The Harland Highway - The new Harland Highway #78 Cheri Oteri

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

Hilarious SNL star Cheri Oteri talks about her famous characters, her journey, and funny stories from her life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, I don't need these, right? You don't have to have those, no. You want to toss them on the floor? Oh, look at that. And you're doing your... Huh. I can't really see you because of this, but this is how you want it? You want to pull it down of it?

Like that. Yeah, so I can see it? Yeah, there you go, too. And then don't make sure it's not too far away. You can wiggle it around. I get so scared of, uh... Of what? Mike stands?

Like, what, don't be scared. Come on. No, look, you can do what, look, you can manipulate it any way you want. So, however you're comfy, cozy. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, uh-huh, well, now, that's right. Welcome to the Holland Highway podcast.

And I'm going to hit the theme music. You can't hear it, but it's really good. Welcome, everybody. Incredible guests today. My buddy, one of the funniest people I've ever met my life. She's already got me laughing. Sherryoteri is here. How you doing?

Oh, good, honey. Good to see you. You too. I saw you like last week, didn't I? Yeah, we did see each other. Oh, good. They look great. What are your little earrings?

Are those turquoise? I see them hanging. Yeah, they're just little blue stuff. Is it, are they turquoise or turquoise? How do you say it? Turquoise. Turquoise, right? Yes.

I have a buddy who calls it turquoise. Well, uh, idiot. He's fancy pants. Yeah. He's trying too hard. He's trying too hard. And I had a- Tell Frank, Francois, he's trying too much.

And he's French-Canadian, too. So he'd say turquoise. Are you from Canada? Yeah, French-Canadian, half-French Canadian, too. Yeah, because that's what Fred said to me, um, he's from Canada, right? And I go, no. Yeah. He's from the South.

I know everyone thinks him from the South because I talk with like kind of a slow drawl. A little foghorn, light corn, I'm just going to say. I'll say, nice boy, but about his shop is a bowling ball. And then another buddy of mine used to say Pastradian instead of pedestrian. Well, that's just grammar. Right? That's not an accent. Is there a word that people get wrong that drives you bajonkers?

Is there a wacky word? Oh, yeah. What is it? Supposedly. Oh, right. Supposedly. Supposedly. My sister used to say, well, supposedly.

And I'm like, but then she would get mad at me if I was, you know, correct her. But it's a D not a B. It's a D not a B. Yeah. Did you think she was maybe a little bit mentally challenged because of that? No, no. You can tell me. She's like way smarter than me, but it was just, you know, that it's just a supposedly.

And I don't know if she was smarter than you. Because you knew, but you knew supposedly, and she didn't. I got that going for me. Right? So I'm putting you up there. She's like, who are you to correct me? Is that what she said? And then she threw a Rubik's cube at your face, completely finished.

God. Can you do a Rubik's cube? No. Who invented that thing? Talk about making you feel stupid. I can't do them. Remember they were so big, and then they were key chains and blah, blah, blah. I think they're back.

Are they? Who the hell has time to invent that, though? Like, what guy sat down and said, I'm going to get a square and chop it into colors? The guys that are big in IT right now. Yeah? But the Rubik's Cube was like from the 70s, I think, it came out. I actually used it. Oh, here we go.

It was in a movie. I just, I did. I was with Jason Alexander, and it was. It was like a Comedy Central movie. And it was about, oh, our daughter can get a job. Yeah. But I said, but the Rubik's Cube is she can't keep it. Right, right, right.

And they kept it in. Oh, isn't it great when you ad lib something in a movie and they keep it in? You feel so flattered, you know. Right? Yeah. And they don't know what's coming. And the best part is when you ad lib in a show or a TV and a movie and you hear the whole crew cracking up.

That is the best. I always said when I was on SNL, I knew a sketch was going to be good when the camera guys, when we rehearsed it, when they would laugh because all they want to do is eat and go home. Yeah. They're over it. Yeah, they're over.

That's right. They've seen it all. They've seen it all. But I would always pay attention when the camera guys and the crew would laugh because I was like, okay. Did you ever know this? I physically saw this. Sometimes you'd be doing it.

And they can't laugh because they don't want to be heard. So there'd be times when I'd be on a movie or something. And you just see the cameras start shaking. And you know it's because they're sitting on. A lot of the big cameras had the chairs built right into them, the little round seats. And so they'd sit there like this. And when you did something funny,

they'd just start laughing. And the whole thing would start to wobble. And I was like, in my head, I'm like, I got them. I got them. That's a real inexpensive film. It's okay if the camera shakes. Well, luckily, the name of the movie I was doing was called Parkinson, so it all worked out. You're an idiot.

You're an idiot. Give me a Rubik's Cube. I'll prove you wrong. Ladies and gentlemen, Sherry O'Terri is here today from Saturday Night Live. That's your big claim to fame. Yeah. Nothing big has happened. Oh, stop.

Actress, writer, comic. I mean, baby lumps, come on. Unbelievable. And I love your name. Can I say that right? I've always loved your name, Sherry O'Terry. It's just one of those. Did you ever think it would be like a showbiz name?

All my growing up, it was never rhymed. It was always Sherry O'Tiri. O'Reary. And I always say O'Tiri. But it's not that different from O'Terry for me to correct anyone. Right. You know what I mean? I'm not going to say.

Because when I moved to California, It would make sense. It's C-H-E-R-I, O-T-E-R-I. So why wouldn't the last name be pronounced the same as, you know, the first? I don't know why. But, and then when I did get S&L, Don Pardo, I saw him in the hall when I first got the job. And he was like, Sherry, I'm Don Pardo. And I go, uh, yeah.

Yeah. And he was really, really tall. Did he talk like that? Sherry, I'm Don Pardo. That's how he sounds. He always talked like that. Yeah. God, imagine having sex with him.

I think I'm about to achieve. I'm feeling really good. Oh, oh, oh, here it comes. I'm Dompardo. Oh, my God. But I love to ever, people ever call you, because at one point I thought before I knew you, when I'd see the credits roll on S&L,

I thought it was charioteri, which is also kind of catchy. Now, if someone had started calling you Cherry, would you have corrected that? Yes. You would have? Yeah. You don't like that.

I remember when I was a kid going into like the Wawa in Pennsylvania. The Wawa, what's that? It's a store in Pennsylvania. It's like a convenience store. Huh. Where everything is triple the price because you just run in and run out, just like any convenience store here. Yeah.

Let me guess the lady behind the counter when you talked to was like, hello, How are you? No, we don't know where the wah-wah came from. Oh, okay. No wah-wah pedal. Okay.

But there was, I go, oh, mommy, my name is spelled. Can I, we get that magazine? And the magazine was covered in plastic because it was a porn magazine. And she's like, no. But it's spelled the way my name is. But when Don Parto goes, how would you like me to pronounce your name?

