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Okay, our uh show today is someone we talked to.
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Took a while to get him on. Andrew Samberg.
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Andrew Phineas is his middle name. Not many people know that. Samberg. Samberg.
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So he came on. He's all, you know, he's just one of the all-time greats on SNL. He changed SNL,
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you know, with Lazy Sundays. What was it called? I think it was called Lazy Sunday was the first video short
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went crazy. Um and then I got to know him as he was playing um
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Maya Rudolph as KML. I was playing her husband Doug. So we got to hang out a lot. Flew back and forth a couple times.
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So he he is one of the smartest people I've ever met. He's really and funny as hell.
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So good dude. I talked him at the 50th a little bit. He uh he's on TV a lot. He's
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all over the place. Those digital shorts were just kind of a groundbreaking and he's got animated shows and all
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kinds of stuff going on and Hot Rod. We just had Isa Fischer and she was in Hot Rod, his movie. Uh he does tons of stuff. You know him,
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you love him. He's got great hair. Here he is. Andy Samber. [Music]
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You were on the show and then you went to a sitcom pretty quickly. Was it right the next season?
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Yeah. And I I mean I didn't want to. Yeah. And then it was just Mike Sher asked and I was like, "Oh shit." I saw I saw what
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he did with Polar and I was like, "It's good." Yeah. I mean, if you I sort of went in Polar Polar doesn't go down for anybody.
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I love Amy Polar. She does what? She doesn't go down for anybody. What does that mean?
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I don't know. I just said it as a joke. She's powerful. She's a great comic. No, when you leave the show, it's very
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scary. And uh and then they said, which I used to say was uh you get like one
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kind of free shot, you know, like if you jump off the show, they go, "Do you want to back then it was a little more going
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on in that world, like they said, do you want to do your own sitcom?" Oh, yeah. Like Paulolly Shore got one, you know, you get one, but it's very hard. It's
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riskier. And then Just Shoot Me was already shot. It was already at the upfronts and they picked it and then
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Laura San J was out there to announce it and the night before they pulled her and said it's just we need one more thing to
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this. So it was so weird. So I got to see the whole pilot. Oh wow. And then the guy was from Larry Sanders
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which I loved and the the writer Steve Levitan and then um
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never heard of he said you want to add about him anymore. That's wild. I had no
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idea about that. Yeah. So I said I got to see it which has helped. And I go, "Oh, I'm coming from the most competitive, toughest,
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funniest people in the world." Not that they weren't funny, but they're all actors. And I go, "Oh, there's no one like me here." You know, I had a Dana
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there and I had everyone better than me. And I was like, "Thank you, David." Yeah. And so, no, I'm saying because he's great. And
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you go, "Wow, when I'm not in a room with Sandler, Rock, Farley, Mike, day to day, and I go, these guys are just great
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actors and funny, but I there's not one like me." Exactly. I could sort of jump out. George Seagull said, "It's four
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actors in a cartoon." That's what he used to say about me and I go, "Thanks." You were the fonts. You guys, it was
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kind of cool that it's an observation. Yeah. Brooklyn, what was the name of yours again? Just shoot me. I'm sorry.
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You guys also went, you were the stars. You were the fases, but you had an ensemble. Yes. That's
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And so that's not like hanging out in a movie. You can't do it. You can do it on live streaming now. If no one sees it,
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no one cares. But in those days, like movies, you're hung out there. it. I thought you people would see it and it like you and
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and uh your experience I think I did know you is it CBS Radford, right? Yeah. That's where you shot it. Same stage.
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So you got into it and you somewhat hesitantly but you jumped in. You did your best because once you say yes to
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something, right? Yeah. You got to try and make it good. Did you write on that and uh you're going to be writing just casually, but
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you officially No, I never I never was like in the room or had my name on a screen. Isn't that great though? But weren't you good stuff anyway and it
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works anyway. That's the craziest feeling coming from SNL is having someone hand you great jokes and you're like, "Wait, I get to just have these."
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And then everyone thinks I thought of them and then they go, "How do we make these better for you?" Like I don't know. We were both standups. That was a
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revolution for me. If Bonnie Turner gave me the church lady could say this. Wow. Awesome. Yeah. It does happen at SNL. It takes a
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couple years before someone gives you a great joke, though. Well, he came out of the gate huge and Thank you, David. I think this is my
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favorite podcast. Had to work a little bit, but but you get on there. He came out of the gate and re revolutionized
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Saturday Night Live. But we can get to that thing. We'll get to that cuz that's in the live show though. I did not come out of the gate strong.
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But you you revolutionized the thing, right? YouTube comes out. SNL is still
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going. Yes. And then you came in with your buddies and it went it went it was it was fortuitous timing I like
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to say with the YouTube stuff cuz you know Yeah. Yeah. It started with like Albert Brooks doing short films and McKay did
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short films and it's it was like a long history of it at the show that we vision. Exactly. Schiller Vision's great. Even
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like the Eddie Murphy stuff doing like White Like Me where he was like walking around town like there's always
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cool pretapes. We just were like we're going to do them every week.
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SNL Digital even got a name. Yeah. It's like a idea. Yeah. And they uh it was the first one
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was Lazy Sunday if I'm correct. was the first one people liked. Do you think you blew up YouTube or
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YouTube blew you up? I think I think we are responsible for YouTube and they owe us a lot of debt.
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I knew a guy who was trying to do YouTube and he was like six months late. He had all the technology they had.
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Oh, he's going to do a YouTube. Yeah, YouTube. And then YouTube came out and then he was I was with him and he
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was trying to think of a name. He had grouper and then a friend of mine renamed it Crackle and Sony bought it.
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Oh yeah, I remember those. But YouTube is such a perfect name. Like docuine, you have to sign documents. I have to I
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own Docyign stuff. I shouldn't be promoting my portfolio. I mean, I interact with Docu Sign a lot.
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I do. I think I love you. You know that Danny gets a penny. I eat a penny. What?
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No, you get a penny every time someone signs something. Does an angel get his wings? No, I do. Um, so YouTube was only out about six
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months, right? or yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, we hadn't heard of it until someone told
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us they just watched Lazy Sunday on YouTube. Oh, wow. And then we were like, what's that? And then we realized, oh, someone finally
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thought of a an actual good layout for streaming videos cuz there had been tons
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of websites trying to do it. Yeah. And especially like comedy shorts and like that kind of thing. And we would
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submit to websites our our Lonely Island stuff that we were making before SNL. Before SNL. Yeah. Um and we had our own
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website that we like somehow finagled server space on you know right around
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broadband was to come in right broadband I heard was starting to come in so YouTube yeah it was perfect timing.
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Yeah and uh you got to keep you know they just eradicated measles but um
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we you know we heard of YouTube and then like the next week put all our videos on YouTube because we were like oh this is the best version of shove them on there.
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Yeah, it finally works. You found a spot. Yeah. You and I just want to get the pronunciations right. It's Andy.
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By the way, I said Andy's name Your name was David. I want to say, listen to this thing. This what someone
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told me. Look, his name was Andy. Somebody told him that. They called him David. No, his name was David. They And my brother's name is
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Andy. And my name's David. You can't make this. Yeah, you can make Was your was the person who told you
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last name? Opedia. Yeah, it was it was Wikipedia. It was
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printed out. Um, but I know about you. I just didn't know that.
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Okay, but your bandmates from eighth grade. Avoca Schaefer and Yorma
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and Yorma Tonei. Jeez, talk about Yorma Tonei.
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Takone. Yeah, with Ns. But it's his fault for having that name. Like people Well, I was Dan Agoni for years and no
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one ever got it right. You were what? Dana Garney. I was Garney. No one knew. Who's on? Who's up next? The stand up.
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By the way, Dana Garney. I've been Oh, you must have been. I'm Adam. Everyone thinks I'm Adam
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because of Sandler. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Adam Sandberg. Oh, right. Sometimes Andy Sandlery.
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One time I was doing standup before I got SNL and someone literally introduced me as Adam Sandler
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and everyone went and I walked out. I was like, "No, no, no, no.
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That's not my name, is that? It's I'm so sorry. I also like him. No, I got introduced as David Bowie
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once. David, I got introduced. Here's my one they mess up. David, I go to the improv a couple times a week
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just to give them a little treat, you know. Oh, yeah. And then give the magic. They go, "What do you want to say?" And
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they go, "Uh, I go, just say, cuz the last movie on Netflix was the wrong Missy." I go, "Just say the wrong Missy and some other shit." And they go, "Got
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it." And they go, "This guy was in the right Matilda, the quiet." And I go,
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"Why is that one so hard?" They say it wrong every single time. You say it wrong, too. I came up during the Rough and Tumble
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Club days. My biggest intro from Tony Depal at the Holy City Zoo. And I'm nervous stand up.
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Here he is. Dan Garney, the man who invented the [ __ ] That was the first one.
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And that was it. You're like, I didn't ask him to say that. That's a great Or you say, some people think he's funny. I don't know about that. You
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know, it was rough and tumble. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 40 seater. They're trying to negate
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and he'd do like three hours into I'm going back to Brooklyn. I want to go back.
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No, listen to this Brooklyn 999 thing cuz he got up for an Emmy. I think he won an Emmy. Two Golden Globes. He does his homework.
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I got some Globies back when that meant something. You know. Sure. Do you want to hear people say don't
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ever talk about yourself on the podcast, but guess what? So, here's what's going to happen. So I'm in the audience and they go Golden Globe.
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By the way, we're back in [ __ ] Isuza. You know, they keep the people from TV. The Golden Globes on TV. Tom Cruz is up
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front. I'm on the third deck where I have to take two elevators to get to the stage. They know I'm not going to win.
