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you guys we've got the wonderful Amy polar uh who we've been uh talking about using on here for a long time because she's so great and she's such a part of Comedy obviously SNL but just comedy in
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general I think she's as good as anybody uh sketch player in the last I'm gonna say 70 years she's up there with anybody that's a wide nck men and women I don't
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want to go Lucio OB ball Carol Bernett Gilda rner but I can also go Sid Caesar Peter sers she's very talented she writes she directs she sings so and she's a heck of
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a nice person she has a new podcast and uh she's going to talk about that we're g to talk about her tour with Tina Fay we won't uh talk as much about her
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unbelievably uh funny movies and TV shows because of the SAG strike which is happening as we speak um we can't mention that so so if don't get mad at
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us we love to hear about that stuff D no offense or nothing but you just mentioned it I know I can just mention
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but that's it you can mention that you're not supposed to mention I didn't say which things though I don't think we can say what they are oh certain things
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we can't mention I can say the word TV that's all I can say okay I could say something like I went bowling and I got a strike um I would I wouldn't yeah I
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don't want any trouble it's a game show that's really you're walking a thin line there's our game show can you say it or
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not what's gonna get you cancelled that should be no the contestants are already cancelled and they have to fight their way out of being can oh that's good that is a good game show
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uncancelled no that's but Amy PO is a I'm gonna say it 1940 style she's a kick in the pants real kick theal performer she's great in movies great film actor I
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don't know she may be one of those I might have to say hm what can't she do oh that's very true we'll find out I know what we can't say anyway we can say Amy polar thank
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goodness that's not outlawed all right here she is [Music] guys Amy Poler hi guys H can you hear me
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okay we can hear you and see you I love your glasses a look at those are cool yeah they're kind of 60s or something something yeah I get them off um
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Amazon because now I gotta I gotta use my reader my readers my cheaters got your cheaters give me them cheaters look
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at Dana watch them go would this change the vibe of the interview it makes you it makes you feel more like conservative like you're gonna drop some politics really sunglasses well yeah
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interesting H would you you agree David yeah I think I think there's a Vibe are you guys forming an alliance yeah we are
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it's a little early but I get it you overlapped or did you overlap I wish no I mean but David hosted oh yeah that's right wait can we we can talk about SNL
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right yeah yeah because we're not it's already been on um but Amy did a funny one I just thought of this
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Amy were oh you were my stunt double yes we did a sketch where I played stunt double cuz we could probably be brother and sister like we have similar features so I played your stunt double um and
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then that's all I remember of the of the premise no the I think it was someone played The Rock and I was like The
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Rock's buddy and a buddy comedy and then when we got to like climbing on a building they brought in Chris and I
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think Chris and that was you which I thought would be a boy and it was you and you're like Hey we're going to do
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this we're all good and I'm like I and Seth I think was the director that's right I'm just remembering as I go and
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I'm like hey is it is it weird that I you know I'm a guy and it's it's like no it's all equal and it's just stunt people and I'm like right and I'm not loving it and then when she gets on she
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goes oh no Rock it's so scary I'm like I don't think she should talk if she's my
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you just keep you keep like crying and acting like you're me and I'm like that's not what I'd say and no one has
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any problem with it no and I think when I when I put on that wig and I think we looked a lot it was pretty close yeah close I'm GNA say yeah Dana you blew it you missed out British Irish uh
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Scandinavian German French I wish British Irish all the way right mostly Irish mostly Irish my brother lives in Sweden so sometimes
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I people assume there's some Scandinavian but no none that we can find lots of Norway lots of Scottish and
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lots of of Irish I'm British American and Southwest I'm Airlines have you guys done the have you done the 23 and me have you done any of that stuff terrified uh my son did and he had a
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disproportionate amount of Neanderthal so I don't know what maybe that ex maybe that explains something I
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don't know well it's not he's half Neanderthal and um my wife's half Dutch there was no Dutch no no his grandfather was 100% Dutch and there's no Dutch and
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a lot of caveman anyway welcome we this is we're going to do this for the rest of the podcast it's about genealogy
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today with our expert Dr Sheila oh my gosh that's right I'm here to promote my podcast thank you for reminding do not forget about this I listen to it and it's one of those
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things you go like I God that what a great thing to do right now it's so fun cuz everyone's in therapy our therapist we have a a company that we love a sponsor that does online therapy so
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therapy's big I listen to the Chris Parnell and a gast hysterical it's really funny and they're so easy it's better than this podcast put it that way if you're
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listening switch over it's not a competition but they're they're nice they're like 22 25 minutes Amy plays uh uh me L mancal like
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but with so many cuz I I was in therapy for 5 years I still see or talk to a th you're capturing a rhythm and a thing especially in that every time someone
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says something you just ask them another question kind of so that makes me feel sad and sad is feeling bad about myself
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and feeling bad about myself they do their own therapy basically so that's all I have to say well you talk about it
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promote it or just say why you're doing it well it's super fun we did it during the strike and we just Improv vised with
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a bunch of our buddies like Anna and Chris and bunch of SNL people are on it Rachel dra Paula pel Tina Fay um we have
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like um couples people that are actual couples in real life and people that like are like comedy Partners like Abby
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and Alano from Broad City we have all these different people come in and I play a a therapist named Doctor Sheila
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and it has to be said in the form form of a question because she's not a doctor and it's just that fun game where I'm
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bad at my job and they have something they want to work out and we just improvise and cut it down and it it's
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just been a BL like it's it's been very creatively fun because it's been a minute since I've I don't know gotten to
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play character improv bones are Rusty I mean when the one I I heard and it was probably the first one but I don't know if it said who it was so I know your
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voice your voice is very unique and then uh and distinctive but who was the first couple that was had the mom problem ah
