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Cheerio Terry David Sherry oh Terry is so hilarious uh yes and uh one of my I think she's one of the favorites there
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she was always she was perfect for the show full of energy full of characters wrote a lot and uh that's exactly what
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you want for that show she was like when they say brother from another mother I don't know how you say sister from
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another mister I don't know if you do but I definitely had some some Crossover
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with shario Terry in that sheet and I've talked to other comedians about this she
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broke the seal on that show of what a woman could do in a sketch because she would commit to sexual innuendo and
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physicality so intensely that you couldn't not laugh and she has this thing that she does where she looks off
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after like this yeah the character lands alive I keep it yeah so she's as organically funny as anyone body and the
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interview was so much fun because we were just laughing the whole time and she just kept telling these stories
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about her mother and her childhood and it was just fascinating that was one we were laughing a lot yeah and the stuff
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the fantasy world that she grew up in and what what made Sherry Oteri and and her name is very cool you would be
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um David Oates baited or something no Spade is obviously a fake name but um no people Chris Rock used to go Spade
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do they ask you they say did you and Spade make your names up no I lucked out Chris Rock is a great
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name Chris Rock is a great it's like boom boom boom David Spade's good Dana's
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I like but carvey's weird because there's only five in North America it's
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one of the strangest tribes from Ireland we were murderers and thieves and Gun Runners we're nasty that's good news
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I've got a lot of anger underneath this facade underneath this pith helmet by
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the way gang don't you can write them to me uh about where to get this hat by the
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way the petunias are almost ready and I feel like I'm like Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond well I was looking for
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some strawberries and I wanted to get back here see your sweet face you're gonna go go go that's for the over 70s
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no I don't know that movie I'm So Young you're so young and so fresh if yeah if
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you were a plant you'd be a daisy fresh this is just she looks up to Dane a lot
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too A lot of people come on here doing especially I get some nice compliments but we have had a lot of incredible
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episodes we love anyone who would dare come on our our narcissists display yeah but Sherry did stick out of someone who
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really really made me laugh so enjoy this one [Music] hi Tina hi Sherry oh hey oh it's so nice
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to see you I can't it's so nice to see your bed uh I know one of my beds wow
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and you made it for today I did I fluffed my hair up I copped an attitude I checked my lighting my lighting is
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amazing you look like you're in high school which is perfect you guys both look good Dr Jekyll and Mr space
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I have lighting above me which I guess is the worst scenario flattering David no I do look good
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you look okay you insist Gary all right look at these look at your hair wow oh [ __ ] you know what I have to write down
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I have to Sherry about I might as well just ask her we're on Sherry you don't remember this but you were on the
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show with me for a full season she doesn't remember that you might not remember that I'll put my hat on so you
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know gross out but uh uh one time we went to Fiorello's and you fainted oh no yes yeah
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um someone said came back to me and it was your time to pay the check and they go your friend is in the bathroom he's
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fainted your friends I don't think it was a money thing no no it was your time to
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pay because we what what we did we went we went off and on your time to pay my time to pay your time to pay and you
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always had um hi blue guys see me out when it was your time to pay it just seemed really convenient I had
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convenience see the uh right and then it was like get them orange juice get them
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orange juice give them a dog treat no one knew what to do when the check comes he checks out
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good night yeah here's your orange juice and the check no what happened was Sherry I think you
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live in an upper west side and I lived on both side and we sometimes Dana we didn't get carted around like you like
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Meghan Markle we didn't have cars in the party we built the show back you guys
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came in dancing we built the show back I feel hard to ground up John Lovett ever
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heard of him yeah yeah uh we were thanks to you thank you we were we had a job and we but we didn't get cars for sure
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we didn't get close no no and it was really kind of dumb on NBC's part because we didn't know if we could get
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to work you know and even on show day no cars it was like hailing calves and so Sherry and I would try to strug and walk
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and I I didn't have any protein bars back this is the days we didn't have
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protein bars she had to carry like a plum in your sock so I didn't have anything to nib on and
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we got there and I was like where's the Goddamn food and so we walked to Fiorello's in in like Columbus Square
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and then I started to like drift like she's like David I'm like hello darkness
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my old friend I started to like I think I slide down in the booth so I'm gonna
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use myself to go black out on the bathroom floor and she's like this is beyond diarrhea it's been about
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25 minutes what's happening and then I think you sent a waiter in yeah and he
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was like I guess you're gonna have to pay Miss oterry is on the floor and I go um uh can you
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go in and get them off the floor I mean I love that that was his you know uh it was like hello that's not normal we
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didn't plan on him going on the floor could you see if he's all right yeah and
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then you came out and it's like I need orange juice I need orange juice and uh yeah I'm like oh my
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gosh well I had some really funny funny used to say to me I remember you go to me hey Cheryl watch this and we would be
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at like a a bar and you would go up to a really pretty girl and you would go like
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this you would say um excuse me um don't I know you from somewhere wait a minute aren't you an actor wait a
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minute aren't you you're really famous you've been in movies and you're really
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popular wait a second you wait oh I'm sorry that's me no it was it was wow yeah okay I'd
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sometimes go away let's break this down are you on a big TV show yeah or is that
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me all right yeah it was something like that Sherry but thank you for exposing Mike oh my God they used to make me
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laugh and you always epitomize to me the kind of guy that you say Oh Sherry I can't wait for you to meet my girlfriend
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who's grown going out with she's so funny and then I would meet her and she
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just giggles at everything you say everything you say and if a boob shake when she laughs she's a riot all right
