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Our Guest today is Melissa vior Melissa
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vior and she's uh a delightful person uh cast member in Satur night life for six
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years uh incredibly versatile actress and comedian a a brilliant impressionist
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in which she does some for us it's really fun probably the we always extract it oh yeah Owen Wilson that's
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right yeah she does and um we really talk about her time on the show and and
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sort of the fun of being on Saturday Night Live the stress of being on Saturday Night Live just her journey her
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Adventure in that amazing and sometimes frustrating 8 AG
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17 floor you know we've talked all about Satur Night Live being a challenge emotionally for yeah being live on
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television so forth so on you know so it's a great great conversation she's a standup also we I see at The Improv here
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and there uh I followed her the other night and she does a great job and she
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talks about her life and she does a few Impressions whatever it's all good so I think you're GNA have a nice time with
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her yeah and one other little bonus to wait for is she she actually has an
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incredible singing voice she does she does different celebrities singing and
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herself I mean she's she's quite a talented young woman so um I would I
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would stay tuned for this folks she reminds me of me a little bit Triple Threat triple yeah what are what are
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your three one funny annoying too annoying and
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funny and uh I'm I have a knack for interrupting people can I know I too I
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got some good ones in today can you can you can you sing kid can you I
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really cannot can you dance I'm a barely one threat I'm not even a
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threat but here let's show him Melissa here we go here's [Music]
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Melissa so [ __ ] funny we can ask I [Laughter]
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[Music] Telly what's up Dana and David good to
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see you just laughing so hard at something David said made me laugh so
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hard was a casual throwaway David we were laughing Melissa at the agents and managers this this happens in all of
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Showbiz where they're the important ones because they're like yeah you need to be
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friends with me because I tell the puppets what to do and we are all the puppets that's the thing it's like
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they're all of our companies master that were clients of got got bought a post
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pandemic got bought by other companies and they got an influx of massive amounts of cash but the the assets i e
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the puppets I tell what to do yeah I go do I get a piece of that they go unfortunately
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no can I get a crumb yeah give me a [ __ ] crumb I'm the one on the road 88
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so hungry oh my God right how are you I mean
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go you know I feel good yeah you look good thanks are you have you been
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getting tan or something or are you just look well I I I wonder yeah I am getting tan but I wonder if my lighting is it's
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not good no it looks good you look good all right cool no I I won't yeah I just
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you know I I I'm not a I know we have to use ring lights but I don't like them they give me a headache yeah me too well
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but you have a light right I mean you're near a window yeah I am you look like
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you got a window going window is the best I can open up the blinds more no
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you're fine you want me to try that you look fantastic all right like but how are you guys how are we
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yeah happy that we see you all right that's very nice when you when I found out you wanted me on this I was like
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this is so nice of you this is really cool what are you crazy I mean sixy year cast member you
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know how many people 120 episodes that's pretty good
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huh of crushing I think that's what I did that's exact what I did oh wow yeah
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I mean you know I tried my best I felt like it
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was we all feel it's all a beating everyone's like I [ __ ] got
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out yeah I felt like if I were more equipped for that or just a little
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stronger maybe I could have kept going yeah but I'm a little wimp [ __ ] six
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years is like 200 years on that show it's an emotionally violent sport a show business and then SNL is
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the Game of Thrones of it that's that's true and when it's flowing and it seems good and you're you're bonding with the
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writers and you have a a sketch you get a hold of it and you land it it's like the greatest in the world but then
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there's all these times where you just walk off stage there's everything else you have audience members you wave to
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and they look down you're like even you know I bombed or even like I thought it was
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painful when you would have guest visit come in town and you're not in the episode at all you're just staring at
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them in your dressing room you're like yeah they're like you having fun and I'm just sitting there looking at yeah this
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they go no it's fine our favorite people are on and you're like oh that's that's
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the worst passive aggressive compliment or question you know when you're not in the show that much did you have fun I
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mean were you having fun or when you have a bad set a standup and all your relatives are there uh you look like
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you're having fun you know look I I know it sucked I know
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yeah yeah but man yeah so much it's it's hard to prep for it it's hard to say
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this is what you want to do you get a [ __ ] huge break and there's no real
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way to be ready people go it's hard you go that's too vague sorry I will figure
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out how hard it is in 18 different ways when I'm trying to get $200 and quarters on a Sunday to do my laundry and I gotta
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walk up 18 flights of stairs and it's my one day off and I have no ideas for Tom Hanks on Monday I know yeah I was lucky
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I was the last uh Sixers cast in essence you know it was just me Phil and John oh
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last six person total cast yeah and then by the early 90s when The
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Interlopers the youngsters the bad boys of Comedy Sandler Spade Brock all the rest Tim Meadows then we started to have
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an expensive cast like we had a junior varsity cast that was going to take over
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well when I got on that was the last time it was just me Phil and John as feature male players J Jan Hooks Norah
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and and Victoria Jackson let me tell you more about my utopian experience there and then was like I was cast member
