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I think Dana you're familiar with Anthony Michael Hall of course grew up with him I was sort of very similar to
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him in twerp and skinniness and nerdiness and so I really related to these movies were around the same age so growing up watching 16 Candles of course all the
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hits he had breakfast club and just they were just pumping out he has lots science yeah a lot of stuff to talk about big big career and he was on a s
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Live cast member at the age of 17 youngest ever in 1985 with Robert Downey Jr and Randy Quaid met Madonna So we we
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go over that with our friend yeah I think people I think Eddie Murphy's the youngest but it is Anthony Michael Hall
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youngest and he also loves Eddie Murphy he grew up watching those comedy specials like uh like we did so lots
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talk about SNL uh I was with Chevy Chase on vacation another monster hit um and he's got trigger warning coming out on Netflix uh which is an action comedy I mean just an action movie with Jessica
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Alba who we like who we should come on here I don't know why is I don't even know if she's hosted but I like her
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that'd be great but uh season three of Reacher he's Rich he's all over that play playing the heavy for season three
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I believe that's Amazon Prime or Amazon and so we get into Stanley kubri he talked to on the phone we getting a lot of cool stuff he was almost was in Full Metal Jack he's worked
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with uh everybody he's he's part of the brat pack he doesn't make a fuss about it but that there's that famous ERA with
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the med everyone's sort of resistant about being in the I guess it just sounds negative or
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something well you were called The Bad Boys W are you say oh yeah the bad boys of SNL and that's like it just S I get
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why they think it sounds dumb I don't know why but I remember seeing a best of the bad boys and why are they the bad Bo
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I don't know why we all came in together and we were all idiots and uh yeah I did
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I I don't mind that but it's not quite as big as the brat pack there's the Rat Pack which people know is uh what is
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that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Joey Bishop yeah and then that's how they came up with the brat pack right
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yeah and then they used to call the The Rat Pack they used to call them the six-pack because they drank so much oh
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and then they called that rapper two pack yeah okay because he would get two beers only yeah
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he only had two beers I guess all right well here's Anthony also I had I have a 12 pack but it's it's not drinking it's
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but anyway Anthony Michael Hall is a hell of a nice guy it was first time I ever got to talk to him and um and now
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all the all the all the hot actors have the [ __ ] posy anyway we're GNA cut to this I'll come back and explain that with all the at the end I was do I do
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Dennis Miller a few times because it makes made Anthony laugh so much that at the end I I go I said love you babe so
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you'll hear me say love you babe to Anthony Michael and it's so weird um okay wait till wait for it yeah Anthony Michael [Music]
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Hall Anthony yeah where are you Tony we're better now we got we got you on this is awesome man great to be with you both man I'm big
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fans gez Louise I've been studying your your career it's pretty extraordinary yeah godamn come get come get some oh no you know that one oh my
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God honest to God guys I'm a huge fan of both of you it's an honor to be let me just do one so people have never heard
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of I'm red red this this a redneck comedian I'm red redneck the redneck comedian I made my sister only cuz Mama
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turn me down come my get s Jesus oh man where's SNL We need it we got to get that character on SNL [ __ ] get that thing going that's got legs yeah
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man Anthony Michael Hall what has not he done uh let's let's start it right now and then go back yeah third season of Reacher which I love that show and that guy is jacked he's Jacker and and he's
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an awesome actor so you're playing the villain or the whatever in that third season so that's pretty cool that's 202
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24 25 now let's go back to 19 15 uh you became a superstar at 12 what took you so long what took you so long
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how many years you I was counting my pubes coming to some I was I was B I was I uh yeah what was the question uh I'm sorry guys I we
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have no questions we have no questions we only have answers we know at 13 you broke out with na National Lampoon Vacation so right you you you
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worked with Chevy Chase and you survived it that's a joke Chevy well do you do you audition for that is it a cattle call are you already doing stuff or what is I did yeah no I
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remember I auditioned for the late great Harold ramus and Matty Simmons oh what a stud yeah man and it was a great
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experience so next thing you know we're on the road man and that crew we actually started the project in La we
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shot that scene where we pick up the car with the great Eugene Levy and then we hit the road man and then the whole crew
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we went we flew to Colorado and then we worked our way back we kind of saw half the country together then we went to
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Arizona and then wound up in LA but uh yeah great project that got it all started for me as a kid uh and John
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Hughes had actually written that guys and I didn't meet him on that project I didn't meet him until I did 16 candles but just incredible working with him
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Eugene Levy and the great John Candy I mean so many people I just looked up to man it was a great experience holy [ __ ]
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that movie is a classic I mean it for sure it kind of tilted comedy those comedies of the 80s you know there's what how do you describe them they're just fun just fun thank you man no it
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was great to be a part of it you know it really was John Candy was great I loved him I'm sure you guys worked with him
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right did you work with I never saw John Candy in real life did you Dana I didn't I I just loved him from afar I thought I
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loved CV I I thought his his uh it's kind of a cliche but his paos his empathy that sh it was just pretty stout I mean what was the sorry early onset the one with Steve
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Martin those AR automobile his his speech at the end when they're saying goodbye Steve Martin told us just a here a few months ago it was kind of the greatest acting he'd ever witnessed I
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think he said it was really a lot longer too yeah w yeah that's the hard film isn't it it's
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about friendship and how they just really Embrace each other those aren't those aren't
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pillows those AR pillows Steve Martin but uh but he was he was such a joy to be around man he really was Uncle Buck you know he was a great guy do you guys remember onv back
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in the day they would do the shangi brothers he and Eugene Levy yeah the shangy brothers Josh and stangy you know
