Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Jason Priestley on Hosting SNL, Hockey with Mike Myers, & Directing TV

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

Jason Priestley joins Dana and David to talk about his SNL figure skating cold open, directing episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, and season two of Private Eyes on CW. Also, living in Nashville, directing Richard Dreyfuss, and playing hockey with Mike Myers.

Some of the most dynamic, interesting, driven people I've ever, no, I'm not hanging out with jelly roll. He lives on every street. When you tell Shannon to, you know, not block her the other girl with her shoulder, does she go, just relax? They say you answer 400 questions today as a director. That sounds about right. It's a real thing, right?

Question fatigue, right? You just clean them. At the end of the end of it, you're like, I don't care. I do, I ease everybody into it. I say, okay, okay, everybody, ready, and action. You go down? Action. Wait a minute.

Hey, guys. Hey, this is a first for us. You are, you're, oh, this is great. You were just awoke and then said, go on a podcast. Is that right? Not quite. I was in the middle of a whole moment. I thought we were just doing a pre-interview.

today. Because aren't you guys sending me a hat and I'm supposed to wear a hat? We never knew about a hat. We've never done a pre-interview. You're fine without the hat. I don't even know what that is. I thought this was later, guys. I'm sorry. Jennifer, I'm on with the boys. I'll talk to you later. Jennifer, be cool. It's all what happened. Oh, my God, guys. I'm so sorry. Jennifer, he's fine. What is the deal? Trust me. Hey, guys. I was seen you guys. Jennifer, I'm hanging up. Not since 1992, the cold open. You were, you were. You were. You were. You were. were uh now that i was a double right most of the time or do you skate uh i skate i i skate but most of it was a double i did a little bit of stuff but the double did most of it for me he was

the cold opening on saturday live i just so people understand in 1992 and jason came on but it was a pretty good look alike and it kept the shot wide yeah you're built the same so it did really and then when you came in at the end i'll beat the shit that was really funny it was really She was like, could barely talk. It was good. I love the life that that piece has had. You know, every winter Olympics, it seems to come back around, right? They throw it back, yeah.

Yes, that's true. Yeah. It's become a thing. We had Kerrigan on, and that was in rotation for a while because she got to skate with Farley. Were you guys over at Rockefeller? Is that usually where they do that? We did our stuff.

No, we did our stuff up at SkyRink, which is. What the heck is? Somewhere in Manhattan. Someone who were in Midtown Manhattan at the top of a skyscraper. There's an ice cream. Oh, for real? Yeah. Oh, how cool is that?

It's hilarious. Don't fall. So what, I mean, since we're on this topic, we just bounce around. We don't have any rehearsal. Like, okay. It's just all the pre-interview. It's just longer. It's a little bit like a fever dream.

You know, you're acting and you're doing well, you're doing things. You started pretty young. And then 90210, Rocket Ship comes on. And it explode globally. And then it's like, hey, how about coming on SNL and hosting? Then that's where we saw you in 92. Yeah. So right at that point, and you didn't seem to have any, anything but nice, you know, you're Canadian, right?

So it wasn't like, hey, you know, guess what show I'm on? Vancouver. It's like. Yeah, man. So just talk us through that real way if you want to, just the experience of the, you know, going on SNL. And you're like 22 or something. Yeah, I was, I was, maybe I was 22 or 23 years old. Yeah.

I mean, for me, having the opportunity to come and do SNL with you guys was unbelievable. I, you know, I'd watched SNL my whole life. So for me to have that up, I mean, I definitely understood the importance of that opportunity. And it was, and it was definitely, definitely an experience that I'll never forget. That was, that was one of the most fun professional weeks of my entire career, which has been very long. point in time. It has. He got a fat cast, too, Dana, because

92 was my, I was still really new, just mostly writing. Yeah, he wasn't. He wasn't. But you had you guys. Yeah. He had you and Mike and Phil. And Farley.

Probably Chan. Farley and Sandler was there. They were, yeah. Oh, that was the crossover. That was a good year. That was a big. Really fun year. Did Mike Myers take you under his wing kind of

at being a fellow Canadian? I'm from Canada, too. You know, hey, how you doing, eh? You know, it's funny. For a few years, yeah, I would, I would, I did a lot of stuff with Mike. We played hockey a lot together. Oh, yeah, you do hockey too, yeah. A lot of charity hockey games and stuff.

Okay. But then, but then also he would invite me to, you know, if he was doing a table reading of something in Los Angeles, he would always call me and I would go and be a part of the table reads and stuff he was doing, you know, trying to get all those projects off the ground. Yeah, it was great. It was really cool. Mike's are great.

