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Ike Barinholtz | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

March 19, 2025 / 55:21

This episode features guest Ike Barinholtz, discussing his career in comedy, including his time on Mad TV and The Mindy Project. The conversation touches on his experiences with Celebrity Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and his current Netflix show, Running Point.

Ike shares insights about his early aspirations in comedy, including his desire to be on SNL and his journey through the improv scene in Chicago. He recounts memorable moments from his time on Mad TV, including working with notable cast members like Bobby Lee and Jordan Peele.

The episode also highlights Ike's philanthropic efforts, having raised millions for charity, and his humorous anecdotes about his experiences in the entertainment industry. The dynamic between Dana Carvey and Ike adds a lighthearted tone to the discussion.

Listeners will enjoy Ike's reflections on his career, his comedic style, and his thoughts on the current state of comedy and television.

TL;DR

Ike Barinholtz discusses his comedy career, experiences on Mad TV, and current Netflix show Running Point.

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hello there everybody um this is Dana solo it's a little scary my partner in crime David
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Spade is flying right now um he's flying to Singapore today to do a corporate
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date no I made that up but anyway I'll give you a little taste to him if you miss
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him everybody's like anyway that's my David Spade Our
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Guest today when David is on the interview was really a blast we put him in one of our favorites Ike Baron Holz
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who was on Mad TV for like seven years I think did all these characters he's got
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a big a big resume The Mindy Project and
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currently running Point um on Netflix with Kate Hudson Chad Hanks that's
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pretty cool Justin thorough so we go through all those shows we go through his career he has a nepo dad you'll find
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out about that and he is sort of a brainiac he's One Celebrity Jeopardy and
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and raised literally B billions Millions for
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charity um so very fun a hard laugher came to play so I think this one
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will cheer you up for sure Ike Baron holes [Music]
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everybody I can't wait for the 50th anniversary of this podcast
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I skipped the SNL 50th man had something to do wait were you I was wondering you
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must have had like you must have had the flu or something yeah I had the flu that was lingering so I was kind of by the
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day of the show I felt great but I was 3,000 miles away yeah but I but yeah
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when I had to make the call I was like I don't have the oomph and you know yeah no D well if he doesn't have the oomph
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we don't want him um Marcy look up oomph no it's a Scandinavian word for l fair I
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believe for lazy Fair did you audition for SNL I'm we don't have any outline
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but we we have we you have a lot to talk about so I did I did not audition for SNL when I in like 1998 I remember
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people from NBC came to improv Olympic to watch you know to Scout and I
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remember oh my God and it was the worst too cuz the owner God bless her sha she
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like invited like 50 of us to go on stage at once so like everyone was like put you're pushing people aside to like
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do a character yeah yeah trying stage how
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sickening yeah it was it was just reprehensible but uh so then I I I I
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moved to Amsterdam for a couple years and then when I came back I was like I want to do SNL but before SNL I even
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auditioned I got got cast on Mad TV and so I was kind of there basically the
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same thing so you're on doing sketches and uh you stayed there a long time though right are you one of the longest
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I was there no there's different versions online by the way the last one I got
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before this was 2002 to 2007 that's that's right that is is 2009
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to to I mean there was I mean it's it's a very important information so it's natural there's going to be discrepancies
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online about it mine says 1886 to it's got to be
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wrong oh man I did an amazing impression of Rutherford B Hayes that really got me
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cast on it that guy gets literally no I do him too by the way I've done them just just you did give me a second not
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now Ro child um Ruth hayu president of
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President of this here United States I don't say it's accurate but it's the
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stab I'm Ruth Ruth Ruth um so were you like did that disappoint you at all that
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you weren't on SNL or you were just glad to be on a sketch show every week getting paid my dream was to always be
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on SNL we grew up in a very SNL heavy home uh like we we some of my earliest
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memories are watching like uh like Eddie Murphy uh the 83 year with like Billy
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Crystal and stuff so we were obsessed with it in our house and and when you're
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in the comedy scene especially the Improv scene in Chicago in the 90s that's your goal um but I you know
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listen man I I I I I was busing tables at Morton on
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lasena and I know the rest you know the it's it's no longer there
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sadly boy boy bus boy we've all been bus boys the hardest job in the world bus
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busing tables it's so hard um especially there because there's like so many famous people you know and you you're
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like kind of like Star Struck like one time I saw Pete Rose there and I was so excited you know and I walked past him
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and he grabbed my arm he goes hey give my wife a Diet Coke get out of here and I was like okay get out of here that
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fast Jesus and you said hey hey Pete I just won 20 bucks I I promise that guy
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you would say get my wife a Diet Coke bet you can't finish that ribey Charlie oh boy uh
