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After I read the script, I thought this guy is either go, this is going to be his last year working as a principal or
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he's going to commit suicide at the end of the school year. Hey guys, I'm doing
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my book and I need somebody to I need you guys to um if you'd be willing to write a blur for my book. And then
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Sandler goes, "Yeah, I'll do it." And then he goes, "Thanks. I don't need
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anybody else's." My next thing I want to be on a show like Wings. Remember that
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show? >> Yeah. >> On NBC. It was on NBC. It was on for like maybe seven, eight years. Nobody
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ever watched it. >> Guess what, David? Tim Meadows came and uh for a a second helping of uh our the
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magic of Fly on the Wasp. Double dipping a return guest. We backed by popular demand. I love Tim Meadows. I'll just
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say, you know, we don't have that many people return, which we need more because
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>> we got video now and uh we have some things we forgot to ask these people and
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go over, >> but we talked a lot. We we had a lot of laughs with Tim. What a good dude.
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>> He's actually doing a uh a half hour single camera show, which he he's
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incredible in. I watched an episode DMV about a Department of Motor Vehicles. It's on CBS and Paramount Plus. So, we
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just want to make sure you're aware of that with our friend Tim Meadows. And by
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the way, during this particular episode, we had a little technical issue. So, we
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strip from one thing called Streamyard. I know for your nerds, take notes. And we go to Zoom, so it might not be quite
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as crisp, but we'll still both look incredible. And our hair will look great.
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>> Don't adjust your cameras at home. It's doing fine. But, uh, yeah, Tim, here he
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is. Great guy. A lot of laughs. Uh, from the old school Tim Meadows. >> Tim Meadows.
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Did the show start without me? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, we were killing it.
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>> You're doing great. >> Oh, thanks. >> You're killing it, man.
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>> Mhm. >> So, I'm wearing this. >> Oh, what do you Why you hiding your
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hair? You hate your haircut. >> Well, I was a little I just not used to it right now, so I'm just going with the
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hat. Are you all right with that? >> That's fine with me. We can all do hats
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if you want. No, Timmy. In full disclosure, I brought a hat to wear and then I thought this isn't that bad. I'm
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gonna just rough it. >> No, you look good. But let's let's all do hats.
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>> No, I'm scared. Let's see if What do you got? >> Oh, you got a cool one loaded. Oh, yeah.
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He knew. >> No, my hair is um all [ __ ] up, man. I haven't I haven't combed or or cut my
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hair in about I don't know maybe a month or four weeks or something like that.
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>> Okay. Have you been out of that room with in the last month? >> Timmy
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where your head's at, man. >> Do you ever do a movie >> and they go figure out that gray? We can
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figure that out. >> Need to get weed. >> And you go, "What does that mean?" They
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go, "We can take care of it." And you go, "What are we taking care of?" You
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go. No, it's just Do you want it? They've said that to me. >> Yeah.
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>> Mhm. >> Yeah. >> Have you ever bought cookie? >> I kind of salt and pepper.
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>> Yeah. You know, it looks it looks it looks cool. You're doing whatever you're
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doing. Keep going. >> It's always worked for Timmy in a jealous quiet rage as I speak.
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>> Well, thank you, David. But I do I do I do remember when they used to ask me
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to put gray in my hair. >> Oh, I like that better. Yeah. Yeah. Now they asked me to take it out.
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>> Can you just shave that out? >> Timmy, I've told this before, but I'm
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going to tell you that I I read a movie uh about a married guy and his wife and they said it's pretty funny. And then
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>> anyway, all these high jinks, but she's got a crazy father-in-law. And I read it
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and I read the whole thing. I go, "It's pretty funny. It's not that funny of a
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part, but who would be the father-in-law?" They go, "You." I go, "Oh, oh, wait. I'm not the kid getting
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married. They're like, "That guy's like 35." Wait a sec. I swear to God. I go,
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wait, am I reading these movies about these grandpas? What the [ __ ] >> So horrifying. I go, I'll read it again.
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I didn't pay attention. I'll read it again. >> Yeah. >> I don't know if you've seen Land Man,
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but Sam Elliot's on that show. >> And uh I I I read for that part, >> but Sam got it. That's where I'm at now.
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>> That's how old you are? Yeah. Um, he's exactly 100, I think. >> Uh, I Well, first of all, I can't
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believe that you had to read for a show. >> Yeah, Danny was doing a lot of cold
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reads. >> Ah, I don't know. I mean, I I missed out. I didn't do bench warmers.
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>> I didn't avoid bench warmers. >> I read for your part in in Mean Girls. I
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read for the principal. >> Oh, well, I'm I'm glad you didn't get
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it. Yeah. >> His arm wasn't broken, though. Yeah, but that Yeah, that movie like saved my
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career for I was worried for a little bit till Mean Girls. >> God damn. Mean Girls has a spin-off and
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>> Oh, from Ladies Man to you went into No Man's Land and then you >> Yeah.
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>> Yes. I went from Ladies Man, which was like number four at the box office.
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Nobody was happy with that. Then I did Richard Show, >> which was on NBC and got cancelled after
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eight episodes. all the time. >> And then after that, I was on a [ __ ] life raft in Atlantic Ocean. Like
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>> I saw that show. >> I'm on somebody to say to me. >> Well, the thing is if you're in a shitty
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show or a shitty movie, all of a sudden they think that you produced it, wrote it, directed it, you did the score.
