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Cheri Oteri | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

October 07, 2022 / 01:14:23

This episode features comedian Sherry Oteri, discussing her time on Saturday Night Live, her comedic style, and personal stories from her childhood. Topics include her unique characters, experiences with fellow cast members, and her journey in comedy.

Sherry Oteri shares her experiences on SNL from 1995 to 2000, highlighting her commitment to characters and the impact of her comedic style. She recalls her early days at the Groundlings and how she transitioned to SNL.

The conversation touches on her childhood influences, including her family's dynamics and her fascination with soap operas, which shaped her comedic voice. Oteri also reflects on her memorable sketches and characters, including the prescription drug lady.

Throughout the episode, Oteri and co-hosts David Spade and Dana Carvey share laughter and anecdotes, creating a light-hearted atmosphere. They discuss the challenges of performing live and the importance of character commitment in comedy.

Listeners will enjoy the humor and camaraderie as Oteri recounts her journey in the entertainment industry, making this episode a delightful listen for fans of comedy and SNL.

TL;DR

Sherry Oteri discusses her SNL experiences, comedic style, and childhood influences with David Spade and Dana Carvey.

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Cheerio Terry David Sherry oh Terry is

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so hilarious uh yes and uh one of my I

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think she's one of the favorites there

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she was always she was perfect for the

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show full of energy full of characters

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wrote a lot and uh that's exactly what

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you want for that show she was like when

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they say brother from another mother I

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don't know how you say sister from

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another mister I don't know if you do

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but I definitely had some some Crossover

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with shario Terry in that sheet and I've

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talked to other comedians about this she

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broke the seal on that show of what a

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woman could do in a sketch because she

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would commit to sexual innuendo and

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physicality so intensely that you

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couldn't not laugh and she has this

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thing that she does where she looks off

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after like this yeah the character lands

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alive I keep it yeah so she's as

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organically funny as anyone body and the

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interview was so much fun because we

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were just laughing the whole time and

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she just kept telling these stories

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about her mother and her childhood and

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it was just fascinating that was one we

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were laughing a lot yeah and the stuff

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the fantasy world that she grew up in

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and what what made Sherry Oteri and and

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her name is very cool you would be

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um David Oates baited or something no

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Spade is obviously a fake name but

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um no people Chris Rock used to go Spade

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do they ask you they say did you and

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Spade make your names up

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no I lucked out Chris Rock is a great

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name Chris Rock is a great it's like

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boom boom boom David Spade's good Dana's

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I like but carvey's weird because

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there's only five in North America it's

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one of the strangest tribes from Ireland

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we were murderers and thieves and Gun

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Runners we're nasty that's good news

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I've got a lot of anger underneath this

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facade underneath this pith helmet by

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the way gang don't you can write them to

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me uh about where to get this hat by the

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way the petunias are almost ready

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and I feel like I'm like Henry Fonda in

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On Golden Pond well I was looking for

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some strawberries and I wanted to get

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back here see your sweet face you're

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gonna go go go that's for the over 70s

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no I don't know that movie I'm So Young

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you're so young and so fresh if yeah if

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you were a plant you'd be a daisy fresh

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this is just she looks up to Dane a lot

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too A lot of people come on here doing

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especially I get some nice compliments

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but we have had a lot of incredible

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episodes we love anyone who would dare

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come on our our narcissists display yeah

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but Sherry did stick out of someone who

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really really made me laugh so enjoy

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this one

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[Music]

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hi Tina hi Sherry oh hey oh it's so nice

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to see you I can't it's so nice to see

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your bed uh I know one of my beds wow

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and you made it for today I did I

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fluffed my hair up I copped an attitude

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I checked my lighting my lighting is

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amazing you look like you're in high

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school which is perfect you guys both

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look good Dr Jekyll and Mr space

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I have lighting above me which I guess

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is the worst scenario flattering David

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no I do look good

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you look okay you insist Gary all right

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look at these look at your hair wow oh

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[ __ ] you know what I have to write down

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I have to Sherry about I might as well

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just ask her we're on Sherry you

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don't remember this but you were on the

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show with me for a full season

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she doesn't remember that you might not

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remember that I'll put my hat on so you

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know gross out but uh

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uh one time we went to Fiorello's and

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you fainted

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oh no yes yeah

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um someone said came back to me and it

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was your time to pay the check and they

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go your friend is in the bathroom he's

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fainted

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your friends I don't think it was a

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money thing no no it was your time to

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pay because we what what we did we went

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we went off and on your time to pay my

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time to pay your time to pay and you

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always had um hi blue guys see me out

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when it was your time to pay it just

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seemed really convenient I had

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convenience see the uh right and then it

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was like get them orange juice get them

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orange juice

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give them a dog treat no one knew what

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to do when the check comes he checks out

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good night yeah here's your orange juice

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and the check

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no what happened was Sherry I think you

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live in an upper west side and I lived

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on both side and we sometimes Dana we

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didn't get carted around like you like

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Meghan Markle we didn't have cars in the

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party we built the show back you guys

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came in dancing we built the show back I

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feel hard to ground up John Lovett ever

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heard of him yeah yeah uh we were thanks

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to you thank you we were we had a job

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and we but we didn't get cars for sure

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we didn't get close no no and it was

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really kind of dumb on NBC's part

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because we didn't know if we could get

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to work you know and even on show day no

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cars it was like hailing calves and so

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Sherry and I would try to strug and walk

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and I I didn't have any protein bars

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back this is the days we didn't have

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protein bars she had to carry like a

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plum in your sock

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so I didn't have anything to nib on and

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we got there and I was like where's the

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Goddamn food and so we walked to

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Fiorello's in in like Columbus Square

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and then I started to like drift like

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she's like David I'm like hello darkness

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my old friend I started to like I think

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I slide down in the booth so I'm gonna

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use myself to go black out on the

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bathroom floor and she's like

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this is beyond diarrhea it's been about

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25 minutes what's happening and then I

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think you sent a waiter in yeah and he

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was like I guess you're gonna have to

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pay Miss oterry

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is on the floor and I go um uh can you

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go in and get them off the floor I mean

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I love that that was his you know uh it

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was like hello that's not normal we

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didn't plan on him going on the floor

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could you see if he's all right yeah and

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then you came out

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and it's like I need orange juice I need

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orange juice and uh yeah I'm like oh my

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gosh well I had some really funny funny

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used to say to me I remember you go to

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me hey Cheryl watch this and we would be

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at like a a bar and you would go up to a

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really pretty girl and you would go like

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this you would say um excuse me

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um don't I know you from somewhere wait

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a minute aren't you an actor wait a

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minute aren't you you're really famous

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you've been in movies and you're really

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popular wait a second you wait oh I'm

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sorry that's me

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no it was it was wow yeah okay I'd

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sometimes go away let's break this down

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are you on a big TV show yeah or is that

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me all right yeah it was something like

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that Sherry but thank you for exposing

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Mike oh my God they used to make me

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laugh and you always epitomize to me the

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kind of guy that you say Oh Sherry I

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can't wait for you to meet my girlfriend

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who's grown going out with she's so

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funny and then I would meet her and she

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just giggles at everything you say

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everything you say and if a boob shake

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when she laughs she's a riot all right

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we're about to go to a test pattern

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because this isn't going the right way

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David had five years on the show by the

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time you met him and so he was a kid in

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a candy store he was famous for the

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first time and like Mickey Rooney told

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me money makes you handsomer so that's

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what happened but back to Sherry on

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Terry Our Guest today Superstar cast

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member of Saturday Night Live from 1995

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to 2000. go ahead I just I play kind of

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the DJ

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wait Dana before that yeah first of all

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you're from you're from Philadelphia

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yeah right outside of uh Philly the

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suburbs actually Greg who I was talking

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to earlier

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um we were talking about Philly and all

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the people that came from my little town

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Upper Darby besides uh Todd Rundgren oh

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Todd Rundgren Super Fan yep yep yep yep

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uh did you see that documentary on him

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yes that was great was it called mayor

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of Easton no I hung out with him a few

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times at SNL and at his house in

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Sausalito oh really yeah I got to know

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my brother and Mike Myers brother are

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both Todd Fanatics like Mike Myers

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brother wrote a book about Todd my

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brother was yeah the definitive history

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of Todd Rundgren but anyway that was a

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very uh talented neighborhood you grew

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up in Todd Rundgren you

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I'm Tina Fey I'm so surprised though

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that all the songs he wrote

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you know sometimes you you just follow

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upon like a documentary you're like all

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right I'll watch this and you're like

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blown away I did not know he wrote that

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I didn't know he wrote that yeah that he

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was really a prolific songwriter is that

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why you sound like we can't understand

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you is because you're from Philadelphia

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you got such a strong accent yeah what

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is the Philadelphia accent I mean orange

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juice orange juice uh no it's you know

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uh the whole thing is uh when I call a

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friend who had the the wreck recording

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oh God telephone recording hi we're not

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home at the moment leave a message at

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this Saturday turn and we'll get back to

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you

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it's not an attractive it is not an

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attractive

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um accent and they leave off the G's in

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ing yes so I was talking we were walking

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talking it's not an attractive accent at

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all

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how does it how does it blend in with

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Long Island because it feels like to my

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ear they're very close relatives but

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it's different

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I'm telling you the suburbs it's like a

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lazy vowels they just jumbled the vowels

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and believe that some continents are uh

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continents constant consonants

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consonants Scottsdale Community College

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are not needed like the G's in ing

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what's your favorite

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what's your favorite accent just to

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inhabit like in Life or hang out I love

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doing Southern Southern which one North

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Carolina or or Texas or I I I don't even

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know where I am on the southern accent

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um just fun sounds fun but I just

