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Mike Myers | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

October 07, 2022 / 01:15:32

This episode features Mike Myers discussing his career, experiences on Saturday Night Live, and his new Netflix show. Key topics include his journey from Second City to SNL, his iconic characters, and insights into the entertainment industry.

Mike Myers shares his initial experiences joining SNL, highlighting the pressure of fitting in with established cast members like Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman. He recalls the excitement and intimidation of being part of such a talented group.

The conversation touches on memorable moments from their careers, including the impact of Wayne's World and the creative process behind iconic sketches. Myers discusses the evolution of his comedy style and the influence of his Canadian upbringing.

Myers also talks about his new Netflix series, The Pentaverate, where he plays multiple characters. He reflects on the challenges and joys of writing and performing in comedy.

Throughout the episode, Myers and Carvey share anecdotes about their time in show business, their admiration for fellow comedians, and the lasting impact of their work on audiences.

TL;DR

Mike Myers discusses his SNL journey, iconic characters, and new Netflix series in a candid conversation with Dana Carvey.

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hey guys uh coming up next Mike Myers

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hey guys it's uh spadespadoodle and we

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are about to do the intro for Mike Myers

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and I just want to tell you because of a

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huge [ __ ] up on my part

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my sound is good with my intro with Dana

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and I'm hilarious just a side note and

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we had the greatest interview but I

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screwed up and my audio wasn't perfect

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for all you nerd robots out there like

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uh I only listen for the sound quality

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not for the comedy you're not going to

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be stoked you can still hear all my

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jokes I had a [ __ ] blast Mike I'm

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just gonna say that we sound great at

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the intro then my sound is you can hear

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everything it's just not as Perfecto so

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don't freak out and don't write your

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local Congressman thank you here's me

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and Dana all right here we go

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three minutes we laughed yeah I heard a

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joke this weekend I'm gonna tell it to

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you I love because comedians never tell

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jokes but this one isn't bad okay this

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one you can do at home too and I I kind

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of mangled it I've told it three times

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and I've told it differently okay but

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the basic idea is it's a an old people's

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um I can't believe I'm a professional uh

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they're they're nine 90 year old couple

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and it's their 60th anniversary mm-hmm

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and so the wife says get in bed I'm

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gonna I'm gonna surprise you with

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something uh so she goes in the bathroom

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you follow so far yeah so the guys in

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the bed waiting for his big surprise so

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she goes in on strips naked and only

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puts on a cape so she has nothing but a

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cape got it so she she leaps out of the

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bathroom lands at the base of the bed

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and goes Super [ __ ] and he goes I'll

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take the soup

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all right here's one not as funny but

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nice and quick that just generic that I

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use sometimes okay um did you hear about

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the mom and the dad who found out their

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10 year old boy was visiting s m

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websites no I did not and the mom said

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what are we gonna do and the dad said

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well we can't spank him

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he'll jizz that's nice what yeah that's

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nice too quick I do that as Obama in my

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stand-up hear about the mom and the dad

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and found out their 10 year old boy was

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visiting s m websites my mom said what

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are we gonna do the dad said well we

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can't spank him come on Michelle come on

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Michelle Michelle no no just leave the

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egg salad where it is oh Joe I'm gonna

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eat later you shouldn't get it I'm on

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here with David Spade a podcast but I

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didn't understand it come on what do you

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mean you're gonna do I know how to do

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this I know where I am yeah come on

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Mike Myers coming on right now Mike

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Myers my brother from another mother we

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have so much in common

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sensibility wise he has two older

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brothers one's obsessed with Todd

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Rundgren I have three older brothers

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one's obsessed with Todd rungren

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and we he's um he's kind of a well he's

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he's had quite a he has quite a resume

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Jesus well I keep when I got to SNL you

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two guys were some Heavy Hitters that

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were there and you were also in Wayne's

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World together but we would also all

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wind up in sketches together and you had

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your own stuff and you had movies it was

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uh very exciting and intimidating to be

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in there with all you guys and you two

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went on and did a lot of stuff and uh

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it's great Mike wasn't was a force there

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and uh he was nice to me and uh you know

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that's saying wasn't nice

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Everyone likes you I didn't really get

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along with Al Franken but no names

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if you hear this podcast there's not a

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chance that Al's name doesn't come up

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and I go in the back he's one of our

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he's one of our Classics what's

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interesting about Mike and what we've

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learned from doing this podcast is that

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everyone has their own lane there you

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have your story my story is yet to be

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told I may get my own special episode

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please Jesus we had a nice cast going

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the show is starting to come back and

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then Mike was dropped in he had he had

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his own lane of joining the cast it was

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already gelling and bringing all this

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great stuff to it so I want to hear how

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he felt uh about that in his journey

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through that and then into

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sharing this in Crazy Wayne's World

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movie and and and how how much it grew

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on the show it's very very interesting

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I'm gonna ask him about a coffee talk

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movie and I'm gonna ask about sprockets

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move my Supernatural friend Mike Myers

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[Music]

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get back by The Beatles I felt like I

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was watching I just felt like I was

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watching da Vinci

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at work you know what I mean

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um that moment when get back happens

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move me to tears

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um the sweetness that they had with each

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other yeah like that hug when there's

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like uh you know I'll go over and I'll

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talk to George you know oh yeah I'll

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have that nice sweet hug killed and they

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were just just Lads and they you know

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Lenin as it went on and there's some of

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the stuff you know what you wrote and I

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wrote in in the 70s was just very sweet

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and very present and I loved how much

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everyone would lock in and try really

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hard on everyone's song you know I just

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wasn't I thought it was going to be so

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much anger but no they're like and Ringo

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always said that he'd count in and

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they'd all just drop everything and also

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yeah which you can probably relate to

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this being you know I'm barely middle

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class growing up but the setting was

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just tea and cigarettes and just funny

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chairs like nothing it was so unfancy

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especially at Abbey Road it was just

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like you think it'd be and then just the

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work uh the work ethic of Paul with

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trying to okay let's do it again do it

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again do it again it's like just no he's

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definitely just had his hand on the

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third rail and he was just driven you

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know what I mean yeah

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it needed to come out and uh

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George's sadness was tough just uh Hey

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guys hey guys wait up guys wait up what

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are you guys going I know and just that

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they they'd been in back of Vans and

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stuff and then when Paul was really

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trying to instruct him you know I was

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getting anxious like it was that's

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George Harrison and it's not little

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George he met at 14. we'll do this and

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do this and do this and I used to do

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that as a joke kind of because I heard

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it on an album once but Paul would go do

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do do to kind of process the melody and

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then he's doing it you know you go look

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like he hears the whole he's like Mozart

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I mean here's it all yeah and so then

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he's frustrated but it was so uh

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remarkable and uh I just got to it guys

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I was just watching uh when I in the

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other room I swear to God and I thought

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you were a big monkeys fan I didn't know

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you were a beetle guy

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uh no I I uh was watching and it was

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just the part where he was sort of

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helping George and then and then it was

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he's I guess some going to get back but

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he can't you can kind of go I know this

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one and then he fools around with it and

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then he starts going get back and you're

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like oh is that what you're talking

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about Mike yeah yeah yeah

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oh my God oh my God this is get back

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yeah and then I could relate to that

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constantly I can relate to okay

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a lot of creativity is then just going

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someplace else like either bullshitting

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around the table and ordering Chinese

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food or would they would go into You

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Know Carl Perkins songs they kept going

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back because he just refreshed their

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brains and come back around on it you

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know so so anyway

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no just just kept getting back to the

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whole reason why

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they wanted to do music in the first

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place I love that part of it

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and I also loved how much Ringo was it

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was a Paul McCartney fan

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just the the look of adoration when

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Paul's just you know the long long and

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Winding Road and he's going yeah we've

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got one I've got one and it's like the

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best song ever yeah he had that Savannah

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kind of vibe about him like pulls it in

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here goes there you know this just goes

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there and and it was um it was just so

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so sweet to see I think it's how they

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recognize game like even when I got to a

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good old SNL like we can't compare to

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the Beatles but when I got to a place

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where I then stand up comedy here and

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there and the headliner was pretty good

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and he would kill but he wasn't that

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good and I was trying to sort of figure

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out what was good and what wasn't and

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what I jived with and then I got to this

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show and you guys were there and

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everyone was like beyond what I thought

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they would be like I didn't know what to

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expect and I'm like the writers are so

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good and then and everyone's so ahead of

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me I was going holy [ __ ] I thought it

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was pretty good but it's it's too good

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here and I look back and we did have a

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chunk there where you know they usually

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do have a lot of really really good

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people there but that book right there I

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was thinking yeah I'm over my head I see

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you guys

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yeah yeah it took a while to like take a

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notepad and go write a sketch and

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without tons of help you know because

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everyone's in their own they got to do

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their own [ __ ] and then people would

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help but they can't baby you all day

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right I mean you had your past I had

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mine and I think Mike says uh uh kind of

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a singular path because he came in the

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cast was going good

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Mike Myers is coming in who you know and

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then you had to come in it wasn't like

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three people came in or or someone else

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it was just and Mike was the first new

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guy after the original cast it was like

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two seasons ends and so that's kind of

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unique about your experience so just

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explain how that how that felt because I

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yeah what was that like to come in you

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without and then you melded and did

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brilliant and we were just you know we

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were like the Beatles by you know but at

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that time it must have been strange it

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was terrifying I um I hadn't seen the

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show in a long time because I was living

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in England and I've said this too many

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times now but it's absolutely true I had

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a top loading VHS that I had to choose

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between

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you know the hockey game which is at 7

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30 and it ends at 12 30. I can relate to

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that more yeah and I've never heard this

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you know because we all think everyone's

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heard everything because we go on these

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different interviews but I know I've

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never heard that one from you I didn't

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so I got a call do I want to be on

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Saturday live and I thought it was my

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brother Paul at first you know what I

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mean honest to God because I was in

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Chicago at Second City

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and then I started to watch the show and

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I I I was like holy [ __ ] these guys are

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awesome like these they're you know what

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I mean and I had been in Toronto

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and um we used to have funny cab guys

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you know the cab dispatchers so

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East East End taxi Eastern Eastern