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so I remember him joking with yeah he would joke with me he said Mike you're the uh you're an honorary shangi I'm
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gonna call you L shangi very nice L what a blast of a huge star you're you're 13 you've got John who John Hughes who developed this great uh film
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history thing together and then you're with all these Superstars and you're 13 and they're funny and they're chubby was
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probably a blast though because he was a superstar he was man he was a lot of fun
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I mean a different mindset different you know he's very sarcastic and snarky but that's Chevy
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man you gotta just adapt and he's a ball buster yeah ball he came on here and busted our balls for hour and a half oh
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he loves saying what you're not supposed to say what you're not supposed to say he has to say and sometimes it gets him
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in trouble but once you know that is his sense of humor saying what out loud what you're not supposed to say it gets
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funnier and funnier but yeah he busted our balls pretty good I tell you that man we he came broke them balls yeah I
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had a great time with him on community I did Community about I don't know if that's 10 years ago oh you did you're the one that had the great time with
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them we can sidebar those stories no absolutely I had a great I really did I mean I know he got I guess he rended to
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some issues on that show I gota be careful here well listen we had fun with him I mean I think it's just I I'm sure
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there's people that you know I rub wrong or Dana rubs you know it's just the way of life and acting and stress and all
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the [ __ ] you do and different things but I don't know he cracks me up he'll always be a guy on SNL and and uh
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vacation all that stuff so he's already uh he's already okay for me he said to us toward the end like like and it was just we were laughing at this point at everything he said he goes well I had
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like a way way bigger career than you guys right and we're we're like yeah of course you did and then he's completely a a puppy dog you know right never get
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defensive with him always say yes you know just take the beating right I'm with you cuz he tou to throw you off
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balance but that is just his way it's his way of measuring it's like a box measuring punches yeah yeah so vacation
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is super that's not holiday Ro is that that one no oh my God that's a song and then
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they kids which kind of became part of the running joke oh yeah when did you go into that uh machine that switched you
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into a different kid well ironic yeah ironically what happened because I started working with John I did the trilogy of films I did 16 candles with
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John so I went to Chicago and then we went right into Breakfast Club and Weird Science after that so in a period of two years i' had done three films John it
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was amazing weird and who was the what was it Kelly Brock who was it it was Kelly Le Brock let's look at the poster
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K Le Brock yeah she was lovely and you guys incredibly perfect nerds you know just I don't know I come on Chad come on how did just just right before you I
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know you did a few things and then you do this like um it is a little Sante to be that good that natural natural that loose in a movie it's not normal so what
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did you just weren't nervous because it just was happening or how were you so good so young first of all let me enjoy that
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compliment from Dana Carvey that was very so it in come come and get some but it's absolutely it's from the heart
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probably you know what he probably doesn't even know it he's just good and it's just like why is everyone making a fuss over this I'm just doing what I'm
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supposed to do guys honestly I love and look up to you both man I I was just a goofy kid man you know in my when I was
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growing up I was listening to Van Halen and the police and it but I would love I loved George Carlin and prior they were
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my heroes I listen to those all the albums then later I studied and learned about Lenny I guess I just had an
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appetite for comedy I've never done standup but I just loved Comics so really like Carlin and pry Were Heroes
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of mine and I guess I just I was one of those kids it's like the beginning of that old classic Eddie Murphy concert
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movie raw when he was performing for his family I was that kid man I do funerals and weddings I get up there and imitate
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my uncles and aunts and so you were just you you kind of dead panned it where you you were just
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playing very real you weren't like TR swinging for the fences and that was part of how good it was you were just
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like really this kid and I guess it was based kind of on John hughes's life but I'm sure you're not trying to emulate that because you don't know what that is but just to be like a go you kind of look goofy you're saying goofy things
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but you're doing it all straight and uh trying to get these hot chicks it's all funny maybe you've had this later at
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various times but you can have a director wasn't David um who might resent you a little bit um is busting your balls maybe kind of uh pressuring
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the actor a little bit so it seems like with John Hughes I'm just assuming he just made you feel really good let you be playful or what was the working you're right you're right on The Mark
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with that Dana he really was he was great I mean look he was so talented as a writer director there was always funny stuff on the page for everybody I'm sure
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it's like that when you worked with Adam who I love David um the scripts are always funny so we would always kind of do two or three
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takes for John and then he would just be like yeah whip it out like do something else try something else so what he did for
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me he did for all of us come he was really just he was very lucid that way very open to suggestions and I think that was one of his great talents too man he had a a gift
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obviously as a writ or director but he was also really cool and he would allow things to happen and I think that sort of empathy and that sort of
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understanding of letting things develop was part of his genius too I really do did he not over he didn't overshoot then like I had a director one like so many angles like you're actually exhausted
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you don't even you come in at 8: a and you get they get to your money shot by at six o'clock that night was he more
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fast out moving Masters two shots I know the lingo yeah you do sir yeah no he was
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he moved quickly he did he didn't over I mean until we did something like The Breakfast Club which was kind of like filming a play um but yeah to your point
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Dan he was he ConEd yeah contained right yeah Breakfast Club was contained now sometimes I've been on sets with people where they go just go crazy and do whatever you want this is the last one
