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Cesley Strong is with us right now. This is one we aired a few months ago. We got
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to have a nice little chat with her. She was on the show when Dana did it, I think. And uh
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>> she you were there when you ho when you hosted, right? >> Yeah. I mean, we um Yeah, she was in
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that cast. She had a nice long run on uh SNL. We talked all about all about that.
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And you know, just the leaving of SNL is kind of bittersweet and you're walking
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out in the world. and she uh was uh on a showmigadon. >> Mhm. >> Michael Key, right?
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>> And yeah, she was uh when she left, it was one of those ones that they feel a
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little bit because when a good cast member leaves, it's tough. I mean, they cover it, but you know, she's one of the
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ones that was just a a consistent hitter every week. >> Yeah. She kept just just um upping her
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game all through the seasons, you know, and uh >> it's hard to leave, but she did. And uh
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the show's really funny. Uh it was three years ago at the time of her. So, um I
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don't know. >> Is that what she was on three years ago? >> Well, according to Feels like we just
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talked to her, but anyway, they go so fast. But a lot of uh a lot of good things. We had a great time with her and
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she gives us a lot of insight to what it's like over there. and also life after
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>> Yeah. >> SNL. >> Yeah. She's a an adorable person. >> Yeah. Cesley Strong. Here we go.
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>> Everyone off. She's here. >> The thing about Cesily is she's always
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prompt. You You'll find that she'll be on the Zoom a little bit earlier than
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when it was scheduled. Like 35 to 45. Oh, sorry. Hi. You I love your sweater. >> Yeah. Well, thanks. We're doing a
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similar themed. >> Well, this is a Yeah, kind of colorful. It's the perfect puffer. That's David's
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David has a perfect puffer. I'm in Northern California. It's freezing and
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there's a hypersonic river. You know, there's never a rainstorm. It's always a
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cyclone bomb. So, but it's kind of nice. >> Still going. Is that still happening?
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>> Oh, yeah. We haven't quit. >> Northern California never lays down with
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this. They They never quit. True. I suppose >> I'm not apologizing for my hair, but I'm
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just going to say we're just going to deal with it on this. >> It looks like a fashion choice. It's
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kind of hip. >> That's what it used to look like. I'm going to say two words right now about
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David's hair. Bad. Bad boy. >> Essentially, back me up. Bad boy. Right.
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Unkept. Ready. >> Bad boy hair. >> Yeah. >> And bad boys never go out of style,
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>> right? Bad boy lost his comb. Bad boys never go out of style. So, they're in style and they're going to
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stay in style. >> By the way, just so you know, >> Dana was saying it rains and you're not
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in LA, I don't think, but it's raining always now. It's a new thing. And you
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think with the taxes and everything, the only thing we get is good weather. Now,
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we don't have that. So, when it rains, the weather man goes like this, >> it's going to pour for seven days
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straight. And then you and there's such a big drought here. Everyone goes, "Oh,
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good." And he goes, "But it's not going to help the drought." Did you think
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that? And I go, "Oh, I did think that." And I go, "No." See, it's funny you
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would think that, but the drought is getting worse. And I'm like, I don't
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think I know what a drought is then because why is all the rain not helping? And they're like, it's nothing. It just
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>> It's got to go underground, man. It's all about recharging it underground,
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>> right? But it was like, well, it's good to fill the ones overground, too. I
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think >> I don't know. We don't know what's getting filled. >> Celebrate the little winds, right?
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I thought it was a little wind. >> It was a little wind. Shasta is a mofo.
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That thing is so [ __ ] huge. And it's get it's going to get so full when the
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mountains start to melt that they're going to have to release water. Here's
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my point. If it rains outside, I don't really have a point. I take I took a 1
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hour shower yesterday just to kind of just cuz it was raining outside. I go, how much could it hurt?
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>> Yeah. Norally >> I didn't know where you were going with that, but I'm okay. I'm so punchy and I
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have nothing. But at least I'll admit it ahead of time. Cesley, we're so glad
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you're on this show. We're so excited. >> It's wonderful to be here. I just adore
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you both. I hope you know that. >> I think I told you both that the 50th, but I don't Or the 40th. I mean, jeez.
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But I don't know if you remember. >> 50th is next. >> You know, we're 40th. Uh Cesley, it is
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Cesley, right? You say Cesy. Yes. Cesley. >> I won't say it wrong. Okay. Um
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>> people do say it wrong. You've been saying it right. I appreciate that.
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>> I'm Dana and he's Devid. Yeah. No, it's Cesaly is very hip. Cecily is like works
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at a mall or something. >> Cecily I don't know about. Yeah. >> Yeah. When we did the 40th, aside from
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the excitement of it all and seeing everywhere you turn, someone was fun to see and old, new cast, whatever,
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whatever. Uh uh uh she was assigned the thankless job of doing my bye-bye with me, which uh you know, the show was so
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thrown together. Not thankless. That was very exciting. I mean, can you imagine?
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>> Yes. Yes. >> It didn't kill and get off the charts and win awards.
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>> Well, >> yeah. Ju just for a second for our audience. David used to do a charact his
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first character that landed an absolute catchphrase. Flight attendant as you get
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off the plane saying bye-bye. Right. So then on the 40th, you two were in the sketch. Uh fill us in. What happened?
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How did you get together? How did where were you in the show? Hour three or hour
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six. >> We ended the Californians. >> Yes. And >> And I actually have the picture of you
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and I standing there, I think, with Bradley Cooper, but I have the little frame picture on my wall. Yeah. I love
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it. >> You know what was fun about that was uh I think it was I talked to Shroom Taker
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um Michael Shoemaker and he >> Shroom Taker. What's the shroom taker with Michael?
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Like >> Michael, his name sounds like shroom taker. Shroom. >> Oh, I thought it's like he deals in
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silicon. Um, I'll just have a small amount Marchie. Sorry. Anyway, so anyway, you guys did the sketch, the
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Californians, and then the end you two were placed on the sound stage kind of at the at the edge of their set and did
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a goodbye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Yeah, it was it was funny because a shoemaker I asked Shoemaker I said what
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what if because this show is obviously so thrown together and no one cares. What if when someone's leaving a sketch
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they just walk by and we go bye-bye and he goes yeah we can probably do that. So
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he talked to Higgins and then they said you would be good for that. And then uh we stood there and I have a picture I
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think it's probably from Is it from rehearsal or is it from the real show? I
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have one I think from rehearsal. >> Uh oh I'm not sure. And uh, >> hey gang, let's put it on social media
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when somebody's episode comes out. Doesn't matter. But it was fun because
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Taylor Swift was in it. So basically Dana, it was very unorthodox. They do this sketch that's a big favorite sketch
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and then when they're leaving, we just stand there for absolutely no reason and
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go by. >> I remember it. I remember it now. Yeah. It's it's kind of meta or whatever that
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word means. >> Yeah. It was fun. And Taylor Swift was in it. She was very tall.
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>> She is very tall. Was she swift in a way in her movements? Sorry, it's all I got.
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>> Now, why do you ask that? >> Well, I I don't know. Maybe some
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subconscious connection. So, anyway, Cesley, we're we've been watching all
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your cool stuff. Re >> I I didn't even know where to start. We can go chronologically, but one thing
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that I did absolutely love as a someone who loves accents >> is the way your British
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>> iniccernable character super >> super cockney like that is just music to
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me. I love >> music to ears. >> I'm Gemma. >> Would you give us just a You don't have
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to do it. I mean, just talk through it in that or just give us a three seconds. >> Well, I think you also have to put make
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it feel like you have big teeth, too. I think because I was I was watching a lot
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of a British reality show, but everybody gets their teeth done. >> So So thought I
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>> Gemma Collins >> that's there is a Gemma Collins who is on the show that I was watching a lot of
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>> a slight bite. Yeah. >> Yeah. Sort of like if you think of your talking around your teeth like that.
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>> So you have >> Wait, I want to hear. >> It's just like you're talking around
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your teeth. It's there's a show called The Only Way is Essics and it's sort of
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like that and they do a lot of like American vocal fry almost. >> Oh, it's so refined. I love that. I God,
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I love that they're doing a lot, too. I'm It's It's fun for me. I'm
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>> It's just what it sounds like to my ear. I feel like there's always then a
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million comments. They're like, "That's not how that sounds." >> Which are the most fun people to be
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watching. >> Yeah. The ones who are upset. We don't sound like that. But you're teasing it
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out and making it a a character. I mean, there's you're doing something lispy or
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something with your teeth. It's very gives you a little >> the S. It's almost like a little lisp
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because of the the teeth, I think. >> Is that is it a little Who's a great
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actress? Olivia Coleman or you know, she did the queen. Is that the name of that
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actress? >> Yeah, I assume so. Yes. >> Let's let's say that's her name. She's
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on the crown. Close enough. She has a little over does. Anyway, I love that. So that's where we wanted to start.
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>> Well, just fanning out. >> Okay. Well, I'm a fan. And Dana, just so
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you know, I also I just want to say I also have a picture of you from the 40th. It was a It was a huge deal. I
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think I was in my second year on the show or something. So, it was like 20 2014.
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>> Yeah, it was very cool. I have a picture of you and Mike Meyers and your
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Wayneworld getups and I got to stand in between you two and that was very exciting. Yeah.
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Wow. It was it that night. Yeah. When you just say it's Billy Crystal, there's
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Steve Martin. Oh, Bill Murray. It was And in the audience. Oh, there's Eddie
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Murphy. Tom Hanks. There's Donald Trump. I mean, it's just like >> it's Keith Richards.
