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hey guys it's David Spade here applause applause Standing Ovation um it's uh everyone has been asking me
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where I go on tour literally every single person in the world so I'm playing the Venetian in Las Vegas
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with Nikki Glaser coming up in April and then we do it three more times check davidspade.com that's not a plug it
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sounds like one it's not anyway have fun here we go
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I like when Kevin Nealon goes um you know my dentist said to me all
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right open your mouth and you might feel a little prick in there because I better not I used to do it
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a dentist having sex you might feel a little pricked oh really yeah you guys should get together no no Kevin's is
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better I like Fred Wolfe says I went to the dentist you could tell he sucks he goes now I'm gonna have to take
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out two teeth so we're gonna do is make an incision down your cheek we're gonna pry it open about two inches get in
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there and pull those teeth out he goes can I just open my mouth he goes well I know the first way works
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strong is our guest today see these are bits Dana got his teeth cleaned you said what did you um I was watching Warriors
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basketball oh I saw the country CMT CMA they're it's close oh what's the
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CMT I think that's a channel oh but I think they won an award too you
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watch the scene so I watch the CMAs okay and because I'm gonna watch Joe Dirt [ __ ] kicker goat roper but they were
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just on and uh you know my legs are always compared
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to Carrie Underwood So my friend said her legs look good but uh I know you both shave your legs I
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think that's how it started um anyway so I watch but here's my observation two
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cents they had on here's what I saw Megan the stallion Alanis Morissette saying you
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ought to know and Gwen Stefani saying I'm just a girl with some other country people but I know they want to be
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inclusive but honestly just be the music awards because you're having people from rock and roll you know how these shows
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like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't rock and roll anymore it's okay to do that but you don't need to label it
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then just say it's the awards awards or it's the music awards and just say if
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you're in music we can all be up for an award and just pick the best out of music
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does that make any sense I love Yeah cut real country music to me it was on the
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AM radio driving to Montana I was like you're cheating hard you know yeah that
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was it and now it's like you're cheating holidays [Laughter]
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give me the beat yeah I'm surprised Diplo wasn't there
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it's just so that's a really smart observation
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I say smart things all the time no one has a panda you're cheating hard all the
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Mark Twain Awards we ran Mark Twain Awards is what Dana was at and David and we did that in celebration
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of so celebrated I went on an hour four it was great is
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that when you went on I don't know three I was sitting next to Chris Rock and Pete Davidson and every time a comedian
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would come up and kill Chris rocker go I'm down to two minutes yeah because you know you don't want to go late in the
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show because people step in your premises here's my most of my premises I did it too
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we all did it I was the 11th comedian we literally I was talking to the guy backstage that Stillson the writer and I
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said is I say I say Babu or something in this headline I go
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does anyone else do it he goes just Conan and uh Stiller ending and I
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know well that's most of the panel whatever but we went out there and we
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really I don't know what we did but it was fun right uh it was fun hanging out with
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everybody seeing everybody 90 minutes you know they cut 90 minutes
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of the show and it was only 90 minutes so everybody went long I'm the only one
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that went with it my time can you believe it and they cut before you go short or they cut me down yeah they cut four I I did under five anyway
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hmm [ __ ] anyway so that's cool I don't care [ __ ] don't you I do I think someone needs talk space
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Here's my deal okay oh yeah you have a new joke no this is the one I didn't okay I just only got [ __ ] can't
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uh I've done a lot of movies with Adam instead of listing them just go to your unmarried uncle's apartment and look at
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his posters that's harmless which ones can we knock them off here no
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I was the one and the other one was uh uh and this uh woke PC World of Comedy
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place I can assure you the only person that would not win the Mark Twain award is Mark Twain I said he had some iffy
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material and then [ __ ] rat [ __ ] me on that one what about you well there's been a couple
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Trump one I did Trump and uh being you know arrested and they cut it
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and what did you say I like I just said it was just an angle go ahead arrest me but you don't have to read me the rights
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because I wrote the rights I can write a lot of things I wrote the rights I wrote the with a lovely lady named Miranda we
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got together I said the right to remain silent she puts it down we did it for hours I know how to write things you
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know everything you can use can be with you and against you and I put it down and you can say them to me but I wrote
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them I know him already you wasted very good friend she's a good friend she's a lovely lady what a beauty what a beauty
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that's funny the Miranda Rights there's a controversy involving me going around
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oh that's right I read this on Twitter and it was there's the real story uh and
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it's kind of a sensitive topic but after 9 11 I was shooting a movie called Master disguise after 9 11 we took an
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appropriate time off and went back to shooting and I was playing if you've seen the movie kids the turtle man
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with a bald cap and a weird thing on my lip and a big green uh shell outfit well
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let me tell you Dan the rumor was because I saw it on Twitter and I sent it to you I want to hear that just to clarify what they thought it was they
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said rumor has it during well when 9 11 happened you were
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shooting actively in the morning and you heard about it in your turtle outfit
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which isn't even a real story but they thought it was funny you had the thing on and that's when you heard about the
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right story what happened was here they obfuscated it because I was in it all that day and then they said we're going
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to have a group prayer um about 9 11 right and I was couldn't
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get the thing I wouldn't I would have held everyone up for a half hour getting all that prosthetic makeup on so as I
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remember it I've there was all of us everyone else civilian clothes I'm dressed the turtle man with the bald
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head and I'm holding hands and I'm lowering my head and praying I just saw at the moment this is really strange it's very ridiculous and also that even
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some would repeat that dumb story that like Anyway didn't they did you have your shell on or off if they might have
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got they might have gotten the shell off but they didn't get the turtle head or the turtle lip off no that's too much I
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just couldn't get it all off but you know if it's outrageous it's contagious now listen if if the shell the shell
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should be really you should be walking to the set and you go shell and then someone comes on like velcros and on but
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if you have to like on your back and people you know you don't want that yeah the turtle man falls on his back I can't
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even get up I'm completely I'm helpless okay Cecily Strong is one
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of the stalworth she's a Star Wars she's a great solid 10-year hitter that uh
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that's been on us enough attention now with Kate mcginnon and 80 Bryant yeah
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did her too talked about her little Squad um she talked about a little bit when
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Trump posted she talked about uh she does do a lawn impression actually I really liked hers she did a unique take
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on Lauren and that'll be fun for you to hear and um she was um extra extra
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adorable yeah um as a person and we were able to put her in context and you know when you
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have she had some Heavy Hitters around her but when you go over her history on SNL and her incredible sketches we break