I mean, you guys know better than I. He's an awesome guy. He's fantastic. Yeah, Canadians just have a vibe. You know, I don't know what it is, a humbleness, not fake humble, but also, you know, have their own ambitions and talent, but there is sort of a polite carefulness that I find with Canadians. Maybe that's a cliche, but.

Dane and I are fake humble. My wife's Canadian. Yeah, David's ego was sort of, I don't want to say this, out of control. But he's caught. I had a big ego. I was even on 902.1. I was like a writer on us now. I was peacocking around like I did anything.

Yeah. He goes, what's up with this Jason guy? He says to me day two. Jason, Jason, from 9-0-2-10? What do you mean?

What's up with him? I don't know what he meant by that. I made that up. Wait, who was your music? It was a, it was a band called Teenage Fan Club. Oh, yeah.

Some of those come and go. But, you know, you never know. And they're big when we get them. And I remember they were really, pushing hot house flowers on us and then they finally did it and they they disappeared later that night yes yes i think same thing having a teenage fan club they just disappeared it's so funny because then you get nirvana the next week then you get burl jam and you just don't know we don't know we break we break new people what we get we do it's we put them on the stage then we see if it like sticks

that's a pretty good lord michael's impersonation that's pretty good um what it is right um um um Jason Priestley's here. I think he's going to be very game. Oh, you're happy so far, Jason. There's only three people in North America that don't do a Lauren Michael's impression. They've hunted them down. Right.

They're three in both Canada. It's too, it's too, oh, did you have Norm McDonald on when you were on? Yeah, Norm was there. Oh, great. You got everybody. Oh, yeah, I did. I was super lucky. I had a unbelievable cast.

It was a great show. You did it with Chris Rock doing the Arsinoe Hall show. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you did. But wasn't that part of our whole Backstreet Boys thing? Oh, no, new kids on the block. That's what we all played.

And that was on the Arsenio show, right? Oh, my God. And so you're saying it. Look at this. I stuck in my shirt I got on to you. And what was the angle on 902? Oh, nice. Yeah.

Oh, he does have that. Hey, he's a bare naked lady guy. No, no. I love it. It's true. I do love bare naked lady. There's room for insane. What's not to love about them?

There's always room. You guys were probably huge stars crossing over. Like, did you ever see those guys out? In sync? Yeah, occasionally. VMAs. Yeah, yeah. All the usual is hot.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I knew those guys a little bit. I would see that new kids on the block out more often than other bands, though. Like, I always found myself in an elevator with the new kids on the block. Which was, yeah, I'm not sure why. I don't know how. I can, two times I remember perfectly, one was in Miami and one was in Vegas. And I'd step on the elevator and the whole band had me in there.

And I was like, you could blend right in. you ever audition for that? No. Did someone, did some producer somewhere because you're on this rocket ship and you're a teen idol kind of go, can you sing kid? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, they tried to make an album with them. Did they make it out? Other ways of making money. Well, tell us about that. What did they say? Oh, no. I never did it. I never even entertained it. I was like, yeah, thanks guys. But who do you think I am? William Shatner? There's only one Shatner.

Yeah. Another Canadian. I can't believe you brought a. I'm up rocket mat. He'll bring up Shatner. It's a Canadian thing. You got a lot up there. You got a lot of stars. So everyone's got a Shatner. Everyone's got a Walkin.

Everyone's got. Yeah. What's your walking? Do you have a Walkin? Yeah. He doesn't. You gotta have it. Ready and willing at all times. So you got to growl too.

Here's Walkin sees a UFO. Wow. That's it. That's good. David, you're up. Oh, you're going to do the act of cat? No, he just told me he goes, you know, active dogs are smart. You know, he goes under sometimes.

He does, he does. Yeah. He's good. He goes grab like this. Oh, he's a friend. And we're hoping he hosts this year. Is he a Canadian? So you probably never asked any of these kinds of questions.

but so that 10 years on that show. Yeah. So huge. What, you know, what you're in did you, did someone think maybe you were going to change because you're mobbed at shopping malls and stuff?

I mean, you went through like a Beatlemania thing in a sense, right? Yeah, yeah, very much so. What the hell? And you're so young. How did it,

were you Canadian smart and kind of kept level or did you spin out a little bit? Or did you have the time of your life? I tried to, I tried to be to stay level-headed and to not let it really affect me. And that was easy for me because I was at work all the time because I was number one on the call seat of that show. So I was at work all the time. So it was easy not to.