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>> Everybody was famous that you looked at. So, it was nerve-wracking in that way.
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That 40th, that darn 40th. >> You didn't get a Did you get a plus one?
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>> Uh, I I did actually to the party. I did. >> What >> was that? Should I I don't know. Is that
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not >> No, I'm calling Lauren on the other floor. >> Somewhere in the overflow room. The most
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uh the toughest one cast members. Some were put in the overflow room. >> Rough.
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>> I next year we'll have a net up top. There'll be no overthrow. People sort of
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like loose circus net. They'll bounce around. It'll be like that thing of like
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they'll see the show. So I had to go I had to go in there and get Rob Schneider.
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>> I love the Lauren. Yeah. >> You You must do your own version of Lauren. But I can't do it in front of
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like the best Lauren Lauren impersonator. >> Everyone has different ones. You know
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who was everybody's >> Andy Samberg did the he does the quiet one. Bill hat her just you know it'd be
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really nice if like it was a good show. You know there's the quiet Lauren and
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Right. I don't know. Everyone has their >> I like to imagine that Lauren I like to
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do Lauren when he's like laughing so hard at a sketch or so imagining that he
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really loves her. Oh my [ __ ] god. Oh. OH NO, THEY DIDN'T. [ __ ] [ __ ] THAT IS
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MY [ __ ] >> Him really going on. >> Well, that's to that point. Lauren has a
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He'll be very casual. If something hits him, and we've never talked about this,
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he goes into almost a convulsion or spasm. He has a laugh from 0 to 10, puts his head down. We've never talked about
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this. That is a that is a really really >> good observation because he does that at
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read through if he if you can make him laugh and slap the desk or something you're like holy [ __ ]
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>> Oh yeah. And just to be clear he doesn't say those thing. That's what I know.
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>> I like to put that on him. Yes. But I have seen him a couple times in 11 years
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laugh very hard. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. How is he? Uh, you know, we were talking with other cast members the
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other day and Lauren's Lawrence Keenan. I don't know how these go in order or
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whatever. This comes out in 2026. Anyway, but Lauren Lawrence kind of amazingly, I'll say sort of brilliant,
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uh, passive aggressive, intentionally sarcasm to get you to relax. The the I'll get you started. Like, it'd be
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really nice if this sketch would really be funny. That'd be a good thing. you
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know those kind of statements which Kenan said relaxed him >> you know >> huh
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>> it either can relax or put pressure I think initially it put pressure on me
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when I first got there I was just so [ __ ] scared but eventually I got used to his sense of humor the dryness of
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just >> you know Dana sometimes I remember I was behind one of the you know where the
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sketches are so if you walk in for people at home and behind the sketch is like nothing and so I'm just waiting to
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go in with some goofy outfit on And Lauren comes around the corner with a they're like 20 seconds. And then I'm
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getting nervous looking at my sides. And then Lauren walks with an AMS still like
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casually and he goes you want to try tonight. I'm like and then he just drifts off and I'm like
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am I not trying ever, you know? And then then I botched the sketch because now it's in my head. He has his style.
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>> I think it's a little it's kind of Lauren being sassy, I think.
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>> Yeah, he's very sassy. >> Okay. Lauren, he's got his little dick.
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>> So, we had a sketch called Sassy. Remember, Dana with Phil Hartman, who
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Cesily likes. >> I Well, right. You've read it. >> Let's go back a little bit to your uh
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House How Cesily Strong became Sicily Strong. We don't have to spend much time
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on it, but I thought it was very, very interesting. >> And you amongst other people have
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mentioned, or at least, if this is accurate, Phil Hartman as kind of a true northstar. Will Will Frell did as well.
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And we all love Phil. and he was brilliant. So, >> yes. >> Well, I I also think listen, I have so
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many like I I feel like I've spent a lot of time with you both on the show, like
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watching and and really enjoy. There's so many people I love and usually it's
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just when you say one thing in an interview, then it kind of >> Yeah. >> But I mean, I'm I was just a huge fan of
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the show in general. And I do think, you know, I've played a lot of straight
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characters on the role and I think he just is kind of like the the such a great straight man.
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>> Yeah. He'll play he'll he'll take the lead if you need it or he'll completely
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play the bass, so to speak. Hold it down. Do you Now you actually reenacted. I mean, did you like
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>> you had an uncle who was a Broadway producer? >> Yes. your mom and dad were kind of at a
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certain a very young age kind of saying Cesaly maybe this is for you or do I get
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that right like when did that dream occur to you? I think I never like for real had the dream even at the audition
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was like well I can't I don't want to say it out loud even because this is so
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this just doesn't happen and I don't want to be disappointed if I got to audi
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you know that I should be so happy that I got to audition I got to be here but I
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think I was like when I was three I would just perform a lot around the house and my parents were like I I don't
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know and they put me in a drama class like I hope that's it I hope that scratches at it and it's not something
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worse. >> I mean, well, kids like it then you keep with it. Like, you know, I think every
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kid is like we got into comedy in our house and everyone just liked comedy, but I agree with you that when you say
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you're auditioning for something or when I started doing standup, you don't want
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people to go, "How'd it go?" And if you don't get it, they're like, "Uh." And
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then they go, "Oh." >> Right. Then it's like a bummer thing when you're like, "Well, I wanted to be
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happy about that." >> That was the idea initially. Well, the pressure keeps building because it's
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going toward 50 years. Like, it was enough for me to even imagine I could be on it, but there was only 10 years
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before me. Now, a cast member goes, "Okay, uh, check out the history of the
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show before you audition." It's like months of pouring through so many sketches, but I could not believe we
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That's a very common theme for people of being very humble about auditioning
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like, "My god, this is a dream." and and just some of the darkness of the people
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who >> it went asymmetrical and they didn't get it, you know, and it's something and
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then they've gone on and done great. It's not the one lane to go, but for you
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it was kind of >> it definitely and certainly like at the time I mean and I'd done theater for a
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long time before comedy. Uh, and I I really only got into comedy after college. Not that I like I guess like
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officially study comedy. I don't know. >> I know. It's so weird. >> Didn't count before I get, you know.
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>> So, you were in theater all the time, then you you got busted for pot, got
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arrested. Okay. So, you went to jail. You're a pot dealer. It says you're some
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of these are wrong. A little bit of a rebel in those days, I guess. Or or was everyone
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>> I think kind of maybe that was just the thing in the year 2000. I don't know.
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Um, but I defin I was like a I wasn't really a bad kid. Um, I really I like I
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got good grades. I liked school, but then I also like smoked cigarettes and >> Whoa.
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>> You know, I but I was like in with the theater crowd. That's not like the cool
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kids at school. >> No, not at all. >> You know, >> you do you do smoke a good uh cigarette
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just but you don't light it, right? But with c is it >> with cap? was a smoker for a long time.
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So I but and that's always a thing I look at when I watch people smoke on camera. So you can tell I've always feel
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like the people who have never smoked always go like >> like their whole hand
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>> and then and then yeah and breathing. >> I put all the cigarette and my fingers
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in my like this. >> Yeah. >> That's a very straight hand. >> So Kathanne is like a redneck quas
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alcoholic or whatever. >> She's just kind of lived hard. I I've seen them in Montana where I'm
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from originally and I go there a lot. I've seen those people and she's uh that
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sound that looked like a fun character to play. >> It's so much fun and I I do think it's
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like so many of the people that I just love in real life and love to watch. And actually it was I worked at Green Blatz
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um for >> right next to the Laugh Factory. >> Right next to the Laugh Factory. And
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this is when I was smoking and I'd go outside >> for a cigarette every now and then. And
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there was like a local lady in the neighborhood who would yell on the street a lot. And so she sort of was
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where it came from. And she said and it' always be like, "Oh, don't make eye
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contact cuz she'll come over here." And it's that like they they tried to get my
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brother Dy and I said, "You're probably your own breath blown back in your
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face." And she was just that kind of energy attitude. >> Wow. >> One of those characters in our
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neighborhood, that person. And that's a such a specific rhythm. >> Yes. And I think they are everywhere. I
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don't think it's like she's got a bit of an accent, I guess, but I don't think
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it's like definitely a southern it's like in Michigan. It's in it's in a bar
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everywhere every state. >> It's a bit of a tweaker twist to it. Like you don't know really what you're
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getting too and it's a little crazy in the eye. >> Yes. And again, I like to think that
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there's some teeth interaction, you know, like missing a tooth or there's a
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rotten tooth. >> Okay. How would that affect the way the voice interaction impression?
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>> Yeah, that would that's kind of like right she she also got like a mild
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speech impediment too >> cuz there's a missing tooth and the tongue kind of wanders in there and
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there's a there's like a a sore back there. >> There's stuff in the mouth.
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>> Bitter cheek for our theater students that listen to this podcast. This is
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>> freaking right now. >> Well, just the idea of pretending okay his character is missing a tooth. Yeah,
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>> I have Cesy has beautiful teeth. I'm gonna somehow make that part of the
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voice that the tooth is missing. Okay, that was for the theater fans. >> Well, Dana,
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>> one last taste of it so people can listen to that. >> Yeah. Well, if you think about if you
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try to talk like you have no teeth, you know how that sometime I think it's sort
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of starting from there. >> Just starting from there. When we did bye-bye, she said approximately how many
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teeth and how big are they >> does she whiten? >> Roughly how big centimeter wise just
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will help me a little bit. >> So we're bouncing around. We're I love I
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love >> We're keeping with teeth. That's good. >> Well, I love that you're willing to uh
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kind of explain the the the character rhythmically and the voice thing. It's
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really interesting to me. And that Gemma Dana who? Benedict Cumberbatch was American, right?