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we're about to go to a test pattern because this isn't going the right way
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David had five years on the show by the time you met him and so he was a kid in a candy store he was famous for the
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first time and like Mickey Rooney told me money makes you handsomer so that's
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what happened but back to Sherry on Terry Our Guest today Superstar cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1995
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to 2000. go ahead I just I play kind of the DJ wait Dana before that yeah first of all
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you're from you're from Philadelphia yeah right outside of uh Philly the
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suburbs actually Greg who I was talking to earlier um we were talking about Philly and all
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the people that came from my little town Upper Darby besides uh Todd Rundgren oh
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Todd Rundgren Super Fan yep yep yep yep uh did you see that documentary on him yes that was great was it called mayor
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of Easton no I hung out with him a few times at SNL and at his house in Sausalito oh really yeah I got to know
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my brother and Mike Myers brother are both Todd Fanatics like Mike Myers brother wrote a book about Todd my
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brother was yeah the definitive history of Todd Rundgren but anyway that was a very uh talented neighborhood you grew
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up in Todd Rundgren you I'm Tina Fey I'm so surprised though that all the songs he wrote
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you know sometimes you you just follow upon like a documentary you're like all
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right I'll watch this and you're like blown away I did not know he wrote that
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I didn't know he wrote that yeah that he was really a prolific songwriter is that
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why you sound like we can't understand you is because you're from Philadelphia
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you got such a strong accent yeah what is the Philadelphia accent I mean orange juice orange juice uh no it's you know
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uh the whole thing is uh when I call a friend who had the the wreck recording oh God telephone recording hi we're not
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home at the moment leave a message at this Saturday turn and we'll get back to
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you it's not an attractive it is not an attractive um accent and they leave off the G's in
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ing yes so I was talking we were walking talking it's not an attractive accent at
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all how does it how does it blend in with Long Island because it feels like to my
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ear they're very close relatives but it's different I'm telling you the suburbs it's like a
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lazy vowels they just jumbled the vowels and believe that some continents are uh
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continents constant consonants consonants Scottsdale Community College are not needed like the G's in ing
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what's your favorite what's your favorite accent just to inhabit like in Life or hang out I love
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doing Southern Southern which one North Carolina or or Texas or I I I don't even
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know where I am on the southern accent um just fun sounds fun but I just absolutely love doing Southern Accents
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can you give us a little bit right now I'll do one to start well you guys both
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did Ross Perot I think no yeah Dana did Ross you did it I copy everybody I copied you but you were so funny and I
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believe it started a pattern of where women especially now on Saturday Night Live are loud just to play them in and
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that was the first time I remembered a political figure that almost was President then I left and you played him
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which I thought was a very cool thing and then Lauren brought you back to playing again and I'm like did I not do
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well you know uh but I was just kind of I loved doing it they had all these Prosthetics on me
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and I'll never forget Janine Garofalo was uh at that show and she goes and I
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had all this energy and all these Prosthetics and she goes you know you and the bald heads because you look like
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one of those kids with progeria go get them I just learned about allapalatia so I'm
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just trying to foreign thing I'm gonna stay in a Southern accent while I interview for the rest of
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the show but should we keep going on SNL or just find out a little bit about how
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you got on SNL it's up to you David you're the co-host uh well Sherry has a long pass before
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SNL I do like the Philadelphia stuff and then but I I didn't know if you went
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went in with uh Will Ferrell did you have cheerleaders are those things down already
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we came up with them at SNL uh but we did both come in from the ground Lanes the same year you knew him at the
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Groundlings other okay so was anyone else dragged with you guys oh [ __ ] we were all in the same show
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okay and Katan came this exact same time as you know SNL yes but he didn't get
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hired at the same time oh yeah didn't he come a year later or something no yeah but
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um you know it was at that time it was 50 50 as far as um NBC and Lauren having deciding
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you know the cast on really yes oh wow seem like Lauren always knows I don't
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know how they did it but they they wanted to be in agreement they had to be in agreement all right Marcy raise your
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hand everyone who liked Chris Kattan okay that's one two three sassa how about Europe yes
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what about your group is there anything there he asked me you know what did you the
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two sketches that I wrote that will and I were in he said I'd like those uh on the um
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he had me do I had written a sketch with um uh called like an 80s prom sketch and
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he wanted us to do that on the first show with Marielle Hemingway it didn't work out with to write Marielle into it
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so he said just do it yourselves like the next week and then the other thing was I had written
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um a kid in a cockpit at the Groundlings and I cast will and um the funny thing was was I said to
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him you know like his name was Captain Chase and the strangest thing was when I got SNL I ended up doing that when Chevy
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Chase hosted and I'm like I had to change the name of the captain because it was actually his name and I
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remember I said to him um this is really strange but when I originally wrote this at the Groundlings
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it was Captain Chase and here I am all wide-eyed it was kind of Jason I had to change it because it's you really Chase
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well what was kid in a cockpit what was that sketch yeah it was just a kid that you know got to be to go visit the
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cockpit and she was a pain in the ass and yeah and the pilot did not win any parts
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okay why is it so funny all your characters are a pain in the ass by the way no nothing no it's pretty funny I
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like where this football's in them I keep it now okay that's the Italian woman on the porch
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it's every woman who polices the street in the neighborhood it's so [ __ ] hysterical I used to
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laugh my ass off at that [Music] oh oh I got one before SNL when you were you did you work for record company I
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just want to know if if record companies are are they sketchy like they say or you don't see that well I
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would then um I worked in publishing Alma where Albert and Jerry moss and to me a
