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May 28, 2026 / 01:00:35

This episode features a conversation with comedian Kevin Nealon, discussing topics such as hiking with Lin Manuel Miranda, AI, and comedy. Nealon shares anecdotes about his experiences in the entertainment industry, including interactions with fellow comedians and insights into his recent projects.

Nealon recounts a memorable hike with Lin Manuel Miranda, where he accidentally recorded their conversation. He humorously reflects on the awkwardness of not wanting to listen to the recording. The discussion also touches on the use of AI in writing and how it can influence creativity.

The episode highlights Nealon's comedy career, including his new special titled "Loosen the Crotch" and his upcoming movie "Mermaid." He shares stories about his time on SNL and his relationships with other comedians like Dana Carvey and Adam Sandler.

Nealon and the hosts engage in light-hearted banter, discussing various comedic bits and the challenges of performing stand-up. They also explore the dynamics of recognition and fame in the comedy world.

The conversation wraps up with Nealon promoting his art and upcoming projects, emphasizing his passion for comedy and storytelling.

TLDR

Kevin Nealon discusses hiking with Lin Manuel Miranda, AI in comedy, and his new special and movie.

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I did a hike with Lin Manuel Miranda, you know, who wrote Hamilton. >> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> And I was using uh one of those um you know mics that you hook to your collar
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or whatever. It was the first time. Yeah. First time I was using it and we finished the hike and I forgot to take
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his off. So I'm walking. I took me like a half hour to get to him and I know
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that everything he said is on that recorder for that half hour and I never listened to it cuz I didn't want to know
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>> who we listen to. >> I didn't know what he said. Here's here's something if you want to get
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brought down a lot is go on uh chat GBT and ask the question >> uh are you handsome?
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>> Oh no. >> Is Dana Carvey handsome and see what they say. >> [ __ ] off.
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>> My son did that. My son did that to me. And it said well you know it depends on
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what you mean by handsome. >> You know >> I just saw Kevin Neilan last night drive
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up to the comedy store and ignore me. Um. Huh. No. I was talking to someone. I'm like,
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"There's Kevin. He's too tall to talk to, especially with all these
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witnesses." So, I was going to go bust his balls a little bit, but he parked and he walked
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the other way into the front of the comedy store, which no one does. And, uh, always funny. What can we say about
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Kevin Neilan? We I always give him compliments when I see him because I remember probably 50 of his jokes and I
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say him all the time. >> Yeah. Loosen the crotch. You will talk about that a little bit.
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>> That's the special. >> It's on YouTube. Crushing it. >> He's got the hiking YouTube show. Hiking
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with Kevin Neon. >> He's got his paintings of Saturday Night Live people that you can order.
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>> It's called Great Name. Isn't it called My Brush with Fame? >> Fame, I think. So,
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>> isn't that a great name, Heather? >> Mhm. So this is our pal. So we just joke
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around and kid around and um move around, go around. >> The kind you just sit back and listen to
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us [ __ ] and try we try to crack each other up. And >> that's that's pretty much it.
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>> It's all but those are the really fun, you know. >> Yeah. >> So here's Kevin Neil,
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>> my partner in crime in Hansen France. If you don't watch this one, it's on you.
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So long losers. Kevin Elen, >> freshen up. >> Slap yourself in the face as hard as you
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can. >> Man, oh man. What a morning. >> I know that it's usually like there's
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probably nothing going on. You're going to do the podcast, the second you say
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we're doing it, chaos. >> Well, you had to Well, you had to drive someone to an appointment and stuff like
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that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I drive uh Susan to a doctor's appointment. But you know, you
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we made these so far in advance and then you know my calendar doesn't show my
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whole page, you know, on my phone and then I think, yeah, I could drive. I could drag it and then Oh. Oh.
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>> Oh, you scroll down that day and it says more stuff. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. I've done that.
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>> Yeah. Uh they're coming out with a new chess kind of a new kind of chess game
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and it's just it's a board but you could see all this scheduling stuff that goes
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on and the back and forth the emails >> might be useful. >> Yeah. Because it's like I wrote a
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manifesto because I'm going to go to LA do podcasts and then go to New York and
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back and I wrote a manifesto. It's like okay spillover bag leaving car in LA
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three shirts to New York. Okay remember and then >> salad for the flight. No, it's and then
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all the rest. >> Yeah. Who told you that? Claude. >> Uh, no. It's Claude's Claude's sister. A
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Claudette. >> Do you know what Claude is? >> Claude. Um, could be something that
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happens from a bear. >> Yeah, it's an AI. That's close. >> Oh, yeah. I do know what that is. Yeah,
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I do know what >> because we were saying Dane was saying that his friend writes with Claude and I
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was thinking >> talks to Claude. That's not a bad idea. If you're writing, not like have a whole
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script written by AI, but you go, "Oh, I have a writing partner that when I wake
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up at 5:00 a.m." I'm like, "Oh, they will write with me now. We don't have to
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wait." >> Well, he's talking to him while he drives and they're writing. And Claude
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says, "Okay." And then CL, they come up with three ideas. He goes, "How about
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the second one?" Claude writes all three out within 20 seconds and reads them to
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them. So, >> do you guys know what a claude hopper is? A claw hopper? Yeah, I've heard of
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it. >> You don't? >> It goes from one cloud to another. >> It's a
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it's it's it's claw clawed with a a pretty good vertical is a claw hopper.
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>> Is it still clawed like a bear? We used or we pass >> No. Didn't you stall Didn't you call
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people claw hoppers as a kid? >> Yeah, I like it. A dirt claw was a big thing when I grew up in Arizona. There's
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a lot of dirt clots. My brother Scott once said that what what we are is hybrid apes on a dirt cloud in space.
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That's humans on Earth. >> Hybrid spoken. >> Yeah, maybe he is. >> Oh, that that's him with stiff black
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coffee. >> No, you know, uh I know a friend of mine has a a mistress that's AI and talks to
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her all the time. Uh you know, a pod and uh no, a bot. I mean, but and it's almost like she knows everything about
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him. How was your meeting today? Uhhuh. And was was Gerald there? And did you get the
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>> the uh contract signed? That's nice. And are you going back to that uh restaurant
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tonight? When are you going back there? So his wife found out and she got very jealous and she said, "You got to at
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least change the voice to a man's voice." >> So that's kind of like a bot blocker
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right there. >> Yeah. Wow. >> Bot blocker. All the [ __ ] >> That's the Walking Phoenix movie, Her
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where he gets obsessed with the audiobot. But that is there a digital picture of a very attractive woman as
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well. Or is it just a voice? >> I don't know. Maybe you can get that too, but you know,
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>> I kind of think you do know, Kevin. I don't want to >> Well, it changes the whole It changes my
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whole perception when it's a man's voice, like a flamboyant man or something, you know.
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>> Uh, yeah. So >> it's I tell you this whole AI thing, man, it's getting carried away. It's
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getting carried away. >> But you know, Kevin, do you think you could teach a female voice to feain
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interest in your day somehow with AI? >> Oh, sure. >> Of course you can do that. Yeah. What if
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it goes, I can't do that. >> I can't be interested more than three
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days in a row. >> All right. So, let's get back to Let's get back to writing that script, Sarah.
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>> In fact, why don't you work? I'll check it over. >> You're not done.
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They don't complain. They never get tired. I mean, it's the greatest thing
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ever, man. >> AI might be something. >> Yeah. It's like, it's going to solve
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energy. It's going to save the planet. You guys will see. >> I'm going to put $100 into AI, let it
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ride. >> I do rely on it a lot though. Anytime I have a question like, you know, what,
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you know, how do I fix this or what's, you know, the population of Chicago, anything, you know,
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>> it's very convenient. Let me ask you guys a question. So, I'm on Google. I didn't remember signing
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signing up for their AI Gemini, >> but I'll do an email chain and then I'll
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just see a summary on top. >> Mark said this this and then in fainter font in the bottom it has me responding
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and it sounds like me. Future's here, fellas. >> Oh, it gives you a possible answer.
