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up next today we've got Fortune fster who I have called fster and one of them is wrong I'm not
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tell which one I know and I've called her Fon fster I've called her fart I did it as you Bren fum fum our
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people worship you fum she's really fun we've done a lot of stuff together she
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was as David would say a blast yeah she's a blast she's lighting her feet
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laughs the whole time we talk about a lot about standup we talk about closing bits how you decide on a closer that's
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sort of inside baseball but people like that we talk about butt massages I think
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we did a she told a very uh funny story about butt massages and there's a twist
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ending so stay tuned for that but uh never see it coming never she was full of fun and joy we talk about naming our
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comedy specials you know we all we talk to each of us the arduous process of a name that no
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one's going to remember anyway uh naming tours all that yes and the process of
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building a new hour she's one of those people again that makes you a little bit
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like whoa just can really get kind of a new hour in a period of a few weeks new hour of standup is very hard very hard
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for most stand-ups uh she's very quick she writes fast and she grinds it she's
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on the road grinding it like Nikki Glazer they're all out there grinding Nate these people are doing like a 100
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dates a year it's unreal um but uh anyway here she is I hope you enjoyed we had a really really good time with her
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here's Fortune just she's she's adorable here she is Fortune [Music]
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beamster is Fortune here yes what was your nickname like I we're going right
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at it cuz Fortune is such a great name so nice to have you and thanks for coming
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we are not smartless they're the Borg We Are The Little Engine That Could ni nice
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to meet you I'm just curious right because I saw your name in print Fortune like hey fortune cookie I mean what was
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it what did they do with that because that's such a cool name yes my family was big on fortune cookies um that was
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no um my my it's an old family name my um grandmother's um Mom it's her made a
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name so there's a bunch of Fortunes in my family with the last name Fortune oh and is that French
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um for I don't know I don't know it was kind of a nod to my grandmother I um
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it's technically my middle name um but it's what I started to go by it's such a
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good Showbiz name and you know if you do a special your next one maybe you call it Fortune 500 minutes of Comedy that's
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too you called fortune cookie and you make cookies while you do your stand up that would be good although 500 minutes
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I would need a lot more minutes it feels long yeah yeah I might lo I might lose some
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viewers people jump off after about eight minutes of a special I think I read that if someone says to me one more
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time you got to drop into the algorithm you got to make piece with the algorithm
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[ __ ] algo guys I'm so [ __ ] about the algorithm we living with an algorithm and I don't know yeah how are
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you trending what's your numbers like feel feeling good oh yeah I'm always
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trending you're always shaking the tree that's right this tree right here is
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that is that an office that looks kind of like you look sort of like you're on
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a patio and you're outside um no it's just a corner of my office it's kind of
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cool because you have like boards instead of just well this is I don't know this is like the trend now in
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houses is to make a wall I don't know have text look outdoor oh textured wall
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a textured wall it's not like Spades with the with the skateboards Shrine if someone says
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texture texture to me again I'm gonna blow my top no I'm kidding about algorithm is my number one hate
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hateful word I don't really understand algorithms and why they because you're
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not a computer they're like this is what we like this and people like be your algo I
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go I'm trying but I don't know what that means the algo is mad the algo is
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mad like don't post too much it's not good for the algorithm and then the
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other sites are like you're not posting enough the algorithm is mad you're like
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oh my God and don't delete one if you delete one the algo goes back to zero and you have to win it over again
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really oh see there another one is people say to me is don't look thirsty don't look too thirsty don't do a by
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line on a clip that looks like you're kind of looking for clicks it has to not
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look too thirsty is that the correct use of that David could you say thirsty a lot looks a little thirsty don't look
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thirsty I want to see Dana start posting thirst traps yeah Dana with his shirt off working out in
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the want let's just put it this way you saw the golden Bachelorette I lived it yeah that
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doesn't make sense but it sounds funny I'm doing two thumb pointing to me no
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I'm I'm in good shape for the shape I'm in um yeah it's everything's
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everything's fine it's working uh don't Wikipedia my name Fortune Fortune you have a professional
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microphone is that part of the podcast situation you you have right now yes you have a your podcast you want to promote
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it don't you have one yeah I have a podcast called handsome with tign nataro
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myself and that's right I've seen that in the top 10 I mean you guys are a hit right
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yeah it's crazy we're about six six and a half months in 8 million downloads we're just being silly and
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laughing and it's hard not to look at those charts I know so you're looking at
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what six months 8 million downloads was that like 7 750 a month or what is that what's the algorithm well I used to be a
