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David this is kind of interesting because I was reading an article about Nostalgia for the 90s and in
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specific Y2K and it also referenced the movie um of Our Guest Kyle money did a feature film called Y2K where he kind of reenacts the Styles
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the telephones the media what was the web like then everything it plays on the fears we all had uhuh when it was turning from 1999 to 2000 and the word
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on the street was computers wouldn't understand that and they would all shut down at the same time and right what
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would we do I do know someone that went to Hawaii thinking that was like a deserted island and saying I'm just
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going to go to Hawaii like by the way Hawaii is like going to you know Boston it's the same big buildings lots of
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electricity it's got a best a by and a r so they weren't really escaping uh you know so I don't know what I'm saying so yeah so he's an
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interesting guy was on SNL and for nine Seasons nine monster seasons and he had a lot we talked a lot about that we talked about his movie and
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he also did sketches before that he does a lot of improv he's actually very interesting character he's not just sort
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of a run-of-the-mill uh comic or improver he's got a lot of smart guy dry quirky uh good neighbor
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was the first time I saw him on YouTube we talk all about that and how he sort of adapted his style of Comedy to the
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rock and roll sporting type event that Saturday Night Live is that was very interesting to me and he wrote and directed this movie for a24 so yeah and
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it's you know SNL's a little more to the to the world and not just specifically to like a sliver of an interesting like improv group you know you can get away
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with more just if you're like a hardcore comedy fan on some things and then sometimes you go to SNL and you've got
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to broaden it just a little bit even though SNL does praise very weird bits you know what I mean very different with the live show on The Sound Stage and stuff sometimes some
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sketches are more performative there's a word and some are writer driven uh they
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do more films now um or videos and stuff so you can be little quirkier drier and
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stuff like that but he had a great run he has a lot of fany he has his own his own lane of Comedy his own yeah style uh
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and this is a horror comedy so uh I'm sure it's gonna be horor yeah horor horror horror it's the hardest word horror is the hardest word and if you say it to a loved one and it comes out
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wrong you're in the dogghouse for a week honey you want to go see that horror film and if she didn't get the herb part it's as bad as saying does this place
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have any Boos does your restaurant have booths yeah booths what do you say Dana booths or boo I went to a horror film and before
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that we went to a restaurant and sat in the booths and it was February February and we went and we we watch
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clips of the movie intitially every everybody everybody sounds drunk when they say these words I
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went through a horror film and has some boost it's either Tom broa or a very inated
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gentleman I here he is so you're going to like Kyle Mooney and time with them enjoy him
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I made a mistake the last show at SNL Lauren during the meeting he's on the stage he goes uh Dana you look like
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you're reading the cards H did he really and I and I said the reason I look like I'm reading the cards is because I am reading the cards yeah King
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Tut stay out of my business you know I was yeah I was there Dan I saw it I saw it I saw it in real life and that was truly the exact interaction it was
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because the card was moving to when they had a single on me and moving back to the double so that was a little bit I
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wasn't used to that this is inside baseball Kyle I'm just saying we [ __ ] up a lot don't know what we're doing but you direct movies you create art I don't know we're kind of we're so excited to
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have you on here because I just love I was trying to figure out your sense of humor I'm like what what why is it
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so potent you know um yeah I I you want me to try to answer that no kle I was say I don't know if you could Dan doesn't sound serious cuz he's eating chips or
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something it doesn't sound like the most Ser he goes you're one of the best it relaxes the guest it relaxes it says the
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world is hanging out eating the more it's exactly what I do with my pals it's always somebody chewing something and
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then like asking a pretty sincere vague question I would say very you're potent describe your potency um yeah it's uh kind of a well
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at least that when I first got to know you is through through my kids it was it was good neighbor that was like you got
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to see this guy and uh and your gang doing that stuff and the man on the street and so playing it so flat real you know almost kind of Vandy Kaufman
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but not I'm not sure it's your own lane but it was very uh it's it's such a skill I don't know that's very sweet I
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really appreciate and I do remember I I I feel like at the 40th maybe I met you and I said the same
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thing you had very nice things to say and and it it was super meaningful so I do I do appreciate it well I mean I'm
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kind of like a show butter out there I'm like a need I'm a needy little clown I'm dancing for my Donuts isn't that by the
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way you know so when I see other people going on like a rock and roll show like SNL and coing in their own frequency and
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Lane um it's just very interesting and it it I just I don't you know comedians like uh like the person outside the uh the boundaries kind of like you're just sort of doing your own thing but anyway
