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Dana, you know, Adam, friend of the show, friend of ours, Happy Gilmore, coming out July 25th. We thought we
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would reair his live show because it was a lot of fun. We got a lot of good feedback about
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it. We cracked it. It was one of our best. One of our few. It was like at the wheel turn. It was like 2,000 people with
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Oh, yeah. Was it at the wheel turn? That's right. Uh yeah, that was kind of early on in
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our tenure. Uh it was it was great to have him live in LA. That was fun. Yeah.
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back when I used to comb my hair a little bit now. And now, um, of course, Happy Gilmore 2
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had to happen. The fans wouldn't have allowed it. So, it's back and it's out, um, July 25th on Netflix.
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We had a lot of laughs. We talked about so many things. And then we did a few act outs uh, in front of the crowd. When
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there's a crowd there, we're always trying to ham it up a little bit more than usual. Oh, definitely. Yeah, I went full full ham on a couple times on that.
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Oh, yeah. I went full ham bone. And uh Adam came to play which was good. He didn't walk through it. He he was great.
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And uh let's let's hope you like it. Here it is. Here it is. Happy Gilmore himself.
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[Music] All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.
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[ __ ] survival. That's what you got to do. You got to
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get to your seat. You got to get your drink and you got to get to the seat. Sit down. It's starting. You got to get to your seat. You got to
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get your drink. You got to get to your seats. You got to get to your seats and get your drink. In what order, David?
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Welcome to the Olsen Twins show. Yes. It's clickbait. What has happened to the
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Olsson twins? Look at them now. Wow. It's It's a cute fast.
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You know, we played here in 1962. You know, it was a [ __ ] storm then. Ringo couldn't even keep his beat.
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People rushing in now. This is the show, by the way. I hope you are able to write off your ticket.
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You know, just send it to your account and hopefully you'll get money a rebate. Let's settle down.
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Yeah, we're going to settle in. This is our podcast. And by the way, all joking aside, thanks for coming. I've
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never done anything like this. And we have our very, very, very, very
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good friend who we all adore as our guest. Ow. which is very cool.
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Look at this. All right, just do that. All right, this next young man coming to the stage. Yeah,
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Dana, you can introduce. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our very dear friend from Saturday Night
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Live and about 100 movies, the one and only Adam S.
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the middleweight champion of the world. Hey yo, Rocky, what are you doing?
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Oh yeah. I I didn't even know it started. We don't It It hasn't started.
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What went on so far? Did you guys talk? We talked. You got a mic? You good? You know, I wear a hoodie sometimes. It takes about
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a year and a half off my age. I feel I think it's smart. It's good. Look at this. Yo yo, what's up?
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Your beard is blocking so much. I like it. I like the look. You can definitely be on Skid Row and be like, "Hey, what's up, bro?"
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Dude, I just kidding. No, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you, Adam. I have to tell you something, Danny. You can listen. But I um
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This time, last time he made me go in the little boy place. Go ahead. Actually, today we did a uh uh memorial
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for Norm McDonald today and that was that was great. We all love Norm. We all work with Norm.
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Yeah. And um Yep. When there was a break in the action, uh that's stupid, but I went to
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McDonald's just because I had You did? Yeah. What'd you order? What's your McDonald's order? That's a great question. Um then we're
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going to get to you in a minute, but I want to get to me. We like to talk about ourselves. Oh, yeah. That's right. I listen good.
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You I like listening to you. I can't [ __ ] believe how much you talk. I know. No, Adam. It's not that. I have
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a lot to talk about. All right. Go ahead. All right. Back to David. Oh, the shirt 12 grand. What did you ask
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me? Anyway, so he's rich. No, here's what happened. I went to McDonald's and I got scared
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because I went in and people go, "Do you actually They can't believe I go to McDonald's and they can't believe I go
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in. No one goes in anymore, but I'm man of the people, you know. So I go in and
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I get filet of fish meal deal. That's okay. By the way, I go, "What's your filet of fish of the day? Is it a brandino?"
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Take a break. And then Oh, we laugh. And then we laugh
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through the bulletproof glass. And then I got What happened? And then I get six
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piece McNuggie. I don't know why I'm telling this [ __ ] story. We got Adam here, but Adam loves this kind of [ __ ] This is
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real people stuff. So, I I get my nuggets and my hot mustard and I sit
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down and I sit down in there. I get a little table and I just want to make some fun cuz I got to go back. And uh
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I'm eating bloop bloop. And naturally, uh there outside there's someone who's
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acting a little crazy at the McDonald's. Yeah, of course. It just comes with the deal. So,
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you start in trouble. I'm I'm like this. I'm getting nervous because there's a line of cars and he's banging on the windows and I go, "Why
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the [ __ ] did I come in cuz now I'm trapped." Starts heading toward the door. I go, "There's no chance." Bam.
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Door opens. Drenched in sweat and he walks right up to me.
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He walked away. He walks right. It was Ted Sarandos. No, it wasn't Ted
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Sandos. No, it was um No, it was just a guy and and uh and he was uh kind of uh
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I don't know what was going on, but he's a little crazy. So, he goes, "Hey, man." The story keeps [ __ ] going. I know, but you guys interrupting.
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We're going to take a short break. Anyway, he goes, "Give me some money for some food." And I go, "All right." And
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he's just talking to me. So, I go, "Okay." And I give him 10 bucks. And then he goes, "Give me give me your
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McNuggets." That's [ __ ] nuts. And he's dropping
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sweat on. He's like, and I go like this. But I know I don't have a lot of time and I don't want to argue with him. He's
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going to kill me. So he goes I go, I'll give you one. What? I gave him one.
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This is a [ __ ] [ __ ] I swear to God today. And I work this out. Chris did this [ __ ]
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I'll give you one nugget. Give me one rib. Rich. I gave him a goddamn nugget.
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Chris Rock. Chris Rock. Anyway, this is a newer version of that. And then he goes, "Give me another one."
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And I gave him two. And then I go, "That's it. I gave you 10 sauce." Did he want? I wasn't going to let him.
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He goes, "I'll just dip it in a sweat." So he had two. And then I go, "Just go
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buy some." And the people at the cash store were waving me off like, "Don't send him over here." And so he went over
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there and then I just I got up and left cuz I got scared. But that's all. Adam,
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our guest tonight. Let's bring that guy out right now. Excellent. Nugget man.
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You know, let's look at a clip. You met a crazy man in a McDonald's. That's pretty good though, David.
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Anyway, remember maybe the crazy man you saw your first day in New York? You
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saw a man masturbating in the park. Yeah, we thought Yeah, he was masturbating in the park and we're
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walking by. We just got to Manhattan. We're Hey, let's go walk in the park and he's masturbating. We're kind of trying
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not to look and he goes, "Hey, have you got the time?" It's like he's jacking off on a car
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bench, but he's really worried in a park bench. Sorry. Anyway, uh yes, Adam, I don't remember like a steel trap.
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I loved it. I loved it. We had some [ __ ] crazy times. Me and you together was the best. When
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David would come by, we'd be like, "All right, we got to listen for a while." Oh, no. No. He'd have a McDonald's or remember the
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Jack of the Box story? It was like 20 minutes. It was great. But we uh Yeah, we had some crazy We had that one crazy
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gig where we got lost. Yes. Me and Dana went on a great gig. I opened for you. You were the king and
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you let me do 10 minutes before you. It was upstate New York and there was no cell phones and we started getting lost
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and we just realized, wow, we're really really lost. So we showed up like 4 hours late and the students were just
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sitting up in a gym like this dead silence like a jerk. Yeah. They were pissed, right? So I go
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get go get him, Adam. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You sent me out there. Did you have your guitar with you? No, I I wasn't guitaring then, but I
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just Cinjun man just started. Oh, it was cinjun man. So I said onion and
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they and they gave me some sort of noise and I was like, "Okay, this is a new life I got, man." Man,
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15 minutes. I did fine. Yeah, you did. You said I did great, but I probably did fine. But then you went up and
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annihilated. I don't remember it that way. Yes. I thought we both had a Was your set 8 Minutes of Cajun Man.
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Anytime something didn't work, I'd go funny. And we got we ate Cajun afterwards. We
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found a place in the Pocono Mountains or something, right? Yeah. We we we tip back a few drove
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back. No, we went crazy in the car. Let's admit it. On the way back, Adam and I just got a case of the fuckets
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and the car was full of beer and we started drinking it and and then you
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brought out cigars or somewhere cigars. So, we're drinking beer and having cigars and playing Stewart for like
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hours and we went crazy and we ran out of beer and then we went to a liquor store but you were with me and you
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looked 15 at the time. That's right. I had an ID but he goes, "I'm not selling it to you cuz of him." and he
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pointed at you and then we got him on. I said to him, remember I said onion? He goes, "Shut the fuck."
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Usually that worked. They would just hand us a six-pack onion. Alcohol is on.
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We went we went crazy with So, let's get to when Adam started standup because you started before me,
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but you were in New Hampshire. I did start before you. Uh uh I think No, no, maybe it's about
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the same time. I I started when I was like 18 and a half and then you What? How old were you?
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I was 17. Oh, when you started stand up, where where did you go? I went I went on senior year in high school. My my brother told me uh my
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brother was going to Boston University and then he said remember I told you oh somebody went to Boston University here.
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No. Hey, they're like whatever you want, Adam. We'll it's a good school. Congratulations.
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Um but anyways, my brother, we were at dinner and he said, "Uh, hey, I got you
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that lottery ticket I told you. remember you had to wait online and get a ticket to go on stage and I said, "Oh yeah,
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God, you got that?" And cuz he mentioned it a couple of months earlier and then I went I he said it's tonight. So I put on
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a dress shirt. I remember I had a nice dress shirt with stripes. I folded I didn't know how to button
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this. I was never good at buttoning my own this right here. So I rolled it up like spade right there.
