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so David where are you going on tour let us know I'm still doing the catch me inside tour it's been a blast um I have
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Spokane coming up on the 16th great town that's great I got Palm Desert we got a
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lot Tyson's Virginia Richmond Charlotte North Carolina New Orleans uh is it New Orleans New Orleans n nans down there n it just n nins at the Orum uh
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Orlando Clearwater Vegas with Nikki Glazer Lots coming up just go to Davids spade.com and get those and thanks Dana
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I'm glad that you're interested in that I would check him out he's one of the funniest standups out there right now
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it's a great show cheap tickets cheap cheep rack Rack them hello Dana we'd like to tell everyone we are starting with Mikey day
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today who is a present cast member 10year vet we got to know him very well I might have to say I don't think we've ever had a a sweeter or nicer person on
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the podcast we've had many we've had many sweet and nice ones but he was uh incredibly uh generous and curious about
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our careers which was flattering but also uh very self-deprecating and he we go over his his tenure on SNL and he's he's on there now and he's he's got some
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amazing what with the pumpkin sketch what's it called David S pumpkins sorry David S pumpkins he wrote co-wrote a lot
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of um great sketches on that show we broke down a few sketches but mostly talk about the overall feel there that
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this one was very SNL and then uh his co-stars um we talked about us a little bit which is normal unfortunately we kept bringing
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you know you throw aing and it comes back to he he was curious about us cuz he's maybe in the age group when he was
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like a very small little boy I was on the a baby in a crib watching us he's he's the old warhorse series the grizzled vet he looks he looks pretty
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good looks pretty fresh for being a grizzled vet but uh I hope everyone enjoys it we had a great time with them here he is Mikey [Music]
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day oh my God I'm so sorry sorry this we've had this so many times the worst was Martin I know but not it's happening I'm like I'm
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seeing my heroes on screen and then I'm hearing you guys do Lauren and I'm like I want to participate in this bit and I
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can't I can't get out well what uh where are where are you are you at I'm in New York okay I'm doing this I was in this very small role
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in this Jerry Seinfeld movie in Netflix poptarts they're doing like a promotion yeah yeah yeah they're doing a
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promotional day and it's so funny because it's the only day I've had something and because I it's our twoe Hiatus so I've just been at home yeah
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and then of course the one day that I have this that I've been looking forward to and I like went through all my stuff
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in my home computer to make sure that I'd be good and then the internet was failing and I was like oh God I see them
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happens to almost every person we do it so don't worry we don't need need another hero that's very nice can I ask
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you a question uh poptart like if Jerry did that Jerry Seinfeld did I ever do Jerry Seinfeld's new album he's coming out vinyl go ahead
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it's a vinyl album comedy album Jerry Seinfeld and all is a picture of Jerry and it says paper clips
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why sorry paperclips dot dot dot why but but the the thing is Jerry as you know is uh a technician like he worked on his Pop-Tart bit for like years right and
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couldn't quite find the language I felt like I found almost like an Easter egg of a fatal flaw in the bit and this this
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is what it was only about the standup not the movie that's why I'll be curious if he does the theme the idea was when
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Pop-Tarts came it blew the right out of my head like the kids went just crazy the Fatal flaw cuz I'm in the same age group mhm they weren't very good what
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who poput the [ __ ] up no that was a lot of you put them in the toaster very little Jam or good stuff and that was
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the Fatal flaw he was playing it like the kids were blown away but no compared to a Twinkie or host's
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cupcake um let's go to the phones Jerry's on line one right now I disagree um that's so funny yeah hot take I used to eat them plain really but compared to
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like a Hostess pie you know with the crust around it like those yeah when I was a kid those those were great I feel like they're a lot now but I would as a kid would 100% go for Hostess or a
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Twinkie over a Pop-Tart yeah yeah Pop-Tarts was that's that's fine we had him but I I'd be curious because Jerry
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the technician he would have some answer for that well in the Pop-Tart movie when is it coming out let's just promote that
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let's yeah why not just count it as CR it's in May I'm not here to promote that that's fine throw it in the mix I don't want you guys to feel like oh God he's got to promote his thing but it comes
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out in May I just found that all no we're what we do on this show is we like to uh we vet and we we shine a light on
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SNL cast members such as yourself uh because it because it's kind of fun because we've been in the malstrom we've been in in the war room we know everything about it and you do too so
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David do you have a question for Mikey yeah do you know this sign felt bit I was out I was out the other night eating
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at a Chinese restaurant and and we were laughing it was all Comedians and we were laughing at uh when he he he he
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says Chopsticks they've seen the fork and they're still what they've seen the fork and they're still sticking just out of spite they're still chicken sticking the Chopsticks it's very funny
