Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - SARAH SILVERMAN Went to the Bedford Mall Cinemas

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

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Hi, Pashi. Hi, Sufi. How are you? I'm good. Very nice to see you. Hopefully people know these aren't recorded the day you're listening to them, but I can tell you that the day we're recording this intro, and it's very fitting because we're talking to a fellow Granite stater, Sarah Silverman, it is the day of the New Hampshire

primary. Yeah. It was always such a big deal for us. It was such a big deal. We were very lucky. Yeah. I was student council president, and every candidate came through. It was the year that Clinton won.

So Clinton, Bill Clinton was there. I met Paul Songhus. I met Paul Simon. I was in a tiny meeting room with like 10 people and Bill Clinton. Also, he's speaking at a high school where there were maybe like 20 kids of voting age. Yeah. Which was just crazy. And I would say that those kids who are old enough to vote were probably the ones least

likely to care about their representation in government. There was a little hotel that we spent one night in when we first moved to New Hampshire. Sheridan Wayfair. The Sheridan Wayfair, which I don't think is there anymore, but it was. It's not. The hub. It was where everyone stayed. It was where every political operative stayed. It was where every candidate stayed. And it is crazy to me that we're the first primary. Like I also. It's very crazy. I don't feel like it's wrong that the Democratic Party has moved it to South Carolina. I feel like that's a bit more representative. It is weird.

I will say a couple of things about all that. The Sheridan Wayfair, I remember later when I was in college, I started reading all these old Hunter S. Thompson articles he wrote for Rolling Stone. And he would go to New Hampshire and cover things like the primaries. And he stayed at the Sheridan Wayfair. And I remember being blown away that someone was writing about a place that I had driven by and even stayed once. That was one of the coolest things. Also, when you were student council president, major flex. I was class treasurer and I got to introduce Jerry Brown, who then went on, of course, to be governor of

California. And all the kids, when you introduced a on, of course, to be governor of California. And all the kids, when you introduced a candidate, you had to wear a suit and tie. But I, I'm sure it was mostly just tie. I don't think any of us had suits. Yeah. You had a blazer. Probably khaki pants, weird blazer and tie. But I, because Jerry Brown didn't wear a tie, I got to wear a flannel shirt when he introduced Jerry Brown.

So that was very, very cool. I got the long straw. Yeah. As they say. I also remember the Jennifer Flowers story broke a night that a bunch of us went to see Bill Clinton speak. And I remember confidently saying to everybody, this guy is toast. He's never going to be president. And I try to keep that in mind now because I think because I talk about politics on my show, people think I have some sense of what's going to happen and I have no sense ever about what's going to happen. Yeah.

Wrong way more than I'm right. Particularly in New Hampshire. Yeah. I love also the results that come in from Dixville Notch. Dixville Notch. The first place that votes and it's always like there's 12 votes and- Yeah. I think it was only six this year. Okay.

Yeah. It was only six this year and it was a clean sweep for nicky haley six six nothing gotcha dicksville notch so you know maybe that was maybe you're listening to this now being like well the people at dicksville certainly didn't have their finger on the pulse of the rest of the state yeah i i have to i have to call you out on something oh good not politics related mom politics related, mom related. Oh, no. Two things. One, you just had Clive Owen on your show. Yeah.

He has a new show. What's his new show called? Monsieur Spade. I talked to mom. She said she was so disappointed in your pronunciation of monsieur. And that you even said to clive owen like oh my mother was a french teacher and she had to put her head in her hands that you couldn't do monsieur wait she had to put her head down she was like he could have called me so that's one. And the other one is fantastic. So we play Wordle with our family.

We have a competition. Everyone does it every day. And you send your sort of your blocks. You don't send the answer, but everyone knows how much you got it in. And it's just the four of us and Mackenzie, my fiance's on it, who joined the Wordle group for one month. Every month, somebody wins. She joined for one month. Every month, somebody wins. She joined for one month, she won, and then she hasn't played since,

which is kind of a baller move. Yeah, a very baller. And stayed on the text chain, which is even, that's actually the least baller. Well, that's her entree to sort of being in a text thread. Being in the chats, yeah. But you sort of like had stopped responding to a bunch of stuff from mom,

and you were like, I don't know if I'm getting mom's texts. And it turns out you had blocked her. I blocked mom. I don't know how it happened. And let me say, I tried to FaceTime mom. Her contact was blocked. I had, so I called her. I'm like, will you FaceTime me?

It was blocked. And the most shameful part, I thought it was a lock that the error was on her end. Oh, my God. I mean, she has enough technological difficulty as it is. And then for you to block her is just, yeah. And by the way, Dad said she's been bitching about you for a month, like how you're not responding. It would be very out of character for me. I think there are times certainly where I might slow play a response to one of our parents, but to ice mom

for a month is nonsense. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. So shout out to dad who actually finally was the guy who figured out what the problem was. Yeah. think he probably went to the the old genius bar where i think he might be a frequent visitor he has a uh it's like one of those little uh plaques that they put at the end of a bar for someone who like has a problem but it's for dad it says yeah reserved for larry what's wrong larry i don't know i don't know it's not working uh so anyway yeah that was bad uh double so a real double whammy for mom that I butchered monsieur and then also had her le bloc. Here's a real, you know,

obviously not keeping it a secret, turned 50, right? Yeah. So this weekend, Saturday night, told you, had the kids to myself. They're upstairs. I should note, I also had help. I sometimes feel like, you know, when I say kids, we also have a nanny.

So I was not with three kids. Gotcha. Also, it's important to say this because the kids were in the bath and I didn't want to say. I got three kids in the bath. I'm downstairs. So anyway, there's eyes on the kids. So I go down and Frisbee, we got Frisbee.

Her little dog bed is in the bathroom of the guest room. Yeah? Sure. Yeah. You can picture it. Yeah. But guest room light situation sucks. The light switch on the wall doesn't turn anything on.

You got to go manually turn lamps on. Anyway, she's barking. Our dog barks when she wants a blanket on top of her because she's tiny and cold all the time so she's barking and i go in lights aren't working and they never work and so i just i'm like all right i know how to walk to the thing i can manage this in the dark right so i walk towards and i go into the bathroom and then i hear a rustling and poshie i swear to god i thought And then I hear a rustling and Pashi, I swear to God, I thought someone's behind the door. I'm about to get attacked.

