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Tina Fey Tina Fey yes Tina Fey one thing
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I remember about her just a quirky
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little aside
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I was on Oprah the one and only time
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with Tina Fey Chevy Chase Jane Curtin
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and Tracy Morgan
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and uh one thing I remember they go
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Chevy's kind of weird they asked me to
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try to really be animated on the show
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like just be funny rather than be
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interviewed because they thought Chevy
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was kind of quiet or weird oh they
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wanted you to amp yeah yeah amp it up
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because we're scared you know but anyway
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I remember uh Tina just uh telling me
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afterwards she was going to the airport
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on a Regional Jet and you know because
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when you when you do Saturday live Lorne
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Michaels always had the Paramount jet
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yeah but she never went on it because
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she said it was like a flying car scar
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scared the [ __ ] out of her the Paramount
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shot yeah
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oh yeah I got on that thing I know
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because sometimes they're so small it's
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like an MRI with wings you just lay
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there like
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what you don't want to hear because you
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can hear stuff you don't hear a
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commercial jet and I feel like
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commercial all the time sorry first
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world problem but is that if there's
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something wrong you hear it so I've been
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in a private jet just two guys up front
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look like they're 26 right out of film
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so I'm sorry Aviation school and then
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all of a sudden here pull up pull up
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I've heard that pull up pull up you know
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have you heard this traffic traffic
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traffic traffic traffic pull up pull up
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get out it was just way sense memory of
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being in high school getting busy with a
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woman she says pull out pull out pull
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out that was a joke that was all that
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way oh no no that was an ad-lib it's got
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a half smile we have editing capability
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um I was just saying it's so lovely
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smart quick on her feet we do voice text
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sometimes always just casually very
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funny without trying so she's talking to
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her reeks of of intelligence yeah uh and
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I just did an animated show with her
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called Mulligan and voiced a character
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and she was on the zooms a lot so she's
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really funny has great voices and and of
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course her Sarah Palin moment
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historically as a match between a person
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and a character was you know maybe the
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top political
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match I did Perot but I needed a nose
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and ears and stuff but she was like and
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now you look exactly like Perot
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by the way there's a really good script
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out for a Perot movie or series on live
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streaming from a really good writer that
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they want me to do but I don't have time
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I go I I go they go why not I go well I
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got this podcast was spayed cut to Spade
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running to the audition
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can I finish one time did the King James
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Brown at the end getting it finished one
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time
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all right Tina Fey left Tina Fey the one
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and only the lovely Tina Fey enjoy our
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conversation thank you
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[Music]
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what are you watching what are you and
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Jeff watching when the kids go to sleep
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if they do uh what's your show do you
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have a show that you share together they
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do if they do is the operative uh right
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they're teenagers right so you never
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know my older one's 16 I'm gonna try one
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here and uh my little one's ten and
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she's just like we're up right we're up
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forever but uh
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forever
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we're doing this you're like no no Great
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British Bake Off is what I'm watching
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right now
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well I will tell you what I've been
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watching with my kid is I've been
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watching baking it if you like Great
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British Bake Off check out baking it
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start uh hosted by Maya Rudolph and Andy
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Samberg oh really and do they have
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contestants that win or lose like
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there's a reality show yeah it's a
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reality show Amy puller produces it it's
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really sweet it's sweet natured like
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Great British Bake Off like nobody's
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mean or sneaky I feel like I need some
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big one and um I like that too because
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uh I've seen Great British Bake Off boy
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boy who I wish I'd make fun
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um Paul Hollywood so we've entered the
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face like you're talking about Andy and
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Maya doing that that all careers have at
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least five things they're doing
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simultaneously there's no more ever
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unless you're Tom Cruise
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Cena
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like we did one of your side projects we
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might as well promote it Mulligan a
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cartoon that was really fun for me to do
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with Robert Carlock and Sam means and
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Tina and it'll be on maybe in 2022 later
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I think yeah animation takes a long time
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it turns out yeah
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I'm gonna jump in on the uh British Bake
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Off I'm a little behind because I've got
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a lag
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um that's always good for a podcast I
