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RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman

February 18, 2026 / 56:12

This episode features Chloe Fineman discussing her experiences on Saturday Night Live, impressions, and her comedy journey. Key topics include her collaborations with Dana Carvey, her impressions of celebrities, and her creative process.

Chloe shares her background from the Bay Area and her journey to SNL, mentioning her early influences and inspirations. She recalls her time working with Dana and how they both appreciate the humor in their sketches.

The conversation touches on Chloe's impressions of various celebrities, including Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Coolidge, and how she approaches creating these characters. She reflects on the challenges of performing impressions in front of the actual celebrities.

Chloe and Dana discuss the dynamics of working on SNL, including the pressure to deliver sketches and the collaborative nature of the writing process. They also share anecdotes about their experiences in comedy and the importance of finding one's unique voice.

The episode concludes with Chloe expressing her excitement for upcoming projects and the fun of being part of the SNL cast, highlighting the camaraderie among the performers.

TLDR

Chloe Fineman discusses her SNL journey, celebrity impressions, and the comedy writing process with Dana Carvey.

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Chloe, >> Chloe Fineman, Dana, lovely young lady that was with you more than me. I've
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only seen her. >> I saw her at the Marcelo premiere and then I saw her when I did the show, but
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you're more familiar with her. She's great though. >> Yeah, she's great. And she's from the
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Bay Area. And um we did the um Jennifer Culage sketch, which she asked me to do.
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She wrote it. >> That's right. >> With Ariana Grande, remember her? Oh,
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yeah. >> And uh that was really fun. That was a killer. That got big laughs.
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>> Yeah. So, she's uh just a super talent, lovely young person, funny.
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>> Um >> she may do the most impressions on that on that show. >> She's one of those people. She could
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play characters, do impressions. I mean, she's totally built for sketch comedy.
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>> And the Drew Barrymore, I think I hit her on DM. I didn't know her, but I'm
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like that Drew Barrymore was a killer. like trying to throw out compliments here and there when I watch the show. Um
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or even when I see standups, >> you know, on my feed, >> I'll kick them something just to say,
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"Hey, one more person out there saying good job on that bit." But Khloe's
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great. Um we had a lot of fun with her as always and she's such a sweet uh person.
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>> So, here she is. Chloe Fineman. Okay, Chloe, I have a character, a new character for you.
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>> Nope. >> Uh, a person trying to get on Zoom with technical voices coming in. Go to AR7.
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Do you see a blue dot? No. >> Yellow button in the corner. Like some sort of
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>> Roman numerical numbers in the upper left hand. >> It looks like a kid.
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>> All right, let's let's click out and try again. We've been through this for
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years. It's It's very common. Martin Short took took 45 minutes. >> Did he Okay, that makes me feel
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wonderful. >> I was kind of cited, but I think a half hour. >> Okay. And I took 10 minutes
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>> and I'm That's Yeah, that's Are you guys in LA? >> That that factors out about, right?
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>> Southern California, undisclosed location, you know. Okay. Okay. >> I don't need any paps in my life. like
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like I'm really really getting followed a lot. >> So you're in the white hot world of
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Saturday Night Live and you're living in Manhattan. >> Yeah. >> Wow.
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>> Zooming from the kitchen. >> Did you live in New York before or spend
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time in New York before you got SNL? >> I did. Uh not to be You're from Did you
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ever live in Northern California? >> Oh yeah. No, I'm I'm from uh San Carlos.
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And you're from Piedmont. >> Yeah. Berkeley is what I tell people. is Pedmontland.
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>> Piedmont is a really really nice place. I've done my brother lives there.
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>> But the name kind of >> Pedmont right now. >> Really? That's insane.
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>> Yeah. Well, >> is it next to Kand or not? >> Oakland. Oh, I get it.
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>> God damn. I'll say it one more time. Um, >> I'm not gonna walk you through all of
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them. >> You can only use that joke when someone near Oakland is on the >> My driver. I went to see my brother. Of
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course I have a driver and he goes, "Welcome to Cland." I'm like, >> "What?"
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>> That's >> I keep track of these Keland jokes. That's David's seventh
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within four minutes. >> Wow. No, it was it was more of a marijuana place growing up. I grew up in
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Berkeley and then in high school I moved to Pedmont. >> Berkeley's pretty cool.
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>> Yeah. Cool. >> I just I the first time I lived in New York, uh I was like doing something
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anyway. I was like 25 26 it >> and had never been to New York. So I just wondered you'd lived there before
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and then you get back and now you have the coolest job you can have in New York probably.
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>> Yeah, I went to college here. So I' I've been here in the West Village uh for
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like over almost 20 years. >> That wasn't on your research, was it? Okay.
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My first 20 minutes I got a tear up. >> NO, NO, NO. YEAH, I WENT to school here.
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Um, so I've been here since I was like 18. I'm 35. >> Okay. >> Yeah.
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>> And did you ever walk by Rockefeller Center, you knew that's where SNL was,
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and kind of go, "Huh?" >> I had a really exhausted roommate who was an intern. She was like a page and
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she was so tired but so happy. That was the only >> uh knowledge of it. I I went to like
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drama school, so I thought I would do like Shakespeare. >> I never thought I would
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>> Can you give us a little Shakespeare? What's the ultimate Shakespeare?
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>> Uh Robin Williams did a lot of He was doing Shakespearean stuff and he always
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had one leftover >> Shakespearean thing. He wouldn't use the mic, but he was just being Rob Williams.
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Oh, look, the moon. It hangs low like a tessicle in the sky. Like that was He did that a thousand times.
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>> A bit of a hybrid. Huh? >> Yeah. >> Is this a dagger I see before? I guess.
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Is this a penis I see before me? Come, let me crush thee. Here we go. >> Oh. Oh, common problem. If the mic went
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down, Robin would always go. Oh, common problem. >> He had so many. We love him. But um so
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what else do you want to talk about? Sarah. Sarah Sherman. >> Oh, we know your little doofy buddy
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Sarah. >> Yeah, my little freakazoid pal. how is uh I want to ask you that you did the
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Paramount. She hit me up and said, "We're doing the Paramount after you."
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>> And I was like, "Look at these girls. Within minutes they're doing the same
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theater I'm doing after I've been sweating and slugging it away for 50,000
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years." >> And then um >> I think it probably sound like fun, but
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how does that happen with you two? And then what do you do? >> Uh that's a good You know, we're very
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different, but it works. Um, yeah. Two, I think we're obviously Sarah's like extremely disgusting
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and nauseating and there was like a 30 minute slideshow of a of like a vagina prosthetic that Louis was mad at her
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that he didn't get to make and it is so disgusting. And then I come out and I do
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my impressions, but I make them orgasm. So, it's guess it's like a rated X.