Yeah. And I never thought, like, I never even thought about it. I was so in that moment. Yeah. You know, just excited. I couldn't believe I was talking to him. That's got to be weird, because he's the one guy that's been there from the beginning. Other cast members came and went, and then you meet one of the original pillars.

And he was the nicest, sweetest man. He was. Oh, my gosh. He would go to Florida, and it just talked about his grandchildren, and wanted to show you pictures. Yeah. He was just such a beautiful man. And I said, whatever you think. done and I maybe I shouldn't have said that but I was like well how is he going to and he goes

I like the rhyme it rolls off the tongue and I went okay and I think my dad might have been like a little upset about that you know but the mispronouncement mispronouncing yeah because that's an Italian name right and the Italians come on they got that come on they got the Italian pride yeah oh was he from my ball sack oh wow your dad Dad said that to you. Because that's a type of thing. I mean, you know. And he named me.

Who? My dad. Your dad? Mm-hmm. Your mom had nothing to do with it? No. This was his call. Why did he go for Sherry?

What was the... It was a dirty magazine? I've no idea. Your dad named you after the dirty magazine. Oh, no. No, no, no. And does your brother Playboy in Penthouse have... How are they?

Are they happy with their names? Tommy and Denise. Well, I said Playboy and Penthouse. You're going to be Cherry. She's my cherubai. How about your adopted brother, Hustler? How's he doing? Shedding.

See, that's what I love about you. You're one of these people in terms of comedy, all right? This is a compliment. you're what I call explosive because you can be like right here and then just do one little chitink like you've got this energy button inside you you hit

and it's instantly funny to me no matter what you do so that's a compliment I just love it when you yeah you just that's something you know I've been around comedians and comic people my whole career and it's rare that someone has that kind of almost an instant button you can hit

a lot of guys have to go into a joke or a rhythm but you're one of the people who I've met in comedy that can just hit a button and boom and you did it on S&L and the skits all the time you'd just walk into the room as like boom you just like you were on you know do you know that you must know that right

well it's not like we're improvising you know you know you know you rehearse and everything like that but right but your your comic energy is what I'm saying it just like it's like it's like a door opens It was just like, boom. Well, back then it was just called fear. Was it? Yeah, but I think I always, even at the groundlings, I was so frightened.

I was so scared before I would go on. So scared. Yeah, I think we all are. But would you say the fear sort of help you find your comedy? Does it drive you or does it hurt you? It'd be nice if I didn't have so much fear. Yeah. I remember, I remember standing all.

on the side and I go I was just about to do my sketch and we were live and I go god I'm so scared to norm McDonald and he goes well you take Xanax this is like back then I go what's that and goes ah just relax you and I go well what if what if it like kind of impedes what and he goes it won't and I go okay that was it and did you take Xana no no Norm was unassuming like that, right? Norm was always when I used to hang out with him back in Toronto. He was just always this kind of, ah, fun guy. And then you'd never kind of, for some reason,

I don't know, there was an innocence about him. Well, you didn't expect stuff like that to come out of them, but it always did, you know. I remember when we first got the show, Will and I walking down the hallway. Yeah. And Norm looked at Will and goes, is that your beard? And neither one of us knew what that meant.

Yeah. I don't even know what that means. Oh, so we're walking, and then we both went, and then he passed and he passed and we both stopped. What's that mean? Do you know what it means? No, I don't know what it means. And it means like, you know, is that your beard?

Are you gay and she's your front? Oh, oh, I got you. Yeah, it was like a gender thing or something. You never heard that either? Yeah, maybe I have no. Is that your beard or is that the other way? Is that your skirt? Yeah, like if a gay man has got a girl.

You know that, like, he's not out yet or something like that. And it was just so funny that we didn't know what that meant. I mean, I really sometimes I think I can't believe how naive we all were. Yeah. But that's part of the fun of it, you know? It is. I think it's when you get thrown into stuff, especially in the entertainment business, it's like jumping in a lake and you say, do I even know how to swim?

Like I remember way back when I got like I got a sitcom But I got the lead and I'd never done a sitcom And they go you're the lead and I'm like okay And I was terrified and I go screw it let's just jump in Let's see if I can do it And the great thing about that is It's tape Yeah you did it live though yeah

And you know the great thing is I came from the groundlings So yeah you know we were never used to Having being able to go again Yeah right so that gets in your blood And then when you go to do a movie or you go to do a sitcom, it's like, okay, we're going to go again. I'm like, you know, why? Yeah. Because you learn, you train yourself to just, you've got to get it right because you're not coming back.

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and then I always wondered how he did over at S&L. I lost kind of contact with him when he was going through that phase. So how was it there with Norm? You know, it was fine, you know. Were you guys buddies? Did you hit it off? No, we were more buddies. I don't know if he was buddies.

Norm, Norm can be, yeah, Norm can be hard to get close to. I mean, when I was best buddies with them way back in the 90s and stuff, like I was kind of the only one. Like he didn't let a lot of people in, you know. But he let me in and we got really close. and um you're easy to let in i am oh what's your address you're just a hug waiting to happen hello care bear i mean if you want to ask me out to the cheesecake factory just do it i don't need all this flirting young lady oh god let's go cinnamon spice silly so let's cut so so s and l and then

Some of your characters were so amazing, and I've noticed I went on to your TikTok, and now you're kind of, you went from doing your characters on, on S&L, and now I go on your TikTok, and you're kind of generating some recurring characters I've noticed on your TikTok. A couple in particular, I love, you do this thing where you're this girl who collects dog poo at the dog park. Honey, that's not, I'm not doing a girl, that's me. That's you in real life. But the funny thing is. I'm really being myself.

Yeah, yeah. And, you know, there's a couple of people that said to me, oh, you should do TikTok, TikTok, and I'm just like, what? Yeah. You know, it's, you get to an age and you're like, and I'm like, wow, I'm turning into the, you know, oh, I don't understand that. I don't, I can't, I don't have time for that. Yeah.

I'm not doing. Yeah. And then, you know, I'm on Instagram. I'm like, Instagram's enough. Yeah. I mean, I was almost like, what? And then you get into the mindset. If I'm doing Instagram, I might as well do TikTok because they're the same.

Okay, so, oh, I did this. This is what they put on TikTok, you know, and I'm, you know, noticing what the difference is and everything. So, you know, it started out me just walking my dogs and doing a poop toss, you know, to try and get it in the trash can. Yeah. But you were talking about you'd pick up the poop in the little plastic bag. Yeah, and you tie it up. You tie it up. And then there's the garbage can, like literally 30, 40 feet away.

Not that far. It's pretty far. The one I saw, it was like Kobe Bryant taking a shit shot. Shit shot. Like a loaf from the third point line over there. Yeah, it was a shit shot. And I'm just thinking to myself, I got some time on my hands. You know, I'm throwing poop.

