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April 19, 2023 / 01:15:29

This episode features comedian Ray Romano discussing his career, including his time on SNL, his new film "Somewhere in Queens," and his experiences in stand-up comedy.

Ray Romano shares insights about his journey in comedy, starting from his early days at the Improv to hosting SNL. He reflects on memorable sketches, particularly one with Tim Meadows.

The conversation touches on Romano's recent film, "Somewhere in Queens," which he co-wrote and directed. He explains how the story draws from his personal experiences as a father and the pressures of parenting.

Romano discusses the challenges of finding the right cast for his film, particularly the young actor who plays his son. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity in portraying family dynamics.

Throughout the episode, Romano and the hosts share humorous anecdotes from their careers and the evolution of stand-up comedy, highlighting the unique experiences of performing live.

TL;DR

Ray Romano discusses his career, SNL sketches, and his film "Somewhere in Queens."

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Romano like

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yeah Ray I like that we just had Ray on

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Ray is a good buddy of mine we did the

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uh we did standup together the Mirage

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last is a great standup very smooth

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funny standup hosted SNL was it twice

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twice yeah uh had some great sketches a

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classic sketch in there we won't give it

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away with Tim Meadows I don't know the

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name of it they're Sports casters yep

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Sports Center crazy funny and we break

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all that down and we go through his kind

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of his we break down to like powder we

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break it down so in the tiniest bits

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it's like sand yeah we break it down

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like this is how I went to the club then

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we break that in half this is how I got

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dressed we break that these are the

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shoes that I bought the night so we keep

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digressing eventually we got him back to

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a he's just

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born and his mother freaking

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he's done Ice Age he's done he just

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directed and co-wrote a movie that was

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very good no [ __ ] Dane and I both

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saw it we both without knowing it saw it

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and not comparing notes and on the

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podcast I have to say I thought it was a

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very interesting movie it is a bit of a

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roller coaster it's not just funny but

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it's it's kind of a tearjerker in places

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that was fun because I knew that we both

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love the film so we kind of go over his

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career in SNL because I didn't want to

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come out with it but at the end I think

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he was excited or happy because we

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legitimately love the movie and it's a

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lot of stuff for parents you know it's

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not like a dark drama but it's dramatic

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and it's funny at the same time and the

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name of it is somewhere in Queens

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somewhere in Queens I was going to say

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night at the

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Queens we turned into CIS Eber you know

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movies to me sis schol or

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I you're the guy that's Ray mono is also

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uh um yeah especially when you look at

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his resume especially humble and real um

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he didn't really get a breaking Show

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Business till he's 36 he worked at a

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bank till he's 29 so his story is very

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interesting and God he's done a lot

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after everybody loves met his wife at

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the bank met his wife at the bank and uh

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you know let's put it eventually he made

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a deposit on it okay sorry spoiler alert

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spoiler alert Dennis Miller will

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sometimes appear yeah on the podcast so

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Ray here he is Ray Romano you you know

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him you love him you know his voice and

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uh he was very uh very interesting to

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have a nice listen and remember 10 and

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two pull over and finish don't go to

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work or don't go into the store pull

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over and finish the whole goddamn

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podcast yeah and the commercials are

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really funny we don't like pauses we're

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not the pause guys there's no no 30

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second going forward not with this

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podcast do that with the other guys play

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that [ __ ] I we should do a podcast

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called The Other Guys kind of like the

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will phoh

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movie we just remake that movie I think

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the camera went off 20 minut they're out

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of film film what 192 he's like is there

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a spider

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[ __ ] Heather wow Smash It and

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kill it to

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[Music]

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death there's no pre there's no pre-

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interiew no to prep no no way to prep

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it's just being in the moment real can I

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can I bite a piece of bread while we do

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this yeah yeah is that is that

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disrespectful no not not at all

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especially because you've announced it

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now people listening all over the world

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by the way will be like that's cool he

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told us what was happening he wasn't

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having some kind of jaw jaw

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dysfunction right from my eye doctor I

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haven't had breakfast yet it's all right

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I usually eat all you want I talked to

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Dana for the first 10 minutes anyway oh

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okay so I discovered spade and Dennis

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Miller discovered was it Chris Rock or

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who did he or he also Schneider did

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anyone discover you in a Lynch Penny

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kind of way back in the day some club

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owner some big- time comic Hey

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kid you're gonna make it you may not

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have what do you mean like how did you

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discover those guys well recommended

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them that's a strong word Dennis not

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discover that's the wrong word but

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Dennis Miller he saw faadu

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thler and told Lauren Michaels about him

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right I believe right it's that kind of

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thing networking that's a big thing I'll

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answer for you because Ray's eating Ray

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was performing at probably the Sellar

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and he got yeah but I'll tell you one

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thing I'll tell you one thing before I

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got to the

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Sellar I was I was at the Improv I was

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just a kind of a still still a late

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night slash one you know maybe get on

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the Regular Show comic at The

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Improv and my buddy joh you know John

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manotti David I do yeah he he was a

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regular at the seller and on one Friday

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night some gu somebody cancelled they

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didn't have a guy blah blah blah they

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had a and the the the the the owner said

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who can we get down here and he said

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there's a there's a new dude at The

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Improv that's pretty good and they

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called he called The Improv and he

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called me he said can you get down to

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the seller in [ __ ] 15 minutes you know

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and I said yeah and I raced down there I

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got there and and that then became the

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seller became my club you know that was

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but but he's the one who got me in there

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I don't know if you count that you count

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that as anything yeah I'm gonna I'm

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going to count it I'm going to count I

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know there people disagree with me but

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so just for inside baseball

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so the The Improv which Bud Freeman had

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55th in BR 45th Street 44th and Ninth

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44th and the seller was in the Village

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Street yeah so it's like a 10minute cab

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ride to at least maybe more maybe more

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20 minute cab ride to Comedy Nirvana

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that could be your book If you ever read

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a book Dan I have a I have a technical

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question for Ray cuz I I I only I only

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met people at the Improv when I was

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staying out there and they said this guy

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Gary Grant could get you some Road gigs

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if you fly out there so I do two weeks I

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take a Subway to two times sare walk to

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the Improv sit there and meet some comic

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like you or some wasn't you but someone

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that was established would drive me to

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like BF pakis in Jersey and I would do

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yeah yeah 20 minutes and I'd get you

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know 60 bucks so in two weeks I could

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clear $500 which I did and it was great

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but the Improv stage it is is it

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elevated at all in um New York it does

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it seems like it's in the corner

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bit little bit it was yeah I mean that

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now it's an Italian restaurant The

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Improv but but what do you mean is it

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elevated yeah it was it looked like the

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one in La was like you walk upstairs and

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you're like you know you walk Three

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stairs I I was scared of that improv I

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got humiliated there once because I was

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doing the Mickey Runa show I was like

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25 and I was going to do sets at The

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Improv and I'm doing all my dancing

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around and singing and doing little

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funny moves and funny little voices and

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I thought I was doing really well and

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then a guy old guy probably 40 came up

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to you and go I like you you get laughs

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kid but they don't like you and he

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pointed to like 15 Comics hanging out on

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the other side of the club what they

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don't like you they don't get you wait

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the New York improv that was the New

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York New York improv yep

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1981 oh that was before that was before

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me but I do remember when I was coming

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up in there I remember you coming in

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Dana and this is when you were on

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SNL and you did so you did a spot and

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you were yeah you were the big guest

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star and I remember I think John litz

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was in the audience at The Improv was at

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the Improv also and so you you on stage

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said how do you guys like litz what do

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you think of John Lovitz you were asking

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the audience to see to get a reaction Al

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the dash fine now you have to bring you

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have to bring me up to try to get a

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laugh they like me better I remember

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yeah I was a young dude then thinging

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Ray who who were the good guys when you

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were starting who was like on the Slate

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Jerry no at at The Improv no Jerry was

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never there I never our path never

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crossed wow The Improv at The Improv was

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like Allan havy and Ron Daren I

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remember Chappelle was just start

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starting you know um Chris Rock was just

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kind of starting then and then at the

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seller you know I was more when I ran

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into like John Stewart and Louis

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CK

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um but you know the seller is the club

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that I still

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go didn't you shoot your what was the

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name of your your was Netflix special

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you started the set at the seller and

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then you walked to another club during

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the special another seller that's the

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annex of the Celler yeah it's around the

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corner it was it was called right here

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around the corner called jaunt and it

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was just a quick jaunt Ross were you and

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uh were you quick to get kind of what

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you would call your voice and like the

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way you do stand up now or was did you

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work with props and puppets and stuff

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and then get into your thing or was I I

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had a couple props God when we Dig Down

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D props I had props I had a you had a

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prop right what a puppet I I had no I

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had a I had a little duffel bag of uh it

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was it was at the end of my act it was

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at the end of my act and I would do

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Impressions I would do um the kid you

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always wanted to sit next to during a

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physics exam and it was nerdy hat nerdy

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glasses interesting and I would and I

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and I would turn around and do the old

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reveal clo and did he talk nope NOP he

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didn't

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talk it just visual all visuals so it

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was it was just a set a set four I think

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there were four things it was the the

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you wanted to sit next to during a

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physics exam boom funny set that same

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kid's mother I did his mother what she

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looked like and it was just wig with cat

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glasses you know so one after the other

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yeah

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and and then I uh I did with the wig and

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the glasses I don't know if you guys

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remember uh the Mets were uh this was 86

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so the Mets were in the World Series

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playoffs and there was a woman who sat

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behind home plate who tried to distract

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the pitcher by doing this rolling her

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hands around and she was prominent if if

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you watch the game sure on camera like

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this so with so with the wig on and the

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glasses I did that woman also oh God

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what a tricky laugh are these getting

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equal laughs are these just all killing

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they they're doing they're doing very

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well yeah and then the closer Not only

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was props but it involved music I um mhm

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said the op now of course the counter

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the alter the counter to the nerdy guy

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was the cool guy who would come into

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class and it was just it was sunglasses

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sunglasses and half a cigarette and when

