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well we got Neil Brennan today Dana and uh before we start I wanted to say our YouTube for Superfly got to uh 100,000
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subscribers that's nice applause applause wow here we go and a lot of nice comments people are seeing the clips and
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they go over to watch it on YouTube which is nice you know we we have a known big fan of H Superfly who's that
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Joe bton yeah it's good stuff it's the fly is it's like a fly but Superfly away
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because the David P Dan Can't Believe It's Not Butter oh
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that's nice that he said that yeah um and we got Neil Brennan today uh on on
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flying the wall and um Neil's an old buddy well spoken standup has a special
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out right now he's had him out before uh a lot of fun to talk to and a very sharp
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mind yeah very uh thoughtful person about The Human Experience he has a
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podcast called blocks we can promote that his podcast is about people who have mental health uh things they may
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not be aware of he has comedians on and talks to stuff so he's very interesting to talk to just about life in general uh
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very bright guy and has a new Netflix special he's got a new Netflix special out right now he'll tell you all about
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it and uh I have a blast talking to him I live near him so I see him out but
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he's you know part of the Chappelle situation the Chappelle show co-created that he's gone on to do a lot of things he
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writes for a lot of people so he kind of knows everybody I think it's because he is so uh open you know about uh what
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he's thinking or what he's feeling and for this particular episode he'll talk about how he dealt with his depression
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and how it got lifted with different uh a method that you will find very very
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interesting that's made him a much more content person I'm pretty tight about my craziness so uh I'm I haven't been on
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blocks but uh I will one day unveil my craziness to um I'm doing a side podcast just
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called blocks and it's literal blocks that you play with on the floor so it's me with Lego I can do that and a guest
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the guest and I just build a little Lego village as we chat well that's nice um
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well uh until that airs here's Neil Brennan with uh fly on the wall let's
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talk
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I got carded legally by a English-speaking person wearing a
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baseball cap at age 53 what what no do we brag about the
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last time we got carded is that is this a segment on we do this with that you have blocks you have your thing this is
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our thing last time I got carded in Thailand trying to buy a lady boy when I
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was I'm kidding not old so Neil we're just guys hold on let me switch headphones
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yeah have we ever run into each other are we meeting right now no we we have run into each other just really quick
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John loveit's comedy club in the Universal City yeah oh yeah yes and
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that's what I thought and so I hope there I hope there's not another one is there another one the CH it didn't turn
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into a chain as quickly as we thought I don't want to uh John is a friend but you know as a comedian you're kind of
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like oh you got to it's a universal studio so you park in Jurassic Park you
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got to walk a quarter mile you go in it's built for blues that there's a three- tier thing so people on the top
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level are looking down at the top of your head and talking amongst themselves and the stage is really
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high um so and there's a lot of surfboards right because love it's love
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surfing that was his theme maybe it was left over from BB King but but yeah John
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B King another B be king another Avid server he was getting out every morning at 5 remarkably very funny very funny
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had good patter between like a yeah really good patter and would remember
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like narratives between he'd come back up and be like how's your date going he knew you know what I mean he did crowd
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stuff yeah knew how to do it uh wait let's keep talking about the universal
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gangle 18 theaters I used to go to those theaters you know because and also if
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you did the uh John LoveIt Comedy Club you when you after you'd walk through or Swim through the Jaws theme to get there
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you could get 10% off at Tony Romas across the street yeah you absolutely could absolutely could your primary
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audience that was available with North Hollywood gangs that would just kind of infiltrate them all that was the
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audience you're were drawing from other than that it had good sound John was very nice they had good snacks trying to
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think of something and they love they let be like hey G what's up G it's hey you are G
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right baby you know what this is baby this is G yeah g I know act like G for a
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minute that's the thing and it's a good problem to have but if I try to do standup in a traditional setting say I
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could feel the audience it I guess the the only thing worse than not having hits is having
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hits I don't know what the word is but they want me to do the characters they saw in SNL so to Our Guest today Neil
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Brennan do you feel like do you have Classic Bits that people yell out for at
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this point I three likes do it do it no I know but no what's funny is I so I on
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the on the newest the tour for the one that's out for crazy good the new
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Netflix that we're all talking talk is that true you saw it great oh
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yeah I wouldn't have yeah great great great speci thank you we're gonna talk
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about yeah no yes well you did some stuff I haven't seen before we'll talk about that later I thought was so we're
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we're uh I'm assuming this will be in the podcast we're we're all we're three guys all of it
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on the good the parts where you guys shine fantastic um the uh the so I go I
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do a show this basically the this the ACT that's on Netflix and uh a guy DMS
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me afterward and is like dude it was my birthday I paid 150 bucks for T whatever
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whatever I kept waiting for you to show up basically he was upset that I wasn't
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sadder he wanted me to be sad like I'd been in uh three mics and blocks and
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most of my life uh and I wasn't sad enough I'm sad that you're not sad no I
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know it's a part is missing we're I want fix things I want to go
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back and watch just stylistically or your the way your shoulders are just your physicality uh it felt like it was
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Neil but you say up front I feel good it's almost like I
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can't so I could do two hours on this uh I know you are very aware of you know
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psychology and emotion so for our audience who doesn't know you've famously been dealing with depression