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>> Well, but you you get a little stink on you. I've done it. I I got out of Lost
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and Found jail. That took four years of being on Just Shoot Me to get another swing. I was in movie jail for a while.
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>> Yeah. You didn't have to when when they when they told you about Just Shoot Me,
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was that the easiest pitch for you to say yes to? It's like uh a model magazine. Yes.
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>> No, it was it was leaving SNL and you would get probably one shot at maybe
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doing the Jeff Richards show. He was on SNL or the David Spade show. And they said, "You could do that or you could do
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join an ensemble that was already picked up." And I said, "Oh, I'd rather go be
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the fifth wheel on a show that might work." And uh >> it still wasn't guaranteed, but it was
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it just wound up being better. >> Yeah. It's so fun watching it because I
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see it now occasionally and I'll sit and watch the whole episode. Uh because I
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worked with George also on the Goldbergs. All right. >> So, it's it's so cool. I mean, it's just
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weird. I mean, watching it now cuz he was like my age, I think, >> playing like this super old guy. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. You know, >> life is kind of fast, isn't it?
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>> That's so That's so true because Wendy Alec, >> who we all have a crush on and she's so
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smart and funny on Just Shoot Me, >> and I always thought she was about 40
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and I think she was 55 on the show. I was like, "What? I don't even know any
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155." And I was like, "She's so together and so greatl looking." And I I've seen
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her recently. She's exactly the same. She's just sharp, fast, funny. >> That's someone you hire and you get 100%
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of what you want. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> It's It's always fun. I don't know. like
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um I've been in the position now like where I worked with people including both of you, but like when you work with
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somebody that really impresses you and you just go like, "Holy cow, that person
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is amazing." You know, like I worked I did this show during the 50th anniversary actually uh on Broadway and
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in this show was uh Lynn Manuel Miranda. >> Yep. from >> um and David Cross and um Anna Bell. I
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got forgot the other woman's name. I'll look it up. But they were great. And it
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was just like watching those guys like do the play show every night was just like, "Oh
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my god, these are real Broadway actors, you know? I got to like really try to like
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>> Oh, you were in it with them and you had you get to see every night the process
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every night how they nail it and you go >> Exactly. And I hadn't done something
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like that since Second City where but we wrote that stuff, you know, but this was
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like we were doing I'm trying to find the like play bill from it and now I'm
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just looking at my my room. I usually have my Broadway stuff right in front of me,
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>> you know. Behind you looks like Lauren's office with the uh lineup for the show.
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>> Yeah. show is 5 hours long. >> Uh we're going to present 6,000 sketches
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think of like it's all all all a matter of numbers. >> That's our new tactic.
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>> I don't think I've seen many plays, Timmy, but uh I think Chris Rock was
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saying that uh he goes, "It's it it's hard." I go, "Could you picture?" So you
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memorize the whole script. I don't know because I don't do that on sitcoms and
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stuff. >> Even movies, it's a scene a day. And even that's hard for me. And so you
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memorize whole thing. He goes, "But you get it down by blocking and by running
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it and then it just starts coming to you." >> And I'm like, and he goes, "Some nights
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then it just gets boring." >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You got to keep it alive.
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>> Yeah. And that's where like going, you know, from doing standup or whatever, is
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like you learn how, you know, you you figure, you know, oh, I got this has got to be fresh. I got to make this like
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>> it's just happening and we're all in this moment right now. >> Um, but yeah, just being around so long
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now is so I really do. And I love watching other people work now. Like before I used to be more
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competitive of like I want to be as good as that person or I want to like hold my
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share of the thing or you know >> but now when I approach it when I'm working with people I just like I I
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really enjoy watching other actors now which is kind of weird because I I I I know there's there's been a change.
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>> It's some growing up. Yeah, for sure. I I I >> always be jealous and [ __ ] angry like
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why is that [ __ ] so good? >> Well, we came out of a tough situation where everyone around us was good at
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SNL. We got [ __ ] Dane over there and we got >> Yeah, exactly. Like >> Mike and Chris and everybody and so
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you're there. Conan's funny and he's a writer and everyone everywhere you turn
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Odin Kirk is a writer and he's funnier than me. I'm like god damn. And Lauren's
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kind of funny when he talks. He just he doesn't talk much. When he does you go
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he's funny. So then you get out and you get places where you go, "Oh, I'm suddenly
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realizing both. Someone's good or someone is bringing nothing." >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I've seen people like cold reads where they go, you're like, "Oh, man."
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Because you can tell it a table read even though it's just kind of thrown together. You can spot some game.
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>> Yeah. But yeah, it is weird. super weird to see somebody that you, you know,
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thought was good, but actually they they have to work at it. They have their own
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method and then they get good. >> They get good by the time you shoot. Yeah.
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>> Yes. Yeah. Like >> that's respectable. You're you're on uh
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is DMV, which is your show on CBS, is DMV. That's shot. It's not a sitcom.
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It's a multi >> DMV. It is a sitcom. What are you >> Is it a sitcom?
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>> No. Yes, it's a single cam. >> Single cam sitcom. >> Single cam.
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>> Single cam sitcom. >> I'm from the old school >> of what?
