Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Beck Bennett on booking SNL and Embodying Putin

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

Dana and David chat with Beck Bennett to unpack Hollywood lore—like early Superman rumors that had David donning the cape, why Beck always looks awful on red carpets, and the hilariously winding tale of how a trip to the Polo Lounge led Beck to Saturday Night Live. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-our-podcast-with-beck-bennett-and-kyle-mooney/id1834487732 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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oh my god yeah and in it it kryptonite turns superman into david's You know, we know a lot of people, and our friends do a lot of different things, you know. Sometimes they're in movies like you and Joe Dirt. I'm sure it was 1997, but that thing's got legs. It wasn't that long ago. No, 1994, but it has led. It wasn't the 19s, you... Late 80s.

Fucking 1974. Came out with Star Wars. That was 77. 88 boom no we have uh i saw superman and it was sort of research because we had this gentleman in the next day yes and i was like wow on s nl has a part in superman yes you know an integral part actually and it's not crypto the dog crypto by the way someone should adopt crypto because it's just running around like antarctica in the movie i don't know what crypto's story is but back to beck Bennett. That's the guy. Yeah. Oh, yes, Beck Bennett, which is obviously an amazing name, and it's his real

name. Beck Bennett is a good show busy. Bam, Beck Bennett. Two bees. It should be a king or something in medieval times. Yeah. My lord, Beck Bennett. And he gives us the behind the scenes of Superman, along with all the S&L stories. So great chat with this dude. So Beck plays Steve Lombard in Superman he's a sports reporter that kind of uh you know it's Clark Kent so he's kind of yeah he's kind of hassling Clark and bullying around that's which is a mistake yeah yeah it's always a mistake but uh he's he's part of the ecosystem now you know yeah I would love to be in some kind of oh yeah and one of those big movies and be some kind of character that might come around again so he's very excited about that and the possibilities of it and

And we go over, you know, he's a Hall of Famer on SNL. It's like 10 years there, and he was everywhere. He's a very versatile, almost Phil Hartman-esque talent. Yeah, Sarah Sherman says he's probably the nicest guy to work with. So he came off very nice to me during our interview. So let's let you decide, folks. Let the folks decide. But please enjoy our guest.

Beck Bennett. You guys look fantastic, too, though. You guys look really good. Yeah, don't look us up on Wikipedia. Just dream a little dream. Your filters are excellent. Oh, really? I see, I don't even know what my filters are. You have so many filters. It's great. So many filters. I got the under-eye filters. I got the cheek stuff. I got the hair. I'm bald, actually. I've got the one that gives me bags. It's stoop the dumbest filter. Honestly, that is actually cool. That's like, that's more like rock and roll. You know, it's kind of like Burlina under DiCaprio was.

looking for for a while he wanted to lose that baby face i look like benicio by the way look at dana to his right arm what's behind you that's me yeah that's yeah it's a it's a it's a emotion picture that you're pot of that's emotional yeah big hollywood film were you superman i i should watch it again but yeah i have not had the pleasure to see it yet but are you playing superman Let's just get that out of the way. You know, I still don't even know. I've seen it three times and I can't figure it out because I really thought I was and it doesn't seem to be the case because there's somebody else playing Superman. But I still believe that, you know, maybe later in the universe, it's a long, it's a long game.

Those movies are so complex. Who knows? Exactly. Exactly. I didn't get the script until I was there. Did you ever find yourself up in James Gunn's face a little bit going, seriously, dude? I mean, I could have done the ban, you know, you put me in Steve, okay, I'll be the wacky. Yeah, I was like, yeah, I'll do this for you, but there are going to be other movies and let's, um, let's just keep the conversation of.

I would sit at Video Village and on Superman takes, I go, he, I think he lifted that building like it was too light. It doesn't match with the other one, but whatever. It doesn't look that cool. But yeah, I'm sure you guys will figure it out in post. just totally yeah i would i would go to set on days when i wasn't called and sit in video village and just talk shit on all the people who had superpowers that's not a bad job yeah and just go i thought it was i thought it was a good take you know whatever you guys want to do i thought it was a good take actually dana this guy this guy got some laughs where there probably weren't laughs so

i will give you that that's good because he plays a guy in the newsroom what is is your guy's name in the movie? His name is Steve Lombard. He's been in the comics since the 70s, and he's sports writer at The Daily Planet and sort of an office adversary for Clark Kent. He picks on and makes fun of him. There have been different versions of him

throughout the decades since he was created. But he kind of thinks he's friends with Superman, and he's like, their buds. Does Clark let you act like you could beat him up? Yeah, absolutely. Because he's got, he can't show his strength. You're like, what's up, pussy? Right when he comes in the office, you say something to him.

And I go, oh, no. And I was like, hey, loser. Yeah, hey, loser. And I was a whole high school bully right from the start. I read, because I do a little research. And a comment was very nice. It just said every time you come on the screen, there's a big laugh. Oh, that's so sweet.

