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Dana three two three two one and Augusta Anna
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before Anna gets Anna Dana on a gas Tire David you said Anna that it's not
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correct you saying Hi man I guess Scotty's gold wrong
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it was special okay with banana it's you number two who's one of the best female
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cast members of male cast members in the history of Saturday Night Live and I got style more tune teeny tiny tunes on TV
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teeny weeny weeny tiny teeny we've been here seven hours I'm very Punchy but that was from the McLaughlin group
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McLaughlin group Dana doing the McLaughlin group wrong that was kind of
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the catchphrase on Saturday Night Live anyway oh let me tell you a story to Annabelle before we get down who was wonderful of course and uh very talented
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and great to talk to you uh uh well I talked to my mom yesterday right so my mom who doesn't complain my mom is tough
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love your mom and she said she loves Dana and she goes why are you doing it
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with Dana oh he's so fun oh everything oh you weren't on Kimmel no why don't I
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know this was it on Facebook I go I think it was a TV Guide if that's the thing TV yeah chooses it in TV Guide I
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didn't see and I go oh oh can you find it and I go whenever I send her a link she posted to me and I go mom they send
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me a link but it's like a secret you can't focus no I have to so she'll post any picture you know so she'd post a
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picture at a dinner you know she put like you take it waiter can you do you know how to take a picture he's like yeah but I have 18 plates just real
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quick and so takes it it's the worst picture of all of us and then Bing it's on Facebook
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in five seconds I go mom you have to run it by his no no I don't so I'm your mom so she goes oh I'm still sore because we
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went away to Newport for Fourth of July and she goes oh my foot and I go what and she goes I think I broke my toes I
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go you did today and she was no two weeks ago it's so painful I can't put Mom what are you doing go to the doctor
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shoes I'm going but I don't want to be complaining so she goes there and she
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goes oh he put a boot on me it's nice it's summer I don't mind because it's open and I said oh what happened oh they
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were both smashed and most of my foot is broken I go ma in two weeks you're lugging that thing around and then I go
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mom this ruins it because to help you with bills I was gonna put you on only beats cheers what's that I go it's sexy
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picture of feet I was gonna take a picture of yours to make money she goes oh this is not the time they look so bad
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first she doesn't know you know I'm joking I go oh but we need him she goes oh give me three weeks five weeks they
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and by the way they're not that great I go mom I know I've seen them I don't even know if they're feet so wait a minute she's 85. she really thought you
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were gonna take she didn't really get a feet and monetize them online on a platform called only feeds but she was
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worried because their toes were broken yeah give me a few weeks and her 85 year old feet wouldn't be in pristine
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condition to get guys to buy them she was enthusiasm all she heard was me saying like I needed you to help with
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bills or something and she's like oh I'm sorry I'll get him they'll be back oh in two seconds I'll just get him going
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again and I go mom it's fine we're not we're not at only Feats yet
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oh she goes oh okay but I can I can pitch into I can do stuff I go mom
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you're not pitching in on August he had to struggle through those stories to get to Anna but you did it and you're a
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champ people so here's Anna and I hope you like her we had a great time with her she is so
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so funny she can be big she can be small I mean she did the PBS one with with Molly Shannon yeah and that whispering
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at all times she's just so funny and nice enjoy and we and a little
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trivia we've both done Martha Stewart what stay tuned [Music]
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oh yeah clear frame let's check it out that's a little rocking chair to the left wow where do you think that is
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guitar Covington or Valencia Orton I just made a name up that was
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where I shot joder too look at that guitar is this Guitar Center all our references are Show Business reference I
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don't know anything real I wouldn't go in any City for any other reason that was yeah Master disguise uh you know the
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story I probably should tell it later wait for Anna but that that's almost too dark we might have to cut it me and the
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turtle outfit doing a prayer whoo don't say one thing until she gets
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here she just left oh did that work hello fantastic okay
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everything's about to die my computer my airpods I see a guitar and a piano with their you know it's an art it's an
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artistic Bohemian environment are they ever are they ever touched do yeah I know you sing your ass off but
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you ask you play too uh the piano is morphic my kids and for rehearsal for me
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um because I hate renting you know I live in New York so you have to rent a place to go and meet somebody but I actually have a piano so I make people
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come here which is helpful right and then the guitar who plays the guitar the
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guitar is just for drunkards you know okay gotta have that around and we haven't pick up we also have a uke
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and we also have a violin because I really do that really you know this yeah
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I did it like seriously as a kid and then that was like my pandemic obsession is I basically I basically because so
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when I turned 50 I turned to my family very sincerely and said hey you know I
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would love to celebrate somehow and my husband said anything you want where would you like to go like let's do something cool you want to do a cooking
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class like what is it and I said okay I'm not joking I want to go to country western fiddle camp with everybody and I
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want you all to take clogging and I want to learn how to fiddle and they all looked at me and immediately said no we're not doing that so
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um it was my birthday so over the pandemic I just was like [ __ ] it this is my
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fiddle time so I started fiddling I started taking all these because you could go to all these camps online let
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me ask you a question was how how many years it had been since you've really been into the fiddle when you started back did you just did you play
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Everything those are like weird bingy phases like I won't play for seven years and then like
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I'll end up having a phase where I play every day for three months and do you make up stuff when you're doing it or
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very or do you do stuff you already know all right so that's what I was trying to challenge myself to this time was
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because when you learn classical music it's super anal and square and like you can't yeah exactly is that a tiny violin
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are you playing Chinese I don't even know what a fiddle is I'm