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Avenue taxi in Toronto and the guy would

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go he was just like oh hey I need a cab

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at Bloor and Dundas and then a cab you

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don't hear the cab driver and he'd go

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give the man a bologna sandwich right

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that was the code

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that meant you've got the cab or

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something I don't know it was really

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amusing and you'd be in the back of the

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cab and you'd be like oh that that's a

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funny dispatcher and then this one I was

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with Dave Foley

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Dave Foley from the kids and all in this

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one cab dispatcher just kept saying

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isn't that special

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and I said today for this that's really

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funny that's a great

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that's a great thing to say isn't that

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special and fully looked at me and said

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that's Dana Carvey especially character

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I said oh my God that's a that's a like

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a catchphrase he goes do you not know I

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said no I've been living in England for

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three and a half years that's funny I

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didn't I missed everything and they have

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no sense of Saturday Night Live in

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England at all

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the only thing that they'd watched later

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was little clips of Wayne's World after

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the movie came out

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then even then they were a little like

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oh I like the movie but uh I don't know

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about that sketches let's insert that

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moment that we shared and then go back

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around to this because

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Mike creates Wayne's World invites me to

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be on we're going going it's starting

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out it's kind of late in the show then

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Madonna everything then let's make a

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movie okay you know what then and then

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we have to go to London I was so naive I

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never that when Paramount was saying

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well well would you like to go to London

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I kept tearing them down like I'm really

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tired I think I'll go I didn't

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understand what and they said well we'll

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bring anybody or whatever you want so

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we're on the Concord with Paula likes

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our relatives but anyway a moment I'll

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never forget is that it had been shown

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enough in London that there was a

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following so Mike and I who used to joke

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you know let's do you know let's do a

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thing called We're the new Beatles

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remember that one yeah

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so we had our little suits it's on a

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little suits and then we were in this

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London cabbie limo type thing and we

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pulled up in front of the theater to

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show London Wayne's World and there were

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like 5 000 kids leaning on Cyclone

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fences with posters and stuff and isn't

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that wasn't that that moment we got out

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of the car like what and they're

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screaming for us that was [ __ ] nice

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how did they get it did they get it Dana

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from um

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I mean Mike I guess did they get it from

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the sketches or they had caught up with

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SNL stuff so they knew the movie was

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coming I think they ran the sketches I

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think they ran the sketches

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on BBC like because nothing goes on the

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hour on BBC you know what I mean

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so it'll be you know coming up at 12 38

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you know like it's all weird it's all

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just specific

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at 11 19 they would put in little

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spacers of Wayne's World you know you

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know not like one time we went to uh the

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only time in London was I've only been

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anywhere for press it's just like always

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quick but we went for Tommy Boy and and

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Farley and I went over and we for some

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reason thought we were famous of that

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meanwhile we've only been on the show

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like three years it's not even really

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over there like you said right and then

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talking about it wasn't even out yet

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what happened and we're like it's gonna

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be weird being so famous and then we

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stayed at the Dorchester and we had hats

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and glasses on we go let's go try to eat

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and then when then no one knew us and

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then they're like hey who's the fat guy

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and skinny guy and then we walked around

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and then we slowly took the glass and

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everything off and then we were trying

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to get recognized yeah

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we went into Piccadilly so I guess we

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just trying anything to get one person

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to know us and it all it sort of

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backfired yeah it is funny it's all

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different now but at the time it was

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that ocean was a big ocean you know what

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I mean yeah without Google without and

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even if you didn't see the show you

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didn't see it on Monday on the internet

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you had to wait six months and see a

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rerun right and who who maybe you know

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this Mike this is just an insert it

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always made me laugh when they'd say

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we're gonna jump the pond so the

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Atlantic Ocean became referred to as a

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pond was that from londoners or anyway

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it feels like a you know

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an English understatement yeah you know

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yeah kind of so you know uh I I I don't

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know what everyone knows but it is

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interesting I I felt kind of envious in

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a way of your roots of having two

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parents from Liverpool and you're sort

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of like uh you're probably had cousins

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who knew the Beatles or whatever I mean

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that is very interesting yes you did I

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know yes yeah I had a cousin who knew

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Aunt Mimi oh really wow yeah which is

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yeah Mimi was in The Beatles She was

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yeah she was a she was a roadie yeah Tom

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Hanks played her in the one of the

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Wayne's World sketches she was lugging

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PV amps yeah yeah go ahead Mike sorry go

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ahead no no no it's all good and um

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I knew all the places I knew Penny Lane

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you know what I mean I'd be in there as

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a kid

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and uh Strawberry Fields I I kicked a

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soccer ball around on Strawberry Fields

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you know what I mean so it was kind of a

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weird thing and my parents were super

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proud you know because and their accent

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became famous you know yeah so people

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would knock on the door knowing I wasn't

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home and they would say uh is my kid and

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my dad would say no actually I think

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he's kicking about with his other and

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people like cool you know

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the Beatles were so famous that the

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accent was famous and I got some

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reflected Glory

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is unique about you is okay you grow up

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in Canada and then right out of high

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school you go into Second City right you

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you at some point obviously at English

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routine had gone over there but then you

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go over to England you're developing

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your comedy there as part of a comedy

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team and you're like there for three

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years outside the States and Canada and

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then then how do you get on SNL from

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there then you then you get on SNL

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you're like 25 or something so what

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happened was I came back for Christmas

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and my dad was Ill he was starting to

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get Alzheimer's yeah and I was in a

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comedy double act with a guy named Neil

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Malarkey who's you know really of course

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my dad was like what's your comedy

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partner's name I said Neil Malarkey and

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he said uh well I I guess um you know

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Bill Shenanigans wasn't available

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because his name's Malarkey and uh

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okay Malarkey's fantastic I I still work

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with him today you know he you know he's

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hilarious and

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um I didn't want to leave I didn't want

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to leave I I loved things I love being

