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hey guys spade and Carvey here coming up next Drew Barrymore you guys it's spade and Carvey here at
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uh the old flying the wall dungeon doing an intro for Drew Barrymore once in a while garbage let us out but
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uh oh Z Gallery thanks you like the Furnishings um so I was going to tell you we we we
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have drew coming up right now and here's a story that I didn't tell you before
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are we on camera right yeah and I don't think sorry we always are oh let me just
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get let me guess Truman [ __ ] how you doing what's up camera when we when I
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when you no I I'm scared to ask her but that movie Lost and Found I did oh a
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couple people see it um oh a couple people remember okay so lost and found was this movie it was all
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right but I did it we were looking for the lead and so the guys that did the money said
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if you know Drew Barrymore she'd be perfect I said oh she'd be great but it
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was sort of in this time in her career when uh she might have done it she might have done it
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and everyone loves Drew Barrymore so I said oh we'd be so perfect it'd be great
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so they said if you can get it to her we can pay her price and she had a quote I won't tell you
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what it was but it wasn't crazy it was good you know there's more than I got
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but I said oh if you if we get her so I got to her to her agent she said okay let's have dinner
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she read it and then about a week later she said she'd do it anyway we blew it
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we couldn't get her the money the guy couldn't get her the money so it was a
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big scam and I felt bad and then uh and also and I think she went and did a Wedding Singer which was
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obviously a way better movie but whatever anyway that during this there was a time when
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we were talking I think weakest is this crazy and I I might be lying but that's why I don't want to ask her
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because what if it's not true but I in my head I think we did and it was no big
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deal it was just like funny or stupid but no big romance but I think we kissed and I I have to check my diary but she
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has to check hers really and you should check yours too wow uh and Rowan Wilson wow that's
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interesting you wouldn't you're not sure you can I don't know I think that's
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maybe a little bit of a disc wouldn't it be like memorable no because when she had that movie Never
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Been Kissed I go oh I don't think so oh but I was like but I don't know when we
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did go out once we we had dinner once and uh you and Drew yeah I've been dating lately and she goes
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this is my 52nd date I forgot his name I think you're friends with him no I feel paternal toward her
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she's I I you know I she's been a part of America since E.T she's you know and she's about
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about as cute as a kid could ever be and she was so great in that movie and um and now she's still here I think the
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thing I take away from Drew is just just the positivity is real and it's how you
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get things done in the world is by just never letting the flag touch the ground you don't she's just a force of nature
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yeah I really do it all she's a producer she's a writer she's a for former
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obviously she yeah really helps women in the industry she does it all and um got
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a great talk show right now so let's hear from her let's hear from her this is this is I remember when I
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met her she said you remind me of a kind of a grosser version of E.T and I go oh
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I didn't even see the movie so I don't know what that meant but I go oh he's a
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star I know well after our 52nd date you know I just tried to be pissed I wish I
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knew 50 First Dates what what what's 51st days is that her movie she was in I
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don't know after our 52nd date I just as a joke I got up and I because it's
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before cell phones I go I have to Dana called I'm sorry I was trying to do 18
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but Johnny Carson came in I know oh let's just go to the show my phone home no Joni would say sorry Drew it's her
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52nd date and uh I've got a call home I I you know whatever David I'm glad
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you're my IQ has lowered since the podcast started I really everyone really just did a test and everyone has heard
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the podcast is stupid and I I can't think stupider but I I everyone loves Drew I'll put it that way all right
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here's Drew [Music] I like this part of the podcast where we don't know what's going on Bill Hader as
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kind of a his voice has a treble softness to it but then when he did Daniel Day Lewis it just went incredibly
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deep so his range is like really kind of interesting because his talking voice is
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very sort of soft you know here and we had a great time and he's like but I totally
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I like that I try to do Daniel Lewis and you guys both do it and I forgot I used
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to do it like crazy I was his was so great um I feel like we you know at some point
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we'll just tell I I was gonna say yeah that if they said you were the best ever
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I wouldn't slug him in the face but there's 50 people that could be mentioned you know there's it's just
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people love to have lists yeah I don't want Maya Rudolph to go what's what's
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going on but he's definitely up there well he just um it's kind of like Will
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Forte they that middle knots that early to 2010 or 12 whatever nuts had a lot I know had a lot of had a lot of talent
