We Might Be Drunk - Ep 205: Kenan Thompson
Episode Date: November 11, 2024This episode is "All That" with the best part of SNL and the best part of my childhood Kenan Thompson. We talk about his career from child actor, his invitations to Diddy parties and so much more. S...upport the show and check out MyBookie. Use code DRUNK to get a 100% deposit bonus at https://bit.ly/betwithDRUNK Subscribe to We Might Be Drunk: https://bit.ly/SubscribeToWMBD WMBD Merch: https://wemightbedrunkpod.com/ WMBD Clips Page: https://bit.ly/WMBDClips Sam Morril: YouTube Channel: @sammorril Instagram: https://instagram.com/sammorril/?hl=en Tickets/Tour: https://punchup.live/sammorril/tickets Mark Normand: YouTube Channel: @marknormand Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marknormand/?hl=en Tickets/Tour: https://punchup.live/marknormand/tickets We Might Be Drunk is produced by Gotham Production Studios https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/ @GothamProductionStudios Producer Matt Peters: https://www.instagram.com/mrmatthewpeters/?hl=en  @marknormand  @sammorril    @GothamProductionStudios #wemightbedrunk #marknormand #sammorril #podcast #drunkpodcast #comedy #comedian #funny #gothampodcast Â
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Yo! Hey, hey, we're here, we're queer! You might be drunk. Sorry, little semen. No sleep
last night. Why not? I don't know, you know what I think it is? I was just laying in bed,
6am, looking at the sunrise. I watched the garbage men come by, I waved at them. Because
you don't have any fucking blinds. Well, it's sad, but I couldn't fall asleep at two either
or three or four.
I have a theory, because, A, I ran out of sleeping pills.
There's a theory that sunlight keeps you up
when you're trying to sleep?
Well, I couldn't sleep at midnight at 1 AM.
It was dark then.
But my theory is I got a new house.
I got a baby on the way.
I've been on the road.
Love that house, by the way.
Thank you.
Writing jokes, traveling, podcasts.
All I do is listen to podcasts and watch YouTube.
So I never had a moment to think.
And I think last night my brain was like,
we got ya, we're gonna think right now.
Like you're gonna spiral for seven hours.
It's funny that you block out your thoughts with podcasts.
You're blocking your thoughts out with other people's thoughts.
Oh, completely. Oh, you completely
Yeah, usually like I would do something even more escape. It's like a movie or something. But like yeah
Yeah, I can't do pods to unless it's certain pods, but well, I gotta go all over the road
But to me, it's just uh, it you block out your bad thoughts. Like, you know, you're walking around the subway
You don't just have nothing going. I like to have a stimulation of some kind. Something's good.
Yeah, I feel calmer with noise.
Yeah, so you're not sleep, is the wife sleeping?
She's out like a light.
That's even more annoying.
I know.
Because you want to flick her ear and she wakes up
and you're like, oh, you're up too?
You just want to do, you don't want to be alone.
I know those moments.
Yeah.
What about the last one to sleep always too?
Yeah, you kind of do feel like the man of the house like I'm protecting I'm watching, you know every every crack and creak
You're like, what was that? I'll go kill him. But
It does suck. I mean you wake up and you're like, yeah
But how'd you got no sleep either? No sleep watch the movie that I was telling you about it this weird
British movie the cook the, his wife and her lover.
I'm just scrolling on Amazon and they got this movie
and I'm like, oh, this looks weird,
never heard of it, Tim Roth, Michael Gambone
and Helen Mirren.
I look it up, it's got crazy good reviews.
It was NC17, they've threatened it with a rated X.
Cause it's crazy sexual.
Yeah.
It's weird as fuck.
It looks gorgeous.
Yeah.
I mean, look at these colors and shit.
It's like Kubrick almost.
Yeah, it's dark as, it's crazy
because there's like literally Helen Mirren's Bush
in every other scene.
And all you think about is the violence.
Whoa.
So anyone who complains about the nudity is like a psycho.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
But it does open on a scene where I'm like,
yeah, I'm shocked.
Whoa.
This guy's a piece of shit, isn't it?
Whoa, man.
It's pretty dark.
I'm in.
Yeah, it's pretty weird and it opens with,
they're torturing a guy, dick out, covering him in shit.
And you're like, so I guess this is the bad guy
who's torturing him, you know?
Whoa.
Yeah, like look at this stuff, but it looks cool as hell.
Yeah. But yeah, I stuff, but it looks cool as hell. Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, I guess in America,
this is so classic America, they were like, fuck this,
it's pornographic, and then in England,
they were like, this is a social satire.
They were mad because it was like making fun of nature.
Oh, interesting.
They thought it was mocking the government.
Wow.
So I guess, yeah, it's layered and weird.
Look, there's parts that aren't exactly for me,
but pretty crazy.
I'm in.
I mean, it looks cool.
It's circuits.
I can't call it a wreck, because some of you
might be like, Sam, you're a sick fuck.
First Speak No Evil, the Dutch version of this.
Yeah.
I hear you, but.
Well, you're becoming like Epstein with movies.
You like have to keep upping it
because you watch so many movies that you're like,
yeah, you gotta speed ball it now.
You can't just have weed or coke anymore.
You gotta do heroin and crank.
Well, this is a 14 year old.
This is it.
This is some dicey stuff.
Yeah.
No, this is pretty wild.
Her tits are underrated, by the way.
Oh, she looks great. It's also weird because you see like a nude Helen Mirren and you're like, oh, that's just like a naked woman
Yes, but now it's like every part of the like, you know Brazilian butt lift. Yeah tattoos big tits
Yeah, six-pack. She just looks good naked
Pull her up big bush too. Like holy shit. That's that's how you can date a movie right there. Yeah late 80s
That's true. Now it's like oh can date a movie right there. Yeah. Like late 80s?
That's true.
Now it's like...
Oh, that is a woman.
I like a woman.
Give me a curvy whore any day.
Whoa, man, that's full gash.
She's got...
That's a hatchet wound right there.
She hung gash in a lot of movies.
I mean she's...
And she aged well too.
Yeah.
She almost got better looking in age.
Yeah. Wow. I love that we're praising her being a natural beauty. And she aged well too. Yeah, she's got better looking and in age. Yeah
Wow, I love that we're praising her being a natural beauty. She must have done some shit, but probably but she looks great
Great looks more natural. Oh, is that she's blowing a guy in Caligula? I gotta watch that. Damn same. Geez. Patreon
Bring back the patreon
Look at her in the lake, my word.
Great bod, curvy, this is what men want.
At the baby shower, thanks for coming.
That was fun.
Thank you.
Thank God I got a comedy corner.
Oh, you gotta do it.
There's a lot of family corners
and I was like, I got List, I got Broussard, I got-
Yeah, that's why-
Who else is my corner?
Ruby, Sarah Tolamache.
Thank God, yeah.
That's why I chase those kids around, that's my out. I'm like, I don't wanna talk to my- I saw you doing that why I'm Ruby, Sarah Tolamash. Thank God, yeah. That's why I chase those kids around.
That's my out.
I'm like, I don't want to talk to my uncle.
I saw you doing that.
I was like, what the hell are you doing?
I don't want to talk to my uncle.
I'd rather, at least this is easy.
There's no mental work.
You were playing soccer and tackling kids.
I was like, what the fuck is Mark doing?
And I was like, I put it together.
Yeah, I'm avoided.
I realized you didn't want to talk to people.
Yes, that's exactly right.
But pardon me, I was like, he's going to be a good dad. Yeah, well. I like want to talk to people. Yes, that's exactly right, but pardon me. I was like he's gonna be a good dad
Yeah, well, I like to like to rough house and all that but wait, what was my point? I had a point
Oh, so I heard a bunch of girls at the party
There was a bunch of female maze maze people all hanging out and they were talking about blowjobs and I got an ear in
Yeah, and one girl was like you got to do the swirl
the swirl is big.
And then the other girl was like,
what you gotta do is tease around the ball.
And I'm like, you cunts don't know shit.
You're talking about what women want.
Women want the tease, the going slow, then speed up.
We just want the action, we want the meat.
I feel like women think all this movement is cool,
like up and down the shaft with the
corn on the cob.
Just blow me.
Yeah.
I mean, I hate to say it.
I know it's not romantic, but it's like-
Tongue in the ass ain't too shabby either.
No, no, but I'm still-
But then they come up with a kiss afterwards, you're like, damn it, I deserve this.
I got what I wanted and this is what I-
Oh yeah, the old Brooklyn smile or whatever they call it.
The Pepela pubes. Pepelape-la-pewbs.
Pepe-la-pewbs.
Pepe-la-pewbs.
That's not bad, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, no, it is funny to overhear them because you're like, yeah, you know just as little
as we do.
Yeah, yeah, it's like-
The swirl.
Yeah, who gives-
The fuck's a swirl?
I mean, maybe, I'm sure it feels good, but it's not like-
Yes.
Guess what?
Although, have you ever gotten a really bad blowjob?
Yes.
It's shocking.
It's like, you fucking, you got your mouth on my dick
and this is bad?
Oh, good point.
How are you fucking bad at this?
That's true.
And then sometimes I'll chomp on it a little
to be playful.
I'm like, no, no play.
This is work.
This is a blowjob.
You're at work.
You gotta put the-
The braces.
Yeah.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
But no, it's, I know what you mean, dude, like the bad blowjob is, it is a shocker.
Yeah, yeah, well all this extra stuff, it's like, you know, girls are like, you can put
an ice cube in the mouth.
You're like, no, come on.
That's what the dick responds to, freezing cold temperature.
Yes, exactly, and enough, it ain't broke.
Don't try to fix it with an ice cube or a tongue ring or whatever. Just stick to
the fundamentals like a white basketball player in the 50s. No 360 dunk. Don't try to alley
oop or anything.
I was with you until you said white basketball in the 50s. That wasn't exactly peak basketball.
Well, I'm just talking it's-
That's all it takes?
Yeah. Well, yeah. I'm just saying give us the lob.
