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Jim Gaffigan JOINS! | Superfly with Dana Carvey and David Spade | Episode 41

November 08, 2024 / 01:11:57

This episode features discussions about SNL, political commentary, and guest Jim Gaffigan's experiences. Dana Carvey and David Spade share insights on the challenges of performing on SNL, the recent election, and humorous anecdotes involving celebrities and current events.

Carvey and Spade compare the difficulties of performing on SNL to being president, highlighting the unique pressures of live television. They also discuss the upcoming SNL photo shoot for its 50th anniversary, mentioning notable figures like Kamala Harris and the dynamics of celebrity appearances.

Jim Gaffigan joins the conversation, sharing his experiences as a newcomer to SNL and the emotional rollercoaster of performing live. He reflects on the significance of SNL in comedy and the pressure of meeting audience expectations.

The trio discusses various political topics, including election coverage and the impact of political ads. They also touch on humorous moments from the election night, including their takes on political candidates and the absurdity of campaign ads.

Throughout the episode, Carvey and Spade maintain a lighthearted tone, sharing funny stories and observations about the entertainment industry, celebrity culture, and their own comedic journeys.

TL;DR

Dana Carvey and David Spade discuss SNL, politics, and Jim Gaffigan's experiences on the show.

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[Music] and your hand could shake you don't know
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you're just like yeah it's almost too much and especially if you've never I mean she's giving speeches but it's a
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different animal I think let's be honest you guys what's more difficult being on
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SNL or being president you know what I mean it's SNL it's just different
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absolutely okay I want to start because I you can tell me what I do and I'll tell you what you do okay I see you do
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this sometimes like when new thinking or sometimes God I touch my face sometimes like this the pinky really the pinky in
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the ear I think unless I made it that's unless I made it up no but you're You
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observe people I kind of observe voices and stuff on people which I didn't do before SNL because you sort of had to
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you start to pay attention yeah but something you do is this a lean
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back yeah and that is that is a little little bit just kind of stretching my
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back because I'm kind of in a high chair but yeah it's probably it's also a psychotic a stress release like oh let's
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not try too hard why don't we listen to the guests why do we have to overlap I
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do I go like this after I interrupt everyone I go I got to reload get my energy to interrupt
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again uh I listen to other podcasts sometimes and boy to they you know we are not the kings of uh talking over our
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guest I'll just put it that way interrupt us yeah interrupt us
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momentariness well my head is sort listen so my hair is all super helmet
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because why you might be doing this today too Dana as you know Dana is in
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New York uh they're doing an SNL photo today and it's in
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La it's I've heard a little birdie to I think it's
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because there's too many they're doing sections so New York and la and then
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they're going to try to make a cover where they Jam us all on that yeah it's not Vanity Fair so I'm not I'm not going
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to give them my total blue steel looks but it is a magazine yeah I mean it's a
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Penny Saver you're depending on who where you are in the frame your head would maybe be the size of a dime but
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probably smaller than a smaller than a dime a half a dime
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so I'm not going to you know and you're supposed to dress like how you are right
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this would you explain what we're talking about we're supposed to do a photo for the 50th anniversary with
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people that were involved in the show but there's so many people I don't know if it'll be a full cattle call like at
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Dodger Stadium or it's going to be isn't it for New Yorker magazine sorry New Yorker
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magazine yeah or New York Magazine I don't know oh that that's it New York Magazine sorry
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and who was the one we know we famously had the fight with back in the old days we wanted to beat the guy up was that
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New York Observer or was it New York Magazine probably do you remember that I yeah Atlantic or I don't know what they
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were but they they wrote they came and stayed with us for a week and we buddied up with a guy and then he wrote a
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horrible oh right yeah and just [ __ ] all over it was Adam and Farley everyone's
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like let's go down there let's beat the [ __ ] out of this total disaster Lauren
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no if so I'm looking the other way I I have a new impression you just made me
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think of Lauren Michaels as a bull a bullfrog in a
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[Music] pond no by the way and guess what can I
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ask you a question they too
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many go ahead we actually in in our pond up on our farm once had a male bullfrog
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sitting there in the middle of the night on the rocks and just cattle call no a
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frog call to all the female frog it's just super loud for like hours just
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trying to get some puss in the middle of the night but but the New York
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Magazine yeah open for Biz open for Biz we I like yeah everyone listening is
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like you know that's funny that doesn't happen on my pond we trapped a raccoon the other day in a cage you got a [ __ ]
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and that whoops and then of course you go to Harrison's Hardware you get big intense gloves and you're kind of
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wrestling with a squirly raccoon while you were cruising down going to koi to
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get some sushi and you don't got a wrest I like it yeah when it's already killed yeah
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you're cruising high in Your Land Cruiser looking around pulling up to the
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valet walking in like some kind of stud Superstar and order
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itari I go give me that octopi at half the time when you get this sush you go I
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don't like the octopi you always see a little and you go you know a good doctor could bring this back to life yeah
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that's that's that notion that that's the gross part it brings you to the table and still alive and then somewhere
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it it yeah I don't like it I like it I like it medium well I don't like it rare
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I don't want to hamburger I don't know if I like this look today but go ahead well well here I'll I'll come around to
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this New York Magazine ask me in the email would you like a
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groomer we have hair people and also would you like a personal groomer that
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we can fly in um what yeah groomer now a groomer
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spoiled you have makeup you have hair this is sorry inside if you're going on a talk show but a groomer is like an
