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coming up next James Austin Johnson but first a lot of words from our sponsor
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Dana uh David we did our first live show and beautiful Austin Texas you know what
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wait a minute can we get this straight we actually did our podcast live for an hour yeah it was it was really fun
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um you know when in Texas I always stop by Jersey Mike's um now this isn't an ad but sometimes
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you go to Jersey Mike's but if I have a deity and it's too casual they have a new uh one next door the nicer version
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Jersey Michaels like Lauren Michael yeah it's like a two
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stars where you get all your good stuff I've heard about it and James Austin Johnson
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in Austin uh and he was great he's a present cast member on Saturday Night
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Live yeah and does Biden and Trump and other things and a lot of and he's uh and a lot of sketches it does a
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tremendous Trump many people terrific I'm telling you many people are saying man excuse me excuse me it wasn't
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interrupting uh a lot of people um he was awesome and we break down his
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impression of trump very specifically and what he did with it right we talk
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about SNL going to the After parties live audiences the live audiences was
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actually way more fun than I thought because I thought it would be kind of quiet but they were such a [ __ ] great
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crowd they got into everything they were listening to everything they were really into it it's amazing they listened to
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you a little bit they listen to me a lot they were a little quiet but it's at points but um and then he was great and
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we did a big q a at the end a big [ __ ] fat q a no now yeah no rules no
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rules just ad-libbing I fell asleep twice during it uh no just it was that it was an hour and a
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half I came in I got up at five I flew a long way let me tell you something you're gonna
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be happy I wouldn't believe this is one of the best podcasts we've ever done it
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wound up it was a great one he was he's just a a young man I hate when you get
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older this kid you know he's like 47 you know he's he's like 32. he's just he's
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in the clubs he's going along he did a Instagram thing and then suddenly he's on SNL and his wife has a baby yeah I
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mean what a what a life turn and he's killing it on the show and he's just a nice backstage we we got into this you
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know I'm not calling it a brawl but there was there was some physicality yeah remember you held down James
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I had to keep we had to keep the two camps apart Dana's camp right and James's team do you have a
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team or a camp I don't have anybody I don't have a Heather
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hello is this the show I Don't Like Show Business no you're at Saddle Ranch
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you're way off come on come on I never did that that's March to the Caribbean what they said you know people those
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people the Pirates if I just give us speech he's like did they ever find out about Johnny Depp in the poop and they're like well sir can you stay on
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survive you could fall on the bed and the giant Pirates come on I can do this
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anyway James I I he did he's a stand-up I watch his stand up I asked him about his stand-up questions I asked him how
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he came up with them I read some of his jokes he's an actor he's a stand-up yeah and we had a great time we had a great
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time and James if you're seeing this um we love you man James
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sorry we made you pay for a valet I don't bring any cash when I go we were
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at the Four Seasons he was at the lucky eight five seasons Five Seasons that's
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more than one it has Indian summer yeah had Tito's in the bar I don't drink that flavor every time I was home and I go to
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my mom do you have Tito's if I come to your house because I'm a little bit of a boozy Susie and she goes oh I don't know
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if we have Cheetos I know we have um Cheez-Its that's close I go where are
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you getting cheetah oh from Cheetos and then I said it again and then I go did you get any Tito's he goes we don't have
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Cheetos I told you I go Mom I'm two feet away why are you still getting Cheetos from this and you know I already said
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Tito's Tito's one is a flavorful salty orange snack yeah and the other is uh is
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uh Mexican food I know someone who's mom they go for a car trip and his mom's
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like 85 and she always wants a case of Bud Light for the car trip she's like 85. she's just Grandma's on
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vacation all the way up yeah but um anyway your mom's adorable she
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loves you I I love her she likes you more than me oh where's Dana he's so
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funny all those texts please yeah at midnight really she's spuddly's Mom I wish you were my
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son she just first she starts with you up oh I always just say hello
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I go you I I text like a rapper I go yo yo yo but it's like Morse code yo yo yo
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yo yo yeah one dude yeah bro bro bro bro yeah yo bro that's kind of yo yo do you
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have a yo-yo so because it was a live podcast we we decided to do a little stand-up up front and uh for my side of
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it I hadn't done a lot of stand up because of the pandemic little you've heard of it covet and so I just did my
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Texas bits so you'll you'll hear three of those because those are three Impressions that I did Texans and it's a
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local stand-up trick to kind of do local stuff they went crazy David I did a little bit of a grab bag uh just to uh
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get them settled in introduce us and then we went right to the meat and potatoes
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David's stand-up is really sharp right now and you have a definitely special coming out right 26th which will be
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either two weeks from now or three days ago depending on when this is and everyone has an n95 mask in in the Box
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yeah do you feel like you could have waited six weeks I'm just saying bro I mean bro I mean bro I mean yo it's like
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six weeks later you got fresh they weren't clapping either because they had them in straight jackets crunched in sweat and asphyxiated bronchial spasm
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no one could watch this past show in an n95 you got to get an n92 I know where
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to get him I know how to get it you're going to be happy many people are saying it but um that'll make it'll be
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interesting to watch your special where there's audience shots with people with the n95s no we had to
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borrow some from the Academy Awards five years ago where people are plotting on my special we just had Will Will Smith's
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face as laughing in the audience the the giggle before the uh Armageddon what are
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you talking about all right here he is James Austin Johnson
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[Applause]
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nice they're filing in I busted out the v-neck special
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it's good to see everyone this place is beautiful my God I haven't been in Austin since the uh
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two summers ago for the humidity Festival yeah humidity Festival I'm not gonna explain
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them all guys and keep moving like a train Jesus Dana
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um so I uh I was gonna oh they played Zeppelin you remember Zeppelin don't you some
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people do not it's a tragedy I was out with a bunch of
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young people and and that song came on I go yeah zap and they go
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Zeppelin now I go you don't know who Led Zeppelin is and she goes dude I don't
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know who Maroon 5 is all right I'm young and you're old is there a problem I go no no get you out of mommy whatever
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now I uh it's nice to see people thank you whoever made it down I appreciate it we're uh we wanna have a good time
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it's very nice I know there's a lot to choose from actually I saw Tim Dillon last night he's great it's a lot of fun
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here in Austin if you could sit the [ __ ] down and um no I'm so appreciative and
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because I was playing I played um parking lot shows for two years it was
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very tough honestly I would play a drive-in theater and have 500 cars and
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it was horrible first of all it's dead silent I didn't realize that people were inside the car I didn't think ahead it was dead silent and then you know and
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I'm trying to have fun with it going hey where my Camry's at you know I'm trying to like loosen up
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and then about 30 minutes later right here hey this geoprism knows what I'm talking
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about about embarrassing uh you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go off I'm gonna bring Dana out and he's
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gonna talk to you and then we're gonna both come out so I'll see you in two minutes [Applause]
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no sorry I'm closer in age to Biden than I am any other president I've ever done
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so I know he has tight hip flexors yeah I want to chill and I said I'm out of it
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try to tell this thing is that Pirates of Caribbean come on
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what's up [ __ ]
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awesome that means a lot I haven't done stand up in 17 years so this is a little
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rusty for me [Applause] Texas I'll explain that my entire career is
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based on Texas and I'm not kidding George Bush senior
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Texas Ross Perot Texas
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George Bush Jr Texas George Bush Senior that was the innocent
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time of political comedy gotta do that education
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talking like this going out there I didn't know what he thought about my
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impression there was no Twitter he could have you know if it was today being home going Dana Garney doing that impression
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of me again waving his arms around like a [ __ ] monkey
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#deck [Music] could have been
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Ross Perot you got do you remember him anyone over 50.