Just work and work. Yeah. Just like, you know, and after a while, you know, and we did so many episodes of that show every year that, like, you know, after a while I just felt like a hamster on a wheel. And I had to keep running as fast as I could or it would, you know, spin me out. Those shows shoot like a movie, right? They're just nonstop shooting. It's not a sitcom.

And how many, what was your peak episode count? Was it? Because 22 was average, but maybe more? We would do 32 a year. Whoa. You fucking ER. Wait a minute. And it takes five to eight days to shoot it?

That's the whole year. Well, that's like, that's a year and a half for a year. That's like 240 days of shooting or something. That was a lot. I went to junior college. Do you remember anybody? that was in the cast? Before?

Can you remember any of the names? Before? No, I'm kidding. What about, Jason, when you get on the show, so everyone's at a different level, probably pretty new. How do they decide, like, who gets the most money? Someone who has a microscopic quote or some way,

how do you end up number one on the call sheet, or is it just random? No, I was number one on the call sheet because I think that Brandon, I done stuff. I done stuff. Like I was just coming off a series that was on NBC. and you know my and you know i mean shaman shannon had done lots of stuff too before we started you know

she's on little house on the prairie for Christ sake so whoa you know you know the we we we'd sort of been around for a while and i think so shannon and i had the highest quotes uh of anybody was she number two yeah yeah she uh she hosted after that yeah she did and luke and luke did too as well right Oh, yeah, Luke did too. Yeah, Luke hosted, oh, God rest his soul. We love Luke. And he really stood out as well as just one of the nicest people I've ever met and the most centered. I don't know.

He really stood out. I mean, there was, you guys, there's something pretty magic. Three from the show is a big deal. That was a big chunky show that we could pluck off of. Yeah, he was. Luke was an incredibly kind, generous, small. funny guy. He was, he was great. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, sure, sure. He's smart. He's fun in the show. So you get there. He, what number was he? He was number, Luke was number seven on our call sheet.

Oh, yeah. And when you go, seven. When you go back and watch the show, though, he really, like Dylan McKay was sort of like this, you know, sort of like this mythical, cool guy. He's a little fondsy. He comes in and breeze out, you know, and then. Hey, guys. Yeah, he's like James Dean kind of. Yeah, exactly. You know, all of us would trudge along doing our, you know, whatever. And then like Luke would breeze in and Dylan be there, riding his motorcycle. And hey, kid. Dylan's like, do we have to eat at the peach pinning?

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Oh, did you talk about that? Because then friends, didn't friends decide, you probably had a bigger cast, but friends decided quid pro quo. Everyone gets the same, right? Yeah. At one point. Yeah.

Did you guys, but you were before friends, so. Yeah, no, we were before friends and then, you know, and then after. And then after. With, with, with, alongside our friends. we all didn't talk about money very much and we didn't all collectively get together and negotiate as a group you know I don't know in retrospect that might have been it might have helped or it might not have like I really don't know what the right answer is on a show like

I'm sure you guys did fine though right oh yeah over time get those bumps the shows they It is interesting. Sometimes on shows, I don't want to know what anyone else gets. I couldn't tell you what anyone I just shoot me got at the show I did. Grownups, I never know what anyone else got. So I would rather just not know in a way because it can lead. Well, it was the analog world, too, where if a TV shows on, it gets massive. I was canceled on a sitcom in 1981, me, Mickey Rooney, and Nathan Lane.

And I was told we were getting 24 million people. get that take your 24 million and get the fuck out of here yeah what so i'm sure your numbers kept growing and that yeah the 90s it was just everybody knew about 90210 yeah sure interesting different times it was different time right it was appointment television time it was all that stuff right all the things that are gone now yeah it was definitely definitely a different time ah yeah now now yeah now they said what if Paramount goes away? I just heard that today, Dan, I'm like, if that moves out of town,

I don't know what's going to have in the Burbank. My move to Nashville, Tennessee. God, dang. And that's maybe where you live, ironically. Yeah, I live in Nashville. Oh, do you? Oh, nice. Nashville's a nice town.

When did you move? We moved here about five and a half years ago. There was a private school here in West Nashville that we wanted our kids to go to. And so they got in, they got accepted. And so we move. Well, what, because everybody in Hollywood or everyone out on the West Coast occasionally will mention Nashville or Florida or Texas or maybe Georgia or places

where this is a little less tax heavy. So your expectations in Nashville and then what is, what's it been like? What are the upside surprises about living there if there are any? Oh, absolutely. First of all, it's a beautiful place. Tennessee Why Ben? He's played there.

Oh, I'm sure you have. Sure, I love it. I think the thing that surprised us the most was the group of friends that we've assembled here. Some of the most dynamic, interesting, driven people I've ever...