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overarching person that tells you how to groom yourself up I said I don't you know I
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don't Heather what about that you is that a groomer or is it a do you have a stylist
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Dana um it's the overarching name of it yeah
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my whole goal is Bed Head next day hair so I don't really need people quaffing
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my hair you know when you go on a movie and by the time you get in front of the camera it doesn't look anything like thank you you go mine is Bed Head hair I
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don't care that's my that's really my look most days today they just went shellack I think it looks very tidy very
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early Steve McQueen you know you look a little biker I'm probably I'm older than Steve
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McQueen when did he uh I delic 4 or 50 he went to the Stars God dang really
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yeah I had a weird SNL thing the the sketch got cut and I feel bad about it
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we had KLA show was loaded kamla was the I say it wrong kamla was in the 28
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minute cold opening yes and it was do we so were
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you what I wanted to say because this election happened and a lot of
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people are upset which is normal and um it was pretty much decided by 2: a.m. I
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guess cuz I went to bed and it was like asleep time yeah 12 or something my time
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in New York and then I woke up and I was like I checked and it says Trump
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wins and um here's my takeaway from the coverage last night did you watch any of
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it maybe you didn't I did watch some yeah they have these guys and I know they've done this for several Cycles now
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but it seems more sophisticated the guy's up with the map and he's like a wizard moving things around and here you
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see in Calico County here Joe Biden carried 28,000 and uh come here the
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metric it was like just this massive in there's so much going on yeah more than
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more than ever like little circles little circles little counties these counties this is how they voted This Is
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How They will vote this what we think they'll vote very complex uh we're going to talk you know when we have Gaffigan
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on in a little bit he was taped right before the election just so we are clear
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are talking right after and election night he was taped before election night
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yeah that day so he if we don't mention that he see the Magic Man and see these big blue circles that means a lot of
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young college voters could be coming in late over here but these little red dots these are rural voters these are really
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really stupid people and they live way out yeah it's so true they kept it
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pretty neutral I think they both of them seem very scientific CNN these hay seeds
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out here yeah I'd flip back and forth because I sort of want to get a real gauge some talk one way it's funny cuz
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sometimes they don't count you know they don't count anything officially as far as a state for a while I kind of like if
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they wait because there's too many they can flip it's too close you know they'll say like 10 things in a row that looks
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like the state's going to be won by Cala or or Trump go but what I said means nothing anything could change don't
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listen to me let's just give it away but these counties are not going and then they put Biden versus Trump 2020 and
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here you see the metrics here he's up one and a half percent over this time last time I mean yeah it was amazing I
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was exhausted it's really hard on me I do I do look forward to the it's hard on you the
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um political ads going away did you choke up political I no I turned into
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RFK a political ads going away it's like someone who who's really sad for a second so I'm just really upset about
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the political ads going away started crying no I choked on something but yeah
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the political ads uh and the local ones uh oh yeah Prop 47 Bill squank me killed
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someone oh you act like you didn't know that you know you vote for him if you
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want to die proposition 119 to help the
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children don't you want to help the children
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Mary Wang doesn't want you to know she beats her babies she has 11 babies and beats the
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[ __ ] out of them you didn't hear it from us Mary Wang really doesn't know a lot about this hat Bill Campbell likes to
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climb mountains and throw rocks on Nursery School kids do you want to stop
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Bill Campbell prop 11 cuz stop throwing dirt going like
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this he built a roller coaster that exploded at the state fair then he
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laughed they show him is that who you want or you want
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that guy oh okay he strangled a crosswalk guard and then walked away
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isn't it time we put them behind bars proposition 1,348 cuz it's time you remember when
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Jim Jenkins put a nun in a sleeper hold we do here's a
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clip vote for them if you want I don't know about you I don't want to go into a guillotine hold do you remember do you
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remember when Kathy Wood fly slapped her pet duck in the face this this purpose
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this ad is against duck slapping paid for the committee to Duck's laughing
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this this ad was paid for by the duck tired of seeing
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like tired of seeing rabbits bullied this that is pay for their Dawn
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rabits bub now they just super fast okay go ahead I have to show you a picture just
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because we're on the subject which we're not this is a mystery picture I just got because you know lojo Lori Joe who's
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been working with Norm forever she's going through his stuff she just sent me pictures it's kind of a tear jerk it's just funny because I have no idea what
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this is from here's a funny here's a funny picture I go Lori Joe I don't
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remember this but Norm really fell apart at the end is that Norm now I said this is uh
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rubbing face this is um I don't know what I'm by uh trellis is that what it's
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called Heather all I'm saying when I look at this because of the stories I've heard when a chimp goes full chimp you
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are in danger in that picture sir if that trip chimp decides to turn and eat
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your face in one second there's not a thing you could do or was ever off camera so you got to be careful he says
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I have the strength of a much bigger chimp than I am by the way he has pants on so he's sort of domesticated but I'm
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holding this and she said there's another picture of Norm holding another chimp I'm like where are we maybe this
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is when we went to the zoo and taught animals how to do standup sketches I've been around chimps