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that that was out today and that is the three great Chicago improvisors Pete gross Jean vilip and Stephanie wear and that is that was the premise of that is
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super fun is basically a couple comes in and they're like What's the problem he's like I don't know what the problem is
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and the wife is like his mom is really meddling in our relationship so I Dr Sheila encourages
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her to talk about um how much she hates his her mother-in-law and then we reveal
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that she's been hiding under a pile of blankets the whole time and those three yeah those three performers are just like expert
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improvisors and yeah you know being uh I I've done a little improv but I don't really do it and it was mostly because
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it was so hard and when you hear it so smooth like that I guess there's editing but I was thinking it sounds so
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conversational that I was thinking where are they cutting because it's just boom boom boom boom and and so many throwaway
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lines that are just like and he's like uh well I eat breakfast with my mom she comes over the morning and makes me my
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cereal and and does that bother you and the wife's like well I do sleep in you know I usually get up at 9 9:30 10 10:30
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that was such a funny answer 9 9:30 10 10:30 and uh but there's so many little um little texture jokes like that that keep it going aside from the overall feel that is a funny idea of the who's
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the queen of the house and and and He suggests that his mom could be coom of their
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babies I think is that what they call it I love the way the laugh points just sneak up on you because the rhythm
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you're using for the therap is so accurate there's a there's a kind of a it's almost like a dialect in a way it's
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soft I think I think it's really I love therapy too Dana I love it I Revere it and I'm in a lot of it and I'm I love watching couples therapy and listening to couples therapy too I'm always
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fascinated by how vulnerable people will be um publicly like it's like whoa I can't believe they're sharing this with the whole world but I could listen to it forever so and I love podcasts by the
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way love your podcasts I've listened to almost every episode you know probably every single person on the podcast
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that's crazy so great uh that I'm getting getting a chance to do it I'm so grateful you you made my day I love it
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and you know we all we SNL like you've said many times is kind of the it's like you were in um very specific like Special Forces and you all just want to kind of share stories about the
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nightmares that you continue to have about it 20 years it's all poor poor rich people it is funny we're like
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special ops we say war and then people say don't say that so we changed it I know I you're right I should we Chang it
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to SWAT team I said it once here it's like the marine and I and I backed off of it in 10 seconds I said please don't
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write me any letters because it's fun to say say that I did not mean to equivocate it in that way I would just
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say if someone is is unknown maybe in an improv group like yourself and is suddenly on national TV and then we all as an audience we oh what's her name Amy
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poer oh she's getting really good it's like a reality show oh she's really confident now she's right know opinions yeah lots of opinions yeah message
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boards like I started when message boards came out so it wasn't it wasn't um there wasn't any Twitter or anything yet but it was these message boards used to spring up like the next day and also
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I started around when 2001 too remember tooo came into place it was like oh I could fast forward SNL for the first time like that was what a gift what a
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gift a million dollar idea um I I'm not so sure that's a good thing Amy I talk to rather have them to like watch the show as opposed to I mean
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I'll go for a pause but that's you record it and then you never you like never really watch
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it everyone has a Lauren you might as well do your 10 seconds of Lauren because you have to have a Lauren oh my
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God I I love my Lauren is not great but yes it's very there is no there's no Jud
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very um um my Lauren is a little more paternal which is like when he comes on the floor right before a sketch and goes
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like do you like these wine glasses or these you know is this it does this table look right for you and you're just so nervous you're about to do a sketch in restaurant you're like
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what are you happy with the wine glasses okay okay you're like I mean on the table in the sketch yeah yeah they're like five four yeah yeah yeah my first season I
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don't know if he did that later it was a glass of chardonay and he would be outside cuz then he went under the bleachers well that was for the dress
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show Mostly but during the live show you you're so [ __ ] terrified and Lawrence
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W around with a glass of wine acting so like there's not a live TV show going on
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it was just amazing to watch him try to by osmosis calm us down I guess you know
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well it's really oh sorry go ahead I was saying I'm waiting to get pushed out on update in that chair I'm in the dark and
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he's like do you know who's wining the Yankees I'm like right now I don't know I got I I have to look at the cards it's a mind trick the nonse order to distract you from the the chair turns and there's
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10 million people watching you go ahead Amy thoughts no I was gonna say when you
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guys talk about your experiences at the show too on on on your on this podcast it kind of feels like the before times
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because my first show was two weeks after 911 so for like the first first three years or so at the show you know the Chardonnay was gone it was very much
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like serious business to keep comedy afloat you know it was very like will we ever laugh again and how can we do comedy and you know New York is under
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attack and it was all this like how do we make fun of politics like it was just this like slow build back to get to
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Palin and Hillary by the end of that run but it took so long to even you know so
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I can just remember starting that job and being like my dream job I was 30 years old I started I was like here we
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go and then then all that happened and it was like will we ever laugh again that was
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basically the headline it's true was like and it was like could we though just a little bit because I'm because
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I'm here now yeah you know it was it was intense yeah I I I've been dreaming and working
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this for my whole life could I do something funny how could you do such a stupid sketch when what's going on in
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the world you're like oh well this is the ideas is to get away but it went on to your point it went on for a long time
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of the idea when will the next attack come and where really are it wasn't and a so there was a really anxious period I
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don't know when it un finally we kind of I guess 2004 it felt like 2003 2004 but
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don't forget you know there was like TRS in the building when we were there it was like you know it was W wild but I