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14b how many were on there I was V like I was counting
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there cting your 2016 Mikey day Alex Moffett Pete
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Davidson Leslie Jones s strong Keenan who's always there he's great Vanessa was there that last year Beck Bennett ad
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Bryant Kate McKinnon Kyle money and yourself I probably missed but that's about 14 I guess I don't know yeah sound
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right yeah that sounds right too many I think we had 22 I think
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Dana CU we also had like Frank some around the orbit that would JP in and a
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Whitney Brown and Tom Davis they could jump in and write themselves in so a lot of people wrote themselves in and uh and
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then there was a lot of feature players I stayed feature for too long probably two three years and uh I was the last
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guy to get pulled up to the bigs so embarrassing so so humiliating before we
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go too far down how hard the show is I just want to insert I want to insert this for a minute uh obviously I'm
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looking at stuff online and looking at yourself obviously the Lady Gaga thing I was playing on my computer she does it
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at update uh Melissa that's your name right yeah it's so transcendently
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brilliant that my wife couldn't see she just thought so then I was talking to
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spade and walkie-talkie she goes so that wasn't Lady Gaga but also it was a very funny take
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on Lady Gaga way you did it and the way you move your shoulders the whole thing so that yeah um JLo with the Hoops
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earring sketch you know just being with her was hysterical the kid genius character Riley like you literally
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looked eight years old it was kind of an amazing I know you have a very youthful face but it was like kind of like you
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were what is that one about well I that writing night that week I remember watching there you know Ellen degenerous
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on her show she would have these like genius kids go on and they they just really bugged me and
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then their parents were in the crowd like yeah this is great and and I I was
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like that could be fun if there's if I played like a one of those kid Geniuses but it just not that smart just very
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polite you know so that was like the angle and then I but I had Heidi play
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the mom that was like pressuring me to really show off and be smart uh yeah
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that that one was fun that was a fun one and what did the voice what did you use for that voice you also the clothes were
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great in the hair it just really shrunk you down it made look like yeah I know I know where the
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planets are I felt like it was I can't remember man I can't remember the totally I totally understand
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that you're like hey you did this impression you're like I haven't done it for years just give me a second no no do
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it now man I can't I can't access it um does he sound like it sounds like the
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guy that goes who's that little redhead kid that goes apparently remember he was on Allen he
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go I was at the carnival and apparently they don't let kids on and apparently
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I've never been on TV before and apparently remember that kid right and it's just like that's the word he knew
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and everyone yeah yeah he really beat the [ __ ] out of it and then he went on the show cuz he
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took the mic from the lady and he's like8 years old he's like chubby kid with red hair greased over and he kept
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going and then apparently they didn't want me to go in the Tilt world right away cuz I eat too much food and then
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and everything he said was funny and then they brought him and they go can the Apparently Guy come on the show and then he came in that was his moniker the
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Apparently guy yeah good catchphrase that kid's got some instincts yeah he was killing it I actually liked him
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actually open for him whoa yeah he saiding wer you kind of a boy Genius
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weren't you a chess Prodigy oh let yeah I was smart yeah I was smart
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for a while and then it all went to [ __ ] it went to [ __ ] freshman year I
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remember the almost time and day when you started discovering girls you suddenly your brain it was also it was
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girls but it was also all our schools merg and I was known for math and reading because I'd leave class to go
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down to a two grades down to go do math and reading with this Vietnamese kid so
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I was teach other kids no I would go to take like in second grade I'd walk down to fourth grade oh and then and then
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come back and go what's been going on here guys I was a little tied up with fractions you'll learn about them in the
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future yeah and so by the time I get to high school everyone's like oh there's the nerd from math class and then my
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brother was cool and then everyone's like oh you're his brother and then not just girls just people were talking to
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me and I was like oh and then I would skip class just cuz someone was talking to me I'm like they go there's the bell I go I don't have to be anywhere and
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then I just started losing grades cuz I'm like oh I just want a social life
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where people are friendly to me instead of just treating me like this weirdo Outcast and so then I got dumb and
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plummeted so fast Melissa where your high school years delightful or where where do you put them you know I think
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they were they were all right you know uh where were you I I went to I mean I
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was a called a Survivor I went to an Girls School in alhamra California
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called Ramona Convent 7th through 12th grade whoa wow did any adult ever get
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busted during those times or was it or well I mean was no I hear comment on the
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up and up no I know um I didn't know any different but I I felt like it uh I felt
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like it messed me up just with yeah with guides in social life cuz I didn't know you know I was really awkward but I did
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discover comedy then so I was like watching you guys obsessed with SNL and
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I was already working on Impressions and um yeah I started comedy at 15 at the
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life Factory Comedy camp and I was like this is what I'm going to do I didn't even care about I didn't go to prom I was like I'm over this I'm I know what
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I'm going to do oh I mean people ask me this like oh when you're probably eight
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or nine you probably started to throw your voice around a little bit and what was the first one that you got you know
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that's what they ask me sometimes what the first what's one of the ones you remember put it that way of your early
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repertoire like when I was 12 I started doing like the singing impressions of all the pop girls Britney Shakita
