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hi David oh hey Dana who do you what do you want to talk about I want to talk about Nick croll Nick croll God is he
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funny one of the good dudes out there and um you know this is one of the first ones he was not on SNL but he did
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audition and we're trying to get more in the comics that are influenced and uh
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grew up on SNL believe me anyone who auditions for that show and doesn't get
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it there's a story there oh they have something to talk about a story there let's give them something to talk about
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to talk about uh Nick croll was first of all he's does Big Mouth that that's a
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huge show he's got his hands in so many things it's hard to talk about how many
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he's done but um he's in don't worry darling the most talked about movie of
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The Summer don't worry darling that's the one oh he is okay so he's everywhere
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he's on Broadway with John melany yeah he's uh I did a show with him at the
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logo he interviewed me oh yeah and he's so likable and funny and I don't know
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I'm just a fan I like when I go oh yeah oh yeah I don't want to gush no that's
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but I do think SNL might have missed the boat but I I wasn't there I wasn't a fly
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on thewall watching Nick croll do his magic but you know you know sometimes must kick themselves because they do let
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a couple of uh winners go uh and he he's definitely great he wrote for Chappelle
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Show um he's uh I saw a story about don't worry darling and it was on Yahoo
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sports I'm like I think everyone is covering this all right Nick craw Nick craw Nick
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[Music] craw hotels got expensive the thing about Nick croll which I really like but
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some some people don't uh oh hey what I get look I look I get it nobody pops up like a Nick
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craw well I I feel like I I I I felt like I was a fly on the wall of your conversation um what are we talking
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State we talking state tax I'm going to Arizona for the Super Bowl because I'm
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from there and I feel like it would be a real you know boost to the state in general if I went and they'd be so
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excited drop money there yeah I'm one of the biggest stars from Arizona it goes
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Hugh Downs he's great he's funy of course Charles Barkley played on the Suns there
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he played he played for the Suns but he's not he live there he's got a residence s Francisco's got to clean up
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that stinky Town that's a stinky town they got to clean it's terrible it's got
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that that town stinks I gotta clean up San Francisco yeah he's great didn't he
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get did he get pulled over in Pho is that where he got pulled over do you know that story what happened did he say
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he's Elvis in this town no I heard a story that he got pulled over in in I want to say in Arizona speeding
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and they asked him what happened he said he was going to get a [ __ ] the worst part was he was
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heading to my house now I was with him Bobby McGee what do you say Dan I don't want to go
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Blue on this podcast supposed to be friendly and family friendly not anymore not with C I got I was with Charles and
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we went to Bobby McGee which is an old like place to go on Sundays where it's
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like you know a couple toet Tapper songs playing Little Billy Ocean and then uh we were going about a th000 miles an
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hour on the way home and I go are you going to get pulled over he goes [ __ ] that I'm Elvis in this town they're not
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going to do [ __ ] to me and I was like oh and uh they didn't and they didn't pull
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him over and nobody cared everyone loves them is this when is this when you guys
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were still working on your twins reboot I would do it in a second with him this movie was
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terrible now they go you want to do the livv tour you know the golf tour and he goes yeah throw money at me I love he
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just voluntarily gets in trouble just because he yeah I'll do anything for a
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lot of money and everyone's like what oh he was great about the live golf thing
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and all they're after him and goes if I got that kind of money I'd stab my
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relatives I'd stab a relative that was it does it frustrate you guys when someone like that who's that physically
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talented as an athlete is also genuinely honey like bugs the [ __ ] out word nobody
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should get a twer nobody should get a twofer I mean we happen to be we're we're essentially narcissists David and
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I so we're not really skilled at this but we're having a lot of fun doing it
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you can ask us questions too yeah but anyway you look fit you look like you're
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Nick looks cool and I I thought I took off my hat cuz Nick's hair looks cool
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and I'm like [ __ ] that look at this hair dude I just got it D I gotta I'm I'm
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working on it well can I ask a followup do you mind if I follow up with you guys
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about something you this is a conversation we don't have to interview yeah were you guys both there for the
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Nancy carrian episode oh yeah I mean watching it yeah watching it yeah yeah I think the the best performance of any
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SNL I think in my mind that was probably the best performance of any uh person to
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come on the show right and Nancy Carri and did Farley play her or what what really out of left field no I will say
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one of the best sketches was Farley skating with her oh right was that in that that was that episode right I mean
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oh yeah yes we had a lot of hype for that episode she was a huge deal and we got a huge rating and the show was not
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that good and that's happens I was like a you know I was uh was a m that was
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like at my Prime like I was obsessed with comedy just like getting super into it and was and I I remember that episode
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being so excited and one of the first times being like that was not a good episode even as a kid you were like 13
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yeah I was 13 I was like this is not a this is not a strong one not a strong is it oh man everyone only remembers the
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best stuff no one ever remembers how many a night by the time we got the update like the whole First Act sucked
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and luckily we had Dennis Miller you know the cleanup King you know Christ sake you know good carve you got a
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couple Giggles with the lady okay always had this mouth wash spray yeah he had binaka was he a baka boy he well yeah he
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always had a spray thing he was always at least on the surface very relaxed we'd be
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drench and sweat with glue and wigs and we're a Friday night late he goes the
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cat and I his wife is that's why was a nickname we're going to go watch The
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King and I down at the orphan he was in a nice suit no there's only one Dennis he's he is one of my
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favorite voices to do my IQ does or my vocabulary increases when I do Dennis because well I feel like I still
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remember when I think of my D like many Impressions it's it's your impression of
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them it's too if that's what I think of tooo too yeah that's great that is a perfect