Every time you landed, this was in the comments. And then I looked down and it was my wife left it. I didn't even know what that. And she hadn't seen the movie. So I don't know what that was. She's been texting me constantly. I'm like, we don't have a relationship.

Carpet bombing me. But it's very nice. So it's okay. It's hard to get laughs on these movies where you're not the main guy. But, you know, when you can do those scenes, it's fun, daily planet, which everyone knows. You're part of that world, which is the most well-known Superman world, I would say, is that's that daily planet. Yeah, for sure. when they go there, I wonder

if there's takes where you try to throw in a line or something, just because you just like, or if you do something goofy or something, does everyone go, hey, maybe we just do one where? Yeah, like this is not that kind of movie. Yeah, I know, it's hard. Yeah, I mean,

I did the first day like at the Daily Planet because that was like a long take, you know, like he walks in, he comes around, I'm yelling at him. We walk down the whole office and he's like talking to his parents and we would like reset and reset all the extras, and James would like shout over this, not shout, but like talk, give direction through this God mic, you know, and it's like bellowing through

this whole train station. And I was nervous. So I wasn't really like trying to mess with things too much. Sure. But he would be like, yeah, now do something crazy. And then I would do and he'd be like, not that. Wow, it's horrible. But he was fun with it. He like, he was creating like a fun atmosphere. But towards the end, there's a scene where we're in Mr. Terrific's T-Craft. And it wasn't Dana's like, what? I know what you mean, I saw. I love up anything, Mr. Anything. So I love a guy's name, Mr. Terrific.

It's an original name. You know, it was, it was many drafts that he came up with that name. That's funny. But it was basically like there was this opportunity where it was like, oh, we didn't plan on this happening. Just, just go. And he let me like basically scream in the back of that T-Craft for a while. Oh, yeah. And that one of the lines in the movie was improvised.

Oh, good. Can you say the line? It doesn't give away too much. I just screamed, why don't I have a seat? That was a good one. Yeah, yeah, thank you. And I was just screaming back there like, please somebody help me. Why don't I have a seat?

What's happening? They kept that why don't I have a seat, which is just great. Because it's like in a movie like this, it's like, yeah, why doesn't he have a seat? He's in the back just flying around. You know, one thing, Dana, he said. didn't really fit, was he goes, Rachel, why are you flying this plane? You don't know what you're doing. And they go, call her Lois Lane, please, if you're going to make up stuff. Is it all right, right, right, right, right. Improv. I've called people their real name so many

times in movies. I'm so unprofessional. Oh, yeah. No, it's, you know, it's easier that way. You make it more person. It's so much easier. Can't we just use our names? Can I just be back as every character. This is probably a very generic question. So the pinch factor of of pinch factor. I like that.

Pinch factor. I just made that up. I like it. Going into 8-H for the first time because it was creepy when I got there. It was 10 years into the show. I was like, fuck, you know. Yeah. And then going on, I don't know, let's call it a $300 million giant

historic franchise probably the best current director of these kinds of movies. Yeah, these huge movies. And walking on to the set, the first day, it was both a little like, whoa, or, I mean, Superman's unknown and you're famous, so that must have been

interesting. He's not unknown anymore, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah, no, I just realized I had some tissue paper on my chin. Yeah, I made a note about that. That's cool. Like, I'm a real guy. I'm a real, you know what I mean? I know. That was very. That's what this is about. Lorne Michael's to say, please, can we lose the tissue paper thing?

Beck, you're at 80s. You're not in the bathroom. Yeah. Look like a star. All right, that every single person we've interviewed has been on SNL has a Lorne. And I put yours. I'm putting yours. Yes.

I try to get real guttural. A gutter roll, Lord. Yeah, cool, cool, cool. I like when he goes high. He goes, do you like Pesto? floats it in right yeah he floats in a floater yeah yeah it's kind of because usually it's down here it's like that thing of like a really really good show yeah yeah exactly um it uh but to answer your question the uh walking on that set it was intimidating but like honestly looking back at

everything and with the experience of Superman nothing really compares to SNL it's S&L is more intimidated, for sure. So it really prepared me for that. But it was, I mean, I was lucky that I got to get down to making Georgia a week before we started shooting. I was on weather cover. So, like, you know, they had us there in case they needed to shoot inside. That's tough. For people that don't know if there's an outside and inside scenes, even if you're not in a scene and you might want to sneak home or leave town or something, they go, your weather cover.

So if there's a storm, we might have to shoot the. inside of the Daily Planet or wherever. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Stand by. Be ready. Just be there. They had a whole train station just shut down, ready to be shot at.

It was just empty. Oh, my God. It was crazy. Like, I was walking around making. I was like, is there another production here? I was like, no, this is a huge movie. You bought the town. They just bought the town.