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So, and a trolley time. So, you're So, I'm back there and they go, but it was a harder supporting category. It was
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against Don Sheetel. It was against every supporting category on TV. Category
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supporting in for your show. Yeah. just yet. So, I'm up against Gregory Peek,
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John Don Cheetel, the guy from ER. It's drama, comedy, everything. So, I can't I
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already won cuz I just got that far. And so, they go uh uh No, but seriously, Gregory Peek, that's
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not a joke. He beat me up. [ __ ] He did 90 seconds in Moby Dick. And he goes, I can't believe I'm getting award
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for 90 seconds. I'm like, [ __ ] [ __ ] Gregory. I slugged out 148 episodes. Anyway, and
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then at the end, they go like this. David Spade. I'm Gregory Peek. Sorry, I just spot on. People know I know Peek that sounds like
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that's that's Peek. Everyone listening is going close enough to an old person. I met him once. So what happened?
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So at the Emmys they go like this. The This is supporting in comedy and
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they go David Hyde Pierce. And if you saw the slow motion of my shoulders go up and I went back down and then went
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for an applause and I was like did anyone [ __ ] see that false false start? And it's like
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everyone saw it. I do feel like I like it when people react negatively when they don't win. It's real.
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I feel like you can do it and everyone will think it's funny, but also you can just be honest about that your
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I would just mouth. What the [ __ ] Yeah. What the [ __ ] At least you're doing something comedy.
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How many times were you nominated? You won twice. Uh I was for Brooklyn 999. That was the
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only nomination and win was the show and and me that year and then never again
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nominated. That's weird. Yes. Politics. Why? Why were you bad after that?
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I just didn't care. It's like poor. Your nickname was phoned in on the
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Yeah, you won. You go. It just turned into a paycheck. I was like this and everything about it.
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Have you seen these shows like uh you notice the Emmys? because they sort of lost a little bit over the years, but let's say it's still exciting. So, they
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they uh they win something and someone that wins on a show or a comedy, then the next
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year they get cancelled and you go, "That's a mind fuck." Like, you just won. You go, "At least we have a little
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job security here." You're talking about the show got cancelled. Like the show Yeah. Like somebody wins or the show wins and then the show gets
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canceled and you go, "What happened in that?" You're like, "I guess it wasn't good." Right. You go, I'm not only are we not
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up for one, now we're cancelled. One year later. Do you think they they like hide that Emmy in the closet and like shame shame
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it? It's sad. Yeah, I would take it out. Oh, are you happy? Emmy, you happy? You ain't all that. You got
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the Emmy curse. Stay in there. There's a little Nicholas Cage sneaking in there for your fans.
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Oh, yeah. We can talk plenty about that. We can talk about that. It's hard to go. You have so much. But the cool thing is
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you you did 152 episodes. Your first kind of thing. I do my homework.
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I love it. I went to school. I didn't know that I did 152. I'm a Bay Area guy like you. So I drove
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down for you and but not anymore. Do you still stay up there? I have a house up there. In what area? We don't have to
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county. Oh, I love that's stunning. What's the address? My wife grew up there. We could do a little childhood stuff for a sec. So what town
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did you grow up in? In Berkeley. Well, you look so disappointed. Love Berkeley. Used to go to track meets
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there. My first standup set was on uh Telegraph Avenue at Los Salamander Cafe.
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Oh, that rules. Hippie place hating this. He's So, you kind of raised like a hippie or this
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uh Yeah, a little bit. Here a little bit. Uh what how many kids? Just you were the only one.
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I have two older sisters. Interesting. Yeah. Baby Andy Samberg's got cool hair, which always
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infuriated me. But do you think I do right now? It's pretty cool still. Yeah. Sick. I was good, dude. hair. You have
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hair and you have a jaw. Yeah, you guys. I need a lot of work up here and I I've
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even Bert Lancaster told me, "How can you be a movie star? You've got no chin." That was a quote from Bert Lancaster to
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me. Why What does he gain by saying that to me? Exactly. He got mad because
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he was a dick back. I I jumped out of my chair so he could sit in my chair. He was 73. Yeah.
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And he's coming over. I jumped out. He thought I patronized him. You [ __ ]
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jump out of a chair for me again. This was uh tough guys. Year before I
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got SNL, I played the parole officer with Bert Lancaster and Kurt D. But anyway,
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you know, I when I beat uh Greta Thumbberg at the Emmys, she goes, "How dare you?"
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Good one. How dare you? I swung back for that week joke, but go ahead. It was a good It was going to be married
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to that woman. How dare you not clean your plate? How dare you? Uh, we're not
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sure. She doesn't have to get married to find happiness. I just want to point out that that's true.
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[Music] Did you have it like an artistic childhood? And was there stuff going on
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in the house with your mom and dad or or how did you and your eighth grade buddies get so into comedy?
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We just were I don't know. Does that You just met these guys like soulmates, right? And Yeah. Actually, I like just found a a
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letter I wrote myself. It was like a third grade exercise when I was eight where they're like, you know, say, write a letter to yourself what you think
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you'll be in 20 years. My mom just sent this to me. Wow. From the basement. And it was like, I'm gonna be a famous comedian and I'll be
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married and I'm going to have two kids and and I was just like, oh [ __ ] it's all exactly what happened. How cool. Wow.
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How old were you? Eight. I don't know why. Honestly, it started uh not to blow smoke, but I I used to
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sneak into the TV room in our house and watch the Saturday night's main event,
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the the WWF wrestling thing, and it was only on once a month. He wasn't on that. And every other time it wasn't on, it
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was SNL. So, by accident, I started watching SNL cuz I was like, "Oh, it's not on, but what's this?" And it was it was right
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when it was your first cast and that's when I got into the show. So you were like when I 12 or something or 10 12.
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I mean honestly I might have been like eight. [ __ ] [ __ ] Trying to think. Wow. That's cool. I'm 44.
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I'm glad I didn't [ __ ] up. So I didn't make you want to quit like that guy. I was like you can do this. This is
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allowed. I want to be like I want to be like that guy. I'm pointing at you right now for people cuz you can't see us but I'm pointing right at you. D.
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We can never forget that. I mean I it'll hit me sometimes if you're up there in a costume on a stage somewhere doing something. You go I'm this is my job.
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Really? Also, somebody's watching. I mean, you guys probably grew up
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watching SNL. It probably wasn't that different from how it was for for me and my
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for me to run into Dan Akroyd at the show was just nerve-wracking. Yeah. And then he talks to you about his vodka for like an hour and a half.
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Yeah. Well, you don't have to leave the show. Yeah. You talk about investing. He was an investor early on.
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It's It's insane to bump in anyone from that original cast. It's crazy. They when they walk around the office here walk around the offices
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and Acrode came in knock sir. Fair enough sir. That's right. He's good about it too. Acro's very like
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I liked what you did. I was very funny. And you're like holy [ __ ] this is crazy. Every time I run into him he goes you
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know the church lady was kind of a you know sir it was was sort of a perfect comic character. If I see him at the
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50th I'm waiting for it. I go hey Dan what about the Did you go to the 40th? I was at the 40th.
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Yeah. Fun, right? I did a video with Sandler. We did the thing about everyone breaking. Oh, you did?
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Yeah. They they put it in Shikan Alley, but uh it played well online. Shan Alley? Well, first of all, that
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should be that should be your next musical video. Shan Alley. Do you mean you presented it from a bad
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spot on the stage? No. No. I don't I did not make that up. People used to talk about at the table read if you were in the second half of
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the read in the middle of the second half. That's chicken alley where nothing plays because everyone's exhausted. And then
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once everyone knows there's one or two left, they laugh again. Yeah, it's not bad to be the Sandler. It got on, right?
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Of course it aired and it played well, but it was like people were partying already and drinking and walking around. I think Mike and I went on last, didn't
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we? Wayne's World, were you dead last? I thought we were dead last. That's great. Well, see, but that's a good spot.
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Then they're waking up when it comes over. I said, "Would you be either really angry or really flattered?" I
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said that to Mike right before he went out. I think probably a little little of both. Uh, it worked out.
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You know what was interesting? I probably shouldn't say this. Say anything you want to me or David.
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It was such a comedy room and people are so [ __ ] like SNL competitive that like the the monologue opening thing was
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Timberlake and Fallon doing like SNL through the years and it was like a fullon crowd-pleasing showstopper
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and half the room was kind of like arms crossed like I was like Jesus I I don't want anything
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I do to air in this room. We're all wounded little clowns. If he does good then I don't do good. And
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everyone at home was like, "This is the greatest thing I've ever seen." I was doing bye-bye and I Jane Curtain was yelling, "Fuck you." to me from the
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front row. Yeah. Take your own advice and get out. Jane Curtain of all of all nice people.
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Jane Curtain was cool. She's wonderful. Were you going to What are you Are will you be at the 50th? We ask everybody.
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If I'm invited, I got to go, right? You're going to be invited. You never know at this point. I heard there's no plus ones.
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That's always weird. So my wife's not coming. Wait, that won't go down well. You know, you weren't at Vanity Fair the
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other night, right? I didn't go because of the knee. Oh, the knee. I just want you to know I was invited though. Oh, yeah. Dana, this Vanity Fair thing.
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I should have brought [ __ ] D. Oh, I couldn't I couldn't bring anyone. I was invited for 25 years. Never went
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so finally they stopped inviting me. Oh god. For people at home, they hear about that Vanity Fair party. Like the Oscar party,
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right? Yeah. So, there's one at Guyos after that which is really fun and that's at least I know him so it's easier. But
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Vanity Fair, it's not an audition, but you just hear one, "Oh, if you want to go to the Vanity Fair, I always thought
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I was always invited." And then one year I go, "Hey, I didn't hear about the Vanity Fair. I think I want to go to that and bring my buddy." And they go,
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"It's just so tricky this year." I'm like, "Oh, what does that mean?" They're like, "I I can't go." And they're like, "It's not that. It's just that you can't
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right now." And I'm like, "So, what is that?" And then but they for people
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listening, you know, you see pictures of the Vandy Fair party, but it's it's a
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fun party, but they stagger you. Yes. So you either go like appetite. I didn't
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know anyone and I got no plus one. And I said, I think I'm going to go. I get home from my shows. I just want to go at least do something. I can't stay all the
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way awake till a guys party, but I go I'll just go to this one. Oh, wait. What's my time?