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nword if anyone listening wants to learn Dennis Miller Christ sakes you see Eddie
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sa the other night the Topo jio cat it's actually some mouse okay I need a marsupio talking to a man with a
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hunchback all right he would say what am I gleo and I go after 15 years I go what's gleo who's gleo but it just
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sounds funny it's got a K in it I don't know what is it did you did he did he
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know no I didn't dig enough but I I do know that he remember saying SP yeah he
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goes what sometimes in my uh cuz I opened for his black and white special he had two specials Rob Schneider opened
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for one I opened for one because he was com Schneider hey let me get in there spade and [ __ ] hog the first one so
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I go on the road with Dennis and just watch him Crush every night and uh and then he goes I go here's the five words
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I didn't know um from this set and then he goes n that one means nothing sometimes I throw one in just to throw
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off the [ __ ] you know the detectives in the crowd that are trying to [ __ ] one up me and tell their wife they know
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everything I say I like to throw him a [ __ ] curveball now and then yeah so he says one that even he doesn't even
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know he just makes it up and then they stare at their wife and the wife's like
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what's that one he's like I don't know well I love when he does like a football
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player from 1954 I hav't seen movement like that since Nick look neck from the
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Detroit Lions the Brock linebacker who had three seasons before he blew out an MCL okay car yeah uh Nick by the way our
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guest today is Nick coll no it's okay this is all it is anyway yeah but uh this is all that ever was I like this
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Nancy carrian question because it wasn't even a question but uh just a fact that
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it is hard we did that with Dice Clay we had a huge hype and it just wasn't [ __ ] clicking and uh that's when
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everyone watches that don't normally watch and when you're on the show you
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feel this pressure like oh we're going to get new eyeballs and then the episode
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is a is a scker so you're watching SNL like at that early 90s then is when it
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first emerged for you and you're 12 13 14 I mean I'm watching it before then
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really but I'm yes but I am like at Prime like 90 in 91 I'm 13 years old so
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I'm like per just aching for it like want and and obsessed truly obsessed and
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um and what you know again you know when you're it's I think it's that age really
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locks in because you're you're 13 you don't have [ __ ] to do on a Saturday
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night like that's it that's the plan or at least I didn't oh no yeah that's it I
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mean things affect you so much harder as a young adolescent than at any other time in your life it it it do it it so
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it was deep for me and that Nancy carrian thing was such a I mean it's so funny that you bring up dice because
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it's like as if they're both athletes but it was more like comedian you know what I mean but I think dice
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made sense what does he does he come in like let me tell you let me tell you guys how this is GNA go is like is that
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well yeah he was kind of sweet I mean Nora dun chose to boycott that show as you probably remember so there was a
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huge controversy uh I found him kind of sweet he says hey thanks for being nice to me to me and love it I said I'll just
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go the opposite find out who he is but he was pretty funny I go what do you get for a night you know standup you get a
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million dollars and he always said what am I going to do with a million dollars as a way to say I'm getting more you
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know what do you get for two nights you get two million who gets a million for one night what am I going to do he was
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one of the first Arena comedians for a while you know well what what he's going to do is
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buy a lot of weightlifting gloves turns yeah I he translates that into gloves I saw him once at the West Westside comedy
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store anyway the comedy store they had at Westwood so he comes up and he's in
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the whole thing I've never seen him and then he does the cigarette thing around
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his head he's like for three minutes he doesn't say a word he was so charismatic
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he does the thing and he and then he goes I'm going to get you I'm going to
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get you you know and then and then Kennison followed him well he but also I feel like with dice the other thing was
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that he it was like he could have gone two ways because he also did like a Jerry Lewis imp like there was two
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versions of dice right the the the Gemini that we all know him to be the two-sided man yeah that he could have
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gone like you know Fonzy or or Jerry Lewis and he yeah he chose fony I think probably closer to his heart and then
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his his woman voice was really funny oh yes oh dice here's one my favorite jokes
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he goes I'm hey uh he goes this chick blowing me and going up and down knobbing my gob and in the middle of it
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I go come on and she goes what's the hurry they're all the meekest saddest
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women what's the hurry so delicate he goes what's the hurry dice you got a bus
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to catch I go no you do I thought my favorite line of his was will probably have to cut from the
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podcast a lot of these rich guys come out gay later in life you know hey I got a mansion I got a yach I got all this
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stuff what don't I got oh I know balls across the nose it so specific I like when he goes I Dream of
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Genie Nick we get I just have to do one more let our guest speak Happ I saw going a gig and I go you're
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out of your [ __ ] mind why am I trying to construct jokes he goes you ever seen
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I Dream of Genie and I'm in the audience nodding my head uh-huh and he goes uh
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she's in the kitchen with her big tits and she's like hey Master is there
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anything I can do for you and he goes oh no jeie it's okay you can go back in
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your but if she was my genie it would be a little different hey Master is there anything I
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can do for you you know what Genie there is you can make your tongue 8 feet long
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and lick my dick from the kitchen prod my first my first performing actually some of my first
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performing I remember is weirdly doing dice for my we were on a a family trip you know when you're on a family trip
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and there's like a van like the the tour guide has a microphone you know the big
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everybody's in a tour bus and there's a so the the the tour guide was gone it
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was just me and my my family and I took the microphone and just started doing dice for my siblings you know I'm like
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TW 11 years old and I'm like little boy blue he needed the money you know like
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the nursery rhymes were yeah those were killed those are the those are the basis
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of the foundation it's really like he the him and The Jerky Boys were like very very the first version of like
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viral that I like cuz we were passing around those Jerky Boys trank's phone calls for people Frank Rizo open your
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[ __ ] ears Jack you know he goes I'll suck dick like zlocki like I just my wife she's got did you ever do
