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guys Maya Rudolph's on the show today who we love Dan is munching I I got to
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go to Hawaii with Maya when her Pearl was just squirted out literally I cut the cord on the plane and then we had
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fun there and then I saw them she and PTA were there during uh wrong Missy at the beginning they were just there in
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Hawaii so we got to see him but she's always obviously a super talent and uh
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now I have now a story if you Dana before you talk I'm just thinking about the umbilical cord because I cut the
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umbilical cord of her no of my own wife dummy and how'd it go well they give you
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gloves that are the exact same color of the umbilical cord so my two fingers down there and I've got scissors is this
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like three umbilical cords three little hot dogs three umbilical cords I'm like when I
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went I didn't know if I was gonna get it on my finger yeah and then you get the
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bill you go hey you didn't knock off anything for uh my work so news flash how about bright red gloves for the guy
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cutting the umbilical cord so he can do it for any what color isn't it could the
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audience wants to know oh I don't know we'll let Maya his answer we talk about
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that oh yeah we get into that also I want to tell Dana that you know when you're on SNL we didn't get to this with
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Maya but you know Lauren sometimes we'll call you out of the blue now I'm
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lower on the totem pole this guy was more of a journeyman but this but Lauren calls me out of the blue maybe two three
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years in they go Lauren's calling I go I'm back in La I go yeah hello and he goes David
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uh Lauren yes the girl told me and then he goes David uh Mick Jagger is doing something for something and uh he has to
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give like a little monologue speech do you think you'd have any um ideas or I
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think you'd be someone who knows music you could throw on something I go I don't know when's he doing it and uh
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what is it now here hello he puts Mick on oh and I go oh hello hello yeah he goes oh I need some [ __ ] rib
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ticklers all we need a pun or something I know his joke for me don't give me
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your [ __ ] regular dog [ __ ] I've seen in there yeah give me the good stuff top
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shelf so I sat there and tried to pitch some [ __ ] [ __ ] all the jokes for yourself give it to me or Mick Jagger
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maybe put a little wiggle wiggle in it it fold he goes I can wiggle wiggle like oh you
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should do the tick tock oh God hips against moving sway side to side I'm not
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doing it not even close to Mick Jagger but uh it was just to say that we were talking
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earlier about that like it's sort of interesting that first of all Lauren has
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all these big deal friends and then when you get pulled into the mix suddenly I'm on the phone he just puts
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them on you talk and then mix mix almost nervous pitch me ideas because to anyone
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else to a comedian he doesn't want to know what level Amy just heard I was a
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writer you know he goes this he might write some good jokes so he's kind of going what about this what about this
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and I'm saying this anyway he won't remember so don't ask him because he'll
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deny it but uh and because it didn't happen but Maya Rudolph is a uh I was going to tell
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Mike oh yeah oh Dana hold for Keith Richards he's gonna do the monologue hi Keith I don't even know if I have
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anything that's all right bro that's mine Lauren then it got worse over the years hold for Hanson
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[Laughter] hey Dana it's Kelsey Grammer if you don't if you can't do an impression
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young people just say the name of the person hold for Oracle yeah one more name charcoal that Circle well I'm not cool
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boys [Music] 14 hours doing these anyway my Rudolph we love her she sings uh she dances she
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does all these great characters she's doing her show right now called go loot
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root two Billboards on Sunset and we get into that uh everyone loves Maya is uh a
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show that I'm gonna pitch to her all the women I know in my life love mine she's
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she's like someone who you would if you if you like someone if you sat down for
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lunch you'd be like really really happy exactly that was Lauren talking about
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Maya Maya that little Squadron uh is a is a is a hit so and she she will one thing I
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stood out for me is just talking about uh doesn't have time for fools or or jerks or angry people that's right wants
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to enjoy her work so anyway it's a very very cool interview I would really enjoy
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hanging out with her here she is [Music] did you did you hear the lightning did you hear the lightning what lightning oh
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we had a lot of lightning with power outages all kinds of stuff are you in LA I'm in L.A yeah I'm in David's third
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place lightning in L.A you know West Hollywood just everything went out the hell yeah this is where this goes
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out to the world so my my address is if you'd like it's at the corner of it's
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usually unlocked Maya Rudolph is our guest today I'm in New York's Spady what's going on
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there why do you have to be there well I come here for I come here for the fun you know I come here for the fun well
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you're never not working so what would you be working nice one I came to do uh
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Fallon and hey that's Fallon that's uh and I did it for Jimmy and he loves it
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uh my my uh Apple show loot is coming out on Friday so I'm promoting it this
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time on Apple you do a lot of shows I like all your shows if you're with Fred
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you're with friends you're you know you're at Camp you're by the lake with
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all the ladies and now you're who's in loot with you yeah loot is she gets 82
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billion dollars 87 87 billion dollars uh and then she gets she finds out she's in
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charge of a charity that she wasn't quite aware of a foundation it makes it seem like he was very good
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at his book reports I'm watching after this is my book report struggling through in front of the class then
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you're married these aren't spoilers they're in the trailer you your husband
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cheats on you and you get money but you don't really know what to do with your
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life because you sort of live a uh you know I like it it's it's the reverse Meg
