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