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[Music] Yeah. Yeah. No, I just realized I had some uh tissue paper on my chin. Yeah.
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That's cool. Like I'm a real guy. I'm a real You know what I mean? Like real premieres exist to make you feel bad
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about yourself. Like you know what I mean? Like I'll go I'll be like I wore I put something on. I think it's pretty cute. And they like
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take some photos. I'm like, "Oh god. Oh my god." Yeah. And in it it kryptonite turns Superman into David Spay.
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You know, we know a lot of people and um our friends do a lot of different things. You know,
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sometimes they're in movies like you and Joe Dirt. I'm sure it was 1997, but that
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thing's got legs. I'm telling you, it wasn't that long ago. No, 1994, but it has
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It wasn't the 19s. You late 80s. [ __ ] 1974 came out with Star Wars. Uh 77 88. Boom. No, we have uh I saw Superman.
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Mhm. And it was sort of research because we had this gentleman in the next day. Yes. And I was like, "Wow, on SNL has a part in Superman." Yes. You know, an integral
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part actually. And it's not Crypto the Dog. Krypto by the way, someone should adopt Crypto because just running around like Antarctica in the movie. I don't know what crypto's
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story is, but back to Beck Bennett. That's the guy. Yeah. Oh, yes. Beck Bennett, which is
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obviously an amazing name and it's his real name, but it is. Beck Bennett is a good show busy
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two. Sydney Sweeney Bennett should be a king or something in medieval times. Yeah, my lord. Beck Bennett. And he gives us the behind the scenes of Superman along with all the SNL stories.
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So, uh, great chat with this dude. So, Beck plays, uh, Steve Lumbard in, uh, Superman. He's a sports reporter that kind of, uh, you know, it's Clark Kent,
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so he's kind of being tough tough kind of hassling Clark and bullying around that, which is a
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mistake. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you right now, it's always a mistake. But, uh, he's, um, he's part of the ecosystem now. You
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know, I I would love to be in some kind of Oh, yeah. and one of those big movies and be some kind of character that might
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come around again. So, he's very excited about that and the possibilities of it. And we go over, you know, he's a Hall of
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Famer on SNL. It's like 10 years there and he was everywhere. He's doing he's a very versatile almost Phil Hartmanesque
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talent. Yeah. Sarah Sherman says he's probably the nicest guy to work with. So, he came off very nice to me uh during
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our interview. So, let you decide, folks. Let let the folks decide. But please enjoy our guest,
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Beck Bennett. Well, you guys look fantastic, too, though. You guys look really good. Yeah. Don't look us up on Wikipedia. Just dream a little dream.
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I don't Your filters are excellent. Oh, really? I see. I don't even know what my filters are.
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You have so many filters. It's crazy. So many filters. Look, I got the under eye filters. I got
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the cheek stuff. I got the hair. I'm bald, actually. I've I've got the one that gives me
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bags. It's stoop the dumbest filter. Honestly, that is actually cool. That's like That's more like rock and roll, you
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know? It's kind of like what Leonardo DiCaprio was looking for for a while. He wanted to lose that baby face. I look like Bonichio, by the way. Look
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at Dana to his right arm. What's behind you there? That's me. Yeah, that's Yeah, it's a it's a it's a a motion picture that you're part of.
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That's a motion picture I'm a part of. Yeah, big Hollywood film. Were you Superman? I I should watch it
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again. But yeah, I have not had the pleasure to see it yet. But are you playing Superman? Let's just get that out of the way.
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You know, I still don't even know. Uh I've seen it three times and I can't figure it out cuz I really thought I was
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and it doesn't seem to be the case because there's somebody else playing Superman. Um but I still believe that,
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you know, maybe later in the universe. It's a It's a long It's a long game. Those movies are so complex. Who knows?
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Exactly. Exactly. I didn't get the script until I was there. So, did you ever find yourself up in James
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Gun's face a little bit going, "Seriously, dude? I mean, I could have done The Man, you know, you put me in
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Steve Long. Okay, I'll be the wacky." Yeah. Yeah. I was like, "Yeah, I'll do this for you, but there are going to be other
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movies and let's um let's sit at Video Village and on Superman takes I go he I think he lifted that building like it was too light. It doesn't match with the other one, but
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whatever. It doesn't look that cool. Um, but yeah, I'm sure you guys will figure it out in post.
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Just just totally Yeah, I would I would go to set on days when I wasn't called and sit in video village and just talk
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[ __ ] on all the people who had superpowers. That's not a bad job. And just go, I thought it was I thought it was a good take. You know, whatever you guys want to do. I thought it was a good take.
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Actually, Dana [ __ ] in Video Village. It's not working. This guy got some laughs where there probably weren't laughs. So, I will give you that. That's good because he plays a guy in the
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newsroom. What is your guy's name in the movie? His name is Steve Lombard. He's uh he's been in the comics since the 70s and
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he's um sports writer at the Daily Planet and sort of a uh an office adversary for Clark Kent. He like picks on him and makes fun of him. He's, you know, there have been different versions of him throughout the decades since he
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was created, but he like he kind of thinks he's friends with Superman, you know, and he's like they're buds. Does Clark let you act like you could
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beat him up? Yeah, absolutely. Cuz he's got you he can't show his strength. You're like, "What's up, pussy?" Right. When he comes in the office, you say something to him and I go, "Oh, no." He
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walks in. I'm just like, "Hey, loser." Hey, loser. High school bully right from the start. Yeah,
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I read because I do a little research and I a comment was very nice. It just said, "Every time you come on the
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screen, there's a big laugh." Oh, that's so sweet. Every time you landed, this was in the comments and then I looked down and it
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was my wife left it. I didn't even know what that and she hadn't seen the movie, so I didn't know what that was. She's been texting me constantly and
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like we don't have a relationship, but seriously, but it's very nice. So, it's okay. So, you know, it's hard to get laughs on these movies where you're not the main guy, but you
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know, when you do those scenes, it's fun. Daily Planet, which everyone knows, you're part of that world, which is
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the most well-known Superman world of I would say is that Daily Planet and Yeah, for sure.