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think it felt around 200 I I had one year of overlap with Will frell and he did a sketch uh I guess it must have been 20012 2002 um
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like about a guy who was really patriotic and he was wearing like oh yeah in the hot tub he was he was
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wearing a speedo he's going to work I think D I think it was Matt pedmont might have wrote yeah I think you're
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right and uh he wears he has a he's very patrio yeah yeah that was a big one it's very will the way he wore the speedo the
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way he played his legs I mean he is he's Brave or whatever you want to call it he's just out there but so that was really broke the seal a little bit yeah and he had you know we had stopped doing
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any Bush stuff any we we didn't do any politics during that time interesting but that was like a big a big silly stupid know guy in a speedo sketch and
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the audience really loved it and you're were like okay maybe maybe this is going to be okay
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maybe so but we did a bunch of dumb pop culture stuff because you know it was like Britney Spears snake trainer was
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like a character I was trying to get on because because no one wanted to talk about news yeah politics so it was it was weird but it you kind of appreciate the big silly ones more even later on
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Big D whatever word you want to apply to them broad really just balls out funny where you get sort of you want to get that I Love Lucy kind of roll of a laugh if you you know I got it with the dog on
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I it wasn't me it was that sketch mass of head Moon Harry just Unleashed a whole I Love Lucy type of laughter
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because I was fighting with a dog over fake fake head fake brains but it seems like you know just as an overview here for a second you came on the scene and by the time you left you were just as
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good as anyone had had ever done that show I mean you I I believe and I say this to people with all sincerity I mean
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like the thing you did with Maya the the Long Island ladies you you were both brilliant and you were just so in the pocket of that character rhythmically
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like I watched the immersion of that it was oh it was just beautiful to watch that sketch I mean oh thanks Dana that
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means a lot um that sketch that felt like we could have only done it when we were like seniors like we were we were
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relaxed enough to do it um we wrote that with Emily Spivey the great Emily Spivey
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yeah we hear about her a lot yeah you should have her on this she would be an incredible guest and yeah we improvised
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a lot of that like it was just a lot of overlapping the cards were kind of loose and we kind of knew what we were going
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to say but not really and I don't think we would have been able to do that in the first couple of years I know I
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wouldn't have I would have been too res yeah that's what I mean that I I find that a lot there's maybe Eddie Murphy
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the most extreme the other way like as confident in day one apparently and then there's people have a a pretty quick runup but then some people just goes and goes and then the audience discovers you
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and then it's you know could you I I mean I don't put you don't have to do that character for five seconds but if you what would she say to David and I
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right now I mean well like she's you know it's a very important time because it's sweater weather like sweater weather's coming it's very very very
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she's going she having a lot of hot flashes and she enjoys the nip in the air but we we based those two ladies we
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based those ladies off of ladies that were in really one woman who was in the hair Department Jody manuso who was
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running the hair Department she was like Long Island like uh or Staten Island I forget sorry Jody if I forget and she
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had like she was very like and like gave it to you straight and just like come sit talk let's talk like she just had
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this chatty fun energy that was kind of flirty very maternal and my and I used to just talk uh with her like that and talk like her and mine was a my lady had
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a little bit just because I'm not particularly great with accents my lady probably fell into like a little Boston
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at times just because that's my hometown but so we played Betty and jod and they
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were just it was almost like those women that happen to have a TV show but they weren't they were just chatting anyway
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so we had a lot of fun where we would just the camera would just come up on us and we were already in conversation and
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the camera would pull away and we were still talking so that was the kind of vibe it was it was
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uh a wasp from California and then when I started going to New York and meeting characters in New York and they were recognizable in that sense of come sit have coffee please how are you it's very
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it's warm it's extraer everything is out in the open I feel spilus I this and that but you guys just nailed it
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beautifully I don't know it's just I see I just saw it on Instagram am you know how they pull up old sketches they just
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they start traveling around because it is Sweater Weather so they I saw I saw clips of that and uh it's kind of fun when things live on or they make a meme
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or something pops out oh it's the best it's it's so cool and then you go oh something mattered something I did in
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the old days caught somewhere you know totally people ask me this sometimes like what kind of compliments do you like to get and I always say specific ones you know I like that line and that
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thing and so when you're out and about in the world just what what do people come up and say to you maybe they talk
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about some of your movies or certain sketches or it's funny you know you can kind of tell like the Millennials love
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parks and wck like that was their show um and that's a show that like a lot of teenagers discovered during the pandemic so there's a lot of millennial and genen Z love for parks and W the Gen xers and
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above know me more from SNL um or you know more like movie or like hosting stuff um Golden Globes yeah like they kind of know that more I think but
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or like maybe they saw Mean Girls 25 years ago or something but oh right but it kind of feels like I get a lot of nice women that's like my demo is nice
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you know Tina and I are on tour right now and we're having a blast and like we it's just like the nicest women in the
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audience I just um coming with their friends or their daughters you know so I get a lot of just like friendly women so I'm lucky that I don't get you know occasionally and I get and I get
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mistaken all the time for other women whether it's Tina or dra or like I you know they kind of mush us all together which is which is fine with me really but that happens sometimes too
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but it's okay well my wife is not a comedy fanatic or anything but she uh I told her that you and Tina were doing a show and she goes oh I I would see that
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show yeah exactly we're make we're doing that show for your wife I think that um well she's a nice woman I go back to