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CPA I just like numbers I'm not going numbers but yeah it's you're doing fine
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it's really fun we have somebody ask us question it kind of leads um what the
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podcast is going to be about and it's us just being ridiculous for an hour is
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that how it works that you have a question and you run off that yeah you do you mind if we borrow that idea for
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our our other podcast bad hook because we're fresh out of bullets so thank you
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let me write that down you just changed my life listen the clip's been empty for
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a while Dana let's be honest take a question and do an hour of witty give us
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an example of something you guys are doing more than fine this podcast is always up there on the charts baby right
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jeez I can't look cuz I'm too sensitive we are up there huh yeah I don't I don't
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look at anything I love you guys together this is a great combo you what what give us an example
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of like a question that you could jump off on um oh God just something bag or is it advice um like Reese Witherspoon
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ask us like U what was your favorite holiday gift and okay um so we did that at Christmas Cole bear asked us like um
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do you have any woooo beliefs um oh you're asking celebrities not just fans yeah we know
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just anyone asking a question we don't want to get ahead of ourselves but what
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question would you ask our uh podcast the super light if you were going to ask a question not saying we're going to use
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this but right what would what would it be well because you guys come from rarified air I would ask some sort of
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SNL question I would be like you know what was your what was the hardest part of working on SNL or something like that
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some inside baseball thing oh yeah we get to inside actually we're talking about every meeting and every office in
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that 17th Floor we have dissected we have we have 150 hours of minutia well the meetings are on Monday with the host
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you know the rest of it did you ever have a a thing about SNL being a cast member or oh yeah that was like my North
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Star forever I I um grew up watching I watched both of you guys huge huge fan of both of you and well isn't that
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special I mean come on church lady was a part a big part of my childhood and doing doing your Dance I mean you
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Superior dance yeah one with the elbows up I don't know where it came from I
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heard Steve Martin when he was on the show when I was doing the readr I heard him say under his breath what kind of
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mind thinks of this because it was like your bulbas buttocks are thring you're not you know but um
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y'all were my guys I mean Wayne's World Spade telling people bubye I mean it was
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all of it so my I'm from a Tiny Town in North Carolina so that was my only access to Comedy and I would watch the
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sketches I would record them on my VCR and then I would go to like softball or tennis practice and sort of recite these
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sketches for people um and then I ended up testing twice for SNL um 2009 2010 didn't test positive I did not test
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positive it was a cool experience though we get people on who have that experience and then I always say God
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there's so many inputs to being at the right place the right time it's not an
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out outright rejection at all it's literally people in the room going oh Fortune was really funny and your cards
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on the board yeah but Al also Barbara was great or or bill whatever it is so do do you did you feel hurt by not
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getting it were you close or what did you think um I mean obviously that had been the dream for so long that not
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getting it was so disappointing but I just now that I'm at the place I'm at in
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my life I can see why it didn't work out and I've weirdly enough gone to on to
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work with so many SNL people um even doing Keenan sitcom I worked with Lauren he was
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that means they loved you from the audition and remembered you I was pretty green I mean I was in advanc at the
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Groundlings when my first audition happened so I hadn't even gotten experience yet of Sunday company and
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doing sketches every week um I feel like I might have auditioned maybe two years
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before I was really no hard feelings fist bump I would say the your because I saw your special and I would say there's
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that kind there's a likeability thing that happens with certain performers I
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mean I can see it when I look at certain people like Steve Carell or whatever and
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and you you do have that oh a big time and um it's it's very cool to see the
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audience so Charmed by you and your special thank you I appreciate that you're essentially clean you're I mean
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you're you're 99% just clean and you're doing stuff about dodgeball and stuff
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it's just sort of it's Charming but anyway they blew it you should go back now I didn't even do
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standup in my audition which is wild to me now cuz I do feel like uh standup obviously is a strong point for me yeah
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uh my first audition was all characters and then I felt like I gave them all my best characters so my second summer I
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was like I don't know what I'm going to do now I should have just done standup well
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you oh yeah yeah yeah you do a few characters but what could do you mind just telling us what the characters you
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audition with well it's funny the first audition I only had like um I got called
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at like 300 pm on like a Wednesday and they're like can you be on a plane tonight a booty always they always they
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always do that yeah it was crazy they're like can you be on playe tonight and
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you're going to audition at like noon tomorrow so I was freaking out but I almost like that better I had less time
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to freak out yeah call back my first audition actually I thought went pretty well um I did um Richard Simmons