But you're pretty good. You're pretty at, like how many? I walk the dogs a lot. Yeah. Did you miss like hundreds of them before you? Sure. Yeah. I always think to myself, all right, you got to throw in there like, you know, your misses too.

Yeah. Because then, you know. Did you ever miss and the bag flew through the air and just hit somebody? No. Oh, I want to see that video. No. I want to see you hit someone in the back of the head with a Rottweiler loaf. And I would take him to the dog park and, you know, sometimes.

And then I notice, oh, when you're. you're in the picture, more people want to see it. Because I was just always taking it myself. Oh, right, yeah. And then, you know, I had someone else take it. And the difference of when you're in it. And then I have this young girl come over and she's really into social media. You know, she tells me about social media.

Yeah. Sherry, you need to be in some of your videos. Yeah, it was just your arm sticking out, like a video game. Yeah. Like, I don't need to be seen. Right? They go, yeah, people like it if you're kind of in it. Yeah, yeah, they want to see your face.

And then from that, I just started doing stuff, and I was just, I think, blown away by the response. Yeah. You know? Well, it's you. That's what I mean. People love you. You're so damn funny.

Well, it's kind of nice to just being yourself. Yeah, not doing a schick. Yeah. But picking up, let's go back to the dog poo. Can we move on from the poo? No, because when you were a kid, right? We didn't have to pick it up, right? Wasn't half the fun when you were a kid in the 70s and maybe even in the 80s too? I don't think they started to pick up the poo thing to the late

90s, right? Or the mid-90s? No, you just stood there and watched the dog, said hello to everybody. Like, yeah, we didn't. You just left it and half the fun of being the kid was maneuvering down the sidewalk so you didn't step on it. It was kind of like that Billy Jean, you know, the video Michael Jackson did where the tiles light up. And he's like, Billy Jean stepped with us. It was like sidestepping loafs of poo. And what I used to love is every now and then you'd get the loser that didn't see it. And you just see the trail of ghostly poo footprints all the way down the sidewalk until they

slowly got lighter and lighter. And it was awful if you had grooves in the bottom of your sneakers. Because then it gets in the groove. Yeah. And, you know, you're in the house and it's like, what stinks? Yeah. What stinks? Yeah.

Let me see your shoe. It was like charmed royal. And then you have to get a stick. Go outside, get a stick, and clean out every groove. And even worse, you know, sometimes shoes had a little heel. And then there was the arch and then the bottom of the shoe. Yes. Sometimes people would step in that and get the whole, that whole arch.

It was always like, what stinks? Yeah. What stinks? Yeah. I had a guy stay over at my house once, okay? I was living in Glendale. This is before the Poo-law. And he must have stayed.

stepped in some, didn't realize it, and he was visiting, and I was in a little tiny apartments when I first moved to Hollywood, and I said, hey, you can sleep on the couch, and he was cool whether he slept there. And so he went to bed. We came home at night, and he went to the couch, and he didn't take his shoes off. He just kind of plopped down. We must have been drinking beer or something. And when I walked out in the morning to the living, I was like, what the thought? Did this guy crap his pants? And there was like dog poo all over the arm of my couch and I go dude you stepped in poo and it's like oh man I came back I know not friends with that guy anymore yeah and I I got to be honest I don't I've never done it I've never had to pick

that can't be fun picking up the poo it's squishy I mean yeah it's not a big deal I it's funny when it's when it's when it's cold out oh god it's steaming it's like fresh from the bakery oh you use it as hand warmers no Oh, God. I just walked in this morning and when there's a, I don't want to talk about the poo. God. Pooh-poo.

I'm going to say one last thing about it. And then we'll move on to diarrhea. All right. When I'm driving down the road and I see a hot girl and she bent, and I see her bending down to pick up the poo, I'm done. Not that I'm going to meet that, but I go, I can never ask that girl out. I can never go out. It freaks me out.

I don't want to go out with a girl that I see... It's not her poo she's picking up. I know, but just seeing her picking it up and it's so casual. It's like, I don't know, it's like she's picking an apple off a card at the groceries. I don't know, weirds me out. Maybe look around and then pick up the poo. You are not the kind of guy that goes to the bathroom around his woman. Yeah.

And vice versa. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to know anything about that. Well, I just don't want to. the women I've dated have done the same thing. I've had to pick up there. Who?

Yeah. Oh. Anyways, let's move on. You're right. Let's move on. You did another video that cracked my ass up on TikTok where you're sort of like cruising for men, but on like the lake with some kind of water bicycle.

Yeah. My cousin who's coming in. Yeah. For my birthday. I thought he was coming out. Shut up. Well, she, they have a lake house. Yeah.

Oh, it's just nice to say that. I have a lake house. And I'm into New Jersey and they have those bikes. And so I just started, you know, we were riding the bike. It's like a bike on pontoons and you pedal it and it moves and scoots, scoots along the top of the water. Yeah, it's on top of the water. Yes. Okay.

But with the warm weather and there's so much algae, the algae, the algae gets. it's caught in the, and like the last time I was there, I was constantly having to get on the side of the bike to get the algae out of the propeller. Yeah, the paddle. Yeah. But there is a guy just fishing, and I'm like, I said to my cousin, let's go up near this guy. Yeah. And I go, you know, are you single?

He's like, what? He's just fishing on the end of the dock. Yeah. And then I think I caught him by his right. He's like, um. And then my cousin goes, she said, are you single? And he goes, and we're a little bit of far away from me.

He goes, unfortunately, yes. I said, because I'll back this baby right up before you can say Las Vegas. And he was just like, and so then he threw his fishing rod towards me. Oh, wow.

And he got in on the funny. He cast at you? Yeah, but he was like, you know, just being kind of being funny. He was out looking for bass and he almost got some ass. Holy crap. Look what I caught.

He holds you up. You're wiggling. A hundred pound o'hterie. A great speckled o' teary. Wait, what was that last part? Okay. All right, dirty. I didn't do it.

You did. So then, that was last year. So then we went on the bikes again this year. And then I'm like, there's nobody, you know, the houses are far. apart there's nobody out by the lake house yeah so do you like to say it lake house or no i do that nice um and then she said across the lake there's a guy he's like supposedly the best dental oral surgeon you know and uh wow and she goes and she found it what his name was and i go all right let's go over there and i'll just yell for him and then uh she's not thinking he was gonna be

home. I mean, it's like a mansion where he lives. Like a huge house. Is it a lake house or a house? There's a lake house. Okay. So we go, we paddle over there and everything and I go, Dr. Cresenza! I mean, I'm, and then he comes out. And he's like, could you imagine? And he goes, yes. And I'm far away because I'm in a lake. And I go, and then I got nervous. Like, what am I going to say? You were trapped.

You were trapped in your own comedy. I said, I was trapped in my own comedy. I go, it's really hard to get an appointment with you. And I hear you're the best, you know, oral surgeon in New Jersey. And I'm from out of town, so I wasn't going to take a chance. And I bought one of these bikes. And he's like, are you serious? And I go, yeah.