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that's why I listed all of them and I forgot my Rudolph there's a lot of
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talent where's that lady oh my God you guys I've been here the whole time
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screaming it was on [ __ ] mute I didn't want to interrupt you I was like oh I guess they're going and riffing
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I'll just sitting here you thought we were ignoring you on the wall I was I was listening in you were talking about
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Maya Rudolph and the knots or the Otts or whatever we're calling them and I literally was like oh I guess when
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they're ready they'll invite me in but this these are like the high class
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problems of our current world um I you're on mute I can't see your screen is off this is the new verbiage
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for us but I actually have been sitting here waiting um to jump into the double dutch
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um literally I'm so excited that you guys would have me are you crazy are you both of you so much I'm in I'm
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double dutching with you right now and I'm loving my wife said oh Drew's so
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sweet she's so fun has so much energy and I go you think I don't know I'll
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tell you what happens but already yeah you're exactly what she promised well
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she's so kind and she's definitely right about the energy part I'm a lot I'm like
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a lab Labrador in heat I like the heat yeah yeah I've heard people say that yeah I am I but like with uh yeah well
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that was mine go ahead no go ahead then I when I'm happy when I'm intense I
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think I'm a whole other metaphor but when I'm happy I'm like Labrador and
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heat panting probably trying to grab your leg you know interesting well I read I read um some things about you
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last night and it was truly impressive and exhausting how much you packed in so I mean my Labrador and here I'm going
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and how young you are from where I'm perched it's like damn you got if where
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does that come from where does the where's the motor to do all this and then become a producer and now this and
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I don't know I can't even uh any maybe maybe a hard question that's more of an Oprah question or
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Larry King I love it I I'm like I did not expect the how do you do it question
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that's traditionally a woman to woman oh well yes and a mom working mom yeah yeah
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I like like that you guys are asking it because yeah we're real thinkers Drew
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well we love we love women basically I and I love and I love funny men so this is a match made in heaven
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um a win-win I I do it by burning the candle at both ends uh I actually am here editing our next issue of a
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magazine um that we're making of course and I um I I think about it's weird a lot of people
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will ask that question and I think I've been so passive about my answer because
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my humility wants to go no no no I don't do that much let me turn it back to you
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yes um and um lately I've been for this magazine um and trying to think of uh some content for it I've been looking
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at the how and the we not the how and the I but I think that it's really messy and I was
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brought up sort of we all lived in that world where we would see those articles where people were like 8 A.M I drink my
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coffee and I do this okay Mark Wahlberg 2 A.M 10 30. I do this you know and I I never lived that life and it seems so
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type A and unattainable and I was more the you never know where the day is gonna take you Whimsical or I will burn
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myself to a crisp and then I'll find that pocket of rest and wellness somewhere else uh so I don't I don't
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know how anyone does it and if they do it in an organized fashion they have my deepest respect and if they feel like it
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all feels like putting out fires and kind of burning yourself out out and it's all like a higgledy-piggledy mess
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and it's super comedic and there are chickens running through the frame and like random funny [ __ ] is going on that
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feels so true um to our to my experience and um I would never preach to anyone that I have
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it together or that I'm a blueprint I am just a work in progress and so far I'm
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I'm I'm shocked uh in some ways that like I am a relatively healthy person
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because I feel like I don't live a very healthy lifestyle geez and that's been
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Drew Barrymore today uh we appreciate you know that's amazing go ahead I have
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a question no one argues that she's busy Her IMDb looks like a CVS receipt and and if you could see her Zoom it's
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like it looks like House and Garden me and Dana look like we're in a bunker and
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Kabul yeah her place looks gorgeous it looks like she looks because I'm at the show and by the way
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on my headstone will for sure say death by inspo because I'll have inspired myself into the grave like I can't even
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look at a woman's shoe without going do you mind if I take a quick picture of
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that because that color tone would just be so great for the packaging on the next thing I'm making like I cannot I
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can't stop and sometimes I feel like I wish I could just like have like quick
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temporary you know I I think that's probably why I drank so much back in you
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know most of my time what do you mean you had a problem just shut it down I was like just shut up dude at seven you
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were like I can't take it anymore dude you know what yeah two seven I was paying the rent and
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that's a lot of stress that that yeah a fairly uncommon thing for a human being