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Christina that was kind of where I started with the singing Impressions and then I watched a lot of you Dana and
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worked on all of I learned your impressions wow from the show love it good I love to pass it along anyone can
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say not got de I you know that's not you know what I was going to say which
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is interesting to me is that like say you do an impression of your seventh grade PE
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teacher um and then you go to a comedy club that can be your it's a now it's
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called a character but it's an impression of your PE coach then if the PE coach somehow
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gets famous it's the exact same voice but now you're doing an impression so
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the line between character and impression sort of blurs sometimes like I just did my brother Brad for G and it
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was an impression of him kind of exaggerated so yeah I don't know um I I
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I'm sorry my mind's kind of spinning because you have so much talent I don't we don't have that much time did anyone teach you how to sing just sing fact
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that you can sing is a big plus sing as other people but you can just sing you have an album out you have to yeah I
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mean you just when did you learn you could just sing because that's a I can't sing I could yeah I I don't know I I
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felt like I I did choir and stuff and I oh I remember being a little kid and
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seeing people sing up there like in church and I was like yeah I could do that I heard I've heard myself saying I
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could do that um but I didn't have any proper training I just I I just liked it
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and at first I thought I was like oh I'm going to be a singer but then I realized oh comedy's better I could do impressions of you know and make people
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laugh like that was just another level but I do like I do
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enjoy just singing you know uh cover songs and right now I'm trying to work
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on a boletto cover album of like Spanish Classics songs my friend of course you
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are go sit [Music]
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down I I love Spanish singing you know L Lind used to love I still do she I
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remember see I went to see her in concert and she did one half of the concert with Spanish uh songs right
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she's great she had that that album um songs for her father in all the Mari songs but that's what I'm hoping to do
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you know oh yeah well she's so top you will do it you're already famous and you're and you're so talented
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I think it's pretty much a no-brainer it's like your friend like you got that one thanks you got that one I just want
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to fill in this Gap a little bit so you've got you're singing like Britney spirit so you're like a little
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miracle you people look at me like I'm a little girl that was like the first one
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and then I go back to my speaking voice you're like oh man oh no but the dichotomy is great I don't have a voice
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SP Spade has a voice got you want to have a neutral
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voice that you can throw around your natural voice like this you know but was
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that your I mean did kids were kids am maaz like in seventh grade and stuff were yeah all my yeah I mean it's like a
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magic Tri really amazed yeah it was cool and then you know I mean You' you've I'm
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sure you've heard there but like yeah the
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Christina oh that's that sounded a little bad but Fu that's great wa a minute I love your that you're doing
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this I didn't want to ask you to do Happ to tell it like like in a story like that I think it's great yeah talk
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through it like how you got that you just listen to or it just hit you or did you did get did you get were you not so
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good and then you got better with the Christina impression or did it just kind of hit you after your saw I think it's
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just like I listen to it so much and then you start practicing you're like oh I could get I could do this but isn't
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she known as already a great singer anyway and then you're so now you're doing an impression of you can sing but
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you have to actually be great yeah I guess so you know what I mean she's so like people can't even
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sing like her so you can sing like her so you must be able to sing pretty well come
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onab see that see I that's you're I do it you are organically are singing from
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your diaphragm or whatever CU most people try to sing it's all throat catch well I that was a little I felt like I
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felt a little pushed there
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[Music] I know sorry my thoughts are all over the place cuz I also want to learn about
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your stories too cuz you guys are is boring just like this is I'm a little Starstruck too yeah well well yeah true
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we met we met each other in the clubs a few times and you were on a comedy competition show weren't you first
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impressions your show first impressions and I got to say that was
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such a beautiful year because I did that show with you and I was like oh this is
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this is so magical and then I did my first pilot for Barry Bill haters show I
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was the waitress at the oh and I was like oh this is magical like all this
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just people from snel are are entering my life and then that was the summer I got the show it was just so cool how
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that was all the same it was so beautiful well it's fun and I mean I don't know if you go to clubs and you
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meet a younger version of yourself uh that maybe imprs or is a good standup and you want
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to give them props you're still I mean there's an organic competitiveness with
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with with comedians or clowns you want to call us you know I always say the reason that class clown is singular is
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because if there were two class clowns one class clown would kill the other class for the attention yeah
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but you're Saturday Night Live vet you kicked ass on the show you have all this Talent so when it means something to
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somebody who's like 23 or four coming up and you cosigning them and going you know You' you've got it just keep going
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you know whatever you say you know it's ni yeah I feel like it feels nice to do that for like pay attention to yeah try
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to help because you see Dana I see Dana and then when I get on the show I don't
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know that Dana is worried about sketches or this or what and then I'm like oh there's more going on in his head other
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than he's a star I remember seeing John Lovitz and then when I went to the show I told Dana that John was sad and I'm
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like what are you I mean in my head I go you're on the best show in the world and he goes I'm only in two things this week