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Yeah. Yeah. I train. >> It's an after dark kind of show. >> Well, you have your crossover audience
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from SNL and so it's more potent and then it would be like me and Dana going
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out. It's like people that like it go, "Oh, if they like one, they'll take the
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other or they like you both." You know, that's always fun. And it sounds like
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it's a very intriguing show that I would see for sure. I think it sounds just fun
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because I don't know what it is. >> So people just want to go cuz you're
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both good and you're both funny. So that's >> and also your personas. We're we're just
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meeting you now, which is fun. And Sarah >> Yeah. >> is uh is sort of sweet. I don't know. Or
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like you're you're not like kind of, >> you know, and then when it then when
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you're working blue, it's has this energy to you. You don't expect you
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don't expect it. >> Two nice little Jewish perverts coming out. >> Yeah, it was good.
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>> Yeah. I saw when we did Chloe the um I used to work at the show, too. when we
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did the um uh whatever Sandler's tour and then she was on a couple with me. It
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was so funny because I didn't know her at all and then she was actually super
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easy to talk to, super fun. She's very magnetic personality. She's very sweet
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and then she gets out. I don't interact at all. Then she's like, "New York,
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where's my New Yorker?" Sticks the mic out and they kind of go, "Hey, there's a
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couple. All right, what about that pizza? How about the garbage?" And then now they've stopped applauding.
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What about abortions? What about that? And she goes on for another 19 times around the side going,
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>> and now I love it because she doesn't give a fat buck at all. >> No, she she did a lot of
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>> chilling abortion material in intense >> abortion chunk. >> Yeah, big abortion chunk.
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>> It was great. >> That's >> You got to follow it. I'd be backstage
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going I'm I'm up there going, should I do 7-Eleven then McDonald's? If you're
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orgasm as your impressions which are really stout I want to hear a few of those by the way that which just to get
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the which one kills the hardest which one they did they eat up >> you know it's different it's different
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every place um I I've been doing it for years I'm always like god this is so
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hack but you know not everyone's I'd say like Drew Barammore starts strong there
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they all they all do pretty good and then I think I do way too many than I should people get then they're kind of
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like laughing just to be nice. >> In Texas, the Ted Cruz orgasm does better.
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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. There's like some old like an old Melania Trump one. I do them all. I just
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do them all. >> Oh, you do? Do you do Melania? >> Mhm. >> Did I say it right?
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>> I think so. >> Melania. >> Malania. >> Melania. >> Close enough.
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>> Melania. Yeah, >> we know what we're talking about. And do you do I've seen you do uh
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men. Is it harder or is it is there any difficulty to do men? >> I can do like beautiful boys. I think
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like a boyish a beautiful boyish man is much easier. Real real men. Um no I think they're so hard. Harry Styles I
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remember like doing in front of Harry Styles at the show and I bombed so badly. Horrible horse.
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Was it? >> No, no, no. And and like he was like looking at me in disgust. But yeah,
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doing it and I' and I most of the men I do, I happened to do it in front of them.
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>> God, you just get them delivered to your front door. Timothy Shalamé is kind of
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your I mean, he's he's so huge right now. You're the only one who >> does him. There it is. Yeah.
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>> Kind of. >> Yeah. But he is nice about it. You can tell it's I don't know. I'm like a lot
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older than I just feel like this like weird older woman just like obsessed with these little boys. He's very kind
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about it. Um but it's hard not to I don't know if you have this where you
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like slip into the slip into the voice when you're around the person. No, >> because you're sort of mimicking you're
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picking it up as you go probably. >> Yeah. And they give you all these G like
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Yeah. He was totally totally >> Dane is great at that. Well, uh, we're you know, sister,
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brother from another mother. Yeah. With your Timothy, uh, you Yeah. You find you
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find these rhythms and hooks and then they really help you get in. It's like,
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what's that sound you just made as Timothy? >> Yeah, it was like listening to a lot of
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interview. This was like before he became huge. I I started working on him and it was like, you know, growing up in
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New York. Uhhuh. And you're growing up in New York as an actor and it kind of
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like rhythmically like goes like that and then he laughs. >> Yeah. And that's it.
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>> Yeah. >> Just like a 19-year-old billionaire. He's like the most famous guy. They
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don't they they don't give a [ __ ] That's why he doesn't get back.
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>> You're kind of you're in that mold where you're accurate, but you're also an
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abstractionist. You're you're making it into a character. >> I tried to I think that's like after
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hearing like Lauren will talk about other people. You know how he I don't know if he does that to you where he
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talks about other people to tell to kind of have you glean insight into yourself
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and he'd always talk about you or Fred >> and not being having a take. Yeah. Not
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being like so it's not like um a biopic, >> right? It's just sort of a it's it's
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only it's probably going to get laughs. Sorry, Dan. It's probably going to get
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laughs. Meanwhile, I'm the guy that doesn't do impressions. But it gets more
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laughs when I watch you or Dana. >> You do do an impression of your >> I say your little Yeah. But I show your
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Lord. I show your little Lord. >> God damn. I thought of a good >> How long did it take you before you had
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a Lauren? Like day one or >> Yeah, >> honey. As I think as soon as I sat
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across from the first time I met him, I was like, this is never leaving. Um the first thing he asked when you have
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to like meet him he was I'm from the Bay Area and he was like are your parents
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hippies? And then that was >> I like when he talks nothing about like you're auditioning for the show. Come in
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come in wait five hours then you come in he's like >> do you like baseball? You're like what?
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>> I know >> it's just something nothing about show business or anything. I just like to get
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a feel. >> He told me once I go Lauren I'm looking for an apartment. What are you up to
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David? He's totally bored with nothing else to do. Come in. And I'm like, "Oh."
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And then he goes, "Sit down." I'll make some calls. And then he goes, "Uh, when
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he's done with the calls, he goes, "What's going on with you?" Basically,
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like, "Are you still on the show?" So, I go, "Yeah, yeah." And, uh, I go, "Yeah,
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I'm looking for an apartment, but I'm a little torn because one's like uh upper
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west side and one's like lower upper west side, but one was a little more expensive." And he goes, "It's important
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where you live." >> And I go, >> I know he's >> right. I think it's more of the price
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point. >> Yes. Wait. The thing he said to me, which is why I'm always like, which is
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why we're trying to do these Paramount shows as much as possible. He was like,
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>> "Yeah, >> you always want to live in a place you can't quite afford."
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>> Oh, it's very close to what he said to me. Exactly. It's very important. So,
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money is not a problem. And I'm like, is is it though? Oh, I think it is. >> I think
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>> Do you have you been in a u like Okay, you're on 8H and Lauren's office is on
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the ninth floor and there's glass. I'm painting a picture for the listeners and
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then you see the rehearsal down there and you're up there hanging out with him
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talking about something and then in his own incredible Lauren way, you know, be like Kevin's going through that, you
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know, it's the second season and where is this? You know, he psychoanalyzes.