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that but so it's you know the Golden Globes kind of cemented it and we all we saw you do an update you know there's Tina and you guys have this connection I'm assume really truly really good
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friends and have the chemistry of Steve Martin and Martin Short um and so seeing
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that it's like well this is going to be fun because when I think of you two even though you did satirical jokes on Golden
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Globes it was still always fun yeah just I I think that's a good brand to have but you're gonna have fun it's
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underrated I think you're right I think I don't know I I'm in no way an expert in hosting things but one thing I did
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learn really quick was from SNL too like if you don't look like you're relaxed or having fun the audience gets very
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stressed yeah they're worried about it I when I see hosts and they're either nervous or stressed or even like coming
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in angry like I don't know why I'm here like that kind of thing it's like oh no I get so stressed because you are hosting a party you're supposed to look like you're having fun like it's a party
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like who cares it's an award show who cares you you Maya it was it you Maya and Tina was that at the Academy Awards
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we didn't host it we just like opened it because I that was a good trick of like less pressure they're not the host but
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you're on longer than you should be and you're just joke machine and then everyone's like [ __ ] where are these let
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why aren't they here the whole time it's so great yeah you don't have a month of leadup like what are you gonna do what's
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so funny because you know those hosting gigs are a lot of work they're hard they're a lot of jokes to write and get through and then also you can get
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you can you know now they like kind of you can fall into traps and you can people
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can get mad yeah and so you're like oh my God forget it then someone always has a problem with it no matter what I know
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it's okay it's like when Billy Bob Thorton got his Emmy I think he goes uh I'm not going to say anything because
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you can get in trouble I'm I'm substituting Bill Clinton as Billy Bob Thor I apologize I'm not gonna say
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because you can get in trouble for saying some of these days so he just walked off you know but to the fun part
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you might find this funny in a way because John love I was the one who kept saying John you got to do standup so I was kind of I'm no expert but I'm
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coaching him a little bit I go John the one thing you always have to remember right before you go out because you can
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forget just say to yourself have fun and he goes I did it I tried it and then I started having more fun and then I was getting bigger laughs you know John so
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it's it's an amazing thing but sometimes you go what is going on I'm not having fun what I I forgot to have fun it's the
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hard I think it's actually the the last piece it's the hardest piece to learn because you're pushing or you're nervous
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or your head somewhere else and then it yeah and then when you actually relax the audience just relaxes with you I
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mean I learned a lot from will frell that way and because I would watch him perform and he had this like mischievous
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quality where he him and the audience were in on it together you know was kind of like this this bemused quality of
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like can you believe we're all here doing this stupid thing and it would you know it just like the minute they see you sweat it's it gets so stress for you
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they tighten up because this goes to therapy or something but try not to try try not to push try not to be desperate
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try not to rush it um take your time but be in the pocket and of course when that
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voice goes silent then you know you and Tina are just on a roll well what do you
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guys do when let's this rarely probably happens for you anymore but like let's say you're trying new material and it's not working what do you do do you pull back
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do you pull back in that moment or do you P like do you push because I'll tell you that what I have to work on is pulling back too hard and like getting
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sleepy your joke isn't working and you go to sleep what I go to sleep I go right to sleep
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you you recoil you know it's funny when I when something doesn't work there's I had it
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happen on the road recently where the whole show is going well and one joke doesn't click and I go I had to stop and
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go literally no one bought that not one person and it wasn't a couple of you everyone said no sale and I feel like you're wrong on this one and I'm going to I give you one freeb yeah and then
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they don't know what to make of that they're like well you're mad at us but it's like joke mad but when something doesn't work in a regular set or if
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you're doing a set on TV what happens to me is you get spooked like a horse because my brain goes what happened and
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I can't think of my next joke because I'm it's preoccupied with what do I do why wait should I even do the next one
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what what did it just did I say it wrong and then you're like that throws you if
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you take one extra second they think something's up it's got to be just so smooth like a play boom boom boom I know
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I I have a bit in my ACT I won't even say the bit but whatever it's sort of like two-thirds the way like you're
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trying to bring it to the barn you know and the last two times it's not landing and I know Jerry
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Seinfeld who's this FAL about this check the setup you know if the setup is God you know I did this for St Mar Jerry's going to do a live album on
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vinyl and you're going to see a picture of him on the cover and it's called paper clips
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why um just like that joke Jerry we love him he's brilliant but I um I think sometimes you when you first saying a joke and you're kind of connected to it or a bit and then you can get a little
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bored and you maybe drop just even part of the setup stuff like that kind of because you're doing are you actually
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out there Solo in your show with Tina as well yeah we do some sketch we do standup we do um do you do update
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together we do update we do yeah oh great so what's your first line ladies and gentlemen here to do some standup
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for our show is Amy polar no way I'm not do are you out of your mind not doing I
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thought your first with you would be you'd say what you'd say what's up and then the name of the town what's up
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Chicago what's up Denver yeah that's a good first line here's my opener I'd be I'd go like this hey guys tin will be out in a minute just cuz oh my God it's funny
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that you say that I'm like I'm going to do a little stand up while Tina gets her IV drip that's there you
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go well I think we Dan and I were talking before we brought you on because we're both on the road here in there and there's so many things about the road
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that are so tricky and icy that you know it is true something about like the the
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the show is the fun part obviously and it's so hard just to get to their City you just want to get high five like I