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in America to be uh paying the rent seven true I can relate Dana I didn't tell you this I was a child star too I
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when I was uh my dad was in advertising he was like a madman type of guy and when I was I was five I was pretty cute
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I had a good run from five to eight so when I was five really I never heard this my dad goes why don't you be in
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this like Taco Bell commercial that we're filming because they were part of it he goes they need some kids we'll
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throw you in we'll give you 10 bucks and I was like holy [ __ ] so they they put 10
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one dollar bills out for me on my desk I probably got a thousand but they kept it
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you know and they go here's your ten and then I and then they took nine of it and
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I go so you already took a cut I'm sure before behind before I saw it then I get
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10 and then you go we'll hold it and I go wait is what's going on and then I
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had a dollar left oh my God they go go nuts you guys Drew's like I hear that I was
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still I didn't put down my waiter's apron until 23 and a half you guys start
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right out of kindergarten start Rob can I ask you a question Drew because you kind of thought talked about
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like Reese Witherspoon okay she's another like how did she do all that and I heard
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her kind of own it like in the way men can sort of own it like okay I get out of my way I can do anything basically
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yeah is it difficult for you to have that gear because people would say I'm nice they'd say you're nice but you know
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do where do you have that part of you that has a ego like can kind of I do yourself give yourself a pat on the back
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you don't so that's why you just keep going yeah and I hate those I and I know
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Rhys um so I I you know she's just incredible that she is a good like hot question
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mark of how the hell does she do it um I um I I feel like I had uh so much opportunity because of starting as a kid
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that the gender effect never um had me it never had my attention it was squandered early because I started
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working as a baby and kept working so I never had the um anything other than I I could do all
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these things and they're my opportunities to screw up or make something of and
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um there were men and women giving me those opportunities um I just wrote the forward to the new
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ET book because it's the 40th anniversary and I was talking about Kathleen Kennedy and Melissa Matheson
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you know I I saw women at work um so uh I I just really didn't have that I need to be aggressive or act like
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a man to get anything done and I always felt permission to check in with my Idols the Go-Go's and Pippi Longstocking
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who were all girl all the time but they did everything that boys did and it became my ethos on making Charlie's
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Angels was why do women have to pretend to be men in order to look strong and capable because the truth is in my world
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if I was kicking butt with my girlfriends we would totally be talking about last night's date while taking the
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bad guy down and bad guy could be again bad guy or a bad girl I've never been
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affected luckily I've not had the unfortunate ingenue treatment of being held back or
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as I started a production company at 19 and it was really in the era of the power suit woman I was like intimidated
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by that and just felt like screw it I'm gonna be a girl with my corduroys and my
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JanSport backpacks and the work is gonna speak for me and no man has ever kept me
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down they've only helped give me opportunities as women have and I'm just
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I'm a girl and I I think the one thing that's always stuck out for me about men
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first and foremost was that like a lot of my comedy influence when I was young came from Men there weren't a ton of
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female comedians um there's so many more now I feel like the playing field is so much more equal
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um so I identified men a lot with funny and that was a good thing I didn't think
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of men as my bosses or anyone who was going to hold me back or I had to be like them
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fortunate Liberation my entire life like that and I hate boss [ __ ] I hate it boss lady it sounds like you're hanging
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a pair of balls on you um with a bitterness and I don't like that because I don't have one bitter
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bone in my body however if people have to put you know metaphorical balls on or a cape or do any mechanism to empower
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themselves that I stand back and do not judge because everybody has their process of how they get to bravery
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she is the best answers I know oh my God they're unreal oh David Spade I love you
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so much I mean my God uh we have to talk about SNL so by the way back to E.T to have two women that high up in the chain
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yeah it must have been nice back then and they must have had an even Keel about them because you look up to them
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and you don't see them I mean there is equal up there with everybody that are
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running a huge huge movie that's good that's a good influence early on Steven
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Spielberg was flanked by these two women Frank Marshall was there but Kathleen Kennedy and Melissa Matheson and uh so
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Melissa wrote it just for our viewers Melissa wrote it she was married to Harrison Ford at the time
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um they were very close uh they had the script for years they were making the Indiana Jones movies they were all a
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tight-knit group and um she had this script it was called the boys life and um and yeah that's what E.T was called