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I'm sure everyone has said this to you and spoken to you and no I mean again it it truly does any way you say that it's sounds very nice to me because you guys
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are heroes so it's it's it's really awesome to hear that I think like the challenge of course is like how
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do you fit whatever you want to call that if you want to call it subversiveness or just or like you said
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subtlety like how do you package that in a way that works for the show you know right you feel sometimes it's too far out of bound that's a problem you know you want something that works but you
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and you want to be innovative I do think that like early on I was probably trying
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to do too much of exactly what I was doing on on YouTube and on on our internet videos I I think over time I was able to sort of
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like uh better manipulate it so that like it was it maybe fit more in sort of a consumable box you know what I mean and that that was the fascinating thing
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thing for me I think always was like just I'm sure this goes with everybody and so many people have said this but
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just like what hits and what doesn't because sometimes that stuff would play and like we did a couple of those internet interview videos and and they did they did work well but some of the
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stuff is just is too non- jokey and too dry or something for the audience and it just is it gets nothing well that is the great thing about Good Neighbor is you guys were
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like it's doing your own thing like you you just make your little pieces of work
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and you put them on YouTube but yeah to SNL I think it happens to anybody whatever their sensibility but the audience discovering you on SNL happened over a period of time so they knew your
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kind of vibe and they would start to just be happy when they'd see you right at some point you got I think so and
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well yeah I mean I I feel like yes you do I did start to notice it and definitely I feel like it was in probably the latter half of of my time there I remember there was a monologue I did I did a a piece with
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Chance the Rapper he had a monologue and like we both it was a rap written by Dan Bola about it's always B yeah exact it's
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always ba it was about like Chicago in the Second City and and um it was you know chance set like ladies and gentlemen Kyle Mooney or something like that and there was like Applause and
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like a a sense of recognition even though I'd already been on the show but it still felt like oh okay the you do
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you do know me to some degree and that was really special and even when you know I was back a couple weeks ago and I
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saw you Dana like they were the audience was very sweet and so at some point it happens I don't it's sort of invisible I don't know if you know when that moment is uh but it is absolutely comforting
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for sure it's super nice I mean you came out on on during the monologue then there's just this Roar you know it's
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just like a and I you know for me people always say this thing are you a fan of this
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person or fan of that person if I see someone on TV and they make me laugh really hard only one time I would call
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myself a fan oh yeah so if you're doing it multiple times over nine years most people never make you laugh yeah I mean you know I feel I mean like and I'm not
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this is not me trying to uh go ahead turn this conversation into promotion for the movie We're putting out no we
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definitely want to talk about the movie we don't have to okay we have we have no outline and not so let's hear anything
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else other than the movie go ahead but I will I mean I will say okay it's called Y2K Friday December 6 is when it comes
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out uh it's about uh two high schoolers going to a party in 99 and and Y2K actually happening but what I was going to say was that like I think there are laughs in it and and I've obviously been
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to screenings of it and there are moments that get laughs and to me I feel the same way I feel like if I go to a
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comedy movie and I laugh hard once that is a win it's such a [ __ ] miracle it's so funny you say that because totally I can watch you can watch things and people nod and they go that was
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pretty funny and you go you didn't even laugh you go no good or you pitch a joke it like read through or like you know
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rewrites and they go yeah that'll work and and I go wait a second nobody laughed you didn't respond at all yeah I
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guess go it'll work for who the others the the cattle that's true though one laugh if you can get like a trailer with like I remember this is example of just Schneider doing dece Bigalow he was
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upside down you remember that he swings on like a upside down thing the stretch and he hits an aquarium hey [ __ ] put
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in the trailer you don't ruin the movie anyway he gets a big laugh that sold the whole movie because you go oh that made
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me laugh that's the kind of movie it is it's Goofy and off-the-wall but it's hard to even get one laugh so I I get what you're saying you get if someone makes you laugh now you're in they crack
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the code now you go okay I'll pay attention now yes and and speaking to what you're talking about like that yeah
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pitching something and it sort of being like yeah yeah I mean I think you nailed it and I feel like so many of us have
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probably experienced that in any sort of Comedy Writing Room when like you're talking to somebody like yeah man funny
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it's funny just like saying the word funny but like yeah not Ling any any response it's it's it's very real and and something that happens quite often let me let me ask you a question I like
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so you wrote and directed yeah I co-wrote it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah my friend Evan who I went to college with
