00:00:01
Hey Garrett Morris Garrett Morris it's you know a really fun to talk to an OG gangster from the
00:00:08
first the beginning of SNL I mean that's really where it all started that's yeah what we're all trying to copy from our
00:00:14
point of view like you when he as soon as he popped up he he came to play he had great fun
00:00:22
energy from the first second just yeah something about him uh he was into it it's like bottled up like he hasn't
00:00:28
talked I mean that probably doesn't have done an interview for a while and also two guys that are super interested in
00:00:33
and we have common ground so he uh he was a chatterboxer he he really was
00:00:39
there and knows all about those first five years which are seminal and Sno of
00:00:44
course and he gets into Grievances and people he maybe didn't like and yeah drug use and anger and all so it's very
00:00:52
very interesting I love it when people don't really hold back like that he doesn't give a [ __ ] fires up a join
00:00:58
halfway through well I I'm not sure if it's halfway through but make sure you're listening when it happens you're gonna love this you'll hear this
00:01:06
that's trying to get it going so yeah a lot of fun a lot of old Stories the stuff you would expect and
00:01:14
it's just great to hear from him yeah because you don't hear from him a lot and uh funny grew up watching yeah I
00:01:20
enjoyed this one funny I enjoy all of them Garrett Morris
00:01:28
[Music] my name is Morris hello Garrett you uh
00:01:35
my last name is Spade you got me to screwed it up by Heaven it's convict on
00:01:40
YouTube okay whoa let's get down to it yeah did you serve time that's my only
00:01:46
question I'm not mine I'm not lying I actually spent a year and a half at what
00:01:52
is known as Greg Meadows Correctional Facilities I was a teacher oh I was at
00:01:58
the Tim Meadows Correctional Facility uh now Gary you were a teacher in there you
00:02:04
too uh go ahead go ahead Garrett let's hear about that
00:02:09
anyway I in like 1968-69 I was a school teacher I taught
00:02:14
at PS 71 over on the east side and also um they had a program for teaching
00:02:21
convicts and I was a part of it to give us a um a Volkswagen right
00:02:27
you guys say it's really Volkswagen yeah everyone's saying it wrong yeah okay
00:02:33
anyway and I didn't know I was driving along the drug drug um thing and I used
00:02:40
to get caught Calling All the Time by the cops okay
00:02:45
when you're running drugs in the Volkswagen and then you got pulled over and you're also teaching kids and
00:02:53
running drugs I was teaching those murderous drama oh okay yes you have quite a resume
00:03:02
oh my God it's it's it's vast you know Garrett I have to tell Garrett something
00:03:08
just so we're we have some common ground here uh Garrett I was in Arizona you
00:03:14
know running the harsh streets of Scottsdale and when I was about you know
00:03:19
18 19 I was trying to flirt with this girl leaving a uh SAE party at Arizona
00:03:25
State and I got pulled over immediately and they cuffed me and said you have to
00:03:32
go to jail I don't think Dana I didn't tell you this I go to jail and I say hey any reason
00:03:39
for the jail you know uh I I didn't even ask uh because I just felt I'm pretty
00:03:44
guilty about a lot of things and they said yeah you've gotten too many tickets speeding tickets and we have a warrant
00:03:49
for your arrest and I realized they didn't so a couple hours in I go can I see those and they
00:03:54
showed me copies and it was my brother's signature saying he was me because he
00:04:00
got pulled over so much he would have had to go to jail so he goes no no I don't have my license I'm David and so
00:04:05
then he signed them all and then he still didn't pay him and then I spent the night in the clink and I had to have another comedian come bail me out
00:04:11
oh wow Chevy Chase bailed you out
00:04:17
I still speak with my brother unfortunately but he know I'm such a [ __ ] I would never really give him any
00:04:23
trouble about it and I didn't is he out of jail no I was one out he never went I
00:04:28
had to do the time for him I I had three older brothers that would stuff pant uh
00:04:34
stolen items down my pants because I was nine then they were 11 12 13 and they
00:04:39
were all juvenile delinquents we fought we smoked we stole but they would stuff him down my pants because I look so
00:04:45
little and so innocent and I'd walk out but yeah I stole a lot of stuff when I was nine I'm just putting it out there
00:04:51
right now I would I stole 10 yo-yos in one day I've had three weekends in the
00:04:56
tank myself okay see we're all not soft we're all from the [ __ ] streets let's let's get that out of the way yeah got
00:05:02
it yeah yeah I'm not interested at all but one time it was because a traffic
00:05:09
cop broke the law and used a slim jim right to go into my car under the mat
00:05:16
something and found a bag of marijuana which is illegal cop okay yeah anyway I
00:05:23
go to the impound to get my car and I see about four or five cops standing
00:05:28
around my car I'm not stupid so I wait right and they wait for about 30 minutes
00:05:36
look at my car so I go to the car and I don't go in and they come and they say
00:05:42
uh open this back door I said no I'm not opening again oh my God they open it right and then I was doing my karate
00:05:49
thing right so I had a ghee in the back yeah and they said open that bag I said no sir they open it and they had put the
00:05:57
grass in the bag oh my God yeah they have company but anyway I go I
00:06:04
go downtown and I'm I'm being booked and sure enough there was a cop there who
00:06:10
was him he says to me see John you looks me now when back there Johnny Lucy was a
00:06:18
very Progressive Italian uh lawyer who was hooked up right he would help you
00:06:24
out should have went over there John you know to figure out what it was about he said just see me Monday I'll come in
00:06:30
Monday John Lewis was something in the judge's ear and the judge says Garrett
00:06:36
Morris and the reason why he said get out of here I didn't want to see you in here all right
00:06:41
he whispered you were framed right that's crazy well the lawyer probably
00:06:47
told him how the cop got the grass yeah nobody cams back then
00:06:53
how you been doing good me me and Dana have been uh having
00:07:01
fun look at my hair looks good today you know I know what happened something this weekend
00:07:07
Oh an item an item
00:07:13
are you breaking a story listen Garrett what happens on flying the wall Chase
00:07:19
