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hey guys uh coming up next Mike Myers
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hey guys it's uh spadespadoodle and we
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are about to do the intro for Mike Myers
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and I just want to tell you because of a
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huge [ __ ] up on my part
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my sound is good with my intro with Dana
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and I'm hilarious just a side note and
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we had the greatest interview but I
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screwed up and my audio wasn't perfect
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for all you nerd robots out there like
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uh I only listen for the sound quality
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not for the comedy you're not going to
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be stoked you can still hear all my
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jokes I had a [ __ ] blast Mike I'm
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just gonna say that we sound great at
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the intro then my sound is you can hear
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everything it's just not as Perfecto so
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don't freak out and don't write your
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local Congressman thank you here's me
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and Dana all right here we go
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three minutes we laughed yeah I heard a
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joke this weekend I'm gonna tell it to
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you I love because comedians never tell
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jokes but this one isn't bad okay this
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one you can do at home too and I I kind
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of mangled it I've told it three times
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and I've told it differently okay but
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the basic idea is it's a an old people's
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um I can't believe I'm a professional uh
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they're they're nine 90 year old couple
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and it's their 60th anniversary mm-hmm
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and so the wife says get in bed I'm
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gonna I'm gonna surprise you with
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something uh so she goes in the bathroom
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you follow so far yeah so the guys in
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the bed waiting for his big surprise so
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she goes in on strips naked and only
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puts on a cape so she has nothing but a
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cape got it so she she leaps out of the
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bathroom lands at the base of the bed
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and goes Super [ __ ] and he goes I'll
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take the soup
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all right here's one not as funny but
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nice and quick that just generic that I
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use sometimes okay um did you hear about
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the mom and the dad who found out their
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10 year old boy was visiting s m
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websites no I did not and the mom said
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what are we gonna do and the dad said
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well we can't spank him
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he'll jizz that's nice what yeah that's
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nice too quick I do that as Obama in my
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stand-up hear about the mom and the dad
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and found out their 10 year old boy was
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visiting s m websites my mom said what
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are we gonna do the dad said well we
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can't spank him come on Michelle come on
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Michelle Michelle no no just leave the
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egg salad where it is oh Joe I'm gonna
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eat later you shouldn't get it I'm on
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here with David Spade a podcast but I
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didn't understand it come on what do you
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mean you're gonna do I know how to do
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this I know where I am yeah come on
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Mike Myers coming on right now Mike
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Myers my brother from another mother we
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have so much in common
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sensibility wise he has two older
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brothers one's obsessed with Todd
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Rundgren I have three older brothers
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one's obsessed with Todd rungren
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and we he's um he's kind of a well he's
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he's had quite a he has quite a resume
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Jesus well I keep when I got to SNL you
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two guys were some Heavy Hitters that
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were there and you were also in Wayne's
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World together but we would also all
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wind up in sketches together and you had
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your own stuff and you had movies it was
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uh very exciting and intimidating to be
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in there with all you guys and you two
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went on and did a lot of stuff and uh
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it's great Mike wasn't was a force there
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and uh he was nice to me and uh you know
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that's saying wasn't nice
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Everyone likes you I didn't really get
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along with Al Franken but no names
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if you hear this podcast there's not a
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chance that Al's name doesn't come up
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and I go in the back he's one of our
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he's one of our Classics what's
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interesting about Mike and what we've
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learned from doing this podcast is that
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everyone has their own lane there you
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have your story my story is yet to be
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told I may get my own special episode
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please Jesus we had a nice cast going
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the show is starting to come back and
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then Mike was dropped in he had he had
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his own lane of joining the cast it was
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already gelling and bringing all this
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great stuff to it so I want to hear how
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he felt uh about that in his journey
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through that and then into
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sharing this in Crazy Wayne's World
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movie and and and how how much it grew
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on the show it's very very interesting
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I'm gonna ask him about a coffee talk
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movie and I'm gonna ask about sprockets
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move my Supernatural friend Mike Myers
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[Music]
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get back by The Beatles I felt like I
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was watching I just felt like I was
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watching da Vinci
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at work you know what I mean
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um that moment when get back happens
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move me to tears
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um the sweetness that they had with each
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other yeah like that hug when there's
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like uh you know I'll go over and I'll
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talk to George you know oh yeah I'll
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have that nice sweet hug killed and they
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were just just Lads and they you know
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Lenin as it went on and there's some of
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the stuff you know what you wrote and I
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wrote in in the 70s was just very sweet
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and very present and I loved how much
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everyone would lock in and try really
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hard on everyone's song you know I just
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wasn't I thought it was going to be so
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much anger but no they're like and Ringo
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always said that he'd count in and
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they'd all just drop everything and also
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yeah which you can probably relate to
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this being you know I'm barely middle
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class growing up but the setting was
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just tea and cigarettes and just funny
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chairs like nothing it was so unfancy
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especially at Abbey Road it was just
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like you think it'd be and then just the
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work uh the work ethic of Paul with
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trying to okay let's do it again do it
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again do it again it's like just no he's
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definitely just had his hand on the
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third rail and he was just driven you