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Yes. And so it gets a little sweaty. I got 9:30, which is pretty good. 9:30 is not bad. This is all embarrassing.
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It's the cool group. It's cool kids. And they go, "You're right between JJ Hadid and
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Harvey Weinstein." They let him out. Just they furled him. He's there. Like this is the only thing you get out for.
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It's cruel and unusual not to let that man go to that party and then they put him right back embarrassingly.
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But 9:30 is not bad. One year I got I got Midnight and No Plus One. I didn't
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go. Too embarrassing. Too Now you got Fly in the Wall. So it's a hit podcast. No, they know that this is it's in it's going to be but but back to
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our guest. No, I want to tell him cuz I want to say cuz he's done this and embarrassing that when you go and you go to the you know
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you get out by yourself and I so I hit appetite and I say are you there and he goes I got five I got five
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head. How does he sound? Do it again.
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Everyone has a little appetite. You cop an attitude and just say the name. You know that thing we I'm good at the time. How are you guys
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doing? I'm doing that. That's pretty funny. What you That was really funny. He does say that. He does say that's funny. So anyway, I
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get there. I go all the I hit right when all the models hit and they're all 50 ft tall and I go, "Can I just cut in front
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of you guys?" And just and they're like, "Is someone talking?" And uh so
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I go I remember I went up to Jessica Alba. I go, "Oh, I thought you were Nancy Pelosi. That's that was my joke to
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her." And she goes, "Fuck you." And I go, "No, she's right behind you."
00:22:25
And I go, cuz it's funny cuz one time she kicked me in the ass at the Golden Globes and she said, "Hey fats." And I
00:22:30
turned around. I don't even know her. Nancy Pelosi. No, that's funny. And I fell for it. Hey
00:22:36
fats. Can I do my name? No. I saw Nancy Pelosi at Wendy's once. No, I tried to get you back.
00:22:42
Nancy. Nancy Pelosi always looks like she just
00:22:48
sat on something cold and wet. That's not That's sorry. That's my Nancy Pelosi
00:22:53
joke. Well, finish this. No, there's no story. I was just saying it's embarrassing. And I go to the And I
00:22:58
went there and uh that was it, I guess. So, why did call you fats? She did cuz she thought it was funny and
00:23:05
I thought it was funny. Oh, okay. If you really were fat, that would be insensitive. Yeah. I just No, I didn't care though.
00:23:11
She It was back in the dark angel days. We're talking Oh, we're talking dark angel. That's Well, that's when I used to get
00:23:17
to go to the Golden Globes. So this so this time I just I was just getting her back cuz
00:23:23
sometimes if I see her she says something like that. So you guys have kind of like a She was funny. Yeah. So it was carpet
00:23:28
rapport. It was nothing mean. It was just being stupid. Carpet rapport. You're right. That is a thing that if you go to a lot
00:23:34
of awards shows and and awards show parties, you do start having like award season friends that you only see at
00:23:40
events and it's a very strange phenomenon. You're like, "Hey." But then you like and you never see them again.
00:23:45
You're never like we should exchange numbers. You want to hear something weird for 10 seconds? Just I went in 91
00:23:51
I think because of Wayne's World. So I look over I say I think it's Juliet Lewis. We'll put it in later.
00:23:56
Hey, thanks. I said Juliet Lewis and Brad Pitt. I think it was her dating.
00:24:02
I see them off the side and I can see that they're talking to each other whether they should come over and talk
00:24:08
to me. Oh, that's like nervously coming over. And did they? Mhm. I go, "We're just going to leave
00:24:13
now." And he goes, "That's a good plan. like that plan. Let's face it, man. We're I'm a goddamn husband. Sorry. Once
00:24:20
upon a time in Hollywood. Yeah, I know. I've seen it. Oh, yeah. That was Brad Pit. Really? 11.
00:24:26
Yeah. Neither. No. 11 times. What I'm interested in right now this podcast. I'm interested in
00:24:34
Andy and his buddies. They make their thing and then they come to SNL and your
00:24:39
your first broom and then you did come up with Lazy Sunday at SNL.
00:24:45
Yeah. So, how did walk me through that process? You you you meet Lauren, you tell them what what was your first
00:24:51
meeting with Lauren and the writers? What was that like? Well, we got the show actually because um we were writing on the MTV Movie
00:24:57
Awards and Fallon hosted. So, I I do uh owe a great deal to Fallon. He
00:25:03
Oh my god. What's up, man? I know. He's awesome. We love him. I did him in my audition cuz I knew he
00:25:09
did Sandler and his and it was very winky. Oh wow. Um what was your take on Fallon? It was
00:25:14
Jimmy Fallon at a funeral. Like, oh my god, so sad. All right. I'm so sad. What a tragedy.
00:25:24
Anyway, here's the next album. I just took him to the end was
00:25:30
But yeah, but yes, he was great and he was super great to us and we got some stuff in the show and he and and Higgins and
00:25:36
Shoemaker were there uh for for people who don't know who were SNL producers and a bunch of the
00:25:42
writers and we kind of hit it off with everybody. So they were like, "You guys should audition." So, um, how did you audition? What do you do?
00:25:48
Were you Andy Samberg or with your buddies or uh I I did a solo and I did I had been
00:25:54
doing standup for like five or six years. Seven years really on and off. I didn't know that.
00:25:59
Yeah. Where were you playing mostly? Well, I started off I was going to NYU for a couple years and I started doing
00:26:04
just bringer shows in New York. So like Seller and Boston Comedy Club and all that and Gotham, all those kinds of
00:26:11
places. And then I moved out here and um like the best I ever got to was doing a
00:26:16
couple of shows here and there at the improv. Um and then I did Premium Blend on Comedy Central. That was kind of the high that was high water mark for me the
00:26:23
stand up. Um Okay. But so I did some of that stuff and then they were like but you need characters
00:26:28
and impressions and I was like I don't have um so you didn't really not really. We just made up a bunch of
00:26:34
[ __ ] like the weeks leading up to it. Um and those guys helped me keep Yorm and it went well. So they said, "You
00:26:39
need to come back." And then they also had your arm audition and Keev did a meeting with Lauren and we all submitted
00:26:44
a writing packet together. All three writing and you got a feature performer. Yeah.
00:26:50
And then they got hired as writers. Like it was a crazy dream where all of a sudden we were like three of you guys to
00:26:55
get on is very well come in with your with your buddies from 8th grade and now we're all on Saturday Night Live and we had already been I mean we'd
00:27:01
known each other a long time so we had shorthand and we trusted each other but it was also like we had been we had spent the last 5 years in LA making
00:27:08
stuff so we had kind of a a rhythm of what we were doing already and a TV show on YouTube basically
00:27:15
kind of. Yeah. I mean, it didn't people didn't really know about it the same way they do now, but it was
00:27:20
it was the same thing in that we had gotten a lot of the the bad stuff out of our system.
00:27:26
Well, we have to practice. Well, the thing is is that and for young people today, it just they I say, well,
00:27:32
just do a YouTube channel, do this and that, and then you get two views or five and then you're reading about someone else with, you know, Rihanna has 500
00:27:39
million. and to keep yourself going. You guys obviously just loved it even though it wasn't getting tremendous traction.
00:27:45
No, it was also just a different time. Like YouTube really didn't exist yet when we were doing that compare and
00:27:51
despair thing. For us, it was like let's just make stuff until we feel like we're good and it'll it'll work itself out one way or
00:27:56
another. But we never thought we'd get SNL. That was like my big only dream. And I was like just Fallon saw something. I even went
00:28:03
and like did the Groundlings like intro audition for the classes and stuff and just tanked it.
00:28:12
I just I just wanted it too bad, you know? I was like my brain went a million different places. Isn't that the the tough part of show is
00:28:18
try not to try cuz whenever you push it never works and yet you want to be present. It's trying to catch the wind.
00:28:23
It's always there. But isn't it great when you're in the pocket and you don't give a [ __ ] Yeah. Like by year I don't know what year did
00:28:30
you kind of go I'm not nervous on stage. I'm relaxed. Was it right away or was it It took me like I think 80 shows.
00:28:36
I think it was probably by like year four or five. Yeah. It's once you feel like you're not going to get fired.
00:28:42
Yeah. I think is truly it then you get genuinely loose and then people relax cuz you're relaxed.
00:28:47
Did you get picked up every year where it was like pretty much on cuz I had to go home in May and he
00:28:54
wouldn't decide. You guys had a crazy stretch. I had to check out of my apartment. ready to get out and then well because the old guys my team didn't
00:29:01
leave I stayed until 93 so you you over overlapped and that was a reason but
00:29:07
once we all cleared out I think David had a pretty hot two years when you guys were all there at the same
00:29:13
time like the two different generations we were and you look at it it's so rare in the history of the show
00:29:19
where you look at both generations and it's [ __ ] stacked in both
00:29:24
that's the craziest part to me about when you guys were on 90 to9 93 that I I feel like that was
00:29:30
the most loaded because we had David and Farley and Sandler and Chris Rock and they're they're coming up and doing
00:29:35
stuff. Adam's getting the guitar, he's going. And then we had Phil Hartman and myself and Mike Myers.
00:29:41
Yeah, that's a lot of people making [ __ ] that like ended up on a t-shirt, you know?
00:29:46
Yeah. Well, we talked with Lauren about that and it was like if it's a if it's a team, you know, you've got this guy can
00:29:51
start or this guy can start. So we had Tounes the cat even with Jack Hunes. But yeah, even just like throw in
00:29:57
deep thoughts. Yeah. Which was a constant on the show and super funny. That always was
00:30:03
and Mike would throw down a sprockets or andor Wayne's World, you know, Sandler would do Opera Man, you know, it got
00:30:09
greatest hits every show practically. But anyway, enough about that era.
