Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Please Don't Destroy

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

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David, you know about Airbnb, right? I've had relatives that are coming to stay and they're staying for a little while and the hotel is far away or it's not quite the right fit. And so they get an Airbnb and these things are just a great use of digital knowledge. Where you- Oh yeah, I think people are just all moving that way

because just easy, you do it on your phone, you check it out and you find, you know, if you want your own privacy or whatever. Yeah. Or if you want a pool, you find one with a pool, you know, or one that you can bring your dog. It's it's completely not one size fits all super adjustable. I've used one in particular a couple of times and it was just charming and nice. And yeah, very easy to use. So it's a good alternative

if you need a place to stay. Right, because hotels are great. It just sometimes, hotels don't spend as much meticulously checking everything out. Airbnb, I think they always seem to have personal touches and my friends say it's great and they would never do anything but that. If you want a kitchen, you know, at the hotels it doesn't have a kitchen. A full kitchen usually can get that and do all that. Perfect accommodation, traveling with friends or family or on your own. Listen, for your next adventure it might be something to try out at least, you know? You won't regret making the switch from traditional hotels.

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Please don't destroy guys. You like guys better? Well, what is that? Okay, we gotta start over. I like guys better? Well, what is that? Okay, we got to start over. I like it. No, it's better. It's Please Don't Destroy, period. Well, you could add guys or team, right?

No, we have the guys from Please Don't Destroy. We have the guys from Please Don't Destroy. Yeah. And this, no pun intended, this podcast is going to blow your mind. It's going to reorientate your, please don't just say it's going to destroy you. They are the guys that are three dudes on SNL that only do, I think they only do the videos, they do a video probably once a week. Sometimes it gets kicked just to a online after the show.

If it goes too long, which we joke about. But they're always high quality and they're always funny. And so we thought this is turning into a big part of the show, an important part. And it's always been with the videos from Tom Schiller to Samberg to people adding video. It's a great element of the show. Yeah. And they're just fun little short films. They've got Taylor Swift in some of them and all these different Travis Kelce, a lot of stars. People like to jump in them and a lot of the hosts will jump in on them, even though it's a fucking beating. I'd like to be there and they go, okay, you do read through Wednesday,

then you're going to do an an 18 hour shoot on Thursday. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, you go all night Friday and then get two hours sleep and then get ready for the show. It's fantastic. For the live show, that matters. But these guys are funny, they're sweet. They also write for the show.

Anyway, they're very talented, they're very bright. And they use cast members, but they'll tell you, very cool dudes. And there's five of us total on this chatter today. So just try to pay attention and just know that if someone's talking, it's probably me and Dana. Yes. And we did.

We were at our over talk meter. I checked it afterwards. It was trending. It was redlining a little bit a couple of times, but they were fun and easy to talk to. All right, here they are. Please don't destroy. Are you guys really friends? I mean, in real life, or are you just kind of like business partners? Yeah, kind of more like that, like co-workers. Like associates and colleagues?

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I am so excited for this. You guys. It's already on. So it keeps talking. Feel free to ask, feel free to ask questions. John is joining us today.

Uh, guess his bandmates, Ben and Martin. He said they always do it in order of importance. So he goes on for a while and then one of the other guys jumps on. Well, you're still on SNL now, so you can ask us a lot of questions going forward, even though, you know, I'm just saying. No, wait, you guys are on SNL. I'm not. I used to be, John, ask your dad. I was there a long time ago. I really made it. He said I didn't make a dent in the show. I made a ding like where if you got an accident, they go, just go ahead. It's not it's not enough to even know and notice.

Just go. What's more important, a few years on SNL or 40 years of post SNL or you're doing a lot better than you did on SNL? Do you want to peak in 93 like I did? I've been dying now. Three catchphrases for over a half. I will. Guys, Ben woke up for this. That's nice. It's like 5 p.m. in New York. And Martin's trying to log in.

OK, well, they're here, man. But yeah, Monty, I want to ask you guys a quick question. Please don't destroy. If it wasn't that. Yeah. What were the alts? What didn't make it? I have a couple of ideas, but I'll let you guys go. We had we have Beatles, too.

We have. Um, what else do we have? I remember you guys genuinely wanted to call the group three stinkers. Yeah, we did. I don't want to. Thank you. Three little stinkers. Because what are you? Beatles in the dung. I had this is a tour.

I think they're horrible. The Cupcake Trilogy. Oh, hey, that's not bad. Higgins, Hurley, et cetera. We we be the exploding guys. We be the guys. That's good. They were good. Three three words is good. No, do you like the droids?

Do you like that name? Please don't destroy. Yeah. Yeah. Because I have a special I'm doing and I thought of maybe potential spam. It's kind of one of those things that people just know in the world, like a little saying, please don't destroy the great one. And no one ever gets it right. Well, I said it wrong today.

How do they ruin it? What do they say? Please don't disturb. OK. Oh, I said it wrong today. How do they ruin it? What do they say? Please don't disturb. Oh, okay. Oh yeah. Do not disturb. Do not disturb might be better, Ian. All right, let's just stop.

Casually, yeah, that one's got to stop. Oh, you don't disturb. I like that. Hey man, are we part of a press junket? Are you doing eight today, promoting something or is this sort of a one off? No way. This is it. OK. All right.

Let me mark that down as this is Tyson Paul. This is the main event. Guys. Yeah. Bingo. I love that fight. What a rock. Oh, right, dude. I gave it almost nothing, but that's OK. I like when people send me here's a live scene of the Tyson Paul fight.

It's two cats going, you know, tapping each other. I like when people send me here's a live scene of the Tyson ball fight is to cat school. Tapping each other. I'm like, exactly. Joe's had a great joke on update of they teamed up against the audience. I was that that was the quiz. My problem is they say it's not really the fight wasn't really.

