In a recent appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, comedian Bill Hader recalled a hilarious story from his days working on South Park when Van Halen singer David Lee Roth pitched a movie — starring himself — to the show’s creative team.

“When I worked at South Park, he pitched a movie to us where he was an assassin: ‘It’s about a guy trying to get his dog back,'” Hader told Conan and his co-hosts, impersonating Roth. Hader and the South Park crew had to remind Dlr: “Yeah, they made this movie John Wick that’s kinda similar.”

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Roth’s response was gold, as impersonated by Hader: “‘Nah, but the guy has a dog?! Whaddaya mean he has a dog?'”

As Hader recalled, South Park co-creator Trey Parker then threw Dlr an alternate pitch: The movie would instead star Roth as himself basically,...