No, I'm not hanging out with jelly roll. He lives on every street. Donut hole is that now also... He's like the mayor, walking around. Donut hole has an album out. Oh, that's a new guy. Yeah, that's not jelly roll, but Donut hole has that. He's, I love that guy. Is it hotter than you think or colder than you think in the winter? It's hotter than I thought in the summer and colder than I thought in the winter. It's both of those things. Well, that's where California comes out ahead, but after that, it gets a little

well, we get shake. We get shakers. Do you get twisters or tornadoes? Not where I live. No, I live in, it's hilly where I live. So we don't get any twisters. here. Okay. So there's no. Occasionally in other parts of Tennessee. Yeah. That's usually more for like the, you know, Oklahoma and places like that where it's super

flat. More mid. So one thing is I found kind of interesting. I've just jumped around here, but that you, while you were doing 90210, you were already directing episodes. You're already having this other career, which was just really smart of being a director, producer, right? You're making things.

And so that, um, You've done a lot. I have, yeah, I do. I spent a lot of time behind the camera. And I have done for the last 25, 30 years, which is great. I mean, you guys know what it's like. Being a performer, your focus is very finite. And you only have to worry about you and the character and what you're doing.

But I enjoy being the director and having a more macro vision of what's going on and having to solve. It's such a puzzle. Yeah, bigger problems. Film acting or TV, you know, just it can be, if you don't have chemistry with the director, you have a different sensibility about, you know the puppeteer in this particular project is probably hurting the project and you can't get out of it. But if you're the puppeteer, you go, you're going to try to make it like you want it. Yeah, exactly.

Right. Yeah. And I enjoy that. Now, when do you get to come to them and ask? Like, are you, I'm sorry, but you're like newer. You wait a year. You wait a year. tears and then it strikes you like I could probably figure this out I started uh buggin'

Aaron at the end of the first season I started you know oh wow that yeah I started hammering him to to let me direct it and yeah and by the end of the third season he did he gave me the he let me drag my first episode and by the end of the show I directed 15 hours of it like I directed a lot wow great that's very cool that's real did anyone else make that move on the show anyone else direct uh I You know, in the 10th and final season, everyone, you know, they gave everyone a shot to direct an episode. Oh, really? But, yeah, the other guy who directed quite a few episodes was James Eckhouse, who played my father on the show. He directed a bunch of episodes.

Right. When you tell Shannon to try to, you know, not block her the other girl with her shoulder, does she go, just relax? to. The cast revolt. You know, I was super lucky in that everyone was always very supportive of me wanting to drink. Oh, that's good.

Yeah, I was... That's actually probably more rare. I think so. Certainly nowadays. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny. Wow. Yeah, you have directed a shit ton. It's great.

It's harder than you think. I mean, people say you ever direct to me and I'm like, I wouldn't even know. where to start. It's so complicated. You have to really like be shadowing and really opening your eyes to what's going on on the set of it. Yeah, very much so. Yeah, it's a lot. Because everything's your problem. Heavy as the head that wears the crown, right? Yeah, it's true. How big, I mean, it is big. Just your experiences with having a DP or director of photography kind of going, I'm thinking maybe this pan shot here and we come in and then you talk with them. I mean, if you have a team

around you, a first AD, whatever, that seems to take the workload off a little bit, if you're in sync. If you're in sync. So you can focus on the performance and the narrative. Yes. Yes. But I, but I, but I, you know, me as a director, I like to be involved in all of it. I like to, you know, I do. I like, I like to talk, you know, let's talk about how we're going to shoot it. And let's, you know, I can adjust the actors accordingly. Um, and I think that's that, that, that seems to work the best. Well, people don't realize also the whole day you're looking at the monitor. Someone's walking up going, which dress do you like better? This one or this one.

Which carpet squares for the next scene? You like this carpet or this car? You're like, ah, plush. Okay. And you're like, I would never. That's the part where I started going. Oh my God. It is just nonstop questions all that.

It is. Because that's the final answer. That's right. And they say you answer 400 questions a day. That sounds about right. And it's a real thing, right? Question fatigue, right? You just, you know, at the end of the end of the end of it,

like, I don't fucking care. And every actor, I mean, I'm on a movie right now and people all have so many questions. And it's honestly like the energy to take to just respect the actor's questions and try to, and some ask more than others and it just gets to, I could just see at a certain point, I go, let me just save my questions for when they're very important. I would assume being an actor, a lot of times that's a great director because you would kind of have experienced overdirection. Like I've seen people melt down when there's like,

and do it like this and this. And do this, it's like seven, seven notes. Line readings, yeah. It seems like an actor who kind of know, just a little more on for, you know, make it simpler. That's my impression of it. Yeah, knowing I don't need five notes in my head.