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a m records was the Camelot of the music industry at that time and it was my dream like they had alternative
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um artists before that they could never get on the on the radio because they didn't have alternative radio stations
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at that time and but they signed them anyway and uh so I was like wow and then I started working in the
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publishing company and for a year and a half and I remember a woman saying to me
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like oh my like people would say oh you're so funny you should do stand up and I couldn't see myself doing stand-up
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um I couldn't see myself being myself in front of people um and so someone said oh you should do
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the ground links I go well I should say what what's a girl I go what's what's a
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brownling and they go oh it's an improv truth I go what's improv what is this
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God you speak of and I'll never forget going I looked in the Yellow Pages and I found the you know the growling
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stuff went down and wow and I am telling you I walked in there and I saw all the
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pictures of people of Phil Hartman of of John Lovitz of Lorraine Newman of PeeWee
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of Paul Rubens and and just all of these people I'm like oh my God what do they
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do here and then I started seeing shows and I was and I was hooked but I had I then I moved over to the record
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company I was doing promotion Rock and and pop promotion working in there and um the whole time doing the Groundlings
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and I just thought I have the best of both worlds I can be work a m records and then be creative at the Groundlings
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never would have dreamed as big as what had happened you're so used to all in
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the daytime you're you're prepping like a meet and greet for REO Speedwagon and
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then at night no I didn't I was pretty much it was radio promotion but it was the funnest
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job and the funniest thing is when I got SNL everybody's like so no more free CDs
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and I was like Jesus Christ can you pretend that you like me Sherry can I ask you a question so when
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you got into the ground Lanes usually you take classes you build up and stuff when did you like did you find when did
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you kind of go geez I'm really good at this I mean when did it turn for you because it was actually people that I
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when people like because it's a long process you start out at basic and then
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you're judged you know after whether you can move up or whether you have to repeat or you get dropped then you go to
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intermediate it's the same thing then you do that for months and months and months then you're judged do you repeat
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get dropped or move up and then and then lab and then and then lab and then Advanced and that was a two-year process
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and I just thought I thought like I'm doing well when people that I thought were good were being dropped
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oh and you're being Advanced so you're kind of going I must be good if that
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person's dropped and I'm not well I just don't the Great the grades I had gone
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is I always thought myself the worst person in the class and the great thing about that was I had no
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attitude the only way to do go is go up from there you know um because I didn't have any
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kind of acting background and I remember meeting everybody and they all had head
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shots and they were all talking about the business they were talking about the businesses and and and you know I was
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just like oh my God I'm just happy to be here like I really did not think I was
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going to be an actress or it was gonna I mean I just thought it was a dream to be
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a groundling and like that was your ceiling yes for sure yeah that was like we have a stand-up I never thought you
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didn't do anything sorry David anything in high school or sketches no you just
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came out of the blue ground Lanes my God and then you're that's your training and
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I did take some classes outside of the Groundlings which I was in the Groundlings just to get a taste of like
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you know other forms of of of you know classes and and and cold reading classes stuff like that but I took to it like
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I'd never taken to anything in my life yeah I it was like the clouds parted and I found my place
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yeah wow and so I was like Tracy flick I was there early I left late I had my hand up I was in awe of everything in
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all of everything I was never so excited about like I couldn't sleep at night
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after class because either I did well and I was so excited or I did bad and I couldn't forgive myself you know but
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you only learn when you do when you don't do well anyway so it's kind of
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like remember you're in class you're in class you're in class you're in class
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and I remember I had to repeat intermediate and it was the best thing that ever happened and then I remember
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my best friend at the time worked in the box office Mike Sweeney and his sister was Julius Sweeney and I found out that
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she um had to repeat intermediate and I'm like oh that's so cool we're both
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reputed and when did how does your style evolve before you got on SNL and they're like
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when did you first know you could throw your voice with an accent and an impression were you doing those with
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friends or I never did Impressions but I always to me I I copied like as a kid I
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would watch television and then it would copy everything I saw sure and I would go upstairs was it Carol Burnett was it
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uh yeah but no I copied soap opera people oh okay because I was I was very very intrigued by the civility
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you know it was such a contrast from how I was growing up you know where the TV was on 24 7 and you know you had your
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mother screaming I wish I was dead all the time um yeah I don't know but they're rough and
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tumble yeah yeah very very chaotic and and just so unhinged and I just love soap operas because of the civility of
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everything you're so dignified and yeah so dignified imitate them all the time
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hilarious I would I would actually set up on our radiator um makeshift bar because back then in
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the in like the 70s in the soap operas they would come in and go straight to the the bar there was never a TV on in
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the soap operas right yeah and so I would make up a makeshift bar and have Kool-Aid in a vase that you could see
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through uh that was my carafe and then I would have uh ice and um and tongs to put and then when my mother would walk
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in I would stand the way the camera shots you know how and soap opera it's gonna open Out camera the camera comes
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in and then the person is talking to them from him back focus yeah kind of right so I my mother
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would come in and I go oh my [Laughter] yeah and she would go like this who the [ __ ] left the door open with the air
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conditioner on and I would go like this in my mind cut gosh so your survival mechanism was to
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almost and live inside of soap opera was actually I lived inside and no one knew
