The Nateland Podcast - 172: #172 Saturday Night Live

Episode Date: November 1, 2023

Nate's finally back so of course we learn all about his epic week of preparing and hosting Saturday Night Live. 

hello folks and hey bear welcome to the nate land podcast uh i'm neighbor gutsy simon brian bates desi slay uh aaron is locked up abroad. May never come back. Yeah. So he's dealing with that. He's in jail there. Welcome back to you, by the way. It's been three weeks since you've been here. It's been a while.

Yeah, welcome back. Thanks for... Sorry about that, everybody. I'm glad to be back. You know, I really don't want to miss these episodes. And so I always do. I'm not trying to do this on purpose so it's just getting crazy and uh obviously as y'all know and so uh thank you for still listening glad and excited to be back i like being back yeah yeah it's nice we missed you but yeah everyone

loved your dad last week and oh yeah i got that i didn't know that they're staying here yeah i knew he burnt the thing i don't even know the whole story yet i know it burnt down because it's like they just send a picture in our family text and then well first we just get a picture of like the whole fire department at my parents house and they don't send it with like much. They send it. My parents will send you a picture and a text as if you're next to them and experiencing it with them. Yeah.

Like you already know what's going on. You got to start midway in. Yeah. It's all out of context. There's no any of that stuff. Yeah. Because the picture I saw just looked like the stove was burned in the microwave, which is not really an excuse to move houses yeah you know yeah i think it got more yeah yeah i guess

i guess that's what they say yeah i don't know your dad is a magician though yeah that's true well they're here uh so they they watched harvard forest this weekend. So it worked out. It worked out. Yeah. Can't take them anywhere. No. Yeah, so I am back. And, you know, I'm SNL shirt. I think this episode is going to be – it's probably going to be a little different. Yeah. Just because we're going to talk a lot about Saturday Night Live

and the whole experience with that. It has been a whirlwind for sure. Bates was there. Bates got recognized at the after party. All right. Did you take a picture of them? I did. Yeah.

All right. Big time. They didn't ask for it, but I asked them. Yeah, I was. They listened to the podcast. And I go, Brian, I go, Bates is here. And they were like, is he? And then.

I'm mingling with people at the after party and Nate's like, hey, behind. They're waiting for me. And Nate's have to be the one to tell me there's these fans waiting for you. All right. Mr. Big time. Look at that. I've already talked to him twice, taking pictures. Brian's a little more difficult to get to.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was just getting hounded, you know, by fans. Yeah. He can't handle it, you know? And so I was was like there he is yeah i mean when you're big time you're big time before the show start out in the lobby at nbc and i'm out there with you know some wellest big time dan soda yeah big time comics new york and

people come up to me you know because they know me for the podcast oh really pushing those new york comics out of the way yeah you me, guys. Yeah. Two seconds. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, the whole, well, let's just get it. We'll just get into it because I'm going to see what, right? Yeah. Dusty, you were home this weekend. I was, and I watched.

You know, it was great to see you do comedy finally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. No, it was great. I loved it. Yeah. It's, you know, I've worked with people that have done SNL over the years, but it's fun to see like, you know, my friend that I do a podcast with rocking SNL.

Yeah, it's crazy. So great. Yeah, it's crazy. It's over. I mean, a lot of people ask like how to like, what do you feel and stuff? I honestly, I feel a lot of this stuff is not happening to me is what I feel. I feel it's happening to someone else. I think you just kind of do that.

Cause I don't know what to think, you know, I don't, you don't know what to do. You know, I'm very much my big thing that I try to remind myself of. I'm not, you know,

none of this is about me. It's so I remind myself of that a lot. You know, I tell other comics sometimes, you know, it's like, it can't be about me. It's, uh, so I remind myself of that a lot. Uh, you know, I tell other comics sometimes, you know, it's like, it can't be about you. You can't make everything, you know, it's gotta be, you're, uh, just a vessel and fortunate to be chosen as a vessel. And so I try to remind myself that a lot. So to stay somewhat in the moment and calm, and then just be able to deliver the best thing that you can go deliver because you have to work and you have to do a good job. I mean, that's the hard,

because everybody's excited about this. It is insane. Uh, you know, a lot of people were talking about how they're proud they were. And I mean, I, that stuff means a lot to me. Like, it's like, that stuff means the world, but you want to make sure you go do the best job that you're supposed to go do and the job that you're hired to go do to hopefully get to go back again and you know do it uh so start with did you have any idea that they were even considering asking you i knew not till too long ago uh one of the vegas shows uh my agents uh

they brought someone that was kind of, was one of the producers on SNL. And so I think they pitched me as possibly doing it. Uh, so I knew she came to a show. We had a lot of fun. Uh, that was it. I don't think Lauren, I actually met Lauren a week after that. Uh, I went to, and I, and to, and I just went to this stuff.

I don't know. If some of this seems like name dropping, I don't know. I'm not trying to, but I went to Mulaney's birthday party and actually met Lorne at the birthday party. John Mulaney. John Mulaney. And, but just really briefly, I don't think he knew me then. I don't think he, you know, maybe would have, he didn't watch my special for sure. He's, you know, he's cool. Very nice. I i mean there's a lot of snl people in that room and uh so when he walked in it was like kind of it was like conan was there and spade and you know

it's fun to see fred armson like it's crazy to see the snl when you're not in that thing when lauren walks in and you can just kind of look around and see, you know, everybody's kind of like sits up, you know, I don't know. I mean, and Lauren is awesome. He is awesome. Very welcoming, very easy. I mean, you know, I think very easy to talk to, uh, the guys brilliant. And I mean, and what he's done in doing this live show and, you know, his line that he says in there is, you know, you don't go on because the show is ready. You go on because it's 1130. And it's that's what kind of like it's 1130. You know, show ready.

Got to be ready. Starting right now. Yeah. And that's the aspect of that's what's so fun about it. That's why it was the most fun I've ever had doing something. Because I love that. The live aspect of it. It's stand-up.

I mean, it's, you know, you're just like, well, we got to tape it. It's about to go on. So it is what it is. There's no redos. No, we need more laughs here. Yeah. No do-os. No, we need more laughs here. Yeah. No do-overs. Yeah, yeah.

What stuff gets too like micro, you know, it's the authenticity of it, I think, is what is attractive to it. Because it's like, yeah, your show's got to go. You got an audience here. You're taping it, dude. Like, it's coming out now. There's no choice. That's why I think Multicam feels good with sitcoms is because, you know, it's a live audience. You're performing for a live audience and,

uh, you know, you got to tape it and you got to do good with the crowd and it's coming out next week. And there's not, uh, you know, single cam is cause when we shot some of the sketches, the single cam is, uh, uh,'s it's you just like the halloween sketch where i'm playing the serial killer it's you know you do like one scene so i'll be like ah and then they film that all right got that and then i do another scene and i got that and then they oh yeah i mean you're acting but it's you're you're just piecing stuff together and so when you have to do a sketch it's fun because you're just like you're in this whole thing for yeah five minutes everybody's doing this like that's what's fun and that's multi-cam sitcoms are fun because of that same

reason my one pilot that everybody knows i've talked about uh and i've talked about it there i told them this is how i. I wrote a pilot once. I tell everybody and they go, uh, but they, uh, when he shot that pilot, it was like, the scenes are fun because it's like a long scene. Like you have to, you got to know where to go stand and this and this. And it's, you know, it's not five minutes, but it might be three minutes or four minutes. And, you know, we watch about Seinfeld all the time, Seinfeld is,

you know, they, they got that scene up in the top. It's like Kramer comes in and everybody's sitting there and it's a big scene. That's got to be done all in one shot. And that's, you know,

I think that's just, it makes it, it's super fun to do. And I think it's fun to, that's why people like watching. Uh, so, so, uh, no, so they, that's why people like watching. So, sorry. No, so they expressed interest to you.

I think they came to your shows at Radio City Music Hall a few weeks earlier. They came to Radio City too. After that, so they came to Vegas, and then after that, they came to Radio City, and I knew he had watched my special then. So, Lorne was was very nice and he said they watched it and he kept telling my manager uh Tim he he kept telling him because Tim and Lauren have known each other for years and uh Tim and you know Seth Meyers they all that whole they know every and my management has a lot of they have Sand and Spade and they have a lot of SNL people.

And so Lauren was very nice saying, oh, we watched the special. We loved it. And I knew, I think I had a lot of people back in my corner that, you know, with Michael Che and Pete Davidson and Mulaney and Fallon, obviously, and Seth Meyers. And so you had a lot of people, you know, they were in my corner just being like, hey, this guy's, you know, a great comic, whatever. Because it was a shock. It would be, it was, you know, it was a big chance to, because whatever I know I'm selling, I know where I'm at, where I'm doing arenas and people could think, but it's just such a different thing. Yeah. It's, it's, so it's it's you know i don't know it's the people that are usually hosting that

are you know they're in movies and they're the most famous people on the planet or whatever and so for me to come in and do it i think was you know i thought all right this might happen i didn't know for sure they kind of said that this October 28th date, but it didn't look like it wasn't going to be that date. And so it was like, all right. And at first I was like, well, you know, I had so many shows I had to reschedule. So I was kind of like, well, that's not, you know, cause I didn't want to reschedule the shows, but obviously you kind of have to. And so then it went from maybe not being the 28th to being like, you know, my manager's kind of being like, I mean, I don't want to jinx it, but like there's a chance you're going to be doing yes or no. And then, then I got, uh, during fall break, uh, I got the call and then we announced that reschedule.

And so I'm not new, probably two and a half weeks, you know, basically right when I rescheduled the date is basically when I found out as quick as week, you know, within a couple of days of then finding the new dates and all that stuff. So then they were like the 28th was, you know, like, all right, well, it's happening. I had a great week in Fort Worth and Park City, Kansas and Wichita, where I had the allergic reaction. And I talked about Seth Meyers. Were you running your monologue with these places? I mean, because I was kind of opening with it. So it's like, that's my opening. Because I'll be doing those jokes. They're in my new hour. So if you come see me they you will see those jokes uh you know that's always a thing

you know i asked a lot of comics like thinking do you burn it is it burnt is it over whatever look i have a lot more stuff with those jokes it's kind of a theme kind of thing so i was able to pick out like a few things so i think it's you know it's going to be better but that's in my new hour and so I mean I was opening with it but when you're doing arenas and doing an hour it's just so different it's so different and then so when I went to New York I had I did like probably five to seven or I did five one night I mean I probably did 12 sets or something and I just had to get back into a short rhythm. I mean, cause I was just coming off of a full week of arenas and it's big and it's, you know, 10,000 people you do in an hour or you're, it's this kind of thing. And then now I got to go do nine minutes or 10 minutes or

whatever it was. And so it was good. I went around New York and just kind of, just kind of getting back into that tighter. The way you tell, your timing just has got to be a little different because you're doing short sets instead of longer sets. It's just a different thing. I don't know. For sure. So I went back and, yeah, and then ran around and got to see everybody and do spots.

But, I mean, you start, you get there. We did Oklahoma City and went there Monday. I got to Oklahoma City late. I got new york like two in the morning then went and did the today show just a few hours later yeah i think like six i have a good method i think for when if i'm going to get no sleep and i've done it i don't know if i've talked about it i think i know what you're gonna say because have i talked about it on here you can you gave some advice one time i thought that's really good advice and i've used it treat it like it's a nap yeah yeah and then you're not as mad then you're not as mad don't get all the way to sleep i've even if it's like two hours i will

sleep in my i'll just lay in bed in my clothes i take my shoes off but i'll have my jeans i'll have whatever i'm wearing to the airport i'll have all of it on and i'll just lay in bed like i'll take a oh i oh man i can't believe i have two and then you're excited about the two hours you're like i got some time i'll just lay down and then i'll get up and go and so your mentality when you wake up is better yeah me too sometimes you can be funnier when you're a little delirious too yeah yeah yeah and so it's, and then you could be, and then you also could be like,

if, but if you want to go stay up and go watch a movie right now, then go watch a movie. You know, you kind of just go like, Oh, you got this free time. So you are,

you don't feel as, uh, yeah. Not as annoyed by it. Annoyed by it. Yeah. You just kind of go, yeah,

I'm just getting no sleep. And so here we go. You know, when I told my mom, you're going to be on serenade live she obviously knows serenade live it's a big deal she asked me you know what city they did it in but she but she she's a she turned 80 yesterday she's not staying up usually for serenade live but then when you're on the today show all of a sudden like a light went off like how did he get on there yeah she said does he just like call and ask to be on there and i said yeah i think so

yeah yeah you just call him because she watches today show so she was very excited but she said you were um you're uptown now oh yeah all right big time yeah time now yeah yeah i took it back down wearing the 37138. Yeah. Yeah. I go right back. It's a big deal though. I mean, we're similar in age. So, you know, we grew up watching the same SNL.

Farley and Spade and Sandler. And it's like, yeah, I mean, it's huge. Nate Bargatze as a kid never thought you'd be hosting SNL. No. No. I don't even know. I mean, you know, it's like your little dreams that you have, but I don't know.

It's, I don't know. Man, I've been to that building a lot. That's what's crazy to me is it's 30 Rock without even, there's no like plan to be in 30 Rock. It's just Conan was there when I did Conan and Fallon, you know, a bunch and Seth Meyers. And then now SNL. And it's just crazy when you look at it, you're like, I've been coming to this building for 15 years, every year, multiple times a year sometimes. And then now to be here, you're like, you're just, it's interesting to be like, oh, I guess when you to be here you're like you just it's interesting to be like oh i guess when you look back you're like yeah you're just on the radar of people that

found seth meyers called all snl people like everybody in that building is an snl person not saying that's why i got it or whatever it's got a stuff's got to connect but it i i i did like that i like you know i like doing stuff where you see people and you're like, yeah, I've seen that. The people working there and all that. Yeah, it's pretty insane. Yeah, it's a big deal. Yeah. Yeah.