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uh but but it was it was it was you know to get an offer to be on on a TV show
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especially a sketch comedy show was was just a dream so I was just kind of like great let's do it and there was really
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great writers there great some great L people came out you with Bobby Lee
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around then too he's funny I see him oh my friend I know I know you're friends with Bobby you've been friends with
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Bobby for a very long time which we're business acquaintances yes and Josh my
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Myers zth Myers yeah Josh Myers and
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Michael McDonald was still there Jordan Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key came while we were there Nicole Parker CO you
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did have a big fat cast at that time yeah we had a big fat dude I like that when I look at your impressions when
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does Bo Bice impression come up these days not as much as before I yeah you
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have some quirky Impressions can we get a the off label obscure Underwood right
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is that R B Hayes Bo Vice oh my God I
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mean I'm still doing it a lot obviously uh uh I I I I I shouldn't say this but I
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feel like boice if you told me he stormed the capital I'd be like yeah um typ cast uh but yeah we you know
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Mad TV definitely did a lot of impressions of the moment of course we we got stuck with that too it's like
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whoever that week like go around room can you cover this one can you and you just have to work on some something
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close was there ever one that you guys were like bum that you're like this is obviously this is a bad impression I
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don't want to do it oh it's they're somewhere super hard you know usually during the primary Seasons politically
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they'd say you know you're John liick from Pennsylvania circuit four and then
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you look at the impression like hi I'm John liquid and you know there's no hook you know and then laurman say are you
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ever going to get representative John liick and I said no some I said l no
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it's not going to happen it's not going to happen but the key to Impressions if you can't do it just say the name of who
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you're doing right at the GetGo oh yeah I'm John liick and they don't know
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but did you what was your best one I'm just curious that you thought was the most accurate because I saw you did
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Arnold oh but my Arnold was not great especially that was a huge bummer because Will Sasso was on the show I
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really kind of like replaced him and he did the funniest Arnold so then I had to come in and do my kind of half big one
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that wasn't that great and it wasn't funny and it wasn't as good but Wills but Wills was like like
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like a tour divorce um you know I kind of look like like Mark Wahlberg so you
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know I so sometimes do Mark wallberg come in come on sit down maybe I'll give you a knuckle sandwich if you're lucky
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yeah that's it that was kind of you know um but there was a lot of times too
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where I would just get I remember one time I got a sign they were doing a Frasier parody and the writer's like you're going to play John Mahoney who
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was the father I'm Fraser who's a great actor yeah and I was like I can't play he's like a older man and I remember
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sitting in we did a lot of prosthetic makeup that I think more and I remember
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sitting in makeup for like two hours as they're aging me and I was complaining so much and I was on set I only had like
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three lines and one of them was I'm John Mahoney and uh I complained so much that
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they cut down my lines where I only said that in the sketch and it I complain so
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much five hours of prosthetic oh my God makeup six hours to get it off getting
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it off where they put that like alcohol directly in your eyeball and they're like oh don't worry I'm such a colossal
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puss when when I do movies and they're like or SNL even but you hear about these people that are in makeup chair
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for 9 hours a day I'm like well when are you like you shoot one half a scene and
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then go home and undo it all like you're only legally allowed to shoot so long
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and you get all this [ __ ] on to look like the blob and then you for the penguin I would just say I'm going to sleep as the penguin
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guys we'll do head morning who's the guy who plays the penguin now a nice looking
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movie star yeah and it's like he's hey some agent somewhere is going you're throwing away your good looks you got
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good look you're behind rubber I can't monetize this kid but I you know so he got enough
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good-looking parts now he's now he just won something for the penguin so I want to actually come up with a lit cigar at
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some point like it's a magic chick well I know you're I know I know
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you from your rapael palero I like they bother putting that
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in your Wikipedia what the hell is a Rafael pomar player he was a baseball player
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for the Texas Rangers and he was he was like a big steroid guy and he kind of famously went in front of Congress and
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was like I did not take steroids right so we did like a a parody called like
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oops I just took steroids or something I can't remember what it was but that was another uh impression that I still am
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getting a lot of love for people are constantly asking me to do oh really a baseball player who
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retired 1996 well did they do the thing like cuz I noticed when the Maguire and those
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went up to Congress that they were so roed up by the time they got to Congress they didn't bother to buy fitted suits
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so like they got little pencil necks in giant suits and it was so obvious
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bursting gigantic suits that were totally natural look like