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Markle story I'm playing Meg Markle so then she you're trying to help the
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world and also help yourself Spade that was lovely thank you so much for sharing
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with the club that was great what did I get a B you've got an A for effort but I see loot Billboards and I go oh
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there's Maya of course one million things she does because she's just the
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most in-demand act we're gonna call you the busiest actress she really is and
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you know why because she adds to everything so if you throw her in no matter what the lead any part she scores
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and uh it's just more about her picking and deciding she seems to be very good
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at whatever she does I'm just gonna observe that you can disagree uh but you seem to be excellent Dana I I just
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want to hear you uh that's really nice to hear you say I know Spade loves me
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but Dana you already know I love you so it's very exciting of course you say
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that every interaction I've had with you has been positive over the years at SNL
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at Largo you just you're just cool I don't know but you know what you actually I know it sounds like kind of
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trivial but that's actually a very big element for me is like if it's not
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positive I'm not interested yes I think even yes during the Great reset and after the pandemic I'm not into
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negativity I just want positivity for that like I noticed that I was the Dork that like when people would say
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like who's your favorite host on SNL like who's your favorite I would always
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say like I was such a sucker I was like well so and so was really nice you know like if someone was really nice I'd like
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them like I didn't even care really they were funny but like they were difficult
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or you know if they were like a kind person I was like you know what they were really great I really enjoyed that
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I think I hosted I think it was Jimmy's fourth show did you come in with Jimmy
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Fallon or you were earlier Jimmy you hosted once when I was there though yeah and I remember hanging out with you in
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the bleachers in 8h and you just turned to me and you said you're nice you're
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really you're really nice you know like you're kind of yeah something like that
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I guess to you I it's like a it's a real comedy turn on for me I really like it I
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don't like when people are mean or snarky it's not um it's not enjoyable for me it makes my
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butthole tight in a bad way yeah yeah I have the same when you do work as much as we all do different things I think
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we've all been in a situation where you're on a show or you're somewhere
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where you're kind of stuck like a movie or a show and you know it's gonna be
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days and you realize because you never meet anyone really until maybe a read through or on the set and if you get a
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weird vibe you're like oh my God is this this [ __ ] gonna be like this the whole
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time I'll be on eggshells so you try to work with people and people go why do
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you do movies with people you know or it's just such a simple answer because
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you know what you're getting you know they're already cool or you wouldn't do
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it again and I also feel like I'm not as funny on my own because I'm I'm sketch
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lady I'm not a stand-up so I prefer um a team sport and I like I feel funnier when I'm with people that make
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me laugh so I I feed off of that energy so I need to be like genuinely enjoying myself or it's a real Downer for me I
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don't I totally agree yeah I'm completely with you and I feel like I was a sketch player organically but I
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became a stand-up there wasn't any improv troops in San Francisco at the time that I would join but with David or
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you or anyone yeah it gets you going and I uh I think that joyfulness maybe is underrated and you know there's certain
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camps that like if it's frustrating or people are angry it's going to be a
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better project but I just think Joy wins yeah I don't want to be like you know Mickey Rourke and uh what's her
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name nine and a half weeks making nine and a half weeks like did he carry Otis or something didn't he like eat a raw
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onion before he kissed Kim basing her like meat like I heard crazy that's my
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trick that's how you that's how you lure him in I share a raw onion with my wife
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after lovey-dovey time and that's just a piccadillo that we have what about Maya
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have you ever been in this situation where well you're two things you're from
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I think Groundlings and when you're from that collaborative fun and you get to
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ask now I think people we've talked to because Dana and I are Dopey stand-ups
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but it's less of a harsh transition than it was for us because yeah yeah it doesn't mean we're not collaborative it
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just that's not what we're doing every second absolutely and you guys get there
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and it's a little smoother well it's a little mini SNL right yeah yeah and then
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you bring your sketches is fully formed to the show I assume in the early days of the show yeah I mean I tried to bring
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grounding sketches there early on and I and uh that that um LED with the resounding thud and
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attitude but what I learned is that like you know it it it it's you have to write for the
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room so like once I learned how to take those pieces like if there was a character that I really liked or or a
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premise that I really liked and make them work for that room because every room is different so
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um are you saying the read through room or 8h I guess I guess both yeah but you're making a good point
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that I hadn't thought about well you have to get past that read through room
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which is pretty awake I never wrote to like you know just right for the table so that I'd get it in like I guess it
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was for both but like you have to be laughing at the table or else yeah you try to write for people at home but
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that's not the politics of it and that is the first time someone said Dana had
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a good point by the way that was very very nice too uh I I think also which we've talked about but it's very
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interesting to me is that you don't wanna be too theatrical in the read through