So you get there Monday, you do Today Show, and then- And I had off until, so I went back and slept, like that good sleep you do after morning radio. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I ate French toast. until uh so i went back and slept like that good sleep you do after morning radio yeah oh yeah uh i ate french toast i always eat that that's a that's i mean i have a hard time enough not eating bad anyway but after like you like a morning radio or you get up like that i always want to go eat something heavy that's going to really make me go to sleep oh yeah uh so i went back and slept a little bit and then uh we went to snl and you know i mean you're going they called me sunday they called me sunday about a sketch idea like to sketch me throwing stuff the first promo and then so i they called me sunday and then

monday you go there at five and you're there till I was there till eight. It wasn't that long, seven 38, kind of quick. They do a really great job of easing you into it. Like it starts with, Oh, this is not bad. You know, and then you eventually get to just, you're there all day. Uh, but Monday was just a meeting with everybody. Monday was, you know, I go in, then I go in and sit with, you know, the writers just saying anything that, you know, I don't want to do or whatever. Yeah. We told them before, Ann, that I didn't really want to do political stuff or sexual stuff or, you know, and obviously I'm not going to say some, you know. So they definitely knew that kind of stuff. And then they kind of go, uh, I think it was Monday set with, I think all

the writers came in Lord and they go around and kind of throw some ideas out. And I think it was Monday might've been too there. Uh, but you just kind of go, okay, you're just here and just, you know, the brief idea of the ideas of sketches. And I felt very relieved because they, none of them were political and i don't really think any of them were sexual really maybe a couple but it was you know you're hearing 50 ideas yeah uh but it was nice that made me comfortable to go like all right i'm not gonna spend a week of you know having to be like i don't want to say that i don't like that you know so i they they definitely got what i do is the cast in there pitching ideas too yeah casting writers and

yeah everybody's in there and uh they just go around and i mean it's just like you just get it all and you know and then i went down to the cellar and uh i think the stand maybe too and ran a bunch of sets did you pitch my ideas was that when you pitched mine uh no i looked at you i pitched i had one idea that i pitched that they liked and they wrote and i felt bad after but it was because i uh i got a there's an iphone with no case like if someone has an iphone and they don't have a case on it like everybody gets obsessed with it and they're like what if you drop it and so then and you feel like people want you then they start rooting for you to drop it because you don't because you don't have a case because they don't want a case really either but they're like but i but we but we have to yeah

nobody wants a case no one wants a case so when they see someone with the freedom of not having a case, it annoys people and they think. This is dangerous. Yeah, it's dangerous. What are you doing? They hope you drop it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You got to run it. You have to regret this. Yeah. Because if you're doing without a case and it's okay, then what am I doing? Yeah. Am I just a klutz? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Those cases aren't cheap either. do they is it no i haven't watched in a long time do they is it normally the host in like every sketch i felt like you were in every sketch you were and you were great you were rocking it i've never seen you act you know what i mean like um i don't not that not that i don't think that you can, but I've never seen it. Yeah. And I thought it was great.

Yeah. Well, I shot a pilot once. Yeah. Well, I didn't see it. I didn't get to see the pilot. Uh,

it was, I wonder if I, I have a clip of, I wonder if one day I can show it. You're not allowed to. Uh, if, uh,

no, it was, uh, like acting. Yeah. I mean, that was a big part it's like i mean i don't think they care i mean they you know it's like the crutch of the show the week before they had bad bunny bad bunny is uh does not speak english okay and then so he came on he's the biggest person in the planet right now or something but, they were like, yeah, he speaks a little English. Like he doesn't speak English. It's, it's a very, very second language to him.

So that one they had to, you know, a lot was on the cast and a lot was on, you know, the pop-ins and the cameos. And because, you know, he just, I mean, it's, he didn't speak English, you know, so it's like, it's just harder. Yeah. All the sketches, cause I watch it. All the sketches were kind of centered around that. Marcelo Hernandez, who's on one of the cast, he speaks Spanish and he was in every scene. And yeah. You know, it's funny.

It's really, really hard to get tickets to SNL. I think you've got to be on a waiting list. And I think maybe months in advance, and then they call you last minute or email you and you either be there soon or just get off. But big fans find a way. And on his episode, it was clear a lot of his fans somehow found a way to get out. Yeah. And when the, what's the Korean boy band, BTS? Yeah. I mean, that was just like a concert for them when they hosted or when they were musical guests.

So somehow these fans find a way. Maybe they just had more fans than we realize. Like everybody's a fan. I guess. Yeah. I think it's a younger age, but yeah, they,

they probably want their fans and I'm sure they could say, we want our fans to. Yeah. I guess that's true. Yeah. Yeah. But when he hosts Bad Bunny the week before, it was more screaming for him, giving him lines and laughter a lot of times. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Different vibe than I got. Different vibe. Yeah. I had a hundred baits in the audience. No, it was a very young audience. And we're getting ahead now.

But people sitting down front, I would see like hot girls. And then some hotter girls would show up. So they'd get those people up and move them out and move in even hotter girls. They don't even show the audience though, do they? Occasionally you can see the people sitting down on the floor. The people on the floor, they're moving around, you know,

everywhere. Yeah. I'm trying not to get too far ahead. Yeah. So the rest of the week, you probably, it's always a blur to you, but Tuesday,

Wednesday, Thursday, you're just rehearsing. Yeah. Tuesday you got there. I mean, you don't go in till about noon. And so Tuesday was kind of a a normal was a normal thing noon uh

maybe i was there till i don't remember 10 you should that's when we shot the promo where i was tearing stuff up and that was great yeah the guitar that was nice because it was like we kind of shot that yeah we did shoot that tuesday and so that was like nice to kind of get something over with because it was like you know all right i have to act in this uh and so it was like all right that was that was good we got that done and then it goes out i mean you know then it goes out the next day and or whatever and you're like man it's great you just shoot it then it's out and then it was you know because then you're like all right everybody's seen something everybody seemed like they liked that you know it was you know i feel i could feel a lot of people worried or you know that i was trying to see what fingers they blurred out your

fingers i did not i held up i went like this okay all right yeah i thought it was thumbs oh no they they did something about once flicking the camera off and I would go, and I mean, you know, you just do it. You just say it. I go, I don't, I don't want to do that. It was funny. I mean, even being 44, you just didn't start like, I mean, there's so many people. You're not flicking the camera off. I'm not going to do that. Yeah. And then they go, all right. I hate that too, though. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you didn't do it well they made it but it's like yeah i just i just did that and i wasn't i didn't know they were

even going to do that thing but they would but it was but it was for the joke i understand yeah but i just don't like doing it i don't like it either uh so uh but that was great. And, uh, yeah, so we shot that Tuesday and then Wednesday you do a table read through. So that's when everybody, you read every, you read every one of them so that it's a big table. You go in, you're sitting where, you know, on the floor stages behind you. Uh, everybody's in there. Everybody that's, these guys have been writing all night on the sketch. Let me ask you something.

Of the 50 that were pitched, who decides which ones work and how do they get whittled down? I mean, everybody's, I mean, obviously Lauren is going to be the final say, but everybody kind of say, I have a lot of say.

Yeah. So if I like something, you know, cause people say that to me a lot when they give me advice about it. They go, you have more say than you think you do because you think you're like, I don't know,

I'll do whatever you tell me to do. Yeah. And then you do have a lot of say. But that being said, I'm not trying to be, these guys, you know, when you go do something,

you're like, y'all have done this for 50 years. Yeah. I'm not going to, you know, act like I know something better than, I know what i am comfortable with i can just tell you that all right you know and i could say i do like this

maybe a little bit more than that but it's they they kind of know when you do the when you do the table read i mean you're you're you know it's like you kind of say it all everybody's just sitting around you're you got like a it's like this you of say it all. Everybody's just sitting around. You got like a, it's like this. You got a table. You got a little microphone and like a press conference microphone kind of. And you each go through it. And Lorne reads the stage directions. So as you're reading it, he'll, you know, read it over and be like,

Nate crosses over and sits down, and then you read your line. So they just go through. They split it up to two halves. It would be probably the front half of the show, the second half of the show. So you do 40, 50. You're doing them all.

All the pitches? All the pitches. Oh, still? Maybe not every. I think Wednesday was, yeah. I think it was, yeah, Wednesday is, because Tuesday night, I think Monday's kind of like, here's the rough ideas. Tuesday is kind of like, Monday's just, it doesn't even matter. Like, you could blurt out, be like,

it's like a cat that has trouble working a fax machine. And everybody goes, oh goes oh okay that's funny you know and it doesn't matter you might not i mean they're they're telling you some of the ideas that do it but i'm sure they know how to pitch where you go you maybe don't want to give your you know it's like when you're pitching that i don't know you don't want to say something that someone's like no that's dumb and then you're like well no i know how to make it funny but maybe it didn't sound funny in the room so then tuesday i went around meet with all the writers kind of individually and uh you know they they kind of just tell you the idea that they have for this you know it's like this and that

do this sketch i go yeah it's great great and they really they were all like great it was all like yeah yeah great perfect fun it was all dumb and fun and you know i it's i think that was the vibe they got when i was coming on was just kind of like hey you know they they really were like you know he's not gonna do politics you know the cold open is political that's always usually political and then uh but then they knew i was going to be just this you know just like fun and that's the stuff they want to i think they like right is that you know those stupid sketches that are just you know funny and silly and um you also did seth myers on tuesday yes so that's so i was so i shot tuesday so when i shot that uh promo of me breaking the guitar and all that i mean i on, I go from shooting that they're in the same hallway. So

if, uh, like you could, like they use Seth Meyers green room. I believe they use this food fighters green room for Saturday. That's how close it it's in. It's in the same hallway. So I'm, I'm, I, I break that guitar then immediately go put on clothes. And then I'm on Seth Meyers. I would say within five minutes. Wow. Which is kind of crazy. Like it's just, you know, the way Steve Higgins, who's with Fallon,

but he's been with SNL forever, and he's so funny. And his son, John Higgins, they do that Please Don't Destroy. And those guys are very funny. But Higginsens was like he goes it's it's what you think show business is going to be when you sign up for show business like that's what snl is because then you get into show business and it's not like that but there it is you know it's like you get this on you put this outfit on and you run and you're doing it it feels like oh this is what show business is. Like old timey.

Yeah. You know, show business, which is fun. Yeah. And. Yeah. You're putting on a live show. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's fun. Yeah. It's fun. And then. Was it fun breaking that guitar? Did you get into it? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I went into it this week saying, you know what? I'm going to commit. I'm going to just commit. That's the only way for this to be good. I always say, I always try to tell myself too, one is like, it's less awkward if I commit fully than if I don't. It gets awkward if you don't, if you kind of like have to do it. So I was trying to be like, all right, I'll just go.

When we were filming, I was like, I'm going to just try to be all, you know, I don't care if it feels like I feel stupid, just commit fully. Cause that will be the, the best product, you know? But yeah. So we do that set by, yeah. All right. Then Wednesday, um, now you do the table read. Wednesday was the table read. So we go around and do that. You kind of feel right when you get um, now you do the table read.

Wednesday was the table read. So we go around and do that. You kind of feel right when you get done, then you go in and I believe I went to, uh, you kind of go, they, someone kind of comes to me and says, well, all right, what do you, I go to my green room and two and, uh, two people come in there and we go like, all right, what do you like? What do you don't like? What do you do you you know i can give a quick run through of like well i like this i like that i like but you know and then you can do that and they whittle that down to you know probably 20 or something like that yeah and then you kind of go from there you go up and then you're then i think you went up i went up lauren and you sit with him and lauren really talks to you about this like he's like what do you think about that one? It is crazy. You're like, I don't even want to say anything because you're just like, dude, you've ran a show for 50 years. I don't know. He's not just a figurehead anymore.

He's still actively involved in the show creation. If you – yeah, I mean, you're picking the show. Yeah. Wednesday, I think you pick the show. So you go,'re picking the show. Yeah. Wednesday. I think you picked the show. So you go, here's the show. And not everything's going to make it on the show, but it's relatively the things that are getting written and built.

Like Wednesday is like, it's, this is what's. Yeah. They haven't started building anything yet. No, no. So Wednesday is like,

all right, these are what we're doing. You know, it'll be cut down, but there's no, like you don't go Thursday and go, we got a whole new sketch. It's like, here's the group of sketches we picked. And now we're doing this group, which will be whittled down to a little bit more. And so it's, we did that.

And then, you know, that Lake Beach song that everybody likes. Because at first i told him i didn't want to sing because i was like i just feel uncomfortable i was like i don't sing and then so they did that lake big song and it was very good and then when i saw james austin johnson who's local nashville my dad my our dads went to uh trevecca together yeah which is crazy yeah uh and so he uh him and andrew uh the other guy that was in it yeah andrew just me yeah yeah uh they were uh they i watched them sing it during the dress rehearsal and then i was like i was like oh i could i could sing it i was like

oh it's not as you know i it's like you just need to see some stuff yeah it's like i mean you really are there like i don't know you know you want to sing you're like i don't want to sing yeah because i i just don't i mean i really you know i haven't done all this stuff i've done bits and pieces of stuff but it's you know i I'm kind of in my own world. That song would be a hit on the radio if they didn't say it was from Saturday Night Live. If they were like, this is just a song. Look, I think it's going on Spotify. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a good song. Yeah, yeah. They asked. Yeah. I mean, Dusty has a joke about country songs about going to the lake. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a great, yeah. It's a very fun catchy song uh shoot that at they have some other studios where we shot that in the hallmark thing that's more of the like they built that lake inside a studio wow and so all this was inside this big you know studio type thing that was kind of wherever it was uptown, whatever it is. Was that water like cold? Very cold.

