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But look at how fast, we re almost halfway through the year.
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Crazy.
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Yeah.
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Are you proud of what you ve done in 2024 so far?
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I know.
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I mean, you always want to do more, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I had a therapist in Portland and I would commute and that was a pain.
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Dana.
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Three, two, one.
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Three, two, one.
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Anna Gasteyer.
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Anna.
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Anna Gasteyer.
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It s Anna, Dana.
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Anna Gasteyer, David.
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You said Anna.
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That s not correct.
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You say Anna.
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Hi, I m Scotty Skold.
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I say banana.
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You said it wrong.
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Wrong.
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It was Special K with Banana!
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Issue number two, who s one of the best female cast members of male cast members in the history of Saturday Night Live?
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Anna Gasteyer!
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More toonteeny tiny toons on TV country!
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Teeny weeny weeny tiny teeny.
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We ve been here seven hours, we re very punchy but... That was from the McLaughlin group.
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McLaughlin group, yes.
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Dana doing the McLaughlin group.
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Wrong!
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Wrong!
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That was kind of the catchphrase on Saturday Night Live.
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Anyway.
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Oh, let me tell you a story, Dana, before we get to Anna, who was wonderful, of course, and very talented and great to talk to.
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Oh, I talked to my mom yesterday, right?
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So my mom, who doesn t complain, my mom is tough.
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Love your mom.
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And she said, she loves Dana.
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And she goes, oh, are you doing it with Dana?
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Oh, he s so fun.
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Oh, everything.
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Oh, you weren t on Kimmel.
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No, why don t I know this?
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Was it on Facebook?
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I go, I think it was in TV Guide, if that s a thing.
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TV Guide?
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Yeah.
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She goes, is it in TV Guide?
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I didn t see.
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And I go, oh, can you find it?
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And I go, whenever I send her a link, she posts it to me.
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And I go, mom, they send me a link, but it s like a secret, you can t post it.
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No, I have to.
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So she ll post any picture, you know, so she posts a picture at a dinner, you know, she put like, you take it, the waiter, can you, do you know how to take a picture?
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He s like, yeah, but I have 18 plates.
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Just real quick.
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And so takes it, it s the worst picture of all of us.
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And then bing, it s on Facebook.
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I go, mom, you have to run it by us.
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No, no, I don t.
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So I m your mom.
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So she goes, oh, I m still sore, because we went away to Newport for 4th of July.
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And she goes, oh, my foot.
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And I go, what?
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And she goes, I think I broke my toes.
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I go, you did today?
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And she goes, no, two weeks ago.
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It s so painful, I can t put up.
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Mom, what are you doing?
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Go to the doctor.
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She goes, I m going, but I don t want to be complaining.
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So she goes there, she goes, ooh, he put a boot on me, it s nice, it s summer, I don t mind, because it s open.
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And I said, oh, what happened?
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Oh, they were both smashed and most of my foot is broken.
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I go, mom, in two weeks, you re lugging that thing around?
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And then I go, mom, this ruins it because to help you with bills, I was going to put you on only feets.
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She goes, what s that?
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I go,
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It s a sexy picture of feet.
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I was gonna take a picture of yours to make money. 
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She goes, oh, this is not the time.
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They look so bad.
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At first she doesn t even know I m joking.
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I go, oh, but we need them.
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She goes, oh, give me three weeks, five weeks.
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And by the way, they re not that great.
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I go, mom, I know I ve seen them.
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I don t even know if they re feet.
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So wait a minute.
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She s 85.
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She really thought you were going to take pictures of her feet and monetize them online on a platform called Only Feets, but she was worried because her toes were broken.
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Give me a few weeks.
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And her 85 year old feet wouldn t be in pristine condition to get guys to buy them.
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But she didn t quite get it.
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She was like, all she heard was me saying like, I needed you to help with bills or something.
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And she s like, oh, I m sorry, I ll get them.
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They ll be back.
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Oh, in two seconds, I ll just get them going again.
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And I go, mom,
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It s fine, we re not at only feets yet. 
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And she goes, oh, okay.
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But I can pitch in too, I can do stuff.
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I go, mom, you re not pitching in.
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Anna Gosteyer.
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Anna Gosteyer.
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You had to struggle through those stories to get to Anna, but you did it, and you re a champ, people.
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So here s Anna, and I hope you like her.
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We had a great time with her.
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She is so, so funny.
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She can be big, she can be small.
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I mean, she did the PBS one with Molly Shannon.
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Shred-A-Ball.
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Yeah, and that whispery, quiet voice of hers.
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That s a big all-time.
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She s just so funny and nice.
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Enjoy.
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And a little trivia, we ve both done Martha Stewart.
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What?
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Stay tuned.
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Oh yeah, clear frame, let s check it out.
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That s a little rocking chair to the left.
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Wow.
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Where do you think that is?
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Guitar.
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Covington or Valencia or Beverly Hills?
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Covington?
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I just made a name up.
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That s where I shot Joder 2.
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Look at that guitar, is this Guitar Center?
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All our references are show business reference.
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I don t know anything real.
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I wouldn t go into any city for any other reason.
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That was, yeah, Master Disguise,
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You know the story, I probably should tell it later.
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Wait for Anna.
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But that s always too dark, we might have to cut it, me in the turtle outfit doing a prayer.
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Woo!
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Don t say one thing until she gets here.
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She just left.
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Did that work?
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Hello, I hear you.
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Yes, fantastic.
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Okay, like everything s about to die, my computer, my AirPods.
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I see a guitar and a piano.
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You know, it s an artistic bohemian environment.
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Are they ever touched?
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Yeah.
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I know you sing your ass off, but you play too?
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The piano is more for my kids and for rehearsal, for me, because I hate renting.
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You know, I live in New York, so you have to rent a place to go and meet somebody, but I actually have a piano, so I make people come here, which is helpful.
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That s great.
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And then the guitar.
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Who plays the guitar?
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The guitar is just for drunkards.
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Oh, okay.
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Gotta have that around for drunkards.
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Drunk songs, easy to pick up.
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We also have a uke.
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Mm hmm.
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And we also have a violin because I really do that.
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Really?
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I don t know if you know this.
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Yeah, I did it like seriously as a kid.
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And then that was like my pandemic obsession is I basically I basically because so when I turned 50, I turned to my family very sincerely and said, hey,
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You know, I would love to celebrate somehow.
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And my husband said, anything you want, where would you like to go?
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Like, let s do something cool.
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You want to do a cooking classic?
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What is it?
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And I said, OK, I m not joking.
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I want to go to Country Western Fiddle Camp with everybody.
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And I want you all to take clogging.
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And I want to learn how to fiddle.
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And they all looked at me and immediately said, no, we re not doing that.
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So I was shut down.
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It was my birthday.
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So over the pandemic, I just was like, fuck it.
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This is my fiddle time.
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So I started fiddling.
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I started taking all these, because you could go to all these camps online.
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Let me ask you a question.
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How many years had it been since you d really been into the fiddle when you started back?
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Did you just, do you play every day?
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I go through like weird bingey phases.
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Like I won t play for seven years and then like, I ll end up having a phase where I play every day for three months.
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And do you make up stuff when you re doing it or do you do stuff you already know?
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All right.
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So that s what I was trying to challenge myself to this time was because when you learn classical music, it s super anal and square and like you can t.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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Is that tiny violin?
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Are you playing a tiny violin for me?
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I just did a little teeny mime of violin.
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I don t even know what a fiddle is.
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I m just playing along.
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You have to mime it bigger.
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They really can t see what you re doing.
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It has to be grander.
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It has to have some vibrato.
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Yeah, there you go.
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So who would be, is Yo-Yo Ma someone who improvises?
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None of those guys improvise.
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They re just all tech.
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No, I mean, the problem, you know, it s really like, it s two different things, actually.
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Like, it s literally, it s like people down in Nashville, you know, because you play, you play, right?