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>> Benedict Cumber Cumberbatch slumber party. >> He did like a >> a Cumberbatch slumber party. He should
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host that. >> Did he You said to him, "Is it more fun for him to play American accent than
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you're taking the Gemma?" >> I think that was I mean I hope that was
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fun for him. Uh it sounded like it was at the time. He might have been just doing whatever that week, but I imagine
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it would, you know, >> probably more fun. Yeah. >> Yeah. He was cool, right, to fun to work
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with. >> So much fun. >> I did a guest spot there and just met him. He seemed very uh earnest and and
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humble and ready to work and hoping he's doing a good job. >> I feel like I don't know if you got this
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vibe at all when you guys were on the show, but if Sorry, my >> Come on. >> She's making things up. She's very
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dramatic. I'm sorry. The focus wasn't on her. >> She's making things up.
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>> That's saying, "What is this person doing with you on the Zoom?" She's like,
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"That's enough." >> Talking to herself. >> I'm sitting over here. No one's paying
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attention. I was going to say, don't you I feel like a lot of the um English hosts or
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British hosts were sort of so game to kind of nerd out with us and uh >> Yeah.
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>> And not that American hosts aren't, but I just felt like across the board kind
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of every British host we had almost had like a giggly >> like little kid just really would be
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willing to do anything. >> Yeah. Yes. I I find the same thing. There's something about their their
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training, their attitude. Yeah. >> There's something very potent >> and kind of like goo silly Goofy, too,
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which I thought was a fun thing about Benedict. >> Yeah. >> Cuz while he I guess he does it is kind
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of a silly name, but it's also a very buttoned up name, I would think. >> Sure. When you when you meet the host in
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the Monday meeting, I think that's where you get a vibe. I mean, they are nervous
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for sure. And uh you're nervous. I'm nervous because I'm starruck most of the
00:23:22
time and you're writer, you're new on the show, whatever. You know, you're
00:23:25
always starruck and they bring in some big names. So, I get I think you get a vibe in a first meeting what they're
00:23:31
going to be like. Are they going to be fun? Are they up? Some people you pitch them something, they go, "Sounds great.
00:23:35
Anything." >> And then they're up for anything and you go, "This is going to be fun." And some
00:23:39
go, "Oh, I don't know." They're just tent. You can tell they're tight and
00:23:42
they're like, >> "Can you do Russian accent?" "Oh, I don't I don't really do uh accents
00:23:46
really." And then you're like, "Okay." Uh, and then everyone pitches and when
00:23:50
you walk out of there, you go, I got a feel for it. I got a feel for it. >> Yeah. I I feel like I'm not as good at
00:23:56
that. I think I felt like I didn't quite get to know every host until after a
00:24:02
table read cuz sometimes you just guess so wrong, you know? >> That's true. They can really come along.
00:24:07
>> Oh, no. Yeah. Or like you've just given them something that's so the wrong thing
00:24:12
for them. >> Were you there? Were you there when Trump was on? He goes, "I just heard a
00:24:16
story that uh Pete Davidson told and he said uh is this." He said, >> "Dana, do you hear this?" He goes,
00:24:23
"First of all, they um >> that Trump came to read through this."
00:24:27
You can corroborate. I maybe I'm getting it wrong. I know that. Yeah. >> And he said like, "I don't really read.
00:24:32
I don't really like I sort of adlib instead of read sketches." That was part
00:24:35
of it. And then he said, >> "I get adlib like nobody's business."
00:24:38
And he said, "Let me I don't have my glasses." And then Lauren said, "You can
00:24:43
use mine." And he's like, "Uh." And then there was an end of a sketch maybe at
00:24:47
Disneyland where he says uh he says see you later and then he looks at everyone else and goes chicken leg. No turkey
00:24:53
legs. Like let's let's go eat turkey legs. >> Let me tell you because it's one of my
00:24:57
favorite. >> Oh, let's >> Well, here there's a couple things that
00:25:00
happened. He didn't bring his reading glasses to the table read and was like,
00:25:04
"Oh, I didn't know what that we were going to be reading." Or something like
00:25:07
that. >> It was kind of like, "Well, it's the table read >> uh
00:25:11
>> with script 45 scripts." >> Yeah. And so Ivanka was there and there
00:25:15
was a sketch that Ivanka was in that was set at like medieval times and at the end of it he goes, "Told you." The
00:25:24
grammatically was written told you like told you so to her. He's talking to her.
00:25:29
Period. Then it says turkey leg. Like would you like to go get a turkey leg as what? That's how one would read that
00:25:36
sentence. Um, but Donald Trump read it as told you turkey legs to Ivanka like like he was calling her turkey legs and
00:25:46
then he looked at us like funny >> okay weirdos and it was like we're not
00:25:51
the you read it wrong and then he also in the middle of it >> got a phone call and took his call so we
00:26:00
all just waited. I've never seen anyone like do that to Lauren yet, you know.
00:26:05
And he went Uh-huh. Oh, that's great. Uhhuh. My book just went to number one
00:26:10
and we all just went, "Wow, wow." Had to applaud just the moment, just the fact
00:26:18
you would interrupt the table read to take your very real call. >> My book just went to number one. And I
00:26:28
know you got to do some things, but I think I deserve a little bit of applause. And then he he he asked to be put into
00:26:35
the Drake >> the hotline bling sket the dad I think it was like the dad dance or something
00:26:43
that >> I remember his funny little weird >> asked to be put in that.
00:26:47
>> Yeah. >> And then the other thing he did was they did a giving tree sketch and Jenna
00:26:53
always tells the story our stage manager because he's like that's not a real
00:26:57
book. And she kept saying, "What do you mean that's a book?" And he just did not
00:27:02
believe that the giving tree as he was in a full tree costume. And I do have a picture from my monitor in my dressing
00:27:10
room from rehearsal of just his face in this tree costume. >> The giving tree just a rumor.
00:27:17
>> Did not believe obviously was not uh brought up on the giving tree. >> I know books. I've read a lot of books.
00:27:24
I see books. I've heard about books. So, I know when there's a book and it's not
00:27:28
a book. Excuse me. I know a lot of books. Excuse me. Let me finish. I know about books. Let me tell you. Um, no one
00:27:35
like him. What? Everything's been said about him, but they're he's a one-off.
00:27:39
Uh, >> those table reads are cool. I mean, you can learn a lot. I remember the first
00:27:43
Alec Baldwin. He was great. Like, I didn't know what you know, you don't
00:27:46
know what you're getting into. And sketch after sketch, you start to go, "Oh my god, these are pretty much cold
00:27:50
reads." >> Like, they've never seen a sketch and they're walking in. Someone's going,
00:27:55
"Hey, mine sketch is number 41." And if you could play it like quiet at the
00:27:59
beginning, but then you build and they're like, "Right." And you know,
00:28:01
they're trying to absorb it all. You don't know what the [ __ ] going on,
00:28:04
>> right? >> Hours. John Goodman always >> learning eight songs.
00:28:09
>> Oh, yeah. They have to sing a song. The hosting is so complicated. >> Yes. And I think they're mainly just
00:28:15
kind of in shock. I'd like I thought of my role as kind of an RA throughout the
00:28:20
week where you're just sort of always being encouraging like how do you feel?
00:28:25
Great. That's normal. I think that's normal and by Saturday you're going to
00:28:29
be Yeah. >> It's very funny when because they're walking into your turf and they can be
00:28:34
kind of nervous and I I with a superstar, you know, like a big movie star and you can tell they're out of
00:28:39
their element and you're kind of going, you're doing great and you know, just
00:28:43
read it off the card. Just read it straight off the card. putting it in my head that they need encouragement from
00:28:48
me. I'm probably like wearing a blanket and slippers. My life isn't I don't have
00:28:54
it all together. I'm like, you're doing >> I was doing a guest spot, I think,
00:28:58
church lady update because I'd done Fallon and then Lauren would always say,
00:29:02
"You'll be doing church radio on Saturday." Well, okay, I'll call my
00:29:06
travel agent. And then it was Benedict Bunkerber. Uh, I remember afterwards just at the good
00:29:14
nights he goes, "Was it was was pretty good." Okay. Right. Was okay. I go, "No,
00:29:18
it was great." Great. But funny me telling you, I can't, you know, >> I wonder if anyone's ever going, "Nah,
00:29:26
>> it was pretty good. You could have done better." >> I wouldn't I wouldn't
00:29:30
>> I mean to any host would you ever even if they're bombing, you're going you're
00:29:34
doing great. You got to keep them upbeat, you know? >> Right. >> Just never go real on them.
00:29:39
No. >> So, can can we circle back around how you your audition? I just want to know
00:29:44
the pro. So, you just to jump around a little bit. You went to Cal Arts. >> Cal Arts for theater.
00:29:51
>> So, so you're studying, you're getting better, you're you're starting to get
00:29:54
funny, and then you go to uh Chicago. >> I went Yes. I So, I stayed in LA for
00:30:00
like nine months, seven to nine months or something. Uh, >> and I was just kind of like, I don't
00:30:07
think this is going to be the way I do this business if I'm going to do it. It
00:30:13
was just sort of I didn't really understand how any of it worked. And business-wise, like couldn't get an a.