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yeah it wasn't called DT until after the film was made I guess maybe in marketing
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I'd have to ask it was kind of a little gross monster for a little bit I heard
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cute little alien uh okay good so as Dana ask her a question about SNL what are you doing I
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I know I'm so I'm so uh I'm a little bit I'm Starstruck too I was fascinated by
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your life I I I think it's so cool I'm Star Struck by you guys I mean literally
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you're about to bring up SNL and I I don't know where your question's gonna
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go but boy did that show change my life in so many ways uh but in no way did I participate the way that you guys have
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[Music] for people don't know it yeah you've hosted six times which is a record
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foreign we're gonna book her for three a year oh yeah and she makes you know big movies
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that are gonna you know I I'm sure she's gonna beat me and I love her so much and
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we just did this show together um and if anyone's gonna beat it but here's a record I do hope that I I think
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I will be it will be Bittersweet when it happens um I am still the youngest yes in 1982
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at seven years old yes and that One's Gonna Hurt that's gonna and really no danger I don't know unless
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I wonder how has it not been taken how the hell has that not happening well because it's child abuse
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Hey kid you're gonna I can't even handle I was crying when I hosted and I'd done
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200 shows yeah and you go back there and you're like wait what do I do and the
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band's playing it's terrifying I'm 47 and I can't even but was the monkey a
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surprise yes yes it's a total surprise for David yeah go ahead explain that because Sam kazarinsky
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um who I'd have just an adorable crush on I just thought he was the greatest
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thing since sliced bread um they didn't want me to have to deal with an opening monologue um and they
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sort of addressed that in the monologue and they say instead we're gonna do a q
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a with Tim um and Drew uh weird to say her name and um so he asked me questions on little
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index cards and I'm adorable and then at the end he says we have a surprise for
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you and they bring out this monkey yeah I don't know what the point of it was
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other than to well your reaction cutest thing and the most delightful surprise for anyone let alone a
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seven-year-old girl I remember so many different emotions uh Stephen Spielberg came and he's very
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much a probably the only Father Figure I've really had in my life and he was
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very parental and uh on the show night he brought Robin Williams which scared me to death because I was so delicious
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obsessed with Robin Williams and um that felt very intimidating uh to me and um who's blabbing yeah
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somebody's auditioning back there all right sorry um tell them you don't want to get
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spayed mad exactly um so um Robin Williams so Robin Williams um and it was such a weird mixed bag
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because the there I was in the opening scene which I didn't realize until way
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later how hard it is to get in the scene before the credits um like I spent my young adulthood
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fighting to get in that opening scene really the cold open and I was in it and they all circle around me and I'm sad
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about something and they are rallying me up and then they said you know would you
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like a glass of milk and I remember my line was milk I'm a Barrymore uh I want
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to drink and make it a double boy little did I know how true that would end up you were like all kidding
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aside make it a double was there was there a family history of that at all or oh my God
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outside of consumption literally my grandfather died of consumption um I think uh Ethel and Lionel were a
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bit more put together but yeah total hedonists and um and artists um and a long line of alcoholism and uh
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and yeah so it's highly genetic obviously it is highly genetic but I'm gonna be the one who breaks that in our
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Chain break it yeah I haven't been I haven't had a drink in almost three
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years and um it's wow it's a really good feeling what's your happy place how do
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you calm down then do you meditate do you take a bath do you run around the block how do you call that that thinking
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brain without alcohol um and I'm not sober I don't work a program I just I realized my
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relationship with alcohol was the most toxic one in my life and when I'd been
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trying to master since I was nine years old and did start drinking um and that yeah I had to find a way uh
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I had to find a different way to live and I can sort of Trace every negative thing back in my life and there's
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probably alcohol dancing in there somewhere um and it's like the best breakup I've
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ever had in my life and it's so confident and quiet and I have a bar in my house I serve people drinks I have no
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Hang-Ups about it I'm just like so psyched at this choice to finally cut this like cancer out of my life it's
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something excuse me well you feel better too I mean there's a lot of positives if
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you can get through it it's a lot of yeah and so how did you manage all these
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movies and this massive career while hat and by being was it sort of binge drinking or would you how did people
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look the other way um yeah I think you know when you do burn the candle at both ends and you are