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Yeah. And then I cuz I still don't know how to do it cuz I don't know. Does that happen still when I do
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something what you would think to wear the first time cuz I wore a I wore a a shirt and a tie
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the first time you went on? Really? That's nice. Cuz I wanted to look also I wanted to look older. I look very young and I and
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I had to go to a real bar to do it and the age was 19 in Arizona. So what was the bar?
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Uh there's one called Chuckles and then Anderson's Fifth Street. Chuckles. I know they all have goofy names.
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Gutbusters. Was that in Scottsdale? The the Looney Bin. Yeah, Chuckles was
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the first place I went on. And uh let me stop your story. So you But where could you go on a bar when
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you're that young? I went on at a place called Stitches Comedy Club. See Stitches.
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Stitches in Boston. 17. 17. Went on. I don't give a [ __ ] It's so funny. They anyone go on young?
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I I didn't even know what to talk about. I was driving down with my brother and he said, "Did you write anything?" And I
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said, "No, no, no. I was I'll wing it. I'm I'm Your brother was like your manager.
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Yeah. He 100% was just out on going, "You got to do something with your life." And so I There's nothing else you
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could do. You really can handle nothing. So um I went on I went on I did the 5
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minutes. I had a retainer uh cuz I was still young. And I remember just total
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silence. I was saying stuff that, you know, that I thought they would love that my families loved for years. And
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they were just going and then I remember hearing one guy go, "He's got a retainer." And I was like smiling and
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D. Didn't say anything that made sense. There's nothing to remember. I don't
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even know what happened. I used to get that blank mind like the first two years, three years of comedy. I all day
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long I'd be practicing and all the [ __ ] written down and like I'm going to I'm going to say this then that then this
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and then I'd get on stage and I'd be like well I [ __ ] hate it here. Why am I here right now? Space out. You guys
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space out, I'm sure. Back in blank out all the time. I would be nervous all day long. Just adrenalized, sweating, just just a
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bright red neck, terrified, pacing, you know, and funny while I was sleeping.
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No, my point is this. No, it was uh stage fright. I mean, you had just basic% by the time Well, I don't want to
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go forward, but by the time you got on SNL, it seemed like you had a lot of a lot of confidence pretty quickly then. I don't know how, but yes.
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[Music] I'm just curious about a little bit about early Adam just for a second.
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Yeah. Yeah. You guys are curious about what made Adam sound like I just I mean, you know, whatever you want to.
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I just I do this sometimes with our guests. Just, you know, a favorite toy or a favorite bike or your first guitar?
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Mhm. Would you have memories about any of those? All All of those I Okay. Favorite toy? Favorite toy was uh
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probably the [ __ ] evil conval SSP. Evil Conval SP making so you wind
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it up and pull it. You create your own little jump. You'd put pillows and cardboard and [ __ ]
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Evil Convvil would fly off of that. That was fun. I would scratch my mother's tile and she would yell yell at me for
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that. Uh what was the second one? You said your a bike. I had a Stingrays were big
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when I was a kid. Yeah. Did you have a bike that was a big chariot for you? I had a mongoose. Had a monoshock.
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I used to do jumps. It was a little It was very daredevily of me. I'd
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love to see you doing jumps. That would be awesome. Oh yeah. Now he is. I do cross up tabletop. Don't worry
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about it. But I also had the evil conval that evil conval thing was really good on the commercials about jumps and then
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in person it's [ __ ] impossible to make the wall and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just go over and fall. Uh,
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but when did you get when did you be mu when were you musical? Can I tell him about my [ __ ] bicycle?
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No [ __ ] So, uh, hey, we're new to this. He's going to hear from me right now.
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Moving on from my bicycle. You took over the whole bike thing. You know, I thought it was I had this hurt.
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We're learning. We're learning tonight, which is great. David, you're fantastic. Thank you.
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But it's not true. But David, no. So, I had I always wanted a Huffy. I wanted a Huffy like everybody
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else. Now tell me about a Huffy cuz that's a Huffy has like the a longer seat long seat. So it was like a stingray.
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Like a stingray. Stingray's got it have a banana seat. They call banana seat. So the friend could ride in the back.
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Yes. Yes. A huff a Huffier had more of a cushiony seat. More It was like a banana but a little
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thicker for like dirt riding. Right. Like if you riding. Was it sold at Sears? Was it from Sears?
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Well, here's the problem with the Adam Sandler Huffy. So, I said to my family, I'd like a Huffy. Of course, I didn't
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get the Huffy. I got something else, a green bike. They took the seat off. My
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father bought a a Huffy seat and put it on my [ __ ] other bike. And
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I would go down to Webster school, the my elementary school. Everyone's popping wheelies and on their Huffies. And I
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showed up with my Huffy seat and the green bike. I was like, "Hey." And they were like, "Get the [ __ ] out of here
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with that fake huffy shit." Was that a budgetary thing or teaching a
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lesson for for your dad? There was a time when my dad I he didn't tell us. He was so cool.
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Yeah. He didn't have a a job for like a year and a half. And I remember he just kept
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it from us. I'd be like, "Dad's always [ __ ] home. This is incredible." And I would ask him I'd still ask for
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[ __ ] I'd be like, "I saw this thing on TV. Let's go. Give me that. Let's go. And he was like, "We'll get to that."
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And I was like, "We'll get to that. What the [ __ ] is happening?" Wow. So, it was out of love.
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When he did the Huffy scene, but I think he Yeah, he he had to kind of build that fake Huffy for me. Were you a daredevil at all? Did you get
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hurt as a kid? Did you fall off things, break things? I mean, I was definitely tougher as a kid. I was
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more fearless as a kid. Now, I was a good skier. I was a good skier in New Hampshire. New Hampshire skier. Yeah. So we skied
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all the time. You Dana, you ski? No, I was for rich people. We would have a little We'd have a
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little inner tube. We'd go to like, you know, snowball. You just go down like that. But the big people up there could
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pay the money to go up the thing. There was no money. We had huffy skis. They were fake. But in New Hampshire, your mountains
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were like 300 ft, right? Northern California. Yeah. Yeah. So, how did you get hurt a lot? Did you
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just Oh, I used to I was pretty good. I used to do back in the day you did a helicopter
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skis on the skis you and that was like a big deal. Jesus. Now it's [ __ ] I don't even think anyone does a helicopter anymore, right?
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That you look at No, you never see these guys on on TV pop pop pop out a helicopter. They're always doing those flips and [ __ ]
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Well, they could do anything they want. It's it's insane now. It doesn't even make sense.
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There was one guy in my hometown uh Robbitile his last name. Uh Jay
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Robbitile. He used to do flips. He'd [ __ ] was at this place, McIntyre. It was a little uh ski area in my hometown.
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They'd build a a jump for this guy and no one else could do it, but he would just come down, knock out a flip.
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Everybody like, "What the fuck?" Yeah. Well, wait. You You'd be You go down and
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then you go up. He leans forward, he gets in the air, he leans forward, does a full flip. Oh, flip. Front flip. [ __ ]
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But you would go like a complete 360. I could do it. And then land your skis and then land. Yeah. I was cool. Thank you.
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Yeah, thank you. I was very good when I was like up to 15 and then I started getting scared.
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Okay. Not being as cool. So then when did the guitar come in? Like I got a drum set 14. When did you
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get a guitar? Yeah. And you're great on drums. We had some good jams back then. We had some good jams too.
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Yes. Uh my guitar happened my dad had an acoustic. Okay. So he used to play he'd always
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sing Mariah the uh away out west they
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wind and smoke and fire and they call
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the wind. So thank you. You didn't know that one? Do you guys know?
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I did. I knew when to be quiet. You've beat me down so much I didn't
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join in a even though I have the voice of an angel. So you got
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Well, we'll get David in on Yeah. Get in on here. Sorry. Okay. Favorite favorite entertainment that you
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saw as a in your formative years. I say 5 to 13. Like TV show or movie that
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[ __ ] blew your mind or blew my [ __ ] mind. Wild West.
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No, you're too young. I like that. Yeah. I like um my favorite thing I
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think the thing that knocked me out when I was Yeah. I love movies. I loved all the comedies like I'm sure everybody
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up here, you know, the Mel Brooks and all that stuff, you know. Yeah. Young Frankenstein and
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Silent Movie and Blaz and all that stuff got me. But I'll tell you what really got me.
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I look back at it. I think I was in Florida or Florida as you would say,
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David, but I was in Florida. Florida. And
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yeah. And so my parents took me to see
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uh Eddie Fiser. He sang Oh. Eddie Fisher. And somebody went on
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before him. Oh. Uh from from uh Singing in the Rain. You go on stage, you can do that kind of thing. And I got kind of
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like wanted to get into that. That's interesting. That's that's sort of turned you on just the performing like they didn't know if you'd even like
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it and then you really liked it. I I guess so. I mean, I don't think I they were trying to talk me into it. They were just trying to have a nice
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night out in Florida and then I was just kind of locked into I used to sing a lot in the car. I used
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to sing a lot. My mother always said I sang good. My father would just stare like this. Uh
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what would you sing? You remember just songs off the radio? Oh my god, it was a pain in the ass cuz I I sang a lot of
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Johnny Matthysse for my mother. Oh, really? She'd she'd always sing Chances Are and
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I'd be like, "Chances are cuz I wear a silicone."
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And it was fine. Not great. Chances are you save I saw you see him.
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Yeah. Big V and then the pipes. I I sang uh I sang
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Oh, Maria from Westside Story. I sang. This is when I was little, you know, like 10. And uh but my mother always
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said I had a good voice and my father was like, "He's all right." And uh didn't your mom who was such a
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cheerleader that if Sinatra came on, she would say, "You're better." Oh, yeah. You could do that. Yeah.
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Supportive moment. Oh, you know what's funny? My mother, Speaking of that, my uncle worked at a
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uh at a clothing company. And when I went to NYU, I I was a standup. There you go. And uh
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and I went to I did I was a standup. I was making no money uh like all of us. And um my mother called my uncle and
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said, "Can Adam model for you?" And and my uncle was like, "You know, I'll talk
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to them." Uh and she's like, "He really needs the work. Help him." And I'm like,
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"Really? I'm a model?" Oh, she's like, "You're gorgeous." And
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and then my her mom, she you're wonderful. And then my uncle had to just go, "He's [ __ ] looks terrible in a
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suit. He's not great. There's not a good angle on him.
