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Rachel, oh, Dratch.
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I was going to go with that.
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The thing you do not say when Rachel Dratch is going to be your guest, you don t say, oh, Dratch.
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You say, Rachel Dratch.
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She s so cool.
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Rachel, everyone loves her on the show.
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She s always a score machine.
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She s got funniness.
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Someone s yelling at me.
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You re being yelled at?
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At the side, they re going, up the energy, you re fucking bombing.
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I ll compensate.
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Yeah.
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Hey everybody.
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Did you see that little machine?
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They act like we re the morning zoo crew.
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Rachel makes me happy.
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I loved our podcast with her.
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And you know, Debbie Downer,
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We go through all that, how it came about, all of her great sketches.
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She s just truly one of, I know it s a cliche, but it s true, organically funny people we ve ever had on our podcast.
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And we ve had a lot of funny people and so sweet.
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I met her early on.
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She did a thing in Dickie Roberts, that old movie.
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Oh, a couple of people remember?
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Thank you.
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Add applause.
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Did she get to wear clothes in that scene?
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She was very funny.
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She s always like scoring in Adams movies.
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Wherever you throw her, she gets a laugh.
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Any sketch, she gets a laugh.
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She s a super pro and she s like a just hyper real person.
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Like there was no edge to her that you re Rachel Dratch.
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You know, we actually, I think we talked to her about that.
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Just people coming up to her like she used to be in awe of people.
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You know, this just came to me.
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She was nervous about meeting hosts.
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She s very shy.
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She doesn t seem like it.
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I m shy too, dude.
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Are you wearing an earpiece?
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Because you re especially witty today.
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I am?
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Is someone feeding you lines?
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Because, you know, it just came to me.
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It just came to me.
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No, I have a gift, a gift no one wants.
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But we talk about with her a lot of SNL stuff and the phenomenon of just meeting someone who s way more famous than you and then going through a week of this huge experience they re gonna have and how nerve wracking it is when you first meet like a Sharon Stone or whoever when you re a cast member.
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So it s very sweet.
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And on a side note, this is the coat, I talked about my Netflix special that cost me so much where they said, you can t wear it really outside.
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This is because it s a puffer with leather.
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And they go, ultimately don t wear it in snow, rain, wind, clouds.
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I m just going to tell you, because people are freaking out about this coat.
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They can t focus on what we re saying.
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Wait a minute, David.
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I m not trying to get us to start a company, but the Ultimate Puffer, if you ever want to go in on a jacket thing, you just said it.
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You heard it here.
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This is live.
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The Ultimate Puffer, we put them out.
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They re kind of funny from the fly on the wall guys.
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I m just trying to monetize.
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We could have merch.
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I want to be Ryan Reynolds a little bit.
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Hi, Ryan.
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We could make money because this was 30 grand.
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Well, the Ultimate Puffer, this is the world s greatest leather jacket.
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I ve called this for 20 years.
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I bought it at Barney s and there s no leather jacket in the world as good as this one.
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None.
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We re starting to sell merch right now.
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Ultimate Leather Jacket, Puffer what?
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The Perfect Puffer.
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The Perfect Puffer.
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And here s Rachel Dratch.
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That s good.
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That part s not gonna be my start, is it?
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Unfortunately.
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I don t know, I don t know.
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It could be.
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Hi.
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Hey you guys, it s Rachel Dratch.
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Woo!
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Hi!
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Sometime, you re a whiz.
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There s people that take like 20, 25 minutes to get on this thing.
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I once took an hour and a half, and then David just hosted the show.
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Rachel, Rachel.
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Tom Hanks still isn t on.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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I m so excited to be here and see you guys.
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That s more like the attitude we re looking for.
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We like that.
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We ve had a lot of your friends on Rachel.
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I know I ve been listening.
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Oh, you have a lot of really interesting.
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Yes.
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I love it.
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Okay.
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Well, it s like a support group and fun.
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It is.
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It is.
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It s we are alumni of this incredibly bizarre, uh, wonderfully bizarre experience called Saturday night live.
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You know, what s funny is that Dana, it s like a sport group in the way that you
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can t really complain to outside people about Signing Live because they re so happy you re on it and they can t believe you re on it.
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So if you have micro complaints, no one wants to hear them.
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It s like if you do a movie, you can never say, hey, did you get up early?
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They go, you re in a movie!
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And you go, oh, yeah, you re right.
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And they have a point.
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So it is twice.
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But with other people in a movie or other people on SNL, you can kind of whisper.
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I can t believe they brought us in an hour early today and they go, yeah, me too.
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And then they understand, you know, they cut the best part, the best part.
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They cut it.
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Well, that s all day.
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That s all day.
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When you look at the rundown, this shit got on.
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Our set is under the bleachers.
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We re so far away from the audience.
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We had to cut our entrance.
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I hate this show, but enough about week one.
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No, I ll tell Rachel a story, then she ll talk toward the end.
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We don t like our guests to talk very much.
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I know, I know.
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Oh, she knows, oh, sickening.
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No, no, because you guys say that all the time.
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It s not really true.
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It s more like dinner where we all talk to each other.
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Exactly.
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Which is good, it takes the pressure off.
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We don t want to stress you out like Rachel.
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It s a conversation.
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It s a conversation.
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Yeah, you don t want to talk.
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What we ve been trying to tell the production company.
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This is so embarrassing.
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But I couldn t sleep last night because like I was all like, I don t know, like Christmas morning about doing this.
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Like, I don t know.
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Oh, well, we re flattered.
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Fun, fun anxiety.
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But just I was like, oh, my God, I m doing that tomorrow.
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And I couldn t sleep.
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So we re going to I don t sleep a lot of nights, so it s not a big deal.
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My my mind goes crazy at night.
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And I didn t sleep very well last night because I knew I d be seeing you this morning.
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OK.
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So, and then I dreamed about you.
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No, it s totally normal.
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It s kind of a smash.
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We re sort of a global hit, so it s appropriate to be normal.
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David, say your thing, and then we ll let Rachel talk.
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I forgot my thing.
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You forgot your statement?
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No, I forgot, but I will tell Rachel, just to relax her, that one of my stories about SNL that it just shows you how it screws with you is, in a good way,
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Um, is that, uh, one time I was doing coneheads applause.
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Oh my God, a couple of people in the back saw it.
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So I was- Why did they call them coneheads?
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I never got the connection.
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Dana.
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Is it because their heads were shaped like cones?
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I don t think that s it.
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Okay, all right, so you re in Conan.
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So I m in Conan and the movie, they go, the sketch did well, do you want to be in a movie that won t work as well?
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And I said, yes, of course.
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So I had a pickup shot, which was good because I tested okay.
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And they go, Lauren goes, we re going to add a scene with you, which is good news.
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You know, I said, oh, okay.
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So it s during a show week, which is bad news.
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So on a, Rachel knows the drill.
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You have a read through on Wednesday.
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So after read through, Friday morning, I had to fly to do, so what happened after read through, I took a red eye and they go, you re gonna fly to LA.
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This is such a fucking long story.
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I m sorry, Rachel.
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How does it relate to- It s okay.
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It doesn t at all.
