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Adam Friedland Joins the Old Boys Club

March 19, 2026 / 52:43

This episode features comedian Adam Freeland discussing his podcast, comedy, and the state of late-night talk shows. Key topics include the evolution of comedy, the influence of Dick Cavett, and the challenges of modern stand-up.

Adam Freeland shares his admiration for David Spade and Dana Carvey, expressing how they have influenced his career. He mentions his podcast's unique format and how it aims to revive long-form interviews.

The conversation touches on the decline of traditional talk shows, with Freeland noting that they often lack depth compared to earlier formats. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity in comedy.

Freeland also shares humorous anecdotes about his experiences in comedy, including a disastrous roast where he made a controversial joke about Jeffrey Epstein. The hosts and Freeland reflect on the challenges of performing in front of difficult audiences.

The episode concludes with a discussion about the future of comedy and the importance of connecting with audiences in a genuine way.

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Adam Freeland discusses comedy, late-night shows, and his podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey.

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Your mayor has been destroying himself as a cocktail waitress at night. I'm just I don't I thought that this was the
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old boys club. I thought this was the kind of stuff you guys said. I go to one of these Korean barbecues. He's like,
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"Would you believe it? They make you cook your own food." He's like, "I sure
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hate to go to one of them Korean [ __ ] houses." Wait, oh, why don't you come
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over here and suck your own dick? They say comedians are modern day philosophers, which is offensive to
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modernday philosophers. You know there are actual smart people in the world. When I if we meet I will go and just on
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my knees and just fate in public in private day. Okay. >> You know we always say we're not going
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to do these things but let's do it. >> All right Dana we had Adam Freeland and
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he's on today. Um >> we talked to him. He's got a podcast that you know is out there does well.
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He's a funny guy. is actually comedian, >> but he does a lot of >> some politics, some comedian stuff.
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>> Sort of a mixed bag, right? >> Yeah. It's very interesting. He's uh he
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loves Dick Cavitt or his set is kind of based on Dick Kavitt, a talk show from the 1970s.
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>> I barely remember, but yeah. >> And he kind of lays back. He's got a
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really kind of uh likable personality. He's kind of pathy. he's a little bit
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political and then he'll say stuff that's slightly offkilter and so it's
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very interesting. >> Yeah, he kind of catches people off guard on his show because they don't
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really know where he's coming from and uh but he's a comic at the root of it
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all and uh he knows us and we brought him on and we had a good chat with him actually some good laughs. You know, you
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never know what you're getting really, but if we can get some good laughs. >> Yeah. And it it's uh flattering when you
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meet younger comedians who are kind of like excited to meet us and asking us a couple questions. That was interesting.
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But yeah, he's a very charming young man. And I enjoyed here. He is. Adam Freeland.
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>> Don't be mad. I have to text the whole podcast. >> No, I'm done. Okay. Um,
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>> who you texting, >> Sam? I'm trying to >> I'm trying to get spots. No, I'm
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kidding. >> Sandler's listening to this podcast. So, every time his name is mentioned,
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>> you stop, guys. >> I I say just as a signal to that Adam. >> Yeah.
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>> That this Adam is on. >> Anyway, >> it's like the the ear tug, the Mary
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Tyler Moore ear tug to her her mother. >> Carol Bernett. >> Carol Bernett.
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>> Carol Bernett. >> Jesus. >> We've really gone off track.
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I'm blowing it right now, guys. >> We can get out of 45 minutes, we can get
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God, >> it's impossible exposed to the school. Everyone's laughing at me right now.
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>> You guys are uh I I just I'm I'm a huge fan. I mean, like, it's it's very cool
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to meet you guys. I uh I do a talk show and I meet >> I meet people and I'm not I'm not
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nervous around anyone. Literally, I I I'm uh I have >> I've seen it
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>> delusions of grandeur. I or like I don't know. I I I narciss but like around you
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guys is like uh it's it's it is but an honor. I I've been a fan my entire lives
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of of the both of you. >> Exactly. First time we haven't interrupted someone. Thank you. We
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wanted to hear the whole compliment. >> Yeah. For the first time we've never
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that we've kept our mouths shut. We don't want to interrupt that flow. But
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yeah, I was the same way. We're just I'm up the ladder from you. So when I met
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Steve Martin or something, I just >> Shecky Green. >> Yeah. >> When he met Auster Katon,
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>> you know about >> Do you know She Green? Who is that? >> Oh, Heshy Teshowitz. He was uh he raped
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uh like half of half. >> Anyway, we're going to go to a commercial and come back.
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>> Adam with Hollywood Rape Stories with our guest Adam. was on the set as a
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child when when uh Buster Keaton was hanging off the clock. >> Oh, BK. Really? Yeah. BK. BK. I said,
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"Man, that's too high." >> 1936. >> Oh, no. It's all right. I got ring
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lights. I got a mic under here. >> Yeah. >> This your grandpa's podcast. But anyway,
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let's go back to compliments. Uh, what do you what do you like best about what
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what floats your boat about David Spade? >> Yeah. Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. I'm
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talking to you. >> No, no. I mean, I I've I've seen a hundred maybe a hundred probably a
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hundred movies with you. >> I mean, I've seen literally every single uh every single Happy Madison produ.
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I've literally uh it's it's a very important thing for me and my group of friends. I
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I had a I had a a Schneider on on my talk show. I saw that episode. Loved it. >> Yeah.
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>> What are you talking about? >> A schnowzer. Yeah. A small dog. He's a
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He's a He's a tall glass of water. That boy. >> Schneider. I just saw
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>> Schneider. >> I had no idea. He was like He was He was He's like D. Uh I thought I I was 52.
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>> Yeah. >> When >> I always thought he was like 6'8. >> Schneider looks so huge on camera.
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>> He has a camera. He's a Titan. I'm telling you what though, whatever the
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numbers are, the confidence Rob has as a person going in the room and he's the
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only one Sandler [ __ ] and stuff. >> Yeah. >> That confidence makes you taller or
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makes you bigger. It makes you forget, >> you know. >> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I went
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to AC to see uh Sandler perform and Schneider opened for him uh for my friend's bachelor party and I I told Rob
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I really I loved his closer. Uh it happened to be one of the one of the only uh uh non-political
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>> Are you being arrested? >> No. No. I live in New York City. It's a
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hellscape. It's a violent h anti-semitic hellscape. So >> uh is that garbage on the streets?
