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Hey Garrett Morris Garrett Morris it's you know a really fun to talk to an OG gangster from the
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first the beginning of SNL I mean that's really where it all started that's yeah what we're all trying to copy from our
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point of view like you when he as soon as he popped up he he came to play he had great fun
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energy from the first second just yeah something about him uh he was into it it's like bottled up like he hasn't
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talked I mean that probably doesn't have done an interview for a while and also two guys that are super interested in
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and we have common ground so he uh he was a chatterboxer he he really was there and knows all about those first five years which are seminal and Sno of
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course and he gets into Grievances and people he maybe didn't like and yeah drug use and anger and all so it's very
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very interesting I love it when people don't really hold back like that he doesn't give a [ __ ] fires up a join
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halfway through well I I'm not sure if it's halfway through but make sure you're listening when it happens you're gonna love this you'll hear this
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that's trying to get it going so yeah a lot of fun a lot of old Stories the stuff you would expect and
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it's just great to hear from him yeah because you don't hear from him a lot and uh funny grew up watching yeah I
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enjoyed this one funny I enjoy all of them Garrett Morris [Music] my name is Morris hello Garrett you uh
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my last name is Spade you got me to screwed it up by Heaven it's convict on YouTube okay whoa let's get down to it yeah did you serve time that's my only
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question I'm not mine I'm not lying I actually spent a year and a half at what is known as Greg Meadows Correctional Facilities I was a teacher oh I was at
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the Tim Meadows Correctional Facility uh now Gary you were a teacher in there you
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too uh go ahead go ahead Garrett let's hear about that anyway I in like 1968-69 I was a school teacher I taught
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at PS 71 over on the east side and also um they had a program for teaching convicts and I was a part of it to give us a um a Volkswagen right
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you guys say it's really Volkswagen yeah everyone's saying it wrong yeah okay anyway and I didn't know I was driving along the drug drug um thing and I used
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to get caught Calling All the Time by the cops okay when you're running drugs in the Volkswagen and then you got pulled over and you're also teaching kids and
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running drugs I was teaching those murderous drama oh okay yes you have quite a resume
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oh my God it's it's it's vast you know Garrett I have to tell Garrett something just so we're we have some common ground here uh Garrett I was in Arizona you
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know running the harsh streets of Scottsdale and when I was about you know 18 19 I was trying to flirt with this girl leaving a uh SAE party at Arizona
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State and I got pulled over immediately and they cuffed me and said you have to go to jail I don't think Dana I didn't tell you this I go to jail and I say hey any reason
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for the jail you know uh I I didn't even ask uh because I just felt I'm pretty guilty about a lot of things and they said yeah you've gotten too many tickets speeding tickets and we have a warrant
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for your arrest and I realized they didn't so a couple hours in I go can I see those and they
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showed me copies and it was my brother's signature saying he was me because he got pulled over so much he would have had to go to jail so he goes no no I don't have my license I'm David and so
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then he signed them all and then he still didn't pay him and then I spent the night in the clink and I had to have another comedian come bail me out
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oh wow Chevy Chase bailed you out I still speak with my brother unfortunately but he know I'm such a [ __ ] I would never really give him any
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trouble about it and I didn't is he out of jail no I was one out he never went I
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had to do the time for him I I had three older brothers that would stuff pant uh
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stolen items down my pants because I was nine then they were 11 12 13 and they were all juvenile delinquents we fought we smoked we stole but they would stuff him down my pants because I look so
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little and so innocent and I'd walk out but yeah I stole a lot of stuff when I was nine I'm just putting it out there
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right now I would I stole 10 yo-yos in one day I've had three weekends in the tank myself okay see we're all not soft we're all from the [ __ ] streets let's let's get that out of the way yeah got
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it yeah yeah I'm not interested at all but one time it was because a traffic cop broke the law and used a slim jim right to go into my car under the mat
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something and found a bag of marijuana which is illegal cop okay yeah anyway I go to the impound to get my car and I see about four or five cops standing
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around my car I'm not stupid so I wait right and they wait for about 30 minutes look at my car so I go to the car and I don't go in and they come and they say
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uh open this back door I said no I'm not opening again oh my God they open it right and then I was doing my karate
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thing right so I had a ghee in the back yeah and they said open that bag I said no sir they open it and they had put the
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grass in the bag oh my God yeah they have company but anyway I go I go downtown and I'm I'm being booked and sure enough there was a cop there who
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was him he says to me see John you looks me now when back there Johnny Lucy was a
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very Progressive Italian uh lawyer who was hooked up right he would help you out should have went over there John you know to figure out what it was about he said just see me Monday I'll come in