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because mostly I'm doing just comedy and some people with different backgrounds are very good but you're going to get the same performance on every take and they don't know when they say do
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whatever you want they go no this is the way it's supposed to be done and they don't take advantage of that and I I
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wonder like on Breakfast Club you're you're a kid first of all like the fact that you could even improv is kind of
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shocking and then I guess everyone was loose enough to go with whatever right and it's also what Dana said too DAV you're right on with that he was just cool like that he had an empathy like he
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he considered all of our performances and roles of collaboration so we would often sidebar with him and talk throughout the process and the other
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thing he did which was really cool he always sat right next to the camera like if you see any old documentaries on felini or any of these great directors
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be right there and John was like that man you know when we were doing the when we pour our hearts out at the end and we're all sitting in a circle he would
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literally be next to the lens just like the first you know like the camera pull the focus you know he was always right
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there in the mix with us so you know it had a lot to do with just I think he saw all as a work in progress and kept it
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very fluid that way which was cool yeah well whatever recapture it was magic because there's a looseness and a
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sweetness to that those John Hughes movies of the 80s the guy is so talented I I'm just going to ask you quickly about well Molly ring wal was incredibly likable and natural in that movie and
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amelo Estes Jud Nelson as the badass of must must have been fun for him Ali Ali shii and I know there's more Rat Pack I don't want to dive into this
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yet but there the those were your co-stars in that movie um you got a anything that'll Trend it's for us yeah no listen I saw them recently we did a a signing I do these you know uh
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Comic-Con signings I've been doing them for years they're a lot of fun so I travel country and we did one recently in Pittsburgh and and it was a little
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bit of a reunion so I saw Ally I saw Molly uh and I saw how fun you do them together that's even better it was cool
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man it was really fun freak out yeah yeah and John I mean Jud has so much Bender in him he's such a he's a super
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intelligent guy really funny but very kind of manic too he's always got great stories and he's a lot of fun so we all
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actually got together for dinner except for Ally uh because Allie's in bed early every night so she she didn't join us
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but Molly her husband and I and Jud and some friends got together Ally has dandruff in her
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hair is that still there you know so when you sign up to join the brat pack is it a lot of paperwork is it um by the way are you in the documentary that's
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either out or coming out about the brat pack no no I've met Andrew at a bunch of
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you know these signings and and in uh in work situations he's a great guy yeah I just chose not to you know I I like to
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look forward you know that's my thing but L I heard was cool and he's a nice guy he's carved out a really cool career for himself he directs a lot of TV and
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he's a writer and obviously was he in any with you I can't even remember no I didn't do any with him the the the core
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group went on to do St Elmos but I wasn't at the time oh right St Elmer's fud and who who who is in the bra pack
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can we name him who is the who I know who's officially who's I thinko Robo yeah I'll give them
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that okay I'll give those they earn their stripes yeah they were all than I so I was I was still in high school get
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out of school Chad Chad come on Chad no I don't was B how funny no he was a bad guy yeah love Bill Paxton loved him [ __ ] weird
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Weird Science doesn't it does get enough credit I hate when people say about my movies you know what one I actually
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liked it's like shut the [ __ ] up it's good um you know Weird Science was great Kelly Le Brock was Unreal every kid
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loved it every kid was a nerd like me at my school were're like exactly right up
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our alley we're around the same age I just go this is great always had cool music all those pretty and pink I still
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hear those songs on the radio it's just reminds me of all that all good mems uh and then you get now you're still a little twerp and then you get on SNL
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well but but before that let's just say before that Dana had one thing the you um turn down oh yeah the turnning down the balls of this guy FIS bu's day off
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and pretty and pink and um you just were a confident young man um do you have any
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regrets or that you I mean no do you know what it was guys at that point and this is something I expressed to John I
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had done those films and I think that I just wanted to try something different man I just wanted to move forward I was yeah you were you were a Wy veteran at
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at 16 it was time to move on no I get it like they're all kind of not the same but it's a version no I got it Vision yeah well you bet you're betting on your
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talent you're just saying no this is not all I do and you so you never really got stuck in that and then you and then you
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got matured you grew up and you know okay so you turn those down and and John Hughes was heartbroken or how was your was it or is he mellow he understood he's like a I think he I think he might
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have been yeah I think he was hurt by that and and I'm so sorry for that that's the only regret that I have because actually after he had passed
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away years later I got a call from Joel Silver who had actually produced the film with us um for us and he a great
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guy too Joel's still active um and he had mentioned that to me he thought that maybe um that John obviously was hurt by
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that and and I feel really bad for that but on the upside the good news is that the last time I actually spoke to John
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guys I think it was 1988 or 89 John called me with John Candy on the phone and we just kind of shot hung out for a
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couple hours and that was pretty great man so you know I love I like that Joel Silver takes time out of his day to say
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I know he just passed away but he was kind of mad about one thing yeah yeah you're like that's cool thank you just
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so I'm we were kind of tagging up on on the on the timing of his death and you know it was it was a nice call but yeah
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it was I I just need to know were you gonna beat the Matthew broadrick character or the sidekick uh for Ferris
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yeah he wrote the the broadrick character for me and then I felt like with the pretty and pink role that John CER did and those guys are great man
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gota wish anybody success but um I I just feel like I had done that it was it seemed the same Paradigm as 16 Kel the
