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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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David, so what have you been up to?
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You ve been out recently.
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What s been going on?
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You ve been kind of busy lately.
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What s going on?
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Well, I had a bit of a shnage sitch.
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My nose is perfect, but I had to go in there and get it worked on because they said I had something wrong with it.
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So on the inside.
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Do they go through your nostril or they don t?
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Yeah, they go through, they went through my butt.
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They go, we re going to take the long way.
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When do we get to the fun part?
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The fun part?
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They go through there.
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Are you knocked out at this point?
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It s three hours.
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Okay.
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It s not technically a nose job, but everyone thinks it is because I go, my nose is broken in two places.
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They go, got it, nose job.
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But it s not.
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It was just they had to fix something internally.
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It doesn t even help me, even though I brought in a picture of Margot Robbie.
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And they go, what are you bringing that?
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I go, just in case if you want to make it look like that while I m under.
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So I go under, but the funny part was Dana, and this is hysterical.
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You already look like Margot Robbie.
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Like a brother or something from another mother or something.
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And his hair is getting long.
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I know, that s why.
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It s called a hat when your hair goes bad.
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So I went in and what I found out is,
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you know, we d been talking about it for so long.
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So now my phone, I get all these ads, because your phone listens.
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So like I get an ad for nose spray.
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I get an ad for breathing strips.
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I get ads for Vicodin addiction rehab centers.
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It s just.
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Bobby Moynihan, he s a very, very down to earth guy.
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Fun dude to talk to.
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We had a great, we immediately opened with talking about, what is the one where they re on the elevator?
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Pumpkins?
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With Tom Hanks s crazy elevator guy.
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David S. Pumpkins.
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David S. Pumpkins.
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So funny.
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One of the weirdest, funniest cult sketches ever.
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And Tom came back and did it, and did it as a cameo, hysterical.
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Also does the Single Ladies, Beyonce.
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Single Ladies is a beautiful piece of physical comedy with Beyonce, and Bobby Moynihan commits whatever he s doing.
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Funny as hell.
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Drunk, drunk uncle, another smash hit of his.
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Just saw him get laughs in this Gordon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt monologue.
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So whatever he does, he s getting laughs out there.
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Great guy to talk to.
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We had a good chat and we ll let you get to it.
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Just to reiterate this podcast, we hear another very fascinating circuitous route to becoming, to getting on Saturday Night Live and then becoming a star of Saturday Night Live.
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So this is, this, ladies and gentlemen, is Mr. Bobby Moynihan.
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I didn t even get the last word I just said.
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You re good silent.
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I know, sometimes it s good, because when I hear it later, I go, please shut up, don t talk.
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Well, that s all I scream at the podcast.
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Shut your fucking face.
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That s all I think.
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But you at least have a cool voice.
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I got a weird one.
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No, you got a good one.
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Oh, also, before we go to Bobby on our great interview, well, the interview, he was great.
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I mispronounce
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Mikey, because I did a TV show with Mickey Rooney years ago, Nathan Lane, one of the boys who could look it up, I kept saying Mickey instead of Mikey.
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So I apologize and just know that it was a mistake.
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And I kept calling him George Segal.
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But that was his real name.
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That s his stage name.
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That s his stage name, so that s not a mistake.
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So we apologize, but it s not a big deal, and who cares?
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Yeah, Mikey Day is a great comedian on Saturday Night Live.
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I called him Mickey Day, referred to him as Mickey Day over and over again.
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But instead of doing scissor editing, we left it in, and now I m making this apology slash FYI.
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Listen- David.
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David, goddammit, that s it.
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I ve been calling you Damon.
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My wife says, how d the podcast go?
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Damon was really funny.
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I think it s David.
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No, Mikey Day s great.
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Bobby, what s his name, is great.
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This is a good one.
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It really is Daniel Spade.
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Look, the name was wrong.
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The interview was great.
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I would take a listen.
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I enjoyed it.
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David?
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Yeah, it s almost over, but here it is.
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well this is kind of interesting because we have bobby moynihan on and over the weekend this is an evergreen show but over the weekend he crushed on saturday night live
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which is Drunk Uncle, maybe your best one.
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I don t know that.
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But it was it was what I thought of when I saw that.
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I said this guy, because when I would go back in guest house, I d be rusty and a little nervous.
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But I guess you you did go back in 2020 and do Drunk Uncle, but you were so loose and so in the pocket.
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I don t know if I did.
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Yeah, I felt very lucky that I did it right before I did this podcast.
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Cause you know it would crush.
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We re going to get huge numbers.
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I was, I didn t, I didn t know, but I was, I was excited.
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It was, it was very nice to go back and just go, Oh, I m just going to go have a good time.
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I m just going to go, I m not going to worry.
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I m just going to go.
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I m not going to panic.
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I m just going to go have fun.
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I think the easiest, funnest thing to do is go back, not host and just go score on something and get all this excitement and then leave.
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And it s not so jittery.
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It also doesn t hurt to have Tom Hanks next to you to go like, and also there, there you go.
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Just in case.
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You ve got a good backup singer, Tom Hanks.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And Jeff Probst.
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One of the... Yeah, that s right.
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Oh, yes.
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Nothing Tom Hanks can t do.
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And he s just, he s like, he s so enthusiastic about comedy.
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He would just bounce off the walls when he used to host.
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But so I guess let s talk for a minute about this sketch, David S. Pumpkins.
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Which is kind of getting a cult following.
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Was that just the second time you did it in 2013?
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I looked it up and it floored me.
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And then you just did it.
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So talk to that sketch a little bit.
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We did it once and then like very, very quickly and maybe too quickly did an animated Christmas special.
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I mean, an animated Halloween special and then with Tom and then didn t do it, didn t do it again for many, many years and then just came back and did it now after five or six.
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How did it come about to be right now when you re not hosting and Tom isn t hosting?
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I think I ll be completely honest.
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I think Rita, Rita Wilson had some singing engagements in town and Tom had a free Saturday.
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Tom had a free Saturday and was like, it s Halloween.
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Let s do David.
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You know what that means?
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Yeah.
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I got a text on Monday saying, are you available?
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And then didn t hear anything and got flight information on Thursday.
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And I was like, I guess it s happening.
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Who reaches out to Tom you or to show or Lord?
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I believe Tom reached out to Lauren and was like I m in town if you need me.
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Oh Was like, you know, here s my favorite for the year or and that s and then they yeah Yeah, but I think I also think Tom loves doing
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doing it like he was there all day Saturday.
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That s so Tom.
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So just for a second.
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I m sure David s curious too.
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It s just like the origin of that.
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It s a little like it was you and Mickey Day and wrote it kind of and then you pitched it to Tom and 20 like that.
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Right.
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Yeah, we were.
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It was one of those.
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It was one of those dumb five o clock in the morning, like what s the Halloween show?
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We want to have something that comes back every year.
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And we were talking about how there s no Santa Claus for Halloween and like.
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But we also had a completely different idea about like being these weird.
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It was.
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Do you remember that video?
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There was like a video going around, like a viral video of a
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It s like a guy, an Indian guy would press the button on a on a on a stereo and he would just start dancing and then the other guys would press stop and he would stop dancing.
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It was just this weird video.
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And like we were talking about that and like we kind of were writing two different sketches at the same time and it wasn t getting anywhere as it is in retelling as well.