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obviously obviously well you look so much like I did um a Hooters waitress that um I was
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doing at the time what was funny is that I layered my clothes so I started um with my regular outfit doing I can't
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remember what characters I did and then I ended with taking that top layer off and it was the Richard Simmons tank top
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um closer then under underneath um that was a Hooters tank top there's more oh
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my God by the by the end of the audition I had a pile of clothes and I ended my audition and I did feel like a stripper
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that was like okay the lap dance is overing it up cuz it is kind of quiet no matter who you are it's just a few
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people oh good okay you you missed something your shoes are over there thank you very much yeah there's like
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you see those three lamps in the corner like in you're I'm gathering my clothes
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like okay thank you Lauren do you have any Tide Pods so I'll never forget that part of
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it did you have a rip cord at all or was it just sort of unbutton get it off taking it off no velcro you weren't on
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the show yet when you get on the show it's all velcro oh and let me let me also add that I took my pants off um
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because of course underneath my pants were short shorts cuz hello who dedicated so the pants didn't just
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come off you had to get on a chair and get them off I had to take take my shoes off pull my pants down it was a whole I
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mean was jeez that was kind of sexy Dana I hate how did I not get how did I not get that
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job that's crazy what what I don't like Dana and this is not on the subject when
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you're watching a when you're watching a porn and I know you guys don't but when
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you're watching a porn everything's going great and they're about to do it
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and then they both sit down and start taking off their pants the guy's got to
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pull his Levis over his shoes I'm like just take your shoes off for like yeah and then the I'm like go and then
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he's it's all stuck and he's got to sit down the lays on the floor I go can we
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just trim this part like I don't I love that you're D has notes I write in the comments at the
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bottom I go I liked it I yeah went crazy I I'll put this image in your head Fortune because you like
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Wayne's World so Mike had one of the best reveals ever he was touring with me
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and he would come out as as Wayne with the whole outfit on go do these jokes it's killing anyway and then sprockets
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would come on and he had a spring mechanism that he suddenly and then the wig comes off his hair s back so he's
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the German he's deer and he's strutting around with the music I go [ __ ] I got to
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follow this it would crush just the suddenness of yeah hi Mike if you're listening yeah
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hi Mike man man you guys were the best that was I mean you are the best but that was so that was just such a huge
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part of my childhood I told you Dana Fortune is likable so watch out I know you better watch out I told him watch
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out don't fall for it she's very fortun and I have worked on a few things and uh
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you know Fortune you won't remember this but we were on a show called Afterparty
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I do remember that okay that was thick of Co into the thick of it yeah we were you
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know the funny thing about this was Dana you knew lights out because you did it and uh Fortune did it and my f favorite
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talk show that show was so good I'm inate yeah that show should still be on the air you know I do hear more I've
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hear more about it after uh but when we were doing that uh our our old buddy and
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your buddy Ted Sandos would come sometimes right he was just comedy guy so he's he would pop by Netflix was
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close by so anyway anyway he so when we got uh uh word fired is strong uh when we got Co fired it
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was they had a new boss and they said we're gonna get rid of everything oh the
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new regime yeah so he called and said Ted called and said hey would you is there a way we could do that over
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Netflix because we did like that you know I think this the stipulation was at the end if you could interview someone
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from one of the Netflix shows for eight to 10 minutes after you do your panel after you you know and I'm like well
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yeah because we were always looking for like a fourth act like the closing act anyway so it'd be like a monologue and
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then comedians blabbing about [ __ ] and then maybe we'd film something and then
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interview someone I said that's actually perfect what happened was we got me
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fortune in London in there London Hughes and we had Bill Burr on the first one and what happens is Ted hands it off
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yeah and then it gets handed off and then by the time we shooting it's not that it's not lights out anymore no yeah
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and unfortunately it just turned into like an hour commercial for just for the people listening so
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this was you Ted got you two together and then you were doing you were doing like sort of a show that was about
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Netflix shows Loosely based right it it turn it was supposed to turn lights out com supposed be lights out then it turns
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into Entertainment Tonight God it was supposed to just be Comics kind of doing yeah just like joking around with
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sitting around and doing what we do and Bill and the first one they said let's
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do Bill Burr and then someone from Netflix and I'm like oh only one comic okay well so it sort of just got changed
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and you know all those things are well-intentioned like whoever's in charge the English guy uh and he said
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well we'll do this because it works here in England and then and then the second
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show how about no comic and it's that fast we're like wait this is really
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different so well it was odd because Spade's a very famous guy you've been
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around like you're suddenly interviewing like fate The Saga Love is Blind like why is