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absolutely love doing Southern Accents

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can you give us a little bit right now

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I'll do one to start well you guys both

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did Ross Perot I think no yeah Dana did

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Ross you did it

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I copy everybody

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I copied you but you were so funny and I

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believe it started a pattern of where

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women especially now on Saturday Night

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Live are loud just to play them in and

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that was the first time I remembered a

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political figure that almost was

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President then I left and you played him

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which I thought was a very cool thing

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and then Lauren brought you back to

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playing again and I'm like did I not do

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well you know

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uh but I was just kind of I loved doing

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it they had all these Prosthetics on me

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and I'll never forget Janine Garofalo

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was uh at that show and she goes and I

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had all this energy and all these

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Prosthetics and she goes you know you

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and the bald heads because you look like

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one of those kids with progeria

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go get them

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I just learned about allapalatia so I'm

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just trying to foreign

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thing I'm gonna stay in a Southern

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accent while I interview for the rest of

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the show but should we keep going on SNL

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or just find out a little bit about how

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you got on SNL it's up to you David

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you're the co-host

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uh well Sherry has a long pass before

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SNL I do like the Philadelphia stuff and

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then but I I didn't know if you went

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went in with uh Will Ferrell did you

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have cheerleaders are those things down

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already

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we came up with them at SNL uh but we

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did both come in from the ground Lanes

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the same year you knew him at the

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Groundlings

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other okay so was anyone else dragged

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with you guys

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oh [ __ ] we were all in the same show

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okay and Katan came this exact same time

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as you know SNL yes but he didn't get

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hired at the same time

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oh

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yeah didn't he come a year later or

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something no yeah but

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um

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you know it was at that time it was 50

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50 as far as

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um NBC and Lauren having deciding

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you know the cast on really yes oh wow

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seem like Lauren always knows I don't

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know how they did it but they they

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wanted to be in agreement they had to be

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in agreement all right Marcy raise your

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hand everyone who liked Chris Kattan

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okay that's one two three sassa how

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about Europe yes

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what about your group

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is there anything there

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he asked me you know what did you the

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two sketches that I wrote that will and

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I were in

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he said I'd like those uh on the um

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he had me do I had written a sketch with

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um uh called like an 80s prom sketch and

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he wanted us to do that on the first

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show with Marielle Hemingway it didn't

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work out with to write Marielle into it

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so he said just do it yourselves like

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the next week and then the other thing

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was I had written

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um a kid in a cockpit at the Groundlings

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and I cast will

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and um the funny thing was was I said to

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him you know like his name was Captain

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Chase and the strangest thing was when I

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got SNL I ended up doing that when Chevy

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Chase hosted and I'm like I had to

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change the name of the captain

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because it was actually his name and I

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remember I said to him

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um this is really strange but when I

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originally wrote this at the Groundlings

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it was Captain Chase and here I am all

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wide-eyed it was kind of Jason I had to

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change it because it's you really Chase

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well what was kid in a cockpit what was

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that sketch yeah it was just a kid that

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you know got to be to go visit the

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cockpit and she was a pain in the ass

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and yeah and the pilot did not win any

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parts

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okay why is it so funny all your

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characters are a pain in the ass by the

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way no nothing no it's pretty funny I

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like where this football's in them I

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keep it now

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okay

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that's the Italian woman on the porch

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it's every woman who polices the street

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in the neighborhood

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it's so [ __ ] hysterical I used to

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laugh my ass off at that

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[Music]

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oh oh I got one before SNL when you were

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you did you work for record company I

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just want to know if if record companies

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are are they sketchy like they say or

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you don't see that well I

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would then um I worked in publishing

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Alma

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where Albert and Jerry moss and to me a

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a m records was the Camelot of the music

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industry at that time and it was my

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dream like they had alternative

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um artists before that they could never

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get on the on the radio because they

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didn't have alternative radio stations

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at that time and but they signed them

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anyway

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and uh so I was like wow

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and then I started working in the

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publishing company and for a year and a

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half and I remember a woman saying to me

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like oh my like people would say oh

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you're so funny you should do stand up

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and I couldn't see myself doing stand-up

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um I couldn't see myself being myself in

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front of people

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um and so someone said oh you should do

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the ground links I go well I should say

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what what's a girl I go what's what's a

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brownling and they go oh it's an improv

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truth I go what's improv what is this

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God you speak of and I'll never forget

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going I looked in the Yellow Pages

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and I found the you know the growling

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stuff went down and wow and I am telling

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you I walked in there and I saw all the

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pictures of people of Phil Hartman of of

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John Lovitz of Lorraine Newman of PeeWee

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of Paul Rubens and and just all of these

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people I'm like oh my God what do they

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do here and then I started seeing shows

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and I was and I was hooked but I had

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I then I moved over to the record

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company I was doing promotion Rock and

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and pop promotion working in there and

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um the whole time doing the Groundlings

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and I just thought I have the best of

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both worlds I can be work a m records

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and then be creative at the Groundlings

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never would have dreamed as big as what

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had happened you're so used to all in

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the daytime you're you're prepping like

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a meet and greet for REO Speedwagon and

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then at night

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no I didn't I was pretty much it was

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radio promotion but it was the funnest

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job and the funniest thing is when I got

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SNL everybody's like so no more free CDs

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and I was like Jesus Christ can you

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pretend that you like me

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Sherry can I ask you a question so when

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you got into the ground Lanes usually

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you take classes you build up and stuff

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when did you like did you find when did

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you kind of go geez I'm really good at

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this I mean when did it turn for you

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because it was actually people that I

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when people like because it's a long

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process you start out at basic and then

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you're judged you know after whether you

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can move up or whether you have to

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repeat or you get dropped then you go to

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intermediate it's the same thing then

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you do that for months and months and

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months then you're judged do you repeat

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get dropped or move up and then and then

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lab and then and then lab and then

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Advanced and that was a two-year process

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and I just thought I thought like I'm

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doing well when people that I thought

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were good were being dropped

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oh and you're being Advanced so you're

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kind of going I must be good if that

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person's dropped and I'm not well I just

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don't the Great the grades I had gone

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is I always thought myself

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the worst person in the class and the

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great thing about that was I had no

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attitude the only way to do go is go up

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from there

00:19:44

you know um because I didn't have any

00:19:47

kind of acting background and I remember

00:19:49

meeting everybody and they all had head

00:19:51

shots and they were all talking about

00:19:53

the business they were talking about the

00:19:55

businesses and and and you know I was

00:19:59

just like oh my God I'm just happy to be

00:20:01

here like I really did not think I was

00:20:05

going to be an actress or it was gonna I

00:20:07

mean I just thought it was a dream to be

00:20:09

a groundling and like that was your

00:20:11

ceiling yes for sure yeah that was like

00:20:14

we have a stand-up I never thought you

00:20:15

didn't do anything sorry David anything

00:20:17

in high school or sketches no you just

00:20:20

came out of the blue ground Lanes my God

00:20:22

and then you're that's your training and

00:20:24

I did take some classes outside of the

00:20:26

Groundlings which I was in the

00:20:27

Groundlings just to get a taste of like

00:20:29

you know other forms of of of you know

00:20:33

classes and and and cold reading classes

00:20:36

stuff like that but I took to it like

00:20:40

I'd never taken to anything in my life

00:20:42

yeah I it was like

00:20:44

the clouds parted and I found my place

00:20:48

yeah wow and so I was like Tracy flick I

00:20:52

was there early I left late I had my

00:20:54

hand up I was in awe of everything in

00:20:59

all of everything I was never so excited

00:21:02

about like I couldn't sleep at night

00:21:04

after class because either I did well

00:21:06

and I was so excited or I did bad and I

00:21:10

couldn't forgive myself you know but

00:21:12

you only learn when you do when you

00:21:14

don't do well anyway so it's kind of

00:21:17

like remember you're in class you're in

00:21:18

class you're in class you're in class

00:21:20

and I remember I had to repeat

00:21:21

intermediate and it was the best thing

00:21:24

that ever happened and then I remember

00:21:26

my best friend at the time worked in the

00:21:28

box office Mike Sweeney and his sister

00:21:30

was Julius Sweeney and I found out that

00:21:32

she

00:21:33

um had to repeat intermediate and I'm

00:21:35

like oh that's so cool we're both

00:21:38

reputed

00:21:40

and when did how does your style evolve

00:21:42

before you got on SNL and they're like

00:21:44

when did you first know you could throw

00:21:46

your voice with an accent and an

00:21:48

impression were you doing those with

00:21:50

friends or I never did Impressions but I

00:21:52

always to me I I copied like as a kid I

00:21:56

would watch television and then it would

00:21:57

copy everything I saw sure and I would

00:22:00

go upstairs was it Carol Burnett was it

00:22:02

uh yeah but no I copied soap opera

00:22:07

people oh

00:22:09

okay because I was I was very very

00:22:12

intrigued by the civility

00:22:15

you know it was such a contrast from how

00:22:18

I was growing up you know where the TV

00:22:21

was on 24 7 and you know you had your

00:22:23

mother screaming I wish I was dead all

00:22:25

the time

00:22:26

um

00:22:29

yeah I don't know but they're rough and

00:22:31

tumble yeah yeah very very chaotic and

00:22:34

and just so unhinged and I just love

00:22:38

soap operas because of the civility of

00:22:41

everything you're so dignified and yeah

00:22:43

so dignified imitate them all the time

00:22:46

hilarious I would I would actually set

00:22:49

up on our radiator

00:22:51

um makeshift bar because back then in

00:22:54

the in like the 70s in the soap operas

00:22:56

they would come in and go straight to

00:22:58

the the bar there was never a TV on in

00:23:01

the soap operas right yeah and so I

00:23:03

would make up a makeshift bar and have

00:23:05

Kool-Aid in a vase that you could see

00:23:07

through uh that was my carafe and then I

00:23:10

would have uh ice and um and tongs to

00:23:14

put and then when my mother would walk

00:23:16

in I would stand the way the camera

00:23:18

shots you know how and soap opera it's

00:23:21

gonna open Out camera the camera comes

00:23:23

in and then the person is talking to

00:23:25

them from him back

00:23:27

focus yeah kind of right so I my mother

00:23:31

would come in and I go oh my

00:23:33

[Laughter]

