Handsome - Oscar Nuñez asks about SNL favorites

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

Oscar Nuñez of "The Office" and "The Paper" asks Handsome the ultimate comedy nerd question: who are their Saturday Night Live favorites?! Plus Tig gives some handy advice on digesting the news, an "oh happy day" song, and some very strong laughable language!Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterFollow us on social media @handsomepodMerch at handsomepod.comWatch Handsome on YouTubeThis is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Handsome via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Oh, yeah. We're back together, you guys. Yes. What should we talk about? Let's get into it. Oh, let's dig deep, you guys. Let's dig deep for once. Enough small talk. How are you? I'm good. I've just been busy.

How's Ginger? Ginger's good. She is trucking along, still doing chemo and immunotherapy. She had a blood transfusion recently because her red blood cells were pretty low. And no new news. right now. She is on this one shot that's new that just as gnarly as all get out. So that one only comes once every like three weeks. But when it does, it's like you can't leave your house for like four days. It's so side effects are so bad. So that one she dreads. It's crazy how like blood

transfusions, it's, it's anytime I've known someone who's having that, there's like such a burst of energy after you have a blood transfusion. Yeah. Yeah, hers were so low, and I called her when she was having it because she was supposed to have chemo that day, but it was too low to do chemo. So they gave her the transfusion, and she was just like, I'm good, it's fine. I was like, goodness.

And then the next day, she was like, yeah, it's great. Everything's good. Yeah. And is she still crawling out of a pile of well-wisher cards? Yeah, for sure. I mean, it died down, but she still gets a couple every day. And does she read them all? Oh, yeah.

And does she respond to all? She wants to respond to all of them. It kills her not to be able to, but it just would be so difficult. Yeah, of course. And she'll save a pile that, like, stood out or had some kind of connection to me or something. And when I go home, I'll read those. And it's very sweet what people are doing. That's nice.

And your brother or brothers are still going out and... Yep, they'll check on her. I got to see her a ton this summer, which was great. But my schedule is so nuts for the next three months. I don't know if... I really don't know if I'll see her maybe for at least a month and a half. That's tough. Does she FaceTime or do you phone call?

She does not FaceTime. She does not know how, but I should have taught her. She doesn't know how to push the button. No, she doesn't. Maybe your brothers can help her. Maybe. Look, if my stepfather could do it, yeah.

Anybody on the planet? Well, I just gave her my previous iPhone, so maybe she'll be able to tinker with it. Did she not have an iPhone before? She did. It was just an older one. Okay. So now she has no excuse.

Yeah. I mean, my stepfather, when he would go to bed at night, he would unplug his phone, his computer, his printer. Unplug the printer, just in case. Unplugged everything. Wow. As a safety thing or saving money thing? How do you save money on plugging your phone?

Well, doesn't it use some electricity so that's going towards the electric bill? Sure. I mean, what are you going to do with that savings? I know, but some people do think of those microcharges. Sure. That wasn't what's going on. It was his lack of understanding of electronics. I see. And he, you know, I'd go visit him and he'd be like, all right, TIG. Well, when you go to bed, please unplug the computer. I love that. Okay. Like he thinks that would stop the emails coming in. He did. That's what he thought. It was insane. And then I remember the first time I had a laptop and brought it

home he came down it was with dial-up and he came downstairs and he said oh is that why i can't use the phone because you have your machine plugged in just like that's correct so my point is he used to set up face time dates with max and finn and so i have all the faith in the world that ginger will be able to push the circle i think you're right she'll she'll figure it out although sometimes it's her her not learning something is out of stubbornness and not necessarily um inability yeah like when i was in high school she refused to learn how to set her alarm clock because she knew i would i would do it for her whoa interesting you were setting the alarm for her every day uh-huh for her i would have to go in and set her alarm clock for her and i'd be mom just let me show you and she like would not

No, I don't want to, I don't need to know it. And then when I went to college, guess who learned how to set an alarm clock? Wait, wait, give us a couple of, give us some minutes. Was it Taylor Dane? No, not Taylor Dane, though we. Taylor Swift? Not Taylor Swift. Taylor Tomlinson.

Close. Taylor Ortega. Is that, is it Ginger? Was it your mother? Oh, okay. That took you five yeses. And so what if he? You had refused to set the alarm.

I don't know. I clearly didn't understand boundaries then. I think part of the reason I'm not getting my driver's license is because I want to get rides. I like to be in the passenger seat. Yeah. See, when you don't, when you don't have to do something, sometimes people are just like, why would I do that if I don't have to? Yeah. Interesting.

