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Sarah Sherman and Dan Bulla | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

May 17, 2023 / 01:05:24

This episode features Dan Bula and Sarah Sherman, writers for Saturday Night Live, discussing their creative processes and experiences on the show. They talk about sketch writing, performance anxiety, and the unique styles they bring to SNL.

Dan Bula, a prominent writer and producer for SNL, shares insights on collaborating with Adam Sandler and how he supports fellow writers like Sarah. He emphasizes the importance of finding one's voice in comedy.

Sarah Sherman, known for her quirky humor and distinctive style, discusses her influences from 90s Nickelodeon shows and how they shape her work. She also shares her experiences with stage fright and the challenges of performing live.

The two writers reflect on their successful sketches, including a memorable one involving meatballs and a unique visual style. They highlight the collaborative atmosphere at SNL and how they push each other creatively.

Throughout the episode, the dynamic between Dan and Sarah showcases their friendship and mutual respect, making for an engaging conversation about the world of comedy writing.

TL;DR

Dan Bula and Sarah Sherman discuss their SNL experiences, creative processes, and the challenges of live performance.

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Dan Bula Sarah Sherman Dan Bull is a writer uh producer of SNL he also uh
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writes with Sandler uh produces stuff with him I think he did ridiculous six he plays the piano on all Sailors
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specials he writes music with him writes jokes he's funny and he's a huge writer on Saturday Night Live and he's bonded
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in a writer release sense with Sarah Sherman so we had them both on yeah and so this is a really really good episode
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that gives an insight into how they're creating this this very cool stuff they're doing on SNL Sarah is one of the
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breakout girls that is very interesting she's got a mullet haircut looks like Jane Fonda and Clute she's very adorable
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upbeat looks like Donald Sutherland yeah he looks like a cop from a 70s movie
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well that was from Clute yeah
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yeah but you had you had Jane Fonda and you had clue yeah but good [ __ ] you know
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I think she looks more like leather escudero I think she has kind of a young
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energetic almost I could see uh almost a punk attitude in a fun way
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there's something about her she's kind of nuts I mean we she's a little crazy I'm like because she's so confident but
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then we'll we'll find out what really is going on inside her brain she dresses in clown clothes which is funny it
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hilarious me she everything she wears is hilarious and she goes on tour right now but we talked you know you get a little
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inside Deets on actually writing every day doesn't know what's it like how did they break down a
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sketch how do they come up with it how do they pitch it how do they add to it if it makes it if it doesn't and yeah
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and then throw a sketch away she's doing some stuff on update that's never been done before that's really you'll hear
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all about it it's pretty revolutionary yeah and they think visually in a different way than we did so what
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they're doing is very uh very different and also just yeah she dresses in clown
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clothes and Sarah's big influences they're kind of like shows that were on Nickelodeon in the 90s and stuff it's
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yeah what you wouldn't expect but anyway it's going to be an interesting little listen for you they were a lot of fun
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it's kind of a different Dynamic there's four of us talking so obviously Dana and I were freaking out because we couldn't
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talk as much well actually for me it was kind of fun because I go can I interrupt all three of them in a 10 second period
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boom I interrupted you jumped on Dan cut off Sarah and I went that's a trifecta
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in my head when they're talking I'm just like this doesn't remind me enough of a story about me and I go now it does here
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I go boom I see on the zoom I see the single tier coming down your cheek and I
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go every quiet I'm pretty quiet because I'm about to because Dave's about to tell a story and I go you guys are gonna
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snow you know what else was and they're like go ahead and I go it was a stormy night they asked you did
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anyone did you ever have to leave in the summertime and bring all your stuff back to California remember when they brought
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that oh yeah they said because I used to have to I used to they wouldn't say I was hired back so in May this is before ubereats and all the
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stuff you guys have I would be like this I'd have to get a mattress and and just check out of my third Story please
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take the mattress down throw it on the street open the door everything throw away and then about a month later we'll
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have you back and so then I have to re-fly out there stay in a hotel get an
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apartment get a desk a pen a bowl for my cereal it was real bareback me in the Summers I
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would just look for bigger better Apartments you know I know let's get a 20 000 Square footer yeah we
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might see you on the bus hanging out the window with a kind of a hobo stick please
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can I get some supplements for me toppings only became a superstar later in life
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meaning at 32. are we still oh
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here's Sarah and Dan Sarah and Dan two of the nicest people you'll ever want to listen to With Me
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[Music]
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can I ask you a quick question like we're gonna get into Sarah squirm and you and Dan and everything but what when
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you're growing up what are you seeing that turns you on initially like a cartoon or something that gets you into
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this path of whatever you call your style of humor you have five seconds like Pee-wee's Playhouse and Ren and
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Stimpy and like I really like the nanny
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as far as goth and and and sort of using grotesque things and all that where'd
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that come from squirmish you know well like yeah that that stuff stuff is from like Garbage Pail Kids and like random
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stuff you like Brandon Stampy I'm gonna check that out that's [ __ ] garbage fail kids too is
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funny oh yeah they're vomiting and stuff my kids are your age and so I saw all those you know randomly as I was people
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don't bring uh reference those as they're comedy Heroes as much as you think I think it's kind of cool Garbage Pail Kids now I'm remembering yeah it's
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a lot of vomit and like puppets you could buy or toys that had vomit elements to them and stuff
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professors and goo and yeah and it's funny it's like they're all
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like punny and like you know like cold cut is like a sliced up like ham hock
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with like all of the slices have like different faces on it cold cuts cold cuts it's funny it's hilarious
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well Dan uh for the audience is writes on SNL and he works with Adam Sandler lot and I think uh you guys write
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together a lot and what what is it Dan of her uh I'd say quirkiness I don't
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want to undersell it but for Sarah would be such an adorable face with this crazy [ __ ] coming out of her mouth that's kind