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what I was doing it was really crazy myself and then I would watch like Little House on the Prairie I'd go
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upstairs put my hair in class you know in braids and they get on my Prairie pajamas and I would come down and my mom
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would be in the kitchen I go ma when's paw coming and she goes what I go when's
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Park coming home and she goes I don't know but you better have [ __ ] money God
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so it was like my dad didn't live with us so it was like whatever you know and
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in my mind I was constantly cut because it wasn't because it was what you wanted it wasn't going like a TV
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show you can't curse on TV and I'm just and she and then I remember I would
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watch like um uh the Ten Commandments was just on the other night oh the movie the the original with that
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because it's Easter Easter you know and I used to live for the Ten Commandments
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yeah you know and um and I would be watching it and I'd go in the other room
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my mom and her friend are smoking cigarettes and you know talking and I would get a ladle and I would give it to
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fill it with water and give it to my mom and say Mom can you hand this to me and
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she's like what what do you want Sharon I could just hand it to me and then my
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mom's friend would say honey I'll hand it to you and I go no no my mom go I'll
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hand it to you just give it to me so I she would take it and then she would hand it to me and I would drink it down
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really fast and I go you are kind I will dwell in this land and she goes dwell in the other room
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um have you done a one-woman show about this relationship it's so good and then
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my friend I I would say to my mom's friend you are strong you stood up to the malachite
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and so you remember that from well I just know the kids I I actually read the Bible after I saw it when I was like
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eight or something I started reading the Bible oh yeah I was just like maybe this is
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true man this looks pretty real I was like you know I was like seven it was like a documentary to me
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I'm gonna get to the bottom of this religions thing and I'm gonna open the
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book he's like yeah and then he goes oh there is one at the library let me delve into this a little
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bit Dana that's adorable and years later oh there's a flash which I want to ask
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you too I'm with Charlton Heston on SNL and Lawrence wants to get him to do Church chat church lady with Moses and
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he didn't want to do it we're kind of pressure I didn't want to pressure him
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but he goes this is oh my God that would have been awesome it's so surreal those
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kind of things but back to this I just want to couch this for a second so your mother's you probably love love she's
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very aggressive there's a lot of tension in the house you escape into these shows
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and use three-dimensional props to kind of become a part of these calming shows the Ten Commandments did you have a
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crush on Michael Landon I was going to ask because what's any sort of a Teen
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Idol in a way for a while yeah um uh well Little House in the prairie no I mean did I I like the blind girl I
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thought he was like David's like what I could have done with that she couldn't see that I'm not
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that cute I would just tell her I was not with that right not with this lighting you can't see him listeners but
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David's got Gothic kind of uh Lighting on it my hair looks cool and No One Believes Me and I don't care I'm going
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to the front we have great hats well because I was throwing you guys off because there was so much shade on my
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face and lighting it looked crazy so Sherry this is so interesting I'm just so you know when I think about you uh as
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a performer just the word that comes in is committed not as a woman well as a woman that's a whole other that's a
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that'll be our second hour we'll delve into your sexuality and everything you
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know no you're very attractive questions myself you know sue me and I we adore
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you but were you as committed I mean you're so committed you're watching
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these shows little kid you got props and you're talking like Biblical characters
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to your mom what the [ __ ] are you doing I've so I love you mother how did this
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inform you as a performer I mean obviously you developed an ear and if you were theatrical but you'd never done
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anything official till you go into Groundlings and then how many years into that were you in the main company and
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ready for SNL how long did it take um I did two years of classes and then two years in the Sunday company writing or
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performing every Sunday and uh and then I got into the main company I was in the
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main company for a year and a half and I would say that SNL was my first job wow
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and now as you were prepped enough right because you were doing pretty much exactly SNL pretty much yeah I mean I
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just writing [Music] and just uh you know just kept there's you know I learned the difference between theater
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and television I remember writing something and uh in the Groundlings that that did really well but it died and I
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remember and I remember um Quinn Colin Quinn saying sure I don't know if this is going to come off the
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way it did in theater because when you talk out in theater on a stage the the audience can imagine the fourth
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wall if you do it on television you just look crazy if you're talking out you know what I'm
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saying and I did not know the difference between that and I remember it was Kevin
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Spacey and I had done this character where she has a party every year in the same party and the only two people show
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up but she acts like there's a lot of people there she says all the things that you say when it's a really packed
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party you know what I mean right did you find parking um excuse me I just got a request
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um the the the uh the kegis beat a young Party The Keg is beat we've got to put
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I'm gonna pass a hat around and all these things and I did it with Kevin Spacey and it just died because of what
00:30:12
he said because a lot of it was me talking out to people that weren't there and it's kind of confusing but
00:30:20
um and then I remember Lauren always saying Sherry do you know where your camera is and um I thought it was a
00:30:27
trick question I go um yeah no you don't and because the people at home would
00:30:31
like to see the people at home would like to see you too and I didn't even know what he meant but and after that it
00:30:38
was like okay oh that one's my camera with the red light like I would just play the audience I never played into a
00:30:45
camera I didn't know to play to a camera right I'm just saying and sometimes I
00:30:49
remember it so you might go off the cards because you're sort of just performing something you already knew
00:30:54
right I'm performing the way I did at the Groundlings like as if it was a stage and I remember Chris Farley saying
00:31:00
to me you know what Sherry I just I he said something to the effect of I just pretend like I'm back at Second
00:31:10
City and I don't even pretend I don't even think of the cameras and I was just
00:31:15
like yeah you could do that but I get in trouble for it yeah you gave me the opposite advice
00:31:21
yeah yeah you made it work for you I get in trouble but you you to me were kind of
00:31:28
