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Marcy Klein intro declined just for everyone who's about to hear this podcast yeah Marcy Klein
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was a very important figure at SNL for many decades as a producer uh kind of Lauren's right hand woman and was talent
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management and guest management and she has some amazing Stories she's really
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funny and uh just fun to hang out with and fun to have dinner with yeah you know we I
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think we used her she asked about she said if you guys want to talk to me because I hear my name we we throw it in
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casually like Norm was back there Marcy brought her out you know Marcy brought us in yeah she brings you to see the
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host when they need the host if the host is Bored she walks in Spade Sharon Stone's in there go go go say something
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all right all right and then you go in there and she doesn't want to talk and
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she'll she'll tell some stories about that inside baseball she won't mention
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the name but it's like five minutes before the air show and goes into the dressing room and the person's like I
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just can't go on there's no actors and she has to figure out she has a psychological Jiu Jitsu to get this
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person ready to do 90 minutes alive stand up yeah so she had a lot of funny stories there's a lot of inside how
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people got on auditions uh how they pick uh very interesting she was there my whole run I think your whole run too oh
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yeah she was I mean I I I knew her which we we talk about when I did Brown University as a stand-up and she was in
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the front row and something funny happens oh that's right I think we talked about that so I knew her from
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that and all of a sudden she's at the show and she has a very famous Dad I just didn't have any idea and she's
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running the town department and uh she was sort of a scout also she had a lot of different uh she would look at the
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old VHS tapes and she would just hang out with us all the cast members this is our mascot uh actually will told me I
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used to go let's go down to Wally and Joseph's when he was we had our overlap
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Wally and Joseph that's a good place we used to all go uh okay here she is Marcy
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foreign [Music] there was an amazing guy that he brought when he hosted that was a like guy that
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like I can't explain who he was but I was like David that guy is amazing he was like a chiropractor do you know when
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you hosted David did you bring a chiropractor to the show oh maybe I broke what a movie star traveling with a
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team it didn't help by the way Marcy do you remember hi Marcy hi David do you
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remember when I got sick when I hosted yes I don't know if Dana remembers this
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I will refresh your memory what what are we talking the early knots or past 210 the middle knots I think I hosted
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maybe it's the second time whatever I only did two whoops three you guys all
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try to blackball me no I'm kidding I only did two but they were [ __ ] terrifying and it's so much harder
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because when I was on I Didn't Have I was never in like a ton of sketches like
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Dana so when I'm on Phil was in a lot of sketches hosting is a [ __ ] oh it's sober that's 13 sketches in the
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cold opening and some signature hold your hand that week were you are you around are you working on 30 Rock at
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that point no I feel like when David maybe when you hosted I was like I can take the week off yeah I mean like it's
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there's nothing better than ex former cast members that come back yeah you knew that yeah yeah see at the party
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yeah you're like you know the drill you know I know read through I know when
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it's gonna be hard but even when we did spend time together that first because I
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remember you hosting and thinking that was a big deal I think what happened was stressed out Dana when he hosted was not
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stressed out um well in the 90s I was when I came back in 2010 I was too uh you know
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you're living up to the past and you can't where's the pepper boy sketch you
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know it's like you know what I mean it's like you you put a little pressure on
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yourself but David's always calm and cool didn't you do uh character what was the character that
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um the guy who did the Dan with Will Ferrell sorry um there's Chris Catan he
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had that little phone I did mango and kiwi and you wore shorts and I go God that guy has really muscular legs and
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that's been your your legacy I should never not wear shorts because it was a
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that was unbelievable oh the letters that came in here's what happened though Dana I do I do dress
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and I I'm sure it was Mars who was there because she probably can when I retell
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this I say it was Marcy for people that don't know Marcy was the she ran the
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talent their producer for years she was she was for probably at least 20 years she was going into a room with a scared
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movie star or athlete who said I just can't go on tonight it's like 11 20 and
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Marcy's job was to get them out of that room so they'd go out for the monologues
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anyway we'll get back to Joe listen you quit and we fire you and they're like
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wait what uh uh anyway children away now get your ass out there I'm doing um one of my hilarious bits but I'm in
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so many things in Spades very fragile like what about you I'm doing like a nine
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hour dress Dana and we're about almost we're probably the last two sketches and
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it's like 10 50. I was either it was food or it was stress or I wasn't feeling good and I was sick and I'm like
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and I'm just sitting in a sketch you know right right when the sketch is over
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they go okay run over here you know you got 30 seconds and I just sat there in the sketch and I think it was Marcy
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Spade let's go and then I go and all the costumes are waiting and then I just laid down in front of
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the sketch and they go what the [ __ ] going on and Marcy's like hold hold tell
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him to hold and so they bring me in the dressing room hold was this a rehearsal or the air show it was a dress which is
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still a full audio it's embarrassing whole dress oh I go in the bathroom and I'm laying
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there and it's coming out both ends I'm laying on the floor I'm like do I have
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food poisoning from huxley's or what because I always tell the hosts never eat they're like I'll have she
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was like I don't have sushi before the [ __ ] life I'll have the scariest
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thing to eat possible uh nothing for me just these Vietnamese uh egg rolls will do and you're like oh I wouldn't eat
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that before so I am laying on the floor Dana freaking out Marcy comes over and marshes the door and I hear Lauren
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what's what's happening and uh she talks about what she's doing oh that was our