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What do you play?
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I have an electric piano and a guitar, and I do a little V drums.
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You don t fiddle.
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But they just,
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speak to me pretty much daily.
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I m very undisciplined about learning songs, but I learned If I Fell by the Beatles, and that opened up a lot of chords for me.
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That s amazing.
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So then I just make up chord progressions to treat my anxiety disorder.
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That s a good... It suits.
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Yeah.
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Well, that s the only reason, that s why I say when I go on these binges with it, it s just an act of meditation.
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Not to be all artsy about it, but...
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No, you can be, we wanna go downtown in this podcast.
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Let s go downtown, man.
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Here s what I wanna know out of absolute curiosity, and we ve done it with other guests.
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Your formative years, which I m labeling age four,
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to age 12 or 13, when things impact you more, like, okay, how old were you?
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What are some of the movies that affected you in the 70s?
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You re growing up.
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What did you, or Broadway shows?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Wait, do you guys hear weird feedback?
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A little humming?
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Yeah, humming, a light humming.
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I hear a light humming.
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I don t.
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A light Tibetan humming.
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I feel like it s Dana s then.
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Okay, I m gonna let it go.
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I m not gonna worry about it, because I just wanna make sure like I haven t broken something.
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It sounds good here.
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Look at that hair.
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I have a lot of hair.
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Hair s great.
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I know, my wife has a lot of hair too, it s crazy.
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Is this a Pantene commercial or what s going on?
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It is.
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Well, I thought through this podcast, I could maybe get a hair commercial.
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You might.
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I won t.
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You never know.
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We ve already called Prel.
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We ve already called Perth.
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Perth minus.
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I feel like it ll have to be a slightly senior oriented one.
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What movies?
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Yeah, formative year movies.
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So, I mean, again, we re all of an era that went to movies and movie theaters.
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We didn t have VCRs and so forth.
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We were analog.
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We were analog.
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And I grew up in DC.
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We didn t even have cable until late
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in almost in like the early 90s.
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So we didn t even have- Okay.
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So you didn t even see Carol Burnett.
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Do you have those traditional influences?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So for sure.
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I mean, yeah.
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So definitely, I would say for me personally, Bob Newhart was an early, just somebody I kind of wanted to... I don t know.
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I think the timing was probably the thing I was most kind of
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Yeah.
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Attracted to, if that makes any sense.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Millbrooks for sure.
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Very dry.
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By the way, back to Newhart, I like Newhart, didn t really know that it would be, now that you just said that, he was dry.
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And of course, as a kid, I liked goofy comedy.
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Why I liked him, I don t know.
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I was thinking it was so throwaway
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And it was so over our heads.
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It was like in a therapist s office.
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None of it really, I didn t know what it was about.
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You re right.
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It was just pure, dry, very measured delivery.
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His timing is absolutely- Perfection.
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Yeah, it s perfection.
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So I think if I had to pick one, oddly, even above and beyond Carol Burnett and all those guys, that would have been the one that I was like, oh, I want to be like him when I grow up.
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And then Letterman, of course, too.
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And you said Mel Brooks was an interesting transition.
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So Mel Brooks movie wise, and I think like in terms of my sense of humor now of like, I think I grew up, so to frame it.
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We want to get a background.
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You re in Washington, DC.
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Yeah.
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It was a pretty like by,
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It was not a very pop-cultury household.
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It was classical music.
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My mom thinks a lot of stuff is tacky, so I wasn t allowed to belt.
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I had to sing legit.
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I had to take ballet.
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I couldn t take jazz.
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It was like everything was very- You couldn t Aguilera and cheat?
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Wow.
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No, no.
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She hates an Aguilera.
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She thinks it s super tacky.
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They re cheaters.
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to this day, she s like, she s got to blow her voice out.
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I m like, well, so far, she s doing pretty well.
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But yeah, so there was a little more sort of like aspirin class stuff in my family, a little bit.
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But also my dad s super funny and my mom s an amazing audience.
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So like so as much as they were like that, if I did bits, they laugh at them.
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But I certainly didn t think I was going to be a comedian.
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I went to college to be a
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a voice major, I was an opera major.
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That s like how I went to, I didn t want to be an opera singer, but I didn t think, that was like my sideways move.
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You know what s interesting?
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A, my dad was funny, so I was trying to, and my mom was kind of funny.
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So I m trying to impress, I guess, so I just, it s, I m probably a research paper of their humor, sense of humor.
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My dad liked Mel Brooks, so I did.
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But with you, you ve got music and you ve got funny, two things you like, and they re sort of merging the rest of your life in a weird way.
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Oh, totally.
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I mean, by a complete accident and people get really confused by it, but you re right.
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Then you reach a certain generation in your own life and you re like, oh yeah, this is all making sense.
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Because for a long time, it felt like road less traveled.
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Oh, I m such a weirdo.
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Why do I, you know, and now eventually, oh, it s just what I am.
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You know what I mean?
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Right.
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I mean, so you re taking lessons.
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I mean, what lessons did you take?
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You took ballet?
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I was relentless.
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I mean, it was so much violin.
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I think that s why I find earnest people so funny, like the delicious dish ladies that we did.
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A lot of the characters that I m obsessed with, Bobby and Marty on SNL, they were all informed by just people with absolutely no sense of humor.
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Yeah, I love it.
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You know, classical music people are amazing, but it s just a real earnest, real earnest gang scenario.
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Earnestness is making a comeback, I think, a little bit.
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Earnestness.
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Unfortunately, yeah, I think we re stuck in it for a minute.
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But that s why I went to like, this is the worst of the earnestness.
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This is actually what, this was the catalytic event in why I finally quit violin.
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I, we, you know, it was like a more broke summer.
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So the summer before my parents were a little flush and they sent me to Interlochen, which is like the big, like classical music summer camp.
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And it was incredible.
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And I was like surrounded by other like violinists and whatever.
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And then the next summer they re like, we can t go there.
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It s too expensive, but you can go.
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And we ve signed you up for chamber music camp at Gettysburg college.
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There s a movie.
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And I was like crime puberty, like literally on your day offs, you would go to Civil War battlefields.
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Like it was the biggest hot and like a humid, like a swampy, humid pavilion with viola players, you know, like just like the worst.
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And that was it.
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I was like, I m out.
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I m not doing violin anymore.
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But then I could I could I kind of parlayed voice.
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Because I would be like the lead in the musicals and stuff.
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Because when you sing, you sing.
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It s just like what you re kind of born with to a degree.
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And so I was like, this might be my meal ticket.
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So that was your fun camp for the summer.
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My fun camp was the Gettysburg College Chamber Music Ensemble Camp.
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At 13.
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You d rather do anything else.
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Anything.
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When you were growing up and going through that era, were you thinking, I m going to be a singer?
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Or at some point, I want to be a comedian?
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And when did they meld?
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I mean, they just organically meld?
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SNL, that pays off.
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So at Gettysburg camp, I was super famous for lip syncing Funky Town.
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That was my thing.
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Oh, really?
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That I was known.
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And everybody else was just jamming on to Brandenburg.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Great folk.
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And I remember this girl said to my mom, she s such a funny.
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She s she was like, she s so talented.
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And my mom was like, oh, did you play the Brandenburg with her?
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She s like, no, no, no.
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Have you seen her lip sync?
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Funkytown.
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Not even saying crushed.
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Yeah.
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No, not even saying it.
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Not even saying just a masterful dubbing.
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No, it s very clearly that the roads met at Northwestern because I went to be a voice major.
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I hated it.
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I could tell a million stories of like, again, just profound earnestness.
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The moment in time was in an ethnomusicology class, a lecture at eight o clock in the morning.
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And Dana, I feel like this is a character that you would do.
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It was a man who s like PhD level,
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renown in the world was that he could sing overtones.
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And he had like studied with the Tibetans.
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So he could sing like.
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And something else would like float above it.
