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Marci Klein | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

February 22, 2023 / 01:10:25

This episode features Marcy Klein, a long-time producer at SNL, discussing her experiences in talent management and guest coordination. Key topics include her role in preparing hosts for live performances, memorable stories from her time at SNL, and her insights into the challenges faced by celebrity guests.

Marcy shares anecdotes about working with various hosts, including the psychological tactics she used to help them overcome nerves before going live. She recalls specific incidents, such as a time when a host was too anxious to perform and how she managed to coax them out of their dressing room.

The conversation also touches on the dynamics of hosting SNL, with Marcy reflecting on her relationships with cast members and the unique environment of the show. She emphasizes the camaraderie among the cast and crew, as well as the intense pressure placed on hosts.

Marcy discusses her transition to producing 30 Rock and how her experiences at SNL influenced her work there. She highlights the importance of strong writing and collaboration in creating successful comedy.

Throughout the episode, Marcy's humor and warmth shine through as she shares her journey in the world of comedy and television production.

TL;DR

Marcy Klein shares her experiences managing SNL hosts and the challenges they faced before going live.

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Marcy Klein intro
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declined just for everyone who's about
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to hear this podcast yeah Marcy Klein
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was a very important figure at SNL for
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many decades as a producer uh kind of
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Lauren's right hand woman and was talent
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management and guest management and she
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has some amazing Stories she's really
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funny
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and uh just fun to hang out with and fun
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to have dinner with yeah you know we I
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think we used her she asked about she
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said if you guys want to talk to me
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because I hear my name we we throw it in
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casually like Norm was back there Marcy
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brought her out you know Marcy brought
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us in yeah she brings you to see the
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host when they need the host if the host
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is Bored she walks in Spade Sharon
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Stone's in there go go go say something
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all right all right and then you go in
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there and she doesn't want to talk and
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she'll she'll tell some stories about
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that inside baseball she won't mention
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the name but it's like five minutes
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before the air show and goes into the
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dressing room and the person's like I
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just can't go on there's no actors
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and she has to figure out she has a
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psychological Jiu Jitsu to get this
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person ready to do 90 minutes alive
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stand up yeah so she had a lot of funny
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stories there's a lot of inside how
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people got on auditions uh how they pick
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uh very interesting she was there my
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whole run I think your whole run too oh
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yeah she was I mean I I I knew her which
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we we talk about when I did Brown
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University as a stand-up and she was in
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the front row and something funny
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happens oh that's right I think we
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talked about that so I knew her from
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that and all of a sudden she's at the
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show and she has a very famous Dad I
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just didn't have any idea and she's
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running the town department and uh she
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was sort of a scout also she had a lot
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of different uh she would look at the
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old VHS tapes and she would just hang
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out with us all the cast members this is
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our mascot uh actually will told me I
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used to go let's go down to Wally and
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Joseph's when he was we had our overlap
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Wally and Joseph that's a good place we
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used to all go uh okay here she is Marcy
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foreign
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[Music]
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there was an amazing guy that he brought
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when he hosted that was a like guy that
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like I can't explain who he was but I
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was like David that guy is amazing he
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was like a chiropractor do you know when
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you hosted David did you bring a
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chiropractor to the show oh maybe I
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broke what a movie star traveling with a
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team it didn't help by the way Marcy do
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you remember hi Marcy hi David do you
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remember when I got sick when I hosted
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yes I don't know if Dana remembers this
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I will refresh your memory what what are
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we talking the early knots or past 210
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the middle knots I think I hosted
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maybe it's the second time whatever
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I only did two whoops three you guys all
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try to blackball me no I'm kidding I
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only did two but they were [ __ ]
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terrifying and it's so much harder
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because when I was on I Didn't Have I
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was never in like a ton of sketches like
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Dana so when I'm on Phil was in a lot of
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sketches hosting is a [ __ ]
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oh it's sober that's 13 sketches in the
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cold opening and some signature hold
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your hand that week were you are you
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around are you working on 30 Rock at
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that point no I feel like when David
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maybe when you hosted I was like I can
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take the week off yeah I mean like it's
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there's nothing better than ex former
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cast members that come back yeah you
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knew that yeah yeah see at the party
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yeah you're like you know the drill you
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know I know read through I know when
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it's gonna be hard but even when we did
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spend time together that first because I
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remember you hosting and thinking that
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was a big deal I think what happened was
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stressed out Dana when he hosted was not
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stressed out
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um well in the 90s I was when I came
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back in 2010 I was too uh you know
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you're living up to the past and you
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can't where's the pepper boy sketch you
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know it's like you know what I mean it's
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like you you put a little pressure on
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yourself but David's always calm and
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cool didn't you do
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uh character what was the character that
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um the guy who did the Dan with Will
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Ferrell sorry um there's Chris Catan he
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had that little phone I did mango and
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kiwi and you wore shorts and I go God
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that guy has really muscular legs and
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that's been your your legacy I should
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never not wear shorts because it was a
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that was unbelievable
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oh the letters that came in here's what
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happened though Dana I do I do dress
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and I I'm sure it was Mars who was there
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because she probably can when I retell
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this I say it was Marcy for people that
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don't know Marcy was the she ran the
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talent their producer for years she was
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she was for probably at least 20 years
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she was going into a room with a scared
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movie star or athlete who said I just
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can't go on tonight it's like 11 20 and
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Marcy's job was to get them out of that
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room so they'd go out for the monologues
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anyway we'll get back to Joe listen you
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quit and we fire you and they're like
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wait what uh uh anyway children away now
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get your ass out there I'm doing
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um one of my hilarious bits but I'm in
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so many things in Spades very fragile
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like
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what about you I'm doing like a nine
