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dana Dan Soder's on today and Dan Soder is a young man who has been kicking it in there for a while and uh tight with all the comedy greats and maybe you've
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heard of him maybe you haven't but it's time you have if you haven't hbo special
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a Comedy Central special he's part of the Netflix uh com standup uh comedian special he did 30 Minutes there and they self-produced special and so he's been around and it was fun to uh hang out
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with him his standup is great and he has a great ear and he delights us with some
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of his off-kilter impressions and tells us his story it's kind of funny because yeah
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his YouTube special he threw it on there about a year ago has 3 million views that's like a good trick and 3 million
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is very hard to come by people just throw numbers around but it's hard to get that much and uh a lot of comments
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about it they liked it and that's a good calling card he's going to start doing theaters and um he's announcing that
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pretty soon so uh look for that and uh you know he's buddies with Shane he talks about all these guys Nate all the ones we always talk about and good dude
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so I'm excited we had a lot of laughs with him he does a few impressions he's not really an impressionist but he's better at most impressions than an
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impressionist he's like Eddie Murphy or something you know he just does his regular standup is great but he does
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this really some cool Chappelle is Chappelle is pretty one yeah yeah that was awesome so
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super talented nice guy and a lot of these famous comedians are his good buddies who open for him so now it's Dan's turn yeah so here he is check it
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out dan [Music] Dan can you when you sleep can you have the bedroom door open or unlocked no or
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do you lock yourself in i lock myself in i shut it in oh yeah i barricade have you ever seen uh Have you ever thought there was an intruder in your house actively um one time Yeah when I
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used to live in Queens I had uh like in the first two weeks I lived there the a guy broke in through our we lived on the first floor on a very busy street a guy broke in through the back by pushing in
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the window and stole everything and then uh my landlord Anthony put up put up bars on the inside of our window and we were like "Why wouldn't you just put it on the outside?" He's like "Nah Dan
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that's not how that works we're going to put them up on the inside." And so then my roommate just had bars on the inside might hurt property value so he doesn't
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want to look like a prison yeah it's more for function not for uh to look good have you ever had an active
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shooter in your house no but I am from Colorado so I mean that is Oh right you're from Aurora yeah i'm from like
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All your buddies are in that gang now yeah everyone's Venezuelan everyone's a school shooter there's a lot going on in Aurora the second is it when you step foot in Aurora right over the county
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line it starts shooting or is it you have to get in yeah once you have to get you have to get registered as school and
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then they I'd like to go to this [Laughter] hi is there any seats available in the
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public well that was good let's go back and forth with laying down machine gun fire
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cuz these sound effects anyway it's a Tomlin town active shoes are funny but we'll put a pin in that
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come back to that one um I live in New York oh I will tell you Dan quickly i uh I lock the door i lock the door when I take a shower cuz I had a breakin once
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but yeah I don't like to sleep with the door open i put a big bolt on it cuz I'm
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scared now David yes aren't you worried about locking the door in the shower or what if there's an accident in the shower well this is a good I'm glad you brought this up uh four to five times
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I'm in the shower there's an accident no actually when I'm on the road and you know how people put the little bar over
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the lock so it's like a hook lock and you see Tik Toks where people go I bring these nine things to lock my block the little hole i put this I put a chair against it i'm not that crazy but I will
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say that um when I do that lock I always feel like what if something happens inside and they need to come get me and
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they can't get in they can't get out yeah they're just going to take the door completely right is that a real is that a real thought i mean I don't know am I
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the only one thinks that's crazy let me let me ask a neurotic question do you get into the shower
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is that it neurotic you get into the shower do you ever wonder as you're turning on the water gee I wonder if
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there'll be uh some seismic activity while I'm in here does that go through your mind um not for me cuz I'm not in
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California i think that's a very California way of thinking you guys have fault line You guys have fault line
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brains and we worry about buildings crumbling so I wonder if I'm in the building you ever think an airplane's going to come from Terrair yours comes from the sky you don't yeah things fall
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down in most cities i'm worried about Delta 126 coming into my shower as I'm taking it yeah you got you i don't have to worry about the Earth swallowing me like you two do i'm even worried about
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the hologram airplanes if those are real i don't want those hitting my shower either whichever I got that Pro Plus in
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my hair while a 7.6 comes in here that's why I got per plus you know what oh D you better not go off on a rant here Dennis yeah well Christ
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sakes Dan Soder all right these kids coming up pretty strong got a couple of specials out there good friend of all
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those that posy that's the new uh the new rat pack these cats out there okay you sound like Rodney do you do Rodney oh yeah i like I like to do um my new
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one is Ben Rodney as a mass shooter where he's like "Hey they're all going to pay i'm telling you you guys don't
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want to be friends with me well now you're not going to have a school to go to see I love I love that more than anything because I love the idea you you saw Rodney and then you thought "What's
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the best scenario?" And then you did it and you go "What's worse than the language of Rodney?" Like that's what's
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so funny it's exactly if he was that guy how would he say it the one I used to do a lot uh was woke Rodney where he would
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be like you know uh you know who doesn't get any respect is women of color i'm telling you if they say that gender is
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fluid well then I'm in love with a puddle i'm telling you I'm a white man i get all the respect
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dan is actually touching his chest yeah he's doing Rodney stuff don't worry far he's doing doing Rodney stuff yeah i
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mean that's what Andrew said last week endo Schulz you said that impressions are coming back and then I was looking
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around and you know obviously Shane does his cadrey but you're kind of you do a lot of voices but you don't I know is
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that a word but you don't lean on it your standup is just regular standup it's great and then you have these
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impressions it's kind of cool it's like a secret weapon well I would honestly um you know it's it's weird to like be
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talking to both of you and not acknowledge how important both of your guys' HBO specials were in my life
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specifically Critics's Choice and Take the Hit um like two of the reasons I do comedy um my family's from the Bay Area so anyone from um the Bay Area was like
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a demagod in the house san Carlos where' you go oh I know uh my father lived in uh he my dad's from the East Bay but my parents got divorced when I was young and I would go live in Marin with him he
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lived in um Greenbre and Mill Valley worked at Yeah yeah worked at a liquor store in Mil Valley called Dan's Liquors uh been there have a house in Mil Valley
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well what's funny about that is I thought he was working there cuz he loved me but it was cuz he was an alcoholic
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so that feels that kind of feels like a norm joke where it's like uh you know I thought he uh loved me but it turned out
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he was uh raging alcohol i know it's the way he would just slowly go yeah the guy
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thought he was real good friend right we're talking about the game and everything like the Giants could have won and everything and I realized he's
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only talking to me because he's a raging alcoholic all right i'll just randomly do that now because I'm I'm obviously a
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big Norm fan but yeah explaining my father's drinking problem it's cuz he had a raging drinking problem yeah it
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was yeah right he hits it's just a normism but I I used to do him as uh it never got a laugh i would do norm as an
