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you know uh we had a one of our favorites on Dana uh Will Ferrell yes he
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was uh so delightful really fun hanging out with him one of the top top all-time
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Lauren Michael said top two is what we've discussed and you know I believe it I I think that one of the guys that
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consistently makes me laugh hard over the years from SNL to the movies to everything he does yeah and he's so
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successful everything is really clicking on all cylinders uh we had a blast with him and uh he was as advertised he was
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funny he was Charming he uh we told some funny stories I actually told one story that I was going to tell you that the
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point of this goofy story I told about being on a a drama I did was really just
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saying how the special effects people were so professional because I was sort of making fun of the whole situation but
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the bottom line was he was very cool and you'll hear the story but uh because he'll learn the story yeah
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I'm making fun of me yeah it's a very funny story David did an act out David
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didn't act out it was very funny and will went with it but so you know we we
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dug into some stuff we got will to really uh tell us some cool stories about normally those are great
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um no one was in jeopardy with them and that's how that whole thing started yeah and at SNL and stuff and um we we got
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some other details about cowbell which is everyone's favorites is catching the walking of it all and the origin of that
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dug in the Anchorman that's very cool elf and his nerves you know it was interesting to hear him open up just
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about his trajectory to super stardom and uh we overlapped one year and Dana
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obviously would just taken off so he talked about that dynamic between all
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three of us and how we knew each other and I had met him before in a weird place and so I just thought that was
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just a big home run I really had a [ __ ] blast with it and our overlap meter I checked it after the show it was
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only at 33 we were really cars interrupting him when he was on a roll really good I got itchy at the end so I
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did it on purpose but because I know the audience loves it they love when we interrupt they love when we wear
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sunglasses and we interrupt you uh but let's uh get so well I just want to mention one thing yeah you cut it or not
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but because it's Will Ferrell we had a lot of people outside oh yeah yeah yeah
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they're not they're more than autographed Seekers that's 1957. they don't even like us by the way they're
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just like collecting baseball cards they're very uh passionate usually I'll stop they'll be 10 or 15. I drive up
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there's 300 people in the alley okay so I'm parked way down and just to get into the theater it was like a spy mission
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how did you get in uh we were Heather and I were I ran into Heather on the street she was parking so she jumped in
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dropped me in the front which is a great trick and they know my car I know your
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car when she got back she saw Will was getting slammed and then you got the
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worst of it when you left because you went out the front I went out the back at the end well I went out the side door and I I had someone with me from the
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theater did not so you guys were in front go back because there's a special side door we climbed up a ladder and went down a sewer they have drones
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they're like split them up Spades in that car I'm on the corner and I don't know what's
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happening to you or will and I'm thinking this guy we're gonna walk down to my car about to cross the street they
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see me and it's like zombie swarming yeah and they start and they start so suddenly I'm enveloped
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and then the other guy starts going shut the [ __ ] up man I was at a comedy show
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three minutes ago I can't move meanwhile I said to
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everyone Spade is so happy right now because you actually that up honking your horn oh I drove by and took a
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picture of me in the middle of this scrum so because I'm in the back and they're like sign here and Will was
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saying too he goes what's all the clear plastic and you have to use a different pen for everyone it's these little dolls or your characters yeah
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and they got uh anything from a poster to this and so you're signing and they also all hate me they just they're like
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sign you goddamn machine robot and then if we get Sandler to sign the grown-ups and you and Schneider so I'm signing a
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few and then whenever you stop they go what the [ __ ] and they go did my kid needs one I go all right I think your
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biggest fan little girl looks me and I go what movie do you like who the [ __ ] are you hey easy yeah
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they put drum heads for a Kick Drum in front of me because well yeah you get it
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because I was bored in Minneapolis or something I drew a Garth picture so I'm drawing and signing and signing and I
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did sign your name a few times I'm signing sunshine and then one of our producers Charlie yeah he says come with
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me so we went down the street come on go and they're all falliness and it's just crazy this is so funny at this time in
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my career I wasn't mom just during Wayne's World and then we had to go around the neighborhood and ditch him
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are they down I was in the back he's not here we found him Charlie's being eaten by them go just go tell my mom I loved
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her so I got in the car car and I saw another guy getting out more zombies getting out with bobble heads here they
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come Charlie pulled up kind of blocked him then I'm flooring it away I broke the speed limit on the way home I came
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in put the gate code in running with a bobble head like this looking behind myself yeah they said baseball I don't
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even know what's going on I go they think I'm Hank Aaron so anyway besides anyway so I think they are like baseball
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collectors by the way we love you guys it was just a little bit too much we love the passion but it was just too
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much but the ones that no matter how many we signed they they scream at the end so it's like whatever anyway will
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was taking him back the show was really good uh you gotta listen we're the biggest [ __ ] we sound like Prince
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Harry yeah maybe we should cut this out no we love it they love it they love it we're real people we're two two [ __ ]
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real people and fragile I got bumbled around but anyway uh Will Ferrell was one of our
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um all-time favorites so that was so cool to get him at the Live Theater enjoy here it is at Largo foreign
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thank God they know thank you hey Dan how are you that was
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Jimmy Fallon on our podcast got an acoustic guitar and made up that theme
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song as Neil Young so yeah now could we play it again okay um listen let's let's
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uh thanks for coming let's get our buddy out here we got a good crowd they know the show they know Largo and they're uh
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they've been waiting they just heard the Gettysburg Address read to them so uh
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they're excited um a lot of rules ready for some jokes I talked to this guy backstage and he's not really on tonight
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but you know what Dana and I are going to cover for him we're gonna he's gonna come in the hot seat that's one of the
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uh I hate to say all-time greats first ballot Hall of Famer John Wayne oh here
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he is from SNL [Applause]
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all right a little more Applause that we got but who cares there he is I'm gonna go sideways just
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one I'm kind of in front one did you like they got my chair from a
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[ __ ] yard sale I was like that chair was put together like 15
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minutes ago I'm getting a better I'm getting a worse uh okay this is a good angle too yeah I
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know it's weird when did were you impressed when you first met me if
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well if I lay back enough I can catch both of you guys [Music]
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I said it come on he's not that tall get him up now he's got a bad back listen I
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remember the night I got spinal bifida I was at Largo spinal who oh that was a great heavy metal band from the 70s so
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listen we got time for one guy when was the last time you heard it a spinal bifida reference I don't know I
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just think I just said it and then I felt like it's mean because it's very Dennis Miller
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spinal bifida okay the starting linebacker for the Detroit Lions all
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right also too if anyone's worried I brought my wallet I don't know why
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look at how fat it is you rich damn that's a fatty that's a movie star wallet right that's just from
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still carry cash
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there's gonna be a fun giveaway tonight cash I'm just handing out cash I don't
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know there's an ATM here if you like your final bit for tonight
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would you like some gum gum and get some you don't have to have it is it a trick
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is it a trick s Dana all kidding aside let's get to uh the series let's see um we're like where
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I'd like to start yeah hold on I know I can't see you at all but I know I'm gonna do you mind holding
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it yeah I don't mind thank you I feel like yeah this is sorry Tony Bennett kind of The Best Is Yet To Come and I
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feel fine then you do Tony Bennett on the show I did not oh anyway anyway
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let's go to questions
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Alec Baldwin did Tony Bennett that's right he did a great Tony Bennett uh uh
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okay no I did Robert Goulet Bob Bob Goulet yeah and he just
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had a very deep voice and referenced his appearance in Camelot
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I'm a lot uh then we just write him in weird scenarios I think he did a a rap album
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with Jay-Z we did a sketch with Jay-Z that makes sense yeah and we he uh we
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also did a a bit where it was Robert goulet's musical called red ships of
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Spain where he didn't realize he was making out with his daughter his real-life
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daughter uh Anna gastar played his daughter at
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very Anna uh played his his love interest in uh in red ships of Spain it turns out
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was his daughter the whole time you can't write this stuff oh you did write this stuff okay uh well let's go back to
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the beginning will let's go back to the beginning can I do a childhood chunk to get us all warmed up oh cause I want to
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take will to 10 years ago that far back okay that's here okay but hold on I just
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want to say yes yeah it's a pleasure to be here thank you thank you great to be here you guys very nice thank you
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Dana Carvey one of my all-time favorites great
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sketch players of all time David you did stuff too that was interesting but
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thank you will you're on the Mount Rushmore we're yes
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we're going to the after party together Spade little train that could you know
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[Laughter] it's a Charlie hustle award every year
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at the banquet but give it to Spade
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but in all honesty Dave was uh he you were still with the show when we all got
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hired and you were you were like a big brother to us you kind of showed us the ropes yep and uh we had an ear overlapping but you're overlapping you
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were super cool to me especially to all of us took me to dinner multiple times hung out gave us words of wisdom I
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remember one time I invited you over to the Upper West Side to have lunch and then I just ate before you got there
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yeah isn't that funny isn't that funny why I remember that but you always eat before
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I know but he was even late it was not even his fault I just it was I don't think I was late at all it wasn't it was my fault uh but that was just uh maybe I
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was nervous eating a meal when you walk in I guess I think I was finished and I
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used to back wait sorry what no no no okay
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back in the days where I was thinking do I want to get into comedy can I even get
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into comedy do I even have the guts to even try this stuff I would go to open mic night at
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the Irvine Improv oh I love that place and uh almost get the guts to sign up but sit
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in the back of the house okay and just watch The Comedians and and go oh I'm funnier than them yeah yeah oh
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I'm funny oh no not that guy that guy's really good but spay you hosted one I
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watched you post open mic and uh next I know you're on SNL and you're like what
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the [ __ ] I was like really I guess you were super funny and relaxed and I
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was like oh man you know uh when I saw you on SNL and you guys is Farley
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Sandler those kind of guys that whole team that I was with left one year I heard they got fired I did not know they
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got fired did you hear that
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I think they gotta go
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in there Chris yeah I don't see a track record
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nothing there Lauren is like Chris come to my office and clean your locker
