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Crazy.
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That s so much fun to do that.
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Why is it fun to do Sandler s, whatever that sound that he makes.
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I know, we used to repeat it always at the office, because we d walk around and go.
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Yeah, Sandler, one of our favorite persons to interview.
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He s just such a fun dude and such a good dude and been around him for years, a little bit before SNL.
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And then since then, been a great pal to me.
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We ve had a good run of just being fuds and screwing off and golfing and whatever.
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He looked up to Dana when we got there, we all did.
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Everybody likes Adam.
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He d probably hate to hear that, but he s hard not to just really like.
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He s a genuinely very sentimental person, super funny, and it was really fun just hanging out with him.
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And he s got some great stories.
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He takes his time.
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So we all really enjoy it.
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The Sandman.
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Yeah.
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And it s live.
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Can you believe it?
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So.
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Pull over, listen, Colin s sick at work, and here, this one goes long.
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Yeah, there s a big old giant audience there giggling at our little throwaway, so it made me a little lighter in my step the next day.
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All right, Sandu.
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Sandman and Sandu.
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I think he nicknamed me Danadu, right?
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Did anyone else call me Danadu?
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They called you Doodoo.
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You were, you were Spudly, right?
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I was Spadoodle.
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They didn t call me Doodle, I m sad now.
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Spudnick, and most of those are from Dennis.
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Cheers.
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But the shortest nickname I had was...
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I was spader mcdader potato tomato hanger nadir right and I get that a lot and Sandler just called me Dana do but a Farley and rock always called me the lady cuz a church lady and Sandler was Dana do cuz he did it the other night and I realized he just calls me Dana do so then I call him Sandu and he goes no a sand man.
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Yeah
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Anyway, we sing, we laugh, we cry.
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It s a really fun podcast.
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So please enjoy it.
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And they re all great.
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Let s face it.
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We don t have any favorites, but we do love Adam.
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It s clickbait.
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What has happened to the Olsen twins?
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Look at them now.
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Whoa!
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It s a cute fest up front.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, we played here in 1962.
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You know, it was a shitstorm then.
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Ringo couldn t even keep his beat.
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People rushing in now.
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This is the show, by the way.
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I hope you are able to write off your ticket.
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You know, just send it to your account and hopefully you ll get money, a rebate.
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This guy s got a laminate that gets him on all 350 shows from Netflix is a joke this week.
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I know Netflix is a joke.
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Here s Joe Biden talking about the festival.
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Netflix is a joke.
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No joke.
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Good night.
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You know, he says no joke all the time when it s not a joke.
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People are dying.
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I m not kidding around here.
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My father died.
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No joke.
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We re dying now.
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We can t walk them through every joke.
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David, there s two of us.
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We re like the Everly Brothers.
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I mean, I ll just be over here now.
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I want to talk to you like this.
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We could just spread the stage.
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You go over there.
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Look at this.
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I ve never been part of a duo.
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Yeah, it s good.
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Let s get it going because we got our bud here and we want to get things started.
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Fly on the wall.
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We got a lot of things coming.
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I m telling you, many people are saying we got a lot of stuff coming for you today.
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Fly on the wall.
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That s Trump.
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Trump with a head cold.
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Thank you.
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All right, let s get settled.
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Let s settle down.
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Yeah, we re going to settle in.
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This is our podcast.
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And by the way, all joking aside, thanks for coming.
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I ve never done anything like this.
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And we have our very, very, very, very good friend who we all adore as our guest.
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which is very cool.
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Look at this.
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All right, I can just do that.
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All right, this next young man coming to the stage.
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Yeah.
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Dana, you can introduce him.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our very dear friend from Saturday Night Live and about 100 movies, the one and only Adam Sandler!
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Yeah!
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Woo-hoo!
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The middleweight champion of the world.
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Hey, yo, Rocky, what are you doing?
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How are you?
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I didn t even know it started.
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We don t, it hasn t started actually.
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What went on so far?
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Did you guys talk?
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We talked.
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I just got used to talking to a crowd.
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It s been the pandemic thing.
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Have you been in front of a crowd since the pandemic?
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Oh, it s the first time.
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It s going great.
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Yeah.
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It s going incredible.
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You got a good full one tonight.
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Yeah.
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You got a mic.
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You re good.
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You know, I wear a hoodie sometimes.
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It takes about a year and a half off my age, I feel.
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I think it s smart.
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It s good.
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Oh, it s so good.
