Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Will Ferrell (LIVE SHOW)

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

Live from Largo at the Coronet. Recorded January 30, 2023. 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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One of the top, top top all time. You know, Lord Michael said top two as we would discuss. And you know, I believe it. I think that one of the guys that consistently makes me laugh hard over the years from SNL to the movies to everything he does. He's so successful. Everything was really clicking on all cylinders. We had a blast with him. And he was as advertised.

He was funny. He was charming. He, we told some funny stories. I actually told one story that I was going to tell you that the point of this goofy story I told about being on a drama I did was really just saying how the special effects people were so professional. Because I was sort of making fun of all the situation. But the bottom line was he was very cool and you'll hear the story line was, he was very cool. And you'll hear the story.

But, cause he heard the story. Yeah, he heard the story. But you got to hear the story. I'm making fun of me. It's a very funny story. I was like, David didn't act out. David didn't act out.

There was very funny. And Will went with it. But so, you know, we dug into some stuff. We got Will to really tell us some cool stories about Norm. I was thinking, oh yeah, those are great. Those are great. Um, we thought we'd talk about it in jeopardy with them and that's how that whole thing started.

Yeah, and at SNL and stuff. And we, we got some other details about Cal Bell, which is everyone's favorite to catch and the walk-in of it all and the origin of that. Doug and Ankerman. That's very cool. Elf. And his nerves, you know, it was interesting to hear him open up just about his trajectory to superstardom.

Which we overlap one year and Dana obviously would just take it off. So he talked about that dynamic between all three of us and how we knew each other. I had met him before in a weird place. And so I just thought that was just a big home run. I really had a fucking blast with him. In our overlap meter, I checked it after the show. Oh, yeah, 33%. We were really good.

And erupting him when he was on a roll. Really good. I got hit at the end when I did it on purpose, but because I know how the audience loves it. They love when we interrupt the broadcast. They love when we're sunglasses and we interrupt you. But let's get it. So, let's get it. Well, I just want to mention one thing.

Yeah, you cut it or not. But because it's, well, Farrell, we had a lot of people outside. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're more than autographed seekers. That's 1957. They don't like us, Father. They're just like collecting baseball arts. They're very passionate.

Usually I'll stop. They're B 10 or 15. I drive up. There's 300 people in the alley. Okay. So I'm parked way down and just to get into the theater, it was like a spy mission. How did you get in?

We were, Heather and I were, I ran into Heather on the street. She was parked and so she jumped in, dropped me in the front, which is a great trick. And they know my car. She parked it. I know your car. And she got back, she saw Will.

Will was getting slammed. And then you got the worst of it when you left. Because you went out the front, I went out the back at the end. Well, I went out the side door. And I had someone with me from the theater. I did not want to. So you guys went in front, go back, there's a special side door. We climbed up a ladder and went down a sewer hole.

They have drones. We're like, we got power. We split them up, spades and back. I'm on the corner and I don't know what's happening to you or will and I'm thinking this guy we're going to walk down to my car about across the street. They see me and it's like zombie swarming and they start and they start. So suddenly I'm enveloped. I can't see your ears.

And then the other guy starts going, shut the fuck up, man. I was at a comedy show, three minutes ago. Shut the fuck up. I can't move. Meanwhile, I said to everyone, spade is so happy right now because you actually that punk in your heart drove by. It took a picture of me in the middle of this grum.

So, because I have in the back and they're like, signing in and Will was saying too, he goes, what's all the clear plastic, and you have to use a different pen for everyone. What the fuck is going on? It's all going on. Yeah, fun to sign. They got Cuzco and they got anything from a poster to this.

And so you're signing. And they also all hate me. They just are like, sign you goddamn machine robot. And then if we get Sal and a sign that grown up's an you and Schneider. So I'm signing a few and then whenever you stop, they go, what the fuck?

And they go, did my kid needs one? I go, all right, and then your biggest fan, little girl, looks at me and I go, what movie do you like? Who the fuck are you? I, he's, it's kind of Bob, like they put drum heads for a kick drum in front of me, because I was bored in Minneapolis, I drew a Garth picture.

So I'm drawing and signing and signing. I did sign your name a few times. I'm signed. I signed. And then one of our producers, Charlie, come with me. So we went out of the street. Come on, go and they're all falling. And it's just crazy.

This is so funny at this time in my career. I wasn't mad. It was like this during Wayne's world. And then we had to go around the neighborhood and ditch him. Are they down? I was in the back. He's not here.

We found my car. Then you look back, Charlie's being eaten. Go. Just go. Tell my mom. I loved her. So I got in the car and I saw another guy getting out. Morzombie's getting out with bobble heads.

Yeah. They come. Charlie pulled up, kind of blocked him. Then I'm flooring it away. I broke the speed limit the way home. I came in with the gate code in, running with a bottle head like this, looking behind myself.

Yeah. They said baseball, I don't even know what's going on. I go, they think I'm Hank Aaron. So anyway, besides. So anyway, I think they are like baseball collectors. By the way, we love you guys. It was just a little bit too much. We love the passion, but it was just too much.

But the ones that no matter how many we sign, they scream at the end. So that's like whatever. Anyway, Will was taking a bath. The show was really good. You gotta hit listen. We're the biggest assholes. We sound like friends here.

Yeah, maybe she got this out. Now, we love it. They love it. We're real people. We're two fucking assholes. We're real people fragile. I got bumbled around. But anyway, Will Ferris was one of our all time favorite.

So that was so cool to get them at the live theater. Enjoy, here it is, at Largo. I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I'm a man of love, I see an hour, day by day. Thank you. Hey, Dan Howard. That was Jimmy Fallon on our podcast, Got an acoustic guitar, and know. Thank you. Hey, Dan Howard. That was Jimmy Fallon on our podcast, got an acoustic guitar and made up that Neil and I. See him song as Neil Young.

So. Yeah. Now, can we play it again? OK. Listen, let's get our buddy out here. We got a good crowd. They know the show. They know Largo.

And they've been waiting. They just heard the Gettysburg address red to them so They're excited A lot of rules ready for some jokes. I talked to this guy backstage and he's not really on tonight But you know what day and hour gonna cover for him. We're gonna. He's gonna come in the hot seat That's one of the I hate to say all all time greats. First ballot, Hall of Famer. John, number four to. Here he is from SNL. Another shot. Yeah. All right, little more applause than we got, but who cares?

There he is, integral sideways. Test one. I'm kind of in front of you. Check one. Well, the siblings. The siblings. Did you like they got my chair from a fucking yard sale? I was like, that chair was put together like 15 minutes ago.

I'm getting a worse, okay. This is a good angle too. Yeah, I know. It's weird. To try to talk to them. So, Will, when did, were you impressed when you first met me? If I lay back enough, I can catch both of you guys. I can't see you at that.

I said, come on, he's not that tall. Get him a five foot eight seat. Now he's got a bad back. Listen, I remember the night I got spinal bifida. I was at Largo. Spinal who? Oh, that was a great, heavy metal band for the 70s. So, listen, we got time for one, guys.

What was the last time you heard a spinal bifida reference? I don't know. I just said it. That's true. And then I felt like it's mean because it's... Very Dennis Miller. It's a spinal bifida. Okay, the starting linebacker for the Detroit Lions, all right? Also, too, if anyone's worried I brought my wallet, I don't know why. Look at how fat it is, you rich.

Yeah, that's a fatty. That's a movie star wallet, right? That's just from Al Karrie Cash. You still carry cash, you never know. You carry cash. There's going to be a fun giveaway tonight. Cash. I'm just handing out cash.

I didn't know there's an ATM here. You're like a spinal biff in a night. Yeah. Did you like some gum? Coming his own. You don't have to have's an ATM here. You're like your spinal biff in an eye. Yeah. Would you like some gum? Gumming his own. You don't have to have it. I'm just going.

Is it a trick? Is it a trick? No, it's nothing. Dana, all kidding aside, let's get to the serious one. Let's see. Where I'd like to start. Yeah. Hold on.

I know, I can't see you at all, but it's a good thing. I know. You mind holding it? I don't mind. Thank you. I feel like I can't see you at all, but it's a- I know, I'm gonna do this. You mind holding it? I don't mind. Thank you. I feel like, yeah, this is for Tony Bennett kind of. The best is yet to come, I feel fine. Didn't you do Tony Bennett on the show?

I did not. Oh, anyway. Anyway. Let's go to questions. Oh, for Goli. I did rubber Goli. Rubber Goliath. What did he sound?

Alex Baldwin did Tony Bennett. That's right. Did he do a great Tony Bennett? No, I did Robert Goulet. Bob Goulet. Yeah. And he just had a very deep voice and referenced his appearance in Camelot.

Camelot. Camelot. Then we just write him in weird scenarios. I think he did a rap album with Jay-Z. We did a sketch with Jay-Z. That makes sense. Yeah. And we also did a bit where it was Robert Goulet's musical called Red Ships of Spain, where he didn't realize he was making out with his daughter, his real-life daughter. Anna Gastar played his daughter at... Very Anna. ...plated his love interest in Red Ships of Spain. It turns out was his daughter the whole time.

You can't write this stuff. Oh, you didn't write this stuff. Okay. Well, let's go back to the beginning. Will, let's go back to the beginning. Let's go back to a childhood chunk to get us all warmed up. Oh, because I want to take Will the 10 years of age back. That's far back.

Okay, that's here. Okay. But hold on, I just want to say, yeah, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Great to be here. You guys very nice. Thank you Dana Carvey one of my all-time favorites. You can't tell me great Sketch players of all time David you did stuff to that was interesting, but Thank you will You're on the Mount Rushmore. We're going to the after party together.

Spade? Lil Trayna could, you know. I can't believe that. It's a Charlie Hussle award every year at the banquet. If you were to spade. I am Charlie Brown. you always know for him. But in all honesty Dave was you were still with the show when we all got hired and you were like a big brother to us.

You kind of showed us the ropes and we had a year overlapping. A year overlapping. You were super cool to me especially to all us, took me to dinner multiple times, hung out, gave us words of wisdom. I remember one time I invited you over to the Upper West side to have lunch and then I ate before you got there. Yeah. Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny? Why I remember that. But was you always eat before you eat? I know, but he wasn't even late. It was not even his fault. I just, it was weird.

I don't think I was late at all. No, it wasn't. It was my fault. But that was just, maybe I was nervous. So you didn't know me when you all came. I guess, I think I was finished. And I used to back, wait, sorry, what? No, no, no, no. Okay.

Back in the days where I was thinking, do I want to get into comedy? Can I even get into comedy? Can I even get into comedy? Do I even have the guts to even try this stuff? I would go to open Mike Knight at the Irvine Improv. Oh, I love that place. And almost get the guts to sign up, but sit in the back of the house.

Okay. And just watch the comedians and go, oh, I'm funnier than them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm funnier than them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm funnier than, ooh, no, not that guy. That guy's really good. But you hosted one. I watched you host Open Mike.

That's great. And next I know you're on SNL and, you're like, what the fuck? That was like, really? I guess anyone. Well, then anyone can get on SNL. Yeah, that was the thing. I know, but you were super funny and relaxed

and I was like, oh man. You know relaxed. I was like, oh man. You know, when I saw you on SNL and you guys, is Farley, Sandler, those kind of guys, that whole team that I was with left one year, I heard they got fired. I did not know they got fired. Did you hear that? I heard they got fired.