They're like, just in case we want to shoot here. It's all shut down. Everybody went home. God, oh, so many movies are shooting here. Yeah, wow. It's crazy. It's crazy. All these sets.

Who's spacecraft? is that? Well, that's yours. Another space movie. Yeah, that's really similar. But yeah, I mean, it was, it was just like, so I was there for a week and James was really fun. He just like went out. He like had dinners with everybody every night. We were all staying at the same hotel. So I got to know everybody really well. So it was really fun. But it was, it was shaking, you know, it was nerve wracking for sure. Sure, for sure. Yeah, that like the him shooting, shouting direction in this huge hall and just going again and again and just, you know, it's that thing. It's that thing. first day you're like I mean I audition for it so I know he liked what I did but it's still like is it working does it want more you know what I mean and you it's like I feel like I this happened at SNL where it's like I want to look professional so act like you know it's going well you know what I mean like you know you've got it you don't want your name whispered at video village like after the take like what do you guys talk about they would be like what do we do with this guy what did he doing the audition that we liked yeah right he's in his head he's spiraling yeah exactly and

And if you hear $300 or $200 million movie, it's just different to come on and be like, shit, it just seems like the same thing. There's a camera. There's three actors. But you go, it's just weirder. You go, oh, yeah, I was so nervous about it going into it. I was like, is there, you know, like, if I mess up one thing, are they going to be like, what are you doing?

This is a $300 million. You just wasted $113,000. Exactly. Yeah. But no, it was great. It's, you know, it's really all the same thing. It's just a little bit more. nerve-wracking first.

We're going to reset because Beck didn't know what he was doing. Acta number one. All right. Do it right this time. I'm not going to tell you what it is. I'm not going to tell you what to fix. Just do it right. Yeah.

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Available now wherever you get your podcasts. We're jumping around, but going back to S&L, so you get that straight out of a, you were in an improv group, right? Is that where they see you? Yeah, I did. Well, I did improv and skis. sketch with in a college group with Kyle and Nick and then we we basically we're pretty much just doing sketch or sketch group good neighbor um they saw us doing that Kyle auditioned Bressing out the year before I did um but that I was doing these uh and so that yeah Kyle Mooney

um my my my comedy partner and lover um dropping that now that so I um I do some headlines sort of given yeah we made yeah everybody um but But, yeah, they, I think they knew about us from that, and the Lonely Island was really sweet. And they had, like, they had kind of maybe shown some videos. And then I was doing these AT&T spots with Yorma, who's a part of the Lonely Island as well. Was he directing? He was directing, yeah. Oh, what a great connection there.

Yeah, it was so helpful because he was like, we had this meeting with Lorne at the Polo Lounge, one of his favorites. Polo Lounge. I have a couple, I've had a couple of meetings there with him. Yeah, sit, sit. No, order anything you want. Anything. I will, I will take note of it. That is a new frequency I haven't heard.

The gargly deeper one. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? As he's looking at his menu. Yeah, it's coming out as he's, you know, getting up there in age. But, yeah, so we had, what was they say? So we had a meeting at the Polo Lounge. Is that what I was talking about?

Yeah. But, yeah, he met with our group there. And, oh, yeah, wait, why was, no, there was a specific thing about the Polo Lounge. No. Well, he always stays at the bedroom. He always stays at the bedroom at a little hotel. Yeah, he does. He does.

But anyway, they saw, they knew about Good Neighbor, and then they saw the AT&T stuff. And, yeah, they asked for me. to audition everybody so many people were leaving uh like it was uh andy sandberg had already left but it was forte and fred armison and satir hater yeah yeah um i think it was right around then okay that puts people in a space 2013 christin wigg was just leaving or she there yeah she had left the year before oh really that long ago yeah yeah and then um yeah when we And so that I was doing these commercials and oh, right. Okay, so this is why I knew I was talking about the polo because because Yorma was super helpful.

He was like, we had this meeting and he was like, don't try to be fun. He was like, just be chill, just like hang out. He's seen everything. He's been surrounded by the funniest people in the world for his whole life. Just like he wants to know that he can hang out with you. Beyond funny. Yeah, beyond funny. Just be whatever.

Don't try. And that was super helpful. But yeah, I think Lindsay shook us, who was the head of talent, was head like, seeing the AT&T commercials, she knew about Good Neighbor, and then, yeah, it all worked out. They had lost a lot of white guys, and so they were looking for white guys, which is great for me. So they got a lot of white guys left, and they wanted to get more white guys. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

They wanted to replace the white guys. Yeah. The year I got in, it was me and Kyle, and I think three other white guys and one white girl. There was a little bit of a backlash. I don't think SNF has ever been short of white people. No, no, they've got to have their whites to go to. So your audition was it nerve-wracking then or you felt like you kind of already had it? Oh, no.