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Not not in a very sweet way, not mean, but >> you always wonder what he says about you
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when you're down there. >> I'm so terrified. I I have very close friends who are writers on the show and
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they just will not tell me. And I know it's I know it's awful and would like
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never get out of my head. >> What Khloe's is she's kind of stuck in a
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uh and you're like >> what? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But then I feel like when he talks about
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other people and maybe it's that crazy making but you're like is he trying to
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say something about me you know where it's like well show and show was you know if you're doing the same thing you
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did in your first year and your fifth year it's time to go you know and you're
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hard not hard not to be like >> yeah it's hard to take it constructively
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and move on. >> Yeah. Remember one time he said to me, "Any anything new or are you pretty much
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played out?" >> I know. I don't >> Did Bush Senior and Bush Jr. have
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another baby? There might be another third one to do. >> Yeah. And it does kind of scare you. I
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mean, I was This is in ' 80s, early 90s. I'd worry about the show cuz he'd get me
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worried and I'm like, "It's summertime." And I'm like, >> and you're also Well, you know, but it's
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remarkably the same. >> Chloe, I have one. He told me, "This is the last thing we'll talk about." He
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said, "Uh, he goes, uh, I see you on a lot of talk shows." >> I go,
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>> he goes, "Anything to add to that?" And he goes, "Well, they can't miss you if
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you don't go away." Oo, that's a good one, though. That's a lot of talk shows.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, hey, not >> it's like doing commercials. I think he
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was saying in general with celebrities, do a movie, lay low. That that was actually the old school now.
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>> Yeah. >> Now it's podcast and [ __ ] but you know, just go away and but that doesn't work
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anymore. You can't go away. There's no way to do it. >> Back to Chloe's.
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>> Back to her. >> We like her fowl. >> I'm trying to Oh, >> Chloe, what's a pee fowl?
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>> Gosh, that was a >> Is that a peacock? Yeah. Yeah. It's like >> uh maybe first impression. Yeah. We had
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a bird calling contest at my weird high school. >> Uh and then we were flown and went on
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David Letterman when I was like 15. >> [ __ ] sweet. >> He was kind of dirty. Yeah. Yeah. He
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said or we were dirty. We didn't know we were we said something about like feeling your inner bird, but you were
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like these like 15year-old girls. It was weird, but it was on TV. And >> was that dirty?
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>> I don't know. He was like, "Whoa." Uh, >> I think I saw that. I think
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>> you saw her doing her pee foul. >> Yeah, I I remember the bird call thing
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and it sound Just do it again because it's reminiscent. I must say all the way.
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>> It was the way. >> Oops. >> You have to get up. >> No. No. The way they do it in the high
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schools like you you kind of put on like sketch. It's like you do bird sketch.
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You you like develop a skit, >> right? >> Right. My friend and I did like some
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like arsenic and old I don't know. We were these two old British ladies and then and then the bird call happens. And
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so the people who win the bird calling contest ultimately I feel like have not hellishly bad sketch comedy.
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>> That's great. You know I do one. Watch this. This is birds in the morning.
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God, I'm not hitting the high. Wait, your sound went out. You do really quiet
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birds. >> Yeah, dude. I play it. >> Why? Wait, what's the other one? Oh,
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here's a bird flying away. Ready? >> You know what? >> That could have fit right in to your
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high school. >> No, you totally the the easiest one was someone if you like grab your throat for
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turkey. It's like >> that's early first year. So, when you when you're when you're a little kid and
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you're uh you're seeing people on TV doing what you're doing now, do you
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remember that feeling or >> and then you're actually doing it, it's
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kind of cool. I mean, did you you I'm trying to think of your age group like
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who blew your mind when you were 10? >> Well, we I mean, you you guys certainly
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did. We had uh I'm older, so we had VHS like best of VHS tapes that I watch >> reruns.
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>> Yeah. No, no, they were like compilation. >> Yeah. VHS's and my best friend had all
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of them and we'd stay up and watch them all the time as kids. And then when I
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was like in high school, that was like the Kristen Wolf Will era. >> But I've been watching it since I was
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like I have a video of me as a toddler in Berkeley and the cone heads are playing in the back.
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>> You know, it's just forever. >> Love the cone. >> And was your dad an actor or
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>> my dad is a is improv guy? No, he's in biotech. >> Oh, >> I just thought maybe I was taking
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>> He's insane. My mom is a painter and my dad uh when my mom was pregnant with my
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sister would take me to improv at Fort Mason in San Francisco. >> Okay. >> And there were a lot of like a Robin
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Williams friends and uh >> her and and I would go to this class with Rob Schneider would take this drop
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in class. >> Yeah. And then I would do it as a a little kid >> and then he retired re like I don't know
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10 years ago and now he goes twice a week once on Saturday in San Francisco and then in Marin in Mil Valley on
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Wednesdays with my mom >> Mil Valley >> Schneider's from Half Moon
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>> I have a house there >> do you okay I believe you and I might have at one point had the same doctor
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Mel, >> whoa, he would show you the other guys X-rays. Huh? Interest. >> He'll bring it up offline. I don't know.
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I had a weird doctor who claimed to like do you or do your doctor stuff. >> Oh, really?
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>> You should see. Here's some clips of Dana's colonoscopy. If you have
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>> Sam's I have a doctor. I still have an MD in San Francisco. >> Oh, no.
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>> Is this boring you, David? I'm sorry. Dr. Dana says, >> "No, it is." But Dana also his uh when
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he calls in for his prescriptions, his doctor, his secretary goes, "Oh, no. I
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need your address." >> Well, no. I call in for the same prescription every 30 days. She's very
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sweet. You want to do what? Oh, >> yeah. I need the same one I did last month. Oh, I'm going to have to talk to
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the doctor. And then 30 days later, hi, it's Dana. Same prescription, same pharmacy.
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>> So awesome. >> Oh, you want to do what? What? >> Well, don't a lot of people call for
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prescriptions. Oh, yes. But so what was >> wait I I have a Chloe question.
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>> Yeah. >> Why? I have more of my nurse impression on >> I love how she goes, "Oh, she's
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confused." Oh, you have a question for our guests. >> Well, first of all, she's into fashion.
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I wonder if this green pops on Zoom. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay, that's that's one.
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>> Definitely. >> And uh that's from someone who has an Instagram where there's like always like
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it's funny to see you go from ser funny Chloe then you're like serious like
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knockout like >> fashion show. >> Blue Steel. >> It's good.
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>> Um I won't bore you with that. Also, Nicole Kidman, I did a comment on one of
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yours Instagrams because the way you say no is so funny and I was trying to relive it with letters, but how is the
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proper way to say no? >> It's kind of n a r. >> I think it's like n u u u u u u u a a a
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e e r. Nor >> can I It's so I mean do you do you >> do you try to do these impressions or
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they sometimes just come to you like do do you seek out okay I'm going to do a
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Nicole Kidman sometimes at SNL it helps if you're assigned someone and you're
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like okay I got to try to learn it >> but who no one else does Nicole Kidman
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or is anyone else >> not really I feel like I feel like most >> except for Keith Urban
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you cornered the market. >> I think I I have weird taste. I just like I don't know. Merryill like I
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auditioned with like Merryill Street, Nicole Kid, Greta Gerwig. Like I just really like
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>> Greta Gerwig. >> Yeah, that was like that Gerwig. >> Laura last
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thing he laughed at in my audition. I heard him chuckle. >> What was your take on her? Yeah.