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Lauren okay and and I just hear on the other side of the door I'm laying face
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down my bathroom going like I don't even wanna and why didn't you guys to go back for a third time
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host no you know what and I didn't sue them now but what happened was I was just
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either over stressed or didn't eat and it was too much pressure and then after
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I sort of got everything out of my system I could feel myself lightening up going okay I feel better and then I
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think Marcy and Lauren this sounds like a lot but I think they were saying what do we do because we have to tell NBC if
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we're going to run a rerun tonight right right and we might not be able to make
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it he saw the nurse who is still oh yes yes and it's Teresa yeah I just ran into
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her I'm at NBC is she around to Teresa right yeah she helped I saw the last time I did Fallon text her to come up to
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discuss it well we could talk about when I separated my shoulder but let's go
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back to him did you rally Mike Myers you know have you guys had Mike oh yeah yeah
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Mike was violently ill do you remember yes there was a show where he was truly yes really violently growing up like
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behind the set right before he came out yeah I thought it was Philip and he pooped in the bathtub he posted and he
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was sick too David are you trying to be Mike Myers I'm trying to be exact I'm
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stealing his story you're sick of Mike Myers This is Gonna trip by the way Marcy I'm like laying there in like a
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UPS outfit because I'm in whatever sketch you know so then I get my act together
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a lot of people don't feel great sure I should be a seasoned vet though I should
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be the last one's a marathon used to pass out at the read through a lot you know come on I
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didn't like it I'd have spaghetti brought into the read through it at the
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break and then I just sit there go ahead Tom Hanks you just reminded me that I used to order the food for read through
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that was another one of my jobs remember I used to like I almost was um I got the
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cars for the cast oh you were a Friday night you had like five jobs it seemed like you were everything I used to think
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you were just like everywhere you were holding the hand you were hanging out with us what I hung out with your moms
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remember the mothers episode I took them out that was a fun week took my mom to Chippendales I just
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saw rose rock um Rose at Radio City oh you saw Chris yeah and Chris and I just went on Sunday to
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see tar have you seen tar tar Spade it you wouldn't get it is it a movie a play
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or is it it's with Kate Blanchett my celebrity crush oh it's a great it's a
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play that's brilliant right because no no it's a movie it's a movie it's a
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masterpiece is it on live streaming could I watch it right now on the corner of my laptop it probably will be I mean
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it's very it's like a almost three hour movie I see it I'm gonna have the sound
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off but I'm just gonna let it run there has she coasted wait one second um I keep hearing a ding and I think
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it's coming from my computer and I'm trying to okay stop notification it
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might be your emails we're not hearing it it's I had that you go into notifications anyway no I guess it's I
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mean is it going to annoy you well just just pretend you're making a cake if you
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guys haven't heard it then maybe it's only on my end yeah it's not gonna it's
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it's fine it's it's okay we don't have we have a very low budget podcast so
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it's our technicality we barely make it I don't even know if I'm recording yes I am Dana
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I'll just tell you that the end of the story is I drag myself back up I finished the UPS sketch those people
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have been there for 25 minutes I do it I give it absolutely nothing the poor writers are like well that one's not
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gonna make it and then I do one more sketch skate through and then we get ready for air and uh everything was fine
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after that but I swear it was touch and go and I remember Mars Marcy you were there from the very very beginning for
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me for sure Dina brought you in and you sat on the couch outside of the talent Department waiting to meet with Lauren
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on 17 in front of the microwave oven which is what where my desk used to be because I knew David before SNL and in
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the club so I I brought him in and he actually passed out the same way with the UPS story you just went down I go
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hold that just Mercy tell Lauren can you go can we get 10 and you know Marcy's a
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champ always cool Under Pressure but um yeah you have an amazing that was like on a Friday night yeah no I I who was I
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talking to Mark she goes Lauren will be with you in three to seven hours just relax I'm like what what's that Lauren
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will be with you next Thursday you have to wait here that you were meeting him on 17. it must have been like a Tuesday
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night because there's I would have not been it was up on 17. David do you remember this I don't remember meeting
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Lauren outside of 17. I I would always just hanging out I just remember thinking Dana is here with some guy I've
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never met and I was trying to you appeared and then you I don't remember how you got on
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the show but I know it was I feel like well Dana and Dennis helped um and then I had the audition were you at the
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audition for me that's a good question well I was at I was at the great question Adam
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oh Schneider um Chris Rock was with Adam wasn't he miss Chris Rock and Farley came they
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started oh yeah they came later yeah yeah did they come later or before well we brought they came before you no Rob and
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I got the last four episodes of a year so we finished a season that's right when we came back they picked us up as
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writer performers and then Rock and Farley were joined so they were the first read through that's right that's
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right I remember that yeah they were full feature and we were I think writer features and then Sandler came about two
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three months and there there was oh yeah yeah the Bad Boys arrived like it was like they were
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leaving right wasn't that the whole thing that was I started in 89. I remember and uh do you could I tell the
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story how that when I went to Brown University and then I know I know so yeah I mean the funniest best story ever
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tell it well it just be I was playing the college you know and I was doing my acting and Marcy sat up front she had
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this incredibly crazy hair like just gigantic thick hair I don't know if you
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were laughing very hard or or talking to me or something like you know everyone was obsessed with Dana and every no one
