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Our Guest is Alex Mett and uh first off about huge Dana Carvey fan he he was
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very effusive uh uh you know complimenting you you land and grab a a
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fan when they're introduced to you or the at age five or six apparently he saw
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chopping broccoli the goofy piano song I did on Saturday Night Live and then he was going around singing it at five and
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six so Alex Moffett on SNL for six years uh catch you does a lot of stuff with
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Mikey day uh they do uh Trump Trump's kids Trump's kids boat on um up upate
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that was another huge hit and super versatile uh performer and actor and a
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hell of a nice guy I love him talking about my stuff yeah he loves he loves
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Dana and uh he was great a lot of fun very uh energetic has a new show I think
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it's bad monkey with Vince vaugh is that correct yeah Bad Monkey with Vince vongh uh he just works a lot I think he was on
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Broadway last year and he had a great run on SNL and we go into all that and
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more and more my parents went to Dennis and so did he is is that who went to
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Dennison because I forgot to tell him uh anyway that's uh not the most exciting
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part of the interview but I don't tell it so it's not really part of that so
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you you sat through it once you had to hear that once that's all yeah it it's fun to get to know him on on the show um
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and he's uh he's really cool just just listen please just listen stop asking
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questions just listen and you'll hear all the answers and smash that subscribe button oh yeah we Haven 21 to smash
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it beat the [ __ ] out of it all right here he is Alex [Music]
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M look at these change this [ __ ] gang bang I love your chair we could I'll
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take it play is calling wants his chair back he hey Cho she wants his chair back
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hey cho cho train no one does Dennis back to me that's fantastic hey you
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sounded like Jimmy Reese sitting in a watermelon with a Funko Pat
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okay okay so the the Young Guy's doing the den man all right that's good got
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his hooks down I'm up here high in the High Country tonight we're going to beting Octopus from Sri Lanka down at
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Mickey D place that's Michael Douglas um uh it's a good Michael Douglas wow now
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that's Dennis talking about Michael Douglas's buddy up there in mono let's just talk about let's just do some of
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your characters the friend guy with a boat or the acid head uh God we're
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getting right at it I'm settl I want to CH riff with Alex I want he he we I'll
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do him me and Dennis back and forth give us a topic for Dennis David just any any
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topic or reference he did a casino gig go ahead so Dennis is talking about
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a casino gig yeah okay that's good you know I'm at the uh I'm in I'm in
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Uncasville Connecticut I'm for the Lo Lots in the
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Eastern Seaboard here and meanwhile Spade is off doing the Tempe Improv
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doesn't have to open for a blackjack table and have the Pit Boss given the
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hook after 42 minutes we gotta get people back out on the floor Cho yeah yeah you did it [ __ ] two
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minutes long we just lost 28 million bucks in the casino do do you do that anywhere did you do it on SNL is my
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question cuz no it's an impression of you do it's an impression of your Dennis
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Miller which I've just had in my head for a couple decades now yeah that was
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really F Dennis Dennis is incredibly wealthy hope he's listening to this and
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uh you know he's got kind of a very relaxed almost tight J almost like a Bob Hope thing going on you know feeling
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good about things you know going around but uh as far as playing a casino it'd be like it was great you know a short
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hop to Toledo and three different cars to get me down to the South Carolina
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Beach area where Harry's hofra had a Nick slot machine thing came out to 12
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piy uh people who bought tickets did a quiet 45 the great thing about Dennis
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when he used to play the desert in all you were you just had to do 60 minutes he had a
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clock and he and he's a killer standup and one of the greatest but he could be mid junk he sees six
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and then he goes okay good night and he doesn't break stride he doesn't break stride in the casino back to his room
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good for him dude I mean Alex Alex what's that casino above Dallas into
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Oklahoma fville therville made me think of enville I did it with uh my last gig
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before Co was him and nor McDonald and we all flew there together in some little thermometer plane spudley split
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it with me I'm like well I'd love to stand up I'd rather take United I can stand a little bit so we we take this
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thing which is basically an MRI with wings we're just laying down and uh and then uh we get there and then it's
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between him and norm and how [ __ ] crazy we all three of us are and he's like hey Spud you mind closing the show
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I got to get out of here I go we're all in the same flight why why do you got to go and then Norm goes I'm not going at
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the end and I go so I have to go after these these two assassins and then we
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all have to do I think 40 which is too much yeah because they
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killed too [ __ ] hard anyway it was fun Spade Spade you're you're gonna
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close out pal I'm going to the High stti room oh yeah that's right he goes
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they're closing back a rat so that's your Norm right apparently so yeah hey
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uh yeah that's H it's funny those jokes you're doing up there right the crowd's really going crazy for it it was H I
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sucked yeah I was going to say that but I thought I'd say something
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else I nor try to walk less than 40% of the crowd before I get on you know why
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what do you mean why was there not a at least one guy with a camera the minute you got on the plane all the way through
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the gig all the way I mean just that it would have been too funny it would honestly people say exp oh I bet it's
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funny it was funny it was funny because those two guys two of the funniest guys out there and then just uh listening
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followed Dennis when he's in a rhythm toward the end of his act and he's H
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P She and it's like you have to deal with his his rhythm and energy do you do
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standup I I didn't know that about you I know you were in like different Second City type things and yeah I I mainly got