No, no. And I, and I, I am pretty good with that. And I'm very sensitive to that always. And I do. Like being an actor, it's, it's shorthand, right? Just do it slower. Yeah, take 10% off of that.

You know, like it's easy stuff like that. And then, you know, like actors know how to talk to actors and get their point. Yeah, you know. Yeah, you walk up and you go, hey, Tori. First of all, how was your weekend? Listen, how did you, how did you get lunch in a half hour? We just kind of zip through these lines. She's like, oh, I get that.

Okay. Did you have moves? Because I was a director once. He'd go on the set. No one was there but him. and he'd go like this with his eyepiece, and he would just walk around and kind of set the shots. Did you have a thing with the...

Or these things? I want to come in, like... I did. I had, you know, I had... What was your thing? Of course, I did. Around your neck. We do it all on our phone, right?

We like, everything's... I see the DPNR is going like this with their phone. They walk along, and I go, I just try to get... And even the phone pretend one of them. There's nothing in his hand, you mean? Yeah, he has a little phone They're like going on. She, Dana, she.

Did you ever throw your headset off in frustration and fatigue as a director? What the fuck? You practice this at home? I don't think he would, but you know, directors do that, man. I love it, I, I'm, I have been guilty of that. Oh, awesome. But it's a real person. It's never because it's rarely is because it's because it.

the people doing anything. It's like, you know, stuff happens, right? You know, in middle of a take is an amazing take. All of a sudden the plane flies through. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And stuff like that. And also time versus money and you have to manage that, you know. We only got 20 more minutes here. Well, we got a semi-truck. Losing the light. Okay, we will lose the semi-truck crash. All right. Well, just have her fall over a rock. By the way, every time you have sound with a problem, and you go, there was a little, Leaf floor. Did you pick that up?

I didn't really hear it. So it's a good take. Probably do it again. It's like everyone's scared of getting fired. And I'm like, we always air on the side of just fucking do it again. I did a snow movie once where they're shooting all the fake snowflakes. And it's super loud.

And I was so naive I didn't realize later on. Well, you're going to have to dub every single line. Oh, yeah, yeah. What? Horrible. Horrible. That was a bad one.

So what? So they put last thing. Jason, oh, Jason, here's a new one. Do you, I always see, I don't see,

sometimes on a set, we ask Ben Stiller this, the first AD yells action and cut. And how does that happen? Do you not want to do that? Is that what, do they, do they,

do they will, some directors prefer to have the first AD call action and cut. I prefer to call action and cut myself. That's the, only fun. Exactly. That's the fun part of the job. Action. And what's your action? Just do it for us. Like it's a pretty big set, pretty big scene. You want everyone to hear you. Do you kind of gently or what do you do? I do. I ease everybody into it. I say, okay, okay, everybody, ready and action. That's what I.

You go down. Action with a little crap. First I get like this. First, I get like this. Then everyone waits. What is he doing? Then I go. what do you say? Yeah. I go, you know what I said. Just go. And when the camera comes around and we're doing a shot, I go, reaction. Yeah, nice, nice. And how do you yell cut?

And if it's a great take and you know it, does that inform the way you say cut? Yes. Of course it does. Of course it does. Oh, really? Also, again, it's part of the fun, guys. So it's a celebratory cut. And let's cut it.

Fantastic. And then, moving on. Moving on. That's the other one. You take your cape off. Moving on. I can't help but yell. When they go,

yell, yell cut. I go, that's a cut. I just help it a little bit, and they all stare at me. And then they go, moving on. I go, moving on. I had a director that would look at the monitor during the scene, you know, actually look at the monitor.

Yeah. And then he would do this like a conductor. Right. Oh. And then when the scene would end, it would go ah cut

crescendo god so we have you guys have you guys ever worked with directors that like when the crew is setting up for the next shot

they play music to try to set the mood of what's happening yeah yeah for sure yeah sometimes it's throws me sometimes it's nice but everyone doesn't always agree

on the music so some people are annoyed by it. But sometimes Adam walks by it, not with a boombox, but he's got this thing that he carries that plays tunes, but we have the same sensibility. He has a little speaker. So he walks through because it's always like so many people on the set and so much crew. And it always takes, you know, it's taken a long time to a lot line of stuff. But it is fun. I do like that because sometimes you stumble upon a song that's good for the movie. You know, you go, oh, you know what, this one actually is pretty cool.

because it goes in like shuffle. Anyway, other than that, I have been around it. Dana? I would say, I like the idea that Tarantino. I think he's the only director. It just has no original music. He takes music from other movies throughout history and puts them in his movie.