00:23:37

yeah and she would go like this who the

00:23:40

[ __ ] left the door open with the air

00:23:42

conditioner on and I would go like this

00:23:44

in my mind cut

00:23:47

gosh so your survival mechanism was to

00:23:50

almost and live inside of soap opera was

00:23:53

actually I lived inside and no one knew

00:23:55

what I was doing it was really crazy

00:23:58

myself and then I would watch like

00:24:01

Little House on the Prairie I'd go

00:24:03

upstairs put my hair in class you know

00:24:05

in braids and they get on my Prairie

00:24:08

pajamas and I would come down and my mom

00:24:10

would be in the kitchen I go ma when's

00:24:13

paw coming and she goes what I go when's

00:24:17

Park coming home and she goes I don't

00:24:18

know but you better have [ __ ] money

00:24:20

God

00:24:24

so it was like my dad didn't live with

00:24:26

us so it was like whatever you know and

00:24:29

in my mind I was constantly cut

00:24:32

because it wasn't because it was what

00:24:35

you wanted it wasn't going like a TV

00:24:37

show you can't curse on TV and I'm just

00:24:40

and she and then I remember I would

00:24:42

watch like

00:24:44

um uh the Ten Commandments was just on

00:24:46

the other night

00:24:47

oh the movie the the original with that

00:24:50

because it's Easter Easter you know and

00:24:53

I used to live for the Ten Commandments

00:24:55

yeah you know and um and I would be

00:24:58

watching it and I'd go in the other room

00:24:59

my mom and her friend are smoking

00:25:01

cigarettes and you know talking and I

00:25:03

would get a ladle and I would give it to

00:25:04

fill it with water and give it to my mom

00:25:06

and say Mom can you hand this to me and

00:25:09

she's like what what do you want Sharon

00:25:11

I could just hand it to me and then my

00:25:13

mom's friend would say honey I'll hand

00:25:15

it to you and I go no no my mom go I'll

00:25:17

hand it to you just give it to me so I

00:25:19

she would take it and then she would

00:25:21

hand it to me and I would drink it down

00:25:23

really fast and I go you are kind

00:25:26

I will dwell in this land

00:25:28

and she goes dwell in the other room

00:25:31

um have you done a one-woman show about

00:25:33

this relationship it's so good and then

00:25:36

my friend I I would say to my mom's

00:25:39

friend you are strong you stood up to

00:25:41

the malachite

00:25:43

and so you remember that from well I

00:25:46

just know the kids I I actually read the

00:25:48

Bible after I saw it when I was like

00:25:50

eight or something I started reading the

00:25:52

Bible

00:25:53

oh yeah I was just like maybe this is

00:25:55

true man this looks pretty real I was

00:25:57

like you know I was like seven it was

00:25:59

like a documentary to me

00:26:01

I'm gonna get to the bottom of this

00:26:03

religions thing and I'm gonna open the

00:26:05

book he's like yeah

00:26:07

and then he goes oh there is one at the

00:26:09

library let me delve into this a little

00:26:11

bit Dana that's adorable and years later

00:26:14

oh there's a flash which I want to ask

00:26:16

you too I'm with Charlton Heston on SNL

00:26:19

and Lawrence wants to get him to do

00:26:21

Church chat church lady with Moses and

00:26:23

he didn't want to do it we're kind of

00:26:25

pressure I didn't want to pressure him

00:26:26

but he goes this is oh my God that would

00:26:28

have been awesome it's so surreal those

00:26:31

kind of things but back to this I just

00:26:33

want to couch this for a second so your

00:26:35

mother's you probably love love she's

00:26:38

very aggressive there's a lot of tension

00:26:40

in the house you escape into these shows

00:26:43

and use three-dimensional props to kind

00:26:46

of become a part of these calming shows

00:26:49

the Ten Commandments did you have a

00:26:51

crush on Michael Landon I was going to

00:26:53

ask because what's any sort of a Teen

00:26:54

Idol in a way for a while yeah um uh

00:26:57

well Little House in the prairie no I

00:26:59

mean did I I like the blind girl I

00:27:02

thought he was

00:27:04

like David's like what I could have done

00:27:06

with that she couldn't see that I'm not

00:27:09

that cute I would just tell her I was

00:27:10

not with that right not with this

00:27:13

lighting you can't see him listeners but

00:27:16

David's got Gothic kind of uh Lighting

00:27:19

on it my hair looks cool and No One

00:27:21

Believes Me and I don't care I'm going

00:27:22

to the front we have great hats

00:27:24

well because I was throwing you guys off

00:27:27

because there was so much shade on my

00:27:28

face and lighting it looked crazy so

00:27:31

Sherry this is so interesting I'm just

00:27:34

so you know when I think about you uh as

00:27:37

a performer just the word that comes in

00:27:39

is committed not as a woman well as a

00:27:41

woman that's a whole other that's a

00:27:43

that'll be our second hour we'll delve

00:27:45

into your sexuality and everything you

00:27:48

know no you're very attractive questions

00:27:51

myself you know sue me and I we adore

00:27:54

you but were you as committed I mean

00:27:57

you're so committed you're watching

00:27:58

these shows little kid you got props and

00:28:00

you're talking like Biblical characters

00:28:01

to your mom what the [ __ ] are you doing

00:28:03

I've so I love you mother how did this

00:28:06

inform you as a performer I mean

00:28:08

obviously you developed an ear and if

00:28:09

you were theatrical but you'd never done

00:28:11

anything official till you go into

00:28:14

Groundlings and then how many years into

00:28:17

that were you in the main company and

00:28:19

ready for SNL how long did it take um I

00:28:21

did two years of classes and then two

00:28:24

years in the Sunday company writing or

00:28:26

performing every Sunday and uh and then

00:28:30

I got into the main company I was in the

00:28:33

main company for a year and a half and I

00:28:35

would say that SNL was my first job wow

00:28:38

and now as you were prepped enough right

00:28:40

because you were doing pretty much

00:28:41

exactly SNL pretty much yeah I mean I

00:28:44

just

00:28:47

writing

00:28:49

[Music]