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Dana he's fantastic Jerry will bludgeon and in a good way he will hit like he'll
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go to the grocery store and just go around the store and have these amazing observations and over time you just
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you're just my favorite of his was so they the couo they can't get them out of the forest and they wake up and they're hanging from the helicopter what are they thinking I guess I can fly
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now I'm doing I'm doing Ed win as a substitute it turned God and you guys know who Ed win is oh I'm thinking of Paul Lynn who did Ed win Ed wiim was like from the 1940s
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he was kind of chubby has had a little hat on he go whoopy dooo whoopy Doo okay yes yes yes I did I get it hey Mikey have you heard that when Paul Lynn came
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into a party in the 70s he goes uh uh smells like [ __ ] in here I think that's true that happened Fant I think my friend was there wait did he do
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the Matt Hatter Edwin or even yes even I think Adam Sandler had a little audio influence oh yeah yeah in the
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same 100% I can't I am fascinated first of all I love you both obviously I'm going to be gross I saw we'll take it thank you let
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me I saw clean slate in the movie theater Dana [ __ ] 94 by myself and saw no I I remember enjoying it and black sheep in the movie theater
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I mean Tomy boy obviously no one was there by myself Black Sheep was great black sheep yeah I'll tell you about Clean Slate I didn't really know what I was doing but anyway
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uh in those days you'd have dailies so there's like 10 minutes of the movie and so I'm in a theater kind of by myself I
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think and I'm watching the dailies and I go oh it's terrible how many weeks do I have left seven more weeks it's IR retrievable uh
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oh but everyone's got a dog in their house come on man um but uh that's very flattering you know when we did a we were talking about you a while back and for some reason I had a mental Hiccup
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and I kept calling you Mikey day the podcast it was in Mickey I was calling you Mickey I was calling you Mikey instead of Mickey no it's actually Mikey no I remember yeah sorry about
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that it's because I worked with Mickey Rooney I worked with Mickey Rooney and that's what got in my head but so you
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were Michael and how did you become Mikey is that I know I use the it's a big jump the CH I Devin Walker on the
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show was like and are you sticking with Mikey into your adult life this is you're not gonna change it I was I mean I was always Michael and then in college
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people just started calling me Mikey and it just kind of stuck but I think I remember my first year here the first
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pitch meeting Lauren kind of going Mike like is this grown man going by Mikey is this what we're doing here do I need to call this grown man Mikey but
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yeah have you thought about Big Mike have you thought about Big Mike does everyone do come on yeah of course
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oh yeah yeah yeah yeah oh you have a little breath coming you have a breath that's a new thing let's see how you
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go well look a little like Ed Sullivan I'm sorry to go back to the 70s I mean I'm not yeah you hear like Bill haters and stuff they're like okay was that
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little quiet one is so hilarious it was me Jeff dmer um a celebrity we always like doing
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Lauren the bit of him being excited about stuff because he's so even keeled just him being oh my god did you oh my god did you hear like it's just funny
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imagining oh [ __ ] is coming up everyone places yeah just about stupid nerdy stuff oh my god did you see the trailer for Deadpool 3
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oh Deadpool 3 did you ever go to a Yankees game with him oh yeah once the Yankees games with Lauren are the best because it was like uh it'll be you
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Lauren and Senator Chris do and you're like what yes the very cool dude but it's you never know who's I had uh if you remember I think he passed away uh we're going in Paul um and Lou Lou May
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Lou Mau the French director is coming with this you know like like okay he's never seen baseball but but it's a grand slam it's like that thing of like the
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crowd's really going nuts uh I would you like another beer uh we better than a home run
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because the bases of course are loaded yeah well it's the fourth inning should we
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leave and it's like should we take off should we go I was there once and it there was a rain delay so we were in like the restaurant area near the those
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seats but like it was so crowded because everyone was in there and there's nowhere to sit and it was weird just
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being like I'm with Lauren and he has nowhere to sit we need to fix it do something yeah and so these we were just
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sitting at this like large circular table with these very like Yankees fans dudes it was very surreal but it was like two hours and then they finally just canceled the game Lauren's like I
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see one bar stool I'll catch up with you guys later Deuces um just drinks up at the bar slamming shots Lauren Lauren I I I don't know how you guys did the
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show before like cell phones and text messages because the amount of information that you're const especially on Saturday did you just call each
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other's dressing rooms I guess go yeah and just visit people I guess I guess you need did you just talk to people I know yeah we did I mean we do that but like throughout the week like talking to
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props and stuff like we need this and just the constant communication I'll say the worst part Mikey uh
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was for the for those of you at home the show is on the eighth floor and not only
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are the offices on 17 but you still have to cross elevators I think so you have to go take two different elevators to get back to your office and it was all day going back and forth because you