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I put my back to the audience a lot of

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back to the audience so far back to the

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yeah when I put my and this would crush

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when I put my back to the audience I

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would they would play the theme to um uh

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eye of the tiger and it would

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be D and then on dun I would turn around

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and then on each dun my um I would move

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my head so I had glasses in the

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cigarette inspired go ahead the second

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one

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yeah and well then when the dunce end

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he would I would do with my lips I had

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the half a cigarette I would swallow the

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cigarette like that wow true swallow or

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fig swallow no no I would just flip it

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with my lips into my mouth and it just

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it crushed you're the kind of a guy I

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would hate to follow oh my God he walks

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off and goes follow that [ __ ]

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wait a minute I had one more I had one

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more one more prop and one more

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impression and it would be a nuclear

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explosion and I would take

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the rubber band uh that I don't know if

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you know this in broccoli in the

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supermarket the broccoli rubber band

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they're fat it well I would get one of

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those well and I would put it on my head

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and you could feel it creeping up so as

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it was creeping up my head you know the

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pressure of it I would do the whistle of

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the

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nucleon and when I would time it so

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and it would it would snap up my hair

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into a mushroom cloud it would be like a

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little bit like a mushroom cloud and and

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very seldom did did that not oh super

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kill well that damn I mean I know this

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sounds kind of crazy but uh are those

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bits still around for higher I mean I

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got a couple Nickel in my

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pocketam visual there was one day on on

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you know when I when I got the TV show

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what you got a TV show what was that

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yeah yeah okay I got everybody those R

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and Letterman Letterman was our producer

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you know so I would do Letterman at

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least twice a year every year the show

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was on so when I was running out of

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material

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stuff one of those spots about five or

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six years in I I recalled that the all

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those Impressions sitting next to okay I

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you know I just showed Dave this is from

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the old days blah whatever and they

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crushed again I'm not joking that would

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have been good on Star Search because

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it's quick it's [ __ ] score yeah and

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you get your l you get four stars you

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move on I got um 1.5 stars on Star you

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did star surge I Star Search I lost to

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uh I lost to G gei guyi guy jok grenade

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yeah did you do it did any of you guys I

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I didn't do it but did you use those

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bits on Star sege cuz I can't imagine

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you losing at all I did I did you know

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90 seconds of of stand up and it didn't

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work and you know you get a two you know

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it was one to four stars right so you

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get you get a two just for showing up

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you know and I got I got three two two2

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and the last person gave me a one so it

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it it averaged out to one

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point set record that's the most dismal

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score I've ever heard of on Stars no I

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mean that's that's cruel how do you how

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I ask people this how did you deal with

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uh stuff that didn't work well in your

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career like that thing like did you you

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were you injured for a week mentally or

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were you just W go they don't know what

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they're talking about no I would yeah it

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was a blow it was a blow but the the

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story is actually has a happy ending uh

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um because my wife was pregnant with my

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first kid my daughter and she was do

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about four weeks from from what that so

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I fly out to LA to do star search and

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you know if you win you you come back

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you you go the next week week but but

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they film it like a couple days later so

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I would have had to stay and stay if I

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won so I lost and I told my man my

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manager we were going to stay for a

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couple days I go let's just go home and

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when I went home uh my wife's uh water

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broke and she delivered the baby the

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next day so I was lucky to be yeah did

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you kind of intuitively rate the baby at

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all with stars you know when you saw

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your kid sorry well you know was funny

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what was funny was they she was born in

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the city I like it she was born I was

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living in Queens and she was born in the

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city you know and uh so I was going back

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and forth and one the second night I

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went to the cell just to say hello to

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the guys and I went down in the basement

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and you know Mike Sweeney you got

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know remember Mike Sweeney anyway yeah

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Mike Mike Sweeney was there and he saw

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me and he goes uh Hey congratulations

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man and I said I said no didn't you hear

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I lost I thought he goes the baby you

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[Laughter]

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[ __ ] show show

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[Music]

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buiness Ray I audition for Star Search

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at the mall in Arizona and they go big

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audition I thought Ed McMahon would be

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there he was not but they just had like

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a cattle call so I waited line like a

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chump I and I wore a white sweatshirt

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that had a bat on it like a Batman not

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even a logo that said just Dana it was

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just this outline of a bat and I thought

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that signified comedy somehow I don't

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even know why like Batman like I'm I

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don't know so I go up and I do my bit

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you know they're just running a camera

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and the guy's reading a magazine and

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everyone just goes up and does like two

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minutes and I thought literally when I

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even got to my second joke it would be

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like a movie he'd look up from the

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magazine and then on my third joke he'd

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start to stand up and then on the fourth

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joke he'd like hug me and say we got him

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and just like shut the place down and

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say you're going to Hollywood literally

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no one looked up I did my ACT no one

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called me I go and even for like two

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years I'm like it takes a while because

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they got to get the tapes and they got

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to review them and so I never got on God

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damn I wanted that one bad I wanted both

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you guys had the young comedian special

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on HBO which I don't know if it still

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exists but that was kind of a big deal

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and I coincidentally host yeah hosted

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Rays yeah yeah I didn't know that and I

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I just my blink about you then was just

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the confidence and I've gotten to know

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you a little more over over time but you

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came across so confident and right as I

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was about to go out to introduce you you

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said uh you said uh do re reintroduce me

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as Regis so I don't even do an

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impression of you but so I did reges

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filming uh introducing did I say that

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yeah you said do reges I want I want to

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be brought out to reges and you crushed

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do you remember who was on that one

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Janine garfo yeah um help me out Kindler

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Andy Kindler Andy Kindler who's

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hysterical

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comic Nick depalo yes another great guy

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Bill Bellamy Bill Bellamy and and Jud

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Appo

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yeah really Jud was on that one I didn't

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know Jud was on any of them Jud was on

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that yeah and did that did that help you

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that's that's kind of a boost back then