I mean, the guy who fired this Farley and Adam Sandler. I think they gotta go. I just, it was nothing there. What? No more gas know. I. know. But we, well, I stayed an extra year, which I don't know if that was good or bad, but I stayed, and then I think maybe you and Sheri Oteri and maybe Molly, they all came in. And the first show that you did, because I felt like sort of went to college but came back and sat on the wall in high school.

Like I should have just left with everybody. But I stayed and did like, I had five minutes a week to do my own thing. Do you want some more glory? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, I was milking him. Yeah, so I'm going to the kitty. You.

So then I said, okay, I think the first show you did that I remember you did get off the shed. Is that is that true? The first show. Yeah. And that was one I didn't know. I didn't know your audition. I didn't know anything.

And I thought, uh, this guy's got some fucking game. Because it was such an oddball. Didn't see it coming. Didn't know what was going sketch. And then I think, did you think it's what? It's high audition with, actually. You did get off show the audition because I saw, I saw a clip of, uh, you doing the cat. Yeah. And, uh, maybe that sort of a viral clip.

To bed silence. Am I crazy? It was, it didn't do well. Yeah, no, it was, I was literally. It can't one again. It was just a guy in his office who was like, you didn't get my stuff set up. There's no set up. I wanna know what play to silence.

It was like, Lord Michael, you got anything else and you pull this out. Well, we've heard the shed thing, but is there something else? Fear. In eight H. Yeah, with a spotlight on you? horrifying. No one else in there except Lauren in the back, smoking a cigarette just as little ember of a cigarette. Holding that. Yeah, a tip orillo.

It's funny when you say and And the promise literally was, I think that there was a table and a chair and a phone, maybe a prop phone. And it was like, please hold on my calls. And then I just started playing with cat toys. Like an adult on the ground, like hitting a toy like that. And then the secretary of the buzz again and I'm like, yeah, tell them, I'll call them back in 20 minutes and they go back on the ground like hitting a toy like that. Yeah. And then the secretary of the buzz again, and I'm like, yeah, tell him I'll call him back in 20 minutes and then I go back on the ground. But it was to dead silence.

I was shocked. And I remember thinking in my head like, well, this is gonna be a really good story when I go back to L.A. and I'm like, what happened? I'm like, well, I thought that would be funny to play with cat toys on the ground. They're like, wait, you did that, Nearod. Is she like, no, it was funny.

I thought of the guy who fired Sandler and Farley. Love you, love you. That's, no, that's comedy. Because the guy doesn't play with cats. I think I'm in a walkin' a little bit, sorry. It was cat toys. He like, when he's in the ground and bats around like a PCR and plays it like that.

And very funny and I was watching it because it was like, it was like a Yahoo news. I'm like, they're like, Will Ferrell's first audition, I go, oh, I don't think I ever saw this. And then you do that and it was like, cricket's I go, who's there? Marcy and Ken Amon and that's it.

Because no one, not, you're not required to go to auditions. I don't think, I only went to Luis and Ken. Bobbi Van Rai was like there. Oh, Bobbi Van Rai. Go on, get him next time, guy. Yeah. Yeah, that's stage manager. Nice try, kid.

So you do that, you do get off the shed. Did anything do well? No, because there were no, he, I think Lauren, did they tape it and watch it or something? They would tape it and watch it. It was being beamed back to like Burbank at the same time it was be it was be is it hammered a hamlet? I watch it using the technical term beamed It was beamed you're being beamed But Molly Shannon told us something about you very specific that love she said that when you were in a sketch on

something about you very specific that love. She said that when you were in a sketch on SNL and it started to tank, we're all being known. Always. That you would triple down. We would go harder at it. Like commit. I'd either commit or slow it down even. Yeah.

And just I take sand longer pauses in between to torture the lines to where the point Wally the Q card walley a Q card. Yeah Would be pointing Sometimes he's checking the car if the Q card guy thought you weren't seeing your line They would point at it at the line frantically, so I took like a 15 second pause before I delivered the next line, Wally. Yeah. You're in blue, that's you. But yeah, we would, we would,

it's, I had this perverse thing of like, okay audience, you don't like it now, you're really not gonna like it. I'm going to punish you for hating this sketch. Even more. That's a good thing. Break out on a cold sweat. You had some kind of confidence.

But I want to talk about when you, I first met you and I knew I would like you because you did something. Yeah. I was coming back hosting, you know. Right. Watch out. We were all, we had a couple nominations.

That was super nervous and thrilled. But you came up to me. Yeah. And you had a shirt, I had a couple nominations. Oh, super nervous. But you came up to me, and you had a shirt. I had a shirt with a zipper, I think. And you just got really close to me, right in my space. Unzipped it, and this massively hairy chest, and just leaned in with a smile. Hi, I'm Will. You know, it was just... I didn't quite, I had real time, I realized, okay, he's doing shit, but for a second I thought this guy has

a special problem. Just let him do his thing. But, just as he's leaning in and I came down a little more, a little more than the belly belly button in here, wants you to get his scent and then it relax. Muskie. But that was fun and that was when we did, did I do Ross Pro and you did'll wax. Musky. But that was fun. And that was when we did, did I do Ross Pro and you did Larry King? Because Lauren Michaels talked about that.

I did a fabulous Larry King. Lauren Michaels calls. I was like, wow. Did it ask that? That sketch was great and you were great as Larry King. Oh, I was so terrible. Was it you? Was it Dana?

You were like, don't worry about it. I'm going to carry the whole thing. Well, I have an ace in my pocket, my name of Ross Perot. Yeah, so it's the easiest laugh I ever got in my life. I was like, all I could do is like, I'm Larry King, here we are. Ross Perot, Ross Perot, what are you, that's all I could do. I think you carried it beautifully.

I don't know. It was a precursor to Alex Trebek playing the sort of straight line. The applause. That was good. People know your cues. But being funny with the straight line, you know. But anyway, that was not it. But I think we did Bush and Bush Jr. with the, I had the antlers, I kept banging the

antlers. Oh, yeah. So I'm doing George Sr., who's four and W's 5-11. So I had Herman Munster shoes like to hear. And they pated me up. He's coming in as my little baby son basically. So one point will plop some my lap. Yeah.

Here we are son. How are you? Yeah. If you play back on YouTube, you hear me YouTube, we're on a deer hunt or something. Oh, then I tried to, yeah, there was another rattling the antlers. Another time we were out hunting and I told you to go out. And I would get taken care of. Yeah, it was clear.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep getting it in the woods. Keep walking. And then daddy. It was of my son's moment. Daddy. Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I played at Ross Pro in a rehearsal. Yeah. Yeah. He was in the wide shot. I was in a wide shot as Ross Pro. The most interesting. Do you remember playing Woody Allen? Do you remember we did a sketch?

We wasn't the Woody Allen. Yeah, you did Woody Allen. Was it the Woody Allen? Yeah, you did Woody Allen. Was it the Woody Allen in a classroom scene with Seinfeld or Jason Alexander? What was I just playing him? I think you were just playing him. Did you do? I don't mean to be didactic or facetious. The Android Prevent.

Yeah, I guess playing the actor, the actor who was his buddy, I forget what you filmed, we would just go max. Max. Max. Max, you're crazy. Yeah, yeah. Maybe we're some smigel sketch. I did it once, once.

A cold opening where Rob Schneider was playing Sunni. Yeah. And I can't, I know. It was the early 90s. Yeah. Right. So I come out. I'm going to do a citizens 90s. Yeah. Right. So I come out. I'm going to do a Citizens' cancel.

I come out live. And there's no Rob Schneider playing Suni. And the Q-Cart guy's going like this. And I'm like, I can't even, you know, she's not even here. I don't know what I'm going to do, you know, because I can't. So I had to just do that for the reason. He's in the makeup, still. He was in the makeup chair.

Sorry, sorry about that. Hey, no, Woody, I'm sorry. I thought it was a gap, girls. Sorry, go ahead. We do a lot of characters on the show. Yeah. No, but when I came back to host Will, no plus. When I came, when I, no, I'm just saying,

no, no, no, no, you pick your spots. They're hanging on your own. I would. Yeah, I'm good at listeners. That's why. All I remember was, I remember was, I think there was an army sketch and then you had a hard brim hat. Do you remember the idea of this sketch?

And then when you came up to me in air, you were poking me in the face with your back brim. Oh, right. Sensitive. It was. Stephen Craig wrote that sketch. Oh, yeah. It was. What was the story? You were a sensitive, sensitive, girlim sensitive. It was even crag wrote that sketch. Oh, yeah. It was, what was the story you were a sensitive,

trivial, serious, okay. But I, I barked out all the commands, but it was all loving, yeah, a therapeutic advice. Yeah. And then when you got up to me, you hit me in the forehead with your,

and of course it threw me. It was like an old, white farle, you should just start to make you laugh on air, but it was really just fun being in a sketch I mean, the forehead with your, and of course, it threw me. It was like an old portfolio. You should just start to make you laugh on air, but it was really just fun being in a sketch with you because when I did my year where I stayed too long, it's what we're calling it now, I had my own five minutes, but I didn't do sketches.

So I felt a little weird because you guys were doing stuff. So we weren't super connected, but I would like to see you guys and stuff. But coming back to hosts, we were all part of it. That was fun because all the whole thing I remember hosting was that one sketch with him. And because you know, some work, some don't obviously. And I think that one is where when I hosted, Sandler was going to be in my monologue. Remember you did audience member? Oh, what are you doing? You're so mean. He would stand up and so we had a whole monologue that.

What are you doing? No, he was like a very timid guy with glasses and a tall, tall audience member. And then he had done it a few times. And so he's doing it when I host and then that morning water boy opened or something. He had a fly back to LA and then they go, Lauren goes, well, it looks like Adam's out.

I go, out of the monologue? I went out of the monologue and he goes, well, aren't you a standup? And I go, I mean, sort of, I don't really do it anymore. I work at this fucking dog, 20,000 hours a week. I haven't done a set in eight months and he goes, maybe just seven minutes. That's all you need, I go.

Yeah, but I need it polished. I can't run to the comedy store. I can't run anywhere. So I put together, I don't know how we get in this. It sounds like a fun challenge. It was a challenge. And it was, I did a bit about a polar bear and I did a bit about something else,

but it was kind of fun and terrifying. And then I remember your sketch. So that was great doing it with you. That's all. Every moment of SNL, fun and terrifying. Yeah, very scary. Do you remember, have you ever said no to a Tuesday dinner or so with the host?

With the host and all of you? I think I finally over, because I remember you guys talking about this in one of your, one of the podcasts that you finally work up enough courage to say no, but I think it took, because I remember you saying Dana you saying that it took you to five seasons before it felt like

it was like your home gym or before you stopped. Yeah. Yeah. And I literally remember your words. It literally took me five years before I didn't feel nervous every single second. And you had the same experience, same experience. And so by year six and seven, yeah, I think I was, I finally had the guts to be like, I'm not going on a Tuesday.

Usually the word Tuesday didn't work. But then you, I think somewhere you went to this other gear, I don't know what, when it happened, but. You got good. I think it was the last week. The last week of my lap. Yeah, your last show. My last epic.