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of part of the appeal probably right yeah I mean Sarah came in uh the show
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like when when new people start it's always takes a minute to sort of get what they're all about and find their
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voice and stuff and Sarah came in and like right off the bat was pretty obvious like what her influences were and just like I
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remember the first table read being like damn this person is fearless you know it's just oh wild energy just like it
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was immediately like this person has it you know and has something big and stuff yeah I watching your stuff you
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seemed um there you don't seem to be ever pushing or trying I mean you seem like a
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veteran like the way you present on SNL is not normal for how soon you are into
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your tenure so that's I truly there was one show Dan can attest this because I
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get like psycho I go I get psychotically nervous and I really had to puke before
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the show because I was like anxious and so I took a Zofran
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to get myself from stock because I didn't want to obviously whatever that stage nausea thing Googling it's like they
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give it to like pregnant women with like morning sickness so they don't puke their brains out and I like needed it to
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act really fast so I like chew I chewed up this like pill you're supposed to swallow and it turned my tongue
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completely white and I was like oh [ __ ] like I have to go do a sketch where I'm like the whole sketch is just someone
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saying something crazy and I go like this like
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but my tongue was white from chewing this like drug and so then I ate a bunch
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of candy before the sketch to like dye my tongue a different color than white and so like the I have like a bright red
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tongue during this sketch from like eating a punch in my head the story is
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like awesome no we like it we like the craziness of the show because we your nerves come out
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in those crazy ways I I remember being in that eighth floor bathroom that's way in the back past page test but going
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back toward the elevators then you can go way back and there's a bathroom there looking at my nose going it's dead quiet
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here now I have to go out there and it and in 10 minutes everyone will see me across the country it's not like you
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film a movie and then it comes out a year later you could walk off and the phono ring like I just saw you uh and
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you don't have cell phones back then so you have to wait and just wonder if it was any good very odd but I'm glad you
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get nervous and you don't look because you're not as cool as you look out there but what isn't it you get that first
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laugh do you calm down at that point a little bit because that's that was big for me I'd be so terrified then if I got
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a laugh I it took it down 20 no and then I come off stage and it doesn't matter how well it goes I go straight to Bullet
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I go I'm gonna [ __ ] kill myself there definitely have been times Sarah
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walks off and she goes was that okay and people are literally still laughing and clapping like it's not over yet people
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are still laughing you did great I think we're all we're all crazy after Jewish Elvis I thought I was gonna die I was
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like I literally thought I was gonna die and I was being crazy and I come backstage and I'm like soaking sweat
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and you're like that was great and I'm like I you know when I do that thing where I'm like well you're just like saying that because you're like trying
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to make me feel better because I'm clearly having a panic attack and I'm like everyone's lying to me
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textbook crazy yeah yeah we've talked about when people change their compliment from great to good sorry
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David well it's yeah I mean listen good you almost got it great and then they
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switch it halfway I don't like that that was great good but damn we saw that one
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Dana did you see that one it was uh what was it explain that sketch quickly Sarah because I think it was Austin Butler was
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in the front row too which probably made you nervous I literally
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yeah because I think that Austin Butler is actually possessed by the spirit of all this like I right
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it is this generation's Elvis so the people didn't have the real Elvis I think that I think that's very very
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nice thing to say I don't know why people think um it's really Bill Clinton meet had a baby with Elvis I think it's
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like but so you didn't feel that went well and you were that especially nervous
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doing Elvis in front of Austin Butler I
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thought audience dysmorphia or something like where I I literally sometimes I'm
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so blackout panicked that I can't hear laughs and so even a lot of times in
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stand up I'll be like on stage saying like I can't believe I'm bombing right
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now and you guys aren't laughing at this it's the funniest [ __ ] I could ever you know whatever and everyone's like you're not bombing
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there are some times when you when uh not you but when you're do anyone is doing their act and people are sort of
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smiling and watching and they're just not a loud audience because there's like not one person is left loud so their the
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whole crowd has decided we're not going to go big on this one we're just gonna like it and then you think you're eating
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it and then everyone's like I thought it was good until you told us we were bad and you were bad and then they then they
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go oh I guess you didn't do well but we liked it and you go oh but that happens a lot and I we did the road uh uh Dana
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is it and uh we were on the road and Mr Carvey
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we went out with Adam and Bula works with Adam and they uh run this uh fun
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tour and how did Sarah get on that Tour by the way before I tell my not interesting story Sandler likes her he
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thinks she's great can you believe something like that David's babe no I think it was something else but um no
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yeah well I liked her and I saw her I think that first thing I saw was your update where you were in Collins maybe
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his dressing room or something and then you were doing a live report from there and it was very clever and I
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was like who the [ __ ] this chick and then I think I asked Bula or somebody and then uh and then you pretty soon
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after I saw you you were gonna be on one of the gigs that I was on and you were
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super fun right away we had a blast I had a blast you wrote me a joke
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oh he did yeah you wrote me my um joke but I I love it oh do you oh should we do it yeah you
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uh because I have like like 10 minutes I I don't know why why
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but like during these Sandler shows in front of 15 000 people I'm like you know what I'm just gonna do 10 minutes of
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like big fat [ __ ] jokes oh God damn that's right and then that's what I