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It just shows, actually I ll save it because it s so dumb.
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because everyone s gonna yell at me, but I just thought I d settle Rachel in by saying we all have our pros and cons of being on SNL, and most are cons, obviously, but there s some that are harder.
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I had pros, but I ll just say this as a overarching word package for you to digest.
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Show business in general is an emotionally violent sport.
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That s all I ll say.
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It s tough.
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And emotions can be violently great, but it s a topsy-turvy kind of wookie-dee-woo.
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There she is.
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She s making a break for it.
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Where do you think you re going?
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She s trying to run out of the podcast, but she s hearing I hear people.
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I hear people on the street.
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I m closing the window.
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OK.
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Oh, interesting.
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We thought you re trying to escape our.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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So your first day we can bounce wherever you want.
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I m just thinking your first day when you walked in there, you knew it was Tina already there.
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And Tina was there.
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And Adam McKay was there, who I knew from Second City.
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Yes.
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So.
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So did you just hang on to them a little bit?
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I mean, it s so
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I mean, it s like I was the only new person that year.
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Well, there was one writer that I knew, too, that was new, but I was the only new actor.
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So, you know, when you get there, this is 1999.
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Yeah.
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So when you get there, you I don t know why I sort of thought there s going to be like
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Pack it.
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Here s what you do.
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You know, I don t know.
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A little envelope with a string on it.
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I don t even mean like fanfare.
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I just mean like anything.
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Instructions or something.
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Yeah.
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This is your room.
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Yeah.
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And then like I definitely was like following Tina around like a lap dog.
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You know, like, where do I go with it?
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But, you know, she had her own stuff to do.
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So but it was me and this writer, Ali Faranaki, and who we knew each other from Second City.
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And our office was this kind of storage closet that they put in his office.
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But no, it was so I had I had we had each other.
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So that was good.
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But yeah, it s definitely like, you know, throw the baby in the pool and.
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and see what happens.
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It is a whole culture of not really telling you what s going on or where you what you re standing in the show.
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But on the on the flip side, like, you know, I said, like, of course, it s the dream job, as we all know.
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And my dream job moment was before that even happened.
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It was actually the 25th anniversary show.
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So that was my very first time.
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Like, even though I had no part in it, I was invited to come watch.
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So like,
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I got swept up when I get there, like get into hair and makeup.
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And here s this dress.
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And like, you know, I was coming from Second City like there was no hair and makeup or anything.
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So I had like full glam squad.
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And like in the dressing room was Lily Tomlin and Elvis Costello and Dan Aykroyd.
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And that s my very first.
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And I was like, because I mean, Lily Tomlin, I watched her when I was, you know, four or something.
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Yeah.
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Elvis Costello.
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So and Dan Aykroyd.
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So I was just like, I think I literally pinched myself.
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So, you know, it is the dream come true.
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And then, you know, it s like that plus thrown in the pool.
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When you pinch yourself, did you wake up or was it not a dream?
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I was all real.
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OK, it was that s a wax museum to walk into those three.
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Yeah, it spans a lot.
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Legendary.
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And it s a mix.
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It s a musical guest music.
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But he beat.
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What was your first character you used to do when you were a little kid?
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What would you do when your dad was being a radiologist?
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Someone did their Wikipedia.
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He could see right through you, no matter when you got drunk in high school, the dad, the radiologist.
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All right.
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He was.
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Look, that s all I got.
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I like it.
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No.
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Take us back to eight year old Rachel.
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Oh, my God.
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So so I was actually really shy when I was little.
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I don t know if either of you guys were you were.
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I don t know.
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I was pretty shy.
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And then I sort of like not David, but my dad, my dad was really funny.
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So then but then in around junior high, I sort of became more like the class clown type.
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And like my friends, my my like gal pal friends were really funny.
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And so and I used to watch SNL like I discovered it when I was in third grade and I would like make my friends stay up and watch it.
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Third is early.
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That s good.
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I know.
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So I had this friend who had an older brother and like I d sleep over her house and he was watching.
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I was like, what is this?
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You know, like I remember that.
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I mean, like the B-Sketch, I didn t understand it at all.
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I didn t.
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I still don t really get it.
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I still don t.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But I was still like, love it.
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Oh, my God.
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And like Samurai and Lisa Loebner, like all those.
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I mean, Gilda Radner, everything.
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And so then I was just sort of even though half of it was probably going over my head, I was just really into it and I would watch it every
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week and make my friends stay up to.
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And would you mimic them?
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Would you mimic?
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No, I wasn t like stuff from it or it was so weird.
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I wasn t really this.
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No, I mean, I wasn t really like doing flattery.
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I know.
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Yeah, I was just more like just a funny person into doing the school plays and stuff like that.
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And then like class clown school plays combo sort of thing.
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But I wasn t like a kid who was like, I m going to be honest.
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I don t know if you guys were from a young age or what.
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I don t know.
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No, we were smart enough to think you couldn t ever get on SNL.
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Exactly.
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That was impossible from 495 Wellington.
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Do you remember the address of your famil home?
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Mine was 495 Wellington.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it still is.
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My mom still lives there.
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Can we give that address out?
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And when they re not normally home?
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How do you get there from the airport?
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If you want to meet Rachel s mom.
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We should auction off a meet and greet at the end.
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Exactly.
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She d be into that probably.
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I lived at 702 East Brenda in Casa Grande, Arizona.
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Take that America.
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495 Wellington Drive.
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Home number, landline, 415-591-8128.
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948-5888.
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I still call you on that number.
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Oh, my number.
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Yeah.
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So so, Rachel, so you re a little kid and you fall in love with Saturday Night Live and you re you re you re afraid to even hope at that point.
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I m still kind of shy.
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Yeah.
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And I was like then in high school, I did school plays and stuff like that.
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And does it help your social life to be class clowny?
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Uh, yeah, I would say so.
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But I mean, all my friends are funny.
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Like I just am I your friend?
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Funny.
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You are.
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And you re very funny.
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No, I mean, I like like they re still really I still am in touch with these same women.
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And they re just it s just I don t know.
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We sort of have this comedy vibe going on.
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So everyone was funny.
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I have the same thing.
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I have a lot of friends from high school.
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We ran track and cross country, but I was always doing characters or little impressions.
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I didn t really know I was a comedian and I m friends with them now.
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So they ve been with you this whole time.
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Yeah.
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Oh, wow.
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That s that s cool.
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When you have some of them get known and some went into different fields.
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None of them went none of them were really into acting.
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They were just kind of funny little hipsters, you know.
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Yeah.
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Normal people.
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But oh, fun fact, which I ve actually said before, but Amy Poehler grew up in the next town over, even though we didn t know each other.
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But we did we did work in the same ice cream parlor, but not at the same time.
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Oh, that ice cream ice cream parlor called Chad Chadwick s, which welcome to Chadwick s.
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What the fuck do you want?
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Yeah.
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You watch your fucking wicked ice cream.
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I can t do it, but I love when you want to go home.
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I copy you.
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You said we could piss.
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Oh, you re the one.
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Yeah.
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I was watching the Boston thing with Jimmy.
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But yeah, I always ask this question.
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No one has an answer.