00:17:44

in this double act I love lunch yeah and

00:17:46

uh my dad was starting to get ill

00:17:48

and I did the um I did The Improv set at

00:17:52

Second City Chicago the main Secretary

00:17:54

of Toronto the main stage and then they

00:17:56

said to me do you want to have a job on

00:17:58

the main stage of Second City Toronto

00:18:01

and I was like

00:18:04

I don't really only because

00:18:06

but then I knew that my dad was ill and

00:18:08

I'm so glad I did because I did get to

00:18:10

see my dad for a little while before he

00:18:13

lost his personality which was sort of

00:18:16

like a double death with Alzheimer's you

00:18:18

know what I mean yeah horrible and um so

00:18:21

I got to see him he got to see me

00:18:23

perform

00:18:24

and then um I got hired for Second City

00:18:27

Chicago

00:18:29

and went down there and uh then my dad

00:18:33

had a horrible accident in a bath and it

00:18:37

was awful and uh

00:18:40

I went back up and uh I technically was

00:18:44

the alumni at Second City Toronto and

00:18:47

there was an alumni show

00:18:49

and Martin Short saw me there and

00:18:51

recommended me to Lauren yes I know that

00:18:54

part of it and I got I got a I did an

00:18:57

audition I just got called and I

00:18:59

and I just then I was just in the cast

00:19:01

and I didn't really actually know I was

00:19:03

hired for the first little while exactly

00:19:05

and even Lauren Lauren I was in the

00:19:09

hallway and he was I was he said what

00:19:11

are you doing here I was like

00:19:13

where did you know

00:19:16

why are you online yes what you know

00:19:20

wait why are you cross-legged by the

00:19:21

elevator bank and I was like I I don't

00:19:23

have an office he said get off the floor

00:19:25

or something like that well and I was

00:19:27

like didn't I meet you and you hired me

00:19:29

yeah well going forward

00:19:32

let me ask him yeah he he didn't so I'm

00:19:36

like you didn't have the stress of

00:19:37

knowing you were having an audition

00:19:38

really just Martin Short saw you and

00:19:40

then said he recommended them 100 if I

00:19:42

had auditioned I wouldn't have got in

00:19:43

that's 100 yeah I'm the shittiest

00:19:46

auditioner that's ever I hate it too I

00:19:48

mean that didn't mean so Martin Short

00:19:50

must have recommended you really heavily

00:19:54

I mean I you know what I mean Dave Foley

00:19:56

as well who wore and respects yeah so

00:20:00

then Pam Thomas is a casting director

00:20:02

Pam Thomas who was a producer with the

00:20:06

kids in the hall she was at this

00:20:07

anniversary in Toronto and she also

00:20:10

called Lauren so it was like so in all

00:20:12

due modesty what were you doing when

00:20:15

Marty saw you like were you were you

00:20:18

doing sprockets were you doing lothar we

00:20:21

did I did Wayne's World you did Wayne's

00:20:23

World yeah at the top of the second act

00:20:25

who played Garth

00:20:35

I just looked at the cast and I said

00:20:38

who's the best comedian there

00:20:42

I don't know I had a baby face I had to

00:20:44

keep my chin up and uh I guess we'll be

00:20:46

doing it on the 50th Anniversary so

00:20:49

isn't it isn't it the 30th Anniversary

00:20:52

this year it is the 30th of the movie

00:20:56

all of you guys yeah of Waynes world

00:20:58

it's the 30th anniversary of the movie

00:21:00

which is ridiculous

00:21:02

uh I don't know but uh I don't even know

00:21:04

how to process life anymore it just

00:21:07

spins around so fast I I always say I'm

00:21:09

I'm moving at the speed of life I feel

00:21:11

like all of us are way busier than we

00:21:13

should or could be of course you have

00:21:14

three three children and and you just

00:21:17

did a Netflix show if you want to talk

00:21:18

about that for a sec but sure you've

00:21:20

been busy let's let's uh let's Mike did

00:21:22

a new show for all you Mike Myers fans

00:21:24

he has a a streaming show coming out on

00:21:28

Netflix right this year yeah yeah it's

00:21:30

in May it'll come out in May it's called

00:21:31

the pentavirate and it's about

00:21:34

um what if five people around the world

00:21:39

I had heard that I got out with his

00:21:42

master you got off first first early

00:21:45

adopter obviously no not at all it's

00:21:48

called the pin tablet and it's about

00:21:49

five people what if five people ran the

00:21:52

world and what if they were nice

00:21:54

and it's about conspiracy theories right

00:21:56

and I play all five you play Bill Gates

00:21:59

Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos

00:22:04

I'm keeping tight-lipped about the

00:22:06

various I love I love you I love the uh

00:22:09

the premise I love the idea of it so and

00:22:12

you're doing your your Mike Myers thing

00:22:14

which is amazing to watch well yeah

00:22:17

thank you I'm um I had a lot of fun

00:22:18

doing it and I you know happy with it

00:22:21

very happy yeah I think the writer

00:22:24

performer is kind of the most potent uh

00:22:26

comedian not not all comedians write

00:22:29

their stuff but in your case you were

00:22:32

just every bit as much a writer Tina Fey

00:22:34

the same and and a great performer what

00:22:36

I'm kind of interested now that we're to

00:22:38

this section is what you brought to SNL

00:22:41

that first year was so outside it had it

00:22:45

its own frequency its own sensibility

00:22:46

and I always say it's Canadian British a

00:22:50

little and American because you're

00:22:51

always watching America as a kid right

00:22:52

yeah Canada so that when you came in and

00:22:56

I wanted to walk through some of those

00:22:57

things you did on on that first season

00:22:59

and then finish with this part of it

00:23:02

when we were touring

00:23:03

and Mike and I did some dates and how

00:23:07

hard you had landed with the audience

00:23:08

because we were playing 3 000 Cedars and

00:23:11

you'd come out and they were going crazy

00:23:12

so anyway I'll be back in 10 minutes I

00:23:15

just wanted to delay that out there that

00:23:17

was a long way of saying so you come in

00:23:19

the first thing I saw I'll start it this

00:23:21

way so Mike comes in he's very Canadian

00:23:23

in the sense that he's shy and sweet

00:23:25

unassuming

00:23:27

what you know and the first thing I saw

00:23:29

you do you I think you had a suit on you

00:23:31

had a French accent and you were peeing

00:23:34

yourself with some kind of well it was

00:23:36

fortuitous it was um it was as if it was

00:23:38

French Saturday Night Live

00:23:41

oh okay and uh and because I I speak

00:23:45

French because I'm from Canada

00:23:47

do you really yeah

00:23:51

just with Canadian I've only been able

00:23:53

to do fake friends

00:23:57

so this is not nothing right but anyway

00:24:00

so

00:24:03

I I did it actually in French oh you did

00:24:07

oh you're actually French in a suit wet

00:24:09

in your pants

00:24:11

is that your first game yeah yeah yeah I

00:24:13

was playing the the a cast member of the

00:24:17

French celebrity who was hosting that

00:24:19

week oh I see okay in in France and it's

00:24:22

um

00:24:23

and then they had a a p rig yeah on me

00:24:27

right and uh

00:24:29

always enjoy wearing a pea rig I don't

00:24:31

know why now this is Mike this is your

00:24:33

first read-through or is this first show

00:24:35

first first show I think and then the

00:24:39

first sketch I was first sketch I was in

00:24:41

or I played Nigel the groundskeeper and

00:24:44

one of and it was

00:24:47

um one of Nigel's I like someones

00:24:51

the groundskeeper I'm no stranger to a

00:24:54

Nigel it's a good English name I guess

00:24:57

it's funny and uh wait like was that the

00:25:00

beginning of like a September season

00:25:02

like I came in at the end of a season

00:25:04

and some people come in the middle Adam

00:25:06

came in the Middle where you came in the

00:25:08

middle it was February yeah that's

00:25:11

sometimes tougher everything's rolling

00:25:12

it was and everybody's awesome like you

00:25:16

know

00:25:16

well we had we had Phil Hartman and Jan

00:25:19

Hooks I mean you know oh my God I can't

00:25:21

be nervous breakdown that first week it

00:25:23

started straight up on the floor crying

00:25:27

I'm not gonna make it this one

00:25:30

and then Lauren said what are you doing

00:25:32

on the floor Mike

00:25:36

so you you well I used to go to a psych

00:25:39

ward Mike oh so in those four months you

00:25:42

landed you I know you did sprockets yeah

00:25:46

which I always love the the touch my

00:25:49

monkey aspect that was so specifically

00:25:53

insane

00:25:54

demanding so where did that so you had

00:25:58

that when Martin Short saw you do did

00:26:00

you do sprockets and Wayne's World or

00:26:02

now I just did Wayne's World and it was

00:26:05

but it was it was after the intermission

00:26:08

and I came up from the audience and

00:26:10

people actually kind of weren't sure if

00:26:13

it was you it was happening and then

00:26:16

I just I had a great show and then we

00:26:19

did uh The Improv set and I did a couple

00:26:22

things and just I just had to show my

00:26:25

life it was one of those weird things

00:26:26

and then there's a thing called phrase

