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so I heard you bought a house hey Dana I did buy a house and uh it's it's always
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good when the house is on Google within 15 seconds people's like I've already seen your house I never need to come over I saw it online
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All Humans know where all other humans live you know because we bought a place in the mountains and the business manager that we both have said oh you know no reason to put
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it under a trust or try to hide a name everybody knows you're there isn't it creepy yeah mine was under his
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but his name my big fake you know house and then uh they just figured out so he's like we don't even need that anymore I don't know if I should say this but my wife and I you know after you bought the house but you haven't
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moved in we actually camped out one night in your yard oh you went to my house yeah we knew where it was like
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everyone else there was a lot of people there and I would get out of the way I know the guy you know what's funny uh that there was a transient in there that
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the real estate guy just mentioned one day he goes oh there was a guy and then I go okay in my house he goes yeah it
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was it was had furniture and he was he was just leaving one of the beds I told him to get lost out it's it's fine it's
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like three little bears or something that feels weird yeah it was like Goldilocks people always worry about the homeless but I always say what are we
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going to do with the Clueless yeah no one has an answer for the second part does Biden there's no funding if that's
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so bad my bind is now down to a side it doesn't make sense come on let's get real I'm
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not kidding around no joke no joke that's really should be that should be our alternate title for this no joke
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it's no joke not kidding around I'm not kidding around so Tom Hanks oh Tom oh Tom Hanks yeah
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um he's good to hang out with he was in what are your favorite Tom Hanks movies well I have I just think he had a run like uh Redford did in the 70s he starts
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out with Phillip well put you could put big in there kind of like crazy hit she's not a Philadelphia Story drops a
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couple lbs gives it gets the statue comes back with Forrest Gump like eight months later like the Beatles dropping Magical Mystery Tour after the pepper album he comes back with Forrest Gump
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another Oscar not since Spencer Tracy then he comes back with Apollo 13 which I think is a perfect movie it's like a
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left and a right then it's Saving Private Ryan Hello reinvented World War II Spielberg genius then he loses 100
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pounds does Castaway no one's ever done that that's like a mic drop of Show Business the worst part is I'm not gonna
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say which three but I turned down three those now and I didn't I see him and I go I could have done that I heard you
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were the stunned body double after the weight loss on Castaway in the wide shot and they go we don't want him skinny fat
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and I go is that what I am no one you had to be Perot in the wine shot I was playing two characters in a sketch on
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SNL President Bush and Ross Perot but in the wide shot they used you as Ross Pro
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do I remember or do I think about it I want to apologize right now for okay in that yeah the answers I think about all
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the time and it makes me sick to myself that I get full hair and makeup bald cap to go for a wide shot I know and then
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right when it I didn't even and the worst I didn't know it and so when they went for me to talk they go hold thanks
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David back to extras holding Dana getting hair and makeup to play well it's because you kind of look like on my
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little brother I mean for a long time I didn't even know your name so I just called you understudy I remember that hey understudy come over here because
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yeah you were like laying in weight you actually put the dress on for Church Lane once right they fitted it you were
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like why is the pizza delivery guy still here and trying to right on sketches yeah Tom Hanks please enjoy [Music]
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remember it wasn't that long ago um to create content you actually had to type a Blog you know now this this just removes all effort from it all effort
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exactly I'm this is yeah welcome to my job let me get this straight the three of us don't sit around all day anyway
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and crack wise and you know this is what we do all day long talk about stuff sorta yeah Dodge issues that's when you're creative when you're just hanging
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out not trying to do anything why prepare when we can just make it up mentality is now providing us a well providing you guys with a uh with a
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healthy living people love behind the scenes more than ever is that what is that what we're doing behind the scenes
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we haven't talked about behind the scenes well kind of because I got uh I got some lingering questions from don't
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shoot me that I want to fire at uh yeah I have a bone to pick about that I I worked with your uh your former boss on that um Levitan uh the actor oh yeah
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uh no no no no no no no um who played the uh played the photographer with a beard he was in uh
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I'm having a cranial plate shift here he was in uh Rico he was in the Mr Rogers movie uh a beautiful day Rico Rico yes
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how can you forget a name like Rico you did he was he was one of the most delightful human beings I'd ever come
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across he was a he's a sweetheart it was a blast we thought he looked like Cookie Monster or uh something from Sesame
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Street How many years did you how many years did you do this show for you that's a great question Dana in all his
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years has never asked me anything about me well I've I've I want to know what your back end was no that's the real question
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I like no I'm a numbers guy that was old TV man you know you could you could have come in third place on that night and
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you would have numbers now that would be heralded as you know I got I got canceled with 24 million viewers the
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Mickey Rooney show 1981 we had 24 million on a Saturday night they said get your stupid show and get off the lot
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what numbers did they use to to to justify letting you go I don't know maybe it was Mickey's handgun that he
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had at the ready at all times his 38 revolver no I I think that plays now they showed Dana's numbers on an abacus
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they're like each speed equals a million viewers now make it Mickey Rooney Dana you worked with Mickey Rooney you worked
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with the Burke Lancaster you worked with Kirk Douglas mommy you made out with Sophia Loren on some movie at some point
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uh Meg Ryan played My Girl girlfriend on the Mickey Rooney show for a few episodes before you got your claws on her and those mailman movies I
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can't remember the names those mailman movies here comes mailman I think that was the name of both of them both of the films okay I have a real question go yeah I do you dodged my
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question David you dodged my question how many seasons of just shoot me did you oh we did six and six seasons that's