00:28:50

and just uh

00:28:53

you know just kept there's you know I

00:28:57

learned the difference between theater

00:28:58

and television I remember writing

00:29:00

something and uh in the Groundlings that

00:29:03

that did really well but it died and I

00:29:06

remember

00:29:07

and I remember

00:29:09

um

00:29:09

Quinn Colin Quinn saying sure I don't

00:29:13

know if this is going to come off the

00:29:15

way it did in theater because

00:29:18

when you talk out in theater on a stage

00:29:21

the the audience can imagine the fourth

00:29:24

wall if you do it on television you just

00:29:27

look crazy

00:29:28

if you're talking out you know what I'm

00:29:30

saying and I did not know the difference

00:29:32

between that and I remember it was Kevin

00:29:35

Spacey and I had done this character

00:29:38

where she has a party every year in the

00:29:40

same party and the only two people show

00:29:43

up but she acts like there's a lot of

00:29:45

people there she says all the things

00:29:47

that you say when it's a really packed

00:29:50

party you know what I mean right did you

00:29:52

find parking

00:29:54

um excuse me I just got a request

00:29:57

um the the the uh the kegis beat a young

00:30:01

Party The Keg is beat we've got to put

00:30:03

I'm gonna pass a hat around and all

00:30:06

these things and I did it with Kevin

00:30:09

Spacey and it just died because of what

00:30:12

he said because a lot of it was me

00:30:14

talking out to people that weren't there

00:30:17

and it's kind of confusing but

00:30:20

um and then I remember Lauren always

00:30:22

saying Sherry do you know where your

00:30:24

camera is and um I thought it was a

00:30:27

trick question I go um yeah no you don't

00:30:29

and because the people at home would

00:30:31

like to see the people at home would

00:30:32

like to see you too and I didn't even

00:30:35

know what he meant but and after that it

00:30:38

was like okay oh that one's my camera

00:30:42

with the red light like I would just

00:30:43

play the audience I never played into a

00:30:45

camera I didn't know to play to a camera

00:30:47

right I'm just saying and sometimes I

00:30:49

remember it so you might go off the

00:30:51

cards because you're sort of just

00:30:52

performing something you already knew

00:30:54

right I'm performing the way I did at

00:30:56

the Groundlings like as if it was a

00:30:58

stage and I remember Chris Farley saying

00:31:00

to me you know what Sherry I just

00:31:03

I he said something to the effect of

00:31:07

I just pretend like I'm back at Second

00:31:10

City and I don't even pretend I don't

00:31:13

even think of the cameras and I was just

00:31:15

like yeah you could do that but I get in

00:31:17

trouble for it yeah you gave me the

00:31:19

opposite advice

00:31:21

yeah yeah

00:31:22

you made it work for you I get in

00:31:25

trouble but you you to me were kind of

00:31:28

uh carvey-esque because your characters

00:31:30

are very committed they were uh thank

00:31:34

you energy

00:31:36

and every you'd come up with these new

00:31:39

characters you know we only did a year

00:31:41

but after I left and I'd watch and I go

00:31:43

goddamn she just keeps coming up with

00:31:45

[ __ ] and it's so hilarious and they were

00:31:48

really clicking and what did you do five

00:31:50

years

00:31:51

yeah and did you you walked away or did

00:31:54

you want to stay or what did you do oh I

00:31:55

left yeah that's what I had enough of

00:31:58

that enough of it or what was it well it

00:32:00

just

00:32:01

you know you really have to have a thick

00:32:03

skin and and as much as I love the work

00:32:07

and could do the work

00:32:09

it I did not have a thick enough skin at

00:32:13

that time

00:32:14

um but I wanted to say something I

00:32:17

remember my first year

00:32:19

I was well into it I think and someone I

00:32:23

got a phone call and they go Sherry

00:32:25

Dennis Miller's on the phone and I had

00:32:28

never had anybody famous call me or

00:32:29

anything like that and I I was like

00:32:31

people famous don't just call other

00:32:34

people you know and then the funny thing

00:32:37

was was he had no idea of this but his

00:32:41

off-white album when I was in

00:32:42

Philadelphia

00:32:44

I had it memorized it was the funniest

00:32:47

album I and not that I listened to

00:32:49

albums I I heard it by accident from

00:32:52

someone else and I remember I was

00:32:54

working at a um at like a college bar

00:32:57

downtown and

00:33:00

um we had live music and and during

00:33:02

before the sound check they were playing

00:33:04

his album I was crying I was laughing so

00:33:06

hard yeah crying to where I turned all

00:33:09

my friends on to it and we just

00:33:10

constantly would quote it and then here

00:33:12

he's calling me and

00:33:15

um like I pick up the phone and he goes

00:33:18

like he has no idea that I know that

00:33:20

album by heart and it always sounds like

00:33:23

such [ __ ] when you say

00:33:25

um oh I'm such a fan right you know what

00:33:27

I mean and then he goes this is what he

00:33:29

said to me sharing I just want to say uh

00:33:31

you got commitment like Carvey wow

00:33:35

and I'm gonna tell you I was so so

00:33:39

flattered because Dana like I always

00:33:43

related to you

00:33:46

and the characters that you did like and

00:33:49

your ability and your commitment and I'm

00:33:53

just like God damn like he's so freaking

00:33:59

good and funny and even when you did an

00:34:03

impression it didn't I didn't like any

00:34:06

Impressions that were so dead on that

00:34:08

you were like after five minutes you're

00:34:10

bored of it you would do a take

00:34:13

of somebody and that was way more

00:34:17

entertaining than somebody to me nailing

00:34:19

it you would do a funny take a Twist on

00:34:23

the character that made it so much fun

00:34:26

to watch over and over and over again

00:34:27

and then when Dennis said

00:34:29

you've got commitment like Harvey I tell

00:34:32

you I I know I cried because first of

00:34:36

all he has and then I started saying to

00:34:38

him you don't know the off-white album

00:34:41

and then I started quoting it and you

00:34:43

know I think he was like oh that's nice

00:34:44

that's nice wait a minute what and I was

00:34:46

quoting it quoting it quoting it that's

00:34:49

exactly how if he I people ask me what

00:34:51

do you say to a celebrity and I said

00:34:53

find something very specific to say to

00:34:56

them besides and that you know Dana is

00:34:58

what I learned about

00:35:00

um doing when when Lauren the best thing

00:35:03

that he ever did was make me do Barbara

00:35:06

Walters because I remember I kept saying

00:35:09

no I don't do Impressions I don't do

00:35:10

Impressions and then when I knew I

00:35:12

didn't have a choice I started

00:35:15

um listening

00:35:17

and watching her over and over again and

00:35:20

not just her Cadence in the way she

00:35:22

spoke but she had a Style and what she

00:35:24

would always do is when she would

00:35:25

interview people she would give them

00:35:26

three specific compliments specific

00:35:30

because when you're specific a person

00:35:33

feels heard it's not just you're so

00:35:36

talented yeah it is when you did this

00:35:39

when you did that and then all of a

00:35:42

sudden that person opens up they feel

00:35:44

safe they feel respected and seen and

00:35:47

then she can go into now why the porn so

00:35:53

um but she just knew how to make

00:35:55

somebody lay on their back and expose

00:35:58

their stomachs so that she could go in

00:36:00

and kick him in the nuts

00:36:02

yeah

00:36:03

always looking for that angle and to get

00:36:05

them to cry

00:36:06

it's like a dog let me pet your belly oh

00:36:09

look at that belly look at that belly

00:36:12

in the nuts nutshot

00:36:16

how how were you just for a second about

00:36:19

you know having a thick skin and by the

00:36:21

way everything is said about me is

00:36:22

greatly appreciated that's so sweet and

00:36:24

I want to go down a list of your

00:36:25

characters which are brilliant and

00:36:27

intense

00:36:29

um but how were you because we talked to

00:36:31

other cast members and they really had

00:36:33

to battle their nerves when they first

00:36:35

came in just just panic attacks drenches

00:36:38

how were you that first season

00:36:41

um in terms of fighting that fear no no

00:36:44

the first season I thought was great

00:36:46

because we all came in at the same time

00:36:49

I mean you remember NBC did a clean

00:36:51

sweep yeah and it was just David that

00:36:53

they kept and norm and uh

00:36:57

yeah I mean they did a clean sweep and I

00:37:00

think Steve corn was a writer that they

00:37:02

kept yeah

00:37:03

um so everybody came in at the same time

00:37:06

and there was this appreciation and

00:37:09

energy and we just all hit the ground

00:37:11

running there wasn't anybody that was

00:37:14

sitting around intimidating you know and

00:37:17

wonder if you're gonna take their spot

00:37:19

or anything you know what I mean it was

00:37:22

just like you just we all came in

00:37:24

appreciative and

00:37:26

so my first year was not difficult I

00:37:30

just kept doing what I did at the

00:37:31

Groundlings and Sherry wasn't it kind of

00:37:34

like you were all the starting blocks

00:37:36

together instead of yeah like I came in

00:37:38

and Mike Myers is already way ahead of

00:37:40

me Dana's way up there so you're really

00:37:42

just trying to we were starting first

00:37:44

grade at the same time yeah that's cool

00:37:46

yeah that does create a different vibe I

00:37:48

had that with Phil and Jan and it was a

00:37:51

beautiful Vibe it was like we were

00:37:53

wide-eyed and so appreciative and all

00:37:56

nervous we didn't know to be scared we

00:37:58

were nervous we learned later to be

00:38:00

scared

00:38:02

foreign

00:38:14

remember this but it was I remember

00:38:16

saying to Molly I go you remind me of a

00:38:18

young Anne Miller and then I said oh

00:38:21

yeah I remember this sketch I remember

00:38:22

her doing Ann Miller yeah yeah and then

00:38:25

and then she's like I go and cable had

00:38:27

just started coming out people doing

00:38:29

cable shows and I'm like wouldn't be

00:38:30

funny if we had these two older you know

00:38:32

women who now have a cable show but they

00:38:35

still had that same mentality of when

00:38:36

they were in you know and uh you were

00:38:39

Debbie Reynolds maybe right that was

00:38:40

Debbie Reynolds it was called leg up and

00:38:42

it was on the very first show and it did

00:38:45

I remember Lauren calling me into his

00:38:48

office and go Sherry what demographic

00:38:50

are you going for

00:38:54

and I'm just like we're trying to get

00:38:57

younger viewers yeah and I and I go I

00:39:01

I didn't think about that like I never

00:39:04

thought about you think of the funny

00:39:06

first yeah and I go funny I have a

00:39:09

feeling that even if they don't know who

00:39:10

they are they still might like it no a

00:39:14

thousand percent it's just clueless

00:39:16

people going for it and being selfish

00:39:19

and then we were on the cover of like

00:39:20

Washington Post or something like that

00:39:23

oh really as those two characters uh-huh

00:39:26

and um and then I really thought I

00:39:28

remember Daryl Hammond saying the the

00:39:31

the the the gay community in Hell's

00:39:33

Kitchen love you guys like they were

00:39:36

loving

00:39:38

I think like our whatever we thought was

00:39:42

funny I think it was connecting with

00:39:45

um

00:39:46

the gay community

00:39:47

and they are a tough audience and

00:39:51

they're an appreciative audience you

00:39:52

know what I mean oh yeah they had a

00:39:55

struggle and you know it's kind of like

00:39:58

they've got a sense of humor they have a

00:40:00

sense of humor because of their struggle

00:40:01

and um it's like whenever you know I

00:40:05

love it when when when gay guys would

00:40:08

come out to me and they always say the

00:40:09

same thing they never say the

00:40:10

cheerleader or anything they always say

00:40:12

the prescription drug lady oh that was

00:40:14

hysterical oh yeah that was the intense

00:40:17

that character yeah and I and like you

00:40:20

know you have people in your family that

00:40:21

you do a take of it's not

00:40:24

exact and I had an Irish Nana that would

00:40:28

uh was taking prescription drugs like

00:40:31

all day everything and back then they

00:40:34

were in a Bejeweled box you know you

00:40:37

didn't hide your pills yeah you

00:40:39

presented them it was like a Faberge egg

00:40:45

I would say nana could I hold your your

00:40:48

pillbox because it was so Bejeweled and

00:40:50

beautiful all right be careful and then

00:40:53

we would play a game of what each pill

00:40:54

did and I go this is for sleep this is

00:40:57

for Pep

00:40:59

um speed was just pep

00:41:01

um this is for you know underselling it

00:41:04

a bit but yeah yeah there we go and this

00:41:07

is what I could never think of what it

00:41:09

was and she goes water weight water

00:41:11

weight

00:41:12

Waterway and she goes and the doctor

00:41:14

says that's all this is

00:41:17

all this is and then back in the 70s

00:41:20

when someone got high at your house your

00:41:23

only job was to walk them to the car

00:41:25

and I remember my mom saying and she

00:41:28

would have have beer she'd be drinking

00:41:30

beer while she was you know yeah and

00:41:34

then she would go uh my nana would say

00:41:36

I'm leaving no one's paying attention to

00:41:38

me so I would go upstairs and I go Mommy

00:41:40

Nana's leaving she said no one's paying

00:41:42

attention to her and she goes all right

00:41:44

um we'll walk into the car and I go

00:41:46

mommy she goes what I go should nana be

00:41:49

driving and she goes don't be fresh just

00:41:51

go walk her to the car

00:41:53

whenever you said as a kid anything that

00:41:55

made sense it made sense that made your

00:41:59

parents responsible for their actions

00:42:02

don't be fresh and I'm like watch your

00:42:04

mouth I didn't think I was being

00:42:05

disrespectful and I would literally

00:42:07

she'd be hanging on me as if I was a

00:42:11

walker and I'd put her in the car and

00:42:13

I'm just thinking to myself I don't know

00:42:15

why this feels so wrong let's get those

00:42:17

hands on the wheel and you put her hands

00:42:19

on the wheel let's start your car and

00:42:21

she already came with it half on the

00:42:23

curb half off she was already High when

00:42:24

she got there and so I just thought to

00:42:28

myself I remember my mom getting a phone

00:42:29

call one day what do you mean she

00:42:31

wrapped it around a tree that's

00:42:32

impossible my seven-year-old walked her

00:42:36

it's real was this on Saturday Night

00:42:39

Live this is so [ __ ] funny the

00:42:41

Sherry's dead pan delivery of these is

00:42:43

the funniest part of the whole thing

00:42:47

[Music]