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hour dress Dana and we're about almost
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we're probably the last two sketches and
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it's like 10 50. I was either it was
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food or it was stress or I wasn't
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feeling good and I was sick and I'm like
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and I'm just sitting in a sketch you
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know right right when the sketch is over
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they go okay run over here you know you
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got 30 seconds and I just sat there in
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the sketch and I think it was Marcy
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Spade let's go and then I go
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and all the costumes are waiting
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and then I just laid down in front of
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the sketch and they go what the [ __ ]
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going on and Marcy's like hold hold tell
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him to hold and so they bring me in the
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dressing room hold was this a rehearsal
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or the air show it was a dress which is
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still a full audio it's embarrassing
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whole dress
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oh I go in the bathroom and I'm laying
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there and it's coming out both ends I'm
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laying on the floor I'm like do I have
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food poisoning from huxley's or what
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because I always tell the hosts never
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eat they're like I'll have she
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was like I don't have sushi before the
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[ __ ] life I'll have the scariest
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thing to eat possible uh nothing for me
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just these Vietnamese uh egg rolls will
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do and you're like oh I wouldn't eat
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that before so I am laying on the floor
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Dana freaking out Marcy comes over and
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marshes the door and I hear Lauren
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what's what's happening and uh she talks
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about what she's doing oh that was our
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Lauren okay and and I just hear on the
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other side of the door I'm laying face
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down my bathroom going
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like I don't even wanna and why didn't
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you guys to go back for a third time
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host no you know what and I didn't sue
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them
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now but what happened was I was just
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either over stressed or didn't eat and
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it was too much pressure and then after
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I sort of got everything out of my
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system I could feel myself lightening up
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going okay I feel better and then I
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think Marcy and Lauren this sounds like
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a lot but I think they were saying what
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do we do because we have to tell NBC if
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we're going to run a rerun tonight right
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right and we might not be able to make
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it he saw the nurse who is still oh yes
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yes and it's Teresa yeah I just ran into
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her I'm at NBC is she around to Teresa
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right yeah she helped I saw the last
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time I did Fallon text her to come up to
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discuss it well we could talk about when
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I separated my shoulder but let's go
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back to him did you rally Mike Myers you
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know have you guys had Mike oh yeah yeah
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Mike was violently ill do you remember
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yes there was a show where he was truly
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yes really violently growing up like
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behind the set right before he came out
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yeah I thought it was Philip and he
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pooped in the bathtub he posted and he
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was sick too David are you trying to be
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Mike Myers I'm trying to be exact I'm
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stealing his story you're sick of Mike
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Myers This is Gonna trip by the way
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Marcy I'm like laying there in like a
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UPS outfit because I'm in whatever
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sketch you know so then I get my act
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together
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a lot of people don't feel great sure I
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should be a seasoned vet though I should
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be the last
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one's a marathon used to pass out at the
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read through a lot you know come on I
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didn't like it I'd have spaghetti
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brought into the read through it at the
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break and then I just sit there go ahead
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Tom Hanks you just reminded me that I
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used to order the food for read through
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that was another one of my jobs remember
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I used to like I almost was um I got the
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cars for the cast oh you were a Friday
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night you had like five jobs it seemed
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like you were everything I used to think
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you were just like everywhere you were
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holding the hand you were hanging out
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with us what I hung out with your moms
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remember the mothers
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episode I took them out that was a fun
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week took my mom to Chippendales I just
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saw rose rock
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um
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Rose at Radio City oh you saw Chris yeah
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and Chris and I just went on Sunday to
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see tar have you seen tar tar Spade it
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you wouldn't get it is it a movie a play
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or is it it's with Kate Blanchett my
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celebrity crush oh it's a great it's a
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play that's brilliant right because no
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no it's a movie it's a movie it's a
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masterpiece is it on live streaming
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could I watch it right now on the corner
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of my laptop it probably will be I mean
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it's very it's like a almost three hour
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movie I see it I'm gonna have the sound
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off but I'm just gonna let it run there
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has she coasted wait one second
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um I keep hearing a ding and I think
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it's coming from my computer and I'm
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trying to okay stop notification it
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might be your emails we're not hearing
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it it's I had that you go into
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notifications anyway no I guess it's I
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mean is it going to annoy you well just
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just pretend you're making a cake if you
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guys haven't heard it then maybe it's
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only on my end yeah it's not gonna it's
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it's fine it's it's okay we don't have
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we have a very low budget podcast so
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it's our
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technicality we barely make it I don't
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even know if I'm recording yes I am Dana
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I'll just tell you that the end of the
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story is I drag myself back up I
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finished the UPS sketch those people
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have been there for 25 minutes I do it I
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give it absolutely nothing the poor
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writers are like well that one's not
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gonna make it and then I do one more
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sketch skate through and then we get
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ready for air and uh everything was fine
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after that but I swear it was touch and
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go and I remember Mars Marcy you were
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there from the very very beginning for
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me for sure Dina brought you in and you
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sat on the couch outside of the talent
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Department waiting to meet with Lauren
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on 17 in front of the microwave oven
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which is what where my desk used to be
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because I knew David before SNL and in
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the club so I I brought him in and he
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actually passed out the same way with
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the UPS story you just went down I go
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hold that just Mercy tell Lauren can you
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go can we get 10 and you know Marcy's a