00:19:37

there wasn't much going on and HBO was a

00:19:40

big

00:19:41

deal yeah I mean I had I think after

00:19:44

that I got my own half hour special they

00:19:48

did those half hour specials sure so I

00:19:51

got my S my my own special um it was all

00:19:55

good but um you know the thing then was

00:20:00

to look to try to get a development not

00:20:02

to try to get a development deal but

00:20:03

that's what was happening and um nobody

00:20:06

was offering me anything I had done all

00:20:08

the I had done all of those things you

00:20:10

know the HBO The Young comedians they

00:20:12

you start to get nervous because you go

00:20:14

I'm out of like tricks here they they've

00:20:15

all seen me yeah yeah that's what I

00:20:18

thought it was like about 11 years in

00:20:21

and I thought well um no one's offering

00:20:24

and then it was it wasn't until you know

00:20:25

I got I got news radio I got you know

00:20:29

hired on news radio and then fired on

00:20:33

day two and yeah so it was it was right

00:20:37

around that then where I was like

00:20:40

wondering I love doing standup if I'm if

00:20:43

it's not going to happen it's not gonna

00:20:44

happen but then Letterman I got my first

00:20:47

Letterman and and Letterman made it

00:20:49

happen you know it it was Letterman or

00:20:51

nobody were you fired or were you it

00:20:55

when when I looked it up it said you

00:20:56

left there to go to your own City come

00:20:59

like the writers from there yeah yeah

00:21:01

that's what it says on on Wikipedia so

00:21:04

we we're going to have to challenge this

00:21:06

one look good never I've never seen that

00:21:10

ever isn't that great no I've never no I

00:21:13

was Stone Cold 6 o'clock in the morning

00:21:17

my manager called me at the hotel and

00:21:19

said they're going in another Direction

00:21:21

you know what was that direction that

00:21:23

phrase who played you who played you Joe

00:21:25

Rogan Joe Rogan yeah yeah so in a

00:21:29

parallel universe you're hosting the

00:21:31

world's biggest podcast right

00:21:33

now we both we both made out all right I

00:21:36

guess you know you know Ray uh Dana back

00:21:38

then I would say going on The Improv I

00:21:41

was just trying to kill but with Ry the

00:21:44

more important thing was which I

00:21:46

couldn't really understand they're just

00:21:48

looking for a personality back then to

00:21:50

write a sitcom about Tim Allen had Tool

00:21:53

Time so like this is his act he's like a

00:21:54

tough guy and they could they could see

00:21:57

a show around that I was just concerned

00:21:58

about doing good and getting laughs and

00:22:01

then you have to look at the big picture

00:22:02

like Ry they see his whole Persona up

00:22:04

there say we could see him as this and

00:22:07

do a whole show around that and I think

00:22:09

that's what happened right Ray well I

00:22:12

mean like I said nobody was was was

00:22:17

interested except for Letterman I mean I

00:22:19

don't know what he saw I was just like I

00:22:21

guess the every guy you know um but I

00:22:24

had a really good first Letterman spot I

00:22:27

mean as hard as I am on myself it was it

00:22:30

was one of the better spots I've had on

00:22:32

ever on

00:22:33

TV it's so good it's so there's nothing

00:22:36

like it yeah and Bernett Bernett Rob

00:22:39

Bernett called me on the following

00:22:42

Saturday it was a weekend and he called

00:22:44

me and and he said listen we're they

00:22:48

liked it we're interested uh don't don't

00:22:51

sign with anybody else and you know I

00:22:53

told them there's nobody else you

00:22:56

know easy to get

00:22:59

yeah how old were you at that

00:23:02

point I was like 30 36 maybe yeah and

00:23:07

and they sent me to La you know I had

00:23:09

three kids then I had three little

00:23:11

kids I had the Twins and the and the

00:23:14

three-year-old and um and they sent me

00:23:17

to La and I interviewed with I I met

00:23:20

with about 10 potential

00:23:22

showrunners and the first guy I wanted

00:23:25

uh turned it down the first guy was well

00:23:28

a a writer named Michael borow who who

00:23:31

was writing on friends at the time and

00:23:34

friends was the hot sexy show so I got

00:23:37

all I got all you know seduced by that

00:23:41

and he was cool he was you know uh he

00:23:44

was single though he didn't have a

00:23:45

family or anything and I went we offered

00:23:49

it to him and and he passed on it h and

00:23:52

then Phil roseno was my second choice

00:23:54

and you know if if that doesn't happen I

00:23:57

don't know you know who knows

00:23:59

yeah did you ever have a moment because

00:24:00

it's sort of a theme in the show of

00:24:03

maybe trying for Saturday Night Live

00:24:05

because everything in hindsight like

00:24:07

when you you're two hosting things which

00:24:09

we'll get to I mean you were great like

00:24:11

a great sketch player you know did you

00:24:13

have any kind of designs about that that

00:24:15

because it's either the sitcom path in

00:24:17

those days or pure standup or I I kind

00:24:21

of I kind of

00:24:23

knew I wasn't a a a really pure sketch

00:24:28

guy you know I didn't have voices and

00:24:31

characters and and and I didn't know but

00:24:35

but did I dream of being on ssnl yes I

00:24:39

did I did uh um you know I was uh 17 18

00:24:45

when it came out and we we stayed home

00:24:46

and watched it every night every every

00:24:48

week um but I I never thought I was

00:24:52

going to be a sketch player an audition

00:24:54

I never asked my manager get me an

00:24:55

audition for SNL because I kind of knew

00:24:58

I didn't have that that muscle in there

00:25:00

you know um but I wanted I wanted to be

00:25:05

on it it's very hit I mean it's it's a

00:25:07

cool road if you you blow up on the on

00:25:10

the classic show Everybody Loves Raymond

00:25:13

and then they call and then you're gonna

00:25:15

go host so your first thing is just

00:25:17

hosting that's quite a privilege you

00:25:20

know yeah yeah it was I mean it was

00:25:23

probably I think it was year two maybe

00:25:25

of everybody might might it was 99 mhm

00:25:29

so so three it was year three actually

00:25:31

were you a hit out of the

00:25:33

gate on on on the Raymond no no we were

00:25:38

we were on Fridays the fir you know for

00:25:40

the first 20 20 21 of the first 26

00:25:44

episodes we were on Fridays and we were

00:25:46

in a 100th place and then the only thing

00:25:49

that was keeping him from canceling us

00:25:51

was the reviews were pretty good so you

00:25:55

know Le it was Les Les moonz at the time

00:25:58

so he kind of hung on to us and then he

00:26:01

gave us a five-week trial at the end of

00:26:04

year one he put us on after

00:26:07

Cosby um and Cosby was you know the

00:26:11

their hit and he said that you know we

00:26:13

knew that that was our trial that if we

00:26:15

didn't deliver then we were gone and we

00:26:18

actually went up a tick from Cosby and

00:26:20

we

00:26:21

stay wow was Cosby at some point did I

00:26:25

read this right that at a given point he

00:26:27

would get 50 million people watching his

00:26:29

sitcom maybe that first one the first

00:26:33

this was the second this was the second

00:26:35

one you know I don't know I don't know

00:26:38

about 50 that's that seems like a lot

00:26:41

but I got cancelled at 25 million with

00:26:44

one of the boys with Mickey Rooney going

00:26:46

back to that one more time they go we're

00:26:48

stuck at 25 million we're out of here

00:26:51

really yeah that was now if you get now

00:26:54

if you get one a million you're a hit

00:26:56

right if your parents watch just shoot

00:26:59

me 700 million bigger than the Super

00:27:02

Bowl every

00:27:04

week no when you look back the ratings

00:27:07

even on Rules of Engagement oh a few

00:27:08

people remember thank you um that uh we

00:27:13

got you same thing every you know it's

00:27:15

just typical the ratings at that point

00:27:18

made us get on the borderline of

00:27:19

canceled today would be huge but it goes

00:27:22

down when then people go I got picked up

00:27:24

we got a 0.09 I'm like that's great yeah

00:27:27

yeah know what the ratings are 09

00:27:29

doesn't sound like a lot of something

00:27:31

yeah I don't either I used to watch

00:27:34

every anything out of a 100 out of one

00:27:37

out of what I don't I would look them up

00:27:40

every week man and I would check the

00:27:42

numbers every week yeah and uh now I

00:27:45

yeah who knows I can't tell what's good

00:27:46

and what's not good did you call that

00:27:48

hotline and it would give you the

00:27:49

ratings yeah yeah I would call something

00:27:51

I remember I would call something it

00:27:53

would make your day or it would crush

00:27:54

you it' be like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

00:27:57

and we got for our finale the equation

00:28:00

was this we got uh if you took

00:28:04

Seinfeld's finale and subtracted Friends

00:28:06

finale that was the numbers for our

00:28:09

finale yeah like L exactly perfect buddy

00:28:13

yeah it was good it was good but

00:28:16

Seinfeld got like 75 friends got like oh

00:28:20

close to 50 or whatever we got close to

00:28:23

30 you know yeah huge damn hug that's

00:28:26

just gigantic that's bigger than the

00:28:28

Oscars I saw a sketch I saw a sketch you

00:28:31

did Ray about a sports center I mean we

00:28:33

don't have to get in all the sketches

00:28:34

but there was one when you were Tim yeah

00:28:38

yeah that was I mean that's the one

00:28:40

that's the one is that the one really

00:28:42

because I you know when you look them up

00:28:43

they're on YouTube and you jump around

00:28:44

but that one well that's the one that

00:28:46

has a little bit the

00:28:50

barest H nugget of a of a little bit of

00:28:53

a cult following because of the the

00:28:56

sweet sassy molasses I wonder if they

00:28:59

say it on TV and sports center now

00:29:00

because it's so [ __ ] funny that was

00:29:03

very inspired uh you know the the new

00:29:06

the sports guys they're at the desk and

00:29:08

I'm starting to watch it and then uh I

00:29:11

see the turn and I go oh damn that's

00:29:13

really see it coming yeah and then you

00:29:15

landed it so beautifully Ray I just like

00:29:18

yeah well we I have to thank uh Mike Roy

00:29:21

was one of the writers on on Raymond and

00:29:24

and they all flew him Phil and one other

00:29:27

writer flew with me and Mike kind of

00:29:32

threw that together like a couple nights

00:29:34

before and we we we we all then worked

00:29:38

on it but he came up with that and he

00:29:40

came up with the sweet sassy Massie you

00:29:42

know and um and it worked and you know

00:29:45

the guy it's it was a Tim meals was

00:29:49

playing Stuart Scott I don't know if you

00:29:51

real guy yeah yeah

00:29:54

unun yeah booah and sadly you know he

00:29:57

passed away right but he he had cancer

00:30:00

and and but I saw him probably a year

00:30:03

before he passed away the first time I

00:30:04

ever saw him and I didn't know whether

00:30:06

he was going to be into it or not but he

00:30:09

was all he couldn't have been more

00:30:11

flattered by it he was he was really

00:30:13

cool about it yeah um but that's the

00:30:16

yeah like every now and then I'll be at

00:30:18

a golf chat tournament and someone from

00:30:20

the side will yell out sweet sassy

00:30:23

molasses so Ju Just for people who may

00:30:25

want to look it

00:30:26

up sort of two news they start Sports

00:30:29

casters they start to use all these

00:30:32

colorful phrases to report the games and

00:30:35

Ray's character takes it in

00:30:37

this but he but he's known for the

00:30:40

character that Tim meows is playing is

00:30:43

the real guy who for that who was known

00:30:46

for having that catchphrase booah yeah

00:30:48

you know whenever he

00:30:50

would narrate a clip or something and he