00:30:14
This is called Dana and David. No, I love So I I want to hear if we can tactally. You go in
00:30:20
to Rockefeller Center. Yes. What are you feeling? And do you have a private meeting with Lauren or or with
00:30:27
the three of you or what? Uh you mean when I got hired? When you got hired first time you went and talked to Lauren? They
00:30:32
they had they had me and Bill fly out. Bill her? Yes. Sorry. Me and Bill Hater to fly out
00:30:38
to uh I'm told to meet with Lauren. Like you audition twice. They're interested.
00:30:44
They want you to come meet with Lauren. Me and Bill sit next to each other on a flight from LA to New York.
00:30:49
Uh, Marcy Klein had already told him that me and him got the show. Oh, wow. Cool.
00:30:55
No one told me. And Bill, bless his heart, pretended the entire flight that
00:31:00
he didn't know. So, he didn't be the one to tell me. He wanted me to have like my my moment where I got to actually find
00:31:05
out. That's nice. So, the whole He makes fun of me now cuz we're, you know, we talk all the time. He's like, "You were like, "Oh, man. I
00:31:11
wonder if we're going to get it, you [ __ ] idiot." And I knew.
00:31:16
But so we get there, he goes in for his meeting, which is just saying hi to Lauren because he knows he's got the show. Then I go in and I talk to Lauren,
00:31:23
you know, maybe 10 minutes and it's Lauren. So he gives you nothing. Mentions nothing about anything.
00:31:29
Was there any room? No, just me and him. He never stands up and leans over to him and goes, "Congratulations, you got the
00:31:35
job." Literally a cigar or here if you want. Now you must do a Lauren or
00:31:41
a Lauren impression of it. It's not good. But it's it's basically him being like, "So,
00:31:46
do you think you'd be willing to cut your hair?" I'm like, "Willing to cut your hair?" It was really crazy long. I was like,
00:31:51
"Oh, yeah. I'll shave my head if you want. Whatever you want." I was like, "On co." But that's a very specific line. And he goes, "Uh, and you think you
00:31:59
could do this? You think you could live in New York?" And I was like, "Oh, yeah. I've lived here before. I lived here for two years recently." He's like, "Okay,
00:32:05
well, we're going to all go out to dinner, so you should come." And I was like, "Okay." And I walked out and I
00:32:12
looked around and it was like Jen and Shookus were there and I was like and they were like so and I was like I don't
00:32:18
know did what happened and they were like you got it. So they were the ones who know they were the ones who told
00:32:24
but Lord never went like we're hiring you that those words never came out. I never heard that either. I don't think he ever does. Some
00:32:30
lieutenant comes up and yes and I mean he like fell on the floor. So where did you go to dinner? Do you
00:32:36
remember and how more how many people were in that dinner? because that's that's kind of a it might have been so
00:32:41
a big thing to be invited also was a big one for Tuesday night dinners when I was there. I remember we wherever we went it was in
00:32:47
that theater district area and it was me and Bill
00:32:52
and a few other people and Conan was there at a different table and they were like oh Conan you should
00:32:58
meet these are going to be two new cast members and I was just like freaking the [ __ ] out like my life just
00:33:04
got so cool. Yeah, it's a cool fact. He would come up to us and go, "Well, well, if it's not shitty, crappy, and
00:33:09
cruddy." Oh, yeah. And being all tall, too. So tall. So alpha dominated. Animated show. Shitty, crappy, and right
00:33:16
after when you did impressions, like you said, like I didn't really do impressions too many, but when they did they assign you one or say, "Hey, can
00:33:22
you play this or did you do Marky Mark?" Uh, that one all my impressions happened on accident. Yeah.
00:33:28
Like I think um Emily Spivey and someone else were the first ones to be like, "Oh, we put you in this thing as Nick Cage." And I was like, "I don't do Nick
00:33:34
Cage. But so I just worked on it and it ended up being something I found out that I could kind of do. Um, and Wahberg
00:33:41
I was doing some bit with Jonah Hill actually. We were hanging out in the summertime and he's like, "You kind of sound like Mark Wahlberg right now." And
00:33:47
I was like, "Yeah, anything to get on the [ __ ] show." Yeah. So I tried I tried that and I
00:33:54
wrote it with uh with Steel, but say hello your mother for me is the funniest
00:34:00
thing to say. Which character says that? He does. Well, we're going to do talk to animals. Yeah, he talks to animals. That was
00:34:05
Steel's idea. But you found you found that rhythm that that hook, that hug.
00:34:11
Yeah. It's funny like obviously you're one of the greatest of all time at the impressions and like I'm
00:34:17
close with people also who are like Wig and Fred and Bill. I mean, it's it's it's a whole other skill set
00:34:23
and I've never considered myself good at it. But there's like a few times in my
00:34:28
life where I have found it and I'm like, "Oh, this must be what it's like for them all the time." Like it is really fun to do it and it
00:34:35
becomes its own language and it becomes its own character, you know? Well, that's the thing. It becomes a character. So, it's you I know many many
00:34:42
incredibly accurate impressionists that aren't intrinsically funny. Yeah. But since you're a comedian, when you
00:34:47
did it, it was funny. And also, it was accurate enough that it represented Mark
00:34:53
Wahberg. Sure. Sure. So, it worked completely. How many times did you do that? It was kind of a hit. I think only twice.
00:34:58
Really? You did it with You did it to Mark Wahlberg. Well, he came on the show and to to
00:35:04
basically we he did a whole thing where he was like I guess they had asked him about it and he said something negative.
00:35:10
And then I think him and his team were like, "Oh, we don't want people thinking I'm being too much of a bummer about
00:35:15
this." So they he came on and like pretended like he was going to kick my ass. Yes. And it was very pleasant.
00:35:21
It was totally fine. It was the It was the episode that Palin was on too. It was a crazy episode. Oh, big one. That's a score.
00:35:27
Yeah. Your time was pretty heady. You know, that election year and your your bandmates, so to speak. It was
00:35:33
Yeah. It was interesting for us every election. We were there for two election years, I think. And our joke was always
00:35:39
like, "Oh, well, we're not going to have anything on the show this year cuz it became so political
00:35:44
and we just didn't really engage with that. We just wanted to make goofy shit." Um, but now I think for the for
00:35:51
everyone who works there now, that's just every year. Yeah. It's just non-stop. Politics, you mean?
00:35:57
Like it always has to be like about something and saying something and addressing what's happening. There's I
00:36:03
think they have less opportunity to just do kind of weird ideas. The world changed.
00:36:09
Yeah. And it's probably going to change back. I mean, that's how it's historically happened. I like acid humor the best. I like
00:36:14
silliness the best if I have to say madness. And coming full circle back to you.
00:36:23
[Music] So, uh, Lazy Sunday and The Princess at
00:36:30
Narnia, like are you writing that when it's coming together? I'm just curious
00:36:35
like that's your first SNL. Is that the first one or not the first one? That was the second one. We had made one
00:36:41
short that aired before that called Lettuce which was um No, I'm kidding. Hey, come on. Hey, David. That's kind of
00:36:47
mean. He's the one that said he's our guest. What are you talking about? No, he said that was as part of SNL, not a preNL.
00:36:53
No, it aired on SNL. It was it was a Will Forte idea that we did with him and we shot it on like a home a home camera
00:37:00
and it aired and we were like, "Holy [ __ ] that aired." And then Lazy Sunday was the second one that aired, but that wasn't until the Christmas episode of
00:37:07
our first season. Did you show it to Lauren when you got it completely finished? No. I think the first time he saw it, I
00:37:13
think was a dress and you I assume you you guys knew you had a hit with that.
00:37:19
No. No. Felt irresistible to me. But once once it aired, we were like, "Oh [ __ ] this is I think people really
00:37:26
liked it, you know. Um the crowd liked it." Yeah. Yeah. Was a new feeling. And you know,
00:37:32
you came out real hot. I don't really remember your beginning part, but I just
00:37:37
remember Thank you. knowing that you were there and you were good. No, it f was it was worked in wormed in
00:37:42
overtime. We were we had been there up till Christmas to that point, you know, and we hadn't we had gotten stuff
00:37:49
on and we were getting along with everybody, but we weren't like we're killing this, you know? Yeah. So,
00:37:55
for us, it was still the mentality of, oh, it's going to air. Like, it was that
00:38:00
it was still that early, right? You don't want it. They think they think it's gonna air. And then the crazy thing
00:38:05
that happened with Lazy Sunday was what you brought up was it all of a sudden became a news item because everyone was like, "There's a website called YouTube
00:38:12
and then every article about it was a picture of me and Parnell." Yes. You kind of represented YouTube in
00:38:18
a way. When you do this, do you say does Shoemaker or someone say you should put a cast member in it with you or is that
00:38:25
your idea? What do you mean? Like it's you and Farel. Oh yeah. Well, in the beginning we like
00:38:33
Kean Yorm shot one that was an idea that we all had when I was I was in LA for an
00:38:38
off week taking generals. Yeah. Um time well spent. Take those generals. Generals. General
00:38:45
meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh, you're just generals now. Yeah. They I came back and they had made something and I was like, "Oh [ __ ] it's
00:38:51
that idea. It's so funny." And we showed it to Shoemaker and Higgins and they were like, "You guys just went and made this?" And
00:38:57
we're like, "Yeah." And they're like, "Do stuff like this for the show, but put the cast in it." That was literally what they said. Yeah. And they say, "Put the cast because
00:39:03
you're too new." So, did Para did you have to coach him at all? Cuz like if someone cast me in
00:39:08
that, I don't know how you you're double tracking to get because it sounds like real rap. All your stuff does to me like
00:39:15
Yeah. So, do you what do you double track? You put effects on it. Just has this muscularity.