Water was very cold. And, uh, it's like eight 30 in the morning, you know, and you're just like, you have to be going. But that one,

another one was like, I'll just, just commit to it. Like just, you just kind of right before I went, I was like, all right, I'm going to just,

I'll be dumb. And, and that's the point of it. And you just kind of go do it went, I was like, all right, I'm going to just, I'll be dumb. And that's the point of it. And you just kind of go do it. But, you know, when they're at first, because I don't think that would have made it if I didn't, if I didn't say I was going to sing in it. I don't think they would have done it. Because it had been weird to play that song and then be like, well, why would I not? You got a Southern guy hosting.

So then when I was like, all right, I was like, okay, I see what it is. I'll do it. And then it was like, all right, that was going in. It was, cause it was great. It was great.

Very funny. So, so James Austin and Andrew kind of wrote that. I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. James Austin. Also very funny. One of the first national comics I ever met. He's very funny. Very funny. He is.

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Yeah, I think so. This is great. No one's going to get this kind of info anywhere else. Yeah, yeah. So Wednesday, we picked a show. get this kind of info anywhere else. Yeah, yeah. So, Wednesday we picked a show. Thursday is kind of... What did I do Thursday?

I mean, I remember the schedule. Because I got a text from... with my schedule every day. Yeah, I mean, it was fun. Um, you know, it's so fun just, um, you know, cutting on Saturday night live and then just seeing like my friend out there. I was like, this is fun.

Yeah. It's surreal, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I feel the same way. And also in a way like nervous for you like i'm like i you know

just as a stand-up comic especially you know it's like one thing to do the tonight show i mean you're still in front of a live audience but if it goes horrible i think there's still a chance that it could not air yeah but like there's no chance for you that that doesn't air. Yeah. And then if the monologue bombs for some reason, now you got to do sketches. Yeah. It's like, if it bombs and then they're like, all right, this guy's already not been funny on his own doing the thing he does. Yeah. Now we got to watch him do a thing he doesn't do. You know what I mean?

Yeah. You think he's even good at that? I don't know. I don't see how. All right. I got a text. So Thursday, you did a lot of the, I did when the balcony around, I did sketch rehearsal. So it was pick up hotel at noon.

Then I did a photo shoot for the promos. photo shoot for the promos so all the the the photos in in the middle of uh you know in between when they show the snl that was uh those were all done thursday and so you just you're kind of changing outfits and yeah they were yeah that's super fun how that you know that was one of the more excited things i was to do yeah for snl just because a you get to wear something kind of crazy because it's like that's what you do on that's the after party i did wear that jacket i got made fun of for wearing that jacket it's a very comfortable jacket though yeah uh uh and uh but it's uh mary ellen matthews does them and they're just very fun and you know it's like i just you when you see those you're always like man those are going to be super cool yeah yeah super fun and cool my dad loved that one

because he loves that movie um and so he he i it was like i did that the photo shoot uh i did some the promos with uh marcello uh that's the one with the foo fighters yep yeah the boom museum and then the other one uh so you just kind of stand out there that's when i met dave grohl uh which dave grohl was uh very energetic oh yeah yeah a lot of energy and our green rooms are across dress rooms are next to each other and you know he's in there all food fighters great dude though like but just he's very big very like fight great dude though like but just he's very big very like walks in like hey and he'll talk to him but like i mean super cool guy so he first comes in and meets me you know i'm like hey what's up man you know nice to meet you

and he's like he said he ended up saturday night uh he uh abigail facetimed with my Derek, my brother. And he goes, I thought, he goes, I'll be honest with you. I met your brother Thursday. I thought this is going to be the worst Saturday Night Live episode. He goes, I thought, there you go, this guy. I was like, it's going to be bad. And he goes, and now he's my favorite comic. So.

That's awesome. But it was, yeah, it was just like, you know, you meet like, I don meet like i don't know you know you're like yeah it's hard to be like you're like i'm soaking it all up in i'm just not the best with the you know i'm not like hey yeah like but i yeah i was like when we get going i'll go so you get picked up then we blocked for this teacher's husband sketch which almost it got cut but it almost made it and then we did uh noah's ark sketch that ended up getting cut after just herschel's show and then we so you just kind of you go and do the sketches where you kind of block them and you kind of go we did the george washington one where you just kind of go all

right here's where you're going to be standing here's where you're going to go i mean the cameras are they light i mean dude everybody that works there is unreal. The one, the thing that Lauren has done so great with is people, I mean, uh, one person there, if you've worked there 15 years, it's like, you're brand new. It's like, they're a rookie in a sense. And you've been there 15 years. It's that kind of loyalty they have to that show that he shows to them and they show to him i mean there's there's a lighting guy that worked there till he was like 95 or something and they just don parto the announcer yes like 96 or something when he yeah stopped announcing yeah they just they just do it forever and you work there for 30 i mean most every like so many people are like 30 years

they've been there 40 years like it's all it's it's very cool and it's and that's the vibe you feel and you feel you get very feel like uh you know swept up in you know like a family like you get really invited uh so we just did the blocking on Thursday. I got done like 9.45. And then Friday was a 7.30 a.m. pickup. Friday was a very long day because it was, we had to shoot those two sketches. So it was like 7.45, then 8.30 to 10.30 was the Lake Beach pre-tape. And then 11.15 to probably close to five was that Hallmark thing. And then you go to Saturday night live at 6 PM.

We started doing the, the Fran Drescher one. We practiced that one. This is when I'm, I've now arrived at the scene causing some chaos. Yeah. I'm on right now. Oh yeah. Friday. I didn't really think I would maybe even see you until the whole thing was

over. Cause I knew you to be working all day and i didn't think i'd be able to be there but yeah we showed up and got there in between right before the friend dresser sketch blocking and got to uh for that one went upstairs um in a balcony and watched which is the best place to watch it because you can kind of look down on it and watch it and it's all about camera angles and blocking that day it's very interesting it's really for the i mean it's for us to know where to stand but a lot for the cameras felt like and the cue cards and where they're going to be right you know and um like the sets

kind of built but they don't go all out and everything's kind of enough that you can kind of envision what it's going to look like. But it's not like done, done, like props. They'll give you another prop to kind of just practice with or things like that. And it's a lot of just doing it. So you did the Fran Drescher, then you took a little break. Then you did the,an dresser then you took a little break then you did the uh which that one made there then the the diner the vampire yeah was next and that one took forever yeah that was yeah it was one that it was just hard to where everybody stood was kind of difficult

it was like a you know a difficult one to shoot and but mean, it made it to, we did it in the dress rehearsal, but it got, it got cut after the dress rehearsal. I thought they made great choices. I don't know what they cut, but none of the ones they showed were duds. You know what I mean? The ones that they ended up with, all great. Yeah, I agree. I think they, I mean, and that one's funny, but the blocking is really hard and the camera

angles and that one, I'm just down with, Nate the blocking is really hard and the camera angles. And that one, I'm just down with Nate said, just come on out here with me. And I'm out there just, I mean, right there, right off camera. Yeah. Standing by him. And James Austin Johnson was in that one. And it was a very funny one. And then you did, I mean, you did them all.

You did the airplane blocking that night. Yeah. You just end up. Yeah. You, yeah. You just do that. You go kind of stand. Here's where we're going to stand. We're going to do this, you know, all. You did the airplane blocking that night. Yeah, you just end up, yeah. You just do that. You go kind of stand. Here's where we're going to stand. We're going to do this.

You know, all that kind of stuff. And you went to about midnight. And then last thing before we left, they said, Lauren wants to see you in his office. You went up there and met with him. Yeah, I went up there. And yeah, I mean, Lauren's there till, you know. I mean, because this show's at night.

So, like, I think, you know, Lauren's a night person and uh that's the life and so i went up there and we just talked about you know i think he just goes what do you like what do you feel good with you feel these are the scary blah blah you know that kind of thing and then uh you know you're like yeah do that uh and then you're just you know know, it's like, all right. And you get there Saturday. Everybody says happy Saturday, which is very, I like. Do you ever know that? They do that? Yeah.

It's very, it was, it was, I mean, everybody just goes happy Saturday. Okay. And you're like. It's like your wedding day. Yeah. Like today's the day. Yeah. It's very fun.

It's very. Everyone was super nice. Very nice. fun it's very everyone was super nice i mean very nice uh i mean business not goofing around but but super nice and and friendly and yeah they got a job to do yeah it's very it's an old school way of of working which is you know a way that i feel like is missed and sometimes of just people that are like yeah we can be normal and i will will do the best job that we got to do. And you, everybody should be working as hard. Everybody should be working the same hard, as hard as you can.

Yeah. And as good as you can and do. Yeah. Just because you're doing a comedy show doesn't mean everything's a joke. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You're trying to go.

Yeah. I mean, you know, it's like comedy is serious. Like that's the whole idea of comedy is serious. And the, the setup of everything is like, to be funny, you gotta kind of do it that way. Yeah.

And then, yeah. So that was, that was Friday. Then Saturday was. Yeah. We go there about noon. Got there about noon.

And, um, got right to this. Now you're doing rehearsals in costume. Yeah. And I think George Washington was the first one y'all rehearsed that day. Yeah. So you go do, I mean, when you get there too, I forgot, Monday, they scan your face. So they have a thing with an exact replica of your face for the wigs and stuff.

And when we went back in the wig room, I mean, you're back there. You wouldn't let them do that. Yeah. and stuff. And when we went back in the wig room, I mean, you're back there. You wouldn't let them do that. Yeah. They, you go back in the wig room, uh, and you know, they have like an alien. They have, I mean, they can make anything and they have to make anything.

Yeah. I mean, we didn't have anything too crazy, but they, you know, just out of nowhere, it's like, I need a worm head with an arm, you know, cut up. Yeah. And then that guy's got to go make that. That's pretty wild i like do they everything they said like you don't none of them say they can't do it if you go i heard someone talking about it and i think i just over and i was like overhearing it but they're

someone's like when they first started they go uh maybe someone said they go can you make that they go i don't know if we can make that and And they go, well, you don't ever say that. You go, yeah, yeah, I'll make it. You just say, yeah, I'll figure it, you know? Yeah. And I love that because it's not a, no, no. It's like when you get told no, it's a, you know, it's like you want to go, I like that because I say that a lot.

Like when someone tells, when someone says something, no, you're like, do you know for sure? Are you saying no because you think, or do you think it could be done? I just want the finality to go, I'm fine with no as an answer, but I don't want the no because you don't want to try. When this would be the, for this situation, it should be. And it's like that kind of mindset with everybody there is like, you know, well, what's the no coming from?

Is it from a real no, or is it you doubt it and you don't want to go through the hassle of trying it. Uh, but, uh, what were you saying? Well,

it was just, you're doing dress rehearsal now in, in costume. The only time, um, that anyone ever said anything to me about, um, you know, maybe not being there, the security guy who I got to know that, yeah, after everything got rehearsed on Saturday during the day, the only thing, two things left to do were the cold open and the Foo Fighters rehearsing. And I'm just sitting upstairs. I'm on my laptop, just whatever.

And he came in, he's like, you know, he, he didn't say leave, but he was kind of saying like, you know, we got to make sure, blah, blah, blah. And I was getting ready to leave anyway, but he was just like, because of the Foo Fighters, if anything got out on social media. And also, I guess Christopher Walken was going to show up too. Yes. You don't want that getting out. Mm-hmm.

They're surprise guests. So that was the only time he kind of slightly encouraged me to maybe get out of there. Yeah. And I did. You were taking a break then in your dressing room. I took a nap. Yeah. So I went on back.

I heard kind of. Like, yeah, when they did their dress rehearsal, I was pretty tired Saturday. It was, you know, because they say saturday it was you know because they say they're like you know they tell you to eat when you can eat because you don't know when you're going to get to eat and uh you know and go when you go back you go sleep i mean man the people that work there i mean it's it is all day and it's just you know saturday is just and every i mean it really everybody's got a great spirit About them Everybody's

You know so nice And excited I mean And they're I mean those riders like They'll be there till four in the morning There's you Taking a break

Yeah Those are my lawyer Yeah that's the airplane sketch Airplane sketch Lawyer And Yeah I was just sitting in that And they were setting it up and so it was uh

i was kind of yeah just close yeah i felt very like just my brain felt foggy and you know one of those where you're like i need to i need to slow it down yeah and so i just kind of and then like so when i had this break i just sent i weirdly had like two hour break which just kind of, and then like, so when I had this break, I just sent, I weirdly had like two hour break, which is kind of crazy. But during this, I was, that's when I said like, all right, I go, everybody left and I just laid in there and, you know, and like just try to close my eyes and like half fall asleep, half just kind of reset. And then, and then you go, go because i mean people are coming in all the time being like all right we changed this up we got to cut this because we were nine minutes over before we do when we do dress rehearsal uh because all right so george watching a sketch everybody's or do you yeah let me before we get to that because we're about to do the dress rehearsal

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And so we were trying to do a sketch like that where it was like I'm a sports announcer. Then we have to have breaking news and go to like a real serious story.

And then I can't pronounce the any of this stuff and so that one i thought was pretty funny but it didn't make uh it didn't we didn't really it didn't make it past the writing the sketch process yeah they wrote yeah so saturday dress rehearsal dress rehearsal i get over there i'm the only one from our group that went to both and i'm so glad i did because there is a difference between the dress rehearsal and the what makes them a live show um i mean the cold open well first of all

for both i don't know if you know this um michael che comes out first the band's playing the whole time people come in to get seated then michael che comes out and kind of does a little audience warm-up just to get people going tell them what's going to happen then keenan comes out and kind of does a little audience warmup just to get people going, tell them what's going to happen. Then Keenan comes out and sings that song, So Glad We Made It. I don't even know what the title is. You know what I'm talking about? I think so. Give me some lovin'. Maybe not.

No, no. The more you describe it, the less I know it. Yeah. So glad we made it. You got to give me some lovin'. Oh, yeah. Give me some lovin'. Oh, it's a newer song? me some loving. Oh, yeah. Give me some loving. Oh, it's a newer song?

No, no. It's a very old song. I'm just thinking, looks like we made it. No. That's a song I was thinking. Give me some loving. Give me, give me some loving. Give me some loving.

Oh, boy. We're really. Give me, give me some loving. You've heard it. Give me some loving. We just keep going. I only sing. Any other words?

Now I sing too much because I'd sing once. Yeah. Give me some lovin'. We just keep going. I only sing that. Any other words? Now I sing too much because I'd sing once. Yeah. Give me some lovin'. No, open Pandora's box. Do you guys know that song? Give me, give me some love. Anyway. Maybe it's Keenan's song.

Give me, give me some love. No, no, no. It's a classic song. The two words air. Give me, give me some love. Do you think you can look it up? You don. Give me some love. The two words, Aaron. Give me some love. Do you think you can look it up? You don't have to play it, but you could just tell me what the name of it is. Yeah.

Anyway, he comes out. I guess you play like one second or something. I think you can play one, you know. Give me some loving every night. Woo-hoo. You know what I'm talking about. Give me some loving every night. Woo-hoo. You know what I'm talking about. Give me some loving. It does sound like, come on, take it easy.

Take a free ride. Yeah. I feel like that. Well, anyway, he comes out to get the crowd pumped up. He sings that song. Three of the female cast members come out as his backup singers, and they sing and dance behind him. And it's just to get the crowd going.

Yeah. And then, um, there's a guy who's 30 seconds, 20 seconds, you know, five seconds, whatever.

And then the show starts, but the cold open in the dress rehearsal, a lot longer, there were two characters that got completely cut from the cold open. Kenan played, uh, Clarence Thomas and the new cast member on there chloe trost maybe is her name she played jill biden yeah both of those got cut from the show just because they didn't get a good reaction

they changed a lot of stuff up yeah so they're going off that audience. And so you go through and you run the entire show. Like if anybody ever goes, it is good to go to both. I mean, if you ain't got tickets to one and not the other live one, it's like you get more sketches going to the dress rehearsal because we're doing every sketch. So it takes two hours something versus whatever it is during the taping. And then you do commercials breaks and you do, you run it as a full legit show. And so I went out and did my standup, which I, uh, I think I added something and cut something and whatever. We are nine

minutes over though. Uh, you know, so they're like going through it and they have it, you know, when we do the read- throughs of the sketches too, they time them. So they know the times of each sketches. And, uh, so you go right when you do the dress rehearsal, you run that.

And the George Washington sketch, uh, is this where I can? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. The George Washington sketch that everybody's likes a lot. Now it's everybody's favorite.

It was, uh, it was very good. It was very good. It was very written good. But during table reading and all this other stuff, I just wasn't, you know, I was just reading it. And then we ran it in the sketch rehearsal. It just, you know, I was, I don't know.

I wasn't what I was when it was on. It's so funny because everyone thinks you wrote it because it seems like it's such your voice. No, no, I did not write any of these sketches they wrote them uh was a lot to say it's very impressive yeah well they wrote them they wrote them in my tone and that one was yeah i like that one i that one it was in because i mean when i was up there with lauren like i kept saying it and I mean, it was, it was probably, I think Lauren would, it was, it was going to get cut. He was like, he knew I liked it. And it's obviously one that I'm saying everything in it. And, uh, but I, I mean, you know, I wasn't, it's like, I, uh,

the idea of it with, uh, you know, when you're doing dress rehearsals and all, when you're doing stuff, there's no audience. It's like, I don't have any rhythm. I don't have anything to go off of, you know, not being an actor. You're, it's like, I don't, I don't know. I don't bring it. It seems flat. It seems long, feels long. But when we did the dress rehearsals with an audience, I, you know, now I get to, my timing now, now I get to really be into it. And so it was very – like I don't think I realized how much it was going to get cut, but it was very fun to be – that was getting cut. And we did it at the very end. And it went from getting cut to then they put it – they moved it to second in the show.

It felt like to me in the audience that got the best reaction of any of them. And the second best was the chef competition yeah yeah and i think it was the chef was they opened it they wanted to open with the chef one but they both got moved up but we also because we have to change so you have to change into all that george washington stuff and all. So it's like that stuff really matters on where stuff is going to go because you're like, well, I don't think he can,

he can get out of this. We had another, the goals sketch that we had where it was, uh, these two Anna, Anna, Anna, trauma,

like, you know, you can wave and like a thing, the motion. I thought this was a motion sensor. Yeah. Yeah. She's a singer. She got the motion. Oh, I thought this was a person. Motion sensor. Yeah. Anatronic. Yeah.

She's a singer. She got fired from there. Animatronic. Animatronic. Animatronic. And then, so, it was, I was playing like, probably playing you, someone that bought a bunch of animatronics for Halloween. Yeah. And, but it's, so that one, they were spraying water on each other.

But that, after that, it was was like Mikey gets so wet and everything. It's just very hard to get him into whatever for the next one. So that stuff all plays into like, can they can they you know, where is it going to fit? Was it? I mean, the show. It's so crazy. So you do that. You do the dress rehearsal and it was very nice so george washington i was like i like george washington's like yeah and you're like all right which ones do you not fail and you're like ah this one felt flat this one felt whatever so then they they pull those two off and then it's kind of like all right we're doing here's what we're doing the show

and then you're you're picking the order of the show and i and i'm up there if anybody watched studio 60 uh it was a show Aaron Sorkin and it was kind of about Saturday Night Live. It's not really anything about Saturday Night Live, but there's little things. So there's a room up there that's got a curtain and it's right above the, we're up there in that room.

And I even told Lauren, we're up in that room and I see the curtain and it's the sliding glass door that opens into the studio. And I was like, this is really like that TV the sliding glass door that opens into the studio and I was like this is like this is really like that movie that tv show studio 60 and they were like laughing at that because that show got so ridiculous it got it got like it was you know it was uh it was like fun it was like for someone that knows nothing about it it was like fun to watch but it was uh it ended up getting so great like they had a hostage situation like the guy that plays lauren like gets someone out of a hostage

like it got really insane yeah where it was like all right well this is not true uh this is insane but they the little stuff set up was how it was and so you're up there you're picking the show uh if you saw that post i do where it's the different post-it notes and the names my name and food fighters and so it's like that the sketch idea so they're naming it and they're placing all right well this goes here in the show and so lauren just takes it off here you know and ask for input and all this and uh but i mean you know up until it's like all right this is the order we can do this you know they got to check to make sure that you know the crew can yeah we can get that stage flipped over that stage is over there this one's over there we got to slide this in um shows picked

then we go downstairs everybody is on the floor lauren sits up there with the board and has the new order. And he goes, he talks on microphone, just kind of gives a final, we're a little bit over, maybe a couple of things, just make sure you, he's not really like saying,

I mean, I don't really have any notes. He was very nice to let me do the monologue, but he he didn't because i was like i'll cut some of my monologue if you know i don't want to mess it up and he was like no he goes you the monologue is great and it's what you do and he knows that i was getting introduced to a lot of people that don't know me however many people can know me it's just such a different kind of audience that, you know, it was very, very thoughtful and they really want to make it for me. Like it was, the stuff is built, it's written around you. It's built around you. Like, it's really crazy. Like the Washington sketches, like that's written. It's like, this would work for Nate and this would work for his vibe of the

show. And so that's the stuff that's like almost mind blowing. Cause you're like, when you look back at it, you're like, yeah, dude, this whole show is like built to be like, all right, we take the host, his vibe, and then we kind of build it off that. And, uh, so we go down there and he's like, you know, you gotta, I think it's like, kind of just like, like, you know, just like, look, we're not, we're over. So you obviously like some stuff's going to get cut. There ended up being two sketches cut. One, we were like, you're almost a vampire one.

I think was in there, but it was going to get cut. I think it was more than two cut. Yeah. Oh yeah. There's more than two. Noah's Ark, Vampire, and then the Teachers. Yeah. The Teachers.

I thought there was maybe one more. There might have been one more. Yeah. So you can see, like, all right, these are in play. The Diner got cut. Oh, that's Vampire. Yeah. And so you feel what's going to get cut.

And then the Teachers one was the only one. That's right. Teachers was going to make it to live, but it's the only one that didn't teachers was going to make it to live but it's the only one that didn't make it to live yeah and uh do you think they'll ever like reuse those sets or bring that back later i asked them i said what do you do about the sketches that uh because they build whole sets you know yeah yeah what do you do you know, and some of the sketches are funny that don't get made. I was like, you reintroduce them.

And they said, yeah, they go, yeah, sometimes they will redo them. Maybe they rewrite them and it's got a different kind of feel. For whatever reason, it didn't really work in this, but it's like that idea will work again. Like they had one that I really liked that I think would have been funny. It was kind of like the George Washington, the same feel of the George Washington when it wasn't history, it was a football coach,

but that kind of like a guy just saying, just rambling off about something that's not what should be talked about at the moment or whatever. So what about like with the George Washington? Like, I mean, I'm sure you got some of it memorized and you're reading some, right.

But it was a lot of information. Yeah. So what, I mean, like'm sure you got some of it memorized and you're reading some, right? But it was a lot of information. Yeah. So what, I mean, like reading that feels like that would be hard if you're just reading the whole thing. But it also seems impossible to just memorize. So what's that like? I'm sorry. I was about to say, I always thought, why don't they just memorize it? They rewrite so much.

It changes constantly. Well, memorizing is hard. I mean, it's like you can memorize something. Like our stand-up sets are all memorized. But it's like just memorizing something that someone wrote with a ton of numbers in it. I mean, that's hard. I did not memorize it. I was just reading off the cards.

But it's like even then, it's like if you're just straight reading, I don't, I don't know. I just don't feel like it would come off as natural. I mean, that was, you know, this is how great everybody was. There is, you can, they're, they, they want this to go. Like that, that's like something that they say. Sometimes a host might think where they think like, nah, they're trying to screw me. It's a show that they want it to go great. Right.

They don't want to make anybody look bad. They want you to feel comfortable and they want you to be excited and they want you to look good and make the show look good. And so they're trying to do everything they can to do that. And they would show me how to read. When I first started reading, it was, I was looking right at the camera just being like, oh, the other day I went to the... And you can when i first started reading it was i was like looking right at the camera just being like oh the other day i went to the you know and you just like you can tell that you're reading and it's more of like you kind of you look and you kind of grab the line so you would you know you kind of just like it's like nate bargett's a good problem to have poster behind you know you just kind of like grab it then you're like good problem to have and then we went to beeman lobby

and you know maybe i grab it there and i say it there and then i kind of grab it and you're like, good problem to have. And then we went to Beeman lobby and you may, you know, maybe I grab it there and I say it there. And then I kind of grab it back there. And, uh, that's what I was trying to do that George Washington sketch is there's, there's cue cards. I mean, there's, I think four sets of them and they're just all like here, here, Wally, the cue card, I mean, all the cue guard people, guard people but he was i mean he would be really good you may take one in the airplane sketch where when heidi stands up and says i'm the most important job of all uh i uh you know and i go what do you do and she says i'm a mother i forgot the what do you do line and so i'm just standing there and there's a weird pause. And if you know it, and it's so great, the wall, he's holding it and he sees me and I'm just, I'm like sitting here, like

waiting for her to do it. And then he goes and like points at the line and I go, what do you do? And then I say it, but that was one I forgot. That was the only one I noticed. Yeah. It's a great line, by the way, because I watched this with my wife who is a mom who you know used to do comedy but now a stay-at-home mom and we're watching it and i'm like oh no when you said that line i was like oh no and uh she loved it she was like it was done so well yeah that it's like yeah you gave you gave props to the moms but then you're like in terms of real things like making money yeah and it was very funny yeah well we booed teachers yeah yeah which is very which i also like yeah yeah yeah that scene got the end got changed every time in the rehearsal in the practicing leading up to it

and then um you know day at first it was dave gro was going to come out and said, I'm a rock star. It's number one or whatever. Yeah. And then he was going to play a song and then we would all dance. And he's going to say something. And I've slept with up to five women, something silly like that. Then they change it to, you know, and you're like, well, why do you fly? Why are you in coach then?

He's like, it's not a con. It's coach. It's a comedy plus. Yeah. It was a first class. I got a little hung up on that because I was like this is it looks like first class it's two rows it doesn't even look like comfortable i didn't think about that oh yeah i was like thinking about that but i'm now we didn't even but it ends up totally different it comes out with scrubs and

yeah and he goes this is my halloween costume. What made it kind of a Halloween, you know, Halloween episodes are fun there. And yeah. So then he came on and yeah. And he's great. Mm-hmm. He's just, he's been there 15, he's done 15 of them. Wow. More than any other musical act.

Because he was there with Nirvana. In regards to Christopher Walken and the Foo Fighters, a lot of people in the comments talked about that, how they were like, oh, it's such a great inside thing to have Christopher Walken. And I didn't get it. Do you guys know what that is all about? Yeah, because it was going viral of them on SNL, and he introduced them and I think said their name wrong. He kind of emphasized weird Foo Fighters or something like that. Yeah, he was like, Foo Fighter or something. Like years ago.

Years ago. Yeah. I mean, maybe 20 years ago or something. He said it kind of weird. So they had him say it right this time. Yeah. This is from yesterday where he finally says it right. Because when he introduced them

I thought well that's weird The host usually introduces the musical guest Yeah Yeah I don't know if y'all can hear that But yeah That was the original That's a good one to tell the audience

It's listening Like they're You know I don't know if y'all can. Well, I mean, the volume's up here, so I think it's. There's just thousands of people listening to this, and they just get a, all right, did y'all hear? It doesn't matter.

I don't know if y'all heard that. Eric, all right. Yeah, so it was like he said it correctly. Okay. So, I mean, that kind of stuff happens too, like the cameos. Because I got asked in interviews, So, uh, I mean, that kind of stuff happens to like the cameos. Cause I got asked in interviews, they were, um, like, do you know who's popping on or who's coming? And, uh, I was like, I don't know.

I don't know anybody. And, uh, and then they had, cause we had that chef show. So we, that's when they got Padma to come do it. And then I think he asked Walken to come do it and then i think he asked walking to come do it the food fighters were on and then that and it added you know and when walking coming out first it was like added some excitement to be like you know had a nice little pop like as you know big thing to help my first time hosting like just come up and you know have walking come out and be like the crowd goes you just i'm backstage you just hear them go nuts you know did you know, have Walken come out and be like, the crowd goes, you just come backstage. You just hear them go nuts.

You know, did you know who says it's live from New York? Live from New York, it's Saturday night. Do you know who always says that? It was a different person every week. Yeah. It's always a cast member. Yeah. I didn't know that.

I thought it was, Walken might've said it cast member. Yeah. I didn't know that. I thought it was, I, Walken might've said it this time. Yeah. But they let, they're like, unless it's like Alec Baldwin

or it's like a host or someone that's been there a bunch. Yeah. They've done it where they can say it. But I didn't, I didn't know it was always

a cast member. Yeah. It's usually a political sketch in the cold open. It'll be like Biden or Trump or whoever's playing them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't, I never thought i never i don't think i realized that because i thought oh am i gonna get to say live from new york it's saturday night but yeah it's never the host yeah there's

video of you backstage before you walk out oh really yeah i saw it today at saturday night live posted like when uh he says live from new y, it's Saturday night. And then it shows them breaking down the set and getting ready for getting everything cleared out while they're introducing the cast. And it shows you standing backstage, waiting to walk through that door. And then the floor director, she's back there. And then talk about the woman who holds your hand.

Donna. And runs back and forth. Well, the whole, so the whole crew there, uh, is it's, it's, it's very wild. I, it was, uh, like, I mean, you're having to change clothes so fast. Uh, you know, I, like Pete Davidson texted me when he was like, look, Donna is, he goes, just do what, just follow follow her and do what she because you do what she tells you to do because you're you know you have you know you this is all in real time so you've got to just be in and out of stuff and um so they had donna uh jerry and uh the maker katie i think was the one i'm blake on smooth but they're uh they were with me and they're they're going around so you have these four ladies so they're and right under

like you know that hallway the hallway that everybody kind of everybody would know that hallway because they show stuff down there sometimes but right under the bleachers there's a little area and they have a curtain up and that And I just run back in there every time and change. And then she walks me back. And I mean, curtains are, I mean, cameras are all moving. So when I get, when I say that Saturday Night Live, you can see it on the Fran Drescher because the camera was there a little bit longer. If the Fran Drescher sketch, I just stand there holding the bowl of candy and I'm waiting for there's a prop the girl that's a prop girl and uh the prop girl like goes and she comes she takes that and i think i'm just

waiting for my hand to be grabbed by donna i'd like because you just get used to just donna's like just hold your hand up and i'm gonna grab your hand and then you just follow her and you like run through the crowd and i mean that stuff is probably very fun to watch. If you go to a live one, she's pulling him so fast, like you're almost about to fall down. There was a couple, there was like two times where, I mean, we are rolling, like you just pull off and it's just, and then you got to go back there. And then, and then they just just like you get your pants off then

they got them where you're you know they're just open and you step into the new ones they yank them up you're just you're leaning on people you're stepping into this and she goes your hands behind you your hands go behind you your jackets on this on the wig person she goes puts that on does it touches everything and then you just you're like just, you're like there, then you're like, and then you just right back out. Wow. Yeah. It's super, super fast. And Jenna, who is, uh, you know, she's like running it all like in the front, like she's the one like back there with you too. And she tells you, you know, when I walk out, it's, you got to hit the mark that you go stand on. So I walked out on the monologue, I come out and then they go, it's really great because everybody that works there, I mean, they really are awesome.

And they're like, you're going to do great, man. Like, they're just so positive and rooting for you. And it's such a wonderful feeling. And everybody, you know, Sandra, she was behind the scenes, but she worked with Lauren and she kind of walking around. Rebecca, like they, but I come, I stand on that mark

and then you just sit there and wave. And it's like, it's very, but you got to wait till like this guy will do this with his hands. And he just goes, and when he says that, you go, thank you, thank you very much. And then they hand me the microphone and then I go, and then I go into my act, and when I'm done, we got a great

show for you tonight, Food Fighters are here, sit, stay tuned, we'll be right back, and then you just kind of stand there, and then it's like, Jenna's like looking at you, and Donna's right, and like, every time I'm getting, every time I'm done with something, they're there, and they're just waiting for it to be like all right cameras you know and then this then someone grabs the microphone they grab me i shoot straight back to the back first sketch was the chef show that was a little bit easier to get into is like i just took my stuff off chef thing and she runs me out there but then from chef to george washington was we were we were moving because everything else had a wig also chef show you said had your hair. I had a wig during the dress rehearsal.

Yeah. And then they, they changed it and just gave me no wig. Cause I think it just played better. What did your wig look like? It's kind of a fro wig a little bit. Yeah. It's so funny how they think about every little thing.

Yeah. Maybe not the wig. Yeah. It just looked better without the, you know, without the wig. In the, looked better without the you know without the wig in the uh friend rusher one originally in the rehearsal like she like froze a kid yeah or something like that it was a prop but she acts like she's throwing a kid and you say it was great

yeah sarah was lauren was even saying like that got moved up in the fact that you know he's like if you have a kid if you have kids in sketches you want them up a little bit because uh people at home will be mad that you got them out this late which is like it's a weird thing that you got to think about that you got to be there's gonna be you know and i mean these people getting mad or who you know who knows how it's probably not a lot but yeah uh but it is like you know and older people just being like yeah i like those kids being out there till it's it's 12 30 at night people from the internet always get mad yeah when you were rehearsing friday night it's like 11 o'clock and you're in that air no you're doing the the ghouls and there's

a kid in that one yeah and they spray it's not just water. It's like some type of goo or something, right? It was like a brown water. Okay. Yeah. And a guy comes up, the mom of that kid sitting up there where I am, he comes up and he said, hey, he doesn't have any allergies or anything, right? Because we're about to spray this stuff and we don't want him to have some allergic reactions. They have to think of all that stuff. Oh, yeah.

They asked me about the allergies. They have to, yeah, that stuff. Oh yeah. They asked me about the hours. They have to, yeah, they just have to check all this. Like, you don't know what's, you know, I mean,

especially now it's like people are so like, I'm not just had an allergic reaction to the outside in Wichita. So it's, you can, you know, yeah. You know, anything could set anything off.

I didn't see that. What happened to you? I was, uh, in Wichita, uh, we're doing a off. I didn't see that. What happened to you? I was in Wichita. We're doing a show, and I was like, I was going to run, doing the right thing. And I go run. I guess they have real big ragweed. They have Wichita is Wichita, like Oklahoma City. It was almost everywhere we went.

Kansas. city uh it was almost everywhere we went uh kansas somewhere in texas the most uh allergies in the country in scranton pennsylvania is also uh they have the most allergies and so i we just go run i run like a mile and a half and but we're where i'm running is like along there's just weeds and grass and everything and then i get back back and my hands are itching, my feet are itching, and my lip starts puffing up really bad. And so the show's in two hours. And then I go inside and then the show, then it starts getting even worse. And now we're like an hour from the show.

So then an EMT came down and looked, but he couldn't really do anything because he didn't have any. He's a colic. Yeah, it it. Yeah. It was very funny. He goes, uh, it was his first day and they go, all right, go down there. And so he comes in and he's like, Hey, you know, and then everybody leaves. So they just leave me and him in there together.

And it's kind of just uncomfortable. And he's like, uh, does, uh, everything work? You know, he's like, I think he work you know he's like i think he's he was just making sure i'm not dying you know like my throat's not closing up or something but you could just tell like he doesn't this is not what he does i mean he was just telling me it's like it's my first day i don't know i'm just here to make sure you're not dying he checks my pulse and i like i watched him just try to do the math for the pulse, which is funny. Just seeing him just be like, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. He's like trying to count it.

He goes, pulse is like 70-something probably. And you're like, all right, that's good. Which is that low? That's low, right? Or is that good? I think that's good. Okay. Yeah, so he's like, the pulse is like, you know, it was good.

And then he comes back a little bit later with the orange emergency bag and just basically being like, I don't think there's anything. He's like, I was looking for an EpiPen, which is, I mean, if you'd have stuck me with an EpiPen, that would have been real bad. But it wasn't a food allergy. But I mean, if I would have just got stuck with it, like if he had brought down and be like, here's an EpiPen, and I got stuck with that, I think you have to go to the hospital

if you get stuck with an EpiPen. I mean, has this guy not had any training? I mean, EMT at Arena in Wichita. go to the hospital if you get stuck with it i mean is this guy not had any training i'm an emt at a arena yeah in wichita i just don't think they're i you know they're not doctor and they they haven't been what did you do take like benadryl so i didn't want to take benadryl because i was going to make me asleep we had another doctor come the venue knew a guy that dr sean that emt guy was very nice and he did everything he could have possibly done and then guy that dr sean that emt guy was very nice and he did everything he could have possibly done and then this guy dr sean did the venue someone knew him there he came he brought

me uh i think some steroid things and then uh i did i had to take some benadryl so i took some benadryl and i fall asleep uh and then i get woken up like 10 minutes before the show i mean i'm about to go on stage and then like i'm like kind of and then i go on and when i go on i'm like kind of half like i mean i was asleep a little bit ago this pendulum my lips like crazy but the show was great that was it was so funny i mean i had like one of the better shows because i was you're just kind of loose you're that's what i'm saying when you're a little tired, it can be really good. You're like loopy and you're like loose. I got all the jokes out.

Yeah. Yeah, it was good. It was good. And I would just say on Seth Meyers that Laura said, if you can do that, you can do Saturday Night Live. Yeah. Laura was like, if you can, you know, because I mean, to go from like, because I was like,

I didn't know if I was going to fall asleep, but I like lay down and I kind of got knocked out. And, and Chase was telling me that it took like five minutes to kind of, he was knocking on the door and not coming like to wake me up. And, uh, so,

and then I just, you're just up and then you got to go do a live show, you know, in front of everybody. Uh, and she was like, you can do that. You can do Saturday night. And, uh, so, you know in front of everybody uh and she was like you can do that you can do saturday

live and uh so you know the most nervous i got was saturday live i mean you're nervous walk out do the monologue both times you're just kind of like i hope this go good this goes good and then uh i would i would say defer the run through on saturday i got really nervous during the day during the day when no crowds there. Yeah. Cause you're, you know, it's like, you're looking at the, which camera to look at, this camera's on, this camera, you know, when you deliver a line, I could deliver the line before the camera even cuts to me. Cause you know, it's a, it's a second, you know? And so if I have a little quick line, I could say it and then the camera wouldn't

even be on. And there's monitors so you can see what's being seen on the thing. So there's a lot of this stuff that's playing into it. And where I know when I would say my line, like the friend dresser, when she's like, you're dressed like sloth. Well, they got the camera on her and in the corner of my eye, I can see that it switches to me and then when it switches to me then i'm like i'm just holding the baby root and then i do the joke but you gotta kind of wait a second because it's gotta the camera's gotta come to you yeah keenan is unreal he's unreal i mean that whole cast is is really great. Sarah Fran, that is new, and James. Andrew's very funny.

I mean, they're all, Heidi and Chloe, the ones that have been there for a long time. They're just, man, they're just so good. They just can get into anything. They can do anything. Like, it's such a really special skill to have. Ego, too. Ego, ego. So,

I mean, just so, uh, punky. Uh, I mean, it's, it's, it's all Marcella.

They're all, I mean, everybody's unreal at Bowen. Who's the doctor that goes, I'm a doctor. And he goes, not that doctor. Uh,

and then Chloe, uh, who was in that airplane sketch too. Uh, it's all of them are, there's two Chloe's there now. Uh, but they're, they're just all so good. good that cast is that cast is really really good and uh and it was like you know

and i could see it it's like i you know i haven't got to watch that a lot much really because it's just you're always kind of working uh so you know and seeing them do fun sketches like that are just stupid and silly. You know, I mean, they loved it. And, you know, it was, man, yeah. And Kenan is just so good. He's been there a long time, huh? The longest. Yeah, 20 years.

Wow. But it's, he's, phew. Yeah, there was a Noah's Ark sketch that got cut where Nate's Noah and Kenan's, after it started raining, Kenan's knocking on the door trying to get in. And Nate's wife doesn't want him to. Yeah, Noah's wife's like, no. And then it's like, I opened the door and he's like, well, you got a lot more room in here. It's a very funny. It was a very funny sketch. I don't know if people, it just took a second to figure out who I was or what was going on.

Or it just wasn't clicking, but it was, it was a, it was a sketch that was very funny. And they bring in live animals and doesn't even make air. Yeah. They brought in goat. These goats were going crazy too. They were like hitting each other and making a lot of noise. And everybody's like, are these goats okay? And the guy that brought them was like, yeah, they're just being goats.

And you could tell he was like getting annoyed that everybody's like, yeah, but they're fighting. And he's like, yeah, it's goats, baby goats. So they're going to fight. And he was like just totally fine with it. And everybody else is like, well, should we feed them or something? And he's like, no, no, that's just, they're making a weird noise why is that noise weird he goes it's a goat noise everything was just like well they're goats and that's a goat noise so that's why it's like that i was like wanting you to be a writer on this noah's ark sketch because you'd be like hold on

guys god wouldn't want him in because of mankind's sin. And you feel like totally shut it down. That is true. Yeah. You want to read some questions from. Yeah. All right. So read some comments, you know, some questions, some questions. Yeah.

This is a, yeah. Yeah. I hope people like this. It's probably not going to be our funniest episode, but it's our most interesting. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting. Reed Jones, was that Nate's real yearbook pick

in the Hallmark movie sketch? It was. It's my real one. I have a bigger picture of it, too, because my mom got a bigger one. How did they get it? They just asked, you know, Abigail and Travis. Oh, so you didn't have to, like, so your mom did get involved in the whole process?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, my mom was happy because when they got, because that was, but when they got, when they bought that one, because I have a really big picture, they have like a giant photo of me in that picture because it's my senior year. Yeah. they have like a giant photo of me in that picture because of my senior year yeah and uh so they spent you know it was expensive and it was one that like you know i think my dad's still like i can't believe he spent that money you know much money on that she's like well see now look at it yeah yeah it ended up working out uh so it was because it was the whole thing was like mine was

big and then abigail derrick's was smaller than Abigail's. It was very small. So it just got down to be like. You know, I think you showed that on this podcast once. Yeah. Because that's when you were trying to model at the mall or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Didn't make it. Clayton Stoker. Stoeker. S-T-O-E-C-K-E-R. That E comes out of nowhere Seems like an unnecessary E doesn't it Yeah yeah

I wonder if Clayton I guess if it wasn't in there It'd be Stalker I guess that makes sense Stoker And you would say Stoker Yeah But his name is Clayton

So it's like Clay But they add the ton He's got a lot of just Yeah he's got a lot going on It seems like Clayton Stoker Is like trying to hide You know His name is clay stoker and he's wanted for something and then the best he came up with was clayton stoiker

yeah yeah and he's like i'm not that guy witness protection yeah and they go but he didn't want to lose his whole but he won't lose yeah he goes what are your friends calling play stoker stalker and you're like well that's the guy we're looking for. That's crazy. Was anything discussed with Please Don't Destroy? And ultimately, how come you were not in Dog Food or a different Please Don't Destroy skit idea? Yeah, I talked with them about the dog food. I was going to be in that sketch with them.

They had me in that sketch as being the pitch person for it. We had this original idea was that, and then they just went and filmed it in their office. And I think it was, it was just better. It was like, if I was in it, but it was,

uh, probably feeling a little forced to get me in it. You know, it just the, and so it just flowed better without me in it. So I wasn't, but those, yeah, those dudes are super funny. Yeah. Uh, me in it you know it's just the and so it just flowed better without me in it so i wasn't but those yeah those dudes are super funny yeah uh reed jones again we're only doing reed jones oh

did i have two reed jones yeah well he's good all right reed jones good how did they handle the matthew perry news it seemed like some of the folks on stage at closing credits were learning about his death in that very moment they flashed Perry's image on the monitors. Yeah, that's what they did. I think I heard he died right before someone just said it, but it was right before we went, we're going on, maybe the live show. Yeah. So I did it. Yeah, there was really no way no way to like how were you going to address that they just showed it i mean they didn't i don't think they really put anything up besides just the picture they did it very well for it was very it was done very well for the moment i mean they

so at the end when you come out and uh i'm standing there they you you go there and we go so the sketching i cut i'm in I'm in this teacher's pet sketch. I'm fooled that when the Foo Fighters are playing that second time, I had a moment so I could go stand out there and watch. I'm like watching and I'm in full outfit ready for this next sketch because we don't know if it's getting cut or not. And so then they're like, all right, it might get cut. They're like, we don't think it's getting cut.

And then they go, it's cut. And then, so once it's cut, I got to take everything off and I put my good night clothes on the three, seven, one, three, eight shirt, uh, which is, uh, it's like NB goods is the lady that made that shirt for us. Uh, I reposted her on Instagram, but I believe it's NB good. Yeah. Yeah. They're local.

They're here. Three, seven. You can pre-order it. The scene on. Yeah. There you go. Look be good. Yeah. Yeah. They're local. They're here. Three, seven. You can pre-order it. The scene on. Yeah, there you go. Look at that. Yeah.

Yeah. So I, yeah, she was very nice and, uh, she posted, you know, like,

cause they weren't, they weren't going to sell them. Cause it's like, it was my idea to wear those hats. That is a good hat. I mean, it's two trucker hats right there, but yeah,

go buy that shirt. If you see that support, that's all sports her. If it all goes to her so she was yeah i mean we had to put that together real fast and it was super and they you know they did it and had they they brought six hoodies because we didn't know which one would fit and all that and so uh yeah go uh support that nice little local yeah i think they're in uh i think she's even in old hickory or uh somewhere down there uh but so i go out there and then lauren tells you uh

you know hey uh you know do this and then uh he tells you how much time you're gonna have so he always go you know be like you have 14 much time you're gonna have so he always go you know we'll be like you have 14 seconds so you're gonna have 30 i think we had 30 seconds he goes you have 30 seconds of uh you know so whatever you want to say you know you say please welcome food fighters or please thank you food fighters christopher walk and her and uh as another luck me yeah her yeah she came on and did that her yeah, she was super cool, super nice. And then Padma Luckme was good. She was very nice too.

I mean, everybody was just so nice. Walk and I only used to, if you see me talk to him on stage, that's the only time I talk to him. And he was like, oh, it's your first time. He goes, this is pretty interesting the way they do it. You go, yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I mean, he's eight. Yeah. You're like, yeah. And you're like, it's crazy. crazy. I mean, he's eight. You're like, yeah.

And you're like, it's crazy. You just kind of talk to him. Then you're like, I don't know. And then. Yeah, what do you say to Christopher Walk? Yeah. Yeah. And then, but he was like, you know, he was cool.

So yeah, but we did see him show that Matthew Perry kind of thing. Yeah, but I don't think not everybody knew. I mean, it happened kind of right when it was going on. Phillip Wiley, at the end of SNL when everyone was talking as the credits rolled, one of the Foo Fighters hit up two fingers to Nate and seemed to say something happened twice. What was he talking about? I would have to see it. I don't know what he said.

Yeah, I watched it. Right when you say goodnight, you turn around and you're talking to him and he was like, twice. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know what the twice was. He was telling me, maybe he was telling me, he goes, when we're in Nashville, we're going there, come to the to the show like we'd love you to come out to the show or something he was

telling me inviting me to the show like next time they're in nashville i could come to the show and then so maybe he's saying we're gonna be there twice or we've been there i don't know i don't remember what the two times was but uh it was uh you know or maybe we did it two times maybe that was it maybe he said that you done he goes he goes there you go you did maybe we did it two times. Maybe that was it. Maybe he said that you done. He goes, he goes, there you go. You did it. You did it twice tonight. Cause we did dress rehearsal and then we did that. So maybe that's what he said now that I think about it. And so I think he said that then he just invited me to the show. It was like saying, you know, they were like, great. Yeah. John Hoskins, what were the best snacks backstage on saturday night live solid spread or underwhelming now they have i mean they get you anything you would ever want uh

they had we got they brought these pretzels every day you're getting like gifts like someone local kind of gives you this or that or fallon gave me a nice gift uh and uh which is very nice and found yeah because found like I talked to Seth Meyers and Fallon and they were all super helpful with me and uh that's what NBC pages that'll go get you yeah yeah they'll go get you whatever yeah I mean you could be like I want anything like they got me you know i would get we do this a lot on the road and they went and got this for us but so on the road for kind of a quick lunch we always get like two boxes of jersey mics and so we've been doing that and so i was like let's just we did that

every day just to have not the boxes but just some of the sandwiches just because they're easy to eat and it's like it's it's the way I can eat them and like them. And delicious. They're great. Yeah. And so we do that on the road. And we've been doing that a lot. So Travis would get that and just go tell someone like,

let's get some Jersey Mike's. Let me tell you, us, Wendy's. Wendy's has some salads right now. They have this apple salad. And they have a Caesar salad, supposedly. I haven't tried the Caesaresar salad but they they're unbelievable great if like this has always had a good salad game i think they got a great well they got this apple salad i don't eat it but i think they've always it's great well their apple ones are great you can shake them up so we got i mean i just was

doing that i was getting wendy's and i had five guys back there. All right. Yeah, I didn't have much. I was kind of fasting my whole, I'm going back on my fasting. That's where I think I do the best. Like just go as long as you can. So, I mean, I would try to go to like four till I ate. You know, I don't wake up till 11, something like that. So then it's kind of easier than you go four or five o'clock, then I would eat. But I had some steak the final day, like some protein just to,

because I felt tired and depleted and I needed some. But I don't think the, yeah, I mean, they have like a craft room and they had everything there. I don't know if I really went in there though. So I probably a lot of more healthier stuff too, because a lot of people want, because that stuff is where people get just, you know, they, I mean, you go, they have cupcakes, they could have anything and everything you would ever dream.

I became a problem. Did you eat some? Oh, you went in there. The craft room? Yeah. No, I did walk, uh, somebody walked me through there once and showed it to me. I was joking about that, but they did. They'd go get you coffee or breakfast or.

Yeah. I had a lot of coffee, a lot you know you know just whatever just whatever it was ready and available uh uh renee mathis i'm curious were there any leftover props hanging around from days gone by like could you try on a cone head or a land shark costume so much tv history has been made there congrats for being part of it uh yeah when i went in the wig thing there was a lot of stuff in there i don't think i saw the comb head but i saw like an alien thing and and the guy that's been there he's been there forever he's made everything um so they yeah i mean you you could definitely go through and like, you could see some stuff you see the, cause they have everybody's face that's, uh, you know, they scan it.

So, I mean, you see Will Ferrell's face. So Will Ferrell comes on the show. They have already have his head size. His face is everything, obviously him being on it. And so then they, they just mold the sketches to the wigs to that and then when they put them on they just have your size already so if you've been on the show now they don't have to i guess do that again so barry bonds hosted years ago they might have to do he did he host no but his you know he's infamous for his head growing so much yeah they would have had

to i guess redo his head yeah uh mary newquist just wondering saturday live compensates you as a host or if you do it for free and it's just for the prestige uh yeah you get paid uh and you just get paid like uh it's a the union pay just like doing any kind of uh tonight show or any of that stuff. It's definitely not a thing you're doing for the money. It's for the prestige of it. The difference was some of it is I paid for, I think I had to pay for a lot of like, they might pay for my hotel, but like usually like if I was going promoting a movie,

since I was doing it as just a standup, it's like some stuff I would pay for. But like if I was on a movie, a Netflix movie and Netflix is paying for, they would pay for my, you know, it's like my publicist is there. So I like, I pay, it's just stuff like that where you're paying for some of the people's travels versus where, you know, if I was there for a reason outside of just me, it's like the Netflix would pay for it. Yeah, yeah. That kind of stuff. When you do like David Spade show or Nashville squares, is it just similar? Just like the union rate? Yeah, I think so.

I mean, I did not make a lot of money. It was, it was, yeah, it was fine. I was happy with it, but yeah, it was not a lot of money it was it was yeah it was fine i was happy with it but yeah it was not a lot of money you obviously do it for exposure more than anything right i mean i wouldn't do it for free sure uh but yeah they pay yeah i mean it's like yeah it might be like 1500 a little bit uh yeah i mean and it also depends on different times i mean the first time i did the tonight Show, the money they paid me, I was like, all right, that's what I'm talking about. But the third time, I'm like, well, all right, I'm doing okay now.

What is this? This is fine, but I'm doing okay now. Yeah, there's no – yeah, you don't – I mean, if I go on Fallon, I could essentially – they might pay for my hotel, but I, I kind of, you kind of, if I'm going on just to be whatever, it's like, you just kind of pay for it. Like me going to Seth Meyers was, you know, you just go on like that. I mean, I'm, they're helping me, but it's right there that I've now, it's like, they don't have to pay for that stuff really comes into play

with, uh, I'm gonna say I can't play with saturday live but with you know you the the the corporate kind of side of it which is logistics of anything to be like well we need him out for this so we'll pay for this we're giving the you know all that kind of stuff that stuff plays into a lot of it yeah yeah but i mean you know plays into it it's like what does it matter you know uh tyler harris did you go to the snl after party if so how crazy was it were you the first or the What does it matter You know Tyler Harris Did you go to the SNL after party If so how crazy was it Were you the first or the last to leave

We went to that SNL party We did not get there until 2 I think But the show's not over until 1 It goes from 1 to 4 We got there at 2am It was Yeah I mean right when you walk in It wasn't that close. It goes from 1 to 4. We got there at 2 a.m. It was, yeah, I mean, right when you walk in, it's very nice because then they, you know, they walk you to your table.