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could believe you were there and and I was like front and center and I felt like we had an eye contact and my hair
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must have been because my hair was so big yeah is that and I used the old comedian trick of calling you big hair
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woman and then you call it back what do you say big hair woman so you became the
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co-star of that set yeah and then I don't know if it was like six months later or whatever all of a sudden I see
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you walking around 8h it's like big hair woman's here you know and I was like
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wait do you remember that that and he said he remembered and of course I don't
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really know at the time I was like wow he really remembered that oh yeah but obviously that was just shtick and that
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you didn't remember me oh I did remember that oh yeah I didn't do that many
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colleges and I remember you did have big hair there was a woman with giant hair and I called her big hair woman I don't
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know I did other things with the audience like you know orange coat man spade does it too yeah I did shorts guy
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the other night this guy's shorts I'm sure what do you think yeah so you were
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a big hair woman so I did remember it and you were front and center you're kind of almost in the light so I
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remember what you look like and then you didn't tease it up it had a little Bon
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Jovi I didn't have to tease it up it was just big big I probably did tease it up
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it was just a lot of hair we're all over the place but that's sort of how we are
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Miller called me hair too that was like my name hey hair come over here okay get
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some orange Sun kiss kind of deal down here if you don't mind my spuddly wouldn't kill you to write some update
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jokes slide them under my desk we love Dennis no slide him under my door let's
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let's for a second whatever I'll do some housekeeping for people who are
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listening this is Marcy Klein she is an Emmy Award winner I think Alec Baltimore called you the greatest
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producer in the history of broadcast television she produced 30 Rock and then she was ubiquitous she was everywhere on
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Saturday Night Live for like 20 years and she did 25 years and she did every kind of job and I remember as just just
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doing a lot of things she wasn't like a handyman but she was she well she did
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fix my sink anyway she had a tool kit she did drywall my office yeah I called her toolkit after that and everything
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except be a cast member yeah but I've been in action okay I'll do I'll cut to
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it like a Barbara Walters who was the craziest host what did Lauren say when you asked Dad
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we asked him crazy as host David um no because uh he I don't think he would ever say I always get hurt
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there were some I wouldn't use the word crazy but uh some were more heavily maintenance you know kind of thing but
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challenge everyone asked me and I would I just do Steven Seagal because I have a
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Steven Seagal bit you know but I don't say like I liked Steven Seagal actually
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me too and people go right that was a crazy week I think that was a bizarre week because Nora left the show oh yeah
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yeah yeah or no no she she had left the show because it dies clay sorry she left
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Dice Clay week did David did you boycott the Steven Seagal show I'd boycotted mostly because of his
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ponytail for you Marcy were you in chat I don't remember that the the um in the set do you remember
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this when he was doing the sketch he like he wanted to be outside upset yeah and Jesus
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Liz Welch you know Liz I remember yeah I just was texting with Liz she's so funny she's so great Steven you can't
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stand there yeah yeah Stephen you know we need to you know like we were trying to sort of deal with him
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I mean looking back like he he just I I don't want to say anything more but he it was a it was a a
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week that was one of my first weeks where I thought like oh not every week is the same and it looks different and
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you have to deal with them yeah he but in the end it just was it like I feel like Jim Downey was that was a difficult
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week for Jim oof as a head right anyone that had to get right face to face with him and deal it's always tough
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when the host is a probably nervous which is understandable and B didn't want to be
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remember I just remember kung fu fighting like he didn't want to goofy thing where we made fun of him in the
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read through Arnold could beat you up you know your buttocks are like marshmallows and he just sat there and
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listened to him and then on the rehearsal stage didn't say anything for two days on Thursday we're walking
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through it and then he goes way over he leaves where we are at the center of 8h and moves like 100 feet away is just
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standing and Kevin or maybe Marcy said can you go talk to him and I went over there and he didn't even look at me and
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he said I just wish Arnold was here so I could kick his [ __ ] ass so for two days he was stewing and then
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we had to rewrite the thing you're stronger than Arnold and then I ran into Schwarzenegger makes no sense in Santa
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Monica six months later I said so call says he wants to kick your ass and he's
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with all his giant Austrian guys at foot long cigar he leans back and goes is that the fact
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so that's that was a he was eccentric but I just liked his stories it was all
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he was talking about Russia and martial arts and conspiracy theories I found him
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fascinating so yeah yeah no he was that that I just reminded me of Sylvester Stallone who's so nice and I had to go
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to the set David were you with me I was I didn't I was there when he hosted Adam
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McKay maybe I'm I'm um Were You There When Adam McKay was there or that was
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after you left I think he might have been I should look I I need a sheep I was not it might have been Will
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Ferrell's first year I've been there when he was hosting but I was gone it
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was it was like I had to do like that um you know you watch it in the movies of you know like Talent people that try and
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sign you know hope like I had to go to the movie Set and meet with him and I brought Adam McKay and I feel like I
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might maybe I brought willfare I can't we need Ayala here right but you remember going to the set to kind of uh
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walk him through what SNL be like to convince him yes it was like I had to sort of you know like host comes in and
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the first person they meet in when I first started when when you were there when you when when I came when you were
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already there I would go to my first host was Dolly Parton and I had to pick her up at the airport like she got wow
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hi um the airport pickups I love it oh yeah and that was for cell phones God they