And he goes, are you taping this? Wow. And I said, yeah, I wanted to prove to everybody. that at least I try. Yeah. And he goes, are you shitting me right now? Like, I didn't know whether he was going to get mad. He got angry.

And so I go, no, I'm serious. You're very popular. And then he kept going on about, so what? Why couldn't you get a hold of me? Didn't anybody answer the phone? And he was so, like, upset that I couldn't get an appointment. Yeah, yeah. Right?

Yeah. And so we cut all of that out. you know did you end up getting an appointment with them i don't need an appointment oh it was just a gag yeah i was gonna think i'm trying to have to get dental you know cosmetic dental surgery i don't know do this thing again because i think maybe you might need some no um got all my teeth you do you have you have a beautiful smile oh yeah so then he And then at the end, I go, so are you, one more question, doctor, are you single? And he goes, no, I am not.

And I go, are you sure? Because I'll back this thing right up onto your lawn. And he goes, you can back that. And I go, I'll back that thing up. It was, yeah, you never know out this stuff is going to turn out. You don't. And then I thought to myself, my cousin said, you know, he's my neighbor. You said his name.

And it's the back of his house. and so we found out, and I got his permission. Oh, wow. It was good because I sent it to him. Did you have to make an appointment to get his permission? I couldn't get it. Yeah, could you imagine? I tried to get an appointment to get your permission, but good luck.

God, you have a beautiful smile. Oh, shut up. I just wanted you to do that laugh again. Do you know, um... That laugh you did earlier. Um, when I was on us in Bill Murray, sat was, was, we rehearsed. a sketch, and he was hosting, and he goes, you do me a promise, make me a promise,

and I go, what is it? He was, will you promise never to get that snagled tooth fixed? What snagled tooth? This tooth stuck out, right? Oh. And so, the funniest thing is, it didn't bother me that much, really. I did notice it in picture sometimes, you know, depending on.

And so I was at my dentist, and he goes, hey do you want me to fix that tooth and I go this is the weirdest thing I promise Bill Murray I'd never get a fix and he goes well how about if we don't touch that we bring this one a little bit out and he goes because it's not that this sticks out it's this one is in

the other one's in and I go we can do that and he said yeah I just have to put a little thing right here yeah yeah I'm like I can't believe I'm going through all this because I promise Bill Murray something. Yeah, you should have probably not promised Bill Murray anything when he called you

snagletooth. I was like, none taken. Yeah. But, um, it's kind of not the friend. It's kind of the most complimentary term. It was, I think, like, hey, snagletooth. You sound like a Hannah Barbera cartoon character. Hey, it's snagletooth here. Right? But it's just like being an actor and everything and you have this imperfections where, you know, everybody gets their But don't you feel like maybe that that was like a trademark thing? Because I'll never forget when David Letterman got his teeth put together. He had that gap. And it was so much part of his personality that I loved it.

And I didn't like it when he put his teeth together. I think when you have like just slightest like imperfection, it just adds a little bit of character. I agree. So now I'm going to, why did you get it fixed then? I didn't. I got the other one. Right. But it evened it all out.

And you lost. The little imperfection. Oh, there's plenty of left imperfection. There are. What else? That's it. But it did kind of bother me, and I thought to myself, you know, because I would see in pictures it sticking out, you know,

but, you know, it was, but everything else is, like, I just got a little bit of a, what do you call that? Vanier? Yeah, like, but just there. Yeah. Like, I even remember, I don't know if you remember the Austin Powers movies, but in the, I think it was. Oh, yeah, the overbite. Yeah, the second or the third one, he, like, fixed his teeth.

Like, Austin Powers, like, I think even Mike Myers went, you know what? I probably look a bit gross with these. Like, I was so bummed because- That was funny to me. But the first ones were, like, big and stuck out and sort of off-color. And then if you watch, like, Austin Powers 3, his two front teeth are, like, really sort of nice. Like, he fixed them. They still stick out, but they're, they don't look crooked. They're not, like, sort of half yellow.

I didn't even notice that. I know it pissed me off. I was like, don't have vanity for a character. Right. You know, but I think that's what it was. He goes, well, now I'm this character. I don't want to look too. I don't know if that's what he was thinking,

but that's how I took it. I'm sorry that you had to go through that. I know. I don't like it when people do that. It's okay, baby. I know, but if I knew you way back then, I wouldn't have let you go to the dentist. I would have.

It was like last year. Oh. Truly, it wasn't. I'm thinking, oh my God, I'm saying this doctor, you're hard to get it. It's like, everybody's going to think I need cosmetic dentistry done. Everybody was writing it and they go, did you get an appointment? Did you get the appointment? And I'm like, my teeth are fine.

God, you have beautiful teeth. What was that thing you did earlier? Do you see, I did it with the fudgy wudgy guy on, did you see the fudgy wudgy video? Yeah, by the way, just before we talk about the fudgy wudger, You know I did a movie called Fudgy Wudgy Fudge Face? I did an independent movie years ago called Fudgy Wudgy Fudge Face. Just because I love the funny sound of it, like Fudgy Wudgy to me. And I think growing up, wasn't there a place called Carvel ice cream and they had fudgy wudgy the whale cake or something?

Yes. Yes. It's a funny run of words. Yes, yes, yes. And so. And it was coming from a guy who talk like this. Yeah, Captain Carvel here. I've got throat cancer. So how about Nutty the Ghost and Fudgy Wudgee the Whale?

Yeah. Yeah, it was creepy. Yeah, that was big Carvel, the cakes. They were like the Baskin Robbins of the East Coast. And they'd come on and they'd have these really kind of, you know, it's Nutty the Ghost. I'm trying to think of if, I don't know if it was Fudgy Wudgy. It was something like that. Fudgy the whale.

It was Fudgy the whale and Nutty the Ghost. And then there was a bunch of other ones. But they just, they looked, ugh. But okay, tell me about Fudgy Wudgy. Because over there, it's like it's still an ice cream thing. Well, what it is is when we were kids and go down the Jersey shore, there's different, you know, parts of the, this was C-Ile and Wildwood and, like, Avalon. And you go down the shore and the guys would yell on the beach.

The ice cream guys would yell fudgee waji, fudgee, fudgee, waji. So it was just a fudgy-wajie man? But what was it, an ice cream bar? Like, you hold it. No, it was ice cream. It's kind of like good humor. but they carried it kind of on their backs. How big was it?