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champ always cool Under Pressure but um
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yeah you have an amazing that was like
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on a Friday night yeah no I I who was I
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talking to Mark she goes Lauren will be
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with you in three to seven hours just
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relax I'm like what what's that Lauren
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will be with you next Thursday you have
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to wait here that you were meeting him
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on 17. it must have been like a Tuesday
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night because there's I would have not
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been it was up on 17. David do you
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remember this I don't remember meeting
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Lauren outside of 17. I I would always
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just hanging out I just remember
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thinking Dana is here with some guy I've
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never met
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and I was trying to you appeared and
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then you I don't remember how you got on
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the show but I know it was I feel like
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well Dana and Dennis helped um and then
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I had the audition were you at the
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audition for me that's a good question
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well I was at I was at the great
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question Adam
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oh Schneider
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um Chris Rock was with Adam wasn't he
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miss Chris Rock and Farley came they
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started oh yeah they came later yeah
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yeah
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did they come later or before well we
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brought they came before you no Rob and
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I got the last four episodes of a year
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so we finished a season that's right
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when we came back they picked us up as
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writer performers and then Rock and
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Farley were joined so they were the
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first read through that's right that's
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right I remember that yeah they were
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full feature and we were I think writer
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features and then Sandler came about two
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three months
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and there there was oh yeah yeah the Bad
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Boys arrived like it was like they were
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leaving right wasn't that the whole
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thing that was I started in 89. I
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remember and uh do you could I tell the
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story how that when I went to Brown
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University and then I know I know so
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yeah I mean the funniest best story ever
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tell it well it just be I was playing
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the college you know and I was doing my
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acting and Marcy sat up front she had
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this incredibly crazy hair like just
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gigantic thick hair I don't know if you
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were laughing very hard or or talking to
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me or something like you know everyone
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was obsessed with Dana and every no one
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could believe you were there and and I
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was like front and center and I felt
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like we had an eye contact and my hair
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must have been because my hair was so
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big yeah is that and I used the old
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comedian trick of calling you big hair
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woman and then you call it back what do
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you say big hair woman so you became the
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co-star of that set yeah and then I
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don't know if it was like six months
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later or whatever all of a sudden I see
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you walking around 8h it's like big hair
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woman's here you know and I was like
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wait do you remember that that and he
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said he remembered and of course I don't
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really know at the time I was like wow
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he really remembered that oh yeah but
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obviously that was just shtick and that
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you didn't remember me oh I did remember
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that oh yeah I didn't do that many
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colleges and I remember you did have big
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hair there was a woman with giant hair
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and I called her big hair woman I don't
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know I did other things with the
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audience like you know orange coat man
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spade does it too yeah I did shorts guy
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the other night this guy's shorts I'm
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sure what do you think yeah so you were
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a big hair woman so I did remember it
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and you were front and center you're
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kind of almost in the light so I
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remember what you look like and then you
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didn't tease it up it had a little Bon
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Jovi I didn't have to tease it up it was
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just big big I probably did tease it up
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it was just a lot of hair we're all over
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the place but that's sort of how we are
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Miller called me hair too that was like
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my name hey hair come over here okay get
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some orange Sun kiss kind of deal down
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here if you don't mind my spuddly
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wouldn't kill you to write some update
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jokes slide them under my desk we love
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Dennis no slide him under my door let's
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let's for a second whatever I'll do some
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housekeeping for people who are
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listening this is Marcy Klein
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she is an Emmy Award winner I think Alec
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Baltimore called you the greatest
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producer in the history of broadcast
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television she produced 30 Rock and then
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she was ubiquitous she was everywhere on
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Saturday Night Live for like 20 years
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and she did 25 years and she did every
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kind of job and I remember as just just
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doing a lot of things she wasn't like a
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handyman but she was she well she did
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fix my sink anyway she had a tool kit
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she did drywall my office yeah I called
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her toolkit after that and everything
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except be a cast member yeah but I've
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been in action okay I'll do I'll cut to
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it like a Barbara Walters who was the
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craziest host
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what did Lauren say when you asked Dad
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we asked him crazy as host David
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um no because uh he I don't think he
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would ever say I always get hurt
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there were some I wouldn't use the word
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crazy but uh some were more heavily
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maintenance you know kind of thing but
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challenge everyone asked me and I would
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I just do Steven Seagal because I have a
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Steven Seagal bit you know but I don't
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say like I liked Steven Seagal actually
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me too and people go right that was a
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crazy week I think that was a bizarre
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week because Nora left the show oh yeah
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yeah yeah or no no she she had left the
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show because it dies clay sorry she left
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Dice Clay week did David did you boycott
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the Steven Seagal show
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I'd boycotted mostly because of his
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ponytail
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for you Marcy were you in chat
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I don't remember that
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the the um in the set do you remember
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this when he was doing the sketch he
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like he wanted to be outside
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upset yeah and Jesus
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Liz Welch you know Liz I remember yeah
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I just was texting with Liz she's so
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funny she's so great Steven you can't
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stand there yeah yeah Stephen
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you know we need to you know like we
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were trying to sort of deal with him