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and I go who who cares who would even notice like when you're on I'm I'm like oh he's funny I have no idea how many
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sketches people are in and then I said uh I just see you as like a star that's really makes me laugh like Dana and then
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when I got there I'm like [ __ ] I'm and and I immediately go I just fell for it and I already know the Playbook you're
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not supposed to think this way and then after two read throughs I'm like I'm not even in the show and then I started going oh my God I'm turning into this I
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can't help it it's it gets hard I know and you try to talk yourself off the
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ledge but your your highlight reel is pretty pretty extensive you know if you
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you ever go online and check yourself out you know well I know there is that one I think it's what is it the we are
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me too or something someone put a compilation of clips and and I look at
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it and I'm like yeah that's right do pretty good stuff yeah oh yeah you're scoring there you're
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scoring there you're scoring there I saw you do take Gwen Stefani on Kelly claron um oh yeah and she was right next to you
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I did it for her I was like that's that was crazy isn't it scary right wait a minute she was right next to you and
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you're doing Gwen with Gwen yeah yeah I told her yeah this old bit I had of like
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when I'm in my car and no doubt comes on the radio I get into my G impression which is a dangerous impression to do
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behind the wheel you know cuz it's water
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yeah yeah she liked it and that was that was pretty cool uh sh I saw on that and
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I was like oh my God she's gonna do it right in front of her first of all Gwen is stunning Gwen is super talented and
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uh a sweetheart seems I've briefly met her but I like that she keeps her hair platinum blonde and then wears bright
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red lipsticks great a very potent look she's a great spored about it yeah and
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she loved it and she was sitting right there and what what a blast but definitely UPS the uh
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nerves yeah because I I feel like I've done my impression for JLo that was frightening because that's J JLo is
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another one you know you're like what and I think she was like no no baby I don't I don't think so
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no see I love it when I love it when just that yeah you like I don't even
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know where I've heard J I mean I've seen her in interviews but it's like so perfectly encapsulates and that's the
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fun of it's like there is there is
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yeah so just a sidebar what do you what do you think Affleck are they I mean I
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wish them all the best it's Jennifer Lopez benett do you want to go on and see if you can Trend by having an
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opinion about it oh I I think I'm all for it you know but that me too I wish
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everyone the best that special was pretty funny I thought it was a standup Special by the Billboards of Jay J what
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was it yeah the what was it called now this is me no this is me
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now everyone's like I know I kind of like doing like dramatic JLo you know like no you
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can't like the movie Enough when she fights back like a I saw enough every
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movie I see I think that's happening yeah because there's another one like called still enough I've had enough
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almost enough because every poster I see I go she has another movie out and she's
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on Instagram she looks and there's no hate it's like she looks beautiful every day but give us 24 hours yeah I mean my
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God that's a little that's how I feel I'm like let's go away and let us miss you that's what Lauren told me um they
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can't miss you if you don't go away I was like oh that was like a big life lesson about Showbiz and uh I go he
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brings it out on like a Ten Commandments tablet it's it's number three they can't
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miss you if you won't go away he has a VIN diagram here's where you are here's where people want to in your head yeah
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but the Continuum of the personality okay flat wisdom wisdom alert potentially observation alert yeah we're
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we're all have some range of drive just even have gotten on San live and then
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there's drive and there's super drive and then there's certain people and again to your point it's not hate it's not even a criticism they're it's oxygen
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to them yeah uh more and more more and um it makes you very wealthy you know I
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mean you're kind of an extroverted introvert or an introverted extrovert you think I mean I've listened to some
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of your interviews or or a little bit Shyer than some other comedians yeah I think I'm pretty introvert like I I I
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have even at the show I had trouble kind of speaking up when there's just so much
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going on I'm like I get so overwhelmed I don't know where to fit and then I'd rather just hide away I don't know how to get in you know so like the riter's
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room and Pete Davidson's coming in everyone's laughing and yell you know like like a big and then you just go
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back to your yeah but I you know the second season when Stephen Castillo joined the
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writers um he's still there too and he his mind he's such a hilarious silly guy
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and I was like oh now this is what I'm talking about and we got our office together and we wrote the dying Miss
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Gomez sketch where I'm the old lady singing nickel back as my last words um
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yes can we get a little of that yeah yeah I never made it as a wise man I
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couldn't cut it as a poor man still that's her death she's dying that
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was it she's on her death bed and she sounds like yeah that wasn't why it was a stand up bit of mine and that's that's
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what I want to say at the last words and the family's like what the heck here's here's mine I love this the silliness
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and the Simplicity of that you know Danny here's my nickel back guy on the
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look at this Photograph wait actually give me those pills first I don't feel good I'm
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dizzy that's I'm trying to make those my last words but then I get scared and I got to take my pills I see I could have
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done it as a man I want to sing I'm going to try to become a more of a pretend to hate nickel back but they do
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they rock it out oh they do yeah same with Creed I love all of those guys I
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feel like they'll wind up just that song Alone such a catchy
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Anthem yeah do you do them take me to a place where blind man see blind
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man see that's how high that's [ __ ] High that's high man I've never been
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that high I got to get on Space you got to get high high high so I want to ask you