Cowbell, and then I did you left right after cowbell, right? Every, every best of sketches in my last show of the seven seasons. I heard Cal Bell. You have to do it by bail. So were you nervous them because Bill Hader told us that he was having panic attacks the whole time. I never was able to see it. Like literally panic attacks in the bathroom by himself,

crying. And but you control it, but but you never got that bad. But there were, there was just, you know, it got less and less with each year. Yeah. And it would always surprise me, especially after that first year where you're like, okay, I think I've gone through everything you're going to go through where you potentially are going to get thrown. Yeah. It would just come out of the blue where it would be, I don't know, it wouldn't even be like the first show of the season. It'd be something like the seventh show. It's like, why do I don't have a good feeling? This is not going to be good. It would just come out of, just come out of nowhere.

And that'd be fine the rest of the year, but it's inexplicable. It's two things happen, I think. There's people like Eddie Murphy was a savant, you know, basically at 19. But I think for most people, you get a little more confident and then the audience starts to see you

and then you get a little more confident. And then finally when the audience sees you come out, they're kind of excited. And then it builds on it. I've seen it happen with a lot of cast members all right that's why Lawrence does do you know well with me I was newer but like a feature player but do a few lines here a few lines there just to get them to see your face and know you're part of the situation so then they know okay he's one of these guys and then they will buy you when you do a full sketch. But you came, you were one of the ones that like Dana where you came out and you had

to be a full, were you a full cast member when you started? Well, we were, we were, we were really lucky because that year before, yeah. Got rid of all that. When we got rid of the family, Sandler, Farley, Sander, get rid of him, clean it out of the deadwood. Myers, this is Clown. Myers, Dana. Yeah.

He's good. It's Batman. Spade him. I was hanging out of the door like Titanic. Yeah. I love it. You know, yeah. So you make the place you start over.

So we had a brand new, we had brand new cast and a brand new writing stuff. Very weird. So we didn't know any better We we were like it wasn't that because I've talked to past cast members who were added Yeah, I wanted to talk like by themselves and that's super or mid season Mid season to try to break through that way in fact Molly was mid season the year before I got there. Oh, she was there. And we were laughing because she was like, what is this?

You guys get like Q-Card training and you get shown where all the, here's the Wards of Department. Here's your quick change area. I didn't get any of that. My God. Yeah. And she was just laughing going, she was like, I'm just a little mad actually. You guys guys got to did you get trained on the cute

Did you do you remember anything like that? I don't even talk just terror I mean it my thing was freaky because I in the first show I was in the cold opening and I didn't know it was the cold Opening I was just in it I knew it was my first time doing sketch comedy it was hard for me not to look at the audience like a stand-up Yeah, you know and then the church lady popped and came in and I had Sigourney Weaver and Phil and Jan, and so then that took off crazy. So I was just in boiled and water immediately and then Chappenbrockley. But no one, no Chappenbrockley. Chappenbrockley. Geez. Yeah. Which, that was in my first show. That's your first show? Yeah. Oh my God.

The cutaway to Phil, by the way? Oh, yeah. Just him and Joe, everyone just going, this is the worst song ever, and then Phil Hartman just going, yes. Yeah. Ah. Phil Hartman, I'll give you a Phil Hartman.

It's great to compliment as I can. You remind me of a lot of people, Peter Sellers, and you also remind me of Phil. Well, thanks. Because you were Alex Turebek. That would have been what, but that Phil would have played that year. But Phil Hartman, thanks. Because you were Alex Turebek. That would have been what. But I feel what have played that, yeah. But Phil, Harmon and Dan Acquard were like my guys.

Yes, I looked up to. They just loved how they could swim. They could be the main guy or be the background guy. Yeah. And that's what I loved about unsamble comments. Yeah. And you know, everyone who knows them both just said they're kind of scientists comedians. They would just feel would read books about Evan Roode motorboats on the set and then pick up a script, kill it in the rehearsal, come back and act like the same way.

He's interested in science and astronomy. Came to host when we were, I don't know if it was that first year or the second year. He comes back to host and I'm in the room. I think it was with Tom Janis and Adam McKay and Keckner. And I just can't, I don't know what to say to him from just sitting in the chair. And I'm just like, that's Phil Hartman. And he finally picks up on, he's like,

what gives with the Pharaoh kid? And what gives? gives with the Pharaoh kid. What kids? What kids? You got your tongue? Yeah. Yeah. It was like, do I walk out of the room? I was like, I was just like, oh, no, I just, what these guys said?

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm writing the thing that they're going to write for you too. And, uh, but he was just, uh, what a great, yeah. There was just some about him and he was so effortless and he didn't care. And he was so on assuming about it. Yeah. And, uh, we, that's why we nicknamed him the glue.

He was just somebody who was always there. But God, he picked up on the fact that I just, I wouldn't. Yeah, I couldn't speak. Yeah. God, that's so interesting because now we have data of where you went and where you're still going. Yeah. And to hear this stuff, I feel like he had him and, yeah, stopped.

Stop, don't move. You remember when I stopped? You remember when I was doing a record game? I see, I hadn't seen you in a while. I run into the Laker game. You're like, oh, hey, will, say it. I see, I hadn't seen you in a while, I run into the liquor game, you're like, oh hey, will, hey, hey, sorry about the career. Yeah. I came and hid my jealous rage.

You're like, hey, by the way, I'm good to see you. Sorry about the career. Yeah, sorry, everything went up on a fucking rocket ship. No, because the first time I saw you Sorry, everything went up on a fucking rocket ship. No, because the first time I saw you was at Butterfield and Butterfield. Oh, yeah, you heard me. Oh, man.

We worked at an auction house that was, is Christie's now, I think, on a sunset. I think Elvis, I think. I was buying Elvis, memorabilia. And I took my, Oh, Elvis. Because credit card, new money. Yeah. And I took my, oh, Elvis. It was credit card, new money. Yeah.

And I bought an Elvis set list. Joey Esposito, who is Elvis is one of his buddies, was there authenticating stuff. I got a set list, then he wrote out his handwriting, and I got a love of Elvis. I bought one of his guns, and then I bought a, and then his walk and heat. And I thought it was cool as shit.

And then you worked there. Yeah. And then you, I had my land cruiser which I still have tonight. And I, you walk me out. And that's where I met you. And then when I saw you, that's no. I think we remembered that you worked there, right? You didn't work there.

Yeah, no, I worked there in my, my, then, good friend. And that was the last time I was, later in my wife. And, oh yeah, she worked there. Oh, that's right. She was the last time I was funny. Later my wife. And oh yeah, she worked there. Oh, that's really, yeah. She was the auctioneer. Oh, hey, about a hey, about a, yeah. Exactly like that.

Hey, about a hey, about a, about a, about a, about a, about a, about a, about a, about. Can you yell out a number? You keep saying, hey, about a hey, about a, about a, we can't follow the bidding. I see. But it was interesting seeing you there, and then obviously we joke around

with the monster movies after that. I mean, we can talk about us now because I was gonna ask you before we get to all these movies. What was your favorite commercial parody you were in? Do you remember commercial parodies? Did you do a lot or not? Yeah, I didn't, I was a little bit bummed.

But at first start I wasn't, I didn't, I was, I was a little bit, but when I first started, I wasn't, I don't think I was in any of those initial commercial parodies. And... Usually it was sort of like jury duty because it takes you away from the show a little bit because you have to dedicate a full day to shooting it during the week and now they do a lot of pre-tapes

during the week. You see the host and a lot of, I mean, they beat the shit out of them. But you'd come sometime in September to start... You can go do them early? Ahora, se ha preparado un montón de pretapes. ¿Vas? ¿Vas? ¿Vas? ¿Vas? Pero, ¿Vas? ¿Pero, en septiembre, ¿Vas? ¿Vas?

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you think everyone knows everything about you, but what was that transition from USC to being to the ground lanes? And then how long at the ground lanes till you got on SNL? How fast did you get on SNL from when you started? So it'd be a comedian. I graduated SC in 90, moved home immediately, which was great. Back to Orange County. Back to Orange County. Okay. Good. Everyone was super-suck about 1990. Okay. That was 1990 Back dad. Yeah, I'm back. Thanks for the education. Yeah, thanks for the

Thanks for the degree and I Then was I was gonna try to be a sportscaster. That's what I studied at SC. Mm-hmm. I was going to go in but at the same time I thought, ah, I better try this comedy thing if I'm a gear shop. Because that was from a childhood sort of in clean, always prankster and all that. Yeah, always liking it, but too afraid to try it. And that's when I started taking classes

to the groundlings, trying some stand-up comedy. Pretty darn good. Yeah. Do you ever play the cannery down a new port or the San Juan Depot where actual train goes through? You're set. Well, I do like for me, I fish on comedy clubs. Yeah, but I don't think I was in that club.

You're like, shakies, Nina, who's in Long Beach, an Italian restaurant. I did, yeah. Oh, the big spots. I did, yeah. Neen up the field. Neen up the field. Neen up the field. Neen up the field. Neen up the field. Neen up the field. Neen up the field.

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And this is a 91, 92. You're still doing odd jobs. And then I think 93, I get into the main company or the Sunday company at the growlings. Did you have a character that you had developed at that point that got you to that was Harry carry around. Harry carry was in the main company. Yeah. So the Sunday shows like their BT like their minor league team. And then you get into the main company. And that's when, get off the shed sketch I had done, and I started doing Harry Carey, that was during the baseball strike one year

inspired character. And I thought, oh, baseball, there's no baseball games right now. Wonder what Harry Carey's doing. Yeah, but this day, I thought it'd be fun. I should set him in like a acting class, there's no baseball games right now. Wonder what Harry Carey's doing with his days. I thought it'd be funny. I should set him in like a acting class, doing a play reading of a super dramatic play.

Perfect. And so I wrote this sketch about Harry in a community theater rehearsal space. And I was like, OK, let's take the scene from the top and, you know, right. And then it was Harry Carey doing like, damn it, Carol, what happened to us? I look at your eyes and I don't see the love anymore. Yeah, man. You disappear. I literally, you're faced with this. Yeah, I. You disappear.

I literally, you're faced with this angle. Yeah, I'm funny. I didn't see when. Wait for a second. I remember Maggie Beard, who was, she played my, what, but they, the other act, they had to, I said, you guys have to play it really, like if you can make yourself cry, do it. So they're reading the lines like, I don't know, I just, we're distant. And she's like getting herself to cry.

And then I'm playing off of that It was madness, but The audience I knew it was working when the audience was laughing at the without any Knowledge of who Harry Carey would they just be like who's that crazy guy you do? Yeah, yeah, they just sounds funny But so I'd done that and by that spring of 95, that was when we had heard SNL's look into recast. So it was pretty fast.

It was like two years. Did you have anybody in a position of authority, a mentor or someone at the gralings or someone who pulled you aside at one point said, I think you're really can do this. Or it was a really supportive, I mean, was everyone sort of giving you feedback on this? Was it more supportive than SNL?

Well, I would say typically yes, but we, the group we had at the show, you were kind of lucky. We got lucky, our best. Who was in that group? That would have been Molly and myself. Chris Katan. Chris Katan came later on.

Anna came the next year, Sherry. Sherry and Terry. What are you? Norm was doing. Territos. Huh? Huh? So Jim Brewer.

Wow. So everyone went on from there. Alex Steve Carell's wife. Nancy Moore also was on all of that. And it was a lot of people who had done sketch comedy. So everyone was just kind of like pulling for each other in a very like down SNL way because we knew like, ooh, the show is about to get canceled.