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And it was one of those.
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Now that happens at writer nights.
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That happens a lot.
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Yeah.
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5 a.m.
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Yeah.
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And then, like, we kind of settled on just like a funny idea is that, like, nobody knows what David Pumpkins is, like kind of what didn t really.
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And then by the time it got to dress, by the time it got to dress, we were like, we have no idea what we have here.
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And then Tom Hanks was just like, I think I m just going to be as weird as possible.
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And it just kind of found itself on air.
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But I was I was read through.
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Did you do read through with Tom with that?
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Yeah, read through was it was great.
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It had the kind of like the same thing of just like what like we don t know what this is, but it was funny and it s going through for now.
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Did you get up or did you stay in your seat?
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We got up and did the dances.
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Yeah.
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And I think so did he and I think that s what sold it was just like him not knowing what to do with it.
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And his enthusiasm.
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When the elevator door opens watching it as a fan.
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And the dances that you and Mickey did were so specific in the first one, you re like shaking your face and rolling.
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And then Tom in the middle, I mean, just as a composition, like a painting and then audibly, it s just like doors open.
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It s like, boom.
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And then they close.
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There s something really irresistible about that conceit.
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Very silly visual visual.
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Yeah.
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Open.
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Also, I also truly believe the night it aired was like,
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to a
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we ll see what happens next.
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And like, then there was another kind of depressing political sketch.
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And then out of nowhere, there s weird David.
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There is something to speak to that about madness, just absolute madness and no real rhyme or reason other than it s just, you know, just so crazy, funny, goofy sketch, a very goofy thing.
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It sounds fun at read through is fun.
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Where do you sit at read through on a side note?
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say that again.
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Where do you sit at read through?
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Um, I, I sat on the side of the, when I was there, it was, we were still in the writer s room.
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I don t think they do it there now.
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Now they do it in the studio cause of COVID.
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But when we looked at the, when we look at the, like, you know, we would look at the 25th anniversary book cause they had the pictures of where, where everybody sat and I sat in Farley s seat and I,
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Oh, I know exactly where it is.
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You re kind of facing- I think when you walk in the writer s room, you look straight out those windows.
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So you walk in, there s a big square or sort of table.
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Lorne used to be back to the windows and- The guest host.
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Cracked the window to get like a smidgen of the 30 degree air in that boiling room.
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And then next to him, if you re looking at the windows, to the left was host.
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And then I think I took over Dana because then you round the corner and it was me.
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I had a good spot there, but I sat behind Dana for a while and then Dana came in.
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That s a good spot.
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Yeah, but David would sit behind me, but like every week I d look back and he d just scooch in his chair just a little bit closer to me.
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I d look and I d go, what is it?
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Whisper, I m next.
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Yeah.
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It was funny, because I think Farley, where were you?
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Was that, you had your back to the doors?
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Yeah, back to the doors, sort of to the, away from the, but anyway, on that backside of the square, facing the window, is where Chris was.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I was there when I first got there, and then moved over to the other side, closer to where the host was for most of it.
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But like, that was Keenan s spot, next to the host, was just, they just put Keenan there for 20 years.
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We should say for our novice- For 20 years.
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Keenan, now I m such a fan of his because he just projects joy with every line he says, and he always hits it perfect.
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He never stumbles.
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Yeah.
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Consummate professional and the same comic timing since he was eight.
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Yeah, just had it.
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I feel like he lost Dana.
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I feel like Keenan lost his...
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I mean, at a certain point, you just go, hey, I m just going to fucking have fun and milk out of the show.
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I know it shouldn t be this scary.
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There s no reason for it.
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I m here.
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I m not getting fired.
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And then it makes it so much more fun.
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I would say for me personally, I want to ask Bobby that I was the loosest the last sketch I did.
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on the last show.
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And I remember thinking, that s the best I ve ever been in terms of my own inner psychological profile.
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So for you, Bobby, so you were there 2008 to 17, nine years.
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How do you feel in terms of that fear factor or feeling loose by 17 compared to 08?
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Did you evolve or were you one of those savants that you just didn t get nervous out there?
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My first episode, I had a space camp, but no, like my first episode, I was like, I got this.
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This is the bet.
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And then the second one was when the fear started and where the cue cards and all that.
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But my last episode that I did, I got to the studio and just started throwing up.
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I got like violently.
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Wow.
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Why?
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I m guessing a mix of like
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nerves and wanting to not wanting to leave and wanting to leave and and all that stuff.
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But like, I just I don t know.
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I just got sick.
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I just got super, super sick the last day.
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But it was it was it was a wonderful day.
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But going back now and doing it five years later and like flipping on a switch that hasn t been on for five years like.
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Yes, it was.
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was bonkers.
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And like I go like, oh, that s the best I ve ever done on that show, because I had a I had a bit of that Keenan where I was just like, I m just I m I didn t shave.
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I just had a good time.
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I could absolutely feel that.
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I looked at a lot of other drunk.
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A drunk guy, anyway, what is his name?
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Drunk Uncle.
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Drunk Uncle.
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And you were always super loose, but on this past Saturday, it was, I thought it was almost a next level thing.
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Like you kind of didn t need the cue cards or something, but we were so in the pocket.
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It was fun.
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I was in a different place.
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I called him Seth.
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I called Colin Seth and everyone was like, that was a great joke.
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And I was like, that was 100% by accident.
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You know, also you re focusing on two bits and that s it.
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And then, you know, you re laser focused on that.
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You have nothing else to worry about.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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And like, we were right after we were, I was this, David Pumpkins was the first sketch of the night at dress.
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And then, uh, at on air, it was right after update.
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So like, I had just enough of a quick, just enough of a quick change to remind me that like, I m 45 and I haven t done this in five years.
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That s just the singularity of SNL, that you re playing drunk drunk uncle with the beard and everything, and then you go and get in a skeleton costume.
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Do you have do you have the people changing you?
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Do you get a mirror?
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Because sometimes I would say, can I look at myself for a second?
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Well, now now it s completely different.
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Like now you re doing it in the studio and not it was Jody and like it was people I know and like Louis.
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But also there s a GoPro camera right here getting a
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time lapse of you doing your physical change you re like at your most vulnerable and sweaty like ripping me up.
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And they re filming it with a go pro and they re like you re just like a boy and you re just in your underwear at one point for a second it s you re just bare naked yeah yeah it s a lot of fun.
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You stand like a scarecrow and then they just rip everything off you.
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And then someone like the writer is yelling their lines at you going, remember at the beginning, it s a little different.
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And then at the end, you re going to be red on cards, not green anymore.
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Tom Hanks is going to slap your butt three times.
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Tom just added a slap.
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I like when it goes boing.
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I love the face at the end.
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The face at the end where the scared people on the ride and the Tom Hanks.
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When he, the dumber he gets it.
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The happier I get is because I know he s having a good time.
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Characters that are happy are fun to watch.
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The more dumb I act.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Good Lord.
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And so he comes in and when you, by the way, when you walk in the room, people at home, you do dress rehearsal.
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It s exactly like the real show, but probably harder.
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It s longer.
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And you don t know if you re on the real show, but you re given it everything.
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They have an audience.
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Then they go in and pick the sketches, which is excruciatingly long because you re waiting, waiting, waiting.