The underhand.
Yeah. Yeah. Put it in the lob. The underhand. The underhand. Yeah. Yeah, put it in the hole.
Dude, I love
Yeah, I love like a
When you get a bad one, you're like
How is this fucking possible?
I know, it's crazy. But it's happened.
But then sometimes you get someone who's so good that you're just like
Where the fuck have you been studying?
I know. Like where did you pick up this
level? Sometimes you just want
to assume it's just a gift.
Yes.
But you're like 247.
He's done it that many times.
Something crazy.
Yeah, college was old.
She went to three different colleges, met a few NFL teams, who knows.
Hey, burps are in sync.
In sync.
Good band.
Speaking of, how about that One Direction guy?
That guy really went One Direction.
Yeah.
We're bad.
Well, we're really in sync this episode.
He was in that movie Gravity.
Hey!
How's it going, man?
Let's shake it.
He seems to have my good girl's name.
Oh, he met, but not really met.
He's been peripheral.
Yes. Sit down, we got you right here. Yeah, this is Winnie.
Yes.
One eye I think.
She's pretty blind.
Oh yeah.
You want coffee, alcohol, whatever you want.
I think it's from South Central, right?
It was like a street dog?
He's a street dog from L.A.
Probably not a good part of L.A.
It's classic South Central.
Yeah.
It blinds everybody.
Oh, it's those dog fights, you know?
They get you.
It's real.
Hey, look at this.
He must be a champ.
It's like seeing your teacher at the mall.
You in the daylight.
I know, right?
It's crazy, like, do you have the week. You in the daylight. I know, right? Is this crazy?
Like, do you have the week off and then you're back on next week?
Teacher at the mall.
I'm trying to get a hold of Michael Che, and he doesn't wake up till 5.
Son of a bitch.
Oh yeah, no, I got kids, so I'm always like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry, what were you saying?
So you're off this week, but you're back on next week?
Yes.
Yeah, we just did a four in a row run, and those always kind of heavy. Yeah, that fourth show is really taxing
Oh, yeah, it was a good was a good run. I mean
I'm complaining about four shows when the fourth show was Michael fucking Keaton, you know what I mean?
Wow the best so, you know, it's all good a little bit of tiredness never hurt nobody
You see him and you're like this dude's got comedy chops, too
Oh, yeah, man started as a stand-up. Yeah, incredible
You know, he's in Michael Douglas. I should say yeah
He's in villages for 12 minutes. That's how good he is. He steals it if you really count the runtime
I love that. It's like when you count up the actual amount of football that's played
It's like 45 seconds. Yeah.
Now he's a beast and he's still got it. 100 and still wants to give it like
that's one of my favorites Easter candy when he's just doing like quirky ass
characters. Yeah, he did like night shift back in the day, did like all the Davies comedies too.
He's so damn good he's the actor's actor like he really wants to like find it you
know what I mean, support it, you know what I mean?
Support it, you know what I mean?
Service it.
He's just a good dude.
And him, he's my mom's number one.
Really?
I gotta put a towel down.
Batman comes on.
Oh my god.
Mike Keats?
Oh, she has an interesting, him, Jeff Goldblum.
Goldblum is like a sex symbol though.
Yeah, Goldblum's like 6'9", that does it for everybody. That does it for everybody. Exactly. Super tall. And he plays the key to symbol though. Yeah, go blows like six nine that does it for everybody
Super talk and he plays a piano jazz piano. Oh, yeah, the somatic good looks come on
Look doesn't age. What is that? What is that Grecian? What is what are those jeans? He's gotta be Israeli that Croatian
Is it Israeli? Yeah, I assume. Uh-huh. Is he no way
It's gotta be Israeli that makes so much you and show business Jeff Goldblum. Yeah
I mean, that's what causes after right there. That's propaganda
What who's been Oh, dude, California split? That's right. He's like he pops up in like every 70s movie
Oh, yeah, who's been like a surprise great host?
Because Bargassi crushed both times. thought. He's just, he nails what he does.
Yeah.
He really does and he's such a nice guy too.
That cooking one you did with him was so good.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
That shit is like, I don't know man,
between that and George Washington
is like everybody's favorite.
Yes.
But my personal favorite was the water slice shit.
Oh yeah.
It was incredible.
But yeah, when he won the soul food shit,
yeah, he does fish out of water very well.
Like apologetic, like it shouldn't be me, you know what I mean?
Right.
I'll tell you, I think my favorite was them giving him
the Howard University jacket.
He was like, please take that off.
Pull it up.
That made me laugh a lot.
But those fucking George Washington sketches
are just incredible.
Shout out to Mikey and Streeter.
Yeah.
They're just such a solid writing team.
Shout out to Mikey Day, man.
He's such the people's champ as far as cast members
that write and service other cast members.
Yeah, he writes for the ensemble very well.
I didn't know he wrote. Streeter, I remember him doing the stand-up days. Killer writer. Yeah, he like writes for the ensemble very well. I didn't know he wrote Streeter
I remember him doing the stand-up days killer writer. Yeah, he's a solid
I did Mikey Day's is a cake show and I was like that don't think they aired any jokes
Family show
Awesome though, he pulled that back
Yeah, Mikey's one of the sweetest dudes in the world man and like been on the track for a long time like wildin out season one
What but also like I didn't know roundlings and shit like that. So he's just had a long
Run at it and good for him getting shy Nick Cannon low-key behind like a lot of a lot of that shit
And the guru, you know
Fucking Taryn
He went from Nick Cannon to Hamilton Shout out. Wasn't Pete there? Yeah man, Pete. He discovered Pete. Fucking Taron, Taron was on Waddle Up. What?
He went from Nick Cannon to Hamilton?
Yeah.
Holy.
Not the traditional route.
That's what you call arkin'.
Oh yeah.
That's cool.
You've been on it for so long.
Were you there when like,
who was like considered the worst host?
Wasn't Paris Hilton trash for it?
She had a tough time.
Yeah.
She had a tough time. Yeah.
She had a tough week.
I don't think she does comedy
or maybe she wasn't getting a lot of the jokes
or why people thought it was funny.
Maybe it was to her more taking shots
as opposed to like, no, everybody just gets jabbed at
a little bit type thing, you know what I mean?
So, but she's still a friend of the show,
like she came to the 40th and shit
and was like partying with Jay-Z and Beyonce behind us,
kind of whatever, at their table.
That was kind of crazy.
Yeah.
Those nights are crazy,
like Prince is on stage with Dan Aykroyd.
Wow.
You know what I mean?
And then behind me is like Jay-Z, Beyonce,
and like Paris Hilton chatting.
Damn.
Are you used to it at this point?
It's wild.
I don't think you ever get used to it because Goldblum was in the building that night too.
Damn.
You know what I mean?
It was just like that kind of shit is like, yo, I'm not second generational enough to
ever get used to a lot of somewhat heroes of yours all being in the same vicinity like that. Like it's nothing. Yeah. That's nice to hear because I feel like a lot of people get of yours. Sure. All being in the same vicinity like that, like it's nothing.
Yeah, that's nice to hear because I feel like a lot of people get jaded over the years.
You're there, what, 21 years now?
Yeah, this is 22.
22?
It's crazy. I love it. I love famous or talented people, especially a talented,
famous person. Like, that shit is incredible to bump up against and I'm one of the worst
I will tell them like yo
I gotta tell you like well we let the same thing that some people do to me like I love you so much like
you don't even know blah blah blah blah and
Hold them up from where they're trying to go so I can get the rest of my sentence out and all that shit
Yeah, damn, that's awesome. I met you when I was handing out flyers once
on the street in Times Square.
It must've been like 18 years ago or something.
And you were one of the only people
to stop and be nice to me.
See there?
Thank you, man.
And I was like, that's a good guy.
I think I was like, comedy show tonight,
and I was like, you should come by.
And you were like, maybe I will.
You didn't come, but just you stopping
and giving me that was like.
I remember those though, like walking,
cause you don't walk through Times Square that much
unless you really are from out of town.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
But I remember walking past that comedy club like twice,
and there was always like some like poor soul
that has got to like drum up business
in that insanely busy environment.
You know what I mean?
It's like, oh by the way, you know what I mean?
You got all these distractions.
But that's actually better than when you'd have to do it
in a non-busy section.
Oh, that's true.
Well that's because you just want the distraction
of a lot of people as opposed to just like
another block of person block away.
Just sad.
I'm gonna get this guy, I see him coming.
Yeah, I did it for years.
And you get why people start lying.
Because you get so desperate. You're like, David Letterman's coming. Correct, I did it for years. And you get why people start lying, because you get so desperate.
You're like, David Letterman's coming.
Greg Geraldo, Patrice O'Neill.
You start saying Richard Pryor's gonna be there.
Tina Fey, they're like,
she doesn't do stand-alone.
I'm trying anything here.
And foot traffic-wise,
it would always get a good audience for the show.
Just net fishing.
Good enough, yeah.
Facebook.
Like, you got the job done.
I didn't realize, until I saw you,
I was like, oh shit, that's a comedian. I knew you're a comedian
I want to try to bark a comedian in right right but by the time I said I was like ah shit
I might as well stay committed to it. Yeah, like Keenan's cut
Shit I saw Alec Baldwin's back on the show now, which is like he he came back that was a cool revisit
You know he's always been close to the show like I think
he's hosted it the most probably especially like he was a damn near cast member for four years you
know like yeah he's a he's a real one and just caught a bad hand that was that the whole shit
situation was crazy so to see him return and like that just the power of the show. The power of the show.
Reflecting society like that always offers an opportunity
for someone to play someone.
Yes.
You know what I mean?
Totally.
Jim Gaffigan slides in as well.
Yeah, Gaffigan sliding in.
Dana Carvey's just back.
Yeah.
Murdering on a regular.
And hopping in and out of other sketches too.
Like he just tossed a Jennifer Coolidge in there that he didn't even have.
You know what I mean?
So he just learned it at the last minute.