And so I pulled the door open and it was this outdoor umbrella that we just store there had been started to tip. And I was hearing the rustling of the umbrella against the door. Yeah. And as I pulled the door open, this thing cracked me on the head. Oh yeah. And just started bleeding. Big old lump right here. And had to go upstairs with ice pack on my head. Ash, the oldest, was very upset.

The other kids were just sort of fascinated. And so I had a real, man, oh, man. Now I'm this dude, right? I turn 50. I go skiing the next day. I wore a big old bandaid on my head. Yeah, got to. You know, like old people do.

Yeah. Like just like old people who just have band-aids on their face. The other thing about a band-aid on your head, you kind of forget you have it. So I kept running into people and they're like, what happened? I'm like, what are you talking about? And they're like, you're wearing a gigantic band-aid. So I feel like I'm 80. I feel like I turned 50, what are you talking about? And they're like, you're wearing a gigantic band-aid. So I feel like I'm 80. I feel like I turned 50, but really I turned 80.

Also, last night I come home and opening, literally opening the front door to my apartment, one of the kids says something. I open the door into my head. So now I've got a second thing here. You might have been looking at this lump thinking that was the umbrella. Two, in the course of of three days i hit my head twice and then i told my wife and you know what she said was that oh she

goes that's a bad sign literally her take was like you're you might be dying anyway well you know geico's bringing that whole caveman thing back and maybe you're trying to get that like big thick brow in solidarity in the early swelling it did sort of push my eyebrows down this umbrella was in the guest room yeah well this is also this is a weekend that mom and dad were supposed to be there it could have killed them and dad got sick and so they canceled so not only are there no lights in that bathroom, which isn't going to help their cause any, but you had it booby trapped. I had it booby trapped. Yeah.

I will say this thing hit me in the head so hard and I managed to pull it together and not be a maniac. If that thing had hit dad in the head, I think he would have burned the fucking house down. Do you think Alexi booby trapped it to try and crack that on the bean? Oh, and then when she realized, when they canceled,

she was trying to get through to me, like, don't go in the guest room. There was also a soda labeled in the fridge that said, for Larry only. And then I poured it down the sink and the sink all burned up all right well i think we've talked enough about politics yeah oh boy uh new hampshire primary was today i got a bad feeling i think we all know what's gonna happen but

what you don't know what's gonna happen is this conversation with really one of our favorite people, Sarah Silverman. The best. She's just the best. And you're going to find that out really soon. But first, you're going to listen to our other great friend, Jeff Tweedy. Family trips with the Myers brothers. With the Myers Brothers Family Chips With the Myers Brothers

Here we go Hey. Oh my goodness. Look at this beautiful friend. Oh. Howdy beautiful friend. Oh. Howdy, neighbor. Hi. How are you?

Seth, Josh and I are neighbors. Do you know that? You're neighbors in Los Angeles as well? Yeah. I did not know that. Yeah. What do you mean, as well? We've got to get it out of the way for any of our listeners who don't know the crazy detail about us and Sarah. Josh, do you want to do the honors? Well, sure.

I mean, we're from the same hometown. Woo! Bedford, New Hampshire. Bedford, New Hampshire. I feel like your Bedford pride isn't quite as strong as ours, Sarah. I think it isn't, but not for any reason. I mean, it's nice. Yeah.

I mean, but you were born in Bedford and then moved to Manchester, yeah? I was actually born in Concord, but we lived in Manchester and then moved to Bedford. Okay. I went to McKelvie. I was just talking about McKelvie. McKelvie is the middle school

where our mother taught and Sarah, all of us went. We did go to separate high schools. And this is very briefly, we'll just mention that Adam Sandler is from our neighboring town of Manchester, New Hampshire. And I just want to stress that wanting to be in comedy, I remember when I saw Adam for the first time

on David Letterman. I don't know how I knew he was from here, but I think I knew. And I thought, oh my God, someone from here can make it. Then I remember in college seeing Sarah on SNL and I definitely knew you were from Bedford. And then I thought, well, they're not going to have three. I'm definitely, we're out now. Yeah. But there was room.

I understand you thinking that, but it turned out there was room. Plenty of room. Yeah. Sarah, I don't know if you remember the first time we met. It was really big for my life, for moving to L.A. Oh, yeah, of course. Yes. But my friend Ike Barinholtz and I came to see you at the Comedy Central space, like down near the Hudson Theater. Maybe it was part of the Hudson Theater.

And we saw you do a show. Seward. And it was great. Yeah, the HBO workspace. Sure. Sure. So we saw you do a show and I introduced myself afterwards. And, you know, you were great and it was such a fun show.

And you're like, oh, yeah. Like my parents told me you were moving out here. Nice to meet you. Do you guys want to play wiffle ball? And we were like, what? And you were like, yeah, I got a bat and balls in my car. And we went out to the parking lot. And me and my buddy who like we're doing a two-person show.

That was Ikeke i think so and we just played wiffle ball in this parking lot and we couldn't believe it like we were sort of we were awestruck by you and that you were so friendly and so nice and we're like let's go play wiffle ball and i remember somebody hit a ball and it went off of a truck and the driver of the truck was all mad. And I can't remember if you were, if you got lippy to him in that moment or after he drove away, but you were like, the guy drives a truck and he's going to be mad about his truck getting hit by a wiffle ball. It was fabulous. It was really fun. You were so nice. And we were fresh off the boat and to see someone do a show and like crush and then be like, and yeah, let's go play wiffle ball in the parking lot.

It was the nicest. I remember it only slightly differently. But I do remember meeting you and it was like, oh, wow, it's so exciting when you meet someone from New Hampshire, let alone your same hometown. I mean, it never happens, you know? And I was so excited. And then you walked me to my car and it was in a parking lot, an outdoor parking lot with lights

and all the other cars had gone pretty much. And I always kept like, you know, stuff in my car and I had like a wiffle ball and a bat. And that's just the perfect scenario. I mean, we could play in a whole parking lot under the lights. That I, you know, that was just like, that was a very unique scenario where it really warranted it. If Josh had been 10 years younger,

this is definitely how an abduction story starts. Right. You kids like wiffle Ball? There's a level seven of the parking garage. It's pretty quiet. So, Sarah, having grown up in the same part of the country as us, Josh, it's weird because Josh and I have very different tastes of what we like from our vacations.

You know, our family would go skiing and josh is now a skier i could care less about it were you guys a ski trip vacation family a little bit um i i learned to ski when i was six at waterville valley yeah oh yeah and we would go to what pat's peak loon yep snow yeah. Yeah, we would take vacations. The one vacation we did in the winter, we would go to Mount Snow, or the Balsams, it was called. And we'd see them on the way. It was like Dixfield Notch. There was the man in the mountain.