00:29:59
got here I'm in the theater get in the hotel and I don't I feel like [ __ ] but here I go let's do this because you
00:30:06
almost never feel great and you're almost never like well that was easy it's like this is problem problem and
00:30:11
then the hotel and getting there and what's back stay there's so many interesting questions uh we were thinking of with you guys when do you go
00:30:18
on oh I I know it's so fun because you're right every different theater and space has like a vibe it has like the guy that's in charge like the one that
00:30:31
character yeah there's always the character it's like oh I can't answer that you have to talk to Dan about that you're like okay where's Dan like it's
00:30:38
always Dan always around Dan doesn't come in Dan Dan Zooms in from home my guy's usually named Dan as well I don't know if he can travels a you do a sound check we do we do we you a lot you have
00:30:50
stuff going you you got a montage of greatest hits or whatever and you've got whatever you have a piano player and
00:30:57
stuff like that or no we have some recorded music stuff but we don't have a live yeah and you sing together live
00:31:03
piano play but it's what's that do you sing a song together maybe you have a good voice Dana have you heard her sing at the beginning of the podcast tonight before I go to sleep I'm going to try to
00:31:14
figure out what can't Amy po do what do you do to relax your giant brain well I I really like um the the water like that calms me down a lot I like swimming
00:31:36
and ocean lake and swimming I like L can you swim no I can't but I mean I I I go
00:31:44
to a hotel pool and I go freestyle and I go the length of the pool and I'm completely wiped out and then you know
00:31:50
I'm like sprinting but I don't know it and it's there is a whole technique to it but you you've learned it right how
00:31:56
to actually if I need to get regulated my nervous system water does help me whether even if it's a bath or just like
00:32:03
getting in some water but before a show you know I'm kind of used to it's it's funny when I would do shows as an improviser and like sketch comedian with standups I was always
00:32:15
surprised that there wasn't a lot of chitchat you know there was there standups were just kind of trying like
00:32:21
walking around talking or with their headphones like thinking about their set and really really and frankly trying to
00:32:29
remember it which is half the battle very true and and you and with improv and sketch you know it's like you want to just like keep doing bits up until you go on stage it's like you want to
00:32:41
just like make a connection with the people you're performing with and so I kind of tend to like want to just
00:32:47
chitchat and talk and and not overthink things um but now that I'm older like sometimes I just want to like do some like light light stretching just some light stretching so I don't pull a hammy
00:33:02
oh definitely you can't go Hi and then your arms like oh sorry you know I mean I try to do a wide Squat and make sure
00:33:09
because I might get in that position or move around stretch your calves yeah have you ever had any a physical thing
00:33:15
or cut yourself on stage oh my God yes I'm just well I'm just getting over this thing I talk about it on stage I'm just
00:33:21
getting over this thing which is it's so embarrassing it sounds like a it sounds like a it sounds like a bad cocktail but
00:33:27
I had this thing this year called frozen shoulder know all about it yes I bet your wife like was it your wife that went through it no no it was our mutual
00:33:38
manager I think okay had a frozen shoulder yeah yeah it feels what does it do it's the weirdest thing it comes out of nowhere and it's like from my anecdotally I find it's mostly women of
00:33:52
my age but it's just like inflammation and suddenly you just like can't lift your arm off all the way up okay and so
00:33:59
it's this it just feels like you're like you just feel really [ __ ] old you just are like oh [ __ ] hell what is
00:34:06
this and it'll take about a year and you're just like what a year and it's proven to be about a year so yeah it it sucked and they're just
00:34:18
making up names for old things frozen shoulder sounds good and you're like well that is that a real thing or I'm
00:34:24
just falling apart it's a real real thing I was doing a podcast with David I never even said this before we're doing we've done a few live and then my uh I
00:34:36
think it my left foot my toes sped out in a spasm and were and were I was a massive pain but I just was riding it out just riding it out we're interviewing someone spay take it and
00:34:50
I'm like and it doesn't happen to me all the time they just the toes went out and
00:34:56
got really angry as soon as it was over I just walked around it was fine but we have to we're supposed to do all this
00:35:01
freaking stuff all day long pulling and stretching and pilates all this stuff to keep us together you know so I did and I
00:35:09
know and I was so much younger when I was on SNL and I think about how much I just partied and just walked like I
00:35:17
didn't do I didn't worry about any of it I just wasn't even thinking about any of it I wasn't thinking about collagen I
00:35:24
wasn't thinking about nothing no wasn't even thinking about one did we know how do we did we I know
00:35:31
I look you see pictur yourself because you're in show B go damn I I did I know how cute I was I know did we know how young we were or it just is it all
00:35:43
wasted on young who said that cold porter I don't know I didn't have a glass of water during SNL I was there
00:35:49
six years you never had that just wasn't the thing that everyone I didn't know what carbs were I ate [ __ ] pasta
00:35:54
every day Wally and Joseph's ie pizza and I always felt shitty I never put anything together I'm like what is it
00:36:00
what is it I don't have the Rubik's Cube to figure this out all eat is carbs no water and Diet Coke and my body is so sore Amy when I every day it's like my
00:36:12
shoulders going I open a car door they're like what I'm like I do this every day and it's like oh what are you
00:36:17
doing like it's it forgets overnight I'm doing basic things I know um well you know what I you know what has helped me with this and I know this is probably like people listening are like oh my God be quiet how old are you guys yeah but
00:36:32
you know what I've been doing is I've been doing cold dips and CH change change the game yes I do cold dips and it change the game because that's a big
00:36:43
deal now do you do it in a in a bathtub with ice in it you do it you take the or is it in a pool or a lake or where are
00:36:50
you getting I have like I have a cold dip tub okay a cold dip tub okay like a tub that I keep cold so
00:36:57
and I have a like a sauna little Hut sauna uh so I do 15 minutes of the sauna and then I Plunge in the cold dip and it helps a lot David with inflammation yes
00:37:10
I think you and Tina should do 10 minutes in a cold plunge doing update on stage just bring out the ice that's a I would love that I think our endorphins would be flying sponsors yeah I'm at an
00:37:23
undisclosed location but I have a pool for the first time in a long time and don't heat it I like it as cold as I
00:37:30
can get it now for that very reason you know it's amazing if you get into a cold
00:37:36
lake because I I always look at it as a lake that's really too warm how you really suffer for about 10 seconds but
00:37:44
if you're moving all a sudden you're like ah it's fine yeah that's the thing about getting older is like forced austerities like what can I do to myself
00:37:51
that a doctor is not telling me to do but that I can do to torture myself like I have the privilege of cold dipping or like I only eat apples after 5:00 p.m and it's like why it's like just that's
00:38:02
what I'm doing now like that's it just sounds it's got to it's got to be good I know I'm trying something yeah well it's it's it's always nice you have get a blood test and stuff and you're
00:38:14
wondering well did they find something the doctor's talking to you like it's fine it's good everything's okay so my
00:38:21
guy my guy looks at my blood test I sit there and he goes H then he goes like this
00:38:29
don't love that you know the worst thing the worst thing about you hear from a doctor I went to a dentist cuz I had a
00:38:34
two thing this is what we're GNA talk about the and the guy comes in and he actually
00:38:40
said he actually said wow when he looked at my mouth know he said wow I said wow what do you
00:38:46
mean wow wow what wow wow what [ __ ] he said it like oh he said it like walking he said it like walking wow wow wow yeah
00:38:58
three I just sent someone were you in a walk-in family I never saw that I sent to my
00:39:04
friend I go look at this ridiculous oh you all were walking in a sketch right yes and that was so fun because you know
00:39:10
I think I I um I benefited from low expectations I don't think anyone expects me to pull out a good Walkin but I was playing a little kid like a little girl who who
00:39:22
was doing a Walkin and I had had I had had a friend who had told me a story about W about Christopher Walkin and
00:39:29
that you know he W he went to he was on set one time and he was like you know are there any ghosts here like you know
00:39:36
this place is spooky he kept saying it's spooky was such a a funny word to say so
00:39:43