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Monday John Lewis was something in the judge's ear and the judge says Garrett Morris and the reason why he said get out of here I didn't want to see you in here all right
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he whispered you were framed right that's crazy well the lawyer probably told him how the cop got the grass yeah nobody cams back then
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how you been doing good me me and Dana have been uh having fun look at my hair looks good today you know I know what happened something this weekend
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Oh an item an item are you breaking a story listen Garrett what happens on flying the wall Chase
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and fly on the wall am I canceled now that's that can't do yeah I'm leading the council yeah Dana and I are old
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buddies and uh we sort of emerge in the same person over time I must say you do look at your thing for the same mama you do yeah same tribe Irish Irish Scottish
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Norwegian yeah what's your tribe really Scottish Norwegian yeah well I'm that Cambodian Nigerian West Africa and by the way
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ancestryback.com said I have a little bit of finish in me can you believe that that's interesting it's down deep yeah I can't my skin cries
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my birthday tomorrow's your birthday I read that your birthday's coming up is it the first is that what it is
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okay we'll delete this because this is going to be airing in 2027. uh no we don't we don't know all right what's your secret I have to ask what are you what are you drinking
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is this here is green tea okay that's it that's the exactly glucose it comes to reduce your glucose um so blood sugar stuff yeah yeah I I
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have a I'm Type 2 diabetes your energy uh doesn't match your birth certificate it's huge I mean you're just like on fire you're just energetic I I can't tell you on here man this is recorded by
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cops okay yeah they're always monitoring this I will say Garrett you are um you have sort of a uh very bright uh light and
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energy about you and a fun thing about you and I see why in comedy you do well because you always bring it you're very
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vocal you got a strong voice you just have a fun vibe and I think it's positive so yeah positive people want to
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work with you so when it comes to Comedy this is what I say I'm an actor who's in
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a comedy show many many years ago and I have been suffering ever since now why have you been so sorry everywhere I go people want me to be being funny and that's my age
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well she's telling me all the time inward you ain't funny yeah fill in the blanks I got it yeah yeah uh well I think you're funny and uh
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you know a lot of people have a funny vibe about them like people say the uh when I date girls I go what do you look
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for and I go I like a girl that's funny but I don't mean she needs to be Robin Williams some girls just have like a
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charm and fun thing about them and that's funny to me and it's a lightness and fun they don't have to be like you
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know Henny Youngman yada so I like that I'll take care of that part take my last
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one exactly I guess but by the way Dana Garrett has worked with Pryor and all these huge huge Stars which I look over and I can't believe how cool it is I got to work with Richard Pryor but I want to
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hear your story first don't one up on me I have a nice Richard story I have a great Richard prize story
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okay I want to hear your fiends that's the time story doesn't start like that right and Richard brought his own group
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because he had heard that I was learned nobody heard about me except people on the East Coast so Richard brought his own writers nobody knew I got this job was just sent you the 75 was a pretty
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good job for a black guy again and they're thinking I'm long long uh you can say anything you want as far as I'm concerned obviously thought that was
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going on like Richard said got that uh Lord had gotten some guys with new well at the time I got to Saturday Night Live
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I'd already been in New York for like 17 years I had written two plays two plays
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yeah I read that last few Broadway shows uh and so I paid my dues right and they didn't know that so when Richard came he brought his own group
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and he didn't use me and I was really hurt by that because until this day Bridget is my favorite monologue of all time right yeah and at that time I was
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really very hurt because I wanted to work with him so he did the show didn't use me but later on when I went to
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California he was doing a movie called critical condition and I got a call from my agent saying Richard Pryor wants you to be in the show be in the movie and he doesn't say
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anything I assume that was his way of saying hey you know I'm sorry or something like I like it yeah yeah that was that was very sweet sensitive well you know a lot of hosts
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do that I mean a lot of hosts still bring in writers just because they get scared like maybe Paul Mooney was with uh Richard I don't know right he was
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with me he was a force of nature Paul Mooney I used to do stand-up with him in the late 70s and I would go why is this
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guy in this little Club I mean he was so charismatic and so good looking and so funny it was like just everything I love full movie I'm sure he was behind
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Richard doing what he did because he was rich but yeah this day I see because much of what Richard did was Paul Mooney
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you know when you the idea of a monologist you know I I think of that more voice orientated but I think that
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with Richard from what when I first saw him on The Ed Sullivan Show he mimed for