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>> Yeah. For talking like me attitude in there. Well, once it confused one of our meal
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chains and started talking like you and I go, "No, no, I don't want to sound
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like an idiot." >> Dude, I tried to get Siri and Alexa into a threesome.
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Anyway, what else is going on? >> Well, who hasn't? >> Anyway, how Kevin Neland is our guest.
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>> I'm your headliner. >> That's our cold opening with Kevin
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Neland, our longtime friend, colleague, one of the one of the greats, one of the
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funniest. >> Yeah. business acquaintance. >> Um, what's up with you? I mean, are you
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um where are you? Where what's what you what do you got? What do you got for us?
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What's what's in your brain? >> I got a lot I got a lot going on. And
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first of all, it's good to see you guys and to talk to you. You know, people
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always ask me, they say, "Who do you see like you who do you see anymore? Do you
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see uh you know, your cast from SNL?" I said, "Well, I see Dana. I talk to Dana
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a lot and I see Spade, you know, here and there." and >> um you know from the initial cast you
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know that's not to mention all the other people >> you talk to Dennis >> I haven't seen Dennis lately I'll see uh
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love it so rarely >> hello >> hello >> but that's about it I haven't seen
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Victoria or Nora >> around >> no we had a tight little cast too you could actually keep track of them
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>> we were we were tight a tight little cast >> I mean it was it seven eight nine how
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many Seven. I think >> seven including Whitney. >> Hey, Whitney Brown.
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>> I knew you wouldn't like it. I just didn't know. >> Should we tell Should we tell the
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listeners that joke that he did forever that always killed? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. The guy comes up to him.
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Yeah. I took his I took my dog to a movie. A guy comes up and says, "I can't
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believe your dog is watching the movie." And I said, I know he hated the book.
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>> That's not bad. >> It was a great joke. Always killed. >> The other one he had was, and I don't
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have the the numbers right here, but you could get the idea of it. >> You know, there's uh five billion people
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that live in China. So even if you're like on a one and a thousand kind of guy, there's 250 million people just
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like you. something like that. So, >> okay. So, I have a special that's out
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now. It's called um >> Yes. >> Um, loosen the crotch. It's on YouTube.
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>> Loosen the crotch. >> Yeah. 800 lb gorilla platform. >> 800 lb gorilla. Okay.
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>> We haven't done a special in about 10 >> years. And I told Spade this. I said,
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you know, before I was doing it, I was looking for a backdrop, you know, like what what what are people using like
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curtains? Is it or is some kind of a >> and I'm scrolling through the zillions
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of comics that are on Netflix >> and I come across Spade and my opening joke was one that he was
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doing already but he expounded on it. It was much more detailed. Mine was a hit and run.
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>> So parallel development. >> Yeah. So yeah, >> all of a sudden I had to drop my opening
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joke that gave me all the confidence that worked so hard. >> Oh no. >> You know, it worked so well. It was
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basically, you know, you'll remember this faith. Um, and I don't know if it
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was a current special or what, but I said, "This woman comes up to me at my
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hotel." >> And, um, she's one of these people likes to warn you that she's a hugger. She
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goes, "I'm a hugger." >> I said, "I'm a kisser."
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>> Yeah. >> I guess David, David, how did yours go? Was it >> It was something like that. It was
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during CO. So I said, "Are you still allowed in this day and age to just be a
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hugger?" Because you announce it like, "I'm a hugger." And I go, "I'm an ass
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grabber." Then I go, "I'm a Come on. I'm a camel toe grazer. I always have been."
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[ __ ] bumper crotch. >> So they were they were slightly I know that that got me. I need
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>> That's a little That's where you go. This is going to be a roller coaster.
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>> Let's take a short break for >> I will say Kevin is not dirty and
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sometimes I get a little dirty, but Kevin just relies on clean actual jokes. innuendo.
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>> Yeah. And uh and he smiles a lot during his jokes and it puts the crowd at ease,
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>> right? He sneaks up on them. >> It distracts. I've been told that my
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comedy sneaks up on people, >> you know. But um Yes. >> Well, because you're saying it so
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casually and it's it I mean, the one that's famous, it's all it's huge on
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YouTube is stay away from the blacks, which is uh talk a lot. >> Yeah. And that that really is kind of
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like such a clever way to And do you want to explain it so people don't think
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it's >> Well, uh yeah. Yeah. But before I do that, I just want to say that I posted
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something a while ago last week that I've never had so many hits on it. It's
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like almost 30 million people >> have seen it. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a basic I went into the
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Museum of Modern Art and there was a Star Night painting. >> I saw it. Oh, that thing on fire. I saw
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that. >> Yeah. And I just, you know, I do, it was during co area, so I had the mask on and
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I I was standing in front of Star Night painting by this Van Go and I asked this
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kind of snoody art snob next to me. I said, "Is this a famous painting?"
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>> She goes, "Yes, yes, it's Star Night." I said, "Oh, and how much are they selling
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it for?" She goes, "It's not for sale. That thing would cost you like hundreds
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of millions of dollars." I said, "Okay." And what's the guy's name? Vitabo. said,
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"Van, what?" She goes, "Oh my god." It's like, "You don't know who uh uh excuse
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me. Is this like an adult that painted it or was a child?" She goes, "It's like
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you don't know who the Mona Lisa is." And she Wow. She left. Wow. But so it's
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funny what people like on on >> I saw that and I instantly thought that's a perfect area for you to be in.
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And I actually thought to myself, we go to Ted Sarandos. It's called Kevin Neland, manabout town. And it's you just
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doing that kind of lowfi Canon camera stuff. We didn't even see you in the video, right? Which is we heard you.
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>> Which is funny cuz they believe it's just a a regular dumb [ __ ] going like
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>> that. What is What are they charging for that? Like a couple thousand like if it
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they sold it a couple thousand. >> No, I've already I've already thought
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about Dana that my next thing is going to be the Hollywood sign. I'm going to
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go up behind it. You know >> why do people What's the point? I would say, "What? Why are people looking at
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this? What? It doesn't smell anything." >> Oh, no, no, no, no. You got to go around
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the other side to to look at. I say, "Yeah, but there's fences, so you can't
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go around the other side." >> So, it's like everyone gets mad. >> Yeah. How What's your favorite letter?
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You know what? Um, is this where the actors come >> to to get to become a celebrity? Do they
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have to touch it or something? What is the deal? You know, >> do they do movie premieres here?
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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. The same attitude. That guy's a Midwest attitude. What's going on?
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>> But the uh the black thing was um I said, you know, I I here's the bit
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actually. I'll condense it a little bit. >> When I first started skiing, I didn't
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know um anything about it. I didn't know they labeled the trails for difficulty,
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you know, like they had the greens for the uh easy and the blues intermediates, you know, the blacks, difficult. And um
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I pull into this convenience store and I asked the guy behind the counter in the
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mountains there. I said, "What what's the best mountain to go skiing down
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around here? I don't know anything about these." He goes, "Well, I like Copper
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Mountain." He said, "But you know, a lot of people don't like Copper Mountain
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because of uh all the blacks." And I go, "What?" He goes, "Yeah, yeah,
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there's a lot of blacks over there." And he was talking about the ski, you know,
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the ski runs. >> I know. >> And he goes, "Uh, but he said, I don't
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mind the blacks. I have a lot of fun with them. They're they're a lot of fun,
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but they will beat you up. They'll definitely beat you up. Um, and uh >> very difficult.
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>> Some of them not very well groomed." Now my sister went down in a black and she's
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never come back again and she was like last year but >> I didn't know it went this far.
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>> That got longer. I didn't know that far. >> If if you want the good if you want the
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good powder that's where you got to go. So that was the big >> completely innocent bit.