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DAV I'm wearing a 52 large and now I weigh 160 lbs but I'm
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telling you I did nothing that that 290 I put on but U Know is three times the
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size of a normal man I know that Senator lutnick I have a huge jaw and forearms
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for no reason I love the Callback it was representative but well it was your
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character I I loved it well he became a center you know he became a I'm gonna run with it so you you did a lot of work
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before he got on Matt TV and you went to Amsterdam for two who went with you to Amsterdam so I was there so there was a
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theater that a bunch of dudes in Chicago started because like Dutch comedy back in the day was very Josh Meyers right
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they love Josh Meyers was was there um Seth Meers was there and I kind of came
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in right after him but I was there with uh uh Brendan hunt who I don't know if you guys watched Ted lasso he's coach
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coach oh yeah yeah oh yeah love that guy yeah and then well I was there for about just about two years and we had great
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people come through sedus came through there for a year Jordan Peele suda cakes
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was there uh uh Jordan Peele uh kakowski K Cannon who directed me in blockers
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Amber Ruffin um just all these really uh really funny people and it was a really
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fun time too because it was like before like it was like before 911 you know what I mean like it wasn't the Euro yet
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it was it was the Gilder yeah you know so it was really uh nice and uh I still
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talked to a lot of the sex workers I befriended while I was there we still keep in touch sex workers okay it
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Dutch accent is tricky but the the M Myers's Brothers joson Z didn't they live there in high school or something
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they have a big affinity for it well they just they just really like Josh kind of went native for a while and
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dated like a Dutch woman for a long time and yeah the Dutch people as a people they're very like reserved they're very
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but they're very honest like they're they would come up to you after the show and be like uh I did not think you were
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the funniest one I thought your black friends was funnier but um the woman the
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woman the song about sex was uh very good as well uh so uh congratulations
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and goodbye and you're like thank you goodbye if I had a dollar for every time
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my wife said that because she she's half Dutch her dad was Dutch and she says oh yeah I listened to the podcast and uh
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Ike was a terrific guest you were not at a 10 you were a little bit late there I
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don't know why you were late the representative l come back was very entertaining I'll see you at dinner time
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[ __ ] I go [ __ ] why do why do you have to say [ __ ] that's that's not that's
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unacceptable so when did you um start feeling like just either as a kid or
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high school like I think I I should do this I'm good at this cuz on your Wikipedia page it said consider to be a
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lawyer or a politician yeah grown up yeah growing up in Chicago I mean my my
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my my goal was representative luck Nick when I was a child but as I got older I went to college and I I didn't I knew I
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didn't want to be in in politics I was a terrible student in college and and I I kind of eventually got kicked out of
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college because I stopped going to class and I I I was drawn to acting and I
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didn't and I was drawn to Comedy but I didn't know where to start and my dad took us to see uh The Improv Olympics I
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think like their maybe their 15y year anniversary or their 10 year anniversary
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and I saw improv for the first time and I saw Adam McKay and I saw uh Amy Po and
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specifically the person who made me laugh so hard that I was like I need to do this with Tim
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Meadows like he is to me like one of just the funniest people in the world and Absolut and watching him on stage
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just kind of enter a scene and make a random joke and got such a big laugh I was like I'm signing up for improv
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classes I gotta do this so that was that I was I was like 18 at the time and and I was I really kind of jumped all in it
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was so much fun and you're 18 at that point and how old were you when you got M TV was that kind of your biggest break
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and then you went from there oh oh that was my first break yeah I got mad tv I was probably 25ish you know okay um and
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it was great I was making that that late night money which when you're broke you're like uh I'm basically Steve Jobs
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and then as you learn you're like oh late night money is terrible it's not in the grand scream of you know acting but
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you're on a job you worked with Dell close that was Farley's guy he used to talk a lot yeah man who oh yeah I hung
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out with Farley a couple times oh good I gotta I gotta meet him a couple times um
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uh and uh he was like my idol you know like I loved him so much and I remember
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one time he came I was a bus boy at Second City um and I remember he would come in once in a while and he was
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always so nice finish that he was Midwest nice Midwest Wisconsin nice
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Wisconsin nice one night he came up to me and was like Hey you know where uh
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where Johnny is you know his brother Johnny yeah and I was like oh yeah he's he was actually he's at this party uh on
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Lincoln he's like you want to go can you take me there I'll never forget I turn
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to my really so he says that go ahead go ahead finish this story I turned to my
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friend my my buddy Brian from high school I like hey do you qu can you take me and Chris Farley to this party he was