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I I got the gig on you know SNL through more character stuff but yeah I do I do
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stand up too I did a I did a Fest up in Canada uh with Spade our paths almost
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crossed do you remember that uh the Toronto comedy Calgary or what was it
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like Calgary or something yeah one of those uh cities in the [ __ ] Sask tune
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yeah we're in White Horse Yukon Territory bab I did one I think Whitney
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comings there was outdoor gig and uh got to take [ __ ] seven connections to get
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there so everyone's GNA do the whole time an hour and a half of Dennis Miller
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it gets the to the essence in such a way that makes me laugh you know coming on
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the zoom with Carvey and Spade couldn't get a word in in the first 11 minutes it was kind of an interesting
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Motif millia happening there today so where were we okay sorry go ahead no I'm
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just I have ADD uh Oka butterfly I got a time in shoot what were we talking about no you uh cuz Greg Greg gutfield
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and uh Tucker Carlson did I do Greg gutfield
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no I guess I got the wrong information from James Austin Johnson maybe I I think maybe I did a
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gutfield thing at the table one time yeah sometimes you just assign get on
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air but he thought you had a great take on it but yeah oh I that's kind of you
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even know that guy James you even know him stories James uh James Vander
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Johnson no be maybe he was talking about Mikey day because you guys did so much
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together I'm sure James confuses me and Mikey all the time confuses you like
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crazy and I got to confuse you where do we go with Trump I mean how
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do we what's the next good question I don't know who's going to play him I mean
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well J will I call him J the jger badger because J is for James Austin Johnson j
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a j j jger that's better James Aus Johnson is a lot of work it sounds like
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a Civil War General I'm sorry but well I'm James Austin Johnson I'm in charge
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of these confederal soldiers sorry that's that's all that's all I got
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confederal so anyway uh so did you did did you do
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um Tucker Carlson or was that else yeah are we is this are we recording by the way is this all just sort of the
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beforehand good okay I'm kidding we're always always recording Productions and with no with
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complete chaos I'm having a lot of fun so far so far so am I I like that both
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you have a handheld Allah being up on stage and SP you're just sitting there
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with the thing on a on a crane in front we're a lot like the Brothers I'm broadcasting from a hotel
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in New York City right now so are you which one what room
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number he's like a uh reporter on the scene and I am just a lazy pocast they
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don't have room numbers but they have names for the different Suites this is called you'll never get out of here alive and uh good night so that sounds
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promising it's a little scary but SP do you always have a
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Joe Dirt merch uh just perch some you know uh for the for the people
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at home that AR that's just not on video uh I have a Joe Dirt hat in the
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background but I do have merch and that's that's a hat from when
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I that was my crew present on the actual movie and so I don't make that one even though I like that one a lot do you mind
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turning it around just for the this interview well cuz no one can see it but
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hurt your eyes a little bit it's just too distracting I by the way I that
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movie is timeless if I may say it's very very funny I and I I came I discovered
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it very late uh we inherited we we went Upstate one time and the the place had a
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DVD collection including Joe Dirt my wife and I watched it I had never seen it I don't know how I didn't Discover it
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when it came out I imagine I'm not alone in that but uh I saw it years later and
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it is very very funny I don't know if you know that no I appreciate it and uh which brings me to something else I want
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to ask you that it's sort of Off the Mark I hope you don't get offended by this I was reading this
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interview Dana you can chime in on this reading an interview with an vulture with you right and article yeah there's
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an article about you so sometimes reporters that was my either to to be funny or to be whatever sometimes feel
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like to me they inch across the line where I don't like it and 90% of the time I don't say anything but like when
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they say like hey J D you know what movie I actually like you know those
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kind of questions where it bothers you this one which what you said was perfectly fine I I I appreciate you
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actually watching it honestly that's not what I mean I mean I'm reading this and it says you were in the
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bear and i' I was hoping you'd have a bigger role by season two but they got you out there pretty quick I mean I'd be
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like hey go [ __ ] yourself dude crazy I read he was in the bear and then I
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mentioned it to people he's great great in the bear but yeah she did put a tilt on that like it was a sad thing and you
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but you're you're working you're working all over the place as far as I can tell I know it's just such a weird way to put
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it you're like hey I did a great you said I was doing meth how long was I going to
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last yeah your character's doing Mets so but it's like come on uh anyway that's
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kind of a that just reminded me of interviews where you get caught off guard and you're trying to be nice and then you go what is going on are they
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trying to be funny and they trying to be cute they trying to be cool yeah no I was you're not supposed to fight back no
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you're not and I hope it I I was just letting you know I even though I discovered it late Jo dir is uh like a
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yuck a minute I loved it can I ask about this yeah go ahead wait dan what were no
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I was gonna say the other way people do it I liked it yeah yeah or or how did
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you how did you like that movie did you think uh it was operating all cylinders
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David yeahh all right I lik it but am I alone in that wait uh Spade what is what
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is are you growing the beard out for uh something it's for a movie I'm
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writing uh no I'm kidding see Alex you have a great beard because I have it