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room it can come off like a turn off or kind of sweaty but sometimes you have to
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get up and sing a song or move around to show the room but everyone's from Harvard and Yale kind of everyone is
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like super smart and they can see her pushing too hard there's a whole energy
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to that and then 8h is its own Monster uh or beautiful place depending on how you're doing wait do you think go ahead
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you go with mine go ahead no no go ahead mine was more of a large uh question I like big big questions people like what
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we don't let the guests talk [Music] um when I I my question was if you're if
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you have a growling sketch and people are aware of it is there sort of a stink on it where they're against it a little
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bit when you bring it in or do you just like when they brought in their sketches
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that were red when I was there where I didn't know and and it gets it's almost
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gets more of a fair shot if they don't know anything I would say probably I think it depends I mean I'm trying to
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unlock my my memory capabilities of 20 [ __ ] years ago I don't know 70 for me and Dana that's
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the most honest answer we've ever had on the podcast I was just going to say just in general
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is like uh just a an excited um acknowledgment of like it's you know I mean I've talked to you guys about us
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now before it's kind of all I ever want to talk about with people that know well
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I find it the most continuously fascinating topic but it's so interesting to me to talk to other
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people that were there at a different time because we're we're we're of the
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same fraternity sorority College University whatever it is for everybody but we were there at different times so
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we were there in different eras so like Dana I I might have told you this but I think I found one of your sketches in my
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old desk in my office and I think it was on a yellow legal pad I'm not kidding
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that would be normal yeah but I wonder how you got a hold of it unless I cleared out maybe you were in my office
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I got an old desk that I thought oh okay and it was in there oh man and I think I saved it I'm saving it
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for like Sotheby's or something that's interesting oh it's so interesting I
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mean the history is so interesting to me because it was such a like exciting place to get to and then once I
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got there all the people that I loved already had like touched it so it was so exciting and like I mean when I got
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there we were all using those um they were still using Mac SE 30s you know it was like I think it's like the computer
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you know college but like that was when we had a server but like you weren't
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using a server when you were there oh no it was all pencil and paper and then you'd handed in someone else would type
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we had those Mad Men girls there was four girls in room honestly just typing and you'd put your sketch in the pile
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and they'd write their name on the top so you know who typed it and you go to
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Claire and say Claire did you do this can you even understand my writing and they sort of understood everyone's the
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way they wrote and I'd have to hand my sketch in Dana like let's say you write
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till two or three whatever on Tuesday night three I know I was a puss I'd hand
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it in this is why I wanted to go away two or three I was I left at eight a.m even when I had a baby
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oh well you won that one but between a badge of honor you stay late crazy listen let's not focus on the fact
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that I'm a cause of [ __ ] I handed my sketch and then I took a cab to the Upper West Side to go home and sleep for
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hours and then I'd come back in or especially if I didn't finish my sketch
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I'd come back in to hand it in or I'd come and they go can you tweak this and
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I'd come all the way back and then go all the way home and then come back for
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a read through that killed me yeah that was typing or that was so I'd hand it in freehand and they wouldn't
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understand it they'd have to be able to call me in the middle of the night and
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go can you explain what this arrow means and uh they go this sketch is garbage do
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you want us to finish it that was most of the calls we're halfway through it it
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looks like it's Gotta it kind of reeks already but you know Maya when you say
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that about what you found I had an old red binder I don't know if Dana you might have that
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it's hard red binder and it said SNL in the front like in a circle and then you'd put your your script in it if you
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wanted and the director had one and we the cast barely ever used it but I got home and found that when I moved
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recently and I found an old rundown you get the run down after dress and the rundown for air and it says cold open
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this this this and the times next to it or whatever and but bye was on it was the Helen Hunt show and so I saw all
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that and it was all these members each sketchy look even if it was a dress when you go oh that one got cut oh that one's
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good oh that got moved up on Air I remember very like a wash of memories hitting you like oh my God like right
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there I love it so Maya can I ask you a question yeah were you of the ilk of very meticulously organized with your
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binder and your office or were you more torn Controlled Chaos some were very neat and
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some were just like wild I I never had a binder I guess I was like the last generation I was like the beginning of
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that like computer generation but like yeah still innocent like we didn't have
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social media I think there were probably like no forums so people would write weird [ __ ] about us but other than that
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like or fan mail yeah fan mail from jail got a lot of fan mail from jail yeah um that was the only family oh my God it
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was like you and shario Terry are hot yeah well that's scary David got that a lot too
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shario Terry nice I got a lot of those a lot of those but I uh I was I've never been an organized
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person but I'm not I'm not like a like a slob I'm not slovenly but I'm not
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you know what I would say that I'm probably being overly critical and to an outsider I probably look organized
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especially you do like the like the the Emily Spivey and I shared an office for the majority of the time that I was