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couldn't send a car you had to drive to there I don't know I was born in the car
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yes um I would it was just a lot of like waiting around and and then eventually I you know so when the host comes in I
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have to sort of explain everything that's gonna happen yeah that Lauren sort of does that he shortens that
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go in and it's before the Monday meeting right exactly they meet you first and so
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with Sylvester Stallone it was the first time where I think Fred Spector was his agents whoever
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whoever his agent was said no you have to go get convinced slide to do the show that's old school he was the only one
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that was not just showing up because he was booked so he was shooting a movie here Ray Liotta I remember getting in
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trouble because I was Ray Liotta was like she's in my [ __ ] eye line like I
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I was like why like yeah it was like and then eventually Ray Liotta hosted but anyway
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those guys were all sort of similar well maybe that's old school like come talk
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me into it come get me you know I need coaxing Stallone is the nicest dude anyway the nicest and he wrote everyone
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thank you notes and he was so nice and I didn't do that yeah yeah he's a total
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you know dead earth guy still can not too late hey dear Liz how are you all doing you know dear Audrey Audrey pert
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was there Ken Amon Jim Henry Jim Henry sat me down to explain why I'm making so little money Jim Henry uh he
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was the business Affairs guy do you guys remember Andrew Brewer yeah yeah he I emailed us a letter didn't he or
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yeah even though it's a question yeah because he says he's at a cafe in Barcelona or something yeah he's in
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Barcelona yeah yeah so we all those are old it was one time Marcy when I said [ __ ] on the air with Dennis at update
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and Andrew Brewer he said you gotta Mumble it and I walk upstairs he goes what are you doing to me he means me
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right right when I step off of update what do you do Spade what are you doing you're gonna get me fired we're all
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going down that's like when who smoked um who was the band that they were smoking pot on stage
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uh I'm gonna guess Black Stone Temple Pilots do you remember Marcy I was upstairs and I did a joke where I said
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Stone Temple Pilots I like them the first time I saw them when they were called Pearl Jam and then when they
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hosted remember that they said they want to kick my ass and they and then Marcy had to go down and and they yeah I
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always just picture you with a cigarette going all right listen I'm gonna go talk
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to him all right but do not come downstairs don't come down to eight stay on 17 until we figure this out God how
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many fires did you put out I mean my God that's what Lauren always said he's like
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Marcy puts out fire [Music] anyway putting out fires was always I think that was something I'm proud of
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you know that I did that that's important that's a scary thing when someone's melting down or being a
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problem you're walking to the door and you do the little knock and you don't
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know what you're gonna find have you ever had anybody you came in and they got overtly hostile like what the [ __ ]
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are you telling me yes um was it David um no but uh a very famous very famous um woman woman Glenn Close
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um no no Sharon Stone threw a boot at me one of her shoes at me when I had to tell her something that she didn't want
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to hear um Aaron Osborne would do that sorry go ahead Sharon so they threw a boot at you with
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true anger and did you dodge it I mean did you like yeah I I understood her reaction to be honest you know
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Gabriel Byrne he hosted were either of you there I was there for that one he came up to me I loved him and at the
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next week he was like he came back like the next Saturday and he grabbed me and he's like
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so you you do this every week you know like it because you know what it's like
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when you come in there it's we're pushing and everything just you know it's Monday Tuesday whatever working
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chaos yeah we do dinner and then we did in the band and then the promos and then
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the thing and everything you go in the room we eat you know the food on Friday we hang out everyone you know so
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I guess when that's why I believe SNL is still on you know because there's
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nothing else like it and you as a host and you you come on you're treated no
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one in I I maybe if you're shooting a movie that's Dana you guys would be able
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to know I mean isn't don't you think this is like there's nothing else like
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this where you're like running your own show-ish no there's nothing like
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Saturday Night Live nothing that's why it's the seminal experience for all of
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us and uh we're talking to Lauren about that that because a lot of times you're
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getting movie stars or actors or non-comedians having to suddenly come in and host a comedy sketch show there's a
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reality show aspect so even if Saturday Night Live has a a dud of a show I think it's almost more entertaining
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than what it kills to see how people react and everything so 100 the same amount of work goes into
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the ones that bomb that's that's like movies too Mike Myers being really upset and I get
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it that we booked Nancy Kerrigan and oh like stunt Cassie because she I hit the leg of the woman yeah it was the
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whole yeah and um and that was that was uh uh like you're talking about sports people that come on I mean
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there's that whole group of people there's a that is that was that happened
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before I was there I mean I was but she by the way you weren't there for Nancy
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Kerrigan no I was saying that was my idea again and Mike thought it was stunt casting kind of or well he was right I
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mean yeah I heard some grumblings but I was like well how you know George Steinbrenner hosted well
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how come Kerrigan can't host I don't understand what's the difference and
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that's a bigger stunt that's a New York stunt specific so maybe that was New
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York specific which SNL was very New York specific I remember when Nancy Kerrigan was [ __ ] huge and I was kind
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of bummed because it wasn't a great show it was like dice we got a big number and
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we just wasn't quite the show we wanted to show everyone it's still amazing she showed up and
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she's so nice and she that was a very like I was like wow I can't believe
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she's coming here and doing that well her for her skate scene with Farley where she was throwing her up in the air
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and skating with her and Phil and I were well that was for anything that was a really funny sketch that was really