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and having this really but having this extremely successful career in comedy
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and standup so that's kind of almost illogical in a way but no one
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understands that somehow that take you you made it through that but then something happened I've only read your
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Wikipedia page so tell how did you get less sad or kind of happy I got less sad
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in a very uh sort of risky way which is
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uh which is iasa DMT and
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MDMA um most the alphabet yes thank you
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um and uh the I got into iasa because
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our mutual friend Chris Rock uh sent me an article from The New York Times about iasa and was like we
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got to do this which is you know you're old you know you're old when you get your drug ideas from The New York
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Times drug idea where Rock's like we got to do this did Rock do it
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too yeah I didn't know oh that explains a lot no I wouldn't think that rock
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would do that that doesn't seem like but he's very openminded to a lot of stuff no he's talked about it in public I mean
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he talked about it on like James Cordon I know he talked about it a few times but uh but yeah he we did it together
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and it was pretty we did it together twice and uh it was pretty wild I know
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he likes diarrhea no he loves diarrhea and loves puking but uh and it's sort of
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he both his clothes are he calls them and so he so yeah so we did it together
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twice and and I kept doing it uh but he he's only I I don't I don't know if he's
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done it recently but did you like Ron White did you guys go to a place or just
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do it we didn't yeah Ron White went to a place we me and rock did it Spade we
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actually did it maybe a year old remember when Rock was renting a place in
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Malibu like two years ago or during Co I think it might have been year old place
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Spade that you sh you shared with litz in Ted Sanda spot no that was litz live right next
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to geret oh LoveIt and gervitz yeah they live next to I don't know but that was
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the same Beach go ahead I just want to know set the scene when you set the scene hey Chris are you walk he walks
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into the place or what I want to hear I mean now it feels now I feel like I'm
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telling his all right so personal no no I don't it's his I don't get he's talking about enough that it's not not
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it's not elicit it's in the EAS just tell yours like what is it you go in there and you have a helper or it was a
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guy we I got a private I got a guy came uh and and he was like a white guy
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and rock was like little starbuy um it was you know because you he's still funny until this yeah no
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you're still yeah you're still it wasn't we hadn't even done it yet so then the me rock and then a few friends maybe
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three or four friends of mine did it in the place Rock was renting and it took maybe four or five
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hours and and it was like it was just a very strong have you got done
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mushrooms I have done mushrooms but not in only in my 20s yeah it was like it's
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like mushroom I remember comparing it to mushrooms and at one point being like wow like this is like uh mushrooms times
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like a 100 in terms of intensity in terms of like what it could do so so and then we did it again at another place
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that was more we it was still in LA but we did it it was like me and rock and
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25 white like crunchy white people crunchy white people now you've got this
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Rock's neck special crunchy white people yeah it was like very crunchy white
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people and uh that was and and I would I would say that you would have to ask him
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about it but I will say I saw Rock get his ass whooped by by the by the iasa in
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a good way he got got like it was wild
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the SEC second time yeah the second time and I have a question like 15 times
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since I did mushrooms uh Dane did I did uh acid once
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this a while back this is last Friday I did um acid when I was probably what you
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know late teens and I did mushrooms back then it was the kind you know you get in a baggie you buy from whoever and then you
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just eat the stems and you think they're not working and then you start sort of hallucinating and so I was okay with
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that but I had to be with other shroomers my friends because we were walking on the beach to a party and when
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we were around people that weren't on it we could not really at all we ran back to each other so my experience was I
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don't do them later in life cuz I get scared of getting out of control like back then I had nothing to live for I had nothing going on I who it was just
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like drug drug drug me up just for fun I think I'd be scared now is the point I
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think I'd be scared to get like out of my head a bit and be around people even
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though you're friends that would help but I don't know it would be a little scary for me yeah were you was it scary
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at all were you nervous uh little bit I don't well the thing of it is I don't do it's like once you take it out of like a
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party setting it can be just different it it'll just be like a different it becomes like at you know not to be
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pretentious but like it just becomes more like ceremonial or something so I
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did I but I've done I used to do as you're telling me this I remember I did mushrooms with Norm
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Saget Brewer and Chappelle one time I like forgot about it until you were just
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talking like group it actually it was we were at like the mandre at the Sky Bar it was like
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probably 1999 or something and it was just too but it was too like too much energy um so yeah so if you're
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GNA yeah try to do it like uh away from people and what do it get you after so
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you come out of it you go I it it it like resets your it it
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affects your neurons like there's a thing called neuroplasticity Etc MH and
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uh it iasa in particular grows new neurons it's the only substance on Earth
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that can do it that they found dead you will grow new neurons so so you grow new ones and it's
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like it changes your brain kind of but having said that it's it's can also be like very uh I've seen people get
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possessed I've seen wild stuff so did you get a what are you eating sorry is
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it like a P or is it vegetables or what do you uh it's actually a tea it's a tea tea okay it tastes like uh tastes like
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uh uh espresso and are you getting uh do you feel nauseous in the beginning kind of
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like mushrooms did or I've only gotten you get a little nauseous I will say
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rock generally has puked both times uh I uh I haven't I puked I'm not embarrassed