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down I mean she'll do a character that's missing a tooth but she's not missing a tooth and I asked her the process of how
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you talk like someone who sounds like the missing a tooth and having to sound real a British accent she went over
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incredible she's also in these Verizon commercials and uh and uh I've seen so
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many I I think I was saying I think there's a movie there but we decided there wasn't and she's on
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Mega news so I wrote just a little okay before we
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throw to her just a little ode just a little let's give us a taste he's got
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his guitar that's a rocking tune already
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strong strong [Music]
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she's stronger dude no wonder I want a song I wonder
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you went away this weekend and wrote that [Music]
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oh my God whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa it's happening everybody get off everyone off
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she's here the thing about Cecily is she's always prompt you you'll find that she'll be on the zoom a little bit
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earlier than when it was scheduled like 35 to 45 oh sorry hi I love your sweater yeah well thanks
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we're doing a similar themed well this is a yeah kind of colorful
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it's the perfect Puffer that's Davidson David has a perfect puffer I'm in Northern California it's
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freezing and there's a Hypersonic River you know there's never a rainstorm it's always the Cyclone bomb so but it's
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still going is that still happening oh yeah we haven't quit Northern California never lays down with
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this they they never quit I suppose I'm not apologizing for my hair but I'm just
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gonna say we're just gonna deal with it on this it looks like a fashion Choice it's kind
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of hip that's what it used to look like I'm gonna say two words right now about David's hair bad bad boy
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that's like back me up bad boy all right uncapped ready for my hair yeah and bad boys never go out of style right that
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boy lost his comb Bad Boys never go out of style so
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they're in style and they're gonna stay in style yeah Dana was saying it rains and you're
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not in La I don't think but it's raining always now it's a new thing you think with the taxes and everything the only
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thing we get is good weather now we we don't have that so when it rains the weatherman goes like this it's gonna
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pour for seven days straight and then you and there's such a big drought here everyone goes oh good and he goes but
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it's not going to help the drought did you think that and I go oh I did think that and I go no see if it's funny you
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would think that but the drought is getting worse and I'm like I don't think I know what a drought is then because why is all the rain not helping and
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they're like it's nothing it's gotta go underground man it's all about recharging it underground right but it
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was like well it's good to fill the ones overground too I think I don't know what's getting filled celebrate the
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little ones right I thought it was a little less it was a little one Shasta
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is a mofo that thing is so [ __ ] huge and let's get it's gonna get so full
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when the mountains start to melt that they're gonna have to release water here's my point if it rains outside I
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don't really have a point I take I took a one hour shower yesterday just to kind of just uh because it was raining
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outside ago how much could it hurt yeah I didn't know where you were going with
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that but okay I'm so Punchy and I have nothing but at least I'll admit it ahead of time Cecily we're so glad you're on
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this show we're so excited it's wonderful to be here I just adore you
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both I hope you know that I think I told you both at the 50th but I don't or the
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40th I mean geez but I don't know 50th is next
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40th uh cessler it is Cecily right you say yes Cecily yeah we'll say it wrong okay people do say wrong you've been
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saying it right I appreciate that I'm Dana and he's David yeah no it's Cecily
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is very hip Cecily is like works at a mall or something seriously I don't know about yeah yeah when we did the 40th
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aside from the excitement of it all and seeing everywhere you turn someone was fun to see and old new cast whatever
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whatever uh uh she was assigned the thankless job of doing my bye-bye with
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me which uh you know the show was so thrilled it was not thankless that was very exciting I mean can you respond
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yes yes it didn't kill and get off the charts and win Awards well yeah just for a second for our
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audience David used to do a care his first character that landed an absolute catchphrase flight attendant as you get
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off the plane saying bye-bye right so then on the 40th you
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two are in the sketch uh fill us in what happened how did you get together how did where were you in the show our three
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or hour six we ended The Californians yes and I actually have a picture of you
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and I standing there I think with Bradley Cooper but I have the little French picture on my wall yeah I love it
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you know what was fun about that was I think it was I talked to shroom taker um Michael Shoemaker and he
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dream take her with Michael his name sounds like shroom taker sure
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I'll just have a small amount marching anyway
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so anyway you guys did the sketch show The Californians and then the and you two were placed on the Sound Stage kind
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of at the at the edge of their set and did a good buy oh bye bye bye bye bye-bye yeah it was it was funny because
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a Shoemaker I asked Shoemaker I said what if because this show is obviously
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so thrown together no one cares what if when someone's leaving a sketch they just walk by and we go bye-bye and he
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goes yeah we can probably do that so he talked to Higgins and then they said you would be good for that and then uh we
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stood there and I have a picture I think it's probably from here is it from rehearsal or is it from the real show I have one I think from rehearsal uh oh
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I'm not sure and uh Hey gang let's put it on social media when I have it but his episode
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comes out yes it doesn't matter but it was fun because Taylor Swift was in it so basically day and it was very
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unorthodox they do this sketch that's a big favorite sketch and then when they're leaving we just stand there for
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absolutely no reason and go bye-bye I remember it I remember it now yeah it's kind of meta or whatever that word means
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it was fun and Taylor Swift was in it she was very tall she is very tall was she Swift in a way
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in her movements sorry it's all I got no why do you ask that
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well I I don't know maybe some subconscious connection so anyway Cecily
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we're we've been watching all your cool stuff really I I didn't even know where
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to start we can go chronologically but one thing that I did absolutely love as a someone who loves accents is the way
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your British indiscernible character super Cockney like that is just music to
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me I love music to be ears I'm Gemma would you give us just you don't have to
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do it I mean just talk through it in that or just give us three seconds well I think you also have to put make it
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feel like you have big teeth too I think because I was I was watching a lot of a British reality show but everybody gets
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their teeth done so so Gemma Collins that's there is a Gemma Collins who is
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on the show that I was watching a lot of a slightly bite yeah yeah so if not if
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you think if you're talking around your teeth like that probably like that Say Hey I want to hear it it's just like
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you're talking around your teeth it's there's a show called the only way it's Essex and it's sort like that and they
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do a lot of like American vocal fry our mouth oh it's so refined I love that oh God I
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love that I love it it's fun for me I'm it's just what it sounds like to my ear
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I feel like there's always that in a million comments they're like that's not how that sounds
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fun for people to be watching yeah the ones who are upset we don't sound like that but you're teasing it out and
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making it a character I mean there's you're doing something listy or something with your teeth yes it's very