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So, when they go there, I wonder if there's takes where you you try to throw in a line or something just because
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Yeah. You just like or if you do something goofy or something, does everyone go, "Hey, maybe we just do one where
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Yeah. like Uh, this is not that kind of movie. Yeah, I know. It's hard. Yeah. I mean, I did I did the first day
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like at the Daily Planet because that was like a long take, you know? Like he walks in, he comes around, I'm yelling at him. We
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walk down the whole office and he's like talking to his parents and we would like reset and reset all the extras and James
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would like shout over this, not shout, but like talk, give direction through this god mic, you know, and it's like
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bellowing through this old train station and I was nervous. So, I wasn't really like trying to mess with things too
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much. Sure. But he would be like, "Yeah, now do something crazy." And then I would do it. He'd be like, "Not that."
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Wow. That's horrible. Yeah. But he was fun with it. He like he was creating like a fun atmosphere. But
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towards the end there's this scene where we're in Mr. Terrific's Tecraft and it wasn't
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Dana's like what? I know what you mean. I saw I love anything Mr. Anything. So I love
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a guy Mr. Terrific. I It's an original name, you It was uh it was many drafts that he came up with
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that that name. But uh it was it was basically like there was this opportunity where it was
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like, "Oh, we didn't plan on this happening. Just just go." And he let me like basically scream in the back of
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that tea craft for a while. Oh yeah. Um and that that one of the lines in the movie was improvised.
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Oh, good. Can you say Can you say the line? It doesn't give away too much. I just I
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just scream why don't I have a seat? Um, that was a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Um, and it like
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and I was just screaming back there like, "Please, somebody help me. Why don't I have a seat? What's happening?"
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And they had they kept that, "Why don't I have a seat?" Which is just great because it's like in a movie like this, it's like, "Yeah, why doesn't he have a
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seat? He's in the back just flying around." Um, you know, it was just a fun, you know, one thing Dana said that
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didn't really fit was he goes, "Rachel, why are you flying this plane? You don't know what you're doing." And they go,
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"Call her Lois Lane, please, if you're going to make up stuff." Is all right, right, right, right,
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right, right. Improv. I've called people their real name so many times in movies. I'm so unprofessional.
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Oh, yeah. No, it's, you know, it's easier that way. You make it more personal. So much easier. I want to get So much easier. Can't we just use our
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names? Yeah. Can't I just be back as every character? The This is a probably a very generic question. So, the pinch factor of of uh
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pinch factor. I like that. Pinch factor. I just made that up. The pinch factor going
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into 8H for the first time because I it was creepy when I got there. It was 10 years into the show. I was like, [ __ ]
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you know? Yeah. And then going on, I don't know, let's call it a $300 million giant historic
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franchise with probably the best current director of these kinds of movies. huge
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movies and walking on to the set the first day was both a little like whoa or I mean
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that Superman's unknown and you're famous so that must have been interesting right here. He's not unknown anymore but go ahead.
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I just realized I had some tissue paper on my chin. Yeah, I made a note about that's cool. Like I'm a real guy. I'm a
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real You know what I mean? I know that was real. That's what this is about. Lauren Michaels would say, "Please, can we lose
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the tissue paper thing?" Beck, you're at age. You're not in the bathroom. Yeah. Uh, look like a star. I bet every single person we've
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interviewed has been on SNL has a Lauren and I put yours. I'm putting yours. I I try to get real guttural.
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A gut roll. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool. I like when he goes higher. He goes, "Do you like pesto?"
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Just floats it in. Right. You like pesto? He floats in a floater. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of because usually it's down here.
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It's like that thing of like a really really good show. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Um it uh but to
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answer your question, the uh walking on that set, it was intimidating, but like honestly looking back at everything and
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with the experience of Superman, nothing really compares to SNL. It's SNL is more intimidating for sure. So it like it
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really prepared me for that. But it was it was I mean I I was lucky that I got to get down to Mon Georgia a week before
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we started shooting. I was on weather cover so like you know they had us there in case they needed to shoot inside.
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That'sough for people that don't know if you there's an outside and inside scenes.
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Even if you're not in a scene and you might want to sneak home or leave town or something they go you're weather
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cover. So if there's a storm we might have to shoot the inside of the Daily Planet or wherever.
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Exactly. Yeah. Stand by. Be ready. Be just be there. They had a whole train station just shut
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down ready to be shot at. It was just empty for me. Oh my god. Crazy. Like I was walking around making I was like, "Is there another production here?" I
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was like, "No, this is a huge movie. They just You bought the town. They just bought the town. They're just
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in case we want to shoot here. It's all shut down. Everybody went home. God. Oh, so many movies are shooting here.
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Yeah. Wow. It's crazy. All these sets. Whose spacecraft is that? That's yours. Another space movie. Yeah, it's really similar. Um, but yeah, I mean it was it was just like so I I was there for a
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week and James was really fun. He just like went out. He like had dinners with everybody every night. We were all
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staying at the same hotel so I got to know everybody really well. Um, so it was really fun but it was it was shaky,
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you know. It was nerve-wracking for sure. Sure. For sure. Yeah. that that like the him shooting shouting direction in this huge hall and
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just going again and again and again and just you know hope it's that first day you're like I mean I auditioned for it
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so I know he liked what I did but it's still like is it working does he want more you know what I mean and you it's like I feel like I this happened at SNL
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where it's like I want to look professional so act act like you know it's going well you know what I mean
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like act like you know you've got it you don't want your name whispered at Video Village like after the take like
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what are you guys talking about be like, "What are we doing with this guy? What What did he do in the audition that we liked?" Yeah. Yeah. Right. He's in his head.
