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you guys we've got the wonderful Amy polar uh who we've been uh talking about
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using on here for a long time because she's so great and she's such a part of Comedy obviously SNL but just comedy in
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general I think she's as good as anybody uh sketch player in the last I'm gonna
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say 70 years she's up there with anybody that's a wide nck men and women I don't
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want to go Lucio OB ball Carol Bernett Gilda rner but I can also go Sid Caesar
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Peter sers she's very talented she writes she directs she sings so and she's a heck of
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a nice person she has a new podcast and uh she's going to talk about that we're
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g to talk about her tour with Tina Fay we won't uh talk as much about her
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unbelievably uh funny movies and TV shows because of the SAG strike which is
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happening as we speak um we can't mention that so so if don't get mad at
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us we love to hear about that stuff D no offense or nothing but you just mentioned it I know I can just mention
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but that's it you can mention that you're not supposed to mention I didn't say which things though I don't think we can say what they are oh certain things
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we can't mention I can say the word TV that's all I can say okay I could say
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something like I went bowling and I got a strike um I would I wouldn't yeah I
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don't want any trouble it's a game show that's really you're walking a thin line there's our game show can you say it or
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not what's gonna get you cancelled that should be no the
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contestants are already cancelled and they have to fight their way out of being can oh that's good that is a good game show
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uncancelled no that's but Amy PO is a I'm gonna say it 1940 style she's a kick
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in the pants real kick theal performer she's great in movies great film actor I
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don't know she may be one of those I might have to say hm what can't she do
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oh that's very true we'll find out I know what we can't say anyway we can say Amy polar thank
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goodness that's not outlawed all right here she is [Music]
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guys Amy Poler hi guys H can you hear me
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okay we can hear you and see you I love your glasses a
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look at those are cool yeah they're kind of 60s or something something yeah I get them off um
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Amazon because now I gotta I gotta use my reader my readers my cheaters got your cheaters give me them cheaters look
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at Dana watch them go would this change the vibe of the interview it makes you
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it makes you feel more like conservative like you're gonna drop some politics really sunglasses well yeah
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interesting H would you you agree David yeah I think I think there's a Vibe are you guys forming an alliance yeah we are
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it's a little early but I get it you overlapped or did you overlap I wish no
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I mean but David hosted oh yeah that's right wait can we we can talk about SNL
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right yeah yeah because we're not it's already been on um but Amy did a funny one I just thought of this
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Amy were oh you were my stunt double yes we did a sketch where I played stunt
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double cuz we could probably be brother and sister like we have similar features so I played your stunt double um and
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then that's all I remember of the of the premise no the I think it was someone played The Rock and I was like The
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Rock's buddy and a buddy comedy and then when we got to like climbing on a building they brought in Chris and I
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think Chris and that was you which I thought would be a boy and it was you and you're like Hey we're going to do
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this we're all good and I'm like I and Seth I think was the director that's right I'm just remembering as I go and
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I'm like hey is it is it weird that I you know I'm a guy and it's it's like no
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it's all equal and it's just stunt people and I'm like right and I'm not loving it and then when she gets on she
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goes oh no Rock it's so scary I'm like I don't think she should talk if she's my
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you just keep you keep like crying and acting like you're me and I'm like that's not what I'd say and no one has
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any problem with it no and I think when I when I put on that wig and I think we
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looked a lot it was pretty close yeah close I'm GNA say yeah Dana you blew it you missed out British Irish uh
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Scandinavian German French I wish British Irish all
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the way right mostly Irish mostly Irish my brother lives in Sweden so sometimes
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I people assume there's some Scandinavian but no none that we can find lots of Norway lots of Scottish and
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lots of of Irish I'm British American and Southwest I'm Airlines have you guys
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done the have you done the 23 and me have you done any of that stuff terrified uh my son did and he had a
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disproportionate amount of Neanderthal so I don't know what maybe that ex maybe that explains something I
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don't know well it's not he's half Neanderthal and um my wife's half Dutch
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there was no Dutch no no his grandfather was 100% Dutch and there's no Dutch and
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a lot of caveman anyway welcome we this is we're going to do this for the rest of the podcast it's about genealogy
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today with our expert Dr Sheila oh my gosh that's right I'm
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here to promote my podcast thank you for reminding do not forget about this I listen to it and it's one of those
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things you go like I God that what a great thing to do right now it's so fun
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cuz everyone's in therapy our therapist we have a a company that we love a sponsor that does online therapy so
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therapy's big I listen to the Chris Parnell and a gast hysterical it's
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really funny and they're so easy it's better than this podcast put it that way if you're
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listening switch over it's not a competition but they're they're nice
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they're like 22 25 minutes Amy plays uh uh me L mancal like
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but with so many cuz I I was in therapy for 5 years I still see or talk to a
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th you're capturing a rhythm and a thing especially in that every time someone
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says something you just ask them another question kind of so that makes me feel sad and sad is feeling bad about myself
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and feeling bad about myself they do their own therapy basically so that's all I have to say well you talk about it
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promote it or just say why you're doing it well it's super fun we did it during the strike and we just Improv vised with
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a bunch of our buddies like Anna and Chris and bunch of SNL people are on it Rachel dra Paula pel Tina Fay um we have
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like um couples people that are actual couples in real life and people that like are like comedy Partners like Abby
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and Alano from Broad City we have all these different people come in and I play a a therapist named Doctor Sheila