If Uber didn't exist, you might already have your license. Maybe, or I'd just, I'd be dating someone who drives. Do you ever take any of those Waymo cars where there's no driver? It's too scary. It makes me feel like the world is hurtling onward and I'm out of touch because I'm like that's petrifying to be in a drive. Have you done it? I haven't.

I strike myself as somebody who would be opposed to it. I strike myself is one of my favorite things you've said, I think. Well, then you might enjoy what I say to a bartender, which is I'll have what I'm having. Oh, God, that's good. Oh, God, that's good. I'll credit you when I steal that. Thank you. Yeah, I would have thought that that would have made me highly uncomfortable and not trusting.

But I don't have a problem with it. I just assume that it's probably all right. You know, it's not like you're seeing, like, you know, did I say they're the self-driving? There's like, it's ghost driver. There's not a human being driving you around. It's like a robot car. Yeah, robot car. And what happens if you jump into the passenger seat?

Oh, that's a good question. Can you? Does the door unlock? Well, say you're from the back seat and you're like, I'm going to get in the driver's seat. Well, I don't think you could get in there from the back seat. Why? You can. It's just a regular car.

Oh, really? Well, someone like me couldn't. Maybe y'all little tiny things could. Did you know, though, this is a friend of a friend, got in one of those cars, the self-driving ones, with no driver, like booked it, had a baby with her, put her, it was raining, put the baby in the car and temporarily closed the door so that the baby didn't get wet from the rain, car starts driving. No.

Takes off. This isn't a true story. This is a true story. This is not a true story. It is. And then so she's on the app freaking out and trying to get the car to come back and all she could do is cancel the trip. But the car was already like six blocks away and she's just sprinting to the car.

And luckily the baby was fine. But like you can't. A D program it. Once it's going, it's going. This is a friend of a friend. You know for a fact, this is not like some story that you heard. Yeah. Well, it's a, no, it was a friend of a friend, but it was a friend of a friend. But now that I'm trying, I can't remember which friend it was.

And that's making me doubt myself. But I strike myself as someone that tells true stories. I'll have what I'm having. That would be terrifying. But I have to say, it excites, as a parent, it excites me to think of Max and that we would be going in that direction of robot drivers and that Max and Finn would be in a robot car rather than, you know. Really, that doesn't make you sort of nostalgic and wistful for like that they're going to grow up in a world that's so different to how we grew up? Everybody grows up in a world that's so different than the previous generation. generation. And to me, like, for some reason, it feels and seems safer. Yeah. So, oh, Thomas said you

can sit in the passenger seat. I just sent a note. That's true, though, that every, like, every generation is so different to the last. And I was on the news a bunch recently promoting my show. And I kept saying, I met this newscaster. And she was like, I think newscasters, that's like a calling. Like you, like she was newscaster to her bones. She was so together. authoritative, firm, kind, professional. Attractive? Very attractive. And I go, got to be attractive.

And I said, well, what a crazy time to be on the news. You know, the world is on fire. And she was like, she said that she interviewed someone who was like a civil rights activist in the 60s or something. And they were like, no, it's always been like it was apocalyptic then. There was Vietnam. There was, you know. It's just we have social media and fast news.

heading our way. Yeah. Well, it does feel particularly bad right now, but it was reassuring that she was like everyone has always felt that way. I have to have moments where I check in when I'm overwhelmed and I have to go, aside from issues around the world, because when everything's going on around the world, it can feel like you're in imminent danger as well. Yeah. And you can be, for sure, but like in actual your immediate surroundings right now, am I in imminent danger? Yeah.

And that's helpful for me sometimes when I get overwhelmed by news because, of course, we're all potentially in danger, but just that immediate, immediate check your surroundings, am I in imminent danger? and when I can say no, I can take a little bit of a breather.

And again, that's not to say that I feel disconnected from the world or because other people are in imminent danger that it doesn't matter to me. No, but also if you're paralyzed by fear, then you can't even help other people or sort of function. Like if you're, yeah, if you're too... But it's a helpful reminder for me. Yeah. I'm just like at what point are we like,

Oh, maybe as a species we're not good because it keeps, it seems like everything that happens in the news, I'm like, well, that's, you know, but if we were all healthy, like, we're goodhearted and human nature is ultimately kind, but I have to believe that. But then it's sometimes like, well, maybe there is also this threat of cruelty that we can't seem to shake. I don't know. Anyways, well, welcome to our comedy podcast. Yeah. I got to write a new hour of stand-up. I'm going on tour in the new year. And I'm like trying to figure out what I want to say and talk about. And yeah, it's a weird time to be doing stand-up. Yeah. And why specifically are you saying it's a weird time? Well, it seems like such a conspicuous omission to be doing, to be not talking about what's going on and all the suffering. But then my comedy has always been kind of about childhood and, you know myself and stuff so but yeah i think it'll come up in the show i've got to figure out a way to well it's hard to do current events and stand-up because it changes by the hour right and you know suddenly you're writing bits on this one thing and then by the time you're you know filming it or in another city it's shifted or changed or on to the next thing sometimes you write a bunch of stand-up about being a step-parent and then and then it's not relevant anymore You can still talk about how you had an experience.