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He's spiraling. He's Yeah. Exactly. And it's And if you hear 300 or $200 million movie, it's just
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different to come on and be like, "Shit, it just seems like the same thing. There's a camera, there's three actors, but you go, it's just weirder."
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You go, it's Oh, yeah. I was so nervous about it going into it. Um I was like, is there
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you know, like are if I mess up one thing, are they going to be like, "What are you doing? This is a $300 million.
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Wasted 113 grand. Exactly. Yeah. But but no, it was great. It's, you know, it's really all the same thing. It's just a little bit more nerve-wracking at first. Um, we're going to reset because Beck didn't
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know what he was doing. Back to number one. All right. Do it right this time. I'm not going to
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tell you what it is. I'm not going to tell you what to fix. Just do it right. Yeah. This is the big leagues.
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Yeah. They they're either in my sock, in the car, they're somewhere. You keep them everywhere. I give them a little slurp. I don't
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jumping around, but going back to SNL. So, you get that straight out of a you were in an improv group, right? Is that
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where they see you? Um, I Yeah, I did. Well, I did improv and sketch with in a college group with
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Kyle and Nick and then we we basic we're pretty much just doing sketch or sketch group, Good Neighbor. Um, they saw us
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doing that. Kyle auditioned for SNL the year before I did. Um but then I was doing these uh and so yeah, Kyle Mooney um my my my comedy partner and lover
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um dropping that now that so I see some headlines sort of given yeah we um but uh yeah they uh I think they knew about us from that and the Lonely Island
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was really sweet and they had like they kind of maybe shown some videos and um and then I was doing these AT&T spots
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with Yorma, who's a part of the Lonely Island as well. And was he directing? He was directing. Yeah.
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Oh, what a great connection there. Yeah, it was so helpful cuz he was like, we had this meeting with Lauren at the
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Polo Lounge. One of his favorites. Polo Lounge. I have a couple I've had a couple meetings there with him. Yeah. Sit, sit, sit. What? Order anything you want.
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Anything. But I will I will take note of it. That that that that is a new frequency. I I
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haven't heard the gargly deeper one. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? As he's looking at
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his menu. Yeah. It's coming out as he's, you know, getting up there in age. Um but uh Yeah.
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So we had, what was I saying? So we had a meeting at the Polaro Lounge. Is that what I was talking about?
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Yeah. Yeah. Um but yeah, he met with our group there. Um and Oh, yeah. Wait, why was
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No, there was a specific thing about the polo lounge. No, now he always he always stays at the
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very hotel thing. Yeah, he does. He does. Um but uh anyway, I they saw they knew
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about Good Neighbor and then they saw the AT&T stuff and yeah, they they asked for me to audition. Everybody so many
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people were leaving. Uh like it was uh Andy Samberg had already left but it was Forte and Fred Armison and
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Ader. Yeah. Yeah. Um I think it was right around then. Okay. That puts people in a
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2013. Kristen Wig was just leaving or there. Yeah. She had left the year before.
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Really? That long ago? Yeah. Yeah. And then um Yeah. when we and so that I was doing these commercials and oh right okay so this is why I knew I was talking about the polo lounge because because y was super
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helpful he was like we had this meeting and he was like don't try to be funny he was like just just be chill just like
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hang out he's seen everything he's been surrounded by the funniest people in the world for his whole life just like he wants to know that he can hang out with
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you so that be unfunny yeah yeah be unfunny just be b whatever don't try and super helpful but um yeah I
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think um Lindseay Shookus who was the head of talent was had like been seeing the um
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AT&T commercials. She knew about Good Neighbor and then and then yeah, it all worked out. They had uh they had lost a lot of white
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guys, so they were looking for white guys, which is great for me. Hard to find. So they got a lot of white guys left and
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they wanted to get more white guys. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of they wanted they wanted to replace the white guys. Yeah.
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They But the year I got in, it was me and Kyle and I think uh three other white guys and one white
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girl. There was a little bit of a backlash. I don't think ever been short of white
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people. No. No. They got to have their white their whites to go to. Um, so your audition, was it nerve-wracking
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then or you felt like like you kind of already had it? Oh, no. I was I was so nervous. I was um
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I had like sent in a tape and gotten notes and I was like I I've always loved Sketch Gambi and I loved SNL but with Good Neighbor we were kind of trying to make our own sketch show. Um and I had
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always loved like the state and Mr. Show so much and we were kind of going that route. So, I didn't really have like my
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impressions and everything, but um I got all that stuff together for the show uh for the uh you know, for the tape that I
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submitted. And then later in the summer, I was shooting a movie in Austin, Texas, and they were like, "They want you to
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fly out to LA, meet with Lauren at the Polo Lounge with the rest of the neighbor. This time, audition at the Polo Lounge
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and audition at the Polo Lounge. Just get up whenever you feel ready. Be funny this time. You're tight five. Um but then I had
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like the the showcase at IO West uh which was which doesn't exist anymore and then a week later got the or you know the next day got asked to fly out to test but I was so I was doing this
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movie and I had never done these things live like I don't do standup so I I'd only performed these characters and sketches with other people on stage you know and I taken excerpts of them for
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the tape but I knew that I had to do the showcase live and I had to test live. So, I was going around to these open
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mics and trying these characters outside of the scene. They weren't really working. So, I had to come up with new
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characters and I was just like, I don't know. This isn't hitting. And that's when I a friend of mine, Nick Coacher, who ended up being a writer at
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SNL, was in the movie as well, good friend of mine. And I was like, I don't know. I've been thinking of this
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character like a a CE, like a boss, like a CEO with the body of a baby. And he was like, "What do you mean? What does that look like?" And I did it for the first time with him
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and he like cracked up and I did that and then I came up with two other characters which were like a supportive
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friend, a jealous supportive friend who just found out his friend like got cast in a show and then like a bully
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genuinely trying to uh make a friend. And those worked and I like I did them at these open mics and then went to LA
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did it rehearsed it you know incessantly so nervous and then uh and then it works
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you know. So you're trying them on stage now iOS for the people at home is improv Olympic I think.