00:30:18
It was just I felt bad as this business can feel sometimes. And so, uh, I took a
00:30:25
class with the Groundlings though and I really liked it. And so I was like, well, I'll move back to Chicago and rent
00:30:31
will be a lot cheaper. And every now and then my mom can buy me groceries and uh
00:30:36
I and I went to Second City. I started taking classes. >> Second city. >> Yeah.
00:30:41
>> And what was the vibe difference when you got to Chicago? LA it just feels
00:30:45
more pressure and just weirder, right? Chicago is still a Midwestern >> city. Yeah. My family was in Chicago and
00:30:52
Yeah. Yeah, I do. I enjoy the Midwest. Uh >> a lot more. It's a lot a lot chunkier
00:31:00
people who are more friendlier who are friendlier in public. I don't know. Uh
00:31:05
>> chunk chunky and friendly. You have a slight you have a slight accent too.
00:31:10
>> Slight accent. You like to eat >> like to laugh and drink. You have to
00:31:15
because it's so cold. You have to find ways to enjoy life while you can. >> Um
00:31:21
>> but >> and in LA it's just >> Yeah. And actually I loved my class at
00:31:26
the grounds. I really had a good group. Um, >> but I I definitely I was like there's
00:31:32
just there's so much more of that kind of especially that comedy sketch and improv. This is just like that's so much
00:31:39
of what Chicago is. >> Yeah. Uh, and I was I took classes at IO eventually was doing I did some shows at
00:31:46
the annoyance and you know then we would do a couple of those shows for >> Olympic.
00:31:51
>> You buy you uh rent out the theater and beg your friends to come for $5 tickets.
00:31:58
You may have five audience members that night. >> Bring your show. Bring your show. And
00:32:01
when did you you know like had you met people either been at Second City, got on SNL or coming back to say hello or
00:32:08
then it became sort of in your purview as they say SNL is a possibility. >> It still it was not it was like a
00:32:17
possibility but again like I wouldn't be so foolish as to say that out loud. It's
00:32:21
just such an outlandish you know like that's not going to happen to me. Um, and I knew that they did
00:32:28
auditions, but even you had to audition for the audition, but and I was like in the box office at IO one night when Sha
00:32:34
was like, "You should do this." And I thought, "Well, I don't know if I'm
00:32:38
ready." And I hear I heard like if you audition for Lauren once and he doesn't
00:32:42
and you don't get in, he never wants to see you again or something. You know,
00:32:46
there's all the >> I've heard that >> the things that people pass around and
00:32:49
like you can't get pregnant in a hot tub, you can only audition once. Just the info kids pass on.
00:32:55
>> You can't get pregnant. Yeah. >> Urban myths or whatever. Yeah.
00:32:59
>> And so, but then I took a um a workshop uh that was what was it? Characters and
00:33:06
impressions or something cuz I didn't do a lot of impressions and I never really
00:33:10
thought of myself as an impression person. Um >> but I got I think I put together six six
00:33:18
things, you know, but I and I kept them all short. And I think that's what helped me in the end was cuz you you
00:33:23
would see some people. >> Yes. And you're like some people this is very indulgent and al you know and
00:33:30
everybody's doing similar you know there's the old I forget his name. Saman
00:33:35
>> Elliot who was it you know the the old guy with the mustache that everybody
00:33:39
did. >> Sam Elliott. >> Sam Elliott. Yeah. Was like well eight of you are going to do Sam Elliott. So
00:33:44
you don't need to do like a three minute monologue. I like when they say like um I think
00:33:50
this is a good trick like Dana I've learned a lot about impressions from Dana and people don't realize the longer
00:33:56
you do it the harder it is because you have a few hooks. >> Yes that they go oh that sounds like
00:34:01
them but the longer you go it doesn't. And when sometimes you ask people to add
00:34:06
lib as a character, they go, "No, I want I I know that's so much harder because
00:34:10
you want to write something that includes the hooks, >> right? And where you and yes, like your
00:34:16
thing in and your I know I sound like them here, but I can't say the word chalk." Is that word?
00:34:22
>> So So uh so you're going to audition at at IO or or IO at IO. And to your mind,
00:34:31
you were in there was maybe 10 of you or whatever. And so you were strategizing knowing who was maybe going to come on
00:34:37
before you so you were not redundant. And then who was there? Was it Lieutenants? You know, Lauren's minions
00:34:44
basically. >> I Well, I know. >> Was Lauren there or them? >> Lauren was there. I think Lindsay
00:34:49
Shookus was there. Aaron Doyle, I think, was there. Colin was there. >> Oh, really?
00:34:56
>> Pen. the whole cannon of people who can decide whether you're going to be on
00:35:00
Saturday Night Live audience. Yeah, they were all there. But I mean, I didn't
00:35:03
know who anyone was except Lauren. Really? >> I get nervous. When you just said that,
00:35:08
I was like getting nervous going, "Oh my god." Walking out going, "Here we go.
00:35:11
This is all that matters for everything. They'll never see you again." That's
00:35:16
true. You think >> if they did not like you, then why would they see you right away again? They It
00:35:21
takes a long time. >> What did you do? Did you have any methodology for dealing with that
00:35:26
pressure or when you got out there you got a laugh and felt comfortable or what happened?
00:35:30
>> Yeah, I think uh I got laughs so that's I mean really there's really I don't know what the
00:35:37
strategy would even be for that. Sometimes you just have to go do go do it. You know it's like you just trying
00:35:46
to control your nerves and actually have fun is the is the goal. And then how do
00:35:50
you try not to try? Right. I'm I probably looked like I was trying, but I think they forgive it. But I was also
00:35:58
like I'm comfortable around >> an audience at this point. This is certain my family was there. So I
00:36:05
imagine if I hadn't gotten any laughs, it would have felt terrible, but it luckily that didn't happen.
00:36:12
>> It's also your home theater. It's not like at at the daily on 8H. 8H is barren
00:36:17
>> and it's a super friendly audience, right? And everybody's laughing cuz you
00:36:21
know it's like in all of our best interests for anyone to succeed. >> Mhm. So what was your first uh ladies
00:36:28
and gentlemen Cesley Strong do you remember your first bit or your first laugh or first character that you did
00:36:35
and >> uh >> or an impression or what did you start with? Hello. >> I think well we did this
00:36:40
>> hard to start sometimes. >> Yes, it was hard to start. I think the
00:36:45
biggest was like we did girl at a party kind of two weeks in it was during one of those election.
00:36:51
>> Oh, you came in with that one. So, >> another thing that you do these long
00:36:57
names and characters you're talking about girl you wish you hadn't started a
00:37:00
conversation >> with at a party. It's the it's kind of the which is one of your first big hits
00:37:06
on the one that's everyone knows how to say the name. Uh, I was actually was
00:37:12
trying to write an update character with Colin Jo. And I did do for my audition.
00:37:17
I did a little boy that I overheard at Mother's Day restaurant in Forest Park,
00:37:22
Illinois. Who was >> But it was my the intro was half of the >> Is that the name of it?
00:37:28
>> Yeah. Yeah. It was like a chubby little boy that I overheard at. >> That was awesome. See you next Saturday
00:37:37
or something like that. Just that much is funny. You would get it. You get any more the boy. You see
00:37:46
the boy. >> Yeah. You see that little boy >> loved his pancakes. Uh, so I I was
00:37:52
trying to write something with Colin and I kept sort of being like and that's you
00:37:57
know that's a good one because it's important for society or something and
00:38:00
was >> we were joking around like that and I remember Jay Pharaoh was writing
00:38:06
something but you just heard him yelling the n-word in the hallway and so I think
00:38:11
I said and can I say the nword in mine and so that was girl at a party's bit
00:38:17
too she was always like a little just assumes that she's got the right to do
00:38:22
everything too. And I had I'd like heard a story from a male friend of mine uh who there was
00:38:30
like a girl to bar and I'd heard a couple like a couple people in my life were telling me, you know, they'd like
00:38:35
seen a cute girl to bar something and then she said something racist or offensive just kind of out of nowhere
00:38:41
and it was like what? Where did that even come from? Yeah. >> So, wait a minute. So, you actually use
00:38:46
the real word on your audition? >> Oh, no. I've never Okay. No, no. >> Yeah. No, I I didn't know. So, this Jay
00:38:53
Farah was screaming. >> He used the real word. I certain No, no. I said, "Can I use the N-word, you know,
00:38:58
which I think he did. I think we did put that in a an early girl at a party."
00:39:04
>> Did Did Jay Frell and you get the show on the same night or >> No, he was uh I can't remember if he was
00:39:11
a year I think it was two years before me. >> Mhm. Oh, okay. So, he was already in the
00:39:15
cast when you auditioned. Yes. >> Okay. And he just happened to be screaming in the hallway. I thought it
00:39:20
was from nerves that he >> scream. >> No, no, no. Jay was Yeah. >> God
00:39:25
himself. Yes. >> Yeah. Did you get the show from that audition? >> I Well, I So I we had like speed dating
00:39:33
the next day. They asked nine of us to go to the hotel where Lauren and his peeps were and I there were like two
00:39:40
long tables. So, I think I had an awkward conversation with everyone for 5 minutes. The only
00:39:48
thing I remember saying was like, I love and I love Trader Joe's, you know, cucumbers and wine.