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>> Four cams. >> And where was this school? >> Well, CBS Radford, which has gone
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bankrupt. Tim, what's happening? CBS Radford Dana is where we shot Just Shoot Me.
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>> And did you know that, Tim? Mhm. Tim is frozen. Or maybe we're frozen.
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>> Tim's choking as well. >> You know, David, um, you know, sometimes
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you want a little pickme up, right? Oh, yeah. You especially, right? >> But you also want something that
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actually tastes good. Do you know where I'm going? >> Yeah. >> Comment.
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>> Oh yeah, it does. Caffeine got a serious flavor upgrade. Fiber Energy's shots now
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>> Where were we? Should we talk about DMV and and then we can go back to reminiscing?
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>> Oh, that's what I was asking you. DMV is your show and you were saying it's a
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sitcom but it's single camera which is confusing to me because I haven't done
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one. Um >> Oh, and I >> which is like a film kind of. >> Yeah, it's shot like a movie though,
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right? >> A little >> Yeah, it's shot like a movie. And I feel like I'm talking about grandma right
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now. Yeah, this is how it works. Grandma, >> what happened? >> He's never heard of you on my TV.
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>> Yes. And then we shoot it to your house >> in the airwaves. >> And when you watch it and something
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seems kind of different, you find yourself laughing, >> right? >> You know, David,
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>> but no, it is it's a single camera, >> right? >> Tell us about it.
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>> Well, we shoot it's um we shoot it in Montreal. It's about >> these people that work at the DMV
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>> and uh it's uh created by Dana Klene and it's based on like a a short story about
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some employees who are super unhappy >> working at the DMV. >> That could be every employee.
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>> I've had horrible times at DMV. I think it's a great idea for a show.
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>> Yeah. >> No, it is. It's like uh I had to go to DMV recently too and like cuz I had to
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renew my license and um >> Mhm. >> and uh to my plates cuz I got a new car.
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Um but they uh the people in the DMV watched the show and they knew >> you know
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>> they were like >> she one of this woman one woman goes we're not that bad are we? And I was
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like no you know we're just exaggerating it to you know make >> a comedic effect.
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>> Yeah. We make you all look horrible just for our own enjoyment. >> It's so true though. What is your
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character in it? >> My character is his name is Greg and uh he's a very unhappy
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uh former teacher who works at the DMV and is just b he's a driving instructor
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and uh this is another uh role where I'm the oldest guy on the show. >> Oh, really?
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>> Yeah. And so like there's old jokes. They make jokes about me being dead and
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sleeping at work. And uh yeah, it's and I'm I'm just like, wait, I I do yoga
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every day. I'm very healthy. I feel like >> Yeah. >> Younger than I look, I think. I don't
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know. >> You look young. Yeah, you look good. >> I think you look young. If you if you
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don't want to go snowy on the chin, then you know, I'm carding you. But if you're
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going to go snow downtown Yeah. you I can't help you there, bro. >> What does that mean? You can help him.
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>> I think scruff that's white. So snowy. >> What's snowy downtown mean?
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>> Well, I don't know about that part. That was not intended for this podcast.
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>> That was a little confusing. >> Yeah, I don't know. That got a little uh
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>> um >> Well, I'm still salt and pepper everywhere basically. So,
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>> okay. Everywhere. >> Welcome to TMI, the show that tells you things you kind of don't want to know.
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How much salt and how much pepper? We'll be right back. >> My [ __ ] salt is taking over the
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pepper. That's the problem. It's a [ __ ] coup. Also, DMV is really two three letters everyone knows. That's
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good for a show. Like immediately I know what it is. Immediately I know it's kind
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of a funny area because >> there should have been a show at this point about it because everyone talks
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about it. Everyone complains about it and so you're all set up. >> Yeah. And it is also it's based in North
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Hollywood. >> So that's our that's our you know like our our grounds
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and stuff, you know. >> Yeah. Not where you work from. >> Um >> if they're treating you like the senior
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citizen and stuff. I mean are they are they allowing Tim Meadows to fully inform what you're doing on the show?
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Like hey guys, maybe I should say this or I'm gonna do this and like you can't
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question him. He's Tim Meadows. [ __ ] He He knew Chris Farley. Shut up. >> Well, actually, it's combination.
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>> Yeah, >> they've I mean, it's also a job I have to say. They've been very uh they listen
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to what I think about the you know, the writing and my character stuff. >> I know. And um but
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>> that's not always the case. Yeah. >> Exactly. It's not. And yeah, I go into
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jobs sort of knowing that like oh I'm not they don't they just want me to
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learn my lines and do the you know >> for sure character not because it's you
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just because in general if people at home don't know it's kind of you're
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hired and you're hired hand and then if by chance they let you add lib or say
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let's do another one and you know do whatever you want that's a gift so they
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don't have to do that. Yeah. And when they ever tell me do whatever you want,
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I do that take just in gibberish. I just >> I just do it exactly the same and they
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go, "Oh, that was fun." Okay. Um >> do >> you have a brand in a way, Tim? I mean,
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do you feel you're that Oh, let's get Tim Meadows for this, you know, >> either playing offkilter characters or a
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little bit angry or just sort of asymmetrical like the Peacemaker with the blind blindness which is has a cult
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following that character, doesn't it? It kind of blew up. >> Um, so weird.