Not to mention, everyone in network television saw there was blood in the water. So we had to go up a mad TV premiered. How it's turned had a sketch comedy show. Oh really, your first year all that was funny. But I think you and you did your show in 96. Yeah. That first. Yeah. I can't prime time. It went made half an episode. They pulled us out. You guys do it on a Friday night. Maybe I wouldn't. I think I was right after Spin City or home improvement. And there was a fourth. There was a fourth. There was four or five different sketch combination. Yeah. And that whole year and in living color might have still been on. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. The state. Maybe. So anyway. So we were we were like actually pulling for you. Sort of friendly.

Was cheerleaders that first year? Was that first year? So you had a couple that really works. There was no danger. No, no. There was. Yeah, no, no. Don't ruin the flow.

You're getting a wrong one. I say my stuff. Yeah. No, no. No, but cheerleaders must have, I think, it crushed from immediately and then you did a few times that year. So you were no danger of feeling down deep.

You might get fired or anything. You were doing well enough that first year to go. I'm pretty soft. Except they, they did a thing where I think we were signed for the first nine shows and they picked up. Oh, they're gonna pick up. They're gross. But then, but then,

then what happened? It was a gross pickup. It's, I mean, it's just, but then they, dare I say, they broke the contract. They said, nope, you're just picked up, you're picked up for just five more shows. Wow. And then we'll see if you picked up for the last five.

This is your first season. First season. Just getting these little pickups. That's what happens when I date girls. They pick me up for two more dates and then they go, we'll see how it goes after that. I'm sorry. You don't have to laugh.

No, no, you don't have to. It's alright. They thought you said it. It's alright, love. No, it's been you. But it was still... It was still harrowing. By the way, I don't think you're ever relaxed there going,

I got it made here. So I don't think that's ever a feeling if you're new. Even if you're doing great. Except those last couple seasons, I really felt like it was great. But I did have a fantastic, so when my, that first time,

arbitrarily that my last year, when I just decided that would be my last year, for another season or whatever, just felt like would be my last year. Yeah, seven seasons or whatever. Just felt like the right amount of time. Lauren took me to dinner to talk me into staying. Chili's? Uh. Uh.

Houston, Houston's. I can get us in. I can do Houston. Houston's at 930. Does that work? After the rush? Yeah. These dinners are very interesting. So, will you stay?

That's why he does it sometimes. You'll stay another two years. Oh, yeah, I just tell you. He'll tell you what's gonna happen. I think it was that pasties. Oh, yeah. Okay. How awkward, because you want to say no, you want to leave, right?

Well, you'd already feel it old school But we'll get to that right during it. Yeah, that was in the can that was in the can was in the can But no one knew you didn't know where was that was in the can that's a term for the can It's been film. Yes, it's edited, but they haven't shown because they used to have a cell Wait, you know that you did that in the summer and then you came back to the lesson I think I did it partly through the fall of that seven season. So how did Lauren pitch you? Lauren said the most, he said, so I understand you're thinking about leaving.

And I would just suggest this, you're at a high point right now. But you want to start just to begin to dip. And then you should leave. I was like, but Lauren, that seems counterintuitive. And then we're for John Lovett. When Lauren doesn't really want to hear an answer, he always goes, just think about it. Yeah. I'm just gonna try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to to try to try to try to to try to to to try to try to try to to try to to try to to try to to try to try to to try to try to to try to try to try to try to try to to try to to to try to try to try to to try to try to try to try to try to try to to try to to try to to try to try to to try to to try to try to to try to to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to to try to try to to try to try to try to to try to to to try to try to try to to to try to try to try to try to try to try to try to to to to try to try to try to to to try to try to try to try to try to try to to to try to to try to try to to to to try to try to to And you just said, I'll think about it. And then we never talked about it ever again. But it seems like you did Molly's movie. You did a lot of, you did the movie with Chris and you were kinda, and then you'd done cowbell on everything else. It seemed like your timing was impeccable.

I mean, you were ready, but you could have killed for three more years in the show. If you wanted to. I mean, if, no, if anyone had put a show biz gun to my head and said, This is all you get to do. I would have said great. Yeah, that was the hardest most fun job. I've ever done most exhilarating. Yeah, bizarre. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we Did someone put a gun in your head?

Someone put a gun Elvis one of? There, there. Someone put a gun, Elvis, one of Elvis's old guns. Oh God, damn. Body auction to my head. Don't use mine right back on me. This crowd is not know what to do because- I guess I was in a dark nightclub in Scottsdale. Where I'm from. Where I'm from.

I'm from. Where I'm from. When you did, so in the summers, you did, that's what we would try to do is moving the summer so you did What was the first one was it superstar? No, we didn't superstar. I was in super the first one Was it a rock spirit? I think the first one was rock spirit. I heard the original title was called a date the rock spirit Then you guys maybe night That day at the Roxbury. Oh no. Then you guys, maybe night.

Night? Oh, we're doing burry this month. Is there any way you could still shake your neck like that? I don't know. It's too hard. I don't know if I can't. I don't know if I remember what the motion was. It was.

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we say it sometimes, when you come on, when I was there, you would say what sketches you had when you came in or were characters. Right. And then you own them, even if you did them on the show, I think Mike owned Wayne's role. And then I was just, no, I don't know. Well, they were pretty tricky about that. I don't know.

Well, well, loaned it even if we don't own it. Maybe 50, 50. And then whatever you came up with in the writers room, they own, right? Is that how it works? Yeah. So if you came in with that, and then I think it's more incentivizing if you would think if it was a sketch, they own, you know, know because Lauren was doing a lot of sketches for a while like even Tommy boy was sort of us at the office based on what was that movie you guys

What was Tommy boy about I get the top of the hand on top of And then Wayne's world and let's get some box office numbers out here rocksbury versus Tom I know Let's see what's going down. We weren't a big hit though. We rocks very maybe made 30 We bear we made probably 35 we barely really yeah, Wayne's world was the big hit. Yeah Oh, my boy made like 50 no, it just may It's something. Oh, Tommy Boy made like 50.

No, it just may, it just black sheep. What about what? Black sheep. Black sheep made about the same. But they sort of did better as it went on, like on video, but some movies like that, in hindsight, you probably thought they made more, but it did, it opened number one in sort of black sheep, but it wasn't like a huge killing, but it just sort of resonated over time, which helps,

because a lot of them do better and then I don't resonate, you know how it is, you got a lot of my life. I'm actually all DVD and yours did well, but cable. But to other people, not really. DVDs are huge. Well, what your big ears are coming back. Oh yeah. That's how streaming is.

That's how one of the things work. Let's get some, yeah. That's life streaming is so over. Let's get some hardware going. I want to put it in a slot. No, it was like, I remember Walmart said, every time people throw in Tommy Boyer Joder when they come by in the aisle, and it doesn't go down every week they get the same amount of people just go, I just throw in, I just throw it. So that made money, I guess, for them. But not really me,

but I like those ones that kind of live on. There's not that many. But when you came out to old school was such a monster, was your idea to be naked and streak because you did that before or? Or it seems to me you want to treat America. Got a comfort level of using your body, you know, in a very funny way. I had a comfort level. Yeah, you would streak in college writers that made it. I had. Yeah, I had. My dad's in the audience tonight. Yeah, you're trying to overthink your answers. I streaked in college, dad. Your dad is out there right here and our audience is a mixture.

But yeah, that, well, I was always, that was the thing I loved about Chris Farle. I mean, I just remember thinking, okay, I'm gonna meet people that are just as funny as me and people that are much funnier than me, but the one, I'll just, they won't be able to out commit me. It would be, it was like my promise to my. You were a committed.

You fulfilled that promise. I don't think so. Anyone committed hard. I, uh, I was, I had no problem taking my shirt off during sketches and things like that. And, but I do remember reading the, the script for old school and reading that joke, reading the, and there's sometimes a disconnect that you read it and you go running. Oh, that'll be funny until the day you actually have to.

And it's at night. And you come out of your trailer. What are you wearing? A robe or what are you? How do you come out of your trailer? Shoot this. And we'll marble back. Well, it's time for the run down the street.

Little marble, little marble sack. Yeah. As they say. down the street. Little, little marble, little marble sack. Yeah. As they say, in the industry. Yeah. And yeah, we shot it here in Montrose. Anyone from Montrose here tonight? I've only heard of one of the rest of the man Montrose.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we shot that right out here near Altadena. And I just remember we were shooting in, were shooting in front of a bunch of stores, storefronts, and there was like a local health club. And there was all these yuppie people working out, getting their power walking in. And I said to the PA, like, does anyone,

has anyone told them what's about to happen? Because I'm in the robe and does anyone has anyone told them what's about the Because I'm in the robe and I got the marble sack attached to the crucial area and Does anyone know about to drop the robe and like do we want to tell you know some kid on a headset like what huh? I don't know we want to get real reaction back to one get that I think that we're gonna film it now. We're ready that first take I'm running, and I'm trying to come, I'm like, honey, we're all going straight. I'm hearing off in the distance through the window of the health club.

Oh my God. Ha, ha, ha. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Hey, hey, hey! So many puns! And then we shoot it, we cut, we reset another take. He's not gonna do a take. There's like one old guy in there, still power walking. Extra.

By the third take, health club totally cleared out. No one wanted to watch me run naked down the street. How many takes? It was probably more than we needed. Camer from behind and from behind. Crain. Crain, train shot. Gotta bring in the super 50 techno.

Yeah. Yeah, side shot. Yeah. And then camera in the car where I go in but first to sit down. So yeah, a bunch of shots. A bunch of things. Dana, I know this is supposed to be a will. I remember that, I mean, Dana, I mean, will, can I say one, embarrass you?

Yeah, sorry. Oh, remember this remind me of walk. I have to move for this. It's not worth it at all. But we'll take it out later. So this is embarrassing because one movie I did called Warning Shot. It was sort of a drama. And there is got.

Thank you. Warning shot. That's when you played the kingpin, right? I was a bad guy. You drug lord. So he has a drug lord. Dana, I knew you'd see the trailer. So I said to me.

So there's Dana. We're taking this all out anyway. I got to watch warning shot. So we'll watch you on the plane. So put it in here. I am. And you got that for sure. Warning shot. And I don't want to give the whole thing away because everyone's going to run home and watch it. Directed warning shot. I don't know if we had a director. I realized halfway through.

So we were just all talking. AI directed it. So they said there's a part where I get squibs, lingo. So there's a gun fight. You're going to get shot. So they have to link me. They have to squib me up. So they put like little, you know, pe me. They have to squint me up.

So they put like little, you know, Pepsi ACs on you that blow up, you know what I mean? Like whatever. But they have to, I don't know if it's electronically, they have to tape it to you. And they actually make, it's, it like makes a spark or something. So they, small explosion. Right. So they tape a couple here to my bird chest. And then then but I'm at lunch eating a burrito and then they go hey Shooting after lunch I go car and but like you I don't even think about it and then I go oh wait

I've this guy's coming in here so the special effects guys got like a pony tail You know always he comes in hey You know, it's gonna always he comes in hey, it's like it's like a sound There's a lot of skin there for one of your shirt. Yeah, he goes We're gonna do these and you might feel spark And if there's a full fire will you know will address it then and I go okay, which means it's happened Which means it's this first day. So he goes They just pulled me off this other thing Home Depot?