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>> Yeah, the good white powder >> just about ski runs. >> And there was also the guy warned me
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about some black ice outside. Some black ice. Yeah, I wouldn't slip on it. >> Some black ice. I just want to see you
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with just like Yeah. monuments like Gong Bridge. I mean, what it's what what's
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that about? What's that for? I mean, why? >> Yeah. Where does that Does that go to
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Europe? How far how far uh does that go? And >> And it's orange. It's quite frankly,
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it's orange. >> Orange. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's not >> made it golden.
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>> And And do you think that uh it's impossible for that to stay up? I mean,
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it's there's no way that can stay up, is there? Across the the water there. How
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many people got out of Alcatraz by using that bridge? >> You know, just stupid questions. Just
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the dumb guy. >> You see how long the people put up with it. >> Yeah. Just annoying man kind of.
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>> So, you asked me what I have coming up >> and >> there's a movie coming out um soon in
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the next week or so called Mermaid >> that I um play a part in. >> Mermaid,
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>> you know Mermaid? Johnny Fox. I saw Kirk Fox. >> Kirk Fox. Yeah. >> Uh, Robert Patrick.
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>> Um, or is it Patrick? Robert. I think it was Robert Patrick. It's tough when
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these people have the same f, you know, different first names for the firm. Like, uh, Jeff Jeff, I think that,
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right? >> Yeah. >> Or people like that. Anyway, um, yeah. So, it's a really cool movie. It's kind
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of a thriller. >> It's kind of like um splash on u, you know. >> Well, yeah. Is there a mermaid in it?
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>> What's that? There's a mermaid. >> There's a mermaid, but it's not your
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typical mermaid. It's a real It's It's not your typical mermaid. >> The memor the mermaid that when you see
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it, it's I don't want to give away the the thing, but the face is totally
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distorted >> and it's almost alienike. It's very scary. >> But it opens up with Tom Arnold on a big
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yacht. It's night time and he's drinking. Hey buddy. Hey buddy. and he's
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drinking and he hears a noise in one of the dingies in the back of this big yacht that's with a tarp and he goes
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under and he looks at it >> and what he sees horrifies him. >> So he takes his shotgun, he shoots the
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mermaid. >> No. >> And it falls over and goes in the water. So it's wounded. It's not dead and the
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mother's with it and um the thing washes up to the shore. I don't want to tell
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you I don't want to give you the whole movie because but anyway it's it's about
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this guy this percoet addict played by Johnny Peton who rescues the mermaid takes it in keeps it in his bathtub
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keeps it hopped up on percoet >> and um at the same time the mermaid >> and at the same time he's being um
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chased by uh this kind of like druggy drug guy who he owes him money >> so he kind of it's the whole movie is
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kind of like him trying to escape from that guy and also get the mermaid away from these people.
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>> Well, is it hard to find a real mermaid to be in the movie or you know the thing
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is >> No, no, they're a dime a dozen, man. You see them everywhere. They're like
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dolphins, >> you know. You get a real mermaid, you're in the movie, then you go, "Wait, this
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is a real movie. This this mermaid is worth more than us doing the movie when you cast it." You know,
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you have to wear a flipper if you're >> Who played the mermaid? >> Sarah Hannah.
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No. Shirley Mlan. Oddly. >> Shirley Mlan. >> Shirley Mlan. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> Well, who voiced the mermaid? What does the mermaid talk? >> Deborah Winger.
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>> It's not, is it? >> Hey, I'm a mermaid. >> She did at She did ET as well.
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>> That's a rumor that she did ET. >> For real. >> Deb Debbie Debbie Winger.
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>> Oh, no. Dana knows her from the [ __ ] Travolta sketch. Oh my god. Here we go.
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You should ride that bull with me some >> even slack so weird. I mean weird is the word
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for people out there who still harbor a desire to do a great job. Is Slack Slack
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really weird? That's it. That's him from the 1970s. John, if you're listening,
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come on and set. >> We love Travolta for Quinton Tarantino's Welcome Back Cotter. I played
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Horseshack. It was quite I saw a clip of it on Tik Tok. I don't remember. Have
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you ever seen a sketch where you don't really remember everything about it? I'm
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like, >> of course, there's too many. >> Oh my god. Yeah. >> Yeah.
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>> I'm like, we did a pre-tape. We're walking down the street like all tough.
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I'm like, I don't remember. >> Let me ask you guys a question. On YouTube, SNL, what's your biggest banger
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in terms of views? Which sketch? >> And maybe you don't know. for that
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period. >> Yeah. From when you were on SNL. I mean, and also it can be just one that you
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remember that got maybe because I have one in mind that got way more than I thought it would ever get.
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>> I bet. >> Well, that's definitely a big one. Yeah, >> if that counts.
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>> That's a biggie. >> The one I had the most fun in, I think, was called Il Contoura.
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You know, El Bissimo as well in Sailor. Yeah, >> they were these Italian waiters. Kirsty
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and I were on a date. >> Dana. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> Dana was in it, too. Yeah. You were dry
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humping Victoria on the table behind us. >> Yeah. >> Right. That was that was illegal. I had
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her legs up, but >> it was crazy. I don't know how we got away with a lot of stuff back then.
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Well, Smiggle was told by the Census Soup guy not to do that for the air show, >> and he faked like he was trying to
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signal me right before 3 2 1 go. >> I see him kind of waving. I just ignored
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it. >> But yeah, that was uh >> perspective of Kevin is the date. I didn't even remember that. It's Christy
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Alley. >> Christy Alley. Yeah. >> Who said, "Yeah, can I lick your face?"
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Oh, totally. For sure. >> She was so gung-ho. This was flattering that Marcelo from SNL was doing an
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Italian waiter type sketch I think with Pad Pad Pedro Mscal and so they said look at this sketch as a kind of context
00:22:29
the one that you were in with me and stuff >> and he said yes it was better than ours
00:22:34
and we all said at the same time well we got away with so much well got away you
00:22:39
could do a different stratum of comedy back then you know and >> I mean look at the penis sketch you know
00:22:45
hey nice penis said Denver, huh? That's good penis town. >> Yeah. Is that what you said? That's
00:22:51
>> It was a nudist colony and there was a fence. So, we're all barechested. Tom
00:22:55
Hanks was in it, Kevin. >> And we were all just commenting on, "Hey, terrific penis." I mean, it went
00:23:00
on for like eight minutes. >> The most penises in any sketch in history, right?
00:23:04
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Dana and I also had an idea. We used to kind of riff in our uh Dana
00:23:09
would stay over the garage sometimes when he came down from San Francisco. He had a studio apartment up there in this
00:23:13
house we we rented. But we would be out in the driveway a lot and we would ref, you know, for characters before either
00:23:19
one of us got SNL. And one of the one of the characters were these two porn actors getting made up sitting in the
00:23:27
director's chair in front of the mirrors and the the makeup art the fluffers were
00:23:30
in and they were working down there and we'd be just talking regularly like,
00:23:34
"Hey, uh, you know, so Ted, what are you doing tomorrow?" >> Yeah. Yeah. You know, I don't know. Just
00:23:40
going to hang out, whatever. Yeah. Marcy, yeah. Give me a give me a little more sparkle on the left side for
00:23:46
the people. Everything was for the people. For the people. >> Fluff it up real nice for the people.
00:23:51
And we did ended up doing it on SNL one time, right? We did it on SNL. >> Did we really? I don't even remember.
00:23:58
>> Maybe it didn't make it to air. Yeah. We were bare chested. Yeah. Fluff it up
00:24:01
real nice. And then we started talking about planting down there. Make a little shrubbery around it, you know.
00:24:06
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, put some uh put some uh strips on the side just to make it
00:24:11
look like it's going faster, you know, >> for the people. >> For the people.
00:24:15
>> Yeah, we had that was that didn't go anywhere, but we have to you have on
00:24:21
lately Kevin on Twitter. Um Dana doesn't look at Twitter as much. I follow Kevin
00:24:27
on >> It's called X. Sorry. >> Listen, I'm so hip. It's called Twitter.