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like what what and and we went there and we were I remember we parked and we're walking right under the L tracks train
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tracks and Chris is like I got I gotta pee I gotta pee and I was like I got to pee too and we started peeing and I
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remember he turns to me he goes you want to play swords you know and I was like yeah yeah yeah and I I
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kind of turn we're kind of you know mixing our urine right and he just kind of turns and just sees kind of on my
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foot he goes I cut your foot off
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so so what remember laughing so hard I couldn't like I couldn't metabolize what was happen David you knew Chris well do
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did you ever sword fight with him sword fight um but yes that sound sounds like
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classic buffoonery I think uh I I'm not just saying this because I'm on this podcast
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right now I think this weekend we're gonna show I have three daughters from six to 12 and I think we're gonna show
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them Tommy Boy this weekend okay it's the 30th Anniversary I heard o uh maybe 20th that's a bummer when you
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I I heard it's the 15th actually it just came out I would never say anything higher than 15 that sounds sickening I
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don't know I can't believe I've been round 30 years do anything like oh gross you look you look really good though man
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like you're really hanging on like it's a lot of people like they get smashed by
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the wall but you're looking good unbelievable this thank you buddy look at this [ __ ] got my new sweater on I'm
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trying to J it up for you yeah it's good it's the beard it's very good it's working oh yeah Tommy Boy is pretty much
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Surefire I think for your I hope yeah it is I'll probably just hit a quick fast
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forward on the scene where you're oh that's right you know sometimes take
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that out of uh when it's on TV and stuff and I never knew that I'm like well there's a couple little things they just
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pull out of movies where you're like oh yeah so some people never see that
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part yeah if you're watching it on TBS that's not in there but we're going to go ahead and pay the Apple TV buy
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purchas you'll probably be getting a little check in the mail you're welcome nice oh yeah it's not a competition but
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if if something doesn't work out or it doesn't quite fly you pop in way
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world one or two but it's not a competition I'm just saying I love Tommy Boy I think it's a classic but if it
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doesn't work out you're like what do we do oh let's not surf the web or go on Instagram let's put in ik I have been
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pitch Tommy Boy 2 and I'm telling you I always go you have heard the news about
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Farley and they're like yeah but it would still and I'm like it would still be what can't do it without Chris it
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would still be what I mean you don't think that was 99% of that they're like
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it's about and I'm like oh it's a just a good solid break pad
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movie do they push back at the co-star who knew Chris better than anybody I
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said I can't yeah I think it's a prequel where you go back to the founding of
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Callahan Auto okay and you have basically someone playing like young
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Brian Den uh oh you go way back okay you go way back yeah so this is way before
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Chris so really what you're looking for instead of looking for a modern day Chris Farley which is impossible you
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find a modern day Brian Young I think is doable I think that is doable that's interesting because uh looking at all
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your stuff you're a writer right is a real a real writer not a comedian who
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I'll get [ __ ] and you're a co-producer co-writer of your current project now
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how do you say it Dana now I just say that's the best pitch for a Farley for a
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uh that I've heard for a Tommy Boy sequel you slap on executive producer you do a cameo like like Stallone and
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staying alive with Travolta and you do that little turn it's David Spade then you walk yeah boom boom so much boom's
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coming that's all I do you like money do you like money do you like doar Bill you like money we're asked that a lot by our
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agents and managers I don't think I want to fly to Malay for a one Niner guess you don't like money guess you don't
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like money well do you want to go me money that be you want to do impressions of Joe Biden for the Saudi royal family
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I don't well that because they don't care what they pay no tax we pay a tax
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we paid the shitbox golf for 400 million he can't make a pot my friend you are
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going to go home with this lion it will fly with you on the plane it's kill you on the way back to the airport so we get
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it all back the key to that is my friend that's that's that's it friend my friend my friend listen to me my friend we are
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going to make you so rich if you want to be rich and I'm from Denver I just
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adopted this accent by watching too much alabar tevision much go ahead running
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running point now there I have heard it both ways like
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I think it's running point and people say running point I thought it was the
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the the uh the mediocre Rascals wasn't that the name of it that was the name we
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tried to get the mediocre Rascals I just thought be The Little Rascals own any
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Rascal and Eddie Murphy would have a yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah luckily we get
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involved uh it is it is it's whatever you want it to be you could say running point you could say running point you
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could say running point because there is something when people go you're going to run point on
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this job or whatever on this clent right so I call it running point and no