and fly on the wall am I canceled now that's that can't do yeah I'm leading the council yeah Dana and I are old
00:07:26
buddies and uh we sort of emerge in the same person over time I must say you do
00:07:32
look at your thing for the same mama you do yeah same tribe Irish Irish Scottish
00:07:37
Norwegian yeah what's your tribe really Scottish Norwegian
00:07:44
yeah well I'm that Cambodian Nigerian West Africa and by the way
00:07:50
ancestryback.com said I have a little bit of finish in me can you believe that
00:07:56
that's interesting it's down deep yeah I can't my skin cries
00:08:02
my birthday tomorrow's your birthday I read that your birthday's coming up is it the first is that what it is
00:08:10
okay we'll delete this because this is going to be airing in 2027. uh no we
00:08:15
don't we don't know all right what's your secret I have to ask what are you what are you drinking
00:08:22
is this here is green tea okay that's it that's the exactly glucose it comes to
00:08:30
reduce your glucose um so blood sugar stuff yeah yeah I I
00:08:35
have a I'm Type 2 diabetes your energy uh doesn't match your birth certificate
00:08:41
it's huge I mean you're just like on fire you're just energetic I I can't tell you on here man this is recorded by
00:08:48
cops okay yeah they're always monitoring this
00:08:57
I will say Garrett you are um you have sort of a uh very bright uh light and
00:09:03
energy about you and a fun thing about you and I see why in comedy you do well because you always bring it you're very
00:09:10
vocal you got a strong voice you just have a fun vibe and I think it's positive so yeah positive people want to
00:09:16
work with you so when it comes to Comedy this is what I say I'm an actor who's in
00:09:22
a comedy show many many years ago and I have been suffering ever since
00:09:27
now why have you been so sorry everywhere I go people want me to be being funny and that's my age
00:09:34
well she's telling me all the time inward you ain't funny
00:09:41
yeah fill in the blanks I got it yeah yeah uh well I think you're funny and uh
00:09:46
you know a lot of people have a funny vibe about them like people say the uh when I date girls I go what do you look
00:09:53
for and I go I like a girl that's funny but I don't mean she needs to be Robin Williams some girls just have like a
00:09:59
charm and fun thing about them and that's funny to me and it's a lightness and fun they don't have to be like you
00:10:05
know Henny Youngman yada so I like that I'll take care of that part take my last
00:10:10
one exactly I guess but by the way Dana Garrett has worked with Pryor and all
00:10:17
these huge huge Stars which I look over and I can't believe how cool it is I got to work with Richard Pryor but I want to
00:10:23
hear your story first don't one up on me I have a nice Richard story I have a great Richard prize story
00:10:30
okay I want to hear your fiends
00:10:38
that's the time story doesn't start like that right and Richard brought his own group
00:10:46
because he had heard that I was learned nobody heard about me except people on
00:10:53
the East Coast so Richard brought his own writers nobody knew I got this job was just sent you the 75 was a pretty
00:11:00
good job for a black guy again and they're thinking I'm long long uh
00:11:15
you can say anything you want as far as I'm concerned obviously thought that was
00:11:20
going on like Richard said got that uh Lord had gotten some guys with new well at the time I got to Saturday Night Live
00:11:27
I'd already been in New York for like 17 years I had written two plays two plays
00:11:34
yeah I read that last few Broadway shows uh and so I paid my dues
00:11:41
right and they didn't know that so when Richard came he brought his own group
00:11:46
and he didn't use me and I was really hurt by that because until this day
00:11:51
Bridget is my favorite monologue of all time right yeah and at that time I was
00:11:57
really very hurt because I wanted to work with him so he did the show didn't use me but later on when I went to
00:12:03
California he was doing a movie called critical condition and I got a call from
00:12:09
my agent saying Richard Pryor wants you to be in the show be in the movie and he doesn't say
00:12:16
anything I assume that was his way of saying hey you know
00:12:22
I'm sorry or something like I like it yeah yeah that was that was very sweet sensitive well you know a lot of hosts
00:12:28
do that I mean a lot of hosts still bring in writers just because they get scared like maybe Paul Mooney was with uh Richard I don't know right he was
00:12:34
with me he was a force of nature Paul Mooney I used to do stand-up with him in the late 70s and I would go why is this
00:12:42
guy in this little Club I mean he was so charismatic and so good looking and so
00:12:47
funny it was like just everything I love full movie I'm sure he was behind
00:12:52
Richard doing what he did because he was rich but yeah this day I see because
00:12:58
much of what Richard did was Paul Mooney
00:13:04
you know when you the idea of a monologist you know I I think of that more voice orientated but I think that
00:13:11
with Richard from what when I first saw him on The Ed Sullivan Show he mimed for
00:13:16
two minutes a guy reaching under his underarm to see if he had bo and it was
00:13:22
like just a silent movie you know so Richard had that capacity to paint a pitcher instantly and he could do just a
00:13:28
straight monologue so I don't know he could tell stories like yeah and play all the characters yeah you could tell
00:13:34
when you're talking about Mudbone you wouldn't be laughing for like two or three minutes until he got to the punch
00:13:41
line yeah he was so engaged in Mudbone until it's time till this day again how
00:13:46
did you say the word I said monologues say it again uh monologist anyway I
00:13:52
sometime I had trouble with English tell my Richard Pryor little sister
00:13:58
Connor so I'm working at the Holiday Inn as a waiter yeah and it was near the circle Star Theater up near San
00:14:04
Francisco Richard's headline there so Richard's in the restaurant so I gotta go serve Richard and I was really
00:14:11
nervous so I I brought him a a Denver omelette okay and then later on I came
00:14:18
back and I I took the plate and he looked up at me and said quote whoever
00:14:24
made that omelet can suck my dick man
00:14:29
I never knew if it was a positive or negative review 12 years later I'm in a
00:14:36
movie with Richard Pryor which I'll tell you about we're at lunch and I just wanted to know what he meant
00:14:42
that day but I didn't want to bring it up he probably wouldn't remember so I look at him I take a bite of my cheeseburger and I said this cheese uh