00:30:54

has cold side of the pillow stuff like

00:30:56

that right yeah yeah the real guy is

00:30:58

booah and then your guy is Sassy Massie

00:31:01

I was I was bringing him I was the new I

00:31:03

was the new guy and I tried to match him

00:31:06

with sweet sassy

00:31:07

Mass yours had some racial stuff in it

00:31:10

that he wasn't happy yeah it's funny

00:31:12

when I look back at it I'm like there's

00:31:14

no chance I don't know if we would have

00:31:15

wrote that now you know yeah and then

00:31:18

and then the second the funny that was

00:31:21

the what happened was the night before

00:31:23

we flew in for

00:31:25

SNL uh was the go I think it was the

00:31:28

Golden Globe Awards it was one of those

00:31:31

Awards and Roberto benini won and he he

00:31:35

jumped up on the chair you know and he

00:31:37

and he went

00:31:38

crazy and and I was looking at him and I

00:31:41

was thinking I they I could look like

00:31:44

him they they could make me look like

00:31:46

bonini and on the plane there we we we

00:31:50

threw together the sketch that was the

00:31:53

second one up that night was the Roberto

00:31:56

Roberto benini comes into the restaurant

00:31:58

and goes nuts you know yeah was was

00:32:01

there any that was the same show same

00:32:04

show it was it was that's good out of

00:32:06

the gate boom boom for Center first and

00:32:08

then bonini was next yeah that is the

00:32:10

thing about SNL uh dim store observation

00:32:13

is that stuff is thought of and then

00:32:16

it's fully mounted 24 hours later and on

00:32:19

live TV there's some the immediacy of it

00:32:21

is there's something very good at it

00:32:22

yeah yeah yeah it it was awesome I mean

00:32:25

it was it's a challenge you tell them I

00:32:27

need to be Rober

00:32:28

they're like yep and then got it you

00:32:30

walk in the next day and they got you

00:32:31

all dialed in you're like where'd you

00:32:33

find this outfit well we matched it with

00:32:34

he wore at the Oscars we matched it with

00:32:36

this we got the wig from here and you're

00:32:38

like [ __ ] man these guys know what

00:32:40

they're doing so you're jumping around

00:32:41

like that did you get hurt at all you're

00:32:43

two time your hosting times on sketches

00:32:45

did you get hurt doing that I mean

00:32:47

anytime you're doing physical and it's

00:32:49

live and your brain is thinking of so

00:32:51

many things you can fall down and stuff

00:32:54

no I I didn't get physically I'm happy

00:32:56

to hear that yeah

00:32:58

mentally mentally you look so beat up

00:33:00

that was a question I want that's my

00:33:02

number one question for today did you

00:33:04

get her did you guys did you guys take

00:33:06

any any blows in the whole time well I

00:33:08

don't know if you can see it I got a

00:33:09

bump here I had a Grade Three shoulder

00:33:12

separation doing a pre-tape pratfall as

00:33:16

Dan Quail the vice president going over

00:33:18

the otoman like the Dick Van djk show

00:33:21

and I just crushed it and then I was I

00:33:24

went two more times not knowing and then

00:33:26

I'm walking around like a pirate with my

00:33:29

shoulder way up and Mary Tyler Moore's

00:33:31

husband was an MD and he goes hey what's

00:33:33

what's wrong he felt it and said I think

00:33:35

you got a shoulder separation so I went

00:33:37

they checked it out but it was just

00:33:38

barely on the edge of a surgery but I

00:33:40

did a show the next night it was very

00:33:42

painful switching cloes really fast with

00:33:45

a separated did you do that bit did you

00:33:47

do the bit well that was a pre-tape so

00:33:49

it showed in the pre-tape

00:33:53

pre-tape did you get hurt David I got

00:33:56

hurt twice one was uh Schiller Vision if

00:34:00

you weren't in the sketches he could

00:34:01

pluck you for a day shoot films and I

00:34:04

was me and Victoria Jackson We older

00:34:06

people and he Dr and bad luck they drop

00:34:08

an atomic bomb lands on my head but they

00:34:11

did it from a ladder and I have a bad

00:34:12

neck and it's a jammed neck and so him

00:34:15

dropping this thing no matter how heavy

00:34:17

it is it wasn't that heavy but it keeps

00:34:19

racking me and they keep doing take

00:34:21

after take and I almost can't stand up

00:34:22

anymore I'm like I feel like I have a

00:34:24

concussion I'm like I I can't do this

00:34:26

anymore but I can't say say anything cuz

00:34:28

I just want to be on the show yeah and

00:34:30

then Farley picked me up backwards we

00:34:31

fell through a table and motivational

00:34:33

speaker and then uh I sort of got rocked

00:34:36

Farley pick me up is a tough where does

00:34:39

that go and by the way it's not super

00:34:42

thought out in quotes so he's like I'll

00:34:44

pick you up and we'll kind of spin

00:34:45

around and fall through a table I'm like

00:34:47

sure and whatever happened you just

00:34:49

cross your fingers but uh yeah you

00:34:52

weren't hurt during Ice Age were you

00:34:54

doing that voice over yeah I was

00:34:59

you were the you were the mammoth that

00:35:01

was a big one are they still doing them

00:35:03

or is it over don't you want more we did

00:35:05

we did five of them five yeah five no

00:35:09

never never well you've done I mean you

00:35:11

guys have both done animation right

00:35:13

Transylvania did four and I'm like do

00:35:15

one more [ __ ] secret life pets

00:35:18

when you did it did either of you have

00:35:21

other actors in the room with you

00:35:22

because I never did for five movies no

00:35:26

Nobody David you didn't have what's craa

00:35:29

lacking you didn't have Chris Rock in

00:35:31

there no no I never did I we talked to

00:35:34

Andy Samberg who's in Hotel Transylvania

00:35:36

and I said I told him I thought Miley

00:35:39

Cyrus was first GNA be Selena your

00:35:41

Selena's part which we didn't even agree

00:35:44

on that so who knows if it's a lie and

00:35:46

then he said I never actually got to do

00:35:48

it with Selena and they play boyfriend

00:35:50

and girlfriend husband and wife right

00:35:52

and he and I'm like all four never he's

00:35:54

like no we don't even do read throughs

00:35:56

anymore you know we used do one read

00:35:57

through the beginning and then I I just

00:36:00

get pieces right I don't didn't really

00:36:02

know what I was doing or what the movie

00:36:04

was I didn't even know the plot just

00:36:05

start

00:36:06

yelling people would be saddened to find

00:36:08

that out I'm just a Mad Dog I don't know

00:36:11

and that was it and I see it I see it at

00:36:14

the premiere I go what I know I mean

00:36:16

listen it's it's great to do it you know

00:36:18

especially you got kids and all it's fun

00:36:21

but it's it's really creatively not that

00:36:24

much fun to to do them you know you're

00:36:27

and you can't even you can't move away

00:36:30

from the microphone too much you know

00:36:32

you're trying to animate yeah you're

00:36:33

trying to act I'm trying to be a mammoth

00:36:35

sliding down a ice Glacier you know and

00:36:39

they go R you got to keep your head

00:36:40

still you know you can't

00:36:41

move um well there's about five people

00:36:44

behind a wall of glass you're in a booth

00:36:46

by yourself or a little studio and you

00:36:48

just look up to if you can see them kind

00:36:51

of laughing you can't hear them if they

00:36:52

don't press a button and you're kind of

00:36:54

just in a vacuum thinking it's this

00:36:56

funny I would assume you could you could

00:36:59

improvise a little right because I could

00:37:02

they really didn't oh really they didn't

00:37:04

really encourage improvising not too

00:37:07

much they'd let you do it but you knew

00:37:09

later on they had a you know they knew

00:37:10

what the story was go oh now I'm going

00:37:13

to do minutes I kept trying to sneak in

00:37:15

George Bush Senor and I GNA do it they

00:37:17

go that's not even the show but I go but

00:37:19

it's funny but anyway that's a whole

00:37:21

another story yeah they go Ray you're

00:37:23

sounding like more of a coyote than a

00:37:25

mammoth and you're like no no that was

00:37:27

my fault I went into something else and

00:37:29

when I did Emperor's New Groove we did a

00:37:30

year and a half stop red the script when

00:37:32

I was going in like Dana said I was just

00:37:35

getting Pages it turned into just you

00:37:37

walk in and they're like this is a scene

00:37:40

you're on a log and they give you as

00:37:41

much as you can you go okay and you do

00:37:43

it and the magic of how good they are I

00:37:46

have to say Hotel Transylvania I would

00:37:48

laugh they were so cute and funny and

00:37:50

what they do with the animation and

00:37:52

emperor's new group they just they make

00:37:54

it so much better than it even seems

00:37:56

when you're doing it yeah you go this I

00:37:58

don't really get what's going on it's a

00:38:00

little jumbled in my head of like where

00:38:01

were we and what are we and then you see

00:38:03

it you go oh they know exactly what

00:38:04

they're doing yeah yeah I mean that

00:38:07

would be it every time they'd say okay

00:38:09

ray you're running away from this guy

00:38:11

and he's and I go okay all right I go

00:38:14

well Ray you're you're farther away than

00:38:16

that so you know we

00:38:19

need you're like am I scared or am I

00:38:21

happy they're like it doesn't matter

00:38:23

just run but isn't it great when your

00:38:24

animated character gets an incredible

00:38:27

laugh like a lands of perfect pratfall

00:38:29

and you're like yeah thanks you're

00:38:30

taking high fives in the theater well

00:38:33

that's what happened was like I would

00:38:35

get credit for an emotional part there

00:38:37

was an emot especially in Ice Age one I

00:38:40

think there was a part where it was a

00:38:42

little bit of tearjerker and it was the

00:38:45

music and the way they animated my fa I

00:38:47

wasn't even saying anything and I would

00:38:50

get credit as an actor for for getting

00:38:53

this emotion from these people I'm like

00:38:54

all right you know yeah I'll take it I

00:38:57

remember when it when it played in um

00:39:00

another country like the first time it

00:39:02

played in

00:39:03

Mexico so they use a different actor a

00:39:07

different actor does oh right does the

00:39:09

Spanish version so it's not my me it's

00:39:12

not my face it's animation it's not my

00:39:15

voice and I remember my agent

00:39:18

congratulating me on how well it's doing

00:39:21

in Mexico I'm like all right I don't

00:39:24

know if I get that but okay you know I

00:39:26

have nothing to do with it

00:39:28

but they're like copying you there's a

00:39:30

German David Spade that does my stuff oh

00:39:33

really so heyes or what I'm trying Hey

00:39:37

bu in

00:39:39

German get all my

00:39:43

nuances go in his his performance all

00:39:47

same

00:39:50

performance sorry fake German are we

00:39:52

going to get letters no I don't know I

00:39:55

know I took German in college CU my

00:39:59

girlfriend the girl I was dating at the

00:40:01

time spoke German I thought oh she'll

00:40:04

help me and then we broke up and I was

00:40:07

stuck in a German class yeah how do you

00:40:09

say yes I yes I have Perfection yes I

00:40:12

have

00:40:16

protection that's not how it works I

00:40:20

remember wait and what does that mean

00:40:23

that's

00:40:24

one yeah that's counting one to 10 in

00:40:27

German oh that's it I thought it was

00:40:29

some sort of pickup line no and then

00:40:32

dick is I love you and love dick Jesus

00:40:36

that's a little on the

00:40:39

edge is a good day what what about house

00:40:43

off gobbin is homework hastu Brer have

00:40:45

you Brothers nine but ab's wife Wester

00:40:54

Abracadabra Hitler used to be a magician

00:40:56

in the 19 he was

00:41:00

aain you don't know when the rabbit

00:41:03

comes sorry

00:41:08

[Music]