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uh but we I stayed an extra year which I don't know if that was good or bad but I stayed and then I think maybe you and
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Sherry or Terry and uh maybe Molly they all came in and the first show that you
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did because I felt like sort of went to college but came back and sat on the wall in high school like I should have
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just left with everybody right but I stayed and did like I had five minutes a week to do my own more Glory but yeah a
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little bit Yeah I was milking it yeah something to the kitty [Music] so then I said okay I think the first
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show you did that I remember you did get off the shed is that is that true the
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first show yeah and that was uh one I didn't know I didn't know your audition I didn't know
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anything and I thought uh this guy's got some [ __ ] game because it was such an
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odd ball didn't see it coming didn't know what it was going sketch and then I think did you think it's what I
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auditioned with actually you did get off the show the audition because I saw I saw a clip of uh you doing the cat yeah
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and uh maybe that's sort of a viral clip dead silence am I crazy it was science didn't do well ah no it was I was
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literally that one again just it was just a guy in his office who was like the
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have you got anything else and you pull this out well we've heard the shed thing
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but is there something else in 8h yeah with a spotlight on you
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horrifying no one else in there except Lauren in the back smoking a cigarette
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just his little Ember of a cigarette holding that another umbrella yeah a tiparello
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it's funnier when you say it and um and the premise literally was I think
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there was a table and a chair yeah and a phone maybe a prop phone okay and it was
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like please uh hold all my calls yeah and then I just started playing with cat toys like an adult on the ground like
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hitting a toy like that yeah and then the secretary would Buzz again and I'm like uh yeah tell him uh I'll call him
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back in 20 minutes and then go back on the ground but it was to Dead Silence I I was shocked and I remember thinking in
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my head like well this is going to be a really good story when I go back to LA and they're like
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what happened I'm like well I I thought that would be funny to play with cat toys on the ground they're like wait you
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did that in your audition you're like no it was funny I know the guy who fired Sandler and Farley
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that's now that's comedy
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I think we're walking a little bit sorry it was cat toys he like lays on the ground and bounced around like a piece
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of yarn and plays it like that yeah and very funny and I was watching it because it was like it was like on Yahoo News I'm like
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they're like Will Ferrell's first audition I go oh I don't think I ever saw this and then you do that and it was like crickets I go yeah who's there
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Marcy and Ken among and that's it that's it because no one not you're not required to go to auditions I don't
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think I only went to uh I was like oh Bobby van Rye going get him next time guy yeah yeah that's the stage manager
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so you do that you do get off the shed did anything do well
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no because there were no La he yeah I think Lauren did they tape it and watch
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it or they would tape it and watch it it was being beamed back to like Burbank at the same time it was be it was being
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he's at hamburger Hamlet I'm using the technical term beamed yeah
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[Music] Shannon told us something about you very specific that love she said that when
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you were in a sketch on SNL and it started a tank we're all being yeah always that you would triple down
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harder at it like commit I know I'd either commit or slow it down even yeah
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longer pauses in between to torture the lines to where the point Wally the cue
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card Wally a cue card yeah uh would be pointing
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sometimes the cue card guy thought you weren't seeing your line they would point at it
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at the line frantically so I took like a 15 second pause before I delivered the next line Wally yeah
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you're in blue that's you uh but yeah we would we would it's I
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don't I had this perverse thing of like okay audience you don't like it now you're really not
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gonna like it I'm going to punish you for hating this sketch
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even more break out on a cold sweat you had some kind of confidence but I want to talk about when you I first met you
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and I knew I would like you because you did something yeah I was coming back hosting you know hey watch
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out I had a couple of nominations I was super nervous but you came up to me yeah
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and you had a shirt I know he had a shirt with a zipper I think and you just got really close to me right in my space
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unzipped it and this massively hairy chest and just leaned in with a smile hi I'm will you know it was just
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quiet and realized okay he's doing
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you know see do then just let him do his thing but
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and uh just as he's leaning in and like never came down a little more a little more and then he wants you to get his
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scent and then he'll relax musky but that was that was fun and that was when we did did we did I do Ross Pro
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and you did um Larry King because Lauren Michael's talked about that I did a fabulous Larry King Laura Michaels
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that sketch was great and you were great as Larry King oh I was so terrible
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you were like don't worry about it I'm gonna carry the whole thing
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just laugh I ever got my life I was like all I could do was like I'm Larry King here we are yeah Ross Perot that's all I
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think you carried it beautifully it was a precursor to Alex Trebek playing the sort of straight line that was good
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people know your cues but being funny with the straight line you know but
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anyway that was fun but I think we did Bush and Bush Jr with the I had the antlers I kept banging the animals oh
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yeah yeah that's so I'm doing George senior who's six four and W's five
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eleven so I had Herman Munster shoes like to hear and they patted me up he's
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gone so
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here we are son how are you and yeah if you play it back on YouTube you hear me go oh we're on a deer hunt or something
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try to yeah there was because I'm not rattling the antlers another time we were out hunting and I told you to go
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out so that it was I would get taken care of yeah it was clear yeah
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and then Daddy it was Of Mice and Men at the moment yeah yeah right right right yeah yeah
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well I played a Ross Pro in a rehearsal
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uh he was in the wide shot I was in a wide shot as Ross Perot playing Woody
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Allen do you remember everyone was it the Woody Allen uh in a
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classroom scene with Seinfeld or Jason Alexander what was I just playing him or something
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I think you were just playing him did you do I don't even mean to be didactic or facetious Andre Previn yeah I was playing the
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actor the actor who was his buddy I forget which film it would just go Max Max you're crazy
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there's some Smiggle sketch I did it once once the cold opening where Rob
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Schneider was playing soon Yi yeah and I can't I know yeah it was the early 90s
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right so I come out I'm gonna do a Citizens cancel I come out live
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and there there's no Rob Schneider playing SUNY and the coupon guys like
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this and I'm like I can't even you know she's not even here you know I don't know what I'm gonna do you know because I I can't so I had to just do that in
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makeup stuff he was in the makeup chair sorry sorry about that no woody I'm sorry
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cap girls sorry go ahead we're we do a lot of characters on the show yeah no but when I when I came back to host
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well no applause um when I came yeah when I no I'm just saying no no no you pick
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your spot they're hanging on your every word yeah that's why all I remember
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listeners all I remember was I think there was an Army sketch and then you uh
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had a hard brim hat do you remember the idea of the sketch and then when you came up to me in air you were poking me
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in the face sensitive Stephen cragg wrote that sketch oh yeah yeah it was what was the
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story you were a sensitive Sergeant yeah okay but I I barked out all the commands but
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it was all loving yeah uh therapeutic advice yes and then when you got up to
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me you hit me in the forehead with your and uh of course it threw me it was like an old uh quite Farley used to just
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start to make you laugh on air but uh it was really just fun being in a sketch with you because when I did my year
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where I stayed too long uh is what we're calling it now uh buying my own five
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minutes and then I but I didn't do sketches so I felt a little weird because you guys were doing stuff so we
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weren't super connected but I would like to see you guys and stuff but coming back to host we were all part of it that
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was fun because all the whole thing I remember posting was that one sketch with him and because you know some work
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some don't obviously right and uh I think that one is where when I hosted
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Sandler was going to be in my monologue remember you did audience member oh what are you doing you're so mean he would
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stand up and so we had a whole monologue what are you doing no he was like a very timid guy with glasses called audience
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member and then he had done it a few times and so he's doing it when I host and then that morning water boy opened
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or something he had to fly back to LA and then they go Lauren goes well it looks like Adam's out I go out of the
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monologue I went on a monologue and he goes well aren't you a stand-up
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and I go I mean sort of I I don't really do it anymore I work at this [ __ ]
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dump 20 000 hours a week I haven't done a set in eight months and he goes
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maybe just seven minutes that's all you need I go yeah but I need to Polished I
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can't run to The Comedy Store I can't run anywhere so I put together uh I don't know how it sounds like a fun
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challenge it was a challenge and it was uh I did a bit about a polar bear and I did a bit about something else but it
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was kind of fun and terrifying and uh and then I remember your sketch so thus
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that was great doing it with you that's all every moment of SNL fun and terrifying yeah yeah very scary Do You
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Remember Have you ever said no to a Tuesday dinner at Orso
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I think I finally over because I remember you guys talking
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about this in in one of your one of the podcasts that you finally work up enough courage yeah
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to say no but I think it took yeah because I remember you saying Dana you saying so
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ridiculously true Five Seasons before it felt like it was like your home gym or before you stopped
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yeah and I literally remember your words it literally took me five years before I
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didn't feel nervous every single second and uh you you had the same experience same experience and so by year six and
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seven yeah I think I was I I finally had the guts to be like I'm not going on a Tuesday usually it looks like there's a
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Tuesday and then you I think somewhere you you went to this other gear I don't know what when it happened but you got
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good I think it was the last week the last year of my lap yeah your last show
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cowbell and I don't think you left right after cowbell right every every best of
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sketches in my last show of the Seven Seasons I heard cows on fire you asked
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them to do why are you nervous then because Bill Hader told us that he was having panic attacks the whole time I
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never was able to see it like literally panic attacks in the bathroom by himself crying and but you control it but were
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you I never got that bad but there were um there was just you know it it got less
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and less with each year yeah and it would always surprise me uh especially after that first year
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where you're you're like okay I think I've gone through everything you're going to go through where you
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potentially are going to get thrown yeah it would just come out of the blue yeah where it would be I don't know it
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wouldn't even be like the first show of the Season it'd be something like the seventh show it's like why do
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I don't have a good feeling this is not gonna be good it's it's an anxiety we just come out of just come out of
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nowhere yeah and uh and that'd be fine the rest of the year but it's inexplicable it's it's two things happen
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I think there's people like Eddie Murphy was a savant you know basically at 19.