00:39:21
Yeah. We I mean we had been making songs for fun and we had shot a few music videos for them. That was like something
00:39:28
we had sort of started doing before SNL. Um and we're like, "Oh yeah, we could try a song here. That might be fun." And
00:39:34
we knew Parnell quote unquote wrapped or frapped frapped as we call it, fake
00:39:39
rapping. Because he used to do it on Update. Like he did a thing I think like Britney Spears one week was the musical guest
00:39:45
and he like did a rap dedicated to Britney Spears that we thought was super funny. What a score for him to be in
00:39:50
that though. Yeah. But it was also awesome for us cuz he was [ __ ] hilarious. Like as soon
00:39:56
as it starts, you're like, "Oh my god, Parnell is so in." He dedicates his brain to it. Like him and Forte both
00:40:03
have that weird like gene of a performer where like they will never break no matter what.
00:40:10
Like they're so in it. for it. Like it there's like a slight psychosis to it
00:40:16
that makes you laugh so hard cuz you can tell they're actually lunatics deep down and you love it.
00:40:21
There's something a little different. Yeah. Something's wrong. Yes. For had his own lane. He did some
00:40:27
brilliant. Yes. Just only he could do. I would say he probably of everyone and
00:40:33
this is saying a lot because I loved almost everyone I worked with there at the table. He was the person I was
00:40:38
always the most excited to see what he was going to do cuz it was always so weird. He was so weird. Yeah.
00:40:44
I mean the potato chip one where he came all time. I told him back then that he goes, "You saw the potato chip one? I just watched
00:40:50
it one night on tele." I go, "Yeah, it was I you know comedians, we know where all
00:40:56
the tricks are. We know but you know to get surprised by another comedian and the commitment then you have to just
00:41:02
commit. But um and you give Lauren credit for seeing a weird bit and it even bombs miserably
00:41:08
and he goes put it on. Yeah. And it takes balls to go we're teaching the audience this is funny. We're not
00:41:14
saying oh it didn't do as good. You know you just go no this is what should be out there. Has that gear on uh can I Wayne's world
00:41:20
story? Yeah. When I I sometimes do stuff that I don't explain. So anyway I was doing Gar making a mechanical hand. Hope you've
00:41:27
seen the movie but in my in my mind the mechanical hand is going to strangle Roblo.
00:41:32
Yes. So Rob Low comes in before it's finished. So then I I beat the [ __ ] out of it. So it's laying there at the previews and I I kind of liked it
00:41:40
because it was my stickick, but I'm like, "Okay, I get it. You guys want to?" And Lauren's like, "It's one of
00:41:45
those things, you know, like 20 years from now, you're you're like glad it's there." Yeah.
00:41:50
So Lauren does have that quirky side to it. Isn't that We fear change. It's that moment, right? Yeah. Yeah. We fear change.
00:41:55
I know the film. God, I love that. What about how do you react to to people coming up to you
00:42:02
the way you would have come up to someone else, you know, like to come up to you guys? I can't believe I'm meeting Andy
00:42:07
Samberg, you know, that at the airport or whatever. And they're usually very sweet and stuff. It's it's an out-of-
00:42:13
body experience, isn't it? It's trippy. I mean, the first time it happens, you're like, "Fuck it. I did
00:42:18
it." You know? Yeah. Yeah. Um and then I don't know. I always just think about and I truly like you guys
00:42:26
are on this list. When I was a teenager or in my early 20s, if I saw someone from SNL
00:42:32
in real life, I would lose my [ __ ] So, I try to always remember that I felt
00:42:38
like that and the idea that somebody could feel that way about me is super exciting. I never quite hit you the same way
00:42:43
though. Like when I see Acroy or I saw Dane or those guys, it's never the same as when people see me, I go that's not
00:42:48
that exciting. when they saw me, I see these guys. You know what I mean? Yeah. But you got to like when it's it's
00:42:54
whatever there's everyone says this about SNL, right? It's like when when kids and teens are a certain age, that
00:43:00
cast in that pocket is their cast and it means way more to them than even the original cast which feels impossible to us
00:43:06
movies too. When you see an acrid after Blues Brothers and [ __ ] and you Yeah.
00:43:11
Oh my god. I But dude, Wayne's World and Tommy Boy are those for me way more than Blues Brothers. Nothing
00:43:17
against Blues Brothers. Those were my those were my years where I was like, "Holy [ __ ] I can't believe that they're
00:43:22
getting to do this and I it makes me feel like I have a place on earth." Like literally.
00:43:28
Cuz you want to do that stuff. And I still quote those movies like every week. Yeah, that's nice. I can't believe you remember We Fear
00:43:34
Change. Uh yeah. Did G say that? Gar said that. We fear change. We fear change.
00:43:40
And then what about what about this pop star movie? Oh yeah. I think I told that whole
00:43:46
Vanity Fair story because Bieber was there. I think that's what I was leading up to. Is that right? And he was wearing a blanket. Remember
00:43:52
that? He's wearing a poncho. Did you see that? I wasn't there. Let's look at a clip. Let's go to the phones. Bieber, but it wasn't really a Bieber
00:43:59
parody, but they marketed it as a Bieber parody. Uh I like Bieber as well, and we met him
00:44:04
a bunch of times at SNL. I'll say this, super talent. I mean, obviously in that moment,
00:44:10
it was like he was one of the biggest pop stars in the world. He still is. So, we're making a movie about that world.
00:44:17
So, there are definitely jokes in it that are inspired by him. Like, sure. And you exaggerate a situation
00:44:22
like he's a big pop star. What's the funniest version of everything? Doesn't mean it's about Bieber. Correct. It's about
00:44:28
But there's also a lot of stuff about a lot of other people in it, too. And then a lot of stuff we just kind of made up. Yeah.
00:44:33
I will say this. Uh Jud, who bless his heart,
00:44:39
is the reason we got to make that movie. Oh, that's right. fully produced it, fully ushered it, told us like, "Hey, if you guys wanted to make a movie like
00:44:44
that, I'll produce it." And just gave us basically a free pass to make a movie. Uh, I think he was in line with
00:44:51
Universal more about making the marketing feel a little more Bieberleaning. Mhm. And we were like, "This is Jud. He
00:44:56
doesn't [ __ ] miss, so whatever you guys want to do." Uh, and then we uh ate [ __ ] at the box office.
00:45:02
Ate ate a whole big pile of [ __ ] on a movie. That's That is funny, though. That's a very colorful way to
00:45:07
put it. Um, but I've been in a couple of stinkers. I'll tell you what, it wasn't because it
00:45:13
because of the marketing or the Bieber stuff. It was just like people didn't want to go to the theater. But also, but now hasn't it? Sorry.
00:45:19
Isn't it kind of a cult film in a way that like the people who are going to love it are going to be quoting it,
00:45:24
possessed by it? I'm assuming. I mean, most of my favorite comedies didn't do well in theaters. Most
00:45:30
Wayne's World obviously is an exception. Um, and you know, there's exceptions. There's Anchor Man, which I'm is one of
00:45:36
my all-time favorites that did really well. But generally speaking, you know, like
00:45:43
we were kind of like riding Spinal Taps coattails and when it came out, I just kept reading stuff about how when Spinal Tap came
00:45:49
out, it was in like six theaters or something. Yeah, there was Hot American Summer. There's a bunch of Spinal Tap
00:45:56
and uh That's right. Jeez. You know, my whole You were in Sp. Uh Andy Samberg is
00:46:01
interviewing me today and we're having a I was in Spinal Tap the Mime Waiter with Billy Crystal. That's right. It's super fun.
00:46:07
Wow. How fun. But to me that movie was to your point that was sort of like God they can make
00:46:12
a movie like that. It's like the first mock documentary. Yes. That I'd seen is like this is so cool.
00:46:18
It's one ha. What's Have you watched that movie anytime recently?
00:46:24
Maybe not in the last couple years. It's crazy how well it holds up. like just the pace of it the and it doesn't
00:46:31
seem like it's rushing at all pushing but it doesn't waste a second of your time like it's just like tight bit tight
00:46:36
bit tight bit every joke is funny and they get out and it moves and the story makes sense and you actually kind of
00:46:42
care in the end and I talked like Christopher guest for like three years every time we talked
00:46:48
and we actually played blackjack at her as we were playing and we we just did a go we talk like this I'll give you I'll
00:46:54
give I'm supposed to take your call you want me to take your call and try to do it as real enough that they maybe
00:46:59
believe it. When I did uh Coneheads, put the applause. Thank you. Michael McKeon, I'd
00:47:05
ask him about Spinal Tap and Cone after, you know, it came out was probably better than Spinal Tap.
00:47:11
Anyway, Coneheads was great. Coneheads had so many funny people in
00:47:18
it. It never just gelled perfect. I love anything where they're called cone heads and their heads look like cones. I always like that nail on the head.
00:47:25
Maybe it was too on the money. I auditioned for Spinal Tap. You might find this interesting. I came into Rob
00:47:30
Reiner and the whole cast. I'm auditioning. You did? Yeah. To play the drummer or something.
00:47:35
Great. And then I go I go, "This is nerve-wracking. You guys are all friends and I'm just walking in here. I was And
00:47:41
so they all goes, "Oh, we get that." They all just immediately left the room.
00:47:46
They just they just got out of the room. Wait, I'm waiting there in five minutes. And they come back in. They go, "We're a little nervous. Well, you How long have
00:47:52
you been in here?" You know, but I think they felt sorry for him. You said they gave me the mind thing. Oh, dude. This guy was in Grown-Ups,
00:47:58
too. Was I ever? This cheerleader scene, which was that was a good
00:48:03
That was a fun day. That was a great thing to use guys like you where not to waste your time. It's
00:48:08
like one bit funny and get out, you know? I mean, yeah, that's the thing too that I know you know about. Once Sandler
00:48:15
likes you and puts you in stuff, he'll be like, "Just come do a thing." You're like, "Okay, we'll figure it out later." Yeah,
00:48:23
he also he has a very sweet whispering. So, we're going to do a thing
00:48:28
and you'll be like with a bunch of sides on you and stuff. You're going to be so funny. There he is.