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alarm clock great hey wake up there's a crack horn and [ __ ] in your bed cuz I heard him say crack [ __ ] he did it like 45 times on Conan and I was just
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you know when he he would just work a phrase you're not supposed to say over and over again oh yeah so him on Conan
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but and then uh Dave David I uh went to college in Tucson so I spent time in Arizona in a very uncomfortable way and there was a moment when I was in college
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when I was getting high with a guy and he did the let my tarantula crawl on you oh my god from the old and it wasn't for shake it was for a a legit bong hit oh my god and I was like I was trying to
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explain the joke your joke to him while a spider crawled i go "You have to watch this special cuz he does this as a
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giant boat crawling up me." But that was like um Yeah those two specials especially uh like when you're young and
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you watch you know I grew up with like cable i was like the first cable generation and there weren't many on so you could kind of watch them and know
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them yeah yeah yeah just watch them over and over and over again it wasn't mandatory now as as it is yeah it wasn't
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in your face it wasn't like you know you weren't trying to dodge them yeah exactly he was like it was like you
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would find it and you would almost be like I feel like I wonder if musicians go through that with TikTok and stuff where it's all in your face now where it
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used to be fun to probably go to a record store and like dig around the way it was to like tape HBO specials and
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then watch them and be like "Oh these are awesome." Everything was slow and everything everything counted now it's
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just a billion pieces coming at you but who's your best who's your tightest friend uh comedian is it Shane or or a
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bunch of you know Shane and I'm I'm real tight with Shane uh Nate Bargotsi and I have
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known each other how's he doing he's doing fantastic he's selling out the moon you still have that i think Nate's
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probably got those machines now where you have you count the money like in Scarves or
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that's all you hear when you call when you walk in coming and he goes "Hey man sorry i'm going to get I'm going to need
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to get a different room cuz this one's filled with money and you're like topless girls counting money but no
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cocaine just Yeah they have a face mask on just he's just a jerick the kid selling out so many tickets he's playing the state of Nebraska okay it
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always makes me think of this line from a Bill Hicks album where he goes "I can't sell out a comedy club and they're
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draining the ocean to build bleachers for Carrot Top." draining the effort so good so such a such a good line that I always think about that with
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like Nate and my friend like Schultz and Shane and all these guys doing arenas and I'm like I'm at a funny bone in
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short pump Virginia these guys are these guys are like "Yeah the King of England came and watched me do a set." Uncle
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what's it like to hear that you got a friend a friend playing clubs and then it seems it happens really fast these
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days where first it's maybe uh a big big theater whoa dude 3,000 and then it's sort of um an arena like a 15 or 20 or you know it's what I like about it is I
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think uh standup comics specifically you know you know it's always in the rock bios that they get like carried away
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with it and they're like what we owe this this is what we're owed comics I think in general are just like what the [ __ ] is this is crazy like Shane I'm I'm
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opening for Shane in uh he's doing arena shows in Cleveland and DC and I did a couple with him a couple weeks ago and he jokingly walked up to me and he goes "I just wanted to headline a Thursday at
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Helium in Philly." No [ __ ] got out of control that's how it starts if you can fill up a week Yeah yeah so I mean I
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think it's awesome man i'm very uh happy for all those guys that are doing just you know I never thought standup would be as big as you know hair metal yeah do
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you think it's I mean I think those stadiums are the bigger the bigger gigs if I'm in them I'm not really filling
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them but when I do them it's with other people it's a different sort of pace it's a different sort of everything and
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I sort of miss just my type of jokes are a little and plus I'm kind of quiet and
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maybe I mumble I don't know but it's better for a little smaller uh area but you know when I go on tour it's not that big but I was I saw a picture on Shane's Instagram of uh which is depressing of
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uh it's like a slide of places filled arenas and I think I'm I think I'm like watching a UFC fight and I see Dinky Shane in the middle I go oh it's just stand up but it feels like sometimes
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when I'm up there I feel like my energy isn't enough to match how much is in the room and it's very odd how well that's
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why Nate is such an outlier there he plays it so intimate what's his secret I mean what what is he doing that's so amazing His jokes are just He's just so good at stealing jokes yeah when we were
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coming up I always called him the bassad hound of comedy he just like a guy yeah
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oh he was a big fan of that he definitely he did have a bit of a ghosty idea behind it yeah i miss old Fat Nate
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dude i want Where's Fat Nate he used to look like Jared from Subway fat Nate should be a
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cartoon on Netflix i would 100% watch that fat nate used to look like a guy that fixed like ferris wheels and now and now he looks now he looks like the
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CEO of a blood company where you're like I don't even know what this you're wearing space pants it was wild yeah
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he's something i see clips but there's less clips now I think which is smart because I think the market was flooded
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there's Theo clips there's Nate clips and there's almost Shane clips shane clips shane Shane clips are everywhere i
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see more Shane is Trump clips yeah his Trump is perfect his Trump is it's a secret weapon dana do when you rate other people's like uh when you go to
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your chart and you put the rating when you when you do the rating who has been your because you know Baldwin obviously
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was the classical pick by SNL but I would argue that Shane does the perfect Trump well I would say I go by funniness more
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than accuracy for for my personal taste i think that James Austin Johnson is like jazz with it you know he's got so many hooks and so much it's almost an overrunning thing shane first of all
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he's he's a little doughy like Trump so he kind of can be Trump he's big he's tall that that's going to get him to
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punch a wall and when you see Well he's not Trump but you know what I mean i mean I I what am I going to play Trump
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at 145 pound you know but he but he uh he makes me laugh the most when he does it so that's why I go by well he goes a little more racy more he does more stuff
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that's a little like when it's on Kill Tony or something edgier i think Tyler Fischer is has some hooks that is are
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really really great as well really some interesting hooks i think Shane's speed dating on Gileian Keeves that the his sketch show when he does Trump Spade
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you're right he like nails the dirtiness of it that you know Trump kind of has so it's kind of funny to be kind of thinks
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and doesn't quite get there but he he's close he's close he said a lot trump knows he's like a comedian and he know he goes for laughs like and I saw him at a thing the other day he's doing press conferencing i was we're uh Republicans
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for gays he's like you don't look gay yeah and everyone laughs he's like "Go ahead what was the question?" And
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everyone's like "Everyone's fine with it." Like "Who says that obama never said that to anyone." That would be
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funny he goes "You know well you don't look gay." Obama like "You're not gay you don't
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look gay." Yeah that's very Yeah that's very shame i don't know i do I do Trump woke that's that was my only If he was woke how would it sound in his language
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we're going to take care of our trans women and we're going to take care of them what's happening to them is quite
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frankly a disgrace they ought to be able to compete with the girls i don't care if they're 6' three with flippers for
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hands and feet you got to put them in the pool yeah that is my that is my favorite
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thing to do with a voice is to completely take it out of context and make it applicable that was you know uh
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I screen tested twice for SNL didn't get it [Music] we'd like to hear about that i want I don't want you to go through your voices
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this is You guys wanted me You wanted to hear about the failure it uh Well I'm just I after seeing your stuff today and