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Spade you know what I mean it was like what's happening and I didn't I didn't
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even claim to know enough about it I go maybe London should do this one because she's more into it she knows things I
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don't know and I'm like I don't even know what I'm doing and I'm like don't
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read the Q cards I'm like I don't know what show this is I don't babe would be
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like so Jenny and George which one of you's Jenny which one like I go I've seen every episode
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now which one's Jenny I go oh you might figure that out after a few episodes you
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you've watched seven seasons but that's your first question I really did like
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Jenny and gey that was a fun one because I did watch it and she was a sweetheart but the farther it went along
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I started whatever I mean there's no real BL you didn't need to be you didn't
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need to be interviewing people about their show I just turn into something else and it it it was well-meaning I
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still like lights out is I mean maybe we'll do a panel show one day it was fun
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to do like cuz in that we got to hang and and laugh and it was during the thick of the pandemic when people
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weren't working um yeah I think I think that first episode did so well it was
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like the numbers were like insane that then they're like whoa wait what and then a bunch of cooks were in the
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kitchen yeah if this worked it would work even better if we changed it all it would work it works so well we should
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change it a lot are you telling me wait a minute are you guys telling me that the suits of the hierarchy will take
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something that's working and inject their clueless ego and destroy the sule is that your premise I'm saying that
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happens on every show and it sometimes it works sometimes it makes the show better and this scenario it didn't play
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to anything I did well so I'm have to blame because I was half checked out going I just don't I don't know what I'm
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doing anymore like well it wasn't it wasn't the show that you came in with
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that was working and was I didn't do a mon while I didn't do any goofing on
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comedians anymore so it just came hi I'm David Spade and tonight we talk to the
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cast of Mostly it's a new show and you I have to go watch it because we're
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telling everyone who these people are you know no one knows you were basically Mario Lopez yeah and
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you who we love great we love him very much he's tremendous sorry the Karate
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Kid one was fun cuz we did a sketch about him that was with Ralph with Ralph Macho Cobra Kai yeah yeah Cobra Kai well
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it sounds like a great show I'm just gonna write down reboot what was the name of it no need it was called what
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was it no need for the algo no need that was called after party after party [Music]
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yes Fortune if you had that experience sorry just based on what taking David Spade really really funny alltime funny
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and then making him kind of the straight interviewer have you had experiences where they take you funny funny funny
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and then somehow make you unfunny ooh they they it happened to me a lot you when I
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wasn't writing it you but what was your worst experience in a show and we want
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names gosh I'm trying to I'm try a golden career no I mean there's definitely some misses I mean I
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definitely think so I went from uh Mindy Project was my first um series regular I
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had just come off of Chelsea Lately um and uh loved it and and they wrote so well for me I I didn't have to think
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about anything I literally just would show up it was the best job and then we went from that to a show called
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Champions um that was on NBC and um same same group uh similar group of people um
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but it was a new show so it was trying to find its way I definitely think that was a character I didn't really know
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what that character was and I was overacting and like intense and I was like oh this is
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this is not working you mean like you're trying to go for the laughs a little
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harder still wasn't clicking yeah because I think because the pressure of it being a new show and we're like
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where's the funny I was trying too I was pushing too much yeah it happens on
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stage with Comics too my self- included where when you're getting a tough crowd
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you start to go bigger you can't help or you bring out the profanity it's just so
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or you speed it up there's so many classic things you do that are wrong yeah the last one I did it was I only
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had one shot at it because the air conditioner went out the first night you know shooting a special so then that
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wasn't usable because it was sweating people were leaving oh no so it's kind
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of like you work on something for six months you got you got one shot here he comes so very hard not to kind of push a
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little bit but full circle back to your special totally relaxed didn't feel like
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you were recording was that what what I seen was real I mean you didn't look
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like you're pushing at all um that's good what you felt I definitely get I
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don't get nervous obviously with live shows I only get nervous when I'm filming so there is that pressure to be
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like like you said there's I got two shows to get this right I've been touring for so long with this material I
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don't want it like tonight to be like the dud um I think once I get I think I'm a little stiffer on the first show
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and then if I get that at least the Beats down then I'm like oh I have I have the Baseline there now I can just
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be you can always pull because people at home don't know you sort of usually
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combine the shows yeah you do the same act twice then you go that choke worked better in here the one about the