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and it has to be said in the form form of a question because she's not a doctor and it's just that fun game where I'm
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bad at my job and they have something they want to work out and we just improvise and cut it down and it it's
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just been a BL like it's it's been very creatively fun because it's been a minute since I've I don't know gotten to
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play character improv bones are Rusty I mean when the one I I heard and it was
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probably the first one but I don't know if it said who it was so I know your
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voice your voice is very unique and then uh and distinctive but who was the first couple that was had the mom problem ah
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that that was out today and that is the three great Chicago improvisors Pete
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gross Jean vilip and Stephanie wear and that is that was the premise of that is
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super fun is basically a couple comes in and they're like What's the problem he's like I don't know what the problem is
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and the wife is like his mom is really meddling in our relationship so I Dr Sheila encourages
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her to talk about um how much she hates his her mother-in-law and then we reveal
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that she's been hiding under a pile of blankets the whole
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time and those three yeah those three performers are just like expert
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improvisors and yeah you know being uh I I've done a little improv but I don't really do it and it was mostly because
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it was so hard and when you hear it so smooth like that I guess there's editing but I was thinking it sounds so
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conversational that I was thinking where are they cutting because it's just boom boom boom boom and and so many throwaway
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lines that are just like and he's like uh well I eat breakfast with my mom she comes over the morning and makes me my
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cereal and and does that bother you and the wife's like well I do sleep in you know I usually get up at 9 9:30 10 10:30
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that was such a funny answer 9 9:30 10 10:30 and uh but there's so many little
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um little texture jokes like that that keep it going aside from the overall feel that is a funny idea of the who's
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the queen of the house and and and He suggests that his mom could be coom of their
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babies I think is that what they call it I love the way the laugh points just sneak up on you because the rhythm
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you're using for the therap is so accurate there's a there's a kind of a it's almost like a dialect in a way it's
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soft I think I think it's really I love therapy too Dana I love it I Revere it
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and I'm in a lot of it and I'm I love watching couples therapy and listening to couples therapy too I'm always
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fascinated by how vulnerable people will be um publicly like it's like whoa I
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can't believe they're sharing this with the whole world but I could listen to it forever so and I love podcasts by the
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way love your podcasts I've listened to almost every episode you know probably every single person on the podcast
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that's crazy so great uh that I'm getting getting a chance to do it I'm so grateful you you made my day I love it
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and you know we all we SNL like you've said many times is kind of the it's like
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you were in um very specific like Special Forces and you all just want to kind of share stories about the
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nightmares that you continue to have about it 20 years it's all poor poor rich people it is funny we're like
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special ops we say war and then people say don't say that so we changed it I know I you're right I should we Chang it
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to SWAT team I said it once here it's like the marine and I and I backed off of it in 10 seconds I said please don't
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write me any letters because it's fun to say say that I did not mean to equivocate it in that way I would just
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say if someone is is unknown maybe in an improv group like yourself and is
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suddenly on national TV and then we all as an audience we oh what's her name Amy
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poer oh she's getting really good it's like a reality show oh she's really
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confident now she's right know opinions yeah lots of opinions yeah message
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boards like I started when message boards came out so it wasn't it wasn't
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um there wasn't any Twitter or anything yet but it was these message boards used to spring up like the next day and also
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I started around when 2001 too remember tooo came into place it was like oh I
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could fast forward SNL for the first time like that was what a gift what a
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gift a million dollar idea um I I'm not so sure that's a good
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thing Amy I talk to rather have them to like watch the show as opposed to I mean
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I'll go for a pause but that's you record it and then you never you like never really watch
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it everyone has a Lauren you might as well do your 10 seconds of Lauren because you have to have a Lauren oh my
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God I I love my Lauren is not great but yes it's very there is no there's no Jud
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very um um my Lauren is a little more paternal which is like when he comes on the floor right before a sketch and goes
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like do you like these wine glasses or these you know is this it does this
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table look right for you and you're just so nervous you're about to do a sketch in restaurant you're like
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what are you happy with the wine glasses okay okay you're like I mean on the
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table in the sketch yeah yeah they're like five four yeah yeah yeah my first season I
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don't know if he did that later it was a glass of chardonay and he would be outside cuz then he went under the bleachers well that was for the dress
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show Mostly but during the live show you you're so [ __ ] terrified and Lawrence
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W around with a glass of wine acting so like there's not a live TV show going on
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it was just amazing to watch him try to by osmosis calm us down I guess you know
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well it's really oh sorry go ahead I was saying I'm waiting to get pushed out on update in that chair I'm in the dark and
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he's like do you know who's wining the Yankees I'm like right now I don't know
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I got I I have to look at the cards it's a mind trick the nonse order to distract you from the the chair turns and there's
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10 million people watching you go ahead Amy thoughts no I was gonna say when you
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guys talk about your experiences at the show too on on on your on this podcast it kind of feels like the before times
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because my first show was two weeks after 911 so for like the first first
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three years or so at the show you know the Chardonnay was gone it was very much
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like serious business to keep comedy afloat you know it was very like will we
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ever laugh again and how can we do comedy and you know New York is under
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attack and it was all this like how do we make fun of politics like it was just this like slow build back to get to