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would do I think like my instincts are bad anyway
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um how does his audience take those jokes I mean or is it I mean I can't tell
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I think they're wrapping their mind around you because they've known Sandler for 30 years so when when newer people
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come on obviously they like you from SNL obviously you're a funny performer and this stuff is so out of left field you
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have to admit it takes people a second just to adjust once they get into your Vibe they love
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it like I would of course were laughing ourselves on the side because you're doing your New York thing and you keep
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going and I'm like is she still going and I thought how ballsy for this when
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it's this big crowd and you don't even know if they're into it or not she doesn't care it's just of blank slate of
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just going they got the best pizza screaming and putting your arm out and
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her head to the side but it was such a cool style that once they buy into it it's that that that's where you go to
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the next level you're like it's so brave of you to bomb and eat [ __ ] in front of 15 000. you know what was great is that
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you don't care at all that they weren't doing anything you didn't care at all no
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I uh I'm up there going doing my 7-Eleven jokes going like me well you
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wrote my favorite joke you wrote it it's um I've got so much old meat between my legs I gotta keep a silica packet in my
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underwear to keep it from going bad Jesus Christ hold me between me yeah
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because well Dana I think we got there because it was already I didn't get that joke out of the blue
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yeah I got him right away no she does jokes about
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that's not how I remember it I remember David coming up with that whole thing the whole problem when Sarah have you
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ever talked about what's inside your pants there might be something there and here's a starter joke
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yeah there's been there's a whole history of referring to one's genitalia in a derogatory way men and women no
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Dana you don't understand she talks about it in her act in front of people no I'm sure that couldn't be right
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anyway Sarah you um are on the prep precipice how do you
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spell that of uh being famous and the audience will then give you even like my
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stand-up got so bad as I started getting paid so much more because I was doing no stand up so I was getting paid 50 times
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as much and I was terrible so welcome to the future but that's are you pretty
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much if you play clubs in New York don't they kind of go Gaga at this point when you come out or or if you turn that
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corner where people her I love her it's interesting you might have to have
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another therapy session I I I I can't really tell like I think because now
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like you get introde like you know if yo coming to the stage
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this person's on SNL like people at clubs are like oh like I came in from Indiana to have a weekend in New York
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and now like I'm getting like a nice little treat and so you get like a
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little bit of a safety net with that a little bit but you also I guess get like a higher expectation because people are
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like well you better do the job yeah that's true that's true or they think it's Chris Rock
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you know you know from SNL I know you get these intros that are too big I hate
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it right the intro's work here she comes passenger comedy seat belts
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I make them read my whole Wikipedia page or whatever it's called because he was nominated for two cable
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Ace Awards just get this [ __ ] guy up from 1986 please welcome Dana farfo
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but so I don't know how much time we have left David but um we have a lot I
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want to get into these two collaboration uh yeah can we why don't we just take
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one at a time I I do think that Colin rosting run and the conceit of that we
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can start with that if you want was so jaw-dropping to me like Why didn't anyone else think of that
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uh the conceit of what he says and then it it's a it's a news report it to me that's just inspired like when did that
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moment hit somebody whoever wrote that that idea or you done it at at some other theater but
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it's such a great he I I hadn't gotten anything onto the
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shows like my first season and Colin was like trying to help me out and he was like let's get you on update like
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that'll be fun and I was like okay and I had tried other things that like didn't work and then
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I was like I guess I could just be mean to him even though it was his idea to be nice and let me on update
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me and him is funny because it's you're such a cute face and the one I did backstage what is that does it start
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with that one and then you go you were on update or were you always on first I just saw the outer order I
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James Austin Johnson was like um you like he was he told me that other
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people previously like like years ago had done update pieces like remote
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um and so I initially I wanted to go into like a bathroom that was and go to
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a toilet that was filled with piss and be like Colin is this your piss it's really dehydrated and everyone was like
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oh okay haha maybe not that you know I did one with Christopher
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Walken where I they let me go to like uh you know 9th Street I don't know if you're still there Dan I went to 9th
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Street and in the snowstorm and uh I had him cover the desk for me and then uh he
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goes throws to me live and every time he throws to me I can't hear it I'm not and so I'm just singing I'm like I love it
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when you call me Big Papa and he's like David oh our what's the weather like and
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I go isn't this clown supposed to throw to me and then all you can do is hear me talking like they do off camera and ask
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for gum and he's just staring at me and he goes I don't think he can hear me I don't know how to do this and what am I
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doing wrong and then uh we keep going back and forth but that was kind of hard to put together because I was out of the
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studio so do they are you saying you don't do anything out of the studio anymore or you were in studio in a
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dressing room right yeah we were real dressing room or a set uh a set
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he wanted it kind of close because we didn't want it to look like a pre-tape
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that you could definitely tell that it was I moved from the studio and I walk
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outside to a fake dressing room set so I was like tricked me
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so Colin Jose that the joke is on him it's supposed to his dressing room and
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then what what do you find in there just for our listeners whoa I find like an