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two minutes a guy reaching under his underarm to see if he had bo and it was like just a silent movie you know so Richard had that capacity to paint a pitcher instantly and he could do just a
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straight monologue so I don't know he could tell stories like yeah and play all the characters yeah you could tell
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when you're talking about Mudbone you wouldn't be laughing for like two or three minutes until he got to the punch
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line yeah he was so engaged in Mudbone until it's time till this day again how did you say the word I said monologues say it again uh monologist anyway I
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sometime I had trouble with English tell my Richard Pryor little sister Connor so I'm working at the Holiday Inn as a waiter yeah and it was near the circle Star Theater up near San
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Francisco Richard's headline there so Richard's in the restaurant so I gotta go serve Richard and I was really
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nervous so I I brought him a a Denver omelette okay and then later on I came back and I I took the plate and he looked up at me and said quote whoever
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made that omelet can suck my dick man I never knew if it was a positive or negative review 12 years later I'm in a
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movie with Richard Pryor which I'll tell you about we're at lunch and I just wanted to know what he meant
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that day but I didn't want to bring it up he probably wouldn't remember so I look at him I take a bite of my cheeseburger and I said this cheese uh
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this uh this cheeseburger is really really really uh good and he goes wow well you must want to suck somebody's dick no I can't I got the headline you got it you got it wrong
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look at that suck dick yesterday well okay so it wasn't just me yeah whatever the funniest joke I've ever heard was when he said this [ __ ] was so fine I want to suck her daddy's
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dick I like that one yeah [Music] I just want to say I just had a root canal and a crown put in and I'm kind of
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spaced out so the end of the joke went like this you know okay do it again um he goes um
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um I like wait a minute I'm so I'm so stoned from the dentist the punch line you do it I said no I can't I really can't remember I
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think he said this cheeseburger can suck my dick no no it was yeah it was a reverse that I I got the the information
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by setting a trap you know I I will get to it before this podcast is over but I am so high right now I mean I I'm I'm just like well I'm very much what kind
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of marijuana marijuana no it was Dental stuff oh okay but if I if I don't smoke marijuana my
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brand is sure my brand is Sledgehammer that's my brand of cannabis oh yeah God you know what brand of cannabis is what sledgehammer Sledge from the Peter Gabriel collection
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yeah I like that name it sounds cool shovel to the face yo I will be smoking again okay Hey Garrett I have a question for you you can smoke a joint right now while I ask you if you want
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um now Garrett when you okay bring me a joint oh boy uh uh so when you come on SNL it must be like The Dirty Dozen so you guys all get together you don't you probably don't know each other right
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right and then you are thrown together and you're sort of like okay let's see what works what doesn't work and you oh you're a writer you're a writer at the beginning right yes I would yes okay so
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you were not I don't think you're on camera until later I think that was a decision that was made later correct I
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actually was on camera the first show oh let me check can I yeah you're in the middle of a story I don't want to cut you off no way it's about you I was a playwright right so I brought
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Lauren my play he read it and liked it because there's a couple funny things in it he hired me
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I didn't know that just because you rather play that's about two hours doesn't mean you can write
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30 minutes 30 seconds yeah a little tiny sketch yeah for sure it took me about four or five months to realize I
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couldn't do it and and I was feeling really pissed off myself to finally I realized I had an idea because in my
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play the Black Panther group that I have is called the Young Lions makes a joke about how when they're collecting money at fundraising they want to raise a lot of money when they have white
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milky white liberals in the audience right so I have to tell that idea I'm going to call this name to Sugar oh Tom Schiller oh Tommy yeah
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right show vision goes over to um the studio and tells it to another guy whose name I will not call that guy then writes it down as his idea
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oh whoa wait a minute right when I come over it's written down and he's not even
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giving me credit for even contributing right so anyway anyway what happened am I tell I'll tell you the whole story
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anyway yeah anyway what happened was it became a thing called a white guilt Relief Fund yes I remember the sketch right yeah and I don't know I when I
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started off to help me because I I'm 85 I may not be honest my people for donations out of guilt and make them an honorary negro you'd send them a plaque
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anyway well that was the only thing that I did that I thought was worthwhile and
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this guy who at that time was the second in command to end beats right now here's
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what happened was mad I was so angry sure about that yeah a couple of weeks to Stew over that and I was gonna make a serious mistake I'm
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gonna come in this particular day and let him know what's for and even if it meant physically confronting him I
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was going to do that although I knew he was a wrestling champ now oh I think I know who it is from Harvard I think I know who it is
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I didn't care I said if I'll get a couple licks in yeah after he whips my ass he's still gonna remember me right yeah but I get off to the elevator and somebody there says Garrett Lauren wants