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That's what I heard. >> So that's not Nick. >> Yeah, they don't have alleyways. They
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the city planning, they didn't factor in alleyways, so we have garbage on the
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streets. >> But you've got Mam Danny now to kind of >> He promised.
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>> He's a good friend. He's my friend. Friends. >> Oh, good. Good. I'm going to say nice
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things. No, >> he probably grew up watching you guys as well. I mean, he's he's it's the first
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like uh leader that I met where it dawned on me that he's like of my generation,
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>> right? >> And uh it was like Yeah. We were like talking about like hiphop and like
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soccer like we suck. I have a question. >> We're like the lame. We're millennial uh
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men >> that >> uh >> can I ask you a question? So, this is kind of what I gather because I saw your
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uh precursor for your show and you had a CRT television, >> you know, when you do your little
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preamble up front. And you also, it looked like you were filming it from something deconstructed from the 80s or
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90s. That segment there was a wash over it. It was kind of dull, but it felt very retro. And I find that people who
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have came through the analog age, the end of it, went into the digital age, have
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nostalgia for that era, >> like when you were a little kid, right? So, is that like an emotional touch
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point for you? Like, do we also trigger that with you watching us when you were like 12, 10, 12?
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>> Uh, you're triggering something and uh you can't see you can't see down here.
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Uh no but uh no that that is uh modeled after a reference image. So the show is kind of modeled after Cavit. So it's
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like a long form talk show, right? So it's a it's the attempt was to like
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revive some I I do a talk I don't know. >> I've seen it many many times. I think
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you're great at it. I love it and I and I love the Dick Cavitt reference. I think Dick Cavitt is only gotten shiny
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and brighter as we go forward. I mean, his long form interviews with like Robert Mitchum, these oldtimey movie
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stars for like an hour. It's so And then you're hearing the sirens. You're
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hearing the sirens. Tiny audience. So, I'll watch it on YouTube some nights,
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I'll just go on a Dick T Cavitt run, you know? >> Yeah, they really they age so well. And
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the thing that's cool about it was uh because of the format of like long form
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interview uh and it like free flowing conversation you could see a famous person for who they are as a guy you
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know totally and >> and uh talk shows like nowadays it's it's so >> I don't even know if they make money for
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the networks anymore like it's yeah it's like tell me your vacation your story
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about losing your luggage and then what's the movie and then this is the clip and it's like They're these like
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kind of like weird like legacy like products that just exist because they have to be there.
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>> It's super surfacey. I I mean in the old days I don't even know when they
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invented boredom. It was probably like late 80s because >> Tom Schneider show was again just a like
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he had Dan Akrid on. They would talk for 45 minutes straight. It was like no commercials
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>> and you would learn a lot. You're right. It would go a little deeper than just I
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heard you bought a dog recently and then you do your dogs. >> Oh yeah. And he he also had Gore Vidal
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and Norman Maylor and really en enemies and fights and weirdness would happen on
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Dick Cav and real tension, you know. >> But yeah, the talk show's dying. It
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basically late night talk shows took in about 485 million pre- pandemic between all of them. Now it's like 50% less.
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>> 19. >> You know that? How is that crazy? Art in his room. >> I'm curious. I love these machines. I
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love to research stuff. Yeah, I love money. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I know nothing. I know nothing about money. I I
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don't know. The objective really was just to like do not I did a podcast for
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so long that was like quite successful and >> town Nick Mullen who's spirit I think he's a
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great >> improviser doing characters and impressions and I thought you guys
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played all >> the greatest guy ever. Yeah. Yeah. >> And Sav Savro. Yeah. There was a break
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chemistry between you three. >> Yeah, it was it was kind of like a just a friendship simulator, I guess, for
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people because it's like you don't see people listening to a podcast. So,
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you're kind of in a living room and then like once you stop recording, then you
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start having the argument about what to have for lunch. It's It's kind of like
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it feels like you're in a living room with friends hanging out. It was it was
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either overtly performative when Nick would do impressions or it was so lowfi and the way you guys would even dress in
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your whole body language and sometimes you get really tight on the mic and kind of talk really soft and so it it drew
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you in. But my question for you is this. You didn't do ads, right? >> We did. Yeah,
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>> we did ads and Patreon. >> We do the worst ads. Yeah. >> Okay.
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>> We do the absolute worst ads ever. Like we had boner pill companies which are
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like literal pharmaceuticals. We'd make really just irresponsible claims. We had no idea why they were like
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signing up still. But I think because the ads became part of the show, they become
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>> you know they're in a meeting one day going, "Did you know these guys from
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Come Town are goofing on our >> spying on town?" >> No, no, seriously. Uh, I think because
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people skip the the reads, right? Like I hate ads. I hit the 30 second skip. >> Yeah, we love our our advertising, but
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go ahead. >> No, I mean you're you guys I mean some of the worst I mean you barely know how
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to read. >> Yeah. >> No, I mean no but genuinely uh we were working two hours a week and then Stav
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was still doing the road. Nick and I got really lazy. Uh >> lazier than two hours a week.
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>> Well, yeah. I mean, I I I didn't have to work. I mean, I stopped doing standup
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kind of. It's just like Yeah, I thought I sucked also. Uh I was kind of like the
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like like Nebish of the show, you know. Nick and Nick is like the funniest guy ever. Sav is one of the funniest guys
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ever. Like, you know, I was like, "Oh, I'm just like the the the gay like the
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gay Jew, you know." >> And then with this with this show, it's like a kind of was just a series of
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accidents. I think it started off as a joke to make me into like >> a public intellectual
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>> like and re Stewart they said >> oh >> who's they >> I'm not I'm going to blow it I'm going
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to I like literally I'm just wearing glasses I mean they they think I'm something that I'm not wearing really
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>> I'm a stupid guy like but beyond that like uh yeah this is this requires a lot
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of effort and like the scary thing about trying is that if you try as hard as you
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can you can find out that you have no talent. Yeah. >> And uh what's ended up happening is that
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it's gone really well. >> I just have to tell you, Dana, there's something I'm excited about.
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>> Now, you remember we talked about Jury Duty, the show. >> Oh, yeah.
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>> Season one. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And that one I saw it on TikTok
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>> and then it was kind of a word of mouth thing. It It blew up. It was funny
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>> and uh it actually all pulled together which I was shocked they pulled that
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thing together. >> Uh and I was like I will they do it again and they did >> and cool. I think that's very cool.
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>> It it was set in the courtroom the first time and uh >> this is going to be a company retreat.
