Paul Rudd has spent decades playing the charming nice guy, but during a recent podcast appearance, he leaned fully into a long-running joke that flips that wholesome image on its head.
The actor stopped by Rick Glassman’s Take Your Shoes Off podcast on January 8, where the two revived an ongoing comedy bit centered on Rudd’s supposedly enormous anatomy.
The gag isn’t new. It traces back to Rudd’s earlier appearance on the show in July, when a fake accident involving a spilled cup of coffee sent the actor into a mock medical spiral. That segment featured exaggerated chaos, blurred visuals, and an intentionally over-the-top tone.
When Rudd returned months later, Glassman picked the joke right back up—this time zeroing in on what he claimed was impossible not to notice.
“You have a huge penis,” Glassman told Rudd during the episode. “You do—you have a huge penis.”
Glassman joked that while certain things had to be censored for obvious reasons, leaving Rudd’s body unblurred might actually work in the show’s favor. “If showing the poop takes you down two points,” he explained, “showing the penis raises you four.”
Rudd, never breaking character, played along. “So basically, two steps back, four steps forward,” he replied, pretending to be unaware of what had supposedly been revealed. “I didn’t realize that you even saw my penis.”
The exchange quickly turned into a layered bit about privacy, fame, and Rudd’s carefully maintained public image. “I’m a fairly private person,” he said, adding that he’s never actually appeared nude in a film. “I don’t wanna just be wagging my d**k all over the place.”
For longtime fans, the joke feels familiar. Rudd memorably leaned into a similar exaggerated masculinity in 2012’s Wanderlust, where his character, George Gergenblatt, delivers a famously unhinged mirror monologue.
In that scene, he hypes himself up with lines like, “This was your idea, George. It’s a good idea, right?” before spiraling into absurd bravado that became one of the film’s most quoted moments.
The podcast moment felt like a modern extension of that same energy—self-aware, ridiculous, and intentionally committed. Online, fans praised both Rudd and Glassman for sticking with the bit. “The commitment to this is insane,” one viewer commented, while another wrote, “Rudd is such a good sport.”