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>> Greta Gerwig. >> Her like Oh, yes. Yes. And she talks in you know these little uh Yes. like
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shapes and gestures, you know, cuz like he Yeah, he had like a thing. >> That's funny if you didn't even know who
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it was. >> I just remember it's usually like I get inspired I guess when people win awards
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like there's like them on talk shows you get a lot but I think when someone's
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like having like an emotional thing happen I guess like winning an Oscar. I just find it so funny like Greta Gerwig
00:24:06
was like yes yes yes these women yes yes like they're hyperventilating that's how
00:24:12
I got my Francis McDorman was like okay I'm hypervental okay you know like inclusion writer but like she had a
00:24:20
hyperventilating I don't know that's that's usually when they come to me I
00:24:24
don't really seek them out I just makes me laugh so hard >> about award shows and that what you're
00:24:29
talking about does it feel like sometimes they'll win the Oscar like Francis McDorman and then they'll come
00:24:36
up and they're exactly the character like she's this tough totally you know
00:24:40
kind of alpha woman >> and sometimes maybe to win an Oscar you're just go super far away from the
00:24:48
character so that >> when you get up there you're like you're like talking like this or you're playing
00:24:53
some street hood or something. >> Uhhuh. >> Just just an observation. Go.
00:24:59
>> This is like every every acting class I was ever ever in. You're alone. You're Italian. Go,
00:25:05
>> go, >> go. >> Um, >> yeah, she's a name. >> I want to fan out on some of these.
00:25:13
Okay, we've already done those, which I love. Reese Witherspoon, which is like
00:25:17
just a sound kind of. It was like, >> uhhuh. Yeah, it was like I was watching
00:25:23
her on Oprah and the way she said >> Oprah made me or she was like, I'm not
00:25:28
Oprah. And then she'd be like, I'm on murder. The way she said murder like
00:25:31
really helped me. It's like in her throat like you know it's like I mean
00:25:39
I guess I do everything is ultimately a bird call. I'm realizing. >> Yeah. Really?
00:25:47
>> Yeah. Kind of how I sound. >> Jennifer Culage is just so such an interesting
00:25:55
>> You do that right? You must. >> No, I don't. Who? Dana froze. Did I
00:26:01
freeze? Keep going, Chloe. >> Almost in a almost in a Jennifer Coolage way.
00:26:07
>> You can go. Yeah. >> Oh, I mean I everyone I know has been doing that impression since we were like
00:26:14
10 because we American Pie. >> Oh, that's right. >> Yeah. But Lauren likes Greta Gerwig
00:26:23
because I think when you come on SNL I only had one impression but if you come on and do something that hasn't
00:26:30
>> been done >> like yeah like walking as at this point but to do early walking was great like I
00:26:36
didn't do it but when you saw we saw them I think J Moore there was some back
00:26:39
in the day I'm like oh my god because you don't see it and then you see it and
00:26:43
you go oh it's so clear. >> Totally. >> It's good to find those and and so if
00:26:47
you see somebody new that's great. >> Yeah. I also find I I think it was when
00:26:51
I was like auditioning there were it was like don't do Drew Barammore, don't do
00:26:55
Jennifer Coolage, don't do Christopher Walkin, just stay away. But then I ended
00:27:00
up doing Drew Barmore just because I thought mine was really good. >> I was like, "Yeah,
00:27:08
>> uh but I I do think that's that's fun." And if I see people do like God, I saw
00:27:13
someone do like Rosamman Pike the other day and I was like that's awesome. Like
00:27:17
that it's exciting. you know. >> Yeah. Because it's not someone who's
00:27:22
overexposed. So then you really have to go, oh, then you go, "Oh, that's it."
00:27:27
You know? >> Totally. Totally. But I'm lazy. I find it hard. I find it if I make a goal of
00:27:33
doing an impression. It's kind of it's it's kind of a bad feeling when you
00:27:37
first start and you don't have it at all and you're just doing it to yourself in
00:27:40
a room and you have no you're horrible. I can't do it at all. >> It's really a weird How do you do it?
00:27:46
You just What's your process? Sorry. >> It's It's that. No, it's totally that. I
00:27:51
mean, I remember and now I feel like once you've done enough of them, I feel
00:27:54
like in a weird way they all sound the same, and so you're like, I'M NOT GOOD
00:27:58
ANYMORE. >> You're starting with the same voice, your own voice, and it's hard to make it
00:28:04
so different every time. >> Yeah. It was easy when I was like alone in LA. Like Shalom was really bad at
00:28:10
first, but I had like the luxury of just kind of being like sad and alone in my hot apartment with no air conditioning.
00:28:17
I don't know. Like that was >> Yeah. >> Easy. And then I was doing stuff at UCB
00:28:22
and the Groundlings at the time. And the worst one I've ever done and I still
00:28:26
can't get it was Lennena Dunham. I was like for a UCB show and I think it was
00:28:30
like if they sound a little too close to your own to my voice. It's like I can't
00:28:36
my brain just like doesn't know what to do. >> Right. Also, I don't think people maybe
00:28:41
they know when they're listening, but a lot of it is also not just you. It's a
00:28:46
writer knocking at your door at like 1:00 a.m. on Tuesday going, "Hey, can you do a Sydney Sweenie?" Because we got
00:28:51
to do an interview scene. You're like, "Oh, oh, tomorrow. Okay." And then you
00:28:55
just have to kind of go, >> "All right, I got to find something."
00:28:58
And then a funny wig. And then, you know, things could help it a little bit. But
00:29:01
>> totally, >> you've got to uh you got to be ready when you get assigned someone in a
00:29:06
sketch. >> I do feel like if I'm really stuck, laughs are such an in. >> Oh,
00:29:12
>> yeah. mouth the way their mouth what their mouth is doing and their laughs.
00:29:18
>> Anyway, that was that >> their mouth can move around a lot. >> No, I just find it interesting like
00:29:23
you're uh Okay, so you do all these impressions and every everybody knows it
00:29:28
and then you're doing characters and you kind of in a way you don't want to be
00:29:32
couched as like people today. It doesn't really matter to me at this point. >> Oh, you're the impressionist guy. Well,
00:29:38
I go what about Church Lady G and Hans and Fron? They go, "Oh, so you know,
00:29:44
>> inventing Chloe, just you as an actress." Oh, this is my new character.
00:29:50
You want to do You want to do what? I'm going to have to talk to Lauren. Uh, but I just thought uh in inventing
00:30:01
Chloe was such a cool and uh Piper Dunster and >> I I feel like someone who can has an ear
00:30:08
and can do these things can also of course do all these other things. >> It's just that it's on demand on
00:30:15
Saturday Night Lives. There's a lot of demand for celebrity impressions. So,
00:30:19
it's great for someone with >> biggest payoff talent. >> Yeah. I feel like all of us kind of, you
00:30:24
know, you like find the thing that you can get on the show in your first year or two. Sarah disgusting.