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had an idea for a for real I pitched a
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show where you cook with celebrities
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it's so dumb it's been on but like the
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good title was is this thing on is this
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thing about the oven like is the oven on
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yeah is the oven on oh it's for people
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that are on the road that don't know how
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to cook and they teach them so that's a
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good idea yeah right so when I
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interviewed Kevin Hart for something I
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made a joke about his uh weightlifting
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workout show and I go are you are you
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working out and he goes no and I go
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you're not in the workout room whatever
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yeah and he goes and then someone off
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camera goes remember you have a YouTube
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show about workout he goes oh no no no
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no yeah yeah yeah no I do I work out I
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do that he probably knocked out six
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episodes in a row a year and a half ago
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yeah this is a show well we're doing
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this podcast but this is also called uh
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remember when and it's a sideshow that
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I'm actually producing and you're on two
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shows at once right now so okay this is
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uh you know
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it's turning into that
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do you have remember a Star Trek fan
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Little Star Trek back when there were
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fewer choices back on TV but I don't
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super know it but now that you get to
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pick well occasionally they would this
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will dovetail to you occasionally they
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have an episode where William T Kirk is
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has to testify on a trial and then the
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robot voice says all his awards for
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being such a great and your your thing
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sounds like that Faye has won nine prime
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time Emmy Awards three Golden Globe
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awards five Screen Actor Guild Awards
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seven Writers Guild Awards three
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producer and finally they go enough
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enough and then of course Mark Twain
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that was a clever way of putting for the
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audience who's never heard of me
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couching you
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Mark Twain look-alike contest yeah okay
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I wrote that I scribbled that one down
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crippled that one down
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School yep kind of did a mic drop by the
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time you came around and got the Mark
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Twain award it's like the the resume was
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so fat
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and then you pulled up your socks and
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did a broad oh my God you're just going
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right now it's done it's all done
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everything I have a question about the
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Mark Twain award when you win Awards
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let's get serious now yeah I'm moving no
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you don't have to
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um when you I'll ask Dan when you win
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Awards
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welcome to the empty chair no she what
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happens is is it more stressful when you
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win an award it's fun to win but
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do you have to have a funny speech and
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how hard is that because you keep
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winning stuff and it's like [ __ ] I gotta
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make a funny speech every time I do
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think you you um I'm gonna put makeup on
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while we talk and you tell me if it
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helps of course it's a tutorial don't
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worry we're never using this
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oh I turn off my picture you can turn
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off your picture so you don't know I
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want to see this [ __ ] [ __ ] oh god
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well that looks like a really nice
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it's a smoother
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by the way it's not helping anyway
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um the best thing about winning about
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winning an awards is leaving the
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auditorium right because then you when
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you win and then you leave and you go to
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The Press Room and you're gone and then
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the worst thing about not winning is
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remaining in the auditorium but
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um you do you do have to try to have a
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funny speech guys I'm just putting a
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little bass yeah you're turning into a
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different person she's putting all this
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really transitions I want to get some
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something on here do you like it when
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you come out of the limo and they start
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screaming and you go on the red carpet
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and there's all those mics and Tina Tina
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Tina I know this first world problem so
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we're just saying these are
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experientially
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I mean I broke out in sweat when I was
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nominated the first time I was sitting
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Lauren was behind me and I thought I
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might have to go up there and I
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literally broke out in a complete
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soaking sweat of nerves I didn't win
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thank god
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um and what Nickelodeon show was that
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slime
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um like Steve Martin had stopped by oh
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he wasn't posing he was like there to
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see Lauren and I was a writer and he had
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just made me nervous so think of that's
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like super nervous and then um had just
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been on Letterman the night before or
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something and I was like oh hey you were
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so funny on Letterman and he said to me
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um well you know you have to kill every
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time
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and that was like the most chilling
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like that like he's like well yeah you
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just have to kill every time and I was
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like you do or can you just speak can
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you just be friendly no you can't you
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kind of have to after I came off SNL