The old man in the mountain. Old man in the mountain. It's very nice. You've never been an ageist. You're always like, he was just a man to you. Age didn't, you didn't see his age. Oh, it was the old man in the mountain? The old man in the mountain.

And he's gone now. He's gone now. Very sadly. Well, I'm not ageist. I just, he was a man. Maybe he was, I don't know if he was a man. Yeah, when the first people that saw the old man in the mountain, the first, I mean, not the first people,

because those would have been more indigenous people. But they were like, look, it's like, it's George Washington or something like they like, were like, it's, he's become a man of stone. Like he looks over Northern New Hampshire. Is that true? Is that really the story of it? I believe so. And it was the symbol of hampshire i think people might not know the old man in the mountain but he's like he's on our quarter he's on our state seal and it collapsed several years ago and the head of the new hampshire board of tourism was on the news in tears is that true yeah it was held up we have nothing now we do i mean it was our thing yeah and uh it's gone it's gone gone because now they're like do you

guys want to you're in new hampshire you should go see the mountain mountain i can't even believe that that's the story of the man in the mountain like it's a new hampshire story you would have thought it was just like some guys were like those in fucking face and that's how then somebody yeah that fucking face i now i know those that are native to our state will take offense, but I've always thought it speaks to maybe the lack of things to do that Old Mountain Face was such an important part of it. You know, I was like, we didn't take family trips. I'm trying to think for this thing.

But the truth is, on the way to the ski, we would sometimes do a week at, was called mount snow or something and then on the way we'd stop at this um holiday inn but it was it was called the i don't know what it's called but it it was it it had a wonder dome that's what it was called and it was an indoor pool with a couple video games and like a train that was a restaurant and parents could just dump their kids there. And that became me and my sister, Jodine. We were the two younger ones. The older ones were just gone and we loved it there. So then our vacation ended up being, we would once a year take a weekend and go to the Holiday Inn Wonder Dome. And then my parents would get to like go out and we would, you know, play.

And the whole place just smelled so thick of chlorine. And I loved it. Yeah. As you described it, I was smelling chlorine. Yeah. It's that chlorine smell, like that hot chlorine. And I think a dome might actually be the worst shape to catch that chlorine. Well, it catches it and it just rotates it back around to the sides.

How many hours would you spend just at a pool at that age? Because I feel like my kids would be fully... All of them. Yeah, like five hours. As many as you were given. Yeah. All of them. Did you go to sort of like those classic northern New Hampshire tourist places?

Did you go to Clark's Train Bears or Story? What was it called? Story Village. Story Village or Story Village. They had the old lady in the shoe, the giant shoe. Yeah. I remember that. I mean, I've driven by it, you know, semi recently.

And you look at it and you're like, oh my God, that's so small. But when you are so small, it's wonderful. And it's all your favorite fairy tales come to life. Yeah. Oh, right. Mother Goose and the old lady that lives in the shoe. I remember those. Yeah.

And it's funny. If we went back now, I'm sure it would be filthy. Yes. Or at Canobie Lake Park. Yeah. Yeah. Canobie Lake Park. Yeah. Yeah. Canobie Lake Park is a great, well, great. It's an amusement park.

And we used to take field trips and go there. It was our local amusement park. There was one ride, famous in my mind, the Turkish Twist. Yeah. Yes. Which was a spin around ride. You would get in and it would spin super fast and you'd get stuck against the wall and then the floor would drop out. I'm picturing it. I remember it so well.

Yeah, it was the scariest ride at the park. Because you could watch people doing it. Yeah, you could stand at the top and watch and you'd like get stuck to the wall and put yourself in like a funny position and try to move your arm around. You sort of would look like a hieroglyphic. But yeah, I feel like I went on it once. I think I threw up. I never went on it. I only watched. Seemed too dangerous. I don't know if it's an urban myth or if it actually happened, but I remember the threat that people would always say before you went on the Turkish twist was if you puked, it would go right back in your face. Yeah. I mean, I think it would have to, I threw up after I got off the ride. Got it. Yeah. I was trying to get my bearings. There was a traveling carnival that

came to the Bedford mall and my sister, Joe Dean went on a date. She was like a freshman in high school with this boy and they went on the teacups and the whole time she was like making fun of him, like pretending to almost throw up, you know, and she didn't know he was getting sick. And he vomited on the teacups, spinning, whipping around and everyone got covered in puke except for my sister. Wow. Did they keep going out? No, that was it. Why? They were friends.

The Bedford Mall, which was a big deal, a real important part of my childhood. But I remember going there. And being a parent now, I realize how frustrated the dad was because i went with another friend's family and so i was a plus one and i went on one ride and then said i'm sick and i want to go home and i just remember how beaten down this dad was realizing wait what just and it was a lot of like you want to sit there for a second also drive 10 minutes to get you home and then 10 minutes to get back. It's not like things were far apart in Bedford. That's true.

I mean, listen, we're always, you know. Did you spend a lot of time at the Bedford Mall? Was that? So much time at the Bedford Mall. And I don't know if you know this. My mother was the voice of Bedford Mall Cinemas when you called to. Oh, I listened to your mom. Back in our day,

you had to call and the movie person at the movie theater would be like, you know, Bedford Mall Cinemas, one, two, three, four, blah, blah, blah. And my mother went to complain that she couldn't understand what he was saying. He had no diction. And they go, you want to do it? And she was like,

well, I, okay. So this, she literally got the job because she complained about who had the job. Mm-hmm. That's the best. Would she get paid, do you think? Is that like, because you got to keep recording. New movies are always coming in, new showtimes.

No, she wasn't paid, but we could all go to the movies for free. Wow. That's a fair trade. In the barter system, you can't ask for more than that. That is also the most New England response to, I can't understand this guy. Do you think you can do a better job?

People are calling to hear what movies are playing, and they can't understand him. It was like, you know, you couldn't mess up. She couldn't mess up. She'd have to start over. And she recorded in the popcorn room, which was they bought all this pre-made popcorn and then put it in the popcorn machine, which is something I did not realize. And she would be like, thank you for calling.

