Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - RE-RELEASE - Andy Samberg

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

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Sanberg. So he came on, he's just one of the all time greats on SNL. He changed SNL. you know with lazy sundays what was called i think it was called lazy sunday was the first video short went crazy um and then i got to know him as he was playing um Maya Rudolph as Kamala was playing her husband Doug so we got to hang out a lot flew back and forth a couple times so he he is one of the smartest people I've ever met he's really and funny as hell

so good dude I talked with the 50th little bit he's on TV a lot he's all over the place those digital shorts were just kind of a groundbreaking and he's got animated shows and all kinds of stuff going on hot rod we just had Ila Fisher and she was in Hot Rod his movie he does tons of stuff

you know him you love him he's got great hair here he is Andy Samber You were on the show, and then you went to a sitcom pretty quickly. Was it right, the next season? Yeah, and I mean, I didn't want to. Yeah. And then it was just Mike Scher asked, and I was like, oh, shit. I saw what he did with Polar, and I was like, it's good.

Yeah, I mean, if you, I sort of went in. Polar. Polar doesn't go down for anybody. I love Amy Polar. She doesn't want? She doesn't go down for anybody. What does that mean? I don't know.

I just said it as a joke. she's powerful she's a great comment no when you leave the show it's very scary and uh and then they said which i used to say was uh you get like one kind of free shot you know like if you jump off the show they go do you want to back then it was a little more going on in that world like they said do you want to do your own sitcom oh yeah like polly shore got one you know this you get one but it's very hard it's riskier and then just shoot me was already shot it was already at the upfronts and they picked it and then laura sanjicoma was out there to announce it and the night before they pulled her and said it's just we need one more thing to this so it's so weird so i got to see

the whole pilot oh wow and then the guy was from larry sanders which i loved and the writer steve levitan and then um never heard he said you want to add if we just add you to hear about them anymore that's wild i didn't know idea about yeah so i said i got to see it which has helped and i go oh, I'm coming from the most competitive, toughest, funniest people in the world. Not that they weren't funny, but they're all actors. And I go, oh, there's no one like me here. You know, I had a Dana there and I had everyone better than me. And I was like, thank you, David.

Yeah. And so, I'm saying because he's great. And you go, wow, when I'm not in a room with Sandler, Rock, Farley, Mike Myers, Dana. And I go, these guys are just great actors and funny, but there's not one like me exactly. I could sort of jump out. George Siegel said it's four actors and a cartoon. That's what he used to say about me. And I got, thanks.

You were the fonts. You guys, it was kind of cool, but it's an observation. Yeah. Brooklyn, what was the name of yours again? Just shoot me. Just shoot me. I'm sorry. You guys also went, you were the stars.

You were the Fonses, but you had an ensemble. Yes, that's the fun part. And so that's not, like, hanging out in a movie, you can't do it. You can do it on live streaming now. If no one sees it, no one cares. But in those days, like, movies you're hung out there, but I thought you. Yeah, people see it. And it was like you, I know, and your experience, I think I,

did know you right is the CBS Radford right yeah so you shot it same stage so you got into it and you somewhat hesitantly but you jumped in you did your best because once you say yes to something right yeah you got to try and make it good did you write on that and you're gonna be writing just casually but yeah no I never I never was like in the room or had my name on a script isn't that great though but weren't it was nice they give you good stuff anyway and it works anyway that's the craziest feeling coming from S&L is having someone hand you great jokes and you're like wait I get to just have these and then And everyone thinks I thought of them. And then they go, how do we make these better for you?

You're like, what the far? Oh, I don't know. We were both stand-ups. That was a revolution for me if Bonnie Turner gave me. The church lady could say this. Wow. Awesome. Yeah, it's true.

It does happen at S&L. It takes a couple years before someone gives you a great joke, though. Well, he came out of the gate huge. Thank you, David. It's true. This is my favorite podcast. He had to work a little bit. But you get on there.

He came out of the gate and revolutionized Saturday Live show. But we can get to that thing. We'll get to that. And the live show, though, I did not come out of the gate strong. but you revolutionized the thing right YouTube comes out SNL's still going and then you came in with your buddies

and it went boo it went it was it was fortuitous timing I like to say with the YouTube stuff because you know it started with like Albert Brooks doing short films and McKay did short films and it was like a long history of it at the show that we loved

Shiller Vision's great even like the Eddie Murphy stuff doing like me where he was like walking around town. Like, there's always cool pre-tapes. We just were like, we're going to do them every week. It's hard, though. SNL digital, he even got a name.

Yeah. It's like an idea. Yeah, and the first one was Lazy Sunday, if I'm correct. It was the first one people liked. Do you think you blew up YouTube or YouTube blew you up? I think we are responsible for YouTube, and they owe us a lot of doubt. I knew a guy who was trying to do YouTube, and he was like six months late. he had all the technology the idea

Oh he's gonna do a YouTube Yeah YouTube and then YouTube came out And then I was with him And he was trying to think of a name He had Grupper And then a friend of mine renamed it Crackle In Sony Body Oh yeah I remember those

But YouTube is such a perfect name Like DocuSign You have to sign documents I have to I own DocuSand stuff I shouldn't be promoting my portfolio I mean I interact with DocuSign a lot I do too I think I love you

You know that Danny, it's a penny. I eat a penny? You get a penny every time someone signs something. Does an angel get his wings? No, I do. So YouTube was only out about six months, right? Yeah, that sounds about right.

I mean, we hadn't heard of it until someone told us they just watched Lazy Sunday on YouTube. Oh, wow. And then we were like, what's that? And then we realized, oh, someone finally thought of an actual good layout for streaming videos. Because there had been tons of websites trying to do it. And especially, like, comedy shorts and, like, that kind of thing. And we would submit to websites, our Lonely Island stuff that we were making. This is before us now.

Before us at all, yeah. And we had our own website that we, like, somehow finagled server space on, you know, to have to ruin it. Right around broadband was starting to come in, right? I don't know. Broadband, I heard, was starting to come in. Yeah, it was perfect timing. Yeah, and you got to keep, you know, they just eradicated measles. but um we you know we heard of youtube and then like the next week put all our videos on YouTube because we were like oh this is the best for you shove them on there yeah it finally

works you found the spot yeah you and I just want to get the pronunciations right it's Andy by the way I said it my Andy's name your name was David I want to say listen to this thing that's what someone told me look his name was Andy somebody told him now called him David no his name was David and my brother's name was Andy and my brother's name is Andy and my name's David You can't make this Yeah you could You can make it out

Was the person who told you Adam Sandberg Last name Opedia Yeah It was It was Wikipedia It was printed out But I know about you

I just didn't know that That's a tip That your bandmates Are made great Aviv Akeva Shafer And Yorma

And Yorma Ticone Geez talk about Wikipedia Over here Tacomi to Coney, yeah, with N's. But it's his fault for having that name. Like, people, yeah.

I was Dana Garnie for years, and no one ever got it right. You were, what? Dana Garnie. He was on, who's up next to stand up? Well, by the way. Dan and Garnie. I've been. Oh, you must have been.

I'm Adam. Everyone thinks I'm Adam because of Sandler. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think, hey, Adam Sandberg. Oh, right. It's too close. One time I was doing standup before I got SNL and someone literally introduced me as Adam Sandler.

And everyone went, and I walked out, I was like, no, no, no, no. That's not my name. Is that, I'm so sorry. I also like him. I got here to. This is David Bowie once.

I got introduced, here's my one they mess up. David Bowie. I go to the improv a couple times a week just to give them a little treat, you know? Oh, yeah. Give him a taste of the magic. They go, what do you want to say?

And they go, I go, just say, because the last movie on Netflix was the wrong missy. Just say the wrong missy and some other shit. And they go, got it. And they go, this guy was in the right Matilda, the quiet. And I go, why is that one so hard? They say it wrong every single time. You say it wrong too.

I came up during the Rough and Tumble Club days. My biggest intro from Tony DePaul, the Holy City Zoo, and I'm a nervous stand-up. Here he is, Dana Garnie, the man who invented the blow job. That was the first one. And that was it. And you're like, I didn't ask you to say that. That's a great one.

I always say some people think he's funny. I don't know about that. You know, it was rough and tumble. Yep, yeah, yeah. They're trying to nag you on the way up. 40 cedar. Then Rob Williams would come in. I just want to play and you do like three hours.

I'm going back to Brooklyn. I want to go back to... No, listen to this Brooklyn 9-9 thing. Because he got it for an Emmy. I think you won an Emmy. Mm-mm. Two Golden Globes. Who does his homework?