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it gives you a little the S it's almost like a little lisp because of the the teeth I think
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is that is there a little who's the great actress Olivia Coleman or you know she did The Queen Is that the name of
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that actress yeah I assume so yes let's let's say that's her name she's on the crown look she has a little over five
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doesn't anyway I love that so that's why we wanted to start but it's just Fanning
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out okay well I'm a fan and Dana just so you know I also I just want to say I also have a picture of you from the 40th
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it was it was a huge deal I think I was in my second year on the show or something so
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it was like it was 20 2014. yeah it was very cool I have a picture of you and Mike Myers and your Wayne's World get
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ups and I got to stand in between you two and that was very exciting yeah
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wow it was that night yeah when you're just say it's Billy Crystal there's
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Steve Martin oh Bill Murray it was in the audience oh there's Eddie Murphy Tom Hanks says Donald Trump I mean it's just
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like Keith Richards everybody was famous that you looked at so it was nerve-wracking in that way that 40th
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that darn 40th yeah did you get a plus one uh I I did actually to the party I did
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what was that should I I don't know is that not no I'm calling Lauren on the other side oh no room the most uh the
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toughest one a cast member some were put in the Overflow room
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next year we'll have a net up top there'll be no overthrower
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they'll bounce around it'd be like that thing of like they'll see the show so I
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had to go in there and get Rob Schneider I love the Lord yeah you you must do your own version of Lord but I can't do
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it in front of like the best Lauren Lauren impersonator everyone has different ones you know who was
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everybody Samberg he does The Quiet One on Bill Hader just would be really nice
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if like it was a good show you know there's the quiet Lauren and right I don't know everyone has their I like to
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imagine that Lauren I like to do Lauren when he's like laughing so hard at a sketch or something imagining that he
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really loves her oh my [ __ ] god oh no they didn't [ __ ] [ __ ] that is my [ __ ] I
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am really well that's to that point Lauren has a
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he'll be very casual if something hits him and we've never talked about this he goes into almost a convulsion or spasm
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he has a laugh from zero to ten puts his head down we've never talked about this
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that is a that is a really really good observation because he does that read
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through if he if you can make him laugh and slap the desk or something you're like holy [ __ ] oh yeah and just to be
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clear he doesn't say those things that's what I I know I like to put that on him
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yes but I have seen him a couple times in 11 years laugh very hard
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yeah yeah how is he uh you know we were talking with other cast members the
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other day and Lauren's Keenan I don't know how these go in
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order or whatever this comes out in 2026. yeah anyway Lawrence kind of amazingly I'll say sort
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of brilliant uh passive aggressive intentionally sarcasm to get you to
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relax that I'll get you started like it'd be really nice if this sketch would
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really be funny that'd be a good thing you know those kind of statements which Keenan said relaxed him you know huh it
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either can relax or put pressure I think initially it put pressure on me when I first got there yeah it was just so
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[ __ ] scared but eventually I got used to his sense of humor the dryness of
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just you know Dana sometimes I'm a rose behind one of the you know where the sketches are so if you walk in
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for people at home and they've been behind the sketches like nothing and so I'm just waiting to go in with some
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goofy outfit on and Lauren comes around the corner with a they're like 20 seconds and then I'm getting nervous
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looking at my sides and then Lauren walks with an amsta like casually and he goes
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you want to try tonight I'm like and then he just drips off and I'm like
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am I not trying ever you know and then then I botched the sketch because now
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it's in my head yeah he has his style I think it's a little it's kind of Lauren being sassy I think yeah okay Lauren
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he's good got his little Dicky he's got a sketch called sassy remember Dana with Phil Hartman who Cecily likes I well
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right you've read it let's go back a little bit to your uh house how cecially strong became Sicily strong we don't
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have to spend much time on it but I thought it was very very interesting and you amongst other people have mentioned
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or at least if this is accurate Phil Hartman is kind of a true north star Will Ferrell did as well and we all love
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Phil and he was brilliant so well I I also think listen I have
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so many like I I feel like I've spent a lot of time with you both on the show like watching and and really enjoy
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there's so many people I love and usually it's just when you say one thing in an interview then it kind of yeah but
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I mean I'm I was just a huge fan of the show in general and I do think you know I've played a lot of straight characters
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on the roll and I think he just is kind of like the the such a great straight
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man yeah he'll play he'll he'll take the lead if you need it or he'll completely
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play the bass but so to speak hold it down do you now you actually reenacted I
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mean did you like you had an uncle who was a Broadway producer yes your mom and
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dad were kind of at a certain a very young age kind of saying Cecily maybe this is for you or do I get that right
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like what did that dream occur to you I think I never like for real had the dream even
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at the audition was like well I can't I don't want to say it out loud even because this is so this just doesn't
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happen and I don't want to be disappointed if I got to uh you know that I should be so happy that I got to
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audition I got to be here but I think I was like when I was three I would just
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perform a lot around the house and my parents are like I don't know and they put me in a drama class like I hope
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that's it I hope that scratches that itch and it's not something worse well
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kids like it then you keep with it like you know I think every kid is like we got into comedy in our house and
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everyone just liked comedy but I agree with you that when you say you're auditioning for something or when I
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start doing stand-up you don't want people to go how'd it go and if you don't get it you're like and then they
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go oh right then it's like a bummer thing when you're like well I wanted to be happy about that
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that was the idea initially well the pressure keeps building because it's
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going toward 50 years like it was enough for me to even imagine I could be on it but there was only 10 years before me
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now a cast member goes okay I'll check out the history of the show before you audition it's like months of pouring
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through so many sketches but I could not believe that's a very common theme for
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people of being very humble about auditioning like my God this is a dream and just some of the darkness of the
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people who it went asymmetrical and they didn't get it you know and it's
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something and then they've gone on and done great it's not the one lane to go but for you it was kind of it definitely
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and certainly like at the time I mean and I'd done theater for a long time before comedy uh and I I really only got
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into comedy after college and not that I like I I guess like officially study
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comedy I don't know it's so weird before I get you know so you were in
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theater all the time then you you got busted for pot and got arrested okay so you went to jail your pot dealer
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a little bit of a rebel in those days I guess or or you know like or was everyone I think kind of maybe that was
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just the thing in the year 2000 I don't know um but I def I was like a I wasn't
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really a bad kid um I really I like I got good grades I liked school but then I also like Smoked
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Cigarettes and whoa you know I would but I was like in with the theater crowd that's not