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And that is and could you go on there and do standup or did you have to go to uh somewhere else to do these?
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Um to to do the Oh well I I mean I was just doing Yeah. It was in Austin where I was practicing because I got That's where the movie was. Yeah, that's where the movie was and that's what they were like basically
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like you have I just jumped on. So you did a movie in Austin. The movie in Austin and I was just going
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to these random clubs uh and uh trying them out there. But did they tell you also to do
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sometimes like they just go Lauren wants to look at you tomorrow in New York so we'll work on your flights. And you're
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like I'm actually on a movie set. They're like yeah so we'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow. And you're like
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now you worry about that and you're like so I got to go to this movie and say I got to take a day. That kind of stuff happened in the old
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days. I remember. Oh yeah. And even like and when I got on SNL it was like doing these still doing these AT&T commercials which was such a
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great gig. And he was like you're not the AT&T guy anymore. We want you to be known for us to know. So yeah. And so you're the guy that orders the mean. Yeah. I mean, you can't keep doing
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the He didn't want you to keep doing the commercials. Yeah, cuz he was like, you know, we want
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to be known for SNL. I was like, okay, cool. Yeah, just so we were guaranteeing how many seasons, you know. No way. It was my first year and there were like cast members and it was like
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we're we're all staying. I don't think so. I love Uh, I did watch Baby Boss because
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I saw the comments and then a lot of people just said, "Oh man, Baby Boss, Baby Boss, Baby Boss, just about Baby
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Boss." Minute SNL. Yeah. And um, it was hyper skilled. I would tell people it on YouTube. Uh, Beck. Yeah. You're up and every move
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is exactly like a toddler, but you're a grown man. And it was so specific um, and so accurate that I guess you rehearsed the [ __ ] out of that. You'd never done it.
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I had never done it. Yeah. I mean, I've always enjoyed like doing physical comedy. Um, but uh, but yeah, I'd never
00:24:01
done it. I sat next to a guy with a baby on his lap on a plane and watched this baby just like pull my headphones out of
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my computer, put the headphones in its mouth and throw them on the ground and then start crying. And like it
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happened like three times. I was like, "This is this baby is so stupid." Yeah. Yeah, I got to figure out a way to
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like But also the move the first move that gets it like you're you're baby man. You're a full grown man, but you're
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sliding down the banister and the stairs and then and then you've got to get to a standing position.
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Yeah. And that was so skilled that it was like it was really like an incredible illusion. One sock half off flopping around. I like when you give him a plate, you bite a plate and suck
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on and then hand it to him cuz babies always hand you [ __ ] and then he takes it and bites and you go, "Why are you
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sticking in your mouth?" He's like, "Oh, I don't know." Yeah, that's weird, man.
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At Baby Boss, I'm with the Cameron Diaz's, 1700 comments, Dana, about Baby Boss.
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Wow. 1700. First one, Beck is frighteningly good at acting like a baby. Yeah. Mhm. DNA. It's right there. There's I don't know if you want a
00:25:12
thumbs down. Thumbs down. Thumbs down. I'm on you. I'm YouTube guy. I'm gonna thumbs down that. I'm going to thumbs up that in this thing. Cameron Diaz was so awesome. She was so down for like
00:25:26
I love Cameron Diaz. So, she was uh that was 2014. She uh has she hosted since I mean you got her
00:25:33
back when she was sort of taking a sbatical I think after Yeah. I don't even know what she was
00:25:39
what she was promoting then, but she's such a favorite. Everyone like grew up loving Cameron Diaz.
00:25:45
Yeah, absolutely. Funny. Super like the funniest. The best. Yeah. Mask. Oh, yeah. Good god. The Mask premiere. I told Dane I was such a premiere [ __ ] I was at all these premieres.
00:25:57
Really? Well, you know, you you were you got you had to have your finger on the pulse. Yeah.
00:26:04
You know, breaking it all down. Well, you get an invite. You're like, "Oh, how fun." And then you're like, "Well, I've been to three this week,
00:26:10
maybe." Yeah. Maybe peel back, but it was fun then. I don't even go to premieres anymore at
00:26:15
all. Yeah. I try not to. There weren't many. Superman must have had a big mango one.
00:26:21
It was a big mango one. Um, and again, similar to the movie, I was like, "What's this going to be like?" You know what I mean? Am I like I feel like me
00:26:28
and my wife Jesse have always like re for a while been like premieres exist to make you feel bad about yourself. Like, you know what I mean? I'll go I'll be like I b I put something on. I think
00:26:39
it's pretty cute. And they like take some photos. I'm like, "Oh god." Everybody else here has a stylist and a
00:26:45
groomer. They got makeup. They got like And you know, it's uh what not to do at a premiere. They show
00:26:51
you. Exactly. Yeah. That's That's one. I'm sure Rachel took it very seriously. Uh yeah. Oh, yeah. She She looked fantastic. She knows what she's doing. She knows how to do it. Um
00:27:02
she's a sharp dresser. She really is. Um but She have a team. Everyone seems to have a team. Athletes
00:27:09
have a team. Do you have a team? I I have a team. Team is the funniest new term that
00:27:15
everyone says on this show. We talked to Beck's team. I'm like, let's see a picture of that team.