I was so nervous. I had like sent in a tape and gotten notes. And I was like I have always loved sketch comedy. And I loved S&L, but with good neighbor, we were kind of trying to make our own sketch show. And I always loved, like, the state and Mr. Show so much. And we were kind of going that route. So I didn't really have, like, my impressions and everything. But I got all that stuff together for the show for the, you know, for the tape that I submitted.

And then later in the summer, I was shooting a movie in Austin, Texas. And they were like, they want you to fly out to L.A., meet with Lauren at the Polo Lounge with the rest of the neighbor. This time audition at the Polo Lounge. And audition at the Polo Lounge is get up whenever you feel ready. Yeah, be funny this time. You're tied five. But then I had like the showcase at I.O. West, which was, which doesn't exist anymore.

And then a week later, got the, or, you know, the next day got asked to fly out to test. But I was, so I was doing this movie and I had never done these things live. Like, I don't do stand up. So I'd only performed these characters and sketches with other people on stage, you know? And I'd taken excerpts of them for the tape. but I knew that I had to do this showcase live and I had to test live. So I was going around to these open mics and trying these characters outside of the scene and they weren't really working. So I had to come up with new characters.

I was just like, I don't know, this isn't hitting. And that's when a friend of mine, Nick Kocher, who ended up being a writer at S&L was in the movie as well. He's a good friend of mine. And I was like, I don't know. I didn't thinking of this character, like a CEO, like a CEO with the body of a baby. And he was like, what do you mean? What does that look like? And I did it for the first time with him.

And he, like, cracked up and I did that. And then I came up with two other characters, which were like a supportive friend, a jealous supportive friend who just found out his friend, like got cast in a show. And then like a bully genuinely trying to make a friend. And those worked. And I like, I did them at these open mics. And then went to L.A., did it, rehearsed it, you know, incessantly. So nervous.

And then it works. you're trying on state now i o'est for the people at home is improv olympic i think yeah yeah okay and that is and could you go on there and do stand-up or did you have to go to uh somewhere else to do these um to to do the oh well i i mean i was just doing yeah it was in austin where i was practicing because i got that's where the movie was yeah that's where the movie was and that's they were like basically like you have i just jumped on so you did a movie in austin The movie in Austin. I was just going to these random clubs and trying them out there.

But did they tell you also to do, sometimes like they just go, Lauren wants to look at you tomorrow in New York. So we'll work on your flights. And you're like, I'm actually on a movie set. And they're like, yeah, so we'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow. And you're like, now you worry about that. And you're like, so I got to go to this movie and say I got to take a day.

That kind of stuff happened in the old days, I remember. Oh, yeah. And even like, and when I got on SNL, I was like doing these, still doing these 18T commercials, which was such a great gig. And he was like, you're not the 18th guy anymore. We want you to be known for us and out. So, yeah.

And so it's the guy that orders the coconut shrimp. I mean, you can't. You can't keep. He didn't want you to keep doing the commercials. Yeah, because he was like, you know, we want to be known for SNL. I was like, okay, cool. Yeah. So we're guaranteeing how many seasons?

Yeah. No way. It was my first year, and there were like six key past members, and it was like, we're all staying? I don't think so. I love it. I did watch Baby Boss, because I saw the comments, and then a lot of people just said, oh, man, baby boss, baby boss, baby boss. Just about. Name me my baby boss.

Beck Bennett, SNL. Yeah. And it was hyper-skilled. I would tell people, like you check it on YouTube. Beck, yeah, you're up, and every move is exactly like a talk. toddler. Yeah. Man, and it was so specific and so accurate that I guess you rehearsed this shit out of

that. You'd never done it. I had never done it. Yeah. I mean, I've always enjoyed, like, doing physical comedy. But, yeah, I'd never done it. I sat next to a guy with a baby on his lap on a plane and watched this baby just, like, pull my headphones out of my computer, put the headphones in its mouth, and throw them on the

ground. And then start crying. And, like, it happened like three times. I was like, this is, this baby is so stupid. I got to figure out a way to like. But also the move, the first move that gets it like your baby man, you're a full grown man, but you're sliding down the banister and the stairs. Yeah.

And then you've got to get to a standing position. Yeah. And that was so skilled that it was like, it was really like an incredible illusion. One sock half off. Yeah. One sock flopping around. I like when you give him a plate, you bite a plate and suck on and hand it to him. because baby's always hand you shit.

And then he takes it and bites and you go, why are you sick it in your mouth? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, that's weird, man. At Baby Boss, I'm with the Cameron Diaz is 1,700 comments, Dana, about the baby boss. Wow. 1700.

First one, Beck is frighteningly good at acting like a baby. Yeah. My DNA, it's right there. There's, I don't know if you want to go through it. Down? Thumbs down. Thumbs down. I'm on YouTube guy.

I'm going to thumbs down that. I'm going to thumbs up that. Cameron Diaz was so awesome. She was so down for like. I love Cameron Diaz. So she was, that was 2014. She, has she hosted since? I mean, you got her back when she was sort of taking a sabbatical, I think.