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to see you in the green room I go to the green room and sure enough John and Gilda and Jane had told Lauren Michaels look you've got got bringing in Black
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actors he's one himself and here's a movie he's done they were looking at Cooley High
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right so long looks at Cooley High he auditioned me with Gilda and I was totally counterpunching because Guild is like you know there was uh uh to this day
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unreal she and how she improvised you didn't even know she's doing it yeah right and I kind of punched you off that
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it was I said it was I was a taxi driver driving from JFK with her as my my uh passenger and I was cheating the hell out of her all the way right and so
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anyway that's how I became a member of the group so I was there the first the first time we did it from the beginning
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but I didn't start off that way no wow but how about you turned your anger and you had to switch gears and I look I I
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look I'm a Buddhist so I don't believe in necessarily in a personal God but somebody really was in the works who stopped that because I was going to make a serious serious mistake
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franken's got some ground game too I do have go-to moves Garrett I mean how as a fighter would you do the kind of hey
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let's be friends and then head butt or would you work the body or what would be your kind of go-to moves we're going to
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the sun affected space because that would have brought him down then I want to kick him in the chair he's going to
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get up mad herself and do some kind of hold and break my neck okay but okay look if you're short like I am and don't wait much you got to go forward yeah you
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got to get away you hit fast and then you move but be Scrappy there was no way no one could have won that fight yeah I
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know the dude and he would he's very tough when he gets in the ground game I would say all right listen I got mad at
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him too but I didn't I I didn't think of him decision hey before we go on can I just do the Richard Pryor joke we can
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cut it out all right I'm so sorry about the dentist but here it is I waited I'll set it up
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real fast when gave Rich Pryor Denver at the Holiday Inn I brought got the the plate up and he said whoever made that
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omelet can suck my dick 12 years later true story in a movie wanted to know what he meant by suck my dick was it
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positive or negative I'm having lunch with him I take I take a bite of the cheeseburger I look at Richard and I say
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well whoever made this cheeseburger can suck my dick and Richard said you must love that cheeseburger
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that's how you do it boom Dana I'm making Garrett happy that's what I love I never knew I would say suck my dick on this podcast now I've said it seven times that's a mic drop
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ladies and gentlemen what do you have if you have a container with a penis excuse me uh a patinas
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that's a yeah you have a dictator stupid oh my God why do you have to have the stupid party yeah stupid yeah it's just it's a pretty good job no because you
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didn't know what it was stupid I like the stupid Edition was hilarious that could have been a gag character so
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so you were part of that original Lex economy now who is your hangout friend of the cast these are just basic SNL
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questions so who'd you gravitate to was it Gilda or just everybody or did you have people here and Chevy um but I didn't do what I should have
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done because I should have also after the show after the show at the first couple of
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years it was you go downtown to this bar I think uh Willie oh yeah you have the party yeah that's equal to that golf game yeah people talk about when you
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form alliances right so I didn't do that so I really had a lot of people not liking me thinking I was stuck up and all that well yeah why didn't you go I'm one now I want to know because I even to
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this day am an introvert working against that all right okay you've gotten over it to a lot a large extent but also I had at that time
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okay do you want everybody to know the real truth I only have probably a couple of girls at home waiting with some
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cocaine to begin just do what we're gonna do so it was either the girls in the cocaine or having Lauren tell his
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story about how we've met well listen uh that's a tough one Dana because his story sounds great like all that fun stuff but then you look back and you realize you've got such huge
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talented cool people that you get to because I was gonna say Garrett did you have an official after party it sounds
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like you didn't but we had Dana was on and then I was on with him for a while and we had they would walk out with a
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ticket a secret you know during the show remember this Dana and then hand you and you put it in your wardrobe or something
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you go here's where the party is don't tell anyone and it was during the live show so you go okay and then after the
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show you'd go straight there but they didn't want everyone to find out about it and so we'd have a designated spot
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every Saturday and we'd go there sort of the same thing you just go there and get all [ __ ] up with everybody but you see
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it I'm sure that the reason why that didn't happen to me is because at first I said I'm not going in the first place
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right so when that started happening people probably said well you know [ __ ] him you know he doesn't well well you
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had some responsibilities yeah but I remember when I first got an SNL one was telling me about you know Chevy and
