had. So I guess those guys. . . . Ed Harris . . . all of them. I’d love to work with Christopher Walken just to hang with him. You know what I mean? Just to get some of that energy. I hear he’s the best guy in the world. That’s what attracts me to people as much as their acting. If I hear they’re cool when the cameras aren’t rolling, those are the guys I wanna work with. But there’s no one specific.
Q. When can we expect to see another sequel to “Hot Tub Time Machine’’?
A. Somewhere between never . . . and don’t bet on it.