00:30:31
>> Uh me, Sarah's like prosthetics, brilliant. And then I was like impressions and then you know, you're
00:30:37
like, okay, this is like my life raft. Um but now that I'm in my fifth year,
00:30:41
like I don't really this year. I don't know. It's it's nice that we can stretch
00:30:46
ourselves. >> You keep coming up. >> Yeah, you go crazy. was like, "Guys,
00:30:50
nobody do a six foot tall vagina this week cuz I'm doing it." And I was like,
00:30:54
"Okay, is that like an update thing?" >> Yeah. >> But Sarah says that like Sarah's done
00:30:59
like amazing characters this year and like these awesome pre-tapes and I kind of really focused on pre-tapes for like
00:31:07
back like last year and the year before that was like the thing. And now I've
00:31:10
done a lot more live. I don't know. It's cool. You can really like stretch
00:31:13
yourself at the show. What was the character you did a pre-tape with during co where you had a short blonde wig and
00:31:18
then you you played both parts? >> Oo. >> Yeah. Oo. And then you were and she was
00:31:23
living with you and then you had to film. Did you have to do that all yourself or not?
00:31:27
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My boyfriend filming. >> Yeah. He was in the other room uh
00:31:32
working on a Quibby show wanting to absolutely murder me the whole time. >> RIP.
00:31:39
RIP. Are you drinking hairspray? What is that? A water bottle. >> I have I have a notion. I don't know
00:31:51
what it is, but I I I when I think of you as an actress and wanting to really commit. There's something in my head
00:31:58
here that it's you and Sarah. Probably presentational, like some sort of science uh symposium to high school kids
00:32:06
or something. And there's little volcanoes and goo. and Sarah starts to make sexual innuendos and you're just
00:32:13
get really really mad like you accelerate to I will [ __ ] you up you know basically without saying that if
00:32:21
you do that one you take her aside I just think you letting go with that kind of anchor on
00:32:27
>> anger on her doing >> maybe it's a sign yourself but just the
00:32:31
rhythm of that I see you >> being so funny in that character >> we were talking with
00:32:38
>> I No, that's really we we want to go again. Like when it was Sarah's first
00:32:43
year and we got the please don't the PDD boys to stay up till like 5 in the morning writing this sketch where we
00:32:51
were like it we were kids. We were sisters who had come home trick-or-treating. are covered in
00:32:56
chocolate like on a sugar high and it was Jason Sedakus and him and Heidi were like realizing they were going through a
00:33:03
divorce and he kept like interrupting being like I don't know and it was the hardest bomb
00:33:10
ever. The guys were like that is the worst sketch we've ever done and she and
00:33:16
I haven't written since. We haven't done anything like it's so >> yeah we got to get over we realized that
00:33:22
in Austin like I haven't ridden with the PDD since this candy thing. >> It's like really you bought yourself a
00:33:28
year. >> Can you get eye contact in the hallway with >> Oh yeah. No way. We like love each
00:33:33
other. I just was like God and it was so long ag. But sometimes when you when you bomb
00:33:40
that badly it's like hard to recover a bit. Well, what if you're at science fair and
00:33:46
you're in high This is more of a sketch because it'll dry her and then she goes,
00:33:49
"It's like the volcano is is coming." And then you go, "Can I talk to you for
00:33:53
a second?" >> same pull and go, "What? What do you I want to see you escalating getting
00:33:59
angry, you know, like hair a frizzy wig and I will f I just FEEL LIKE >> YEAH,
00:34:06
>> BASICALLY. I don't know. >> Do the PD guys do all the work?" No,
00:34:13
>> they take your suggestions. >> Um, no, they Yeah, they work they work
00:34:18
really well with the cast. Um, and then they do their own stuff. Jake >> one for them.
00:34:24
>> Oh, no. No, they don't never do that. Although >> although there's a writer Jake Nordwind,
00:34:30
who pitched >> Oh, he pitched something to them and it didn't it didn't go. But, you know,
00:34:36
they're open to I there's a lot of like today is Monday, so when I get to work,
00:34:41
everyone will be in Mike Denzo and Jake's office or PDD's office and they
00:34:46
all kind of like give each other ideas in a way, >> right? >> Who's the host?
00:34:52
>> Duipa. >> Oh, nice. >> Who's the music? >> Duipa.
00:35:00
>> Um, who's going to be in most of the sketches? >> Dip. There's a lot of doubles lately. I
00:35:06
don't know if I love it. >> I said da. There's a lot of duas. Get it? That was so bad.
00:35:11
>> Yep. >> I'm all week. >> I used to be a licensed therapist. Oh, I
00:35:17
didn't know that. So, what are you? You're five years in. You're doing great
00:35:22
on the show. You have all your buddies there. You're in the trenches with everybody.
00:35:26
>> Yeah. >> Um, what what's your what what is your headsp space like? Are you feeling like
00:35:31
cuz some people like Eddie Murphy day one they're like at a 10 as far as comfort
00:35:37
>> there in your fifth season are you feeling good excited or you're still
00:35:42
>> like where are you at where you at? WHERE YOU AT? >> WHERE YOU AT? Where you at? Uh I mean we
00:35:48
only have three shows left so I definitely and it's 80 degrees in New York so it's definitely that like senior
00:35:55
>> vibe. I also think summer it is a little bit there's also I remember uh there
00:36:02
there's like those life rafts you need in a year you know like you need enough
00:36:06
things to hit to feel like you're not getting fired. I still I mean because I
00:36:09
knew people in their fifth year who did get let go you know so it's it never
00:36:12
goes away. >> It's a common feeling. >> Yeah. And I think now I'm kind of like
00:36:17
well so and so needs a like making sure enough people need wins. Although that's
00:36:22
just what other writers have said. They're like I'm not going to write with
00:36:24
you. They say wins. I never even heard that. >> Wins, you know, just something that they
00:36:28
make their mark. >> Really? No, it makes sense. >> Hits. Yeah. They were like, "You've had
00:36:32
a good You had a good run. >> Had a couple doubles, but not a home run lately."
00:36:37
>> Yeah. Yeah. They're like, "I need to help." Because when you reach out to
00:36:40
writers, like, "I need that. I'll try and help you with this, but I need to
00:36:43
help soand so get a hit." >> It is hard to ask a writer. I would ask Smiggle or I'd ask Conan, and they're
00:36:51
like, they're already busy with something. It's hard to go. Hey, I have knock. I have a dog [ __ ] idea that's not
00:36:56
formed at all. >> Could you spend >> uh three hours cracking the code with me
00:37:01
to make it a C++? >> Yeah. Yeah, we're busy. >> NO, I HAVE A LOT OF LIKE I I don't know.