00:41:10

sorry could we just for a second just CU

00:41:12

you may have some Impressions we uh of

00:41:15

Lauren Michaels just going then we're

00:41:18

going to move on to because I think a

00:41:19

big part of your legacy is this gigantic

00:41:21

career you've had after uh your half

00:41:24

hour sitcom but um do you have any like

00:41:27

were you just intimidated or how how did

00:41:30

you just process being in the 17th floor

00:41:34

with all the writers you go in Lauren's

00:41:35

office and he's talking to you people

00:41:37

have talked to that moment I don't know

00:41:38

if you have any thing well I didn't I

00:41:41

didn't know how it worked you know

00:41:44

I'm I was you know very of course

00:41:47

nervous you know um and we yeah the

00:41:51

first day you go in the office right and

00:41:55

again this is 20 you know I haven't been

00:41:57

on 23 years but

00:41:59

um all the writers come in and sit all

00:42:02

over the office all over the floor right

00:42:05

yeah it's just packed with people and

00:42:06

they all pitch what they're thinking of

00:42:09

you sit in the only good chair right

00:42:11

next to Lauren and I didn't know until a

00:42:14

couple guys told me later

00:42:17

like sometimes they don't have anything

00:42:19

so they just make up a pitch right fake

00:42:22

fake pitches yeah got you're a caveman

00:42:26

afraid of Cav

00:42:27

but you hear everything you hear all

00:42:29

these I don't know 30 40 pictures of

00:42:32

different scenes and it's intimidating

00:42:35

because you're like you know one of them

00:42:36

is you're a southern farmer and and I'm

00:42:39

like I can't do a southern farmer I

00:42:41

don't know you know

00:42:44

um play a carrot stick okay yeah I just

00:42:48

I I I throw a I throw a bluff in Ray I

00:42:51

always go uh oh Michael Keaton can you

00:42:53

do Russian accent and he goes yeah and I

00:42:56

go

00:42:57

for no reason well well one of the WR

00:43:00

one of the pitches was um you're my

00:43:04

grandfather and you're this and my

00:43:06

knee-jerk reaction

00:43:08

was this is how stupid I was I was like

00:43:12

wow he thinks I look old enough to be

00:43:14

his grandfather you know not really this

00:43:16

is freaking sketch comedy they're gonna

00:43:18

make you look like however Everybody

00:43:20

Plays everybody that's funny yeah um but

00:43:24

Lauren uh afterwards we discuss some of

00:43:27

the stuff we heard I guess he was I mean

00:43:32

he was uh you know they they treat the

00:43:35

host really well right because yes yes

00:43:38

because they they he he defers to you I

00:43:40

mean that's that's what that's what it

00:43:42

felt like you know when we had when we

00:43:45

whittel down some of the sketches he was

00:43:49

really deferring to what I thought would

00:43:51

work and then of course he would put in

00:43:54

his thing you know and and and you you

00:43:57

are part of the process there you know I

00:43:59

guess as much as you want to be right

00:44:02

yeah it's some because you take his

00:44:04

advice because he knows the show but he

00:44:05

also lets the host go if you're not

00:44:07

comfortable or if you don't like and he

00:44:09

would do it like this if everyone's

00:44:10

talking talking talking silence uh

00:44:15

Raymond just that yeah what do you are

00:44:20

you sort of circling the wagons on what

00:44:23

you might want to do like he'd go uh

00:44:25

raise my grandma paw what did you think

00:44:28

of that one and you're like I don't know

00:44:31

and he goes is it because you have to

00:44:32

wear gray hair in it yeah no I just

00:44:35

didn't like the whole

00:44:38

feel you want to do Mr short shorts uh

00:44:41

you don't have to do Mr short shorts

00:44:43

short shorts I think it's a good visual

00:44:45

piece uh it doesn't matter but if you

00:44:47

don't want to do Mr short shorts you

00:44:49

don't have to and there's a song as well

00:44:50

and you'll dance around in little short

00:44:52

shorts yeah yeah well don't forget we

00:44:54

brought in we brought in we brought we

00:44:57

brought in like three sketches and and

00:44:59

two of them got on you know that's a

00:45:01

miracle cuz they don't like when you

00:45:03

bring your Goomba writers in there they

00:45:05

go oh here we go that's that's smart

00:45:08

yeah they get mad all the writers go hey

00:45:11

guess what next week Ray's bringing

00:45:13

writers and everyone goes boo but I but

00:45:16

but they were all you know it was

00:45:18

Higgins right it was Steve Higgins Steve

00:45:20

hiin producer great guy yeah and he was

00:45:23

the I guess he was the head writer then

00:45:26

yeah I think so and we you know we we

00:45:28

got in there and we worked on these

00:45:30

sketches that we brought and he he he

00:45:33

helped polish it up you know and um yeah

00:45:36

I mean I can imagine you know these guys

00:45:38

yeah they this is what they're living is

00:45:41

to write sketches for us and I didn't

00:45:43

even think of that and here we are

00:45:44

coming in with took food out of their

00:45:46

mouth took it off their plate and then

00:45:48

on the second time I did it we came in

00:45:51

again and they didn't they

00:45:54

didn't Crush as much those sketch were

00:45:57

they came up a little short the ones we

00:45:59

brought by the way Ray I don't think I

00:46:02

remember when host would bring writers I

00:46:04

think Jam Fox maybe Martin Lawrence when

00:46:07

they would bring writers yeah it was

00:46:09

very hard to make the transition because

00:46:12

they weren't quite exactly right you

00:46:13

know like the sketches were funny in a

00:46:16

way but you know how it is Dana like for

00:46:18

what the stamp of everyone knows and

00:46:20

read through sort of how everything

00:46:22

works maybe there's too many sets in

00:46:24

them or there's something weird about

00:46:25

them the point is they don't always get

00:46:28

all the way to the end even though I was

00:46:30

kidding everyone's well-meaning if it's

00:46:32

funny it's funny put it on but I think

00:46:35

you getting two on is you say two the

00:46:37

first one that's a lot yeah it was and

00:46:39

it was the first one and the second one

00:46:41

it was it oh they kill yeah SP Center

00:46:43

and bonini were back to back sound great

00:46:48

but listen I wasn't trying to we weren't

00:46:50

trying to step on anybody's toes I just

00:46:52

I you're fine insecure I was just saying

00:46:55

guys come with me we had we had

00:46:57

Phil Rosenthal and and and two guys you

00:47:00

know yeah the mafia you're the mob no no

00:47:02

no so so Ray because you're you don't

00:47:04

wear your stardom on your sleeve like

00:47:08

I'm just interested in um like if you go

00:47:11

drop into a club I maybe you're not

00:47:13

doing much right now but when you're

00:47:14

getting ready for your special and the

00:47:16

MC is like okay fasten your comedy seat

00:47:18

bels because the next gentleman yeah

00:47:21

they

00:47:23

know you're just you got a little piece

00:47:25

of paper you're trying to have you had

00:47:27

that experience of the expectation of R

00:47:32

Romano yeah I I I I first whenever I'm

00:47:36

in the city I I I go on I go to the

00:47:38

seller whenever I'm in New York I go on

00:47:41

and um you know I was just in Atlanta I

00:47:44

was working in Atlanta so I I I dropped

00:47:47

in on the punch line the Atlanta punch

00:47:49

line uh I don't know if you guys did

00:47:51

that I I did it like 30 years ago I I

00:47:55

when I was just doing the road I did a

00:47:56

spot at the a week at the punch line um

00:48:00

we have a special guest but yeah they

00:48:02

they pile it on I I I've been I've

00:48:06

been not a fan of that since forever you

00:48:10

know even before I was the guy they were

00:48:13

saying you know before they would they

00:48:16

would Goose it up like crazy you know um

00:48:20

and I'm like yeah just lower you know

00:48:23

let's come in with lower expectations

00:48:26

and

00:48:27

yeah um I've done standup with Ray he

00:48:29

always crushes it's it's not even a joke

00:48:32

he always it always works I you know

00:48:35

obviously angered by it but does a great

00:48:38

job yeah he does a great job I did five

00:48:40

years in Vegas with him off and on but

00:48:42

Dana filled in for you one week that's

00:48:44

right Dana David I open for for Ray in

00:48:48

no no we we co-headline we co-headline

00:48:51

but uh the show starts at

00:48:53

10: and so and then you do your set and

00:48:57

then uh whoever goes you on around 10:20

00:49:00

and then you wait and then you do a

00:49:01

little shtick afterwards you know I

00:49:02

usually get up at 6 you know so it was a

00:49:05

long day but for David David David

00:49:08

wasn't a fan of that either yeah I stuck

00:49:11

it out and then at the because we were

00:49:12

like I think for a while the trick in

00:49:15

Vegas is they have Boys to Men or

00:49:16

someone do a full show before us you

00:49:19

want to take that they do a full show

00:49:21

Lauren Michaels he has a live and then

00:49:23

it's they let the audience out then it's

00:49:25

cheaper just to go we have the room

00:49:27

people in Vegas it's 10:00 Ray and Spade

00:49:30

they're just to stand up just have a

00:49:32

stool and a glass of water so they just

00:49:34

said let's see who can come in so we do

00:49:36

a big show it was really

00:49:38

fun but I always thought can they

00:49:40

flip-flop us I think the shows before us

00:49:43

I think was shim liim after us they're

00:49:45

just very family oriented and ours are

00:49:48

usually more adult well you know what's

00:49:50

funny is the room the room we play The

00:49:52

Mirage is is was is really a great room

00:49:56

great we've been doing those shows at 10

00:49:58

o'cl for whatever like you said five

00:50:00

years I've been doing it longer than

00:50:01

that I was with Kevin James before you

00:50:04

came yeah and and those shows are just

00:50:08

killer shows and then there was one

00:50:10

wasn't there one weekend where we had an

00:50:12

8 o'clock show it was even better it was

00:50:15

even yeah it's such a great fresh crowd

00:50:18

Because by the time we get off it's

00:50:19

almost midnight and they're like what

00:50:21

the [ __ ] and in Vegas you know they've

00:50:25

been they've been going hard in Vegas so

00:50:28

it getss they get tired you know but but

00:50:31

but listen there was no complain but

00:50:32

what we would do at the end was we would

00:50:34

come out and do a Q&A and I know it was

00:50:37

fun I like that I always like that stuff

00:50:40

right and then we needed to close the

00:50:41

show so we would close with a just a

00:50:44

joke joke right that's right that's

00:50:46

right so I remember when David started

00:50:49

working I had to we we came up with a

00:50:52

joke for you to S to say right yes of

00:50:55

course I didn't have one I go oh do a

00:50:56

joke and you go well just well here's

00:50:58

one you gave me a good joke say you do

00:51:01

one then I'll do one yeah and you did

00:51:02

and they're kind of dirty dirty jokes

00:51:04

but you know whatever and I remember

00:51:06

they and every time you know we do it we

00:51:08

do the gig every what three or four

00:51:09

months or whatever two months and you

00:51:12

come back and you'd kind of half forget

00:51:13

the joke but the joke was bomb prooof

00:51:17

bulletproof for sure some one of you has

00:51:19

to say it CU if I was listening to this

00:51:22

podcast I want to go what was the joke

00:51:24

it's a little R-rated I remember time I

00:51:26

get it wrong and I would look at Ray

00:51:28

baffled because the most infuriating

00:51:30

thing was he goes all right let's just

00:51:32

end with a joke you got one I go yeah I

00:51:34

heard one from my roulette dealer and I

00:51:35

would say one and then he would say one

00:51:37

okay and his luckily was so good because

00:51:40

it he give me he gives me one that works

00:51:42

every time and then I would just look at

00:51:44

him and he'd stare at me and go you

00:51:45

[ __ ]