00:14:49
this uh this cheeseburger is really really really uh good and he goes wow
00:14:55
well you must want to suck somebody's dick no I can't I got the headline you got it you got it wrong
00:15:01
look at that suck dick yesterday well okay so it wasn't just me
00:15:08
yeah whatever the funniest joke I've ever heard was when he said this [ __ ] was so fine I want to suck her daddy's
00:15:16
dick I like that one yeah
00:15:22
[Music] I just want to say I just had a root canal and a crown put in and I'm kind of
00:15:28
spaced out so the end of the joke went like this you know okay do it again um he goes um
00:15:35
um I like wait a minute I'm so I'm so stoned from the dentist the punch line
00:15:41
you do it I said no I can't I really can't remember I
00:15:47
think he said this cheeseburger can suck my dick no no it was yeah it was a reverse that I I got the the information
00:15:55
by setting a trap you know I I will get to it before this podcast is over but I
00:16:01
am so high right now I mean I I'm I'm just like well I'm very much what kind
00:16:07
of marijuana marijuana no it was Dental stuff oh okay but if I if I don't smoke marijuana my
00:16:15
brand is sure my brand is Sledgehammer that's my brand of cannabis oh yeah God
00:16:22
you know what brand of cannabis is what sledgehammer Sledge from the Peter Gabriel collection
00:16:30
yeah I like that name it sounds cool shovel to the face yo I will be smoking
00:16:35
again okay Hey Garrett I have a question for you you can smoke a joint right now while I ask you if you want
00:16:41
um now Garrett when you okay bring me a joint oh boy uh uh so when you come on
00:16:46
SNL it must be like The Dirty Dozen so you guys all get together you don't you probably don't know each other right
00:16:53
right and then you are thrown together and you're sort of like okay let's see
00:16:59
what works what doesn't work and you oh you're a writer you're a writer at the beginning right yes I would yes okay so
00:17:06
you were not I don't think you're on camera until later I think that was a decision that was made later correct I
00:17:12
actually was on camera the first show oh let me check can I yeah you're in the
00:17:17
middle of a story I don't want to cut you off no way it's about you I was a playwright right so I brought
00:17:25
Lauren my play he read it and liked it because there's a couple funny things in it he hired me
00:17:31
I didn't know that just because you rather play that's about two hours doesn't mean you can write
00:17:38
30 minutes 30 seconds yeah a little tiny sketch yeah for sure it took me about four or five months to realize I
00:17:46
couldn't do it and and I was feeling really pissed off myself to finally I realized I had an idea because in my
00:17:54
play the Black Panther group that I have is called the Young Lions makes a joke
00:18:02
about how when they're collecting money at fundraising they want to raise a lot of money when they have white
00:18:09
milky white liberals in the audience right so I have to tell that idea I'm
00:18:17
going to call this name to Sugar oh Tom Schiller oh Tommy yeah
00:18:23
right show vision goes over to um the studio and tells it to another
00:18:29
guy whose name I will not call that guy then writes it down as his idea
00:18:36
oh whoa wait a minute right when I come over it's written down and he's not even
00:18:42
giving me credit for even contributing right so anyway
00:18:47
anyway what happened am I tell I'll tell you the whole story
00:18:52
anyway yeah anyway what happened was it became a thing called a white guilt
00:18:59
Relief Fund yes I remember the sketch right yeah and I don't know I when I
00:19:05
started off to help me because I I'm 85 I may not be honest my people for
00:19:11
donations out of guilt and make them an honorary negro you'd send them a plaque
00:19:17
anyway well that was the only thing that I did that I thought was worthwhile and
00:19:23
this guy who at that time was the second in command to end beats right now here's
00:19:29
what happened was mad I was so angry sure about that yeah
00:19:34
a couple of weeks to Stew over that and I was gonna make a serious mistake I'm
00:19:40
gonna come in this particular day and let him know what's for and even if it meant physically confronting him I
00:19:46
was going to do that although I knew he was a wrestling champ now oh I think I
00:19:53
know who it is from Harvard I think I know who it is
00:19:58
I didn't care I said if I'll get a couple licks in yeah after he whips my
00:20:04
ass he's still gonna remember me right yeah but I get off to the elevator and somebody there says Garrett Lauren wants
00:20:12
to see you in the green room I go to the green room and sure enough John and
00:20:18
Gilda and Jane had told Lauren Michaels look you've got got bringing in Black
00:20:24
actors he's one himself and here's a movie he's done they were looking at Cooley High
00:20:30
right so long looks at Cooley High he auditioned me with Gilda and I was
00:20:36
totally counterpunching because Guild is like you know there was uh uh to this day
00:20:41
unreal she and how she improvised you didn't even know she's doing it yeah right and I kind of punched you off that
00:20:48
it was I said it was I was a taxi driver driving from JFK with her as my my uh
00:20:54
passenger and I was cheating the hell out of her all the way right and so
00:20:59
anyway that's how I became a member of the group so I was there the first the first time we did it from the beginning
00:21:06
but I didn't start off that way no wow but how about you turned your anger and you had to switch gears and I look I I
00:21:14
look I'm a Buddhist so I don't believe in necessarily in a personal God but
00:21:20
somebody really was in the works who stopped that because I was going to make a serious serious mistake
00:21:27
franken's got some ground game too I do have go-to moves Garrett I mean how as a fighter would you do the kind of hey
00:21:33
let's be friends and then head butt or would you work the body or what would be your kind of go-to moves we're going to
00:21:42
the sun affected space because that would have brought him down then I want to kick him in the chair he's going to
00:21:47
get up mad herself and do some kind of hold and break my neck okay but okay
00:21:52
look if you're short like I am and don't wait much you got to go forward yeah you
00:21:58
got to get away you hit fast and then you move but be Scrappy there was no way no one could have won that fight yeah I
00:22:07
know the dude and he would he's very tough when he gets in the ground game I would say all right listen I got mad at
00:22:13