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a question a technical question we can we can pin bong it when you do a singing impression of someone then you have to
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inhabit the way they create that sound like you hold your mouth and so you kind
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of know how they get to those notes in a way right yeah I guess so I think you like you know even going back to GW it's
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like she's making a little face the whole time and I think that does help the impression and she kind of
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constricts her her throat a little bit TR to get that squeak kind of how did she even do that cuz her voice was so
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unique when I saw her doing just a girl I'm like um just a girl in the world and
00:28:44
I'm like and that's all but she can also kind of blast out but in that same kind of high pitch I was like God damn I
00:28:52
don't know nothing about music and I thought holy sh plus she was so adorable I saw at Kwok Weenie Roast
00:28:59
with corn and uh I said I like how you you oh this is the worst compliment I go
00:29:05
I like how you sing but also you ham it up out there my friend goes why are you telling her that I go I don't know ham
00:29:11
it up ham it up she kind of jums around you know what I mean she jump an international pop star with great
00:29:17
physical moves is haming it up I know it was wrong and she's like yeah I like how
00:29:24
you ham up your corny act I'm like thank you I thought it was a
00:29:30
compliment now I swear to God I said it we walked away my buddy goes well that went South quick I go what I don't know
00:29:36
what I said and he goes oh everyone else does you said ham it up and I'm like what did her face drop
00:29:44
well it was it was right after I'm just a girl was a hit it was the Weenie Roast where it's just like she was newer they
00:29:49
were in Orange County band and it was down in Orange County and and you're famous at this point yeah I thought I was a big [ __ ] deal and I'm like hey
00:29:56
like I thought I was Clive Davis you know I was like walk walking around like anyone
00:30:02
gave a fat [ __ ] what I said and I'm like corn thumbs up they're like oo thanks
00:30:08
just got the mest touch from this whoever this guy is is that a is that a Joe Dirt cap
00:30:14
behind you David oh that old thing yeah oh I tried to get it out of frame
00:30:19
Heather throw that in the garbage notice yeah this is a a set it's called it's
00:30:25
called boring podcast background and it's just at a local God Dana is at a 10
00:30:30
out of 10 for $100 a day you get to do a podcast from this room and it's it's so
00:30:35
nondescript it doesn't really exist yeah it just doesn't but someone might come
00:30:41
through that door I like the tension of a door that anyone could come through that door yeah Dana he said give me Jeff
00:30:49
Bezos uh first six months of Amazon office look just nothing just a door a
00:30:56
desk I thought Jeff basos you know cuz I follow him you know he's on a boat off the coast of
00:31:04
Sardinia most of his life and I thought he was Peak jacked about a God he's so
00:31:10
jacked if he gets more jacked he's gonna explode really guess what he just got more Jack he got Jack a little bit more
00:31:18
yeah how and she she got bigger lips I thought she can't do more lip fil it's impossible everything's going bigger
00:31:25
everything is getting large Medical Center on that boat so she can get plastic surgery she can get whatever
00:31:32
she want nervous I saw a pommel horse on top where the helicopter usually is and
00:31:37
Bezos is like dou dou I'm like oh my God he's GNA go in the Olympics he's doing the 200
00:31:45
free and Jeff baso surprisingly in third place today at the
00:31:50
Olympics all right white male rage on update sorry this wasn't I'm just
00:31:56
throwing out more for Classic Bits it was it was uh dude that was that was all
00:32:02
bulla he wrote that that's all right bu Bull's a great writer amazing that was
00:32:08
so much fun yeah Dan danb quiet danbo with his good good ideas I I thought he
00:32:15
was so quiet and unassuming I didn't even I thought he was just Sandler's piano player I didn't even know that he
00:32:20
wrote all this stuff you know we know now so what was that one tell me it um
00:32:26
it was when the Oscars I think it was all white males winning
00:32:31
right and then yeah um I I he came up with this really good jingle I was like
00:32:37
white male rage white male rage and uh I dressed in like a gold outfit I think
00:32:43
Stephen also helped on that one too um yeah and it just was a it was just so
00:32:48
catchy it's like white mail raage white mail rage walking Phoenix white male
00:32:55
rage what was was it because they weren't white men weren't winning enough at the Oscars or something it was I
00:33:02
think because it was all the characters in every movie was everyone had rage I think the Joker Joker time and then
00:33:09
there The Joker is always in a bad uh I think it was the mafia movie too that um
00:33:15
the Nero that long remember oh the Irish Irishman yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ra W
00:33:23
male well does anyone think that maybe wae who is brilliant I mean the first
00:33:29
guy to smear the lipstick cuz I've seen all the Jokers all the way back to the0
00:33:35
cool nice tight lipstick nice andf Heath Ledger God Rest of Soul genius comes out
00:33:41
smears it first one and Walken smear will we ever have a full beautiful
00:33:48
lipstick Joker always denote crazy I'm a crazy Joker look at my
00:33:56
smeared lipstick if you got any doubts about it yeah if you watch a poster you
00:34:01
go that guy's crazy I don't know why I went into that character I like look at the lips I'm cra the lips are weird I'm
00:34:12
crazy I want to get you in Prosthetics in a film doing something because of
00:34:18
your chele uh personality wouldn't you love to do something like that you know
00:34:23
I would love that I think that would be great did were you on there with Sarah Sherman she's a a hilarious weirdo she
00:34:30
was after right or you overlap with Sarah just that La the my last season
00:34:35
yeah yeah oh you were great yeah yeah she's a quirky kick in the pants oh man
00:34:42
great Su she's so good she's on tour right now and I see videos from it I go Sarah are you okay I'm flying out
00:34:50
there she's a kick in the pants P Banas it's not straight standup it's a super
00:34:56
fun it looks way more interesting than my show I'll give you that much
00:35:05
yeah so okay just say uh one word we'll play this game yeah let's play this one
00:35:10
and we we know a lot of these Mikey day uh a brilliant mind that's I you can
00:35:19
go sentence you can do a sentence I was gonna I thought he was very sweet yeah
00:35:24
he's really sweet and he's he's so cool how he he he makes everyone score and
00:35:30
win he's such a great writer he's so good and he wrote The Dirty Talk sketches for me him and streer I don't
00:35:37
if you saw Donald Donald Glover you you did one with him aiz yeah that was that
00:35:43
was fun that was a funny funny take where Glover was trying David pay
00:35:48
attention cing things was trying to get sexy with with uh Melissa in bed and
00:35:55
then um she you just didn't get it or something yeah it's like talk dirty to me and I was like yeah you make no money
00:36:02
or like you're yeah all right Dad don't call me dad it was just like I kept
00:36:08
getting it all wrong it was really fun Childish Gambino or Donald Glover I
00:36:14
don't know why dirty talk I did a bit in this one with my standup just the rhythm of it always when people stand up to I
00:36:20
did it like what are you going to do huh huh you like that what is what where did
00:36:25
that come from are you going to do you going to get a get get it's kind of
00:36:31
aggressive yeah that's funny let's form our own she goes and I'm like no these are rhetorical don't
00:36:37
answer what are you going to do do you like that and she goes yes I go I said don't answer these are
00:36:42
rhetorical that's how that's how I ruin it it's it's that that math that chess
00:36:48
genius guy comes out in the worst Poss time me spelling be did you sesily
00:36:56
strong or was she there yeah she was you guys did some
00:37:02
stuff together so talented and I love doing singing bits
00:37:07
with her too she's such a great singer too oh really yeah no yes but there's only one Melissa sorry you do sing great
00:37:17
there's a new sheriff in town and she has a microphone Runway pitchess singer
00:37:25
pitchess I don't know I made that I like that pitch you call me a [ __ ] who who's
00:37:31
nicer ad Bryant or Vanessa
00:37:37
Bayer you both sweet that's an answer who's nicer no who could beat up who
00:37:43
could win in a fist fight Pete Davidson or Leslie Jones Les Leslie lesie I know
00:37:51
we had Leslie on she was so she almost beat you up Dana oh my God the best she
00:37:56
beat me up through the I actually was Brut what what about Owen Wilson hey give us
00:38:04
a little bit of Owen you have a little one handy yeah yeah I'm right here yeah it's it's great to be here I I feel like
00:38:11
a fly on the wall most of my days most of my days see the interesting thing about Melissa's is like you form your
00:38:19
mouth to like how his mouth get the sound you make you make a you visually