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like a rocket then I had my Wilderness
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years so I would go on talk shows and I
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was feeling so small and insecure like
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all my confidence melted in like a
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weekend
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for no logical reason but then I had to
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like come out you know I emulated Martin
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Short where you come out no matter
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what's going on like you're a star yeah
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because I otherwise I would and I had to
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sit up one time I sat back on Letterman
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it's just the souffle went down I had to
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be in performance mode but yeah I would
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think what you or you wouldn't have to
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do that but I'm kind of like a monkey
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puppet I gotta get the biscuit you know
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I think anyone in anyone who they
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associate with comedy is like what do
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you got like you can't just go on there
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and be like a an actress with shiny legs
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like you have to you have to bring
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something right was it for you guys was
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doing Letterman as terrifying for you
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guys as it was for me like I was just so
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terrified absolutely he's right up our
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alley I think that's the problem is like
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he's so he was so the one when I was
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watching it it was sort of a different
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form of Comedy from loving Carson to
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yeah to going let him is a whole
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different vibe and then if you know if I
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could make him laugh just that that was
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the scary part probably for all of us
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you just it's so gross you just want to
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make it it felt like David could see
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right through you and I do think that he
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laughed a lot
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at not what I was saying but at the
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concept that I was trying to land a
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laugh
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I don't think you care what my joke was
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but he loved the idea of a comedian and
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what I would say to myself for what I
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said a second ago when I was in the
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wings looking and seeing him there in
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the audience I would say to myself don't
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give this show too much respect just to
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get me back to even you know because
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David didn't want that either but your
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appearances are you know always seem
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seemingly very well received and then
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you did the famous thing you took your
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dress off like that's just like one of
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those whoa indelible like okay no one's
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ever done that Googling that
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um that was I I yeah I tried to go out
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with a bang
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um when it wasn't your last was it his
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last Letterman I sort of said like um to
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him because I was trying to think I was
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very very honored to be asked to be a
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guest in that late run of the show
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um and felt huge pressure and I thought
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well maybe I could do a bit where it was
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sort of true as I you know he was the
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last one that was scary right because
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like everyone else now every time I'm
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like I'm not scared of Jimmy I'm not
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scared of Steph but you know right
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they're not even younger I'm never on
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Kimmel because I'm never there like
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um and so I just sort of did a bit about
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how like yeah this is this kind of like
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lady dress with the tight thing in the
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heels like I'm only doing that for you
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I'm not I will never do that again I'm
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just like I'm not gonna dress up for
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Jimmy it's like dressing up for my
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brother so this is my last dress all
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sexy I could dress up and gave it to him
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and I had like a thousand girdles under
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it it was it was not like
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a very more situation
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but a lot of space
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did you get a lot of response from
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anybody on that one I mean it kind of
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was something for people would talk
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about I assume
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um I think he didn't mind it right he
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didn't mind it I think the bit went over
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and then you know I saw like Amy Sedaris
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the next day or something she was like
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oh that was good whether she mentioned
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what I hate what I hate is one a friend
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gives you a report card for doing
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something on a show and then they switch
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mid word like you know they're going for
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great and then they dive to good hey
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that was great good I mean I had a great
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and then
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when they switched just tell me I suck
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but don't in the middle lean it out yeah
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that was amazing like this I saw you and
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let him announcement they go is that
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hard looks hard and I go why does it
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look hard
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this one they go hey you look like you
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look like you were having fun
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you look like it was a lot of fun out
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there you know what Tina I I feel like a
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non-visual makeup tutorial might be the
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future but it might not it might be my
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future she's putting on blush and some
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Rouge that's it
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um one time at a charity thing a long
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time ago but when Jimmy and I were still
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doing Weekend Update that's how long ago
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it was Jimmy Jimmy
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it was one of Michael's benefit shows
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and Jimmy and I went out and did some
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bit and we we did really badly like it
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really bombed and I remember we came off