My mother had a very breathy, like, you know, she talked like, you know, Shelley Long on Cheers or something. Thank you for calling Bedford Mall Cinemas 1, 2, 3, and 4. We're all bargain matinees. They're only $2 Monday through Saturday. Now playing Annie with Aileen Quinn and blah, blah, blah. Albert Finney. The way you're saying it makes it sound like kids my age would just call up. We would pretend like we wanted movie times,

but we just wanted to hear this breathy lady. Hear that woman speak. Very breathy. I remember you would call, and sometimes you had to call a bunch of times. It was often busy to call to get the movies. So you'd call and call and call and then when you got it whoever was on the phone would just scream out to the family what the movies were and the show times and somebody would have to scribble it down which is so funny to me

because also there were newspapers then i was just gonna say you couldn't get a newspaper get the union leader yeah yeah i mean we were getting the boston globe we weren't getting the union leader so we didn't have those local shows true so maybe that's on us maybe we needed to get the union leader or the uh the bedford bulletin oh i didn't know your father had a clothing store yes crazy sophie's factory outlet i wish i his ads. I have a couple of his radio ads, which he did himself. And radio's time must have cost literally nothing because they were probably two and a half minutes long. He wanted to buy the whole break. Yeah. Between rock blocks. He was crazy Donnie. His store was called Crazy Sophie's Factory Outlet.

And he just made up a woman's name to sound like. So Sophie had no, didn't mean anything. No, it was women's discount clothing. And he wanted to be like Crazy Eddie from New York. So he was Crazy Donnie. And it was called Crazy Sophie's Factory Outlet. And his mother's best friend was Sophie Muscat. And she would say, you named that after Sophie Muscat. And he said, Mom, if I named it after Sophie Muscat, I'd name it Ugly Sophie's Factory Outlet. It's very funny to me to think that women would want to buy clothing from a place that had crazy in the title.

They didn't. But it was very discounted. He had like brands you've never heard of in your life, but yeah. Would you spend time in the store? Would you be there a lot? Yeah. Did you work there? No, my sisters did. I was the youngest. I didn't work there. Yeah. I remember it. It was like, you know, my dad had a van.

It was just filled with clothes, you know. It's very funny. We grew up in an era where a lot of advertising had a crazy person in charge of a store. The idea being that they were so crazy that you would just be able to rip them off. The deals were so good because they were just insane. They don't know better. They're, yeah, clinically crazy. This is what my dad said.

He'd go, I'm Crazy Donnie from Crazy Sophie's Factory Outlet. When I see prices at the mall, I just want to vomit. Come to Crazy Sophie's. Spend your time at the mall. Spend your money at Crazy Sophie's.

So when you're too cheap to buy the very best, to crazy sophies kind of an amalgamation by the way so confusing that it's crazy sophies and he's crazy donnie everything about it it's so much pipe for you know to lay just for a very quick ad there's well i mean quick. It sounds like you had a two and a half minute ad. Very long. He had a lot of pipe in the back room with the pre-made popcorn. Look at this, tying it all together.

Absolutely. Basically, my parents were in show business. But so your dad, who passed away last year, our condolences. Thank you. I loved when you would tell stories about him on the show when you were a guest. He obviously was somebody who thought

he was very funny, liked being funny. Did you guys grow up with comedy being sort of respected because of that? Yeah, my mother respected comedy. She loved comedy. She had comedy albums and stuff. My dad was just like the funny guy, everyone. He was like comedy albums and stuff. My dad was just like the funny guy, everyone,

you know, he was like, he turned into a very gentle, wonderful man, like my best friend, but he had a terrifying trigger rage. He wasn't an alcoholic, but it sounds very similar to when I hear about people who had parents who were alcoholics, where you didn't know when he was going to lose his fucking shit. But then on the other side, he was really funny. So you were just kind of always on your toes one way or the other. Our dad lost his shit all the time, but I always knew when it was coming. Oh, really?

Started brewing. Yeah. Yeah. There was like a long fuse that you saw that was set. You could see it sort of sparkling and getting a little closer. Yeah, whereas mom to this day doesn't know when it's coming. She's the one like,

sort of like lighting matches next to the fuse. And you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Is this a good time to needle you? Are you in a good needling mood? So how young were you when your parents got divorced? Six and a half. Okay, so you didn't take a lot of family trips, or maybe you don't have a lot of memories of family trips with both of them.

I was texting with my sisters, and they're older, and I don't remember the ones when we all took together. I only know from pictures. We went to Jamaica, we went to Disney World, but I just know from pictures. Gotcha. No memories of Disney World or Jamaica. Have you gone back to Jamaica? No.

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It's very interesting that you felt like you had real money because I remember it's because it's not that much. It's great. Don't get me wrong. It was so much more money than I made the year before I was on SNL, but it's not real showbiz money, right? I mean, I made like what my dad made in a year. Yeah. It's not showbiz money, no, but it was like... It was great. A successful businessman in bed for New Hampshire money. That's true. My issue was Lorne, I felt like had no idea what we got paid

because he would always give me suggestions that were just so, I remember my first year. He's like, you know, I think go to St. Bart's. I was just going to say, is that it?

But it really was. And then you're like, what? I don't think they want, they wouldn't even let a person like me in St. Bart's right now. I was just thinking of St. Bart's because I completely associated with Lauren and his friends for some reason. That's how I've heard of St. Barts.

And I was just thinking recently, I was like, I'd like to go there. I could go there. You can go there. I went for the first time two years ago. I went for the first time. What was it like? It's wonderful. It's like the Caribbean and also Europe at the same time. Wow. What was it like? Hamptons and St. By like everything. I feel like people who came up in the seventies or just hit the jackpot. Well, even like when I was at Saturday night live that one year we went, I don't know if there did it when you were there, but there's like a retreat before you go in Mohonk.

Yes. And it was awesome. I've seen some. So Mohonk is like, what would you even call? How would you describe it? It's upstate New York. Right.

And it's like, is it the Mohonk mountain house? Yeah. You went once, Josh. It's almost like the Dirty Dancing. Yes. But it's like a hotel that's like. It's a giant hotel. Like the Shining Hotel.

Hundreds of rooms in this hotel. If it's the same place I'm thinking of. It is, yeah. Is it the Mohonk Mountain House? Yeah. Yeah. And it's like on a little lake and there's like, there are gardens and you can go for walks.

It's a real property with lots of activities. Mike Shoemaker, the producer of this show, was the producer at SNL when you were there. And he has photos of those Mohonk retreats. And it's so funny because the photographs from the early 90s now look like the 1800s. Right. Like the difference in how shitty photos were. But I do remember sort of seeing photos of a young Sarah like on a rock with some other like 90s. Oh, I love to see that.