00:26:29

tag at Second City where you take the

00:26:31

position of somebody

00:26:33

and um oh yeah I ended up in this long

00:26:37

freeze tag with Martin Short oh okay as

00:26:41

it was described to me is that Martin

00:26:43

Short looked at me and I I looked like I

00:26:47

was 14 you know what I mean and was

00:26:49

starting to name drop like as a as a way

00:26:53

of saying you won't know any of these

00:26:55

people and I matched every name drop for

00:26:59

a name drop you know what I mean okay

00:27:01

got it and so he was like you know I was

00:27:03

with Stevie Spielberg get the blah blah

00:27:05

blah blah blah and I said that's when

00:27:06

Liza Minnelli came and we were on the

00:27:08

yeah okay white Puerto Rican rum

00:27:10

and this is a white Puerto Rican rum

00:27:12

commercial that had Liza Minnelli and

00:27:15

whatever and it became this this duel

00:27:18

you know what I mean I always I I did a

00:27:21

bit once where a celebrity name dropping

00:27:23

it's always a shorter like Johnny Carson

00:27:25

if I was with John Carson you know and

00:27:28

Eddie Eddie McMahon you know it's all

00:27:30

it's always kind of changed

00:27:33

we're with Bobby hope

00:27:37

yeah so you you crushed it then you come

00:27:40

to the show and then by May the show's

00:27:43

done so you landed a lot of stuff before

00:27:46

we went on our little mini tour maybe

00:27:48

but I didn't think so at the time that's

00:27:50

so stupid is I literally was like I I

00:27:54

blew it I'm gonna get fired and I really

00:27:57

truly thought I was getting it fired

00:27:59

pretty much every week you know what I

00:28:01

mean well which one landed the best in

00:28:04

your mind I mean you did lothar the Hill

00:28:06

People yeah did you yeah I am lothar of

00:28:09

the Hill People it's like just again

00:28:11

just it's just different different

00:28:13

crowds like it like the like the sort of

00:28:15

people that

00:28:17

you know like musicians like Dieter

00:28:20

right and they like Wayne but like artsy

00:28:24

people were like oh that Dieter thing's

00:28:26

cool Wayne's World had more of a broader

00:28:28

appeal but then I remember walking

00:28:31

through Central Park and it was always

00:28:32

the people that worked in the park were

00:28:34

like oh my God it's little thought the

00:28:36

Hill People

00:28:37

they remember you could almost guess

00:28:41

who's gonna like what

00:28:42

you go I think you're gonna like bench

00:28:45

so that was like an ancient man in very

00:28:48

rudimentary language man no but that was

00:28:51

but this this was an ancient man in

00:28:53

rudimentary language trying to

00:28:55

understand women and Society was that

00:28:58

kind of yeah it was a sensitive troll or

00:29:00

whatever right when I was a kid I played

00:29:03

a lot of Dungeons and Dragons but we did

00:29:05

it in character which I look back now

00:29:07

and it gives me the corny tingles but it

00:29:09

uh I know a lot of dancers dragons fans

00:29:12

and yeah my my character was lothar and

00:29:15

uh when I live with them woman she comes

00:29:18

I don't know what you know there is much

00:29:21

that I could tell you you know it's all

00:29:22

the come let us talk of Stories of the

00:29:25

hunt that type of wait but Mike you just

00:29:28

did those that half a year and then you

00:29:29

guys went on the road yeah you were well

00:29:31

done enough to go on the road yeah it

00:29:34

was wow and I didn't have an act I wrote

00:29:36

it on the plane

00:29:37

and so Mike was writing and and he had

00:29:41

cue cards you could have done this on

00:29:43

the stage and if I could just insert

00:29:45

this so Mike's opening for me he would

00:29:47

This brilliant thing he would come out

00:29:50

as was it Wayne or Wayne Wayne

00:29:54

under-dressed unbeknownst to the crowd

00:29:57

was he was underdressed with Dieter

00:29:59

so you do Wayne and then you pull a rip

00:30:02

cord and then the theme to sprockets

00:30:04

would come on and you start dancing his

00:30:05

Dieter and they would go [ __ ] I

00:30:07

mean it was such an incredible move but

00:30:09

I was shocked because I didn't know who

00:30:12

was watching the show and I thought you

00:30:14

know I just have to just do it and if it

00:30:16

if it if it doesn't play I just stay

00:30:19

away the whole night you know what I

00:30:21

mean you know back then you don't have

00:30:23

Instagram followers you don't have

00:30:24

internet so you have to guess am I

00:30:27

famous or do does anyone know what the

00:30:29

[ __ ] is going on I'm just hoping they

00:30:31

see the show I'm hoping they're into

00:30:33

this we think it's funny in the building

00:30:35

and then we leave you just don't have no

00:30:37

idea and it was it was interesting like

00:30:39

when I was very first on the show

00:30:42

I would get like three pieces of mail

00:30:45

right

00:30:46

now your brother okay well often from

00:30:50

Correctional Facilities you know what I

00:30:52

mean yeah and uh and with the real snap

00:30:54

which I thought was Ah that's cool and

00:30:57

then I would look over at Danish and I

00:30:59

was like you got no mail Dana got no man

00:31:02

holy [ __ ] so I guess I'm okay with three

00:31:05

and I said to um do you remember Julian

00:31:08

oh yes yes and I said to Julian I said

00:31:11

Julian

00:31:12

I don't understand it Dana has no mail

00:31:14

because no mail and then he points over

00:31:16

to these five boxes he's five he goes it

00:31:19

doesn't fit in there

00:31:20

I didn't know that that's nice for the

00:31:24

female at home right by the page test it

00:31:26

was Steve corn when I was there yeah

00:31:28

yeah

00:31:29

all these square boxes in each other

00:31:31

name on it but they are unfortunately

00:31:33

equally the same size yes and then you'd

00:31:36

see data sticking out with other stuff

00:31:39

when Mike and I the when the movie hit

00:31:43

it got kind of it definitely went

00:31:44

surreal for us right because we didn't

00:31:46

really know what box office and just

00:31:49

Awards kept arriving and giant Vats of

00:31:51

mail and it was just sort of I don't

00:31:53

know I don't know if we really

00:31:54

comprehended it no it was too fast too

00:31:57

much the only one that hit home was

00:32:00

having immigrant parents and not having

00:32:02

any hockey equipment except we go to the

00:32:04

skate exchange and you'd get like

00:32:06

old-timey skates that look like you know

00:32:09

soon Railways will be spanning the

00:32:10

Nations

00:32:12

and then I'm on Saturday live we weren't

00:32:15

making any money but all of a sudden a

00:32:17

thing arrives this big giant duffel bag

00:32:19

from Team Canada with Team Canada skates

00:32:24

with the logo stitched into the skates

00:32:26

into the into the hockey pads into the

00:32:29

gloves the logo Team Canada and I was

00:32:31

like oh cool this is like unbelievable

00:32:35

and that's making it I still have I

00:32:38

still have the the gloves because

00:32:40

they're you were a big uh hockey guy

00:32:41

back then yeah I think you had a lot of

00:32:43

uh coats and stuff that that's that's

00:32:45

kind of a bond you know that it it's not

00:32:48

I would never do a military analogy but

00:32:50

it's a bonding thing in Show Business to

00:32:52

be on that show with people because it's

00:32:54

so gritty and then to have your first

00:32:57

success with them and the first time

00:32:59

making a couple extra bucks I remember

00:33:02

you scrounging for quarters you know to

00:33:04

get a sandwich and stuff or you got good

00:33:06

bringing a buck out and you know

00:33:08

yeah I mean no I didn't I had to borrow

00:33:12

money off Lauren

00:33:13

though does he have a billfold and kind

00:33:17

of go like that does he like it was just

00:33:19

5 10 15. I wanted by Tuesday

00:33:22

where was I started again did he pay you

00:33:25

in Canadian money or what he said here's

00:33:27

a bloomy

00:33:32

the uh he um no he said how much do you

00:33:36

need I said uh ten thousand dollars like

00:33:38

I didn't really know wow and he was like

00:33:42

he was like what's your rant and I was

00:33:44

like

00:33:48

something like a thousand dollars a

00:33:50

month or something yeah and you're

00:33:52

netting maybe 1500 no money like I had

00:33:55

negative money you know what I mean and

00:33:57

and uh

00:33:59

I think Lauren I would be so [ __ ]

00:34:02

scared as Lauren for money I probably

00:34:04

wouldn't I talked to I talked to

00:34:06

remember Audrey Dickman

00:34:08

Audrey yeah and she said well uh she was

00:34:12

like do you have any friends that you

00:34:14

can borrow from I said not really no he

00:34:17

goes uh almost it was like anything

00:34:20

valuable yeah I mean anyone else than

00:34:24

Warren yeah

00:34:25

can you donate blood yes donate blood do

00:34:28

you have any shoes you could donate um

00:34:30

yes it was Jim Henry I had the same

00:34:34

thing but I went straight to Marcy Klein

00:34:35

because I found out she was Calvin

00:34:37

Klein's daughter so I said oh yeah well

00:34:39

she's got to have some money so that was

00:34:41

my no I'm kidding but I uh hi Marcy if

00:34:44

she said we love you

00:34:48

[Music]