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But go ahead.
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Finish your thought.
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I like.
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Oh, no, I was going to say.
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But no.
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But then when I went to college, there was an improv group there and I didn t really know what improv was, but I saw this group rehearsing and I was like, oh, I think I could do that, you know.
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So then that s how I
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kind of fully was like really into comedy when I joined that fun and scary.
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So do you had a moment in high school where you got a little confident somehow, like maybe I meant to maybe kind of do this because I was asked to speak for the junior varsity cross country team and it came out kind of funny and I had little episodes like that.
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He came out as church lady.
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Well, did you was church like a rudimentary actually made the dress from scratch when I was five and they would have me dress in a dress and prance around.
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No, that was much later.
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Yeah, that could be real.
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I know.
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I don t know.
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No.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I love the church.
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I just need to blurt out like I had this fan out thing blurred out of how much I love your characters and naughty parts and gorged and tingling.
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Yeah, it always sounds funnier when someone does it.
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Is that what she would say?
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Noddy and it was such a pornographic part than Gorge.
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That s because the censors didn t want me to say penis.
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So I it s up to that.
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It was way more pornographic.
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Noddy and Gorge, an older woman saying it and almost turned on by it.
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It s like she s so focused on it.
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Well, she s a church lady.
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That was a very lucky thing.
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I mean, for you.
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So you get you.
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We re going back for a second.
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So you join that the the college glee club.
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Yeah.
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The improv group.
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But so I think what I notice is, you know, there are a lot of like in acting class or the play or whatever.
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There weren t a lot of people who were into being the comedy part.
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And like that was the part I always gravitated towards.
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Like when people say comedy is hard, I m like,
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No, doing the drama part where you have to be crying your eyes out, like to me, that s hard.
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It s not.
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I think it s more overtly embarrassing to be that vulnerable.
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But when you re being funny, you re in charge and kick an ass when you re funny.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Kicking ass.
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So that I was I don t know.
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I sort of thought like, oh, maybe I could do I at least sort of I wasn t like I m going to make it.
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But I was like, I at least want to know that I gave it a shot and then I can go back and do regular have a regular job.
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I don t know if you guys were like.
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comedy or bust or did you have like, I just want to try this.
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But Dana, did you did stand up?
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Is that how you.
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Well, the stand up scene, they started building comedy clubs on every block in 1979, right as I got out of college.
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I mean, there was no comedy clubs before that.
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So I would just play biker bars and delicatessens.
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But the I said,
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I said to myself, because it seemed like trying to be the president or the first man on the moon, literally, I ll try this until I m 30 and see if something happens.
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But then the club scene exploded.
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What about you?
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Well, I didn t do stand up at all.
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I just wanted to improv and sketch.
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So I was like, I ll try it.
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So during my sophomore summer, we went out to Chicago because one of the guys in our group lived there.
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And I checked out Second City and ImprovOlympic.
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And I was like, OK, I m going to try Chicago after college and then just see how it goes.
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Yeah.
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be no high hopes or anything.
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And so then that s how I went out there to try it again in a second city.
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It took a while and I took the classes and everything, but then eventually got in.
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Well, what did mom and dad think?
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Because you went to Dartmouth.
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So you re a brainiac.
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And then you re now you re in what s this second?
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Who said what?
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You re prancing around in a little costume.
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Who the fuck you think you are?
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Get a real job.
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I mean, were there or they were just very sweet.
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That was my impression.
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So, I mean, like I said, my dad was sort of
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He was into comedy, you know, very funny.
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So he sort of gave it this kind of reverence or whatever.
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So they were sort of like, you know, yeah, go go try.
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I don t know what their inner monologue was.
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They were like, what the hell is she doing?
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But but no, they were supportive.
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And that like every year I made a little bit of progress, you know, like I d be on the house team at Improval and Beggar, get into the touring company.
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So it wasn t like,
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you know, instant success.
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Like most of us know it takes a while.
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So it was sort of like incremental.
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How did you make ends meet, as they say?
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And it s OK if mom and dad gave you a little bit.
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Oh, I I well, first of all, I was also interested in psychology.
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So I did work in a I think a psychiatric hospital for a while.
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Oh, was John Lovitz there?
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He was.
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That s a joke.
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He was a patient for nine years.
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He was not there.
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I did that for a while because I was still sort of like, oh, maybe I want to be in psychology.
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Like I was still a little torn.
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And then I also temped for most of it.
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Oh, and I was a horrible waiter.
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I got five.
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Well, I got downgraded at California Pizza Kitchen.
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I was locked into the bar back position.
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But why do you want to just attempt?
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I couldn t carry all those plates on my arm.
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Well, barback, you have to lift 60 pounds of a bus.
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Oh, well, whatever.
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I was like the to go girl, whatever.
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And it wasn t it wasn t a lot of manual labor.
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But no, mainly I was a temp.
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I tempt and answered phones and this and that secretary.
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Did you live in like an apartment with roommates and stuff?
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Was it was it struggling?
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Yes, I lived in.
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I mean, Chicago was so fun because you could get this amazing apartment for like
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three hundred dollars at a roommate, you know, and the apartment.
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It was just such a fun time.
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Like I moved up there barely knowing anybody.
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And then I was with all these people that, you know, now, I mean, we all were there together.
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And it was just such a fun time because like you re you know, you d go do your improv show or just go watch an improv show at the beginning and then everyone would hang out together.
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So you were with all these funny people all the time.
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And it was like it was out of your whole world.
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OK.
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Tina Fey, Tina.
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Later on, Amy Poehler.
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And oh, my gosh, so many people.
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Well, like when I was in the touring company at Second City, Amy Sedaris was on the main stage, like Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell.
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They were on what happened to those guys, Colbert and Carell.
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I don t I never heard from them again, but but they
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But I didn t like hang with them because they were the people you were like, oh, look at them.
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You know, I was like, oh, behind them.
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Yeah.
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Well, Corral s like that.
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He throws his weight around.
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Yeah.
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Humblest guy ever.
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But but no, I was more with.
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Yeah.
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Like, well, Tina and Scott adds it.
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Jack McBrayer, Nia Vardalos.
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We re all kind of in the same generation.
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Wow.
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And oh, my gosh, I m forgetting like half of them right now.
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But
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But everyone.
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O Brien McCann and Brian O Brien McCann.
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Oh, man, funny.
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Conan.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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John Glazer.
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Another.
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Anyway, it was like it felt like this sort of golden age.
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I mean, maybe everyone felt like that in Chicago.
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But did you feel that at the time?
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Because I would think back later and be nostalgic for those early days.
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But at the time, it was sort of a struggle.
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But you were happy at the time, like I m in the golden age kind of.
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I mean, it s so like the sounds so Pollyanna, but it was I just remember being so like laughing so much at what other people were doing on stage, you know, like, yeah, like everyone had their own style and, you know, event.
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Like when you first get on the main stage, I was like really nervous.
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Oh, actually SNL came through to scout when I first got on the main stage.
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And so then like I was, you know, it wasn t like I was super confident.
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And when I first got on that big stage, you know, so I was like, definitely not what I m seeing.
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I was like, you know, scared and improvising in front of this bigger crowd, everything.