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prank phone calls with all your voices oh yeah yeah yeah we used to call me and andreww Goldberg who who I created big
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mouth with when we were that age he was my we would do I mean Dan we used to we used to host talent shows as as Wayne
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and G let me guess which were you I probably probably Wayne I was the I was in that moment the alpha of that not
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that you weren't the alpha not that g was the guy next to the guy which is a
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good place to be yeah it's it was a great place looking back I'm like oh G
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was that's the spot that's the sweet spot but but we were doing we were and
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we were just doing Wayne and gar but at like the our the talent show at my middle school but but we would also call
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WFAN the sports radio New York and record them on a cassette tape and and do them for each you know and we would
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call up and you know be like you know I want to I think uh Patrick Ying should be playing point guard you know and they
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you start sort of slow and they'd be like oh okay you know CU he could see over the top and meanwhile little did we
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know that we were foreseeing what was going to happen with the NBA then we would get to remember Andrew Andrew
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going one time he's like Anthony Mason you know that's a very attractive man
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I'd love to give him a bath in jello and they and they at that point is when they
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would cut us off as far as you can yeah we get to the edge and they but we used to call all the time all the time did
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you guys prank call radio stations at all was that a thing recently Adam Ray I was on his podcast he asked me to call a
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local Chinese restaurant as Paul McCartney ordering and it was just completely straight you know and they
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didn't know it was you know I was like this you know we like some egg rolls if
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you got it you know some uh some fried rice you know that sort of thing cuz we enjoy it so much but they didn't have
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any idea was somebody they just go okay it could really be Paul McCarney they don't care don't care [ __ ] done let's
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go let's go yeah so Nancy carrian but what happened was nick croll nick croll
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no Nick let me tell you Dana on Nancy carrian show one of the funny things is Farley's the skater and I was excited
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cuz I was Scott Hamilton and so we were it was a good fit because uh Phil was maybe Vern lanquist and Phil who's
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the master and I got to sit right next to him we were doing our analysis so Nancy carrigan's great she literally has
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to do nothing in the sketch but skate well and and that was perfect cuz we're
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like you're so funny in this but she really didn't she was great but she
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didn't do anything and Farley was surprisingly a good skater yes so he's
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got a funny outfit it's already funny they start we like oh it's going really
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well they're racking up the points you know and then he falls and he gets really pissed off when we go oo that's
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going to hurt him and then they play Pump Up the Jam we're like Pump Up the Jam they will burn oh this is a perfect
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triaxle and then and then he starts wiping out so many times and then he picks her up and throws her and it's a
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dummy and she F so [ __ ] funny it was a great sketch oh was great that one was great and the rest of them were sort of
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crumbling around her but it's not her fault you know G athlete guests are tough no but you can't when you're with
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Farley in a sketch and he's doing physical comedy yeah you just support the Brilliance of of Chris well it's
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also like something like skating which is not something that everybody can do it really is but I'm like oh right he's
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like a Midwestern boy probably grew up playing hockey so it's like he you know
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I I I remember that I remember him flinging that I remember flinging that that dummy every once in a while there's
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the good who you guys were you guys were gone by the time like Payton Manning I was always like surprised that I was
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like oh he's very he he could really carry a joke and move funny for such a big guy you know he was dancing and I
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think it was well we had a you know I was on this show the league it was a show about
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fantasy football Bobby bottle service oh God he he was and we we had all the athletes on they
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all came through that show oh that's right all the football players and it was remember JJ Watt uh and he I was
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like this and you're like some of them were whatever a little but then some of
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them you watch JJ Watt he came in at the beginning of the week he did he he did one day we were at like the Beverly
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Hills Hotel and then he it was the week of the aspies and he shot like two commercial and anb's bit and then came
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back to the end of the week for his last day and by Friday he was a markedly better actor and you're like these guys
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some you know these guys are so smart they they they can learn that quick you know what I mean like a guy like that
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over a week like learns how to act and you're like oh that's why you're one of
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the reasons Beyond being a physical like like you're physically you they took a
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regular person and 25 pered them up like to scale yeah um I was like this is why
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you're so good you learn they can also get coached like a like a by a director
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and then they do they're they're they get knowledge and implement it and so
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it's like on the field and if the director says do it like this they go through their computere and go got it
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and then some can really adapt and and they compete they compete with each other after the fact people will or
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athletes will go my ass and I was better than yours or you know I did better than
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you the one guy who peaked on air was W Gretzky who would seemed very shy very Canadian and uh he's the one we were
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doing a hockey sketch I'd never been on skates in my life and he's so Canadian
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nice he got down on his knees and was lacing up my skates and then he showed me Wayne Gretzky showed me how to hold
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the hockey stick holy [ __ ] that was just ridiculous but these athletes there's a
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Charisma to them you know I do remember that Elvis sketch from uh yes was that Wayne grety Wayne Gretzky Elvis sketch
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from that one right what was it was like a he was singing there was some on the beach Hawaii it was like a Hawaii Elvis
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thing right and he just hit it on air where all of a sudden he's super charismatic and confident just just
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peaked on air you know I mean it makes sense also you're like oh right the greatest [ __ ] goal scorer of all time
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is goingon to like show up on the day yeah just instinctually and Joe I had go ahead oh yeah you had Montana go well
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Montana wouldn't come out of his dressing room for a while cuz he didn't
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think he did well on the show so it's like could you go back and just say hello to Joe I mean that's how hard and
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he did he did absolutely fine and I caught a pass from Joe Montana D in drag as a church lady was a thrill but he