Pretty big, like, it was terrible. You just always felt so sorry for those guys. You know, they were usually Vietnam vets. Oh, wow. And you just, they would just be older and sweat and buckets, and you can just tell, like, you know. That's what you want near your ice cream. And they're like, fudgee, wudgee, you're half afraid to approach,

but you wanted ice cream. but and we would scream like just like you did on your street when you were a kid yeah we would scream bloody murder for the for them to stop yeah it was like it's like wait a minute or or fudgee waji yeah and you ran yeah and you're like give me you know cash from your mother or whatever and you just screamed the top of your lungs and I thought oh my god would be funny as an adult doing that well imagine these guys They're Vietnamese. No, Vietnam vets.

Oh, they're Vietnam vats. Okay. They're Vietnamese guys, and I'm picturing Americans running out of their house screaming. Fudgee, watchy! They're like, hoary, fuck! Getting out of here. The American vats, like, yeah. It's a Vietnam vet.

Yeah, Vietnam vet, yeah. Now, wait, I'm confused. You're telling me they're slugging ice cream on their back, like a big blob of ice cream? It was in one of those portable refrigerators. But at the end it was like an ice cream on a stick, right? Yes. Okay. But now they have them on wheels.

On wheels. Okay, so you're at the beach. And I just was like, I'm going to scream like we did when we were kids. Yeah. You know? And so I was screaming at the top of my lungs. And I'm running down the beach. And then I catch up to the guy.

And he's like gorgeous. Oh, the fudgy-wudgy guy was gorgeous? Yeah, I mean, young, but like ridiculously... Stud. Good-looking. Whoa. And so I stopped in my tracks, and I was like, holy shit.

You fudged your pants. No, I just... And my reaction was very... It was very authentic. It was kind of like I stopped in my tracks. Here I am screaming like a crazy lady. Yeah. And I got up there, and I just went,

Oh, I was like playing. And then the next day, people are like, I put it on Instagram, whatever, TikTok, and then everybody's like, budgie, bunch, punch. So then the next day, I go to another guy, I run up and I'm screaming. I go up, he's gorgeous. Whoa. And I'm just like, where do they get these guys? Amercrombie and Fitch that used to be Vietnam vets.

So we're like PTSD walking, you know, rah, rah, rucky, lucky. And, um, and the, um, and, uh, and so that kind of like caught on. And then the, the, the first guy, then the third day, I see him again. And he's like, my parents said to me, he goes, my phone's blowing up. And he goes, my, I didn't, I'm sorry, I didn't know who you. And I go, that's okay. You don't have to know. I mean, he's young.

He didn't know you were Sherry O'Terry from S&L. No, he's a kid. He's a young, you know, and so. And gorgeous. So he says, um. What was that? Did you just get flustered? No.

You went. You better quit, Harlan. Um, so. Oh my God. Um, so anyway, he goes, my parents are like, you didn't know who. That was, and he's like, no. I go, oh, honey, don't worry, but he goes, I'm telling you, my phone's blowing up. Yeah.

And then I come home, and I have all three times, the fudgy wudge you guys, in three days, I get home, and this girl I know from Philly, she calls me, and she goes, that's my friend's son, and she has a picture with her and him. Oh, wow. So these guys are having a little bit of fame right now. Wow. He said, there should be a fudgy wudgy calendar. Jeez Louise.

Like the fireman, like the hot fireman. calendar? Yeah. God, fudgy wudgy calendar. And I never got a fudgy wudgy. And then when I got, you know... You never bought one after all that? I know.

You were just teasing. You were fudgy wudgy teasing. Then I'm thinking to myself, do I really need a fudgy wudgy? You know, I just thought... And then I go to him, I go, I'm watching my weight. I shouldn't have a fudgy wudgy. Like, this guy gives you shit, right?

And then the next day I said again, oh, I can't have a fudgy wudgy. and watch, and he goes, I know you're watching your weight. And then I go, yeah, and he's like, um, uh, something like, he goes, oh, you, you're fine. And I went, thank you. Score. That's what I was waiting for.

Like you scream bloody, murdy waiting for this guy. It's stopping as soon as you get to him, you're like, hi, he shouldn't have a puddy wuzzy. I'm watching my weight. He's like, well, I don't care. You want the fucking fudge you what you're what? If you're going to lose your weight, Shouldn't be to something called Fudgee Wudgy?

I mean, who came up with that name? But it was so cute because they have the same kind of like ball and pops and then the thing, the ice cream where it's got the big round bowl at the bottom and it's chewing gum. Yeah, yeah. And do they have all the different ice creams plastered on the side of their car? Yeah, they have some of the, yeah. But now, like, I always think to myself, why didn't we think they think they think, think in the 70s and 80s to have these things on wheels.

Yeah, right. Like, they just carry them around. I even think to by myself, you remember like, how long did it take somebody to say, you know, we should put wheels on suitcases? Yeah, right. That took forever. Yeah, I remember I was in Australia and I saw one of those on the beach. And it always, I always remembered it.

It was one of the, it was like a long, like chocolate banana dipped in chocolate. And I don't know who named it, but over there, it was called gay time. like it was like fudgy wudgy creamcical and gay time and i was like okay you might want to rename that are we in fire island or what yeah yeah that one like you get that card up brokeback mountain it's gay time hold that card off broke back mountain imagine the fudgy wudgy guy and by the way i don't think you want to go up broke back mountain with the name fudgy wudgy by the way imagine just pushing your card all the way it's gay time Oh my God, these guys, though, were,

and I'm thinking, these poor bastards, you know, in like the 70s and just carrying this pretty much a refrigerator. You don't have a strap on there. And you almost bought a fudgy wudgy just because you felt sorry for him. It's like, I don't really want one, but that guy's about to have a stroke. Throw him 40 cents. But I will say there's a natural inclination whenever you see like an ice cream truck

or I saw like the fudge you watchy to make them stop because it's just a natural from when you were a kid it was such a big deal you know you always stop them yeah yeah yeah and I'm like here I'm as an adult

I want you to stop no I can't have a fudgy wudgy but I won't go to stop you I'm going to try and get money from somebody cash and I'm going to stop you I want to go back and look at the tape and see how many times we said fudgy wudgy probably like 3,000 I love it.

Now, I want to go back, speaking of going back, I want to circle back to the... Cookie Puss. No, thanks. I'm straight. No! Was that another one? Frank Carvel used to, it wasn't called, uh, whatever you said. Enjoy the cookie puss.

Yeah, it was called cookie puss, which was even worse. Oh, yeah. You know, he's like, uh, cookie push, uh, or the whale, right? Yeah, fudgy the whale. Fudgy the whale, but the other big thing was cookie puss. And Nuddy the Ghost. I never heard Nuddy the Ghost. Yeah, he came out at Halloween.

Is Nuddy the Ghost kids for Halloween. Forget about Pussyfoot and Fungy the Whale. Cookie Puss. What was it? Cookie Puss. What did I say? Pussy cook? Pussy foot.

You're pussyfoot around now. Chiquit! All right. I want to go back to that moment in the hallway with Norm. He said take what was? Xanax, and then cut to you coming out with one of the most memorable S&L characters, the pill-popping. What was her name?