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I mean looking back like
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he he just I I don't want to say
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anything more but he it was a it was a a
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week that was one of my first weeks
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where I thought like oh not every week
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is the same and it looks different and
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you have to deal with them yeah he but
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in the end it just was it like I feel
00:17:39
like Jim Downey was that was a difficult
00:17:41
week for Jim oof as a head right anyone
00:17:44
that had to get right face to face with
00:17:47
him and deal it's always tough
00:17:49
when the host is a probably nervous
00:17:52
which is understandable
00:17:54
and B didn't want to be
00:17:57
remember I just remember kung fu
00:17:58
fighting like he didn't want to goofy
00:18:01
thing where we made fun of him in the
00:18:04
read through Arnold could beat you up
00:18:05
you know your buttocks are like
00:18:07
marshmallows and he just sat there and
00:18:09
listened to him and then on the
00:18:11
rehearsal stage didn't say anything for
00:18:13
two days on Thursday we're walking
00:18:14
through it and then he goes way over he
00:18:17
leaves where we are at the center of 8h
00:18:19
and moves like 100 feet away is just
00:18:21
standing and Kevin or maybe Marcy said
00:18:23
can you go talk to him and I went over
00:18:25
there and he didn't even look at me and
00:18:27
he said I just wish Arnold was here so I
00:18:29
could kick his [ __ ] ass
00:18:31
so for two days he was stewing and then
00:18:34
we had to rewrite the thing you're
00:18:36
stronger than Arnold and then I ran into
00:18:38
Schwarzenegger makes no sense in Santa
00:18:41
Monica six months later I said so call
00:18:43
says he wants to kick your ass and he's
00:18:45
with all his giant Austrian guys at foot
00:18:46
long cigar he leans back and goes is
00:18:48
that the fact
00:18:50
so that's that was a he was eccentric
00:18:54
but I just liked his stories it was all
00:18:56
he was talking about Russia and martial
00:18:59
arts and conspiracy theories I found him
00:19:01
fascinating so yeah yeah no he was that
00:19:04
that I just reminded me of Sylvester
00:19:06
Stallone who's so nice and I had to go
00:19:09
to the set David were you with me I was
00:19:13
I didn't I was there when he hosted Adam
00:19:15
McKay maybe I'm I'm um Were You There
00:19:18
When Adam McKay was there or that was
00:19:20
after you left I think he might have
00:19:22
been I should look I I need a sheep I
00:19:25
was not it might have been Will
00:19:26
Ferrell's first year I've been there
00:19:28
when he was hosting but I was gone it
00:19:30
was it was like I had to do like that um
00:19:34
you know you watch it in the movies of
00:19:35
you know like Talent people that try and
00:19:38
sign you know hope like I had to go to
00:19:41
the movie Set and meet with him and I
00:19:43
brought Adam McKay and I feel like I
00:19:46
might maybe I brought willfare I can't
00:19:48
we need Ayala here right but you
00:19:51
remember going to the set to kind of uh
00:19:53
walk him through what SNL be like to
00:19:56
convince him yes it was like I had to
00:19:57
sort of you know like host comes in and
00:20:00
the first person they meet in when I
00:20:02
first started when when you were there
00:20:04
when you when when I came when you were
00:20:06
already there I would go to my first
00:20:08
host was Dolly Parton and I had to pick
00:20:10
her up at the airport like she got wow
00:20:14
hi
00:20:17
um the airport pickups I love it oh yeah
00:20:19
and that was for cell phones God they
00:20:21
couldn't send a car you had to drive to
00:20:23
there I don't know I was born in the car
00:20:25
yes
00:20:28
um I would it was just a lot of like
00:20:31
waiting around and and then eventually
00:20:35
I you know so when the host comes in I
00:20:38
have to sort of explain everything
00:20:39
that's gonna happen yeah that Lauren
00:20:41
sort of does that he shortens that
00:20:44
go in and it's before the Monday meeting
00:20:47
right exactly they meet you first and so
00:20:50
with Sylvester Stallone it was the first
00:20:52
time where I think
00:20:54
Fred Spector was his agents whoever
00:20:56
whoever his agent was said no you have
00:20:58
to go get convinced slide to do the show
00:21:02
that's old school he was the only one
00:21:06
that was not just showing up because he
00:21:09
was booked so he was shooting a movie
00:21:12
here Ray Liotta I remember getting in
00:21:14
trouble because I was Ray Liotta was
00:21:16
like she's in my [ __ ] eye line like I
00:21:18
I was like
00:21:20
why like yeah it was like and then
00:21:24
eventually Ray Liotta hosted but anyway
00:21:26
those guys were all sort of similar well
00:21:31
maybe that's old school like come talk
00:21:33
me into it come get me you know I need
00:21:36
coaxing Stallone is the nicest dude
00:21:38
anyway the nicest and he wrote everyone
00:21:40
thank you notes and he was so nice and I
00:21:44
didn't do that yeah yeah he's a total
00:21:47
you know dead earth guy still can not
00:21:49
too late hey dear Liz how are you all
00:21:53
doing you know dear Audrey Audrey pert
00:21:56
was there Ken Amon Jim Henry
00:21:59
Jim Henry sat me down to explain why I'm
00:22:02
making so little money Jim Henry uh he
00:22:06
was the business Affairs guy do you guys
00:22:08
remember Andrew Brewer
00:22:10
yeah yeah
00:22:11
he I emailed us a letter didn't he or
00:22:15
yeah even though it's a question yeah
00:22:17
because he says he's at a cafe in
00:22:19
Barcelona or something yeah he's in
00:22:21
Barcelona yeah yeah so we all those are
00:22:23
old it was one time Marcy when I said
00:22:26
[ __ ] on the air with Dennis at update
00:22:28
and Andrew Brewer he said you gotta
00:22:31
Mumble it and I walk upstairs he goes
00:22:32
what are you doing to me he means me
00:22:34
right right when I step off of update
00:22:36
what do you do Spade what are you doing
00:22:37
you're gonna get me fired we're all
00:22:39
going down
00:22:40
that's like when who smoked
00:22:43
um who was the band that they were
00:22:45
smoking pot on stage
00:22:49
uh I'm gonna guess Black Stone Temple
00:22:52
Pilots do you remember Marcy I was
00:22:54
upstairs and I did a joke where I said
00:22:57
Stone Temple Pilots I like them the
00:22:59
first time I saw them when they were
00:23:01
called Pearl Jam and then when they
00:23:03
hosted remember that they said they want
00:23:05
to kick my ass and they and then Marcy
00:23:07
had to go down and and they yeah I
00:23:09
always just picture you with a cigarette
00:23:10
going all right listen I'm gonna go talk
00:23:12
to him all right but do not come
00:23:14
downstairs don't come down to eight stay
00:23:15
on 17 until we figure this out God how
00:23:18
many fires did you put out I mean my God
00:23:20
that's what Lauren always said he's like
00:23:22
Marcy puts out fire
00:23:26
[Music]
00:23:28
anyway putting out fires was always I
00:23:32
think that was something I'm proud of
00:23:34
you know that I did that that's
00:23:35
important that's a scary thing when
00:23:38
someone's melting down or being a
00:23:39
problem you're walking to the door and
00:23:40
you do the little knock and you don't
00:23:42
know what you're gonna find have you
00:23:44
ever had anybody you came in and they
00:23:46
got overtly hostile like what the [ __ ]
00:23:49
are you telling me yes
00:23:52
um was it David
00:23:54
um no but uh a very famous very famous
00:23:59
um woman woman Glenn Close
00:24:03
um no no Sharon Stone threw a boot at me
00:24:06
one of her shoes at me when I had to
00:24:09
tell her something that she didn't want
00:24:11
to hear
00:24:13
um Aaron Osborne would do that
00:24:15
sorry go ahead
00:24:18
Sharon so they threw a boot at you with
00:24:20
true anger and did you dodge it I mean
00:24:22
did you like yeah I I understood her
00:24:25
reaction to be honest you know
00:24:27
Gabriel Byrne he hosted were either of
00:24:30
you there I was there for that one he
00:24:32
came up to me I loved him and at the
00:24:35
next week he was like he came back like
00:24:37
the next Saturday and he grabbed me and
00:24:40
he's like
00:24:41
so you you do this every week you know
00:24:44
like it because you know what it's like
00:24:45
when you come in there it's we're
00:24:47
pushing and everything just you know
00:24:50
it's Monday Tuesday whatever working
00:24:51
chaos yeah we do dinner and then we did
00:24:54
in the band and then the promos and then
00:24:55
the thing and everything you go in the
00:24:57
room we eat you know the food on Friday
00:24:59
we hang out everyone you know so
00:25:02
I guess when that's why I believe SNL is
00:25:06
still on you know because there's
00:25:08
nothing else like it and you as a host
00:25:10
and you you come on you're treated no
00:25:14
one in I I maybe if you're shooting a
00:25:17
movie that's Dana you guys would be able
00:25:20
to know I mean isn't don't you think
00:25:22
this is like there's nothing else like
00:25:26
this where you're like running your own
00:25:29
show-ish no there's nothing like
00:25:32
Saturday Night Live nothing that's why
00:25:33
it's the seminal experience for all of
00:25:35
us and uh we're talking to Lauren about
00:25:38
that that because a lot of times you're
00:25:40
getting movie stars or actors or
00:25:42
non-comedians having to suddenly come in
00:25:45
and host a comedy sketch show there's a
00:25:48
reality show aspect so even if Saturday
00:25:50
Night Live has a a dud of a show
00:25:53
I think it's almost more entertaining
00:25:55
than what it kills to see how people
00:25:57
react and everything so
00:25:59
100 the same amount of work goes into
00:26:01
the ones that bomb that's that's like
00:26:04
movies too
00:26:06
Mike Myers being really upset and I get
00:26:09
it that we booked Nancy Kerrigan
00:26:12
and oh like stunt Cassie because she I
00:26:15
hit the leg of the woman yeah it was the
00:26:18
whole
00:26:19
yeah and
00:26:22
um and that was
00:26:25
that was uh uh like you're talking about
00:26:27
sports people that come on I mean
00:26:30
there's that whole group of people
00:26:32
there's a that is that was that happened
00:26:34
before I was there I mean I was but she
00:26:37
by the way you weren't there for Nancy
00:26:38
Kerrigan no I was saying that was my
00:26:40
idea
00:26:42
again and Mike thought it was stunt
00:26:44
casting kind of or well he was right I
00:26:46
mean yeah I heard some grumblings but I
00:26:48
was like well how
00:26:49
you know George Steinbrenner hosted well
00:26:52
how come Kerrigan can't host I don't
00:26:54
understand what's the difference and
00:26:56
that's a bigger stunt that's a New York
00:26:58
stunt specific so maybe that was New
00:27:00
York specific which SNL was very New
00:27:02
York specific I remember when Nancy
00:27:04
Kerrigan was [ __ ] huge and I was kind
00:27:06
of bummed because it wasn't a great show
00:27:07
it was like dice we got a big number and
00:27:10
we just wasn't quite the show we wanted
00:27:12
to show everyone
00:27:13
it's still amazing she showed up and
00:27:16
she's so nice and she that was a very
00:27:20
like I was like wow I can't believe
00:27:23
she's coming here and doing that well
00:27:25
her for her skate scene with Farley
00:27:27
where she was throwing her up in the air
00:27:29
and skating with her and Phil and I were
00:27:31
well that was for anything that was a
00:27:33
really funny sketch that was really
00:27:34
memorable that was so funny I was there
00:27:38
on that shoot I went was that a
00:27:40
Rockefeller Center yeah
00:27:42
it was at Rockefeller Center but then it
00:27:44
was also at like you know Sky rank there
00:27:47
were two I was oh oh my God and I was so
00:27:51
cool I was like can you do a triple act
00:27:54
she was doing things for me just like a
00:27:56
little puppet
00:27:59
when they do it it's crazy how those
00:28:01
yeah there's those giant heavy skates
00:28:03
around
00:28:04
whirling and then land it okay but Chris
00:28:06
could actually skate enough too because
00:28:08
he grew up in Wisconsin right so that
00:28:10
was the funny that's the funniest
00:28:12
surprise of the sketches that he was
00:28:13
actually good yeah yeah and he was
00:28:15
wearing a goofy outfit and then of
00:28:17
course he's falling and he's screaming
00:28:18
and then yeah throws wait a minute Chris
00:28:20
is falling and screaming and it's
00:28:22
hilarious you know that before or after
00:28:25
the Chippendales oh I think it must have
00:28:28
been after because Chippendales was
00:28:30
early on I think Downey said his fourth
00:28:32
or fifth show yep yep yeah that was
00:28:36
great another monster did you have did
00:28:38
you hear any blowback at Chippendales
00:28:41
about he didn't want to do it yeah
00:28:43
there's a big controversy was Chris
00:28:45
being exploited or just being funny and
00:28:47
some some feel one way some feel another
00:28:50
I mean I remember if that he
00:28:56
I don't feel like he felt that way I
00:29:00
don't I don't either get that Vibe
00:29:01
either yeah knew exactly I mean he would
00:29:04
take off his all his clothes to walk
00:29:05
into the rewrites so it's like you know
00:29:08
right
00:29:10
but it was always like it was never
00:29:13
enough if I can say it was never
00:29:14