00:51:46

CU just mangling it and no matter how

00:51:49

you tell it it would get a laugh and I

00:51:51

couldn't believe it because I'd be a

00:51:53

little buzzed and I'd go blah blah and I

00:51:55

could see while I'm finding it while I

00:51:57

tell it I it's this okay this by way

00:52:00

it's not that it's not that good we've

00:52:02

overhyped it it's not that good by the

00:52:04

way it's five sentences it's past

00:52:06

midnight on the strip in Vegas Here

00:52:08

Comes David with his joke oh yeah Ray I

00:52:10

got one okay it's it's a

00:52:14

couple's uh see what's good is now you

00:52:17

you can't remember it now which is

00:52:18

exactly how you would do it there

00:52:20

exactly perfect re reenactment of you on

00:52:24

stage go and then I would back out yeah

00:52:26

I back out 3 two one what's your joke

00:52:29

it's a couple but they are 90 years old

00:52:32

so it's their 60th anniversary I'm just

00:52:36

making up numbers

00:52:38

60th anniversary birthday and so the guy

00:52:42

as a present the woman says I'm going to

00:52:45

go wait in bed I'm going to go uh get my

00:52:49

present ready in the bathroom and I'll

00:52:50

be right out so he lays in bed she goes

00:52:54

in there and strips totally naked except

00:52:57

for a

00:52:58

cape look at Ray's scared he's already

00:53:00

grinding his teeth going you're already

00:53:02

a little off the crowd is restless land

00:53:04

it yeah I come she comes out uh steps

00:53:09

leans at the foot of the bed and says

00:53:11

super [ __ ] and he goes I'll take the

00:53:15

soup he got he got through it right was

00:53:18

that out of the

00:53:19

way goes you you always run over super

00:53:23

[ __ ] which is supposed to be a laugh

00:53:25

but I rush to get to I'll take the soup

00:53:27

and that works enough yes but there's

00:53:29

two there he says super [ __ ] and that

00:53:32

gets a laugh but he doesn't he never

00:53:34

waits for the laugh he steps on the

00:53:36

laugh and goes I'll take the soup and

00:53:38

and it kills anyway yeah so the proper

00:53:41

way cuz would be super [ __ ] and get all

00:53:45

that laugh and then hit it get the D the

00:53:47

guy says and the guy says I'll take the

00:53:49

soup yeah you're almost like wait and

00:53:51

wait and then you go I'll take the suit

00:53:52

okay cuz there's going to be people

00:53:53

listening are going to tell this joke at

00:53:55

a cocktail party tomorrow thinking it

00:53:57

over and then he finally goes no I'll

00:53:58

take the soup and then Ray Tails a great

00:54:00

one but I won't give that away but

00:54:02

anyway uh let's talk about his movie

00:54:04

that uh I got I observe one one thing

00:54:07

quickly get to his movie because that

00:54:09

something that he's going to love we're

00:54:11

going to say to him in a minute um I

00:54:13

kind of feel like when I watch your

00:54:14

standup I go honestly I go is this guy

00:54:18

the best standup in the world I mean

00:54:19

some of your stuff on YouTube and stuff

00:54:21

I'm like it seems like it's almost

00:54:24

overshadowed by how much stuff you've

00:54:26

done

00:54:27

in acting but anyway go see Ray as a

00:54:29

stand up I I sincerely wanted to say

00:54:31

that but something happened very strange

00:54:33

last night here's a double whammy so we

00:54:36

get the screener of somewhere in Queens

00:54:40

I just got off the plane we just came in

00:54:42

David and I just came in from DC we're

00:54:43

really wiped out so I start watching it

00:54:46

I'm cooking dinner and I'm like oh know

00:54:49

getting into it getting into it then I

00:54:52

bring the laptop upstairs because I'm so

00:54:54

jet legged I go I got to go to sleep but

00:54:56

I got so engaged with the movie and I've

00:54:59

never had this experience this much like

00:55:01

the movie is brilliant I loved it it

00:55:04

complet captivated me and as a baby

00:55:07

boomer parent it spoke to so many themes

00:55:10

because I don't want to give it away but

00:55:12

it it's just the vicarious living of a

00:55:15

parent and what you'll do and I knew

00:55:17

dad's in the stands yeah who had a

00:55:21

superstar son and it was a it was sort

00:55:23

of a miracle but anyway honestly with

00:55:26

total sincerity and David too had the

00:55:28

same reaction we got back from that Mark

00:55:31

Twain thing for Sandler and we were like

00:55:33

I even said to Dana in Washington I go

00:55:35

isn't there something we're going to

00:55:37

watch from Ray but I never got anything

00:55:39

and then we got home and they go oh yeah

00:55:41

yeah guys here's a movie and we're like

00:55:43

oh [ __ ] so I watched on my laptop last

00:55:46

night first of all I thought it might be

00:55:48

a comedy did you write and direct it or

00:55:50

did you direct it or I I I co-wrote it

00:55:53

and I directed it oh it's so

00:55:56

heartbreaking in it and funny it's

00:55:59

heartbreaking when you're talking to

00:56:01

that girl in the car uh first of all the

00:56:03

the young the son's girlfriend she was

00:56:06

great she's like a Jennifer Lawrence she

00:56:08

really jumped off uh every light up

00:56:12

everyone's great I can't thank you guys

00:56:14

enough man I

00:56:15

I when when we're off the air I'm going

00:56:18

to ask you if you really mean it no we

00:56:21

we have we you know what we would say we

00:56:23

would say um we didn't get a chance to

00:56:26

see it would be the punt oh I get oh the

00:56:29

screener didn't play you know or we

00:56:31

might say it was it it it sure really

00:56:33

held my interest it's just fun to be

00:56:36

able to tell you maybe it's because we

00:56:37

were jetl but oh I think it has so many

00:56:41

themes in it and your character is so

00:56:43

heartbreaking I just being a father

00:56:45

myself and just the length a parent will

00:56:48

go to for the love of a kid know it was

00:56:50

it came the story

00:56:53

came out of nuggets of my real

00:56:57

experience with my kid and my family and

00:57:00

and my son was a a basketball

00:57:04

player and he start he was he's six fo

00:57:07

five my son so he was one of the star

00:57:10

basketball players in high school and I

00:57:12

knew he wasn't going to play in college

00:57:15

because he wasn't a guard and at 6 fo5

00:57:18

you're a guard you know um and so when

00:57:20

it ended I was really feeling sad that

00:57:26

I'm going to

00:57:28

miss sharing this with my son but if I'm

00:57:31

being truthful I like the I live

00:57:34

vicariously through him I was I like the

00:57:36

attention I was getting too which how

00:57:39

how pathetic how but if you think about

00:57:41

how pathetic that is I I don't have

00:57:43

enough you know I

00:57:45

have I'm in movies I'm on TV

00:57:48

and but that whole world is so different

00:57:51

and it's so interesting and you're not

00:57:52

an athlete I mean you might be athletic

00:57:54

but you're not to this level of these

00:57:56

guys which I wouldn't be and you sort of

00:57:59

admire people that can do stuff you

00:58:00

can't do and it's your own kid and so

00:58:03

you take responsibility you're like

00:58:04

that's my guy out there you can't help

00:58:06

your ego human ego gets gets intertwined

00:58:09

and and the other parents want that have

00:58:12

have the bench sitter kid or the kid

00:58:14

that barely plays and they would sort of

00:58:16

love to have that and they're trying to

00:58:18

get it's a whole social Dynamic with

00:58:21

parenting I mean it's an amazing ego

00:58:24

structure of look at my kids I had one

00:58:27

in junior it was CYO basketball so

00:58:30

there's the kid who's like 6'2 in eighth

00:58:32

grade so I'm sitting next to his dad

00:58:34

he's getting all the rebounds and he

00:58:36

goes look at my kid get all those

00:58:37

rebounds I go well he is a lot taller

00:58:40

than everyone else he goes that has

00:58:41

nothing to do with it he just like he

00:58:43

just wants to get the ball nothing to do

00:58:46

with it my son my son's 411 are you

00:58:49

kidding

00:58:50

me yeah I know and and well that that

00:58:54

was the the the the The Germ of the idea

00:58:57

for the story was was when I felt that

00:59:00

emptiness I just

00:59:02

thought I I at least have other areas

00:59:06

where uh you know my life will be full

00:59:09

but what if it was this poor schlub guy

00:59:12

who had nothing else had nothing else

00:59:14

but this you know who felt invisible in

00:59:16

his real life and and his son brought

00:59:19

this out but it's a smart way to do it

00:59:21

no the things that happened I don't see

00:59:22

coming uh your wife in it did not know

00:59:25

that who that was uh took me forever

00:59:29

because she does such a disappearing act

00:59:32

Lor Lor is so well obviously she's

00:59:35

incredible you both were great together

00:59:37

I don't want to give it away but there's

00:59:39

there is a scene where that you captured

00:59:42

the tension of someone being busted and

00:59:44

the way that whole scene built and the

00:59:47

way you landed it you just felt

00:59:49

viscerally you know shame for the for

00:59:51

your character so it's like not easy to

00:59:54

do it's not an easy to land in a movie

00:59:57

I'm glad you guys feel that way man that

00:59:59

makes me feel good telling you I was

01:00:00

balling out of the blue was crying

01:00:03

wanting it to be like because it's funny

01:00:05

moments because you're funny guy but

01:00:07

when you weave in which is very tricky a

01:00:10

real situation where you're not trying

01:00:11

to do like I'm GNA do a joke now it's

01:00:13

just the way people talk you know and

01:00:15

then someone's being kind of funny just

01:00:17

because that's the way you talk when the

01:00:18

girl comes over and someone goes she's

01:00:20

so nice and she goes I do not [ __ ]