Colette Reardon. Like, can't you mind me asking where that came from? Like, what was the genesis of that character? Because I tell you, man, that character just had me the first time I saw it blew my mind. Like, where did that come from? When I was a kid, my Nana. Yeah. Like she was misprescription, you know, pill lady.

And back then, when no one hid, they almost showed off. They showed up, my doctor, this one, and that doctor, and they would just talk about their doctors, and he prescribed, you know, the Percadat. And then, but Mishigian prescribed, you know, the Percocet. And, but said I probably shouldn't have mixed them on account of the drinking. But, you know, it was just all my Nana would. talk about were her doctors and then back then you would take the pills they were in a beautiful

bejeweled pill case oh wow and i would ask my nana can i hold your pill case nana because they were so beautiful it was so beautiful like a little jewelry box yeah yeah and wow because back then there was no stigma like people thought the pills were the cure and not the problem and that doctor prescribed it no one questioned doctors or priests yeah right when i was growing up if it was a doctor or a priest it was word that's right you know and so my my my my my my nana i remember when time i was a little girl my i could tell when she when she came she was kind of high she always parked a little bit on the curb half on the curb half not and then she'd walk in and her lipstick would be a skew or her eyebrow oh wow and you know i would look at her face you know

And I'm just like, and then I would say, at the end, like, my, my, my name would say, I'm leaving. No one's paying attention to me. I'm like, the frigging am I? I'm lonely, too. He pays attention to me either. Like, even you're putting me down. Right? My mom didn't want to have anything to do with either one of us.

Yeah. So then she goes, uh, she goes, tell your mother I'm leaving because no one's paying attention to me. All right. All right. So I go up, Mom, Nana's leaving. No one's paying attention to do it. She's like, all right, just walk her to the car. And I remember turning around and then going, I go, Mom, should not be driving?

And she's like, don't be fresh. And I was dead serious. Don't be fresh. Like I knew. Yeah, she was trouble. And so I would, but in the 70s, when someone left your house, high, your only duty was to walk them the car. Yeah.

Walk them to the heavy machinery. Yeah. Make sure they didn't hit the fire hydrant at the end of your driveway, but everything else was free-ranked. But that's true. I remember you walked people to the car that were high. Yeah. And it's like my mom, I remember hearing her on the phone with her.

What do you mean? She wrapped it around a tree. That's impossible. My seven-year-old walked her to the car. And I'm like thinking of it. But all this time when I was a kid, I would always say, geez, that seems wrong. Right. And it was.

It was. And even back then, there was, we didn't, when we were kids, you didn't really have the drinking and driving thing. People just did it. It wasn't until people started realizing. And some cops would drive you home. Yeah. So, okay, so that's fascinating to me that you kind of logged that,

those traits about your grandmother in. Because I used to think to myself, I wonder if she's just always at the pharmacy. Yeah. I wonder if she hangs out at the pharmacy. you know and she always had a boyfriend my nana yeah always had a boyfriend i'm sure they were scared shitless of her yeah but she was rough she was rough and when she was at the house she was not the pennies in a jar nana no she was she was like come on get over here she was kind of like the carvel ice cream guy you know yeah she was yeah and she's like um my mom said go give nana

hug goodbye and we would hug her like and she goes hug me like you mean it and we go at this Oh, crying. Look, and we had to do the squeeze. And, yeah, yeah. And then I was just thinking to myself, and then that character just came. Yeah. But I made her really, really nice.

Now, did she, before we get into the character, when she was at the house, did she ever just kind of do non-secured? It was like, who laughed that thing? Like, just kind of yell stuff out that didn't make sense, or was she coherent? No, she was coherent. Okay.

And she would laugh, then she would pee and whenever she laughed she would always say oh i'm you know i peed that was before you know we had adult diapers oh so she'd pee herself no she would just like you know pee a little like a lot of women just few drops how many is a little for a woman because guys know when we say we pee a little we know but when a woman if they laugh really hard they might pee a little bit like a few drops or a little stream or like i don't know honey i'm pretty good to go yeah i don't mean to show off, but I can laugh and stay trying. Look at me showing off.

I will be checking that chair when you're done, all right. Okay, so now you take all this kind of stuff you remember about her and bring it to S&L. And were you nervous about pitching that because it was sort of so personal in a way? It came from a family member, or were you just like, what a great source. thing about doing, about doing people that you kind of glean from, they never think it's them. Oh, right. Did she ever see it? Was she alive to see it?

But no. Okay. But I don't think so. Did your folks see it? Was anyone mad about it? No. Did they piece it together? Did they know it was her?

I guess they will now. You never told them? I never said my Nana. I always said a family member. Right. That's okay. Think of it this way. Don't think of it like it's a bad thing. Think of all the joy you brought to millions of people.

But then I will say, you know, in the past, I don't think I could do that today because with all the problems with, you know, prescription drugs and oxicon and all that stuff. I don't think that would fly. I don't know or is it even more relevant. today, you know. That's, but I think that would be the problem. Would you filter yourself? Would you, would you filter yourself and go, I better not do this.

It's a little more prevalent or would you just go, you know what? This is a problem in society. I'm going to shine a fucking light on it. No, because I'm not shining a light, you know, I did get someone say to me, you know, prescription drugs, sherry, you know, in a fan letter, prescription drugs isn't funny, you know, being hooked out.

And I was just like, lighten up. Well, but. I it's such a problem yeah today I don't think it would fly I don't know see that's what I feel about comedy it's like I don't want to run stuff through that filter it's like to me it's like if you're making a joke about a birthday cake yeah when you know of people whose kids have died oh yeah because of you know like opioids and and this and that it's kind of like you you become I couldn't it for them right you're sensitive to them i'm sensitive to them you know yeah that's where i'm mixed because i'm i'm also like inadvertently your job as comedians isn't to necessarily well maybe it is i don't

know i don't want to put it in a box and analyze it but shining a light on things that are hilarious and innocent but also shining a light on things that are troublesome and a problem in society like i don't know it's not my humor yeah You know what you mean? I don't think I would shine a light on it because it's a problem. Yeah. You know, I did it because it came from something in the back of my mind. I just remember, you know, my nana, and I used to think, I wonder if she hangs out at the drugstore at the pharmacy. And I wonder if, like, how the guy reacts to her.

Yeah. Because she's got to be there all the time, you know. But see, that's what I mean. To me, it's like that should be the beginning and the end of the conversation for what you. you did comedically. Yes, there's always going to be people that overdose. There's always going to be people that are racist, but on and on and on. But if we stop doing comedy about certain topics, because we're sort of worried about that. If it comes from an innocent place, you know it. Yeah, right. There you go. You know what I mean? You just feel it inside.

That's right. Like, I'm thinking to myself, you know, when people drove drunk when, you know, when we were kids, you just didn't hear of people dying that much from a drunk driver. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a lot of things. I mean, I'm sure it happened, but not the way it does today. And I don't know why that is. Did it happen as much? It just wasn't reported as much.