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but I think for most people you get a little more confident and then the audience starts to see you and then
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you're a little more confident and then finally when the audience sees you come out they're kind of excited yeah and
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then and then it builds on it I've seen it happen with a lot of cast members over time that's why Lauren says do
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you know well with me I was newer but like a feature player but do a few lines here a few lines there just to get them
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to see your face and know you're part of the situation so then they know okay he's one of these guys and then they
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will buy you when you do a full sketch but you came you were one of the ones that like Dana where you came out and
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you had to be a full were you a full cast member when you started well we were we were we were really lucky because that year before yeah uh got rid
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of that when we got rid of the darling Sandler Farley Sandler get rid of them clean it out the dead wood
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Myers This Club Myers Dana yeah uh he's good
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I was hanging out of the door like Titanic you know yeah so you negate the place
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start over so we had a brand new we had yeah brand new castle and a brand new
00:29:33
writing stuff very weird so we didn't know any better we we were like it
00:29:39
wasn't that because I've talked to pass cast members who were added one at a
00:29:44
time like by themselves and that's super or mid-season mid-season to try to break through that way in fact Molly was
00:29:51
mid-season the year before I got there oh she was there and we were laughing because she was like
00:29:57
what is this you guys get like cue card training and and you get shown where all
00:30:03
the well here's the Wardrobe Department here's your quick change area I didn't get any of that
00:30:08
oh my God yeah and and she was just laughing going she was like I was a
00:30:14
little mad actually you guys got to did you get trained on the Q did you do you remember anything like that no one even talking just Terror I mean my thing was
00:30:21
freaky because I in the first show I was in the coal opening and I didn't know it was the cold opening I was just in it I
00:30:28
didn't I knew it was my first time doing sketch comedy it was hard for me not to look at the audience like a stand-up yeah you know and then the church lady
00:30:35
popped and came in and I had Sigourney Weaver and Phil and Jan and so then that took off crazy so I was just in boiled
00:30:42
in water immediately and then but no one no chopping broccoli something broccoli
00:30:47
cheese yeah which that wasn't my first show that's your first show yeah oh my
00:30:52
God the Cutaway to filled by the way oh yeah just him and Joe everyone just going this is the worst song ever and then
00:30:59
Phil Hartman just going yes
00:31:04
all right man I'll give you a great accomplishment as I can you remind me of a lot of people Peter
00:31:09
Sellers and you also remind me of Phil well thanks because you were you were Alex Trebek that would have been what
00:31:15
without Phil would have played that yeah Phil Hartman and Dan Aykroyd were like my guys I looked up to because I just
00:31:21
loved how they could swim they could be the main guy or be the background guy yeah that's what I loved about Ensemble
00:31:28
Comics yeah and you know everyone is who knows them both just said they're they're kind of scientist comedians so
00:31:34
they would just Phil would read you know books about Evinrude motorboats on the
00:31:40
set and then pick up a script kill it in the rehearsal come back and act where it's the same way he's interested
00:31:45
science and astronomy came to host when we were I don't know if it was that first year or the second year oh really
00:31:51
he comes back to host and I'm in the room I think it was with Tom Janus and Adam McKay and keckner
00:31:58
and I just can't I don't know what to say to him so I'm just sitting in the chair and I'm just like
00:32:05
that's Phil Hartman and uh he finally picks up on he's like what gives with
00:32:10
the Pharaoh kid got your tongue
00:32:19
I'm just like do I walk out of the room
00:32:24
no I just what these guys said let's just uh yeah I mean
00:32:32
the thing that they're gonna write for you too and uh but he's just ah what a great yeah there
00:32:40
was just something about him and he was so effortless and he didn't care and he was someone assuming about it yeah and
00:32:46
uh we that's why we nicknamed him the glue he was just somebody who was always there but God he picked up on the fact
00:32:52
that I just I wouldn't yeah I couldn't speak yeah that's so interesting because now we have data of where you went and
00:32:59
where where you're still going yeah and to hear this stuff I feel like a human yeah stopped
00:33:08
do you remember when I stopped I see I hadn't seen you in a while I run
00:33:15
into the Laker game you're like oh hey Will hey hey hey sorry about the career
00:33:22
oh I got I can't even hide my jealous rage yeah you're like hey by the way
00:33:27
I'll get to see you sorry about the career yes sorry everything went up on a [ __ ] rocket ship
00:33:34
uh no because the first time I saw you was at Butterfield and Butterfield oh oh
00:33:42
yeah you heard me oh man we worked at an auction house that was is Christie's now I think on a Sunset and I was buying
00:33:49
Elvis memorabilia and I took my oh okay credit card new money yeah and I was but
00:33:56
I bought an Elvis setlist Joey Esposito who is Elvis is one of his buddies was there authenticating stuff I
00:34:03
got a set list that he wrote out his handwriting and I love Dallas I bought a uh one of his guns and then I bought a
00:34:10
[Music] and I thought it was cool as [ __ ] and then you worked there yeah and then you
00:34:16
I had my Land Cruiser which I still have tonight and I you walked me out and uh
00:34:21
that's where I met you and then I when I started us no I think we remembered that you worked there right you didn't work
00:34:27
oh my God yeah no I worked there in my my then good friend and that was the last time I
00:34:33
was funnier than later my wife yeah oh yeah she worked there oh yeah yeah
00:34:40
oh exactly like that yeah
00:34:45
can you yell out a number you keep saying hey we can't follow the bidding
00:34:52
but uh it was interesting seeing you there and then uh obviously we we joke
00:34:58
around but the the monster movies after that I mean we could talk about SNL because I was gonna ask you before we
00:35:04
get to all these movies um you're uh what was your favorite commercial parody you were in do you remember commercial parodies did you do a lot or not
00:35:11
yeah I didn't I was I was a little bit but when I first started I wasn't in I was I don't think I was in any of those
00:35:18
initial commercial yeah parodies uh and usually it was sort of like jury
00:35:24
duty because it takes you away from the show a little bit because you have to dedicate a full day to shooting it during the week and now they do a lot of
00:35:31
pre-tapes during the week yeah you see the host in a lot of I mean they beat the [ __ ] out of that but you'd come sometime in September to start you can
00:35:38
go to them early oh yeah before that first show yeah it wasn't in many knockout wanted yeah
00:35:47
[Music] one thing I'm just quickly very interested in because I you know you
00:35:53
think everyone knows everything about you but what was that transition from USC to being to the ground lanes and
00:35:58
then how long at the Groundlings until you got on this and all how fast did you get on Sno from when you started trying
00:36:05
to be a comedian I graduated SC in 90. um
00:36:10
moved home immediately which was great back to Orange County back to Orange
00:36:16
County okay good everyone was super excited so that's a 1990. okay uh that
00:36:23
was 1990. I'm back Dad yeah I'm back thanks for the education yeah thanks for
00:36:30
the thanks for the degree um and uh I I I then was I was gonna try to
00:36:38
be a sportscaster that's what I studied at SC I was going going but at the same time I thought ah
00:36:45
I better I better try this comedy thing if I'm gonna give a shot because that was from a childhood sort of always prankster and
00:36:52
all that always liking it but too afraid to try it and uh and that's when I
00:36:58
started taking classes the growlings uh trying some stand-up comedy [Music]
00:37:04
pretty darn good yeah did you ever play The Cannery down in Newport or the San
00:37:10
Juan Depot where an actual train goes through you're set why do you like
00:37:15
foreign yeah
00:37:35
that's real but I was doing some stand-up I was doing and growlings you have to you work your way through this
00:37:41
school yeah and but it the courses are so booked up it you'll finish one level
00:37:47
and you gotta wait six months before the next one opens up so then I was just back at working odd jobs I was a bank
00:37:54
teller I was this is in 91 91 92. you're still doing odd jobs and then I think 93
00:38:02
I get into the main company uh at or the Sunday company at the
00:38:08
growlings did you have a character that you had developed at that point that got you to that was Harry Caray around Harry
00:38:14
Carey was in the main company yeah so the Sunday shows like their B Team like their minor league team and then you get
00:38:20
into the main company and um and that's when uh
00:38:26
uh get off the shed sketch I had done and I'd done I started doing Harry Carey
00:38:31
that was during the baseball strike one year inspired character and and I thought uh oh baseball there's no
00:38:40
baseball games right now I wonder what Harry Carey's doing yeah with his days
00:38:46
let him in like a acting class doing a play reading of a super dramatic play
00:38:52
perfect and so I wrote this sketch about Harry in a community theater uh
00:38:59
rehearsal space and you know I was like okay let's take
00:39:04
the scene from the top and you know right and then it was Harry Caray doing like
00:39:09
damn it Carol what happened to us
00:39:14
I look at your eyes and I don't see love anymore
00:39:21
yeah and then I literally your face from this end is
00:39:27
funny I didn't see will for a second it was I remember Maggie Baird who was she she played my what but they the other
00:39:33
act they had to play I said you guys have to play it really like if you could make yourself cry do it so they're
00:39:38
reading the lines like I don't know I just we're distant and she's like getting herself to cry and then I'm
00:39:45
playing off of that it was it was Madness but the audience I knew it was working when
00:39:52
the audience was laughing at the without any knowledge of who Harry Carey what they'd just be like yeah who's that
00:39:57
crazy guy you do yeah yeah they just sounds funny um but so I'd done that and
00:40:03
by that spring of 95 that was when we had heard snls looking to recast uh so
00:40:11
it was it was pretty fast it was like two years did you have anybody in a position of authority a mentor or
00:40:16
someone at the grounds or someone who pulled you aside at one point said I I think you you really can do this or it
00:40:23
was a really supportive I mean was everyone sort of giving you feedback was it more supportive than SNL
00:40:29
well I would say typically yes but
00:40:35
we the group we had at the show yeah you were kind of like you got kind of lucky we got lucky I was in that group that
00:40:42
was that would have been Molly and myself uh Chris Catan Chris Catan came
00:40:48
later um and I guess Anna came the next year Sherry Sherry oh Terry were you Norm was
00:40:56
doing Meadows him uh Jim Brewer wow so everyone went
00:41:05
on from there Steve Carell's wife yeah Nancy and it was a lot of people who had
00:41:10
done sketch comedy so everyone was just kind of like pulling for each other in yeah very like
00:41:16
that SNL way because we knew like oh the show's about to get canceled not to mention
00:41:22
everyone in network television uh saw there was blood in the water so we had
00:41:27