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like the cool kids at school no not at all you know you do you do
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smoke a good uh cigarette just uh but yeah you don't light it right but with cat is it with Captain yeah yeah I was a
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smoker for a long time so I but and that's always the thing I look at when I watch people smoke on camera so you can
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tell I've always feel like the people who have never smoked always go like that's like their whole hand
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and that yeah I put all the cigarette and my fingers like this yeah that's a
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very straight hand so Kathy Ann is like a redneck quasi alcoholic or whatever she's just kind of
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lived hard I I've seen them in Montana where I'm from originally and I go there a lot
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I've seen those people and she's uh that sound that looked like a fun character
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to play it's so much fun and I I do think it's like so many of the people that I just love in real life and love
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to watch and actually it was I worked at greenblatts
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and this is when I was smoking and I'd go outside for a cigarette every now and then and
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there was like a local lady in the neighborhood who would yell on the street a lot and so she sort of was
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where it came from and she said and it'd always be like oh don't make eye contact because she'll come over here and I said
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like then they tried to give my brother DUI and I said it's probably your own breath blown back in your face and she
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was just that kind of energy attitude wow nice characters in our neighborhood
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right that person and that's a such a specific Rhythm yes and I think they are
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everywhere I don't think it's like she's got a bit of an accent I guess but I don't think it's like definitely it's
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something again it's in it's in a bar everywhere
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every state bit of a tweaker twist to it like you don't know really what you're getting to and it's a little crazy in
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the eye yes and again I'd like to think that there's some teeth interaction you know like missing a tooth or there's a
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rotten tooth okay how would that affect the way the voice interaction yeah that would that's kind of like
00:28:03
right she she also got like a mad speech impediment too because there's enough missing tooth
00:28:09
yeah wanders in there yeah there's like a a sore back there there's stuff in the
00:28:15
mouth bitter cheek for our theater students that listen to this podcast they're they're freaking right well just
00:28:23
the idea of pretending though because character is missing a tooth yeah I have uh Sesame has beautiful teeth I'm gonna
00:28:30
somehow make that part of the voice that the tooth is missing okay that was for the theater fans great well Dana one
00:28:39
last taste of it so people can listen to that yeah well if you think about if you try to talk like you have no teeth you
00:28:44
know how that sometimes I think it's sort of starting from there they're starting from here when we did
00:28:51
bye-bye she said approximately how many teeth does this like and how big are they does she whiten more see how big
00:28:58
centimeter-wise this will help me a little bit we're bouncing around we're gonna I love
00:29:05
I love we're keeping with teeth that's good I love that you're willing to uh kind of explain the the the character
00:29:12
rhythmically and the voice thing it's really interesting to me well not Gemini who Benedict cumber that batch was
00:29:20
American right Benedict cumber Cumberbatch
00:29:25
a Cumberbatch slumber party he should host that did he you say the adults is
00:29:31
it more fun for him to play American accent than you're taking the Gemma I think that was I mean I hope that was
00:29:37
fun for him uh it sounded like it was at the time he might have been just about
00:29:42
doing whatever that week but I imagine it would yeah you know it would be more fun yeah yeah I think he was cool right
00:29:49
it's fun to work with so much fun I did a guest spot there and just met him okay he seemed very uh Earnest and and humble
00:29:57
and ready to work and hoping yeah I feel like I don't know if you've got this Vibe at all when you guys were on the
00:30:04
show sorry my dad come on she's making things up she's very dramatic I'm sorry
00:30:10
focus wasn't on her that's saying what uh is this person
00:30:18
talking with you on the zoom she's like that's talking to herself I'm sitting over here no one's paying attention
00:30:27
[Music] but I was gonna say don't you I feel like a lot of the
00:30:33
um English hosts or British hosts were sort of so game to kind of nerd out with
00:30:40
us and uh yeah and not that American hosts aren't but I just felt like across
00:30:46
the board kind of every British host we had almost had like a giggly like little
00:30:52
kit just really would be willing to do anything yeah yes I I find the same
00:30:57
thing there's something about their their training their attitude yeah yeah something very potent and kind of like
00:31:04
silly goofy too which I thought was a fun thing about Benedict yeah because while he I guess he does it
00:31:11
is kind of a silly name but it's also a very buttoned up name I would think sure when you when you meet the host in the
00:31:18
Monday meeting I think that's where you get a Vibe I mean they are nervous for sure and uh
00:31:24
you're nervous I'm nervous because I'm Star Struck most the time and you're writer you're new on the show whatever
00:31:29
you know you're always Starstruck and they bring in some big names so I get I think you get a vibe in a first meeting
00:31:36
what they're going to be like are they going to be fun are they some people used to pitch them something they go sounds great anything and then they're
00:31:42
up for anything and you go this is going to be fun and some go oh I don't know they're just 10 you can tell they're tight and they're like can you do
00:31:48
Russian accent oh I don't I don't really do uh accents really and then you're like okay uh and then everyone pitches
00:31:55
then when you walk out of there you go I got a feel for it I got a feel for it yeah I I feel like I'm not as good at
00:32:00
that like I didn't quite to know every host until after a table
00:32:07
read because sometimes you just guess so wrong yeah that's true they can really come on no yeah
00:32:13
or like you've just given them something that's so the wrong thing for them dude were you there were either when Trump
00:32:19
was on because I just heard a story that uh
00:32:27
he goes first of all they um that Trump came to read through this you can
00:32:32
corroborate I'm even getting wrong I know that yeah and he said like I don't really read I don't really like like
00:32:37
sort of ad-lib instead of read sketches that was part of it and then he said ad-lib like nobody's business he said
00:32:44
let me are you doing on my glasses and then Lauren said you can use mine and he's like and then there was an end of a
00:32:50
sketch maybe at Disneyland where he says uh he says see you later and then he looks at everyone else and goes chicken
00:32:57
lay no turkey legs like let's let's go eat turkey legs let me tell you because it's one of my favorites
00:33:03
but here's there's a couple things that happened he didn't bring his reading glasses to the table read and was like
00:33:09
oh I didn't know what that we were going to be reading or something like that yeah it's kind of like well it's the table read
00:33:15
with scripts and five scripts yeah and so Ivanka was there and there was a
00:33:21
sketch that Ivanka was in that was set at like medieval times and at the end of
00:33:26
it he goes told you the grammatically was written told you like Told You So to
00:33:33
her he's talking to her period and then it says turkey leg like would you like to go get a turkey
00:33:38
leg as one that's how one would read that sentence um but Donald Trump read it as told you
00:33:45
turkey legs to Ivanka like like he was calling her turkey eggs
00:33:51
he looked at us like funny okay weirdos you know it's like we're not doing you
00:33:56
read it wrong and then he also in the middle of it I got a phone call and took
00:34:03
his call so we all just waited I've never seen anyone like do that to Lauren yet you
00:34:09
know and he went uh-huh oh that's great my book just went to number one and we
00:34:16
all just went wow wow had to applaud just the moment
00:34:21
just the of course interrupts the table read to take care very real call
00:34:30
my book just went to number one and I know you got to do some things but I think I deserve a little bit of a block
00:34:37
and then he he should be put into the Drake the hotline bling sket the dad I think
00:34:45
it was like the dad dance or something that I remember his funny little words to be put in that yeah
00:34:53
and then the other thing he did was they did a Giving Tree sketch and Jenna
00:34:58
always tells the story our stage manager because he's like that's not a real book and she kept saying what do you mean
00:35:04
that's a book and he just did not believe that the giving tree as he was in a full tree
00:35:10
costume and I do have a picture from my monitor and my dressing it from
00:35:15
rehearsal of just his face in this tree costume The Giving Tree it's just a rumor did
00:35:22
not believe obviously it was not uh brought up on the giving tree I know
00:35:27
books I've read a lot of books I've read all these books I've heard about books so I know when there's a book and it's
00:35:33
not a book I know a lot of books excuse me let me finish I know about books let
00:35:38
me tell you um no one like him what everything's been said about him but there he's a
00:35:43
one-off uh those table reads are cool I mean you can learn a lot I remember the first Alec Baldwin he was great like I
00:35:50
didn't know you know you don't know what you're getting into and sketch after sketches you start to go oh my God these are pretty much cold reads like they've
00:35:57
never seen a sketch and they're walking in someone's going hey mind sketch is number 41 and if you could play it like
00:36:03
quiet at the beginning but then you build and they're like right and you know they're trying to absorb it all you don't know what the [ __ ] going on
00:36:08
right now Goodman always learning eight songs oh yeah that would have to sing a song
00:36:15
the hosting is so complicated yes and I think they're mainly just kind of in
00:36:21
shock I'd like I thought of my role as kind of an RA throughout the week
00:36:26
but you're just sort of always being encouraging like how do you feel great that's normal I think that's normal and
00:36:32
by Saturday you're gonna be yeah it's very funny when because they're walking into your Turf and they can be
00:36:39
kind of nervous and I I with a superstar you know like a big movie star and you can tell they're out of their element
00:36:44
and you're kind of going you're doing great and you know just read it off the card just read it straight off the card
00:36:50
right that's it I'm like putting it in my head that they need encouragement from me I'm probably like wearing a blanket and slippers my life isn't I