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because under here and defines your jaw yeah thank God right that's the way you
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do it mine is a way to look even older but uh I feel like the beard like Dana said I
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first of all the TR truth is I got one compliment on it and I never went back because I have zero when I don't have it
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so I have one compliment with it so I said okay even though it's mostly gray now the salt is taking over the pepper
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so now I've got you can kind of shape it so you look a little more better because
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as every article says if I ever date anyone it's like Beauty in the Beast look at this monster I'm like God damn
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think you could ever say that about a girl like this great great looking guy is with this horribly ugly
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EG yeah we got Alex looks fresh face when I look at we're watching him not a
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wrinkle he's in his prime I don't know I'll Peg you at I'm going to say
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32 24 28 you're both right you're both right so 28 32 so you're 59
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yes uh I'm 42 uh but you know I
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I moisturize very I put I put lotion on eight times a day so that's this happen
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hey uh not that I don't want to just talk about my face the whole time which I do but can I bring up another uh sort
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of random because I mean this is the money maker let's be honest anything anything uh Dana this is a connection
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that we have that you would have no reason to know about years I do know
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yeah well if you Chevy Chase the baseball no Chevy Chase the baseball
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Bill Murray no Bill Murray the baseball sorry that's another no I bet that's
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that's that's one of my favorite SNL memories and one of the most like kind of burned in my soul memories from my
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whole time there which I I'm happy to get into my God but this goes even further back and there's truly I think
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no way you would know about this let me see when I was going into my senior year
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of college I lived with my sister in mil Valley uh California and I work know it
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well I worked at a restaurant called crap
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Cascade Cascade which was only there for a year or two but I worked there for a summer but it was in the downtown yep
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yep yep okay and uh one time I like got to work and I think I've been called
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into like sub because somebody had to go but anyway you you were already your your like family was your brothers were
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there I think and somebody maybe were visiting that might be and they were like hey Dan Dana carvey's here and I
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was like and I it truly well I mean as you can imagine it's a big deal it's a
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big deal and also they kind of knew I was like young comedy dweeb like
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idolized this guy they happened to be right in that case and so I was like oh my God and so basically like from across
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the restaurant I was just like oh my god there he is there he is there he is and then uh and apparently you were only
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there for like the last like little bit you like showed up for dessert picked up the tab for the
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whole uh table and then left and I was just like what a classy guy wow oh my
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God so again there's no connection other than I saw you in a restaurant but I it was
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like but it was uh one of the first times I ever saw like a celebrity or an idol of mine and uh I know believe me I
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got a lot of cool stories like that uh uh first of all it's flattering and I I
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saw Michael Landon once in a restaurant when I was a little kid and I couldn't stop he was from Bonanza and Little
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House on the Prairie so I totally get that it's just and now now you have people go hey you're the Satur Night
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Live guy Alex mofin man I love that you know you do that Trump brother so good so you're getting it so it's it's all
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surreal that now we're on Zoom together as peers as co co SNL alums you know we
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are yeah but that was my I think literally the first time I saw like a a a member some like an Alum from the show
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let alone one who I grew up watching and I literally was sort of like frozen in the corner of Cascade
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restaurant in M Valley just being like there he is and I so I creeply observed
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you for two minutes pick up the the check for your whole family then was like Someday I'm gonna be sitting on my
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little my little throne here chatting with those two goons I keep a casual
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diary on my phone do you know about what was it in the summertime June of um 92
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or something I keep it Cas Alex were you waiter you're a waiter waiter at
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Cascades hold on let me just get that Cascades was going off waiter Summertime
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with with h vacation summer of 2004 yeah okay let me see yeah it checks out went to cast gave
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my brother weirdo kept staring at me got out paid the check and got away straight
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out of your diary that must have been a different okay then there was another guy there because there's no way
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Alex you're you're going to get those calls where it's like hey I thought you were coming so can you at least come and
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pay you're not
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[Music] coming by the way we can we can talk to you about something because this is
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going to be on October 9th so I'm in New York and I haven't done it yet but it'll
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be interesting because you played along the whole Cascade of people played oh you switched that have played Biden I'm
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now going in to play Biden it's like are you I asked them I asked Steve Higgin
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Lauren's the one who asked me and I said well does Mikey day who's the latest latest does he still want to do Biden
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because I can't go you know he said Mikey would be relieved um I hope that's true but I
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they he'd love it Lauren asked me in June before the debate problem with Biden you'll come in it's just you know
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it's an Autumn in New York it's four shows and you'll be like really really have fun and then he he got kicked out
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or or he left like George Washington we don't know and uh you'll come in as a ghost you'll be
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places he won't let go so he wants you to go in there pop up and do it so what
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on the Continuum of Biden where were you you're like who did it before you and who did it after you
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well on the Continuum I'm guessing I hold the record for quickest
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tenure uh which I think was you know
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probably uh just putting America out of their misery uh I did it for I there