Yeah, I'll mention it. Yeah, I remember being at a campfire and just being near Chris Farley, who was sitting next to Lauren, and I overheard their conversation. And Chris said, Lauren, would it help the show if I got even fatter? And Lauren goes, no, Chris, we want you to be healthy. Oh, that's nice. That's good advice. So when your parents got divorced, did you go on trips as a family with one or the other as you got older? Yeah. Yeah. My dad and my stepmom and my stepsister, Jodine, and I went to Nantucket like the last week

of June every year for a little while. I'd get like a, not a timeshare, but basically like an Airbnb or something. Yeah, you just ran a house. We went places where they could just be, do their own thing. And Jodine and I would just like exist. We just like lived like unsupervised.

What was the age difference between you and Jodine? Three months. Oh my God. Wow. Yeah. unsupervised what was the age difference between you and jodine three months oh my god wow yeah were you fast friends when your dad and your stepmom got together yeah yeah i remember well i mean we i met her when we picked them up at the airport like my dad had fallen in love with janice and now she was moving to new Hampshire from San Francisco. And I know that should be love. And then I remember seeing Jodi. She had her cat in like a box from the plane. She didn't say anything. And she just waved me over to the women's room. And I just remember being in the women's room at the airport alone. I guess it was small.

She put it in the sink and opened up the box and turned on the water and the cat was like, and she just was laughing and she didn't say anything. And I was just like, this is my new sister. Yeah, it's a good opener. Oh my God. So the first time you guys met wasn't like a let's get to know each other. It was they live here now? This is your sister now. Yeah. Wow. know each other it was they live here now this is your sister now yeah wow

yeah but it was great that's amazing that it worked out like that yeah it worked out 40 45 years later when you were in nantucket were you near a town or when you sort of existed on your own would it be like you're in the woods and you're on the beach and you're or was there like you're on a boardwalk with... We had bicycles. We would ride to the beach. We'd ride to the little like store and buy candy. I just remember like collecting hermit crabs and loving them so much, so much that we took them home and put them in like something, a glass in the window and they baked to death. Like we went out and came back and they baked to death. Like we,

we went out and came back and they were like out of their shells and just dead from sun, sun, just like a beam of sun hitting them. So many animals had to die because we were children. Yeah. They died. So you could, they, what they walked. So you could run something like that. That's right.

Yeah. That's when, when there was only one set of of footprints that's when we were carrying them to their deaths on the beach that seth goes to with his kids there are these little sand crabs and when you dig in the sand you cannot take like a handful of sand without getting three sand crabs and seth's middle son axel every time he sees one we'll see like say sand crab sand crab it's like i i got him yeah there's so many there are millions of them it's a little bit right like pointing and saying seagull at this point you're like yep i get it got it we got it but there are still hermit crabs today so you didn't end uh the chain that's true sounds like you guys

hate this kid i'm currently in a situation where he's my not my favorite not because of the crab thing uh but because he's waking up in the middle of the night in that era uh before social media how did your dad meet someone who lived in san francisco they were fixed up by her cousin, who he had always called cousin, because their families were close. There are home movies where they're both little in different parts of the home movie. So they have a Massachusetts Jewish geography connection. And then they got fixed up. And that was it. That was like that. And that was it. They were. That was it, huh? That was it. They were in love.

It should be noted that you're obviously Jewish. Adam Sandler is Jewish. I am presumed to be Jewish. Keep it down. And I am not presumed to be Jewish. Yeah, it's so funny. Josh and I look alike, sound alike, and nobody thinks Josh is Jewish. That's so true. It's true josh does not look at all jewish and you look deceivingly which is so on the nose jewish but you have like only like a tiny touch of judaism in you right you feel like a we're a quarter the funny thing though is the

fact that we all came out of there might make people think New Hampshire is a hotbed of Judaism. It is not at all. To the point that I didn't even know people would think a Seth Meyers who looked like me is Jewish until I went to college. Like I went to college and everybody, it was the first time in my life people were like, you must be Jewish. Nobody ever even asked in New Hampshire. I think the assumption was you just weren't. Yeah. Yeah. Did you feel like you were completely on an island? Well, I mean, we weren't, we were only Jewish in that we're Jewish. Like my parents were atheists. I think they were agnostic. I see. You know, we had no religion. The only thing that made us feel Jewish was everyone around us. Like, you know, looking back, I, around us. Like, you know, looking back, I had that thing like where you don't realize it like intellectually as a kid, but like I knew somewhere inside me I had to make my friend's parents feel okay about me. You know, like I knew how to make them like me and stuff, you know, because

it's so odd. I don't think of us as different, but they did. Definitely. Every parent asked if I was from New York. You know, I was like, what? I'm from here. What's New York? I'm from here, which is so sweet. I mean, looking back, they're young people who are from New Hampshire and know that Jews

are from New York and they are. But I didn't know that. Yeah. I used to spend a lot of nights over at a buddy's house, my buddy, Randy Suazo. And if I spent a Saturday night there on Sunday morning, they would go to St. Elizabeth Seton. They'd go to church and it was a good drop-off point. So I would go to church with them, which I thought was nice because you could get a donut in the basement after the service, and then my parents would pick me up. But I would be there sometimes for a service. Me too, yes.

And one time I got up when people were taking the Holy Communion, the body of Christ, and I remember the priest said, body of Christ. I said, thank you. I caught some heat for that because you're supposed to say amen. But also people were like, my buddies were like, you're a Jew, Josh. You're not supposed to take that. I was like, I don't, I don't, we're not really Jewish. But they were, they were like, that's not for you. And I was like, I didn't, everyone got up in the row, everyone. It wasn't like I was going to hang back and be like, none for me, thanks. I used to go to church all the time. I mean, my best friends, Lori and Amy Martin were like very, I'm still

friends with them. They were very Christian and their mother, Sue Martin. It's so funny because she, I only know it's Hanukkah because she sends me one of those like blue mountain cards, digital cards that is, you know, cause she, they're very like Christian. So they're very, they, you know, aware of like when Hanukkah is and like celebrating your different people's, you know. Did you go to the CYO dances? Did they have those? Christian youth? Well, no.

But my friends all had CCD. Oh, right. Central City Dump. Yeah. What does it stand for? Christian? I don't know. But that was, they all said it was Central City Dump. That was the Yeah. What does it stand for? Christian? I don't know. But that was, they all said it was Central City Dump.

That was the sort of joke. That's so funny. Yeah. I don't know what it was, but it was like Sunday school. Good. I want to say. I do remember. I also, I dated a girl whose father was a pastor, I want to say.