This guy is like, you know, been doing it for forever.
Use him.
It's like having Bo Jackson around.
That's what I'm saying.
So like using Maya and Andy in that castrato shit last week too was just like,
it's all so much fun.
It's the best.
I love it, I love to hear it.
It really is.
Do you still get tense?
Cause I heard Bill Hader once in an interview
be like, I had to leave.
Cause it just made me insane.
But the pressure every week is,
cause you know, Mark and I will hone a bit
for like a year and a half.
Yeah, 100%.
But you guys, it's every week.
It is.
I feel like that pressure cooker thing
is like way heavier on the writers.
Writing and like doing comedy,
number one is the hardest thing ever,
but like formulating comedy has got to be
one of the most insanely like torturous procedures ever
and I thank God that I'm I was an actor first you know I'm saying like I don't
like want that writer burden I try to do as much as I can but I'm never gonna
like fake the funk and be like no I'm gonna write by myself every week and I'm
just gonna get really good at writing like I don't have interest in torturing myself
But I respect them. That's why I try not to like
Tank sketches or you know giggle through things or you try to hold back the the breaking of the fourth
Yes, people abuse the breaking, you know, I try to laugh when I'm off-camera or something
you know just whatever I can do to kind of like
try to laugh when I'm off camera or something, you know, just whatever I can do to kind of like
ease the pain of the tension of being a writer
at that place, because it's gotta be insanely
like, pressure-ish.
Oh yeah.
And I think it's bittersweet now,
because the world is so nutty, we've got the politics,
we've got the wars, we've got all the shooting,
whatever it is, and so everybody goes,
you got a ton of material, and you're like,
it's actually kinda harder, almost.
It really isn't like, shout out to Emil,
because he finally, you know, got his update, he's been kind of harder almost. It really isn't like, shout out to Emil because he finally got his update.
He's been working on that for a couple of weeks,
but he finally got to do it.
Yeah.
And what a crazy time.
I think he's the first, I mean,
I don't know if he's the first one to talk about
the Middle East as usual, but like.
Rami kind of threw it in.
Rami threw it, but like cast member wise,
Aristotle was somewhat doing that,
but he was doing more like characters,
like robots and shit like that.
He wasn't like talking about being like from Lebanon,
you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
That shit's like a first for me to listen to, so.
It's such a tough, confusing,
we don't know what to do on either side if you're not from there kind of thing.
Sort of make a bit out of it that'll work on update,
which is like all jokes, that shit had to be tough.
Yeah.
But that's all you can do.
Anytime comedians start to like really try to dissect
the Middle East, it's just like, dude.
Go make it a dick joke.
It's impossible.
Do the joke.
Yeah, let's find it and do that.
But I saw people even like, I saw the bit and it was funny
and I saw people commenting even on like,
Immediately.
Yeah, homosexuality and it's like, no,
he's not trying to really break down the Middle East.
It's still a bit, it's still a joke.
Right.
Logic is.
So even if you're going for the joke,
you're getting that is my point, I guess.
I mean, there is no pleasing of everybody either,
you know what I'm saying?
So like, yeah, I mean mean I try to tell them like just try to relax and do what you think is
funny kind of thing but it's really hard you know what I mean because they're really trying
to fill well they're trying to check a bunch of boxes for people which is tough because
there's always going to be somebody that was just like not funny or like go home the shit
is lame blah blah blah. When everybody else like 99% of people are just like not funny. Or like go home, the shit is lame, blah blah
blah. When everybody else like 99% of people are just like yeah good effort, you know what
I mean, it was pretty funny, blah blah blah. Or I loved it, you know, just above the line
kind of stuff. But there's always some pice of shit.
Yeah, they're out there.
You know what I mean? It just wants to take shots I guess.
It's inevitable. But it is fun when Jost and Che go at each other 100% because they kind of get get ahead of it
Yeah, I you know them exchanging jokes is probably one of the greatest bits that a date has ever had
It's the best. I mean it just really is one of those like
Alright, let's break down these tension walls. Yes being so sensitive these days or whatever
let's break down these tension walls, everybody being so sensitive these days or whatever,
even if it's only for 15 minutes at Christmas.
Yeah, getting Joe to say some fucked up black stereotype
and he's just like gritting his teeth,
but he's gotta get it out and Che's just loving it.
Ah, it's perfect comedy.
And vice versa, like when Che has to say something
hyper-racist to it, just as great.
Yeah.
You know, it's just as great. Good times. Yeah. Oh, I love that hyper racist to it. Just as great. Yeah.
Just as great.
Good times. I love that you still love it.
Those anniversaries to me,
it's like a big love
fest. I remember the 40 had
Eddie Murphy and
Larry David at the line of the night
where he walked out and he goes, I don't want to do
this.
There he is.
Fantastic.
From the crowd even.
And look at that crowd.
But it's funny, Larry's another funny one
because obviously we all know how much of a genius he is.
Oh, look at that Sandler Douglas.
But yeah, but SNL wasn't like his breaking ground.
Somebody's got to- Right.
It's a long story. Fridays.
Yeah, but like same with Sandler.
Even Sandler made the joke when he came back.
Like, you know
Norm's got one of the all-time great mom. Yeah, look at little John Higgins. Oh
Just fucking manifesting. Whoa
Holy shit, that's wild cheek. No, you want that cheek Meadows Vanessa. That's oh, what's a face? When did Vanessa have time to sit in the audience?
Oh, what's her face? When did Vanessa have time to sit in the audience?
Oh yeah, there's those.
What's her name again?
Catherine Zeta-Jones, the old entrapment ass.
You know, entrapment ass.
Get that ass out of there lazy.
See, every man in history knows that ass.
Entrapment ass.
That's all we had for her.
There wasn't a lot of ass play in the 90s.
No, it was very like taboo.
Yes.
Tittle-ating. Look at that tittle-ating.
Oh my God.
Get that under that laser.
Yeah.
It was like the main selling point of the trailer, I think.
Yeah, I think so. It got me.
We got to go see this one moment when she's sneaking under the laser.
I don't even remember what the rest of the movie is about.
No one does.
Sean Connery being, forget Sean Connery.
This is a weird part of Connery's career
when he did like Finding Forrester.
It's not even a great ass to be honest.
Yeah, no, it gets flat immediately.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
It's the arch at first, and she's doing it blindfolded.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's the arch of the back. It's the orange
And then pancake it ah
Ends terribly
That's like Godfather 3 started out great. It's over
Beginning and end pretty solid. Yes. Little is just a whole lot of tangle
That's true.
But yeah, yeah.
So also I think HPV Oral.
Yeah, Michael Douglas.
Oh, throat cancer. Blamed her.
Man. Wow.
Come on, she was doing it the right way.
That's top shelf.
Getting that cancer the right way.
He got the good stuff.
You know, I love it.
Oh yeah.
If you gotta get it.
Man.
So many groups of people.
How many times have you almost left?
Left the show?
Yeah, was there ever like,
ah, fucking I'm out, and then you come back.
Only once in the beginning
where I didn't really understand my place there.
Oh yeah?
Because I was coming from a working environment
where I was a utilizable kind of tool,
and then I went into a place where I was a utilizable kind of tool. And then I went into a place where I was like
really low on the like experience totem pole.
Like doing the show was one thing,
but like it's a show where people create the show.
You know what I mean?
Like it's in their hands every single week.
Like they're, you know,
this core group of people has nothing. There's no show.
You know what I'm saying?
There's not like they're just gonna like
hit the crew up and be like,
y'all got any ideas this week?
You know what I mean?
Like that core group of people that they have on staff
as writers and cast members build this show.
And I didn't have that kind of experience.
And I kept winding up Donut It is what I like to call it,
where you just have zero in the show kind of thing.
Oh no.
And one day I just like got really upset.
Did anyone help you out when you were any of the vets there?
Like dude, just like be patient or?
They all did.
I mean like not necessarily the like sit you down
patience convo, but like when it was like work time,
if people had an idea they would come to you and be like, you know, let's work on this or let's work on that or let's write something next week
or something like that
and then like
Higgins was was great and shoemaker was great at like kind of overseeing and pairing people like they paired me and Colin together
And we shared an office for like eight years Wow, that was like very helpful
So you're like the guy in high school who just keeps staying in.
He's just meeting a new-
Super senior.
Yeah.
I'm a kind of, hey, yeah, 100%.
Yes, yes, exactly.
Yeah.
Damn.
Yeah.
So 21 years.
I mean that is-
Yeah.
It's crazy because I feel like a lot of these casts kind of get taken for granted.
100%.
Like they're not really appreciated.
Like it is crazy to look back and you're like,
oh man, it was like Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.
Crazy.
It's kind of crazy.
A lot of people are,
it's weird how comedy is usually before its time.
Like when it's really good, it's usually before its time.
Like it echoes for a while.
Like shit, that shit was solid.
You know what I mean?
Like, how long have we looked back on like Richard Pryor
shit, you know what I mean?
For forever kind of shit.
So yeah, it's weird how, like the Simpsons is always
like way ahead of itself.
That's true.
You know, like when they're really sharp,
they're like constantly predicting the future or whatever,
or it seems like shaping senses of humor for later on as
opposed to like in the moment like the in the moment people have the sense of
humor of the previous people you know yes yeah you like like learning the
nuance or whatever like Michael J Fox you know your kids are gonna love it you
know back to the future yeah sometimes you're on stage or you're you're bombing
you're like this will you'll catch up to this and we'll be here when you
understand how I got to why yes exactly you you'll catch up to this in like two years. It will be when you understand how I got to watch this.
Yes, exactly.
You have to catch up to that.
But you feel like an idiot because you're like,
I'm bombing, but you guys are wrong.
It's one of my favorite things in the world.
When we have a joke that we just know is gonna work
and it gets nothing.
Yes.
It's like, yo, what the fuck just happened?
It makes me laugh every time.
It'll kill a rehearsal and then.
Yeah, it kills somewhere, that's how it wound up there.