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but I don't remember holding one like that for a photo I'm holding it wrong but I don't even know how I'm where's my arm I don't know what's going on do you
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have friends who terrified I am who dress up indigenous chimpanzees into
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clown clothes and then hold them for photos pay for the people who want to keep Chip's dignity I don't know about
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you but if I'm a chimp I don't want to look like a jackass paid for by chimps that don't
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look like jackass yeah okay that was a good one a chimp you made a chimp look like jackass I don't know if what the
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third is there there's got to be a third you know jackass also there's a big hubub if
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we're going into stories about it's sort of political there's a lot of Stories
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the uh squirrel this's a tough story for Heather here this is a tough story for anyone to hear the squirrel was was uh
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euthanized because oh yeah New York's decision to seize seize is rough too that reminds me
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I got get a Power Crunch so the New York decide to get one specific squirrel why
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do you know the story it said I've only heard about peen at the squirrel but I didn't know there euthanized in him in
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New York when there's 10 million squirrels why this squirrel by the way you kill an animal that's the front page
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people will flip out so understandably there was a squirrel they called in that it bit someone
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Heather or might have bitten someone oh turn rabbit or something so they say oh
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in fear of rabies but and then they got there first question they asked do you
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have any cameras in the house why I'm getting to the juicy part they also
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found a raccoon took that euthanized that they said in case people have
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rabies and it's like crazy so now I think I got that right but now the guy says they asked if we have cameras
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because the neighbor was mad they do only fans so they were looking for a reason
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to to bother them and they didn't like that and I don't know I'm sort of making
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this up but they were they think that was the
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reason they wanted they didn't like them because they're doing only fans like a couple or something H I like how I've
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not one fact not nothing nothing it's a fascin but I will say they I know it
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really petered off at the end but uh and then I thought is the guy getting
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attention for the only F even though the squirrel is a national story everyone is
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you need attention to trend on only fans are everything we just don't do crazy
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stuff we would never hurt an animal to get ratings on our podcast news flash
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secondarily who decided to call killing an animal euthanizing an animal Bill
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euthanize Bill euthanize invented the word euthanize so people I know about
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but that sounds pretty pretty good he wasn't killed he was euthanized PID for people to want stop s
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bite anyone people that want to just go back to the word killed um okay let's go to the stories
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results May Vary all right I'll tell you about my coloween costume idea okay it's
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not Jason Kelce it is picture this idea it's it's it's for it's for the 40 plus
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crowd so I have scraggly Brown hair about down to here and I have like a striped shirt on mhm and a coke spoon
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around my neck and I go as peppermint chatty hey man what's going on how's your Halloween going I'm G to start
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working out you know who Peppermint Patty is right yeah Peppermint Patty and okay I
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see it now can we we have a picture of this no I'm just saying I want to go next year is peppermint shatty oh I
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see yeah oh there it is what now young
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yeah no this is Trump um during his uh Speech uh to claim victory in the
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presidential thing and he had he just was really rested he finally took a took a really wrong nap I took a long nap and
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I couldn't believe it and here I am but I guess that's actually Trump someone sent this to me I guess it's Trump as a
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little kid or is it a kid who looks like Trump or is it photoshopped or is it AI or is it none
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of the above let's go to the phon you know Mom what I perfectly trumps I know
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it's too it's definitely has to be you're right it's a com over and the kid one you know I'm doing terrific and I
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could use some milk and you know how I like it I like it the regular way so let's get busy mom you know how I do
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these things and you look at it and you see yeah like you know how I do these things also what did oh he said in his
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speech he goes and I'm not going to rest I'm like I think you need to rest a little because he's he's older and he's
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been campaigning for straight for a month he's got I saw a little mini dock
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of when he he said GNA run for president 2022 and he was almost you could hear the crew stifling laughs like oh come on
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man you're so over guy don't put us through this it is the most you got I mean you just can't he's like
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radioactive you couldn't kill him if you tried he's like right unbelievable whoopy whoopies mhm all right you have a
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picture of let's go back to Jason yeah we can trend on this one well these guys are of course our
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buddies Jason was on the show so it's a very serious picture of is that his new head shot I don't I don't mind it so uh
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he's he's wearing that Madonna microphone um so he goes to a game of
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course I know nothing he goes to football college game he's leaving you know when you leave people come up and
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talk to you but also to get clout some people start trouble of of course
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because mhm getting in a situation with a celey is way better because you're going to wind up minimum on TMZ so for
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good or bad just want to get attention so he used a
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slur referring to his brother and I would say this from observing and having Jason on the Kelsey Brothers like if it
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was if it was right on Jason I don't think he would have uh gotten tweaked by
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it but when you when you attack my brother brother I don't it's the kelse Go full
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Kelsey at that point and in this case the guy is compared to a regular human being he's he's exceptionally strong
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like you would not want him so it's an act of kindness to take his phone and smash it as opposed to young man's head
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so sure and you know I think I saw the story and then Jason fought back and it sort of went badly for both for
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everybody involv fine but I get mad like that too and I think there's not enough