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>> H yeah. >> Yeah. Jury duty presents company retreat. It takes this groundbreaking
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social experiment out of the courthouse. Stay with me, Dana. I got it. And drops
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it into the most relatable setting ever, the company corporate retreat. And if you've ever survived that awkward team
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building exercises or a trust fall with co-workers, >> you you know the vibe.
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>> Yeah. I mean, this is an inspired idea, I got to say, after jury duty to put it
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in a company retreat. This season follows Anthony, a real temp hired by Rocking Grandma's Hot Sauce for their
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annual retreat. >> Right there. They should figure it out. rocking grandma's hot sauce.
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>> Yeah, I know. It's except he has no idea the entire thing is staged around him.
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It's it's a workplace comedy meets hidden camera and uh it's unpredictable.
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It's authentic. It's so full of heart. The stakes are higher. The laughs are
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bigger and it still celebrates the goodness in people. And here's the wild part. Rock and grandma's hot sauce.
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They're actually making it. >> Okay. >> And the flavors will be available on
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Amazon. >> Oh my god. But I wonder if they started that first or if they they just made up
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that name and then it sounded funny and but it's going to get a lot of attention. But you know this thing
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>> I'm kind of glad they didn't do it in the courtroom again cuz someone would
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figure that out. I would think >> Oh, I don't think they could do it in
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the courtroom. I think that company retreat is uh the next best one. Yeah, >> it's hard to think of where to do it but
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they did a good job. So looking forward to that. >> Me too. streaming on Prime Video March
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20th. Come Town is still around or is it for sure? >> No, it's Come Town is gone. You like it? You
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should >> I like the Come Stain sounds. So, >> it's so cool that you you you know about
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Nick. It's so cool. I had young people turn me on to it and say you should go
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on this show and so you can riff with Nick, you know. >> Wow. >> So, he's great.
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>> So, that's awesome to hear. Yeah. Yeah. Uh straight straight up is they say
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absolutely. Um I mean no cap dude. >> I don't say that kind of [ __ ] 38.
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>> That's you and Madani over there like no cap Mandani. >> No me and Madani are we're we have we
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have plans. >> We have plans. We go to >> Soviet style. Yeah. >> Soviet style plans. Yeah. What kind of
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apartment like could I get as kind of a casual acquaintance of the mayor now through you?
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>> If I wanted a onebedroom in the village, nice, you know, >> um, what could I get it for? If we
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connected through M, Danny, >> I I don't think the mayor does real estate.
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>> Okay, that's an answer. I was probing. >> I was just probing in case we know
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Lauren Michaels. Here's a question I have for you. It'd be funny if he had a
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side he had to get a side job. >> He still does open houses. >> Yeah,
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>> he's a real estate agent. >> The mayor's been destroying himself as a
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cocktail waitress at night. >> Yeah, >> he's in trouble. Yeah, that's funny.
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>> Would you have aspirations for SNL or ever thought about it that or were you?
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>> I mean, as a kid, it's it's it was the coolest thing in the world, but I think
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I'm too kind of too old probably now. I'm 38. I kind of have a thing going,
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but I'm very close with like like Sarah's and uh Sherman. She's like one
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of my good friends. >> I know you guys you guys are friends, right? That's so awesome.
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>> All she does is yell at me around. >> How don't take that [ __ ] from her. What
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the [ __ ] does she know? What has she done with her life? Just like you my boss.
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>> No, I mean she's like one of that's that's like f >> We love her. Can we talk about her
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special a little bit? I watched it the other night. >> I was there. I was there for the day.
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>> You were there. >> It's the wildest thing. And it's only her could do. I was just
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>> Her commitment to being bananas is so good. >> Yeah. >> And attacking the audience. Go ahead.
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>> Yeah. I think women can I think women could do it. I think they could do
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comedy. I for a long time we doubted it, but I thought, you know, >> Yeah. This is just a recent thing. Yeah.
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>> Like the last male or female. This is an X-rated haunted house. >> Oh, come on. How many of them are funny?
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>> What? >> How many, >> Adam? Don't even get us >> Oh, women. Oh, women.
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>> A thousand million. >> I'm just kidding. They're funnier than
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us. Of course, they tell great stories. No, no. I'm just making fun of Sarah.
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>> No, no, we had to we had to give it up. I We were in that mode back in the 80s
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for, you know, Nord Dunn didn't think they were represented. And then all of a
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sudden Sher O Terry and Tina Fay and Christine Wig and you know that the women kind of took over the show.
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>> I'm just I don't I thought that this the old boys club. I thought this was the
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kind of stuff you guys said. I don't even believe that. I think women are fabulous
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>> uh and so funny and their stories. They really go somewhere and they're really
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interesting and they're and they went to CVS. >> Are you are you reading a lot? Where are
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you getting this point of view from? >> He's just talking off top of his head.
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>> I co-sign all that. I mean, >> I'm teased. I I don't believe that. So,
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>> no, I'm too I'm in your frequency right now. I get that. No, Sarah. But Sarah's
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special is disgusting and revolting and it's it's so fun and she's she's so uh
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>> she's so she's a singular voice and she's she's a lovely friend and uh
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>> when you're genuine, it's kind of sickening. I know. It's disgusting. Really? It
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sounds like I'm like trying to molest you or something when I'm being nice.
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Yeah. I'm like molesting with compliments. Yeah. >> You're like mullet stand is kind of
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boring a lot of the time. I don't know. You know when you Hey everybody. >> I hate it.
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>> God masturbated in front of my cat and the elbow's on the mic and and Sarah
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never is boring. She walks out and goes to this guy. You act like you don't have
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a butthole. >> That's like I'm like, "Okay, she's she's
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already got us. She's doing stuff that's very different. Very hard to find
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different. >> Well, I like that with she took the Seinfeld riff and she would press a
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button and do a little >> I didn't know you could do that. Like I thought Seinfeld go you can't have it.
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No. >> Oh, she doesn't get in trouble for doing that, right? >> Would you have to clear that, Adam?
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>> I I had to talk to Jerry and and uh Netanyahu. I had to talk to both of
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them. They're fine now. Did you hear my joke that I was saying that all my exes
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got a podcast now? It's called Didn't Come Downtown. >> Really? >> Don't Don't say that. I'm sure they were
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five. >> Yeah, I'm going to do the Seinfeld bass for the rest of the time we do the
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podcast. >> I saw a video recently of how they did it and it was a synthesizer. I thought
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my entire life was a slap base. Yeah. >> Don't Okay. Yeah, >> there's a YouTube video of the the
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composer >> doing the music. Yeah, it's all Yeah. And he's doing it live to the episode.