00:34:50

I was just looking while you're gone I

00:34:52

just remember how much I Love Philip I

00:34:55

thought that was uh with the kid with

00:34:57

the helmet he was in straps and he's

00:34:58

running away that was really inspired

00:35:01

because wigs and berries it was so funny

00:35:04

visually like even if you lost the sound

00:35:06

it was so great oh thank you you know

00:35:09

what I mean and also it was just like

00:35:11

hyper hypo yeah was it yeah the hyper

00:35:14

hypo yeah and he wore a helmet and he

00:35:16

had this bungee cords and he's trying to

00:35:18

harness there was a kid in my

00:35:21

neighborhood that had a harness a

00:35:22

harness yeah that's the word he was and

00:35:25

uh and I was like that's all right you

00:35:28

know what I mean

00:35:31

no no that was that Nicole Kidman was in

00:35:34

on uh Phillip yeah you know I saw this

00:35:37

morning of middle-aged man and uh I'm

00:35:39

working on it and I yeah it was Jan

00:35:41

Hooks in Victoria it's just such a

00:35:43

throwback of like the simple SNL

00:35:45

sketches and you come in it's so great

00:35:49

and then Farley came in his drinking

00:35:51

buddy I don't even really I don't think

00:35:52

I remember that and you guys both

00:35:53

snapped you at the same time and it was

00:35:56

[ __ ] really well done and I I love

00:35:59

this I love the theme do you remember

00:36:00

the theme didn't it have a song He's

00:36:02

middle-aged man go ahead can you sing it

00:36:06

Mike or what was it middle age man uh

00:36:09

something something in middle-aged man

00:36:10

uh

00:36:14

something something and a gut

00:36:16

middle-aged man and the catchphrase are

00:36:19

was you are you looking at my gut I'm

00:36:20

working on it yeah I'm working on it

00:36:22

which of course is my actual thing I say

00:36:25

okay now because I have of course uh I

00:36:30

have the gut I love presentational

00:36:32

comedy like that where you tell the

00:36:34

audience the premise completely up front

00:36:36

and then you present it to them it is

00:36:38

there's no mathematics for their head

00:36:40

they're just like enjoying I know

00:36:42

exactly what this is yeah

00:36:44

we're all we're all spreading around I

00:36:47

mean my waist is like way bigger than it

00:36:50

was back then I used to tease John

00:36:52

Levitz because I looked at the board and

00:36:53

they'd do your waist and your inseam and

00:36:56

I was like I was like well I was young

00:36:58

that was like 31 33 and everyone else

00:37:02

had a bigger waist and a shorter so I

00:37:04

see you know how you tease John and he

00:37:06

teases you I go John look I have reverse

00:37:08

sizing he goes what what do you mean

00:37:10

reverse it so anyway John is the

00:37:13

greatest I mean is this just the

00:37:15

silliest hello everybody

00:37:18

uh what else can I well I saw oh yeah I

00:37:20

saw a side on YouTube it said here's a

00:37:23

scene of Mike I'll think Scott is from

00:37:25

dress I'm like you can watch [ __ ] from

00:37:27

dress what yeah I go and it said on the

00:37:30

beginning starting live films a show at

00:37:32

11 30 but they have a dresser so that

00:37:34

eight and it's not supposed to air but

00:37:36

here's one I go you can find dress this

00:37:39

is unreal everyone there is that the one

00:37:41

with Mel Gibson where the the cash

00:37:43

register malfunctioned I think it was

00:37:45

walking was walking everyone yeah wow

00:37:49

wow wow

00:37:51

for a second just because we're on that

00:37:53

topic uh hosts that were I know these

00:37:55

you've heard these before but well you

00:37:57

probably we probably have similar

00:37:58

choices Wayne Gretzky would be a big one

00:38:00

for me number one yeah number one for

00:38:02

you I figured and so just just from my

00:38:05

point of view for a second you wrote a

00:38:07

Wayne's World sketch and we went to an

00:38:09

ice rink or we did a film I'm from

00:38:12

California so I never played hockey

00:38:14

Wayne Gretzky is literally super

00:38:17

Canadian nice I'm me just like insanely

00:38:19

unassuming and then I couldn't get my sh

00:38:23

I was playing the the goalie I didn't

00:38:25

know so he gets on one knee starts

00:38:27

lacing up my shoes and pads and then

00:38:30

Wayne Gretzky says here hold the stick

00:38:31

like this so it was thank you again for

00:38:34

that that moment Mike because I was like

00:38:36

what no wait the greatest winner yeah

00:38:39

well it's just so how was your

00:38:40

experience with Wayne I mean he was so

00:38:42

wow well I I got called into Lauren's

00:38:45

office you know and uh okay here it

00:38:48

comes you know what I mean on the carpet

00:38:50

yeah I thought all right you know I

00:38:52

tried and then he goes uh Wayne

00:38:55

Gretzky's the host and I was like

00:38:57

and I was like is this happening like

00:39:01

it's a joke right and he said just maybe

00:39:05

a Wayne's World you know what I mean and

00:39:07

uh

00:39:08

I was like yeah of course but I I went

00:39:11

and uh all pre-cell phone of course I

00:39:13

was just pounded calls to Canada oh my

00:39:16

God all my friends Wayne kraska's the

00:39:18

host holy [ __ ] you know what I mean

00:39:20

they're huge there was a couple things

00:39:22

uh for that that episode that stick out

00:39:24

to me one is I have a terrible fear of

00:39:26

flying so does Wayne ironically even

00:39:28

though he must have flown like crazy he

00:39:30

goes I'll tell you at the end of the

00:39:31

week what the secret is to not be afraid

00:39:34

so at the end of the week I go the end

00:39:35

of the show I go when what's the secret

00:39:37

he goes helicopters

00:39:39

just flying a helicopter and a plane

00:39:41

will seem like nothing you know he's

00:39:43

right oh he's got it right you know yeah

00:39:46

he's 100 right helicopters are

00:39:49

terrifying do you remember the sketch we

00:39:50

did where we were playing celebrities

00:39:52

idiotically trying to advise him how to

00:39:55

play hockey I do and I remember it's

00:39:57

like what if you made the puck out of

00:39:59

Flubber yeah

00:40:02

and the funny part was Phil was doing

00:40:04

Jack Nicholson and he always would say

00:40:09

Wayne's moniker or nickname before he

00:40:12

starts to talk in rehearsal he'd go

00:40:13

great one and Wayne would lose it every

00:40:17

time you know and I was pulling out my

00:40:19

silly John Travolta from 1975 going you

00:40:23

know maybe just everybody should just go

00:40:25

right at the net super fast just go

00:40:27

around that kind of thing and he loved

00:40:30

it but anyway he stood out as just and

00:40:31

he nailed that thing where he's singing

00:40:33

like Elvis at the air show Waikiki

00:40:36

hockey yeah suddenly it was extremely

00:40:39

charismatic Vatican in the pocket you

00:40:41

know it was like Wow anything can happen

00:40:43

on Sno yeah so yeah you know did you

00:40:46

ever do uh awesome did you ever know as

00:40:48

far as honest no you didn't no never did

00:40:52

I was like later creation Now that was

00:40:54

later I am I uh I hosted I've only

00:40:58

hosted once I hosted in

00:41:01

I would say 25 years ago

00:41:04

was it a trip to promote it was for

00:41:06

Austin Powers Yeah

00:41:08

and how did you find that because I

00:41:10

David's hosted I've hosted a few three

00:41:13

times I think yeah I find it really

00:41:15

difficult do you well it's so natural

00:41:19

and I'm fun what was your well when I

00:41:24

did one in 95 I actually got you know

00:41:26

some of I I got into a restaurant sketch

00:41:29

with with Chris was in it and Tim

00:41:31

Meadows and Sandler that I didn't write

00:41:34

Steve coren wrote the pepper boy and

00:41:37

that that if for a restaurant sketch in

00:41:39

the in underneath the bleachers kind of

00:41:41

set it killed so hard that I at that

00:41:45

night at the hotel at 4 30 in the

00:41:48

morning Sandler he just left a voicemail

00:41:50

for me going Carvey pepper boy you know

00:41:54

one of those right it killed so hard

00:42:01

to me Sandler but the last time I went

00:42:03

on I just was a little too too amped up

00:42:06

but it hadn't been gone too long and uh

00:42:08

was a little too serious about trying to

00:42:10

control it you know because they put you

00:42:13

in like 13 sketches as a cast member

00:42:15

you're used to having one or two that

00:42:17

you're shepherding so you can really

00:42:19

focus so that that's the part it's hard

00:42:21

but how did you guys want to kill on

00:42:23

every sketch and you started yeah you're

00:42:25

killing every sketch so you enjoyed it

00:42:27

Mike

00:42:28

uh no it was hard

00:42:33

because it was too many sketches and I

00:42:35

also wanted every moment to be

00:42:37

Perfection but what was

00:42:40

from uh like a when you write and

00:42:43

produce your stuff from that standpoint

00:42:45

it you know like they said okay you're

00:42:48

gonna play the prime minister at the

00:42:50

time of England right

00:42:52

and uh I was like oh I need some tape on

00:42:56

it I don't really know how he talks and

00:42:58

so I said to the person I said is it

00:43:00

possible to get a tape and they said

00:43:02

sure it'll be five minutes and I'm like

00:43:04

yeah because when you do movies right

00:43:07

much slower much slower and literally

00:43:09

five minutes later there was a tape and

00:43:11

I was like this is why movies can be

00:43:13

frustrating at time because

00:43:15

honest to God like everything you can't

00:43:18

believe how fast things happen yeah and

00:43:21

so when people on movies tell you oh it

00:43:23

can't happen you're like um

00:43:26

well that's the love of Saturday Night

00:43:28

Live if you pretend to procrastinate or

00:43:30

you just have these hard dead deadlines

00:43:32

throughout the week that keep pushing

00:43:34

you forward and keep you really

00:43:36

heightened I didn't realize for my ADD

00:43:38

or whatever I've got that that really

00:43:40

fit my brain nicely because everything

00:43:43

was in front of me and then there was

00:43:45

the dress show and then boom it's over

00:43:47

and then in a movie you might develop it

00:43:49

for two years it's like and then I was

00:43:53

on a film once again we did so many

00:43:54

rehearsals and so many other angles by

00:43:57

the time it got to the shot they're in

00:43:58

use I had said the the thing like I'd

00:44:01

say 150 200 times right didn't even seem

00:44:04

like English it was like yeah yeah yeah

00:44:05

I mean I think you know maybe the way

00:44:08

other people do the documentary style or

00:44:10

something but that kind of crushed me in

00:44:11

movies I didn't feel I would love this

00:44:13

year I always want less takes because I

00:44:14

feel like you're fresh you get it and if

00:44:17

something happens off top of your head

00:44:18

or you tweak it but to do it and then

00:44:20

they you're finally so burnt out at the

00:44:22

end they go now here's the big close-up

00:44:24

and you go [ __ ] now the one we're gonna

00:44:26

use like oh God damn it yeah yeah you've

00:44:28

used it all on the other side yeah what

00:44:30

is the money shot I mean in Wayne's

00:44:31

World one because it was I don't know I

00:44:34

think it was like 35 days so and so

00:44:38

there wasn't a lot of time for a lot of

00:44:39

coverage like in winter it's freedom

00:44:41

from choice too that's the other thing

00:44:42

too you don't want so many choices and

00:44:45

the other thing too you know

00:44:47

I I didn't even know on wins world to

00:44:51

ask if there was what the coverage was

00:44:53

you didn't mean me neither of course and

00:44:56

now you know there's been some movies

00:44:58

where you can't ask you know

00:45:01

um or I was like Bohemian Rhapsody I was

00:45:04

just like great whatever yeah you know

00:45:07

right you're a Hired Hand kind of right

00:45:08

yeah exactly and on uh Inglorious

00:45:11

Bastards it was just like

00:45:14

whatever you would like you know what I

00:45:16

mean uh can you can I say how much I

00:45:18

love that scene and I saw it recently

00:45:21

and that how big he made the room and

00:45:23

your your the attitude of your character

00:45:25

and the accent it's so thank you great I

00:45:28

love I love Tarantino I mean you got to

00:45:30

be in a Tarantino movie I I can't

00:45:32

believe it like yeah I also like got to

00:45:34

be in a World War II movie which is

00:45:37

also and like just the whole experience

00:45:39

was you know shot in Nazi headquarters

00:45:42

are you kind of I'm just gonna throw

00:45:44

this out I don't know where it's going

00:45:45

are you kind of a World War II historian

00:45:48

and aware you're very much interested in

00:45:49

that that particular event no Mike is

00:45:52

that

00:45:53

and it's okay to say that and I have

00:45:56

other friends who do it but you you do

00:45:58

paint and make beautiful models

00:46:00

extraordinary soldiers yeah thank you

00:46:02

and you have tableaus of soldiers and

00:46:05

they're nice dioramas okay yeah yeah

00:46:08

extraordinary but yeah I'm I'm a

00:46:11

lightweight compared to you but I'm

00:46:12

fascinated by World War II both my

00:46:14

parents both my parents were in World

00:46:16

War II my mom was in the Royal Air Force

00:46:18

and my dad was in the Royal engineers

00:46:20

and fought you know in the second wave

00:46:22

of Market Garden where they were wow

00:46:25

Building Bridges and clearing landmines

00:46:27

and making anti-aircraft

00:46:29

gun installments and you know my dad's

00:46:32

shot at the Germans you know

00:46:34

he doesn't know whether he killed

00:46:35

anybody

00:46:36

amazing took fire he's been shelled my

00:46:39

dad was shelled during World War II and

00:46:42

was in a slit trench underneath the

00:46:44

truck and he said the thing about the

00:46:47

British army is that in combat British

00:46:49

soldiers laugh all the time

00:46:51

they just make sense constantly laughing

00:46:54

like

00:46:55

it's really cool when they're frightened

00:46:57

and running with the rifle

00:46:59

laughing they laugh here out of fear

00:47:03

yeah

00:47:04

and I was like is that just like is that

00:47:06

just Legend and Lord but then of course

00:47:08

I've seen a lot of like

00:47:10

documentaries about

00:47:12

the British Army and stuff that they

00:47:14

it's just one of those stress responses

00:47:17

the greatest yeah it's shaped them it's

00:47:19

shaped by parents it shaped my parents

00:47:21

in a huge way

00:47:23

how we feel it did how do you feel it

00:47:25

did and specific you know

00:47:28

but talk about things like Fascism and

00:47:31

like that was a real thing like my dad

00:47:33

and my Mom hated any kind of fascism

00:47:36

anything like that and would talk about

00:47:38

it at the dinner table and I realized

00:47:41

that my friends who didn't have World

00:47:42

War II parents were less concerned about

00:47:44

the possibility of fascism yeah you know

00:47:47

I mean and uh interesting it's

00:47:50

you know they were just

00:47:52

the Nazis are are bad guys I mean that's

00:47:54

the

00:47:56

you know this it's it's one of those

00:47:58

Wars that are

00:48:00

just unequivocal they must be stopped

00:48:02

you know what I mean was it interesting

00:48:04

Mike we might have talked sorry but and

00:48:06

Dunkirk the movie they didn't say Nazis

00:48:09

they said the enemy

00:48:11

yeah yeah I didn't realize that yeah

00:48:13

they never say Nazi they say anime enemy

00:48:16

uh

00:48:20

that question was stupid but this one's

00:48:22

even dumber so you uh by the way I saw

00:48:25

Bohemian Rhapsody and I I didn't know it

00:48:28

was you and I saw it again and then I

00:48:29

figured out I was like

00:48:32

and then my friend goes you said you

00:48:34

know him I go I do let me just look

00:48:36

closer he said you know come on your

00:48:39

friend's awfully angry I just want to

00:48:41

say

00:48:42

you said you knew him yeah

00:48:45

I know him when he's in the movie what

00:48:48

do I do and then um and then uh also I

00:48:51

thought it's it's a real uh

00:48:54

uh Testament to success in SNL when I

00:48:58

see or just your life when you have

00:49:00

Halloween costumes right I see you guys

00:49:03

there's there's always been a coupling

00:49:05

with Mike it's awesome powers and

00:49:07

there's uh obviously Wayne's World with

00:49:09

other per that's always a great one like

00:49:10

couples do it or two girls usually two

00:49:12

girls two girls when I I run into them

00:49:15

both with wigs two girls one swing one's

00:49:17

guard that's a huge one still that just

00:49:19

shows how long and obviously Shrek and

00:49:22

there's uh I've seen some coffee talks

00:49:24

uh I think Linda Richmond

00:49:28

middle age Matt yeah it's just fun to

00:49:30

have

00:49:31

that's out there and just stays alive

00:49:33

that's the funnest success is going oh

00:49:36

look people you know that's that's the

00:49:38

biggest flattery I love it when someone

00:49:40

gives me a specific compliment if you

00:49:42

had a compliment just someone on the

00:49:43

street or a Subway or something that

00:49:46

says something too that's obscure in a

00:49:49

way and they they loved it

00:49:51

I am

00:49:53

I I went for I went as a British soldier

00:49:55

for Halloween two years ago surprise

00:49:57

surprise

00:49:59

um I may have a couple of British army

00:50:02

uniforms and uh okay and this uh

00:50:06

20-something uh young person comes up to

00:50:09

me and goes a I love your work thank you

00:50:12

very much B thank you for having the

00:50:16

Halloween costume that I thought you

00:50:17

might have

00:50:20

was just like oh well that I somehow

00:50:23

that was a great compliment the funniest

00:50:26

one I've ever had was being in a cab in

00:50:28

New York and you know the sometimes the

00:50:30

bike guys grab the handle to get a

00:50:33

little of the cab ride yeah push yeah

00:50:35

some guy was grabbed the handle and then

00:50:37

with the other hand just pointed at me

00:50:39

and went famous and then took it

00:50:44

famous famous all right let's talk about

00:50:47

that for a second because okay Mike

00:50:49

wrote this really cool book about Canada

00:50:51

because Mike loves Canada probably as

00:50:55

much as anybody who's then ever become

00:50:57

an American since I don't know you

00:50:58

you're a Canadian hero well he's I have

00:51:01

to say this because I know how big it is

00:51:02

this award Mike is the office of the

00:51:05

Order of Canada and he's on a stamp yeah

00:51:09

then he writes this book and I just was

00:51:11

looking at it today because you sent it

00:51:13

to me thank you very much and there's

00:51:14

this quote in here that I thought was so

00:51:15

interesting about fame fame is not

00:51:19

creativity it's the industrial disease

00:51:22

of creativity pretty potent thing to say

00:51:25

but I mean you've never pursued it in in

00:51:28

a in a classic sense and some people do

00:51:30

don't judge it but we live in an era now

00:51:33

where fame fame is Talent the pursuit of

00:51:36

talent is Fame the modernization of Fame

00:51:39

outstrips Talent often just Fame for

00:51:43

fame's sake so anyway as what would she

00:51:46

say am I cutting out no no I got you I

00:51:49

got your back now sorry uh as Linda

00:51:52

Richmond say Talk Amongst yourselves was

00:51:55

that perfect yes Madonna out there I was

00:51:58

like oh my God you got her for Wayne's

00:52:00

World too yeah and she had coffee talk

00:52:02

at home base she was yes with Barbra

00:52:05

Streisand and Roseanne big ones that was

00:52:09

that was a big one Streisand is

00:52:11

Streisand I mean yeah there is there is

00:52:20

monitors under the bleachers

00:52:27

David is so alive

00:52:31

I know a big giant glass yeah the giant

00:52:35

class he'd start the poor low and then

00:52:37

he'd bring his his hand up like two feet

00:52:39

above the poor of the glass under the

00:52:42

bleachers he was the best they go Lauren

00:52:44

wants to see him like oh God

00:52:46

maybe this one do it fix it a little bit

00:52:49

it felt like it faded out at the end and

00:52:51

and Liz or Aaron would look at me and go

00:52:54

you hurt him and I got him I've said

00:52:57

this before but I guess once in a while

00:52:59

while I was out there really mugging it

00:53:01

up like not gonna do it all that Lauren

00:53:03

with I think affection would say looking

00:53:06

at the monitor under the bleachers go

00:53:08

he's a [ __ ] show Pony

00:53:11

and I got one I didn't take offense to

00:53:13

it I go yeah times I am just a

00:53:16

bald-faced ham just trying to shove it

00:53:19

down the you know would you remember

00:53:20

when when uh Lord is always so funny but

00:53:22

he goes on when Sinead O'Connor ripped

00:53:25

up that picture and uh

00:53:26

and then I was out there so I picked up

00:53:29

a piece of it mm-hmm

00:53:31

yeah Kenny Among Us they they need that

00:53:33

back but uh I walked over and Lauren was

00:53:36

drinking out and Adam's light it went

00:53:39

dead silent they went to a commercial

00:53:40

and he goes Irish

00:53:44

you're already

00:53:49

well I remember the Sinead episode and

00:53:52

when I saw that I I don't know I I guess

00:53:55

she felt that maybe we shunned her but I

00:53:58

was just shy and nervous I wasn't upset

00:54:01

about it uh there were there's I I know

00:54:05

a lot of Catholics I'm very fond of them

00:54:07

but there were issues with that church

00:54:09

for a while and so you might have might

00:54:12

have been a little

00:54:13

had a little bit of a point at some

00:54:16

point yeah I mean I I didn't feel like I

00:54:18

can't have a conversation with that

00:54:19

person I mean you know no just yeah and

00:54:22

I would have given her a hug if I

00:54:24

thought back in time that she was

00:54:26

feeling that ostracized and wounded by

00:54:28

making a political statement on Saturday

00:54:31

Night Live so anyway this will be the

00:54:33

thing that'll Trend now my I said whose

00:54:36

side should I keep that would keep my

00:54:38

job but um uh but Mike I did I did walk

00:54:42

out there and I light show Shocker and

00:54:44

so he did it what's your net worth come

00:54:47

on and I went out and I picked up a

00:54:49

little piece and I put up my pocket and

00:54:51

I just go yeah by the way I'm not even

00:54:54

that religious I don't really know how

00:54:56

heavy that was or what was going on I

00:54:58

just was on Arizona Dominic's car I just

00:55:00

had a piece here that was weird and then

00:55:02

on month on Sunday night on hard copy or

00:55:05

something it was obviously a huge

00:55:06

[ __ ] story and then they go tonight

00:55:10

we uh uh Sinead O'Connor and the picture

00:55:13

that around World they show the rip

00:55:15

picture and one piece is missing

00:55:18

wait I that's the real picture

00:55:22

and then Monday yet I started bragging

00:55:24

about it of course and then Monday Kenny

00:55:26

among called me in David producer yeah

00:55:29

and Kenny mon is great and uh I went in

00:55:32

he goes there's a rumor you have a and

00:55:34

he goes we'll need that back and I go

00:55:36

what do I have what of course stalling

00:55:39

for about five seconds and then I gave

00:55:41

it to him so I wouldn't get fired and

00:55:42

then and then he said uh what happened

00:55:45

was they found out some crew guys who

00:55:46

sold it for ten thousand dollars today

00:55:48

oh [ __ ] and you thought I was in on it I

00:55:51

go I'm not I'm not the master on Monday

00:55:54

before the host meeting I went into

00:55:55

Lawrence officer second and as I was

00:55:57

walking out I heard him say I said Marcy

00:56:00

give me the Pope

00:56:04

Lauren can call anyone in the world and

00:56:08

they'll pick up he's circling the

00:56:10

building it's a lot of Michaels

00:56:17

[Music]

00:56:19

well I have a question for Mike did

00:56:22

[ __ ] George Harrison write your

00:56:23

letter you did yes damn it yes an

00:56:27

incredible full circle yeah thing in

00:56:31

life yeah

00:56:32

wow it was um

00:56:35

uh during Austin Powers three and uh it

00:56:40

was the day that um it was uh Tom Cruise

00:56:43

uh Danny DeVito Gwyneth Paltrow Steven

00:56:46

Spielberg on that fake opening of Austin

00:56:49

Powers called Austin [ __ ] and uh I got

00:56:52

a call I and I got a call in the morning

00:56:57

from uh Gavin debecker who's a security

00:57:01

specialist and uh

00:57:03

he said

00:57:05

uh dead but letter and I thought oh [ __ ]

00:57:10

like somebody right there's some weird

00:57:12

threatening letter

00:57:14

but when I got up that morning it was um

00:57:17

George Harrison had died and I always

00:57:19

felt very close to George

00:57:22

um I kind of have the George Harrison

00:57:25

face there's like five faces in

00:57:27

Liverpool and I have the George Harrison

00:57:29

as did my dad my dad and George Harrison

00:57:32

look very much alike and um I cried like

00:57:35

a baby and I was like oh man this is

00:57:38

this big day and it was raining and I

00:57:40

thought oh [ __ ] we have to cancel this

00:57:42

big day this is a horrible day then

00:57:44

somebody wants to kill me I'm thinking

00:57:47

and then the day turned out to be

00:57:49

fantastic and one of the most amazing

00:57:52

days ever and I got a knock on the door

00:57:54

and it's the last letter that George

00:57:56

Harrison's ever written anybody and it's

00:57:59

she's a Boston Powers fan because I was

00:58:01

looking all over Europe for a meeting

00:58:03

you doll and anyways

00:58:06

okay yeah I know and I was like oh [ __ ]

00:58:11

just I it literally got hot in my hands

00:58:13

it's it's up on my wall it's one of my

00:58:16

treasured

00:58:17

that is just I can't believe it I mean a

00:58:19

lot of these full circle moments that

00:58:22

happen that's probably one of the most

00:58:24

the parents from Liverpool you're going

00:58:27

into Show Business you're doing this

00:58:29

you're writing this incredible wave of

00:58:32

these franchises Wayne's World Austin

00:58:34

Powers and then you get a letter from

00:58:36

George Harrison I mean it says there's

00:58:38

no way for me to process it I don't know

00:58:40

how you would process it it's just

00:58:42

beyond and Beyond yeah

00:58:45

and so lovely an exciting time was when

00:58:48

we were we were in London uh for Wayne's

00:58:52

World two sitting next to Paul McCartney

00:58:54

do you remember that yeah yeah for the

00:58:57

premiere and uh he was being very he was

00:59:01

talking a lot you know during the show

00:59:03

and I was nervous and he was like he was

00:59:06

like well that's a funny bit did you

00:59:07

write that and I'm like yeah yeah and

00:59:10

you're trying to focus yeah yeah okay

00:59:12

look up there

00:59:14

did it take you a little time to write

00:59:16

that I'm like yeah it took forever

00:59:18

because look and I was like my job great

00:59:21

sir my joke was that I would wish I was

00:59:23

next to the quiet one yeah instead of

00:59:26

the cute one yeah but he was but it was

00:59:29

pretty pretty well you guys were there I

00:59:31

had left the show the week before

00:59:34

Paul came to host which I I regret I

00:59:36

I've gotten to interact with Paul in

00:59:38

different ways at different times but

00:59:40

that must have been cool and just having

00:59:42

Paul around you know doing sketches and

00:59:45

oh yeah it was amazing you know I that

00:59:48

day I were you there when he had the

00:59:50

mini concert or had you left at that

00:59:52

point Dana I think I'd left so did he do

00:59:55

it like Eric Clapton at the end of this

00:59:57

Captain did that too right the show

00:59:59

ended and Eric Clapton did like a half

01:00:01

hour of jamming I says Paul did the same

01:00:04

thing well yeah so my brother Paul had

01:00:07

come down from Toronto for this Paul

01:00:10

McCartney show

01:00:11

and uh it was very amazing so uh Linda

01:00:16

was there Linda McCartney was there and

01:00:19

Paul had met Paul McCartney at the at uh

01:00:22

at the Wayne's World 2 opening

01:00:25

and uh Linda my dad had just passed away

01:00:28

and Linda said to my brother Paul hey

01:00:32

Paul sorry to hear about your dad which

01:00:34

was just amazing how did you remember

01:00:36

that how did you know what I mean very

01:00:37

very Linda just so lovely yeah and uh

01:00:42

Paul was very moved by that and uh then

01:00:45

we went and he played uh

01:00:49

Let It Be yeah

01:00:51

which is kind of enzymatic and people

01:00:55

were there's not a dry eye in the house

01:00:57

and I was on the toonces card remember

01:00:59

toonces the cat oh yeah oh yeah Jack

01:01:01

Handy we're Armin arm on the tunes's car

01:01:05

and next to us was Bill Murray and his

01:01:08

brother

01:01:09

wow good Lord and it was just just you

01:01:13

can't believe it like he's right there

01:01:15

you know I mean it's sort of like Eiffel

01:01:17

Tower Empire State Building Paul

01:01:20

McCartney right there you just can't

01:01:21

[ __ ] believe it no one gets used to

01:01:23

seeing Paul McCartney every day was like

01:01:24

no one can [ __ ] deal by the way Mike

01:01:28

at when that happened Frank and um

01:01:31

franken's gonna he goes he goes I

01:01:34

remember uh we were talking about that

01:01:36

like the week later he goes I remember

01:01:39

he was telling someone that Paul

01:01:41

McCartney played Let It Be and I started

01:01:43

crying and then I walked over and stole

01:01:45

some jeans from the Gap girl set

01:01:47

did you say that seriously he's like

01:01:50

he's like the penguin all of a sudden it

01:01:53

was all serious then he goes and I went

01:01:54

and stole some jeans from the cowgirls

01:01:57

because there was so many it was like a

01:01:59

real set with a security guard because

01:02:01

there were so many that's kind of

01:02:03

brilliant in a way of like looking at

01:02:05

sets to kind of harvest stuff in the

01:02:07

shoplift sets yeah it's so funny though

01:02:10

I mean the heels of that let it be

01:02:11

wherever was crying yes oh my God

01:02:14

well the um the next morning we went to

01:02:17

the John Lennon Circle me and Paul

01:02:20

um Central Park with all just as Bill

01:02:22

Murray and his brother also came to the

01:02:25

to the Imagine Circle at Strawberry

01:02:27

Fields and it was kind of

01:02:29

I don't know this

01:02:30

was kind of a huge moment it's just

01:02:32

everyone a Beatles Phantom is Bill and

01:02:34

his brother like at the level of you and

01:02:36

your brother Paul because it's I guess

01:02:38

it's their levels to it or it's just

01:02:40

like a fanaticism of that we can't let

01:02:42

go of because it just keeps giving all

01:02:45

the time you go back and revisit the

01:02:46

music you go seriously no but if you've

01:02:50

had a little bit of Fame you can't

01:02:52

imagine their level of Fame yeah their

01:02:55

Fame is famous do you know what I mean

01:02:56

or famously famous you know what I mean

01:02:59

yeah and

01:03:00

that that's one aspect of it the other

01:03:04

aspect of it is just

01:03:07

it's just

01:03:08

the type of

01:03:10

show business that you wanted to be in

01:03:12

you know what I mean that's what I

01:03:14

always wanted to be on Saturday Night

01:03:15

Live I didn't know Saturday Night Live

01:03:16

would be there for me I always wanted to

01:03:18

be on Letterman yeah yeah I always

01:03:21

wanted to be on The Tonight Show with

01:03:22

Johnny Carson yeah I never got to be on

01:03:25

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson but

01:03:26

I always wanted to be

01:03:28

and it's just sort of just in general

01:03:30

the beetle like in specific The Beatles

01:03:33

but in general American Show Business

01:03:36

I don't think if you didn't grow up in

01:03:39

this country how magical American show

01:03:42

business is you know what I mean

01:03:44

it's it's it's just the it's the best

01:03:47

show business in the world bigger in

01:03:49

other countries too because it's America

01:03:50

I think

01:03:52

yeah and that's magic Beatles always

01:03:54

said we got to get a number one in

01:03:56

America before we go there yeah that was

01:03:58

their that was their Enchanted land you

01:04:00

know but you know just growing up in

01:04:02

Canada

01:04:04

my dad worshiped the United States

01:04:06

because of Show Business you know he

01:04:08

wasn't like of them Americans he was

01:04:10

like they do it right and they're

01:04:12

fantastic

01:04:13

and even my mom when

01:04:17

when Wayne's World came out it was a big

01:04:19

hit you know what I mean my mom said I

01:04:22

said did you see me and so she said oh

01:04:23

yes it's very good I said yeah she goes

01:04:26

Dana carvey's very good isn't he

01:04:29

uh she would use me to inspire you or

01:04:32

something what is she talking about what

01:04:33

do you mean she goes it's just the

01:04:35

Americans they just have it don't they

01:04:37

just yeah they're slick they just have

01:04:40

it don't they and Slick wasn't a bad

01:04:42

thing slick was like yeah

01:04:46

I'm an American comedian you know

01:04:54

you are to me yeah I totally understand

01:04:58

I grew up there I am an American

01:05:00

comedian

01:05:02

weasel American land whatever that song

01:05:05

was so YouTube

01:05:06

either from the outside like someone

01:05:08

like me

01:05:09

and the other dudes and sound like we

01:05:11

were always like looking to you guys

01:05:12

holy [ __ ] this these guys are [ __ ]

01:05:14

crushing everything they go into every

01:05:15

read through we got to see it we're like

01:05:17

it's just like a class you watch it put

01:05:21

together and you watch that everyone's

01:05:24

really trying you know what I mean you

01:05:26

go oh no one's walking through it you're

01:05:28

like Hey we're famous it's like every

01:05:30

week everyone's grinding and stressed

01:05:32

and going yeah [ __ ] we got another week

01:05:33

who cares about last week it's over what

01:05:35

are we doing this week and who's the new

01:05:37

host and oh it's Glenn Close what are we

01:05:39

doing you know you know we we came from

01:05:42

stand up David and I so then I get on

01:05:45

Saturday live and now I'm doing sketch

01:05:47

comedy and so that became such a joy as

01:05:50

it as it went on you know being out

01:05:53

there with Phil and Carson or Mike with

01:05:55

Wayne's World or Kevin with Hans and

01:05:57

Franz of like bouncing off someone

01:06:00

wanting them to be great you wanting to

01:06:02

be you know they're pinging you you're

01:06:04

gonna ping them back it's a very

01:06:06

exhilarating feeling to be part of an

01:06:08

ensemble that's

01:06:14

and it's Jack Handy and it's Christine

01:06:17

Zander Roberts Michael Robert it's my

01:06:19

goal um

01:06:20

writing these fantastic

01:06:23

sketches and you're just like you know

01:06:26

I I couldn't believe the level of of the

01:06:29

comedy writing I mean I watched it for

01:06:31

half a season

01:06:33

you know and studied it like I made my

01:06:35

own running orders yeah I was at home

01:06:36

you know but when you're there and

01:06:40

it's so intimidating you know what I

01:06:42

mean well you're trying to write against

01:06:44

the writers which are unreal you don't

01:06:45

know when you get there because they're

01:06:46

not like famous but you go holy [ __ ]