him too but I didn't I I didn't think of him decision hey before we go on can I just do the Richard Pryor joke we can
00:22:19
cut it out all right I'm so sorry about the dentist but here it is I waited I'll set it up
00:22:26
real fast when gave Rich Pryor Denver at the Holiday Inn I brought got the the plate up and he said whoever made that
00:22:33
omelet can suck my dick 12 years later true story in a movie wanted to know what he meant by suck my dick was it
00:22:39
positive or negative I'm having lunch with him I take I take a bite of the cheeseburger I look at Richard and I say
00:22:45
well whoever made this cheeseburger can suck my dick and Richard said you must love that cheeseburger
00:22:52
that's how you do it boom Dana I'm making Garrett happy that's what I love
00:22:58
I never knew I would say suck my dick on this podcast now I've said it seven times that's a mic drop
00:23:05
ladies and gentlemen what do you have if you have
00:23:11
a container with a penis excuse me uh a patinas
00:23:18
that's a yeah you have a dictator stupid
00:23:25
oh my God why do you have to have the stupid party yeah stupid yeah it's just it's a pretty good job no because you
00:23:32
didn't know what it was stupid I like the stupid Edition was hilarious that could have been a gag character so
00:23:39
so you were part of that original Lex economy now who is your hangout friend of the cast these are just basic SNL
00:23:46
questions so who'd you gravitate to was it Gilda or just everybody or did you
00:23:51
have people here and Chevy um but I didn't do what I should have
00:23:57
done because I should have also after the show after the show at the first couple of
00:24:02
years it was you go downtown to this bar I think uh Willie oh yeah you have the
00:24:07
party yeah that's equal to that golf game yeah people talk about when you
00:24:13
form alliances right so I didn't do that so I really had a lot of people not
00:24:20
liking me thinking I was stuck up and all that well yeah why didn't you go I'm one now I want to know because I even to
00:24:26
this day am an introvert working against that all right okay you've gotten over
00:24:33
it to a lot a large extent but also I had at that time
00:24:38
okay do you want everybody to know the real truth I only have probably a couple of girls at home waiting with some
00:24:45
cocaine to begin just do what we're gonna do so it was either the girls in the cocaine or having Lauren tell his
00:24:52
story about how we've met well listen uh that's a tough one Dana
00:24:59
because his story sounds great like all that fun stuff but then you look back and you realize you've got such huge
00:25:06
talented cool people that you get to because I was gonna say Garrett did you have an official after party it sounds
00:25:12
like you didn't but we had Dana was on and then I was on with him for a while and we had they would walk out with a
00:25:18
ticket a secret you know during the show remember this Dana and then hand you and you put it in your wardrobe or something
00:25:23
you go here's where the party is don't tell anyone and it was during the live show so you go okay and then after the
00:25:28
show you'd go straight there but they didn't want everyone to find out about it and so we'd have a designated spot
00:25:35
every Saturday and we'd go there sort of the same thing you just go there and get all [ __ ] up with everybody but you see
00:25:40
it I'm sure that the reason why that didn't happen to me is because at first I said I'm not going in the first place
00:25:47
right so when that started happening people probably said well you know [ __ ] him you know he doesn't well well you
00:25:53
had some responsibilities yeah but I remember when I first got an SNL one was telling me about you know Chevy and
00:25:59
Danny and everybody and Gary said Garrett do that again
00:26:04
Danny [Music] Danny you can never get Garrett to the
00:26:10
party unless you brought some cocaine and some hookers I go really right I'm
00:26:15
sure right listen it's good bait well the thing about it
00:26:22
was coming in 86 you guys were badasses like to me that original cast you guys
00:26:29
were oh it's a little a little bit of a okay let's a little power flower oh
00:26:35
you're gonna blow your nose fly yeah uh gentleman joins us um I've been on
00:26:41
Saturday Night Live from the original cash a young man named Garrett Morris but we thought of you guys as badass
00:26:48
Pirates you would fight there were drugs you know Chevy and and Bill Murray would
00:26:53
fight and blue she was like a badass and then we got in and people were having like amp still lights we'd have a Bud
00:26:59
Light at the party with me and Phil and just look around and we didn't party so we didn't belong well can I set up my job yeah John
00:27:10
when he and I were both into the cocaine thing yeah never really talked to me
00:27:15
unless he needed cocaine and then I could have knocked on the door hey buddy come in and I put my you
00:27:24
know tennis ball down there and you know what he would do 10 of them by the time he got two I had
00:27:31
none left so he would just go in could a straw on his nose go down on the desk you were about to start the cooking he
00:27:38
would snort all of it oh my God he could leave a little bit oh God a little bit
00:27:43
at the end God a nice guy he's a brilliantly talented man but boy I had
00:27:50
mineral water and Nora Dunn would come in and just chug it yeah wow I'm kidding no but what was it about like I tried
00:27:58
cocaine I've talked about it I just like you're saying you're fighting being introverted like when I did cocaine
00:28:04
within 30 seconds I was very sad I I just really it made me very anxious and
00:28:11
very paranoid I only tried it twice and I one time I did some cocaine drove to
00:28:17
the comedy club and I couldn't go in the club because I knew they all hated me in there then I just drove back home so how
00:28:24
did it but I knew people that cocaine spoke to them that eventually they had it in a little thing and they just sniff
00:28:30
it all day yeah um so what what did it do to you I mean did you okay cocaine did the opposite to
00:28:37
me it livened me up yeah uh oh because you're an introvert so it kind of opened
00:28:43
you up but then you need more cocaine cane right you're losing the height you got to get more right that's the trouble that's the trouble because the thing
00:28:49
that first High you never get it again Dana uh let me get it Again David okay
00:28:54
after that you're striving to get that first High so yeah even if you're on for like 35
00:29:01
years which I was 35 years yeah it's definitely you get
00:29:06
never get that again then you start smoking it
00:29:13