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and Adam Sandler who I don't really know
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but I really love
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um it was up next and he just looked at
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us and he was like he couldn't because
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we bombed and he's looking good
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hustle good Hustle
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and it's one of my favorite things ever
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because it was just like the nicest
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possible thing you could say it was like
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you tried well you didn't let the flag
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touch the ground I mean you don't want
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to want to turn on the audience or get
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pouty or let them know this is really
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awful unless you do break the fourth
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wall I think Letterman likes Knowing You
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Came loaded at least you're trying I
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don't think he likes me walking there
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with nothing and go uh you know if you
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ever I don't think it's a dirty secret
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that I didn't know when I watched talk
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shows that there was some prep I just
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thought oh you just got there and be
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funny everyone's pretty good at it and
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then they go oh here's a 45 minute call
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of every funny thing that's happened in
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your life and then we will Whittle it
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down to six yes and they always Whittle
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out the ones I like and they go we're
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gonna we push that one to the end but I
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feel like that's a good one if we go uh
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40 minutes and I go well that's my
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favorite one they go um actually in
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Letterman he used to talk with my dad I
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have a deadbeat dad and he goes his name
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is PeeWee and he just thought he's so
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interested in it so then he goes hey
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because one time Peewee came and he goes
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I hear your Dad's here and I go yeah
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because I always talked about what a
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load he was you know because he only
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buzzed around when I got famous so I go
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yeah he's here and he goes he's in the
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Green Room yeah and they cut to him and
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they have a show girl sitting next to
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him
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he's hired a showgirl to sit next to him
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like an extra and then he puts his hand
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on her leg and she's like hey and I was
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like don't make up stuff
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where they have people walking around so
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of course they've put this pretty girl
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and then uh he's like hey and then he uh
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next time I come on they go come back
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and they go okay you're on about five
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minutes you have all your uh garbage
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you're gonna do and I go yeah and they
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go yeah I got a new dog and all this
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stupid [ __ ] and they go oh yeah he wants
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to ask you about pee with your dad I go
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yeah I don't have anything on that this
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time remember I sent you the stuff they
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go yeah he's going to start with that
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yeah and I go well so then I got they're
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like I see Biff over there going let's
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go I go what do I say so I just bought
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my dad I bought him a condo because he
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always comes up with investment ideas so
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he goes Davey I got a great investment
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for you I think I'm gonna let you buy me
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a condo and I go I don't know I go I go
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that's an investment for me and he goes
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yeah hey they're not making any more
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condos I go I think that's land and he
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goes no it's condos yeah well with that
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kind of pitch my Dad forgot mine I
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thought later was land and I got tricked
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by the time I dad was in his 80s he
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couldn't remember my name and I've got
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four siblings and he goes hey have you
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seen money and they go money you mean
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Dana Who the hell's Dana I need some
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money for money anyway we're not bitter
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Tina but anyway my point is this how do
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your relatives handle your success
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from mousy schoolgirl to mousy star
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yeah no Tina I have a real question when
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you're the head writer I'm reading this
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yeah when you're the head writer is it
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just a lot of hiding
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it's uh you can't hide because everybody
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wants to ask you everything yeah on
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Tuesday nights usually if you had one
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thing you wanted to write yourself you
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actually had an idea and you'd have to
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hide from people to try to write
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something but like I think being the
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head writer is just about like embracing
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shame and just being like okay this
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thing that I would never pick I'm gonna
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try to help it and then I'm gonna get
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you I'm gonna get you all done about it
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and then my friends are gonna be like
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good job on that thing like it wasn't me
00:17:18
you let that turn the whole show is on
00:17:21
your shoulders yeah well Downey used to
00:17:24
hide from us all the time he'd lock the
00:17:25
door and then I go I'd knock and then he
00:17:27
goes do you want to go eat and I go sure
00:17:28
I'll do anything just to get in the same
00:17:30
room and then we go eat and he wants to
00:17:31
talk about anything but the show and
00:17:33
then you get back and then he locks it
00:17:34
again I'm like knocking and I see
00:17:36
Schneider cut in front of me I'm next if
00:17:38
you gotta hold it Downey at 10 45
00:17:41
literally the show's at 11 30. yeah we
00:17:44
got a Hans and fronts we need some holes
00:17:45
plugged at 10 45 Downey turns into a
00:17:49
genius for 10 minutes he just gives you
00:17:51
a lot because there's no more
00:17:53
procrastinating but he's brilliant I
00:17:55
mean it really takes it to the wire when
00:17:57
by the time I got there Downey's
00:17:59
presence was mostly like a locked office
00:18:02
full of abandoned unopened Christmas
00:18:06
nine years of Christmas presents that
00:18:08
either were given to him or were
00:18:09
supposed to go to his own family I don't
00:18:11
know
00:18:12
I didn't know him yeah well if you don't
00:18:15
know him that way yeah if you get a few
00:18:16
minutes I mean I don't I want to talk
00:18:17
about you but if you got a few minutes
00:18:19
with Downey it was worth it because 2 30
00:18:21
in the morning goes I would probably
00:18:23
take the ending this way and then you go
00:18:25
oh yeah yeah and then that's all you