to go mad tv premiered uh oh yeah Howard Stern had a sketch comedy show oh really
00:41:33
your first year all that was um funny but I think you and you did your show in 96 yeah that first yeah prime time it
00:41:41
made half an episode they pulled us out were you guys doing it on a Friday um I wouldn't
00:41:47
I think that was right after uh Spin City or Home Improvement and they're on the fourth there was a fourth there was
00:41:53
four or five different sketch Comics yeah in that whole year and In Living Color might have still been on maybe
00:41:59
yeah yeah the state maybe so anyway so we were we were like actually pulling for sort of friendly uh was was
00:42:05
cheerleaders that first year was that first year so you had a couple that really worked so it was no danger
00:42:11
no no there was yeah don't ruin the flow you're getting it
00:42:18
wrong I say my stuff yeah um no no no my cheerleaders must have I
00:42:24
think it crushed from immediately and then you did it a few times that year so you are no danger of feeling down deep
00:42:30
you might get fired or anything you were doing well enough that first year to go I'm pretty sure except they they did a
00:42:37
thing where I think we were signed for the first nine shows gonna pick up the
00:42:42
gross but then but then that one has a gross picture I mean it's just but then
00:42:49
they dare I say they broke the contract and they said nope you're just picked up you're picked up for just five more
00:42:56
shows wow and then we'll see if you picked up for the last five this is your first season first just getting these
00:43:02
little pictures that's what happens when I date girls they pick me up for two more dates and then they go we'll see
00:43:09
how it goes after that
00:43:20
so it was still harrowing it's uh by the way I don't think you're ever relaxed
00:43:26
there going I got it made here so I don't think that's ever a feeling if you're new even if you accept those last couple Seasons yeah right but you're
00:43:33
you're but I did have a fantastic so when my arbitrarily that my last year when I
00:43:41
just decided that would be my last year yeah for seventh season or whatever just felt like the right amount of time
00:43:48
Lauren took me to dinner to talk me into staying Chili's uh
00:43:56
Houston Houston's I can get us in I can do Hillstone Houston's at 9 30. does that work we're
00:44:03
after the rush yeah these dinners are very interesting so
00:44:10
well you're going to stay that's why he does it sometimes you'll stay another two years oh yeah I just tell you he'll
00:44:15
tell you what's gonna happen I think it was that pastis no yeah okay how awkward
00:44:21
because you want to say no you want to leave right well well you'd already feel it old school but we'll get to that right during yeah that was in the can
00:44:28
that was in the camp it was in the can but no one knew you didn't know where it was that was in the can that's a term
00:44:35
yes it's edited but they haven't shown because they used to have a cellulose you do that in the summer and then you
00:44:41
came back into Destiny I think I did it partly through uh the fall of that that seventh season okay so how did Lauren
00:44:48
pitch you Lauren said the muscle he said so I understand you're thinking about
00:44:54
leaving and I would just suggest this you're at a you're at a high point right
00:45:03
but you want to start just to begin to dip
00:45:09
and then you should leave and I was like but Lauren that seems counterintuitive
00:45:15
like and then work for John Lovitz when
00:45:21
Lauren doesn't really want to hear an answer he always goes just think about it yeah no no no no no no no no just
00:45:26
think about it think about that I'm going to draw the chart on a napkin I'm going yeah let me let me just think
00:45:33
about waiting for me to do and then leave I will think about that and you just
00:45:40
said I'll think about it and then we never talked about it ever again but so it seems like you know you did Molly's
00:45:45
movie you did a lot of you did the movie with Chris and you you know you were kind of and then you'd done cowbell and
00:45:51
everything else it seemed like your timing was impeccable I mean you were ready but you could have killed for
00:45:57
three more years in the show yeah if you wanted to I mean if no if if anyone had put a show biz gun
00:46:05
to my head and said this is all you get to do I would have said great yeah it
00:46:11
was the hardest most fun job I've ever done most exhilarating yeah bizarre right yeah yeah uh but yeah we
00:46:19
I couldn't hear you did someone put a gun to your head there someone put a gun Elvis one of Elvis's
00:46:27
old guys bought an
00:46:32
auctions around comes around this crowd does not know what to do I think I was in a dark nightclub in Scottsdale
00:46:38
where I'm from back in 54th yeah when
00:46:44
you did so in the in the Summers you did uh that's what we would try to do as a movie in the summer so you did uh what
00:46:50
was the first one was it Superstar are we in Superstar I was in Super the first one where star was it at Roxbury I think
00:46:56
the first one was Roxbury I heard the original title was called a day at the Roxbury then you guys maybe tonight
00:47:05
uh we're doing Brewery uh this month is there any way you could still instead of rock shake your neck like that or no
00:47:11
it's too hard I don't know if I can't I don't know if I remember don't try what the motion was it was oh man
00:47:18
Is This Love if I did it now I would just hold my
00:47:25
head still and go try to trick the audience like a little
00:47:31
cardboard cutout actually that's a sketch Katana and I would do at the growlings oh you brought it so we
00:47:36
brought that in but yeah I'm sorry to interrupt you but for the audience if they don't know but we say it
00:47:43
sometimes when you come on when I was there you would uh say what sketches you had when you came in or what characters
00:47:49
right and then you own them even if you did them on the show I think Mike on Wayne Wayne's World uh and then I'm not
00:47:56
sure I was just no I don't know so they were pretty tricky about that I I don't know we'll
00:48:03
own it even if we don't own it maybe 50 50. uh and then and then
00:48:09
whatever you came up with in the writer's room they own right is that how to work yeah so if you came in with uh that and then
00:48:17
I think it's more incentivizing if you would think if if it was a sketch
00:48:22
they owned you know because Lauren was doing a lot of sketches for a while like even Tommy Boy was sort of
00:48:27
us at the office based on what was that movie you guys what was Tommy Boy about
00:48:34
I get the top of the hand um and then
00:48:41
Wayne's World and let's get some box office numbers out here Roxbury versus Tommy no Tommy Boy
00:48:52
maybe made 30. we barely we made right 35 we barely
00:48:57
really yeah Wayne's World was the big hit yeah it's fun oh Tommy Boy made like 50. no it it just made it what about
00:49:05
Black Sheep what about what blockchain Black Sheep made about the same it uh but they sort
00:49:12
of did better in uh as it went on like on video but yeah but um some movies
00:49:18
like that in hindsight you probably thought they made more but it didn't it opened number one and it started Black
00:49:24
Sheep but it wasn't like a huge killing but it just sort of resonated over time which helps because a lot of them do
00:49:31
better and they don't resonate you know how it is DVD and yours did well but but to other
00:49:38
people not really DVDs are huge what was your biggest problem by the way oh yeah live streaming is let's find one that
00:49:45
didn't work let's get some Hardware going I want to put it in a slot no it was like I remember Walmart said every
00:49:52
time people throw in uh Tommy Boy or Joe Dirt when they come by in the aisle and it doesn't go down every week they get
00:49:58
the same amount of people just go I just throw in I just throw it in so that made money I guess for them uh but not really
00:50:04
me but um I like those ones I kind of live on there's not that many uh but uh
00:50:10
when you came out to old school was uh such a monster it was your idea to be
00:50:15
naked and streaked because you did that before or or it seems you wanted to treat America
00:50:22
got a comfort level of using your body yeah you know in a very funny way I had
00:50:28
a comfort level yeah you would streak in college writers that made uh I had yeah I had
00:50:36
my dad's in the audience tonight oh yeah you're trying to overthink your answers I I streaked in college dad
00:50:42
your dad is out there right here on our audience uh Mr but yeah that well I was
00:50:49
always that was the thing I loved about Chris Farley I mean I I just remember to
00:50:54
do it I remember thinking okay I'm gonna meet people that are just as funny as me and people that are much funnier than me
00:51:00
but the one I'll just they won't be able to out commit me it would be it was like my promise
00:51:07
I promise I don't think so anyone committed I uh I was I had no problem
00:51:13
taking my shirt off during sketches and things like that and but I do remember reading the the script for old school
00:51:20
and reading that joke reading and there's sometimes a disconnect that you
00:51:25
read it and you go running well that'll be funny until the day you actually have to and it's inform it and you come out
00:51:32
of your trailer what are you wearing a robe or what do you how do you come out of your trailer shoot this um
00:51:39
time for the run down the street little little marble a little marble sack yeah
00:51:45
as they say in the industry yeah um and uh yeah we shot it here in
00:51:51
Montrose anyone from Montrose here tonight I've only heard anyone remembers of the band Montrose
00:51:57
[Applause] uh but yeah we shot that right out here near Altadena and
00:52:04
I just remember we were shooting in in front of a bunch of stores storefronts
00:52:10
and there was like a a local Health Club and there's all these Yuppie people
00:52:16
working out getting their power walking in and I said to the PA like does anyone
00:52:22
has anyone told them what's about to happen because I'm in the robe and I got the
00:52:28
marble sack attached to the crucial area and uh does anyone know I'm about to drop the
00:52:34
robe and like do we want to tell you know some kid on a headset like what huh yeah I don't know we want to get real
00:52:41
right okay back to one get I think we're gonna film it now we're ready that first take I'm running
00:52:48
and I'm trying to come like honey we're all going straight I'm hearing off in the distance through the window of the
00:52:54
health club oh my God oh
00:53:02
hey hey so many views
00:53:08
and then we shoot it we cut we reset another take he's not gonna do it again
00:53:16
there's like one old guy in there still power walking extra by the third take Health Club
00:53:22
totally cleared out no one wanted to watch me run naked down the street how
00:53:27
many tanks it was it was probably more than we needed camera from behind and from
00:53:34
behind crane crane got to bring in the super 50 techno yeah um yeah side shot yeah and
00:53:43
then camera in the car where I go in butt first to sit down so yeah a bunch
00:53:48
of shots I know this is supposed to be out well I remember Dana I mean well can I tell you one embarrassing story oh
00:53:54
this reminds me a walk I have to move for this it's not worth it at all but we'll take it out later so this is
00:54:01
embarrassing because one movie I did called warning shot it was sort of a drama and there was gun thank you
00:54:07
thank you warning shot that's when you played the Kingpin right
00:54:14
oh yeah it was a bad guy the drug lord so he's a drug lord uh Dana I knew you'd see the trailer so I
00:54:22
you sent it to me so there's Dana we're taking this all out anyway I gotta
00:54:28
watch warning shot so we'll watch it on the plane so put it in my notes Here I Am
00:54:34
oh and yeah for sure warning shot warning shot
00:54:41
okay and uh I don't want to give the whole thing away because everyone's going to run home an erected warning shot uh I don't know if we had a
00:54:47
director um I realized halfway through
00:54:53
AI directed it so they said there's a part where I get squibs lingo so there's
00:54:59
a uh gun fight you're gonna get shot so they have to lay me they have to uh and it's the fake blood me up so they put
00:55:05
like little uh you know Pepcid ACS I need to blow up you know what I mean like whatever but they have to I don't