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Palin and Hillary by the end of that run but it took so long to even you know so
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I can just remember starting that job and being like my dream job I was 30 years old I started I was like here we
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go and then then all that happened and it was like will we ever laugh again that was
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basically the headline it's true was like and it was like could we though just a little bit because I'm because
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I'm here now yeah you know it was it was intense yeah I I I've been dreaming and working
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this for my whole life could I do something funny how could you do such a stupid sketch when what's going on in
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the world you're like oh well this is the ideas is to get away but it went on to your point it went on for a long time
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of the idea when will the next attack come and where really are it wasn't and a so there was a really anxious period I
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don't know when it un finally we kind of I guess 2004 it felt like 2003 2004 but
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don't forget you know there was like TRS in the building when we were there it was like you know it was W wild but I
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think it felt around 200 I I had one year of overlap
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with Will frell and he did a sketch uh I guess it must have been 20012 2002 um
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like about a guy who was really patriotic and he was wearing like oh yeah in the hot tub he was he was
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wearing a speedo he's going to work I think D I think it was Matt pedmont might have wrote yeah I think you're
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right and uh he wears he has a he's very patrio yeah yeah that was a big one it's very will the way he wore the speedo the
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way he played his legs I mean he is he's Brave or whatever you want to call it
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he's just out there but so that was really broke the seal a little bit yeah and he had you know we had stopped doing
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any Bush stuff any we we didn't do any politics during that time interesting
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but that was like a big a big silly stupid know guy in a speedo sketch and
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the audience really loved it and you're were like okay maybe maybe this is going to be okay
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maybe so but we did a bunch of dumb pop culture stuff because you know it was like Britney Spears snake trainer was
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like a character I was trying to get on because because no one wanted to talk
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about news yeah politics so it was it was weird but it you kind of appreciate the big silly ones more even later on
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Big D whatever word you want to apply to them broad really just balls out funny
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where you get sort of you want to get that I Love Lucy kind of roll of a laugh if you you know I got it with the dog on
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I it wasn't me it was that sketch mass of head Moon Harry just Unleashed a whole I Love Lucy type of laughter
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because I was fighting with a dog over fake fake head fake brains but it seems
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like you know just as an overview here for a second you came on the scene and by the time you left you were just as
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good as anyone had had ever done that show I mean you I I believe and I say this to people with all sincerity I mean
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like the thing you did with Maya the the Long Island ladies you you were both
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brilliant and you were just so in the pocket of that character rhythmically
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like I watched the immersion of that it was oh it was just beautiful to watch that sketch I mean oh thanks Dana that
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means a lot um that sketch that felt like we could have only done it when we were like seniors like we were we were
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relaxed enough to do it um we wrote that with Emily Spivey the great Emily Spivey
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yeah we hear about her a lot yeah you should have her on this she would be an incredible guest and yeah we improvised
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a lot of that like it was just a lot of overlapping the cards were kind of loose and we kind of knew what we were going
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to say but not really and I don't think we would have been able to do that in the first couple of years I know I
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wouldn't have I would have been too res yeah that's what I mean that I I find that a lot there's maybe Eddie Murphy
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the most extreme the other way like as confident in day one apparently and then
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there's people have a a pretty quick runup but then some people just goes and goes and then the audience discovers you
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and then it's you know could you I I mean I don't put you don't have to do that character for five seconds but if you what would she say to David and I
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right now I mean well like she's you know it's a very important time because it's sweater weather like sweater weather's coming it's very very very
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she's going she having a lot of hot flashes and she enjoys the nip in the air but we we based those two ladies we
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based those ladies off of ladies that were in really one woman who was in the hair Department Jody manuso who was
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running the hair Department she was like Long Island like uh or Staten Island I forget sorry Jody if I forget and she
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had like she was very like and like gave it to you straight and just like come sit talk let's talk like she just had
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this chatty fun energy that was kind of flirty very maternal and my and I used
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to just talk uh with her like that and talk like her and mine was a my lady had
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a little bit just because I'm not particularly great with accents my lady probably fell into like a little Boston
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at times just because that's my hometown but so we played Betty and jod and they
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were just it was almost like those women that happen to have a TV show but they weren't they were just chatting anyway
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so we had a lot of fun where we would just the camera would just come up on us and we were already in conversation and
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the camera would pull away and we were still talking so that was the kind of vibe it was it was
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uh a wasp from California and then when I started going to New York and meeting
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characters in New York and they were recognizable in that sense of come sit have coffee please how are you it's very
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it's warm it's extraer everything is out in the open I feel spilus I this and that but you guys just nailed it
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beautifully I don't know it's just I see I just saw it on Instagram am you know how they pull up old sketches they just
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they start traveling around because it is Sweater Weather so they I saw I saw
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clips of that and uh it's kind of fun when things live on or they make a meme
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or something pops out oh it's the best it's it's so cool and then you go oh something mattered something I did in
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the old days caught somewhere you know totally people ask me this sometimes
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like what kind of compliments do you like to get and I always say specific ones you know I like that line and that
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thing and so when you're out and about in the world just what what do people come up and say to you maybe they talk
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about some of your movies or certain sketches or it's funny you know you can kind of tell like the Millennials love
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parks and wck like that was their show um and that's a show that like a lot of