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same kind of story you know so but that being said we had a great time in you know and I think hopefully it shows
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camera well when you're with a mean John Hughes kind of his record was kind of like 100% right I don't even know if he I mean all the movies are great so when you're with a writer director and you
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already did three Classics so I I kind of see where maybe it was a smart thing in a way to do that yeah it's like
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saying it's just you're not going to get as much credit if it works because the are already Stamped Out that you're
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really good at them and then you go but if I try like something like even SNL or uh something else different that's so
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out of left field that you go let's see what I can do here probably will you walk us through then so you're this movie star you're doing this I guess you're 17 and you have your
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people agents or managers you're huddling you're thinking and then how do you get on Saturday Night Live at 17
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beat Eddie Murphy by two years yeah yeah Eddie was a heroon and I was literally in my mother's apartment two years
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before watching him every weekend I love it uh I just got a call after I had done those films I got a call from Lauren's
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office and I it was just a direct offer and to be honest guys I accepted and then I remember walking around the city
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for a month or two before we started I was basically [ __ ] my pants because I couldn't believe I committed to it
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because it just meant so much to me growing up I really did in the 70s as a little kid I would ask my mother to blade and I would watch the show and I
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just loved everybody from the original cast all the way up through Eddie and Joe Piscopo and those days and you know
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truthfully 85 86 season was one of the worst if not maybe the in 50 years of the show but with that said it was your fault we are number one well you guys
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know when you guys broke out you were huge stars on SNL but you know the doing of the show is such a thrill so even if
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you don't have a great breakout character or a sketch just the visceral feel of it it's like rock and roll
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theater stand up you know so it's incredible incredible experience and I you get all the stress but not all the
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notoriety you get all the hard part of SNL you just don't get like the blow and but there there must have been good
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sketches that year you have Robert Downey was it Terry Sweeney you have you have a lot of people that are talented
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so you're going to stumble into a winner now and then I just think people blanketly say that was a bad year you
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know and that's a tough thing to have yeah it was I mean and also at the end of the year there was a sketch uh where
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I think all the cast was set of Blaze and the only I watched that live going what is going on so were saved were John Lovitz who I've seen on your
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show he's hilarious with you guys I love litz uh and I think nor done and everybody else was just like ah don't
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worry about it we'll let him burn so weird did you know ahead of time that you were gonna go into this ritual fire
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that meant that you were being not coming back I I kind of didn't but I also o had a unique deal that Lauren was
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kind enough to help facilitate I was doing a movie in the same year called out of bounds which was my first you
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know step in a New Direction as a as a young actor okay and so I didn't do a whole season even though I brought Downey to Lauren and Lauren and Downey
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did the whole season I did I think 13 of 18 or oh okay oh you didn't even you can't even take the whole beting of that here you go I'll come back for the fire and that's it right right right exactly
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but it was abbreviated season but nonetheless as you guys know man it's just a I mean the doing of the was incredible it's hard to put words to it
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you know but also people don't understand how much of work is involved I mean it's a six day a week job man you're working your ass off it's gross
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oh and you're going live in in 36 hours it's it it shouldn't exist it's ridiculous it's it's that's why no one else does it was LoveIt because that was
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John's who's a good friend of of us uh breakout year that's the liar was the sort of Catchphrase killer year what what what was it like I remember I remember being at drill Stein gray on
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Broadway guys I don't know if Lauren H remember that and I remember love it's coming in
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and he did the liar and it just killed he was people loved it and I've heard you guys talk when you had him on the show about his booming voice like he he
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had that whole thing down I guess it was from the Groundlings working Master thesbian and and the liar he came in
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with those two yeah yeah yes jealous yeah jealous jealous jealous yeah exactly I'm a star now is Downey when you're on there with him are you buddies or you just meet him there we had met
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doing Weird Science David and uh oh that's right weird he was in there yeah man oh that's
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right yeah and so I I was a you know we had become good friends and we actually wrote a script together along with his father great Downey Senior um was around
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that time um and then yeah I mean it came up that I got the show and I spoke to Robert and I was able to help him with his ition and then Lauren loved him you know and we again it was at brilin gray you know over there does have Star
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Quality um so did he have a good time you guys all I mean was it fun doing it it just didn't work out or was it just all like you knew [ __ ] this is an uphill battle I I think it was all the above
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David it was fun it was an uphill battle I mean it's a very competitive atmosphere as you guys know with writers
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and but the whole process of doing the show was amazing man you know you come in on a Monday as you guys know and remember all the sketches had to be
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delivered by Wednesday and then you're rehearsing Around the Clock man from Thursday on so just you got to be all in
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man even if even if things aren't hitting with the audience and you really won't know until it's live anyway so it's hard to did you how did the
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competitive thing come to you just you know that read through I mean it is competitive but it's also camaraderie
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it's both but yeah I think maybe I felt it Dana just because I was such a young kid and and you know how it is I think
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comedians can be I think both things there's a very kind of fraternal brotherly aspect to comics with each other buts they be kind of cutthroat
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especially when somebody's on stage and the other Comics are at the bar heckling them or whatever yeah I know we're all
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little wounded children inside somewhere and and if there's a shiny object you're
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like sort of shot yeah we're mangled beat up hey okay uh so uh what would what I'm trying to guess what Dennis Miller's nickname he would never call you he there yeah