uh carvey-esque because your characters are very committed they were uh thank you energy
00:31:36
and every you'd come up with these new characters you know we only did a year
00:31:41
but after I left and I'd watch and I go goddamn she just keeps coming up with
00:31:45
[ __ ] and it's so hilarious and they were really clicking and what did you do five
00:31:50
years yeah and did you you walked away or did you want to stay or what did you do oh I
00:31:55
left yeah that's what I had enough of that enough of it or what was it well it
00:32:00
just you know you really have to have a thick skin and and as much as I love the work
00:32:07
and could do the work it I did not have a thick enough skin at that time um but I wanted to say something I
00:32:17
remember my first year I was well into it I think and someone I got a phone call and they go Sherry
00:32:25
Dennis Miller's on the phone and I had never had anybody famous call me or anything like that and I I was like
00:32:31
people famous don't just call other people you know and then the funny thing
00:32:37
was was he had no idea of this but his off-white album when I was in Philadelphia
00:32:44
I had it memorized it was the funniest album I and not that I listened to albums I I heard it by accident from
00:32:52
someone else and I remember I was working at a um at like a college bar downtown and
00:33:00
um we had live music and and during before the sound check they were playing his album I was crying I was laughing so
00:33:06
hard yeah crying to where I turned all my friends on to it and we just constantly would quote it and then here
00:33:12
he's calling me and um like I pick up the phone and he goes like he has no idea that I know that
00:33:20
album by heart and it always sounds like such [ __ ] when you say um oh I'm such a fan right you know what
00:33:27
I mean and then he goes this is what he said to me sharing I just want to say uh
00:33:31
you got commitment like Carvey wow and I'm gonna tell you I was so so flattered because Dana like I always
00:33:43
related to you and the characters that you did like and your ability and your commitment and I'm
00:33:53
just like God damn like he's so freaking good and funny and even when you did an
00:34:03
impression it didn't I didn't like any Impressions that were so dead on that
00:34:08
you were like after five minutes you're bored of it you would do a take of somebody and that was way more
00:34:17
entertaining than somebody to me nailing it you would do a funny take a Twist on
00:34:23
the character that made it so much fun to watch over and over and over again and then when Dennis said
00:34:29
you've got commitment like Harvey I tell you I I know I cried because first of
00:34:36
all he has and then I started saying to him you don't know the off-white album
00:34:41
and then I started quoting it and you know I think he was like oh that's nice
00:34:44
that's nice wait a minute what and I was quoting it quoting it quoting it that's
00:34:49
exactly how if he I people ask me what do you say to a celebrity and I said find something very specific to say to
00:34:56
them besides and that you know Dana is what I learned about um doing when when Lauren the best thing
00:35:03
that he ever did was make me do Barbara Walters because I remember I kept saying
00:35:09
no I don't do Impressions I don't do Impressions and then when I knew I didn't have a choice I started
00:35:15
um listening and watching her over and over again and not just her Cadence in the way she
00:35:22
spoke but she had a Style and what she would always do is when she would interview people she would give them
00:35:26
three specific compliments specific because when you're specific a person feels heard it's not just you're so
00:35:36
talented yeah it is when you did this when you did that and then all of a sudden that person opens up they feel
00:35:44
safe they feel respected and seen and then she can go into now why the porn so um but she just knew how to make
00:35:55
somebody lay on their back and expose their stomachs so that she could go in and kick him in the nuts
00:36:02
yeah always looking for that angle and to get them to cry it's like a dog let me pet your belly oh
00:36:09
look at that belly look at that belly in the nuts nutshot how how were you just for a second about
00:36:19
you know having a thick skin and by the way everything is said about me is greatly appreciated that's so sweet and
00:36:24
I want to go down a list of your characters which are brilliant and intense um but how were you because we talked to
00:36:31
other cast members and they really had to battle their nerves when they first came in just just panic attacks drenches
00:36:38
how were you that first season um in terms of fighting that fear no no the first season I thought was great
00:36:46
because we all came in at the same time I mean you remember NBC did a clean sweep yeah and it was just David that
00:36:53
they kept and norm and uh yeah I mean they did a clean sweep and I think Steve corn was a writer that they
00:37:02
kept yeah um so everybody came in at the same time and there was this appreciation and
00:37:09
energy and we just all hit the ground running there wasn't anybody that was sitting around intimidating you know and
00:37:17
wonder if you're gonna take their spot or anything you know what I mean it was
00:37:22
just like you just we all came in appreciative and so my first year was not difficult I
00:37:30
just kept doing what I did at the Groundlings and Sherry wasn't it kind of like you were all the starting blocks
00:37:36
together instead of yeah like I came in and Mike Myers is already way ahead of me Dana's way up there so you're really
00:37:42
just trying to we were starting first grade at the same time yeah that's cool
00:37:46
yeah that does create a different vibe I had that with Phil and Jan and it was a
00:37:51
beautiful Vibe it was like we were wide-eyed and so appreciative and all nervous we didn't know to be scared we
00:37:58
were nervous we learned later to be scared foreign remember this but it was I remember
00:38:16
saying to Molly I go you remind me of a young Anne Miller and then I said oh yeah I remember this sketch I remember
00:38:22
her doing Ann Miller yeah yeah and then and then she's like I go and cable had
00:38:27
just started coming out people doing cable shows and I'm like wouldn't be
00:38:30
funny if we had these two older you know women who now have a cable show but they
00:38:35
still had that same mentality of when they were in you know and uh you were Debbie Reynolds maybe right that was
00:38:40
Debbie Reynolds it was called leg up and it was on the very first show and it did
00:38:45
I remember Lauren calling me into his office and go Sherry what demographic are you going for
00:38:54
and I'm just like we're trying to get younger viewers yeah and I and I go I
00:39:01
I didn't think about that like I never thought about you think of the funny first yeah and I go funny I have a
00:39:09
feeling that even if they don't know who they are they still might like it no a
00:39:14
thousand percent it's just clueless people going for it and being selfish and then we were on the cover of like
00:39:20
Washington Post or something like that oh really as those two characters uh-huh and um and then I really thought I
00:39:28
remember Daryl Hammond saying the the the the the gay community in Hell's Kitchen love you guys like they were
00:39:36
loving I think like our whatever we thought was funny I think it was connecting with
00:39:45
um the gay community and they are a tough audience and they're an appreciative audience you
00:39:52
know what I mean oh yeah they had a struggle and you know it's kind of like they've got a sense of humor they have a
00:40:00
sense of humor because of their struggle and um it's like whenever you know I
00:40:05
love it when when when gay guys would come out to me and they always say the same thing they never say the
00:40:10
cheerleader or anything they always say the prescription drug lady oh that was hysterical oh yeah that was the intense
00:40:17
that character yeah and I and like you know you have people in your family that you do a take of it's not
00:40:24
exact and I had an Irish Nana that would uh was taking prescription drugs like all day everything and back then they
00:40:34
were in a Bejeweled box you know you didn't hide your pills yeah you presented them it was like a Faberge egg
00:40:45
I would say nana could I hold your your pillbox because it was so Bejeweled and beautiful all right be careful and then
00:40:53
we would play a game of what each pill did and I go this is for sleep this is for Pep
00:40:59
um speed was just pep um this is for you know underselling it a bit but yeah yeah there we go and this
00:41:07
is what I could never think of what it was and she goes water weight water weight
00:41:12
Waterway and she goes and the doctor says that's all this is all this is and then back in the 70s
00:41:20
when someone got high at your house your only job was to walk them to the car and I remember my mom saying and she
00:41:28
would have have beer she'd be drinking beer while she was you know yeah and then she would go uh my nana would say
00:41:36
I'm leaving no one's paying attention to me so I would go upstairs and I go Mommy
00:41:40
Nana's leaving she said no one's paying attention to her and she goes all right
00:41:44
um we'll walk into the car and I go mommy she goes what I go should nana be driving and she goes don't be fresh just
00:41:51
go walk her to the car whenever you said as a kid anything that made sense it made sense that made your
00:41:59
parents responsible for their actions don't be fresh and I'm like watch your
00:42:04
mouth I didn't think I was being disrespectful and I would literally she'd be hanging on me as if I was a
00:42:11
walker and I'd put her in the car and I'm just thinking to myself I don't know
00:42:15
why this feels so wrong let's get those hands on the wheel and you put her hands
00:42:19
on the wheel let's start your car and she already came with it half on the curb half off she was already High when
00:42:24