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huge 148 High qual episodes but what I did Dana's real question is after the first year I was added on after the pilot so I wasn't on the show
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I watched it and we'll get to you Tom in about 40 minutes I I was added and then
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they wrote me in and then uh we re-shot the pilot anyway after one season they go I try to sniff around for some more money yeah yeah and they go uh a easy
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guy we've had one lucky season you're on against friends and ER and like sort of
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a Heyday of all these things and by the way if you were a substitute teacher you'd love to pay that they were giving
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you yeah I was good but then I thought it's not enough meanwhile when I got it I was ecstatic so I was coming off about
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600 a week on SNL so I go uh all right overpaid so I go I want more demand and they go will we would rather give you a a piece of the show gambling if you
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don't want more money right now gambling that it won't go five years we're betting against you and I said okay and
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then uh and then later a couple years later I go can I get some more money too and they were like good God you know I I my my my interest was actually the quality of the writing and the
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performance on the show but you went right to the bitterness of your Deeds I was answering the amount of money oh you
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were answering Tom you and I are actors and we understand a different mindset let me ask you guys a question you're
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watching television you with Rita me with Paula do you ever find yourself seeing an old movie or TV show you look
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up the guy's age or the woman's age and then you look up their net worth you ever done that I must say I've never
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done thank you Tom your dear never you've never looked up how old because we've been watching him since he had a couple of lines on every Cheers episode right but that was a while back
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so I know he's I'm gonna put him around our area he's over he's over 40 because that's how
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many years we've been watching him on TV all right I have a real question for Tom
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I have a real question I have a real question for Dana so we'll just go around we'll just go around you played a
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mailman and you've got mailman twice and you played one a FedEx guy do you feel like
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your Typecast yes I do I as uh I'm looking for that perfect DHL project and I have an entire closet full of brown shorts Brown Shirts brown socks or
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brown shoes so when it comes time to play Mr UPS right they come to me before they go to anything I think an Amazon worker who wins the company Lottery and
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goes on Blue origin goes up into space how about that everything ends with space
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which I when I think of you okay here's a statement you can respond any way you want because I see you as a
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quintessential baby boomer along with myself I was born in 1956 right 55 beat you I just Googled it anyway I wanna first of all I want to think of you I think of World War II yeah yeah
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the Beatles because of that thing you do and out and outer space yeah yeah basically World War II Band of Brothers
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incredible so here's a question for you as a as a 50s 60s kids if you had a choice would you rather have a super ball or Silly Putty oh man don't
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answer oh I'm right there on that silly putty and I'll tell you why you roll up silly putty into a ball and it is a
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Super Bowl whoa and yet yeah it bounced really high and yet you could like stretch it out and put it on a newspaper and then pull it off and see the comic right there yeah yeah you could shape it
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like buck teeth and put it in your mouth you can you can tear it in half and put it behind your ears and make your ears
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stick out uh Silly Putty um we should have been called super putty Miracle because Miracle putty it was out it was uh developed at Nasa I
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believe who did not lose the Super Bowl after about two days first one right later Up
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on the Roof going into the uh down into the into the Culvert off into the wash overrated or underrated baby Boomer toy slinky overrated
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Rock'em sock'em robots underrated that was that was that was the gold state you could never live up to the commercial on most toys I got like evil Evil Knievel with the zip SSP
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what are they called and it would go for it super sonic power you pulled a string in it or they yeah yeah and it would
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haul ass it's hard to make it jump the Snake River but it was cool that was you could get over a pile of books you know
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with the right kind of like ramp you had one of those that was honestly I I became a berry maybe because I'm older
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and wiser I became a very Discerning connoisseur of toy commercials that I knew were lies yeah it's not that yeah
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it's not that great it took me two times bro we're always lying okay here and I know and I'm gonna tell you why because I could tell that on a slinky commercial when it walked the stairs without a care
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those were not real stairs the treads on those years we're only like four inches
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wide so you take them home and say oh I'm going to make this walk down the stairs from you know upstairs down in a
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living like a fool well those stickers those fan those stairs are those Treads are 11 inches wide it would go down one
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but then because it could be over there and come all the way I'm adding Sherlock
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Holmes to the World War II Beetle outer space guy I'm adding Sherlock Holmes to you and as soon as you got that improper not in the middle of the slinky you know
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where it was always the wrong way it never came back it was over let me give another baby boomer quick all right
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conversational piece because my the formative years David's a little younger than us but you know kind of from any War does he look at you [ __ ] [ __ ] don't even years of abuse my friends
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you gotta face the window on this I have ring light poisoning even though this isn't going anywhere only time you fair-haired boys don't age well man you
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just don't we don't my ancestors were in the caves in in Scotland and and Scandinavia and Ireland my my skin was not prepared for the growing up in
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California but this mic really works for me because the neck just left me a while back the neck the neck went nuts uh no
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that's that's why I see a lot of guys wearing ascots you know and kerchiefs around them yeah like Nora Ephron the
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great Nora I hate I hate my neck that's yeah yeah okay these are just fun for me
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to think about and think of which ones you would like movie movies and all you could add TV shows too in your formative
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years that stuck with you I gotta put Wizard of Oz because I saw it when I was three or four scared the [ __ ] out oh the
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flying monkeys man why is that a kids movie it's so scary it is so scary luckily there was no
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Twitter back then they would have colorized the early black and white portion of the movie
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because they the network would have been afraid that it's in black and white people will turn it off and recolorize