What could you be if you had a wife and children? That sounds right. Like a minister. Yeah. A minister. Yeah, I had to say. What could you be if you had a wife and children? That sounds right. Like a minister. Yeah. A minister. Yeah, I had a friend. So I remember going to church once and not having gone that often. And this is, I'm ashamed to say it, but I remember during the services,

I just prayed because it was Sunday morning. I prayed that the Steelers would win that day. What? You were a Steelers fan, not Pats? We're still Steelers fans. Our dad's from Pittsburgh. Everything else we're good with in Boston. But I remember when the Steelers lost, I was like, well, you had one chance. God.

You gave God only one chance? Sufi works in mysterious ways. Yeah, he does. What is your favorite kind of trip these days? Do you ever travel with your sisters now? Do you ever do anything as an adult with your? No. It never even occurs to us. I mean, three of us are in LA.

Well, one is mostly, is like in Australia a lot of the time. And then Susie, the oldest, lives in Israel. Let's talk about it. And so she comes here and we'll all kind of, you know, like we had Thanksgiving together. It was really nice. We used to all come home to New Hampshire for Thanksgiving, and we did a genius move.

We would fly home on Thursday in empty airports, and then we'd have Thanksgiving and Friday. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Yeah. We've had to manipulate a couple of Thanksgivings because of weird circumstances. And it really doesn't matter.

If you have all the people around you and you have a nice meal, that's it. Also, I think a Friday Thanksgiving is way better because one of the real problems with Thanksgiving is there's too many days after Thanksgiving. That's right. Like it's sort of this this touchstone high pressure. Everybody's together. Family meal.

And there's no get out of Dodge right after. There's multiple days after. So if you can slide it closer towards Monday, I think you're better off. Yeah. I did a Saturday Thanksgiving this year. You did? At my fiance's father's house. Yeah.

Yeah, it was great because we were in New York. And then, yeah, Seth and my parents went to go hang out with his family on Martha's Vineyard for actual Thanksgiving. And that day we had a nice brunch in the city and drove up to Massachusetts. And it was we were going to be getting there too late. And people had other things going on, but we all came together on Saturday. It was lovely. How wonderful for you, Josh. Thank you. Thank you. I see Josh running. Josh is a big runner and I see him running.

Yeah, I'm more of a hiker now, but I do run. Sometimes he's, yeah, that's true. And sometimes you're just walking with a dog or two. Yeah. But in the summer, you can see a bare-chested Josh Myers. Is this true, Josh? I don't run bare-chested. There's somebody else. Maybe once on a very hot day.

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Do you know Josh and I went to college together and Josh was two years younger than me. And Josh in college was a very avid rollerblader. And Josh also had really long hair in college, very, very long. And he used to – About the length of yours right now, Sarah. Oh, really? He would – without a ponytail, he would rollerblade through campus. And my friends nicknamed him the albatross, because his hair would basically go out like two giant wings.

Oh, I thought it was because having that brother is so embarrassing, it was an albatross around your neck. Right, it worked both ways. Unintended consequence. Oh, he's an albatross, all right. Yeah, I had purple rollerblades with Jamiroquai stickers on the back. Yeah. I was all about it. Timeless.

That's how much older I am than you because Jamiroquai's first appearance on television was on a Conan where I was a guest. Wow. What was your first talk show? Was it Conan? Yeah. Yeah. Conan.

First year. First year on SNL. You did Conan. Yeah. And it was Conan's first Conan? Yeah. Yeah. Conan. First year. First year on SNL, you did Conan. Yeah. And it was Conan's first year, 93. Wow. What a trip. Was it crazy to be in the building at the time that that show was starting? Were you very aware of it? You must have known so many people that were working there. No, no. I was a kid. I was, I mean, I was 22. I didn't like know people yet. Like 22 is so crazy. It is so crazy that you were there at 22. All I could think was like, I can't believe grownups act like this. I can't believe grownups fight.

There were fist fights. It was not a very friendly era. I think I was at a friendly era. I mean, I started at 27, but I never saw fists fought in my time there. Rob Schneider and Al Franken would fight like I've just, I couldn't believe grownups were fighting like this, like screaming, screaming fights. I mean, I would love to see an actual,

I mean, no disrespect to either of those gentlemen, but I feel like that would be a great fight if it got physical. Yeah. I feel like that's a good match. Al was more like he would come in the next day and be like, you know, I thought about it and I'm sorry for my part in it, you know? Yeah. But that feels like sort of like one of those early matches before the heavyweight fight. Undercard. It's like the undercard undercard yeah it's the welterweights we got rob schneider and al franken uh gonna

square off in the writer's room where were you in your career the first time you did letterman i was living in los angeles and um just doing stand-up and acting and like, you know, Star Trek Voyager or whatnot here and there. And I was so excited. I remember I was at a pay phone at my gym when I found out I got it. I was so happy. Oh, and then I got pushed a bunch of times. And I was flying from L.A., you know, each time. It was just, oh, just seemed like the worst thing that could ever happen to you

but of course who cares yeah it's so funny that is a bygone era of talk shows the idea of pushing guests which happened all the time that would never in a million years happen on any of our shows now yeah i guess not it never happened yeah that never happens anymore why the idea that you would just go long and make a standup who came all the way there. So the first time you did Letterman, it was to do standup? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I did standup. Yeah. And then I remember like, I was so nervous and I did my set. Hold on. First of all,

my friend Dave Jaskow came with me and he showed up with a date. Like he was impressing a girl. I was so mad at him. I like needed support, but I did my set and I was like it went well and he came over and shook my hand and he was like in like prime letterman you know then and he he leaned over and he goes this crowd sucks and I just was like did I bomb or but you know he was in his head from the monologues like right right but at the time it was just like it made me just go like from so excited to oh but um then I you learn about it more like you I do his show and when I would go to commercial break the segment producer would come up and talk to you so that you didn't dare lean over and talk to him and I'd be like I

know why you're here I'm not gonna say anything to him. I'm just, we'll have a conversation. But now we're friendly. It's so funny to be so different now. He's like fun and goofy and wants to socialize. It's nice. He had to get, he had to get through that awful gauntlet of having his own show. And now he can be a human being. It is that thing about somebody saying an audience is bad. I just did a show in Mesa, Arizona over the holidays, and I had such a good time. And I thought, what a great audience. I felt so good about it. I record my sets. I listen back. I'm like, they're great. And then someone on Instagram wrote and said, hey, I saw your show in Mesa. Sorry about the audience. I had the same feeling where I'm like, wait, what? Did it not go well?