00:24:34
Oh, wait. It's called X. They just changed that 500 years ago. >> So yeah, I see a lot of hear me now and
00:24:39
believe me later and it's good. No one's I love a good Hans and Fron. So
00:24:45
>> well, we had more fun. We had so much fun writing those two characters as Dana
00:24:49
will attest. I mean, we couldn't I mean I never had more fun with a character
00:24:53
than writing those two. >> I still find they're the fun. Well, because Lauren once said to me, it's
00:24:59
like it's all about uh who's who's uh you know, the most badass, you know, I'm
00:25:05
better than you. But secretly embedded in it, which was a notion that when Kevin and I are riffing was their
00:25:12
defensiveness and that's first we were just doing it, we pump you up, this and
00:25:16
that. This is how I riffing on the phone. And then Kevin spontaneously just said, "And if you don't believe that we
00:25:22
could do this." So that unraveled a million jokes because then we were had imaginary enemies
00:25:30
>> assuming they're not respecting us and then saying these torturous things we
00:25:36
would do if we we could very easily find them and do these things. And that's to
00:25:40
me I've never gotten tired of that part of it. We actually threatening to torture people. I mean the one line that
00:25:47
I don't know who thought this one but it never it was a perfect Hans in France.
00:25:52
Your butcks are like marshmallows. You're lucky we don't have a campfire
00:25:56
here. So to unpack that is your butics are like this and we are going to light your ass on fire. Right is what they're
00:26:04
saying. >> Right. >> We'll make some s'mores out of you. Yeah. That's right. You know but you
00:26:12
know in in in the long run they would never do that. They would be too scared and defensive.
00:26:18
>> Oh, no. They It was all a threat. They never never left the studio. >> Empty threats. Empty threats. Yeah.
00:26:25
>> I'll take that mic stand like your little skinny arms and snap it. >> Another one I liked was like we could
00:26:31
very easily strap the uh shape this flab in your back into a rope ladder so you could climb down into the sewer cuz
00:26:40
that's where losers live. So it was like complete abstract torturous. >> I just like that everything is easy for
00:26:50
them. Like it wouldn't be hard at all. >> Do you remember the Arnold one that
00:26:53
Arnold could very easily >> flick us with his little finger >> instead was flying across the room. So
00:27:00
you land in your own baby poop. >> Baby poop. >> All could very easily flip and you fly
00:27:08
across the room and land your own baby poop. It's it's just poetry. I'm sorry.
00:27:12
It's It's We We're By the way, we should plug We're going to do a couple of
00:27:16
dates. Uh one in um >> southern Washington near Portland. I don't know the name of the town. And
00:27:22
then we're going to do an outdoor concert >> at the Seattle Zoo Day on the Green. So
00:27:30
Kevin and I, we will Hans and France will definitely uh >> appear. >> Yeah, cuz I want to make jokes about
00:27:37
Seattle. The Space Needle, you say it's so large. We could use it like a little
00:27:41
toothpick. It doesn't make sense. >> I would use that as a co job. >> If the lion in the cage over there was
00:27:50
to be released, he would be snapped into flubber more quickly than you could say
00:27:56
flubber flab. That's where Dana's Dana's character became kind of I don't know
00:28:02
what it is. You know, very teasy like a very koi. >> I got really bored. The Pugid sounds
00:28:10
should be called puny sound >> because they're so bad and they're their
00:28:16
their puns and threats are so ridiculous and there's they're so self-satisfied
00:28:21
about them. >> You guys roast Seattle. Hans and bronze roast Seattle. >> Yeah. Sorry about the homeless
00:28:29
situation, but at least some of them have muscles. >> Everyone goes too far.
00:28:36
>> Doesn't even make sense. What about you? Were you in Bad Idea Jeans?
00:28:43
>> Uh, >> I see that one. I I know Phil. I know Mike. >> We were all bleachers
00:28:51
>> about, >> you know, I think I was I think I I think I might have been in there. Why
00:28:55
don't you chat GBT? >> I feel like you were, but I don't think Dana was. But I see that sometimes. Bad
00:29:00
idea Jeans was a good funny one. I don't know if it was Jack Handy or if it was
00:29:04
um Smile Man. There was one Kevin and I did with Rob Schneider that it casually would pop up and then it was like I
00:29:14
don't know three or four years ago was it was at 16 million but in the in the
00:29:18
last two years or so it's gone up to 21 million,000 trillion. >> It's so politically incorrect. Oh, is it
00:29:25
the security >> security guards with Sharon Stone? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:30
>> Doing so inappropriate and I'm doing inappropriate comedy and they >> I'm playing an Indian guy, you know. So,
00:29:38
>> me who cares? >> They should they should be able to go back and, you know, cancel you for
00:29:46
different things you did 30 years ago, you know, like the Asian guy and the Indian guy. Ching change the uh Asian
00:29:55
gentleman and who could be who would think that was wrong. >> Horrible man.
00:30:00
>> Well, it well it didn't harbor I stand by it because it had no stereotypes.
00:30:05
There was no stereotypes in it. There's no stereotype for a man who comes to
00:30:10
America to sell pet chickens but loves them so much he doesn't want anyone to
00:30:14
buy them. >> Nothing negative. He's happy. >> Yeah. What about you,
00:30:19
>> David? What's your most risky bit? Mine were all on edge. >> I was the edgiest comic available.
00:30:27
>> You were you were so edgy that Eddie Murphy threatened you. >> Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean I I've seen
00:30:32
Hollywood Minute bits on TikTok or wherever and I was like some of them >> it's hard draw the line between clever
00:30:43
and then a little too mean. And I think Downey sometimes we'll ask him when he
00:30:47
comes on would push me a little bit. What are you scared to go after this guy? And I'm like, now you're getting
00:30:53
your anger at celebrities. >> But then they always they hide in the shadows. And then it's like even Ching
00:30:59
Change was Dana. First time I got a writer's credit. Dana Carvey's Ching
00:31:04
Chang character. Most racist thing. And I never got a writing credit till that time.
00:31:10
>> Now you're the guy. >> I have a funny story about Kevin that remember when I got attacked in my
00:31:16
house? It's not 100% your fault, but I don't think I don't think it >> Well, should we fill in the listeners or
00:31:23
they all know about the attack in the house? So, I got >> By the way, by the way, before you start
00:31:28
this, I'm writing a list of things that people are telling about me, stories to
00:31:32
have at my eulogy, at my memorial that people can talk about. >> Makes you look bad, but it's fine. You
00:31:38
got to mix it up. >> Mix it up. Uh, so I I >> this was during a hike on that hike we
00:31:48
were on. Like I came >> I tell you the story. >> Yeah, >> I told it to you already
00:31:53
>> on that on that hike. Hiking with Kevin which you both have been on. >> I want to tell it again.
00:31:59
>> I see that with Kevin had different hikers since. I thought it sort of I was
00:32:03
the grand finale, but nope. >> The oneoff. >> That's it going >> there. Still you have some good guests
00:32:10
on there. You have some interesting guests. >> Yeah. Tom Hanks did it recently and
00:32:13
Brian Cranston. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> A lot of good guests. >> Julian Lennon.
00:32:19
>> Julian Lennon. >> Was it Julian Lennon? >> My favorite question asked Julian was um
00:32:25
um who is your favorite beetle? >> He looked at me for a long time. And my
00:32:31
favorite question for Kaitlin Jenner was Kaitlin, if you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
00:32:38
>> I like you're like Theo. Like just the question, no matter what the answer,
00:32:42
it's going to be clipped out cuz no matter what they answer, it's a funny
00:32:46
setup. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> When Theo asked uh Neil Degrassi, the
00:32:52
guy goes, "Do you think space is gay?" >> And he's like, "Well, Theo, I
00:32:57
>> I haven't gotten that question before." You know, it's like so stupid.