Yeah. So he goes, okay. So he wires me up like shirt off and then they go, one, two, three, four, let's say. And then they tape down and then they stick them on. And now they have to go down my pant leg. And then you know what I mean? Like out the back, the wires. And then the guy has like a little blow up plunger.

So I have to put my pants on over that. So these are on here and they go back like six feet to him and he's like, got it and then in my trailer and I delicately put my shirt on and they go ready for you. So I start to walk out and he's following me and then I start drifting off on the way to the set going, what are my lines? Well, take that, Dagn it, or whatever I'm saying. And you're playing like a macho bag. Yeah, like I'm a tough guy, so I'm just,

I'm dri- this is the embarrassing, I'm drifting off, and then I go, and then, three tuts in a row, just, to myself, I don't care, I'm just walking. Yeah. And then I hear me, hi me. Hey, come on man Already leaning over Because I'm first team the worst thing you can say is come on me. You want to bust my fucking head

And I go I go I guess it's cool. It's cool. It wasn't cool, it was so hard. I couldn't apologize, but I had to laugh so hard first because it was so uncool. And then he's walking through. And then I guess what, the squibs went wrong after that. Because the squibs were a relief after that. I just walk on the set and go, are we ready? And he's like, bam! And I'm like, it's like, oh, early.

It's usually the indignant special effects person who they get mad at you even though they didn't have it hooked up. Right. And so filming a night at the Roxbury, one of the gags was we're driving, we're doing the head thing. And then Katan smashes, does it so hard he smashes his side of the window? His passenger saw a window with his head and it explodes. But that's all squibbed up, so that's supposed to crack. That's supposed to crack with the aid of technology.

Timing, whammy, and it touches it. Special effect guy, same guy, he's waiting by the console. Go and hot, go and hot on a product. Cool dialogue, coming to not yet. You're timing it out, you're rehearsing, how many head, okay, we'll do it on the fifth one and on the fifth one, Chris will go like this. So we're doing, you know, what is that? And we're doing our thing and Chris, one, two, three, four, whack! Side does nothing. The side went, doesn't break.

Doesn't break it all. Move. Guy comes in, he's like, I don't,, I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know.

I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know.

I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know. I was like, do we trust him? Do we do it again? He goes, are we doing it again? But it's, they get so excited when they discovered their, their issue.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. He's like, it wasn't my fault, it wasn't plugged in. You're like, that's still your fault. Yeah. Isn't it funny? It wasn't plugged in.

Can you believe it? It was a plug in. Show business is difficult, that's always it. It did. So you go, I do love the guy, like, come on man. Oh, he just kind of, he did the harshest he could go is, hey, come on man. Like, and then I was like, oh my God, he can't yell at me.

It's so, because he just, but we always found that with the effects guys on SNL. If you had a gag, we're like... Get a bar for something. Please, we need so much blood. It's supposed to be over the top amount of blood. You got it. It's gonna be so much blood.

Dress or show? Like one spot. And you'd look over and the guy would be like, I don't know what, I'm sorry. I don't know. You want sorry. I don't know. You want more than that? You're like, yeah. I want the funny version of the blood. The funny version and then add 100% to that.

We did it with Alec Baldwin and we were in J-Mor. We were all like every cop that came to his set, because I think Phil comes up and he goes, this is the sickest, most gruesome set, you know, I've ever seen car crash, right. He throws up. And then he goes, Captain, Captain, what's going on? Then he throws up. And it was just a joke of we all throw up.

And like me and Jay, by the time we got there, we were newer and we had two lines, but the throw up wasn't working as well. And it goes, it's same thing. Up your leg, up a hose. And the guy in the back, and then then at rehearsal, we're like, guys, more, the same thing. Yeah, please. Funny throw up.

It's got, it goes everywhere, and it's too much, no one's mad. It's too much is better. And I think by the time we did it, it was either a leaky faucet, you know, it just barely, and you're like, and then it's funny, because you're like, it's just a little,

because it's coming out of your arm. It's got to have to have like your're barfing and it goes like that. Right, there's a two-hole face. It's pretty funny. Anyway, that's not, that's neither here nor there right now. No, no, no, no, but, but, do you have any other stories you'd like to share? Yes.

But, did you do, were you an anchor man? Because I didn't read everything. No. I know you were in, I auditioned for a it. Where was the guy Ron Flurga? Yeah. Was Burgundy. That wasn't something from SNL right? That was something you thought of after. That was after. Yeah. That was after the show. Was that one of your first you left SNL? Was that one of your first- Left SNL? Starring in movies. Old school, old school, came out, came out after I last. While we were filming. Yeah, so I left and I didn't really. Is that the old school that was filmed that they held

onto it, which is usually a bad sign, right? Release it until later. And after, and K Anchorman. No, no. Before, so it was old school. And then we were working on the script about an elf. Oh, elf was back then. That did. That was not enough. That needed a bunch of work. So when I left the show, I didn't have the stack of scripts waiting for me. But holy shit, they come out with those three old school,

Elf and Anchorman were the first to move. I did after I left the show. That's unreal. Let's go. You go. You're crazy. Is that that what you say after the hit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hostarical. Yeah. So many parts of old school are great

when Ben's mom goes, hey, he needs them Santa. I got a sand guy. Everything about old school is funny. Love that one. Um, elf. Obviously was such a huge home run hit and still to this day. But Elf was a... That was a little scary only because I'd come off of SNL and Old School known probably for doing more PG-13.

Right, or some-year stuff. Yeah, and then I'm in this family thing. Family thing. That's risky. Going, this could be it. I don't know. I'm just sitting around the streets of New York and yellow tights. But your style, I guess I'd say is you just you never wink and you commit like the dramatic actor. Yeah. And that's that's what kind of holds you up. Well, Elf, all those things you Dana. Yeah. I'll thank you. I said the same thing. I like to say anything. I said it before you said here. It's Dana. You can do a trick that Kevin Neilin can do. It's, you can lower your IQ just 20 points. Right. Just with your eyes.

Very subtle. And it's genius, but every time we were doing Hans and Franz, a cocky idiot. And we were talking and they go, five, four, three, I'd look at Kevin. And his eyes would just go really dumb. Yeah, yeah. And he could lower his IQ like 40 points,

but you have that skill set of being able to just take IQ off with just something about your eyes. You can make it some. I think that's good. Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah. You need that. You need that.

You need that. You need that? You need that. You need that? What was his name? Sellers. Peter Sellers. Peter Sellers, kind of like that guy. Pete Sell, I call him. Pete Sellers. Because you do have some symmetry with him.

A lot of comedians want to claim Peter Sellers, but I do think you have something in that cocky idiot character that also is very dry, extremely bizarre word packages. How with a lot of physicality. Anyway, I've been researching you for the last six years. But that's how I started thinking of the Romburgity character because I was watching footage of this news anchor who had been retired for 20 years, but he still took like this. And I walk through my local market and I'll be ordering, you know, I'll be buying my groceries and people will hear my voice and they'll know,

they'll ask me, were you in news? And I say, yes, I used to be. And I thought, who talks like that? Like, what? You're not a news guy anymore. And I thought, oh, that's funny. Someone who never loses that aspect. Yeah, yeah.

But all this stuff writing that, San Diego's funny, casting it right, there's so many ways to do a movie wrong. Even if you have a funny character, like you got to get it directed well, written well, perform it well, edited. There's so many ways to ruin it along the way. And that's why sometimes you sign up for a movie.

It just doesn't come out, because there's so many ways to mess it up. But to have all those work all the way through is very, very tough to do. And Ankerman is one of those that he's hit on all cylinders. And then the sequel, I was watching the fight scene from the sequel today. And it's so fucking funny,

where you're thinking of different ways to have different news people and And then everyone's playing it is funny and they all they keep coming in their different groups All that was funny and topping the first one was hard, but you did that with that and also a two days with Kanye West I think it out that was Kanye. I'm like Kanye made this cameo, but he he filmed this thing and then he just hung out the next day. I just say, yeah. Playing Jesus for us over and over. Oh, yeah. Whether you wanted to hear it or not.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's demo jail, yeah. It was wild. Interesting. Wow, yeah. Yeah, it's funny. I used to be, yeah, whatever.

I had a guy like that and and then he would play his album over and over and in the car, and then in the house. And then you didn't want to say, no, you already played it for me. But all, all listen to it again. Give you another shot at it. Yeah. Yeah. That was funny, because I saw Kanye.

I was like, oh my God, is that Kanye? Like, was he around back then? I guess he was. There's been pretty new. No, he was, it was, yeah, he was pretty old, I think. He was pretty old, I think. He was the best. He was the best.

Whatever it is, yeah, whatever the answer is. But so you're, you're also your bandmates on that, which you've worked with a lot. Paul Rudd, who's awesome, obviously. Steve Carell. Carell and Carell, so funny. Carell got a great, funny part, yeah. He's all, yeah, it was a great group.

And, and, and McCay, who we'd met at SNL. And so it was, it was a, you guys just really, how, what you were doing. We just felt like we were playing with the house's money. Yeah. And, you know, they had, dreamworks had said no to it. Initially, and the later came back. Oh really?

Yeah, they had a bunch of people had passed on it. I think we had 10 or 15 different financiers or studios passed on it in one day. That was a great day. That's a horrible. It was McCann, I call it. Did you hear about this one? Yeah, that's a pass.

Okay, good. But you go excited, you can pitch it to everyone and then this here pass pass pass. This year the call should be coming in pass pass pass pass pass. That's sick and it almost doesn't ever work after that. If one passes, it gets like a stink to it. Yeah, like the other ones here and they go, oh, something's bad. Oh, we don't want either. So you do that is that one.

What happened? I came out or something and they go, oh, well, where were we're risking now? No, it was old school. Well, let's go. Oh, came out and they thought, oh, wait, we have this other script with him. We should do something. We like it. Hey, that made money. Let's let's do a chart. And then we take it back. We take it back. We like the thing about the newscasters. That thing. But we're trying, they just couldn't wrap their heads around it

that'd be funny. And I was trying to say it's kind of what Austin Powers will be to the spy, John. You know, it's like, but anyway. So when we finally got to make it, it was, we were like, let's just hurry. Let's just shoot what, because they may shut us down with any point.

Movies do the best feel like that's, and then it was one of those where I'm guessing, you know, the last couple takes, do whatever you want. Just keep it on my gun. Just act stupider and stupider, and then someone's got to pick the one that you live with forever, but then you go, God, there was five other ones that were just as ridiculous.

Did you ride that way? I mean, because were you on 35 millimeter film in the 90s and then you get on the Anchorman set or whatever and you got digital for the first time or no? When did that all come in? Not till Anchorman too, yeah. Oh, but then you get improvised for 20 minutes. But we would do it anyway.

Anyway, run out of, yeah. Because it's expensive, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's expensive. Run you. Yeah. OK. And but yeah, we would just go until we heard that film run out and then go to the line producer and just say, you got to, you know, can you give us cover here?

We just need more film stock. I don't know what else to say. And luckily, the studio is usually once you got going, they were okay. Well, they see the daylies, they know some, some's happening. And Taladega Knights is another monster. So that one, no questions, just wanted you to get the applause.

