Brett Goldstein on Sesame Street Season 2 ‘Downsizing’

Brett Goldstein fondly recalls one day of his career.

The two-time Emmy winner appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers on the background of the issue abbreviation second season. During the conversation, he reflected on his time Sesame Street.

“It was the best day of my life,” he said Ted Lasso star said the host. “The problem is you have to get on with your life after that.”

Goldstein co-author abbreviation with Jason Segel and Bill Lawrence. The Series Apple TV+ follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) who, after the death of his wife, begins to break the rules and tell his clients what he’s really thinking. Harrison Ford, Jessica WilliamsKrista Miller, Ted McGinley, Michael Urie, Luke Tenney and Luketa Maxwell round out the cast.

The comedian brought his talents to the camera in the second season (spoiler alert!), in which he will play Louis, the drunk driver who killed Jimmy’s wife.

“I’m not funny about this,” Goldstein told Seth Meyers. “This is a very serious part.”

He recalled the day they shot his first scene with Siegel, in which Jimmy yells at Louis and “basically tells me to go away for a long time.”

“I didn’t know how Jason was going to be, so we were friends, but we were separate,” the actor explained. “We were doing a scene and he was screaming screaming screaming and it’s really dramatic, but he spit on me so much that between takes I stayed in it, but the people who were still working were like, ‘That’s (a lot of shit) spit . We need to fix that.”

Helping create scripts for abbreviationGoldstein drew inspiration from his father, who has Parkinson’s disease, for the character of Paul (Ford).

“It’s not something we were going to talk about publicly when we talked about the show,” he explained. “Then Bill Lawrence happened to say it and I called my dad and I said, ‘Listen, Dad, Bill said you have Parkinson’s, I hope that’s not the problem.’ And my dad said, “Are you telling everybody I’m Harrison Ford?” I said, “Yes.” And he said, “That’s damn cool.”

New series abbreviation watch on Apple TV+ every Wednesday until the second season finale on December 25.