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okay Vanessa Bayer is today that's a bear what a lovely girl um we had a great time with her she's an
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SNL uh vet from not not very long ago she just no she had a great job like a
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lot of people started his feature moved up to the main cast and just created a
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lot of indelible wonderful characters her her uh Laura Parsons who acts out
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like adult movies she does a lot of childlike things in such a funny way her Miley Cyrus is hysterical yes and um
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she's just really really sweet and she you know she talks a bit in her new show
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she talks about surviving childhood leukemia so there's a seriousness to it and how it affected the rest of her life
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and so in this new show I love it for you oh yeah I thought it was I love you for that but it's I love that for you I
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love that for you I wrote it down because it is one of those on Showtime so she's adorable and talented and this
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was a really really fun part yeah I saw that and then she comes in and Molly Shannon the great moment and her
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together yeah so so that's a score I have to tell you you know off off the record my eye the record I cram these
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things in this is just a quick story okay I told Dana the other day that I auditioned for the monkeys he wanted to find out what happened so the monkeys is
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a band oh I I know I was I was in that air I'm
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a Believer I couldn't wait I mean I knew they weren't The Beatles so I was watching that show everything I just got the numbers and our crowd is four to
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seven year olds that's our big demo that listens to this point it went from two to five to four seconds we're getting
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more mature so so you so they rebooted they rebooted they want you maybe to play right when I move out here I'm just
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starting stand up I'm staying with Kevin I'm staying with you maybe at that point uh or the funny boys uh Jim and Jonathan
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on their couch so I'm barely here I'm back and forth to Phoenix oh you just arrived Scottsdale yeah so yeah bud
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Friedman uh the legendary owner of the Improv yeah sees me to a few spots lets me
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stand I'm probably 20. he goes David they're doing a monkeys right reboot or
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something I never called a reboot they're gonna do the monkeys again it's called the new monkeys I go oh yeah and
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he goes you should get I could try to get you an audition for that he goes you look young you look like you're 15 I go
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oh yeah I go but the only thing is I skateboard but I don't play um you know I don't really sing her do
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Benny goes it doesn't matter these shows are like all fake you just go in there and they have someone do it for you and
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it's all lipstick I go oh such a nice man Bud he goes I'll get you in I got it I have to drive back to L.A then I have
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to fly back on Southwest to do it and I go to Warner Brothers and I go to some
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trailer it's not quite as Glam as you see in the movies so this dusty trail looks like a school trailer and they're
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like next so all these kids are there Carol call yeah cattle call cattle call
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that's what they call it textbook cattle call yeah I go in they all look like me and they're all Little Squirts they're
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all [ __ ] oh I love it don't you love it when you go to and you see I see all guys with weak chins I'm like everyone
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in here why am I in here yeah and they're all like but some cool like band
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looking dudes you know so I walk in I literally sit down and he goes so looking at your uh you're a comedian I
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go yeah yeah pretty [ __ ] funny if you go by the world and he goes so what uh
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instrument you play and I go um tambourine I don't uh don't play an instrument he goes hmm uh you sing and I
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go no and he goes what are you doing here and I go well and he goes do you know
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what this is I go it's the monkeys it's I'll pretend and he goes well you sing
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and play again well they learn real monkeys learn to play their instruments later they had such a chip on their
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shoulder they learned it and went out and toured and played all the instruments but the initial they didn't yeah but of course I look like the
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biggest [ __ ] in the world and he goes so why would you come in and I go I skateboard and he goes well this isn't
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the X Games who gives a [ __ ] so it's your age he just told me to go in I didn't have
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an agent outside so then I [ __ ] cab back to the airport back to
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Southwest going I feel like I nailed it you were the surfer skateboard Teen Idol yeah back
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then yeah hey so here we go here's Vanessa bear [Music]
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where oh there she is that her that's her yeah and then I showed up a minute late like
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a little princess jeez Meg markle's finally here she's good couldn't learn
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where's uh where's where's Chuck where's the bigger guy with okay oh here's my
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microphone sorry vaness I'm new um do I need a microphone this is David's first first podcast Vanessa his
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first time hosting a podcast right now and you are you have a Broadway video
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sweatshirt I have this on today and I thought I'll keep it on yeah those of
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you at home go team Dana what's Broadway video um for those of you at home or don't
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know Broadway video is uh sort of a production company started by um uh a man a gentleman by the name of Lord
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Michaels Canadian gentleman and um they sure to do all kinds of uh uh activity
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and television shows that's all I got you know David when you get your check for Coneheads if it says Broadway video
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don't be frightened it's still going to clear David Dana if you're gonna interview Vanessa remember to be very
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clear uh be very very brief and be be on point thanks Lauren call you soon I like
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really love you uh talk to you later Lauren okay I don't even know what I'm doing that's all I got mic drop let's
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get some house let's get housekeeping do you want me to record on QuickTime
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Greg I haven't heard about QuickTime since I watched little porn clips when I when I was like 22. I had quick chips
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remember quick chips from 1962. you young Ends don't remember in my day we
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had quick chips Vanessa we're gonna let you talk in about a half hour just hang tight yeah
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we're really self-involved we're horrible hosts
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well I I have to I was just on a um plane I'm in New York now I was just
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on a red eye that's not what I had to tell you it's great yeah I love it I love playing stories yeah so and anyway
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I slept a little whatever but um I was thinking about just now I was like