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And then around 11, you walk in there crammed in the, they still do it in Lorne s office.
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They don t now.
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No, I was I was gutted.
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I was gutted and angry.
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They do it at Madison Square.
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They do it at Madame Tussauds.
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They they every I was like, they re they re calling the meeting and I go to head upstairs and they re like, it s in the studio now.
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And I was like, no.
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No, I don t like it.
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I m resisting it.
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You need the fear, the fear of going into dad s tight room and sit at the desk.
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And he had the only comfortable spot.
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No one else is jammed and higher than everybody else.
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We re all on the ground like animals.
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Right.
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And then you walk in and you look at the board and you see if your sketches move to the side, meaning it s out.
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because they still have to trim the show.
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It s like two hours of dress and then it gets cut down.
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But you see, but you see, Punkin s was first and it went after Update.
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Did that hurt you?
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Did that hurt your feelings?
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Of course, of course.
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It brings back that terrifying feeling of like, what did we do wrong?
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And then you re like and then you hear, well, it s it s for quick changes.
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And I m like, I don t believe you.
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Bullshit.
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I don t believe you.
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And it killed too hard.
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Is that bad?
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I did for nine years, but this time I ve had five years to say it now.
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I don t believe you.
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I wonder what that is.
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You think just get off the ground with a fucking.
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Well, now it s it s a viability.
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So at least on my feed, it was like, you know, David S. Pumpkins and Drunk Uncle come back to SNL.
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So that s it s a different we did in my day.
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We didn t have.
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We didn t have YouTube.
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We didn t have anything.
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We didn t, we didn t just, it was primitive, man.
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Well, I like that you sound old too, Bobby, because you re, you re saying like that read through room and this and that, and everything s are different.
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And I m glad it stuck through Dana, through me, through all the way through you.
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And then it changes.
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It s, but.
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I feel like I was there for the turnover, not turnover, but the transition.
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Like when I first got there, Amy and Daryl were still there and like Shoemaker and Marcy Klein, I think maybe the last
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person like hired, I was under Marcy maybe or close to.
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Could we ask you about that?
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Because we had Nick Kroll on and he.
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Oh, the best.
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I love him.
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Brilliant, of course.
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And it s there s a lot of whimsy and weirdness to how you get this show or don t get it.
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But I guess there was a big audition on the sixth floor and Nick was in and he told the story of that.
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Were you in that audition?
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I believe so.
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I think so.
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I think you would have been.
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I think that Nick mentioned you.
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Yeah.
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Ellie Kemper, like T.J.
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Miller.
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There was a lot of people.
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Yeah.
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Done again.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yes.
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We talked to him as well about it.
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Another brilliant comedian.
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But he had they both had very strange stories about going out too soon.
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And just Lauren was the only one there.
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Nobody s here.
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And it was just.
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Tilted, pushed out the first time, don t go out.
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It was just a horror show.
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So what was your experience there?
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And for a second, just what led you to get there?
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Was it from Second City in Chicago or where did you come from?
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I was doing I was in New York.
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I was doing Upright Citizens Brigade.
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I. Oh, a UCB guy.
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Yeah, I was.
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I like that character.
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You know, you see the guy.
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Yeah, I was I was I was doing UCB and kind of met like Amy and Seth and Horatio through through that, through that, doing that ass cat.
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And then I was doing Horatio Sanz s improv tour like he was doing college shows.
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And I was doing that.
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And then
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kind of my sketch group got on the radar of Mike Shoemaker and and I think that was kind of how and then I auditioned.
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got called back with a bunch of very, very talented people and, uh, uh, was then told I was like, I think we ll start you in January.
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Like I met with Lorne and he was like, well, Brian, Brian Williams is hosting.
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That seems like a good one, but he never said you got the job.
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And I was just like, what s happening.
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And then the summer though, you re saying January.
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But no, and then two days later was the writer s strike and I heard nothing for nine months.
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Oh Whoa, like it just like like went like and I didn t get it.
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I ended up not getting it because During they were I guess during the writer s strike Maya Rudolph had a baby.
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So they hired Casey Wilson and I didn t get it They hired a woman instead.
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So I am and Casey s a good friend of mine and I was so excited But it was devastating for me
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So wait a minute, you almost got it and then you went back in line.
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OK, and then what happened?
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I didn t get it.
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So it was like 14 months in total.
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And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I got a call saying like, hey, do you want to come in again this week?
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I went in on a Wednesday.
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I did like all new stuff and then.
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Or found out on Monday, went in on Wednesday and like found out on Friday that I got it, and then the next week I was on the show.
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Oh, shit.
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Yeah, it was nuts.
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How many years as a comedian or sketch comedian, or at that point, how far were you into this?
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I was older.
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I was 31 when I got it.
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Hey, me too.
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Yeah.
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There you go.
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Hey, bro.
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UCB.
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Yeah.
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Hey, bro.
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But so you were super experienced.
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Did you do it in college?
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Like, did you do a lot of theater in college and stuff in high school?
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I did.
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I did theater.
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And then, yeah, I did a lot of plays and musicals and stuff like that.
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And then right after college, came back to New York, was doing like a play, saw Upright Citizens Brigade, saw an improv show there and went like, oh, no, I was taking stand up classes at Comic Strip Live.
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And I was like, oh, no.
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I was like, I don t think this is for me.
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And then saw the improv class and was like, oh, this is more of a fit.
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Just for a second, were you the type of kid who put on shows for your parents or siblings and stuff?
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I was.
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Were you go back in like at age five?
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Look at me.
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I definitely was.
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At seven?
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Watch me.
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Did you do little voices?
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What were you like as a kid performer?
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I was never good, never good at impressions or accents or anything, but I was very, very like, watch me, look at me, look at this dumb thing.
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Look at this dumb thing.
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Were you the type, when you jump in the pool, you go, watch, watch, watch, and you really weren t doing anything that great?
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one billion percent and got out of the pool and did the exact same thing.
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Well, I know.
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Watch again.
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I m going to do I m going to put a little tweak on a little bit of my cannonball.
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So so embarrassing.
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So you you how did you deal with the nerves of that audition 14 months later?
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Did you feel like, oh, fuck it, I probably won t get it again.
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And you lost it to Maya s baby this time.
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I did.
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I well deserved the baby.
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Maya s baby should definitely be at least a feature player.
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Oh, she s, she s camera ready.
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She s camera ready.
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Everyone has a Lorne.
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Everyone has a Lorne.
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David, do your Lorne.
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Oh, Maya s baby is, it s just, you don t even need to see her, but she s already got hired.
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I mean, it just, it s just the genes.
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Bobby?
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It s that thing when your mother s a superstar.
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You know, her grandmother sang a song.
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Once you get into thing, thing is a great word for Lauren.
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It s that thing of like.
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My favorite was always, we would always do CNN sketches and on the sketch it said CNN bumper.
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Every week was CNN bumper.
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Oh, Lorne reading the read-through.
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Any time there s a CNN.
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Oh, that s good.
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I haven t heard that word.
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CNN bumper.
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Yeah.
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Lorne has his read-through voice.
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Oh, stage direction.
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That s right.
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He reads stage direction.
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Stage direction.
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Goo goo in the honeypot.
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Turn the page.
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My favorite Lorne note during in between dress and air meeting, very long silence, very tense meeting.