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You own a suit now, don't you?" What? You own a suit now. I I actually because of the my
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daughter's bot mitzvah, I I had to get that [ __ ] suit dry cleanan this morning.
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I don't think it's going to fit either. I've been swelling up.
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What can you do? All right. So, go ahead, Dana. You had so many questions. I I know. Well,
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then then you go and
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that's your hero, Adam. He doesn't know anything. Yeah, we're kind of up in that area. Toy bike.
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Now, I got to have a road map. This is good, man. Wilt stud boy. The stud boy. Yeah. Oh, yes. Wilt joke.
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Now Chris Rock called that one of the best pure jokes ever written. Thank you, Chris. And that was early standup.
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Yeah. Yes. I mean, David, you want to cuz I'm just thinking of Adam grows up, he goes to NYU, and then he's in New York. He's 17.
00:24:16
Within six years, you're on Saturday Night Live. Yeah. Yeah. So, what happened in those six years, David?
00:24:22
Oh, uh, well, Adam was a great standup. had a very unique perspective,
00:24:28
interesting delivery, good memorable joke. It was more like one joke, one
00:24:34
joke, one joke, right? Not really stories. It was kind of like that. And I wasn't even, you know, we didn't
00:24:40
have YouTube, all that [ __ ] So, I didn't know you till I actually physically saw you. Yeah. Was Oh, that was in the Valley. It was
00:24:46
at the improv and the improv. You ever go to Valley Improv, Dana? Did you ever do that, D? Oh, yeah. did that when I was living in
00:24:52
New York in 1981 doing a sitcom with Nathan Lane and Mickey Rooney. Wow. I worked the
00:24:58
Yeah. one of the boys. Check it out. Um and was Scatman Kathers as well. But
00:25:03
you you um like Jack Terrauto told me once that he was your you know your partner for a
00:25:10
long time and he knew you back then. You would just do a bit you you'd go to a club wouldn't quite work
00:25:16
and then you keep going and going then you come back like a week later and you had it killing. So you you were very
00:25:21
tenacious about it, right? Yes. I I don't know why I was not I was
00:25:26
probably the same as as you guys. You you just I don't know. I believed in it.
00:25:31
I kept doing it, found a way to kind of phrase it, right? Do it till it works. Or you do you ever
00:25:36
take I used to tape mine then it was very excruciating to listen to your own voice. But yeah, you would think you killed and it was
00:25:42
really just one person laughing loud. Yeah. Or you think it was nothing, but then you said something you forgot in between
00:25:49
the jokes that was good. So you'd sort of like piece it together and then try it again and tape it.
00:25:55
Yeah. I did the old I did the same thing you do where you pulled out of a hat, but it was more sickening cuz I drove
00:26:01
off from Arizona and then they'd have at the improv amateur night and so I'd sit there and they'd pull a name and read it
00:26:07
and you'd come up. So they're all waiting. Yeah. And every time they pull it, you get nervous and it's not you and I go. And
00:26:14
you almost don't want it to be you sometimes. You're like, "Oh, good. They're not going to get to it." Right. Then it was tough. And then by
00:26:19
the end of the night, I'm like scared. I don't even need it now. It was And then I never It never worked that way. And I
00:26:25
think it was rigged. I think they knew he was going up. They had friends of friends. But uh I finally got got a few things,
00:26:32
but then we wound up running to each other. How did you do your first night? I How' I do? Yeah.
00:26:37
First night of standup. Yeah, that's a good question. Um,
00:26:43
when I started standup, I take the mic off.
00:26:48
Can I get anything out of No, it's a it's actually first time as a
00:26:54
we were spoiled because when I got to uh Saturday Night Live or I was in the valley and I was seeing comics, I was seeing guys like Drake Sailor was great.
00:27:01
I saw Adam was great. Schneider was funny. Great. I was just wound up seeing guys that in
00:27:08
a million years, how would we all get on SNL? It was so weird that it would happen that way. When you came in, it was like a
00:27:14
firestorm. But you guys really You kind of like had 20 minutes, right? You weren't headlining on the road. You had
00:27:20
a great 20 and then people saw you in the clubs. That's right. And they liked your writing. You got
00:27:27
hired as a writer. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Dennis Dennis hooked me up. Dennis Miller Miller. Dennis
00:27:32
Miller. Dennis was the one who saw you. That's true. Yeah. Dennis Miller saw me a few times
00:27:38
at the Santa Monica improv and he waited in the back after. I think you guys knew each other already.
00:27:43
I knew he was my favorite comic. You probably introduced us then maybe. Yeah. And and he watched me and he and he said
00:27:50
he he liked some of my jokes and he was he was so nice to me and we we loved him
00:27:55
and we idolized him and uh he he heard they were looking for Lauren was looking at new people and he said, "You should
00:28:01
check out the Sandman." [Music] Sandingo. Yeah, he gave you that moniker.
00:28:07
Yeah, because the dentist never he always has a name for somebody. Right. Right. Right. Six. You know, Sandman hitting it heavy
00:28:14
down at the prov in Santa Monica. Okay. Tearing up the beach communities with
00:28:20
his wilt stealth humor. Sorry, I love being Dennis. I love being in that
00:28:26
attitude. But um Thank you. So,
00:28:31
what was your do you remember your first bit that kind of became your your uh your rock? Like even if this the set was
00:28:38
not going well, you had one that started. Oh, yes. I had one that
00:28:44
I don't I said the Vicks Vapor Rub. I used to say, remember Vick's Vapor Rub?
00:28:50
Uh when your mother would rub it on your chest? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and and my mother
00:28:55
would be rubbing on my chest and then we make eye contact and I was like I thought we were just friends. Ma that
00:29:02
was that was like my that was my big guarantee back then. Did you ever see this one when you go I
00:29:09
remember that joke very well. I thought that was a great one and he said when I was people say if you could live your
00:29:14
life over would you would you change anything? You go yeah uh when I was walking down the when I fell down the stairs I might have grabbed the rail
00:29:20
next time. Oh yeah. Was that something like that? Yeah. Yeah. That was it. Gez, I forgot that.
00:29:26
I mean, there's obviously Will Chamberlain, but you had so many good jokes and they were so different and odd
00:29:31
and then uh and then Dennis got you on. Yeah, Dennis. But it's good to be different. It's very
00:29:36
hard to be different. And so when you when I did it, when I auditioned that night, it was with Rock, uh, Dana Gould,
00:29:44
and and three other good comedians. Where were you? I was in Chicago. Flew to Chicago.
00:29:49
That's right. Rock was Chicago. Rock did great. I did fine. Dana Gould destroyed. God damn, that's a me.
00:29:56
He was incredible. So he he should have got it. I don't know why. He he he wrote for the sim. He did a lot of great
00:30:02
stuff, but somehow I I got hired as a writer like David did. And that would be
00:30:07
David and Schneider, me, and who else was a writer? Anybody else? Just us three? Uh me? Oh, yeah. Cuz Farley and Rock got
00:30:14
hired that year and they were uh just straight they were on feature cast.
00:30:19
Everybody wrote for themselves. was like Dana wrote, but Dana was never credited as a writer. If you got if you got on as a main
00:30:25
player, you never got a writer's credit for some reason. But whatever, it's just part of the deal. That was good sneaky money though. I
00:30:31
didn't want to be writer, but you know, we didn't make much money, but you'd get kicked a rerun uh in perpetuity. And
00:30:37
that was nice even though it was two cents, but it was nice to uh you get a you get a stack of checks and it's the
00:30:43
host, so it's like 18 cents, Alec Baldwin, 18 cents, Tom Hank, Glen Close. So that was kind of fun. to rack that
00:30:50
up. The bricks. You've invested wisely. Yeah, invested wisely.
00:30:55
And then uh but we didn't make a ton. I'm sure when you started you didn't make we didn't make [ __ ] I
00:31:01
I don't think we even we couldn't believe we were getting paid, right? Just a big deal to be get money.
00:31:07
Just maybe Yeah. Like you net like maybe 20 grand for the whole season or something. Yeah. Just live a hubble.
00:31:13
Yeah. I was really I was but you know there I was with Phil late great Phil Jen Jen Hooks God bless him
00:31:20
and Mike Meyers and Love it and the show was really cooking and then you guys came off like the mothership and Close
00:31:26
Encounters you know comes Rock and Sandler and I remember the first time I
00:31:32
saw you in the office. You were just kind of sitting at the big table on 17th floor and I was doing pretty well on the
00:31:39
show you know but I I liked you immediately. you just you just had this vibe about you that was really really
00:31:45
funny and and likable, you know, and that's a big part of DNA. Sense the that uh the love we all had.
00:31:52
Dana was the the king. Dana, I'll tell you remember it was almost like at a
00:31:58
standup club if Dana had a a skit and your skit was going on after you were
00:32:03
just like, "Oh no, oh no." Cuz Dana brush so hard. You got to follow church lady or
00:32:09
something. Are you talking about read through? Read through is bad, but on the air on the air was the
00:32:15
biggest explosion in the place. And then your skit would do fine, but in your
00:32:21
weird comedy brain, you just like, how the [ __ ] do I get those data laughs?
00:32:26
Well, I had a lot of help. You know, make a talk show and then have Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks come on a lot, you
00:32:32
know, sink. But um so so you come on, you get on the show, you're like,
00:32:38
"What's your first big uh what was your first You probably did Update first, right? Or did you write Iraqi Pete or
00:32:44
something?" No, that was uh Al Franken wrote that in Yeah. Aren't you supposed to do the noise now?
00:32:49
You do that. But um I I' I'd like to ask you a question. Yeah.
00:32:55
So like in classic comedy, [Applause] sorry David, you weren't finished.