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Danny and everybody and Gary said Garrett do that again Danny [Music] Danny you can never get Garrett to the
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party unless you brought some cocaine and some hookers I go really right I'm sure right listen it's good bait well the thing about it
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was coming in 86 you guys were badasses like to me that original cast you guys were oh it's a little a little bit of a okay let's a little power flower oh
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you're gonna blow your nose fly yeah uh gentleman joins us um I've been on Saturday Night Live from the original cash a young man named Garrett Morris but we thought of you guys as badass
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Pirates you would fight there were drugs you know Chevy and and Bill Murray would
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fight and blue she was like a badass and then we got in and people were having like amp still lights we'd have a Bud
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Light at the party with me and Phil and just look around and we didn't party so we didn't belong well can I set up my job yeah John
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when he and I were both into the cocaine thing yeah never really talked to me unless he needed cocaine and then I could have knocked on the door hey buddy come in and I put my you
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know tennis ball down there and you know what he would do 10 of them by the time he got two I had
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none left so he would just go in could a straw on his nose go down on the desk you were about to start the cooking he
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would snort all of it oh my God he could leave a little bit oh God a little bit at the end God a nice guy he's a brilliantly talented man but boy I had
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mineral water and Nora Dunn would come in and just chug it yeah wow I'm kidding no but what was it about like I tried
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cocaine I've talked about it I just like you're saying you're fighting being introverted like when I did cocaine
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within 30 seconds I was very sad I I just really it made me very anxious and very paranoid I only tried it twice and I one time I did some cocaine drove to
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the comedy club and I couldn't go in the club because I knew they all hated me in there then I just drove back home so how
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did it but I knew people that cocaine spoke to them that eventually they had it in a little thing and they just sniff
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it all day yeah um so what what did it do to you I mean did you okay cocaine did the opposite to
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me it livened me up yeah uh oh because you're an introvert so it kind of opened you up but then you need more cocaine cane right you're losing the height you got to get more right that's the trouble that's the trouble because the thing
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that first High you never get it again Dana uh let me get it Again David okay after that you're striving to get that first High so yeah even if you're on for like 35
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years which I was 35 years yeah it's definitely you get never get that again then you start smoking it
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you never get that first Tire again okay so doesn't make you stop chasing it I was there I did it for a while well Lynn by I said one first do you remember Linda oh yeah what a mess yeah when he
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when that happened to him I I started thinking yeah you're way older than this guy you weigh all
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and you know you know you're lucky that that didn't happen to you you know Garrett I was I
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was in it during land bias land biased for the for the listeners is a basketball player that got recruited by
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the Celtics I think yeah and I think he died after draft night or something from doing too much cocaine something I think
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before he played and that was the first time I think I knew you could die from just doing straight cocaine like I
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hadn't heard excuse me excuse me oh he's he dropped his joint his house is on fire no he's actually yeah oh is it okay
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to say that we think our friend Garrett Morris uh is enjoying some fine oh oh so that's like what does that do it's evens your energy out or what
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it's a kind of marijuana that lets you still weak oh it's up upper okay it's an upper uh if you get a hybrid it's in between if you get Indica you're going to go to sleep
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well I worked with Scatman Carruthers once in Rockefeller Center yeah I envy you okay let's get it man angel from heaven oh
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sweetest guy oh wow and always was you'd go in the bathroom and you'd hear him and he'd be smoking weed you know and uh
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so one night it was the one animal one year anniversary of John Lennon's uh death and my brother was visiting the
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show it was a sitcom with Mickey Rooney another crazy man and Scatman gave us a joint he rolled it in front of us and he
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had both ends were closed off he did it without even looking you know and so then we tried it and it was terrible it was really weak so the next break I brought back some Colombian pots
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I did and the next day in the elevator now Scatman was from the 30s when it was illicit he in the elevator people around
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he says to me quote the music was good might I get a pound of your week so after the show is over my brother and I got a huge bag of pot
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grocery bag of pot drove it down to Van Nuys where Scatman live brought him to the pot played banjo kept in touch with her know his guitar yeah and ukulele still going strong
00:31:54
we've never met like a a character like Scatman you know you see that man there he said he points to the janitor he goes that man's an artist that man is an artist you know he was
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just taking us all these different places he was in Blues Brothers Dana and that's the only reason I knew who he was
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because I was young and I saw I think he was in Blues Brothers he's saying Minnie the Moocher is that what I'm thinking
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did you see Blues he was in The Shining oh I don't know oh yeah oh that was him Jack Nicholson you know what I have never seen that