00:36:58
don't have it all together and I'm like you're doing a library I was doing a guest spot I think church lady update
00:37:04
because I'd done Fallon and then Lauren would always say it'll be doing church lady on Saturday but okay I'll call my
00:37:10
travel agent and then it was Benedict bunker prevention uh I remember
00:37:16
afterwards just at the good nights he goes it was pretty good okay right it's
00:37:22
okay I go no it was cool yeah great but funny me telling you I can't you know please I wonder if anyone's ever gone
00:37:30
it was pretty good you could have done better I wouldn't I would I mean to any host
00:37:36
would you ever even if they're bombing you're going you're doing great you got to keep them upbeat you know right just
00:37:41
never go real on them no so go we Circle back around how you your audition I just
00:37:48
want to know the pro so you it's just to jump around a little bit you went to Cal arts for yeah so so you're studying
00:37:57
you're getting better you're starting to get funny and then you go to uh Chicago I went yes I so I stayed in La for like
00:38:05
nine months seven to nine months or something um and I was just kind of like I don't
00:38:12
think this is gonna be the way I do this business if I'm gonna do it it
00:38:18
was just sort of I didn't really understand how any of it worked and business-wise like I couldn't get an
00:38:23
eight it was just like felt bad as this business can feel sometimes and so uh I
00:38:29
took a class at the ground links though and I really liked it and so I was like well I'll move back to Chicago and rent
00:38:36
will be a lot cheaper and every now and then my mom can buy me groceries and uh
00:38:41
I and I went to Second City I started taking classes that's a good City yeah what was the vibe difference when you
00:38:47
got to Chicago La it just feels more pressure and just weirder right yeah and
00:38:53
it was still a Midwestern yeah my family was in Chicago and yeah yeah I do I enjoy the Midwest uh
00:39:00
a lot more it's a lot a lot chunkier people who are more
00:39:06
friendly or friendlier in public I don't know uh chunk chunky and friendly you
00:39:12
have a slight accent too like to eat like to laugh and drink you
00:39:19
have to because it's so cold you have to find ways to enjoy life while you can
00:39:25
um but and in L.A it's just yeah and actually I loved my class at the
00:39:31
Groundlings I really had a good group um but I I definitely I was like there's
00:39:36
just there's so much more of that kind of especially that comedy sketch and improv this is just
00:39:43
like that's so much of what Chicago is yeah and I I took classes at i o
00:39:49
eventually was doing I did some shows at the annoyance and you know then we would do a couple of those shows you buy rent
00:39:58
out the theater and beg your friends to come for five dollars tickets you may
00:40:03
have five audience members tonight bring your show bring your show and when did you you know like how you met people
00:40:08
either been at Second City got on SNL we're coming back to say hello or then it became sort of in your purviews they
00:40:16
say SNL is a possibility it still it was not it was not like a possibility but
00:40:22
again like I wouldn't be so foolish as to say that out loud it's just such an outlandish you know like that's not
00:40:29
gonna happen to me um and I knew that they did auditions but even you had to audition for the
00:40:35
audition but and I was like in the box office at i o one night when Sharna was like you should do this
00:40:41
and I thought well I don't know if I'm ready and I hear I heard like if you auditioned for Lauren once and he
00:40:47
doesn't and you don't get in he never wants to see you again never again you know there's all the I've heard that yeah the things that people pass around
00:40:53
and like you can't get pregnant in a hot tub you can only audition once that's no just the info kids pass out yeah
00:41:01
Urban myths or whatever yeah and so but then I took um a workshop
00:41:08
uh that was what was it characters and Impressions or something because I didn't do a lot of Impressions and I
00:41:14
never really thought of myself as an impression person um but I got I think I put together six
00:41:22
six things you know but I and I kept them all short and I think that's what helped me in the end was because
00:41:29
yes and you're like some people this is very indulgent and I'll you know and everybody's doing similar you know
00:41:37
there's the old I forget his name his name Sam Elliot who was it you know the the old guy with the mustache to
00:41:43
everybody Sam Elliott Sam Elliott yeah was like well eight of you are gonna do Sam Elliott so you don't need to do like
00:41:50
a three-minute monologue yeah I like when they say like um I think this is a good trick like Dana I've learned a lot
00:41:56
about Impressions from Dana and people don't realize the longer you do it the harder it is because you have a few
00:42:03
hooks yes that's sat and they go oh that sounds like them but the longer you go it doesn't and when sometimes you ask
00:42:10
people to ad-lib as a character they go no I want I I know that's so much harder because you want to write something that
00:42:17
includes the hooks right and we're used to and yes like your thing in and your I
00:42:23
know I sound like them here but I can't say the word chalk that's that word so
00:42:28
so you're gonna audition at IO or yes and
00:42:34
to your mind you were in there was a maybe 10 of you or whatever and so you
00:42:39
were strategizing knowing who was maybe going to come on before you so you were not redundant and then who was there was
00:42:46
it lieutenants you know Lauren's minions basically well I know is Lauren there or that Lauren was there I think oh Lindsay
00:42:54
shookus was there Aaron Doyle I think was there Colin was there
00:43:01
the whole Canon of people who can decide whether you're going to be on Saturday yeah they were all there but I mean I
00:43:08
didn't know who anyone was except Lauren really I get nervous when you just said that I was like getting nervous going oh
00:43:14
my God walking out going here we go this is all that matters for everything we'll
00:43:19
never see you again that's true you think if they did not like you then why would they see you right away again it
00:43:26
takes a long time what did you do did you have any methodology for dealing with that pressure or when you got out
00:43:32
there you got to laugh and felt comfortable what happened yeah I think uh I got laughs so that's I mean really
00:43:40
there's really I don't know what the strategy would even be for that sometimes you just have to go do
00:43:47
go do it you know it's like you don't have a child you're just trying to control your nerves and actually have
00:43:52
fun is the is the goal and then how do you try not to try it's right I'm sure I
00:43:58
probably looked like I was trying but I think they forgive it but I have it's also like I'm comfortable around an
00:44:05
audience at this point this is certain my family was there so I imagine if I hadn't gotten any
00:44:12
laughs it would have felt terrible but it luckily that didn't happen it's also
00:44:17
your home theater it's not like at the daily on 8h 8h is bearing and it's a
00:44:23
super friendly audience right and everybody's laughing because you know it's like in all of our best interests
00:44:28
for anyone to succeed so what was your first uh ladies and gentlemen Cecily
00:44:34
Strong do you remember your first bit or your first laugh or first character that you did and uh or an impression or
00:44:42
what did you start with hello I think well we did this time to start sometimes yes it was hard to start I think the
00:44:49
biggest was like we did girl at a party kind of two weeks in it was during one
00:44:55
of those elections oh you came in with that one so I didn't want nothing so another thing that you do these long
00:45:01
names of characters yeah girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with with a party it's kind of the
00:45:09
interesting which is one of your first big hits yeah or maybe everyone knows
00:45:14
how to say the name uh I was actually was trying to write an update character with Colin Jose and I did do
00:45:21
for my audition I did a little boy that I overheard at Mother's Day restaurant in Forest Park Illinois who was
00:45:29
but it was up my the intro was half of the is that the name of it yeah yeah it was like a chubby little boy that I
00:45:36
overheard it that was awesome
00:45:46
that's just funny yeah boy you see the boy yeah you see that
00:45:52
little boy loved his pancakes uh so I I was trying
00:45:57
to write something with Colin and I kept sort of being like and that's you know that's a good one because it's important
00:46:03
for a society or something and was we were joking around like that and I remember Jay Pharoah was writing
00:46:10
something but you just heard him yelling the n-word in the hallway and so I think I said and can I say the
00:46:17
n-word in mind and so that was big girl at a party's bit too but she was always like a little
00:46:23
just assumes that she's got the right to do everything too
00:46:29
and I I'd like heard a story from a male friend of mine uh who there was like a
00:46:35
girl at a bar and I'd heard a couple like a couple people in my life were telling me you know they'd like seen a
00:46:40
cute girl at a bar or something and then shoot said something racist or offensive just kind of out of nowhere and it's
00:46:46
like where did that even come from yeah so wait a minute so you actually use the real word on your eyes oh no I've never
00:46:53
okay no no yeah no I I didn't know so that this uh Jay Pharoah was screaming he used the real word I start no no I
00:47:01
said can I use the n-word you know which I think I'm sorry he did I think we did put that in a an early girl at a party
00:47:09
did Jay Pharoah and you get the show on the same night or no he was uh
00:47:15
I can't remember if he was I think it was two years before me oh okay so he was already in the cast yeah the new
00:47:21
audition yes okay and he just happened to be screaming in the hallway yeah I thought it was from nerves that he said no no no no Jay was yeah yeah
00:47:32
did you get the show I well so I we that we had like Speed
00:47:37
Dating the next day they asked nine of us to go to the hotel where Lauren and
00:47:42
his peeps were and I there were like two long tables so I think I had an awkward
00:47:48
conversation with everyone for five minutes the only thing I remember saying was like I love
00:47:55
and I love Trader Joe's you know cucumbers and wine yeah I don't know and they're all just
00:48:03
staring was anyone laughing yeah friendly way were they just looking at you I I feel like they were encouraging
00:48:10
but that was sure they know you're nervous yeah sure they know everyone that walks in that door is like saying
00:48:16
stupid [ __ ] right right it's impossible not to so you do the audition you do this little like meet up
00:48:23
with them and then what happens you get a phone call yeah so then I got six months I got another phone call I think
00:48:29
the next day or something that to fly out for a screen test and it was an all
00:48:35
girls screen test and 80 was in the ETC show at
00:48:42
um Second City and so she Brian she got flown out from that too so 80 and I it
00:48:47
was what was nice was 80 and I really did every step together uh so we went to that first nice screen
00:48:54
test yeah and I knew her I was a fan of hers honestly um in Chicago and I was actually I think
00:49:01
I understudied her at that point too on uh her role on Etc and so we had a we
00:49:06
did it for our first screen test in New York and then went home and kind of didn't think about oh no then the day
00:49:13
I I flew back and I got a call driving back from the airport to fly out to New
00:49:18