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were two appearances before me was uh a young upstart named Jim
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Carrey um oh okay yeah yeah so this was after he did his that was like kind know
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you know the whole fall yeah I guess yeah during that election and that was I believe always
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meant to be sort of a temporary thing and then I had screen tested before they went with um Mr Cary
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so I shown Biden yeah it's Biden okay yeah so then and then I was playing uh
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golf it was like close to Thanksgiving and uh I was out there teeing it up and
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I got a phone call from a friend of mine who works there is like heyy just a heads up I think Lauren's going to be
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calling you and I think they're going I think they're going to give you Biden and I was like cool that's great and then sure
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enough uh the next day he brought me in and yeah similar conversation hello
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right you L Biden well I think that there's a trajectory this is a little process for
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the audience you know there's a trajectory like someone gets elected like we all knew Joe Biden but then he's
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elected president now were really in the primar we really seeing what he how he talks and what and then it takes a while
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for the audience to recognize the hooks so early in I only had uh my father lost
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his job no joke you know those was his early kind of manifestations and then
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for me I don't know if you did it before after Afghanistan because the press conference
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there was the first time I saw him get angry and it was funny it was always
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going to be hard you know that guy so there may not have been there was no hooks after that I kind of gave up on it
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I did it on coar and I go it's so soft and whispery father lost his job no joke that's all I had until he yeah there you
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go all right it's it's my God we should have fun come on what are we doing what
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are we doing let's let my god let's get back to the business of having fun for
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my God it was like please what are we doing here uh did they let you do it
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like that did they let you yeah more or less
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I I guess I it that that time was kind of a blur um lot of I was very deep into
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that was my bourbon face I'm just kidding uh no I it was it was just so
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quick I did yeah my god oh let's uh and and when I screen tested with him it was
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more like he was kind of con L hitting on Jenna the stage manager which I think
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maybe had had you know we done more of him maybe we would have gotten to him being the more like hair sniffy dude
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right that's a funny hook but the um yeah I guess my thing was like thinking
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he was like Joe cool you know but then clearly like not clocking the fact that
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he's just slightly out of touch you know what I mean so that was kind of more the
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the hook if I had one clearly whatever the hook was it was a hard pass from the higher ups at the show well also when I
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didar when I did Cole bear there was just a sense of uh everyone was
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exhausted whatever your political Stripe from the TR Trump yes and then when Biden came in it was like he's a
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moderate Democrat reach across the aisle just GNA quiet everything down and when
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when I was doing coar remotely and I'd go for a certain kind of joke the audience would just sort of get quiet they didn't the audience wasn't ready
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they don't want to go f right away you know so yeah no that's that's true and that I think is another thing that was
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going on at the time was like I don't know that people wanted to everyone was
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exhausted like you said it was just like okay well what's the what's the joke about this guy Also let's not joke about
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him because he just uh saved us from the you know collapse of democracy or
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whatever is going through people's minds you know uh exactly not ready in New York they're
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not going to poke him as heart right and then the next some and then like I said
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I think in that you know uh vulture interview that you guys mentioned they
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wisely realized that they had hired a guy who is one of the most insanely gifted Impressionists of all time in Mr
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J himself and they were like oh this guy can can make Biden sing and so so it is
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believe me all good because I I I really James's Biden tickles me his Trump
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absolutely tickles me so I was between my arrow was between Carrie and Johnson
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was my Biden Administration okay I got it so it made sense because his his
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Trump is like jazz you know it's a it's a remarkably detailed um and he told me
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for for himself I guess it's okay to say he just made it a cause celeb for himself to to try to really Master a
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Biden for himself um and so he's been working on it but there there's a lot of
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hooks there a c celeb I like how he you called it a CA celeb which normally if
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I'm not mistaken is reserved for an actual charitable cause that one lens
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one celeb to but in this case yeah his cause was Griffin said that to ziaa
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kabore in 1966 and I I've never forgot it and I use it I know what it means M Griffin no
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come on you're fine what it means so anyway so you did that which was sort of that pre- audience accepting and James
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had told me that just this summer once and for his audience as to stand up once
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Biden was no longer running the crowd was emancipated and laughing really hard
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so it's interesting that's probably true yeah yeah because they're not worried about helping Trump you know right
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yeah can I uh Dana another thing that I stole from you is uh when you my my
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first season when you came back to do church lady uh on
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update I just happen to be walking by um in the hallway and somebody asked
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you how it went after dress and you said something like well at least I didn't peek at dress uh and I so I always stole
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the that was just like and and like yeah at least I didn't peek a like if something went kind of like a little
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dicey add dress like well yeah uh that there's no way that was the
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peak this could be this could be a good thing you say to the writers this is good because you you don't and it is
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somewhat true I mean I felt like I'd Peak it read through in the early days because I was trying so hard and then
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maybe I'd Peak Friday night trying to entertain the crew or I'd peek at dress cuz I was pushing and right after after