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So anyway, they came through and they, they picked like all these people to go audition, but I, but except me and like two other people.
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But I mean, now looking back, I m like, OK, yeah, I didn t really have characters.
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I wasn t.
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Did you know who was pretty green?
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Who was a big audition?
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Did anyone just get a show?
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Was it Marcy that year?
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Oh, Marcy.
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I think Marcy was there.
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And that year, like they took Dave Keckner and Nancy Walls.
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I think that s Steve Carell s wife, I think.
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Yeah.
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And I m.
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I m not sure if that was I think that s the same year.
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But anyway, then but then I was on the stage for like three more years.
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And, you know, they don t come through like every year.
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They re coming like you never know.
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Right.
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So like they came back three years later and then I was on and then I had a lot more experience and a lot more characters.
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And and then I got to go audition.
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When you did what what was your happening characters that were popular for you?
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Well, OK, no, first of all, I didn t I didn t get the job this year, even though your second time around.
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Still no job.
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Second time.
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No.
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Then the second time.
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But the first year I did the Boston thing because Tina and I had done this Boston duo.
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Can you do it?
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Because people loved it when they hear voices.
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Oh, yeah.
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So a little bit of the Boston.
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We were like, oh, a couple of weeks is wicked, wicked, wicked, smart, wicked, smart.
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Yeah.
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No, it was Tina and I. We were Mother Jada shopping at the Burlington Mall.
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And that was our initial scene.
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And then when we got to second when I eventually got to us that we would write those together for.
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Yeah.
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And then you did it with Jimmy, too.
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Yeah.
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With Jimmy.
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Yeah.
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And then I didn t really do that many impressions.
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But at the time,
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Well, at the time, like Ally McBeal was the big show.
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So I did Callista Flockhart for my audition.
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How do you do her?
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Yeah, I was.
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It s really kind of just a face which you can t see on this podcast, but it s just like you turn your lip up and kind of look off to the side.
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Yeah.
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And then you kind of stutter.
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But I don t know.
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But but like, yeah, no one knows that show.
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So it s sort of
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obsolete.
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I know.
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That s how I got on.
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Whatever.
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I did it on.
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It is a good weird one.
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That s a big point.
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It s weird.
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You do difficulty.
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You know, you re doing an impression that not everyone does.
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They look at that.
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They go, you know what I did for.
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So then I got to come back the next year and audition again.
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And that year I did talk about obscure, but I did I did Paula Poundstone and Rita Rudner.
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What?
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Which, yeah.
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But I mean, I don t really remember.
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Like, it s probably I haven t done this in like 20 years.
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So if I try it right now, it ll probably suck.
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But Paula Poundstone, she had this bit about like, should I open up a box of Popjots?
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And there s two Popjots in there.
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And now I got to eat both Popjots.
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Like that was my Paula Poundstone.
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That is good.
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I lived with Paula Poundstone.
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I was working with Paula in San Francisco and she lived with my wife and I. Yeah.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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Oh, so you have like a scrutinizer.
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No, no.
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That was that was Paula.
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She was an amazing comedian.
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Amazing.
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She is an amazing improviser.
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And that s very much her.
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And she didn t have a voice.
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I went obscure.
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I want to be scared for that.
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I love that.
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Can I hear it just one more time?
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Oh, oh.
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So I open up a box of pop tarts and I try to just one pop, but there s two pop tarts there.
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You didn t do Rita Rudner, did you?
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Rita Rudner.
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No, you can t do Rita.
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Rita Rudner.
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I try this.
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I was like all I remember is like my husband and I went on vacation.
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That s all.
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But I m definitely here.
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My husband said he wanted to watch the Super
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bowl.
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There you go.
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I didn t know.
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Something like that.
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Sounds a little creepy.
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She was good though.
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My opener went on too long and we re having him beaten up in the alley.
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She s very sweet.
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I m kidding.
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She was a great stand up.
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These were stand ups in the U.S.
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for the 90s.
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So you re getting the show off these, though.
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Right.
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This time.
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Don t tell me you don t get the show this time.
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I didn t get the show.
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I don t know if that I don t know if that helped me or not or hurt me, but I did get the show that time.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So then then it was me.
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Like I said, CPK.
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1999, you still was crushed.
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Oh, by then I was I was long in my rearview mirror.
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OK.
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And then I was just at Second City by then.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But and how many years at Second City before you got a message?
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Well, I did, you know, six years, three years touring.
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and then four years on the mainstay.
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So seven years of preparation just for the young people.
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Listen to the podcast.
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I m going to get on it, too.
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I m going to get on.
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Yeah, it takes a long time.
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Yeah.
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Shut up, man.
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Rachel did seven years.
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But you know what?
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Like I think Cecily Strong got the show right off of I don t know, from like Improv Olympics.
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Like back then, as you guys might know,
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Well, Cecily is strong.
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She s good.
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She sure is.
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But back then it was like just Second City in the groundlings and then a few stand ups.
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Right.
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That s how they used to.
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Yeah.
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Now it s much more like where else do they go now?
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The Internet.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like online YouTube.
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James Austin Johnson.
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Yeah.
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The Trump guy.
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Yeah.
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Just online.
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Yeah.
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Um, so there s so many more spots to be found now.
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Yeah.
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Well, where are they up to now?
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I mean, they went when you went on.
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Was it still kind of like 10 cast members with feature players?
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It was in the teens, the high teens.
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Yeah.
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I feel like it was 20 back then.
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Yeah.
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Because we were pretty fat, Dana.
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When we when we left, I started with three.
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Lucky.
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No, it was three women, three men, major players and then a couple of features.
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Oh, yeah.
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We had it.
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We had a lot of people.
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Well, when I first got there, the women were Molly Shannon on a guest star and Sherry Oteri.
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And, you know, I always admired them.
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It was Tina.
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Tina was just a writer.
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She was a writer.
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They Lawrence Center.
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You re not really a performer, but we re going to make you a writer.
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He didn t say that to you.
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Like exactly.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Because I only knew her as a performer back in Second City.
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But yeah, so she was there, but she was just writing.
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And and so, yeah, there I was with with those.
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How did you bond with with Molly?
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She s kind of mean sometimes.
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Right.
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I m always a she was very she was very about all three of those on our show.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Very funny.
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And you would fit in great with them.
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You know, I really like I mean, you know, when you first get there, you re totally the freshman, you know, sort of like, where do I go?
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You know, but.
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Here s your closet.
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There s a lot of props in there.
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It s also a prop closet, but that s your office.
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No, they were all really cool.
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And yeah, it was like back then it was people like Tim Meadows and Colin Quinn were still on.
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And then when I left the show, it was Andy Samberg and Bill Hader and the whole new crap.
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You know how there s always the.
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Yeah, the little.
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So you straddled those two generations.
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I ve straddled all the generations.
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Yeah.
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And all the male cast members.
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But that s just I just that s on Wikipedia.
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It s made up.
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It was anyway.
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But I ve straddled them all.
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So what was your first thing that sort of clicked where you thought you might stick around?
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My first, what did you say?
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My first what scene or what update?
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Oh, my gosh.
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Oh, boy.