you never get that first Tire again okay so doesn't make you stop chasing it I
00:29:20
was there I did it for a while well Lynn by I said one first do you remember Linda oh yeah what a mess yeah when he
00:29:26
when that happened to him I I started thinking yeah you're way older than this guy you weigh all
00:29:32
and you know you know you're lucky that that didn't happen to you you know Garrett I was I
00:29:38
was in it during land bias land biased for the for the listeners is a basketball player that got recruited by
00:29:45
the Celtics I think yeah and I think he died after draft night or something from doing too much cocaine something I think
00:29:51
before he played and that was the first time I think I knew you could die from just doing straight cocaine like I
00:29:57
hadn't heard excuse me excuse me oh he's he dropped his joint his house is on fire no he's actually yeah oh is it okay
00:30:04
to say that we think our friend Garrett Morris uh is enjoying some fine
00:30:12
oh oh so that's like what does that do it's evens your energy out or what
00:30:18
it's a kind of marijuana that lets you still weak oh it's up upper okay it's an
00:30:24
upper uh if you get a hybrid it's in between if you get Indica you're going to go to sleep
00:30:36
well I worked with Scatman Carruthers once in Rockefeller Center yeah I envy
00:30:42
you okay let's get it man angel from heaven oh
00:30:48
sweetest guy oh wow and always was you'd go in the bathroom and you'd hear him and he'd be smoking weed you know and uh
00:30:56
so one night it was the one animal one year anniversary of John Lennon's uh death and my brother was visiting the
00:31:03
show it was a sitcom with Mickey Rooney another crazy man and Scatman gave us a joint he rolled it in front of us and he
00:31:10
had both ends were closed off he did it without even looking you know and so
00:31:15
then we tried it and it was terrible it was really weak so the next break I brought back some Colombian pots
00:31:24
I did and the next day in the elevator now Scatman was from the 30s when it was illicit he in the elevator people around
00:31:31
he says to me quote the music was good might I get a pound
00:31:37
of your week so after the show is over my brother and I got a huge bag of pot
00:31:42
grocery bag of pot drove it down to Van Nuys where Scatman live brought him to
00:31:48
the pot played banjo kept in touch with her know his guitar yeah and ukulele still going strong
00:31:54
we've never met like a a character like Scatman you know you see that man there
00:32:01
he said he points to the janitor he goes that man's an artist that man is an artist you know he was
00:32:07
just taking us all these different places he was in Blues Brothers Dana and that's the only reason I knew who he was
00:32:13
because I was young and I saw I think he was in Blues Brothers he's saying Minnie the Moocher is that what I'm thinking
00:32:18
did you see Blues he was in The Shining oh I don't know oh
00:32:24
yeah oh that was him Jack Nicholson you know what I have never seen that
00:32:30
it's scary I love my man but I hate
00:32:35
um scary movies yeah I hate scary movies yeah so do I dude I'm with you well you said that Jack brought in a
00:32:41
suitcase of pot into London yeah uh no this was Cannabis and he goes and
00:32:49
they go and Jack goes I'm not gonna sell it it's just for my personal use and
00:32:55
they let him through really yeah uh shoot I I have another thing did you
00:33:03
have any favorite sketches back then Garrett when you were there that first year um the uh colossal uh president
00:33:11
what was that the Colossal president yeah that was just a thing at the 12
00:33:16
mile island or something like that where the uh nuclear thing oh Four Mile
00:33:21
three miles three mile 5K yeah everybody's big uh and I I'm the
00:33:29
wife of um the president and he's big and I'm big you know
00:33:35
um another one that was my favorite not for any other reason but I really think about it as a win which somebody didn't
00:33:42
get the message it was with um uh OJ Simpson oh well he was a mandingo who
00:33:49
goes around ripping all the uh black slaves female
00:33:54
slaves and at the end I suppose the kid which was a kiss I don't want to kiss
00:34:00
him David is to kiss you know like this to kiss
00:34:07
him and he backs away as if I really wanted yeah you were just acting right
00:34:12
yeah oh man another one is uh something that Adam schlabel did uh the uh um um
00:34:19
baseball um very very good go Chico baseball have been very very good for me yeah actually
00:34:26
Chico Escuela is really um Brando Murray's original
00:34:32
[Music] enlarged on it right so we would do a
00:34:39
piece like that all the time and also I can't uh throw out um something that uh
00:34:44
Chevy came up with for me which is a hard to hear it yeah which became kind of a a run everyone knows that are you
00:34:52
sure yeah that's why Bell's a big writer there yeah he was good right you know I was thinking I love him I love swagville
00:34:58
yeah yeah he's great yeah
00:35:05
but Garrett now when you did um in the beginning oh first of all now that that one uh I don't know when prior hosted or
00:35:12
what year was when they that sketch was Chevy I think it must for the first year wasn't Chevy only one year yep heavy no Chevy came in after a year
00:35:20
and a half oh no I thought that was Billy I'm sorry no no Terry was in after you're right he
00:35:28
was like a year right and then Bill Murray came in right right and Chevy Chevy blew up what was that like when
00:35:35
one cast member was like wasn't he on the cover of time or something I mean it just went phew was he on a couple of
00:35:40
times I didn't know or Newsweek I mean I know that Chevy just got so much it would Fletch that was the name of
00:35:48
Flint yeah he did a lot of movies yeah I thought however he waited he should have
00:35:53
waited a little longer of course I I agree he wishes he'd never left he he wishes he'd stayed at least five years
00:35:59
right just like the guy who's on at a cop show uh who later on did uh CSI
00:36:06
David Caruso yeah he left too soon you know that happens and I get I sort of
00:36:12
get it but Chevy was a tall great looking guy and he's a and it was really good in comedy and then he was a movie
00:36:17
star like I don't even know what that would be like but to leave when you know it's the best show it's a cool show like
00:36:24
you guys I know Chevy blew up but all you guys were huge The Beatles I mean everyone yeah rebel I mean there's just
00:36:30
was nothing like it I mean I was in college and when it when it came on and I saw all you guys it made me feel old