And then it's just like.
Norm is the king of that.
I mean, how many Norm bombs and groans does he get?
And we, millions of people will go back to YouTube
and watch that shit later, like that was amazing.
But it's bombing in the room.
In the room, it's crazy.
And yeah, it's a special place because you
can watch archival stuff like that,
like Eddie Murphy's first weekend update appearance.
Whoa.
You know what I mean?
And I think it was.
Was it Gumby?
I think it was only dress rehearsal
because it didn't go well because they didn't know him.
You know what I mean?
Right.
They were just kind of giving it up.
But he was telling jokes that would work for anyone. You know what I mean? Real jokes. But giving it up, but he was telling jokes that would work for anyone.
You know what I mean, like real jokes.
But the fact that they were just getting to know him,
he was getting smattered applause, which is so crazy.
Maybe the best cast member, like pound for pound.
I mean, the guy can do stand up acting.
He's funny as hell, the sketches are great.
The Gumby, the Mr. Robinson's neighborhood. I mean, it's like still funny. To this day, you know, obviously 48 hours, then he can
do Nutty Professor, he can do Dr. Dolittle. I mean, it's...
It's freaking Dreamgirls.
Yes, exactly.
He's doing a lot of different stuff.
Yeah, man. Versatile.
Yes.
Yeah. And just was in it immediately. Aged,, seven, 19, doing stand up at Fort Dixon,
whatever, you know what I mean, whatever the story is.
Killing it.
Just crazy, always is murdered and still has the talent.
Highly anticipated one when he came back and hosted,
you think?
He was the longest prodigal son, yeah.
Like, it was him and Sandler.
So like, Sandler came in April.
Wow. And then we were off for the summer and during the summer they announced Murphy was doing Christmas
I was like this motherfucking Lauren Michaels is a gangster. Yeah
Does not take a moment? I'm like, yeah, it's summertime
But I'm also gonna like lock in both these goats in the same year after it's been 30 for both. Hell, yeah
It was like who do you want that's never hosted?
Cosby, no I'm just
Who do I want that hasn't, there's a few people like Denzel would be interesting. Oh yeah. You know
like Brad Pitt did the code open during Covid but you know it was a pre-taped thing at his house so we didn't get to like work with him necessarily. Yeah he's a big comedy fan too. Yeah but you know, it was a pre-tape thing at his house, so we didn't get to like work with him necessarily.
Yeah, he's a big comedy fan too.
Yeah, and you know, I think he would like be interesting.
Tom Cruise.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, how is Tom Cruise not funny?
You know, superstar weirdos.
I don't think he's funny.
That would be cool.
He's funny in Tropic Thunder.
Oh, that's true, he killed that role.
Yeah, Lawrence Fishburne.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, like those legends, Wesley Snipes.
Has Nicholson ever hosted or no?
No, I mean not since I've been there.
Interesting.
You're gonna get the blow for that one.
Yeah that would be good.
Is it a thing of that era maybe,
if you're too A-list and considered almost too cool,
it's almost too vulnerable?
He comes from that era, yeah.
We don't do television, I'm a movie star.
Right, oh there he is.
But he came to the 40th.
Oh okay, damn. So I don't know I'm a movie star right there he is he came to the 40th okay damn so I don't know if he's ever hosted apparently huge dong Nicholson
yeah fucked a bunch of porn stars back in the day is that right they all went
on Howard Stern and talked about it is that why you're so happy that love of the
blow always smiling oh yeah he is the man. That's so funny.
Your search history's gonna be great.
Yeah, your search history's gonna be fun.
There it is, well and down.
Well and down.
I mean, the old Howard Stern Show was wild.
Well, Cori Mangelica Houston?
And she's a tall lady.
And I don't think it ended on good terms with them,
so she meant this.
It never does.
Yeah.
That's the burden of the big D.
When it's time to move on,
they have a hard time letting go.
You can't contain Jack.
Yeah but that does get rough when you're like late 80s
and you're not with someone.
You wanna, if you're Nicholson,
settle down like late 60s, early 70s.
Does he have kids?
He's got kids.
Oh he does.
But I don't think he's with anyone.
Yeah. Yeah, his kids in a new movie, he looks that was that was like frowned upon right? Yeah. Oh
That's crazy. That is crazy. Oh, that's his son-in-smile, too. Got it. Yes. You got a big dick, too
He looks happy. Yeah, happy guy
Yeah, I had no idea what I think I don't think these guys you know like Leo they they want to just run run the clock out
They're all the way out. They're having a good time. Yeah, what the hell am I doing trying to tell Nicholson how to live his life?
I should shut the fuck up swing that old dong around Hollywood. Oh, you know two more years somebody's pattering that thing
He's got money in the bank you know anytime there a new Batman thing, I think he gets money.
He does. He made the best deal in the business.
Crazy.
What is he? Got a merch deal?
When he was Joker, it was like, I don't know what the exact deal was, but it was like, yeah, I think merch, action figures, all that shit.
Incredible.
Yeah, the VHS sales, 10 million up front, 4 million price cut, and sequels.
Earnings from future sequels.
Ten Batman's since then.
Future sequels, that's wild.
Genius.
If only I had done that with Fast and Furious.
Well that's insane because no one thought to do that and it wasn't the first time they
done Batman.
It's like, no, this is already a thing.
We should all be thinking like this.
He was the only one that was just like,
probably the only one that could.
Yeah, he had the pull.
That shit's wild.
Well, back then they weren't like,
now we have Fast Furious 9, Batman 12.
And I wonder if it was him or his agent.
Who was the real business man there?
It's gotta be the Jew.
Right? Gotta Jew. Right?
It's gotta be.
Right?
What, is there any movies you've had to turn down
because of SNL?
That you're like, shit, I wish I did that kind of?
Oh, I'm sure.
I don't know what they are, but like, you know,
SNL is from October to May.
So like, I see people that leave and then all of a sudden
they're able to do like five a year kind of thing.
And it's like, oh well oh well yeah I'm definitely probably not
available for a lot of things but I couldn't tell you what they were like I
think my reps soften that blow for me and just be like we'll save him from
that like knowing that he's gonna miss this opportunity right that's nice but I
do see them like I see like when Chris did, what was the one that he wrote and directed?
Five something?
Chris?
Chris Rock, sorry.
Oh, Chris Rock.
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
Top five.
Top five, thank you.
Where's the alcoholic?
Yeah.
That one I even auditioned for and then wound up not getting it.
What?
That one stung. Which part did you audition for? I think I think Tracy's part
So it didn't really like sting that bad and like that, you know, like of course
Dan either Tracy or JB's role one of the two either one of those right?
But like look at that cast. It would have been like that's great to been
Around that chase, you know, I mean like just like fam Wow maybe DMX is last stand damn he was you know it's like
probably the best part of the movie too yeah oh yeah Regan I forgot Regan
Regan was the radio guy amazing Ben Varane yeah it's like everybody in the movie
Ben Varane what uh what do you do when you're off SNL?
Do you have any things you just like,
you don't do anything or do you just chill
or do you have hobbies or what?
Yeah, it's a mixture of the like,
balance the swing the whole other way
and not really do much kind of thing.
Like I'm just on call waiting on my kids,
like kids are getting out of school in an hour,
you know what I mean?
Kind of shit and then like, seeing what they're doing all day and then like at nighttime kick it or or not
Yeah, I really feel good about going to bed and weeks off kind of shit
But yeah hyper normal, I don't like tinker at all. I wish I did but
No, you're working hard enough and don't do stand-up. You know what I mean? It's a dedication. I was respected too much to like
You know do a special just because I have a name right like I've always been a big fan of stand-up and
Have realized early that it's not my commitment to do you hear that Chris Kattan
It's a real dedication for real.
And I don't think, it's almost like being in the street, you can't start late.
You can't do something else and then go do that kind of thing.
Right.
Good point.
You know, you gotta like do that first.
Yeah, you can't sell crack at 50.
Yeah, exactly.
You gotta start going backwards.
Right, right.
All right.
I saw some interview with you where you said,
and I could be getting this wrong,
but a manager fucked you over when you were super young?
An accountant, yeah.
An accountant.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like the biggest fear ever.
Yeah.
It is, but it wasn't my fear at the time
because I didn't know any better,
and I was a minor when we gave him power of attorney.
Damn.
We went and got that paperwork from the drug store
and at the time I was like, we're in Eckerd right now.
Getting like legal paperwork.
Yeah, notary.
Documents, you know what I mean?
Out of some aisle in the fucking.
Wow.
Whatever the fuck, they just had like,
for somebody like
a power of attorney document or some shit some doc that was able to like give them that
and it was fine until it wasn't you know what I'm saying and then yeah like
Is this all that?
sued in one time or Mighty Ducks time?
It was like late in the Nickelodeon run so it was like when I was like 70
As far as Nickelodeon minors, you got off easy.
I definitely did.
I went through clean because we were trailblazing.
So nobody was cocky enough to try things like that
because there was no like, you can just
dismiss people's parents.
Like our parents have been like, what are you talking about?
We're not stepping out from anything. You know what I'm I'm saying yeah you would have been easy to catch I mean
you're a squeezable here people I got my cheeks pinched but it was never like
around the business it was like I would I took a typing class in Atlanta one time
you're like people in the hood or whatever, but damn it was very innocent back then. Mm-hmm
Yeah, it's it's scary, but you've been on my TV for so long. Yeah, my whole life
It's my only job I've ever had heavy weights. Will you just name it? Oh my god, that's right
You're in heavy weights. Yeah, that shit was a good time. Were you uh
When they took this money from you or when this guy took this money from you?
Mm-hmm. I mean, what was your reaction?
Were you just like, fuck this business, fuck everything,
or were you kinda like, eh?
No, it was targeted directly towards that person.
It was like, what a piece of shit.
I will fucking murder him.