Yeah. And Blades of Glory. Riley, was that one of the first with Riley? Or he was also when I saw Hank. No, so John did the table read for Anchorman and we really wanted him to be in it and he was doing, he had to go do gangs in New York or something, you know, some-

Some bullshit. Some bullshit, Scorsese thing. Yeah, yeah. And I'm all here, preached. So, but you know, it's good you guys want up in that oh and stepbrother So you guys run up in those yeah So these are consistent Successful comedies, yeah very very hard to do

Yeah, it's been it's been good, which is why it's just fun to use your guys' podcast to announce my retirement. Yeah. And, uh, yeah. I should be honored. Do you feel like you're hogging all the good movies or something? I'll give someone else a chance. Yeah, I want to, I want to let. I want to do, we should do a remake of, uh,

Party Forgotten It. The Farty Blood Gunn Shart. Oh, Morning Shart. Morning Shart. We should do a remake of Party forgotten it the party blood Oh, warning shirt warning shirt warning shirt. Yeah You're you're I didn't yeah warning shirt. Yeah, yeah I mean shot for shot remake of warning shot. Yeah, we could put a little more money get a director get that same good A guy yeah, the black guy that's guys still around It's a you ever have the sound guy getting your face? Hey man, we're just gonna wear you up here.

I'm like, sir, sir, I got it. I'm like, it's gonna go right down your door. You're gonna pop up your phone. Where does it need to go? You want an ankle? What do you want? What do you want? You want an ankle? Can I tape this? Do you want an ankle? What do you want? What do you want?

What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want?

What do you want? What do you want? Do you want to put it in your beard? What do you want? Do you want to put it in your beard? What do you want? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard?

Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do you want to put it in your beard? Do I want to get the the sound of your the juice of juices. Can you learn how to use this boom mic? Take it home with you on the weekend. Can you hold it just out of frame and you own it? Yeah. It's a good arm exercise. It would help. Yeah. I used to feel sorry for those guys with the 40 foot boom. Oh, for like, shaking. And I'm like, I got another funny idea. And like, mother fucker. Yeah, a long tape and I'm like I got another funny idea like mother fuck yeah, keep it rolling

I'm gonna try Hey, I'll cut and the guys like Place down in I got a chance yeah, yeah, we got it easy. God. Oh, I have a question I know but don't you Yes, don't you feel this you'd be fired from every single job on a movie set except for the ones that we get to do Right I like a real movie. That's what I feel like well I mean it seems like you were all most of the time working with like minded spirits and no No, I mean as an actor all the other jobs are so much harder than just, oh yeah, totally.

Goofing around. Right. Yeah. I would rather just goofing around and have someone shoot it than- I could ever do a real job, is that your talent? I'm- no. Wait. I didn't know- Does it- does it my question make sense? Yeah. No, I'm just saying.

Between like camera, director. Yeah. Well, the- I didn't, I did know these other jobs. Yeah, yeah, to be an actor, it's like, that's easy as one. Oh, that's why they all hate us. Because they go look at you and they go, look at you coming in your tralala. Oh, do you have to memorize three lines?

Yeah. And they're like, I'm like, give me a minute. And like, he's coming. You know, it's all that stuff. And they're all waiting and then you walk up. Can I get a quick spritz of final knit? All right, ready. minute, and like he's coming, you know, it's all that stuff. And they're all waiting, and then you walk up. Can I get a quick spritz of final net? All right, ready.

Final net. Final net. That goes with, is that a spritz? Final spritz. It's my mom's dad. Final net. Yeah, kid. Is that one of your guys sponsors?

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Wrap it far. And, uh, any, Norm was in Jeopardy with you a lot. Yeah. Any funny, norm stories or anything about Norm. Burnt Reynolds. Yeah, my God. That was brutal. Jeopardy again, one of the big sketches that...

One of the big sketches, everyone Huge, yes, and all. Huge sketches, everyone remembers. Yeah. Always funny. Darryl was funny and Norm was great. Yeah, the best Norm story was... I think it's the one where he's wearing... He comes back and he's wearing a big foam cowboy hat.

Yeah. He's like, that's funny, huh? We're going to cowboy hat. And anyway, there's some beat where I have to be super exasperated with him. And I yell at him. And we get out of the sketch. And Norm comes running after me and he's like,

hey, well, everything okay? I go, yeah, why? He's like, he seemed kind of mad at me out there. I'm like, no, Norm, I'm, I'm, we, why? He's like, he seemed kind of mad at me out there. I was like, no, norm. I'm, I'm, we've done it. This is like the fourth time we've done this sketch. No, but that time it just seemed like you're really we're mad at him for some reason.

I was like, no, we're good. That's very, that's very norm right there. That's his sense of humor. Yeah, he's seen kind of mad there for a moment, right? But he was not, I don't think he was doing a boy. He was, he might have been serious that you were dreaming. He was very sensitive in that way too. He was very shaken.

Yeah. And then, uh, because you can commit hard and you probably scared him. Another, another great norm story has nothing to do with. Come back. It was, and Katan told me about it. They were on a flight together back L.A. to New York. Chris had taken off his shoes.

And he can't find his shoes. They're about to land. Can't find his shoes. He's going to the flight attendant to see my shoes. I took him off. It's like, I don't know. He's like, Katan's like, no, I'm come on. You took my, no, I didn't. I didn't take your shoes. Why would I take your shoes? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I've never taken, oh, no. He's like, come on, give me back my shoes. I know you took them. I know. No arm's like, I don't know what you're talking about. Good to see you. Could Tannis to walk through JFK with no shoes?

With no shoes, just in a socks. And then tire season goes by. And then c'tan and norm are jousting back and forth. Yeah, they're jousting. And then norm fun goes, oh yeah, one other thing, I did take your shoes. That flight in November? Flight in November. I took on my through him in the trash can just so you know. Yeah he's like I saw his shoes there.

Right and I just had a grab of his shoes. So yeah you were right I had I took him. He used to give him the tent so much shit. Oh my god yeah he was tough. Okay let's see if we have anything else. Well, before we let you go, Oh, and the other other thing I was thinking about today, Downey used to give me the great. I loved Jim Downey. I'm sorry, Jim Downey, legendary writer,

who came up with a strategy. Oh, he did. I had the 18 to write for me on, you know, with Alfred. Oh, yeah, I'm Jim. Totally. Yeah. But downy, I loved being in downy sketches for a number of different reasons, but the best was between dress and air. And you do it every single time and it, I would laugh hard every single time.

He'd go, great job. Take it down about a thousand percent. And then I would just, yes, Ann, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say,

I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, I would say, advice. Did you made me laugh every time he would never say he's joking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember one time I did a joke on Hollywood Minute about what jokes, you know, they have some some had a little more about some were clever, some had a little mean streak, but I did a Jim Carrey one. The funniest part is I liked 99% of the people. Of course. The Jim Carrey, I was just trying to get foot in the door, that's an Alan, whatever it took, but Jim was doing these, you know, the movies that I loved, but I said,

and they would always prod me to go farther. Right. Because it was like through them, I dare you. You know what I'm saying? I said, oh, Jim's Carrey, after this, one of his movies was rushed to the hospital after an overdose of overacting pills with plate to big juice.

And the crowd just stared at me. And it was too soon. Don't mess with that fucking guy. Yeah, Jim Carrey. And I was like, no, I won. Anyway, that was cut after dress. But, but dress here, so was a good. But that was those guys.

And they would write me the roughest Hollywood minute jokes like that, rewrite table. They go, Jim would be like, oh, you would never. Well, no, you're too much of a pussy. And I go, no, I'm not what. And then he tell me, yeah, I'm too much of a pussy. I'm not saying that, he goes, of course, because you're a pussy.

And I go, why? But it was all whatever he wanted to say and get the anger out and get to me. Well then they hide behind the whole thing. Oh, I know that's funny. They get to say whatever they want, but I would have to sort of temper it, but always funny.

I mean, they're always just, they're just fucking wrong. Wait, one last normal, sorry. Yeah. Love them. Do you remember the Mama Celeste frozen pizza commercials? Yes. No, I don't. And it was this and she would say,

Abondanza. Abondanza, yeah. Which is a made up marketing word. There's no, there's no large delicious Italian language. I thought that was genuine Italian. Yeah. And one day we were sitting around in the writers room having lunch, and we're doing a bit where I'm like, hey guys, this lunch is pretty good. Abundanza, right?

And everyone goes, yeah, Abundanza. And Norm's sitting there like, Norm, come on, just say it. Say Abundanza. Like, no, I'm not gonna say it. Like, come on, Norm. Just say it, Abundanza. I won't do it, I'm not gonna say it.

We get like 15 of us like, come on Norm, it'd be rude now. Ever, we've all said Albon Donza. You should just say Albon Donza. No, and I want to say it. I'm not gonna say it. I won't say. You never would say it. Anyway, that's the end of the story. But... Yeah. All right, well I think we're gonna have a few people.

That's like his last question. Hey, a penny saved is a penny earn. They say, right? That's like a hundred percent return. Can't get that anywhere. Is that what he said? Just talking on the phone with Norm, you know? Yeah, he should bury some money, right? Because then later on, your relatives will dig it up. They'll have money, right?

He just had the driest money. I didn't have a TV the first year. And I was on the show because I just didn't buy one because I thought I'm never gonna be in my apartment. So I go and watch the NBC sports feed on like a Sunday. Norm, of course, is in there. And Norm enjoyed gambling on sports and We're watching some game and I'm like, ooh

Gotta watch out, you know university Cincinnati They're they're pretty good in the mud He's like really I go yeah I think they're like, 750 winning percentage in rainy games. I don't know. Yeah.

Okay. Logs it away. I think we're doing a bit. Right. Right. Right. It's no way. How do I know that stuff? Yeah. Week later, and I was like, you cost me 35 grand.

Ha, ha, ha. I'm like, doing what do you mean? Cincinnati, you ever since an alley in a month. Like, what? You said they were really good and rainy, rainy. I'm like, you bet on, I was joking. And you bet that much. Yeah.

Yeah. Why are you telling me that's amount, too? Yeah. That's why when Norm asks Love Itz for a give me $200 so they're playing it because that's funny. Oh, that's funny. You know what I'm saying? John's like, OK.

So the next day, John, uh, Len, Len, Len, and he goes, yeah, yeah. And then Love Itz, like, can I get my money back? And he goes, no. Oh, yeah, I lost that, I lost all of it. Why are you mad? I lost $8,000. Yeah, he goes, you only lost 200.

You only lost 200. Yeah, we love norm. There was only one norm. There was amazing. Comedy genius. So I did it. I will, Farrell. Dana, I think he went, they want to ask a few questions in the audience that we'll get

in. Yeah, I will get will to his limo. I was just going to butter up Will. Oh, yeah, I was going to say to Will, because he loves sports. I think if I was going to do a sports team of SNL stars, yeah, you know, I put you at the power forward. Oh, okay. And maybe an accruiter fill at the center.

Yeah, maybe Bill Hader, after that, I never try to pick SNL people, because then I go, fuck Adam Sandberg, I miss him. But I would, you Lauren said that about you. He's a top two at least. Top two. Well, is he possibly one? I'm not gonna say, but he's a top three.

Top three. Top three, where in that three I don't know. We don't know. I feel like the general consensus is me, Dana Will. In the history of SNL. I mean, it's Bay. And sometimes it mixes up, Dana Will, Dana, me. Yeah.

Yeah. But we're up there, man. It's lonely, but it's we're up there. No, yeah. Now, I was sort of an intern there for six years. David Spey plays the little engine that could. Yeah. Who you got an incredible career?