00:27:22
Yeah. No, they're they only me and photos. Yeah. No photos for my team. They don't get out. Yeah. Yeah. My team was really happy. My team tag your Instagram photo. Your whole team at
00:27:33
the bottom. Yeah. You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta tag those the groomer and the
00:27:39
stylist. You have to groomer style and then people like, "Oh, someone picked those shoes. That wasn't
00:27:44
an accident." And you're like, "Yeah, here's the guy." It wasn't me. It was her. It was
00:27:49
definitely her. I had nothing to do. You don't like it. Do you Do you have premier clothes? Do
00:27:55
you have a go-to? Do you have like You have a tuxedo? Do you have pre, you know, Hollywood clothes?
00:28:01
Yeah. I mean, you know, actually, no. I don't know if I do. I I do occasionally get something nice, but then I like then I'll wear it to a premiere and I'm like, that looks like crap. Like, it looks too
00:28:12
baggy and worn in. You know what I mean? So, that's one of the reasons why I think I don't go to premieres because I don't want to take my photo and do all
00:28:18
that. But I do have a stylist now. She put me in something that I I felt good about and liked. But, I Yeah, I mean, I
00:28:25
not really. I mean, I've gotten a couple nice things where I'm like, this is this is like something I could wear and get
00:28:32
my photo taken in and it's not it's so not specific that I could wear it again and again. But that's not really the
00:28:38
case. You kind of don't want to wear the same thing again and again. It's odd when they say, "What are you wearing to a guy?" And you have to go
00:28:43
Tom Ford. You're like, "Oh, gross. You thought about this." Yeah. As a guy, you got to be like, "I don't know, man." Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.
00:28:55
It's whatever. Mike Myers and I, sorry, the name drop. We're Wayne's World. Well, we're pretty green and we're getting suits free to go to the Oscars, you
00:29:05
know, and I can't remember the name of it. It's like, and it's like the most incredible thing.
00:29:12
And Mike from Canada is very sincere and goes, "J, these are pretty cool, but uh, could you make these things smaller?" He
00:29:18
was telling the guy, "The lapels are kind of big, right?" Yeah, the guy's face dropped, you know. Yeah, these shoes are already made, sir. They're not They're not in process. I'm
00:29:31
not the Well, you're actually Dane, I got to tell you, you didn't see the movie, but
00:29:36
he uh he's pretty jacked. You can't tell. He's kind of yolked and jacked and obviously on something because he's like That's why he's like, "Not too late to
00:29:47
switch me over to Clark Kent." Right. Exactly. Like, check this out. Not too late, guys.
00:29:53
I I am the type of body that can look good in a shirt. Yeah. Right now, you know what I mean? Like
00:29:58
when I'm in shape, it's like I can look good in a shirt. You take the shirt off, it's no good.
00:30:04
That's That's a trick. That's a trick. Yeah. Do you are you going to go to more premier? I mean, do they are they going all over the world? Is it over or are you still meeting you? Do you want to go to Tokyo, Beck,
00:30:16
because we're I mean, is that still happening or No, you know, they I think they already did the international press tour. Um but it
00:30:23
was just David, Rachel, and Nicholas. Um who's Nicholas? Nicholas. He played um Luther. Oh, yeah. I didn't I didn't get that.
00:30:34
David, who's kind of evil. Yeah, he's kind of evil. Yeah. He's like the bad guy in the piece.
00:30:40
Remember? Yeah. Yeah. Lex Luthther has gotten skinnier and better looking since Jean Hackman or whatever it was.
00:30:46
Yeah. Uh but I'm I'm really into Gene Hackman. He really does. Wasn't that cool? That one with Gene
00:30:52
Hackman and Ned Batty. Oh yeah. Well, by by the way, I mean, I was going to ask you about that. Nicholas was good. I'm being facicious.
00:30:59
The original Superman. What the what the critics are saying. They're they're saying that this is an
00:31:05
optimistic Superman. And because I when you think of James Gunn, you think of The Challenge and how many
00:31:10
times we've tried Superman, Batman, Chris Nolan, you know, broke the film with that. Uh and I guess they're saying that making this earnestness and uh positivity is
00:31:22
sort of they landed it. Is that the idea why it's a hit? Yeah, I think so. I mean, um I I like I like
00:31:30
so many aspects of it. I mean, it's so fun to watch. The action is fun. It's funny, and it's weird. Like James really
00:31:36
is just kind of weird, you know? Like all his movies like his characters are unique and stand out, but there's always
00:31:43
just like there's a little bit of weirdness. Like something sort of odd that you like haven't seen that's
00:31:48
exciting to watch. Um is sort of baked into the whole thing. But but yeah, there's um it's really sweet and
00:31:55
uplifting. Um and everybody I talked to is like I felt good leaving the theater. I felt like inspired and like excited a
00:32:02
little bit. What's your what's your favorite um kind of superhero from the comics? Is it Batman or
00:32:09
Superman? You don't have to say because you're in the Superman. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's okay. They can Super Superman can handle it. Um I
00:32:16
think growing up it was like Batman and Wolverine. Those were my guys. I really liked Wolverine. I like the, you know,
00:32:21
the naughty little the nasty boy. You know, in this in the early script I read, Dana,
00:32:26
nasty boy. I don't know if anybody described Wolverine like that, but he's a nasty boy. He's a nessed boy. He's a
00:32:32
troublemaker. He's a troublemaker. Yeah. Uh in Superman early drafts when I got it. Oh yeah. He to make it a little different. He he didn't fly and um he was just walking everywhere
00:32:44
and they're like this is taking too long. And that and they told you that that was the Superman draft.