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Well, it s so weird because, like, you don t feel I don t know, like I I well, I did.
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The first character I did was the Boston thing with Jimmy.
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Yeah.
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But like, I can t say that I felt like, yes, now I ve made it, you know, because you re always like, and now there s next week, you know, like there s always that pressure.
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And Rachel, is there a problem with what happened with my first thing is they don t know me well enough.
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So I did an impression, but they don t know that s different than what I sound like.
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So how good is it?
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Because maybe I just sound like that.
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So if you do Boston, maybe they just think you re the new Boston feature player.
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She s just playing herself.
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That s not even acting.
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You know what I mean?
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Because they go, oh, and then they see you in other stuff.
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They go, oh, she does that Boston accent pretty good because she doesn t sound like that.
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Right.
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Right.
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But still, that was that that scored you were on before update.
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I mean, it was kind of a God, you know, it s weird.
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This is so whatever.
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I never even knew about like it s better to be on before update.
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Like that s how dumb I was.
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Like like even my, you know, I d be there later and someone be pissed at their scene was moved down.
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And I just feel like, oh, I m second to last.
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That probably means it won t get cut time.
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Like I didn t have that.
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It s still in the show.
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Let me go.
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Yeah.
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So I don t think people watching know that it s bad.
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They probably don t, except that they tune out.
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Yeah, they don t realize it s up.
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They go.
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They probably don t realize.
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Yeah, they tap out after it drops off after update.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Usually goes through.
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I realized that was a thing.
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Yeah.
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But but yeah.
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And then I don t know.
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The other thing was, geez, I don t know the order that things worked.
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But when did you do that?
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Oh, that was towards the end.
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That was I mean, I was like, well, actually, that s a downer for those people.
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Fifth year there or something.
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But but yeah, I did the hot tub thing with Will Ferrell.
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Right.
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That was fun.
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I watched that.
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That was something that yes, last night that is people mentioned to me.
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Very, very funny.
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Let s talk about that, because I saw the one with.
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Walken.
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Oh my gosh.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That was the first time I did that.
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And he had a lot of lines and I thought.
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Shin-shi, shin-shi.
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Yeah, sorry.
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I did a movie with Walken.
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He s electric.
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He was a little worried about lines because it s so bulky in the way he speaks that first he had to memorize them, which is hard, but at least he has cue cards.
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But God damn, is he funny when he talks like that shit?
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And you guys were all sounding the same.
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Oh, my gosh.
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He was perfect in that scene.
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So now this scene was on these lovers characters that I did with Will Ferrell.
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And it was actually well, the spark for this character came from a professor that my friend had had in college.
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My friend said that she was not really going to do much for the winter break.
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And the professor said, like, oh, that s a good idea.
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Just read a book, take a bath, eat a bonbon, spend time with your lover.
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And so
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We grabbed on to the word lover.
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And I ve been saying that for years and years.
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Then I don t know, Will heard me saying it and we wrote those scenes.
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But those were really fun.
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Like one thing I love about the show is like that you can write in your scene, like there s a hot tub on stage and then you get there and there s a working hot tub.
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Yeah.
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They make all your dreams come true.
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Yeah, it s true.
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And when you do bar for one time, we did one with Alec Baldwin where I think Fred wrote it, where we all
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we come to a crime scene and we re all cops.
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Each cop that comes up, goes, get ready for this.
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They go, listen, I ve been around.
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He walked up and they throw up when they see how bad the scene, the crime scene is.
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Like there s a car wreck.
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And then the next guy comes up and goes, captain, you got to see this.
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And he goes, but they had to put it from your leg through your arm.
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And there s a guy going, squeak, squeak, squeak, turning it.
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And it s funnier because it s either too much or it s not enough.
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It drips out.
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Yeah.
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That makes it even funnier.
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Yeah.
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We were like, give it full blast on air.
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Go crazy.
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Anything that looks like a mistake and then people start to break because it s a mistake.
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Oh, my gosh.
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OK, so that s it.
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Yeah.
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That s another thing that I want to say.
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Well, I mean, I know I had this giant break in that Disney world, Debbie Downer thing, but I thought of when I knew I was coming on here because I
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I like, of course, before you re on the show, you love seeing people break like when you re watching as if you re and then when you re on, like you really try not to break.
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I mean, I really would try not to.
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But I remember both of you got the Chris Farley, the van down by the river.
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Oh, yeah.
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That s right.
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Oh, my gosh.
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That was one of the early breaks, because
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So fun.
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We were still not supposed to.
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And so honestly worried about getting fired.
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And then, cause you know, after you do a decent sketch just for people at home, Lauren doesn t throw the headphones down and the Amstel light and run out and hug you.
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So you did it.
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Gap girls is a smash and spins me around while they go to commercial.
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So, uh, he just, you walk by and, and, and he might nod or, you know,
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A thumbs up.
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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Didn t blow it.
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You ll get them next time, but it wasn t terrible.
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B plus, which is good.
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I love your impressions of it.
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It s terrible.
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It s terrible.
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So when Van Down by the River one was a fun one to break up in.
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But really, I don t know if I did it even ever after that.
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And I think Jimmy has the most on his resume of crack ups.
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Yeah.
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No, you you weren t like a frequent breaker.
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I just remember that one as being because I mean, if I were there, I d be laughing.
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It was just so funny.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Christina Apple.
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Yes.
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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And then and then, Dana, I was thinking about what didn t I hope I don t think I ve got the head.
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Headwood, Harry, Harry.
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Yes.
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And the dog ripping the thing out of you.
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That was... Oh my gosh, that was so fun.
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Dana Moore was more smiling, but everyone else was going banana.
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That was so fun.
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The sketch was killing so hard, and we ve told this story before, but they put more of the dog, you know, the baby Gerber s meat food on the prosthetic, and they didn t feed the dog for dinner because Rob Schneider said, how do we get him to really go crazy on air?
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Well, maybe we ll do a light dinner and we ll put more on the thing.
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So the dog went crazy for it, but the sketch was going so well and I loved it so much that I decided I really wanted to keep the thing on.
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So I put my hand on my temple and then I was kind of smiling, but the crowd was going crazy because I was just riding the wave of an animal, an innocent animal trying to get food.
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You can t top that in comedy.
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So, but yeah, that was a lucky one.
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Did you have one of those?
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Something where someone else wrote it
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you re riding this great wave that s just it s just great when someone else comes up with it for you.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Well, something that someone else came up with was this writer, Scott Wainio wrote back when Angelina Jolie and her brother had this moment at the Oscars where they they kissed or something.
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So then he wrote this character that was their love child.
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And so I came out with this, like, bald head with an arm coming out of my head.
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and like drooling.
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And I mean, it was like an Apache Baldwin.
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It was like, it was a total look.
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And he named the character, he named the character like could triple clicks.
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Like it didn t even have any vowels in it.
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So anyway, I got to, and there was drool involved.
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So I got to come out as that.
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And then that character recurred in all sorts of like American idol contest.
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And that was created by Scott radio.
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It s not at all by me.
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So yeah, that always, always really fun when you get
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Handed this and it s great when it s funny with the sound off just that just the image when you come out They re already laughing.
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It s great.
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Yeah, you get that connection.
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Yeah Wow
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So Debbie Downer, how many times did you do that?
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I know people talk about it.
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Oh my gosh, I don t know, maybe five or something, but like nothing topped that first one where we were laughing so hard.
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Which was the first one?
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It was Disney World.
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Oh yeah.
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And we started laughing.
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I still don t even really know why we started laughing, but then
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And because I knew that camera was coming in so close, it was like the ultimate church laugh.
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And you can see my face like twitching.
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You literally see my lip going, get, get, get, get, get.
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Yeah, because I m like trying to.
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Well, everyone in it is just sort of staring down, going, they don t want to even connect the eyes with you.
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Well, it s just irresistible when they start to go.
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How do you not?
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I mean, when Jimmy Fallon and the hot tub one with you and Will, I mean, really just went he was just.
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He couldn t function.
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And at first I thought he was acting or doing something.
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And he was just trying to stop his body from breaking.
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He was sort of hitting his chest when he was in the hot tub.
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So Jimmy was.
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Yeah.
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Did you break?
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And I think in that one, I think in that Demi, they re like, I actually was the culprit.
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Like, I think I act because I flubbed.
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You said China.
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I said it was like North Korea.
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Yeah.
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North Korea.
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I was like, the media is so sensitive there.
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And then I was like, so secretive.
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Yeah.
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And that was the problem.
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You guys might sort of feel this like I sort of had a good feeling about, you know, sometimes you write a sketch and you re like, OK, this is going to be good.
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And then it totally tanks.
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Right.
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Or whatever.
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Yeah.
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So I sort of was like, OK, this could work probably, I think, but I m not sure.
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And then and then like I was just so nervous about it working that then when I flubbed it, I don t know, it was like nervous laughter or something.
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Well, you flubbing that, and then you recover and say the right one, and then everyone s like, uh-oh, it s already the train went off the track a little bit, and then it s already funny, and then they go, meep, meep.
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There s not the same noise, so now you re mixing up the noises, and then there s a meow, meow, it s just all fucking funny.
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Yeah, feline aids, meow, meow.
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And then I saw Thanksgiving when we hit the very end, you re like, look at the wrong camera, the turkey moves away, and you re like,
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Is it over?
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And then it s just fucking hilarious.
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And then the speaking of like asking you, she ll receive like we re like, and then the turkey gets up and walks off the table.
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And then there s the puppet guy, the turkey that springs up and like runs off the table.
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So, yeah.
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Which is funny, too.
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You don t see it coming.
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I guess it s just us, Turkey.
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Yeah.
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I used to do it.
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Somebody s done this, but used to do like if a trumpet was my life, he d be like,
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You know, I don t know if that s like from Carol Burnett or something, but a smash cut of somebody like Debbie Downer with those sounds is like, did that kill at dress the first time they did that?
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It just you can t not laugh.
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I mean, yeah, no, that it did go well.
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Yeah.
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But I mean, read through.
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But then read through.
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So so I wrote those with Paula Pell.
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And when we re trying to write it, we first put her like just in an office or something.
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And then we were like, this isn t really working.
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Like, wait, we need to have her somewhere that s like really fun.
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And everyone s trying to have fun.
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So we put her at Disney.
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And then we kept making those trumpet sounds like just to each other, the trombone.
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And then I think Paula was like, what if we put these in the script?
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Like and so then people were laughing really hard at those.
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Who did it at read through?
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Did you go, or did you bring a trumpet?
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I think we had the real trombone.
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Somehow we had the real sounds there.
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So in the sketch, do you have a real music playing?
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Like it s a real guy from the band.
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I don t know.
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You know what I mean?
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I think he recorded them for us.
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And then they had all these like long ones.
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Yeah.
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Because sometimes it might be too hard to coordinate to have them do it perfectly.
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I think it was, they had their little buttons to press.
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Yeah.
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Because it s really funny.
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First of all, everyone s having fun and sort of saying corny dialogue about Disney World.
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Like Lindsay Lohan s like,
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I can t wait.
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Can you see why?
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Right.
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And then you immediately take the legs out and then that s funny.
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And then they push in on you.
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You make a funny face and then they play a funny noise.
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It s just a combo.
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But it was definitely like diminishing returns.
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People got the joke and like, you know, the later ones are like, OK, they re fine.
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But I do think like
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Diminishing the concept, but the concept of it took off, you know, maybe more of that, like that Disney World one was, you know, the thing I get probably recognized for.
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But but it was more about the concept.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like people coming up to me and saying, that s my mom, that s my boss, whatever.
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Oh, yeah.
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Then the actual one escalation.
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Did you do one with a with a host?
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Because I would be funny if.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Next to Debbie Downer.
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I didn t see.
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Yeah, we did.
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Actually, Steve Carell, we did.
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And he was also he I think he was like Bob Bummer.
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Oh, OK.
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We did like the.
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mirror.
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So that would escalate it.
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But yeah, it s the thing that people sort of like people, then they know what s going to happen.
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But I know.
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Well, the truth is, they know, they know, they know Church Lady.
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She s going to say, well, isn t that special?
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At some point?
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I know.
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Oh, whatever.
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We did the best we could.
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But I m just the age she is right now.
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I m Church Lady s age right now.
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I was playing her at 31, but now I do the math kids.
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She was ageless.
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Rachel, we did Buh-bye.
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More people knew me from Buh-bye for probably years.
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And it was, we did it twice, you know, so they decide.
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And the second one wasn t even any good.
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It just, the only one remembers is the first one.
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And then it was too hard.
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And you wanted to go back to the well, of course, you know, but we did the end of the year.
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I went on a flight the next day in America and they were all going, bye-bye.
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But I m like, wow, that fast.
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And then I tell you for 10 straight years, there was not a flight where someone didn t say it to me.
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And then they said, my friend s wife is a flight attendant.
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And they play that at American in their flight training to say, this is what our image is.
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And we have to break this image.
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Do not act like this.
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You re not allowed to say bye-bye anymore.
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You have to say, thank you.
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You have to say konnichiwa or whatever.
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You have to say, thanks for coming.
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You cannot say bye-bye.
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That s hilarious.
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That s a feat to land a generational catchphrase with only two appearances.
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Yeah.
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And the second one didn t even count.
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Pretty impressive.
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Why didn t the second one count?
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Did you go bye-bye?
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No, and it was with Steve Martin, the master of all hilarity, but we didn t service him that well.
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It s just the whole thing, we did it, it went away for the summer, and it had maybe higher expectations.
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We came back on the first show and did it, and it was really wah-wah.
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They should have had you come out.
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So, Rachel, when you meet all these movie stars and athletes and stuff over your tenure, did you get to score with one of them?
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I mean, it s kind of a cool, weird part of what you... Because they ll say, William Shatner s down there, go say hello.
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Or Charlton Heston would like to.
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Or Wayne Gretzky.
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Would you go down to the office?
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This is on a Monday.
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It s a trip.
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Did you have connection with some of them or who stood out for you?
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Oh, my gosh, I was OK.
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Well, I was always so shy around all the hosts.