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yeah yeah yeah you the USC gang yeah yep be Beck do a voice in it yeah yeah what what is it about because I know why for those of the the kidss that
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don't know Y2K was a big deal it was a big scary deal yeah is it a scary movie or is it comedy scary or is it not like that I I think comedy scary is an apt
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descriptor I would say yeah it it uh sounds so dumb the way to say it no I it is the first time I've heard
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anyone say that I think and comedy go together beautifully they're hard to weave but I mean it it it starts out as like I would say attempting to be a
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pretty classic iconic teen movie Coming of Age movie comedy in the realm ofun movie we got a big party to go to super bad exactly yes yeah I mean like we were really there were so many movies in that
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era that came out that were sort of directed to teens Allah Can't Hardly Wait and or even the John Hughes movies
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or whatever sure sure sure and then yeah at midnight things you know again Y2K actually happens machines come together
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and these robots start terrorizing these kids essentially it's what we all thought there's a slim chance that could
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happen not a slim people were saying it's for sure happening yeah no my mom was scared for sure yeah
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someone I know went to an an island I'm like what are you going to do there Harvest coconuts do you really want to
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be alive when everything goes south like why does everyone want to be alive it was going to be supposed to be like
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chaos be right like Burge or something because computers can't understand going to double zero or something and they will all crash but it was fine it was fully
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nothing and it's unreal that it was nothing because I really I remember what was gonna happen they said computers don't understand they don't understand we only made them to 99 they don't know
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what to do they gonna I didn't know they're going to attack us like your movie but they did say they might not
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work so the movie is is in theater it's right now by the way yeah as we as we maybe somebody
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maybe somebody's seen it that's listening and I want to say thank you if you made it out that really that was
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very cool of you thank you I think I was just curious about in the the writing of it it sounds fun that you're starting
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out with a '90s comedy and just having all the kind of uh either tropes or cliches or just having fun with it right it's just like this big so I I just wonder how your mind thinks when you're
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writing because I would think you're like there's there's jokes that are like more hard simple laughs if someone falls
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down that kind of thing then there's dry weird things that go places you don't expect and then there's the ones that
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are so off-kilter that people who get them Bond over them you know yeah that they don't necessarily kill but friends will quote them to each other for long periods of time anyway that seems to be
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I mean how how much of the process of writing do you get a big Bolton board and you're starting to put up ideas for
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scenes kind of like SNL or how did this one come about I mean yeah initially it was just truly the seed of the idea I I woke up on New Year's Day 209 hung over
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and and just that that first like little concept of like oh there should be a movie about teens going to a party and like why 2K happens machines come come
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to get them I I pitched it to my friend Evan who's a very talented screenwriter and filmmaker we started riffing on it
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and and within a week we had essentially the building blocks for for what the movie is and what it would be um and
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yeah I think the process was super fun I think for a variety of reasons one like
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the movie follows essentially these teenagers and they all represent different clicks of the era so there's
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like a rap rocker there's like the popular girl there's this sort of our lead who doesn't really fit in anywhere there's like a kid who's really obsessed
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with underground hip hop um and one it was like fun I mean because I I am because I perform as well like I get to sort of inhabit these characters in the writing process
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and sort of Riff in their voice what are you what am I in real life who am I in the movie in the in the movie I play a uh I play a video store clerk I I I I wanted to be in it but I knew I couldn't
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be like a a proper teenager but in the writing process I feel like I'm yeah taking over these characters to some degree that's interesting because I would do it the exact same way I wrote a
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a script with a friend called ID idiots and monsters and it's you know uh that combination and uh I would just
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get into the characters and just riff and he was really fast with tying and stuff yeah it's a it's a good way to do
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it um it's great and then and then the other component is like I was 15 in 99 Evan was 14 and like like you were saying in terms of the gags and the jokes there are some like pretty yeah
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classic standard visual gags uh but then there are like also very specific references to the era that I think like it you won't understand really if you were alive and then there's I hate to
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say it I actually don't even want to say it but I awkward humor uh which um I get
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uh boner jokes there is definitely a boner joke good oh now you got one ticket right over there D Spade did you say there's a babe that everyone loves
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is that isn't that usually in these movies that The the girl everyone's pining over and she doesn't talked to you until this party that is that that
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is Rachel zler as Laura in our film yeah oh that's that's great that's a big start you know when you did um Brig be's bear there was
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a it became a a little sentimental I mean there was that other lane underneath the laughs you know do you