Yeah. I don't even know what she was, what she was promoting that. She's such a favorite. Everyone, like, grew up loving Cameron Diaz. Yeah, absolutely. Funny, super cute. Like, the funniest best. Yeah. Mask.

Oh, yeah. Good God. The mask premiere, I told Dana, I was such a premier horror. I was at all these premieres. Really? Well, you know, you had to have your figure on the pulse. Yeah. You got to be everywhere.

Everywhere. You're breaking it all down. Well, you get an invite. You're like, oh, how fun. And then you're like, oh, well, I've been to three this week. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe peel back, but it was fun then.

I don't even go to premieres anymore at all. Yeah, I try not to. There aren't many. Superman must have had a big Mongo one. It was a big Mongo one. And again, similar to the movie, I was like, what's this going to be like? You know what I mean? I feel like me and my wife, Jesse, I've always, like, recently, for a while,

I've been like, premieres exist to make you feel bad about yourself. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I'll go. I'll be like, I put something on. I think it's pretty cute. And then, like, take some photos. I'm like, oh, God. Some website.

Everybody else here has a stylist and a groomer. They got makeup. They got like, you know, it's a... What, not to do at a premiere. Yeah. Yeah. That's one. I'm sure Rachel took it very seriously.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. She looked fantastic. She knows what she's doing. She knows how to do it. She's a sharp dresser. She really is. Did she have a team?

Everyone seems to have a team. Yeah, where's your team? Do you have a team? I have a team Team is the funniest new term that everyone says On this show We talked to Beck's team

I'm like Let's see a picture of that team Yeah No they only me in photos Yeah No photos for my team They don't get out Yeah yeah

My team was really happy Do you tag your Instagram photo Your whole team at the bottom Yeah you got it You gotta you gotta You gotta tag The Groomer and the stylist You have to

groomers stuff and then people like oh someone picked those shoes that wasn't an accident and you're like yeah here's the guy it wasn't me it was her it was definitely her i had love to like it do you have premiere clothes do you have a go-to do you have like five you have a tuxedo do you have you know hollywood clothes yeah i mean you know actually no i don't know if i do i do occasionally get something nice but then i like then i'll wear it to a premiere and i'm like that looks like crap like it looks too baggy and worn in you know what i mean so that's one of the reasons why i think i don't go to premieres because i don't want to take my photo and do all that but i do have a silas now she put me in something that i i felt good about and liked but i yeah i mean

i not really i mean i've gotten a couple nice things where i'm like this is this is like something i could wear and get my photo taken in and it's not it's so not specific that i could wear it again and again but that's not really the case you kind of don't want to wear the same thing again. It's odd when they say what are you wearing to a guy and you have to go tomfard. So out you're like, oh, girls, you thought about this? Yeah, yeah. As a guy, you got to be like, I don't know, man. Yeah, I don't know. Mike Myers and I, sorry, name drop. We're Wayne's World, well, we're pretty green and we're getting suits free to go to the Oscars, you know? And I can't remember the name of it.

Baschon, so-shoids. And it's like the most incredible thing. And Mike from Canada is very sincere and goes, yeah, these are pretty cool, but could you make these things smaller? He was telling the guy. The lapels are kind of big, right?

The guy's face dropped. Yeah. The suits are already made, sir. They're not in process. I'm not the suit. You're actually, Jane, I got to tell you, you didn't see the movie,

but he's pretty, I'm going to see it. You can't tell. He's kind of yoked and jacked and obviously on something because he's like, that's why he's like, not too late to switch me over to Clark Kent. Right. Exactly. Like, check this out.

Not too late, guys. I have the type of body that can look good in a shirt. Yeah. Right now. You know what I mean? Like when I'm in shape, it's like I can look good in a shirt. You take the shirt off. It's no good.

Oh, that's a trick. That's a trick. Yeah. do you are you going to go to more premiere i mean is it are they going all over the world is it over are you still going you do you want to go to Tokyo back because yeah i mean is that still happening or no you know they i think they already did the international press tour um okay it was just david rachel and nicholas um who's nicholas nicholas nicholas he played um luther oh yeah yeah i didn't i didn't get that far david who's kind of evil yeah he's kind of

people yeah he's like the bad guy in the piece he's like the yeah yeah lex luther has gotten skinnier and better looking since jean hackman or whatever it was yeah uh but he i'm i'm really into jean hackman he really does it wasn't that cool that one with jean hackman and ned baity oh yeah well by by the way i mean i was gonna ask you about that and nicholas is good i'm being facetious the original superman what the what the critics are saying they're they're saying that this is an optimistic Superman. Because when you think of James Gunn, you think of the challenge,

and how many times we've tried Superman, Batman, Chris Nolan, you know, broke film with that. And I guess they're saying that making this earnestness and positivity is sort of, they landed it. Is that the idea why it's a hit?