inappropriate
00:29:16
it was expected it was yeah it was not
00:29:20
you know it didn't feel it wasn't threat
00:29:22
I wasn't I've never felt threatened by
00:29:25
Chris yeah well because he was so he was
00:29:28
enjoying it so much and he was so joyous
00:29:30
about it and so silly and cackling and
00:29:33
he Burst Into The Writer's room naked
00:29:35
kind of with his legs crossed and then
00:29:36
he'd do a prat fall and then he would do
00:29:39
that gutter you know that can you do it
00:29:41
is laugh you know just that was he just
00:29:43
I just had a memory that I I won't say
00:29:47
but I remember walking into his dressing
00:29:50
room like my makeup on eight yeah and he
00:29:54
was like Mercy come in here like okay
00:29:56
you know and then he did something he
00:30:00
did something
00:30:02
you cannot [ __ ] do it yeah I know
00:30:05
sometimes he pushes his wiener in
00:30:07
between and does like the bush shot he
00:30:10
would do that the Silence of the Lambs
00:30:11
he would do that about twice a week in
00:30:14
different parts of this there weren't
00:30:18
that many of us too I mean no it was
00:30:21
like well do you remember this Marcy and
00:30:22
I know we're jumping around of course
00:30:23
but but we never talk about on here
00:30:27
that was such a weird thing that I don't
00:30:30
know if you kept doing but mohunk
00:30:33
we went I was just gonna bring Mohonk up
00:30:37
to you yeah
00:30:38
the The Retreat Because by the way I
00:30:41
planned that was one was that your idea
00:30:43
what Lauren said we're going on a
00:30:46
retreat Lauren and Jim Downey one it's
00:30:49
like a movie treat so and they were like
00:30:52
Marcy you plan it I planned the party I
00:30:55
mean I was like okay I was 22. yeah I've
00:30:58
just gotten there and Aaron I said to
00:31:01
Aaron Aaron moroney Aaron Moroni I was
00:31:04
like you need to help me do that what
00:31:06
are you doing okay five more two
00:31:11
just for a second has there ever been a
00:31:14
retreat before or after
00:31:16
with the whole cast of SNL I never that
00:31:19
was the that was a one-off did you have
00:31:20
more that was the weirdest thing so we
00:31:22
all went to Mohawk all the cast I guess
00:31:24
the writers and and Marcy go on planned
00:31:29
it I guess but we did yeah
00:31:33
fires and then we had like parties and
00:31:35
it was like Camp College yeah um it was
00:31:39
I I actually Lori Joe has photos I I
00:31:42
think it was it was Korea she does those
00:31:45
are crazy we're throwing the football
00:31:47
around yeah there was the football and
00:31:49
then
00:31:50
we all and I was thinking about that
00:31:52
last night I was like God Mohawk didn't
00:31:54
I did it twice
00:31:57
but I remember Lauren Lauren did a some
00:32:00
more demonstration it's the proper way
00:32:02
to make us some more everyone graham
00:32:05
crackers marshmallow and chocolate Marcy
00:32:08
Kevin are you looking Kevin you have to
00:32:10
see it okay smash them together stories
00:32:13
and stuff
00:32:15
probably Lord telling ghost story it's
00:32:18
that thing of like you want to open the
00:32:19
closet door but then again you don't
00:32:21
want to open the closet door and then he
00:32:23
said boo or something like that and
00:32:25
you're running but how about this Norm
00:32:28
said I think Norm was new and he said
00:32:31
that he got there and it was like a big
00:32:33
haunted place like in The Shining or
00:32:35
something it was terrifying together
00:32:36
yeah and every time people talk about
00:32:38
Long Island I go is that where we went
00:32:40
from and you want to know what Mohonk is
00:32:42
and was like New York is it Montauk
00:32:45
we all had haunted experiences I I did a
00:32:48
movie there and I had haunted experience
00:32:50
you guys have some weird Poltergeist
00:32:52
yeah in my room I actually absolutely
00:32:54
had a poltergeist experience
00:32:59
sleep in my room like we were it was
00:33:02
very
00:33:03
big and Gothic and yeah who picked the
00:33:07
hotel
00:33:11
Shelley Duvall it's called Mohawk
00:33:14
Mountain house and there's a place that
00:33:17
someone someone had done got killed at
00:33:20
yeah that was like yeah well Marcy Norm
00:33:24
Macdonald goes he goes when I got there
00:33:26
Farley goes because Norm was new he goes
00:33:28
I have to tell you a secret which is
00:33:31
always a good Farley bit he goes come
00:33:33
here norm and he goes we keep walking
00:33:35
and he goes Norm follow me down here so
00:33:37
they walk farther and he goes then we go
00:33:39
down a hall then we go down to the
00:33:41
basement then he comes in a room and
00:33:42
close the door and he goes what Farley
00:33:44
he goes Pat's a girl
00:33:48
so Chris wanted all that trouble yeah he
00:33:52
went all that way for a bit
00:33:54
it's Pat Uh how funny
00:33:59
Were You There When I had to
00:34:02
um produce sort of like the Mohawk thing
00:34:05
the um Mohegan Sun casino night
00:34:11
that was a separate trip it was your
00:34:14
precious Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey maybe
00:34:16
yeah
00:34:19
um
00:34:20
that it was I it was Dan Aykroyd not
00:34:24
that I was in the 70s but he they
00:34:27
brought in a bunch of SNL oh former uh
00:34:31
cast members and maybe it was like will
00:34:35
that group I can't remember hmm wow well
00:34:39
there's a whole other kind of version of
00:34:42
Mohonk and but in a casino
00:34:45
I would rather do that I'm so a norm I'm
00:34:48
sure so also we can go anywhere we want
00:34:52
to go but you also were part of like
00:34:54
uh picking cast members they're having a
00:34:56
big influence I was getting to that she
00:34:59
discovered comedy Superstars Molly
00:35:01
Shannon
00:35:03
Tracy Morgan Fallon Seth Meyers Will
00:35:07
Ferrell armison Katan
00:35:10
Daryl Hammond Sarah Silverman
00:35:13
it says Kevin James Kevin James for uh
00:35:17
the mall copy that's so funny because
00:35:19
Kevin James they uh Stephen Colbert
00:35:22
Kevin James were my two I kept saying
00:35:25
why or can't we hire them but Jim and
00:35:26
Lauren that didn't you know didn't
00:35:29
compute well here was um he was the
00:35:32
understudy when I went to Chicago before
00:35:35
like born and everybody would come Mike
00:35:38
Shoemake have you had Mike Shoemaker on
00:35:39
yet no we'd love to shroom taker
00:35:42
um we and I I was there maybe it was
00:35:46
with it was just Mike I think I I
00:35:49
remember whoever I was going to see was
00:35:51
sick and Stephen Colbert it was uh was
00:35:55
the understudy and and I'm like that
00:35:58
guy's really funny it was Steve Carell
00:35:59
and then he understudied Steve yes and
00:36:01
Steve was sick yes look at that
00:36:04
and have you already heard uh I called
00:36:07
him the two stees remember when we put
00:36:08
them on the show in 96 because luckily
00:36:12
SNL passed on them or at least didn't
00:36:15
see them properly because they were
00:36:17
brilliant at what they were doing and
00:36:19
also Bill Hader Maya Rudolph
00:36:23
Jason so who well I don't know here's
00:36:26
like a uh I mean a question that's maybe
00:36:29
Barbara Walters who was the who was the
00:36:32
one you saw like they stepped out he
00:36:34
went holy [ __ ] not only should they be
00:36:36
on SNL they're gonna kick ass yeah who's
00:36:38
a clear star
00:36:41
um wow other than all of them other than
00:36:43
all of them everyone that obviously ends
00:36:46
up on SNL stands out I mean there isn't
00:36:49
anyone you know who there's something
00:36:51
there it's a hard vetting process if you
00:36:53
find your way into the inner sanctum you
00:36:55
got some kind of chops because it's I
00:36:57
mean Jimmy and Seth both like I mean you
00:37:01
know Seth I feel like he had the perfect
00:37:03
audition he just nailed it and he had no
00:37:07
Impressions what does he do
00:37:09
he or did he
00:37:11
um he he had a pretty good year I mean
00:37:13
if he wanted to do an impression I think
00:37:15
he did Hugh Grant I remember because I
00:37:17
remember he does a few I remember that
00:37:19
Ayala had seen him in Chicago and she
00:37:22
said you know he's a great writer that's
00:37:24
what you and I said well he also is he
00:37:26
looks like he could be on TV I mean you
00:37:28
know more so than Annika you know so I
00:37:32
it and I said no we should put him
00:37:35
on like Tina Fey was the same thing
00:37:37
everyone Scott adds it I when I was in
00:37:40
Chicago he's like he's the one who said
00:37:43
Tina Fey is a brilliant genius you know
00:37:48
and Scott adds it is so funny and so
00:37:49
great and and Scott ads at auditioned
00:37:52
for SNL and and didn't end up getting
00:37:56
hired but he kept saying Tina Fey Tina
00:38:00
Fey and and so Tina ended up being hired
00:38:03
as a writer first and then she ended up
00:38:06
becoming a cast member so I mean it you
00:38:08
know I I when I guess hosted the show
00:38:10
the first time you know Lauren always
00:38:11
you'll do church lady so then I was with
00:38:16
um it was Tina was assigned to me so we
00:38:18
did it on and off all week and when she
00:38:20
would write she would do well I'm doing
00:38:22
you know and then when I did it was Seth
00:38:24
later he did the same thing they both
00:38:26
would just do the church lay to me so
00:38:29
um says Tina uh in some ways kind of
00:38:32
reminds me of Steve Martin uh yeah just
00:38:36
totally and the Fountain of writing that
00:38:38
she can do she's kind of shy in a sense
00:38:41
never ending yeah very sweet they can
00:38:44
perform their ass off and the writers
00:38:45
they seem they're good friends right
00:38:47
because they seem like they're brother
00:38:48
and sister or something yeah there are
00:38:50
certain people that I email with every
00:38:53
time they send me an email I laugh out
00:38:55
loud you know yeah
00:38:57
those two
00:38:59
are super funny
00:39:02
um you know they're they're they're
00:39:05
Tina's just she's unbelievably funny
00:39:10
[Music]
00:39:12
what does she come to you and say I want
00:39:14
to do 30 Rock because you're on 30 Rock
00:39:15
right you were you
00:39:17
um no the that
00:39:19
about was they caught they called me in
00:39:22
Lauren was like get Marcy you know I I
00:39:24
came in RC you're just in a special room
00:39:26
waiting for your orders yes
00:39:30
and they're like uh they told me the
00:39:33
idea and they said
00:39:36
um you know we want Alec
00:39:39
in this
00:39:40
and I was like oh that's going to be
00:39:42
interesting to convince them to do a TV
00:39:44
show but then I read the Crypt and T we
00:39:48
I I and you know I think because I was
00:39:50
the Alec
00:39:52
whisper you understood Alec the Alec was
00:39:57
Alec Baldwin yeah and
00:40:00
I actually like I actually when I read
00:40:03
the script I was like this this this is
00:40:04
he's gonna win every award I thought it
00:40:07
was so perfect for him and so funny
00:40:10
um and I had that was my job I was like
00:40:12
I got it so I had to
00:40:16
um convince him to do that also you know
00:40:18
like a lot of people what did you do and
00:40:20
I said well as you know the read through
00:40:22
there are 50 sketches and then they go
00:40:25
down to 13.
00:40:27
and then I have to convince the host
00:40:32
to do them yeah no one else is doing
00:40:35
that job that was my job and that's
00:40:37
difficult right because so much work
00:40:39
it's really difficult because you I feel
00:40:42
protective of the host that's my job I
00:40:44
also have a job which is to make sure
00:40:46
the show runs and Lauren and Jim and you
00:40:49
know Tina Seth you know whoever's show
00:40:53
running it
00:40:54
um we get on I have to look at the big
00:40:57
picture but I also have to make sure
00:40:58
that the publicists and the managers and
00:41:00
the agents and the hosts and the musical
00:41:02
guests all want to come back because I
00:41:04
would always argue you know this we're
00:41:05
inviting them and then we we basically
00:41:08
tell them that they can't we can't
00:41:10
sabotage them
00:41:11
so it's like a like you know it it as
00:41:15
you know you once you become on Monday
00:41:18
and and especially if the host is into
00:41:20
it you know I get I get attached I got
00:41:24
attached to some more than others and
00:41:26
so with Alec
00:41:29
um you know he's so smart and so funny
00:41:31
and so brilliant and when he I I knew
00:41:35
the way to convince him to do that show
00:41:38
and it worked and also I mean it was
00:41:41
just well how did you convince him what
00:41:43
was your strategy well I mean it's just
00:41:44
a pilot it it obviously was so well
00:41:48
written and perfect and also he he had a
00:41:51
lot to do with making that show even
00:41:54
that pilot script I I went over to his
00:41:57
house and I read it with him and I
00:42:00
played the Tina part and he played
00:42:03
and and just kept doing it and
00:42:07
um
00:42:08
you know he didn't want to do to and the
00:42:10
whole thing I kept that whole season it
00:42:12
was negotiating
00:42:14
with Jeff Zucker Mark graboff you know
00:42:16
because he would he just only wanted to
00:42:18
do two episodes or three episodes but
00:42:21
the brilliant thing about Alec was that
00:42:24
he really produced it too I mean he it
00:42:27
was his idea Jane Krakowski he really
00:42:30
fought for her and
00:42:32
he is so funny and he's almost isn't he
00:42:36
almost sort of like a cast member on SNL
00:42:38
yeah I mean I interject a quick thing
00:42:40
and I wonder if you were there Marcy but
00:42:41
it was really struck me when I like