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And he had no.
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like discursive style.
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He had not gone to Toastmasters.
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He wasn t good in front of groups.
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And he had to get moved in order for the overtone to happen.
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So it would just happen like, you know, sometimes
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Really?
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Dana can play Lorne as a monk.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Lorne.
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Are you still at the show?
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Marcy!
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Anyway, that was the moment and I actually, I became unglued and I was asked to leave the lecture because I was making too much noise laughing.
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And at that moment I was like, I can t be a voice major.
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And I met all the improv people.
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I met all the improv people and did improv.
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I ended up transferring to the theater school and found the tribe and I did not do any voice at all.
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I smoked cigarettes and partied and did improv.
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You had voice locked in, so you re like, I m already good.
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I know how to sing.
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I think you re right.
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Singers are tricky.
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Singers are born, right?
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Don t you think?
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I mean, singers.
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I mean, they have to train.
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If you want to do Broadway, you have to train.
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And that I did after SNL.
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I was pretty late to that.
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Because then I went to SNL, and as you guys know, it s such a perma shit show that I was kind of like... Perma shit show.
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We ll dig into that later.
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But it s... No, I mean, this is my reductive way of saying this, but I feel like at SNL, you re always...
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just pulling it off if you re lucky.
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And there was this part of me that s like, whatever, wherever it came from, the sort of A student part of me that was like, I want to do something well.
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I want to refine it and make it better.
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Yeah.
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So that s why I think I went to do theater almost immediately because we were here in New York and Broadway is like,
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to a fault.
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Wait, are you saying after SNL you wanted to do that?
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After SNL.
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Because SNL, also SNL, one problem Dana and I mentioned is it s one take and sometimes it would be so much better if you could just start again real quick.
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You get off on the wrong foot and you re like, God damn, and then you re like in it and you go, I m going and it s not working.
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And I think that s why it s like such a comfort to do recurring characters, because you re like, you start to understand their moves and the nuances and you know.
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All of that.
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I know the writers don t think recurring characters are cool, but that s where you get better at them all the time.
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That keeps the lights on at NBC.
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Those recurring characters are the money.
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I like to watch recurring characters, so I don t mind doing them as well.
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I like catchphrases.
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I like things I m familiar with.
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I totally agree.
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What was the journey?
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So so you well, we know you went to Broadway after SNL and you were at Northwestern.
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You started meeting your tribe.
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So and then you get to Groundling somehow.
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Right.
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Or what?
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Yeah.
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A bossy, a bossy, a bossy gay from college told me to move to L.A.
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And I was like, OK, I love these phrases.
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Yeah.
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You know, everyone needs one.
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And and especially because, like, I just hadn t it had never occurred to me that would be on TV.
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Like that wasn t like my
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I mean, it wasn t that it wasn t, but I liked, I loved comedy and I knew I was good at comedy from college.
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You probably, like me, didn t even consider that was a possibility.
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I didn t.
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So it wasn t even a dream for me.
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I knew it was like saying you were going to be president of the United States in my family.
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Exactly.
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Or the first man on the moon.
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It was so surreal that the people on TV, Flip Wilson or whoever you want to name, was like, no, I, you know, I m going to be doing that.
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You re right, you couldn t have been Flip Wilson it turns out.
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Oh, I couldn t have.
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Geraldine though.
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The first sort of drag thing, but I never wanted to be in drag, but I was, I guess, sort of.
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Yeah.
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But anyway.
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Why not?
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Uh, why not just be loose, just be happy.
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Uh, so what, so then you go to LA or what are, what s that step to the ground?
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So I went to LA, I did a tour show.
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I did that.
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Um, the, they do, but you remember they did the live performances of the Brady bunch.
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Yes.
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Oh wow.
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Brady bunch.
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Yes.
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So I, I got cast in that national tour, like right out of college and it was amazing.
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Like,
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Davy Jones was on the bus with us, AF and the Monkees.
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We went to every college.
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We were like rock stars.
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We would do actual episodes verbatim of The Brady Bunch.
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Oddly, I loved The Brady Bunch when I was a kid, which I think has less to do with the fact that I thought it was funny.
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I just found it super comforting because my house was crazy and artsy too, and very disorganized.
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I didn t know
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Anybody who had like matching shit.
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I love you know like that Oh, that was that was did you do the songs like a time for change or keep on or any of those?
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He did some of those and they wrote some over it.
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I can t even remember anymore.
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Yes.
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There was our sunshiny day Hey, but Dana, what was the name of the dog from the Brady Bunch?
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Alice Buster go ahead Alice
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Wow.
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Nerd alert.
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That s an old joke.
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Nobody knows Brady Bunch anymore.
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I did this event last year.
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I know.
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It was kind of a sad event, and Brady was there doing trivia, which, you know, tells you everything, and nobody knew anything.
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They were literally like, what was the name of the maid?
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I m like, that s not trivia.
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That s just like a basic fact.
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Can you hum?
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Can you hum or sing the theme song?
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I can.
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Because I remember that being a pretty good theme song.
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Here s Estona, a lovely lady.
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No, not only that, I used to tape record it, like with an old school, like, whatever, Sony tape recorder that my dad had.
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I had one.
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I had a Crank tape recorder, reel-to-reel.
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And I would tape it, exactly, and I would listen to it in bed at night.
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At what age?
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How old are you?
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Maybe seven or eight.
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Seven or eight.
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But I remember, I love the variations on the theme.
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So like... And then the violins would come in.
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Yeah, yeah.
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She had like a mullet too, the mom.
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I had a crush on her.
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Carol, sure.
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Carol was so cute.
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That s your next show after Sugar and Booze, I think.
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Just humming all those TV themes throughout history.
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Nothing better.
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Suicide is painless.
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Suicide is painless.
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Suicide is painless when I hear the real song is so sad.
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You re gonna make it after all.
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Let me tell you.
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I could do this all day.
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I want to tell you the guy that sings that.
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Dana, the guy that sings that has a lisp, kind of, and he goes, that sexy look will do wonders for you.
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You know that guy?
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And they took that part out of the theme song because he said sexy.
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And they were right to do that.
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Yeah, it s true.
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MASH, what about MASH?
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You know, I actually, I m sure you would agree with this theory.
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I actually think that half-hour television has been super hit by not having the theme song.
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Theme song was, I love them all.
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They don t have theme songs, is that right?
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Well, except on HBO and all those shows are hits and Netflix, but I m convinced because it s like this little porthole, like it takes you into that world.
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Oh, yeah.
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Alice was a good one.
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There s a lot of great ones.
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Cheers had a great one.
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You re going to have any more.
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They re just like our genius at making them.
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It s unbelievable.
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It s incredible.
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And it reorients you to the vibe of the show.
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Like Queen s Gambit when we were.
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I watched it every time, even though I knew it was coming and you skip it.
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Queen s Gambit.
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Real quickly, when you played the violin for Anwar Sadat, do you still keep in touch?
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Unfortunately, no.
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He hath passed.
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Oh, okay.
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Is that real?
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I think he was famously assassinated.
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Who have I been DMing this whole time?
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Anyway, go ahead.
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Where?
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Chuckle, chuckle.
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I have to put jokes in.
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I know you do, you re right.
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And you re a master.
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Dana just texted me and said, shut up.
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This is called, not just every eight or nine seconds, a little app I go to says, shut up, David.
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Shut up.
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How many of these have you guys done?
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This is our first.
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Yeah, we re such rookies.
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We don t even know what s going on.
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What we re finding is, like, I m finding this, is that there s so many people that you run into, and I remember you, you re one of the first names I said, can we get Anagastar?
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And they re like, okay.
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Just because I remember when I was hosting her around, just how real you were and fun.
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And you just were very, just, I don t know, just had this vibe about you.
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He had told me this.
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You know, I mean.
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He did?
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Yes, I mean, it s just comedians.
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I like comedians a lot.
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I do too.