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just playing you know you have to mime it bigger they really can't see what you're doing it has to have some vibrato
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yeah there you go yeah so who would be is Yo-Yo Ma someone who improvises none
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of those guys improvise they're just All Tech no I mean the problem you know it's really like it's two different things
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actually like it's literally it's like people down in Nashville you know
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because I you play you play right what do you play I have a uh an electric piano and a guitar and I do a little uh
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V drums you know drums but they just uh speak to me pretty much daily all I'm
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very undisciplined about learning songs but I but I learned if I fell by The Beatles and that opened up a lot of
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chords for me so then I just pick up chord progressions to treat my anxiety disorder everyone that's a good it's
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very hits yeah well that's the only reason that's why I say when I go on these binges with it it's like it is it's just an act of meditation and not
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to be all artsy about it but no you can be we want we want to go downtown on this podcast like let's go around town
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here's what I want here's what I want to know out of absolute curiosity and we've done it with other guests you're
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formative of yours which I'm labeling age four to age 12 or 13. when things impact you
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more like okay how old would you what like what are some of the movies that affected you in the 70s you're growing
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up what did you or Broadway shows or what what wait do you guys hear weird
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feedback a little humming yeah humming a light Plumbing I I hear
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Lighthouse I don't a light Tibetan humming I feel like it's Dana's though okay I'm gonna let it go I'm not gonna
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worry about it because I just want to make sure like if I hadn't broken something um no it sounds good here look at that
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hair I have a lot of hair hair I know my wife has a lot of hair too it's crazy is
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this a Pantene commercial or what's going on well I I thought I thought through this podcast I could maybe get a
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Hair Commercial and you might um we've never we've already called prowl
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it'll have to be a slightly senior oriented one um uh okay movies oh yeah formative year
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movies so um def I mean again we're we're all of it of an era that went to
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movies and movie theaters we didn't have VCRs and so forth exactly super analog yeah yeah and I grew up in DC we didn't
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even have cable until like late in almost in like early 90s so we didn't
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even have it so you didn't even see Carol Burnett do you have those traditional influences yeah for sure I
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mean yeah for so uh definitely I would say for me personally Bob Newhart like
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was an early just somebody I kind of wanted to I don't know like that I think the timing was probably the thing I was
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most kind of yeah attracted to if that makes sense yeah yeah um for sure by the way back to New Heart
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I like new heart didn't really know that it would be and now that you just said that he was dry and of course as a kid
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goofy comedy why I liked him I don't know I was thinking it was so throwaway
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and it was so over our heads it was like in a year at this office like none of it really like yeah
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you're right like the the like it was just pure dry yeah very measured
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delivery his timing is absolutely Perfection yeah it's Perfection yeah so
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I think if I had to pick one oddly like even above and beyond Carol Burnett and all those guys that would have been the
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one that I was like oh I want to be like him when I grow up and then Letterman of course too but and you said you said Mel Brooks which is interesting the numbers
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movie wise and and I think like in terms of my sense of humor now of like I think
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I think um I grew up so to frame it background you're in Washington DC yeah
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it was a pretty like bye it was not a very like pop culturally household it was like classical music
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and my mom thinks a lot of stuff is tacky so like I I wasn't allowed to Belt
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I had to sing legit like if I had to take ballet I couldn't take Jazz like it was like cheat wow no no she hates an Aguilera
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she thinks it's super tactical they're cheaters to this day she's like she's gonna blow her voice out I'm like well so far she's doing pretty well
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um but yeah so there was a little more sort of like uh aspirins class stuff in my family a
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little bit um but also my dad's super funny and my mom's an amazing audience so like so as
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much as they were like that if I did bits they laugh at them um but I certainly didn't think I was going to be a comedian I went to college
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to be a a voice major I was an opera major that's like how I went I didn't want to be an opera singer but I didn't
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think that was like my sideways move you know what's interesting a my dad was funny so I was trying to and my mom was
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kind of funny so I'm trying to impress I guess I just it's I'm probably a research paper of their humor sense of
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humor yeah my dad like Mel Brooks so I did but with you you've got music and you've got uh funny two things you like
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and they're sort of merging the rest of your life in a weird way oh totally I mean by a complete accident
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and people is get really confused by it but you're right then you reach the certain generation in your own life and
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you're like oh yeah this is all making sense because for a long time it felt like Road Less Traveled almost such a weirdo why do I you know and now that
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eventually that was just what I am you know what I mean right because there I
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mean so you're taking lessons I mean what lessons did you take just you took ballet I was a Relentless I mean it was
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so much violin it was just and so much and so much like I think that's why I find Earnest people so funny like like
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the delicious dish ladies that we did like a lot of the characters that I'm obsessed with are that Bobby and Marty on SNL they were they were all informed
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by just people with absolutely no sense of humor yeah you know it classical music people are
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amazing but they're they're it's just a real Earnest humorless game is making a
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comeback I think a little bit Earnest unfortunately yeah I think we're we're stuck in it for a minute but that's how I went to like this is the worst of the
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earnestness this is actually what this was the the catalytic event and why I find liquid violin
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I we you know was like a more broke summer so the summer before my parents
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were a little flush and they sent me to Interlochen which is like the big like classical music summer camp it was incredible and I was like surrounded by
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other like violinists and whatever and then the next time we're like we can't go there it's too expensive but you can
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go and we've signed you up for chamber music camp at Gettysburg College there's
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a movie and I was like crime puberty like