All it takes is one person. I pretty much stay away from any comments online and people go like, are you okay? Or like, I don't know how you do it. And I'm just like, what? What? What did I do? What happened?

I am going to try to bring it back to family trips. I'm really sorry. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. I blame Seth. Did you ever go away with like with your mom and your stepfather? And if you can't remember things, then that's that's fine. Or did you ever go away sort of as adults somewhere that wasn't home, wasn't LA and wasn't to New Hampshire, like where maybe your dad and stepmom came or your mom and your stepdad came, was you rendezvous anywhere out in the world? Your face says no. I felt so guilty coming on this podcast. Like I didn't want to say

no, but I was like, God, we really, I never go anywhere unless I'm on the road. I haven't really taken a vacation. Over Christmas, we stayed home and like organized our drawers. Tell us more about that. No, no, no. No, don't. No, don't, please. No, no. Would you go to like Hampton Beach?

Like any day trips? Here we go. Well, no, really my friend Carrie and I would go to Hampton Beach? Yes. Like any day trips? Here we go. Well, no, really my friend Carrie and I would go to Hampton Beach at night. Yeah. No, I don't have very good stories. I made a list I feel like somewhere on my phone right before. You're doing great, Sarah. I'm embarrassed.

Did you ever play the Hampton Beach Casino? Did you ever do stand-up there? Hampton Beach Casino? No. I went back and did stand up there maybe 10 years ago. How was it? It was a lot of fun, but I was very proud of my opening joke, which is I have not been in Hampton Beach in 20 years. And I love what you haven't done with the place. Because it is exactly what you remember. That is incredible. All I remember from Hampton Beach is we lip-synced Walk This Way

with fake guitars, and they make a video for you. I did that at the Bedford Mall with Who Let the Dogs Out. Oh, wonderful. I'm the worst guest. Go on. No, please. Because I listened before this. I listened to Jost, and it was the funniest thing I ever heard in my life.

And I should have listened to something else, but that was the episode I listened to, and it was very intimidating because, oh my, it was so funny. My God. Hampton Beach is pinnacle dirtbag beach, I feel like, right? I loved Hampton Beach so much because it was a lot of fried dough and arcades. It's like the Atlantic City of New Hampshire. When my wife first came to New Hampshire,

like Alexi's from New Mexico and you go to New Mexico and New Mexico is sort of exactly what you think New Mexico is. Right. Whereas I think New Hampshire is a lot of things you don't think it is. Right. I think people grow up thinking, I mean, if you don't live in New Hampshire, and it has all the beautiful, you know, mountains and nature and wonderful things, but there's also just, there is, you know, there's kind of a nice dirtbag element to

New Hampshire that I also find incredibly endearing. Cruising Elm Street. Cruising Elm Street. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Elm Street is the sort of big main street in Manchester, New Hampshire. I feel like we used to say cruising. Did you cruise Elm Street?

Would you drive around with your friends up and down Elm Street? Yeah. Where was there to stop? We never went to bars in Manchester. We were sort of, or at least I didn't. I don't know if you did, but I was never able to because I didn't have an ID. So you would just drive? Yeah, we would try to do it and I feel like we did it wrong. We'd hang out behind the Dairy Queen. Gotcha. Well, yeah, we would go hanging out

by the Dairy Queen. It's a good spot. I'm glad we're getting this out here because these are all the sort of... Once we were teenagers and we could drive and we had friends that worked at Subway and Clam King.

We could go to those places after hours if they were closing up and we would smoke pot. Yeah, at the Clam King? I would eat like all the cookies and it would really stress the friend that worked there out, you know, but that was the hardcore life of growing up. I'm sure. Were you ever a part of the late night sort of like diner crew that would,

I want to say that it was like a Denny's on second street, right at the bend there. And there is a Bickford's family affair. Is that there when you were there? No, I think so. Yeah. It had like toys at the cash register.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you don't remember you're lying a lie that was like a totally generous like no no we had that that was we had that yeah i was totally lying thank you sorry i apologize yeah i appreciate it um clam king

is something i remember driving by on the way to school every day. Did either of you go to the Clam King? Did anyone ever have clams at the Clam King? I have not ever tried fish or seafood in my life. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's a little fun fact about me. In a town very big on lobster. And my dad ate at Clam King every day with his best friend, Arnie.

So in every day. That was maybe where the split happened. That was you. I went none except for at night and he went every day for lunch. Right. Clams. My fiance also has never had a clam, oyster. I'm so thrilled about that.

Yeah, that's the thing. They've always creeped her out and she's not wrong. It's nasty. That's the thing. They've always creeped her out. And she's not wrong. They're creepy. It's nasty. The other thing about a Clam King in Manchester, New Hampshire, is Manchester is not close to the ocean. No, it isn't. Not close enough to think those are your top shelf clams.

I mean, it's closer than Vegas. That's true. But is that real? The Clam King clams are probably coming from Hampton Beach. They're just trawling. They might be coming from Vegas. They might be that. Sarah, Josh is going to ask you some questions.

Are you ready? Yeah. Let's turn this around. I'm sorry. I mean, for me. I mean, not for me. I mean, by me. Jesus Christ.

All right. Here we go, Sarah. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Not educational. Relaxing. Okay. A little of both, maybe.

Relaxing, I'd say. Okay. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike, your own two feet? Sledding. Sledding. Perfect perfect i love sledding sledding's my probably my number one fun activity yeah but i guess it's not a mode of transportation unless you're going down down that's okay yeah but we're gonna count it because we haven't heard it yet we

haven't encountered as an la girl is it years between each sledding for you? Or do you find your way? When was the last time you went sledding? The last time I went sledding was the Christmas before last. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I went sledding. Yeah, I did. Great.

Do you have your own sled? Do you own a sled? I don't own a sled. But we got an Airbnb in Big Bear. Yeah, there you go. I feel like the back of your trunk with all the wiffle balls there's a sled just in case. There should be. We were hiking the other

day. I go, if there was snow here, this would be the best place to sled. But there isn't. We went sledding with my kids this weekend and the problem with kids is I think the right amount of time to sled is 30 to 35 minutes. And kids either want to do it not at all or five hours.