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prolific that's part of the fooling yourself like but I'm doing all this
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work so I'm functioning yeah um and that was definitely my justification but I was more of like
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when I partied I was the crazy one um like I can think of another SNL Alum Chris Katan whose nickname and I for
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each other is rooftops because we would get wasted and jump off my roof into the
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pool um and I had a lot of fun with that and yeah they're they're it wasn't all bad
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um and then I think when kids came into my life I realized that this was no longer sustainable and I made a hard
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choice and it's the best one I've ever made when it was just me and my life I
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guess I didn't matter to myself enough to find the balance my kids mattered more to me than I did and I found the
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balance and it didn't come easy and it wasn't pretty and we all wish we had
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done things sooner but I'm here and I'm so happy to be here and that in itself I
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think has replaced a ton of meditation and jogging and new agey stuff and self-help and self-care just being a
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person who isn't corroded with guilt and dysfunction and blame like I had a bad
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girl narrative growing up so every time I did something wrong I went straight back to well you're a bad girl so what
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the [ __ ] else do you think it's you you're the bad girl and if it's kind of
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your your thing like she's the Drinker and the fun party girl then you're like
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it's already sort of factored in so no one One's Gonna Get Mad that's kind of
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what they want 100 I'm the good time girl um and I did have a good time I wasn't
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willing to give it up for a long time I was balancing it in a way where I was working my ass off I work hard I played
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hard and that was okay for 30 years and then I I think growing up as an overrated I'm
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totally into it I really um I I'm I'm I feel so lucky to have arrived at a more peaceful saner place
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I'm 47 and I don't know if it I just only know my own journey I started so
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much younger than other people in in many ways but I think a lot of my wisdom came later
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um and that's okay I don't even ask people what their age is because I don't
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give a [ __ ] I don't think it's gonna tell me everything about you you're
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gonna tell me if I have to ask people what their ages I'll literally say what's your number because it's not
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indicative of your journey there are people who have clawed their way through life at such a young age and been dealt
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such strange cards and there are people who just can't seem to mature no matter
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how hard everyone around them is trying David won't did you say David no that was a joke
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look at him in his Mansion he's very he's very successful listen I was when I when I when I was
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nine years old my mom would say you're not drinking until you're nine like Drew
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Barrymore and I go right that's where we had a tough rule um no I've got my [ __ ] together Drew
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um no I don't do you drew no no no it's about you we're damaged little
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clowns yeah we're little clowns it was uh it was an interesting lesson growing
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up being such a lover of male comedians um you know so many wake-up calls on who
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used the sort of torture as an excuse to you know behave a certain way or be kind
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of an intense person or you know talk to me or Dana and those who didn't you know
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and I would definitely gravitate towards the ones who didn't but I it I and my
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mom by the way when I was a kid not only did I get to do SNL at seven years old but my mom worked as a waitress in The
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Comedy Store so right now I have a character that I do for the digital on our show named Mitzi banana more and
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it's all dedicated to Mitzi Shore really and she's the inspiration for it and I
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get to ask questions that I can't get away with on daytime television and I got a wig and a look and a whole thing
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and I you know it sounds so funny coming out of you you have a lot of mitzi's
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stories because I we have stories about Mitzi you know Holly sure was my babysitter oh yes sorry is everything
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okay I think so him and Donovan Leach used to like look after me sometimes like our parents
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didn't I mean my mom is in extreme case and you know but like a lot of people
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were in that time like we did not parent back then the way we do now and it's
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crazy the scrutiny and the helicopter parenting and the guilt and the books and the rights and the rungs and the
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do's and the don'ts yeah my mom just left me with Polly and Donovan uh while
00:30:59
she and Mitzi were off at work it was fun I I loved it and my mom gave me such a rich history on who each and every
00:31:09
comedian was um and what their body of work was and what Steve Martin meant and what Robin
00:31:17
Williams meant and who these people that came and did a set that night or here's
00:31:21
the person up and coming it's very in My DNA a and so for me getting on this
00:31:27
podcast with you guys like I'm the one freaking out I don't know what so much
00:31:32
of my life would be without the things that you both have put into the world and comedy is a very healing thing I
00:31:40
call it medicine always and I've been trained like a little seal to appreciate
00:31:46
and understand the power of when someone makes you laugh they take away your pain
00:31:53
and stress they give you a respite from your trauma and your damage and your worries and the things you gotta do and
00:32:02
the things that have affected you you are liberated and free in that moment because you your Chemistry changes you
00:32:11
can't laugh and worry at the same time I I mean by the way the more you're
00:32:17