York again to just sort of sit in the office and talk to them it's Lauren
00:49:24
pickup hit me on the hip can you do the person
00:49:32
who you don't want to see they're trying to converse with you yeah that doesn't
00:49:37
have an Uber app but what does she does we like the little fat boy but
00:49:44
can he be fatter yeah after the New York screen test where you're starting to
00:49:49
think maybe I'm gonna get this I mean did you call your parents who do you call yeah I've actually I definitely called my
00:49:56
parents um and probably only my my parents would be the one because again it was like I
00:50:03
don't I just don't want to say too much and jinx it or yeah or make people think
00:50:09
that I think I'm gonna get this yeah right but you did check in with them just because they knew you when you were
00:50:17
three years they've known me for a while so right but you probably downplayed it like I don't know if I'll get it but I
00:50:23
did this this and yes and of course they probably at that point assume you'll get
00:50:28
it I don't know maybe they did I don't know it's pretty far down the road yeah it's such a right and especially to go
00:50:35
from like I'm understudying Second City and touring
00:50:41
and like it's just such a big jump from that too now I'm on TV
00:50:47
and even you know like living in Chicago versus New York well just going in that building uh the
00:50:55
30 Rock and seeing 8h for the first time is Hallowed Ground right all of it would
00:51:01
give you a slight stomachache or something or diarrhea and you have to kind of wait forever you know as there
00:51:08
was I don't even know how many people were in that screen test you can just sort of like sort of hear people in the
00:51:13
hallway and kind of like I don't know when it's my I don't know when I'm up it's torch yeah
00:51:19
you're there for like eight hours and someone just goes right now those were the longest days of my life yeah yeah
00:51:24
it's that's scary there's a waiting thing Dana and I talk about like it's waiting to see Lauren there's some weird
00:51:30
thing about it's always waiting and it just drives you bananas yeah and that already does kind of build up and
00:51:37
like I hope I'm gonna can I stand by the time I'm out there
00:51:43
[Music] I think when Lauren gets Someone Like You
00:51:48
on the other side of it they're thinking like you probably see this now you've done second so you've done I you've done
00:51:55
all these things it's sort of a safe bet at some point like you're not just out of nowhere plucked out of nowhere they
00:52:01
they do like to hear about you I think they need a little buzz maybe for one
00:52:06
season and then they hear your name again and if they keep hearing it they go we gotta check her out and it's almost done deal then you know at the
00:52:13
beginning yeah well I certainly had no
00:52:19
there was never I never thought I was safe you know what I mean sure on your end yeah right on my end and I I think
00:52:26
like I don't know that there was any Buzz necessarily although I'm sure
00:52:31
Sharna probably said something but I think I was a bit out of nowhere and so I went for two
00:52:39
screen tests so then we went again at the end of the summer and Lauren told me he said my second one was funnier than the first
00:52:46
and he said that's why he hired me how crazy reliving we almost get more
00:52:53
nervous later that's weird yeah I mean but you look at your you prepared
00:52:59
yourself for whatever reason you did took all the steps so that it would be a possibility that you would get on
00:53:06
Saturday Night Live so let's move into now you're on Saturday Night Live on it yeah does anyone telling you anything
00:53:12
are you sharing an office with 80 or what's going on I actually I shared an office with Joe Kelly who now does Ted
00:53:19
lasso with Jason and I think he was there for Jason's last season and he was so uh
00:53:26
he really like took me under his wing and um he was sort of our social coordinator too so we went out a lot my
00:53:33
first couple years you know we'd go out every Wednesday I went to Amsterdam with a bunch of people restaurant up where
00:53:40
was it I think I'm sure I went there Amsterdam the the yeah Europe yes oh the
00:53:47
real answer I thought we went to Amsterdam's which was I thought a restaurant
00:53:53
we had our table in the back of Amsterdam you guys would go to Amsterdam every Wednesday night every Wednesday
00:54:00
night everyone swearing telling the truth you could take Paul's jet it'll be
00:54:05
fine yeah just they'll be back for read through they're wild you gotta let them so you get on SNL and you start
00:54:10
traveling they're wild yeah I I yeah I had to uh
00:54:16
I didn't I wasn't able to pay my health insurance premium until January though so it did I think it was like my first
00:54:22
tax return that's when I got to go to Amsterdam ooh yeah I saw that you
00:54:31
at a certain point you were on update how is that how is that true and how
00:54:36
does that discussion happen and then you wanted to go back to sketches more yes so I'm assuming right yeah it was and it
00:54:42
was um so I went on I went on with Seth for a bit which and it was really easy then
00:54:48
because Seth had been doing it and he had done it with the with Amy before so he sort of knew how to do that duo and
00:54:55
then Seth left and then I knew Colin was coming in and I think it was just especially it was kind of like it became
00:55:02
very clear that this was going to take a lot of work to sort of figure out what
00:55:08
our update would be and that's when I kind of it was kind of like I don't want to put
00:55:15
I don't want that to be my whole thing on the show to have to like I I just felt it was going to take more
00:55:23
work than I that would take away from getting to do sketches and it's sort of like I really
00:55:28
I liked being a guest on update and felt like I had had much more success doing
00:55:34
that than than being yeah host is like the straight man yeah and I kind of like I
00:55:39
just did I was like the it's it was a cool honor it was great and there was a great team writing jokes
00:55:46
it feels like a whole different world at SNL like the update room versus yeah sketches but I certainly was like I want
00:55:54
to be in the sketch World more and I don't want people to not write me into sketches because of update and uh
00:56:02
and and knowing that it was going to need all this work was sort of we had a lot of talks about it it's like I just I
00:56:09
would rather go back to just being in the cast then like I think it's it could have been done maybe if we had
00:56:16
if it were just more a stat if we had like a rhythm already but we just didn't it was so new and it was you know when
00:56:22
the audience when they lose someone it just everything takes a bit more work so it was getting used to not having Seth
00:56:28
then they're kind of like they don't like you already because you're not Seth and it was yeah I just
00:56:33
was like I don't want that uphill battle when it already is so tough to sort of
00:56:38
figure out your place at that at that place and uh we're all the better for it because your range is extraordinary and
00:56:45
so it seems like if it if update usurped you and your energy in time we wouldn't
00:56:50
have all these great characters you're just a natural sketch player and you're someone who you want on your team I mean
00:56:57
Laura must have loved it when he discovered you could play this you could do this you could do that you know it's
00:57:02
great to have somebody with that kind of yeah right in your SketchUp well and I think because right I don't know that you know now being there for a while you
00:57:09
sort of see how all how many different types of people do this show and make it
00:57:15
work and you're always like there's people who are stand-ups and they're you know it's just like not everybody comes
00:57:21
from like a theater um you're more valuable probably out there
00:57:27
in sketches I I definitely think I was more valuable in sketches than at the
00:57:32
desk because I'm also I'm not a stand-up and so it was it was just wasn't enough newscast history and it's good jokes
00:57:39
they have great joke writers usually an update always right joke writers I think I I think Dana is this possible I was
00:57:44
only there six years but I think I lived through doing bits with Dennis on update Kevin
00:57:50
Nealon norm and Colin Quinn wow probably yeah
00:57:55
then Kevin had a long run then norm and he got fired and then Colin and when I left yeah I
00:58:02
wow crazy and that is crazy and Colin always says they were mad Norm got fired
00:58:08
and sort of took it out on Colin yes right that would be hard to step into right after yeah right because it wasn't
00:58:15
it's not Colin's fault he's great but you're just following they're like wait where's Norm what happened yeah
00:58:21
that's true and Colin talked about that he felt he should be sort of Norm like in a way like yeah he's very affable and
00:58:29
friendly and he wishes he'd been more like that anyway everybody has regrets but you're the longest running female
00:58:35
cast member just a tenured a fun stat although I'd like I do think if someone
00:58:41
like officially ran the numbers I'd I because like a number of episodes number
00:58:46
of episodes because yeah Kate was there like five episodes before uh 80 and I
00:58:53
got there and then right I missed some because of other shows so I I felt like
00:59:00
I was pretty darn close to 80 and Kate like I think we're all leaning at the
00:59:05
tape we'll go back I would call it a wash and just yeah it's essentially around a decade did you
00:59:12
just rip the Band-Aid off and leave you didn't make it a long goodbye right I think yours is sort of out of the blue well it was it wasn't really though it
00:59:19
just wasn't a thing I was like uh broadcasting to everyone but when I went
00:59:25
back that year the you know the way I went back when talking to Lauren was like I would like to leave this year and
00:59:32
I think uh Christmas would be a great time because it's a happier show and it
00:59:37
would you know I'm gonna be so sad to leave so hopefully that'll something
00:59:42
more on the other end of this conversation no he gets attached to his cast members yes maybe he stayed till
00:59:49
February I think I think they were yes I'm sure he would have it was probably like we don't we're not
00:59:55
going to talk about it and broadcast it because I think there was still a lot of people holding out hope that I would not
01:00:02
leave was it when you did you go to Schmidt again and then come back is that what happened and 2020 I did make a dune
01:00:10
that fall and got back in December and then last year I did a play I did um
01:00:15
this one woman show in La so I missed the first Lily Tomlin one yes yes
01:00:21
wow another long title and it was right exactly I'm comfortable with filling
01:00:26
those shoes did you did you hear from Lily at all she uh she came to opening night okay
01:00:32
that day and that was that was I think maybe that was even more nerve-wracking
01:00:38
than having Lauren at that audition and Lauren asset yeah make sure you're there in the opening
01:00:44
night Lily but don't let her know what to do like a couple hours before because like she works very well understood yeah
01:00:51
but you probably scored I'm sure she was incredibly sweet I would assume she was wonderful I mean I think it was I got to
01:00:57
uh get Applause for her at the uh Curtain
01:01:03
Call which was really I was kind of like can I get through this can I say these things without weeping but it was very
01:01:09
cool having her there and then unfortunately Jane Wagner who wrote the show didn't get to the show but we did a
01:01:16
I went and saw her at her house which was really cool seeing all her and Lily's it was
01:01:22
like a museum really so they have all their things in search of intelligence search of sign the search for signs of