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okay him so well I feel like with him again when I hear you doing I got a couple ni you know come on hey Ant Man
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what are you doing this week you got got something pithy at update you and the dowy cat will get up there and kind of
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Proclaim put your wares out for the American public to consume okay Sparky that's it read through you got nothing right right oh no he was like that he
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the running commentary and always like you know in a golfer's tone right like he just whisper it to you yeah I like
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the the show he's like spudley sawu o out of bullets already hey it's the attack of the three Nam cast members Anthony Michael Hall
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and Robert Downey Jr anybody thinking about dropping that middle one and having a gonna hire Maria Kito
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Alonzo you remind me of Vinnie lick niik you know the short stop for the Dodgers
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in circuit 1957 how do I remind you of that I don't know a pissy what about that you beat
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out Jim Carrey in 16 Candles is that true Jim Carrey that little twerp I know everybody's to you Spade huh what's going on how was he he must have been about 11 so you beat him out for 16 and
00:27:43
I beat him out for way after the fact I've always loved Jim I love his work Bo he's a genius on many levels he is he is he is no I didn't know about at the time but I actually used to see Jim at Laker
00:27:54
games when Dr bus was still with us and uh I love Jim carrot I didn't know about that at the time but I guess I guess he
00:28:00
was in the running yeah he auditioned for SNL when I was there too I auditioned for In Living Color and guess
00:28:06
who beat me out Jim Carrey I have a funny story for you guys how Damon Willams got fired from SNL and
00:28:13
D forgive me for this but it was really funny Griffin Dunn who you guys had on recently I right yeah great great guy
00:28:19
worked with him on this movie War Machine with Brad Pit not to throw drop names around there but oh here's one um
00:28:25
sure brle so basically the sketch was a Miami Vice sketch and it was 85 86 so it was like that that time when Miami Vice they were on the cover of Time Magazine the whole thing
00:28:37
so Damon was gonna be playing was it Crockett or tubs I can't remember and Griffin was playing the Don Johnson role
00:28:43
but I had a running joke with Damon which was he was a a supporting player at the time right he was hadn't made it
00:28:49
into the cast so every time I would see Damon in the hallway I would go February because that was the time for sweeps and then Lauren would make decisions and
00:28:54
maybe he would be up to be you know brought into the cast would be February ironic joke but anyway he came on live
00:29:00
and did this sketch it was a obviously a Miami Vice setup but he wed up doing it
00:29:06
like the character he did on Living Color like very gay andin hey hey yeah right right exactly but he didn't tell
00:29:12
Lauren or anybody else so he promptly yeah he just did it live and I think it threw everybody off I don't know if Griffin was pissed off but I think Lauren was so anyway that led to uh to his firing but then again he W up
00:29:24
on Living Color so Damon's great I love where were you where were you standing when that happened were you in ad
00:29:31
watching the sketch live and going holy [ __ ] yeah yeah I think I was probably like in the hallway there guys that we
00:29:36
often film where they would shoot stuff the funny thing is I know you're a cast member but another funny part is back
00:29:43
then even when I was there you if your friends or anybody come they can go stand three feet from Kurt Cain and
00:29:50
watch and just stare because no one there's no security really anywhere everyone just walks around and Phil
00:29:56
Hartman's running through and he can't get to his quick change and people are spilling their red cffs you're like
00:30:02
everyone should they shouldn't be right here you shouldn't be part of the show they're literally like one foot away from the sketch very odd I think they've
00:30:09
probably cleaned that up did you have some moments that like because I remember Neil Young I'll just give my one he was playing something acoustic
00:30:17
and I wandered around and I was like five feet from him and it like that's Neil Young and I was it's just kind of mind-blowing did you have some of those with music guests or with guest guest
00:30:28
host I don't you know well the first the first the season opener was Madonna that was a trip because Madonna was you know
00:30:35
top of the world then she was gorgeous so I was kind of freaked out by working with Madonna she was incredible had
00:30:40
great energy and Charisma um but musically yeah like when Parliament George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic
00:30:45
played that D there were so many moments to your mind blown you're like what the hell am I a part of you know it was really incredible yeah Dane I did a
00:30:52
movie with George Clinton just FYI it's not Brad Pit but who haven't you were worked with David um I think I've hit up most of sag at this
00:31:04
point and and pieces of Afra right on we had um um Roy orbinson was on my first season wow and he's the Roy orbinson but you know people forget and stuff and he
00:31:20
comes out he seems like an angel if he looked like Elvis he would have been the biggest person yeah and I remember at
00:31:26
the party Lauren going uh the thing about tonight's show is Roy orberson you know you just you tend to forget and then you see it and you remember I love it I go did you just
00:31:38
think of that Lauren no your Lauren is impeccable I mean he's he's incredible man I learned
00:31:44
so much watching Lauren it was incredible I remember he took us to a Yankee game me and Downey and and when he was with Nicholson so we went with
00:31:51
with Lauren Nicholson okay let's hear this story Lauren not a big story but it was just like he took us to a Yankee
00:31:56
game like we're going I can't do Lauren but you know we're picking up Jack and then I'll get you and Downey and then
00:32:02
anyway we went up to the Bronx that's good yeah I think Jack just I learned from you didn't I think he shook about
00:32:07
500 hands on the way to to our seats but it was pretty great just having moments like that I had one can I tell mine is
00:32:14
10 seconds so I go and it's Chevy and Lauren and I and then this is 86 so I'm all blown away over the whole thing and then Chevy goes hey you want to meet Mike Tyson because Mike Tyson was sitting way down uh toward the field and
00:32:31
you want you want to come with me and meet Mike Tyson so we're wandering through the crowd and it's Chevy Peak
00:32:36
Chevy oh my God chy chy i' never been on I hadn't been on TV at that point so we
00:32:41
met Tyson yeah you guys are great I love the if you want to go to the park later we could do the Thea I like
00:32:49
Thea P me swing it's all a word if you can if you can say seesaw as Mike Tyson you have him you're 8 there right right so wait did you have a crush like
00:33:03
I did on Beverly D'Angelo and still do oh yeah that I was on Rich hson Show the other day and I told that story I I was
00:33:09
basically I got caught by mty Simmons well I got caught when they were doing the psycho spoof scene where Chevy comes to the shower and's waving a banana at
00:33:16
her and of course a 14year old me snuck on this set and I was watching because she went topless there even though it was a close said so my dumbass was
00:33:23
busted by mattye Simmons who was also there the producer but yeah so Beverly was great she was a lot of fun she still is she's a fun lady she's what Starlet did you lose your virginity yeah yeah go
00:33:36
ahead just give me the first five you don't have to answer that I'm just thinking teenage hormones movie star
00:33:44
Kell you know how it is I don't want to no you don't have to say anything but let just suffice to say you were getting
00:33:50
really really famous as a horny teenager and we don't even know what happened to that but like Mickey Rooney told me a
00:33:58
long time ago money makes you handsomer this is true yeah no no we won't we won't go into it but let's suffice to say that um you you did you did just fine how about Spade though I
00:34:10
heard he has a bevy of ladies knocking I will tell you that the the uh dating um
00:34:17
spiked up a little bit when I got some Fame and it really was flatlining until then it literally zero so I do think
00:34:25
that there's a little extra special sawu when you have something because girls like whatever anyway um
00:34:33
well you learn a lot about human nature not just girls but human nature cuz I was on a sitcom in 1981 in New York with
00:34:40
Mickey Rooney and Nathan Lane and they played me as the Teen Idol because I had a baby face so I got 600 letters that