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>> No. >> Yeah. >> But it blew my mind. It was like I thought uh Yeah. I thought
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>> Dude, I'm so old. I was on the lot at uh CBS Radford when we were doing Just
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Shoot Me. Oh, a couple people remember. And also they were doing Seinfeld and uh
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I'd see him on his bike. It was the greatest lot. Of course, just filed for bankruptcy. a lot. Terrifying in LA. Uh,
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thanks Karen Bass. Thanks Gavin. Your friends. I'm kidding. Whoops. >> Who is that?
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>> I don't know. I'm just trying to put blame somewhere. >> The Hollywood industry is dying.
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>> He's on your show. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Tell him to be up [ __ ] Hollywood.
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Bring it back. >> Who's going I say this would this is a great idea. >> I'll text you some ideas because we'll
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get back in track. It's Gavin. Is that the guess is? >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Three next week. Three
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big ones. >> Yeah. The Hollywood studio system is dying. The amount of productions is
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dying and so they have to do something. So more production comes back and that starts with negotiating with the union
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>> and also subsidizing you know the industry tax breaks to compete with >> Romania. Boston, Atlanta, Romania,
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Bulgaria, Zanzibar. Could you like put it in an email or maybe a video? If you guys are saying it, you guys are
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legends. He might be like, "Oh, >> you should say we have a question from a
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couple of constituents." >> And then >> hi, I'm D. >> Listen, you already lost Schneider. You
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don't want to lose them. >> What? >> They're poisoning our water. No,
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>> you were saying his last joke isn't political. >> Oh, the the Korean Yeah, the Korean uh
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barbecue joke. I don't sounds like he's like I go to one of these Korean barbecues. He's
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like, "Would you believe it? They make you cook your own food." He's like, "I
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sure hate to go to one of them Korean whouses." Wait. Oh, why don't you come
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over here and suck your own dick? Why do you come over here and [ __ ] your own ass? Yeah. It's just It's so stupid.
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>> Let's bring up Adam. You ready for Adam? >> I love fake so great. They make you suck your dick.
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Well, no, they don't. >> He's like, it's kind of lazy. >> Lazy.
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>> Here's one of his jokes. We just saw him on uh his first Letterman. We were all
00:23:13
friends. >> Actually, Sandler, me, Jud, we were all friends right before we all got on doing
00:23:19
standup in the valley and [ __ ] And and Schneider was the first one to get Letterman.
00:23:25
>> We all loved [ __ ] Letterman, of course, and uh the show. And so, he got
00:23:29
it. And I was on TikTok the other day and it was so he had such a funny unique look. He looked like a little cowboy
00:23:35
shirt and he had a big pompador and he's like, >> "Did he do Elvis?
00:23:40
>> He did Elvis on a fish hook and he did a >> Elvis on a fish hook. That got him SNL I
00:23:45
think." >> Yeah. I think that was so weird. >> He did how you say dude when you're in
00:23:49
LA. There's different ways of saying it. He had one where he goes, "My parents
00:23:53
when I uh one time they spilled uh uh I spilled like No, no, he hit his knee on the coffee table and he was a
00:24:02
little kid and his mom would hit the coffee table and go, "Bad coffee table.
00:24:05
Bad." And uh and then he'd feel better because she goes, "We make it even here.
00:24:11
You were bad." And so he goes to bed and then his dad wakes him up at 2 in the
00:24:16
morning. Hey Rob, your mom just spilled some hot oil on the coffee table. Come on out here. We got to make it even. You
00:24:23
know our policy. >> So, >> was he the first like breakout of your of your crew?
00:24:29
>> Did I say it wrong? There's no laugh. >> Um >> uh uh >> I've worked with him in San Francisco. I
00:24:36
>> maybe >> No, I mean like when you guys were all like >> young guys. Yeah.
00:24:42
>> Spade and Schneider came as like a duo somehow. >> We got hired together. We were We
00:24:48
auditioned at the same time. got hired as writers. Adam, I think, was doing remote control, so I think he was sort
00:24:55
of known a little bit in that world of MTV, which is a big world back then. >> Yeah, he was on M MTV. He struggled.
00:25:02
>> I am poor boy. >> He struggled for I think it was like 13 weeks when he got to New York and then
00:25:09
he got a TV show. So, >> Sandler had a lot of stuff going on. >> Undeniable.
00:25:14
>> Yeah. Undeniable. No way. I knew Rob and uh well from San Francisco and then met Spade in LA. So
00:25:22
and Dennis Miller we both knew them >> and sort of >> helped a lot >> tacidly. How about these guys and then
00:25:29
you only had like 10 minutes right at the time David or 15? >> Yeah, probably 15. I was not a headliner
00:25:35
for shows. Maybe a middle. >> They came in as writer features basically, right? Yeah.
00:25:40
>> Yeah. >> Wasn't a writer either. Couldn't It was a >> We couldn't even get a writer. It could.
00:25:44
>> What did you do for your audition? Just stand up. >> You talk on me or Dana?
00:25:49
>> What? Yeah. What What did you guys do? Like I think I know. What did you do?
00:25:53
>> A I think did Characters. >> You did Characters, right? Probably.
00:25:56
>> Well, yeah. Yeah. Basically, chatting in between, but but I I was seen in a club,
00:26:02
which was lucky because I auditioned for SNL the Comedy Store and a cattle call and followed Sam Kenisonson with no MC
00:26:08
in between at midnight and bombed epically. and the SNL people were there but not Lauren. And then later on Lauren
00:26:15
was the show was coming around. So I went to a small club on the west side and Lauren came with Sher. And I got to
00:26:22
do 40 minutes of standup with a regular audience. But I still had to audition again. Um Jim Carrey was there too and
00:26:31
Phil Hartman at a studio and stand in front of maybe five cast members. Love it. Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, Lauren
00:26:38
Michaels, some assistants and do kind of chatty standup, you know, just character.
00:26:44
>> Did you get laughs? Like the thing is you get no laughs, right? That's
00:26:47
>> not in that one. Not with Lord and everybody. You just have to >> nerve-wracking.