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getting ready for this and I I didn't need to tell you at all that I was just not a red eye that's not part of the
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story actually but I was thinking about how excited I was to do this because I
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really love both of you so much and I just want to say like I truly like you're two of
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my favorite like Comedians and actors and I just like just thinking about
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getting to do this with you and how influential both of you were like just I'm so happy to be doing this let's
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understand yeah I think this is great thank you for having me we're gonna take a quick break now with
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our sponsor that's been Vanessa she got the cue card we sent her that's so nice right back at you you know what I
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thought about you because it's okay to be nice and sincere in 2022 I think
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because uh I when I thought about you and I hosted the show I thought damn she's
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like an incredibly nice person like literally that's kind of was I mistaken
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that's the question yes oh yeah I mean I really get it I like
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the whole cast too but uh yeah but I remember you your friend they're all that cast was great but anyway love Yeah
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but no I I uh I hope that I am a nice person but even even if I was like a
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real a real nasty monster I still meant what I said about you guys that's nice
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we have it recorded and it'll be on a tape Loop so we're gonna we're gonna work that on Instagram we were wondering
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just quickly who is the biggest pitch in the show again I think you were uh just quickly
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who did you who did you hate someone on 8h you don't have to say the name but was there someone you go man I hate that
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[ __ ] person like I mean no time
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she's like eight people came to mind she's like well let me Whittle this down going through a list for you no I wasn't
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yeah uh I think you guys have a had a good little Squadron there when you were
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there and uh I think you came on in 2010 is that right yes that's right and you had a pretty long run it says and uh
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someone asked me at TMZ at the airport the other day literally they're like you know and he goes is everyone uh leaving
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too quickly uh I think Pete's been there for eight years and Kate's been there for 10 I'm like too quickly I know I
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stayed like six I think I think Farley and Santa were five I I go they go why did people leave I go because it's a
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mental and physical beating everything yeah yeah I I I was there for seven and
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I think Kate and 80 were there for ten that's a lot Leslie's been there for ten yes I mean Keenan's been there
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in 1971 there was a whole different it was called SNL nights and I can't
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remember who the producer was he was actually Dick Cavett was the producer of
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SNL 1971 and Keenan was the number one cast member that's all wow we'll let you talk now but um if we're talking about
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Casper it's kind of interesting because you it changed a lot for you I have the same and then I had the bad boys come in
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you know Spade being one of them Farley uh Sandler and uh Rob Schneider so you
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started as a feature player and you had Seth and Bobby Moynihan Andy Samberg Jason Sudeikis and then
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she's Cecily Strong or cecially Cecily Strong Cecily so sorry yeah Cecily Kate
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and 80 came like my third year and I knew 80 from Chicago okay and she was a
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good friend of mine so that was like incredible but all of them are were so
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great and by the way I have like if you look it up it says I have the record for the woman who is there the longest
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because I was there seven seasons but they were all there the whole time with you and season so it just hasn't been
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updated yeah I read that about you and it said 100 it's not true 149 episodes
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in Seven Seasons so that means you had episodes where you went past 20. shows
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the season well yes exactly it's a technical it was a technicality that I had was the most shows because other
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women had been there for Seven Seasons but they their Seasons just weren't as long is that Maya right I think it's
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Maya I think I'm gonna call you the champion I don't think I'd be out of place to call you the champion of uh
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Saturday Night Live episode quadrants or whatever Dana do you know how many shows or years you did or how
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many shows was actually I was just I was just shy of seven years David thank you for asking we'll be with you in a minute
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it's not about me no I was it was I was as close there was a strike so I only
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ended up with like a 130 episodes but it was basically Seven Seasons so so I
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think that's a good run uh seven what was it yes what what did anything in specific participate your departure
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since all your band mates a lot of them were staying yeah well a couple one the
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main thing was seven years was the contract as you know right it was probably the con was it the contract
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when you were there no maybe not I think it was five yeah five okay it was seven for us and I just couldn't Envision an a
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scam you know our my second or third year I
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think my third season the pay went up and it was the first time it had gone up since like you guys were there
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so it was like wait without you asking it went up it just sort of bumped it I think they realized that meaning meaning
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the pay for everybody that like set rate that you get like you get a certain amount your first year it like stayed
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the same since like I think the 90s and then eventually in
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like 2012 they were like maybe we should add to this a little because of inflation pennies
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so you were whether you had three roommates you couldn't afford an apartment so then you got down to two
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roommates yeah it was cool we got paid not well uh Vanessa just on the side note that we
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all you know I think no one has leveraged when they get hired because no one's famous no one has anything right I'll sign on the dotted line and then
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the last year we got all tough and Farley and Adam and I asked for a raise and we said we were not coming back to
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the show can you believe how crazy we were that long ago that's fine
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and we go wait no we're like not coming back show will collapse he goes no I think it'll stay um you met Will Ferrell
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is coming in and I was like I didn't know he was such a home run hitter but he's always so good we didn't we
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actually backed ourselves into a corner because we didn't know what to do we were like wait are they not going to do anything and we don't go I mean and then
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I think he talked to Bernie brillstina this is how old we are and Bernie um