00:42:44
first hosted because he was full movie
00:42:46
star
00:42:47
of course and I remember I was just on
00:42:49
the set with us and we're blocking or
00:42:50
whatever and I guess I kind of said
00:42:52
something effective what do you want to
00:42:53
do and he goes well I want to do this
00:42:55
yes you think I want to be on a
00:42:57
submarine going I I captain the rest of
00:42:59
my [ __ ] life I was like this guy was
00:43:01
a full-blown ready to go give him a
00:43:03
franchise he could be James Bond and he
00:43:07
will they get remember they gave him the
00:43:08
[ __ ] fugitive which is a huge movie
00:43:11
they gave Harrison Tom Clancy submarine
00:43:14
ones who could have done and he fell out
00:43:16
yeah he fell out of fugitive to do a
00:43:18
play so he is like a cast member he's
00:43:20
between a guy who's on the show Con well
00:43:23
yeah he's like a second his own
00:43:25
individual Lane of a castle and I want
00:43:29
to say like 91. I mean it was like RC
00:43:32
was my third show and it was uh it went
00:43:35
Corbin burnson yeah maybe Alec and then
00:43:39
Dice and then Candace Bergen but Alec
00:43:43
was such a star I think you set up a
00:43:47
thing for us to see Hunt for Red October
00:43:48
yes yes and maybe Miami Blues yeah well
00:43:52
then did he because he hosted maybe when
00:43:54
he hosted again he hosted
00:43:56
so that was his first time hosting and
00:43:58
he did Green hilly which I always bring
00:44:00
up I thought was so funny remember he's
00:44:01
kissing everyone like and he did the
00:44:03
mimic and he did yeah and he was so
00:44:06
funny and then he got up for an Emmy for
00:44:07
that and uh that's right and I remember
00:44:09
Dennis Miller in the summer goes Christ
00:44:11
spudley there's no [ __ ] chance you're
00:44:14
up for an Emmy for absolutely no reason
00:44:16
you were the it's your second show your
00:44:18
name's on the credits I go yeah but I'm
00:44:20
up I'm going to the Emmys [ __ ]
00:44:27
you know you you are the Alec horse
00:44:30
whisper I mean and he person Whisperer
00:44:32
anyone Emmys he made a lot of money now
00:44:34
yeah great show
00:44:38
um
00:44:38
the problem with SNL and that show is
00:44:42
that once you've worked on those shows
00:44:45
it's very hard to work on something else
00:44:47
because it just feels like molasses
00:44:49
right so slow and I like it's you know
00:44:53
it it it's
00:44:56
amazing I mean you know the 30 Rock like
00:44:59
those read-throughs were just you were
00:45:02
crying laughing yeah and
00:45:06
um yeah I mean and then it was in a
00:45:08
single camera or a mix with an audience
00:45:10
in single camera or single no audio so
00:45:13
it gets a little another thing Alec used
00:45:15
to say to me just go I know it like it
00:45:18
single camera just go it it
00:45:21
it's like a movie single camera is like
00:45:23
a movie yeah and it was long but what
00:45:26
was nice there were so many people from
00:45:28
SNL that I was doing both jobs I was
00:45:31
going from SNL it was weird because I
00:45:33
think there was a point where
00:45:35
everyone in SNL was like where's Marcy
00:45:38
and everyone at 30 Rock said where's
00:45:39
Marcy like I I was never anyone what
00:45:42
were your titles at that point then it
00:45:44
was executive producer Talent
00:45:46
coordinator executive producer of um 30
00:45:50
Rock which I had to fight for
00:45:53
um your book should be called where's
00:45:54
Marcy
00:45:56
or get get Marcy yeah give me Marcy now
00:46:08
was that was that his second time I was
00:46:11
with him that was one of the most
00:46:12
terrifying heat the plastic
00:46:15
thing and he oh yeah I remember that
00:46:18
story yeah Friday night yeah like they
00:46:20
had to pour oil and take off his face
00:46:22
and I remember the next week it was for
00:46:25
the Jay Lenin just for a second for the
00:46:27
listeners to describe what that is they
00:46:29
put you in a head cast and you breathe
00:46:31
through a straw in your nose it's a life
00:46:33
mask you can't hear see it's all over
00:46:37
your mouth you just have one little
00:46:38
straw in your nose and it can be very
00:46:41
claustrophobic so they they somehow it
00:46:43
was the wrong mix of glue we found out
00:46:44
it wasn't a real plaster or something
00:46:46
it's real plaster but what was crazy
00:46:48
about it was George Mendes remember
00:46:50
George Mendo who sort of had the Lauren
00:46:53
hair you know and he was he was in
00:46:55
charge of you know the studio and I
00:46:58
remember he came up to me
00:47:00
and he was like
00:47:03
I don't know
00:47:05
I remember how scary this is he said
00:47:08
he's like
00:47:10
he's like going on you know again it was
00:47:12
me because I'm the talent person and if
00:47:15
this was like midnight Friday night it's
00:47:17
j it's tumbleweek yeah we need a casket
00:47:20
for uh Jeff Daniels come down but I go
00:47:24
into the makeup room and he's screaming
00:47:28
it was I've never seen it was like I was
00:47:31
like covered in plastic it's still
00:47:34
covered and you can hear him screaming
00:47:37
screaming and kicking and going and
00:47:39
saying yeah that's awesome at me but he
00:47:41
couldn't speak you know
00:47:44
Aaron was outside of Lauren's office and
00:47:47
Jim I was like she's like well they're
00:47:50
in there I'm like I just bursted
00:47:59
Dr Lam happened to be in the rainbow
00:48:01
room I feel like this was an episode on
00:48:03
Thursday unreal should have been 30 Rock
00:48:04
and he was like in a bow tie and then he
00:48:06
came down and anyway it was just you
00:48:09
know it was that I don't know how did
00:48:11
they get it off dude
00:48:13
I think I remember yeah they bent it
00:48:16
back from his forehead and took an
00:48:18
exacto and went down and cut off his
00:48:21
eyebrows and his eyebrows eyelashes hair
00:48:23
and and then it ripped off the pose I
00:48:26
mean it was a whole big thing like what
00:48:28
the [ __ ] happened basically somebody why
00:48:31
was there any was it a sabotage it was
00:48:34
that remember you remember that
00:48:37
because I've never heard of that
00:48:39
happening like how did they get the
00:48:41
wrong mix that the wrong place
00:48:44
you know it I don't know I don't know I
00:48:46
remember Jim Carrey
00:48:49
that was when they said it was the next
00:48:53
week it was Monday and the show you know
00:48:55
it was like yeah nobody cares but also
00:48:57
Jeff Daniels to his credit went through
00:49:00
all that and then did the show the next
00:49:02
day he was unfucking and did great on
00:49:04
the show you can see his eyebrows are
00:49:06
like painted in now they said because I
00:49:08
got a life mask once and I was telling
00:49:10
him and they said you know when I put
00:49:13
the holes in they go we're gonna cover
00:49:16
your ears it's just plaster over your
00:49:17
whole head yeah they go a couple years
00:49:19
cover your mouth come here and they said
00:49:21
when we covered like the third one you
00:49:24
are going to freak out and I said why
00:49:27
they said it's just you can and I said
00:49:28
no I'm very calm I know they go we're
00:49:30
gonna do it very slowly and right when
00:49:32
it covered I go take it off take it off
00:49:33
like it's something about being buried
00:49:35
alive and they said they said if you
00:49:38
cover this don't if you get sick or
00:49:41
throw up you will die because you can't
00:49:43
it has it doesn't know where to go and
00:49:45
all I thought is Jeff Daniels them going
00:49:47
calm down because if he throws up yeah
00:49:50
well yeah he died I had one that didn't
00:49:52
go wrong but they had to do it twice but
00:49:53
the first time I mean I've had many of
00:49:55
them maybe eight or ten in different
00:49:57
situations but they put it on and for
00:49:59
some reason they're they're talking to
00:50:01
each other and all you're hearing is
00:50:03
it sounds like they're panicking so then
00:50:06
they needed to do another one guys just
00:50:08
talk calmly to it because when I hear
00:50:12
you know it's like hand me that hand me
00:50:14
that but yeah it's it's a very uh it's a
00:50:16
real mind [ __ ] it's a meditative thing
00:50:19
to go they're professionals everything's
00:50:21
okay it goes against all your human
00:50:23
instincts wow okay so you had you had a
00:50:25
shoe throw on at your head almost got
00:50:27
blinded yeah you saw a host almost Die
00:50:30
In Your Arms yeah um who are you other
00:50:33
than Alec who are you the closest with
00:50:34
out of all those uh hosts do you still
00:50:37
stay in touch with any of them um I I
00:50:39
actually became close with Gwyneth
00:50:41
Paltrow Renee Zellweger okay
00:50:45
um
00:50:46
uh Jon Hamm because he's cool
00:50:50
obviously because you're seeing them at
00:50:53
at their most real and vulnerable when
00:50:55
they're doing quick changes and they're
00:50:57
exhausted so then you get to know them
00:50:59
and and they're looking for you as a
00:51:00
life raft like Marcy is this normal am I
00:51:02
okay so it's a very fun and you get them
00:51:06
through it I I I feel like I I didn't
00:51:09
when I became a ma uh when I had kids I
00:51:12
was like oh this is like when the hosts
00:51:15
yeah I flew with my kids like their
00:51:17
hosts you know like that's how you're a
00:51:20
parenting style that's perfect so you
00:51:23
know what to do you know with accidents
00:51:25
and er visits when I'm like um actually
00:51:28
they're right you know you like there is
00:51:31
that time between drafts and air when
00:51:33
the host is not in the the meeting and
00:51:37
I'm like ooh that's the host's favorite
00:51:39
sketch and I already see that that's
00:51:41
gonna go yeah then I would fight and say
00:51:45
like you can't do that you know I mean
00:51:46
there there's stuff that goes on that
00:51:49
you know behind right
00:51:51
for the audience you hear the way
00:51:53
everyone has talked about
00:51:55
what you hear how everyone is talked
00:51:57
about in the heat
00:51:59
yeah
00:52:01
I was ever I had entree I could go in
00:52:05
anywhere there wasn't a there wasn't a
00:52:07
place that I was not able to go in and
00:52:09
know what was going on and um
00:52:12
so when you between dress and error
00:52:15
the thing that's always funny is I
00:52:17
always would say to the host on Monday
00:52:19
at the party you are going to say this
00:52:22
is the best week of your life and you're
00:52:24
always me and at the party they're
00:52:27
always like always you were right you
00:52:29
know what I mean everyone reacts the
00:52:32
same way they're full of endorphins full
00:52:34
of like a let's tell them the lessons we
00:52:38
have a huge crowd we have at least 2700
00:52:41
listeners I heard this is a popular
00:52:43
podcast a few people have mentioned us
00:52:48
well when people when the host has a
00:52:51
read through which we talk about a lot
00:52:52
but I think the one we don't really talk
00:52:54
about is from the read through
00:52:56
that everyone everyone breaks all the
00:52:59
writers cast Wednesday now
00:53:02
to dinner yeah yeah Lauren The Host
00:53:06
let's say Lauren Alec uh Downey Smiggle
00:53:09
maybe Franken that's when I was there
00:53:10
would all go in to pick the sketches so
00:53:13
they put them all on a card no no no no
00:53:15
no
00:53:16
first it was Lauren Jim me yeah yeah oh
00:53:20
God and then like it it the host goes in
00:53:23
later there's a
00:53:30
writers and producers are Aston like
00:53:33
Lauren would like to see you and he's
00:53:35
like could you make that sketch shorter
00:53:36
or could you could take out that
00:53:38
entrance so he's producing then what
00:53:40
happened it's dangling yeah and there
00:53:42
was always like a host would always say
00:53:44
like what uh you know I thought I was
00:53:46
gonna do a Wayne's World uh they never
00:53:48
and I'm like and then Shaw yeah there
00:53:51
was always like that thing of uh you
00:53:53
know when Lauren would be someone had to
00:53:55
do a Wayne's you know you'd have to like
00:53:58
oh a host would come in and say I want
00:53:59
to be on blank well there would be that
00:54:01
it would also be the wait what on
00:54:04
Wednesday it was like you know how long
00:54:06
Wednesday is where to that sketch that
00:54:09
they so um that would always be like I'd
00:54:12
have to go and be like uh he's
00:54:14
mentioning this but you know yeah didn't
00:54:16
happen so that there was a pre-meeting
00:54:19
before the meeting oh yeah that's right
00:54:20
and the host gets a vote when he's in
00:54:22
there obviously they're in it so they
00:54:25
say what do you think of this what do
00:54:27
you think of this we thought this would
00:54:28
go up early in the show and then someone
00:54:30
would say like I wrote that one thing
00:54:32
with Tom Hanks subway surfing it wasn't
00:54:34
the greatest but he liked it so they go
00:54:37
that's all negotiations like we'll give
00:54:39
you that right we'll give it a chance
00:54:41
now it's already dangling because it
00:54:44
might go the wrong way and it's not that
00:54:45
strong right and when we did address
00:54:47
here so when Tom was on WE joked about
00:54:50
it because it was bombing we knew in the
00:54:52
middle of what we were looking at each
00:54:53
other going it's over but we gave it
00:54:55
everything and then and then they just
00:54:57
move it to the other side of the board
00:54:59
when you walk in and you go it didn't I
00:55:00
know everyone we're not even gonna
00:55:02
discuss it everyone comes in at 11 10.