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wouldn't come out he just felt bad you know so they're so driven so driven we
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had uh I only had Michael Jordan I think how was he uh charismatic the most besides Mel Gibson in his prime where
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the women on the show went crazy uh Michael Jordan was the the the person I mean the was it was it Charisma or just
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Legend like was he charismatic or was it just like you understood that you were around this like Phenom of both both
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yeah I think he also understood it and he understood it yes you know he seems like he would have been sort of boundar
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like not not warm but I but I have no it was fun to break through that because you know there were so many people
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wanted his autograph and there were lines and there were issues but his you know I sat next to him and read through
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and being around hands like that you know like a a triple hand and and he was always so competitive he said to me very
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seriously he's he's towering over me and he's Michael Jordan he's a badass and he
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goes do you Golf and I go well little bit you know what do you shoot I go well I'd be lucky to break a hundred long
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Paws staring at me Steely eyes you're not very good are you it was kind of scary but but on the
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day of the I'll leave you with this live we're behind the slats and I could tell
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he's a little I I'd say for him a little nervous maybe and I said if you get in
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trouble just look at the card and read it off the card that's that's no problem
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just read it off the card don't don't pretend just go right at the card so you
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see people and he did but he he had a great show he he has a these guys have a lot of Charisma you know and you put him
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in a show and you can't take your eyes off him sure I mean he but also I do think he he seems like a yeah I could
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see him being I thought he was going to turn to you during the the r to and be like I'm gonna get more laughs than you
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this week I don't know Carvey did well during uh that first sketch and then it got
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personal I feel like that was every line in the Last Dance it was like well yeah
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all I remember is him looking at that laptop and laughing like they' show him
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a scene and he goes [ __ ] you know what I mean they play something for him this
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guy said this about you and he goes yeah okay [Laughter] [Music] so Nick can we can we uh just for a
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second cuz this this is what I when I was watching all your stuff and we did our thing at the Largo yes we did and
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you you interviewed me and stuff and I noticed how um versatile and explosive you were like when you committed it was
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like bam like you were gone and then this intense character whooshing and your resume is so Stout it seems in a
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sense that you made to be on Satur Night Live but there's a there's a catch spot
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where maybe you got too big to be on it early or something or what how did you audition for it officially a few times I
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did I I yeah I mean I think I don't know you guys have probably had I mean like I
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think like everybody it's like if you are a comedian and you know anytime in like
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who was born anytime from like 1970 on at some point you're like I wanted to be
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on Saturday Night Live as you know so that yes I had wanted it um and I you know did improv in college moved to New
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York started doing standup and improv and then started doing characters like kind of like live presentational
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character work on stage um not directly being like I'm gonna try to be on SNL
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but it was like I think that was the The Sweet Spot for me um and then I had I I
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was on a show called caveman the hit show C the GE cavan it's a famous show at this
00:25:32
point very famous show we almost seven episodes aired um seven I heard it was uh seven months of makeup and then one
00:25:41
hour taping honestly genu I mean you guys have I mean you guys have both been through the Prosthetics it's like it was
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four hours every morning it was and there were there were we were in every scene so it was 4 hours every morning
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for four months straight mother [ __ ] 13 episodes working 90 hour weeks or whatever it was and and I have intensely
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sensitive skin um and it I think it traumatized my skin basically forever so when it ended it was right at the writer
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strike in 2007 and Jesus yes truly it was we got preempted for the Charlie Bown Christmas special and I knew we
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were in trouble because the next week or the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special the week after after we were preempted
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for the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special the week after can you refresh my memory about it for a second just
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per the I know part so I got cast I was not in the commercials I got cast on the
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show I just had gone out to LA for my first pilot season uh and I I got cast on the show I was like the I was sort of
00:26:50
the aeric you know Lefty CH did you go in and read for them like a classic situation
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just did you use how did you just me it was like sort of I was the sort of it's
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this sort of the I've gotten a lot of my gigs was sort of the Dead Pan like oh
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really you know like oh really like you know people like you know the problem everybody talks about like cavemen being
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these like you know Chrome Magnum but in reality I have a higher IQ than everyone
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I went to [ __ ] Stanford with or whatever that you know that sort of sarcastic mean uh dry so that goes away
00:27:29
thank God Nick in every episode you you guys try to get insurance well so funny because got that
00:27:37
in we go for our first the you know the TS the TCA the big television critics thing oh no they're coaching all of us
00:27:43
we're at the Beverly Wilshire they're coaching all of us to be like everybody
00:27:49
get ready they're gonna come after us that it's a Geico TV show we are you can
00:27:55
be very clear we're not sponsored by Geico right the you know we own the rights to it d d d like it's its own
00:28:01
thing d d d we're all prepared being coached for it we get up on stage and they're immediately all the critics are
00:28:07
like why did you make such a racist show and we're like what we thought we were making they were
00:28:15
making this allegory that it was you know cavemen were a standing for all minorities you know that like we've
00:28:20
gotten discriminated against we're this under the critics did not see this and
00:28:25
so we just got blindsided as like your your show is racist and this is I got to say we were ahead of the game of being
00:28:31
called racist in for a TV show early racist show 2008 2007 this is 2007 we're
00:28:38
talking early this is pre know wow so there wasn't even racism yet was there
00:28:44
no there wasn't it was kind of racist as a show I mean a little bit I mean I
00:28:49
don't I mean I was involved so clearly there was going to be racism in it so we
00:28:55
that goes away then now I'm sort of a free AG again and I started booking stuff like I wasn't I was like oh I'm
00:29:02
going to I felt like I was going to work you know um then I got a call me and melany got a call the same day uh from
00:29:11
Seth Meyers I had met Seth in New York he'd see me do some character stuff and
00:29:15
and melany had also done some stuff Seth had seen him around and and they he wanted to invite us to audition we were
00:29:22
at that moment pitching a movie uh with Tracy Morgan uh that maybe one day we'll make it was melenia and I
00:29:31
had this idea for a you know those Nigerian email scams the Nigerian prince email scams this is the one time that
00:29:37
it's real so it's Tracy Morgan as Lil Mo the deposed dictator from lobia a kind
00:29:45
of a baby doc duvalier kind of a ner Duell and kids they get this email most glorious friend
00:29:53
I have $20 million that must be and and then they all of a sudden there $20 million in the bank account and Tracy
00:30:00