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Superstar metallic manager he just said give him half of what they want and let's just go and that's good it was
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something and then those guys left I guess got fired I didn't know Sandler Farley got fired till a year ago I think
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really yeah did you know that I kind of heard about it but I didn't really understand what happened that it could
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be possible but also confusing because it seemed like they
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were so beloved but stuff was happening with the network or something I think they wanted us to start over like let's
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get new people I don't know it seems dumb I I thought they were both doing so well in movies they just left and it
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made perfect sense yeah nothing I don't think anything it has to know the culture of it would be you're called in
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and someone tells you by the way you can get your things and leave the building yeah it's like a cast member oh I think
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you're fired that's true it's a slow motion thing it's like as you know you never quite know what's going on
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where's my desk and what am I doing what how did how was how did you land on that when you first got there that's such a
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good point because it's like they probably don't even know like Adam probably doesn't really know exactly
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because you sort of hear and then it's like through reps and then there's like yeah yeah you're right yeah
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let's have a talk can you come to my office and you're like yeah he's like you know it's just not working out it's just with us it was Marcy Klein or
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Shoemaker going right totally and you see people running out of Lauren's office with in tears just grabbing their
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script I don't go at least I remember Aaron moroney this this girl worked for
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Lauren she used to come down and poke her in my office go Lauren's only mad at you and then she'd run up and I'd go ease him out of me but it was so easy to
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get me going because it's made sense because they said Laura Lauren really likes you
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and that was scarier Lauren really like he does oh so Vanessa I'm gonna get into some
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SNL stuff because Dana's obviously I I didn't do my research no I actually
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um [Music]
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you don't know this but you started in 2010 right and I'm gonna go through a couple things with you okay you were you
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okay first we're gonna go back to when you it says because we're gonna talk about your show name and Dana and I
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argued it's either called hang on Dana I love you for that or I love that for you
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um well or wrong I was gonna it's it's I love that for you oh we both missed it
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but it does it makes sense you'd be confused because it used to well initially it was called
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big deal and then we changed it to I I love this for you right and then
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Showtime did like research because they were like we're not sure that's the phrase and the more common phrase is I
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love that for you so honestly I feel like any any collection of those kinds
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of words yes does that sort of sound is it supposed to be condescending when people say yeah it's supposed to well
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it's supposed to be like it's a lot of people on like a Home Shopping Network would say that but it's also kind of
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this phrase that's used a lot sometimes genuinely sometimes condescendingly we sort of love like all the kind of takes
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it could uh yeah all the kind of ways you could it is true uh uh I bought a
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house once and my friend and a girlfriend that was 20 and I was 35 and it was the first time I'm buying a house it was pretty big and she looked at it
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and I go isn't this great she goes I think it's good for you and I go yeah what does that mean and he
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told me later she thought it wasn't big enough for her to live in I go this is the biggest house I've ever bought at to that point in my life and and uh I was
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like dude I don't know but that's how it is it sounded nice and I walked away feeling crummy and I go what does that
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mean yeah it's just got a little twist in it right on the edge of being patronized yeah but in the show because
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I watched uh it's on Showtime and um I watched uh show time and streaming oh and streaming and streaming through show
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time okay through show time like if you get like Hulu with a Showtime
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yeah uh it's not Showtime plus though is there no Showtime plus uh no there's
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Paramount plus it's Paramount plus there's plus I think there is a Showtime app yeah if you if you if you have
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they'll figure it out so uh yeah I'm sorry to concentrate on that part well I wrote a pilot for a Show recently called
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how to find that show and it's sort of it's kind of well you know it's a office thing it doesn't go back to your show so
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you it seems like you're a master of I don't know the because I was looking at all your your stuff like of this very
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fine line of this sort of archetypal character you have that plays the line of sarcasm and sweetness and how how
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would you describe like what you and Molly Shannon are doing on your show as far as the banter and the subterfuge and
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things mean this and that I mean obviously do you want to talk about that a little bit well yeah I mean I think
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it's like it's like um it's the thing of just trying to be
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um just just trying to be sweet and stuff but not fully but also like trying to
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keep up and so just talking to sort of like um
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look I'm doing it now I don't even know but it's just kind of like trying to um
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sort of seem like um I like this character is like with it
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and understanding and fits in when when really she's just like trying to figure things out yeah it seemed to me like
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it's a it's a you you have characters a lot of your characters you're pulling for immediately uh you have a very genuine sweetness and authenticity and
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so and you're always smiling and you're always upbeat like when they're just little things they're doing your hair and you're you're kind of excited no one
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gives a [ __ ] uh that you have this new job and you're like the only one excited at a new job and everyone has been in
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that position or a lot of Showbiz people have and everyone's jaded but you don't really know what the sharks are gonna be
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like when you get to a new position when I got to SNL I thought they'd be like four he's a jolly good fella every time I go in the room I go is it a surprise
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party for me and they're like no no one even knows you're here and actually they're mad you are so uh it's different
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so you get hired at this Home Shopping Network but you're like a really good person and very excited about it and
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you're going to a place where I'm not giving a lot away I don't think but you know everyone's sort of