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seeing you on Billions realizing you're an actor you could play the game show guy you could play the dad you could do
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all that and then you also have all these really cool takes and impressions so what happened you should still be
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nervous i got too nervous i got way too nervous when they I auditioned my my agent told me to do characters and voices even though I was doing it's not all you do yeah and I was like "Well why
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don't I do standup and then I can do a couple like impressions at the end?" And they were like "No they want you all they want you to do all characters and
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impressions." And I was like "Okay great." And the first one went well but then you know you get the call to come
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to 30 Rock and go to 8H and it's like it as a fan as like a lifelong SNL fan it's very intimidating oh yeah and it also at
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the that it was it was for season 40 it was before season 40 and okay um I wasn't planning on ever auditioning for SNL i just loved it i just loved it as a fan and then I was writing a cartoon for
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Comedy Central with Brian Tucker who at the time was the head writer and he was like "You should audition man." I was like "I don't know." And then I did and I got you know I got to do the screen
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test and it got in my head i just got like I I I wish I could have redone that because I think if I would have been more relaxed I would have done a lot i mean I watch everyone's Dana I've
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watched your audition tape over a hundred times because of YouTube you get to watch Phil Hartman's oh wow you know
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you can go find all of them it's crazy they have those yeah and they're just floating around yeah i never heard of
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that and I think that did me you know I used to open for Colin Quinn and Colin would always go uh he go Yeah you know
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you go that that's the problem with your generation you guys know every damn thing that happened in comedy you can't even be surprised with anything so and I
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was always like I don't know if I believe that and then now I'm like oh he was absolutely right it was like the
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weight of knowing too much for sure i wouldn't know of anyone's audition i You just hear about it we've heard that
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story a few times from different people i think Kyle Dunigan told a story of just feeling remorse but um you know it I got to do standup in front of Lauren
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Michaels in a club with a good audience and got to do 40 minutes [ __ ] before I had to go do
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the kind of 8H but it was actually in Burbank and Jim Carrey was on that audition too was he really yeah putting
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his foot behind his head and I thought well well there they got to hire this guy you know balls in his mouth i mean
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it was tough it was a tough before he auditioned i don't even know how he was in the green room orange who the
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impression but it's funny that was on the way in i've I've never seen balls in a mouth it's just funny i doesn't need a something like technical testicles in an
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orifice is always a good I mean um well 30 Eric Idol and I used to talk about it
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with Jeffy and Danny and Billy and I can I tell you guys a character I've been doing on the road that and and this is so uh a lot of comics are um
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very rich right now and they suck they like they're not good at standup and so yeah I've been doing this character that
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is a um an African shaman that I pay to tell people the truth so he just goes up
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to him and he goes I love the I do I do not like your comedy i do not think you are funny i do not think you have
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punchlines you are just saying bad words you are not funny and then they go like
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they go "Oh [ __ ] man that kind of hurts." And then it like catches on in comedy where like you know people are
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buying so you're at the seller and there's like poor shaman walking around being like I think that you you do bad
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jokes i do not like you and then they're like and it and then the the punch line
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that I had in my opener was that it gets back to Lauren and he's like um Dana had a shaman in ' 89 and it really it really
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split the cast he was pretty mean to a couple of the feature players for sure that is like David the shaman wants to
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see you yeah oh David adam got a shaman he wants to talk to you with me he go "Why are you gay?" You do like the boys he sounds like Why
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are you a gay guy yeah that's the That's the whole That's where I got that impression from
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funny why are you gay i think you go with that mentioning keep going with that man that's really funny and and get really specific with maybe the cliches of stand up like he gets
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into another seven and 11 joke we do not need you know why are you wor cancelling is not a thing I thought in the Sudin
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civil war I do not worry about being cancelled I cut the [ __ ] is not a punchline you
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The the audience answering for you is not a punchline it just shock value you are making Why do you make them do their work it is and
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then he's like he gets really out of date you know Jerry Lewis is who you should be doing he's like hey I had a shaman come up to me and tell me Dr bots thing that's great but um so the SNL
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thing yeah it was it literally was like before Dave um the director's name was Dave dave Dave Wilson dave Wilson he was cool as [ __ ] he was like he was great he
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goes "Hey man I had like you know my cowboy hat and like other things that I was going to put on full of shit." Uhhuh
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just like where do I put my wagon excuse me i have my little uh streamers and poppers but he was like he was like "Hey
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man just have fun or whatever." And then I remember this is the moment I remember where I tightened up is I I stepped on
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to 8H and I went like man [ __ ] Farley Phil Hartman Belushi Murray Carvey it's just and it just was like just the weight was just like pressing me down and then I just don't feel like
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I did like the first year I think I had like better voices and stuff the second year is the one I broke Lauren in the room and that was uh even though I didn't get it I was like I I like that
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cuz I did what made Lauren break i did uh Winnie the Pooh addicted to Honey where he was like I don't I don't know if you've ever woken up at a truck stop
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in just a red t-shirt being a being a man named Jimbo's Lot Lizard for a couple pots of honey and I just heard him go bat like that yeah that's a good Winnie the Pooh i've
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never heard anybody do Winnie the Pooh yeah and uh I know a lot of people do Eeyore adam Eaggan sounds like Eeyore
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he's like "Well I got to book another." Yeah i don't know you can comment if you
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want joe's mad at me took my took my tail again tim Dylan missed his flight i got to go tell him shane's got another friend i have to How
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many comps do they get is there a number [ __ ] but when you go in there how many people Because first of all someone goes in there before you audition and with a hose and sucks all the fun out of the
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room it's like the most grossest time to walk you go it's funny cuz all the standups were
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pacing me Andrew Santino and Pete Davidson they were all You guys are all doing it oh my god we're all pacing and
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all the improv actors were just comfortably in the green room like going over their lines and then you're just
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hearing people killing people the worst just murder and then you're like and then when you're up there you're like I don't think mine got that big of a laugh but then it was you know I I knew a couple
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of the bits and what's funny is I wrote a um Michael Chay that was the year Michael Chay was coming back from Daily
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Show to go do Weekend Update that was like his first year on Weekend Update and uh we're buddies and he was like
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"Well why don't I come over and go through your audition you know just to like give you notes or whatever and
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help?" And I was like "Yeah that'd be awesome." So there I was like confident in a couple of the characters i just
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don't think I performed confidently or I I just don't think I relaxed i think if I would have relaxed I would have done a
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lot better you know what shay helps because if you're on the inside like when I was writing sketches starting out
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of course you don't even know how to write a sketch you just got the audition and I was like a pretty good middle so
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I'm not even a headliner i mean and then they go "Here's a pad right?" And then if you have someone on the inside just
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walk you through because after a while I think what I write is funny and after a few weeks you can see something stand
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out at read through you go "This wouldn't work." You can just read it ahead of time and go "This room is not going to buy it." And you don't know
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that when you're auditioning and so if someone can go I can explain why i just know this is the kind of thing that's
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going to set off a red flag and that does help yeah cuz he was really I had like a couple different characters and one character he was like you should do that one was I did um I did the honest
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1950s Alabama football recruiter where he went "You my I I was like I had like one of those straw hats i my friend you are one of the fastest men I've ever seen on the ground." and you all are
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going to need those legs off campus they are not happy about us recruiting a black man and it was just like and Jay thought it was hilarious and I was like
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yeah all right i'll do cuz there were a couple where I was like I don't know i did Sam um Sam Elliott used to do these
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Kors commercials and this and this is in 2014 so this is like pretty much before
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the the trans thing became mainstream but he would do these Kors beer commercials and I grew up in you know my
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mom raised me in uh Aurora Colorado and in Colorado there was a place called Trinidad Colorado where they used to
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perform the sex change operations like everyone in Colorado knew it was like oh you go to Trinidad to have a sex change was it bigger there than the rest of the country so it was you and I think that
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was I think but I tried to explain it in the setup of like everyone who grew up in Colorado knew if you were going to
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Trinidad it was for a sex change operation like Turkey for a hair transplant exactly exactly uh or like
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Brazil for a buttlft it was just like they knew it and then I did uh Sam Elliot doing a commercial for Trinidad
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Colorado where it was like uh if you were born with the wrong parts well there's a place in Colorado that can take your Audi and turn it into an inning i'm talking about Trinidad
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[Music] Colorado and I think it might have been too uh But what maybe it was the eight minute setup
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you know maybe you didn't need to read a whole epilog you got a chart yeah here's a map of the US you could see in 1988 it's spiked sam talks about where
00:29:10
to go to get a sex change operation there it is you know what i probably should have got Yeah I would have loved to have gotten notes from you guys
00:29:16
before I did it well one one thing I could tell you is that then later on there's people in a room and there's a
00:29:23
lot of great things being said about a lot of people and probably for sure you and it's going the cards are going in
00:29:29
and out all you need is one person doesn't like you and you can kill you like you know what I mean so crazy and
00:29:36
also he likes to cast like if you didn't get it who was close to you or they already have a you like we have a Phil Hartman and we that's when they had like maybe Michael McKon came and they're
00:29:48
they're thinking more than what I'm thinking you know what I mean they're just not just funny they're going we don't have a Jan Hooks who would be
00:29:54
someone that's versatile female cute you know that kind of stuff the thing I was
00:30:00
told was it was the year after Sedakus left and they were like "We need a kind of an older white dude who can play a
00:30:07
dad who can play a teacher." Yeah yeah be kind of hulking if he needed to be yeah and so I think that's why I got far
00:30:14
because you know it was it was nice like spade what you said about having someone that's like kind of on the inside that
00:30:20
can tell you because Brian Tucker I was his guy you know like and he's the head writer i think I was like privy to the process more than anyone else that was going through it because Brian was like
00:30:32
"They like you you're in like the top five i don't know if you're going to meet Lauren you might get a call be
00:30:37
prepared for a call at any moment." Then I didn't get that call and then he kind of you know Tucker was there to be like
00:30:44
I think they're going to go with Pete Davidson and Pete was my opener oh wow like Pete was like opening for me he had
00:30:51
been featuring me for me on the road i've known Pete since he was like 15 and so it was funny listening to him be like
00:30:57
"I don't even know if I want it." You know like I would talk to him on the phone and he'd be like "I don't think
00:31:03
I'm gonna get it do you think I'm going to get it?" And then he got it and he was like "I don't know i think I'm I
00:31:09
think I'm going to do it." And you're like he's like "Great." So if you said there was was it three auditioning just
00:31:15
three dudes and then one got it no it was like 16 17 of us oh oh how many got it who else pete one it was just Pete oh wow so that's such a different choice
00:31:27
that you can't No women and Michael No and Michael Jay had the funniest you know cuz we're still good buddies and like it [ __ ] me up cuz you know I took it as I wasn't funny i know everything
00:31:41
you're saying now makes sense that they're casting what they're looking for but when you go and you do it you just
00:31:47
go like I but if I would have been funnier I would have got it like that's what I kept thinking and then Chay goes "No man pete's cool you're like an older
00:32:00
white dude." He's like "Pete's like 19 his dad died in 911." And I was like "Yeah that's a way better story." Yeah
00:32:07
you blew it i blew it my dad died next to a lake outside of Ukaya that's not very hooky well that is tough i I agree that he
00:32:18
does like someone you know he's got Marcelo now so it's like young cool good-looking dude and there's just he's
00:32:25
wants one of everything I think and here's the thing about Lauren he's right like look what Pete blew up and Marcelo
00:32:31
is like incredible so it's like he knows what he wants it's his show it's also why it's been around then you get girls
00:32:37
watching and you know he's got to cover all the bases but to say you lost is like going to the Olympics and going
00:32:42
they they liked me but I got 11th yeah that was exactly it where they were like "Oh but you auditioned." It's like "Cool i'm not going to wear my Team USA jacket." When I didn't I got close yeah
00:32:53
you got to the Olympics that's what you did you got to the end and you just is that you can't help mostly comics are
00:32:59
insecure anyway so going into that room from me to you to Dana you're just going
00:33:04
"Why would I be here this is not even what I even thought about." Like and do I deserve it am I good enough and if I'm
00:33:11
not that makes more sense in a weird way it really um you know I think it it it made me focus on standup which I appreciate a lot and it was a thing where I you know I'm a alcoholic like
00:33:24
I've been sober for 12 years let's look at a clip and you passed out in your Winnie the
00:33:31
Poo shirt it's just me crying on a subway notes from Shane bring up alcoholism yeah Shane shane's so mad because I quit drinking before I met
00:33:42
Shane and Shane was like I just want to get you out there one more night and you're like brother just do a few reps
00:33:48
so how does that relate to to that night i just feel like if I would have got SNL
00:33:54
it would have been a situation that I probably would have drank in that I think I would have gone It's such a high
00:33:59
pressure it's It's fun high pressure it's cool it's like everything that I would have been like well let me just have a drink whatever you would deserve it yeah i would go like "I'm hanging out
00:34:11
with Bono from YouTube i'm gonna have a beer." The after party and everyone's like "Don't be a pussy." Yeah and then
00:34:18
they're like "You took the edg's hat and now you two hates." Remember when you wore the edges hat and he was so [ __ ]
00:34:24
mad you're like "I did marcelo has hired me to tell you you can no longer drink at the after party i a problem."
00:34:36
That character can go anywhere it is interesting though i would I would almost want to be there and just see cuz
00:34:42
you know when you're if you're watching open micers and stuff uh you know for yourself if the room is dead or if
00:34:48
you're following someone really blue and you got to deal with that energy but what was the energy the three four
00:34:54
before you because I'm I'm sure on a given night because I've seen your stuff you're out there and you're going right
00:35:00
now the vibe is I'm the best guy doing standup on planet earth right now i mean there is that vibe can have to any really great standup and so I'd have to go back and see what it was in that
00:35:12
moment and it it's it's uh probably nothing to do with you you know you know it's I snuck in like two before me just
00:35:20
to see what the energy was like and when you walk in you know through the back like the main entrance of ah and I like
00:35:26
peek around and it was like I forget who it was just like throwing confetti and being like "Oh my god a little [ __ ]
00:35:34
piggy." And I was like Taylor yeah ruth Taylor someone going on and auditioning you're saying I'm saying at 8H like I saw like a and stuff you were just like
00:35:46
oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] and then I I also I I mean I really should have just fought to
00:35:51
do standup and impressions at the end because I think I would have just gone out and been like they would have gotten a better ide
00:36:03
and you were just walking down the street can you go up there in two minutes that probably with no prep you
00:36:10
that's exactly three days later i've done sets like that where I bomb and three days later I'm at some club doing
00:36:16
great and I'm like why wasn't what's the difference why is this working you were people in a room now you're people in a
00:36:22
room why was that so how many were there i never know how many come to watch i don't uh in the back I could only see
00:36:28
you know they like stay out of the light gross yeah I know they just vampire you but uh it's like all that jazz they're
00:36:36
like should I start hello yeah it's like Roy Schneider i think I think that's what happened to Kyle Dunigan he goes he walked out and the guy goes "Whatever you do don't do it until they say 321."
00:36:49
And then he goes he went out and Lauren goes "Are you going to go?" And he goes "No this guy said," and then he goes
00:36:56
"Te uh" and he's immediately off on the wrong foot didn't someone go out there when and then they had taken a break and
00:37:03
didn't tell him and then there was no one out there and he had to restart it's like going to the electric chair and
00:37:10
there's everyone's at lunch you're not going to go to the electric chair in an hour some guy fixing the bleachers goes
00:37:15
like "Hey that's some pretty good Woody Haroldson." I liked it when they come back they're going to like it oh you're
00:37:22
not here excuse me sir like take it out of the way black cabaret style they're getting your lavalier mic on and talking to you yeah you know it was one of those
00:37:34
things where immediately when I left I was like "Ah I could do that i could have done that so much better."
00:37:40
Sickening feeling i could have done that so much better and and it is like uh and then the second year the next year I
00:37:47
like kind of knew I you know I didn't do any of the preliminary auditions they just called me the week of screen tests
00:37:53
and they were like "That's at least nice." Yeah well that's very complimentary obviously they they were
00:37:58
on your you were on their radar go ahead yeah but they were like "You um can you do a I think they wanted someone that
00:38:04
could do a Jeb Bush they wanted someone that could do uh I can do Jed Clampet." Yeah but it was a thing where I was like nothing nothing there i was like Bush is tough yeah i was like "I could try." And
00:38:17
they were like "And then just bring three new voices." And that's when I did Winnie the Pooh and I think a couple other ones and they were like "Okay."
00:38:23
And then um they they were pretty quick back to me like "Nah not this year." But it was nice got it again yeah pete goes
00:38:31
"Do you know the You can get it twice you can get it twice in the back to back years." He quit and they hired him back
00:38:39
we didn't see anybody good [Music] the funniest was you know talking about how insecure comics are and how you know
00:38:51
something like that is even though it is like a cool thing it's still a loss the first the season premiere of SNL 40 um
00:39:00
which by the way I think they did take one of my things and kind of which you signed the contract so I'm not like mad
00:39:05
about it but one of the things I I did um one of the sketches I did was Jason Stathithm's edible arrangements where I was like if you're proud of your family send them a bouquet but not of flowers
00:39:18
but of fruit made of fists how about you kick him with some cantaloupe with Jason Staithm's edible arrangements and then
00:39:27
uh one of the sketches that they cut was Jason Staithm's Jason Stums that was like that episode and I was like "Oh right after audition." Whoops that's a
00:39:39
little too close to the bone there that's But that's also in all fairness and people love to leave this part out
00:39:44
whenever they they tell about sketches you sign a contract going like "Hey I'm giving you these ideas." like when you
00:39:50
audition there is a contract that's like whatever they see if they like it you know it's going to be theirs and I
00:39:55
completely understood that so I wasn't mad about that but it says in the contract we will not hire you but we do
00:40:01
love these ideas but good but good joke but um but the first SNL SNL 40 premiere
00:40:09
I was at the stand here in New York at their old location and uh I was doing the 8 to 10 in the midnight and I was
00:40:16
very excited to watch Chay on weekend update cuz you I've known him since we were doing open mics together and uh 8
00:40:23
and 10:00 show were great midnight show I bombed so hard i had like flop sweat like it was through both shirts I was wearing and I went first on the show and
00:40:35
just absolutely [ __ ] bombed and then I go upstairs to where the restaurant is at the stand and they have it SNL's on all the screens and it's Chay on Weekend
00:40:47
Update which I'm excited about i'm like I'm excited so I watch Chay do a couple jokes and then he does the thing where
00:40:53
he's like and now I'd like to introduce our newest cast member our young people correspondent Pete Davidson and Pete's
00:41:00
got phenomenal stand-up jokes and he comes out and Pete [ __ ] murdered on his first weekend update and I'm sitting there watching it with hot sweat drying on my forehead and Pete had a roommate
00:41:14
at the time named Derek who's a comic uh black dude in New York he's a comic and Pete's killing i'm watching and Derek is walking up and down the
00:41:26
stand going "He's the next Eddie Murphy she's the next R i'm just [ __ ] standing there watching this still escalating yeah i'm like how's my dad going to come back from the dead and be
00:41:38
like I'm proud of him not you he was wrong he is the goat he is the goat nobody funnier than this man and you're just like [ __ ]
00:41:50
it's an emotionally vi I bombed horribly following Sam Kenisonson at midnight when at the comedy store the original room with no MC in between and just dead
00:42:02
silent i mean just death what does Sam bring in all right this next young man is I go what's up and then I saw a little painting lights
00:42:15
up i looked over he had been lit up and and so um yeah it took me a couple months to get over that i I thought SNL
00:42:22
was out of there you remember every bomb you remember every bomb so accurately that you're just like it can turn so
00:42:29
fast you would have done better if they saw you they saw me and Rob Schneider at the maybe Catch Rising Star but we
00:42:35
didn't do that well but Dennis Miller was saying they're just going to look at the writing so you don't even have to do
00:42:41
well and they just want to see kind of what you're thinking and if it's a little weird or a little something and
00:42:46
they don't they didn't have one of me they had Dana but they they were like I was brought as a writer and Schneider
00:42:52
and they didn't have one anyone to look like Schneider so he got on a quicker and then Sand you know Sandler was unique and Farley was very unique so I'm
00:43:00
just saying that when I walked off stage I was kind of like ah tough there's probably 25 people in that crowd that night probably 10 SNL 12 SNL 12 right oh
00:43:14
so they were like about half of it yeah like comes in like they they come in into a crowd that's not that full and
00:43:21
then you see like you hear and it's like Jim Downey and Laur you know and then all these people that are and some cast
00:43:27
members i think anyone's invited because I remember being there and Marcy Klein going they're doing auditions if you guys want to stop by or like how
00:43:33
horrible to see us all come in and watch and like I just said it dude if I would have walked in there and just Christian
00:43:39
Wig would have been staring at me I know like what's this [ __ ] chump got just not even
00:43:45
blinking just oh god are you mad at me uh I was there for Louis I watch Louis oh at the at Carolin right Dana your boy Louie Me the guy mean my headwriter Louis yeah
00:44:01
yeah from the Dana Carvey show my head writer what the Dana Carvey show let me tell you right now that affected me it did me too yeah you But as a as a a
00:44:14
little boy that uh was was your biggest fan when they took off the Dana Carvey show that was a bad Monday for everyone
00:44:21
in my class i was I know we had murderers row boy [ __ ] you guys had the [ __ ] best
00:44:27
that documentary was phenomenal it really was like it's funny because I would tell people about Dana Carvey the
00:44:33
Dana Carvey show sketches and they would treat me like I was crazy like people that it like a Mandela effect like I was
00:44:41
misremembering something where I would do the the nauseous waiter was always one that I'd be like "Oh yeah that was a
00:44:46
killer that was Coar and Carell." And when you guys would pay for stuff and drive away your bad pranks
00:44:53
they still show those they show those D on Instagram now thought I was going to lose Steve i mean he was so committed
00:44:59
and and and flipping out in that car and the veins were popping out of his head i said between text we'll flip out but I
00:45:06
mean you know it's okay chill out dude yeah but you know when you it's it's the getting the lens on people like it was just Coar and Carell just two guys we I we nickname the two Steves and then as
00:45:18
they emerge and they go on you go "Oh it was it was Steve Carell." you know so I would you know if I was your manager
00:45:24
agent I would still float you around for SNL yeah i I don't know i think I'm just put it out there you at this point i
00:45:31
think they could use your versatility and your impressions your take on things i don't know just I don't think there's
00:45:37
any you know Phil Hartman got on at 38 or 39 i mean that audition you want to see the perfect audition the guy first off just comes out does the the the
00:45:48
private eye the perfect private eye voice chick hazard chick hazard yeah I was I was I was dancing cheek to cheek
00:45:54
with a bar and it's like it's perfect and then his impressions are in [ __ ] German he does his impressions in German
00:46:02
as the best German impressionist legend at the Groundlings already and didn't really even want to do the show it's funny he talks he uh he does a he does like a infomercial voice where he's like
00:46:15
it's the stun gun the incredible stun gun and he does the he does the three different rays and he goes look there's