I got some Globies. Back when that meant something, you know? Sure. Do you want to hear people say, don't ever talk about yourself on the podcast, Guess what? So here's what's going to happen. All right.

So I'm in the audience and they go, Golden Globe. By the way, we were back in fucking Azusa. You know, they keep the people from TV, the Golden Gloves on TV. Tom Cruise is up front. I'm on a third deck where I have to take two elevators to get to the stage. They know I'm not going to win. So, and a trolley. So I'm back there and they go, but it was a harder supporting category.

It was against Don Sheedle. It was against every supporting category on TV and movies. What was the category? Supporting in anything. Oh, four-year show. Yeah, for you just shooting. So I'm up against Gregory Peck, John, Don Cheadle, the guy's in ER, it's drama, comedy, everything.

So I can't, I already won because I just got that far. Yeah, that's crazy. They go, uh, uh, that's-huh. Seriously, Gregory Peck, that's not a joke. Yeah, he beat me, yeah. He did 90 seconds in Moby Dick, and he goes, I can't believe I'm getting it. I'm looking for 90s, I'm like, no fucking shit. Gregory.

I slugged out 148 episode. Anyway, and then at the Emmys, they go like this. David Spade. I'm Gregory Peck, sorry. I just spot on. As I know Peck, that sounds like that's, that's Peck. Everyone listening is going, it's not close enough to an old person. I met him once, so what happens?

So at the Emmys, they go like this. This is supporting comedy and they go, David, Hyde Pierce. And if you saw the slow motion of my shoulders go up and I went back down and then went for an applause. And I was like, did anyone fucking see that false start? Yes. And it's like, everyone saw. I do feel like, I like it when people react negatively when they don't win. It's real.

I feel like you can do it and everyone will think it's funny, but also you can just be honest about that. I would just mouth what the fuck. Yeah, what the fuck! At least you're doing something comedy. How many times were you nominated? You won twice. I was, for Brooklyn Nine-I-N-I, that was the only nomination and win was the show and me that year, and then never again nominated. That's weird.

Yes, politics. Why were you bad after that? I just didn't care. As I forwarded. Your nickname was phoned in on the set. I just didn't care. You won. On the call sheet, it said phone did.

It just turned into a paycheck. I was like, fuck this and everything about it. Have you seen these shows like you noticed the Emmys? Because they sort of lost a little bit over the years. But let's say, it's still exciting. So they win something. And someone that wins on a show or a comedy, And then the next year they get canceled.

And you go, that's a mind fuck. Like you just won, you go, at least we have a little job security here. You're talking about the show got canceled. Like the show, yeah, you like somebody wins or the show wins, and then the show gets canceled. And you go, what happened in that? Like, I guess it wasn't good? Right, you go, not only are we not up for one. Now we're canceled one year later.

Do you think they like hide that Emmy in the closet and like shame it? It's sad, yeah. I would take it out on the end. Oh, are you happy, Emmy? You happy? You got the Emmy curse. You stay in there. There's a little Nicholas Cage sneaking in there for your fans.

Oh, yeah. We can talk plenty about that. We can talk about that. It's hard to go. You have so much, but the cool thing is you did 152 episodes. Your first kind of thing. I do my homework. I love it.

I went to state school. I didn't know that I did 152 episodes. I'm a Bay Area guy like you. So I throw down for you. But not anymore. Do you still stay up there? I have a house up there. In what area?

We don't have to use this. Marin County. Oh, I love Marin. That's stunning. What's the address? My wife grew up there. We could do a little childhood stuff for a sec. So what town did you grow up in? In Berkeley.

Oh. You were so disappointed. Love Berkeley. You used to go to the track meets there. My first stand-up set was on Telegraph Avenue at the Los Alamander at Cafe. Oh, that rules. Hippie. He's all hating this.

So are you kind of raised like a hippie or just? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. How many kids? Just you were the only one? I have two older sisters. Interesting. Yeah.

Baby Andy. Sandberg's got cool hair, which always infuriated me, but... Do you think I do right now? It's pretty cool still, yeah. Oh, sick. No, you have a good-looking dude, which... You have hair, and you have a jaw. Yeah.

I need a lot of work up here, and I... Even Bert Lancaster told me, how can you be a movie star? You've got no chin. That was a quote from Bert Lancaster to me. What is he gained by saying that to me? Exactly. He got mad. Because I jumped out of my chair so he could sit in my chair.

He was 73. Yeah. And he's coming over. I jumped out. He thought I patronized him. You motherfucker. Where was this? Jump out of a chair for me again.

This was tough guys. Year before I got S&L, I played the parole officer with Bert Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Ah, okay. But anyway. You know, when I beat Greta Thumburg at the Emmys, she goes, how dare you? Good one. How dare you? I swung back for that week joke.

Go ahead. How dare you? Who's going to be married to that woman? How dare you not clean your plate? How dare you? We're on... I mean, she doesn't have to get married to find happiness. I just want to point out.

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We just were. I don't know. You just met these guys like soulmates, right? Yeah, actually I like just found a letter I wrote myself. It was like a third grade exercise when I was eight where they're like, you know, say, write a letter to yourself what you think you'll be in 20. years. My mom just sent this to me from the basement. And it was like, I'm going to be a famous comedian and I'll be married and I'm going to have two kids. And I was just like, oh shit, it's all

exactly what happened. How cool. Wow. How old were you? Eight. I don't know why. Honestly, it started not to blow smoke, but I used to sneak into the TV room in our house and watch the Saturday night's main event, the WWF wrestling thing. And it was only on once a month. He wasn't on And every other time it wasn't on, it was S&L. So by accident, I started watching S&L because I was like, oh, it's not on, but what's this? And it was right when it was your first cast, and that's when I got into the show. So you were like, when I, 12 or something, or 10, 12? I mean, I don't say I might have been like eight.

Fucking shit. I kind of think. Wow, that's cool. I'm 44. I'm glad it didn't fuck up. So I didn't make you want to quit. Like, that guy's such a big. No, I was like, you can do this.

This is allowed. I want to be like, that guy. I'm pointing at you right. right now for people, because you can't see us, but I'm pointing right at you, Dana. We can never forget that. I mean, it'll hit me sometimes. If you're up there in a costume on a stage

somewhere doing something, you go, this is my job, really. Also, somebody's watching. I'm working. I mean, you guys probably grew up watching SNL. It probably wasn't that different from how it was for me and my... For me to run into Dan Aykroyd at the show was just nerve-wracking.

Yeah, and then he talks to you about his vodka for like an hour and a half. Yeah, well, you don't have to leave the show. You talk about investing. He was an investor early on. It's insane to bump in. Anyone from that original cast, it's crazy. When they walk in your office,

you ever see you walk on the offices? And Ackroyd came in, knock, knock. All right, sir, fair enough, sir. He's good about it, too. Accroids is very like, I liked what you did. It was very funny. And you're like, holy shit, this is crazy. Every time I run into him, it goes,

you know, the church lady was kind of, you know, sir, it was sort of a perfect comic character. If I see him at the 50th, I'm waiting for it. I go, hey, Dan, what about the... Do you go to the 40th? I was at the 40th. Yeah. Fun, right.

I did a video with Sandler. We did the thing about everyone breaking. Oh, you did? Yeah, they put it in Shikhan Alley, but it played well online. Shikin' Alley. First of all, that should be your next musical video, Shikin' Alley. Do you mean you presented it from a bad spot on the stage? No, no.

I did not make that up. People used to talk about it at the table read if you were in the second half of the read right in the middle of the second half that's chicane alley where nothing plays because everyone's exhausted yeah and then once everyone knows there's one or two left they laugh again yeah it's not bad to be the air but you and sandler it got on right of course it aired and it played well but it was like people were partying already and drinking and walking around i think mike and i went on last didn't we wainsworld were you dead last i thought we were dead last that's great we'll see but that's a good spot then they're waking up going to close over i said we should be really angry or really

flattered. I said that to Mike right before he went out. I think probably a little both. It worked out. You know it was interesting. I probably shouldn't say this. Say anything you want to me or David. It was such a comedy room and people are so fucking like SNL competitive that like the monologue opening thing was Timberlake and Fallon doing like SNL through the years and it was like a full on crowd pleasing showstopper. Yeah. And half the room was kind of like arms crossed like uh-huh I was like Jesus I don't want anything I do to air

in this room we're all wounded little clowns if he does good then I don't do good and everyone at home was like this is the greatest thing I was doing bye bye and Jane Curtin was yelling fuck you to me from the front row yeah take your own advice and get out of all nice people

Jane Curtin was cool she's wonderful will you be at the 50th we ask everybody if I'm invited I gotta go right You're going to be invited. You never know at this point. I heard there's no plus ones. That's always weird.