Yes, absolutely. And also, I'll be talking a lot about that possum, Eric, in my garden. Oh, got to. Oh, good. That might be the bulk of the hour. Checking Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds on car insurance is smart. Unfortunately, not checking the expiration date on that lettuce is not smart. You were meaning to make a salad last week and didn't get around to it, and now your hopes of a healthy lunch have wilted.

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things that I've never said and just go through them that's the fun the fun period yeah and also terrifying and horrendous bombing period but yeah yeah I'm slowly but surely working on it did I tell you guys that my tour is like a bus tour

it's the first time I've ever done with like bunk beds and then little old me in this bus how many do you know how many cities you're doing? 35. But you're just banging them all out in a row? I'm going to do two weeks in the bus, one week off, two weeks in the bus, one week off, because I'm a fragile soul.

What made you do a bus tour? A financial reason. Well, we did the math, and also there's just something nice about not having to take all these little flights and after the environment, you're checking into different hotels. And I kind of like the idea of just having all my stuff on the. all my products on the bus, all my clear mascara, you know, get settled in. I'm hoping the bus driver is a nice friendly person. So you're saying it's cheaper for you to take a bus.

Yes. Essentially, yeah. Yeah. And I did that. I went on tour with Sarah Silverman years ago and did the bus tour. How was that? Just the two of you on the bus? Well, she, and it was also Todd Glass.

Oh, fun. And her manager. And then also her tour manager is the woman Jessica, who is the producer of Come See Me in the Good Light. Oh. And so I met Jessica on that tour with Sarah. Oh. And turns out she was a producer, documentary producer. And so we've just kept in touch over the years loosely.

we had such a nice time on tour. Was it nice on the bus? Because I might bring an opening act or like, yeah, have a tour manager on the bus. I mean, it was nice in that, you know, I was with fun people and friends. And like I slept in bed with Sarah, like in the big bed in the back. And, you know, I wasn't like in a bunk bed or anything. I slept with her. And you didn't feel claustrophobic.

Like it was good to just get off stage and then go. Yeah, I don't really have huge memories of it other than like, um, You know, I think it must have been a good enough time. I don't have a single bad memory, so that's what I'm going on. And then it was also funny because I recorded my album in Bloomington, Indiana, and Sarah's big tour bus pulled up to, I recorded my album in a recording studio. Oh, wow. Oh, what?

Yeah. But with an audience. With an audience. They all came and sat on the floor. It was a tiny audience. because my record label, secretly Canadian, they're an indie rock label, and I'm their one comedian. And so they were like, want it when you come through Bloomington, which is where they're located, they have Bonifere and all sorts of cool artists and stuff.

But anyway, they were like, come by the studio and we'll fill it up with some friends and locals and they'll all just be sitting on the floor in the recording studio and we'll get really great sound quality. And so Sarah introduces me on that album and it's because we were on tour on the bus. That's a cool beetlesy vibe, people sitting on the floor of a studio and like, yeah. Have you done a bus tour of Fortune?

No, I don't think I ever will. Coming in strong. I mean, I think because I think because I, I am such a homebody. I don't like being gone more than like 10 days without having some kind of like base

home base. So I don't know. I kind of like doing the like go out for three or four days come back. And I don't mind stretching that over a year and a half. But every, I mean, and every tour I do is 150 shows

and 100 cities. You can't be on a bus for a year. A bus. Yeah. Oh my God. If I got on the bus and I got buckled in, you don't buckle, I guess, but I got in. And then the bus driver turned around and it was Thomas. I was trying to think of someone, it would be funny if it was them.

I would be so happy if it was Thomas. Buckle up, little cowboy. Wait, is that your Thomas impression? I guess it was. That was terrible. I didn't mean, I didn't really mean. Was that Australian? Buggle up.

Little cowboy. My Thomas impression might sound a bit like my Ira Glass. Let's hear it. I'd be like, hey, we're going on tour. I don't know why I made it nasal. All right, take you try. Well, I'll do the impression. Thomas doesn't know this, but Stephanie and I do an impression of Thomas.