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one else does and I'm I call it what's the point what no no no I was just gonna say
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okay I gotta put this in I'm going to watch it on Netflix watch all right I'm from the 80s I I MIM
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it even if I'm clicking on digital and you guys you guys nailed it you it's very there's a genre of that kind of
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workplace fun single camera and I honestly was thinking to myself last
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night I don't feel like these people are acting they're having fun so whatever you you I mean you you kind of you're
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renewed for a second season we got uh my my sources tell me we're picked up for another
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season but you do something you're part of putting it together or just you're
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executive producer with Mindy yeah Mindy Mindy uh came to my partner Dave Fass
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and I was like you guys love basketball we work together The Mindy Project we have this show that I think could be a
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funny kind of family business show at a basketball club and and we were we loved
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her we had such a fun time working with her it had been a while and we had just finished up a thing and so we we kind of
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spent a long time kind of breaking the show and what it could be and and uh we
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kind of it became very very real when Kate Hudson was like I want to play this part because that was like wow that's a
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real that's a real no fooling movie star um yeah she's fantastic and it and you
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got just too who's just too cool for friend of the show he's so cool friend
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of the show one of the my he's my best dressed friend he does dress cool yeah
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and it's just like I If you I I think he has clothes that are like all bespoke like little leather jackets that like
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are only made for him his easy can I throw something that about this
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has been a thing that I've T we talked to Justin about it I just have a thing that like he would be the perfect guy in
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a rod sirling biopic oh my God he looks so much like him and he really play that
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Vibe but I don't it doesn't have to happen but I just yeah picture if you will picture you will like picture if
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you will night a tiny leather jacket picture if you will um draer
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cologne well I love that he's so polite I can't think of the instead of think of this was the first thing think of this
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then he said picture if you will it's I watched two episodes of Twilight Zone yesterday which ones Wally Cox with the
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uh the first AI woman that falls in love with him Wally Cox from an old TV show
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what Hollywood Squares Marlon Brando's best friend by
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the way they would like uh uh they would like have sex with the same excuse me
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woman at the same time they were like very famously like uh uh coxman together
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on show Bros you know Co Cox
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[Laughter] was Wally Cox was on what did you say
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cuz I want to laugh escob Bros es eso Brothers
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but Wally Cox was the bottom left Square on when I was a kid on Hollywood Squares
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and I I had no idea he was an escob bro with all these famous people I just thought he and Paul Lyn were funny you
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know so oh that's tremendous smells like [ __ ] in here I
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think yeah smells like that's a that was
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rep back to your show scared straight
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um what so you get you get Goldie Hon's
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daughter get Katie and uh Kati Katie Hudson I I I think is tremendous amazing
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and and it's so much like so fun like stories like her stories are so crazy
00:27:20
you know like oh yeah you know it's my birthday and oh was crazy like Paul McCartney you know was there and at one
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point he looked over to Barack Obama and told him this and like when people tell you those stories I'm like what do I
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have like oh really uh you're like this is all H one time Bobby Lee and I went to Las
00:27:41
Vegas together that's your story and we couldn't find his pubes
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wow so he couldn't go on that night I've seen Bobby Lee naked more often than
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I've seen my my own wife naked so I've seen him naked three times
00:27:58
plot thickening Bobby is hilarious he is one of the one of the alltime funniest he's got a very funny
00:28:05
thing about him he's got a great burn he acts real serious and just looks over St
00:28:10
I like when he stop and he does the death stare his podcast and you know he's loaded up with something every
00:28:16
other every other comment is racist and he just stares at them and he doesn't say anything I'm I think I'm gonna take
00:28:23
off that's funny uh
00:28:29
oh by the way Dana on a side know you don't have to listen like when I was when I was golfing with love the other
00:28:35
day I burned him because we were on the green and he was blabbing away and I was
00:28:41
walking the other side of the green I go uh oh you're cutting out and I've never used it in real life
00:28:47
before but it was good with love it because he goes I take offense to that and I'm sorry about your
00:28:53
attitude and then uh but it was funny to say he's cutting out real life like laughed at my own joke then laughed at
00:29:00
his all right go ahead back to this guy some people say you're cutting out on me you're cutting out on me I have a
00:29:07
brother who says that to me you're cutting out on me well I'm not doing intentionally [ __ ] oh yeah they're mad
00:29:13
at you affection hey you're cutting out you're cutting out on me it's not what
00:29:19
uh so the show's a smash show is picked up which is I
00:29:24
thought you're in it a little bit or where where you as an no I I'm not in it
00:29:30
I I just kind of wrote it and and was there while we were shooting it my dad is in it my dad is an actor he plays the
00:29:37
family attorney I saw him um so maybe you saw him the attorney on jury duty
00:29:43
yeah the judge he played the judge on jury duty and he always wanted to be in Show Business you get in Show Business
00:29:49
now he's in Show Business I got a nepo D he has a good good spot that's cool a reverse never heard of that a neppo
00:29:56
because a neppo I understand people get mad at at nepo babies I don't by the way I think they're good A lot of the time
00:30:02