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propeller worked better in the second show and you kind of patch it together but also I think on mine you know mine
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everyone had a mask on and I didn't know so when I went out the laughs were noticeably muffled and I'm like oh my
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God because the first thing you don't want to think when you after first joke
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is oh my God they're a tough crowd it's my crowd and they're tough I'm having to
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win I'm having to win over the people that already like me yeah I'm winning
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over my own crowd that PID B and they don't but after I got off they go God it
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was tough because they were all muffled I go oh they were with the n95 like super non- laugh Muffler zombie killer
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and then you you couldn't see it from the stage that anyone no like I don't
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want to look at anyone then I'm like why and then I thought God why is this so
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tough and uh yeah but you know you can fix it tweak but you want to just be loose and be like the other night I went
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on in Santa Rose and I'm like this is such a fun show I knew before I walked
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on the crowd was good I go I wish I was taping tonight it just well that's the
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best best theater I've ever played is that that used to be the Luther Burbank
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and now it's called Wells Fargo or something like that right I think Luther burbing is still in the title it was
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it's in s Rosa oh you have to play that place because it was a it's on a church
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with a balcony it's sort of a half cylinder and if you talk about F of rooms right David it's 1600 but it plays
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like a club it's really really the balcony is up on your sides also it's
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not just in the back and so they're everyone's on top of you kind of it just
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has that quality so yeah I'm gonna call my agent um after I get off this and
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what when would be good for you to play a Saturday in Santa Rose let me know dude Fortune grindes
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out the gigs you are you are kicking it I saw your schedule you're cra look tired I'm I am
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tired um I both these tours have been back toback and have been over a hundred cities um [ __ ] he Richie Rich wow and
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I film and I filmed Fubar with Arnold in between two tour so I never so I haven't
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had a break since the pandemic we're g to put a hammock on the s let's go come on Fortune yeah Fortune
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you know she get the actress with the name and it brings Good Fortune that's
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why we hired her and she's happy and smiling and we do the shots and then we
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we're ready for the premiere with Ted sarand he he brought up at one point Hans and France and I was like oh yeah
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oh oh yeah no he's he's hysterical yeah so you're you're I mean you're uh you're
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doing incredible you're stand up you got food bars you got shows seems like you
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you're on a roll for the last many years I mean congratulations that's all I'm
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saying it doesn't always go perfect like it's awesome I just work my butt off I
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just I don't ever stop because you know as all of us you know have that fear of
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like what what's going to happen that time when people don't want to come you
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know so there's no real demand for us that's the thing I guess if I stopped I
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W be like okay yeah people just like so yeah I just grind cuz you know I just um I do enjoy it and there is that
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fear of like when will this stop so let's go no and you're you're young and
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um yeah go for it I I'm just curious do you have a name because daveid what's
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your name of your T I think they're kind of funny well this is a good question
00:28:15
because I was also going to say when you do a 100 at a clip do you flip the whole
00:28:21
hour or what what is your when I at the end of this tour yeah like when you did your first hundred shows now do you you
00:28:28
have to wait and then you start over and flip the whole hour or do you do a combo
00:28:34
plate um no I do the I do the tour like 100 cities what however many shows 150 shows film a special um and um some of
00:28:46
those some of those cities not many might be right after um and then I go off the road um uh for a couple months
00:28:55
write start doing like local show um then the special comes out okay then I do some clubs to work on that new
00:29:06
stuff and I tell people this I'm working I'm working it out they they love that
00:29:12
though you know they love it and then so say if the special came out in like October I'm working clubs November
00:29:21
December January I'm starting a a new tour new hour fast you get an hour that
00:29:27
fast that's that's what I've you're a machine I did that this will be my third hour in five
00:29:33
years that I'm it's so hard people don't get how hard is I go is it going to be
00:29:38
stuff I know and I go well some people go on Instagram you didn't even do those
00:29:41
three jokes like your special I go I know because half the people want new and half people want old I don't know
00:29:48
they want well there are some jokes that people are like will you tell that you know that one thing so I was doing that
00:29:54
early on I was doing um a a joke to from my sweet and salty special and then now
00:30:01
that I'm working I'm filming in April my next special okay so now I'm just doing
00:30:07
what that hour is going to be Where Are You Gonna film itous um in Seattle at the Moore oh I'm
00:30:15
going to Seattle September yeah it's fun it's a really beautiful theater um it's
00:30:21
like 1900 seats but and three levels but all the levels are like right at the stage
00:30:28
um so every everything's very close so the the laughter's big and nice so
00:30:32
you've done three I saw one I hope I saw the latest one I have two that are out
00:30:37
and I'm filming the third one okay on Netflix yeah and so do you have a name
00:30:41
for your tour well I it really is hard to come up with those names um I did live laugh love which is you know that
00:30:50
classic sign and all your mom's um you know kitchens or living rooms um I just think
00:30:57
that sign is so funny and I love that my mom's like that's art I'm like you got
00:31:03
it Sis it sure is I've done live laugh to CRA no I'm just I'm just embracing the
00:31:12
corniness of it I guess so you did sweet and salty no I think it's nice yeah
00:31:16
sweet and salty sweet and salty was my but see I never the name of my tours don't ever end up being the name of my
00:31:23
special oh is that different wait I don't know Mine mine's catch me inside
00:31:28
yeah and my tour was I mean my special was called I don't [ __ ] know was it
00:31:35
called I don't remember Heather what is my tour Heather oh what is it something
00:31:46
problems some oh um this has been a running game hilarious two years that he nothing personal okay nothing
00:31:55