00:42:49

no but I think uh like all those all

00:42:53

those things stuck in my head because

00:42:55

you think why am I thinking this why am

00:42:58

I not just going along with everything

00:43:00

looks normal because by when people are

00:43:03

drunk or screwed up when I grew up no

00:43:06

one I didn't know what it was you know

00:43:08

so you just think they're being weird or

00:43:09

goofy or funny it was crazy uncle so and

00:43:12

so when people were drunk or alcoholics

00:43:14

when we were kids they were just called

00:43:16

crazy whoever oh crazy uncle Joe's

00:43:18

coming over oh

00:43:21

crazy uncle uncle Quaaludes is coming

00:43:23

when you come out of your room at night

00:43:25

and you would see that they form them

00:43:27

and their friends have formed a dance

00:43:29

Rumba train and they're just utterly

00:43:31

smashed

00:43:32

they look just like fun that's when they

00:43:35

were gone and that's when every older

00:43:37

woman peed when she laughed because the

00:43:40

dance run the train no that was my I

00:43:42

remember my Nana she peed when she

00:43:44

laughed and it was like great like I

00:43:47

just thought to myself so she's wets

00:43:49

herself she's stumbly and slurry and

00:43:51

you're just guiding her to a 2 000 pound

00:43:53

automobile full of yeah but it was all

00:43:55

water weight Dana it was always

00:43:57

hysterical water weight is so funny so

00:44:00

when my mom took those pills to water

00:44:02

weight pills now now it seems like you

00:44:05

had to find comedy after hearing your

00:44:07

these stories

00:44:08

and your childhood it's just like you it

00:44:11

was it seems like destiny that you would

00:44:13

be a comedian I was by myself a lot I

00:44:17

have friends

00:44:21

and create

00:44:22

and I was just using my imagination to

00:44:26

kind of

00:44:27

you know

00:44:29

um

00:44:30

fill up

00:44:31

what wasn't there that's kind of like

00:44:33

what Robin Williams says he used to do

00:44:34

it was just in the Attic with toys

00:44:36

playing and stuff as an only child you

00:44:38

had I did that my mom was uh at work all

00:44:40

day and my dad was not around but I

00:44:43

remember

00:44:43

a lot of kids have that imagination

00:44:45

where you're just making up things and

00:44:47

doing things and just trying to kill

00:44:49

time and it's fun it's kind of fun it's

00:44:51

not really sad it's fun it's not sad I

00:44:53

mean I I knew I was really lonely as a

00:44:56

kid you know and spent a lot of time

00:44:58

alone and and I just made the best of it

00:45:01

it's got like I would wake up oh it's

00:45:03

the Sherry oterry show

00:45:05

you know

00:45:07

um no it was sad I'm gonna counter that

00:45:09

it wasn't

00:45:12

well we we didn't know we were Saturn we

00:45:15

didn't know we were anxious we we didn't

00:45:17

have a name for it like depression or

00:45:19

anxiety right I would make myself laugh

00:45:21

I would make myself cry

00:45:23

and it was just kind of like I really

00:45:27

had my own network

00:45:29

I wonder if I'm going to play a drama or

00:45:31

a comedy today you know what I like is

00:45:33

that first of all in your in your Google

00:45:36

if you look at anything about in

00:45:38

Wikipedia it says Sherry often plays

00:45:40

characters or upbeat perky or hyper I'm

00:45:44

like that's fair but um I I think when

00:45:47

you say let's say you're a kid and

00:45:49

you're doing these

00:45:51

like uh just flat soap opera character

00:45:55

they're very real just very present and

00:45:58

quiet and subdued that's interesting you

00:46:00

do that and then you can also play

00:46:02

characters where it's exaggerated and

00:46:04

funny like and you also say you said you

00:46:06

play characters like it's always kind of

00:46:08

based on someone you know and then you

00:46:10

just like my brother I used to do

00:46:12

something and he goes everyone makes fun

00:46:14

of me because you said I was like that I

00:46:15

go all I need is two percent of an idea

00:46:18

and then I just make it I just go as far

00:46:20

as I can with it to make it funny and

00:46:22

any character that is would someone

00:46:24

would find offensive the great thing is

00:46:26

that the person never knows it's them oh

00:46:28

yeah that's true because

00:46:31

yeah that it's so ridiculous to make it

00:46:34

funny like you said it's kind of like

00:46:35

the Italian woman on the porch I kind of

00:46:37

got like a little bit of of my grandma

00:46:39

from when I was a kid but she was never

00:46:42

she was always the nice one on the porch

00:46:44

like

00:46:45

um uh she was very very nice and then I

00:46:48

did my nana very uh nice but she was

00:46:51

wasn't very nice all right you're right

00:46:53

yeah right it's kind of like

00:46:56

um when you pick and choose and do like

00:46:57

a a research paper of a few people and

00:47:00

make the funniest parts of each one

00:47:01

exactly and and and the kind of the

00:47:04

parts that the audience I think will

00:47:06

will take to you know what I mean you

00:47:09

don't want to turn anybody off or

00:47:10

depress anybody and I always think to

00:47:12

myself I think I did Carrick serves that

00:47:14

never knew how bad off they had it yeah

00:47:16

that's a good way to put it there's an

00:47:18

optimism because it's like they have no

00:47:21

idea like you know that they were

00:47:24

rejected kind of tragically like Adele

00:47:26

which I watched this morning the sex

00:47:28

office flirt or the sex worker

00:47:31

flirtation woman

00:47:32

was kind of fits that yeah she does not

00:47:35

sense even a monochum of Rejection it

00:47:38

was pretty it was pretty wild I mean you

00:47:40

just wonder sometimes can these could

00:47:43

that be done today

00:47:44

that character just for the per you know

00:47:47

just because it was it was intense I

00:47:50

mean but it's so red ridiculous that I

00:47:53

think and being a woman makes it I think

00:47:56

a little easier for the audience to

00:47:58

digest because when I remember I said it

00:48:02

to Chris Parnell for like two years I go

00:48:04

Chris yeah you know you should do this

00:48:08

character because

00:48:09

Chris was so sweet and and but boy did

00:48:14

he do innuendo like I'd be like Chris uh

00:48:17

can you hand me a pencil oh I'll hand

00:48:19

you a pencil and I'm like jeez Chris

00:48:20

like you can find sex anywhere

00:48:24

and anything and I just it just made me

00:48:27

always think of that because he was a

00:48:29

very serious nice uh wonderful and yet

00:48:34

he had that side of him that wasn't even

00:48:36

offensive or salacious it was just you

00:48:39

just noticed it and you just kind of

00:48:41

like pretended

00:48:43

you you know okay uh that that caught me

00:48:46

off guard but and then I thought to

00:48:49

myself wouldn't it be funny if then

00:48:51

because when the person doesn't react to

00:48:54

innuendo or a sexual thing then you

00:48:56

explain it to him as if that's why they

00:48:58

didn't react to it no I didn't react to

00:49:01

it because I wanted it I wanted you to

00:49:03

stop I didn't want to encourage it

00:49:07

out that oh okay you didn't understand

00:49:09

let me explain it to you I'd like to

00:49:11

wrap my hands around

00:49:13

yeah this pencil is like a penis yes

00:49:17

and it was forward thinking because

00:49:19

Sherry you did uh Dana yeah I used to be

00:49:22

on a show called just shoot me while you

00:49:24

were out you know doing whatever you

00:49:25

were doing I did a guest spot oh that's

00:49:28

right you didn't get it I didn't get an

00:49:30

Emmy nomination like someone I know oh

00:49:33

boy we have two just shoot me scores I

00:49:37

mean talk about coming and score uh

00:49:40

Sherry and Dana and Dana you should have

00:49:44

um and sure you did Sherry was better

00:49:46

but tell everybody you were the

00:49:48

assistant you were an assistant to was

00:49:49

it Maya

00:49:51

uh yes

00:49:52

and um uh you know she she was awful but

00:49:57

um I gotta tell you that experience to

00:49:59

me when I did that show I just thought

00:50:02

to myself oh my God this this is a

00:50:05

cakewalk like I just thought that was

00:50:08

the first sitcom I did and I was just