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I like their cynicism.
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I like the way they read the room.
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Of all of us that have been on the show, I ll feel like there s some head nod that you know, even if I don t know the people, but if they ve been on the show, you automatically have something to either say or talk about it.
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And we talk in shorthand.
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I think it s fun for people to hear it.
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Because I have a question for you that I might know the answer, but I don t really like.
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When I hosted, and I think you were there, but you did Martha Stewart, and then I did Martha Stewart.
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I forgot, what is the protocol if a host, I don t know if I wanted to do it, but if a host wants to do something, but a cast member doesn t, an impersonation.
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Well, I think that s like a well-known impersonation.
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They ll give it back.
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Right.
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Like it s.
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Yeah.
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I don t know.
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Dana, did you do Bush at the same time as Will?
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Uh, no, no.
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Because he he did W, which I do in my standup.
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Right.
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Right.
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Right.
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I know.
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Sorry.
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Yeah.
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But whoever does it on SNL owns it.
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It s kind of does the president.
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That s kind of the bully pulpit of doing that impression.
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Yeah, but Spade is saying that he did not get to own Martha Stewart, and I think his feelings were a little bit hurt.
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No, no, no.
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I only did it as a host.
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It was a one-time deal, but then I felt bad.
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I was like, I don t want to do something someone does, but- Oh, well, I don t have any memory of a sore spot around it.
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So that right there, I really- It wasn t bad.
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By the way, my impression is basically, you look like Martha Stewart.
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That s the writers telling me, and I m like, really?
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You have blonde hair.
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And then I wear a wig anyways, so anybody can look like it.
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And I think I have a mustache.
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I m like, well.
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It must have been before I was there, because we did a lot of them.
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In fact, that s like my first, not that you re asking, but since it s an SNL related thing.
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It was my first thing that I thought, like I had, I had been on the air and other sketches, but that was the first one I was like, Oh, I m not going to get fired because I felt like, Oh shit, people were, we did Martha Stewart s topless Christmas.
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And it was like a, like a breakthrough.
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Like I felt like.
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It was maybe my fourth show or something, fifth show.
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But you were doing an actual thought-out thing, and I m like, this one s Martha Stewart.
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You have a wig on.
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I m like, hey, everybody, I m Martha Stewart.
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I auditioned.
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She was one of the things I auditioned with.
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Oh, okay, I see.
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Somebody told me, Will called me, you know,
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He was like, heads up, that s not a very organized audition process.
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And all the growlings, you know, like we don t do impressions of the growlings.
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That s not like what they re about.
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But I had always, I obviously like, you write what you know, like I actually read her magazines and I kind of, I grew up in this pretty like, in my high school and stuff, lots of like very patrician women.
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And I kind of like, I knew what that was all about.
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And so I was like, oh, I can write something really brief.
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as that because we ll call names like hey, they re gonna call you at the last minute, which they did like the day before they re like, hey, do you have any impressions?
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And which obviously, if you re not an impressionist is like a pants shitter of a question.
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Sure.
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So I did in the back of my mind, I was just like, I m gonna prep to and then if I if I need them, I ll have them.
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Were you with Will at the ground?
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Who was on the groundlings?
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Will was technically a groundling and so was Sherry Oteri, but they were ahead of me.
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I had done a couple of improv sets with Will, that was it.
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Then I found out later that, of course, in that way, he had recommended me.
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There was that huge turnover in 95.
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And then they made like two Twizzles in 96 and they were me and Tracy Morgan.
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So it wasn t like a big everybody audition.
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It was like they were just looking for a black guy and a white woman.
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I think that s when I left.
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You left right before.
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I left.
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I did one season with Will and Sherry.
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Right.
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Because you did the season.
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Right.
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You did the update desk.
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Yeah, I did like a little separate bit.
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Yeah, right.
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And then I was out, because I felt like that year was separating me from sort of my guys, and so.
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Yeah, your people were definitely in the crowd before, for sure.
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And so I was like, what am I still doing?
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I was sort of in between, and then I just didn t know what to do, and Lauren goes, do you want to do five minutes a week?
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Just do whatever you want.
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I m like, yeah.
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Meanwhile, I have no ideas.
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That s awesome.
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I go, yeah, for sure.
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And then I just would write stuff, but I felt separate from the crowd, I felt like,
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Cignarelli or Schiller, like I m not part of, you know, I m just doing a bit that isn t really interactive with everyone else.
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I wasn t in sketches, I don t think.
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Right.
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So it was time to go.
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It does kind of push people out in a way, but now they re staying a lot longer, which is interesting.
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It s not a big deal to do 10, 12 years.
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He lets them do stuff.
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He lets them go do other stuff.
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Come and go.
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With these, you couldn t really do that.
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Right, you had to pick.
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I know, but we re not bitter.
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I m not bitter, I don t mean it that way, but it is a different... No, no, I m kidding, but I do notice that, that people can come and go.
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Then you might stay with the show for much longer if it wasn t a hand door.
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The other thing is, and this is like, now I m going to just be like an old bitchy... We love it.
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showbiz bra.
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Like I was thinking about it before I was talking to you guys and I was, you know, cause I feel the same way, like such a tight fraternity.
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And it really is, you put it really well, David, of like, I remember I d never met Sandler before and we were at some Broadway thing and we, I think we were both gone by then.
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And he was on down the row and he just literally did the nod that you were talking about where he was like, yep, got it.
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It was just like, we would
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we could talk after.
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And Kate McKinnon and I had never met.
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And she was in front of me at a Broadway thing and just turned around.
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She was like, do you ever not know what to write?
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Like, it was just like an immediate, like we were the oldest friends, you know, like it was, it s wild how it like brings it up.
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But generationally, the fact that they don t, they don t ever have to go and that there are 150 of them.
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And I think also like in terms of social media and the kind of construct of everybody being a brand now,
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Like our generation, I think, and this is such a fucking, like, we may as well be at the Screen Actors Guild home right now.
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But, you know, in my day, I feel like, I do feel like there was more sort of worship of the show, like the idea of like, we re here to serve the show and Lorne.
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And now I feel like there s so many of them are like, what can the show do for me?
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Like how fast will my brand expand and how many things, you know, because it s got this different,
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That s why they all just stay around forever, because it s just going to like... Show business just shifted because when Nike wanted to do Hans and Franz for their Just Do It campaign for a lot of money, different time.
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Lauren called me.
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It s not what we do, you know, because we re still tethered romantically to John Lennon or Bob Dylan, or you never sell out.
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So when I came off the show, when I had all that heat from Waves World and everything,
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You know, I didn t really do any commercials, but now cast members, it s transitioned.
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They can do all these different... Literally all of them.
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Yeah.
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Which brings us back to Prell.
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Could we maybe get Prell back on the phone?
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Can you have your producers have them get back?
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I could see you kind of strutting around, your hair s all fluffed, you re singing some Broadway tune.
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You come off stage, right?
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It s a curtain call, and then you go right to camera.
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I want to be popular.
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I sip the water and go, hi.
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Yeah, that s exactly right.
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Thanks, Charlie.
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Hi.
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I haven t washed my hair in eight days, but because I wash it with Prel, it still looks pretty fab.
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I think it works.
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And then I try to pull in one catchphrase just to make it relevant.
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Not because I m worth it, but something in that world.
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It s something from SNL.
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Because I m me.
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So I go like, it s a good thing.
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Or say something like Martha Stewart or something.
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You know, when I was doing the show, we had the problem of doing a movie at the same time.
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But I think when Will Ferrell hosted a couple, about two years ago, I saw Pete Davidson went to a wedding in Miami.
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And I was like, I couldn t do Tommy Boy.
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I couldn t leave to do anything.
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Pete does his own thing.
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He s great.
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I mean, he s just dancing above the whole thing.
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There s different ways they handle different situations on the show.
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And I think it s just flipped one day where we can work around it.