00:18:26
needed and then you go but there's
00:18:28
something really funny about there's
00:18:29
something something really funny about
00:18:31
he'd always say that there's something
00:18:33
really funny about it hold up the page I
00:18:35
always when I came back they always said
00:18:37
well you'll do a church lady and I it's
00:18:39
not like my favorite thing I've ever
00:18:41
done but it blew up because of whatever
00:18:43
reason you know
00:18:45
and so I think when I first guess hosted
00:18:48
with you and either you're a writer head
00:18:50
writer you were assigned to work on
00:18:51
Church chat with me and then like eight
00:18:54
years later I did another church you'll
00:18:56
do Church chat this week you know
00:18:58
Lawrence like and then I I did a whole
00:19:00
thing with Seth another church chat so I
00:19:03
don't want to say which one's my
00:19:04
favorite but you guys I mean it's great
00:19:06
probably well he would do the character
00:19:08
a lot he would write as doing the
00:19:11
impression of the character wow yeah
00:19:13
then he'd crack like a you know kind of
00:19:16
a Molson light and he'd be like relaxed
00:19:19
who I remember who were your who do you
00:19:21
remember who were the character guests
00:19:23
on the church chat that when when
00:19:26
at that time boy and that would be a
00:19:29
tough one I mean I remember doing George
00:19:32
Bush Senior was another one that would
00:19:34
come out of the box for a while and then
00:19:37
will as Junior and will six four two
00:19:40
thirty I'm five eight one fifty and I he
00:19:44
had to sit on my lap yes and that was
00:19:46
really interesting yeah because and I
00:19:49
had really huge lifts so I could look as
00:19:51
tall but anyway
00:19:56
[Music]
00:19:58
there's two lanes with you obviously the
00:20:00
Rider and the performer yeah which is
00:20:03
you're very unique in that way I think
00:20:05
so these are the ones that I looked up
00:20:08
that I remember and then I looked them
00:20:10
up today and you can comment on them
00:20:12
just as a performer or whatever you were
00:20:14
in the writing realm whatever jumps out
00:20:16
at you okay were you just a performer or
00:20:19
you're in the writing because it feels
00:20:20
like there's a lot of your signature
00:20:22
kind of thing okay meet meet my future
00:20:24
wife meet my future wife miso yeah so
00:20:28
that was an idea that we brought in
00:20:30
that's what I got to mostly just be a
00:20:32
performer on that Amy and I were hosting
00:20:34
and a guy uh I know this guy Andrew
00:20:37
breedus was like I have this idea for a
00:20:38
sketch and I was like let's get you paid
00:20:39
for that sketch my friend and so it's
00:20:42
[ __ ] unreal yeah and then and forgive
00:20:44
me I have to look up he who actually
00:20:46
wrote it up was two writers at the show
00:20:48
so that one was like a real gift but Amy
00:20:52
and I did bring a lot of ideas but yeah
00:20:54
they oh gosh I feel so bad that I can't
00:20:56
remember if it was dude that was
00:20:57
airtight that one is like beginning
00:20:59
middle end and then at the ending it's
00:21:02
really tough to get a Twist at the end
00:21:04
with the yeah yeah I didn't write it and
00:21:07
I really really hope that people just
00:21:10
think I did for the rest of my life
00:21:13
assume your fingerprints are on it okay
00:21:16
mom's jeans mom jeans I did right I did
00:21:19
I got it I thought so [ __ ] it because
00:21:22
that was there's a J crew in the um
00:21:25
Lobby of Rockefeller Center it was one
00:21:26
of those things where like I was writing
00:21:28
that I had to go somewhere I had to go
00:21:29
down and buy like a pair of jeans in the
00:21:31
building it sounds like a story about me
00:21:34
pooping my pants it's not but I had to
00:21:36
go and get a pair of jeans and I bought
00:21:37
these really uh terrible genes and that
00:21:40
was it then we just I sat and did that
00:21:43
and I remember Jim senior only filmed it
00:21:45
and then he was like we got to take the
00:21:46
song out and I was like no no I think
00:21:47
the song is I think the jingle is
00:21:49
important Jim
00:21:50
it was perfect and my wife and I used
00:21:52
your smelly used to when I'm not even
00:21:54
mom jeans but we see the moms sometimes
00:21:57
and I I would as a joke say she's closed
00:21:59
for business like in other words her
00:22:02
relationship is asexual at this point
00:22:04
and so and I saw a lot of those Highway
00:22:07
Six jeans but that that was just like a
00:22:10
perfect hysterical thing all right now
00:22:12
you know jeans are just funny hang on
00:22:13
Dana jeans are such a funny area I don't
00:22:16
know why but like we did Bad Idea jeans
00:22:18
you know I think you were in that I was
00:22:20
just gonna say by the way that I say bad
00:22:22
idea jeans all the time
00:22:24
when you see her a bad idea I do too bad
00:22:27
idea of jeans and then of course I tried
00:22:28
to show it to my teenager and you can't
00:22:31
show anything from like even Beyond like
00:22:33
last year that's now because it's always
00:22:34
something that's like gen Z's like
00:22:36
that's not okay I'm like I know that's
00:22:38
not okay but it's so funny it's so funny
00:22:41
bad idea jeans we did three three legged
00:22:43
jeans that was with senorelli too we
00:22:46
were always out
00:22:48
commercial shoots are fun when they
00:22:49
aired but they're not fun to because it
00:22:51
ruins your week you're like okay Monday
00:22:53
you have a six a.m like what they do so
00:22:56
much they do them on Friday oh really
00:22:59
all day into the night on Friday
00:23:02
that's right the poor host does not know
00:23:03
what they're getting [ __ ] into that's
00:23:05
for sure yeah they they yank them every
00:23:07
which way I can't believe they can
00:23:09
handle it even as a host when I went
00:23:10
back it was so much harder than I
00:23:12
thought I go oh I know this I didn't
00:23:14
know I knew nothing I I've only been in
00:23:16
three sketches Max my whole career so I
00:23:18
go I was in 13 I was an up your nickname
00:23:21
is three max
00:23:23
I know but that's not why
00:23:26
um but I had to be update I had to be
00:23:28
cold
00:23:30
I didn't like do you what's the
00:23:32
difference what's the difference for you
00:23:33
Tina when you were a cast member and
00:23:35
then you come back and you hosted me to
00:23:37
me I found it absolutely exhausting but
00:23:38
what did you yeah it's nothing and you I
00:23:41
for me it was like oh all the same
00:23:43
behaviors that you swear you're not
00:23:45
gonna do as a host you you immediately
00:23:48
are like super worried about the
00:23:49
monologue and like kind of like like you
00:23:52
get you get way more nervous than like
00:23:54
especially the first time I did like
00:23:56
just nervous and like yeah like really
00:23:59
keyed up about the monologue really
00:24:01
tired like it's uh you know all the
00:24:03
things that well you're you're a writer
00:24:05
and if you go in there like I write Dana
00:24:07
rights so when you're a regular host
00:24:09
it's horrible enough but when you're
00:24:10
eyeballing the writing going ah this one
00:24:12
I know isn't there yet and you're like
00:24:14
it's got through but this one needs the
00:24:17
most work and you're out there on the
00:24:18
air show going all right we never even
00:24:19
looked at it
00:24:21
this is just the way it is you can't get
00:24:24
to put out a fires you like that one I
00:24:25
feel like we should tighten the middle
00:24:27
or can I you say that um but then you're
00:24:29
like uh they're like 30 seconds yeah but
00:24:32
you have that long dinner you go to as
00:24:34
well so and when you normally be working
00:24:35
on that Tuesday night dinner that's like
00:24:37
four hours I really gotta go
00:24:39
Marcy they want you or Lauren once you
00:24:42
go to or so I go oh I was gonna he wants
00:24:44
you to go I'm all right so Tina go ahead
00:24:46
the Shoemaker would tell me they tell me
00:24:48
to go to Warsaw and then I go you get to
00:24:49
have dinner with the host which is fun
00:24:51
but you lose three years of your life
00:24:53
because you can't ride to stay longer
00:24:55
yeah the other thing when you host you
00:24:57
go back is if you've been a writer there
00:24:58
when you sit in that Monday pitch
00:24:59
meeting and you can tell like it's all
00:25:02
live all fake pitches
00:25:04
and I'm just like don't peek on Monday
00:25:07
yeah oh you go you're giving me this
00:25:10
[ __ ] [ __ ] I know that the [ __ ]
00:25:13
secrets yeah
00:25:15
can you remember a fake pitch I told you
00:25:19
Tina right now yeah what do you got
00:25:20
caveman afraid of caves
00:25:23
JB Smoove pitched the same fake pitch
00:25:26
for like two years and he killed with it
00:25:29
every week oh I'm sure well then it
00:25:31
became a running thing right yeah it was
00:25:33
a pitch for it's a all-day cigarette I
00:25:35
will refrain from imitating JB it was an
00:25:38
all-day cigarette this long you smoking
00:25:40
all day in the ash the Ash gets like
00:25:42
this it's so hard even dude you're like
00:25:44
how do we even do that but everyone just
00:25:45
laughs funny idea did they still do this
00:25:47
thing where they go uh like let's say it
00:25:50
was um you know Paul Rudd and then they
00:25:52
go Paul Rudd's here and then everyone
00:25:54
goes next week Sharon Stone
00:25:59
yayner times they don't do that anymore
00:26:01
that is meaner because the host right
00:26:03
away goes what the [ __ ]
00:26:11
oh yeah and that was I was just the host
00:26:14
so that was um oh boy I can see her face
00:26:17
it was a woman writer and curly hair
00:26:22
I'm sketching her but brownie husband
00:26:25
and you go with her without nuts I mean
00:26:27
it was actually long for a commercial
00:26:29
parody but it was funny it was like two
00:26:31
minutes but when you shoot on the Torso
00:26:34
so the people if they haven't seen it
00:26:36
it's a giant brownie little man and
00:26:38
Tina's basically just it's her sexual
00:26:41
partner or whatever and then when it the
00:26:43
single when chocolate comes out and
00:26:45
you're just like diving into them so you
00:26:48
had to were you someplace else was that
00:26:50
methody or is it just like I I feel like
00:26:53
one of the few Specialties I have as an
00:26:56
actor is on camera eating like a lot of
00:26:58
people avoid it and I'm I'll tear into
00:27:00
some food on camera people don't know
00:27:03
how hard it is to take Nicholson was the
00:27:05
best at eating yeah
00:27:07
there was a bit this is on a gas iron
00:27:09
Rachel Dratch have this fake Hallmark
00:27:11
Christmas movie out right now in Comedy
00:27:13