On the monitor, he puts pictures of feet and just puts them on like a montage. And then everyone gets to look at him. And he goes, you guys don't like feet too? I don't know. Jason, just for a second, Like you as a consumer for a second. Sorry, Jason, I'll explain that.

I'll text you. David's a little, David's got low blood sugar right now. Yeah, I've got low blood sugar. I don't know where I am right now. Well, I thought this is a pre-interview. Yeah.

David hasn't woken up yet. It's, it's called sleep apenia. And so he's not literally awake right now. He's dreaming this guy. But as a consumer, as a film, television or music or whatever,

what do you like? What do I like? Yeah, what do you like? What are some, I never say your favorite movie or favorite TV show, but what's something that pops to your head that you like? What have I been watching lately that I like? DT.

Lately is be good or all time. DTF St. Louis is cool. DTF? Yeah. Dude, that got so complicated for me. Oh, man. It's fantastic. I'm almost finished with it.

I think it's fantastic. Okay. If you're pitching it to me, what would you say to me? Because it's on my radar, but I haven't clicked on. How do you explain it? How would you say why I should watch DTF? It's complicated. Yeah, five,

And it gets super complicated. It sounds so easy at the beginning. Like I go, I got this. And I'm like, but what is the, what's the, what's the, what's the, what's the. Jason Bateman. I do like David Harbor. Yep, David Harbor and Linda Cardalini. Linda Carlini.

All good. All very good. And from there, I don't know. And from there, it just gets weird. Small town burger. BTF. Not just foot fetish weird. It just gets weird.

Yeah, thank you. You got that one. Here's what about... Here's Jason Bateman. Sorry, David. Jason Bateman on Ozarks. Wendy, just hear me out. Ozarks was good, too.

You had to have seen Ozark. I did. I saw Ozark. I love it. Ozark was great. Okay. Anyway. That was also Peter Pan talking to Wendy.

Also, it was a bookmark impression. I'm not saying it's a perfect tonal impression, but it's a bookmark. You're workshopping. Yeah. It's what... Also, deep-marking. TF, Dana, stands for down to fuck, and it's a dating site. Oh, okay.

They try to get each other on BTF. Yeah, it's kind of cool, because if you know the term, if you don't, it just breezes by you. But anyway, let's get more to private guys. Are you making a note of that, Dana? Yeah, Dana is. Yeah, can't you see them? He's like, what are the hip things I should say when I go to the general store today? All right.

Why don't we talk about the new show for a second? Because your PR people are listening and going, when are they going to talk about it? No, I want to talk about it because I was watching CW the other day, and I was like, what's coming up? Because I knew you were on a show called Private Eyes. It was coming out. I guess it's going to be October 5th.

But I was like, let's let the man tell us about it. Because we saw the preview, but let's hear more. Well, the history, too, the previous Private Eyes. Yeah. Now the reboot. Yeah. So this is a reboot of a show that we wrapped. about five years ago that we used to shoot in Toronto that was on,

that was on Global up there and it was on Ion, I think, down here. And the show, for five years, it was the number one scripted show in Canada. The show did very well down here for Ion. And then the show got canceled. And then, and then off. Genius move. It's doing too well. Forget this show.

I don't know what the, I don't know what the reasons for that. guessing the show were, but they must have had a good reason. And then they came back to us last year and asked us if we would consider rebooting the show and sort of picking up these characters five years later and see where they're at. And so we thought about it long and hard. And we said, yeah, we'll try it. So we went and found a couple of showrunners, a couple of Canadian women.

Sarah Dodd and Jennifer Kasabian, and then they wrote an incredible pilot script for us. And so we went and made 10 episodes. And the show is super fun. Anyone who's familiar with the show, it's familiar enough that OG fans of the show will like it, but it's also new and fresh. Yeah, of course. You don't have to have a fan of the original show or even seeing the original show to watch. So there was a young lady you do it with. That is Cindy Samson.

Sim? Yep. Cindy Sampson. Angie Everhart. So the first private eye season, you were a hockey player, she's a private eye, and then you do, and then you have a kind of a tease

of maybe a relationship. Yeah, the first version of the show was really, it was like moonlighting. It was a will they won't day, kind of a set up with the two. And now in the second incarnation, what has happened? Well, in the, you know, we pick up.

Did you do it? Oh, yeah. A lot. Did you, did you, off camera, I have her. Between the five years. Yeah, Dana, you got what's going on.