01:06:48

these guys know what they're doing and

01:06:49

then you go oh and I have to write

01:06:51

against cast members that are great

01:06:52

right and they're writing stuff so you

01:06:54

go where do I fit in here but it was fun

01:06:57

to score with someone else's piece so

01:06:59

remember we did Jagger and and Keith

01:07:01

Richards and I think they wrote that

01:07:03

someone Downey or someone wrote it I I

01:07:06

didn't write on it and then they were so

01:07:07

pleased that it worked and you know it's

01:07:09

fun so I go ahead Mike's no no not at

01:07:12

all I just I just remember

01:07:14

uh

01:07:16

Downey two was great because he didn't

01:07:20

he he would just go I think there's a

01:07:22

joke that's kind of like a a joke and

01:07:25

then a joke would emerge

01:07:27

and you're like I didn't know you could

01:07:29

dial up jokes like to me jokes were like

01:07:31

they came to you like lightning and

01:07:33

they're putting your hand and they were

01:07:35

hot you know what I mean you had to put

01:07:36

them down that's a good observation

01:07:38

jokes yeah he was like he would say

01:07:40

there's something very funny about

01:07:42

and they would say it right yeah and

01:07:46

then the joke would emerge and that

01:07:48

I have had to do that now like I've had

01:07:51

to do that in my I have having left

01:07:54

Saturday Night Live we

01:07:56

just having to sometimes you just need

01:07:58

to dial up a joke and I didn't know it

01:08:00

was actually possible

01:08:02

until I saw Jim Downey I thought it was

01:08:05

something that they did on the Dick Van

01:08:07

Dyke Show as that wasn't real right with

01:08:11

the staff and the whole yeah where

01:08:13

they're trying to jam jokes I didn't

01:08:14

think actually anybody did Jam jokes

01:08:16

yeah interesting in that way of like we

01:08:19

need it's kind of like we need a short

01:08:21

joke

01:08:22

and it should be a something that's a

01:08:24

comment and I'm like you can't dial up

01:08:26

jokes that way that's the math of it

01:08:28

that's challenging and fascinating does

01:08:30

it fit here does it will it lead us

01:08:32

anywhere else and yeah but yeah we're

01:08:35

good at like the breakdown to sketch

01:08:37

instead of just like we were just kind

01:08:38

of Comedy guys you know right

01:08:40

you too maybe we go this is funny this

01:08:43

is funny and then they're like breaking

01:08:44

on the sketch and that's how they find

01:08:46

it they go it needs this and everything

01:08:47

points to a certain

01:08:48

it's going to be and then they go that's

01:08:51

they're cracking a code that I that you

01:08:53

figure out it takes a long time it takes

01:08:55

a long time and I was very inspired and

01:08:58

intimidated at the same time one of the

01:09:00

best joke uh clinicians was um Conan

01:09:06

Conan O'Brien you're definitely once

01:09:08

wrote A Sketch and he said is this your

01:09:11

sketch I said yeah he said do you mind

01:09:12

if I rewrite it and I was like no not at

01:09:15

all because he was so nice to me calling

01:09:17

him all the time yeah and then he just

01:09:19

sort of went

01:09:20

and he hand it to me and it was a

01:09:22

thousand times better that's a great

01:09:24

feeling believe it yeah I said and I

01:09:27

went all one joke flows to the next joke

01:09:29

you know what I mean well I was like I

01:09:32

couldn't believe it you know what I mean

01:09:34

just handed it back to me yeah Conan is

01:09:38

is brilliant yeah and I do think that uh

01:09:40

you got to the whatever level five star

01:09:42

level of as a writer when you look at uh

01:09:45

Wayne's World and Austin Powers I mean

01:09:47

that just flowing and really just this

01:09:50

is funny and this is funny and here's

01:09:51

the storyline all of a sudden

01:09:52

something's kind of sweet and human and

01:09:55

then back into it I mean just just

01:09:57

densely beautifully written like like

01:10:00

irresistibly like I'm kind of an

01:10:03

irresistible stew you know I mean I

01:10:06

don't think movies like Austin Powers

01:10:07

make that much money you know anymore

01:10:09

right you know what I mean I was like

01:10:11

they've made like Blockbuster box office

01:10:14

you know and yet it's so weird and

01:10:17

quirky and you know so anyway I think

01:10:20

that this I think that uh

01:10:23

again

01:10:25

I learned so much from everybody at

01:10:28

Saturday Night Live and you have to

01:10:30

learn or you were out you know I mean

01:10:32

that was one thing too

01:10:34

and

01:10:35

I think that one of the things I'm very

01:10:38

grateful for having worked in England is

01:10:39

that

01:10:40

the and I've said this to you Dana a few

01:10:43

times but the subject matter is that you

01:10:45

can do comedy about in England they're

01:10:46

very very wide you know what I mean yes

01:10:48

which a lot of different subjects yeah

01:10:50

and you know it's such a weird comedy

01:10:54

circuit when I lived in London that just

01:10:57

went and also I think too that that Jack

01:10:59

Handy was a giant influence too yeah his

01:11:02

was eloquent right he's just

01:11:05

unbelievable like happy fun ball is just

01:11:07

happy fun ball wow I mean do you

01:11:10

remember the round of applause after

01:11:12

happy fun ball which is just like they

01:11:14

think it's being dropped on our troops

01:11:16

in Iraq because it has come from space

01:11:18

do not Talent Happy Fun bro

01:11:22

it's fun the corniest commercial and

01:11:25

then

01:11:26

yeah

01:11:28

we talk about a lot of him a lot on this

01:11:30

show yeah do you Jack Handy yeah yeah

01:11:33

the sketch I was in with Christopher

01:11:35

Walken where we're coming down in the

01:11:37

spaceship we're aliens I guess and then

01:11:39

our our landing gear would hurt a farmer

01:11:42

and we come out we come in please get

01:11:44

out of here let's get out of here

01:11:47

and over again and stuff like that and

01:11:49

there was one I talked about last week

01:11:51

maybe you'll remember where people were

01:11:52

like at a kind of a alien court and the

01:11:55

aliens are way high up and all the

01:11:57

aliens want to talk about is box office

01:11:59

receipts for movies I didn't because it

01:12:02

was just about that obsession with what

01:12:04

a movie makes and all that oh that's so

01:12:06

hilarious and then me and Kneeland about

01:12:08

to launch a rocket with binoculars but

01:12:11

then Lassie

01:12:12

is underneath the rocket oh okay let's

01:12:15

stop and then Hitler goes then the Mona

01:12:18

Lisa is under there it's just kids you

01:12:19

know so Jack Handy look him up anybody

01:12:22

wants to write comedy so should we let

01:12:25

Michael go I think Mike has a career and

01:12:28

a family last I checked so we have a

01:12:30

family that's for sure he definitely has

01:12:32

a wonderful family Mike Myers uh what

01:12:35

can we say a a Canadian Delight uh thank

01:12:39

you a Hall of Fame of everything what

01:12:41

else uh and still out there

01:12:43

doing everything doing the shows and

01:12:45

where where do you live now and then

01:12:47

I'll let you go I live in New York City

01:12:49

okay what big streets now um

01:12:53

are you in Canada I know I don't know

01:12:55

but I I did live very close to Bangalore

01:12:59

what they call blow yo that's the yeah

01:13:02

yeah when I was there we called it

01:13:05

bambler oh I see uh when I was there

01:13:08

years and years ago I we did three

01:13:09

movies up there a lot of fun love Canada

01:13:11

uh well thank you Mike thanks

01:13:13

and uh great talking to you all right

01:13:16

guys we'll be texting soon all right yes

01:13:19

please thank you guys enjoyed it all

01:13:20

right see you later bye-bye

01:13:23

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01:13:25

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01:13:27

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01:13:28

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01:13:34

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01:13:38

Andrew laposha

01:13:40

hello guys uh thanks for what you're

01:13:43

doing I like when they say that first

01:13:44

you're welcome it's so awesome my

01:13:47

question who did you most want to host

01:13:50

SNL that never got to

01:13:52

I'd say Tina Fey that's my answer over

01:13:55

there no who are you thinking I'm just

01:13:58

thinking of who I'd want to hang out

01:13:59

with so like and they were musical

01:14:01

guests but I would like to have been on

01:14:03

the show when Neil Young was the ghost

01:14:05

oh yeah I would have had Neil Young on

01:14:07

Church chat well our voice is sort of

01:14:09

like a lady's voice isn't it old man you

01:14:13

know what's really ironic is church lady

01:14:14

I was this is what Judd Apatow would

01:14:17

help me with make an album where church

01:14:18

lady sings Neil Young because I can't

01:14:21

sing but as Church ladies singing it

01:14:24

sounds exactly like Neil Young okay I'll

01:14:26

show you first Neil Young oh man look at

01:14:29

my life I'm a lot like you were church

01:14:33

lady

01:14:34

oh man look at my life

01:14:39

well isn't that special

01:14:42

no it's true I can sing as Neil Young

01:14:45

but I have to sing as Church ladies

01:14:47

singing as Neil Young

01:14:49

and that's my answer too all right thank

01:14:52

you Andrew

01:14:53

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Mike Myers Introduction
Mike Myers is introduced with a humorous note about audio quality issues.
“I had a blast, Mike!”
@ 00m 37s
October 07, 2022
Comedian's Joke
A light-hearted joke about a 90-year-old couple's anniversary.
“I'll take the soup!”
@ 01m 51s
October 07, 2022
London Premiere Excitement
Dana Carvey recalls the overwhelming fan response at the London premiere of Wayne's World.
“That was f***ing nice!”
@ 13m 25s
October 07, 2022
30th Anniversary of Wayne's World
Celebrating three decades since the iconic film's release, a nostalgic look back.
“It’s the 30th anniversary of the movie.”
@ 20m 58s
October 07, 2022
Mike Myers on New Netflix Show
Mike Myers reveals details about his upcoming Netflix series, 'The Pentavirate'.
“He has a streaming show coming out on Netflix right this year.”
@ 21m 24s
October 07, 2022
The Pressure of SNL
Mike Myers shares his anxiety about fitting in during his early days on SNL.
“I literally was like I blew it. I’m gonna get fired.”
@ 27m 54s
October 07, 2022
Fame and Creativity
Fame often overshadows true talent, becoming an industrial disease of creativity.
“Fame is not creativity; it's the industrial disease of creativity.”
@ 51m 19s
October 07, 2022
A Letter from George Harrison
Receiving the last letter from George Harrison was a profound moment for me.
“I cried like a baby when I got the letter from George Harrison.”
@ 57m 35s
October 07, 2022
A Magical Moment with McCartney
Crying during McCartney's Let It Be performance was unforgettable.
“I started crying when McCartney played Let It Be.”
@ 01h 01m 41s
October 07, 2022
The Magic of American Show Business
Reflecting on the allure of American entertainment and its impact.
“American show business is magical.”
@ 01h 03m 39s
October 07, 2022
The Art of Joke Writing
Learning the craft of comedy writing and the influence of Conan O'Brien.
“You can’t dial up jokes that way.”
@ 01h 08m 26s
October 07, 2022

Episode Quotes

Key Moments

Comedian's Jokes00:56
Speed of Life21:09
Pea Rig24:31
SNL Hosting Experience40:58
George Harrison's Letter57:56
Crying at Let It Be1:01:41
Fame Levels1:02:52
Joke Writing1:08:26

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01:19:44

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January 19, 2026

57:04

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