00:50:10

like my God no matter what you're gonna

00:50:13

be written for yeah that's what I

00:50:15

thought when I got there yeah I mean no

00:50:17

matter what you're not gonna get cut

00:50:19

at the end of the week no matter what

00:50:22

you know like you come in at 10 and you

00:50:24

leave at three what in the world I know

00:50:27

like this is heaven and then it's like

00:50:29

Miss Oteri what would you like in your

00:50:31

arm like get the [ __ ] away from me like

00:50:33

I'm like what's your angle what's your

00:50:35

plane what do you want yeah yeah I'm

00:50:39

telling you Sherry that was when I got

00:50:40

there and I I just come from the hardest

00:50:42

place like you did and then everyone's

00:50:44

pulling for you and going do you have

00:50:46

enough jokes today I'm like are you

00:50:47

writing for me and then and then they go

00:50:49

if you want to add jokes so they're

00:50:51

giving me jokes and then saying add some

00:50:53

if you want and it's just it was a very

00:50:56

nice feel not that Saturday was it

00:50:58

Saturday Night Live is what it is but

00:51:00

then you go and you go oh I just got

00:51:02

through boot camp and this is easier

00:51:04

like you just can't believe that you're

00:51:06

being written for yeah you can't believe

00:51:09

it like you know it was too when I got

00:51:12

hired when Lauren said we'd want you to

00:51:15

continue writing I felt so flattered I

00:51:18

was like so honored and flattered you

00:51:21

know and uh what I didn't realize was

00:51:23

like oh no no no no honey you have to

00:51:26

write if you want to be on the show

00:51:28

yeah were you a writer performer I was a

00:51:30

feature player writer what were you when

00:51:32

you came on better performer and you had

00:51:34

a writer's credit as well no no no I

00:51:37

didn't get a credit Dana didn't either

00:51:39

I'm not bitter oh and honey doing my

00:51:42

best of DVD where I don't make a scent

00:51:44

off of it you know and I but you wrote

00:51:47

Every sketch yeah but I did get to

00:51:50

um I'm sure there was other sketches

00:51:51

written by other people uh but you know

00:51:55

it's predominantly stuff that I I wrote

00:51:58

and I just thought to myself wow

00:52:02

um I wanted to be a part of it you know

00:52:05

but um yeah you don't someone's like oh

00:52:08

I'm gonna buy a few of your CC's I go oh

00:52:10

no no just buy one uh I don't make any

00:52:12

money off of it

00:52:15

you know you sign that away when you get

00:52:17

the job sure I was a writer I didn't

00:52:19

make a lot but it pays dividends later

00:52:22

down the line plus you're you're known

00:52:23

as a writer I thought that was a very

00:52:24

proud moment to be a writer performer

00:52:26

but I didn't really want to write I knew

00:52:29

I'm gonna write for myself no matter

00:52:30

what like Dana like you uh it was nice I

00:52:33

got a little extra I didn't get much to

00:52:35

be on so right and I was not cast very

00:52:38

much at all either you know uh I was not

00:52:42

cast I wasn't cast in the ground links I

00:52:44

wasn't cast in SNL and you know and that

00:52:48

trouble for me being cast follows me and

00:52:51

so that's why it's like wait a minute

00:52:52

why am I treating life outside the

00:52:54

growling's in SNL any different than it

00:52:57

was within I have to write for myself

00:52:59

yeah you know for whatever reason

00:53:01

I'm not really

00:53:04

uh

00:53:06

cast

00:53:07

maybe because I did a lot of characters

00:53:09

I don't know well you know you did

00:53:11

something in grown-ups too and then we

00:53:13

were just talking this morning how it

00:53:14

was you had a Barrette in here you had a

00:53:15

crush on Sandler's character is that

00:53:17

what it was yeah and from high school

00:53:18

and then you'd show up and you were

00:53:21

obsessed with them kind of still yeah

00:53:22

and and that was like something that

00:53:26

might have been a little flatter with

00:53:28

someone else but you brought a lot to it

00:53:30

and probably added to it just the way

00:53:31

you performed it it was it jumps out

00:53:33

thank you well I will say okay it was

00:53:35

already on the page

00:53:37

you know and um maybe because they knew

00:53:39

it was you it's easier to you know for

00:53:42

that three times oh you did they didn't

00:53:44

know it was me

00:53:45

listen to me so jaded they didn't know

00:53:48

it was me they didn't know they didn't

00:53:49

know who they that's crazy well and you

00:53:52

and you that was a Dana part of the

00:53:54

funny part was I think she had a

00:53:55

Barrette in her hair she ran into

00:53:57

Sandler at the store was he with his

00:53:59

wife uh no

00:54:02

Steve Buscemi

00:54:05

and she's kind of hitting on Adam

00:54:07

because reliving that they used to date

00:54:10

and yeah as if and there there I am

00:54:12

being another

00:54:13

actor that has

00:54:15

yeah and and he gave you a Barrette or

00:54:18

something when you were you were little

00:54:20

and you still have it and you wear it

00:54:21

and I still wear it yeah and he doesn't

00:54:24

remember

00:54:25

it was great anyway I love that I like

00:54:28

uh just shoot me I have one other

00:54:30

question now listen when you met Lauren

00:54:32

the first time did you have to wait when

00:54:35

you go in that office yeah I believe no

00:54:37

matter if you're five hours early you're

00:54:40

gonna have to wait whenever an

00:54:41

appointment is made

00:54:44

um because I remember I remember Marcy

00:54:46

saying Sherry I think you should

00:54:52

why and she goes you have to get to know

00:54:54

him better so you got to know each other

00:54:56

and I go God that sounds

00:54:58

yeah because but you're intimidated you

00:55:00

know and yeah um and if you don't know

00:55:02

what to say you don't want to waste his

00:55:04

time and so I would go okay so I go to

00:55:08

Lyle hey Lyle I'm gonna make an

00:55:10

appointment with Lauren okay

00:55:13

weeks two weeks and I go

00:55:18

um he's but I didn't I'm like wait a

00:55:21

minute he's here every night uh and I go

00:55:24

okay all right two weeks it is and then

00:55:27

two weeks goes by and now I'm getting a

00:55:30

little more scared and scared you know

00:55:31

what I mean because it's building up you

00:55:33

could have just walked in the room and

00:55:33

gone hey Lauren how's it going right but

00:55:35

it wasn't presented to me like that and

00:55:37

I was nervous and intimidated and then

00:55:40

it's time for our meeting

00:55:42

and I wait for two hours outside his

00:55:44

office

00:55:45

then I'm a wreck I'm like two weeks now

00:55:49

I'm waiting two hours this wasn't even a

00:55:51

meaning that it was my idea by the way

00:55:53

he probably doesn't even know you

00:55:54

haven't what the meeting's about either

00:55:56

no and then finally when I get in there

00:55:58

I'm like

00:56:01

I just didn't understand I thought maybe

00:56:04

you wanted to meet with me and and but

00:56:07

he didn't and I didn't so there was a

00:56:10

lot of dead air and then he goes um sure

00:56:13

you're the writer's writing for you I go

00:56:14

yeah not too much well you'll do used to

00:56:17

bake cookies if that helps and I'm like

00:56:19

it doesn't but uh maybe I can get

00:56:22

[ __ ] I'm not a baker

00:56:24

you said that to him no that was just me

00:56:27

in my head I wish I would have had that

00:56:28

sense of humor I was too scared to have

00:56:31

a sense of humor something like a

00:56:32

macadamia nut would be Al Franken would

00:56:35

eat the whole plate so go ahead

00:56:38

but I was just when I left the and I'm

00:56:41

just thinking to myself I feel like I

00:56:43

just got kicked in the butt by Marcy

00:56:46

like

00:56:48

you just he never wanted to meet with me

00:56:50

maybe she was trying to help you by

00:56:52

going if you guys talked but it turned

00:56:54

into a whole thing and it turned to a

00:56:55

whole disaster yeah two weeks later two

00:56:57

hours later and I'm like walking in with

00:56:59

my leg shaking I was like my knees were

00:57:01

knocking and I had nothing prepared he

00:57:03

walked out going Lauren wants me to

00:57:05

learn decoupage

00:57:06

[Laughter]