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kind of that sort of story element in this one too or is it more just a balls out comedy or is there a sort of a uh a
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sweetness or something to the how it ties up or Oro give away the movie before people see it yeah just tell the ending I mean yeah there's
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definitely yeah it's I it's weird that I don't want to be the person saying this but yes I think that there is heart to
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it and like it's essentially really about two best friends and about their friendship and that person that like means so much to you in high school and and that sort of uh carries through the
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entire movie and there's um some sort of intense drama associated with it within the movie but yeah I mean like I I love
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making briggy bear and it definitely like maybe leans into quote unquote dramedy territory or something like that
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but that is something that is exciting to me and with this movie like we're certainly going for Laughs we're also going for like you know scares but there
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are like moments of attempting to like tug at your heartstrings um whether we're successful about it I don't know but absolutely that that there is a a layer of that yeah it is it is
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interesting the uh you can go on YouTube and stuff and look at like how do how do you someone's in a shower and they open
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the curtain and what's the exact cutting and angle to scare to scare you but I assume you had a director photography
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that sort of say okay here this guy should pop out here we don't see it we cut there I mean it's it seems fun I
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mean I think those kinds of things are just just exciting to to to land through absolutely well yeah our our DP was uh a guy by the name of Bill Pope who's who
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is sort of a legend uh in his field he shot the Matrix he shot clueless he shot Jes CHR um all the Edgar Wright movies so like yeah he's
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but he did not shoot the deputy that was a big misunderstanding so you what about a24 you're putting it out with that's a big company this is you're dialed in oh well
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I I really appreciate that David um listen that's a big deal no you're doing what everybody I talk to when I always
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do my if you had 300 million net what would you do writers who write movies for studios and stuff every single one
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says oh lowbudget Indies you know lower budgeted Indies with total control yeah yeah a24 has been truly awesome and and
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kind of unlike any Studio or company I've ever worked with in in the sense that they just are very good at branding and marketing and and putting it out
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there it's been it's it's been pretty impressive to see how they've sort of um attached them eles to it and and I think got taken out the things that
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potentially could pull people to the theaters it's been it's been a cool it's been a cool thing to observe you know
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what attach themselves is better than saying they're running from it they Absolut and they have the there were
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moments where it felt like maybe they would or could uh they're sort of they seem to the average uh guy like me
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that's in the biz barely that they are very pretty selective and they don't do that much they
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Quirk cool umul Thomas Anderson does a lot of stuff with them so when I saw this even before I knew you were going to come on our show I thought oh that's cool Kyle
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money and a24 I just thought it sounded like a good combo that you would they would be smart about there's a trust letting it be you do your thing hopefully and it would be good it's not
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they don't did you finance it independently and then get with a24 you would got with them and they they were
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part of the financing and that's how you made it or was it a two-step process no they yeah they were there from the top
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initially when we had the you know early iterations of the script um Chris store
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uh who created the bear and is a director and producer came on to produce uh and then later on Jonah Hills company strong baby came on and about that same
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time 824 came into the fold and and then like once we did like a couple passes but truly it was it was one of those situations where once they were involved
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things move fast in a way that feels like very unique like I I didn't I didn't think that it was G to happen as
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quickly as it did and and it did and uh and I I truly feel blessed yeah they you
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know why it's called a24 I do I feel like I read read once but I'm curious because when you when you look up a production company in the phone book they put an A in front of it so then you
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you'll call them first you know what I mean Dana like in the old days in the Yellow Pages they
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put AAA electrician and then that's why you call them first because it's the first one you see alphabetically it might be you now do you do you think that do you really
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think they're angling for the phone company uh would that translate the Box off joke this this is what they did I'm not saying it was their I'm saying this is 100% fact that they want to be in White
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Pages they want to be we're doing a fun podcast and everything but I'm not following you David that's such a good
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one and it just [ __ ] it's not that I like take it to the rewrite table it's called an urban myth but anyway um we'll get through the inside baseball but how many days shoot did you get yeah 23 I'm
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going to guess 20 okay why say 23 no well Dana do you want to guess or no yeah I'm going to guess I'm I'm GNA guess um cuz a24 is a pretty big outfit
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and Kyle likes to spend money that's what Beck told me um I'm gonna for for fun I'll say 32 Jesus and now I feel like I need it was
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16 it was I think it was about 30 days it was yeah I was going to switch mine to 29 I swear to God I was going to it