Yeah, I think so. I mean, I like so many aspects of it. I mean, it's so fun to watch. The action is fun. It's funny. and it's weird. Like, James really is just kind of weird. You know, like all his movies,

like his characters are unique and stand out, but there's always just like, there's a little bit of weirdness, like something sort of odd that you like haven't seen that's exciting to watch. It's sort of baked into the whole thing. But, but yeah, there's, um, it's really sweet and uplifting.

And everybody I talked to is like, I felt good leaving the theater. I felt like inspired and like excited a little bit. What's your, what's your favorite? kind of superhero from the comics. Is it Batman or Superman? You don't have to say

because you're in the Superman. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's okay. They can, Superman can handle it. I think growing up it was like Batman and Wolverine. Those are my guys. I really liked Wolverine. I like the naughty little nasty boy. You know, in the early script I read Dana. I don't know if anybody described Wolverine like that,

but he's a nasty boy. He's a nasty boy. He's a troublemaker. He's a troublemaker. In Superman early drafts, when I got it, to make it a little different, he didn't fly. And he was just walking everywhere, and they're like, this is taking too long. And that, and they told you that that was the Superman draft? Yeah, they go, Superman, just to be different, he's not going to fly. That's crazy.

She has to hitchhike, walk, and then it was like, he had to walk to Antarctic every time to go to, you know, his house. It's house They were trying They brought Krypton closer Yeah And they made it a house Instead of the fortress of solitude It's the ice fortress

By the way, Dana I don't want to give it everyone away But that's where he hangs out Just when he needs to think Or when he's fighting with Lois Lane I heard the actual title Was going to be pretty much Superman Yeah

Yeah And they were going to It was going to be totally new And original and different Pretty much Superman It was going to be David, Spade, at Superman. Superman on the back nine. The whole movie was just the journey to his house.

I've got a dirty cape on. I'm just... Well, actually, David was offered a part in Superman. Like, the kryptonite was going to really get to Superman. He's going to be all shrunken down and old and kind of wasted. And David got offered that part. The part where they push in on him when he's got kryptonite against his face. Yeah.

And it gets all wrinkled at the smash. And then they cut to me and they go. Is that Spade? Is that David Trey? Yeah, and in it, Kryptonite turns Superman into David Spade. Hey, who played Mr. Terrific? I like that guy.

Oh, I love him. Eddie Githegi. I think the power team or whatever that, what was that squad called? Yeah, the Justice Gang. The Justice Gang was good because I don't think they were well known, and I think that's kind of good. It's less distracting in a weird way,

not to cut them down or any by any means, but it's better because you sort of get to discover what they do. They don't have any hooks already that preconceived. And that guy was good. And there was a bird person. Yeah, Hawk Girl. A girl. She's awesome.

And there was a guy. Hey, guys, I'm still wanting to see the movie. Oh, that was Nathan Philean? That was Nathan Philean. And the bulk cut, he's so funny. He is well known. I did not even put that together. Yeah, yeah.

Good job. Yeah. That was fun. Yeah, it was, it was a blast. Everybody was so, so fun to work with. It was a really great crew. James has this thing where he has like a no-assholes policy. So he, like, checks in on people to make sure they're not assholes before hiring them.

And the set for that reason is just, it's awesome. We didn't have that, obviously, Dana. Yeah, Dana would not be able to be hired on a James Gunfilm. Nope. The worst is when the directors actively wants to sabotage. you and the film. I won't say the movie. I wasn't in a lot of movies for this reason,

but that's what that's the worst, when the director actually is trying to crash the airplane, basically. Dana, I was watching a TikTok yesterday, Beck, you'll love this. You won't care, but I was watching a TikTok, and it was a female, I think, wrestler, and they said, what's your favorite movie? She said, master disguise.

Yes. Yes. I should have sent it in. I should have kept, instead of deleting my TikTok. They said it couldn't be done and they had a point, but $100 million later. Yeah, see. That, I mean, that, my, that just makes me think of something I've laughed at so much, which I'm sure you get this a lot, is in the Dana Carvey show documentary, the cut.

Yeah, yeah. That is so funny. I like, I laugh at that multiple times. What's that? It's, um, it was like a very special episode. of home improvement and but too

it's like it's like and right after the Dana Harvey Roup beer Mug beer Diet mug Mug Rup beer

I think Diet mug Rupier A real promo about it right Yeah it was so funny They showed that cold

to Stephen Colbert and he literally He went A popyliptic whatever the word is But thank you for notice that I just want to say

you that you and Kyle that your sensibility on that show is its own special lane and I don't even really know how to describe it it's dry, weird, quirky but when I look at it

and all my dancing for my donuts isn't that special jumping around I'm always so like that's the stuff I want to do I mean because it's so, it's so funny and so dry and weird and I don't know how you've gotten that

comment before i assume yeah yeah definitely and i mean you know it's uh it's it's so fun to do it really makes us laugh and then you know sometimes the audience catches on but it is so weird we like yeah like the house the house with chris hemsworth the way you did the shooting and it was in black and white and the sincerity and earnest awkwardness of that i don't yeah that makes me laugh so much i love that one the like the after school special ones like beers that we did with uh beers yeah and Yeah. I mean, I'm so, I really appreciate that we got to do that on the show because it was just, just odd and strange. I mean, we definitely did one, did a couple where, like, they just were so flat. Like, not, we were like, we did one with Ryan Gosling.