Who did World Missy? 800 million minutes. Wrong. Yeah. 800 million minutes. That's how it goes now. Six billion minutes. That's a hit.

That feels good. I don't know. It sounds like a lot of minutes. Yeah, six billion minutes. It's a hit. That feels good. I don't know, it sounds like a lot of minutes. Yeah, six pizillions. It's the biggest film in Chile. Oh yeah. They love you and you're a gway, kid. You, I can't step foot in Bulgaria.

Lower Mongolia. Right, come on. Go out there, we're gonna ask, we'll get four questions for the audience, and then, well, you don't even have to answer if you don't. Just make them feel stupid. I'm not sure. All right, does anyone have a question and then he'll run out there

and then, oh, we got one over there. Let me see. Too late. He was over there. Oh, no, I'm over here. Hello. Do you guys have a favorite sketch that literally just never made it even past pitch? Like not something that got cut for time or cut from rehearsal, but you pitched it and

you thought it was great and it just did not go over. I had a sketch that tops my list. I had written a sketch about a guy who looks exactly like Gabe Kaplan from Welcome Back Kotter. And he's a super, and he works in insurance. The insurance company works for, he knows that Gabe Kaplan is a client. And it's the day that Gabe Kaplan came in to renew his insurance coverage, but no one told him. No one told my character that Gabe Kaplan was there.

And I was, how did this not get on? Are you sure this is the beginning? It got on. It got on to dress. But it was so silent. At one point, there's the smallest laugh in the world. Like kind of in the upper deck there, you just hear, hee hee.

But it died so hard. So that was, it, but it worked great at the table. I have one quickie, which was a guy I'm sorry, buddy. He was obsessed with Kurt Cobain after his death death and I worked at Baskin Robbins and I wouldn't wash my hair. And Bob Odenkirk and I wrote it and it was Kurt, every time I was trying to name ice creams after him and then when people come in they go, my manager goes, you got to wash here, I go, no Kurt, he, Kurt and dirt, you can't wash him away.

And then again, Crickets, but that was crickets that read through. With Odin Kirk, who's a great writer. And it was a fully formed sketch. And it just, uh, did work. Season two, we're doing a press conference, and they said, you have any new catch phrases to me. So I just said, my new catch phrases, I got the, got the, got the go.

Right? So I wrote a sketch called Funny Little Pupy Head, and I was Mr. Funny Little Pupy Head. Jan Hooks was Mr. and it was really, if it had gotten on, I would have enjoyed it, but it was just to hear Lauren save Funny Little Pupy Head. So there was so much stage direction

and Lauren Michaels had to say that they were like, funny little Pupy Head, and it was a big rule say that funny little poopy head walks to be a real sad. Yeah, funny little poopy head walks across the roof. That kind of, and then it goes, I got to go and then Jan Hooks' hook was, and I'm going with him. Never made it to him. That's where we're only at the largo. Yep.

Yep. All right, next one. Greg? Anybody? They're slow to the,go. Yep. All right, next one. Greg? Anybody? There's a slow to the uh... Okay. Yeah. Hey, uh, you did a college game day in 2010 with Lee Corso.

What was he like? Is that for me? I don't think I did. I don't remember I being in it, so... Was that you? Oh. Uh, it was a film called College Game Day. No, college game. No, no, with that it had been outside the Coliseum.

Oh, before the SC Oregon game. Yeah. Easy, rain, man. You were in an N95? Yeah. Orc, orc, or it in N95? Yeah. Or a court or a phone. Yeah, definitely outside the Colosseum. Yeah, of course, I'm an excellent driver.

I don't remember having much interaction with Lee Court. I'm sure he was nothing but lovely. What about Lee Van Cleef? Did you ever do anything about Leavand Cleef? All right. Leavand Cleef. That guy is awesome. Is young man, you've had your hand up for so long.

Go ahead. I think for the podcast. Yeah. Thank you. Hi. Well, Dana, you guys were a part of a video where you played the Bushes. Oh, all the presidents. For all the presidents. You guys were on Howard. Do video where you played the Bushes. Oh, all the presidents.

For all the presidents. Ron Howard, do you guys have any stories about that? And David, will there be a sequel to that movie? Don't make up a question for me. You love these two. You're the champion, Chile. And David, you're taking a new one. Well, that was with Funier. For for Funier, not for Funier.

That was for Funier, not about passing legislation. Yeah, some legislation. And I remember we just did our characters one at a time. We had all everyone who'd played a president on SNL. Yeah, we even had Dan Acroix, do Bob Dole, I think. Well, I know he was there. Abdo. Acroix. Or was it Acroix? Acroid do Bob Dole I think. Well, I know he was there. Bob Dole. Acroid.

Or was it more? Acroid did Jimmy Carter? Oh, Jimmy Carter? Oh, yeah, probably Jimmy Cotta. Oh, did you Nixon? Oh, God, he did a lot. Yeah. I'll just do it.

Why not? Chevy did Ford. Chevy did Ford. Fred did Obama. Yes. Wow. He did carry you Fred did Obama. Yes. Wow. Oh, wow. You carried him wrong, man.

I just remember when I was doing something, and you said you liked it afterwards. I was just ad-libbing as George Bush Sr. and the phrase came out, he went, full fecal. I don't remember what it meant, but I remember he came out after him,

like the full fecal part. You just remember things. Full fecal. Full fecal. Full fecal. Gotta dead. Fecalcation. Yeah. I'm getting more relaxed all the time.

I know. Yeah. We're finally relaxed. We got one more question. All right. Um, hey, this is a parallel. Um, whenever you are on SNL, you would often go on Conan as different characters. You would never come on as yourself, um, was Conan aware of this?

Cause I feel like he was not in on the bit and he was often surprised when you would do this. No, he was just very good at acting and playing along because they that I mean did you ever try to surprise him with anything I for but they you would add live and yeah that might have been because Conan and that whole stuff they were so into please do whatever you want yeah yeah, that was like the greatest show to go on that early Conan because they were just embrace any sort of bit. It was like, I have an idea where I want to get in a drum off with a kid drummer and he's going to be much better than I am and then I'm going to chase him out of this state.

You know? And they're like, yep, let's do it. Okay, I have another bit where I want, can you set up a pull-up bar? And I want to do, I want to do a set up where I'm gonna do as many pull-ups as I can do, and I'll give $10,000 a charity, and I can't even get one pull-up. You know? and I can't even get one pull up. You know. For every pull up, you get a pull up.

And I just struggle. It's still like 15 seconds. You're like, I did 30 yesterday. I can't get one. Oh well, two bad march of dimes, you know, whatever. But they would go for everything. And it seems like you always had a gear where a lot of your stuff, if the sound broke,

I called it funny with the sound off, it would still work, you know? Just because like the cowbell guy, just the way you were dancing around, all that, and Wacom was good in that too. Oh, right. God, yeah, he's. Do people know, is this true that you tried it out

with different hosts and it never got on until Hawking came around? I tried it. Well, it's funny. It was the season before was Norm's last season because you guys were talking about it with Downey, the whole norm getting fired. And then strangely enough, he comes back

the next year to host. Oh yeah, and he said they've fired me. Yeah, but I tried it at the table with norm as the record producer. And it worked fine, but it just didn't get picked. And then I brought it back later going, oh no, I'm gonna rewrite this for a walkin'. It's hard to do it twice.

It's hard. I was there that night. I was doing a guest spot, it's something. Oh, okay. And I remember that destroying and- card. Yeah, I was there that night. I was doing a guest spot is something. Okay. Yeah. Remember that destroying and yeah, we were way over and we'll where were you? You were in dead center. No, I was wearing the corner dead corner there. People know that. So what was the? How did that come out? Just suddenly because it's such a bizarre, incredibly inexplicable idea. That's why it's just as funny now.

You could watch it 20 years later. It looks funny. It's a weird song. Yeah, listening to Blue Oster Cole on the radio. Yeah, it was just that Calbo. Wearing that fake Calbo going, does that guy have any friends? You know?

No, no. He's got the only song he ever got to play Calbo on. Yeah. And then I'd always, I'm like'm like I'm gonna write that as a sketch It's not nothing you can pitch yeah, and so I write and I rewrote it for for walk I was just like oh, I know that if Christopher walk and says I have a fever Yeah, and the only prescription is more Calba only he can make Get all the way off of that you you can't lose because the stiffer he does it

more he's got to the cue cards I have a fever yeah and the all I knew like you see you're like phonetically almost getting through it and it's so fucking funny and I remember I remember is Kevin Pollock here could you do Christopher walk and I think is he here how is he here oh Kevin Paul is the world's greatest Christopher walk and impression. Oh, I shit. I have a favor Prescription is Mark Cowbell Kevin Paul Kevin Paul happen to be here Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock.

Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock.

Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock.

Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. I have no idea. I just say the lines. He doesn't even get the sketch. And I was like, well, you're doing great. If you say so. Okay. Like I got trouble for a couple of,

yeah, for capital. I'm just doing capital now, but. But yeah, there was something magic about that thing. Anyway, that was something special. I like those ones that live on forever, is it great? Yeah. So, Will Farrell, you are one of the all-time, you're still going strong. I don't know what you're doing next, but I was going to ask you, what's the longest break

you've had in the last 25 years from doing show business? It seems like you've been, did you have six months off at one time? Oh, sure. So you take breaks and what do you do during your breaks? You ran three marathons long time ago? I was just a passion. Yeah, just wanted to run I retired in O3 and I wouldn't take you back. Right. Are your kids a lot taller than me yet? Oh, they're my 13 year old.

No, I'm like Joe, Joe will dominate. Yeah. I know kids are 11 when they're taller than me. I'm like, I just hang out. I love Uber driver for my kid. Yeah. I'm like a sophomore in high school, go to a basketball games. That's kind of fun when there's like, 10, 11, 12 in your driving into school.

And I'd play a day in the life for them. Right. You know, and they play me hip hop and stuff, which is a fair exchange. But it's a lot of fun and cool bonding. Because I was noticing my kids weren't talking to me in the car at a given age when I'm driving them to school. And then I would put on AM news radio,

and a man was killed today and shot and blood was flying. And they're like, Dad, what was that? What's going on? So that really would open them up, but you must have had experiences like that. Maybe it was, but truly, you must have made him fans. And we've made a concerted effort to just take the whole summer off,

every no matter what I'm working on. So we go, uh, we go to Sweden of all places every summer. So we have my wife Swedish. We have a place out there. The boys all speak Swedish. They hang out with their cousins. That's too cool. So they're just bonded with Sweden. That's hip. Yeah. Isn't most of life just, I feel like even even really busy people most of life is hanging out and talking Absolutely, there you go. Is that what we do most of the time? We work and stuff. We just got in watch trying to watch something on TV with your wife I mean, that's watch live Pleasures. Yeah, do you watch all creatures great and small if you want liquids annex

This is this brilliant show that just so I thought the Beatles documentary was that too, in a way. Oh my god, we're talking about that song. Get back. Yeah. You know, it's nice you to say that. You know, I do am a bit older now. You know, we appreciate, we appreciate that you like it. You know, but we were just lads plunkin'.

I don't know. I don't know who that is. Is that Billy Preston? That's Billy Heidel. He's like, did you meet McCartney, Will, when you were on SNL? Do what? Do you see McCartney, was he on when you were on?

I don't know people. I think he was 93, right? He was on, I know, when I was there with... He must have been. I know Mick Jagger. Oh. Jimmy did that Mick Jagger. A Jagger?