00:36:36
fellas okay when I was one all the time
00:36:42
I was being born in the hospital it was on TV and I was like this looks pretty fun oh my God
00:36:49
I was born in 1988 but when when I when
00:36:55
I got into Saturday Night Live I had been in New York about 17 years right
00:37:00
and you were 38. I just asked to join uh Saturday Night Live
00:37:05
uh all those other excuse me [ __ ] had just got out of high school and college I was about 10 years
00:37:13
away from it oh AARP okay you didn't you did not look older than anyone you
00:37:18
didn't stand out as like Phil Hartman who I think was 38. I'm 39 years old yeah yeah yeah yeah now Garrett this uh
00:37:26
Dana I just want to ask him that which I everyone might know this but Chevy does there's some sketches people remember
00:37:32
you know and one of them is Chevy interviewing Richard Pryor when he was there for a job and who wrote that huh
00:37:39
who who wrote that one I think Chevy and Richard together oh cool yeah that yeah
00:37:46
that's like I mean when you look back on what you guys did comedically That's a
00:37:53
classic and then what you could what we call it now since what we can get away with now you know it's just very
00:38:01
different at the time even at the time it was incendiary but now it would be like let's go to a test pattern right it
00:38:08
would just get canceled I mean Lauren they did at the right time because in
00:38:13
about 10 years we got into what we're into now right which is where which is a softening yeah you I mean with all due
00:38:21
respect to the brilliant cast that Saturday night had always had you can't really write for them the way they wrote
00:38:28
for us uh then I mean you know and I I hate that I hate that
00:38:34
it changed a real it's a Rubik's Cube you gotta really you really have to cleverly get clever stuff in because you
00:38:41
can't it's almost like you're pulling from the same eight jokes that everyone's allowed to use now right and that won't make people mad but you guys
00:38:48
I think the first five I think you're on for five years that at least the standards and practices didn't even know
00:38:54
what to say no to they were like this is so ridiculous like they had to learn and go oh wait wait we don't like that we're
00:39:00
getting a lot of complaints about that we have to stop that but it was like playing whack-a-mole because every week you think of a new way to offend people
00:39:06
and that was the greatest part of it well no no one cared initially and then the show became a smash at what point I
00:39:13
mean two years in you guys just blew up but initially probably they didn't no one's watching we had a lot of people
00:39:19
who were we thought were Progressive okay look in my opinion the true
00:39:24
Progressive yeah well without any sign of racism whatsoever but I so he's like
00:39:30
so he's like me I thought for instance because of his past
00:39:37
would be the same way Michael Donahue with all due respect was an absolute
00:39:42
racist [ __ ] you gotta add [ __ ] to that because it's just handles
00:39:50
the show there was this kid that was going to have a black doctor right they
00:39:55
have a doctor not a black doctor and I wasn't in it at all so I said hey Michael well we had to talk to me back
00:40:02
you know he tells me well Gary uh the audience might be thrown by a black
00:40:07
doctor now this is 1975 right and I'm from New Orleans where from the time I
00:40:13
was 12 years old I was surrounded not only by [ __ ] of black medical doctors
00:40:20
but black phds as well and I'm wondering how a guy who yeah name is associated
00:40:26
with National Lampoon doesn't [ __ ] know this did he not see Guess who's
00:40:32
coming to dinner with Sidney Poitier which I saw in the theater at age eight
00:40:37
and then it infected me the rest of my life and I got to do a lot of benefits of Cedar uh Sydney Poitier and uh he's
00:40:45
another real gentleman sorry I'm still a little high I'm slurring well that's tough because yeah you're lighting the show you say hey can I get thrown into a
00:40:52
sketch and he said no this one's not right for you and it's like oh boy you can't be a black doctor what are you talking about you know we're talking
00:40:58
about hey I remember being almost all right you walk by a person just walk
00:41:04
by and you I'm on 72nd Street and he's coming
00:41:10
towards me now for like a half a block away I said that's [ __ ] 105 yeah right oh yeah I'm just faster man
00:41:18
I like that to this day I remember that day you know oh yeah he was so eloquent
00:41:23
I remember I did a bunch of benefits for Cedar Sinai and he was always there and then one time I got off stage and I was
00:41:29
walking to the audience he stopped me and I was able to do my yeah and he gave me some praise and I did my I said they
00:41:36
call me Mr Tibbs and he laughed so hard that was with Rod
00:41:42
Steiger I think but yeah for me there were so many brilliant uh movies in the 60s and 70s and just a lot of my heroes
00:41:50
were black I mean just Jimi Hendrix my brother came in 1966 he came home he was 13 He said I just saw the best guitar
00:41:57
player in the world I said what's his name he goes Jimi Hendrix but we didn't we weren't we were kind of progressive
00:42:03
in our own way back then because we just wanted to see Jimmy we didn't think you know and I went to the first
00:42:08
integrated well a very very well integrated high school with busing in 1969 so oh my Jimi Hendrix you know what
00:42:16
he did when he came back from England where he'd only become famous he got on the corner of 125th Street and 17th 7th
00:42:23
Avenue and played the guitar for like 18 hours or so just introduce
00:42:30
people to him he was really something else he was no like Neil Young has said
00:42:36
about him no one's ever played the guitar like Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix was never he did he die before SNL or
00:42:42
he's somebody they would have him he was one of those caught up in you know yeah he died he was like 20 right 27 yeah
00:42:51
um you know Janice Joplin around the same age um I hate it when that happened to Jess I
00:42:58
loved her ass man I mean you know what I mean yeah well again you know there are
00:43:05
there's just certain talents like Janice's singing and there's a word I
00:43:10
use a lot Supernatural that screaming the intensity of it was
00:43:15
just crazy without due respect especially coming out of a white woman okay sure
00:43:22
yeah she has such a talent and then it almost like they burn out quickly
00:43:28
because it's so much talent and so that voice is so cool and everything and you hope it's around forever but yeah yeah