00:26:52
>> Well, I done chop and I did something and then there was a fire alarm. So
00:26:58
there was 10 minutes of nothing >> and I'm just standing there and then
00:27:03
Lauren goes, "Uh, is that pretty much do you have anything else or is that just a
00:27:08
song? Is that all?" And I I thought later that his >> aloof coldness was trying to find out can you take live
00:27:19
TV and not blow it because the tension was I think intentionally he ratchets it up
00:27:24
>> to make you nervous and see if you can handle it. I said, "I I got a lot more,
00:27:29
bitch." And then he went, >> you're like, "I'm just waiting to see if
00:27:33
there's a real fire. Can we leave?" Sarah, actually, speaking of our friend
00:27:38
Sarah, >> Jesus, >> uh, in the middle of her uh, second show taping, the uh, the lights [ __ ] up and
00:27:47
she she was like she had a ton of momentum. The lights [ __ ] up and then she had to come back out cold and I it
00:27:53
was giving me heart palpitations like as a comic >> because it's like it's a it's a special
00:27:58
taping. >> Yeah. >> And I was like I was like nauseous. I like wanted to throw up. Then she had to
00:28:03
get the [ __ ] momentum back and I was like I was so stressed out or something. >> I said she's dressed as a goer or some
00:28:12
[ __ ] she's doing. >> She's dressed as some sort of clown psycho.
00:28:17
>> We on the road. I go, "This is a literally a clown's outfit." She goes,
00:28:21
"I know." I go, "Do you have any normal? Do you have a [ __ ] you know pencil
00:28:27
dress?" Pencil dress. He's one of those people who be like, "You take one day to
00:28:32
know her and 20 years to believe it." >> You know, cuz that's really that's
00:28:36
really her. Yeah. She's really she's not putting on a thing. I mean, >> on stage, that's not really her. She's
00:28:43
an annoying Jewish girl in real life. But on stage, >> but that's so her so her in the sense of
00:28:50
>> what she wants to do. It's it's so humor, you know. But anyway, that God
00:28:57
>> Wait, what? David, what did you what did you do? >> Oh, I just uh
00:29:01
>> not much. >> Just >> didn't really knock the RTOR scale. I
00:29:06
did supposed to be doing 20 I think Catcher Rising Star. It was a light crowd, probably half SNL, right? 10
00:29:13
people and then half 10 other people. And I did I did 12 minutes I think because it wasn't going that well. And
00:29:20
then um and then Schneider went >> SNL from a bad scent. >> Yeah. Well, they had seen me on the
00:29:26
Young Comedian special, so I was already foot in the door. And we had the extra push of being with Bernie Brilstein and
00:29:34
that that company had a lot of SNL people. >> Lauren Michaels was a client
00:29:38
>> and they got Dana Dana and a little bit and Dennis Push. So, that all helped.
00:29:44
And then Dennis was saying they're going to mostly look at your writing of the
00:29:47
jokes, not really if you're a polished road act. And so I think they just liked
00:29:53
that it was like sort of a weird act and I looked a little younger and >> you know they he said it normal like
00:29:59
that. He didn't say like that that was like Hannibal crossing the Alps cha. He
00:30:04
didn't say it like that way. He said >> no he did say before I went out he goes
00:30:07
>> he said it normal. >> He go I go I'm a little nervous tonight.
00:30:09
He goes >> well don't worry. He goes he goes you don't want to kill too hard. They're
00:30:13
going to think you're some polished road dog [ __ ] act. And I go so don't do well.
00:30:17
And they're like and you're on. I'm like, "Wait, don't get loud." I So I go
00:30:22
on and uh and then I got off and I was like, "Oh, [ __ ] it." And then Schneider
00:30:28
went on. Then Tom Kenny went on and then we got a call a couple days later on a pay phone, old man alert.
00:30:34
>> And then they were like walking by one. >> We were waiting for a call like in a
00:30:40
>> The Matrix. Yeah. >> And they go, "Oh, it was like someone from Burlstein saying Gerbitz or someone
00:30:46
saying, "Oh, that good news. They're going to hire you as feature player
00:30:48
writers." I'm like, I don't want to write. I just want to be a on this
00:30:52
[ __ ] show. And then they go, you got to write for everybody. Like Dana, everyone's better than us. I'm like, I
00:30:58
don't know how to write for these guys. I don't know how to write a sketch. So,
00:31:00
it took a long time, especially for me. Rob picked up a little quicker. Sandler picked up very quick.
00:31:05
>> And David would sit behind me in the read through. We're all reading the
00:31:08
scripts and there's like 50 >> die. And then Lauren would always say to
00:31:13
me just to just to mess with me, David's ready whenever you fall, David's right
00:31:20
there. >> Cuz David, you know, we kind of look like we're from the same tribe or he's
00:31:26
my little brother or whatever. So, it was a natural thing of like >> it was like being in the quarterback
00:31:30
room with like Brett Favre and you're like, "Hey, so you gonna stick around
00:31:34
another year?" And he's like, "I think I got one more in me." I'm like, "That's
00:31:38
great." And they got, you know, >> they're giving great massages here at
00:31:44
the Jets, so I got to stay around for another year. >> Remember his wiener?
00:31:50
>> Yeah, I remember. >> Yeah, I still talk to his wiener sometimes. >> No, I'm kidding. He sent his wiener
00:31:55
around. Remember this one time he sent it to some sports reporter >> or Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:00
>> Early dickpick drama. >> Uhhuh. >> Are you an artist? >> Not really.
00:32:06
>> Yeah. >> Oh, him. Oh, I I didn't do this, but I've No. >> Well, on a side, I put in Adam Freeland
00:32:12
and then it went to it said tour this and that and then it showed these really cool
00:32:20
paintings. >> He is not >> Oh, yeah. I'm not. No, during co I just
00:32:24
painted a little bit. Yeah. >> You have there's a painting of George W.
00:32:29
Bush getting the word about 911. >> Yeah, I think that was the best one I did.
00:32:34
>> You did do those two. You had a fire. And then you did the comedian >> my coat. Yeah.
00:32:39
>> And you did the comedian crying or whatever. Which uh >> which one was it?
00:32:45
>> Uh he hosts >> Oh, I did the Steve Harvey. Yeah, the Steve Harvey.
00:32:49
>> Okay. So I thought where where am I? This is a weird site. So okay. All
00:32:53
right. Hidden talents. Is that >> I don't even know that that's still up
00:32:57
on the internet. Yeah, too. But >> I did a I did a deep dive. >> I should get rid of that. Mhm.
00:33:04
>> Um, >> is Epstein still alive? 5 seconds. >> Go. >> Epste still alive. You have 5 seconds.
00:33:10
>> Well, if he's still alive, then he's he's quite rudely ghosting me.
00:33:17
>> Quite rudely. >> He's getting bad press lately. Have you noticed?
00:33:21
>> He's a, you know, it's just his anti-semitism has gone out of control.
00:33:26
>> You know what? If he's alive, he's going to need one of those crisis PR people. I think
00:33:32
>> he definitely will >> kind of digging out of a hole. >> As evil as possible. Yeah.