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literally on your day offs you would go to Civil War battlefields like it was the biggest hot and like a humid like a
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swampy humid Pavilion with Viola players you know like just like the worst and
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that was it I was like I'm out I'm not doing violin anymore but then I could I could I kind of parlayed voice because I
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would be like the lead in the musicals and stuff because you're saying you sing it's just like what you're kind of born with to a degree and so I was like this
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is my this might be my meal ticket and so that was your fun camp for the summer my fun camp was at Gettysburg College
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chamber music Ensemble at 13. you'd rather do anything else anything
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[Music] when you were growing up and going through that era what were you thinking
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I'm gonna be a singer or or at some point I want to be a comedian and when did they meld I mean you they just
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organic SNL so like at Gettysburg camp like I was super famous for lip syncing
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funky town like that was my thing oh really that was known and everybody else was like you know like jamming on the
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Brandenburg yeah exactly yeah um and I remember this girl said to myself she's such a funny she's she was like she's so
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talented and my mom was like oh did you play the Brandenburg with her she was like no no have you seen her lip sync funky town
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not even sing crushed yeah no not even singing not even saying just a masterful dubbing uh no it very clearly the the
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roads met at Northwestern because I went to be a voice major I hated it
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um I could tell a million stories of like again just profound earnestness the moment in time was in a an ethno
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musicology class a lecture at eight o'clock in the morning and Dana I feel like this is a character that you would
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do it was a man it was I it was a ma it was a man whose
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like PhD level Renown in the world was that he could
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sing overtones and he had like studied with the Tibetans so he could sing like
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and something else would like float above it and he had no
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like discursive style he had not gone to Toastmasters he was not good he wasn't
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good in front of groups and he would but and he but Ann had to get moved in order for the overtone to happen so it would
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just happen like you know sometimes
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really Dana can play Lauren as a monk yeah exactly
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are you still a joke foxy
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um Liz so anyway that was the moment and I I actually I became unglued and I was asked to leave the lecture because I was
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making too much noise laughing and at that moment I was like I can't be a voice major and I met all the Improv
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people I met all the Improv people and did improv like and and like ended up transferring to the theater school and
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like found the tribe and I did not do any voice at all I like smoke cigarettes and partied and did improv and you had
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voice locked in so you are you're like I'm already good I know I'm missing so I think it was singers singers are born
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right don't you think I mean singers I mean they have to train like if you want to do Broadway you have to train and
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that that I did after SNL I was pretty late to that because I because then I like went to SNL and as you guys know
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it's such a like perma-shit show that I was I was kind of a [ __ ] show
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but it's no I mean what this is like my reductive way of saying this but like I feel like an SNL you're always
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just pulling it off yeah if you're lucky and there was this part of me that's
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like Muse you know whatever wherever it came from the like sort of a student part of me that was like I want to do
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something well like I want to refine it and mail it better yeah yeah so that's why I think I went to do theater almost
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immediately yeah um because we were here in New York and then Broadway is like
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because SNL also has no one problem date and I mentioned is it's one take and
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sometimes right it would be so much better if you could just start again real quick you get off on the wrong foot and you're like God damn and then you're
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like in it you go totally I'm going and it's not why it's like such a comfort to do recurring characters because you're
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like you start to understand their moves and you need the nuances and you know all of that oh yeah I know the the
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writers don't think recurring characters are cool but like that's that's where you get better at them all the time that keeps the lights on at NBC
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those recurring characters are the money I I like to watch recurring characters so I don't mind doing them as well I
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like catch phrases I like things I've I'm familiar with um so we're totally agree what was the
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journey so so you well you we know he went to Broadway after SNL and you you're at Northwestern you started
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meeting your tribe yeah so and then you get to growling somehow right or what yeah a bossy Abasi gay from college
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Solomon moved to L.A I love these phrases yeah you know
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everyone needs one and uh and especially because like yeah I just hadn't it had never occurred to me that would be on TV
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like that wasn't like my dream really I mean it wasn't that it wasn't but I I liked I I loved comedy and I knew I was
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good at comedy from college you probably like me didn't even consider that was a possibility I didn't so I didn't even
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like saying you were going to be president of the United States in my family exactly or or the first man on the moon it was so surreal that the
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people on TV Flip Wilson or whoever you want to name was like no I I you know
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I'm gonna yeah you couldn't have been Flip Wilson it turns out oh oh I couldn't have Geraldine though the first
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uh sort of drag thing but I I never wanted to be in drag but I was I guess
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sort of yeah but anyway why not uh why not just be loose just be happy uh so
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what so then you go to LA or what what's that step to the ground yeah so I went to LA I did a tour show I did that um
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the they do but do you remember they did the live performances of The Brady Bunch yes
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yes so I got cast in that national tour like right out of college it was amazing
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like Davey Jones was on the bus with us for the monkeys oh yeah and we and we
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drove over we like went to every College we were like rock stars we would just go in and do the we would do actual episodes verbatim of The Brady Bunch and
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oddly I loved the Brady Bunch when I was a kid which I think has less to do with the fact that I thought it was funny I
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just found it super comforting because my house was kind of crazy and artsy too and very disorganized like I didn't know
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anybody who had like matching [ __ ] I love you know like that oh that was that was did you do the songs like a time for
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change or keep on or any of those they did some of those and they wrote some of it I can't even remember anymore yes