Yeah. Yeah, it probably did, but it just wasn't, you know, I think we go through phases in society where we just go, oh, that's life, you know, that's the way it is. but then all of a sudden someone shines a light on it and then that's not the way it is anymore and it becomes a thing so i remember my mother saying you know i remember like putting the seatbelt on keep that in the cushions where it belongs it's not a toy the seatbelt oh wow and i'm like aren't we supposed to have them on yeah we never wore seatbelts as a kid yeah but i was like let me see what this feels like she's like put that in the cushions where it belongs

it's not a toy and i'm like and that's one of those times times I thought so myself, my mom was always getting a little mini-accidents. Yeah. And all three of us, our glasses would go flying, and she would kind of like to, um, she would kind of pull over and get real nice and say, try not to make a big deal if we were possibly hurt.

Yeah. And she was like, all right, the first one who finds their glasses, you know, wins. And she made many accidents fun. Yeah. And my brother would be like, mom, my head hurts. That's why the back of the seats padded. Imagine if it wasn't padded.

We're all like with our glasses like, I, aye, I, aye, aye, I. How about imagine if you learned to drive? How about that? My mother, this was her. Dumb bitch. Wow. She never ever said anything to a man. Really?

All I remember. Why? I don't know, but my mother, don't think she liked. She was really hard on women. Wow. And she would, I always heard dumb bitch, dumb bitch. She was a rough one. That's where, she didn't fall too far from the nana tree.

Is that right? Yeah, so. But was that tough on you? Like even though you were her daughter, you were female, did she treat you different than the brothers? No. Okay. So she didn't, that didn't translate to you being a girl. No, but I think she was just more of a guy's girl than a girl's girl.

Did that make? Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Did that make you anywhere in your head to go, look, I'm going to be more tomboyish? Do you think that influenced you? You were like, no. No, but I just remember, you know, she was really beautiful when I was a kid. Like, she was gorgeous.

Yeah. And, and she, I saw the male attention. she would get and uh and i looked nothing like her i looked like my dad my dad's italian she's irish and she was blonde platinum blonde hair really like wow porcelain skin wow and uh like had great bone structure and i had like a little mini mustache and and i was like super mario she looks at me you better develop a sense of humor wow so she did come at you what did you say back It was like in a kidding way. Shut up, bitch.

But dumb bitch. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah. It's funny. It's funny growing up with like really good looking parents. Yeah.

Was your dad a stud too, really handsome? But the mustache looked better on him. Did he have a mustache? He had like a, you know, like what you have. Yeah. Well, peach fuzz. My dad was really handsome. Was he?

Like I have? Like what? This thing. Oh, wait. Sometimes he had a beard. Oh, he did? Yeah. What'd your dad do?

He was in music publishing. Oh, wow. He moved to Nashville. Oh. And he got into music publishing while he was in California. He managed a guy that. he was a kid on the streets of Philadelphia and he was homeless and playing guitar and he was amazing yeah amazing my father was like and he took him in and uh and kind of like

so long as it fed him cleaned him up and my dad lived on like a farm with a bunch of people and let me guess it turned out to be jimmy hendricks who was it was someone who became rich His name was Rich Fagan. Did he become famous? I don't know that name. He became a very successful songwriter. Thanks to your dad. Wow.

They had three number one hits in Nashville. Damn. Yeah. And it was funny because he was doing that. And then I moved to L.A. to get the music business. And I worked for Almo Irving, Rondor Music, publishing company. A&M Records.

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss's publishing company, which was the Almo. And so I was working in publishing, and he was, but, you know, because I always wanted to be a singer, but I didn't have a good enough voice. So I got in the music business. You have that kind of rasped like Rod Stewart, like kind of that. You got a little bit of that raspy singing voice? No. Yeah.

We can't even wish it to be true. No. No. No. It's a heartache. That's funny. Tyler, right? Don't you have a little bit of that going? When I have a cold baby.

Oh, Jesus. So I got in the business and it was so cool because my dad was, you know, doing well and then working at A&M records. Yeah. And then I met this woman in when I was working and publishing and she goes, oh, you're so funny, you know, because everybody was at, oh, you should do stand-up, but I could never imagine doing stand-up. Yeah.

And then she goes, she should do the groundlings. And I go, what's the groundlings? Yeah. She said, it's an improv troupe. I go, what's improv? You had no idea. So I went in the phone book, right? Just went in.

Uh-huh. And then I just walked in and I saw Phil Hartman's picture, Paul Rubin's picture. Oh, yeah, Peewee. Lorraine Newman. And I was like, what is this? What is this? And then I saw a show and I was like, wow. This exists?

Wow. This is like Saturday Night Live, but in a theater. Like, and I started taking classes and amazing. It was like an awakening. It was an awakening. I couldn't get there soon enough and I left late. You know, it was kind of like the clouds parted. But going back to what I said earlier about kind of your explosiveness,

when you turn that comedy switch on, like it just pops. Did that happen when you walked out on that stage? Was it just like kind of like, and everyone kind of. kind of went, who's that girl? Because obviously you did well. You got to Saturday Night Live. Was there a really kind of visceral reaction when you went out there? I think I did well.

Yeah. You know, like, you know, but that's when you're finding yourself as well. Yeah. You're finding your voice and you're learning. But did you, if you, like, the way you're sitting here now, Sherry, quiet. But when you went out on that stage, did you go time to, turn the switch and you kind of became that kind of here we go yeah you know I had a manager that said to me and I'll tell you who afterwards he said and he used to go to s&L because he managed

a couple of stand-ups yeah and he and he managed me a couple years ago whatever for a little bit of time and he's like I remember he goes first of all you were the only person that was nice to me and I was like wow because it was a rough place especially when you're when the show's actually happening yeah everybody's in their own world competitive no they're in their own world everybody's got a job to do yeah at the groundlings no I'm sorry at SNL at SNL sorry okay yeah I've heard it's a tough place yeah but it is but when it's show night everybody's got a job to do yeah you know what I mean but the you know managers of representation they're kind of walking around hey hey but everybody's doing something so

I don't think anybody meant to not be advice and everything, but he goes, you were always very nice to me and I was like, oh, good. And then he goes, and he said, you always looked like a fragile bird backstage. And he goes, but then when that

red light went on, he said you were no longer a fragile bird. And I said, that's interesting. What was interesting to me is that I came off like a fragile bird off stage. Yeah. You know, of course, I wanted to say, like, what do you mean?

Yeah. Fragile. Like, it was like, but I think what it was, I was scared. Yeah. And that fear just like, it's like fuel injection. It's like in Mad Max when he pulled the nitrous, and his car was going as fast as he could. He pulled that little red switch and it hit another level.