00:33:37
>> Anti-semitism is out there, man. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, I I did a
00:33:42
show and it was like the worst show of my life recently. >> Um but it was like Sorry. Um Richard Kai
00:33:50
did my my talk show and then he asked me to co-host a charity event. I I didn't
00:33:55
know what it meant. And then like 45 minutes before they were like it's a roast of Richard Kind hosted by the
00:34:02
roast master general himself, Mr. Jeff Ross. And I was like a ro I I did I didn't have a set. I like
00:34:10
I'm like I'm freaking out. So I fart out like a like some jokes and I get there
00:34:16
and it's just 97year-old billionaire Jewish grandparents. >> And I'm like what is this for? I like I
00:34:24
was like I don't know where I am. And uh and I was like I was told that Jeff Ross is
00:34:32
going to be the roast master. So I was like I wrote some nasty crap. >> Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:36
>> Real nasty blue crap. >> Yeah. >> And so like I go out and there I was
00:34:40
like I don't guys I don't know if I should say this. It was a little bit a
00:34:43
little bit crude. And they're like say that joke. And I was like uh well like
00:34:47
like a lot of like a lot of people like uh Richard Khan like changed his name when he moved to Hollywood like uh John
00:34:55
Stewart was once named John Lieowitz and Richard Khan was once named and I was like Zman the rapist and then it just
00:35:04
crushes the old people like love that joke and I was like I was like how is this possible? I was like I was like and
00:35:10
then I'm like you know but relax guys it's a family name. It's it was rape was
00:35:15
changed at Ellis Island >> and I was like in fact his grandfather Mosha rapist was the first rapist in
00:35:22
Hollywood. He he founded the creative artist agency and there have been rapists throughout the industry ever
00:35:27
since and then it dies when I say that it's a weird crowd. >> It went from a throwway to a theme.
00:35:36
>> You got a one shot. You're a one shot wonder. >> This crap I rode in on the subway. I was
00:35:40
like I I'm freaking out. I was like, I have to get through this. And so then
00:35:44
I'm like, you know, and then I was like, you know, I it's going fine. I'm like,
00:35:49
I'm surviving, right? And it's it's actually >> I'm happy. I'm happy with how it's
00:35:54
going. >> Yeah. >> I was like, I wrote I wrote a a movie for Richard uh recently. I pitched him.
00:36:00
It's called the the first Jew who died in the Holocaust. And I was like, it's
00:36:04
about a guy who's in line for the train to Awitz. and he was uh complaining about whe uh whether or not he could use
00:36:12
his points for business class and then >> good >> and yeah they liked it. They liked you
00:36:17
know all the all the other Jews like take him he's horrible. Uh, and so then
00:36:22
the last joke's there and then I was like, oh, I guess it's a roast. I got to
00:36:26
go around the deis. No, >> it's all I have left on the page, right? >> I'm like, well, Jeff Garland's here from
00:36:31
Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hey, you fat [ __ ] And haha, s you fat [ __ ] And then Jeff
00:36:36
Ross is here. Like, oh, don't don't give me I forgot what I said. We know I know
00:36:41
what you did. I had nothing. Right. And I look and I look at the crowd and I'm
00:36:46
like, and Jeff Epstein's here. Where the hell have you been? Dead. Like dead.
00:36:51
Like more just the worst silence I've ever heard in my entire life. And horrible. Like you know when a joke
00:36:57
bombs you hear a couple chuckles. It's like it's like the air has left the
00:37:01
room. >> Yeah. >> And I'm like standing there. It's the last thing I have to say.
00:37:04
>> And I'm like it's topical. It's like the news. I'm like it's not my What are
00:37:11
you talking about? >> It's the last thing on the page. It >> was it was just the last thing on the
00:37:17
page. And I'm like, and I'm like, and then uh Richard kind of like looks at
00:37:21
me. He's like, "Adam, I think it's cuz he's dead." >> And I'm like, "Oh, I didn't mean to. His
00:37:27
his body is barely cold. You know, I didn't I didn't mean to speak ill of the
00:37:31
noted sex trafficker and pedophile. That one's >> Jeffrey Epste. I love
00:37:35
>> And then my friend is in the crowd and this old guy turns to him. He's like,
00:37:39
"Hey, I knew Jeffrey Epstein." >> Oh. to me. I didn't even Oh, that wouldn't
00:37:46
>> I got off the stage and uh someone was like actually I think he was a major
00:37:50
donor to this organization. It's a charity that we're doing an event for
00:37:54
right now. >> Yeah. >> And I was like I didn't know it was a real guy. I thought it was like from the
00:37:58
news. >> When did they get on this guy? He's [ __ ] they they got some data now.
00:38:03
It's >> it's a guy from dinner. It wasn't it's just like it's a real person to them.
00:38:10
And so it was just I I literally I ran away. I I left. >> I like the idea of you on the subway
00:38:16
going there going, "Does anyone have rape jokes?" And everyone's trying to
00:38:19
help you. And so >> they liked like a romcom. >> Zman the rapist. They love
00:38:24
>> Yeah. You started with your closer and you >> Well, da da the rapist. That's a the
00:38:28
rhythm of a great joke. >> Well, it just sounds like someone from like a a small village in in the
00:38:35
>> Yeah, it's it's kind of quaint. You don't expect >> There's like one guy that's the the
00:38:38
Yeah. the fool. The village idiot. This guy's >> the rap like the hunchback. He's the
00:38:44
rapist. >> You know, the butcher, the rapist. >> Yeah. And the hunchback.