00:55:11
know if it's electronically they have to tape it to you right and they actually make it's it like makes a spark or
00:55:17
something small explosion right so they tape a couple here
00:55:23
uh to my bird chest and then but I'm at lunch eating a burrito and then they go
00:55:28
hey uh shooting after lunch I go okay and but like you I don't even think
00:55:33
about it and then I go oh wait I have to uh this guy's coming in here so the uh special effects guys got like a ponytail
00:55:40
you know this guy always he comes in hey it's like it's like a salad
00:55:46
yeah he goes uh we're gonna do these and you might feel spark uh and if there's a
00:55:52
full fire we'll you know we'll address it then and like okay which means it's happening which means it's his first day
00:56:00
so he goes uh they just pulled me off this other thing Home Depot yeah so uh
00:56:06
so he goes okay so he wires me up like shirt off and then they go one two three
00:56:12
four let's say and then they tape down and now they stick them on and now they have to go down my pant leg and then you
00:56:19
know what I mean like out the back the wires and then the guy has like a little blow up plunger yep so
00:56:24
I I so I have to put my pants on over that so these are on here and they go back like six feet to him and he's like
00:56:30
got it and then in my trailer and I delicately put my shirt on they go ready for you so I start to walk out he's
00:56:37
following me and then I start drifting off on the way to the set going what are my lines blah blah blah take that
00:56:43
dagnabbit or whatever I'm saying and you were playing like a macho back yeah like I'm a tough guy so I'm just I'm Dr this
00:56:50
is the embarrassing I'm drifting off and then I go and then
00:56:56
three toots in a row just to myself I don't care I'm just walking yeah and
00:57:01
then I hear behind me hey come on man [Laughter]
00:57:09
I forgot he was six fine and already leaning over hey come on man because I'm
00:57:16
first team the worst thing you can say is come on he wanted to bust my [ __ ] hell
00:57:25
I couldn't apologize but I had to laugh so hard first because it was so uncool
00:57:31
and then he's walking through uh and then uh guess what the scribs went wrong
00:57:36
after that because the squibs were a relief after that yeah I just walk on
00:57:42
the side I go are we ready and he's like blam and I'm like he's like oh early it's usually the
00:57:49
indignant special effects person yeah who they get mad at you even though they
00:57:56
didn't have it hooked up right and so filming A Night at the Roxbury we'd one
00:58:03
of the gags was we're driving we're doing the head thing yeah and then Katan smash does it so hard he smashes his
00:58:12
side his window his passenger side window with his head and it explodes
00:58:19
but that's all squibbed up so that's supposed to just cracks man you're supposed to crack with the aid of
00:58:25
Technology timing wow special effect guy same same guy yeah he's waiting by the
00:58:32
console you know going hot cool dialogue coming in hot yeah you're
00:58:39
timing it out you're rehearsing how many head okay we'll do it on the fifth one and on the fifth one Chris will go like this
00:58:45
so we're doing you know what is that and we're doing our thing yeah one two three
00:58:52
four whack side does nothing the side went doesn't break
00:58:59
it doesn't break at all guy comes in it's like I don't it's all checked out
00:59:05
or something wasn't plugged in
00:59:11
as if we're supposed to go oh great yeah no problem ah [ __ ] but katan's got like
00:59:18
a Shiner weld yeah and he's like do we do we trust him do
00:59:24
we do it again are we doing it again but it's they get so excited when they
00:59:29
discovered their their issue yeah yeah
00:59:35
he's like it wasn't my fault it wasn't plugged in you're like that's still here still yeah isn't it funny it wasn't
00:59:40
plugged yeah can you believe it Miracle it wasn't plugged in uh show business is difficult that's
00:59:47
always it did so you I do love the guy like I love it come on man oh he just
00:59:53
kind of come on man he did the harshest he could go is hey come on man like and
00:59:58
then I was like oh my God he can't yell at me it's so it because he just but we always found that with the effects guys
01:00:05
on SNL that yeah like if you if you had a gag at a barf or something like please we need so much blood it's supposed to
01:00:12
be over the top amount of blood you got it it's gonna be so much blood dressers or so
01:00:18
like one spot and you'd look over and I gotta be like I don't know what happened I'm sorry I
01:00:25
don't know you want more than that you're like yes yeah I want the funny version of the block funny version and
01:00:30
like then add 100 to that we did it with Alec Baldwin and we were uh and Jay
01:00:36
Moore we were all like every cop that came to his set goes I think Phil comes up and he goes
01:00:42
this is the sickest most gruesome set you know I've ever seen car crash right
01:00:47
and he throws up and then he goes Captain Captain what's going on then he throws up and it was just a joke of we
01:00:52
all throw up and like me and Jay by the time we got there we were newer and we had two lines but the throw up wasn't
01:00:58
working as well and it goes it's same thing up your leg up a hose and it got it back on
01:01:04
and then at rehearsal we're like guys more same thing yeah please funny throw up it goes everywhere and it's too much
01:01:11
no one's mad it's too much is better and I think by the time we did it
01:01:16
uh it was either leaky Foss you know just barely and you're like and then it's funny because you're like it's just a little because it's coming out of your
01:01:23
arms like you're barfing and it goes like that right there's a spray my whole face
01:01:29
anyway that's not that's neither here nor there right now no no no but but uh do you have any other stories you'd like
01:01:35
to share yes did you do were you an Anchorman because I didn't read everything
01:01:42
I know you were in no um I auditioned for what was the guy Ron
01:01:47
flurgood oh yeah it was burgundy that wasn't something from SNL right that was something you thought of after that was
01:01:52
uh after yeah that was after the show was that one of your first your left SNL
01:01:57
was that one of your first uh left SNL starring in movies old school old school
01:02:02
came out came out after I left while we were filming
01:02:10
yeah so I left and I didn't really is that the one where you old school Years film but they held on to it which is
01:02:16
usually a bad sign right release it until later and after Anchor Man no no well before
01:02:25
so it was old school and then I we were working on elf this script about an elf oh Alphas back then that did that was
01:02:32
not uh enough that needed a bunch of work so when I left the show there wasn't I didn't like have this stack of
01:02:38
scripts waiting for me but holy [ __ ] to come out with those three old school Anchorman were the first guy movies I
01:02:44
did after I left that's unreal uh oh let's go where you go you're crazy is that is that what you said that after
01:02:50
the video yeah yeah hysterical yeah so many parts of old school were great uh
01:02:56
when Vince Vaughn goes hey you need some sand I got a sand guy uh everything about old school is funny love that one
01:03:02
um elf obviously was a such a huge home run hit and uh still to this day but elf
01:03:08
was elf was uh that was that was a little scary only
01:03:13
because I'd come off of SNL and well old school
01:03:19
known probably for doing more PG-13 right or edgier stuff yeah and then
01:03:27
you're in a and then I'm in this family family thing that's risky going
01:03:32
this could be it I don't know I'm just sitting around right around the streets of New York and yellow tights
01:03:41
[Music] but you're you're your style I guess I'd say is you just you never wink and you
01:03:47
commit like a dramatic actor yeah and that's that's what kind of holds you up well elf all those thank you Dana yeah
01:03:54
thank you I say the same time
01:03:59
here it's Dana you can do a trick that Kevin Nealon can do it's you can lower
01:04:04
your IQ just 20 points right just with your eyes very subtly
01:04:11
and it's genius but every time we were doing Hans and Franz cocky idiots yeah
01:04:18
and we were talking and they go five four three I'd look at Kevin and he was just his eyes would just go really down
01:04:24
like yeah yeah he could lower his IQ like 40 points but you you have that
01:04:29
skill set of being able to just take IQ off here with just just something about
01:04:35
your eyes you can think that's good yeah it is yeah yeah you feel like a guy what was his name
01:04:41
sounds uh sellers Peter Sellers Peter Sellers kind of like that guy Pete cell
01:04:46
I call him Pete seller did because you do have some symmetry with him a lot of comedians want to claim Peter Sellers
01:04:53
but I do think you have something in you know that thing cocky idiot character
01:04:58
that that also is very dry extremely bizarre word packages with a lot of
01:05:05
physicality anyway I just I've been researching you for this but that's uh that's how I started thinking of the Ron
01:05:12
Burgundy character because I was watching footage of this news anchor who had been
01:05:17
retired for 20 years but he still talked like this yeah
01:05:23
and I walked through my local market and I'll be ordering you know buying my
01:05:30
groceries and people will hear my voice and they'll know they'll ask me were you in news and I say yes I used to be
01:05:37
and I thought who talks like that like what you're not a news guy anymore and I
01:05:43
thought oh that's funny someone who never loses that that fact yeah yeah but
01:05:49
all the stuff writing that San Diego's funny uh casting it right there's so many ways to do a movie wrong even if
01:05:56
you have a funny character like you got to get it directed well uh written well perform it well edited there's so many
01:06:02
ways to ruin it along the way and that's why sometimes you sign up for a movie it's it just doesn't come out because
01:06:07
there's so many ways to mess it up yeah but to have all those work all the way through is very very tough to do and uh
01:06:14
Anchorman is one of those that is hit on all cylinders and then the sequel I was watching the fight scene from the sequel
01:06:20
today and it's so [ __ ] funny where you're thinking of different ways to have different news people and uh and
01:06:27
then everyone's playing it is funny and all they keep coming in their different groups all that was funny and Topping
01:06:32
the first one was hard but you did that with that and also two days with Kanye West I figured out that was Kanye I'm
01:06:39
like Kanye made this Cameo but he he filmed this thing and then he just hung
01:06:44
out there I just stayed yeah playing Jesus for us over and over oh
01:06:50
yeah yeah whether you wanted to hear oh yeah yeah
01:06:56
that's demo jail yeah it was wild interesting yeah wow yeah yes funny I
01:07:02
used to be yeah when I write a guy like that and they would play his album over and over yeah in the car and then you
01:07:08
didn't want to say no you you already played it before but I'll listen to it again give you another shot at it yeah
01:07:14
yeah that was funny because I saw Connie I was like oh my God is that Kanye like was he around back then I guess he was
01:07:21
it must have been pretty new no he was it was yeah he was pretty old I think
01:07:26
[Laughter] whatever it is yeah whatever the answer is
01:07:31
you're also your band mates on that which you've worked with a lot Paul Rudd yeah who's awesome obviously yeah Steve
01:07:39
Carell and corel's so funny we're all got a great funny part yeah yeah it was
01:07:44
a great group um and and McKay who we'd met at SNL and
01:07:50
so it was It was a we just felt like we were playing with
01:07:56
The house's money yeah and you know they had DreamWorks had said no to it initially
01:08:03
and then later came back and oh really yeah yeah they had a bunch of people had passed on it uh I think we had 10 or 15
01:08:11
different financiers or Studios passed on it in one in one day it was great it
01:08:17
was a great day that's a horrible McKay and I calling did you hear about this one yeah that's a pass okay but you go
01:08:23
excitedly pitch it to everyone and then meet us here pass pass here the call should be coming in
01:08:30