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the first part that's okay that's what they're thinking all right so in 59 or 60. I don't know when these movies went on TV I assumed fairly quick after their theatrical release The Day the Earth
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Stood Still didn't see it for years didn't see it for years all right pass Jason in the
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arguments oh shoot we got a winner I know if you look at that pound for pound Moment by moment and you can you can talk about um oh who was the guy that did the
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animation world famous his name will come up Ray harryhausen Ray harryhausen stop animotion between the valley of The
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Titans with those huge um statues that come to life battled against the skeleton army if you
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take that and just say okay never mind how cheesy it looks yeah it is pound per pound the most action-packed science
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fiction fantasy movie oh yeah the stop motion still holds up and still is has a creepy quality to it the giant man where they took the Achilles heel and all the yeah you know the sand came
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out or that that that the maidenhead figure that was the goddess hair or whatever yes
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yeah no it was that was great oh and how about the harpies that they capture on the net yeah with the blind guy oh man
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and the gods playing games so you I showed that that was a biggie and I show that to my sons I you know at an
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appropriate age where it blew their minds you know six seven I think also you'll say so you and I are watching
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this uh Jason and the Argonauts would have been on TV it would have been on someone like the CBS Sunday night movie
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the NBC Saturday night movie and because it had those commercials in it we could
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pause our excitement just long enough to one develop essentially all the ADHD that we now carry with us right because our attention span needed needed a
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commercial break every every 12 minutes or so yes but it ended up elongating the
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night so you know it's certainly an hour and a half movie would really be stretched out into two hours and that
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was the full night of rock and sock'em entertainment and it's not yeah and it's great to have the commercials
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okay so so not long some I'm going to say I'm going to say 66 maybe the ABC Sunday night movie first started showing James Bond movies and that was I have gold Goldfinger on here
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this was this was on that was insane it was so great but bridge over the river quiet Bridge Over the River Kwai is shown in two parts on Sunday night and
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on Monday night on Monday every guy at school is walking around whistling the Colonel Bogey March can you do it Dude I kept not
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yeah so we're doing that well no it's actually a very famous uh musical March but here's the thing that David lead shot that thing in the widest
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screen possible and but we watched it and essentially 350 lines of bad video scan analog yeah
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analog and with a a feature called pan and scan so that is seen that on on the screen would have three people in it talking in the jungle pen and scan would be on William Holden and then slowly
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automatically move over to some other guy but you could not have convinced me based on two nights with commercials and pan and scan the bridge over the River Kwai was not the greatest motion picture
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ever made for you know for a couple of weeks until I saw something oh yeah so I knew I knew I'd floor you with these I
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knew you have an SNL question David do I have an SNL question well I had one well you guys did at the The Comedians were you
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in that one together where you played comedians oh I remember that yeah uh Smiggle wrote that that was one of the
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first things smile got on the year the stand-up guys I would just say yeah when Tom came to SNL he was I just made notes
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oh [ __ ] he was the most like a cast member to me like he felt like a cast member that's cool the first time I did
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it I was wickedly excited the second time I did it I wasn't very good at all but the third time I did it which is
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when when you were on by that time I knew what not to do and how to save your energy and how to participate oh yeah
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it's a it's an incredibly difficult thing to hold it's much easier yeah so so smart Smigel Smiggle Robert smigiel
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yes all the time genius um absolute genius he came and said listen I wrote this thing about you know comedian Indians who always say I mean come on I mean hey you know why did they
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do this why don't they do that and he wrote in a joke that was like hey what's the deal with
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uh the comedian par excellent says hey man that's that's Jerry Seinfeld's material you can't take that you know he
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was adamant he said you cannot take a Comics TR a you know great bit and blow it out on TV he'll never be able to use it again and smile goes oh it's old man he won't miss it he said no man you know
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you can't do this we called Jerry Seinfeld to find out and I never met him but you know we're in the famous people's Club hey you're famous I'm famous so we can talk to each other like we know each other right yeah and uh I
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said listen I'm on SNL we're doing this thing about uh comedians we're going on I mean I'm like hey I mean what's the
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deal with the socks but if you're still doing the sock bit we'll come up with some other jokes that's a rude way to put it I said oh you know I really
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appreciate the call quite frankly that's been retired from my ACT if you guys want to do it nice I don't care very
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gracious hey what's the deal with a date on milk you know it was that I mean hey
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and then later when Jerry came I we when he was hosting we did some kind of game
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show with him where we did the joke I mean hey and I had a joke that actually worked it
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was like Gilligan's Island what's up with Gilligan's Island if the professor could make a radio out of a coconut why
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can't he fix a hole in the damn [ __ ] true so it was actually a good job it was brilliant and I but I do believe it was one of the first things Michael got on the air you can ask him yourself
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I remember and I was doing this somehow this came out with someone the other day we were playing you guys smuggle wrote
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it probably but we were you you were playing a guy worked at an electronics store oh yeah from the Middle East yes
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and the idea that inside these gadgets they were like kick a day generic gadgets but inside they had Sony phonics
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which was something I was told at an electronic store owned by Middle Eastern guys so we're trying you know who really wanted to take cash not a credit card it sounded like real something and he was
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what he was telling me was he says no no no you don't understand all of the other trunks come from there is one single
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place and everybody makes their Electronics out of from this place so this is actually sonagats
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300 times in that sketch and what I loved it is Michael did it so that it looked huge on the screen you
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know like it looked like it was really big piece of electronic but when his finger came into the into the frame I