00:34:48
year from teenage girls shows cancelled next year I checked the mailbox nothing nothing oh wow a good lesson in Show Show Business can be a beating as we
00:34:59
discussed earlier yeah Anthony before I get to trigger warning I want to ask you that when you were on SNL and you might not remember that year but you it says
00:35:08
here it says here a general now this will be wrong because anything we look up on someone is wrong but uh you now you will have to be assigned Impressions
00:35:19
on SNL right were they easy for you were they hard did you do anyone you have anyone left in the tank you know what we
00:35:25
did a sketch with Madonna that first episode and I think the joke was all of her supposed famous lovers kept walking
00:35:32
in on her so I came in as Robert Kennedy I think and Downey was I think Downey was either elv I don't know who Downey
00:35:38
was playing anyway it was pretty funny so I did my best uh my my best candidate uh it was sounded more like jonath Kenny
00:35:44
but I think I was playing Robert but you know oh was it Bobby or was it little Bobby I think maybe yeah maybe Downey was playing JFK and I was Bobby and then somebody I think Randy came in his Elvis
00:35:58
at the end and the idea is we kept interrupting you know their their personal time well I would have done
00:36:05
that I would have done just a big Kennedy accent rather than specifically trying to do yeah yeah yeah just just
00:36:11
make it so it's an easy thing I can I I know that sound well so it's easy can we hear a little more because I was
00:36:17
thinking about some of space JFK was ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your
00:36:23
country I mean I'm in the presence of a master here I can't really not all all it's all words the best one to do John F
00:36:30
Kennedy is ending with hard we don't do it because it's easy we do it because it's
00:36:35
hard yeah and you can't you can't abstract it enough hard hard yeah so Randy Quaid was there but was Randy Quaid in vacation with you is that am I crazy he was he was Cousin Eddie
00:36:46
remember we go see so that's the same one okay good yeah great yeah so you're and you guys get along on SNL or is it just sort of whatever whatever and then you go oh [ __ ] I saw Randy recently oh
00:36:59
wait you were in the movie first oh my God how stupid am right right right well I saw Randy recently but around the time
00:37:05
we did SNL I remember him walking up to me one day and he was like I think you really should learn your lines and I was thinking like we got a whole team of crew card people what the [ __ ] he tells
00:37:12
you to learn your lines learn your lines I remember they changed the line at 10:45 I'm like don't we have a team of
00:37:19
people with sharpies underneath the 11:28 they changed the line they changed during update before your next sketch
00:37:25
they're like they're running to the set with you going oh okay you're green on the cards but also The Middle's
00:37:30
different and the ending is a little tighter and I'm like oh is it on there okay three two they're like go
00:37:37
yeah terrifying how how is how is Randy Quay because the Last Detail is one of my favorite movies that he did with Jack Nicholson this ain't no hores [ __ ] you
00:37:49
know I mean it's just an incredible check he's a great actor no I was happy to see him I saw him last year and we
00:37:54
caught up and he's doing great man does he do Comic Con and stuff like that you see him out there he does man he does oh
00:38:00
that's good those things are lucrative I I know a lot of people do them they are and they're fun too man they're F meet
00:38:05
everybody they have a ton of [ __ ] they they they've collected over the years yeah yeah man that's [ __ ] do you guys
00:38:11
actually come out on stage like say the The Rat Pack or whatever your era those big movies and they go crazy right you come out they're introduced and The Crowd Goes Crazy depending on the size
00:38:22
of the show that those things are usually worked into it yeah they have little panels and panel discussions with band so that's you know that's fun you
00:38:28
know so you can go solo or and just do it like a booth or you can do more together I think I was talking to Britney Daniel about doing Joe Dirt with her because it's if you have any more of
00:38:41
one movie or show it help you it just you know more people come up so right on yeah but there some are pretty organized
00:38:47
and if and if they're good and they and they're well organized they're probably fun for everybody they are man you said
00:38:53
it so I've done some I mean it's a trip suddenly I have these I have a bunch of movies that are 40 years old or this or that so we've done a bunch of them in
00:38:59
recently reunions Like A Reunion yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but you're right we do both we do them I do them solo and then I do the reunion stuff when it comes up to yeah why
00:39:13
not who's the person of of this era that we're talking about and all these actors you work with that just made you laugh
00:39:20
the most or that you had a connection with in terms of what's funny or even when you do these reunions usually
00:39:25
there's somebody who has a attitude that make would make you laugh I don't know well a couple guys I mentioned Jeff's
00:39:31
hilarious I mean he's fun he's doing well his he is good you know he's doing Jud is a lot of fun Jud is a really funny guy Downey you know he doesn't do the shows but he's a lot of fun to work
00:39:41
with I mean he's always been great he doesn't need the money now right the bastard [ __ ] if I had his money you mean
00:39:48
the guy from Oppenheimer yeah exactly yeah no but he's a great guy to his credit Robert
00:39:54
has always been true blue man he's a great guy you know heard some documentary I watched it said something
00:39:59
great about money and guy said in this documentary said money is like Miracle Grow if you're a good guy it'll make you a nicer guy if you're an [ __ ] make
00:40:05
you a bigger [ __ ] true it sounds really true I'm gonna use that so there's a couple interesting things because I'm um and you can speak to them any way you want like obviously I'm a
00:40:17
kubric fanatic like a lot of people and the Beatles but you know kubric is kubri
00:40:23
I I get why Kanye West said hey man I'm kubri because that's the ultimate artist
00:40:28
so you were going to be in full metal jacket right and then somehow it didn't work out is that a a hard memory to come up with or is it just sort of an interesting no I think it's an
00:40:39
interesting you know C of did you meet him did you meet Stanley kuri I didn't what happened was I was shooting Weird
00:40:44
Science at the time this is 84 and I was at yeah Weird Science um and I got a call from my man my agent at the time a guy named Marty Bower who's since he's since deceased he was a great guy and he
00:40:56
said Stanley cu is doing a Vietnam epic and he's interested in you playing one of the platoon members and then I got a call two days later from Marty saying he
00:41:03
wants you for the lead and he's going to call you tomorrow so that was like mic drop phone drop holy [ __ ] yeah so then
00:41:09
I'm up at 7 am the next day I was staying at the Sheridan Premiere at the top of next to Universal City there yeah
00:41:14
and I pick up the phone and the phone rings and I was just scared shitless but he had a very approachable very kind of
00:41:20
warm friendly voice and he immediately you know he paid me a great compliment you know he had said he had seen me in
00:41:25
16 Candles he had screened it three times I was just like in awe and he said that that that was his favorite actor he
00:41:30
had seen since Jack and easy riter so that's you're right now that's when I kind of sharded on myself a little bit
00:41:37
uh so I was just amazed and it was interesting he started talking about you know his favorite directors um
00:41:44
eisenstein the Russian director chaplain he it was a really interesting discussion you know wow and ultimately
00:41:50
what unfolded guys was it was like a 10-month negotiation and and we just couldn't come to terms so it was a
00:41:55
really wow difficult challenging thing you know ultimately it did not work out and then I W up running into Matthew
00:42:01
Modine two years later who played the lead so-called lead right he played the lead the character of The Joker and I
00:42:07
asked him I said how long did you guys shoot full metal jacket for he goes 54 weeks I was like what 54 week shoot so
00:42:14
was methodical to say the least man he would shoot a picture for that long man it's amazing I talked to a guy who
00:42:20
worked on eyes wide shut and he said that he kubric and the cinematographer worked on where a coffee cup might near a lamp for two hours so there's the
00:42:30
genius has his thing I'm just I just have to ask because I'm curious months and months of
00:42:36
negotiation so you were probably at that point from your agent's point of view very pricey and they just wouldn't come
00:42:43
to the price or was it scheduling yeah a Time on set yeah it was a it was both it
00:42:48