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there so that was like a pretty consistent office partner I had other partners but
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I um but she and I had an office together for the majority of time and like we put posters on the wall and like
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she had her desk I had mine we like salvaged the couch that wasn't covered in like the semen from the 70s you know
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so in the 80s but I had I can safely say had no action in my office for the solid six years God
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no not sure I'm from the I'm from a fairly sober generation too like that's
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the other thing that's funny like and I'm sure people who knows people what
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people were doing I mean I'm such a I'm such a grandma but at a certain point I
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was even pregnant when I was there so like I you know I was I feel like in general other than people going out to
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drink like I was a pretty like I feel like the majority of people I was especially the girls that I worked with
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the women that I work with were like good students you had a lot of strong women um yeah like I just feel like we
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were everyone was always like in a tether about us but I just think like we were all kind of similar in our
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upbringing and like we were like good daughters good students like Earnest yeah and like we all like came from
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sketch so we knew how to work with other people you know because I I'd heard other
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rumors that like it was scary and like competitive yeah and I just I don't work
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that way and I also don't work well that way like I would just if if it had been
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that way for me like if I'd been there at a different time I would not have I
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don't think I would have survived so who did you I mean it seemed like the the pivot to like when Tina Fey
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and then there was you and I don't know what order and then there was Amy of
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course and before that Anna got started there were so many strong uh funny women I don't it just
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seemed to accelerate in terms of numbers it was already accelerated because when
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I got there Molly and Sherry and Anna were still in the cast Crush you know it was already it was already crushed City
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yeah yeah was that hard or so many women because sometimes like I think when I was there it was a little less women in
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Dana and that was a big problem like we need more women we need more women for the parts but the women that were there
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got lots of Parts they were thrown in everything I mean I think that I learned the hard way that like because we were
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all writing you know that like you have to write your own stuff so it wasn't
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hard if your stuff was strong and you got it on but to me it was more like I mean I look at
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the show now and I'm like you have like 20 21 white guys like yeah yeah how can
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anybody be on the show and get any air time ever there should be and we've talked to some people that have been
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there quite a while and it's still a log Jam well now it's not just that it's a huge
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cast and then it's also like for four pre-tapes a week which I mean God damn good I'd be dead yeah they do a
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lot of yeah like you drive out to Long Island at four in the morning you're like wait this is a show week I can't do
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anything else I can't I can't even function and then it takes you away from
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writing or something one time oh forget it I was doing Coneheads Applause and um Coneheads was
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sort of jury duty for all of us because Lauren said it was a you know Paramount everyone was in it and we all had a part
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and then I had to do a pickup so I had to do a pickup during a John Goodman show and they go you fly out to
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LA you go to Disney Ranch yeah you fly out in a red eye you wake up you shoot at Disney Ranch all day and
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then you're gonna miss Friday or Thursday or somewhere you come in for the show you know okay and I'm so light
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this show fine so I fly I fly on the on the uh red eye the Letterman is in first
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class this is another Side Story and he goes and I don't I don't know a lot of
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them and I've only done the show Once so I'm totally in awe and they go to me uh
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the students goes should I wake you for honey buns and I go no no I'm gonna sleep and then yeah
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wake up I'm more confounded by the honey bun yeah so then Letterman gets up they're taxing he gets up to go to the
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bathroom at the last second and he stops and puts his hand on my leg and goes should I wake you for honey buns and uh
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hi everyone's what airline I know American and so America we go there and I land I can't sleep I get up we drive
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to Disney Ranch they grease my hair back I do a couple of Crusher scenes whatever
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killing these are other people you destroy and then I get all the way back home to
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my dog [ __ ] apartment and this is you know obviously like five or six I order a Domino's on the way I land I take one
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bit bite and Shoemaker calls and he goes hey uh Lauren wants you back and I go oh
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I'm well he doesn't but also I'm coming tomorrow I just finished shooting
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because he wants you about you got a car out front you got to come back I go you're out of your [ __ ] mind I gotta
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go now like the Disney Ranch back to New York oh back to New York I go I just got
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home I gotta go to bed and I gotta get up and then fly back can I ask Maya a question about oh sorry finish your
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thought dude Jesus I got add what is Maya the guest or am I I I'm just curious when um jumping
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around here because you had this huge Kamala Harris thing you did that I think you did you
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win an Emmy or I don't know you have a lot of awards you have two Emmys and nominations and things the only one
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Emmys during quarantine so it feels like it like during kovitz it feels like it feels like a fever dream it seems like
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you want to like you're counting down the last five so you won for Kamala okay
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I won you or Emmy during during uh during during four Emmys during lockdown and sorry two
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during lockdown to the fall the [ __ ] pandemics and Awards just kind of are married
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during the pandemic and you're busy how were you I was just to David's thing how were you flying
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back and forth because at one point Lauren called me before the start of that political season
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just out of the blue icon on a Thursday we need you like yesterday you'll do
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Biden um and I hadn't even tried to do Biden I hadn't even thought of doing Biden I had
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to do something else so I didn't do it and then Jim Carrey did his first he was
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the first one to kind of Do it For That season right it was Jim Carrey yeah but then it's just for travel first besides
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the creative part of it were you just going back and forth or were you able to stay in New York I was going back and
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forth for the most part the week of the election I stayed in New York but I was going back and forth every weekend yeah
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when would you come in for Friday and Saturday or the whole week I would come in for like Thursday or Friday yeah and
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that was pretty pretty early those pretty early days of um covid and like you know I I was I was very scared
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so and I was also like scared about my kids and I wasn't fascinated yet and we
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didn't even know if they would get back my kids would get vaccinated anytime
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soon so um I was pretty pretty uh nervous Nelly about the whole thing and um they were and it was really actually
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quite comforting to be in 30 Rock because I think like anything I mean I experienced this having a baby and then
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coming back to work which was like anything familiar even if it's hard it's
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more comforting so like being in that building especially when there was a global pandemic weirdly felt comforting
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because it was so clear I knew where to go feels normal it felt normal yeah and so but that I say that to say like those
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first shows were pretty gnarly in terms of um like cue cards were on um third the
00:28:10
third floor so we weren't really seeing changes sometimes I think one of the
00:28:14
first shows we didn't see the changes until we were on air and that we don't know that was tough it is weird
00:28:23
but it's like you know like again to me that like weird you know like Rush that I get from that
00:28:32
place that's that is familiar was okay and I knew it would be okay whereas like
00:28:38
I assumed somebody like Jim was like what the [ __ ] are we doing like what's
00:28:43
going on this isn't this is madness do you find that Lauren uh because I was
00:28:48
just thinking about his personality and he is with his droll sense of humor he is he's he never gets you know thrown
00:28:56
out I've only seen him just very calm and I don't know what he said you first
00:29:00
came back but he must have said something pithy to relax you and you you do Kamala and you know I don't know just
00:29:07
that that Vibe is kind of comforting part of this also his can I just say for the record that you you've the best
00:29:14
Lauren I've ever heard whoa um well I think it's very nice sorry I put you on the spot no I can't do like
00:29:22
if I'm if I'm like old and like or if I'm like in a bad Dana will you come
00:29:27
will you come talk to me like Lauren I would talk to you like Lauren it's that
00:29:31
thing my you know you're like really loved and it's it's it's sort of it's
00:29:35
like a Victory lap just got like uh calm down everywhere oh that's nice I mean I I started doing it when I got
00:29:47
there after about four months and I didn't know anyone else was doing it but
00:29:51
it was really uh which I've said before in the Wednesday meeting picking the
00:29:56
sketches you know some Sketchers off to the side there's a big bulletin board and he
00:30:00
would say that was my first in oh I still have no [ __ ] First Act and then he would go in his private bathroom and
00:30:08
come back out and he'd say Whitney's piece of the pig and the Goat anybody uh
00:30:13
I don't know anybody I liked it and then Lauren would go I thought it was breathtaking
00:30:18
so good he's very popular on our show he gets shinier and brighter as you get away
00:30:26
from the show and you're kind of more aware of what he's having to balance
00:30:33
[Music] who the character of Kamala Harris and did you sometimes have a cup with a
00:30:41
straw in it there was a casual kind of there's some kind of character you made
00:30:46
from come on yeah I think it was like a like a mai tai or a daiquiri or so you just a lot of type drink played her as
00:30:54
this character uh that was based on Kamala which was sort of you it was incredibly potent what you were doing
00:31:01
just super confident or how did you come up with that you know I I first of all I
00:31:07
just want to say for the record that I just met her for in person for the first time ever and I don't know if you
00:31:14
experienced this playing um political uh people like yeah they would you know during the elections
00:31:21
everyone would come through the building so you would get to cross paths with sometimes with the people that you were
00:31:26
playing but I never I never got to do that and then I just thought like well I'll never meet her it's coveted and I
00:31:33
did just get to meter and then weirdly like at a dinner then someone was asking like how do you play her and I had to
00:31:39
like say it in front of her humiliating although I realized I was saying to her you know I'm not an
00:31:45
impressionist I've never been an impressionist like I I think I do impressions of people but I I think the
00:31:51
reason why her impression is that way is because Kamala is like um she's she's I I'm fascinated by her like
00:32:03
again back to that thing that we were talking about Dana like I've found the
00:32:08
joy in playing her in like the same way I think kids like dress up as like princesses or
00:32:17
like play like so you know yeah um like like Luke Skywalker you know I know my references are dated but you get
00:32:24
it like no but I I get this the sense of fun I mean when you when I was watched you watch Duke Kamala it's just like
00:32:30
Maya's having so much fun and it's joyful and so it's hard it's you just
00:32:36
want to look at it you want more of it yeah it's joyful and I and I actually
00:32:40
said that to her like I yeah I find her to be joyful like she's a big Smiler
00:32:45
yeah she feels like she's got a lot of joy in her she's laughing at things and
00:32:50
when she has to be serious tough Stern anything she is and like it's it's
00:32:57
powerful she's so powerful and it's really exciting so like all the things
00:33:02
that draw me to her were just like the things that I was probably in the back of my mind trying to emulate when you
00:33:08
see someone that's like exciting to your fasting that's why like Beyonce's so fun
00:33:12
because like I want to be Beyonce I want to play dress up like I want to be her you know her stage Persona you know
00:33:20
yeah isn't it fun to play Confident characters huh is it fun fun to play Confident characters it's like you're
00:33:27
Long Island ladies with Amy like those two are so crazy funny well that one is Jody Mancuso who runs our hair
00:33:35
department at SNL like that that we we're both oh you were doing her yeah we're both young Jody
00:33:41
um and that's and that's the fun that's like the fun game of it is like um
00:33:45
we're imitating Jody to for Jody and she loves yeah so then we just keep going
00:33:52
also also you're playing gamala and and some of these characters are not mean
00:33:56
Impressions so you're not it's more fun when you see the people because sometimes Impressions have a slight mean
00:34:02
streak just for the funny factor and you don't realize when you see the person oh
00:34:07
I do exaggerate this or that and that might not yeah I mean look if they if I if I ended
00:34:13
up having to play like Trump or something like there's no way I'd find any Joy I I I mean I'm sure I'm sure I
00:34:23
would suggested roasting that mofo um but yeah we're gonna do a lot of things excuse me we're doing a lot of
00:34:31
good stuff let me tell you we're gonna be you're gonna see a lot of stuff
00:34:35
you're going to be very happy I can tell you that yeah stuff might be the word he
00:34:40
uses the most like if you were to tell me that we were ever going to have someone in a position of power using and
00:34:46
whose favorite River was stuff I'd be scared we're doing a lot of things
00:34:56
any any time you want to tell me what those things are just right is very general I don't I try to find a hook in
00:35:03
it I it's like it's like a song to me and I don't I don't really Harbor in uh
00:35:11
teaching or making political points but you could just do stuff and let the audience decide but Trump's a funny
00:35:17
Rhythm Biden is also very interesting now that he's gotten more animated and
00:35:21
he's louder because he was very whispery and so yeah James it's on SNL right now
00:35:26
is doing both of them beautifully he's he's incredible oh yeah yeah we did talk
00:35:32
to him we had him on the podcast and he was unbelievable and it's like anything
00:35:36
like the minute you see someone do the impression like oh that's what it is yeah that's the most jealous hit when
00:35:42
you go oh my God it's an easy thing I'll tap into it and we'll do it because
00:35:48
we heard him do it correctly like right that's what it is it was cool too because I remember during the pandemic
00:35:55
early days early stages of pandemic Amy Poehler I think was really into his Tick
00:36:00
Tock and was sending him to me and our friends saying like this guy's I was too I sent my friends he was
00:36:06
walking down the street exactly and I go it's so hard to riff he would talk about
00:36:11
anything and I go it's very hard without a script because a script you you write
00:36:15
in your hooks you make sure you say certain things because but when someone has asked you a question and you have to
00:36:21
riff you can't always find your way back to the funny parts you know he has the
00:36:25
language of trump and that when we we did a live thing with James and then we had the audience just suggest any movie
00:36:32
or TV show you know and he would just go with it or whatever it was As Trump in the language
00:36:38
of trump so yeah he would do Trump like saying why it affected China and so whatever you asked him he would get it
00:36:44
all the way back to that's why China's the bad guys and it was so it was so
00:36:48
funny and then oh my God it was just a q a is that the Hat I bought you this I didn't even think of that I swear to God
00:36:56
I go I just put something you were doing it to see if I would notice I didn't
00:37:00
mean to interrupt while you were talking about Kamala but the sun was the light was mine and I grabbed my hat and I go
00:37:05
wait a second didn't you get a minute is a sweet little sweet little grown-ups
00:37:11
rap gift that's what it was I go you gave it to all it was a grown-ups [ __ ] I
00:37:16
only bought you one gift once don't make people think oh my God you know I get a
00:37:20
gift probably every week from Maya and um that that was just so nice grown-ups oh my God we're it's the least I can do
00:37:29
Dana it was literally the least she could David needs a friend yeah needs a friend and David needs a friend go ahead
00:37:35
David mine and our friends and we run grown-ups which is keeping the lights on at TBS uh it's on every day grown-ups
00:37:42
one and two yeah and uh oh I had so much fun I don't even realize until afterwards and then people
00:37:49
see it and they go is that fun I go yeah it was even though some reviews were like at least they had fun
00:37:55
I mean I feel like my memories of making that movie well the first movie I was pregnant so
00:38:01
um that was more like just keeping myself intact but yeah like we did a lot of eating together you're a very good
00:38:09
eating buddy a very good eater also you were always fun on the show so if you're
00:38:14
walking on the set and you see Maya you have to just walk over because she has something to say about anything it's
00:38:18
just fun to talk to and then the next one You're great and then I ran into you
00:38:23
in Hawaii when I was doing the wrong Missy oh yeah good old tiptoes I told Dana there's a
00:38:31
tattoo name well my kids call him a tiptoes because they tried to tell him a joke
00:38:39
and he couldn't figure it out yeah and they and the joke goes like this Dana
00:38:44
what what um begins with it begins with t and ends with t and I said tiptoes and he said a
00:38:54
tiptoes and they were like a teapot like yeah they laughed so hard at my answers
00:39:01
it was so [ __ ] horrible and then they then they liked me after that because they liked because I was stupid
00:39:06
ah yeah yeah look he's not so bright that little yeah yeah but he's like a
00:39:14
kind of a fake Uncle you know and the kids love him he's a Funko when I walked
00:39:18
away I heard one of them go mom there you go why is he famous and you couldn't
00:39:22
answer I was like huh you know that's a good question I don't know when you're
00:39:27
Frosted Mini wheat son Maya what's the ba what's the questions you've been asked the most when you go
00:39:34
on oh yeah what's the talk shows you don't have to answer yourself what does
00:39:38
David Spade smell like yeah number one uh honey I haven't done a lot of podcasts it's P.S yeah you're a babe
00:39:47
because I'm only like I'm very selective we're very flattered you're on this one
00:39:52
okay I'll do one like I you guys are a people I um know like and adore and worship
00:40:02
should I answer it I think it's kind of hip if you do go ahead let's see and
00:40:20
uh-huh Maya's on the phone right now she's in Louisiana the call is coming from inside the hotel
00:40:28
she says I don't know who that is now she's walking she's terrified thank
00:40:33
you bye it was it was Kamala Harris guys what is she doing I knew it she was here to hang
00:40:42
out you know um I learned it's Kamala by the way so if you do meet her you have to you have
00:40:48
to pronounce that you put the emphasis on the first a or else I don't know almost like Pamela hot Pamela do that
00:40:57
that fruit we all pretend exists can I there's two questions I'd like to get to
00:41:03
one is because I'm just curious when did Little Maya first have the dream of being a comedian
00:41:10
I.E Sketchbook because I know you have a huge musical background but when did that first hit you like I'm funny and
00:41:16
maybe I could be on TV I think I fantasized about it very very very young like seven six seven eight years maybe
00:41:24
even yeah yeah like do you see do you see it in any of your kids your kids do you see the bug in any of your kids I do
00:41:30
yeah and I'm sure in the same way that I had it because you know my parents being musicians they
00:41:36
were on the road so they were live performers and then there was like a great moment when as an
00:41:43
older person I I discovered a home movie from like sometime we were on the road with my parents me and my brother and
00:41:52
one of the Smothers Brothers was teaching my brother how to yo-yo oh Tommy Runners wow it was like my mom was
00:42:01
playing with the Smothers Brothers like that was the combo and which is like of course that makes sense that's like
00:42:06
music and comedy totally go together yeah and I was little and impressionable and that that was normal to me and
00:42:17
um so I think in that same way that like that bug definitely um gets in there and rubs off of it yeah
00:42:24
and then when did you first uh attempt it was it grade school high school like all schools
00:42:33
so you're gone always wanted a beat but I you know I think it took until fairly recently that
00:42:41
I realized like like I was always like I'm an actor but I'm actually really I'm a performer I
00:42:47
think I'm more of a I I think that my true Essence is a live performer I I can act
00:42:55
I can perform but like I'm much better live I'm much better on a stage I'm much
00:43:01
happier I feel like it just is more natural to me that way I feel like do you have a problem well with film and
00:43:09
and those kinds of things it can that you're fighting against you know we got
00:43:12
to do it again and we're taking a break and the sun's coming up and if it's live
00:43:16
and the lights are on then it's just go go so you can get lost more easily yeah
00:43:21
it's about like this angle seeing this mold and this side of my nose and like
00:43:26
you want to pretend that you're not noticing there's a camera right there
00:43:30
but there's a camera right there and then it's like the sixth time you've
00:43:33
done it so it's like saying you know it's like saying donut 20 times but yeah
00:43:37
time it sounds Dana I read about these directors that are great but and there's a lot of them
00:43:46
that this sounds so crazy but you know I I get that you have to do some takes but
00:43:52
you read about these people that do 20 30 50. and yeah and in comedy I I guess in some instances I just don't agree
00:44:00
with it just on my performing way because I want it to matter every time and I maybe I'm just not good enough for
00:44:06
you give it a thousand percent every time I've been on sets where you know the first ten they're not there's no
00:44:11
chance they're going to use them no matter how good you do there's just a
00:44:15
thing where they're gonna go I have a thing about we're going to go forever
00:44:18
and I worked with a guy once where they go you want to go again and he goes yep before anyone can say anything he'd go
00:44:23
yep and one time I pulled him aside and I said hey man what's going on and he
00:44:28
goes oh if they ever ask me I'm never going to say no and I go well you gotta
00:44:33
he goes I I just went on the chance at it I go but that's a decision between
00:44:37
you and the director like the director is ultimately gonna pick so you you have no say in it you're just gonna go and go
00:44:44
and go and go and go I would say for me personally like Larry Sanders yeah the great late great Gary Shandling and then
00:44:51
Curb Your Enthusiasm like I've talked to Jeff Garland about it and he says well
00:44:55
sometimes you don't know you're doing a take you know you don't even know what you're
00:44:59
doing to take you're just talking so you could tell sometimes Richard Lewis and
00:45:03
Larry David are not really acting anymore they're just riffing and the camera's rolling and they're sort of
00:45:09
breaking so I do think with Comedians and performers the directorial Styles should sort of try to take advantage of
00:45:15
that if you're Daniel J Lewis and that's wonderful because that is there is an
00:45:19
Essence there that is not you know it's just far more contrived when you're
00:45:23
trying to make it seem natural and that's so smart Larry's a smart guy and yeah and and so
00:45:31
is Gary discovering it one the camera's rolling as opposed to discovering it
00:45:37
before like Eastwood doesn't rehearse much they kind of talk and let's get you
00:45:41
over there Woody Allen and I think just trying to preserve that with it with a certain kind of performer where it's
00:45:47
just you're discovering it right as you're oh now I got it and the camera's
00:45:51
rolling as opposed to I got it now let's go over there and shoot it again right
00:45:55
tricky that's why movies always sabotage me except Wayne's World what we had a
00:46:00
lot of control Mike and I with in the shooting was very simple and there was a lot of so that was like just re-watched
00:46:06
it for the three millionth time with my you did oh yeah of course I did I mean Dana you're you're beautiful you're just
00:46:16
beautiful like everything it's like watching Jordan just play basketball it's a joke how
00:46:26
fantastic you are oh God I think I love you but you are we're both married um the I would say this about that
00:46:34
particular movie I look at Garth in wannabe Garth right it should I want to be I want to be him he's so loyal he's
00:46:42
so positive he worries about his friend so yeah I'm like he's and he's in the
00:46:46
moment he's playful so yeah I want to be Garth too but I feel like you can you
00:46:51
can if you really had to think about why we love Garth so so much I think it's
00:46:56
like you can kind of feel that you know and there's something like it's the same way
00:47:02
that I felt about Saturday Night Live when I was a kid my parents would watch it and I would watch them watching it
00:47:07
and they were the age the people were on the show and I was like oh that looks fun it looks like they're having fun
00:47:12
with their friends and there was something about it that I was attracted to like I didn't know exactly what it
00:47:18
was but it looked fun and my parents were kind like I wasn't scared of my parents they
00:47:24
were like young cool people so something about it felt familiar and it felt like
00:47:29
yeah they're cool people like friends having fun is so seductive and and I've
00:47:34
mentioned this recently but David Crosby one of the people from the 60s who saw the Beatles fresh and he just says these
00:47:41
were guys having so much fun and projecting so much joy and and dudes hanging out that you're like you just I
00:47:48
want to do that I want to yeah with my friends that's probably like if I had to
00:47:53
take away like the one saying that when I always think about like why did I want to do this or like
00:47:59
what was I interested in during when I grew up all I remember thinking is I want to do that so it would be like I'd
00:48:04
go to a concert and I'd like I'd look at the person I'd be like I want to do that
00:48:08
and then I would see a movie and I was like I want to do that like that was really it's really like the only thing I
00:48:14
can connect to like I just wanted to be like I want to pretend to be those people was kind of how I felt so same
00:48:22
here and I was I've I wanted to do it when I was nine I was too shy and had such a a kind of a strange child but a
00:48:29
lot of people do a little rough and David as well so I never pursued it until later but it was always a secret
00:48:35
kind of desire to do that [Music] what about having fun forget I know we got to wrap it up with bridesmaids you
00:48:47
couldn't look at more people having fun in a movie It Whatever It just seems
00:48:51
like that's lightning in a box right that was like that was the joy of making that and like I think at a
00:49:01
certain point I remember us talking about saying like I don't know if anyone's gonna see this movie or like it
00:49:07
but I'm so glad we made it like we had so much and that is also like the essence of
00:49:13
people that know each other well you get to so you get to experience that chemistry and then you're all make
00:49:21
trying to make each other laugh you know yeah that just was yeah that's that's one of those movies that just
00:49:28
just uh made its Mark well well Luke I gotta ask you two things about Luke Maya Before I Let You Go you uh this is so I
00:49:35
don't know professional Spade I'm really I know Spade is kind of today he is sort
00:49:40
of the boss man he is kind of take it back for this podcast I like my hair right
00:49:46
now it's the bestest hairs looked and uh last night we had dinner and his hair
00:49:51
looked amazing and he was a little cocky about it it still looks good next day hair yeah he's very slept on like yeah
00:50:00
bad bad head look at I got a little PTA beard coming in my eye you see that with
00:50:05
the girl mine is too look at that oh yeah that's good and when you do loot okay real quick Dana I'm gonna ask you
00:50:10
this because I wrote down her cast is we we talked a little bit about at the beginning I didn't give too much away I
00:50:16
just was watching kids which of course she's dead you did a little homework always funny to watch her in anything
00:50:22
but I like to see you really rich in it um but you have Ron funches and Nat facts and are the only ones I know in it
00:50:29
but that I know personally both great both if they're in there they're gonna
00:50:33
score so if you get to play off them it's all right Nat and I were in the Groundlings together okay 20 plus years
00:50:42
ago so that's the that's the joy right there I just fell in love with long
00:50:46
bunches I love him he has his own own lane he's got something yeah he's got a unique a
00:50:54
very interesting thing he does yeah and funny yeah always quietly scoring everything always quietly scoring and
00:51:02
it's just such a joy to watch it's like hanging out with like a the personality of like a human mochi
00:51:10
[Laughter] like that description well loot should be on now it's a written by was it the
00:51:18
parks and recs people that put it together Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard okay so that's that's sort of a vibe that
00:51:25
rolls through it sort of a Vibe Spade it's like um you know if you're like hanging out with
00:51:32
cool people and like drinking Brews and yeah massaging each other's shoulders
00:51:37
yeah it's kind of like that that's it that's where I like to be that's what I'm doing that's the show
00:51:43
though that's the whole show we just hang out and massage each other's shoulders
00:51:47
it's pretty cool loot is a cool name because I say Luke because I talk about
00:51:51
money all the time so I say loot a lot and I rap it is very fun pretending to be rich I do I I do think that that's
00:51:59
the lure of what um was exciting about the show yeah that that that byline makes me intrigued yeah just anyone
00:52:08
becoming a billionaire like what yeah you're like what can't I do like the
00:52:15
possibilities are endless but then instantly fall into like social responsibility like uh oh should I
00:52:21
should I save the world but one thing about our billionaires is they seem to really really enjoy it like
00:52:28
they always say they're going to give it all away but then their stock goes up so
00:52:31
we you know I gave away 30. I can yeah I don't know if they can give it all away
00:52:36
and then they want to multiply it so fast they just they give away I don't think they they can yeah you know Warren
00:52:42
Buffett says he's gonna give away 99 but then there's like a billion left
00:52:47
I know just laying I'm not gonna spoil them I'm only leaving one person it's
00:52:52
like I mean you can have like a nice place to live and all that and while you're saving the world right you can
00:52:58
get some islands and yeah Dennis Miller says that crimefield all comes down to planes and paintings
00:53:06
okay that's the final frontier you want that best gayat for about 200 mil you
00:53:13
got two g5s rotating going around the world but yeah that is the The Chariot of all to have a G6 that can travel
00:53:22
anywhere it just waits for you that's the most decadent uh cool thing you could you could have I'm working I think
00:53:28
as a toy about it right yeah space work Spades I feel like I should do guards for a second because of your okay go
00:53:37
ahead Maya sure has been a good guess she really knows how to say cool things oh
00:53:43
God oh my God I'm full on excited right now I love it I feel funny like when I used to climb
00:53:58
the rope and gym class damn it swing indeed shrink well Maya let me know you have a heart
00:54:06
attack because of not because of you guys because I gotta go do Fallon it's Jimmy's fault well you know what I'm I'm
00:54:14
doing Jim Downey wrote that I'm on my way to Santa Monica after this his documentary yeah yeah when I was here
00:54:23
last time I'm doing that that's very exciting and probably a a rich piece of
00:54:28
history that yes will be worth worth uh being a part of it's nice when someone
00:54:34
gets their do the gym was this one of the overarching people oh that's tough you know something
00:54:43
something really funny about you know I don't know he always stares at the scene
00:54:46
it just feels so precious there's something there's a all right uh Maya it's the downer
00:54:54
is that what he says yeah I once called him and I'm gonna say without exaggeration he talked for three
00:55:02
hours straight only once in a while going am I talking too much and it was it was absolutely fascinating we went
00:55:08
over global history U.S history he just went everywhere and I've never met an
00:55:12
intellect he goes to the Yale library and just gets big books and reads them he's like this
00:55:18
Brainiac extraordinary life we've lived that we've crossed paths with some of these people and
00:55:27
minds and um I'm also yes I'm also including both of you it's pretty wild it's like it's
00:55:35
pretty wild to have had a job the job that we all have in common um provided us with this like
00:55:41
weekly changing thing so we really did like sometimes I'll kind of think like
00:55:46
wow I did meet a lot of people in my 20s 30s like I've met people I've ever had I
00:55:52
worked with them for a week you know and you forget I see people and they go I hosted SNL when you were there I go oh
00:55:58
that's right like even Michael Jordan I've been writing a whole week with him ended to sketch them
00:56:02
and I'm like they go have you ever met Michael Jordan I go I don't think so and
00:56:05
I go no you did you did you did the whole show with him because it's sort of
00:56:10
just work and you just try to stay out of their face and you just try to keep everything respectful and you feel yeah
00:56:15
I would always get kind of nervous when the host was the host or in the early days was down in the offices and they'd
00:56:20
go would you like to go yeah Charlton Heston would like to say hello to you and then you're walking down there and
00:56:27
you open the door and then there's Charlton Heston or you know or Michael Jordan it's just like always hello
00:56:33
always nervous never not nervous about that to me that was never like I got let me handle this let me handle it it's
00:56:40
Daniel Davis yeah but you're right that's why this what's up this Christ Jesus in
00:56:52
um 97 oh and our musical guest is Madonna I feel like it'll be a sort of a good mix
00:57:00
I think it would be really nice if it was like a really good show uh Dana I'm not kidding if it's just like
00:57:08
once a year that you want to leave me voice messages I'll yeah I'll get your
00:57:13
information I will occasionally leave you a message from Lauren I mean for when we wrote for the 40th for the
00:57:21
um you know um when Martin Short and I did the musical thank you oh yeah all right right I wrote chopping we wrote
00:57:27
chopping broccoli for you because yes that made us so happy and that was such a big part of our Lives of like me and
00:57:34
Emily Spivey were like oh my god do you think Dana would say yes and then we got
00:57:38
to like talk to you about it and you're you were you're more like us I never I
00:57:43
never assume people remember me I never impose I'm always like okay right on the
00:57:50
back foot because I don't I don't I don't like that over familiarity and you
00:57:53
were like is this okay do you want this in here like Jesus like that honestly was the component to like that was like
00:58:00
the key ingredient to like bringing it all together and I feel like that moment in my life where the like younger me was
00:58:10
like in love with you and watching you be a genius on the show and quoting you in my house and in my life and then
00:58:17
getting to cheers for that and then notice I don't say these things to Spade
00:58:22
ever so it's true well Maya could I just say because of that and thank you for
00:58:27
putting it in there during the commercial break Paul McCartney was sitting in the in the stand so I did
00:58:33
this little teeny thing from revolver the other day breaks you're my index and
00:58:38
I'm not a big piano player but I was able to play that and Paul stood up did
00:58:41
his six shooters I know what you're doing I know what you're doing so that
00:58:45
was like our connection and then we did Wayne's World at the end of the show and
00:58:49
we're doing the good nights and suddenly there's someone massaging me no and I
00:58:54
look up and it's Paul so all of us to sum up when you're on Saturday Night Live experientially who
00:59:02
you meet the pressure 8h Lorne Michaels it's a time in your life when you're
00:59:06
having success or not everything about it and the the the relationships you make that if you ran
00:59:12
into somebody you couldn't see them for 10 years like with David and I didn't
00:59:15
see him a lot for many years suddenly we're best friends in like three seconds
00:59:18
so that's why this podcast is fun because it's such a seminal part of all
00:59:23
of our Lives it's a linchpin I I'll come back um if you want to do like a four
00:59:27
hour session next time okay I did this I did you a favor I'll never do this again that's usually the
00:59:43
sign off you're the first to say no Jimmy was great yesterday Jimmy uh yeah he's so [ __ ] funny so we had a
00:59:52
great time and we love you Maya I always joke with you but I love you to death because you're so great I'm at an age
00:59:59
where I just tell everyone I love them so we're gonna bring Dane into the fold
01:00:02
and then you can slowly uh phase me out and bring in Dana I've been waiting for
01:00:07
so long to do that thank you great okay bye honey guys thank you love you hey what's up flies what's up please
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okay we're gonna read a fan question from Aaron and Draco andreiaco hey guys 43 year old lifelong SNL fan
01:00:47
love the podcast I'm always amazed how much original materials generated only in a week oh at the show Curious
01:00:55
how many weeks it took right the 40th special ooh that's a good question that
01:00:58
was very tricky I think that was Steve Higgins was in charge of that I would say like everything else on SNL it's
01:01:04
it's devoted to add theater why do it now when you can do it later and then this compression mentally starts this
01:01:11
pressure and finally you have to work on it I think we probably did the 40th in the same amount we did even though it
01:01:18
was like a four hour special as a regular week there was no really rehearsal on the Sound Stage I mean Mike
01:01:23
and I were just back in a room going you know I could do that too when I introduced this yeah you're left to your
01:01:29
own devices yeah and we're just practicing ourselves so that was fly by the seat of your pants 40th that turned
01:01:34
out amazing but it was one of those shows that was iffy right it was on the 40th I didn't I wasn't in anything and I
01:01:41
go yeah we'll just come and then uh I said maybe one uh maybe one sketch when they're leaving I'll just stand
01:01:48
there and say bye-bye and they goes yeah so the end of The Californians he goes just say bye-bye and because I was like
01:01:54
I'll take anything Evan was being cool because I go that'd be funny because
01:01:57
it's something California it's California sorry and you know everyone was game for that like I
01:02:06
just did like the end of a sketch and then Steve Martin puts the whole get up on for King Tut to sing two lines
01:02:12
to be a part of some other bigger skit it was just it was just fun it was more fun than 40th because everywhere you
01:02:18
turned it was someone you knew or someone famous and they were all just it was more of a party
01:02:23
people were drinking it was less of issue it's like the the it was a wax museum when you looked at the in the
01:02:29
stands it was everybody was famous so you're playing to all famous people which normally might not be the best
01:02:35
audience but Mike and I went on at the very end like almost at midnight we waited like for eight hours and I said
01:02:41
either we should be really flattered that thing oh we'll put them on the very
01:02:46
end are really angry but I said let's go [ __ ] them up man so the rest is history
01:02:51
that's it uh say what is his name oh Aaron thank you Aaron for writing that in that was our shortest answer ever to
01:02:58
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