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it's scary I love my man but I hate um scary movies yeah I hate scary movies yeah so do I dude I'm with you well you said that Jack brought in a
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suitcase of pot into London yeah uh no this was Cannabis and he goes and they go and Jack goes I'm not gonna sell it it's just for my personal use and
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they let him through really yeah uh shoot I I have another thing did you have any favorite sketches back then Garrett when you were there that first year um the uh colossal uh president
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what was that the Colossal president yeah that was just a thing at the 12 mile island or something like that where the uh nuclear thing oh Four Mile
00:33:21
three miles three mile 5K yeah everybody's big uh and I I'm the wife of um the president and he's big and I'm big you know
00:33:35
um another one that was my favorite not for any other reason but I really think about it as a win which somebody didn't
00:33:42
get the message it was with um uh OJ Simpson oh well he was a mandingo who goes around ripping all the uh black slaves female
00:33:54
slaves and at the end I suppose the kid which was a kiss I don't want to kiss him David is to kiss you know like this to kiss
00:34:07
him and he backs away as if I really wanted yeah you were just acting right yeah oh man another one is uh something that Adam schlabel did uh the uh um um
00:34:19
baseball um very very good go Chico baseball have been very very good for me yeah actually
00:34:26
Chico Escuela is really um Brando Murray's original [Music] enlarged on it right so we would do a
00:34:39
piece like that all the time and also I can't uh throw out um something that uh Chevy came up with for me which is a hard to hear it yeah which became kind of a a run everyone knows that are you
00:34:52
sure yeah that's why Bell's a big writer there yeah he was good right you know I was thinking I love him I love swagville
00:34:58
yeah yeah he's great yeah but Garrett now when you did um in the beginning oh first of all now that that one uh I don't know when prior hosted or
00:35:12
what year was when they that sketch was Chevy I think it must for the first year wasn't Chevy only one year yep heavy no Chevy came in after a year
00:35:20
and a half oh no I thought that was Billy I'm sorry no no Terry was in after you're right he
00:35:28
was like a year right and then Bill Murray came in right right and Chevy Chevy blew up what was that like when
00:35:35
one cast member was like wasn't he on the cover of time or something I mean it just went phew was he on a couple of
00:35:40
times I didn't know or Newsweek I mean I know that Chevy just got so much it would Fletch that was the name of
00:35:48
Flint yeah he did a lot of movies yeah I thought however he waited he should have
00:35:53
waited a little longer of course I I agree he wishes he'd never left he he wishes he'd stayed at least five years
00:35:59
right just like the guy who's on at a cop show uh who later on did uh CSI David Caruso yeah he left too soon you know that happens and I get I sort of
00:36:12
get it but Chevy was a tall great looking guy and he's a and it was really good in comedy and then he was a movie
00:36:17
star like I don't even know what that would be like but to leave when you know it's the best show it's a cool show like
00:36:24
you guys I know Chevy blew up but all you guys were huge The Beatles I mean everyone yeah rebel I mean there's just
00:36:30
was nothing like it I mean I was in college and when it when it came on and I saw all you guys it made me feel old
00:36:36
fellas okay when I was one all the time I was being born in the hospital it was on TV and I was like this looks pretty fun oh my God
00:36:49
I was born in 1988 but when when I when I got into Saturday Night Live I had been in New York about 17 years right
00:37:00
and you were 38. I just asked to join uh Saturday Night Live uh all those other excuse me [ __ ] had just got out of high school and college I was about 10 years
00:37:13
away from it oh AARP okay you didn't you did not look older than anyone you didn't stand out as like Phil Hartman who I think was 38. I'm 39 years old yeah yeah yeah yeah now Garrett this uh
00:37:26
Dana I just want to ask him that which I everyone might know this but Chevy does there's some sketches people remember
00:37:32
you know and one of them is Chevy interviewing Richard Pryor when he was there for a job and who wrote that huh
00:37:39
who who wrote that one I think Chevy and Richard together oh cool yeah that yeah
00:37:46
that's like I mean when you look back on what you guys did comedically That's a classic and then what you could what we call it now since what we can get away with now you know it's just very
00:38:01
different at the time even at the time it was incendiary but now it would be like let's go to a test pattern right it
00:38:08
would just get canceled I mean Lauren they did at the right time because in about 10 years we got into what we're into now right which is where which is a softening yeah you I mean with all due
00:38:21
respect to the brilliant cast that Saturday night had always had you can't really write for them the way they wrote
00:38:28
for us uh then I mean you know and I I hate that I hate that it changed a real it's a Rubik's Cube you gotta really you really have to cleverly get clever stuff in because you
00:38:41
can't it's almost like you're pulling from the same eight jokes that everyone's allowed to use now right and that won't make people mad but you guys
00:38:48
I think the first five I think you're on for five years that at least the standards and practices didn't even know
00:38:54
what to say no to they were like this is so ridiculous like they had to learn and go oh wait wait we don't like that we're
00:39:00
getting a lot of complaints about that we have to stop that but it was like playing whack-a-mole because every week you think of a new way to offend people
00:39:06
and that was the greatest part of it well no no one cared initially and then the show became a smash at what point I
00:39:13
mean two years in you guys just blew up but initially probably they didn't no one's watching we had a lot of people
00:39:19
who were we thought were Progressive okay look in my opinion the true Progressive yeah well without any sign of racism whatsoever but I so he's like
00:39:30
so he's like me I thought for instance because of his past would be the same way Michael Donahue with all due respect was an absolute
00:39:42
racist [ __ ] you gotta add [ __ ] to that because it's just handles the show there was this kid that was going to have a black doctor right they
00:39:55
have a doctor not a black doctor and I wasn't in it at all so I said hey Michael well we had to talk to me back
00:40:02
you know he tells me well Gary uh the audience might be thrown by a black doctor now this is 1975 right and I'm from New Orleans where from the time I
00:40:13
was 12 years old I was surrounded not only by [ __ ] of black medical doctors but black phds as well and I'm wondering how a guy who yeah name is associated
00:40:26
with National Lampoon doesn't [ __ ] know this did he not see Guess who's coming to dinner with Sidney Poitier which I saw in the theater at age eight
00:40:37
and then it infected me the rest of my life and I got to do a lot of benefits of Cedar uh Sydney Poitier and uh he's
00:40:45