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intern in a cage mirror that say like you're going to be
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the next Marvel Super Hero
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picture of me it was like a bodybuilder body with a bikini with my head photoshopped on it and the joke is
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supposed to be like oh my God Colin why do you have all these pictures of me in your dressing room and I go to hold up the picture but during the live show I
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like accidentally like through it yes and so like I went to hold up a big
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uh punch line and it was
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and then you but then you kept going but it didn't look like it was bad because I think I saw that one it was still funny yeah everybody afterwards was like well
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that's the magic of live TV Anything Could Happen well it would have been funny if I got to my [ __ ] punchline
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well it was that your clothes there's a mistake and you covered it beautifully I mean then it's like so extra alive you
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know that's the great thing about SNL the mistakes stay in so and Colin was laughing too because he
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saw exactly what happened in the moment and knew that you were just gonna be staring at cue cards like oh I have
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three more lines about this thing I'm not gonna happen you could tell he was really laughing yeah
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he's so good at laughing it's awesome well he is he has a a likable he has a
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face that looks young I I don't know there's something about his Persona that's so gentle and likable and sort of
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conservative in a way a brilliant writer of course but roasting him the I don't know there's a magic to it
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like he just goes hey it's like it's like the 1960s or something hey stop that and you're accusing him of all
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kinds of horrible things basically and the whole reason the only reason the bit works is because I'm like you're a
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pedophile and he's laughing and laughing so it was fun and also coming from you all these
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horrible things is always funny because you don't see anything coming like the second you say something there's a
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headline about it that's that's a very funny uh obviously Dana was talking we were
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talking about that before we got on [Music]
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oh we also wrote uh we also watch meatballs um oh you're looking at Ebola that's how
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we started working together yeah that demanded um well now how does that come Bull and
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you think of this one of course I don't know Sarah and I had not really worked together she had asked me to write a
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Live sketch with her and we had a lot of fun it didn't go it had some like technical problems at dress and it
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didn't I beat that I got too into my you know what you have a lot of physical things going on in a sketch that like
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I don't know I just I forgot to say my line because I was like I have to throw a bunch of in the sketch I had to throw
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a bunch of birds at someone yeah it's
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like you do live Birds but yeah I like everybody like leopards real birds like
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stop seagulls right oh I have one but Sarah had worked with um yeah that
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one's that's a hilarious book a big signal but uh Sarah had done like those updates
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with the please don't destroy guys and with celestein yeah um and had been
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working a lot with them they're hilarious and then we worked on that together and had a good time and then meatballs started because I was reading
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that um that children's books scary stories to tell in the dark to my daughter and it
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had this this like the famous story about the girl with a green ribbon about her neck around her neck and they take
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it off and her head falls off or whatever and I was thinking about like doing something with that
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but that would be fun if instead of her head falling off it's like something totally different and then
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yeah just kind of went there's a meatball for the audience at home there's a meatball living on her neck
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and that talks with a face and she's on a date actually the funniest thing to me Sarah and that whole sketch is how
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normal you're trying to act at the on the date you know how hard that was for you by the way yes that's why it's funny
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to me you're like yeah wow to keep such a nice uh date with a gentleman caller I'm like who is this person
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and uh and then he's flirting with you and then he asked you to immediately he goes what's that green ribbon and then
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you hear music come up like eerie music and you're like oh I was hoping you wouldn't notice and then
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you pull it off and there's a meatball and you're like I hope this doesn't ruin anything with us and uh he's like no
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well yeah it's weird and then then you have like 11 meatballs on your body and it's played out so nicely because I
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watched it twice because yeah I really was sort of fascinated by it and of course you and Chris played it so real
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which was great and then the escalation by the time you get to the piano under the armpit like it kept it was paced so
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beautifully like okay they've got one meatball and then the catchiness of all the singing over each other
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you know and you had the throw up I don't know what we're getting the whole schedule away but it doesn't matter and
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then and then how do you finish it and then you have the twist with the kiss don't want to give it away so it's like
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it's kind of what I call it sort of a perfect sketch yeah because it just landed perfectly right on air I mean
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with the pre-tapes and I'm really ticklish so uh when they were gluing the the meatball into my armpit it was like
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it was like Guantanamo torture I know how to not be tickled my doctor
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just told me last week just a regular physical if someone's tickling you under
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the arm put your hand on their hand and that stops the tickling
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it's the fear because you're like doing it to yourself somehow and he was tickling me and then I put my hand on
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his hand and it didn't tickle anymore we try to educate her tickling it well that's uh
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it was a double appointment it was from 10 to noon we got bored you go it was no
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it was a tickle fight we were both doing it well because he's doing the thing cough cough he's grabbing my back
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breathe this and that reaching for lymph nodes I'm like he goes this that's what
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happened it wasn't illicit no matter how much you wanted it to be David my doctor allowed something goes oh my
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God you have cancer I mean you have cancer it's worse when he's it's better when
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he's laughing it sounds that's hysterical so you did that which uh I I knew I was
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guessing bulu was involved in that uh well bowler wrote though that was all Bola like I we had not really worked
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together much and he called me and he was like I have this good sketch idea and I was like I think I said good
00:27:05