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>> Yeah. Um, but yeah, I mean I kind of feel like it sort of goes back and forth
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between like people casting me like James Gun casting me because he said he couldn't find the actor to do that part
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and then he said like he wanted me but he didn't know if he could get me or whatever. But um and that character was
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like is written like it's a it's a unlikable guy that they wanted a likable actor to play, you
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know, and so I've had that before where it's like this is unlikable, but we
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think you can do it. >> Um like I played the I played a cannibal child killing cannibal on Brooklyn 999
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>> and what's unlikable about that? Yeah. Go ahead. you know, it's it's horrible
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profession, but they uh and you know, Samberg when they called me to do that, >> he was like, "Yeah, we need somebody
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that's really likable." We just thought like, you know, you're everybody likes
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you and so it'll be a really >> No, people won't hate the character. You
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know, >> they'll give you a gimme on that. Give you a mulligan on the cannibalizing
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children. >> He's fun at parties. That's a rule you only want to do once
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though. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Then you get tight cast. That's funny because you
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know the sitcom like I think you call it a sitcom but going back to grandma here.
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Uh >> I would I was thinking about doing a sitcom or thinking about of ideas for
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them and I think God are they doing regular for camera? Have you even heard of that? Is are they not doing those?
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Have you not heard that? I haven't done one of those, I swear, in probably 15
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years. >> Jesus. Okay, we'll say five. >> 20 years, David. That's how long.
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>> Okay, we'll say three years. Okay. So, uh, >> no, but I haven't like everyone I've
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done is and I think even when I I've done like I did the Bill Ingvar show which was TBS and we did that for like
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two or three years >> and that was done in front of a live audience. I I personally don't like
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doing I hate those shows. Not you know not >> the live audience is hard. >> Yes. where you work all week learning
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the show and then you do it for the audience on Friday or whatever and I just found it not it never felt
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satisfying like comedically or creatively I don't know. >> Well, the problem is some of the youth
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prisoners in the audience if they don't uh that are bust in if they don't laugh
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they change the whole script for them >> and you're like this we all like this
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all week let's let's play for the people at home. Uh that that is a hard part.
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Now you get a hot crowd. It's fun. It's something different. It's it's exciting.
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I think um How I Met Your Mother was a hybrid. So they'd have a crowd on a few
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days and then they'd shoot single camera on a few days. >> So I guess sitcom really means situation
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comedy. So you're DMV can be that cuz that's what that is. But uh I think it's
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just probably all single camera. Can I make an observation about >> I think that you're able to like in a
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real situation >> you're playing you can play dead pan. You can say the craziest do the craziest
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[ __ ] and you don't push it at all. And I think that people see you >> and they're already kind of laughing
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even if it's sort of serious. >> Yeah. They know something funny. >> Signal I'm being funny now. It's very
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very cool. >> Uh well thank you Dana. >> It's one of your skill sets.
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>> Well Mean Girls is kind of like that. You were just trying to keep the peace
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or something. It's just funny the situations you get overwhelmed and [ __ ] >> Yeah. Well, that mean girls. That's like
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one of the first times I went into an acting role thinking like, you know, okay, I'm going to think about this
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character and I'm going to like and I just thought that after I read the script, I thought this guy is either go
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this is going to be his last year working as a principal or he's going to commit suicide school year. And so
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that's what I played like the whole time. I was like, "This guy hates being
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here." But Tina's character was sort of like the his bright light because he was
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in love with her but he didn't know how to say it or whatever, you know. >> But yeah, that character was like
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>> another hilarious one to be in there with. So there was a Mean Girls sequel
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and then a musical. >> Mhm. >> And then a coloring book >> monetization
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>> [ __ ] Oh, by the way, >> I get nothing from the coloring book. By
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the way, >> Heather was just saying that the uh when you were on the uh not grown-ups tour,
00:24:08
whatever it was called, that tour, Sandler's tour where we were here on the text chain.
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>> Uhhuh. >> Cuz she's on it, too. And she's like, "Remember Tim was couldn't get off the
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text chain." I thought that was funny. >> It would be two in the morning and I'd
00:24:22
be It'd be like, "We're going for stakes." Like waking up like, "What is
00:24:26
this?" You guys being like, you know, >> the phone ringing. It's like, "Yeah,
00:24:30
we're Boise and Tim's trying to sleep and it's like, "Who wants scallop
00:24:34
potatoes?" And everyone put in your order. It's like, "Ding, ding, ding."
00:24:39
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, "How the [ __ ] do I get off this text?" We're
00:24:42
like, "Is this Tim?" >> And then I I took myself off and then somebody put me back on.
00:24:52
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's so funny cuz there's about 20 people on it and you're
00:24:56
like, it's all day it's going off. like where's my bags? It's just insanity. And
00:25:02
then and if you you can know cuz Dana we jump on for a few days and jump off and
00:25:06
you're realizing I don't know how to get off this thing and it's just blowing my
00:25:10
battery up >> and and also it's also very funny too and you sort of don't I sort of don't
00:25:15
want it to end even though you know everybody's going back to their lives. >> Uh we had another good one going after
00:25:21
Sandler's uh that thing in DC. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the Mark Twain >> Mark Twain Awards and that one had like
00:25:28
Stiller and Conan on it >> and that was really fun too and then at a certain point it was like okay we got
00:25:35
to all move on with our lives or whatever. >> Dude, every time Schwartzson puts
00:25:39
something on I hit a thumbs down immediately. It's so [ __ ] humiliating. I'm looking for hahas on that thing.