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I drank too much so what Neil um so what good for me yeah puked um so
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so uh so so yeah so it's it's a little it's a little crazy but um it's it was
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effective for me but I can't say like do it everybody it's like Can it can go a
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lot of different ways I did it a lot in 2020 and 2021 and this past year I've
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done MDMA four or five times and that's been helpful in a different way
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how why is it different which ones for which uh MDMA is Molly X you ever do
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that Dana no all right um I feel like a bully you ever do it uh and nerd yeah uh
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that I just it's like that's changed me also it's you know what I'm gonna be honest it's opened my heart a little bit
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guys okay I I a good reason good place to be rather than hardened cynical and
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being organically empathetic to people and wanting to
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which I I think Dana you are generally uh you seem very empath you've always struck me as very
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empathetic um I don't know my wife and I saw across at our breakfast table took a
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test personality test 10 different types okay blink just do the question and then
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what would you come out as helper would you come out as helper it can be toxic
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and the extreme but yeah my wife and are very much like after you after you uh
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people ask me how did you did you let people how did you navigate The Game of Thrones of Saturday Night Live you know
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because wouldn't you like hey you can do that part you can but it's not to that level I also have a really a competitive
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streak um but I'm working on that you know so the the late great Warren Thomas
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told me a story about you in the 90s uh and he said that you one time Dana
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one time said that he wants the audience to die from laughing at him you want to
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kill so hard people die well I would say to people that I was in that scene in
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the late 70s early 80s and Rob Williams was there briefly and then gone and then he would come back as a you know a star
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Mor and Mindy and he he would create a small seismic event and I just I was
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naive I just thought I guess that's where you want to try to get to that if you can the most impossible what do you
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think the hardest you've ever killed is Dana yeah Dan I want to hear you as well okay I'll think about it oh boy that
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goes back a long time I would say for me in anything in a sketch in a I would say
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um in the early 80s when I was really
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doing a lot of standup I had done these goofy pilots and TV shows and then I was
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working at this place called the other Cafe which Paulo Poundstone went and a lot of people 70 seat or 60 seater with
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a big window and that's where I got so confident doing eight shows a week that
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the late shows I would literally just kind of go with what I wanted to do and
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uh I had so much confidence I was crushing in that room and the reason is this is cu I was always a sketch player
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but didn't know it there was no grounding up there so I was always trying to do characters and sketch so in
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this 60 Cedar where there was no hard liquor was really helpful in the hate ashberry where I met my wife by the way
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um those are the best sets I've ever had um different kind of standup then you
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were you doing like what were what were you were you doing like chop and broccoli chop and broccoli came from
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there church lady came from there I can only imagine how hard chop and broccoli
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must have killed in a 60 seater CB as it's known
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CB thank you thank you for helping this podcast SP I know I'm helping so I I
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would just say that and then what happens is um you go on Satur Night Live and you're not doing as much standup and
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then they're offering you enormous amounts of money to play enormous rooms but you're never really in the shape
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that you should or could be in uh so your act gets worse and the money gets bigger but you're you're famous so
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you're riding waves and going to your hooks but that that was the best I ever was from my head space um and if I do
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shoot another special I would have to do it in a 50 seater that's a tight space
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but you know it's not popular to do that what your theater how big was that one
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uh Fonda it's probably 8900 so that's it felt very intimate oh Fonda on
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so David that's my story Neil David when Spade when was you when were you crushing the
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hardest I feel like it's any time I'm doing standup where they're not filming it for
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Netflix and then when they film a special something happens where the Crowd
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Goes I'm paying to see you but this this just goes back to the joke of whenever
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most people film a special it's not their best night on stage this was my
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Netflix that just came out was the two worst shows of the whole tour see I'm
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telling you it's true Dana agrees something about it I had the same thing
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there was a technical issue on Friday night um so that got to throw that out
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so you work on it for six months and then you got one shot and the audience sees the cameras and the lights and so
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it's hard to that's why Sandler's special because he did it all all over
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the place and over you're watching a guy you're watching a special and the guy doesn't know he's doing a special so
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Sandler didn't know if he was going to use all that and so that was awesome because it was just not he wasn't doing
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a special but really that was your worst set because it felt felt pretty no it was I know it was still very good but it
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was like and then the thing happens where you're like you're pissed and you can't be pissed yeah there's like a
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party that's like oh these [ __ ] uh you paid to see me yeah that's funny
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I I'm having a tough set on my special night when they paid to see me is that like you popped in at The Comedy Store
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yeah I want to introduce a psychological problem based on this and not being able to shoot it 20
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times that and it's not a good place to be in like if you you have the exact
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same set cameras are gone just gone it's Saturday night and it's a little tight whatever at least for me I might step
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outside the lines do do a little crowd work switch up my set you know try to
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work what's been given to me but when you're out there and you're doing your set and it it's doesn't help me to be in
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this linear thing I feel like it's homework I have to get to these bits as
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opposed to I got a lot of bits in my quiver and I'm just out here tonight so that's another thing to get quiver like