Central and one of my favorite bits in
00:27:14
it is there's a um it's really funny the
00:27:17
actress who's playing like the pretty
00:27:19
Ingenuity it has like a chicken leg and
00:27:21
she just keeps going like this like not
00:27:23
eating it and it really made me laugh
00:27:24
because that's all you do when you see
00:27:26
the camera usually it's just like just
00:27:27
go to Great Lakes to never eat it
00:27:30
but yes brownie husband is based on
00:27:32
those kind of commercials where it would
00:27:33
be this like a decadent chocolate
00:27:35
dessert was like Geared for lonely women
00:27:37
would be like a you know like a hot
00:27:39
chocolate bowl for one they're like okay
00:27:43
is the best word oh I oh wait let me see
00:27:47
oh yeah when when um I was thinking of
00:27:50
my friend's daughter has this guy and I
00:27:51
was thinking if you were starting now
00:27:54
obviously we'd all be writing for memes
00:27:56
but if we were starting now my my
00:27:58
friends thought I know I brought this up
00:28:00
because Instagram and everything she
00:28:02
said oh I'm dating this guy and he's so
00:28:04
funny and so I was like oh good give a
00:28:06
funny guy a break because you know I'm
00:28:08
not a real looker it you know and we'll
00:28:10
talk about in the comments but she she
00:28:13
said he's so funny it's a character and
00:28:14
then he showed me he she showed me three
00:28:17
Instagram memes
00:28:19
and I go well he's a middle man I hate
00:28:21
to break it to you but he finds a funny
00:28:23
one and then he sends it to you and she
00:28:26
is right and I go he doesn't write he's
00:28:28
just Instagram you know and then she
00:28:30
goes I know but it's funny I go uh I'm
00:28:32
not kidding to her
00:28:34
you could like him anyway it's okay he
00:28:36
found a funny one and he liked it and
00:28:38
laughed and then yeah that's fine that's
00:28:40
fine right and that's a that's a start
00:28:42
so let me ask you a question about times
00:28:43
they are a change in basically uh yeah
00:28:46
so you do Sarah Palin which is an
00:28:49
explosive connection between the way you
00:28:52
looked and sounded in the writing and
00:28:53
the moment
00:28:54
uh I had Ross Perot 20 years before yeah
00:28:59
a lot of people Dana yeah he did have a
00:29:02
lot of some landed some didn't but we
00:29:04
won't talk about that no I mean you
00:29:05
can't finish one time
00:29:07
um but then so Sarah Palin comes to the
00:29:11
show to visit you've done her yeah and I
00:29:14
think back then in those days it was
00:29:15
like you made it funny there wasn't you
00:29:18
weren't teaching us in a way I mean just
00:29:21
speak to it like between two thousand
00:29:24
yeah and now as far as the sensitivity
00:29:27
to that so she came and then McCain came
00:29:29
with his wife so go ahead yeah yeah the
00:29:31
whole the whole climate of the real
00:29:33
world is so much uglier and so much more
00:29:37
um polarized right so yeah that all
00:29:40
seems gentler now like doing those and
00:29:43
you know we and Seth and Amy and I wrote
00:29:48
a lot of those and other wrote step
00:29:50
writers too but Stephanie and I
00:29:52
especially we just like have you know
00:29:54
hand done it because we we did what we
00:29:56
really went to Great Lengths to make
00:29:58
sure that it didn't seem just like aggro
00:30:01
and it didn't seem unfair right yeah I
00:30:04
don't I do not envy anybody who had to
00:30:06
ride out the last you know it was like
00:30:09
the last the end of an era where it was
00:30:11
like when I was there it was all just
00:30:13
goofy and fun about any present I really
00:30:15
didn't know about politics to be honest
00:30:16
I look super smart but I don't I know
00:30:18
anything look incredibly brilliant I
00:30:20
look so smart I have a crew neck on
00:30:21
people can't see this but but but it was
00:30:24
like an easy fun like oh we're making
00:30:25
fun of this guy I was like I knew they
00:30:27
were Republican or Democrat kind of I
00:30:28
didn't even care and all the jokes made
00:30:30
sense but they go Downy and Franken are
00:30:32
good political writers I wasn't and then
00:30:34
fine I'll do my goofy [ __ ] and then we
00:30:37
get on and then Sarah Palin felt like
00:30:38
right at the end of where it started
00:30:40
getting really wrong the iPhone came in
00:30:42
and then shortly after that Facebook and
00:30:44
everything so everything
00:30:45
right you would say you're friendly with
00:30:48
Sarah Palin I would guess right you're
00:30:50
talking to Dana no
00:30:53
I feel like yeah I feel like I'm we're
00:30:57
not friends but like if I saw her at uh
00:30:59
something she didn't storm out there was
00:31:01
no yeah there was no she made she talked
00:31:04
like a little smack afterwards I think I
00:31:06
think she had that maybe oh really
00:31:09
because people got to her and said why
00:31:10
would you let him read it to her face
00:31:12
and forgetting that it'll get picked up
00:31:13
but no if I saw her like on the street I
00:31:16
would say hello to her and I think she
00:31:19
would say hello to me I don't think I
00:31:20
saw it she was behind me in the Press
00:31:21
line at the 40th
00:31:26
okay so it you know it's this idea that
00:31:29
you're doing someone that you hate and
00:31:31
publicly everyone knows you hate the
00:31:33
person you're doing I don't hate her by
00:31:35
the way that's I don't hate it
00:31:38
I don't think I've ever done anyone I
00:31:40
hate well I did Adolf Hitler once on the
00:31:42
show and I made him you don't even know
00:31:44
him well it was mean here's one that
00:31:47
just died I always thought it was funny
00:31:49
that only time we see Hitler he's
00:31:51
screaming so Jan Hooks and I were in bed
00:31:53
I'm Hitler and she's real quiet wake up
00:31:57
baby got paid off and then I just sat up
00:31:59
in bed and started screaming
00:32:02
silence cut so anyway but I've never
00:32:06
done anyone I hated like right now I
00:32:09
kind of play around with Biden but it's
00:32:11
it's it's sensitive uh very sensitive uh
00:32:14
how you'd use him as Source material
00:32:17
without it uh polarizing or making
00:32:19
people angry or making fun of some of
00:32:22
what people perceive like Al Franken
00:32:24
said maybe he's lost his fastball stuff
00:32:26
like that
00:32:27
that's interesting I think it's silly
00:32:29
it's better I think yeah
00:32:32
come on
00:32:35
it's a deal this is just America here's
00:32:38
a deal I'm not kidding no joke I'm not
00:32:40
kidding around I like when he yells he
00:32:42
gets really mad and then he whispers
00:32:44
because we need pipes because we're
00:32:47
gonna get them we know how to get them
00:32:49
come on now come again reduction so I I
00:32:53
think he's a funny character I feel as
00:32:55
long as it's funny and kind of
00:32:56
abstracted and silly maybe I can get
00:32:58
away with it but I don't know yeah I
00:33:00
feel like what you do though Dana what
00:33:02
makes you so great at is because you get
00:33:03
at the person like the core person and
00:33:06
like what like what's funny about them
00:33:08
as a person as opposed to like
00:33:10
people who if you're writing from
00:33:12
channeling your rage about their policy
00:33:15
or how or how much you hate them it
00:33:17
comes out sour have you seen this the
00:33:19
new guy that's doing Trump now I think
00:33:22
it's amazing brilliant Beyond like next
00:33:25
level yeah and I always thought that
00:33:29
there was a thousand rhythms that Trump
00:33:31
is one of the weirdest voice patterns of
00:33:34
anyone yeah James Austin he has three
00:33:37
names anyway James Austin Johnson he's
00:33:40
amazing amazing like that is like yeah
00:33:42
and they have a funny hook with him now
00:33:44
too where they do bullet points of his
00:33:46
nonsense which is a great game or it's
00:33:49
like he's talking he's rambling but they
00:33:51
put bullet points up like it's making
00:33:52
sense yeah it's a Scooby-Doo and many
00:33:54
people and then you see it switch you
00:33:56
know we're doing you know Gina
00:33:58
Greenacres a tremendous show everyone
00:34:00
she wanted to be in the city you know
00:34:02
and it goes on to start and it's really
00:34:04
good it satirizes Trump in the way
00:34:07
you're we were just talking about that
00:34:09
it's funny and you don't feel like
00:34:10
you're trying to be taught anything you
00:34:13
don't know for sure we're just laying it
00:34:15
out
00:34:16
you and I think when an audience sees
00:34:18
you this and they recognize they're just
00:34:20
so full of joy you know like yeah Trump
00:34:22
does do that and then leave it to
00:34:24
yourself too so that's a perfect may be
00:34:26
easier it's also maybe easier to to do
00:34:30
that now because he's out of office you
00:34:32
know like everything seems so high
00:34:33
stakes and stressful I couldn't do Obama
00:34:37
and I um until he got out of office I
00:34:39
could tell the audience would tighten up
00:34:41
and then once he got out of office I
00:34:44
could do it as a white man you know just
00:34:46
just something I like to do and I love
00:34:48
the I love the rhythm of Obama I like
00:34:50
the wig steps up this kind of matter of
00:34:53
fact thing he does and I just do it all
00:34:55
the time now
00:34:59
[Music]
00:35:02
I talked about this a little bit with
00:35:03
Anna cast iron stuff and the evolution
00:35:05
of women on the show and one thing was
00:35:08
Hillary was a a big presence and then
00:35:11
Sarah so you and Amy did those two women
00:35:14
who were at the top of the political
00:35:15
ticket you know but I was just gonna
00:35:17
name some of your your band mates and
00:35:20
just think about this evolving thing and
00:35:22
then who they have now but in your team
00:35:23
obviously Amy Poehler who you YouTube
00:35:26
connect so effortlessly Molly Shannon
00:35:30
Supernatural funny anagostire yeah so
00:35:32
talented shario Terry ball of energy my
00:35:35
Rudolph Kristen Wiig later on a little
00:35:38
bit when you're hosting Rachel Dratch
00:35:40
and there's others but it's just like
00:35:42
Monsters you know and and then the
00:35:44
writers like Emily Spivey and Paula Pell
00:35:46
and where naso and Cindy caponera there
00:35:48
are a lot of strong strong and Anna got
00:35:51
started thought that it sort of
00:35:53
reflected the the culture changing as
00:35:56
well how the women have really emerged
00:35:59
in a more profound way at least you know
00:36:01
know we had Jan Hooks or there were
00:36:04
other great women on the show of course
00:36:05
but then this this great Christian was
00:36:07
as good as anybody and and of course
00:36:09
Gilda Lorraine Newman they always were
00:36:11