Morgan shows up at their college being like where's my money and Ted s if you're listening Yeah by way you two
00:30:07
writing a movie everyone should just say yes I don't pitch you know we by the way
00:30:11
so we we pitch we with Tracy I don't know if you know we know Tracy you know
00:30:17
Tracy with his little his little hands he's got those little hands resting on
00:30:21
his belly he's taking a nap at at at taking a little rest at three Arts you know in the middle of the pitch
00:30:30
in between pictures and we go Tracy what's going on he goes I will I will not lead a life of quiet
00:30:36
Solitude and we pitched him the movie by the way the first time we went to his apartment in New York the one that
00:30:42
burned down because of fish tank lit on fire and we go to the shark farted or something yeah the the the the Rats of
00:30:50
nim is that what it's called playing quietly in the corner one of his movies
00:30:55
uh taped a poster taped up of it and he's taking us around to all of these are all predators you know he's got his
00:31:02
like he's got like his Shark Tank and his eel tank and we pitch the movie and
00:31:09
we get a call that day being like do you guys want to audition for SNL and we were both obviously not together but we
00:31:16
you know we we were of course excited and so then we spent like you know a few days working on audition in LA and then
00:31:23
flew to New York and and I went to audition uh uh uh you know I I go in it was during the Olympics so we weren't on
00:31:33
the SNL stages we we were at the Conan stage I guess upstairs I think yeah um and I and it was the same year it was me
00:31:42
melany Bobby Monahan is the one who got it that year uh Jordan Peele unfortunately obviously that was the end
00:31:49
of his career that's too bad so talented get a wall yeah Ellie Ellie keer a bunch
00:31:55
of other uh a bunch of other very talented now successful folks all should have gone right on how did you how did
00:32:02
that work it was like did you get a number like you're up first second third
00:32:06
yeah it was one of you get in the room there's like there was a it was a bigger
00:32:09
number I don't know there was probably 20 20 of us or something how many people
00:32:14
in the audience in the bleachers like well so I so I get so we go you know you get called in in groups of four and then
00:32:21
the rest of you are all waiting so we get called in groups of four I get called in somewhere in the middle and I
00:32:26
go I'm waiting backstage there's you know a grip one of the Union guys backstage he goes you gonna do John litz
00:32:34
and I go and and I go I'm gonna do ly litz the the the love child of John litz and L
00:32:41
litz and he looks at me goes save it for the stage and I'm like Jesus get [ __ ]
00:32:47
roasted before I get out there who is it was that bill hater in a costume or something trying to sabotage Bob so then
00:32:54
I get so then I they call me out I get out there and it's just Lauren shut up and I'm
00:33:01
like and I'm like literally just Lauren it's just Lauren and he goes they're
00:33:06
they're outside I'm not gonna do Lauren with you guys go ahead I do it badly but
00:33:11
I do it all day okay so he's like uh they're all they're all outside and I'm
00:33:16
like what I'm doing more I'm leaning into the Canadian version of Laur I'm
00:33:20
not gonna do the so I go they're outside he goes yeah they're out they're outside
00:33:26
I was like are they out there M how great I am and he's like what and I'm
00:33:32
like I and then the stage manager comes over he goes I'm sorry they're on a
00:33:37
bathroom break I I I I pulled I shouldn't have pulled you out so so then I had to go back [ __ ] stage manager
00:33:44
they [ __ ] iced me and Laur and I've just like my first you know I'm trying
00:33:49
to my instinct when I get nervous is to be falsely falsely confident you know they're out there talking about how
00:33:56
great I you know what I mean I that which is a funny thing to say yeah yeah I think you know in that moment he
00:34:02
wasn't a rude but he also was like you know you guys would know him better than
00:34:06
me I don't know what he's thinking but he's not thinking like you know what I'm
00:34:10
gonna give this kid the laugh right now that's so weird Nick that you go shoe
00:34:14
maker has diarrhe I'll be like Howard Stern so you go out and half the people
00:34:18
had left to go to the bathroom and you just see L and then he goes they're all
00:34:23
outside not explaining anything else so you you go uh are they talking about how
00:34:28
great I am and then what happened and then they send me back they send me back WIS after the wings to wait for another
00:34:36
few minutes for everybody to file back in and then I come back out and I do my audition and my audition was good not
00:34:47
great like I know I know in my heart like as as much as I was a character guy I just you know I don't know it just
00:34:56
wasn't it wasn't it wasn't fire I the roughest audience you're getting no
00:35:02
feedback cuz I did one how was your love it oh I didn't do love it ah Lauren
00:35:07
would have liked that but that's that's hard to land that when that because it's
00:35:11
an oil painting right maybe a couple little Giggles you go what was your biggest bit at that time your biggest
00:35:17
Surefire character goto I was doing I don't know if I had Bobby bottle service
00:35:23
yet I was doing my character that I was doing a lot that I would probably do now
00:35:28
anymore was a character named fabr fabr he was the craft services coordinator for That's So
00:35:34
Raven and he was sort of like a you know if it was like a sort of a uh a definitely a character I would not
00:35:45
start doing now which was a a like a a queer blatino you know like those kids in New York you know that like I'd see
00:35:55
on the subway who were just like tough as Naes young like uh queer kids of color who were just I was like nobody is
00:36:04
sharper or funnier or meaner than these kids you know what I mean those like if you saw if you saw them walking down the
00:36:10
street they're like oh no they're gonna make fun of my hair they're GNA make fun
00:36:14
of me and they're gonna and I he was my like filterless character I could say
00:36:18
anything about anyone it was my closest to being David Spade that I could be yeah um but I had to hide behind this
00:36:28
character so I did that I had a few other characters I was doing some version of Gil Fon from that me and
00:36:34
melenia were doing with ohello you know my upper west side middleaged you know or sepag
00:36:40
genarian um I I was doing holiday conic Jr it was a Harry conic Jr just doing holiday songs I I don't even remember a
00:36:50
few other ones it was I was fine I like him I've always been a f I'm a kind of
00:36:56
guy you gotta like I I was like if you put me on there's no way I could have told Lauren if I was
00:37:01
just like the audition's going to be fine but just put me on you know what I
00:37:05
mean put me on the show just put me on the show and it'll be fine so um but I
00:37:11
at that point was really a performer uh John audition um and got cast as a writer but had made it clear I would
00:37:19
write it was I was never it was not I was not putting myself out there to write um but but I knew it was going to
00:37:27
be be okay like I was like I know I'm going to I think I felt at that point secure that I was going to have a career
00:37:34
but it was it was you know it was the lifelong dream was to be on SNL it still is I
00:37:39
mean I had my own sketch show on Comedy Central and there was a part of me that if it was like if they had if Lauren and
00:37:45
came to me being like leave the sketch show come be on Saturday live as like a featured player I would have I would
00:37:51
have done it you know what I mean it was that it's it it holds that power and
00:37:56
Mystique for me still and I and then John got hired and so then I sort of you know and then I
00:38:05
had other friends getting hired around then and and I started to become friends I shot a movie with with Forte and sedus
00:38:12
the next year um called a good old fashioned orgy and and then you know through that and you know Jesse kleene
00:38:21
you know who spayed you know yeah Jesse had gotten hired to be on your show on on on Comedy Central Showbiz show yeah
00:38:28
the Showbiz show and um and she got hired there as and and all my you know so so my audition
00:38:36
was you know it was it's one of those things it's just like you know I I mean I'm sure you guys
00:38:43
have talked to everybody who's I don't know does everybody have had that dreams
00:38:46
of being it's it's whimsical and there's a lot of inputs into that moment how was
00:38:50
Lauren feeling did someone say something sarcastic uh what's the mood what's the
00:38:56
vibe and what and what did they need you know and what did they need at the time
00:39:01
and you they had at that yeah maybe I mean at that point they had they had armison
00:39:07
Seth uh haer uh Samberg sedus I mean let alone Forte so were they trying to add another mail cast
00:39:18
member or looking for they were they they needed I mean they hired Bobby Monahan frankly as Bobby would say they
00:39:23
needed a big guy they needed a big boy yeah that's true um and every version of
00:39:28
me was there so I was not like I I knew and maybe I don't know if you guys like
00:39:35
manifest or don't like I I'm pretty like I don't think like that I'm not like
00:39:40
today I'm GNA be a cast on Saturday Night Live you know what I mean it just was like I was like oh they don't need
00:39:45
me right now you know um maybe in well that's like a gut thing it might just be
00:39:52
true they just you realize they've got like you said if they have every version
00:39:55
of what you do they're like God it's it is another person but sometimes they're
00:39:59
just too many and they go maybe we'll use them next year which doesn't help
00:40:05
[Music] you I have a question two two questions yes one is do you get a time limit does everyone
00:40:14
say you can do whatever you want in six minutes or does I remember it being I want to say it was five minutes and and
00:40:22
I think we were pretty Orthodox about that time limit you know it 20 that would be I I've only been to this comedy