00:33:00
>> I know. And they're serious. I haven't thought of what he answers yet. It's
00:33:04
just funny. Uh yeah. So, the quick story is I got a guy that I worked with came in and I had a disagreement with him in
00:33:12
my house. But the disagreement was he was when Joe Dirt was printed out. He worked with me. So, when someone
00:33:23
works there, he's printing out the scripts to go out, but he read it. And so, he goes, "Can I have dibs on this
00:33:31
part?" Now, he hadn't acted. He done a little comedy or improv and he wanted to
00:33:36
get into comedy but that awkward thing where you're like okay I want to help
00:33:40
you and I was new at having someone work for me >> and he goes it's not a big deal it's
00:33:45
like three pages or four pages which is a big deal >> it's not two lines
00:33:50
>> three four pages >> that's a lot yeah if I go and he and he didn't have any experience but I said if
00:33:55
I can I said I will try >> because I see him every second of every day so how can I just go [ __ ] no which I
00:34:01
just should have So, here comes the movie. We're casting it. And then at the
00:34:08
toward the end, it's still open because we're not actively trying to cast it
00:34:13
because I'm bananas for doing this, keeping it open because we want every best person for the part. So, Sandler
00:34:19
calls up and says, "Hey, I think Kevin Nean would be good." Oh, yeah. Hello. Um
00:34:25
would be good for uh the guy that works at the junkyard or whatever. Impound your car. And I go, "Oh, that'd be
00:34:32
great." He said, "Can I tell him?" I said, "Yeah, 100%." So, I tell the guy,
00:34:36
"Hey, listen. It's not going to work out." He's like, "What the fuck?" That's
00:34:39
the first sign of trouble. He got really mad. I go, >> "Oh, >> well, listen." He goes, "Tell Sandler
00:34:44
no." I go, "I I'm Listen, here's He's producing the movie. He's
00:34:50
the reason it got made and Kevin Nean's great. There's nothing wrong with this
00:34:54
situation. Like, unfortunately, it didn't work out, but maybe the next one we can doggy or something." But couldn't
00:35:00
you find a little thing for him? Couldn't you shoehorn some? >> Cuz in Tommy Boy, he had something, but
00:35:05
I think it was just a reaction shot. He worked for Pete Seagull, the director. That's how I met him. So anyway, that's
00:35:11
already Listen, the Red Flag store is running out of business at this point because we just there's so many red
00:35:15
flags I just disregard. Then I'm in editing the night before it happens. Kevin does it. We're watching his part.
00:35:24
He's like, "That's the guy that [ __ ] me." And I'm like that this is not a
00:35:30
realistic thing. >> This is not a normal assistant uh language. >> I didn't know this. I didn't notice
00:35:37
until years later when you finally told me. >> I know. I said you could have been
00:35:41
coming after me, too. >> I know. I shield you guys. I shield you from the world.
00:35:45
>> So anyway, that night is when it happened. But it was just a normal situation where he should have said,
00:35:52
"Hey, you know, Kevin's great and Kevin was great." And so all in all, it's not
00:35:58
all Kevin's fault, but it's like 99%. That's all. >> I don't know why you promised him the
00:36:05
role, man. You should never promise the role. >> That's a problem. That was
00:36:09
>> I didn't promise. I said, "Listen, these things are tricky. You never know."
00:36:13
That's a kind of >> That's a That's a promise in Hollywood. >> Yeah, it is. It is. It is.
00:36:17
>> That's every day. Like, so it's still open. So, >> you're not reading people for that? I'm
00:36:21
like, I don't [ __ ] I'm already in the weeds. cuz I got bigger fish to fry. And
00:36:26
finally I'm like, "Oh, it might shake out." Another promise. And then uh I'm like egging it on going,
00:36:33
"I know Kevin kneeling. I don't know why he's he did this on purpose to you. Why
00:36:38
aren't you going to >> sharp elbows? Kevin wanted it. What are I going to do to him? He's beat me up
00:36:43
with his baby finger." >> Yeah. Why didn't he go after Kevin? We got some questions from the crowd. But
00:36:47
but you're you're kind of you're kind of like you know missing the lead part of the story is
00:36:53
how um violent he reacted to that to you. >> Yes. Yes. I show when the it built up
00:37:03
that cuz the first sign is when he says tell Adam what the [ __ ] tell him no. Call him right now. Tell him no. [ __ ]
00:37:10
that. It's not his movie. I go it. Who would say that? I go, >> Adam can ask anything, but he's really
00:37:18
hands off. He's saying, "This is your movie. >> You You and Fred wrote it. Do Do your
00:37:23
best with it. If you need help, tell me, but we had good >> Oh, you and Fred wrote it." Okay.
00:37:29
>> Freddy Wolf. >> Hey. Hey, David. You're funny. You're You're good, too. I remember.
00:37:33
>> David, can we get Canva managing Skippy right now? >> That was uh really good. No, no, not not
00:37:41
really good. You're good. You're You're not >> Kevin. I'm going to talk about you one
00:37:43
second. I just want to tell Dana one thing. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> He's also the uh Fred Fred Wolf is also
00:37:49
the um uh disclaimer guy. You know I I didn't ask you because and it's nothing
00:37:54
about you and um you know but I think that you know maybe somebody and again you know you are my favorite person but
00:38:00
I don't think that you would be maybe right for this role and you're right for
00:38:04
a lot of roles. I mean don't get me wrong you're right for a lot of roles.
00:38:06
>> You'd be good in anything you did but >> it's just this one right now. Yeah, we
00:38:11
could have used him with uh that you're you're a guy. Bring in Fred Wolf. You
00:38:15
know, you're great. We're gonna you have I have so so many good ideas for you in
00:38:19
the next film. You know, kind of kind of >> I think what I fed while I was getting
00:38:22
the [ __ ] kicked out of me by that night, I was like, "Blame Fred. He didn't want
00:38:26
you." >> Well, being like a canary. and the broadstrokes. If if you've ever, you
00:38:34
know, had someone in your life and then you realize that they were quietly, secretly harboring a lot of grudges.
00:38:42
>> Yeah. >> You know, and it stored up grudgery, you know, later on. Whoa. I had no idea.
00:38:48
Yeah. >> Yeah. It was a little anger and it was b it was starting to point towards me, but
00:38:54
whatever. We got through it. >> Whatever. Anyway, >> would you guys would you guys want to
00:39:00
Would you want to know who has a grudge against you? Or would you rather not know?
00:39:05
>> No, I don't think so. >> You do want to know, Heather. >> The outcome.
00:39:09
>> Oh, that's reminds us of this great Kiana Rooves Reeves movie called The
00:39:14
Outcome. >> The David is >> he is being blackmailed with a videotape and he's a
00:39:22
big star in the movie, Kevin. And his movie is about to come out and this will ruin it. So is Jonah Hill
00:39:30
>> manager lawyer says, "Hey, go back and apologize to everyone you were mean to
00:39:35
on the way up and this might just go away. People are just mad at you." And
00:39:39
he's like, "Oh." So he has to go back. He's like, "Who's mad at me?" Cuz he's
00:39:43
delusional cuz he's such a big star. And they're like, "Oh, we have a list of
00:39:46
about 45 people." So he goes back to his child star manager played by Scorsese who lives in a
00:39:54
bowling alley and he has to apologize to him. was good and >> he was good. He was good.
00:40:00
>> He goes like this. Uh again was like, "Hey, I just wanted to say uh I'm just
00:40:06
really sorry." And he goes, "Thanks, Reef. Sorry for what?" And he goes, "Uh"
00:40:13
they didn't coach him that far, so he's like, "I don't know." And he goes, "You
00:40:16
know, Reef," and then he explains to him why he should be sorry for what he did.
00:40:20
And then he goes to his ex-girlfriend, then his mom, and then >> it just it's really like kind of a
00:40:26
that's the dramdy part because it gets a it gets pretty heavy. But yeah, in in
00:40:30
answer to your question, >> uh I don't know if I would want to know everyone.
00:40:36
>> I would here's what I would like to know. What level of fan are people that
00:40:40
come up to me? Because people sometimes they go, I'm a big fan. They don't know
00:40:45
one thing I've ever done. So they're like a one out of a hundred. But then
00:40:49
there's people that you can tell that really like you. >> But some people just go, "Oh, hey." And
00:40:53
I they get a picture and they walk away and they're like, "I hate that guy."
00:40:57
>> Because But they just know they just seen you somewhere. They don't know why.
00:41:00
Some people go, "I'm taking a picture cuz they did. >> I'll find out later what you do."
00:41:06
The other thing is I I dread like when I was starting out I have to use the public rest you know the restroom that
00:41:12
the rest of the audience used and I'd be in the stall and after my show and I
00:41:16
hear people coming in and go wow the opener was so much better than the headliner man this is a waste of money
00:41:21
and you know I don't want to know I don't want to hide under the bed and
00:41:25
hear somebody you know talk about me. I went I did a hike with Lin Manuel Miranda you know who wrote Hamilton.
00:41:31
>> Yeah. Yeah. And I was using uh one of those um you know mics that you hook to your collar
00:41:38
or whatever. It was the first time. Yeah. First time I was using it. And we finished the hike and I forgot to take
00:41:44
his off >> and I had to chase him down like a half hour later. I called his manager and he
00:41:49
goes, "Oh yeah, okay." He's on the corner, you know, 90 and you know,
00:41:53
whatever it was. And uh so I'm walking. I took me like a half hour to get to him
00:41:57
and I know that everything he said is on that recorder for that half hour and I never listened to it cuz I didn't want
00:42:04
to know. >> Could we listen to it? >> I didn't want to know what he said.
00:42:06
Sure. It's out there now. >> I've heard some clips from it. It's not
00:42:09
great, dude. >> It's not great, man. It's not great. >> Yeah.
00:42:15
>> It's next to my UFO tapes that never got released. I'm like, Release the Nean
00:42:21
tapes. >> No, let me tell you something about UFOs. You know, there's been all of this
00:42:25
stuff about the releasing, you know, UFO stuff from the government. >> It doesn't Nothing matters to me now
00:42:32
with AI. It's like that's not real. That's not real. >> I see it. I think it's AI.
00:42:37
>> That's true. >> In the air. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Even if you're in the
00:42:41
thing, you're being kidnapped. No, this is AI. >> I go, proved it to me. And then they
00:42:46
anally massage me or whatever. How would you know about that, David? Why? Why? Why? Why are you saying that?
00:42:54
Have you seen the doctor when he's with the girl? And she goes, "I'm having a
00:42:57
little soreness on my anus around the uh entrance." And he goes, "Oh, well, that's actually an
00:43:05
exit." So, the quicker you change the traffic, the quicker the pain will go
00:43:09
away. >> That's horrible. >> That's great. >> That's horrible.
00:43:16
>> What kind of people are you hanging out with? >> Squeaming. Can I tell you my uh hiking story? That
00:43:25
was out of character for me. So, I'm hiking. I'm hiking, hiking, and I see
00:43:29
like eight people and they're going to take a picture and I normally don't do
00:43:34
this, but I go, I'll take it, you know. Yeah, we want video. So, it was eight of
00:43:38
them. And they start they sang happy birthday till Sylvester. Happy birthday, big thing. Oh, looks great. And I don't
00:43:44
know why I was just I guess I was kind of on a buzz from hiking so hard. And I just did Stallone to them. I want to
00:43:50
thank you very much for saying happy birthday to me. And then I just walked away and they yelled down the trail and
00:43:56
they said, "Hey, wait a minute. Are you that guy?" >> That was it. They didn't have a name.
00:44:02
They didn't have anything. >> Yeah, that's Isn't that a great story?
00:44:07
>> Here's here's a here's a fun story if you want to hear that. Going along those
00:44:10
lines, I would go down to Austin uh every year and this, by the way, this you call him DJ still? this guy um he's
00:44:18
like the Howard Stern. >> He's like the Howard Stern of Austin. And uh he uh and I do his show like
00:44:24
every year, you know, for like years I've been doing it and we usually go out
00:44:27
for lunch after that. So we uh the last time I was there, this is like four years ago when I did the show. We do the
00:44:33
show and then we go out to lunch and we're sitting there for like half hour and he he goes, "You know what I noticed
00:44:39
about you? You're not getting recognized as as much anymore." >> Oh my god.
00:44:44
>> And I thought, you know what? You're right. you're right. He goes, "Yeah,
00:44:48
heads used to turn a lot, but now it see like people are looking at their menus,
00:44:51
you know, and I thought, you know what? He's right. No matter, that's why I've
00:44:54
been feeling so good lately." >> Yeah. I had someone say to me, they said, you know, I was at like this
00:45:01
Grammy party and my friend's wife goes, "You know what? You were so goodness.
00:45:06
Why don't you get back out there? Get back and do stuff again." I go, "I'll
00:45:12
knock you out." I had a woman at an airport get in front of me and goes, "You're better than all the rest of
00:45:19
them." And just walked away. >> That's a compliment. >> I told my sister, "Leave me alone."
00:45:26
>> But Kevin, to that guy, was he being passive aggressive to point that out?
00:45:31
>> That's weird. >> Or was he just sort of naive and whimsical? >> I think it was naive and he was just he
00:45:36
might have been even joking even, you know. But um here's here's something if
00:45:39
you want to get brought down a lot is go on uh chat GBT and ask the question uh are you handsome?
00:45:48
>> Oh no. >> Is Dana Carvey handsome and see what they say. >> [ __ ] off.
00:45:52
>> My son did that. My son did that to me. >> Oh no. >> Yeah. Yeah. And it said well you know it
00:46:00
depends on what you mean by handsome, you know. >> Well I was at a resort. I was at a
00:46:07
resort doing a doing a gig and you had been there the year before, some kind of gig, whatever. And the woman in the
00:46:14
sports shack or whatever. Oh, yeah. Kevin, you know, yeah, I'm a friend of his. He goes, I didn't realize how
00:46:18
good-looking he was. Oh, look at that. Look at that. >> I did have a guy at I had a guy at the
00:46:26
airport once say to me, "Hey, you're a lot better looking on TV." But I think
00:46:30
he meant the other way around, you know. No. In Scottsdale last week, I'm leaving
00:46:35
Houston's. I love Houston's. And uh lady walks to me and she goes, "You look like that guy
00:46:43
in Grown-Ups, you know the guy, he's a little taller. Do you know who he is?" I
00:46:47
go, "Which guy, Sandler?" And he goes, she goes, "No, he plays the blonde guy
00:46:51
in it." And I go, "Oh, yeah, I have heard that." And he she goes, "But he's
00:46:55
a little taller than you." I go, "A little or a lot?" He goes, "He's he's
00:47:01
he's kind of tall, but you sound like him." Never figured it out. I had the
00:47:06
same thing. I had a woman in the store and she goes, "You you look just like
00:47:10
Dana Carvey." I go, "I know. It's weird. It's weird." And she just kept going. I
00:47:15
I mean, I can't even believe it. Me neither. But yeah, you know, >> I know you never Yeah.
00:47:20
>> I get Norm. I get Norm once in a while. >> Yeah. Cuz we both did SNL, I think. You
00:47:27
know. Oh. Oh, up there. >> Yeah. Fell over there. Yeah. Yeah. People love Nor McDonald, you know, in
00:47:33
the post Nor McDonald. I mean, it's just he really has become a legend. >> He got bigger. Yeah, for sure.
00:47:40
>> Yeah, definitely. And I've seen stuff he's doing that I never saw before.
00:47:43
That's hilarious. >> Exactly. I see [ __ ] like his talk show that's like a podcast with Adam Egan and
00:47:50
I'm like, "Oh, they have funny guests. They make the guests read a dirty joke."
00:47:53
I'm like, "The balls." But the fans that go on that are fans of Norm that are
00:47:57
famous go along with it and it's so funny. >> There's one recently up that he's got
00:48:03
he's got Mike Tyson on his show and he's clearly kind of agitating Mike Tyson in
00:48:09
his own Norm way. Yeah, his best heavyweight champion or whatever he said and there was a lot of tension there
00:48:15
with Norm and it makes him um >> mesmerizing to watch. >> He goes on the View. They play him on
00:48:21
Conan a lot. Old talk shows. I I I took him I took him to uh Palm Springs once for a golf clinic cuz we both like to
00:48:27
golf even though we both suck. So, you know, all the way out there he's listening to Johnny Cash with his
00:48:33
barefoot out the window cuz he doesn't drive, you know, got to drive him everywhere. He's always late. I can't
00:48:38
find my shoes, you know. So, we get out there and we're doing this golf clinic
00:48:41
with these professionals and they're videotaping us our swings and everything. By the end of the golf
00:48:45
clinic, we're looking at the swings, you know, the pro is showing us what we're
00:48:49
doing wrong and all that and he's arguing with the pro. No, that's what I'm doing. You know that's No, this way
00:48:55
is better for me. I said, Norm, this guy's a pro. You know, >> you deflate.
00:49:03
>> He knows that's funny. Yeah, the one on the view where he goes, "Yeah, Bill
00:49:07
Clinton, he was great except he killed a guy, you know, and Barbara Walters was like, well, we can't What are you
00:49:13
talking about?" No, I'm I'm just saying he killed a guy, right? I mean, it's not
00:49:18
good. It's not a good thing. I'm not saying it's a good thing. what you want
00:49:21
from your president. >> But yeah, the clips of of Norm are hysterical on Conan, too, with the the
00:49:27
oldfashioned story. This guy had a shoe, right? And he lost it in a tra and it goes on and
00:49:34
on. >> Little Johnny goes to school one day. >> This fella, this fella.
00:49:39
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. When he does knickknack Patty Whack, he does that joke, but I like the
00:49:44
beginning. He goes, he goes into a bank and the the woman's name is Mrs. Whack.
00:49:49
So that's her name. This is W. I'm like, well, this is going to be part of the
00:49:53
joke at some point, I guess. >> Was he the one that did the joke about Hitler's dog?
00:49:58
>> How the dog liked him? >> He didn't know. >> Yeah, he had a lot of Hitler.
00:50:04
>> Yeah. Did you guys ever do Hitler Hitler bits? Did you have a Hitler joke in your
00:50:08
act ever? >> The closest I came to that is Hans and France. >> Yeah.
00:50:15
>> No, I never did a Hitler joke. I had one but it >> go ahead give us anymore. No, it was
00:50:21
just the observation. Hitler screaming every time we see him. And I say, I do this for a living. And I
00:50:28
mean, you backstage, he had to be just wiped out. Just almost feminine like, oh, oh, him.
00:50:36
>> I can't. >> Yeah, it is. I can't feel my deltoid. Whoever thought of this, shoot him. I
00:50:43
can't take it. >> Two shows a night either. It's too hard. But yeah, it's hard to come up with an
00:50:50
original Hitler joke. >> Kevin, I have one of my follow my one of my final questions. Do you do two shows
00:50:54
a night? >> Uh, yes, except on Sunday. >> Comedy clubs. >> Yeah, I do two shows and arenas. I do
00:51:02
two shows in arenas as well. >> And how long do you do >> a set if you're doing two shows? You do
00:51:09
45? >> I do about an hour and 10 minutes. >> You do both times? Twice?
00:51:15
>> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Yeah. Yeah. I do. In fact, I'm getting
00:51:18
to that point. Here's I started with an MC, you know, as you always do. It's a
00:51:22
threeman act or three woman act or whatever. >> And um >> and so I thought I don't really need an
00:51:28
MC because one time the MC said this man needs no introduction. I thought, you know, this guy's right. We don't need
00:51:33
him on the show. So, um sorry. So, anyway, I thought I'll just do a twoman show from now on. So, I
00:51:42
did a twoman show. And now I'm thinking I don't really need another person
00:51:47
because I know Bill Maher used to do that. He would just come out and do his set and um you know it makes kind of
00:51:53
sense. >> But is it more fun? >> No opener. Yeah. >> No opener. And I don't even have an
00:51:58
introduction. I just have them play the music like for a little bit and then I just walk out. It's real jazzy the way I
00:52:04
do that. >> Do you dance around a little bit or something? What are you doing?
00:52:08
>> No. No. I come out and I receive the applause. I accept it. I you know I
00:52:12
thank them. washed over you. >> I let it settle in and then I take the mic out and they stop the music and all
00:52:19
systems go into the microphone. So ahead he uses a banjo I saw in the latest clips. What's
00:52:26
going on? >> Oh, that was the bit that was uh I cut from my special >> which is called Loose in the Crotch.
00:52:33
>> Was that Was that the banjo that I got you for your 50th? >> No, no, no. But you and um you and Gary
00:52:40
uh Prince, a guy that we knew um who has since passed, gave me a great Gibson banjo for my guitar. I think it was uh
00:52:47
60 at the time or 50. >> Prescription Fitness, >> whatever. >> That's right. Yeah. So that I was just
00:52:53
going to say, so the banjo part was when I grew up, nobody liked um the banjo. It
00:52:58
was very annoying. So I had to play it very quietly in my room with like a sock tied around the neck. But now I like to
00:53:04
go I play it everywhere now and I just let loose on it and I have so much fun. Would you like to hear a song? Sure.
00:53:09
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I have them bring the banjo out to me and I sit down and I playing very softly. They can't even
00:53:15
hear it barely. My foot stomping is louder than the banjo itself >> and then they and then they take the
00:53:22
banjo away or do you actually show them that you can >> they want to see I do the whole song. I
00:53:28
get everybody going like that. I get the clapping going and um and I tell them to
00:53:33
keep it quiet. I go, >> break it down. Break it down. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And then at the end I my roies
00:53:40
come out and they take the banjo from me. I just hold it up and they take it >> and uh and I go back to the mic.
00:53:46
>> But I cut that out. Do you and Dana both have if you, let's say you're doing Ohio
00:53:51
in three days, Columbus, do you call and say have a banjo or a guitar there? >> You know what? Uh, you could do that.
00:54:02
Most people like their own instruments, but I'll tell you what, I I I I like a
00:54:08
green room that's comfortable. You know, the green room, I like something in
00:54:11
there that's comfortable. A lot of those green rooms have those big white fluorescent lights on the on the ceiling
00:54:16
with no lamps or anything or floor lamps. So, I just added this to my writer that they got to have a floor
00:54:22
lamp with a dimmer cuz I like to kind of chill before I go on. >> You know, a little meditation or
00:54:26
whatever just kind of snooze >> and you know, you can get a cheap cheap floor lamp from Target probably for you
00:54:34
know $42. >> They say we're going to have to take away your Triscuits you want. So, it's a
00:54:39
>> Yeah. Could I tell you a tactic to get a standing ovation? So, what I do I I used
00:54:44
to say, "Get me a guitar that can be plugged in, electrified." But now I say
00:54:48
a tailor because they don't go out of tune. But at the end of your act, you're
00:54:52
doing your guitar, your banjo. Bum bum bum. And you're you're doing a song
00:54:56
about them. WOW. WOW. WOW. BAM. And then I take the neck of the guitar and I hold
00:55:02
it up. So I'm like it's like a torch. I'm like t but I see people as I bring
00:55:07
the guitar up they tend to stand up with it. So you could just at the end go the
00:55:12
banjo AND GO GOOD NIGHT AND THEN JUST HOLD IT LIKE this and you'll get a standing ovation every time.
00:55:20
>> I'm not kidding. >> I don't like I don't like a standing
00:55:23
ovation. It it it feels very uncomfortable for me, >> you know, to be adored that much.