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realized here it was the size of a wallet it was a very funny bit oh smile but uh were you you also go ahead David
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oh I was gonna say talk about when we were the naked sketch the penis Sketchbook oh yeah I'll do a quickie of
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when when on my end when I was just writer performer and Tom came in what one thing was funny was we that Tom let me write a sketch with him which was uh didn't make it to [ __ ] air subway
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surfing but oh God yeah but it was a good idea that I got to write with the post and I think in the middle dress we were giving it everything and we were looking at each other going it's not
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it's not happening like it's the worst feeling you're like [ __ ] God damn because it just did it have a did it
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have a theme song oh yeah it was a full song it was like we were we were Ruffians who we were essentially a surf gang that road rode the Subways and uh uh uh uh said what was it some of the
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lines were uh don't be afraid of a youth gang Turf War just stand up and balance
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and make it a surf War oh you don't need a wet suit a bordering ocean the transit
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authority holy [ __ ] the bridge was i-n-t-o the empty Subway shuttless shuttle Subway shuttle blah blah blah blah blah and here's the
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thing he just said I don't I don't get it are you um do you live in the subway why I don't he put the whammy on it because we gave it [ __ ] everything and you know
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sometimes when you do a sketch if you just get off I don't even know if it was that one but sometimes you get off on the wrong foot if you just had two takes
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it would be great you just start you go can I start again but instead you're in it and you're like God damn it it's going not happening and if the audience
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doesn't know where you're going you miss that you just it didn't work oh I'll tell you okay so we're in a pitch
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meeting Dana all right and you know the Monday meeting uh where we all cram in Lauren's office
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incredibly fun and can I just can I just say from the guy from The Host perspective yeah it is the most exciting
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gig in Show Business it's exactly it's listening oh yeah you can show up on Monday you're exhausted and yet you're
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spent by an end of the show on Sunday night Saturday except Sunday morning but you do wish you could do it again you do wish you could just come right back right because now you get it now you're
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like I got it I got it I would say as a cast member and sometimes house experientially first of all you're in
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New York City yeah yeah second of all you're in Rockefeller Center this there can be animals on the show it's a
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three-ring circus it's everything's going live you're never ready uh so it's just and then there's a crazy
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party I've never stayed up that late in my life I actually the last time I was out there doing a birthday
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I said I'm gonna go to the end I'm not gonna bail out at 4 00 a.m I'm gonna stay I was I was at Lauren's table and I'm gonna see what this guy can do so
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he's going on he's saying all this brilliant stuff you know we were we were we see what you think of this one oh we
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were raised in the wilderness and then we got civilized our kids are raised civilized and we expect them to go out
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into the Wilderness so stuff like that for hours that's kind of brilliant right finally the lights come up the lights
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come up at six a.m well I guess we should be going now but yeah it goes 6 a.m let's go to 88 amazing uh what about
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um okay so we're doing this pitch meeting and Tom might have been the Bruce Springsteen Tom one maybe you did
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one with Bruce I did yeah okay I did I did I the those people alone are reason to Mark you know that the Hang oh my God I mean and we're excited because we just
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finished with Alec Baldwin or something and then it's like you just get wake up hung over you're doing a laundry like Tom Hanks this week so you go in
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and I think this is with you maybe it wasn't but you know we go in that meeting and and by now Tom is caught on
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by his eighth hosting is that some of the ideas are [ __ ] so because we're everyone's just getting their bearings
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and so you gotta have an idea yeah you gotta have an idea and Lauren is like David there's a there's some water
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treading at that Monday meeting yeah because everyone just finished yeah about a guy
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you want to surprise them at read through so you don't want to blow your wad at the thing that's funny you want
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to be surprised there's a guy with a catchphrase yeah it's all a game of like psychologically tricking the other
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writers and making sure because you know by the time the show's there like Tom said it goes so fast that you're like
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getting your UPS costume ripped off in velcro and they're putting a new one on they're like and the writer runs with
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you out and goes by the way you're not rushing you're polish now and the middle is different and you're like what three two and you're like hello
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and yet there it is yeah that's funny so we're in a meeting and they go and they
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go uh what's your ideas and I see Farley sitting on the ground pulling on the carpet and pulling on his hair and he's
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just so [ __ ] nervous and he never has any ideas and uh and Lauren sometimes skips him out of just Mercy
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and you know and then Schneider or someone's giving a fake idea Tom you're uh you know a caveman afraid of caves
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and Tom's like okay okay and then it all sounds like an idea and then then he goes Chris and then Chris goes then he goes or pull hair pull hair and
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he goes then he goes his fingers are snapping touching everything and he goes hey Tom Hanks um and then I'm next to him going are we saying his whole name Tom Hank why not why not of nerves he
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goes oh man he goes like this I was thinking maybe uh this is the real one and I thought it was for you he goes
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you know that movie um uh Marty and uh Lauren goes with uh Ernest Borgnine and uh Chris goes yeah uh something about that and uh and then everything's dead silent
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and Lauren goes this is the week everyone's gonna be looking for that Marty's gift Marty and then I go are you out of your [ __ ] go shut the [ __ ] up
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and I see it written like with a crayon Marty I'm like and then he goes I saw it
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the other night I go what does that have to do with Tom Hanks he goes shut them you don't know [ __ ] anything dude and
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then we leave and I go hey I don't know if they're are you gonna go right up Marty and then the rest of the week everyone's like what's the status of
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Marty is Tom going to gain weight for it brutal brutal brutal atmosphere so funny
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nothing like it anywhere else in Show Business this is the other thing there is you there is no gig there is no
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hosting thing there is no Cameo that you do that is like being on Saturday Night
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Live and I think that's still that's the reason why it people still come out said
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I can't believe but here I am on stage on Saturday Night Live in the audience always that's the beginning of the