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memorable that was so funny I was there on that shoot I went was that a Rockefeller Center yeah
00:27:42
it was at Rockefeller Center but then it was also at like you know Sky rank there
00:27:47
were two I was oh oh my God and I was so cool I was like can you do a triple act
00:27:54
she was doing things for me just like a little puppet when they do it it's crazy how those
00:28:01
yeah there's those giant heavy skates around whirling and then land it okay but Chris
00:28:06
could actually skate enough too because he grew up in Wisconsin right so that was the funny that's the funniest
00:28:12
surprise of the sketches that he was actually good yeah yeah and he was wearing a goofy outfit and then of
00:28:17
course he's falling and he's screaming and then yeah throws wait a minute Chris
00:28:20
is falling and screaming and it's hilarious you know that before or after the Chippendales oh I think it must have
00:28:28
been after because Chippendales was early on I think Downey said his fourth or fifth show yep yep yeah that was
00:28:36
great another monster did you have did you hear any blowback at Chippendales about he didn't want to do it yeah
00:28:43
there's a big controversy was Chris being exploited or just being funny and some some feel one way some feel another
00:28:50
I mean I remember if that he I don't feel like he felt that way I don't I don't either get that Vibe
00:29:01
either yeah knew exactly I mean he would take off his all his clothes to walk into the rewrites so it's like you know
00:29:08
right but it was always like it was never enough if I can say it was never inappropriate
00:29:16
it was expected it was yeah it was not you know it didn't feel it wasn't threat
00:29:22
I wasn't I've never felt threatened by Chris yeah well because he was so he was
00:29:28
enjoying it so much and he was so joyous about it and so silly and cackling and he Burst Into The Writer's room naked
00:29:35
kind of with his legs crossed and then he'd do a prat fall and then he would do
00:29:39
that gutter you know that can you do it is laugh you know just that was he just I just had a memory that I I won't say
00:29:47
but I remember walking into his dressing room like my makeup on eight yeah and he
00:29:54
was like Mercy come in here like okay you know and then he did something he did something
00:30:02
you cannot [ __ ] do it yeah I know sometimes he pushes his wiener in between and does like the bush shot he
00:30:10
would do that the Silence of the Lambs he would do that about twice a week in different parts of this there weren't
00:30:18
that many of us too I mean no it was like well do you remember this Marcy and I know we're jumping around of course
00:30:23
but but we never talk about on here that was such a weird thing that I don't
00:30:30
know if you kept doing but mohunk we went I was just gonna bring Mohonk up to you yeah
00:30:38
the The Retreat Because by the way I planned that was one was that your idea what Lauren said we're going on a
00:30:46
retreat Lauren and Jim Downey one it's like a movie treat so and they were like
00:30:52
Marcy you plan it I planned the party I mean I was like okay I was 22. yeah I've
00:30:58
just gotten there and Aaron I said to Aaron Aaron moroney Aaron Moroni I was like you need to help me do that what
00:31:06
are you doing okay five more two just for a second has there ever been a retreat before or after
00:31:16
with the whole cast of SNL I never that was the that was a one-off did you have more that was the weirdest thing so we
00:31:22
all went to Mohawk all the cast I guess the writers and and Marcy go on planned it I guess but we did yeah
00:31:33
fires and then we had like parties and it was like Camp College yeah um it was I I actually Lori Joe has photos I I
00:31:42
think it was it was Korea she does those are crazy we're throwing the football
00:31:47
around yeah there was the football and then we all and I was thinking about that
00:31:52
last night I was like God Mohawk didn't I did it twice but I remember Lauren Lauren did a some
00:32:00
more demonstration it's the proper way to make us some more everyone graham crackers marshmallow and chocolate Marcy
00:32:08
Kevin are you looking Kevin you have to see it okay smash them together stories and stuff
00:32:15
probably Lord telling ghost story it's that thing of like you want to open the
00:32:19
closet door but then again you don't want to open the closet door and then he
00:32:23
said boo or something like that and you're running but how about this Norm said I think Norm was new and he said
00:32:31
that he got there and it was like a big haunted place like in The Shining or something it was terrifying together
00:32:36
yeah and every time people talk about Long Island I go is that where we went from and you want to know what Mohonk is
00:32:42
and was like New York is it Montauk we all had haunted experiences I I did a movie there and I had haunted experience
00:32:50
you guys have some weird Poltergeist yeah in my room I actually absolutely had a poltergeist experience
00:32:59
sleep in my room like we were it was very big and Gothic and yeah who picked the
00:33:07
hotel Shelley Duvall it's called Mohawk Mountain house and there's a place that
00:33:17
someone someone had done got killed at yeah that was like yeah well Marcy Norm Macdonald goes he goes when I got there
00:33:26
Farley goes because Norm was new he goes I have to tell you a secret which is always a good Farley bit he goes come
00:33:33
here norm and he goes we keep walking and he goes Norm follow me down here so they walk farther and he goes then we go
00:33:39
down a hall then we go down to the basement then he comes in a room and close the door and he goes what Farley
00:33:44
he goes Pat's a girl so Chris wanted all that trouble yeah he went all that way for a bit
00:33:54
it's Pat Uh how funny Were You There When I had to um produce sort of like the Mohawk thing
00:34:05
the um Mohegan Sun casino night that was a separate trip it was your precious Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey maybe
00:34:16
yeah um that it was I it was Dan Aykroyd not that I was in the 70s but he they brought in a bunch of SNL oh former uh
00:34:31
cast members and maybe it was like will that group I can't remember hmm wow well
00:34:39
there's a whole other kind of version of Mohonk and but in a casino I would rather do that I'm so a norm I'm
00:34:48
sure so also we can go anywhere we want to go but you also were part of like uh picking cast members they're having a
00:34:56
big influence I was getting to that she discovered comedy Superstars Molly Shannon
00:35:03
Tracy Morgan Fallon Seth Meyers Will Ferrell armison Katan Daryl Hammond Sarah Silverman
00:35:13
it says Kevin James Kevin James for uh the mall copy that's so funny because
00:35:19
Kevin James they uh Stephen Colbert Kevin James were my two I kept saying why or can't we hire them but Jim and
00:35:26
Lauren that didn't you know didn't compute well here was um he was the understudy when I went to Chicago before
00:35:35
like born and everybody would come Mike Shoemake have you had Mike Shoemaker on yet no we'd love to shroom taker
00:35:42
um we and I I was there maybe it was with it was just Mike I think I I remember whoever I was going to see was
00:35:51
sick and Stephen Colbert it was uh was the understudy and and I'm like that guy's really funny it was Steve Carell
00:35:59
and then he understudied Steve yes and Steve was sick yes look at that and have you already heard uh I called
00:36:07
him the two stees remember when we put them on the show in 96 because luckily SNL passed on them or at least didn't
00:36:15
see them properly because they were brilliant at what they were doing and also Bill Hader Maya Rudolph
00:36:23
Jason so who well I don't know here's like a uh I mean a question that's maybe
00:36:29
Barbara Walters who was the who was the one you saw like they stepped out he went holy [ __ ] not only should they be
00:36:36
on SNL they're gonna kick ass yeah who's a clear star um wow other than all of them other than
00:36:43
all of them everyone that obviously ends up on SNL stands out I mean there isn't
00:36:49
anyone you know who there's something there it's a hard vetting process if you
00:36:53
find your way into the inner sanctum you got some kind of chops because it's I
00:36:57
mean Jimmy and Seth both like I mean you know Seth I feel like he had the perfect
00:37:03
audition he just nailed it and he had no Impressions what does he do he or did he
00:37:11
um he he had a pretty good year I mean if he wanted to do an impression I think he did Hugh Grant I remember because I
00:37:17
remember he does a few I remember that Ayala had seen him in Chicago and she said you know he's a great writer that's
00:37:24
what you and I said well he also is he looks like he could be on TV I mean you know more so than Annika you know so I
00:37:32
it and I said no we should put him on like Tina Fey was the same thing everyone Scott adds it I when I was in
00:37:40
Chicago he's like he's the one who said Tina Fey is a brilliant genius you know
00:37:48
and Scott adds it is so funny and so great and and Scott ads at auditioned for SNL and and didn't end up getting
00:37:56
hired but he kept saying Tina Fey Tina Fey and and so Tina ended up being hired as a writer first and then she ended up
00:38:06
becoming a cast member so I mean it you know I I when I guess hosted the show the first time you know Lauren always
00:38:11
you'll do church lady so then I was with um it was Tina was assigned to me so we
00:38:18
did it on and off all week and when she would write she would do well I'm doing
00:38:22
you know and then when I did it was Seth later he did the same thing they both would just do the church lay to me so