00:39:55
>> Yeah. I don't know. >> And they're all just staring. Was anyone
00:39:59
laughing in a friendly way or were they just looking at you? >> I I feel like they were encouraging, but
00:40:07
>> I'm sure they know you're nervous. I'm sure they know everyone that walks in
00:40:10
that door is like saying stupid [ __ ] >> right? Right. >> It's impossible not to. So, you do the
00:40:16
audition, you do this little like meet up with them and then what happens? Did you get a phone call? Do you wait 6
00:40:22
months or >> I got another phone call I think the next day or something that to fly
00:40:28
out for a screen test with and it was an all girls screen test and 80 was in the
00:40:35
etc show at um Second City and so she got she got flown out from that too. So 80 and I it was what was nice was 80 and
00:40:44
I really did every step together. Uh, so we went to that first >> screen test. Yeah. And I knew her. I was
00:40:51
a fan of hers honestly um in Chicago. I was actually I think I underststudied her at that point too on uh her role on
00:41:00
etc. And so we had a we did a our first screen test in New York and then went home and kind of didn't think about Oh
00:41:07
no. Then the day I I flew back and I got a call driving back from the airport to
00:41:12
fly out to New York again to just sort of sit in the office and talk to them. >> It's Lauren. Pick up.
00:41:22
>> Guess who? Guess who? >> Hit me on the hip. >> Can you do the person who you don't want
00:41:28
to see with they're trying to converse with you? The lady in an Uber that doesn't have an Uber app but says she
00:41:34
does. He like the little fat boy, but >> can he can he be fatter? >> So, after the New York screen test, were
00:41:44
you starting to think maybe I'm going to get this? I mean, did you call your
00:41:47
parents? Who do you call? >> Yeah. >> I I think I definitely called my
00:41:52
parents. Um, and and probably only my my parents would be the one because again it was like I don't I just don't want to
00:42:00
say too much and jinx it or or make people think that I think I'm going to get this. Yeah.
00:42:07
>> Right. But you did check in with them just because they knew you when you were
00:42:12
three being friends. So they've known me for a while. So Right. >> But you probably downplayed it like I
00:42:17
don't know if I'll get it but I did this this and this. And of course I'm they
00:42:21
probably at that point assume you'll get it. I don't know. Maybe they did. I
00:42:25
don't know. >> It's pretty far down the road. >> Yeah. It's such a Right. And especially
00:42:30
to go from like I'm underststudying Second City and touring and like it's just such a big jump from
00:42:40
that to now I'm on TV >> and even you know like living in Chicago versus New York.
00:42:47
Well, just going in that building, the 30 Rock and seeing 8H for the first time is hallowed ground and right all of it
00:42:55
would give you a slight stomach ache or something or >> diarrhea inducing and you have to kind
00:43:00
of wait forever, you know, as there was I don't even know how many people were
00:43:05
in that screen test. You can just sort of like sort of hear people in the hallway and kind of like I don't know
00:43:10
when it's my I don't know when I'm up. >> It's torture. >> You're there for like eight hours and
00:43:15
someone just goes now. Those were the longest days of my life. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's that's scary. There's a
00:43:21
waiting thing Dana and I talk about like it's waiting to see Lauren. There's some
00:43:25
weird thing about it's always waiting and it just drives you bananas. >> Yeah. And then your anxiety does kind of
00:43:31
build up. I'm like I hope I'm going to Can I stand by the time I'm out there?
00:43:41
I think when Lauren gets someone like you on the other side of it, they're thinking like you probably see this now.
00:43:48
You've done second, you've done IO, you've done all these things. It's sort
00:43:51
of a safe bet at some point like you're not just out of nowhere, plucked out of
00:43:56
nowhere. They they do like to hear about you. I think they need a little buzz maybe for one season and then they hear
00:44:03
your name again. And if they keep hearing it, they go, "We got to check her out." And it's almost done deal
00:44:08
then, you know, at the beginning. >> Yeah. Well, I certainly had no I don't I there was never I never
00:44:16
thought I was safe. You know what I mean? >> Sure. On your end. Yeah. >> Right. On my end. And I I think like I
00:44:22
don't know that there was any buzz necessarily, but although I'm sure Sha
00:44:27
probably said something, but I think I was a bit out of nowhere. And so I I went for two screen tests. So then we
00:44:36
went again at the end of the summer and Lauren told me he said my second one was
00:44:40
funnier than the first and he said that's why he hired me. >> How crazy relive
00:44:47
>> you almost get more nervous later on. Weird >> I mean but you look at your you prepared
00:44:54
yourself for whatever reason you did took all the steps so that it would be a possibility that you would get on
00:45:01
Saturday Night Live. So, let's move into now you're on Saturday Night Live. Yeah.
00:45:05
Does anyone telling you anything? Are you sharing an office with 80 or what's
00:45:09
going on? >> I actually I shared an office with Joe Kelly who now does Ted Lasso with Jason
00:45:16
and I think he was there for Jason's last season and he was so uh he really like took me under his wing and um he
00:45:24
was sort of our social coordinator too. So, we went out a lot my first couple years, you know, we'd go out every
00:45:30
Wednesday. I went to Amsterdam with a bunch of people. >> Restaurant. Where was it? I think I'm
00:45:37
sure I went there. >> Amsterdam. The the >> Yeah. country. >> Europe.
00:45:42
>> Yes. >> Oh, the real Amsterdam. I thought it was I thought we went to Amsterdam's which
00:45:47
was I thought a restaurant I went to on Amsterdam. >> We had our our table in the back of
00:45:51
Amsterdam. >> You guys would go to Amsterdam every Wednesday night. >> Every Wednesday night. I swear I'm
00:45:56
telling the truth. >> All the way. >> You could take Paul's jet. It'll be
00:46:00
fine. Just be back for read through. >> They're wild. You got to let them.
00:46:04
>> So, you get on SNL and you start traveling the world. >> They're wild.
00:46:08
>> Yeah, I Yeah, I had to uh I didn't I wasn't able to pay my health insurance
00:46:14
premium until January, though. So, I did I think it was like my first tax return.
00:46:19
That's when I got to go to Amsterdam. >> Oo, pretty cool. Yeah, I I saw that you
00:46:26
at a certain point you were on update. How is that how is that true? And how does that discussion happen? And then
00:46:33
you wanted to go back to sketches more. It's time consuming, right? >> Yeah, it was. And it was um so I went on
00:46:40
I went on with Seth for a bit which and it was really easy then because Seth had
00:46:44
been doing it and he had done it with the with Amy before so he sort of knew how to do that duo. And then Seth left
00:46:52
and then I knew Colin was coming in and I think it was just especi like >> I I just felt it was going to take more
00:47:18
work than I that would take away from getting to do sketches and it's sort of
00:47:22
like I really I liked being a guest on update and felt like I had had much more success doing that than than being a
00:47:32
host is like the straight man. >> Yeah. And I kind of like I just I was like the it's it was a cool honor. It
00:47:39
was great and there was a great team writing jokes. It feels like a whole different world at SNL like the update
00:47:45
room versus >> Yeah. >> sketches. But I certainly was like, I want to be in the sketch world more and
00:47:51
I don't want people to not write me into sketches because of Update and uh and
00:47:57
and knowing that it was going to need all this work was sort of we had a lot of talks about it and it was like I just
00:48:04
I would rather go back to just being in the cast then. Like I think it's it could have been done maybe if we had if
00:48:11
it were just more a stat if we had like a rhythm already, but we just didn't. It
00:48:16
was so new and it was, you know, when the audience when they lose someone, it just everything takes a bit more work.
00:48:21
So, it was getting used to not having Seth, then they're kind of like they don't like you already because you're
00:48:26
not Seth. And it was >> Yeah. >> I just was like, I don't want that
00:48:29
uphill battle when it already is so tough to sort of figure out your place at that at that place.
00:48:36
>> And uh we're all the better for it because your range is extraordinary. And
00:48:40
so it seems like if it if Update usurped you and your energy and time, we wouldn't have all these great
00:48:47
characters. You're just a natural sketch player. And you're someone who you want
00:48:51
on your team. I mean, Lauren must have loved it when he discovered you could play this, you could do this, you could
00:48:56
do that. You know, it's great to have somebody with that kind of range in your
00:49:00
sketch. Well, and I think cuz right I don't know that you know now being there
00:49:03
for a while you sort of see how all how how many different types of people do this show and make it work and you're
00:49:11
always like there's people who >> are standups and there you know it's
00:49:15
just like not everybody comes from like a theater >> background so you're only going to have
00:49:21
you're more valuable probably out there in sketches. I I definitely think I was
00:49:25
more valuable in sketches than at the desk cuz I'm also I'm not a standup and
00:49:29
so it was it was just wasn't >> as natural news castery and it's good
00:49:34
jokes and they have great joke writers usually on update always >> great joke writers
00:49:37
>> I think I I think Dana is this possible I was only there six years but I think I
00:49:41
lived through >> doing bits with Dennis on update >> Kevin Nean Norm and Colin Quinn
00:49:48
>> probably yeah >> was finishing then then Kevin had a long run then Norm and he got fired
00:49:55
>> and then Colin and when I left. Yeah. >> Wow. >> Crazy. And it is hard.
00:50:00
>> And Colin always says >> they were mad Norm got fired and sort of
00:50:03
took it out on Colin. >> Yes. Right. That would be hard to step into right after. Right.