00:33:01
Sorry. You're going to like this one. the because you don't you didn't really lean on it much, but in the beginning I
00:33:07
remember in the classic comic sense of the idiot. So like there's Jerry Lewis is like the king
00:33:13
and then I remember you would do the hunched over guy and he would do that sound like where did that guy come from? Cuz
00:33:20
that instantly made me laugh so hard that cuz you were so committed. Wasn't
00:33:27
uh I I don't even know man. It's very musical. Can you do more? Always felt good in a microphone. Oh,
00:33:34
yeah. I don't even I don't even know if that
00:33:39
ever got on the air. If I ever did that, I I just remember seeing that and really loving it, you know. But there there's
00:33:45
one character I want to break down. Unless David has a question cuz I'm
00:33:50
sure. Go ahead. We're really close friends. Um, the
00:33:57
opera man, the evolution of opera man that then became the indestructible
00:34:05
killer bit of all time by the time you got it on the update desk. Yes. With the pictures and you were mixing
00:34:12
wig. So, Adam, I'll let you but talk about the origins of that and the way
00:34:18
you did it and then the way you ended up doing it. It evolved, right? Yes. Right. Yes. That's my question.
00:34:23
Thank you. Yeah, that's a good question. And I remember you were you knew the guy. So there was a man on the street
00:34:29
who used to sing opera on the street. He used to hold the can up and he'd be walking down the street and he'd kind of
00:34:34
come at you go and he'd sing really hot and he and you'd charge
00:34:41
and you'd be like you give money. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's kind of where I first started doing it.
00:34:47
I love that. I didn't know that. I met that guy today at McDonald's.
00:34:52
He wasn't singing though. Oh, he's in between sets. Adam, what would what would a guy like that be ordering like a McDonald's? How
00:34:59
would he sound barbecue sauce? The thing that you can sound exactly
00:35:05
opera is one more gift on SNL. If you can if they'd write a a singing sketch,
00:35:12
obviously Adam wrote a lot of his own, but if they'd write somewhere you sing, you can get in. If you can play an instrument, you can get in. There's so
00:35:18
many things if you can do dance. So if you I didn't do a lot of those things which was kind of a drag but Adam can
00:35:24
sing so well and actually write songs and actually write songs that are catchy because a lot of those things you don't update were actually really catchy on
00:35:31
top of just being funny and so that combo is big and that operand was a [ __ ] cruncher that always killed
00:35:37
that was a gift from the Did you do it off in on the stage next update initially? Yeah. No, I first time I did it it was
00:35:44
just gibberish. It was like it was a theater thing and I think maybe you or
00:35:50
was it film? That's what I remember. I don't know if I remember this. Maybe you maybe you but I was in my office and Adam used to
00:35:57
go around the office on all fours.
00:36:04
So then I hear a little knock and I'm in my office. So I open it up and you're on
00:36:09
all fours. You go, "Oh." And then you just you were asking me to do something.
00:36:14
introduce opera man, right? So I didn't remember that. So you were like a theater guy who would
00:36:19
say tonight the opera man. Yeah. Something like goes from the emotion of you know like trying to catch
00:36:27
the bus but unfortunately he misses the bus but then he sees his mother you know
00:36:34
is behind the bus and picks him up. Let's watch the Aquaman or something like that. And I'd walk like
00:36:44
And then I'd see my mother be something like that. And that was it.
00:36:50
And it did good. It did good at the table. It did good. You know, Sandler, it's
00:36:55
good if you a trick on SNL is if if Adam was probably slightly newer then, but if
00:37:01
you anchor it with Dana, who they love, right? And then he brings on, then they go, "Dana seems to like it."
00:37:07
And they and then they start to like the new guy. It helps. when you're new it helps.
00:37:13
No, it was a Dana's the best at it. So, that's what it was. But any anyways, uh it did fine. I It was up at the table.
00:37:21
It did well. Everybody after a while, they started liking us at the table. When David and I first were
00:37:26
on SNL and at the table, we try to get on and we do full skits for ourselves.
00:37:32
Everybody else was kind of like, "Calm down. That's enough, guys." Yeah. That's enough. Not yet. Not yet. Yeah.
00:37:38
Right. But then by uh uh this time they were like, "All right, g give him a shot." And then we did that and it
00:37:44
didn't do great. So Lauren didn't put it on. But then the Turners out of nowhere, Bonnie and Terry Turner,
00:37:50
great writers wrote for the show for eight, nine years. Wayne's World. You and Mike, they wrote
00:37:57
the first Tommy Boy draft, too. What's that? They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy. They wrote That's right. Tommy Boy.
00:38:03
That's right. They were They were monsters. I don't even know why we don't hear about talk about them more. They had some huge
00:38:08
sketches. You guys should have them on this show. They'll be great. We would love to. Hi, Bonnie. Hi, Terry. In case listening
00:38:15
to this when it's released, but they wrote what what we say and Lindsay. And Lindsay, their daughter. Their daughter Lindsay.
00:38:20
Yes. And but uh but anyways, they wrote this thing and they talked to me. I was
00:38:26
in my office. They were like, "So, remember that Opera Man thing you did? came up with an idea for the news and
00:38:32
they showed it to me and I'm so I was just so dumb and young and whatever I
00:38:38
was and I was like hey I guess I guess we could try it that way. It was it was opera man on the news. Is
00:38:44
that what you said? Oper showing showing current events
00:38:50
about blah blah blah and I didn't really I was like no operand speaks gibberish and that doesn't make any sense.
00:38:56
You don't understand operand. So then it became a divorce. How would you know you
00:39:01
would event like Trumpo? Yeah, exactly. Just crush it.
00:39:06
That was all those guys wrote it. I got to be they would give me the melodies and Cheryl would would write.
00:39:14
Yeah. And and they would just give me all the goods and I mean it was the greatest gift ever. Got to wear the the
00:39:21
Did you do it with any Eddie Veter or not? You say you sing like Eddie Veter once you I sang like Eddie. Was it as
00:39:27
operant or was something else? Operand singing about Pearl Jam. Yeah. Yeah. And then uh Yeah. Yeah. And
00:39:33
remember when I think they were even on the show Pearl Jam that night. Oh, that's right. But anyway, what would he say or what do you
00:39:42
mean? You got the pipes, kid. You still got you were going.
00:39:48
Yeah. Yeah. But you sound exactly like him. I can't do it now. I know any better.
00:39:54
He's it's a certain thing he does. He's got a thicker lower voice than his voice is unreal.
00:40:00
Yeah, he's a juicy voice. We We share an office, me and Farley, and then you walk through our office to get to Adam and Chris Rock. So, when the
00:40:07
door was closed, I'd hear I'm like, "Oh my god, he's got a killer
00:40:12
cooking in there. It's in the oven." We all had got excited when we landed on a
00:40:18
good impression, but um I did one with Love It, an opera man with Love It. That
00:40:24
was Oh, that was a great one. He can sing great and that was a perfect only other guy who could do it besides you cuz he's got
00:40:29
pipes and he's just a funny So that was a killer. He played your brother or something. I It was Glenn Close and and and Love
00:40:37
and maybe they were my parents. I don't remember. Yeah. Yeah. Remember they take the kids home with me
00:40:43
only on Saturday Night Live. Can we I I'd like I I could go anywhere.
00:40:49
This so much fun. I want to ask him about when he does bits when he You get to bring in one of the musical stars. I think McCartney did
00:40:54
Red Hood sweatshirt with you. Oh, that was a great You did something with him.
00:41:00
I left right before McCartney hosted. You You weren't there then? I missed it. I missed it. I was a fool, you know. He
00:41:07
was upset, you know, cuz we'd met at 86 in Laur at Lauren's house. He called me up. You I don't know why you didn't
00:41:13
stick around. D, you know, we could have had a plunker. We be plunking looking at
00:41:18
each other. I go, who is this? Nobody wants to crank.
00:41:23
I missed that. But you you got to do a thing. What did you do with Paul McCartney? It was Red Hooded Sweatshirt. I wrote it
00:41:31
uh with Ian Maxton Graham and I forget who else. Somebody else. And we um and
00:41:36
we had dip, you know, I had dip dip dip andipipal and stuff like that. I say it and then
00:41:42
as it progressed Kevin maybe Kevin Nean did it with me and then I said let's
00:41:49
call out Paul and Linda and and Paul and Linda McCartney uh we wrote it for him
00:41:54
and then Lauren said I said will they do it? He goes well you have to talk to them. And so I went to Lauren's office.
00:42:02
They were eating. I think they were on the show or they were just visiting. They were they were Paul was the guest. Okay. And Linda was with them.
00:42:07
You walk in and you have to convince them. I just like had to come in with the dopey guitar and be like my heart's
00:42:14
pounding through my chest. Did you crawl in or did you walk
00:42:20
a little skip or something? There was that was when you were going to pitch it. Remember you'd skip across? No, I'm making that up. Sorry. Go ahead. So you
00:42:27
walk in there. I mean, Lauren's eating shunn [Music] and Paul and Linda there and Linda's
00:42:34
amazingly nice and Paul's amazingly nice and I sing them the little thing and um and they laughed and uh then I left and
00:42:41
then I was like I I don't know if that worked or not but then they said yes and they forever I got that I sang with them
00:42:47
hung out with them after the show hung out Stella was there remember Stella was a kid she came to the show
00:42:53
McCartney the fashion designer yes and she was such a nice kid. She was like our age then, you know, like
00:43:00
whatever we were. And uh I Yeah, let's keep the numbers out of it. I saw him discipline his kids on Long
00:43:08
Island. Went over to his house and you know, I think James had a little toy sword, a plaster sword, and he dropped
00:43:13
it down on his sister and Paul goes, "You do that one more time, we're going to have a problem."