00:37:08
I I'm not as like brazen about writing. Like I'm like I have to have I hate
00:37:12
wasting their time and like I'm the most nervous on the show just in terms of
00:37:17
like letting writers down and and the fears that they won't want to work with
00:37:21
me again because that is like the only way to survive the show. >> And so yeah, I don't really care about
00:37:29
if the sketch I guess I only care about like well these people help me write it AND IF THEY CUT IT THOSE PEOPLE AREN'T
00:37:35
GOING TO WRITE with me again, you know? So like that is a big part of it and and
00:37:39
having enough Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. And and it is that thing of like I can waste this writer's time for
00:37:44
like two hours trying to crack my horrible idea or I can just like >> wispy idea
00:37:51
>> suffer alone until I s somehow have an idea. I've gotten better with that. I
00:37:56
don't like suffocate writers to help me as I don't know. If I don't have
00:38:01
something I'll be like I'm gonna I'm just going to sleep on this and not like
00:38:05
ruin someone's I don't want to ruin relationships. You just gave me a sense
00:38:10
memory of like Tuesday night at 2 am. >> I know. Sick. >> And you're in a room with a writer and
00:38:16
everyone's just like this. >> Yeah. >> And the idea the sule is just deflated.
00:38:22
It's just like >> five minutes of no talking and then like >> what if maybe if
00:38:30
>> Farley could come in um you know >> fall through the ceiling and save it.
00:38:35
>> It's horrible. >> That's us. No one's No one is laughing.
00:38:38
Everyone's like bloodshot eyes and it's like well Kenan could enter Kenan's are
00:38:43
>> you always Yeah. 100%. >> Yeah. >> Right. K Kenan is so articulate and so
00:38:50
clear and he has such a strong voice and he has like a mischievous vibe about him. Like he's not breaking but you
00:38:58
clearly see he's enjoying it. By the way, I just want to ask you >> really held together that beas and
00:39:02
butad. I was going to ask you about the beavers and butad because I know you came came in at the end I think and yeah
00:39:08
and >> so I thought because um Ryan Gosling is such a huge star and his attitude he's
00:39:17
>> he's kind of breaking the whole show but it's so entertaining. >> Yeah.
00:39:21
>> So cuz people but that's the that's kind of a famous show and now a famous sketch
00:39:26
of the most broken. So just speak to your from your POINT OF VIEW. >> IT WAS well for Mikey. None of us knew
00:39:36
that's what he even when we were >> Oh, really? That's what I thought. They
00:39:41
escalated it, right? >> We knew. Yeah. Like when we blocked it on Thursday, everyone was laughing just
00:39:46
cuz of the the lines that Ryan and Mikey have are so stupid. Like I think Ryan has a line Yeah. where he's like, "I
00:39:53
actually have a really busy life." Like that would always make Mikey like >> the dumbest line ever. I actually have a
00:40:00
>> And you think he's not talking to him? He's like this guy over here.
00:40:03
>> Yeah. Yeah. And then they adlived on Thursday or maybe it was Friday when we
00:40:07
were blocking the like I don't know this. Hi John, nice to meet you. Like that was added.
00:40:12
>> Um but the Yeah, just Mikey just looked so [ __ ] dumb. It was it was shocking.
00:40:19
What was the difference in his makeup between because everyone had seen it at >> Yeah, we all saw it at dress. I think it
00:40:25
was just the It was like this. >> He just changed >> amped it up a few percentage points.
00:40:32
>> He just made himself like 20% dumber. >> It's all you need. >> Yeah. And Kenan never like Keenan
00:40:40
carried that like I don't think the worked as much if you didn't doing that
00:40:44
to the point when like it kind of got it rolling. >> Yeah. By the time it got to me, I was
00:40:48
like, I can't like super break. It's annoying. Like, >> yeah, right. It was already Yeah, cuz
00:40:54
>> did Heidi stop? >> Heidi was already That was Yeah, >> yesterday.
00:40:58
>> Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I'll see her today. I haven't seen her.
00:41:02
Ask her. >> Yeah. Heidi never breaks. That was what was so >> like delightful.
00:41:08
>> And it was more than a break. It was laugh out loud. That was a gut laugh. It
00:41:12
It made me laugh. I think that thing has like 20 million views or something. I mean, it's really kind of
00:41:18
>> It's awesome. >> Did Mike Yeah. >> Well, Mikey and Heidi have known each
00:41:22
other forever, so I think it's also like two >> long time friends. I I think she's Yeah.
00:41:29
with a lot of love for each other. So, it's like it was so heart heart. It was
00:41:33
Yeah, there was a lot of love behind that, too. >> It was just great. It was fun to see.
00:41:37
Everyone looked funny in it. uh the beautiful head and then just seeing that and then she really like got like she
00:41:42
can't stop which is always fun to watch >> just a fun one and Ryan Gosling's a huge
00:41:48
star >> the construction of of the writing of having Kenan be the voice of the
00:41:53
audience like hey >> stupid AI conversation >> but that and that and that and then the
00:41:58
seriousness and back and forth it's sort of just a really well >> yeah it operated on all cylinders
00:42:05
>> it did but I don't know if you know this but like they have pitched that sketch
00:42:09
so many times. I didn't know that. >> Really? >> Oh, yeah. There's a Jonah Hill dress
00:42:14
rehearsal you can watch. There's >> Wow. >> Oh, yeah. This is like the third time,
00:42:20
maybe. And they said the Jonah Hill one's like hilarious. It just never like
00:42:25
made it past the finish line. So, it was cool when air when it happened on air, all these writers came down like
00:42:31
Streeter Sidell was there watching it because I think he has taken that thing to table like five times. Jeez. Whoa. A
00:42:38
motivational speaker didn't get on right away. That took a long time >> really.
00:42:43
>> And that's people would be shocked. And actually the writer Bob Odenkirk had
00:42:46
left and then we came back in the season and did it. >> Uh that's a that's a weird scenario.
00:42:52
>> That's crazy. have new cast members. Uh, which ones have come on since in the last five
00:43:02
years? So that you would be the wy veteran or or you came in with Bowen and >> just Shane for a
00:43:11
>> Shane. Yeah. >> Did you meet Shane when that happened or you never even got to meet?
00:43:16
>> No. No. A part of me like No, I I met him at like a one of those like Lauren
00:43:20
baseball games like two years later and he was so sweet. >> Um, You get us some hot dogs, Chloe.
00:43:28
>> Yes. Where'd you go? >> Where do you want? Relish chain. >> Where?