A real fight sanctioned fight, it was just for entertainment. I'm like, but it wasn't entertainment either, so I'm suing for that. But it was sanctioned. It goes on Tyson's record. Well, why would he do that? He he says, what does he care about his legacy? I'll be dead. Why don't we even get I started doing Lenn legacy? I'll be dead. Why don't even Kevin?

I started doing Len. I'm on mushrooms. All right. Yeah, I was really fighting them hard, but I don't care what happens. You know, what about legacy? Sorry, it was my Tyson. I go to the bathroom. Was that was that when he was talking?

What was the video that you said, Benny? The he was talking to a was talking to a little girl. Oh yeah. There was a little girl standing there. A 12 year old girl. And he was like, we're all going to die one day. We're all dust. She's like, do you eat dino nuggets?

My time is to think, well, he was nice after the fight, but he was mostly, he'd be really, when it's heyday, he'd be like, I'm going to kill, I hit you so hard, your family's going to be hurt and I'm going to kill you. After the fight, he beat the hell out of the guy and go, I really like you. I think you're a tremendous fighter. I like to knit you a sweater. Anyway, this airs in twenty twenty seven. These are jokes on the Jay Leno show in nineteen ninety. I'm out of ammo.

What do you want about rock, paper, scissors for you guys? Was that one? Is this a name? Was that a name? Oh, is it a name? I thought we were over that. No, I thought that was that was so two minutes ago. I wrote down 40 minutes for this, so I don't know.

He's got the best lighting he's ever had on the podcast, and he's a little different. And it's not that good. I kind of am red. No, do you got a ring light going? I don't have that kind of money, but I have, I just have, I have the top lights from my ceiling on. Okay. I'm doing pretty good. So you guys, Dan, are you in New York?

So you guys, Dan, are you in New York? No, I flew back to L.A. Then I'm going up to a place in the mountains. This guy's digging deep. I've been running past these guys in the hallway. Hey, guys. Head nod. For the last two months. What's up, Walt Cap? How you doing?

Standing around. They're like, doing Biden this week? As you dressed as Biden, you're like, yeah. Yeah. My contract says seven Bidens. You'll do seven. They might all be in the same show. We might throw one on.

I have four catchphrases and I rotate them. That's all I do. I just click them off, look confused confused and then ask Lauren for my paycheck. So it's so good. Yeah, thank you. I guess I saw the one last week that. That was I hate to say you should change the name to We Got Cut, but what is the what time cut for time?

I guess I might be better for time because you'm not sure. Because you guys have done that. Yeah, but it seems like everyone sees it anyway. I mean, it doesn't matter anymore. But that that I liked it. What was the last one? Oh, Charlie X, CX, XX.

I'd like to buy a vowel. She was in it and she had she had a lot to do. That would have been good in the video. Oh, yeah, that's funny. Like to buy a vowel. He had a lot. He had a lot to do. That would have been good in the video. Oh yeah, that's funny. Like to buy a val. He had a lot of jokes in that. I mean, it was more like tons of jokes and she got, you shoveled her with a lot of jokes. So she did a good job.

It's always good if the host gets to score. Yeah. Yeah, she was awesome. And that, when did you just, when did you know you were going to fly down the stairs at the end? Cause I, I'm always curious about endings. Like, so that was like a perfect, and were those stunt guys or you guys, were they stunt stairs or something? Cause you're kind of young and springy.

No, those were stunt guys. That was after rewrite table, I think, I think we had something in there that didn't work at Table. So we were like, maybe we go down the stairs. And the end table was, we all just said, bye. Yeah. Bye, Charlie. When we don't know how to end this sketch, that's what we do for Table Read.

We go, okay, bye. Okay, see you. table read. He's probably go, okay, bye. Then Lauren looks up and goes, we'll find something there. And then he turns it, Wayne's World 2, cold opening. Hey man, the 50th, we don't know who's coming back. Some cobwebs are coming. Hi, we're the cobwebs. We're here to pump you up. Yeah, we are here to pump you up. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah.

Believe me, we are shameless. But so who's your like Dan? You like, is he who do you who do you who's who do you talk to? Who do you talk to there about what you're thinking and doing? You have to go in and meet the Wizard of Oz. Right. Who do you do pitch ideas anymore? Just do them.

Just read through. Right. Who do you pitch? Do you pitch ideas anymore or just do them? Just read through. Yeah, we do. Mary, we have the Monday, Monday pitch in Lauren's office still. But those everyone does a fake idea. Yeah, OK. Your ideas probably just sound fake. Yeah, yeah, they do. They know they're not really doing that.

That was one of their goofball ideas. This video that we just did was maybe the first Monday pitch that we actually turned into a video. That was my pitch on Monday. Oh, yeah. So what was that? So what did you say in like 20 seconds? We're just going to have a rave off.

But you need to host time, which is very precious. Well, I just pitched the first turn of it. So I was like, maybe it's a romantic comedy where you run into a guy and you're like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. This is so crazy. But would you ever want to watch where the fuck you're going? I love it. Yeah. Laughter, big laughter ensued. You guys, I didn't hear any from you guys, but.

I laughed. I thought it was good. This is me laughing. They just texted me, don't laugh. Anything they say. You know, a lot of times comedians when they hear their friend take them. You start thinking of how to tag that when your friend says, maybe that's a, please not destroy sketch or please don't destroy.

When we're writing, it's like, people always ask, like, are you guys just cracking up? And it's like, never. It's always like that. That's what they think all of movies are too. Okay, now what goes after that? What goes after that? How stoned were you when you came up with that idea?

So three months ago when Charlie X Charlie hosted, you guys, because we're figuring out the air date now. Yeah, early 26. So she's in the money meeting, you throw this into the pitches and then when it involves the host and she's got X amount of time during the week, when do you get her? If they have to okay it right away? You have to start figuring out the sets and shit. We had to write it for the Wednesday read through and then that night they greenlit it.

But we shot it on Thursday night, like all night. So we were shooting. What a fucking drag. Yeah, we had re-write table all day from like 1230 to nine. And then from nine to like 6 a.m. we were shooting our video. Oh really? We wrote it for Nine hours practically.

Well, I tell you on Thursdays is fucking horrible. Oh, OK. You were writing all the other people's. Oh, everything. Yeah. Not just that. That's the thing people understand. You are a writer. Writers on the show. Yeah. And writers on the show.

I guess that's what I thought. That's good. You got your own fire. I have another name for your thought. That's good. You got your own fire. I have another name beer thing. Leave at gate. These are horrible. They're not great, but they're all the same. Here's a question. Have you ever seriously said to each other, hey, get out of my face, dude. Like serious, not part of a sketch. Yeah. Like real. Get out of my face, dude. Who's been the most mad at who?

Because I've said that to Spade every other day. Just get out of my face. Get out of my grill. Yeah. Don't get up and get in my grill. So anyway. No answer. No, it didn't. Yeah. I mean, we've had some, had some blowouts. Here we go.

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Now two of you have parents that are writers, Dana, you did not know this, but writers. Do you have to free pitch them before the pitch meeting? Our dads come up with the majority of our ideas for sure. But besides that, you have to know that that's sarcasm. People don't know. Did they pitch you an idea and you have to say no and it's horrifyingly awkward?

It's not that awkward. My dad pitches a lot of jokes for us. Okay. But it's not bad. What about overall, just here's an idea for you guys for a whole thing, whole concept. No? Not really. They stay in their own lane. You call each other's dad, dad? Overall, just here's an idea for you guys for a whole thing, whole concept. No, they stay in their own lane. You call each other's dad, dad?

Yeah. Like, no. Just dad. I call Dana dad. Yeah. I call everybody dad. That's just respect. Yeah.

No, exactly. When I got to the show, Dana was there and he was like fucking crushing it, number one guy and we all had to call him dad. You know what, David? I don't even know if it's based off of my dad, but in middle school, I would flirt with girls by saying, you know, David Spade's character in grownups

is named Higgins. You know? Well, that's great. Yeah, that's fantastic. I don't even know if it did not work. No, but here's the I don't even know if it's based off of that. I don't know either. I didn't read the whole script, but I do know that now I might have been Sandler's. I know Sandler's hometown boys growing up.

One was Lamin Slough. There was a really complicated name. I'm like, that has to be one of your friends. And we met some of the guys, but it might have been a Higgins there, but it could have easily been you guys, because people yell Higgins to me in the airport. Like, I can remember what movie I was even in. And

they're like, hey, are you talking to me? Yeah. Are you Higgins? They think I'm real, like a real person. Are you Higgins? Are you in the closet with a dog? I'm like, oh, that was a movie. But it's fine. I'll take any praise. And I when I came through the airport, this isn't funny, but interesting. Dad comes up with a six and an eight year old boy girl, really sweet, cute. They are just huge fans of your Joe Biden impression.

Because it goes on at eight thirty, I guess. Yeah, funny old man. Anyway, that's our airports chunk. When do you get word if you're in the show and you tape it edit it cut it because that sounds like a really unusually crazy schedule because not just a sketch you have to put on its feet you have to get a set then dress it and then you know you got to get wardrobe and then you got to cram lines like charlie bless her heart she has to cram lines for that and then do it all night when she has to rehearse the next day it's the hardest week of her life and then you throw it in a dress and

then you you it might make it to air but it also you don't know if it's gonna make it all the way on air right yeah? Yeah. Like the tapes are always, a lot of the times it's like, it's easier I think to just cut a tape for time because you don't have to get rid of the whole set and whatever. So they're kind of the first to go after update once the show's going long.

Once people are milking their sketches. A lot of stuff is cut for time. It really, when you're there, like lots of sketches. I would, was it always like this, Dana, being back of the, like your 30 minutes over going into dress? Or did you guys have it closer to? We had some, there were sketches cut. It seems like more now is what I'm thinking, but yeah.

Cut for time. The dress was always long. And then air was supposed to be pretty close. Well, then you cut the show down. And then what I do with Gaffigan and stuff, we get together and go, let's just fucking milk the cold opening. Yeah. Push the show really long. Sit back. Everything's with ice cold beer and just laugh at the cut for time, guys. I shouldn't have said that, but the Africans like that.

But anyway, no, I think it is a little longer or maybe sketches are playing longer. But yeah, this seems like there's at least two or three cuts each. Yeah. And when you when you and James went off cards and dressed the past week, that was so funny. Yeah. David, I can't get that. why can't we do that on air?

You know, because it's all make believe. And all of a sudden I stepped on his line and we got all tangled up and it was so funny right before the live from New York, dude, went off on this whole run and had to like reset right to that. But you found your way back. Waiting. I didn't say is this Tresseraire? I think I stated in Biden, is this Tresseraire?

I don't know. I thought Lauren was gonna scold me on that one, but instead he went, oh, you look like you're reading off cards. And I said, because I was. Yeah. Mine normally has 19 words and now I got a half page of exposition.

Yeah. Anyway. Report to the spanking machine. The spanking machine. That's not a bad thing. Do they still have that? The spanking machine. Yeah, I used to go stand by it.

Yeah. Do you guys want to talk at all? Because David and I, I'm I'm getting just a routine cholesterol blood test. So I haven't eaten in like 19 hours. So I'm a little punchy. But do you guys have any questions for us or things you want to say? Any statements you'd like to read? How much money do you have in your bank account combined?

That's Dana's question. Just cash on hand liquidity? Are we talking about property? I'm talking about assets. I'm talking real estate. The whole getting caboodle. I'll write it down and I'll talking real estate. The whole getting caboodle. I'll write it down and I'll just hold it up at the end of the podcast. Yeah.

Well, you have to scroll. People on YouTube can check in and guess. What do you use Hurley? He's kid. Yeah, I was going to admit it. It's the name is Martin Hurley. Doesn't say his last name, but I would say know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know right. There was a sketch, Dana, when you were there. I would just do what I did normally before update and I'd go home. But what was it?

The Hurley boy that was called. It was Saint Laurent Farley, right? Yeah. And that must be fun. You can say it's named after you. That's more believable than the Higgins bullshit he was given earlier. Come on. Ben, do you have any connection to show business? Like even a cousin or uncle or anything? No, I don't.

Okay. All right. Pete Davidson, your dad. I'll adopt you legally. Please. I watched your Taylor Swift one. I have watched over. Legally, please. I watch your Taylor Swift one. I have watched over. It's hard for me to just say each one because they come week to week. They're all the same.

No, no, they're all really good. I have to say is that they're all very clever. I mean, a year ago I was saying, oh, shit, these are so funny. If I'm ever in town, I want to go try to warm in one because they're so clever. They're funny. They're they don't look that easy, but they're just good, different things. And it's so hard to stand out on a sketch show.

That's fucking 50 years. I get anything slightly different because they're so they're great. You get good people and you give them something to do. And they're there. I've listened to every episode of this podcast. You listen to this dog shit. Good job everyone. Thank you.

Yeah, I listen to everyone. I love it. I mean like the biggest SNL nerd fan. So that means a lot. Yeah, we're massive massive fans of you guys. We should say. That's what I was getting at. Thank you.

When I look at your stuff, I just feel envious. Yeah, it's like fun. It seems like so much fun. Nothing was happening like that on our, you know. It is fun. We get to shoot them pretty quick too sometimes, because they're, especially the office ones, we can do those Thursday nights where they don't go

until six o'clock in the morning. So sometimes we can bust them out in like four hours or whatever and it's just. Who do you reach out to to get a celebrity that's not the host? Do you have the talent department? Yeah. You say, hey, can you grab us this person?

The talent department helps you get talent. We need a yes or no ASAP. Yeah. Then you go type in their name in the script and then you change it to someone else and then send it down. Yeah, accidentally sent it with Robert. Wait, who's Robert De Niro? Is this true? Like the first one was Pete Davidson and Taylor Swift? Is that your first one? No.

No, that was just us three in the office and it aired on the Kim Kardashian episode, but she she had nothing to do with it. Yeah. Okay. Then you didn't put her in it. You were shot later. We shot it secretly. Oh, that was with the walking around with the, yeah, the hard seltzer one.

We shot it on Monday with our friend, Paul Burgundy, who used to be a director there and we just had like two cameras, a prop guy and a sound guy. So it's nice that you it does well so now over time they must build up trust with you guys so now a little eyes are on you less and more like what do we have this week and then do you have to show the final to anyone before it goes under us? The producers look Eric Kenward will watch everything. Okay even though everyone's busier than shit obviously but you try to go hey can you just Anyone before it goes undress the producers? Eric Kenward will watch. Yeah, I don't look at it. OK, you know, everyone's busier than shit, obviously, but you try to go, hey, can you just check it and they give you maybe last second

trims or notes, anything before it pops undress? OK, yeah, for sure. It's he's always really helpful. But we'll we'll normally come to him with like questions of like, is this working or, you know, whatever? Well, they move so fast. Good laughs, get out cuts. I'd like just to add, you have the doctor in the one on the Taylor

Swim and you go, Hey, that's my real. But, uh, it's just funny to get, I go, got a doctor set and an outfit for a fucking cutaway. It's just seems expensive and hard, but always feels worth it to me. When did you get out of the room? You know, you were doing them in just in the office for a while. And then you got out of the room. And then when I was there, you did the

the helicopter set, which was like played really big. I guess you did it at 66th Street in there. But yeah, it was very, very cool. The consistency of how excellent they are is very high to me. So I just want you guys to understand that you like your thanks. I mean, I hope you know that. I I don't know. We do. Yeah.

Yeah, no, no, no. So you know it because it's hard to do comedy. It's hard to nail it. I started coming up with ideas that are consistently good. There's just, you know, that aren't clanking and not quite there. And there's just this high, high percentage of of winning. And so I'm just curious about. I mean, a lot.

I don't know. It's not just me. Hey, look at the YouTube counts, you know, a couple of times. It's three million. You know what I mean? I mean, you got your highest one was 17 million. So there goes something like that because you know exactly. It is pulled up on my phone. Something like that. No, bad name. I'm pulling it.

I'm pulling it. David, you know, I think we first. Oh, yeah, good. Yeah, I was going to say a joke that I like when David does it on talk shows. Let me go. I was leaving my house mansion, whatever. Listen, 44 windows, three pantries, whatever. These are other people. I don't know what it's called these days. Yeah, I don't know. House, whatever. The West Wing that has seven bedrooms has never been inhabited. You just go walk by door after door. It's incredible.

Yeah, I have Dana come over. I have a door that's like 90 feet high. I'm like, so I like to do cardio. So I run laps around his house, you know, about 20 minutes. I got lost one time. But that let's I don't know. What do you guys want to talk about? I mean, it's kind of did we answer your question?

We know we get out of the we haven't answered anything. And I think Martin said one word, which is which might be a podcast record. David and I were just punching, but we'll we'll just we want you guys. All and why you guys, where do we meet? That's a good one. Mm hmm. So you just all nodded. Great NYU guys, where do we meet? That's a good one. So you just all nodded, great. Anyway, what else is going on? Thank you very much.

Okay, wait, now let's go back in, Anthony. Yes, when did we get out of the office? The Taylor Swift video? Yeah. I think so, yeah. I will say the budget that the film unit has is can be pretty ridiculous. And I feel like somebody's going to notice it and then be like, there's no reason this should be happening.

Bye. After the hype of the 50th, they're going to start looking at the books. What the fuck is going on over here? I've heard a lot about the budgeting and it's quite surprising, not only with you, but with other people. We actually, for a lot of ours, cost nothing in comparison. Especially those office videos, it's usually our money's on big sandwiches

or whatever our prop is that we're cutting wood to. When you do, not to focus on Taylor Swift, but when you do that bit, it's with Pete, so it's fine. It's already funny. Do you say, hey, we should have someone coming at the end or was the idea always someone coming at the end and we just don't know who? You know who pushed you was Dan Bullough was like, dudes, we could just ask her and I'll record a thing and show it to her.

That'll sound awesome for her part in the video. And we were like, we had truly zero expectations that she would do it. You know, it was our third video or whatever. And then Bulla put together her part in the song, like as a demo, and it sounded so awesome. And Taylor, we showed it to her, loved the bit, was just like, let's do it. And we were shocked. Sweetheart. Yeah, that's very nice.

Because she scores too, you know, it's like, yeah, it's smart. If you're a big star and you wait and make moves that are like that, they're like, that's a little nugget, score, get out. And Abu is perfect for that. Yeah, he's so good at it. It's the lesson that you learn every week is if the host is scoring, you're likely to make the thing.

You know what I mean? And it's so easy to not like think about them as the main character or whatever, because it's your bit, but you kind of have to. Yeah. Do you guys kind of co-direct it yourselves and have an official director or is it kind of like that? Obviously you're chiming in and because I watched

the Travis Kelce one and I thought it was just so crazy, funny, hit me hard because the way when you fell and your eyes were still open, like you're instantly probably dead. And then the ending with the old lady and the Russian roulette and everything. I just, it's like perfect. Some of these are just like gypsies, super gems. This is a woman in like five or six sketches. Now she's already up and all. It's a Marnie.

Shout out to Marnie. We put her in every live sketch that we made her feature player on your instantly funny and instantly. Yeah. Was she in Andy Sandberg's video as well? There was a different a different woman on that. Dana. Touchy touchy. Sorry. Uh oh. Note to self.

Yes. To answer your question, Tim Wilkheim directs our stuff. He was awesome. But we all chip in and give notes and help out. But just want to give him credit. Yeah. I assume. Is Martin a screamer on the set? Yeah. What the fuck? Meltdown city. Even has his lines.

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Yeah. A little bit. Are you going out next summer or what do you, what's, what's that like going out? Cause you're doing all this. And then all of a sudden you have all these thousands of people screaming. I mean, what was that? Must have been, what is your show like? Yeah. What do you do? Is it funny? Is it fun? It's a drama.

It's a drama. I would say. Yeah, it's and it's pretty tragic. But the first time you went out and the crowd went crazy. It must have been like, yeah, no. Yeah, last summer we went on like a 30 city tour No, I can't believe there's this many people in a Jimmy John's Where you play I don't know

Jimmy John's arena. Yeah Just backfired on me fuck Say go ahead Ben. I'm sorry I'll say go ahead, Ben, I'm sorry. No, it was cool. Our show is like, it's a sketch show, but we don't do like costumes or props really. So it's kind of like half stand up, half sketch, because we're like talking directly to the audience,

but then we'll be like, all right, now we're in a coffee shop and then do a sketch. And it's like the most fun thing we do. I hope we do it again this summer. Yeah. We filmed a bunch of our shows last summer and we might, we're like cutting it together a little special.

Would you ever team up with like Sarah Squirm and go out? No. Okay. Um. Um. Sarah Squirm. Hey, David, another joke. You gave Sarah a big joke.

Her silicon gel pack. Oh. Oh. She loved that one. David, another joke you gave Sarah a big joke, her silicon gel pack. Oh, she loved that one. I thought she just used it in front of me to make me feel better. I love that she kept it. She's kept it everywhere. That's her go too. Yeah.

She's so bananas. I didn't really know her and we went on that tour and she was, she's very, first of all, she's very likable, very fun to talk to backstage because Samlin, that slug over there getting massaged as being covered in gold coins. And so, but Sarah, warming up and then Sarah was funny and then she gets up and her act is so bananas. And I was like, this is so funny because no one knows what to expect at all. Plus she was newer on the show. Now she's been there for a while, But I see clips from her on tour in the summer. It's so funny. And it's so hard. I'm like, Sarah, do you know what you're getting into? Like doing all these cities, like you guys, you know, you work hard, but then it is a bit of a trudge to go on tour if you guys line up a few. It's more

funnier together, but it's still tough, right? It was right? It's it was, it was hard, but we don't do the, the, she does a lot of hiatus is during the season, which feels like, like we'll, our hiatus is we'll write a bunch of shit and whatever and work harder on other stuff, but the idea of traveling right away to go hit like four cities in a row feels like. Tuscaloosa. She she's one of our best friends with the show, though. I we would totally pull up with Sarah to do a tour. Yeah, we came in at the same time and just immediately hit it off and started writing with her every week.

She's the best. Yeah. That Matt Gates Gates, his name was fucking terrifying. It was insanely scary. It's like this. What? All those makeup guys are Star Trek fans and all kind of. his name was fucking terrifying. It was insanely scary. It's like this. What happened? All those makeup guys are Star Trek fans and all kind of shit. He was like a crawler. He definitely had it.

And when she would put her chin down and do that little smile, it was. It was bonkers. She looked like Jack Nicholson. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like that was a look that she could have just... That has to come back. I mean, she doesn't even...

How funny she is in that, you know. Do you guys do vids when you're out there? Is it too much hassle to bring like a screen and all that shit? Well, you recorded all your shows last summer or no? Yeah, we recorded a bunch. My wife is cutting together a special right now. Oh, okay. And...

That's a nice wife. Yeah. Well, yeah. You're a professional editor or is she a scale? Scale plus 10. Yeah, scale. You know, hey, you're new, right? You're new, you get scale.

That's good. That's actually good. Just watch some tutorials and get this special going. Oh, yeah. Get on YouTube. How to do a special. I'm just curious, what was the lighting kit or the crew like if you're gonna do those shows?

How much hassle was it? Was it three cameras, lots of light, or was it really kind of low fire? We really didn't prepare to do it, so we would hire local crews to be like, maybe this is a good place to film it. And then we would get embarrassed about whatever show we film, and we're like, let's just a good place to film it. And then we would get embarrassed about whatever show we film.

And we're like, let's just film it again somewhere else. Because that's the beauty of that. If you can do that, it's great because you're going to hit a fucking winner. Like Adam, when he went out and did all these shows, he would just keep filming them. Like, that's the beauty of being big budget. You just go film another one. Film us on the plane. Film us backstage. It was he could add 10 specials with that.

It was kind of like, it's kind of like that model of like cutting around to different cities and then doing like backstage bits. It's like a combination of Zach Galifianakis and Sandler's special. And it's- Smart List guys did that too. You can get it, because you're gonna get something.

You know, if you're just bullshitting or laughing, there's something backstage, even if you get a minute after the whole night backstage and then you get your stuff on stage and you get something on. I don't know if you have a bus or a fly around. It's always hard to get the crew on Southwest to start rolling, but yeah, I was bummed out. Get me here when I asked for my water. I think there's something there.

It's funny. It's funny. It's funny because it's so nothing. It's just funny. Are you know, did you did you? You just released a special, right, David? I'm glad you just got my text. Yeah, we are.

Oh, here we go. Yeah, Dana, you might want to go get a coffee. I can't. I'm getting a blood test. Oh, yeah, I can't. Water. You shouldn't even drink water. You can't. You can drink water. I don't know.

Tell us your story. I did a special for an unknown streamer. Why? We can't say. I don't know, but there's only that many. Pluto. Yeah, I don't tell, but there's only that many. Pluto. Oh yeah, I don't tell you, cause it's the worst one. Xbox TV.

Blippi. One of these is a fake name. Goo Goo. Flumbo. Beep bop boop. Okay, so I did it and I'm editing it. I will tell you, Dana, I was editing yesterday and I hate watching it, so I keep putting it off. And then I watch it and I go, I think I'm editing and I will tell you Dana, I was editing yesterday and I hate watching it

so I keep putting it off. And then I watch it and I go, I think I'm bombing. So I'm here with Heather going, I might cut that whole bit. I think it did good. I had a good crowd, you know? And so I keep doing this and then I'm almost done. I go, I'm too sickened by watching my act.

Then I talked to the guy and he goes, oh, you got the line cut. Yeah, so yeah, don't worry about that. You goes, Oh, you got the line cut. Yeah. So, yeah, don't worry about that. You know, we didn't put the laughs in from the audience yet. I go, what are you fucking talking about? What am I watching? Just me bomb?

And he's like, Oh, well, you know what worked. I'm like, no, my. I was discombobulated. You had that too? Yeah. We had the same thing. We watched it with the laughs mixed way down and it's just the most horrible feeling.

Oh my God, you did that? It was so sad. I go, turn it off. Yeah, it's horrible because also you realize that there are laughs there, but to you it looks like you're milking a thing that just bombed. Oh, I'm just dying. I'm like, I saw people watching with me going,

I'd cut that. That feels like it's got like a dead spot. I'm like, I saw people watching with me going, I'd cut that. That feels like it's got like a dead spot. I'm like, yeah, I mean, it's the middle of my joke. Why is there a dead spot? And like, oh, did you want the one where people are enjoying it and laughing? And then you'll know which one's working. I'm like, oh, my God, that one. They're like, oh, sure, we can send that over.

Why do they mix it down when they show it to you? How about it was even in I? I go, technical reason? It's like, I don't know. I don't know. Ask your wife what's going on. Danny, you got a funny thing too about editing a special where you watched it like 12 feet away so you wouldn't focus on how you look.

Which I think is really scary. Yeah, they push it too tight. Like you put a laptop way far away for your first watch down of it. Oh yeah, almost anything. Just so you can hear it. I only saw Chopped Broccoli two weeks ago for the first time. Are you serious? I have a hard time watching myself.

It's just too self-critical. So yeah, I get it really small, get it way far away and kind of squint. And then turn it off, turn the mute on. When I was your guy small, get it way far away and kind of squint and then turn it off. Turn them you down. When I was your guy's age, it wasn't as problematic. But Wikipedia me, when you get to this age, you're like, really? I mean, why am I even on camera? No, if you see yourself on camera, it's so gross.

But also just seeing dead spots, I go, I can't. And so I go, well, I have to rethink what I'm cutting because I was gonna make like a 12 minute special I go these aren't and they're like oh no that was because I was there I had a good show it was in Denver anyway it doesn't come until April but I'll text all you guys we got a group chain I'll tell you when it comes out. Just put the product into the marketplace like you guys who's who do you have a manager that manages all three of you or, you know, a guy with a cigar or metaphorical cigar going, okay, we got we need product in this quarter. We're gonna be like ads. We'll do another movie we're gonna do. We're gonna play county fairs because there's a lot of money. I mean, who is that? Are you all a Tom Parker representative? Who's the money guy?

Yeah. The Booker. We all have the same people. Whose wife? You're all with the same people? UTA. Yeah, that'd be cool though if we had competing reps. Yeah, that's the way to do it.

That's how you break up quickly. Dane and I are with the same guys that had the Bernie Brillstein Company. So they had Acroyd Bullion. They've had it from day one. That's why they're all immersed in SNL. Do your checks say, please don't destroy on them or your individual names?

Yeah. Good question. Individual. Individual LLCs. We're all incorporated. And do they have funny names? Who's got the funniest names? And so it begins.

Start out as artists and then we'll look. And they have funny names. Who's got the funniest names? And so it begins. Start out as artists and then get the cash. You actually, with the 50th, there's a lot of sponsors. So you guys actually did an all state commercial. Yeah. You did? Thank you. That's what we're promoting today. Oh yeah. We finally got to it.

That's what we got coming up. Now you co-wrote that or you had so much input into it, I assume, or just did it yourselves basically. Yeah, we did two of them. When does the next one come out? This week? I don't know. But SNL was like, you guys are doing a commercial. So then we did a commercial.

Yeah, that's kind of how it is. They killed my commercial. David and I are available. We're just like, you guys are doing a commercial. So then we did a commercial. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of how it was. They killed my commercial. David and I are available. We're just saying, you know, dude, I had a Super Bowl commercial and they told me and Lauren killed it. I'm like, God dang it. When you were on the cast.

Lauren killed it and then Lauren was in the Super Bowl commercial. They needed someone. I thought that was super. Lauren did buh-bye. Yeah, he did it with Helen Hunt. And I was like, I do something like that. Wait, that's kind of like my bit. Yeah.

Buh-bye. Buh-bye. Lauren could do buh-bye. I would just say do everything. Does he say buh-bye? No, but he could. No, he could do it. That's one of the few he could do.

Bye bye. There's a really good show in there somewhere and it'd be like really good if you could, we have a two week break. His stuff around that makes me laugh so hard every time he does that. It's dry sarcasm. Be really nice if it was actually a funny show.

Yeah. You're going away for break. It'd be nice if people could compliment you at Thanksgiving. Yeah. But yeah. I love the notes like that because it's always just like, you're so nervous. And for somebody to be like, that wasn't very good. It's kind of like refreshing.

Yeah. Yes, it's kind of like refreshing. Yeah. Yes, it is. I like this. On air, I see on the commercials, they bump, you know, and they show like the sketch being broken down or usually, or they go to a commercial and they come back just in the middle of the lawn, just standing there near the set, like, you know,

this is the one that counts, just so you know. Well, not my first season, he would be out on the floor and everyone was terrified, just so you know. Well, not my first season. He would be out on the floor and everyone was terrified, obviously nervous. And he had he always had a glass of Chardonnay and be very relaxed. I thought this must be a message to us to calm the fuck down. Yeah. Just come up right before the sketch. He goes, oh, this sketch needs to breathe and then just walk away. Breathe. What? But he was right.

Anyway, he's the greatest character to do. But when did you become friends with him? How long into your cast member? It took me a long time to really kind of not be intimidated by him, even though I was only there and his, you know, he had done five seasons, was gone for five. So he was, he was 40 years old, but he was still kind of intimidated because the original cast, the original Saturday Live, the folklore. But at the end of my first season, he said, you know, come to Long, come out to Amagansett this weekend so I just

thought there'd be a lot of people there but it was just me and Lauren going on the teeter-tauter and then we we hung out for a weekend together we went to movies and stuff would you like Milk Duds or popcorn? Back to the seesaw? He had a Mustang and we drive around the island. He pointed things. If it all goes away, I've always got that. You know, God, that's awesome. I can't wait to meet him one day. Yeah, you should meet him.

Doesn't he come to your birthdays and stuff growing up? Yeah. Everyone, Lauren's here. He said he was singing me songs and stuff. Yeah. Dana was singing to him this weekend at the Gaudeng. Oh, forget it. What's that? Oh, it's his birthday.

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All right. Let me ask some Oprah type questions. Yeah, quickly. We got here. Here you are, like thinking five years ago, you're coming to NYU, you're funny together, you're doing stuff. And now here you are. Now, what would you tell your younger self, yourself of coming right out of college? Cause this doesn't always just happen. It's all it takes a lot of things to come together for all of us, you know? So, um, are you, um, high as a kite all day? You're happy or more nervous than you were in some ways.

Cause the stakes are higher having fun. I don't know. just throwing stuff out. You can say we don't have any response to that. I guess like you're doing the right thing. I don't know. I was so like racked with anxiety of like pursuing this thing that like doing sketch comedy shows for like five people as like a an adult and not making any money being like is this what am I doing this for so I guess like there is something you're onto something I

don't know yeah did you ever have any adults say to you well this probably won't work out but it's gonna help you in whatever you probably end up doing yeah Yeah, I might. I think more you're dead, too. It was like, this is not nice. This is not a nice business. Yeah. And that was the main thing. I wanted to be a Disney kid more than anything. And they were like, no way.

I was like, my birthday ass when I was nine was for an agent. What's a Disney kid to be on a show like Wizards of Waverly Places? Yeah, exactly. Like I always wanted it. They were like, absolutely not. So then once we started, did you dress up as Kuzco like I did for Halloween? You did? No, I'm not allowed, but I can't dress as my own thing.

Martin, did you go to the set of Happy Gilmore? I did. Yeah. Yeah. Is it fun? How's uncle Adam? He's good. Did you sit on his lap?

Uh huh. That place is a cavalcade of stars out there. I read every time I talked to those guys, it's like someone else came by and they threw him up in there. Sounds like fun though. Have you guys talked to Marcelo yet? No, he's been stonewalling us. Domingo, Domingo, ay, ay.

Domingo. Yeah, he's got a big personality, man. But he makes you happy when you see him. I know. It's like dopamine or something. It's, it's great to be around. We want them on the show. You guys have any connections?

I see him at the improv sometimes too. When for standup. Marcello is hilarious. Cause it'll be like, it'll be screaming in your face, doing a bit with you. And then at the end of it, it'll go like, God, I'm so tired, man. You're like, this is him tired. man. This is him tired. Yeah. He just got tired from yelling.

Well, I think the cool thing what you guys have going on is that you just make your own work. You know, the movie is on Peacock for the rest of our lives. Treasure Foggy Mountain, you guys wrote that did that so you're in it I would say that to anyone if you can create your own work create your own movies create Oh, you got like many feature films you're doing, you know, it feels like someone might go I like that one make that in to a full movie But yeah, and the other observation I thought about later. Sorry was the self deprecating kind of characters you are, the likeability, you know,

you're always just extremely likeable as actors on that screen, you know, because you're reacting to madness and stuff in a very real way. So I think it's just a great lane to be in show business, not asking for permission. I mean, not having to go audition. Like you are your own ecosystem. We talk about that all the time of like, if you're just an actor in LA waiting for auditions, how do you keep your mental health?

Like, how do you keep going? It seems impossible. That was something I was gonna say when you guys asked if we all have the same agencies, sometimes we'll all get the same audition, Sometimes we'll all get the same audition. Like we'll audition for the same parts and we'll all do a tape and then send it and we'll see what our agents have to each of us. Love this take.

So you also will audition for maybe for a part in a movie and stuff like that? Just as yourselves and you don't you don't necessarily not as a trio. Yeah, I do a lot of solo modeling too. Oh, good. Yeah, that's yeah, that makes sense. Tall, who's the tallest? Ben is the tallest, right? Yeah. Yes.

Thank you for getting that on the record. Yes. Everybody thinks I'm short, but I'm not. OK, because you have two tall partners. Yeah. Yeah. How tall are you have two tall partners. Me too. Yeah.

How tall are you, John? Six feet tall. That's pretty good. Six feet, 5'11", and? Oh no, I'm 6'3". I was saying that John is 5'11". Oh, 5'11". John, are you 5'11"?

No, I'm six feet. I went to the hospital the other day. I mean, just to get. Yeah. So yeah. Why does Dana say we have to interview that pipsqueak today? These are just worse. This is Zoom.

They're bigger than you can see in the frame. You look tiny. These guys, all three of them on David. Why are you going to come to the show? I know. I think I'm coming in December now to come watch. So I haven't been. I mean, I did a tour this year, so I'm gone every weekend. I can't even come see Dana.

So I think I'm going to come visit and just like give head nods in hallways and stuff like that. But we got to do a video. We got to do a video. You guys should do a video. Oh, yeah. Let me know if there's anything so I can kill it. Anyway, no, but I love you guys are great late night. I'm doing a wrap up because you guys are great.

But I just want to say thanks for coming in. Are we wrapping up? Yeah, we did it. You guys did. Why? Well, I can do this for hours. I know it is fun. We were going to the second half was going to be you guys talking, but we didn't have time.

We reached our quota of 17,500 words between you and I. And you guys are at 2,200. No, but it is fun to finally talk to you guys and meet you guys. Always funny on the show. I hate to sound sincere, but it's good. Any wrap up thing you guys want to say? Yeah, anything you want to say we didn't get out. We got a plug.

Any questions or answers? Six five. I didn't say it, but I'm six five. Okay, good. The same as Travis Kelsey, who the lady is like. Yeah. Yeah. Travis Kelsey, who the lady like. Yeah. Yeah. Every Instagram is girls going, the guy has to make a million and be six. Five. I'm like, Jesus Christ.

I'm like, what about the part having three pantries? That's never making it there. What's that skateboard in the background, David? This one is Jack Spade. That's. My brother's old company and they make a skateboard because he's a skater. This one is Bruce Lee on a board that I was as a president because I skate. I used to, I'm kind of a phony now, but I used to skate a lot.

So do you do it? I couldn't. I'm too scared now. I used to skate and then I'm too brittle and I don't, you know, if I go into a pool or a ramp, it's like I tried my buddy's ramp and it was so huge. It was wood and my my wheels would slide more because I was used to cement. It's just so hard and you fall. It's like, oh, my God. So I know one fall you're done.

Yeah, I can't do it. So I just talk about skating, wear the t shirts and stuff. Just a funny. No, me too. I got an Knoxville t-shirt on right now Oh, yeah, all right Quiz the safest way to get thrills recreationally Cocaine yeah, that was my second one a wave runner or you know on a lake That's empty because you can just fly off

Sometimes as a boy Because you're not allowed to splash a bit get nearer someone else. It has to be an empty lake, you know Okay, I just need the whole lake. I've invested anyway And my net worth is Anyway, I will see you guys in a couple of weeks. We love you guys for real. Thanks for having us guys.

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