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was like David yeah oh no cuz I think bus boys is 24 David's doing an indie film Indie right now yeah Pizza Pizza Hut is producing I know all the lingo Pizza Hut in a collab I feel like they
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did some early Ninja Turtle stuff God A2 a24 didn't like his pitch I should have pitched it to them we didn't want to pitch to anyone we're worse I could definitely intro you to
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some folks man but he's going right into what you just did we're doing it we're doing January uh that's great yeah um
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well ours is called Y2J that's good that works for the phone book thing so you AR is called a Y2K what is that that lubricant y 2K KY
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Jelly K 2K if I do a production company call KY Jelly okay do okay do okay dogm so in the fantasy world because this this is uh I'm assuming you
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basically love you love The Experience usually movies suck and there's too many chefs or yeah their long hard shoots or someone drops out I mean so this sounds
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like just a a pretty good experience in making this film I I would say yeah I would say so I mean again I had my friend Evan with me throughout the process and so like I don't feel I it
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felt more like a collaboration than just me I didn't feel like the pressure was all on me again we had Bill Pope we had these incredible Artisans um did Evan do
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Briggs be bear who directed that that was directed by my friend Dave McCary who I I actually have known okay since I
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was in fifth grade and he he directed videos at the show for about five seasons I want to say um but yeah I mean like with anything I think we
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started writing yeah in 2019 we Shot the movie in the spring of Summer of 2023 and now it's out uh you know there's there's always like gonna be there were
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moments of doubts and and and and and frustration for sure but overall it's been an incredible experience and I like
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it and like that's I feel like a pretty important component is that I do feel like it's pretty good people don't get
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how to go from writing to pitching to writing it can it's just like sketch it can all be good and then suddenly the
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edit looks wrong and you're like what [ __ ] happened it's absolutely you're doing that best you can and it just
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somehow does not cut together every script at some point I don't know what page number say you're trying to get to
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90 Pages for a lowbudget comedy and you get to 40 or 45 and then there's just all this it it there's a a part where gets really hard at least my experience well that's why I yeah I always link
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with somebody who I know is going to be better at that than me you know what I mean like uh and and Evan is really
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great at that and and briu I wrote it with my friend Kevin and I wrote I've written with Evan and Kevin um and like
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they I feel like they're just very good at structure and like kind of leaning into like what the character payoffs and and and the arc and all of that in a way that like I wouldn't say it's my forte
00:28:53
per se so like uh it's good to have somebody like that to lean on when I do it I just bark out funny ideas and I go somebody write it down yeah well I think and so many people do that
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at SNL too I think you know what I mean don't they take notes of just the rewrite table of just people
00:29:13
talking in case they come up with something funny I've heard they transcribe is that crazy I'm sure I'm
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sure they do I mean like someone's just taking down while you're talking in case you run into something and they read it
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back and know that was funny you you're talking about at SNL yeah you didn't experience this though you think this is happening now no we had no court reporters we had a low budget but I feel
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like I'd heard that about something and they go oh read it back and I'm like oh someone reads it back maybe it's during
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pitches or something I don't when I was there we there were defin there definitely people that are taking notes
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during the pitches for sure at at like okay at rewrites I don't remember anybody like
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uh writing what was being said but I I was personally writing it down I feel like you're hearing pitches from
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everybody else and I'm like making notes on my script of like okay that's a good isite table still on nine where the old
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readr was it's an 8 rewrite table is oh not rewrite rewrites of yeah but the actual read through read through is moved but rewrites is still up on
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17 no no oh well it's on both there's they actually do when I was there at least it was on 17 and nine so the there was the office on nine that sort of
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overlooks the stage I don't know if you know the one I'm referring to currently like it's it's it's by Lauren's office
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uh on on nine and then they also have a rewrite table on 17 they got two going are you mad no I'm
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yeah it's it's a mon this is as mad as I get I'm like it doesn't affect me at all
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I should probably get mad about this you know I got I got tweaked I got tweaked because I saw some of the dressing rooms
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you know and I just had a couch and a sink but the dressing rooms on 8h end up on nine they're like there's Christmas lights there's duuk boxes there's
00:31:11
refrigerators yeah so when you you left who you 80 Kate and Pete left when you left oh you guys all together did you convince them all to leave with you or did you blood
00:31:25
pack I feel like I I mean I yeah I don't know how it felt for you guys Beck left the season prior my eighth season his eth season your
00:31:37
buddy from USC weird you feel weird hang dangling out there without him I well that that season that he left was like the quote unquote I guess you you could call it the co year it was like yeah we
00:31:50
had done the the year prior ended with covid so we did those at home shows but that season which I
00:31:57
guess was maybe 20 20 going into 2021 um was the first year where like yeah table read was moved to ADH it was
00:32:09
super spread out we were testing every day and uh each person was you didn't share an office with anybody everybody had their own individual space every their own individual dressing room