personal it's so hard to remember because I do jokes about people I did one about Stallone I did one about all
00:32:02
these people actually like and I do a joke I'm like wasn't that funny and
00:32:05
they're like [ __ ] mean I go no no I was just having fun it's funny for me because I I
00:32:15
I was just funning I was just fun I was honestly just funning next time you're
00:32:19
gonna go get forward whatever I'm you're you're kind of from the south maybe no
00:32:24
North Carolina I'm definitely from the South North Carolina North Carolina I'm going there how is
00:32:30
that place I'm going there you're going when are you going what's it called the
00:32:35
CAC uh dpack that's in Durham CPAC I'm gonna be gonna be dpack in a couple
00:32:41
weeks oh you are that's gonna be great uh did you really graduate Suma come loudy this sounds like a lie I
00:32:50
did she you're no wonder you can do a new hour in eight weeks [ __ ] stepen Hawking
00:32:58
yeah right says it was just again because I'm I was an overachiever it was you had six people
00:33:05
in your high school I um I'm in a small I'm from a small town for sure it's like
00:33:11
10,000 people yeah and then my college was small too so um [ __ ] still that's
00:33:17
good on the resume yeah I mean what the irony is I was working so hard in college to have a resume and in La no
00:33:24
one cares [ __ ] I know what you went to college okay what a loser yeah loser I'm
00:33:33
like I you're not dedicated to Comedy because you didn't quit school unless
00:33:37
unless you went to Harvard no one cares in comedy that you went to college oh they were all IV League at SNL a lot
00:33:46
of the writers from Harvard or brown or well let's see Dartmouth yeah and I went
00:33:51
to San Francisco State he went to Scott Community College or dumb Comics it was great smart writers were dumb com ex
00:33:58
that a good combo or it's just AA degrees from community colleges you know it's a trip I did um I sold a pilot
00:34:07
and Tina Fay and Robert Carlock were the producers this was a while ago that's
00:34:12
big and well that and they had all a lot of the 30 Rock writers because I co-wrote it with Matt hubard who um did
00:34:18
30 Rock and they're all Harvard they're all ivy league guys and it is definitely
00:34:24
like a different a brain the joke machine kind of thing I had not worked with people like that before well they
00:34:32
know all the references they know French words they know exactly what happened in
00:34:36
the early part of the Civil War they just have a educated pedestal to stand on Civil War
00:34:45
well they would they would know what George Washington ate for breakfast I mean these guys are educated I'm has a
00:34:52
doctrate in I'm like I loved fundip growing up yeah buan fun dip anything with fun I would
00:35:03
[Music] like did you ever have a fun dip chunk what your early standup what are some of
00:35:10
your what you look back now that you feel are cringey or still special oh I had a fun dip
00:35:16
in in my sweet and salty special I uh oh and and it that that one was about being
00:35:24
on the swim team I joined the swim team because found out that the swimmers ate funp and that was the only thing that
00:35:32
got me to do it and then you were a champion or no I didn't know how to swim
00:35:37
my parents signed me up for the swim team and I didn't know how to swim you thought it was how to learn how to swim
00:35:42
I ran I ran across the pool Jes like Jesus or what do you mean ran across the pool like I was I thought
00:35:51
I could fool people into thinking I was doing the butterfly oh okay oh you ran across the bottom bottom yeah so I was
00:35:59
like running and doing the motion [ __ ] yeah like no one will know and I beat everyone I got their
00:36:08
first so they technically had to hand me a ribbon that's not cheating well then I was informed that I
00:36:16
was disqualified you get out of the pool and they just hand you a ribbon there's
00:36:19
no there's no ceremony no you get a ribbon but then some someone has to tell
00:36:24
me like actually like you got disqual they said DQ and you go we're going to
00:36:31
Dairy Queen and go no so that's one of those Classics that I like to call them um but yeah my
00:36:41
earlier stuff I'm yeah sure I I watched my half hour from Comedy Central there
00:36:47
was again a lot of that pushing a lot of that yelling punch lines and I mean my wife is some is like can you lay off the
00:36:56
yelling punch lines I'm like sure sure I've done it my old stand up I'm like
00:37:02
hey everybody you've been to the DMB it's crazy they're like all right [ __ ]
00:37:06
we I had my brother say something to me that stuck with me I'm at The Improv in
00:37:11
the uh early 80s terrified 8 o00 spot and I just bought it I mean you know dead silent someone goes Norman Lear
00:37:20
would seemed to like it you know it's like eight people he left my brother just kind of said uh hurry up and be
00:37:29
funny you know Rush rushing it trying to just go really fast maybe that'll save
00:37:35
me hurry up and be funny so yeah yeah that when you're when you're bombing
00:37:40
it's it seems like such an instinct and I I did it two weeks ago at the comedy
00:37:44
store I went on and I thought I was hot [ __ ] and I was [ __ ] cold boogers I went out there and uh you know I start
00:37:51
going and they're not buying it I'm like what the [ __ ] then I start going wait
00:37:54
what am I doing oh I should jump to that one oh yeah they don't like this they
00:37:58
don't like that and then you start spir you're like a horse that got spooked I
00:38:03
don't I mean to be honest and it's a good Pro it sounds self- congratulatory
00:38:06
but it feels like the audience is kind of waiting for either George Bush Senior or or car or something oh yeah I can do
00:38:14
any kind of thing about me at 7-Eleven or regular standup bit but then if I hit a voice Ah that's what we want you know
00:38:21
that would be nice to have in your back pocket though you're like it's like
00:38:26
playing a guitar you're like you guys don't like this are you going to like
00:38:29
this oh yeah here we go say hello to the church lady but see you're so great at
00:38:38
Impressions Impressions is not obviously my I can't even get rid of my Southern
00:38:42
accent I've been in La 21 years so you have a very cool voice I've just been
00:38:49
starting to really listen to it it's tonally in the accent yeah it's just
00:38:53
kind of I I figure I mean I can't I'm not going to try to do you but there's
00:38:58
something about I did do I did Daniel Craig in knives out that was called because I did a cartoon for Robert
00:39:08
Carlock and Tina Fay and so they I said do kind of a South Caroline you know so I just watched knives out and I just did
00:39:16
that I just did over the top you know Fog Horn Leg Horn basically that's what
00:39:22
I'm trying to say and I guess it worked I don't know I don't know if boy even
00:39:28
said it's jarring even hearing it knives out because you're like it's so old
00:39:33
school yeah I know no one thinks that's real they go when you're in the midwest
00:39:39
you go that's not like a real thing yeah it doesn't feel like a real voice what
00:39:44
what what kind of and I who am I doing now there's a friend of mine he's from
00:39:47
the south and he kind of talks like this what y'all fixing to do yeah that's like
00:39:52
um Tennessee he act he acts kind of dumber than he is I go what are you doing saying you don't know what's going
00:39:57
on goes I was just playing Pome Pome I was just playing I was just fun and I talked to yeah go ahead well people do
00:40:05
think all the every Southern is a dumbass because of our accident well also this woman from Alabama who is a
00:40:13
muse and she was a really good one she used to put her elbow on your ass and go give it give it oh I like that elbow on
00:40:19
the ass give it oh yeah you had a whole wasn't that yeah butt massage that was
00:40:25
funny that was and that's very real I'm I had a guy a a guy um M what's the mour
00:40:35
masseuse a mass um he only wanted to give butt massages and I was like I really was startled at first and then it
00:40:45
was the greatest thing I'd ever experienced and he would do it for like the just the but for like 30 minutes oh
00:40:53
my God would not touch like feet legs anything else he would do should he do shoulders like a 10 minutes and then
00:41:01
that was the massage and I kept going back because I was like no one else is touching my butt like this guy yeah you