00:25:47
>> Yeah, same. >> I'm thirsty, man. I want some [ __ ] >> Is this a thing? Do you guys ever done
00:25:52
it? You do haha. No matter what the person is saying, even if it's serious information, just keep going. Haha.
00:25:57
Haha. I mean, what is the shtick of group texting things to because it is kind of becomes a little competitive,
00:26:04
doesn't it? In a weird way. >> Horrible. >> Yeah. >> And then you're like exhausted from
00:26:08
trying to keep up. I mean, >> yeah, it gets mean, too. But like >> gets mean.
00:26:15
>> It does. It gets mean, but like in a good-hearted way. like things you wouldn't say to somebody's face, you
00:26:20
sort of put it in the text and >> it's funny. Yeah. Mindful >> Sandler just insults everybody's which
00:26:28
is funny. >> Which is fine. Yeah. >> Sometimes they'll say tough crowd for
00:26:33
you guys. >> No, if Dana if mine sit there and get stale, I I pop a haha on it and then no
00:26:43
one really knows where it came from. They're like, "Oh, I guess that was
00:26:45
funny." And then I'm like, "That was me." I'm trying to get it going.
00:26:49
>> You press send and then you see someone doing your idea better than you just
00:26:53
wrote, you know? >> Oh, yeah. And you're like, ah. >> And then you can't take it back and then
00:26:57
you're sitting out there like, I don't know. It's very stressful. That's the
00:27:00
That's your next show, Text Chain after DMV's seven-year run. >> Tim Meadows in Text Chain.
00:27:08
>> It could be called Group Chat or Text Chain. And it's like a a horror movie.
00:27:13
But >> remember you had co and they called it froid. >> You called it froid because you were had
00:27:20
an afro on. You sent a picture of an afro. I got fro. >> My hair got so long it's been
00:27:27
ridiculous. Um I remember Norm, God rest his soul, >> uh on that text chain one time. He goes,
00:27:36
"Uh, hey guys, uh, I'm doing my book and I need somebody to I need you guys to um
00:27:42
if you'd be willing to write a blurb for my book." And then Sandler goes, "Yeah,
00:27:47
I'll do it." And then he goes, "Thanks. I don't need anybody else's
00:27:52
>> out of 20 people." >> Yeah. He just wanted Adam. >> Yeah. That's hysterical.
00:27:57
>> I got Adam. That's good. >> Hey, I'm good. That's all right.
00:28:01
>> That's all right. I like, by the way, in in to change gears when he does the Farley song, he
00:28:12
says last time he saw him, was it Tim Meta's wedding? Is that what he says? Wedding party.
00:28:16
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Is that the last time you saw Chris, too? >> No. The last time I saw him, I think was
00:28:23
when he hosted >> Oh, you were there? >> I was there. Yeah. But I kind of felt
00:28:28
like I saw him again in Chicago. Um >> cuz hosting was toward the end. Very
00:28:34
close. >> Yeah. Yeah, it was very close. Um but yeah, I think that was the last time I
00:28:39
sort of but I I know we talked after that though for sure. We had like a deep one.
00:28:46
>> You know, I was almost going to go off for that hosting, but I thought it was
00:28:49
getting to the point where it was sort of spinning out a bit and I think you probably knew when you were there like,
00:28:53
"Oh, did you even talk to him a lot?" It just like it got it got his own worlds
00:28:58
that sort of. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, uh you could when he was out there, there was
00:29:06
just that look in his eyes and there was just this wildness to him >> and also like
00:29:12
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. And also kind of like asking you to forgive him too at the same time. You
00:29:18
know, he wanted your pity, but he also knew cuz he knew, >> you know, I Yeah. He just knew I was mad
00:29:25
at him that week and I was not I wasn't happy with him. >> And then we just tried to have fun on
00:29:33
the show, you know, cuz he does what he like to do, which is try to make you laugh on camera.
00:29:38
>> Sure. >> Um >> so we ended up having fun, but it wasn't, you know, it wasn't the kind of
00:29:44
fun that like it wasn't lasting because it was just in hindsight really sad.
00:29:49
>> It was worrying. >> Yes. Yeah. >> So, I saw when I would see old sketches
00:29:55
from that one, >> like he's on a uh worst idea ever. Put him on a spin cycle or something.
00:30:02
>> Yeah. Yeah. It was a Matt Foley, I think. >> Try to yell those lines while he's
00:30:08
trying to >> just so too much energy. Too much. >> Yeah, it was crazy. And there was
00:30:15
another scene that we did and it was like almost like the big baby um businessman that he but he was a b he
00:30:22
was a big baby. He was like you know him but he was in diaper and >> whatever and it was like a um you know
00:30:29
like a my povic show or whatever. >> Mhm. >> And um I was the doctor who who was
00:30:36
describing his problems and stuff >> and so he was all over me on that sketch
00:30:41
and just like you know >> Oh yeah. pushing me and stuff trying. >> Especially on air, I'm sure he's trying
00:30:46
to like cover your mouth, not let you talk. >> Yeah. >> Not letting your lines.