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quiver like that whoops there's more arrows here's some chuing broccoli
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oh be careful the church lady may make an appearance but U that's why I want I
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want it be like that on a hello um besides me and Spade don't me
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and Spade don't do crowd work what were there any other suggestions I don't really do it either I think I don't
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really do it either but in a small room you can really have a conversation a little
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bit should we go on I'm still just curious how you're Happ ask like I can
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do an hour I don't I'll go however you guys want just cut it down I don't you know because happiness is such an elusive word I'm not and you're just
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saying you're better what yeah I don't I'm not yes I'm not like uh like you
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know I'm still like the joke engine or whatever is still the same but it's I it's more pleasant for to be me I'm not
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I'm not I realized something on MDMA which uh I was like very I was like
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felt very forgiving and very open and I was like why am I so open now and I
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realized because most of the time my brain is just like cortisol and adrenaline and I'm like thriving in that
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and I think that's my personality and that's my Outlook and then I was like that's not even your Outlook that's just
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the chemicals you have so therefore it makes you think you're it makes you seem
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cynical and cutting and biting and and abrasive and it's like
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that's just the chemicals you have so I've figured out a way to try to ignore those chemicals and bring in more of
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like the nice serotonin family chemicals it seems like a lot of things in life
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are a little bit like just working it fake it till you make it you know yeah it's just literally you know what I've
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been doing which is the corniest thing in the world it's like I do a gratitude checklist oh four times a day smart yeah
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but like I do it four times a day CU I feels high four feels like a lot but
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because I will forget it I will forget oh yeah I just forget in and then I
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start thinking negatively about my life or like I I say it's like I write science fiction about my life like
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they're out to get me and Spade hates you whatever and then you go uh and then
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I just go and then I write down like no you're a popular comedian you have three
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Netflix specials you co-created Dave like just things that are actually true
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like you write jokes jokes just come to you your whatever the attributes of the
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positive attributes of life you're good at your job you do well you know it's a hard field if you can make a living in
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the arch or something you love at and make a good living that's a gratitude check off absolutely absolutely I get
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paid to do this I still go back to that all the time yes it's very hard I'm working right now yeah it's hard to well
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this feels like work but it's other stuff um it's it's hard to remember it's
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just hard to remember the positive parts of your life because we're like kind of pro it's cooler to be negative and look
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look like oh this is hard and I'm like I'm a soldier and all like no we're all
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incredibly lucky and so was it your idea to write down the four times a day or is it a therapist uh it was actually no I
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mean like I was aware of it as like a you know an Oprah thing and then some
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and then I was talking about Islam and I said they pray five times a day which is smart because it's like you got to
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remember and then rain Wilson from the office was like why don't you try doing
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gratitude four times a day and I was like all right and I've been doing it like probably four months at this point
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it's pretty great and what did iasa give you if that MDA gave you that sort of gratitude and IA gave me it got me off
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anti-depressants for good pretty pretty big yeah and I was an atheist before and
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then Doan iasa made me believe in a central creation Force thing and but
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it's not like religious or like so therefore I nothing wrong with that I I totally believe in that you know yeah
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you know yeah I think people get hung up on like well what Rel it's like what what franchise do you you know believe
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in right and that's yeah it gets to me
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uh we're here I always go back to that like what are why are we here are we really
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here what is our purpose here what are we doing here so I I just emotionally
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have to think there's some creative designer some some reason some some
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reason because it's it's also more comforting just to you know a lot of faith or just belief systems if they I
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mean they asked Mel Gibson who's a very devout Catholic and he did rather than going defending the religion goes he
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goes what what choice have I got I did a Australian accent what choice have I got so you know it's like
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I'm G to be way more content and at peace with myself during this time this
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journey so it's sort of like I'm choosing to be open to the yeah in a
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weird way it is like a self-interested choice because it kind of feel it's easier if you're not if you don't take
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everything so literally like if it's like this is this is my only shot and I got to make I got to make the most money
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and I got to succeed and I gotta on this time this 80 years or whatever on Earth I gotta rise and grind and you're like
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or it's like no you're part of a bigger that's what I say four times a day I would
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say this is my only shot I need more money now I thought I believe and I was
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in my late 20s I realized there was a higher power than lawen Michaels no I
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was at 30 and then I said there's got to be something above that and now I'm inine
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and we're talking of course about Bernie burlin those are two of my favorite
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references fantastic nobody knows nothing nobody
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knows anything in the business not give me 10% of your
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money I don't know anything but listen to me but we love we love Bernie I love
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Bernie when you did Chappelle show was let's say 20 2003 does that sound right
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oh yeah that sounds right it is right 2002 to 2004 or 2002 to 2005 okay so SNL
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was going and you guys did you ever want to write for SNL was that any even in
00:29:43
your possibilities or you we had written yeah like kind of like I me and Chappelle R Half Baked in 97 and then
00:29:50
was in it and then I kind of got you were doing SP that's when I met you you were doing uh eight heads in a duffel
00:29:57
bag not at the top of the resume but yes Toronto that sounds about right Toronto
00:30:03
yeah in Toronto uh and then and then I was sort of and then I met a guy named
00:30:09
Mike Sher who wrote for SNL and he and I wrote a little bit a couple screenplays together okay and then so I was always
00:30:15