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British Columbia, as opposed to the bustling metropolis of Toronto, and they have a baby. They've got a one-year-old kid, and it's... It was a great actor. Oh, my God, there's a kid. the kid stole every scene he was in it was unbelievable well in the tray in the in the in the preview i saw

it really made me laugh out loud because i guess you guys are kissing and they cut to the baby and it's sticking its tongue in and out and it was really i hadn't seen a baby use that way in a tv show or movie babes are really getting better so now you're trying to be privatized you've got this little baby so it's all that stuff yeah it's definitely an escalation yeah so now we're juggling being married and being parents and and, you know, trying to, you know, people who live together and work together, you know, being together that money. You know, it's all that stuff. Yeah.

All the stuff. You take the baby, all investigate the homicide. You hold the guy down the baby sprays diarrhea. All right. You want to change the diaper? Change the diaper. Yeah. Or investigate the serial killer.

One of us has to do it. Throw me the gun. Throw me the talcum powder. Now, would you carry a gun? Do you fight? in this? Yes. Is it that kind of?

Yes. So we don't, we don't carry guns. Because we're Canadian privatized. Canadian, you have batons. Exactly. Yeah, baton.

Exactly. Carrying out of two. A bear spray. That's about it. I use that Montana. That's like, well, if you're going for a walk,

bring this. I go, really? So I were just, I have 50 feet away. I got to spray at this charging grizzly. Yeah. Is this a vacation I'm on?

What is the bear? I say to the bear, I'm going to give you a light dusting. so you know what's going on. You're not going to like it. It's going to go like this, you know. They don't like it. I'll hit you harder if you start coming at me.

I think it's used mostly for people, to be honest. In LA. In Hollywood, Hollywood. So, Jason, you started shooting. It comes on the fifth. Have you been doing it for a while? October 5th. They got 10 done.

We shot one, we shot one season. We're going back to start shooting our second season. Oh, you did the whole season already. Yeah, yeah. We did 10 episodes. Wait a minute. Oh, okay. They're giving you a,

second season before the first season premieres. Yeah, it's crazy, right? That's pretty complimentary. It's testing well, Dato. We like what we see. Just we need more private eyes. Let's do 50. So how long do you want this to go? Do you love it as your favorite job? Yeah, I do. You have great chemistry. We do. We have a great time. We have a ton of fun at work. Cindy and I are really good friends. So we have fun making the episodes. Yeah, it's super fun. It's just hard to be out of Nashville. Well, you get to be funny.

It's a comedy. It's a comedy. It's very, it's very lighthearted. It's very light. So that's fun. Yeah. That's really fun.

It's a fun upbeat set. And I think this episode, this version of the show is even funnier than the first version we did, which is really fun. We get to amp that up. Well, I think they're playing it really great with the baby and the two of you, not trying.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it gives it. I haven't seen. this exactly like this. Right. And I think that that makes it just fun and makes for a lot of fun to try to be a private eye and raise a little toddler.

I mean, it's kind of, well, you can take five years of feedback from the, from the show when it was on and go, here's that everyone liked. Here's what they didn't like maybe. Now we have all the data. Let's play into what was working the best. Because you don't get a lot of chances to go back and tweak like that. No. No, you hardly ever do.

It's a great opportunity. We're really having a good time with it. I think that, you know, I think it's like hanging with your friends. If you get hooked on a show and you like a show, specifically if it's lighthearted. So the chemistry between you and Cindy is already there. You know, you already did five seasons. The guesswork is out of it.

So they know you like each other and they can feel all that makes it feel good. Yeah, I think so. Oh, I have a question for you. You directed a movie with Richard Drum. Dreyfus and is Richard Dreyfus tough on the set? I've heard he's, he can be a little rascalie. Dick Dreyfus? Yeah.

He, he was, he was, he was fine with me. He was fine with me. I mean, there were, you know, I don't know. There were, there weren't really, there wasn't really anything happened. It was, was he, but is it hard because he was in Jaws and the Good Byger, these huge movies? That's hard to direct. It's hard. because, you know, you're sitting there and, yeah, with guys like Richard, they're so accomplished

and they know so much and they've been doing this for so long. You know, you really, it's a, it becomes more of a partnership and you, and it becomes an exchange of ideas instead of a director, you know, certainly, you know, a director of my caliber going over and saying, well, Richard, I think you should do this and you need to do that. You know, it becomes much more collaboration. I was one of the 50 most beautiful people in America. You listen here. But honestly, it turns into, it's a lot of, I find on there with directing, when I get directed, bedside manner.