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couldn't text you couldn't if you call someone they're never in their dressing room so you have to go look for people
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if you could text them got the layer of stress of just anything in Marcy Klein running around looking for nor McDonald or something it's just all crazy so I wish I had that we didn't have computers
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laptops to write our sketches so we had to drive them in from home hand them in on paper I would write them long long
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hand and hand them in yeah you hand them in long hand and then they write theye there was like a big stack or
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something because I I think I heard Mike Myers talking about writing up Wayne's World and he said there was like a big
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bin or something of scripts and he would just he like put it into the yeah which
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is crazy put it in the stack and then they would take it like Mad Men type it one at a time I think we were using
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hieroglyphics hey yeah and so we just did that and then you'd get your sketch and you'd get
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it before read through and you'd be like oh my God there's Miss spelling or they put the host name wrong or they put the
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wrong and you're like it's too late we're in that's insane yeah now you just drop it in the file and onto the server it's all on the computer that's wild
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files and attachments are too much for me I we had a bulletin board look at the difference here we had a small bulletin
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board with letters of the week like maybe 10 letters that you could get feedback from the audience compared to
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what you guys have now inant social media people going I hate you there were some oh you should do this and that but it's was like 10 letters that was it a week that we just saw on a board that was the only
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feedback that guy likes me in Indiana that's insane that's [Music] one what was just cuz people going to want to know what was your journey how
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how much you want to share you're like you were a Theater Arts guy in high school college yeah and then went to UCLA and
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studied oh oh did you have a dream did you have a dream of how that would go and was SNL part of it or you just like want to be in Show Business and want to make a living doing this or both I mean
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SNL was always kind of at the at the top I would say um but it just felt so far away and unattainable and then I started taking classes at the Groundlings and there's
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so many pictures of there there of people on SNL and so it felt a little more attainable but it still felt far away and the odds would be impossible and
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then I KN I went to college with Nim Pedrad and Taran kilum who were on the cast definitely and then they brought me in as a writer suddenly Mikey doesn't sound so
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crazy exactly Mike sounds Nickelodeon it sounds like a Nickelodeon show theim Taran and Mikey um hey everybody it's Mikey
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hey it does feel very Nickelodeon whoa on an all new Mikey um but they brought me in as a writer and then wrote for three were you allowed to ripe yourself
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pardon were you allowed to write for yourself no I was just a writer at the time isn't that isn't that horrifying we weren't weren't you didn't you start as a writer yeah I didn't it was a writer
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performer which is worse it was like pretending I could write for myself but I you're like a writer and performer
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yeah but no one's writing anything for me and so I have to write and I wee myself in two lines and they're like what are you doing I'm like no I'm just
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I'm the teenager so they're like no Mike Myers can put a baseball cap on I'm like you're like [ __ ] uh okay I would go I
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would go around Sandler and Spade would be in an office and I go guys guys come on anything this week come on exactly
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you would what do you got for me guys what do you got for me I'll just go around to the offices going I can play
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kids yeah ex exactly no you can't um yeah can you do a Russian accent everything was like can they just Pok their head in some good writer and be like can you sing and I'm like sort
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of no take too long you can't I'm like God damn it they're like can you do a whatever impression yeah yeah how how
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are you with a pogo stick I got that one yeah yeah I can do it I can do it absolutely can you do it at the table
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would you guys ever do commit at the table to certain bits or would you always remain seated no we give it everything stand up I've stood up I remember if you if you stand up it's
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kind of like okay it's a little bit of a swing it's on you better [ __ ] nail it
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you ever go to the piano and sing people would walk over to the piano and I'm like Oh my Cheryl would play I'm like
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you better this better be a home run yeah yeah you're like o it's mid second half I don't know a piano bit second half of bre through oh my God it's hour
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four yeah we call it like Dead Man's Curve like second half you light up on those last two you're like coming to a close that area would just sit and watch
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us okay moving toward the ivories in the fourth hour of this Extravaganza okay okay my Dennis Miller is Dana doing Dennis Miller I have a new a new Dennis
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Miller that was that Dennis Dennis now is sort of softspoken and okay I got a couple Shekel in my pocket nothing you
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want to go back there and visit the old team out in New York City it's great carf it's not something I'm really up
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for right now okay spudly you see what I sold my house for you might want to [ __ ] Google it as a
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kid quoting you guys was like the cool thing to do on the playground yeah and now my son quotes like weird gen Alpha
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memes and stuff that make no sense I feel like for adults when we would quote SNL like adults would watch SNL so you had some context you understood stuff