sort of around and then and then I and then through Sher I became friends with like Seth Meyers and Po and and then all
00:30:24
those people uh so I would go to the the parties that's
00:30:29
something yeah so that's something and then I actually when Dave posted in
00:30:36
2016 I uh wrote that week on the show and uh
00:30:44
and it was it was it was I mean it was the week Trump got won the election so
00:30:49
it was an insane week to be there oh wow um but uh and it was like
00:30:58
I remember being on I was friends with Joe so I was like in Joe's office and on
00:31:05
a uh exit polling conference call at 6 pm on the election night and the guy
00:31:12
Frank Lutz was like Hillary's up by six Hillary's up by six points like so
00:31:19
then so then uh p.m. okay yeah at 6 PM
00:31:25
eastern time and uh and then so as the night went on you just got to
00:31:33
see like what like people transform and like me and Chay Michael Chay wrote A
00:31:39
Sketch about it was gonna be Rick James doing an update I like it already of anything
00:31:46
with Rick starts with Rick James right Rick James doing a weekend update uh doing an update about how he realizes
00:31:55
that he could have been president of the United States and uh and and like but we did like
00:32:02
three versions of it like there was like at N9 o'clock it's like Donald Trump failed at Rick James's dream and then at
00:32:10
2 am we rewrote it to be like another thing and then it and then 5: a. we reot
00:32:16
it to like I could have been president and then me and joose at like 6 or 7
00:32:24
a.m. I I pitched a sketch of like why don't we just do a bunch of people
00:32:29
watching the Returns come in and it ended up being like the popular sketch that week good but we
00:32:36
wrote it it I mean again I'm not tell it's all these like it's the same heroism stories every all the SNL like
00:32:43
I'm a hero and then like I punched Downey and uh and then we got the
00:32:49
scripted cards um but uh Rand the cards yeah and then Wally was like what is
00:32:55
this I can't even read um uh so we wrote that sketch and it did
00:33:01
like pretty good it did like decent read through but it had like some punch and
00:33:06
then we rewrote it some of those are visual and then you they come alive when you're doing what what was the the
00:33:12
through hook of that just just the uh it was literally like it was like 7
00:33:18
A.M I I'm really like everyone's excited and then like you know couple lines
00:33:24
about how shes keep start dropping yeah 930 yeah then like uh looks like Trump
00:33:29
won and like them going like what and then Dave's watching it with them and then Chappelle had a funny like a funny
00:33:37
Direction uh for the rewrite he goes just make it blacker so so so the so then the
00:33:44
direction became like white people overreacting to a bad outcome and Dave
00:33:52
being black about it Dave just being like what the [ __ ] did you like what did you think the and then Rock came in uh
00:34:00
like then Rock shows up at like 11: like with some food like what's going on and
00:34:05
then him and Dave are just like play uh play sniper to a bunch of upset white
00:34:11
people um but it was a funny it was funny like be not real not I mean like
00:34:18
knowing about the show secondhand through Seth and sure and a few people but so so I because I was like with
00:34:26
writing with Dave I got to go into the sketch pick thing after big place the
00:34:33
inter sanctum with Lauren Club each each each sketch is a card and some cards
00:34:38
make it onto the outline some don't it's a scary place so you go in there I did a
00:34:44
I did it's like the sanctum of sanctums right yeah it's the it's the death it's the center of the Death Star so I did a
00:34:52
thing that I didn't know you can't do is I went up to the board
00:34:59
yes I went up to the board took a card and said I think you should move this
00:35:05
[ __ ] stuck and I don't think anyone had ever done it no no I never saw anyone to
00:35:10
it no I think I paralyzed I think I yes exactly and I paralyzed Lauren to the I
00:35:19
because Lauren is for the many things he is fairly passive yeah if you confront
00:35:25
him I didn't none of this was C Cal at so I I I I basically hacked Lauren
00:35:33
godamn moved a sketch up hack the system pushed him out of the way put yeah like
00:35:39
get out get punch him in the yeah threw him through the window uh and then um
00:35:45
and then after after the after dress dress didn't go well I I never
00:35:53
realized how Shaggy dress was Shaggy yeah yeah it was it's it can be really
00:36:00
some loose ends and dress yeah like you don't know it's like oh this shouldn't
00:36:05
be not only this shouldn't be a television show this shouldn't be on its feet right now this is rehearsal no this
00:36:11
it's not a joke but there were a couple times my first season I didn't know how it all worked either I thought it was so
00:36:16
bad and so long and so discombobulated I just thought the show is not going to go
00:36:22
on tonight they're going to have to show a movie or something yeah they're going to have to show like Godfather or
00:36:28
something or like a or like The Lone Ranger or something it's so long you're like this is still
00:36:34
going what the we got to do the real one in a minute starts at 7:30 you're like we're not g to be able to do the 11:30
00:36:41
show this is running so long so so after
00:36:46
dress I we're in the lawren office which is like 75 it's a fire hazard it's like
00:36:52
75 people yeah in this cramp room it is a fire hazard 20 by it's like
00:36:58
yeah Chappelle was actually talk about hacking the system he was smoking during that
00:37:03
meeting it's a tiny room um and uh and I
00:37:11
Lauren I think I did the card thing again Jesus you took over and then this is how how hard I
00:37:19
hacked this guy during the show you gave no during
00:37:24
the show it's like uh you know the show's going well right it's like we we figured it out whatever cut the jokes
00:37:30
that don't work it was a miracle when you cut the [ __ ] that doesn't work the whole thing is better it starts to shine
00:37:36
a little bit yeah yeah yeah and uh and at you know it's
00:37:41
12440 45 there's one sketch left and there's a few on the board and I go
00:37:47
what's next and Lauren goes you decide ah wow so I got to pick the sketch which
00:37:57
with Seth was Seth Myers was like I don't think anyone's that's ever happened no um and the do the way you do
00:38:05
it is you you have to rush the cockpit on Wednesday yeah you rush the cockpit
00:38:10
you get you rest control from them and uh and and that's the only way that and
00:38:18
now and then you're the captain now and then Lauren forgot your name because he's so many people he's probably oh
00:38:24
could we have the the pin Pusher card guy come in from Wednesday pin Pusher no
00:38:29
you know what's funny I did go I did go back because I had a good experience I
00:38:35
went back another week when I think aiz I'm sorry was hosting and me and joose
00:38:41
wrote A Sketch and uh guess who wasn't in the sketch picking meeting
00:38:47
yep you know what I since then they have
00:38:52
someone in there that pushes a beverage cart in front of the host and his friends in the room
00:38:58
so no one can get to the board I like I just like the balls of him going okay now it's the air show we're going to
00:39:04
open with uh Dave's monologue and you hear in the back nope not this week old man sorry that's
00:39:12
at the end mon yep no I know what do what do you
00:39:18
think well why would that's interesting but it was it was uh it was I done it I
00:39:25
went back two more weeks so a total of three weeks and by the third week it I
00:39:31
was I had like the classic experience of like the sketch you're think your SK you
00:39:38
have to kind of get your they don't pick your sketch and then you you I like Jo
00:39:45
objected and then some people didn't like it and then H we got it on but it
00:39:51
was like late and then people objected and then it got cut Friday night oo yeah
00:39:57
no I know it was like oh this is the I was like this is the experience I've heard about oh
00:40:03
wow yeah and uh ugly
00:40:08
ugly no it was pretty ugly we should take a we should take a pause I mean this is a and you go I guess I don't get
00:40:16
to pick the last sketch again maybe I'll pick that one maybe Lauren do I need to
00:40:22
reintroduce myself maybe maybe you who runs the show yeah Lauren you're
00:40:28
spinning a p Lauren I could pick it please is there
00:40:34
a donkey tail anywhere H this fell off the board
00:40:39
accidentally yeah so it was uh I had like I had every experience I think in 3
00:40:44
weeks so
00:40:49
funny so you Chappelle like I mean just in Broad stroke just for our listeners
00:40:56
the difference between doing sketch in that environment and that whatever
00:41:01
protocol you guys had I didn't really know but I assume it was pre-taped not live it was all pre-taped yeah and it
00:41:09
was and the staff was me and him so it was like it was well because we had done
00:41:16
Half Baked in 97 and it didn't go well and then uh and then like we just didn't
00:41:23
get what it was we worked with Bob Simons who you guys both work with like un Half Baked and uh and and uh we it
00:41:33
was we just kind of got mauled by the process because we were 23 so what what
00:41:38
is the when you look back at because I've done a lot of bombs and stuff or I was in them but what was the what was
00:41:44
the was there a flaw in half-baked or it was Tiny it was I mean I will I'll clean
00:41:49
up our end of the street we should have just Rewritten it more uh once we got green lit we were just like [ __ ]
00:41:56
we're 23 let's get this perdum in our pockets and get to the Brass Rail the
00:42:02