00:38:25
make a your L yeah are you same D like or and David too I know you do
00:38:30
Impressions oh yeah but um do you like see their face on your face does that
00:38:37
happen um for me that's how I feel I guess so I mean yeah I I don't
00:38:44
know I I I've never really practiced in the mirror much yeah I just sort of like
00:38:50
but if you take on the Persona like when I was doing Carson I just automatically you know I didn't have to look in the
00:38:56
mirror it just was oh yeah you could feel it yeah I picture them in my head their
00:39:02
face and what they're doing and I just try to talk like him and get it close with that is but my face is probably
00:39:09
doing what I think they're doing just naturally while yeah that's what happens I think that's what happens everybody I
00:39:14
did Owen once I don't even do Owen that well but when I hosted they assigned Me Owen so uh it was more of a funny look
00:39:21
and uh I love Owen we just had Luke on this and Luke sounds a lot like Owen
00:39:27
it's almost just a different tone but it's that same Cadence it's kind of slowly talking yeah yeah maybe
00:39:36
enunciating right Dana it was kind of like that Luke was yeah I mean I
00:39:42
actually coincidentally had dinner with Owen once with Lauren Michaels and then
00:39:47
once with Kevin nean and it came up in conversation and he didn't like when people did him and so I said I said okay
00:39:54
I won't do do you you know yeah I remember he hosted and I I I asked him
00:40:01
if we could do the Owen impression together and he was like I feel like it's done you know I feel like people
00:40:07
it's over you know got he was he didn't want to do I like sad and like yeah over
00:40:13
you I got a couple I saw you doing on one of the clips I was watching uh doing like sort of quick
00:40:19
Impressions maybe it was part of the Ted talk I'm not sure but you were doing just like here's this person doing this
00:40:25
and I always love that technique I do it too it's just fun like yeah like quick
00:40:30
one you know like Kristen wig skydiving um I changed my
00:40:36
mind I'm I'm scared I'm scared um who would do Christen W that's
00:40:42
great even though she's that's yeah yeah oh I remember having a bit it's
00:40:50
it's like Sandra bulock if she knocked over a bunch of dominoes that were lined up in the room and she just hits it and
00:40:56
goes no no no no no no no no no and that's it she always has a little breakdown
00:41:03
like that in movies you know it's funny because you got a picture like Kristen Wick which Kristen Wick because she does
00:41:09
Impressions she plays different characters so what's the one that makes sense that resonates and that one did
00:41:16
resonate with me the the announcement of the premise is funny to me another words
00:41:21
you saying this person doing this person's already funny like this is the you ever have bits in your they get a
00:41:27
laugh that you feel it doesn't deserve that big a laugh you're like I do John Travolta John Travolta going way back
00:41:35
John Travolta as a 15th century astronomer so already it's like why
00:41:41
already good and he's like you know you know I don't know I think the Earth could be round as some [ __ ] you know and
00:41:48
the laugh is so much bigger it's like kind of quas bad comedy is sometimes the
00:41:54
best comedy I think it's it's true that cuz you don't want to overthink it I I get caught in that Loop of overthinking
00:42:00
bits and I'm like no no no the Dumber the better yeah and and for me too I
00:42:06
have more fun like I you can use go ahead oh no no I I had this bit I like
00:42:12
when it does personally connect to me a little bit so there is some grounding but I was yeah this new bit of it's
00:42:19
again it's dumb but it makes me laugh it's like um because I do vocal warm-ups before my shows because I sing a lot and
00:42:26
there was a couple weeks ago I was in the green room and I was practicing I was getting high up there you know I
00:42:34
was and I was getting high and I got so high that I
00:42:41
farted another Comics around I was like a damn I could never just be a hot for
00:42:46
one moment you know and I thought that that if I was like do other singers go
00:42:52
through this you know does Ariana get up there just and people and she and people like
00:42:58
oh damn Ari was that you yeah I guess I'm a dangerous woman you know yeah I
00:43:08
did a A variation of that the idea is that someone is at their the peak of
00:43:13
their ego and power and they're really doing fantastic and then the chair is pulled out yeah yeah I I did a kids's
00:43:21
movie called Master disguise they said you need a you have to have a fart joke so I came love fart
00:43:28
jokes that thing a big big big laughry walk us through it whenever the bad guy
00:43:33
would laugh and he'd be with someone he'd be
00:43:39
like and then there would be 10 seconds of Silence just so they and it was all about The
00:43:47
Silence yeah the planet is [Laughter]
00:43:53
working so I came up with a a far that made me laugh cuz he said you need
00:43:59
a fart choke don't really have one that's great I like that one I love that
00:44:05
pull that one out and now it's yours you can say you can use it this way you know I was on a podcast with uh D Dana Carvey
00:44:13
and David Spade and they were talking about fart chokes this is after you do this one and he used to do this one bad guy so you just lean on it as a friend
00:44:20
because it's not part of my ACT but now you can use it if you want as a tag thanks thanks you want do you want to
00:44:25
try it out yeah I'll try it out thanks take it out to uh do it on
00:44:32
boow and Yang's podcast do it on B was he there when you were there oh my God yeah that's a fat cast
00:44:40
in 2022 and then you uh by the way you did SNL during the pandemic
00:44:47
which and then and then was that the beginning of the end yeah that was challenging but there
00:44:53
was one I I had um cuz remember the video game I don't know if you play games but Animal Crossing was a big game
00:45:00
during the pandemic and so I was playing I've been a longtime fan of that game
00:45:05
and um Mikey day and I made a sketch where we're playing online our
00:45:10
characters in my town and everyone wants me to die from covid in the game and he
00:45:16
like did such a good job with that's the thing he's just so good at the timing and the the jokes and I owe a lot of
00:45:23
thanks to him for helping me so much especially during that I didn't come from I didn't come from sketch writing
00:45:29
so and and are you guys you were stand I was just the first first time I did a
00:45:34
sketch uh like on a stage like that was at Saturday Night Live when I got the show so I didn't same with David all
00:45:41
standups yeah yeah so that's where I was always so such a struggle to write I was
00:45:48
like I don't know how it's hard to eventually I learned by observing and and you know how other people do but
00:45:54
it's like people like Heidi that came from like she would she arrived there and just wrote three in one night I was
00:46:00
like but she came from that training from ground it was just really yeah I was like and they come in with a lot of
00:46:05
sketches that they did in yeah they literally ready for
00:46:11
television you have to work on it cheating no I had it from this what about Miley Cyrus have you ever seen her
00:46:18
sing in real life like have you seen her somewhere yeah I think at I think at the
00:46:26
show show she oh is she on I love she's so good oh yeah she really is man a
00:46:33
wreck and ball didn't she wasn't she on a wrecking ball at one point or some oh yeah that was a big one I'm coming like
00:46:40
a wrecking ball that one yeah yeah what about when she did uh you won't know
00:46:45
this one but she did like a prayer I saw her live in one of her concerts in like a Stadium concert and it was better than
00:46:53
Madonna's there I said it wo yeah there I said it she's good and I like
00:46:59
Madonna's like a PR it's great but but I think I just she had a cowboy hat on Miley and she came out like a Young Guns
00:47:06
duster and she [ __ ] whales on every line I'm like I would black out like my
00:47:13
I was like whoa yeah she's good I'm gonna do her I'll do Impressions I'll do her yeah do it dude yeah I will I I mean
00:47:20
my Impressions were about one a year but the problem with SNL is you just get assign stuff and they go you read a and
00:47:27
read through and you're like in three pages I have to do you know Alec baldwi you're like I do and they're like oh
00:47:33
yeah the Writ stuff Melissa like that I mean because that is weird to go it would Happ yeah for sure it would happen
00:47:40
I think my favorite moment of this happening was um so remember when
00:47:47
Sandler hosted in a there was a Sandler Family Reunion fun was funny and the and
00:47:52
at the table read I wasn't originally in it which is like why' you write me in this so you know but they had they were
00:47:59
like hey the the writers were like hey can you read as water boy on behalf of
00:48:04
christen wig cuz she's going to play water boy so I was like yeah sure I'll read it and I did it so good at table
00:48:11
cuz I'm like that's my favorite you know and uh Lauren was like yeah maybe keep Melissa as water boy and I was
00:48:18
like so then so do you just had you did you work on that at all or you just had it no I had it cuz I've always loved
00:48:24