00:55:04
the show starts in 20 minutes there's 60
00:55:07
of us and Lauren's office so you come in
00:55:09
and you look at the board and you look
00:55:11
what's off off the board still the card
00:55:14
is up there but you you had to be the
00:55:16
bearer of either good news or bad news
00:55:18
all week with a host
00:55:20
and did you have a tactic with that
00:55:22
you'd say but this is in you've soften
00:55:25
them first and this is going great this
00:55:27
one probably I think is cut or how did
00:55:30
you I guess you're skilled at that
00:55:32
um I think that you I I
00:55:37
I I was so much a part of the week and
00:55:39
especially with Jim
00:55:41
you know I kind of I I knew where we
00:55:45
were headed and also I feel like I'm
00:55:48
maybe I'm too honest and I would never
00:55:52
lied to a host unless
00:55:55
I I just I don't I'm trying to think of
00:55:57
there must have been times where I'm
00:55:59
like okay I have to
00:56:01
um convince them to do right like Lauren
00:56:03
might say to me go in and find out it's
00:56:06
fly on the wall or fly on the window you
00:56:10
know like which one is it and um
00:56:13
uh I would I I I think
00:56:18
that those were times where I don't know
00:56:21
I think I'm just direct and straight I
00:56:23
don't think you would lie because
00:56:24
there's no it's gonna bite you an ass
00:56:26
later because they're gonna figure it
00:56:27
out dang and also
00:56:29
um well I think Marcia I'm gonna
00:56:30
interject this you were very popular
00:56:36
they're fun to have dinner with or talk
00:56:37
and you could be blunt and you could be
00:56:39
just honest and so I think you had a
00:56:42
good skill set for that particular part
00:56:45
of your resume on Saturday life of
00:56:47
dealing with vulnerable people but I I
00:56:50
still once someone is a host and you see
00:56:53
them later out in the real world there
00:56:55
is just a bonding there they're a huge
00:56:58
one I know I always said like it's
00:56:59
amazing and you're just talking about
00:57:01
Tom Hanks but um even people that
00:57:06
you know I mean they know you both
00:57:09
you're famous but I I see people whether
00:57:12
it's the Golden Globes or on the street
00:57:14
Marcy like they I recently went to a
00:57:18
thing a like a screening for Nicole
00:57:22
Kidman uh the I Love Lucy and she did
00:57:25
the oh yeah yeah
00:57:27
[ __ ] up to her I brought Mary Ellen
00:57:28
with me the photographer at SNL who's a
00:57:31
good friend of mine and I I walked up to
00:57:33
Nicole I hadn't seen her in a really
00:57:34
long time and I said I I said I don't
00:57:36
know if you remember me she's like of
00:57:37
course I remember you
00:57:39
he said that week you got me through
00:57:42
that week I mean I could not believe
00:57:44
that she remembered me but I think for
00:57:47
hosts that that week is [ __ ] intense
00:57:50
yeah well we no it's [ __ ] intense
00:57:53
It's [ __ ] amazing these [ __ ]
00:57:55
come in like they're the top of the mark
00:57:58
and we gotta but it is amazing to be a
00:58:01
part of all of it and know how the whole
00:58:04
thing works you know I'll say that and
00:58:07
David will back me up in the very first
00:58:10
even before we started our first podcast
00:58:12
just aggregating uh people to come on
00:58:16
this show and you were one of the first
00:58:19
that popped in my head like well Marcy
00:58:21
Klein because she's she's connected yeah
00:58:23
yeah you'll you know by by so many uh
00:58:26
such situations that everything it's in
00:58:30
it from when I was there I mean who got
00:58:32
to work with them us then Will Ferrell
00:58:35
you got to see the switching from Dana
00:58:36
and all those guys to all of us and then
00:58:39
Will Ferrell Tina and Jimmy well you
00:58:42
guys it was weird because when it was so
00:58:44
much smaller and and I was so close with
00:58:48
all of you and then you guys left and
00:58:50
then like Norman Laurie Joe and Jim like
00:58:53
everyone was leaving and I'm like oh God
00:58:56
and then I'm in my 30s then I was in my
00:58:58
40s and I'm like every it but then all
00:59:02
my friends live in L.A you know it's I
00:59:05
miss and there's 25 cast and you're like
00:59:06
I don't even think I've met anyone
00:59:07
everyone this year so you're as close to
00:59:10
like Lauren you know it's 45 years of
00:59:12
being a teacher in school and then his
00:59:15
former classmates go and he sees them
00:59:16
around campus you know and so you had uh
00:59:19
your own experience with that like well
00:59:21
now I'm in the Will Ferrell or here's
00:59:23
Anna gasteyer you know now it's Bill
00:59:25
Hader you met me when I was like doing
00:59:28
everything and then I became in charge
00:59:30
and that's a whole other
00:59:33
thing and like we were talking about
00:59:36
Farley and I remember when he hosted and
00:59:40
I had to call everyone I knew things
00:59:44
were bad I mean you know I just was like
00:59:49
he could
00:59:50
not make it through this and
00:59:53
everyone was so excited he was there and
00:59:56
I remember Tracy Morgan and Jim Brewer
01:00:00
were they were they um they I think they
01:00:03
shared an office
01:00:04
and everyone was like it was a Tuesday
01:00:08
night and Farley wanted to go out and I
01:00:12
called the entire cast into the talent
01:00:14
Department
01:00:16
and I said
01:00:18
you cannot go out with him
01:00:20
you you cannot I just knew something bad
01:00:23
was gonna happen and
01:00:25
um
01:00:26
they there was I felt more like a mom
01:00:29
like I don't feel like you you guys
01:00:31
didn't know me in that role you know I'm
01:00:34
younger I feel like but then I became
01:00:36
the mom of everyone well you're like one
01:00:38
of us we're all around the same age
01:00:40
we're all younger jumping around the
01:00:42
interns you know I'd be like they can't
01:00:43
come to the party
01:00:44
[Laughter]
01:00:48
I remember getting that little ticket
01:00:50
like you would slip all of us that said
01:00:52
where the party was and then during the
01:00:55
show the party and then I would see
01:00:57
people like Dana's table and yeah you
01:00:59
have to have like someone in my office
01:01:01
and like find out how many people David
01:01:02
has is right he's gonna sit with Spade
01:01:06
with Sandler and they can have a plus
01:01:07
one each and then Four Tops all hang out
01:01:10
and then you know and then it it running
01:01:13
a party at one in the morning and I know
01:01:17
nothing about running but then
01:01:18
eventually everyone was so nice and
01:01:20
that's a thing like everyone is
01:01:21
supportive of each other so no one ever
01:01:24
got mad where's my table you know what I
01:01:26
mean there was nothing and the party
01:01:27
would kind of get up and running like at
01:01:29
2 A.M because the good nights were at
01:01:31
1am we are getting the cars maybe it's
01:01:33
during the winter so it's like starting
01:01:35
a party at 2 and when was the last time
01:01:37
you started a party at 2 A.M after a
01:01:39
13-hour work day I don't go out after
01:01:42
nine that's why I left I couldn't I
01:01:44
never saw my kids like on day I was
01:01:47
completely out yeah
01:01:50
it's like jet Lake it's like it totally
01:01:53
like jet lag yeah and you're just and
01:01:55
I'm still recovering as Jim Downey's
01:01:58
like he's still recovering on those days
01:02:01
covering from the 15th anniversary I'm
01:02:04
still
01:02:05
I remember that one
01:02:09
[Music]
01:02:12
the 15th what about the 40th now the
01:02:16
50th are you going you think the fifth
01:02:18
that's going to happen the 50th
01:02:21
seems surreal why not no hunk all right
01:02:27
we better wrap it up with her Dana this
01:02:28
went faster than we thought Marcy thank
01:02:31
you I love you guys I miss you when
01:02:33
you're we could do it tomorrow and Jimmy
01:02:37
Fallon there's a
01:02:38
there's some thing like some screening
01:02:41
of his uh
01:02:43
Sandler remembers me he will he's on the
01:02:46
road right now doing gigs why do you
01:02:48
mean I'm not gonna remember you sorry Hi
01:02:51
Rocky Pete all right Pete Marcy Klein
01:02:55
yeah this is uh well season three we're
01:02:58
having you back because there's too many
01:03:00
stories but uh yeah it's uh it's so so
01:03:03
much fun to chat she's the glue look us
01:03:06
up when you're in La we'll go to that
01:03:08
crazy restaurant that you put your phone
01:03:10
in a satchel and be there for seven
01:03:12
hours and this time Faye Dunaway better
01:03:15
show up
01:03:17
hi all right bye guys
01:03:21
hey what's up flies what's up please
01:03:23
what's up people that listen we want to
01:03:24
hear from you and your dumb questions
01:03:26
questions ask us anything anything you
01:03:29
want you can email us at fly on the wall
01:03:31
at cadence13.com
01:03:35
we're gonna do a q a question I gotta
01:03:38
first say my code is [ __ ] off the
01:03:40
hook
01:03:41
if I may be so present with myself Sears