00:29:41
roller coaster the monologue You're like do you guys think that it was unintentionally a bit of a reality show
00:29:47
because you're putting Michael Jordan yeah on a Live sketch show and I'm behind the slat with Michael Jordan I can see he's a little tent so I'm going Michael just if you have to just look at the cards or you're with sting we're
00:29:59
going to go under the scene and he looks at me and goes how's my hair how is it so there's these you know the high wire
00:30:06
Act of Wayne Gretzky here [Laughter] I love the the one where he was essentially a hockey player in Hawaii yes and he was so good and he flipped a
00:30:19
burger off a grill and Phil harp said how did you do that and then he sang a song didn't he uh yes he was surprisingly charismatic you know
00:30:32
this oddly a lot of times the stuff is not hilariously funny when it's on it's still worthy of of repeat viewings and
00:30:40
examinations because yeah there was one where um will when will um was Janet Reno yeah and uh you know he was in a dress
00:30:52
and he had that little bit of lip gloss and you know he was threatening everybody and punching everybody and then you guys got the actual Janet Reno
00:31:01
the Attorney General of the United States of America to bust through a fake brick wall and and yell it's clobber in
00:31:09
time Janet Reno question it's clobber in time how did they pull that off that is that's a brilliant that is part of the fun that you don't know who's coming who
00:31:23
might come and there's really almost no one too big to just do a cameo or something tell everybody everybody okay
00:31:30
so here's a question for the two of you guys you're on the show for a long time and you in a lot look you guys kind of
00:31:36
like became seven years you became David Spade and you know you had the Hollywood minute that was uh you know immediate I
00:31:44
don't know if that was your immediate uh you know every time every time you're wrong you got a nickel and then Dana you
00:31:50
started with a church lady you know I don't I don't wanna okay so you're how long you were on seven years Dana David
00:31:56
how many years you were on all right what is the day like after you know or have been told that you're not not on SNL anymore this is a this is a great Paradox of show business that I'm
00:32:10
fascinated with because every you could talk about the highlights it can all be this is your life and then Dana you you
00:32:16
you played drums for Wayne world you know that but right that's the end the Yang is your Aces you're at the top of your game you have established
00:32:29
yourself you've taken the beach head you've landed on the moon you've done all those things that you never quite
00:32:34
believed would actually happen and yet you had faith in yourself to make it happen and then it did and 12 hours ago
00:32:41
or 24 hours ago you knew you were going to be on SNL and at noon on a day you know that okay I'm now going to move on to the next chapter of being funny and
00:32:53
what I do for a living how long does that last and how do you get um well I can only say for myself
00:32:58
like when I got on you know the idea what people were going to leave and be movie stars I mean I think Eddie Murphy
00:33:05
did three years other people did four when I left at seven John Lovitz left after five and Dennis I stayed till seven and it was sort of all the forces at
00:33:18
play I got almost too big because of bush yeah Wayne's World and pero so there was so much coming at me but I feel like I really was just catching my
00:33:29
stride I mean I think it was at year seven yes six and seven I think at least 80 shows just to get used to tape and everything yeah having fun with with very little fear and that's when I was
00:33:41
doing Carson which was the only sketch I had on there where I didn't I wasn't cognizant of it is it getting laughs
00:33:47
because I in turn internally it just felt so funny and real to me and that those were you those you watched on slow
00:33:54
motion and watched every every inch because no one in the history of Show Business had nailed Carson no one had
00:34:02
been able to do him no no one no one had had imitated him on TV not rich little not nope nope and the combo with Phil was perfect yeah the weird wild stuff uh
00:34:14
I did not know that excuse I'll fit I'll throw one thing in for you right now Tom
00:34:19
this you probably have stuff you do just for friends not really a bit so for friends I do I don't know why Johnny Carson getting pulled over on the pch in
00:34:30
1972. okay by the highway patrol yeah oh sorry officer I didn't know I was swerving I had two slippery monkeys at the hook and cook this is stupid
00:34:42
so it's the cocktail and the establishment Sean go on go on YouTube and see one of his Karnak the Magnificent bits he holds up he opens an envelope uh to
00:34:56
his forehead and he says CIS boom and and uh I know that says CIS boom body opens up you know blows on it pulls it out um what does your sheep say just before
00:35:11
it explodes I uncontrollably what's this Boombox Johnny Carson was Untouchable I was I
00:35:28
was on I did um Peter uh Peter Jennings moderating yes a a one of the one of the uh uh presidential debates before you
00:35:40
nailed it not got that you just did not passes in a wig on it said stay the course that was it thousand points of Lights a year to make
00:35:53
that character funny took me a year because they're so basic you got to find a hook I come on I come on it a year later and
00:36:01
I haven't done this show and by that time you are now you're doing it and I got I saw the script I was I wasn't in
00:36:08
the sketch I saw the script Pages for you as Bush and I honestly said this is written in gibberish I don't I don't
00:36:15
know what it said it said [Music] dot what does this mean I gotta do it the thing about that
00:36:33
sketch is that I was in a lockdown shot so and it was the cold opening the only time I I could extend rhythms I could uh improvise a bit take things further and
00:36:46
many a time I thought okay I'm in trouble when it was over because they go it went 19 minutes that and the uh and
00:36:54
what was the the guy um the McLaughlin group number one it's your number one continue tiny tabletop
00:37:06
I'm literally talking about something I saw once banana okay so uh I saw one of the compilations reruns and there was some some sketch
00:37:28
that was in a restaurant and everybody was saying oh oh you are you you like the taste you want to taste the sauce did you like it a juice and I just came
00:37:41
to the tail end and David Spade came on looking like he was 13 years old and saying yeah um is there any way you guys
00:37:48
could end this sketch oh you like us to win this sketch yeah you like it if there was no more honestly you looked
00:37:56
like a Mormon missionary who was knocking on the door collecting I saw that little boy shocked that they let me
00:38:02
do that at the end of a sketch because we never really did that fourth wall [ __ ] but it was a good way to get out of
00:38:08
that yeah that's boy that's that was always the trouble ending those kids yeah you
00:38:13
get a Newman you gotta get out of them uh we got some good uh waiter sketches yeah I like the horny waiter I like
00:38:21
presentational stuff and I think one of the early ones that Tom was in that has resonated that people are aware of it so
00:38:27
the song is Mr short term yeah so this the premise is completely up front everyone knows what's going on and then that was one where I just
00:38:39
thought maybe you were kind of the Perfect cast like to play that guy all right so here's what I remember yeah a
00:38:47
perfect a perfect sketch provided you did it with the lacrity and and didn't put a bump in it
00:38:54
yeah the dress rehearsal performance of it was so perfect that it did not live up to the actual Air Show I hate that and that was and that when we when we come off I think
00:39:06
somebody did an invitation about don't worry it'll be perfect in the rerun you're meaning that they take the dress
00:39:12
rehearsal oh and and Slide the dress the dress rehearsal thing that's nice uh as
00:39:18
I got more used to doing SNL I was sometimes I would peek at read through like I was going so all out and I never got back to it yeah in that last year I
00:39:29
was pacing myself the whole time and really even the dress show make sure you're not doing it the best that
00:39:36
happens on the movie that happened on that happens on movie read through so I said let's not do read-throughs anymore guys because they're fake they happen on
00:39:42
Bosom Buddies you know just killed at the table yeah never never when you get out there it's not quite exact sometimes
00:39:49
I remember at Michael J fox show I was doing Michael J fox to him and he started laughing and it made the sketch
00:39:55
so crazy and then we did on air and he didn't and then you just lost something I'm like I went and begged Shoemaker I
00:40:02
go put the [ __ ] rerun on will you and put it in the goddamn dress and uh it's a tough one to get dressed so you but you got you like you said earlier Dana you go to this incredible Place 30 Rock
00:40:15
and you're in the you're you know you're up on 17 for all the writing the whole thing and then the big thing happens in
00:40:21
the whole show transfers down to Historic 88 you know or tuscanini had his own elevator and they did the they
00:40:28
did the Colgate comedy I don't know one of the most famous Jerry Lewis would cut the tie off and then and then you're you