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in the groove it's kind of like us no everyone's doing their thing and everyone's sort of quietly competitive and everyone
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doesn't know if they like the new person they they're they're dealing with you but and then you I think have to at some
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point as genuine as sweet as you are you realize I have to do make some moves
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here to keep up or I'm done yeah totally and and um you know I created it with other SNL
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people my my co-creator Jeremy Byler and I like wrote together SNL Jesse Klein our showrunner worked at SNL so we we
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saw like parallels like um even like the fir I don't know if you guys felt this way but my first day I was just like
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there were so many famous people and I just was like now I have to work with
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these people and I have to just kind of be like you know normal with them and
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and that was hard for me and I had to you know you have to fake it well you walk in and you probably have some SNL
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people that have been there for a while and uh yeah even writers are intimidating you're good big writers are
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there yeah because you just want them to like you yes yes that's all you want so
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it's for the writers to like you it's kind of just uh Like Larry David does a version of just awkward awkward
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situations that are subtly played you know it's kind of fun to act like that right to be that character yeah totally
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and I also think like um because like I think because I smile a
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lot and I like have this uh nice demeanor which I think is I'd like to
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think is genuine but I guess well uh we'll see if we get a season two you tricked Dana you think you're nice
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you're not even from Canada or Minnesota right or but I'm from
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part of Cleveland OH we're from like 15 minutes from each other both the most likable people you're both extremely
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extremely likable and I was excited when I I saw that you're in a show together so I thought you have a comic
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sensibility that would match very nicely the way you'd play it's so fun getting
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to do it with her it's how I feel about you guys it's like it's just like oh my God this is a dream
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um but thanks so because I'm because I um because of that smiling and and be like
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the my demeanor I feel like it's fun because I can sort of get away with more things and I think this like
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um it you know in in when it as this character probably in real life too well
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and then extended uh going to SNL for a second like uh because I looked at some of your stuff there's some great YouTube videos that kind of show a lot of yours
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that I was aware but watch it again Laura Parsons who talks like a child star and then goes way out of bounds
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it's sort of that smiling super likable but then says the totally inappropriate
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thing it just feels like it's a wheelhouse that you have you know and I love the bar mitzvah boy it's so that
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character Jacob his name is Jacob yeah he's so cute and sweet and you you
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captured uh a boy that's like 12 or something yeah yeah yeah yeah completely
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try to interact with him but he just keeps reading his script he's kind of he's not like warm he's kind of like
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rude yeah and very stuck on his script it really is a funny observation that he just has to keep going back to his
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speech yeah yeah well I think boy's that age too that's I also I mean I just think boys that age are so awkward and
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especially when they have to have bar mitzvahs they don't know like how to
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navigate that like formality and so they just like go like this to like you know
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put their glasses and stuff because they're like hands it looks like high pressure I went to a bat mitzvah last weekend it looks like such high pressure
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I gotta here who who else was telling me they were going oh yeah I I know what I
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know what you went to and I got to hear about it it was pretty high what was it why was there any celebrities there Conan was there Conan
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I think he has a pass to go to all Bat Mitzvahs I've seen him in every one and
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uh but he uh he was there and uh but the the you know when they give their speech
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and stuff it's about two hours and it's like pressure for the parents everyone has to get up and talk everyone has to do things there's a lot there's a lot of
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changing of the hands and and then they have to recite I think she was singing
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um possibly in Hebrew is that possible yeah yeah you usually have to sing like you're I could be getting like your half
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tour of portion or something yeah and it's all like it's all like kind of like what there
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was some toe tappers in there I didn't understand all of it but uh toe tappers yeah and it was nice that you
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oh that I went oh you just froze but I think she said I went uh she froze off I'm just gonna talk about myself I did
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go she had a great voice and she sang and so to combine oh my God Dana's Frozen too
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am I the sole survivor in a little Orthopedic but I'm gonna stop talking action David
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David Dave we've lost him but we're not frozen so we can continue my guest today
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is Vanessa fair and uh Dave will be back in a second he probably just took a bathroom break
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um so oh it all just shut down he's coming back
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um Rachel from Friends I've just I've just I just have a list of some of your greatest hits that are just fun to talk
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about David are you back unfortunately yes we're so happy did you guys never go
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away I we never went away oh and I was talking about study a singing no well we heard past that and
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it was something about going to the daytime about Mitzvah and you I said that they're saying you went to the
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service I went to the service there was something I'm gonna go back a half hour I went to the service we were talking
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about you while you were gone so don't worry we talked about how our Tunes were toe tappers and then not so tappers she
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has a great voice she's sang we did two hours uh it was interesting and everyone was excited and then that night they had
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a full-blown rager all right a super spreader event
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I I think I had the most germs out of anyone you know what happened is I I
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think you were just talking about uh Jennifer Aniston we'll finish up that thought if we have
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a second we'll go back we'll go back but the funny thing was I I was at the uh table and I go on
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and I said hey you guys want a drink I was running the bar and it was it was uh three celeb types no two and a
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half Stars I'm gonna go grab and I go you guys want anything but I was a little buzzed and they go uh yeah maybe