she got there and so I just thought to myself I remember my mom getting a phone call one day what do you mean she
00:42:31
wrapped it around a tree that's impossible my seven-year-old walked her it's real was this on Saturday Night
00:42:39
Live this is so [ __ ] funny the Sherry's dead pan delivery of these is the funniest part of the whole thing
00:42:47
[Music] no but I think uh like all those all those things stuck in my head because
00:42:55
you think why am I thinking this why am I not just going along with everything looks normal because by when people are
00:43:03
drunk or screwed up when I grew up no one I didn't know what it was you know
00:43:08
so you just think they're being weird or goofy or funny it was crazy uncle so and
00:43:12
so when people were drunk or alcoholics when we were kids they were just called crazy whoever oh crazy uncle Joe's
00:43:18
coming over oh crazy uncle uncle Quaaludes is coming when you come out of your room at night
00:43:25
and you would see that they form them and their friends have formed a dance Rumba train and they're just utterly
00:43:31
smashed they look just like fun that's when they were gone and that's when every older
00:43:37
woman peed when she laughed because the dance run the train no that was my I remember my Nana she peed when she
00:43:44
laughed and it was like great like I just thought to myself so she's wets herself she's stumbly and slurry and
00:43:51
you're just guiding her to a 2 000 pound automobile full of yeah but it was all
00:43:55
water weight Dana it was always hysterical water weight is so funny so when my mom took those pills to water
00:44:02
weight pills now now it seems like you had to find comedy after hearing your these stories
00:44:08
and your childhood it's just like you it was it seems like destiny that you would
00:44:13
be a comedian I was by myself a lot I have friends and create and I was just using my imagination to
00:44:26
kind of you know um fill up what wasn't there that's kind of like what Robin Williams says he used to do
00:44:34
it was just in the Attic with toys playing and stuff as an only child you had I did that my mom was uh at work all
00:44:40
day and my dad was not around but I remember a lot of kids have that imagination
00:44:45
where you're just making up things and doing things and just trying to kill time and it's fun it's kind of fun it's
00:44:51
not really sad it's fun it's not sad I mean I I knew I was really lonely as a
00:44:56
kid you know and spent a lot of time alone and and I just made the best of it it's got like I would wake up oh it's
00:45:03
the Sherry oterry show you know um no it was sad I'm gonna counter that it wasn't
00:45:12
well we we didn't know we were Saturn we didn't know we were anxious we we didn't
00:45:17
have a name for it like depression or anxiety right I would make myself laugh I would make myself cry
00:45:23
and it was just kind of like I really had my own network I wonder if I'm going to play a drama or
00:45:31
a comedy today you know what I like is that first of all in your in your Google if you look at anything about in
00:45:38
Wikipedia it says Sherry often plays characters or upbeat perky or hyper I'm
00:45:44
like that's fair but um I I think when you say let's say you're a kid and
00:45:49
you're doing these like uh just flat soap opera character they're very real just very present and
00:45:58
quiet and subdued that's interesting you do that and then you can also play characters where it's exaggerated and
00:46:04
funny like and you also say you said you play characters like it's always kind of
00:46:08
based on someone you know and then you just like my brother I used to do something and he goes everyone makes fun
00:46:14
of me because you said I was like that I go all I need is two percent of an idea
00:46:18
and then I just make it I just go as far as I can with it to make it funny and any character that is would someone
00:46:24
would find offensive the great thing is that the person never knows it's them oh
00:46:28
yeah that's true because yeah that it's so ridiculous to make it funny like you said it's kind of like
00:46:35
the Italian woman on the porch I kind of got like a little bit of of my grandma from when I was a kid but she was never
00:46:42
she was always the nice one on the porch like um uh she was very very nice and then I
00:46:48
did my nana very uh nice but she was wasn't very nice all right you're right
00:46:53
yeah right it's kind of like um when you pick and choose and do like a a research paper of a few people and
00:47:00
make the funniest parts of each one exactly and and and the kind of the parts that the audience I think will
00:47:06
will take to you know what I mean you don't want to turn anybody off or depress anybody and I always think to
00:47:12
myself I think I did Carrick serves that never knew how bad off they had it yeah
00:47:16
that's a good way to put it there's an optimism because it's like they have no
00:47:21
idea like you know that they were rejected kind of tragically like Adele which I watched this morning the sex
00:47:28
office flirt or the sex worker flirtation woman was kind of fits that yeah she does not
00:47:35
sense even a monochum of Rejection it was pretty it was pretty wild I mean you just wonder sometimes can these could
00:47:43
that be done today that character just for the per you know just because it was it was intense I
00:47:50
mean but it's so red ridiculous that I think and being a woman makes it I think
00:47:56
a little easier for the audience to digest because when I remember I said it to Chris Parnell for like two years I go
00:48:04
Chris yeah you know you should do this character because Chris was so sweet and and but boy did
00:48:14
he do innuendo like I'd be like Chris uh can you hand me a pencil oh I'll hand
00:48:19
you a pencil and I'm like jeez Chris like you can find sex anywhere and anything and I just it just made me
00:48:27
always think of that because he was a very serious nice uh wonderful and yet he had that side of him that wasn't even
00:48:36
offensive or salacious it was just you just noticed it and you just kind of like pretended
00:48:43
you you know okay uh that that caught me off guard but and then I thought to myself wouldn't it be funny if then
00:48:51
because when the person doesn't react to innuendo or a sexual thing then you
00:48:56
explain it to him as if that's why they didn't react to it no I didn't react to
00:49:01
it because I wanted it I wanted you to stop I didn't want to encourage it out that oh okay you didn't understand
00:49:09
let me explain it to you I'd like to wrap my hands around yeah this pencil is like a penis yes
00:49:17
and it was forward thinking because Sherry you did uh Dana yeah I used to be on a show called just shoot me while you
00:49:24
were out you know doing whatever you were doing I did a guest spot oh that's
00:49:28
right you didn't get it I didn't get an Emmy nomination like someone I know oh
00:49:33
boy we have two just shoot me scores I mean talk about coming and score uh Sherry and Dana and Dana you should have
00:49:44
um and sure you did Sherry was better but tell everybody you were the assistant you were an assistant to was
00:49:49
it Maya uh yes and um uh you know she she was awful but um I gotta tell you that experience to
00:49:59
me when I did that show I just thought to myself oh my God this this is a cakewalk like I just thought that was
00:50:08
the first sitcom I did and I was just like my God no matter what you're gonna
00:50:13
be written for yeah that's what I thought when I got there yeah I mean no matter what you're not gonna get cut
00:50:19
at the end of the week no matter what you know like you come in at 10 and you leave at three what in the world I know
00:50:27
like this is heaven and then it's like Miss Oteri what would you like in your
00:50:31
arm like get the [ __ ] away from me like I'm like what's your angle what's your
00:50:35
plane what do you want yeah yeah I'm telling you Sherry that was when I got there and I I just come from the hardest
00:50:42
place like you did and then everyone's pulling for you and going do you have
00:50:46
enough jokes today I'm like are you writing for me and then and then they go
00:50:49
if you want to add jokes so they're giving me jokes and then saying add some
00:50:53
if you want and it's just it was a very nice feel not that Saturday was it Saturday Night Live is what it is but
00:51:00
then you go and you go oh I just got through boot camp and this is easier like you just can't believe that you're
00:51:06
being written for yeah you can't believe it like you know it was too when I got
00:51:12
hired when Lauren said we'd want you to continue writing I felt so flattered I
00:51:18
was like so honored and flattered you know and uh what I didn't realize was like oh no no no no honey you have to
00:51:26
write if you want to be on the show yeah were you a writer performer I was a feature player writer what were you when
00:51:32
you came on better performer and you had a writer's credit as well no no no I
00:51:37
didn't get a credit Dana didn't either I'm not bitter oh and honey doing my
00:51:42
best of DVD where I don't make a scent off of it you know and I but you wrote
00:51:47
Every sketch yeah but I did get to um I'm sure there was other sketches written by other people uh but you know
00:51:55
it's predominantly stuff that I I wrote and I just thought to myself wow um I wanted to be a part of it you know
00:52:05
but um yeah you don't someone's like oh I'm gonna buy a few of your CC's I go oh
00:52:10
no no just buy one uh I don't make any money off of it you know you sign that away when you get
00:52:17
the job sure I was a writer I didn't make a lot but it pays dividends later down the line plus you're you're known
00:52:23
as a writer I thought that was a very proud moment to be a writer performer but I didn't really want to write I knew
00:52:29
I'm gonna write for myself no matter what like Dana like you uh it was nice I
00:52:33
got a little extra I didn't get much to be on so right and I was not cast very
00:52:38
much at all either you know uh I was not cast I wasn't cast in the ground links I