another real gentleman sorry I'm still a little high I'm slurring well that's tough because yeah you're lighting the show you say hey can I get thrown into a
00:40:52
sketch and he said no this one's not right for you and it's like oh boy you can't be a black doctor what are you talking about you know we're talking
00:40:58
about hey I remember being almost all right you walk by a person just walk by and you I'm on 72nd Street and he's coming
00:41:10
towards me now for like a half a block away I said that's [ __ ] 105 yeah right oh yeah I'm just faster man
00:41:18
I like that to this day I remember that day you know oh yeah he was so eloquent I remember I did a bunch of benefits for Cedar Sinai and he was always there and then one time I got off stage and I was
00:41:29
walking to the audience he stopped me and I was able to do my yeah and he gave me some praise and I did my I said they
00:41:36
call me Mr Tibbs and he laughed so hard that was with Rod Steiger I think but yeah for me there were so many brilliant uh movies in the 60s and 70s and just a lot of my heroes
00:41:50
were black I mean just Jimi Hendrix my brother came in 1966 he came home he was 13 He said I just saw the best guitar
00:41:57
player in the world I said what's his name he goes Jimi Hendrix but we didn't we weren't we were kind of progressive
00:42:03
in our own way back then because we just wanted to see Jimmy we didn't think you know and I went to the first
00:42:08
integrated well a very very well integrated high school with busing in 1969 so oh my Jimi Hendrix you know what
00:42:16
he did when he came back from England where he'd only become famous he got on the corner of 125th Street and 17th 7th
00:42:23
Avenue and played the guitar for like 18 hours or so just introduce people to him he was really something else he was no like Neil Young has said
00:42:36
about him no one's ever played the guitar like Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix was never he did he die before SNL or
00:42:42
he's somebody they would have him he was one of those caught up in you know yeah he died he was like 20 right 27 yeah
00:42:51
um you know Janice Joplin around the same age um I hate it when that happened to Jess I
00:42:58
loved her ass man I mean you know what I mean yeah well again you know there are
00:43:05
there's just certain talents like Janice's singing and there's a word I use a lot Supernatural that screaming the intensity of it was
00:43:15
just crazy without due respect especially coming out of a white woman okay sure yeah she has such a talent and then it almost like they burn out quickly
00:43:28
because it's so much talent and so that voice is so cool and everything and you hope it's around forever but yeah yeah
00:43:36
just The Accidental plane with fire you know Jim Morrison once you start playing with opioids and mixing that stuff in uh
00:43:43
you know of course you know John Belushi you know it's it wasn't intentional uh but you're playing with
00:43:50
fire it's it's just matter of fact that's another nothing that started me started meeting up
00:43:55
yeah John's death was John during when you were on SNL when was it I came he was 32 like 83 I think right it was
00:44:02
after Sno when he he died yeah John and I didn't really hang only when he needed
00:44:08
cocaine yeah right yeah sure so what how did that affect you that that get you off cocaine or you just started to slow down or what happened to slow down and by the time I came here here I was it's
00:44:22
not something you could just stop um by 2005 uh I went to AAA uh Alcoholics Anonymous yeah and they do something that exasperates you they will
00:44:36
call your ass okay and I will sponsor you over and over and so to that I really uh I've succeeded in getting rid of it okay much different with cigarettes which I still
00:44:50
am struggling with but uh I'm glad that it's 2005 it's been nice that you know 2002 22. yeah here we are since that's it was 17 years 16 yeah yeah well the
00:45:02
body has a remarkable healing apparatus once you give it a break you know so you're did you have a lot of people who
00:45:10
lived a long time in your family tree nothing my grandfather lived in 92. okay so you can see yeah yeah my grandmother got I'm sure got cancer when she was in
00:45:23
the 50s so yes my mother lived to 80. but uh she didn't take care of herself okay so there's a cup you know either I'm gonna hook up my grandfather and you know stay
00:45:36
for a minute how do you deal with stress are you really Buddhist are you really Zen are you are you relaxed in your
00:45:42
brain all the time guys I love the respect I know you guys hear Buddhism and you think zen zen not but it's it's
00:45:49
not it's only one part of Buddhist there are 300 right over 200 000 Buddhists worldwide and kill them unlike me they chant which is not the same thing as the
00:46:03
Zen Buddhist okay right so you chant they meditate don't they Arigato let me hear it
00:46:21
get it to the Mystic law of cause and effect which means you don't believe in a personal God but you do regard the law as being in the place that most other
00:46:32
religious place got it is the most sacred right I did Transcendental Meditation and my Mantra
00:46:39
is dumb not a lot of people I'm I'm I'm a TM uh practitioner too yeah my Mantra Domino League which I found out later was Native American for job your shorts we don't have much time are you telling
00:46:50
people your Mantra no I was kidding I'm just joking I would never tell you my Mantra I like yeah I don't tell them my
00:46:57
Mantra is Garrett [Laughter] Garrett after SNL first of all there's too many cool people there you had you had Danny Aykroyd who we did I did two movies with three actually great guy uh
00:47:10
beautiful yeah yes he was beautiful dude I seemed like uh did you hang with anyone after the the following Year's
00:47:17
missile you stay in touch or just see him when you see him kind of thing when I saw him um when James was out here
00:47:23
doing two Rock free stuff on the phone oh that's right Jane was on a second Rock From the Sun Third Rock From the Sun right and now I have a closet relationship Lorraine yeah Lorraine yeah
00:47:35
Hannah who is very very challenged yeah and hacks oh hacks yeah yeah yeah yeah Dynamite after and yes so a very fine comedian she did my show
00:47:50
last year there we go yeah Garrett you who was your head writer when you started was it Ann beets and beats was
00:47:57
yes she was see they had a girl head writer back then which is probably yeah right that was on YouTube more rare than
00:48:03
a black doctor the other guy we talked to believe mentioned that was the uh assistant head run
00:48:11
I know who you're talking about and look very sorry about what happened up when that thing happened they should have backed him up and not let him go the way he did
00:48:28
I was a lot of politics a lot of politics he didn't have to leave because of that
00:48:36
yeah I tend to agree it was a purge that had to happen but it some people got swept up into it that maybe in a more
00:48:43
reasonable time would have yeah yeah he's not been treated like that you know yeah I agree yeah jeez I wonder if I'm
00:48:50
canceled right now do you think we could be careful because you agreed we said suck my dick I said Sidney Poitier black
00:48:57
man first of all he says with all due respect to us and then he says with all respect [ __ ] and other people so
00:49:02
it really did I lost a little bit white [ __ ] I don't care more so I'm I'm just happy the rest of the day like my day is a home run now because do you have any kids I've got two sons and