00:46:20
Bonnie Bernstein and he like hits him with one and you hear people in the back laugh like you hear him break everyone
00:46:27
there they go like that's good cuz he's just doing his he's doing the impression and then breaks to go like Brilstein
00:46:34
you're frozen he would always be called in for the voice over it's happy fun ball oh it's the best I Happy Funball as
00:46:42
a top 10 commercial when we did church chat David and I this past fall Phil they still use Phil's voice people emotional now it's time for church chat
00:46:54
yeah but that's um you know you're you're you have a wide skill set i mean you're in the Phil Hartman territory as
00:47:02
far as what I can tell you look like a carpenter and do you tell they bring you up like that this next guy looks like a
00:47:07
carpenter this guy's gonna can't fix stuff but he can do voices so that's it he's gonna fix your funny bone that's what you should say oh before we get or let you go I got to ask you a quick
00:47:18
question about you did you did say you're from Arizona you went to Dirt Bags to drink maybe that that bar and uh
00:47:25
you were in What did you do in Drunk Parents oh I um I had a scene with Alec Baldwin in a diner i did a I mean this is pretty this was pretty awesome number
00:47:39
one um when I went in to audition it was just like you know a regular old audition and then I walk Dirty Work's one of my favorite movies of all time dirty Works yeah it's like uh Love it
00:47:52
sega or didn't Fred co-write Dirty Work no that's why so I walk in and Fred Fred
00:47:58
Wolf is sitting there and I go "Oh [ __ ] Fred Wolf." Like I walk in and that was
00:48:03
my first reaction and I go "Mhm you're Fred Wolf." And he goes "You know you know him." He's like "Yeah." Oh yeah oh yeah hey Dan what's him doing and I go
00:48:10
you go "Norm you know Normal wrote a lot of that that's really funny you're really good you're not so good." But he goes "Um," he goes "Yeah yeah yeah." And
00:48:16
I go "I was just quoting Dirty Work the other day Chvy Chase's line where he goes you know the worst part of these
00:48:22
bookies is they break your legs and they still expect you to pay you the money." He goes he goes "Yeah that and
00:48:29
then I auditioned and it went like all right or whatever." And then I left and then Fred came out and he was like "Hey
00:48:35
there's another role could you read for it if I gave you like 15 20 minutes could you like learn the sides and come in and do this other role?" And I was like "Yeah sure." And so I just did it
00:48:46
and I came back in and it was the role that I ended up getting which was Rusty who's a guy who sells catalytic
00:48:51
converters or is like trying to recruit Alec Baldwin to steal catalytic converters
00:48:57
and so that was like uh we just filmed in this diner up in the Bronx for like a morning but the best the thing I'll always remember is I went through a really tough breakup like right then
00:49:09
like a girl just absolutely crushed me and then I had to go film with Alec Baldwin and the night before I filmed I was at the stand again and I saw Judah
00:49:20
Freedellander and I was like "Hey I'm going to see your buddy Alec Baldwin." And Judah was like "Tell him you're a
00:49:25
stand-up comedian." He loves stand-up comedians and I was like "Awesome." So we're in the makeup trailer and he comes in and I introduce myself and I was like "Hey uh I'm my name's Dan i'm a standup
00:49:38
comedian i'm playing Rusty or whatever." And um Judah Freedellander I saw him last night he says hello and he did he did the tell the world champion I say
00:49:45
hello and then he like sat down in his makeup chair and throughout the you know he's like he direct his he like kind of directed his own scene where he was like "No put the camera right there no put
00:49:57
the camera right there." And then he like and and then like I'm across a diner just like watching Alec Baldwin i
00:50:04
mean 30 Rock is my favorite television show of all time i'm watching Jack Don just [ __ ] rip it in front of me and
00:50:11
and you know he always he is Jack Donnie like I know he isn't but he is in my head of course yeah he's like "Lemon
00:50:17
that's not how that goes." But he uh So we're filming and then we uh we break to
00:50:23
to um you know move stuff around and to get my coverage and he's talking to me and we're like eating this plate of fries and I'm like "Yeah I went through a really bad breakup this weekend." And
00:50:34
he just talked me through it he was like "What happened?" And I like tell him and he's like and he was like I just
00:50:41
remember I go we were so hot and heavy before Christmas and then she went away and it kind of changed and Alec Baldwin
00:50:47
dips a fry and he goes someone got in her ear and then he eats the fry yeah that's sounds like and then we're like we're like talking and then he um he at
00:50:57
this one point he goes you know I went through a tough breakup in 2000 and I went yeah Kim Basinger Kim Basinger yeah
00:51:05
he went "Yeah it was a tough breakup." And then he like he was just giving me this like uh it was really sweet he was
00:51:11
just giving me this like advice and uh it was it was awesome he he loves to talk about stuff every anything he would
00:51:18
love he likes to be funny and you're he's very curious he'd be like "What happened?" But it just broke me when he
00:51:24
dipped the fry and he went someone and he's funny dude yeah dude um I want I I want you to do a couple impressions for us yeah first of all Front Desk Energy that is your podcast did I get that
00:51:36
right it's just called Soder it's just called Soder and the Okay yeah it's just called
00:51:42
It's just my last name i'm not Podcast okay front Desk Energy was the name of the episode with Shane yeah yeah shane
00:51:48
it was actually the day after what's funny about that that was the day after Shane uh hosted SNL the first time and I
00:51:54
you know you want you talk about like um you know you on the Dana Carvey show obviously helping Carell and and um and
00:52:02
Coar and all those and Louis and stuff bill Cot yeah yeah shane uh used to be my opener i I I saw Shane in Pennsylvania and I was like in Philly and I was like you should come on the
00:52:13
road with me and then me and a couple other friends got him to move up to New York and so that's why it's awesome now
00:52:18
that I'm going to go open for him at an arena and you're like "Well looks like this investment paid off." You're like
00:52:24
"Well let's try to get a a tour together where you do headline it's called Secret Headliner." And Pete Davidson and Shane
00:52:30
Open and you know who also Tim Dylan used to feature for me and uh Nick Mullen yeah Nick Mullen by the way I remember a show where Tim
00:52:41
Dylan buried me so bad that halfway through my set i was like uh in my head you have that comic thought where he goes "Should I ask them if they want me to bring Tim back out?" Cuz it was like "Oh he's too too good." Yeah he just it
00:52:55
was at um the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington on like a show and Tim just murdered for like 25 minutes and then I
00:53:01
went out there and I was like "Well I mean what am I going to [ __ ] do that's hard to do that's a fake what the [ __ ] am I going to do but Shane was like that shane would kill and you'd just be
00:53:12
like "Ah fuck." I know don't get a go opener that's that good god just get kind of a nice sweet opener that doesn't
00:53:19
do anything like you kind of mellow i mean but this was like you know I was still in that like you need to be the
00:53:25
best you can be you're absolutely right get a guy that's good but not going to [ __ ] make you go crazy yeah or um a
00:53:32
woman somebody just different um so you self-produce right you did a Comedy Central special and then a Netflix you we did 30 minute the standups and then you've which I think is cool people are
00:53:44
doing it and Shane did it on YouTube right that's called on the road did I yeah that was recent so I did a HBO I
00:53:50
did an HBO hour in 2019 which was like I think I feel lucky I think I was one of
00:53:55
the last people to do a real HBO special like like an actual on HBO it like debuted full hour it was the best experience of my life you know especially talking about your guys' HBO
00:54:08
specials dana I got to perform at Palace of the Fine Arts last month i headlined and I kept thinking about it thousand
00:54:14
seats yeah as a Niner fan you know cuz my dad's from the Bay i just kept wanting to go [ __ ]
00:54:20
49ers but you say that and they go crazy oh god yes but I did the HBO special and
00:54:27