I got a big giant table in the back of this restaurant. They rented out this restaurant. And Lauren's there. And Chris Rock and John Mulaney both came down. They came down to the taping, which was very nice. Uh, and side, they said Seinfeld told me he was going to come, but he wasn't in town.

And, uh, but so they was very nice that they came that rock and Mulaney came. Uh, yeah, that's really, they were, yeah.

I did not know they were coming. And so, uh, you know, it's, you know, it makes you feel good. Look when they're supporting you.

So, and then we go to the after party. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people there. I mean, and I was told this, it's going to be like your wedding. So, the comics, and two, my crew that came, Brian, Soder, Katie, Soder's girl, Katie Nolan. Julia McCullough, Dan Shackey. Brian Dorfman. Brian Dorfman, you, Laura. And I saw our friend, our Nashville friend, Casey Shornaima, who writes for SNL.

Yes. Yeah, I saw a picture with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, her and james and bates all took a picture endorphin too i think yeah james wasn't in it oh yeah yeah because james uh yeah i think james left uh but i went back there and set like lauren said to say what everybody kind of goes up to him so i went up and talked to lauren and you know it was like just me melanie rock talking to lauren and just you know telling some stories just talking about

it and stuff like that and uh somebody said more it's like a mafia don he sits back there at that table and people just come back just talk to the godfather yeah it's yeah it's and it's very cool i mean he'll and the cast goes up and talks to him and he'll talk to him for a while yeah like he you know he's very approachable and you know and you go to him, which you should, you know, and then it's, so it's, I'm sure back in the day, those parties were probably, I mean, I think they could be as crazy as they want. I'm sure people got, I didn't really see a ton, ton. It's like, I was like towards the back, but you know, some housewife was there. I don't know. Dorinda.

Times have changed. Back in the day when Leon Russell was the musical guest, I'm sure the after party was pretty wild. Yeah. Well, there's an after after party, apparently, which we did not go to. Yeah. Yeah, that was at the stand.

And I know people went to that. And I was like, kind of, I was like, you felt like, you know, but it's, you know, I went to bed at like six in the morning. And then we had to get up at like noon or something to go. But I mean, I felt pretty good. I mean, you just feel, you're just on a high, man. I bet so. Yeah.

You're just like, I can't believe it's over. It was a hot episode. I mean, it's not like you went on and everybody's like, hey, that was good. Congrats on being there. It was a hot episode. Yeah. It was. I mean, I've not watched SNL in a while, but I mean, the last ones that I watched, I mean,

there's always funny stuff, but it was a hot episode. Yeah. I thought so too, but then you're like, I don't know. I'm so close to it. I'm biased. But then when you read online that everyone's saying that, it's great. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm biased. But then when you read online that everyone's saying that it's great. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was that it was like, I was very, I was excited to go do it and I was very excited to be done with it. You know, not, I mean, I would like to do it again, but it's like once the week there, you're like, you're ready to be like, I'm ready to kind of, you're like, this was a lot.

And, uh, you know, so I'm ready to go back to Peoria. Yeah. Basically. Keegan-Michael Key came from a Halloween party. Oh, yeah. Dressed in full costume. You know, came from. Yeah.

And his wife. Yeah. Both of them dressed as, I don't even know, Madam Butterfly or something. Yeah. Yeah. Mike Johnson, I'm curious to know know who is your favorite cast member of all time what is your favorite bit slash character of all time is this the new speaker of the house yeah i think it is he was in the gold open for me it's uh dana carvey is my favorite

cast member uh somebody said and i feel like it's kind of true everyone's favorite cast is the one from like when you were in junior high because that's like your yeah for sure and uh yeah i mean the the rob schneider adam sandler david spade chris farley i mean that's my era yeah and yeah i mean that'll forever be my favorite yeah uh yeah i mean it really, I was a big Spade fan, which I'm about to, I'm doing their podcast. I have to talk to Spade and Carvey. Yeah, I'm a big Spade fan, Sandler, obviously Chris Farley. I mean, yeah, you just kind of go for that. Yeah, it's all, yeah, I don't know if there's one person

as much as it's kind of the crew, but the Will Ferrell, like that was very much my, you know, kind of the crew but the will ferrell like it that was very much my you know kind of phase bill hater i uh i you know i like obviously bill hater is so funny uh and i know he's very funny but i've come around it i like more and more i'm like like want to go back and watch more of his snl like i like i think i was just starting, I was in comedy probably already. So I just, it's like, you don't see that as much,

uh, as you, you know, as I realized, but like, yeah, I mean, Bill Hader's so fun.

Yeah. He's so funny. Uh, I love, I mean, I love all the Chris Farley stuff. One of the, my favorite sketches

it's not that many years ago was Tom Hanks when he went on Black Jeopardy yeah oh such a good one yeah it's just so funny so good yeah yeah yeah yeah that's probably uh yeah that that one's very funny uh yeah that could be it yeah that's not too long ago i mean you know down by the river uh yeah a lot of those sketches man you you just do remember a lot of the sketches i mean so much of it's our pop culture is from that show yeah i had vhs uh best of chris farley and best of adam sandler and i used to watch those all the time and I can't even think of a sketch right now. I used to watch them all the time,

but I couldn't even lunch lady, lunch lady. Yeah. Yeah. Chris Farley. Chippendales was very popular with Patrick's ways. Yeah. Yeah.

But the, the van down by the river, uh, the what's his name? Foley. The motivational speaker. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I love Dana Carvey church chat and all that stuff uh i liked spades when he would do the like the hollywood gossip yeah that was very funny yeah it was just perfect yeah well spades the best i mean he his humor is is my favorite kind of humor yeah i mean his i mean it's like tommy boy and black sheep i mean so much of the credit goes to chris farley and obviously he's Humor is my favorite kind of humor. I mean, it's like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep. I mean, so much of the credit goes to Chris Farley. And obviously he's hilarious, but being paired up with the dry sense of humor of Spade. In Black Sheep, when he first meets Chris Farley's character, who's Mike Donnelly, he sees him working on a car and he goes, please don't be Mike Donnelly. And it's like that that

that line is just so funny to me and his whole interaction with gary bucey and that movie is is yeah unbelievable yeah i mean yeah yeah i agree yeah center love is it is very special it's a very like what i would say about my experience there is that I think this cast is very funny. This cast was, you know, obviously when you go do it, it's like anything. If you went to it, you would love it. And you would be like, this show is great. And it's funny. And, you know, sometimes when you watch stuff on TV, you can be removed from it or the excitement that you once had. Or maybe they've done too much political stuff.

And that, you know, like people got kind of over that stuff. And I understand that. And, uh, but when you see it, when you're doing it, you're like that cast, they, they, they had a million ideas and they were all super fun. And I mean, I really felt very comfortable after that first day when it was like, they were like, Hey, just go pitch this. You know, they, they really do mold the show around what, you know, the host vibe is kind of going to be. And, uh, Don and I, I mean, everybody that works to do, they are, I mean, they're yanking

you around. It's, I mean, you get off the stage and you're just running and then you're just, you just, your pants are off and then you step into new pants and shoes and then you're this, and then you different whole new thing. And then you go stand out there and uh the whole experience is something special and you know and what lauren brings to it with that loyalty to his employees and all the people that work there and stuff that's something that's uh that is very missed in this uh world now and it's something that that shows you why that show has been on and why people have liked it for so long is because it's bred.

A lot of our entertainment has come from out of that show. Yeah, there's some rumors floating out there that next year, their 50th anniversary could be their last. You get any vibes on that? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't see it being like the show would end. Yeah.

50 years. Lauren will be nearly 80. Yeah. There's another internet rumor that Tina Fey may take over. You know, it's just stuff floating out there. Yeah. That kind of stuff.

I mean, no, I don't. I mean, like, I, I don't know. I,

I, I think you're, I think it's, I think I bet it goes, but I don't know. I, I don't, I don't. I mean, like, I don't know. I think you're, I think it's, I think, I bet it goes, but I don't know. I don't know. There's no rhyme or reason of any, there's no answer I could give you. You know, we didn't mention like Norm, Norm MacDonald news desk. I mean, that was always so great. His stuff was always so good. Yeah, he was a great weekend update. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, yeah, I don't know. I mean, you know, I don't know how much people secretly are tired of it or whatever, but I mean,

the energy around the place is not like we want this to end. And I don't feel like, I didn't feel like the energy felt like it was like coming to an end. Now it would be another year. So not saying that they would, but it doesn't, you know, it's not like you just feel people or like no one says anything of either way. So not saying that they would, but it doesn't, you know, it's not like you just feel people

or like, no one says anything of either way. So I think it's like, who knows what can happen. But it's, I mean, it's a special thing.

Yeah. That, you know, I mean, I really, really enjoyed it. I loved it so much. I thought it was so fun.

And they're just so great, man. They make you feel, cause you know, you feel kind of out of place. And I always, you know, I always thought that with like, like with everything, I always felt not that I felt out of place, but you feel out of place. Like I'm just from old Hickory. I'm just like from here and all this. So when you're there and you're around that stuff and you're like, dude, I'm, you know, you're seeing him. It's crazy with Matthew Perry. Like, I mean, in lauren's office he has like when matthew perry was on there's like logs of you know you're just seeing

the names it's like alec ball and matthew perry or like whoever the people that have been on a million times or and you're seeing all those names and they're all people that are so famous and you're just like you just feel like i don't do you know you're like i'm sorry like almost like i'm feel like walk around apologizing to everybody. I'm sorry. I'm here. I shouldn't be here. But it's, yeah, it's, it's, I mean, but they make you feel like, you know, the star, I guess, you know, it's like that kind of thing, which is, you know,

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finds and cancels your unwanted subscriptions monitors your spending and helps you world and uh that's what i i did i did like seeing that i mean i've seen lauren and this world that he has created uh is pretty special and i really enjoyed seeing that and watchingne and this world that he has created, uh, is pretty special. And I really enjoyed seeing that and watching that and, you know, the picking of a show and all this stuff. And I think, uh, yeah, I mean, that's the stuff that I want to eventually, hopefully can get to a point of that where he can, you know, maybe you don't have to be in everything or you don't have to do everything, but you can, you're just, uh, you know, it's just, I don't know, creating a world of whatever, you know. But yeah, I mean, SNL was definitely, you know, it's like, I think it's always, I've always wanted to do.

I mean, it's just a different thing, man. I mean, the amount of people that reached out after this, it's just a different, you know, I don't know if people get, they are like, they can't believe you have a special and all this stuff. different you know i don't know if people get they are like they can't believe you have a special and all this stuff but i guess you're doing stand-up for so long that people just kind of go like all right you're doing stand-up you're a stand-up comedian so then you're like well i got a special and i'm doing a tonight show and people are like that's crazy but it's you're doing the thing you're supposed to be doing and then this was like the first thing that was like you know what like it was like and it just was like a different...

Yeah, it was hard for me to get my head around. It's wild that you don't have a show. I mean, you know what I mean? Just seeing you be able to do that and do it so well and you're reading off the monitors, it is wild that you don't have a sitcom.

Well, I'm glad. I'm happy to have gotten this far with stand-up. Yeah, for sure. And then stand-up comedy is in a great spot right now. People are, a lot more people are coming out to shows. Live things are great. Live is the best. Live is the best.

Live is happening now. People are coming out. A lot of comics is the best live is happening now people are coming out a lot of comics are putting out great stuff right now uh and they're seeing stand-up you know it's a golden globe uh now as an award and so stand-up is really kind of being you know can be looked at hopefully like eventually get like music where it's people can just be stand-ups and learn to be great at stand-up comedy because it's very fun to go watch. I don't think anything you could ever watch will never have as many laughs as stand-up can give. Oh, yeah. Well, it's interesting you say that because people have for so long used stand-up as a launching pad to get somewhere else.

They're like, I want to do this. So I'm a standup comic. And then I get to that and it's like standup. And people always say that to me, you know, is that your goal to do something else? And it's like, no, standup is what I want to do. Yeah. It's fun to do standup. It's an instant. You tell a joke and you get a reaction from it.

Yeah. And so, um, yeah, I'm'm not with i still have some yeah like i mean i look i really liked shooting this stuff like you know if you could do a multi-cam like a seinfeld show like i i still yeah there's i don't know if that stuff will ever happen i don't know if i'll ever do it on it might not work out no yeah i don't know uh i like the sandler in the movie i want to make stuff for You know I want to make stuff That everybody can go see

And so like I you know That's I do have that dream Of doing that So We'll see if that happens But yeah

Stand up I do love stand up And Yeah I don't know I don't know Well I mean it's funny You mentioned Seinfeld Because

It got Buried Because you had such Bigger news of Saturday Night Live. But we haven't seen you since you had a face-to-face with Seinfeld. There you are at a diner with him. I assume that's a diner. Yeah. And what was that like?