00:43:19
That's what I see. See him as a dad. Yeah. See him as a dad. I remember some
00:43:24
comic said he had a bill he was the first one with a billion dollars and they go you know if he lost his
00:43:32
wallet in a cab and there was 500 million in it he'd still have $500 million that was some com but do you
00:43:38
remember when Farley's brothers came to the show when McCartney was on that stupid story where Paul looked the same
00:43:44
as Paul McCartney growing up but he had a little bit of gray hair and so Farley's brothers were standing there with red cups there was no security so
00:43:51
the music comes out of their dressing room, walks by the 8H page desk, you
00:43:56
know that? And they walk right into the show and they go, "Paul McCartney, one minute till you're on live." And so you
00:44:01
see he comes out with a bodyguard on the front and back and he walks out with his guitar and it's [ __ ] Paul McCartney.
00:44:07
I'm there with Farley's idiot brothers and they're all drunk and he comes around and they go and one of them goes,
00:44:13
"Hey Paul and he looks over and he goes, "Getting a little gray." And he goes,
00:44:19
and then I remember that he walks out and I go, "Are you an idiot?" He goes, he looked and then he
00:44:26
goes on the monitor and they're like 15 seconds and he looks in the monitor and he goes like this.
00:44:31
He got in his head right before he went out. Oh no. and you know he's like is my and
00:44:37
then um anyway so I I will say one of my proudest moments cuz sometimes Adam and
00:44:43
I would try to write together or uh we would all try to think of excuses to all be in the same sketch or whatever and
00:44:50
the the one I like the best is the Gap girls when we were um in the that was all David
00:44:57
in the mall and then Farley says lay off me I'm starving that is one of the funnest ones we ever did
00:45:02
and Schneider was in it and Sarah Gilbert was a host Oh yeah. And uh we were all uh that was just the
00:45:08
fun for me because we would all just rehearse. So you know you write it if it gets in you laugh at
00:45:14
read through you laugh you know when when we talk about what who plays what parts and what we say and then
00:45:20
you you really all that stuff though. I know. But then everyone adds jokes whatever you want. And then we got to do
00:45:25
it on So you have to rehearse all week or once or twice to be together. That's a good reason to hang out is to
00:45:30
rehearse. Yeah. That was amazing. Does everyone know about the Gap girls? cuz there's a young okay cuz there's some younger people
00:45:37
here. It was just a sketch where we all worked at the gap. We played girls and
00:45:42
it was infuriating to everyone. And how did you talk? Whatever.
00:45:47
That's right. Weren't you at the folding meeting? Yeah. And I went to the gap and studied
00:45:53
it and they showed how they put a clipboard in the sweaters and pulled them out and fold them out like mesmerized. And then they would
00:46:00
actually, this is when you feel kind of like a big deal cuz if you get a sketch on and you're just some doofus from
00:46:06
Arizona and it's like a dumb sketch about the gap and then when they bring the sketch is
00:46:12
written and it's put up on its feet, they bring in they talked to the gap and brought a whole section of the gap over.
00:46:18
So they had a security guard cuz it would cost so much. It was real pants, real sweaters and it was just a chunk of
00:46:24
the gap they moved in and the gap liked it cuz it was free advertising. Yeah. even though we made them all look like morons, but it was still really
00:46:32
fun. And then uh we all hung out there and uh would practice in there, rehearse, whatever it's called. And uh
00:46:38
it was great. So we did a couple of those. We did Gapperty when it was Jeopardy. It was just a fun way for me,
00:46:43
you and Farley to be in sketches. Yeah. And uh that was that was What was our names again? Uh say it
00:46:49
again. What was our names on then? Christy, Lucy, he was Cindy. And you might have been
00:46:54
Lucy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Does anyone know? something like that.
00:47:00
[Music] Uh do you remember the one that because it a lot of times you don't really get
00:47:08
to rock and roll with somebody in a sketch. So you and I had had a crazy sketch when I came back to
00:47:14
guest host. Dogs. You play drums. What? Pepper boy.
00:47:19
Oh, let's talk about pepper boy. So that Yeah. Yeah. Go incredible. That was like you
00:47:25
and I were peeking on the on the air show. Chris Farley was Tim Meadows was
00:47:30
Farley crossed his eyes. Let's just talk about that for a second. That was Steve Corin started. That's right. Wrote it wrote it. So did
00:47:37
that just two I I was kind of the he was my protege. I was the mentor. I was
00:47:42
obsessed with how to do the pepper. You like huge pepper mill and and Adam was kind of the the
00:47:48
underling and really eager and we we it I'll just set it up for a second.
00:47:53
We did it did well in read through. Yeah. Pretty well in rehearsal. Dress show. Pretty good. Yeah.
00:47:58
Then Steve K comes to me and tells me something you want to do. What was it? Between shows.
00:48:04
So, at one point we had the I was going to uh You were going crazy. You were so
00:48:09
nervous. Remember I slapped you? Comedy. It's always threes
00:48:15
and then I you right. Yeah. With the sound effects. So between dress and air, Steve Corin and the
00:48:20
writer comes in says Adam's going to put the pepper shaker between his legs. So you're going to do this. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:26
And then we timed it great. But we really peaked on air. Yeah. That was amazing. That doesn't
00:48:32
happen every time. We committed so hard. I mean cuz Tim Meadows was sitting there and I was doing the pepper. You like a pepper.
00:48:38
Huh? I mean it became way I don't know if it was sexual or something but we were just on another level.
00:48:44
I every I'd say once a Uh um two weeks if I'm in
00:48:50
a restaurant, a guy with the pepper thing will be like fresh pepper. All right.
00:48:58
Yeah. Yeah. And do you remember what happened? Like Farley was always the best at breaking
00:49:03
people cuz he could be explosively funny. Do you remember his line and what he did on the air? I know what it is, too. We were We flew
00:49:09
in from Tommy Boy. Yes. For just the show and then we had to fly back. Oh. And he goes, "I have a line in Pepper
00:49:16
Boy." And didn't he have a big beard? He had he looked ridiculous. He really hammed it off. He said, "Thank you for
00:49:24
thank you." He said, "I'm going to make you laugh." He goes, "Etsy, I'm going to make you laugh out there."
00:49:30
I think he overed before it started. He goes, "Tetsy, I'm going to make you laugh out there." And
00:49:36
I go, "All right, all right." And then I think he leans back goes, why you boy?
00:49:43
I've never seen a human being transformed like that. He had like 12 chins and perfect amount of pepper but
00:49:51
huge beard for no reason and but he saved it for the air show. Yes, he lost his eyes too.
00:49:58
Adam starts to turn purple. That's the stage. I'm over here. Adam's turning toward me and trying not to go. The
00:50:04
sketch had gone so well that I stayed in character but I said don't break. Do you
00:50:10
remember? Do you remember that? Of course. That's funny man. You were the pro. You were the pro.
00:50:17
The funny thing is is Farley wasn't even supposed to say it that loud. It made no sense. He's supposed to go, "Why? Thank you,
00:50:23
Pepper." Why? Oh, yeah. He he lost his marbles. Lost his mind.
00:50:28
But that was that was an electric sketch for a restaurant sketch. And then Il Canori when we did that.
00:50:34
Well, you guys wrote Il Can that was major was explosive. But you you you would take the reigns.
00:50:41
Murder murder murder. Then we'd have a little thing to do when we were like, "Let's jump on the Dana [ __ ] thunder
00:50:49
storm." Well, I don't quite have you guys killed, too. You and Schneider, but you got them all ready.
00:50:54
That was an Italian restaurant where every all the waiters are too sexual with Christy Ali and all the uh all the
00:51:00
women that come in. They're like, "Oh, bissima. Bissima." I start licking Christy Alli's face. I'm
00:51:06
supposed to lick her face really hard. I remember in rehearsal, I go, "Is this okay?" She goes, "Oh, yeah, go for it. Whatever you want to do in my life.
00:51:14
Oh, you like But you guys were just all, you know,
00:51:19
you and Schneider came in with Schneider had no clothes on or something. I had no clothes on. That was the I was
00:51:26
the guy back then. I could take my [ __ ] shirt off and feel okay. Now there's there's a reason
00:51:33
the sweatshirt's on at all times. He has another shirt in case that somehow falls off.
00:51:40
You know, was another crusher was Lunch Lady Land and a great song. I called Sandler about a year ago. I go,
00:51:45
yes, it's on my iPod and it came in and I This is a good song. When you go sloppy
00:51:50
Joe, Slap, Sloppy Joe. Yeah. I go, the way you write it and it's actually funny and then you do a sketch
00:51:57
and it's funny and then you hear it again, you go, that's actually a good song. Like you can It's always catchy
00:52:02
songs. It's different. sang that. I sang that on my album before I sang it on Saturday Night Live.
00:52:08
Oh yeah. Oh, you did it first. I did it first on the album and Farley was at the taping of my album. And so
00:52:14
when I'm singing on the album, I think I'm in Santa Barbara or I don't remember
00:52:19
where I was. This is a cool club. I I'm sorry I forgot the name of it, but it was a club. We were recording. Farley
00:52:26
was in the crowd going nuts. And then you he's his crazy voice is so when I'm
00:52:31
going slapp you hear Farley going like that and he
00:52:37
never even heard the song before. He just kind of said all right he's going to sing did it. Yeah that was out was that on they're
00:52:44
going to laugh at you which was they're all going to laugh at you two times platinum. That was a biggie.
00:52:50
You're the last guy to really sell comedy albums I think. I don't know if there's there's been some after, but
00:52:55
with that back in the day that was you were on it. Yeah, everybody was. Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy.
00:53:00
The buddies. We did Buddy. Dude, buddy. Dude, homie. Yeah, that was a great one.
00:53:06
What the hell happened to you was another one? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. That was where your real acidy humor
00:53:12
came out on those albums. That was where I got to curse a lot for the first time. And uh David cursed with
00:53:18
me and we all uh we were so excited. It was like being on Saturday night. I just thought it was like jazz. I mean
00:53:25
I mean the one about the announcer with the uh the champion. You say the word champion. It's a golf announcer. You do it.