was all three of those things did you mention I mean it was it was you know it was the actual terms of the agreement it
00:42:54
was the the length of the negotiation and like you said the time on set and yeah it was a difficult choice to make
00:43:00
guys it really was but to this day like we had said at the outset I mean I love cubic I still think about him and I love
00:43:06
his movies and I rewatch them and sure just incredible just even have that that exchange with him was a real good well
00:43:12
he probably couldn't give you a heart out and then I'm guessing and then you think it's such an honor but you're like
00:43:18
[ __ ] I I could be there forever and I'm going to miss out two other movies because this isn't a 3mon or a 10 week
00:43:25
deal this is like forever and ever yeah said it D it was also the thing of like what he was willing to pay me was like
00:43:32
it was representable what I would earn for a year come and make the same money I hate to make it about that it wasn't just about that but that was an element I got it I mean if you read about and I was just watching it the
00:43:43
other night Apocalypse Now cute an adorable film really cute but uh a lot of fun that was that was difficult for Martin she yeah I know Brando is just just
00:43:57
Brando my God and Martin Sheen was so amazing in that film but I think it took him two years or something I don't know they went they went back he had a heart attack they shut down so yeah maybe it
00:44:10
was just not the the moment for that Anthony my uh Apocalypse Now was Emperor's New
00:44:16
Groove uh it was a Disney movie and uh that one anim that one that went home for three years but they also I didn't get paid much and that was the same thing I was like uh and they were like
00:44:28
well it's an honor to do it for Walt Disney and I was like oh and then I think I see Mike Myers a year later he's like oh I'm getting x amount of Millions for Shrek I go oh we've tweaked a little
00:44:40
bit so now you do get paid so you're allowed to get paid for animation and I go oh I'm the last guy that did it on
00:44:47
the cheap because it was such an honor right even though I love the movie I hate well you've had a great career man
00:44:53
you always keep showing up and that's what I was getting at thank you T selling out all over the country no
00:45:00
kidding Dana I have a question for you about Mike and your time because I love the whole period sure when when did it
00:45:06
become known that Mike was doing a a a friendly imitation of Lauren as Dr Evil was that kind of planned or was that a that something that just happened I had I had not seen him in a a couple of
00:45:17
years and I wasn't in the that movie we just you know I kind of at 93 so then Austin Powers came out in 97 and it was like a brilliant adaption of the Lauren
00:45:29
Michael character to make him make him a villain so right playing way world but I
00:45:34
just always thought it was so funny that he wanted up choosing you know kind of when you see those movies now it's clearly he's doing Lauren like you do
00:45:40
them guys more people know Lauren now and I think more people can put it together yeah but if you're with someone
00:45:46
every day like that you usually make fun of people you know around you you're based on your family your friends so
00:45:52
seeing day and you know people who if you if you break the code which I think I did it sounds self- congratulatory but I at least Dennis and and Lovitz had
00:46:04
never heard it I no one was running around in 85 doing it as far as I knew so then I broke the code with him in the
00:46:10
office going um on Wednesday night picking the sketches um I still have no [ __ ] First Act and that led me into it and then within 18 months or a couple
00:46:21
years all humans on the 17th Floor had a version of that and then the different hooks that Lauren would do all that so but Mike putting it in chis Walkin a lot
00:46:33
of people do Chris Walkin yeah were you in dead zone was Christopher Walkin in the movie dead
00:46:39
zone am I just thinking of that he was yeah he was he was that was the original David croner I want to work up to that
00:46:46
but I just have a couple things I want you just to touch on if you don't mind um please because I I love Tim Burton so
00:46:53
you were in Edward Scissor Hands and you played a villain and you work with Tim Burton any thoughts about Tim Burton was
00:47:01
that that was a Tim Burton yeah no he was incredible man I first of all he looks like he always reminded me of the
00:47:06
remember that band in the80s the Cure the hair and he was a very kind of quiet you know um low-key guy but again when
00:47:12
he comes to work he just Springs to life he was a really interesting guy um I think he's incredible man like I you
00:47:19
look at the work he's done his films are just artistic and they have that you know he's a master I think um so Scissor
00:47:25
Hands is actually kind of funny because you know he grew up in Burbank he was a student of Animation uh and you look at that film
00:47:32
you know Vincent Price was his favorite actor story-wise it's somewhere to me between like Romeo and Juliet and
00:47:37
Pinocchio I mean it's just imagination Pinocchio I could see for sure with John joh Johnny Depp doing his first quirky
00:47:45
Johnny Depp yeah yeah exactly and that was their first collaboration so I was pumped that was back in 1990 I remember
00:47:50
taking a meeting with Tim and I think he just found it kind of funny and odd that I had such a growth spurt that suddenly I looked like some you know crazy
00:47:57
villain to him and I and I kind of dwarfed Johnny at the time he was a smaller guy so you know he put me in the movie and next thing you know we're in
00:48:03
Tampa sweating our asses off and we Shot sciss Hands fun so did you ever say hey slow down Depp I'm Anthony Michael Hall
00:48:10
heard of me no no never any of that [ __ ] no no no no no I can't any of that [ __ ]
00:48:16
none of that [ __ ] okay we're this one also I thought was interesting 93 you went and did did he disappear did he
00:48:23
leave Tony hello you hung up on us couldn't even get the trigger warning he's had enough he's had enough of you he's fun Biden's doing a press
00:48:37
conference oh is there a press conference let me see Dan I'll turn on the TV zinski and Biden yeah we give
00:48:44
them we'll give them missiles just enough so they can keep the war going but not enough so they can ever
00:48:50
win that's funny he there we go I'm sorry my apologies not at all you're not the first you're not the worst you're the greatest I don't why that didn't rhyme we were just uh Biden's having a
00:49:02
press conference with zilinsky right now so oh interesting yeah and the quote from Biden was
00:49:09
people so um I thought it was well said good night yeah we talked about trigger warning we went over the whole thing so we don't have to talk about that again I'm kidding trigger no Mike for the for
00:49:22
the folks at home he he accidentally unplugged his computer but yeah he's back um he said I've I've had just about enough and then we didn't see him
00:49:34
anymore no this is can you guys hear me technical issue I can hear you now yeah so I found this interesting you know
00:49:41
because I no one keeps track of everybody all the work they're doing but you're in Six Degrees of Separation with
00:49:47
kind of Will Smith's big breakout dramatic role and you play his gay lover and then there in the script well why don't you take it from there and then tell us about denzo Washington calling
00:49:58
him oh yeah that was kind of funny so I I remember auditioning for that and I I read for another role and and then Fred
00:50:05
skepi he was a character he looked like Gerard deard do was very funny Australian guy had a great sense of
00:50:10
humor he said try this other part you know and then I came back and auditioned for that role and I play this kind of sangali this guy who who leads Will's
00:50:18
character to the upper echelons of the Upper East Side New Yorker yeah I saw you know great so that was that yeah and
00:50:24
then I remember when we did that scene where kissing I mean we didn't actually kiss in the scene it was just a little camera leaning fake thing and but I
00:50:31
remember seeing will on Oprah and he made quite a to-do of it how he called Denzel and uh yeah and it kind of led to
00:50:38
the an Oprah story which I thought was pretty funny but anyway and Denzel kind of right that was Denzel said it's not a
00:50:44
good look to kiss a man for your career this is the early 90s on camera I think that's what Denzel yeah yeah I mean I
00:50:52
just think you know I I forget what what Denzel's quote was but listen it was a great experience it was a fun project to
00:50:58
be a part of and I think I got some Oscar nominations so oh no it was it was big and and Will Smith was great in that
00:51:03
I mean yeah man really fun and then you do uh you you directed for the first time not the last time in '94 you did
00:51:10
hail Caesar for Showtime yeah so that you taken all the expertise you'd learned at the at the heels of uh a lot of great directors so right and you've done a fun with that and I got Sam
00:51:22