00:40:35
know and then you're not playing Major League ball you know the season you know at the eighth year after the show I just
00:40:40
look I have moments not every movie but I have moments when uh the shoot comes to an end and I real
00:40:47
I gotta go through a physiological process of grieving because we'll never come back to this place anymore like if
00:40:53
you do a play on Broadway man that thing is gone in the wink of an eye and you've been there for six months your whole
00:41:00
your whole experience was about pacing yourself in order to peek at the right time and if it happened it was by Magic
00:41:06
if it wasn't you were frustrated by it I've I've had cast members uh Fred Armisen talk call me or email me about
00:41:14
this very thing what what do I do when when can I watch the show again and not think they're doing my show and sometimes doing it may be better
00:41:26
than I did I have trouble watching it when I'm flush with memories of being on you know being hosting yeah there's sometimes I just oh man perfect there's
00:41:37
nothing like nothing like being alive like put me in coach I can play center field and put me in Tom is there an
00:41:42
eclipse in your house um no the sun is moving around you're like the problem with Mansions is we
00:41:49
have so many windows uh but Tom what about I'm in I'm in the smallest little cubby hole in mine The Fortress of Solitude
00:42:04
[Music] I wish I'd stayed a few years longer but in those days you can't I mean there is
00:42:10
this or I mean it's like you know Stan Musial Sandy kofak walks away from the walked away from the game I don't want
00:42:16
to keep using Sports analogies but I love them so I know you got to go I'm you know I could do it but there's there's an aspect of it here that isn't good going to be good for this Tom I
00:42:27
when I left and Dana you can listen when I left um thank you you can hear what I tell
00:42:33
Tom um that it was it was starting with writing on yellow pads you know we didn't have computers or anything and learning how to write a sketch and going
00:42:43
through that whole process of getting to where I could kind of write a sketch pretty well I was never like a super SNL
00:42:48
guy but at least I got the end where I kind of had my moments and then when I left the hard part was almost anything I
00:42:55
did first of all was never as hard and and and it was hard to find people that were as good per capita as everyone around me because I had the
00:43:07
writing of Jack Handy and Downey and Smiggle and Conan and Bob Odenkirk and Greg Daniels and then I got these guys we know we we came in forget you know me and rock and Farley and Sandler and
00:43:18
Timmy and but we've got Dennis and Dana there and love us and they're [ __ ] great Phil and Jan Mike Myers
00:43:25
every season is some form of a murderous road that you cannot create that atmosphere and when you come close I
00:43:32
mean that's about the highest thing I could say I felt that way about uh doing uh uh Broadway uh on lucky guy we had 14
00:43:40
people in the cast and I just said this is as good a hang as SNL this is the same kind of like group of people who
00:43:46
are both merciless and filled with nothing but a brand of love and respect you kind of know it too because you go I
00:43:52
gotta if I can even because at first I read through I was like I just can't have my sketch
00:43:59
be so shitty that everyone goes what the [ __ ] I just want to blend in I don't even want to get on I just want them not
00:44:04
to go Jesus Christ hey stand up who was this because I was new and I and my first sketch had 18 sets no one even tells you I'm just like don't do it and then they go who's got just 27 Pages I'm
00:44:17
like for the audition process did you have to go and like hang out for like that afternoon with everybody in order to see if you could handle kind of like the
00:44:28
environmental auditioning for it I was I auditioned in L.A I'd auditioned twice before I followed Kennison at The Comedy Store and bombed for SNL lieutenants and
00:44:40
then it came around again in 86 I thought I'll give it a shot but I I played a little Club on the west side
00:44:47
that Rosie O'Donnell was headlining and then I'm going on I knew Lauren was going to come see me never met him
00:44:52
before and then in comes Brandon tartikoff the head of the network [ __ ] care of Sonny and Cher whoa out so they sat down and then they go now Dana
00:45:05
flarfo so that that was kind of now dingbong all right so you're talking about you're talking about critics I
00:45:11
here's my question for you Dana Carter sure I can't remember when you told me this story but we were comparing notes
00:45:18
on um San Francisco and uh I had I had not lived there for a long time but it really did become this kind of like hotbed of a type of stand-up comedy because what was the main venue there
00:45:30
was it the boarding house was that what it was called well early it was the boring house and then the punch line was the first comedy club that came in and
00:45:36
then we had the intersection depends what era but in the 70s when I was at San Francisco State yeah it was mostly the holy city zoo on Tuesday okay yeah
00:45:47
yeah yeah there was a few of them yeah I'll say so but now you you are Dana Carvey and you're playing the main room
00:45:53
whatever that thing was the main maybe had been the Golden Gate Theater the current or something like that yeah
00:45:58
Great American Music Hall it might have been that and here's what you here's what he said I said oh you still uh are
00:46:04
you still gonna you know you'll go back and and do that often in San Francisco and they say you know I used to but I'm
00:46:10
not going to do it anymore and I said oh why you told me this story you performed
00:46:15
in front of an absolute huge sellout crowd yes you killed you you you you didn't you left to like 17 Standing
00:46:23
Ovation screaming more and more and more they wouldn't let you off the stage you
00:46:29
could you said I could not have had a better reaction from an audience at a stand-up
00:46:36
comedy comedy because it's one of the best shows I've ever done I feel that inside deep inside my soul right and the
00:46:43
critic the next day wrote Dana Carvey re what it rehashes old material and pedestrian uh or whatever yeah whatever
00:46:54
yeah Gerald knockman of this of the San Francisco Chronicle I'm guessing right and there and there you have it there you have this other thing that goes into it there was
00:47:07
undeniably a huge fabulous show that you just put on and someone said yeah uh I've you know I I didn't know until recently that I was really always a
00:47:21
sketch player not a pure stand-up and so it's a delicate environment for me and when I play small clubs around L.A sometimes it's a different sport and I was in a big room and the better I the
00:47:33
more famous I got on Saturday Night Live over time that was the first year my stand-up got shittier and shittier yeah
00:47:39
I get that because I would and then I was getting could you come out and say well and everybody screams because it
00:47:45
sounds like he's going to do the church I remember the first you know first time I could do a college for a lot of money
00:47:51
it was like a year's salary from before SNL but I hadn't done stand up in six months and you're looking at your notes
00:47:57
and you're so you're getting so much money but as your act is getting worse and worse it's like they just cross over
00:48:04
really that day of Shakespeare that we did it's like you come in we read it yeah
00:48:10
Jackson Brown Julia Roberts were you were a man on fire we did 12th night or something I was with you out there who else you were but no it was like these moments where the it was like well
00:48:23
there's a this is a fun thing we really but wait a minute here's Elvis Presley entertaining us somehow you you just you just drove every scene of yours so deep
00:48:34
I think I might have ad-libbed something like you should work more often or something like that you know I just
00:48:40
remember you but it was a fun it's a fun premise this idea we're doing Shakespeare but we can also take these
00:48:46
Flights of Fancy change our voice so it's not going to be work you don't want people to sit there for an evening oh
00:48:52
yeah no it's still if you if you're still doing that I'm around so so David you you're done with SNL and you I
00:49:00
remember you sort of like automatically being part of the Zack guys automatically showing up and working and
00:49:05
being in things well Tommy Boy right off right off the hill the skinny and fatty movie sure yeah huge boy was yeah a
00:49:13
couple years in and then uh written Lauren said to some writers right the way these two are around the office Spade's always poking him and making fun of him and he's falling down and
00:49:24
Performing for him oh it really worked and that was exactly what the movie was because I don't think we could pitch a movie saying two guys in Ohio sell brake pads
00:49:35
I mean it's really the dumbest movie in the world uh that is the secret of any pitch never tell them what it's about yeah because like people go what was that about so uh I think you were
00:49:46
getting to the thing where I finished and what was I doing next and that was very hard because you don't know and it
00:49:53
was timely I left a year late I left after Adam and Chris and Chris Rock was already gone and and
00:50:00