strip club in Toronto in Toronto yeah um yeah what are you gonna wear to the
00:42:08
Oscars yeah I mean we were yeah so like it's so exciting you
00:42:14
go this is it they bought the movie let's go shoot it you you don't think of let's keep I do think it had a great name yeah half B yeah that was brewers
00:42:23
brewers pitch so like uh so we just should have rewriting it and then there
00:42:28
was just stuff production stuff that it was like you know by the time we
00:42:33
saw drawings and renderings of this the sets and stuff it was all very bright
00:42:39
and colorful and we were just kind of like is this what you thought it was gonna be just like we didn't I think Bob
00:42:46
had like the the Billy Madison Billy Madison lens on it yeah like the Billy
00:42:52
Madison color palette and I Dana I didn't see Master disguise but it looked
00:42:57
like you had that we had it uh Adam had it less in Happy Gilmore because it was
00:43:03
more exteriors but he got sort of further away from the sort of coll the
00:43:10
kindergarten color palette um Che cheerful family oriented film exactly we
00:43:17
yeah we were doing a weed movie so it was kind of like not exactly right for that so what just stuff like that like so the
00:43:23
authenticity quotient went yes yes and Rewritten it more Neo you can even get
00:43:29
burned on posters because there's a whole art like a blue background like and and I think Tommy Boy has one A lot
00:43:35
of them there's a there's a system where there's certain colors that make it look like a fun happy family movie and
00:43:42
there's some that look a little grainier even on the poster yes that's exactly right and but then also were you in
00:43:48
Airheads Spade no no uh sorry to put that on you Frasier yes but like
00:43:56
AirHeads was a little more Indie looking Half Baked had the bright blue background yeah grass Dave and J you
00:44:03
know it's like you're absolutely right like there's just a bunch of stuff and I'm not saying like that it was wrong
00:44:09
I'm not I'm I'm I kind of feel like wasn't quite right for us and by the time we were just we didn't have any
00:44:15
power to go like no I didn't know that you could just walk up and take the index card
00:44:21
yeah it's not it's not actually all the time anyone's fault or a conspiracy it's
00:44:26
just no exactly there's subjectivity to it but I you know I think if there's a
00:44:31
through line let's say you and Davey wrote it and you had complete control over it essentially like the way Adam
00:44:38
Sandler does then you would all that all your standup would come into play like well what's working what's working but
00:44:45
if it gets mut that's exactly right yeah and also we were I was 23 Dave was 23 we
00:44:50
didn't so then once we got to Chappelle Show then it was every single decision
00:44:56
comes through one of us yeah and that that's why I mean there for better for worse at least you can take the credit
00:45:01
or live or die with it yeah and uh and so so like that was so it was me and him
00:45:09
we would write we would people a couple people a guy named Brian Tucker who went on to be a great SNL writer would pitch
00:45:16
pitched us some sketches uh but it me and they would always write them ourselves and uh so it
00:45:25
was you know we it was just a twers sort of black hole operation of like how many
00:45:32
how many sketches did you need because they were half hours right yeah was it was 22 yeah it was 22 minutes one a week
00:45:39
no it was 22 minutes uh my plus we had
00:45:44
musical guests which would end up being about 3 minutes so we ended up needing about four or five per episode the heart
00:45:51
and that's very hard so that's a lot we to do yeah we had to do 12 episodes but
00:45:57
here's the crazy part without reruns so we had to do 12 weeks in a row
00:46:06
of four or five sketches yeah so that's where you it's just becomes like almost
00:46:14
unbearable well just you two I mean come on the writer room is too much yeah just
00:46:20
us so it was and and like like you guys said for better worse there's some some of it's great second season's way better
00:46:26
than the first one to me um but uh and to I mean just objectively but but yeah
00:46:32
it just became like very so there was so the hard part was the
00:46:39
pressure and not the there was no back stabbing there was no there were no
00:46:45
politics okay it your energy goes to the show yes but so it's like you guys got
00:46:51
weeks off but the whole week off you're thinking about what an [ __ ] soand so is you know um so we didn't have uh we
00:47:00
had less of that but it is just like un like so so hard to do it that many weeks
00:47:07
in a row and uh and then we get you know three months off for for between Seasons
00:47:14
but but yeah but it's but were you riding High when when did you go holy
00:47:19
[ __ ] we got a hit well you know what's funny is I I way it pertains to SNL is
00:47:25
uh you guys did you guys read that live from New York book The Tom shales book flip through it yeah I'm I'm familiar
00:47:34
with it yeah yeah you lived it so you're less you're it's more like oh yeah is
00:47:39
that what happened but oh yeah there's a lot of stuff you go well that didn't happen like that yeah exactly but from
00:47:45
an outsider for an outsider it was interesting to I didn't know I genuinely
00:47:52
didn't had never and I love SK I wrote for a sketch called all that on when I was like 20 before all that stuff yeah
00:48:01
with Keenan on Set uh Qui on set you may know um dude that show is so popular
00:48:10
it's it's number one on HBO today it's been out for like a month but uh not that quiet yeah it's
00:48:18
not that uh I have I had a good joke on that guy that'll tell you guys off the air um it wasn't about molesting it was
00:48:25
a fat shaming joke that's pretty cool okay um the uh but so I never until I
00:48:31
read uh live from New York I never thought about like character sketches or
00:48:36
parodies or premise sketches or like I never knew the I never kind of
00:48:42
classified them so once so I literally read it I I take it toel go read this
00:48:49
like before we do we' gotten picked up and then he was like oh so then we
00:48:55
started approaching it like let's do a character sketch let's do a premise sketch let's do I mean our it was so
00:49:02
disorganized it was such a Twan operation that we had we ended up having two distinctions of sketches which is
00:49:08
longies and shorties so it's a pretty yeah smart high level high level
00:49:14
operation but like high level lingo well there's also uh which is done is we used
00:49:20
to call them on the Dana Carvey Show presentational so it's like there's a
00:49:26
little song or a Kyon that kind of gives a joke away like Germans who say nice things that I did with Steve Carell it's
00:49:32
his bit it's just two guys facing you know the premise right away yep two
00:49:37
minutes of jokes that yes that's that's a that's a I'm glad you brought that up because the the I remember I went to SNL
00:49:45
while we were doing Chapelle Show and I was like I looked at Seth and I was like oh I I now I realized having Chappelle
00:49:53
on stage setting the sketch up before befor hand MH does so much heavy lifting
00:50:00
yes I don't you don't need to spend 80 Seconds going like here we are at a
00:50:06
restaurant I hope nothing crazy happens everyone's wondering where it's going like what's going on what we doing so he
00:50:12
could say like me and my wife argue about race and who does what and then we go like so we got to have a racial draft
00:50:19
and then toss to like everything's set up uh which again I think there's like
00:50:25
you guys but D I forgot how great The Dana Cary show was until you mention it uh congratulations again that show was
00:50:32
incredible it's nice to have a do when you only get eight shows on the air and you get a nice documentary thank you
00:50:38
Josh bomb you know that kind of goes uh yeah you know could be worse yeah could
00:50:44
be totally forgotten I was gonna ask you this question based on you asking
00:50:49
bringing that up because uh Steve Carell and Stephen cber they were not them they
00:50:54
weren weren't who they are now yet you know they're kind of insecure but they were great immediately and you've known
00:51:00
Dave so long and forget the how funny he is just his stage presence has gone to
00:51:07
this other level I don't know how you've watched this evolution of somebody who's that
00:51:12
comfortable on stage and confidence yeah I don't I don't think it's uh or has he
00:51:18
always been that guy it's I mean he's kind of always been that guy and he was good I don't know when you guys for some
00:51:25
but I I heard a story fairly recently where Martin Lawrence Dave's in high school on stage
00:51:34
at Garvin or somewhere in DC and uh Martin Lawrence has has done like do the
00:51:40
right thing and he's come back to DC and he's doing good and uh somebody's like
00:51:45
and Dave's on stage and somebody says to Martin what do you think of this kid and Martin goes I don't know but I can't stop looking at
00:51:52
him uh like he's in high school that Dave also had a joke that I like telling
00:51:57
people one of his high school jokes uh when the show Alf came out um Dave had a
00:52:04
joke uh it's a good thing Alf didn't land it's a good thing Al landed in a white neighborhood and not a black
00:52:11
neighborhood because if Al had landed in a black neighborhood two weeks later you would have seen brothers wearing Al skin
00:52:18
coats Al skin coats pretty good joke for a kid in high
00:52:23
school so like the thing of his uh how natural he is and like I don't
00:52:31
even think it's can I don't even compare it I it's like well I'm never gonna be able
00:52:37
to do that so it's not even worth emulating because a lot of people could