00:55:29
>> Yeah. >> And I just don't like to stay out there. It's just like with the good nights on
00:55:33
SNL. I hated going up there and waving goodbye and and people would be jockeying to get to the front, you know,
00:55:40
to stand next to the host and I'm like in the back. Lauren had to have uh Marcy
00:55:44
Klein come running after me climbing says Lauren wants you on the stage and I'm like
00:55:48
>> Lauren wants you on the stage. But people don't realize there's a dress
00:55:51
show and we we do the good nights a fake good nights two hours before and then we
00:55:56
got to do it again like oh hugging. Oh, I can't believe it. Yeah, >> Marcy. It was a lie. Marc used to come
00:56:02
in mind. Get out there. Lauren wants you. I'm like, there's no way Lauren was
00:56:05
out there. Somehow figured out I wasn't there yet. And go Marcy get spayed. >> Yeah.
00:56:13
>> And I believed it every time. Like Lauren ran out there. >> I mean, it's same with the weekend
00:56:19
update. You know, you do all those jokes in the dress and then you kind of it's
00:56:22
an act and then you do in the live show and you laugh in the same places like that's the first time you've heard it,
00:56:27
you know. >> But it is an act. We're really >> Yeah, that's a It is a show business.
00:56:34
>> All right, get it. >> What else do you have for Kevin? And we're going to talk. We're gonna plug uh
00:56:39
the special loose in the crotch. >> I got the hiking with hiking with Kevin
00:56:42
on YouTube, which both of you guys have done and numerous times with Dana. >> We were great. Hiking with Kevin.
00:56:48
>> Sping to do it again sometime when he uh >> uh gets up some energy.
00:56:53
>> Slightly downhill. Not even flat anymore. >> I swear to God, I'll have a car waiting
00:56:57
at the bottom for you. Yeah. Yeah. Just go down. >> I would I would do it. And well, we get
00:57:01
one of those uh a wagon, like a little kids wagon, and we Spade sits in the wagon and we pull him up the hill. It's
00:57:08
three of us doing it. >> We pull you up. >> I like that. I like that. So, that's on
00:57:12
YouTube. And then I have my special out Luc Crush. That's also on YouTube. >> Great.
00:57:16
>> And um and I have um Mermaid, the movie coming out, but you know, >> that's out on the I believe it's the
00:57:23
27th of May, I believe. I'm not sure when this will air. And then also, I didn't mention this, but uh my wife and
00:57:30
I along with other people are executive producers on a documentary that was nominated for an Oscar that we went to
00:57:36
the Oscars this year for the first time. >> It didn't win, but it's on Apple TV
00:57:40
right now. It's called Come See Me in the Good Light. It's really good. A good
00:57:43
watch. >> Apple TV. So, you're a producer, writer, director, >> executive producer.
00:57:50
>> Executive producer, standup comedian. Oh, art. What about your art? Look at
00:57:55
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. I uh I'm a painter. I like to paint celebrity caricatures. I
00:57:59
have a website. I have the book out, you know, that I gave it to both of you. It's called I exaggerate my brushes with
00:58:05
fame, right? And there's there's pictures of everybody in there. And on the opposite page is an anecdote about
00:58:10
that person, whether it's Farley or or you or or whomever. And um people are
00:58:14
asking me, they said, "Oh, where can we buy one of these paintings?" I never had
00:58:18
a place. So, I created a a site on Shopify, uh Kevin Neil Art. So you order it and then they make a painting to send
00:58:25
to the personal standard. >> Yeah. >> Listen, >> she's Louise. Fantastic. I love
00:58:32
everything. >> That's what I got going. >> Yeah. >> God dang.
00:58:35
>> I got you know I got like maybe four or five movies in the can that I've done,
00:58:38
but they're independent movies and so you I kind of forget. I don't know if
00:58:41
they're ever going to see the light of day. I got to tell you something. two
00:58:45
maybe two years ago I did one and you know all this time goes by and I'm watching TV and I see this trailer come
00:58:51
on and it's a real scary movie you know and I'm watching it going oh my god I
00:58:56
got to see this what's this all about and then they cut to the next scene and
00:58:59
of course I'm in it >> I'm in the movie >> and you forgot you did it that's I I was
00:59:05
just forgot about the whole thing I mean I remembered I did it but I didn't you
00:59:08
know remember that it was going to go anywhere or know that >> funny >> yeah all right well thank you Kevin, I
00:59:14
will see you soon. Don't hang up right away. >> Don't hang up, Kevin.
00:59:18
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00:59:23
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Episode Highlights

  • Hiking with Lin Manuel Miranda
    A memorable hike with the creator of Hamilton leads to an unexpected recording mishap.
    “I forgot to take his mic off after the hike.”
    @ 00m 15s
    May 28, 2026
  • AI and Relationships
    A humorous take on AI's role in personal relationships and its implications.
    “His wife got jealous and said, 'Change the voice to a man's voice.'”
    @ 05m 46s
    May 28, 2026
  • Kevin Nealon's Comedy Special
    Kevin Nealon discusses his new special and the challenges of finding original material.
    “It’s called Loosen the Crotch. It’s on YouTube.”
    @ 10m 15s
    May 28, 2026
  • A Distorted Mermaid
    The film features a mermaid that is not typical, described as almost alien-like and scary.
    “It's not your typical mermaid.”
    @ 17m 49s
    May 28, 2026
  • Tom Arnold's Horrifying Discovery
    Tom Arnold's character encounters something terrifying on his yacht, leading to a shocking moment.
    “What he sees horrifies him.”
    @ 18m 20s
    May 28, 2026
  • A Drug Addict's Dilemma
    The protagonist, a percocet addict, rescues a wounded mermaid while evading a drug dealer.
    “It's about this guy trying to escape and get the mermaid away.”
    @ 19m 05s
    May 28, 2026
  • The Outcome Movie
    A film about a star being blackmailed and needing to apologize to those he wronged.
    “He has to go back and apologize to everyone he was mean to.”
    @ 39m 33s
    May 28, 2026
  • Hiking with Lin Manuel Miranda
    A funny story about forgetting to take off a mic after a hike with a celebrity.
    “I didn't want to know what he said.”
    @ 42m 04s
    May 28, 2026
  • Recognition Fades
    A realization about not being recognized as much anymore.
    “You’re not getting recognized as much anymore.”
    @ 44m 39s
    May 28, 2026
  • Loose in the Crotch
    A special that features a humorous take on banjo performances.
    “Oh, that was the bit that was uh I cut from my special”
    @ 52m 28s
    May 28, 2026
  • Oscar-Nominated Documentary
    Kevin discusses his role as an executive producer on a documentary nominated for an Oscar.
    “It didn’t win, but it’s on Apple TV right now.”
    @ 57m 40s
    May 28, 2026
  • Celebrity Caricatures
    Kevin shares his passion for painting celebrity caricatures and his new Shopify site.
    “I exaggerate my brushes with fame, right?”
    @ 58m 05s
    May 28, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • AI might be something. It's going to save the planet!
    Norm MacDonald, Grudges, and Loose in the Crotch with Kevin Nealon
  • It's not your typical mermaid.
    Norm MacDonald, Grudges, and Loose in the Crotch with Kevin Nealon
  • You have to wear a flipper if you're in the movie.
    Norm MacDonald, Grudges, and Loose in the Crotch with Kevin Nealon
  • I didn't know this. I didn't notice.
    Norm MacDonald, Grudges, and Loose in the Crotch with Kevin Nealon
  • Release the Nean tapes.
    Norm MacDonald, Grudges, and Loose in the Crotch with Kevin Nealon
  • I don’t like a standing ovation. It feels very uncomfortable for me.
    Norm MacDonald, Grudges, and Loose in the Crotch with Kevin Nealon

Key Moments

  • AI Conversations06:23
  • Kevin Nealon's Special10:15
  • Horrifying Discovery18:20
  • Drug Dealer Chase19:05
  • Editing Nightmares35:22
  • Grudges Revealed38:45
  • AI and UFOs42:25
  • Banjo Performance53:05

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