MANHATTAN — Hudson Square's Children's Museum of the Arts is dedicated to fostering and displaying children's art, but comedians Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Jason Bateman and David Wain are the facility's new draw.
In "Serious Art-Making," the funnymen roughhouse in the museum's "ball pond," skip the line for the museum's slide, and tell young artists not to "show off" before asking them to share the secrets of their handiwork.
Standing at the new museum's "clay bar" with a piece of green clay dangling from his nose, Rudd asks a group of giggling kids if anyone has a tissue.
In one of the new studios at the museum, at 103 Charlton St., "Saturday Night Live" cast member Hader works with a group of kids to create a Claymation movie.
"This is exactly how we do SNL," he says.
And in a section of the museum that has a slide alongside a flight of stairs, the comedians horse around with each other and the young museumgoers.
"Join in on the fun," the video posted to the CMA's YouTube account Nov. 1 says at its end.
After operating on Lafayette Street since 1988, the museum tripled its size in its new Hudson Square location, which opened in early October.
