Joe Lo Truglio Talks New Comedy Movie, Mets, Jets, Rams & More with Rich

Joe Lo Truglio has spent the last six months watching his own movie premiere at the worst possible moments for a sports fan, and he would not trade a second of it.

His new comedy, in theaters Friday, July 10, runs on a ridiculous premise. A man about to get married takes advantage of his celebrity hall pass, so his fiancee, played by Zoey Deutch, decides to use hers and goes to Hollywood looking for Jon Hamm. She accidentally walks off with a briefcase that belongs to mobsters. Lo Truglio plays one of those mobsters, alongside Mather Zickel, in a film written by Ken Marino and David Wain that reunites much of the old State and Wet Hot American Summer crew. Henry Winkler and Kevin Pollak turn up in cameos. "Please go in there knowing this is a ridiculous movie," Lo Truglio said. "Lean into it and you'll have a good time."

The premieres are where the story gets good. The film debuted at Sundance on January 25, the same window the Rams were playing the Seahawks. Lo Truglio stood in the back of the 1,200-seat Eccles Theater double-screening his own movie, watching Puka Nacua haul in a touchdown and nearly screaming and ruining the screening. They pulled him for the Q&A two minutes before the film ended, so he ran the whole thing not knowing the score. The result, he admitted, disappointed him greatly.

Then came June and the Tribeca Film Festival, premiering on Game 4 of the Knicks. He sat through the movie and the Q&A checking his phone, watching it slip away. By the time everyone reached the after-party it was halftime, and slowly the crowd drifted toward the one TV in the room. "The most momentous, joyous New York experience I've had in a very long time," he said, came on a tip-in. That kicked off a four-day bender of fandom: the Knicks on Wednesday, a Mets day game over the Cardinals on Thursday, a flight to Los Angeles to take his son to the United States and Paraguay World Cup match, and back home Saturday with his son to watch the Knicks close it out.

Lo Truglio also relived the time he and Rich shared a Mad Max moment in a Sprinter van convoy heading to Kauffman Stadium for the Big Slick charity weekend. A man on a chopper slapped the side of the van, then spent several miles in full road rage, filming them while he drove. David Koechner was ready to fight. Jake Tapper was in the vehicle. The weekend raised four million dollars for Children's Hospital, capped by Lo Truglio, Taran Killam, Will Forte, and Zach Levi singing "I Want It That Way" with Richard Kind bellowing the chorus as their elder statesman.

The most quotable thread, though, was football heartbreak as a recovery story. Lo Truglio has, in his words, divorced the Jets and adopted the Rams as his "football methadone." Rich, getting grief from his own Patriots-fan son Cooper for being a "passionate Rams fan," knew the feeling exactly. Two grown men, one ridiculous movie, and a whole lot of teams to apologize for.