00:40:29
clubs I think we went to see Louis C K and we rolled in and we rolled in a little late and the worst part is
00:40:35
everyone's like a dinner and on the opposite side of the people coming in behind Lauren to watch you they're just
00:40:41
like hey let's go to Huxley later oh we're going to watch a couple of these
00:40:44
guys it's literally nothing to them almost you know what I mean it's so and
00:40:47
then they roll in just half thinking half like oh yeah these are auditions and your whole month is studying for
00:40:54
this it's that's scary and when you when you don't get I'm sorry go ahead Nick no
00:40:58
go ahead please when you don't get something like that is there any weirdness that you have to have does
00:41:05
Seth call you or do you say does he say sorry or I I don't I remember getting a
00:41:12
call I think from my agents and finding out that I didn't get it and that and I
00:41:19
think that John was getting hired as a writer and you know with with all of your comedy buddies especially John who
00:41:26
I've you know I've known since College we did improv together in college he was
00:41:30
a freshman when I was a senior and I always knew he was the funniest person um from then on and I was so happy for
00:41:39
him but you know you couldn't help but feel some tinge of jealousy or envy and
00:41:44
as I did for his whole run on SNL like couldn't be happier more proud of him
00:41:50
and simultaneously like feeling like he had been invited into the club that oh yeah I was not and that even though I
00:41:58
have always felt incredibly welcomed by literally everyone there like including Lauren has always been very nice to me
00:42:07
it's like I've always felt like not uncomfortable in that space you know
00:42:12
what I mean I never felt that you know I think there are people are like oh I didn't get it and then I never felt like
00:42:16
I was welcome like I just always knew everyone there and I felt like it just happened that I was not one of the
00:42:23
people that got it you know well I audition what carry and he didn't get it and he went out there and levitated the
00:42:31
room and put his foot behind his thing and all these Impressions and Phil and I were backstage going well okay Jim's on
00:42:37
it you know so so for whatever reason and then the great thing is is you have so much stuff out there I mean your
00:42:44
resume is huge no It ultimately and it I went and did the league and then I had my own sketch league is famous now I
00:42:51
mean it's like got and my sketch show was my thing that was different than you
00:42:57
know W was different than anything I would have done at SNL and and and I and I'm very proud of and but also it's just
00:43:04
that you know it's also changed over time I think when especially when you guys were on it there were only so many
00:43:09
venues that you had to like if you weren't on SNL there's nothing there's
00:43:15
nothing like to to make you pop through unless you became like the biggest standup or whatever you know by the time
00:43:24
I was by the time I was around I was coming of age and all that it was like you could have a sketch show on Comedy
00:43:30
Central you could get on The Daily Show you could you could you could even start
00:43:35
to be on internet videos that started to like you know Donald Glover gets on like
00:43:38
a sketch that blows up and all of a sudden on you know on not even on YouTube that and then all of a sudden
00:43:44
you you there there all of a sudden it didn't feel like oh no if you don't get
00:43:48
SNL that's that you know you're gonna toil no and I for people who are listening they're just getting
00:43:54
acquainted with Nick Roll uh check out the show and the league and uh you've
00:43:59
done all this animation and uh just touching on this briefly but big mouth is a a smash let's face it yeah which is
00:44:06
about it's bigger than the show smash it's bigger than the show smash Ted
00:44:09
Sandos will not stop talking about it when we have dinner with him when we first started with big mouth you know
00:44:14
Nick Nick coll you know he's a friend of mine I have his number do you want to
00:44:17
see it um but that you've done so many uh and and standup special so I guess
00:44:23
for a second you have a new one coming out this is kind of interesting my first special I did a special in for
00:44:31
Comedy Central but it was kind of a backdoor pilot for croll show called thank you very cool in like 2012 it was
00:44:38
a mix of standup and characters kind of it was a hybrid special at the time uh which function as a sort of Comedy
00:44:44
Central being like Oh okay let's give we get you know I got a sketch show out of
00:44:47
it and then but it's my first special in 10 or more years um it's called Little
00:44:53
Big Boy for Netflix and how did did you warm up for it then what did you tour did you just go to the Largo every night
00:45:01
or what did you work on I you know I had been doing standup kind of as I wouldn't call it a hobby I always
00:45:09
had 20 minutes you know what I mean like you know you're like you're not touring
00:45:12
but you always have 20 minutes yeah like I could always go to Largo and do someone's show or you know Oddball there
00:45:20
was a big that big tour Oddball and oh did you do the Oddball tour I did it one year with it was me it was a year was me
00:45:25
aiz sh MZ jazl neck it was a bunch of excuse me was that fun that sound like kind of a fun it fun that's a good
00:45:35
show because I was not in like talk about Arenas it was all those outdoor sheds it was like those 12 12,000 15,000
00:45:42
seeders well I mean you could have done Arenas it's so funny it'd probably be
00:45:46
easier sometimes Outdoors are tough when I do them it was yeah and we were all you know and they they were flying us on
00:45:50
a all all of us on a plane together it was super fun and I that was still at a time when I had that was new new to me
00:45:59
and and I was with my contemporaries those are all the people like you know Amy and and Aziz and and melany and I
00:46:06
and Ja like we were all you know we were all doing o not maybe not open mics together I mean some of them I was doing
00:46:14
you know we were all started together so that we were all of a sudden playing these massive venues together so um but
00:46:21
I always had like 20 but I was sort of like and around 2018 my girlfriend was like she was like you should why don't
00:46:28
you she's like why don't you do an hour and I was like I'm not the hour I'm not
00:46:32
the hour guy you know it's like it's like that's that's that's Ali you know
00:46:37
Ali Wong or melany or the guy J like those are the standups like they're standups that's what they do that's who
00:46:43
they are I do stand up because I like to do it I like to but I got other [ __ ] I
00:46:48
got to do you know whether I was I've always been lucky to be working as an actor writing producing so and then I
00:46:55
was sort of like you know I don't have a good reason for this and and I kind of
00:46:58
was like you know what I'm going to commit to it and so 2019 I I assembled all the stuff that I those 20 minutes
00:47:04
and started building it built the hour and then toured it properly did a real tour and then got
00:47:10
to it did Australia new New Zealand London came back oh [ __ ] top of 2020 and was like all right I'm gonna shoot it in
00:47:19
in June 2020 and then I don't know do you guys remember the pandemic yes that's what it was that's what it's
00:47:26
called Uh and it shut it all down and you know the special the the tour was called
00:47:31
middle-aged boy it was all about me am I a man or a boy kind of you know I'm 40
00:47:36
at that point I was 41 I hadn't had hadn't gotten married hadn't had kids
00:47:39
hadn't figured anything out and then the pandemic happened and then I ended up
00:47:45
marrying my girlfriend having a baby with my girlfriend and so when the World opened up again oh all of that material
00:47:51
then oh no wow ruined Ru so hard to come up with material yeah that's why I don't
00:47:57
get married I want to do my ACT forever yeah so but but it inform it ended up informing the act and it became about
00:48:04
this larger thing and so then I I toured it the last year kind of picking and popping in and and you know doing a a
00:48:13
weekend in Texas of you know Phoenix and and then I shot it in at the Warner Theater in
00:48:20
DC in uh in June and and and yeah and now it comes out in on September 27th um so can I ask you uh sorry to
00:48:32
interrupt but no please so here you are you know you're so accomplished you've
00:48:36
done all this stuff and oh hello show with melany and everything and so now you're doing this special and so what
00:48:43
what was it about it that you wanted to achieve like are there moments of it you
00:48:48
go wow this is is this is really a next level of standup or did you feel you had
00:48:53
some areas you hadn't done before more vulnerable or anything like that yeah I
00:48:57
think of the what I what I learned the lesson I got out of big mouth which you know it's this it's this animated show
00:49:03
about me and my buddy Andrew Goldberg I mentioned earlier going through puberty so we're it was 13y olds and it was we
00:49:09
were one of the first things on Netflix after animated shows it after Bojack and
00:49:15
they really wanted us to go for it it was it's super dirty incredibly dirty but also same time yeah very emotional
00:49:22
it's a very honest and and I who plays your pubic hairs or there's uh Jack mcre
00:49:28
and Craig Robinson are my pubes yeah got it okay I don't know if I read for that
00:49:33
you did you lived it you sent us some pubic ha I thought was which was very kind I didn't understand the audition I
00:49:40
go here's my pubes world too I was 38 I open the script and Wayne goes g just got
00:49:47
pubes I'm 38 I go to Mike I go what okay but anyway so back to you Nick so what did you what did you try to how
00:49:56
did you feel about so I the lesson I learned from big mouth because what I found was I got rewarded by from people
00:50:02
you know audiences being like you you know feedback was like it's so vulnerable You're being so vulner and
