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Lorne Michaels (Part 2) | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

October 07, 2022 / 48:10

This episode features discussions on memorable sketches from Saturday Night Live, including anecdotes from Dana Carvey and David Spade. Topics include the dynamics of performing with animals, the challenges of live television, and the evolution of comedy over the years.

Carvey recalls a sketch involving a dog that led to uncontrollable laughter, emphasizing the importance of discipline in performance. He shares experiences with fellow cast members like Adam Sandler and Chris Farley, highlighting the chemistry that made certain sketches iconic.

The conversation also touches on the emotional weight of performing during significant events, such as the pandemic and tragedies like Sandy Hook. Carvey reflects on the responsibility comedians feel to address these moments through humor.

Carvey and Spade discuss the legacy of Paul McCartney and the influence of classic rock on their comedy. They reminisce about various guest hosts and the unique challenges they faced in live performances.

Finally, they consider the future of SNL and the potential for new leadership as they reflect on their own experiences and the changing landscape of comedy.

TL;DR

Dana Carvey and David Spade share memorable SNL sketches, the challenges of live performance, and the evolution of comedy through personal anecdotes.

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here's a question for you because I have
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a few of my own personal thing but uh in
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the studio with a sketch what were the
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ones that just killed the hardest or
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made you laugh the hardest and it's
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probably dozens of them but I have one
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in mind that I was in that I didn't
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write but it went to a level of laughter
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and involved an animal ah massive head
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to inheritance
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because an animal you know a dog was
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lick the thing Bedlam but also the
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headline of it massive head movement
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that's an odd sitcom you know and Jack
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Handy said that's such an odd title but
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I think it was it was a Schneider's
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video I think I think it was Schneider
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and probably a few other people
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but that was just one of those things
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that they said between dress and Air
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like Robert asked the Handler of the dog
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what would make him really voracious
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well so they didn't feed him he was
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hungry and then put more stuff on my
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Prosthetics so the dog went crazy
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because I was trained by you I didn't
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want to be about the prosthesis coming
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off so I went like that and just held it
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but it was such a long battle between me
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and the dog that you and you kept in it
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yeah I stayed in I didn't want it to be
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about that and you didn't milk it no and
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I think that's the discipline of it you
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know that they you transcended you're
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still playing
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um yeah you don't want when it's killing
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that heart it was like pepper boy it was
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Sandler and that was killing so hard on
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air it just came out in San Lori were
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just in a rhythm together yeah and then
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Farley had one line and on the dress
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show whoa pepper boy so then the air
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show and of course we're coming around
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to like a Pepper or whatever he's like
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well thank you but ten times louder than
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I just said it Sandler turns purple is
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turning away from the camera to me and I
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whisper I keep the Italian accent and I
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go don't the break oh yeah and he didn't
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break because I thought the sketch was
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going so good that I didn't want to ruin
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it yeah yeah yeah if it's not going good
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okay it can break but not not a physical
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but also a sketch like canteen boy with
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Alex
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yeah I wouldn't get too far these days
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oh my God then it was resistance oh yeah
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totally so when you get uh obviously it
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gets
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it's probably still exciting and would
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you ever want to stop or is there or if
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Dana and I can't take over I think
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there's times when it's so frustrating
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and so whatever that you think uh but
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you know when that the warm-up is over
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you know and it's just you're hearing
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those last two saw just the band and you
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know those songs because they don't
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change much and then you start to
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realize
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you're you're kind of excited and that
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that's never changed for me no I don't I
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think you just you're like anyone who's
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driven you you take the slings and
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arrows yeah but I didn't really
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understand what you did until I guess
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hosted and was just kind of you hang out
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with you kind of more yeah and even if
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you're going to dinner or whatever
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you're constantly producing and
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constantly thinking and suggesting and
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you're really bleeding over every show
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emotionally so how do you decompress I
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mean are you it's like well I think it's
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different when you have kids because
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that thing you know you go to the party
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you come back and then somebody's
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jumping on your chest and you can still
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taste the beer and uh but they're the
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priority and you're not and that you get
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through that period I I think
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for me uh and particularly in the
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pandemic uh and with and for the whole
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of the 68 election and afterwards you
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sort of went oh people are counting on
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us
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talking about it and being there and
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that was like a a huge thing and when we
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did those at home shows in the pandemic
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yeah you know the idea that would and it
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always is it's just the DNA of the show
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we show up so you sort of feel you with
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9 11 or whatever that you have to and
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you know when uh
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oh when Sandy Hook happened
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you know and McCartney was on the show
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and uh and Marty Short
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and it happened on the Friday
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that's the toughest and I go we don't
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have to do that I don't know why we have
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to do that and then
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Friday night uh you can't not do it you
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can't somehow figure it out
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and
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there was a a choir a boy's choir oh yes
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that was on for Wonderful Christmas Time
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With McCarty I remember that sketch yeah
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yes Marty
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is this what Paul talked about this yeah
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yeah and we were uh it also happened to
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be the Friday night that they were
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shooting the last scene of 30 Rock Alec
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on a boat down South Street Seaport and
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I promised Tina and Robert and Alec did
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I be there for that so I'm driving down
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the West the uh
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Westside highway now we're and I'm still
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trying to figure out and what I'm going
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to do because we don't have an opening
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and Paul had said McCartney had said uh
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I'll do I can sing you know but I
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thought it's kids you just can't do any
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show business right do you know what I
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mean you could do let it be whatever but
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it would it would be somehow raw and I
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called Lindsay and said will you call
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the the choir master and see if he's got
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a chart on
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on silent night and uh and Chicago said
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they do I and they have the car they
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have the car yeah and so it became like
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we're gonna just do that I knew Phil
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Hobbs where put the camera lining
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designer yeah and it was like so
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uh they do it and then they uh
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and then they say live for New York and
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it did not work address
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and I went
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okay now this is where you have to right
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and Marty told me to start because he
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was watching me and he said
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you weren't you were so puzzling with it
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while you're giving notes like what is
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it and then
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dipped black
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just dip the black that ends and then
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the kids being happy
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and saying live for New York was
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completely understandable and forgivable
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it was you couldn't bleed the one into
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the other thing and so it was like Oh
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and it worked and you kind of go you
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don't know but you're like when you're
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mixing tragedy and all right you need
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jokes but also it just is you're
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supposed to do it so I'm finding that
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line you know
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[Music]
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Paul McCartney I thank you for
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introducing us
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you know I think he doesn't get credit
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for being a rocker Joe I mean I think
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the cliche was that John was and he was
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you know yeah but half the rock you know
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JoJo that's Paul yeah it helped her
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Skelter Yeah Yeah but um
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I think that he suffers from uh a good
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problem in a way too many great songs
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yeah people here let it be in Hey Jude
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they don't hear Here There and
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Everywhere yeah and and she's leaving
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home he has so many Melodies that you
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can't even remind people yeah and when
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people criticize him because I you know
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you're very good friends yeah uh I go no
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he's Mozart
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just stop it yeah it's great Melodies
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that's who he is yeah and uh and someday
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you'll get a perspective on it but it's
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really and I saw his last concert at the
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metal loans uh and what was interesting
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it was like three hours yeah and uh you
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know I mean things you thought you'd see
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for sure weren't in the show right it
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was really well thought out and and
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fresh and Brilliant and about 10 15
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minutes before it ended it started to
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rain but this is it you know the
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Meadowlands no one moved
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you know everybody just SATs every once
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in a lifetime and you go and it was the
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last time he was going to perform and in
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America anyway and it was just magical
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and for me it was I mean love me dues
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I'm a freshman yes you know what I mean
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so that's part of entry and I think
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it's all uh you know in the stones I saw
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in London this summer too are just
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phenomenal love them and it's just that
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thing of their
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you want them to be that yeah you don't
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need them to you know and if Sinatra was
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saying yeah you want to hear Summer Wind
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yeah yeah but I do think they'd get back
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the documentary kind of couch Paul
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in a better light I think there's a
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little bit more understanding because he
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could sing all the harmonies he could
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play all the instruments and he could
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write songs so it makes sense as you
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might say fingerprints would be he'd be
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collaborating with Ringo and I used to
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do that as a joke oppression so the girl
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goes in and he goes he's walking along
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and then he's doing it and get back to
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George Harrison
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and so the boy Genius kind of thing and
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Landon was off on his own Journey at
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that point but and also uh
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that in the concert now Peter Jackson
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gave him yeah a clip so he could sing
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with Lenin yes so you realize how Young
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led him was I know he's just 28. I know
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and you just go oh it's heartbreaking
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yeah and Paul was when I was watching on
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the rooftop when John was doing you know
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his song don't let me down Paul is so
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engaged not cynical at all and he's
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doing this incredible bass line and
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they're smiling and laughing and for all
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of us romantically because of what they
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meant to us we want John and Paul and
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for Paul his favorite part of the thing
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was them joking around and laughing
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because that's what he was yeah he said
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that's why yeah
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but you know time heals all wounds
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people don't you have that with the cast
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that you were with I mean a thousand
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percent
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um there you could we could run into
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anybody of our time well also Sandler is
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in the middle of it churning them out
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you know what I mean and as always and
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you just go Rob Schneider is living on a
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on a couch there you know yeah
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suddenly he gets into you know
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yeah Rob talked about them getting
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famous and we and then all of a sudden
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we had girlfriends you know and there
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was some thing or who thought of Cantore
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the one where I had Victoria's legs over
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my hell can't who really wrote that but
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you're right it is like being in the
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Marines or something not literally no
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don't don't send me letters but yeah you
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see a cast mate even running into Tracy
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Morgan he goes hey Alum you know there's
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a a spree decor I also think I think
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Bill Murray said it once you just can't
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explain what it's like being out there
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looking into the eyes of somebody else
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who's in that same scene that is it's
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maybe not working
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baby
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yeah yeah and or working way better than
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you thought the sparkle just that
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contact of being in that heightened
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reality uh with that level of intensity
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you can't really explain and I'm sure
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pro athletes have that I think it's you
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know dancers have it which is another
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great thing about the show is that you
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start having non-performers uh host the
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show I I guess you had pro athletes in
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the 70s but that's a reality show in
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itself if the pro athlete is bombing or
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killing it's just a pro you know Michael
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Jordan's gonna try to be a sketch player
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friend Tarkenton yeah you had his 70s
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but also I had Ralph Nader I had a lot
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of people that I just admired and so it
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was very smart for his entrance uh he
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was getting off the elevator on eight
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and I said I think if you were eating a
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hot dog that will help because he was so
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but I don't need no drugs I know I know
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that's that's why I think it'll work
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ultimate and he got the laugh and it was
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like he lit up it's exciting oh yeah
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they compete I mean Peyton Manning I
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mean they give each other they're like
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Russell and he you know oh he had one
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yeah he was he was fantastic I was a
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huge fan but it was just like you could
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call people and they'd say okay
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I didn't even know Bill Russell I didn't
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know who watched the show because we
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were mostly in eight age and then you go
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oh they're they're watching yeah yeah
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and Wayne Gretzky was so Charming I had
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Broderick Crawford was in some FBI movie
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oh yeah the robbery Crawford and I go I
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called him and I said he was living in
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Ohio and I I called him and I said we're
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doing the show and his coach said yeah I
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think I know it yeah uh so you'd have to
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be here on the Monday and that you know
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be this and uh I'm trying to reassure a
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man who does not need to be reassured
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and uh he said all right send me the
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ticket
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what I'm getting at is people just
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volunteered to come ah you know from
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Robert Mitchum Charlton Heston Robert
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Mitchum had one of my favorite monologue
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lines yes uh about live and it's so
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dangerous and and or you don't know what
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could go wrong and he said I thought
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what's the worst that could happen I
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won't get that 119th movie
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and he landed it perfect and he was so
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old school he had a half gallon of Jack
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Daniels in the dressing room this is an
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old-fashioned movie star yeah incredible
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to be here I couldn't have that too
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walking is Magic yeah walking that you
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know with cowbell I think I was just
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there doing a guest shot and that thing
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hearing walk and come out and need more
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cowbell I mean it was so the castle I
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mean I knew that will had done it before
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but once you got walking and then we'll
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that's why it's just iconic yeah no and
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also the Continental which he used to do
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yeah it was an actual show that he would
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see it was a local local New York
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15-minute show where this guy was on and
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he wanted to do it so he knew it
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perfectly and that single camera
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like a white glove you remember bear
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suits are funny and bears as well was
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that a fake Christopher walking at the
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meeting yeah and we all went around
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pitching him and he's kind of staring up
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in Christopher Walken and then you said
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uh Chris and I remember him saying this
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in specific if you remember he just said
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non-sequitur best suits or funny and
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bears as well bear suits are funny and
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then he thought and bears as well I just
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thought that was the greatest
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write it up
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write it up let's put you in a bear suit
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but that was the thrill of being around
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him he was yeah there were a lot of
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people that you
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were either surprised or couldn't wait
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to meet or whatever and John Goodman
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could do no wrong Alec Baldwin it was
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like my third show was Alex first show
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and that was the green hilly and it was
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he did the mimic he did all these one of
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the things that I loved great but this
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is a Wayne's World thing which you'll
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remember uh he was doing green hilly
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you guys were in the conference room
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waiting to see me about something and uh
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and Franklin was there waiting and I
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can't remember what I was doing but
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Franken said out loud can you imagine
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what would be like if we had a really
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good looking guy remember this one oh
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boy yeah
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both Dan and Mike were like I looked at
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each other well I know I thought Mike
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was more team but maybe I was too I
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never said I mean I didn't have a chin I
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can't be I have a limit on how good
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looking I can be without a chin now I've
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got this the ladies like oh he that he
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got up for an Emmy for the first show
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Alec was kidding every sketch and it was
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uh he came out of Hunt for Red October
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and I was just like I went in the
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meeting going oh this guy's a movie star
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like I always do yeah I remember Victor
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did I interrupt you just said Victoria
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would say the second time Alec came in
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non-sequitur Victoria like on a Tuesday
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I'm not gonna do it again not this week
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I'm not gonna do it and I go what are
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you gonna do I'm not gonna fall in love
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with him I'm not gonna fall in love with
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him and then by Friday I fell in love
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yeah but he just gives these eyes and he
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you know he's just he was yeah and um
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you know there was so many home run
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hitters on that when I got there and all
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the writing and uh the smiggles and
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handies and we talk about it all the
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time but it was just hard to uh Lauren
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actually hung in there with me because
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it took a while to get my footing I was
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trying to write and trying to write for
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you it's hard right for other people I
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was just a stand-up so it's just to get
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it going and then got a little Hollywood
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minute then got some stuff and it just
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thank God I got in there because it took
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me longer than most and yeah because one
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he was in there too yeah so you were
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going to get those parts let's go
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through my diary I'll show you they
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would sit behind me
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David's on deck if you ever David ready
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Dana looks tired you're like no I look
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back Kevin Reed's reading something from
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Huxley David's ready whenever you're
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ready David you were funny the first
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year I met you truly thank you never a
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moment where I didn't think it was gonna
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work yeah
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have you seen cast members I mean
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there's so many that audition yeah I
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mean you couldn't say I guess if you
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felt like
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someone you missed on or someone I'm
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sure there's some that just obviously
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what happens is if there's no slot do
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you know what I mean yeah we don't think
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what you do then it's really hard
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actually I think Nick Kroll we talked to
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him and he he auditioned and he's he was
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the first one that made sense to me
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where he goes they had me because they
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had every move I do and there's just I'm
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an extra so I'm an extra guy from
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Samberg and Bill Hader and he locked him
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off and he goes and we talked about the
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pack it wasn't personal it was just
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those three years earlier it would have
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worked three years later but he was like
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I mean really really funny so that's
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just the way it is there and and when
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we're auditioning we don't think that
00:18:32
we're just saying oh we want to be on
00:18:35
and when Rob and I came on kind of
00:18:37
writer performers or maybe just writers
00:18:40
I mean no one tells anybody anything so
00:18:41
Bernie just said they just go there and
00:18:44
also Rob was doing making copies oh yeah
00:18:48
you know yeah and this was somehow that
00:18:50
just caught on yeah yeah and you don't
00:18:52
know why it captures on but yeah and
00:18:54
then you're running into the ground and
00:18:57
then we
00:19:02
the jealousy hit an all-time high when
00:19:05
sting came on looking like a stud and
00:19:08
then we were sting like a ding dong and
00:19:09
then you go you want to be in cop
00:19:10
machine he's like yeah I'm like God damn
00:19:12
so it's just you have to sit on
00:19:14
Sidelines and go good job and you go
00:19:16
what am I doing here making coffee yeah
00:19:20
but you know what and you can't argue it
00:19:22
it's funny it was original yeah
00:19:25
I was a great writer too he's a musical
00:19:28
and he can write and uh it was so fun to
00:19:31
be around these movie stars that are
00:19:34
nervous and scared about going or
00:19:36
musicians or you're sting I remember we
00:19:39
were doing the elevator sketch and he's
00:19:41
in we're in between he goes how's my
00:19:42
hair how's my hair he's asking me you
00:19:44
know it's like and they're really
00:19:45
vulnerable and they got the you know I
00:19:48
told Michael Jordan if you space out
00:19:49
just read it off the card it's a very
00:19:51
fascinating part of this whole flailing
00:19:53
they don't know what to do there yeah
00:19:54
I'm scared and if you get to talk to
00:19:57
them they don't know that we're lowly
00:19:58
writers is like what do I do here and
00:19:59
I'm like are you talking to me I don't
00:20:01
know what the [ __ ] going on Jeremy
00:20:03
Irons I remember his show
00:20:06
was on Saturday but the Oscars were the
00:20:10
Sunday
00:20:11
and he was nominated for best act oh wow
00:20:14
and I I knew him from a play he'd done
00:20:18
with Mike Nichols and up you know he was
00:20:20
a great actor obviously yeah and they
00:20:24
were doing a Sherlock Holmes uh sketch
00:20:27
and a woman named the writer but they're
00:20:30
like in their teaching him an English
00:20:32
accent right you know like no no it's
00:20:35
more this and you just go you know and
00:20:38
uh you just go what you know he's I mean
00:20:42
he wasn't best actor yeah but you just
00:20:44
go are you think but the passion and
00:20:47
blindness of comedy writers yeah you
00:20:50
know what I mean of like no you don't
00:20:51
get it it's like this and you go and so
00:20:54
confident but performers have witnessed
00:20:57
and felt death yeah so they never were
00:21:00
confident because they actually know the
00:21:02
job but writers are like no come on you
00:21:05
know and I remember George Meyer when he
00:21:08
was on the show
00:21:09
dying and he he would just you'd sort of
00:21:13
see himself throwing his body against
00:21:14
the ball addressed here so when someone
00:21:16
blew a line yeah and that's why
00:21:19
animation works better
00:21:21
you know because they because they they
00:21:23
open exactly what they're told but
00:21:24
performers can either give you that
00:21:27
exhilaration of like they took it off
00:21:29
the paper and now it's this other thing
00:21:31
that will always be that yeah as opposed
00:21:34
to you got to laugh at the end of the
00:21:36
lot you know I think I was doing a
00:21:38
courtroom thing as Johnny Carson as
00:21:40
Johnny Cochran or something and Michael
00:21:42
written it and he's put in all these
00:21:44
birds and things on me like and it's
00:21:47
five four three and it's a cockatoo I
00:21:49
know Robert enough
00:21:51
come on Robert is Relentless that way
00:21:54
yeah which we love him for he's yeah he
00:21:56
wants to be performing or he loves
00:21:58
reform yeah but we had some great
00:22:00
collaborations together he was he was
00:22:02
good with rhythms and you know yeah um
00:22:05
so so this new season uh-huh excited how
00:22:09
was your yeah I mean uh you're pulling
00:22:11
up your socks you're feeling good you're
00:22:13
just eyes wide open uh I think we you
00:22:17
know uh it was
00:22:19
you know we had we ended the season with
00:22:22
goodbyes you know particularly on cage
00:22:26
and Pete and so dealing with that it
00:22:30
just had that valedictory thing uh which
00:22:33
we did with Christian wig as well we've
00:22:35
done a bunch of times yeah uh and it
00:22:38
just you just slipped out of the dead of
00:22:40
night I agreement on Bernie you gotta go
00:22:43
now or you'll never go no I don't know
00:22:46
why I did that I you know a lot of
00:22:48
people on this just anecdotally without
00:22:50
naming names kind of like go why did I
00:22:52
leave because some of them left
00:22:54
voluntarily yeah and why was I so angry
00:22:57
yeah and what was I thinking and for me
00:22:59
personally I had so many inputs coming
00:23:01
at me yeah I got too hot too big it's
00:23:03
like Mickey Rooney in the Twilight Zone
00:23:04
because of Wayne's World and all the
00:23:06
political stuff so I was sort of lost
00:23:07
but yeah but I I was envious and thought
00:23:09
it was sweet when Kate and people got a
00:23:13
little send off his sweet yeah and also
00:23:15
I think there's something about
00:23:17
uh
00:23:19
it can't be everything to show and it is
00:23:23
for so long and then then you could but
00:23:26
if you're ever gonna leave you know and
00:23:27
so you have to leave at some point yeah
00:23:30
but also that uh
00:23:33
they're you're never gonna feel that
00:23:35
intensity
00:23:37
of that because it's it's its own sport
00:23:39
you know what I mean and you're in
00:23:41
Hollywood yeah I went to sitcom and it
00:23:44
was great people great actors and I go
00:23:46
this is just not the same it's just not
00:23:48
as tough and people writing for me and I
00:23:50
go this is unbelievable and also it's
00:23:52
all as it was all risk you know like
00:23:55
there's no safety net and there's also
00:23:57
no uh guarantee there's a good work on
00:24:00
it or you're gonna are you gonna be
00:24:02
honest like you're walking through the
00:24:03
hallway and it's like 20 to one and they
00:24:05
go and you're in your offer and they go
00:24:06
Gap girls is cut
00:24:12
go back to your rooms immediately yeah
00:24:14
anything that's cut on it that's the
00:24:16
tuft because that's that's again there's
00:24:17
no guarantees and now we tend to play
00:24:20
some of those
00:24:21
oh yeah again
00:24:24
Saturday Night Live I I think I read
00:24:26
this gets like I don't know two almost
00:24:29
two billion YouTube views isn't it
00:24:32
number one YouTube foreign
00:24:39
uh Lewis Hamilton the race car driver
00:24:41
was at a party last season and he
00:24:43
thought he said well I grew up watching
00:24:45
the show and I go here in England how do
00:24:46
you watch the show you know you forget
00:24:48
that it's it's all online and people and
00:24:51
then I think when they see the
00:24:52
Contemporary stuff then they go back and
00:24:54
look at the you know the shows from yeah
00:24:58
and there was a period about 15 years
00:25:01
ago when writers coming in who would not
00:25:04
been alive for the first you know five
00:25:06
or ten years would we had a server where
00:25:09
they could just go on so sometimes
00:25:11
people would watch two or three shows
00:25:12
before on Tuesday night before they
00:25:14
started but I'll use an example I'll say
00:25:17
well I think we did that with Bill
00:25:18
Murray and then now I look out into a
00:25:20
room of look okay all right
00:25:23
I'm talking about 45 years ago like so
00:25:28
it's a I think peacock probably has all
00:25:30
the old ones maybe it's all everyone has
00:25:32
it on their laptop I mean every sketch
00:25:34
right because when I was there meeting
00:25:35
John Mulaney and Bill Hader yeah I'm
00:25:37
like oh what do you guys want to do they
00:25:39
go we like Mickey Rooney when I did
00:25:40
Mickey Rooney really and they they
00:25:43
brought it up immediately so and and
00:25:45
Bill you know what I've talked to Bill
00:25:48
somewhat seriously about his time there
00:25:50
he he was frightened he talked about the
00:25:55
panic I go it's so interesting because
00:25:58
I'm pretty good at reading that stuff
00:26:00
yeah but he was so good on error and so
00:26:03
original and I mean he auditioned with
00:26:06
Vincent Price yes and who does that
00:26:10
and James Mason now I they were in my
00:26:13
childhood
00:26:14
and things got shot got to Oklahoma
00:26:18
later but it was just a uh so original
00:26:22
and right away do you know what I mean
00:26:25
and Vinnie paderci and all all of that
00:26:28
stuff and you go so such an original
00:26:31
comedy voice yeah you know we know what
00:26:33
else he can do but he was truly funny so
00:26:36
good yeah his rhythms and the Vincent
00:26:38
Price thing it didn't even matter if you
00:26:40
knew Vincent Price just said his party's
00:26:42
being ruined and he's being very trying
00:26:44
to pull it together well okay thank you
00:26:47
and it was totally I don't know who was
00:26:48
coming to it feels but he said he was
00:26:51
just you know almost in tears in the
00:26:53
bathroom and yeah on 8h yeah you know
00:26:57
um I had you could if anyone wanted to
00:26:59
see Church chat my hand was drenched in
00:27:01
sweat yeah you know there's a lot of
00:27:03
controlling of course adrenals and you
00:27:06
don't know
00:27:07
five seconds before you still don't know
00:27:10
whether it's going to work or whether
00:27:11
but there is that thing of like it
00:27:13
brings out the best in you and and when
00:27:16
you win
00:27:17
you really can feel it well you can't
00:27:19
there's nothing like the first big laugh
00:27:22
to relax you you're just not relaxed and
00:27:25
the very first time I said well isn't
00:27:27
that special I got such a big laugh I
00:27:29
finally went ah but also there's a
00:27:33
period in which they like you know you
00:27:36
probably have three or four years where
00:27:38
they they just get a laugh at whatever
00:27:39
you do because they they think you know
00:27:41
more than they do and uh and they're
00:27:44
just so excited to see you and that that
00:27:47
been happening for the last 10 years or
00:27:49
so you just kind of feel in the room and
00:27:53
I'm going I don't think that's going to
00:27:54
play and they're going of course it's
00:27:55
going to play yeah it's those people
00:27:57
doing it
00:28:00
[Music]
00:28:02
there was once when we were in the
00:28:05
Monday meeting and I thought
00:28:07
I don't know if we had like a dry spell
00:28:09
but I was in the money meeting and the
00:28:11
hosts who shower and remain nameless but
00:28:13
I go I think Mike and Dana are more
00:28:15
famous than the host and you know the
00:28:18
casket's so big sometimes like that and
00:28:21
they're so well known and we always I
00:28:23
mean you always have
00:28:25
to this day huge hosts and great people
00:28:28
that come in from all areas and Kim
00:28:31
Kardashian did a great job and that was
00:28:33
sort of out of the blue and uh just
00:28:35
that's great that you keep doing that
00:28:36
and something's working there with a
00:28:38
they all want to do it still and get
00:28:40
that one thing because they hear about
00:28:42
it and they all walk away going it went
00:28:44
too fast and it was too great and if I
00:28:46
do it again I know what I'm doing this
00:28:47
time but also hosting
00:28:50
everybody you know there's 150 people
00:28:53
they're all there to make you look good
00:28:55
yeah so you're the center of it and it's
00:28:57
just a different experience unless
00:28:59
you're Steven Seagal you believe that um
00:29:01
my favorite host so one that you know
00:29:04
like you guys started uh which was kind
00:29:06
of interesting having the women play men
00:29:09
because that wasn't happening yeah uh in
00:29:12
in the in the and that just sort of
00:29:13
happened organically in Kate mcginnon
00:29:15
did a lot of men and other things was
00:29:18
that just uh just sort of happen you
00:29:19
went with it it's just a new flavor I
00:29:22
mean if if you're me you're always going
00:29:23
to go with the funniest take so does
00:29:26
gender isn't the issue it's just like
00:29:28
who's got that voice well Kate had the
00:29:30
audience in the Palmer hand I think it
00:29:31
was so great he played uh yeah yeah she
00:29:34
played Sean spice Trump was Furious
00:29:37
about it
00:29:38
yeah because it's like they're having a
00:29:42
woman play you
00:29:48
I think at some point he liked what Alec
00:29:51
was doing he did no I think at the
00:29:54
beginning maybe in the first five
00:29:56
seconds yeah well it was just unique
00:29:58
because we knew that Alec obviously
00:30:00
didn't favor his politics and then he
00:30:02
started to not like Alec and it was a
00:30:03
public thing yeah and before it was sort
00:30:06
of hidden if Daryl Hammond's doing Al
00:30:08
Gore no one really knows his politics or
00:30:10
whatever so that was a new new kind of
00:30:12
flavor as well yeah and also we did
00:30:15
things that we wouldn't do now you know
00:30:17
with John Goodman playing the trip or
00:30:19
whatever you know like so it was just uh
00:30:22
yeah you know and I think
00:30:25
you sort of
00:30:27
standards and boundaries change
00:30:30
and yeah you know things that you could
00:30:33
do you know uh
00:30:35
Franken did a
00:30:37
Franken always stretched the envelope
00:30:39
yeah I think it was with Garrett Morris
00:30:41
and Julian Bond and it was about uh
00:30:46
it was
00:30:47
a black talk show and it had a line
00:30:50
about uh
00:30:53
that light-skinned black people are are
00:30:56
you know smarter than dark oh God that's
00:31:00
just frankly hello
00:31:03
you know like what and but what I'm
00:31:06
getting at is we could then there was no
00:31:09
malice in it it was just like that thing
00:31:12
of what can't you say right in regular
00:31:15
TV world yeah yeah I like when anyone
00:31:18
gained seven pounds the next week Farley
00:31:20
was playing them yeah I was like his job
00:31:23
was like it was always brutal and I used
00:31:26
to say this thing about when you guys
00:31:28
were filming uh because you were up in
00:31:30
Toronto we I was down there doing the
00:31:31
show and then I'd come up and whatever
00:31:32
but I'd say I'd see dailies and you your
00:31:37
web handling stress was you know you'd
00:31:39
have a banana and whatever and it would
00:31:41
be like that and part of these would
00:31:43
just be to continue you'd lose weight
00:31:45
and he'd gain weight but the weight in
00:31:47
the frame stayed the same yeah yeah it
00:31:50
was always a concert and I'd always
00:31:53
looked normal yeah oh yeah we'd go back
00:31:55
and forth from Toronto yeah Eric Newman
00:31:58
on the flight with us yes where's his
00:31:59
are you going to ever write a book
00:32:01
Lauren because Meghan Markle did no no I
00:32:05
I think the hard part
00:32:07
is uh
00:32:09
you can't tell the truth or you don't
00:32:11
want to bury me yeah yeah yeah
00:32:14
then would you have to be married did
00:32:17
that actually happen
00:32:18
do you know what I mean you know you
00:32:20
have to cross-check yourself too well
00:32:22
it's just your memory right I have a
00:32:25
good memory it's not that incredible
00:32:26
just like well what
00:32:29
did that actually happen 100 because
00:32:31
Dana and I even would tell stories and
00:32:33
we would disagree and I'm like
00:32:36
God you're right and I go I remembered
00:32:37
this whole time a certain way and it was
00:32:39
not and it's just something that happens
00:32:42
like that so you just don't know yeah
00:32:43
and and that's why they do all that
00:32:45
stuff in murder trials it's like the
00:32:47
people swear they saw this person leave
00:32:49
and no they didn't and you just go and
00:32:53
yeah then they execute you yeah yeah and
00:32:56
you go nowhere
00:32:58
when it comes to taking credit I think
00:33:00
it's a normal human thing to kind of
00:33:02
trend your memory towards favoring
00:33:04
yourself yeah a little bit but you want
00:33:06
to cross check it with other people am I
00:33:08
remembering this right like was there
00:33:10
was there ever a horse on the show or a
00:33:13
horse
00:33:14
yeah lots of horses because during
00:33:17
during dinner I questioned was over in
00:33:20
my cubicle arranging things and I saw
00:33:23
Keith Richard walking by himself walking
00:33:26
up to the horse and he held the horse's
00:33:28
head in his hand he said look at you
00:33:31
you're a [ __ ] horse that's I swear to
00:33:34
God that's what he said and then he just
00:33:35
went back
00:33:37
did I remember that correctly there was
00:33:39
of course the first time it was uh when
00:33:42
Mr Ed died
00:33:44
there was a news story and uh Chevy
00:33:47
could do Mr Ed's voice and so
00:33:51
he yeah exactly Wilbur yeah and uh he we
00:33:56
got the horse in the studio and then
00:33:58
he's interviewing the horse at the last
00:34:00
interview you know and he'd be doing
00:34:02
both parts so when when the horse was
00:34:06
talking yeah
00:34:10
horses giraffes we had monkeys
00:34:15
we had a camel about four years ago no
00:34:19
maybe longer now
00:34:21
uh and it got off every camel works at
00:34:25
Christmas
00:34:29
there was they they lied about how big
00:34:33
it was
00:34:34
scary so he came off the elevator
00:34:39
and then the hump
00:34:41
uh you can call it a Humper yeah yeah uh
00:34:45
the hump sure gotten stuck in the tiles
00:34:48
because it was so tall yeah so it was
00:34:51
just stuck there was no getting it there
00:34:53
and then but we're on the air we have to
00:34:55
get yeah so I think they got
00:34:58
a donkey made it look like a camel it
00:35:00
was like that kind of uh interesting
00:35:02
thing it's an amazing it's Bill Murray
00:35:05
punched Chevy or is that a fake story
00:35:07
from the old days they got into a fight
00:35:08
that was uh and John I think provoked it
00:35:12
a little bit I love John it was probably
00:35:16
my mistake because I was bringing Chevy
00:35:18
back to host but it was three it was two
00:35:21
a season and a half after he left
00:35:23
and uh it just made sense the musical
00:35:27
guest on that show was the very young
00:35:29
Billy Joel and uh they got into a
00:35:34
skirmish just in front you know one of
00:35:37
the doors
00:35:38
desk yeah and uh and then come out and
00:35:43
do the monologue oh wow so it was like
00:35:46
uh both six foot four basically so and
00:35:49
it was just a the show was sort of white
00:35:52
hot and it was
00:35:56
John
00:35:58
always felt in Lemmings which is the
00:36:01
time they'd worked together before the
00:36:03
show John was the star and Chevy was
00:36:06
taught and so and was like sort of third
00:36:09
building and Chris you know uh
00:36:12
is involved in that show too Chris guest
00:36:15
and you're going to go so there was
00:36:17
already like this is how we see you and
00:36:21
then uh yeah
00:36:24
also because he said his name
00:36:27
you know an update right I'm Chevy Chase
00:36:30
and you're not yeah great yeah yeah well
00:36:33
and he's a big dude great looking dude
00:36:34
movie star by then right
00:36:37
coming back I always tell me when I run
00:36:39
into chip we're gonna have chubby on the
00:36:40
podcast I try to compliment him but
00:36:42
sometimes he doesn't know he's a little
00:36:44
but I I tell people if you want to know
00:36:47
how great he was is as a film actor look
00:36:49
at Caddyshack where Bill Murray is in
00:36:52
his full Prime groundsman character with
00:36:55
the mouth off of the side and they're
00:36:57
together going through this scene and
00:36:58
Chevy does his
00:37:00
Buster Keaton or whatever you want to
00:37:01
call how still his face was and then his
00:37:04
physicality it's like a master class in
00:37:07
comic film acting he got he gets uh beat
00:37:11
up a lot and people forget what it seems
00:37:14
like a movie future yeah and Starry you
00:37:17
know I mean just it's it's a thing it
00:37:19
was it was like uh such a huge thing
00:37:23
yeah you know by the end of the first
00:37:26
season and it was like way too much to
00:37:28
handle and uh it became
00:37:32
particularly hard for he and I because
00:37:34
we wrote together and so we were very
00:37:36
close and so it was
00:37:39
heading in two different directions and
00:37:41
then he became a movie star sure he's
00:37:43
insane ever since he kind of even when
00:37:46
he would come to host he'd say don't
00:37:47
don't leave too soon he felt he wished
00:37:50
he'd done more seasons because that was
00:37:51
that it was a yeah emotionally he wasn't
00:37:54
ready to leave and also he was
00:37:57
that other thing really proud of what
00:38:00
we've done yeah with the show so we had
00:38:03
to see it still be huge yeah and grow my
00:38:05
Blues Brothers and yeah right and when
00:38:07
listen when
00:38:09
at the end of the first season
00:38:12
uh
00:38:14
I win three Emmy Awards one for Lily Tom
00:38:16
and Richard Pryor thing I'd done the
00:38:18
year before nice and uh
00:38:21
uh Richard Pryor who I'd worked with we
00:38:23
had dinner
00:38:25
uh at Dan Thomas so you know we were you
00:38:28
know feeling pretty good about ourselves
00:38:29
and uh he was offered a three picture
00:38:33
deal
00:38:34
at University and he said this is what
00:38:36
we wanted
00:38:38
do you know what I mean comedians did
00:38:39
not get movies yeah right you know and
00:38:42
it was like uh
00:38:44
and I thought I've just been through my
00:38:47
Championship season it's not Courtney I
00:38:49
wrote everything I ever wanted to write
00:38:51
all you know at least twice in that
00:38:52
season so it was like
00:38:54
oh you could you could get off stage now
00:38:57
and you know wow
00:39:00
I don't know what I can't do that
00:39:01
everybody else has to stay for five
00:39:03
years you know what's that but uh I
00:39:06
think
00:39:06
that if you said to me then that
00:39:09
I would be still doing it and that I
00:39:12
would have found so many other things
00:39:13
that were there that I didn't know at
00:39:16
the beginning not part of the original
00:39:17
design or whatever things that it grew
00:39:20
into or that it that it does or that its
00:39:23
influence would be just as strong
00:39:24
politically as it is
00:39:27
and music keep discovering uh super
00:39:30
talented people yeah and being launched
00:39:34
from your show to have careers also they
00:39:37
kind of find us no yeah you know
00:39:40
in the 70s you had to go out and recruit
00:39:42
but I think people yeah sure I mean I
00:39:45
like that staying alive because there
00:39:46
was there was a time there like
00:39:48
obviously when you're on if you missed
00:39:50
the show you had to get the rerun six
00:39:52
months later and if you missed that you
00:39:53
had to catch it was luckily on the best
00:39:55
of yeah in the summer but there was a
00:39:58
time there when
00:39:59
people hadn't seen some of the old ones
00:40:01
and then it was on the E channel and
00:40:03
then now you can see it all so it's it's
00:40:06
interesting it's like Emma Stone grew up
00:40:08
on best of Gilda Radner wow and those
00:40:11
sort of best you know what all those
00:40:13
best if you're in them I mean but we
00:40:15
stopped doing them because the VCR thing
00:40:18
yeah it wasn't really yeah and they're
00:40:20
all on YouTube yeah pretty much but
00:40:22
people wore those out I think Kate
00:40:24
McKinnon had one of those
00:40:27
three movies
00:40:33
[Music]
00:40:35
well Lauren we'll take a 20 minute break
00:40:37
and then start the podcast I just uh we
00:40:41
just want to thank you for that I don't
00:40:42
know we didn't talk about anybody dying
00:40:44
we didn't there's a lot no do you want
00:40:46
to no no I'm I'm good I mean but that we
00:40:49
were there for a lot of that a lot of
00:40:51
big ones yeah two of my band mates for
00:40:53
sure yeah and I was just saying Catalina
00:40:55
Island and that's where Phil's ashes are
00:40:58
do you remember
00:40:59
remember John at the memorial
00:41:03
John Lovitz yeah kind of what do you do
00:41:13
I just talked about Phil oh yeah
00:41:16
yeah well uh but they couldn't have been
00:41:18
closer yeah you know that sketch which
00:41:21
was a growling sketch that we finally
00:41:22
did yeah what's the word on the street
00:41:25
they were doing the gangster thing so
00:41:27
much before we premiered with the first
00:41:29
show yeah I remember Dynamite did they
00:41:32
do anything else he was like how you
00:41:33
doing I want you what are they saying
00:41:34
what are they saying you know they just
00:41:36
did it uh spastically I love it still so
00:41:39
funny I see him and then Three Amigos I
00:41:41
did it with them that was yes
00:41:43
that's right yeah but John is yeah he's
00:41:45
he's supernaturally funny
00:41:47
you see him you see John I do see John
00:41:50
yeah I talked to him a lot he's he's on
00:41:52
the road or he's had a hotel with Jerry
00:41:54
his dog Jerry Bruckheimer and you know
00:41:56
he's just there's only one John he still
00:41:59
is
00:42:01
one of the most naturally funny he is
00:42:04
really and where did that come from
00:42:06
people like when they see him they all
00:42:08
know him he looks exactly the same they
00:42:09
all come up
00:42:11
he came back to play somebody like three
00:42:14
four years ago I had a cold opening and
00:42:17
he destroyed the dress
00:42:19
and I said John you got to make sure
00:42:21
you're on your mark before you go you
00:42:25
don't like that and he was just off
00:42:28
camera just just the live audience was
00:42:31
going nuts but you know what I thought
00:42:33
heartbreaking because he's it's still
00:42:37
all natural do you know what I mean so
00:42:40
that's the moment he felt to do it as
00:42:42
opposed to three two one get to my spot
00:42:44
and then do it yeah
00:42:45
a cart room would have been on camera
00:42:47
for sure who Hartman oh Phil was I mean
00:42:50
his binder was so meticulous his office
00:42:52
meticulous he was in so many sketches
00:42:54
and then he would just in between takes
00:42:57
her when we're rehearsing he would just
00:42:59
be looking at it I couldn't believe he'd
00:43:01
look at something else you're not
00:43:02
looking at boats and his plane yeah he
00:43:04
was a Renaissance person yeah yeah but
00:43:08
smart yeah all right well thanks buddy
00:43:11
it's been great getting to know you guys
00:43:13
yes it's nice to meet you I really feel
00:43:15
like I know you now and uh no thank you
00:43:17
for doing this Lauren goodbye
00:43:20
hey what's up flies what's up fleas
00:43:23
what's up people that listen we want to
00:43:24
hear from you and your dumb questions
00:43:26
questions ask us anything anything you
00:43:29
want you can email us at fly on the wall
00:43:32
at cadence13.com
00:43:35
we have a question here great who will
00:43:38
take over for Lauren how will the show
00:43:40
adjust and move forward 75 people ask
00:43:45
this question yeah 75 plus from the same
00:43:48
we get a lot of this is a question we
00:43:49
get a lot okay I would say we did touch
00:43:53
on it I don't think he's going to want
00:43:55
to talk about it because no it means
00:43:58
retiring and I don't think anyone wants
00:44:00
to retire I don't know if right he can
00:44:02
handle the stress or if he wants to give
00:44:04
it away or if people will say oh ever
00:44:05
since Lauren left it's just a great
00:44:06
excuse to say oh the show we did and it
00:44:08
was kind of a joke but sort of serious
00:44:10
we offered ourselves up to take over as
00:44:12
co-producers and Lauren's eyes got real
00:44:15
big and he just went right right and I
00:44:18
said or we could just take the money we
00:44:19
do nothing
00:44:20
just get the credit yeah and then stir
00:44:22
that credit and then work at the podcast
00:44:24
and just see if it does I'll say it on
00:44:26
its own philosophically off top of my
00:44:28
head I do think it's tough to replace
00:44:30
Lauren because he works in so many
00:44:32
invisible ways and that is the
00:44:34
relationship with the bosses because I'm
00:44:37
for years and we touched on this but I
00:44:39
don't complicated they're always when
00:44:40
the show's range Raiders are down sorry
00:44:43
I had a little nip when the show's
00:44:44
ratings are down they want to change it
00:44:46
they want it's got to be taped or you
00:44:47
can't Lauren was so Vigilant about
00:44:50
keeping it exactly the same that's why
00:44:52
you go back and it's a little bit creepy
00:44:54
in there because it's like going back to
00:44:56
high school it's cool now the the only
00:44:58
thing different now when you go back is
00:44:59
all the photos when you walk down that
00:45:01
first Hall are all so historical because
00:45:04
it's every Big Star doing a big sketch
00:45:06
and you're like whoa all right here yep
00:45:08
all the history of almost 50 years so I
00:45:11
don't know you know there's names
00:45:12
there's Tina Fey they're perfectly
00:45:14
capable if she wanted it um Steve
00:45:16
Higgins there's Higgins there's Downey
00:45:18
there's uh who wants the job who who can
00:45:21
handle it remember Apatow talked about
00:45:23
it yeah he's a producer I mean you know
00:45:27
Apatow could do it
00:45:29
um maybe he wouldn't be as close enough
00:45:30
to the show so he'd get some resistance
00:45:32
but but yes he knows what he's doing
00:45:34
Lauren took over as such a young man it
00:45:36
feels like it needs young and yet uh the
00:45:40
show is already adjusting just
00:45:41
culturally it's it's evolving you know
00:45:43
when I was on there was like six cast
00:45:45
members now there's there has to be 620
00:45:47
or 25 well they were 600 for a while
00:45:51
um okay I'll ask you a question David
00:45:53
who would be the biggest surprise you
00:45:55
could think of that would take over for
00:45:57
Lauren I have I have my answer but
00:45:59
serious
00:46:00
[Laughter]
00:46:02
[Music]
00:46:07
oh they're offensive why are they
00:46:09
offensive because it sounds like they
00:46:12
don't have a good career advice although
00:46:14
they're becoming an executive producer
00:46:16
okay what's yours then I'll decide yeah
00:46:19
I did say now you you're in the cold
00:46:24
opening do you know what a cold opening
00:46:27
is it's the beginning no oh that was my
00:46:30
joke maybe you should try acting
00:46:33
so that would be my surprise one but the
00:46:35
truth is nobody knows it's three years
00:46:37
from now
00:46:38
and uh but the 50th is we did talk about
00:46:41
the 50th and Lauren has not announced
00:46:43
his retirement officially at all no it
00:46:46
just feels like 50s like you know it's
00:46:49
halfway to 100. why are you pushing me
00:46:51
out the door
00:46:53
I just want your couch that's why I told
00:46:55
him no he's got popcorn he's a popcorn
00:46:58
guy uh Tootsie Tootsie Rolls
00:47:05
we don't like to stop talking so thank
00:47:08
you for asking and the answer is we
00:47:10
don't know we could have said three four
00:47:11
minutes ago we don't know instead we
00:47:14
we're narcissists and we like the sound
00:47:15
of our own voice so thank you 75 plus we
00:47:18
want to cram one all from the same email
00:47:20
address you know who you are
00:47:22
it's Lauren himself
00:47:24
what did they say Lauren lauren.com
00:47:28
okay thanks guys
00:47:30
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00:47:32
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00:47:50
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00:47:55
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00:47:58
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Episode Highlights

  • The Discipline of Comedy
    Staying in character during a sketch can be a challenge, but it's essential for comedy.
    “You transcended, you're still playing.”
    @ 01m 24s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Emotional Weight of Performance
    Performers often feel the weight of their responsibilities, especially during tough times.
    “People are counting on us.”
    @ 03m 44s
    October 07, 2022
  • Navigating Tragedy and Humor
    Finding the balance between tragedy and humor is a delicate task for performers.
    “You can't somehow figure it out.”
    @ 04m 29s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Passion of Comedy Writers
    Writers often lack the confidence of performers who have faced the harsh realities of comedy.
    “Writers are like, 'No, come on you know!'”
    @ 21m 02s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Intensity of Live Performance
    The thrill of live performance brings out the best in comedians, but it comes with pressure.
    “You’re just not relaxed until you get that first big laugh.”
    @ 27m 19s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Evolution of Comedy
    Standards and boundaries in comedy have changed over the years, reflecting societal shifts.
    “Standards and boundaries change, and things you could do then are different now.”
    @ 30m 25s
    October 07, 2022
  • John's Unique Humor
    John's comedic talent is described as supernaturally funny, showcasing his natural ability to entertain.
    “He's supernaturally funny.”
    @ 41m 45s
    October 07, 2022
  • Future of the Show
    The hosts discuss the challenges of replacing Lauren and the evolving nature of the show.
    “It feels like it needs young.”
    @ 45m 36s
    October 07, 2022
  • Podcast Presentation
    The episode concludes with a reminder to rate and review the podcast, emphasizing its availability.
    “No joke folks.”
    @ 47m 45s
    October 07, 2022

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  • Sketch Comedy Challenges01:24
  • Performers' Emotional Journey03:44
  • Balancing Tragedy and Humor04:29
  • Comedy Writers' Confidence21:02
  • Changing Standards30:25
  • Supernaturally Funny41:45
  • Future Uncertainty47:10
  • Podcast Wrap-Up47:45

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