00:30:52
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> That was the fun part. But when I saw
00:30:56
him, you could just see cuz you know him so well. Like >> you see in one second when he comes out,
00:31:00
you're like, "Oh no. Oh no." Like and what's he going to do? And the problem
00:31:04
is everyone else hypes it up. Like if you're not if the to the casual person
00:31:10
that hangs out like even when he was in rehab like if we're walking down Columbus and you walk by an outdoor
00:31:16
place like hey guys come have a drink with us and he's like all right and he
00:31:20
climbs over the fence I like no no no because even if he's in rehab they want
00:31:24
to be the ones to drink with him. >> Yeah. I remember at being at dinner and
00:31:29
I think it was the weekend at I got married. Uh it was me and Sandler like at the steakhouse and with Farley and
00:31:37
they kept sending drinks over and at one point we told the waiter don't bring any
00:31:43
more alcohol. If somebody orders a drink for them just bring a ginger ale or Coke
00:31:48
or something and just lightly tap it with some alcohol and give it to them or or just give it to us, you know. But
00:31:55
they but the waiter goes I can't people keep making me bring it you know and so
00:32:02
that was the problem like but the thing is that people didn't have to deal with
00:32:06
him you know what I mean >> you didn't have to you didn't have to be
00:32:09
with him when he was wasted >> after that you trying to get him to like calm down or
00:32:17
to not >> get to his apartment >> yes yeah but yeah it was a hard it was a
00:32:23
hard part and just Yeah. And during that point, it was almost like I don't know
00:32:28
what to do, you know? I I I threatened to like not be friends and to lose my communication with them, but that
00:32:34
didn't, >> you know. >> Yeah. That's the part people don't
00:32:37
understand when they think, "Oh, would you guys argue at times?" I'm like,
00:32:40
well, if you don't know the real situation, you don't know the levels of
00:32:44
it goes in so many waves of like you you care about someone so much that you you
00:32:49
do fight because you you run out of weapons to say, "Will you lose me? Will
00:32:55
you help if you know that we're going to be g, you know, but nothing really works."
00:33:00
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> And so you see him on the show and you go, "Oh my god, I see it. I see it."
00:33:06
>> Yeah. But uh No, dude. I do. I I miss him, you know. Of course, you know, you
00:33:12
know what it is. >> Freaking I was in Chicago and uh doing a gig two weeks ago and my hotel was right
00:33:18
across from Hancock and I was like I was like, "Oh my god, is that where it
00:33:22
is right there?" Cuz I don't go to Chicago that much. You guys are all from
00:33:25
there. But I was like, "Oh, it's such a weird vibe to just see it." And I walk
00:33:29
by it and I'm like, "Ah." >> Uh what's it called? The Hancock
00:33:33
building. >> Hancock building. Yeah. >> Yeah. Um >> anyway anyway we can keep going but
00:33:39
>> I mean on a positive note it's like I was talking to someone the other day
00:33:43
about just you know where is the next Chris Farley and >> the alchemy of Chris Farley as you know
00:33:50
the liabil all of it you know the physicality and everything just boy really hard and I think we interviewed
00:33:57
someone who's going to try to play Chris Farley in a movie or is there a Chris
00:34:00
Farley >> and that's a that's a tall order for anybody because He's kind of I mean we
00:34:06
have data now. It's been a while and he's he he was and is singularity at
00:34:12
this point. Never seen >> a force like that. And >> you see that the one I mean
00:34:18
>> the the Foley guy I mean it's just it's a tornado. I don't even know what it is.
00:34:23
It's so >> well >> it's so fantastic what he's >> when we did when we did Matt Foley at
00:34:30
Second City >> Mhm. Far when Farley left to go to SNL, we still had the sketch in our running
00:34:37
order and like other actors who filled in for Farley tried to do it >> and could not do it. They could not do
00:34:46
it. >> Uh, and I saw, you know, >> there's a guy named Mitch Rouse and Ian
00:34:51
Gomez, this other actor who's pretty well, but Ian tried everything. He came
00:34:57
in as like a guy in a [ __ ] bow tie and a suit and he did I wrote a speech and it's called go for it and he tried
00:35:05
to do Farley and it nobody could do that character and we just took it out of the
00:35:11
show even though it killed every night when Farley was doing it you know. >> Yeah it was hard
00:35:16
>> you wonder like that's the part that's the funniest. I mean I'm in one of those
00:35:20
sketches or I'm in a couple. I'm just watching him like the audience. So I
00:35:24
there's not much going on. And then you set up something goes, is that Bill Shakespeare? I can't see too good.
00:35:32
>> If he just kept pulling up his pants and adjusting them just that >> that's enough.
00:35:37
>> I mean, he's he gets down like he's a lineman or something doing the Super
00:35:41
Bowl and there's so many moves, subtle moves within his broadness. There's a
00:35:47
lot of little tricky things. But I like when Phil Harman kept getting written different ways to bring him out. Uh we
00:35:53
and he's very casual. We hired a motivational speaker. He's down in the basement eating coffee beans for the
00:35:59
last 40 minutes. >> You had to explain some reason why he shot out of a [ __ ] cannon.