00:50:09
>> Because it wasn't it's not Colin's fault. He's great. But you're just
00:50:13
following. They're like, "Wait, where's Norm? What happened?" >> And uh
00:50:17
>> that's true. And Colin talked about that he felt he should be sort of normike in
00:50:22
a way like >> he's very aphable and friendly and he wishes he'd been more like that. Anyway,
00:50:27
everybody has regrets but you're the longest running female cast member just
00:50:31
a tenur >> a fun stat. Although I'd like I I do think if someone like officially ran the
00:50:38
numbers I I because Kate >> like number of episodes >> number of episodes because I Kate was
00:50:44
there like five episodes before uh 80 and I got there >> and then right >> I missed some because of other shows. So
00:50:54
I I I felt like I was pretty darn close to 80 and Kate like I think we're all
00:51:00
>> leaning at the tape. We'll go back. I would call it a wash and just
00:51:05
>> Yeah, it's essentially around a decade. >> Did you just rip the band-aid off and
00:51:08
leave? You didn't make it a long goodbye, right? I think yours was sort of out of the blue.
00:51:12
>> Well, it it was it wasn't really though. It just wasn't a thing I was like uh
00:51:18
broadcasting to everyone. But when I went back that year, the, you know, the way I went back when talking to Lauren
00:51:24
was like, I would like to leave this year and I think uh Christmas would be a great time because it's a happier show
00:51:32
and it would it, you know, I'm going to be so sad to leave. So hopefully that'll
00:51:38
>> end of this conversation. >> He gets attached to his cast members.
00:51:43
>> Maybe stay till February. >> I think I think they would. Yes, I'm
00:51:47
sure he would have. It was probably like we don't we're not going to talk about
00:51:51
it and broadcast it because I think there was still a lot of people holding out hope that I would not leave.
00:51:58
>> Was it when you did you go to Schmegadun and then come back? Is that what
00:52:02
happened >> in 2020? I didune that fall and got back in December and then last year I did a
00:52:09
play I did um >> this one woman show in LA so I missed the first Tomlin one. Right.
00:52:15
>> Yes. Yes. >> Wow. Wow, another long title. >> It was right. Exactly. I'm comfortable
00:52:20
with >> filling those shoes. Did you Did you hear from Lily at all? >> She uh she came to opening night,
00:52:27
>> actually, which I found out that day. And that was that was I think maybe that
00:52:32
was even more nerve-wracking than having Lauren >> at that audition. >> And Lauren asked that, "Yeah, make sure
00:52:39
you're there on the opening night, Lily, but don't let her know until like a
00:52:42
couple hours before because like she works very well under pressure." Yes. >> But you probably scored. I'm sure she
00:52:48
was incredibly sweet. I would assume >> she was wonderful. I mean, I think it
00:52:52
was I got to uh get applause for her at the uh curtain call, which was really I was kind of like, can I get through
00:53:01
this? Can I say these things without weeping? But it was very cool having her there. And then unfortunately Jane
00:53:08
Wagner who wrote the show didn't get to the show but we did a I went and saw her
00:53:13
at her house which was really cool seeing all her and Lily's it was like a museum really. So they have all their
00:53:19
things >> in search of intelligent life. >> Search of sign the search for signs of
00:53:24
intelligent life in the universe. And yet for short, I know people call it is FF A J QQQ F.
00:53:31
>> Yeah, just for short. >> I just call it I call it the spaceship monologue.
00:53:36
>> The space. >> Well, by the way, I saw >> I saw >> You can't not do Adam Sandler when you
00:53:44
say that. >> Yes. I thought you were saying Chicago, >> which is our second. And it looks very
00:53:50
involved like that. Is it a hard show? I think you produce maybe also, but is it
00:53:55
hard? Cuz it's first of all, very unique, which is so hard to do these days. And then the dancing and the
00:54:02
singing and the and the jokes in the songs, all that stuff has got to be tough. >> Oh, definitely. I think but there's a
00:54:09
lot of outside rehearsals. Um, there was a great we have a great choreographer and great music team. So, it was sort of
00:54:16
that it all felt like we were once you were shooting it felt very ready. >> Mhm. Because especially that first
00:54:23
season we was such strict co rules so we really were so limited with >> how much time we got with each other.
00:54:32
>> Tell what it is for our our viewers. Yeah. You and Keegan Michael Key I love
00:54:37
his name star together and then go ahead. >> Yes. So we play a couple that are
00:54:43
they're sort of a newer couple. They've fallen, they met and have a great thing
00:54:47
and then they're sort of at a rut in their relationship and arguing a lot and
00:54:51
they my care Melissa finds a hike for them to sort of it's like a romance hike
00:54:58
or a love building hikeling a rekindling hike and they go on it and they're arguing and caught in a rainstorm and
00:55:07
somehow they end up in this magical town called Schmegadun. Uh, but they find out
00:55:13
it's it's a musical every day. They've gotten themselves trapped in an
00:55:18
oldfashioned musical. >> They can't get out >> and they can't get out until they find
00:55:22
true love. >> That's a good That's a good really interesting setup and it's really well
00:55:29
done. I mean, I was watching going just knowing a little bit about production being on movies and how hard everything
00:55:34
is just when I do my basic crummy movies to have this with like so many things happening and so many jokes written and
00:55:41
just how it's got to be so tight. Everyone looks great. Very good job. >> I will say the second the second season
00:55:47
there are more uh looks and worlds covered. So I think it was some we had the same amount of time but I think like
00:55:55
20 more pages or something. So, it's >> felt a bit more frantic, but we got it.
00:56:00
We got it done and it's I think it's I think it's pretty fun >> in Canada.
00:56:06
>> Oh, you do? >> Yeah. >> In Canada. >> Ingadoo in Canada.
00:56:10
>> I I always like it in the We watched the first episode. >> I love when people are going into a
00:56:17
surreal environment that can't be true, but it is. >> That's Vancouver and
00:56:22
>> Yeah. and your your character's kind of going, "Well, let's go with this." and
00:56:26
your boyfriend's going, "This isn't happen." He's very skeptical, right?
00:56:29
He's a musical person. >> Yeah. And then, just so people know, you'll randomly say something to these
00:56:34
people that you don't even know. And then they'll have a well choreographed,
00:56:38
brilliant Broadway song. >> They'll just start, right? And they were such great dancers. I remember there was
00:56:43
one, it was like 8 in the morning or something, and this guy just did >> 16 flips in a row.
00:56:50
>> It was just like, "Wow, what a different morning you and I have had." He went on
00:56:55
to the tunnel of love and there's a guy there's like a bad boy guy standing
00:56:58
there and then he he sings to you and this is probably early on when you don't
00:57:02
really know that's what's going on which is very funny reactions and then I guess
00:57:06
you guys start to get used to the fact that this is where you are. >> Yes. Yes. And uh Right. We we stop
00:57:12
asking what they're doing every time. >> I just accept it >> once we figure that out. Yeah.
00:57:18
>> That's on Apple TV. That's on Apple TV Plus. The new season, which is Chicago,
00:57:23
is April 5th. >> If you like Broadway musicals, which everybody does. >> And then I I hopefully I do think first
00:57:30
season I think a lot of people who were not do not consider themselves musical people. We had a good amount of people.
00:57:38
>> Well, I'm not a musical person. I liked it. >> Well, it's kind of science fiction in a
00:57:42
way, fantasy. >> Hopefully, there's like something for for everybody. I think having Keegan and
00:57:48
I lets like a comedy audience in >> jokes think that that was the show for them.
00:57:55
>> Well, the songs have jokes so it's not just watching, you know. >> Yeah.
00:57:59
>> It's it's very original. I would I would check it out. >> I would check it out. And you and Keegan
00:58:05
are great, too. >> I see Keegan out a lot. I see him around. He's the best. Yeah.
00:58:09
>> Yeah. Always uh good mood. >> You can hear him when you're out, too.
00:58:12
He's Oh, I feel like when he enters the room, you know he's there. There's like
00:58:17
a >> Yeah, he's a big scream. >> Lot of fun energy. >> Could we just touch on as as we go
00:58:23
through your life here? Uh some of your classic >> Yes. >> sketches like I I know that you uh I
00:58:30
just kind of personally >> I just want to say this is very cool for me. Just want you to know that
00:58:37
>> while >> we've been watching you all morning and laugh laughing out loud at your stuff
00:58:41
and uh that's why me and Dana are going back and forth before we called you and
00:58:44
we were like did you just see this one? Did you see this one? >> We're alums and and we don't want to
00:58:49
make it too grandiose but it is a seminal experience for us in that place and and and uh being on live TV with
00:58:57
your friends who you make lifelong friendships with. So this is very enjoyable. But I I I just kind of
00:59:04
thought there was so many great cast members in that decade. And then I personally sort of started to notice you
00:59:11
and notice you doing, you know, like really connecting with the audience because I think it takes a while for the
00:59:18
audience to go, "Oh, we like Cesaly." >> Yes. Yeah. >> She she just made me really laugh and
00:59:22
then it happens and builds. So I just saw that maybe at least it was for me those last two or three years you were
00:59:29
just at another level or some other level happened of of confidence. >> Yes. and and uh Gina Pin Pino Pro.
00:59:41
>> Yeah. Was like a sorry but like a heavyweight character like a big loud bombastic and that must
00:59:49
have been fun just to play that person that that persona is so aggressive. >> Yeah, definitely. And I um Tucker and I,
00:59:58
Brian Tucker, wrote it with me and he wrote it as a sketch first, just a sort of a Fox News thing, but no one really
01:00:06
knew who she was at the time, even though we were like, she's w she's a great character.