00:32:50
Yeah. They go Superman just to be different. He's not going to fly. Crazy. She has to hitchhike walk. And then it
00:32:55
was like he had to walk to Antarctica every time to go to, you know, his house. I
00:33:01
it's his house. Yeah, they were trying. They brought Krypton closer. Yeah. And they they they made it a house instead of the the fortress of solitude. It's the ice fortress. By the way, Dana,
00:33:12
I don't want to give it away, but that's where he hangs out just when he needs to think or when he's fighting
00:33:18
with Lois Lane. I heard the actual title was going to be pretty much Superman. Yeah. Yeah. And they were going to it was going to be totally new and original and different. pretty much Superman.
00:33:29
It was going to be uh David Spade as Superman. Superman on the the back n to his house. The whole movie was just the journey to his house. I've got a dirty cape on. I'm just
00:33:42
Well, actually, David was offered a part in Superman. Like the kryptonite was going to really get to Superman. He's
00:33:47
going to be all shrunken down and old and kind of wasted. And David got offered that part. The part where they
00:33:52
push in on him when he's got kryptonite against his face. Yeah. And it gets all wrinkled and
00:33:58
smashed and then they cut to me and they go, "Is that Spade? Is that David Spade?" Oh my god. Yeah. And in it, it kryptonite turns Superman into David Spade.
00:34:08
Hey, who played Mr. Terrific? I like that guy. Oh, I love him. Uh Eddie Geggy. Great. I think the uh he's incredible. Power Team or whatever that what was that squad called?
00:34:19
The uh the Justice Gang. The Justice Gang was good because I don't think they were wellknown and I think that's kind of
00:34:26
good. It's less distracting in a weird way. Not to cut them down or any by any means, but it's better because you sort of get to
00:34:32
discover what they do. They don't have any hooks already that preconceived. And that guy was good
00:34:38
and there was a a bird person. Yeah. Hawk girl Isabella. She's awesome. And there was a guy. Hey guys, I'm still want to see the movie. Oh, that was Nathan Fillian. That was
00:34:50
Nathan Fillian in the bull cut. He's so funny. He is well known. I did not even put that together.
00:34:55
Yeah. Yeah. Good job. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah, it was it was a blast. Everybody was so so fun to work with. It was it
00:35:02
was a really great crew. James has this thing where he has like a no [ __ ] policy. So, he like checks in on people to make
00:35:08
sure they're not [ __ ] before hiring them. And the set for that reason is just it's awesome.
00:35:13
We didn't have that obviously. Dana Yeah. Yeah. Dana would not be able to be hired on a James Gun film.
00:35:20
Nope. Um um the worst is when the director actively wants to sabotage you and the film. Trust me, I won't say the movie. I I
00:35:33
wasn't in a lot of movies for this reason, but that's uh that's what that's the worst when the director actually is
00:35:40
trying to crash the airplane. Basically, Dana, I was watching a Tik Tok yesterday. Beck, you'll love this. No,
00:35:47
you won't care. But I was watching a Tik Tok and it was a female, I think, wrestler and they said, "What's your favorite
00:35:53
movie?" She said, "Master Disguise." Yes. I should have sent it in. I should have kept instead of deleting my TikTok. I
00:36:00
should have They said it couldn't be done and they had a point, but 100 million dollars later.
00:36:05
Yeah. See that I mean that my that just makes me think of something I've laughed at so much which I'm sure you get this a lot
00:36:11
is in the the the Dana Carvey show documentary the the cut. Yeah. That is so funny. I like I laugh at that multiple times. What's that?
00:36:24
It's um it was like a very special episode of Home Improvement and but two it's like
00:36:30
it's it's like and right after the D cover root beer mug root beer Diet Mug Ruper, I think. Diet Mug Ruper a real promo about it, right?
00:36:43
It was so funny. They showed that cold to Stephen Cobear and he literally he he went apocalyptic,
00:36:50
whatever the word is. But thank you for noticing that. I just want to say you that you and Kyle
00:36:57
that your sensibility on that show is its own special lane and I don't even really know how to describe it. Yeah.
00:37:04
Uh, it's dry, weird, quirky, but when I look at it and all my dancing for my donuts, isn't
00:37:12
that special? Jumping around, I'm always so like that's the stuff I want to do. I mean, because it's so it's so funny and so dry and weird and uh
00:37:23
Yeah. I don't know how you've gotten that comment before, I assume. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And I mean, you
00:37:29
know, it's uh it it's so fun to do. It really makes us laugh. And then, you know, sometimes the audience catches on, but it is so weird. We like Yeah. Like the house the house with
00:37:41
Chris Hemsworth, the way you did the shooting and it was in black and white and the sincerity and earnest
00:37:46
awkwardness of that. I don't Yeah, that makes me laugh so much. I love that one. The like the after school
00:37:52
special ones like beers that we did with uh David and Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm so I'm I really
00:37:59
appreciate that we got to do that on the show cuz it was just just odd and strange. I mean, we definitely did one
00:38:05
did a couple where like they just were so flat like not we like we did one with Ryan Gosling. Uh it was like a family matter like these very special episodes of these like classic sitcoms and we
00:38:18
were laughing so hard editing it and then it like played a dress and it was just nothing.