01:00:22

like her it just come you know that

01:00:24

those things come out of the blue that

01:00:26

might not be a great example but you

01:00:27

just do funny things well you're talking

01:00:29

about the Italian my wife

01:00:31

who's what I wanted to do was take this

01:00:34

story which will be Universal I'm I'm

01:00:37

glad you identified relate to it yes but

01:00:40

but put it in this specific Universe

01:00:43

which I lived in I I you know I grew up

01:00:46

Italian in Queens but my wife I married

01:00:48

into that world that we see in the movie

01:00:51

you know the the the traditional people

01:00:53

the right off the boat people you know

01:00:55

everything with all with all the all the

01:00:58

traditions and the parties and the you

01:01:01

know all the the food and and everything

01:01:04

and I said let's just do the story and

01:01:06

this make it specific but it's like it's

01:01:09

kind of like the formula that worked for

01:01:10

everybody's Raymond we made it specific

01:01:13

but it was identified when it comes to

01:01:15

family everybody kind of identifies with

01:01:17

it no matter where you're from you know

01:01:19

yeah wasn't my I'm not Italian I'm not

01:01:21

from Queens I was just relating to

01:01:23

different things even heartbreaking

01:01:25

stuff with relationships and dating and

01:01:28

there's a lot going on where you go oh

01:01:30

godamn that's funny and then they catch

01:01:32

you off guard again and just one the one

01:01:34

character which the casting of your son

01:01:36

was he was amazing too and just had such

01:01:39

you know you I can't tell you how hard

01:01:41

it was to find a kid who can you know he

01:01:46

the kid's an introvert you know so he

01:01:47

has to he has to emote without saying a

01:01:50

lot and so he has to be a pretty good

01:01:53

actor and also a good basketball player

01:01:56

it was so hard to find a guy of course

01:01:59

he was shooting threes and oh yeah he's

01:02:01

a good player and and we we would get a

01:02:04

list of guys we would look at all of

01:02:05

them and we would narrow it down and

01:02:06

then we would say put yourself on tape

01:02:08

playing basketball for five minutes

01:02:10

because they all said they could play

01:02:12

and within 10 seconds you could see this

01:02:15

this guy

01:02:17

never yeah um but and this kid was

01:02:20

driving Postmates when we gave him the

01:02:22

role he was just you know he just had

01:02:24

college video that films that he did

01:02:27

he's a and he's a great kid too you know

01:02:29

so I'm I'm happy for him you you you

01:02:31

touched on so many uh just experiential

01:02:35

things that were just like like I knew I

01:02:37

knew a guy I don't want to give names

01:02:39

away but like his first love he's

01:02:41

20 and he basically told me that he'd

01:02:44

said to her all I'll love you no matter

01:02:46

what forever or something to that effect

01:02:49

and then she was having sex with his

01:02:51

best friend the next day or something it

01:02:53

was like he said he he he said I love

01:02:56

you forever yeah too early too

01:03:00

early and it's like there's a lot of

01:03:02

stuff in your movie that but she was

01:03:04

like oh I'm covered even though I'm

01:03:06

going to have sex with your friend

01:03:07

you're still loving me right that was

01:03:08

the deal and he's like well I'll love

01:03:11

you forever no matter what you know on

01:03:13

the second date or something it's like

01:03:16

you know oh believe me I used to pour my

01:03:18

heart out these girls uh but I I can see

01:03:21

writing wise because I've tried to write

01:03:23

movies the fact that you're rap up every

01:03:26

story is very hard to do I mean

01:03:28

everything sort of just falls into place

01:03:30

all the way to the very end yeah yeah

01:03:32

and sometimes we thought we don't need

01:03:35

to wrap up everything you know

01:03:38

but no but it's true but but but they're

01:03:40

all very nice I liked them all I love I

01:03:43

love Sebastian in the movie too he's

01:03:45

just a great a great tough

01:03:51

[Music]