00:53:31
You say the word champion like 500 times. Go. It's about a a a golfer who um has like
00:53:37
a nine stroke lead and he's on the last hole and he keeps missing putts. And you're the announcer. the announcer
00:53:43
on the champion is is feeling it today and he's about to set the course record
00:53:50
and the champion and then he he puts it and you hear the crowd go oh and well
00:53:55
the champion laughs that off eight stroke lead now he you know all that
00:54:02
kind of [ __ ] and then it gets more and more uh just insane closer to being like choking and he's
00:54:09
like well he's up three strokes hopefully he can put this running and and then it's Blake Clark is doing the
00:54:15
voice of the champ and he's going, "God [ __ ] damn it."
00:54:21
Anyways, those albums were good because like they lay into the crowd of college kids in the summer and then you come back and
00:54:27
you're even bigger on SNL because they're like playing them over and over were the big big deal besides Saturday
00:54:34
Night Live because like you said, I would go out on tour. the kids kids who were coming to see me knew the album, so
00:54:41
they they knew some of the songs, they knew some of the characters, and that definitely re relaxed me on stage. All
00:54:47
of us, we used to have fun. Well, let let's just say cuz you've given me a lot of props that by the time
00:54:53
you you're after about two years in on SNL, you you really were just like topnotch. I mean, you were crushing
00:54:59
consistently on that show and the audience was falling in love with you because,
00:55:05
you know, when you'd sing Hanukkah song, when you would do your guitar or Thanksgiving song, right?
00:55:10
First of all, you actually you're you're a really good acoustic player and you can hold a great melody and then
00:55:16
it's so silly and funny and also watching you enjoy it, not breaking, but just the light in your eyes. It's so
00:55:22
infectious. It was exciting. Yeah. Yeah, man. I remember that. I remember singing that at the table. Uh the turkey song, the
00:55:30
Thanksgiving song for like Smiggel and a couple other writers at the table going
00:55:35
at you know singing it to them and if they laughed I was like oh [ __ ] okay they think it's you're on something.
00:55:41
Yeah, it was a big deal if those guys the great writers on the show when when they would smile at what your idea was like
00:55:47
Jim Downey if he said something was good you were just like even if it didn't get on you were like all right I'm funny now. Yeah, we had we had the A team
00:55:54
there was Smuggle, Genius, Downey, brilliant, you know, we had some writers
00:56:00
helping us. When was your first movie? That was when we did the summer we did Tommy Boy, you did Billy Madison, right?
00:56:06
Yes. Yes. And then and then the next summer, uh,
00:56:11
Abby Gilmore. Abby Gilmore. And then and they those movies kept making more than the other ones. They
00:56:17
give you another one. And then it was Wedding Singer. Wedding Singer. Yeah. And then and then
00:56:23
water boy. I think that was where it was the mic drop at that point. You were a movie star. When you do Happy, you did
00:56:29
of course Billy Madison, but you do Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer and Water Boy within like 24 months or
00:56:36
something. Then Big Daddy, then Big Daddy, another mega monster. Too many. I can't even. You know, when Water Boy came out, I was
00:56:43
hosting and you were there that weekend and we were going to do a bit in the monologue and then you had to fly back. Water Boy was such a [ __ ] They told
00:56:50
us or they told you how much it made and everyone's like, "What the fuck?" And then you you had to get back and I
00:56:57
changed my monologue and I just did standup. I wasn't doing stand up and monologue. You're kidding me. I was supposed to go out with you.
00:57:02
Well, we were going to do audience member, you know, and you go, "Oh, yes. Can I do and you're going to ruin my monologue with questions?" And then they
00:57:08
go, Lauren goes, "Well, you know, you said you had to go." And I go, "All right, well, what do I do?" And he goes,
00:57:13
"Stand up." Oh, really? Aren't you a stand up? I go, "Well, I I [ __ ] never do it anymore."
00:57:19
I go, "Tonight." So, he goes, "Just throw some things together." I go, "So, you can't go practice or run to Catch Rising Star."
00:57:26
So, I put uh some together, but it's so [ __ ] terrifying to monologue anyway. And then cordless mic
00:57:33
and everyone's like, "That is the worst when you're doing standup and you're about to go out and
00:57:40
you look for the mic and then the the guy makes the decision for you're like, don't don't use a hand mic, use this." I
00:57:46
mean, you go and you don't have a [ __ ] mic in your hand. You're like, "Holy [ __ ] what do I do with both my hands?" I go like this. Hey,
00:57:54
I know. We're not used to it, you know. Or a mic stand. I lean on a mic stand. Sometimes it's not there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Looking for a mic
00:58:00
stand to lean on, right? It's just like drowning. Yeah. Yeah. When you first start to stand up, you just hold the mic like this.
00:58:06
Oh god, you're choking. Oh my god. Did you go with Billy? Like we uh I'm
00:58:14
sorry. I remember shooting Billy. Yeah. Madison. And you guys are shooting Tommy Boy and hanging out with hanging out up
00:58:20
in Toronto together. Yeah, we were in the same place cuz we came over there and that was the night when you remember when you did that
00:58:26
thing called there was like a crime scene uh joke with everybody where they go in a room and you go walk in. It's a
00:58:32
crime scene. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so but but Oh yeah, but Adam's
00:58:37
movie was called Billy Madison. Our movie was called Billy the Third. Yeah, it was Billy the third. So we changed it and we just didn't have a we
00:58:44
didn't know what to call it. Of all things, we both have the same lead as the same name. So we eventually changed
00:58:50
ours cuz the name of the movie was Billy the third. But [ __ ] hanging out in Toronto with you and Farley. It
00:58:55
was great. We had a couple weeks together. I hate it. Yeah.
00:59:00
And then uh Oh yeah. So then you do all those movies that seem to work out. We did some movies. Uh by the way, my
00:59:07
wife and I watched Hustle last night. What' you say? Hustle. You saw it.
00:59:13
Yeah. I think it's a great movie. Hustle is a movie he's got coming out. I got a new movie. Yes.
00:59:18
It's on Netflix and it's about It's kind of like Who's meets Rocky meets Moneyball.
00:59:25
Yes. Yes. And you're great in it. I mean, really great. Thank you. Thank you. I It's a It's just a It's a It's just a
00:59:31
really And you you know, it really works as a movie. I got I got teeyed. You got me.
00:59:37
That's so great. Dana, do you feel like cuz you know you had Uncut Gems. That was pretty good, right?
00:59:44
Yes. Thank you, Dana. So then I then I saw that and then I see
00:59:49
this one. It seems like you're either you're I don't know. You're and and the
00:59:55
murder mystery movie. I mean, you're on a roll. I mean, are you feeling like you're more comfortable now? Are you
01:00:02
changing up stuff cuz you seem to be at this other level or is it just from doing it so much?
01:00:08
Uh I think I'm getting older more opportunities guys like the Safy
01:00:13
brothers. Yes. Uh the Safy brothers who your your brother he he kind of did worked with
01:00:20
them as going. They were great friends with Andy and uh I met them god 12 years
01:00:26
ago. They were talking about uncut gems then. Uncut trying to get that going. Yeah. Yeah. I was sort of the muse
01:00:32
for Justin cuz I met him 12 years ago. Um, yeah.
01:00:39
Uh, but those guys are super cool. Very good. Yeah, they did. I think they did a Kate
01:00:45
Spade commercial that Andy, is that how you guys met? Yeah. And I think Andy wrote an idea and
01:00:50
they did it and then it somehow went to the Can Film Festival and then they did a movie called I think Daddy Longlegs
01:00:56
after that maybe. Incredible. And then they just kept getting they were just better and better and better and u did yours and uh you know maybe one day
01:01:03
you'll do another one with them. He's going to make another one. They're writing another one right now. But I I lucked out. I'm getting to do all this
01:01:09
great stuff. Noah Bombbeck, uh PTA, they all hooked me up. They all wrote great
01:01:15
stuff. They asked me to be in it. Um Jim Brooks
01:01:20
is it ever scary cuz these guys do great movies or great TV show and PTA obviously uh one of the best
01:01:28
one of the best ever. And then but you know PTA a little bit but if you get lucky enough you know you're you're
01:01:35
paired up with some great director and and usually on sets like grown-ups and those kind of movies you have more
01:01:40
of a say but if you you have to kind of keep quiet somewhat not totally but
01:01:45
and trust them and do you ever get a feeling where you're like I don't even know if this guy knows what the [ __ ] going I mean that must be scary these guys
01:01:51
cuz they're so good but you go it it's going to work it's they know what they're doing that must be hard you just go you just give yourself to
01:01:57
them cuz you know they're great and uh and you read the script and you you just don't want to let them down and you jump
01:02:03
in uh their world and it is neat. It's neat not not I always feel more
01:02:09
comfortable doing comedy. I'm always uh more at ease going all right we're going to go make a movie and have a great time
01:02:14
and try to come up with the best jokes and make everybody laugh. Love that. I'll love that the rest of my life just
01:02:20
like you guys. This we're addicted to that. But the other stuff I'm getting to do and it's awesome. I know you both
01:02:28
would crush at that also. It's just it's just it's it's just different. It's fun.
01:02:34
Yeah. Uh it's a different day in the trailer. You don't go, "What the fuck?" You know,
01:02:40
"Let me come up with a joke." You're kind of sitting there going, "Oh, I got to get in this mood right now." Well, the jokes are kind of crutchy
01:02:46
because you know how to do it. And you know, yeah, if you have a scene that's not working, you go, "I think we can figure a way out of this if we think of a joke or way
01:02:53
out, which is what you do a lot on a comedy." But in these, you're like, this
01:02:58
is just connecting. It's part of connecting the dots of the bigger picture. So, not a lot has to happen right here. And
01:03:04
it's hard to trust that. That's true. Just do what it is. They'll figure I mean, sometimes they add music or something and you go, "Oh,
01:03:10
I see what they did. It's perfect." Yeah, that's true. You don't know when you're doing it. And then when you're doing it and it's not right, those guys tell you, "Whoa,
01:03:17
whoa, whoa, whoa." And you go, "Whoa." And you feel stupid for a second. You go, "Oh, I was I was giving you a little
01:03:23
extra." And they were like, "Calm down. Calm down. Juice it up a bit.
