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were you guys both there when Michael Jordan hosted the show oh yeah was he in that Monday meeting yeah he had it was
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there did the whole the whole run of the whole thing was there uh were there any
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buffer people who were like oh no yeah Michael's not going to do that Michael will do that or was it just Michael
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remember are the buffer people allowed in those meetings because we deal with tougher people a lot sure and the buffer
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people often demand uh do a disservice to the the people who are who need to get the laughs on the show where they
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never hear the actual idea yeah they never hear it turn down before it gets to them you can't do that because he was
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divorced in 1975 and you're like this doesn't really have anything to do you think it's funny let him decide well the
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really fascinating thing for me that week with Michael Jordan was that you know it's a fish out of water the
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greatest player ever but he's got a lot of sketches and we're about to go out in
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the live show in a sketch and he's got some heavy dialogue and you're behind the slats the band's playing the
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audience is there and I could tell you know he had the script in his hand for last minute jamming and I could tell you
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how kind of had cottonmouth it was a little tense I said Michael just go out there and read it right off the cue card
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Christopher Walken does it don't even worry about that and it kind of trying to calm Michael Jordan down about
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anything was it unique to just sting too sting would be like how's my hair we're
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going into an elevator sketch how's it now I like staying in here how about that now it looked better before [ __ ]
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but um who is the most nervous of the hosts Rosanna Arquette rosanna's most nervous she was a good actual she was
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great but I remember you'd hear that someone was sobbing somewhere yeah and whatever host full nervous breakdown was
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broken down with Steven Seagal you would just go by his office and you just hear
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you all you'd hear is some woman having an orgasm that's all you'd hear you'd go by and come out and
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fluff up I hope there was a woman in there I think sometimes Friday night is the night to collapse if you were even
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on the show even when it went back to host Friday night is the night when the hosts go you're joking the sets aren't
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even all built yet and all the lines are different from read through we haven't even rehearsed all of them once the show
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is tomorrow and that's if they cry or have a a breakdown because they go we can't do this and I was like so rarely
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it seems like it should happen more oh every almost every Saturday night especially the dress shows would go
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longer and longer where you're still doing the practice show it's like 10 45 and the real show goes on 45 minutes I
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go if they're going to put up an old movie tonight we're never gonna make it this is the worst when you start hoping
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for an earthquake or something anything preemption of some kind Jim Downing had such add he would write really really
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well like at 11. like right outside the office he needed to get right he needed to be no you
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cannot procrastinate for one more second you give you five gems it like or they'd
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say it's in the cards when you're going on to a set it'll be in the card so you're gonna live right that's how I
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order dinner I do I look at the menu and everybody orders they come to me last I'm like okay I'll have the Branzino I
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have to order now yeah time's up yeah some of these people though I'm looking through a list of um some of the people
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who hosted the shows when you were both on and um some of these people like have no business hosting a show like
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this I mean really I think this might have been right before you were on David but George Steinbrenner hosted the show
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with Morris Day and The Time boy I love more stages funny combos like that Steinbrenner is a New York institution
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and that's what Lauren if you're New York Centric someone from a play can get it he loves New York and his friends are
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from New York so he likes to go we got you know the lead from but there was a run there where we had
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here's the secret of the show in my opinion I figured it out yesterday uh when it's good it's good when it's bad
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it's good so you're watching this billionaire owner of a baseball team try to do sketch comedy and he sucks not his
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fault I find that really compelling to watch live and watch people do you find it disheartening when Kim
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Kardashian is on and she's funny and you go oh okay where are we now I mean I saw
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her monologue and said what the [ __ ] yeah like what are we are we ventriloquist puppets yeah well here's
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the thing when you when you become that famous and your comedy bit is all about the entire audience knows what you're
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talking about but she landed that beautifully and Chris Rock did say monologue of the year
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about Kim Kardashian yeah it was really good it was just crushed also it's out of nowhere so you get extra points yeah
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because she scored so hard a part of me did die