It was like a family matter, like these very special episodes of these, like, classic sitcoms. And we were laughing so hard editing it. And then it, like, played a dress. It was just nothing. It was nothing. I like Ryan Gosling. he's pretty fun was he fun on there oh he's the best he's so he's like he's up for it yeah and he was like he comes in being like i like that stuff i want to do that and he like pushes for it and

you know um so we're weirder yeah he's probably my favorite host all time because the episode where they had bevis and buthead like so the beginning of the show he's not really breaking but he's enjoying it so effusively every single thing the monologue he's kind of like just smiling and having so much fun maybe because he's a giant international movie star. It wasn't like he didn't care, but he just set up the whole party. It was like the whole show was lifted by his attitude.

Totally. You can tell he's just having fun. Like he did, I think the first time they did that Kate McKinnon, um, alien abduction sketch. I think he was just like breaking. Oh,

was he in that in the first one? I think it was the first one. And then he was probably in, was on the 50th, was he in that? Or was it Merrill Street? No, that was Merrill Street. But he had one of the,

famous breaks when Kate landed that. I don't know if it was the first or second time. Yeah. So fucking funny. And I was back you know, under the bleachers with Lorne. I said, is it okay that Ryan's breaking? Oh, of course. He's Ryan fucking golf. Let him

because back in your day, did he not like it when you guys broke? I'll tell you what. No. A million percent from 86 until Adam Sandler got there. And he wasn't even breaking that much. But him and Farley would kind of, you know, it was, it would deconstruct.

Before that, really not supposed to break. It's so fucking Carol Burnett. Yeah. Yeah. That's not what we do here. You know, like don't try to trick the crowd to laugh. What was it like when you first got there? You can't fake it.

I mean, I think it was probably a similar thing, but I think it was like the idea was also, though, like, have fun. Go up there and have fun if you take it to it. Because I also think, like, I have an acting background as well. So I'm like, so sometimes I would try to take things too seriously. I mean, there was like that pride in not breaking and, like, but I would definitely be like, you don't need like lighten the grip a little bit. You know what I mean?

Like it took me a couple of years to just relax and be like, you want the audience to feel you having fun, not breaking on purpose by any means. But like that was- Do you remember what you broke in the first time or did you ever? Who, put. I think it was-

Were you ever in a Debbie Downer? No, I wasn't. There was a sketch that Charles Barkley, when he hosted and never made it tear, and I honestly forget everything. It's terrible. That's just terrible. That's just terrible. That's terrible. Oh, man. Yeah, he's just doing it.

That's terrible. I think it's terrible. T-U-R-R-R. It's terrible. Oh, he's terrible. Terrible. I can't remember his name. There's an impression as it does that brilliantly.

Did you, one thing about S&O, which I think is kind of interesting, is that they'll give you something you've never done before that's completely outside what you do. And you've got two days to get it. And, you know, it's just a funny part of that show. I think that's like, well, that's maybe one of the things I, I am so glad that I don't have to do anymore. It's like, when they hand you something. Yeah. And it's like, I don't do this. And I'm going to.

It's going to be bad. And they're like, I don't care. You're the best we got. it's happening tonight or and one else is used in this sketch you got to play this guy you got to do not have the register you landed Mitch McConnell you did a great Mitch McConnell

thank you thank you and was that an assignment that week or the first time you did it like I think so yeah I wasn't like I have a Mitch McConnell let me do this right and then I mean the prosthetics that you know the yeah got so much better I think it was maybe with like the silicone or something that they They really get you halfway there, 90% there. Yeah.

Yeah. They didn't have that back in the day. It's better when they know what you are. Like, I sort of miss also Chevy Chase going, I'm Gerald Ford. There's nothing. Yeah. I know. Or Dan Aykroyd.

I'm Nixon. Just nothing. He's got a mustache. Yeah. Just keeping it really loose. It's funny when hosts come in and they have a beard and a mustache and they go, I'm not shaving. And you go, oh. Yeah.

So it's going to be hard for you to play these six people, but all right. Right. Right. All right. Well, we'll cast to use that. We'll write to you as that, I guess. I feel like they always end up shaving, but I mean, not always, actually. Put up a fight, yeah. Oh, trust me. That's my. That's Lauren's favorite part of the job is just getting celebrities to shave their faces. Yeah. Trust me. All shaving. When Lauren says, trust me, it normally he makes it come true.