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there was a sunshiny day hey but Dana what was the name of the dog from The Brady Bunch Alice Buster go ahead did
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you say Alice wow
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I know it's kind of a sad event and already was there doing trivia which you know tells you everything and um nobody
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knew like what was the name of the maid I'm like that's not trivia that's just like a basic fact
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can you hum or sing the theme song because I remember that being a pretty good theme song
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no not only that I used to tape record it like with an old school like whatever
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Craig tape recorder Real to Reel I would tape it exactly and I would listen to it
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in bed at night how old are You Ah that's maybe seven or
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eight seven or eight yeah I remember I love the variations on the theme so like
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that's your next show after uh sugar and booze I think just just humming all
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those TV themes throughout history oh suicide is painless suicide suicide
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Spanish when I hear the real song it's so sad
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I can do this all day I want to tell you the guy that sings that
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Dana the guy that sings that has a lisp kind of and he goes
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that sexy look will do wonders for you you know that guy and they took that
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part out of the theme song because he said sexy so then they were right to do that yeah
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yeah it's true you know I actually I have I'm sure you would agree with this Theory I actually
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think that half hour television has been super hit by not having the theme song
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theme song was I love them all they they don't have theme songs is that that right well except for on HBO and all
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those shows are his and and Netflix but I'm convinced because it's like this little porthole like it takes you into
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that oh yeah Alice was a good one there's a lot of great ones cheers had a great one you're gone I don't have any
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more there just like they are genius making them unbelievable it's incredible
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and it reorients you to the vibe of the show like Queen's Gambit when we were I watched it every time even though I knew
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it was coming and you skip it um Queen's Gambit yeah real quickly when you played the violin for Anwar Sadat do
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you still keep in touch unfortunately no he has passed oh okay
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real I think he was famously assassinated who have I been dming this whole time
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um anyway go ahead I have to put jokes in I know you do you're
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dude Dana just texted me and said shut up this is called it's called not just
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every eight or nine seconds a little app I go it just says shut up David shut up
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how many how many of these have you guys done uh this is our first yeah we're such rookies what we're finding is like
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I'm finding this is that uh there's so many people that you run into and I
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remember you you're one of the first names I said can we get on Augusta and they're like okay just because I
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remember when I was hosting her around just how real you were and fun and you just were very uh just I don't know just
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had this Vibe told me this you know I mean because he did yes I
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mean it's just comedians uh I like comedians a lot I do too I like there's
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cynicism I like the way they read the room I mean of all of us that have been on the show like like all feel like
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there's some head nod that you know even if I don't know the people but if they bid on the show you automatically have
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something to either say or talk about it and we talk in shorthand I think it's fun for people to hear it because I have
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a question for you that I might know the answer but I don't really like when I I hosted
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and I think you were there but we you know you did Martha Stewart and then I did Martin Stewart I forgot what is the
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protocol if a host I don't know if I wanted to do it but if a host wants to
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do something but a cast member does it up on impersonation well I think that's
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like a well-known impersonation they'll give it back right like it's yeah I don't know Dana did you do Bush at the
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same time as will uh no no because he he did w which I do
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in my standard right right yeah no but but whoever does it on SNL uh owns it
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it's kind of who does the president that's kind of the bully pulpit of doing that impression yeah but Spade is saying
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that he did not get to own Martha Stewart and I think his feelings were a little bit hurt no no no I I only did as
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a host it was a one-time deal but then I felt bad I was like I don't want to do something someone does but well I don't
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have any memory of a sore spot around it so that that right there by the way my
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my my impression is basically you look like Martha Stewart s that's
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that's the writer's telling me and I'm like really uh you have blonde hair and then I wear a wig anyway so who care anybody can look like it didn't even
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right and I think I have a mustache I'm like well it must have been before I was there because we did a lot of them like
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it was like a pretty like yeah in fact that's like my first not that you're asking but since it's not really
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anything but it was my first thing that I thought like I had I had been on the air in other sketches but that was the
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first one I was like oh I'm not gonna get fired because I felt like oh [ __ ] people we did Martha Stewart's topless
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Christmas and it was like a like a breakthrough like I felt like it almost maybe my like fourth show or something
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show but you were doing it you were doing like an actual thought out thing and I'm like this one's Martha Stewart
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you have a wig on I'm like hey everybody I'm Martin she was one of the things I auditioned with oh like somebody told me
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will will called me um you know he was like heads up that's not a very
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organized audition process right and all the growlings you know
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like we don't do impressions of the Groundlings that's not like what they're about but I I had always I I obviously
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like you write what you know like I actually read her magazines and I kind of I grew up in this pretty like
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in my my high school and stuff lots of like very Patrician women and I can kind of like I knew what that was all about
00:27:23
so I was like oh I can write something really brief as that because will called he was like
00:27:29
hey they're going to call you at the last minute which they did like the day before and they're like hey do you have any Impressions um and which obviously if you're not an
00:27:35
impressionist is like a pant [ __ ] of a question sure so uh I did in the back of my mind I was just like I'm gonna
00:27:41
prep two and then if I if I need them I'll have them were you with Will at the ground who was on the Groundlings that that uh so will was a was technically a
00:27:48
grounding and so was Sherry or Terry
00:27:54
sets with will that was it and then I found out later that like of course in that way
00:27:59
uh when they he had recommended me he was just like they were looking because I came in so there was that huge
00:28:06