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a little time there I was able to kind of just do it 85% because you want what's going through your head during
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the air show is this is the best it's ever gone yeah that's all yeah rather
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than like huh they laugh harder a few hours ago dress was so much better oh
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now we're going down between yeah you you you want to do
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good enough a dress where it makes the show you don't want to save it so much that it gets cut and you go oh [ __ ] what
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right fine line so of your kind of like your
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your poppy hits which the one you had the most fun doing was it the the uh
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film reviewer seemed really fun because you're just you're locked in rhythmically you've got all the hooks
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and change ups and um I don't know if people are familiar with this one but tell us about that what did you do it
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before SNL or do it at iio iio that's right IO what does IO stand for improv
00:30:00
Olympics oh improv Olympics dum dum I think Spade's been on my
00:30:06
Wikipedia um was that a trunk piece was that a trunk piece that you brought to the show a trunk trunk you know a trunk
00:30:14
trunk piece isn't that me you pull out when you need it it goes with con
00:30:19
motivational speaker was a trunk piece yeah why did you write it during the show I that one that one it was during
00:30:28
the show no who just did a someone just did a thumbs down have you seen did no that's something that in our computers
00:30:34
like sometimes Stars will come we never put it I don't know yeah exactly I think
00:30:40
it it could happen Dana can do confetti sometimes sometimes right now it's not
00:30:45
because of this freaking I can't even get a real one let me see no hey I got one right above the Joe
00:30:52
Dirt hat a thumbs down [Laughter] funny e
00:30:58
which we've already covered was is actually very funny you're in the clear on that uh we're in the clear was not a
00:31:05
trunk piece I like that expression which is like something I brought along when I got there no that always killed you know
00:31:12
all no no you know what's funny is uh actually speaking of trunk pieces another I'm just going to keep
00:31:18
referencing we love it ways that Dana you came up in either conversation or My
00:31:24
waitering Life um in my in my meet I I don't think I've ever actually told
00:31:30
anybody publicly about my meeting with Lauren you know like before you get hired and he referenced you in that
00:31:38
meeting because he said something to me to the effect of like the gist was like
00:31:44
we don't really know what we're getting with you because you're not a known entity and I was sort of like yeah I
00:31:49
hear you and he was like like like with Dana for example we knew what we were he
00:31:56
had an act he was established we knew what we were getting and I was like yeah I I get that well he also show dis does
00:32:02
church lady in his act right trunk all of it was surreal I had no idea how it
00:32:08
was going to go I really really thought that I was gonna me and Phil the show was only had an eight show pickup we by
00:32:15
Christmas it was going to get cancelled for the only time and the now they're doing a documentary about 85 and 86
00:32:22
because there's so many documentaries for the 50th but um I didn't realize that I didn't there no Groundlings in
00:32:28
San Francisco so I was doing standup and then Rowdy bars you know I would have a
00:32:34
rough time cuz I was kind of doing little characters and Impressions but I didn't know it would go as well as it
00:32:39
did you know but it was uh it I was a great feeling when I said what isn't
00:32:45
that special and I got to laugh just like in the clubs I was like okay I don't know where I am but um anyway you
00:32:51
were you were already you were like touring right I mean you I was doing a lot of clubs I did a lot of shitty weird
00:32:57
things they offered me because Hollywood wanted to hire me just as a nice guy you know I did a movie with Bert Lancaster
00:33:03
Kirk Douglas just a nice straight man I did Blue Thunder with James fantino as the straight man I did m one of the boys
00:33:10
with Mickey Rooney and Nathan Lane so uh but then I kind of said to hell with it I'm probably not going to make it I'll
00:33:16
just pay so I just did a lot of clubs for two years a lot and that's where it
00:33:21
all it helped it was helpful um 10,000 hours uh also and
00:33:28
the um Cho and broccoli uh was one of the first laughs
00:33:34
I ever remember getting in my life was just imitating Cho and broccoli to my
00:33:40
parents and sisters and then being like look at this precocious little ham singing chopping broccol 12 11 did you
00:33:47
try to actually play it no no I did I just like my lady she went
00:33:55
downtown uh as like a 5-year-old you know bought some
00:34:01
[Music] broccoli you when I hear other people do it it
00:34:08
makes me laugh but as I was doing it I'm still mystified by the how long people
00:34:14
it may be the thing I'm referenced to most in many ways I don't know what it is about it you know it's completely
00:34:20
inan yeah it's it's from another planet it's it's so here's the way I put it
00:34:26
it's so d stupid Dana that's how people say it that's that's like that's their
00:34:32
backhanded compliment it's not funny at all so it's funny some people well
00:34:37
someone told me the the commitment everyone hates it I love it
00:34:43
is what it's about it being so precious but you probably didn't know this I'm
00:34:48
going to talk about myself but I kept going with that character we gave him a name Derek Stevens and I wrote an idea
00:34:54
that the record company asks him says he has to you know they have to kill him because they'll get more record sales
00:35:01
and they have a chart where it's like Jim Morrison sales went up and Jimmy Hendrick and so and that laid there you
00:35:09
know that was like no it was a funny conceptual idea Phil Hartman the late great was playing
00:35:15
the guy but so well I'm very flattered about that so oh my God I want to talk
00:35:21
about more what other things that did you like of sorry funny you should ask
00:35:26
Opportunity Knocks I saw in theaters eating Milk Duds with my family uh when
00:35:32
it came out uh do you remember doing that movie yeah I do it was a
00:35:37
interesting experience your first big movie out of SNL first big Au yeah it was a little it was a little difficult
00:35:44
you know cuz I they did not want to um let me write it with them or anything
00:35:51
you know so then the movie came out and it was unreleasable
00:35:59
and so the worst well it was the ratings were so low in the theater they go it's
00:36:04
unreleasable it has to go straight the video then they asked me you got any ideas so I just came up with this silly
00:36:11
thing of Born to Be Wild where he jumps on the stage and does that so we put that in and a couple other little things
00:36:18
and then it got released it didn't make that much it's no Joe Dirt Joe dirt's a great comedy we all have our turkeys
00:36:24
that's another going back to the 70s or something [ __ ] J but kids like it it was
00:36:32
fanciful and silly but what what can we I well you you're my favorite guest I
00:36:38
not because of saying everything you love about my entire career but you're just as a
00:36:45
person I like you the feeling is mutual but I truly I not I I don't mean to keep
00:36:50
just like diving into you know Carvey lore but I I it goes it runs pretty deep
00:36:56
so I'm just making sure you know that um I you I would always love to hear that
00:37:01
you know because so I I and on this show people sometime I do like to give people
00:37:07
compliments because I think most creative people have an inner critic of you know or you're the other way like
00:37:14
hey have you seen it bulletproof yeah Alex I have to agree with you that it's
00:37:20
not crazy you say this stuff I watched Dana he's not much older than me but I
00:37:26
watched him he was breaking obviously before anything happened with me and so I watched that and [ __ ] chopping
00:37:32
broccoli it's such and everyone thinks it's like this undiscovered but everyone seems to love if they know comedy and
00:37:39
it's so good I mean I love Hans and fronts I like all this stuff but that that's way way way up there so you're
00:37:45
not crazy and uh it's if especially if you're on SNL and you do characters I didn't do as many characters as most
00:37:52
people so I was more in amazement of like I can't do all this [ __ ] you know I'd watch all the guys I'm like this is
00:37:58
just not even possible I hear you but you also like you you carved out your
00:38:04
own slice of that show and actually here's another fun fact I went at after
00:38:10
the first time so the the character you mentioned uh early on that I did guy who
00:38:15
just bought a boat uh I wrote that with a really great writer named Anna dresen
00:38:20