00:32:21
yeah and like initially the audience was audiences were really sparse it was like only like you know first responder and
00:32:28
there would be like whatever 30 people Max or like that in studio um so that didn't I feel like Beck left that season I think some of us and I I feel like ad0 for sure said this like was like you
00:32:41
know I would like to experience one more year that's closer to the traditional version of it so um so yeah I don't know I don't know what our conversation was at the top of that season but I do think
00:32:53
that I had a sense that most of those folks are probably G to go so you didn't say You're going to go or would anyone
00:32:59
make you stay would anything change your mind or we just like you talked about it with the family you're like I think I'm
00:33:05
done after this my what was my like my personal like reasonings I mean just had a good run and years yeah it's too much N is a good run that's I
00:33:18
mean it pretty much came down to yes I feel like at that point my close friends had left I had
00:33:25
pretty much done what I was capable of doing you know what I mean I don't know that I had a ton of new moves left um I
00:33:32
feel like if the moment to like break out further was G to come I don't know how that would have transpired um so like there was that
00:33:43
component and then yeah there was obviously just that amount of time that's a long period to be in that
00:33:51
environment and then I just got married and we wanted to start a family yeah oh yeah so the family took oh
00:33:59
family came that was definitely that's definitely what I told Lauren like I want to have a family man he's like oh
00:34:04
and I understand I understand well where your family well is there you know because I'm I'm around there now and young cast members and stuff and so even during the summer you're thinking about
00:34:17
what's going to happen when you go in there and maybe there's new cast members coming and going and then so there's this this emotional weight even I think
00:34:24
Kate McKinnon said it was just she got kind of just exhausted to a point you know just needed to get away from well it's it's unhealthy I feel like you guys
00:34:35
talk about this all you we must all agree that it's not a healthy place to be there's no air in there it's like I
00:34:42
think aside everything else I was I was going for that but you beat me to yeah I
00:34:48
want to say that uh a producer over there I'm pretty sure is Eric kenward who said this at some
00:34:54
point he's like in whatever 20 30 40 years there might be some sort of study about like PTSD associated with people who worked at that show because it is
00:35:09
such an intense Onslaught and like yeah there it's it's definitely not good for you there's no way it is I mean it is in terms of like what it teaches you and
00:35:20
the fact that you have this massive platform but you you you get what I'm saying well being unprepared and going on live and it'll be in the card and
00:35:28
seeing the writers trying to fit the puzzle and you go and and your friends see it or family members and critique it yeah it is it's just different than anything else I think what didn't Chris
00:35:40
Rock say to you or somebody like if you can do SNL if you can produce your own sketch and land it and go through that
00:35:47
then you can direct films you you you have some sort of armor emotionally on you nothing F frazzles you because everything is last second on us you know
00:35:59
and well you become you definitely become way less precious about your work all of a sudden well one you have to
00:36:05
turn around something every week right you I think that was like the that's the hardest part one of the most and for me
00:36:11
that was one of the most profound things that I took from it was like I prior to working there I would like make stuff or
00:36:18
write stuff when I was inspired and that could take you know a couple it's like okay now I got an idea I want to pursue
00:36:24
this thing now you're in a situation where you like you have to come with something every week to have a chance to
00:36:30
be on TV essentially and yeah for me it was like surprising that I found out that I could write something that I was okay with each each week not not that it
00:36:41
necessarily ended up on the show or that it was brilliant but at least something I was like this is decent enough and you
00:36:47
have to run with a wispy idea you're like okay I just finished the show I wake up from the got back from the party Monday morning you're sobered up what are you doing what do you got what is
00:36:59
your long thought out sketch with all the beats and you're like it's nothing I have nothing I don't even know
00:37:08
[Music] right well let me ask you a question like because I I don't know if it was
00:37:13
oldfashioned but I I was worshiping the uh First cast and they would the cone EDS would come on more than once and so you'd have a character with a cash phrase and then you it gave you a
00:37:25
baseline so do what were your you have some reoccurring ones that would come back on update or in sketches or do you
00:37:31
land many of those that you could then go oh I'll do this character this week you
00:37:36
know C certainly never anything like iconic that people are like oh Kyle's bringing doct dingdong
00:37:47
back it's so good that actually I'm going to pitch that fuing please Dr dingdong and I'm just going to see if that can win that's that's comedy
00:37:58
Kyle we're going to do a dingdong with Fallon this week and then and then eventually we'll get a dong from
00:38:06
Kyle maybe hold it for Margo Robbie that'd be a fun week um I had yeah I had a few like probably but towards the end on update I did like I was doing baby Yoda uh and I got to do that a few times
00:38:19
and that was fun and there were a couple video pieces that we sort of would uh return to I don't think I don't know I can really remember a time where like
00:38:31
the show was asking for me to like you got to do may maybe there are a couple instances where like you should write
00:38:37
like one of these sitcom par please this week yeah baby Yoda former Child Star yes yep it's been a while since I've seen baby yoga hit the
00:38:48
headlines baby they're probably deep on uh whatever Mandalorian season something
00:38:54
I think they're making a movie baby Yoda had a good run did that happen during the I don't know what 2010 to 20 but um
00:39:02
Tina what they're called they're not the knots the secondary knots I know but being fanciful uh I know Tina Fay early on in this SP mentioned Bowen Yang's
00:39:13
Iceberg character and then I see people like Sarah doing very fanciful costumes and you know headgear like I'm I'm Manhattan and there's a city on your
00:39:24
which I love I love it it's just yeah um I think that was a stylistic thing that wasn't as big when I was there initially
00:39:31
but I saw that come up and it's it's really makes me laugh it's funny yeah I mean I yes I I love uh what all those
00:39:39
people I mean like Sarah is such a good example of like someone who I I knew prior to her I I knew her work prior to her being on the show and like yeah um
00:39:52
and she's the same person doing essentially a version of what she was doing then and and I think exaggerated
00:40:00
and like perfectly for the show it's good for the show I think that fits right I mean if she gets it sometimes it
00:40:06
may be too far out for the show but when I saw that squirrel one it and it was funny because there may she's going
00:40:14
after every after every punchline and I think someone in the band is trying to match it with noise from sticks it's