turnover in 95 and then they made like two twizzles in 96 and they were me and
00:28:12
Tracy Morgan so um it wasn't like a big like everybody audition it was like they were just
00:28:17
looking for a black guy and a white woman I think that's when I left you left right before I left I did one
00:28:24
season with Will and Sherry right because you did the season right you did the update desk yeah I did like a little
00:28:30
separate bit and yeah right and then I was out because I felt like that year was separating me from sort of my guys
00:28:37
and so yeah your people were definitely in the crowd before for sure and so I was like what am I still doing I was
00:28:42
sort of in between and then I just didn't know what to do and Lauren goes do you want to do five minutes a week just do what whatever you want I'm like
00:28:49
yeah meanwhile I have no ideas I go yeah for sure and then and then I just would
00:28:54
write stuff but I felt separate from the crowd I felt like cignarelli or Schiller like I I'm not part of you know I'm just
00:29:01
doing a bit that isn't really interactive with everyone else I wasn't in sketches I don't think right so it
00:29:07
was time to time to go it does kind of push people out in a way but now they're staying a lot longer which is
00:29:13
interesting it's not a big deal to do 10. you let them do stuff he lets them go do other stuff because you couldn't
00:29:19
really do right you had to pick yeah I know if you wanted to be in a movie We're Not bitter I mean I'm not bitter
00:29:26
I do notice that that people can come and go then you might stay for with the show for a much longer if it wasn't it
00:29:34
is and this is like now I'm gonna just be like an old [ __ ] we love it Showbiz
00:29:39
bro like I was thinking about it before I was talking to you guys and I was you know because I feel the same way like
00:29:44
such a tight paternity and it really is if you put it really well I remember I never met Sandler before and we were at some Broadway thing and
00:29:50
we I think we were both gone by then and he was on down the road and he just literally did the nod that you were
00:29:55
talking about yeah you've been there got it you know it was just like yeah we would we could talk
00:30:01
after and Kate McKinnon I had never met and she was in front of me at a Broadway thing and just turned around she was like do you ever not know what to write
00:30:08
like it was just like an immediate like we were the oldest friends you know like it was it's wild how it like brings it
00:30:13
up that is generationally the fact that they don't they don't ever have to go and that they're 150 of them and I think
00:30:19
also like in terms of social media and the kind of construct of everybody being
00:30:25
a brand now like our generation I think in and this is such a [ __ ] like we may as well be at the Screen Actors
00:30:31
Guild home right now but you know the in my day I feel like it I do feel like
00:30:38
there was more sort of worship of the show like the idea of like we're here to serve the show and Lauren and now I feel
00:30:46
like there's so many of them are like what can the show do for me like how fast will my brand expand and how many things you know because it's got this
00:30:52
different that's where they all stay around forever because they it's just gonna Like Show Business around just
00:30:57
shift it because when when Nike wanted to do Hans and fronds for their just do
00:31:03
it campaign for a lot of money uh different time Lauren called me it's not
00:31:08
it's not what we do you know because we're we're still tethered romantically to John Lennon or Bob Dylan or you never
00:31:15
sell out you're doing so when I came off the show when I had all that heat from Wayne's World and everything you know I
00:31:21
didn't really do any commercials but now cast members it's transition they can do
00:31:26
all these different literally all of them yeah which brings us back to Pro could we maybe get Thrills back on the
00:31:32
phone uh can you have your producers have them get back they could see you kind of strutting around your hair's all
00:31:38
fluffed you're singing some Broadway tune you come off stage right you just it's a curtain call and then you go
00:31:44
right to camera I sip the water and go hi yeah that's exactly right thanks hi I haven't washed
00:31:51
my hair in eight days but because I wash it with prowl still looks pretty fast I
00:31:56
think it works and then I try to pull in one catchphrase just to make it yeah just to make it really fun not because
00:32:02
I'm worth it but something in that world it's a yeah like I go like it's a good thing or
00:32:09
say something like Martha Stewart or something [Music]
00:32:16
you know when I was doing the show we had the problem of doing a movie at the same time but I think when Will Ferrell
00:32:22
hosted a couple about two years ago I saw Pete Davidson went to a wedding in Miami and I was like
00:32:29
I couldn't be Tommy Boy I couldn't believe to do anything Pete does his own
00:32:35
thing he's great I mean he's just yeah there's different ways they handle different situations on the show and I
00:32:42
think it's just flipped one day where we can work around it and it was never even you couldn't even bring it up Steve
00:32:49
Higgins you know he has some funny he's really fun to talk to about the show but Steve Higgins told me he's like Lauren
00:32:54
wrote the Constitution for what is SNL and then he lets Generations do what
00:33:00
they will with it you know amendments I don't know that's such a good way of putting it that's true I would like to
00:33:07
just for a second when we always talk about you know the Esprit de corps and we're like ex-marines not literally but
00:33:12
you know what I mean it's just the uh the the dirty greasiness of it like you're sweating the wigs coming off the
00:33:19
pins that you're under close you're you're being moved I would sometimes say tick a wig off and they'd put one on and
00:33:26
I I need to see myself oh I'm Jimmy Stewart now you know so the freneticism
00:33:31
of it at times and the quick changes and almost falling there is a there is a
00:33:36
battlefield aspect to it it's it's a rock and roll kind of emotionally violent you know dick so five seconds
00:33:44
yeah and also there's so much noise because the band is usually playing so loud and you forget that if they're
00:33:49
going I can't this one is when you and the writers looking at the notes and you're like uh-huh okay heads up short
00:33:56
for time putts on the air yeah I remember I was doing I was doing Dr Laura and we got to like the that was
00:34:03
the closest I ever got to just like purely just like a 10 second sketch that
00:34:08
was like cut to the you know uh broadcast Stripes yeah I mean literally because they were on the floor I
00:34:15
remember Paula Powell was like on the floor during this you know I think it was Jenna or van right somebody's like
00:34:20
going spinning their hand in front of the camera like ramp it up and you're like we just started
00:34:25
wrap it up you know and they're like you're like staring at the cards and Paul is like shouting and they're taping
00:34:31
off like Wally's like rewriting so it's just like on the cards oh my god cards
00:34:37
so like during the sketch which folded from like two and a half minutes to like around 15 seconds
00:34:45
and we're arriving it up like it was just like the fastest I love that so adrenal I was doing
00:34:52
Church chat once I had the CR the cards and I'm running them during the commercial and then they sat down in a
00:34:58
chair a seven foot man so while the show starts and then I can't see half of each
00:35:04
card the seven foot man's head and so you're in your head going what the [ __ ] is a seven foot man's head in front of
00:35:12
the cue card and yet you have to let all that go and what was that who's coming in late also do you guys still have
00:35:17
dreams all the time like there's a panic well like Panic like I feel like for everyone on SNL like I actually just
00:35:24
asked will recently because I hadn't talked to him a long time and I was like I [ __ ] had an SNL dream last night it's like I have them all the time and
00:35:30
they kind of replace the like late for the test or whatever yeah that's it that you're all ready and you know you're
00:35:36
supposed to be out there and you're not there yeah I have the ones I thought of it when you said the cue cards like I
00:35:41
have one where I can't see the cards like they're like my eyes are blurry and I can't clear my my eyes or like you're
00:35:47
trying to make it to 8h and you can't get through all the [ __ ] agents oh yeah all the all those guys kind of
00:35:54
hanging around I don't understand that was like how how many layers of chaos
00:35:59
can we add oh I know we won't actually have a green room we're all the douchebaggery of Hollywood hangs out
00:36:04
we'll let them just like mill around by the desk by the desk at 8h and never
00:36:10
clear a path like you were constantly like I think it's just the Panic of getting
00:36:15
into those doors I'm doing something here and then you know yes and I saw and
00:36:21
your dress is like Raggedy Ann or something super embarrassing you've got a ball cap on for two hours and your
00:36:26
head is just raw and sweating and you're in that little room and Lauren you look at the the shows the show the sketches
00:36:32
on little cards and they're moving around you're going well hopefully it'll be okay we'll see or you're in a quick
00:36:40
change area and your age and has an amster light and sticks his head in what's going on here and you're like they're like 10 seconds I'm like get out
00:36:47
of here hey how's it going yeah after party again is it an orca yeah literally
00:36:53
like can we come all of those like we want to come down and support you I remember one time yelling like if you
00:36:58