sketch idea yeah I think I was nervous about it no you said great he said if you said you don't say no now
00:27:12
I'm picking up the phone and calling uh Chloe right now but just yes or no you got two seconds
00:27:18
it kind of once you saw people in the meatball prosthetic or whatever or how they're keyed in they must have started
00:27:24
going okay that's really [ __ ] funny yeah it felt good like I remember at the table read it was so you know it's so
00:27:31
Musical and I had all these overlapping things and I was nervous about like whenever you do music stuff at the table
00:27:37
it's always you have a host who has to learn 40 things and then you're trying to teach them a song and hoping you're
00:27:43
gonna remember you know Oscar Isaac yeah for Oscar Isaac what is Oscar Isaac in
00:27:49
why don't I know that you don't have to lean all the way into
00:27:55
the camera she creates her own close-up that's brilliant listen uh
00:28:04
how did that song build did you write that overlapping on a keyboard
00:28:09
so I did like a full demo of it that night um like Tuesday night probably at like three o'clock in the morning where I did
00:28:16
all these parts and then yeah taught the cast how to do it Jesus for read through
00:28:21
you had to try to tell them yeah I kind of It kind of the kind of nail that I read through do you go over the piano is
00:28:27
there still a piano and read the room Eli was playing piano yeah I don't I don't know I just have so much going on
00:28:34
right now can you just cover this part no I have to deal with the cast deal
00:28:39
yeah but the the music all synced up but yeah when we saw the Prosthetics it was awesome it was a sang at the last who's
00:28:45
the last woman to sing yeah Carly XCX
00:28:54
the musical guest the musical guest you got her face singing beautifully
00:29:01
check it out on YouTube everybody publicist hey does she want to stick her
00:29:06
face in the giant meatball I mean just run it by her at least and then publicist like I think she's just so overwhelmed this week it's probably not
00:29:13
the week or any other week yeah you're gonna be in the armpit on this one it's
00:29:19
a good spot what this is the mic drop of that sketch it's a closer yeah oh also
00:29:25
what about the babies in the crib Dana do you see that I don't know if I got that well far
00:29:31
it's the one when I was on the road with uh these okay let's let's break that
00:29:36
down so it's so it's basically so was Selena Gomez the first time yeah so Selena was a host who's great
00:29:43
um and then she's got a baby monitor but she's trying to have a I love me explaining it she's having a couple
00:29:49
people over while she's babysitting right Sarah you just don't know what I are you
00:29:57
off book do you remember it yeah I am and then and then she goes and she has a modder out there in here and she goes oh
00:30:03
and then they look at it and it's a really funny visual of two babies in a crib with like a not a
00:30:09
black light but you know how that like a night vision with the white eyes of two little bald babies and in a crib and
00:30:16
they're kind of rolling around and then and she goes they're fine and they keep getting noisier and every time you cut I
00:30:22
don't realize it's a whole nother set and they're live it's Sarah and who else is in bone yeah dress yeah
00:30:30
yeah so [ __ ] funny though Ebola had a baby congratulations and mother sure and
00:30:36
he showed me that he could like on his phone like you could he has like a baby
00:30:42
monitor app or whatever on his phone he would see a little kid like wrong like a ring app yeah yeah and so we're all so
00:30:49
then I was like okay that's a sketch and it was fun because we're able to like
00:30:55
play with scale really crazy so like make me and Bowen look like two little bald babies we had to build a giant crib
00:31:01
with giant teddy bears to make us look tiny yeah that's really funny yeah because I didn't get that that I thought
00:31:07
it was a pre-tape and then you went on the road you said oh yeah no we're in the other sketch and no wonder
00:31:13
everyone's laughing so hard because you're over there acting ridiculous and then you're rolling around and they go oh they're doing this now and then
00:31:19
you're like doing somersaults and jumping now doing stuff that babies can't really do and hilarious well we
00:31:24
had we had two sets so there was like the set that oh there's a whole other set yeah so Selena was like one set
00:31:31
which is like a living room and then on home base we had this giant crib that was like oh yeah to make them look
00:31:38
proper baby size but as you're cutting back and forth like Sarah and Bowen would run out of the crib and like break
00:31:44
down or like acrobats would like come in and do like flips and then run out and Sarah and Bowen would go back in so it
00:31:50
was like when the camera was off we would or Sarah would run out and a full-size Sarah dummy would go in and Bone would
00:31:57
be oh it's swinging around yeah I think it was Selena saying hey we can have some beers it's all good and they go I
00:32:02
think big you should go check on these kids and they'd be doing something so ridiculous she goes no no they're fine
00:32:07
and then there was like another kid in there yeah post Malone yeah they're like hey there's someone else there's another
00:32:13
baby in there she's like oh there shouldn't be but no real reactions and
00:32:18
then uh post Malone or whatever yeah I guess we did we did
00:32:24
another installment of it I guess this year where it was like on the two babies on a sonogram and so we have like Cecily
00:32:33
as the gyno with the little like uh whatever sonogram wand yeah oh right
00:32:40
right okay me and Bowen like inside the uh womb
00:32:46
where'd you what was that set it was like a whole that that entire
00:32:51
thing was like a a full green screen Circle and the floor was green and everything
00:32:57
so we were able to make it look like uh like an ultrasound and then same thing they would like
00:33:03
bringing in props for their own pogo sticks and stuff they ran out and we had break dancers come in and it's always
00:33:09
nuts yeah I do like that because you don't know what's every time you cut two there's gonna better be another cut too so do you guys I mean this is uh this is
00:33:16
what Lauren Michaels would probably call uh it's it's fresh yeah uh it's there's been elements of
00:33:24
this sort of style of Comedy you guys are doing but you're you're accelerating it it seems it seems very fresh it's new
00:33:31
it's what their kids love so are you it's it's see it feels really
00:33:37
fun to write for this kind of Comedy visual with giant effects and props are
00:33:43
you are you think you guys are more focused on that because I have a couple ideas for the rest of the season
00:33:51
[Music] well I just like uh Incredible Shrinking stuff like what if Lauren you
00:33:58
accidentally for real shrink Lauren he's like six inches tall but he still has something that's Lauren genius brain it
00:34:04
doesn't matter that I'm tiny I still can run the show and he's always getting stepped on
00:34:09
by cast members I don't know this is yeah it's like Ant-Man well I love
00:34:15
visual comedy where if the sound broke you would still love the the bit I love
00:34:21
that you know ant producer I saw Molly I saw a lot of Molly uh last week
00:34:26
which was she difficult to work with Molly Shannon she's so difficult truly the one of the nicest people I've ever
00:34:33
met in my life yes human niceness 10.0 and physical you know I was bombed Dana
00:34:39
that she wasn't at the Mark Twain Adam Sandler uh Fawn Fest because she is so
00:34:46
great and she's such a great speaker and she what are you pointing at Sarah do you miss me well I think I think in this
00:34:54
in that context I did miss you because I always do but I think Molly is so good
00:35:00
at speaking better than most of us that uh she's so lovely about it and selfless and then there's selfish me so it's good
00:35:08
balance so uh but she was at the uh spillover party that was two weeks
00:35:14
before that we talked about once but by the way Sarah just so you know sorry yeah I like to interrupt David has been
00:35:21
talking about you on and off for months and singing your Praises see Sarah see
00:35:27
even though I you think when you you this whole interview it's over you're gonna walk out and light up your Sig and
00:35:33
go he said I bombed on the Sandler tour that's all I heard and I didn't say that
00:35:38
I said you're too smart for half of them uh because you they have to get into your comedy and then once they did then
00:35:44
they were really all the way in but when you're doing different stuff it's not served on a plot you know you
00:35:50
have to think of a little bit so I was watching to the side uh and you're
00:35:55
bombing with me too but that's because I'm not smart I don't get it so later it's only 10 minutes right then Adam
00:36:01
does three hours and guys guys in the back waiting or something I know he destroys he walks on stage and flex a
00:36:08
cigarette having a spade keep it to six tonight I'm like six minutes
00:36:14
my pocket knife man my wallet Dan was in on that one no but Dana we do
00:36:21
the show Sarah my real question is how did you handle the midnight dinner
00:36:27
after the show I don't know how Dan does what midnight dinner
00:36:35
oh on the with the Adam Sandler yeah you guys go out to dinner right I the only times I've been on the road there's just
00:36:42
like that's a barbecue back that Everyone likes Forks down and then
00:36:48
how that was I think that Bola taught me about horking that's workings when you spit isn't it you hook
00:36:55
up a loogie no I think that's no I think I wrote in a sketch once