worried I hope the more you are laughing because it's the only way you're gonna
00:32:21
survive it well this leads me to a question because uh you're given a background on what
00:32:27
comedy meant to you and learning this in real time with you um what does it mean to have hosted SNL
00:32:34
for you because then you go into America's comedy Palace basically and you host it six times I mean what does
00:32:41
that mean to you and and how thrilling was it for you to then be part of it after the age of seven and then you're
00:32:48
an adult mature funny person on that show I just think what is it what is it I don't know you have six minutes to
00:32:56
answer that question I I really feel like um that show is an institution and it's
00:33:07
a living breathing tree it's a Giving Tree that new leaves come out of its branches
00:33:17
and these leaves are these people these artists such good answers so far yeah you speak like a poet yeah it's unreal
00:33:28
have you written a book of poems you have haven't you I don't I think yeah I
00:33:32
do write poetry I love poetry about it I read a lot of poetry growing up um I and we get to bask in the shade and the
00:33:42
light of that tree and it's like it's it Formed me so much as a human being and I'm happy to say whether it's
00:33:53
successful or not I don't know I'm not objective about myself um I never want to be
00:33:59
um but when I was lucky enough to get the show that I'm doing now um which is a talk show it has my name
00:34:07
on it actually asked for it to be named something else they said that's not how
00:34:10
this works I said fine um uh we'll go with the household name you have a great you have a great night
00:34:18
yeah yeah it's a cool name one syllable and then three syllables it's just it
00:34:23
goes Drew Barrymore it's just a cool name uh thank you Dana Carvey uh that ends in a smile
00:34:35
um I think um I just never thought of that um it's true um I I leaned in so hard to my SNL training
00:34:48
for this show um and a couple examples are that when we launched the pandemic in 2020 it was
00:34:56
a very scary time to find a voice I felt like it was um in order to be quiet and be a good
00:35:05
listener and be a student and learn and so that was really intimidating but I tried to tap into bravery to be funny
00:35:14
and have a show that really celebrated Comedians and go hard on Comedy um it was go hard I love it it was scary
00:35:25
and it I think it confused a lot of people um and especially in that moment like what
00:35:34
the hell is this pandemic here she comes again yep and um the truth News segment
00:35:40
of the show from which I fought for since the pilot um I kept trying to explain it to
00:35:47
everybody and um obviously there is this section of a magazine called the week that's called
00:35:55
it wasn't all bad and it's just these tiny baby-sized paragraphs that are so
00:36:01
funny and uplifting and weird um and then Weekend Update and then you know I just kept saying I
00:36:10
just like Weekend Update to me is is a drug I I'm on that feeder I watch it every week
00:36:19
I've I've never I'd never I don't miss it I I I love finding out information in a funny way
00:36:32
um we could call it satire you could call it pop culture you could call it comedy but like that news desk I had a
00:36:40
picture of Walter Cronkite The Weekend Update desk and like The Week Magazine and it I think everyone was really
00:36:49
scared because they were like well that's very written and I was like no I know I'm not gonna write it we're gonna
00:36:56
report stories that give people hope because there is good news out there and there are life-affirming things and
00:37:04
there are weird happenings and interesting findings and we're going to be an aggregator for that and then we
00:37:10
can do commentary on it um I think Chelsea Lately honestly was a really interesting oh yeah you know she
00:37:18
she did a format where they really commented more on like gossip and pop culture but it was so much fun and no
00:37:25
one it was a great show and she had a panel of Comedians and it was delicious and nobody had done that and you know
00:37:33
Drew during your during the pandemic it's even harder because it's an uphill
00:37:37
battle everything in the news is bad it was so pessimistic and so rough that you're fighting through that clutter and
00:37:43
if anyone would just turned to the channel and see you they're like give me a breather here for a second
00:37:48
I didn't know if I would ever be one but I knew that I wanted and I thought I
00:37:54
want to be a bright spot and not a blind spot I want you to come here and not think that I don't understand what's
00:38:01
happening all around us but there is beautiful things there are wonderful people there is that good and if we have
00:38:08
to be reminded in life affirming ways that this battle is worth it great then that's what I want to do and
00:38:17
how do I take us out while not seeming like I've lost the plot or I'm not in
00:38:24
and aware and civic duty minded of everything that is really happening in reality and it was the weirdest seesaw
00:38:33
ever to balance but I would say that Saturday Night Live has been my biggest influence
00:38:41
um in my life Jesus uh and now that it I got to do a show that's not a movie or not a script
00:38:51
or not a rom com that probably involves a lot of people from the SNL Alum um you know you can you can see that
00:39:01
love and that honoring and that adhesive sort of admiration I have for male comedians
00:39:08
because I've spent so much time you know I'm not Sandler and Fallon and you did
00:39:13
movies with both those guys like how crazy and I I have to say I got to be in Wayne's World is beer again Kerrigan
00:39:20
foreign I really feel like that was the I like I'm I'm I was worried sweet like anyone
00:39:32
was gonna be mad at me like I made a real joke out of the accent because I didn't really study enough for at night
00:39:38
I thought it went for the broad comedy and I was like yeah and people with that people's got to stop being offended
00:39:47
again all I do is Greta thumbberg I don't know what country she's from how dare you how
00:39:55
dare you that's it it's just three words [Music] what is it like to be able to have that
00:40:06
like Jimmy Fallon came on the show the other day and he's married to my partner
00:40:10
they fell in love on fever pitch um so he's like we're family um but we did one episode together here
00:40:18
on this show where we were like let's try Impressions and like I suck at Impressions like what's it like to have
00:40:25
that kind of access and the snap of a finger and be able to do any voice like I have to study and like take it so
00:40:33
seriously that I almost lose the freedom and The Whimsy I gotta learn it so well
00:40:39
that then I can play because I've got it so [ __ ] down that now I feel liberated and free because I held on to
00:40:48
it so tightly what's it like to just be like ha hear play fingertips access um well I I doubt now exactly what
00:40:58
you're saying but I think I've got a bloody idea about something you're
00:41:04
trying Michael can everyone Michael Kane if I have to say it I don't know I'd I
00:41:09
said you're tremendous everyone says excuse me many people Drew Barrymore your show's terrific it's terrific many
00:41:15
people excuse me many people are saying yes I have a new Rhythm for him I'll do
00:41:20
it for Drew he when he's honest on the the uh Podium to his audience he goes
00:41:26
gas prices are going up six dollars seven dollars ten how high can you go that's the final Rhythm how high yeah
00:41:35
yeah it's a it's a it's all inflection yeah yeah and I just have fun with it
00:41:40
I'm in awe of like there's certain people do certain Impressions and I just
00:41:43
love it and I'm on awe of it and Jimmy Fallon his his Neil Young you know it's
00:41:49
like insane because Neil Young he has so much talent uh you know I've talked to
00:41:55