00:48:34
Adam has a lot of the best. Yeah. The best lot of rhythms to them.
00:48:40
And so, we should He's a hotel trans. We should talk about some of these are monster monster things.
00:48:46
Dude, were you you were in the fourth one, right? Yes. Sandy. Yeah. Were you?
00:48:51
Yeah. Was Selena? Yeah. Oh, Adam wasn't correct. Oh, that's right. Yeah. You were in four.
00:48:57
We've been in four together. We've been in the uh I was in two trenches of By the way, that's that is like the the
00:49:05
true like business joy of when Sandler likes you. Oh my god. He called me after we did That's my boy.
00:49:11
And he called me after that was like, "Hey, we're doing this anime thing and there's a a goofy uh guy. He's the only
00:49:16
human. You're going to be that guy." And I was like, "Okay, thanks, Iron Man." And then like four movies later,
00:49:21
it pays off. Oh my god. I'm just like, "Okay, I have a story about that, Danny, but it involves Andy, unfortunately."
00:49:27
Okay. Um, you have the floor at Hotel Transsylvania. So, do you remember this? The first
00:49:32
table read at Sony. Yeah. And Amy Pascal was there. Yeah. And it wasn't Selena. Who was Mavis?
00:49:41
I truly have no idea. Miley Cyrus. Whoa. Really? And she was a half hour late. And it was
00:49:47
me, Sandler, you. Everyone was there waiting. Yeah. And they're like, and I was dead
00:49:53
silent because, you know, Amy is the president of Sony. Comes in. Uh, okay. We got a call. She's on the 405. She's
00:49:59
getting off at Sautel. Everyone's She's still not here. And it was like,
00:50:04
she comes in. Hey, sorry. And then sits down, rifles through the script. Like,
00:50:10
I don't know if it's a cold. I was like, first of all, I love Miley Cyrus. First of all, I She's a great singer. She's
00:50:17
unbelievable. I just saw her do a Like a Prayer live with her cowboy on. She's great singer.
00:50:22
This was just an off thing because she did the table read and the movie obviously went fine,
00:50:28
but they got Selena. I don't remember that. Right after. And uh that's so weird. I don't know if Miley decided not to do it or it just was not a perfect fit, but
00:50:35
uh Selena's obviously unbelievable and great and she was Yeah. I only met her twice along the way cuz
00:50:41
we don't do that much, you know? We don't have to shoot them all together. I mean, we've I've never been in the room with her for anything but press. We do
00:50:46
all the I know. We did press. Yeah, we do all the press together and it's like, "Hey, this is fun. This is a bunch of nice people."
00:50:52
Cancun, didn't we go somewhere before the Yes, dude. That was crazy. The Sony like
00:50:58
retreat. Uhhuh. That was nuts. And then my wife and I were like, "We're going to go to Tulum." Yeah.
00:51:03
We're already here. Yeah. You're in Mexico. Go ahead, Dana. Oh, I just wanted to because I know we have our producer Greg Olson
00:51:11
gave us a list, a super fan. the the huge obviously dick in a box
00:51:17
because we can't get through all of them but you know but dick in a box with Justin also dancing with Beyonce.
00:51:23
Oh yeah single ladies. So if you want to talk about those quickly I mean dick in a box.
00:51:29
You have to go to Beyonce or does Marcy or does someone go to her? We wrote it. Um
00:51:37
me and Bobby I think I might be getting that wrong but I think that was it. And I think we knew
00:51:43
Justin would was around and could do it. And then I think it was Justin that went
00:51:48
and talked to Beyonce about it cuz we were like, well, he's very famous and she's very famous, so that would probably go better.
00:51:55
See his DM. And also like it's him being like, I'm going to be an a leotard like we're
00:52:01
celebrating you, whatever it is. But she was delightful. She's such a sweet, wonderful person in my limited
00:52:08
interaction with her. Yeah. Uh but that one was That one was fun cuz we just were like there's no way people
00:52:15
are going to be mad at this. It's too funny. It's great. And she she rolls with it and it's all and having
00:52:21
her in it and yes and then that's probably a blow up on video. Also her doing that song like her
00:52:28
performance of that song that night on the show is one of the most incredible performances. Yes. And they're in like giant heels and
00:52:36
just [ __ ] destroying like her and Prince I think are the two people
00:52:42
when in my time there where I was like I don't understand what's happening right now. It's so impressive.
00:52:48
She seems like a very hard worker from like early age of like busting up and gives 100% in every performance. That
00:52:55
song check on it. She has so many words in it. There's a couple songs where I go, how does she I mean to do a whole
00:53:01
concert. She has so much to do and dance and sing and costume. She Her last album's incredible and everyone's in love with her.
00:53:07
Yeah. Um and then you know Dick in a box if you'd ever like to come on the podcast.
00:53:12
You're always welcome. Obviously everyone likes you here. Uh go ahead. Yeah. Dick in a Box. Dick in a Box. You know it was fine. We
00:53:18
just kind of threw it together. Any problems with that was the first one that went kind of uh sexual or art, right? or that hard
00:53:24
because Dick in a Box was like on the edge, right? That sensor. We did the one with Natalie Portman at
00:53:30
the end of the of the previous year and it was filthy, but it was all bleeped, but that was all her.
00:53:36
It was all bleeped. That was all her. But people really like that one. What was that one? It was um it was just her rapping real
00:53:43
filthy basically. She she like loved Lil Kim and told us she wanted to do one and we
00:53:50
were like, "Okay, how great." Yeah. All the all the words out. Uh yeah, a lot of bleeps. I mean, that
00:53:56
was the fun of getting to do so much pretape as we ended up. There was not a lot of bleeps before us, I don't think.
00:54:02
When you do dick in a box to the audience, it's it says dick in a box. No, I think it was bleeped in.
00:54:08
Oh, really? Even for the cuz it's live. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, what part is bleeped? The word dick.
00:54:14
Yeah. Dana. Yeah. So, so you can't say dick. Okay. You can say
00:54:19
you bring this up. A dick dick in a and you wouldn't know what it meant. It could be Dick Wilson. Could be dick in your pants. Like a
00:54:25
medical thing. Two things. Two things about the bleeps. We were told that because it was
00:54:30
bleeped, people thought it was [ __ ] [ __ ] Even dirtier. Really? Right. Yes. Which And it sounds much worse
00:54:36
musically. And then uh a few years later, we aired
00:54:42
the song Jizz in My Pants with no bleeps and no anything. But
00:54:47
what's Jizz? I don't know. Yeah.
00:54:53
I'm told someday I'll find out. Um, but that one had had to air after 12
00:54:59
15 or something like it was like at the very end of the show. Huh. And I think whoever was running NBC at
00:55:05
the time was maybe like Jeff Sucker or somebody came down to the show and like they had a whole conversation about it. Interesting. Basically, we brought it in cuz we had
00:55:12
already started doing albums at that point. It was from our first album and we were like, "Hey, we have this video. Maybe we could just play it at Dress and
00:55:17
see how it goes." Mhm. And then it was like, "Oo, it went well." And Lauren was like, "So, we should air it." And they're like, "But
00:55:23
can we?" And we're like, "We have a censored version," which does exist where instead of jizz, you just hear variations of us going.
00:55:32
It's It's a lot sillier, but not as funny. You could have a dick in a box and also jizz in the box.
00:55:37
You could with the dick. Say more about that. Well, I'm going to show you a chart how
00:55:42
that could work. You're on space. Where would you hold the box? You know, the dry depends on your age.
00:55:48
Dick in a box of stealth was revolutionary. But also, uh, I'm on a boat is so dry and silly. It
00:55:55
is dry as a boat. I'm on a boat. There's nothing to it but that one idea. What are you doing on the boat? I'm on a
00:56:01
boat. It's just rich people being on boats. Being on boats. There were a lot of
00:56:06
There were a lot of videos at that time where the concept of the video was just they were on a boat and they were doing
00:56:13
their song on We're doing good. Yeah, T pay was a great addition. It's always fun when you just throw someone in that
00:56:20
out of the blue. I think you pan over to him at the beginning like you go and it's that's a laugh and then
00:56:26
Yeah, that's like an old like almost like Mark's brothers style reveal. Yeah, it's hard to get people. We were trying
00:56:31
to get people for stuff back in the show and you know they don't know till last minute and unless it's Herado Rivera
00:56:37
they're not coming. Oh my god. I mean especially once you start going into the music world like they're on their own schedule. Everybody
00:56:43
in music does whatever they feel like. So I go, "What about Steve Martin?" And he goes, "What about Heraldo Rivera?" And I go, "Well," and he goes, "He's circling
00:56:49
the building." Anytime you say, "Would he do it?" He's circling the building. That was the one.
00:56:55
I've stolen that one. What about Heraldo? Well, he Heraldo was the one that was always circling that we
00:57:02
could Lauren will do that sometimes where he's just like, "So and so is here, so put them in it." And you're like, "Okie,
00:57:07
Steve's coming." Yeah. We we did a laser cats and it opens with him having dinner with Senator Dodd.
00:57:13
Oh wow. And we were like, "Yeah, that was definitely who we were thinking for this." Senator Dodd. Yeah, he was around. I
00:57:18
think Chris picked him up and threw him around at a party. They he had Steve come in the in a
00:57:24
Hollywood minute and stand behind me and just listened to it and drink sip a drink. Oh my god. And he goes, "I want a drink and I want
00:57:30
to sip it with a straw." And we're like, "Okay, [ __ ] I love And then he just stood behind me. Steve Martin, my [ __ ] hero." Like,
00:57:35
did he say anything after at the end? He goes, "I did a joke about him." I go, "He's in a new movie where
00:57:42
he thinks he's cool. Hey, I have my shirt open. I'm Matt Dylan." And then he's standing behind me and then he taps
00:57:47
me and I go, "Oh." And then he tells me to leave and then he sits down and does some jokes.