00:40:20
right and then every time it's slightly off it's much funnier you know but uh yeah I don't know what you know there are for me um and others like
00:40:32
me I would get people saying well you know you're silly you know and it's sort of like you know you just get up there
00:40:39
and you start doing your thing then acting silly you know so what do they say to you that's so easy you're so
00:40:46
funny naturally you come up with this thing and they they push you out on the sound yeah they let me improvise a lot
00:40:53
on the show just everyone's always improving uh yeah I think like for me sort of I guess the struggle was a little bit of like I do have a peculiar
00:41:06
voice and like you know how much of it is like leaning too much towards like alt comedy versus like something that a mainstream audience can appreciate and be into um so sometimes there would be
00:41:19
questions of like you know what do you want to be what is what do you compare yourself in terms of what we've seen you
00:41:26
know what I mean and kind of uh figuring out my space and I think like ultimately I mostly I'd like to think ended up pretty much
00:41:37
doing what I would have done if I wasn't on the show to some degree you know what I mean I'd like to think I I stayed
00:41:44
pretty true to my I guess perspective if that makes sense yeah I would I would see that I don't I don't see pandering or anything out there wait Dana I just saw this is a news flash this a news
00:41:57
flash I'm looking at his Impressions and uh no great it's so funny because I guarantee you half these you don't
00:42:03
remember a sign or they're just a look I mean right they just give you a look he's got John Kennedy is it the John
00:42:09
Kennedy that does the hearings that we always talk about him oh I have no [ __ ] idea I I don't this is just your
00:42:15
Wikipedia I was on I was on like I did uh I was on like I think I think WGN like a couple weeks ago promoting the movie and like the the anchor was like
00:42:27
just listing off all these Impressions these like kind of Bradley Cooper exactly yeah I'm like I'm like I don't
00:42:33
know I'm sure that like Michael Jackson you do Micha that I do remember I actually think Michael was pretty good
00:42:39
okay good can we get a little bit of Michael Jackson hey I want a donut hey man give me a
00:42:45
donut why should I do it after you guys have already done it well I just did donut not always wants a donut
00:42:55
that that's funny that was better than the donut one that's a funny you should do him he's he's about to go in Michael Jackson about get a root about to get a
00:43:06
root canal hit Michael Jackson right after a root [Laughter] canal Michael Jack at I love that
00:43:20
because it's put some Jam On It Jam I see I like I like abstraction I don't accurate Impressions can be breathtaking you guys you you know Dana
00:43:34
for instance that like you excel at that and then there are those of us who don't
00:43:39
like that's never been something that's been like a part of my toolbox or whatever you know what I mean I would get thrown in every once in a while I would surprise myself and do an impression on the show where I was like
00:43:51
okay I hit that yeah pretty well but like I I never was like the dude in middle school or whatever like doing the perfect Mr Frank impression or something like that our history teacher teachers
00:44:03
yeah ex what about a read through when you get one you're signed and you get it right everyone erupts because they love
00:44:09
it because you got close and then when you miss it everyone goes oh they kind of like that's also I mean yeah I mean the journey from read through to like
00:44:23
the the state like actually Saturday when it's like my Johnny Deb is feeling really good right now it's like the live show and all of a sudden I don't [ __ ] know how to do this if you ever had it
00:44:33
stolen from you after to read the sketch gets on and they replace you I'm sure I yes ABS I'm sure I have I
00:44:41
mean like you know once once all the Celeb started coming through like uh [ __ ] Dana stealing jobs I know I said
00:44:48
to Lauren I I just you'll come back and you'll do all these I just do Biden and I I I have five catchphrases I've done them seven times I'm running on fumes I
00:44:59
mean so it's funny they go who looks like Matt Damon we go let's get Matt Damon right but I'm I'm not like you
00:45:07
know darl Hammond or Kevin Pollock there are people that are truly brilliant I mean I can sometimes they come to me but uh sometimes I I I've been out there I
00:45:19
when I was doing they assigned me someone I don't really have a hook well and that's what I think that I don't
00:45:25
know that this was happening a ton when you guys were there but we were getting a lot of I mean I I was there during a
00:45:32
pretty intense like long strung out news cycle like you know what I mean I was there Obama Trump Co Biden and um like we would get the
00:45:45
cold we wouldn't often get the cold opens until like maybe Friday at 5 p.m. but sometimes we wouldn't get them till like Saturday at noon and then you'd be thrown into like you're going to play this like yeah whatever Louisiana
00:45:58
Senator yeah yeah yeah it's um you know when they have women starting to playing
00:46:06
um you know like uh it makes me smile when I think about Kate mcginn doing uh Giuliani yeah because like I'm just going to do kind of a penguiny villain
00:46:19
with the and just unab bat it's like Sarah coming out as Matt Gates uh just the look itself yes was so funny yeah I agree was so funny uh that Louie put together and he's a Star Trek nerd so it
00:46:33
was completely think there a male cast member that says I want to play Matt Gates or does Sarah just say I want to play Matt Gates I I I bet that producers
00:46:42
are choosing Sarah that's my guess Sarah just this will be funni I I think so and
00:46:48
David I do want to say I want to give you your impression props I'm a I'm a big fan of your Tom Petty oh
00:46:55
yeah yes P let's go back and explain you you know that he had a whole thing cuz he used to open for me what did you have in your trunk you had a I had prop by way you wore the petty hat Petty hat
00:47:09
that I stole off a valet in New Orleans it was like a gray hat that he used to kind of wear and then I had the skinny
00:47:16
glasses that were like kind of colored and I used to First say I'd put those on and do an impression of a girl on Adam 12 an old cop show so I'd put like these
00:47:29
hippie glass and go what are you going to do bust us pig that was the intro then I'd put the carpet side burns on
00:47:35
little piece of carp that's right you had The Sideburns with the double-sided tape carpet yep kneed double-sided tape
00:47:41
in every gig mhm in my rider I was an opener no one had a rider but I would bring it or the bit would fall apart couldn't do the bit and then the hat and
00:47:51
then try to sing like them and it was like a clo it got up to be a closer and then uh SNL we did it me and Dana did
00:47:59
him and Bob Dylan I did it alone but I didn't have that many but he was in I feel like one of those uh we we are the world I didn't realize that that it
00:48:11
predated the show I did oh yeah I brought that one in oh yeah he my opener that guy I'm watching to see when I go on I see the S burs come out of the little suitcase to see the hat and I go
00:48:24
I got to get on Deck get ready now I got to follow this guy and a lot of times I'm have him cut the mic right before
00:48:30
that go and you go sound problem I didn't hear the ending and I go I know what happened but Spade was always like never uh like kind of trying to get the
00:48:42