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And it was never even, you couldn t bring it up before.
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Steve Higgins, you know, he has a funny, he s really fun to talk to about the show.
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But Steve Higgins told me, he s like, Lorne wrote the constitution for what is SNL.
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And then he lets generations do what they will with it, you know.
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Amendments.
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I don t know.
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That s such a good way of putting it.
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It s true.
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I would like to, just for a second, when we always talk about, you know, the esprit de corps, and we re like ex-Marines, not literally, but you know what I mean, is just the dirty greasiness of it, like you re sweating, the wig s coming off, the pins, you re under clothes, you re being moved.
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I would sometimes, they d take a wig off, and they d put one on, and I d say, I need to see myself.
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Oh, I m Jimmy Stewart now, you know?
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So the freneticism of it at times and the quick changes and almost falling, there is a battlefield aspect to it.
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It s a rock and roll, kind of emotionally violent, you know, dick, so five seconds.
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Yeah.
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And also there s so much noise because the band is usually playing.
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So loud.
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And you forget that they re going.
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This one is when you and the writers looking at the notes and you re like, okay, heads up.
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We re short for time cuts on the air.
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I remember I was doing, I was doing Dr. Laura and we got to like the, that was the closest I ever got.
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to just like purely, just like a 10-second sketch that was like cut to the, you know, emergency broadcast stripes.
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Yeah.
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I mean, literally, because they were on the floor.
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I remember Paula Pell was like on the floor during this, you know, I think it was Jenna or Van Rice, somebody s like going, spinning their hand in front of the camera, like, wrap it up!
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And you re like, we just started!
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We just started!
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How would you wrap it up?
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How do you wrap it up?
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You know, and they re like, you re like staring at the cards and Paula s like shouting and they re taping off.
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Like Wally s like rewriting
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Oh, on the cards.
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Oh my God.
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On the cards.
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So like during the sketch, which folded from like two and a half minutes to like around 15 seconds, you know, like you re just like, welcome to the show and we re wrapping it up.
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Like it was just like the fastest.
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Yeah.
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I love that shit.
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That was so adrenal.
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I was doing church chat once.
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I had the cards and I m running them during the commercial.
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And then they sat down in a chair, a seven foot man,
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So while the show starts, and then I can t see half of each card, the seven-foot man s head.
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And so you re in your head going, what the fuck is a seven-foot man s head in front of the cue card?
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And yet you have to let all that go.
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Who s coming in late also?
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Do you guys still have dreams all the time?
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Panic.
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Well, like panic, like I feel like for everyone on SNL, like I actually just asked Will recently because I hadn t talked to him in a long time.
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And I was like, I fucking had an SNL dream last night.
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It s like I have them all the time.
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And they kind of replace the like late for the test or whatever.
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Yeah, that s it, that you re all ready and, you know, you re supposed to be out there and you re not there.
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Yeah.
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I have the ones I thought about when you said the cue cards.
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I have one where I can t see the cards like they re like my eyes are blurry and I can t clear my my eyes or like you re trying to make it to eight age.
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You can t get through all the fucking agents.
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I got always.
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Oh, yeah.
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All the all those guys kind of hanging around.
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Oh, I never understand.
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I was like, how many layers of chaos can we add?
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Oh, I know.
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We won t actually have a green room where all the douchebaggery of Hollywood hangs out.
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We ll let them just like mill around by the desk.
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So that does get age and never clear a path like you were constantly like.
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It s just the panic of getting through those doors.
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I m doing something here.
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And then being in Lauren s tiny office.
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And I saw Will.
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And you re dressed as like Raggedy Ann or something super embarrassing.
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You ve got a bald cap on for two hours and your head is just raw and sweating and you re in that little room.
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And Lauren, you look at the shows, the sketches are on little cards and they re moving around.
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You re going, well, hopefully it ll be okay.
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We ll see.
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Or you re in a quick change area and your agent has an Amstel light and sticks his head in.
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What s going on here?
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And you re like, they re like, ten seconds.
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I m like, get out of here.
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How s it going?
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Yeah.
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Fuck.
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After party again.
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Is it an or so?
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Yeah, literally.
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Like, can we come all of those like we want to come down and support you?
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I remember one time yelling, like, if you want to support me, turn on your TV and stay home.
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Stay home.
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Are they still your representation?
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Amazingly, they are.
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That s good.
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You know, it was just a lot to like when I think about because especially in the theater where you have like
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I mean, whatever, like any piece of, they treat you like such a child in any other aspect of entertainment.
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Like show business, you re like, you re your call time and you confirm your call time and make a thing.
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And somebody s moving you along and like feeding you.
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And we were such like fair old children.
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Like women, like we have so much hair and makeup and we would just, I actually couldn t believe it when the last time I went back, I was like,
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You have to do all this math yourself.
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You have to go like, oh right, we have to be ready for dress at 8.05.
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I better get in the chair by 6.30.
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You re always doing your own stage management.
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Did you have a, I think Dana, you lived at the Bromley.
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I was on 84th and West End and I knew nothing about New York, but I did know that, I thought it was odd later in show business that they didn t get me to the show.
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So if Saturday s show is at one or whatever, we have to be there.
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I m at home going, I can t get a cab, it s snowing, and I m just walking going, does anyone give a fuck?
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I won t be at rehearsal.
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Now they would never let you.
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I don t know about the show, but any movie or anything I do, they re like, we got a guy, they can keep track, where is he?
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Make sure he s early.
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You re at Ellen, they re calling 50 times.
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It s a lot of executive functioning, if you will, for a lot of people without those skills.
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Right.
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It was weird.
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I m like, how did Norm Macdonald ever get to the show?
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I know.
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I think your generation had more food.
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But by the time we got there, speaking of Norm Macdonald, he kicked in.
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There was like all we had was a one soda machine and he kicked it in the first week, like got mad at it and they removed it.
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And then literally it was just like no food.
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Like we would steal Tootsie Rolls from Lauren s office and popcorn from Lauren s office.
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The popcorn from Lauren s office.
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Yeah, exactly.
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It was Tootsie Rolls.
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Remember, he liked Tootsie Rolls.
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And then like
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Right.
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And then, and booze, there was like booze around.
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Kind of.
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But like- Nothing nutritious.
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I mean, kind of like on, and definitely you would steal Chinese food from his office on Saturdays.
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Right, yeah.
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Did you guys ever do that?
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Oh yeah.
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Because he always got- Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You would go in there and just- Oh, outside of his office?
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Yeah, the Chun-Li would be out there.
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Oh yeah, Chun-Li.
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Forage.
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Yes, he would forage his Chun-Li.
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And then for a while, the Rosie O Donnell show was down the hall in 8H at the AG, and so they had food in our dressing rooms.
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They knew what was up.
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There was a lot of like dumpster diving for television.
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The point of it is, is that you re a cast member on SNL.
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It is just not glamorous.
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Afterwards, if you re at the Emmys or something, it s glamorous, but not the actual show.
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It s not so spoiled because here you are on television.
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But it really is like if I think about how I think there was a lot of stress around all of that, like trying to figure out
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Like you said, one time, this is crazy.
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I remember trying to get home on a Friday night.
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I think eventually they started calling cars for us on Friday night.
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I don t know why.
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A lot of trouble getting cars the whole time I was there.
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Cars is always trouble.
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Yeah, maybe.
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It was a Friday night.
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It was super late.
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It was the holidays, so I had a lot of stuff with me that I was trying to get home.
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There were no caps because the holidays, the minute that tree goes up around 30 Rock, you re screwed for the next six weeks.
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And I was down past the New York Public Library.
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So I was like 40th or 39th at this point.
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And I d been walking a super long time and hailing a cab, like just walking down Fifth Avenue.
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I live downtown in SoHo.
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Just like arm up.
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And it was such a like out of a movie, because it was my first season.
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And this is also a tribal moment.
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This cab pulls up, the door swings open, and he sticks his head out.