01:00:11
>> Yeah, >> she's But uh the first time we did it, I don't think there was a big response.
01:00:16
And then we tried it again on Update and it was sort of I I was excited because it was a way to do a bit of physical
01:00:22
comedy too because I wanted to >> we and the first sketch that we wrote we
01:00:27
had her in a chair with a seat belt >> worried that she was going to fly out of
01:00:31
her chair and I was like well then let me fly out of the chair that'll be our
01:00:34
thing. Yeah. >> You know she always yells Dana because she uh was yelling for a Cobb salad and
01:00:40
they didn't have a they had cranberries on it. One cranberry, >> right? Yes. That's her volume or
01:00:45
something. never went down on volume after that. >> But yelling at a waiter,
01:00:51
>> it was a big powerful one. And then I'm always interested when people can do cuz
01:00:55
I don't know if I had that gear. Play play subtle dumb and t I'm just looking
01:01:02
at the two porn stars you did with Vanessa Bayer. There's a describe those two characters
01:01:08
in the rhythm of how you're acting. Dumb but not dumb. I mean, how do you describe that?
01:01:13
>> Yeah, I Well, I think my my porn star was always a little bit more out of it than Vanessa's and sort
01:01:22
of but it was kind of that's how the pair worked, you know, and I think um mine's just I remember seeing I think it
01:01:29
was like a Tyra Banks or something early on and she had a porn star on I forget who it was but she was so like yeah and
01:01:40
I'm happy doing it and it's I just her the way she was speaking was I was like,
01:01:46
"Oh, I want to do that." And I think it was also just a way to writing with
01:01:51
Colin Jo. We like to do um a lot of malipropisms and so it was which we do a girl at a
01:01:57
party and then we wound up doing in porn, you know, it's like an excuse for a lot of bad puns, too, honestly.
01:02:04
>> Yeah. >> Right. But it's it's fun when you land a hard laugh with something that's so
01:02:09
softspoken. >> I think that was like even more than Girl at a Party. I think that was the
01:02:14
most I felt the best after that first year. I you know I think it was Jamie Fox's episode.
01:02:22
Um, I think that's what it was. And it was my first year and we were the the
01:02:27
last sketch and I think and Lauren gave us, you know, it was that you it was still more cushioned when you're in that
01:02:33
last spot and you can kind of >> I just the audience went so wild for it and it was so much fun to have that
01:02:40
reaction for the first time >> at at 10 to one. >> Yes. Yeah. And kind of be like a little
01:02:46
dirty and I it was just it was really fun >> cuz you had a series of lines. The one I
01:02:52
saw today was uh this morning was I got banged and then something really you're
01:02:57
both doing it so obviously casual and so softspoken. >> But anyway, so I'm glad to hear that
01:03:04
that would be something for me it was doing Johnny Carson because I didn't really
01:03:08
>> I wasn't thinking about whether the audience was going to laugh because I
01:03:11
knew what I was saying was almost too funny at least to me internally. So I felt like you had that connection with
01:03:17
that character where it's just like all thrown away and really soft spoken. It's
01:03:21
super funny. >> Yes. I I think that's sort of how we got away with all of it too.
01:03:26
>> We just we kept saying like how can we we just wanted a framework to be able to
01:03:32
say these awful things. And we were like, "Oh, they're they were porn stars,
01:03:36
but they're not anymore." >> And then then it was like and we had a
01:03:40
lot of fun running gags. Like I never got a name. It was always like, "How do
01:03:45
we do that this time? How can we skirt around me saying a name?" >> Like, "Can you give me an example?"
01:03:51
>> Like, she'd say, "We're not porn stars anymore. I'm Brekie." And I'd go, "And
01:03:55
this is Brekie." Or she said, "I'm Brekie." And I said, "And you can, too."
01:04:02
>> Yeah. It's your nonsequiter weird. >> Yes. That really >> always I'm not I'm not always paying
01:04:07
attention, my that gal at every moment. >> They may have done drugs. >> They may have done drugs.
01:04:13
>> Yeah. You kind of hope that they did. >> There was just a I thought it was very
01:04:23
cute when you and um Kristen did It's such a weird thing you're on a date with
01:04:28
the 10-year-old kids, but you guys just carry the whole thing and you're so keepy and alive and funny and just sort
01:04:34
of odd, but it very likable girls. >> Yeah. I think when I think I wrote it
01:04:39
with Michael O'Brien and it was like we just wanted to really write >> the best date that someone could, you
01:04:47
know, something that felt really good and it was like and then it just happened to be 10-year-olds, but they
01:04:52
really felt like this is a really a date that's good. I know the way you played
01:04:56
it was that's just fun to watch because I obviously you know you start these you
01:05:00
don't know where it's going and if you're in comedy you don't know where
01:05:03
and it just it's fun to watch these things unfold and then you guys just seeing two pros just being very funny on
01:05:09
their side of it like >> and having like Tim and Bobby Yeah, there was a lot of giggling.
01:05:14
>> Yeah, I'm sure that just looks like a super fun rehearsal also. >> Yeah.
01:05:18
>> And you and Bobby Moyahan, you and he did the Best Buy firing. That must have
01:05:23
been kind of fun because it was just so loud and and and you were just you were supposed to be getting fired so you just
01:05:30
deconstructed every other employee. >> Right. Right. >> Rip. >> They're going out. They're going out
01:05:34
with a bang, which and it was uh that was the first show I'd gotten >> a sketch on and I got that on and
01:05:42
girlfriends on and it was it was so great because Bobby had been there for a while and sort of like I really was like
01:05:49
trusted whatever if he's saying this is good then I trust that it's >> I was really I hadn't quite yelled at
01:05:55
the table yet before it's my first time yelling at the table. Definitely. This
01:06:00
happened to me twice, not as much as Dana, but to either write something or co-write something. And when you you
01:06:06
originally get a big one on, it's so much your focus to have two on is almost
01:06:11
throws you. >> It's like that's too much. >> Yes. Yes. It was It was crazy that they
01:06:17
both I was sort of like, how does that how will that work? cuz you have to oversee them, direct them, like there's
01:06:23
so much to do with them and go to wardrobe and costumes and set design and help with every aspect. You're like, "Oh
01:06:29
my god, just give me one. Let me just see if I can figure out, >> right?" And you're like, "Well, is this
01:06:33
going to work?" It's my, you know, wanting to make sure everything is like
01:06:37
you've thought, right? You've thought through everything for that for the
01:06:40
first one, >> but then after >> was the other one Girlfriend's Talk
01:06:44
Show? Sorry. Was the other one talk show with with 80? So there's your your bandmate from
01:06:49
>> There's your 80. Yep. So, you have a comfort zone with her. >> Yeah, I really I did a lot of
01:06:53
two-handers for a long time over there, which I really loved. >> Two-handers meaning duos. Yeah.
01:07:01
>> Yeah. Where, you know, me and Bobby or Vanessa and I 80 and I Yeah. Kate and I
01:07:06
were kind of world was a two-hander. >> Exa. Yes. >> Hans and fr say two-hander.
01:07:14
>> Exactly. >> You know, but yeah, I think it's it's fun. It's a it's a very clean simple
01:07:19
thing. You're you're playing a rhythm with your other person and it's just
01:07:23
nice. >> Yes. >> Also for getting laughs off a straight part was uh you and Bill her when he
01:07:29
hosted and you're going to play Uno with your friends. >> Oh yeah. >> Your boyfriend.
01:07:33
>> Well, that one we were I wrote a lot with James Anderson and Kent Sublet and
01:07:38
I was like we just have to if like what I know of Bill is like we just have to give him a big toy
01:07:44
>> really. So it's like give him a big motorized wheelchair >> and then you climb on him. I didn't see
01:07:50
that coming. >> No, >> you have the courtesy of >> courtesy blanket. Mhm.
01:07:55
>> Yeah. So it's not like And she goes, "Sex is sexual, >> right? It's not a sexual thing. It's
01:08:02
science." >> And she goes, "No, sex is sexual." >> And it's sort of, you know, this awful
01:08:08
trying to make your friends feel bad. Like, you know how much I want a baby. >> Yeah. I know. It was all good. Yeah. Try
01:08:15
not to laugh, of course, because he's banging to everything, driving his [ __ ]
01:08:20
>> right? And there's no, you know, we still only get however many rehearsals
01:08:23
and then so it is it's so >> backing up. You don't even know who's
01:08:29
going to hit a table or you guys are going to get your leg broken or >> whatever. Yes. And I think like the
01:08:33
controlled chaos was sort of that became my my favorite part of the show, you know? It's like the one the thing that
01:08:40
sets us apart from everything else is having it live and >> not perfect. Yeah.