audience to love him so he had a low-fi kind of attitude and it was really funny because toward the end of our little
00:48:48
tour in the Northeast he'd come out and shorts like cut offs and kind of drape himself over the over the little Mike
00:48:55
Stan the Coke and go hey what's up everybody I'm coming out is that special everyone's leaning in to hear me is this guy talking isn't that special special special hit the re I would it
00:49:09
was August in the Northeast outdoor sheds and I would sweat one night I sweat all the way through my cloth gotta
00:49:17
do it gota do David's in the back he got a straw in the can of I'm asleep in the back of the rental car are we done let's go head
00:49:30
off did you ever do standup Kyle or want to do stand up or I did I I would do it
00:49:39
I did it a few times uh I I got really I think I prior to getting on the show I would do I would do character bits I would do standup shows and I I did this character Bruce chandan which I I
00:49:49
brought I did at the show which was like a shitty standup comedian and that's something oh yeah I I would do uh in
00:49:56
clubs and stuff can I hear a little bit of what a shitty standup comedian talks like um hey hey good to be here right uh
00:50:03
you know good to be in La you know Los Angeles City of Dreams I like it everybody's got a dream here right yeah
00:50:10
yeah dreaming to get dreaming of getting across town in less than an hour that is a good dream yeah I
00:50:16
remember this character I love that I say this but then he would say something very depress
00:50:23
but then he would be like but I do really need some help out here and um I think down
00:50:30
yeah I still do stuff like that to make myself laugh if I go out there to me the
00:50:35
funniest thing a comedian can say say they're in Cleveland and just say what's up Cleveland that's their first line
00:50:41
it's so funny to me oh yeah I I just go Cleveland yeah there was a lot of by whenever I do it now there's which I've not done in a while but a lot of like uh you know like have you have you seen
00:50:55
this right you know it'll be like of course it's Christmas time you heard about this you seen this you know that sort thing what how how much money would it
00:51:04
would it take to get Kyle money to play a a private party you don't have to answer that but I'm just say it's funny to ask you how much as this bad comedian
00:51:17
yeah I have a child so now that I have to support so I will do and take anything what no he's for higher like we all are yeah I mean AB above 10K for
00:51:33
sure Super Bowl commercial yes please this is what we all want right uh yes always bitly say that you everyone
00:51:46
turned down commercials in the 9s CU you know that's a sellout and I think about
00:51:51
it and it frustrates me because uh we read ads hours and hours a week for any product we're done being Pearl Jam and fighting
00:52:03
the [ __ ] power but I am happy when I see XSL members doing Giant commercial campaigns knowing they're making a ton of money it makes me happy good good for it because selling out is taking money
00:52:16
and being in a really shitty movie or something but it's not selling out when everyone knows you're there to get a
00:52:22
check to do the commercial absolutely yeah it's the opposite of selling I am so eager to get in that game I've been
00:52:29
I've had a couple of those opportunities but I if if budlight is interested in doing anything with me I'm like I'm
00:52:35
fully in so yeah people tell me I sell out every commercial I go you don't know me I sold out starting during SNL I was
00:52:42
doing 1800 collect you did sell out early I dud not enough no no not enough not not yeah I think I'm goingon to think good thoughts about you getting a Super Bowl or just
00:52:57
some kind of longterm campaign I appreciate that for um a phone company or um he is like like a tech guy like like you'd be great the guy in the store
00:53:10
like the target guy or apple helper guy with your wiring is more confusing or just passive AGG whatever you do with that be funny I love it okay okay all right left for this young man who's
00:53:23
answered everything we've thrown at him and uh oh just casually I I just thought
00:53:28
it was cool that well I'm just such a fan of Jonah Hill I I just love the way he he as an actor he's somebody pops
00:53:36
it's pretty cool his company was part of your film Y2K yeah absolutely and like you know
00:53:42
when he when they came on that was really the moment that the movie came together and that a24 signed on so like
00:53:50
uh and I feel like you know he you know he's the he's he he made super bad such an like he was so
00:53:57
incredible in that movie and that movie has become such an iconic teen film that
00:54:02
I feel like having that sort of Association and that stamp does bring a lot of value to to to our it is it
00:54:11
flattering I mean probably must be like does he call you up and stuff and say he's a big fan or he reads the script or
00:54:19
you know it's something like I'm obviously he's a fan you know yeah no he's he's always been very he was uh we
00:54:26
sort of of became aware of each other or met each other prior to me being on the
00:54:31
show he was a fan of uh of our internet videos he's you know he's from the LA area I'm from San Diego and uh I made
00:54:39
these videos these inside SoCal videos where like I play a a San Diego bro essentially and and I know he really liked those um so he reached out early on and then when he came he hosted I
00:54:52
think twice while I was there and each time came on he's like we should do something maybe three times and that's
00:54:59
so special I don't know how many many times you guys got to experience that when like a host knows you and it's like
00:55:05
I want to do a DA you know what I mean uh so uh yeah he's he's he's always been really cool and supportive for sure now your budget couldn't have been too huge though this isn't like Aquaman right
00:55:19
yeah I agree I'd say it's not exactly like Aquaman it sounds like Aquaman the way you told me it but yeah it's got and
00:55:25
and that might be that pitching it poorly because really don't want to give the impression that it's like Aquaman
00:55:31
Jason Mamoa texted me during this podcast and said man I'm going to Y2K Friday night you in bro he's like dude
00:55:38
this sounds like a [ __ ] ripoff yeah they're just doing Aquaman it's exactly doing aquam yeah
00:55:46
sa comedy safety belts because this movie is going to blow your mind if you could do an ad with an announcer promoting Y2K a television ad what would it sound like if I could do y
00:56:01
2K they don't know what's gonna happen you know that kind of yeah you might Zapped wait here he goes okay uh
00:56:10
why when do you guys want me to go yeah go one two three y 2K why 29 2K or Y 2K that's the question why
00:56:28
Kyle K ding ding December 6th all right thank you Kyle weon spot anymore such a fan I I hope to see you guys at the 50th and
00:56:47
hang out and fan of the show and fan of you guys so thank you for having me app it's been a thrill and good luck with the movie and feel you're going to be doing a lot of films and that's just a
00:56:59
great career making films that you control and love I believe but do my best in between that big ass [ __ ] commercials big ass I want I want my ass
00:57:14
to be huge in these commercials all right bye guys all right take care Kyle this has been a presentation of Odyssey please follow subscribe leave a like a review all the
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00:57:33
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00:57:38
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