No way, let's hear it. But only for this one thing in our life. Okay. Because when Thomas was our assistant, any time, and this is, was how we ate too was like if if we had leftover mainly leftovers from max and finn um you know thomas when you say when you were at the house we'd be like oh there's half of this thing do you want it yeah i would get offered a lot of leftovers yes and um but thomas like if you ask um you know hey thomas do you want the rest of these uh the noodles he'd go uh yes please

Thomas can you hear that that is yeah that's yes please yeah so whenever we offer each other mainly food but it could be anywhere else we'll say yes please I love that so that's my Thomas impression yeah yes please that's funny that people in your life like might have impersonations of you don't know about from some moment that you like I wonder oh my friend told me last night really calmly in front of a bunch of of people who then colluded that my walk looks like in footage of Bigfoot, when they catch Bigfoot walking fast. It does for sure. Really? Everyone knows it. I've not noticed this.

With like straight legs, straight, kind of stiff and just the way Bigfoot like strides across the camera. That's a good stride though. Yeah, I think it's not bad. It's walking with purpose. Yeah. And a little guilty looking always. I've wanted to make a list of all the.

D, oh, sorry. And we got nothing. And we got nothing. I've wanted to make a list of all the different little sayings that we have in our family. Because, you know, how every family or a group of friends, you have those little lines. Yeah. Like the, yes, please. Yeah.

What's, what I'm trying to think of some from, mine all come out when we're playing poker as a family. If someone hasn't put their blinds in, my mom says, some cunt's light. sorry sorry she says what it's listen we're british family so it's not as it's not that but i didn't hear what you said she says some cunt's light and she's been saying that since i was about 10 sorry i didn't realize that's what you said either oh you didn't okay but i repeated it so say it again i can't because british people love that word they love it do you like that word I only say it with a British accent. Yeah.

Cunt. We're all so sheepish. Well, one time... Could you hear my British accent? Fortune's just a pretty little lady. She's so shy to say it. My mom always says that she knew she had too much road rage because I was in the backseat. I was two and she was driving and someone cut her off and she went, you fucking...

and then I in the backseat went, Cunt? Anyway, sorry, sorry guys. But it's not as, but over there, over and across the pond, it's not, it doesn't have the clutching the pearls thing that we have it with that word here. It's a term of endearment. Yeah, everyone says it there.

Yeah. Did you have any sayings in your family? Me? Yeah. I don't think so. Because I grew up with two. brothers and they weren't very whimsical, you know. Right.

So everything was very, oh, my mom had a thing. It's not really a saying, but it was her little phrase that whenever we went to school or she would send us off by saying happy day. Oh, happy day is nice. So that, well, I guess that would count as one of those things. That's a good stand-up special title. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Happy day.

Oh, happy day. Oh, happy. Happy day. Oh, happy day. Oh, happy day. When Jesus was, when Jesus was, when Jesus was, he was sins away. Oh, my Lord. Exactly.

Yes. Oh, my gosh, you guys. We have so many sayings in my current immediate family. that are that's where it came from where I'm like oh I'd love to make a list because we have so Stephanie and I say so many little things to each other all the time even my ex who is now married to this guy named Jeff we were with them one time and my ex was talking about something and he pushed back about whatever she was saying and she said no you know I can't do that and and that would never happen and you know that Jeff and um and so to this day anytime that there's a

moment that we can sneak that in you know it's like Stephanie will be like yeah she'll be like she'll be like can you can you get see if that cooler will fit in the back of the car and I'm like it Stephanie it doesn't fit back there and you know that Jeff oh that's really good constantly we say and You know that, Jeff. Yeah, or the queens of callbacks is what it is. Yes. Yes, you guys are queens of callbacks. You're just constantly doing callbacks.

It's so, so fun. And when we were shooting One Mississippi, you know, the director, Nicole Hollif Center, she worked a lot on One Mississippi, and we were going somewhere on location. We were in the van. And I don't know who said what, but Nicole misunderstood it. And she was facing forward on the bus. And she just turned around and was like, we have to go back?

And we were like, no. Nobody said we had to go back because we had been driving for like an hour or whatever or someplace. And she's like, we have to go back. And so now when anytime something like that comes up, okay, we're, you know, we're going to miss it. So let's just go back. We have to go back. I like it. I love all the fun little callbacks.

But you're right, Fortune, that's what it is. I love it. I love you, too. Oh. We all just want to be loved. Is that so wrong? Do you remember that John Lovett's character? No.