So my wife's not coming? Wait, that won't go down well. You know, you weren't at Vanity Fair the other night, right? I didn't go because of the knee. Oh, the knee. I just want you to know I was invited, though. Oh, yeah. Dana, this Vanity Fair thing.

I should have bought fucking Dana. Oh, I couldn't. I was invited for 25 years, never went. So finally they stopped inviting me. Oh, God. For people at home, they hear about that vanity fair party, like the Oscar party, right? So there's one at Gaios after that, which is really fun. And that's, at least I know him, so it's easier.

But Vanity Fair, it's not an audition, but you just hear when, oh, if you want to go to the Vanity Fair. I always thought I was always invited. And then one year I go, hey, I didn't hear about that vanity fair. I think I want to go to that and bring my buddy. And they go, it's just so tricky this year. I'm like, oh, what does that mean? They're like, I can't go. And they're like, it's not that.

It's just that you can't right now. And I'm like, so it is that. And then, but they, for people listening, You know, you see pictures of the Vanity Fair party, but it's a fun party, but they stagger you. Yes. So you either go like Apatow, I didn't know anyone, and I got no plus one. And I said, I think I'm going to go. I get home for my shows.

I just want to go, at least do something. I can't stay all the wake until a guy's party, but I go, I'll just go to this one. Oh, wait, what's my time? Yes. And so I got 9.30, which is pretty good. 930 is not bad. This is all embarrassing, Dana. It's the cool group in life.

It's cool kids. And they go, you're right between Gigi Hadid and Harvey Weinstein. They let him out, just they furloughed him. He's there. I'm like, this is the only thing you get out for? It's cruel and unusual not to let that man go to that party. So I go embarrassingly. But 930 is not bad.

One year I got, I got midnight and no plus one. I didn't go too embarrassing. Now you've got fly on the wall, so it's a hit podcast. Oh, they know. This is, it's intense. But back to our guest. No, I want to tell him, because I want to say, because he's done this, it's embarrassing.

That when you go and you go the, you know, you get out by yourself and I say hit Apatau and I say, are you there? And he goes, oh, I got here at five. I got five. He went to, how did he sound? Do it a head call? He went to, how did he sound?

Just give a head call. Everyone has a little Apatow. You cop an attitude and just say the name. You do that thing. I'm dead Apatow. How are you guys doing? I'm dead apatow. I thought I was pretty funny what you did.

That's very funny. He does say that. He does say that's funny a lot. So anyway, I get there. I get the press line. All the, I hit right when all the models hit and they're all 50 feet tall. And I go, can I just cut in front of you guys and just, and they're like, is someone talking?

And so I go, I remember I went up to Jessica Alba. I go, oh, I thought you were Nancy Pelosi. That was my joke to her. Yeah. And she goes, fuck you. And I go, no, she's right behind you. And I go, because it's funny. Because one time she kicked me in the ass at the Golden Gloves.

And she said, hey, fats. And I turn around, I don't even know her. Nancy Pelosi? No, I know, I'm sorry, I know, I know. That's funny. And I fell for it. Hey, Fats. Could I do my name?

No, I saw Nancy Pelosi at Wendy's once. No. I tried to get you back. Nancy. Nancy Pelosi always looks like she just sat on something cold and wet. That's a night. Sorry, that's my Nancy Pelosi joke. We'll finish this.

No, there's no story. I was just saying it's embarrassing. And I go to the, and I went there and, uh, I went there. And that was it, I guess. So, wait, why did Alba call you fats? She did because she thought it was funny, and I thought it was funny. Oh, okay. If you really were fat, that would be insensitive.

Yeah, I just, no, I didn't care of this. It was back in the dark angel days. Oh, we're talking, oh, we're talking to dark angel in her, Alba? Well, that's what I used to get to go to the golden clothes. Oh, yeah. So this time, I was just getting her back because sometimes if I see her, she says something like that. So you guys have kind of like a. She was funny, yeah. You have carpet rapport rapport.

It was nothing mean. It was just being stupid. Carpet rapport, you're right. That is a thing that if you go to a lot of award shows and award show parties, you do start having like award season friends that you only see at events. And it's a very strange phenomenon. We're like, hey! And you never see them again.

You're never like, we should exchange numbers. You want to hear something weird for 10 seconds? Just see them at that. I went in 91, I think, because of Wayne's World. So I look over, I think it's Juliet Lewis. We'll put it in late. Hey, thanks, pretty on. I said Juliet Lewis and Brad Pitt

I think it was her And they were dating I see them off the side And I can see that they're Talking to each other Whether they should come over And talk to me Oh that's right

Like nervously coming over And did they Mm-hmm I go we're just gonna leave now And he goes That's a good plan Like that plan Let's face it man

We're mama goddamn has been Sorry once upon time in Hollywood Yeah I've seen it Oh yeah That was Brad Pitt You were in that right Yeah neither No

11 times. What I'm interested in right now about this podcast, I'm interested in Andy and his buddies they make their thing and then they come to S&L and your first boom and then you did come up

with Lazy Sunday at S&L. So how to walk me to that process. You meet Lauren, you tell him, what was your first meeting with Lauren or the writers? What was that vibe? Well, we got the show actually

because we were writing on the MTV movies movie words and Fallon hosted. I do owe a great deal to Fallon. He said, oh my God, what's up, man? I know, he's awesome. I love him. I did him in my audition because I knew he did Sandler and his, and it was very winky. Oh, wow. What was your take on

it was Jimmy Fallon at a funeral? It was like, oh my God, so sad, right? I'm so sad. What a tragedy. Anyway, here's the next album. I just took him to the anthros. But, yeah, he's... But yes, he was great, and he was super great to us, and we got some stuff in the show,

and he, and Higgins and Shoemaker were there for people who don't know who were S&L producers and a bunch of the writers, and we kind of hit it off with everybody, so they were like, you guys should audition. So... How did you audition? Yeah, what do you do?

Were you Andy Sandberg, or with your buddies, or... I did a solo, and I did... I had been doing stand-up for, like, five or six years, seven years? Really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Where were you playing mostly?

Well, I started off. I was going to NYU for a couple of years, and I started doing just bringer shows in New York. So, like, Seller and Boston Comedy Club when it was called that and Gotham, all those kinds of places. And then I moved out here, and, like, the best I ever got to was doing a couple of shows

here and there at the improv. And then I did premium blend on Comedy Central. That was kind of the high, high watermark for me, the stand-up. Okay. But so I did some of that stuff. And then they were like, but you need characters and impressions? And I was like, I don't have.

You didn't really? Not really. We just made up a bunch of shit like the weeks leading up to it. And those guys helped me, Keeve and Yorm. And it went well. So they said, you need to come back. And then they also had Yom audition. And Keeve did a meeting with Lorne.

And we all submitted a writing packet together. All three writing. And you got a feature performer? Yeah. And then they got hired as writers. They're writers. It was a crazy dream where all of a sudden. How three you guys did get on is very...

Well, to come in with your buddies from eighth grade and now we're all on Saturday Night Live. And we had already been... I mean, we'd known each other a long time, so we had short hand and we trusted each other, but it was also like we had been... We had spent the last five years in L.A. making stuff. So we had kind of a rhythm of what we were doing already.

And a TV show on YouTube, basically. Kind of, yeah. I mean, it didn't... People didn't really know about it the same way they do now, but it was the same thing in that we had gotten a lot of the bad stuff. out of our system. You have to practice.

Well, the thing is, is that, and for young people today, it just, I say, well, just do a YouTube channel, do this and that. And then you get two views or five. And then you're reading about someone else with, you know, Rihanna has $500 million. And to keep yourself going. You guys obviously just loved it, even though it wasn't getting tremendous traction. No, it was also just a different time. Like, YouTube really didn't exist yet when we were doing it.

So you didn't have that compare and despair thing. For us, it was like, let's just make stuff until we feel like we're going. good and it'll it'll work itself out one way or another but we never thought we'd get SNL that was like my big only dream and I was just Fallon saw something I even went and like did the groundlings like intro audition for the classes and stuff and just tanked it I just wanted it too bad you know I was like my brain went a million different places isn't that the tough part of show is try not to try because whenever you push it never works and yet you want to be present it's trying to catch the wind it's always there

But isn't it great when you're in the pocket and you don't give a fuck? Yeah. Like by year, I don't know what year did you kind of go, I'm not nervous on stage. I'm relaxed. Was it right away? No, no. It took me like, I think, 80 shows. I think it was probably by like your four or five.

Yeah. It's once you feel like you're not going to get fired. Yeah. I think is truly it. And then you get genuinely loose and then people relax because you're relaxed. Did you get picked up every year where it was like pretty much on? Because I had to go home in May and he wouldn't. decide. Yeah, you guys had a crazy stretch. I had to check out in my apartment. I had to get out and

then... Well, because the old guys, my team didn't leave. I stayed until 93. So you, you overlap and that was a reason. But once we all cleared out, I think David had a pretty hot two years. Yeah. When you guys were all there at the same time, like the two different generations, we were. And you look at it, it's so rare in the history of the show where you look at both generations and it's fucking stacked in both. That's the craziest part to me about when you guys were on it. 90 to 93.

I feel like that was the most loaded because we had David and Farley and Sandler and Chris Rock and they're coming up and doing stuff. Adam's getting the guitar. He's going. And then we had Phil Hartman and myself and Mike Myers. Yeah. That's a lot of people making shit that like ended up on a T-shirt, you know?

Yeah. Well, we talked with Lorne about that and it was like if it's a team, you know, you've got This guy can start or this guy can start. So we had tunes as the cat, even with Jack Han. Throwing tuneses. But, yeah, even just like throw in deep thoughts. Yeah. Which was a constant on the show and super funny.

That always was. And Mike would throw down a sprockets and or Wayne's world. You know, Sandler would do opera man. You know, it got greatest hits every show practically. But anyway, enough about that era. This is called Dana and David. No, I love. So I want to hear, if we can, tactily.

You go in to Rockfeller Center. Yes. What are you feeling? And do you have a private meeting with Lorne or with the three of you or what? You mean when I got hired? When you got hired, first time you went and talked to Lauren. They had me and Bill fly out. Bill Hader?

Yes, sorry, me and Bill Hader to fly out. I'm told to meet with Lauren. You audition twice. They're interested. They want you to come meet with Lauren. Me and Bill sit next to each other on a flight from L.A. to New York. Marcy Klein had already told him that me and him got the show.

Oh, wow, cool. No one told me and Bill, bless his heart, pretended the entire flight that he didn't know so he didn't be the one to tell me. He wanted me to have my moment where I got to actually find out. That's nice. So the whole, he makes fun of me now

because we're, you know, we talk all the time. He's like, you were like, oh man, I wonder if we're going to get it. You're fucking idiot. I knew. But so we get there. He goes in for his meeting, which is just saying hi to Lauren

because he knows he's got the show. Then I go in and I talk to Lauren, you know, maybe 10 minutes and it's Lauren, so he gives you nothing. Mention's nothing about anything. Was there anyone in the room? No, just me and him. He never stands up and leans over the table and goes,

congratulations, you've got the job. Literally, I think he... Are here... It's not like a real... It's not like a real... Now, you must do a Lorne or a Lauren impression. It doesn't matter how good it is. It's not good, but it's basically him being like,

so do you think he'd be willing to cut your hair? I'm like, willing to cut your hair? It was really crazy long. I was like, oh, yeah, I'll shave my head if you want, whatever you want. I was like, on Coke. But that's a very specific, my brain is fine. And he goes, and you think you could do this? You think you could live in York?

And I was like, oh, yeah, I've lived here before. I lived here for two years recently. He was like, okay, well, we're going to all go out to dinner, so you should come. And I was like, okay. And I walked out. And I looked around and it was like, Jen and Shuckus were there. And I was like, and they were like, so? And I was like, I don't know.

Oh, what happened? And they're like, you got it. So they were the ones who told me. But Lord never went like, we're hiring you. Those words never came out. I never heard that either. Yeah. I don't think he ever does.

Some lieutenant comes up. Yes. And I mean, he like fell on the floor. So where did you go to dinner? Do you remember? And how many people were in that dinner? Because that's kind of a big thing to be invited. Orso was a big one for Tuesday night dinners when I was.

I remember wherever we went, it was in that theater district area. and it was me and Bill and a few other people and Conan was there at a different table and they were like oh Conan you should meet these are going to be two new cast members and I was just like freaking the fuck out like my life just got so cool yeah it's a cool factor all over the place

well well if it's not shitty crappy and cruddy oh yeah and being all tall too so tall so alpha dominating that's an animated show shitty crappy guy right after the day when you did impressions like You said, like, I didn't really do impressions too many, but did they assign you one or say, hey, can you play this?

Or did you do Marky Mark? That one, all my impressions happened on accident. Like, I think Emily Spivey and someone else were the first ones to be like, oh, we put you in this thing as Nick Cage. And I was like, I don't do Nick Cage. But so I just worked on it and it ended up being something I found out that I could kind of do. And Walberg, I was doing some bit with Jonah Hill, actually.

We were hanging out in the summertime. And he's like, you kind of sound like Mark Wahlberg right now. and I was like, ooh, anything to get on the fucking show. Yeah, so I tried. I tried that, and I wrote it with Steele. But say hello to your mother for me is the funniest thing to say. Which character says that? He does Walberg.

You were the donkey or something. Yeah, he talks to animals. That was Steele's idea. But you found that rhythm of that hook. Yeah, it's funny. Like, obviously you're one of the greatest of all time at the impressions. and, like, I'm close with people also who are, like, Whig and Fred and Bill. I mean, it's a whole other skill set, and I've never considered myself good at it, but

there's, like, a few times in my life where I have found it, and I'm like, oh, this must be what it's like for them all the time. Like, it is really fun to do it. And it becomes its own language, and it becomes its own character. Well, that's the fun part. It becomes a character. So I know many, many incredibly accurate impressionists that aren't intrinsically funny. yeah but since you're a comedian when you did it it was funny and also it was accurate enough that

it represented mark walber sure sure so it worked completely how many times did you do that it was kind of a hit i think only twice really yeah you did it was you did it to mark walber well he came on the show and to basically he did a whole thing where he was like i guess they had asked him about it and he said something negative and then i think him and his team were like oh we don't want people thinking I'm being too much of a bummer about this. So he came on and like pretended like he was going to kick my ass. And it was very pleasant. It was totally fine.

It was the episode that Palin was on too. It was a crazy episode. Oh, big one. That's a score. Yeah, your time was pretty heady, you know? Yeah. That election year and your bandmate, so to speak. Yeah.

It was interesting for us. Every election, we were there for two election years, I think. And our joke was always like, oh, well, we're not going to have anything on the show this year. because it became so political and we just didn't really engage with that we just wanted to make goofy shit but now I think for everyone who works there now that's just every year

yeah it's nonstop politics you mean like it always has to be like about something and saying something and addressing what's happening there's I think they have less opportunity to just do kind of weird ideas the world changed yeah and it's probably going to change back I mean, that's how it's historically happened.

I like acid humor the best. I like silliness, the best, if I have to say, madness. And coming full circle back to you. So, Lazy Sunday and the Princess Narnia, like, are you writing that when it's coming together? I'm just curious, like, that's your first S&L? Is it the first one or not the first one? Or the second one? We had made one short that aired before that called Lettuce, which was...

No, I'm kidding. Hey, come on. Hey, David, that's kind of mean. He's our guest. What are you talking about? No, he said that he's part of S&L, not a pre-SNO. No, it aired on S&L. It was a Will Forty idea that we did with him, and we shot it on like a home camera, and it aired.

And we were like, holy shit, that aired. And then Lazy Sunday was the second one that aired. But that wasn't until the Christmas episode of our first season. Did you show it to Lauren when you got... it completely finished. No, I think the first time he saw it, I think, was a dress. And I assume you guys knew you had a hit with that. No, no.

It felt irresistible to me. Once it aired, we were like, oh, shit, this is, I think people really liked it, you know. The crowd liked it. Yeah. Yeah. It was a new feeling. And, you know, you came out real hot. I don't really remember your beginning part, but I just remember knowing that you were there and you were good.

No, it was worked in, warmed in over time. We were, we had been there up till Christmas at to that point, you know, and we hadn't, we had gotten stuff on and we were getting along with everybody, but we weren't like, we're killing this. You know, yeah, so for us, it was still the mentality of, oh, it's going to air. Like, it was that, it was still that early. Yeah, you know, I think it's going to air. And then the crazy thing that happened with Lazy Sunday was what you brought up was it all of a sudden became a news item. because everyone was like, there's a website called YouTube. And then every article about it was a picture of me and Parnell.

Yes, you kind of represented YouTube. When you do this, do you say, does Shoemaker or someone say, you should put a cast member in it with you? Or is that your idea? What do you mean? Like it's you and Parnell. Oh, yeah. Well, in the beginning, like, Keev and Yorm shot one.

That was an idea that we all had when I was in L.A. for an off week taking generals. Yeah. Time well spent. Take those generals. General's general meeting. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you're just generals now?

Yeah. They came back and they had made something and I was like, oh shit, it's that idea. It's so funny. And we showed it to Shoemaker and Higgins and they were like, you guys just went and made this? We're like, yeah. And they were like, do stuff like this for the show, but put the cast in it. That was literally what they said. Yeah.

And so. They'd say put the cast from it because you're too new. So did Parna, did you have to coach him at all? because, like, if someone cast me in that, I don't know how you, you're double tracking to get, because it sounds like real rap, all your stuff does to me.

Like, yeah. So do you double track? You put effects on. It just has this muscularity. Yeah. I mean, we had been making songs for fun, and we had shot a few music videos for them. That was like something we had sort of started doing

before us and L. And we're like, oh, yeah, we could try a song here. That might be fun. And we knew Parnell, quote, unquote, quote, rapped or fracked, fracked as we call it,

fake rapping, because he used to do it on update. Like, he did a thing, I think, like, Britney Spears one week was the musical guest

and he, like, did a rap dedicated to Britney Spears that we thought was super funny. What a score for him to be in that, though. Yeah,

but it was also awesome for us because he was fucking hilarious. Yeah, like, as soon as it starts, you're like, oh my God, Parnell is so in. He dedicates his brain to it.

Like, him and Forte both have that weird, like, Gene. of a performer where, like, they will never break no matter what. Like, they're so in it. They're really serious. And, like, there's like a slight psychosis to it that makes you laugh so hard

because you can tell they're actually lunatics deep down and you love it. There's something a little different. Yes. Yes. Forte had his own lane. He did some brilliant. Yes. Just only he could do.

I would say he probably of everyone, and this is saying a lot because I loved almost everyone I worked with there. at the table, he was the person I was always the most excited to see what he was going to do because it was always so weird. He was so weird. Yeah. I remember the potato chip one

when he came in the whole time. I told him about that and he goes, you saw the potato chip one? I just watched it one night on television. I go, yeah, I was, you know, comedians, we know where all the tricks are, but, you know, to get surprised by another comedian and the commitment.

Then you have to just commit, but... And you give Lauren credit for seeing a weird, bit and it even bombs miserably and he goes put it on yeah and it takes balls to go we're teaching the audience this is funny we're not saying oh it didn't do as good you know you just go no this is what should be out there has that gear uh can i winsworld story yeah when i i sometimes do stuff that i don't explain so anyway i was doing garst making a mechanical hand hope you've seen the movie but in my in my mind the mechanical hand is going to strangle rob low yes so roblo

comes in before it's finished so then I beat the shit out of it. So it's laying there at the previews and I kind of liked it because it was my shtick but I'm like, okay, I get it if you guys want to and Lauren's like it's one of those things you know like 20 years from now you're like glad it's just there. Yeah. So Lauren does have that quirky side to him.

Isn't that we fear change? It's that moment right? Yeah. We fear change. I know the film. God, I love that. What about? How do you react to people coming up to you the way you would have come up to someone else, you know? Like, to come up to you guys? I can't believe I'm me, Andy, Samberg, you know, at the airport or whatever, and they're usually very sweet and stuff. It's an out-of-body experience, isn't it?

It's trippy. I mean, the first time it happens, you're like, fucking I did it, you know? Yeah, yeah. And then, I don't know, I always just think about, and I truly, like, you guys are on this list. When I was a teenager or in my early 20s, if I saw someone. from S&L in real life, I would lose my shit. So I try to always remember that I felt like that. And the idea that somebody could feel that way about me is super exciting.

I never quite hit you the same way, though. Like when I see Ackroyd or I saw Dana or those guys, it's never the same as when people see me and I go, that's not that exciting when they saw me, but I go, I see these guys. You know what I mean? You got to remember like when it's whatever there's, everyone says this about S&L, right? It's like when kids and teens are a certain age, that cast. you're in that pocket is their cast

and it means way more to them than even the original cast which feels impossible to us movies too when you grew up on movies yeah you see an act right after Blues Brothers and shit

and you go yeah oh my God but dude Wayne's World and Tommy Boy are those for me way more than Blues Brothers nothing against Blues Brothers

it's just those are my ears where I was like holy shit I can't believe that they're getting to do this and I it makes me feel like I have a place on earth

like literally because you want to do that stuff yeah and I still quote those movies like every week. Yeah, that's nice. You can be you remember, we fear change. Yeah, dude.

Did Garth say that? Garth said that. We fear change. We fear change. And that, what about this pop star movie? Oh, yeah. I think I told that whole Vanity Fair story because Beaver was there.

I think that's what I was leading up to. Is that right? And he was wearing a blanket. Remember that? He's wearing a poncho. Did you see that? I wasn't there. Let's look at a clip.

Let's go to the phones. Bieber, but it wasn't really a Bieber parody, but they marketed it. I like Beaver parody. I like Beaver as well. And we met him a bunch of times at S&L. I'll say this. Super talent. I mean, obviously in that moment, it was like he was one of the biggest pop stars in the world.

Of course. He still is. So we're making a movie about that world. So there are definitely jokes in it that are inspired by him. Sure. And you exaggerate a situation like he's a big pop star. What's the funniest version of everything doesn't mean it's about Bieber. Correct.

It's about. But there's also a lot of stuff about a lot of other people. people in it too. And then a lot of stuff we just kind of made up. Yeah. I will say this. Judd, who bless his heart, is the reason we got to make that movie. Oh, that's right. Fully produced it, fully ushered it, told us like, hey, if you guys wanted to make a movie like that, I'll produce it and just gave us basically a free pass to make a movie. I think he was in line with Universal more about making the marketing feel a little more Bieber leaning. And we were like, this is Judd. He doesn't fucking miss. So whatever you guys want to do. And then we

ate shit at the box office ate a whole big pile of shit on a movie that's that is funny though that's a very colorful way to put it I've been in a couple of stinkers I'll tell you what it wasn't because it was the marketing or the Bieber stuff

it was just like people didn't want to go to the theater but also but now hasn't it reference it still sorry isn't it kind of a cult film in a way is it like the people who are going to love it are going to be quoting it and possessed by it I'm assuming I mean most of my favorite comedies didn't do well in theaters most

Wayne's World obviously is an exception and you know there's exceptions there's Anchorman which I'm is one of our all-time favorites that did really well but generally speaking you know

like we were kind of like riding spinal taps coattails and when it came out I just kept reading stuff about how when Spinal Tap came out it was in like six theaters or something yeah there was like wet hot American summer

there's a bunch of ones in Spinal Tap and that's right geez you know my whole you were in Spinal Tap Andy Sandberg is interviewing me today and we're having a... I was in Spinal Tap The Mime Waiter with Billy Crystal.

That's right. It's super fun. Oh, wow. How fun. But to me, that movie was, to your point, that was sort of like, God, you can make a movie like that. It's like the first mock documentary

that I'd seen is like, this is so cool. It's one high. What's... Have you watched that movie anytime recently? Maybe not in the last couple years. It's crazy how well it holds up. Like, just the pace.

of it, and it doesn't seem like it's rushing at all. They're not pushing, yeah, yeah. But it doesn't waste a second of your time. Like, it's just like, type it, type it, type it. Every joke is funny, and they get out. And it moves and the story makes sense, and you actually kind of care in the end. We did.

Paulik and I talked like Christopher Gass for like three years. Yeah, every time we talked. And we actually played Blackjack at Harris. We were playing. And we just did a guy, we told it like this. Yeah. I'll give you, I'm supposed to take your call. And you want me to take a call. And try to do it is real enough that they may be. believe it?

When I did cone heads put the applause Thank you With Michael McKeon I'd ask him on spinal tap And con heads

after, you know came out was probably better than spinal tap anyway cone heads was great yeah

cone heads had so many funny people in it and never just jelled perfectly well I love anything

where they're called cone heads in their heads look like cones I always like the nail on the head maybe it was too

on the money I audition for spinal tap that you might find this interesting I came into Rob Reiner and the whole cast. You did?

Yeah, to play the drummer or something. Great. And then I go, I go, this is nerve-wracking. You guys are all friends, and I'm just walking in here. And so they all go, oh, we get that. They all just immediately left the room. They just got out of the room. I'm waiting there in five minutes, and they come back in.

They go, oh, we're a little nervous. How long have you been in here? But I think they felt sorry for me, so they gave me the mime thing. That's nice. This guy was in grown-ups, too. Was I? ever. The cheerleader

scene, which was a hysterical. That was a fun day. That was a great thing to use guys like you where not to waste your time. It was like one bit funny and get out.

I mean, yeah, that's the thing too that I know you know about once Sandler likes you and puts you in stuff, he'll be like, just come do a thing. You're like, okay.

We'll figure out later. Yeah. He has a very sweet whispering thing. He has a very sweet whispering thing. And you'll be like, and you'll be like, Like with a bunch of sides on you and stuff. You're going to be so funny.

There he is. Adam has a lot of... The best. Yeah, the best. A lot of rhythms to him. So we should... He's in hotel translating. We should talk about some of these monster things.

You were in the fourth one, right? Yes, Andy. Yeah. Were you? Yeah. Was Selena? Yeah. Oh, Adam wasn't.

Correct. Oh, that's right. Yeah. You were in four. We've been in four together. You've been in the... I was in two. Trenches of a photo.

By the way, that is, like, the true, like, business joy of when Sandler likes you. Oh, my God. He called me after, we did, that's my boy, and he called me after that. I was like, hey, we're doing this animated thing, and there's a goofy guy. He's the only human. You're going to be that guy. And I was like, okay, thanks, Sandman. And then, like, four movies later.

It pays off. Yeah, I'm just like, okay. I have a story about that, Dana, but it involves Andy, unfortunately. Okay. You have the floor. Hotel Transylvania. So do you remember this? The first table read at Sony.

Yeah. And Amy Pascal was there. Yeah. And it wasn't Selena. Who was Mavis? I truly have no idea. Miley Cyrus. Whoa, really?

And she was a half hour late. And it was me, Sandler. Everyone was there waiting. Yeah. And they're like, and it was dead silent. Because, you know, Amy is the president of Sony. Comes in. Okay, we got a call.

She's on the 405. off at Sautel. Everyone's like, Sautel. She's still not here. And it was like, she comes on, hey, sorry.

And then I sits down, rightful to the script, like, I don't know if it's a cold read. I was like, first of all, I love Miley Cyrus. First of all,

she's a great singer. She's unbelievable. I just saw her do like a prayer live with her cowboy on. She's a great singer. This was just an off thing because she did the table read

and the movie obviously went fine if they got Selena. I don't remember that. Right after. That's so weird. I don't know if Miley decided not to do it or it just was not a perfect fit. But Selena is obviously unbelievable and great.

And she was. Yeah. I only met her twice along the way because we don't do that much. You know, we don't shoot them all together. I mean, we've never been in the room with her for anything but press. I know, we did press. Yeah. We do all the press together.

And it's like, hey, this is fun. Yeah. This is a bunch of nice people. Cancun. Didn't we go somewhere before? Yes. Dude, that was crazy. The Sony, like, retreat.

Uh-huh. that was nuts. And then my wife and I were like, oh, we're going to go to Tulum. Yeah, we're already here. Yeah, you're in Mexico. Go ahead, Dana. Oh, I just wanted to,

because I know we have our producer, Craig Holson, gave us a list. A super fan, the huge, obviously, dig in a box. We can't get through all of them, you know,

but dick in a box with Justin. Also, dancing with Beyonce. Oh, yeah, with Bobby Moynihan. Single age. So if you want to talk about those quickly, I mean, digging a box.

Do you have to go to Beyonce or does Marcy or does someone go to her? We wrote it. Me and Bobby, I think. I might be getting that wrong, but I think that was it. And I think we knew Justin was around and could do it. And then I think it was Justin that went and talked to Beyonce about it because we were like, well, he's very famous and she's very famous. So that would probably go better. She'll see his DM.

And also, like, it's him being like, I'm going to be an elitard, like, we're celebrating you, whatever it is. But she was delightful. She's such a sweet, wonderful person in my limited interaction with her. But that one was fun because we just were like, there's no way people are going to be mad at this. It's too funny. It's great. She rolls with it and it's all and having her in it. Yes.

And then that's probably a blow up on video. Also, her doing that song, like her performance of that song, that night on the show is one of the most incredible performances. It's hard. I mean. Yes. And they're in like giant heels and just fucking destroying. Like her and Prince, I think, are the two people in my time there where I was like, I don't understand what's happening right now. It's so impressive.

She seems like a very hard worker from like early age of like busting up and gives 100% in every performance. She's a killer. That song Check on it. She has so many words in it. There's a couple songs where I go, how does she... I mean, to do a whole concert, and she has so much to do

and dance and sing and costume. Her last album was incredible. And everyone's in love with her. Yeah. And then, you know, Dicking a Box... Beyonce, if you'd ever like to come on the podcast, I guess, I mean, you're always welcome.

Obviously, everyone likes you here. Go ahead, yeah, Dick in a Box. You know, it was fine. We just kind of threw it together. Any problems with... That was the first one that went kind of sexual or art, right? Or that hard, because Dick and a Box.

was like on the edge, right? Did censor people give you any... We did the one with Natalie Portman at the end of the... Mother lovers? ...of the previous year and it was filthy, but it was all bleeped. But that was all her. Oh, it was all bleeped. That was all her.

People really like that one too. What was that one? It was, um, it was just her rapping real filthy. Basically, she, she, like, loved Lil Kim and told us she wanted to do one and we were like, okay. How great. Yeah. And you bleeped all the, all the words out. Uh, yeah, a lot of bleeps.

I mean, that was the fun of getting to do so much pre-taped as we ended up. There was not a lot of bleeps before us, I don't think. When you do dick in a box to the audience, it says dick in a box. No, I think it was bleeped in the room. Oh, no, really? Even for the... Because it's live. Oh, yeah, yeah.

So what part is bleeped? The word dick. Yeah, Dana. Yeah. So you can't say dick, okay. You can say box. Well, couldn't they have just bleaked box. Interesting you bring this up though, Dana.

Dick and you wouldn't know what it meant. It could be Dick Wilson. Could be dick in your pants like a medical thing. Two things. Two things about the bleeps. We were told that because it was bleeped, people thought it was cock. Cog in a box. Even dirtier, really, right?

Yes. And it sounds much worse musically. And then a few years later, we aired the song, Jizz in my pants with no bleeps and no anything. What's Jiz? I don't know. I still don't know. I'm told someday I'll. I'm told someday I'll find out.

But that one, it had to air after 1215 or something. Like, it was like at the very end of the show. Huh. And I think whoever was running NBC at the time was maybe like Jeff Zucker or somebody came down to the show and like they had a whole conversation about it. Interesting. Basically, we brought it in because we had already started doing albums at that point. It was from our first album.

And we were like, hey, we have this video. Maybe we could just play it a dress and see how it goes. And then it was like, ooh, it went well. And Lauren was like, so we should air it. And they're like, but can we? And we're like, we have a censored version, which does exist where instead of jizz you, he just hear variations of us going, mm-hmm. It's a lot sillier, but not as funny.

You could have a dick in a box and also jizz in the box. You could. With the dick. Say more about that. Well, I'm going to show you a chart how that could work. Your odds, babe. Where would you hold the box? It depends on your age.

Dick in a box was revolutionary, but also. I'm on a boat is so dry and silly. It is dry as a boat. There's nothing to it but that one idea. What are you doing on the boat? I'm on a boat. I told you. People being on boats.

Just being on boats. There were a lot of videos at that time where the concept of the video was just they were on a boat and they were doing their song. Rich and we're doing good. Yeah, yeah. Tea Payne was a great addition. It's always fun when you just throw someone in that out of the blue, I think you pay. hand over to him at the beginning, like you go down the line. That's a laugh.

And then... Yeah, that's like an old, almost like Marks Brothers style reveal. Yeah. It's hard to get people. We were trying to get people of stuff back in the show. And, you know, they don't know to the last minute. Unless it's Geraldo Rivera, they're not coming. Oh, my God.

I mean, especially once you start going into the music world, like, they're on their own schedule. Everybody in music does whatever they feel like. So, what about Steve Martin? And he goes, what about Geraldo Rivera? And he goes, he's circling the building. Anytime you say would he do it He's circling the building

That was the one I've stolen that one What about Heraldo Heraldo is the one That was always circling That we can always get Warren will do that sometimes Or he's just like

So-and-so is here So put them in it And you're like Steve's coming Yeah We did a laser cats And it opens with him Having dinner with Senator Dodd

Oh wow And we were like yeah That was definitely Who we were thinking For this Senator Dodd Yeah he was around I think Chris Farley

He picked him up and threw him around at a party. He had Steve come in a Hollywood minute and stand behind me and just listen to it and drink, sip a drink. Oh, my God. And he goes, I want to drink and I want to sip it with a straw. And we're like, okay? And then he just stood behind me. Steve Martin, my fucking hero. Did he say anything after?

At the end, he goes, I did a joke about him. I go, he's in a new movie where he thinks he's cool. Hey, I have my shirt open. I'm Matt Dillon. And then he's standing behind me. And then he taps me. And I go, oh. And then he tells me to leave

And then he sits down and does some jokes And are they about you or just whatever He made fun of me, yeah, yeah, yeah You gotta, that's the deal I had a sense of humor about yourself I sort of embarrassed because I didn't love it Thanks, Andy I wanted more for Steve

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I do. I do love a great day. This is a pretty cool video. It has pathos. It's funny. You know, because you won't have a great day, but he's got Coke all over us. Yeah.

My own works. Thank you for bringing up. my own works. I do, I am proud of that one. It came together nice. Yeah. I think it has a,

well, it steps outside all the other ones. It's just so different. That was the neighborhood and it's all beautiful. Yes. And it's a different kind of

song for us. It was more musical style. We shot down on Commerce, which is like my favorite street in Manhattan. Made it utopian. Yes.

In front of the Cherry Lane Theater. Mm-hmm. We've shot there a few times. We shot this Akhmuddinajad one with Fred down there too. I love that street. Anyway. Wait,

And I forget to ask about Digman. Oh, yeah, that's my show. Digman is a show. By the way, I saw a billboard for it on my way over. It's huge. I saw it too. I was super, I was like, hey, it's real. I was thinking of the voice you did it.

I rolled down my window and said, interviewing him. Yeah. Interviewing him. And me, I was like, please fucking let Dana have seen this. Dude, Billboards are all the matters. Is it out already? Are we promoting it? March 22.

Okay. I think it comes out right then. So, yes. We'll be out. We'll be out. That's today. Digman is available because so hard to find. shit on

it's today no but where do you get it oh comedy central comedy central I know old school hey Samberg Samberg

it's the 90s but we're on after South Park so it's the best slot you get oh the best slot in history is that's your South Park yeah that's good

oh this is South Park guy hi how are you I just shit my pants I'm sorry this kid just fucked me in the ass I'm like god is this a real show I can't believe when they get away when I see those clips on Instagram I go

this is from a real show or is it just a clip they made up because it's so fucking filthy I like it in my ass Hey guys South Park guys Trey and Matt and Matt

if you guys ever want to come on the podcast Beyonce is going to be here what if they all want to come the same day though Andy will come back no Digman so I just watched it last night Did you? Oh yeah Oh awesome

They got it to me Yeah, what's the... Digman, it's an... He's an archaeologist. Yeah, he's an archaeologist. They call him Archaeos. It's a show set in a world where archaeologists are the biggest celebrities in the world. So, like, there's like a Met Gala, but it's the Archie Gala.

And everyone's wondering, like, what museum they're going to be hired by. And it's super silly. I made it with my buddy Neil Campbell, who wrote on Brooklyn 9-9 and comedy bang and stuff. And I've been working on it for fucking two and a half years. It is. How many episodes did it take so long? First season's eight and we're hoping

there'll be another one. Yeah, it was funny. I just watched it last night and there's an assistant archaeologist. Yes, Mieter Jihari who's super funny. Oh, okay, I was wondering

who that was, yeah. Do you need any, yeah, if there's a season two, do you need any guest voices? Are you, would you guys want to do it? Yeah, yeah. And we've got motherfucking Emperor's no groove right here.

All right. I was thinking, I can do two things. He knows his way around animation. I can do a llama or an invisible man. Okay, first of Lama, I think that sounds the same. Well, let's hear the Lama. No, because they all say, the Lama is, look at me and my bad self. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, no touchy, yeah.

That was one that was a raffy. That's a funny movie. That was a great one. That was a great con. Yeah, you and Warburton. Come on. Come on solid barhogany. The poison, goose goes poison, the poison.

He and God damn, Earth a Kitt playing Isma. We're so hilarious. Yeah. Have you seen that movie? Yeah, Dana wake up. It's just like shockingly funny, isn't I couldn't? Well, what year did it come out? It took me three years.

90s, right? Three years to shoot it. Oh. It's so hard. It was mocap? Say it again? Motion capture? I don't know if it was mocap.

Did you get it through a general? Did you do a general when you got it? Did he get it through a general? I snagged it through a general. I had a general meetings are where you go in and they tell you're good and then nothing ever happens. Correct. I had one a couple weeks ago.

They wanted to, they just want to, they just want to hang out. Did you like to play twins? You should be You should be in movies You have both guys in the scene It writes itself How would you like to clumps it The clumps but more clumps

The white clumps And that's like the Eddie Murphy movie It's called clumps it We got this we all call it When you're more than one part You're clumps in it See what they do is they cut tape They let him do four hours

Of the makeup change Then they start the camera again It's like magic Once he did it It kind of should have been retired I think Because that was then You're just like

How is this possible No one understood How can he possibly? One guy's Arsenio sometimes That's true I don't think that's how it's pronounced One of the movies is it Coming to America

Just came to me Oh yeah Wait so Emperor's New Groove I'll play llama and you're But the show Digman is It is funny as shit I was just watching last night Thank you

It's Andy Sandberg Come on So yeah and he's got Well that's the I mean not everything You have a brand Not everything you ever do Is like

We're going hard funny But this one is that It's just jokes We're trying to do as much And it's a good story Is it PG-13 or soft-ar? It was kind of rough. It's a little, it's, there's a bleeps.

Do you have all that stuff on there? Everything's in, but when it airs on network, it'll be bleeped. The fucks will be bleeped, and everything else can air. What is that network mean Comedy Central? Yeah. Oh, because they've got a few in there, but it's not overdone. No, no, no. We try to sort of parse them out.

No, it's clever, but a couple times I go, oh, it's a bad word. Yeah, it's not soft. Nasty. But that was kind of the idea Like we worked together You know on Brooklyn Thanks And we loved making Brooklyn

But it's NBC So there were plenty of times We were like We were like Just want to make a show Where we don't have to cut Just something borderline gets killed I've done that before

And you go This isn't even We got to compete out there Exactly Exactly It's very hard to argue Because you're like Who's gonna care

Yes Our hope is that we made Something that people In comedy will like it They say That the half hour show Network show is kind of the best schedule for a human being. Well, yours was even...

Mine was harder. Mine was harder than his. He did it live. Right. You were 17 hours a week, right? About 16-5. And once it's like a hit and everyone knows their parts too and no one's stressed, you just show up, smash. The audience is there to love it. Oh, yeah. And you were a single camera, so... Will and Grace got down to a science four-day weeks, three-day weeks. You know, I worked at Radford as a PA. Oh, you did? I worked on Spin City. Oh, really? I can't believe that. Get out of here, Sarge.

Sorry, he does. Oh, you guys, what are we doing here exactly? It's a soft Casey Kasem. Got to give me a minute here, sir. Come on, Sarge. Give me a minute. I'm Casey Kasch and playing Michael Fox. In what, Prisoners of War or something?

Casualties of War. The worst one to do an impression of no one's thought. But you're doing it with John Penn. Yeah. What are we doing? We're going to get this VC Gook Horre. Get a tattoo. Hey, come on, guys.

Get a tattoo. I know it all. Hey, come on, guys. It's Casey Cashian, basically. Is it really? It's a little lower. No, it's different. But your case is good.

But you just take it back a little bit. Come on, Sarge. Don't make the audience think it's easy. Audience. It's not dissimilar. You got to go on your tiptoes, open your eyes with. I'm, hey, Doc, this is. Oh, my God, I love him.

You're at home now. By the way, when I was there, though, it was Charlie Sheen. That's actually very good. It was Charlie Sheen. It was post Fox. So it was a different. Oh, Spin City. Yeah.

Yes. Did you do? the sketch Hookers and Blow with Charlie Sheen. Did I do that? Yeah, were you in it? I don't think I was in that. That was Matt Piedmont wrote that.

It was a body shop called Hookers and Blow, spelled differently. And it was Charlie Sheen was the pitchman. Oh, my God. And it aired? Yeah. Who played Charlie Sheen? He did.

Oh, he did it himself. Got it, got it, got it. Well, good for him. Yeah, by the way, Hot Chots. Really good. Hot Chats is funny. It's really funny. All right, what's your wrap up?