00:41:08
walking backwards ready here we come and then he got fired and I was like oh yeah
00:41:15
I think he did he was never supposed to do that probably at all that's he just I
00:41:19
don't think he was he was just doing it hey do I owe anything no you don't owe
00:41:23
me anything it's fine I just I got off what make noises like like he was so into it and I was
00:41:33
like I should be grossed out by this but my butt has never been more relaxed do you know that the glute muscle and all
00:41:41
that stuff around there is connects the lower it is the biggest muscle in your body and the most important must yeah
00:41:47
you must have felt incredible you must have walked with a bigger stride after that and every and I thought after doing
00:41:55
that joke that like okay now when I go to m to a massage place they're going to
00:42:00
be like let's give her the old butt you know elbow because they saw it in the
00:42:06
special and and not one has done it I'm like God dang it you know what they give
00:42:12
you those code words like they they really dress it up like gluteus medius and all this like right terraform and
00:42:19
they're not just saying I'm into butts but no one's like do you want me
00:42:23
to they're not even giving me the option like would you like me to get on that
00:42:27
glute I be like yes please and but I don't want I don't want to be a creep
00:42:33
that's like Hey What Can you I do I say get in that butt get in that butt I like butts and I
00:42:42
cannot lie who sang that song Sir Mix A Lot Sir Mix lot have yall had butt massages oh my God yes can I do my
00:42:52
favorite uh glute joke joke this is FR my favorite put down your BS are like marshmallows you're lucky I don't have a
00:43:03
campfire here so the reason that's funny is like what are they gonna burn they're
00:43:08
gonna put his ass in a fire burn right because his ass is like marshmallows I've gotten a lot of massages but not
00:43:14
lately I need a new I need a masseuse somebody Dana what do you think is the character people most requests from
00:43:25
you it's a pick them depending on age group it would be the George Bush Senior
00:43:30
oh or G it's George Bush Senior G church lady Hansen Franza rosaro probably what's your
00:43:39
closer my closer I do like 50 micro Impressions and you ever have a joke in your act fortune that you don't feel is
00:43:49
like the best bit but it gets an oversized response you're like really yeah like I do George W bush is a
00:43:57
standup with an old stock joke that Leno gave me once uhuh and it kills so hard I'm always like really George is a
00:44:06
standup uh two Irish men walk out of a bar it could happen like oh they walk out you know I'm going that's just such
00:44:18
a silly joke I do like a 100 micro impressions in a row oh that's cool just to bludgeon them quick quick quick quick
00:44:26
quick yeah thousand stabs the knife and then they collapse at the end the one that lately kills I just brought it back
00:44:32
because it made me laugh was just a way to do George for scor that that I feels new but anyway yeah George Bush Senor
00:44:39
tries to go off a high dive so I'm like I'm crawling up to the front of the
00:44:42
stage he's looking down gotta do it gotta do it then it's like he looks over
00:44:48
not gonna do it you know it's just yeah I love that uh thank you so what's your clo closer what's your don't
00:44:59
give it away if you don't to give Clos well you've had different closures you
00:45:03
what what's your sweet and salty clothes what's the one that you just wrote that
00:45:07
you're going to do in your special don't waste it so well I'll just say that this
00:45:12
hour is um I've kind of fallen into the storytelling yeah rhythm of of um my
00:45:19
standup so the every special um has a beginning middle and end like uh this is I'm I'm introducing a premise to you and
00:45:28
here's kind of this is going to go on a journey um and then this is all going to
00:45:33
tie in at the end and then here we are gon to come full circle um damn you're
00:45:38
jeez so it's so this the closer is not necessarily um like oh my God this is
00:45:46
gonna like you know slap your titties that's just beat yourself up and slap your titties just slap your titties is
00:45:57
good yeah um but it's a vict it's a victory that involves um what I set up
00:46:03
in the beginning and um so it's said I I introduced something early on Jesus
00:46:09
you're Christopher Nolan oh yeah like I do my ACT backwards once and then so the
00:46:16
closer is the Victory and then um I have the big the big clap for the Victory and
00:46:22
I am tagging it with another thing that like brings it full circle a second time
00:46:30
people gota come watch it and then do you put your hands up and go good night and then
00:46:36
photos I do a photo yeah Before I Let You Go Fortune you got to tell us do you how do you do the photo at the end
00:46:43
because I never do it and I go I gotta do this you asked me you're like how do
00:46:47
you do that because it is kind of an awkward like you've done you've gotten
00:46:51
your Victory and then you have to be like okay now I'm going to need a f um yeah I just kind of people are so
00:47:01
used to it now I just um finished the thing and and while they're clapping I'm
00:47:06
like thanks for coming you guys are the best uh let's get a photo for um for the
00:47:12
old Instagram or my scrapbook or whatever and scrapbook and I just say you know the I go on the count of three
00:47:20
um and they did did the house lights know to go up the the house yeah they bring the house lights up and um I go on
00:47:26
the count three just act like you had a good time and I count to three and everyone goes and we get a picture when
00:47:33
I do it I'm going to go and on three stand up on Two And on three look like a
00:47:40
stuning Ovation what I do which is an inside joke with my opening act sometimes Larry Bubbles Brown is very
00:47:46
funny because I tell him I'm GNA do it so I'm doing a guitar Thing guitar Thing
00:47:50
guitar thing bam then I take the neck of the guitar and I hold the whole guitar up slowly way over my head so I'm kind
00:47:58
of like 12et tall and as I move the guitar up the audience is hypnotized into standing up yeah and then he's
00:48:05
always laughing so hard like I'm holding a head a cut off head in R they're like
00:48:11
we're standing for this yeah look at the guitar it's up in the sky I got to get
00:48:16
on my feet well when they know it's over it's like when a plane lands they're
00:48:19
like I just want to stand up and get out of here I think it's I take it as a
00:48:23
compliment but they're like are can you stamp this and I'm like no I'm leaving
00:48:27
the stage well cuz all of us kind of set up the in for them right we're like and
00:48:34
now yeah my closer you know you kind of get sometimes I said before I go here's
00:48:41
one last thing yeah that helps call the babysitter say you're on the way yeah
00:48:47
yeah it tips them off do you have nights where it's mayday mayday where you have
00:48:52
to call an audible you have to cut cut things or hurry it up the audience is tired or drunk or they're just quiet and
00:49:00
do you adjust or you just it's not a problem I mean since you're telling
00:49:04
stories it's harder to like trim it on chop them you right yeah because there's
00:49:09
definitely um a specific set I'm running right now if the audience seems a little
00:49:14
like my closer didn't get the punch I wanted if it's feeling a little incomplete I will then say and as a
00:49:23
cherry on top let's do a classic and I'll give them um like U the probably the most popular story I do is
00:49:34
from sweet and salty about um going to Hooters as a kid um and then um my mat you you know it's a good one it works
00:49:43
what's that oh yeah yeah yeah that it it always works so if that doesn't work
00:49:47
you're like [ __ ] it if that doesn't work then it it's not funny bye I got nothing
00:49:51
for you guys could you just tell tell us the first the first laugh line of that story the first um well the so what it
00:50:00
is is that I I just say I've been the Hooters my entire life um because I have
00:50:04
two older brothers they loved Hooters so it was never a big deal and my mom started dating a very conservative man
00:50:12
when I was in high school um who you know everything was a sin and um I said we were trying to figure out where to
00:50:20