want to support me turn on your TV and stay home stay home are they still in your representation amazingly they are
00:37:05
but you know it was just a lot to like when I think about because especially in
00:37:10
the theater where you have like I mean whatever like any piece of they treat you like such a child in any other
00:37:17
aspect of entertainment Like Show Business you're like your call time and you confirm your call time and make a
00:37:22
thing and somebody's moving you along and like feeding you and we were such like they're all children like we women
00:37:30
like we have so much hair and makeup and we would just I actually couldn't believe it when the last time I went
00:37:35
back I was like you have to like do all this math yourself you have to go like oh right we have to be ready for dress
00:37:41
at 805. I better get in the chair by 6 30. right like you're always like doing your own stage management yeah did you
00:37:47
have uh I think Dana you lived at the Bromley I was on 84th and West End and uh I knew
00:37:54
nothing about New York but I did know that I thought it was odd later in Show Business that they didn't get me to the
00:38:01
show so if if Saturday's show is at one or whatever we have to be there I'm at
00:38:07
home going I can't get a cab it's snowing and I'm just walking going does anyone give a [ __ ] I won't be at
00:38:12
rehearsal now they would never let you they'd be I don't know about this show but any movie or anything I do they're like we got a guy they can keep track
00:38:19
where is he make sure he's early you're on Ellen they're calling 50 times it's a lot of executive functioning if you will
00:38:24
for a lot of people without those skills right it was weird I'm like I'm like how does Norm Macdonald
00:38:31
I know I think your generation had more food but by the time we got there speaking of Norm Macdonald he kicked in
00:38:36
there was like all we had was a one soda machine and he kicked it in the first week like got mad at it and they removed
00:38:44
it and then literally there was just like no food like we would steal tootsie rolls from Lauren's office and
00:38:50
popcorn the popcorn from Lauren's office yeah exactly it was Tootsie Rolls
00:38:56
remember he's like tootsie rolls and then like right um and then and booze there was like
00:39:02
booze around kind of but like nothing and definitely you would steal Chinese
00:39:08
food from his office on Saturdays right did you guys ever do that oh yeah yeah go in there and just outside of his
00:39:16
office yeah yeah you would forage his Chun Li and then
00:39:23
like and then for a while the Rosie O'Donnell uh show was down the hall uh in 8h so like at the AG and so they had
00:39:30
food in there like our dressing rooms they knew what was up there was a lot of like dumpster diving for television the
00:39:36
point of it is is that you're a cast member on SNL it is just not glamorous afterwards if you're at the Emmys or
00:39:43
something it's glamorous but not the actual show it's I know it sounds so spoiled because here you are on television it really is like if I think
00:39:49
about how I think there was a lot of stress around all of that like trying to figure out where the hell like you said
00:39:55
like one time this is this is crazy I remember trying to get home on a Friday night I think eventually they started
00:40:01
calling cars for us on Friday night I don't know why a lot of trouble getting cars the whole time I was there because
00:40:07
cars yeah maybe but so it was a Friday night it was super late
00:40:14
it was the holidays so I had like a lot of stuff with me that I was like trying to get home and I could there were no
00:40:19
cats because the holidays you know the minute that tree goes up around 30 Rock you're screwed for the next six weeks
00:40:24
and I was down past the New York Public Library so I was like 40th or 39th at
00:40:31
this point and I'd been walking a super long time and hailing a cab like just walking down Fifth Avenue I live
00:40:36
downtown and so just like arm up and it was such a like out of a movie because it was it was my first season and this
00:40:42
is also a tribe tribal moment this cab pulls up the door swings open and he
00:40:49
sticks his head out he goes Anna Aykroyd get in
00:40:55
know who I am how does he seem like it was like he just saw this like pathetic popper child trying to get a cab on a
00:41:02
Friday night in the snow I know and again it was just like the tribe the tribe that's so nice Dan Aykroyd is very
00:41:09
a very generous person that way he wrote he took me home and I remember thinking like do I pay like what do I do
00:41:16
I know I just thought Aykroyd and blue she and those guys in Chevy and Bill
00:41:22
Murray were just sort of badass pirates that would fight you or make you laugh or punch you or get I mean and then when
00:41:28
I'm cast and the only one I saw in My Tribe kind of physically at the time was Martin Shore I said okay maybe a wiry
00:41:35
Irish guy can be in here but when you get cast on that show you're I don't
00:41:40
know how you feel worthy it was my first time doing sketch comedy I just hoped it would work out never done it before but
00:41:47
I adapted my stand-up to sketch but so one thing by the way okay well I'm just
00:41:53
when we go around to this I'm just very interested because I I watched the uh um NPR guest today
00:42:00
and I I thought no sketch that quiet and that paste has ever killed that hard
00:42:08
I was about to ask about that because it you know a lot of stuff is kind of yelling and rock and roll and singing
00:42:13
but that was intentionally so quiet and you and Molly never pushed never completely in the pocket of it and it
00:42:21
just was uh seduce the audience so much it was so it's a unique sketch in that it was at home base right which helps
00:42:28
observation the did it started home base or did it move there out of popularity it did start there I I don't think they
00:42:36
didn't I don't think they thought it was going to work um exactly I mean for a number of reasons
00:42:41
whatever we can talk gender politics or whatever but it was yeah yeah two girls sketch what are we doing I mean it was
00:42:48
just like too quiet yeah exactly but I had done it at the ground and quiet and I think they were it was buried pretty
00:42:54
deep in the lineup oh okay but I had done it before and it was weirdly relaxing because it was so quiet because
00:43:02
you know it's like will used to always um will really loves bombing like he could like really like lean into the
00:43:09
bomb like sort of like like a pig in a mud bath yeah and like that sketch has a
00:43:15
similar quality not that it was bombing but that you would just like get to kind of surf the silence if that makes by the
00:43:21
way they sort of audience feels like they have to earn it like I have to really pay attention here and get this
00:43:27
one it's not being [ __ ] thrown at me they have to be like okay this is this is the one where we gotta find the jokes
00:43:34
and really like yeah stew in it it's nice that's those are nice that they even do them
00:43:40
I know I I thought I think they thought it was gonna bomb and then and really you know Carlock and and Dennis wrote it
00:43:46
with me too mcnicholas so they're brilliant writers obviously I was gonna say did they do you have help right yeah
00:43:52
yeah but we was always fighting like what the character would say versus what they want you know they were and they're they're like Harvard so they were like
00:43:59
and then four more robots come in and the moon landing will happen you know whatever but they were brilliant yeah I
00:44:04
mean they're structurally so brilliant yeah they could like it was the perfect actually I think for me tension between
00:44:11
a character and a premise and what kind of can like move that idea forward a little bit and I I do think if you uh
00:44:18
and I didn't get there just confidence wise until I happened to then do Carson which I've talked about but that was
00:44:24
something that was relatively quiet compared to you know Wayne's World or something but I just knew it was so
00:44:31
funny in my head that it was the only sketch I did where I the audience didn't really matter that much to me so it felt
00:44:38
like you and Molly were so in the pot pocket and so connecting with the dry slowness and playing the pauses that
00:44:45
there was no sense of neediness or sense that's awesome I mean that's what I'm feeling it felt that way I mean it
00:44:52
definitely felt like it was out of space and time and like I said I had done it I had done it at the ground link so I I
00:44:57
knew it was capable of yeah crushing yeah um because it really was a hit sketch
00:45:03
there but uh I had you know not a lot but I've done it a couple times and in the Sunday show but I knew kind of what
00:45:09
to anticipate when you know I don't know we're not going to keep you forever but I have another question if you
00:45:16
it's interesting to me so you have that NPR sketch in your pocket when you get
00:45:22
there but yeah how fast do you whip it out or did you come out of the gate you were doing okay because sometimes you
00:45:28
get scared you go I gotta get on or they're gonna fire me or you know what I mean I I was pretty productive because
00:45:34
you were a full cast member you didn't come in as a feature and then I don't even get that either like I don't know
00:45:39
why that happened you were just you got to be full cast right away yeah I did which I I really don't know why that
00:45:45
happened um well because it doesn't seem to have much of a Rhyme or Reason I think it was
00:45:50
because I was like I was in that that off year I really don't know why it was like I started in September or I I just
00:45:56
I think they were like whatever nobody was paying attention well your audition must have helped a little bit
00:46:02
I mean I think Fred Wolf was like a real Champion as I remember I I he left like