I got to say ghosts and spooky and that was yeah that was enough to did he care at all he he was one of the most interesting hosts um because he was
00:39:58
really he's a really you know no surprise eccentric dude so he was really comfortable with silence so you know most people when you're just waiting around to run the scene again you're
00:40:09
just St sitting on the floor like you chitchat like but he would want to just sit
00:40:15
quietly be between each you know so he he might have been the longest I've ever gone seated next to someone and not talking like five six seven minutes it
00:40:29
would just be me and him and we wouldn't talk and it became like a a contest in my own mind to see how long we could go
00:40:35
and he was he was fine with it he was fine with it can everyone shut up yeah he was super super talented and very I swear he's so interesting he's riveting
00:40:48
the first sketch I don't know what it was I maybe I Church chat or something anyway we did it all we rehears it but
00:40:55
on air he never looked at me he just looked straight at the Q cards and read it and it worked yeah and and it was
00:41:02
funnier you know so I heard I heard a rumor that he takes out I don't know if this is true but that he takes out all
00:41:09
the all the punctuation in his scripts wouldn't surprise me cuz his rhythm is so specific that might get him out of his get out of his rhythm don't
00:41:20
like to pause in ways like that I mean John love it again I John he's the kind of guy goes is it you are you are you making up that dialect is that the way
00:41:32
you really talk and he said walk and just started laughing you're making it up right oh that's funny oh that's funny
00:41:40
yeah he seemed like he had a good sense of humor about himself yeah and who knows you know there's certain actors who just extenuate their rhythms as they
00:41:47
become film stars over the years like Al paccino when he feels like it um yeah and wkan too he was in that Woody Allen
00:41:55
movie as the psycho driver it was in the 70s first time I saw him yeah you know and he goes sometimes I like to turn the car I think of turning into the headlights and he goes well I I wouldn't
00:42:07
on this trip maybe put a pin in that we you know it's like a crazy just uh when as soon as you drop me off you can indulge your picadillos if you want to go into the and get some rhob and you
00:42:20
know R um but yeah he said just one of the Thrills of doing Satur live is just doing sketch comedy with someone like Christopher Walkin and you know seeing him in the deer hunter like you know
00:42:32
growing up in the 70s like I just saw every movie way too young I was I saw so many vient images you saw that at what
00:42:40
oh oh I can't even imagine I think I was seven people God and it was like I learned about yeah I learned about Vietnam I learned about prisoners of War I learned about um uh you know Russian
00:42:53
Roulette I learned it all from for walking and it was like you know and then I went to first grade like that's I
00:43:00
got I'm heading to first grade guys I'm tired I was at the deer hunter last night that they were getting slapped in
00:43:06
the face in vietn I'm going to The Exorcist and they forced to play Rust and roulette and they would slap them
00:43:12
and say m and slap them and I don't know what that word meant in Vietnamese but it's one of the most riveting darkest scenes in film history trying to I saw
00:43:23
the reefers with Steve McQueen when I was I saw Bon and Clyde when I was like 11 what a little Tamer little Tamer but there was a sex scene it was a little you know so but yeah you've seen those
00:43:34
70s badass movies as a little girl we and you know I was the generation that got like HBO and MTV like in our house
00:43:43
and no one was paying attention so suddenly you just there movies on that you should not I should not have been
00:43:49
watching it's just that yeah no one knows just the next movie on and and everyone's gone you're like oh what's
00:43:54
this oh uh The Omen yep The Omen let's see what this is about this might be fun hope hopefully I hope you both didn't see this movie because it stayed with me and Disturbed me very much and I think
00:44:07
it's Dustin Hoffman I know it's Dustin Hoffman it's the first Straw Dogs look it up kids I don't even want to talk about [ __ ] love it sent me that the other day are is that crazy he sent me a
00:44:18
preview watch this movie Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman yes H is that is thatd is
00:44:27
dark well I was just watching Midnight Cowboy the other day they had a showing of it in New York and I was like oh I
00:44:33
love mid iabo I love Dustin Hoffman and that and I love John voy then I'm like oh my God I forgot this giant
00:44:40
horrible you know assault see there's so many you know there's so much assault in
00:44:45
that movie like flashbacks of what happens to John void's character and his girlfriend and
00:44:50
I was like I forget with 70s movies You' just be cruising along and then there'd be like a really violent scene that
00:44:57
you're just oh no and when now I'm the mother teenagers and I like oh you should watch this movie and then there's
00:45:03
just this scene that's always oh I forgot this scene was in this movie it's brutal I even got I got scared at Tommy
00:45:11
uh Dana I was young and my brother took me oh and and the Gypsy Acid Queen and then she threw like ass in the guy's face so there's fire at the beginning and it burned his face and I was like
00:45:24
and I go I have a stomach ache and went to the lobby and then I never came back cuz I got scared they go what's up I go no I'm fine I just have some stuff to do out here literally nothing to do what's
00:45:36
the first have you showed a movie to your to your kids where it blew their mind it was kind of satisfying because
00:45:41
at one point I don't remember how old they were this is my example I put on Jaws for them and maybe they were sort
00:45:48
of 12 14 whatever okay see you later kids so I come back 10 minutes later and they're they're not moving they're not BL they're just staring whoa they just hit him at the right you know like oh
00:45:59
man this is amazing so yeah that was my yeah that's I mean I have two boys they really like a lot of sci-fi you know action adventure stuff
00:46:11
but they I remember when they were really young I Willie Wonka was the first one that I I was like I think
00:46:17
you're gonna love this and they loved it and I felt really and and as far as comedy like it it you know what you
00:46:25
don't love what your mom likes like your mom is lame like you don't want to like what your mom likes but so I almost had
00:46:34
to let them discover SNL on their own and they're at the age now they're 13 and 15 where they're they're at that age where they're like I wonder what SNL is gonna do about this like that's what you
00:46:46
know and you know definitely their favorite anchors are Jo and Chay and of course they of course and they just don't want to watch they barely want to watch watch stuff I'm in it's like it's
00:46:57
embarrassing like it's their mom like right who wants to watch their mom on TV have you recommended comedies that they
00:47:03
give the thumbs down like that you grew up with oh yeah oh yeah there's been so many things where I'm like that's funny
00:47:09
now that is you should watch that that's funny oh that's funny mom you got to check this out this is really funny mom yeah and I'm always like turn that off
00:47:20
that that guy is you but um I remember the Simpsons was a first crossover where we could all watch it and they were kind of learning how to structure a joke and
00:47:31
and they and you know I was laughing too but um yeah it's always that that group
00:47:37
on SNL for example when you're 12 or 13 and you know not to make you feel old Dana but that was you for me which was
00:47:44
me too me too I don't yeah I feel terrific I'm the I'm the youngest I've ever been at this particular age your toes your toes are not spasming at all everything is fine no no nothing is
00:47:55
spasm during and if they were spasming I would cover for it I would just get kind of quiet on the zoom like slunk down a
00:48:03
little bit I'd be like in the frame come like this and Amy would go to herself is he spasming right now yeah is he uh no I
00:48:12
I feel good I do a lot of countermeasures for AG I hydrate a lot oh [Music] congrats you know Dana sometimes I think you know cuz we all write and uh we all
00:48:28
write comedy and write this and whatever and sometimes not just obviously comedies but I'll watch a show and I'll
00:48:34
be like this is so [ __ ] complicated I am not even in the same yeah uh genre I'm not a writer because the fact they have so many levels to these things and I go what is this dog [ __ ] I write why
00:48:46
am I called a writer this is ridic I shouldn't be in the guild well we just do bsize silly stuff every goofy we
00:48:53
don't comedians don't really get Awards they don't generally don't win Oscars and we have the American Comedy Awards
00:49:00
anymore or but you know what I you guys will be the right people to talk the right people to talk to about this what
00:49:05
irritates me so much though is that once a year at least there's like someone that we would all consider genuinely funny who gives a performance that's really good you know good acting
00:49:16
performance and people are always like wow and I'm like are you do you like I think acting and comedy are so combined they're so clo you know like you one
00:49:28