00:43:32
>> You met him there? He was there. >> Yeah. At a baseball game like two years
00:43:36
later. Yeah. It was crazy. >> Oh, two years later. >> Yeah. Yeah. But Bowen was a writer
00:43:42
before I was. So, I really felt very new. But Bula, Dan Boula and I were the were the same year. Uh, and
00:43:52
>> love Dan Bula. >> Genius. Genius. is solid. Solid. And you came in as feature writer or just
00:43:59
feature or >> cast. I was just cast. >> What? >> No. No. Feature cast feature player. I
00:44:06
think they call it a player. >> Yeah. And then gosh, who came after me? >> Uh, then it was like Andrew
00:44:14
just can't remember. >> Do you know everyone who's on the show? >> Yeah, I do. Even though I'm acting like
00:44:24
you're >> I was just trying TO REMEMBER. >> IT WAS LIKE me and Bowen. Then I feel
00:44:29
like it was punky Andrew Lauren Hall. Then came the Sarah J. This guy Aristotle year. Then then they brought
00:44:37
in a hundred people. Marello, Michael, Devin, and Molly. Four. >> Who does the impressions and she's not
00:44:46
there anymore? >> Melissa. >> Melissa. Melissa. >> Yeah, Melissa was already there. Yeah.
00:44:51
Yeah. Yeah. She was like three years in when I started. Melissa had been there for four or five years.
00:44:57
>> I see her in Marella. >> One thing that that speaks to your ability is the understudy sketch where
00:45:03
you did Melissa and you did um Kate >> to them. >> Um that was kind of interesting. How did
00:45:11
they take that? Or >> I was so scared especially like you know I think we are all really close but you
00:45:18
know when I started the show like Kate had been on the show for like nine years and was a superstar but it was one of
00:45:24
the loveliest weirdest I was about to be like down to earth and very down to earth but like paid I was
00:45:31
like I think I'll get a kick out of it but like Cesley I was really intimidated. All those women I was so
00:45:36
intimidated by. But then it was sort of this like sweet sets was like so into it
00:45:41
which was shocking and Kate was great. Um and I I was like it was a thing too when I had started if you had a pre-tape
00:45:49
I'd written actually with Dan Bow we wrote this murder show and like just getting those super seniors to be in
00:45:56
your video was so hard. So I was like shocked that they even were open to being in a pretape
00:46:02
>> super seniors. I like >> I've had I've had things turned down.
00:46:06
Yeah. >> What? That was that was already approved >> of like recast.
00:46:11
>> Yeah, I've had that. Mhm. >> Yeah. I wouldn't do that anymore. Yeah.
00:46:16
I'm not revealing anybody, but you know. But then >> Well, you have you How many Kate has
00:46:22
never Kate was always in everything and that meant a lot to me. I've never turned anything. I love the pre-tapes. I
00:46:29
could be there for hours. >> Pre-tapes are tough. I know. Do you do you don't do them? When do you start?
00:46:33
That's my last question. When do you start on pretapes? Because we used to only do them, Dana. Right after
00:46:38
readthrough or >> like on a Wednesday. No. >> Thursday. >> Wednesday. Thursday kind of.
00:46:44
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Because how do you know what's what's approved before Brian Gosling gets her?
00:46:48
Do you get him working Monday morning? >> No. Well, now they're doing these
00:46:52
promos. So, like I have to shoot a promo tomorrow as >> where you walk around with a host or do
00:46:57
something. >> Yeah. Yeah. They're like, "Can you do a dual aer impression?" I'm like, "No." So
00:47:01
I'll I'll do like I'll find some bird call version of her tonight. >> So you literally right now just for our
00:47:08
listeners. So you've been assigned this impression. >> Yeah. >> And you have to have it down by tomorrow
00:47:14
and you don't have it right now. >> No, she's British. No, I'm not like a
00:47:18
like Melissa was part of Melissa's genius was she could do these singing imp like Lady Gaga. I cannot sing for
00:47:25
the life of me. >> Yeah. >> So you'll have a funny wig, you'll have
00:47:28
an accent. You're halfway there. Yeah, we'll be okay. But otherwise, yeah,
00:47:33
Wednesday night you they pick your stuff hopefully and it's cool with the pretapes because usually you'll get an
00:47:40
email like 15 minutes before the pics are out asking to Zoom for your video. So So it's really sick as hell to be
00:47:47
like, "Oh, thank God." Like we had >> Oh, you know that's how you find out you
00:47:51
got on. >> Yeah. Like a Pilates video and it was like you got the bing and we were like
00:47:58
>> oh and then when is the next morning? >> No. Then we then they have to build they
00:48:03
build the set Thursday and then we shoot it Friday. Uh, and then but for like the unders
00:48:12
when it would be like a me centric video that would be done sometimes they would
00:48:18
pick it on Wednesday but not really and they'd be like we're going to do this
00:48:21
next week but shoot it like on Monday or we're going to shoot it on Tuesday and
00:48:25
then the writers were so mad. Uh, they inventing Chloe we shot on Thursday. That was the next day and we
00:48:34
weren't thinking and it was when everyone was doing like rewrites I think and we had we wanted like seafood towers
00:48:42
so we basically like stunk up >> Oh, I saw that. >> 17. >> That looked expensive by the way.
00:48:47
>> It was really expensive. It was really gross. And like all the writers were
00:48:51
like locked in the They were so mad. Oh yeah, that was >> that rewrite table with Jim Downey was
00:48:59
probably dating what >> 15 hours of just going over every goddamn SC and you weren't even in them
00:49:05
or you wrote one. You just go spade wake up. What do you got for me on this one?
00:49:09
You're like, what if this guy says this? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that's that's a tough That was a
00:49:14
tough job that day. >> All right, Dana, what else do you have for lovely Chloe? Do you have a question
00:49:19
for us? >> You're off the show this week. There's no show this week.
00:49:21
>> No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Go ahead. >> So, I think we'll do another hour unless
00:49:27
you have something to do. We could go into our second hour, but um >> just say hello. Hello to the cast.
00:49:34
They're all brilliant. It's the show's cooking. Uh >> yeah, it is. It really It's like found
00:49:39
it, >> but we've like figured each other out a little bit more. >> Yeah, I do think
00:49:45
>> pad Sarah Sherman. >> The audience just keeps discovering Yeah. Crazy Sarah.
00:49:52
What did she say? The sun has knockers. >> Oh, yeah. When she was on our show, she
00:49:57
goes, "By the way, just FYI, audience, Dana and I, I told her later, I go, we
00:50:03
both found out later, we didn't understand that. We didn't understand."
00:50:06
And we just laughed cuz it was so bananas. But she said, "You know, they're saying Earth is flat, but I
00:50:12
think the sun has big knockers." I didn't connect that. >> And then we did all these jokes about
00:50:16
it. And then later when I saw it on a clip, I go, "Oh, I get it." I didn't
00:50:21
even get it. See, I didn't hear the earth is flat. So, that was the thing that I I thought it was nonsequ and I
00:50:28
was like, why do I even say I'm in comedy? I didn't get it. I was so embarrassing.
00:50:32
>> She did a bit and we thought it was funny anyway cuz she was like, I don't
00:50:35
know how the suners the sun has big knockers >> cuz she has a funny voice.
00:50:41
>> She has kind of she has a >> um but um >> you can go walk to work now.
00:50:48
I could actually today. >> Or do you have a limo? >> No, no, no, no. I like the SE. We're I'm
00:50:54
near Westworth, so it's like seven minutes. Five minutes on the train. Get out.