You are such a boy. Yeah. I love the analogy. Yeah, it's just like me and Max. Yeah. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Oh, thanks.

One of the most explosive characters you did, too, and this is the last one I want to talk about, is the cheerleader. Because that, I used to watch you do that with Will, and it was so funny, but I thought, God, the energy you're putting out, the physicality. Did it kill you to do that one?

When we wrote it together, I don't think we realized how hard this was going to be. I could tell. Weak to do. I mean, here we are, okay, what's going to be the sport or the, you know, that we're going to where we're not wanted? Yeah, yeah. You know, and then you have to write cheers. Yeah. According to the chess game or, you know, badminton, whatever.

And then you got to do the choreography to the cheers. I know, it was insane. And then, and then, you know, write the host in, give them a really good part. And then, and then freaking dance at the end and then choreographed that. And it was just really, like, Will and I wrote it. And then when it got, it got popular, it got picked up, you like to bring it back again. Oh, yeah, a lot. Then we brought in Pola Pell, and it was just the three of us doing that.

And it was a lot of work. Did you ever regret it? You were just like, oh, God, why did we write this? No, because you know what? I didn't have a whole lot in the show. Like, you can write two sketches, and I would write my two things. And, you know, I mostly just got in whatever I wrote. You know what you mean?

In other words, I didn't get cast much. Really? That's interesting because, well, this says a lot about your dynamic and your energy and your personality because when I look back on that era of S&L, in my mind, you were like a dominant presence, which says a lot now that you're telling me you weren't physically there as much as others, you're one of the standout people that I always remembered from that era. And so I think that says a lot. Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah, it was, it's a rough gig. You know, it's like you're auditioning every week. Yeah, that's what I mean, competitive. You're already on. You're already on. Words from a wooden shoe with Sherry O'Terry. What we do, Sherry is we have a wooden shoe.

Get rid of the palms. And inside there's a word, a random word. You reach in and see if it brings up a story or a memory from your life that you can share. with the gang at the Harland Highway. Well, there's only two in here. Is there? Okay. Let's see what we get.

What do you got? Words from a wooden shoe with Sherry O'Terry. And if it's better answer good or I'm going to do another cheer. Beasting. Oh, beasting. Okay. Beasting. Oh.

Beasting. You ever get one? Uh, yeah. What happened? Got stung by B? Anything stick out? Anything traumatic? Can I get another one?

Sure. Wow. Oh, there is three. I'll go up into the toe. Just nothing. Just B staying next. Beautiful eyes. Thank you.

Wow. Talk to me about your beautiful eyes. Got a story, a memory. Take your time. Cheese, cheese, jeez. Take your time. Beautiful eyes on your face. Okay.

I got at least six surgery years. On your beautiful eyes? Like almost 20 years ago. And my sister and I were like pretty much legally blind. Whoa. It's like if you're at a six point something, that's I think legally blind. And so we couldn't see. anything.

Whoa. And, you know, but we had contact lenses, so we were fine. And I remember when the LASIC started coming out. And when I got it done, it was like, I just couldn't believe that you could get fixed. I mean, our eyes were so bad that you could see. It was like Wizard of Oz going from black and white to color. Like just being. And then I remember just crying because I was like, wait a minute, so I'm going.

going to wake up and I'm going to be able to see like this all the time. Wow. And then my sister got it. And we were just like, can you believe it in our lifetime that, you know, now before they had to be used real precision. Yeah. Now they have a laser that just follows. So, you know.

Yeah, they just shoot the laser right in your eyes. That excavates the matter that is obstructing your vision. And I'm just blown up. Now, because I'm getting old. I wear one contact because I still have good reading eyes. Right. Me out of all my friends, I'm like the only one they can read. I do show that off.

I'm like, here, I'll read. Give me the menu. Wow. Give me the menu. But I'm having a hard time seeing far. So I just wear one contact lens. God damn, I'm interesting. Do you want me to write a cheer about it?

No, God, no. Fix your eyes, you demented freak. So we, you know, I got, in closing, I got laser eye surgery too when I was younger, but it was expensive back then. It wasn't cheap. And we didn't have the money for it. So what my dad did is, do you remember the old Star Trek episode series, the first one with William Shatner?

And they had the USS Enterprises. And when they'd engage, full ton, torp it, and they'd shoot those red laser beams. So my dad made me wait till that scene came on in the movie. And then he grabbed me and pressed my face against the TV. and got laser eye surgery for free. Do you know, this is where the, now I see where the humor comes from, do you know how they discovered the laser eye surgery, how that all came about?

No. There was a man in the 1950s who was in a car accident and a shard of glass sliced his, his, uh, yeah. And once it healed, he could see 2020. Oh, wow. And researchers just started taking, you know, went off from that. And, you know, they saw that there was an obstruction.

And I don't know how, but that's how they. I love those weird accidents. I know. That's how Vel, did you know the story of Velcro? What? Some guy in Scotland was out walking his dog, and the dog got all the burrs. You know, the burrs on the thistles all over the dogs first. So he started pulling them off and he goes, why are these so clingy?

and he put them under a microscope, and he looked under the microscope, and he saw on a burr, there's like two little hooks on the flower or whatever it is, and they were almost impossible to pull apart. And he created Velcro from examining a burr under a microscope. Wow. Yeah.

I like finding out the origin of, you know, how... We like finding things out. Let's go and eat a speckled trout from you. Help me, Jesus. Help me now. End the show and do it now. That's what we're going to. Sherry, before we go, plug anything you want, your social media, any projects you have coming up, let the folks hear.

I'm waiting for this freaking strike to be over. Yeah, strike, yeah. Come on. Yeah. This is awful. Oh, yeah, we can't plug anything. Can you plug your social media even? I think you can.

Well, go ahead. Follow me on the TikTok. On TikTok. You know, Instagram. It's funny because, you know, once you do it, now you're starting to see other people, and it's, and I can see why, you know, people start to get hooked because I know now when I go to bed,

uh-uh. Yeah. Yeah, you get hooked. I don't watch TV anymore. I don't watch TV. I just, I just watch little stupid videos now. I don't think it's good. I don't think it's good because then everything,

it's got to be quick, got to be quick. Yeah. It's changing every, it's changing the way we, think it's changing the way we deliver entertainment it's changing the film industry the tv industry it's it's interesting we're on the on the wave of a whole new era i wonder what it's going to be like 20 years from now i don't know but we'll have you back and uh sherry was so good to have you here you're the best i think you're the funniest ever let's not fight yeah okay let's not fight uh ladies and gentlemen we're not going to fight we're gonna cheers our way out of here and uh that's it for

Thank you for being here. He was here before me. Huh? Oh, it was Gingervitis Willie. Say hi to Gene. Whoever it is. Until next time,

Chicken Chowmaine, and we'll see on the Harlan Highway next week. Thanks, Sherry. Pull over. Pull over your car. Okay.