Will Ferrell came in who was perfectly Pleasant and he was [ __ ] great and I'm like I feel like now I'm college and
00:50:06
they're the high school guys coming in I gotta go to college and I yeah I got that I didn't really want to leave but I
00:50:12
didn't really fit in and I thought Dana fit in more because we were all like Buds and I kind of just left and then
00:50:19
they said it was sort of you could probably do your own show after SNL because they
00:50:25
will give you one shot you'll get you'll get it you'll get a shot but you don't even realize if that shot doesn't work it's almost over like if you prove to them it doesn't work when you do your
00:50:37
own show then they everyone scatters you only think that yet but I know after SNL a lot of people go away and so they go
00:50:44
do you want to be the fifth lead on this other show but people like it and NBC likes it and Brandon tartar sauce likes
00:50:52
it and so they go if it gets if that works I'm already 90 there because they already like it there's a good writer from Larry Sanders and blah blah yeah so I just and you had a
00:51:02
Persona you developed a Persona and if I did my own show I'd have to hire a spade guy to run in and do jokes yeah
00:51:09
the the safety of equality Ensemble but you mentioned Chris Rock This was a guy that I mean he just remained Chris Rock and ended up changing the art form in so many ways yeah yeah yeah yeah without
00:51:21
getting that kind of here's the Chris Rock Show here's the thing here's the movies he just kept uh you know being
00:51:27
that she's kind of like Poet Laureate of standing up but I remember him in as an addx the talk show yeah yeah the week
00:51:34
that Andrew Dice Clay was on the show he says Andrew Dice Clay I get I got I gotta what is he said I got a limerick
00:51:41
for you that once was a dude named dice who looked like Don Johnson on steroids big black put in your ass yeah when Rock left he went to the back
00:51:57
door of a stand-up special to come back and he came back huge uh we talked to him the other day and he stand up is
00:52:04
well I'm sorry go ahead I was just saying he he was at the lowest for he left SNL not feeling good about it and
00:52:11
then he went to In Living Color and then they got canceled and he was like I was nowhere and he goes I just hard to
00:52:17
imagine and Living Color getting canceled but I guess he said when he went on Damon and era Keenan wasn't there
00:52:23
and uh it was just a ragtag crew and so it was it had its great greatness and everyone just kind of jumped ship so did you did you see his documentary about hair no I heard it was great daughters
00:52:36
and stuff are like guys just mind bending it's literally a a window a portal into a world that we don't know
00:52:42
anything about yeah yeah his his resume because we we interviewed him and is massive what he's accomplished and the chances he's taken and the specials he's done it's really it's exhausting there's
00:52:55
only one other resume that I read that made me had to take a nap and that was yours that's just because I disgusted oh
00:53:04
look at these times but wait there's more that's what it just says my wife and I watch Bridge of spies that's in our room my Lord that's
00:53:15
you know um that's like a perfect movie I'm in the thing now I I'm able just to say now
00:53:21
I oh oh yeah oh that'd be a blast let me do that I I'm lucky in that way and that
00:53:28
was one of them it was just played into every one of look I read that stuff for pleasure anyway that type of that type
00:53:35
of History yeah and I got to go back to Berlin what was great about that movie is you know we're talk the whole thing
00:53:40
is about the bridge of spies which was this very specific Bridge that in the day had a white line down
00:53:46
the middle of it that said communist on this side pre-World on this side yeah and that's where we shot it I mean we
00:53:52
were literally right there where all this stuff went down you can do that yeah that was crazy great crazy great
00:53:57
Greyhound sorry because it's so recent loved it oh Greyhound see you must hear from people who just love we don't get old-fashioned World War II movies enough well you know the thing I've heard that
00:54:09
has been really very very very rewarding for both me and Aaron Schneider who directed it as we hear a lot from Navy
00:54:17
guys I'll bet yeah well I'll say no one bothers with the particulars of the name
00:54:23
of the North Atlantic but you guys did this is that's the Navy right and you captured the rudimentary technology and you as the captain trying to decide do we go left or right the tension of that
00:54:36
and the cold we had we had this we had this problem we started shooting it we shot it in Baton Rouge and it's like some some form of you know Studio or
00:54:47
whatever it says um listen what it what is a what is the dog watch again and what is midwatch
00:54:53
well that's the that's the name of the of the replacing shifts because everybody big everybody comes and stands
00:54:58
their watch for four hours do we really need four watches can we just have the same guys there all
00:55:07
the time and I said well you can but then look what we lose we lose the sense that the you know Krause has been on the
00:55:13
bridge that entire time and then we only have the same faces over and we don't have a sense of the the passing of the
00:55:19
days yeah it's just really expensive to hire all those actors that's what it boiled down who's that guy that's just
00:55:26
A.D guy hey you know I don't think people production unit manager how hard it is to get a movie right beginning middle end you can read it it's good and then in the editing or in the casting or
00:55:38
in some way it falls apart and I think like even myself I probably have only 30 movies that are great it's top to bottom and I think I've got I got four I'll say
00:55:49
I got four so I have 26 more and they pour pretty good four are pretty good four I can think of four if yeah early 90s that is
00:56:01
ah look at that um [ __ ] bachelor party don't sleep on that uh guys guys I'm I am driving with my wife we've been married for a year and
00:56:13
we're in a car and we're we're driving through the the Wilds of France and Italy we stop at an auto route
00:56:21
um uh place to eat you know the NATO Estrada you know the main highways in Italy and it's like a Howard Johnson's
00:56:28
it's like this big place except the the the the cafeteria it's it's the greatest
00:56:33
Italian food you'll ever have because in Italy they cannot serve bad food they don't live that way so we're having this
00:56:40
this fabulous Feast of self-serve Italian Delicacies and there was a big bus outside that was believe it or not
00:56:46
that Puerto Rican national baseball team that was going around playing exhibitions of American baseball by way
00:56:54
of Puerto Rican players in Italy and we're sitting there eating and putting oil and vinegar and one of the guys
00:57:01
body bachelor party yeah this is like seven years after bachelor party and they said we were just watching it in the bus all right they're driving around Italy playing
00:57:13
baseball watching bachelor party all my movies were from buses of athletes they would all say we watching the plane
00:57:19
watching the bus we watch when they were VHS all right okay all right so let me let me tell you this story about one of
00:57:24
the here comes the mailman okay okay uh movies okay yeah this is absolutely 100 percent true this happened all of our kids were little and so uh
00:57:38
Rob and Michelle Reiner and uh Rita and I say hey let's take the kids to Disneyland for a day they're young
00:57:44
enough to really enjoy so don't that would be great so we work it out we're all going down in the same car the kids
00:57:50
are so small they can fit in the way back so there's Rob and me and Michelle and
00:57:56
Rita and the kids we spend the day at Disneyland and then we're coming back up to 405. and we get stuck in you know
00:58:03
heavy traffic and we're just slowly going along from from here to there now Rob and I appeared in um Sleepless in Seattle we had a bunch
00:58:14
of scenes together and and um uh you know we remember this is fine and we've been friends uh more or less ever since and as we're inching our way through traffic here is one of those
00:58:25
it's at the airport FlyAway bus you know you land at the airport and you can get
00:58:30
on one of these buses and it'll take you to a terminal somewhere else or vice versa so there's a bunch of commuters on
00:58:37
a bus stuck in traffic going to to or from the airport and it's one of these brand new
00:58:43
major buses that is showing a movie on screens up you know for for everybody just to blow time and you know we you kind of edge up to the bus then fall behind and go ahead of
00:58:55
it and the bus we're just doing a Dosey dough right next to each other the same ways and Rob says hey they're showing
00:59:02
Sleepless in Seattle on that bus stop so we're so this is assistant this is hilarious you know maybe when let's try to be next to this bus when our
00:59:15
scene comes up okay so we can watch it on the thing so lo and behold there's a scene where Rob and I are sitting in a
00:59:21
in a in a coffee shop having a discussion about how to date and there we are on the screen in the
00:59:29
commuter bus and some guys watching it so I leaned on the horn honk honk honk honk honk honk honk until this guy hears something and he looks down
00:59:39
and he sees Rob Reiner in the shotgun seat me drive it and we're pointing at ourselves and then pointing to the