I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong? That actually leads us into our question pretty well. It sure does. Should we get to our question? Yeah, let's do it. Well, today's question asker is an Emmy-nominated actor best known for playing Oscar on The Office. He reprises the role in the new spinoff series,

The Paper. He's also appeared in shows like Lucky Hank, Mr. Iglesias, and People of Earth. Oscar Nunez is asking today's question. Hi, handsome. It's Oscar Nunez from the office and a new show called The Paper. And I love your show. TIG, I want to say that I taught you everything you know, but I can't because it's not true, but I want to say it. Fortune, hi, hi, May. You guys, here's my question. Okay, pick your top five cast members from S&L from all time, top five improv group you would have. And good luck. Good luck to all of us. Thank you for wishing us luck, Oscar. Oh, Oscar's so sweet. So sweet, so funny. Such a kind man. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

Max and Finn were tiny. We went over to his house, and his daughter was so sweet, the way she took care of them. It just, like, will never, ever leave my mind. I mean, he and his wife are all so wonderful. But, man, his daughter, it's one of those moments where you're like, I want my kids to be like that. Oh, I love that. That's sweet. I can't believe they have another office spinoff.

I know, apparently it's really great. It's getting amazing reviews. Oh, yeah? That's great. What do you mean another one? Has there already the, because the American one was the, oh, the British one, I mean, take on the British, the American version of the British version. Right, right, right.

Okay. Yeah. So, S&L cast members, I feel like this, because we're, we're each from slightly different generations, I wonder if that will be reflected in our answers and I can't wait to find out. I think it will. I can't wait. We believe that building a website should be easy. even fun. That's why Handsome is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace gives you

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or incorporating into a salad dressing. Graza is my favorite. Yeah, we've been cooking family meals lately, and while it's lovely to take the time to make a meal, you also need it to be convenient and efficient. I love that Graza's oils come in easy, squeeze bottles with a controlled pour. It also means less mess. With Graza, I'm adding healthy fats and flavor to all my go-to dishes. It's our famous annual site-wide sale. Time to stock up on olive oil for the year. Discounts are automatically applied at checkout. No code needed. Head to graza.com and get your Graza olive oil today. I know because I feel like everybody, you know, it's such a cultural

thing the SNL is just like a part you know I don't know how it is for the young people now if they pay attention to it like we did but I feel like when I was growing up everyone kind of had their SNL cast like this is who you know people watched

and like nothing was ever as good as the cast that you grew up on yeah now I feel like people watch like the clips on Instagram and stuff but it's different like when I was growing up Like, you would sit on Saturday 9 and watch the whole show. But now people just watch, like, the Instagram highlights. Right.

I know when I was obsessed with it, I think I started paying attention to, I didn't watch the early days, like the Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner days. Those were before my time. I came on as a big fan of the show in the Adam Sandler era. Yeah. And Chris Farley era. And I was so obsessed with it. I would watch it religiously live on Saturday night.

I would tape it in my VCR and then study it throughout the week. Study it. A little notepad and pen. And ironically, I opened for Sandler. I was just with him this past weekend. How was that? So fun. He does these big huge arena shows, like 14,000 people.

and, you know, people dress up as all the characters he's played in movies and on S&L, and they're so passionate about him and know him from so many different things. It's the best. He's so lovely and nice. Yeah. It's such a, you know, even doing the show with Will, it's like these people I grew up on, and it's so wild to me to be, like, doing things with them now. But it's such a relief when they're so nice, too.

I know. And he is super nice. his stuff doesn't age because it's so silly that it's just evergreen like his songs and things that he is doing these days and yeah I only met him one time but he was so nice backstage at Largo I'm Adam nice to meet you. That was really good yeah I was like oh I love you thank God yeah yeah I remember he put out a comedy album when I was in like eighth grade yeah and I would listen to it over and over and over again but it was so ridiculous so I would say my early two of my five would be

Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from those early days and I'll answer the other ones in a bit but did y'all follow any of that cast? Yeah. I mean that was a bit before my time so they wouldn't, I don't know. Like you said, like you just get attached to your era so my five are all, I think they're all women too.

my five are like are like Kristen Wig Rachel Dratch Maya Rudolph on a gas dire and Molly Shannon probably those are like gods to me those are amazing

Kristen Wig was a bit after when I stopped watching She came a little bit after yeah oh man Sherry O'Terry yeah yeah my other ones would be Will Ferrell

Molly Shannon and Kristen Wig that's a strong five Molly and Will were at the cast the era after Farley and Sandler and then Kristen would be the era after Molly and Will. They all seemed to, that era, they all seemed to, I mean, probably not, but they all seemed to get along and have a good time as well.