then HBO you know I think kind of fell off and uh Netflix I have a good relationship with but I was just on the road so much my agent was like "You should just record your hour right now
00:54:40
cuz I didn't have any plans to." And we I think that's what the difference of the business is now now you can just
00:54:45
take a guy that can give you a 4 camera shoot you can do it um on the fly and just put it on YouTube and it got you know I think we're at like close to 3 million yeah 3 million like it was just
00:54:59
like a thing where it was like this is exactly what I needed at this time in my career i I was jokingly calling it like
00:55:04
a mixtape like just putting out a mixtape and being like yeah here's what I'm doing on the road right now come and
00:55:10
see me on the road and it really helped you know I'm about to um about to kick off a a theater tour the Golden
00:55:17
Retriever of comedy tour um it's my first theater tour and I'm like excited and I think the YouTube special really helped that you know so you've made the leap to to theaters yeah I'm I'm making
00:55:27
the leap in the fall i'm still doing clubs through the summer but then I'm I'm I've done a couple theaters um you
00:55:34
know in certain cities like uh in San Francisco in San Diego at the Balboa and it was like you know I think it's a slow roll i'm not you know I'm friends with
00:55:45
Nate and Shane and Tim and I see these guys go from being like I did a funny bone then I'm doing Taj Mahal and uh and
00:55:52
it's like I I'm like very slow and steady very slow well it is just it's adding up now all the specials and all the give you a good review and then you
00:56:04
go back to city it's the same thing just building building yeah exactly it's just the the slow route is um very slow yeah
00:56:13
this will this will kick in you're still you're you're brand new trust me you got a long way to go you know I mean Louie a
00:56:20
lot of people Sebastian it was around early 40s when they really took off yeah that's you know I say this I said this
00:56:27
to my manager and they're like "Oh Jesus." But it is the truth uh white dudes hit their superpowers in standup
00:56:33
in their 40s cuz stuff starts hurting and you stop caring less about being cool and I think there's this kind of
00:56:40
thing of like you're comfortable like I feel more comfortable doing stand up than I've ever felt yeah you want to
00:56:46
have that next level of confidence like you know get out of my way you you ain't
00:56:53
ever Wait till they get a load of you wait until they get a load of Wait till they get a load of Dan
00:57:02
[Music] just real quickly because I we've never had anyone do these on this show just a
00:57:08
quick Chappelle and a quick quick Cat Williams cat Williams is Cat Williams' reactionary i don't even think it's that
00:57:14
good but because you just go high with it it's just I don't I can't even But I love Cat Williams so much and hearing
00:57:21
you do it makes me happy funniest [ __ ] the funniest [ __ ] that he said on Shannon Sharp that no one talks about is
00:57:27
when he goes "Chris Tucker used to hang out with Michael Jackson michael Jackson used to call him Christmas." And he goes
00:57:35
"Would you ever let another man call you Christmas?" Shannon Sharp goes "No I wouldn't." No
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no i do not believe I would i ain't gonna say that but my Chappelle My Chappelle is uh Chappelle's my favorite comedian of all time like I uh
00:57:55
I've like probably paid to see him live before I started doing standup i would like like a dead head i would follow him
00:58:02
around and um then COVID hit this is the reason this is what I talk about on stage but when COVID hit they shut down all the comedy clubs in New York we couldn't go inside that was like the big
00:58:16
thing and then the stand was like "We're doing inside comedy you're we're going to do some inside shows." And every
00:58:22
comic in New York was like fighting to be like "Please let me go inside i want to do a regular set." Yeah and the day
00:58:30
of the show we get a I get a text from Patrick the Booker and he goes "Hey the next three nights are cancelled uh
00:58:36
Chappelle is just going to do shows." And so then I walk in to the stand one night bitter sure bitter angry angry i
00:58:45
want to go inside and then I'm watching Dave my favorite comic of all time just do a fivehour set where he was just
00:58:53
staring at his cigarette and so I started making fun of it like uh he's just talking about like uh white people
00:58:58
sports you know he's like "A lot of people don't know this but Mark Messier was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers and
00:59:06
he played with Wayne Gretzky but no one gave Mark Messier the credit for it." Like oh man or I would also do like I love it a lot of people don't know this but a black man made up a lot of lawn
00:59:19
games for white people cro was invented by a black man named Jamal Cro and he never got to play his game that's always a lot of people don't know this is is a
00:59:33
very A lot of people don't know he never got to play his game and you just stare your cigarette wow that's really good he
00:59:40
does he'll take 12 minutes to light the cigarette everyone's just going "What's going on?" And then he lights it and he
00:59:46
goes "I don't know if you guys ever saw the show Punky Brewster but she lived with a man that was three times her age
00:59:54
that man was a pedophile funny i can't believe it i said "Punky that man is a pedophile
01:00:07
that's great." Oh my god that is one of the best impressions I've heard in a long time i mean when he when he did the
01:00:15
Comedy Store he kind of did a quick quick end run i was the first time I felt the confidence went to this whole
01:00:21
other level and it was like 15 minutes of no not any and the audience was almost afraid of him
01:00:27
it was such a level of calm and confident and then those kind of rhythms it's just I got to watch him at the cellar you know before he did Radio City
01:00:39
in fact it was me Schultz Joe List and Mark Norman all sat at a table and watched Chappelle do like two hours and his improv is just funnier than anything
01:00:50
I could ever write there was a guy there was a guy in the front row and Chappelle was smoking and he goes uh he goes where
01:00:57
uh where you coming in from man and the guy went um the guy went uh where do they cane people is that Singapore yeah
01:01:04
it's sing he goes uh I'm coming in from Singapore he goes oh that's crazy when you landed did you take all the gum and
01:01:10
go I'm going to eat all the gum right now and he like did this like chewing motion and I think it just made me laugh
01:01:17
so hard he's just so quick and funny he's just the best yeah so who's the second best yeah you go and who would round out your top five well it's funny because I mean
01:01:30
Spade your let's go to the clip thing is like one of my favorite I just did it to you i know that's why if that wasn't a
01:01:38
fake that was you really got me my fiance and I that's one of our favorite bits is just go just to break the the
01:01:44
tension and go let's go to the clip this is so and I'll tell you uh Spade you got
01:01:52
for me you made me laugh the hardest on SNL50 when they were doing the Melany thing and then they go and P goes and then Melanie goes where's Spade was just doing the thing you know yeah I got the
01:02:04
beat that made me laugh that is I know every all the writers said the same thing cuz I talked to the producer about
01:02:11
David's little moment and everybody was kind of in comedy it said so much cuz the the the Broadway show thing was so energetic and what was the exact thing you said though i know i got a
01:02:23
feel for it and that's that's the name of your special so I just named my special that because it
01:02:29
was the day I got home and I go "Hey I already that's funny i'll just call it that i got a feel for it." It was just
01:02:36
perfectly spayed the way you were talking to someone else and you went "Yeah I got a feel for it." It made me laugh because it was like a 12minute
01:02:43
Broadway show it was like this is more about the singing anyway I'm glad this podcast didn't turn into me
01:02:48
complimenting you two because that almost is what it became because I'm such a massive fan like Dana I don't
01:02:54
think you understand you saying I do a good Chappelle that's like that's going to fuel me for years to come it's unreal
01:03:00
i'll add to that that's unreal well because it's not just the uh the rhythm it's also some texture in the tone of
01:03:06
the voice and then it's the phrasing so the three things are sort of perfect so it's like don't anyone else try to do