00:59:45
screen on his bus he doesn't quite get it for a while and I guess he recognizes Rob and he goes up and then he then he's
00:59:52
what what pants to the screen above and then back down to us and then back up and I'm just like how did that guy talk
00:59:59
tell his wife about what happened at the bus you know I'm watching this movie and then all of a sudden the guys in the
01:00:05
movie all right now this is one of those surreal moments in a show business uh career that is equal equal he looks for
01:00:13
Meg Ryan and the Jetta next year yeah Sandler when he was doing his movie with Jack Nicholson I think anger management he could be driving and Jack would be in the passenger seat they'd go to a
01:00:25
stoplight and people would look at Jack and Jack would just put his face quickly up against the window apparently and
01:00:30
just go just like it's scary what a star I don't want you staring remember you ever you ever come up until those open open-air uh tour buses that drive up and down
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Sunset Boulevard we've been we've been at a stoplight a couple of times you know honked the horn
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and say hey send anybody great you know and then then they all oh my God you know one time I'd have to press Garth
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they go next to him and they go uh and they're on there and I'm like this and they go the guy goes like this David
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made a face then he goes up that's it that's all I got gave the thumb that's it this guy well who who knows who they probably just on that dance Doheny and sunset I'm on Sunset a
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lot so yeah he's fabulous all right uh okay let's let Tom go I mean I know we got [ __ ] 50 more
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things but Tom uh we well guys we could do this I know I love it I love it you know never let me just say one other thing about the SNL days and this is this is about the you know the the
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Cradle of uh creativity that it is the first couple of seasons uh first couple appearances at Iowa and
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there were these three riders that shared a room in the back that was too hot but the between the
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three of them they just they came out with four or five really really great sketches and I called them the Boiler
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Room boys let's see what the boy the room boys come up with in the back they're like the junior Executives you know in charge of sales or something and
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one was Conan O'Brien yeah and one one was Bob Oden the other was the other one was Smigel yeah so you know these guys
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were out there cranking out stuff that was and that's that's the that's the that's why the experience is unlike uh
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any other in Show Business you come across those kind of talents at both at the moments when
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the place where they're just proving themselves and then the other place where they have proven themselves so
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much that it's like on Mondays yes is there any way I could uh do the being the liar schedule
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you know what's good 2021 is the first year that John Lovitz only drops your name once a day now
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when we did we did the first season I and I knew he was from LA and I knew he had been a messenger before you know he got the gig through the Groundlings unless you want to go have lunch so he
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and I just walked down to the Yoshimura noodle bowl so two of us are just sitting there you know eating our noodles and John's you know John's already saying yeah that's
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the ticket you know and I I I'm I've got enough cred that I've been invited to host for the first time you know wow and yet it was just you know kind of like down there saying and wait is it hey is
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this a pickle or what can you believe this kooky thing that's going on were you doing League of Their Own yet or not
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oh no that was long before leaving there I think I had just done I would say nothing in common maybe uh uh
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no yeah I think the musical guest was Sharde here's the musical guest I was on Char day
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um uh Randy Randy Travis huge Eddie Brickell Edie Brickell and the new Bohemians Aerosmith wow Springs Springsteen Tom Petty [ __ ]
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um and uh I'm I'm I might be blank uh and the last time I did it was a Lady Gaga who
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oh Red Hot Chili Peppers I did it with a Red Hot Chili Pepper how many times you do it
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you know I lost him I looked it up well between the uh uh reunion shows I don't know if those things count no I say that if you if you are tasked with being in the monologue you have host the show and
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a couple of those five-timer clubs yeah oh that was that was a bit yeah probably
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10 and then maybe five other and change and change change I think it's I think it's a big deal when you get up into double digits yeah I think only you are second only to Steve Martin maybe well
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no I think I think Baldwin is ahead of it and also John Goodman I think he's done quite good man yeah he was on a
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live second show was Baldwin's first show oh that's great we gotta go Dave um okay so uh all right well one thing I
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I want to say one final thought from Dana the read through when hosts come in and
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are going to cold read 55 sketches for ridiculous the most exciting exciting six hours people like you John Goodman Danny DeVito I could mention a lot more
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where you're listening to them cold read and watching their choices on the fly yeah being just great it's like school
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so it's it's a real skill to be able to read that well you know and cold read you know the writer's going Tom at this as you go to the read through I think you got to play it slow slow down at the
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end on the uh the waiter you know you come in later you know or you're reading it wrong and you see the writer like this over there
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well as as you've hosted now you then have been in Laurens Mike uh Lauren's office immediately after the read through yeah and all all the all 55 sketches are up uh their their titles
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are on cards yeah and just go through each one um uh during a church lady six would you
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like to put that on at six that we put it on church lady six could we do that uh Tom uh and Commander
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Jack Jack Jack Jack likes it now so yeah put it up there can you send Jack Handy and I want to see if he can tighten this
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sketch okay so so uh one of the times I'm doing it I'm working with Jack Handy and I know that he's one of the Legends
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you know he'd been around SNL oh yeah and he told me he told me about I also put out this kind of like goofy little
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magazine called army man I said oh I'd love to read that and so he hands me this essentially five xeroxed pages that
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have been here's my here's my uh here's my here's my magazine it's called army man it was like a funnier than a bad mag it
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was like Mad Magazine can dance down too oh yeah you know just lethal uh heroin style quality uh hilarities silent
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killer really I said I said how do you how do you how is there a way to subscribe to this is
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you can mail you a few you know literally pulling it up send it to you in the mail
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what a what a mind hey guys this has been great I've enjoyed I enjoyed the the stroll down uh your live your lives
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Spade into Carvey Avenue that right here right here I'm going to say with the risk of sounding Show Business sincere this was a complete pleasure
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