00:38:23
It was nothing. I like Ryan Gosling. He's pretty fun. Was he fun on there? Oh, he's the best. He's He's so hands up
00:38:30
for it. Yeah. And he was like he he comes in being like, "I like that stuff. I want to do that." And he like pushes for it
00:38:36
and you know um so we he's probably my favorite host of all time because the episode where they had Beas and Buttad like so the beginning of the show he's not really breaking but he's
00:38:49
enjoying it so ausively. Every single thing the monologue he's kind of like just smiling and having so much fun.
00:38:56
Maybe because he's a giant international movie star. It wasn't like he didn't care, but
00:39:01
he just set up the whole party. It was like the whole show was lifted by his attitude. Totally. You can tell he's just having fun. Like he did I think the first time they did that Kate McKinnon um
00:39:12
alien abduction sketch. I think he was and he's just like breaking. Was he in that in the first one? I think I think that was the first
00:39:19
and he was probably in was on the 50th. Was he in that or was it Merryill Street?
00:39:24
No, that was Merryill Street. But he had one of the famous breaks uh when Kate landed that. I don't know if it was the
00:39:30
first or second time where so [ __ ] funny. And I was back, you know, in the under the bleachers with
00:39:36
Lauren. I said, "Is it okay that Ryan's breaking?" Well, of course he's Ryan [ __ ] golf.
00:39:41
Let him cuz back in your day, did he not like it when you guys broke? I'll tell you what. No. a million% from 86 until Adam
00:39:52
Sandler got there and he he wasn't even breaking that much but him and Farley would kind of you
00:39:57
know it was it would deconstruct before that really not supposed to break it was
00:40:03
a it's so [ __ ] Carol brunette yeah that's not what we do here you know like don't try to trick the crowd to laugh what was it like when you first
00:40:15
got there you can't fake it um I mean I think it was uh probably a similar thing, but I
00:40:20
think it was like the idea was also though like have fun. Go up there and have fun if you take it to because I
00:40:26
also think like I I have an acting background as well. So I'm like so sometimes I would try to take things too seriously. I mean there was like that pride in not breaking and like staying in charact. But I would definitely be
00:40:37
like you don't need like lighten the grip a little bit. You know what I mean? Like it took me a couple years to just relax and be like
00:40:44
you want the audience to feel you having fun. Not breaking on purpose by any means, but like do you remember what you broken the
00:40:50
first time or did you ever I think it was Were you ever in a Debbie Downer? No, I wasn't. There was a sketch that Charles Barkley when he hosted and never
00:41:01
made his hair and I I honestly forget everything. That's terrible. That's just terrible, man. That's just terrible.
00:41:08
That's terrible. Oh man. Yeah. He's just doing his Oh, that's terrible. I think it's terrible. T U R R It is terrible. Terrible. I I I can't
00:41:19
Who's the There's I can't remember his name. There's an impressionist that does that brilliantly.
00:41:25
Did you One thing about SNL which I think is kind of interesting is that they'll give you something you've never done before that's completely outside
00:41:32
what you do and you've got two days to get it and you know I don't it's just a funny part of that show. I think that's
00:41:38
like what that's maybe one of the things I I am so glad that I don't have to do anymore is like Oh, when they hand you something. Yeah. And it's like I don't do this and it I'm gonna
00:41:50
it's going to be bad and they're like I don't care. You're the best we got. It's it's happening tonight or tomorrow.
00:41:56
Everyone else is used in this sketch. We You got to play this guy. Yeah. You got to do this impression of somebody you do not have the the
00:42:02
register for. You landed Mitch McConnell. You did a great Mitch McConnell. Thank you. Thank you. That and was that an assignment that week or the first time you did it? Like
00:42:13
I think so. Yeah. I wasn't like I have a Mitch McConnell. Let me do this. Um and then I mean the prosthetics that you
00:42:19
know the got so much better. I think it was maybe with like the silicone or something that they uh were in the 3D.
00:42:25
They really get you halfway there. 90% there. Yeah. They get Yeah. They didn't have that back in the day.
00:42:30
It's better when they know what you are. Like I sort of miss also Chvy Chase going I'm Gerald Ford. There's nothing.
00:42:36
Yeah, I know. Or Dan Akward. I'm Nixon. Just nothing. He's got a mustache. A mustache. Yeah.
00:42:43
And just keeping it really loose. It's funny when hosts come in and they have a beard and a mustache and they go, "I'm not shaving." And you go, "Oh,
00:42:49
yeah. So, it's going to be hard for you to play these six people, but all right." Right. Right. All right. Well, we'll
00:42:55
cast you as that. We'll write to you as that. I guess. I feel like they always end up shaving, but I mean, not not always. actually
00:43:01
put up a fight. Yeah. Oh, trust me, they'll shave. Trust me. That's Lauren's favorite part of the job is just getting celebrities to shave their faces. Yeah. Trust me, I'll shave.
00:43:12
Well, Lauren says, "Trust me." It normally he makes it come true. Oh, trust me. I have a plan. If I had a
00:43:19
mustache, I'd be curling it right now. But I don't Yeah. Yeah. Daniel Craig, accent coach. I mean, there's a bunch. I I just think uh I
00:43:32
liked White Po White POTUS. White POTUS. I love that. Yes, that was really fun. White POTUS was a big one. And uh brought brought Putin back for that. Um Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun. And
00:43:43
Putin was uh just a great uh notion. He's not going to ever have his shirt on. Right. Right. It's like, you know, and uh what how did you talk
00:43:56
about just sort of, you know, casual sort of like me and my little mish enjoying myself.
00:44:02
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was the funny take like a playboy super confident. We we have nukes. Maybe we'll use them.