00:46:07
immediately upon getting there can I talk to you for a second I'm gonna talk about you in a second I just want to talk about Dana for one thing and I'm
00:46:13
gonna talk about you you're really funny he's funny too not not quite as funny anyway this is really good I think this would be great anyway oh my God it's so
00:46:20
funny what you did oh my God you're like smarty Advocates and McKay really liked me early and um and he was you know I
00:46:28
think recent head writer there um I don't know like I just I think I had like advocates in the room that I
00:46:34
didn't primary band mates essentially then
00:46:41
um uh you had Molly you had uh Rachel Dratch later and Maya well so yeah I was
00:46:46
gonna say transitionally like I was kind of Brit I was a I I consider myself like a bridge cast we were sort of the
00:46:52
Vanguard like Sherry and Molly and I sort of did this thing for the reputation you know partially this
00:46:58
timing of the of the gals like right we just started getting attention as a trio
00:47:05
um but then fairly quickly thereafter they brought in Tina as a writer she definitely Advanced that cause and then
00:47:11
by the time I left it was like you know polar and Maya and Rachel and like it had like a full-blown yeah Lady Lady
00:47:19
Vibe um so I actually spend a lot of time with the second half of that group
00:47:25
of women I mean a lot like we travel together and we talk every day so that's my uh Rachel
00:47:31
Maya Tina Amy Rachel Paul
00:47:39
that's a lot of Home Run hitters and you say about women but that's a lot of
00:47:44
solid solid oh for sure I mean I don't want to speak for them and Spivey too
00:47:50
um we like I said I don't want to speak for them I will speak for myself that for me the sort of you know because the
00:47:55
the show itself is organized in this kind of racehorse fashion and so you can't really pay a lot of attention to
00:48:00
your tribe or whatever in-house I mean you it's like you're like you're loyal to your family but you hate them like
00:48:06
you know what is this weird combination of things but then after in the sort of like gratitude phase yeah I got really close
00:48:15
to those women I think kind of looking back and going like you know so few people on the planet Earth understand
00:48:22
what shaped and made us who we are and even like we made it through and I feel
00:48:27
that way about SNL people in general but especially especially those women just because it it we were really outnumbered
00:48:34
and you know and uh yeah I really feel that was the the first time the turning
00:48:40
point in terms of like when my cast was there and we had Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn
00:48:45
and stuff but they were incredible and they're incredible but anyway I wanted to do the show yeah yeah I mean Jan Hooks just you know Supernatural nor
00:48:53
done I looked up to them when I got there I had like a crush on them both because they were so good I'm like they're so talented oh my God I know
00:49:00
they're so talented at read through you learn about people from read through and see how good they are when they grab a
00:49:05
script they haven't seen it and they're like nailing you're like what the [ __ ] yeah that's another weird like right I
00:49:11
always say like we're mutants we're sort of like we we are we have a mutant skin we're made we're made a little different
00:49:17
I'm going to walk and plug in my computer which is a little gauche I like that um uh I know you get to see the whole the
00:49:24
whole operation she's like I plan this many batteries for this interview no you
00:49:29
know what my husband told me I'm actually gonna throw immediate blame he told me that he had charged this immediate blame not immediate we call it
00:49:36
the blame reflex in our house just you injure yourself it's your spouse's fault
00:49:43
[Music] but all I wanted to say was as a casual Observer of that cast of those your
00:49:50
bandmates the Maya and Amy there when I've run into them casually they're so
00:49:55
affable so honest uh there's a humility around all performers at some basis and
00:50:02
then there's a confidence so they're just fun and I do think that the the cast never went backwards after that I
00:50:09
think it was at least 50 50 men and women dominance and maybe more women
00:50:15
almost it made it that definitely changed in the last 20 years you know with between women are saying and the
00:50:22
writing you know Big Show different women now on the show too yeah huge huge and they're playing they're playing men
00:50:29
now a lot I mean the culture has changed the culture of you know
00:50:34
Lauren wrote the Constitution and just said it eventually it'll be a female dominated show it just happened I mean
00:50:42
and that's true I think also it's so nice to see so many black cast members I mean that's that's a demographic shift
00:50:48
too like it's so that's just reflective of our of society in general at the beginning kind of waking up yeah but um but it's
00:50:55
good and everyone's been scoring so totally and I don't have like I feel like I got
00:51:00
I did not feel screwed over there I felt very celebrated there and very fortunate to be honest
00:51:06
um and and who knows but like me too I was just speaking to the to the quality of like when you're saying the tribe
00:51:12
like people and and I I they're like I said there's so many people that I run into that I love
00:51:17
at pretty much anyone but um from the era but I in a really regular way like
00:51:22
we just sort of fell into this kind of coffee Clash where we talk all the time and celebrate each other's birthdays and
00:51:28
again that's not just some SNL but it's also like well you know so I I have to plug it before I Dratch and I actually
00:51:34
wrote a movie together this year and that's about to come out um and again just speaking of shorthands
00:51:39
yeah talk about get making something go fast so much faster than it would have if
00:51:45
she's with Rachel so funny we yeah we wrote this song it's funny as they come yeah she's so funny yes so we wrote it
00:51:52
together we actually produced it and we're in it and what's it called and what's it called a clusterfunk Christmas
00:51:58
oh that's right yeah I read about that and again just being able to write it with a a fellow you know uh alumna so we
00:52:05
have all that all that shorthand and usually so much shorthand the sensibility is within the same frequency
00:52:10
so when anyone says oh both people go oh that's it oh we're gonna do that it was
00:52:16
like uncanny like just in the notes or whatever like in the edit they would we
00:52:21
would each go back in the note and be like oh no I didn't like what he did there either or yeah yes I like that take there were so many things like that
00:52:26
I can't and just maniacal which I had forgotten and it's not that I don't love all the other jobs that I I do uh you
00:52:34
know I do I always find something fun but the maniacal like weird
00:52:41
hormone releasing brain laughs when you get laughing with an snlr I don't know
00:52:46
what it is like that writing sick laugh yeah I'm not talking about when you're just cry laughing and you can't that's
00:52:54
part of the fun because you you go we just hit on a great idea we just hit on a great thing and it's such a Euphoria
00:53:00
Rush what's the word I'm looking for like the like that goes off in your brain when
00:53:07
you when you the happy place endorphins like just like a crazy indoor
00:53:13
and we did it every single day we were filming and we were playing like it's all set in you know the Christmas scene
00:53:18
world where we play these horrible like Mrs Claus like ranking and past characters
00:53:24
anyway we've you know it's same SNL Style with the worst wigs ever yeah like popping because like the more you laugh
00:53:30
like the spirit guns like popping free because you're laughing so hard or just crying and the makeup's coming out it
00:53:35
was it was just such a joy ride to do and such a great memory of what that is
00:53:40
and uh sugar and booze you tour with your band you a big kind of an orchestra
00:53:45
and you you actually sing it's funny but you're actually like a cabaret singer
00:53:50
it's a Christmas album I released in 2019 sugar and booze and I I wrote a bunch of Christmas songs it's a really
00:53:56
throwback album I feel like you guys would like it it's uh we have horns we don't it's not a full Orchestra but I I
00:54:03
have a baby yeah I saw I saw you on zeth show with your like maybe a six piece band singer yeah yeah super fun so it's
00:54:11
just very throwback the old-timey nostalgic holiday Vibes um uplifting Jesus you're busy you're
00:54:18
touring there you're making movies you're just yeah I'd actually have a big for plugging I'm actually on a new show
00:54:24
for everybody American Auto yes yeah I saw your
00:54:30
Wikipedia page it sounded like a part you could crush with oh my God it's so fun I mean it's very
00:54:36
it's a very much of an NBC show it looks like an NBC show it's got Justin Spitzer who created it
00:54:42
um he started that show Superstore and he wrote on office for a long time yeah so he's it's got that whatever you want
00:54:48
to call it so you're the kind of cocky executive with no intrinsic knowledge yeah no no no no no she comes from she
00:54:55
comes from Big Pharma and she doesn't know anything about cars you know Anna I uh I looked you up and we'll let you go
00:55:01
but lastly I want to say you it says all these great facts about you and then one
00:55:07
on its own line says she's friends with Ken Jeong
00:55:13
did you look is it on Wikipedia yeah it's got your own line and section yeah
00:55:19
it's like I saw it it's got okay sourced bio
00:55:24
yeah you know what I need to add here yeah let's give a complete package of
00:55:31
who she is also I love that because she's kind of no kenjong but it's not like we have Thanksgiving together it's
00:55:37
not number one of the nicest guy in Show Business in a way right unbelievably nice yeah I I the only reason I said
00:55:43
that is I did that he could be on mine yeah I know I'm gonna say she's friends
00:55:49
with David Spade yeah give me my own line at least you guys both get a line
00:55:55
now I mean we've spent a lot of time together now oh yeah I know all right funny man all right thanks for having me
00:56:01
thank you very fun to see you we're going to run into you at the 50th maybe oh hell I don't know if I can do it I
00:56:07
don't know how do you feel about that when it comes up out of the Curiosity what's your like gut well I feel like
00:56:13
the 40th kind of was just by a wing and a prayer but sort of turned out quasi
00:56:18
magical probably more than quasi as a mic drop for Lauren and just that and I
00:56:24
totally Lauren had said at the time everyone not everyone of us will be here for the 50th so it's a little bit like
00:56:30
Civil War veterans in the 1930s you know coming out and uh so I don't know but I
00:56:35
mean I don't know it seems a little bit like a bridge too far but yeah I I agree
00:56:40
with you like that was such a re in all of our minds like the most I mean I don't know about you I like took to my
00:56:47
bed after that for like my oh yeah like the I felt like I'd been on drugs
00:56:52
or something like that it was it was an overload of every cast member and just the entire everywhere you turn and any
00:56:59
and and it's a one place instead of some Hollywood party where you feel like you sort of belong there so when you have
00:57:04
Keith Richard just something go hey and they're nice because they're on your Turf right you know in a weird way right
00:57:12
that's such a good way of putting it because it is true like I am very I get
00:57:17
very when people say oh how do you get nervous about who did you get the most nervous about meeting and it is weird when you're working at the show you you
00:57:23
don't really because you're home and they're coming to your house and you want to make them welcome to you they're
00:57:28
more scared they're more scared yeah it's like spiders not really Paul McCartney gave me a back massage during
00:57:36
the good nights that was mine during the good nights you know and I'm off to the side and then Eddie Murphy
00:57:42
and everyone's over in the center and then I feel this you know and I look and it's Paul just wanted to see how you
00:57:47
doing then you know just feel tight to the so there were three chairs watching a
00:57:53
monitor and I sat and it was Steve Martin sat in that one then Jim Carrey sat in that one we're all watching and just start laughing and talking and I go
00:58:00
when are you gonna be with you know just it just or the vicinity wherever you stood where you turned
00:58:05
someone you're like ah that guy that guy I know and cuss would be like Peyton Manning and like Diane Sawyer like
00:58:11
they're like it was so many levels of American culture that yes like it just yeah I think Sarah Palin was like his
00:58:20
body was famous in the bleachers every face was famous in all different ways like you said they all know who you were
00:58:26
it was the weirdest feeling yes ever no plus one I will say for myself because
00:58:32
you always think well where do I stand I haven't done anything in a while you can get into self-deprecation but sure for
00:58:38
myself if I had anyone on SNL or really anywhere make me laugh really hard just
00:58:43
once I'm sort of respectful and a fan at that point you know I I don't know in
00:58:49
the great you're you're in the like the most important Cornerstone that I think for a lot of us I think what you're
00:58:55
saying is the same thing whatever bitterness or anxiety or therapy sessions you've had I've had your own personal Journey yeah you know all of us
00:59:02
yeah the show certainly brings those things about like that evening was this moment where and you could say like I'm
00:59:08
I'm actually weirdly apart I'm part of this but to embrace this yeah I'm like
00:59:13
part Italian and part SNL like whatever it is you know right it's your DNA and
00:59:19
mutant skin like I keep saying like I don't you know like an Avenger or something like nobody in the real world like I've done theater Music Theater
00:59:25
people are so fun I've done TV half hour people are so wonderful SNL people are
00:59:31
like straight up tribal like that is my there's only one yeah screwed up yeah
00:59:36
it's crazy it's still on live in New York and everything it's amazing I know and it's fun too when you my kids now I
00:59:42
have a 13 year old my 19 year old's like you know last year when she was like can I please just go to the show I guess it
00:59:49
was was it last year or the year before before you know it was Melanie I think she was just like
00:59:54
can we go see it live like I'm old enough and I've never been you know um and then the 13 year old now like we
01:00:00
stay up every Saturday and oh did they walk down the hall and they say see a
01:00:05
picture of their mom oh my 13 year old hasn't been there yet and also you know they're annoyed by me
01:00:11
because I have a lot of you know feedback but um also peacock now yeah I
01:00:17
bet you know this but that's also oh does it run them runs all of our stuff in it you can you can like
01:00:23
this last summer you can type in like a certain oh wow era or show or whatever
01:00:29
so I actually sometimes I've been known to wow pour myself a generous and sit
01:00:34
down with the children and force them to watch Mother's material take a look there's just one more you ain't going to
01:00:41
bed not on mine it wasn't successful but let me tell you something it was it was it was it was ahead of its time you
01:00:48
think it was easy this one was from dress yeah exactly exactly all right all right guys
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hey guys love hearing all the great stories about us and all over the years can either of you remember
01:01:34
whether is it read through dresser air the hardest you ever saw Lauren laugh you probably have one keep the shows coming do you
01:01:40
think Lauren would come on the podcast we told Lauren I think he will one day it's all just so whenever Lauren is the
01:01:46
biggest star of the podcast we talk about him all the time yeah whenever uh he would like to
01:01:52
it's an open invitation can we do it between just President Obama can we do
01:01:58
it at the page desk it's that thing of like no we love Lauren
01:02:03
um you gave up you just started I know well I'm just you're burnt out I'm doing Lauren you should really you know
01:02:10
everyone knows it's a movie theater and not a podcast Studio no this is my movie
01:02:15
Theory okay this is fun in here though so we have this in here you you did live
01:02:22
like 1.3 miles that's the thing about La yeah it's a 45 minute drive and you look other things like 1.6 miles
01:02:30
traffic but then you move from your other place to this place to 0.09
01:02:35
from my place so when it's not 100 degrees out I could probably I'm like Danny you're gonna walk he's like no it's 40 minutes okay so here it is the
01:02:43
hardest you heard Lauren laugh and then uh okay I'm trying to think of one I have ones that are second tier or second
01:02:50
hand okay Bill hater told me
01:02:56
that Lauren told him that the funniest thing he ever heard was this is Bill Hader saying it's not
01:03:02
me was me uh doing Bert Lancaster Bert Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as more than
01:03:08
friends put it that way that's how you put it are they I do it now I do more I think
01:03:14
they're gonna wrestle I like to come to your house I like to wrestle I like to
01:03:20
wrestle tool 49574 Cannon Drive there's a gate at the side pound one two seven four I'll be
01:03:28
there at four pm should I bring anything bring lemonade and bagels we're gonna
01:03:33
get naked two men naked wrestling in the backyard sorry it goes on and on okay I'm not that into it but I heard that
01:03:39
was that another one I heard and this was Rob Schneider's sketch but I was in it massive head wound Harry they said
01:03:45
that Lauren because it was a dog going crazy laughed incredibly hard Lauren has a great sense of humor and has a violent
01:03:53
intense sudden laugh yeah you know when you're around just like really loves comedy by the way if he laughs I can't
01:04:01
think of a particular instance but when he laughs at read through and if he laughs at one of your sketches it is so fun because you know what's getting on
01:04:08
he slaps the table laughs and it's unreal because he the last three years it was Lauren host
01:04:16
me oh yeah I'm right next to him and I'm right next to the host
01:04:21
so they get a [ __ ] tsunami of Bo because I'm so nervous it's like those you know uh nuclear bomb commercials
01:04:28
where it's like everything goes flat you know it's like Tom Hanks like flat when I take off my shirt like I'll be taking
01:04:35
my shirt for this next sketch I used to get spaghetti delivered from a Wally Joseph's
01:04:46
and Mars he would get someone to get it and they'd walk in and put it in front of me in front of [ __ ] everyone I'd
01:04:51
be like thanks you had to be fed on a regular basis
01:04:56
I mean that gets a little bit of humidity in that room if David does not get a little bit of food in him
01:05:02
sickening it it is temper time they crack the window one quarter of an inch anyway Lauren laughed a lot of read
01:05:08
through that's a good question I wish I had I don't know I have a specific moment I will say this because he's your
01:05:14
boss and he's seen it all he's heard every style of Comedy when you get him to
01:05:21
laugh really hard it's very special thank you Ted funny last name and Jimmy
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