00:36:05
>> I'm just hearing Phil's voice right now cuz Phil was also so great at playing
00:36:11
the regular straight guy with a little bit of satire. Well, he's over, you know. Uh, I also I was telling Oden Kirk
00:36:19
not too long ago that I had seen that sketch. We did it in SNL, I mean the Second City for a year. Saw it on in in
00:36:27
um, you know, on on Saturday Night Live. And I the thing that I always I made me
00:36:32
laugh, but I always missed that he had the speech was entitled Go for It. And that just made me laugh
00:36:41
that he actually had a speech and it was had a title. Go for it. >> I told Kirk I was like I seen seen it
00:36:51
for years and that and I it just hit me one day that that was how funny that was, you know.
00:36:56
>> Yeah. Could other comedians have done the dam, you know, van down by the
00:37:02
river, but not trying to do him. Like if love did it, you'll end up in a van down
00:37:08
by the river, but it doesn't have the same flow, but >> I guess it's just there all for us to
00:37:14
>> tough to do Matt Foliage. >> Oh, Heather's all about the groins,
00:37:19
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00:38:57
She was on SNL, right? >> Yes, she was on SNL. >> Yeah, cuz she's good. I mean, Lauren, I
00:39:02
remember said she gives me waves of uh Colors of Chris when she's out there,
00:39:08
which is a [ __ ] high high compliment, obviously. So, it must be good to have her on the show.
00:39:14
>> It is. And I have to say that I I definitely get that what Lauren is saying. Definitely. And she does.
00:39:22
>> The thing I love about Molly, and I don't mean to say, is that they
00:39:29
really approach the lines differently every time we do a take. >> Yeah. >> Um Yeah. They never do the same thing.
00:39:38
And I've told Molly to like don't let anybody tell you, don't let anybody
00:39:47
clamp you down. Like always do the crazy ideas that you have because she's so
00:39:53
different from everybody that I just I want to see her. I want to I'm a fan, you know? I'm a fan.
00:40:02
>> It makes it fun to watch. And you have to have something that's fun to watch
00:40:05
because everyone can read the lines, but you're like they they don't even know it
00:40:09
till they see it. So >> if you throw in a take on the last one and you do something interesting, the
00:40:14
smart people go, "Well, let's put that in. We need something to hook people
00:40:18
in." Like we want to watch >> Molly and go, "Oh, I know something
00:40:23
different will be happening here." Or, you know, that's what slowly it takes.
00:40:27
You know, >> the enemy of comedy sometimes is being stale. And that's why we all tried to
00:40:32
like hold something for the air show. >> And when you're doing a take in a show
00:40:36
like that, um, and you're going to do something new, then you are discovering
00:40:42
it in real time. And there's a magic to that. >> I'm glad that she's getting to do that.
00:40:47
They are getting to do that. >> Yes. And I I I feel like like you asking me like my thing what I do and I think
00:40:54
that's part of what I do is like when I get a job and they say you know I save my improv and my ideas for when
00:41:06
they're like comfortable with what we already got. >> Yeah. >> And then I I'll I'll do things. But I
00:41:12
don't like I used to ask but I don't ask anymore. I just do it now. like, you
00:41:17
know, >> I just go forget it cuz either they're going to take it or they're not going to
00:41:20
take it and >> I not to my own horn, but I know I'm good and I'm also a writer, so I know I
00:41:28
kind of know what I'm doing, >> I would say. So, >> and people people at home don't know
00:41:33
that uh people at home that when you you're always the other to be an actor is they're always in a hurry. So,
00:41:42
they're always trying to make the day try. So, it's not really like a playground where like we can be here all
00:41:48
day doing whatever you want unless it's some big budget. But most things you do,
00:41:53
especially like on TV are like one, two, three takes, move it on. And it's hard
00:41:57
to say, can we do one more? And everyone's like, "What?" Like, "We got
00:42:01
to go. We got the lighting." And you go, "Just real quick." So, it it's it's
00:42:06
easier to not do it. >> Yes. >> And so, you try to get it in and then
00:42:10
then you and just go, I got to get something in here. that's somewhat different or memorable because
00:42:16
repetition kills us comedians. Like same thing verbatim over and over. You just start going h
00:42:22
>> Yeah. Cuz you do like you lose the spontaneity and it's easier like doing
00:42:26
standup or whatever because it's your ideas and your words and stuff, >> you know, but like when it's somebody
00:42:32
else's >> and you got to try to make it spontaneous like, you know, 10 times in
00:42:37
a row >> and you don't have a lot of faith in it anyways. Yeah, >> you know, it can
00:42:46
>> it can be a little bit difficult. You know what I'm saying? >> I mean, I think standup really teaches
00:42:50
rhythm and the musicality of things. And sometimes >> you'll get something from a writer and
00:42:57
it's a it's a it's a pretty good joke, but in your head you're going, "Oh,
00:43:00
there's just two extra words here >> or that little too fat." you kind of
00:43:06
intuitive from so much standup and getting the immediate laugh, you're like, "Oh, what we need to do is just
00:43:12
cut that, you know." Yeah. >> It's hard to have to do it and try to
00:43:16
save theirs without correcting. I'm just >> It's hard to explain like uh I'm telling
00:43:21
you this should be tighter just by even this extra. We don't need this extra
00:43:25
sentence. And they're like, "No, no, we'll just do it that." I'm like, I'm
00:43:28
scared it'll be in there. Then it looks stupid. >> Thorn is Yeah, that's we are the ones.
