Emma Stone Wrote a Lost Episode of Mad About You in Middle School

You mentioned that you'd never played tennis before. Obviously, you're playing a woman who not only played, but we know from your experience in the US Open, will tell you what she thinks about your playing. Exactly. So and I heard that you actually developed, because you didn't have to learn how to play tennis. You had to learn how to play old tennis. Like Billie Jean, exactly. Wooden racket, 70s tennis. Which one time, I was actually at a public court learning with a trainer, and these guys were next to us. And they were like, oh, tight. Wooden rackets, that's pretty cool. And I was like, I'm not being a hipster. I'm just learning this form of tennis for work. But all right. I guess people do play wooden racket tennis, probably. Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of dickheads in New York that are like, I'm going to play with my old Jimmy Connors racket. I would imagine it's hard, and you're starting from a place where you, I mean, maybe it was easier for you, because you didn't have to unlearn modern tennis. No, exactly. And it was kind of fun, because at the end of my lessons, once I got a little, and once I started understanding a little bit more, I would get to play for five minutes with a modern day racket and a different grip. And I was like, I can really hit. Whoa. But before that, it was just my trainer was having to come up with choreography names to teach me. So it was like, you know, there's a shot that's like this, and that was called the ole. And then a volley was, serve the pizza. Serve the pizza. And he would just shout at me from across the court, serve the pizza, run, ole. And I was like, it was really. This is. I just wanted to do her proud. You just wanted to do her proud. She seemed very proud of you yesterday. So I think the mission accomplished. I also had an amazing double, so thanks for giving that to me. Well, let's do that fully, and give credit where credit's due. This is your second movie with Steve. Yes. But this movie is your third movie. This is my third movie with Fred Armisen. Fred Armisen. True. Three movies with Fred. Three movies. What were your, what were your other, what were your other movies with Fred? Fred, what were our other movies? It was The Rocker, right? Easy A. And this one. Wow, that's great. Three with Fred. We've known each other for so long, Fred. We're like a movie duo. I guess you could say it's our 10-year friend-iversity. Yeah, that's really great. Did you get us anything? Three, I Got You Fred's Ninjago characters. Yes! That's what I was hoping for. That's cool. I'm going to bring it to the rice paddy. Great, thank you. I want to ask you about this, because you have obviously been doing this a long time. Known Fred for 10 years. 10 years. That speaks to your time in the business. Is it true that you, at one point, tried writing a script, like a television script? I don't understand how you guys found out this information. We found out. So I know it's true. So now I'm basically giving you an opportunity to either admit it or lie to me. It's true. I was homeschooled in middle school. And I got to take a kind of a screenwriting English class. And so I wrote an episode, a lost episode, of Mad About You as a spec script, where Paul Reiser meets Paul McCartney. And I believe it was called The Tale of Two Pauls. Wow. So I did not remember Mad About You being a show the middle schoolers were super into. I was so into Mad About You. That's so great. You were just a middle schooler who was like, I mean, if I could write for anyone to be Paul Reiser, His delivery is fantastic. I was like, I know he'll nail this. I think I'm if we ever get both Pauls in town, I'd love to do a reading of it. All right. That sounds great. But I don't know how to find it. That's crazy. I lost it, I guess. So weird. Check under your Spelling Bee trophy. I think it's probably there. I just folded it up, and those are what I keep. My spec script, my trophy. Oh, thanks so much for being here, Emma. It's such a delight to see you, as always. Emma Stone!