00:50:08
and I and out of that vulnerability came some real I think you both very funny but also very emotional stuff and I
00:50:17
think you know I think Dana you know this and D I think we all have like as a comedian you have you have your your you
00:50:24
figure out how to have your be funny and protect yourself David I know you're
00:50:29
always uh very open and there's no you're never protecting yourself you're
00:50:33
very vulnerable on stage yes um but I think when you're a character guy you got your characters you get to say
00:50:41
everything you could never say as yourself through your characters um or your or you know the the wall we find a
00:50:48
way to have our walls off to protect ourselves I think and and I and I realized with big mouth the more
00:50:53
vulnerable I was the more I was Finding gratification in being honest and and and transparent about stuff and and some
00:51:00
of my favorite standups are the ones who figure out how to share some version of
00:51:05
themselves that they're not that feels real to an audience what was an area you
00:51:10
went to that kind of exposed that you can do it now you have to do it like in a funny way but just the subject you
00:51:15
know I mean I started like I have a premise in there of like uh I there's a bunch of stuff I I I end up telling a a
00:51:22
story about getting my my breakup I got I got dumped like 10 years ago and there's a story that didn't make the
00:51:29
special that inspired it which was like I'd gotten dumped and then um how did
00:51:34
you get dumped text I I was no I we went to a wedding together and then came home
00:51:40
from the wedding and she was the one getting married and first that was the first clue
00:51:46
marrying another man and she wanted me to be the ring bearer and like a little doy dressed and so I I felt frankly
00:51:53
frankly I felt a little emasculated uh um uh but she she just don't she the whole joke is I mean it's
00:52:01
true is she says I'm just not attracted to you um it was that's a rough one yeah it was
00:52:08
a rough one I talk about this story I won't do the bit but it's you know does
00:52:12
anyone look in the mirror and feel good about what they see I ask the audience you know and and I just sort of start to
00:52:18
go into you know whatever the the insecurities that I feel about myself how what the inner voice that now in the
00:52:25
special is is Jason St aam for some reason the the voice that I hear when I look in so your Alter Ego talking to you
00:52:31
talks like Jason look at you look at you that's really good do more of that for a
00:52:38
second I love it can you do the whole special real quick just one hour of course of course well we'll just release
00:52:42
it on the podcast so oh look at you read you read rashy you know so he's just
00:52:49
putting you down like crazy that's a great great premise voice crushing me so
00:52:54
that's fun I just love Jaden's statement I never hear that's funny and real J
00:52:59
jimy what his name Jason what you guys want to talk about what would Jason say about our fly on the wall podcast I love
00:53:06
it I love getting the inside scoop on a show I never gave a [ __ ] about me it begins and end with better
00:53:18
you I was the little old man I'm you so you all right now I'm getting mad about
00:53:24
you have that skill set of uh when you do the character then you you can write as the character in real time much
00:53:31
easier that's hard write Dana right I mean it's much easier to write as the
00:53:36
character yes yes yes definitely but I noticed that very much it's filterless
00:53:41
that I I it I'm able to enter a flow State yeah if I may say something that terribly uh new age is when I get into
00:53:53
charact if I'm really in it in character the filter is removed and I can sort of
00:53:58
yes go and say anything I believe it's a mild form of self hypnosis if you're in
00:54:03
a car with friends for hours and you're just this stuff is coming out of you
00:54:07
where you're you're not even thinking in a character uh it's a very exciting
00:54:12
place to be that's really funny so the special yeah little big boy yeah so the
00:54:17
so the special is much more vulnerable much more honest um than I've been as
00:54:23
myself it was really like because I used to do the show my standup would always be like a way to get into characters you
00:54:28
know and then so this was you know an attempt to do something and I and I wanted to just do it I wanted to be like
00:54:35
no I I I'll put myself up here and and just you know like I'll put myself up
00:54:42
and and and you know and so we did it well Lauren Michaels would say you have a lot of Goodwill in other words your
00:54:50
audience loves you so they're going to go with it but did you like the way uh
00:54:54
without throwing anyone under the bus the way it was sh the way it felt the way you looked at it was it hard to edit
00:54:59
it or or did you did you like the vibe because it's hard to shoot a special with the lighting the audience and how
00:55:06
many shows did you it's always your least favorite show I don't know if you
00:55:09
guys have had this it's always your least favorite show the tour yeah and and luckily we I saved DC DC is a great
00:55:16
comedy in my mind a great comedy Town played there they're smart but they're
00:55:20
not like jaded like New York or La um I had been the the truth is I just come off
00:55:28
of um I'm uh Mel Mel Brooks asked me to do uh history of the World Part Two as a
00:55:37
show as a sketch show for Hulu so what uh yeah so we we just wrapped that before I shot so it's me uh I brought in
00:55:47
Wanda Sykes to to to produce it and staring as well and and Ike Baron Holtz and and his writing partner Dave stassen
00:55:54
and then we gathered bunch of people to to be in it um damn did did you know we Dana we I don't know if you know this we
00:56:03
asked you to be Howard coell in a bit that never got to me I would have done it yeah oh no and th down G Fria down go
00:56:14
frania we got we got of course the next choice of course David Duvy who's actually was very funny love davidov
00:56:22
yeah he's great but we so shot it as a as a as a series as an eight episode series for Hulu and um and so we had
00:56:31
shot that IID forgot what it was like to make a sketch show it's so [ __ ] exhausting I don't know it's just so so
00:56:39
we we shot that and then I basically had to run right into shooting the special so I was just frankly I didn't have
00:56:46
enough time or energy to be too cons I I that's just sort of in a good way I was
00:56:52
sort of like I did as many shows as I could leading up to it some of them good some of them bad just to remember the
00:56:57
the show and then of course just make sure you tell your people make sure the one I tape is the
00:57:03
[ __ ] worst one and they go okay we'll figure out how to do that no worries
00:57:07
make sure they have the cowboy shot at all times because with mine they forgot to do the uh the Carson J you know the
00:57:13
classic talk show host shot like up upper thigh so it was just either head to toe or kind of chest or neck his eyes
00:57:22
yeah it took me two weeks to get it even watchable cuz on a everyone has 60in you
00:57:27
know 8K and then my face at you know way after the age of 60 just right right in
00:57:33
your living room and things were popping out like holy [ __ ] but it sounds like
00:57:37
you're so B did melbrooks did you know him before this or did you get hey hey
00:57:42
it's Mel Brooks calling how are you kid hi hi yes hello hi um no he yes he had
00:57:49
he actually came and saw oh hello so he must I had a meeting with him me and melany had a meeting with him and he
00:57:54
gave us a box of raisinets when left jeez and and he he um he came to see Oho and then and
00:58:03
then I saw him to present Blazing Saddles at Radio he had met him a few times and wow did they win a Golden fart
00:58:11
award did it did it I'll take it out I'll take it out take it out um he and
00:58:17
that I mean for me it's it's SN Allen Mel Brooks frankly there's nothing more
00:58:22
there's nothing and and when I look at my there's nothing more impactful and
00:58:27
like the producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Young Frankenstein and and
00:58:33
history of the world were massive for me and I know those movies by heart and the
00:58:38
The Producers ended up being the for me the biggest one for a long period of time in my life that the Gene Wilder Max
00:58:46
B the genan Wilder zero mustell relationship it's it's it's like I can't
00:58:53
tell you how so yeah having him come to us was was massive that's awesome um so
00:58:59
the special is kind of like a throwaway at that point but that's a good way to
00:59:03
do a special it was it didn't allow you to think too much about it but you know
00:59:07
with the specials like you watch it I have to watch it a few times just to look at my [ __ ] ugly face before I
00:59:13
can give notes on the you know what I mean you just watch it you're like the
00:59:18
get all I can see is my my hairline and my double chin that's all I see you know
00:59:23
the first I can't if I go on a show and I feel like I should look at it I put a
00:59:28
iPad like 8 ft away from me and then I'll watch it like from 8 ft away cuz I
00:59:34
don't need to know what I look like at this point in life so but that's what
00:59:38
it's like what are we doing nobody's watching us [ __ ] look like you know what I mean nobody cares
00:59:45
but the comedians we're more vain than the than the Brad Pit and then one person says you look good on you go
00:59:52
really so gross I didn't I know I did Hey look I only had one person say it but when when I did my Nick they go I
01:00:00
had my my opener up there who does a good job and and I was like in the back we're kind of talking and I finally stop
01:00:05
I go listen guys what's that and I go exactly nothing why why isn't he getting
01:00:10
laughs and then I go he's bombing God damn so I go up there do it and my first
01:00:16
10 minutes is work and when you're up there and you're going after your second
01:00:20
joke in my head all I think is this is my special and it's I'm not doing well
01:00:25