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attention on the guy that did it like how uncool that was there just more make
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saying Jason are you sure you apologize should we accept this but go look at the instigator of everything who's I don't
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know he got his phone broken who cares he said something foul and out of the blue to [ __ ] with him to get a reaction
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but you saw him walking until he said my brother so it's it's kind of a thing He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother so don't
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mess with brother is what I'm getting from them and also if you're going to yell something at a Kelsey and you yell
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at the other brother you go to Travis and you say something about uh uh his
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his brother you're going to get similar situation you're gonna get something but the cell phone was an act of kindness
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rather than a right cross in a face because you know when you're 270 lbs you can you really hurt people you know I
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have that and and the thing is people are on the street sometimes and they'll yell David Spade and whatever but and
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you know I go I go nuclear I I'm scrapp I go low then I go high I'll take three
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to get in they say Dana and I say yes and they go oh are you Dana and then it gets
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confusing and then I take their phone I try to lift it and then I throw it one guy said to me what whatever whatever
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happened to David Spade and I slapped his face really hard nothing [ __ ] oh
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and that was our manager Mark gervitz I was kidding I just want I one simple
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question why isn't Spade like money why won't he get in the rocket ship and fly for 12 hours in a snowstorm
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likes money apparently you don't Rob low likes money we have to make I think Mark would
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like this we have to make we have them little puppets of like a little frog or something like this that kind of looks
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like our manager yeah you bar don't like money because it is like a puppet show at this point you go Mark I'm flying
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around the globe three times I got a globe my office doesn't look that IG yeah trust me it's trust me trust me
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you're going to like it when you get the check but I go I thought it was going to be more money the landscape has changed
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that's a good one it's not good out there right now everybody's getting hurt I go really smartless is getting
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hurt not them everybody's taking trust me taking a trust me they're not making what you think I go I think they I think
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they're doing fine everybody's getting a haircut that's a good one too everybody's getting a haircut everybody everybody's taking l
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everybody's thinking all right next story even though Mark's the funniest one who's the
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funniest oh yeah how we done okay another Kelsey story okay oh this is
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another Kelsey story this is they made I think Heather knew it did you know this
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they made a a Hallmark movie but based on Taylor and Travis oh okay some third party not them okay let's look at the
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pick I don't think they're part of it yeah oh no they make him look like an idiot right away
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why would a great looking football player have a chance the bester in the world get his number it's her it's her I
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want to see you again in a movie people like Regular People huh don't
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screw this up I promise not to fall up of course there's an imaginary little
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sister more I'm with you the more I really I just can't believe they got a documentary crew to follow them around
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like this it's so spot on we're trying to keep this L Squam
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blomer in a FL production is this the whole [ __ ] movie my god look how much
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she looks like Taylor Swift on stage oh boy I'll tell you what they would never make this with just comedians like us
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and a pop star he's funny get his number yeah um he tackled her down and
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married her but I'm sure in this movie they get married what do you you think
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uh yes because they want ratings and they want money and they like money see
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people onk like money let's ask Heather uh Heather what do you think of having a
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boyfriend who's like 68 to 660 as your boyfriend and he can pick
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you up throw you over his shoulder swing you around throw you in a stroller you
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know I mean is there are you asking is it good that he's a football player or
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that he's huge rich like he just carries her out on stage like a little baby and she's like 5 she's not you know and he
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says don't drop the baby which is kind of sweet you know Taylor three you know so Heather Weighing on the size of the
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man I'm not talking about something where ladies like to always feel a little bit smaller than their guy can
00:28:21
you hear that ladies like to feel a little smaller than the guy as consens
00:28:27
oh she says is it consensual we don't know I think it's consensual between Taylor Swift and what if it wasn't in
00:28:34
this Hallmark movie that that's where they kind of go wrong yeah he just turns it's time for me to score a touchdown
00:28:42
what now she's in now she's a hostage in his basement yeah where's where's the
00:28:47
pop star he's like I don't know you sho is with you yeah no and then the cops are like he opens the trap door and
00:28:54
looks down you'll get fed tonight yeah EX
00:28:59
ex if they spun it like that I I'd probably watch most of it um little Silence of the Lambs in
00:29:07
there keep it exciting I wish them all the best they they have to be if you take Trump as a metric as a metric of
00:29:14
resiliency no matter what's throwing at him he just keeps coming the world attention on this couple just think of
00:29:21
them if as it's Taylor and Travis they're just dating you know stand this and go with it and not
00:29:29
go crazy it's good on storm yeah too many cameras got to get away listen when
00:29:35
people know you're dating and everyone comments it's already hard and then add that times well it's a Hollywood Story
00:29:42
it's the it's the handsome football star you know world class Super Bowl winner
00:29:48
just um what women like in a man he is you know and then she's supernaturally
00:29:54
talented and beautiful it's like uh kind of a fairy tale and we're all pins and
00:30:00
needles I talked to Chapel rone about it at the show she's she's a huge fan of
00:30:05
our podcast where is she get where she lean
00:30:11
in this is where she's supposed to lean in I just made that in case she's
00:30:16
listening did you did you talk to her did you go up and go hey you act like Biden the whole time when you talk to
00:30:22
people um well yeah I mean we talk with well yeah I do yeah I mean they want to
00:30:29
hear the Biden you know I ran into some nice people had some nice things to say at the party I don't want to name drop
00:30:34
John Stewart but it doesn't matter who was there but um people you know Biden's
00:30:41
a new character that's about to leave the stage but I think he should walk around
00:30:46
the White House with a t-shirt that says 81 on it what's that mean because in 2020 he
00:30:53
got 81 million votes and sweet Kamala got 66 million so she should just have a
00:31:00
t-shirt it's 81 what does it mean say 81 m and then under it you like
00:31:08
that how about just 81 million why are we hiding pretending yeah you got to
00:31:13
help people a little bit Yeah 81 million I would wanted I would have beat him like a drum I would have wanted people
00:31:19
know I would cew walk come on I'm being serious I would have beat him like a drum I did it before you do that this