00:38:48
>> The local rapist. >> Yeah. Stand up big is is delicate. I've done those events. I Neil Young and
00:38:54
every the Stills and Nash were in the audience. Some kind of benefit in LA somewhere. And the same kind of thing
00:39:00
just crickets bombs away. >> Yeah. >> Neil Neil just sat there kind of
00:39:06
stonefaced. I mean, he just he was probably waiting to go on, you know, but yeah, Neil was cool, but it was just
00:39:12
that situation. You just triggered me and I know you can't see. >> He was busy searching for a Heart of
00:39:17
Gold. I've done so many so many uh corporate gigs where I bombed Dana. I don't I can't even imagine Dana bombing,
00:39:24
but I guess it happens. >> I have my tricks, but I I could, you know, I try to levitate the room. I have
00:39:30
a sickness when I was in the clubs in the early days. If you didn't kill, you
00:39:33
didn't move up and you didn't get rehired. So there was this like doggy dog must kill and must get a standing
00:39:39
ovation must or I'm dead in the water. So I've just carried that with me. So I
00:39:45
go to these corporate dates I still want to kill and it's kind of hard >> when they've had dinner and it's like
00:39:51
11:00. >> You know what's a good bit to do? Last night I was at the comedy store and I do
00:39:55
my set and I get off. It was either Harlon Williams or Santino was next and I I go I get my applause which is just
00:40:03
fine. And it's not crazy, but I get off and I see them about to walk on. I go,
00:40:07
"Ooh, um, Encore." And then I go right back behind the curtain. They think I'm
00:40:11
going to run back on stage and they're so pissed. They're like, "No, I
00:40:16
>> But of course, I was ask." >> Yeah, he is. Just >> the last time I s I saw him in like a
00:40:24
couple years ago and I'm like, he blew my mind. Harland is underrated because
00:40:28
>> one of the funniest he's one of the funniest comedian >> constantly kills there
00:40:32
>> and you don't hear that much about him. This isn't a negative thing. It's just
00:40:36
it's a positive thing. Meaning >> he gets good spots and there's a reason
00:40:40
he gets these good juicy spots. He does he does well. >> Was he the one who did this standup
00:40:45
special? There was somebody who did one just on a mountain by themselves with no
00:40:49
audience. Was that Harland? Somebody did that. >> Somebody did that during COVID. Didn't
00:40:53
they do a no audience? Yeah, the camera just came in and I thought it was Harley
00:40:57
was just in the alone in the desert on kind of a hill. >> That's why you need a hook for a
00:41:00
special. I would have to get laughs. That would be easier. >> Oh, Heather's all about the groins,
00:41:07
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00:41:13
>> But the truth is, if my wellness plan feels complicated, I blow it off. I
00:41:16
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yet? I'm sorry that I >> kind of I took the last year off the road uh to get the show up and running
00:42:53
and uh because like yeah, Nick Nick like Nick uh left the show to do we were sick
00:42:59
of podcasting and that's like how we were paying for the talk show. So, we both were like, "Let's just stop doing
00:43:05
the podcast." Uh, and then I kind of went dark for four months, hired a staff, and now I'm kind of producing
00:43:11
this talk show once a week, but now I'm back on the road. So, I'm in Philly this
00:43:16
weekend, and yeah. >> Have you had any confrontations on your podcast with big world leaders or
00:43:21
important people? >> Uh, big world leaders. >> Well, I didn't have a confrontation with
00:43:29
him. I got along with him really well. >> Yeah. >> Uh on the show I had this guy Richie
00:43:35
Torres. We had a thing that went sideways about politics. You know, it's just like you don't want to be
00:43:44
>> a major thing I I I want to resist doing is like people think comedians are smart
00:43:50
now. Like you know, like oh yeah, >> I don't want to speak from a position of
00:43:54
authority in any way that I don't qualify. Like I could do the homework and then present that I know these
00:44:00
things, but it's a lie, right? Instead, I could rather like talk to someone >> and ask them ask them questions that I
00:44:07
feel comfortable asking instead of like whenever I hear a comedian like spouting
00:44:11
off about [ __ ] that trying to be smart. It's like >> it's it's where you become a blowhard,
00:44:17
right? Like so I don't want to I don't want to do that. >> I call it becoming a teacher. Like I am
00:44:22
a standup, but I'm going to shut up. Yeah, talk about owner pills. >> Yeah, exactly. Norm had a really good
00:44:32
quote once that was like uh uh that was like they say comedians are modern day philosophers which is offensive to
00:44:39
modernday philosophers, you know, there are actual smart people in the world, you know,
00:44:45
>> and he happened to be like one of the smartest guys, you know, but it's just
00:44:48
like >> it's not really us. We shouldn't be like uh the the the thing is is like the
00:44:54
platforms are so big now like 10 times more people are listening to Rogan every day than watching CNN
00:45:01
>> anything. So >> yeah. >> So so there's like this uh you know
00:45:05
>> just by virtue of the fact that the platforms are so big that they're
00:45:08
getting a ton of attention. But >> for me personally in my show I I have to
00:45:13
make a concertive effort of like what I want to do which is like if so if I have
00:45:18
a politician I'm not going to study up on like specific legislation but instead
00:45:23
I could be like yo like you know no one likes the government and everyone hates you like why do you want to be in it?
00:45:30
>> Right. >> That's a question that's a question I feel comfortable asking and then you get
00:45:34
an interesting answer to it too that they're not they don't h they don't have
00:45:38
talking points. They're not ready for that one. Yeah. And do you do both sides
00:45:42
when you do interviews? >> What do you mean both sides? Like >> right, left to
00:45:47
>> Republican, Democrat. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've had uh that
00:45:50
guy Scott from CNN from the argument show. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's >> That guy's having so much fun on that
00:45:56
show. >> Oh, he is. >> Is he where he sits down and argues there? >> He's like, "Shut that." What is that
00:46:02
show? >> It's just a lot. >> Every time I see a clip, it's more
00:46:06
people. >> Well, it's kind of Yeah. It's like the United Nations review or something. They
00:46:11
get >> They're all agreeing with each other one after. It's a circular thing. Yeah.
00:46:16
Yeah. Yeah. And then they come to Scott. Oh, wait a minute. I mean, it's kind of
00:46:20
entertaining. >> Yeah. Scott's lucky because he gets half the lines, right?
00:46:26
>> One of him. He gets 50% of the time. >> He's cooking on that show. But I had him
00:46:30
on the show and then like, you know, and then I' I've had, you know, people on
00:46:34
the I don't want to be partisan also. Like I have my own opinions. >> I'm not going to be like of the left or
00:46:41
of the right. I'm just a person. And if someone says something that sounds like
00:46:45
[ __ ] if someone says something that sounds stupid, >> I think secular trends are a way to talk
00:46:54
about politics without being political. >> You know, way >> uh Okay, we for better for worse, we
00:47:00
have a $ 38 trillion debt. What's that about? you know, um, >> yeah, >> what are we going to do with homeless
00:47:08
people literally in the big cities? I mean, stuff that should be a problem for everybody. And then it's a matter of how
00:47:13
you want to solve them. >> Yeah. Sometimes you want to be like, what like what's the food like at the
00:47:18
cafeteria in Congress or like you want to be like, you know, like Yeah. >> You know, uh, how someone met Trump,
00:47:26
they're like, "Yeah, what were like the weird things that he showed you?" Right.