00:37:01
somebody's horking down something like a farm animal and Sarah was like what is that is that forking down asparagus like
00:37:08
a foreign farm animal oh I like that from our sketch that never saw the light of that that's a read-through trick or
00:37:13
Schneider would go Trek because if someone laughs at the description he goes Trek nope that's not a real laugh
00:37:19
don't count it doesn't laugh out Trick laugh do you have you guys ever shocked each other where like you pitched
00:37:25
something to the other one the other one goes whoa slow down man come on that's too far I don't think or there are no limits
00:37:32
it's whether you can get it on the show right has there been anything I've pitched to you that you're like no way
00:37:39
I don't think so in terms of I don't think she's ever picked something with that
00:37:45
it like makes me feel like oh no I would never do that I think we do like we do
00:37:50
really think you know we are trying to write for the show always like it's it's not maybe you think it's not comedically
00:37:57
might not work maybe yeah that's for sure or it might not be like the host doesn't have a big enough part or not
00:38:04
sure if it's producible in a week or things like that but you know what I I some what happened well I'll I'll just
00:38:11
say something that I think I I I'm just I'm just pitching it till I get energy going and I won't even think
00:38:18
anything of it like with the eyes replace like I'm like what if it's a sketch where I got my eyes replaced with
00:38:24
googly eyes and I was just saying it thinking it wasn't possible but you then Bola starts like all of a sudden like
00:38:31
pitch he'll just start riffing and a whole sketch will get created but it's
00:38:37
like I kind of said it like I was kidding but you like you were like oh that's a legitimate sketch
00:38:42
yeah for sure it's hard it's hard to tell what idea is gonna kinda well do you go to make up and say if
00:38:48
makeup can do what we should try to do it if not let's not waste our time right well Louie in makeup will make anything
00:38:55
happen it seems so they'll do anything yeah that's true they never want to turn down anything they want to really try it
00:39:02
because they get bored too totally and he he I mean he is unbelievable talk about like a superstar
00:39:10
it like yeah he's never once told us it's not possible he'll he'll push it further every time it's awesome and
00:39:17
could we get his full name sorry I don't think I've met him Louis Zakarian he's
00:39:22
the uh uh makeup Apex guy and he's so awesome
00:39:28
yeah the roller coaster we did a sketch like that I get stuck on a roller
00:39:34
coaster for 100 hours and so my face is like blown out like my hair is blown backwards and my mouth is blown
00:39:40
permanently open right and so like on a Monday so like on a Monday I was like I said to
00:39:48
Louie I put that like dentist uh what do you call it a mouth speculum yeah it opens your mouth or something
00:39:54
yeah so I said to Louie I'm like is it possible to build a prosthetic that
00:40:00
blows my mouth open but like the speculum you use at the dentist has this like plastic bar that goes under your
00:40:07
chin so like uh I you know as a press I I asked and I'm like is there a
00:40:12
prosthetic you could build that doesn't have these extra plastic bits so it can look like it's like part of my face right and so we like pitched it to him
00:40:19
like on a Monday and he's like like he's just like we wrote A Sketch around him
00:40:26
being able to build a mouth prosthetic that wore you know what I mean and is he at read through
00:40:32
yeah are those guys that read through yeah aren't all the Departments so it sounds I don't know uh just maybe as a
00:40:39
jealous ex-cast I love the world you're working it just seems really fun not
00:40:44
easy but really fun these big visual elements and having the subversive dialogue or whatever you're doing with
00:40:50
it to get it not just a visual joke I love it I want a host now or guest spot
00:40:56
so I can be in something with Sarah and Dan will ride it with us couldn't I just
00:41:01
come out for one sketch anytime in the next five years I still look pretty good I mean come on
00:41:07
I still look pretty good Dana looks really good but uh it sounds like so
00:41:12
much fun and I had a connection uh with Bonnie and Tara Turner and also with Robert smigiel in specific and others Al
00:41:19
Franken politically and Jim Downey so it's very nice it's a kind of
00:41:25
communication a friendship you guys must have of having this similar sense of humor and Sensibility it's kind of magic
00:41:32
isn't it when you find someone like that I'm sure there's others you're connecting with on the show but Smiggle
00:41:37
and I would just I'd come in to start doing Regis and he would immediately start picking it up and we'd just start going so with you guys was it was there
00:41:45
a moment or kind of like holy [ __ ] light bulb moment we're gonna we're gonna be friends we're gonna write a lot together
00:41:50
or just sort of happened when when bulla I'll uh
00:41:56
when bulla called me and was like oh I have this meatballs idea I was like oh my God I feel seen you know because this
00:42:03
the show is scary because it's you know it's a live show in front of millions of people of course it's scary and you know
00:42:10
I went from doing like crazy like performance art comedy to Like Doing Network television comedy and like it so
00:42:18
it was a scary kind of transition for me a little bit and so like the second like
00:42:25
like Bola was like what you know what about this crazy thing I was like oh my God you know whatever I'm like not
00:42:33
explaining that well thinking out of the box yeah for sure it's different writing is really hard writing takes so much
00:42:39
intellectual emotional energy it's exhausting so just we've all experienced a great writer handing us something you
00:42:46
now have with Dan and it's like okay that's awesome yeah the writer's jealous though Dana do you
00:42:52
think that they're like can I borrow him well Dan do you have any do you like to be on camera have you have you have you
00:42:59
done performing yourself I used to always like when I came up I was in Chicago doing sketch comedy and improv I
00:43:06
did all that and then when I moved to Los Angeles was still doing doing that now I don't really I mean I'll perform
00:43:12
with Sandler on the road and be on stage with him and do all that and he always was supposed to be in movies and stuff
00:43:19
and I love it I like that but really I don't I don't it's not like I'm sitting here with aspirations to be a cast
00:43:25
member at SNL or anything were you kind of successful just out of right out of high school or something if you just had
00:43:30
kind of a lot of success throughout your life when I out of college I didn't
00:43:36
really know what I was doing I was working as a sports writer in Chicago and my friend John Greenberg who got me
00:43:43
jobs working for the Associated Press and covering the Chicago Bulls and all
00:43:48
you know the professional teams there he was like let's take it's like I'm gonna take a writing class at Second City do
00:43:54
you want to do it and I was like sure and then really fell in love with doing that and um
00:44:00
yeah I don't know but I was like in LA with nothing going on when Sandler like
00:44:06
did you grow up middle class or what was your home life like I grew up I grew up
00:44:11
outside Chicago where did Sandler find you though you know he had just signed his first
00:44:17
Netflix deal and um and was looking for movie ideas so I
00:44:23
had like a move I had like a meeting set up with him to pitch something and then he was also looking for music for for a
00:44:29
benefit he was doing or something and I sent him a um send him a demo for us all right he
00:44:36
really liked it and we met up and and really hit it off and then just kept talking and I kept sending him songs and
00:44:43
we just I heard you write that you wrote this song called oh yes where it goes like this oh yes oh yes oh yes
00:44:49
I don't remember that one and that was it and you go do I need to keep going what must be fun riding with Sandler and
00:44:56
music with Sandler because he loves it so much and it's so great at it he's the best to work with and he truly like I
00:45:03
mean I was living in a crappy apartment with my wife in LA and wasn't working
00:45:10
professionally in comedy at all and totally scooped me up and save my ass
00:45:16
um I still talk to him I mean I talked to him for half an hour this morning on the phone he's the he's the greatest I I
00:45:22
owe him you saw at the Mark Twain we all gave our props he's just such a a unique guy you know and to know him is to love
00:45:29
him anyway um so Dan so now that you've gotten Dan has a good disposition and a good
00:45:35
temperament so I think it's good when you're a performer you're a little
00:45:41
crazed I know I am Sarah's a little bit Adam I hide so much cirrhosis from the
00:45:46
world I I this was just survival instincts for my childhood to be this guy yeah he's a calming presence so I
00:45:53
think he takes it in like a machine and takes in the ideas and sort of puts him back but Adam I think from what I see
00:46:00
we'll want to write after the show right on the plane right at breakfast right like any time he never stops yeah and
00:46:06
he's just always driven so you got to be ready I see Dan beat up on the road because he's going to sound checks then
00:46:12
you know you're traveling in style but you're still traveling it's different times on his freezing I think we're in
00:46:18