00:52:43
yeah yeah like do you guys know of anybody that's that like I've literally been having conversations with him like
00:52:51
I don't even know when the show's starting he's smoking be like brenon you don't know then now
00:52:57
puts the cigarette doesn't even put the cigarette out just backs onto the stage while we're talking and gets a standing
00:53:05
ovation yeah like just not there's no separation
00:53:10
between being a person and being the guy on stage yeah well well two things that
00:53:15
are interesting is do that that I guess for a period of time post that show and
00:53:20
everything that happened you know he'd start to show up in clubs and I would just hear yeah I would hear six hour set
00:53:26
or 4our sets I don't yeah you know and so that would get someone confident
00:53:32
anyway but this is what's interesting to me like Eddie Murphy is 19 he comes out on SNL so he's
00:53:40
he's had a a confidence you know he's just there it's unbelievable right I'll
00:53:45
take Louis CK just just because I he's such a brilliant standup amazing comedian yeah and he's going through the
00:53:51
normal thing of finding his way then 20 years later he's at this level that you
00:53:57
can't you can only equal it as a standup so it's interesting where people who get
00:54:03
it so fast and so young um but we could get there Neil you could get there I
00:54:11
start today we start I have you booked at uh the west side you're going to do a seven hour set Neil Neil Brennan and
00:54:19
friends but no one else is coming well no but that's what's funny is like you
00:54:24
don't I I don't I'm I it's like how I would think of it's like I don't have I
00:54:30
bar I have the material I have I have 43 minutes or whatever whereas I don't I
00:54:38
can't like Channel or whatever like Spade you seem like a very bit oriented person like you have the time you
00:54:46
have yeah well I I also like to do longer stories now because to eat time
00:54:52
also and to be more personality driven bits because some bits can be if you do it about a subject it
00:54:59
might have been trampled on already but if you talk about your own life or your version of something that happens that
00:55:05
sort of identifies you and your persona so those stories I like a lot because
00:55:11
they can't be really duplicated it has to be me telling them so I like those in the ACT uh it doesn't do well for how
00:55:19
old are stories are there stories that you're doing that you didn't you were like could I do that in my ACT are they
00:55:25
new stories or is it like when I was a kid U most of it's new but I could go
00:55:32
back and mind stuff and say this was funny and I can make it funnier because
00:55:37
you you learn how to tell stories better but if it has like little tiny punch lines along the way yeah and little tent
00:55:44
pole laughs so it's not just a story like Norm used to tell a joke Johnny went to school and then it's a 15
00:55:50
minutes and then he does the punchline so it's It's Kind of a Funny walk there
00:55:55
through the joke but you also are like waiting for the actual funny part yeah
00:56:01
but but if you can keep a story going like that uh I do like that I also have someone liners it's really a mess to be
00:56:07
honest but it's whatever is funny he's funny I but I don't like doing long sets I'll say that I don't like doing hour
00:56:13
and a half I don't think it's necessary I don't either I don't think people want like my Netflix is 53 minutes like I I
00:56:21
it was an hour and five live but like I'm like I don't I'm with you no I think
00:56:27
everyone's sharing shorts and stuff I think it just needs um atel I think was
00:56:32
35 minutes to stand up but he had people playing the reporter to extend it to 40
00:56:38
so if you go past we were talking about this that you can kind of ride a wave to
00:56:44
maybe 40 but not anybody has to have that low the audience gets tired if
00:56:49
you're lucky you know from laughing and then you have to low and then you have to rebuild but what I would say about
00:56:54
you which makes you unique one is the three mics thing very original
00:57:00
incredibly fun for a comedian to watch you know it's just like oh you know all these Styles and then on this one I
00:57:07
haven't seen anyone do it but you're just doing regular standup you're killing but then all of a sudden you're
00:57:13
talking about atheism you your face goes to a little corner In Black and White I
00:57:18
think and then this sort of commercial this big video comes on I do basically I
00:57:24
do uh B the premise is religions should make
00:57:30
attack ads on each other like politicians yeah and uh and so then I do
00:57:37
I basically do the voice over in the corner and uh screen in the theater no
00:57:45
there was no screen there so they're laughing because of your you're laughing because of the voice over and then
00:57:51
because this is a visual presentation for people at home I'm like yeah why
00:57:58
it's the you know what analogy I always use is the like television degrades
00:58:04
makes you can film an amazing thing and in order for it to work through a
00:58:09
television camera and go and work at homes it has to be so great that it can
00:58:15
get through television like knocks the quality down six 40% right yeah and and
00:58:22
the analogy I always use is SNL musical guests SNL musical guests live in that
00:58:29
studio I think we could all agree some of the best shows I've ever seen or
00:58:34
heard too it's like some of the best yes what I mean yes literally someone you
00:58:40
don't even like will give you the chills yeah at when you watch them at 8h and
00:58:46
then if you if you're at home you're like fast forwarding and that's the difference
00:58:52
between like television just makes stuff worse like in the room it can feel the Bas in your chest so it's so in terms of
00:58:59
like standup I tried to do more visual stuff on Netflix because they people can
00:59:06
watch anything people can watch Batman return they can watch any
00:59:12
they can watch flip and fall videos they can watch the zuder film they can watch
00:59:17
they can just watch any they can watch The Godfather too they can watch like right you know
00:59:23
so that a PR's bad quality because that's it no it's not great quality but you can you can see it no on TV it comes
00:59:30
out very but it's pretty funny and it is pretty funny it's
00:59:38
funny what I was going to say was then you also did a a visual effect where
00:59:43
you're you're like on a big iPhone talking to us I'm do I'm talking about
00:59:49
social media Spade you would like my comedy you should look at it you would I and get influenced by it who
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yeah um I do I talk about girls on social media and guys on social media
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the kind of hustle preneur thing and I Danny you know what's funny is I'm kind
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of doing I'm doing Hans run I'm doing the clap I do the clap basically and it
01:00:16
took me like a year before I'm like I'm doing H I just was doing it and then I
01:00:22
realized like oh I'm doing Hanson FR U without the accent um but uh but I cut
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to when I'm doing the like what's up guys you want to make money I go to like a frame you know like the the 9916 frame
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so just trying to help myself on television yeah yeah it's and and it
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it's like it's less of a man it's less of a t talk it's less of a one man
01:00:50
standing there nothing happening if you do think of that way cuz on the last special when I went into the inter them
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they said mo mo that Max people last 12 15 minutes and if you designed your
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standup like the audience the physical audience is going to start leaving you
01:01:08
would really frontload it and the g the way to win the game show is that you keep them longer than anyone else but
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about your visual imagery it's a little bit to me like when David and I talk on this other podcast we're doing where
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we're just sort of riffing and stuff and I'm doing a couple voices and then we have a gentleman young person edit it
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together and then mix in visual effects to it um that and that's your YouTube
01:01:33
short clip everyone does it and it's just very potent you know potency is H
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better this idea that like you know I'm like I'm breaking the sanctity of
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standup like there's no no like I'm compete I want people to look at it I
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don't want to I don't like and all this thing about like what about the history your legacy I love comedy I haven't
01:01:59
watched Richard prior in 25 years I'm not going back and looking and the like
01:02:04
what about it's like it did we have my n the the One Crazy K was on the Netflix
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charts for a week I can't believe it was on there that long I usually it's like
01:02:17
we get about in terms of like bring the pain christas special came out in '96
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and I feel like it lasted Al for three years do you know what I me analog in
01:02:31
the 9s yeah yeah and even like Mike Mike Myers was saying like this is very like