01:03:14
Chappelle if anyone wants to try just that's been kind of checked off that's in But your Biden was something that I
01:03:21
thought I I mean I'm not getting around here i was so mad i was so mad they put you in late for that i was so mad that I felt like the last you know 2020 to 2025
01:03:35
should have been you as Biden i don't know if you wanted to do that but like when I saw you do it I was like mad that
01:03:42
it hadn't happened before it was They'd asked me before but I felt like I'd done it on
01:03:48
Coar just real quickly and I felt like the audience in New York wasn't ready for it because of thinking it would make
01:03:55
Trump happy no so but the but when he whispered and yelled is when it became a three-dimensional I write the bill
01:04:01
because I want to ride bills i can ride bills faster than ever you better bring Bed Bath and Beyond then I knew I had an
01:04:07
energetic impression but I was happy to to land it when I did you know yeah it was perfect it was perfect and I two fan
01:04:15
questions that I'm going to kill myself because I don't know if I'll ever see you guys again going to have to ask you can take the Hit david hey that was my
01:04:20
first question did your dad get mad about those jokes on Take the Hit my real dad Peewee um no he had no say in it i would tell I
01:04:31
said if I have to get he goes he didn't love it you know there was one I did about my step 15 and 15 oh yeah
01:04:42
16 Nate and I would laugh at that on the road for [ __ ] hours and I always wondered cuz I've done jokes about my
01:04:48
mom and I've always wondered if your dad was like hey that's not that's not how that went no he at that point I was sort
01:04:55
of helping him out i'm like listen there's a few jokes about you don't worry about it he was he's by no means any dad of the year so I said "I have to
01:05:02
get something out of this." And then my stepdad shockingly didn't like one when I said about my mom
01:05:09
when I was saying "Oh I don't know what it was but it was something sort of dirty." And I
01:05:14
was like "You're right." Because you don't really think of that you're just trying to think what's the funniest thing you can think of yeah and someone steps in and says "I can't I don't I
01:05:21
can't hear that anymore." And I was like "Oh [ __ ] I didn't even I just thought you'd be so excited that you were in a joke." I had an I had an ex I had an
01:05:28
ex-girlfriend uh whose parents were from the Bronx and we were I was at their house having dinner one night and I was
01:05:33
trying to I was telling her your joke the Brad Pitt joke uh where you go where you're doing your grandma and you go where's my little David where is who's that kid I want to [ __ ] that kid I'd
01:05:45
[ __ ] that dude you know him why don't you drag him around the house I'm like you go I can teach him a couple
01:05:52
lessons get [ __ ] gnaw his balls But I remember my ex-girlfriend's mom just I love that joke obviously and she goes "That's not funny you don't." She
01:06:04
goes "You don't you don't talk about You don't talk about someone's grandmother like that." And I go I go "It was about
01:06:10
his grandmother." You It's my fictitious grandma in my lie of a joke everyone's like I still see things that go David Spade went to school in Brad Pit i go "I did." I go "Oh and that joke I did."
01:06:22
It's so funny that fictitious lie of a joke that I Yeah i mean but I I remember Brad Pit when I saw him right after that he goes "Oh where's grandma?" I go "What do you mean?" I go "Oh right i just did
01:06:34
that joke." Again it's like I don't even know what I'm talking about oh [ __ ] that
01:06:40
makesh term yeah it's just such a Davey oh what the Who's that kid i want to [ __ ] that kid oh good change up yeah
01:06:47
yeah but uh and then Dana the question that I've wanted to know uh since 1994 since it came out an hour ago why why did you guys take the Ross Perau stuff
01:06:59
in uh Critics's Choice and put it during the credits because it was so funny cuz
01:07:05
you it was Ross Perau talking about movies where he goes "If you pay $5.99 to see a [ __ ] on a bench you're a
01:07:11
[ __ ] get on a bench." And then you did Water World this man dranks his own urine yummy yummy and it was all during the credits of your special for Critic's
01:07:24
Choice i you know I I forgot about that i don't know why i don't Did you do it in charact Did you have the makeup and
01:07:32
stuff or you I was just doing them can I finish one time can I come in on the one
01:07:37
can I come in on the one you're not listening can I finish one time can I finish one time yeah that was what a what a gift to have a guy like that come to the scene you know that was
01:07:48
unbelievable no I love that it was that and I always quote your um I feel a temper tantrum coming on when you do the adopting an old man yeah a 2-year-old is
01:08:00
like a 100-y old man with you where do you think you're going all dressed fancy yeah pimper tantrum coming off now buy me a toy that's not Megur that's Mega T
01:08:12
you can tell cuz the index fingers crook slightly different mega to me make a tea
01:08:17
now buy me a toy or I think I feel a tantrum coming off and and the one where he goes "Sit your ass down we're watching Pooh Bear." And then you shuffle up and come back and
01:08:28
you go "It's a good one too piglet gets lost." Well you're my new best friend because
01:08:36
but I know you people who appreciate the weirdest driest throwaway lines are like
01:08:41
you know frequency you're like I love this you know so I get it you don't really You hope people notice the weird
01:08:48
dry throwaway lines but when they do it's it's very satisfy i would probably say both of your guys is the thing that
01:08:54
makes me love both of your guys' comedy so much is that it's the texture it's like the layers it's like you know I
01:09:00
think like Spade everything I've ever watched of yours it's there's all this this like duality of like top [ __ ]
01:09:06
and then this underlying belief and I love that i love watching like a guy that's a smart [ __ ] and you're like
01:09:13
in a fun way in a way that like man sometime dude I know you'll never remember this David but there was a a
01:09:21
comedy musical in New York City called Ha and Kevin Farley was in it with like a bunch of stand-up comedians and one of my friends was in it and he was he got me and my roommate who's a
01:09:36
comic to go see him big Jay Okerson was in it yeah yeah yeah okay and he was like "Hey um you guys should come see it
01:09:41
we're doing this thing with Kevin Farley and a couple other comics." And so we go to the matinea on the upper west side
01:09:46
because it's in the afternoon and me and my roommate sit down and you and David tell sit behind us and it was one of the
01:09:55
greatest experiences of my life because you were in like full spade mode oh no was I commenting on it but so quietly but to the point that me and Veion were
01:10:08
[ __ ] dying and then you got you were doing it and it encouraged a tell to do it so it like ran on top cuz there was a part where you like they're like
01:10:20
breaking down standup comedy and they go and now here comes the tough female chick and you just hear Spay go
01:10:28
mhm and it made me laugh and then Kevin Farley was doing a thing where he goes and then a heroinaddicted Jew named
01:10:36
Lenny Bruce shows up and goes easy and it was like dude it was the We walked out and I was like that was like one of the best afternoons of my life i got to watch i do remember that now cuz that was I think his wife was directing
01:10:51
that player that was his wife Michelle was directing that and so it was so funny i love that you saw that thing
01:10:57
good job we should have hung out then yeah well dude hearing you and talk about it all right go out and see uh Dan
01:11:04
on the road on the road playing theaters i think uh we'll have you back when you
01:11:10
make the leap when you make the leap to your first arena just come back that's so funny i'm just going to be outside your guys' house going "Guys it didn't happen." But I I can still do guys remember Chappelle what if Dave
01:11:22
Chappelle came inside i'm playing a shed i'm playing a shed at Boston they got a shed they got a good shed they're serving soda out the back of it so did you just let me in can you
01:11:33
please let me in it's so cold out here guys all right Dan we'll talk soon buddy pleasure hanging out with you and hope
01:11:40
we see you around see you guys thanks so much this has been a presentation of Odyssey
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