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he was a gift from God he was so naturally funny can I finish one time can I finish one time
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there was a bit of James Brown to him can I finish one time can I finish
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you're not listening can I finish my time then we got W the third Texan
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[Applause]
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that was a happy frat boy he was just fun he would tell jokes they were funny two
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Irishmen walk out of a bar it could happen [Applause]
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he was the only one he had that light on his feet kind of thing hey Trump who does your hair
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stupid cuts [Applause]
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that joke's so good I'm going for a little ride
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so before we light the candle I just wanted to because people always ask me we're having fun doing this podcast we
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get to see our friends and we get to talk to them about this seminal moment in their lives of being on this crazy
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intense show that just won't quit it goes on and on and my I think one of my
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singular famous encounters and one of my favorite moments it's very quick but when you're
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on Saturday Night Live these things happen to you I was at the party after the show I'm with Neil Young we're
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having a few glasses you know Neil Young Super Fan we're having a glass of wine I'm having a beer and we're talking and
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he looks up and he sees Chris Farley and he just says like this that that kid's
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funnier than [ __ ]
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oh dude I will tell me to get her introduce your boy and then we'll uh tell stupid okay here's uh
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a kindred spirit my brother from another mother the brilliant impressionist and comedian who's just
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came out of nowhere and he's with us tonight we're gonna find out we're gonna get underneath the hood and James Austin
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Johnson yeah [Applause]
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oh there he is y'all started looking that way so I did
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a big loop I was over there and uh I know what was going on hey this is cool let's just have a casual conversation
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with all these people looking at us let's see how it goes those people James we heard backstage you're getting
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so famous you're you're gonna add a name to your name are you looking for four or five you get
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teased about your name because I heard you're playing in Florida and you're being introduced this is Fort Lauderdale Johnson yeah the
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name a lot of people don't know this is that the name changes based on the cities
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uh uh you know last week uh you know something what's a hilarious
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city name you name it and I that's that's Winnemucca yeah James James winnemaca Johnson
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um I was born James Nashville Johnson I'm from Tennessee smart what's your middle name David
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I don't know let's go to the phones um let's go to the phone Spade no it's
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uh Wayne Dave Wayne David Wayne No you're real middle name that's ridiculous
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that's ridiculous hey it's a fly you guys you know by the way James and you
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know just forget Dana's here yeah yeah talk to me but what when I flew here
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this is a mildly funny story about a two out of ten so I was on the warning I was
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on Southwest and what happened was we're on there and uh you know halfway through
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they're like you know because I go they have any food and they're like so offended I would even ask I go is it steak or chicken they're like oh do you
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remember when they had food on planes I go I know it's stupid but she goes we have five bags of peanuts left halfway
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through the flight we're gonna shoot them out with a t-shirt gun but and she goes so look alive heads up but
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then about 10 minutes before we landed she goes we have an announcement and she came in the middle of the aisle for real
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she was you guys we have announcement and she goes no more masks and through it and then everyone cheered and then
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she pulled out a garbage bag and everyone went yeah and then we go oh wait we need him in the airport
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I'm so excited I had a drunk woman next to me on the way out she goes no more mass and no
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more broads whoa yeah I just made that up oh man that's a planned cute bit when's
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your special come out uh 26. okay mine was an ad lib here's what I do it's a 9
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A.M flight James we'll talk about we both have a terrible fear of flying well I'm you know I'm working on mine and I
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feel like with with cognitive behavioral therapy I've really come a long way uh Dana and uh really I encourage it for
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you as well I think that just exposure could could be a boon for both of us it's never totally I'm better at it but
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it's a 10 a.m flight everyone's having hot coffee and I'd say um could I have a beer and they go okay and then later on
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the go would you like another and I pretend it's their idea oh oh really oh all right
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oh it's so special here but I only took I only had two beers on a two hour flight I had one wine on my three and a
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half hour flight and that's that's a big deal because normally I have you know four or five bottles on the on the
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flight I don't I don't I have to fly sober I mean I can't to get completely
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Fearless would take a quart of vodka and I can't afford that I don't I only drink light beer but did you have therapy
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about it uh I remember talking to my therapist about like uh about the flight
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anxiety thing I was like What if I get that was like my excuse for not trying hard at comedy was like What if I get
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successful I have to fly all the time I'm afraid of flying and um the truth was I just wasn't a
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very good comic at the time so no no anywhere
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flying it's just worse I hate it that was her answer that
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was her answer I'm terrible oh yeah oh God me too you can't help me at all great all right very good so let's
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circle around to James Austin Johnson let's get back to him for a minute yeah sure um I don't really know where to
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start if you'd like to go through when you first started doing stand-up sure I
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mean it's kind of an interesting trajectory that you took so so in like drama classes in middle school I
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memorized like eight minutes of this um comic this clean comic uh whose first
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album was called Rebel Without a curse so you know what you're getting uh Brad Stein is this guy Brad Stein and uh I
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memorized like you know stuff about airbags it was it was 90s stand-up
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comedy and I just memorized like eight minutes of it and then as like a 13 year old or whatever I
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would be going to these monologue competitions and empty public schools at 7 pm at night while a sullen volunteer
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listens to me do seven minutes of someone else's stand-up comedy well wait a minute monologue competitions at empty
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public schools at night yep okay and you would uh because I used to memorize
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Steve Martin I I get that you you'd find Lock in this I didn't want to be a comedian but I loved comedy like most
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kids yeah memorize Steve Martin I listen to George Carl and there's some some back then so it was really I was I took
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pride in knowing that stuff so I get what you're saying well that's really great source material I I don't know if
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I can honor the source The Source material I was cribbing from wasn't one of the great necessarily
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um did you have an ear before that like when you were seven or eight or no did you notice so was it birds or people or
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what were you doing uh well I'm the youngest in my family and I grew up in a very like sort of
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um Conservative Christian environment and at the all of life was sort of oriented around my very important and
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Powerful like Pastor grandfathers like my dad's dad was a very important uh
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Pastor in our church like in the like Global Church of the Nazarene that's like the denomination I came from and
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then my uh my mom's dad was a college President of a Nazarene college so I was
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just like always competing for attention from people who were like 60 years 70 80 90 years older than me
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Church Rock Stars Church Rock Stars interesting we're in a church town were
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you in a church yeah Nashville is like very very very churchy yeah you even like a lot of people I was there it
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didn't seem like at first glance you were at the hedoness Hut downtown yeah
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hold on I was at Kid Rock's Country [ __ ] show bar and it didn't seem like
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David are you sorry hold on for a moment are you suggesting there might be a level of hypocrisy of Conservative
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Christian environment I don't know um yeah uh I I just remember like learning you know whether like if it was
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I remember learning Daryl Hammond's Al Gore not knowing anything about politics
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oh wow and just repeating that for like adults at church and then flipping out that like a child is like you know doing
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lock box that's what I I have to do it tonight because it was just available but yeah you you must have a handle on
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Tennessee you look a little like uh Al Gore Al Gore well a YouTube commenter said Wayne Gretzky the other night and I
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didn't feel very good about that he's a sexy guy right yeah way sexier
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yeah let me rank who's sexy of the men no go ahead um so but were you always we're jumping
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around but that's okay we did you go in to stand up mostly to do Impressions or were you just a straight stand up into
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it no I mean The Impressions was just something fun that I would do sometimes with friends but like soon after doing
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those monologue competitions and stuff my dad was like hey do you want to fill time at this event at the college and
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and uh I did I was just like I was 14 and I said I'm gonna do my own stuff and
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like an hour before the show I wrote a set I just wrote it I had no clue how to do stand-up and I the first two times I
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did stand up at 14 I did great and then every time until I was maybe 23 was
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every Absolution show yeah that happened to me the first one hey I got this and
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then two years ago did you go up with anything you knew what you're gonna do Dana or what did you do um I add you know these are 70s Classics
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I had a Captain Kirk [ __ ] yeah down the middle all right down
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right down you gotta fail safe yeah Jimmy Stewart is a waiter even in a a
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bar with Hell's Angels throwing beer at me that would always kill and it was the
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only impression I really could do all right was Jimmy Stewart should do it of course
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you need me to you need one of us to guide you I'm not proud of it it's just it's just my love
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of Jimmy Stewart was so extreme I wanted to learn to do him so
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no it's called a tease my point is ramping up
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I was driving around the peninsula near San Francisco on a Volkswagen bug with
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my Stoned Out friends I'm like 21 and I'm I'll all of a sudden it and I don't
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know if this has happened to you but but all of a sudden it kind of hit me I mean literally all of a sudden I I could I
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could do Jimmy store and this is not a bit there was a Jack In The Box I had my friends go in I went
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through the drive-through to see if it would work this is an absolute story real time uh we take your order please I
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said yeah I'll have a Jumbo Jack and cheese
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but then later on it was a bit and he's just a waiter can I take your order well we're not ready yet well I got 10 other
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tables what am I a dancing monkey but we want to know the specials I tell
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you the specials 10 minutes ago what well [ __ ] YouTube
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well no that no bars that would always work oh yeah I mean
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the thing that I always that I always dig out is uh this I do this long setup
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especially if I've already been tanking I do this a lot of colleges where like if it's already like silent um I can't
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imagine like any time I talk during this podcast um uh if it's like been silent I will
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start telling this long story about like well I didn't want to be a comedian I wanted to be a recording engineer and uh
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uh and then I have this line that I say over and over I I know it's not the funniest part of the show I know it's a
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little indulging but you know what it's a piece of mind oh that's the line yeah that's the line that I say over and over
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I know it's not the funniest part of the show I know it's a little self-indulgent but you know what it's a piece in my life and I like to share it with you and
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I end up saying that like nine times and hopefully the smart people realize that I'm just setting up a big dumb day let's
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see but I'm basically I'm just like did you guys know that the Eagles are Scottish the band the Eagles are Scottish I used to work in the studio in
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Scotland and uh kept seeing the Eagles on the wall all the time and I was like hey why are the evils always recording
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here and you know my uh supervisor I know it's not the funniest part of the show maybe it's a little self-indulgent but you know it's a piece of my life and
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I like to share it and this is what this podcast is about that's all it is all me doing is Dana do his talk and then my
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supervisor uh said uh uh did you know the Eagles are actually Scottish and and I was like oh I didn't know that he's
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like yeah they changed their voices and post-production to make them sound like they're from California it was a big marketing thing and okay and uh I you
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know I before I go I just tell you you know what's a famous Eagles song and I'll tell you what it was like to hear the original cut you know I got to hear
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all the original demos so what's up California Hotel California was really interesting Hotel California has a
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really interesting story behind it Hotel California is kind of like um welcome to the hotel
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California such a lovely place such a lovely face
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so I do like I do like five Eagles songs and then I say did you know that any
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song is Scottish every song ever recorded any song was originally Scottish did you know that that's true
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and I just wait till people start shouting so Party in the USA Miley Cyrus
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or something like that any song Give it to us foreign
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by the end of it my voice is thrashed and then I can't do my job and in New York City anymore and it's impressive
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because you're I see you here kind of laid back and and then when I see that come out of you it's like okay
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that's coming from some place no Dana I saw uh this young Gentleman on
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do stand up at a place called YouTube today and um but you were on a big show called Hot
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Tub I don't know what that is exactly but um they uh it's in East Hollywood
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club it's hot tub is like a show that started in New York it's hosted by Kurt bronneller and Kristen Schall you
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probably know Christian Shaw oh yeah okay um but they host that every Monday at the Virgil in East Hollywood in
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Silver Lake okay so I saw a clip of you on there and uh we're gonna go over some of your jokes okay uh this is terrifying
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oh this is interesting I I hit up Dana day I said I think these are pretty funny um you said Stevie Wonder
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um there's a song about where he talks about how pretty the women are and you go why would Stevie Wonder care if they
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were pretty and then you say because he's married and I thought that was a
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good misdirect joke yeah I saw that too that's a good joke thank you I didn't see it coming and then uh Utah no you
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don't oh I didn't mean to say that that's not what I meant um and you said you had some religious jokes you said I go to sure I go to off
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season Church which is a funny term so that means not the big holidays you have to go in the dead Parts in the middle
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yeah yeah yeah where it's real Church the red red shirt red shirt Church you know scrimmages yeah
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and I like you watch uh Inception you watch movies with your mom when she talks she has questions the whole time
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just for you yeah and wants answers from you during movies you pick Inception
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which is funny because it's like the hardest movie to follow yeah and then all your mom says is are you gay yeah
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that's her question the whole movie these are great jokes I'm telling them and they're working
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because they're great you did a great job and you uh they're just funny thoughts I think um and you you're you
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were a bit of a bible thumper was that always your whole life well because some of your jokes are there any of them are
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rated are any of your jokes dirty I mean yeah yeah oh now they are they I mean they started not I know I I was only
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like a teen Christian comedian I was only like I was only concerned about the like clean Christian Comedy until I was
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maybe like 17 or 18 and then from then on I wanted to be accepted by The Wider
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world and he said we're gonna talk for a few minutes about poontang
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no no no no no I changed gears here I don't get that rough I I don't know it's
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because you want to like you want to appeal to as many people as possible
00:29:02
Right also there's a there's you have a look you have a feel that uh I have this too a little bit not as much but they
00:29:09
they you sort of cemented your brand of comedy and they they buy a certain type
00:29:15
from you and I think I was on TV for a long time and not not a lot of people knew I did stand up so they knew me from
00:29:22
PG-13 TV shows and movies and so if I went too far beyond that they would
00:29:28
quiet down so I had to feel it out like a boxer where it they didn't want it too rough for me and I think Dana's kind of
00:29:35
like that too do you not that dirty well I think on Saturday Night Live you have some parameters you have a sensor guy
00:29:41
and so you're limited which is kind of nice you like to have some boundaries
00:29:46
what you can do because then you have to get more clever I mean Seinfeld famously had a joke that had an F-bomb in it and
00:29:54
he worked for like three years in a room to like make it just as funny without the F-bomb right but I I said [ __ ] a lot
00:30:00
tonight because I hadn't done stand-up in a while if I do a lot of stand up those f-bombs go way down because I'm
00:30:06
not not as jumpy so sorry about that that's it is it is funny to be like at a
00:30:12
table read and watch like one line in a sketch be like you know like there was
00:30:20
one thing where the where Bowen and 80 were doing their uh their pop group
00:30:26
thing this is like uh this glitter Revolution yeah yeah and uh they have like a catchphrase at the end of their
00:30:32
little like pop group song about Costco or whatever and their catchphrase for this one was [ __ ] to the sky and
00:30:40
you're like watching Lauren being like reacting of like they're not going to
00:30:46
say that and then you know you get there and you watch it at dress and it's holes to the
00:30:53
sky so we I've been hearing I've been hearing this whole a lot on uh
00:30:59
it is grosser it's more disturbing yeah they do that with censorship they give you a different word that's more
00:31:06
sickening and more offensive yeah it is it is just let it just let them say the
00:31:11
gross word because the alternatives are so the church language I've talked about oh yeah I couldn't say
00:31:19
they said that she can't say penis that much so I had to swap out penis and then
00:31:25
do something like that and it was kind of like you're well you're naughty throbbing and gorged loaf is willing and
00:31:32
ready it was way way more pornography redheaded meat missile yes
00:31:38
throbbing and willing you know it's like so they go that's terrific yeah good you
00:31:43
fixed that problem no more penis welcome to throbbing Oregon I guess we should
00:31:49
ask this guy when he the SNL because we want to get to SNL stuff but yeah when you uh all the basic stuff you get
00:31:56
you're you're on the road to incentive are you a middle are you a headliner oh featuring for like 10 years straight
00:32:02
just like I was in the middle that's the act before the headliner you do about 25 minutes I was that's when I got hired
00:32:08
too so and you were a full headliner yeah but I came up early they were just trying to can you do 45 you know I mean
00:32:15
I went to a toy store to get bits I mean I had a trunk like Robin Williams Idol I
00:32:20
I got a guitar because I could feel time it was a different they were just building comedy clubs at that time
00:32:28
[Music] but so you're a feature act so take us
00:32:33
back like I know you're married and you just had a child yeah so before your wife got pregnant why how many yeah
00:32:41
my son Homer everyone how to get her pregnant you you you debut on SNL in
00:32:47
early October 2021 yeah so if you take us back before you were just married and
00:32:52
you were a feature act on the road right how many months before you became this this yeah Superstar oh I mean I mean I
00:33:01
was I was featuring pretty regularly just like flying out to random clubs like every other like once every two or
00:33:08
three months like not not steady work but whenever like a buddy would be able to throw me a bone and I'm trying I'm
00:33:13
off to Gut Busters okay see you soon yeah I'm
00:33:20
that's a real one yeah I mean just some bastards got busted oh really sure laughs a lot honey I'm off to I'm off to
00:33:27
sleep in a comedy condo with uh with some grown men smoking camel Blues indoors and playing Metal Gear Solid
00:33:35
um yeah it it's it's such a weird lifestyle and I I in that period when it
00:33:41
started to take off for me that was the height of my plane anxiety and yeah and that kept me from reaching for the Stars
00:33:47
same calm it down a little bit did Fame calm it down um well so
00:33:54
whatever then bro oke for like five years and a lot of my time in LA I was single and then we got back together in
00:34:00
20 17 and that's when I did JFL in Montreal I was a new face there just relax you
00:34:08
know and um thank you you know my career started to like take shape and I was like oh I could probably
00:34:15
actually do this professionally and can I just ask you what what what so she was her first love and then five
00:34:22
years and then yeah what made you come back around do you think if you could share that with us it's maybe kind of
00:34:29
she made it as personal as possible um is she my wife's Irish Catholic to
00:34:35
the core so I like religious people oh I mean my wife and I aren't religious our
00:34:40
families are though oh so we're the like you have sex we have sex yes
00:34:45
she whispered it and said ask her Austin is nasty tonight filthy filthy uh
00:34:53
yeah we um but uh let's see we we when we got back together I saw her on
00:34:59
Instagram I saw that she was in LA for a Dolly Parton show and I thought maybe we'd hook up or something here we go hashtag Dolly Parton show
00:35:06
let's see who's there I thought I thought we'd get beers and like make out a little bit or something I was like I was like oh yeah maybe we'll hook up
00:35:12
that'll be sweet and then we just like immediately were like engaged like within very very quickly it was one of
00:35:19
those things where it's like oh this is I'm marrying this person so when she and she's studying to be a counselor her dad
00:35:25
is like a counselor her mom as a counselor and they sort of helped me
00:35:30
adjust to like flying and like they helped me sort of hook into overcoming
00:35:36
my like crippling anxiety with travel and all that stuff and and it just it
00:35:42
just I'm just good at it now I enjoy the anxiety on Saturday Night Live you know Bill Hader it was just it was just a
00:35:49
horrible for him it's a crying and sobbing and yeah um mechanics you knew the bathroom he's
00:35:55
talking about right yeah I know I go in there now yeah the SOB chamber that's a that's a co-ed bathroom and I will say
00:36:01
that I have anxiety sometimes okay okay we're gonna do a deep dive on the uh
00:36:10
so it's not fun to it's not fun what kind of load are we talking about loafs no I don't really have anxiety
00:36:17
with SNL it's like it's what it is the it's the only thing it's like the job
00:36:24
that I truly I truly enjoy now am I having fun live I can't say that I am
00:36:30
loose and having fun yet I am too fearful of not getting the cards right and not getting the camera cut right and
00:36:37
I'm still totally stuck on all that but um the job is super fun like it's
00:36:45
um hearing y'all talk to like Bill about loosening up in your like four or five
00:36:50
seasons in yeah playing around like watching Keenan how he can like grab his
00:36:56
card really quick and like go back into the scene like I'm just watching the experts do it and I'm hoping that I'll
00:37:02
absorb that soon there's nothing like just doing it over and over again but yeah exactly there's a feel of always
00:37:08
wondering if you're if your job is steady and if you're going to get fired so which is legit everyone I didn't
00:37:16
really have that I got to be honest I got lucky that's true
00:37:21
I had the church lady the first night out you came out of the box and uh I was
00:37:27
more just trickling in over time and it was tougher because they could have cut me and no one would have noticed that
00:37:33
was the hard part you came out they would have noticed you were my understudy oh yeah I came in as his understudy so it was like we have a good
00:37:41
one of that so do we need the other one I was literally like no Lauren would say
00:37:47
to me David's always ready David's always ready Dana
00:37:53
and you'd sit behind me and read through and I go don't blow away don't blow it
00:37:58
guy but did you you were always funny did you oh yeah when did Lauren call you
00:38:04
no no first of all you have a question and do you audition all stand up or Impressions or both okay so so I was
00:38:11
just like a straight stand up pretty much all my career and it was really during the pandemic that I started post
00:38:16
like in like when I did new faces in 2017 I did Louis CK it's part I did I
00:38:23
did like uh uh spiritual Louis CK that was like my closer was like you
00:38:30
ever do you ever just have like a moment uh with the uh the the universe or God
00:38:36
whenever you define that presence in your life and you go and it's amazing
00:38:41
you go outside and the sky is blue and that's enough
00:38:51
right it's a magic trick I do like to me it's like a magic trick my daughter's a dick
00:38:58
yeah I knew at Louie and that was your only one but that was the only I I you're
00:39:04
doing that on Tick Tock because I swear God I thought I saw you did you walk around and film yourself doing Trump
00:39:11
yeah so like when the pandemic happened and comedy died in L.A I would just my
00:39:16
my wife and I were just stuck in our 200 year old apartment in Glendale in a
00:39:22
crumbling rat infested Building 22 Grand a month uh exactly [Music]
00:39:28
have you seen my bills um and I would just go out on those walks by myself and that's really where
00:39:34
the Trump started to truly take shape I would try it on stage and I would say I would do the thing that a lot of people
00:39:40
do with Trump or they just say the crazy things he said yeah and half the people were pissed off that I was reminding
00:39:46
them that he said crazy [ __ ] yeah right and the other half of the people were like you can't talk about Jesus Christ
00:39:53
that way there was like it was like I could never get the room because half the people
00:39:58
were like obsessed with them and the other half were like don't even mention Voldemort so
00:40:06
so when I started talking about like Wizards and and swords and like stuff to
00:40:12
do stuff that makes no sense that's like yeah that's when the audience started enjoying the trip Dana I saw this clown
00:40:19
I was like not maybe it was Instagram but oh yeah Instagram and Twitter and it
00:40:24
was like uh you're walking but it didn't seem to match your face like the voice I
00:40:30
thought was really Trump and you were just mouthing along because you were
00:40:35
talking very casually and it was a stream of conscience you were talking about different things and it's very hard to be put on the spot and do an
00:40:42
impression because you know I've done a few of my day but I see how Dana does it and and there's little hooks you do like
00:40:48
any Impressions and so if you can't go to those hooks because you sort of memorized a bit in your act that where
00:40:54
you get to hit all the good spots but like if you're on a radio show and they go hey what would he think about this and you're like oh [ __ ] like yeah you
00:41:01
don't know any jokes about it and be you're just trying to talk and match the tones and everything that's really hard
00:41:07
to do and all the shading and you were doing it I was like this guy's pretty good and we're sending it to people and
00:41:12
then when you got us no I go is that that same dude that was just walking around the neighbor just walking around
00:41:17
but it sounded so good that I was I wasn't really shocked I just go I can't believe they found them that's I mean
00:41:24
yeah I I got I did get lucky I think um it may have been because I had a podcast
00:41:29
called what things or what things uh where we just you know we would match up what things or what things like you know
00:41:35
what uh what Jackass cast members are what sandwich ingredients you know we'd have a guest on and they'd be like well
00:41:42
I think Johnny Knoxville is probably roast turkey sure and then they explain their answer and I would always come on
00:41:48
as a as a character so on this podcast that's how I got used to like doing an
00:41:53
impression for like 10 minutes straight so that's where I worked on Joe Biden I did Bob Dylan I would do Bob Dylan a lot
00:42:00
you know what what era Bob like um I would do like the Sirius XM theme time
00:42:05
radio Bob Dylan you know like the recently when we got another hit but this get another Ink Spots five five
00:42:14
brothers that live to sing incredible music and here they are singing Java giant so I would do that kind of thing
00:42:20
yeah and then he would and then he would spin off talking about his son Jacob Dillon like oh no Jacob Dylan didn't
00:42:25
want to hang out with his father for a damn I said I want to go to IKEA why can't you bring me to IKEA with you I
00:42:32
like to pick up a little pencil I like to mark down one couches we found affordable
00:42:37
why won't you go to IKEA with your father and Jacob dinner come on SNL that's awesome I want to do
00:42:44
about we picture Bob Dylan work it in you pitched it so so that time will come I just feel like right now we're just
00:42:51
ready yet yeah so uh Dana you'll do David David will do Dana oh yeah that's
00:42:59
Lauren I was gonna say Ava Lauren I do like I there's a lot of lorns that
00:43:05
people do and I think the Lauren the Lauren that you do I think is rooted in the era probably that you met yeah right
00:43:11
yeah it's a little deeper now he's a little deeper now and it's like well it's perfect summer spring
00:43:19
summer spring and people will be going outside
00:43:25
he's very soft-spoken yeah it would be nice if we did comedy
00:43:33
any comedy lined up for read through we're gonna have a two-week break and it'd be really nice to go home and not
00:43:39
have people mad at you people ask you about the show we'll say
00:43:45
you enjoyed the show you'll be talking about the show and James will do Dana David
00:43:52
James he goes to me all right David everyone's gonna tell you you're the
00:43:57
best person on this show and you're not you're not thank you
00:44:03
and I go they do say that because all you do is it happens to every cast member that their friends all go you're
00:44:09
the funniest one in the show and then Lauren regulates and goes yeah that's what they tell each cast member and it
00:44:16
was kind of a wake-up call but it was true it's good to because I was like what everyone and then I think of
00:44:21
everyone as friend mom family dad you know brother or sister they [ __ ] you
00:44:27
man yeah you're so good you know I'm gonna break down just for my own Amusement yeah sure sure uh James is
00:44:35
awesome Trump because I I think that the way you do it is like free
00:44:41
association Jazz and I know you can I wanted to I wanted to say that a podcast clip of mine that I think I think it
00:44:48
caught on with like Seth Meyers and his group of friends because it was Trump talking about
00:44:53
2000's New York alt comedy it was like I had been doing Trump do you want to do
00:44:59
it then our guest Whit Thomas was like hey Tre you weren't you a comic back then in the 2000s in New York they'd be
00:45:04
like oh yeah there's you know what it was so wonderful to be with comedy you know what with comedy it was never about
00:45:11
the shows it was never about the shows it was about the diner afterwards we
00:45:17
loved a diner and I would I'd be eating pancakes
00:45:24
excuse me excuse me excuse me excuse me
00:45:29
oh he's a little he's a little chamber back then can I talk please
00:45:37
she's not giving me any moments to talk I'm eating pancakes Therese O'Neill and I just can't believe
00:45:43
that I get to do this every night so greatest city on earth
00:45:49
you do Gotham and you do rafifi and you do maybe you'd get a spot at the Boston
00:45:55
or something and a little couple dollars in your pocket you say oh this is a pretty good gig
00:46:01
I made 300 bucks tonight you know maybe by a PlayStation or go to Gap
00:46:07
[Music] there's so much detail in that and you
00:46:12
did the little breath thing you know here I'll give you a thank you very much
00:46:19
I'll read these as myself okay like these are just Trump things that you've Incorporated with free association I
00:46:26
don't even I bet you never wrote These down or anything but I I watched your thing okay frankly let me tell you
00:46:32
you're going to be seeing a lot of it it I can that I can tell you yeah yeah that
00:46:40
I can tell you that I can tell you let me let me tell you frankly frankly okay let me tell you you can read it if
00:46:48
you can read those frankly let me know you're going to be seeing a lot of excuse me excuse me I can tell you that that I can
00:46:54
tell you I can tell you that I mean when you look at I mean when you look at when you I mean when you look at
00:47:00
yeah that that yeah nectar phrase yeah uh ask me something that I do so you're
00:47:06
gonna be a reporter you're gonna ask the real Trump a question he doesn't have an answer to so I'm just gonna not have an
00:47:12
answer to it right so do you think we're going to increase uh exporting natural gas to Europe I mean when you look at
00:47:18
what China is doing in terms of Esports I mean really when you look I think when
00:47:24
you look at all of it if you look at gas I mean gas is one thing but frankly when you're looking at all the rest of it I
00:47:30
can tell you that I mean when you look at what they're doing with and look at what the depressive told us oh I love it
00:47:36
the way that he can let's do it
00:47:41
he'll just spin it off into like his mesmerizing like way of talking in some other yeah flip the page there's more if
00:47:48
you want to see oh yeah yeah and it didn't work out so great for some of those people and it didn't work out so
00:47:55
great for some of those big workouts yeah I love that one man I mean we were all listening to his
00:48:01
voice for four and a half hours every day for like five years you're the one who put it all together you know and
00:48:08
then you made it into the Supernatural and look at what they're doing let's see look at all of it frankly look
00:48:15
at all of it look at all of it and people are very disappointed
00:48:21
a lot of people you wouldn't believe like you wouldn't believe that's a big there is a level of
00:48:28
disappointment that would make your head spin frankly that would make there's so much disappointment there's some people
00:48:35
and people are angry white people it never matters he always says anybody
00:48:41
he says someone and a lot of people are saying very bad things about someone they're all you're hearing it more and
00:48:46
more all the time banging it goes into a corner you know
00:48:52
what a terrible deal a really bad bad deal you're seeing it all over the place many
00:48:58
people are saying okay you're seeing it all over the place many people and they're saying we don't want that we're
00:49:03
not people we're not people who want that why not people we are going to be doing
00:49:08
something very soon we are going to be doing something about it nobody knows
00:49:14
nobody knows favorite was when he was at the rallies
00:49:20
during the height of kovid he was like and they can't even tell you what the 19 stands for it's literally 2020.
00:49:29
it's 20 20 I'm like context clues what do you think that 19 probably stands for the 2019 version of the virus I think
00:49:38
that was all I had but he does say words like old-fashioned
00:49:43
words like terrific and fantastic things like your dad says your grandmother that aren't the vernacular as much anymore
00:49:50
but it is he keeps throwing them in there it's so it reminds you that he's do you want to do oh yeah he's he's 75
00:49:57
and it's the mix of the old-timey language and the old-timey way of thinking and speaking about people but
00:50:04
he's obsessed with something rude that Lady Gaga said about him on a radio show
00:50:09
or something Lady Gaga was very very rude not nice and she was she was not
00:50:16
she was not nice it was also the kindergartner thing of just like breaking down what would have been a
00:50:22
more elegant phrase with with another presidential candidate and just breaking it down to like the caveman fragment
00:50:28
like not nice very big Stone Cold loser stone is a stone cold is it I mean
00:50:35
that's the that's where you get the talks of the 80s wrestler thing oh because there's a little bit of 80s
00:50:41
wrestler to it yeah WWE now you do something you a little birdie told me you do something well where someone
00:50:48
could give you a famous TV show and you could talk about it as Trump
00:50:54
yeah okay yeah I can do that well it says they don't think it's this is not print pre-planned you guys yell out any
00:51:02
kind of famous TV show okay there's 200. what did you hear I
00:51:08
can't The A Team the 18 The Wonder Years anything you've heard of you know what with Winnie Cooper she was she was very
00:51:16
beautiful but I don't think that Mr Savage you know Mr Savage just needed to
00:51:21
wait his turn I think that he needed to wait his turn with Winnie because when he wasn't ready
00:51:27
and Joe Cocker is such an awful person when you meet him with Joe Cocker that is someone who needs a little bit more
00:51:33
help from his friends I think I think he probably had to you know what they said
00:51:38
that he got high with the help of his friends I said what kind of friends are that if they're helping you with drugs
00:51:44
and they're helping you and you look at China you look at what they're doing with Russia what they're doing with uh
00:51:50
honestly what they're doing in Austin Texas is absolutely awful I think it's such a terrible thing with the Segways
00:51:57
and the river and the bats you know those bats [ __ ] everywhere those bats are [ __ ] on all of it and I said I
00:52:03
was looking around they show me the bridge and I said we got to do something about this bad problem gotta do something about the bats
00:52:09
because and you know what they call it guano did you ever hear that they call it guano have you ever heard that I said
00:52:16
what the hell is guano and they said it's what they call the poop and they poop straight down the front of their
00:52:21
breast you know they and you see the poop on their like what does it go with their mouths so we've been talking to Dracula we're
00:52:28
talking to Frankenstein we're gonna do something about the bats because frankly should be sleeping horizontally
00:52:37
this whole thing that you know Joe Biden and Gamma they want the bats to be hanging upside down they want you to be eating bats every night there needs to
00:52:44
be a Brazen Claim about what the demo something the Democrats aren't doing but but there's like a there's like a cut I
00:52:52
mean come on well that was all from The Wonder Years yeah
00:52:57
they were always talking about China on The Wonder Years I remember yeah yeah yeah you know it was Savage Savage was
00:53:04
Savage was very involved with everything that was going on with China with in terms of China Wall in with regard to
00:53:11
microchips and supply chain I mean it's really awful with Steve Jobs and all of it I think it's terrible
00:53:19
it's like you don't joke jokes it's just the rhythm and the references are so funny yeah I mean I I
00:53:28
just listened to this for hours I mean you love that's how he blow of it that's how he led us for four years is because
00:53:35
it is fun to hear him talk it's fun to hear whether
00:53:40
you're alive politics are you're right you will probably be hypnotized by the weird rhythmic way that he speaks I mean
00:53:46
it works it doesn't like how he'll just repeat you're gonna be winning winning like it's gonna be so good like you just
00:53:53
believe it because he said it 20 times in a row within within one minute within one minute it's gonna be so you're not
00:53:59
gonna it's so good it's gonna be incredible frankly it's going to be very very good like yeah so I understand why
00:54:06
my grandpa who was like hardcore conservative you know who would never have voted for a trump in his life but
00:54:13
the minute that Trump was on TV 24 7. if you just hear I'm going to be amazing at
00:54:18
this over and over and over again and like and the people that hated him gave
00:54:24
him the most air time they're like can you believe that he's saying this I'm like they call it the Trump bump on CNN
00:54:29
they got a million that per year yeah I mean it's just fun to hear him talk and
00:54:34
it's mesmerizing and it works I mean he has energy and then you go from that and
00:54:39
then Biden doesn't seem to have a ton of energy so it's not yeah you're more like
00:54:45
he's okay like I hope someone's near him in case he tip you know
00:54:50
so it went from Trump this guy right and then it's just the exact opposite so it's just not as fun for comedians to
00:54:57
there's not as much there I don't think it's a very quiet kind of yeah he's quiet and and Biden threading the needle
00:55:04
with Biden is tricky for one thing people there's just like an exhaustion in the audience like not even just on
00:55:10
SNL but like when I go out and do stand-up if I'm doing stand-up in Nashville or a blue state or wherever it
00:55:16
is a red state blue State doesn't matter like people are kind of like tired of
00:55:21
talking about who the president is all the time and it's like you know with Joe
00:55:27
we just know that he's going to be over there and he's going to be doing his thing and it's like their audiences don't it feels like they don't want you
00:55:34
to go in on Biden like that's I I always feel like oh am I doing I'm too old am I
00:55:40
playing up the stutter because like if I do the stutter a lot like I get people
00:55:46
who are like you shouldn't make fun of people's stutter yeah and I'm like have you heard how I make fun of Donald Trump
00:55:51
because it should be I'm pretty mean to Donald Trump like if Biden was a hardcore Republican what would SNL do to
00:55:58
him I don't know but but it's a sensitive one this one Alex was Alec was
00:56:06
clearly hates Trump so it comes through it as a mean impression I think at least your Trump is just a funny goofy one
00:56:13
like it used to be on us like with Dana with bush and Biden I guess funny it's a little softer on him but maybe because
00:56:20
he seems more Ginger or something I don't know it's weird it's like with Trump it's like his body is like melting
00:56:30
afraid of stairs he doesn't want to walk uphill there's like all these things where he's like he's very like a Jacques
00:56:35
tati like silent film kind of French comedy character yeah but his brain is
00:56:41
super sharp and he's just ready to scream about you know like Sarah McLachlan like he's ready to scream
00:56:47
about a celebrity it's oxygen to him that is Joe and it seems like Joe is not ready to talk he
00:56:54
wants to be silent and his body like you when you see Joe Biden he's like always wanting to like jog around and hop on I
00:57:00
know I was doing it he's got tight hip flexors so yeah so he's so so you have
00:57:05
the guy who's like body is there but like I know you know like the the speech isn't rapid like Trump he's not like a
00:57:12
powerful like Bam Bam Bam speaker and and then he does spark up like you you'll see when Biden like Sparks up
00:57:18
like when he on the campaign Trail there would every once in a while there'd be a time like right in the middle of a speech where he's like yeah we're we're
00:57:25
gonna be working hard start better jobs better Joshua everybody
00:57:31
can get the kids working again that'd be great there's a kids can't buy cigarettes because my cigarettes because
00:57:38
you should because you should be having my cigarettes they can do it they can do it whenever they wanted it was good
00:57:44
I just could do it whenever they wanted and the kids love to smoke cigarettes
00:57:50
I was like there's more that's what we're working on
00:57:55
right it's not about yesterday I don't want to be a president yesterday yeah I don't
00:58:01
care about him come on let's go it's not about yesterday yesterday you said yo call Sears I'll call today
00:58:08
you'll call now yeah my father lost his job no joke I'm not
00:58:13
kidding around here yeah you know my mama is that saying that's my favorite Joe Biden thing
00:58:21
yeah and then then you just fill it in with whatever thing you need to say in there and why won't you say I'm saying
00:58:27
yeah she said we need more Auto plants than Michigan you know or whatever whatever thing he
00:58:34
needs to very old-fashioned it's like I don't think your mom used to say that cargo ships she said that a lot he makes
00:58:42
he makes a list that's one of his hooks yeah one number one what the guy said number two you know the drill come on
00:58:49
folks let's get real I'm talking loud now yeah watch me talk loud I know how
00:58:56
to talk loud yeah I mean it feels like he's kind of spitting into the wind wanting that energy the Corvette 50s Guy
00:59:03
come out you know and he's got he's pretty lucky he sees that prompter and he kicks into a full sentence he's like
00:59:08
celebrating oh yeah it's like I got the whole thing he looks around waiting for an Applause break they're gonna keep
00:59:14
going come on
00:59:20
it is Jimmy Stewart it is Jim Stewart it's Jimmy Stewart and I
00:59:26
mix in a little Owen Wilson into oh wow you know there's like sort of yeah you
00:59:31
know how Owen Wilson always has that moment in the Buddy comedy where he has to psych up the other guy like oh man I
00:59:38
trusted you know so here you're the best skater here
00:59:43
so it is scary skating wow how I do that so that's yeah I bring an
00:59:50
Owen Wilson into my head [Applause] it's fun
00:59:55
to have dinner with Owen Wilson yeah he's got a great voice but yeah it's a bit of that but on SNL it's a kind of a
01:00:03
tough little sort of yeah it's it's tough to delicate it's tough to thread that needle just because yeah you know
01:00:10
if you do if you do if you do go to Savage on him you get you run into a
01:00:15
thing of like don't like right kick Grandpa that's too far yeah yeah I mean yeah and and Trump has just not seen his
01:00:22
grandpa he doesn't get the society look at the strength of his voice when you do it it's like really loud I know you know
01:00:29
he still thinks it's 1987. he still thinks he's like partying with like at Epstein's house you know
01:00:35
[Applause] like he still thinks
01:00:43
I know he was uh not I don't think he was happy with Alec Baldwin was uh impression have you heard anything uh
01:00:50
any feedback you know they they took him off Twitter I wonder if he still had
01:00:55
Twitter or what he would be saying about the SNL other than you're horrible at it uh yeah oh he's a terror he's terrible
01:01:02
and terrible I miss I do miss him on Twitter I think it's like I think it's good to like hear what people have to
01:01:09
say in general that's like my opinion on all that is like [Applause]
01:01:19
what are you afraid of woods [Music] I mean I mean yeah let them talk because
01:01:26
his I mean if you don't like him he's gonna say something that you can latch on to for the next couple years you know
01:01:32
what I mean it's like yeah it's it it is but I also get why they kicked him off because it's like dude shut up like like
01:01:39
I get both sides of it of just like just being done with it of like I can't hear him talk every day for 10 more hours
01:01:46
like and so now I do that to people now I am the person you are you are Trump right
01:01:53
now publicly yeah I think so you've become drunk it's weird like you'll see the YouTube comments after a cold open
01:02:00
and people are like why are they still doing Trump stuff he's irrelevant and I'm like I don't know he's kind of the
01:02:06
most consequential figure in American politics still like very important cultural figure well he's gonna run in
01:02:13
2024. he's the leader of the Republican Party he's an important person to hear from like it's not irrelevant where does
01:02:21
this energy come from he's 300 pounds it's Kentucky Fried Chicken hot dogs and hamburgers he's almost 80. what the hell
01:02:29
does he drink tab I drink 300 tabs a day 300 a lot of jobs
01:02:37
I can tell you that we're doing we're doing wonderful work with RC Cola and with
01:02:43
the RC call I like wonderful work because that's so 80s or seven and I love and I love to personify something
01:02:51
that is not a real person and brag that I have a relationship with them RC and I by the way Mr Pepsi and I are very good
01:02:57
friends Pepsi you know Richard Pepsi is a very
01:03:03
important person to me and our wives are friends we play golf sometimes I'm very good friends with Dr Pepper
01:03:10
it's been tomorrow Largo Dr Pepper was at Mar-A-Lago last week his daughter his
01:03:16
daughter had the most beautiful wedding dress you've ever seen said pepper you you've got to I mean 23
01:03:23
flavors I mean we could be doing 24 25. [Music]
01:03:29
so that was like it's just everything you say As Trump is funny I've officially believed that yeah it's the
01:03:35
sounds I worry that I'm painting myself into a corner like am I gonna have another character that's this fun to do well any of us will it will any of us
01:03:42
ever see another personality like Trump on the political stage you never win you know yeah you can be a
01:03:50
supporter of trump we're fine with that I don't care uh all right anything else I got a lot of people there I just love
01:03:56
that thing too that that you do that gutter roll oh yeah the Chisel on like some dead paint on a windowsill yeah
01:04:03
because everybody did the soft sensitive one but then you went like this yes she's got great legs she's a beautiful
01:04:10
person that's that's 80s 90s Donald Trump and then I guess like after I
01:04:15
guess screaming at assistance on the set of The Apprentice is what gave him that Tom Waits bed of ambience
01:04:23
you know Hillary you know where did that come from I have one little rhythm that
01:04:29
I don't know if you I've only heard it once and you you can use it if you want to it's very subtle he's doing a list
01:04:36
and then he Fades away this is when he's at a rally yeah yeah and he does this
01:04:42
slow fade on the last line I'll just try to I'll do my my go for it mediocre Trump at this point inflation is going
01:04:49
very high it's going six seven eight ten bucks a gallon how high can you go yeah
01:04:55
yeah yeah he's that's I don't know where that one is do you put that in there yeah I
01:05:02
think I mean why can you go yeah he drifts off but he goes go it's
01:05:08
another tone that's like the stand up that's like the stand-up showman part of it right like where he's doing that's
01:05:14
like Mike work yeah so yeah I'm looking at the I'm looking at the the windmills that we've got and I'm looking at what
01:05:20
they're doing with Volkswagens that we're not going to be doing that too much
01:05:26
[Music]
01:05:35
yeah it's like it's so awesome Joe Biden doesn't even know where he is doesn't even know where he is
01:05:42
who have I seen do that like Bill Engvall or somebody that's like a Stan that is like a sauce
01:05:49
yeah yeah it's like a Def Jam thing or something it's like deaf a Bernie Mac
01:05:54
thing or something what else you got for him before we got to do it I don't know
01:06:00
I think we should do the Q a I just enjoyed James Austin Johnson yeah
01:06:06
so much thanks for having me guys this is fun James thank you very much we wish
01:06:11
you all the best if this is before we're gonna do the Q a should I clear out yeah you clear up no I get well whatever you
01:06:18
want to do you got it now why does he staying then they can ask him about SNL or anything yeah okay all right you guys we'll do a little q a oh I guess we can
01:06:24
sit down for this okay or we could stand up if we have oh we're gonna have a microphone and then uh well people walk
01:06:31
us it's gonna be a [ __ ] show uh okay you've got a microphone go to him and we'll answer a few if anyone has any if
01:06:38
they don't they don't it's okay it's okay it's no problem anything about really whatever oh well make a line if
01:06:44
there's anybody wants to come down here and then you can ask and it'll be oh there's the that way it'll get picked up and then we can hear it be shy I like
01:06:52
the people in The Way Way balcony see you guys look at that
01:06:57
she's Louise so like these tickets were a nickel we couldn't pass it up they
01:07:03
were looking at the top of our heads I know they're like how high can you go
01:07:09
all right [Music]
01:07:16
here's a man that's Brave this guy's coming right now oh this guy jumped a lot he went he's right in the front
01:07:23
oh okay go ahead so obviously you guys are hilarious
01:07:28
right but argue like to know who else on the cast did you really find funny like
01:07:33
just really crack you up when you guys were preparing maybe we'll go down the line uh in my years I lucked out into a
01:07:41
chunk where I had Danae at Mike Myers I had Kevin Nealon Dennis Miller Farley
01:07:47
Sandler Chris Rock I mean we really got Schneider very Tim Meadows uh I really
01:07:52
hit a pocket there that they said was bad at the time and uh five years later they said it was funny and uh they know
01:07:59
what about you I got to partner up with three different conveniences like Kevin Nealon and I did Hans and fronds the
01:08:05
Arnold and that was so still maybe my favorite thing to do but right before
01:08:11
Kevin would be Kevin and then right before they go five seconds he would his eyes would just change and his IQ would
01:08:19
go down like 50 points and then you know um with Phil Hartman doing
01:08:28
of course Johnny Carson with Phil God rest and soul very good friend and uh
01:08:34
one of the all-time greats he would do Ed McMahon and just every time he yes you are correct sir you yeah and then of
01:08:42
course my brother from another mother Mike Myers and us doing Wayne's World so
01:08:47
really oh everyone who does this show and survives it and on any level has my
01:08:53
respect it's it's a really hard show to do and to get and it's so fun to see
01:08:58
James driving there James what about you some good people right now you know when
01:09:03
I when I think of like like things that happen at table read that were just like so funny and like the hardest I've ever
01:09:10