No, trust me. I have a plan. If I had a mustache, I'd be curling it right now. What I told. Daniel Craig, accent coach. I mean, there's a bunch. I just think, I liked white potus. White potus, I love that. Yes. That was really fun.

White potis was a big one. And brought Putin back for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was fun. And Putin was just a great notion. He's not going to ever have his shirt on. Right, right. It's like, you know, and, well, how did you talk?

He's the first pressure of presidents. He's just sort of, you know, casual sort of like, me and our little mischief is enjoying myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the funny take, like a playboy super confident. Yeah, we have nooks. Maybe we'll use them. Yeah, I don't know. I'm in control. Yeah.

It's good when you don't do an exact impression because it's too boring, so you've got to screw with it a little, make it fun. Yeah, because his real voice is more like, it's more. this little it's like high pitch and you know like it's like higher pitch quiet and barely talks yeah yeah yeah should they like good the coach liver sit them a tush yeah always serious always serious yeah i mean white potus is the funniest name you had to do that sketch when someone thought of that it's like i know it was colin jose and i was like yes i will absolutely try and do white photos it was so funny so perfect um but yeah that was like the impression i feel like that i really did that thing with that they try to teach you is like you know you don't have to do an exact

impression just like capture the essence and have fun with it and it was it was wild how like i had been on the show for three years maybe and did that and then it was like another like you're you know just another level of recognition you know oh yeah you're all over those cold openings it was on russian tv at one point oh really i was like okay Cool. Like crushing on Russian? Were you scared they'd be asking? Russian on Russian.

Cushing on Russian, man. Was I afraid that what? That he'd come after you. Say, come to Russia. I just want to talk to. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was, it was, I was like he knows about it.

So if he, yeah, I mean, like, at the same time, I'm like, it's silly that I'd get, that would get nervous. I'm like, he would never come from me. That'd be stupid, even if he wanted to. But there was definitely a couple. moments of like, should I be doing this? Is this weird? Maybe it's funny.

I make it look like an asshole. What's that? If I come to Moscow, will you hurt me? Of course. I'm not going to love you. I love you crazy. Trust me. I love good sketching.

Now everyone's doing your impression. All right, Dana. What else we have for young back? I would just say, you know, because this shows a little bit cornball in the sense that here we are casually going over, which is an intense, incredible part of anybody's life. It's just a fact. It's just an absolute fact.

And so, congratulations. You had a great run on that show. You're brilliant on that show. And everyone knows who you are. And I think you should host it soon. Thank you. I think I should host too. Yeah, it's really, it really is amazing.

I mean, you guys have been out for a couple of years. now. But it is wild. It's like you leave. Everything that Lauren says is kind of true. You know, he's like, this is kind of where you're going to be the funniest and it's going to stick

with you forever once you're a part of it. You're always a part of it. Things like that where I leave and I'm like, oh yeah. Like it really is like a version of home. And I like it is informed kind of everything that I've done. You know, it's such a great training and it is,

it really stays with you. And even though you're on from the show, like you're always a cast member and you have a podcast. Everybody else. Is that a cute card behind you? Oh, it is. Yeah. That was unintentional.

That is, save your thank yous for later. Beck and we're back and live from New York at Saturday night. First time I said. David, because of what Beck just said,

what did Chris Rock say to you about directing a movie and juxtaposing that with S&L? Didn't Chris say something like something in effect of anybody can direct a movie if you can do Saturday and I live, you can direct

a movie. It's like, it's so crazy hard at times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I always say directing is too hard. He's like, no, no. You directed sketches. You don't even know it. You already did it. Yeah, yeah. It really does apply to every other part of the business, I feel like.

Well, thank you, brother. Yeah, thank you guys so much for having me on. Love you guys. Our pleasure. I love you. The best. We'll run into one of these days. Well, that was Beck Bennett, everybody. Beck Bennett, who, I forgot to ask him about, like, he said, or I had read earlier that

Steven Spielberg and Louis C.K. had seen him early on his improv life, Spielberg, talk to him. Yeah, they loved, that's kind of cool. Good Neighbor was a big, one of the first YouTube hits, 2007, sketch comedy on YouTube. So, yeah, that's what got them going. and he was on Arrested Development And also he has a podcast coming out And the name of it is What's our podcast?

That's with Kyle Mooney Kyle Mooney Yeah Yeah in August Produced by Head Gum Edgum You know I just saw Y2K Which Kyle's movie he talked about

When he was on here Anyway we That was fun talking about Him doing Putin and White Potus And Superman, of course. Superman, what a big thing to do. Yeah, it's, you know, when we have people, S&L alums who did eight years, and, you know, you want to touch on that and then the movie.

So I guess we kind of bounced around a little bit. We went back and forth the whole time. You know, well, you just, ideas pop in your head. Well, I want to get to this one. Then we'll go back to Superman. So, yeah, for sure. But it's an easy conversation. Yeah.

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