And they just don't know, and like,
luckily it never went that far,
but I literally sat in his driveway
with me
and my buddy like overnight once like like I found out because the way I found
out I was buying a house so I thought and he didn't show up with the down
payment check you know what I mean so I'm sitting in the fucking closing office
in front of like four strange white people and like they're looking at me
just like twiddling their thumbs and shit and like the time comes and then it's five minutes past and then it's ten minutes past.
I'm like, I don't know where to start calling and I answering the phone.
Damn.
You know what I mean? Weirdly enough. And it's mad early, bro.
Like I had to get up to do this shit and like get dressed and like go over there and he just didn't show up.
So like it was highly embarrassing.
And then I like left there, blew his phone up the whole day, didn't answer,
and then I sat in his driveway all night.
And so he called me the next morning like,
hey, are you in my driveway?
And I was like, yeah, I've been sitting here all night
because-
There's an echo in the background.
You know what I mean?
And he's like, yeah, one of my neighbors told me
that there's been a car in my driveway all night.
I'm like, yeah, motherfucker, what the fuck, bro?
You didn't show up with like, what's going on and all that shit.
And then it just like unfolded from there.
And did he come clean about this or what?
He never came clean personally,
but you know the cars were on the table.
Like I sued him in one but can't collect or whatever.
But it's just pointless.
And I just, I moved on pretty quickly.
Yeah, I moved on right away
because I realized I didn't have a cushion
to even dwell on, I just had to get back to work.
I thought I was gonna just come home to Atlanta
and kind of chill and work.
And I just moved right back to LA
and just got back to it.
It seems like a common story.
Seinfeld, some guy ripped him off,
Dane Cook's brother stole.
Yeah, there's the least of the shit in the world.
He went back on tour in his like 70s.
Yeah.
Whoa.
And stole his retirement fund.
Yikes.
It's just crazy.
It's crazy, but this, I mean,
this is back when being fat was weird.
That's classic.
Yes.
That is a classic, and you could just,
I think we squeezed that movie in at the last minute
to where you could do a movie like that.
Right, it's killer.
Like it was the last one.
I mean. It was so good.
It's funny for an adult too.
Cause it's kind of dark.
Shout out to Sean.
I spoke to Sean yesterday actually on Instagram.
And Sean was at the height of his being funny as a kid.
Age right in this movie.
It just murdered it. He's at murdered it. Shout out to Aaron.
Look at the before and after of Aaron,
just started shredding himself, just amazing.
Good dude.
And it was a weird cross section of like,
Mighty Ducks one people and Mighty Ducks two people
being in a movie.
So I had my first time meeting Aaron.
But yeah, we had a good time.
Shout out to Ben Stiller, man, that was fun.
Shout out to Judd, shout out to all those guys.
Tom right there.
Judd has been making shit for a long time.
I forget he wrote Celtic Pride also.
All that shit.
Judd's been in the trenches.
Covert, that was the first time meeting Covert.
First time meeting Fiegg.
Look at young Paul Fiegg.
Oh, young Fiegg.
Fiegg's in there.
Yeah, that's right. He's the girl in that one. Pedigree on that one. Yeah. First time meeting fucking Pete.
Pete fucking director. He directed the Rihanna fucking Navy Robots movie. What?
Who's the director of that? Pete Heavyweights. I forget his last name.
Pete Berg. Yeah, exactly. That guy, oh man, I just watched this movie. Funniest shit and
didn't just pivot it into being a director. Like, big-time movie director.
He's in that movie Last Seduction. Great movie. That's an awesome one. Yeah, he was a
brilliant actor. For forever. David Bowie. Direct directed Hancock. I think still in mirror like bro
Oh, I just tamper Wow movie is chock-full of motherfuckers Jesus now
I assume I know you're a spoken for but if you're in the kid in these young movies you get the ladies going
I watched you when I was 15
Like like Bob Saget got all that dad, you know, daddy issue ass.
The dad love, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I assume, you know, these girls grow up with you and then they see you at a nightclub when
you're 28 and they're just like, oh my God.
I don't know if it's from heavyweights though.
Good burger, maybe.
Yeah, it might have been Snakes on the Plane or something.
Right, you went to Snakes on the Plane. Yeah, I might have been Snakes on the Plane or something.
Right, you went Snakes on the Plane.
Yeah, Snakes on the Plane, Wieners, I've been out there.
That over, though, yeah.
We've been out there for a while.
Yeah, what do you get recognized, I mean, SNL is the main thing, but is there a movie you get recognized for the most?
I feel like Good Burger's up there.
Yeah.
Yeah, Good Burger's up there.
Quotable. But yeah, a lot of all that Keenan and Kel, like Nickelodeon era, 90s era, good stuff.
Yeah, I watched it. Yeah, it just, it depends on the person. Oh, you were on Steve Harvey's show?
Because you do a hell of a family feud. Thank you. Yeah, that's where, what makes it easy for me is
because I know him from doing his show.
We did it like five times, me and Kel, back in the day.
Those good times.
Steve Harvey's a cool guy, a funny guy, but he really has one move.
He's on Family Feud. He goes,
So what's something you put in a woman's vagina?
And a guy goes, a dick. And he goes,
He does the big eyes.
And then he won't even let the guy talk.
That's what I like to call his ham time.
There it is, ham time.
That's it.
It's Hank because he's looking and they give him softball, beach ball, all sorts of stuff.
Yes.
Because it's in the answers even now.
They're just looking for reactive moments for Steve to just go off on a tangent for
seven minutes.
Exactly.
The greatest one that I watch on a regular basis,
it's tucked into Family Feud's greatest moments
or whatever kind of thing.
But it's when this guy gives the exact same answer
in his answer as the question or something,
he's like, the question is like,
something, something about the White House
or something like that.
And then he's like, oh, if you don't want someone
to stay somewhere that's not the White House,
where would you put them?
And the guy says the White House or something.
And he goes off on a fucking tangent
for fucking 12 minutes.
It is the greatest shit ever because he's going back
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Guy was just saying that.
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In the car, it's so good.
I had a bit about one of these guys and I ran into one of the food guys and he's like
you have a bit shitting on one of my friends.
Oh yeah.
But I'm like but it's playfully shitting because I do know it.
Yes.
Like I watch it, you see the boom guys,
like we all know them.
Oh yeah.
It's crazy that this is all,
like you think you have this for you algorithm,
but then it's just, we all see the same shit.
It's everybody.
The exact same shit.
The fact that these are popping up in my feet like it's real.
That is so funny.
Yeah, and you have a moment of like,
you think people will get this,
but it's actually the most shit we see is this. So this. I think the please don't destroy guys wrote that one. Oh no those guys are great.
They're funny. So yeah there's just the beauty of the show taking reality and
then satirizing it but making it look just like itself you know what I'm saying?
Like when Kiki hosted and we did the Keenan and Kel like
Reboot thing sketch or whatever which was her idea by the way shout out to Kiki and they rebuilt Rigby's the fucking grocery store
I grew up in you know the fake asset
That shit was crazy. Yeah, it was like what a fucking mind blow. How is
Kel he's great. All right.
He's in LA.
Being the family man,
that was a year and a half or two years ago,
and it wasn't that long ago.
When you're doing these characters,
are you able to do them,
do you have to find something you like about them
to mock them?
Are you able to do it if you don't actually like
the person you're impersonating?
Yes, I mean both.
If I don't like the person,
it's a lot more fun to take them down a notch
and showcase what we find to be somewhat ridiculous
or exaggerated as far as what a normal person
should seem like.
But yeah, I try not to do any super duper malice, but at the same time
I am poking fun at people's existences.
Like I realize a little too late that Neil deGrasse Tyson
doesn't like my approach.
What, really?
Because I'm, yeah, he considers himself to be
probably very cool in his, you know what I mean?
Like that motherfucker wears fedoras and shit.
That's true, that's true. So I think he thinks he's very cool, his, you know what I mean? Like that motherfucker wears fedoras and shit. That's true, that's true.
So I think he thinks he's very cool, he's tall,
you know what I mean, he's a big guy.
But my approach to him is so, my take on him,
like he's just so, when he talks, he's just,
that's what he sounds like to me.
Like very educated and nerdy.
Yes, a scientist.
He gets off on the solar system or some shit like that.
Right.
I talked to him once and I kind of overheard him being like,
yeah, so that was, you know, like what's up with,
like you think I talk like that or some shit like that.
Really?
Wow.
And I was like, oh, my bad, bro.
Like I was going kind of hard in that direction
of making you a little nerdier
than you think you are kind of thing.
Wow, you gotta exaggerate it a little.
Look at that fucking vest, come on.
You gotta make a choice, too.
It's like a caricature, you see some of these caricatures
in the New Yorker or something,
and you see someone's nose like,
yeah, but the guy had to make a choice.
Yeah, that's the thing that stands out, kind of thing.
Exactly, that's funny already.
But it's also like I'm looking for the fun,
like I don't know what the fun of talking
about the solar system is,
except for
Maybe he thinks it's erotic
Is there anyone else I got pissed
Steve didn't love it in the beginning Harvey. Yeah, he's another one that like, you know considers himself
Pretty gangster, you know right from Cleveland like grew up rough kind of thing or whatever
You know from Cleveland like grew up rough kind of thing or whatever
So not to be just mocked like that, but you know it wasn't like mocking it was more
kind of I Don't know
It's just an homage if you were the existence of that person and that that kind of a presence your your tone your vocal tone
Has a presence, you know, I mean you are way you are, it just rubs off on people.
So that's why we do impressions of people.
It's sad when a comic gets annoyed,
because you know what this is.
Neil, I get it, or Trump, you're like, all right,
you're not a comic, but a comic should get it.
Yeah, you should just get it.
But also, one thing to hear a joke about yourself
is another thing to watch someone pretend to be you.
Yes.
Probably.
Yes, because you're like, is that how I come off?
Keenan Ivey-Wayne's Arsenio was probably the craziest thing ever.
The long fingers.
Long fingers, big butt.
When did Arsenio have a big butt?
At what point?
You know, he was just like walking around acting like that.
I don't think he ever did, but that was his take on him for some reason.
The flat top, yeah.
Look at that. Oh my God. Hoo some reason. The flat top, yeah. Look at that.
Oh my God.
Look at that.
It's hilarious, bro.
I didn't even notice he had a huge ass.
Is that real?
Yeah, he just, no.
He patted that for that character and I'm like, why?
Yeah.
I've seen he was the skinniest guy ever.
Totally.
But it was the craziest shit.
That was a big and living killer guy.
Who were your guys growing up that you really looked up to?
These guys, that whole Wayans family for sure,
Murph, like everybody on the black side of things
that's done it pretty obviously.
But Jim Carrey I feel like is one of the greatest
performers overall.
Yeah.
Bernie was great, but yeah, that's what I'm saying. Everybody on the black side is good.
Learned about like George Carlin and those guys later and he had like the SNL, you know, alumni for sure. Oh, yeah.
Well, Chris Rock said he had the he had the problem where he couldn't get any hair time.
Yeah, he had a tough he had a tough year. That's why he was only there for a year. But he still
was able to find one of the greater sketches with Nat X. It was always the best thing in the show.
It was just brilliant. You know what I mean? And it fit him and the time. It worked.
But yeah, he had a tough time. Tracy had a tough time for a long time.
It's weird that him and Tim Metals weren't closer than
I would like them to be in my mind.
I think that everybody that works there
that might be black should be in the brotherhood
in my mind, you know what I'm saying?
We should all be close.
But they're two very different people at the same time.
Oh yeah.
They're maybe the two most different people.
Yeah. 100%.
100%, like night and fucking day.
But to me that doesn't matter.
I get along with whoever, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
They both chose based on the reaction,
you know what I mean, to be like,
oh, this isn't what I was expecting,
so I'm just gonna go over here and do whatever. I can see Tim Meadows reading a
book and Tracy Morgan yelling I'm gonna get you pregnant. Water and wine. I'm sorry
I'm trying to read. Yeah. I said I'm gonna get you pregnant. Damon doesn't get his due as a
hilarious guy like Homie the Clown was amazing, Men on Film, he did the Homeless Guy, I think kind of predating
Tyrone Biggums.
Oh yeah.
Damon was the original star.
Yes.
He was a great stand up.
He was like, he had a rough time on SNL too.
Like another, like, I don't even think
he did the full season.
It was like six weeks, it was some tough story.
But yeah, he had a tough time because it's another,
I wanna say standups have a tough time.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, why do you think that is?
It's because you're going from an individual pursuit
to an ensemble pursuit, you know what I mean?
And it's tough for standups probably
to play the black ground, if you will.
Also, it's like, yeah, you're right.
It's like going from tennis to playing baseball or something.
Yeah, and being in the outfield.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
And just like, you get your moments,
but it's not as cracking as the infield
or something like that or whatever.
Attell used to say all his sketches when he was a writer
were like, a guy walks into a room,
there's a microphone, you know?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. So you like to do stand-ups, where you're guy walks into a room, there's a microphone, you know? Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.
So you like to do stand-ups where you're standing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also, there was a Harvard kind of old school vibe,
I think, back in the old days.
Yeah.
With the writers.
That's what Jim Brewer used to say when he was on, right?
That he was like, oh, I'm not like one of these,
you know, Harvard guys, you know?
Yeah, and it's probably tough to match wits
or have your wits on display.
You know, like I thought I was done with school,
you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
We were like all in the sandbox.
But like, no, like motherfuckers is really
not going to laugh if they don't find it impressive.
Yes.
To make it impressive is like usually
something that has to be really smart
or some sort of reference that is
Eye-opening to people and it can't be the same old thing like it can't just be
You know a black reference for the sake of the second time or the right, you know
The first time is like yeah, okay cool. Thanks for like enlightening us or whatever second or third time
it's like why are you excluding people in your thought process? Like you should be thinking just overall a dinner scene between
a father and a son or a family arguing over some shit. You know what I mean? It's like
specifics based on visual culture things or whatever. Because that's when you start leaving
shit out. You know what I mean? You're getting pocket laughs as opposed to like whole room laughs right it's hard I think for
stand-ups to think like that 100% even want to engage in that I don't know who
George Harrison was when I started over there you know I mean I knew the Beatles
but I didn't like our stage manager Jenna had a George Harrison like cartoon
pin on you know I mean and I was like who's that Jenna had a George Harrison like cartoon pin on you know the mean
I was like who's that she was like George Harrison. I was like yeah
Still like asking you and she was like he's one of these like there's like my sweet Lord and butters
I was okay, but I genuinely didn't know that name. Yeah, there's a big name in a white culture
I would say.
So it's a whole lot to take on while you're also trying
to figure out your career and if it's working
and it's live, you know what I mean?
It's just a lot going on there.
So I understand when people get confused
or they start butting heads with it
because it's not the normal situation, you know what I mean?
Especially for a standup, like that's a fish out.
If they had no acting experience kind of thing, you cheat out, you know what I mean?
Downstage, upstate, all this extra stuff.
On top of, now I got to also engage and try to learn about all these other cultures I
may or may not have ever been interested in doing. Yeah. I never had a super duper Beatles interest, but only because I grew up like listening to Motown
and gospel and shit like that. It's just I didn't know kind of thing.
Yeah.
It wasn't like I felt like I was missing anything until I knew I was. And then once I knew I was,
I was like, oh shit. So I feel like that can be daunting to people and that's why
they might have a tough time there. You gotta learn the cheat out
or as we call the Dave Grohl.
You know what I'm saying?
But yeah, like Mulaney said when he auditioned.
You guys got rim shots right?
Mulaney said he just did his five minute standup set
when he auditioned because he was like,
I'm not an actor really.
Yeah, and that's totally fine. You know what I mean?
And I think they do as good as they can
with trying to ease that transition
and some people take to it and some people tank to it.
Thank you very much.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of the best standups, I think,
from SNL were the Weekend Update guys,
like Kevin Neelans, Norm MacDonald.
Dennis Miller.
Yeah, that's the forum that's just like it's just jokes
right so it doesn't matter about blocking there's no there's no blocking
has anyone ever left the show because a lot of people leave the show to go do
movies or a TV show or whatever has anyone ever left the show kind of fizzled
and tried to come back is that allowed I don't know if of fizzled and tried to come back? Is that allowed? I don't
know if they fizzled necessarily. The only like left and came back successfully
at all that I know of is Parnell. Parnell was let go weirdly, was doing very
well, and continued to do well or something and was asked back or
something like that. Interesting. But yeah, he's the only like left and come back that I think I'm
aware of. Yeah, he's on a ton of movies. Yeah. Didn't Darrell Hammond come back for a second too?
Oh yeah, I think he does the announcements. Yeah, well I mean he's back for the announcement. I don't
know if he ever like left the show in his run though. Oh, Donahue left. I never heard of him.
He's a writer, right? Oh? Oh okay interesting. I just feel like
some people would freak out and be like fucking I'm going back it's almost like
Brooks and Shawshank you know he's like you gotta get me back in there I can't
live out in the world. Heart-breaking. Yeah Brooks was here. Yeah when you're watching
movies and stuff in your free time is it comedy or do you shift the drama?
I'm all over the place like there's not enough comedies anymore like it's there's no comedies to be seen right now. It's so sad like I'm always waiting on like
Seth Rogen or somebody to do some shit like that's been the mainstream thing like or Kevin you know
like Kevin and the Rock is like oh yeah you know the Jumanji's is what we get nowadays Yes, it was to like, you know some sort of road trip or something, right?
I just we just watched one miss here. It holds up man, right?
I just miss
the
You know kind of like not as far back as airplane, but those guys that would do those kind of movies or whatever totally
I mean Joker too is that was Todd Phillips, the goat.
And he's making a fucking musical.
Even Vampire, like I, if I see Vampire Suck is on, like I'll watch that shit.
It's like, they're being just silly and dumb.
Of course the classics, like the Tropic Thunders of it all but like that's where it felt like was the end of the road yes we're like the freedom of wanting to be funny
kind of thing yes scary like we used to have Austin Powers I know that was wild
those three of them it's insane yeah I'm looking for that era but I watch
whatever a lot of horror movies mm-hmm not so much drama like I don't
feel like crying I guess yeah but well we wrote a movie we're a classic kind of
raunchy comedy trying to get it out there we'll see we're trying working on
it I mean they do baseball is just it should be allowed to be done yes like
they're supposed to be a freedom of speech it's weird too because everybody goes like Blazing Saddles is a classic and you're like
well then let's do it again. Let's do that type. Like let the audience tell you.
Yeah. They keep trying to suppress but then you have the Shane Gillis's that
pop up out of that suppression. Right. In the moment did you think like we're making a mistake by
firing him in that moment?
I didn't really know much of the story.
And it's above my pay grade,
what they do with people's lives and careers like that.
But if it was squashed between the people,
then that's as far as it should have gone.
But it's definitely weird not to give someone a chance. Yeah.
Yeah.
A chance to say their piece, a chance to whatever kind of thing.
It's cool they had him back eventually.
It's cool that he earned that regardless.
Like he got to that point in stature career-wise or whatever that it made sense to have him
back.
You know what I mean?
And like he was a nice guy, you know what I mean?
He tried to figure out how to match how he grew up
to sensibilities, you know what I'm saying?
Which is what everybody's trying to do.
And I think that was a 2020, 2019,
whatever time that was when he got the axe,
that was like kind of the height of everything.
Being like super PC.
I've talked about it before, but there was a list on CNN
of people who have been canceled this year,
and it was Weinstein, Cosby, and Shane.
That's crazy.
And it's like, how is he on the same level as those guys?
Pretty unfair, yeah.
Wow.
And Shane's not nearly as funny as Cosby, come on.
Shane is great.
He, no, he, it was really unfair what they did to him.
Yeah, that was ugly.
And I think Lorne felt it too.
Yeah, and the fact that it seemed like he and
Bowen Yang squashed the beef.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying, like if they squashed it.