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but now like I have no idea what comes out of my son's mouth sometimes how old is he he's 11 and he just comes home singing like you're my Phantom TX you're
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so skiy I'm like what is this at least I can quote by-bye and you understand yeah
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yeah bubye was Helen Hunt the first bye-bye yeah there's only two yeah there's only H only two and it blew up like crazy and the second one didn't even matter it was Steve Martin but we
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kind of [ __ ] it up but uh I heard you tried one where you said hello as the as they're coming on the plane hello hello
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no that's John Lovitz helloo and goodbye you do yeah no we did it once and then it was on American Airlines
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they would play it for the flight attend saying this is our reputation we have to fix this so every flight attendant when
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I take a flight for 10 years it be like thank you thank you I'm like you're still saying [ __ ] you so it's all bad
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are we a bubye company no no no no no when you leave Burger King now on the on the door it taped it said bye-bye and I'm like no bye-bye now did you you what
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do you guys say I wrote that with Fred Wolf yeah oh I wrote that with Freddy wolf Fred Wolf's great writer that was
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on there were you like out of town and you were it on the plane like no it was his idea and he came to me and I'm like
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oh this is just a joke machine you just put every every member comes through screen time it gets a little H
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it gets a little more heated as you go and Helen Hunt looks perfectly innocent perfect one to do it yeah buby do do you
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feel I have a question Charlie sorry sorry my face here um Charlie finam was on the his his name is right in front of my face I'm not crazy he's just on one of our producer how was the interview
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Dana called me Charlie the whole time but I didn't correct but it is on the screen I'm just curious that you now
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you're there and I was looking at the new cast and just this whole thing that I didn't have that much the new guys
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came in then I left but this turnover you're writing these multiple Generations the Kate McKinnon people and terum and now you have I looked at you
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know Chloe fan you have I don't know AO with him I'm trying to get all the names
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Andrew pun I mean how do you are you are you like sort of taking people on your wing a little bit do you know I mean
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you're like you kind of know the system you're a 10year lifer right BR as a quarterback you know the system I know how it operates but so
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when people come in and they watch you and you're in so many things and we'll get to your Superstar
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sketches um that you do they they ask you stuff you you feel you can help them out or what's that like with new new fresh recruits coming off the uh do you box them out do you ice them do you get
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in their heads they look like the aliens you know they look like Amelia airheart coming off the mother ship and close
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counters de in the headlights back I would like Joe hazm like first table but I mean it's I feel like it's definitely very friendly I've definitely
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heard stories about kind of the show in past years it sounds kind of intense and
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the competition maybe those stories are like blown out of proportion as the years go on but I feel like if it's very friendly and everyone's you Mikey it's
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like the bachelor where they're all friendly at the beginning and then it gets down like and then it starts time
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and you're like wait you're still here and it's either you or them yeah and it's just the bachel are always friendly
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until toward the end then they're like can can I pull you aside he's been really saying shitty things about you
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and they're like what and like no I'm just saying I just feel like you should know well the fre the freude of somebody
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getting loose like going out and making a hit movie or you know then then the kind of the apple cart is sort of rocked
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a little bit Mike and I with the freak itude of Wayne's World at at a certain point they would bring in giant like
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stuff you'd put laundry in with fan mail you know that I can't imagine being on the show and a couple cast members were in a
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movie that was not only successful but waynew was like an insane insane cultural Touchstone and
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you guys were still on the show yeah yeah they were bigger than the host sometimes yeah it would be like when
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would you decide to do Wayne's World I remember as a kid like they would air it on Comedy Central they would air one
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hour reruns mhm and taping it and waiting for the little Aurora Illinois a little access graphic um and that's how I was kind of
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introduced to that era of SNL I remember when I was little little my dad showed me some rerun of cone heads like of SNL
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it was cone heads on Family Feud I'd never seen the show Family Feud is a [ __ ]
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great like name something you bite into and Dan Aid's like a trapes I was like what is this I love it name something you eat with eggs fiberglass yes and Bill Murray
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is so grow so like so smart but those sketches were long back in the day I was like this is 11 minutes right they'd go to a commercial and come back to the end of the Family
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Feud sketch yeah you're like 11 minutes yeah you know what uh I just saw your uh there was a couple funny ones we're jumping around but
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uh the one oh when you were in the car recently with qu I think traffic altercation one