must be a good actor to sell a bit tell a joke to like there's I'm just I'm always surprised that people are surprised that funny people can be good actors um you know so rarely are good
00:49:41
actors funny but right but funny people are often very good actors and I always think it's just I I think it I don't think they get I don't think people get I don't think funny people it's such a
00:49:54
rare commod but if we were if comedy was outlawed I would love to do drama or do do kind of
00:50:01
realistic acting but it's this is what I do best I guess it's just a rare rare thing and good comedy performances don't
00:50:08
really get the old Oscars and stuff you see like somebody not saying us just saying other people that are great at it
00:50:13
they do a great performance it's not even considered no it's crazy there's a reason they say well who said this dying
00:50:22
is easy comedy is hard I don't know that was like from the Vaudeville or something is tough that's why I'm
00:50:29
jealous of musicians because when musicians have to play an event they just get up there and they play their
00:50:35
song like they play the song everybody wants it they they play the same song over and over again that everybody wants
00:50:41
them to play and when you're when you're going up there trying to do something funny people are like give us something
00:50:46
new we don't want to hear your usual stuff yeah I'm like how about this it's old you can't repeat your bits and then you have to create report
00:50:56
and ew it sucks I always want to plug in a guitar and oh my God after every line
00:51:02
you're judged if they don't laugh even people that aren't listening like I guess it's not going well but with
00:51:07
musicians here it is Applause here's the next one Applause but there's no like I
00:51:14
guess we did good they yell out for you do you got yell out for you David or does do they yell out your hits or they
00:51:21
or they yell stuff I get sort of a sometimes a rowdier crowd uh Dan I mean Tina what's Amy uh Dana and I have done corporates have you and Tina ever done a corporate oh yeah I used to do yes yes
00:51:34
and I mean and I used to I used to do a lot of we used to do a lot of corporate stuff for Second City back in the day
00:51:40
like you know and this was before anyone you know knew our names but we would have to go we would get paid you know to
00:51:47
like to to do jokes about you know old John Miller yeah Vice President John Miller like he's got crazy hair he loves great you know wearing kooky ties and everyone would be like that's me I'm
00:51:59
John Miller and you just have to do all these like specific jokes so hard it's so hard I work with him that's true it's
00:52:07
so him you're doing yet he's got three balls and beats his wife say something about
00:52:13
it I go and my act I don't know what to say and then and then one guy laughs in the back yeah and everyone else's like was that true what it's one guy sets you up yeah and the meet and greet I'm sure
00:52:25
had this but I don't know if it's like alpha male stuff but you're kind I'm this little guy and I'm sort of the star of the show but in the me greet and I
00:52:31
have these guys just really kind of [ __ ] wailing on my hand I mean and maybe they've had a couple cocktails I'm like I had at one point then I got tennis elbows more more
00:52:43
ailments so I had to do the fist bump or I had to kind of wave and they're like I want to put my mitts in twine with your
00:52:49
M squeeze you know and I'll show you who's boss I'm like you're boss we don't even have to do this
00:52:56
I go I have Frozen hand and Dana has frozen elbow and Amy has frozen shoulder but at least my screen hasn't Frozen so Amy so you're going to therapy
00:53:06
stuff I mean f first of all just careerwise I mean do you have any bug are you GNA try to do a dramatic film or
00:53:12
you're you're directing you directed Wine Country you're writing you're producing [ __ ] I mean what doesn't she
00:53:19
do whoops yeah don't be scared glasses don't run away from it she doesn't pay her taxes um you just do a lot you do a lot yeah I
00:53:33
have this production company called paper kite so we produce a lot of TV and film I love I like doing a lot of
00:53:38
different things that's why um you know and trying to stay uh uh trying to stay doing a lot of different things because I find this business is very I mean the strike is a perfect example of it like
00:53:52
it's really fickle it's really you have to stay have to know how to Pivot so like I like acting and stuff and writing
00:53:58
stuff and directing stuff and and um so I try to kind of do you know whatever is
00:54:05
the the next thing I try to do is is different from what I just did and but I haven't done I I've been more into
00:54:11
writing and directing than performing lately and the tour has been really fun because it's gotten me back into being
00:54:18
excited and this podcast has been fun because it's just get to play like a character but actually doing TV or doing
00:54:24
movies like this so hard so much time so hard being on set it's just takes up as
00:54:30
you guys know it just takes up your life movies are the hardest are such a chunk beginning middle end of your day and you
00:54:37
know um I I feel l so lucky like had a show that I love that I couldn't imagine going to do something else right away and then you know suddenly I'm looking at whatever it is
00:54:50
like six seven years later but so yeah I just kind of doing whatever feels right
00:54:57
to do next and I'm so lucky like you brought up Wine Country I have such a group of ladies it's kind of like you
00:55:03
guys it's you guys with grown-ups like it's just like I want to just keep doing stuff with the women I love and they're
00:55:09
so funny and there's so much fun I mean there's no better Joy than doing stuff with your friends like that's success
00:55:15
and you who was it I like that you know I love I love this phrase It's been used a few times in this podcast a murderer's
00:55:21
row it's such a funny but it was a murderer's row on wine country you know obviously Maya Rachel uh Anna yes we had a murderer's
00:55:33
row in that movie Paula pal Emily Spivey Anna gasty Rachel dra Tina Fay Maya Rudolph but then when I was at SNL I was
00:55:40
lucky I was in this group of um Will Forte Fred armison G hater Andy Samberg Seth Meers like christien wig that all happened in my years too Keenan Thompson
00:55:52
like it was just so that was they were so talented people were so so good and talented and when I look at those cast photos of who I got and also the
00:56:03
beginnings and endings of my time there my endings it was like you know will frell um Chris Parnell and then and that
00:56:12
was beginning then when I was leaving you know Kate McKinnon was coming in and like all these people were coming in
00:56:17
that were so that's the cool thing is you just if you're lucky you get some overlap with people that you just love and that's the best I had one year with
00:56:28
will I got to watch him uh one last question from me and then Dana whatever he wants but you you you did Hillary and
00:56:35
then was it Kate did it after you yes yeah and Anna I think Anna gesser Did It Before Me Maybe did Hillary before me yeah there was a bunch of them and and I
00:56:47
did it when um when Downey was writing a lot of them and then and then um yeah and then we did when Palin that was
00:56:59
like first she was running against Barack you know for the to to win the thingy there and then Barack won the
00:57:05
thing what you call it nomination nomination yeah well first he won the nomination right he beat Hillary and
00:57:12
then Palin showed up so it was so fun to be able to do those two characters together because you don't get a lot of like female politicians getting to even
00:57:23
do scenes together half time yeah so that was super super fun to do and it it felt like it was everybody was paying attention to that election it was very you know I played Dennis I played Dennis
00:57:36
kusich one time and everyone was like ah look him up look him up you don't know who he is Dennis cin well then it became a lot which I you know we asked Keenan
00:57:46
this question and I've referred to a couple times you know about great cast or great cast members and and he just
00:57:55
said the V MVP basically is the women of since the 90 late 90s and we have Jan Hooks and nor D our there's been so many dominant women and even in
00:58:07
later years now the women play the male politicians there's all the rules are so
00:58:12
that's that's kind of cool it's progress I suppose for for for women I mean I I was very very lucky to be dropped into
00:58:20
that show at a time when Tina was the headwriter and Molly and Sherry and Anna had just left like they had just done so much great work and yeah I
00:58:30
mean I just kept going just kept going yeah I I think that wasn't always the case every you know it everyone has
00:58:36
their version of their experience there and I think there were stretches when women did not feel heard supported um
00:58:44
encouraged and I'm sure there still are places in stretches now where like everyone has a completely different experience about their time there but I felt like I lucked out in that there
00:58:58
were these like just killers that were there crushing that I felt I was part of that group and I you know I felt very lifted up by them so I was very lucky it feels like it's been wiped out if there
00:59:12
was ever you know some dude in the 70s you know women aren't funny not Lauren but somebody you know like women aren as funny as men why after Lucio ball and others they would say that Carol but it