01:03:52

brother can I ask you a question uh just

01:03:55

uh

01:03:56

just popped my head when did you know

01:03:58

your wife was the one so to speak was

01:04:00

that a long courtship or did you were

01:04:02

thinking marriage pretty

01:04:04

quickly we we worked in a bank together

01:04:07

my wife and I yeah and and I'm going to

01:04:11

be honest she was the third woman I

01:04:14

asked out in the bank the first the

01:04:18

first two security guards first W the

01:04:21

first the first two turned me down the

01:04:24

first two turned me down and um did she

01:04:28

know uh I think she knew you know yeah

01:04:33

that I was interested in this other girl

01:04:36

first um and then it was when I quit the

01:04:40

bank uh that we started dating you know

01:04:43

but but you know I had nothing man I was

01:04:46

living at home she I give her credit

01:04:48

because uh I wasn't a catch really you

01:04:51

know um I was driving my bike to work

01:04:54

and all and um she took a shot and now

01:04:58

she's um she's house shopping every

01:05:02

three months what is interesting pre

01:05:05

money pre Fame living at home working in

01:05:08

a bank and like yeah so the there's

01:05:10

something there's some nice stuff about

01:05:13

that you know um yeah but but but but it

01:05:16

wasn't love at first sight you know I'm

01:05:19

not going to say that but but hi but

01:05:22

it it was like a lucky it was just kind

01:05:26

of like getting fired from news radio

01:05:28

you know it was it was uh it worked out

01:05:32

yeah I mean it was it was my life would

01:05:35

be very different if it didn't happen

01:05:36

you know yeah I sort of like that little

01:05:38

Jennifer Esposito uh she did nice job

01:05:41

yes I did a movie with her once Master

01:05:43

disguise I thought she was also oh yeah

01:05:45

she was really good with that little bit

01:05:46

she did yep and she really I didn't know

01:05:49

where what was going on with that but I

01:05:50

just like yeah the tough dad everyone

01:05:53

everyone knows the tough dad and that's

01:05:54

just the way they are and

01:05:56

and and you being a full-grown adult

01:05:58

with a tough dad is hard to sit there

01:05:59

and eat it all the time yeah you have

01:06:02

you guys directed anything ever no no I

01:06:04

haven't man it scared the hell out of me

01:06:07

I can't tell you how frightening it was

01:06:09

leading up to it uh I wasn't gonna I I

01:06:12

wasn't going to direct it but my agent

01:06:14

told me you know it's too personal get

01:06:16

in there and do it and I was like

01:06:18

another 10 grand in it for you another

01:06:21

Union it's another Union you're in

01:06:23

another Union all of a sudden

01:06:26

but uh he you know I I so that's your

01:06:29

first directing job okay yeah yeah I

01:06:32

hadn't directed any Raymond I hadn't

01:06:34

directed anything um and you know I've

01:06:37

been in the edit room for the last 25

01:06:39

years I've been I've

01:06:41

been writing and kind of directing you

01:06:45

know with Raymond you're directing even

01:06:46

though you're not directing you know

01:06:48

yeah um but uh I know nothing about the

01:06:52

technical side of it you know I I didn't

01:06:54

know one lens from another I knew what I

01:06:56

wanted to see what why what I wanted it

01:06:58

to look like so he just you know he just

01:07:01

convinced me get a surround yourself

01:07:03

with the the great cinematographer who

01:07:05

can collaborate with you and and uh you

01:07:08

know just pay attention to what you want

01:07:11

on the screen and I mean it was so

01:07:14

nerve-wracking though before it started

01:07:15

once it started it was all good you know

01:07:18

but I do think the writer and it's so

01:07:19

personal it's great that you were

01:07:21

completely in charge you would have been

01:07:22

de facto in charge even if you not taken

01:07:25

the credit no I'm glad he made me I'm

01:07:27

glad he made me do it you know because

01:07:28

now having done it I would do it again

01:07:31

if it's some the weird thing is I got

01:07:34

offers to direct now and the movie

01:07:37

hasn't even come out and people heard I

01:07:39

directed so I got a couple little offers

01:07:41

to direct these other things and but if

01:07:43

it I had no desire if it wasn't

01:07:46

something I wrote you know or something

01:07:48

you really uh heart yeah something I was

01:07:51

super passionate about maybe but but I

01:07:54

think the next I would it again if I

01:07:56

write something again I I would try it

01:07:58

again you know and you have to demand

01:07:59

the DP from corki Romano that you

01:08:03

got give me the best of the best did is

01:08:06

is that true was he on Cor Romano oh no

01:08:09

I just that's a funny name it was a

01:08:11

chrisan comedy I know but it's a funny

01:08:14

word package Cory Romano it's a great a

01:08:17

great name of a human being can I tell

01:08:19

you of my SNL experience and I loved

01:08:21

every second of it and Sports Center is

01:08:23

the one that stands out right but if I

01:08:25

have to be honest and pick my favorite

01:08:27

sketch it was the one Chris

01:08:30

Katan when he was the lounge uh you guys

01:08:34

may not seen singer he was the lounge

01:08:36

guy yeah and and he brought up me I was

01:08:39

like a Shey green has been comic and and

01:08:43

uh it just had it was so much fun yeah

01:08:47

that was my favorite sketch I think of

01:08:48

the two times I think it yeah well he

01:08:50

does great on the show it's great that

01:08:53

was fun I mean yeah I like seeing you

01:08:55

out there and there's one called the big

01:08:57

baby well you know I think people will

01:08:58

look you up that's fun when we have some

01:09:00

of the podcast people go and look up

01:09:01

sketch look up Ray R big baby was will

01:09:04

frell yeah was will frell yeah yeah did

01:09:06

you did you overlap with Katan with

01:09:09

Chris Katan I did a little with Katan

01:09:11

one year with frell and the cheerleaders

01:09:13

and that and then I was on my way out

01:09:15

but uh I could tell I was like it's time

01:09:18

to go and there's good people here it's

01:09:21

in good hands how many years spech how

01:09:23

many years you do I did six D is seven

01:09:27

and I've hosted three David's hosted a

01:09:30

couple times twice yeah each one's

01:09:33

different when was the last time you

01:09:35

hosted Dana I think it was like 2011 or

01:09:39

something I found it the last time just

01:09:41

so it's it's really exhausting when

01:09:43

you're a cast member and there's two

01:09:45

sketches you can really focus uh I too

01:09:48

much of a control freak but there's also

01:09:51

a Whimsy to how the show unfolds you

01:09:54

know unless you try to write ahead of

01:09:55

time which isn't you know I think I

01:09:57

think for me it's like then I've been

01:09:59

there doing guest Spots I'm on Fallon

01:10:01

and Lauren will just walk down on a

01:10:03

Thursday uh you'll you'll do Church chat

01:10:06

uh this week you know I got a flight out

01:10:08

tomorrow you'll be doing Church chat

01:10:10

it's that thing of like Ted Cruz and all

01:10:12

that so I've gone back and done th guest

01:10:15

spots which are really fun and I love

01:10:16

doing Wayne's World on the

01:10:18

40th I love playing that character at 60

01:10:21

did you go to the 40th Ray no I didn't I

01:10:25

went to the 25th with Peter Bo I

01:10:28

remember with Peter Bo when's the next

01:10:30

one man what what are they coming up

01:10:31

three years will be the 50th

01:10:34

so do you want two for

01:10:39

yeah plus

01:10:41

one uh let's see go ahead Dana do your

01:10:45

kids do standup still are they still

01:10:48

doing it the now we we have a production

01:10:50

company and we're making content we just

01:10:52

we finished the scripted you know

01:10:54

standup has to well it's just rough out

01:10:57

there now uh it was heartbreaking to see

01:11:00

the it's either opening for me where the

01:11:02

audience is so jacked up or it's an open

01:11:04

mic where because I suffered so much in

01:11:07

bad open mics and it wasn't my fault you

01:11:10

know they're having dinner or you know a

01:11:12

bar you know but now doing content uh is

01:11:17

more specific more connected like we're

01:11:20

going to do this thing it's not ethereal

01:11:22

you know it and basically standup in the

01:11:25

end of the day is traveling if it's

01:11:27

really your job it's about traveling I I

01:11:29

didn't watch you know Jackie Gleason or

01:11:33

Carol Bernett in the 60s and go I go I

01:11:36

want to do that but I didn't think that

01:11:37

would mean uh we're gonna we're going to

01:11:39

push back from the gate in a few minutes

01:11:41

but right now we have some maintenance

01:11:42

guys coming on board you know so the

01:11:44

travel part of is the part I don't like

01:11:46

yeah yeah my son tried it my one son my

01:11:49

one one of my twin boys did a a little

01:11:53

road he went to Albuquerque he went

01:11:56

to and did these one nighters he did

01:11:59

like five of them and that was his only

01:12:01

taste of it and he got he gets a he got

01:12:05

depressed that you know he was at a bar

01:12:07

where they weren't even facing him you

01:12:09

know and yeah and and he was getting

01:12:11

upset that he was what if I'm not funny

01:12:14

I'm like you can't tell you're not if

01:12:17

you're funny or not from that you know

01:12:18

it's by the way you got to do that

01:12:21

that's the sad part about standup in the

01:12:23

beginning years you gotta muscle through

01:12:25

all that stuff yeah yeah and I I I went

01:12:28

to a lot of open mics and most open

01:12:30

micers the audience even if the audience

01:12:32

is pretty good the reason they're not

01:12:34

doing well is the audience doesn't get

01:12:35

what they're talking about like the they

01:12:37

don't set it up properly like Clarity

01:12:39

without Clarity which you learn over

01:12:42

time uh but anyway they they had nights

01:12:44

where they would crush you know but it

01:12:46

still has to be a a specific passion and

01:12:49

the stuff we're doing now they're

01:12:50

enjoying more oh good that's good also

01:12:53

standup sometimes leads to doing content

01:12:55

they're sort of just going let's get to

01:12:57

the part where we make stuff it teaches

01:12:58

you a lot to trust trust your blink and

01:13:01

that in the end of the day the

01:13:02

sensibility if it's similar in a room

01:13:05

it's so much more pleasant like with at

01:13:07

SNL there was a very narrow sensibility

01:13:10

and so when something worked everyone

01:13:11

all knew it sitting around the writer's

01:13:13

room oh that'll work that'll kill but

01:13:16

right you know anyway it's uh it's been

01:13:18

a good life David DAV good luck with the

01:13:21

movie Ray ah thank you man April 21

01:13:25

April 21 somewhere in Queens and it's in

01:13:29

theaters or April 21 it goes into

01:13:32

theaters somewhere Queens I highly

01:13:34

recommend it I I really do I think it

01:13:36

touches a lot of stuff it it lands

01:13:38

beautifully movies just don't work that

01:13:40

I mean the big sick was another one of

01:13:42

those kind of indie films that was sort

01:13:44

of or small yeah that this is this is

01:13:46

like this this is in that league if not

01:13:49

better or well it touched me more

01:13:50

because it was so specific to my yeah

01:13:53

too thank you I'll see you will I see

01:13:56

you in Vegas David where you going I'll

01:13:59

be over at the Venetian with Nikki

01:14:00

Glazer but I'll yell over because son of

01:14:02

a [ __ ] I know but it's 8:30 I'm playing

01:14:05

the I'm headlining the Mirage I guess

01:14:07

you're out of town on oh God I hope it's

01:14:10

right you're going to do it July 7th or

01:14:13

8th or 14th or 15th yeah July well I'm

01:14:16

there you know who took your place David

01:14:18

right is Brian rean oh great yeah that

01:14:22

guy is a monster for him yeah he's

01:14:24

pretty good have time to be opening jars

01:14:27

and stuff I don't can't do I love that

01:14:30

guy that's it walk him through the joke

01:14:33

give them super super [ __ ] yeah we we

01:14:36

loved it Ray and we hope to see you

01:14:38

around campus and Here There and

01:14:39

Everywhere appreciate it thanks fix it

01:14:41

fix it and post fix it fix it up it's

01:14:44

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01:14:45

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Episode Highlights

Somewhere in Queens
A discussion about Ray's film, which is both funny and dramatic.
“It's kind of a tearjerker in places.”
@ 01m 18s
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Ray Romano's Career Journey
Ray shares his experiences from standup to directing films, highlighting his late success.
“He didn't really get a breaking show business till he was 36.”
@ 02m 06s
April 19, 2023
First Letterman Spot
Ray reflects on his memorable first appearance on Letterman, calling it one of his best.
“I had a really good first Letterman spot”
@ 22m 24s
April 19, 2023
Struggles of a New Show
Ray shares the challenges of his show being in 100th place during its initial run.
“We were on Fridays and we were in a 100th place”
@ 25m 38s
April 19, 2023
Sweet Sassy Molasses
Ray discusses a memorable sketch that gained a cult following, featuring the phrase 'sweet sassy molasses.'
“Sweet sassy molasses”
@ 30m 23s
April 19, 2023
Shoulder Injury on Set
Ray recounts a painful shoulder injury he sustained while filming a sketch.
“I had a Grade Three shoulder separation”
@ 33m 12s
April 19, 2023
The Art of Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy can be intimidating, especially when you're expected to play various characters.
“These different scenes, and it's intimidating.”
@ 42m 32s
April 19, 2023
The Challenge of Bringing Writers
Bringing your own writers to a show can be a double-edged sword.
“It's a miracle because they don't like when you bring your Goomba writers in there.”
@ 45m 01s
April 19, 2023
Captivating Movie Experience
A heartfelt movie experience that resonates deeply with parenting themes.
“The movie is brilliant; it completely captivated me.”
@ 55m 04s
April 19, 2023
Finding the Right Actor
Casting a basketball player turned actor was a challenge, but it paid off.
“He was just a great kid too, you know.”
@ 01h 02m 27s
April 19, 2023
The Journey of Love
A story about young love and heartbreak that resonates deeply.
“I’ll love you forever no matter what.”
@ 01h 02m 41s
April 19, 2023
Directing for the First Time
Facing fears, he took on directing and found it rewarding.
“I would do it again if it’s something I wrote.”
@ 01h 07m 51s
April 19, 2023

Episode Quotes

Key Moments

Ray Romano00:04
Initial Struggles25:33
Sweet Sassy Molasses30:23
Shoulder Injury33:12
Sketch Comedy Pressure42:32
Emotional Movie Reaction55:04
Casting Challenges1:01:50
Young Love1:02:41

Words per Minute Over Time

Vibes Breakdown

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October 07, 2022

01:15:04

Dennis Miller | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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October 07, 2022

01:11:19

Nick Kroll | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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October 07, 2022

01:20:49

Judd Apatow | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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01:05:24

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

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January 11, 2023

01:47:35

Jimmy Kimmel Hosts the Show | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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October 07, 2022

01:33:35

Adam Sandler | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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46:03

See-Through Pants, Oprah, and Young Spade | Superfly with Dana Carvey and David Spade | Episode 5

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49:01

Jon Lovitz Crashes the Party | Superfly with Dana Carvey and David Spade | Episode 14

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52:17

Ted Sarandos | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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01:25:39

RE-RELEASE - Adam Sandler (LIVE from LA)

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October 09, 2024

01:09:27

Alex Moffat | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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August 16, 2023

01:11:50

Will Forte | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade