Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - RE-RELEASE - Adam Sandler (LIVE from LA)

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

With Happy Gilmore 2 ready to hit Netflix, we thought it would be fun to pull out the episode we did with the one and only Sandman. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit:... https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:56 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Dana, you know Adam, friend of the show, friend of ours, happy Gilmore coming out July 25th. We thought we would re-air his live show because it was a lot of fun. We got a lot of good feedback about it.
Starting point is 00:01:15 We cracked that, it was one of our best. One of our few. It was like at the will turn, it was like 2000 people with the same. Oh yeah, wasn't it the will turn? That's right. Yeah, that was kind of early on in our tenure. It was great to have him live in LA.
Starting point is 00:01:30 That was fun. Yeah. Back when I used to comb my hair a little bit. And now of course, Happy Gilmore 2 had to happen. The fans wouldn't have allowed it. So it's back and it's out July 25th on Netflix. We had a lot of laughs. We talked about so many things
Starting point is 00:01:48 and then we did a few act outs in front of the crowd. When there's a crowd, they're always trying to ham it up a little bit more than usual. Oh definitely, yeah. I went full ham on a couple of times on that one. Oh yeah, I went full ham bone. And Adam came to play, which was good. He didn't walk through it.
Starting point is 00:02:04 He was great. And let's hope walk through it. He he was great. And let's let's hope you like it. Here it is. Here it is. Happy Gilmore himself. All right, all right, all right. Right, right, right. Yeah, it's not a fucking thing. So now that's right. But what you got to do, you got to get to your seat. Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run,
Starting point is 00:02:32 run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, to the Olsen Twins show? Yes. It's clickbait. What has happened to the Olsen Twins? Look at them now. Whoa, it's a cute fast up front. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we played here in 1962. You know, it was a shit storm then.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Ringo couldn't even keep his beat. People are rushing in now. This is the show, by the way. I hope you were able to write off your ticket. Yeah. You know, just send it to your account, and hopefully you'll get money, a rebate. Let's settle down.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Yeah, we're gonna settle in. This is our podcast. And by the way, all joking aside, thanks for coming. I've never done anything like this. And we have our very, very, very, very good friend who we all adore as our guest, which is very cool. Look at this, all right. I can just do that.
Starting point is 00:03:31 All right, this next young man coming to the stage. Yeah. Dana, you can introduce. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our very dear friend from Saturday Night Live and about 100 movies, the one and only Adam Sandler! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 00:03:49 Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! The middleweight champion of the world. Hey, you know, Rocky, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:04:10 Oh, yeah, I didn't even know it started. We know it hasn't started. What went on so far? Did you guys talk? We talked. You got a mic. You good? You know, I wear a hoodie sometimes. It takes about a year and a half off my age, I feel. I think it's smart.
Starting point is 00:04:27 It's good. Look at this, yo, yo, what's up? The beard is blocking so much. I like it. I like the look. You can definitely be on Skid Row and be like, hey, what's up, bro? Dude, I'm just kidding.
Starting point is 00:04:38 No, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. Adam, I have to tell you something, Danny. You can listen, but I... This time, last time he made me go in the little boy place. Go ahead. I'm with you. Adam, I have to tell you something, Danny, you can listen, but I... This time, last time he made me go in the little boy place. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Actually, today we did a memorial for Norm MacDonald today. And that was great. We all love Norm. We all work with Norm. And when there was a break in the action, that's stupid, but I went to McDonald's just because I had a son. You did? Yeah. What'd you order?
Starting point is 00:05:07 What's your McDonald's order? That's a great question. Then we're gonna get to you in a minute, but I want to get to me. We like to talk about ourselves. Oh yeah, that's right, I've listened. Good God! You are like listening to you, I can't fucking believe how much you talk. I know.
Starting point is 00:05:22 No, Adam, it's not that. I have a lot to talk about. All right, go ahead. So back to David. Oh, this shirt, 12 grand. What did you ask me? Anyway, so he's rich. No, here's what happened.
Starting point is 00:05:35 I went to McDonald's and I got scared because I went in and people go, do you actually? They can't believe I go to McDonald's and they can't believe I go in. No one goes in anymore. But I'm a man of the people, you know? So I go in and I get Filet-O-Fish meal deal. That's okay.
Starting point is 00:05:52 By the way, I go, what's your Filet-O-Fish of the day? Is it a branzino? Take a break. And then, oh, we laugh. And then we laugh through the bulletproof glass. And then I got... So what happened? Then I get six piece McNugget.
Starting point is 00:06:09 I don't know why I'm telling this fucking story. But Adam loves this kind of shit. This is real people stuff. So I get my nuggets and my hot mustard and I sit down. I sit down in there. I get on the table and I just want to make some fun because I got to go back and I'm eating bloop bloop. And naturally, outside there's someone
Starting point is 00:06:32 who's acting a little crazy. At the McDonald's. Yeah, of course. It just comes with the deal. So I'm like this, I'm getting nervous because there's a line of cars and he's banging on the windows and I go, why the fuck did I come in? Because now I'm trapped. Starts heading toward the
Starting point is 00:06:48 door I go, there's no chance. Bam door opens drenched in sweat and he walks right up to me. He walked away. He walks right up to me. It was Ted Sarandos. No, Ted Sarandos. No, it was, no, it was just a guy. And and and he was kind of I don't know what was going on, but he's a little crazy. So he goes, hey, man, this story keeps fucking going. I know, but you guys, we're up to.
Starting point is 00:07:15 We're going to take a short break. Anyway, he goes, give me some money for some food. I go, all right. And he's just talking to me. So I go, OK, and I give him 10 bucks. And then he goes, give me give me your McNuggets. Ha ha ha ha. That's fucking nuts.
Starting point is 00:07:30 And he's dropping sweat on, he's like, whoop, whoop, whoop. And I go like this, but I know I don't have a lot of time and I don't wanna argue that he's gonna kill me. So he goes, I go, I'll give you one. What? I gave him one. This is a fucking bit.
Starting point is 00:07:45 I swear to God today, and I gave him this out of the store. Chris Rock did this bit. I'll give you one nugget. Give me one rib. Rich Schneider? I gave him a goddamn nugget. Chris Rock.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Chris Rock has it. Anyway, this is a newer version of that. And then he goes, give me another one. And I gave him two. And then I go, that's it. I gave you 10 bucks. Did he dip it in sauce? Did he dip it in sauce?
Starting point is 00:08:09 I wasn't gonna let him. He goes, I'll just dip it in sweat. Boop, boop. So he had two. Then I go, just go buy some. And the people, the cashiers were waving me off, like, don't send them over here. And so he went over there.
Starting point is 00:08:22 And then I just, I got up and left, cause I got scared. But that's all. Adam, our guest tonight. Let's bring that guy out right now. Come on! Hey! Nugget man! Daryl! Let's look at a clip. You met a crazy man in a McDonald's. That's pretty good though, David. Anyway, after I...
Starting point is 00:08:39 Maybe the crazy man you saw your first day in New York? Oh, what did I say? You saw a man masturbating in the park? Yeah, we thought, yeah, he was masturbating in the park and we're walking by, we just got to Manhattan, we're like, hey, let's go to the park. And he's masturbating, we're kind of trying not to look and he goes, hey, have you got the time?
Starting point is 00:08:59 It's like, he's jacking off on a car bench but he's really worried and park bench. Sorry. Anyway. Yes, Adam. I don't remember. Like a steel trap. I loved it.
Starting point is 00:09:11 We had some fucking crazy times. Me and you together was the best. When David would come by, we'd be like, all right, we got to listen for a while. No, no, no. He'd have a McDonald's or remember the Jack of the box story. It was like 20 minutes. But he was great. But we, yeah, we had some crazy.
Starting point is 00:09:27 We had that one crazy gig where we got lost. Yes. Me and Dana went on a great gig. I opened for you. You were the king. And you let me do 10 minutes before you. It was upstate New York and there was no cell phones. And we started getting lost. And we just realized, wow, we're really, really lost.
Starting point is 00:09:43 So we showed up like four hours late. Yes. And the students were just sitting up in a gym like this, dead silence, like a church. Yeah, they were pissed, right? So I go get them, Adam. Yeah, you sent me out there. Did you have your guitar with you? No, I wasn't a guitar then, but I just Cajun man just started. Oh, it was Cajun man. So I said, onion.
Starting point is 00:10:05 And they gave me some sort of noise. I was like, okay, this is a new life I got, man. Cajun man. Fucking kill him. But I did 10, 15 minutes, I did fine. Yeah, you did fine. You said I did great, but I probably did fine. But then you went up and annihilated.
Starting point is 00:10:21 I don't remember it that way. Yes. I thought we both had a rough set. Was your set eight minutes of Cajun, man? Anytime something didn't work, I'd go, Fonio? And we ate Cajun afterwards. We found a place in the Pocono Mountains or something, right? We tipped back a few, drove back.
Starting point is 00:10:40 No, we went crazy in the car, let's admit it. On the way back, Adam and I just got a case of the fuck-its and the car was full of beer and we started drinking it and then you brought out cigars or somewhere if you had cigars. So we're drinking beer and having cigars and playing Rod Stewart for like hours. And we went crazy and we ran out of beer and then we went to a liquor store but you were with me and you looked 15 at the time. That's right. I had an ID but he goes, I'm not selling it to you because of him and he pointed at you. And then we got him on the-
Starting point is 00:11:13 I said to a member, I said, on your own? He goes, shut the fuck up. You see that worked. They would just hand us a six pack. On your own. Alcoholism. We went crazy. We went crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:24 So let's get to when Adam started stand up because you started before me, but you were in New Hampshire. I did start before you. I think, no, no, maybe it's about the same time I started. I was like 18 and a half. And then you, what's how old were you? I was 17. Oh, you started stand up.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Where did you go on? I went on senior year in high school. My brother told me, my brother was going to Boston University. And then he said, remember I told you, somebody went to Boston University here? No? Hey! They're like, whatever you want, Adam. That's a good school. Congratulations. But anyways, my brother, we were at dinner and he said,
Starting point is 00:12:05 hey, I got you that lottery ticket. I told you, remember you had to wait online and get a ticket to go on stage. And I said, oh yeah, God, you got that? Because he mentioned it a couple of months earlier and then I went, he said it's tonight. So I put on a dress shirt. I remember I had a nice dress shirt with stripes.
Starting point is 00:12:23 I folded, I didn't know how to button this. I was never good at buttoning my own bits right here. So I rolled it up like spade right there. And then I- Cause I still don't know how to do it. I don't know, is that happening still? When I do my- It's a good look.
Starting point is 00:12:36 You would think to wear the first time, cause I wore a shirt and a tie. The first time you went out, really? That's nice. Cause I wanted to look, also I wanted to look older. I looked very young and I had to go to a real bar to do it. And the age was 19 in Arizona. So what was the bar?
Starting point is 00:12:53 There's one called Chuckles and then Anderson's for the Chuckles. I know they all have goofy names, gut busters. Was that in Scotsdale? The loony bin. Yeah. Chuckles was the first place I went on. And let me stop your story. So you but where could you go on a bar when you're that young? I went on at a place called Stitches Comedy Club. See Stitches? Stitches in Boston. You're 17. 17. Went on one station. No one gave a fuck. It's so funny they let anyone go on young. I didn't even
Starting point is 00:13:20 know what to talk about. I was driving down with my brother and he said, did you write anything? And I said, no, no, no. I was winging, man. Everything's funny. Your brother was like your manager. He 100% was just going, you got to do something with your life. And so there's nothing else you could do. You really can handle nothing.
Starting point is 00:13:40 So I went on. I went on. I did the five minutes. I had a retainer, because I was still young and I remember just total silence. I was saying stuff that I thought they would love, that my families loved for years, and they were just going, and then I remember hearing
Starting point is 00:13:55 one guy go, he's got a retainer. And I was like, he's smiling. Dave, do you remember any of your jokes? Didn't say anything that made sense, there's nothing to remember. I don't even know what happened. I used to get that blank mind, and... Do you remember any of your jokes? Didn't say anything that made sense. There's nothing to remember. I don't even know what happened. I used to get that blank mind like the first two years, three years of comedy, all day
Starting point is 00:14:13 long I'd be practicing and all the shit written down and like I'm going to say this, then that, then this. And then I'd get on stage and I'd be like, well, I fucking hated here. Why am I here right now? Space out? You guys space out I'm sure. Blank out all the time. I would be nervous all day long just adrenalized sweating just just bright red neck terrified pacing yeah you know and while I was sleeping no my point is this no it was stage fright I
Starting point is 00:14:41 mean you had just basically by the time well I don't want to go forward but time you got on SNL it seemed like you had a lot of a lot of confidence pretty quickly then. I don't know how but yes. I'm just curious about a little bit about early Adam just for a second. Yeah. You guys here curious about what made Adam sound like? I just I mean you know whatever you want to I just I mean you know whatever you want to I just I do this sometimes with our guests just you know a favorite toy or a favorite bike or your first guitar mm-hmm what we have memories about all of those okay favorite toy favorite toy was probably the fucking evil Knievel. Oh yeah SSP. Evil Knievel. SSP making a jump. So you wind it up and pull it. You create your own little jump
Starting point is 00:15:30 you put pillows and cardboard and fucking evil Knievel would fly off of that. That was fun. I would scratch my mother's tile. She would yell at me for that. What was the second one you said? You're a bike. I had a Sting Rays were big when I was a kid. Did you have a bike that was a big chariot for you in memory? Mongoose. I had a Mongoose. I had a Mono Shock. I used to do jumps.
Starting point is 00:15:55 It was a little, it was very daredevil-y. I'd love to see you doing jumps. That'd be awesome. Oh yeah. Now he's neck would hurt. I do a little cross up, tabletop. Don't worry about it. But I also had the evil Knievel. That evil Knievel thing was really good on the
Starting point is 00:16:09 commercials about yes. And then in person. It's fucking impossible. It was a ram the wall and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I just go over and fall. But when you get when did you be mute? When we musical? Can I tell them about my fucking bicycle? Now? Hey, we're new to this. He's gonna hear from me right now.
Starting point is 00:16:28 What are you moving on from my bicycle? You took over the whole bike thing. No, I thought it was. I had. This hurts. We're learning, we're learning tonight, which is great. Dana, you're fantastic. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:16:40 But. It's not true. But David. No, so I had, I always wanted a Huffy. I wanted a Huffy like everybody else. Now tell me about a Huffy, cause that's... A Huffy has like the, a longer seat. The long seat, so it was like a Stingray. Like a Stingray, Stingrays got...
Starting point is 00:16:54 It had a banana seat they called it. Banana seat, right. So the friend could ride in the back. Yes, yes, a Huffy, a Huffy had more of a cushiony seat. More, it was like a banana, but a little thicker for like dirt riding, right? Like if you ride, ah ha ha. Was it sold at Sears? Was it from Sears? Well here's the problem with the Adam Sandler Huffy. So I said to my family I'd like a Huffy. Of course I didn't get the Huffy. I got something else,
Starting point is 00:17:20 a green bike. They took the seat off, my father bought a Huffy seat, and put it on the fucking other bike, and I would go down to Webster School, my elementary school, and everyone's poppin' wheelies and on their Huffies, and I showed up with my Huffy seat and the green bike, and I was like, hey, and they were like, get the fuck outta here with that fake Huffy shit.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Was that a budgetary thing or teaching a lesson for your dad? There was a time when my dad, he didn't tell us he was so cool. Yeah. He didn't have a job for like a year and a half. And I remember he just kept it from us. I'd be like, Dad's always fucking home. This is incredible. But I would ask him, I'd still ask for shit.
Starting point is 00:18:06 I'd be like, I saw this thing on TV, let's go. Give me that. And he was like, we'll get to that. I was like, we'll get to that. What the fuck is happening? Wow, so it was out of love when he did the Huffy seat. But I think he, yeah, he had to kind of build that fake Huffy for me.
Starting point is 00:18:22 Were you a daredevil at all? Did you get hurt as a kid? As a kid. Did you fall off things, break things? I was definitely tougher as a kid. I was more fearless as a kid. Now, I was a good skier. I was a good skier.
Starting point is 00:18:35 In New Hampshire. New Hampshire skier, yeah. We skied all the time. You, Dana, you ski? I was for rich people. We would have a little inner tube. We'd go to like, you know, snowball and just go down like that, but the big people out there could pay the money to go up the thing.
Starting point is 00:18:50 So there was no money. We had huffy skis. They were fake. But in New Hampshire, your mountains were like 300 feet, right? We were in California. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how did you get hurt a lot? Did you just fall down?
Starting point is 00:19:02 Oh, I used to, I was pretty good. I used to do, back in the day, you did a helicopter on the skis. On the skis? You could do that? And that was like a big deal. Jesus. Now it's fucking, I don't even think anyone does a helicopter anymore, right? You never see these guys on TV pop out a helicopter. They're always doing those flips and shit. Well, they could do anything they want. It's insane.
Starting point is 00:19:23 They're unbelievable now. It's so cool. It doesn't even make sense. There's one guy in my hometown, Robitile, his last name, Jay Robitile. He used to do flips. He fucking was at this place, McIntyre. There's a little ski area in my hometown. They build a jump for this guy and no one else could do it. But he would just come down, knock out a flip.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Everybody like, what the fuck? Yeah. Well, wait a minute, Adam, you go down and then you go up. He leans forward, he gets in the air, he leans forward, does a full flip. Oh, a front flip? Front flip. Fuck, that's harder.
Starting point is 00:19:56 But you would go like a complete 360. I would do that. I could do it. And then land your skis. And then land, yeah, it was cool. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:20:04 I was very good when I was like up to 15, and then I started getting scared. Okay. Not being as cool. So then when did the guitar come in? Like I got a drum set at 14. When did you get a guitar? And you're great on drums.
Starting point is 00:20:17 We had some good jams back then. We had some good jams too. The best, yes. My guitar happened, my dad had an acoustic. So he used to play, he'd always sing Mariah. The way out west they got a, right? Wind and smoke and fire. And they called the wind Mariah.
Starting point is 00:20:45 So thank you. You didn't know that one? Do you guys know that one? I did, I knew when to be quiet. You've beat me down so much I didn't join in. Even though I have the voice of an angel. So you got it. Well, we'll get David in on one here.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Yeah, get in on the rest, sorry. Okay, favorite entertainment that you saw in your formative years, I say five another rest, sorry. Okay, favorite entertainment that you saw in your formative years, I say five to 13, like TV show or movie that fucking blew your mind. Sing that wrong. Blew my fucking mind. Wild West? No, you're too young.
Starting point is 00:21:17 I like that. Yeah. My favorite thing, I think the thing that knocked me out when I was, yeah, I love movies, I love all the comedies, like I'm sure everybody up here, you know, the Mel Brooks and all that stuff. You know, yeah, Young Frankenstein and Simon Mooby and Blazing Saddles and all that stuff got me.
Starting point is 00:21:39 But I'll tell you what really got me. Look back at it. I think I was in Florida or Florida as you would say David. I bet I was in Florida. Florida. Yeah. And so my parents took me to see Eddie Fisher. He sang. Oh, Eddie Fisher. And somebody went on before him, oh, from singing in the rain. You go on stage, you can do that kind of thing, and I kind of wanted to get into that. That's interesting. That sort of turned you on just to perform.
Starting point is 00:22:16 They didn't know if you'd even like it, and then you really liked it. I guess so. I mean, I don't think they were trying to talk me into it. They were just trying to have a nice night out in Florida. And then I was just kind of locked into, I used to sing a lot in the car. I used to sing a lot. My mother always said I sang good.
Starting point is 00:22:31 My father would just stare like this. What would you sing? You remember? Just songs off the radio. Oh my God, it was a pain in the ass because I sang a lot of Johnny Mathis for my mother. Oh really? She'd always sing Chances Are and I'd be like, Chances are, cause I wear a silica,
Starting point is 00:22:52 whatever I did. And it was fine, not great. Chances are you wear a silica. I used to see them. Big vibrato. And then pipes. I sang I sang. Oh, Maria from West Side Story. I sang this is when I was little, you know, like 10. And but my mother always said I had a good voice. And my father was like, he's all right. And yeah. Didn't your mom, who was such a cheerleader that if Sinatra came on, she would say, you're better. Oh, yeah, you could do that.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Supportive. Oh, you know what's funny? My mother, speaking of that, my uncle worked at a clothing company and when I went to NYU I was a stand-up. There you go. And I went to, I was a stand-up, I was making no money, like all of us, and my mother called my uncle and said, can Adam model for you? And my uncle was like, you know, I'll talk to them. And she's like, he really needs the work. Help him model. And I'm like, really, I'm a model?
Starting point is 00:24:02 She's like, you're gorgeous. And then my uncle, like, you're gorgeous. And then my uncle, I love your mom. She's wonderful. And then my uncle had to just go, he's fucking looks terrible in a suit. He's not great. There's not a good angle on him.
Starting point is 00:24:21 You own a suit now, don't you? You own a suit now. I actually because of that, my daughter's bat mitzvah. You own a suit now, don't you? You own a suit now. I actually, because of my daughter's bat mitzvah, I had to get that fucking suit dry cleaned this morning. I don't think it's going to fit either. I've been swelling up. What can you do?
Starting point is 00:24:40 All right, so. Go ahead, Dana. You had so many questions. I know. Well, then you go to... Alright, so go ahead Dana. You had so many questions. I know well Then then you That's your hero, I mean, he doesn't know anything Kind of up in that area
Starting point is 00:25:01 Bike, you know, I gotta have a roadmap. This is good man Stud boy stud boy. Oh, yeah, we'll jump now Chris Rock called that one of the best pure jokes ever written. Thank you Chris. And that was early stand up. I mean David do you want to... I'm just thinking if Adam grows up he goes to NYU and then he's in New York he's 17. Within six years you're on Saturday Night Live. So what happened in those six years?
Starting point is 00:25:24 David? Oh, well, Adam was a great stand-up, had a very unique perspective, interesting delivery, good, memorable joke. It was more like one joke, one joke, one joke, right? Not really stories, it was kind of like that. And I wasn't even, you know, we didn't have YouTube all that shit, so I didn't know you till I actually physically saw you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:48 Oh, that was in the Valley. It was at the Improv and the Valley Improv. You ever go to Valley Improv, Dana? Did you ever do that, Dana? Oh yeah, I did that when I was living in New York in 1981 doing a sitcom with Nathan Lane and Mickey Rooney. Wow. I worked a, yeah, one of the boys.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Check it out. And it was Scatman and Carruthers as well. But you, you like Jack D'Arabiuto told me once that he was your, you know, your partner for a long time. And he knew you back then. You would just do a bit. You'd go to a club, wouldn't quite work. And then you keep going and going.
Starting point is 00:26:21 And you come back like a week later and you had it killing. So you were very tenacious about it, right? Yes. Yes. I don't know why. I was not, I was probably the same as you guys. You just, I don't know, I believed in it. I kept doing it, found a way to kind of phrase it right.
Starting point is 00:26:38 Do it till it works. Or you do ever take, I used to tape mine and it was very excruciating to listen to your own voice, but you would think you killed and it was really just one person laughing loud. Yeah. Or you'd think it was nothing, but then you said something you forgot in between the jokes that was good.
Starting point is 00:26:54 So you'd sort of like piece it together and then try it again and tape it. Sure. Yeah, I did the same thing you do where you pulled out of a hat, but it was more sickening because I drove off from Arizona and then they'd have at the improv amateur night.
Starting point is 00:27:08 And so I'd sit there and they'd pull a name and read it and you'd come up, so we're all waiting. And every time they pull it, you get nervous and it's not you and I go, oh. You almost don't want it to be you sometimes. You're like, oh good, they're not gonna get to me. Right, then it was tough. And then by the end of the night, I'm like, scared.
Starting point is 00:27:24 I was in the end town. It was, and then I never, it never worked that way. Right, then it was tough, and then by the end of the night, I'm like scared. I was in the end now. It was, and then I never, it never worked that way. And I think it was rigged. I think they knew it was going up. They had friends and friends. But I finally got a few things, but then we wound up running to each other. How did you do your first night?
Starting point is 00:27:39 I, how did I do? Yeah. First night of standup? Yeah. That's a good question. Um. When I started Stand-Up, I take the mic off. Can I get you anything, Adam? No, it's actually, any man's first time is a good story.
Starting point is 00:27:58 We were spoiled because when I got to Saturday Night Live, or I was in the Valley, and I was seeing comics, I was seeing guys like Drake Sather was great. I saw Adam was great. Schneider was funny. Yeah, he was great. I wound up seeing guys that in a million years, how would we all get on SNL? It was so weird that it would happen that way.
Starting point is 00:28:16 When you came in, it was like a firestorm, but you guys really, you kind of like had 20 minutes, right? You weren't headlining on the road. You had a great 20. And then SNL people saw you in the clubs. And they liked your writing. You got hired as a writer. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Dennis, Dennis hooked me up. Dennis Miller. Dennis Miller. Dennis Miller. Dennis was the one who saw you. That's true. Yeah. Dennis Miller saw me a few times at the Santa Monica Improv.
Starting point is 00:28:43 And he waited in the back after. I think you guys knew each other already. I knew, he was my favorite comic book. You probably introduced us then. Maybe, yeah. And he watched me and he said, he liked some of my jokes and he was so nice to me and we loved him. We idolized him and he heard they were looking for,
Starting point is 00:29:03 Lorne was looking at new people and he said, you should check out the Sandman. And I mean. Sandingo, yeah. He gave you that nonacher? Yeah. Because Dennis never, he always has a name for somebody. Yeah, right, right, right.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Christ sakes, you know, Sandman hitting it heavy down at the Prove in Santa Monica, okay? Tearing up the beach communities with his Wilta Stilt humor. Sorry, I love being Dennis. I love being in that attitude. But, thank you. So, what was your, do you remember your first bit
Starting point is 00:29:37 that kind of became your rock? Like even if the set was not going well, you had one that started to work? Yes, I had one that, I don't, I said Vicks Vaporub. I used to say, remember Vicks Vaporub? When your mother would rub it on your chest. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And my mother would be rubbing it on my chest and then we make eye contact. And I was like, I thought we were just friends
Starting point is 00:30:05 ma that was that was like my that was my big guarantee back then did you ever say this one when you go I remember that joke very well I thought that was a great one and he said when I was people say if you could live your life over would you would you change your thing you go yeah when I was walking down the when I fell down the stairs I might have grabbed the rail next time. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, that was it. Geez, I forgot that. I mean, there's obviously, Wilt Chamberlain, but you had so many good jokes and they were so different and odd and then, and then Dennis got you on. Yeah. But it's good to be different, it's very hard to be
Starting point is 00:30:40 different and so when you see... When I did it, when I auditioned that night, it was with Rock, Dana Gould, and three other good comedians. Where were you? I was in Chicago. Flew to Chicago. Oh, that's right. Rock was Chicago. Rock did great. I did fine. Dana Gould destroyed. God damn, that's enough with me too.
Starting point is 00:30:59 He was incredible. So he should have got it. He's great. I don't know why. He wrote for the Sim. He did a lot of great stuff. But somehow I got hired as a writer like David did. And there would be David and Schneider, me and who else was a writer? Anybody else? Just us three. Oh yeah, cause Farley and Rock got hired that year and they were just straight feature cast members. They were on feature. Yeah. Everybody wrote for themselves. Like Dana wrote. but Dana was never credited as a writer. If you got on as a main player,
Starting point is 00:31:29 you never got a writer's credit for some reason, but whatever, it's just part of the deal. That was good, sneaky money, though. I didn't want to be a writer, but we didn't make much money, but you'd get kicked to rerun in perpetuity, and that was nice, even though it was two cents, but it was nice to, you get a stack of checks and it's the host. So it's like 18 cents, Alec Baldwin, 18 cents, Tom Hanks, Glenn Close. So that was kind of fun to rack that up, the bricks.
Starting point is 00:31:55 You could have invested wisely. Yeah, invested wisely. But we didn't make a ton, I'm sure when you started, we didn't make shit. I don't think we even, we couldn't believe we ton. I'm sure when you started, you didn't make we didn't make shit. I don't think we even we couldn't believe we were getting paid, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a big deal to get money. Just maybe. Yeah. Like you net like maybe 20 grand for the whole season.
Starting point is 00:32:14 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just live in a hubble. Yeah, it was really I was. But, you know, there I was with Phil Lake, great Phil. Jen, Jen Hooks got some. Yes. And Mike Myers and love it, and the show was really cooking. And then you guys came off like the mothership in Closest Encounters, you know,
Starting point is 00:32:31 becomes Rock and Sandler. And I remember the first time I saw you in the office, you were just kinda sitting at the big table on 17th floor, Saturday night, and I was doing pretty well on the show, you know. But I liked you immediately, you just had this vibe about you that was really, really funny and likable, you know, and that's a big part of the DNA. Right. You sensed the love we all had. Dana was the king. Dana, I'll tell you, remember,
Starting point is 00:33:00 it was almost like at a stand-up club, if Dana had a skit and your skit was going on after you were just like Oh, yeah. Oh, no, cuz Dana would crush so hard. You gotta follow Church Lady or something. Are you talking about read through or on the show? Read through is bad. But on the air, on the air was the biggest explosion in the place and then your skit would do fine in the place and then your skit would do fine but in your weird comedy brain you're just like how the fuck do I get those Dana laughs? Yeah, well I had a lot of help, you know, make a talk show and then have Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks come on.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Yeah, yeah. You know, crazy. Thanks, though. But so you come on, you get on the show, you're like... What's your first big... What was your first... You probably did Update first, right? right or did you Iraqi Pete or something no that was a Al Franken wrote that yeah aren't you supposed to do the noise now you do
Starting point is 00:33:53 that all right but um I like to ask you a question yeah so like in classic comedy sorry David you weren't finished sorry You're gonna like this one. Because you know you didn't really lean on it much but in the beginning I remember in the classic comic sense of the idiot so like there's Jerry Lewis is like the king and then I remember you would do the hunched over guy and he would do that sound. Where did that guy come from? Because that instantly made me laugh so hard because you were so committed.
Starting point is 00:34:27 Was that? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I don't even know if that ever got on the air. If I ever did that. I just remember seeing that and really loving it, you know. But there's one character I want to break down unless David has a question. Sure. Go ahead. We're really close friends. The Opera Man, the evolution of Opera Man. Opera Man. The evolution of OPERA MAN. That then became the indestructible killer bit of all time.
Starting point is 00:35:10 By the time you got it on the update desk with the pictures and you were mixing it. So Adam, I'll let you fit, but talk about the origins of that and the way you did it and then the way you ended up doing it. It evolved, right? Yes, it did. Roger, yes. Okay, go ahead. Yes. That's my question.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Thank you. Yeah, that's a good question. And I remember you knew the guy. So there was a man on the street who used to sing opera on the street. He used to hold the can up and you'd be walking down the street and he'd kind of come at you and go, hey, and he'd sing really hot and he'd charge you. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you're high, and you'd be like, whoa,
Starting point is 00:35:46 and you'd give him money and- I didn't know that. That's kind of where I first started doing it around the office. I love that. I didn't know that. I met that guy today at McDonald's. He wasn't singing, though. He's in between sets.
Starting point is 00:35:58 Adam, what would a guy like that be ordering like at McDonald's? That's what he'd sound. What would he order, yeah. Hey, bar, barbecue sauce. The thing that you can sound exactly opera is one more gift on SNL. If you can have a voice.
Starting point is 00:36:12 If they'd write a singing sketch, obviously Adam wrote a lot of his own, but if they'd write somewhere you sing, you can get in. If you can play an instrument, you can get in. There's so many things that you can do, dance. So if you do, I didn't do a lot of those things, which was kind of a drag, but Adam can sing so well and actually write songs and actually write songs
Starting point is 00:36:31 that are catchy, because a lot of those things you did on update were actually really catchy on top of just being funny. And so that combo is big. And that Opperman was a fucking cruncher. That always killed me. That was a gift from the turners. Didn't you do it off on the stage next update initially?
Starting point is 00:36:46 Yeah, no, the first time I did it, it was just gibberish. It was like a theater thing. And I think maybe you, or was it Phil? That's what I remember. I don't know if I remember this right. Maybe you, maybe you. But I was in my office. Yes, that's it.
Starting point is 00:37:00 Adam used to go around the office on all fours. Oh, so then I hear a little knock and I'm in my office. So I open it up and you're on all fours. You go, oh, and then you were asking me to do something, introduce opera man. Right. So I did remember that. So you were like a theater guy would would say, tonight the opera man, something like, goes from the emotion of trying to catch the bus, but unfortunately he misses the bus.
Starting point is 00:37:34 But then he sees his mother is behind the bus and picks him up, let's watch the opera man. That was how it happened. And I'd walk, I'd be like, Rrraaaah, nyeh, sh, I'd be like, Rrraaaahhh! And then I'd see my brother, I'd be like, Rrraaaahhh! And stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:37:51 And that was it. And it did good. It did good at the table. It did good. You know, Sandler, it's good if you, a trick on SNL is if Adam was probably slightly newer then, but if you anchor it with Dana, who they love, and then he brings John, and then they go, and Dana seems to like it. And then they start to like the new guy.
Starting point is 00:38:14 Help when you're new. Yes. No, it was a Dana's the best at it. So that's what it was. But anyways, it did fine. It was up at the table. It did well. Everybody remember after a while, they I was up at the table. It did well. Everybody remember after a while, they started liking us at the table.
Starting point is 00:38:28 And when David and I first were on us and and at the table and we try to get on and we do full skits for ourselves, everybody else was kind of like calm. Yeah, that's enough, guys. Yeah, that's not not yet. Not yet. Yeah, right. But then by this time, they were like, all right, give him a shot. And then we did that and it didn't do great. So Lauren didn't put it on.
Starting point is 00:38:50 But then the Turner's out of nowhere, Bonnie and Terry Turner. Great writers for the show for eight, nine years. Wayne's World. Wayne's World. You and Mike. Yeah, they were. They wrote the first Tommy Boy draft. What's that? They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy. They wrote. That's right. Tommy Boy. That's right. They were theythey wrote the first Tommy Boy draft. What's that? They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy. They wrote...that's right, Tommy Boy, that's right.
Starting point is 00:39:08 They were...they were monsters. I don't even know why we don't hear about...talk about them more. They had some huge sketches. You guys should have them on this show. Yeah, I'd love it. We'd love to. Yeah, they're great. Hi Bonnie, hi Terry.
Starting point is 00:39:18 Hello guys. Listening to this when it's released. But they wrote what? What we said? And Lindsay, and Lindsay, their daughter. Their daughter Lindsay. Yes. And...but...but anyways, they wrote this thing What we said? And Lindsay, their daughter. Their daughter Lindsay. Yes. But anyways, they wrote this thing and they talked to me.
Starting point is 00:39:28 I was in my office. They were like, so remember that Opperman thing you did? We came up with an idea for the news and they showed it to me and I'm so...I was just so dumb and young and whatever I was and I was like, yeah, I guess I Guess we could try it that way. It was it was opera man the news that he said opera man on the movie the showing showing current I didn't really I was like no opera man speaks gibberish and that doesn't make any sense So then it became a divorce so how about would you know, you would do events with like Trumpo. Yeah, exactly. And it would just crush.
Starting point is 00:40:10 That was all those guys wrote it. I got the beat. They would give me the melodies. And Cheryl would write Cheryl hard. And they would just give me all the goods. And I mean, it was the greatest gift ever. That was a home run. Got to wear the wig.
Starting point is 00:40:24 Did you do it with Eddie Vedder or not? You sing like Eddie Vedder once you go... I sang like Eddie Vedder once. Was it as an opera man or was it something else? Opera man singing about Pearl Jam, yeah. And then, yeah, yeah. And remember when I think they were even on the show, Pearl Jam, that night. Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:40:41 So what would he say? A Vedder or whatever? I mean, you've got the pipes, kid. You still got that. No, that's right. But what would he say? A better what he ran? I mean, you got the pipes kid. No, you were going here. I'm saying well, that was all the concrete. Yeah, but you sound exactly like him. I can't do it now. I know any better. It is. It's a certain what he does. He's got a thicker lower voice. His voice is unreal. Yeah, it's a juicy voice.
Starting point is 00:41:05 We share an office, me and Farley, and then you walk through our office to get to Adam and Chris Rock. So when the door was closed, I hear, oh, ho with Lovitz, an opera man with Lovitz. Yes, yes. Oh, that was great, and he can sing great. And that was a perfect, only other guy who could do it besides you,
Starting point is 00:41:32 because he's got pipes and he's just a funny, so that was a killer. That was amazing. He played your brother or something? It was Glenn Close and Lovitz, and maybe they were my parents, I don't remember. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember they take the kids to sing with me.
Starting point is 00:41:46 Only on Saturday night. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I'd like, I could go anywhere. It's so much fun. I wanna ask about when he does bits, when you get to bring in one of the musical stars. I think McCartney did Red Hooded Swatcher.
Starting point is 00:41:59 Oh, that was great. God damn, Farley did something with him. You did something with him. I left just right before McCartney hosted. You weren't there then? I missed it. I was a fool. You know, he was upset, you know, because we'd met at 86 and at Lauren's house, he called me up.
Starting point is 00:42:15 I don't know why you didn't stick around. And, you know, we could have had a plonker. We'd be plonking, looking at each other. I go, who is this? Nobody's important. No. He's Craig Paul. I miss that, but you got to do a thing. What did you do with Paul McCartney?
Starting point is 00:42:30 It was read out a sweatshirt. I wrote it with Ian Maxstone Graham and I forget who else, somebody else. And we had dip, dip, dip, dip, and shabalama ding-dong and stuff like that. And then as it progressed, Kevin, maybe Kevin Nealon did it with me. And then I said, let's call out Paul and Linda and Paul and Linda McCartney, we wrote it for him. And then Lauren said, I said, will they do it? He goes, well, you have to talk to them.
Starting point is 00:43:03 So I went to Lauren's office. They were eating. I think they were on the show or they were just they were. Paul was the guest. OK. And Linda was with them. You walk in and you have to convince them. I just like had to come in with the dopey guitar and be like, my heart's pounding through my chest. You crawl in or did you walk? Hey, you know, skip.
Starting point is 00:43:27 That was when you were going to pitch it. Remember you'd skip across? No, I'm making that up. Sorry. Go ahead. So you walk in there, I mean... I'm at Lauren's eating Chun-Li Chinese. And Paul and Linda, and Linda's amazingly nice and Paul's amazingly nice and I sing them the little thing and they laughed and then I left and then I was like, I don't know if that worked or not,
Starting point is 00:43:46 but then they said yes and forever I got that. I sang with them, hung out with them after the show, hung out, Stella was there, remember Stella was a kid? She came to the show. Oh, Scott McCartney, the fashion designer. Yes, and she was such a nice kid. She was like our age then you know like whatever we were and I yeah let's keep the numbers out of it I saw him discipline his kids on Long
Starting point is 00:44:11 Island went over to his house and you know I think James had a little toy sword a plastic already dropped it down in his sister and Paul goes you do that one more time we're gonna have a problem. So, see him as a dad. Yeah, see him as a dad. I remember some comics that he had a bill, he was the first one with a billion dollars and they go, you know, if he lost his wallet in a cab and there was 500 million in it, he'd still have 500 million dollars. That was some comic. But do you remember when Farley's brothers came to the show when McCartney was on That
Starting point is 00:44:44 Stupid Story where Paul, Paul looked the same as when McCartney was on That Stupid Story? Where Paul looked the same as Paul McCartney growing up, but he had a little bit of gray here. And so Farley's brothers were standing there with red cups. There was no security. So the music comes out of their dressing room, walks by the 8H page desk, you know that, and they walk right into the show.
Starting point is 00:45:01 And they go, Paul McCartney, one minute till you're on live. And so you see, he comes out with a bodyguard on the front and back, and he walks out with his guitar, and it's fucking Paul McCartney. I'm there with Farley's idiot brothers, and they're all drunk, and he comes around, and they go, and one of them goes, hey, Paul!
Starting point is 00:45:18 And he looks over and he goes, getting a little gray! And he goes, and then he walks out, and I go go are you an idiot he goes he looked and then he goes on the monitor and they're like 15 seconds and he looks in the monitor he goes like this he got his head and you know he's like is mine and then anyway so I will say one of my proudest moments because sometimes Adam and I would try to write together or we would all try to think of excuses to all be in the same sketch or whatever. And the one I like the best is the Gap Girls when we were in the mall and then Farley says lay off me I'm starving. That is one of the funnest ones we
Starting point is 00:46:05 ever did and Schneider was in it and Sarah Gilbert was a host oh yeah and uh we were all uh that was just the fun for me because we would all just rehearse so you know you write it if it gets in you laugh it read through you laugh you know when we talk about what who plays what parts and what we say and then you you really wrote all that stuff though. I know, but then everyone adds jokes, whatever you want, and then we got to do it on... So you have to rehearse all week or once or twice. Yeah, you get to be together rehearsing. That's a good reason to hang out, is to rehearse.
Starting point is 00:46:34 Yeah, that was amazing. Does everyone know about the Gap Girls? Because there's a young audience. Okay. Because there's some younger people here. Yeah, it was just a sketch where we all worked at the Gap, we played girls and it was infuriating. And how did you talk? Whatever! That's right.
Starting point is 00:46:51 Yeah. We're like, weren't you at the folding meeting? Yeah, and I went to the Gap and studied it and they showed, they put a clipboard in the sweaters and pulled them out and fold them up, mesmerized. And then they would actually, this is when you feel kind of like a big deal, because if you get a sketch on
Starting point is 00:47:08 and you're just some doofus from Arizona, and it's like a dumb sketch about the gap. And then when they bring the sketches written and it's put up on his feet, they bring in, they talked to the gap and brought a whole section of the gap over. So they had a security guard, because it would cost so much.
Starting point is 00:47:24 It was real pants, real sweaters. And it was just a chunk of the Gap. They moved in and the Gap liked it, because it was free advertising. Even though we made them all look like morons. But it was still really fun. And then we all hung out there and would practice in there,
Starting point is 00:47:39 rehearse, whatever it's called. And it was great. So we did a couple of those. We did Gap-er-ty, where it was Jeopardy. It was just a fun way for me, you, and Farley to be in sketches. And that was... What was our names again? Say it again?
Starting point is 00:47:53 What was our names? Christy. Lucy. He was Cindy, and you might have been Lucy. Yeah. Does anyone know? Something like that. No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.
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Starting point is 00:49:36 What Pepper Boy? Oh, let's talk about Pepper Boy. So that yeah, that was incredible. I was like you and I were peeking on it on the show Chris Farley was Tim Farley crossed his let's just talk about that for saying that Steve Corrin started started that's right wrote it wrote it so did it It's just too I I was kind of the he was my protege. I was the mentor I was obsessed with how to do the pepper. You like pepper? The huge pepper mill. And Adam was kind of the underling and really eager.
Starting point is 00:50:09 And we... I'll just set it up for a second. We did well in read-through. Pretty well in rehearsal. Dress show, pretty good. Then Steve Korn comes to me and tells me something you want to do. Between shows. So at one point we had the I was gonna you were going crazy you were so nervous remember I slapped you. Oh yeah yeah yeah. Comedy it's always threes and then I can't bud you right. Yeah with the sound effects. So between dress and
Starting point is 00:50:38 air Steve Corman the writer comes in says Adam's gonna put the pepper shaker between his legs so you're gonna do this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we timed it great, but we really peaked on air. Yeah, that was amazing. That doesn't happen every time. We committed so hard. I mean, because Tim Meadows was sitting there and I was doing the pepper.
Starting point is 00:50:56 You like a pepper, huh? I mean, it became way, I don't know if it was sexual or something, but we were just on another level. Every, I'd say once, two weeks, if I'm in a restaurant, a guy with the pepper thing will be like, fresh pepper. Yeah. And do you remember what happened? Like Farley was always the best at breaking people because he could be explosively funny.
Starting point is 00:51:24 Do you remember his line and what he did on the air? I know what it is. We flew in from Tommy Boy. Yes. For just the show. And then we had to fly back. Oh. And he goes, I have a line in Pepper Boy. And didn't he have a big beard? He had a big beard. Yeah, he looked ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:51:39 He really hampered it up. His line was why thank you, Pepper Boy. He said, I'm going to make you laugh. He goes Why thank you, he said, I'm gonna make you laugh. He goes, Ed, see, I'm gonna make you laugh out there. I think he over, he goes, why thank you. Before it started, he goes, Ed, see, I'm gonna make you laugh out there. And I go, all right, all right.
Starting point is 00:51:57 And then, yeah, I think he leans back and goes, why thank you Pepper Boy. I've never seen a human being transform like that. He had like 12 chins and perfect amount of pepper, but huge beard for no reason. But he screamed it for the air show. He did, yes. He crossed his eyes too.
Starting point is 00:52:16 Adam starts to turn purple. That's the stage. I'm over here. Adam's turning toward me and trying not to go. The sketch had gone so well that I stayed in character. But I said, don't break. Do you remember that? Of course.
Starting point is 00:52:31 That's funny, man. You were the pro. You were the pro. The funny thing is Farley wasn't even supposed to say it that loud. It made no sense. He was supposed to go, why, thank you, Pepper. But he went, why that? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:44 He lost his barbels there. Yeah, well, thank you, Pepper. But why? Oh, yeah. He lost his barbell. Yeah, well, that's his mind. But that was that was an electric sketch for a restaurant sketch. And then it'll can't and or even we did that. You guys wrote El Cantor. That was major was explosive.
Starting point is 00:52:57 You you you would take the reins murder, murder, murder. Yeah. Then we'd have a little thing to do. We were like, let's jump on the Dana fucking thunder storm. Well, I don't know if you guys killed too. You and Schneider came in. We did good, but you got them all ready. That was an Italian restaurant where
Starting point is 00:53:15 all the waiters are too sexual with Cristi Alli. And all the women that come in, they're like, oh, bellissima, bellissima. Bellissima. Yeah. I start licking Cristy Alley's face. I'm supposed to lick her face really hard. I remember in rehearsal, I go, is this OK?
Starting point is 00:53:28 And she goes, oh, yeah, go for it. Whatever you want to do. Bellissima, I like it like. Oh, you like it like. But you guys were just, you know, crushing. You and Schneider came in with, Schneider had no clothes on or something. I had no clothes on. That was the, I was the guy back then,
Starting point is 00:53:47 I could take my fucking shirt off and feel okay. Now there's a reason the sweatshirt's on at all times. He has another shirt in case that somehow falls off. You know there's another crush, it was Lunch Ladyland and a great song. I called Taylor about a year ago, I go, yeah, it's on my iPod and it came in and I go, this is a good song when you go, slap it Joe, slap, slap it Joe, yeah. I go, the way you write it and it's actually funny and then you do a sketch and it's funny and then you hear it again, you go, that's actually a good song. Like you can, it's always catchy songs. I sang that on my album before I sang it on Saturday Night Live.
Starting point is 00:54:26 Oh yeah? Oh you did it first on the album? I did it first on the album and Farley was at the taping of my album. And so when I'm singing on the album, I think I'm in Santa Barbara, I don't remember where I was. This is a cool club. I'm sorry I forgot the name of it, but it was a club we were recording. Farley was in the crowd going nuts
Starting point is 00:54:46 And then you he's his crazy voice is so when I'm going slam it was live as I'm I go you hear Farley going He just kind of said alright he's gonna say Did it yeah, that was a crush without was that on they're gonna laugh at you which was two times platinum Wow. Did it. Yeah, that was a crush. Was that on, They're Gonna Laugh At You, which was? No, they're all gonna laugh at you. Two times platinum. That was a biggie. You're the last guy to really sell comedy albums, I think. I mean, my God.
Starting point is 00:55:12 I don't know if there's been some after, but with that back in the day, that was you were on it. Yeah. Everybody was all in. Hey, buddy, hey, buddy. The buddies did. We did buddy, dude, buddy, dude. Homie.
Starting point is 00:55:24 Yeah, that was a great one. What the Hell Happened to You was another one. Yes, yes, Buddy, Dude, Homie. Yeah, that was a great one. What the Hell Happened to You was another one. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That was where your real acid-y humor came out on those albums. That was where I got to curse a lot for the first time and David cursed with me and we all, we were so excited. It was like being on Saturday Night Live. I just thought it was like jazz.
Starting point is 00:55:43 I mean, the one about the announcer with the champion, you say the word champion. It's a golf announcer, you do it. You say the word champion like 500 times. Go ahead. It's about a golfer who has like a nine stroke lead and he's on the last hole and he keeps missing cuts. And you're the announcer.
Starting point is 00:56:01 I'm the announcer going, the champion is feeling it today and he's about to set the course record as the champion. And then he puts it and you hear the crowd go, oh, well the champion laughs that off. Eight stroke lead now. All that kind of shit. And then he gets more and more just insane. Closer to being like choking. And he's like, well, he's up three strokes.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Hopefully he can put this one in. And then it's Blake Clark is doing the voice of the champion. He's going, God fucking damn it. Anyways. Those albums were good because like they lay into the crowd of college kids in the summer. And then you come back and you're even bigger on SNL because they're like playing them over and over and over.
Starting point is 00:56:50 They're still besides Saturday Night Live because like you said, I would go out on tour, the kids who were coming to see me knew the album. So they knew some of the songs and knew some of the characters and that definitely relaxed me on stage. All of us, we used to have fun. Well let's just say, because you've given me a lot of props, that by the time you're after about two years in on SNL, you really were just like top-notch. I mean, you were crushing consistently on that show, and the audience was falling in
Starting point is 00:57:22 love with you because, you know, when you'd sing sing Hanukkah song when you would do your guitar or Thanksgiving song right first of all you actually you're a really good acoustic player not bad and you can hold a great melody and then it's so silly and funny and also watching you enjoy it not breaking but just the light in your eyes it's so infectious it was exciting yeah yeah man yeah, man. I remember that. I remember singing that at the table. The turkey song, the Thanksgiving song for like, smigle and a couple other writers at the table going, you know, singing it to them. And if they laughed, I was like, Oh, fuck. Okay, they think it's funny. It was a big deal. If those
Starting point is 00:58:01 guys, the great writers on the show, when they would smile at what your idea was, like Jim Downey, if he said something was good, you would just like, even if it didn't get on, you were like, all right, I'm funny now. Yeah, we had the A-Team there. It was a smiley-go-genius, Downey, brilliant. We had some incredible writers helping us achieve our dreams. When was your first movie? That was when we did, the summer we did Tommy Boy, you did Billy Madison, right? Yes.
Starting point is 00:58:25 Yeah, yes. And then the next summer, Happy Gilmore? Happy Gilmore. And those movies kept making it more than the other ones, they give you another one, and then it was Wedding Singer. Wedding Singer, yeah. And then Waterboy, I think that was where, it was the mic drop at that point you
Starting point is 00:58:45 were a movie star when you do happy you did of course Billy Madison but you do Happy Gilmore the wedding singer and water boy yeah within like 24 months or something then Big Daddy then Big Daddy another mega monster yeah too many I can't even you know when water boy came out I was hosting and you were there that weekend and we were were gonna do a bit in the monologue, and then you had to fly back. Waterboy was such a fucking, they told us, or they told you how much it made, and everyone was like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:59:13 And then you had to get back, and I changed my monologue, and I just did standup. I wasn't doing standup in the monologue. You're kidding me, I was supposed to go out with you? Well, we were gonna do audience member, you know, when you go, oh man. Oh yes, can I ask you? And you're gonna roll in my monologue with questions, and then, we're gonna do audience member, you know, when you go, oh, man. Oh, yes, can I? And you're gonna roll in my monologue with questions.
Starting point is 00:59:26 And then they go, Lorne goes, well, you know, you said you had to go. And I go, all right, well, what do I do? And he goes, stand up. Oh, really? Aren't you a stand up? I go, well, I fucking never do anymore. I go, tonight?
Starting point is 00:59:40 So he goes, just throw some things together. I go, so you can't go practice or run Catch Rising Star. So I put some together, but it's so fucking terrifying to do a monologue anyway. And then, cordless mic. Postings hard. And then everyone's like. Well, that is the worst when you're doing standup
Starting point is 00:59:57 and you're about to go out and you look for the mic and then the guy makes the decision for you. Like, Joe, don't use a hand mic, use this. And then you go, and you don't have a fucking mic in hand, you're like, holy shit, what do I do with both my hands? I go like this, hey, hey, hey. You know what to do. I know, we're not used to it.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Or a mic stand, I lean on a mic stand sometimes, not there. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, looking for a mic stand to lean on. It's just like drowning, yeah. Yeah, when you first start to stand up, you just hold the mic like this. Oh God, you're choking drowning. Yeah. Yeah, when you first start to stand up, you just hold the mic like this. Oh God, you're choking. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:28 Did you go with Billy, like we, I'm sorry. I remember shooting Billy Madison and you guys are shooting Tommy Boy and hanging out with, up in Toronto. Yeah, we're in the same place cause we came over there and that was the night when you remember when you did that thing called there was like a crime scene joke with everybody where they go in a room and you go walk in and it's a crime scene. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so, but oh yeah, but Adam's movie was called Billy Madison. Our movie was called Billy the Third.
Starting point is 01:00:59 Yeah, it was Billy the Third. And so we changed it and we just didn't have an, we didn't know what to call it. Of all things, we both have the same lead as the same name So we eventually changed ours because the name of the movie was Billy the third but fucking hanging out in Toronto with you and Farley That was great. We had a couple weeks together on nice I hate it and then Oh, yeah, so then you do all those movies that seem to work out for you. You did some movies. By the way, my wife and I watched Hustle last night.
Starting point is 01:01:29 What did you say? Hustle. You loved it. Yeah? I think it's a great movie. Hustle is a movie that's coming out. I got a new movie, yes. It's on Netflix.
Starting point is 01:01:38 It's kind of like Hoosiers meets Rocky meets Moneyball. Yes, yes. And you're great in it. Thank you. I mean, really great. Thank you, thank you. I, that's... It's just a really, you know, right?
Starting point is 01:01:51 It really works as a movie. I can't... I got teary-eyed. Yeah, man. You got me. That's so great, Dana. Do you feel like, cause you know, you had Uncut Gems. That was pretty good, right?
Starting point is 01:02:02 Yes, thank you, Dana. So then I saw that, and then I see this one. It seems like you're either, I don't know, and the murder mystery movie, I mean, you're on a roll. I mean, are you feeling like you're more comfortable acting now? Are you changing up stuff, because you seem to be at this other level?
Starting point is 01:02:24 Or is it just from doing it so much? I think I'm getting older more opportunities guys like the safety brothers. Yes This happy brothers who your your brother He he kind of did work with them as help them get going Yeah, help them get there great friends with Andy and I met them, God, 12 years ago. They were talking about Uncut Gems then. Uncut Gems. They were trying to get that going.
Starting point is 01:02:49 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was sort of the muse for Justin because I met him 12 years ago. Uncut Gems. Yeah. But those guys are super cool. Very good. Yeah, they did. I think they did a Kate Spade commercial that Andy wrote.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Is that how you guys met? Yeah, and I think Andy wrote an idea and they did it. And then it somehow went to the Cannes Film Festival. And then they did a movie called, I think Daddy Long Legs after that. Yeah, incredible movie. And then they just kept getting, they were just better and better and better.
Starting point is 01:03:18 And did yours. And maybe one day you'll do another one with them. Yeah, I can kind of make another one. They're writing another one right now but I lucked out. I'm getting to do all this great stuff. Noah Baumbach, PTA, they all hooked me up. They all wrote great stuff. They asked me to be in it. Jim Brooks. Paul Thomas. I love them. Is it ever scary because these guys do great movies or great tv show and P PTA, obviously, one of the best ever.
Starting point is 01:03:47 And then, you know PTA a little bit, but if you get lucky enough, you're paired up with some great director, and usually on sets, like growing up, so those kind of movies, you have more of a say. But you have to kind of keep quiet somewhat, not totally, but entrust them. And do you ever get a feeling where you're like, I don't even know if this guy knows what the fuck's going on, not totally, but entrust them.
Starting point is 01:04:05 And you ever get a feeling where you're like, I don't even know if this guy knows what the fuck's going on. I mean, that must be scary. These guys are so good, but you go, it's going to work. It's they know what they're doing. That must be hard. You just go, you just give yourself to them because you know they're great. And you read the script and you just don't want to let them down and you jump in their world. And it is neat. It's neat. Not not.
Starting point is 01:04:26 I always feel more comfortable doing comedy. I'm always more at ease going, all right, we're going to go make a movie and have a great time and try to come up with the best jokes and make everybody laugh. I love that. I'll love that the rest of my life, just like you guys were addicted to that. But the other stuff I'm getting to do, it's awesome. I know you both would crush at that also. It's just different. It's fun.
Starting point is 01:04:55 It's a different day in the trailer. You don't go, what the fuck? Let me come up with a joke. You're kind of sitting there going, oh, I gotta get in this mood right now. The jokes are kind of crutchy because you know how to do it. And you know, if you kind of sitting there going, oh, I got to get in this mood right now. Well, the jokes are kind of crutchy because you know how to do it. And you know, if you have a scene that's not working,
Starting point is 01:05:08 you go, I think we can figure a way out of this if we think of a joke or way out, which is what you do a lot on a comedy. But in these, you're like, this is just connecting. It's part of connecting the dots of the bigger picture. So not a lot has to happen right here. And it's hard to trust that. That's true. So Just do what it is.
Starting point is 01:05:26 They'll feel, I mean, sometimes they had music or something and you go, oh, I see what they did. It's perfect. Yeah, that's true. You don't know when you're doing it. And then when you're doing it and it's not right, those guys tell you, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And you go, whoa.
Starting point is 01:05:38 And you feel stupid for a second. You go, oh, I was giving you a little extra. And they're like, calm down, calm down. And then they're like, you're making it real good for the people. And they go, no, no. Yeah, believe me, they want to see. Those are the brothers, right? The Sapty Brothers, their brothers.
Starting point is 01:05:56 And Ronnie, Dana, what else do you have for, Adam, we got to take a few questions. Oh, I don't know. I do think it's kind of cool that you did, there's so many movies, obviously. We talked to Drew Barrymore about 50 first dates. I heard that. That was sweet, sweet. Drew was great. Drew gave you answers that were incredible every time.
Starting point is 01:06:16 Doesn't Drew automatically take even a half a question and she fucking goes. And she poetically does a seven minute answer. It's unbelievable. Yeah, yeah. Beginning, middle, and end of every story. She goes, I'm gonna guess your next three questions and here's the answers.
Starting point is 01:06:29 When I went to SNL, we were like, okay, made it easier. That was amazing, her talking about being a little kid on SNL. Oh, I know, yeah, at age seven. By the way, I've listened to, I think, every episode of your show. You have? I fucking love this show, it's the best.
Starting point is 01:06:46 Yeah. I'm so happy for both of you, it's the greatest. Well, it's fun to do, because we don't get to hang out with our friends that much, so this is our chance to, you know. The other one I wanted to ask you, did Angerman, so you got to work with Jack Nicholson in Unreal, and really got to know him,
Starting point is 01:07:04 and you told the funny story about peanut butter just hanging out at his house. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, unreal, and really got to know him. And you told the funny story about peanut butter just hanging out at his house. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, man. My first day over, Nicholson's, I got there, and he keeps the house dim. And so I'm sitting in this chair, and Jack's sitting in this chair.
Starting point is 01:07:22 We're facing each other about five feet away from each other, and're about five feet away from each other and we're talking and shit and I'm going, it's dark enough that I'm going in my head, I don't think this is Jack Nicholson. I think like they brought out a fake one to talk to me and see if I'm okay to talk to the real one. So I'm just going like this and he's like talking quietly
Starting point is 01:07:44 and it doesn't sound like the impression everybody does you know or whatever. Baby let me tell you something it's not like that it's kind of like yeah man it's kind of quiet and cool and little singing man let me tell you. I don't know he just has a cooler voice but I was not really believing it was him and then I do like an hour of that and then at the at the end of he goes you hungry or something like that I said yeah yeah I could eat he goes you want a sandwich yeah yeah that sounds great man and he's like J. And I go, that's fucking great. Then he gets up and walks away,
Starting point is 01:08:27 then he turns around and he looks at me and he goes, Skippy or Jeff? Yeah. That sounds like- I thought also that you went outside for a minute. Oh yeah. And you were outside, he came out and he held up the jar. Oh, that's what it was.
Starting point is 01:08:41 He said, Skippy or Jeff. Yeah. That's right, man. This is such a funny image. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember your stories. Yeah the Jeff. That's right, man. Such a funny image. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember your stories. Yeah, you're better than me, man. I ran into him with, of course, with Lauren. And we had dinner, and he goes, and he comes,
Starting point is 01:08:57 there's an empty seat. Is this stupid? No, no, no. OK, so Lauren goes, we're going to have some spaghetti. And I was with Rosie, she's over there, I was over here. Tortellini. There's an empty seat. And Lauren sits here.
Starting point is 01:09:14 So there's an empty seat. And Jack sits next to Rosie. And he starts talking. And then he goes, one time I went to the MTV Awards or something or something. I ran out and it was so dark I got in the wrong limo and I sat down and everyone just stared at me and it was Nirvana. And he goes, and he goes, we're just,
Starting point is 01:09:35 and we're in the wrong limo and I go, uh oh. And then she goes, did they know who you, did they not know who you were? And he goes, well, that's never happened. Yeah. Yeah. Someone didn't know who he was. Could I goes, well, that's never happened. Yeah. Yeah. Someone didn't know who he was. Can I tell a Quinn Nicholson one?
Starting point is 01:09:48 Yeah, related to SNL. So Phil Hartman and John Lovitz and I are playing the par three in Studio City. Uh-huh, Wits it. Yeah, Wits it. So we're on the green, we wave the guy on and he shoots it out of bounds and he walks over. We realize it's Nicholson.
Starting point is 01:10:03 Right, right, right. So he walks up and Phil Hartman had dubbed his voice in the movie The Border, cause they couldn't get a hold of Nicholson. Oh wow. Phil's very respectful and he goes, Mr. Nicholson, I dubbed your voice in the movie The Border. One beat and he goes, no wonder it was my only stinker.
Starting point is 01:10:20 Ha ha ha ha. That's a good one, yeah. As a joke. Staker. All right, let's take some questions or of course we'll get Adam out of here. By the way, just so you know, before Nicholson did anger management, he called Lorne to see if it was... he had Lorne read the script. Oh, really?
Starting point is 01:10:40 He goes, I've just got to make sure. See if it was funny or something. Yeah, he goes, I like it. Oh, really? It makes me laugh, but let me just... Oh, that's cool. Let Lorne... he goes, I just got to make sure. See if it was funny or something. Yeah, he goes, I like it. Oh really? It makes me laugh, and let me just let Lauren. Oh that's cool. He goes, he is the man. I skimmed it.
Starting point is 01:10:50 He went through it and gave it the blessing. So I owe Lauren for that too. We owe Lauren a lot. And Lauren, you appreciate Lauren more and more every year you're away from the show. When he has to deal with the egos, the politics, keeping the sensibility in a certain frequency because I'm left. It could turn into hee haw in a second. Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:11:12 You're like smart. He laughs. So there's a lot of a lot of respect for Lauren. My very true. All right. How are we going to do Q&A? How do we do it? Oh, they line up over there. OK, line up with him. If anybody has a question, we'll do a couple and then we'll get to... Greg Holtzman.
Starting point is 01:11:27 We'll get you guys to the other 300 shows tonight. Good job, yes. All right, here we go. Hi there. Oh, we're starting. Yeah. Okay, go ahead, young man. Hey, buddy.
Starting point is 01:11:41 Hey, thank you. So I was wondering, you were talking about childhood things that you remember. What was the first extravagant purchase you made when you sort of made it big? Good question. That's a good one. I got my leather jacket, that you remember? The black leather jacket. I got it from a Police Academy movie and I bought a $400 leather jacket.
Starting point is 01:11:59 It was too heavy, but I couldn't give it up. It was like a motorcycle one. And it hurt my neck, but I wanted't give it up. It was like a motorcycle one and it hurt my neck but I wanted to wear it and then I think I wore it to the improv when I first I was around Adam and the first thing you ever said to me was can you unzipper me? Can you help me get it off and I have to lay down now? That was it, mine was another jacket. Dana what do you got? What'd you get? With my own money that I bought. I think I went out and my father had a green, dark green and light green 78 Cadillac Fleetwood or some shit when I was in high school. And my first big move, I went out to an old Cadillac place.
Starting point is 01:12:40 They didn't have that color, but I got that same caddy and had them painted that color. That was like my big first move. That's cool. That's better. Big rich boy. How about you? Can I change mine? You must have got more than a little jacket based on your home sales recently. Sorry. He did well. David invested well.
Starting point is 01:13:02 Yes. What was your... What'd you get? My wife and I did a silly thing. We walked in Encino, we walked into a Mercedes dealership and we bought Mercedes cars, like 100,000-dollar cars. I bought a convertible coupe and I drove it for like a week and it had a plastic windshield.
Starting point is 01:13:20 I'm like, what the fuck? So I took it back and got a sedan. That was just during my German phase I had a Volvo now it's very sexy what was her go ahead next one yeah I was gonna ask you about the origins of your trademark you know Adam Sandler voice but you kind of already answered that yeah but so my next question is do your daughters do like an Adam Sandler impression? Like they go like, they're all laughing or whatever. They don't do that.
Starting point is 01:13:51 They don't know that album yet. But they do both do the. Oh, yeah. They do. That's it. Every time I'm trying to be funny and it doesn't work That's funny yes that thank you. Thanks, man. Sorry. I'm shorter. Hi. Hi guys. Hi fan My name is Elise from Houston Nice to see you buddy So my question is what out of all the films you guys have if you guys can go back into a sequel to any Of y'all's previous films, what would it be? Yeah have if you guys can go back into a sequel to any of y'all's previous films what would it be? Uh, shit. Wayne's World 3. Wayne's World 3?
Starting point is 01:14:31 Garth at 60. Wayne! I gotta get some Flomax! Flomax? I don't know if it would work. Go ahead, Adam. We've done so many movies. What would be the sequel? What would you, what was the, I can't think of it would work. Go ahead, Adam. We've done so many movies. What would be the sequel?
Starting point is 01:14:45 What would you, what was the, I can't think of the name right now, you did with the Cage and Lovitz. Oh, Trapped in Paradise. Oh, Trapped in Paradise, yeah. That'd be fun to just work with the Crest Cage. That was a tough shoot. We fell down in the snow and yeah, we just.
Starting point is 01:15:01 You were doing Brad Grey in that, right? I was doing Brad Grey and Mickey Rohr. I don't know what you're doing, but I wouldn't do it, Keltz. I wouldn't do it. I was doing Mickey Rohr. The studio flew in from LA. We were in the middle of the woods in Canada and said, you got to stop doing that.
Starting point is 01:15:15 Really? Yeah. But Nicholas Cage said, I would do it anyway. He was a great character. I guess that's it, right? What would you do a sequel to? You have you have so many movies. No idea.
Starting point is 01:15:31 I like them all. I like doing grownups with Davey because we all hung out. We all we had. We had tons of time. And grownups could work. You have three. Well, whatever whatever it is,
Starting point is 01:15:43 I like to do with it. It's always great when you're with your friends. Growing-ups, we literally got to do this every day. Sit in chairs, hang out, try to be funny, and cut around it. Yeah, that thing's been keeping the lights on at TBS for the last seven years. It's on and heavy rotation. But I love it. I loved growing-ups.
Starting point is 01:16:04 That was a smash. That was great memories. Thank you for that question. Thank you. Cheers, you guys are wonderful, this is amazing. Thank you, hey man. My question, I suppose you guys have written for so many different wonderful projects in both film and TV and of course on Saturday Night Live.
Starting point is 01:16:23 And my question was, do you think that to properly like kind of, well, like master that sort of craft, do you think it's like writing as much as you can, like every day is really the proper way to get to a point where you feel comfortable with your writing? Or do you think also, I suppose, do you think it's also helpful to try and collaborate with other people that you know you'd work well with? Sounds a little like John Mulaney, this guy. He does?
Starting point is 01:16:55 I would say, if I would take that, my first answer would be, if it's stand-up, just get as much stage time as you can. And if it's writing, I think it just more is better. Collaborating or writing by yourself, just anything you can do until something sticks, I would say. Writing, writing, writing. I remember I lived with Apatow when I was young.
Starting point is 01:17:18 Judd, great writer. And Apatow, he was the first one of us that would write. Yeah, he was smart about it. He used to sit in his room and write skits all the time. He wasn't on Saturday Night Live, but he would write kind of skits for them. And he would collaborate with people, and he was smart.
Starting point is 01:17:34 He made himself like a producer, because that was a valuable thing to help someone do what they're doing, Jim Carrey or you. Right, right, right. Well, I would say, what is your name? My name is Ambrose. OK. All right, Ambrose. Okay. Alright, Ambrose.
Starting point is 01:17:45 That's alright. That's a cool name. No, that's... That's a great Chardonnay. No, anyway. Ambrose. I would just say, initially, that seems like too much pressure to me to try to go in a room and stuff. If you're a comedy writer, just write everything down.
Starting point is 01:18:00 That's what George Carlin said. So if you're out with your friends, a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something. Make sure you either record it or write it down. That's what George Carlin said. So if you're out with your friends, a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something. Make sure you either record it or write it down and just do it spontaneously all the time and your headset gets into that. Yeah, it's hard to just sit and write and be funny. It happens all day. And if you just write it when it happens and don't say, you'll remember it later because
Starting point is 01:18:20 you won't. So just write it, write it, write it. Then you collect it and go, is there anything here? Is there anything here? That stuff's very valuable. You basically only need to write five good jokes your whole life and then like David, you use that the rest of your life. In different ways. It's a spade, bro. It's all right.
Starting point is 01:18:42 Thank you guys so much. Good luck. Thank you, Ambros. All right. What do we got? I'm Bruce. I'm Bruce. Hi. I have a favor to ask you guys. It's my nephew's 15th birthday. It was my nephew's 15th birthday today and I was wondering if I can make a video of you guys saying happy birthday to him. Imagine if we said no one meant it. Yeah. You know when to ask. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:19:08 No, it's fine. It's handy. What's his name? What's his name? Nicholas. Nicholas. And we're going to say... Are you going to film it and then send it to...
Starting point is 01:19:16 Have a little bit of the whole theater sings happy birthday to Nicholas. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Nicholas. Oh, yes. Happy birthday to you. You. to you.
Starting point is 01:19:51 Thank you. It's a harmonized old day. And it's my niece, oh, sorry. Hey there guys, my name is Louie. It's testosterone man. My name is Al and I want to say that it's, my grandma's dying and it's her birthday day and if we could sing happy birthday to her, that would be a run around.
Starting point is 01:20:12 What is change, Nick? What's her name? No, but for real, this is such a fucking treat. That's a good luck. This is such a fucking treat for all of us because you guys are all just such pillars of comedy. Yeah. Yeah, so much. Thank you.. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:20:25 Thank you. You too, David. Thank you. He's rolling. Here's my real question. So, you know, as when you're watching you guys, we pretend we're you, we see ourselves in you and shit like that. So, when you did Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin.
Starting point is 01:20:43 Yeah. And then when you did that scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman, being you in those moments is like fucking incredible. So how was it being you in those moments? It was very cool. Good co-stars. That too, you're funny as shit, by the way.
Starting point is 01:20:58 Thank you, thank you. Good job. I'll be here tomorrow night. Ha ha ha! My name's Al Manero. Manero, you're calling me He's part of the Netflix festival. You got a great name for a comedian. God, you're so psyched you followed Ambrose too.
Starting point is 01:21:11 Yeah. Like he's gonna take it down. Ambrose is looking for pen and paper. David, did you tune out? David tuned out. So, Steve Martin, of course, all our heroes. Yeah, we've all the greats of all time. Yeah, first time Hall of Famer Steve Martin. Yeah, yeah, probably the number one ballot for us, right? He was probably the number one guy.
Starting point is 01:21:38 Memorized his albums. Wild and crazy guy, all the shit Steve Martin did. So of course being in a movie with him was just staring at him and waiting for like quiet moments to run over and say something. And if hopefully he'd respond. And so I love that. And he was very nice to me. And then Philip Seymour Hoffman. Fuck yeah. Great.
Starting point is 01:22:02 Great actor. Great tour de force that guy. He came. He was just a very good funny man, took it serious, went hardcore when we worked together. By the way, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I don't know if you guys know this, so we're doing Billy Madison. I think we wrote, oh no, the Happy Gilmore, no maybe Billy Madison. We wrote for Bob Odenkirk. Wrote that for Bob Odenkirk, the bad guy in the movie. And the fucking studio wouldn't allow it. They're like you can't just have your friends and we were like no he's fucking great and and they said no. It's Bob Odenkirk. Oetker, he was a writer.
Starting point is 01:22:46 So I think that's how it went. I think it's that. Okay, so we wanted Bob. They said no. They put out, you gotta audition people. Philip Seymour Hoffman auditioned. And I was in Toronto getting ready to make the movie and it still wasn't cast yet.
Starting point is 01:23:04 I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman. I was laughing my ass off. I'm going who the fuck is this guy? He's hilarious. So I tell the people I show Universal, can we have this guy? Are you good with him? I mean I mean you fucking said no to Odenkirk. Are we okay with this guy? And they were like and it took some talking into it and then they said yes. Then we offered it to him, and we get this call back like, yeah, he doesn't wanna do it. And we were like, he doesn't wanna do it,
Starting point is 01:23:31 what do you mean, he auditioned. And so I go, let me fucking talk to him, this guy, and tell him how great he is, and I called him up, and I said, hey, it's Adam, and he's like, oh, hey Adam, blah, blah, blah. And I said, hey man, I saw your tape, you're so great, buddy, and they said you don't wanna do it, and he goes, oh, hey Adam, blah, blah, blah. And I said, hey man, I saw your tape, you're so great, buddy, and they said you don't wanna do it.
Starting point is 01:23:47 And he goes, oh, thanks, man. I go, do you wanna do it? Or, and he goes, oh, I can't. I go, oh, why not? And he goes, ah, I just don't wanna. And I go, oh, okay. You sure? We're gonna have fun.
Starting point is 01:24:03 That's a great answer. Isn't that great? He goes, I don't want to. I go, I really love you. He goes, I know you do. I swear to God. I go, all right. Wow, you have confidence.
Starting point is 01:24:13 Yeah, yeah. I'm glad that was cool. Good job. Thank you guys. When you get bored and you wanna go to YouTube, go to Crypto Junkies EZ, I'll make you rich. Yeah! All right, just hang on to that card, Daniel.
Starting point is 01:24:26 Dose Corbin. Get that card, brother. Salana. It's going in the mood. He's a funny bastard. Hi guys, my name's Denny. Just wanna thank you guys, you guys are my comedy heroes. Moved out to LA for my pursuit of SNL as my dream,
Starting point is 01:24:41 so I've been looking up to you guys my whole life. Oh, that's sweet. Welcome. Are you doing stand up and stuff like that? All over, all over. North Hollywood I produce a show. No way. What's your name? Denny Glasser.
Starting point is 01:24:53 Denny Glasser. That's a great name. It's a... I'm gonna pass out, thank you. Is there a question with this or not? Dr. Denny would be a good moniker. Dr. Denny's in the house. Thank you. My only question I wanted to ask is what was the first impression or character that you guys did
Starting point is 01:25:11 that you knew you could do this for a career? Oh, I could do Michael J. Fox real good. That was David. That was David. Always yours. My first impression. You didn't do many impressions, did you? I did. No, I used to do them around the house. I did the basic, I used to do rich little stuff, you know? Yeah, yeah, me too. John Wayne and... John Wayne, yeah. Well, yeah, I used to wear a cowboy hat around the house.
Starting point is 01:25:35 Oh, really? Well, I would say, I would do that like I would cook for my parents. Oh, watch bacon and eggs. Oh, gross. Yeah, I know, I know. So. Oh my God. Yeah, what's bacon and eggs? Yeah, how about you who was your first Casey case and you guys do checking in at number five the boss
Starting point is 01:26:01 Bruce Springsteen a man and his guitar a man who likes to call his guitar his own I was nine years old the Beatles came on at Sullivan. The next day I walked up to my mom and I said, hey, do you think I could get me some pancakes? She screamed. I sure didn't know what I was doing, but that was my first time I knew I could alter my voice as doing a Liverpudlian accent. All right, well good luck to you, buddy. Thank you for asking me. Love you guys, thank you a liver putting an accent. All right. Well, good luck to you buddy
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