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teenagers discovered during the pandemic so there's a lot of millennial and genen Z love for parks and W the Gen xers and
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above know me more from SNL um or you know more like movie or like
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hosting stuff um Golden Globes yeah like they kind of know that more I think but
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or like maybe they saw Mean Girls 25 years ago or something but oh right but
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it kind of feels like I get a lot of nice women that's like my demo is nice
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you know Tina and I are on tour right now and we're having a blast and like we it's just like the nicest women in the
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audience I just um coming with their friends or their daughters you know so I
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get a lot of just like friendly women so I'm lucky that I don't get you know occasionally and I get and I get
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mistaken all the time for other women whether it's Tina or dra or like I you
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know they kind of mush us all together which is which is fine with me really but that happens sometimes too
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but it's okay well my wife is not a comedy fanatic or anything but she uh I
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told her that you and Tina were doing a show and she goes oh I I would see that
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show yeah exactly we're make we're doing that show for your wife I think that um well she's a nice woman I go back to
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that but so it's you know the Golden Globes kind of cemented it and we all we
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saw you do an update you know there's Tina and you guys have this connection I'm assume really truly really good
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friends and have the chemistry of Steve Martin and Martin Short um and so seeing
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that it's like well this is going to be fun because when I think of you two even though you did satirical jokes on Golden
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Globes it was still always fun yeah just I I think that's a good brand to have but you're gonna have fun it's
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underrated I think you're right I think I don't know I I'm in no way an expert in hosting things but one thing I did
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learn really quick was from SNL too like if you don't look like you're relaxed or having fun the audience gets very
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stressed yeah they're worried about it I when I see hosts and they're either
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nervous or stressed or even like coming
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in angry like I don't know why I'm here like that kind of thing it's like oh no
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I get so stressed because you are hosting a party you're supposed to look like you're having fun like it's a party
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like who cares it's an award show who cares you you Maya it was it you Maya and Tina was that at the Academy Awards
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we didn't host it we just like opened it because I that was a good trick of like less pressure they're not the host but
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you're on longer than you should be and you're just joke machine and then everyone's like [ __ ] where are these let
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why aren't they here the whole time it's so great yeah you don't have a month of leadup like what are you gonna do what's
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so funny because you know those hosting gigs are a lot of work they're
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hard they're a lot of jokes to write and get through and then also you can get
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you can you know now they like kind of you can fall into traps and you can people
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can get mad yeah and so you're like oh my God forget it then someone always has a problem with it no matter what I know
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it's okay it's like when Billy Bob Thorton got his Emmy I think he goes uh I'm not going to say anything because
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you can get in trouble I'm I'm substituting Bill Clinton as Billy Bob Thor I apologize I'm not gonna say
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because you can get in trouble for saying some of these days so he just walked off you know but to the fun part
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you might find this funny in a way because John love I was the one who kept saying John you got to do standup so I was kind of I'm no expert but I'm
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coaching him a little bit I go John the one thing you always have to remember right before you go out because you can
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forget just say to yourself have fun and he goes I did it I tried it and then I
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started having more fun and then I was getting bigger laughs you know John so
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it's it's an amazing thing but sometimes you go what is going on I'm not having fun what I I forgot to have fun it's the
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hard I think it's actually the the last piece it's the hardest piece to learn because you're pushing or you're nervous
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or your head somewhere else and then it yeah and then when you actually relax the audience just relaxes with you I
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mean I learned a lot from will frell that way and because I would watch him perform and he had this like mischievous
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quality where he him and the audience were in on it together you know was kind of like this this bemused quality of
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like can you believe we're all here doing this stupid thing and it would you
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know it just like the minute they see you sweat it's it gets so stress for you
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they tighten up because this goes to therapy or something but try not to try try not to push try not to be desperate
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try not to rush it um take your time but be in the pocket and of course when that
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voice goes silent then you know you and Tina are just on a roll well what do you
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guys do when let's this rarely probably happens for you anymore but like let's
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say you're trying new material and it's not working what do you do do you pull back
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do you pull back in that moment or do you P like do you push because I'll tell
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you that what I have to work on is pulling back too hard and like getting
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sleepy your joke isn't working and you go to sleep what I go to sleep I go right to sleep
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you you recoil you know it's funny when I when something doesn't work there's I had it
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happen on the road recently where the whole show is going well and one joke doesn't click and I go I had to stop and
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go literally no one bought that not one person and it wasn't a couple of you
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everyone said no sale and I feel like you're wrong on this one and I'm going to I give you one freeb yeah and then
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they don't know what to make of that they're like well you're mad at us but it's like joke mad but when something doesn't work in a regular set or if
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you're doing a set on TV what happens to me is you get spooked like a horse because my brain goes what happened and
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I can't think of my next joke because I'm it's preoccupied with what do I do why wait should I even do the next one
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what what did it just did I say it wrong and then you're like that throws you if
00:27:50
you take one extra second they think something's up it's got to be just so smooth like a play boom boom boom I know
00:27:58
I I have a bit in my ACT I won't even say the bit but whatever it's sort of like two-thirds the way like you're
00:28:03
trying to bring it to the barn you know and the last two times it's not landing and I know Jerry
00:28:12
Seinfeld who's this FAL about this check the setup you know if the setup
00:28:19
is God you know I did this for St Mar Jerry's going to do a live album on
00:28:26
vinyl and you're going to see a picture of him on the cover and it's called paper clips
00:28:31