00:59:25
seems now it's like to me anyway being a baby boomer it's obliterated this is a funny person I don't think I'm watching a woman I just go they're funny they're
00:59:36
funny so I guess I'm calling it progress a little bit at least for and I would even I would even say to expand it less
00:59:42
about gender like I find the more talented you are the less most unless you're yeah you're just not you're not
00:59:50
that insecure like the funniest people I know love other funny people they that's what they love they get drawn to other
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people's work regardless of gender yeah they don't care but if it's it's people that like have their own stuff they're working out and here we are back to therapy Dr Sheila would be able to get
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these people in and talk and say like I know you don't laugh at this person but really what's the thing about yourself that you're not not laughing at what not
01:00:21
laughing at what's part about you that isn't funny that you're mad at the women that are what are you mad about but I do think of you know kind of dovetailing back into the quas Marine analogy or a
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spree to core but when you see somebody who makes you laugh or me personally who does this and knows how hard it is or
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just some Whimsical luck that something hits you and The rhythms are right and it works and then watching other people
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do it and then really in your own mind going well they're doing it they're doing it I think better than me you know
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it's like and you kind of connect to them and if you meet them socially places there's a frequency there or a shortcut it's a it's a great way of
01:01:02
communicating and sense of humor um is a good thing if you can have it you know in friends and relationships it it just cuts across and anywhere I
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would be in the world if a few comedians walked in if it was any social awkward thing uh even if I knew him or didn't
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know him I would instantly be a lot more comfortable at party I go up I we even those big Oscar type you just zoom right over to the comedian anybody in the comedy World sort of gravitates together
01:01:31
feel like your own little group totally it absolutely feel like you're part I mean I I really mean it like I'm feel honored to be in a group um that you
01:01:43
guys feel like you're in too I mean I feel like I would Zoom right to you and Tina if I saw you out I'd be like guys
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save me what's going on I'm saving this for them but I am a licensed therapist I just it's a casual thing I got and why
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do you feel that way about your peers Amy well why do you feel the need to ask yeah yeah check she's been practicing my
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therapist helped me the one thing she said was she basically says life is a [ __ ] show don't get involved in this
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idea that these people are living these dream lives on Instagram or whatever it's all made up to to to live is to
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suffer and to embrace it you're like oh cool okay it's all right it's kind of like where we talking about about SNL
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you have to kind of believe that no one's really thinking about you everyone's kind of thinking about themselves and if you take the pressure
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off of yourself that everybody's thinking about you then you can have a good time but most people are just
01:02:38
thinking about themselves you know life is hard everyone's in their own head it's the entire audience yeah no one and
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you know that we all know that we we watch really successful people who kind of get what would you know be the
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platonic version of all the stuff everyone would want and they're still just not happy
01:02:56
so happy is uh is an elusive kind of concept you know because going for Content at this point if you're striving because it's not well another cliche so
01:03:08
is it about the shiny things and the money or people talking to you in an airport It ultimately it is but landing
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the bit right I mean for me anyway well David's different he's coming up listen coming up with ideas or something that makes me laugh is like one of the last
01:03:26
joys of like it's still something works in your brain you're like oh this is code of a joke or an angle and you go [ __ ] that little things like that are
01:03:37
really mean a lot you know yes agree and hopefully we can still do it when we're
01:03:43
like not able to stand up anymore lift our shoulders well do sit down you guys will do sit down no matter what they say if use it or lose it is a is a concept you know I think the the more you I mean
01:03:55
I think trying to memorize your act like say have kind of a new act I was shooting a special and just the the
01:04:01
exhaustion of your brain it must be some kind of workout to keep you articulate um or all things being equal because you'll stay more fluid longer and doing
01:04:13
this you know when we started reading ads I was dyslexic or something remember David in the early days I was like I
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couldn't really read them and now I've liquefied my ancient brain and now I can heard Amy doing her ads and I'm like this is liquid IV I go I'm drinking one
01:04:30
now I go this is this is similar but it's I have to say it's fun to do podcast ads as a character though because you can yes I told Dana you did that yeah yeah you can just say whatever
01:04:41
stupid stuff you want if it helps you I this is the way I think about it I just think of these small companies that are
01:04:48
sponsors are sometimes their mom and pop and families I go they're trying to live the American dream
01:04:54
they're going all out so I now I'm not with that attitude I'm excited that they're supporting our show sincerely I
01:05:01
turned down every commercial every gigantic bringing the Brinks truck in the 90s because I was we're supposed to
01:05:06
be like Bob Dylan or something we didn't we don't have a catalog to sell that's the problem you got to sell the catalog
01:05:12
later but um anyway I Dana I'm gonna sum up d uh Amy with uh uh listen to this summary okay Dana and you can jump in he does this every time he lands it co okay okay Dr Sheila Dr Sheila podcast out now
01:05:29
and then she's got her head down listening very contently she is also it was very fun to talk to you because I don't see you a lot it's it's this great time to just shoot the [ __ ] with someone
01:05:40
it's funny and uh and Dana you were fine and um also we forgot you in baby mama we're not going to talk about that but it's great movie also baby mama and sheie and
01:05:53
she's a mean girl along along with memes of Mean Girls which she's in mes that everyone loves it and Dana continue wrap it up you get half of this SNL rstar uh
01:06:04
just a little Milestone the first all girl update feature all women sorry uh her and Tina all funny is what I call she released yes please about her life
01:06:17
the Restless Leg tour I don't think they need that's the tour I forgot yeah the tour is going to be big they don't need
01:06:22
us to promote them the tickets are going fast yeah whoops mean we can add another
01:06:29
show but it's hard it sounds easy to go add another show and then you go but it's still tough tough it's so fun the
01:06:36
audience knows it's so fun to perform for the audience everything around it is little tough that's the only decision
01:06:42
it's like [ __ ] give me a good crowd I love it but cuz what are you going to do you're in your room for like 14 hours
01:06:47
waiting for the show maybe go to a MAA if it's easy to get to a theater walk out front and sign a bobblehead they're like sign this but we're not complaining
01:06:58
to people listening we understand we're getting paid complaining I'm I love I love it we're getting money to act like idiots thank you Amy uh very nice of you
01:07:11
to take the time we love it and we love we love talking to you and the the best part of this podcast we just get to
01:07:17
spend like a you know a focused hour getting to know you in 20 whatever it is 23 it's a very boring time in America nothing's going on so it's good that we
01:07:30
we can figure out something to talk about yeah um but anyway well we'll see I love this is what I use because someone did it to me see you around campus as if show business is a high
01:07:42
school or something oh that's cute I love that pass I love that and that's better yeah that I I love uh spending
01:07:49
time with you guys thanks so much for asking me I really have so enjoyed listening to everybody on this podcast
01:07:54
and so thanks for letting me be part of it we appreciate it I'll see you in science class see you in science
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