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There was about five seconds in silence and then he just went, we have a boom shadow on fart face.
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It was a personal gift to everyone in the room.
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We were all like, that was beautiful.
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It was some sketch called Fartface and that s all he said out of nowhere.
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Sometimes he does, when he does read through, like he ll surprise you because he s so bored by sketch 44.
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Like if I have the receptionist coming up and Mike Shroomtaker buries it at the end.
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And then at the end they go, it s like sketch 41 and everyone s nodding off.
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Then he goes,
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The receptionist.
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He says it like, oh, look at this little nugget.
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Let s hope it does well.
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Yeah, he reads the title before you read the sketch.
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Yeah, it s funny that he gives it a little spin.
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I did the fart face one.
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I ve said this once before, but it s, I wrote a sketch called funny little poopy head.
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And I had the stage direction.
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He said funny little poopy head like 500 times.
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Funny little poopy head chitched out.
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Funny little poopy head is sad.
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Lovitz is turning purple.
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Anyway, so you do, cause you love Lauren and you just do all that.
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One of the gutting moments, me and Tim Robinson wrote a sketch.
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I believe it was just, it was a throwback to like old SNL where I wanted to just write a jingle.
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And all I remember about it was it was a split screen and we were talking on the phone and after, it pulled back and revealed we were on the toilet.
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And the thing was just, it s two best friends who talk on the phone while they re taking a dump.
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And it was terrible.
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It was absolutely awful.
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And at the end of the sketch, Lauren, in complete silence, just went, and the Emmy goes to.
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That s what Lauren is funny.
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That s the dry throwaways.
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It s funny.
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It s funny.
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Ten years later, in the moment, you want to you want to.
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Oh, yeah.
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You know, if there was a one percent chance it s getting on now, it s zero.
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Yeah, it was it was a it s it was a blast.
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It was good.
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It was also good to see him again recently and not be terrified and just go like, yeah, that was fun.
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We did him for this.
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We met him and I ve seen him for dinners.
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Oh, it was so good.
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It s just fun to see him when you re still a little, it s a little odd because he s like dad, boss.
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He s our coach, our teacher, mentor.
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But you realize at a certain point, he wants to hang on, have fun.
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And he did say something that was very interesting.
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Remember, Dana, when he was leaving, he said, people say, are you going to retire?
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And he goes,
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I would be worried I wouldn t be around funny people.
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He says, I m so lucky I m around funny people.
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Are you going to be around funny people?
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The specific quote he said about funny people, to me, this was in New York, he goes, there s only 900 of us on the planet.
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Have you heard that one?
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Yeah, I have.
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I ve heard him say it and I ve heard you say it.
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It s so specifically brilliant.
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But what happens is you just when you see Lauren away from the show, because he has all the power and you make fun of the teacher, then you kind of see that he s he s kind of he s he s very sensitive guy, you know, and very vulnerable.
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Go ahead.
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Yeah.
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You always talk about or like you always tell a story about like when you first met him with Paul at his house and stuff.
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And like I ve never had that experience.
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Like I remember one time they asked me to like he was like, you know, we re coming back from L.A.
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if you want to fly with us.
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And I remember being like, I ain t getting on that plane.
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It is scary, yeah.
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At the time, and that was apparent this time going back.
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Like, oh, I should have been so much more at ease with him because he is not as scary in any way.
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Yeah.
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Do you want to have anxiety for six and a half hours?
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Jump on.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Do you want to question this next six hours for the rest of your life?
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I was on Long Island with Lorne at his house in Amagansett, just the two of us for a weekend.
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And we drove around in a sports car and we looked at things and he saw a little shed and he goes, if I lose everything, I could live there.
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And then, because Lorne has this reputation being erudite, you know, we went to a movie and a matinee.
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We re just in the theater and would you like some of my popcorn?
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You know, it just humanized him.
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I don t know.
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But there s only one Lorne.
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It s true.
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It s nuts.
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But at the same time, in a way, like I remember meeting you, Dana, for the first time when you came and hosted, like I got to do a church chat.
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I was Snooki in a church.
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Yes, I remember.
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Funny.
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I like that.
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That was the first moment that truly broke my brain at that show.
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When you re like you watch something your entire life and then you become a part of it and then you re sitting two feet away from something you used to dress up as is Halloween.
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And like it was nuts like that.
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It s like that that crazy feeling.
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I don t know if you remember, David, I met you when we did Grown Ups 2.
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No, not at all.
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I was in Grown Ups 2 and we had lunch together and it s like it s like or with Nick Swanson was there.
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It s like it s just it s bonkers.
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Everybody there was like Lauren to me.
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I wish I had been like a little more.
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I know.
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All I remember from that is I wrote my diary.
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I wish Nick wasn t at that lunch.
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And when you went back this time, Bobby, did you, you, there are cast members there that were in the bumpkin sketch.
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I mean, that I think are just two shows in or three shows.
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The pumpkins.
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Sorry.
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Jimmy bumpkins.
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I went to community college.
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David S. Pumpkins, AKA Tom Hanks.
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So you were there with young cast members and did they mention,
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being fans of yours or asking any questions?
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What was it like to be around seeing how fresh they are and kind of scared?
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Most would they have to be a little?
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No one was scared.
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No one was scared.
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I was super confident.
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I was amazed at how no one was scared.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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I just remember a lot of fear.
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Sure.
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They don t.
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Yeah, me too.
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But then there s Kenan, who s just like, you know, Kenan was there when I got there, I watched him get the show and he ll be there after I die.
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And like having that was the best, like him and Cecily were the only ones there still from when I was there.
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But it s bonkers.
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Having Jack Harlow, the host, who s like 24, he s like, man, I grew up with you on this show.
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And I m just like, oh, Jesus, like that is the first time.
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Are you sure?
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Well, it s like I think I was a kid when I got it pretty much.
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So now it s like I even 31, but like it just feels crazy to get to that.
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Like, I can t believe I m in the, I m coming back phase of my SNL career.
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It gets more interesting as you go along the ladder.
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So yeah, I got it.
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Is it funny, Bobby, when you realize like, if it was the same for you, maybe Dana too, we had, you know, hard lines in our, in our dressing room.
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So, or in our office, not dressing room, but when you, when you get people that you go, oh, this is the most important thing to everyone I know.
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And then you leave and you go, nobody gives a fuck.
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That s a wake up call.
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That s hugely, yeah, it s hugely apparent.
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When I was on the show, that was my life.
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The show was my life.
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Now I got a kid, I got a wife, the pandemic happened, my parents, you know, just like so many things happened and you go like, oh, this is...
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silly right when you go did you guys think that the fifth sketch should have been fourth and they re like on what you re like the show i m on they re like oh i didn t i was on saturday i didn t know and then i felt like when i left and i go there s they re still doing the show without me and then later on i m seeing will ferrell and amy poehler and and bill hater i go and they re doing it better than me and they re good yeah yeah who did you come in with bobby in 2008 you you kind of
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Was it with bill hater and you had amy or who was on the cause you had some heavy hitters like.
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Yeah i came into that amazing of that amazingly established cash was like kristen wig bill hater sedate kiss andy samberg bread armisen are you reading this i am.
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I went back into and all season by the time you came in they ve been there for five years or two years or something like that yeah.
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I was the first cast member to come in in a couple of years and also the only one my season.