00:49:15
they're in the show business every day yeah I guess so I mean he got you on a technicality [ __ ] is just a
00:49:27
great word because of the rhythm of it you know it's a great word I mean gosh darn it that's not doesn't get in my community gentlemen you say it better
00:49:38
he's a bad [ __ ] meaning you dinner meaning a great guy yeah I like that I see of like oh Rachel Maddow I said she's a bad [ __ ] right
00:49:51
rather than a [ __ ] right he's a bad [ __ ] you did you did although I don't look and then he was anymore
00:49:58
no no no it's con it's it's designed to get us all Angry when I was like it was reaching all the time and what's the old lady uh uh Joy Reid you know I read yeah
00:50:10
you know and I remember I remember you know yeah Brian yeah so Ron Williams was my thing until until the news just started bringing me down
00:50:26
[Music] here before I uh before I uh we let you go do you still sing Dana said you're a good singer I used to sing high seas now
00:50:38
I sing little C's I sing the blues now I don't sing uh you know oh he's doing the
00:50:45
Albert King or who are you singing Muddy Waters and stuff like Muddy Waters yeah yeah
00:50:50
um my favorite Blues sing is Muddy boys oh I loved Albert King Blues power great
00:50:56
now the King was great that baby that baby and it's baby had a baby bed all fussing up he's got the blues you got
00:51:02
the good old-fashioned country Blues remember Albert wasn't he magic and of course Muddy Waters I mean you know
00:51:08
that's another guy again lay it on us don't be shy what are you saying with the Harry Bentley Harry Belafonte I was with him for like nine years as he my first job yeah well
00:51:24
there's a single arranger with uh yeah that's so that's amazing the Bell find his singers the Belafonte singers yeah as a 12-member group that he managed right
00:51:36
he's like periodically but these he used to send without him so we too who sang that thing you put the lime in the coconut you put it right that was Harry okay that was Harry Belafonte yeah yeah
00:51:50
and then it became a commercial too yeah some product did I come man we won't go home what about seven Up is this Blues now you can
00:52:02
you can get laid with that 85 that's all all day 85 still alive you got cool boys 87
00:52:10
you're in heaven 88 don't be late 89 won't you be mine 90. she's living honey was this your SNL audition Jack that was a good one
00:52:23
[ __ ] I know I've had dinner with them uh well Garrett thank you for coming on with us it's been a delight you're so much fun I feel happier hanging out with you for this hour thank you so much
00:52:37
fellas for even thinking about this old guy yeah you're a good dude and it's you
00:52:42
know we all got a job because of uh you and the squad oh my God and Lauren and everything and I just want to say 100
00:52:48
episodes on Jamie Foxx they were on the Martin show yeah okay thank you bud extremely talented
00:52:56
and nothing you got your [ __ ] job we do the best we can you're terrific you're tremendous excuse me many people
00:53:02
is who's better than Karen Morris nobody listen many people are saying never better nobody's ever done it like him
00:53:08
come on let's get real folks oh no come back in around Garrett Morris here's the
00:53:14
deal come on we could do better we will do better you got Trump and Biden at the
00:53:19
end I love you man thank you brother can we hang out sometime can you okay you got my number all right Garrett miss you bud
00:53:31
no let me thank you guys for this I appreciate it we really I just really enjoyed this I know I'm a little I'm a little fuzzy and my words aren't coming out as well as they normally do but
00:53:42
because of the dental work but I got the prior joke out I completed it and that made my day it was a three-parter yeah
00:53:49
oh now I'm gonna pack myself and Ice get a B12 shot and just get a good crack of course light we don't want to end the
00:53:56
show with the words suck my dick okay what would be the substitution um so um instead of Shane Shunk my dick yes you kind of say uh how about a hand
00:54:09
job dear I guess that's a little more benign maybe not so uh dramatic I got one good night [ __ ] hey hey what's up flies what's up please
00:54:22
what's up people that listen we want to hear from you and your dumb questions questions ask us anything anything you
00:54:28
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00:54:40
question is do you have a favorite SNL Monologue one of my all-time favorites is the one
00:54:47
where Susan Lucci and the Emmys from 1990. hey everyone Emmy fight Neil I'm wearing an Emmy
00:54:52
around his neck Spade using Med corn in the cup yeah that was funny prices thank
00:54:58
you for the Pod okay well Dana do you remember this one because I was just a newbie on that I know I wasn't I wasn't
00:55:05
in that one was gone that was funny though I was Dana not in something I was probably changing into do Bush senior I
00:55:12
had the bald caps going you need you need that 12 minute chunk yeah I would just put the bald cap on early and just
00:55:17
drop all the wigs on the top anyway um one that stood out for me during my time I don't know if you were there for it was one Steve Martin I was gonna say [ __ ] sings a song with and it becomes a
00:55:30
Broadway musical we run and dance the cast always Steve the whole premise he's done it so much at this point hosting he's not gonna I'm not gonna phone it in tonight I'm not gonna and I that one
00:55:41
really stood out for me one of the biggest laughs is yeah he runs around he goes come on guys and he picks up cast
00:55:47
members along the way yeah he's like the pipes for Chris and Farley goes I'm not gonna get uh super drunk tonight yeah I
00:55:56
won't have a drink till update is through that's a promise to you yeah chill update soon he goes good for
00:56:02
memory Chris good yeah yeah but he let everyone sing and uh wow I just thought of that same time
00:56:10
Roberts Michaels but probably a lot of people joined in on it but I that stood out always comedians have great ones uh
00:56:17
uh uh as we mentioned Kim Kardashian had a great one um when she was on not a comedian but that's sometimes fun when people come out of nowhere and knock one out
00:56:27
um low expectations and then she delivered uh and so there's over the years God I can't pick one I remember I
00:56:34
mean so it was funny yeah that was Susan Lucci was that was a great one yeah and we've been a lot you know I like when
00:56:40
they bring the cast into it at monologue sometimes that's a trick though if they don't really know what to do right they
00:56:46
stack them or if they're too nervous they they want cash yeah and there's a lot of q a from the audience that's
00:56:52
that's a great device oh what about Britney Spears and her boobs are moving around I don't know she said a lot of people
00:56:58
think I have fake boobs but the truth is they start going like this in her shirt they have like a uh some sort of trick
00:57:04
yeah yeah that got a big laugh oh though so many days my friend so thank you for
00:57:12
that question but there's just too many to pick from I think yeah but you you we mentioned you picked a good one though Susan Lucci we came back with Steve
00:57:18
Martin whoops when Steve's on we gotta ask him sounds like ours was better all right thank you bye bye-bye thank you David Rivera it
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