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yeah right yeah that was one of those sketches that you look at and you go oh man what what a brilliant notion tight very well done did you write or co-write
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that or has an ending yeah I done it at um a very loose version at Groundlings and the Sunday company a while ago live with um Kevin
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burnson and was like I wonder if you can adapt this I mean I had to change it a lot for the TV cameras yeah yeah it it was cool that they were able to figure it out though it's funny they they all
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whenever there's cars and sketches they bring in these massive black sedans and so we both you can't really see in the sketch but we're both driving I think
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identical m massive black sedan like generic huge TV car hacker from the 50s just gross inside I did like at the end they pull away and then you can see for one second the green screen and how you
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got because I'm like I didn't see the camera at the beginning but then you and then I thought it was a pre-tape because they were showing you from down here and
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her closeup and then when they pull away I go oh it is live cuz I I remember Lauren used to say they always would
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rather have it live if they could and so and that was a great one I mean it's cool when you can try to play with the I guess parameters of live stuff like I
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write with Streeter sidel and Streeter sidel and I write all the time together we're always trying to think like what's
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something kind of different we could do to play with the medium because it's cool if you can
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score uh with a Live sketch because the pre-tapes you just have more time and you can kind of play with it a lot more and I think people are more used to seeing film stuff you know online but to
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have something that works live and kind of resonates with people is a lot of fun
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soor just live that something can go wrong even in a great sketch it just gets tilted there miscue and it can
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unravel even a great sketch so for this one it seemed like your air you landed it probably the best of the week that yeah I mean it really landed it felt great yeah it definitely um Colin Jo
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because there's a moment when Chloe who plays my daughter Khloe fean she is miming like you suck and she's um using funny she uses both her hands and then
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Colin Jo in the hallway came up and pitched the joke he's he was like you should say I don't
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love that you use two hands which was one of the funniest lines in big laugh her doing that was funny you saying that was funny call calling her a [ __ ] and pointing at her was funny and then you
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did it was hilarious Quint Brunson was perfect in it as well yeah she did a great job she
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was great because at the table I was like there's a lot of gesturing and I kind of gave her an example but you can't really script out you know like
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move your left hand so she kind of was on her own at the table to kind of sell it and figure it out and she was great
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right she totally got it and when you're watching cards you don't know like if you're watching cards you're like oh wait this is the one where I have to go my left hand and I have to stay in frame
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and I have to say this do and then you're like now the next one oh wait eating is this oh yeah I point back you
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know that that in my you could just people see people thinking because it looked hard in my head going [ __ ] if I
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was there the cards have to be perfect you have to either write on the remember do this or you know you have no notes
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you're just like okay we've rehearsed it probably twice this week that's it let's go yeah yeah I remember during the
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blocking of it there was an issue with the um window and the reflection and you could like see the camera and the red light and I was like oh we're going to get screwed because of a stupid
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reflection because I've had sketches go to dress and there's like some sort of reflective surface and you just see the
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red light and the flipping of cards the whole time and you're like no you just they're going to cut it yes you don't you can just hear what's going on under the bleachers with Lauren
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and the writers you're like the [ __ ] is happening torn to shreds um but it worked out in the end which was awesome and that's kind of the thrill of it when you're doing something kind of different
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and I I would say just for for for myself is sketch like that like you guys are both doing this physical comedy the
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argument is escalating between the drivers and then we get to in real time see what what you do how you're going to
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mime out your insult and so even people in a bar and it's kind of loud would probably watch it and laugh so you got
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things going on figure it out all the time and then it escalates into sexual things and had of really as they all do
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yeah why not why not guilty is charged nauy bulous Parts throbbing in but uh this other one that got called out recently by our friend Ben Stiller
00:31:28
is another uh amazing sketch the Home Movies sketch I know I don't yeah's that was written by Dan bua and stepen Caso bu bu
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bu love them they gave me a great part it was like a little present they're like here you go can you do this it was
00:31:48
so much so much fun and then Ben Stiller such a kind wonderful man tweeted that he is a very sweet person like you didn't have to do that man and you gave me swag for a week it's so
00:32:02
funny at that show you're like I'm feeling good and then you'll have like a bad sketch bomb at table read and you'll
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be like I suck I'm the worst what am I doing here the next week Ben goes I saw the worst sketch ever on SNL this week yeah it was the same guy get that guy
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off the gas isn't it bizarre it's the same guy let's check it out what happened least valuable player
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[Music] I'm going to start tweeting compliments at as Outcast members I just hit me how