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John Mulaney came in as a writer as well.
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We shared an office.
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Was Fred Armisen mean?
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Was Fred Armisen kind of mean?
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The meanest famously famous asshole, Fred Normison.
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No, the nicest guy in the world.
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That s why I was nervous.
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Like I was nervous.
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I knew Dana a little bit.
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I was still nervous around him because in his in the pocket at SNL and Dennis, I knew.
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still weird, because once you re in there, it s a big fucking deal.
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And then going up and asking questions or saying, do you want to write something with me?
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Or it s just weird, like Kristen Wiig.
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And she s like royalty there.
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Yeah, it was that the first year was like everyone was really nice.
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And the second year was when I kind of realized, like, oh, I think I I think no one really wants to hang out and talk about sketchy, you know, not like it was like that was when you started.
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of on your own.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It took me a while to figure that out.
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Did you partner up with somebody or get some chemistry with a writer or another cast member?
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Obviously you and Mickey Day with.
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David S. Pumpkins.
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Yeah, a bunch.
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I shared an office with John Mulaney.
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I had known him.
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He was wonderful.
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He s great.
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Brian Tucker and Colin Jost was our writer at that time, and we wrote a bunch together.
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Great writer.
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Once Cecily came along, we did a bunch of sketches together.
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Yeah.
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You know, it s interesting that like Phil, obviously the shinier objects like Dana, and Dana, let me finish.
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You hurt me so much.
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No, that s a compliment because Dana, but you got Phil, if you re going to put him in your sketch, you just stop worrying because he will get A, everything out of it and more.
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And so those are unsung heroes that take longer to figure out how good they are.
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I mean, people in the business get it,
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It takes the audience, you know, if they don t jump out in a big sketch that s like, like Lorraine Newman, like, you know, Chris Parnell, like those guys.
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Yeah.
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Just like excessively to me is just like essential.
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She s a she s.
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Yeah.
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It s just that we learn being stand ups to just working with other people and loving it when you re killing together, like Phil and Jan on Church Chatter, Phil as Ed McMahon, that partnering with people, Mike Myers and Kevin Dillon was so much fun coming from
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stand up where it s kill or be killed, it s just you against the world.
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Could I fan out for a minute?
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Because I did a deep dive on Bobby Moynihan.
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Because you see your best self back to back and you realize that you re kind of like Phil, you can play anything, but then sometimes you play stuff that s like supernatural, like out there.
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It really rocked me, the kitty cat guy, the commitment of that character.
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Oh, I saw that one.
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Can you just explain that sketch?
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And I thought, this isn t going to work.
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You know, and then it just went into a whole other.
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I mean, you anyway, explain how that character came about.
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The kitty cat guy.
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I feel like a lot of my sketches on like right address, I went like, this isn t going to work.
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And it just ends up relying on like weird performance sometimes.
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It was all you.
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That was all set up for you.
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Everyone else was straight and you just kept escalating it and winding down into it.
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This cute little boy on a spaceship who won t do anything they ask him to do except he s just in love with his kitty cat.
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So stupid.
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I was on a camping trip and a friend of a friend brought a friend.
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And that guy was a total stranger.
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Yes, pretty much was just being silent and took a couple of beers and went in a tent and then came out much, much later in the night and sat down and like kind of looked like he was crying.
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And we were like, hey, hey, man, are you OK?
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And he just went, I miss my little kitty cat.
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And and we were like, what?
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And then I proceeded to tell somebody at work about that and they were like, let s put him in a spaceship where people can t get away from him.
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Yeah, also there s another layer of, just to make sure I interrupt you, a layer of the people talking, they re kind of funny talking like the movie Alien or that same kind of thing.
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Yeah, they re so serious.
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So that s a layer of comedy there.
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Yeah.
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And I go, it s gonna be about that.
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And then it sort of switches.
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And the best ones are like, you don t really predict what s going on.
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Would it be putting you on the spot, Bobby, to move toward the mic and just do a little bit of that character so the audience knows what, because it was sort of a little boy, but it was something different.
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I would just try to be the creepiest, weird, adorable man or boy, where I would just go, I miss my little kitty cat.
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You re squeezing your diaphragm.
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Which is what the guy sounded like.
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Yeah.
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It was bizarre.
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I also wanted to point out for people who are drunk uncle fans, the non sequitur aspect of it is incredible.
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The guy hates progress.
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It kind of is sneakily... The guy hates progress.
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It s sneakily slightly edgy with the immigrant stuff and the stuff that guy can say in his own way.
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So it s sneakily a little more than just a drunk guy.
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It s actually got some weight to it a little bit.
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It was weird because it s like, we haven t done it in five years.
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It s the first time.
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The last time I did it was with Trump.
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Oh, with the actual Trump?
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When he was there and-
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We said like a bunch of terrible stuff about how racist he was.
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Like, I was like, he s just like me, very racist and stupid.
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And like, he came over to me and shook my hand, like, thank you for saying such nice things about.
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And I was like, I don t think you got what happened there.
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Like, the whole point of Drunk Uncle was like, the stuff I m saying is abhorrent.
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Right, exactly.
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I always know when people come up and they re like, I love Drunk Uncle, man, I think just like him.
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And I m like, oh, no.
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But so it was hard to come like to kind of reconcile that after Black Lives Matter and come back and go like, is this funny to do anymore?
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Like the lovable race in five years, it changes everything completely.
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And my pitch was like, maybe he s a little woke after the pandemic.
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And they were just like, nobody wants to hear woke, drunk.
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I was like, I get it.
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Oh, yeah.
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It s just finding that line of like, I know what I m saying is very stupid and I m making fun of that.
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And I hope you understand.
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You know, it s funny when the guys like that there you could do where he is trying to be woke and everything comes out so wrong.
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We got like a couple of those into this one where he just said, like, I know now that Black Adams matter, like, like, right.
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He s trying.
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He s trying.
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Yeah, that s that is a lot of there s a lot of huggers.
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There s a lot of people I know that still and then they get mad if they re corrected at all.
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Oh, OK.
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So no, no ass grabbing.
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But what if they like it?
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You know, we did a quick poll and
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So, how many times did you do the McDonald s firing people?
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Was that just a one-off?
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No, we did it a couple times.
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I think we did it like three or four times, maybe two or three times, something like that.
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That one also must have been really fun to perform, where you are two employees at McDonald s, you think you re getting fired, and then you just dissect all the other employees and just shit all over them, going back and forth.
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that was just me and Cecily trying the tactic of like this is like you know how like at SNL there s like character parade sketch or the impression parade sketch or like you write like if I write a a game show this week it might help to get on so like we were just like let s write a sketch with every cast member in it where we just get to go through every cast member and tear them apart like trying to be funny and that was literally it was just like what if we wrote something that had every cast member
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Yeah, that s when they walk around Dana like Marcy or Shoemaker, you know, maybe you could put Ellen in that or.
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Well, the little edge to it was like Taran, Taran Killian.
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He had he had such a murderer.
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He had such a great because they would just go to close up with no lines like Sudeikis had a funny angle and they got laughs, too.
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So that was, you know, extremely funny.
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When in doubt, cut to Keenan making a face always.
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Cast pieces are always a score and for people listening, when you re writing, the only little tricks there are, there aren t many, but big cast is good.
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The host doesn t do anything, he s a prop.
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Like, you know, if you write a funny character and then, like I told Dana when I ve told people, I wrote one when David Bowie was there, the receptionist, and then he comes in and blah, blah, but he wanted, he liked it, but then he said, I want to be the receptionist.
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And I was like, oh, wait a second.
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But that s understandable because you re the funny one and it is a prop.
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And you don t really think like that because you re so focused on, I just got to get a character that makes sense and it s funny.
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And you finally get that.
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And cast is a little better at that, you know?
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Had you done it before or was that the first time?
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I had not done it.
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I was going to say you want that to happen three times in.
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Yeah, right.
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If that happens, then there s a way to explain it a little bit.
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Springsteen wanted to do Church Lady.
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He was a musical guest and it was early on and I was like, Bruce, no, I m kidding.
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Okay.
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I was about to say, Jesus.
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I was like, I believe it.
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I believe it completely.
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I think the lady is someone who can say things that other people can t say.
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I think of you more as a feature player.
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I think this, it might be too many lines for you.
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And I don t want to put that much on you.
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Did you have, because meeting Springsteen was a thrill and he walked on the 8-H and the Wayne s World set was there and he s like, so that s what it looks like.
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You know, stuff like that.
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Did you have stuff like that where you re meeting musicians and movie stars?
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And it s just fun.
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I mean, constantly.
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I mean, like I think I mean, like I was I was a super fan of the show when I when I got it.
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Like I don t like I don t know.
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You know, I grew up on it for many, many generations like you guys.
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But like when you came and hosted for Church Lady, like that was nuts.
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That was the first time where it was like playing and where you really realize like playing in that playground of like,
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You just get to jump into these worlds that you ve loved for so long.
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Yeah, you see the church chat set and then you go sit in it.
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And then you re like, I m in this sketch.
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And Snooki is a very big character for you.
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I mean, you crushed with it.
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She had, you had all this tanner on and this blue dress and the crazy hair.
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That was like the first thing that hit for me was Snooki, where like the first real, the real first thing.
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Was it update?
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I think I saw you do update and I was like, oh my God, because I think hater comes into the situation and you re like, have to explain who it is.
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And I m like, oh, is this really, really early on?
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Uh, I, I was flipping through the channels and just saw some girl get punched in the face.
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And I was like, what is this?
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And, and watched it.
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And it was like that week.
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And then like the week after I did, it was like when Snooki, like people were like talking about her.
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Yeah.
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And when I, and then I, and then that year I did the MTV movie awards dressed as her with her.
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And she came over to me and was like, nobody knew who I was.
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And then you did me on SNL and now I make 30 grand for personal appearances.
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30 grand.
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That s a lot.
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Yeah, it was a lot.
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It was a lot.
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I can open for her.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So you did, you do Snooki, Snooki.
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That s what we like to call it.
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On an update and that s a nice moment.
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Was that early for you also?
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Seems a while ago.
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Somewhat.
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I had like a couple, like my fourth episode, like I was like of this Beyonce sketch with single ladies that did really well and like,
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That that kind of like started and then Snooki.
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Yeah.
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And then like I got I think I got a little more confident at update because of Snooki and then like Drunk Uncle started happening.
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And then like most of most of my stuff that people remember got on to update because that s I think that s where I was.
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It s a score.
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Anthony Crispino.
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Oh yeah, I saw Anthony Crispino, was it?
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Anthony Crispino.
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So that was a very, give us that accent a little bit, it was really specific.
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What was it from?
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It was just my dad would always look around when he would tell you something, like there was a spy there, and I just always thought that was funny.
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Uh, the idea of just not giving any information, but, uh, I would like everything just got progressively higher and more ridiculous as I lie.
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And did you see that one where he has Ryan Gosling with him?
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Because, um, first of all, nothing, nothing better on update.
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You got a character at works.
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And if you want to jack it up, bring out the host.
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That was also, yeah, sorry.
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And he s funny and he looks funny and then he is funny.
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Uh, that was the first time where the host, like at the host meeting, they were like, this is Ryan Gosling.
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And he, everyone clapped and he was like, I want to do an Anthony Crispino.
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And I like was like, that was the first time that happened.
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And only time probably for me.
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And it was, it was, it was a lot of fun.
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He was great.
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He s a stud.
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Yeah.
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Dana used to get that for Wayne s world or, you know, I can t, I can t imagine.
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And then, and then, uh, Lauren would go Dana.
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Mike, what do you think?
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We re thinking of a Waynesboro maybe this week with Madonna and Aerosmith.
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Do you think that ll get numbers?
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Could be.
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I don t know.
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Well, Steven Tyler has a certain sort of chop that we could use.
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It s that thing of like Bobby s here, but he s not here.
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What?
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Now, Bobby, when you do the good nights, I used to have to count those as a sketch, unfortunately.
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Because David, we get on my shoulders at the good nights and I would carry him around the stage on my shoulders.
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Remember that, David?
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Yeah, I got it.
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When people announce me, when people announce me, I like to try and throw that in.
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Like, you know, I m from SNL, you know, his characters from SNL.
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Good drunk uncle, the good nights.
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I like to throw that in there.
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They knew even the good nights and then I d grab Farley and I go, you didn t earn it this week.
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Go back, go back.
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Who had a nose for the lens on your cast, Bobby?
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A nose for the lens on the good nights?
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Who sneakily always ended up front?
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Oh, the host hugger.
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I love that.
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I love that term.
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I feel like we had a couple of names.
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That s funny.
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I was I was the opposite to a fault where I was just like, thank you for being here.
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Sorry I was in your way and like didn t know better.
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I think I should have been acted more like a confidence.
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My tactic was like football.
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I would go back around, do my route.
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I d go in the back, wait, and then I go right down the middle, get between Farley and David and then boom, FaceTime.
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It was a boom definitive route that I
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I always stood on one side and said hi to my mom.
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I did it for nine years.
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That was it.
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I just did the same thing.
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I said, hi mom.
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That s cute.
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That s an angle too.
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I like that.
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For the ladies.
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The worst is if you go up to hug the host and they turn and hug Mike Myers or someone, and then you look away and you go, that s when I m on camera?
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When I got iced?
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Yeah, your hands are up in the hug position, but they turned and you re just holding it there for a second.
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It s very risky.
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Yeah, I stay in the back.
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My favorite Good Nights moment, and it was caught on camera, was being there and having John McCain.
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I caught eyes with John McCain like through the crowd, and for some reason he got real excited and like beelined, like pushing through Keenan.
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Pete Davidson and people just to get through, gets to me and throws his arm around me and goes, always a pleasure, Horatio.
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Really?
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Oh, yes, it was amazing.
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My friends, my friends.
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It was absolutely amazing.
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Joe Cold.
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I need friends.
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You go, listen, McCain, this is not how it works here, motherfucker.
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You do Gary Shanley to get to John McCain.
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I pushed him to the ground.
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Oh, is that John McCain?
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What is this, Gary Shanley?
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My friends, my friends.
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Friends, that s all I remember.
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I don t do them anymore, but whatever.
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Well, Robbie, when you were up there, did I see a clip of, maybe it was you with McCartney?
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Oh yeah.
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On Good Nights.
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They were singing or something?
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Was it a Christmas show or something?
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Yeah, that was like, uh, absolutely.