00:43:34
The bullets will be coming at you. You know, >> we're the front line. The writers can
00:43:38
either be celebrating or got looking down like I never liked it. I fed him that [ __ ]
00:43:45
>> I I always The word is what do they call it? Chuffa or something? >> Oh yeah. Chuff. Yeah.
00:43:52
>> Yeah. It's just like no, this is just chuffa. This is mean meandering
00:43:56
meaningless words that you put in here because you need to get five pages in this scene.
00:44:01
>> Yeah, this will be the first thing cut. >> Yes. >> In editing it'll be like we don't we
00:44:07
don't need that. Some editor will be smart and go >> get forward forward. Don't need that.
00:44:11
Don't need that. That's a sentence we need. That's what we need. >> Get down to the bare bones. But you're
00:44:15
right. Sometimes it's just filler. Like >> the word of the day, at least I've heard
00:44:20
it a lot recently, is slop. It's made a It's made a comeback. How was the show
00:44:26
slop? You know, >> so many shows that are just slop. But >> you know, Timmy, I was doing my standup
00:44:31
the other night. Sorry, Dana. And >> no, no, like what Dana is saying is >> I was trying new stuff.
00:44:38
>> And I as I'm saying it, I'm like, I don't need that part. This is too wordy.
00:44:43
It's just I get to it and I go, some of that's funny idea. It's too long. And
00:44:48
then I we type it out and then I circle it and go, I don't need this whole set.
00:44:52
Okay, I just need this part. And then you can see it. So so many times of doing that helps because then you get on
00:44:59
a set, but it's other people's words and they're precious with it. Obviously,
00:45:04
>> it's delicate to say, "Hey, some of this is kind of dog shit." Chuff a slop.
00:45:10
>> Chuff slop. We got a new a new phrase. >> Chuff a slop from Nabiscoco.
00:45:14
>> Yeah. On the next podcast. I think Carson's only advice for standups was uh
00:45:19
get to the joke. Yeah, >> that's what he would say. Get to the joke because they tend to fall in love
00:45:24
with stuff like that. I feel like we should do a little bit of promotion on your show basically because that's
00:45:30
probably why you're here. It's on CBS. It's you're you're on right now. What
00:45:36
night? What time? >> It's uh Mondays uh 8:00 I think they moved us to they they should have 8:30
00:45:44
8:00. We had a they recently gave us a whole evening where they played DMV for like 2 hours or something.
00:45:50
>> Uh but it's CBS. It's um I think we're taking a break and then we're coming
00:45:55
back after the Olympics is over. >> Um >> how many episodes have you done so far?
00:46:01
>> We did we did 20. We shot 20. >> And of how many? >> Yeah, that's in modern times.
00:46:07
>> CBS is probably the best spot to be. Yeah, I'm pretty >> I feel like all those shows just do
00:46:15
well. They just feel like they know what they're doing. >> Yeah. I always I always say I want to be
00:46:19
on a show. My next thing I want to be on a show like Wings. Remember that show? >> Yeah.
00:46:23
>> On NBC. It was on NBC. It was on for like maybe seven, eight years. Nobody
00:46:29
ever watched it. >> It's one of those you go, "What was that about again?" I think it was all filmed
00:46:35
at a [ __ ] local airport. And >> yeah, but it's like I w It was on for
00:46:40
seven years. They're having an anniversary episode this year. You know, it's just like what? But no, those guys
00:46:45
are they all have had great careers. If you look back, that show had a great cast,
00:46:51
>> but I'm just like, I want one of those where like no pressure, the network
00:46:54
loves you, put you on that autopilot. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's great to be on a show that's
00:47:00
it's that's a hit enough that you know, okay, season 3's we're we're going with
00:47:04
all the episodes are stacked. We have our So for this one, the idea is you're
00:47:08
going to get to 22 and then >> or stop at 20 air >> after the Super Bowl and it'll go all
00:47:16
the way to May. Okay. >> Yeah. And then we will hopefully get picked up for another season.
00:47:23
>> Uh yeah. >> And u but yeah, it's been busy. I I don't know. I
00:47:28
>> You're always busy since SNL to me. >> You've always you've got your a lot of
00:47:32
shows. You've been on a lot of movies. You've done a lot in the mountain.
00:47:36
>> No wonder this is white. How many things you've been on? >> Stress.
00:47:41
>> Yeah. I don't >> Well, I I was just going to say I just have a
00:47:46
thing about not working. I don't know about you, but yeah. At a certain point,
00:47:49
I just go, "Okay, I got to I should be doing something cuz I'm just >> Yeah, of course.
00:47:53
>> I I like being creative." And >> and also stand up. You should uh tout
00:47:57
your standup right now. Oh man, you have a website, you know, that people can go
00:48:02
and look at all the dates you're doing and stuff like that. >> Yes. Tim Meadows Comedy Tour. I'm
00:48:07
>> I'm uh there's dates online and on Instagram and stuff. Great. >> Um and yeah, I'm going to do some shows
00:48:13
with Colin actually in Chicago. >> Colin Quinn. >> Oh, good. Colin >> DQ.
00:48:18
>> Great. Oh, yeah. >> Colin Quinn, one of the most looked up to comics. So fun. Fun to hang out with,
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too. >> Yeah, he's great. And I'm trying >> trying new stuff, too. So, he's gonna I
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gonna like make him watch my >> he'll help. He's good at that. >> Yeah.
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