why um just like that joke Jerry we love him he's brilliant but I um I think
00:28:37
sometimes you when you first saying a joke and you're kind of connected to it or a bit and then you can get a little
00:28:43
bored and you maybe drop just even part of the setup stuff like that kind of because you're doing are you actually
00:28:49
out there Solo in your show with Tina as well yeah we do some sketch we do standup we do um do you do update
00:28:57
together we do update we do yeah oh great so what's your first line ladies and gentlemen here to do some standup
00:29:04
for our show is Amy polar no way I'm not do are you out of your mind not doing I
00:29:12
thought your first with you would be you'd say what you'd say what's up and then the name of the town what's up
00:29:19
Chicago what's up Denver yeah that's a good first line here's my opener I'd be
00:29:25
I'd go like this hey guys tin will be out in a minute just cuz oh my God it's funny
00:29:30
that you say that I'm like I'm going to do a little stand up while Tina gets her IV drip that's there you
00:29:36
go well I think we Dan and I were talking before we brought you on because
00:29:42
we're both on the road here in there and there's so many things about the road
00:29:47
that are so tricky and icy that you know it is true something about like the the
00:29:54
the show is the fun part obviously and it's so hard just to get to their City you just want to get high five like I
00:29:59
got here I'm in the theater get in the hotel and I don't I feel like [ __ ] but here I go let's do this because you
00:30:06
almost never feel great and you're almost never like well that was easy it's like this is problem problem and
00:30:11
then the hotel and getting there and what's back stay there's so many interesting questions uh we were thinking of with you guys when do you go
00:30:18
on oh I I know it's so fun because you're right every different theater and
00:30:24
space has like a vibe it has like the guy that's in charge like the one that
00:30:31
character yeah there's always the character it's like oh I can't answer that you have to talk to Dan about that you're like okay where's Dan like it's
00:30:38
always Dan always around Dan doesn't come in Dan Dan Zooms in from home my
00:30:45
guy's usually named Dan as well I don't know if he can travels a you do a sound check we do we do we you a lot you have
00:30:50
stuff going you you got a montage of greatest hits or whatever and you've got whatever you have a piano player and
00:30:57
stuff like that or no we have some recorded music stuff but we don't have a live yeah and you sing together live
00:31:03
piano play but it's what's that do you sing a song together maybe you have a
00:31:09
good voice Dana have you heard her sing at the beginning of the podcast tonight before I go to sleep I'm going to try to
00:31:14
figure out what can't Amy po
00:31:23
do what do you do to relax your giant brain
00:31:28
well I I really like um the the water like that calms me down a lot I like swimming
00:31:36
and ocean lake and swimming I like L can you swim no I can't but I mean I I I go
00:31:44
to a hotel pool and I go freestyle and I go the length of the pool and I'm completely wiped out and then you know
00:31:50
I'm like sprinting but I don't know it and it's there is a whole technique to it but you you've learned it right how
00:31:56
to actually if I need to get regulated my nervous system water does help me whether even if it's a bath or just like
00:32:03
getting in some water but before a show you know I'm kind of used to it's it's
00:32:09
funny when I would do shows as an improviser and like sketch comedian with standups I was always
00:32:15
surprised that there wasn't a lot of chitchat you know there was there standups were just kind of trying like
00:32:21
walking around talking or with their headphones like thinking about their set and really really and frankly trying to
00:32:29
remember it which is half the battle very true and and you and with improv
00:32:35
and sketch you know it's like you want to just like keep doing bits up until you go on stage it's like you want to
00:32:41
just like make a connection with the people you're performing with and so I kind of tend to like want to just
00:32:47
chitchat and talk and and not overthink things um but now that I'm older like
00:32:54
sometimes I just want to like do some like light light stretching just some light stretching so I don't pull a hammy
00:33:02
oh definitely you can't go Hi and then your arms like oh sorry you know I mean I try to do a wide Squat and make sure
00:33:09
because I might get in that position or move around stretch your calves yeah have you ever had any a physical thing
00:33:15
or cut yourself on stage oh my God yes I'm just well I'm just getting over this thing I talk about it on stage I'm just
00:33:21
getting over this thing which is it's so embarrassing it sounds like a it sounds like a it sounds like a bad cocktail but
00:33:27
I had this thing this year called frozen shoulder know all about it yes I bet
00:33:33
your wife like was it your wife that went through it no no it was our mutual
00:33:38
manager I think okay had a frozen shoulder yeah yeah it feels what does it
00:33:44
do it's the weirdest thing it comes out of nowhere and it's like from my anecdotally I find it's mostly women of
00:33:52
my age but it's just like inflammation and suddenly you just like can't lift your arm off all the way up okay and so
00:33:59
it's this it just feels like you're like you just feel really [ __ ] old you just are like oh [ __ ] hell what is
00:34:06
this and it'll take about a year and you're just like what a year
00:34:12
and it's proven to be about a year so yeah it it sucked and they're just
00:34:18
making up names for old things frozen shoulder sounds good and you're like well that is that a real thing or I'm
00:34:24
just falling apart it's a real real thing I was doing a podcast with David I
00:34:30
never even said this before we're doing we've done a few live and then my uh I
00:34:36
think it my left foot my toes sped out in a spasm and were and were I was a
00:34:42
massive pain but I just was riding it out just riding it out we're interviewing someone spay take it and
00:34:50
I'm like and it doesn't happen to me all the time they just the toes went out and
00:34:56
got really angry as soon as it was over I just walked around it was fine but we have to we're supposed to do all this
00:35:01
freaking stuff all day long pulling and stretching and pilates all this stuff to keep us together you know so I did and I
00:35:09
know and I was so much younger when I was on SNL and I think about how much I just partied and just walked like I
00:35:17
didn't do I didn't worry about any of it I just wasn't even thinking about any of it I wasn't thinking about collagen I
00:35:24
wasn't thinking about nothing no wasn't even thinking about one did we know how do we did we I know
00:35:31
I look you see pictur yourself because you're in show B go damn I I did I know
00:35:38
how cute I was I know did we know how young we were or it just is it all
00:35:43
wasted on young who said that cold porter I don't know I didn't have a glass of water during SNL I was there
00:35:49
six years you never had that just wasn't the thing that everyone I didn't know what carbs were I ate [ __ ] pasta
00:35:54
every day Wally and Joseph's ie pizza and I always felt shitty I never put anything together I'm like what is it
00:36:00
what is it I don't have the Rubik's Cube to figure this out all eat is carbs no
00:36:06
water and Diet Coke and my body is so sore Amy when I every day it's like my
00:36:12
shoulders going I open a car door they're like what I'm like I do this every day and it's like oh what are you
00:36:17
doing like it's it forgets overnight I'm doing basic things I know um well you
00:36:24
know what I you know what has helped me with this and I know this is probably like people listening are like oh my God be quiet how old are you guys yeah but
00:36:32
you know what I've been doing is I've been doing cold dips and CH change
00:36:37
change the game yes I do cold dips and it change the game because that's a big
00:36:43
deal now do you do it in a in a bathtub with ice in it you do it you take the or is it in a pool or a lake or where are
00:36:50
you getting I have like I have a cold dip tub okay a cold dip tub okay like a tub that I keep cold so
00:36:57
and I have a like a sauna little Hut sauna uh so I do 15 minutes of the sauna
00:37:03
and then I Plunge in the cold dip and it helps a lot David with inflammation yes
00:37:10
I think you and Tina should do 10 minutes in a cold plunge doing update on
00:37:15
stage just bring out the ice that's a I would love that I think our endorphins would be flying sponsors yeah I'm at an
00:37:23
undisclosed location but I have a pool for the first time in a long time and don't heat it I like it as cold as I
00:37:30
can get it now for that very reason you know it's amazing if you get into a cold
00:37:36
lake because I I always look at it as a lake that's really too warm how you really suffer for about 10 seconds but
00:37:44
if you're moving all a sudden you're like ah it's fine yeah that's the thing about getting older is like forced austerities like what can I do to myself
00:37:51
that a doctor is not telling me to do but that I can do to torture myself like
00:37:56
I have the privilege of cold dipping or like I only eat apples after 5:00 p.m and it's like why it's like just that's
00:38:02
what I'm doing now like that's it just sounds it's got to it's got to be good I
00:38:07
know I'm trying something yeah well it's it's it's always nice you have get a blood test and stuff and you're
00:38:14
wondering well did they find something the doctor's talking to you like it's fine it's good everything's okay so my
00:38:21
guy my guy looks at my blood test I sit there and he goes H then he goes like this
00:38:29