people there like he's with Justin Timberlake and they're doing they're
00:41:57
choreographing something and they go Jimmy just one time he's got it and then
00:42:02
he can sing and he dances and he does all these voices and he's such a great
00:42:06
great uh talk show host because he's so such a great idea we're all so influenced by that Renaissance variety
00:42:14
human um that can pull out of The Ether or have a premeditated approach to it or
00:42:25
access to both um well what's one that you learned you talked about learning one and really
00:42:32
owning it yeah do you have a good one load it up do you do Chloe Feynman sorry Jesus
00:42:38
um I'm sorry that's my favorite thing who is that awesome we've done we've
00:42:42
done dozens of these that's my favorite moment thank you drew that's the most
00:42:46
real moment thank you I'm sorry now you're definitely the coolest oh good oh
00:42:54
good I am um it's getting to my house now it's just getting to me oof I uh let's see
00:43:01
what have I eaten today um chili dog I can tell you no just only only quinoa like a quinoa porridge it's pretty
00:43:10
boring um I uh oh [ __ ] what was the question for the end oh well we have a lot of Sandler
00:43:20
questions at the end we got a little let's we got to say other questions because we like to clown on him
00:43:25
um I mean God do I just I love him he doesn't I got some monster movies with
00:43:31
him Adam's made a lot of great movies but I think 51 dates is like one of his
00:43:37
very very best because I it was such a complete film and it was so emotional at the end you know I don't didn't you find
00:43:43
that to be an extra special one you did with him 50 51 dates you've done three
00:43:48
first days 50 First Dates or 51 originally uh another title uh change it was called 51st kisses
00:43:58
um and I think they thought that was too girly yeah uh oh dates um like dates is
00:44:06
more gender neutral now this actually became a really big study for me about men and women this is where I really did
00:44:17
take on gender so Nan my partner had found that script and it was a drama that took place in Seattle and funny
00:44:25
enough she like wanted Reese Witherspoon to do it she was like you're busy I'm gonna I was
00:44:33
I believe in Reese Witherspoon she was a total fan we've all been fans of first
00:44:37
forever I've known Reece since I was 14 years old um and so she had me read it at a table
00:44:43
reading and I was like oh my God this is the best script ever and we wanted to to
00:44:49
um get attached to it as producers at flower films and it disappeared overnight like it just someone gobbled
00:44:57
it up and then her and I tracked it for the next like I mean years several years
00:45:04
it went through different big directors and big actresses um and uh we just Nan and I were like
00:45:13
determined to track where this script went and all of the sudden it finally matriculates over to none
00:45:23
other than happy Madison Happy Madison and that is to anyone who doesn't know
00:45:28
is Adam Sandler's company he's always done it with the same people he always
00:45:33
will he's such a loyalist and um it was everybody I knew from The Wedding Singer and oh another great one
00:45:40
yeah I love that movie oh another monster well I stalked him I was like I know that you and I are supposed to be
00:45:48
Catherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy except for probably through more of like a Marty Feldman buddy hacket lens
00:45:56
um seeing myself Catherine Hepburn here I've got purple hair and a leopard coat
00:46:01
on and you're like sporty sport you're Sporty Spice so nothing about it physically says that this is a match but
00:46:09
I am convinced Adam that you and I are supposed to be cinematic soul mates and uh we did The Wedding Singer
00:46:18
together and then I think it was like 10 or 11 years later I found out the script
00:46:23
went to him I ran into my trailer we were filming Charlie's Angels on the Sony lot Happy Madison was on the Sony
00:46:29
lot and instead of running over to his office I thought I'm gonna type out a
00:46:33
letter for him so I got in my all of that a typewriter and I typed out this um letter to him
00:46:40
hysterically sobbing and this I think the power of a letter I've had multiple
00:46:46
things happen that have changed my life for the better or in palpable powerful ways through a letter yeah don't deny
00:46:54
the power of a letter and I said I I know we've talked about maybe coming back together we set ourselves up
00:47:02
real well in the first one which kind of [ __ ] us up for the second one because
00:47:07
the expectations are going to be really high for both of us and we can't do something that is less than we have to
00:47:15
do something equal or maybe even more than and I am convinced that this is the movie
00:47:22
and I had someone run the letter over to his office he showed up at my trailer door
00:47:31
what are you trying to do it again why do you like this movie We're trying to make it into a comedy and I said oh
00:47:46
my God really and he goes yeah and I go but okay uh interesting well damn it you cannot lose what is so
00:47:58
[ __ ] important about this movie which is how do you make someone fall in love with you every day and the Poetry like
00:48:05
as a woman I've never been more [ __ ] moved in my life you can't wash that
00:48:10
away with goofiness and he was like yeah but we know comedy and we know what guys want I said and
00:48:17
you know what I know what girls want he goes well then obviously you've got to
00:48:22
produce it with me and I said well obviously we've got to make this movie together and he was like so it's
00:48:27
happening and I'm like is it happening really wow what a great story I love it
00:48:32
we went to work right away and we got flower films which was me and Nan and happy Madison which was him and the boys
00:48:40
and we sat there and we rewrote the movie based on what we thought went like what
00:48:49
we were all women's side yeah women's side boys side yeah and this was in the
00:48:53
day where as a producer early on I you know I was told you know men make the decisions about where to go to the movie
00:49:00
that weekend and the girlfriend will go with that and that's a gender stereotype that I
00:49:06
just thought oh God that's crazy all right well I don't know what to do with
00:49:10
that information but thank you for telling me that and uh we tried to make it this balanced
00:49:20
seesaw and I we met with directors and it was in Pete Siegel who you know I I always think I I got lucky
00:49:32
and had a knack for seeing things in directors that they hadn't had in their
00:49:37
work before and with Pete Siegel I knew he was the guy I knew he got the tone and this was going to be such a
00:49:44
challenge to straddle like whale sperm flying in faces one minute and trying to connect with the human heart
00:49:57
and move people in the next scene and I was like this is gonna take a very unique conductor to pull this all up and
00:50:07
make everybody happy and I knew that Pete could do it because of our conversations I knew he got it and he
00:50:15
did another big comedy Drew what Tommy Boy oh it was your director 10 years ago which is another really really
00:50:24
great film isn't that crazy look at your face oh my God oh my God I didn't even
00:50:30
realize that that is a [ __ ] masterpiece can you believe I was saying when you just said Pete Siegler oh you got the
00:50:37
right guy oh my god Tommy Boy I mean that's an iconic movie David iconic like history books well I love Tommy Boy
00:50:48
and I'm thinking for you guys to balance that the team of you Sandler and Pete
00:50:54
and then you throw Rob Schneider in a coconut bra or whatever he did does these great funny characters but
00:51:07
it's interesting Drew you say that that the bones of it was a drama because that's still whatever you guys did it's
00:51:13