00:43:36
just The Accidental plane with fire you know Jim Morrison once you start playing with opioids and mixing that stuff in uh
00:43:43
you know of course you know John Belushi you know it's it wasn't intentional uh but you're playing with
00:43:50
fire it's it's just matter of fact that's another nothing that started me started meeting up
00:43:55
yeah John's death was John during when you were on SNL when was it I came he was 32 like 83 I think right it was
00:44:02
after Sno when he he died yeah John and I didn't really hang only when he needed
00:44:08
cocaine yeah right yeah sure so what how did that affect you that that get you
00:44:13
off cocaine or you just started to slow down or what happened to slow down and by the time I came here here I was it's
00:44:22
not something you could just stop um by 2005 uh I went to AAA uh
00:44:30
Alcoholics Anonymous yeah and they do something that exasperates you they will
00:44:36
call your ass okay and I will sponsor you over and over and so to that I
00:44:42
really uh I've succeeded in getting rid of it okay much different with cigarettes which I still
00:44:50
am struggling with but uh I'm glad that it's 2005 it's been nice that you know
00:44:56
2002 22. yeah here we are since that's it was 17 years 16 yeah yeah well the
00:45:02
body has a remarkable healing apparatus once you give it a break you know so you're did you have a lot of people who
00:45:10
lived a long time in your family tree nothing my grandfather lived in 92. okay
00:45:15
so you can see yeah yeah my grandmother got I'm sure got cancer when she was in
00:45:23
the 50s so yes my mother lived to 80. but uh she didn't take care of herself
00:45:28
okay so there's a cup you know either I'm gonna hook up my grandfather and you know stay
00:45:36
for a minute how do you deal with stress are you really Buddhist are you really Zen are you are you relaxed in your
00:45:42
brain all the time guys I love the respect I know you guys hear Buddhism and you think zen zen not but it's it's
00:45:49
not it's only one part of Buddhist there are 300 right over 200 000 Buddhists
00:45:55
worldwide and kill them unlike me they chant which is not the same thing as the
00:46:03
Zen Buddhist okay right so you chant they meditate don't they Arigato
00:46:15
let me hear it
00:46:21
get it to the Mystic law of cause and effect which means you don't believe in
00:46:26
a personal God but you do regard the law as being in the place that most other
00:46:32
religious place got it is the most sacred right I did Transcendental Meditation and my Mantra
00:46:39
is dumb not a lot of people I'm I'm I'm a TM uh practitioner too yeah my Mantra
00:46:45
Domino League which I found out later was Native American for job your shorts we don't have much time are you telling
00:46:50
people your Mantra no I was kidding I'm just joking I would never tell you my Mantra I like yeah I don't tell them my
00:46:57
Mantra is Garrett [Laughter] Garrett after SNL first of all there's
00:47:04
too many cool people there you had you had Danny Aykroyd who we did I did two movies with three actually great guy uh
00:47:10
beautiful yeah yes he was beautiful dude I seemed like uh did you hang with anyone after the the following Year's
00:47:17
missile you stay in touch or just see him when you see him kind of thing when I saw him um when James was out here
00:47:23
doing two Rock free stuff on the phone oh that's right Jane was on a second
00:47:28
Rock From the Sun Third Rock From the Sun right and now I have a closet relationship Lorraine yeah Lorraine yeah
00:47:35
Hannah who is very very challenged yeah and hacks oh hacks yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:47:43
Dynamite after and yes so a very fine comedian she did my show
00:47:50
last year there we go yeah Garrett you who was your head writer when you started was it Ann beets and beats was
00:47:57
yes she was see they had a girl head writer back then which is probably yeah right that was on YouTube more rare than
00:48:03
a black doctor the other guy we talked to believe mentioned that was the uh assistant head run
00:48:11
I know who you're talking about and look very sorry about what
00:48:21
happened up when that thing happened they should have backed him up and not let him go the way he did
00:48:28
I was a lot of politics a lot of politics he didn't have to leave because of that
00:48:36
yeah I tend to agree it was a purge that had to happen but it some people got swept up into it that maybe in a more
00:48:43
reasonable time would have yeah yeah he's not been treated like that you know yeah I agree yeah jeez I wonder if I'm
00:48:50
canceled right now do you think we could be careful because you agreed we said suck my dick I said Sidney Poitier black
00:48:57
man first of all he says with all due respect to us and then he says with all respect [ __ ] and other people so
00:49:02
it really did I lost a little bit white [ __ ] I don't care more so I'm
00:49:08
I'm just happy the rest of the day like my day is a home run now because do you have any kids I've got two sons and
00:49:15
they're in the show business every day
00:49:22
yeah I guess so I mean he got you on a technicality [ __ ] is just a
00:49:27
great word because of the rhythm of it you know it's a great word I mean gosh
00:49:33
darn it that's not doesn't get in my community gentlemen you say it better
00:49:38
he's a bad [ __ ] meaning you dinner meaning a great guy
00:49:43
yeah I like that I see of like oh Rachel Maddow I said she's a bad [ __ ] right
00:49:51
rather than a [ __ ] right he's a bad [ __ ] you did you did although I don't look and then he was anymore
00:49:58
no no no it's con it's it's designed to get us all Angry when I was like it was
00:50:04
reaching all the time and what's the old lady uh uh Joy Reid you know I read yeah
00:50:10
you know and I remember I remember you know yeah Brian yeah so Ron Williams was
00:50:18
my thing until until the news just started bringing me down
00:50:26
[Music] here before I uh before I uh we let you
00:50:32
go do you still sing Dana said you're a good singer I used to sing high seas now
00:50:38
I sing little C's I sing the blues now I don't sing uh you know oh he's doing the
00:50:45
Albert King or who are you singing Muddy Waters and stuff like Muddy Waters yeah yeah
00:50:50
um my favorite Blues sing is Muddy boys oh I loved Albert King Blues power great
00:50:56
now the King was great that baby that baby and it's baby had a baby bed all fussing up he's got the blues you got
00:51:02
the good old-fashioned country Blues remember Albert wasn't he magic and of course Muddy Waters I mean you know
00:51:08