Jackson and that and Downey showed up and it's a fun movie it was Goofy but it was fun you shoot it was a quick one we
00:51:27
shot it in about five weeks yeah I nominate Samuel Jackson as the greatest movie American movie star of the last 30 years cuz when you add up all he's done and
00:51:39
theny he's in the every all the Tarantino [Music] films so one thing that was really cool and you got a lot of kudos for playing
00:51:50
Bill Gates and Pirates of Silicon Valley we're just marching along here did you try affect a character in that at all or was just just played kind of yourself but did you play smart you know what on
00:52:03
that one I I I was they they hired a great coach from me this guy named Steve Bridgewater who had work with pit and Depp and some other people and we worked
00:52:09
on The Voice and he did the funniest thing one of the first sessions we have he pulled out a legal pad he said we're
00:52:15
going to set some goals here he goes the first thing he asked me goes do you want people to see you or Gates I said Gates said like you know and the second thing
00:52:21
I said uh what's your next goal I said love the film to be nominated for Emmy I'm just like pulling it out of my ass I didn't know just like all right so It
00:52:28
ultimately was nominated but the funny thing he did is he pulls out a tampon he'd gotten from his wife he starts cutting it up in front of me and he
00:52:35
pulls out a little piece of the cotton which is like a giant Q-tip he goes stick this up your nose and see if this helps to get you get to that kind of C
00:52:41
the Frog voice oh wow actually scenes in Pirates of Silicon Valley years later where I
00:52:47
actually had a piece of a tampon up my nose very nice so uh had a fun project it was interesting it was about the Battle for software at the time and Noah Wy from ER you guys will remember he
00:52:58
played Steve he really looked like Steve Jobs too oh yeah he did project man it was a lot of fun damn and then and then
00:53:05
you star for five years The Dead Zone yeah science fiction um just I never thought I'd have a show you know it was a lot of fun it's a great role it cracked me up though
00:53:17
because I never had a day off I was you know even when I'm in a vision I'm watching everybody so I kind of was there all the time but it was a great
00:53:23
experience man you know was it really pushed me as an actor it's funny five years goes by quick suddenly you're like
00:53:28
are we gonna get cancelled are we doing this and suddenly five years lat you're like I'm still doing this right right you've had that exper you've had a lot
00:53:35
of his show takes you off off guard and it's a happy surprise they don't know if they're picking it up and then suddenly
00:53:40
keep going keep going keep going that's great right yeah now you got trigger warning with Jesse is it Jesse Alba in
00:53:47
that Jesse Alba Jessica Alba Netflix she serious she kicks ass in the film man she great yeah I'm looking at it right
00:53:52
now I'm looking at the uh not the trailer but they're just showing stuff on it [ __ ] this comes out June 21 June
00:54:00
21st starts streaming on Netflix yeah man I love the fact the actors and actresses who become Moguls you know they start companies like her gwenneth
00:54:13
paltro yeah it's very interesting acclaimed have great careers but just go into business and fall in love with it
00:54:20
so she's uh kudos to her man I didn't think agree you're here yeah no definitely and her co-produced the film she's really on top of her game she knows her stuff she had a real background with action so she's done a
00:54:31
lot of the Robert Rodriguez films dark dark angel dark angel yeah so she knows her stuff she's kind of a ball buster
00:54:38
too I mean I see her out sometimes she's pretty funny yeah yeah we shot in Santa Fe which was fun
00:54:45
never been to New Mexico before it was pretty cool near yeah I'm from Arizona yeah very
00:54:50
similar Montana no applause Montana Always Wins because it's only 700,000 people it's the size of Texas I mean there's no one up there because of the winter where do
00:55:02
you live now Dana with your family are you up north northern cal um Central California but I I I have a place in
00:55:08
Northern California um grew up there in the Bay Area so yeah where are you right now Anthony Michael yeah where do you think you are you I live here in La yeah at the beach
00:55:22
oh yeah man I'm kind of curious so you know Reacher comes out um have you already filmed it I'm assuming yeah we
00:55:28
just wrapped season three of Reacher I was in Toronto for six months it's funny it's a season that took a year I just had my first kid last year I have a new
00:55:34
son Michael congratulations thank you sir Michael yeah he was born when we started and um and then the strike happened so this season went up taking a year but it was a lot of fun great action great crew and uh look it's a
00:55:48
juggernaut of a show it's a big I'm having fun with it man it was cool did you were did you throw punches in those
00:55:55
episodes where you a villain what's your what's kind of your Vibe no I don't I have some action stuff but I have a bunch of like I'm I'm kind of a a mobster in this film in this season and
00:56:06
uh I have I have henchman I have there's this guy Nam Alber rers who's like seven foot two he's a giant and he kind of
00:56:12
takes on uh he takes on Reacher for me so I got guys doing my work yeah well S I mean that's are there other is that
00:56:19
what kind of role besides that that sounds like a blast to have henchmen and be a bad yeah yeah well it's based on
00:56:25
one of the books that LE child Road in the rra series I guess there have been like 28 of these books and it's a character called Zachary Beck and on the
00:56:31
surface he's a wholesale rug dealer but there's a lot there's a lot more at play here I can't give it away I don't want
00:56:36
to piss off Amazon but no not all I'm in the whole season man and it was a lot of fun to shoot we just wrapped it they're
00:56:42
actually shooting until next month but I just finished a few weeks ago wow so what would be your dream dream rooll if
00:56:48
you were trying to go for an I mean is there anything you haven't played do you want to do you want to put Prosthetics
00:56:53
on and do I think that'd be fun I mean seeing what Downey did in the sympathizer that was great I told him he
00:56:58
did some great work in that it reminded me of like Peter Sellers and being there I mean in uh in strange love the kind of stuff he was doing but sympath so that
00:57:05
would be fun um I'd love to get behind the camera too and direct some comedies you know I'd love to work with Sandler
00:57:10
if Spade could put in a word for us yeah let me talk to I'll put Adam here all our podcasts
00:57:17
at one point but yeah Sandler is a he's a master of his domain at he's incredible he Incredible movies yeah and
00:57:23
what a sense of uh decency the fact that he's been so loyal to all you guys that came up together it's really really
00:57:28
fantastic man uh yeah he's sen he's sentimental about us he really is I mean I think the the the camaraderie of spree decor whatever you want to call it going
00:57:39
through the Sausage Factory of ADH and that and yeah if you're nice to people on the way up they love you
00:57:47
forever yeah when you're nice to someone when they're nobody yeah um I try to be
00:57:53
nice to nobody's isn't that nice of me you're not self- congratulator the king of all snark David Spade I do if there's Paparazzi around I'm always nicer buddy yeah okay kid yeah cuz Dennis would be
00:58:07
snarky but it was so funny though okay Spud listen I have a thing for Dennis he helped me out a lot and he was my
00:58:13
favorite comic so right he he really call you spudley spudley yeah spoodle yeah he he calls me Carvey it never never has called me Dana okay KY what's
00:58:23
up today all right you got you got a little funny character you're working on some kind of altered vision of yourself some kind of loc sold my house got a
00:58:35
couple beans in my jeans yeah yeah well but let's but we'll let you go but just want to re- remind everyone of obviously you've done a lot you're very nice and you're very nice to
00:58:47
everyone that's worked with you you're very cool about that great reputation yeah it's very cool um brother Tri
00:58:52
trigger warning does look cool and uh that's is coming up uh on the 21st and it looks like there's some action you got your your Jessica Alba and Anthony Michael Hall looks like a lot of fun and
00:59:03
maybe some uh fighting looks like she's on the Rampage in this oh she's kicking everyone's ass in this movie I love it yeah well I'm looking forward to it buddy I like these kind of movies um
00:59:15
appreciate it man listen it's an honor to be with you guys I really I'm a big fan I watch and listen weekly so it's
00:59:21
great to be with you guys man thank you for I'll just leave you with this you came and got s yeah get
00:59:27
S you came you got s you came and got s and we got s right on all right buddy we'll talk to you soon meet you all right guys thank you so much man love you Bab appreciate byebye this has been
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