Jonah Hill announces return to spotlight after being 'not happy'

Jonah Hill, whose most recent major movies were the likes of 2021's Don't Look Up and You People two years later, is ready to step back into the limelight, feeling like he's in a better place.

Speaking during a live recording of the SmartLess podcast over the weekend, he said, "I’ve been gone for a while, so I’m kind of coming back and I’m like excited because I got all, like, serious for a while and I wasn’t as happy.”

“And then I had my family and I got happy, and now all I want to do is be funny again. That’s why I said yes [to being on SmartLess],” Jonah further said, adding, "I’m, like, I want to go f****** be funny in front of a crowd and that’d be awesome.”

Jonah, whose breakout roles in the mid-to-late 2000s came in the likes of Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is a father to a three-year-old son and a baby girl with his wife Olivia Millar, and he credited them with helping him become happy again.

He explained, "If you’re bummed, you don’t feel like being that funny, right? The first thing I thought about when I had my kids and was so stoked, it was like I connected to back when I was just like 12 and I was just being funny for fun.”

“That’s the thing I fell in love with my whole life,” the TV star insisted.

Jonah noted that his whole job is to be a "comedy writer", having fallen in love with the artform by watching The Simpsons.

“If someone shook me in the middle of the night and asked, ‘What do you do?’ I would say, ‘I’m a comedy writer,’” he said.

Jonah continued, "That’s what I do. I write jokes every day. I go and write scripts. You don’t know this because you just see the front side of it.”

"But most of my job is writing comedy movies. That’s mostly what I do,” he mentioned.

Jonah has returned to the limelight with dark comedy movie Outcome on Apple TV+, which he directed, co-wrote and starred in, while he will also appear in upcoming film Cut Off.

"I’m about to go on a run of just the dumbest s*** you’ve ever seen in your entire life. I hope you left your brains at home. It’s called Cut Off and Kristen Wig and I played two dumba** heirs, rich kids in their mid-40s who get cut off by their rich parents, played by Bette Midler and Nathan Lane. It is like Step Brothers, Clueless and Trading Places. It’s so great. Kristen Wig is an American treasure,” he teased revealing his upcoming comeback projects.