Yeah, it was. I assume that's a diner. It could be. That's a restaurant for sure. Yeah. It was crazy, man. I mean, it was, you, that's a restaurant for sure. Yeah. Uh, it was, uh, crazy,

man. I mean, it was, you know, he's reached out. I talked to him today actually about SNL. Like, you know,

we've started texting and talking and he likes talking comedy. I mean, he's a comedian. He just likes talking comedy. And, uh, so I, when I was in New York,

this was before I knew I got Saturday live. Uh, it was when I did the tonight show, uh, the day I went, did the site shows when I met with him York, this was before I knew I got Saturday Night Live. It was when I did the Tonight Show. The day I did the Tonight Show is when I met with him. And we just met, started to talk. He's been,

he sent me a very nice message. You know, I think I said that about the, did I say that? Yeah, I think you told us about the voice. Yeah,

he sent a very nice message about my special. And so we just kind of talked comedy and just, you know, that was just kind of it. It's like, we just started kind of talked comedy and just, you know, that was just kind of it. It's like,

we just started kind of talking now. So yeah, it's, uh, yeah, it was very much that moment. I felt like, uh,

Keith Hernandez in the Seinfeld episode where you, uh, I don't know what to do. I'm just trying not to ruin this. Yeah. And so, but in that case, you'd be more of the Jerry character.

Like if he asked you to help him move, you would have totally said yes. Yes. I would have very, yeah, I was very much one of the Jerry. Yeah. He could have asked anything out of me right there and I would have been like, yeah, I'll do it. So, yeah, it was, yeah, it was very cool. We talked for a while.

You know, we've been talking since then. And yeah, it's, I mean, I've talked to him. It does sound like the Keith Hernandez episode now. We've been talking. We've been talking. We've been talking. Talking some more. I don't try to go too much. I try to text and I think about what I'm texting him.

I don't try to, you know, I'm not trying to overdo it. At the end, did you lean in for the handshake or? I said, can we take a, I go and take a picture. He goes, well, we just hung out. And I go, well, I don't know what to tell you, but I'm going to, I have to have a picture. And he like laughed and we took a picture. Yeah. He was, he's very nice hung out. And I go, well, I don't know what to tell you, but I have to have a picture. And he laughed, and we took a picture. He's a very nice man. That's great.

He just likes comedy and likes to talk comedy. And the people around us took pictures with him. No one came up to me, but they took pictures with him. We had my neighbor learn to speak English because of the Seinfeld show. Wow. That's how they learned. Wow. And so I told him that, and he was like,feld show wow like that's how they learned wow and uh so it was i told him that and he was like oh wow that's great and like you know so and there was you know

i think a lot of people would watch that show and just it was it's it was you know it's a very funny show that was easy and to watch and just pleasant like you just need something that's grounding to how everything can't be, yeah, it's that crazy. It's everything. And every, you know, it's like that's what Saturday Night Live is. It's like this kind of classic, like grounding kind of, you know what? I can watch this and it's easy to watch and it's fun and it's nice. And, you know, Seinfeld was that.

I told him today, I was like, yeah, multicams are, you know, his shows are multicam. I was like, I'll tell you what, because on the Saturday Night Live, you shoot a, I shot a music video,

a movie, a sketch, multicam type thing. You're doing everything. I was like, Kramer, you're like, I want to,

I'll go to the vet any day. I got a frog. He's got to work with a frog, a duck, a chicken. He goes all in the same day. And so, yeah, I said that to Seinfeld. I was like, yeah, I go, multicams, they're very fun.

And he goes, I recommend them. I like them. I was like, yeah, I bet you do. Yeah, they do. He goes, I think they're great. Yeah, I'd imagine they are. That's awesome. So, yeah, it was very cool.

And everybody was very nice. And everybody, thank you so much for, I know everybody watching it and everybody that came out and supported none of that stuff. Like I always say, it's, I know you guys are all super supportive and everything is done with, I try to do everything with you and guys in mind, not saying it's all going to be the funniest stuff in the world, but it be uh you know it was a uh a true amazing amazing experience and those dates you had to cancel you're gonna make those up yeah yeah they're going back yeah December then December is those two everybody was super nice with that yeah I didn't really you know I mean everybody was so nice with that I mean I yeah we're never

trying to do that kind of stuff and uh so But they understood. And that's why I was glad this show was good. Because it was, I did want to be like, everybody that, you know, those cities can be like, all right, you saw, like, I mean, I went and did something, tried to give it my best. You know, specifically for them, the ones that missed those shows. And now because you've been on SNL, when you reschedule those shows, you can raise the ticket prices. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you're a hotter commodity now. I don't know until they're double. People are like, well, I thought we'd just get a transform.

I go, you do. You get a transform and add to the price. No, that's not happening. That did not happen. Well, I had to cancel my shows at Hyenas in Dallas fort worth um you get to come with you and uh uh one of your guys was nice enough to reach out to them on my behalf so the next day i'm waiting you know to see what the guy says at the club and i get an email from him like here he goes he's like hey uh ticket sales for all the shows are are really low like every. And he starts asking me, like, can we cut this show, whatever?

And he doesn't know yet that I'm not even coming. And. You're like, yeah, we can cut that show and a couple others. Yeah. How about this?

I'll do you one better. Yeah, do you one better. I won't even show up. Yeah. But I mean, soon after he found out about it, but I was telling Nate,

like, I was, I found out about a show I didn't even get to do. Still found out that ticket sales are really low. Yeah. You don't even get a good cancel. I don't get a good cancel.

I have no bargaining power now to reschedule. No tickets to transfer. He goes, we did a full dress rehearsal, and this did not work out on Brian coming to the club. And we advertised it and everything. So the six people who bought tickets, thank you. I'm sorry. There was one person that emailed me that said they drove there just to buy a ticket. I know.

I feel bad about that. Always buy in advance. But I mean, to their understandable, they know I ain't going to sell out. So they're like, this is just the last minute if we decide to go see a movie. I can't wait until you start selling out though so that people that think you're not will regret it. Well, I agree. I mean, please start buying tickets early

so these clubs will, you know, if something like this happens, they'll bring me back. Brian is good at comedy. Well, thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. November 8th, I'm going to be at Zany's Comedy Club. Just so, two different pleas. The whole thing is about starting live and it ends with Brian going, guys, please come out to shows. And Dusty's like, he is good at comedy. Yeah, he is good at comedy. He is good at comedy.

Guys, we need these clubs to ask me back. So if you could do what you can and come out to shows, support live comedy. Nate's canceling arena shows so he can do SNL. And I'm just like, please, somebody come. But November 8th is your chance. Come to Zany's Comedy Club here in Nashville. November 10th and 11th, I'm at Comedy Off-Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Good club.

And November 18th, I'm at Studio Theater in Little Rock, Arkansas. So please come to all those shows. This weekend, I'll be in Chicago on Thursday, November 2nd at the Vic Theater. Very exciting. I've never been there before. Not on the 2nd, right? You're on the 4th. No, yeah.

Yeah, so I'll be there on the 2nd. So if you're in Chicago, great time. Come see me Thursday. Come see Nate on Saturday. You can really, you know, you can see two- I'm there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Okay. And your dad's there too, I think. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But none on Thursday. None on Thursday.

Yeah. So Thursday, come see me. November 2nd. You can have a great plan. Yeah. So the 312 Comedy Festival, I'll be in Peoria Wednesday and Thursday. And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I'm at the Chicago Theater. And then I think Mike McKeown and Vitor might have a show too at Zany's there. They've added some. Look at that schedule. My dad is doing a show at Zany's. So they've added some.

Yeah, you could have looked at it. That's 321 Improv. Schedule. Oh, festival. Oh, three. Yeah. 321 Comedy Festival. Did my name make it on there?

Oh, yeah. There I am. Third line. Yeah, look at that. My dad's doing a show at Zany's. So Mike Vecchione and Gary Veeder are also doing a show. They were on the show with me uh at uh the Chicago theater so they're gonna go uh do that and then uh you know I could tell

you oh Che's gonna be there from John Crist uh John Crist is there this is a hot lineup but yeah yeah this is a fun festival and then uh yeah so go, so go see. I mean, you can knock off a lot. Yeah, so Dusty is there Thursday at the Vic. The Vic's a great theater. And then, yeah, then the other shows, my dad and them, they might be Saturday or something, Friday, Saturday. But they're at Zany's.

My dad's doing a show. Mike and Vitor doing a show. Chris, yeah, it's a fun thing and then Saturday I'm in Oklahoma City at Bricktown Comedy Club I have two shows I also put it's old jokes

but I put a 50 minute set on YouTube for free that I just want to tell people about it's old jokes but it's a good set so full set it's fun

just go watch it if you you know watch it if you don't if you don't want to watch it. If you, you know, watch it. It's fun. If you don't, if you don't want to watch it, if you've seen all those jokes,

share it with a friend. Yeah. Or don't do any of it. Whatever you want to do. What do you do? It's out there. Yeah. Yeah.

That's good. Yeah. All right. Yeah. And then, yeah. Next week, Aaron's finally back there.

Yeah. Next week will be normal. It's been like two months before we've all, since we've all been together. Yeah. Sorry about that. I, yeah. Yeah. So it's finally back. Yeah. Next week will be normal. It's been like two months before we've all, since we've all been together. Sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been crazy.

Well, it's not all your fault. Dusty was MIA for a while. I got sick one time. Yeah. Yeah. What are you going to do? Yeah. I'm the only constant here.

Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Really anchoring it down. Yeah. That's why you're head of the table. Yeah. That's right.

The guy with no shows I got nothing to do He goes Wide open He's not scared I'm not getting sick I'll do two a week Yeah

What do y'all want to do No Yes Thank you very much Thank you for the support We love you As always I think we have something

We have one thing That is a surprise For Nate Yeah So this is at the Yeah More for Nate Just tell me about it that is a surprise for nate so yeah so this is at the uh yeah okay this is a surprise from for nate it's from the nate land podcast fan page which is on facebook oh wow it's so much stuff we have a whole nother basket of stuff for you to go through so i just kind of picked out some of the faves for you to just look at the pretty cool little things.

Oh, look at that. They all donated, sponsored a hole at your DCA tournament. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Amazing. Someone donated an ornament, a nice coffin. Oh, wow. These are super fun fake prank golf balls.

Prank? I got, yeah. So this is the Nate Land Podcast fan page. On Facebook. Oh, is this Shaw Prank? I got, yeah. So this is the Nate Land podcast fan page. On Facebook. Oh, is this Shawshank? Oh,

Blu-ray Shawshank. Yeah. So that's so cool. Some McDonald's cards, Applebee cards, Animal Fights. This is super cool.

It's offering Land USA. Oh, wow. Look at that Animal, oh, you mentioned Animal Fight, yeah. Yeah, Animal Fight book. So just some really cool. It's Opryland USA. Oh, wow. Look at that animal. Oh, you mentioned Animal Fight. Yeah.

Yeah, Animal Fight book. So just some really cool. Can you email in there with a gun? Time candy. Yeah. Diet Pepsi. It's just so much stuff that we obviously can't go through all of it, but just something really cool that they're just congratulating you on it.

Yeah. Well, that's so nice. Congrats to the greatest average SNL host of all time. We're so proud and happy for you. Love all the family. Well, that's the nicest thing ever. Yeah, it's very nice. Yeah.

That's so crazy. Who would win animal fights? I mean, we can go back into that. Yeah. Who would win? They made a whole book. See, there's an emo with a gun in there. Did they say who would win, or do you debate it?

Looks like, I don't know. Well, we'll find out. You know, yeah, we'll go through it. I was trying to get, like, if I could. This is your kind of book. Yeah. This is, I talked about reading on there, but this is the one. A lot of pictures in there.

Yeah, a lot of pictures. And the McDonald's gift card. Look, after the after party, Nate hadn't eaten and he used it we're going back to the hotel oh 4 30 in the morning we stop at mcdonald's the reading joke on your monologue was unbelievable where you're like it's just relentless there should be a blank page in there to where i as a guy who hates to read i love love it. No tomatoes, no onions. Oh yeah. Yeah.

It's very funny. Yeah. Yeah. That, yeah, that joke will be, yeah. All that stuff I'm always still be using just so you know, cause I want to put it on special and I'll just have other stuff. Oh, that's awesome. This is no tomatoes, no onions.

Fan page admin team. Jesse, Chad, Jen, JC, and Brandy. JC, right? J-A-C-Y. Yeah, that's how you say it. Sorry, I know where that is. Oh, that's Batesville. Yeah.

So that's the group that put this all together, but the whole fan page did it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Look at that. I mean, this thing's a penguins. To even think to do that. That's crazy. Yeah. Look at that. I mean, this thing's a penguins to even think to do that.

That's amazing. Yeah. Oh, wow. Olivia. Olivia hoodie. Wear that. This is very, that's, that's very, very nice. Sponsored tournament.

The whole that's my high school. Thank you. It's a man. That's crazy. I uh thank you that's uh man that's crazy i did not know that look at this start the show surprise my dad's living here and then end it with this yeah that's great a lot of surprises uh opryland i wonder if i'm in this you know i could show you the book the opryland to see where I was sweeping. I tried to find you. No pictures of me sweeping. They all regret that now. Yeah, they will. They all regret it.

We should have had a picture of Nate in there. Yeah. Yeah. Dad performing. It's probably old copyright. They'll update that book and they'll put you in there. Yeah. Go through it.

Very sweet. Thank you guys. Thank you all of you guys that listened. This is, yeah, it's been a wild ride and, uh, yeah, I, we love you as always. See you out there. All right. Thank you. Bye. nateland is produced by nateland productions and by me nate bargetzi and my wife laura on the audio boom platform recording and editing for the show is done by genovations media thanks for tuning in be sure to catch us next week on the nateland podcast