kind of what it is it resonated by the third actor when he's on the boat he sees you again it got me verklempt I
00:51:20
mean I oh for sure to ride with it and that's hard to do in a comedy it's very
00:51:26
hard to do it's it was my life and very much with the show that again I am lucky
00:51:32
enough to make and we fight so hard for it over here we have the best time making it but it making a show and
00:51:39
broadcast and daytime in this time it's really challenging um and we're trying to find new ways to
00:51:46
reinvent it but I I want to be greedy in life and have all the tones I think we have all the feels and
00:51:56
therefore there are all the tones and they're all the life experiences and no
00:52:01
journey is devoid of tragedy and laughter and love and heartbreak and death and loss and ecstasy and sex and
00:52:14
you know maybe children if you choose to go that route and you know relationship
00:52:19
it's just it's all the things and so I don't like it's music you know and it's
00:52:25
visuals and Cinema like it's books it's it's everything it's everything and I
00:52:31
want so badly to put everything in a blender but then I think the trick is you still have to make it your own you
00:52:40
have to be you um but I love all the all the towns and i i 50 First Dates is definitely a fun
00:52:50
tonal example that you can well done really well put together but I I'm aiming for that for everything in my
00:53:01
life can it can it like maybe the North Stars can be simplified down to heart and humor
00:53:08
maybe you're like Paris that Ernest Hemingway call it a Movable Feast I of course that's a beautiful book I yeah
00:53:16
it's well that phrase is just sort of encompasses kind of what you were saying
00:53:21
the the magistry and the Symphony of life and all you know slings and arrows and ups and downs and yeah better
00:53:29
philosophers than me have spoke to but to live is to suffer and have joy every day and we had a joy today visiting I
00:53:37
was a talk show host in a previous life ladies and gentlemen Hemingway perfectly
00:53:43
um uh it is such like I was so excited to do this with you guys I thank you for choosing me thank you for having me
00:53:52
we're through um thank you for everything that you've done I I I just love and admire you and
00:54:00
I'm I'm well you've you've brought a an energy and a a different point of view
00:54:06
and you're uh you know you're so far sort of an outlier it was really great
00:54:10
to get you on our podcast and here used to speak to all this stuff really interesting
00:54:17
thank you I said my oh God and by the way I will be on the tea forever of laughter so
00:54:27
please keep giving it to everyone and I'm glad you guys are doing this thank
00:54:33
you for having me to the party [Music] hey what's up flies what's up please
00:54:37
what's up people that listen we want to hear from you and your dumb questions
00:54:41
questions ask us anything anything you want you can email us at fly on the wall at cadence13.com
00:54:50
uh okay Andrew Brewer now this is a great one because Andrew Brewer is it says hey it's Brewer your old sensor
00:54:57
from the SNL days now Dana we've talked about him because we always say something nice about him he was a cool
00:55:02
dude and he was fun and he had a tough job you would write a script and then you if it was a little risque you'd have
00:55:09
to run it by Andrew and so you would load it up like it would be like hard triple X yeah so that he could negotiate
00:55:16
he'd say well I'm going to take this out and this out I mean he couldn't swear
00:55:19
but you could negotiate yeah so if you put two in there you didn't care about
00:55:23
you would give him those then you'd still have your real script but he kind of caught on to that he I think he knew
00:55:28
the whole game but it says do you boys this is his question you boys recall any run-ins we had while we were all in the
00:55:34
show of course he has ideas Dana I'll ask it for him the one that comes to mind is uh the taped black and white
00:55:42
Wayne's World piece that you did with Mike Madonna and and you were in a hotel
00:55:46
room it was full s m i remember that very steamy in the day we spent a lot of time in the editing room yeah and the
00:55:52
nude beach sketch which almost got him fired on as Garth and a Cod piece I remember that was strutting around on
00:55:59
scuttering that was a big deal it was like touching herself I don't know why
00:56:03
we have who shot that Chiller probably it was cool it was really fun that was a good bit yeah it was really funny but
00:56:11
yeah it was a little risque for in those days yeah and I did Hollywood minute with him and he said uh
00:56:18
one of the ones I remember he told you not to do but I did it anyway oh it was a joke that was something like Pam
00:56:24
Anderson found Tommy Lee's new penis tattoo hard to swallow that's a good that's a good class and he
00:56:30
said he took it out for the west coast feed before it got to the West Coast oh my god oh did he yeah well the one that
00:56:36
took like a year to get on and I'm not sure who wrote it maybe smile but it was
00:56:41
just guys at a nudist beach but we we so when we finally did it with Tom Hanks we
00:56:46
all just have whatever diapers on we're behind a slap you see our legs and you
00:56:50
see our torsos yeah like we're new to the beach and we're just commenting
00:56:54
about each other's hey nice peanuts how's that how's the penis going hey Ray
00:56:58
terrific penis and we say penis like 300 times yeah so but but the time Andrew got through with it it was down to 199.
00:57:06
yeah he goes I slashed it down he slashed look he says I always apologize afterwards me he said it's fate I'll
00:57:12
give you this you always apologize afterwards well that means I just didn't do what he said and then I asked from
00:57:17
asked what is it called don't ask permission to ask yes I don't know if he was there when we
00:57:24
did that Italian sketch where I had Victoria on the table that was supposed well I wasn't supposed
00:57:29
to do that move you look it up everything he was there when I said [ __ ] on update but he told me I have to
00:57:35
say who's that and I and I and Dennis go spuddling you better [ __ ] nail this one you're
00:57:40
gonna get [ __ ] canned so before we go on live and then I go I'm gonna go out
00:57:43
after the show and get them what was it and then they laughed and he goes you're
00:57:46
[ __ ] gone spudley because they laughed too hard he goes this had a little cracker you're out of here man
00:57:53
you swallowed the word you know stop guys Jesus get get go to Sleepy's get a
00:57:58
new mattress okay he likes sleepies I know uh Andrew thank you bud yeah Andrew was very cool on a personal note this is
00:58:07
just really interesting because you always wonder where people end up people behind the scenes or he he worked as a
00:58:14
sensor but he writes to us here which sounds so awesome I'm currently kicking back and living in Barcelona
00:58:23
drinking cheap red wine and attending Spanish School come visit your old Pali sensor EXO Andrew so I would just say
00:58:33
you're the champion of life um you beat life anyone who's drinking cheap wine in Barcelona and kicking back
00:58:40
is the champion of Life maybe I got an Emmy on Saturday Night Live but you're
00:58:45
the real Emmy winner Andrew yeah you're stuffed in my basement doing uh reading
00:58:49
questions I think he won that round yeah we're still dancing and sweating and for our
00:58:55
for our nickel man we don't have time to drink wine or go to Barcelona and pennies
00:58:59
first we're puffy little clowns we need attention we'll never quit never stop
00:59:04
we're puffy puffy little clowns ready face puffy little clowns I flushed a lot
00:59:10
now that I'm over 50. for no apparent reason all right thank you Andrew thank
00:59:15
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