00:57:53
And are they about you or just whatever? He made fun of me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But uh you got him. It was the deal.
00:57:58
Sense of humor about yourself. I'm sort of embarrassed because I didn't love it. Thanks, Andy. I wanted more for Steve
00:58:05
cuz I love We're bay guys. We get it. [Music]
00:58:12
All right. Give something else to him. Give another I know that you love I read that you especially out of Bondart for a great
00:58:18
day. I do. I do great. Cool video. It has POS. It's funny.
00:58:24
You know, because you want to have a great day, but he's got Coke Oliver, right? Of my own works. Thank you for bringing
00:58:30
up my own works. I do. I am proud of that one. It came together nice. Yeah, I think it has a
00:58:37
well, it's just it steps outside all the other ones. It's just so different the neighborhood and it's all beautiful.
00:58:42
Yes. And it's and it's a different kind of song for us. It was more musical style. We shot down on um Commerce,
00:58:48
which is like my favorite street in Manhattan. Made it utopian. Yes. In front of the Cherry Lane Theater.
00:58:54
Um we've shot there a few times. We shot this Amadina Jod one with Fred down there, too. I love that street. Anyway,
00:58:59
wait, I forgot to ask about Dig Digman. Oh, yeah. That's my show. Dig Man is a show. By the way, I saw a billboard for it on
00:59:05
my way over. I saw it, too. I was super I was like, "Hey, it's real." I was thinking of the voice.
00:59:11
I rolled down my window and said, "Enter interviewing him." Yeah. Interviewing him. I was like, "Please
00:59:17
[ __ ] let Dana have seen this." Dude, Billboards are all that matters. It's Is it out already? Are we
00:59:22
promoting? Uh March 22nd. Okay. And you're coming out soon. So, yes, we'll be out.
00:59:28
Big men is available cuz so hard to find [ __ ] on. It's today. No, but where do you get it?
00:59:34
Comedy Central. Comedy Central. I know. So old school. Hey, Samberg.
00:59:41
Samberg. The '9s call. But we're on after South Park. So it's the best slot you get. Oh, the best slot in history.
00:59:47
Is that true South Park? Yeah. That's good. The dirtiest. This is South Park guy. Hi. How are you?
00:59:52
I just [ __ ] my I'm three. This kid just [ __ ] me in the ass. I'm like a real show. I can't
00:59:58
believe that they get away. When I see those clips on Instagram, I go, "Uh, this is from a real show or is this just
01:00:04
a clip they made up?" Because a parody of a filthy I like it in my ass.
01:00:10
Yeah, they're in. Hey guys, South Park guys, Trey and um Matt
01:00:15
and Matt, if you guys ever want to come on the podcast, Beyonce's gonna be here.
01:00:21
What if they all want to come the same day though? Andy will come back. No, dig man. I just watched it last
01:00:26
night. Did you? Oh, yeah. Oh, awesome. They got it to me. Yeah. What's the Digman? It's an
01:00:31
He's an Ary. Yeah, it's he's an archaeologist. They call them archies. It's a show set in a world where archaeologists are the
01:00:37
biggest celebrities in the world. So like there there's like a Met Gala, but it's the Archy Gala.
01:00:43
Uh and everyone's wondering like what museum they're going to be hired by. Um and it's it's super silly. I made it
01:00:49
with my buddy Neil Campbell who wrote on Brooklyn 999 and comedy Bang Bang and stuff. And
01:00:54
uh I've been working on it for [ __ ] two and a half years. It is takes so long.
01:01:00
Uh first season's eight and we're hoping there'll be another one. Yeah, it was funny. I just watched it
01:01:06
last night and uh there's an assistant archaeologist. Yes. Metra Jihari who's super funny. Okay. I was wondering who that was.
01:01:12
Yeah. Uh yeah. If there's a season two, do you need any guest voices? Are you Would you guys want to do it?
01:01:17
Yeah. We got [ __ ] Emperor's New Groove right here, [ __ ] All right.
01:01:23
I can do two things. His way around animation. I can do a llama or an invisible man. Okay. First of all, I think they sound
01:01:29
the same. Let's hear the llama. No, cuz they all the llama is look at me and my bad self. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
01:01:35
No. Touchy. Yeah, that was one that was a funny movie. That was a great one. That was
01:01:40
That was a great Yeah. You and Warbertton. Come on. Solid. The poison. Couscous poison. The
01:01:47
poison. He and goddamn Earth playing Emma. We're so hilarious.
01:01:53
Yeah. Have you seen that movie? Genuinely like shockingly funny. It's funny, isn't it? I couldn't.
01:01:59
What year did it come out? Took me three years. 90s. Three years to shoot it. Oh, it's so hard.
01:02:05
It was mo cap. Say it again. Motion capture. I don't know if it was moap. Did you get it through a general? Did
01:02:10
you think it was? Oh, yeah. Did he get it through? Snag I snagged it through.
01:02:16
General at Disney. Uh, general meetings are where you go in and they tell you you're good and then nothing ever happens. Correct. I had one a couple weeks ago.
01:02:23
They want to meet me. They just want to They just want to hear. Would you like to play twins? They go, "You should be in both guys.
01:02:29
You should be in movies. Guys in the scene, itself." How would you like to clumps it?
01:02:35
They're clumps, but more clumps. That's like the Eddie Murphy movie. It's
01:02:40
called Clumps. You guys, that's what we all call it. When you're more than one part, you're clumsing. See, what they do is they cut tape. They
01:02:46
let him do four hours of makeup change, then they start the camera again. It's like magic. Yes. Once he did it, it kind of should
01:02:51
have been retired. I think cuz that was then like you're just like how is this possible? No one understood.
01:02:58
One guy's Arcenio sometimes. That's true. I don't think that's one of the movies.
01:03:05
Coming to America just came to me. Oh yeah. Wait, so Emperor's New Groove, I'll play Llama. And you're But the show Dig Man
01:03:11
is uh it is funny as [ __ ] I was just watching last night. Thank you. It's Andy Samberg. Come on.
01:03:16
So yeah, and he's got Well, that's the I mean, not everything. Not everything you ever do is like we're going hard funny, but this one is that
01:03:22
it's just we're trying to do as much and it's a good story. So PG-13 or soft R.
01:03:27
It was kind of it's a little it's there's all that stuff on there. Everything's in but uh when it airs on
01:03:34
network it'll be bleeped. The [ __ ] will be bleeped and everything else can air. What is that? Network Queen comedy
01:03:39
central. Yeah. Oh. So because it's they've got a few in there but it's not overdone. No, no, no. We try to sort of parse them
01:03:46
out. No, it's clever. But there I a couple times I go, "Oh, bad word." Yeah, it's it's not softy and
01:03:52
nasty. Um, but that was that was kind of the idea. Like we worked together, you know, on Brooklyn. Thanks.
01:03:58
Yeah. And we loved making Brooklyn, but it's NBC. So there were plenty of times we were
01:04:04
like we were like just want to make a show where we don't have to cut. Something borderline gets killed. I've done that before. And you go ah this
01:04:10
isn't even we got to compete out there. Exactly. Exactly. It's very hard to argue because you does you're like who's
01:04:16
going to care? Yes. Our hope is that we made something that people in comedy will like it. They say that the half hour show network
01:04:23
show is kind of the best schedule for a human being. Well, yours was even harder.
01:04:29
Mine was harder than his. He he did it live straight. You 17 hours a week, right? About 165.
01:04:35
And once it's like a hit and everyone knows their parts, too, and no one's stressed, you just show up, smash. The audience is there to love it.
01:04:41
Oh, yeah. And you were single camera. So Will and Grace got down to a science uh 4 day weeks, three day weeks.
01:04:47
You know, I worked at Radford as a PA. I worked on Spin City. Oh, Spin City. I can't believe it. Get
01:04:53
out of here, Sarge. He does. Oh, you guys. Hey guys, what are we doing here? Exactly.
01:04:58
It's a soft Casey Kasem. Got to give me a minute here, Sarge. Come on, Sarge. Give me a minute. I'm
01:05:04
out playing in what? Prisoners of war or something? Casualties of war. The worst
01:05:09
one to do an impression. No one saw it. But you're doing it with John Penn. Yeah. You said we're gonna get this VC
01:05:15
goo. Get a tattoo. Hey, come on guys. Getting a tattoo. I know it all. Come on guys. Casey basically. Is it
01:05:21
really? It's a little There we go. It's different. But you're Casey's just take it back a little bit.
01:05:27
Come on. Don't make the audience think it's easy. Audience. It's dissimilar. I'll give you
01:05:34
go on your tiptoes. Open your eyes. I'm Hey, this is Oh my god. I love it. home. Now,
01:05:41
by the way, when I was there though, it was Charlie. That's actually very good. It was Charlie Sheen. It was Charlie Sheen. It was It was post Fox, so it was a different
01:05:48
Oh, Spin City. Yeah. Yes. Did you do uh the sketch Hookers and Blow with Charlie Sheen?
01:05:54
Did I do that? Yeah. Were you in it? I don't think I was in that. That was Matt Pedmont wrote that. It was a It was a uh body shop called Hookers
01:06:02
and Blow spelled differently and it was Charlie Sheen was the pitch man. Oh my god. And it aired. Yeah.
01:06:07
Who played Charlie Sheen? He did. Oh, he did it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. Well, good for him. Yeah, by the
01:06:13
way. Hot Shots really good. Hot Shots is funny. It's really funny. All right. Lizard Man or Shy Ronnie.
01:06:20
Oh my little game. Oh, Shy Ronnie. You got to do with Rihanna. That was the [ __ ] [ __ ] She's the coolest.
01:06:25
Yeah, that was kind of one of the sillier things I saw. The coolest thing about her character was just so
01:06:30
And her doing it is unbelievable. Her doing it. But now whenever I see her, which is not often, she sees me and
01:06:35
she goes, "Shyani." Oh, cute. Like I don't know if she knows my name, but I I'm happy with what I
01:06:40
did. Unreal. You got Everyone loves you. Damn. Good job.