00:31:25
week on the show you should be in your room with a cigarette going you know
00:31:30
what people can do the one index finger tap with the ashes because you'd think
00:31:35
mostly and it's kind of like that or something I guess somebody doesn't want to win but um uh you know it's just uh it's
00:31:44
everything's a human story I don't know how it feels to lose the presidency Trump knows how he got a little angry
00:31:50
about it he knows how to win though he's had that twice you know so looks good on the res we won't say it
00:31:58
I just changed it I talked to the Supreme Court and I could do three terms starting now I'm going to 90 I know how
00:32:05
to be90 and I'm going right there all right one more story and then
00:32:12
we got to go because we got a good guest we got we have a really good guest today we got a really good guest here we go
00:32:19
okay let's see okay this is just a goofy one so this guy is going to try to walk
00:32:24
through this hula hoop big shoulders trying to get through a hula hoop ain't
00:32:31
no way bro Ain't No Way Big Show you can turn the volume down okay here he goes
00:32:38
he's a big guy he's crossed himself he puts his he puts his sweaty sweat napkin
00:32:43
in his hat and you doing it blindfolded all bro he's creeping up on it
00:32:52
oh okay that's pretty good right it wasn't even hard it wasn't even close
00:32:58
this guy say he's blown away he's he said n bro he's uh perplexed as we
00:33:05
are this is the highlights of the world's
00:33:10
Instagrams that's out there that's a good harmless one no it didn't look like he could fit through and then he went
00:33:16
back and he went through fast and he leaned down a certain way it's kind of like when you're moving a refrigerator a couch through a door frame and some
00:33:23
reason you know you have to lift it up and it creates more vertical space or you know just you know I'm talking I saw
00:33:30
you do this once when we were going to dinner and someone had a hula hoop and you had your pile of money you carry and
00:33:36
you go you think it could fit in there and everyone's like no and then you like squished it you go look and then lot
00:33:41
fell out I know I know well that's when you got me that Dr Seuss cap for
00:33:47
Christmas and Paula said what are you gonna do with it I go stuff cash in it and go go to a restaurant with David
00:33:54
Scrooge McDuck it's a big Dr Seuss thing and I I put lots of 20s in there it's just money yeah and then all right well
00:34:02
let's get Jim out here because we're we could we have editing
00:34:08
capability um Jim next you're our buddy but you get to work with them lately I
00:34:14
worked with him for the last five shows on Saturday Night Live he came in had
00:34:19
never been an ADH never done sketch comedy as we'll talk all about that and how we found his governor wals and um
00:34:27
you know know his character uh lost the election but he didn't lose the election
00:34:33
CU that guy is a a winner as a sketch player and a comedian and a hell of a nice human being new Hulu comedy coming
00:34:39
out on November 22nd we'll talk about that here he is Jim gaap again let's talk I have a different shirt
00:34:45
[Music]
00:34:54
on hey you're bad mouthing me no he's saying you're better friends
00:35:01
than me and him are already what's going you know Dana has been like my support
00:35:06
animal yeah I've got a few laps under my
00:35:11
belt but I do say this and I've said it before it became a catchphrase as Hans and fron whoops it looks like the
00:35:20
student has become the teacher I used to say that to the junior varsity
00:35:26
sometimes Chris Rock or you or oh yeah Sandler the student has become the
00:35:32
teacher Jim is a quick learner but the first week um he texted me because you let's
00:35:39
just set the scene this is Jim gaffan he has 11 specials he's world famous he's
00:35:44
incredibly successful great standup great writer so anyway after now that's out of the way
00:35:49
now yeah he came in green going hell I don't know nothing about no sket what
00:35:56
you doing here yeah I ain't never done nothing like
00:36:03
that what's this microphone yeah why do they call it a
00:36:08
script is it live no now you do you oh
00:36:13
yeah I didn't know what to do I met that Lauren Michaels I thought
00:36:20
it was gonna be a woman you know hey Lauren I thought all I know is Lauren
00:36:25
Green he came up to me and you said I remember I quot like well Mr danag Garney what
00:36:34
should we do next what's going on this here is a big
00:36:42
building is crazy it was so bizarre yeah You' never
00:36:48
hosted just so the people know you haven't hosted so it's all new it's all not good enough I'm not good enough
00:36:54
whoops keep your phone nearby this is a long audition this four weeks it's it's
00:37:00
a microcosm of the entertainment industry right it's just every emotion
00:37:07
that a performer might feel they have felt it around SNL like
00:37:15
everyone desperately wants to do it everyone goes through emotions where they they feel like they um should be
00:37:24
there or and then they feel like they're being ignored and then they feel like they're embraced and it's just a blanket
00:37:31
every generation alive today knows about SNL it's amazing turn out was that I was
00:37:39
just that was me just saying you're doing great at the end of a question we tell you that's your limit you know what's funny is uh Greg um little Wayne
00:37:50
said he said uh the Super Bowl halftime show was ripped away from me that and I
00:37:56
think that made me think of what Jim said is there's everyone in Hollywood at some point thinks SNL was ripped away
00:38:03
they're like if they don't get asked they feel like this is the year I've done enough they should ask me right
00:38:09
kind of like that yeah it's it's such a unique uh it you know because in our
00:38:17
lifetime among in comedy it's the last pillar of this significance it's like
00:38:25
even the status of obviously HBO's great and I would love to do an HBO special
00:38:32
but like it's like compared to like when I was in my 20s an HBO special was
00:38:38
enormous I mean huge you know hosting the MTV video awards was like an incredible
00:38:46
uh event at one point and SNL has remained and let me read these other
00:38:52
things that Lauren told me to say
00:38:58
do you want to start linear Le do you want to like you got the call to do walls Governor wals yeah sure yeah
00:39:05
whatever you think I don't know I mean everybody just me coughing yeah well what I would say is of course when he
00:39:13
was picked by kamla I say kamla because I'm friends with her now yeah I call her
00:39:18
cam cam cam cam and um once he was
00:39:24
picked as the running mate every Dopey uh out of shape white guy after Steve
00:39:31
Martin turned it down was kind of like what about this guy and of course I you
00:39:38
know I would love to do it but I also know that because of The Prestige of SNL
00:39:46
it's it's not something that you can necessarily campaign for does that make
00:39:52
sense yeah so it's it's definitely uh look you just hope they find you right
00:39:59
yes and so my manager uh was talking to some someone
00:40:07
and at one point I was shooting a movie you know one day a year on a movie and I
00:40:15
was in uh in in the UK actually and so then he called me and he said hey you
00:40:23
know I've been talking to this person about you for Tim walls and I've been
00:40:28
saying that you're sending me videos of you of Tim Walls and I go really and he
00:40:36
goes yeah so now they're kind of saying can I see those videos and I was like oh so you want me
00:40:44
to and it was like 10 o'clock the night before I was doing one day on a
00:40:50
movie and but then I kind of just went
00:40:55
around my hotel room put on a jacket and took off a jacket and put on a sweater
00:41:02
and little things of Tim Walls which is essentially I'm I'm portraying my
00:41:08
brother Mitch who lives in Indiana who has a very Chicago accent it's just like a guy and um but I thought that was
00:41:16
funny and normally for me whenever I get that close I definitely don't get it
00:41:23
like whenever I test for a a sitcom it's just Marvel movie because life's hard
00:41:31
for me yeah I was for 200 Point what's
00:41:37
that I was over for 200 at one point reading for things but go ahead David I said you also have a lot of shows book
00:41:44
and also sometimes managers they told me we have the same management team and they told me hey
00:41:53
we're talking to these guy about this movie we're talking these guys about this movie and it's between you and another guy I'm like what movie so it
00:42:00
that's happens where it's like they're pushing and then you're not even aware if you want anything or not I I had not
00:42:07
read the movie I don't know what the movie's about they're going it's it's looking pretty good though it's looking pretty good I go what is but that's like
00:42:14
you they're like by the way you got Waltz second question do you want to do it of course I think you should do it
00:42:21
every wanted that's the funny thing is like what if you said I have no interest in that and then you they go oh
00:42:28
and by the way go ahead by the way
00:42:33
Li by the way again it's it's SN out so uh it's I mean I guess it's you guys
00:42:41
have a different perspective on it but it's this elusive thing that has been
00:42:46
always out of my grasp and you know you know as an American comedian that's the
00:42:54