left like when when Chris Redd introduced his mayor Eric Adams thing oh
01:09:15
yeah yeah that was the feeling in the room was just insane with the [ __ ] I'm from New
01:09:21
York like the way up the way he does that was just incredible and um Andrew does mukes I write I write with a lot
01:09:27
and I think he's really really funny he is yeah that's why I had afraid writers there too yeah there's there's 55 people
01:09:33
on the cast this year and uh it's a lot of pictures from it's a big cast it's hard okay
01:09:40
well to keep our answers to 12 minutes go ahead next one
01:09:45
can you do another Trump as The Apprentice but you're firing David
01:09:51
because he didn't sell silinski brake pads okay
01:09:56
it's pretty sophisticated Richard okay all right here we go
01:10:03
you know the whole thing with Tommy Boy was you know you know they and they did Black Sheep too and I thought with Tommy
01:10:10
Boy where was Aykroyd with black sheep I think it was awful that they didn't have
01:10:15
with Dan Aykroyd maybe he did that picture I don't know but that guy with aliens and all of it it's so awful what
01:10:21
he's doing with vodka and with House of Blues yeah that's about stuck in that's it
01:10:27
yeah thank you that's great hey I just had a
01:10:33
question for I think your guys are all great David do you have any other plans for any more books any more books oh
01:10:41
he's an author well
01:10:46
um no I did that one poll right in a Snapchat world and then uh you know it turned into an audiobook and that did
01:10:53
well so that sort of got me thinking about podcasting because it's audio and
01:10:59
it's voice and then it turned into uh Dana and I our old buddies and we want to do this this isn't really answering
01:11:04
your question but that any more books and I don't think I don't know I don't think any more books because they're too
01:11:11
hard but thank you and thank you for asking foreign boss over here with your drink
01:11:18
I have never done this before so gentlemen it's sort of my birthday from
01:11:23
Chicago just so black from Vegas four hours ago to see y'all from Austin Texas lived
01:11:29
here 14 years well love your favorite Chris Farley and Norm MacDonald's story oh okay and
01:11:37
you are the smartest funniest comedians of all time that's why we're all here so thank you so much
01:11:44
it's true thank you very much very sweet Dana you probably won I have
01:11:51
a quick uh Chris one where we would share an office and he was sitting
01:11:57
behind me we had like a you know 10 by 10 office I don't know if you know where it is it's uh well it's on 17 but it
01:12:04
connects to the other one so Chris and I had this one and then you walk through us to get this uh I guess it was Sandler
01:12:10
and rock so Chris would sit behind me but he didn't write you know or read much and so I would be riding on legal
01:12:18
pad we didn't have computers I'd write my sketches but it was so hard and he'd sit behind me bored because everyone
01:12:23
would write 300 sketches for him so he goes David what are you doing and I go Chris get out of here I gotta write some
01:12:30
[ __ ] and he goes David turn around I go if this is fat guy in a little code again it's not funny anymore and he goes
01:12:37
no it's not it's an it's a new thing and then I turn around he's got my Levi
01:12:42
Jacket on going bad guy little coat don't you quit
01:12:48
and then we put it in the movie because it sounded funny Dana he always called me the lady because uh
01:12:55
laid it because of the church lady Chris Rock also even today will say lady and
01:13:00
Chris Chris uh Farley they call me lady Norm McDonald was I don't know super
01:13:07
supernaturally funny you know you know he was uh like he saw my
01:13:13
stand-up once and he picked out the worst bit that I did it was very Norm but I loved him but he backstaged he
01:13:19
went yeah he did that's really good doing that you should do a lot more of that one that's really yeah that's
01:13:26
that's really funny right yeah and then I would do him back to him and he would laugh but love both of them that's cool
01:13:33
yeah did um uh was nurse Teresa there yeah yeah yeah she's still there and she
01:13:39
told me that my dressing room is Chris Farley's old dress oh wow so that's like a weird cool connection
01:13:47
Teresa yeah she was very sweet yeah yep yep okay which side that side
01:13:54
so I have a shout out and a question my shout out is to Dana Carvey The Dana Carvey Show was just like this little
01:14:00
bit of Genius yeah he did the best way the documentary about it was great and man a reunion
01:14:07
would be amazing but my question for James is Trump skits are so they feel like stream
01:14:14
of Consciousness but obviously they're written like how do you write those bits um could have just recorded yeah do you
01:14:21
write them alone at us now or do you is there people that are set to write trumps no it's very very I mean they write the cold opens
01:14:27
like Saturday morning so like a lot of times I can't I'm busy with blocking or
01:14:32
a pre-tape or something and so um but what we usually do is now the the the
01:14:39
writers have a pretty good handle on like the notes I like to hit and the
01:14:45
things I like to do like last week you know with with Easter uh
01:14:51
you know we we did the first we did the first script at run through and then we
01:14:56
have a dress rehearsal after that and then the Big Show so I'm getting put into my giant prosthetic piece
01:15:03
um at 7 p.m for the 8 P.M dress rehearsal and I can't see anything
01:15:09
because they're like they've got they're putting the big eye bags on me and the giant jowls and you know and um so the
01:15:16
writer Mike dicenzo sort of came up to me with the script and this is usually how we end up working it out where he's
01:15:21
like hey do you like all the stuff about Reese's and things like that and I'm just like yeah read it aloud to me and
01:15:27
I'll just like throw out little lines and so he was like reading it line by line and I'd be like oh a Reese's egg he
01:15:33
should talk about how he's good friends with Rhys and you know it'll be that kind of thing they have the hooks down so so they have
01:15:40
like the subject matter and then sort of I'll throw out and you know use I talked
01:15:46
to you like my second week at the show we did talk I asked on the phone on the phone yeah ask her your phone number and
01:15:53
I was like how do you do this cold open and the president thing and injecting yourself into it and you're
01:15:58
new there and I I just didn't know and you were like you can throw out little lines when you're rehearsing and stuff
01:16:05
like that and so oh now I've gotten comfortable with when a writer comes up to me you know being brave with like a
01:16:11
joke I think would belong in or something like that and it's very collaborative but I don't I don't write
01:16:17
those all by myself I I just throw out little jokes here but you broke the code and you have the language and they hear
01:16:22
it and then that's Incorporated and that's and they'll do that with my Biden too though yeah yeah my buddy Mike
01:16:29
dicenzo um is his he does my Biden around the office a lot he's like a good trick is
01:16:35
to uh you know a rehearsal is to just throw out [ __ ] even in uh blocking and
01:16:41
whoever's watching it in the booth can write down stuff because when you're blocking you got the stuff right there sometimes things just come to you that
01:16:48
fit in and then you can yeah peppermint layer them in during the week man it's it's really it's the weirdest job
01:16:57
in the world hey guys hi Dana David and James it's a huge honor to just even
01:17:03
talk to you guys big fan I remember growing up in Mexico watching your movies with subtitles didn't even understand but it was still freaking
01:17:10
hilarious Master of the guest guys Tommy Boy come on yeah uh so I was just wondering my
01:17:16
question is do you guys have any stories from being down in like Mexico or South America and even if there's an
01:17:21
impression in there even better I we better steer clear that but um okay
01:17:28
Dana do you have it I don't have any mixers oh yeah I played a corporate date for
01:17:34
Terminix and uh and I was it was all day so it
01:17:42
starts at 7 A.M they put a giant tent on this lawn at this five-star hotel
01:17:48
and it was huge and then I I do a little bit of stick I'd go back to my room it's like yeah 500 people I'd come back and
01:17:55
then it started losing air the tent started deflating yeah by the time it went back almost everyone was gone it
01:18:01
was halfway down and they paid me a ton of money I can tell you that and uh I
01:18:08
just bombed terribly but there was no chance so that was my Mexico Terminix corporate day I did the same gig and I
01:18:15
was there yeah I did covering for Martin Short he goes can you do this for me I go yeah I went all the way there it was
01:18:21
Dominican Republican or something and then I get there and there's so many mosquitoes the first night I got in at
01:18:26
like two in the morning so you know I did I took the raid and I just sprayed my whole body sprayed my whole body with raid and then
01:18:33
I just laid there like a trap and they come and they and then they go oh they look at me and I go
01:18:43
but also but I feel like it was worth it Dana let's thank everyone for coming thank you
01:18:49
thank you for uh taking your time and we'll see you next time
01:18:54
good night come on James this way thank you
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