00:47:29
You know, sometimes you you kind of want to get like a threedimensional picture of who these guys are and you kind of
00:47:35
see how like normal or [ __ ] weird the people are that are in these positions. And I think like actually seeing people
00:47:43
for who they are is actually very helpful. So, if I'm like asking them about even just like, you know, their
00:47:50
backgrounds, like I had one politician on and I was like talking to his comm's
00:47:55
team and I was like, you know, does he like [ __ ] does he play guitar? I was like, I can't find anything. And they
00:48:01
were like, he likes walking around and uh and hot dogs. And I was like, he sounds like the BTK killer.
00:48:11
>> I was like, you guys have to make something up. everyone. Everyone's
00:48:14
>> got to get them a tattoo or a snake. I mean, it's this is walking around and
00:48:18
and hot dog expert. >> They don't know anything. They are nothing. And it's it's you give them
00:48:24
power. If you have a financial advisor, they use all these funny terms to kind of raisage you. They're just dudes in a
00:48:31
room. They, you know, they're take taken as [ __ ] [ __ ] these people. Yeah.
00:48:35
>> Never give experts power, you know, especially with modern day information,
00:48:42
>> you know. >> I don't know. I think they we just they need to do a good job probably. Doesn't
00:48:46
seem like they're doing a good good job. A lot of them. >> Have they ever? They're I don't know.
00:48:50
>> Yeah, I think they've done a good job a couple times. Maybe. >> Well, maybe we are doing a better job.
00:48:56
>> They passed like the Civil Rights Act. That was pretty good, I guess. >> Yeah.
00:48:59
>> Maybe this is the best it gets, you know, because people go, >> "No, no, it's very trashy. It's very
00:49:04
It's It's like they wear hoodies and stuff now. I We got to bring back the
00:49:09
Yale guys that do like satanic blood rituals." Like it was at least it was classic.
00:49:13
>> Did they ever really go away? >> At least it was classy. Yeah. >> Now you can you go on Facebook Live and
00:49:20
have a meltdown at CVS and be in Congress like six months later. >> Yeah, it's true.
00:49:24
>> It's a little white trash. It's like I just They used to have class.
00:49:29
>> They used to kill >> They kill the president. They'd kill the
00:49:34
brother. They'd kill But they had class. >> Yeah. >> All right. We're ending on that because
00:49:40
that's a good upper. We're trying to get you a >> Are you on your way to the airport?
00:49:46
>> Yeah. >> Oh, guys, I've been uh like a like a 10year-old so nervous and I hope you've
00:49:53
enjoyed it. But genuinely speaking, my legends. I mean, >> first of all, I don't take confidence
00:49:59
well. I didn't react earlier. I really really >> I want to suck your dick. When I if we
00:50:04
meet, I will go and just on my knees and just fate you in public, in private day.
00:50:12
Okay? >> You know, we always say we're not gonna do these things, but let's do it.
00:50:15
>> Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're going to do. On May 9th,
00:50:19
>> Netflix is a joke. You're at the Region Theater. >> Yeah. >> We're gonna get a ticket.
00:50:24
>> They sold the first one. Dave and I we're gonna be we're not gonna let you
00:50:28
know, but we're gonna be sitting in the back and right before you go on, they're
00:50:32
gonna go, "Spade and Carver are here. They want to see what you got." >> Yeah.
00:50:36
>> Some jokes might sound familiar >> from our act. >> My cho My chopping broccoli opener.
00:50:43
>> My chopping broccoli. >> You can have that. I love it when people
00:50:45
do. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But what's the other broccoli called? Broccolina.
00:50:51
>> Yeah. I have a big Joe Dirter that I've been doing. a Dicky Roberts chunk in full costume.
00:50:59
>> Formers. >> Yeah, thank you for coming. >> Can I ask you Can I ask you a sincere
00:51:04
question? >> Sure. >> Do you think Grown-Ups 2 is better than one? >> That's a whole another podcast. Um,
00:51:11
okay. >> I will tell you in person. >> Two is one of the funniest movies of all
00:51:16
time. >> You like two better? >> I like two better. I'm a two guy.
00:51:20
>> That That's a split. I have to say >> it's a split >> with black Sheep. It's 90% Tommy boy.
00:51:26
Grown-ups and grown-ups too. >> It's almost 50/50. >> We'll get into it.
00:51:32
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Episode Highlights

  • Comedian's Perspective on Politics
    A comedian reflects on the intersection of comedy and politics.
    “He’s a funny guy. is actually comedian, but he does a lot of some politics.”
    @ 00m 50s
    March 19, 2026
  • Jury Duty's New Season
    The new season of Jury Duty takes a unique twist with a corporate retreat setting.
    “It’s a workplace comedy meets hidden camera and uh it’s unpredictable.”
    @ 14m 24s
    March 19, 2026
  • Women Taking Over Comedy
    Women like Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman have transformed the comedy landscape.
    “Women are fabulous and so funny.”
    @ 18m 33s
    March 19, 2026
  • The Decline of Hollywood
    The Hollywood studio system is facing a crisis as productions dwindle.
    “The Hollywood industry is dying.”
    @ 21m 24s
    March 19, 2026
  • Unexpected Roast Success
    A comedian finds unexpected success with a crude joke at a roast.
    “I was like, how is this possible?”
    @ 35m 08s
    March 19, 2026
  • The Last Joke
    A comedian's final joke bombs spectacularly, leading to an awkward moment.
    “It's like the air has left the room.”
    @ 36m 59s
    March 19, 2026
  • Unexpected Confrontation
    A comedian learns a shocking truth about a joke related to Jeffrey Epstein.
    “I didn't know it was a real guy. I thought it was like from the news.”
    @ 37m 57s
    March 19, 2026
  • Comedy Under Pressure
    Navigating the challenges of performing in front of a tough crowd.
    “If you didn't kill, you didn't move up and you didn't get rehired.”
    @ 39m 31s
    March 19, 2026
  • A Sincere Question
    A light-hearted debate about the merits of Grown-Ups 2 versus the original.
    “Two is one of the funniest movies of all time.”
    @ 51m 16s
    March 19, 2026

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  • The Hollywood industry is dying.
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  • I don’t know where I am.
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  • I'm happy. I'm happy with how it's going.
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  • Oh, I didn't mean to. His body is barely cold.
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  • Comedian's Anecdote00:12
  • Podcast Guest Introduction00:46
  • Talk Show Nostalgia07:39
  • Women in Comedy17:40
  • Roast Disaster34:02
  • One Shot35:36
  • Awkward Silence36:59
  • Sincere Question51:04

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