that's another guy again lay it on us don't be shy what are you
00:51:16
saying with the Harry Bentley Harry Belafonte I was with him for like nine years as he my first job yeah well
00:51:24
there's a single arranger with uh yeah that's so that's amazing the Bell find
00:51:29
his singers the Belafonte singers yeah as a 12-member group that he managed right
00:51:36
he's like periodically but these he used to send without him so we too who sang
00:51:42
that thing you put the lime in the coconut you put it right that was Harry okay that was Harry Belafonte yeah yeah
00:51:50
and then it became a commercial too yeah some product
00:51:55
did I come man we won't go home what about seven Up is this Blues now you can
00:52:02
you can get laid with that 85 that's all all day 85 still alive you got cool boys 87
00:52:10
you're in heaven 88 don't be late 89 won't you be mine 90. she's living honey
00:52:18
was this your SNL audition Jack that was a good one
00:52:23
[ __ ] I know I've had dinner with them uh well Garrett thank you for coming on
00:52:31
with us it's been a delight you're so much fun I feel happier hanging out with you for this hour thank you so much
00:52:37
fellas for even thinking about this old guy yeah you're a good dude and it's you
00:52:42
know we all got a job because of uh you and the squad oh my God and Lauren and everything and I just want to say 100
00:52:48
episodes on Jamie Foxx they were on the Martin show yeah okay thank you bud extremely talented
00:52:56
and nothing you got your [ __ ] job we do the best we can you're terrific you're tremendous excuse me many people
00:53:02
is who's better than Karen Morris nobody listen many people are saying never better nobody's ever done it like him
00:53:08
come on let's get real folks oh no come back in around Garrett Morris here's the
00:53:14
deal come on we could do better we will do better you got Trump and Biden at the
00:53:19
end I love you man thank you brother can we
00:53:25
hang out sometime can you okay you got my number all right Garrett miss you bud
00:53:31
no let me thank you guys for this I appreciate it we really I just really
00:53:37
enjoyed this I know I'm a little I'm a little fuzzy and my words aren't coming out as well as they normally do but
00:53:42
because of the dental work but I got the prior joke out I completed it and that made my day it was a three-parter yeah
00:53:49
oh now I'm gonna pack myself and Ice get a B12 shot and just get a good crack of course light we don't want to end the
00:53:56
show with the words suck my dick okay what would be the substitution
00:54:03
um so um instead of Shane Shunk my dick yes you kind of say uh how about a hand
00:54:09
job dear I guess that's a little more benign maybe not so uh dramatic I got
00:54:15
one good night [ __ ] hey hey what's up flies what's up please
00:54:22
what's up people that listen we want to hear from you and your dumb questions questions ask us anything anything you
00:54:28
want you can email us at flyofthewall cadence13.com
00:54:35
folks we got another Ama to cap it off this is a ask us anything
00:54:40
question is do you have a favorite SNL Monologue one of my all-time favorites is the one
00:54:47
where Susan Lucci and the Emmys from 1990. hey everyone Emmy fight Neil I'm wearing an Emmy
00:54:52
around his neck Spade using Med corn in the cup yeah that was funny prices thank
00:54:58
you for the Pod okay well Dana do you remember this one because I was just a newbie on that I know I wasn't I wasn't
00:55:05
in that one was gone that was funny though I was Dana not in something I was probably changing into do Bush senior I
00:55:12
had the bald caps going you need you need that 12 minute chunk yeah I would just put the bald cap on early and just
00:55:17
drop all the wigs on the top anyway um one that stood out for me during my
00:55:23
time I don't know if you were there for it was one Steve Martin I was gonna say [ __ ] sings a song with and it becomes a
00:55:30
Broadway musical we run and dance the cast always Steve the whole premise he's
00:55:35
done it so much at this point hosting he's not gonna I'm not gonna phone it in tonight I'm not gonna and I that one
00:55:41
really stood out for me one of the biggest laughs is yeah he runs around he goes come on guys and he picks up cast
00:55:47
members along the way yeah he's like the pipes for Chris and Farley goes I'm not gonna get uh super drunk tonight yeah I
00:55:56
won't have a drink till update is through that's a promise to you yeah chill update soon he goes good for
00:56:02
memory Chris good yeah yeah but he let everyone sing and uh wow I just thought of that same time
00:56:10
Roberts Michaels but probably a lot of people joined in on it but I that stood out always comedians have great ones uh
00:56:17
uh uh as we mentioned Kim Kardashian had a great one um when she was on
00:56:22
not a comedian but that's sometimes fun when people come out of nowhere and knock one out
00:56:27
um low expectations and then she delivered uh and so there's over the years God I can't pick one I remember I
00:56:34
mean so it was funny yeah that was Susan Lucci was that was a great one yeah and we've been a lot you know I like when
00:56:40
they bring the cast into it at monologue sometimes that's a trick though if they don't really know what to do right they
00:56:46
stack them or if they're too nervous they they want cash yeah and there's a lot of q a from the audience that's
00:56:52
that's a great device oh what about Britney Spears and her boobs are moving around I don't know she said a lot of people
00:56:58
think I have fake boobs but the truth is they start going like this in her shirt they have like a uh some sort of trick
00:57:04
yeah yeah that got a big laugh oh though so many days my friend so thank you for
00:57:12
that question but there's just too many to pick from I think yeah but you you we mentioned you picked a good one though Susan Lucci we came back with Steve
00:57:18
Martin whoops when Steve's on we gotta ask him sounds like ours was better all
00:57:24
right thank you bye bye-bye thank you David Rivera it
00:57:31
and now I hate to say it but [Music] this has been a podcast presentation of
00:57:37
cadence 13. please listen then rate review and follow all episodes available
00:57:42
now for free wherever you get your podcast no joke folks
00:57:47
fly on the wall has been a presentation of cadence 13. executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade Chris
00:57:53
Corcoran of cadence 13 and Charlie finan of brilstein entertainment the show's lead producers Greg Holtzman with
00:58:00
production and Engineering support from Serena Regan and Chris Basil of cadence 13.