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like a vodka sword with a splash into the one's like I'll take like uh maybe creme de cassis lemon twist yeah yep and
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then I'm walking and I'm realizing I don't really remember it and yeah I'm saying it over and over my head and like
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paying telephone with myself but I'm saying it back wrong too and then people like it's better and I know people there
00:27:06
and I'm like hold on hold on and then I come back to the table I'm like here's your Jager bomber and a side of
00:27:11
spaghetti and they're like what and I'm like what did you want and of course I botched the whole thing anyway
00:27:21
I will never allow myself to get recruited to serve drinks we had a great time and then when I think I left with
00:27:28
Harper my daughter but Ozzy was about to sing and Charlie puth Charlie poop what's his name and uh
00:27:35
chunk poop and uh he they sang and then uh but the the one before that was when
00:27:42
I was leaving with my mom when the other daughter had a rager and my mom was like
00:27:47
oh my feet are tired I go we can get you out of here so we've been here like three hours so we're walking out and we
00:27:52
and uh this guy goes don't go and I turn on it's Adam Levine and he's got his shirt
00:27:58
off and uh my mom goes ooh who are you and she goes he goes I'm a singer I'm going on right now it's a surprise and
00:28:04
she goes oh why are we leaving I you wanted to leave and she goes no let's stay a couple and I go she goes I got my
00:28:11
sketches on I'm fine so we go back in and then she just it's like holding her phone up like every kid there watching
00:28:16
oh my God that's so fun those must have been the most fun butt Mitzvahs of all
00:28:23
time I I just here yeah yeah I can't imagine I mean it was just like a just a
00:28:29
fun party and they all got to talk and sing and do everything but anyway back to this so you did your uh you're
00:28:34
talking about it which is great very cool impression that Vanessa did Jennifer Aniston yeah yeah I was just
00:28:42
saying it was like she was sort of she was considered like a friend of the show and no one was really doing her
00:28:49
um it's true I was like I don't think I've seen people do of all obvious huge stuff ours yeah because I think they
00:28:56
were like you have to get it they're sort of like you have to get it right and like we love her so much we don't want to like even though like I was
00:29:03
saying like I I I think usually often the impressions are like kind of
00:29:09
tributes to people you know they're not like yeah negative they're not but um then I
00:29:14
um then I did it on Kimmel I think actually and then I did like Rachel you know
00:29:22
Jennifer Aniston doing Rachel and Kimmel and then the next my next season on SNL they let me do it like on Weekend Update
00:29:28
and then I did a movie that Jennifer Aniston was in and that's when I met her
00:29:33
and she was an office party yes office Christmas party and she was so nice about it and we were like she was like
00:29:41
um I don't know if it was her or Chris McMillan who does her hair who's also so
00:29:46
fun one of them was like it's it was one of their ideas I think maybe or or we
00:29:52
were all like that would be so fun to for them to come on uh for her to come on as and but did she come on without
00:29:59
hosting yeah she came on it was like the holiday episode I think and I did
00:30:05
um I did Rachel and then she like comes on to update but she wasn't hosting she
00:30:11
wasn't hosting no that's even bigger for the audience they go bananas yeah did you have you know oh go ahead oh no I've
00:30:18
had nothing I just have your Technique and did you have a uh a line or a little thing that the hook she did his Rachel
00:30:24
they're like oh oh what hooked you into that yeah her yeah her well because I think I I her going
00:30:32
like yeah oh oh yeah like her like thinking and then yeah that's like um
00:30:37
spot on and then how she um
00:30:43
words she goes like that's right like she doesn't yeah I mean
00:30:50
those are hard to pick up but Dana's great at that Pro or something this is a very subtle
00:30:57
I'm not near your no but I but I um but
00:31:02
it was just it's fun yeah it's just fun to to it's okay it's incredible it's
00:31:09
incredibly fun and and now that we're here as Vanessa bear impressionist you you're
00:31:15
um um Miley Cyrus was were you the first one to sort of break that on SNL because
00:31:22
that's a really fun I couldn't believe one of the hosts had like done it in
00:31:27
like a sketch or something but in general no one was doing her and I couldn't believe it because she also has
00:31:34
such a distinct way of talking it's really a twangy voice yeah and and and I
00:31:40
think we have really we both have these just like enormous mouths and she's like hey leave me out of this
00:31:48
and I think so I think it just felt like a natural um
00:31:54
a natural thing to do so I auditioned with Miley I I I was I had been working on that yeah and I I I did this thing
00:32:02
about like her comparing herself to um
00:32:08
not in like a Sac religion but her comparing herself to Jesus like we both
00:32:14
have really long hair and stuff like that and like we both have like nails in her I don't know like some it sounds
00:32:19
like really bad importance I don't do it but let me try it hi I'm Miley Cyrus oh
00:32:26
that's terrible you just said you always say the name of the person you're doing it to let people know you're doing it
00:32:33
shares Miley Cyrus how y'all doing it's awful you know that's the thing about
00:32:38
Impressions you just have to be bad at first if you if you say I'm consciously gonna try to do this person you have to
00:32:44
just wander around by yourself yeah do it out loud and be horrible right I do
00:32:50
yeah I do Madonna but um it's on the last day of her 160 City Tour when she
00:32:57
just left Japan and her voice is fried all day if we took off I'm Madonna I saw a video
00:33:06
of her and it was the last day of return I'm like I think she blew a tweeter or something because her voice was so low
00:33:12
at that point I auditioned with a Madonna and never
00:33:17
made it and how do you do it that's a tough one how did that go Vanessa I mean
00:33:22
what was that he was doing a roast of Sean Penn and guys it's gonna be so bad you're gonna say hi Madonna I know
00:33:29
you'll be okay hello I'm Madonna it was like uh it was like
00:33:37
this is a roast of my husband Sean Penn I don't know that's when Madonna had a
00:33:44
little bit of his British accent yeah yeah yeah yeah she used to be more British than now well and she is when I
00:33:51
was yeah she's gonna go through that phase we all do she's intimidating when I was interviewing Sean Penn as the
00:33:56
church lady she was just eagle-eyed didn't even blink she was off right off the camera just staring at me don't you
00:34:03
hurt my husband at the time [Music]
00:34:09
did you have um like out of body experiences I mean there's two things I I want to get to is one is your audition
00:34:15
and what that meant to you and how you kind of got there we know you went through Second City and other improv
00:34:21
groups in Chicago which seems to be a classic move but talk to either of those things either uh well your audition and
00:34:28
how you how you made your way to that what was that yeah well I had been living in Chicago I was in Chicago uh
00:34:36
for like about five years and then I sort of got like fixated on SNL and I
00:34:42
was like um I like submitted a writing packet to them and stuff and then I took this
00:34:49
Workshop with this director Matt Miller who was he was sort of starting to do these workshops where you would do like
00:34:55
characters and impressions for like five minutes to a to a class room of people and then the classroom and he would like
00:35:03
give you notes on it perfect and then you would come yeah you'd come back in two weeks and he'd put it on tape and
00:35:10
then and the thing that he told us which was really helpful was he was like if you're auditioning for something like SNL like they want you to be like a good
00:35:17
writer too so you so it's not just important that your characters and impressions are accurate or like good
00:35:24
but that also that what they're saying is funny yeah like really stuck with me so so I did that yeah that's the hard
00:35:31
part right so I did that and then I had my DVD and then a year later SNL
00:35:37
came to Chicago and I basically uh auditioned for charna the owner of IO
00:35:45
with this DVD um I I she like they were coming and and she and I called to get an appointment
00:35:52
and most people were getting booked for the next week and she was like can you come in in an hour and audition for me
00:35:58
to get into the SNL work showcase and so I just watched my DVD that I'd given her
00:36:04
a year before yeah it never looked at it I don't think but um and um and I watched those characters and
00:36:11
then I came in and I just did them for her and she put me in the Showcase and then you got seen at The Improv Olympics
00:36:18
by some SNL people I got seen at i o and then um and then working in Talent uh was it
00:36:24
uh Marcy or was it Shoemaker or any of those Marcy was like sort of just Shoemaker left the year before I started
00:36:30
which is so scary yeah exactly um down to Florida Seth Meyers yeah I
00:36:38
mean yeah same floor oh it is same floor yeah same floor which is crazy right
00:36:43
yeah um yeah yeah so but Marcy was sort of working more on
