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My worst moment: The ‘Simpsons’ joke Reid Scott blurted out in an audition that he worried ruined his career

Reid Scott attends Sony Pictures Classics& Cinema Society's "The Son" New York screening at Crosby Street Hotel on Oct. 24, 2022, in New York.

In the comedy “Who Invited Charlie?” which premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, Reid Scott plays a New York finance guy who decamps to the Hamptons with his wife and kid in the early days of the pandemic, only for his former college roommate — a wild card of a guy played by Adam Pally — to arrive unexpectedly and start stirring things up.

“It was written by one of my oldest friends and frequent collaborators Nick Schutt, and he wrote it during the early days of lockdown,” Scott said. “It reminded me of a few movies that I grew up on, including ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ and ‘Uncle Buck’ and ‘What About Bob?’ And once we got Adam Pally to sign on — who is another old buddy of mine, we’ve done a couple movies together — it really just crystallized.”

Scott might be best known for playing Dan Egan on “Veep” opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus. His other roles include everything

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