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And Springsteen.
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Yeah, it was like they, they, they were...
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Paul McCartney was there, but Bruce Springsteen was the musical guest.
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It was the Christmas show.
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And Tina and Amy were hosting.
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And at dress, good God, they were like, yeah.
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And at dress, they like they pulled everybody off because Bruce was going to do Santa Claus is coming to town at the end of the show.
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And so everyone kind of left left the stage and went like into the tunnel almost.
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Yeah.
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And then on air for some reason, he just pulled Amy and Tina up.
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And then he was like, come on, guys.
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So everyone jumped on stage for that.
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And it was.
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You better not cry.
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You better not pout.
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Anyway, love Springsteen.
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I can t do it.
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Yeah.
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And then McCartney there, too.
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I mean, she s the two that I had.
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I had a moment with McCartney just during a rehearsal where he popped out of the hotel, you know, like they have the dressing rooms over on the side near the page desk.
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And he just popped out with a with a pizza box in his hand and went, does anybody want pizza?
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And me and I don t do clearly don t do a poll.
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And me and Jenna Rossitano, the stage manager, just went inside and had a slice of pizza with him and talked about New York pizza.
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And it was like those moments where you just go like, yeah, this place is not.
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I think he tries to be normal and he would rather just sometimes just drop it, just like be normal, especially around there.
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You just around funny people and talented people.
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If you want to sound like him, Bobby, just everything is a question.
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So we re like, would you like some pizza?
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Which is also a question always goes up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So some nine years on us and I can t do an impression to save my life.
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I just I just played a lot of loud Italians.
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I have this tailor, Bobby, and he.
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Every time, I don t know why I go to him, because every time I go, I just want these pants thin.
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I go, what?
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He goes, you don t want them thin, it looks weird.
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You went all the way to the ground, cover your shoes.
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I go, cover my shoes?
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And then he goes, they re too skinny.
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I go, I look at him, his pants are like each two feet wide.
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And I go, why am I looking at you?
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Why don t I go to someone that looks good in their clothes?
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You don t want the double break, they tell me.
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You don t want the double break.
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Right, he goes, this shouldn t be dragging, I don t understand shoes.
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Everything I do, I want to get the sleeves.
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No, he fights me in everything.
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Disappointed.
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That s a character you would do if you re on SNL, that would be a potential sketch with the host.
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Especially if it was Jon Hamm or someone, you know, studly guy.
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I got my, when I got my suit for my wedding, the guy who fitted me for my suit, his name was Lionel.
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He had an L on his, on everything.
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Everything was monogrammed.
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And he kept telling me, he kept, he just kept going, don t waste my time.
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Okay.
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Don t waste my time.
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And I was like, this guy s an SNL character.
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I m going to do it this week.
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I wrote the sketch in five minutes, I was like, this is gonna crush, this is my target lady, this is my buh-bye, and go in and it just tanks by page two.
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And then I m like, oh God, I got that weird drunk uncle thing in the second half, hopefully that ll work.
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So how did you say the catchphrase?
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What was the catchphrase again and how did you say it?
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I was it was just he was just like I hate everything you re wearing stop wasting my time.
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Stop wasting my time.
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That s a good catchphrase.
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Yeah yeah that was it he was just very confident and mean.
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I ve seen what about Dana when someone does a catchphrase and then um and it bombs by page two and they have eight more pages.
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You know what was funny though was like I came in at a time where like
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We were still kind of doing those sketches, like old SNL sketches.
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Now they re called old, where it was like a theme song and then a crazy character like Gilly was like kind of the last one we did because.
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Yeah, it s funny.
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When I first got there the first year, I remember Andy Samberg being like, hey, that video we did, they re going to put it on this thing called YouTube.
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And I was like, what is that?
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And he was like, it s this website that it s just going to have videos.
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He s like and I was just like, well, good luck, man.
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That sounds terrible.
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That ll never work.
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And that ll never work.
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And then like by my fourth or fifth episode was the first time we were in HD.
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And then like you couldn t do reoccurring characters anymore because they would put them on YouTube and like people could see them immediately.
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And it was such a huge difference.
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It would burn out quicker, you mean?
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Yeah.
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We would wait to see another Wayne s World or we would wait to see it because we had to.
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And then those kind of characters, which is something that I feel like I got the show for, was these weird characters.
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You like it, the juice?
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Yeah.
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All of a sudden, that was slowly starting to go away.
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And I was like, oh, well, I guess I got to
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I guess that s many catchphrases.
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The politicians come back because they re just the only really famous people around anymore that everybody knows.
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Yeah, they would do it much quicker.
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They would do them like clump them closer together because they would all be on the Internet.
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We re going to do a lot of things on the Internet.
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So this is a sketch that I thought was so funny, supernaturally funny, that you did with the rock.
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Oh, I saw this one.
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World wrestling promo show.
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Very personal wrestling.
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You re the straight man in a sense, but you play it so real off of The Rock that you knew that was crushing, wouldn t it?
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I mean, it was just a... That was one of those gifs where, like, The Rock, it was The Rock s idea.
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Oh, wow.
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Like, he was like... Good.
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Wow.
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He was like, yeah, when we did these promos, I would always do this bit where I would get really, really personal and, like, it was his idea and then
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they pitched it to rob klein and rob klein wrote it and it s just it s one of those gifts of just like yeah all i gotta do is stand here and get offended and have like it was oh that s one of my favorite can t that was one of those like yeah like from from table to from table to air it wasn t very
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Yeah.
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Farm to table, table to farm.
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It was very easy in the sense of like, there wasn t a lot of panic all week of like, are we getting this right?
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Like, it was just like, no, we just, I, I get offended by the terrible things he said.
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And some, some sketches like that don t really even change.
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It didn t a lot.
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It didn t.
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And like, there s little things about it.
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Like Taron, even Taron Killam.
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Oh, that s right.
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It was good.
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Yeah.
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Just keeps looking at his phone the whole time.
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And then whenever he has to be the announcer, he just got like, there s just little things about it that was, well, for the people at home, no one s at home for the people driving.
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Um, it s really like, uh, the rock is giving a, uh, is, is tells them, uh, you know, before they do an interview, they, they, they, they re beating up on each other verbally and Bobby does a normal thing.
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I ll kill you in the ring and all that.
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He says, you know, say whatever you want, say whatever you want.
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Yeah.
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And then he says, say whatever you want, really get after me.
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And then what does the rock say, Bobby?
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that I have herpes and that he s been catfishing me with a picture of my own daughter.
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Yeah, it s terrible.
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Yeah.
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Just horrible, awful things.
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And but it s he was so good in it because it s in his world.
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Like he knows it so well.
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Like, yeah, it s funny when you go.
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That was a little rough.
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Just say something about in the ring during the fight.
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He goes, oh, God, I got it.
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And he goes, this guy s going to get the ring and I m scared he s going to give me his herpes in the ring.
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And you re like, no, no, no, no.
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I m going.
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I m going to hurt you psychologically.
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It s funny because you stay in character until they break.
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They always go, oh, cut.
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And then he goes, how was that?
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And you go, well, I didn t like it.
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It was horrible.
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It really hurt my feelings.
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Yeah, but you don t do it during when you re filming.
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But you played it so well.
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I mean, that s not easy to be the so-called straight man and get gigantic laughs from the straight man.