God that's sickening because it almost doesn't ever work after that if one passes it gets like a stink to it yeah
01:08:36
like the other one's here and they go oh something's bad about oh we don't want it either so you do that is it what happened or something and they go oh
01:08:43
well we'll risk it now no it was old school well old school came out and they
01:08:48
thought oh wait we have this other script with him we should do something we like it oh
01:08:55
yeah we like it hey that made money
01:09:02
um but we were trying they just couldn't wrap their heads around it that would be funny and I was trying to say it's it's
01:09:08
it's kind of what Austin Powers will be to the Spy Jean you know it's like uh
01:09:14
but anyway so when we finally got to make it it was we were like let's just hurry let's just shoot what
01:09:19
because they may shut us down yeah at any point when movies do the best feel like that's
01:09:25
and then it was one of those where I'm guessing you know the last couple takes do
01:09:31
whatever you want just keep oh my God just act stupider and stupider and then someone's got to pick
01:09:36
the one that's that you live with forever but then you go God there was five other ones that were just as ridiculous did you ride that way I mean
01:09:42
because were you on 35 millimeter film in the 90s and then you get on the
01:09:48
Anchorman set or whatever and you got digital for the first time or no when did not not till Anchorman two yeah oh
01:09:55
because then you could improvise for 20 minutes yes but we would we would do it anyway yeah because it's expensive yeah
01:10:04
okay and uh uh but yeah we would just we
01:10:09
would just go until we heard that film run out and and go to the line producer and just say
01:10:15
you gotta you know can you give us cover here we just need more film stock I don't know what else to say yeah
01:10:22
uh and luckily they they the studios usually once you got going they were they were okay or they see the daylight
01:10:28
they know so yeah something's happening yeah and uh Talladega Nights is another monster so that one
01:10:35
no questions just when did you get the Applause yeah no and um Riley was that one of the first with
01:10:41
Riley or he was also and I saw no so John John did uh the table read for
01:10:47
Anchorman and we really wanted him to be in it and he was doing
01:10:53
so you had to go to gangs in New York or something you know some some [ __ ] real [ __ ] Scorsese thing and uh yeah
01:11:00
yeah and uh yeah we're here priest you know it's good you guys wound up in that oh and Step Brothers so yeah you
01:11:07
guys round up in those and uh yeah systems are consistent
01:11:13
successful comedies very very hard to do yeah it's been a big hits it's been good
01:11:19
which is why it's just fun to use your guys podcast to announce my retirement
01:11:26
yeah and uh yeah I saw should we be honored do you feel
01:11:32
like you're hogging all the good movies or something giving someone else a chance yeah I want to I want to let
01:11:38
I want to do we should do a remake of uh I've already forgotten it the farty
01:11:44
blood okay morning shark yeah
01:11:52
warning shark yeah yeah um I mean a shot for shot remake of warning shot we could put a little more
01:11:58
money get a director get that same effect yeah that guy's still around it's
01:12:04
you ever have the sound guy getting your face hey man we're just gonna wire you up here
01:12:10
I'm like sir sir I got it they're like it's gonna go right down your pants
01:12:19
you want a waste do you want an ankle what do you want what do you want this one are you like can I tape this to your
01:12:26
chest is that all right do you want it up the b-hole you know what that is do you mind Holdings
01:12:35
bury it in your beard do you mind swallowing this microphone it would help it would help production I
01:12:42
want to get the juices can you learn how to use this boom mic
01:12:49
take it home with you on the weekend can you hold it just out of frame yeah
01:12:54
it's a good arm exercise it would help yeah I used to feel sorry for those guys with the 40-foot boom Oh for like just
01:13:01
shaking like that and I'm like I got another funny idea they're like [ __ ] yeah keep it rolling guys
01:13:08
triceps and they'll cut and the guy's like
01:13:16
lays down yeah yeah we got it easy God damn it oh
01:13:22
I have a question I know but don't you yes don't you feel this you'd be fired
01:13:27
from every single job on a movie set except for the ones that we get to do
01:13:33
right or like a real movie that's what I feel like well I mean it seems like you were all most
01:13:38
the time working with like-minded spirits and no no I mean as an actor all the other jobs are so much harder than
01:13:45
just oh yeah totally goofing around right yeah I would rather just reel
01:13:50
around and have someone shoot it than I could never do a real job no wait
01:13:56
I didn't know doesn't my question make sense yeah no I'm just saying between like camera director yeah I didn't know
01:14:04
these other jobs yeah to be an actor it's like that's the easiest one oh
01:14:09
that's why they all hate us because they go look at you and they go look at you coming in here tralala oh do
01:14:16
you have to memorize three lines yeah and they're like I'm like give me a minute like he's coming you know it's
01:14:21
all that stuff and they're all waiting and then you walk up can I get a quick Spritz of final knit
01:14:27
all right ready final final net that goes
01:14:33
to my mommy's down yeah are you is that one of your guys sponsors final net yeah
01:14:39
we have here our sponsors are here I think show of hands now when you I'm I'm
01:14:45
jumping I'm gonna jump around here I'm gonna jump around here Jump Around rapid fire uh and uh any Norm was in jeopardy
01:14:54
with you a lot yeah any funny Norm stories or anything about Burt Reynolds yeah my God because uh
01:15:00
Jeopardy again one of the big sketches that big sketches everyone remembers yeah
01:15:06
always funny uh Daryl was funny at Norm's great yeah the best Norm story
01:15:11
was uh I think it's the one where he's wearing he comes back he's wearing a big
01:15:16
foam cowboy hat yeah he's like that's funny huh what wearing a cowboy hat and
01:15:23
anyway there's some beat where I where I have to be super exasperated
01:15:28
with him and I yell at him and we and we get out of the sketch and Norm comes
01:15:35
running after he's like hey well everything okay I go yeah why he's like you you seemed
01:15:42
kind of mad at me out there like no Norm I'm act we've done it this is like the
01:15:47
fourth time we've done the sketch no but that time it just seemed like you really were mad at me for some reason I said no
01:15:55
we're good that's very it's very Norm right there buddy that's his sense of humor yeah he's seen kind of a man there
01:16:01
for a moment right but he was not I don't think he was doing it he might
01:16:06
have been serious that he was screaming he was very sensitive very shaken yeah and then uh because you can commit hard
01:16:12
and you probably scared him another Norm another great Norm story has nothing to do with it
01:16:18
was and Katan told me about it they were on a flight together back LA to New York
01:16:25
uh Chris had taken off his shoes uh and he can't find his shoes they're
01:16:32
about to land can't find his shoes he's going to the flight attendant have
01:16:38
you seen my shoes I took him off it's like I don't know he's like okay Dan's like no arm come on you took my [ __ ] no
01:16:45
I didn't I didn't take your shoes why would I take your shoes that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard I've never take I wouldn't know he's like
01:16:51
come on give me back my shoes I know you took them I know Norm's like I don't know what you're talking about
01:16:57
katanas to walk through JFK with no shoes with no shoes just in his
01:17:03
socks an entire season goes by
01:17:10
and then tan and Norm are jousting back and yeah and then Norm finally goes oh yeah and
01:17:18
one other thing I did take your shoes
01:17:23
that flight in November flight November I took him I threw him in the trash can
01:17:28
just so you know all right
01:17:39
he was tough um okay let's see if we have anything else well before we let you go and the
01:17:46
other the other thing I was thinking about today Downey used to give me the gray I loved
01:17:53
Jim Downey sorry Jim Downey great legendary writer who came up with strategy
01:17:59
um oh he did I had the 18-2 right for me yeah you know with Al Franken and Jim
01:18:05
totally yeah but Downey loved being in Downey sketches for a number of different reasons but the best was
01:18:11
between dress and air and you do it every single time and it I would laugh
01:18:17
hard every single time he'd go great job take it down about a thousand percent
01:18:25
and then I would just yes and I'd be like yeah okay and you're like I don't know what happened you must must have
01:18:31
gotten into your big juice or something but he would literally tell me to take it down a thousand percent
01:18:38
worst advice yeah did you made me laugh every time and he would never say he's joking yeah yeah
01:18:45
yeah I remember one time I did a joke on Hollywood minute about what jokes you know they had some some
01:18:51
had a little more of a some were clever some a little mean streak but I did a Jim Carrey one the funniest part is I
01:18:57
liked 99 of the people of course and Jim Carrey I was just trying to get foot in the door at Snelling uh whatever it took
01:19:04
but Jim was doing these you know the movies that I loved but I said and they
01:19:09
would always prod me to go farther right because it was like through them I dare you yeah I said oh Jim's carry after
01:19:16
this one of his movies was rushed to the hospital after an overdose of uh
01:19:22
overacting pills with play it too big juice and uh and the crowd just stared at me
01:19:28
and it was it was too soon don't they don't mess with any [ __ ] guy yeah yeah Jim Carrey and I was like No I look
01:19:34
you know anyway that was cut after dress but uh but Josh Harrison was a good but
01:19:40
that was those guys and they they would write me the roughest oh because Hollywood minute jokes I like the
01:19:45
rewrite table they go Jim would be like wow you would never well no you're too much of a [ __ ] and I
01:19:53
go no I'm not what and then you tell me I go yeah I'm too much of a [ __ ] you're I'm not saying that he goes of course
01:19:59
because you're a [ __ ] and I go why and but it was all whatever he wanted to say and get the anger out and get to me and
01:20:06
then they hide behind the whole thing I know that's why it's so funny they get to say whatever they want but I would have to sort of temper it but always
01:20:12
funny I mean they're always just they're just [ __ ] wrong wait one last Norm Macdonald story sorry love them uh do
01:20:18
you remember the mama Celeste frozen pizza commercials no yes no I don't and
01:20:23
it was this and she would say yeah which is a made-up marketing word
01:20:29
there's no I didn't know in the Italian language I thought that was genuine at times yeah
01:20:36
and one day we're sitting around in the writer's room having lunch and we're doing a bit where I'm like hey guys this
01:20:43
lunch is pretty good abundanza right and everyone who goes yeah ah bondanza
01:20:48
and Norm said I'm like Norm come on just say it say abundance like no I'm not gonna say
01:20:54
it like come on Norm just say it abundanza I won't do it I'm
01:21:01
not gonna say it we get like 15 of us like come on Norm it'd be rude now ever we've all said
01:21:06
abundanza you should just say abundanza nah and I want to say it I'm not going
01:21:11
to say it I won't say you never would say it anyway that's the end of the story but
01:21:19
he yeah all right well I think it does I think we're gonna have a few people
01:21:26
hey a penny saved as a penny earned they say right that's like a 100 return you
01:21:31
can't get that anywhere is that what he said let's just talk on the phone with Norm you know yeah he's
01:21:38
bury some money right because then later on your relatives will dig it up and they'll have money right
01:21:44
he just had the driest I didn't have a TV the first year oh and I was on the
01:21:49
show because I just didn't buy one because I thought I'm never going to be in my apartment so I'd go and watch the
01:21:55
NBC Sports feed uh on like a Sunday Norm of course is in there
01:22:02
and uh Norm enjoyed gambling on Sports sure and uh we were watching some game