fine but uh but Neo everyone can get yeah everyone can get behind a nepo d
00:30:10
yeah let them have fun yeah what are you what are you get and by the way uh who I think has a [ __ ] ton of Charisma is Chad
00:30:17
Hanks oh my God that's some else someone says to me it's like I can't believe Chad Hanks is such a good actor I'm like
00:30:23
his dad is Tom Hanks that's the Apple ain't going to fall that far
00:30:30
from the tree if he's half as good he's going to get a couple Oscars even if he only got three Oscars
00:30:37
that would be good yeah yeah I only have I only have two best original score for
00:30:44
the brutalist did you do that pppy tune I did it that was I did all my little
00:30:51
CIO keyboard I saw ignora last night cuz I had not seen it again with ignora
00:30:58
I loved ignora what was the real name of it what's it called Anora Anora
00:31:05
okay no disrespect but I is some disrespect by the way no I only saw Dune
00:31:11
2 and conclave of the nominees how many both I loved I loved conclave I love D I
00:31:21
love the Nora and I loved the brutalist and I think that's all I saw will you
00:31:26
watch the brutalist again never
00:31:31
never it's very long a feel bad movie this summer yeah it's really uh it's
00:31:38
brutal uh but uh I really did think it was cool was Dune 2 with the
00:31:44
popes no the popes were they had to get they had to get a new pope so they
00:31:50
sequester him not unlike a jury they put him all in this big room in the
00:31:55
Vatican Game of Thrones can't be Pope you need to be a little heavier you
00:32:01
can't have a stick figure anexia popes they need to be round people want to
00:32:07
Marcy [Music]
00:32:12
Marcy can I ask you a question I cuz you are our guest sometimes one time the guest just clicked out I've had
00:32:19
enough um you're kind of a movie fan CU well one thing is you you must be I don't know if your iq's been tested but
00:32:25
I saw it I mean come on you've won look at this [ __ ] with Jeopardy a million dollars Celebrity Jeopardy Jeopardy
00:32:32
twice celebrity celebrity Wheel Of Fortune or no celebrity who wants to be
00:32:38
a millionaire millionaire another million played with your dad and then you win this one of them by referring to
00:32:46
a obscure quote in Eyes Wide Shut or a reference in Eyes Wide Shut Stanley
00:32:51
kubri yes yes tell that story so I went on I went on Celebrity Jeopardy I I won
00:32:58
it I got the trophy right there did you go against mind no I went against uh who did I play
00:33:04
I played Jaylen Rose I played constant woo I played uh
00:33:10
uh simul I played um uh uh shanii uh
00:33:16
wait it sounds like stacked over here yeah yeah yeah go ahead uh uh I played
00:33:21
um hold on someone else these are the people you smoked then in the finals for Celebrity
00:33:27
Jeopardy up against Pat Patton who's a real smarty pants Patt Oswald oh Patton Oswald yeah yeah he is he is a definite
00:33:34
pop culture yeah he loves that and then also uh uh uh will weaton who you
00:33:41
remember from Stand By Star Trek yeah yeah he still gets standed by me he
00:33:47
still gets standed by me next genen okay I won that so then I
00:33:55
went back they invited me on the tournament of champ which I thought was just going to be like not to do with celebrities you're
00:34:01
going up real that happened and I just it was
00:34:07
like a fade comp that I wasn't gonna win so I was just gonna have fun and let these kind of you know sweet nerds
00:34:13
destroy me and I just kind of by a fluke won my the quarterfinal and the final
00:34:20
question was the Final Jeopardy category was Roman poets and I was like oh [ __ ] I
00:34:27
only know like one or two and then I read like this what the quote was and I
00:34:34
just in my mind I was kind of weighing them and I thought of Eyes Wide Shut
00:34:39
because you remember the scene in Eyes Wide Shut where Nicole they're at the party they're at s uh uhne syney
00:34:45
Pollock's party yeah and and uh Nicole came in that like really creepy European guy is like uh hello how are you doing
00:34:53
have you ever read oid on the art of love and I was like oh o it'll be maybe
00:34:58
it's over and so I I credit sty curi oh my God how did how many times had you
00:35:04
seen that movie i' I've seen I watch it with the family we watch it once a week
00:35:10
with the kids every Saturday with the kids we watch it we want them we want them to understand that there is a a
00:35:17
illuminati out there who are having secret sex do you have other kubri movies that you like is moon landing
00:35:27
the moon landing moon landing the JFK supposedly film that was Oliver Stone
00:35:34
Moon I see okay you got it you got it um I I have been in a bit of a Barry Lindon
00:35:40
phase uh really I don't know the last time you've seen it was I remember seeing it when I was young and I was
00:35:46
like it's so long but now when you watch it it's it's it's hilarious first of all
00:35:52
uh and it's so beautiful and Ryan O'Neal really was a really great actor he was really good same thing the the standard
00:35:59
was so high in the 70s with kubri and other movies that I saw it didn't get it
00:36:04
saw it in the theater I watched it a year ago by myself just said [ __ ] it I'm GNA go revisit it and um the the uh the
00:36:14
prologue what was the afterwards they said such was life in 16th century France or whatever and they're all gone
00:36:21
now and then I I got the whole the whole thing and the thing the physical comedy of that dance sequence did oh my God
00:36:29
which he just stepped right up to the Tippy Toe of of winking at us yeah yeah
00:36:35
but that's a brilliant film atmospherically you are completely submerged oh my God into it and the the
00:36:41
cinematography is you know so it's also very sexy and let's you guys mind if we watch a couple hours of it real quick we
00:36:48
always talk about movies at some point and I always say if you can only watch one movie tonight you had to watch a
00:36:55
movie tonight by yourself Ike what pops into your head God this is
00:37:00
different than my favorite movie right like yeah not but what would you watch tonight uh tonight if I was gonna watch
00:37:07
something uh I would I would watch uh
00:37:14
idiocracy oh wow workplace comedy with Mike Judge director Mike Judge uh I was
00:37:22
just watching a little of it uh on a flight uh last week and uh not drawing
00:37:29
any parallels to the present of course but uh it is such a funny movie and
00:37:35
every time I watch it it gets funnier and funnier I would watch the bridge of
00:37:41
the the bridge at remin World War II movie from the 70s that's what I would watch what's it
00:37:47
called what's it called the Bridget Remagen or reman Remagen no I'm kidding you don't have to watch that what I
00:37:52
really but I want to do it uh um the longest day if you like
00:37:59
World War II movies oh that is a great movie the longest day but if you haven't seen because God R the sold Jean Hackman
00:38:06
if you haven't seen the firm you seen it right oh yeah yeah he's great and that
00:38:12
whole movie is fantastic that movie is really great like for like a a legal thriller that's a great movie and he's
00:38:19
unbelievable um no that's the Pelican Brief that's that's his next movie David
00:38:26
what would you what would you watch don't say Tommy Boy don't say Tommy Boy don't PL 30 say opportunity knie and the
00:38:34
[ __ ] cats all the classics uh no I don't uh Dave's not a
00:38:39
movie when I get on a movie when I get on a flight I try to I have to have a TV
00:38:45
on the back of that chair and oh yeah it just kills time it's so great so when I'm on a
00:38:51
flight they have new release they have old ones I always buzz through I can't tell you the last one I saw but I will
00:38:58
say I don't think they can call Fern Gully a new release on Delta just shouting out legally I don't think they
00:39:05
can and uh I do watch I will watch almost anything on a plane because you're stuck so God what did I watch
00:39:13
last time maybe maybe that Tom Cruz Emily Blunt oh Edge of Tomorrow Edge of
00:39:19
Tomorrow oh yeah that's cool I like that movie I like science fiction got another