Right. Sledding with children, yeah. It's very hard to find that sweet spot, which is this is boring and cold now and I want to go home because your kids are into it. They rightly understand that this is a very small window and you got to sled while the sledding is good. All right. Josh has more questions. Okay. Not too many okay not too many not too many um if you could take a family vacation with any family other than your own they could be fictional they could be real other than your own family who would that family

be you know this is really hard it would be um i'd like to take a family trip with the myers boys you would enjoy it you would enjoy it yeah we'd love to take a family trip with the Myers boys. You would enjoy it. You would enjoy it. Yeah. We'd love to have you. It's fun. Okay.

Well, let's nail it down. Let's nail it down now. Okay. Right now? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Alive or dead? Yeah, we'll give you. Sure. It'd be my dad, but dead. No. It would be anyone of my sisters. All right. That's a good answer.

That's a good safe answer. You're from, famously, from Bedford, New Hampshire. Would you recommend Bedford, New Hampshire as a vacation destination? I mean, you're putting me in a very tough spot. Just say no. I think there's a very easy answer. The answer is no. Is it no? Yeah, it's no. Yeah a very tough spot. Just say no. I think there's a very easy answer. The answer is no. Is it no?

Yeah, it's no. Yeah, it's no. No. Yeah. I mean, I love it, but no, don't take a vacation. If you want to see foliage, go to Vermont. Yeah. Yeah, or northern New Hampshire, higher up.

Maine. Yeah, yeah. Not that we don't love it, and not that you couldn't have just a lovely time at the bedford village inn and spa they added a spa see what's happening i don't know i haven't been what's happening haven't been but they got one i can't believe you haven't been to the bedford village in spa yeah i've only been i go for lunch it's it appears so expensive for dinner seth do you want to ask your final questions here? Have you been to the Grand Canyon? No. Do you want to go? No. Perfect. No one has ever answered that better or more clearly. I feel so bad. I'm not a vacation person. I didn't grow up taking many vacations.

I'm not wildly funny in the morning. I feel like I've let you down in so many ways. No, not at all. I owe you both. Not at all. I have one more thing to ask you. You are hosting, which I'm very excited about, Stupid Pet Tricks on TBS. This is the David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, I'm assuming. Yes, it is.

Have you filmed any yet? I filmed all 10 of them two years ago and then just saw a billboard for it and couldn't stop laughing. Like, it must just be like throwing them out there. I hope the tricks hold up after two years. Oh, yeah. It was very of the moment.

Were the pet tricks great? The pet tricks were fine. Yeah. I'm going to be, this is, I'll probably get in trouble for this. But I do think it's worth watching. It was really fun. Dave is in, Rory, my boyfriend, wrote on it. He wrote two scenes for David Letterman thinking maybe he would zoom one in.

And he came in and shot both of them. And was awesome. We have great guest stars. There's a whole kind of behind-the-scenes B-story vibes of kind of like the Muppet Show, but not as good as the Muppet Show. And all the producers and people and writers are animals, but they're just real animals,

and maybe they gave them some food and they're gone. And real animals and they just maybe they put some gave them some food in their job and then people it's true and that part's pretty funny and then there's the the actual guests with the things and and what tbs was made i don't know this is interesting but at least it's a story but i i said um i'm so sorry i said i don't want it to be like some shiny floor show it has to be very lo-fi, you know, like Dave just did it in front of a curtain. You want to believe that you're just seeing these people for the first time. And so your jokes, they give you more credit on any jokes you have. This, they like made props for each person and put stupid Patrick monikers on everything. And it was like, the comedy can't, it can't hold that.

But they don't understand. But they're all gone now. Every executive is gone. So I can say. Well, be sure to watch Sarah. Oh, but don't miss it. It is really funny. People are very funny on it.

And animals, I mean, if you love animals, I love animals. It's for the whole family. Well, if you love animals i love animals it's for the whole family well if you love animals you might not you might like not like how these are treated wait a minute no we had like the aspca uh sanctioned or something oh that's good jost you mentioned jost jost once wrote a sketch at snl You mentioned having real animals in sketches. And it was a Golden Globes for animals. And Sudeikis was playing Ricky Gervais, burning animals in the audience. And Jost wrote for an actual golden retriever.

The stage direction was something like, the golden retriever seems offended, then accepts that the joke's okay and waves a paw. We asked Jost for days. Like what level of training do you think you can get to a dog that a trainer could tell him like, so here's what we need you to do. Like they can't do facial expressions.

Jost is my favorite because he's so smart. Yes. And so good, but so dumb. Yep. Also. And those are, that's my favorite comedy.

Like it's, he's. It's true. He is. He's either the dumbest, smart person is the smartest, dumb person. I know that is a really good way.

He's very earnest. Yeah. And incredibly loving and a wonderful, loyal, good friend. Yes. I mean, I'm not as close to wonderful, loyal, good friend. Yes. I mean, I'm not as close to him, but he seems lovely. But the outfit he was wearing at his Christmas party, is there an explanation for it or that's how he dresses? I'm so glad you brought it up. So you must have shown up after. Oh, no, I saw you on the way out. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. So he was wearing a tuxedo, right? Mm-hmm. With a white tank top underneath it yes which used to have a different name that seems like maybe out of fashion it was that it was that the kind you buy it with three i wear those a lot but like it was very it had a um a real low scoop yes very uh james gandolfini if you can imagine. And then very thick chain. Yes.

And I thought, was this one of those things where like Michael Che made him wear this and then he can't say anything about it. He has to wear it in earnest. Yeah. Imagine, you know, the Tony Soprano with a robe outfit. But instead of a bathrobe, it's the nicest tuxedo you've ever seen. Right. And he seemed very comfortable in it.

And I'm going to say it was not a bet he lost. I'm going to say it was a choice he made. Is this Staten Island coming through? I mean, I love it. I just want to understand it. I love it too. He also, one time, Andy Samberg was back in town and we did sort of a dinner of everybody sort of from our era of SNL

and Joe showed up in a blue jumpsuit like the way Billy Joel's dressed in Uptown Girl like that sort of vibe and almost like he forgot he was going to meet a table of comedians he seemed so taken aback that all we wanted to do was talk about

his jumpsuit that's the dumb part he's the best. I love him. Well, I hope you can make a show out of this. I'm really sorry. I love you very much. I love you more. Josh loves you too.

I'm going to make it up to you. All right. Bye, Sarah. Bye. A crab king, a dairy queen. When you're out cruising Elm Street. To the crab king, a dairy queen. when you're out cruising Elm Street. To the Crab King of Dairy Queen, when you're out cruising Elm Street. To the Crab King of Dairy Queen, when you're out cruising Elm Street.

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