women around and then it just seems like
00:36:13
this wave came can you speak to that
00:36:16
Tina sure
00:36:18
um or your friends one of the greatest
00:36:20
joys of my life was that we were able to
00:36:23
have Jan on 30 Rock
00:36:25
who played Jane krakowski's mother and
00:36:29
um she was so funny
00:36:32
um God dang it she was so funny everyone
00:36:34
just go rewatch that real quick pause
00:36:36
the podcast but uh yeah like so when we
00:36:39
got there it was it was different like
00:36:41
it did change and I think you know we
00:36:43
also like when I was there our director
00:36:45
was a woman Beth McCarthy Miller and um
00:36:49
Jenna you know restana the stage manager
00:36:52
like ever there were just more women
00:36:53
around the table so things you know how
00:36:55
like things play at that table or they
00:36:58
don't and there were more women in other
00:37:00
departments and so like there'd be stuff
00:37:01
that we would laugh at like I always
00:37:03
talk about how Paula wrote this
00:37:05
commercial called Kotex classic that um
00:37:11
it was like like fashion is like we're
00:37:14
doing a classic and it was just like
00:37:15
those big gigantic 1950s maxi pads that
00:37:18
like maybe they're just like really
00:37:20
bulky like under the pants and like it
00:37:22
didn't play before the wreath because
00:37:24
like the guys just didn't know it wasn't
00:37:26
like anyone purposely being like we're
00:37:28
gonna keep him down it was just like oh
00:37:29
this is playing differently you know
00:37:31
um so I think like all this inclusion
00:37:33
stuff was like yeah you got to do it in
00:37:35
every department and so it's not just
00:37:36
like one poor actor like trying to
00:37:39
represent for everyone from their entire
00:37:40
universe
00:37:42
um here's let me ask you guys a question
00:37:44
because I've theorized about this and I
00:37:46
you were there at the time that I'm
00:37:48
thinking about so you you know Bo and
00:37:50
yang right who's on their Network I
00:37:52
think is so funny have you seen the bit
00:37:54
he did where he played the iceberg from
00:37:56
Titanic yes yes hysterical I saw him
00:37:59
with the outfit on and then they talked
00:38:01
about it it's a really funny update
00:38:03
feature he comes out out and he's like
00:38:05
the iceberg from the Titanic and he's
00:38:07
there he's there to like talk about his
00:38:08
album and they're like well let's talk
00:38:10
about the Titanic or whatever yeah
00:38:11
that's hilarious he just did this whole
00:38:14
thing that I think is like actually sort
00:38:16
of finding this like new comedy of like
00:38:19
we're looking at the world from a
00:38:20
different perspective and he's like
00:38:21
listen I was in the ocean you came to
00:38:24
where I live you hit me
00:38:26
like you're just like it was just
00:38:28
hilarious but I was saying that like it
00:38:30
was so funny and I was like I don't know
00:38:32
if Bowen could have gotten that on I
00:38:37
don't know if Bowen could have gotten in
00:38:38
the room with like norm and Downey and
00:38:41
gotten that on
00:38:51
you know when I would watch some of
00:38:53
these European stand ups you know it was
00:38:55
they had bits about the Renaissance and
00:38:57
all this different way of looking at
00:38:59
stuff it seems reminiscent of that it
00:39:01
seems very but if you if you have some
00:39:03
game like you were talking about the
00:39:04
women
00:39:04
it you can sniff out someone has any
00:39:07
chop after a few weeks of like the so if
00:39:10
all the women you've mentioned are
00:39:12
really good which they are I think that
00:39:15
matters it's just getting them in front
00:39:17
of people so if they get the opportunity
00:39:19
and they did and then they were great
00:39:21
and then the writers you're saying I
00:39:23
don't know all the writers but the
00:39:24
unsung heroes that are propping up the
00:39:26
show with great writing yeah that's
00:39:28
that's unreal too you can tell I think
00:39:30
that it's a Natural Evolution like if I
00:39:32
went on when I do the church lay on
00:39:33
there I feel like I'm really doing you
00:39:35
know kind of uh Vaudeville or something
00:39:38
I mean it's so ham visited came from my
00:39:40
stand-up in the early 80s and so I don't
00:39:43
think that would be in fashion you know
00:39:45
times do change there's a yeah that's a
00:39:48
dry it's a really interesting
00:39:50
observation I guess it is true though
00:39:52
that like people who have the share
00:39:55
balls to do it and like it is it is
00:39:58
evolution and it is survival of the
00:39:59
fittest and so like if you could get
00:40:01
that up at the table yeah maybe they
00:40:03
recognize I mean the weird to the bit
00:40:05
but like that just sounds I don't even
00:40:07
know anything just you tell me right
00:40:08
there it's such a interesting idea and
00:40:11
then I'm I think he performed it very
00:40:13
well yeah we were wanting to talk to him
00:40:15
too because just his experience coming
00:40:16
on and and actually not just like oh
00:40:19
we're gonna we have an Asian American
00:40:21
it's like no bring someone on and they
00:40:22
and they're good and they blow up and
00:40:24
you're like oh are we missing out yeah
00:40:26
what's going on here he's sounds like
00:40:28
one is really
00:40:29
popping out it's funny
00:40:31
rhythms yep
00:40:34
hey you were an improv group right yeah
00:40:37
can I tell you guys a nightmare that I'm
00:40:39
experiencing right now which is I got
00:40:41
asked to do there's this show on
00:40:43
Broadway right now
00:40:45
called freestyle Love Supreme and it's
00:40:48
it's uh lin-manuel Miranda it's a big
00:40:51
hit it's really cool I saw it everyone
00:40:53
loves it and it's all like improvised
00:40:55
rap and music and they were asked me to
00:40:58
be a guest at it I'm gonna be a guest
00:40:59
there on Thursday night and I kept I
00:41:02
kept making sure they know like I think
00:41:04
like oh I'll be a guest like I'll be
00:41:05
like a manologist like an asshat like
00:41:08
like they know that I do not improvise
00:41:10
music right and my manager's like yeah
00:41:13
yeah so anyway I'm just for the next
00:41:15
couple days I just keep having like
00:41:16
recurring day mares that I don't know I
00:41:19
can't improvise music y'all are they
00:41:21
gonna ask you to do a freestyle rap like
00:41:23
in a battle I ca I can't can't do that
00:41:26
right well yes you can let me let me
00:41:28
know I want you to play freeze tag Tom
00:41:31
Cruise no no
00:41:34
lose gotta get some booze what you gonna
00:41:37
do is
00:41:39
you can practice you have to practice
00:41:41
with with your daughters they'll love
00:41:43
you for it just oh my God here's
00:41:57
when I tell a story about a blender and
00:41:59
then they make up
00:42:01
[ __ ] please how about you go give me
00:42:03
a word and you say blender and then they
00:42:05
do everything you know what you're gonna
00:42:06
do and you don't even know it yet
00:42:07
because your instincts are so good and
00:42:10
I'm out you're gonna get out there and
00:42:11
try to start rapping and then you're
00:42:13
gonna deconstruct it into this nerdy
00:42:17
person who can't really do it and you're
00:42:19
gonna get Triple the laughs maybe I
00:42:21
shouldn't have put that scene in your
00:42:22
head
00:42:23
check check the papers Friday morning
00:42:26
don't you feel like when you agree to
00:42:29
stuff like a podcast like when the day
00:42:31
comes and you look at your calendar
00:42:32
you're like really all right I mean
00:42:35
there's just so much you can do how did
00:42:37
you get roped into this
00:42:39
I just they asked me and I said yes of
00:42:41
course I love those guys
00:42:43
um did you think you'd be able to talk
00:42:44
at some point
00:42:47
honestly this is pretty this is a pretty
00:42:50
good back and forth for podcasts
00:42:51
sometimes it's worse Lauren always said
00:42:54
this phrase to me look there's a lot of
00:42:55
good will so that would apply to you
00:42:57
when you get on that stage that only
00:43:00
lasts for like the first 30 seconds I
00:43:02
know that only makes me nervous I mean I
00:43:04
call him once I was hosting I called him
00:43:05
he goes it's really it's sort of a
00:43:07
Victory lap I go really I mean
00:43:16
like a 12 minute cold open and be like
00:43:19
well that was all the Goodwill now Jesus
00:43:23
Christ and everyone's like out of it
00:43:24
already hasn't even started warm down so
00:43:27
Tina what what's question have you never
00:43:29
been asked that you want to be asked
00:43:32
what question have I never been asked
00:43:34
one word Robert Carlock one word Robert
00:43:37
Carlock uh one word
00:43:39
one two words two words genius yes he
00:43:44
does have a sort of a Yankee Doodle
00:43:45
Dandy kind of sweater
00:43:50
um yeah when you were a little kid this
00:43:54
I asked this to everybody because I like
00:43:55
I just like picturing you a little at 10
00:43:58
or something what was your favorite toy
00:44:00
or a toy you can remember or a bicycle
00:44:01
from your as a child that was like a
00:44:04
cool thing or a cool gift that you got
00:44:06
uh well I I'll sh well this you will to
00:44:09
see this but on the thing but I'll tell
00:44:11
you about it and then I'll show you guys
00:44:12
I have a dollhouse Fisher Price
00:44:14
dollhouse that my parents got me when I
00:44:16
was a kid and I my dad like wrapped up
00:44:19
every part of it and kept it really nice
00:44:21
and then a few years ago I tried to give
00:44:23
it to my daughters when they were
00:44:24
smaller and they you know have a much
00:44:27
more privileged life than I have and
00:44:29
they I found it like in a corner under a
00:44:31
bunch of other toys and I was like the
00:44:32
[ __ ] I'm taking it back and so now I
00:44:34
keep it here at my office and I'll show
00:44:36
it to you okay the camera's squishing
00:44:38
around here on piano we saw a window of
00:44:42
money in the corners
00:44:44
adorable looks like a bag of some kind
00:44:46
of illicit substance oh look yeah it's
00:44:48
cool it's open air look at this guy it
00:44:51
looks like Leonard Nimoy so weird oh God
00:44:54
that's a splitting there I think I could
00:44:55
be played by Will Ferrell that is it's
00:44:57
like a Will Ferrell call it's like a
00:44:59
little Will Ferrell doll look at how
00:45:00
cute is that like like visual relaxation
00:45:03
when you look at that does it yeah
00:45:07
look at that 70s couch that it came with
00:45:10
wow we're looking at that roof I think
00:45:12
my sister had this I that looks so
00:45:15
familiar yeah it's the basic you know
00:45:17
and um it's not Barbie or anything
00:45:19
Fisher Price and it's awesome yeah and