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what all what this is is not the Showbiz that we all started especially you guys
01:02:43
who were like popular like Wayne if you were in Wayne's World this is a little different right
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um so so even it's say Stark standup special it's like at a certain point it
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could be anel Adams you know you just don't want to go it looks great but you you want to get with the times too so we
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have little Clips you got to Jazz them up or put words anything just Jazz them anything anything anything people are
01:03:10
it's Dana that's a good way to think of it is like how do I get people to not
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walk away imagine them walking out of bur Bill Burr actually said he tries to
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make his setups sound insane so that people will be like what where he's like
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I'm sick of fat people crying and then you go wait what right yeah every Tik Tok starts with this is the craziest
01:03:34
thing that ever happened to me and then they go let me back up and you're like yeah yeah have you guys you guys know
01:03:40
about toes well I st mine has that happened to you it's incredible like y I
01:03:46
got really rich with crypto should I hate myself you know yeah that's right by
01:03:53
lines yeah approaching it from like not even Sensational like or as
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sensationally as you can do it and not feel like a piece of garbage um so like
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that's the that's kind even Sandler's a good example like guitars and I'm gonna put it down and then I'm gonna go over
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here and it's just like and he's got visuals yeah he's got visuals he's got the his clothes are now with the like
01:04:20
the thank you comedy thing like it's like and he said he's going to he had a screen and stuff behind behind him
01:04:26
so yeah I tot agree do yeah do like I don't I I think it's silly to think that
01:04:32
we should just do it the way it was done old F yeah a pure a purist would be the
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yeah because if I'm never I'm sure you guys meet people all the time who are
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like have no idea who you are and then you go I remember there was a girl I
01:04:50
know let me slow down uh no there was a girl there was a there was a girl girl
01:04:55
who wrote on The Daily Show who was a black girl who didn't know that Chris Rock had a show on HBO here you go like
01:05:04
easily easily yeah how like how and then you go well how would she know she was
01:05:10
eight when it was on right someone said I know all your [ __ ] all the way back to grown-ups I'm like grown-ups that was 10
01:05:18
years ago I thought I was done by the time grown-ups came out yeah I go I got new juice juicy life on TBS my
01:05:26
have jped the shark on that you know they're like in their late 60s and they're like you know my kids sure sure
01:05:33
are fansy yours they are yeah they were born when Wings world was made how's
01:05:38
that possible but yeah Dana what are the what are the bits that people bring up from Wayne's World now that like the
01:05:45
most common bits obviously like swing and all that stuff when it's out but what is the little ones if you're going to spew
01:05:52
spew into this for me little gar things um I'd say for me it' be the
01:05:59
dream girl and being knocked over and the foxy lady dance because the hendrik song is very potent I don't know if
01:06:04
you've seen the movie but G the shiest guy in town does this dance um stuff
01:06:10
like that if you to get a hit like that is so rare talk about gratitude I'm gonna write that down gratitud W World W
01:06:19
world and Mike Myers and I and Lauren Michaels share net profit on the film
01:06:24
and so every year we get checks from that film met profit yeah there were no
01:06:30
gross players people don't know that you don't really make money for movies because if there's someone in there who
01:06:35
gets 20% of the gross they'll never turn a profit but we made it for 12 and it did 200 million and then it did a bunch
01:06:41
on video so that was kind of cool so I didn't want to say but I took iasa
01:06:48
right before we got on this is kind we're timing this really well I'll I'll tell you what I learned
01:06:54
from today's podcast sum it up before before we let before we let go you guys
01:07:00
I'm trying to think of anything else we should talk about if there's anything I I was gonna say I did like that you wrote for singled out because I used to
01:07:06
watch that show and Jenny McCarthy blew up that was a cool fun show but was it was there any crazy thing you that was
01:07:12
my first job in Show Business that was my first writing job and I remember a big show it was yeah it was like she was
01:07:20
on the cover of Rolling Stone I like uh and and the Rolling Stone was a magazine
01:07:27
and then it was like there were a few cultural hubs um and uh they yeah no I
01:07:34
remember saying during the pilot this is this show is very stupid and it's going
01:07:39
to be very popular like I could just sort of tell like oh this is gonna be yeah I'm so old
01:07:46
Neil how old are you I was I'm so old I was in Las Vegas the night Tupac was
01:07:53
murdered and I ended up sitting at a blackjack table with Jenny McCarthy all
01:07:58
night playing Blackjack that's how old I am I was meeting Chappelle there and he missed his flight is that how you
01:08:05
mourned wow wouldn't be the first time it wouldn't be the last time you miss a flight to meet me and uh and yeah so I'm
01:08:14
quite aged yeah you're old and um I think your next special should be called
01:08:20
cortisol and adrenaline is cortisol yeah cortisol and
01:08:25
adrenaline negative negative uh chem brain chemicals it should be called be
01:08:30
grateful that you're about to watch Neil Brennan's comedy show with a lot of extra pictures and words oh I'm if I do
01:08:39
one now I've been thinking this way anyway it's just gonna be just blasting video and parodies and it should be
01:08:46
what's the downside it's like nobody nobody gets one person complained like
01:08:51
not even complained they were just like it kind of took me out of it everybody else knows like this is where we are
01:08:58
Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld didn't mention the video you know what I mean like didn't say like I didn't like that like
01:09:04
it was every everyone's on board like we we have to help ourselves guys I think
01:09:10
mine might be called wait for it because that's what every stupid Tik Tok says wait watch till the end no yeah watch
01:09:16
till the end and then you go by the way I I like when they say wait for it and it's a sixc video I'm like I'm here yeah
01:09:24
I mean yeah now how bad are people attention SP like wait for six seconds yeah and then it's very uh anticlimactic
01:09:31
I just want to quickly do a quick test to see if we can bring crazy good back
01:09:37
into the top 10 this is a great special it's revolutionary it has video effects you don't believe it he talks about uh
01:09:45
antivaxx people talks about Joe Rogan I see sex couples Psychopaths invented the
01:09:51
world basically and drug addicts they're very very important and of course course iasa we talk about on this of course and
01:09:59
and Ellen degenerous I have a I have a joke about Ellen degenerous that SP I think you will like and I'm sure can you
01:10:06
say it right now yeah I'll say it right now IAL I basically it you know people but
01:10:13
like comedians are expected to be leaders now and like moral morally righteous and people go is Ellen nice I
01:10:20
was like is Ellen nice how many nice lesbians have you ever met in your entire life
01:10:28
um yeah I go after Jim Jeff I go everybody gets a little something I'm
01:10:34
not even I don't go after any everybody was like everyone has approved and thanked me for them so like it's all
01:10:41
it's all it's all in good fun yeah and Jim Jeff I only in because with his Australian accent when he first came out
01:10:47
on this scene he had like a 10-minute bit and I remember him saying I don't like lesbians you can be having the best
01:10:54
day of your life a lesbian shows up you're [ __ ] you know something like that but anyway yeah great comment yes
01:11:01
great yes incredible comment and he and he is on the Spectrum all right great I it was a I'm I'm very happy to be here
01:11:07
and thank you for having me uh you were an incredible easy guest people who do
01:11:13
podcasts are really good guests I've noticed yeah I would like you both on my
01:11:18
podcast uh it's called blocks uh Spade I don't think you're going to do it it's a
01:11:24
little too emot for you Dana on the other hand I think is a is a prime candidate and I'm going
01:11:31
to send some emails about it yeah I would I have a I have a story I have a
01:11:38
story right um yeah okay most David has
01:11:43
stories too I don't know that's a whole another podcast of whether comedians also have some struggle we're all nuts I
01:11:51
mean obviously a lot of people do but comedians I meet seem to have stories a
01:11:56
lot of them you know Seinfeld did it yesterday so I feel like I Letterman's done it Letterman's done it and now I've
01:12:04
got Letterman ins signville I feel like who anyone who passes I'm kind of like okay so you're
01:12:09
better okay buddy got very good all right boys good to see you thanks Neil miss you see you soon on the street miss
01:12:15
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