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Like, you know, sometimes they d have those host dinner.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know, like I was such a null.
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Like I would just talk to the people I knew and I like and then I realized afterwards, like, oh, I was probably supposed to be like talking to the host to make them more comfortable.
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And I was just so shy.
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Like I said, I was shy at the beginning, but like, I was always like shy around Lauren and shy on the horse.
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Like, and then like, when we d be standing there, you know, you re standing there rehearsing the scene and like, sometimes you just be like sitting there, like alone.
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And like, I would see like Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon were so good at just like chit chatting with the host and famous people.
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Hey, what are you doing?
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It s like they were just so good at it, but it was real.
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Like, yeah, you know, that s just like their skill, you know.
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And I would just be like to do to do like looking around.
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And then I d be like, so do you live in New York or L.A.?
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Like that was my only that s my only that was your go to.
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I got a little better at it, but I mean, but the people that I would be really excited about were like you said, like,
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Steve Martin or the people that I grew up watching.
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Yeah.
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That was a little starstruck when you first saw Steve Martin.
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Oh, totally.
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I was.
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But I mean, by then I was a little bit more adept at having conversations.
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But yeah, like Steve, Steve Martin and I don t know, like I can t really think of someone that I was like, you know, I have their number now.
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I mean, like that I really bonded with Tom Hanks.
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By the way, just think of all the people that talk to host or date the host.
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You think it even crossed your mind to go, hey, can I, hey, let me just grab your number.
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We re really getting along in this one sketch.
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Maybe that happens.
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Every host number, John Lovitz.
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I go, how do you do that?
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I just ask.
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I have their number, you know.
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I do.
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I would never.
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He had everyone number is just very friendly that way.
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I was more like you.
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But were you ever did you ever was that a really handsome man come on the show and you re a little.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I mean, I m sure like a lot of handsome.
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They re all they re all Victoria Jackson was always in love with Alec Baldwin whenever he came.
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Oh.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I mean, I m sure there were it was like so long ago, but then sometimes like someone that seemed really handsome, then you d find out they were kind of like a dum-dum or something.
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And that was that was that was a good lesson.
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That happens to me.
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You know what?
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A dum-dum.
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Did David host while you were there?
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I don t understand the dum-dum part.
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Wait, so first of all, Dina, you hosted the second, because I looked this up because I knew you had hosted.
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I thought of my first year, but it was my second year.
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But I don t remember if we did any.
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I did.
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I remember meeting you then.
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And I think as well.
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Yeah.
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Will did W and I did senior on a sketch and he sat on my lap and he s 6 4, 230.
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I still have lower back pain.
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No, but Rachel, that s why I was there.
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Do you remember doing a movie called Dickie Roberts?
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Okay.
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I do.
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And I just, I just rewatched the beginning of it before this to refresh my memory.
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I did.
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I loved Rachel in it.
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And then I got hit in the head with the elevator and I had a big bump on my head.
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And you were the assistant for Rob Reiner.
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Yes.
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Rob Reiner s secretary.
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But I think because you and Sandler and Chris Rock, like I got to hang out with you guys during I mean, I did the movie with those two.
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And Sandler s just like such a mensch to me because he always brings me back in his movies.
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And you guys are always you don t like you meet the generation ahead of you and you don t know, you know, how it s going to be.
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But you guys are so nice and welcoming and.
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It s like a little comedy community.
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It s a family, the Adam Sandler movie company.
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You will always make a scene better.
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That s all you need to know.
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If you go throw her in there and it s pretty good.
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And if she says yes, it will be better.
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So show whatever she does.
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I know you have that reputation of just when people mention you, oh, she s just so funny.
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I mean, they say it, but you re consistently, don t you think, David, with Rachel?
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Oh, God, she s just funny.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I mean, she s got a good look.
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It s just funny.
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Oh, I have to tell you something.
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First of all, just a side note, you worked at Ruby Tuesday.
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No, you were a spokesman for Ruby Tuesday.
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I did, yes.
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And I got carded at Chili s.
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I got carded at Chili s day and I told you about a month ago.
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You did recently?
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A month ago?
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That s a good thing to get carded at your time on the planet.
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I would love that.
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But I managed to see something interesting in Rachel s bio and then I found a story about me out of it.
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Oh, good.
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We both have in common.
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Yeah, because Ruby Tuesday and Chili s are sort of the same.
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They are the same ilk.
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Yes.
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But we have to I have a serious question for you.
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Serious question.
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OK, OK.
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This is the serious time of the week.
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We just asked Bobby Moynihan if your read through a I have a new one twist on this, Dana.
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Do you remember where you sat and do you remember where everyone sat from the host going sideways?
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Whoa.
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Wow.
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Well, I definitely, I remember where I sat.
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Okay.
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Like if you re at the doors and you re walking, you re looking straight in at the windows.
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Lauren is back there, right?
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Okay.
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So I was to the right.
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Oh, the right.
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But I was like far from the, from where Lauren was.
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Like, okay.
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I never assumed that seat where the senior lady sits next to the host.
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Do you know that that was a thing?
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Who sits there?
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Did you know this?
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So there s a system where like the woman that s been there.
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I could be wrong with it.
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So there s Lauren and the host.
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Yeah.
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And then like it would be like Molly or Maya or whoever.
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But I was never there.
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But with, you know, with good reason, because see what I said about the host dinner.
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Like I wasn t the person they knew you were.
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I wasn t.
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I was fine.
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I was fine.
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That was your nickname.
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Put dial tone next to her and see if something happens.
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Put her by the door next to the piano.
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The host keeps talking to you and you just stare into space.
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That could be a good character.
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She s dial tone.
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She doesn t speak to anybody.
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No personality at all.
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I don t like to think that I m like not socially, but I will admit that next to really famous people, I m not good at making conversation.
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So, you know, I accept that.
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But anyway, I was down near Seth and we had a lot of good times actually, Seth and
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Read through is fun if you re with somebody you like over there and you re writing notes or something.
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It was really fun with Seth.
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That s mainly what I remember.
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I don t really.
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And I think I was bipolar to bipolar by Amy Poehler as well.
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Yeah.
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So we had someone on our podcast who s bipolar a couple of weeks ago.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Comedian.
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I m sure there could be many.
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You have to listen to all 90 to find out, though.
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Oh, man.
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We have a whole bipolar series.
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Oh, one time.
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Here s a kind of a funny thing about the read through table.
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So one time when Johnny Knoxville was hosting my I twisted to like get my coat or something during break.
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And somehow I like spraying to my back.
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And so I don t even know what happened, but I couldn t I couldn t move it.
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So then I had to like
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Lie down on the floor.
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This is all during the break, you know, when people are going up.
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And so I m like lying down on the floor, like half under the table, literally could not move.
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And so then everyone comes back and like, you know, they called for this sort of NBC medic or something.
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And they had to continue the read through.
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Um, while I was under the table there, like frozen until the end of the thing.
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And, um, yeah, that was, I thought you said Johnny came to your rescue.
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They were like, do you have any painkillers?
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Exactly.
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You would think he did.
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Cause it was Jack is like, but he didn t have any.
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And so anyway, but it was kind of funny.