green we're in Greensville with South Carolina that's when I started feeling crappy and then uh that might have been
00:46:24
that might have been the spare ribs uh hork night I think because we usually go
00:46:29
straight to dinner from the show and it's a three-hour show and then you go straight to a dinner and I see Dan over
00:46:34
in the corner slumping going [ __ ] we got to get up and fly to another city and just start over and uh I get to sleep a
00:46:41
little more you know everyone gets a little more of a breather but he's they beat him up you know still performing
00:46:47
and he got to perform for two hours out there could you be a road monster Sarah yeah I was just gonna ask you about oh
00:46:53
what would you be a road monster if the the people the 10 percenters go Sarah we can book you every night for the next
00:47:00
six months do you want to do it I mean or would you temper that a little bit or do you like it
00:47:06
well I will go anywhere everywhere all the time perfect right now right
00:47:11
uh yeah yeah I know Hiatus as I do a lot of shows too but I wanted to sing dance
00:47:17
phrases for a second one more time please please do okay so like you know we were just talking about I because you
00:47:24
know you're talking about Dan's temperament and like you know good attitude or whatever and so we're doing all these crazy sketches where it's like
00:47:30
crazy production and like the the sketch where I have Googly Eyes For Eyes they had to like so I'm basically I'm fully
00:47:37
blind because there's googly eyes over my eyes and it's Googling in order to
00:47:44
give me like any Vision at all like uh Louis the effects artist like drilled
00:47:49
little holes in the googly eyes but but my eyelashes would get caught in them
00:47:55
and my eyelids would get caught in them so they basically had to like tape open my eyes underneath the Prosthetics Like
00:48:01
Clockwork Orange style and I'm so I'm getting like literally put into this like jigsaw torture uh goggle helmet
00:48:10
before going on live television totally wigging out so scared and I'm like in
00:48:16
the makeup chair just like spiraling and then I just won't feel uh
00:48:22
bulla like right behind me he'll like sneak up behind me and go like you got it buddy your ex back you guys you know
00:48:27
like he's really good at that like it's like you know or like the the roller
00:48:35
coaster schedule they taped over my mouth like they had to uh spray my mouth and teeth with water it wouldn't dry out
00:48:43
during the sketch and like bullet just comes up behind me and the makeup chair and he's like you got it buddy you're
00:48:48
back stuff you know like it's over in 10 minutes I like that can I just uh say three minutes ago I thought you were
00:48:54
referring to me David when you said Dan Dan's temperament So I responded to it
00:49:00
oh thinking you were mentioning you do have a good temperament uh but I do think Dan has a very relaxing nice
00:49:07
presence well I mean Sarah also sees how I I am fully crazy intense too I like we
00:49:15
are rewriting things a million times I'm never willing to accept it when it's like 90 on the way there so I I'm I'm
00:49:22
not the easiest person to work with but Sarah has worked with I mean everybody here loves working with Sarah she worked
00:49:27
with the please don't destroy guys they've had some big hits like the Six
00:49:33
Flags thing was awesome and like fans are really funny so she's and and Celeste like we talked about and I mean
00:49:40
across the board people love working with Sarah I've worked with you know when I started out I was working with
00:49:46
Stephen Castillo another writer here and then I worked a lot with Pete but I think when Sarah and I really started
00:49:51
when we started sharing an office and working really closely together it's like Lauren always says you know like
00:49:57
you find your people here eventually at the show and I know that was true for you guys and there's comfort in knowing
00:50:04
like okay we're gonna come up with something we know how to talk to each other we know we have a short hand
00:50:09
together and that's really helpful helps you get through week after week and you both are tough tenacious I mean
00:50:16
if Sarah has the Overcomer stage fright and land it and not have it affect the performance I don't see that at all but
00:50:24
the fact that you can control those nerves and then Dan is a a tenacious
00:50:29
writer that's what you need all that tenacity and toughness uh but it's very sweet that's what I'll
00:50:35
take away from this podcast he comes up behind you and he says you're a rock star yeah for a performer that's great
00:50:41
baby it's always the same thing right baby you got what you got it was with me
00:50:47
at dinner he goes you can work this he whispered behind me it looks like 30
00:50:52
ribs but you can do this John Levitz will do the opposite though before I'd go out really nervous on the sound site
00:50:57
he goes you're gonna destroy you're going to kill I go Jonathan it's a jinx
00:51:03
for comedians don't ever say You're Gonna you know you're all just I try them Dana I have
00:51:11
another question for uh I know they got a big day it's either Dan or Sarah you
00:51:16
know someone's for Sarah okay it said she was a screenwriter on jackass forever that's so interesting
00:51:23
how crazy where'd they find you for that um because I used to uh I wrote with
00:51:29
Eric Andre a lot for like the Eric Andre show and Eric knew knew that I was like
00:51:35
a huge jackass fan and so um when they were like looking for
00:51:40
writers to just like pitch ideas for the movie Eric it was like a Make-a-Wish he was like come on let's get Sarah in
00:51:47
there like maker day she gets to meet Johnny Knoxville how fun and you're like they go and what are my balls do in this
00:51:54
sketch and you're like well well I showed up to up to the writer I I literally
00:52:00
worked there six hours I showed up to the like pitch day with
00:52:05
um like drawings and diagrams of like crazy stunts and everyone was like Oh okay that's cool no that is cool that's
00:52:13
very thought out I love it we have Johnny on this podcast remember what happened to him yeah it was like he had
00:52:20
a number two pencil up his thing for two years Johnny yeah yeah and he's saying
00:52:26
it with a smile and he's totally relaxed I'm like what he's like I have to pee out of my mouth now we're like why what
00:52:32
happened he's like oh it's such a long story that's all yeah I put my head in a
00:52:38
meat grinder but it was a really funny sketch and we kept it in anyway I hope they're safe that thing boy
00:52:47
[Music] you ran track in high school Sarah because I did too did you really run
00:52:53
track yeah and what was your event the miles
00:52:59
whoa were you a champion pretty good I I like
00:53:09
it was like a little over I think it was like 5 30 mile or something like that that's good that's very good yeah but I
00:53:17
think I think being uh I don't know if you feel this way but
00:53:22
like being a heist right being a high school athlete I think somehow I got like ruthlessly competitive or something
00:53:29
for that I think that's like helped here yeah I'm
00:53:35
always psychotically competitive uh Dennis Miller and I would talk about it because he would sometimes carve me I
00:53:42
had shot and Freud for you okay which is a German word for taking Joy on your
00:53:47
friends failures and I go Dennis I have it for everybody I mean it just it's like the rubber hammer on your knee it's
00:53:53
a reflex the little kid inside you reflects uh they you don't actively
00:53:58
sabotage your peers but you want to beat them and that's just so the way the human brain works but yeah
00:54:04
I mean I I what I where you when you got into comedy did you feel like okay now I'm a sub five minute Miler I mean like
00:54:12
I've now where I really belong you know that feeling like maybe I I'm gonna do this anyway I
00:54:18
like um
00:54:25
and like uh uh it was like one of those things where I like it was so dramatic I like quit the
00:54:33
track team to like go be a tree in the school play like you know what I mean
00:54:39
like I think I just hap I happen to be good at running but I was like I don't care
00:54:46
if that'll help pay for college I want to go have zero lines in the course of
00:54:51
the musical your parents are like running is gonna pay for your calling oh
00:54:56
your daughter's on Saturday Night Live that's great she was a really good runner I don't know if she gave it up do
00:55:02
you think you could be born in a race in like a not a mile but like a a hundred yard dash
00:55:09
honestly no he could beat me at anything I was the mile and the two mile and
00:55:14
whoops the three mile oh Dana I heard Dana everyone keeps asking me to tell you or to ask you that you won some
00:55:21
you won something running I was okay but there were better guys in front of me and once I figured out I can't beat
00:55:27
those guys we had a 410 Miler on our team you know oh God and it's kind of
00:55:33
like oh okay I see what that is running 427 whoops how'd that come out but I was
00:55:38
like in eighth place I was in 10th play you know because that was the running boom back then but
00:55:45
there's one thing like that that's like being at SNL like it's a great Runner and it was you're like the 10th funniest
00:55:51
guy but um I just want to do these quickly because I we have just a few more
00:55:57
minutes and you guys have to get I wish I had a better pitch than your head goes giant or something I got one you know
00:56:04
they say you're gonna have a date with a guy she's you're gonna prefer a date yeah he's really nice he's this he's
00:56:10
that but um he can't keep it in his pants oh really what do you mean so he