And they seemed like, well, I heard, I heard that Will and Sherry O'Terry and a bunch of people in that era came from the groundlings. Oh, okay. So there was a lot of camaraderie there. so they like would do like improv warmups together and stuff. So whereas earlier days it was kind of more a party vibe, like an edgier vibe. They sort of brought it. And then the Farley and Sandler days were kind of boys club.

Yeah. More like kind of masculine. Will and Molly and Sherry's era was like silly and improvy, goofy characters kind of thing. Take, what about you? Gilda was such a massive, massive part of my childhood, and I just adored her. And I also loved Chevy Chase. My mother had such a crush on Chevy Chase.

Really? Oh, my God, loved him. You know how I think everyone's bisexual or I can't flippantly say that? Then when I meet straight women who are like, Chevy Chase is my guy, and I'm like, some people are straight. Yeah, yeah. But he what, I mean, when he was young, like I just, I can see the, but my mother also thought she was also in love with David Letterman. Right. You know, like she just, she was like, oh, he's so cute. And I think she just thought they were so funny, obviously. Not that they're unattractive people, but I just, you know. Yeah. So Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Martin Short. I love him so deeply. yeah um this is probably a little bit of a curveball in that she's not as well known um laura kightlinger oh interesting i'm googling do you you know her fortune uh-huh i just love how dry and dark this woman is she's she was one of my favorite stand-ups i just i love her so so much she had a book

called Quick Shots of False Hope. And it's funny because the cover of the book, she's leaning to the side. And she was like, yeah, I did that to get out of the way of the half-off stickers. That's funny. She's just, she's so funny. And I've seen so many clips.

My brother was so into Chris Farley. And he made his way into my whatever awareness of S&L to some degree in a way that I just, yeah, I just, I know more about him, I would say, than other more recent, more beyond the first season. Yeah. But you guys must have been to like SNL after parties and stuff, right? You have both of you? Fuck off, really. I've never been in a... I know that's like the golden era might...

Like maybe it's not as cool anymore, but I would like to go to an SNL after party. It's just a little different than what you might imagine. Like when you think of an S&L after party, you think of like, just this big grand party with all these people and just chatting with each other and drinking. But they pick a restaurant

and that restaurant stays open for them. And all the cast have their own table. It's a different restaurant every week. It's a different restaurant every Saturday. Huh. And they just, nothing's provided or paid for because, you know, they do it every week for decades.

So that would be pretty pricey. Right. And everyone just goes to their own table and chats with their friends. Oh, wait a second. Yeah, I was picturing. And then occasionally they'll get up and mingle, but it's kind of everyone just like at their own table. it's cool because you're like oh I went but it's a little different than what you would kind of assume for sure

I mean in the in the golden era I bet it was like people doing karaoke I mean back in the guild of days they probably partied and like yeah I'm sure yeah yeah yeah it's not that vibe now uh-uh yeah it's just like chatting and having a cocktail if that and not everyone goes from the cast they're tired people are a lot more aware of self-care now yeah for sure yeah I tested twice for the show I remember you saying yeah did you send in a tape or you went in my first one was a tape and then the second one they saw me at the groundlings and it just was like such a dream of mine but even to like just walk the hall and to like be on that perform on that stage and because a lot of the people that have worked there

for decades you know you're meeting these people people that, you know, did costumes and makeup for all these huge people. Yeah, they have the guys behind the camera. Some of them have been there for 30 years. It's just, it's such an institution. Yeah. I just thought, man, this is like that I just wanted it so bad because it was such a part of my childhood.

And I just was so obsessed with the show that you think it's like the end all be all. Yep. Would you still want it now if you could have it? No, I make way too much money. They get paid nothing. Is that right? Is it? Yeah. The pay is so low. And you sign away the rights all your material. It would be a huge step back now.

I mean, it's obviously a coveted thing, but it's just, it would have been amazing, you know, 12 years ago. Mm-hmm. But now I would- And we're all hosting it. It would be like, I would lose so much money doing that show. Right. Anyway, that sounds weird to say. I'm only saying it because they get paid so little. Yeah, famously.

They get paid very little. I'm not saying like, oh, I'm a gazillionaire. I'm just saying it's more. I heard I'm a gazillionaire in there. Yeah, that's what I heard. But it would be, yeah, it's such a cool thing for any it's a young person's place you know it's like that's the job you want when you're in your late 20s early 30s well should we hear what uh Oscar has to say yeah because was there any

crossover of our answers I but we said Molly Shannon we had a couple Tick and I both said Farley you and I both said Molly and Chris and Whig yeah kind of I used to memorize uh Molly's Mary Catherine Gallagher oh man yeah and do it at school And my first time ever doing anything on stage was at my senior, this senior day, I played Mary Catherine Gallagher on stage. Nice. Smelled my armpits and everything. And how to smell? That's what she does.