01:06:45
I'm jealous. We're doing a wrap-up. Well, should we talk about the Oscars? I don't know.
01:06:51
Fill in the blanks. It's a new game we have. Yeah. Oh [ __ ] And you can always say pass. Okay. Lauren Michaels is
01:06:58
my dad. We never got that.
01:07:03
I thought that's what everyone would say. He is kind of everybody's dad. Go to your room. He's 13 months older than
01:07:09
me. But he's like, "One time I was I had been doing pretty well after a couple years and I like did the bit, you know, where you like do
01:07:15
where you force it and you make your hands touch." Like he was reaching for his popcorn. Oh my god. And you're like like a meat cute kind of
01:07:21
thing. And I was like, "Oh, look at that." He was like slapped my hand. He went, "But I am not your friend."
01:07:28
That's right. And I was like, "Okay, yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Lauren. Sorry. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Like no one even says anything
01:07:33
like that. Do you remember any Laurenisms? And we always do those on the show. I mean, he does all the value of water.
01:07:40
Everyone knows that one. Yeah. I mean, he always starts things. It's that thing, you know, cuz it's like that thing and like
01:07:45
Yeah. Um, it's like it's like, you know, it'd be better if it was like funny. It'd be
01:07:50
like a really really good show. It helps if I It would help if it was good. This is the last We have two weeks off.
01:07:57
It would help if it was good. A good note and rather a low note. You know, I know that that's all designed to relax
01:08:03
us. Uh Emily Spivey, I don't know if you guys know her. She was a writer for a very long time on the show. She used to do a bit in the in the rewrite table
01:08:12
where I can where is it going to be? No, not Rrated. Where where uh the phone
01:08:18
would ring or she'd pretend the phone ring and she'd pick it up and go, "Hello. Oh, hey Lauren. Oh, thank you."
01:08:25
Oh, I know. I worked really hard on it. I love you, too. like basically act like he was calling to give her tons of
01:08:31
compliments because he never gives them anybody. He'll always compliment, not when you're
01:08:38
really killing a big thing, but like some exit or when you have one line in some cowboy. I thought it was
01:08:43
breathtaking. The one time he ever said something overtly nice about something I did in
01:08:50
front of everybody was a great day was the the meeting between dress and air.
01:08:55
He was like, "Can we like cut out of that a little faster?" Very funny, by the way. And I was just like, he melt
01:09:01
into a puddle. And I was like, "God, why does he have so much power over us?" I know. We [ __ ] love it. I'll never
01:09:07
forget. Well, you know, he's seen everybody every American sketch player and every
01:09:13
He knows every move. Somewhat equal to all those people that have been there before. Yes. Believe me, Andy Samberg was very, very
01:09:21
All right, Andy, I got to go. I can't uh I can't answer any of my my own questions anymore. Um
01:09:26
about you that I answer them. Fair, fair, fair. Fill in the blank. I'm really bugged by
01:09:32
um bugs. Yeah, that's the right answer. My dream job is
01:09:37
I I have it. Wow. Yeah. Positivity.
01:09:43
I It's not a bit like I'm I can't believe it. It's talking. Finish a sentence. I did a Corona
01:09:48
commercial with Snoop. Yeah, Snoop Dog.
01:09:53
I'll tell you one thing about those commercials. When you do them, you're like, "Oh, it's [ __ ] Snoop. These are funny. This is going to be great." And then you don't realize they're going to
01:10:00
air them seven billion times and like make people hate you even if they like
01:10:05
it the first hundred times. But that's I guess that's I should have known. They're well known. What was your money?
01:10:12
There was always little right at the end. You're with him and then there's something right at the end. And you do a little eyebrow thing or something. I'm
01:10:17
sure I've seen it. Well, I did a few of them. There's more coming, by the way. Damn it. I know. I
01:10:22
sold out. I took the check. Oh, Andy D. I turned down so many
01:10:28
commercials in the '9s. I regret it to this day. Did you? That getting commerce now is cool. Ryan
01:10:34
Reynolds just made 200 million off some gin product. He makes so much money. Yeah, there's nothing either.
01:10:40
There's nothing wrong with that. All that means is freedom to do what you It is annoying that he's making so much money and he's good.
01:10:46
Seems really nice. You wish he sucked a little bit, but instead he's like funny.
01:10:51
He has an advertising company, a management company. He's got a phone company and his movies are all big and you want to watch
01:10:57
Northern California. I know he's good. But uh he's the president of the universe.
01:11:03
Yeah. Oh, this will be you won't want to you want to do this one. Uh Fred
01:11:08
Armerson is Oh. Oh, man. That's good.
01:11:13
Like it's too much too much talent. My friend. Yeah. But also so good. So funny.
01:11:18
Just makes me smile every time I see him. He was on last week. Camera. He's delightful. And by the way, speaking of no pushing.
01:11:25
Yeah. He never ever is sweaty ever. And it's always funny and weird and interesting. Yeah, I could get sweaty sometimes.
01:11:33
Never would. Spade never gets sweaty. I'm not too sweaty. Right. No, you run it nice and cool and it's always charm.
01:11:38
I like that description. But you and me, we want it. Yeah, we can very easy.
01:11:46
Like, I got a skill set. Let me show you, mother. Oh, you get one.
01:11:51
Kristen Wig is also my friend. Uh, one of the greatest.
01:11:56
Yeah. Yeah. One of the best. I when I was doing Regis out there, I was guest hosting and just kind of rehearsing all
01:12:03
week and then she comes in as Kathy Lee with all this stuff. It was like I was
01:12:08
kind of almost starruck by the the meticulous business she had, the her
01:12:14
energy, her she was hypnotized in this other rhythm. It was really interesting to be around that. She's kind of like like Steph Curry of
01:12:21
SNL where you're like she's super quiet and seems kind of just keeping to herself and then all of a sudden you
01:12:26
realize she's been [ __ ] working hard and is an absolute beast and ready to unleash and like as soon as that audience is
01:12:32
there, you're like, "Oh [ __ ] I got to get out of the way." Oh, she has been thinking about this. Is it okay to mention your wife is a famous
01:12:38
musician? Yeah, I love my wife. Gina Newsome. Joanna. Joanna. Sorry.
01:12:43
That's okay. Went to state school. Joanna Newsome, singer, songwriter, heart player, piano and vocals. I listen to some of it. So I
01:12:50
think that's pretty hip. You're both artists. Yeah, she understands. She's I mean she's much cooler than me
01:12:55
obviously, but yeah, that she seemed incredibly cool. She's that we're just
01:13:00
uh What else? She says hi. She says hi. So now just to wrap it up. So, you're a dad now and so that whole
01:13:07
your your world has changed and now you you and your wife are going to balance this thing with your work. Yes.
01:13:13
You have a plan. It's hard. It's very hard. It is. It's interesting. Like figuring out when to work, when not
01:13:19
to, when, who works when, where. Yeah. Spade, what do you think?
01:13:25
I think you're you're heading the right direction. That's my general.
01:13:30
You think you want kids? Yeah. What do you think? I have a daughter and she's here. Not here in the house. I
01:13:35
kicked her out. But she's here and she'll be and we're going to go to the uh lunch right after this. How old is your daughter?
01:13:41
She's 14. We're going to take her take her to Beverly Hills to pull, you know, that little diner in the Beverly Hills Hotel.
01:13:48
No, we're going to something more grimy. Oh, really? Yeah. In and out for I don't want her to know
01:13:53
that I have any money. Just keep it quiet. Keep in mind a
01:13:59
little bit of a giveaway. Oh, yeah. In LA, kids just think that's what houses are. I know this house.
01:14:04
I'm just kidding. You were your Andy Samberg has been our guest and he's been very nice and his leg probably
01:14:10
hurts at this point. No, I would do this for another seven hours. And you're going to give a good deep
01:14:15
dive how much fun it was to show laser cats. Oh, I do like laser cats. Well, when you see it, you're like,
01:14:21
that's just kid stuff. That's so much fun. It was very fun. I like Okay.
01:14:26
Okay. This we do our sum up. Andy Samberg, one of the all-time greats, Saturday Night Live,
01:14:32
revolutionized Saturday Night Live with uh digital video. Probably has two to
01:14:39
300 million hits on YouTube between all those videos. Well, no. YouTube views.
01:14:47
Definitely more than that. Also, one of the ones who 55 million just for on a boat. I think I'm on a boat has well over 200
01:14:53
million. Okay. So, you're new baby. I'm getting if I kn this in the
01:14:59
beginning of the podcast. I can look at myself as the new Rebecca Black, but thank you. Okay. Um I would have been nervous if I'd known
01:15:04
that stat, but yeah, it's pretty monstrous. All of them are from years ago, by the way. Doesn't matter. Aggregate.
01:15:10
I think we have over a billion views on our YouTube channel, which I know
01:15:16
because what else am I going to do? 2900. Look at the views. Look at the stats. But now there's single
01:15:24
single songs by pop stars that have like over two or three billion or something. Yeah. Mr. Mr. Lizard has 7 billion hits
01:15:32
on his latest song. Shabadoo. No, I'm kidding. I'm trying to What's funnier than Bad Bunny? Mr. Lizard.
01:15:37
We have been trying to get Andy for a while because people ask about like there's people they really want to hear from. So, it's nice that you uh
01:15:43
Well, your impact on the show is huge. You're part of the whole story of SNL and so we were very happy to have
01:15:48
and there's a chunk of time. It's like good to have Andy. You did. You had a lane that no one else had. Well, thanks. I mean, it was it's very
01:15:55
much with Akiva and Norma, too. I always have to mention and with your friends who are in a lot of the videos and are really great
01:16:01
performers themselves. Always make me laugh. They're great. Those are my buds. Let's take our picture. All right.
01:16:07
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