eat and my mom's I start playing my mom where she stiffens up and she looks at
00:50:25
me and she's like I have never been two Hooters and it's um because it's a long story but now that
00:50:38
people know the story and love the story the whole audience wait for it say with
00:50:43
you I have never the whole audience is yelling I have never been the Hooters as a whole crowd it's pretty fun that's
00:50:54
like Beyonce yeah I like yeah I'm just [Music] like what size rooms are you playing now
00:51:06
what's your biggest room you've ever played um I just did the Chicago theater
00:51:11
and that was 3500 seats it was sold out that was a pretty that was pretty awesome um that's hard to do yeah I was
00:51:20
I was it was definitely like a cool like holy cow this is yeah a mil Stone moment
00:51:27
um I'm doing anywhere from, 1500 seats to the 3500 seats and then um sometimes
00:51:36
I'm selling out the 2700 seat and adding a show or sometimes I'm selling out the
00:51:41
2 seats and that's that or sometimes I'm you know happy to have the 12200 what
00:51:46
city sorry this inside baseball for our listeners what city do you sell the tickets the easiest the fact you know
00:51:53
certain cities like oh they sold out already what city loves you the most Seattle because that's where you're
00:51:58
going back to Seattle's yeah we're at like 6,000 tickets there that weekend
00:52:03
it's pretty crazy um Seattle Chicago um we almost added a second show but I got
00:52:10
too nervous to like not have the victory hard yeah if you don't fill up the second one it sometimes looks weird I've
00:52:16
done that why did I I'll just come back yeah exactly um Dallas Charlotte um I
00:52:23
mean I have this I'm in this weird spot where I'm Southern but I'm also gay um
00:52:30
so I do a lot I do really well in red states that would surprise people um because there are you know
00:52:40
even though they're red states there are people there that want to they want to
00:52:44
see yeah they want to see people that don't come through as much um and um so
00:52:50
yeah I I do like I sell better than like Mobile Alabama than I do San Francisco it's wild because those a lot
00:53:02
of those folks are just starred for you know other voices that they don't get coming through there as much
00:53:10
some representation they go we don't in Sam Fran it's every night somebody
00:53:14
you're like there you're like hey this should be fun and then plus you do just
00:53:18
a great standup show anyway yeah I mean I try to do jokes and stories that are not geared towards one person or one
00:53:27
voice or one experience even though I am gay there's a lot to me that is goes
00:53:33
beyond that so my stories are coming from a place of like you know being a kid in the 80s being a having a quirky
00:53:41
mom you know being married um so things that you know even in Good Fortune in my
00:53:47
last special proposing to my wife that's something men could relate to you know
00:53:52
being nervous not getting it right um I try to throw out stories that that different people can you know grab on to
00:54:00
and relate to yeah I think you have a very broad appeal to all kinds of people thank you I try I think so I'm going out
00:54:10
on a limb I'm predicting good things one is not only that you're talented that
00:54:14
you have a great work ethic it's very impressive that you can turn an hour uh
00:54:19
and treat it like a college assignment or something I guess are you recording you go to the clubs you record your set
00:54:26
and writing listening to the recording making notes writing going back to the club I mean it's it's hard and mentally
00:54:33
hard is my least favorite process the writing of the new hour I'm sure you guys feel similar it's tough It's hard
00:54:41
I'm like what can I mean at the end of this I'm I'm like what am i g to talk
00:54:45
about and you're like I don't I have a couple things that work I don't have a
00:54:48
closer I don't have like something that kills every time and you're like missing
00:54:51
your old stuff going [ __ ] I could put that in right here I know it's it's hard
00:54:55
it's it's it's not a process that process I I enjoy it when it's on its
00:54:59
feet and I'm working it out but I don't enjoy the like I don't know what stories
00:55:05
to even start with um you've already racked your brain for three specials you're like yeah and we're all working
00:55:12
all the time so I my wife's like we gotta like live some life you know stuff
00:55:18
yeah yeah do something different I don't want to be talking about like rental
00:55:21
cars and hotels in my next one and gold bars that you bought I'm a gold member of
00:55:29
Herz well thank you Fortune uh thanks for coming on so nice to meet you I hope we run into each other and hey you're on
00:55:37
our podcast hi Fortune Dana it's such a treat to to talk to you meet you and my
00:55:43
pleasure I love me some Spade too and Spade and I went real quick we went to happen to be at Craigs once at the same
00:55:51
time oh that's right the place in LA to eat there's a booth us it was empty yep
00:55:58
and they um so Spade was in in one booth over here we were on the other booth an
00:56:02
empty Booth between us and um Megan marle and Prince Harry were maybe gonna come and be between us and I was like
00:56:11
this would have been the greatest story oh my God because they came up and whispered they go hey just so you know
00:56:17
we're not supposed to tell Megan Mark and Prince ha are GNA sit right there and I'm like oh [ __ ] yeah and then I
00:56:21
look over and I see Fortune I go oh my God we go over there we're like conspiring like this is going to be so
00:56:26
fun going to get 10 new minutes but then remember for we saw a couple like Secret
00:56:30
Service guys com in like checking the place out and I think they went back and said there's two clowns on either side
00:56:37
and I wouldn't go in there and I they're probably gonna Tick Tock let's not have
00:56:41
this happen yeah they went to the Bungalows after oh man but I thought that would have been the greatest moment
00:56:47
of how fun like you and you and I sandwiching uh a royal would you have gone over no
00:56:56
you probably you would I wouldn't unless they came over yeah at least they said
00:57:00
something yeah like um byebye I I would just nod my head and go carrat top um but anyway oh it's Prince Harry I
00:57:09
love all your stuff you're fabulous my name's to meet you and nice to meet you
00:57:15
I wouldn't have done I would have ran away I want them on this podcast all right because I do think I'm sure
00:57:23
they're very funny people I'm sure they laugh a lot they need to come on here
00:57:27
you need to loosen just just laugh let's tease out all the humor get rid of the
00:57:31
darkness you know and have this is the Prince William beam in or whatever get these Royals back together as a family
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that's one of my goals this year in 2024 if anyone can bring the Royals back
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together yeah it's you too yeah we won't go rough on them there you go no
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hard-hitting questions right here you heard it no no just fun yeah stay in touch and like me more than Dana
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a bit I mean do what you can it's hard I know I always wanted to get on the Fortune 500 and I feel like I kind of
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have no I have no closer of course you have that was a great closer Dan all right bye well all right I I'll
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just say goodbye as the church L well well well Fortune find my Meister oyster we don't know how to pronounce our last
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name do we but Jesus loves us and we know that we we like to do our little comedy jokes and strut around the stage
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like a little scrumpet anyway sorry that's all I got oh my God that she she's mean that just took me to a very
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wonderful place in my childhood this has been a presentation of Odyssey please follow subscribe leave
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executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade Jenna Weiss Burman of odyssey Charlie finan of brillstein
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