Psych set visit, part four: Spotlight on Tim Omundson

(Don’t forget, the summer finale airs tonight, Wednesday, Sept 8 at 10/9c on USA) 

Moderator:      Okay, Tim is up next.

Tim:                 Hi, everybody.

Panel:              Hi.

Tim: I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve called you all here. There’s been some — well, it’s a downward economic turn, and I’m afraid we’ll have to let you all go. Kidding. I can’t fire any of you.

Panel:              So does that mean the rumours are true? You’re really playing Donald Trump in the Donald Trump movie?

Tim: You’re a nut. You’re just — you’re a wacky guy.

Okay, so I’ve become one of those freak actors that carries his — takes his dog everywhere. [Indiscernible].

Panel:              Usually, they’re smaller.

Tim:                 This is Bobo. Say hello, Bobo. Bobo’s good. That’s sweet. I was just working with Shawn McBride, God bless his heart. He’s one of the tallest men I’ve ever worked with. His dog is this big. He’s got the sweetest—

Panel:              Chihuahua?

Tim:                 No, he’s a little sort of Yorkie, miniature Yorkie thing. And to see that man—he lives in my neighborhood — walking that dog, that is some comedy.

Panel:              That’s awesome.

Tim:                 So what would you like to know?

Panel:              I hear that you’re the first person on set to break character, who makes it hard to keep a straight face.

Tim:                 First of all, that’s a fucking lie. There’s no children in the room, right?

Panel:              No, just reporters. Lots of reporters.

Tim:                 I wish it were true. [Indiscernible]. It is absolutely true. What was the second part of the question?

Panel:              Who makes it the hardest to keep a straight face?

Tim:     James, normally. I mean, Dule knocks me out, but I just find him so funny, and our — we have the same twisted sense of humor, which you wouldn’t necessarily get from last year. But me, he just cracks me up. I just find him hilarious. Dule, not so much. [I’m kidding].

Panel:              And here’s another one. Now that you’ve danced on Psych, can we expect to see you on Dancing With the Stars one season?

Tim:                 Okay, now here’s the deal. I really cannot dance to anything written after 1960. So you give me a meringue, you give me a nice waltz or a box step, I will tear that shit up, because I came from a large Irish-Norwegian-Slovak family. But all the Slovaks are still pretty much in [indiscernible] Washington, so I’ve been going to these family reunions since I was four, and I think I learned how to polka when I was four and a half. It’s all pretty much — all dance is based on the polka. There’s very small variations, but I don’t know. Dancing With the Stars hasn’t called yet.

Panel:              [We would just] like to see more of the list of people that piss you off in the  next part of the season.

Tim:                 How can they not? I mean that — you — that is going to be comedic gold. That’s certainly got to be a go-to list. It’s just always on my desk.

Panel:              Are you putting actual names on there, or is someone—

Tim:                 There were a lot of actual names on there. Yeah, if you — and I’m sure it’s — you know, the lawyers at NBC are going to go, “He what?” I see — a friend of mine is an NBC lawyer, and we were talking about, “Hey, remember when I used to blog on this show, back in the day?”

Now I’m Twitter feeding. You know, nobody blogs anymore, man. It’s all about Twitter. But I was blogging for a while as Lassiter, and I would put names of friends in there, and characters that Lassiter interacts with. She was like, “Ha-ha. That’s really funny. You’re getting that cleared, right? You can’t keep doing that. Clear it.”

Panel:              Maggie commented on the relationship between Lassiter and—

Tim:                 First of all, Maggie’s a liar, whatever she says.

Panel:              She said you were awesome. But she made a comment about when she — at the end of last season, when Juliet has her breakdown, that she was really happy that Lassiter was the one that was there for her, and not Shawn. And the comment I wrote down was that the characters had earned this.

Tim:                 And we — that’s a phrase we used while shooting that. Like, because [you could have got Shawn]. That would have been really easy. But for — the hard thing is for that asshole from season one, Lassiter, to be the guy who comes in and sort of takes care of her. That was real — that was one of the most satisfying moments to get to play.

Anyway, that was a really—that was a, you know, a beautiful day at work. And the song that played over that montage was a beautiful song.

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