at my own show yeah and so I go gross and then afterwards they go you do know they all were required to wear n95s I go
01:00:33
what and they go well they took their masks away and gave them the heavy duty ones they used to do drywall Jes and I
01:00:39
go well and then they go and they had them face the other way just for precautionary reasons and I go well so
01:00:46
and they told him not to laugh but other than that it's just like a regular called n95 oh my God David Spade's n95
01:00:52
but so they go we can we can of course put fake laughs in later make it look like you did good and I go no no I I did
01:01:00
fine I think just and I don't want fake laughs cuz it's more for the people at
01:01:04
home and stuff so I go just play it the way it is and people like the jokes so they don't but it was a little bit of a
01:01:10
kick in the but there's that energy there's just the the feedback for a you
01:01:13
want them to go crazy where everything works fighting it too much I should just come out as a church lady open it up do
01:01:19
a quick change no because I'm why why am I fighting that and then come out as G
01:01:23
and yeah I should do a special just call it you you know what you really want to
01:01:27
see the hits yeah and I'm always Dana Carvey give him the hits give him the hits okay when holl out is there they go
01:01:34
oh you want to hear rich girl now and everyone goes yes the thing about Nick you know he's got a show called Big
01:01:40
Mouth you know with the kids you haven't gotten any pubes and they're going
01:01:44
around saying how are you how's your pubes it's a very funny show you know we
01:01:48
love it h i read for the butthole we um anyway uh thank you for sending us a picture of your butthole by the way
01:01:55
again it here's my prediction for Nick croll yes you before the 50th which is 3 years
01:02:08
from now and I think it could happen sooner more oh the 50th 50th anniversary of
01:02:14
SNL before probably but for for sure before that you will host SNL whoa Ah that's very because it's a critical mass
01:02:24
that you're at and I think senior special but all this stuff all these years it just seems like a natural thing
01:02:31
so by saying that you're what I me it is a yeah it's it's one of those things
01:02:38
that is like it would be very nice it would be a real would it scare the [ __ ] out of you
01:02:44
or not um no I mean it would be scary because you just because it's just it's
01:02:50
just so it being on live like none of that scares me but the place and the place place doesn't scare me but the but
01:02:59
the it's like I get more scared giving a toast at a wedding a friend's wedding
01:03:05
that I do uh than I do like uh like going on stage for 1500 people like because it it just feels more important
01:03:14
I get scared eating toast you really you scared about the roof of your mouth you know here's me here's me 10
01:03:23
minutes from now from now calling Lauren Michaels yeah we just had Nick car on he's so likable he's so funny I think
01:03:29
you should really have him to host right I'm kidding uh we're big fans here and um I
01:03:40
I think he would be terrific I like when you want to redo your audition and have
01:03:43
them go we aren't starting everyone's in the bathroom I go and you go oh you're
01:03:47
going to hold it and then it's just dead silence you go I'll be on the wings I'll
01:03:51
be over there I wish I had said just relive different things you say that he does laugh at oh my God I don't think
01:03:57
there's a thing I can say that go going back and playing that out I don't know
01:04:02
if there's a win for me on that you nailed it though and it just didn't I
01:04:05
think he probably wasn't listening and he's like what but it's also I don't
01:04:08
know when it was for you guys you were in clubs it it's blinding light like I
01:04:12
didn't I couldn't even see him like I could just hear the horror film it's a I
01:04:19
know when you're up there jumping around like John B and no one's laughing if you
01:04:22
host the show Nick right before you come out Lauren will be in the the wings and
01:04:26
he'll go they're all gone and they walk away the crowd Lauren will just say the
01:04:32
same thing he said was that the thing he said would be nobody's here're gone they're all gone Dave did
01:04:39
you Spade did you ever do John Benet on the show I dated her briefly right before
01:04:47
after before the murder no we um no John B was just always like a goto funny in quotes reference in my and everyone's
01:04:57
like what the [ __ ] but most most most of the time people would laugh at it but I
01:05:04
remember my first special I go uh John I saw in The Inquirer after it happened and I go she wasn't as hot without
01:05:11
makeup and everyone's like excuse me and I go she was pretty she wasn't a stunner
01:05:15
I mean she had the the basic bones and and I go by the way not super talented she was good not a super talent I think
01:05:24
it was a lot of hype and then everyone's like wasn't she five and you're doing
01:05:28
jokes about her and I yeah I guess I don't know anyway here fo hey sge sorry sorry RI my headphones all we have
01:05:40
to let Nick go because he's got 15 shows to Nick um you're awesome and um let
01:05:46
this poor guy go enjoy the show I've enjoyed both of you in all of your forms
01:05:51
for many many years so I'm I am genuinely tickled and GR to be H it with you guys so thank you for having me very
01:05:58
cool all right buddy that's very nice and we'll see you out there I like this I like to say this hey
01:06:04
Nick see you around campus yeah see you around campus hey you know what I like to go to that's like my gym that's where
01:06:10
I go to work out go to the store yeah remember I stand in the store in the in in the hallway and I go they go what's
01:06:16
up I go just running my new hour I don't even have one just sounds cool it's
01:06:21
always so competitive over there I don't like playing those places everyone's
01:06:24
like I'll see you guys I'll see you guys on a weird Netflix as a joke Zoom
01:06:28
cocktail party yeah looking forward to I'll see you at Ted's house okay bye
01:06:33
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01:06:39
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01:06:45
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01:07:01
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01:07:10
in about the goodbyes at the end that's what they we call them the good nights
01:07:13
the good nights and when you're backstage and it's like 11:28 you'll
01:07:18
hear good cast for The Good Nights cast for the good nights and then you hear that music that's kind of like sad and
01:07:25
weird and very Mel it's over it'll all be over soon who [ __ ] wrote that thing probably Cheryl
01:07:33
or GE oh Cheryl I love um I love G uh okay the we didn't finish question uh the credits roll in the host musical
01:07:41
guest the cast we hug chat and Stage is it awkward any stories well the first two years for me I didn't want to be in
01:07:49
the front because it looks too thirsty and embarrassing so I'd run in the back
01:07:53
with Adam and uh whoever Farley would of eventually within milliseconds get to the front and and we'd always uh talk to
01:08:01
each other go I go Farley you going to run and hug Tom Hanks or you going to climb on his shoulders because you're
01:08:05
doing something obvious right in front of the camera no you are he's so shame and then we
01:08:12
would all just go who's going to be the first one to squeeze up to the front and
01:08:16
give him a hug or get stiffed where you go to hug him on camera and they turn over here to Kevin you oh Shen Conor
01:08:24
what yeah yeah I didn't want to be it it was kind of embarrassing here's the deal
01:08:29
show Ross Pro here's the deal we just did a show 9 before and we did the good
01:08:36
nights we did the pretend good night at around 9:45 so you had your pretend good
01:08:41
night and then you have the real live from New York good night but you don't
01:08:44
want to repeat your moves but you didn't want to look too thirsty so you I would
01:08:49
always step toward the back and then make my way to the front so by the end I'm front and center and just full face
01:08:55
for everyone in America you know what you do you play posum during dress and you go I don't care I'm G to be in the
01:09:00
way back and then on hair I go well I was in the back so much undressed maybe I'll just squeak up
01:09:07
there remember the time I went for high five with you and you got me a headlock just for it's any way to get the camera
01:09:14
that never but sometimes I wave I go hey Glen Close fist bump hey Michael Keaton
01:09:19
give him a big hug yeah and you you'd have kind of if it was a shitty show and
01:09:23
the host was scared and their eyes were so big and they were a little bit tipsy they go how was it you know and the
01:09:29
camera's really tight on you and you could read your lips not the best no you'd always go it's great and you're
01:09:35
great embarrassingly enough if I was light in the show or I was pissed off I would boycott the good nights really and
01:09:42
marc'd be like cigarette in the hallway where's Spade Spade good nights and I go
01:09:46
no she's like get the [ __ ] up there I'm like no she goes oh you think Lauren's
01:09:50
going to give a [ __ ] if you don't go and why didn't you go out cuz you weren't in
01:09:54
the show yeah cuz I was mad cuz you're mad and I was like I'm not part of the show why would I be up there
01:09:59
wow to me if I had a good church chat kill maybe come back with a way World a Hans and fr and maybe grumpy old man at
01:10:05
update I'd be happy to say good night no [ __ ] but you would have you know what
01:10:11
bye-bye you'd kill with that you'd kill with uh and you are You' kill with that
01:10:16
you kill with it you should totally get it You' kill with that yeah then you
01:10:20
were kind of up but if I would miss I think I went 13 shows once without being sketch maybe I was an update once choice
01:10:27
but I was like really but eventually when you crushed on the show I remember Lauren saying David during good nights
01:10:32
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