00:38:29
um says Tina uh in some ways kind of reminds me of Steve Martin uh yeah just totally and the Fountain of writing that
00:38:38
she can do she's kind of shy in a sense never ending yeah very sweet they can
00:38:44
perform their ass off and the writers they seem they're good friends right because they seem like they're brother
00:38:48
and sister or something yeah there are certain people that I email with every time they send me an email I laugh out
00:38:55
loud you know yeah those two are super funny um you know they're they're they're
00:39:05
Tina's just she's unbelievably funny [Music] what does she come to you and say I want
00:39:14
to do 30 Rock because you're on 30 Rock right you were you um no the that about was they caught they called me in
00:39:22
Lauren was like get Marcy you know I I came in RC you're just in a special room
00:39:26
waiting for your orders yes and they're like uh they told me the idea and they said
00:39:36
um you know we want Alec in this and I was like oh that's going to be interesting to convince them to do a TV
00:39:44
show but then I read the Crypt and T we I I and you know I think because I was the Alec
00:39:52
whisper you understood Alec the Alec was Alec Baldwin yeah and I actually like I actually when I read
00:40:03
the script I was like this this this is he's gonna win every award I thought it
00:40:07
was so perfect for him and so funny um and I had that was my job I was like I got it so I had to
00:40:16
um convince him to do that also you know like a lot of people what did you do and
00:40:20
I said well as you know the read through there are 50 sketches and then they go down to 13.
00:40:27
and then I have to convince the host to do them yeah no one else is doing that job that was my job and that's
00:40:37
difficult right because so much work it's really difficult because you I feel
00:40:42
protective of the host that's my job I also have a job which is to make sure
00:40:46
the show runs and Lauren and Jim and you know Tina Seth you know whoever's show
00:40:53
running it um we get on I have to look at the big picture but I also have to make sure
00:40:58
that the publicists and the managers and the agents and the hosts and the musical
00:41:02
guests all want to come back because I would always argue you know this we're
00:41:05
inviting them and then we we basically tell them that they can't we can't
00:41:10
sabotage them so it's like a like you know it it as you know you once you become on Monday
00:41:18
and and especially if the host is into it you know I get I get attached I got attached to some more than others and
00:41:26
so with Alec um you know he's so smart and so funny and so brilliant and when he I I knew
00:41:35
the way to convince him to do that show and it worked and also I mean it was just well how did you convince him what
00:41:43
was your strategy well I mean it's just a pilot it it obviously was so well written and perfect and also he he had a
00:41:51
lot to do with making that show even that pilot script I I went over to his house and I read it with him and I
00:42:00
played the Tina part and he played and and just kept doing it and um you know he didn't want to do to and the
00:42:10
whole thing I kept that whole season it was negotiating with Jeff Zucker Mark graboff you know
00:42:16
because he would he just only wanted to do two episodes or three episodes but the brilliant thing about Alec was that
00:42:24
he really produced it too I mean he it was his idea Jane Krakowski he really fought for her and
00:42:32
he is so funny and he's almost isn't he almost sort of like a cast member on SNL
00:42:38
yeah I mean I interject a quick thing and I wonder if you were there Marcy but it was really struck me when I like
00:42:44
first hosted because he was full movie star of course and I remember I was just on
00:42:49
the set with us and we're blocking or whatever and I guess I kind of said something effective what do you want to
00:42:53
do and he goes well I want to do this yes you think I want to be on a submarine going I I captain the rest of
00:42:59
my [ __ ] life I was like this guy was a full-blown ready to go give him a franchise he could be James Bond and he
00:43:07
will they get remember they gave him the [ __ ] fugitive which is a huge movie they gave Harrison Tom Clancy submarine
00:43:14
ones who could have done and he fell out yeah he fell out of fugitive to do a play so he is like a cast member he's
00:43:20
between a guy who's on the show Con well yeah he's like a second his own
00:43:25
individual Lane of a castle and I want to say like 91. I mean it was like RC was my third show and it was uh it went
00:43:35
Corbin burnson yeah maybe Alec and then Dice and then Candace Bergen but Alec was such a star I think you set up a
00:43:47
thing for us to see Hunt for Red October yes yes and maybe Miami Blues yeah well
00:43:52
then did he because he hosted maybe when he hosted again he hosted so that was his first time hosting and
00:43:58
he did Green hilly which I always bring up I thought was so funny remember he's
00:44:01
kissing everyone like and he did the mimic and he did yeah and he was so funny and then he got up for an Emmy for
00:44:07
that and uh that's right and I remember Dennis Miller in the summer goes Christ
00:44:11
spudley there's no [ __ ] chance you're up for an Emmy for absolutely no reason
00:44:16
you were the it's your second show your name's on the credits I go yeah but I'm
00:44:20
up I'm going to the Emmys [ __ ] you know you you are the Alec horse whisper I mean and he person Whisperer
00:44:32
anyone Emmys he made a lot of money now yeah great show um the problem with SNL and that show is
00:44:42
that once you've worked on those shows it's very hard to work on something else
00:44:47
because it just feels like molasses right so slow and I like it's you know it it it's
00:44:56
amazing I mean you know the 30 Rock like those read-throughs were just you were crying laughing yeah and
00:45:06
um yeah I mean and then it was in a single camera or a mix with an audience in single camera or single no audio so
00:45:13
it gets a little another thing Alec used to say to me just go I know it like it single camera just go it it
00:45:21
it's like a movie single camera is like a movie yeah and it was long but what
00:45:26
was nice there were so many people from SNL that I was doing both jobs I was going from SNL it was weird because I
00:45:33
think there was a point where everyone in SNL was like where's Marcy and everyone at 30 Rock said where's
00:45:39
Marcy like I I was never anyone what were your titles at that point then it was executive producer Talent
00:45:46
coordinator executive producer of um 30 Rock which I had to fight for um your book should be called where's
00:45:54
Marcy or get get Marcy yeah give me Marcy now was that was that his second time I was
00:46:11
with him that was one of the most terrifying heat the plastic thing and he oh yeah I remember that
00:46:18
story yeah Friday night yeah like they had to pour oil and take off his face and I remember the next week it was for
00:46:25
the Jay Lenin just for a second for the listeners to describe what that is they put you in a head cast and you breathe
00:46:31
through a straw in your nose it's a life mask you can't hear see it's all over
00:46:37
your mouth you just have one little straw in your nose and it can be very claustrophobic so they they somehow it
00:46:43
was the wrong mix of glue we found out it wasn't a real plaster or something
00:46:46
it's real plaster but what was crazy about it was George Mendes remember George Mendo who sort of had the Lauren
00:46:53
hair you know and he was he was in charge of you know the studio and I remember he came up to me
00:47:00
and he was like I don't know I remember how scary this is he said he's like
00:47:10
he's like going on you know again it was me because I'm the talent person and if
00:47:15
this was like midnight Friday night it's j it's tumbleweek yeah we need a casket
00:47:20
for uh Jeff Daniels come down but I go into the makeup room and he's screaming
00:47:28
it was I've never seen it was like I was like covered in plastic it's still
00:47:34
covered and you can hear him screaming screaming and kicking and going and saying yeah that's awesome at me but he
00:47:41
couldn't speak you know Aaron was outside of Lauren's office and Jim I was like she's like well they're
00:47:50
in there I'm like I just bursted Dr Lam happened to be in the rainbow room I feel like this was an episode on
00:48:03
Thursday unreal should have been 30 Rock and he was like in a bow tie and then he
00:48:06
came down and anyway it was just you know it was that I don't know how did they get it off dude
00:48:13
I think I remember yeah they bent it back from his forehead and took an exacto and went down and cut off his
00:48:21
eyebrows and his eyebrows eyelashes hair and and then it ripped off the pose I mean it was a whole big thing like what
00:48:28
the [ __ ] happened basically somebody why was there any was it a sabotage it was
00:48:34
that remember you remember that because I've never heard of that happening like how did they get the
00:48:41
wrong mix that the wrong place you know it I don't know I don't know I remember Jim Carrey
00:48:49
that was when they said it was the next week it was Monday and the show you know
00:48:55
it was like yeah nobody cares but also Jeff Daniels to his credit went through all that and then did the show the next
00:49:02
day he was unfucking and did great on the show you can see his eyebrows are like painted in now they said because I
00:49:08
got a life mask once and I was telling him and they said you know when I put the holes in they go we're gonna cover