you know the measuring stick used to be like oh you're a comedian you been on The Tonight Show or have you been on
00:42:59
Letterman and uh you know have you ever uh been on SNL you know and I did this
00:43:05
um a short Jack Handy thing a million years ago but oh love oh wow love Jacky
00:43:13
murderer interesting casting yeah yeah you know SNL this is probably of all
00:43:20
years the year to do it and the 50th is a big year and an election year which is always big for S live so the com combo
00:43:27
platter is a big bigger deal you know how fun you got to be a part of this one
00:43:34
massive Global pickup with this show yeah it's crazy how how uh
00:43:42
viral everything the particularly the the political thing uh on SNL it's like
00:43:51
there's the people that watch it but now we're in this clip age where then the
00:43:58
clip goes You Know The Daily Beast posts about it the Drudge Report posts about
00:44:04
it it's it's almost you know it becomes unavoidable it's I think deadline I
00:44:11
follow deadline I think deadline on Twitter puts every single sketch on I never knew that I mean usually on a
00:44:17
Monday you'd see what's their funniest thing they did and they would show a clip and it gets out there on Yahoo News
00:44:23
or whatever and now suddenly it's everything in my I can see for sure every sketch even update it's like boom
00:44:30
as they're coming out boom boom yeah it's amazing I don't know if this is true but I think area on a grande it was
00:44:38
like the show and then 350 million across all platforms you know Tik Tock
00:44:45
everything so that it matriculates I still people just watch the first
00:44:50
episode you know texting me yeah hey I saw that you know um so anyway so I meet
00:44:56
we meet meet you're coming in 8h for the first time the read throughs are now in
00:45:01
8 they used to be in a little room upstairs basically and it's set up with 40 people there's tablecloths there's
00:45:08
cars like a Oscar party there's piano there's music and it's kind of I was a
00:45:13
little nervous I was coming in doing Biden for the first time we that was the read through we were at and you were
00:45:19
reading and so how did that feel because that's the first time you kind of kind of hang it all out you know Here Comes
00:45:26
Here Comes Jim's you know it's very unnerving and there is a sense that this can
00:45:34
change uh in a moment's notice where uh you know Lauren could be like I didn't
00:45:40
really like that you know I mean and and that's not to say that he's uh attaching
00:45:46
an opinion to it it's just the reality so there was something of like you know
00:45:51
I canceled all these standup dates I hope they don't change their mind oh yeah that's right but yeah it
00:45:59
was well they can tweak right you know you you take your take on it it's like a movie and then they get with the
00:46:06
directors or people around or the writers and they say could you I mean I'm I'm just guessing I don't know what happened but sometimes they will play
00:46:12
with it a little bit until everyone agrees this is this is the right feel yeah I I was surprised at um the amount
00:46:23
probably because there's just so much happening so so so quickly there
00:46:29
particularly and the cold open feels separate from the show in some ways that
00:46:35
I feel like Dana and I were like what because you know these head writers I you know are juggling so many things and
00:46:43
the last thing you want to do is be a pest yeah and so it also doesn't serve
00:46:49
your needs to be kind of like what about this every two seconds so there's Dana
00:46:55
and I are like are we crazy e about you know like if you do catch someone's ear
00:47:00
you want to be very precise with an idea you have you don't want to just be
00:47:07
jawing their ear off because you know also they've been they haven't slept for three days so it's yeah you pick your
00:47:13
fights you go I can I just change this line you you have to have like a plan like can I just this is my most
00:47:18
important thing instead of going it feels a little wonky they're like it'll be great out there and then you're like
00:47:24
oh [ __ ] I didn't really specify what yeah what I needed I think they've been pretty good all in all but I know what
00:47:30
you mean there's a lot of different inputs into that cold opening and the political environment it's moving in
00:47:36
real time but I think for someone like Jim a standup you know he just knows
00:47:41
that there's a rhythm in a musicality to the way you land to laugh and as wals so
00:47:47
I kind of encouraged you just to say take it or leave it leave it we always we don't try to push like put this in
00:47:53
but sort of suggest it and a lot of times they're like glad like oh great now one less joke we don't we don't have
00:48:00
to fix it yeah so it is kind of nice but so I watch you throughout the week get
00:48:06
more and more confidence because then we go down we're on our feet we're kind of walking through it and you know you're
00:48:12
kind of feeling a little better or how were you like it's you know it's also uh yeah
00:48:20
it's it's strange but it's there's also nothing more fun than trying a new joke
00:48:29
right so there's nothing more rewarding but it is it is very strange and it's also um
00:48:39
but you're also you know you're inserted into this Allstar lineup right with with
00:48:45
Dana and and and Maya and and Andy and so there
00:48:52
is it yeah no it's it's it's fascina it's just
00:48:57
it's just so weird how there's it reminds me because there's been
00:49:02
different times when I've been hired for different acting jobs and you have a
00:49:08
couple lines for me I'm such an obsessive person that whether I have two lines or whether I have like 10 pages
00:49:17
all that will take up all my time I don't know about you it's like sure just
00:49:22
want to get it right I think I have never seen you in all these these five weeks not holding the script yeah and
00:49:30
whereas like I I think Andy samber I don't think he even looked at a script he was so's he's good at it yeah he
00:49:37
knows what he's doing just the cards right which and I think after the first week I was like I do have to read the
00:49:43
cards but you know also as a funny person you you know it's much more
00:49:48
important to get the the sentiment of the joke or the point of view of the joke than the exact wording but yeah
00:49:56
it's so different CU it's also as we all know as standups you go up there by
00:50:02
yourself you're the writer director and editor so if you're like not feeling it you could just be like I don't want to
00:50:07
do that right now and you move on but when you're uh particularly in such a uh
00:50:14
you have like 80 eyes on you on this one like yeah you know what's he doing and then you want to be you know obviously
00:50:20
you want to be respectful to the other performers and to the writers and uh and
00:50:26
you know I think when you know it's like different if you have your own TV show you can sit there and go no I'm going to
00:50:32
say this whereas you want to be respectful of everyone here it was interesting on the cold opening the
00:50:38
first show where we were
00:50:44
obenson who's going to play who on this thing and then it was very gratifying to
00:50:50
watch you know when you came out just with that kind of energy and doing the
00:50:56
prayer hands and this and then they they would for Andy too they would kind of like uh uh it's Jim Gaff again and then
00:51:03
it would just really and I was sitting back on the couch going well that's kind of satisfying they're like we're so
00:51:09
happy it's you doing wals it's a great you know so F yeah so [ __ ] so uh yeah
00:51:16
such a a really kind of rewarding uh experience it's bizarre and the one with
00:51:24
you and B and u side by side that had that that came together on air that had
00:51:30
some great moments that was a killer section in there yeah and I love I love
00:51:36
the the the the last I actually love the last minute aspect of it because it
00:51:42
reminds me of like when you're about to go on stage doing standup and you have
00:51:48
an idea or you're on the subway and you have an idea that that adjusts a joke
00:51:53
that you've been working on for like an extended period and it's that adjustment that really helps because I was just
00:52:01
always watching Tim Wall's videos and I would see him do a behavior and then I'd
00:52:08
be like all right I'll bring that in because again there's so many moving Parts it wasn't like um people were like
00:52:16
Tim Walls does this can you add it it was it was left up to me you know which
00:52:22
I know surprising you know what everyone's so good that uh as an side are watching you know I would say give
00:52:28
it to gaffi and give it to Maya give it to Dana and then they're going to get it 98% there because they're such
00:52:34
perfectionists in their own comedy that it there's it's kind of nice that you
00:52:39
can hand it over and you know it's going to be pretty much what it's going to be and they have so much on their mind I
00:52:45
think it's great that you're working on it because you want to just every time they see you it's a tiny bit better and
00:52:51
they're like oh he's been paying attention cuz we have other 22 sketches and all the other Millions things going
00:52:57
on yeah and then if Cala comes uh they have to say oh now it's
00:53:02
more security more hassle more confusion I guess wasn't it I mean I'm
00:53:07