00:50:59
>> All right. Our la our last thing. We'll let you go. Do you have a fake pitch for
00:51:03
the re the uh meeting today? Like or real. >> Chloe, this will be like uh Chloe, anything. You're like, "Hi,
00:51:13
Da." That's how you start. >> Yeah. Yeah. Hi, Dua. Um, so over the
00:51:18
break, that's usually how it starts. I mean, I think so. I'm the worst at it.
00:51:23
Yeah, mine are like weird. Everyone has their thing. There is our Sarah Marcelo kind of does this like so I was uh
00:51:32
thinking that he does like a shalom like sexy baby thing. I take I'll have it one way and then the pitch
00:51:39
is so bad. But then sometimes they do become sketches. >> Yeah, they bite. The host doesn't know.
00:51:46
They bite on a fake pitch and you go, "Uhoh." >> Sydney Sweeney, I pitched her the
00:51:50
Hooters idea where I was like, "Maybe work at Hooters." >> Oo. >> And we're counting tips. I get $20. And
00:51:57
you made like You're like, "Cool. I made like $40,000." And then she DM'd me to
00:52:02
write it. And then we got in so much trouble for like sexualizing. >> [ __ ] funny.
00:52:08
>> But it was you pervert it over here. >> I know you perve. That was a good one
00:52:14
though. It was very funny when you're counting your money. >> Stupid. >> Yeah,
00:52:17
>> so stupid. >> Some of that just silliness. I think uh this is sort of I don't know just the
00:52:22
way the world is all this madness and everything and just abstraction. That's
00:52:27
why Bea is a Buttthead maybe hit so hard and that Hooters sketch just I think we're in the mood for like just
00:52:35
>> M. I think so. I think the political clim like we also like it's it's you you
00:52:43
can kind of touch it but not really. It's like it's so it's it's opened the
00:52:47
the door for weird which I think is so nice. >> Weird is that >> a relief. Yeah. Yeah. Because I I'm not
00:52:55
the smartest with the political stuff. So >> I don't know. I do I do these little
00:52:59
shorts for this just cuz if I do Biden I feel like I'm doing something really
00:53:03
nasty and wrong in a way. So, I kind of to do it. >> People get so mad when you
00:53:09
>> There's so many Trump jokes, but I I've done some silly little things and people
00:53:14
I don't know. People seem to like that now. I don't know what you call it.
00:53:18
Abstract or weird weird. >> I like that. I I like that a lot. But movies are like I was thinking that the
00:53:23
Sasquatch sunset. I don't know. >> Movies are weird. Everything's weird.
00:53:28
We're in the era age of weird. You know, it's funny because there's a lot of
00:53:33
superhero movies because I figured out that the bad guy can't be a certain race
00:53:38
or religion. So, you make him just a monster and then no one gets mad >> or you know what I mean? Or you can be a
00:53:46
transformer and they go >> think of it the influence on on entertainment is because of the trauma
00:53:53
of Hiroshima in Japan. There was all this radioactive Godzillaist movies and worse than there. So it is an influence
00:54:03
on whatever the Zag guy the emotional >> uh freak or the emotional temperature of
00:54:09
the culture. >> Yeah. Yeah. Totally. >> So two people having fun being really
00:54:13
silly and you know it's just great. So you'll all be watching Saturday. Don't
00:54:17
be nervous. >> Well have fun Chloe. >> Thanks guys. >> Chloe thank you for doing a zoom from
00:54:25
the kit. your new skill. >> Hey, you're welcome. And sorry about being so inept at this beautiful
00:54:30
microphone. But at least I have >> You nailed it. >> I'm going to bring this to pitch. I'm
00:54:35
going to just pitch with a loose. >> That would be so funny. >> Okay. I actually think I might do that.
00:54:41
>> It's pretty funny. >> Loose my >> You go. Hey. Hey, Da. Da. Can you hear
00:54:46
me? She's like, yeah, I'm two feet away. Right. Okay. >> Chloe, sometimes this doesn't work in
00:54:52
here. >> So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. >> Okay, Chloe. Thank you.
00:54:55
>> And I wish you all the best and and keep having fun and say hello to anyone who
00:54:59
would ever care >> anybody that loves you. >> Hey guys, if you're loving this podcast,
00:55:08
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00:55:25
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00:55:32
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00:55:58
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Episode Highlights

  • Chloe Fineman's Impressions
    Chloe is known for her impressive range of impressions and characters, making her a standout in sketch comedy.
    “She's totally built for sketch comedy.”
    @ 00m 45s
    February 18, 2026
  • Living in New York
    Chloe shares insights on living in New York and the importance of choosing the right place.
    “You always want to live in a place you can't quite afford.”
    @ 13m 44s
    February 18, 2026
  • The Impact of Childhood Inspiration
    Reflecting on childhood inspirations and the emotions tied to them.
    “When you're a little kid and you see people on TV, it's kind of cool.”
    @ 18m 38s
    February 18, 2026
  • Impressions and Their Challenges
    Discussing the complexities and pressures of doing celebrity impressions.
    “It's kind of a bad feeling when you first start and you don't have it at all.”
    @ 27m 35s
    February 18, 2026
  • The Pressure of Writing for SNL
    Navigating the challenges of writing sketches and the pressure to deliver hits.
    “You need enough things to hit to feel like you're not getting fired.”
    @ 36m 06s
    February 18, 2026
  • The Pressure of Collaboration
    Asking writers for help can feel daunting, especially when you're unsure of your ideas.
    “I hate wasting their time.”
    @ 37m 15s
    February 18, 2026
  • The Joy of Breaking Character
    A memorable moment when a sketch unexpectedly makes everyone laugh, breaking character.
    “It was a gut laugh.”
    @ 41m 11s
    February 18, 2026
  • The Evolution of Comedy
    Discussing how the political climate influences the current comedic landscape.
    “I think the political climate has opened the door for weird.”
    @ 52m 45s
    February 18, 2026
  • Podcast Engagement
    Listeners are encouraged to follow and share the podcast with friends.
    “If you're loving this podcast, be sure to click follow.”
    @ 55m 06s
    February 18, 2026
  • Production Team Acknowledgment
    The show is produced by a talented team, highlighting their contributions.
    “Fly on the Wall is presented by Odyssey, an executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade.”
    @ 55m 25s
    February 18, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • Two nice little Jewish perverts coming out.
    RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman
  • You always want to live in a place you can't quite afford.
    RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman
  • I mean, I guess I do everything is ultimately a bird call.
    RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman
  • I used to be a licensed therapist.
    RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman
  • It was shocking.
    RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman
  • I think the political climate has opened the door for weird.
    RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman

Key Moments

  • Sketch Comedy Success00:29
  • Chloe's Talent00:45
  • Jewish Comedic Duo07:16
  • Performing for Harry Styles09:45
  • Childhood Memories18:34
  • Nervousness54:17
  • Podcast Promotion55:06
  • Production Credits55:25

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