00:49:16
your ears it's just plaster over your whole head yeah they go a couple years
00:49:19
cover your mouth come here and they said when we covered like the third one you are going to freak out and I said why
00:49:27
they said it's just you can and I said no I'm very calm I know they go we're
00:49:30
gonna do it very slowly and right when it covered I go take it off take it off like it's something about being buried
00:49:35
alive and they said they said if you cover this don't if you get sick or throw up you will die because you can't
00:49:43
it has it doesn't know where to go and all I thought is Jeff Daniels them going
00:49:47
calm down because if he throws up yeah well yeah he died I had one that didn't
00:49:52
go wrong but they had to do it twice but the first time I mean I've had many of
00:49:55
them maybe eight or ten in different situations but they put it on and for some reason they're they're talking to
00:50:01
each other and all you're hearing is it sounds like they're panicking so then
00:50:06
they needed to do another one guys just talk calmly to it because when I hear you know it's like hand me that hand me
00:50:14
that but yeah it's it's a very uh it's a real mind [ __ ] it's a meditative thing
00:50:19
to go they're professionals everything's okay it goes against all your human
00:50:23
instincts wow okay so you had you had a shoe throw on at your head almost got blinded yeah you saw a host almost Die
00:50:30
In Your Arms yeah um who are you other than Alec who are you the closest with out of all those uh hosts do you still
00:50:37
stay in touch with any of them um I I actually became close with Gwyneth Paltrow Renee Zellweger okay
00:50:45
um uh Jon Hamm because he's cool obviously because you're seeing them at
00:50:53
at their most real and vulnerable when they're doing quick changes and they're
00:50:57
exhausted so then you get to know them and and they're looking for you as a life raft like Marcy is this normal am I
00:51:02
okay so it's a very fun and you get them through it I I I feel like I I didn't
00:51:09
when I became a ma uh when I had kids I was like oh this is like when the hosts yeah I flew with my kids like their
00:51:17
hosts you know like that's how you're a parenting style that's perfect so you
00:51:23
know what to do you know with accidents and er visits when I'm like um actually
00:51:28
they're right you know you like there is that time between drafts and air when
00:51:33
the host is not in the the meeting and I'm like ooh that's the host's favorite
00:51:39
sketch and I already see that that's gonna go yeah then I would fight and say
00:51:45
like you can't do that you know I mean there there's stuff that goes on that
00:51:49
you know behind right for the audience you hear the way everyone has talked about
00:51:55
what you hear how everyone is talked about in the heat yeah I was ever I had entree I could go in
00:52:05
anywhere there wasn't a there wasn't a place that I was not able to go in and
00:52:09
know what was going on and um so when you between dress and error the thing that's always funny is I
00:52:17
always would say to the host on Monday at the party you are going to say this is the best week of your life and you're
00:52:24
always me and at the party they're always like always you were right you know what I mean everyone reacts the
00:52:32
same way they're full of endorphins full of like a let's tell them the lessons we
00:52:38
have a huge crowd we have at least 2700 listeners I heard this is a popular podcast a few people have mentioned us
00:52:48
well when people when the host has a read through which we talk about a lot but I think the one we don't really talk
00:52:54
about is from the read through that everyone everyone breaks all the writers cast Wednesday now
00:53:02
to dinner yeah yeah Lauren The Host let's say Lauren Alec uh Downey Smiggle maybe Franken that's when I was there
00:53:10
would all go in to pick the sketches so they put them all on a card no no no no no
00:53:16
first it was Lauren Jim me yeah yeah oh God and then like it it the host goes in
00:53:23
later there's a writers and producers are Aston like Lauren would like to see you and he's
00:53:35
like could you make that sketch shorter or could you could take out that entrance so he's producing then what
00:53:40
happened it's dangling yeah and there was always like a host would always say
00:53:44
like what uh you know I thought I was gonna do a Wayne's World uh they never
00:53:48
and I'm like and then Shaw yeah there was always like that thing of uh you know when Lauren would be someone had to
00:53:55
do a Wayne's you know you'd have to like oh a host would come in and say I want
00:53:59
to be on blank well there would be that it would also be the wait what on Wednesday it was like you know how long
00:54:06
Wednesday is where to that sketch that they so um that would always be like I'd
00:54:12
have to go and be like uh he's mentioning this but you know yeah didn't happen so that there was a pre-meeting
00:54:19
before the meeting oh yeah that's right and the host gets a vote when he's in
00:54:22
there obviously they're in it so they say what do you think of this what do you think of this we thought this would
00:54:28
go up early in the show and then someone would say like I wrote that one thing with Tom Hanks subway surfing it wasn't
00:54:34
the greatest but he liked it so they go that's all negotiations like we'll give
00:54:39
you that right we'll give it a chance now it's already dangling because it
00:54:44
might go the wrong way and it's not that strong right and when we did address
00:54:47
here so when Tom was on WE joked about it because it was bombing we knew in the middle of what we were looking at each
00:54:53
other going it's over but we gave it everything and then and then they just move it to the other side of the board
00:54:59
when you walk in and you go it didn't I know everyone we're not even gonna
00:55:02
discuss it everyone comes in at 11 10. the show starts in 20 minutes there's 60
00:55:07
of us and Lauren's office so you come in and you look at the board and you look
00:55:11
what's off off the board still the card is up there but you you had to be the
00:55:16
bearer of either good news or bad news all week with a host and did you have a tactic with that
00:55:22
you'd say but this is in you've soften them first and this is going great this
00:55:27
one probably I think is cut or how did you I guess you're skilled at that um I think that you I I
00:55:37
I I was so much a part of the week and especially with Jim you know I kind of I I knew where we
00:55:45
were headed and also I feel like I'm maybe I'm too honest and I would never
00:55:52
lied to a host unless I I just I don't I'm trying to think of there must have been times where I'm
00:55:59
like okay I have to um convince them to do right like Lauren might say to me go in and find out it's
00:56:06
fly on the wall or fly on the window you know like which one is it and um uh I would I I I think
00:56:18
that those were times where I don't know I think I'm just direct and straight I
00:56:23
don't think you would lie because there's no it's gonna bite you an ass
00:56:26
later because they're gonna figure it out dang and also um well I think Marcia I'm gonna
00:56:30
interject this you were very popular they're fun to have dinner with or talk
00:56:37
and you could be blunt and you could be just honest and so I think you had a good skill set for that particular part
00:56:45
of your resume on Saturday life of dealing with vulnerable people but I I still once someone is a host and you see
00:56:53
them later out in the real world there is just a bonding there they're a huge
00:56:58
one I know I always said like it's amazing and you're just talking about
00:57:01
Tom Hanks but um even people that you know I mean they know you both you're famous but I I see people whether
00:57:12
it's the Golden Globes or on the street Marcy like they I recently went to a
00:57:18
thing a like a screening for Nicole Kidman uh the I Love Lucy and she did the oh yeah yeah
00:57:27
[ __ ] up to her I brought Mary Ellen with me the photographer at SNL who's a
00:57:31
good friend of mine and I I walked up to Nicole I hadn't seen her in a really
00:57:34
long time and I said I I said I don't know if you remember me she's like of
00:57:37
course I remember you he said that week you got me through that week I mean I could not believe
00:57:44
that she remembered me but I think for hosts that that week is [ __ ] intense yeah well we no it's [ __ ] intense
00:57:53
It's [ __ ] amazing these [ __ ] come in like they're the top of the mark
00:57:58
and we gotta but it is amazing to be a part of all of it and know how the whole thing works you know I'll say that and
00:58:07
David will back me up in the very first even before we started our first podcast
00:58:12
just aggregating uh people to come on this show and you were one of the first that popped in my head like well Marcy
00:58:21
Klein because she's she's connected yeah yeah you'll you know by by so many uh
00:58:26
such situations that everything it's in it from when I was there I mean who got
00:58:32
to work with them us then Will Ferrell you got to see the switching from Dana and all those guys to all of us and then
00:58:39
Will Ferrell Tina and Jimmy well you guys it was weird because when it was so much smaller and and I was so close with
00:58:48
all of you and then you guys left and then like Norman Laurie Joe and Jim like everyone was leaving and I'm like oh God
00:58:56
and then I'm in my 30s then I was in my 40s and I'm like every it but then all
00:59:02
my friends live in L.A you know it's I miss and there's 25 cast and you're like
00:59:06