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know what I mean yeah
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it needed to come out and uh
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George's sadness was tough just uh Hey
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guys hey guys wait up guys wait up what
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are you guys going I know and just that
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they they'd been in back of Vans and
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stuff and then when Paul was really
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trying to instruct him you know I was
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getting anxious like it was that's
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George Harrison and it's not little
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George he met at 14. we'll do this and
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do this and do this and I used to do
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that as a joke kind of because I heard
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it on an album once but Paul would go do
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do do to kind of process the melody and
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then he's doing it you know you go look
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like he hears the whole he's like Mozart
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I mean here's it all yeah and so then
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he's frustrated but it was so uh
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remarkable and uh I just got to it guys
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I was just watching uh when I in the
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other room I swear to God and I thought
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you were a big monkeys fan I didn't know
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you were a beetle guy
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uh no I I uh was watching and it was
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just the part where he was sort of
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helping George and then and then it was
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he's I guess some going to get back but
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he can't you can kind of go I know this
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one and then he fools around with it and
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then he starts going get back and you're
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like oh is that what you're talking
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about Mike yeah yeah yeah
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oh my God oh my God this is get back
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yeah and then I could relate to that
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constantly I can relate to okay
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a lot of creativity is then just going
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someplace else like either bullshitting
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around the table and ordering Chinese
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food or would they would go into You
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Know Carl Perkins songs they kept going
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back because he just refreshed their
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brains and come back around on it you
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know so so anyway
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no just just kept getting back to the
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whole reason why
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they wanted to do music in the first
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place I love that part of it
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and I also loved how much Ringo was it
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was a Paul McCartney fan
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just the the look of adoration when
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Paul's just you know the long long and
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Winding Road and he's going yeah we've
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got one I've got one and it's like the
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best song ever yeah he had that Savannah
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kind of vibe about him like pulls it in
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here goes there you know this just goes
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there and and it was um it was just so
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so sweet to see I think it's how they
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recognize game like even when I got to a
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good old SNL like we can't compare to
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the Beatles but when I got to a place
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where I then stand up comedy here and
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there and the headliner was pretty good
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and he would kill but he wasn't that
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good and I was trying to sort of figure
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out what was good and what wasn't and
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what I jived with and then I got to this
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show and you guys were there and
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everyone was like beyond what I thought
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they would be like I didn't know what to
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expect and I'm like the writers are so
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good and then and everyone's so ahead of
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me I was going holy [ __ ] I thought it
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was pretty good but it's it's too good
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here and I look back and we did have a
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chunk there where you know they usually
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do have a lot of really really good
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people there but that book right there I
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was thinking yeah I'm over my head I see
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you guys
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yeah yeah it took a while to like take a
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notepad and go write a sketch and
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without tons of help you know because
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everyone's in their own they got to do
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their own [ __ ] and then people would
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help but they can't baby you all day
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right I mean you had your past I had
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mine and I think Mike says uh uh kind of
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a singular path because he came in the
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cast was going good
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Mike Myers is coming in who you know and
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then you had to come in it wasn't like
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three people came in or or someone else
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it was just and Mike was the first new
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guy after the original cast it was like
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two seasons ends and so that's kind of
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unique about your experience so just
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explain how that how that felt because I
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yeah what was that like to come in you
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without and then you melded and did
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brilliant and we were just you know we
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were like the Beatles by you know but at
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that time it must have been strange it
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was terrifying I um I hadn't seen the
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show in a long time because I was living
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in England and I've said this too many
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times now but it's absolutely true I had
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a top loading VHS that I had to choose
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between
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you know the hockey game which is at 7
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30 and it ends at 12 30. I can relate to
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that more yeah and I've never heard this
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you know because we all think everyone's
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heard everything because we go on these
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different interviews but I know I've
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never heard that one from you I didn't
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so I got a call do I want to be on
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Saturday live and I thought it was my
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brother Paul at first you know what I
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mean honest to God because I was in
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Chicago at Second City
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and then I started to watch the show and
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I I I was like holy [ __ ] these guys are
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awesome like these they're you know what
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I mean and I had been in Toronto
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and um we used to have funny cab guys
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you know the cab dispatchers so
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East East End taxi Eastern Eastern
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Avenue taxi in Toronto and the guy would
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go he was just like oh hey I need a cab
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at Bloor and Dundas and then a cab you
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don't hear the cab driver and he'd go
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give the man a bologna sandwich right
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that was the code
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that meant you've got the cab or
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something I don't know it was really
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amusing and you'd be in the back of the
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cab and you'd be like oh that that's a
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funny dispatcher and then this one I was
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with Dave Foley
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Dave Foley from the kids and all in this
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one cab dispatcher just kept saying
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isn't that special
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and I said today for this that's really
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funny that's a great