00:45:22
so that is my favorite toy and I still
00:45:23
have it wow I like that you like that I
00:45:26
like you more thanks that's kind of
00:45:28
that's kind of hip that that's it I had
00:45:30
a question wish I had an office
00:45:33
oh I was gonna say my daughter
00:45:36
I made her watch Mean Girls and uh even
00:45:39
though she was a little it's a little
00:45:40
early she was 12. no that's fine and I
00:45:43
go eat I thought you know you it's a
00:45:45
little rough but she's also I'm not
00:45:47
thinking like I just wanted to see
00:45:49
something that really cracked me up and
00:45:50
she'd probably like and then but she
00:45:52
hasn't been to high school and had Mean
00:45:54
Girls I don't know but I'm sure there's
00:45:55
some version of it along the way and now
00:45:58
she loves it and then her mom goes oh
00:46:00
she keeps playing it and I'm like I love
00:46:02
it because Mean Girls sort of just keeps
00:46:04
keeps kicking it's on Broadway always on
00:46:06
it was on Broadway it's on tour it's on
00:46:09
tour now it's on tour now yeah but Tina
00:46:13
has so many things Dana like when people
00:46:15
ask me there's like three things that go
00:46:18
to yeah and Tina has I I can't imagine
00:46:20
what the top three on the street they
00:46:22
know you from you know why people know
00:46:24
me from is uh a movie that I did with
00:46:27
Amy called Baby Mama people are always
00:46:29
like baby I [ __ ] love that's it yeah
00:46:32
that's it date night was a killer too ah
00:46:35
that was nice but he Baby Mama is just
00:46:38
had that hooky thing of like you and her
00:46:40
together was really smart and really fun
00:46:43
do you guys when you get out there and
00:46:44
you have that you just look at each
00:46:46
other and kind of start internally
00:46:47
laughing or something I mean it seems
00:46:49
like there's such a there's a really top
00:46:51
with YouTube
00:46:53
we go back to Chicago like we toured
00:46:56
Second City together we were on the
00:46:58
Improv team together we really really go
00:47:00
way back so we just to have a real ease
00:47:04
working with each other like if we have
00:47:05
to host something and we're just like
00:47:07
figuring out the jokes or whatever it's
00:47:09
just um shorthand shorthand is great
00:47:11
yeah like you do you have people that
00:47:13
you feel that way about well I have this
00:47:16
theory that if you meet for anybody or
00:47:19
your person in my life but Tina you also
00:47:23
had uh Jimmy on update and you did great
00:47:25
and then you have Amy is it is it that
00:47:27
it was that a scary Switcheroo or
00:47:28
probably easy
00:47:30
oh um it was I remember it was a it was
00:47:33
in a kind of classic Lauren way too he
00:47:35
sort of was leaving it up to me to pick
00:47:37
what to do no decision after Fallon okay
00:47:40
after Jimmy left and I tested with
00:47:43
people and I did stuff and then and I
00:47:45
had that thing where I felt like I was
00:47:46
like oh I think I'm supposed to want to
00:47:48
do it by myself like if I was if I
00:47:51
really but I didn't want to do it by
00:47:53
myself uh because that's not really a
00:47:55
lot of stand up but it's not my thing
00:47:56
and so it was really it's like it's
00:47:59
comfortable fun with someone it's more
00:48:00
fun with someone when the jokes flail
00:48:03
and you have someone to play off of and
00:48:05
way more fun and so it was like the week
00:48:08
of we finally decided and then people so
00:48:11
I always make a big deal like it's the
00:48:13
first time they had two women doing
00:48:15
updates so it was another first for the
00:48:17
show first time had writer first time
00:48:19
this I just wanna I don't want much more
00:48:21
time we have but I wanted to talk how
00:48:24
much fun I had working with your husband
00:48:25
on uh and he's very patient because I'm
00:48:29
horrible at click tracks and my
00:48:32
characters singing in this cartoon
00:48:33
Mulligan click and I would miss it and
00:48:35
he would go oh he's gonna work at that
00:48:36
we could do that we can do this and I
00:48:38
remember working with Cheryl Hardwick as
00:48:39
well yeah the person is the music person
00:48:42
who can just kind of play any genre any
00:48:45
style so anyway I had a lot of fun with
00:48:48
him on the zoom coaching me he's the
00:48:50
best Jeff Richmond is the best and yeah
00:48:52
I'm so patient with like comedy writers
00:48:55
writing lyrics and comedians singing
00:48:57
like just infinite patients yeah it was
00:49:01
nice when we got to do that Broadway
00:49:02
show he was all the music for it because
00:49:04
it was like oh it's people that can
00:49:05
really sing
00:49:07
comedians
00:49:09
yeah you know one time I was doing
00:49:12
looping on black sheep that old movie oh
00:49:14
a couple people remember thank you yeah
00:49:17
so we were doing looping and uh I left
00:49:20
and Chris was coming in he's like they
00:49:23
do beeps and [ __ ] yeah so um anyway he
00:49:27
goes I left after two hours I go what I
00:49:31
thought you're supposed to do four he
00:49:32
goes I couldn't get it you didn't get
00:49:34
any he goes two hours he goes It goes
00:49:38
beep beep beep then you're supposed to I
00:49:39
don't even I don't know what the [ __ ]
00:49:40
they're talking about go yeah I know
00:49:42
it's pretty simple he was a pure
00:49:44
performer he wasn't yeah
00:49:47
Ryan he wants to change the lines and
00:49:50
just do it different and just do a
00:49:51
better performance and it's it's just
00:49:53
looping is a very tough you know dirty
00:49:56
yeah so uh real quick the girls sketch
00:49:59
where you played the kind of Eastern
00:50:01
European woman is hysterical oh yes I
00:50:04
think sethra these are just compliments
00:50:06
I think Seth wrote that yeah that was
00:50:09
great what about Bush twins
00:50:11
I think I wrote that okay so so for the
00:50:16
young people out there that want to get
00:50:17
into comedy writer want to see you know
00:50:19
look these things in her name Hit
00:50:20
YouTube they're on YouTube crack you
00:50:22
know
00:50:23
um well do you have anything else David
00:50:26
no she's great she's got a chunk people
00:50:29
to meet and play places to go well I
00:50:31
love you guys you're my favorite when I
00:50:33
was a kid when I was a teenager watching
00:50:35
the show I had to catch on both of you
00:50:37
that's okay America's sweetheart once
00:50:40
you call that at one point or the
00:50:42
thinking man sex him or something not a
00:50:46
thing not a thing you still do your
00:50:48
philly accent around the house or no
00:50:50
um I do it all the time Han me and my
00:50:52
friends we go down the shore we just
00:50:54
Dana can you do that accent because I
00:50:56
date I try to teach it to Jimmy and he
00:50:58
kind of couldn't do it and I was like we
00:51:00
found his Achilles heel because he can
00:51:01
do everything can you do it I would have
00:51:03
to study it I'd have to know I need a
00:51:05
source track because I would go all over
00:51:07
East Coast you know wada wada which what
00:51:10
are you guys doing but see I would just
00:51:11
be a mayor of Hollywood Brooklyn real
00:51:14
quickly then yeah let me think
00:51:16
um all right leave me alone sick I'm
00:51:18
going down I'm going down the street
00:51:19
we're gonna get hoagies and like then
00:51:21
we're just gonna go like sit somewhere
00:51:22
and like smoke
00:51:24
somewhere in some smoke yeah it's very
00:51:26
specific it's very easy to go Michael
00:51:28
Kane without I'm gonna sit somewhere and
00:51:30
smoke you know were you excited about
00:51:31
mayor of Easton I was I also I was like
00:51:33
I guess uh my phone was broken for a
00:51:36
married town I guess so
00:51:38
yeah she killed it she killed that
00:51:40
because that is a really hard dialect
00:51:42
and she she crushed it to think about
00:51:45
that and your lines and then you got to
00:51:46
do your lines right and you want to do
00:51:47
the acting why you need to do them yeah
00:51:49
I did a New Hampshire ones and they go
00:51:51
that sounded a little boss and I'm like
00:51:52
listen guys the people watching my movie
00:51:55
will be four to seven years old yeah
00:51:57
just relax Farm Fresh and Flaky
00:52:00
turnovers
00:52:03
um petrich Farm you could give them one
00:52:05
word but I I'm not I mean you know Daryl
00:52:07
Hammond there's people of incredible
00:52:09
ears I really need to listen or hang out
00:52:11
with someone a lot you know we'll check
00:52:13
back Daryl yeah Daryl is amazing let's
00:52:16
let Tina finish her makeup my favorite
00:52:18
part of the day is going to sleep I like
00:52:20
to go to sleep yeah without any
00:52:22
medication at all just nothing because I
00:52:24
have to take a melatonin gummy maybe a
00:52:27
over-the-counter melatonin
00:52:30
okay I gotcha
00:52:34
yeah yeah I'll tell you I'll say I'll
00:52:37
give you my melatonin guy I'll text you
00:52:38
do you think if I say it enough I'll get
00:52:40
a free CVS like a free single gummy dude
00:52:44
I went to a weed store and the guy goes
00:52:45
here man he's like hey you know because
00:52:48
I was the guy was floundering and he
00:52:50
goes hey Spade I'm the owner listen and
00:52:52
hey Jimmy grab him some fentanyl crab
00:52:54
cakes and get him some uh you know some
00:52:57
PCP candy corns I go no no no I'm okay
00:52:59
but he gave me a little gummy of weed
00:53:01
and then I took it and he goes don't eat
00:53:03
the whole thing it's a [ __ ] inch of
00:53:05
food dude he goes just eat the ear I go
00:53:07
I don't know that's why I have a vodka
00:53:10
soda I know what I'm getting my wife and
00:53:12
I tried a gummy bear of marijuana
00:53:14
because it was instead of Ambien let's
00:53:16
sleep God and we hallucinated all night
00:53:18
long the entire house was going up and
00:53:20
down I couldn't walk it's terrible so be
00:53:23
careful baby boomers no we were really
00:53:25
foolish we were doing it for my
00:53:27
mother-in-law it was 90. we thought
00:53:29
we'll experiment with him because her
00:53:30
friends at church she's very Catholic
00:53:32
are all taking a little bit of cannabis
00:53:34
for sleep and that's why we did it but
00:53:36
you had the wrong stuff you had the well
00:53:39
too much no tolerance I didn't know you
00:53:42
know I hadn't smoked pot since 1982.
00:53:44
anyway we're halfway done let's take a
00:53:47
little break and come back take a little
00:53:49
break and do the real house Tina thanks
00:53:51
for thanks for doing doing this it's so
00:53:52
fun to see you and now if we see you
00:53:55
we'll go hey we feel like we know each
00:53:57
other even better
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