00:44:09
Yeah. I don't know. Control. Yeah. It's It's good when you don't do an exact impression because it's too
00:44:15
boring. So, you got to screw with it a little bit. Make it fun. voice is more like it's more like this.
00:44:21
It's like high pitch and you know like it's like higher pitch quiet barely talks. Yeah.
00:44:29
Always serious. Always serious. Yeah. White Pus is the funniest name. You had to do that sketch when someone thought
00:44:36
of that. It's like I know it was Colin Jo and I was like yes I will absolutely do.
00:44:41
It was so funny. It was so perfect. Um, but yeah, that was like the impression I
00:44:47
feel like that I really did that thing with that they try to teach you is like, you know, you don't have to do an exact
00:44:52
impression, just like capture the essence and have fun with it. Um, and it was it was wild how like I
00:44:58
had been on the show for three years maybe and did that and then it was like another like
00:45:04
you're you know just another level of recognition, you I was Oh, yeah. You're all over those cold
00:45:10
openings. And like it was on Russian TV at one point. Oh, really? I was like, "Okay, cool." Crushing on Russian. Were you scared they'd be Russian on Russian?
00:45:23
Russian on Russian, man. That's Was I Was I afraid that what that he'd come after you? Say, "Come to
00:45:30
Russia. I just want to talk to you." Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was It was I was like, "He knows about it." So if he if I Yeah.
00:45:38
I mean like at the same time I'm like it's it's silly that I'd get that would get nervous. I'm like he would never
00:45:44
come for me. That'd be stupid even if he wanted to. But there was definitely a couple moments of like should I be doing
00:45:49
this? Is this weird? Maybe it's funny. I make it look like [ __ ] What's that? If I if I come to Moscow, will you hurt
00:45:56
me? Of course I'm not going. I love you. me. I love good sketch work. Yeah. Now everyone's doing your impression. All right, Dana, what else we have for
00:46:14
young back? I would just say, you know, because this show's a little bit cornball in the sense that here we are casually going
00:46:20
over which is an intense, incredible part of anybody's life. It's just just a fact. It's just an absolute fact. And so congratulations. You know, you
00:46:31
had a great run on that show. you're brilliant on that show and uh everyone knows who you are and um
00:46:38
I think you should good luck with Superman soon. Thank you. I think I should host too. Um yeah, it's it's a really it really is
00:46:45
amazing. I mean you guys have been out for a couple years now. Um but it is it is wild. It's like you
00:46:51
leave everything that Lauren says is kind of true, you know? He's like this is kind of where you're going to be the funniest and it's going to stick with
00:46:57
you forever. Once you're a part of it, you're always a part of it. things like that where I leave and I'm like, "Oh, yeah." Like it really is like a a
00:47:04
version of of home and I like it is it has informed kind of everything that I've done, you know? It's such a great training and it is it really stays with you and even though even though you're
00:47:15
from the show, like you're always a cast member and you have everybody else. Is that a card behind you?
00:47:20
Oh, it is. Yeah, that was that was unintentional. That is um save your thank yous for
00:47:26
later. Be back in. We're back and live from New York. Saturday night. The first time I said that
00:47:31
Saturday night, David, because of what Beck just said, what did Chris Rock say to you about directing a movie and juxtaposing that
00:47:38
with SNL? Didn't Chris say something like something the effect of uh anybody can
00:47:45
direct a movie. If you can do Saturday Night Live, you can direct a movie. It's like it's so crazy hard at times cuz I always think directing is too hard. He's
00:47:56
like, "No, no, you directed sketches. You you you don't even know it. You already did it."
00:48:02
Yeah. Yeah. It really It really does apply to every other part of the business, I feel like. So, well, thank you, brother.
00:48:08
Yeah. Thank you guys so much for having me on. Love you guys. Our pleasure. Love you. The best. We'll we'll run into you one of these
00:48:14
days. Well, that was Beck Bennett, everybody. Beck Bennett, who uh I I forgot to ask
00:48:22
him about like he said uh or I had read earlier that Stephen Spielberg and Louis
00:48:27
CK had seen him early on his improv life. Spielberg talked to him. Yeah, they loved him. That's kind of cool. Good Neighbor was a a big one of the first YouTube hits 2007
00:48:42
sketch comedy on YouTube. So yeah, that's what got them going. Those Arrested Development. Um, and also he has a podcast coming out and the name of it is
00:48:54
What's our podcast? That's with Kyle Mooney. Kyle Mooney. And yeah, in August produced by Headgum. Headgum. You know, I just saw Y2K, which
00:49:07
Kyle's movie he talked about when he was on here. Anyway, we uh that was fun talking
00:49:13
about him doing Putin and White POTUS and uh and Superman of course. Superman, what a big big thing to do. Yeah, it's um you know, when we have
00:49:24
people SNL alums who did eight years and you know, you want to touch on that and then the movie. So, we I guess we kind
00:49:31
of bounce back and forth the whole time, you know. Well, you just ideas pop in your head. Well, I want to get to this
00:49:36
one then we'll go back to Superman. So, yeah, for sure. Uh but uh it's a easy conversation.
00:49:42
Yeah. Cool dude. Uh jacked in the movie. Looks ripped. And uh hope everybody liked it.
00:49:49
Mhm. And we'll see you next week. I guess next time or we'll see it twice this week.
00:49:54
We'll keep putting out two hours of uh television content uh each week. Yeah. We really shove it down your gullet. So love it. If you miss an episode, don't don't feel
00:50:07
bad. We'll be the ones who'll feel bad, but we'll It's okay. Go back and watch all of them from the
00:50:12
beginning and catch up. Yeah. Yeah. We We're our goal is to entertain. We We don't want anyone to listen or see one of our podcast and go, "You know what? That just burns my beans."
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