00:32:36
lonely it is on that show sometimes you know one week you're like I I got one or two three things at work and then next
00:32:44
weeks it's it's strange it's kind of the best I guess best and worst part because
00:32:50
you even if you have a bad week you're like all right there's always next week and it literally starts all over again
00:32:56
and you can turn it around what did you what did you think that so that they it's been Biden's been passed around for
00:33:02
a decade now nobody Woody harelson everybody Matthew MCC everyone's everyone's doing Biden he's a puzzle he's a puzzle he's
00:33:14
difficult he's not you know Trump obviously easy uh just a Madman doing things we're g i mean so many Hooks and James is still teasing out hooks oh yeah we love it we
00:33:31
love so funny and then Biden is in this frequency that's very difficult you know
00:33:37
energy-wise because you can't yell like I could kind of with Ross Pro I could be
00:33:43
you know can I finish physical and loud you I just want to quote all of your guys old stuff finish I like that I'm enjoying this podcast quite a bit because this
00:33:55
this notion that you right now are having somebody who's watching SNL for the first time and go do you see that guy that traffic sketch that guy did didn't even know your name that that
00:34:08
funny guy yeah that traffic thing was funny is Biden's kind of we'll see but I like that traffic one well but no one no one is really kicked solv Biden in in
00:34:20
studio in ad which I think is a rock and roll room it does uh it can be quiet it
00:34:27
can but generally speaking if you have energy at home base it it's helpful you know first out there and he whispers but yeah because he's in this I mean back in
00:34:40
the day when he was doing you know the running with Obama sudas played him it was so funny he's like Biden time because he was like I'm gonna get on a train and just yeah saying Maly and like
00:34:52
old school Biden was very like I I've had enough of your [ __ ] I'm gonna you out he was very thater yeah now he's this kind of older man and
00:35:06
so you don't want to go out there and be like lose your train of thought because it's kind of sad you know what I mean
00:35:12
well that's thing yeah yeah when he loses his train of thought it's because you know he's you know an older dude it's like he got hit with a dart gun in the neck right before the speech then
00:35:24
he's like say hey yeah he's he's unplugged his batteries are going I mean the only thing I could do is just try to make it silly you know so
00:35:37
I have that Hunter Biden is the only one who can really understand him hey how you do how you doing Dad yeah going no I already ate but maybe tomorrow night
00:35:49
okay say yeah I lasagna so it's like not going to do it it's like it's like not got to do it I mean you got just go just make up what Biden might be and that just right and
00:36:02
then his that's funny his his son's the translator death does anyone know what Hunter Biden talks like I mean I I just figure he's kind of a dude he looks like he's kicking it on the planet just like
00:36:14
an yeah an older Finance looking dude yeah I do not know how he talks does any guy host ever come in and say I want to play Hunter I don't know I don't think think
00:36:27
so I know Pete played him and he was on one of those wheel hoverboards that's all I remember he just kind of passed frame on one of those hoverboards I guess because he's
00:36:39
like oh I'm I'm a young kid but I don't know if anyone's like cracked Hunter yeah because I don't even know what he sounds like the public
00:36:51
doesn't know I mean he gave that little speech in the capital but um yeah you just kind of know like generic guy yeah
00:36:58
there's not a lot of voice that the public is aware of I'm not I just go like this hi hi I'm Hunter Biden when in
00:37:05
doubt just say the name of the person you're doing I know oh 100% hey wait a minute Hunter bid it's Hunter Biden H Biden just walked in the room I'm Robin
00:37:16
Leech I'm famous I don't know why I don't know why all my characters I mean you guys were gagag
00:37:28
H Hollywood minute is the first the first time I heard the phraseology of hey the 19 whatever called which and I
00:37:41
liked it first time when it was cultur I believe it was pioneered there um that did you invent that phrase David cuz that is a that is like a a thing in The Ether now for you know the 80s
00:37:55
called wants their shirt back yeah they did say in that Rolling Stone s live thing that that was started there
00:38:01
I I I I I think so I hope so it still hasn't gone away it got kind of it got kind of uh tired a little bit but it still pops up in commercials and stuff but now it's just kind of like a
00:38:14
a accepted insult package yeah by the way when I was watching the Super Bowl Heidi Garder she was in the Super Bowl more than Travis Kelce she's a huge fan
00:38:27
too so she was in like every third commercial yeah I didn't even know too I was like Heidi she's awesome she was at Groundlings as well so she's a
00:38:39
sweetheart she came on and talked to us she was great uh I know she's like yeah I did fly in the wall I was like oh you
00:38:45
did oh I those guys don't like me I don't know do you think they'll ask me do they do they like me we want everybody you guys yeah we haven't talked to everybody oh yeah had Bobby on
00:39:00
uh Bobby Mahan um we should get Taran on you know tan kilan yeah tan tan kilam uh
00:39:09
who's had an incredible run on that show as well and uh wait what about is it cake Dane I have to ask him about
00:39:15
something about is it oh oh yeah yeah that's a cool show you guys know what is it cake is
00:39:21
and you're over the age of six I actually I I like it love it of course oh yeah fun it's so when they first told me what the concept was I was
00:39:35
like what like is that all it is and you go yeah but it's there's a show there it
00:39:41
feels very much like the show is aware that it's called is it cake and play there's like a lightness to it and there's kind of an innate humor to it because of how ridiculous the concept is
00:39:56
but at the same time it's really cool to see what those Bakers do I mean no they
00:40:02
great job with it yeah it's a lot of fun but kids have responded to it and it's remarkable that they they love it not just the end game part they like are
00:40:14
really into how they create these Bakers how they create cakes which I guess maybe because maybe it's like almost like a magic trick seeing how they how
00:40:24
they do it but it's really interesting in that kids respond to it and then it stumps all the dumb celebrities they
00:40:30
like that part yeah they're like although AO came on um and did very very well she was really good
00:40:42
at it too well she would find she won't be back I know you're like it's weird because for the judges they're like if they find it you're danger of not winning money I
00:40:55
just did a game show and theun funny thing was I was telling Dana is they want some they want some comedy they all
00:41:01
want some comedy and obviously that's why they get you and then when you go out there do they try to juice you to be
00:41:07
a little more energetic and there is always um in my earpiece another one a little more energy little have some have some fun out there yeah explain the rules again
00:41:20
yeah you're like I just my least favorite part is explaining like if they do miss
00:41:26
then they'll go into the prize pot for another two $25,000 however if they're spared and