01:22:08
and I'm like oh gotta watch out you know University of Cincinnati
01:22:14
they're uh they're pretty good in the mud I was like really [Laughter]
01:22:21
I go yeah I think they're like 750 winning percentage in rainy games ah
01:22:28
I didn't know that yeah okay logs it away I think we're doing a bit
01:22:34
right right right there's no way how do I know that stuff yeah
01:22:41
a week later Norm's like you cost me 35 Grand
01:22:51
Cincinnati University of Cincinnati in my mind like what you said they were really good and rainy raining you bet on
01:22:59
I was joking and you bet that much yeah yeah why are you telling me that amount
01:23:05
too that's like when Norm asked lovetts for a game give me 200 so they're playing it
01:23:12
because that's funny you know he's like John's like okay so the next day land and he goes yeah yeah love it's
01:23:20
like can I get my money back and he goes no no I lost that I lost all of it
01:23:25
because why are you mad I lost eight thousand dollars yeah he goes you only lost 200. you only
01:23:32
lost 200 yeah we love Norm there was only one norm and it was amazing the comedy genius
01:23:39
by Will Ferrell Dana I think he went they want to ask a few questions in the audience yeah yeah I will get rid of his
01:23:45
limo I was just gonna butter up will oh yeah I was gonna say to will because he loves sports like if I was gonna do a
01:23:52
sports team of SNL Stars yeah you know I put you at the power forward wow okay and maybe
01:24:01
an actroid or a Phil at the center yeah maybe Bill Hader after that it's I I never try to pick SNL people because
01:24:07
then I go [ __ ] Adam Sandberg I miss him but I would you Lauren said that about you no he's the top two at least top two
01:24:15
well is he possibly one I'm not going to say but he's a top three top three top
01:24:21
three wearing that three I don't know we don't know I feel I feel like the general consensus is me Dana will
01:24:29
in the history of SNL um and sometimes it mixes up Dana will
01:24:35
day to me yeah yeah but we're up there man it's lonely but it's we're up there no yeah
01:24:43
now I was sort of the an intern there
01:24:49
Engine That Could but yeah you've had an incredible career who did William yeah 800 million minutes that's
01:24:57
how it goes now six billion minutes that's a hit that feels good I don't know it sounds like a lot of minutes
01:25:03
yeah six billion biggest film in Chile oh yeah
01:25:09
they love you in Uruguay kid you I can't step foot in Bulgaria lower Mongolia all
01:25:17
right go out there we're gonna ask we'll we'll get four questions in the audience and then well you don't have to answer
01:25:22
if you don't want just make them feel stupid
01:25:27
[Music] all right does anyone have a question and then he'll run out there and then oh
01:25:33
we got one over there let me see oh wait too late he was over there oh oh no I'm over here
01:25:39
hello um uh do you guys have a favorite sketch that literally just never made it even
01:25:46
past pitch like not something that got cut for time or cut from rehearsal but you pitched it and you thought it was great and it just did not go over
01:25:54
I I had a sketch that um that tops my list uh I had written a sketch about a
01:26:02
guy who looks exactly like Gabe Kaplan from Welcome Back Cotter
01:26:09
and Colton he's he's a super and he works in an insurance uh he works the
01:26:15
insurance company works for he knows that Gabe Kaplan is a client and it's the day
01:26:22
that Gabe Kaplan came in to renew his insurance coverage but no one told him
01:26:27
no one told my character that Gabe Kaplan was there and uh I was how did this not get on
01:26:36
I'm sure they started dress oh
01:26:41
was so at one point there's the smallest laugh in the world like kind of in the up the
01:26:47
up deck there you just hear hey so hard
01:26:54
so that was it it but it worked great at the table I have one quickie which was a
01:26:59
guy I'm sorry buddy uh he was obsessed with Kurt Cobain after his death and I worked at Baskin
01:27:06
Robbins and I wouldn't wash my hair and Bob Odenkirk and I wrote it and it was uh Kurt every time I was trying to name
01:27:13
ice creams after him and then when people come in they go my manager goes you gotta wash here I go no Kurt he
01:27:19
curtained her you can't wash him away and then uh again crickets but that was
01:27:24
Crickets at read through with Odenkirk who's a great writer and uh it was a
01:27:30
fully form sketch and it just uh on season two we're doing we're doing a press conference and they said do you
01:27:36
have any new catch phrases to me so I just said my new catchphrases I got the gut I got to go right
01:27:44
so I wrote A Sketch called funny little poop
01:27:50
a poopy head Jan Hooks was missing and it was really if it had gotten on I
01:27:55
would have enjoyed it but it was just to hear Lauren say funny little poopy head so there was so much stage Direction and
01:28:02
Lauren Michaels had to say that it was sad yeah if I need a little poopy
01:28:07
head walks across the room that kind of and my and then he goes I got to got to got to go and then Jan Hooks his Hook
01:28:14
was and I'm gonna go on with him
01:28:21
all right next one okay anybody they're slow to the uh okay yeah hey uh
01:28:28
you did a college game day in 2010 with Lee Corso what was he like
01:28:36
is that for me I don't think I did I don't remember being in it so was that you
01:28:44
oh uh it was a film called College again yeah
01:28:50
would that have been outside the Coliseum oh before the SC Oregon game yeah
01:28:58
oh easy rain man are you wearing an n95 yeah
01:29:06
yeah definitely outside the Coliseum yeah yeah of course of course I'm in an
01:29:12
excellent I never remember having much interaction with Lee Court I'm sure he was nothing but lovely
01:29:19
what about Lee Van Cleef did you ever do anything Cleveland
01:29:27
this young man you've had her Hannah for so long go ahead I think for the podcast yeah
01:29:35
thank you thank you um hi uh will Dana uh do you guys were
01:29:40
part of a video where you played the uh the bushes oh all the presidents for all
01:29:45
the presidents Ron Howard do you guys have any funny stories about that and David will there be a uh uh sequel to
01:29:52
that movie don't make up a question for me you love these two he's huge and chilly
01:30:00
and David uh you're taking an Uber first of all that was with funnier dot for funnier that was for Funny or Die about
01:30:06
a passing legislation yes legislation and I remember we just did
01:30:13
our characters one at a time we had all everyone who'd played a president on SNL yeah we even had Dan eckroyd do Bob Dole
01:30:21
I think well I know he was there Abdullah or was it did Jimmy oh Jimmy
01:30:28
Carter Carter oh yeah probably Jimmy Carter oh do you Nixon oh God he did a lot yeah
01:30:35
oh I'll just do it Chevy did Ford Chevy did Ford Fred did Obama
01:30:43
yes wow oh wow you carry the wrong way yeah I just remember when I was doing
01:30:48
something and you said you liked it afterwards I don't I was just ad-living as George Bush Senior and the phrase
01:30:53
came out he went full fecal I don't remember what it meant by memory
01:31:00
came out after him like the full fecal part you just remember things
01:31:09
fake location yeah I'm getting more relaxed all the time I
01:31:16
know yeah we're finally relaxed we got one more question all right [Music]
01:31:23
um hey this isn't for a while um whenever you are on SNL you would often go on Conan as different
01:31:29
characters you would never come on as yourself um was Conan aware of this because I
01:31:34
feel like he was not in on the bit and he was often surprised when you would do this no he was just
01:31:42
very good at acting and playing along because they that I mean did you ever
01:31:48
try to surprise him with anything but then you would add Live Events yeah it might have been because Conan in that
01:31:54
whole step they were so into please do whatever you want yeah yeah they that
01:32:01
was like the greatest show to go on that early Conan because they were just
01:32:06
Embrace any sort of bit it was like I got you know I have an idea
01:32:12
where I want to get in a drum off with a kid drummer
01:32:18
and he's gonna be much better than I am and then I'm gonna chase him out of the state you know and they're like yep
01:32:24
let's do it uh okay I have another bit where I want can you please can you set up a pull-up bar
01:32:31
and I want to do um I want to do a setup where I'm going to do as many pull-ups as I can do and
01:32:37
I'll give ten thousand dollars to charity and I can't even get one puller
01:32:47
uh and I just struggle it's there like 15 seconds like I did 30
01:32:54
yesterday too bad March of Dimes you know whatever
01:33:00
but no no they would be funny they would go for everything and it seems like he always
01:33:06
had a gear where a lot of your stuff if the sound broke I call it funny with the sound off it would still work you know
01:33:13
just because like like the cowbell guy just the way you were dancing around like it just all that and walking was
01:33:19
good in that too oh my God yeah do people know that is this true that you TR you tried it out with
01:33:25
different hosts and it never got on until walking came I tried it uh uh well it's funny it was the the season before
01:33:32
was Norm's last season because you guys were talking about it with Downey the
01:33:37
whole Norm getting fired and uh and then strangely enough he comes back the next
01:33:43
year to host oh yeah yeah but I tried it at the table with
01:33:49
Norm as the record producer yeah and it worked fine but it just didn't get it picked and then I brought it back later going oh no I'm gonna rewrite this for
01:33:56
walking it's hard to do it twice it's hard yeah I was there that night I was
01:34:02
doing it I was doing a guest spot or something oh okay and I remember that destroying and yeah we were way over and
01:34:09
well where were you yeah you weren't dead center no it was way in the corner dead corner there [ __ ] people do you
01:34:15
remember how did that come out just just suddenly because it's such a bizarre incredibly
01:34:22
inexplicable idea that's why it's it's just as funny now you could watch it 20 years later it looks funny it's a weird
01:34:28
song yeah listening to Blue Oyster Cult on the radio yeah it was just that cowboy going
01:34:35
does that guy have any friends you know is that the only song he ever got to
01:34:41
play Cowboy on yeah and then I'd always I'm like I'm gonna write that as a sketch it's not nothing
01:34:46
you can pitch yeah and so I write and I rewrote it for for
01:34:52
walking I was just like oh I know that if Christopher Walken says I have a
01:34:57
fever yeah and the only prescription is more cowbell only he can make life off
01:35:02
of that you you can't lose because the stiffer he does the more he's married to the cue cards
01:35:08
I have a fever yeah and they all and they're like you see you're like phonetically almost getting through it
01:35:13
and it's so [ __ ] funny and I remember I remember is Kevin Pollock here could you do Christopher Walken I think he is
01:35:20
he here [Music] how is he here no oh Kevin so this is
01:35:25
the world's greatest Christopher Walken impression oh [ __ ] I have a fever
01:35:32
prescription is more cowbell you [Applause]
01:35:42
it's Kevin Pollock happened to be here
01:35:49
but you would you would say to walking you go hey Chris uh you're just killing it you're so funny everything it'd be
01:35:55
like we should have Kevin to I have no idea
01:36:04
I just say the lines he doesn't get the sketch and I was like
01:36:10
well you're doing great if you say so
01:36:16
okay like I got in trouble
01:36:22
I'm just doing Kevin now but yeah but yeah there was something magic about that thing anyway that was something
01:36:29
special so I like those ones that live on forever those are great yeah so Will Ferrell you are one of the all-time yeah
01:36:35
you're you're still going strong I don't know what you're doing next but I was going to ask you what's the longest
01:36:41
break you've had in the last 25 years from doing Show Business it seems like
01:36:46
you've been did you have six months off at one time oh sure so you take breaks and what do you do during your breaks
01:36:52
you ran three marathons long time ago um that was just a passion yeah just
01:36:58
wanted to run I retired in 03 and uh Lauren wouldn't take you back right are