00:36:50
30 Rock and um so it was Lindsay shookus and
00:36:58
I I think I don't think and Ayala well I'm a real yeah yeah
00:37:04
she's an agent now yeah yeah she's great yeah and they come up to you they are they there or they contact you how does
00:37:11
that even work so I so I auditioned and they
00:37:19
um I auditioned and then they asked like I left town right after I was supposed to I was doing the Dell close marathon
00:37:26
with my improv team from Chicago and I um I was supposed to go to New York that
00:37:32
weekend to do Delco the Dell close marathon and um for those who don't know it's an
00:37:38
improv marathon and he's kind of a legendary Del close yeah
00:37:45
um and and um so the Showcase that I owe the first night ran really long so they moved me
00:37:52
to the second night they added a second night and I so I missed my Dell close
00:37:58
Marathon show which my team fully understood why did I bring that up oh then I went to New York the next day to
00:38:05
see my improv team there and then they called SNL called and was like do you wanna
00:38:10
um get drinks with like Lauren and some of the writers oh my God I know and I was like I'm I'm not in Chicago anymore
00:38:17
I went to New York and I was like and they were like it's okay it's fine whatever and then
00:38:23
so then then they called me and said like would you like to come to New York in two
00:38:29
weeks to do the Showcase for the uh camera test is what I mean well
00:38:36
that sounds like two weeks of hell as far as nerves or I I you know can we
00:38:42
just back up for just a second really quickly like how because I know that people listen to
00:38:49
this want to be in I want to get on Saturday Night Live for me and show business like what what in God's name
00:38:54
made you think you could do this and how did you end up doing improv in Chicago and and when did you kind of think to
00:39:00
yourself I I think I'm actually really good I'm really funny I I maybe should be so yeah it's surreal
00:39:08
but I it was hard for me to talk about this to you guys because you guys are
00:39:13
like we're scared too I mean like we all did the same thing but we all had
00:39:19
probably no confidence we all are just trying to just inch to the next thing and just hope crossing your fingers
00:39:24
something clicks or whatever yeah it was a it was a fantasy that seemed impossible really for the longest time
00:39:32
but then I Dennis Miller and friends got on and it became more reality but for your journey I mean when was the Genesis
00:39:38
of that um of you thinking you might be a funny person in life for a living is such a
00:39:45
huge thing anyone who's ever worked with me excuse me knows about the all-female sketch
00:39:51
comedy and musical parody troupe I was in in college called bloomers um okay so it just started in college
00:39:58
yeah okay Bloomers it was well I didn't start it it had been around for about 25
00:40:03
years when I started it um anyways
00:40:08
um I love the name yeah I yeah I mean it's still around you can still you know it's online you're in Philly oh
00:40:16
no the show's there yeah the shows are in there but I do think they have an online presence now because it's you know
00:40:24
been such a long time since I was there and the internet was like kind of newer but um but I did bloomers and I like
00:40:33
loved it and I was like I always like
00:40:39
I was pretty good at school when I was in like growing up like I was like if I
00:40:44
study really hard I can get good grades I'm not saying that I wasn't good at anything else but I'm just saying like all of my friends were like these
00:40:50
incredible athletes and stuff and I was like I'll never know what it's like to like
00:40:56
be like good at sports or something like that like I just didn't know what it felt like and then when I started doing
00:41:02
Bloomers I was like oh this feels like I get it like I feel like I understand this before you fit in or something yeah
00:41:09
yeah it felt like this is a world where I can Thrive kind of and then I was like and I
00:41:16
I was like this is what I should do and I also like I've talked a lot about like
00:41:22
with my show coming out which is kind of about someone who um who
00:41:28
uh survives like childhood leukemia as I did and then also and and like
00:41:35
really like once she's done with it misses like all the attention she got and stuff
00:41:40
um I like sort of I I was like I would joke about stuff like that with my friends when I was sick like we would
00:41:46
joke around a lot and I was like I think that actually helped like kind of form my like sense of humor and and I was
00:41:54
like oh I should just this is like the world I want to be in forever and when you when you go through something like
00:41:59
that uh leukemia and listen I've caught myself telling people I have it I get it but
00:42:06
um but you know when you have that uh he got and then you get beer 15 which is a
00:42:11
very formative time of your life which is very scary in your whole life's in front of you but maybe it isn't and obviously it's on it's great that you
00:42:18
got through it and then you probably develop a sense of humor you're saying and then also it said you helped with make a wish you did a Make-a-Wish too
00:42:24
right I didn't make a wish yeah and how does that work do they check if you're bluffinger I mean is it is it just like
00:42:30
no so this is a common misconception about make a wish is that you have to be terminal you just have to have a
00:42:36
life-threatening illness okay I like that you can be like like I was actually
00:42:42
done with treatment when I had my wish which was to go to Hawaii
00:42:47
um but so yeah so um yeah but but you do have to have like
00:42:54
you can't fake that you have a disease but your prognosis can be good okay and you and it says I think you work with
00:42:59
them after too right yeah when I was in Chicago especially I volunteered with them and then I've I've done some stuff
00:43:06
with them since with like um some of their Gala like hosting some of their gals you know Sandler does a
00:43:11
lot with them and you know Sandler's always quiet about this stuff but I've been over there at half of Madison or he will call and say hey we got a kid
00:43:17
coming down do you want to come down because he likes whatever movie or what and then we'll all whoever's around can
00:43:23
rally down there and just like he'll meet us he plays basketball with him then we come when we meet him for lunch
00:43:28
and then we all go back they all but the kids he always makes sure they have a good time so I really think those things
00:43:33
are cool and I think that they uh it's do a great job it's awesome and by the by the way on this same subject how to
00:43:40
care for a sick bear which I read yeah today it's beautiful and really emotional
00:43:48
because it's such a sweet book it's for kids to really understand if their friend gets sick how do they navigate
00:43:55
that and react it's really a sweet children's book well I sort of um I I
00:44:01
wanted to write that because I was like uh I noticed like from from me being
00:44:07
sick like a lot of times people get like really freaked out when someone is sick and they think like sure they're maybe
00:44:14
their personality has changed or something like it's like it's like you sort of um awkward it's just especially
00:44:20
for kids it's so scary but like the lesson that I sort of learned from being sick is like you if someone's going
00:44:25
through any kind of trauma like you don't have to like you don't have to like assume that they want to be left alone like it's good to like reach out
00:44:32
to the person and then if they want to be left alone they can tell you but like it's good I don't know that's and yeah
00:44:39
and is it good to be treated pretty normally when I meet these kids and stuff I try to just goof around and be
00:44:45
normal and not make such a production out of the fact um just treat him like a normal dude or
00:44:50
goof around with them or the same thing visit Walter Reed and people with shattered legs same kind of thing they
00:44:57
want you to be kind of up and funny and ask questions take their mind off it for a second or something yeah but it's
00:45:03
awkward it's hard to know sometimes what to say to someone who's having struggles you know just yeah it's like it's it's
00:45:09
it's like um yeah it's real it's really hard for people and again I think that's why like
00:45:16
I would joke around with my friends a lot when I was sick not only about like all the perks I was getting but also
00:45:21
about like you know I'd be like I'd be like um you know you think you're
00:45:27
so cool because your hair is real because I was like by the way and I they would like be like great you
00:45:34
know and then they would like come home from like school and like give me all the gossip you know like they realized I
00:45:39
was like the same person but it is it's like so scary for everyone but that's I do think like
00:45:44
that's you're that's right like everyone's still the same they just have this thing they're going through well
00:45:49
you know pity is a is a powerful kind of force and and I you know when I had my
00:45:55
health issue uh blocked arteries and stuff like that and the doctor had a bad bad day but I'm totally fine but you
00:46:02
know a lot of what I call the RCA Victor is that the head would tilt to the left like the little dog in the RCA Victor oh
00:46:09
are you feeling okay today I said I either feel perfect or I'm in a hospital there's no middle ground
00:46:16