00:39:24
thumbs up hey Dana can I tell you something about opportunity KN I saw that movie opening night love it uh and
00:39:32
a kid I went to school with Elementary School was one of the kids who the karate kids who who beats you up because
00:39:39
you shot that movie yeah Josh Livingston I don't know if you remember him in Chicago in Chicago yeah so I saw that
00:39:45
movie uh opening uh weekend baby I did the best I could it was a bit of a tussle with uh creative forces but this
00:39:51
goes full circle of this podcast so I'm doing the movie in Chicago and so
00:39:57
there's these two dudes playing dude number one dude number two maybe they have a line they look like they're in
00:40:02
their 40s or early 50s and I'm just talking to him at lunch and whatever and I didn't know one of them was the
00:40:09
infamous improv guy you mentioned earlier Godfather of improv so Del he's
00:40:15
Moonlighting getting a check on this silly romantic comedy and uh I didn't
00:40:21
know till later I was talking to Del close he had no he didn't never kind of go well you know what I uh I kind of
00:40:27
started in Chicago no he was very very cool and then checks out cuz he was
00:40:32
always like broke so he would whenever they were shooting a movie in town he would get up you know directors would
00:40:38
call him he's teaching and he was also like a you know a heroin addict for a
00:40:45
long time he wasn't like a he wasn't like a he didn't have his [ __ ] together so to speak uh but he was a really H
00:40:52
fascinating guy and uh and I learned a lot from him and then uh yeah for a guy who I think touched so many people he
00:40:59
wasn't a name dropper around us he never was like oh one time Bill Murray told me you he was just like very like uh he was
00:41:07
Guy Mike Myers always would refer to Del close you know just so Mike was big yeah
00:41:14
I Mike Myers who by the way is a Enemy of the State right now because he's Canadian so you guys should reach out to
00:41:21
him because they're coming after him yeah well I did Elon Musk for 28s on
00:41:27
that show and uh got a got a little chatter from him and so now Mike's doing this sort of Monty pythonesque avanguard
00:41:35
version it's really funny he's running he's turning he turns himself off he's like um but yeah we'll we'll we'll we'll
00:41:43
have him on tomorrow to discuss his uh yeah and if you guys could shelter him that would be nice because he's gonna
00:41:48
need help we will remember shelter in place during the pandemic shelter and place the pandemic I wherever you are do
00:41:56
you mean you mean the planemic yeah can I bring up can I bring up a video of uh Anthony fouchy that I made it's a Jib
00:42:03
Jab where he kind of admits I want to hear it I want to see a Jib Jab you know my Anthony fouchy bit
00:42:10
let tell you something I know I told you if you had two shots I just do this guy for him You' be dancing in the streets I
00:42:17
missed it by a little much a little bit who knew it was a mutating mother that's why I'm introducing the daily shot
00:42:24
Anthony Couch's daily shot every single day you go to your healthc care provider
00:42:30
by the time you get to your car you don't have any immunity but it's a beautiful 39
00:42:38
seconds he does he's he's a doctor he's supposed to be like you know have an academic voice and he sounds like he's
00:42:44
trying to sell you like an old p in New Jersey let me get in this Las saber from
00:42:50
the bottom of my all new leather fouches go [ __ ] yourself I just I just did that
00:42:57
for myself you are a great audience Ike you must be fun in the writer's room and you're a great wrer I have a serious
00:43:04
question for Ike before we get get rid of them please you were shooting the movie blockers which which I think I
00:43:10
just met your director recently uh we had a oh K Canon super cool guy he's also friends with Theo um wait k Canon
00:43:18
directed blockers oh maybe that's a lady maybe he wrote it is or did you
00:43:24
write it oh there were oh yeah yeah no there were there were other writers there was
00:43:29
uh okay it was one of the 40 people so exctly he's friends with Theo uh pretending to be part of the
00:43:36
film blockers and he was on the set and uh but it says because I have a bad neck and you [ __ ] did a stunt you hurt
00:43:43
your oh yeah yeah God that's the worst on a movie too yeah it was a bummer um you know
00:43:51
what dick joke were you doing where you fell it was a I was trying to suck my own dick it was like it was an improv
00:43:59
that IW there guys let me one take keep the cameras going yeah last take of the
00:44:04
thing uh no it was it right when it happened you kind of don't even realize what's happening until before you know
00:44:10
it you have a doctor being like hey you [ __ ] up your neck and uh so I was really bummed you know but uh luckily
00:44:17
like I I really took the um I took like the rehab of it all really seriously the
00:44:24
worst part about hurting your neck besides the fact that you could Poss paralyzed yeah is you have to wear a
00:44:29
neck brace which we can all agree is an inherently comic thing like when you see
00:44:35
people in a neck brace you're thinking like Christopher on The Sopranos or like John larette on night it's like a funny
00:44:43
it's a funny bit because most of times it's like nine times out of 10 when someone's wearing a neck brace they were
00:44:49
rear ended and and but this one it was a more involved one that was like had
00:44:54
braces and buckles and stuff oh no and yeah that was rough that was really rough um because like I would see
00:45:00
friends of mine people on the street too who don't even I don't even know them would walk out to be like oh my god what happened how they feel for you and like
00:45:07
they feel for you which is nice but you're also like I don't want to can't tell this [ __ ] story I don't want to talk about it yeah I don't I don't want
00:45:14
to talk about you can tell us though so yeah so no it was it was a bummer but it it it really uh I every morning I would
00:45:21
wake up and they were like you gotta do your you got to correct your posture which is basically if
00:45:27
if you shrug your shoulders and put your arms up and then drop your arms that feels crazy right but that mean that's
00:45:34
your proper posture so I would strap that brace on and put on like a giant
00:45:40
sun hat and just like walk up and down my block for as long until my legs gave
00:45:45
out basically I was committed to fixing it without surgery trying to hold it so
00:45:50
and I didn't have to have surgery and now watch this ready for this oh that's good that's more than I can do I could
00:45:56
do the full Brady bun full Brady Bunch Mobility yeah can you crack your back
00:46:03
just by yourself standing up like uh I could crack my sternum a little bit but
00:46:09
I've read I saw I I read about a crazy person on Tik Tok TI Tok you should not be you shouldn't be cracking and popping
00:46:15
you seen those chiropractors on Tik Tok but most of the time the people fart on the ones I get but yeah those are funny
00:46:22
I get ones for dogs where it'll be like a guy who like aund what 140 lb pull and
00:46:29
he's like and you hear like a bomb go off and the dog is like oh dogs are not
00:46:34
used to getting cracked it's so weird and then the dog's happy though and runs away smiling is that cuz I saw one they
00:46:40
don't know if they're happy I think that there's an owner holding a piece of bacon camer I don't buy it I saw do it
00:46:47
to a Geral he's like this and the Geral is like I was fine by the way who's
00:46:52
complaining did to a red ant I was like can you C him in accidentally and the A's like he's like
00:46:59
it's more my thorax luckily regenerate it's more my
00:47:05
thorax well a gentleman joins us here today Mr AA Baron Holtz she's made quite
00:47:12
a splash on on the the The Mindy Project plays a character named Morgan Tuckers
00:47:19
is that funny Ed Morgan Tuckers male nurse hell please welcome so I wanted to mention that cuz
00:47:26
five years on The Mindy Pro tell us about Morgan Morgan tuers cuz we're going to get letters why didn't you ask