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that's a great thing to say isn't that
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special and fully looked at me and said
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that's Dana Carvey especially character
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I said oh my God that's a that's a like
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a catchphrase he goes do you not know I
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said no I've been living in England for
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three and a half years that's funny I
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didn't I missed everything and they have
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no sense of Saturday Night Live in
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England at all
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the only thing that they'd watched later
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was little clips of Wayne's World after
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the movie came out
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then even then they were a little like
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oh I like the movie but uh I don't know
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about that sketches let's insert that
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moment that we shared and then go back
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around to this because
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Mike creates Wayne's World invites me to
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be on we're going going it's starting
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out it's kind of late in the show then
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Madonna everything then let's make a
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movie okay you know what then and then
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we have to go to London I was so naive I
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never that when Paramount was saying
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well well would you like to go to London
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I kept tearing them down like I'm really
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tired I think I'll go I didn't
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understand what and they said well we'll
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bring anybody or whatever you want so
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we're on the Concord with Paula likes
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our relatives but anyway a moment I'll
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never forget is that it had been shown
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enough in London that there was a
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following so Mike and I who used to joke
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you know let's do you know let's do a
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thing called We're the new Beatles
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remember that one yeah
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so we had our little suits it's on a
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little suits and then we were in this
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London cabbie limo type thing and we
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pulled up in front of the theater to
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show London Wayne's World and there were
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like 5 000 kids leaning on Cyclone
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fences with posters and stuff and isn't
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that wasn't that that moment we got out
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of the car like what and they're
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screaming for us that was [ __ ] nice
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how did they get it did they get it Dana
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from um
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I mean Mike I guess did they get it from
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the sketches or they had caught up with
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SNL stuff so they knew the movie was
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coming I think they ran the sketches I
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think they ran the sketches
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on BBC like because nothing goes on the
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hour on BBC you know what I mean
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so it'll be you know coming up at 12 38
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you know like it's all weird it's all
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just specific
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at 11 19 they would put in little
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spacers of Wayne's World you know you
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know not like one time we went to uh the
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only time in London was I've only been
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anywhere for press it's just like always
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quick but we went for Tommy Boy and and
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Farley and I went over and we for some
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reason thought we were famous of that
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meanwhile we've only been on the show
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like three years it's not even really
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over there like you said right and then
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talking about it wasn't even out yet
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what happened and we're like it's gonna
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be weird being so famous and then we
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stayed at the Dorchester and we had hats
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and glasses on we go let's go try to eat
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and then when then no one knew us and
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then they're like hey who's the fat guy
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and skinny guy and then we walked around
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and then we slowly took the glass and
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everything off and then we were trying
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to get recognized yeah
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we went into Piccadilly so I guess we
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just trying anything to get one person
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to know us and it all it sort of
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backfired yeah it is funny it's all
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different now but at the time it was
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that ocean was a big ocean you know what
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I mean yeah without Google without and
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even if you didn't see the show you
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didn't see it on Monday on the internet
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you had to wait six months and see a
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rerun right and who who maybe you know
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this Mike this is just an insert it
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always made me laugh when they'd say
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we're gonna jump the pond so the
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Atlantic Ocean became referred to as a
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pond was that from londoners or anyway
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it feels like a you know
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an English understatement yeah you know
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yeah kind of so you know uh I I I don't
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know what everyone knows but it is
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interesting I I felt kind of envious in
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a way of your roots of having two
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parents from Liverpool and you're sort
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of like uh you're probably had cousins
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who knew the Beatles or whatever I mean
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that is very interesting yes you did I
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know yes yeah I had a cousin who knew
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Aunt Mimi oh really wow yeah which is
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yeah Mimi was in The Beatles She was
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yeah she was a she was a roadie yeah Tom
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Hanks played her in the one of the
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Wayne's World sketches she was lugging
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PV amps yeah yeah go ahead Mike sorry go
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ahead no no no it's all good and um
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I knew all the places I knew Penny Lane
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you know what I mean I'd be in there as
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a kid
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and uh Strawberry Fields I I kicked a
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soccer ball around on Strawberry Fields
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you know what I mean so it was kind of a
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weird thing and my parents were super
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proud you know because and their accent
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became famous you know yeah so people
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would knock on the door knowing I wasn't
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home and they would say uh is my kid and
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my dad would say no actually I think
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he's kicking about with his other and
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people like cool you know
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the Beatles were so famous that the
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accent was famous and I got some
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reflected Glory
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is unique about you is okay you grow up
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in Canada and then right out of high
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school you go into Second City right you
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you at some point obviously at English
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routine had gone over there but then you
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go over to England you're developing
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your comedy there as part of a comedy
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team and you're like there for three
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years outside the States and Canada and
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then then how do you get on SNL from
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there then you then you get on SNL
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you're like 25 or something so what
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happened was I came back for Christmas