so The Hangover from you going through this getting completely healthy
00:46:21
totally rear view mirror and then probably having you know residual people going are you okay Vanessa how are you
00:46:28
yeah and that that's not their fault but it's like you don't want pity at a given point you want to go I kicked ass I'm
00:46:34
fine so I mean and so go ahead talk to that I'm just babbling no no no that's
00:46:40
true I mean it is it is like it is like um it's interesting because I sort of
00:46:47
went from like everybody knowing that I was sick when I was in high school to then being
00:46:52
in college where like nobody knew and it was like um and it was like fine but I had to get
00:46:59
used to like everyone's treating me like normally mostly like what's that yeah I was like
00:47:06
well like can I kind of cut the line here you know it's like being famous or
00:47:13
something well that's the thing and then like I guess I graduated college in 2004 and I got on SNL in 2010. so then I got
00:47:21
on SNL it was like my new leukemia no one's ever said that on this podcast
00:47:30
that's a t-shirt I'm just Lauren says you know it'll feel like leukemia for the first few weeks
00:47:36
of some sort of Ottawa with me for two years
00:47:43
yes okay let's go this is called I was going over some of your things and
00:47:49
Dana's not brave enough to hit you with these I'm I like the nice questions I
00:47:54
don't David go get her out this is called I saw you coincidentally make out
00:47:59
with a lot of guys in your sketches
00:48:08
yeah even I think Chris and Stewart even maybe or maybe hilarious Chris that's so
00:48:14
funny so is that planned or just accidentally Pratt yeah oh my God yeah it is planned but the Adam Driver one I
00:48:22
did not write but the other ones I helped I I kind of co-wrote all the other ones hey guess what just uh news
00:48:29
flash so we can Trend all you have to do right now only if you want to say who's the best kisser and it's gonna be all
00:48:35
over Yahoo news oh that's right but you don't have to but that's a classic I I don't have an answer because all the
00:48:42
kisses were different and wonderful in their own ways you know what's funny when I was watching those I'm like going
00:48:48
you kiss when you kiss when you have to kiss someone sort of crazy yeah it's really not even kissing you're just like
00:48:53
how do we do this it looks nuts but I don't know if it's sexy and then you're
00:48:59
always wondering I don't want to get their icy leathery tongue actually jabbing around you just never know like
00:49:05
one time I kissed a girl on an old movie Dana and I go uh how do you want this I'd never kissed anyone on camera and
00:49:12
she goes oh just kiss me like uh I'm your girlfriend doesn't matter I don't care anything do anything so
00:49:17
okay and so uh she came in close and I touched the side of her cheek and kissed her and she and and they go cut and
00:49:24
chill because the director and she goes can you tell him not to touch my face oh yeah that you get canceled for that now
00:49:30
that's a bummer because you asked her answer and then I go is that me and she
00:49:36
didn't even look at me she just looked at the director and I was like I'm one inch away from her going uh I'll do
00:49:41
whatever you want I tried I don't know what to do I have a more benign kissing question for Vanessa because this may
00:49:46
happen to anybody did you kiss anyone on SNL where you just had a little bit of a
00:49:53
electricity just a little bit of like oh this there's a chemistry nothing illicitor or pornographic just like oh
00:50:00
this is some sort of physical chemistry with you don't have to give us their name I'm going for a general I'm going for a
00:50:07
general give us her name out I think I think I sort of like it's hard because
00:50:12
you're like if you're in a Live sketch it's like really hard to it would happen during rehearsal probably like a
00:50:18
rehearsal or like a pre-tape thing yeah yeah I mean I and any of the people we named I would
00:50:25
guess what about Ryan Gosling because my sister my sister who's in her 60s but
00:50:30
she's always like well you gotta admit Dane Ryan Gosling I'm I'm just saying she always says well you got to admit
00:50:37
Dane admit what like you're fighting her on it he would be I know well by the way we'll just
00:50:44
inject this because it's here now how do we how did how did we get weird podcasts you do with your brother which reminds
00:50:50
me of me and my sister it's really fun yeah oh that's so nice well I I'll just
00:50:55
say this like as we're recording I'd love to have you both of you as guests sometime and please agree now and then
00:51:01
I'm not weird though I'm gonna come on because I love childhood stuff I love
00:51:07
finding out what people I usually say what movie or TV show blew their mind do
00:51:13
they have a bicycle that they liked and a favorite toy because I these are so great yeah and I was gonna save these
00:51:20
for the end but if you want to answer those three now it'd be fine do you have any answers for those
00:51:27
[Music] young 10th day 10 11 year old
00:51:33
Vanessa what was the first one movie or television show where as a little kid you go holy [ __ ] you know it could be
00:51:40
the Wizard of Oz it could be uh anything no I'm I'm sorry to come back to this it
00:51:46
was watching you guys on SNL you're a damn that's a first that's good we would
00:51:53
yeah watching you guys on SNL we would watch I wish we would watch um
00:51:58
SNL We we here's what we would do we would watch the movie April Fool's today
00:52:04
it's a horrible horror movie it's like I was saying is that a horror movie my
00:52:09
friend Stephie Roo had the VHS tape I think so we would watch April Fool's Day and then sometimes we if SNL wasn't on
00:52:18
we'd watch The Incredible Mr Olympic so we would not be scared she also had that on VHS but then we
00:52:26
would stay up and we would watch um SNL and it was like our favorite thing and we would quote it all week I
00:52:33
mean you guys were exactly like it just uh it was PR you guys were so funny I
00:52:42
mean we were doing like Wayne's World like my friend lissy did like a Wayne's
00:52:47
World like uh um report like where they played Wayne and Garth and like we were like quoting
00:52:54
Tommy like we were like reenacting Tommy Boy like it's like we were just like like just it was so great it was like we
00:53:04
were just laughing all the time to it you're a lot younger than I am so you know I we had our people too I mean the
00:53:11
SNL first cast I was like just starting college but they were like rock stars and I can't believe there's people uh
00:53:18
that look like us act like us on TV doing crazy stuff so I get that but that's that's all if you ever run into
00:53:24
them I get it because when I grew up and I had movies it meant a lot to me and like like that's all that meant
00:53:30
everything is if you're most kids are in a comedy but when you're with your buddies and you're watching a movie and it's so funny and you see it over and
00:53:36
over and then if I ran into Bill Murray if I ran into acroyd or all these people like Eddie Murphy later in life and you
00:53:43
see him and you in your head you're still like a kid going I cannot believe I'm in some scenario where I'm I'm in
00:53:49
the same room with these people like the SNL 40th was really a candy store it was like yes oh my God Vanessa I just want
00:53:57
to ask her a question real fast just because it dovetails of what you said like do you have people fan out on you
00:54:03
at an airport or somewhere oh my God it's Vanessa pear I can't believe so how do you react to that I mean so you see
00:54:09
how it's just uh you you have your your fan base so people be flipped out to meet you and want to be like you and
00:54:16
it's a trip isn't it yeah it's so nice it's so
00:54:22
um it's so crazy it's just it's just it's like
00:54:27
um it's crazy yeah it's crazy to think that like because you know the thing Lauren
00:54:33
says uh is it about that you're not the one that uh what is it
00:54:39
I was gonna say the one and I'm gonna try my impression it's not gonna be no everyone has to do one on the show okay
00:54:46
um everybody's favorite cast is the one when they were growing up oh that's right yeah that's what I said that's a
00:54:52
good one it's true and I'm not that's not to take any credit away from you guys sure but it is kind of we were in
00:54:58
your formative years you were watching Wayne's World and you're like 11 or 12. there are certain years or early formative years teen years that things
00:55:05
just hit you harder so go ahead right right and these are going out morning and by the way we didn't have this benefit of if you miss it which I miss
00:55:12
it a lot and then it's suddenly on a Twitter like I follow SNL now but the or
00:55:18
it's on Yahoo News there's like here's our best sketch or here's five sketches so you go oh I didn't have to watch it
00:55:24
like it's it's going to be forced upon me at some point during the week that I see who hosted who did this and that and
00:55:30
then you go oh that that's a great benefit of getting the show out there yeah yeah totally and we wouldn't we had
00:55:36
that tape it I mean I would tape it a lot if I wasn't home but then you know like you start watching it and someone's
00:55:43
taped over it's just like it's VHS just not very reliable wait for a rerun you
00:55:48
know six months later I would just and I'm sure you guys can relate to this just the idea of the the grease paint
00:55:54