who became head we started together at SNL she became headwriter but anyway she was like under the bleachers uh the
00:38:27
first time I did that and uh a and it went well the first time I did it uh and
00:38:34
apparently Lauren uh like said turned to Anna and said uh it's very
00:38:40
Spade so I I always took that and I remember at the time being like yes I
00:38:45
will take it it yeah it's it's very Spade so uh I took character called receptionist where
00:38:53
I was just being like really aloof to people like oh and you are and this is regarding and and then people would be
00:39:00
like who's that gay character you played I'm like um I don't think it's gay and
00:39:06
they're like no you're gay and it's gay and the show and every sketch you're in is a gay person I'm like no no no so I
00:39:14
had say that cuz she's like anti no she thought I was like coming out but it was
00:39:21
uh I cuz it's somewhat feminine some of those you know what I mean I hear that
00:39:26
one for me yeah it's just tricky right now when I look back I go oh I see
00:39:33
it it's just lorious it's lorious it's not any any
00:39:40
sexual orientation it's just right right now of course like this of course I know
00:39:46
what lorus means but for the listeners who don't what does lorus mean it's it's
00:39:53
being in a state of lorious oh say no more
00:40:00
[Music] back to our guest Alex bit in his great
00:40:07
run on SNL I love when the premises see if you didn't have guy who owns a boat a
00:40:13
man owns a boat what is the title guy who drove a boat I think it's yeah all three of those all three of
00:40:19
those guy who saw a boat yeah I think that really just kind of like why why waste time you get right everyone you
00:40:25
know what I mean just I love the president presentation of that I did Germans who say nice things with Steve
00:40:31
Carell once and it just it could have worked without it but it's just no right presid exactly what it is this is what
00:40:38
you're getting obviously it's a pretentious kind of prick uh and uh you
00:40:44
know it was and that was all that was all anad dren she and yeah she called it
00:40:50
called it that title which made me laugh when she said it and I was like yeah he that's his name of course and then she
00:40:57
also was the one who pitched we had been like writing the character and then even kind of like late in the game she she
00:41:04
was like well and what if he just like says he has a horrible dick and I was like yeah
00:41:11
so the thing that made the bit actually work W you know uh was like him saying
00:41:18
his his subtext or whatever and that was all Anna so thank God for good
00:41:25
writers well we talked about this last week just this idea of almost it's a rodeo aspect where you're in the shoot
00:41:32
and you're going to wheel out and pivot to 15 million people or whatever and
00:41:37
you're waiting and they're getting laughs and maybe some other cast member killed and you're still in the shoot and
00:41:44
you got your stuff rolling the car I mean it's it's a very so you went out
00:41:49
there and landed it and so the writer she probably gave you a big hug because
00:41:55
all of her stuff killed and you have to you have to do it you know with timing and talent so it was like a hand and a
00:42:02
glove the two of us writing this and then a couple of guys uh who write pretty much exclusively for update uh uh
00:42:11
Pete Schultz and Josh Patton both then by like they started after like the
00:42:17
first few times we did that bit they started like just texting us really really gross funny dick jokes and we
00:42:24
were like all right you're in you want to write this with us so then guys jumped on board and by the end it was
00:42:30
sort of a foreheaded beast where we we would just text each other the dumbest dumbest stuff we could but uh yeah I
00:42:36
read when you when you joined you um I didn't mean to cut you off there um when you joined I think your was it your
00:42:43
first host was Chappelle or was you just got the sit in room with Chappelle which would have sort of Blown Away most people I think it was like my four
00:42:50
fourth or fifth show so first year yeah but that's like that one of the you know
00:42:56
arguably best IC out there arguably uh there's a lot of really good ones but to
00:43:01
just I remember being there and they just have the host walk in your office and you you couldn't believe it and especially if it's like a funny but it's
00:43:08
kind of in your world like same age like I would have someone that was 60 five
00:43:13
come in I was you know 25 so it was a little different but when you have someone that's like out there that you
00:43:19
know that's cool it's such a weird thing that he's like he doesn't know anything
00:43:24
so he just thinks you're might be the best writer there right so like hey what are you thinking and you're like getting
00:43:29
nervous going what I don't know what the [ __ ] I'm doing what yeah you and you're Alex I want to ask you a question
00:43:35
because we talked about this before but you're on ADH and there's a host and then someone will say you know I don't
00:43:42
know uh who would be Taylor Swift is down there if you want to say hello and
00:43:48
you're kind of walking and the door opens and you're meeting three-dimensionally this F like I had charlon hon to for example like you
00:43:55
could go meet charlon h the guy soil green he's waiting they're not going to
00:44:01
tackle you way what were your I just want to for a second because I the experiential that's another they pretty
00:44:07
good the lorious experiential thing of going into ADH going seeing Lauren Michaels all this stuff is so
00:44:13
established and now you're a cast member and you're on that show and what were
00:44:19
some of your M what what was your mind-blowing moments where you like I walked through ADH today and I got very
00:44:27
sort of I just felt weird I hear you it's just weird I I saw
00:44:33
pictures and I was like I needed to get out of there something what's wrong yeah
00:44:39
I there pictures all over the place of you as like the head wound hairy guy did
00:44:44
you happen to see those another monster um it was a big one I did not write that
00:44:49
one I rode that one the dog and I I'm not sure the star the dog was the star
00:44:55
because they added more food but I did hold the wig on you know cuz I knew if
00:45:00
the wig flew off I knew it was a good enough sketch that let's not make it about that so I was really fighting
00:45:06
so that's thinking on your face well to to answer your question for for some
00:45:11
reason the first thing that pops to mind is uh that even seeing ADH I knew would
00:45:18
kind of be kind of a big moment because again I kind of revered the show revered
00:45:23
the job so the first time I was sort of the running for it uh which was a few
00:45:29
years before I actually ended up getting hired I had auditioned at
00:45:36
spay uh in Chicago and then they flew me there for some meetings and then one of the assistants
00:45:44
or something was like kind of walking me around they were walking me from the offices on 17 or like taking me down to
00:45:50
higgins's office which was several in some dungeon under the building uh and that but we
00:45:58
had to like go through eight for some reason they were like Hey we're walking by the studio do you want to see it and
00:46:04
I in my mind I remember going like and I said actually I'm I'm good thank you um
00:46:09
because I wanted to I didn't want to just like look at it as a tourist you know what I mean like I wanted to sort
00:46:14
of have a reason to be in there so even though they were I hadn't been invited to screen test and so I just sort of
00:46:22
wanted to save it for a time when I was actually being invited to perform in there was a opposed to just like look at
00:46:28
it as a fan if that makes sense and yeah interesting so then the first time I
00:46:33
ever set foot in that studio was to screen test four years later um wow yeah
00:46:42
and and you know Chris Kelly uh one of the stage managers I was he there with either of you guys I don't think so
00:46:49
don't think so maybe when I would did the guest stuff you know sometimes i' do
00:46:54
a cameo or something but yeah yeah so great guy he kind of you know walks you into the studio kind of just like
00:47:02
patting your head like a nervous dog uh you know and then uh Jenna who is is his his
00:47:11
like counterpart co co yeah Studio manager they both kind of babysit all
00:47:17
these young nervous people about to screen test so anyway the first time I saw the studio was like walking out
00:47:23
there to go and you know uh do my screen test but uh yeah what a what a wild uh
00:47:30
thing that it the place definitely has like a very surreal sweet little corner
00:47:36
of my heart I I love it so much and it took you three auditions to
00:47:42
get the show over three years or something like that I mean took you a while to get on took me a good eight
00:47:47
yeah took me 34 years all told but uh yeah so I auditioned in
00:47:55
2013 uh for like like bunch of R in in Chicago uh twice that year the following
00:48:02
year sent in a tape and heard nothing the following year auditioned in La at
00:48:07
iio West Spade oh um
00:48:13
andle gentleman joins us what that doof as Sher Sherman when she on that doof uh
00:48:20
no she that was the following year that that nutball that's that beautiful