Oh, I came in and Lawrence off. This happens to you at Saturday night live once. Lawrence office in eight-h, just during the week. And just walked in and no one told me. And then just Mick Jagger's just sitting there with a little sweater and corduroy pants on and combed hair, you know. Lawrence, the blind side of the big star.

Yeah. He likes to collect China in different coffee, called, Tell him about your stamp collection, man. He's very, what you would call, airy, would die. The dinner, the dinner where Lauren tried to convince me to stay longer. Yeah.

Who is there? He kept saying, Mick may stop by. I'm like, okay. That's what I tell people, but he never stops by. All right, and we're keep talking. He's like, so Mick, you know, he could, because they produce some movie together.

Right. And I'm like, yeah, fine, okay. And then all of a sudden Lauren's eyes go wise. Err, he's here. He's here. You sit there. No, no, no, no, no, I'll sit here. I'll sit here. He's here. Okay. You, you sit there. No, no, no, no, no, I'll sit here. I'll sit here.

I'll sit like this. And you sit over there. No, no, you should, hi, Mick. Hello, hi, yes. And I say, once you're seat, move. Yeah, move, move. Well, the job being idiot. Did you always have to guess when he said Paul?

Because there were two Paul's, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney. Paul's cut me know over which one. And so that be McCartney. I sat there awkwardly for 45 more minutes. Wait, oh, we make it. Oh, we make it. We make showed up. And I didn't know what to say once again.

I didn't know what to say. Yeah. And then the next day at rehearsal, Lauren was like, wasn't that the greatest dinner? And I think he was just excited that he set a celebrity was gonna show up and they actually showed up. And it was... What was your most star truck moment?

For me, like, meeting Tarlan Heston was a big deal. You know, like, whoa, you know, because you meet these hosts and they're sitting down there and then they go, would you like to go and say hello to Robert Mitchem? Sure, you know, it's like you're walking down the line. Why is he would come in? Get in there, Sharon Stone.

No one's in there. I'm like, okay. And then you go in there. She's alone. She needs help. That's why she's reading a magazine. She's like, what? I'm like, I'm supposed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

You know what I mean? You know, Marcy? Did you drink any with George W? They called me. He was in the studio because they were going to tape one of those election specials and they had Gore do his part. Yes. Clear the studio. they were gonna tape one of those election specials and they had gore do his part. Yes clear the studio then they bring w in there and they call me at home. They're like get down here. W is a huge fan wants to meet you and I just started doing the impression and I was like okay, okay.

I go down to eight h's 100 reporters everything. And it was like Ayala and Marcy, like, go up there, just go and talk to him. And I'm like, even the cue card guys go, hi, get up there, Wally. Hi, I'm Will, I could tell he has no idea that I'm the guy who plays him. The biggest fan. Because you hadn't done it during the debates. Exactly. We hadn't even got, it was fledgling and then he doesn't know me from app.

He could care less. And you got bamboozled. Both just did this to each other. He did rock, Barry. How did you know we did rock, Barry? Did you properly say apple down, Zagos? I go, thanks so much for doing this. Yeah.

This is, you got a lot, is this a hectic work week for you? Yeah. I'm like, yeah, it's a busy week. It seems like a lot. But you could tell he was stressed to be there. It was just like, in Al Gore was there. In Al Gore was there. Yeah.

And commanding the room. Oh, yeah. He seemed. We're going to put it in a log box. So he was like totally presidential. And W was, yeah. But then when they debated it flipped, yeah. Well, W, yeah, well, whatever.

But how did you, like, was, did you have to study tape? So you just kind of got it just by watching him. Watching him and having to help me a little bit. Tightening the neck, right? That and squinting on his, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you could, you did kind of look like him when you got the whole year on.

But I think it, it got better over time, but at first it was not. Same with me, I didn't have a pushing or at all. Only Ross Pro was quick, because it was not. Same with me, I didn't have a push, senior at all. Only Ross Pro was quick, because it was such a cartoon right away. Can I finish one time? Eh, eh, eh. Eh, eh.

Can't finish one time? Eh, eh, eh. Can I finish one time? God, that's all it needed. Just that. James B. James Brown. Can I do it on the one? Great.

Can I do it on the one? Yeah. Can I do it on the one? Yeah. Get on up like a sakes machine. Sorry. Just stick. Phil Harman playing Admiral What's his special reason? Oh my God. Hey.

Which one? Stockdale. Is that a stockdale? Stockdale. And we're here to one of you. The road was driving him. You guys did the driving. Yeah. And then, yeah, watch it. And we're here to one of you. The role was driving him. You guys did the driving, yeah. And then, yeah, watch it.

Tinker, walk over there. And then, he's just going, yeah. Yeah, who am I? Who am I? Where am I? He was doing scat-dale, was confused. Politics is fun. All right, we got to let the world go.

We should let it go. We do, he wants to go on. What do we do? All right, can we do three will go we do we want to go on what do we do all right? Can we do three questions? favorite toy is a kid Don't think too hard Bride Legos Legos. Yeah wrong because His was stretch arms wrong my bad sir. Did you have a mic? Micronoppecicle that you really liked yeah, Shwin

Did you have a mic for an obstacle that you really liked? Yeah, twin, uh, twin, Stingray, uh, Stingray. What was the TV show or movie? Why was that funny? Because I think he said, and he said, yeah, yeah, that one.

Yeah, yeah, that one. Well, the twin was famous. I think there was only one bike. But I had a Sears front loader. My parents read it on the money. Yep. So, you're a little kid. You're like 8, 10, 11, and there's a TV show or a cartoon

or a movie that just made you love show business or just blew your mind. I'll give you an example. Ben Stiller said it was the Poseidon adventure. Like that made him want to be a filmmaker. That was a cool movie. Gene Hackett was a show. Well, I always love Shelley Winters.

Yeah. Um, she sure had aly. Gene Hackman. Well, I always love Shelley Winters. Yeah. Um, she sure had a figure. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would say Poseidon Adventure too. Yeah. Poseidon. Gene Hackman is unbelievable. He was great.

It's up there. That's how we live. Up there. One inch thinner. I'll try Kevin. I'll remember the real. One inch thinner. I'll drive Kevin. I'll remember the real answer driving home after this, but I said Jason the Argonauts. It could be, I saw those and Wild Wild West

was kind of my life screw. Land the lost, I loved. But that didn't make me want to go into showbiz. Little house on the prairie, you might have a nice one. You want to go into showbiz. No, no the prairie, you might want to go into. I mean, you want to go into. No, no. What made you want to go? Well, I loved.

We're not leaving. We're going to go ahead. No, this is, we went past this. We wanted to do a tree part. The pressure is building. It's a nine part. I love, okay, these are the shows I loved. I loved happy days, over and surely.

That block on Tuesday nights. Yeah, Tuesday night. By the way, I love Saturday night was fantasy. I don't love. Oh shit. Me too. See, those are so relaxing. We need shows like that. Just, but I wanted to, I wanted to live on the love, but I wanted to be. Yeah, I could be calm and calm. Oh, it's calm. Fun gas every week every and Julie that coaked up a cruise director. Yep.

She was great. Yeah, I'm like the same block. LeVernage early. Happy days in LeVernage early. Fonzie jumped, literally jumped the shark. I remember watching. I made my mom watch it with us. I was like, watch.

Isn't it funny to think that Henry Winkler, he was the coolest guy in America at the point in time. Couldn't believe it. It was so cool. Yeah. Playing it in the toughest guys. I knew people thought he could beat up anyone. Well, the fans could beat up. And he never really gotten a fight to be honest. It was so he just ate.

He was all snap his fingers. They'd run or something. I don't want to say my self, but mine was Danny K. What? He never could say he was sorry, right? Or is that what it's saying? Yeah, he, yeah. I thought he couldn't say, yeah, he couldn't say yeah he couldn't say something maybe I love you. Maybe

sorry. Let's call Hank Winkler. I don't know. He's great and Barry. You know what? Let's look at a clip. Hey, he's got it. Biff it up. He just got a little touch of bifida i did yeah spinal bifida that's what we're gonna name this episode that's gonna be in the it's like not funny i don't know why we keep saying so let me let me take a dent take it down as dandy miller i can't crash six we heard from the spud man with the spud bifida raspberries in the uh sound effects guys face fairill gave us both the right home the feral cat brought it heavy today raspberries in the uh... sound effects

and i was about the right home the ferrell cat brought it heavy today you did bring it man your funny and can't count cars waiting for me i was request a link in town a little bit more link and i'll call did you buy did you buy someone you first got a million dollars you buy a crazy car anything i bought a uh... Did you buy something when you first got a million dollars? You buy a crazy car or anything? I bought a Something from the Elvis store

Sorry, I don't want to be the joke of the thing. It's all good fun, Dave. Okay. I bought one of Elvis's guns Providence and it realized spated was the previous owner. By the way, when he worked there, you were very polite, you're very nice. I don't think you said you were in comedy, at all, I don't think you told me that. In fact, I still worked, I got hired at SNL, but they don't pay you till you show up.

I had bills to pay. I was still answering the phones for like a month and a half. Did you have a transfer to the office? Answering the phones that were at here in LA. Oh, okay. The auction and my co-workers were like, didn't you get on Saturday night? Oh, yeah, but I don't believe till August, so I'm here. And they don't pay you.

I got it. I read it said you were the highest paid cash member ever. I don't pay you. I got it. I read it said you were the highest paid cast member ever. I don't think so. They said it was, but what was your starting salary? Like when you first got on, do you remember? Because there's a first show. It was a first show. Yeah.

I'm guessing six thousand. It was something like that. Okay. It was something like that. It was 55 or six. 4,500 times 20. 90 grand. Keep 30 broke even. Easily. Stars and I like 100.

I mean 900 a week to write. 1500 to bump if I got on updaters. But the mail prostitution paid the bills. Yeah. I ran a glory hole on that 18th. We don't want to go all that specific. It was as you were a friendly guy. I never got that reference because they'd be,

it'd be like, if you're still, ever scored, they'd be like, ah, that was a real glory hole. I was like, what does that mean? But, man, I'm on. Aspen. All right, we're gonna take a break and come back with our guests today. Will,

finniest. Second half will be better. Yeah, second half of the show. Let's give everyone a five. And then you take five. See who stays. I'm gonna talk with a Swedish accent. The wrist.

The French accent. The French accent. That is really authentic. I'm gonna talk with a Swedish accent. The risk of the fence and this accent. That is really authentic. I'm nor yeah. I'm Swedish. I'm a lot Norwegian. I'm getting winnig in the sweets. I know that's a that's a bad rivalry. Well yeah.

Is the Swedish chef get a lot of puntaing in Sweden, be honest. Is the Muppet character? Yeah. Yeah. Ha ha ha. Who else? Uh, uh, her nishurned his kernet. His kernet with first-interior shooting. He was the human ham.

Yeah. He was that guy was talented. I knew that when I watched. That guy was talented. He could cook. Yup. And he was, he had a presence. That made you want to be in show business.

That's the thing. God, that's your answer. So someone gonna help you Sesame Street. Yeah, all right Good well they're turning the lights up. Okay, okay, you guys. Thank you guys Thank you The great little bell. Thank you very much This has been a podcast presentation of Cadence 13. Please listen, then rate, review, and follow all episodes. Available now for free wherever you get your podcast. No joke, folks!

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