guessing my gosh yeah speak to that just that whole evening it's you know there's
00:53:14
times when I don't know I don't have a machine gun I don't have an AR but to
00:53:21
walk down the hallway and there's like six guys with machine guns you're like I
00:53:26
don't know if we need six you know I thought it was more like 12 or
00:53:32
somethings I know it's like I'm just I'm a pragmatist I'm like I'm not a gun guy
00:53:38
but I think a handgun would be more practical here than you don't want to
00:53:43
catch catch some they seem to be six foot five they had helmets they had Flack jackets big boots and then night
00:53:51
vision goggles to night vision goggles and then this assault rifle or machine gun or what whatever it was and you know
00:53:57
I'm dressed as a tomato like hi fellas you know like I never felt more feminine they
00:54:05
have those goggles because they they saw in the itinerary it's Saturday Night Live they're like bring the night
00:54:12
vision it's also you know and I don't know because they were all very nice very professional very professional
00:54:18
absolutely but you could also get a sense a little bit they're like oh my gosh we're at
00:54:23
SNL you talk to him like London s are you allowed to talk to them yeah I mean they were they were but
00:54:32
like when she came down the hallway I I I had to leave and then Dana you got to hang out with her right yeah I mean well
00:54:39
first of all when I was walking down the middle of those guys dressed as Biden I just instinctually did a little
00:54:45
salute like I was a commanderin-chief so it was all very uh just when is she
00:54:51
coming how is she coming everyone was waiting longer the whole and we needed
00:54:56
to fit in a time for her to rehearse with Maya just so we're waiting to do
00:55:02
the notes we're in ADH it there's a tension and a sensitivity going on a quietness it was like an exotic tiger
00:55:09
was coming when is KLA coming you know and she comes in and she turns and she
00:55:14
gets a huge smile on her face looks all around ADH and go oh my mother could see
00:55:19
me now and then kind of under her breath she goes of course she's seeing me now I thought it was very sweet oh W yeah
00:55:27
and so if we want to jump ahead afterwards I was going down the hall she'd done the cold opening and um it
00:55:34
was a very whatever your political thing is it's it was a very human moment the
00:55:39
way the audience the emotion of the audience for her in that studio for about two minutes uh couldn't help but
00:55:47
you know kind of well you up I mean it just was sort of emotional and then she's down in the uh Maya's dressing
00:55:53
room her people go oh take a picture uh because I was still dressed as Biden and
00:55:59
then I came in and she kind of went hey and so I had about a minute face to face with her and I just did all my Biden
00:56:04
hooks no I'm not kidding I'm being serious she laughed so hard she was bent over laughing so that was kind of a
00:56:12
interesting so you know I guess she she sees all of this from a different point
00:56:18
of view you know but it was kind of seemed cathartic or something I don't know people seem to like it no it w I
00:56:24
thought was really interesting because when they did the the very brief rehearsal and it was a long dress so it
00:56:31
was it it was not like there was an abundance of time for any of this oh was
00:56:37
it between dress and air her rehearsal yeah yeah oh that late was close to 11 o'clock or
00:56:44
something and then they did the meeting after that and oh God dang what when
00:56:51
they did the the and they didn't even rehearse the whole scene they just rehearsed her and M
00:56:57
and uh by the way Dana if I'm saying anything I'm not supposed to say you guys have to cut this out oh we have
00:57:03
editing capability by the way so you can say anything yeah what I thought was
00:57:08
really interesting and this is just me being paranoid is that Maya has such a
00:57:15
presence and uh you know you know uh
00:57:21
blood of ice and I mean that as a compliment is that and I was like oh my
00:57:27
gosh what if you know Maya's been doing this in this room for years right and then this
00:57:36
person who's been on the campaign Trail who you know having come in five weeks
00:57:41
earlier and was intimidated by the setting by the live setting even though I'm a standup comedian and a great actor
00:57:49
but but when when I was like is kamla going to when they do that mirror
00:57:57
thing is the status of Maya going to kind of be a disservice to kamla I don't
00:58:05
think it was but it entered my mind like you mean a super pro yes whereas just you know Maya just
00:58:15
is so you know such a home run hitter and just like never strikes out that is the
00:58:24
the ju position is that going to end up being a disservice to Kamala and it
00:58:31
didn't end up being that way it actually I think that it really kind of I think
00:58:37
that kamla appeared very warm and very like I think it was a a really important
00:58:44
humanizing moment here let me tell you what Lauren also wanted me to say no
00:58:50
um but uh no but it was it was one of those things where I was like oh wow she
00:58:55
really she really headed out of the par I think H you know it was H held up her
00:59:02
side because she's not an actress and she's coming in like on the Fly there's really almost no rehearsal and so it is
00:59:09
[ __ ] scary as [ __ ] even if like you said we've all done it if I was sitting there I'd be freaking out and your hand
00:59:15
could shake you don't know you're just like yeah it's almost too much and especially if you've never I mean she's
00:59:20
giving speeches but it's a different animal I think let's be honest you guys what's more difficult
00:59:26
being on SNL or being president you know what I mean it's SNL it's just different absolutely we we just want the audience
00:59:34
to know what how hard but you know I think that you're talking yourself in the
00:59:39
mirror was the conceit and it's been done a lot but it was very uh maternal
00:59:44
in a sense and in the end Poma Kamala give me your hand and it was written not in way it was kind of slow and casual
00:59:52
and relax and the way Maya was so supernaturally comfortable they gave
00:59:58
her good jokes I mean those it was not too long in my opinion cuz I didn't know anything about it you know I didn't ask
01:00:03
Dana for any spoilers and I thought the pomelo was the first big I was like oh that's great and then they did a few
01:00:10
plays on Words yeah and then they sort of ended it and it was like oh good it's not dragging out forever it's not you
01:00:17
know classically like oh they went too long it's like oh great tight get to say
01:00:22
live New York big ending get out MH yeah yeah M and uh surprisingly it was it was
01:00:29
just a very friendly audience it was it was who would think who would think but
01:00:36
it was uh it was a you know I I've said this to when I went to do the George
01:00:42
Bush Senior White House that I was sitting with Neil Young at the party uh telling him that and um he just
01:00:51
said to me he didn't even was in an apolitical things he goes oh that's a human thing
01:00:56
man that's a human thing so it was like whatever your political stripe is it was
01:01:01
this woman who's been now was running for president in this room being kind of a struck in some ways and then having
01:01:08
that sort of reaction uh it's just like you're it was it was hallowed grounds for a moment it
01:01:14
was like the only SNL can capture these kinds of moments because everybody knows it's
01:01:20
live yeah I mean it's particularly in this year where I think the most
01:01:26
important media piece was not these traditional media things but I think her
01:01:33
appearance on SNL was significant you know what I mean like compared to like
01:01:39
the some of the media hits that historically would like I don't think
01:01:44
they would even contemplate having her appear on you know aom yeah anyone who
01:01:52
sits there and the part where she asked Maya do I laugh like that she says a bit
01:01:57
you know anytime a human being can laugh at themselves a little bit the liability
01:02:03
quotient or the relatability quotient goes up so yes it was a a home run as
01:02:08
they say but yeah did will people vote differently because of us I mean you and
01:02:13
me in particular or did we reorientate Western Society absolutely not absolutely not it says here in my
01:02:22
calendar reorientate Western Society uh but uh everything it's kind of nice when
01:02:29
the reviews I casually I don't possess on them but now you can not I think it was New York Times or something you
01:02:34
can't imagine anyone else playing wals after seeing Jim Gaff was one of the ones I read you know yeah that's very
01:02:41
nice well thank you Jim for talking to us and uh I'm not leaving I'm here for
01:02:46
another hour we're gonna do three hours David is that all right yeah it's fine with me you have a
01:02:53
problem you're like then I couldn't get rid of Gaff I'm still a hostage he smokes
01:03:01
cigarettes now and he's so comfortable and young cast will come up to him go Mr Gaff Mr gaffan could you help me with
01:03:07
this he goes get out my face kid I got better better stuff I call everyone kid yeah by the way I just want you guys to
01:03:14
know you don't have to plug my Hulu special which is the skinny which is on November
01:03:19
22nd you have a standup special on Hulu yeah and it's called
01:03:26