00:52:44
wasn't cast in SNL and you know and that trouble for me being cast follows me and
00:52:51
so that's why it's like wait a minute why am I treating life outside the
00:52:54
growling's in SNL any different than it was within I have to write for myself
00:52:59
yeah you know for whatever reason I'm not really uh cast maybe because I did a lot of characters
00:53:09
I don't know well you know you did something in grown-ups too and then we were just talking this morning how it
00:53:14
was you had a Barrette in here you had a crush on Sandler's character is that
00:53:17
what it was yeah and from high school and then you'd show up and you were obsessed with them kind of still yeah
00:53:22
and and that was like something that might have been a little flatter with someone else but you brought a lot to it
00:53:30
and probably added to it just the way you performed it it was it jumps out thank you well I will say okay it was
00:53:35
already on the page you know and um maybe because they knew it was you it's easier to you know for
00:53:42
that three times oh you did they didn't know it was me listen to me so jaded they didn't know
00:53:48
it was me they didn't know they didn't know who they that's crazy well and you
00:53:52
and you that was a Dana part of the funny part was I think she had a Barrette in her hair she ran into
00:53:57
Sandler at the store was he with his wife uh no Steve Buscemi and she's kind of hitting on Adam
00:54:07
because reliving that they used to date and yeah as if and there there I am being another
00:54:13
actor that has yeah and and he gave you a Barrette or something when you were you were little
00:54:20
and you still have it and you wear it and I still wear it yeah and he doesn't
00:54:24
remember it was great anyway I love that I like uh just shoot me I have one other
00:54:30
question now listen when you met Lauren the first time did you have to wait when
00:54:35
you go in that office yeah I believe no matter if you're five hours early you're
00:54:40
gonna have to wait whenever an appointment is made um because I remember I remember Marcy
00:54:46
saying Sherry I think you should why and she goes you have to get to know him better so you got to know each other
00:54:56
and I go God that sounds yeah because but you're intimidated you know and yeah um and if you don't know
00:55:02
what to say you don't want to waste his time and so I would go okay so I go to
00:55:08
Lyle hey Lyle I'm gonna make an appointment with Lauren okay weeks two weeks and I go
00:55:18
um he's but I didn't I'm like wait a minute he's here every night uh and I go
00:55:24
okay all right two weeks it is and then two weeks goes by and now I'm getting a
00:55:30
little more scared and scared you know what I mean because it's building up you
00:55:33
could have just walked in the room and gone hey Lauren how's it going right but
00:55:35
it wasn't presented to me like that and I was nervous and intimidated and then
00:55:40
it's time for our meeting and I wait for two hours outside his office then I'm a wreck I'm like two weeks now
00:55:49
I'm waiting two hours this wasn't even a meaning that it was my idea by the way
00:55:53
he probably doesn't even know you haven't what the meeting's about either
00:55:56
no and then finally when I get in there I'm like I just didn't understand I thought maybe
00:56:04
you wanted to meet with me and and but he didn't and I didn't so there was a
00:56:10
lot of dead air and then he goes um sure you're the writer's writing for you I go
00:56:14
yeah not too much well you'll do used to bake cookies if that helps and I'm like
00:56:19
it doesn't but uh maybe I can get [ __ ] I'm not a baker you said that to him no that was just me
00:56:27
in my head I wish I would have had that sense of humor I was too scared to have a sense of humor something like a
00:56:32
macadamia nut would be Al Franken would eat the whole plate so go ahead but I was just when I left the and I'm
00:56:41
just thinking to myself I feel like I just got kicked in the butt by Marcy like you just he never wanted to meet with me
00:56:50
maybe she was trying to help you by going if you guys talked but it turned into a whole thing and it turned to a
00:56:55
whole disaster yeah two weeks later two hours later and I'm like walking in with
00:56:59
my leg shaking I was like my knees were knocking and I had nothing prepared he walked out going Lauren wants me to
00:57:05
learn decoupage [Laughter] this and I thought what do you get Lauren and I remember getting him I
00:57:15
would really really think about what I would get him and then one time I got him a how to uh jungle kit
00:57:22
because it cracked me up it made me laugh and so after I would always go Lauren um how's the juggling going
00:57:33
um is it is it getting easier or are you getting the hang of it as if he ever opened the box and it would just make me
00:57:40
laugh and it made it made him laugh I think no I think that's very funny the
00:57:46
trick is starting with one ball and just going up and down first you know what I
00:57:50
do I lose trim and then I use tennis balls and then it just it's all sure maybe next Christmas a fire eating kit
00:57:58
would be nice maybe a magic set um I did get him one of those old-fashioned candy machines you know
00:58:06
that with the red uh you put a quarter in oh yeah and it was all flagella Jelly Bellies I bought it and then I just
00:58:12
filled it with Jelly Bellies because I know we like those you know but I was always trying to think of something that
00:58:17
you know what do you get somebody who waiting two hours and two weeks this is wonderful Marcy can you put it in your
00:58:26
trunk that's what I need you could have got it for David because of the the glycemic
00:58:32
thing ah I need juice I need juice I was falling down right and left it was we found it later with stress related
00:58:39
anyway um they couldn't trace it back to anything any shows you're working on I'm like I
00:58:46
can't think of anything off top my head um all right well anything left for Sherry she's been hilarious my question
00:58:52
is just how did you feel on the show when you had the morning latte talk show with will you had cheerleaders there was
00:59:00
a a period in your five years where you were like everyone was talking about you
00:59:04
I'll just say you know shario Terry have you seen her she she's you know so funny
00:59:09
but so did you get a little more relaxed during that time or did people start to
00:59:12
write for you a little more because there you did you had a lot of hits never mom
00:59:18
I mean once in a while I got lucky like with the view I didn't write the view
00:59:24
um but uh and I was always hey do you want to know something funny um I just got asked I just got asked and
00:59:32
this is something I did not write I was asked to do and I was so scared to do it
00:59:37
um I don't know I think Tina wrote it or something but um they're doing a documentary on um
00:59:42
robin bird oh wow the the late night porn talk show host in New York cup yes yeah Public Access yeah I just remember
00:59:52
thinking to myself I'm watching you see a talk show you see this and you know a rerun of a Urkel or
01:00:00
whatever the news and then that channel would pop up and I'm like is this allowed like this was wild to me right
01:00:08
that was New York TV or something because I was shocked midnight I want two in the morning or something yeah and
01:00:13
I just remember thinking to myself this is wild and they asked me to do it and I'm like I'm not wearing them
01:00:20
a crocheted bikini that's not gonna happen so I cheated and wore bike shorts
01:00:26
with a crochet top with the boobs already in it and um yeah so I was just asked they're doing a
01:00:34
documentary and I was like yes I'd love to because I did meet her and um wow yes
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yeah it was pretty pretty cool but uh I would say um yeah that's something I
01:00:44
didn't write and uh I was like okay that's pretty cool and morning latte I
01:00:49
just one summer I just watched Every Morning Show and I wanted to do a talk show so bad but I didn't know what the
01:00:56
hook would be and I just that was my favorite sketch to do it was morning latte not that it was like you know the
01:01:02
biggest hit or anything but because I loved playing these ill-informed confident characters like so still
01:01:09
informed yet they it doesn't throw them off at all cocky idiots yeah cocky idiots is always a great area to be but
01:01:20
I don't even think they were cocky there is an innocence about them and um you know will and I had that same kind
01:01:29
of sense of humor and it's that optimism you know under you know just completely
01:01:35
ridiculous circumstances of being ill-informed or rejected yeah you both play that perfectly
01:01:41
wow so is your TV on Sherry I'm sorry can I go turn it off right now God damn
01:01:46
it so let's go back 15 minutes so when you first got to the ground Lanes we'll just
01:01:52
redo that I'm kidding I was fine it's fine they got magic they could take
01:01:56
anything out stereo Terry you're so pretty everybody loves us is The Pick of
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Saturday Night Live the characters were crazy [Music] you know what I I want to say one thing
01:02:14
that hit me like a ton of bricks and I guess it was just right before the pandemic I'm watching Anderson Cooper
01:02:20
and that you know New Year's Eve show and then you come out as Barbara Walters
01:02:24
and literally dismantle the this the podium I mean it was so [ __ ] funny did you write that or it was just went
01:02:31
on and on and on God that was funny I wrote I did write it because I had gotten so used to and what I love about
01:02:38
you know the the age range of of us and Anderson Cooper and and is there and Andy Cohen is there's a Nostalgia that
01:02:49
they just love and what I loved about doing Barbara Walters was there's Nostalgia just within her for decades
01:02:56
and decades yet she's got to talk about what's currently going on yes I did that
01:03:01