00:57:11

this and I thought what do you get

00:57:12

Lauren and I remember getting him I

00:57:15

would really really think about what I

00:57:16

would get him and then one time I got

00:57:18

him a how to uh jungle kit

00:57:22

because it cracked me up it made me

00:57:27

laugh and so after I would always go

00:57:29

Lauren

00:57:31

um how's the juggling going

00:57:33

um is it is it getting easier or are you

00:57:35

getting the hang of it as if he ever

00:57:37

opened the box and it would just make me

00:57:40

laugh and it made it made him laugh I

00:57:42

think no I think that's very funny the

00:57:46

trick is starting with one ball and just

00:57:48

going up and down first you know what I

00:57:50

do I lose trim and then I use tennis

00:57:52

balls and then it just it's all sure

00:57:55

maybe next Christmas a fire eating kit

00:57:58

would be nice maybe a magic set

00:58:02

um I did get him one of those

00:58:03

old-fashioned candy machines you know

00:58:06

that with the red uh you put a quarter

00:58:08

in oh yeah and it was all flagella Jelly

00:58:10

Bellies I bought it and then I just

00:58:12

filled it with Jelly Bellies because I

00:58:13

know we like those you know but I was

00:58:16

always trying to think of something that

00:58:17

you know what do you get somebody who

00:58:22

waiting two hours and two weeks this is

00:58:24

wonderful Marcy can you put it in your

00:58:26

trunk

00:58:28

that's what I need you could have got it

00:58:30

for David because of the the glycemic

00:58:32

thing ah I need juice I need juice

00:58:35

I was falling down right and left it was

00:58:38

we found it later with stress related

00:58:39

anyway

00:58:40

um

00:58:43

they couldn't trace it back to anything

00:58:44

any shows you're working on I'm like I

00:58:46

can't think of anything off top my head

00:58:49

um all right well anything left for

00:58:51

Sherry she's been hilarious my question

00:58:52

is just how did you feel on the show

00:58:54

when you had the morning latte talk show

00:58:57

with will you had cheerleaders there was

00:59:00

a a period in your five years where you

00:59:02

were like everyone was talking about you

00:59:04

I'll just say you know shario Terry have

00:59:06

you seen her she she's you know so funny

00:59:09

but so did you get a little more relaxed

00:59:11

during that time or did people start to

00:59:12

write for you a little more because

00:59:14

there you did you had a lot of hits

00:59:16

never mom

00:59:18

I mean once in a while I got lucky like

00:59:21

with the view I didn't write the view

00:59:24

um but uh and I was always hey do you

00:59:27

want to know something funny

00:59:29

um I just got asked I just got asked and

00:59:32

this is something I did not write I was

00:59:34

asked to do and I was so scared to do it

00:59:37

um I don't know I think Tina wrote it or

00:59:38

something but

00:59:40

um they're doing a documentary on um

00:59:42

robin bird oh wow the the late night

00:59:46

porn talk show host in New York cup yes

00:59:49

yeah Public Access yeah I just remember

00:59:52

thinking to myself

00:59:54

I'm watching you see a talk show you see

00:59:56

this and you know a rerun of a Urkel or

01:00:00

whatever the news and then that channel

01:00:02

would pop up and I'm like is this

01:00:05

allowed like this was wild to me right

01:00:08

that was New York TV or something

01:00:09

because I was shocked midnight I want

01:00:11

two in the morning or something yeah and

01:00:13

I just remember thinking to myself this

01:00:16

is wild and they asked me to do it and

01:00:18

I'm like I'm not wearing them

01:00:20

a crocheted bikini that's not gonna

01:00:23

happen so I cheated and wore bike shorts

01:00:26

with a crochet top with the boobs

01:00:29

already in it and um

01:00:32

yeah so I was just asked they're doing a

01:00:34

documentary and I was like yes I'd love

01:00:35

to because I did meet her and um wow yes

01:00:39

yeah it was pretty pretty cool but uh I

01:00:43

would say um yeah that's something I

01:00:44

didn't write and uh I was like okay

01:00:46

that's pretty cool and morning latte I

01:00:49

just one summer I just watched Every

01:00:51

Morning Show and I wanted to do a talk

01:00:54

show so bad but I didn't know what the

01:00:56

hook would be and I just that was my

01:00:59

favorite sketch to do it was morning

01:01:00

latte not that it was like you know the

01:01:02

biggest hit or anything but because I

01:01:04

loved playing these ill-informed

01:01:06

confident characters like so still

01:01:09

informed yet they it doesn't throw them

01:01:14

off at all cocky idiots yeah cocky

01:01:17

idiots is always a great area to be but

01:01:20

I don't even think they were cocky there

01:01:22

is an innocence about them and

01:01:25

um

01:01:26

you know will and I had that same kind

01:01:29

of sense of humor and it's that optimism

01:01:31

you know under you know just completely

01:01:35

ridiculous circumstances of being

01:01:36

ill-informed or rejected yeah you both

01:01:39

play that perfectly

01:01:41

wow so is your TV on Sherry I'm sorry

01:01:44

can I go turn it off right now God damn

01:01:46

it

01:01:47

so let's go back 15 minutes so when you

01:01:51

first got to the ground Lanes we'll just

01:01:52

redo that I'm kidding I was fine it's

01:01:54

fine they got magic they could take

01:01:56

anything out

01:01:57

stereo Terry you're so pretty

01:02:01

everybody loves us is The Pick of

01:02:04

Saturday Night Live the characters were

01:02:06

crazy

01:02:10

[Music]

01:02:11

you know what I I want to say one thing

01:02:14

that hit me like a ton of bricks and I

01:02:15

guess it was just right before the

01:02:17

pandemic I'm watching Anderson Cooper

01:02:20

and that you know New Year's Eve show

01:02:22

and then you come out as Barbara Walters

01:02:24

and literally dismantle the this the

01:02:27

podium I mean it was so [ __ ] funny

01:02:29

did you write that or it was just went

01:02:31

on and on and on God that was funny I

01:02:34

wrote I did write it because I had

01:02:36

gotten so used to and what I love about

01:02:38

you know the the age range of of us and

01:02:43

Anderson Cooper and and is there and

01:02:46

Andy Cohen is there's a Nostalgia that

01:02:49

they just love and what I loved about

01:02:51

doing Barbara Walters was there's

01:02:53

Nostalgia just within her for decades

01:02:56

and decades yet she's got to talk about

01:02:58

what's currently going on yes I did that

01:03:01

I did that two years in a row and it was

01:03:03

fun because I really had to think of

01:03:05

okay

01:03:05

what is the recap of what happened this

01:03:08

past year what what might she talk about

01:03:10

but then she always has to drop in who

01:03:12

she thinks is impressive you know I was

01:03:15

on a you know with um you know and I

01:03:18

always loved saying

01:03:19

you know uh uh Grill Master George

01:03:22

Foreman uh real master you know uh

01:03:27

Madeline Albright uh and then like you

01:03:31

know who she thinks it and that I just

01:03:32

love doing um uh Bond a bombshell Lonnie

01:03:37

Green and you know and funny man shecky

01:03:40

green and we were all because you always

01:03:42

just think about you know who she hangs

01:03:44

out with and she always named jobs

01:03:45

political Sports and pop culture and

01:03:48

actors and then um but then

01:03:51

when they asked me to do it this past

01:03:53

time I go I can't do Barbara Walters

01:03:55

again I got to be myself but that was so

01:03:59

scary so what I did was yeah they

01:04:01

introduced you and you were a hologram

01:04:02

or what was it I mean no no I was live

01:04:04

this last year I wrote something to be

01:04:07

pre-taped because I didn't think they

01:04:08

were gonna okay you know I didn't want

01:04:11

to fly and in New York it was it was the

01:04:13

worst part of the pandemic I would say

01:04:16

but um so I had these crocheted I don't

01:04:19

know if you guys remember this in the

01:04:22

70s they were like crocheted dolls that

01:04:24

you put over toilet paper rolls spare

01:04:26

and toilet paper rolls so if my friend's

01:04:29

mother made a shitload of them in the

01:04:31

70s and they were all pretty and she

01:04:33

gave me some and I'm just thinking to

01:04:35

myself as if I'm gonna you know put

01:04:37

these out and I just thought to myself

01:04:39

wouldn't it be funny like if I'm trying

01:04:41

to bring back the crochet toilet paper

01:04:44

cozy and each one of them has a story

01:04:47

and each story was something that

01:04:50

happened this past year you know what I

01:04:52

mean like I had uh uh canceled Carmen I

01:04:55

had uh Christmas Karen I had

01:04:57

Insurrection Irene

01:04:59

um and uh baroness baroness Becky you

01:05:03

know covering the whole royal thing of

01:05:05

of the past year and it was so

01:05:09

much fun to do but I did it as a

01:05:11

pre-tape because I had all these props

01:05:14

and I'm like that Podium up there is

01:05:16

like eight feet by four feet well you

01:05:19

can also control a little better and you

01:05:20

can do a few takes you can get it nail

01:05:22

it perfectly or whatever yeah but we

01:05:24

didn't have like we didn't get to

01:05:26

rehearse it I rehearsed it once oh you

01:05:28

did it wait you did it live but you were

01:05:31

home no no no I I I prepared I thought I

01:05:34

was going to be able to pre-tape it and

01:05:36

then they said to me like

01:05:38

two weeks before I had already written

01:05:40

Sherry the boys want you there live and

01:05:42

I go oh I can't do this live it's it's

01:05:44

props and this and that no they want you

01:05:47

live uh can't do it live and I go I've

01:05:49

got an actual toilet tank in this and

01:05:53

you know and then they go we'll provide

01:05:54

you with a toilet tank I'm like [ __ ]

01:05:57

so they did I had a toilet tank on that

01:06:00

thing it was but you know it was really

01:06:04

it was fun it was fun it's really nice

01:06:07

of those guys to kind of like give me

01:06:09

that platform to be creative because you

01:06:12

know you do miss that about SNL it's

01:06:14

like your mind can go anywhere right you

01:06:17

dream of I don't mean to sound like a

01:06:19

kid in Disneyland but it's like I never

01:06:21

limited myself to what my mind would

01:06:24

think you know it was shocking to go I

01:06:27

thought of the stupid sketch Tuesday I'm

01:06:31

sitting with the art department on

01:06:32

Thursday and they're designing this dumb

01:06:35

thing I thought of and they're like so

01:06:36

serious going we'll make it perfectly

01:06:38

like this we'll bring this in we can get

01:06:40

it from new Jersey I'm like for this

01:06:42

stupid okay it's it's unbelievable

01:06:45

unbelievable

01:06:46

I'm going down to uh to approve my

01:06:49

actual house you know the the um Italian

01:06:53

lady on the porch and it was

01:06:56

the exterior of a full house and I was

01:07:00

so in awe and overwhelmed that my what I

01:07:04

thought of has been built and Keith

01:07:06

there's someone who's like hey is this

01:07:08

your vision is this what this is kind of

01:07:09

what we thought from reading it you're

01:07:11

like no and they'll tweak anything for

01:07:12

you they were amazing I mean we had the

01:07:16

most talented people behind the scenes

01:07:18

and even like when we would do

01:07:20

uh the wigs

01:07:22

the wigs were always so funny when we

01:07:24

Molly and I did leg up I'll never forget

01:07:27

we had this joke because our wigs got

01:07:29

bigger each time we did it and then we

01:07:31

did it to a point where we were crying

01:07:34

we were laughing so hard our wigs were

01:07:36

so huge you know and it was appropriate

01:07:38

too for those characters but not that

01:07:40

huge each time they got bigger and

01:07:43

bigger and bigger until Lauren said uh

01:07:45

the wigs are co-starring

01:07:46

[Laughter]