water boy go ahead sorry that's my dog that's my dog if you he yeah Sandler's
00:48:29
uh kind of whatever that Rhythm he does with the characters that are you know not too
00:48:35
smart does the same with his mou I I saw a movie where you played someone that looked just like me there you know I saw
00:48:41
it on a big old screen I said that's me up there now no wonder that made 300 million what
00:48:49
they do with KW did they kick her some other impression she played she played the mom character I think from his um
00:48:56
CDs or something back in like they're they're gonna make fun of you they're all gonna laugh at you yeah they're all
00:49:02
gonna laugh at you yeah I should show her that VD that t yeah that was so fun they're all gonna laugh at you was
00:49:09
uh is that the album up on the wall that's an album they're gonna laugh at the Sandler boy or they're just all
00:49:15
gonna laugh it's actually from I think it was borrowed from Carrie the movie Carrie where she was going to
00:49:22
go to school and they go they're all going to laugh at you and uh he did it as a sketch was
00:49:27
Smigel and he kept saying they're all going to laugh at you and we were all cracking up at the table cuz it was so just kept saying it over and over we all
00:49:34
going to laugh at you and then he had an album called that and then we did I have a poster of all of us on recording one
00:49:41
of the albums we just did a little bit Parts but definitely the fun of Sandler's being on those albums when the
00:49:48
albums were doing something and they would go gold or something you know what I mean you go holy [ __ ] he's got an album one more thing yeah mhm great
00:49:58
would you ever um I don't think you'd want to do this but it it's interesting
00:50:03
that you could do a show in Vegas I'm not saying you should do it but Danny
00:50:09
Gans was Danny G of all people I know it's like you go on you have the
00:50:14
orchestra you're funny right you do stand up pretty much can do every major
00:50:19
pop star which people love seeing yeah um I don't know I'm just saying if you
00:50:25
ever were bored and wanted just go out and live in Vegas for a year you know yeah it I would totally be down you do
00:50:32
really when introducing Gwen Stefani and then you do Wen stani then you do some of your standup and then you go into
00:50:38
another song you do Jennifer Lopez you you come out as Melissa and you do five minutes about you and like on your Ted
00:50:46
Talk was really funny how you just worked it all all full circle yeah it was 12 minutes long and at the end it
00:50:52
was kind of poignant you know just all right so de that vulnerab done deal tell
00:50:59
Vegas doas um hey uh can I do my show
00:51:05
please can I your favorite one to do is Dolly right Dolly yeah I do like Dolly
00:51:13
um because it posit positivity yeah yeah that was a bit I had on my in the Ted
00:51:18
Talk too um it's such a good voice because my voice sounds sarcastic I don't believe
00:51:25
me when I say POS when I go I'm smart
00:51:32
you but Dearing darling I'm so smart I'm lovable I am capable I will always love
00:51:43
me yeah that was that was and that was the that update was the same format as
00:51:48
the Gaga one where it's me just admiring them loving them so much that I dress
00:51:54
like them in that nice like balance of being myself but also doing the impression and singing and I was like
00:52:00
that was I love doing those that was so
00:52:07
fun you know I heard uh and we're not going to tie up forever but I heard
00:52:13
Gaga on a show maybe it was Stern and she was doing Edge of Glory I didn't
00:52:18
really know the song and I was like God damn she's good cuz she was just doing it with nothing she's like I'm on the
00:52:25
edge the yeah I was like in my car going oh [ __ ]
00:52:31
is that that's a good that's not the one you do though right uh the Gaga update was I did the
00:52:37
shallow because that movie big it's a funny song in a way you
00:52:43
know because of the Shah in the sh know that Rhythm you know
00:52:50
um have you seen the video of her doing it read through at uh stars born read
00:52:58
wait she's doing with the whole cast is doing a read through and she's by Bradley Cooper and he she
00:53:04
sings it everyone's like holy [ __ ] whoa the chemistry I did a Cheesy standup bit
00:53:11
about that because I had I frequently Mike Myers was at the Oscars that year wanted me to come he was he was there
00:53:17
for Bohemian raps City so I was in the third row with my wife and I saw you
00:53:23
know Gaga and Bradley Cooper up there and you there was no lighting under the piano
00:53:29
but I Had A View to what was going on where who was reaching for what in the shadow
00:53:37
yeah I had to go on but the truth of the story I did have a view and I thought they were you know lovers just for my
00:53:45
blink I know it's pretty ni so you you um just quickly not to um you said that
00:53:53
you had panic attacks we've had on the show Bill hater well I was surprised just said really
00:53:59
intense panic attacks like crazy I said even the last season it seemed like he
00:54:05
was just so loose but so did we all battled mental health issues in a sense
00:54:11
of just the pressure of the show and stuff and then you wrote a book about it basically um or just a book whoops I'm
00:54:20
awesome I do a lot of drawings on the side and they're they're funny and also
00:54:25
heartfelt I put them together in a book about how do you get to that silly side
00:54:31
of yourself when you get so serious or so caught up in it and so I separate you
00:54:36
know um but yeah I think I I was just too much in my head I was like I I I
00:54:42
think I I just remember there was one one time at a table read like the break
00:54:48
and I was I couldn't I don't I don't remember how I got there but it was I
00:54:53
was kind of running through the Halls like panicking and I couldn't catch my breath and I was like and people were
00:55:00
like whoa are you and I I couldn't I don't know I didn't know where I was or something it was too much I think I I
00:55:07
don't know how how that felt weird what SE what season was that how long AG that was the last season yeah yeah and it was
00:55:14
still kind of like you know because even anyone even if you were able to manage it you still there is some sense of
00:55:22
relief when you walk away even though there's Nostalgia and this is this is now me because you know with Lauren he
00:55:30
would just you know he was like the coach and you know do you have any new characters or are you just going to
00:55:36
stick with the church lady you know how how it gives you a little nudge so you feel like I would worry about the show
00:55:43
like are we doing well but David passed out pretty much every other re rrw just
00:55:49
completely passed out now I pretended I was passed out
00:55:55
because I wasn't in sketches so I go I couldn't be in anyway cuz I'm
00:56:00
asleep so I just lay down on the table no that was just low blood sugar
00:56:06
no I did have that problem but uh I was so stressed out of my [ __ ] gourd I couldn't see straight but also my hair
00:56:13
got brown I only had white blonde hair my whole life and I never been anywhere where it wasn't sunny whoa and I'm like
00:56:19
and and you know New York Sunny 10 minutes a day when it's noon and it comes through the buildings yeah and
00:56:25
it's and it's noon it's shadowy again so I'm like getting like no sun in my body no
00:56:32
vitamin D no one's drinking water no one's eating healthy it's all pasta and pizza it's all popcorn in Lord's office
00:56:40
that was the main thing and does he has the best popcorn it yes the best nothing
00:56:46
else messing out the best we had good popcorn La has the best water my socks you get them at in at
00:56:55
airp earthquake that would be my safe room I get to got to climb into Lauren's
00:57:00
office the whole movie would be me getting to Lauren's office to get like life let's put up the titanium shell
00:57:07
shall we no blast will get through it um you like some sushi do you want a
00:57:14
hand roll press the button but how did you like that you know Bill hater talked
00:57:21
to it you talked to it so now that when you are away from it are you better are you I do feel I feel great yeah yeah and
00:57:28
I but I also want to still keep working on I'm a people pleaser are you guys
00:57:34
it's comedi I I have such a I I want to be as strong as these
00:57:39
other Comedians and performers where it's like you get you just push through and still stay true to yourself I think
00:57:46
I I I well I had the need to please disease or it's still a naturally
00:57:53
organic thing for me but I I had two personalities the other side of me was really competitive so one time I was in
00:57:59
this club and you know there's sort of these Alpha Comics they're not necessarily funny but they scare the
00:58:04
audience at the get laugh like just really loud Hulk what the [ __ ] you know [ __ ] look at this [ __ ] guy in the
00:58:11
front row and everyone's like H yeah they were kind of laughing at me yeah look at this [ __ ] guy what are you
00:58:17
gonna Who you gonna [ __ ] right right right so those guys
00:58:23
were kind of giving me you know cuz I had little boyish pay haircut and I look 12 you know and they were kind of kind
00:58:29
of give me a little soft a little bit of [ __ ] you know like not te you know kind
00:58:34
of laugh at me a little bit so I said okay okay I'm going to get multiple