01:01:29
intelligent life in the universe and yet for short I know people called isfg
01:01:35
yeah that's for sure I call it the spaceship monologue
01:01:44
oh I saw Smacker dude you can't not do Adam Sandler when you say that yes I
01:01:51
thought you were saying Chicago and it looks very involved like that is
01:01:57
it a hard show I think you produce maybe also but is it hard because it's first of all very unique which is so hard to
01:02:03
do these days and then the dancing and the singing and the jokes in the songs all that stuff has got to be tough
01:02:11
definitely rehearsals
01:02:16
um there was a great we have a great choreographer and great music team so it was sort of that it all felt like we
01:02:22
were once we were shooting it felt very ready because especially that first season it
01:02:28
was such strict coveted rules so we really were so limited with how much
01:02:34
time we got with each other yeah you and Keegan Michael Key I love
01:02:42
his name star together and then go ahead yes so we play a couple that are they're
01:02:48
sort of a newer couple they've Fallen they met and have a great thing and then they're sort of fed a rut and their
01:02:54
relationship and arguing a lot and they my care Melissa finds a hike for them to
01:03:01
sort of it's like a romance hike or a love building hike a rekindling hike and
01:03:07
they go on it and they're arguing and caught in a rainstorm and somehow they end up in this magical town called
01:03:15
schmigitoun uh but they find out it's it's a musical every day they've gotten
01:03:21
themselves trapped in an old-fashioned musical they can't get out and they can't get out until they find true love
01:03:27
that's a good that's a good really interesting setup and it's really well
01:03:33
done I mean I was watching going just knowing a little bit about production being on moves and how hard everything is just when I do my basic crummy movies
01:03:41
to have this with like so many things happening and so many jokes written in
01:03:46
just how it's got to be so tight everyone looks great very good job I will say the second the second season
01:03:51
there are more uh looks and worlds covered so I think it was somehow we had
01:03:57
the same amount of time but I think like 20 more pages or something so ugh felt a bit more frantic but we got it we got it
01:04:05
done and it's I think it's pretty fun in Canada
01:04:11
oh you do yeah in Canada yeah in Canada I always like it we watched the first
01:04:18
episode of Canada I love what people are going into a surreal environment that can't be true but it is Vancouver yeah
01:04:27
your character is kind of going well let's go with this and your boyfriend's going this isn't that he's very
01:04:33
skeptical person yeah and then just so people know you'll randomly say something to these
01:04:39
people that you don't even know and then they'll have a well choreographed brilliant Broadway song and they were
01:04:45
such great dancers I remember there was one it was like eight in the morning or something and this guy just did
01:04:52
16 flips in a row it's like wow what a different morning you and I have had
01:04:58
yeah the tunnel of love and there's a guy there's like a bad boy guy standing there and then he sings you and this is
01:05:05
probably early on when you don't really know that's what's going on which is very funny reactions and then I guess
01:05:11
you guys start to get used to the fact that this is where you are yes yes and uh right we we stop asking what they're
01:05:18
doing every time we just accept it once we figure that out yeah that's on Apple
01:05:24
TV that's on Apple TV plus the new season which is Chicago is April 5th if
01:05:30
you like Broadway musicals which everybody does and then I I hopefully I do think first season I think a lot of
01:05:36
people who were not do not consider themselves musical people we had a good
01:05:42
amount of people I'm not a musical person I liked it well it's kind of Science Fiction in a way fantasy
01:05:48
hopefully there's like something for for everybody and I think having Keegan and I let's like a comedy audience and jokes
01:05:56
yeah I think that that was the show for them well the songs have jokes so it's not
01:06:01
just watching you know yeah it's it's very original
01:06:07
yeah I would check it out and you and Keegan are great I see Keegan out a lot I see him around it's the best yeah yeah
01:06:13
always uh good mood you can hear him when you're out too he's oh I feel like
01:06:19
when he enters the room you know he's there so there's like a yeah he's okay
01:06:24
could we just touch on as as we go through your life here uh some of your
01:06:30
classic yes sketches like I I know that you uh I just kind of personally I just
01:06:36
want to say this is very cool for me just I want you to know that
01:06:46
that's why me and Dan are going back and forth before we called you and we were like did you just see this one did you
01:06:51
see this one we're alums and and we don't want to make it too grandiose but it is a seminal experience for us in
01:06:58
that place Lauren and and uh being on live TV with your friends so you make lifelong friendships with so this is
01:07:06
very enjoyable but I I just kind of thought there was so many great cast
01:07:11
members in that decade and then I personally sort of started to notice you and notice you doing you know like
01:07:19
really connecting with the audience because I think it takes a while for the audience to go right well we like Cecily
01:07:24
yes yeah she she just made me really laugh and then it happens and builds so I just saw that maybe at least it was
01:07:31
for me those last two or three years you were just at another level or some other level happened
01:07:37
of confidence uh yes and and uh Gina
01:07:46
like sorry but like a heavyweight character like a big loud bombastic and that must
01:07:54
have been fun just to play that person that that Persona is so aggressive yeah
01:07:59
yeah definitely and I um Tucker and I Brian Tucker wrote it with me and he wrote it as a sketch
01:08:07
first just a sort of a Fox News thing but no one really knew who she was at the time even though we were like she's
01:08:14
well she's a great character yeah she's but uh the first time we did it I don't
01:08:19
think there was a big response and then we tried it again on update and it was sort of I I was excited because it was a
01:08:25
way to do a bit of physical comedy too because I wanted to we and the first
01:08:31
sketch that we wrote we had her in a chair with a seat belt
01:08:39
yeah do you know she always yells Dana because she uh was yelling for a Cobb
01:08:44
salad and they didn't have a good they had cranberries on it one cranberry right yes
01:08:55
it was a big powerful one and then I'm always interested when people can do because I don't know if I had that gear
01:09:01
play play subtle dumb and talk I'm just looking at the two porn stars you did
01:09:08
with Vanessa Fair there's a describe those two characters in the rhythm of
01:09:14
how you're acting dumb but not dumb I mean how do you describe that yeah well
01:09:19
I think my my porn star was always a little bit
01:09:24
more out of it than Vanessa's and sort of but it was kind of that's how the Pair worked you know and I think um
01:09:31
mine's just so I remember seeing I think it was like a Tyra Banks or something early on and she had
01:09:39
I porn star on I forget who it was but she was so like yeah and I'm happy doing
01:09:46
that and it's I they're just her the way she was speaking was I was like oh I
01:09:51
want to do that and I think it was also just a way to writing with Colin Jose we
01:09:56
like to do um a lot of malapropisms and so was it which would do a girl at a
01:10:01
party and then we wound up doing important you know it's like an excuse for a lot of bad puns too honestly yeah
01:10:09
right but it's it's fun when you land a hard laugh with something that's so soft-spoken I think that was like even
01:10:15
more than girl at a party I think that was the most I felt the best after that first year
01:10:23
you know I think it was Jamie Foxx's episode um
01:10:28
I think that's what it was and it was my first year and we were the the last sketch and I think and Lauren gave us
01:10:35
you know it was that you it was still more cushioned when you're in that last spot you can kind of yeah I just the
01:10:41
audience went so wild for it and it was so much fun to have that reaction for
01:10:46
the first time at ten to one yes yeah and kind of be like a little dirty and I
01:10:52
it was just it was really fun because you had a series of lines the one I saw today was uh this morning was I got
01:10:59
banged and then something really you're both doing it so obviously casual and so
01:11:05
soft-spoken but anyway so I'm glad to hear that that would be so for me it was doing Johnny Carson because I didn't
01:11:12
really I wasn't thinking about whether the audience was gonna laugh because I knew what I was saying was almost too
01:11:18
funny it was to me internally so I felt like you had that connection with that character where it's just like all
01:11:24
thrown away and really soft-spoken but super funny yes I think that's sort of how we got away with all of it too we
01:11:31
just we kept saying like how can we we just wanted a framework to be able to
01:11:37
say these awful things and we were like oh they're they were porn stars but they're not anymore and then then it was
01:11:43
like and we had a lot of fun running gags like I never got a name it was always like how do we do that
01:11:50
this time how can we skirt around me saying a name like uh can you give me an example like
01:11:56
she'd say we're not porn stars anymore I'm brekkie and I go and this is brekkie
01:12:01
or she said I'm brekkie and I said and you can too yeah it's your non-sequitur we're lucky
01:12:09
yes I'm not I'm not always paying attention my that gal at every moment
01:12:15
you may have done drugs they may have done drugs yeah you kind of hoped that they did
01:12:23
[Music] there was just a I thought it was very cute when you and um Kristen did it's
01:12:31
such a weird thing you're on a date with a 10 year old kid but you guys just carry the whole thing and you're so keeping it alive and funny
01:12:38
and just sort of odd but a very likable girls yeah and I think when I think I
01:12:44
wrote it with Mike O'Brien and it was like we just wanted to really write the
01:12:50
best date that someone could you know there's something that felt really good and it was like and then it just happened to be 10 year olds but they
01:12:57
really felt like this is a really a date that's good I know the way you played it was that's just fun to watch it because
01:13:03
I obviously you know you start these you don't know where it's going and if you're in comedy you don't know what's and it just it's fun to watch
01:13:09
these things unfold and then you guys just seeing two Pros just being very funny on their side of it like and
01:13:15
having like guys Tim and Bobby yeah it was a lot of giggling yeah I'm sure that this looks like a
01:13:21
super fun rehearsal also yeah and you and Bobby Moynihan you and he did the
01:13:26
Best Buy firing that must have been kind of fun because it was just so loud and and and and you're just you're supposed
01:13:33
to be getting fired so you just deconstructed every other employee right right they're going out they're going
01:13:39
out with the bang which one and it was uh that was the first show I'd gotten
01:13:45
a sketch on and I got that on and girlfriends on and it was it was so great because Bobby had been there for a
01:13:51
while and sort of like I really was like trusted whatever if he's saying this is good then I trust that it's it's I was
01:13:58
really I hadn't quite yelled at the table yet before that's my first time dealing is it definitely this happened
01:14:04
to me twice not as much as Dana but to either write something or call write something and when you you originally