Good question. When she gets nervous, she puts her hands on her arms like this, and then she smells them. Yeah. Well done. Those were the correct answers. Fortune Marie. I just wanted to say that. Here are my five picks in no particular order.

Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wigg, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, and the fifth one, Handsome gets to pick, but you have to pick from these three guys. Will Forte, Fred Armisen, or Bill Hader. I love Handsome. Yeah. Bye. Those are three solid ones, too.

I would say Bill Hader of the group. Because Stefan, this is one of my first. favorite SNL characters of all time. But Fred and Will Forte are so great, too. That's really, I'm going to go Fred on SNL because I'm remembering lots of amazing. But yeah, Bill here, yeah. When Fred's very music forward, so he always has one character. Like, oh, Dios Meo.

But then, like, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the news desk was iconic. Yeah, they didn't make it onto our list. That's crazy. I mean, it's hard. Well, you know, 50 years. They just celebrated their 50 years. of S&L, that's hard to narrow down. That is crazy, 50 years.

And I'm going to go with Will Forte. You got our bases covered. Just because you love McGruber. Me and McGrouver, man. Man, do I love McGrueber? Well, thanks for the question, Oscar. I ran into Oscar. I think it was at the airport and he was boarding a flight

and he was listening to my old podcast, Don't Ask Him. No, I believe that he listens to our podcast. Oh, that's so nice. Yeah. It is a trip to see people. I have passed by people like if I've been out walking and they're like, I know this is crazy, but I just have to show you. And they'll show me their phone and they're listening to Hanson. Yeah.

And that's always such a trip. Or in Lake Arrowhead, there was a woman who was like, I was just listening to you talking about how you're in Lake Arrowhead. And then there I went walking through her. small town yeah that trip that you love so much that you came home a week early from i did you get your stuff home we never asked did you end up there i did not come home a week early i came back for like one day and then i went oh you did go back yeah yeah yeah because we never we never called up with you on that we never closed that circle let's close it now i i i was there for like 93% of the allotted time and i I would do it again.

Did you invite anyone else up there for a romantic hot dog dinner? Wouldn't you like to know? No, I was. No, I was. No. We had a lot of people weighing in on that hot dog dinner. Oh, yeah. People were outraged.

Yeah. Oh, the things people get outraged about. I mean, people were not, people like were delighted and content. confused by my list of things that I brought, but then a lot of other people being like, this is so wasteful, this is, this is capitalism and like, yeah, so I don't know. Yeah, it's, you can't take it in. You got to just be aware of it and try, you know, we're all trying to be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's bigger stuff to get upset about.

Do you guys, do you read reviews? Like, I'm just, well, by the time this comes out, I guess some reviews, will have come out of my show and I really I just hate it so much the review part and then my friend always says you know well Godfather 2 got one star from Siskel and Ebert or something like that is your friend Ira Glass yeah it's Thomas actually well you know I'll read reviews what I don't get into though is comments yeah oh it's a garbage fire yeah like that kind of thing I'm just not I mean, of course, it's hard to not take in a comment here or there, but I don't, I'm not interested in, in, it's not that I'm not interested in what people

have to say, but like I, that's what, like, with the, the premiere and saying it felt like, like my wedding and stuff, I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot that it's not about this. Like, I was so excited for that moment to celebrate it and everything. And then I was like, no, of course this is stressful. and still work and you're managing everybody's, you know, and like it is the process of making it. That's the best part. Yes, for sure.

Yeah. And just connecting with people on set and, but I'm definitely interested. I find I'm so curious about insights that people have about a show in a review, you know, where I'm like, oh, yeah, we miss that. or that would have been an interesting thing to, to add. Yeah. But, you know, sometimes or like things like Reddit, like that doesn't, that doesn't interest me, you know.

But a reviewer, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not opposed to reading that. Listen, if it's good, I'm reading it. If it's bad, I'm like, they don't know what they're talking about. Do you feel that way? Do you feel, or do you ever feel like, because I've read bad reviews about myself and been like, yeah, that's fair, too shay, yeah, of course, of course. Yeah.