01:08:45
>> Yeah. So, and it was sort of like throw in a dog, throw in some >> wine that you're throwing or some, you
01:08:52
know, just just there's then you have chaos that you're kind of like I don't
01:08:55
quite know what's going to happen. So, >> then it keeps >> and the audience senses that
01:08:59
>> having fun. Yeah. >> They want it for sure. I had a dog with a massive head wound hair course which
01:09:04
was you know but that was uh I was just writing >> won an Emmy >> um the nor after dress was the dog is
01:09:14
pushing a little could we get the dog like not like find the leads you know it's just
01:09:19
>> the dog's hosting during February sweeps with Jay-Z >> so you do 10 years you go through all
01:09:25
these different cast members coming and going when you first came in who who was
01:09:30
there and who left pretty shortly after that or or were you >> we being a we had a pretty we had a core
01:09:36
cast for a long time together that came in. >> Yeah. So I was when I it was Bill and
01:09:43
Jason and Fred's last year >> Okay. When I got you you caught them for
01:09:49
one year. >> Yeah. So I got one year with them. >> Solid. Yeah. >> Uh which was so excit you know to have
01:09:55
those people around when you're first there is really exciting. And then um then Bobby, Taran, Jay, Vanessa, they
01:10:05
were sort of the next and Nim were all sort of the next upper classmen. And then but 80, Kate and I and Beck and
01:10:15
Kyle there, we were sort of we were there for a long time together. >> Yeah, you did have a nice long run
01:10:21
together. Kyle Mo Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett. >> Um Kate, of course, you Yeah. What you
01:10:28
Yeah, like a re the show keeps >> and Keenan. Yes. >> And Kenan Thompson just the perennial
01:10:35
cast member. It was just always >> when you leave season does it always funny
01:10:40
>> a weird feeling uh when the shows are still on? >> It's definitely weird. It feels like it
01:10:45
was much longer. Uh it feels like a much much more time has passed since I've been there. Um,
01:10:51
but I also I think one of I I know AD and Kate and a couple other people I've
01:10:58
talked to and even Kristen, I talked to her when she first hosted. It was kind of like you can't I haven't been
01:11:04
watching. I think you have to kind of walk away for a while to be able to leave. So,
01:11:09
>> it's very weird to watch it after >> there's people doing your job.
01:11:12
>> Yeah, it gets weird and all the anxiety I feel like would just come back right
01:11:18
away. And I would I just don't I think it's I'm good where I am with this
01:11:22
distance. >> You did a good run. I mean, my god. >> Yeah. It's it's it's pretty
01:11:27
comprehensive. Do you feel I don't know. You probably feel so many things, but
01:11:32
somewhere you must feel a nice level of satisfaction. You lived your dream. >> Totally. And you Yes. And I got to leave
01:11:39
like happy, which I know is doesn't always happen. We've heard those stories.
01:11:45
>> Yeah. And I, you know, there was I had a tough couple years like everybody does.
01:11:50
And so it was really nice to get to leave that way. >> Yeah. Going out with a bang. And now you
01:11:57
haveun. Is that >> I think that's You also may not know this. You're in a phone commercial.
01:12:06
>> That's right. Yes. >> You wouldn't know that. >> You might I don't know if you've seen
01:12:10
it. >> I don't know if you can find YouTube though. Yeah, you you have to go to
01:12:16
YouTube. >> I'm a big fan of tech commercials and phone. You don't potato chips and tacos
01:12:22
is harder. Although I'm for sale at this point. >> I will I will bite a taco. But when
01:12:28
you're doing phone companies or that sort of Apple commercial or whatever, that's sort of nice. I mean, I think the
01:12:34
commercials you you look great and it's just sweet and it's kind of smart. So
01:12:38
yeah, >> I'm a big fan >> of u doing commercials as soon as you come off SNL
01:12:45
>> right as you come off. >> Great gig. I Yeah, >> it's a great gig. And then you got uh I
01:12:50
think who was in it? Seth was in the one I saw. >> Seth has been Yeah, Jessica Williams
01:12:54
just did one. >> So they've been like, >> believe it or not, you were not supposed to do commercials
01:13:02
>> when you came off Sarah in the '9s. You were not supposed to do commercials. So
01:13:06
that um I'm not envious. I don't hate the people that do the math. I live
01:13:11
through them and I root for you guys. But yeah, do the commercials. >> I know it was like a new thing that we
01:13:16
got to do >> a commercial during our time on the show. That was always like such a no no.
01:13:22
But I think however a couple years. Yeah. >> I got shot down on that. I have I have
01:13:27
to ask her I have to tell her one thing before you get your last word, Dana. >> Born in Springfield.
01:13:34
>> Springfield, Illinois. My daughter uh lives in Springfield and growing up
01:13:38
in Springfield. So, >> I'm saying there's hope for her to come out like Cesley because you did it and
01:13:44
and you and you liked it. You were there for >> Well, I did move pretty quickly
01:13:48
actually. I was a year and a half when we moved to Oak Park, which is right outside your recollection.
01:13:55
>> What was the mall like when you were there at one year? >> But I'm sure it's what made me who I am.
01:14:00
>> Do you go back ever? No. Do you just >> to Springfield? >> Yeah. No, not to Springfield. I did go
01:14:06
back. I went back once. Uh I It's a It's far away from Chicago, but I went I It
01:14:13
was when Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate. It was in Springfield and a couple friends and I
01:14:20
drove. >> You did it at the J Crew at the mall there. >> At the J Crew in Yeah. I got I got an
01:14:24
autograph. >> So, you have a memoir out, This Will All Be Over Soon, which I love the title.
01:14:31
>> Yes. Yes. written during the pandemic and uh that's available on wherever you
01:14:37
can find it. >> All the book places. Yeah, >> book places. Yeah. >> So, I'm I'm just so uh I don't know. I'm
01:14:45
just so thrilled that we when they said Cesaly's in, it made me very happy. Oh,
01:14:50
yeah. Yeah, it's like I think it's like a right of passage to to get to talk to
01:14:54
you guys and you are both some of the best to have ever done it and it's you're doing well on the other side.
01:15:02
>> Very nice. >> I love funny people and we did ask Kenan about which just as a kind of a piffy
01:15:10
question like oh who's the greatest? We all have to make a name up or whatever
01:15:14
you know rank things and he had gave the best answer. He just said spontaneously
01:15:20
the women. >> Oh, that's >> all the women because the amount >> freaking doll.
01:15:26
>> He is adorable. He's like you want to adopt him. >> Smart guy, too.
01:15:30
>> Yeah. >> The amount of women and you're in that continuum between Amy and and I'll
01:15:34
forget the names too many. Sherio, Terry, and >> Vanessa. It goes on and on. Maya, Molly,
01:15:40
Kristen, Amy. Right. Right. Right. >> Yeah. There's so many women who've done
01:15:44
such brilliant work on that show in recent history, but we fancy ourselves, it sounds high flutin, a slight casual
01:15:51
funny oral history of cast members interviewing cast members. We we know where the grease pain is stored. So we
01:16:00
This has been a pleasure. David, do you have any final statement? >> Nor like you get to talk about SNL, not
01:16:05
bore everyone because at certain times you just start talking about it and you're like, "All right, well, forget
01:16:10
it. I should stop." But it's fun to talk about because it's on your line. It'll
01:16:14
be on longer than you think. You just keep >> because you were there so long
01:16:19
>> from Saturday Night Live. And the great thing about the way the world works now
01:16:22
with live streaming all these venues, you're just going to work. You're going
01:16:25
to do whatever you want to do in show business for decades now. But you'll always be from Saturday Night Live, you
01:16:32
know, which is it's a great legacy. >> It's right. It's not. Yeah.
01:16:37
>> It could be way worse. It's great to have. I mean, >> yeah, >> you everything sort of
01:16:41
>> comes from there and you know, came from >> improv places there. >> When you can do live sketch comedy and
01:16:49
do it with with joy and and and do it uh with as an expert, it everything else that you can do. It's kind of,
01:16:57
>> you know, it's like >> I feel like the greatest thing since leaving has been learn like seeing that
01:17:03
people maybe see me now the way I saw Amy and Tina and Maya and Kristen walking in and that was I think like
01:17:13
that's just a great thing to have in my pocket for a bad day like I'm I'm
01:17:18
amongst those names and that's >> you are thousand% amongst and the everyone loves it at a certain age. one
01:17:25
of Lauren isms, you know, whoever was 14 at the time. But you've you've got your
01:17:29
your cast, your primary cast, and your people and those fans are so connected to you.
01:17:35
>> Yeah. >> Forever, which is very sweet. You know, they're 14 now, but you'll run into them
01:17:40
later >> and they'll be so So, it's such an honor to be on that show
01:17:45
>> uh and to be humble about it and just be grateful. >> We're on the wall.
01:17:50
>> We get to do this. >> We're on the wall. >> Yeah. We have to do we got to do a fun
01:17:53
job for a long time. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, any we're going to get started in a minute. We're just going to
01:17:57
take a break, >> but we like to do pre-in. I think we got a good show here.
01:18:04
>> We do. We know we're going to talk about now. >> Thank you very much.
01:18:07
>> I like to say we're going to see you around campus in show business and for
01:18:11
sure at the 50th >> and uh right, >> you know, so that'll be exciting. I hope
01:18:16
I get to do something with you. I hope you do something. >> I would love that.
01:18:19
>> We'll put you in Wayne. >> I got to start thinking about Yes,
01:18:22
please. That's one of the first movies I think I like had memor like I that's
01:18:28
probably I have the most memorized of mo of all movies. >> Oh, I like to play. I'm sorry. I was
01:18:35
trying to think and I I think I did like you a gun rack. >> I like it. What am I going to do with a
01:18:42
gun? I don't even own an ad gun. >> Yes. >> A gun great movies. >> Yeah. Surreal. But anyway, best of luck
01:18:52
to you. Uh, I'm gonna be watching your show with my sister who's visiting
01:18:56
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01:19:04
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