I don't even think I've met anyone everyone this year so you're as close to
00:59:10
like Lauren you know it's 45 years of being a teacher in school and then his
00:59:15
former classmates go and he sees them around campus you know and so you had uh your own experience with that like well
00:59:21
now I'm in the Will Ferrell or here's Anna gasteyer you know now it's Bill
00:59:25
Hader you met me when I was like doing everything and then I became in charge and that's a whole other
00:59:33
thing and like we were talking about Farley and I remember when he hosted and I had to call everyone I knew things
00:59:44
were bad I mean you know I just was like he could not make it through this and everyone was so excited he was there and
00:59:56
I remember Tracy Morgan and Jim Brewer were they were they um they I think they shared an office
01:00:04
and everyone was like it was a Tuesday night and Farley wanted to go out and I called the entire cast into the talent
01:00:14
Department and I said you cannot go out with him you you cannot I just knew something bad
01:00:23
was gonna happen and um they there was I felt more like a mom like I don't feel like you you guys
01:00:31
didn't know me in that role you know I'm younger I feel like but then I became
01:00:36
the mom of everyone well you're like one of us we're all around the same age
01:00:40
we're all younger jumping around the interns you know I'd be like they can't
01:00:43
come to the party [Laughter] I remember getting that little ticket like you would slip all of us that said
01:00:52
where the party was and then during the show the party and then I would see people like Dana's table and yeah you
01:00:59
have to have like someone in my office and like find out how many people David has is right he's gonna sit with Spade
01:01:06
with Sandler and they can have a plus one each and then Four Tops all hang out and then you know and then it it running
01:01:13
a party at one in the morning and I know nothing about running but then eventually everyone was so nice and
01:01:20
that's a thing like everyone is supportive of each other so no one ever got mad where's my table you know what I
01:01:26
mean there was nothing and the party would kind of get up and running like at 2 A.M because the good nights were at
01:01:31
1am we are getting the cars maybe it's during the winter so it's like starting
01:01:35
a party at 2 and when was the last time you started a party at 2 A.M after a 13-hour work day I don't go out after
01:01:42
nine that's why I left I couldn't I never saw my kids like on day I was completely out yeah
01:01:50
it's like jet Lake it's like it totally like jet lag yeah and you're just and
01:01:55
I'm still recovering as Jim Downey's like he's still recovering on those days
01:02:01
covering from the 15th anniversary I'm still I remember that one [Music] the 15th what about the 40th now the
01:02:16
50th are you going you think the fifth that's going to happen the 50th seems surreal why not no hunk all right
01:02:27
we better wrap it up with her Dana this went faster than we thought Marcy thank you I love you guys I miss you when
01:02:33
you're we could do it tomorrow and Jimmy Fallon there's a there's some thing like some screening
01:02:41
of his uh Sandler remembers me he will he's on the road right now doing gigs why do you
01:02:48
mean I'm not gonna remember you sorry Hi Rocky Pete all right Pete Marcy Klein
01:02:55
yeah this is uh well season three we're having you back because there's too many
01:03:00
stories but uh yeah it's uh it's so so much fun to chat she's the glue look us
01:03:06
up when you're in La we'll go to that crazy restaurant that you put your phone
01:03:10
in a satchel and be there for seven hours and this time Faye Dunaway better show up
01:03:17
hi all right bye guys hey what's up flies what's up please what's up people that listen we want to
01:03:24
hear from you and your dumb questions questions ask us anything anything you want you can email us at fly on the wall
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at cadence13.com we're gonna do a q a question I gotta first say my code is [ __ ] off the
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hook if I may be so present with myself Sears still had a boys Department I'm sorry that's the code is the word
01:03:52
bumpin has been thrown around [ __ ] ridiculously almost 17. cooler than [ __ ] pie but I don't want to talk
01:04:00
about I don't want to over talk about what color do you call that you know it's a great question yeah taupe
01:04:05
is it taupe I don't think so I said Olive and then I said gray as an olive taupe yeah and it's got a diametric you
01:04:13
can't buy this you can't buy that shape you can live on the moon with it yeah
01:04:18
that's why I should go very astronauty to me thanks your nickname is Buzz Spade
01:04:26
Buzz plywood that's my porn name buzzed space neat hello these guys rat tattoo he had on ah
01:04:37
I like that I want to tell you about that yeah don't tell an Accenture that's
01:04:43
a good color all right get your questions here Dan Arena I'm gonna read a question Simon f
01:04:49
Etherington hi Dana and David the show is great Can't Get Enough we always add that I listen to the
01:04:57
entire hey this is in your hand right I listen to the entire Farley tribute twice that's nice all nine hours it
01:05:05
seems like when you get to SNL you get a wooden desk a yellow legal pattern Bernie Brewster manager how is that
01:05:11
seemingly everyone on the show ended up with Bernie as their manager or am I just imagining that he was everyone's
01:05:19
manager maybe you could give a little more insight into that it's a rocket into a house so many cast members ended
01:05:26
up working also Sharon ethic and Lawrence with Bernie so what it was I think at the beginning you
01:05:34
would know more Dana he had a management company Sharon ether Simon oh [ __ ] okay
01:05:39
boy glasses on excuse me where are you cheaters excuse me I should never drink before these I'm gonna go to writing
01:05:46
Simon Etherington so Bernie Simon was enough of Simon [ __ ] that yeah but that was the guy who wrote us the question I
01:05:54
know I don't care about him anymore uh all your rage is coming out uh Bernie
01:06:05
handled Belushi Aykroyd Lauren it's so funny to handle both sides of the table Bernie was an old-timey
01:06:12
manager he was probably when I met him like 41. he seemed like he was 70 and then when he was 70. he seemed seven he
01:06:19
looked like Santa Claus you look exactly like Santa Claus literally white hair and he did manage all the original casts
01:06:24
he just got in there and I think Lauren was the first client and then everyone went with Bernie and then by the time I
01:06:31
came along Bernie had hired Brad gray and Mark gurvis and we had Sandy Warnick in there and
01:06:42
um brillston company is a company you'll hear about a lot he has so many SNL
01:06:46
people you're right are connected to it me Sandler Dana Kevin Neal and Dennis
01:06:51
Miller Norm Farley Love it's uh Schneider for a while who is that Bill Maher Ed O'Neill Bill
01:07:00
more I don't know yeah a lot of SNL people a lot of just famous people but uh they always had sort of a monopoly on
01:07:07
SNL which is great because they know Lauren so well they know the negotiations so well they know it became
01:07:13
a farm league ecosystem When Brad or Bernie would say I think this guy could be good because he talked like that yeah
01:07:19
and then they'd sign you and then now they're gonna it's all it's beneficial
01:07:23
for everybody and Bernie was just a taste of old Showbiz like I said he had a big voice and a lot of people do
01:07:29
better impressions of them than me but he's Sandler used to call people from
01:07:33
our office we'd answer fan mail and he'd just call as Bernie and talk to someone
01:07:39
some kid as Bernie this is Bernie Adams manager and uh we just answer fan mail and when we're bored and just call the
01:07:47
number and ask for some kid and then talk to him he was one of those guys he leaned into me when he
01:07:53
first met me he goes you got a face for television a face for television yeah you do yeah I
01:08:00
don't know I had a Disney face for a while before life beat this [ __ ] well
01:08:03
you have you ever described as true Rubik that's what I was gonna say whoa uh uh oh don't we do a thing Abracadabra
01:08:11
legally carded by a mentally healthy person to buy a beer at age 53. I got carded
01:08:20
honestly I told you this Heather a month like it was where was it was it my own show or something
01:08:27
I went somewhere and they go no it was that it was a Chili's she goes I gave my
01:08:33
credit card no I ordered a drink because I have a problem well you don't know her drinks too much come on fans
01:08:40
listen I had to because it was night time okay so Simon's so she goes I know
01:08:45
who you are and I'm a huge fan but I have to see your ID why I don't understand so I gave it to
01:08:52
her and she was some quick maths carry the four and then she goes okay why did we do that what if she was like
01:09:02
so you weren't in grown-ups when you were one what a 90 year old man get carded at
01:09:10
a liquor store it's like literally I can't even see it we have to even with the fuzz on the chin they tag
01:09:22
you I go you okay with this light a match all right well is that how did we answer
01:09:30
that I don't know why the question is not Bernie are you real estate great guy
01:09:33
everyone it was an ecosystem of farm league team of being with pearlstein has a book out if you want to read it and
01:09:39
it's very interesting about all that stuff yeah he has his own book out great
01:09:42
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