I did that two years in a row and it was fun because I really had to think of okay
01:03:05
what is the recap of what happened this past year what what might she talk about
01:03:10
but then she always has to drop in who she thinks is impressive you know I was on a you know with um you know and I
01:03:18
always loved saying you know uh uh Grill Master George Foreman uh real master you know uh
01:03:27
Madeline Albright uh and then like you know who she thinks it and that I just love doing um uh Bond a bombshell Lonnie
01:03:37
Green and you know and funny man shecky green and we were all because you always
01:03:42
just think about you know who she hangs out with and she always named jobs political Sports and pop culture and
01:03:48
actors and then um but then when they asked me to do it this past time I go I can't do Barbara Walters
01:03:55
again I got to be myself but that was so scary so what I did was yeah they introduced you and you were a hologram
01:04:02
or what was it I mean no no I was live this last year I wrote something to be pre-taped because I didn't think they
01:04:08
were gonna okay you know I didn't want to fly and in New York it was it was the
01:04:13
worst part of the pandemic I would say but um so I had these crocheted I don't
01:04:19
know if you guys remember this in the 70s they were like crocheted dolls that you put over toilet paper rolls spare
01:04:26
and toilet paper rolls so if my friend's mother made a shitload of them in the
01:04:31
70s and they were all pretty and she gave me some and I'm just thinking to myself as if I'm gonna you know put
01:04:37
these out and I just thought to myself wouldn't it be funny like if I'm trying
01:04:41
to bring back the crochet toilet paper cozy and each one of them has a story and each story was something that
01:04:50
happened this past year you know what I mean like I had uh uh canceled Carmen I had uh Christmas Karen I had
01:04:57
Insurrection Irene um and uh baroness baroness Becky you know covering the whole royal thing of
01:05:05
of the past year and it was so much fun to do but I did it as a pre-tape because I had all these props
01:05:14
and I'm like that Podium up there is like eight feet by four feet well you can also control a little better and you
01:05:20
can do a few takes you can get it nail it perfectly or whatever yeah but we didn't have like we didn't get to
01:05:26
rehearse it I rehearsed it once oh you did it wait you did it live but you were home no no no I I I prepared I thought I
01:05:34
was going to be able to pre-tape it and then they said to me like two weeks before I had already written
01:05:40
Sherry the boys want you there live and I go oh I can't do this live it's it's
01:05:44
props and this and that no they want you live uh can't do it live and I go I've
01:05:49
got an actual toilet tank in this and you know and then they go we'll provide
01:05:54
you with a toilet tank I'm like [ __ ] so they did I had a toilet tank on that
01:06:00
thing it was but you know it was really it was fun it was fun it's really nice
01:06:07
of those guys to kind of like give me that platform to be creative because you know you do miss that about SNL it's
01:06:14
like your mind can go anywhere right you dream of I don't mean to sound like a
01:06:19
kid in Disneyland but it's like I never limited myself to what my mind would
01:06:24
think you know it was shocking to go I thought of the stupid sketch Tuesday I'm
01:06:31
sitting with the art department on Thursday and they're designing this dumb thing I thought of and they're like so
01:06:36
serious going we'll make it perfectly like this we'll bring this in we can get
01:06:40
it from new Jersey I'm like for this stupid okay it's it's unbelievable
01:06:45
unbelievable I'm going down to uh to approve my actual house you know the the um Italian
01:06:53
lady on the porch and it was the exterior of a full house and I was so in awe and overwhelmed that my what I
01:07:04
thought of has been built and Keith there's someone who's like hey is this
01:07:08
your vision is this what this is kind of what we thought from reading it you're
01:07:11
like no and they'll tweak anything for you they were amazing I mean we had the
01:07:16
most talented people behind the scenes and even like when we would do uh the wigs
01:07:22
the wigs were always so funny when we Molly and I did leg up I'll never forget
01:07:27
we had this joke because our wigs got bigger each time we did it and then we did it to a point where we were crying
01:07:34
we were laughing so hard our wigs were so huge you know and it was appropriate too for those characters but not that
01:07:40
huge each time they got bigger and bigger and bigger until Lauren said uh the wigs are co-starring
01:07:46
[Laughter] it's just a thing of like we really want to see the character not just hair on
01:07:55
Jerry's five foot eight with her wig could we please visit the wig sketch now
01:08:02
all right thank you Sherry and thank you you're the greatest score machine to understand you we never got to have
01:08:12
dinner together or hang out but I I you're so observant about your characters and that's what makes you a
01:08:18
great writer and you tease you tease everything out so yeah we're like you know sister brother from another mother
01:08:24
so just appreciate you girl all right I love you guys bye Sherry love you guys love you love you David miss you miss
01:08:31
you Dana hey what's up flies what's up please what's up people that listen we want to
01:08:37
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at cadence13.com now one more question and then we get Danny gets to eat one of his four protein bars I brought one I
01:08:55
feel sick why are you these are just candy bars health bars this is not something you should eat too much of
01:09:00
this we're gonna talk later we're gonna talk later may cause diarrhea in an hour
01:09:04
but for sure will in two hours I would like you to write down what you eat in a given week and let's get that GI problem
01:09:11
you have you have a lower GI problem I Do by looking at you why and you need a liquid IV well look at your posture all
01:09:19
pent up in there you've got a little Pooch come on let's talk later what are
01:09:23
we talking about look I'm a health nut what I want to help you I don't look bad am I Jesus
01:09:30
Christ I'm joking I'm a comedian how do I get the elevator ready [Music]
01:09:45
[Music] my life okay we have a question from uh Charlotte Mars hi boys Charlotte Moss
01:09:55
hello uh while you're a dessert for the eyes you're a tall drink of water I'm
01:10:00
Charlotte moss and I have a question for you boys go ahead David she says hi boys
01:10:04
if you had to swap places with each other and star in another in one of the others movies
01:10:08
which would you pick Charlotte from England from England people are God I wouldn't have worn this
01:10:16
goofy hat if I knew we were over in Europe well you know if you'd like to do a
01:10:22
character in the movie if they fish what would it be is that had all the rage why
01:10:28
do you wear costumes You Look Silly you're never gonna get a lust to fancy you I would probably steal Dana and I
01:10:36
know I've it's a perfect swap okay what do we do you would do Garth because you
01:10:40
wouldn't even need to wear a wig you had the long blonde hair and boyish face can
01:10:44
I see the can I see the teeth say party on Wayne and I would do Joe Dirt oh you want Joe
01:10:53
Dirt yeah hey I'm Joe Dirt yeah you ever [ __ ] a pig hey well I don't know if you
01:10:59
saw it it's not exactly it's um look if it gets a laugh in the room because it's not expected hey little
01:11:06
Squealer come here come on no I I do red rednecky the redneck comedian but I would I would substitute
01:11:12
Joe Dirt yeah you know we do your catchphrase when we golf red red neki the redneck in the world's
01:11:18
worst redneck comedian you ever crap so big you don't know gonna get down that
01:11:22
turret come and get some yeah if you ever fart so loud you got a dog two stayed away ago would that come on
01:11:31
you make a putt you go come on give you something we go come and get us home how
01:11:35
do I make t-shirts that's that's my best catchphrase I seriously think come and
01:11:39
get something positive it's not negative like Joe dirt's catchphrase how would you say it well
01:11:48
come on he would say what's happening witchcraft kind of like what's crapping
01:11:52
God I can't remember it sounds it's a little almost Southern almost right yeah
01:11:58
I want to go I'm trying I'm Joe Dirt I'd like to go meet my mama joder it's a
01:12:03
nice guy joder's a little Forest gumpy but what was how Southern was it was it
01:12:07
sort of subtle yeah it wasn't super deep but it was kind of like man this girl's
01:12:12
might be your sister you can't honestly was that guy he's a little Casey casem
01:12:16
I'm looking for my mama and my daddy my name's Joe Dirt yeah you know which way
01:12:20
I should go I already went that way are you [ __ ] with me all the time I get too stupid
01:12:26
which way is the dirt road I'm not doing the crypto character called dummy dirt
01:12:30
hey I gotta take a crap where how do I do it I'm dummy dirt can you put your
01:12:36
finger in my bunghole get one get going I went hitchhiking that thing I knew my phone was in my friend's bunghole does
01:12:43
that mean I like failures no thanks for just giving away the whole sequel well that's it so thank you blue and
01:12:51
Glenn for for getting us letting us ruin our reputations just like to say we gotta start up our nuclear power
01:12:59
Michael okay this end of this podcast she's not very special the Hat's too
01:13:05
funny it doesn't make any sense he's changing his cold Stoops every two questions I hope things go to crap I I
01:13:13
wouldn't listen to it another time I fall with you and a fly on the wall is not what it's about I'm Michael Kane I'm
01:13:21
a hundred and eleven are you still around of course is he yeah he is he's good
01:13:27
why are you offering me a movie it's a yes [Laughter] okay thanks for coming guys thank you I
01:13:35
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