01:37:06
your kids for me yet oh they're my 13 year old joke dominate yeah yeah I
01:37:14
know kids are 11 when they're taller than me I'm like I just and just hang out I'm I'm Uber driver for my kid you know I
01:37:21
have a sophomore in high school 12 and you're driving him to school and
01:37:27
I could play A Day in the Life for them right you know and they play me hip-hop and stuff which is a fair exchange but
01:37:33
there's a lot of fun and cool bonding because I was noticing my kids weren't talking to me in the car at a given age
01:37:40
when I'm driving them to school and then I would put on AM news radio and a man
01:37:46
was killed today and shot blood was flying and they're like dead what was what was that what's going on so that
01:37:52
really would open them up but you must have had experiences like that maybe it was but truly you must have
01:37:59
made him think and we we've made a concerted effort to just take the whole summer off every no matter what I'm
01:38:05
working on so we go uh I did that too we go to Sweden of all places every summer so we have my wife
01:38:11
Swedish we have a place out there the boys all speak Swedish they hang out with their cousins yeah that's too cool
01:38:16
so they're just bonded with Sweden yeah that's hip yeah isn't most of live just
01:38:21
I feel like even really busy people most of life is hanging out and talking absolutely isn't that what we do most of
01:38:28
the time I mean we're working stuff trying to watch something on TV with your wife I mean you watch live streams
01:38:35
Pleasures yeah do you watching all creatures great and small if you want liquid xanax this is This brilliant show
01:38:43
that's just so nice The Beatles documentary was that too in a way oh my God we talked about that song get back
01:38:49
yeah unreal you know it's nice to you to say that we you know I do I'm a bit older now you
01:38:57
know we appreciate we appreciate that you like it you know but we were just
01:39:02
Lads plunken I don't know I don't know who that is is that Billy
01:39:07
Preston it's Billy Idol did you mean McCartney I will when
01:39:13
you're on us now do what you see McCartney was he on when you're on oh no I think he was 90.3 he was on I
01:39:19
know when I was there with he must have been I know Mick Jagger oh Jimmy did that Mick Jagger
01:39:28
oh I came in Lauren's off this happened to you at Saturday Night Live Once Lauren's office in 8h just during the
01:39:34
week and just walked in and no one told me and then just Mick Jagger's just sitting there with a little sweater and
01:39:39
corduroy pants on and combed hair you know Laura likes to Blindside you with a big star yeah he likes to collect China
01:39:47
in different uh coffee cups tell them about your stamp collection he's very what you would call Aerial diet the the
01:39:54
dinner the dinner where Lauren tried to convince me to stay longer yeah who was there he kept saying Mick may stop by
01:40:02
I'm like okay all right and we keep talking he's like
01:40:07
so Mick you know he could because they produce some movie together right and uh I'm like
01:40:12
uh yeah fine okay and then all of a sudden Lauren's eyes go wide
01:40:18
he's here you sit there no no no no no I'll sit
01:40:26
here I'll sit here I'll sit like this and you sit over there no no no you should hi Mick hello hi yes and I swear
01:40:36
he wants your seat move yeah move move don't be an idiot did you always have to guess when he said Paul because there
01:40:42
were two paws Paul Simon Paul McCartney Paul's coming over which one I sat there
01:40:48
awkwardly for 45 more minutes showed up and I didn't know what this
01:40:54
once again I didn't know what to say yeah and then the next day at rehearsal Lauren was like wasn't that the greatest
01:41:00
dinner and I think he was just excited that he said a celebrity was going to show up
01:41:05
and they actually showed up what was your most Starstruck moment you know I for me like meeting Charlton
01:41:12
Heston was a big deal you know like whoa you know because you meet these hosts and they're sitting down there and then
01:41:17
they go would you like to go to say hello to Robert Mitchum sure you know it's like you're walking down there she
01:41:22
would come in get in there Sharon Stone no one's in there I'm like okay and then you go in there alone she needs help
01:41:28
PetSmart she's reading a magazine she's like what I'm like I'm supposed to I don't know you know what I mean you know Mercy Me
01:41:35
with uh George W they called me he was in the studio because they were
01:41:41
going to tape one of those election specials and they had Gore do his part yes clear the studio then they bring W
01:41:47
in there they call me at home they're like get down here W is a huge fan wants to meet you and I
01:41:55
just started doing the impression and I was like okay okay I go down to 8h or 100 reporters
01:42:02
everything yeah and they're it was like Ayala and Marcy like yeah go go up there
01:42:08
just I'm like even the cue card guys go high get up there Wally hi I'm will I could
01:42:15
tell he has no idea that I'm the guy who plays because you hadn't done it during
01:42:21
the debate exactly okay it was fledgling it was fledgling and then uh he doesn't
01:42:26
know me from App he could care less yeah and uh you got Bamboozled both just did this to each other
01:42:33
you did Roxbury how did you yeah we did Rocky did you awkwardly say yes
01:42:39
thanks so much for doing this yeah this is uh you got a lot is this a hectic work week
01:42:45
for you yeah it's a busy week
01:42:53
seems like a lot but you could tell he was stressed yeah it was just like and
01:42:59
outguire was there too Al Gore was there yeah and commanding the room oh yeah he
01:43:05
he seemed we're gonna put it in a log box he was like totally presidential and W
01:43:13
was but then when they debated it flipped yeah well W yeah well whatever
01:43:19
like that was um did you have to study tape so you just kind of got it just by
01:43:24
watching him watching a little bit tightening the neck right yeah yeah
01:43:32
yeah but you could you did you did kind of look like him when you got a little bit gear on but I think it it got better
01:43:38
over time but at first it was the same with me yeah at all only Ross Perot was quick
01:43:44
because it was such a cartoon right away Canada finish one
01:43:49
man can't finish one time can I finish one time that's all it
01:43:58
needed just that well James basically James Brown kind of can I do it on the one
01:44:04
on the one yeah get on up like a sex machine sorry
01:44:10
Phil Harmon playing Admiral what's his face
01:44:16
which one no no
01:44:22
driving him you guys did the driving yeah and then uh yeah why don't you take
01:44:27
a walk over there and then he's just going yeah
01:44:33
where am I he was doing Scottdale he was confused politics is fun all right all right we
01:44:40
got a lot but we'll go we used to live we do he wants to go on what do you want to do all right can we do three questions
01:44:46
favorite toy as a kid don't think too hard probably Legos
01:44:52
Legos yeah wrong because his was Stretch Armstrong
01:45:00
bicycle that you really liked yeah Schwinn uh twins Stingray what was the
01:45:06
yellow TV show or movie why is that funny because I think he said then he
01:45:12
said yeah yeah that one yeah yeah that one well the Schwinn was famous there
01:45:17
was only one bike but I had a serious front loader my parents yeah
01:45:23
you're like 8 10 11 and there's a TV show or a cartoon or a movie that just
01:45:30
made you love show business or just blew your mind I'll give you an example Ben Stiller said it was The Poseidon
01:45:36
Adventure it's like wow that made him want to be a filmmaker that was a cool movie Gene Hackman well I always love
01:45:42
Shelly Winters yeah um she sure had a figure oh yeah
01:45:49
yeah I would say Poseidon Adventure too yeah
01:45:59
a bear one inch thinner all right Kevin
01:46:05
I'll remember the real answer driving home after this but I saw Jason the
01:46:11
Argonauts it could be you know I saw those and wild wild west was kind of my age group land of lost I loved
01:46:18
but that didn't make me want to go into Showbiz Little House on the Prairie
01:46:24
no no um what made you wonder well I loved we're not leaving we're good no this is
01:46:31
we went past this year the pressure's building it's a nine barter I love okay these are the shows I
01:46:38
loved I loved Happy Days Laverne and Shirley yep that block on Tuesday nights Yeah Tuesday by the way amen I love
01:46:44
Saturday night was Fantasy on Love Boat [ __ ] yeah and me too see those are so
01:46:51
relaxing we need shows like that just but I wanted to I wanted to live on the
01:46:56
love but I wanted to be yeah fun guests every week everything and
01:47:04
Julie that coked up uh Cruise director yep she was great yeah I like that same
01:47:10
block La Verne is your happy days and Laverne is really Fonzie jump literally jumped the shark I remember watching that I made my mom watch it with us I
01:47:16
was like watch isn't it funny to think that Henry Winkler he was the coolest guy in America at that point in time I
01:47:23
couldn't believe it it was so cool yeah and the toughest guys I knew people thought he could beat up anyway The Fawns could beat up he never really got
01:47:28
in a fight to be honest it was no he just he was gonna snap his fingers and they'd run or something I don't want to save myself sorry but mine was Danny K
01:47:37
didn't he never could say he was sorry right yeah yeah I thought he couldn't say yeah
01:47:44
he couldn't say something maybe I love you maybe sorry let's call Hank Winkler I don't know he's great and Barry you
01:47:51
know what let's look at a clip hey
01:47:56
he almost got it bifida he just got a little touch of bifida I
01:48:04
did yeah spinal bifida that's what we're gonna name this episode that's gonna be in the it's like not funny I don't know
01:48:10
why we keep saying I know hey let me let me take it then take it down as Danny Miller okay Chris sakes we heard from
01:48:16
the Spud man with this raspberries in the uh sound effects guys
01:48:23
face a ride home the feral cat brought it heavy today yeah you did bring it man
01:48:30
you're funny my Lincoln Town Car is waiting for me yeah I always request a Lincoln Town a late
01:48:36
model Lincoln did you buy first got a million dollars you buy a
01:48:42
crazy car or anything I I bought a um uh something from the Elvis
01:48:51
all right I'm gonna jump I don't want to be the joke of the thing it's all good
01:48:57
fun baby okay I bought one of Elvis's guns and I looked at the Providence
01:49:02
and it realized spaded was the previous owner by the way when he worked there he
01:49:07
was you were very polite you're very nice I don't think you said you were in comedy at all I don't think you told me
01:49:13
that uh but in fact I still worked I got hired at SNL but you know they don't pay
01:49:18
you till you show up I had bills to pay I was still answering the phones for like a month and a half did you have
01:49:25
it transferred to yourself where here in L.A oh okay our auction and my
01:49:31
co-workers were like didn't you get on Saturday night I was like yeah but I don't leave till
01:49:37
August so I'm here
01:49:43
it said you're the highest paid cast member ever I don't think so they said it was but
01:49:50
tour what did what was your starting salary like when you first got on do you remember
01:49:56
because there's a her show it was a first show yeah uh I'm guessing
01:50:02
six thousand it was something like that okay it was 55 or six yeah forty five hundred times twenty ninety Grand keep
01:50:10
30 broke even easily star Saturday Night Live man yeah
01:50:17
I mean 900 a week to write 1500 bump if I got on update or something
01:50:22
yeah and uh but the male prostitution paid the bills yeah I ran a glory hole
01:50:28
on 18. we don't want to go on that that specific it was just you were a friendly
01:50:34
guy you're a gentleman I never got that reference because they'd be it'd be like yeah you understood they'd be like ah
01:50:40
that was a real glory hole I was like what does that mean but yeah never mind ask paid
01:50:47
all right we're going to take a break yeah come back um with our guest today will
01:51:11
I know that's a that's a bad rivalry well yeah is the Swedish Chef get a lot
01:51:18
of poontang in Sweden be honest is the Muppet character yeah
01:51:23
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