01:07:50

it's just a thing of like we really want

01:07:53

to see the character not just hair on

01:07:55

Jerry's five foot eight with her wig

01:07:57

could we please visit the wig sketch now

01:08:02

all right thank you Sherry and thank you

01:08:05

you're the greatest

01:08:07

score machine

01:08:09

to understand you we never got to have

01:08:12

dinner together or hang out but I I

01:08:14

you're so observant about your

01:08:16

characters and that's what makes you a

01:08:18

great writer and you tease you tease

01:08:20

everything out so yeah we're like you

01:08:23

know sister brother from another mother

01:08:24

so just appreciate you girl all right I

01:08:27

love you guys bye Sherry love you guys

01:08:29

love you love you David miss you miss

01:08:31

you Dana

01:08:33

hey what's up flies what's up please

01:08:35

what's up people that listen we want to

01:08:37

hear from you and your dumb questions

01:08:39

questions ask us anything anything you

01:08:41

want you can email us at fly on the wall

01:08:44

at cadence13.com

01:08:48

now one more question

01:08:51

and then we get Danny gets to eat one of

01:08:53

his four protein bars I brought one I

01:08:55

feel sick why are you these are just

01:08:56

candy bars health bars this is not

01:08:59

something you should eat too much of

01:09:00

this we're gonna talk later we're gonna

01:09:02

talk later may cause diarrhea in an hour

01:09:04

but for sure will in two hours I would

01:09:07

like you to write down what you eat in a

01:09:09

given week and let's get that GI problem

01:09:11

you have you have a lower GI problem I

01:09:14

Do by looking at you why and you need a

01:09:16

liquid IV well look at your posture all

01:09:19

pent up in there you've got a little

01:09:21

Pooch come on let's talk later what are

01:09:23

we talking about

01:09:24

look I'm a health nut what I want to

01:09:28

help you I don't look bad am I Jesus

01:09:30

Christ I'm joking I'm a comedian how do

01:09:32

I get the elevator ready

01:09:33

[Music]

01:09:45

[Music]

01:09:47

my life

01:09:49

okay we have a question from uh

01:09:51

Charlotte Mars hi boys Charlotte Moss

01:09:55

hello uh while you're a dessert for the

01:09:58

eyes you're a tall drink of water I'm

01:10:00

Charlotte moss and I have a question for

01:10:02

you boys go ahead David she says hi boys

01:10:04

if you had to swap places with each

01:10:05

other and star in another in one of the

01:10:07

others movies

01:10:08

which would you pick Charlotte from

01:10:10

England from England

01:10:14

people are God I wouldn't have worn this

01:10:16

goofy hat if I knew we were over in

01:10:18

Europe

01:10:19

well you know if you'd like to do a

01:10:22

character in the movie if they fish what

01:10:25

would it be is that had all the rage why

01:10:28

do you wear costumes You Look Silly

01:10:30

you're never gonna get a lust to fancy

01:10:33

you I would probably steal Dana and I

01:10:36

know I've it's a perfect swap okay what

01:10:39

do we do you would do Garth because you

01:10:40

wouldn't even need to wear a wig you had

01:10:42

the long blonde hair and boyish face can

01:10:44

I see the can I see the teeth

01:10:47

say party on Wayne

01:10:50

and I would do Joe Dirt oh you want Joe

01:10:53

Dirt yeah hey I'm Joe Dirt yeah you ever

01:10:57

[ __ ] a pig hey well I don't know if you

01:10:59

saw it it's not exactly it's

01:11:02

um look if it gets a laugh in the room

01:11:03

because it's not expected hey little

01:11:06

Squealer come here come on

01:11:08

no I I do red rednecky the redneck

01:11:11

comedian but I would I would substitute

01:11:12

Joe Dirt yeah you know we do your

01:11:15

catchphrase when we golf

01:11:16

red red neki the redneck in the world's

01:11:18

worst redneck comedian you ever crap so

01:11:21

big you don't know gonna get down that

01:11:22

turret come and get some yeah if you

01:11:25

ever fart so loud you got a dog two

01:11:27

stayed away ago would that come on

01:11:31

you make a putt you go come on give you

01:11:33

something we go come and get us home how

01:11:35

do I make t-shirts that's that's my best

01:11:37

catchphrase I seriously think come and

01:11:39

get something positive it's not negative

01:11:41

like Joe dirt's catchphrase

01:11:44

how would you say it well

01:11:48

come on he would say what's happening

01:11:50

witchcraft kind of like what's crapping

01:11:52

God I can't remember it sounds it's a

01:11:55

little almost Southern almost right yeah

01:11:58

I want to go I'm trying I'm Joe Dirt I'd

01:12:00

like to go meet my mama joder it's a

01:12:03

nice guy joder's a little Forest gumpy

01:12:05

but what was how Southern was it was it

01:12:07

sort of subtle yeah it wasn't super deep

01:12:10

but it was kind of like man this girl's

01:12:12

might be your sister you can't honestly

01:12:14

was that guy he's a little Casey casem

01:12:16

I'm looking for my mama and my daddy my

01:12:18

name's Joe Dirt yeah you know which way

01:12:20

I should go I already went that way are

01:12:22

you [ __ ] with me all the time I get

01:12:24

too stupid

01:12:26

which way is the dirt road I'm not doing

01:12:28

the crypto character called dummy dirt

01:12:30

hey I gotta take a crap where how do I

01:12:33

do it I'm dummy dirt can you put your

01:12:36

finger in my bunghole get one get going

01:12:39

I went hitchhiking that thing I knew my

01:12:42

phone was in my friend's bunghole does

01:12:43

that mean I like failures no thanks for

01:12:46

just giving away the whole sequel

01:12:48

well that's it so thank you blue and

01:12:51

Glenn for for getting us letting us ruin

01:12:54

our reputations just like to say we

01:12:56

gotta start up our nuclear power

01:12:59

Michael okay this end of this podcast

01:13:02

she's not very special the Hat's too

01:13:05

funny it doesn't make any sense he's

01:13:07

changing his cold Stoops every two

01:13:10

questions I hope things go to crap I I

01:13:13

wouldn't listen to it another time I

01:13:16

fall with you and a fly on the wall is

01:13:18

not what it's about I'm Michael Kane I'm

01:13:21

a hundred and eleven are you still

01:13:23

around of course is he yeah he is he's

01:13:26

good

01:13:27

why are you offering me a movie it's a

01:13:30

yes

01:13:30

[Laughter]

01:13:33

okay thanks for coming guys thank you I

01:13:35

gotta run thanks for coming I'm gonna

01:13:37

stick around check out the elevator of

01:13:40

the mansion

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Episode Highlights

Sherry Oteri's Impact on Comedy
Sherry Oteri revolutionized sketch comedy for women, showcasing boldness and humor.
“She broke the seal on what a woman could do in a sketch.”
@ 00m 36s
October 07, 2022
A Nostalgic Reunion
David Spade and Sherry Oteri reminisce about their time on SNL and share laughs.
“I was just happy to be here.”
@ 20m 01s
October 07, 2022
The Groundlings Journey
Sherry Oteri shares her transformative experience at The Groundlings and her rise in comedy.
“I took to it like I’d never taken to anything in my life.”
@ 20m 40s
October 07, 2022
Soap Operas and Civility
Soap operas provided a stark contrast to the chaos of my upbringing.
“I just love soap operas because of the civility of everything.”
@ 22m 38s
October 07, 2022
Living Inside a Soap Opera
My survival mechanism was to escape into the world of soap operas.
“My survival mechanism was to live inside of soap opera.”
@ 23m 50s
October 07, 2022
A Call from Dennis Miller
Receiving a call from Dennis Miller was a surreal moment for me.
“You got commitment like Carvey!”
@ 33m 31s
October 07, 2022
Crazy Uncle Stories
Reflecting on childhood memories of family members and their wild antics.
“Oh crazy uncle Joe's coming over!”
@ 43m 16s
October 07, 2022
Imagination as an Only Child
Using creativity to cope with loneliness and fill the void of companionship.
“I was by myself a lot... using my imagination.”
@ 44m 13s
October 07, 2022
The Juggling Gift
A humorous take on gift-giving and the awkwardness of meeting a legend.
“What do you get somebody who waited two hours?”
@ 58m 22s
October 07, 2022
Creative Nostalgia
Andy Cohen reflects on the nostalgia surrounding Barbara Walters and the fun of creative expression.
“It was so much fun to do!”
@ 01h 05m 09s
October 07, 2022
Wig Humor
A funny moment about the ever-growing wigs in sketches, highlighting the joy of comedy.
“The wigs are co-starring!”
@ 01h 07m 45s
October 07, 2022

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Key Moments

Nostalgic Reunion20:01
Soap Opera Escape23:50
Dennis Miller Call33:31
Drunk Family Antics43:12
Imagination and Loneliness44:11
Gift Giving Awkwardness58:22
Nostalgia1:02:46
Wig Sketch1:07:40

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