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Cause I mean, Dana, you could do the Lauren voice, but it was like, I d be reading my thing from under there.
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He s like, is Rachel still down there?
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But, um,
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Make sure Rachel s okay.
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Marcy, make sure Rachel initiates this waiver.
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It s that thing of like, you know, your back is predisposed to be injured and you reach for a napkin and suddenly you re on the floor.
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That s what it was.
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That s what happened to me once with a parking brake.
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Did it?
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Yeah, it just like went out.
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Really?
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Yeah, yeah.
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But I mean, I wasn t like old then.
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I wasn t either.
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I was really young.
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I don t know when it happened.
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Stress.
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But that was my strange read-through.
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I don t know.
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Highlight.
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Lowlight.
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David has some fainting spells.
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We ve heard, you know, someone threw a glass of water at Lauren s face once.
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Fuck you, man.
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No, I m kidding.
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That s a joke.
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Oh, that would have been a good story, though.
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I mean, so no one has been under the table in that situation.
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No, you re the only one so far I ve heard about under the table, which is good.
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That s a read through story.
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By the way, I like when he, in the Roger and Virginia sketch in the hot tub, when they say, she has the, oh, when he has sex with Maya, he says, she has, she just lies there.
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I think it s Walken says, Maya just lies there, like King Tutankhamen in his tomb, but makes the facial expressions of Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura.
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Just lies like I don t even remember that.
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Yeah.
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I was like, you re all talking about screwing.
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And my is just sitting there going, why are we talking about this?
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It s like mortified.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Oh, boy.
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What?
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So I remember we we made up we made up a sex act called Shinichi Shinichi.
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That s all I remember from that.
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I don t know.
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Well, I had to say it.
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I think it had something to do with an ear.
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I can t say anything.
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It s funny.
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Right.
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Just exactly.
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The pausing and the craziest talk ever.
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Yeah.
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And the whatnot.
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Wow.
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Well, anything else for Rachel?
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Because she s so sweet to come on here.
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And I think you re an all time great.
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Everybody knows you and loves you.
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And you re you re very, very busy.
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You did the wine country with all your bandmates, which is a really funny movie with all these superstar SNL cast members.
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30 Rock, you do a thing where you recur as like just different things.
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I looked at the reel today, there s like a two minute blast of all your characters from 30 Rock.
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Oh, I didn t even know that.
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And it s hysterical.
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The cat woman, her whole attitude.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh yeah, that was based on the SNL cat lady wrangler.
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Could you just call Tina and say, should I do this?
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This is a funny, weird one.
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Can you throw it in the show somewhere?
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Or does Tina say, what if you came in as this is just kind of back and forth?
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Well, for that one, like she knows me so well.
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She s like, oh, how do you do Liz Taylor in this?
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I really can t like because she s seen my little.
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Yeah, it s whatever.
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I don t know.
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She knows my that s sweet, though.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then you go score.
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So a mousy woman that doesn t want to do anything wrong is your favorite kind of attitude to play?
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That s kind of a good go-to for me, yeah.
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And what, did you do one of those on SNL, you would describe that way?
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I don t know.
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Just sort of insecure.
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I don t think so.
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I don t know, but I just like being that thing.
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Well, Rachel, I say, Dana, that
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uh, Deb Downer, Deborah Downer, Disneyland is probably, would fall in my maybe top 10 sketches.
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It s crazy.
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Thank you.
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I can t think of ones that really beat the shit out of it.
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You know, I m like,
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If it s not, it s way, way, way up there in my personal- There s a lot of like, just can t get, that sketch just was a 10.
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You know what I mean?
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It just worked.
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And there s like a massive Edwin Harry or Buh-bye.
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Some are just, they just work and they pop.
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And they last.
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And Lindsay Lohan being innocent and cute in it.
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Oh, also the fucking Hogwarts one.
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Oh yeah, the Hogwarts one.
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Wasn t that where her boobs were huge and you guys were like, what the fuck?
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What did you do this summer?
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She s like, I don t know.
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And you re like, your boobs are so big.
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And I was Harry Potter.
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Someone else wrote that.
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Was it Seth, maybe?
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Oh my gosh, I can t remember who.
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Maybe it was Seth.
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I think Seth might have written that.
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Was Seth in it?
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Who was in it with you?
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He might ve been in it, yeah.
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He was the extra guy.
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Because everyone s so perplexed, Dana, that Lindsay Lohan comes back and her boobs are so huge and everyone s like, they can t talk about anything else.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I think Seth wrote that.
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I forgot that one is so good.
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Okay.
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It s funny.
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Anyway, that s all.
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Thank you for being here.
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Mostly Dana, but thank you.
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David, we didn t interrupt as much as we normally do.
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As I just interrupted.
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No, you guys didn t.
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I felt like I was yammering on.
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No, we want the guests to be chatty.
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I like to hear your stories.
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I know, but I like your stories though.
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Um, it really like I mean, I don t want to get so cornball, but I just admire you guys so much.
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It s I m like freaked out talking to you guys like I would be.
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I m a dial tone talking to you guys.
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Yeah.
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You re up there for me.
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That s so, so nice.
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But I will pass it back at you.
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And you must run into fans at the airport or wherever you are or at a restaurant and they will fan out on you.
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Right.
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Of course.
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And it is surreal, isn t it?
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Because they saw you on television doing what they want to do or just enjoying you.
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And it s the whole thing is surreal.
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I can t.
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I remember George Bush Senior said to me, I can t believe I was president.
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It was surreal to him.
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Well, that s not a good thing.
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I can t remember anything about it.
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But it s the same thing with Saturday Night Live.
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It s like a fever dream that being I was on that and it happened.
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Then you go back and it s a little, it s a little melancholy walking down that hall and seeing a picture of your younger self in a sketch with Amy or whatever, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But I mean, you do have those bonds with those people.
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Of course.
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You know, because you re all in it together, you know?
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And that s the emotional underpinning of this podcast overall is that it s a seminal emotional experience.
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It s a reality show in a way.
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Yeah.
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So when we hear it s so true, it s all common experiences and everyone has a different twist on it.
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Yeah.
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And I was thinking when I was coming on, like, why couldn t I sleep less?
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I was like, SNL has like a lot of emotions attached, you know, like a lot of them are super positive.
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And then a lot of them are like, oh, I was so unconfident that like it s just all of life s emotions are wrapped up in.
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Yeah.
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Not as much.
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Not as much negative, just anxiety and like just bumps of like showbiz.
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It s just the way it is.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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The bumps of showbiz.
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Right.
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But like you said, I mean, you have that group that you re with and it s like no one else knows what that was like, you know, in the best way.
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Yeah.
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When you re starting to sketch it, when the band s playing is about to start, you see Jimmy Fallon in his outfit.
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Or you see Will Ferrell with a beard on or whatever.
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It s sort of a, okay, we re just having fun here.
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You know, it does help having your peers with you in it, you know?
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Totally.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It s the dream.
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It is the dream.
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You re a dream.
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Rachel, it s been such a pleasure.
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Thank you.
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Thanks so much.
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All right.
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Have a great day.
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We ll see you sometime.
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See you around campus.
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Okay, good.
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Okay.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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