00:47:32
we're going to get
00:47:38
letters we haven't even had have we had Mindy on Dana we should have Mindy on love to have her she would do this
00:47:45
in she's like me big ass an elf man let's B have us now we won't put but if
00:47:52
you could do it as Johnny Carson that would be that be amazing oh let me do this for you this is what I do now for
00:47:57
friends Johnny Johnny Carson gets pulled over for drunk driving 1972 oh oh Sharry off sure I didn't know
00:48:05
I was swerving I had two slippery monkeys at the hook and crook
00:48:10
yes slippery monkeys at the hook and C sorry I had a tomato a back a tomato
00:48:15
strawberry Boom Boom at the windy Summit I just like the drinks and the location
00:48:21
at the windy Summit I had able Deery up with a Twist at The Rusty Nail copper
00:48:29
penny is by Warner Brothers he would have gone to that all right so and The Rusty Nail and The Rusty Nail and or the
00:48:36
desperate pillow is another good Watering Hole the desperate pillow but
00:48:41
anyway so so the those five years was big for you it was so yeah and it was so much fun it was such a fun job we had
00:48:49
you know such a fun cast and writers it's like when a lot of my children were born while we were doing the show and
00:48:55
now it's so crazy now they're watching it's on Netflix or it was on Netflix and now they're watching it and it's really
00:49:01
sweet because you do stuff like and you you just kind of don't rewatch it for a long time and then it comes back to you
00:49:08
one day with your kids and they get to see me that's fun though you know like farting so hard that my pants fall down
00:49:13
and St how old are the kids again uh six is
00:49:20
69 and 12 okay so they're still in the world of innocence and Magic except yeah
00:49:26
and social media but still they're like they do but we don't we I really am like you're going to watch like SNL and Way's
00:49:34
world and Tommy Boy and the things that I loved uh because at some point they're gonna go online and watch some idiot
00:49:41
online so and as long as they're in my house before they like the pranksters on Tik Tok you have to give them some
00:49:47
baseline he if I was R if I was I'm sorry if I was running for president uh I would uh sadly have to execute all Tik
00:49:55
Tock pranksters I or or or you're put in a go Lo like like cuz they're not even like clever pranks
00:50:02
man it'll be like a guy like a like an older man in a Home Depot like trying to get like a bag of mulch and they walk up
00:50:09
behind him and like give him a Wet Willie and the guy's like what the [ __ ] and then they run away and I'm like or
00:50:14
they hit him with a ball in the head and then they both look around like what happened I'm like beat that guy too I
00:50:20
got hit too and it's like you you guys are now going to break rocks for five years let's see some pranks about that
00:50:26
I've seen when pranks go bad I should send you on ik it's Instagram where it goes wrong and they get the [ __ ] kicked
00:50:33
out him it's great David I have seen those and mother's milk to me where a guy just starts whing like it's a prank
00:50:39
it's a prank it's a prank who cares it's a prank too why would I be like oh you're not CID camera you're some
00:50:46
[ __ ] oh sorry I didn't realize you were disrupting my life for uh internet your own punching in the face oh don't
00:50:53
get me going Ike Ike now I have to say were you named
00:50:58
after Dwight D Eisenhower whose nickname was Ike I'm sure you've been asked this a billion times but Ike is a
00:51:04
very my name is a little unusual this is this one's for the fans
00:51:09
I've never discussed this before I I never will never I will never discuss it
00:51:15
again after this it's very private but I will tell you uh no my real name is Isaac and uh uh yeah I know it's very
00:51:24
it's a Jewish bummer um but uh I had a I had a teacher my favorite teacher a guy
00:51:30
named K Mr kho and he started kind of calling me Ike and that's really when it
00:51:36
just I kind of became Ike and uh good because it's very rare it's rare and their most Ikes I
00:51:45
think are good Ike Eisenhower was an amazing really really Ike Turner is the
00:51:51
the the rough one but you also have Ike Austin center for the Miami ke was very
00:51:56
good he was a good listen Ike Turner early on had a vision yeah and I think
00:52:02
we can all agree he made some very bad decisions yeah but um and I don't like him I think he's a bad guy good job on
00:52:09
the record with that on the record I want to just end the controversy 12 1223
00:52:16
Pacific Standard Time Andy I Ike Turner gets thumbs down come on Zoom put that
00:52:23
thumb come on let's do it it doesn't do it when you really do it look at I got rain Dana look at that
00:52:30
wow Heather did you see that we don't know how it happens it's just random I can't it has a special
00:52:38
Zoom app know more but it's
00:52:43
worth all right IE anything else Dan there any final thoughts you want to do because what the um Scared Straight show
00:52:50
or standing running what is it it's called it's called standing reming says it right top of
00:52:59
it it is I always hate when shows uh tee themselves up for critics to slam it you
00:53:05
know running running point is more like whatever running away like happy times
00:53:11
was anything but bad mom is more like bad movie yeah that's really clever they're
00:53:19
so excited such a delicious pun delicious delicious just got to say when
00:53:27
they when I first heard your guys podcast uh I was listened to it I was so excited being on this show so much fun
00:53:33
you guys have made me laugh so much over the years really it's wild it's wild I'm
00:53:40
putting you in the Hall of Fame of G because you were so Lively so much
00:53:46
energy you laughed at our our jokes hey can I say suck at thorough
00:53:53
yeah thorough oh he's he always beat you yeah well let's have a little
00:54:00
competition make it health and you're smart no one knew that that's great no I present very dumb won $2 million for
00:54:07
Charities on uh
00:54:13
charity what are you gonna Foundation I've started I've started a foundation that I I wet my
00:54:20
beak a little bit wet my beak a little bit Yeah wet I'll take a taste I won't
00:54:25
take all I'll wet my beak a little bit wor some went to some kids some went to some poor people some went to my boat
00:54:33
yeah something for the effort I weet my beak is a great figure of speech that's got to be in we got to do a Sopranos
00:54:39
remake man that is a [ __ ] brilliant things that's the best that's the all right boss appreciate look for running
00:54:46
Point running you guys are amazing running Point running Point running Point Netflix right now peace out please
00:54:53
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    “Bobby is hilarious, one of the all-time funniest!”
    @ 27m 58s
    March 19, 2025
  • Nepo D
    Discussing the concept of 'nepo d' and its acceptance in Hollywood.
    “Everyone can get behind a nepo d!”
    @ 30m 10s
    March 19, 2025
  • Celebrity Jeopardy Champion
    He won Celebrity Jeopardy by referencing a quote from Eyes Wide Shut.
    “I thought I was just going to have fun and let these sweet nerds destroy me!”
    @ 34m 13s
    March 19, 2025
  • TikTok Pranksters Executed
    A humorous take on TikTok pranksters and their antics.
    “I would sadly have to execute all TikTok pranksters.”
    @ 49m 47s
    March 19, 2025
  • Ike Turner Controversy
    Discussing the legacy of Ike Turner and his bad decisions.
    “Ike Turner gets thumbs down.”
    @ 52m 23s
    March 19, 2025
  • Podcast Gratitude
    A heartfelt thank you to the podcast hosts for their humor.
    “You guys have made me laugh so much over the years.”
    @ 53m 33s
    March 19, 2025

Episode Quotes

Key Moments

  • SNL Aspirations04:16
  • Impression Challenges07:42
  • Chris Farley Memories17:38
  • Best Dressed Friend24:41
  • Rod Serling Biopic25:07
  • Bobby Lee Naked27:53
  • TikTok Pranks49:47
  • Ike Turner52:23

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