00:58:39
standing ovations so I always love it when I come off the stage and I and I the guy was really cocky and kind of
00:58:46
give me attitude I see the fear in their eyes their eyes get real big that's what I live for when I when I just hurt their
00:58:52
very Bean so I have a passive aggressive people
00:58:58
Poli but but on on the show the people I hooked up with on a regular basis I
00:59:04
don't mean sexually but I had Mike Myers was my partner and so score I played G I
00:59:11
love G I love that like Tom Hank said sometimes it's great to be the guy next
00:59:17
to the guy and then Hans and fron was with uh Kevin my good friend and then
00:59:22
Phil Hartman with Johnny Carson and so and there there was no competition it's
00:59:27
just totally all about everyone's scoring yeah yeah so how would you how would it manifest yourself if you wanted
00:59:34
to be more stridden in the green room or where would it because you're just you just go you're the headliner you go on
00:59:39
the club and I mean how would that how would that um like now what would it
00:59:45
look like right now if you what are you I don't see what you're trying to become
00:59:50
I mean more aggressive in the green room or with comedians no I think I I just
00:59:58
it's probably less comp now it's less competitive yeah and I I I find the people I love working with that
01:00:06
for on road it's more fun right and even just yeah just the Friends that that
01:00:12
help me be a better person and performer that's how I want to just play and create stuff you know yeah because the
01:00:18
end of the day right now it's you on the stage with your audience and everything else is background yeah also you know
01:00:26
going on because at SNL you might have weeks you're not going on so if you can go to a standup set you're like at least
01:00:32
I'm getting 15 minutes or an hour where I get to do it so that's fun you get to write for it you get to have a beginning
01:00:38
middle end and that's tough at SNL if you're not in anything or you have two lines here and you're like I feel like
01:00:43
I'm getting behind you know I it's all the same weird feelings
01:00:49
yeah um I've been doing this um it's it makes
01:00:55
a lot of sense for me but I've been doing it and you're welcome to do a set if you'd like but I do a Morning Show
01:01:00
now at 10:00 a.m. at a little theater in Altadena it's called Fresh coffee fresh bits and everyone just does new bits and
01:01:07
I bring coffee for the crap wow that's a great idea just get up havee and then it
01:01:12
makes it makes so much sense I told Taylor Thompson the other day I was like it it makes and she was like yeah that
01:01:18
makes perfect sense because you're a good person cuz at comedy club she was like yeah comedians are horrible humans yeah
01:01:26
well we're not great no no you guys are great I'm not saying no I know what you're saying though no I never I never
01:01:33
hung out I mean there were people who really hung out and the comedians would hang out and go plac do this and I'd
01:01:39
have a few friends and stuff I wasn't antisocial but I never really like to be around like 15 Comics hanging out maybe
01:01:47
one or two but you is this true like you have fans and they call themselves
01:01:53
Melissa monsters little Melissa mon yeah that was after the Gaga update but yeah
01:01:59
I think I've just been leaning more into the place where it's kind of a little Kinder and a little
01:02:06
and I feel like my comedy it's that it's that you know I don't feel I feel like I
01:02:12
when I go like after really tough Comics like you were saying that have like I I
01:02:18
don't know how to but I'm trying to yeah I know I'm a good performer and I have
01:02:25
but just have a lot of and it's it's nice I I Tred to make sure it's joyful
01:02:31
for myself too uh I think that's a the operative word you know yeah is and you
01:02:37
you have a lot of well this sounds militaristic but you have a lot of weapons I mean the way you can throw
01:02:43
your voice around instantly and you know at monologist you know um jok Smiths you
01:02:49
know they don't get to do like if I start to get into a rhythm as Johnny Carson something I'll go 10 minutes or
01:02:55
you know I don't care do you have any jokes no I'm just riding the wave but you know joke people and writers I have
01:03:03
so much respect for them they need to have yeah like dve Vel needs to have three or four punchlines a minute so his
01:03:11
special was 35 minutes and it was fantastic but boy he had to set up punch
01:03:16
and Brilliant terms you know but people like you you're a performer you're out there you're fluid you're you're um all
01:03:24
and I and yeah writing like like punch lines and stuff that's that's what's hard for me but I try to meet with like
01:03:31
I actually do write with nean and he helps me a lot with those just those quick little oh he's great yeah God damn
01:03:37
he's so fast I'm like where how come I didn't see that you know he's one of the
01:03:42
best that can do it yeah he's the best that a guy come out like okay uh we're going to get started here in a minute
01:03:48
you know he's got the mic up really high and he's moving really slow and then um all right we're pretty much halfway done
01:03:54
okay you know he has all these I came out and lights out and
01:03:59
he's sitting there he's the panel you know he's on the panel and after three update jokes he goes David um what do
01:04:05
you think you're gonna wear tonight I go I think I'm just gonna go with this he goes oh okay keep
01:04:13
going yeah he's got a th million of those yeah just he's throw away nothing things yeah all right
01:04:21
good you know we love we love Kevin but yeah it's good you and him are a potent
01:04:27
pair but it's great you know when you're around friends and they're Comedians and um you can tag each other's stuff or hey
01:04:34
you could maybe do that or you know when you're just out to dinner with a few of them and stuff so yeah nean he's also
01:04:40
just a very nice person good guy you know but you can be a nice person and still win in Show Business case in point
01:04:47
yeah yeah but um we all have doubts let's see passive aggressive and a
01:04:53
people pleaser well my my did you go to therapy because I I was in therapy for five years about oh yeah people pleasing
01:05:01
oh yeah she's she's she said I was a people pleaser and I said God that's a
01:05:06
great observation that's you said you're therapist I got it that's good is that
01:05:12
your closer she said you have ADD she said you have ADD I go look a butterfly
01:05:18
I got to tie my shoe what' you say oh boy she said I was passive aggressive I
01:05:23
said well you've known me for a couple weeks I've known me for 60 years but you're probably
01:05:29
right chunk anybody is this on turned into a chunk Melissa no I know I know I
01:05:35
I I see now I think I got distracted because David where are you I'm in a I'm
01:05:44
in a Cell this this is no I'm just looking at the
01:05:49
skateboards and then there's like little nails on the wall were you hanging something there before yes could have
01:05:55
God the Columbo this is dark green but it looks light green and we're having a problem with that and then uh people at
01:06:02
home can turn off the show now but also I had you know what was up there it was that picture well anyway I had a picture
01:06:09
up there but it reflected too much and then it was a big thing and then I said why not just more me and less background
01:06:16
goof so if you move your laptop down would you be more centered in the frame
01:06:22
or Greg I go like this there's Bruce Lee of course on a skateboard and Melissa
01:06:27
has a really nice tight frame well she knows what she's doing I I'm new at this sorry about the Scruff 200 shows in
01:06:35
don't be jealous Jes for the ladies I look blurry too everything's
01:06:41
gone wrong on my end I'm going to jump off uh Melissa thank you uh it was great
01:06:47
talking thank you guys this is congratulations on your six years on SNL
01:06:52
honestly only on that congratulations on your six years well and and then the rest of your life
01:06:58
I see Melissa at The Improv sometimes and I I followed her last time yeah remember see this shit's happening out
01:07:04
there Dana I love it we're out there fist pumping great trying to catch the wind of of of the Arts in essence is
01:07:12
that you're always trying to write your best bit have your best show and that never ends and that's why you can't ever
01:07:18
climb comedy mountain and get to the very top so it's this elusive cool thing and you seem to be on that Journey
01:07:26
ladies and gentlemen but you know just just trying to find here's my skill set who here's who I am and I can go
01:07:32
anywhere I want with mys so anything positive to end with David or you gonna
01:07:37
go out cranky no she's tired um I'm cranky yes I'm gting in here with the interior
01:07:44
decorator we're going to move the nail oh you need to make sure you eat I'm going to move the Nails Nails around and
01:07:50
put them in different spots no I didn't mean to it looks fine you could keep it okay that skateboard
01:07:57
says Jack Spade that was my brother's company okay well I'll I'll write you an
01:08:02
email with the rest of this you guys thank you so much enjoy this so much thank you Melissa thank you guys thank
01:08:09
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