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and my dad was Ill he was starting to
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get Alzheimer's yeah and I was in a
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comedy double act with a guy named Neil
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Malarkey who's you know really of course
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my dad was like what's your comedy
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partner's name I said Neil Malarkey and
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he said uh well I I guess um you know
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Bill Shenanigans wasn't available
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because his name's Malarkey and uh
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okay Malarkey's fantastic I I still work
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with him today you know he you know he's
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hilarious and
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um I didn't want to leave I didn't want
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to leave I I loved things I love being
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in this double act I love lunch yeah and
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uh my dad was starting to get ill
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and I did the um I did The Improv set at
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Second City Chicago the main Secretary
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of Toronto the main stage and then they
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said to me do you want to have a job on
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the main stage of Second City Toronto
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and I was like
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I don't really only because
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but then I knew that my dad was ill and
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I'm so glad I did because I did get to
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see my dad for a little while before he
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lost his personality which was sort of
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like a double death with Alzheimer's you
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know what I mean yeah horrible and um so
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I got to see him he got to see me
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perform
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and then um I got hired for Second City
00:18:27
Chicago
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and went down there and uh then my dad
00:18:33
had a horrible accident in a bath and it
00:18:37
was awful and uh
00:18:40
I went back up and uh I technically was
00:18:44
the alumni at Second City Toronto and
00:18:47
there was an alumni show
00:18:49
and Martin Short saw me there and
00:18:51
recommended me to Lauren yes I know that
00:18:54
part of it and I got I got a I did an
00:18:57
audition I just got called and I
00:18:59
and I just then I was just in the cast
00:19:01
and I didn't really actually know I was
00:19:03
hired for the first little while exactly
00:19:05
and even Lauren Lauren I was in the
00:19:09
hallway and he was I was he said what
00:19:11
are you doing here I was like
00:19:13
where did you know
00:19:16
why are you online yes what you know
00:19:20
wait why are you cross-legged by the
00:19:21
elevator bank and I was like I I don't
00:19:23
have an office he said get off the floor
00:19:25
or something like that well and I was
00:19:27
like didn't I meet you and you hired me
00:19:29
yeah well going forward
00:19:32
let me ask him yeah he he didn't so I'm
00:19:36
like you didn't have the stress of
00:19:37
knowing you were having an audition
00:19:38
really just Martin Short saw you and
00:19:40
then said he recommended them 100 if I
00:19:42
had auditioned I wouldn't have got in
00:19:43
that's 100 yeah I'm the shittiest
00:19:46
auditioner that's ever I hate it too I
00:19:48
mean that didn't mean so Martin Short
00:19:50
must have recommended you really heavily
00:19:54
I mean I you know what I mean Dave Foley
00:19:56
as well who wore and respects yeah so
00:20:00
then Pam Thomas is a casting director
00:20:02
Pam Thomas who was a producer with the
00:20:06
kids in the hall she was at this
00:20:07
anniversary in Toronto and she also
00:20:10
called Lauren so it was like so in all
00:20:12
due modesty what were you doing when
00:20:15
Marty saw you like were you were you
00:20:18
doing sprockets were you doing lothar we
00:20:21
did I did Wayne's World you did Wayne's
00:20:23
World yeah at the top of the second act
00:20:25
who played Garth
00:20:35
I just looked at the cast and I said
00:20:38
who's the best comedian there
00:20:42
I don't know I had a baby face I had to
00:20:44
keep my chin up and uh I guess we'll be
00:20:46
doing it on the 50th Anniversary so
00:20:49
isn't it isn't it the 30th Anniversary
00:20:52
this year it is the 30th of the movie
00:20:56
all of you guys yeah of Waynes world
00:20:58
it's the 30th anniversary of the movie
00:21:00
which is ridiculous
00:21:02
uh I don't know but uh I don't even know
00:21:04
how to process life anymore it just
00:21:07
spins around so fast I I always say I'm
00:21:09
I'm moving at the speed of life I feel
00:21:11
like all of us are way busier than we
00:21:13
should or could be of course you have
00:21:14
three three children and and you just
00:21:17
did a Netflix show if you want to talk
00:21:18
about that for a sec but sure you've
00:21:20
been busy let's let's uh let's Mike did
00:21:22
a new show for all you Mike Myers fans
00:21:24
he has a a streaming show coming out on
00:21:28
Netflix right this year yeah yeah it's
00:21:30
in May it'll come out in May it's called
00:21:31
the pentavirate and it's about
00:21:34
um what if five people around the world
00:21:39
I had heard that I got out with his
00:21:42
master you got off first first early
00:21:45
adopter obviously no not at all it's
00:21:48
called the pin tablet and it's about
00:21:49
five people what if five people ran the
00:21:52
world and what if they were nice
00:21:54
and it's about conspiracy theories right
00:21:56
and I play all five you play Bill Gates
00:21:59
Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos
00:22:04
I'm keeping tight-lipped about the
00:22:06
various I love I love you I love the uh
00:22:09
the premise I love the idea of it so and
00:22:12
you're doing your your Mike Myers thing
00:22:14
which is amazing to watch well yeah
00:22:17
thank you I'm um I had a lot of fun
00:22:18
doing it and I you know happy with it
00:22:21
very happy yeah I think the writer
00:22:24
performer is kind of the most potent uh
00:22:26
comedian not not all comedians write
00:22:29
their stuff but in your case you were
00:22:32
just every bit as much a writer Tina Fey
00:22:34
the same and and a great performer what
00:22:36
I'm kind of interested now that we're to
00:22:38
this section is what you brought to SNL
00:22:41
that first year was so outside it had it
00:22:45
its own frequency its own sensibility
00:22:46
and I always say it's Canadian British a
00:22:50
little and American because you're
00:22:51
always watching America as a kid right
00:22:52
yeah Canada so that when you came in and
00:22:56
I wanted to walk through some of those
00:22:57
things you did on on that first season
00:22:59
and then finish with this part of it
00:23:02
when we were touring
00:23:03
and Mike and I did some dates and how
00:23:07
hard you had landed with the audience
00:23:08
because we were playing 3 000 Cedars and
00:23:11
you'd come out and they were going crazy
00:23:12
so anyway I'll be back in 10 minutes I
00:23:15
just wanted to delay that out there that
00:23:17
was a long way of saying so you come in
00:23:19
the first thing I saw I'll start it this
00:23:21
way so Mike comes in he's very Canadian
00:23:23
in the sense that he's shy and sweet
00:23:25
unassuming
00:23:27
what you know and the first thing I saw
00:23:29
you do you I think you had a suit on you
00:23:31
had a French accent and you were peeing
00:23:34
yourself with some kind of well it was
00:23:36
fortuitous it was um it was as if it was
00:23:38
French Saturday Night Live
00:23:41
oh okay and uh and because I I speak
00:23:45
French because I'm from Canada
00:23:47
do you really yeah
00:23:51
just with Canadian I've only been able
00:23:53
to do fake friends
00:23:57
so this is not nothing right but anyway
00:24:00
so
00:24:03
I I did it actually in French oh you did
00:24:07
oh you're actually French in a suit wet
00:24:09
in your pants
00:24:11
is that your first game yeah yeah yeah I
00:24:13
was playing the the a cast member of the
00:24:17
French celebrity who was hosting that
00:24:19
week oh I see okay in in France and it's
00:24:22
um
00:24:23
and then they had a a p rig yeah on me
00:24:27
right and uh
00:24:29
always enjoy wearing a pea rig I don't
00:24:31
know why now this is Mike this is your
00:24:33
first read-through or is this first show
00:24:35
first first show I think and then the
00:24:39
first sketch I was first sketch I was in
00:24:41
or I played Nigel the groundskeeper and
00:24:44
one of and it was
00:24:47
um one of Nigel's I like someones
00:24:51
the groundskeeper I'm no stranger to a
00:24:54
Nigel it's a good English name I guess
00:24:57
it's funny and uh wait like was that the
00:25:00
beginning of like a September season
00:25:02
like I came in at the end of a season
00:25:04
and some people come in the middle Adam
00:25:06
came in the Middle where you came in the
00:25:08
middle it was February yeah that's
00:25:11
sometimes tougher everything's rolling
00:25:12
it was and everybody's awesome like you
00:25:16
know
00:25:16
well we had we had Phil Hartman and Jan
00:25:19
Hooks I mean you know oh my God I can't
00:25:21
be nervous breakdown that first week it
00:25:23
started straight up on the floor crying
00:25:27
I'm not gonna make it this one
00:25:30
and then Lauren said what are you doing
00:25:32
on the floor Mike
00:25:36
so you you well I used to go to a psych
00:25:39
ward Mike oh so in those four months you
00:25:42
landed you I know you did sprockets yeah
00:25:46
which I always love the the touch my
00:25:49
monkey aspect that was so specifically
00:25:53
insane
00:25:54
demanding so where did that so you had
00:25:58
that when Martin Short saw you do did
00:26:00
you do sprockets and Wayne's World or
00:26:02
now I just did Wayne's World and it was
00:26:05
but it was it was after the intermission
00:26:08
and I came up from the audience and
00:26:10
people actually kind of weren't sure if
00:26:13
it was you it was happening and then
00:26:16
I just I had a great show and then we
00:26:19
did uh The Improv set and I did a couple
00:26:22
things and just I just had to show my
00:26:25
life it was one of those weird things
00:26:26
and then there's a thing called phrase
00:26:29
tag at Second City where you take the
00:26:31
position of somebody
00:26:33
and um oh yeah I ended up in this long
00:26:37
freeze tag with Martin Short oh okay as
00:26:41
it was described to me is that Martin
00:26:43
Short looked at me and I I looked like I
00:26:47
was 14 you know what I mean and was
00:26:49
starting to name drop like as a as a way
00:26:53
of saying you won't know any of these
00:26:55
people and I matched every name drop for
00:26:59
a name drop you know what I mean okay
00:27:01
got it and so he was like you know I was
00:27:03
with Stevie Spielberg get the blah blah
00:27:05
blah blah blah and I said that's when
00:27:06
Liza Minnelli came and we were on the
00:27:08
yeah okay white Puerto Rican rum
00:27:10
and this is a white Puerto Rican rum
00:27:12
commercial that had Liza Minnelli and
00:27:15
whatever and it became this this duel
00:27:18
you know what I mean I always I I did a
00:27:21
bit once where a celebrity name dropping
00:27:23
it's always a shorter like Johnny Carson
00:27:25
if I was with John Carson you know and
00:27:28
Eddie Eddie McMahon you know it's all
00:27:30
it's always kind of changed
00:27:33
we're with Bobby hope
00:27:37
yeah so you you crushed it then you come
00:27:40
to the show and then by May the show's
00:27:43
done so you landed a lot of stuff before
00:27:46
we went on our little mini tour maybe
00:27:48
but I didn't think so at the time that's
00:27:50
so stupid is I literally was like I I
00:27:54
blew it I'm gonna get fired and I really
00:27:57
truly thought I was getting it fired
00:27:59
pretty much every week you know what I
00:28:01
mean well which one landed the best in
00:28:04
your mind I mean you did lothar the Hill
00:28:06
People yeah did you yeah I am lothar of
00:28:09
the Hill People it's like just again
00:28:11
just it's just different different
00:28:13
crowds like it like the like the sort of
00:28:15
people that
00:28:17
you know like musicians like Dieter
00:28:20
right and they like Wayne but like artsy
00:28:24
people were like oh that Dieter thing's
00:28:26
cool Wayne's World had more of a broader
00:28:28
appeal but then I remember walking
00:28:31
through Central Park and it was always
00:28:32
the people that worked in the park were
00:28:34
like oh my God it's little thought the
00:28:36
Hill People
00:28:37
they remember you could almost guess
00:28:41
who's gonna like what
00:28:42
you go I think you're gonna like bench
00:28:45
so that was like an ancient man in very
00:28:48
rudimentary language man no but that was
00:28:51
but this this was an ancient man in
00:28:53
rudimentary language trying to
00:28:55
understand women and Society was that
00:28:58
kind of yeah it was a sensitive troll or
00:29:00
whatever right when I was a kid I played
00:29:03
a lot of Dungeons and Dragons but we did
00:29:05
it in character which I look back now
00:29:07
and it gives me the corny tingles but it
00:29:09
uh I know a lot of dancers dragons fans
00:29:12
and yeah my my character was lothar and
00:29:15
uh when I live with them woman she comes
00:29:18
I don't know what you know there is much
00:29:21
that I could tell you you know it's all
00:29:22
the come let us talk of Stories of the
00:29:25
hunt that type of wait but Mike you just
00:29:28
did those that half a year and then you
00:29:29
guys went on the road yeah you were well
00:29:31
done enough to go on the road yeah it
00:29:34
was wow and I didn't have an act I wrote
00:29:36
it on the plane
00:29:37
and so Mike was writing and and he had
00:29:41
cue cards you could have done this on
00:29:43
the stage and if I could just insert
00:29:45
this so Mike's opening for me he would
00:29:47
This brilliant thing he would come out
00:29:50
as was it Wayne or Wayne Wayne
00:29:54
under-dressed unbeknownst to the crowd
00:29:57
was he was underdressed with Dieter
00:29:59
so you do Wayne and then you pull a rip
00:30:02
cord and then the theme to sprockets
00:30:04
would come on and you start dancing his
00:30:05
Dieter and they would go [ __ ] I
00:30:07
mean it was such an incredible move but
00:30:09
I was shocked because I didn't know who
00:30:12
was watching the show and I thought you
00:30:14
know I just have to just do it and if it
00:30:16
if it if it doesn't play I just stay
00:30:19
away the whole night you know what I
00:30:21
mean you know back then you don't have
00:30:23
Instagram followers you don't have
00:30:24
internet so you have to guess am I
00:30:27
famous or do does anyone know what the
00:30:29
[ __ ] is going on I'm just hoping they
00:30:31
see the show I'm hoping they're into
00:30:33
this we think it's funny in the building
00:30:35
and then we leave you just don't have no
00:30:37
idea and it was it was interesting like
00:30:39
when I was very first on the show
00:30:42
I would get like three pieces of mail
00:30:45
right
00:30:46
now your brother okay well often from
00:30:50
Correctional Facilities you know what I
00:30:52
mean yeah and uh and with the real snap
00:30:54
which I thought was Ah that's cool and
00:30:57
then I would look over at Danish and I
00:30:59
was like you got no mail Dana got no man
00:31:02
holy [ __ ] so I guess I'm okay with three
00:31:05
and I said to um do you remember Julian
00:31:08
oh yes yes and I said to Julian I said
00:31:11
Julian
00:31:12
I don't understand it Dana has no mail
00:31:14
because no mail and then he points over
00:31:16
to these five boxes he's five he goes it
00:31:19
doesn't fit in there
00:31:20
I didn't know that that's nice for the
00:31:24
female at home right by the page test it
00:31:26
was Steve corn when I was there yeah
00:31:28
yeah
00:31:29
all these square boxes in each other
00:31:31
name on it but they are unfortunately
00:31:33
equally the same size yes and then you'd
00:31:36
see data sticking out with other stuff
00:31:39
when Mike and I the when the movie hit
00:31:43
it got kind of it definitely went
00:31:44
surreal for us right because we didn't
00:31:46
really know what box office and just
00:31:49
Awards kept arriving and giant Vats of
00:31:51
mail and it was just sort of I don't
00:31:53
know I don't know if we really
00:31:54
comprehended it no it was too fast too
00:31:57
much the only one that hit home was
00:32:00
having immigrant parents and not having
00:32:02
any hockey equipment except we go to the
00:32:04
skate exchange and you'd get like
00:32:06
old-timey skates that look like you know
00:32:09
soon Railways will be spanning the
00:32:10
Nations
00:32:12
and then I'm on Saturday live we weren't
00:32:15
making any money but all of a sudden a
00:32:17
thing arrives this big giant duffel bag
00:32:19
from Team Canada with Team Canada skates
00:32:24
with the logo stitched into the skates
00:32:26
into the into the hockey pads into the
00:32:29
gloves the logo Team Canada and I was
00:32:31
like oh cool this is like unbelievable
00:32:35
and that's making it I still have I
00:32:38
still have the the gloves because
00:32:40
they're you were a big uh hockey guy
00:32:41
back then yeah I think you had a lot of
00:32:43
uh coats and stuff that that's that's
00:32:45
kind of a bond you know that it it's not
00:32:48
I would never do a military analogy but
00:32:50
it's a bonding thing in Show Business to
00:32:52
be on that show with people because it's
00:32:54
so gritty and then to have your first
00:32:57
success with them and the first time
00:32:59
making a couple extra bucks I remember
00:33:02
you scrounging for quarters you know to
00:33:04
get a sandwich and stuff or you got good
00:33:06
bringing a buck out and you know
00:33:08
yeah I mean no I didn't I had to borrow
00:33:12
money off Lauren
00:33:13
though does he have a billfold and kind
00:33:17
of go like that does he like it was just
00:33:19
5 10 15. I wanted by Tuesday
00:33:22
where was I started again did he pay you
00:33:25
in Canadian money or what he said here's
00:33:27
a bloomy
00:33:32
the uh he um no he said how much do you
00:33:36
need I said uh ten thousand dollars like
00:33:38
I didn't really know wow and he was like
00:33:42
he was like what's your rant and I was
00:33:44
like
00:33:48
something like a thousand dollars a
00:33:50
month or something yeah and you're
00:33:52
netting maybe 1500 no money like I had
00:33:55
negative money you know what I mean and
00:33:57
and uh
00:33:59
I think Lauren I would be so [ __ ]
00:34:02
scared as Lauren for money I probably
00:34:04
wouldn't I talked to I talked to
00:34:06
remember Audrey Dickman
00:34:08
Audrey yeah and she said well uh she was
00:34:12
like do you have any friends that you
00:34:14
can borrow from I said not really no he
00:34:17
goes uh almost it was like anything
00:34:20
valuable yeah I mean anyone else than
00:34:24
Warren yeah
00:34:25
can you donate blood yes donate blood do
00:34:28
you have any shoes you could donate um
00:34:30
yes it was Jim Henry I had the same
00:34:34
thing but I went straight to Marcy Klein
00:34:35
because I found out she was Calvin
00:34:37
Klein's daughter so I said oh yeah well
00:34:39
she's got to have some money so that was
00:34:41
my no I'm kidding but I uh hi Marcy if
00:34:44
she said we love you
00:34:48
[Music]
00:34:50
I was just looking while you're gone I
00:34:52
just remember how much I Love Philip I
00:34:55
thought that was uh with the kid with
00:34:57
the helmet he was in straps and he's
00:34:58
running away that was really inspired
00:35:01
because wigs and berries it was so funny
00:35:04
visually like even if you lost the sound
00:35:06
it was so great oh thank you you know
00:35:09
what I mean and also it was just like
00:35:11
hyper hypo yeah was it yeah the hyper
00:35:14
hypo yeah and he wore a helmet and he
00:35:16
had this bungee cords and he's trying to
00:35:18
harness there was a kid in my
00:35:21
neighborhood that had a harness a
00:35:22
harness yeah that's the word he was and
00:35:25
uh and I was like that's all right you
00:35:28
know what I mean
00:35:31
no no that was that Nicole Kidman was in
00:35:34
on uh Phillip yeah you know I saw this
00:35:37
morning of middle-aged man and uh I'm
00:35:39
working on it and I yeah it was Jan
00:35:41
Hooks in Victoria it's just such a
00:35:43
throwback of like the simple SNL
00:35:45
sketches and you come in it's so great
00:35:49
and then Farley came in his drinking
00:35:51
buddy I don't even really I don't think
00:35:52
I remember that and you guys both
00:35:53
snapped you at the same time and it was
00:35:56
[ __ ] really well done and I I love
00:35:59
this I love the theme do you remember
00:36:00
the theme didn't it have a song He's
00:36:02
middle-aged man go ahead can you sing it
00:36:06
Mike or what was it middle age man uh
00:36:09
something something in middle-aged man
00:36:10
uh
00:36:14
something something and a gut
00:36:16
middle-aged man and the catchphrase are
00:36:19
was you are you looking at my gut I'm
00:36:20
working on it yeah I'm working on it
00:36:22
which of course is my actual thing I say
00:36:25
okay now because I have of course uh I
00:36:30
have the gut I love presentational
00:36:32
comedy like that where you tell the
00:36:34
audience the premise completely up front
00:36:36
and then you present it to them it is
00:36:38
there's no mathematics for their head
00:36:40
they're just like enjoying I know
00:36:42
exactly what this is yeah
00:36:44
we're all we're all spreading around I
00:36:47
mean my waist is like way bigger than it
00:36:50
was back then I used to tease John
00:36:52
Levitz because I looked at the board and
00:36:53
they'd do your waist and your inseam and
00:36:56
I was like I was like well I was young
00:36:58
that was like 31 33 and everyone else
00:37:02
had a bigger waist and a shorter so I
00:37:04
see you know how you tease John and he
00:37:06
teases you I go John look I have reverse
00:37:08
sizing he goes what what do you mean
00:37:10
reverse it so anyway John is the
00:37:13
greatest I mean is this just the
00:37:15
silliest hello everybody
00:37:18
uh what else can I well I saw oh yeah I
00:37:20
saw a side on YouTube it said here's a
00:37:23
scene of Mike I'll think Scott is from
00:37:25
dress I'm like you can watch [ __ ] from
00:37:27
dress what yeah I go and it said on the
00:37:30
beginning starting live films a show at
00:37:32
11 30 but they have a dresser so that
00:37:34
eight and it's not supposed to air but
00:37:36
here's one I go you can find dress this
00:37:39
is unreal everyone there is that the one
00:37:41
with Mel Gibson where the the cash
00:37:43
register malfunctioned I think it was
00:37:45
walking was walking everyone yeah wow
00:37:49
wow wow
00:37:51
for a second just because we're on that
00:37:53
topic uh hosts that were I know these
00:37:55
you've heard these before but well you
00:37:57
probably we probably have similar
00:37:58
choices Wayne Gretzky would be a big one
00:38:00
for me number one yeah number one for
00:38:02
you I figured and so just just from my
00:38:05
point of view for a second you wrote a
00:38:07
Wayne's World sketch and we went to an
00:38:09
ice rink or we did a film I'm from
00:38:12
California so I never played hockey
00:38:14
Wayne Gretzky is literally super
00:38:17
Canadian nice I'm me just like insanely
00:38:19
unassuming and then I couldn't get my sh
00:38:23
I was playing the the goalie I didn't
00:38:25
know so he gets on one knee starts
00:38:27
lacing up my shoes and pads and then
00:38:30
Wayne Gretzky says here hold the stick
00:38:31
like this so it was thank you again for
00:38:34
that that moment Mike because I was like
00:38:36
what no wait the greatest winner yeah
00:38:39
well it's just so how was your
00:38:40
experience with Wayne I mean he was so
00:38:42
wow well I I got called into Lauren's
00:38:45
office you know and uh okay here it
00:38:48
comes you know what I mean on the carpet
00:38:50
yeah I thought all right you know I
00:38:52
tried and then he goes uh Wayne
00:38:55
Gretzky's the host and I was like
00:38:57
and I was like is this happening like
00:39:01
it's a joke right and he said just maybe
00:39:05
a Wayne's World you know what I mean and
00:39:07
uh
00:39:08
I was like yeah of course but I I went
00:39:11
and uh all pre-cell phone of course I
00:39:13
was just pounded calls to Canada oh my
00:39:16
God all my friends Wayne kraska's the
00:39:18
host holy [ __ ] you know what I mean
00:39:20
they're huge there was a couple things
00:39:22
uh for that that episode that stick out
00:39:24
to me one is I have a terrible fear of
00:39:26
flying so does Wayne ironically even
00:39:28
though he must have flown like crazy he
00:39:30
goes I'll tell you at the end of the
00:39:31
week what the secret is to not be afraid
00:39:34
so at the end of the week I go the end
00:39:35
of the show I go when what's the secret
00:39:37
he goes helicopters
00:39:39
just flying a helicopter and a plane
00:39:41
will seem like nothing you know he's
00:39:43
right oh he's got it right you know yeah
00:39:46
he's 100 right helicopters are
00:39:49
terrifying do you remember the sketch we
00:39:50
did where we were playing celebrities
00:39:52
idiotically trying to advise him how to
00:39:55
play hockey I do and I remember it's
00:39:57
like what if you made the puck out of
00:39:59
Flubber yeah
00:40:02
and the funny part was Phil was doing
00:40:04
Jack Nicholson and he always would say
00:40:09
Wayne's moniker or nickname before he
00:40:12
starts to talk in rehearsal he'd go
00:40:13
great one and Wayne would lose it every
00:40:17
time you know and I was pulling out my
00:40:19
silly John Travolta from 1975 going you
00:40:23
know maybe just everybody should just go
00:40:25
right at the net super fast just go
00:40:27
around that kind of thing and he loved
00:40:30
it but anyway he stood out as just and
00:40:31
he nailed that thing where he's singing
00:40:33
like Elvis at the air show Waikiki
00:40:36
hockey yeah suddenly it was extremely
00:40:39
charismatic Vatican in the pocket you
00:40:41
know it was like Wow anything can happen
00:40:43
on Sno yeah so yeah you know did you
00:40:46
ever do uh awesome did you ever know as
00:40:48
far as honest no you didn't no never did
00:40:52
I was like later creation Now that was
00:40:54
later I am I uh I hosted I've only
00:40:58
hosted once I hosted in
00:41:01
I would say 25 years ago
00:41:04
was it a trip to promote it was for
00:41:06
Austin Powers Yeah
00:41:08
and how did you find that because I
00:41:10
David's hosted I've hosted a few three
00:41:13
times I think yeah I find it really
00:41:15
difficult do you well it's so natural
00:41:19
and I'm fun what was your well when I
00:41:24
did one in 95 I actually got you know
00:41:26
some of I I got into a restaurant sketch
00:41:29
with with Chris was in it and Tim
00:41:31
Meadows and Sandler that I didn't write
00:41:34
Steve coren wrote the pepper boy and
00:41:37
that that if for a restaurant sketch in
00:41:39
the in underneath the bleachers kind of
00:41:41
set it killed so hard that I at that
00:41:45
night at the hotel at 4 30 in the
00:41:48
morning Sandler he just left a voicemail
00:41:50
for me going Carvey pepper boy you know
00:41:54
one of those right it killed so hard
00:42:01
to me Sandler but the last time I went
00:42:03
on I just was a little too too amped up
00:42:06
but it hadn't been gone too long and uh
00:42:08
was a little too serious about trying to
00:42:10
control it you know because they put you
00:42:13
in like 13 sketches as a cast member
00:42:15
you're used to having one or two that
00:42:17
you're shepherding so you can really
00:42:19
focus so that that's the part it's hard
00:42:21
but how did you guys want to kill on
00:42:23
every sketch and you started yeah you're
00:42:25
killing every sketch so you enjoyed it
00:42:27
Mike
00:42:28
uh no it was hard
00:42:33
because it was too many sketches and I
00:42:35
also wanted every moment to be
00:42:37
Perfection but what was
00:42:40
from uh like a when you write and
00:42:43
produce your stuff from that standpoint
00:42:45
it you know like they said okay you're
00:42:48
gonna play the prime minister at the
00:42:50
time of England right
00:42:52
and uh I was like oh I need some tape on
00:42:56
it I don't really know how he talks and
00:42:58
so I said to the person I said is it
00:43:00
possible to get a tape and they said
00:43:02
sure it'll be five minutes and I'm like
00:43:04
yeah because when you do movies right
00:43:07
much slower much slower and literally
00:43:09
five minutes later there was a tape and
00:43:11
I was like this is why movies can be
00:43:13
frustrating at time because
00:43:15
honest to God like everything you can't
00:43:18
believe how fast things happen yeah and
00:43:21
so when people on movies tell you oh it
00:43:23
can't happen you're like um
00:43:26
well that's the love of Saturday Night
00:43:28
Live if you pretend to procrastinate or
00:43:30
you just have these hard dead deadlines
00:43:32
throughout the week that keep pushing
00:43:34
you forward and keep you really
00:43:36
heightened I didn't realize for my ADD
00:43:38
or whatever I've got that that really
00:43:40
fit my brain nicely because everything
00:43:43
was in front of me and then there was
00:43:45
the dress show and then boom it's over
00:43:47
and then in a movie you might develop it
00:43:49
for two years it's like and then I was
00:43:53
on a film once again we did so many
00:43:54
rehearsals and so many other angles by
00:43:57
the time it got to the shot they're in
00:43:58
use I had said the the thing like I'd
00:44:01
say 150 200 times right didn't even seem
00:44:04
like English it was like yeah yeah yeah
00:44:05
I mean I think you know maybe the way
00:44:08
other people do the documentary style or
00:44:10
something but that kind of crushed me in
00:44:11
movies I didn't feel I would love this
00:44:13
year I always want less takes because I
00:44:14
feel like you're fresh you get it and if
00:44:17
something happens off top of your head
00:44:18
or you tweak it but to do it and then
00:44:20
they you're finally so burnt out at the
00:44:22
end they go now here's the big close-up
00:44:24
and you go [ __ ] now the one we're gonna
00:44:26
use like oh God damn it yeah yeah you've
00:44:28
used it all on the other side yeah what
00:44:30
is the money shot I mean in Wayne's
00:44:31
World one because it was I don't know I
00:44:34
think it was like 35 days so and so
00:44:38
there wasn't a lot of time for a lot of
00:44:39
coverage like in winter it's freedom
00:44:41
from choice too that's the other thing
00:44:42
too you don't want so many choices and
00:44:45
the other thing too you know
00:44:47
I I didn't even know on wins world to
00:44:51
ask if there was what the coverage was
00:44:53
you didn't mean me neither of course and
00:44:56
now you know there's been some movies
00:44:58
where you can't ask you know
00:45:01
um or I was like Bohemian Rhapsody I was
00:45:04
just like great whatever yeah you know
00:45:07
right you're a Hired Hand kind of right
00:45:08
yeah exactly and on uh Inglorious
00:45:11
Bastards it was just like
00:45:14
whatever you would like you know what I
00:45:16
mean uh can you can I say how much I
00:45:18
love that scene and I saw it recently
00:45:21
and that how big he made the room and
00:45:23
your your the attitude of your character
00:45:25
and the accent it's so thank you great I
00:45:28
love I love Tarantino I mean you got to
00:45:30
be in a Tarantino movie I I can't
00:45:32
believe it like yeah I also like got to
00:45:34
be in a World War II movie which is
00:45:37
also and like just the whole experience
00:45:39
was you know shot in Nazi headquarters
00:45:42
are you kind of I'm just gonna throw
00:45:44
this out I don't know where it's going
00:45:45
are you kind of a World War II historian
00:45:48
and aware you're very much interested in
00:45:49
that that particular event no Mike is
00:45:52
that
00:45:53
and it's okay to say that and I have
00:45:56
other friends who do it but you you do
00:45:58
paint and make beautiful models
00:46:00
extraordinary soldiers yeah thank you
00:46:02
and you have tableaus of soldiers and
00:46:05
they're nice dioramas okay yeah yeah
00:46:08
extraordinary but yeah I'm I'm a
00:46:11
lightweight compared to you but I'm
00:46:12
fascinated by World War II both my
00:46:14
parents both my parents were in World
00:46:16
War II my mom was in the Royal Air Force
00:46:18
and my dad was in the Royal engineers
00:46:20
and fought you know in the second wave
00:46:22
of Market Garden where they were wow
00:46:25
Building Bridges and clearing landmines
00:46:27
and making anti-aircraft
00:46:29
gun installments and you know my dad's
00:46:32
shot at the Germans you know
00:46:34
he doesn't know whether he killed
00:46:35
anybody
00:46:36
amazing took fire he's been shelled my
00:46:39
dad was shelled during World War II and
00:46:42
was in a slit trench underneath the
00:46:44
truck and he said the thing about the
00:46:47
British army is that in combat British
00:46:49
soldiers laugh all the time
00:46:51
they just make sense constantly laughing
00:46:54
like
00:46:55
it's really cool when they're frightened
00:46:57
and running with the rifle
00:46:59
laughing they laugh here out of fear
00:47:03
yeah
00:47:04
and I was like is that just like is that
00:47:06
just Legend and Lord but then of course
00:47:08
I've seen a lot of like
00:47:10
documentaries about
00:47:12
the British Army and stuff that they
00:47:14
it's just one of those stress responses
00:47:17
the greatest yeah it's shaped them it's
00:47:19
shaped by parents it shaped my parents
00:47:21
in a huge way
00:47:23
how we feel it did how do you feel it
00:47:25
did and specific you know
00:47:28
but talk about things like Fascism and
00:47:31
like that was a real thing like my dad
00:47:33
and my Mom hated any kind of fascism
00:47:36
anything like that and would talk about
00:47:38
it at the dinner table and I realized
00:47:41
that my friends who didn't have World
00:47:42
War II parents were less concerned about
00:47:44
the possibility of fascism yeah you know
00:47:47
I mean and uh interesting it's
00:47:50
you know they were just
00:47:52
the Nazis are are bad guys I mean that's
00:47:54
the
00:47:56
you know this it's it's one of those
00:47:58
Wars that are
00:48:00
just unequivocal they must be stopped
00:48:02
you know what I mean was it interesting
00:48:04
Mike we might have talked sorry but and
00:48:06
Dunkirk the movie they didn't say Nazis
00:48:09
they said the enemy
00:48:11
yeah yeah I didn't realize that yeah
00:48:13
they never say Nazi they say anime enemy
00:48:16
uh
00:48:20
that question was stupid but this one's
00:48:22
even dumber so you uh by the way I saw
00:48:25
Bohemian Rhapsody and I I didn't know it
00:48:28
was you and I saw it again and then I
00:48:29
figured out I was like
00:48:32
and then my friend goes you said you
00:48:34
know him I go I do let me just look
00:48:36
closer he said you know come on your
00:48:39
friend's awfully angry I just want to
00:48:41
say
00:48:42
you said you knew him yeah
00:48:45
I know him when he's in the movie what
00:48:48
do I do and then um and then uh also I
00:48:51
thought it's it's a real uh
00:48:54
uh Testament to success in SNL when I
00:48:58
see or just your life when you have
00:49:00
Halloween costumes right I see you guys
00:49:03
there's there's always been a coupling
00:49:05
with Mike it's awesome powers and
00:49:07
there's uh obviously Wayne's World with
00:49:09
other per that's always a great one like
00:49:10
couples do it or two girls usually two
00:49:12
girls two girls when I I run into them
00:49:15
both with wigs two girls one swing one's
00:49:17
guard that's a huge one still that just
00:49:19
shows how long and obviously Shrek and
00:49:22
there's uh I've seen some coffee talks
00:49:24
uh I think Linda Richmond
00:49:28
middle age Matt yeah it's just fun to
00:49:30
have
00:49:31
that's out there and just stays alive
00:49:33
that's the funnest success is going oh
00:49:36
look people you know that's that's the
00:49:38
biggest flattery I love it when someone
00:49:40
gives me a specific compliment if you
00:49:42
had a compliment just someone on the
00:49:43
street or a Subway or something that
00:49:46
says something too that's obscure in a
00:49:49
way and they they loved it
00:49:51
I am
00:49:53
I I went for I went as a British soldier
00:49:55
for Halloween two years ago surprise
00:49:57
surprise
00:49:59
um I may have a couple of British army
00:50:02
uniforms and uh okay and this uh
00:50:06
20-something uh young person comes up to
00:50:09
me and goes a I love your work thank you
00:50:12
very much B thank you for having the
00:50:16
Halloween costume that I thought you
00:50:17
might have
00:50:20
was just like oh well that I somehow
00:50:23
that was a great compliment the funniest
00:50:26
one I've ever had was being in a cab in
00:50:28
New York and you know the sometimes the
00:50:30
bike guys grab the handle to get a
00:50:33
little of the cab ride yeah push yeah
00:50:35
some guy was grabbed the handle and then
00:50:37
with the other hand just pointed at me
00:50:39
and went famous and then took it
00:50:44
famous famous all right let's talk about
00:50:47
that for a second because okay Mike
00:50:49
wrote this really cool book about Canada
00:50:51
because Mike loves Canada probably as
00:50:55
much as anybody who's then ever become
00:50:57
an American since I don't know you
00:50:58
you're a Canadian hero well he's I have
00:51:01
to say this because I know how big it is
00:51:02
this award Mike is the office of the
00:51:05
Order of Canada and he's on a stamp yeah
00:51:09
then he writes this book and I just was
00:51:11
looking at it today because you sent it
00:51:13
to me thank you very much and there's
00:51:14
this quote in here that I thought was so
00:51:15
interesting about fame fame is not
00:51:19
creativity it's the industrial disease
00:51:22
of creativity pretty potent thing to say
00:51:25
but I mean you've never pursued it in in
00:51:28
a in a classic sense and some people do
00:51:30
don't judge it but we live in an era now
00:51:33
where fame fame is Talent the pursuit of
00:51:36
talent is Fame the modernization of Fame
00:51:39
outstrips Talent often just Fame for
00:51:43
fame's sake so anyway as what would she
00:51:46
say am I cutting out no no I got you I
00:51:49
got your back now sorry uh as Linda
00:51:52
Richmond say Talk Amongst yourselves was
00:51:55
that perfect yes Madonna out there I was
00:51:58
like oh my God you got her for Wayne's
00:52:00
World too yeah and she had coffee talk
00:52:02
at home base she was yes with Barbra
00:52:05
Streisand and Roseanne big ones that was
00:52:09
that was a big one Streisand is
00:52:11
Streisand I mean yeah there is there is
00:52:20
monitors under the bleachers
00:52:27
David is so alive
00:52:31
I know a big giant glass yeah the giant
00:52:35
class he'd start the poor low and then
00:52:37
he'd bring his his hand up like two feet
00:52:39
above the poor of the glass under the
00:52:42
bleachers he was the best they go Lauren
00:52:44
wants to see him like oh God
00:52:46
maybe this one do it fix it a little bit
00:52:49
it felt like it faded out at the end and
00:52:51
and Liz or Aaron would look at me and go
00:52:54
you hurt him and I got him I've said
00:52:57
this before but I guess once in a while
00:52:59
while I was out there really mugging it
00:53:01
up like not gonna do it all that Lauren
00:53:03
with I think affection would say looking
00:53:06
at the monitor under the bleachers go
00:53:08
he's a [ __ ] show Pony
00:53:11
and I got one I didn't take offense to
00:53:13
it I go yeah times I am just a
00:53:16
bald-faced ham just trying to shove it
00:53:19
down the you know would you remember
00:53:20
when when uh Lord is always so funny but
00:53:22
he goes on when Sinead O'Connor ripped
00:53:25
up that picture and uh
00:53:26
and then I was out there so I picked up
00:53:29
a piece of it mm-hmm
00:53:31
yeah Kenny Among Us they they need that
00:53:33
back but uh I walked over and Lauren was
00:53:36
drinking out and Adam's light it went
00:53:39
dead silent they went to a commercial
00:53:40
and he goes Irish
00:53:44
you're already
00:53:49
well I remember the Sinead episode and
00:53:52
when I saw that I I don't know I I guess
00:53:55
she felt that maybe we shunned her but I
00:53:58
was just shy and nervous I wasn't upset
00:54:01
about it uh there were there's I I know
00:54:05
a lot of Catholics I'm very fond of them
00:54:07
but there were issues with that church
00:54:09
for a while and so you might have might
00:54:12
have been a little
00:54:13
had a little bit of a point at some
00:54:16
point yeah I mean I I didn't feel like I
00:54:18
can't have a conversation with that
00:54:19
person I mean you know no just yeah and
00:54:22
I would have given her a hug if I
00:54:24
thought back in time that she was
00:54:26
feeling that ostracized and wounded by
00:54:28
making a political statement on Saturday
00:54:31
Night Live so anyway this will be the
00:54:33
thing that'll Trend now my I said whose
00:54:36
side should I keep that would keep my
00:54:38
job but um uh but Mike I did I did walk
00:54:42
out there and I light show Shocker and
00:54:44
so he did it what's your net worth come
00:54:47
on and I went out and I picked up a
00:54:49
little piece and I put up my pocket and
00:54:51
I just go yeah by the way I'm not even
00:54:54
that religious I don't really know how
00:54:56
heavy that was or what was going on I
00:54:58
just was on Arizona Dominic's car I just
00:55:00
had a piece here that was weird and then
00:55:02
on month on Sunday night on hard copy or
00:55:05
something it was obviously a huge
00:55:06
[ __ ] story and then they go tonight
00:55:10
we uh uh Sinead O'Connor and the picture
00:55:13
that around World they show the rip
00:55:15
picture and one piece is missing
00:55:18
wait I that's the real picture
00:55:22
and then Monday yet I started bragging
00:55:24
about it of course and then Monday Kenny
00:55:26
among called me in David producer yeah
00:55:29
and Kenny mon is great and uh I went in
00:55:32
he goes there's a rumor you have a and
00:55:34
he goes we'll need that back and I go
00:55:36
what do I have what of course stalling
00:55:39
for about five seconds and then I gave
00:55:41
it to him so I wouldn't get fired and
00:55:42
then and then he said uh what happened
00:55:45
was they found out some crew guys who
00:55:46
sold it for ten thousand dollars today
00:55:48
oh [ __ ] and you thought I was in on it I
00:55:51
go I'm not I'm not the master on Monday
00:55:54
before the host meeting I went into
00:55:55
Lawrence officer second and as I was
00:55:57
walking out I heard him say I said Marcy
00:56:00
give me the Pope
00:56:04
Lauren can call anyone in the world and
00:56:08
they'll pick up he's circling the
00:56:10
building it's a lot of Michaels
00:56:17
[Music]
00:56:19
well I have a question for Mike did
00:56:22
[ __ ] George Harrison write your
00:56:23
letter you did yes damn it yes an
00:56:27
incredible full circle yeah thing in
00:56:31
life yeah
00:56:32
wow it was um
00:56:35
uh during Austin Powers three and uh it
00:56:40
was the day that um it was uh Tom Cruise
00:56:43
uh Danny DeVito Gwyneth Paltrow Steven
00:56:46
Spielberg on that fake opening of Austin
00:56:49
Powers called Austin [ __ ] and uh I got
00:56:52
a call I and I got a call in the morning
00:56:57
from uh Gavin debecker who's a security
00:57:01
specialist and uh
00:57:03
he said
00:57:05
uh dead but letter and I thought oh [ __ ]
00:57:10
like somebody right there's some weird
00:57:12
threatening letter
00:57:14
but when I got up that morning it was um
00:57:17
George Harrison had died and I always
00:57:19
felt very close to George
00:57:22
um I kind of have the George Harrison
00:57:25
face there's like five faces in
00:57:27
Liverpool and I have the George Harrison
00:57:29
as did my dad my dad and George Harrison
00:57:32
look very much alike and um I cried like
00:57:35
a baby and I was like oh man this is
00:57:38
this big day and it was raining and I
00:57:40
thought oh [ __ ] we have to cancel this
00:57:42
big day this is a horrible day then
00:57:44
somebody wants to kill me I'm thinking
00:57:47
and then the day turned out to be
00:57:49
fantastic and one of the most amazing
00:57:52
days ever and I got a knock on the door
00:57:54
and it's the last letter that George
00:57:56
Harrison's ever written anybody and it's
00:57:59
she's a Boston Powers fan because I was
00:58:01
looking all over Europe for a meeting
00:58:03
you doll and anyways
00:58:06
okay yeah I know and I was like oh [ __ ]
00:58:11
just I it literally got hot in my hands
00:58:13
it's it's up on my wall it's one of my
00:58:16
treasured
00:58:17
that is just I can't believe it I mean a
00:58:19
lot of these full circle moments that
00:58:22
happen that's probably one of the most
00:58:24
the parents from Liverpool you're going
00:58:27
into Show Business you're doing this
00:58:29
you're writing this incredible wave of
00:58:32
these franchises Wayne's World Austin
00:58:34
Powers and then you get a letter from
00:58:36
George Harrison I mean it says there's
00:58:38
no way for me to process it I don't know
00:58:40
how you would process it it's just
00:58:42
beyond and Beyond yeah
00:58:45
and so lovely an exciting time was when
00:58:48
we were we were in London uh for Wayne's
00:58:52
World two sitting next to Paul McCartney
00:58:54
do you remember that yeah yeah for the
00:58:57
premiere and uh he was being very he was
00:59:01
talking a lot you know during the show
00:59:03
and I was nervous and he was like he was
00:59:06
like well that's a funny bit did you
00:59:07
write that and I'm like yeah yeah and
00:59:10
you're trying to focus yeah yeah okay
00:59:12
look up there
00:59:14
did it take you a little time to write
00:59:16
that I'm like yeah it took forever
00:59:18
because look and I was like my job great
00:59:21
sir my joke was that I would wish I was
00:59:23
next to the quiet one yeah instead of
00:59:26
the cute one yeah but he was but it was
00:59:29
pretty pretty well you guys were there I
00:59:31
had left the show the week before
00:59:34
Paul came to host which I I regret I
00:59:36
I've gotten to interact with Paul in
00:59:38
different ways at different times but
00:59:40
that must have been cool and just having
00:59:42
Paul around you know doing sketches and
00:59:45
oh yeah it was amazing you know I that
00:59:48
day I were you there when he had the
00:59:50
mini concert or had you left at that
00:59:52
point Dana I think I'd left so did he do
00:59:55
it like Eric Clapton at the end of this
00:59:57
Captain did that too right the show
00:59:59
ended and Eric Clapton did like a half
01:00:01
hour of jamming I says Paul did the same
01:00:04
thing well yeah so my brother Paul had
01:00:07
come down from Toronto for this Paul
01:00:10
McCartney show
01:00:11
and uh it was very amazing so uh Linda
01:00:16
was there Linda McCartney was there and
01:00:19
Paul had met Paul McCartney at the at uh
01:00:22
at the Wayne's World 2 opening
01:00:25
and uh Linda my dad had just passed away
01:00:28
and Linda said to my brother Paul hey
01:00:32
Paul sorry to hear about your dad which
01:00:34
was just amazing how did you remember
01:00:36
that how did you know what I mean very
01:00:37
very Linda just so lovely yeah and uh
01:00:42
Paul was very moved by that and uh then
01:00:45
we went and he played uh
01:00:49
Let It Be yeah
01:00:51
which is kind of enzymatic and people
01:00:55
were there's not a dry eye in the house
01:00:57
and I was on the toonces card remember
01:00:59
toonces the cat oh yeah oh yeah Jack
01:01:01
Handy we're Armin arm on the tunes's car
01:01:05
and next to us was Bill Murray and his
01:01:08
brother
01:01:09
wow good Lord and it was just just you
01:01:13
can't believe it like he's right there
01:01:15
you know I mean it's sort of like Eiffel
01:01:17
Tower Empire State Building Paul
01:01:20
McCartney right there you just can't
01:01:21
[ __ ] believe it no one gets used to
01:01:23
seeing Paul McCartney every day was like
01:01:24
no one can [ __ ] deal by the way Mike
01:01:28
at when that happened Frank and um
01:01:31
franken's gonna he goes he goes I
01:01:34
remember uh we were talking about that
01:01:36
like the week later he goes I remember
01:01:39
he was telling someone that Paul
01:01:41
McCartney played Let It Be and I started
01:01:43
crying and then I walked over and stole
01:01:45
some jeans from the Gap girl set
01:01:47
did you say that seriously he's like
01:01:50
he's like the penguin all of a sudden it
01:01:53
was all serious then he goes and I went
01:01:54
and stole some jeans from the cowgirls
01:01:57
because there was so many it was like a
01:01:59
real set with a security guard because
01:02:01
there were so many that's kind of
01:02:03
brilliant in a way of like looking at
01:02:05
sets to kind of harvest stuff in the
01:02:07
shoplift sets yeah it's so funny though
01:02:10
I mean the heels of that let it be
01:02:11
wherever was crying yes oh my God
01:02:14
well the um the next morning we went to
01:02:17
the John Lennon Circle me and Paul
01:02:20
um Central Park with all just as Bill
01:02:22
Murray and his brother also came to the
01:02:25
to the Imagine Circle at Strawberry
01:02:27
Fields and it was kind of
01:02:29
I don't know this
01:02:30
was kind of a huge moment it's just
01:02:32
everyone a Beatles Phantom is Bill and
01:02:34
his brother like at the level of you and
01:02:36
your brother Paul because it's I guess
01:02:38
it's their levels to it or it's just
01:02:40
like a fanaticism of that we can't let
01:02:42
go of because it just keeps giving all
01:02:45
the time you go back and revisit the
01:02:46
music you go seriously no but if you've
01:02:50
had a little bit of Fame you can't
01:02:52
imagine their level of Fame yeah their
01:02:55
Fame is famous do you know what I mean
01:02:56
or famously famous you know what I mean
01:02:59
yeah and
01:03:00
that that's one aspect of it the other
01:03:04
aspect of it is just
01:03:07
it's just
01:03:08
the type of
01:03:10
show business that you wanted to be in
01:03:12
you know what I mean that's what I
01:03:14
always wanted to be on Saturday Night
01:03:15
Live I didn't know Saturday Night Live
01:03:16
would be there for me I always wanted to
01:03:18
be on Letterman yeah yeah I always
01:03:21
wanted to be on The Tonight Show with
01:03:22
Johnny Carson yeah I never got to be on
01:03:25
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson but
01:03:26
I always wanted to be
01:03:28
and it's just sort of just in general
01:03:30
the beetle like in specific The Beatles
01:03:33
but in general American Show Business
01:03:36
I don't think if you didn't grow up in
01:03:39
this country how magical American show
01:03:42
business is you know what I mean
01:03:44
it's it's it's just the it's the best
01:03:47
show business in the world bigger in
01:03:49
other countries too because it's America
01:03:50
I think
01:03:52
yeah and that's magic Beatles always
01:03:54
said we got to get a number one in
01:03:56
America before we go there yeah that was
01:03:58
their that was their Enchanted land you
01:04:00
know but you know just growing up in
01:04:02
Canada
01:04:04
my dad worshiped the United States
01:04:06
because of Show Business you know he
01:04:08
wasn't like of them Americans he was
01:04:10
like they do it right and they're
01:04:12
fantastic
01:04:13
and even my mom when
01:04:17
when Wayne's World came out it was a big
01:04:19
hit you know what I mean my mom said I
01:04:22
said did you see me and so she said oh
01:04:23
yes it's very good I said yeah she goes
01:04:26
Dana carvey's very good isn't he
01:04:29
uh she would use me to inspire you or
01:04:32
something what is she talking about what
01:04:33
do you mean she goes it's just the
01:04:35
Americans they just have it don't they
01:04:37
just yeah they're slick they just have
01:04:40
it don't they and Slick wasn't a bad
01:04:42
thing slick was like yeah
01:04:46
I'm an American comedian you know
01:04:54
you are to me yeah I totally understand
01:04:58
I grew up there I am an American
01:05:00
comedian
01:05:02
weasel American land whatever that song
01:05:05
was so YouTube
01:05:06
either from the outside like someone
01:05:08
like me
01:05:09
and the other dudes and sound like we
01:05:11
were always like looking to you guys
01:05:12
holy [ __ ] this these guys are [ __ ]
01:05:14
crushing everything they go into every
01:05:15
read through we got to see it we're like
01:05:17
it's just like a class you watch it put
01:05:21
together and you watch that everyone's
01:05:24
really trying you know what I mean you
01:05:26
go oh no one's walking through it you're
01:05:28
like Hey we're famous it's like every
01:05:30
week everyone's grinding and stressed
01:05:32
and going yeah [ __ ] we got another week
01:05:33
who cares about last week it's over what
01:05:35
are we doing this week and who's the new
01:05:37
host and oh it's Glenn Close what are we
01:05:39
doing you know you know we we came from
01:05:42
stand up David and I so then I get on
01:05:45
Saturday live and now I'm doing sketch
01:05:47
comedy and so that became such a joy as
01:05:50
it as it went on you know being out
01:05:53
there with Phil and Carson or Mike with
01:05:55
Wayne's World or Kevin with Hans and
01:05:57
Franz of like bouncing off someone
01:06:00
wanting them to be great you wanting to
01:06:02
be you know they're pinging you you're
01:06:04
gonna ping them back it's a very
01:06:06
exhilarating feeling to be part of an
01:06:08
ensemble that's
01:06:14
and it's Jack Handy and it's Christine
01:06:17
Zander Roberts Michael Robert it's my
01:06:19
goal um
01:06:20
writing these fantastic
01:06:23
sketches and you're just like you know
01:06:26
I I couldn't believe the level of of the
01:06:29
comedy writing I mean I watched it for
01:06:31
half a season
01:06:33
you know and studied it like I made my
01:06:35
own running orders yeah I was at home
01:06:36
you know but when you're there and
01:06:40
it's so intimidating you know what I
01:06:42
mean well you're trying to write against
01:06:44
the writers which are unreal you don't
01:06:45
know when you get there because they're
01:06:46
not like famous but you go holy [ __ ]
01:06:48
these guys know what they're doing and
01:06:49
then you go oh and I have to write
01:06:51
against cast members that are great
01:06:52
right and they're writing stuff so you
01:06:54
go where do I fit in here but it was fun
01:06:57
to score with someone else's piece so
01:06:59
remember we did Jagger and and Keith
01:07:01
Richards and I think they wrote that
01:07:03
someone Downey or someone wrote it I I
01:07:06
didn't write on it and then they were so
01:07:07
pleased that it worked and you know it's
01:07:09
fun so I go ahead Mike's no no not at
01:07:12
all I just I just remember
01:07:14
uh
01:07:16
Downey two was great because he didn't
01:07:20
he he would just go I think there's a
01:07:22
joke that's kind of like a a joke and
01:07:25
then a joke would emerge
01:07:27
and you're like I didn't know you could
01:07:29
dial up jokes like to me jokes were like
01:07:31
they came to you like lightning and
01:07:33
they're putting your hand and they were
01:07:35
hot you know what I mean you had to put
01:07:36
them down that's a good observation
01:07:38
jokes yeah he was like he would say
01:07:40
there's something very funny about
01:07:42
and they would say it right yeah and
01:07:46
then the joke would emerge and that
01:07:48
I have had to do that now like I've had
01:07:51
to do that in my I have having left
01:07:54
Saturday Night Live we
01:07:56
just having to sometimes you just need
01:07:58
to dial up a joke and I didn't know it
01:08:00
was actually possible
01:08:02
until I saw Jim Downey I thought it was
01:08:05
something that they did on the Dick Van
01:08:07
Dyke Show as that wasn't real right with
01:08:11
the staff and the whole yeah where
01:08:13
they're trying to jam jokes I didn't
01:08:14
think actually anybody did Jam jokes
01:08:16
yeah interesting in that way of like we
01:08:19
need it's kind of like we need a short
01:08:21
joke
01:08:22
and it should be a something that's a
01:08:24
comment and I'm like you can't dial up
01:08:26
jokes that way that's the math of it
01:08:28
that's challenging and fascinating does
01:08:30
it fit here does it will it lead us
01:08:32
anywhere else and yeah but yeah we're
01:08:35
good at like the breakdown to sketch
01:08:37
instead of just like we were just kind
01:08:38
of Comedy guys you know right
01:08:40
you too maybe we go this is funny this
01:08:43
is funny and then they're like breaking
01:08:44
on the sketch and that's how they find
01:08:46
it they go it needs this and everything
01:08:47
points to a certain
01:08:48
it's going to be and then they go that's
01:08:51
they're cracking a code that I that you
01:08:53
figure out it takes a long time it takes
01:08:55
a long time and I was very inspired and
01:08:58
intimidated at the same time one of the
01:09:00
best joke uh clinicians was um Conan
01:09:06
Conan O'Brien you're definitely once
01:09:08
wrote A Sketch and he said is this your
01:09:11
sketch I said yeah he said do you mind
01:09:12
if I rewrite it and I was like no not at
01:09:15
all because he was so nice to me calling
01:09:17
him all the time yeah and then he just
01:09:19
sort of went
01:09:20
and he hand it to me and it was a
01:09:22
thousand times better that's a great
01:09:24
feeling believe it yeah I said and I
01:09:27
went all one joke flows to the next joke
01:09:29
you know what I mean well I was like I
01:09:32
couldn't believe it you know what I mean
01:09:34
just handed it back to me yeah Conan is
01:09:38
is brilliant yeah and I do think that uh
01:09:40
you got to the whatever level five star
01:09:42
level of as a writer when you look at uh
01:09:45
Wayne's World and Austin Powers I mean
01:09:47
that just flowing and really just this
01:09:50
is funny and this is funny and here's
01:09:51
the storyline all of a sudden
01:09:52
something's kind of sweet and human and
01:09:55
then back into it I mean just just
01:09:57
densely beautifully written like like
01:10:00
irresistibly like I'm kind of an
01:10:03
irresistible stew you know I mean I
01:10:06
don't think movies like Austin Powers
01:10:07
make that much money you know anymore
01:10:09
right you know what I mean I was like
01:10:11
they've made like Blockbuster box office
01:10:14
you know and yet it's so weird and
01:10:17
quirky and you know so anyway I think
01:10:20
that this I think that uh
01:10:23
again
01:10:25
I learned so much from everybody at
01:10:28
Saturday Night Live and you have to
01:10:30
learn or you were out you know I mean
01:10:32
that was one thing too
01:10:34
and
01:10:35
I think that one of the things I'm very
01:10:38
grateful for having worked in England is
01:10:39
that
01:10:40
the and I've said this to you Dana a few
01:10:43
times but the subject matter is that you
01:10:45
can do comedy about in England they're
01:10:46
very very wide you know what I mean yes
01:10:48
which a lot of different subjects yeah
01:10:50
and you know it's such a weird comedy
01:10:54
circuit when I lived in London that just
01:10:57
went and also I think too that that Jack
01:10:59
Handy was a giant influence too yeah his
01:11:02
was eloquent right he's just
01:11:05
unbelievable like happy fun ball is just
01:11:07
happy fun ball wow I mean do you
01:11:10
remember the round of applause after
01:11:12
happy fun ball which is just like they
01:11:14
think it's being dropped on our troops
01:11:16
in Iraq because it has come from space
01:11:18
do not Talent Happy Fun bro
01:11:22
it's fun the corniest commercial and
01:11:25
then
01:11:26
yeah
01:11:28
we talk about a lot of him a lot on this
01:11:30
show yeah do you Jack Handy yeah yeah
01:11:33
the sketch I was in with Christopher
01:11:35
Walken where we're coming down in the
01:11:37
spaceship we're aliens I guess and then
01:11:39
our our landing gear would hurt a farmer
01:11:42
and we come out we come in please get
01:11:44
out of here let's get out of here
01:11:47
and over again and stuff like that and
01:11:49
there was one I talked about last week
01:11:51
maybe you'll remember where people were
01:11:52
like at a kind of a alien court and the
01:11:55
aliens are way high up and all the
01:11:57
aliens want to talk about is box office
01:11:59
receipts for movies I didn't because it
01:12:02
was just about that obsession with what
01:12:04
a movie makes and all that oh that's so
01:12:06
hilarious and then me and Kneeland about
01:12:08
to launch a rocket with binoculars but
01:12:11
then Lassie
01:12:12
is underneath the rocket oh okay let's
01:12:15
stop and then Hitler goes then the Mona
01:12:18
Lisa is under there it's just kids you
01:12:19
know so Jack Handy look him up anybody
01:12:22
wants to write comedy so should we let
01:12:25
Michael go I think Mike has a career and
01:12:28
a family last I checked so we have a
01:12:30
family that's for sure he definitely has
01:12:32
a wonderful family Mike Myers uh what
01:12:35
can we say a a Canadian Delight uh thank
01:12:39
you a Hall of Fame of everything what
01:12:41
else uh and still out there
01:12:43
doing everything doing the shows and
01:12:45
where where do you live now and then
01:12:47
I'll let you go I live in New York City
01:12:49
okay what big streets now um
01:12:53
are you in Canada I know I don't know
01:12:55
but I I did live very close to Bangalore
01:12:59
what they call blow yo that's the yeah
01:13:02
yeah when I was there we called it
01:13:05
bambler oh I see uh when I was there
01:13:08
years and years ago I we did three
01:13:09
movies up there a lot of fun love Canada
01:13:11
uh well thank you Mike thanks
01:13:13
and uh great talking to you all right
01:13:16
guys we'll be texting soon all right yes
01:13:19
please thank you guys enjoyed it all
01:13:20
right see you later bye-bye
01:13:23
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01:13:25
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01:13:27
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01:13:28
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Andrew laposha
01:13:40
hello guys uh thanks for what you're
01:13:43
doing I like when they say that first
01:13:44
you're welcome it's so awesome my
01:13:47
question who did you most want to host
01:13:50
SNL that never got to
01:13:52
I'd say Tina Fey that's my answer over
01:13:55
there no who are you thinking I'm just
01:13:58
thinking of who I'd want to hang out
01:13:59
with so like and they were musical
01:14:01
guests but I would like to have been on
01:14:03
the show when Neil Young was the ghost
01:14:05
oh yeah I would have had Neil Young on
01:14:07
Church chat well our voice is sort of
01:14:09
like a lady's voice isn't it old man you
01:14:13
know what's really ironic is church lady
01:14:14
I was this is what Judd Apatow would
01:14:17
help me with make an album where church
01:14:18
lady sings Neil Young because I can't
01:14:21
sing but as Church ladies singing it
01:14:24
sounds exactly like Neil Young okay I'll
01:14:26
show you first Neil Young oh man look at
01:14:29
my life I'm a lot like you were church
01:14:33
lady
01:14:34
oh man look at my life
01:14:39
well isn't that special
01:14:42
no it's true I can sing as Neil Young
01:14:45
but I have to sing as Church ladies
01:14:47
singing as Neil Young
01:14:49
and that's my answer too all right thank
01:14:52
you Andrew
01:14:53
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