If there was even any beef,
I don't even know if there was.
Right.
Kobe beef.
You know?
But yeah, no, that was a cool moment.
And he, I mean, that's a standup who crushed on it too,
but Shane is definitely like not your traditional standup.
And he'd made those sketches that...
Oh yeah.
But I feel like it might've been tough on him.
You know what I mean?
Like watching him host and like, if you watch the show,
he's pretty similar in every sketch.
And that takes a toll on a few different things. It takes a toll on the
audience or eventually like just things start to become milder in reaction kind
of thing and that starts to fuck with people's heads kind of thing and then
when guys are just have a stand-up base as opposed to like an actor base to rely
on and play any character like I'll play a fucking tree. You know what I mean?
But I feel like standups,
like if they're not getting the pop from,
when I say something and I hear the pop of a laugh
or some shit, I think it starts to like spiral
motherfuckers out.
Oh yeah.
Well, you know the old Rodney story on Caddyshack.
I was just thinking this.
Rodney was on Caddyshack, he's on the set
and he leans over to, I don't know,
Chevy Chase and he's like, I'm bombing out. This is crazy. And Chevy's like Caddyshack, he's on the set and he leans over to, I don't know, Chevy Chase
and he's like, I'm bombing out here, this is crazy.
And Chevy's like, it's a movie.
It's a movie. We can't laugh at you.
We can't laugh at the jokes.
I'll tell you, this crew is the best.
He started panicking, like, I don't know
what the fuck is going on, why am I here?
Right, he's on a golf course, like, oh shit.
Do you have an all time favorite host when you've been there?
Hanks is up there, Chappelle's up there.
You know, like, Chappelle's is up there, Chappelle's up there. Chappelle's is just like one of my favorites,
just legendary from killing himself the own.
And I was watching him before that,
but that was the diamond has been formed
out of the charcoal moment for me.
And then on into the show or whatever.
So just a hyper fan of the dude,
and then got to actually be around him
because he started hosting the show and shit.
It's fantastic.
And then Tom Hanks is just one of the nicest fucking people
on the planet.
It's insane how someone can be that infamous.
Baby blood, he's baby blood.
Yeah, you know, that's what it is.
It must be the sweetest blood on the planet.
But yeah, he's just a genuinely hard working,
works hard at being a nice guy kind of thing.
Yeah.
He seems it.
It's genuine, but he also works at it.
Also fascinating, the two sons are like Meadows
and a Morgan, you know, they couldn't be more opposite.
Yeah, they have polar opposites, yeah.
Yeah, they got a white rapper and then like a clean cut.
Yeah, Chet is Tracy.
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
I don't know Chet,
because I guess he only hangs with rappers,
but Colin is a good dude.
Yeah, and a good actor.
A hard, great actor.
Great on Mad Men.
Yeah, great actor.
Orange County, that was kind of, that was kind of great.
Great in Jumanji.
This motherfucker popped up in Jumanji.
I was like, yo, he's a gangster.
That's real, like, I'm an actor shit.
What was the most uncomfortable episode
with the host you had?
With the whole, I mean, the musical guest one
was the crazy one, Ashley Simpson shit.
That was the craziest thing ever.
Oh, Lip Sync.
Yeah, that was the craziest shit ever.
I was watching that live.
It was just, it was a sad night.
You know, it felt very sad.
Like, no matter what happens,
like who gets to blame for this,
it's not a good look on her.
She is the symbol of the moment, you know what I mean?
And there's no escaping it for her.
She can't be like, they fucked up, it wasn't me.
Right.
It's just like, nope, it's on your back and and it's been revealed and this, that, and the other.
And like, why did she do that?
I'm not the only person, just inexperienced, I think,
because she was in her second, probably, year
of being a performer from her sister's shadow
kind of bullshit.
Yeah.
And just had probably never had that happen before.
You know what I mean?
A really vanilla moment.
Full career der derailing moment.
Oh, damn.
It is crazy, because when you go out there,
like Mark and I used to joke about this,
you know you have a bad late night set
when we were starting out, you know?
Yeah, we're doing another show tomorrow.
It's all right, not enough people watch this shit anymore,
but people still really watch.
Oh yeah, and that went around.
I guess if you really fail.
Yeah, yeah, there's a couple. Oh, everybody's waiting went around I guess if you really fail. Yeah. Yeah
There's a couple everybody waiting on the train wreck. Look who look who everyone covered it
Look at all those like outlets
I know Mark Maron used to always say like if I have a killer special no one gives a shit if I pee my pants
Up here. Yeah viral, you know what I mean, and she I guess she just didn't wrangle the moment. She didn't just be like stop
What the fuck is going on?
Blah, blah, get it right, and then actually perform.
And that would have cleared that whole thing.
But the fact that she just let it go and did a dance,
you know what I mean, and then they went to commercial.
And the show she was kind of given this
and wasn't prepared, you're right.
Ouch.
It was tough.
So let me ask you, we do stand up,
and I feel like sometimes I'll write a joke and I'm like
this is gonna kill and then it bombs.
You guys have sketches where you're like this is going viral, I mean this is the one and
then it doesn't get what you want?
That happens a lot.
We talk about that dynamic between Wednesday and Saturday, the two different audiences
because Wednesday is a comedy minds audience, you know what I mean?
Like they are the brains that carve current comedy.
So when you please that room,
sometimes you're miles ahead of Joe Q Public.
So like things will go really well on Wednesday
and tank their fucking ass off on Saturday
and it's the worst thing ever.
So like anytime something goes really well on Wednesday,
I'm like, I already calmed down, calmed down, calmed down.
You know what I'm saying?
Like let's just make sure that bridge is connecting
to like regular people.
Cause a lot of the time it really doesn't
and it's so confusing.
It's like, where did we lose them?
Why do we love this so much?
And they could care less kind of thing.
You know what I mean?
It's like, hey, you guys came to see a comedy show right? This is comedy. Yeah. Sometimes they just don't attach to it at all kind of
thing. But then when you're doing Black Jeopardy you must be like this is this is gonna hit.
Yeah those are kind of impervious. The ones that the more jokes the better. Yeah of course.
Like the ones that are just like joke joke joke joke joke Yeah, then it's just too much to be denied
There's pockets where it gets weird or quiet or whatever, but there's something coming behind it or whatever
Oh, yeah, but when you're doing like just a sketch
That's you know about an office or a conference room or you know an apartment conversational party
You know just you got to sell it. Shout out to fucking Emma Stone
who might be one of the greatest ever. Wow. Like watching her do that mama cast
thing last year was one of the greatest things I've seen a host do. Like she's so
committed and I told her I'm like you don't under commit to anything and there's a there's a few people that are like that but she's so committed. I told her, I'm like, you don't under commit to anything.
And there's a few people that are like that.
But she's so effortlessly locked in on everything.
Like she does not half step ever.
It's crazy.
Yeah, our friend does.
Like she is, like watch any one of the sketches she's done.
She's hosted five times.
Yeah.
So there's a lot to choose from.
Like she's hosted five times. So there's a lot to choose from. She's always in it.
She's never weird in it or smirking or anything.
Hyper committed, so that shit right there.
Oh, on the right.
What?
Incredible.
And what a deep cut too.
Incredible dog.
Our friend Stavros Halkia, shout out Stav,
is just in a new movie with her.
Yeah.
What?
Your Ghost Lothimos one.
And Stav was really pissed, he had to, you know,
his look is his ponytail and he had to shave for the movie.
But then he met Emma Stone and she had a fully shaved head
and he's like, I guess I can't complain.
She's going hard.
She's committed, dog.
Yeah.
Wow.
She's committed and she's not necessarily under the radar,
but I don't know if people understand like what a treasure
She is she just won best actor. She's crushed. That's what I'm saying. She's didn't she win twice
She's just that's what I'm saying. Oh my fuckers aren't like giving her the Merrill Street treatment like they need to mm-hmm
She hosted while you've been there stream. I
Don't know if she's ever hosted. That's another one that would be super fun.
Is she dating Martin Short?
Or is she dating Martin Short?
What is that?
Is that real?
I don't know.
I keep reading about it.
Wow, good for Shorty.
And I keep reading about these rumors
and then Steve Martin's really like,
may or may not have confirmed on his Instagram.
I was like, Steve Martin's got Instagram?
There's a lot to process.
Wow, just friends. I don't buy it. I was like Steve Martin's got Instagram. There's a lot to process. Wow.
Just friends.
I don't buy it.
That was one day ago, so they actually had to put out a statement.
All right.
They're definitely sisters.
Isn't Meryl Streep married?
I thought she was.
Is she married?
I don't know.
Boy, imagine getting double teamed by Short and Martin.
That's not too shabby.
Just ribbing each other the whole time.
Can you guys get back to? Yeah, strangers in the pussy. Short and Martin not too shabby just ribbing each other the whole time
Yeah strangers in the pussy
We got to ask you because you've been famous for a long time any any diddy party invites
I've never been invited to the parties man. I always felt some sort of way about that shit. I'm just kidding
But no, I'm thank God. I'm just kidding. But no, I'm, thank God. I'm never like, I don't do the crossover music business thing. Like my buddy writes a lot of music and shit like that,
but I hate the studio.
I can't sit there and listen to like that process over and
over again.
It's not for me.
So.
Just workshopping like their words.
The whole thing, like they listen to the track a million
times and they just build it
like in layers kind of thing and it's just,
it's the most minuscule building.
It's like doing a movie in a night kind of thing.
Cause everything is just piece by piece by piece
by piece by piece.
And the end product, yes, is great.
But getting there, man, it's like,
like I can't do editing
rooms you know I mean I can't watch them recut a scene and rewind it and like
right and just adjust it just a little bit you know I mean like oh the fucking
sound effect doesn't match the hand on the door bullshit yeah wow yeah well
that's one of those things kind of like a Catholic priest where you're like what the hell they didn't touch me
But now you're glad
Very but they're getting 880
Yeah, the list is bananas 880 mils. What?