Blizzard Man or Shy Ronnie. It's like a little game. Shai Rani, you got to do with Rihanna. That was the shit. Fuck. She's the coolest. Yeah, that was kind of one of the sillier things. The cool thing about her.

And her doing it is unbelievable. Her doing it, but now whenever I see her, which is not often, she sees me and she goes, Shai Rani! Oh, cute. Like, I don't know if she knows my name, but I'm happy with what I get. Unreal. You got everyone loves, everyone's love with Rihanna. Damn.

Good job. I'm jealous. All right. What else? Should we talk about the Oscars? I don't know. fill in the blanks it's a new game we have and you can always say pass

okay Lord Michaels is my dad I thought that's what everyone would say he is kind of everybody's dad he is kind of everybody's dad he's 13 months older than me but he's like

one time I was I had been doing pretty well after a couple years and I like did the bit you know where you like do where you force it and you make your hands touch he was reaching for his popcorn Oh, my God. And you're like a meat cute kind of thing.

And I was like, oh, look at that. He was like, slapped my hand. He went, but I am not your friend. That's right. And I was like, okay, yeah, sorry, sorry, Lauren, sir. Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. I like Lauren says anything like that. Do you remember any Laurenisms?

And we always do this on the show. I mean, he does. The value of water. Everyone knows that one. Yeah, I mean, he always starts things. It's that thing, you know, because it's like that thing. And like. Yeah.

It's like, you know, it'd be better. If it was, like, funny, it'd be like a really, really good show. It helps if it was good. This is the last, we have two weeks off. It would help if it was good note, rather a low note. You know, I know that that's all designed to relax us. Emily Spivey, I don't know if you guys know her, she was a writer for a very long time on the show. She used to do a bit in the rewrite table where...

Is it going to be R-rated? No, not R-rated. where the phone would ring or she'd pretend the phone ring and she'd pick it up and she'd go, hello. Oh, hey, Lorne. Oh, thank you. Oh, I know.

I worked really hard on it. I love you too. Like basically act like he was calling to give her tons of compliments because he never gives them anybody. He'll always compliment not when you're really killing a big thing but like some exit

or when you have one line and some cowboys get. By the way, the one time he ever said something overtly nice about something I did in front of everybody. It was a great day. It was the meeting between dress and air. He was like, can we like cut out of that a little faster?

Very funny, by the way. And I was just like, it melted to a puddle. And I was like, God, why does he have so much power over us? I know. You fucking love it. I'll never forget. Well, you know, he's seen everybody.

Exactly. He's seen every American sketch player and every... He knows every move. He knows every move. somewhat equal to all those people that have been there before. Yes. Believe me, Andy Semberg was a very, very valuable player. All right, Andy, I got to go.

I can't answer any of my own questions anymore. About you that I answer them. Okay, fair, fair, fair. Fill in the blank. I'm really bug by... Bugs. Yeah, that's the right answer. My dream job is...

I have it. Wow. Yeah. Positivity. It's not a big... bit. Like, I can't believe it. It's like we were talking about. Okay, finish a sentence. I did a Corona

commercial with. Snoop. Yeah, Snoop dog. I'll tell you one thing about those commercials. When you do them, you're like, oh, it's fucking Snoop. These are funny. This is going to be great. And then you don't realize they're going to air them seven billion times and like make people hate you.

Even if they like it the first hundred times. But that's, I guess that's, I should have known. They're well known. What was your money's worse? There was always a little thing right at the end. You're with him, and then there's something right at the end. You do a little eyebrow thing or something. I'm sure I've seen it.

Well, I did a few of them. Yeah. There's more coming, by the way. Oh, no. I know. I sold out. God damn it. I took the checky.

No, Andy. I turned out so many commercials in the 90s. I regret it to this day. Did you? Getting commerce now is cool. Ryan Reynolds just made 200 million of some gin product. He makes so much money. Yeah.

There's nothing. There's nothing wrong with that. All that means is freedom to do what you want. It is annoying that he's making. making so much money and he's good and seems really nice you wish he sucked a little bit yeah but instead he's like

funny he's an advertising company a management company he's kind of phone company and his movies are all big and you want to watch him he owns Northern California I know he's good he's the president of the universe yeah oh this will be you won't want to do you want to do this one

Fred Armerson is oh man that's good Like it's too much, too much talent My friend Yeah But also so good, so funny Just makes me smile

Every time I see him He was on last week, right? He's delightful And by the way, speaking of no pushing Yeah He never ever is sweaty ever And it's always funny and weird And interesting

Yeah, I could get sweaty sometimes But Fred never would Spade never gets sweaty I'm not too sweaty, right? No, you run it nice and cool And it's always sharp It's true But you and me we want it

I want it Yeah, we can very easy stretch your body We're like, I got a skill set Let me show you, Motherbucker Oh, you get one last year Kristen Whig is Also my friend

And one of the greatest Yeah, yeah One of the best When I was doing Regis out there I was guest hosting And just kind of rehearsing all week And then she comes in as Kathy Lee With all this stuff

It was like I was kind of almost Starstruck by The meticulous business she had, her energy, she was hypnotizing in this other rhythm. It was really interesting to be around that. She's kind of like Steph Curry of S&L where you're like, she's super quiet and seems kind of just keeping herself.

And then all of a sudden you realize she's been fucking working hard and is an absolute beast. And like as soon as that audience is there, you're like, oh, shit, I've got to get out of the way. Oh, she has been thinking about this. Is it okay to mention your wife is a famous musician? Yeah.

I love my wife. Neussam. Joanna. Joanna. Sorry. Went to state school. Joanna Newsom, singer-songwriter,

heart player, piano, and vocals. I listen to some of it. So I think that's pretty hip. You're both artists. Yeah. She understands. I mean, she's much cooler than me, obviously. Yeah, she seemed incredibly cool.

She's that. We're just, what else? She says hi. She says hi. So now, just to wrap it up. So you're a dad now, and so your world has changed.

Yes. You and your wife are going to balance this thing with your work you have a plan it's hard it's very hard it is it's interesting like figuring out when to work when not to

when who works when where yeah spade what do you think I think you're heading the right direction that's my general Spade do you think you want kids yeah I have a daughter and she's here

not here in the house I kicked her out but she's here and she'll be and we're going to go to the lunch right after this How old is your daughter? She's 14. We're going to take her to Beverly Hills, you know, that little diner in the Beverly Hills Hotel.

No, we're going to something more grimy. Oh, really? Yeah. In and out for her? I don't want her to know that I have any money. Just keep it quiet. Well, this house is a little bit of a giveaway. Oh, yeah.

In L.A., kids just think that's what houses are. I know, this house. I'm just kidding. Andy Sandberg has been our guest, and he's been very nice. And his leg probably hurts at this point. No. I would do this for another seven hours. And you're going to give us some bike it into the way. Really? We could deep dive on how much fun it was to shoot laser cats.

Oh, I do like laser cats. Well, when you see it, you're like, that's just kids' stuff. That's so much fun. It was very fun. I like shirrani. Okay. Okay. This is we do our sum up. Andy Sandberg, one of the all-time great Saturday Night Live. What? Revolutionize Saturday Night Live with a digital video.

Probably has 2 to 300 million hits on YouTube Between all those videos Money? Well, no. No, definitely not that'll be silly. Definitely more than that. Also one of ones we're talking about. 55 million just for on a boat.

I think I'm on a boat has well over 200 million. Okay, so you're over a billion. I'm kidding, if I knew this in the beginning of the podcast, I think of myself as the new Rebecca Black, but thank you. Okay. I would have been nervous if I'd known that stat. But yeah, it's pretty monstrous. All of them are from years ago, by the way.

Doesn't matter. Aggregate. I think we have over a billion views on our YouTube channel, which I know because what else am I going to do during COVID. And you can pay $2,900. Look at the views. Check those stats. But now there's single songs by pop stars that have like over two or three billion or something. Yeah.

Mr. Lizard has seven billion hits on his latest song. Shabbadoo. No, I'm kidding. I'm trying to say, what's funny or bad bunny? Mr. Lizard. Well, we have been trying to get Andy for a while, because people ask about, like, there's people they really want to hear from. So, really? It's nice that you, uh.

Well, your impact on the show is huge. You're part of the whole story of S&L. Yeah. And so we were very happy to have you. And there's a chunk of time. It's like, good to have Andy. You did. You had a lane that no one else had.

Well, thanks. I mean, it's very much with Akiva and Yorma, too. I always have to mention. And with your friends who are in a lot of the videos and are really great performers themselves. They are. They are great. Those are my butts. Let's take our pictures.

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