00:41:33
you're like yeah I know and everyone's like we heard that right before the [ __ ] commercial we know about the
00:41:38
goddamn prize pot and you're like show me the T-rex that looks that's made out of Cape yeah someone hit it with a
00:41:45
hammer we'll figure it out but I mean everyone everyone involved with that show is fantastic like they're very they're very like do whatever you want it's it's not like um so we need to do
00:41:59
it again they're very like yeah just have fun with it so I've been lucky in that respect no it sounds like a fun one
00:42:05
it sounds like a cool one you guys got to come on I'll come on we gotta go you're cutting out I'll come on well how
00:42:12
Dana and David gave a very mixed possibly so we got a couple verbal we've got some soft yeses you know what I'm going to talk my team my team will
00:42:25
reach out to you you I like that polite P team is discussing [Music] it what about David S pumpkins Dan I remember we had Tom Hanks on we were
00:42:41
laughing about uh one a singularity as a sketch as odd weirdness one of my all-time favorites and I know that that's awesome you you were it well you know it's just special
00:42:52
I I I don't know how to describe it what know it's working I don't know it was so weird we
00:43:01
wrote it it was like 4 a.m. and I had gone to Disneyland all the time because I grew up in Southern California and
00:43:09
went on when I forget when Hollywood Adventure or whatever there yeah where things California Adventure yeah and then there was that Tower of teror ride that's what I'm trying to get to um
00:43:21
yeah it just very to me lends itself to a sketch format with like a doors opening and something crazy close doors again and then so so funny it made us laugh but
00:43:34
it's it's funny because there's no like hard joke jokes in it where you're like okay well that's at least we know a joke it's all just I'm weird and then them
00:43:47
react works though when it works with that [ __ ] well could I can I insert this
00:43:53
my point of view on this some sketches are are so funny you can't really laugh at them the first time but then later on you'll laugh more because there's so many questions why are they in this
00:44:06
right who is this guy why is the other there's all these questions in your head yeah and then you when you start to
00:44:12
process it later on it just makes you smile I mean hanks's commitment to it and joy of it was so funny and then and
00:44:19
then you guys being the people reacting it was just perfect oh my god is perfect
00:44:24
on read through de in between the first and second half you know you meet with the host and kind of
00:44:32
briefly tell them like okay you're playing a crazy German man in this or whatever so we told him so you're just kind of this guy David pumpkins and he talked a lot more in the first version
00:44:43
but we're like you're just kind of uh really upbeat and friendly and like you belong there and he's like okay and so I
00:44:51
mean he's Tom Hanks so he committed but and I I know we' talked about this I think Bobby mentioned it but in between
00:44:57
dress and AR's like I don't know if I have a read on Mr pumpkins yet there's nothing to so then he on he won two Academy Awards so he he did something else with
00:45:11
his hands or something for air just I feel like yeah on airs when he was really like he just weirded it up yeah
00:45:19
he kicked it up to like insane because he's you watch the first one he's just like staring slightly off he's just a complete madman but it's like the power
00:45:32
of Tom Hanks and coupled with like Halloween and kind of the feeling in the country was like right before the
00:45:39
election I just feel like all the ingredients were there but it's been awesome to see like I'll see online of
00:45:46
you know kids in Halloween costumes and dress their dogs up as the skeletons and
00:45:53
there's a dude at Universal Studios during Halloween who wanders the park as oh which was like all right that's made that's when you I love a Halloween
00:46:07
costume if you can get a sketch to be a costume that's 100% also a lot of these sketches as
00:46:14
Dana knows yeah the first Cone Heads the first Gap girls the first almost first anything doesn't do that well because they're taking it all in like Dana was saying they don't know until a lot of
00:46:25
times know you just Hammer at home till they're like all right we get it [ __ ] stop it's a thing now yeah yeah it's a
00:46:30
thing and we're telling you it's a thing but sometimes just organically they turn into so the next time you come out if you hear enough about them so you do do
00:46:37
it again then they're all ready and they get it and then it does way better but sometimes the first ones are crickets
00:46:44
but how would you guys know yeah we should keep doing this because it was letters first and bronze
00:46:52
bombed yeah I'm sure because it was so they thought we were going to lift heavy weights or something and all we did was berak imaginary enemies with what we me
00:47:02
now and believe me late yeah we'll come to your house and we put this shape of your flab into a rope ladder so you can
00:47:09
crawl back down in the sewer cuz that's where losers live and the audience is kind of like who are they talking to
00:47:18
uh me why are they mad at me I still do it to this day it's just sort of fun to be sorry Mikey is our guest look at Mikey day girly man with your petite frame you're
00:47:31
a grown man v-neck t-shirt you v-neck I'll snap that V what what are you working on uh now for the so you're
00:47:44
coming out in another 10 days 12 days from now with a show if you got a little something you can share with us in your
00:47:50
back pocket do we know keep it quiet though actually do we know Shane Gillis who's that who's Shane all right Shan stand up very successful standup
00:48:02
comedian no we know he was actually um he got hired to be on the cast and then all that stuff went down with um you did you didn't say the word fired you said he got hired and all that
00:48:15
stuff went down he got let go let make this stuff go down please going in a different direction he landed on his feet but that was sort of an odd bizarre
00:48:26
situation and what will it be like how how do the have you have you talked about it I'm not sure I haven't really
00:48:33
talked with anyone about it it was just kind of so we'll see no one says anything there it's quite information is
00:48:41
currency no one's going to sit you down and go what we should do is how are you feeling act like it never happened no I think Shane is funny as [ __ ] and he uh I
00:48:52
think it's cool SNL has him back good talked to him about that podcast and I asked him you know is it I don't know if it's a line of demarcation in a sense
00:49:03
was he doing an impression a character of someone who says things like that racist things right or you know and and he said yes but he didn't make it
00:49:16
clear right right right right yeah well and all that comedy things get thrown and podcast used to be just Underground
00:49:25
basement it's just like guys talking to each other it's almost like a CB radio and then it comes out M and then you go
00:49:32
I don't even know what I said on that then you're like oh because you're talking to your friends so yeah I mean I
00:49:37
think he paid the price and you learn from things and move on but it's nice everyone says Hey the guy's funny we
00:49:44
paid the price but now the Price Is Right he mean he's he's he's doing very very well Shane and he's you paid the