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He goes, Anna Aykroyd, get in.
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Ackroyd.
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It was Ackroyd.
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And I was like, how does Dan Ackroyd know who I am?
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How does he see me?
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He just saw this pathetic pauper child trying to get a cab on a Friday night in the snow.
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I know.
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And again, it was just like, the tribe, the tribe.
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That s so nice.
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Dan Ackroyd is a very generous person that way.
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At least he has been to me.
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He took me home and I remember thinking, do I pay?
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What do I do?
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Do I pay?
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I know.
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I just thought Aykroyd and Belushi and those guys and Chevy and Bill Murray were just sort of badass pirates that would fight you or make you laugh or punch you or get at me and then when I m cast the only one I saw my tribe kind of physically at the time was Martin Shore I said okay maybe a wiry Irish guy can be in here but when you get cast on that show
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I don t know how you feel worthy.
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It was my first time doing sketch comedy.
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I just hoped it would work out.
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Wow.
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Never done it before.
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Wow.
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But I adapted my standup to sketch.
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Yeah.
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By the way, okay, go ahead.
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When we go around to this, I m just very interested, because I watched the NPR gals today, and I thought no sketch that quiet and that paced has ever killed that hard.
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I was about to ask about that.
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Because a lot of the stuff is kind of yelling and rock and roll and singing, but that was intentionally so quiet.
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And you and Molly never pushed, never completely in the pocket of it.
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And it just seduced the audience so much.
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So it s a unique sketch in that it was at home base, right?
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Yeah, home base.
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Thank God.
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Good observation.
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Did it start at home base or did it move there out of popularity?
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It did start there.
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I don t think they thought it was gonna work.
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Exactly.
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I mean, for a number of reasons, whatever.
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We can talk gender politics or whatever, but it was a new time there.
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Two girls in a sketch.
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What are we doing here?
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I mean, it was just like too quiet.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But I had done it at the ground.
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And quiet.
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It was buried pretty deep in the lineup.
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Oh, okay.
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But I had done it before and it was weirdly relaxing because it was so quiet because
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You know, it s like Will used to always, Will really loves bombing.
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Like he could really like lean into the bomb, like sort of like a pig in a mud bath.
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And like that sketch has a similar quality, not that it was bombing, but that you would just like get to kind of surf the silence, if that makes any sense.
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By the way, they sort of, audience feels like they have to earn it.
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Like I have to really pay attention here and get this one.
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It s not being fucking thrown at me.
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they have to be like, okay, this is the one where we gotta find the jokes and really like stew in it.
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Yeah, I guess so.
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It s nice.
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Those are nice that they even do them.
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I know, I think they thought it was gonna bomb.
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And really, you know, Carlock and Dennis wrote it with me too, McNicholas, so they re brilliant writers, obviously.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, do you have help writing with Carlock?
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Yeah, but we was always fighting like what the character would say versus what they want, you know, they were all, and they re like Harvard, so they were like, and then four more robots come in and the moon landing will happen, you know, whatever, but they were brilliant.
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I mean, they re structurally so brilliant that they could like, it was the perfect,
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actually, I think for me, tension between a character and a premise and what kind of can move that idea forward a little bit.
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And I do think if you... And I didn t get there just confidence-wise until I happened to then do Carson, which I ve talked about, but that was something that was relatively quiet,
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compared to Wayne s World or something.
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But I just knew it was so funny in my head that it was the only sketch I did where the audience didn t really matter that much to me.
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So it felt like you and Molly were so in the pocket and so connecting with the dry slowness and playing the pauses that there was no sense of neediness or sense of- Oh, that s awesome to hear you say it that way.
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I mean, that s what I m feeling.
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It felt that way.
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I mean, it definitely felt like it was out of space and time.
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And like I said, I had done it.
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I had done it at the Groundlings.
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So I knew it was capable of crushing.
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Yeah.
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Because it really was a hit sketch there, but I had, you know, not a lot, but I d done it a couple of times in the Sunday show, but I knew kind of what to anticipate.
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When you, I don t know, we re not going to keep you forever, but I have another question.
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If you,
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It s interesting to me.
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So you have that NPR sketch in your pocket when you get there, but how fast do you whip it out, or did you come out of the gate, you were doing okay?
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Because sometimes you get scared, you go, I gotta get on, or they re gonna fire me, or you know what I mean?
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I was pretty productive out of the gate.
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Because you were a full cast member, you didn t come in as a feature and then become- No, I don t even get that either.
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I don t know why that happened, but- You got to be full cast right away?
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Yeah.
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did, which I really don t know why that happened.
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Because it doesn t seem to have much of a rhyme or reason.
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I think it was because I was in that off year.
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I really don t know why.
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It was like I started in September or I think they were like, whatever, nobody was paying attention.
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Well, your audition must have helped a little bit.
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I mean, I think Fred Wolf was like a real champion, as I remember.
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He left like immediately upon getting there, but I was like- Anna, Anna, can I talk to you for a second?
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I m going to talk about you in a second.
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I just want to talk about Dana for one thing, and then I m going to talk about you.
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You re really funny.
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He s funny too.
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Not quite as funny.
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Anyway, this is really good.
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I think this is going to be great.
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It s probably going to work.
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Anyway.
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Oh my God, it s so funny what you did.
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Oh my God, I can t believe I was going to do this.
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I had a few like smarty advocates, and McKay really liked me early.
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And he was, you know, I think, recent head writer there.
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I don t know, like I just I think I had like advocates in the room that I didn t.
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I don t know why that is.
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And who were your primary bandmates, essentially, then?
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You had Molly, you had Rachel Dratch later, and Maya later.
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Well, so yeah, I was going to say, transitionally, like, I was kind of, I consider myself like a... Bridge cast member.
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We were sort of the vanguard, like, Sherry and Molly and I sort of did this thing for the reputation, you know, partially just timing of the gals.
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Like, we just started getting attention as a trio.
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but then fairly quickly thereafter, they brought in Tina as a writer.
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She definitely advanced that cause.
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And then by the time I left, it was like, you know, Polar and Maya and Rachel, and like, it had like a full-blown sort of lady vibe.
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So I actually spend a lot of time with the second half of that group of women.
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I mean, a lot, like we travel together and we talk every day.
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So that s Maya, Rachel.
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It s Maya, Tina, Amy.
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Rachel, Paula Pell.
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Teeny and Amy.
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Teeny and Amy.
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And Paula Pell, yeah.
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And Paula Pell.
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She s a great writer.
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And Spivey.
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By the way, that s a lot of home run hitters.
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And you say about women, but that s a lot of solid, solid talent.
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Oh, for sure.
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Well, yeah.
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All around the same time.
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I mean, I don t want to speak for them, and Spivey too.
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Like I said, I don t want to speak for them, but I will speak for myself, that for me, the sort of, you know, because the show itself is organized in this kind of racehorse fashion, and so you can t really pay a lot of attention to your tribe or whatever.
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In-house i mean you.
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It s like you re fit like you re loyal to your family but you hate them like you know this is weird combination of things but then after in the sort of like.
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gratitude phase Yeah, I got really close to those women I think kind of looking back and going like, you know, so few people on the planet Earth understand what shaped and made us who we are and even if like you made it through and I feel that way about SNL people in general, but especially especially those women just because it we were really outnumbered and you know it and I
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Well, I really feel that was the first time the turning point in terms of like when my cast was there and we had Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn and stuff.
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Yeah, and they were incredible.
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And they re incredible.
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They re why I wanted to do the show.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, Jan Hooks, just supernatural.
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Nora Dunn, brilliant.
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I looked up to them when I got there.
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I had like a crush on them both because they were so good.
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I m like- They re so talented.
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Oh my God.
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I know.
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They re so talented.
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At read through, you learn about people from read through and see how good they are when they grab a script, they haven t seen it and they re like nailing it and you re like, what the fuck?
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It s true, but that s another weird like, right?
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I always say like we re mutants, we re sort of like...
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We are, we have a mutant skin.
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We re made a little different.
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I m gonna walk and plug in my computer, which is a little gauche.
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I like this.
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I know, you get to see the whole operation.
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She s like, I planned this many batteries for this interview.
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No, you know what?
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My husband told me that I m actually gonna throw immediate blame.
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He told me that he had charged this.
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Immediate blame, not even stalling at all.
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We call it the blame reflex in our house.
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You injure yourself, it s your spouse s fault.
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But all I wanted to say was, as a casual observer of that cast, of those, your bandmates, Maya and Amy, when I ve run into them casually, they re so affable, so honest.
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There s a humility around all performers at some basis, and then there s a confidence, so they re just fun.
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And I do think that the cast never went backwards after that.
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I think it was at least 50-50,
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men and women dominance and maybe more women almost it made it that definitely changed in the last 20 years you know with between the women you re saying and the writing you know big chunk of different women now on the show too yeah huge huge and they re playing they re playing men now a lot i mean the culture has changed the culture you know
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Lauren wrote the Constitution and just said, eventually it ll be a female dominated show.
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It ll just happen.
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I mean, and that s true.
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I think also it s so nice to see so many black cast members.
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I mean, that s that s a demographic shift, too.
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Like it s that s just reflective of our of society in general, getting kind of waken up.
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Yeah.
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But it s good.
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And everyone s been scoring.
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So totally.
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And I don t have like I feel like I got
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I did not feel screwed over.
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I felt very celebrated there and very fortunate, to be honest.
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And who knows?
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But like, me too.
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I was just speaking to the to the quality of like when you re saying the tribe, like people and and I like I said, there s so many people that I run into that I love.
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pretty much anyone from the era, but in a really regular way, we just sort of fell into this kind of coffee clatch where we talk all the time and celebrate each other s birthdays.
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And again, it s not just SNL, but it s also like, well, so I have to plug it before, Dratch and I actually wrote a movie together this year and that s about to come out.
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And again, just speaking of shorthands, talk about making something go fast.
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so much faster than it would have.
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She s hilarious.
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With Rachel.
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She s so funny.
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Yeah, we wrote this- As funny as they come.
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She s so funny.
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Yes.
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So we wrote it together and we actually produced it and we re in it.
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And what s it called?
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It s called A Clusterfunk Christmas.
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Oh, that s right.
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Yeah, I read about that.
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And again, just being able to write it with a fellow alumna,
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So we have all that shorthand and usually- So much shorthand.
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... the sensibility is within the same frequency.
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So when anyone says, both people go, oh, that s it.
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Oh, we re going to do that immediately.
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The number of times that would happen.
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It was uncanny.
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Just in the notes or whatever, in the edit, we would each go back in the note and be like, oh, no, no, I didn t like what you did there either.
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Or yes, I like that take.
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There were so many things like that.
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And just maniacal, which I had forgotten.
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And it s not that I don t love
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all the other jobs that I do.
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I do.
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I always find something fun, but the maniacal weird
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hormone-releasing brain laughs.
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When you get laughing with an SNLer, I don t know what it is, like that writing sick laugh.
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You know what I m talking about, where you just cry laughing?
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And you can t.
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That s part of the fun, because you go, we just hit on a great idea, we just hit on a great thing, and it s such a euphoria rush.
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It s euphoria.
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It s so fun.
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What s the word I m looking for that goes off in your brain when you,
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happy place an endorphin rush like endorphins like just like a crazy endorphin and we did it every single day we were filming and we were playing like it s all set in you know the christmas scene world we play these horrible like mrs claus like rank and pass characters that s so stupid anyway we ve you know it s same snl style with the worst wigs ever yeah like popping like the more you laugh like the spirit guns like popping free because you re laughing so hard or just crying and the makeup s coming out it was
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It was such a joy ride to do and such a great memory of what that is.
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And Sugar and Booze, you tour with your band, a big kind of an orchestra, and you actually sing.
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It s funny, but you re actually like a cabaret singer.
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It s a Christmas album I released in 2019, Sugar and Booze.
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I wrote a bunch of Christmas songs.
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It s a really throwback-y album.
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I feel like you guys would like it.
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We have horns.
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It s not a full orchestra, but I have a big mic.
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Yeah, I saw you on Zeph s show with maybe a six-piece band singing.
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Yeah, super fun.
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So it s just very throwback-y, old-timey, nostalgic, holiday vibes, uplifting music too.
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You re busy.
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You re touring there.
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You re making movies.
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Yeah, I d actually have a big, for plugging, I m actually on a new show for NBC.
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Auto, I d do it.
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American Auto.
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American Auto, yes.
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I saw your Wikipedia page.
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It sounded like a part you could crush with.
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Oh my God.
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It s so fun.
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I mean, it s very, it s a very much of an NBC show.
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It looks like an NBC show.
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It s got Justin Spitzer who created it.
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Um, he started that show Superstore and he wrote on Office for a long time.
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So he s, it s got that, whatever you want to call it.
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So you re the kind of cocky executive with no intrinsic knowledge.
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Yeah.
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No, no, no.
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She comes from, she comes from big pharma and she doesn t know anything about cars.
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You know, Ana, I looked you up and we ll let you go, but lastly, I want to say you, it says all these great facts about you.
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And then one on its own line says, she s friends with Ken Jeong.
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Did you look, is it on Wikipedia?
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Yeah.
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It s got your own line and section.
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I saw it.
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It s got a big gap around it.
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That s where you know it s like crowdsourced bio.
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Like, who is that person?
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I was like, you know what I need to add here?
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Hmm.
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Yeah.
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Let s give a complete package of who she is.
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Also, I love that because I kind of know Ken Jeong, but it s not like we have Thanksgiving together.
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Not number one.
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He s kind of the nicest guy in show business in a way, right?
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He s unbelievably nice.
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Yeah.
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The only reason they said that is I did that.
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He could be on mine.
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Yeah.
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I know.
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I m going to say she s friends with David Spade.
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Yeah.
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Give me my own line at least.
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You guys both get a line now.
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I mean, we ve spent a lot of time together now.
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We have.
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I know.
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All right, funny men.
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All right.
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Thanks for having me.
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Thank you very much.
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So fun to see you.
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We re going to run into you at the 50th, maybe.
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, and
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Well, I feel like the 40th kind of was just by a wing and a prayer, but sort of turned out quasi magical, probably.
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More than quasi.
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As a mic drop for Lauren and just that.
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And Lauren had said at the time, everyone, not everyone of us will be here for the 50th.
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So it s a little bit like Civil War veterans in the 1930s, you know, coming out.
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And so I don t know, but I mean, I don t know.
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It seems a little bit like a bridge too far, but yeah.
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I agree with you, that was such a, in all of our minds, the most, I mean, I don t know about you, I took to my bed after that for like a week.
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Oh yeah.
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I felt like I d been on drugs or something.
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Like the crash was so extreme.
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It was an overload of every cast member and just the intensity.
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Well, everywhere you turn, and it s a one place instead of some Hollywood party where you feel like you sort of belong there.
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So when you have Keith Richards or something go, hey, and they re nice because they re on your turf, you know, in a weird way.
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Right, and it is, it s such an equalizer.
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That s such a good way of putting it because it is true.
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I am very, I get very, when people say, oh, how do you get nervous about, who did you get the most nervous about meeting?
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And it is weird when you re working at the show, you don t really, because you re home and they re coming to your house and you want to make them welcome.
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They re coming to you.
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They re more scared.
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They re more scared.
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Yeah.
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It s like spiders.
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Not really.
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Paul McCartney gave me a back massage during the good nights.
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That was my... I didn t get one.
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During the good nights, you know, and I m off to the side and then Eddie Murphy and everyone s over in the center and then I feel this, you know, and I look and it s Paul.
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Just want to see how you re doing, Dan.
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You know, just feel tight, you know.
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So... There were three chairs watching a monitor and I sat and it was Steve Martin sat in that one, then Jim Carrey sat in that one.
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We re all watching and just start laughing and talking and I go, when are you going to be with
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you know, just out of the vicinity, wherever you stood, wherever you turned, someone you re like, ah, that guy, that girl.
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I know, and plus it would be like Peyton Manning and like Diane Sawyer.
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Like, it was so many levels of American culture that, like, it just, I think Sarah Palin was, like, it didn t stop.
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Everybody was famous in the bleachers.
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Every face was famous.
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All different ways.
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All different stripes.
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Like you said, they all know who you were.
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It was the weirdest feeling.
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Yes.
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Ever.
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No plus ones, please.
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I will say for myself, because you always think, well, where do I stand?
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I haven t done anything in a while.
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You can get into self-deprecation.
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But for myself, if I had anyone on SNL or really anywhere make me laugh really hard just once,
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I m sort of respectful and a fan at that point.
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You know, I don t you are in the great you re like the most important cornerstone.
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I think for a lot of us, I think what you re saying is the same thing, whatever bitterness or anxiety or therapy sessions you ve had, I ve had your own personal journey.
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Yeah.
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You know, all of us.
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Yeah.
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The show certainly brings those things about like that evening was this moment where and you could say, like, I m I m actually weirdly a part
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I have no choice but to embrace this.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I m like part Italian and part SNL, like whatever it is, you know.
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Right.
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It s your DNA and mutant skin.
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Like I keep saying, like, I don t you know, like an Avenger or something like nobody in the real world.
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Like I ve done theater, music theater.
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People are so fun.
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I ve done TV half hour.
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People are so wonderful.
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SNL people are like straight up tribal.
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Like that is my.
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There s only one.
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Yeah.
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Screwed up.
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Yeah.
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It s crazy.
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It s still on live in New York and everything.
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It s amazing.
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I know.
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And it s fun, too, when my kids, now I have a 13-year-old.
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My 19-year-old s like, you know, last year, when she was like, can I please just go to the show?
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I guess it was, was it last year or the year before?
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Before, you know, it was Mulaney, I think.
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She was just like, can we go see it live?
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Like, I m old enough and I ve never been, you know.
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And then the 13-year-old now, like, we stay up every Saturday and it s really fun.
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Oh, do they walk down the hall and they see a picture of their mom?
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Well, my 13 year old hasn t been there yet.
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And also, you know, they re annoyed by me because I have a lot of, you know, feedback, but also peacock now.
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Yeah, I bet you know this, but that s also how does it run them?
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runs all of our stuff and you can like, this last summer, you can type in like a certain era or show or whatever.
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So I actually, sometimes I ve been known to pour myself a generous and sit down with the children and force them to watch Mother s Material.
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There s just one more.
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You ain t going to bed.
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Not on my time.
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This calendar wasn t successful.
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But let me tell you something.
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It was ahead of its time.
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You think it was easy?
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This one was from dress.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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All right.
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All right, guys.
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Be well.
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Thank you for having me.
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Ana, we ll see you when we see you.
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Good luck to you.
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God bless.
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Love to hanging out.
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God bless.
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Take care.
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Take care.
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Hey, what s up, flies?
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What s up, fleas?
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What s up, people that listen?
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We wanna hear from you and your dumb questions.
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Questions, ask us anything.
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Anything you want.
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You can email us at flyonthewallatcadence13.com.
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Hey guys, this is a question we have from Ted Sean from Swanee, Georgia.
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Ted Sean from Swanee.
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Swanee, oh my baby.
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Hey guys, love hearing all the great stories about SNL over the years.
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Can either of you remember, whether it was at Read Through Dress or Air, the hardest you ever saw Lorne laugh?
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You probably have one.
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Keep the shows coming.
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Do you think Lorne would come on the podcast?
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We told Lorne, I think he will one day.
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It s all just so... Lorne is the biggest star of the podcast, we talk about him all the time.
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Yeah, whenever he would like to.
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It s an open invitation.
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Can we do it between Justin and Aaron?
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Same thing with President Obama.
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Can we do it at the page desk?
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It s that thing of like...
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No, we love Lauren.
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You gave up, you just started.
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I know.
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You re burnt out on doing Lauren.
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Everyone knows it s a movie theater and not a podcast studio.
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Oh, this is my movie theater.
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This is fun in here though.
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I m not gonna watch any movies, so we have this in here.
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You did live like 1.3 miles.
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That s the thing about LA, it s a 45 minute drive, then you look at other things, like 1.6 miles.
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She s just all traffic.
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But then you move from your other place to this place to 0.09 from my place.
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So when it s not a hundred degrees out, I could probably walk up here.
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Oh, like Danny gonna walk?
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He s like, no, it s 40 minutes.
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Okay, so here it is.
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The hardest you heard Lauren laugh, and then I m trying to think of one.
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I have ones that are second tier or secondhand.
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Okay.
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Bill Hader told me that Lorne told him that the funniest thing he ever heard was, this is Bill Hader saying it, not me, was me doing Burt Lancaster, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as more than friends.
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Put it that way.
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That s how you put it?
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Mm-hmm.
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I do it now, I do it more like they re gonna wrestle.
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I like to come to your house.
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I like to wrestle.
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I like to wrestle too.
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79574 Cannon Drive.
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There s a gate at the side.
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Pound 1274.
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I ll be there at 4 p.m.
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Should I bring anything?
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Bring lemonade and bagels.
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We re gonna get naked.
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Two men naked wrestling in the backyard.
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Sorry, it goes on and on.
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I love it.
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I m not that into it.
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But I heard that was that.
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Another one I heard, and this was Rob Schneider s sketch, but I was in it.
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Massive head wound Harry.
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They said that Lauren, because it was a dog going crazy,
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Laughed incredibly hard.
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Lorne has a great sense of humor and has a violent, intense, sudden laugh.
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Yeah.
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When you re around him, just like really loves comedy.
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By the way, if he laughs, I can t think of a particular instance, but when he laughs at read through and if he laughs at one of your sketches, it is so fun.
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Cause you know, it s getting on, he slaps the table, laughs and it s unreal.
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Cause he, the last three years, it was Lorne host me.
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Oh, that s a hot seat.
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So I m right next to him and I m right next to the host.
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So they get a fucking tsunami of B.O.
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cause I m so nervous.
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It s like those, you know, nuclear bomb commercials where it s like everything goes flat.
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You know, it s like, Tom Hanks like flat when I take off my shirt.
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I ll be taking off my shirt for this next sketch.
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I used to get spaghetti delivered from a Wally.
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What is it called, Wally?
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Oh yeah, Wally something.
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No, Moose on Franks, it s Wally Joseph s.
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And Marcy would get someone to get it.
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walking and put it in front of me in front of fucking everyone.
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I d be like, thanks.
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You had to be fed on a regular basis or it d be like timber time.
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I mean, that gets a little bit of humidity in that room if David does not get a little bit of food in him.
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It s sickening.
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It is timber time.
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They cracked the window one quarter of an inch.
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Anyway, Lauren laughed, a lot of read through.
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That s a good question.
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I wish I had a better exact answer.
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I don t know I have a specific moment.
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I will say this because he s your boss.
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And he s seen it all.
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He s heard every style of comedy.
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When you get him to laugh really hard, it s very special.
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Thank you, Ted.
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Funny last name.
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And Jimmy Cotta says hello.
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I m still on the peanut ranch.
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I m 107, and Jesus loves you.
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This has been a podcast presentation of Cadence 13.
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Fly on the Wall has been a presentation of Cadence 13, executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Chris Corcoran of Cadence 13, and Charlie Finan of Brillstein Entertainment.
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The show s lead producer is Greg Holtzman, with production and engineering support from Serena Regan and Chris Basil of Cadence 13.