01:14:11
get a big one on it's so much your focus to have two on is almost throws you yeah
01:14:17
that's too much yes yes it was it was it was crazy that they I was sort of like
01:14:23
how does that how will that work because you have to oversee him directly like is there so much to do with them and go to
01:14:29
wardrobe and costumes and set design and help with every aspect you're like oh my God just give me one let me just see if
01:14:36
I can figure right and you're like well is this gonna work it's my you know wanting to make sure everything is like
01:14:42
you've thought right you've thought through everything for that for the first one but then was the other one
01:14:47
girlfriend's talk show so I was the other one talk show talk show with with 80. so there's your your band made from
01:14:53
80 yep so you have a comfort zone with her yeah I did a lot of two-handers for
01:14:59
a long time over there which I really loved two-handers meaning Duos yeah
01:15:06
you know me and Bobby or Vanessa and I 89 yeah Kate
01:15:12
Wayne's World was a two-hander yes Hans and frogs I'm gonna say 200 yeah exactly
01:15:19
yeah yeah you know but yeah I think it's it's fun it's a it's a very clean simple thing you're you're playing a rhythm
01:15:26
with your other person and it's just nice yes also for getting laughs off a straight fart was uh you and Bill Hader
01:15:33
when he hosted and you're going to play Uno with your friends oh yeah well that
01:15:38
one we were I wrote a lot with James Anderson and Kent sublett and I was like
01:15:43
we just have to if like what I know of Bill is like we just have to give him a big toy yeah so it's like give him a big
01:15:51
motorized wheelchair and then you climb on him I didn't see that coming no you have the courtesy of
01:15:58
the courtesy blanket so it's not like and she goes sex is
01:16:04
sexual right is that a sexual thing it's science
01:16:09
and it's sort of you know this awful trying to make your friends feel bad
01:16:15
like you know how much I want a baby yeah yeah it was all good yeah try not
01:16:20
to laugh of course because he's banging everything drivers right and there's not you know we still only get however many
01:16:27
rehearsals and then so it is it's so
01:16:36
yes and I think like the Controlled Chaos was sort of that became my my
01:16:42
favorite part of the show you know it's like the one the thing that sets us apart from everything else is having it
01:16:48
live and not perfect yeah yeah so and it was sort of like throw in a dog throw in
01:16:53
some wine that you're throwing or something you know yeah just there's then you have chaos that you're kind of
01:16:59
like I don't quite know what's gonna happen so then the audience senses that having fun yeah they want it for sure I
01:17:07
had a dog with a master bedroom hair of course which was right you know of course but that was uh
01:17:13
[Laughter]
01:17:24
during February sweeps with Jay-Z so you do 10 years you go through all
01:17:30
these different numbers coming and going when you first came in who who was there and who left pretty shortly after that
01:17:36
or or were you well we wound up being in we had a pretty we had a core cast for a
01:17:42
long time together it came in yeah so I was when I it was Bill and Jason and
01:17:49
Fred's last year okay you caught them for one year yeah so I
01:17:55
got one year with them solid which was so exciting you know to have those people around when you're first there it
01:18:02
was really exciting and then um and Bobby Taryn J Vanessa they were sort
01:18:10
of the next uh and Naseem were all sort of the next upperclassmen and then 80 Kate and I and
01:18:19
Beck and Kyle we were sort of we were there for a long time together yeah you did have a nice
01:18:26
long run together yeah Kyle Moon Kyle Mooney yeah Bennett um Kate of course you yeah what yeah
01:18:33
like a re the the show keeps and Keenan yes and Keenan Thompson just The
01:18:39
Perennial cast member who's just always when you leave mid season is it funny a
01:18:45
weird feeling uh when the shows are still on definitely it feels like it was much
01:18:50
longer feels like a much much more time has passed since I've been there
01:18:56
um but I also I think one of the I I know 80 and Kate and a
01:19:02
couple other people I've talked to and even Kristen I talked to her when she first hosted it was kind of like you
01:19:08
can't I haven't been watching I think you have to kind of walk away for a while to be able to leave so it's very weird
01:19:14
to watch it after there's people doing your job yeah yeah it's weird all the anxiety I feel like would just
01:19:22
come back right away and I wouldn't I just don't I think it's I'm good where I am with this distance you did a good run
01:19:29
I mean my God yeah it's pretty comprehensive do you feel I don't know you probably feel so many things but
01:19:36
somewhere you must feel a nice level of satisfaction you lived your dream totally yeah and yes and I got to leave
01:19:43
like happy which I know is doesn't always happen no I mean I've heard of
01:19:49
those stories yeah and I you know there is I had a tough couple of years like everybody does and so it was really nice
01:19:56
to get to leave that way it yeah going out with a bang and now
01:20:02
you have schmickerdoon I think that's a great dude and you also
01:20:07
may not know this you're in a uh phone commercial that's right yes you wouldn't
01:20:13
know that yeah you might I don't know if you've seen it I don't know you can find it hard to see it though yeah yeah you
01:20:20
have to go to YouTube I'm a big fan of tech uh commercials you know potato
01:20:26
chips and Tacos is harder although I'm for sale at this point yeah I will buy the taco yeah but when
01:20:32
you're doing phone companies or that sort of Apple commercial whatever that's sort of nice I mean I think the
01:20:38
commercial very nice you you look great and it's just sweet and it's kind of smart so yeah I'm a big fan of uh doing
01:20:46
commercials as soon as you come off SNL great gig yeah it's a great gig and then
01:20:54
you got uh I think who is in it Seth was in one Seth has been yeah Jessica Williams
01:21:08
you were not supposed to do commercials so that um I'm not envious I don't hate
01:21:13
the people I live through them and I root for you guys but yeah do the commercials I know it was like a new
01:21:20
thing that we got to do a commercial during our time on the show that was always like such a No-No but I
01:21:28
think in the past however a couple years yeah I got shot down on that well I have to Tasker I have to tell her one thing
01:21:34
before you get your last word Dana born in Springfield Springfield Illinois
01:21:39
my daughter uh lives in Springfield and growing up really so I'm saying there's hope for
01:21:46
her to come out like Cecily because you did it and and you and you liked it you were there well I did move pretty
01:21:52
quickly actually I was a year and a half when we moved to Oak Park
01:22:00
what was the mall like when you were there but I'm sure it's what made me who I am
01:22:06
just Springfield yeah no not to spring I went back once uh I it's far away from
01:22:15
Chicago but I went I it was when Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running
01:22:22
mate it was in Springfield and a couple friends in Nigeria he did it at the J crew at the mall yeah
01:22:29
Barack Obama foreign
01:22:46
so I'm I'm just so uh I don't know I'm just so thrilled that we when they said
01:22:52
Cecily's in it made me very happy oh yeah it's like a I think it's like a Rite of Passage to to get to talk to you
01:22:59
guys and you are both some of the best you have ever done it and it's you're
01:23:05
doing well on the other side very nice I love funny people and we did ask Keenan
01:23:12
about we're just as a kind of a pithy question like oh who's the greatest we all have to make uh a name up or
01:23:19
whatever you know rank things and he had gave the best answer he just said spontaneously the women yeah that's all
01:23:27
the women because the American doll he is adorable he's like you want to adopt
01:23:33
him smart guy too yeah the amount of women and you're in that Continuum between Amy and me and I'll forget the
01:23:39
names too many shario Terry and um
01:23:45
right right right yeah so many women who've done such brilliant work on that
01:23:50
show in recent history but we fancy ourselves it sounds High flute a slight casual funny oral history of cast
01:23:58
members in interviewing cast members we we know where the grease paint is stored so with this has been a pleasure David
01:24:06
do you have any final statement you know I like it you get to talk on SNL not bore everyone because right certain
01:24:12
times you just start talking about it and you're like all right well forget it I should stop but it's fun to talk about
01:24:17
because it's on your mind it'll be on longer than you think you just keep
01:24:23
from Saturday Night Live and the great thing about the way the world works now with live streaming all these venues
01:24:28
you're just gonna work you're going to do whatever you want to do in Show Business for decades now but you'll
01:24:34
always be from Saturday Night Live yes you know which is it's a great legacy it's right it could be way worse it's
01:24:41
not yeah it could be way worse it's great to have I mean yeah you everything sort of comes from there and you know
01:24:48
came from improv places when you go there when you can do Live sketch comedy
01:24:53
and do it with with joy and and do it uh with as an expert everything else that
01:25:00
you can do yeah you know it's like I feel like the greatest thing since leaving has been learn like seeing that
01:25:08
people maybe see me now the way I saw Amy and Tina and Maya and Kristen
01:25:15
walking in and that was I think like that's just a a great thing to have in
01:25:20
my pocket for a bad day like I'm I'm amongst those names and that's you are a
01:25:26
thousand percent amongst and the everyone loves it at a certain age one of Lauren isms you know whoever's 14 at
01:25:32
the time but you've you've got your your cast your primary cast and your people
01:25:37
and those fans are so connected you yeah forever which is very sweet you know they're 14 now but you'll run into it
01:25:44
later and they'll be so so it's such an honor to be on that show yeah uh and to
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be humble about it and just be grateful we get to do this yeah yeah we got to do
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a fun job for a long time yeah yeah so we're gonna get get started in a minute we're just gonna take a break
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but we like to do pre-interviews I think we got a good show here we do we know
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now thank you very much I'd like to say we're going to see you around campus in Show Business and for sure at the 50th
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yeah right you know so that'll be exciting I hope I get to do something with you I know I could do something I
01:26:23
would love that we'll put you in Wayne we gotta start thinking about ah yes please that's one of the first movies I
01:26:29
think I like had memory like that's probably I have the most memorized of
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all movies oh I like to play I'm sorry and I think I
01:26:42
did like of course a gun rack I like it what am I gonna do with the I
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don't even know an ad gun uh
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movies yeah surreal but anyway best of luck to you uh I'm gonna be watching
01:26:58
your show with my sister who's visiting um tonight
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yes all right well thanks guys our pleasure a real a real honor and joy a
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