Well, it's also tricky when you also created it and are starring in it. It's like a, nowhere to hide. Even more invested in a way that, you know, just being an actor is not. Yeah. Do you read reviews though, Fortune? like when a standout special comes out done has been like a lot of the stuff I've done is like

light broad comedies you know so it's more of just like oh that movie wasn't funny and you're like okay right you know it's not like some some drama where

you're true this big actory side has to come out yeah um so like yeah I've seen reviews and it's been like they're either into it or they're not. You're just kind of go, okay. Yeah. It's funny because being in this industry, I mean, for myself, you get so used to being critiqued and instant feedback from people laughing or not. And I don't know,

for me, it's, I feel like in a positive way has hardened me in that like I just, I'm like, yeah, I'm not for everyone. Yeah, you don't get my delivery. Right, yeah. Because people really, really can get destroyed by that kind of thing, which is understandable. Yeah. But I feel like it has sent me in a direction of like, yeah. Well, it's kind of like every time you get on stage, it's like a sort of self-esteem firing squad

where you're, you know, standing there. And then if you survive that over and over again, you're like, okay, it's going to be all right. Like, I'm still going to. Has it hardened you in a good way or? Yeah, a little bit. Uh-huh. Maybe.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm feeling anxious about it this time around just because it's a different genre. And like, I feel like people then review within the genre. They're like, is this? Yeah. So I hope people just like let it wash over them and think of it like a new thing. I don't know, but yeah, yeah, I'm, I'll, yeah, it's all, it's all good. It's going to be great, well, it's, uh, it's one of those things, too, with Netflix.

It's like, reviews are kind of subjective. Mm-hmm. And, uh, it'll, you know, I think a lot of people are going to watch it, and that's how they, um, that metric, yeah. The, yeah, that's where they really lay their, um, the importance on is the viewership. Mm-hmm. So my handsome folks come out and support May and watch Wayward. Like in our job, it is crazy that, so you have to keep making stuff, you know, that's very exposing.

You've got, you know, vulnerable, personal stuff that you're like, I think this is worth putting out there. And then you always kind of know, like, if I do one thing that's panned, like one thing that's actually objectively bad, I might not get another thing after that. like you hope that you put in enough years that it's like oh you know you'll give me another whirl yeah yeah but it is i don't think it's going to be panned but you know what i mean it's like yeah yeah you have no idea what is coming no it could be the biggest sensation that's right and we'll never hear from you again you'll be one of those people it's like yeah yeah things are going good my show's on top i'm busy i'm important and i don't need you no more Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm only taking Waymo cars now. Whoa. May take, hear me out. Waymo cars. My friend is in town from Colorado. And she's never seen or heard of a Waymo car. Because it's only in four cities, I think, in the States. Is that right?

Jimmy Kimmel did a bit on his show where he picked up his, I think it was his mom, or had a Waymo picker up. And he just, like, called her like, oh, I can't come, but I had a driver come get you. And she gets in and the door's locked and it starts going. And she realizes that no one's driving it. And they have cameras in the car and watching her go, oh, my God, oh, my God, call Jimmy, call Jimmy. Oh, my God, freaking out. And it shows him, like, watching.

It's so funny. That's great. He did that, what, on his talk show? Uh-huh. That's great. Yeah. Because if you don't know about these and you get in and a car starts driving yourself, that would be wild.

Well, that's what I said to my friend. I was like, it said something casually about how there was no driver. And she's like, what do you mean there's no driver? There is zero driver in that car. That's what I mean. And she's pretty glad that we went full circle back to Waymo. Back to Waymo. See, that's why this, what a podcast.

What a comeback queen. Exactly. We have to go back. We have to call back. We have to call back. You know it. You know we do, Jeff. You know it. You know it. You know that, Jeff. Jeff, you know that. I'm just going to adopt all your really specific relationship. I'm going to write them all out. And I'm going to tell you about them. And then please incorporate. Yeah. Great. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. Right. Right. well this was a slice it was a slice it was a slice it was a real treat and if you enjoyed it and you want to share this with a loved one or an enemy send it along and let's help whoever's is listening you think i should send it yeah might as well but let's build this handsome community and make sure to subscribe subscribe review rate subscribe to youtube and um keep us on the air We said we don't read comments, but Thomas does pick out his favorite reviews of the week for people who, when people review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or whatever.

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All right, well, what does everyone have going on? October 17th, I'm at the Lyric Theater in L.A., and other than that, just check out. my social media for my animal painting book that I'm selling for Doctors Without Borders and my music and stuff like that. And watch Wayward on Netflix. That's right.

I'm at the Wang in Boston, October 11th. I'm excited for that one. Atlanta on October 18th, Chicago, Chicago Theater, San Jose in Fresno, California, Charlotte, North Carolina, Palm Springs, St. Petersburg, Orlando, a bunch of places, and a lot of new dates and rescheduled dates in the early part of the year. And I will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 11th,

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