There's a way to give notes that doesn't, you can see someone getting a note and going, that's not going to go well. I feel it already because the director's too sharp or too harsh and it throws because, you know, we're all very fragile. So it throws it off. but if they can kind of, like with someone like Richard, you have to kind of come in a little soft and say, hey, man, let's maybe try a different way or whatever, whatever.

Right? That's probably, yeah. I mean, I was in a movie once where the director, this was Wayne's World, Penelope Severe, she would just, there'd be a thing that I was going to do. And she says, well, what do you want to do here? That was the direction. And I was, because I was the character that I played on SNL.

So I said, what do you want to do here? and she would just say, could you do it five seconds faster? So with Richard Dreyfus, it would probably be a little bit of that. What are you thinking, Richard? You know, or a little bit of collaboration. It's a collaboration always, yeah, it has to be. You know what's funny, Dana, is I've gotten that before where they go, can you go a little faster?

It sounds mean, but they go, we want this in the movie. Yeah, that's what they say. We want. And you go, if it's too long, they're just going to go, fuck, this is a good scene. Also, they'll say to like Dana or me, you, they'll say, hey, what do you want to do in this? And I might say, I'm going to get up here. Can you go, can you get me if I'm this far away? And they go, okay, thanks for telling us, because that first take wouldn't have worked. We got a wide now. You're going to move.

And then they go, oh, you want to jump around or add level. You go, okay. And then they're ready. And that's a good back and forth where everyone's cool with it. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. I tell them, I'm going to try something. This one doesn't work. Get rid of it. Let's just try that. But don't you try those things in rehearsals so they can be ready for what? I try a few, but when we start going, they go, let's screw around more. You know, like, oh, I thought maybe I'm going to get up. That is rehearsal, Jason. Yeah, that's, yeah.

And we'll take out the part where you just admonished me in front of that. One time I had to get, they, this director said, we don't want to fire you. Everyone wants to fire you. I don't. I don't want to fire you. You have one take. I'm saving your job. One thing I did find interesting about you is your whole connection to race cars and F1 or the Indianapolis 500.

And you did have a wicked crash apparently. You were going 180 miles an hour. This is 2002? Yeah, back in 2002. Is it a bad memory? You look great. No, I don't have any memory of it. I lost about three and a half weeks.

where I, you know, because I, yeah, I separate three skull fractures, and it was probably my 12th or 13th concussion. So I lost a few weeks. But I don't think those were three weeks that I really wanted to be able to remember to be perfectly honest. Wake me up for the thing. Yeah, there was a lot of bad stuff happening and surgeries and stuff. And what were you in a Super? No, I was running, I was running indie lights at that point in time. So I was, they were basically 200 mile an hour open wheel oval cars.

Oh, full-on opening. Who is it a group, who have former actors, actors and directors that race cars really fast? There's one guy from, I can't remember now. Long Beach Grand Prix comes around. That's right. Well, you've done that before. Haven't you, David? I did do that.

I might have seen you down there. Yeah, I did do that. It was actually too much. I didn't do it again because I go, shit. Plus is three days of training. Oh. Uh-oh. He knows.

Uh-oh, Amazon. All right, we'll wrap it up. This pre-interview was going well. We can't wait for the real show. We'll see it tomorrow morning. It's going to do an 8 a.m. Call tomorrow. You could just...

Anything left for this young man before the dog. I'm glad you're safe. No. Thank you for doing it. The dog is talking. It just said, fly on the wall. You texted the dog and said, get me out of this. say there's an emergency

time to wrap this Jason so we'll say that we're going to do privatize privatize in summary privatize CW privatized West Coast

yes we're going to go over the figure skating cold open we'll put that in there this for tomorrow oh no oh no this this was the interview okay no this was the end of yeah okay And then we've got the trailers online if you want to see the trailer.

Yeah. Yes. And sounds good. We're excited about it. On the CW October 5th. And it seems like just a funny, funny, fun show. Yeah. So you have kids watch it too.

Absolutely. Co-viewing opportunity for sure. Yeah. The babies will relate to the baby. Well, congratulations on surviving show business and thriving in show business. Still doing good, yeah. Expanding your career and doing all these things. And it's just great.

Thank you, guys. My pleasure. It's great to see you, but it's been way too long. All right, listen, if you're enjoying the fly on the wall, of course, hopefully you are. Click follow. We don't want to be desperate, but obviously smash that goddamn button on your favorite podcast app. Smash it. Leave a review, a good one. Leave a five-star rating, nothing else. Whoops. And maybe even share an episode with a friend. If you're watching this episode on YouTube, please, subscribe, Dana. What do you think? I'm going to tell you this right now. Me now, believe me later.

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