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What about that catchphrase film you guys did made me laugh so hard?
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You played Slappy Pappy.
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Yeah, that was just the dumbest thing in the world.
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I m a huge fan of Sinbad, and I think he s fantastic.
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And then I found this guy, Shucky Ducky.
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Have you ever heard of him?
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Shucky Ducky?
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Sure.
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Sounds funny already.
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He was a stand-up comic, and he would tell jokes like,
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I m supposed to pay my wife alimony but i don t she says you re a deadbeat and i said no i m just patient.
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Shucky ducky quack quack and then he would just say shucky ducky quack quack.
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Oh that s great.
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At the end of every joke and it really made me laugh.
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It s funnier than the joke.
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So funny.
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I got one a redneck comedian.
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Oh yeah.
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You ever fart so loud, dog two stayed away, go, what dat?
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Come and get some.
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That was full character.
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By the way, it doesn t even correlate really when you go, come and get some.
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It doesn t relate, but come and get some.
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It doesn t need to.
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Come and get some.
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Here s mine.
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David has a catchphrase.
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Oh yeah, I got, how do I do it?
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Let me see.
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I called my wife the other day and her boyfriend answered, rack em.
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Yeah, that s it, Rackham.
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I think I need a real joke first.
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No, Rackham s funny.
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I mean, we almost called the podcast Rackham.
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Okay, I got one.
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All right.
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It s a child molester joke, but we ll change it.
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So this child molester goes in the woods with this five-year-old kid and the kid goes, mister, I m scared.
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He goes, you re scared after this.
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I got to walk out of here by myself.
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Rackham.
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Rack them.
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That s right.
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That s like a joke, but it s a rude one.
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We ll strike that.
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I asked my mama to worsh my tighty whities.
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She said, okay.
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I said, how d it go?
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She said, great.
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I haven t seen skid marks like this since the Daytona 500.
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Come and get some.
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Since, since I dated big daddy, Don Garland s come and get some.
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Come and get some.
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I met my sister only because mama turned me down.
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Come on, get some.
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It s making up jokes.
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These all would have worked.
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That s pretty much what it was, was just doing this in a writer s room for hours and then just coming up with different comics and what their catchphrases.
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And the escalation at the end with a bull horn or what was it?
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The front with Galliford, Connecticut, California.
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Yeah, I believe it was like Pete Airhorn Schultz.
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And he just didn t.
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He just came out.
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It is.
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That was the perfect button for that.
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So what are you doing these days before we wrap up?
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I have a question before we wrap up too, but how s your headspace?
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It seems like you re just working like crazy.
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I mean, you re just, we did Secret Life of Pets together, one and two.
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Yeah, we were there hoping for three soon.
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Yeah, it was just on Mr. Mayor, which David, you were fantastic.
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I was on Mr. Mayor.
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I think so, you definitely were.
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That s Tina s, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, doing good.
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I wrote a children s book, it s called Not All Sheep Are Boring.
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Not All Sheep Are Boring?
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That s right, because you count sheep to go to sleep.
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What age group is it for?
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If you count sheep to fall asleep, because some of them are extremely boring, that s why.
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I like that.
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Um, yeah, doing that, doing a lot of writing.
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Derek, Derek, comedy sketches.
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That was a part of your resume I saw.
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Yeah, one of the first things I did, Donald Glover, all those guys.
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Yeah, super talent.
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Here s my last question for Bobby Dana.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I m holding in my car.
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It s really a final question.
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It s so wispy.
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This is just one I wrote down.
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Does your years, do they send a car to take you to work every day or even take you to the show?
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Uh, when I first got there, no.
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Um, and then not even show day.
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No, but then on show day, we got cars.
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That was that was always the case and we had limos at first and then that stopped.
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Oh, really?
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After party.
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Well, no, but then we just got like regular cars like the limo, like the actual limousines themselves.
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Oh, like skinny long and like ridiculously like 1980s cocaine limousine.
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We had those.
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And like, yeah, we like that ended like after the first year or two there.
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But never, never cars to like.
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Or sometimes for rehearsal towards the end, because like we would they would call you up and be like, it s two o clock in the morning, you re coming to Brooklyn to do a pre tape.
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Like it was like it was mostly pre taped by the time I left.
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Like we would be out of the studio for Thursday, Friday and Saturday just doing.
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Wow, that s weird.
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Yeah.
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Did you ever have a show where everything came together like it was your best show ever and you walked into the party just with a little different physicality?
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Like, yeah, that s that s right.
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I m here.
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Moynihan in the house.
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That s right.
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Did you have a show where you kind of went, wow, that was my best show?
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You hit on like four different things.
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Probably early on.
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And it wasn t.
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You know what I mean?
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I thought it was.
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And it was just like I didn t go home crying that night.
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But like, I ll be honest, like maybe this last one,
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this last one was the first time I left that building going like, that was a blast.
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And then that was it.
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You go, bring me to the host.
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And then cry yourself to sleep 45 minutes later.
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No one likes me.
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Well, it was nice to go like, nope, I m just going to the hotel.
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I m going to sleep.
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I got to be at my daughter s soccer game in six hours.
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It was just nice to move on and just go like that was a fun to see those people and move on.
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Wow.
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So you re just in that, that whole world being a dad, that s a whole nother podcast, but she, she s doing soccer already.
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How old is she?
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Two?
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Yeah.
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Five.
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Kindergarten.
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Kindergarten.
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Yeah.
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Here s my last thing is, I mean, it s a, it s a character at base, my friend.
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whenever you say anything to him, you go, oh, so you got that soccer game, then you re going to go to lunch.
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He goes, yep, just being a dad.
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And he keeps saying it and I go, shut up.
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He says it like it s, like he s, I get that he s proud of it, but it can t cover everything.
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Like it always comes back to that.
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Like he s such a hero.
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It s a good blanket excuse.
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That s another character.
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Proud daddy.
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Like he works dad into everything.
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You know, how s, Hey, uh, when are you going to work?
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Well, as a dad, I ll probably get there around 10.
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Want to have lunch.
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Well, dads can t have lunch.
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They got to call their family.
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Yeah.
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There you go, David.
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You got two characters from this podcast.
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Yeah.
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That real pretentious wind up to that.
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Well, you know,
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Just being a dad.
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That explains it all.
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It s a blanket statement.
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And then they re kind of jealous of single people just wandering around the world.
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Must be nice.
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Must be nice.
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Oh, my God.
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That must be nice.
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What s it like to take a nap?
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Yeah.
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What s it like to do what you want to do when you want to do it?
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Must be nice.
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The must be nice guy.
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What s it like to eat alone?
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Hey, do people treat you with respect?
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Oh, you don t have any poop on your clothes.
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Must be nice.
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Must be nice.
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Must be nice guy.
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Thanks, Bobby.
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It s been a pleasure.
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So much fun watching you all these years and on SNL recently.
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And so we hope to see you around campus.
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Yep.
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Thank you.
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Such a pleasure to do this.
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It s like listening to for SNL cast members.
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It s like an hour long free therapy every week.
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We re all soldiers in that battle in a way, metaphorically speaking.
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So we re okay, alum.
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It s nice to be amongst legends.
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Thank you.
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I love you guys.
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Peace out.
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Love you too, buddy.
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No joke, folks.
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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.