and when is it Prem the skinny now this special recently Jim we're trying to get
01:03:32
rid of you so if you could just wrap it up and no get your get this in a Hulu
01:03:38
special is it November 22nd is that you said yes is that am I reading this right
01:03:44
am I reading this right all these streaming sites your word's not mine how
01:03:49
do you pick between Netflix Amazon and what's it called
01:03:55
is that a real one John you know he went to Harvard too I know no he he's a he's
01:04:01
a TV character he's like Columbo or something I mean I want to do him on the show I'll just say we've been doing
01:04:07
Brilliance to his kind of oh the fumbling paper I read something here
01:04:12
could I get this again am I saying that right am I saying you tweeted on October
01:04:18
7th that you would kill all simp folk that studied at the John F Kenedy School
01:04:24
of Public Relation no he's clearly very bright but a
01:04:29
stero I see you squirming in your chair a little bit but this is he knows he's set the trap for the
01:04:36
guest it's so funny he has a little smile he talks like he's in the movie
01:04:43
Mississippi bur jum
01:04:49
in here vote is a failure to communicate now do you think how much you think it
01:04:56
would cost to end climate change but what about I don't know well1
01:05:03
trillion the uh who's the the congresswoman from California who has charts let me ask you this if you had
01:05:11
425 Katie her name Katie she's like she has her whiteboard she's BR so funny I
01:05:17
love the I love no matter what's going on it's fun to watch I don't know what's going on I just laugh Paul with fouchy
01:05:24
hysterical you and fact killed millions of people are you prepared to
01:05:29
Apologize by the way it was I know David wants to get rid of me but it was I thought Tim Kane was great I got to hang
01:05:36
out with Tim Kane afterwards I promise you I thought it was Tim Waltz when he came out that's
01:05:42
how dumb I am I go like this well I did I did a photo with Tim Kane and we
01:05:48
looked the same by the way it's a bit of a deep dig because to your casual viewer you're
01:05:54
like there's some 24 year old kid going oh that really is what's his name Kim
01:06:00
Kane Kim Kane vice presidential Nom I ran into game show one very funny
01:06:09
game show was a great sketch smart monkey was very funny Dan booula of course very funny yeah monkey in space
01:06:16
yeah that's some great stuff in there John mainy great J like I don't get to watch the whole show I'm really lasered
01:06:22
in I'm already drinking bourbon after that yeah you got your bourbon on the Rocks though on the Rocks do you
01:06:30
remember the name of your bourbon Father Time B time you're right do you remember at the party when I saw your
01:06:36
cheeseburger and I said I got to get something to eat and didn't I offer you half of it
01:06:42
well it it was like a petite it was a slider it was the size of a silver
01:06:48
dollar cast members with sliders that's the big story I did get the pasta but
01:06:55
guess what but in this first world problem around 400 a.m. the waiter comes up oh sorry the kitchen is closed oh no
01:07:03
yeah Den Dana's ven moing Jim 25 cents for pickles here I think that I think
01:07:10
that was my last episode because I was only contracted for that time but oh no
01:07:15
and those parties are amazing but I'm so wrecked the next day it's not like I'm
01:07:21
dring so much it's just staying up till 500 a.m. 5 a.m. when I turn the light
01:07:26
out you know because it's just a lot of uh your peers and friends you want to
01:07:32
you want to say hello to Marty Short or John Stewart or so fun yeah but it it
01:07:39
I'm still tired from staying up that Lake yeah little bit oh you get home when everyone's
01:07:46
jogging and you guys are driving home in your limo these are just the this is just the
01:07:52
behavior of someone with a severe drinking problem home at 5 a.m. Jim do you think you'll still go to
01:07:59
the parties if you're not on the show just every week it's I I think I would it would be too weird I mean
01:08:06
I'm I I feel out of place even when I'm on the show being there so I no I won't
01:08:13
go have you secured an invite to the 50th an not I think happen wait minut so
01:08:20
have you guys been invited it's complicated um I'm going to
01:08:26
talk to geretz um you have to make a video I told
01:08:33
Lauren that you have made uh YouTube videos in a hotel room about how you would be at the 50th so you're gonna
01:08:40
have I'd like to see one of those videos here I am at the 50th being nice to everybody and here I am introducing
01:08:48
Coldplay no that would be I've got a sneaky feeling that we're not done with Mr let's do we
01:08:56
sliders you know here's what I one thing that I would add even though David's trying to get rid of me I was there was
01:09:05
Dana weren you secretly hoping like I was like oh hopefully Tim uh Tim WS will
01:09:11
do something like um oh yeah his pants fall down something get some news I
01:09:17
don't want him to humiliate himself he'll you know be uh in some but there's
01:09:24
competing for attention and even when he you know like I think in a different time like him even
01:09:31
playing fortnite with AOC that would be newsworthy but we live in such chaotic
01:09:37
all right that would have been a good one who would play AOC who plays AOC on the show Heidi I think Dana would Dana
01:09:44
would Dana I got Dana ripping off characters and kasm that's mine now
01:09:50
thank you that's the you don't wanna like want
01:09:56
to do other things want to take a job from someone yeah it feels weird because
01:10:02
no one there at least looks exactly like Tim Waltz if you walked by a cast looks just like him you go he goes hey how you
01:10:07
doing man no to me Tim walz has been not around that much and I just saw a speech
01:10:14
or two or whatever so I couldn't I when I see you I see it's Tim wals you know
01:10:22
yeah I mean no one knows that OS syncratic speech things he has I mean you have the prayer hands and pounding
01:10:28
the heart and then some of those do the ear thing because he he does the ear thing and Lauren was like get rid of the
01:10:34
ear thing you're doing no too much oh to Carol Bernett she would go like this or
01:10:41
you know Lily Tomlin used to go one ringy dingy two ringy do you want a big chair like ly Tomlin too come on what
01:10:48
what are we doing here you could play Tim W as a 5-year-old put a hairpiece on you
01:10:55
um no you'll be back and I will Lobby it doesn't matter I think you I think you should host the audience clearly loves
01:11:02
you and you're you're kind of iconic at some point to host at some point right I
01:11:08
mean and you're mostly white I'm you know I'm I'm mixed you're
01:11:15
120% white I'm mixed I'm Irish and Scottish
01:11:21
whoops all right all right you're going to say goodbye cuz I cannot say it so just been sitting here cuz I'm they told
01:11:27
me our manager said you get him off that [ __ ] thing at 30 minutes or we'll go dark and I'm like we'll pull the plug
01:11:33
I'm like oh my God this has been a presentation of Odyssey Superfly is executive produced
01:11:40
by Dana Carvey and David Spade Jenna Weiss Burman of Odyssey Heather Santoro and Greg Holtzman hope you liked it
01:11:49
[Music]

Episode Highlights

  • SNL vs. Presidency
    What's more challenging: performing on SNL or leading the country?
    “What's more difficult, being on SNL or being president?”
    @ 00m 16s
    November 08, 2024
  • The Art of Grooming
    Discussing the concept of a personal groomer for appearances.
    “A groomer is like an overarching person that tells you how to groom yourself up.”
    @ 05m 51s
    November 08, 2024
  • Political Ads Going Away
    Reflecting on the end of political ads and the emotional impact.
    “The political ads going away... it's like someone who's really sad for a second.”
    @ 09m 45s
    November 08, 2024
  • Taylor and Travis: A Hallmark Movie
    A Hallmark movie based on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce has been made, but it portrays them in a less-than-flattering light. 'They make him look like an idiot right away.'
    “Why would a great looking football player have a chance?”
    @ 26m 31s
    November 08, 2024
  • Jim Gaffigan's SNL Journey
    Jim Gaffigan shares his experience of joining SNL, feeling like a rookie in a prestigious environment. 'The student has become the teacher.'
    “It's a microcosm of the entertainment industry.”
    @ 37m 00s
    November 08, 2024
  • The Last Minute Aspect
    The thrill of last-minute adjustments in comedy brings a rush similar to standup.
    “I actually love the last minute aspect of it.”
    @ 51m 36s
    November 08, 2024
  • A Human Moment on SNL
    Kamala Harris's appearance on SNL was a significant and emotional moment for the audience.
    “It was a very human moment.”
    @ 55m 39s
    November 08, 2024
  • Relatability in Humor
    Kamala Harris's ability to laugh at herself increased her relatability during her SNL appearance.
    “Anytime a human being can laugh at themselves a little bit, the relatability quotient goes up.”
    @ 01h 01m 57s
    November 08, 2024

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  • SNL Challenges00:16
  • Political Ads09:45
  • Haircuts for Everyone25:52
  • Hollywood Story29:42
  • Human Stories31:44
  • Long Audition36:54
  • Weird Reminders48:57
  • Human Connection55:39

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