don't love that you know the worst thing the worst thing about you hear from a doctor I went to a dentist cuz I had a
00:38:34
two thing this is what we're GNA talk about the and the guy comes in and he actually
00:38:40
said he actually said wow when he looked at my mouth know he said wow I said wow what do you
00:38:46
mean wow wow what wow wow what [ __ ] he said it like oh he said
00:38:52
it like walking he said it like walking wow wow wow yeah
00:38:58
three I just sent someone were you in a walk-in family I never saw that I sent to my
00:39:04
friend I go look at this ridiculous oh you all were walking in a sketch right yes and that was so fun because you know
00:39:10
I think I I um I benefited from low expectations I
00:39:15
don't think anyone expects me to pull out a good Walkin but I was playing a little kid like a little girl who who
00:39:22
was doing a Walkin and I had had I had had a friend who had told me a story about W about Christopher Walkin and
00:39:29
that you know he W he went to he was on set one time and he was like you know are there any ghosts here like you know
00:39:36
this place is spooky he kept saying it's spooky was such a a funny word to say so
00:39:43
I got to say ghosts and spooky and that was yeah that was enough to did he care
00:39:50
at all he he was one of the most interesting hosts um because he was
00:39:58
really he's a really you know no surprise eccentric dude so he was really
00:40:03
comfortable with silence so you know most people when you're just waiting around to run the scene again you're
00:40:09
just St sitting on the floor like you chitchat like but he would want to just sit
00:40:15
quietly be between each you know so he
00:40:20
he might have been the longest I've ever gone seated next to someone and not talking like five six seven minutes it
00:40:29
would just be me and him and we wouldn't talk and it became like a a contest in my own mind to see how long we could go
00:40:35
and he was he was fine with it he was fine with it can everyone shut up yeah
00:40:41
he was super super talented and very I swear he's so interesting he's riveting
00:40:48
the first sketch I don't know what it was I maybe I Church chat or something anyway we did it all we rehears it but
00:40:55
on air he never looked at me he just looked straight at the Q cards and read it and it worked yeah and and it was
00:41:02
funnier you know so I heard I heard a rumor that he takes out I don't know if this is true but that he takes out all
00:41:09
the all the punctuation in his scripts wouldn't surprise me cuz his
00:41:14
rhythm is so specific that might get him out of his get out of his rhythm don't
00:41:20
like to pause in ways like that I mean John love it again I John he's the kind
00:41:27
of guy goes is it you are you are you making up that dialect is that the way
00:41:32
you really talk and he said walk and just started laughing you're making it up right oh that's funny oh that's funny
00:41:40
yeah he seemed like he had a good sense of humor about himself yeah and who knows you know there's certain actors who just extenuate their rhythms as they
00:41:47
become film stars over the years like Al paccino when he feels like it um yeah and wkan too he was in that Woody Allen
00:41:55
movie as the psycho driver it was in the 70s first time I saw him yeah you know
00:42:00
and he goes sometimes I like to turn the car I think of turning into the headlights and he goes well I I wouldn't
00:42:07
on this trip maybe put a pin in that we you know it's like a crazy just uh when
00:42:13
as soon as you drop me off you can indulge your picadillos if you want to go into the and get some rhob and you
00:42:20
know R um but yeah he said just one of the Thrills of doing Satur live is just
00:42:26
doing sketch comedy with someone like Christopher Walkin and you know seeing him in the deer hunter like you know
00:42:32
growing up in the 70s like I just saw every movie way too young I was I saw so many vient images you saw that at what
00:42:40
oh oh I can't even imagine I think I was seven people God and it was like I
00:42:45
learned about yeah I learned about Vietnam I learned about prisoners of War I learned about um uh you know Russian
00:42:53
Roulette I learned it all from for walking and it was like you know and then I went to first grade like that's I
00:43:00
got I'm heading to first grade guys I'm tired I was at the deer hunter last night that they were getting slapped in
00:43:06
the face in vietn I'm going to The Exorcist and they forced to play Rust and roulette and they would slap them
00:43:12
and say m and slap them and I don't know what that word meant in Vietnamese but
00:43:17
it's one of the most riveting darkest scenes in film history trying to I saw
00:43:23
the reefers with Steve McQueen when I was I saw Bon and Clyde when I was like
00:43:28
11 what a little Tamer little Tamer but there was a sex scene it was a little you know so but yeah you've seen those
00:43:34
70s badass movies as a little girl we and you know I was the generation that got like HBO and MTV like in our house
00:43:43
and no one was paying attention so suddenly you just there movies on that you should not I should not have been
00:43:49
watching it's just that yeah no one knows just the next movie on and and everyone's gone you're like oh what's
00:43:54
this oh uh The Omen yep The Omen let's see what this is about this might be fun
00:44:00
hope hopefully I hope you both didn't see this movie because it stayed with me and Disturbed me very much and I think
00:44:07
it's Dustin Hoffman I know it's Dustin Hoffman it's the first Straw Dogs look
00:44:13
it up kids I don't even want to talk about [ __ ] love it sent me that the other day are is that crazy he sent me a
00:44:18
preview watch this movie Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman yes H is that is thatd is
00:44:27
dark well I was just watching Midnight Cowboy the other day they had a showing of it in New York and I was like oh I
00:44:33
love mid iabo I love Dustin Hoffman and that and I love John voy then I'm like oh my God I forgot this giant
00:44:40
horrible you know assault see there's so many you know there's so much assault in
00:44:45
that movie like flashbacks of what happens to John void's character and his girlfriend and
00:44:50
I was like I forget with 70s movies You' just be cruising along and then there'd be like a really violent scene that
00:44:57
you're just oh no and when now I'm the mother teenagers and I like oh you should watch this movie and then there's
00:45:03
just this scene that's always oh I forgot this scene was in this movie it's brutal I even got I got scared at Tommy
00:45:11
uh Dana I was young and my brother took me oh and and the Gypsy Acid Queen and
00:45:17
then she threw like ass in the guy's face so there's fire at the beginning and it burned his face and I was like
00:45:24
and I go I have a stomach ache and went to the lobby and then I never came back
00:45:29
cuz I got scared they go what's up I go no I'm fine I just have some stuff to do out here literally nothing to do what's
00:45:36
the first have you showed a movie to your to your kids where it blew their mind it was kind of satisfying because
00:45:41
at one point I don't remember how old they were this is my example I put on Jaws for them and maybe they were sort
00:45:48
of 12 14 whatever okay see you later kids so I come back 10 minutes later and
00:45:53
they're they're not moving they're not BL they're just staring whoa they just hit him at the right you know like oh
00:45:59
man this is amazing so yeah that was my yeah that's I mean I have two boys they
00:46:05
really like a lot of sci-fi you know action adventure stuff
00:46:11
but they I remember when they were really young I Willie Wonka was the first one that I I was like I think
00:46:17
you're gonna love this and they loved it and I felt really and and as far as comedy like it it you know what you
00:46:25
don't love what your mom likes like your mom is lame like you don't want to like what your mom likes but so I almost had
00:46:34
to let them discover SNL on their own and they're at the age now they're 13
00:46:41
and 15 where they're they're at that age where they're like I wonder what SNL is gonna do about this like that's what you
00:46:46
know and you know definitely their favorite anchors are Jo and Chay and of
00:46:51
course they of course and they just don't want to watch they barely want to watch watch stuff I'm in it's like it's
00:46:57
embarrassing like it's their mom like right who wants to watch their mom on TV have you recommended comedies that they
00:47:03
give the thumbs down like that you grew up with oh yeah oh yeah there's been so many things where I'm like that's funny
00:47:09
now that is you should watch that that's funny oh that's funny mom you got to
00:47:14
check this out this is really funny mom yeah and I'm always like turn that off
00:47:20
that that guy is you but um I remember the Simpsons was a first crossover where
00:47:25
we could all watch it and they were kind of learning how to structure a joke and
00:47:31
and they and you know I was laughing too but um yeah it's always that that group
00:47:37
on SNL for example when you're 12 or 13 and you know not to make you feel old Dana but that was you for me which was
00:47:44
me too me too I don't yeah I feel terrific I'm the I'm the youngest I've
00:47:50
ever been at this particular age your toes your toes are not spasming at all everything is fine no no nothing is
00:47:55
spasm during and if they were spasming I would cover for it I would just get kind of quiet on the zoom like slunk down a
00:48:03
little bit I'd be like in the frame come like this and Amy would go to herself is he spasming right now yeah is he uh no I
00:48:12
I feel good I do a lot of countermeasures for AG I hydrate a lot oh
00:48:21
[Music] congrats you know Dana sometimes I think you know cuz we all write and uh we all
00:48:28