01:03:28
You're making it real good for the people." And they go, "No, no, yeah." Believe me, they want to see.
01:03:34
Those are the brothers, right? The the brothers, the brothers, Ronnie, uh,
01:03:40
Dana, what else do you have for Adam? We got to take a few questions. We don't I do think it's kind of cool that you
01:03:45
did There's so many movies obviously. Uh, we talked to Drew Barmore about 50 First Dates.
01:03:52
Sweet. Drew was great. Drew gave you answers that were incredible every time. Doesn't Drew
01:03:58
automatically take even a half a question and she [ __ ] goes and she's poetically does a seveninut
01:04:04
answer. Unbelievable. Beginning, middle, and end of every story. She goes, I'm going to guess your next three questions and here's the answers.
01:04:10
Um, when I went to SNL, we were like, okay. Made it easier.
01:04:15
Her talking about being a little kid on SNL. Oh, I know. Yeah. at age seven. By the way, I've listened to I think
01:04:22
every episode of your show. I [ __ ] love this show. It's the best.
01:04:28
I'm so happy for both of you. It's the greatest. Well, it's fun to do cuz you know, like we don't get to hang out with our
01:04:34
friends that much. So, this is our chance to, you know, uh the other one I wanted to ask you, did Anger Man, so you
01:04:40
got to work with Jack Nicholson. Unreal. And and really got to know him. And you
01:04:45
you told a funny story about Peanut Butter just hanging out at his house. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:50
That's right, man. My first day over uh Nicholson's uh we I got there and we're
01:04:57
in and he keeps the house dim. And so I'm sitting in this chair and Jack's
01:05:02
sitting in this chair. We're facing each other about 5 ft away from each other and we're talking and [ __ ] and uh and I
01:05:09
I'm going it's dark enough that I'm going in my head this I don't think this is Jack Nicholson. I I think like they
01:05:16
brought out a a fake one to talk to me and see if I'm okay to talk to the real one. So I'm just going like this and
01:05:24
he's like talking quietly and it doesn't sound like the impression everybody does, you know, whatever.
01:05:31
Let me tell you something. It's not like that. It's kind of like, yeah, man. It's kind of quiet and cool and a little
01:05:38
shane, man. Let me I don't know. He just has a cooler voice, but I'm I was not
01:05:43
really believing it was him. And then uh I do like an hour of that. And then at
01:05:48
the uh at the end of He goes, "You hungry?" or something like that. I said,
01:05:54
"Oh, yeah. Yeah, I could eat." He goes, "You want a sandwich?" And I said I
01:05:59
said, "Yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man." And he's like, "Peb and J." And I
01:06:06
go, "That's [ __ ] great." And then he gets up and walks away. Then he turns around. He looks at me and he goes, "Skippy or Jeff?"
01:06:14
That sounds like I thought also that you went outside for a minute. Oh, yeah. And you're outside. He came out and he
01:06:19
held up the jars. Said skin.
01:06:25
That's right. Such a funny image. Yeah. So I remember your stories cuz that was a very me man.
01:06:31
I ran into him with Laur of of course with Lauren and uh and uh we had dinner
01:06:36
and and he goes and he comes there's an empty seat, you know. Is this stupid? No. No.
01:06:42
Okay. So Lauren and Lauren goes uh we're going to have some spaghetti and uh and uh I was
01:06:50
with Rosie. She's over there. I was over here. There's an empty seat and and Lauren sits here. There's an NBC and
01:06:56
Jack sits next to Rosie and he starts talking. Then he goes, "One time uh I went to the MTV Awards or something or
01:07:03
some goes, I ran out and it was so dark I got in the wrong limo and I sat down
01:07:09
and uh everyone just stared at me and it was Nirvana." And he goes,
01:07:14
and he goes, "We're just and in the wrong limo." I go, "Uhoh." And then she goes, "Did they know who you did they
01:07:21
not know who you were?" And he goes, "Well, that's never happened. Someone didn't know who he was.
01:07:27
Could I tell Quinton Nicholson one? Yeah. Related to SNL. So, Phil Hartman and John Loveven and I are playing the
01:07:34
par three in Studio City. WS it. Yeah. Wins it. So, we're on the green.
01:07:39
We wave the guy on and he shoots it out of bounds and he walks over. We realize it's Nicholson, you know. So, he walks
01:07:46
up and Phil Hartman had dubbed his voice in the movie The Border because they couldn't get a hold of Nicholson. Phil's
01:07:52
very respectful. He goes, "Mr. Nicholson, I dubbed your voice in the movie The Border. One beat and he goes,
01:07:59
"No wonder it was my only stinker." That's a good one. Yeah.
01:08:04
As a joke. Stinker. All right, let's take some questions real quick. We'll get Adam out of here. Uh uh,
01:08:10
by the way, just so you know, before Nicholson did anger management, he
01:08:16
called Lauren. He called Lauren to see if it it was he had Lauren read the script. Oh, really? He goes, "I just just got to
01:08:23
make sure. See if it was funny or something." Yeah. He goes, "I like it. It makes me laugh and let me just" and he goes, "He
01:08:29
is the man." And I skimmed it. He He Yeah, he went through it and he gave it the blessing. So I own owe
01:08:36
Lauren for that, too. We owe Lauren a lot. And Lauren, you appreciate Lauren more and more
01:08:42
every year you're away from the show when he has to deal with the egos, the politics, keeping the sensibility in a
01:08:49
certain frequency. If he left, it could turn into hehaw in a second. Oh, man. He likes smart. He likes big laughs. So,
01:08:56
there's a lot of lot of respect for Lauren Michael. Very true. All right. How are we gonna do Q&A? How do we do it?
01:09:02
Oh, they line up over there. Okay. Line up with him. If anybody has a question, we'll do a couple and then we'll get this uh
01:09:07
Greg Holtzman. We'll get you guys to the other 300 shows tonight.
01:09:14
[Music] All right. Here we go. Hi there. Oh, we're starting.
01:09:20
Yeah. Okay. Go ahead, young man. Hey, man. Thank you. Uh, so I was wondering, you were talking about uh like childhood
01:09:26
things that you remember. What was the first like extravagant purchase you made when you sort of made it big?
01:09:33
That's a good one. I I got my leather jacket that you remember. I got a Blaze Academy movie and I bought
01:09:38
a $400 leather jacket that was too heavy, but I couldn't give it up. It was like a motorcycle one and it hurt my
01:09:46
neck, but I wanted to wear it. And then I think I wore the improv when I first I was around Adam. And
01:09:52
the first thing you ever said to me was, "Can you unzipper me?" Can you help me get it off and I have to
01:09:58
lay down now? That was it. Mine was leather jacket. Dana, what do you got? What did you get
01:10:04
with my own money that I bought? I think I bought went out. My father had a a
01:10:10
green, dark green and light green 78 Cadillac Fleetwood or some [ __ ] when I
01:10:17
was in high school. When I my first big move, I went out to an old Cadillac place. They didn't have that color, but
01:10:23
I got that same caddy and had them paint it that color. That was like my big
01:10:29
first move. That's cool. Big boy. How much? Can I change mine?
01:10:34
You must have got more than the leather jacket based on your home sales recently.
01:10:41
Sorry. You did well. David invested well. Yes. What was your What did you get? Uh, my wife and I did
01:10:48
a silly thing. We walked in in Cino. We walked into a Mercedes dealership and we bought Mercedes cars, like $100,000
01:10:55
cars. I bought a convertible coupe and I drove it for like a week and it had a plastic windshield. Like, what the [ __ ]
01:11:02
I So, I got I put took it back and got a sedan. That was just during my German
01:11:07
phase, you know. I had a I have a Volvo now. It's very unsexy.
01:11:12
What a loser. Go ahead. Next one. Yeah. I was going to ask you about the origins of your trademark, you know,
01:11:19
Adam Sandler voice, but you kind of already answered that. Yeah. But so my next question is um do your
01:11:24
daughters do like an Adam Sandler impression? Like they do everybody go like they're all funny or whatever.
01:11:31
They don't do that. They don't know that album yet. But um they do both do the
01:11:38
Oh yeah. See, they do. That's the every time I'm trying to be funny and it it doesn't
01:11:44
work. They go, "Oh, that's funny that you asked that."
01:11:50
Thank you. Thanks, man. Sorry, I'm I'm shorter. Hi. Hi, guys. Big fan. My name is Shalice. I'm from
01:11:56
Houston. Nice to see you, buddy. So, my question is, um, what out of all the films you guys have, if you guys can
01:12:02
go back and do a sequel to any of y'all's previous films, what would it be? Uh, [ __ ]
01:12:09
Wayne's World 3. Wayne's Guard. Wayne's World 3. guards at 60.
01:12:16
I got to get some Flowmax. Flowax.
01:12:21
I don't know if it would work. Go ahead, Adam. We've done so many movies. What would be the sequel?
01:12:26
What would you What was the I can't think of the name right now with that you did with the Cage and Love it.
01:12:33
Oh, Trapped in Paradise. Trapped in Paradise. That'd be fun to just work with this Cage. That was a tough shoot, wasn't We fell
01:12:39
down in the snow and yeah, we just You were doing Brad Gay a bit, right? I was doing Brad Gay and and Mickey
01:12:46
Roar. I don't know what you're doing, but I wouldn't do it. I was doing Mickey Ro. The studio flew
01:12:53
in from LA. We were in the middle of the woods in Canada and said, "You got to stop doing that." Really? Yeah. But
01:12:59
but Nicholas Kate said, "I would do it anyway."
01:13:06
He was a great character. I guess that's it, right? I don't know. What would you do a sequel to? You have you have so many movies.
01:13:11
No idea. I I liked them all. I like doing Grown-Ups with Davey because we all hung out. We all
01:13:17
We had Grown-Ups could could work. Yeah. Three.
01:13:22
Well, whatever. Whatever it is. I like to do it with It's always great when you're with your friends. Grown-ups. We
01:13:28
We literally got to do this every day. Sit in chairs, hang out, try to be funny, and uh and cut around it. Yeah,
01:13:36
that thing's been keeping the lights on at TBS for the last seven years.