Yeah, they think it's just one city's diet diocese. I believe that's putting that out right is it?
What about this? Yeah Yeah they just settled for 880 million.
What?
Oh the LA Catholic Church.
So funny I didn't know you were talking Diddy or the whole church.
Diddy and the church together giving out a Billy.
Whoa.
It's so crazy.
That's a lot of tip.
That's crazy.
Diddy just the Los Angeles arched ISIS is giving out
to 1300, that's awful.
Like what is happening over there?
Yeah.
At least the Diddy's party, these victims might've got
to meet Jay Z or something.
Yeah, something.
And this is way worse.
Yeah.
This is just father such and such.
Makes you respect Scientology.
They keep this shit buttoned up.
Cause you know they're doing weird stuff in there.
They're not paying for shit. Yeah
They're good at silencing. They really are under wraps. It's impressive. Miscavige whatever is his name?
Yeah, yes, I say the name not to be said. Yeah, like Tom Cruise. I mean that guy's not even human
He's retiring. I feel like he's stepping out of the church
He's starting to want to be more of an individual.
Like he's given them enough, they might let him go?
I don't know if they're gonna let him go,
but he's definitely been distancing lately.
He doesn't talk about it much, you know what I mean?
Kind of thing, he's not recruiting the same kind of way.
They've actually been very quiet.
Like they don't have a new spokesperson kind of,
you know, it was Fulton and then it was Tom Cruise
and since then it's kind of you know it was Walter and then it was Tom Cruise and
like since then it's not kind of been nobody they're just they're also just a real estate
portfolio.
Right, right.
Well they had Will Smith but then I think he got a little wonky with the slap.
Yeah, got a little wonky but what is that?
What was that?
That was the craziest shit ever too.
Yeah, well that goes back to the piss my pants thing.
Chris Rock couldn't have had more exposure than that.
Danny Masterson?
Oh, this is not a good roster.
A bad roster.
No, their roster's not great.
Damn.
Well, I'm joining.
You're getting signed U-ups.
You wanna be successful.
Anne Archer?
Dougie Fresh. Dougie Fresh.
Dougie Fresh.
You got Nancy Cartwright from The Simpsons?
Wow.
Is that Marge or Lisa?
Which one is that?
Dougie Fresh.
Bart.
Bart?
That's Bart.
I think you're right.
Of course it's Bart.
Of course it's Bart.
Yeah, you nailed it.
It's always the stars.
Yeah.
They only want the juice.
Wow, Simpsons is not enough.
You need to join a cult
Right young probably I guess so. She might be generational. There's a lot of people like that
Yeah, you forget how old Scientology is. That's true. That's just been around L Ron Hubbard. He's just a dude
I know I guess you could say the same thing about Jesus, but he's not really it's my favorite joke from like Bill Burr's
One of my favorite jokes like your guy's name is Ron.
No.
Your savior's name is Ron.
Yeah, it's true.
That was a good episode of SNL.
Oh yeah.
Bill Kill, he's great.
I think he's just a brilliant mind
and like a brilliant speaker of his thoughts.
That's why I like Dave so much, you know what I mean?
Just free thinking and like,
knows how to speak that funny.
But it's great.
Now the annoying 20 minutes or 60 minutes question.
Do you get,
cause Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle,
both guys we just mentioned,
both had a moment on stage in the monologue
where they're like, Jesus, you guys, are that sensitive? Like at one point, Dave Chappelle, both guys we just mentioned, both had a moment on stage in the monologue where they're like, Jesus, you guys are that sensitive? Like at one
point Dave Chappelle said, sorry Lauren, I thought this was a comedy show.
Such a great line. But like Bill Burr's set went viral. He's trashing white women.
You know, he's just doing Bill Burr. And everybody's like, this is crazy, this is
so offensive. And you're like, this is SNL. This is where Chevy Chase said the
N-word. This is where, you you know I mean people went after it. Yeah
So do you find it's a little touchy over there?
It's touchy everywhere. Yeah, and like yeah that audience comes in and like there is some clutching of the pearls
There was clutching of the pearls on Nate and I'm like you guys are clutching pearls on Bargatzi
The cleanest guy you know exactly so but also weird thing is, you're doing stand-up first.
Yeah.
Like, we're doing the road, we get a little warm-up.
I mean, I guess you guys have someone warm up the crowd a little, right?
With us all, I mean, Chay does like exit procedures.
Yeah.
In kind of being a funny way kind of thing, like welcome to the show-ish, and then I sing
a song, but like, it's not a night of stand-up no no
traditional thing because most hosts still just do a monologue that's sketchy
like sometimes I'll sing sometimes other cast members come out you know I mean
and do like Beetlejuice's right and also that it's it's live the fact that the
fact that we've been there too we're a lot some of a live audience like knowing
they're being taped yeah like we do those shows sometimes we're like.
I don't know why stand-ups choose to do that honestly because it's so not a forum for that.
Like the forums.
What you mean like Chris Rock special?
Like any stand-up that hosts the show when they do stand-up monologues, I'm like always
like taking a big swing on that like relying on this audience who has probably been doing whatever all day
Yeah to really be there for you to support this brilliance that you're throwing out
They're not gonna receive it and support it the way you think they are right unless you're just on fire
You know sure I feel like they used to though like Carlin Pryor
Andy Kaufman Steve Martin they all did stand up
on SNL back in the day and it was...
A briarious.
Yes.
But I guess it's just the times.
Yeah, it's just the times.
I think everybody's just like,
Yeah.
Yeah man, what an awful note to send the show on
if you don't crush that monologue.
That's your fastball.
If you guys train to get that work.
Yeah, it takes a while.
But to answer your question, I think we do it because it's all we know.
You know, we're like, this is my thing.
It's like you put a beaver somewhere, he's going to start making a dam.
I love that shit.
Like, I love watching the host dressed in the next sketch,
just waiting on the next sketch to start just thinking about that monologue.
Yeah, that's so true.
Was it good? Like in the dark we're all talking before the lights come up.
It's like, what do you think?
I thought, I love it. It's great. It was funny.
It was like, I don't know if they really, I don't know if they were really feeling it or not.
Shake it off.
Is it ever a fight with, you know, I don't know if it's S&P or whatever,
but is it ever a fight, you know, whether it be like Louie or Burr or Shane any of these Chappelle when they
do the monologue is there ever pushback with like you got to let me say this
line? Yeah as long as it's not against the censors I'm sure they butt heads
about the material but I thought Lawrence pretty good at being like good
luck yeah like whatever you want to do like you everybody knows better about the material, but Lawrence pretty good at being like, good luck, you know?
Like whatever you wanna do,
like everybody knows better, basically.
Like you know what's offensive, you know not to curse,
you know what I mean, you know not to like hyper go at women
unless you really have a point.
Right, right.
It's a man type shit if you're a man.
Yeah, Mulaney might be the best monologue, modern monologue guy.
100%.
He can tap dance around the laser beams, the writing's always great, it's pretty clean.
And his attitude is like, I don't care if you laugh or not, and it works.
It works.
You know what I mean?
And his voice is almost at a place in time.
Yeah.
Right.
And that, it serves it, because the monologue is kind of at a place in time.
Yes. It really is.
True.
And he looks good.
So yeah, he's like, if you wanna butt heads against him,
he's just like very good at being like, okay.
Yeah.
Like, have fun with that.
Right.
We'll be here next week.
Well, we don't wanna keep you,
because we know you gotta pick up your kid.
Yeah.
Thank you, thanks for coming by, man.
Yeah, man, my pleasure.
It's fun to be with you, getting to know you.
I'm looking forward to part two. Hell yeah. Come pick up a child. Come by at night sometime, we for coming by man. Yeah man, my pleasure. It's so great to get to know you. I'm looking forward to part two.
Hell yeah.
Come by at night sometime, we'll have a drink.
Yeah, you guys do a little party in here,
just a little spot.
And if you audition for our movie, we'll think about it.
Thank you.
We'll Chris Rock ya.
I'm not above auditioning.
No, no, come on.
Just give me two or three takes to get it right.
Well yeah dude, hopefully you're on SNL as right. Well, yeah, dude, we're excited.
I mean, hopefully you're on SNL
as long as you can do it, man.
You're crushing, so.
Hell yeah.
I wish you were my dad.
It's good times.
You know?
Ah, great app with Keenan.
Catch us on the road.
I'll be at Hilarities November 21st through 23rd
in Cleveland.
Then I got a big bus tour starting in Februarybruary so we got charlotte richmond philly
washington dc bethlehem tulsa austin dallas houston new orleans memphis memphis could use a fucking
bump jesus christ memphis help me out noxville nashville birmingham atlanta i could go on forever
but it's samorail.com shows shows. Yeah, you guys see it there.
It's going on the west coast.
I'm all over, I'm probably coming to your city.
So just go to the website, punchup.live slash samorail
or samorail.com slash shows.
Go to the, buy tickets from those places.
Don't hit us up like tickets are $150.
Not through our sites, they're not.
Mark, where are you gonna be, bud?
Hey, Poughkeepsie, right uptown, 30
minutes away at the Bard-Bardavon theater, Torrington, Connecticut, Charleston,
South Carolina. My Asheville date was moved because of Helene, so we'll
rebook that. NOLA coming downtown, hometown, Providence, Rhode Island, jumping
in the Comedy Connection to run that hour. Wilkes-Barre, Inglewood, New Jersey, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, doing clubs there.
Get those tickets. Nashville, doing the Ryman. Very exciting. One of the best. Oh
yeah. So yeah, get tickets in Nashville and yeah, get Bodega Cat. Punchup.com
slash us. Bodega. We Might Be Drunk. drunk tell a friend queef it up see it
diddies love you guys Too much bourbon and Norman's talking shit about the fucking Pope
And I get down in the same way
Up on the roof like a cop's coming
And naked Samuel is feeling dangerous
I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans
This woman doesn't look like I remember her
And I get down in the same way
We might be true