write comedy and write this and whatever and sometimes not just obviously comedies but I'll watch a show and I'll
00:48:34
be like this is so [ __ ] complicated I am not even in the same yeah uh genre
00:48:40
I'm not a writer because the fact they have so many levels to these things and I go what is this dog [ __ ] I write why
00:48:46
am I called a writer this is ridic I shouldn't be in the guild well we just do bsize silly stuff every goofy we
00:48:53
don't comedians don't really get Awards they don't generally don't win Oscars and we have the American Comedy Awards
00:49:00
anymore or but you know what I you guys will be the right people to talk the right people to talk to about this what
00:49:05
irritates me so much though is that once a year at least there's like someone
00:49:10
that we would all consider genuinely funny who gives a performance that's really good you know good acting
00:49:16
performance and people are always like wow and I'm like are you do you like I
00:49:21
think acting and comedy are so combined they're so clo you know like you one
00:49:28
must be a good actor to sell a bit tell a joke to like there's I'm just I'm
00:49:33
always surprised that people are surprised that funny people can be good actors um you know so rarely are good
00:49:41
actors funny but right but funny people are often very good actors and I always
00:49:48
think it's just I I think it I don't think they get I don't think people get I don't think funny people it's such a
00:49:54
rare commod but if we were if comedy was outlawed I would love to do drama or do do kind of
00:50:01
realistic acting but it's this is what I do best I guess it's just a rare rare thing and good comedy performances don't
00:50:08
really get the old Oscars and stuff you see like somebody not saying us just saying other people that are great at it
00:50:13
they do a great performance it's not even considered no it's crazy there's a reason they say well who said this dying
00:50:22
is easy comedy is hard I don't know that was like from the Vaudeville or something is tough that's why I'm
00:50:29
jealous of musicians because when musicians have to play an event they just get up there and they play their
00:50:35
song like they play the song everybody wants it they they play the same song over and over again that everybody wants
00:50:41
them to play and when you're when you're going up there trying to do something funny people are like give us something
00:50:46
new we don't want to hear your usual stuff yeah I'm like how about this it's
00:50:51
old you can't repeat your bits and then you have to create report
00:50:56
and ew it sucks I always want to plug in a guitar and oh my God after every line
00:51:02
you're judged if they don't laugh even people that aren't listening like I guess it's not going well but with
00:51:07
musicians here it is Applause here's the next one Applause but there's no like I
00:51:14
guess we did good they yell out for you do you got yell out for you David or does do they yell out your hits or they
00:51:21
or they yell stuff I get sort of a sometimes a rowdier crowd uh Dan I mean
00:51:26
Tina what's Amy uh Dana and I have done corporates have you and Tina ever done a corporate oh yeah I used to do yes yes
00:51:34
and I mean and I used to I used to do a lot of we used to do a lot of corporate stuff for Second City back in the day
00:51:40
like you know and this was before anyone you know knew our names but we would have to go we would get paid you know to
00:51:47
like to to do jokes about you know old John Miller yeah Vice President John
00:51:53
Miller like he's got crazy hair he loves great you know wearing kooky ties and everyone would be like that's me I'm
00:51:59
John Miller and you just have to do all these like specific jokes so hard it's so hard I work with him that's true it's
00:52:07
so him you're doing yet he's got three balls and beats his wife say something about
00:52:13
it I go and my act I don't know what to say and then and then one guy laughs in
00:52:18
the back yeah and everyone else's like was that true what it's one guy sets you up yeah and the meet and greet I'm sure
00:52:25
had this but I don't know if it's like alpha male stuff but you're kind I'm this little guy and I'm sort of the star of the show but in the me greet and I
00:52:31
have these guys just really kind of [ __ ] wailing on my hand I mean and
00:52:37
maybe they've had a couple cocktails I'm like I had at one point then I got tennis elbows more more
00:52:43
ailments so I had to do the fist bump or I had to kind of wave and they're like I want to put my mitts in twine with your
00:52:49
M squeeze you know and I'll show you who's boss I'm like you're boss we don't even have to do this
00:52:56
I go I have Frozen hand and Dana has frozen elbow and Amy has frozen shoulder
00:53:01
but at least my screen hasn't Frozen so Amy so you're going to therapy
00:53:06
stuff I mean f first of all just careerwise I mean do you have any bug are you GNA try to do a dramatic film or
00:53:12
you're you're directing you directed Wine Country you're writing you're producing [ __ ] I mean what doesn't she
00:53:19
do whoops yeah don't be scared glasses don't run away from it she doesn't pay
00:53:26
her taxes um you just do a lot you do a lot yeah I
00:53:33
have this production company called paper kite so we produce a lot of TV and film I love I like doing a lot of
00:53:38
different things that's why um you know and trying to stay uh uh trying to stay
00:53:46
doing a lot of different things because I find this business is very I mean the strike is a perfect example of it like
00:53:52
it's really fickle it's really you have to stay have to know how to Pivot so like I like acting and stuff and writing
00:53:58
stuff and directing stuff and and um so I try to kind of do you know whatever is
00:54:05
the the next thing I try to do is is different from what I just did and but I haven't done I I've been more into
00:54:11
writing and directing than performing lately and the tour has been really fun because it's gotten me back into being
00:54:18
excited and this podcast has been fun because it's just get to play like a character but actually doing TV or doing
00:54:24
movies like this so hard so much time so hard being on set it's just takes up as
00:54:30
you guys know it just takes up your life movies are the hardest are such a chunk beginning middle end of your day and you
00:54:37
know um I I feel l so lucky like had a show that I love that I
00:54:44
couldn't imagine going to do something else right away and then you know suddenly I'm looking at whatever it is
00:54:50
like six seven years later but so yeah I just kind of doing whatever feels right
00:54:57
to do next and I'm so lucky like you brought up Wine Country I have such a group of ladies it's kind of like you
00:55:03
guys it's you guys with grown-ups like it's just like I want to just keep doing stuff with the women I love and they're
00:55:09
so funny and there's so much fun I mean there's no better Joy than doing stuff with your friends like that's success
00:55:15
and you who was it I like that you know I love I love this phrase It's been used a few times in this podcast a murderer's
00:55:21
row it's such a funny but it was a murderer's row on wine country you know
00:55:27
obviously Maya Rachel uh Anna yes we had a murderer's
00:55:33
row in that movie Paula pal Emily Spivey Anna gasty Rachel dra Tina Fay Maya Rudolph but then when I was at SNL I was
00:55:40
lucky I was in this group of um Will Forte Fred armison G hater Andy Samberg
00:55:47
Seth Meers like christien wig that all happened in my years too Keenan Thompson
00:55:52
like it was just so that was they were so talented people were so so good and
00:55:58
talented and when I look at those cast photos of who I got and also the
00:56:03
beginnings and endings of my time there my endings it was like you know will frell um Chris Parnell and then and that
00:56:12
was beginning then when I was leaving you know Kate McKinnon was coming in and like all these people were coming in
00:56:17
that were so that's the cool thing is you just if you're lucky you get some
00:56:23
overlap with people that you just love and that's the best I had one year with
00:56:28
will I got to watch him uh one last question from me and then Dana whatever he wants but you you you did Hillary and
00:56:35
then was it Kate did it after you yes yeah and Anna I think Anna gesser Did It
00:56:41
Before Me Maybe did Hillary before me yeah there was a bunch of them and and I
00:56:47
did it when um when Downey was writing a lot of them
00:56:52
and then and then um yeah and then we did when Palin that was
00:56:59
like first she was running against Barack you know for the to to win the thingy there and then Barack won the
00:57:05
thing what you call it nomination nomination yeah well first he won the nomination right he beat Hillary and
00:57:12
then Palin showed up so it was so fun to be able to do those two characters
00:57:17
together because you don't get a lot of like female politicians getting to even
00:57:23
do scenes together half time yeah so that was super super fun to do and it it
00:57:29
felt like it was everybody was paying attention to that election it was very you know I played Dennis I played Dennis
00:57:36
kusich one time and everyone was like ah look him up look him up you don't know
00:57:41
who he is Dennis cin well then it became a lot which I you know we asked Keenan
00:57:46
this question and I've referred to a couple times you know about great cast or great cast members and and he just
00:57:55
said the V MVP basically is the women of since the 90 late 90s and we
00:58:01
have Jan Hooks and nor D our there's been so many dominant women and even in
00:58:07
later years now the women play the male politicians there's all the rules are so
00:58:12
that's that's kind of cool it's progress I suppose for for for women I mean I I was very very lucky to be dropped into
00:58:20
that show at a time when Tina was the headwriter and Molly and Sherry
00:58:25
and Anna had just left like they had just done so much great work and yeah I
00:58:30
mean I just kept going just kept going yeah I I think that wasn't always the case every you know it everyone has
00:58:36
their version of their experience there and I think there were stretches when women did not feel heard supported um
00:58:44
encouraged and I'm sure there still are places in stretches now where like
00:58:50
everyone has a completely different experience about their time there but I felt like I lucked out in that there
00:58:58
were these like just killers that were there crushing that I felt I was part of
00:59:05
that group and I you know I felt very lifted up by them so I was very lucky it feels like it's been wiped out if there
00:59:12
was ever you know some dude in the 70s you know women aren't funny not Lauren
00:59:18
but somebody you know like women aren as funny as men why after Lucio ball and others they would say that Carol but it
00:59:25
seems now it's like to me anyway being a baby boomer it's obliterated this is a
00:59:30
funny person I don't think I'm watching a woman I just go they're funny they're
00:59:36
funny so I guess I'm calling it progress a little bit at least for and I would even I would even say to expand it less
00:59:42
about gender like I find the more talented you are the less most unless you're yeah you're just not you're not
00:59:50
that insecure like the funniest people I know love other funny people they that's what they love they get drawn to other
00:59:57
people's work regardless of gender yeah they don't care but if it's it's people
01:00:03
that like have their own stuff they're working out and here we are back to therapy Dr Sheila would be able to get
01:00:10
these people in and talk and say like I know you don't laugh at this person but
01:00:15
really what's the thing about yourself that you're not not laughing at what not
01:00:21
laughing at what's part about you that isn't funny that you're mad at the women
01:00:26
that are what are you mad about but I do think of you know kind of dovetailing back into the quas Marine analogy or a
01:00:33
spree to core but when you see somebody who makes you laugh or me personally who does this and knows how hard it is or
01:00:40
just some Whimsical luck that something hits you and The rhythms are right and it works and then watching other people
01:00:46
do it and then really in your own mind going well they're doing it they're doing it I think better than me you know
01:00:51
it's like and you kind of connect to them and if you meet them socially
01:00:57
places there's a frequency there or a shortcut it's a it's a great way of
01:01:02
communicating and sense of humor um is a good thing if you can have
01:01:07
it you know in friends and relationships it it just cuts across and anywhere I
01:01:13
would be in the world if a few comedians walked in if it was any social awkward thing uh even if I knew him or didn't
01:01:20
know him I would instantly be a lot more comfortable at party I go up I we even
01:01:25
those big Oscar type you just zoom right over to the comedian anybody in the comedy World sort of gravitates together
01:01:31
feel like your own little group totally it absolutely feel like you're part I
01:01:37
mean I I really mean it like I'm feel honored to be in a group um that you
01:01:43
guys feel like you're in too I mean I feel like I would Zoom right to you and Tina if I saw you out I'd be like guys
01:01:49
save me what's going on I'm saving this for them but I am a licensed therapist I just it's a casual thing I got and why
01:01:55
do you feel that way about your peers Amy well why do you feel the need to ask
01:02:01
yeah yeah check she's been practicing my
01:02:06
therapist helped me the one thing she said was she basically says life is a [ __ ] show don't get involved in this
01:02:12
idea that these people are living these dream lives on Instagram or whatever it's all made up to to to live is to
01:02:19
suffer and to embrace it you're like oh cool okay it's all right it's kind of like where we talking about about SNL
01:02:25
you have to kind of believe that no one's really thinking about you everyone's kind of thinking about themselves and if you take the pressure
01:02:32
off of yourself that everybody's thinking about you then you can have a good time but most people are just
01:02:38
thinking about themselves you know life is hard everyone's in their own head it's the entire audience yeah no one and
01:02:44
you know that we all know that we we watch really successful people who kind of get what would you know be the
01:02:51
platonic version of all the stuff everyone would want and they're still just not happy
01:02:56
so happy is uh is an elusive kind of concept you know because going for
01:03:02
Content at this point if you're striving because it's not well another cliche so
01:03:08
is it about the shiny things and the money or people talking to you in an airport It ultimately it is but landing
01:03:16
the bit right I mean for me anyway well David's different he's coming up listen
01:03:21
coming up with ideas or something that makes me laugh is like one of the last
01:03:26
joys of like it's still something works in your brain you're like oh this
01:03:31
is code of a joke or an angle and you go [ __ ] that little things like that are
01:03:37
really mean a lot you know yes agree and hopefully we can still do it when we're
01:03:43
like not able to stand up anymore lift our shoulders well do sit down you guys
01:03:49
will do sit down no matter what they say if use it or lose it is a is a concept you know I think the the more you I mean
01:03:55
I think trying to memorize your act like say have kind of a new act I was shooting a special and just the the
01:04:01
exhaustion of your brain it must be some kind of workout to keep you articulate
01:04:07
um or all things being equal because you'll stay more fluid longer and doing
01:04:13
this you know when we started reading ads I was dyslexic or something remember David in the early days I was like I
01:04:19
couldn't really read them and now I've liquefied my ancient brain and now I can
01:04:24
heard Amy doing her ads and I'm like this is liquid IV I go I'm drinking one
01:04:30
now I go this is this is similar but it's I have to say it's fun to do
01:04:35
podcast ads as a character though because you can yes I told Dana you did that yeah yeah you can just say whatever
01:04:41
stupid stuff you want if it helps you I this is the way I think about it I just think of these small companies that are
01:04:48
sponsors are sometimes their mom and pop and families I go they're trying to live the American dream
01:04:54
they're going all out so I now I'm not with that attitude I'm excited that they're supporting our show sincerely I
01:05:01
turned down every commercial every gigantic bringing the Brinks truck in the 90s because I was we're supposed to
01:05:06
be like Bob Dylan or something we didn't we don't have a catalog to sell that's the problem you got to sell the catalog
01:05:12
later but um anyway I Dana I'm gonna sum up d uh Amy with uh uh listen to this
01:05:19
summary okay Dana and you can jump in he does this every time he lands it co okay okay Dr Sheila Dr Sheila podcast out now
01:05:29
and then she's got her head down listening very contently she is also it
01:05:35
was very fun to talk to you because I don't see you a lot it's it's this great time to just shoot the [ __ ] with someone
01:05:40
it's funny and uh and Dana you were fine and um
01:05:45
also we forgot you in baby mama we're not going to talk about that but it's great movie also baby mama and sheie and
01:05:53
she's a mean girl along along with memes of Mean Girls which she's in mes that
01:05:58
everyone loves it and Dana continue wrap it up you get half of this SNL rstar uh
01:06:04
just a little Milestone the first all girl update feature all women sorry uh
01:06:10
her and Tina all funny is what I call she released yes please about her life
01:06:17
the Restless Leg tour I don't think they need that's the tour I forgot yeah the tour is going to be big they don't need
01:06:22
us to promote them the tickets are going fast yeah whoops mean we can add another
01:06:29
show but it's hard it sounds easy to go add another show and then you go but it's still tough tough it's so fun the
01:06:36
audience knows it's so fun to perform for the audience everything around it is little tough that's the only decision
01:06:42
it's like [ __ ] give me a good crowd I love it but cuz what are you going to do you're in your room for like 14 hours
01:06:47
waiting for the show maybe go to a MAA if it's easy to get to a theater walk
01:06:52
out front and sign a bobblehead they're like sign this but we're not complaining
01:06:58
to people listening we understand we're getting paid complaining I'm I love I
01:07:03
love it we're getting money to act like idiots thank you Amy uh very nice of you
01:07:11
to take the time we love it and we love we love talking to you and the the best part of this podcast we just get to
01:07:17
spend like a you know a focused hour getting to know you in 20 whatever it is
01:07:24
23 it's a very boring time in America nothing's going on so it's good that we
01:07:30
we can figure out something to talk about yeah um but anyway well we'll see
01:07:35
I love this is what I use because someone did it to me see you around campus as if show business is a high
01:07:42
school or something oh that's cute I love that pass I love that and that's better yeah that I I love uh spending
01:07:49
time with you guys thanks so much for asking me I really have so enjoyed listening to everybody on this podcast
01:07:54
and so thanks for letting me be part of it we appreciate it I'll see you in science class see you in science
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