00:48:26
nutball put in a rubber room yes for
00:48:31
real um and a straight jacket how she been on say m flowers
00:48:39
um in a [ __ ] bird cage uh no but so
00:48:44
that but that year in iio West they actually hired the guy who went on before me which was John rodnitzky
00:48:49
and uh super duper funny incredibly talented guy and so then the following
00:48:56
year as when I auditioned in Chicago again and then that year finally got to screen test blah blah blah so all told I
00:49:02
think I did like six auditions over the course of four summer
00:49:08
what a beating damn and then you finally get it and who came in with you Melissa right or Melissa V and uh Mikey day
00:49:16
moved from just lowly writer to uh cast
00:49:22
the year oh yeah Melissa V Mikey d that's pretty big not until later right
00:49:29
no I know no I'm allergic to I I'll explain later yeah okay um so you get on and you did how
00:49:39
long three years uh six six just just twice that many
00:49:45
years you did more than aade no I did six years six years might be the average
00:49:51
I did say that's 120 120 shows basically or more I don't know some years ago 20
00:49:57
that sounds about right it's a nice good run wait say SP you did
00:50:02
six Dana how many were you on there I think it was seven 12 12 no I mean
00:50:10
I I never if you you know you don't that was such a great place for me to be you
00:50:17
know and you you when you step off of it and I had so much stuff coming at me but you step off of it and then you're like
00:50:22
oh you're kind of never going to do sketch comedy again unless you guest H
00:50:28
you know there's Not Another Saturday Night Live there's no Fridays remember Fridays from the early ' 80s there's no
00:50:35
In Living Color yeah I mean SNL is just the little or the big engine that can not The Little Engine That Could um so
00:50:43
it's big engine that did and still does and can yes well you're on Bad Monkey
00:50:49
now we didn't even talked about that before we get you out of here like Bad Monkey is uh it's so different it must
00:50:56
be because I'm when I left SNL there's just nothing like it as far as the excitement level I mean even the
00:51:02
doing takes and doing movies it's all fun but it builds up to when it comes out it's right it's fun and nervous when
00:51:09
you do it but it's not that crazy nerves true was there a question in there no
00:51:15
I'm trying to see if you agree we're just observing that you you've hit the ground running after SNL seems like
00:51:21
you're in demand as an actor comedic actor whatever you want to call it so it's nice I mean that
00:51:27
got well-received show Vince vongh it's a blast is cool yeah that that show is
00:51:33
great and then I mean it's far as the yeah there's no other way to be in front of like you
00:51:39
said 15 million people shooting out of a rodeo gate uh I don't think there's a
00:51:45
lot of shows out there that that provide that level of excitement but uh you know
00:51:51
doing theater um they can't I don't think there are any theaters that could squeeze 15 M into them but doing doing a
00:51:59
play doing a musical yeah you did one recently right last year in Broadway
00:52:04
yeah did did a play uh last summer which was a blast uh the cage the cottage and
00:52:11
then now uh I'm doing a musical so you guys should come what yes whoa Spade can
00:52:18
dance how what are your what are your qualifications what are you the next
00:52:24
Liza Manelli or something up here what's what makes Alex Moffett a musical star
00:52:31
all the sudden you know the Trump twin guy all right what's what's on the music
00:52:36
what's on your curriculum BT that's applicable to the live musical game I
00:52:42
got some old tap shoes from red butt you can borrow
00:52:48
sorry I can so what are you going to do in the music are you going to sing and dance sing what are you what are you
00:52:54
going to do all all of it and my God the voice of a nightingale uh oh yeah I
00:52:59
could tell just by you talking is it a is it a western mus ital
00:53:05
is it well I'm going to shoot up this town going to shot or is it a romance or is it is it a
00:53:12
remake of an a musical is it no it's a it's a brand newal it's an orig called
00:53:18
Big O space pering up you perking up he went from do
00:53:27
not we counted as joh I've counted five so far
00:53:33
six no but you guys do that instead of saying original you say Ridge you guys
00:53:38
have that in common um so anyway it's not out yet but you sing and dance as well did you ever sing and dance on SNL
00:53:45
once or twice yeah uh not to any great fanf fair but yeah I can kind of I can
00:53:52
do a little bit of each enough that they allowed me to I you know well enough to
00:53:58
do it in comedic settings which I think is sort of my my purpose in this too is
00:54:03
I'm not blowing anybody's hair back with my voice of an Angel but you know I can I can move my body little bit talkie
00:54:11
Broadway singing like I know is yes and I know what you want but I'm telling you
00:54:17
I'm in town tonight is like that sounds F how did you get an advanced copy of my
00:54:22
song D I just see you up there know what I want and I'm telling you I'm in town
00:54:31
tonight and I like [ __ ] they're like don't add li no no it's not keep it
00:54:36
short maet yeah that was that literally a lyric or you're just doing the fake
00:54:41
I'm just I loved the song that you made up Alex were you saying that I'm in town
00:54:48
a play does kind of mimic the crazy energy of SNL it is scary a play is very
00:54:54
scary so that that wakes you up that's a good one oh yeah I uh that's like standup it's kind of the same thing like
00:55:00
totally exactly exactly yeah live Crowds Are are always gonna be scary uh totally
00:55:10
yeah do you guys are you the types who like when you're going out about to go out and do standup do you still feel
00:55:15
like the the butterflies in the basket yeah I definitely do yeah definitely
00:55:21
Dana yeah yeah like in a good way right like yeah well it's good because in the
00:55:26
olden days it's like here you know on a Cowboy Bar Here Comes Dan you know what [ __ ] you you know they don't know who
00:55:33
you are now it's like sa fasten your comedy safety belts cuz this man brings
00:55:40
it every time Live Comedy right now from I you know and so it's like it's like
00:55:46
it's like NASCAR you know him from this this you go to Open Mic you have you
00:55:53
have notes and they're like he's here you know so that's the other pressure but it's a it's a good problem to have
00:55:59
as they say yeah it's a good Buzz too when you get off if it goes good you do a la Michael's impression because
00:56:06
everyone does a good one I don't I don't have there's no such thing as good or bad everyone has a different you know
00:56:13
different slight angle you'll you'll um we don't know you you do the best Lauren
00:56:19
go ahead Dana give us some more um you'll find Alex is uh is like a really really good guy and uh he did some great
00:56:27
work for us and um he's um he's going to have a long [Music] career um we had a moment uh neither of
00:56:37
us are gay but there we looked anyway it doesn't matter happen to dorso one time and Oro
00:56:43
sorry what what is it with Orso because also in that you
00:56:49
know cast dinners yeah well it wasn't during our time but in my you know how also I guess PF CHS did it move yeah
00:56:59
yeah uh in a in a secret room under the giant horse out front um little p Chang
00:57:06
humor for you yeah thank you um that's all I got no but we now it's at some
00:57:13
place in the Theater District but when I was uh when I had my little meeting with him where he you know said like uh
00:57:19
essentially you're know Dana um he he also said heard it's and you know what
00:57:27
hey he ain't wrong um I think it was more just like he was setting the table for a conversation like hey what what we
00:57:33
don't know who who the hell are you like we've I've never seen you before so it was a valid thing um because he also was
00:57:40
like it's you know it's a it's an election year it's going to be tough to get your PE you know sometimes people
00:57:46
spin out if it's their first year and it's an election year and I was sort of I didn't really fight him on anything I
00:57:51
was sort of like yeah I hear you like I know you're like listen I'm just get me in was like I got Satur
00:57:58
Night Live yeah um but I Al so then at the end
00:58:03
you know how he will like say ask if you have any questions for I don't know if that was his thing when you guys met
00:58:09
with him anything for me yeah he was like do you have any questions for me and for whatever reason my the only
00:58:15
thing I could think of was I just said uh I was like uh yeah um I've got my
00:58:20
fiance in town with me and we wanted to like do a fun dinner tonight any recommendations
00:58:27
and so I asked him for a dinner recommendation in my which he was like oh uh oh uh well there's always Oro uh
00:58:35
so he was like but but he like but you know one of the my assistants could
00:58:40
probably give you a list of recommendations but I was like no no no if or oros that's good I'll go there I I
00:58:46
want it from you so so we went to oros that night um and hey the any stars well
00:58:54
let's uh can we hear about this uh because now you're married right so it apparently it was a good dinner yeah
00:59:00
cats out of the bag it worked sorry sorry hos hounds this old Ox is yoked
00:59:06
you should have proposed at Oro because then you into your proposal you're like and
00:59:13
then Lauren made me go to Oro I should have proposed right then and there but we were already engaged so I guess we
00:59:20
should have just eloped at oros that again and put on Instagram yeah yeah I mean
00:59:26
is she is she's a she's a brilliant actor we met at a Vita cheese commercial
00:59:32
audition in Chicago 12 years ago that's the place that's the place wow yeah and
00:59:39
who got it neither one of us and no one in fact I think the the script was so
00:59:46
bad they chucked it out the window and never made the spot they said the the government just found out what's in Vita
00:59:52
cheese and it's being shut down so they not going to it's half as there's no cheese as
01:00:02
[Music] best sorry non sec I was talking to Lauren once and it was just about
01:00:07
business Show Business and how the machinations of it he said no one likes to know how a hot dog gets
01:00:15
made I do I saw a YouTube video on it but the old days you have YouTube no
01:00:23
no not in the old days youd have to accept my
01:00:28
analogy yeah okay I'm gonna go okay bye I'm gonna go o o Oprah um what would you
01:00:36
say to your younger self right now who the first day of SNL I'm just going is it Oprah or is it maybe either way that
01:00:45
was a really good Oprah impression did you ever get that good
01:00:50
people that's all I got um say to my younger self you don't have to that it's
01:00:56
pretty corny no no it's a good question well here's a question this is I I you I
01:01:02
guess I would tell myself uh just um you know enjoy make sure you try the tery
01:01:07
Sue at oros um it's out of this world but uh how did you two decide to pair up
01:01:14
for this because uh Spade correct me if I'm wrong didn't I've heard you tell the story about how you thought you were
01:01:21
going to get to play like Ross perau or something because they asked you they were like we're going to and then but
01:01:27
you were basically just a stand in for Dana is that am I getting that right pretty close yeah we we uh that Ross
01:01:34
perau came in the news I didn't even know how the minations worked at SN know but I hit up Smigel and said hey there's
01:01:40
this new guy but they of course knew all this because I was just seeing it on like Meet the Press I go maybe this guy
01:01:46
itd be funny for me to play and they're like oh oh yeah Dana's going to play it I'm like how many can Dana do and so but
01:01:54
then this is how dumb I am is that when it came up for like a special right like a nighttime Prime Time special there was
01:02:02
Clinton Ross Pro and George Bush so I said they said can you come in and do Ros Pro I was like oh [ __ ] yeah I
01:02:08
thought well of course Dana can't but I was just a standing for the wide shots with the whole for the wide
01:02:15
shot David had to put the wig on and go and I remember it was a sadest i' seen
01:02:20
him he's out there with the stuff on and I go I'm sorry man this is pretty bad you know I tell GIS my manager I might
01:02:27
quit and he goes where you going to go who wants the guy that was bad on us now and then quit I go Jesus Christ that's
01:02:34
not the pet talk I was looking for he's a he's a uh he's firm but he's Fair our
01:02:40
manager how about you you've done a few things I met David before SNL when he
01:02:47
was like out of high school in the Beachwood Canyon with Kevin nean so we
01:02:52
go back there and then we've just all he used to open for me a great open open her never you know uh would never go on
01:02:58
too long would come out in shorts and just kind of wand her put on a mic and a little prop and kind of lean on the
01:03:04
stool it's 3,000 seats in the round Outdoors what's and I didn't know you could do stand up like that but he would
01:03:10
kill playing it under hey what's going on what are you people doing I'm go out there dancing for my Donuts hey I'm
01:03:17
drenching sweat David's like what's up so then when I had had a place in La we
01:03:23
started hanging out and stuff and then stay Buddies well so we're on we're on the same
01:03:30
anything left for Alex we've pretty much covered literally everything we uh we just have a few moments left and uh is
01:03:37
there anything else you'd like to say to your fans out there 120 shows of site live Alex Moffett one of the uh one of
01:03:47
my favorite guests we've had on fly I he kept mentioning every every bit that
01:03:52
I've from the uh Olympics the wall I just got
01:04:01
that fly on a wall they listen uh yeah but thank you yes uh
01:04:08
that's my Ed McMahon uh no is no Phil Hartman speaking of uh I
01:04:16
love did you both overlap with him we did I came in with Phil in 86 and
01:04:23
then David came in in 90 and then Phil Phil left with him he wanted to go
01:04:29
longer and David said time to go Phil was getting I got a whiff of what Phil was getting and I was like B like I was
01:04:36
like holy [ __ ] and then I thought well if they're going to give it to anybody this is the guy we called him the glue
01:04:43
he was very important very important um could do anything and was so talented he kind of didn't he was really into
01:04:50
schematics of motorboat engines Evan rude hey look at this Evan rude motor we're were just rehearsing and he was
01:04:57
just a Renaissance design design albums and uh
01:05:03
he could play guitar blu's he was just like and he just would just sit there he had his binder and he'd always intend
01:05:09
things and he'd underline everything and they go okay go up and then he'd be like hello I'm a crazy Frankenstein man or
01:05:15
whatever he just do it truly could do it all oh my god do it all the glue the
01:05:21
glue a nice guy that like on a Thursday would stop me and say hey I liked your update like if it didn't get on or
01:05:26
something he would stop and go these jokes are funny or something you know just and that's like a guy that's that
01:05:32
good saying something just takes this thing out a little bit you know because you're already bummed out yeah you mean
01:05:39
like oh like from the read through it didn't get picked up and then he's like I liked it and uh that's sweet so he was
01:05:46
a sweet guy sweet guy very sweet guy oh yeah yeah just just uh unpretentious no
01:05:53
ego just just just uh just a great you know so who was your favorite cast
01:05:58
member we want a trend and who didn't you really like who did you hate who didn't I like let's start there no um I
01:06:05
mean I'm a huge like of all time what what are my who are my favorite or when you were there yeah oh when I
01:06:12
was uh well my Mount Rushmore well we can do all
01:06:17
seriously uh I mean Phil's up there Eddie Murphy Dana I would put you on
01:06:24
there my friend um thank you that's nice Dan arroy when I was coming through in
01:06:30
college those guys were the Beatles basically yeah Chevy Danny
01:06:36
Johnny I think you know whenever we mention or make a list I then later I
01:06:41
regret that I forgot this person you know Tot so it's especially as you get in the modern era you know so yeah you
01:06:47
don't want to leave anybody out uh no I I had an amazing group when I was there I mean
01:06:54
Kate is I think one of the altimer and just a sweetie pie yeah uh and a good
01:06:59
friend and one of the funniest people ever you know put on this Earth absolutely Kenan also could like with
01:07:07
even just like the slightest little look in his eye could just make me like the
01:07:12
clo I didn't break uh really much on the show but Keenan could make me break and
01:07:19
I I had several times of just like having to like pinch my leg or like bite the inside of my cheek cuz Keen would
01:07:25
just sort of give me a look knowing that he could level me uh so he's one of the great
01:07:30
too yeah and then Melissa is just so sweet we had her on here she's amazing a
01:07:36
brilliant uh ear you know just amazingly talented yeah insane yeah and Mikey day
01:07:43
seems like an extremely nice guy that's see why you two would be friends yeah
01:07:48
he's one of the great menes of all time so I and and I've said this before but I mean the fact that he was already very
01:07:55
like Savvy in the you know workings of
01:08:00
the show having been a writer for a few years and then kind of like took me under his wing and a way when I started
01:08:06
there like couldn't have couldn't have been a nicer guy couldn't have been a better situation for me to walk into
01:08:12
where this guy who's brilliant and is like also low-key one of the best sketch
01:08:18
writers ever uh kind of looked out for me like an older bro when I got there so I was very lucky for that so yeah all
01:08:25
yeah invaluable well thank you Alex uh good
01:08:30
Lord is gonna go do his SNL stuff nowo yeah let try to see see what I what
01:08:37
I can do get your fact straight Jack there it is it is I did
01:08:44
the come on I'm a more transformative president I did the border the board there the the butter can't believe it's
01:08:50
on butter there you go it's gonna work there you go this yeah that's great
01:08:57
thanks guys appreciate it be well take care have a good day enjoyed it thanks Alex this has been a presentation of
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