01:03:45
still had a boys Department
01:03:48
I'm sorry that's the code is the word
01:03:52
bumpin has been thrown around
01:03:54
[ __ ] ridiculously almost 17. cooler
01:03:58
than [ __ ] pie but I don't want to talk
01:04:00
about I don't want to over talk about
01:04:01
what color do you call that you know
01:04:02
it's a great question yeah taupe
01:04:05
is it taupe I don't think so I said
01:04:07
Olive and then I said gray as an olive
01:04:10
taupe yeah and it's got a diametric you
01:04:13
can't buy this you can't buy that shape
01:04:15
you can live on the moon with it yeah
01:04:18
that's why I should go very astronauty
01:04:20
to me
01:04:22
thanks your nickname is Buzz Spade
01:04:26
Buzz plywood that's my porn name buzzed
01:04:29
space neat
01:04:33
hello these guys rat tattoo he had on ah
01:04:37
I like that I want to tell you about
01:04:39
that yeah don't tell an Accenture that's
01:04:43
a good color all right get your
01:04:44
questions here Dan Arena I'm gonna read
01:04:46
a question Simon f
01:04:49
Etherington hi Dana and David the show
01:04:51
is great
01:04:52
Can't Get Enough
01:04:54
we always add that I listen to the
01:04:57
entire hey this is in your hand right I
01:05:00
listen to the entire Farley tribute
01:05:03
twice that's nice all nine hours it
01:05:05
seems like when you get to SNL you get a
01:05:07
wooden desk a yellow legal pattern
01:05:08
Bernie Brewster manager how is that
01:05:11
seemingly everyone on the show ended up
01:05:14
with Bernie as their manager or am I
01:05:16
just imagining that he was everyone's
01:05:19
manager maybe you could give a little
01:05:21
more insight into that it's a rocket
01:05:23
into a house so many cast members ended
01:05:26
up working also Sharon
01:05:29
ethic and Lawrence with Bernie so what
01:05:32
it was I think at the beginning you
01:05:34
would know more Dana he had a management
01:05:35
company Sharon ether Simon oh [ __ ] okay
01:05:39
boy glasses on excuse me where are you
01:05:42
cheaters excuse me I should never drink
01:05:45
before these I'm gonna go to writing
01:05:46
Simon Etherington so Bernie Simon was
01:05:51
enough of Simon [ __ ] that yeah but that
01:05:53
was the guy who wrote us the question I
01:05:54
know I don't care about him anymore uh
01:06:00
all your rage is coming out uh Bernie
01:06:05
handled Belushi Aykroyd Lauren
01:06:09
it's so funny to handle both sides of
01:06:10
the table Bernie was an old-timey
01:06:12
manager he was probably when I met him
01:06:14
like 41. he seemed like he was 70 and
01:06:17
then when he was 70. he seemed seven he
01:06:19
looked like Santa Claus you look exactly
01:06:20
like Santa Claus literally white hair
01:06:21
and he did manage all the original casts
01:06:24
he just got in there and I think Lauren
01:06:26
was the first client and then everyone
01:06:28
went with Bernie and then by the time I
01:06:31
came along Bernie had hired Brad gray
01:06:33
and Mark gurvis
01:06:37
and we had Sandy Warnick in there and
01:06:42
um brillston company is a company you'll
01:06:44
hear about a lot he has so many SNL
01:06:46
people you're right are connected to it
01:06:47
me Sandler Dana Kevin Neal and Dennis
01:06:51
Miller
01:06:52
Norm Farley Love it's uh Schneider for a
01:06:56
while
01:06:58
who is that Bill Maher Ed O'Neill Bill
01:07:00
more I don't know yeah a lot of SNL
01:07:02
people a lot of just famous people but
01:07:03
uh they always had sort of a monopoly on
01:07:07
SNL which is great because they know
01:07:09
Lauren so well they know the
01:07:11
negotiations so well they know it became
01:07:13
a farm league ecosystem When Brad or
01:07:16
Bernie would say I think this guy could
01:07:18
be good because he talked like that yeah
01:07:19
and then they'd sign you and then now
01:07:21
they're gonna it's all it's beneficial
01:07:23
for everybody and Bernie was just a
01:07:25
taste of old Showbiz like I said he had
01:07:27
a big voice and a lot of people do
01:07:29
better impressions of them than me but
01:07:31
he's Sandler used to call people from
01:07:33
our office we'd answer fan mail and he'd
01:07:36
just call as Bernie and talk to someone
01:07:39
some kid as Bernie this is Bernie Adams
01:07:42
manager and uh we just answer fan mail
01:07:45
and when we're bored and just call the
01:07:47
number and ask for
01:07:49
some kid and then talk to him he was one
01:07:51
of those guys he leaned into me when he
01:07:53
first met me he goes you got a face for
01:07:55
television
01:07:57
a face for television yeah you do yeah I
01:08:00
don't know I had a Disney face for a
01:08:01
while before life beat this [ __ ] well
01:08:03
you have you ever described as true
01:08:04
Rubik that's what I was gonna say whoa
01:08:07
uh uh oh don't we do a thing Abracadabra
01:08:11
legally carded by a mentally healthy
01:08:15
person
01:08:16
to buy a beer at age 53. I got carded
01:08:20
honestly I told you this Heather
01:08:22
a month like it was where was it was it
01:08:25
my own show or something
01:08:27
I went somewhere and they go no it was
01:08:29
that it was a Chili's she goes I gave my
01:08:33
credit card no I ordered a drink
01:08:36
because I have a problem well you don't
01:08:38
know her drinks too much come on fans
01:08:40
listen I had to because it was night
01:08:41
time okay so Simon's so she goes I know
01:08:45
who you are and I'm a huge fan but I
01:08:47
have to see your ID
01:08:49
why I don't understand so I gave it to
01:08:52
her and she was
01:08:53
some quick maths carry the four and then
01:08:56
she goes
01:08:58
okay
01:08:59
why did we do that what if she was like
01:09:02
so you weren't in grown-ups when you
01:09:04
were
01:09:05
one what a 90 year old man get carded at
01:09:10
a liquor store
01:09:12
it's like literally I can't even see it
01:09:16
we have to
01:09:19
even with the fuzz on the chin they tag
01:09:22
you I go you okay with this
01:09:24
light a match
01:09:28
all right well is that how did we answer
01:09:30
that I don't know why the question is
01:09:31
not Bernie are you real estate great guy
01:09:33
everyone it was an ecosystem of farm
01:09:35
league team of being with pearlstein has
01:09:38
a book out if you want to read it and
01:09:39
it's very interesting about all that
01:09:40
stuff yeah he has his own book out great
01:09:42
guy Bernie thank you for the question
01:09:44
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Episode Highlights

  • Marcy Klein's Impact at SNL
    Marcy Klein was a pivotal figure at SNL, managing talent and ensuring hosts were ready for air.
    “She has some amazing stories.”
    @ 00m 21s
    February 22, 2023
  • The Pressure of Hosting
    Hosts often face immense pressure, as shared by the comedians reflecting on their experiences.
    “I was either over stressed or didn’t eat and it was too much pressure.”
    @ 07m 01s
    February 22, 2023
  • Stallone's Kindness
    Sylvester Stallone, known for his tough persona, surprised everyone by writing thank you notes.
    “Stallone is the nicest dude, he wrote everyone thank you notes.”
    @ 21m 36s
    February 22, 2023
  • Managing Chaos at SNL
    Marcy reflects on her role in handling crises and keeping the show running smoothly.
    “Putting out fires was always something I’m proud of.”
    @ 23m 32s
    February 22, 2023
  • Nancy Kerrigan's Memorable Appearance
    Nancy Kerrigan's appearance on SNL was unexpected and left a lasting impression.
    “It’s still amazing she showed up and doing that.”
    @ 27m 23s
    February 22, 2023
  • Chris Farley's Antics
    Chris Farley's outrageous behavior included bursting into the writer's room in hilarious ways.
    “Chris would burst into the writer's room naked, cackling.”
    @ 29m 28s
    February 22, 2023
  • Tina Fey's Comedic Genius
    Tina Fey is celebrated for her incredible humor and talent in comedy.
    “Tina's just unbelievably funny.”
    @ 39m 05s
    February 22, 2023
  • Alec Baldwin's Hosting Journey
    Alec Baldwin's transition from movie star to SNL host was filled with humor and challenges.
    “I want to do this, yes!”
    @ 42m 55s
    February 22, 2023
  • The Intensity of Hosting SNL
    Hosts experience a whirlwind of emotions and pressures during their SNL week.
    “That week is [ __ ] intense!”
    @ 57m 50s
    February 22, 2023
  • The 15th Anniversary Reflection
    Reflecting on the past and looking forward to future milestones like the 50th anniversary.
    “Seems surreal why not?”
    @ 01h 02m 21s
    February 22, 2023
  • Bernie: The Old-Timey Manager
    Bernie was a legendary manager who shaped many careers in comedy.
    “He was a taste of old Showbiz.”
    @ 01h 07m 25s
    February 22, 2023

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Key Moments

  • SNL Stories00:21
  • Sketch Mishap05:38
  • Stallone's Thank You Notes21:36
  • Proud Firefighter23:32
  • Farley's Playfulness29:28
  • Fey's Humor39:05
  • Intense Hosting Week57:50
  • Nostalgia1:01:42

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