00:56:16
comes in for the date and he literally can't get out of his pants and then you introduce a product called a Hooter clamp which it goes around it's like a
00:56:24
chastity belt for guys who cannot keep it in their pants
00:56:30
incredible team smiling this is so flattering he can't keep it in his pants
00:56:36
and Dan there's a song there he's a nice guy he makes a lot of money but he can't
00:56:41
keep it in his pants that brings in the Hooter clamp anyway
00:56:47
just a just a thought that sure is wrong with it do you go uh before we go do you
00:56:52
do a Lauren impression everyone seems to have either one word or one thing and Lauren loves it we love
00:56:59
him right I don't and I wouldn't dare
00:57:05
you're allowed Sarah well ours is not derogatory it's mostly about his giant brain I guess mine is um
00:57:13
for the listeners at home they're gonna be disappointed but it's but it's this if you guys want to describe it it's
00:57:19
when he looks at me like this laughs
00:57:25
pierced lips uh chin down eyes up sort of a knowing glance that looks more
00:57:31
flirty I do one of my Lawrence is the motorboat Lauren when Lauren is making a
00:57:37
really good point and you accidentally interrupt him it's that thing of like you know when people well yeah yeah yeah
00:57:43
and it goes no no no no no no no no no no and it's like an outdoor model no no no
00:57:48
no no no no no no no no no no you know there's something
00:57:54
that's I will we'll take that well people don't hear too many pitches people turn into motorboats like Obama
00:58:02
would be like an outboard motorboat oh no no no Michelle I'm starting it oh
00:58:08
no no no so it's like people turn into human outboard motor boats sorry I'll go
00:58:14
out there next year sorry I can think of right now to tell that I think is was funny is I was during dress rehearsal
00:58:21
you're under the bleachers sitting as a writer if you wrote the sketch you're under the bleacher sitting next to
00:58:26
Lauren while he's watching it and he gives notes and gives thoughts on a big television yeah yeah and uh I had a
00:58:33
sketch once that absolutely bombed and like hey I'm sitting there Sweating
00:58:38
Bullets it was when I was really new and gets absolutely zero absolute death and
00:58:46
at the end I'm just dying to get out of there he's not saying anything the whole time and uh at the end he just turns to
00:58:52
me and he says they'd be drinking white wine not red because it was like it was
00:58:58
it was like a brunch and I'm like this is a sketch that has no he can't that's
00:59:03
the only thing he can think of to say other than like well this has zeros you're like we don't I don't think we
00:59:08
need to worry about what the wine is oh you know we just it's 50 years almost and it is an amazing personality to hold
00:59:17
the show the same like David and I talking you guys obviously we know what it smells like there we know the
00:59:23
elevators we know walking into 8h on a Thursday where like the show's Saturday you know it's like
00:59:30
it's really fun to to talk to people currently doing what we did we've had a
00:59:35
lot of alumni but you are currently in there so we'd like to bring you back in another month and just call it pitch
00:59:41
hour and we just try to get things to try to get stuff on the show through you and we
00:59:48
don't even need a credit but look I call you boo I think I call you the wrong name this whole time that's all right
00:59:54
everybody in the Sandler World calls me Bula everybody here calls me Bula look at this who's that
01:00:07
Adam's first album I got a picture okay favorite where we go favorite movie
01:00:13
all time just blink or a movie that you you'll watch again and again
01:00:18
it's not my favorite movie it's okay but you'll watch what I was telling all of this for some reason I've
01:00:26
seen scorsese's Cape Fear one million okay and I rewatch it over and over
01:00:33
again because for some reason it comforts me even though it's one of the most deranged
01:00:38
brilliant brilliant film brilliant Dan that's so great because best is I go
01:00:46
like a movie you will see is an ulterior way to think of it alternative yeah this
01:00:52
might be my favorite movie body
01:00:59
heat anybody body heat pretty good right yeah naughty heat is good I remember uh
01:01:05
when I was little I wanted to watch the movie Heat and my mom brought home body heat from uh oh no
01:01:13
I need to whack oh yeah Sarah you do
01:01:18
have a look I have to say good voice I have a great I have a grating awful
01:01:24
voice that um you know it's very interesting yes I know I I think well my
01:01:30
problem at work that I'm working on is that I screamed too loud yes you quietly
01:01:35
say that you go I uh screamed you just I kind of was noticing how nicely
01:01:40
articulate and and your volume was up because it's a rock and roll it's not Jazz a lot of times SNL there's ambient
01:01:47
noise unless you're in the cold opening which is Eerie by yourself five seconds
01:01:52
and then everything's quiet but throughout the show there's movement and noise so you kind of have to project in
01:01:58
more ways than one damn Dan but I I that the learning curve
01:02:03
is that because from stand up you think you have to you know yeah I'm performing in like uh back of a bar in a barbecue
01:02:11
restaurant over a football game so if I'm in a room performing at the screen yes been there in the cowboy bars The
01:02:19
Honky talk show us your dick and then a beer comes by your head those are terrific nights I enjoyed meeting you
01:02:25
both so much and and Dan now I know the I have a comprehensive view of you yeah
01:02:31
so I hope I wasn't a dick at the market at all hey give me a d chord [ __ ]
01:02:39
was dodging people to ask him to help with their there's 80 Comics who have to speak and he's like Dan who didn't ask
01:02:45
you me you did not ask me I didn't ask for help from Dan even though we were all
01:02:51
[ __ ] but I I want to do this I actually said to David I'm like you're
01:02:56
one of the only people here who didn't ask me and he said yeah I went to Jim Downey [ __ ] did I go to down no you know what
01:03:04
Downey uh Dennis Miller gave me a joke that got cut I did the shortest Dana and
01:03:10
I got four jokes cut how embarrassing wasn't I this short yes they cut out my trump and my Dennis right oh yeah you
01:03:17
had Dennis in there um yeah well it was everyone got hacked they cut 90 minutes out of that I don't
01:03:24
care I'm glad Sandman was happy he was happy he's laughing I mean you can't get any better than that it's like after a
01:03:29
while it's embarrassing like every show is like we're working on another thing about Adam how great he is like got it
01:03:36
oh quickly Sarah oh forget it all right um okay let me do my David's feed
01:03:41
impression oh oh great great okay everybody quiet okay oh sorry I have to take this my
01:03:47
Rolex was calling hello are you applauding your own show
01:03:55
thank you Sarah that was nice we took a selfie on the road too wasn't that fun so you remember that yeah I I said come
01:04:03
on dude let me wear the big Rolex I'm gonna get together with Dan you know
01:04:09
behind the scenes over the months and say to Adam so yeah I'll just open for you and then do an hour of just singing
01:04:16
and dancing and do everything now there's no way Adam
01:04:22
Adam Sandman rules the day I love the way he does it stand up I just feels so
01:04:28
relaxing you know I just I might see on another one Dan I'm trying to get out there again with you guys oh I told him
01:04:34
I'll get out there but I'm Sarah nice to nice to see you I'll see you guys later enjoyed it uh try to have fun today at
01:04:40
the at that meeting it's kind of nerve-wracking I find a little bit [Music] this has been a podcast presentation of
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Episode Highlights

  • Sarah's Unique Style
    Sarah Sherman discusses her quirky influences and fearless approach to comedy.
    “She's kind of nuts, I mean, she's a little crazy.”
    @ 01m 31s
    May 17, 2023
  • Inside SNL's Creative Process
    Dan Bula and Sarah Sherman share insights on writing and pitching sketches for SNL.
    “It's pretty revolutionary, yeah.”
    @ 02m 02s
    May 17, 2023
  • Nerves and Performance
    Sarah opens up about her anxiety before going on stage and how it affects her.
    “I thought I was gonna die, I was being crazy.”
    @ 09m 30s
    May 17, 2023
  • The Meatball Sketch
    A hilarious sketch featuring a meatball on a date, escalating to absurdity.
    “It's kind of what I call it sort of a perfect sketch.”
    @ 25m 35s
    May 17, 2023
  • Selena Gomez's Baby Monitor Sketch
    A comedic take on babysitting with unexpected surprises from two 'babies' in a crib.
    “It's so funny though.”
    @ 30m 30s
    May 17, 2023
  • Road Monster Dreams
    Sarah discusses the idea of being a 'road monster' and performing every night.
    “I will go anywhere everywhere all the time!”
    @ 47m 06s
    May 17, 2023
  • The Jigsaw Torture Goggle Helmet
    Sarah shares a wild story about performing in googly eyes prosthetics.
    “I'm literally put into this like jigsaw torture goggle helmet!”
    @ 48m 01s
    May 17, 2023
  • Finding Your People
    The importance of finding the right collaborators in comedy.
    “You find your people here eventually at the show.”
    @ 49m 57s
    May 17, 2023

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Key Moments

  • Fearless Comedy01:31
  • SNL Insights02:02
  • Stage Nerves09:30
  • Meatball Date24:52
  • Sketch Collaboration41:56
  • Sandler Connection45:16
  • Road Monster46:47
  • Jigsaw Torture48:01

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