00:49:50
price and now the Price Is Right I exactly bring back pumpkin bring back my favorite pumpkin but have Shane do the Tom Hanks part I don't know everyone's like in unusual in the middle of
00:50:05
February they do a David pumpkins without Tom H oh does that suck you can't do it until oh unless you you'd
00:50:13
have to do some yeah Special whatever I don't know but um we did yeah we did one
00:50:18
another one with Tom Hanks and I think a couple seasons ago yes yes he he was just in town at that time yeah and call
00:50:26
you w to do oh right right right Tom Hanks is in town anybody Tom's in town throw on the pumpkin suit actually the bigger the star the less energy Tom's here okay let me let
00:50:40
me Tom who that's such a funny observation um Barack Obama was dropping by oh he doesn't say his name he goes Barack Barack Obama
00:50:53
Royal Barack higb umir Putin is in town anybody he's circling the building okay do it do it on the scale of of these five sketches blink what's
00:51:08
your favorite nursing home with cap McKinnon American girls store as the creepy genetics lab with Sam Rockwell live report you and Margo Robbie Margo
00:51:20
Robbie yeah live report yeah where Mar Robbie is I I'm just her husband and it's a new husband that that they can't believe
00:51:32
you're together I honestly yeah they were playing you as like it was an impossible match up but I I didn't
00:51:39
really see it that way you know I me wow well that's very nice I mean I look at myself next to Margot Robbie and I go
00:51:45
that is an impossible matchup I would be like he must be a billionaire um right yeah all every girl I dated in my life really crushed yeah the dog one is fun
00:51:57
we've done that a few times and it's always fun because it was it's usually a writer who has to go down and be the
00:52:04
dog's hands right gentic slab where they make a dog part dog part human we just say doghead man and then the last time we did it was Martin Hurley he went was
00:52:16
down there with from please don't destroy down there doing the hands which is funny because he's you know such a
00:52:23
funny dude yeah he's on camera in these videos and we're like hey can you yeah bend down and snuggle up close to this dog and pan funny hands because you a
00:52:34
funny guy can get a couple extra laughs out of the hands exactly yes so we ended up going with anything else for this kid
00:52:41
uh Dana I mean I have so many questions for you guys I have to come back on and just ask you guys questions about all
00:52:48
your schedule uh we like being asked question but no one ever asks us any questions no way cares way completely
00:52:56
insane I mean I grew up with you guys so this has been awesome and I'm not worse
00:53:03
Dana he's like well I grew up with you guys I remember when I was one and I'm like God it's getting worse like before
00:53:10
I was born they told me about you guys I mean no that was very formative for me I
00:53:18
would say I won't get I I said I wouldn't cry but uh this is kind of why you I don't know if you said that why you want to do this is that uh you could
00:53:28
be money Fame all this stuff but if someone once in a while someone will come up to me in airport and say some
00:53:34
bizarre sketch I did and that me and my friends reference that once a month you must be getting stuff like that with some of your sketches by now it's nice to hear yeah it is nice sometimes if I
00:53:46
was in an airport and saw Dana I'd say Mr Fong on the night of the murders did you shampoo now you just blown my mind that you just blown my mind that's a stand
00:54:00
Dana had a standup special on Comedy Central that air all the time yeah the 90s I did a 10 CL bit on OJ the premise
00:54:11
of the bit was for OJ to be uh it's either he's guilty or he's framed let's unpack him being framed 165 people had to participate spontaneously that night
00:54:24
we're framing OJ you in I like OJ but it's just too good and it goes on then I do Marcy what's her name Mara Clark all
00:54:32
my years as a prosecutor and then Johnny conran why we even having a trial oh yeah just as the I think he plays jazz trumpet at the end right your
00:54:45
honor your honor if I I'd like to have sex with your honor just the his effusive compliments and if I may I like
00:54:52
to play some jazz trumpet you know whatever you you made my day Mikey I mean and then David I could dork out on Tommy Boy for a perfect movie a long
00:55:07
time I'll never be able to listen to this I'm G be like oh you're such a dork you just spent so much time going I love
00:55:12
your guys stuff no Dan was just texting me that this guy sucks edit this down maybe no we got a solid 10 minutes in here somewhere you know what Mikey I can't find any I do that all the time I
00:55:26
I just my Persona on this podcast is I do compliment people and I go maybe it's too serpy too over the top but I assume most talented people have an inner critic somewhere am I any because what
00:55:39
where's this drive coming from am I really any good so it's good to hear it from if you respect us or like our work
00:55:46
just to say yeah you're doing you're kicking ass onl you're doing wild I wildly respect
00:55:54
you both you guys are very kind individuals for how legendary you are and the roles you played in my life especially so talking to you guys was
00:56:07
like truly a thrill and I appreciate it immensely I would love to nice come down
00:56:13
and weirdly quote lines at you it's weird when you just kind of throw a quote at someone but it's like for me
00:56:20
all that stuff is so so ingrained in me so just want to say I know this to the person I do it to people too it's fine I like it I think it's compliment when
00:56:32
you're sitting there writing a sketch or a standup bit and you're meticulously trying to find the the key to the
00:56:38
kingdom basically and and you find it and it's just a few words strung together and then someone quotes it to
00:56:44
you 30 years later you're like who they really heard that someone heard that you
00:56:49
know yeah it's weird you kind of forget about the audience at home when you're doing SNL you're just like so focused on
00:56:55
the studio audience and how it is received you're like oh yeah there's people at home who watched it and
00:57:01
sometimes people will reference a sketch that you know aired but you thought I don't know I guess it's like a C+ I
00:57:08
guess like it's e forgettable yeah and then someone would go I love that one you're like you saw that great that's
00:57:16
fantastic your Donald Trump Jr by the way is a really really funny take and I sure you to get recognized for that
00:57:22
because you wear the wig and you yeah yeah sometimes yeah that people will be just play him like a 1980s movie villain play him like the guy who's like I challenge you to a ski
00:57:35
race whatever and if we win we're gonna tear this thing down yeah it's kind of like Alpha frat boy energy just coming super competitive it's very funny uh
00:57:48
Trump guys fun to do yeah with Eric with Alex Moffett Alex to do the brothers he's hysterical yeah well thank you Mikey it's been a pleasure thanks for the compliments thank you guys so much
00:58:00
for having me we appreciate sorry about my uh technical issues at the start you guys are well it it was an absolute
00:58:06
pleasure and you're a good man David final thoughts yeah Martin Short took two and a half hours to get on so it's fine never worry never worry about that oh my
00:58:17
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