01:13:41
That's on and on heavy rotation, but I love it. I love grown-ups. That was great. Great memories.
01:13:47
Yeah. Thank you for that question. Thank you. Uh, cheers. You guys are wonderful. This
01:13:53
is amazing. Hey, man. I My question I suppose you guys have written for so many different like
01:14:00
wonderful projects in both film and TV and of course on Saturday Night Live. And my question was um do you think that
01:14:08
to properly like kind of well like master that sort of craft do you think it's like writing as much as you can
01:14:16
like every day is really the proper way to get to a point where you feel
01:14:21
comfortable with your writing or do you think also I suppose uh do you think it's also helpful to like try and
01:14:28
collaborate with other people that you know you'd work well with or something? Sounds a little like John Malany, this
01:14:34
guy. Uh, I would say my my if I would take that, I my first answer would be if
01:14:41
it's standup, just get as much stage time as time as you can. And uh, if it's writing, I think it's just more is
01:14:48
better. Collaborating or writing by yourself, just anything you can do until something sticks, I would say.
01:14:54
Right. Writing. Right. I remember I lived with Appatau when I was young.
01:14:59
Jud, great writer. And Appetile, he was the first one of us that would write. Yeah. He was smart.
01:15:05
He used to sit in his room and write skits all the time for for Sat. He
01:15:11
wasn't on Saturday Night Live, but he would write kind of he would collaborate with people and he was smart. He made himself like a producer cuz that was a valuable thing
01:15:18
to help someone do what they're doing. Jim Carrey or you. Well, I would say what is your name?
01:15:23
Uh, my name is Ambrose. Okay. All right. Ambrose. That's all right. It's a cool name.
01:15:29
That's a great Chardonnay. No. Anyway, Ambrose, I would just say initially that
01:15:35
seems like too much pressure to me to try to go in a room and stuff. If you're a comedy writer, just write everything
01:15:41
down. That's what George Carlin said. So, if you're out with your friends, a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something.
01:15:48
Make sure you either record it or write it down and just do it spontaneously all the time. And your headset gets into
01:15:55
that. Yeah. It's hard to just sit and write and be funny. It happens all day. And if you just write it when it happens and
01:16:00
don't say, you'll remember it later because you won't. So just write it, write it, write it. And then you collect it and go, is there anything here? Is
01:16:06
there anything here? That stuff's very valuable. You basically only need to write five good jokes your whole life. And then
01:16:12
like David, you use that the rest of your life in different ways. Yeah.
01:16:20
It's a spade roast. It's all right. Thank you guys so much. Good luck.
01:16:25
Thank you, bros. All right. What do we got? I'm BR. Hi. Um, I have a favor to ask you guys.
01:16:33
It's my nephew's 15th birthday, and I was
01:16:38
ahead. It was my nephew's 15th birthday today, and I was wondering if I could make a video of you guys saying happy birthday
01:16:43
to him. Imagine if we said no and meant it. You know, you know, when your video,
01:16:51
what's his name? What's his name? Nicholas. Nicholas. And we're going to sing. Or do you want us to film it and then
01:16:56
send it to you? And the whole theater sings happy birthday to Nicholas. Happy birthday
01:17:03
to you. Happy birthday to you.
01:17:10
Happy birthday dear dear Nichol.
01:17:18
Happy birthday to
01:17:24
you.
01:17:32
Thank you. Trying to harmonize a little bit. It's my niece. Oh, sorry.
01:17:37
Hey, guys. My name is Testosterone, man.
01:17:44
Um, my name is Al and I want to say that it's um my grandma's dying and it's her birthday today and if we could sing
01:17:50
happy birthday to her that would be incredible. What has changed? What is her name?
01:17:56
No, but for real uh this is such a [ __ ] treat. Good luck. This is such a [ __ ] treat for all of
01:18:02
us cuz you guys are all just such pillars of comedy. Yeah. So, thank you.
01:18:07
You too, David. He's rolling.
01:18:12
Here here's my real question. So how you know as as when you're watching you guys
01:18:19
we pretend we're you. We see ourselves in you and [ __ ] like that. So when you did Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin
01:18:24
Yeah. And then when you did that scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman being you in those moments is like
01:18:30
[ __ ] incredible. So how was it being you in those moments? It was very cool co-stars.
01:18:36
Yeah. Two. You're funny as [ __ ] by the way. Good job. Right.
01:18:43
But he's alo in the Netflix festival. You got a great name for a comedian.
01:18:49
God, you you're so psyched you followed Ambrose, too.
01:18:54
Like he's going to take it down. Ambrose is looking for pen and paper. You David, did you tune out?
01:19:02
David tuned out. So, uh, uh, Steve Martin, of course, all our
01:19:08
heroes. Yeah, we love the great of all of all time. First time Hall of Famer, Steve Martin.
01:19:14
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Probably the number one ballot for us, right? Say again. He was probably the number one guy.
01:19:20
Memorized his albums on his albums. Wild and Crazy guy. All all the [ __ ] Steve Martin did. So, of
01:19:25
course, being in a movie with him with him was just staring at him and waiting for like quiet moments to run over and
01:19:32
say something and if hopefully he'd respond. And um so I loved that and he was very nice to me. And then um uh
01:19:39
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Yeah, [ __ ] great guy. Great. Great to tour to for guy. He came he was just a
01:19:47
very good funny man. Took it serious. Went went hardcore and when we worked
01:19:54
together by the way. Philip Seymour Hoffman, I don't know if you guys know
01:19:59
this. So we're doing Billy Madison. I think we wrote Oh, no. The Happy
01:20:08
Gilmore. No, maybe Billy Madison. We wrote for Bob Odenkirk. Wrote that for Bob Odenkirk, the bad guy
01:20:14
in the movie. Uh, and the [ __ ] studio wouldn't allow it. They're like, "You can't just have your friends." And we
01:20:20
were like, "No, he's [ __ ] great." And and they said no. And Bob, he was a writer. They said no.
01:20:27
So, I think that's how how it went. I think it's okay. So, we wanted Bob. They said no. They put out uh you got to
01:20:35
audition, you know, audition people. Philip Seymour Hoffman auditioned and I was in Toronto getting ready to make the
01:20:43
movie and it still wasn't cast yet. I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman. I was laughing my ass off. I'm going, who the
01:20:49
[ __ ] is this guy? He's hilarious. So I tell the people I show Universal, can we
01:20:55
have this guy? Are you good with him? I mean I mean you [ __ ] said no to Odenkirk. Are we okay with this guy? And
01:21:01
they were like, and it took some talking into it and then they said, yes. Then we offered it to him and we get this call
01:21:09
back like, yeah, he's not he doesn't want to do it. And we were like, he doesn't want to do what you mean. He auditioned. And so I go, let me [ __ ]
01:21:15
talk to him, this guy, and tell him how great he is. And I called him up and I said, hey, it's Adam. And he's like, oh,
01:21:22
hey, Adam, blah, blah, blah. And I said, hey, man, I saw your tape. You're so great, buddy. And they said you don't
01:21:28
want to do it. And he goes, oh, thanks, man. I go, "Do you do you want to do it or or" And he goes, "Oh, I can't." I go,
01:21:35
"Oh, why not?" He goes, "I just don't want to." And I go, "Okay, you sure? We're going
01:21:43
to have That's a great answer. Isn't that great? I don't want to." I go, "I really love you." And he goes, "I know you do."
01:21:51
I swear to God. I go, "Wow, confidence." Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to have that job.
01:21:56
Thank you guys. Hey, when you get bored and you want to go to YouTube, go to cryptojunkies easy. I'll make you rich.
01:22:03
[Applause] Cardano,
01:22:08
brother. He's going.
01:22:14
Hi guys, my name is Denny. Uh, just want to just want to thank you guys. You guys are my comedy heroes. Moved out to LA
01:22:20
for my pursuit of SNL as my dream. So, I've been looking up to you guys my whole life. Oh, that's sweet. Welcome. How you
01:22:26
doing? Are you doing standup and stuff like that? All over. All over. North Hollywood. I produce a show and No.
01:22:32
Oh, really? What's your name? Denny Glasser. Denny Glasser. That's a great name. It's a
01:22:38
I'm going to pass out. Thank you. Still with this or no? Dr. Denny would be a good moniker. Dr.
01:22:44
Denny's in the house. I'm just saying. Thank you. Uh, my only question I wanted to ask is what was the first impression
01:22:51
or character that you guys did that you knew you could do this for a career? Oh, I could do Michael J. Fox real good.
01:22:59
Okay, that was David. That was David. What was yours? My first impression many impressions,
01:23:04
did you? I did. No, I used to do them around the house. I did the basic I used to do uh
01:23:09
Rich Little stuff, you know. Yeah. Yeah, me too. John John Wayne and uh John Wayne. Yeah. Well, yeah. I used to wear a cowboy hat
01:23:16
around the house. Well, I'll do that like I would cook for my
01:23:22
parents. What's bacon and eggs? Oh, gross. I know. So,
01:23:28
oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about you? Who was your first Casey Kasem? You guys do that.
01:23:34
Checking in at number five, the boss. Bruce Springsteen. A man and his guitar.
01:23:40
A man who likes to call his guitar his own. Uh, I was 9 years old. The Beatles came
01:23:47
on Ed Sullivan. The next day I was I walked up to my mom and I said, "Hey, do you think I could get me some pancakes?
01:23:55
She screamed." She didn't know what I was doing. But that was my first time I knew I could
01:24:02
alter my voice is doing a liver puddling accent. All right. Well, good luck to you, buddy. Thank you for asking.
01:24:08
Love you, buddy. Danny, good luck that we got to go. We got to go. Thank you for your time. Thanks, Adam.
01:24:16
Thanks for your questions. Thank you guys. You guys were awesome. And thank you so
01:24:21
much for coming out to the Wilter. Take care. Bye folks. Thanks David.
01:24:27
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