and the wires and the uh clothes falling off like you're you're in 8h you're in
00:56:00
your costume and you're seeing your your band mate your co-star in the sketch the wig is riding up and you're exhausted or
00:56:07
you just bumped your knee and you're just trying to get the crowd there to like you and then 10 years later you see
00:56:12
it on YouTube and it's all shiny and bright and and every and you have people that are fans of it but in the moment
00:56:17
it's like really yeah I was just in a dress going isn't that special you saw it you know so surreal it's really yeah
00:56:26
crazy second you get done with it and you're doing laundry on Sunday and then like someone calls you goes dude it's Michael
00:56:32
Keaton this week what do you got and you're like we just [ __ ] finished Tom Hanks last night I mean God I got it
00:56:38
that's where the burnout comes from is you you're like you're there for a hundred hosts or something you know and
00:56:45
you're like yeah everyone Glenn Close comes in Danny DeVito they go what do you got for him and you have to Rack
00:56:51
your brain and write and just stress about read through and then you don't get it on then you're like now I'm one show behind for the next show I gotta
00:56:57
get something on and what you're saying about the writers you want you want to give them some moves or some chop or be
00:57:02
funny around the office just they go oh maybe you could do that in this sketch we're writing or maybe do you do Miley
00:57:08
and you're like yeah okay maybe she could be in this sketch and that all that Synergy is where you have to be
00:57:14
sort of ready at all times or have some moves
00:57:20
a character or a sketch uh that was just killing so hard that every time you did
00:57:26
it it just killed or or one that when you're in it you're like damn this is this is rocking this is we are of course
00:57:32
yeah kind of magic moments I mean you had Rachel you had uh
00:57:38
uh the Poetry class was it weather girl weather girl and coherent that's really
00:57:44
acid humor you know yeah yeah those ones I they um the the weather one we didn't I
00:57:51
didn't get on till like right before I left like it was my I did it my third to last show and then I came back the next season and
00:57:58
did it on update like when I wasn't on the show anymore but um that one was really felt like um it was just so fun I
00:58:06
mean I the bar mitzvah boy too and and and Laura Parsons the child actor like it was just it was like it was like
00:58:14
stuff that I felt like was like really from my life that I felt was so funny
00:58:20
and it felt also really not not saying that I was being so funny but just like the way that kids act when they're in
00:58:27
plays and the way that like boys are when they're getting permits that are being formal like it was so it also
00:58:33
feels kind of like validating because you're like I knew that this was like a really funny thing that people do sort
00:58:39
of you know so but it is it's so fun I mean you guys know it's like it's so fun when you're doing it something works out
00:58:46
there it's yeah so fun it's so hard it's so hard to have fun because especially your first couple shows and your quick
00:58:53
changing and all that but I I think your stuff really exudes fun and you're not breaking but you can just tell you're
00:58:59
having so much fun doing those characters and it's your wrong rom-com
00:59:04
thing on update with oh yeah yeah that's pretty funny you see that one that's pretty funny too she starts
00:59:10
going I mean the weather girl's a little weirder which is even funnier because your mom you're saying insanity and he's
00:59:15
uh that way and then the ROM got me like is this Kismet he's like is what I just
00:59:21
met you 70 seconds ago there was one funny one about uh when you were playing uh I guess former
00:59:29
porn stars where uh yeah they carry Tina Fey by and she goes she lets the dogs out yeah
00:59:41
it's hard to write smart dumb stuff it is it is I agree because just dumb
00:59:46
doesn't work yeah but it's so it's so fun when the audience responds to stuff
00:59:52
that's so strange yeah it's like waiting for it yeah they appreciate it yeah it's
00:59:58
the best when it's a non-circular it's a line that shouldn't be funny but it is it's just in that area of like ah then
01:00:04
they then they were like a good comedy club crowd or good improv crowd where you go up and they're and they're pretty
01:00:10
trained to go don't give us the basic stuff like right right going to a nice restaurant going give us the sushi from
01:00:17
the back like and then the people you do these weird things and they like it yeah it's so if there's yeah there's like
01:00:24
there's nothing like that feeling of like because it's just it's you can't predict any of that stuff which is why
01:00:30
it's so hard it's like you just don't know what stuff is gonna yeah because I don't know about you but I I just am not
01:00:36
a gifted at writing traditional jokes like jokes like Dennis Miller brilliant at it is it David David David is really
01:00:44
really good writer and performer but he also can write really great jokes and so I'm always
01:00:49
coming off Rhythm and abstraction and and extrapolation and I think you're kind of a kindred spirit because you you
01:00:55
do sort of Cassidy stuff you know uh I mean yeah I yeah there's room for
01:01:02
all kinds you do that yeah that's the good that's part about the show everyone they got everyone doing
01:01:08
different stuff it works um all right well let's Let Her Go Dana she's been very nice we just want to
01:01:13
reiterate I love the you I love that for
01:01:19
you for you sorry I love that for you on Showtime with the Lovely Molly which is so fun to watch and uh some of your real
01:01:26
life uh things are in the show I don't want to give everything away but yeah you did have a surprise ending stay to
01:01:32
the end stay till the end and and you'll see a Twist you'll be hooked it's like
01:01:38
she's fine [Music]
01:01:45
I'm just doing Lauren trying to work a thing at first stream that thing also
01:01:51
how did we get weird a podcast with your musician uh brother Jonah
01:01:57
yes yes who I know you met D once he was at the show when you were there he loved
01:02:02
meeting you so much yeah I don't think he's met you David but but you'll all meet when was I nice was
01:02:11
I nice to him you were so so weird oh good you're so nice
01:02:17
I love musicians I like anyone who plays and sings which you also sing and you have I never I never had that cure I can
01:02:24
funny sing but you can sing well I think I get more funny well welcome to compliment theater
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um
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the 50th not sooner okay bye-bye he's done okay
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01:03:06
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01:03:14
you thank you I'm wondering what props you may have kept from your SNL days or
01:03:19
your movie careers thank you thank you okay um I'll go first I did I I do keep some
01:03:25
stuff you do I've seen your house you have a lot of momentos and memorabilia yeah I have um
01:03:33
I have some clothes from Dickie Roberts just the outfits for some reason I kept
01:03:38
them I have the Joe Dirt um you know what was that Janet janitor
01:03:43
shirt I have the wig it was a wig everyone's like I wish it wasn't I would
01:03:50
grow my hair like that in a second uh and then I have oh Farley's family gave me his coat from Tommy Boy which is a
01:03:56
big one you have like a diorama in your house like stuffed people that are wearing these clothes that look like now
01:04:02
but we're working I just had to ask it's gonna be scary to walk bump into in the middle of the night when I saw what
01:04:07
Tommy Boy
01:04:16
and then I have just some little knickknacks what do you got what do you got I also have some other stuff Joe
01:04:22
dirt's wig weirdly I wasn't in the movie I have Joe dirt's pubes still I have the chair and the receptionist bit that you
01:04:30
did this is weird because I gotta it's not weird but I just said it was her I
01:04:35
got an SNL and in those days I came in with church lady as a character and then
01:04:41
they changed the rule but I owned it quote unquote so I had a copy of the church lady dress made and wig just in
01:04:50
case I ever wanted to do something take on the road so I have the church ladies dress and wig and glasses and
01:04:58
um yeah maybe twice a year I wear it for a day you could win a superhero movie where you're going to do a new phone
01:05:05
booth and come on you walk in I wish the chair is here to fix this you go hang on you on there
01:05:11
well they're like oh my gosh well the church lay is funny to me because it's condescension and being patronizing and
01:05:17
passive aggressive is a funny attitude so she would say wow wow wow we kept the
01:05:23
dress we want to be the lady but we're not you know just a fun Rhythm I do like
01:05:28
you can get your voice well well well well well well well well look what oh look what the cats
01:05:35
apparently we don't apparently we don't love Jesus yeah there you go apparently
01:05:41
we punch people when we try to solve our problems you already do it better than I did no your voice I never see it coming
01:05:47
your voice goes so different when you do the impressions well well well we've got a little podcast we gotta fly on the
01:05:53
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01:06:00
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