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Look at this yo-yo.
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What s up?
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The beard is blocking so much.
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I like it.
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I like the look.
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You could definitely be on Skid Row and be like, hey, what s up, bro?
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Dude, I m just kidding.
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No, no, I m with you.
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I m with you.
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Adam, I have to tell you something.
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Danny, you can listen, but I...
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This time, today... Last time he made me go in the little boy place.
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Go ahead.
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Actually, today we did a memorial for Norm Macdonald today.
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And it was great.
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We all love Norm.
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We all work with Norm.
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And when there was a break in the action... That s stupid, but I went to McDonald s just because I had a son.
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You did?
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Yeah.
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What did you order?
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What s your McDonald s order?
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That s a great question.
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Then we re going to get to you in a minute, but I want to get to me.
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We like to talk about ourselves.
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Oh yeah, that s right.
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I ve listened.
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Good God.
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You, I like listening to.
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You, I can t fucking believe how much you talk.
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I know.
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No, Adam, it s not that.
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I have a lot to talk about.
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All right, go ahead.
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All right, back to David.
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Oh, this shirt, 12 grand.
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What did you ask me?
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Anyway, so- He s rich.
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No, here s what happened.
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I went to McDonald s and I got scared because I went in and people go, do you actually, they can t believe I go to McDonald s and they can t believe I go in.
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No one goes in anymore, but I m man of the people, you know?
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So I go in and I get Filet-O-Fish meal deal.
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That s okay.
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By the way, I go, what s your Filet-O-Fish of the day?
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Is it a Branzino?
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Take a break.
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and then oh we laugh and then we laugh through the bulletproof glass and then i got so then what happened and then i get six piece mcnuggee i don t know why i m telling this fucking story but adam loves this kind of shit this is real people stuff so i i get my nuggets and my hot mustard and i sit down
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and I sit down in there I get a table and I just want to make some fun because I got to go back and I m eating bloop-bloop and naturally there outside there s someone who s acting a little crazy
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at the mcdonald s yeah of course it just comes with the deal so he was starting trouble i m like this i m getting nervous because there s a line of cars and he s banging on the windows and i go why the fuck did i come in because now i m trapped starts heading toward the door i go there s no chance bam door opens drenched in sweat and he walks right up to me he walked away
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It was Ted Sarandos.
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No, it wasn t us.
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Ted Sarandos.
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No, it was just a guy and he was kind of, I don t know what was going on, but he s a little crazy.
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So he goes, hey man.
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This story keeps fucking going.
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What?
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I know, but you guys are interrupting.
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We re going to take a short break.
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Anyway, he goes, give me some money for some food.
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And I go, all right.
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And he s just talking to me.
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So I go, okay.
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And I give him 10 bucks.
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And then he goes, give me your McNuggets.
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That s fucking nuts.
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And he s dropping sweat.
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He s like, and I go like this, but I know I don t have a lot of time and I don t want to argue that he s going to kill me.
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So he goes, I go, I ll give you one.
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What?
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I gave him one.
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This is a fucking bitch.
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I swear to God today.
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And I gave this out at the store.
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Chris Rock did this bitch.
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I ll give you one nugget.
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Anyway, this is a newer version of that.
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And then he goes, give me another one.
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And I gave him two.
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And then I go, that s it.
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I gave you 10 bucks.
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I wasn t going to let him.
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He goes, I ll just dip it in sweat.
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So he had two, and then I go, just go buy some.
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And the people, the cashiers were waving me off, like, don t send him over here.
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And so he went over there, and then I just, I got up and left, because I got scared.
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But that s all.
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Adam, our guest tonight.
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And let s bring that guy out right now.
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Come on!
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Nugget man!
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Darryl!
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Let s look at a clip.
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You met a crazy man in a McDonald s.
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That s pretty good, though, Dave.
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Anyway.
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Remember the crazy man you saw your first day in New York?
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Oh, what did I say?
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You saw a man masturbating in the park?
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Yeah, we thought, yeah, he was masturbating in the park and we re walking by.
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We just got to Manhattan.
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We re like, hey, let s go walk in the park.
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And he s masturbating.
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We re kind of trying not to look.
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And he goes, hey, have you got the time?
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He s jacking off on a car bench, but he s really worried.
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A park bench, sorry.
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Anyway, yes, Adam.
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You have a memory like a steel trap.
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I loved it.
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We had some fucking crazy times.
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Me and you together was the best.
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When David would come by, we d be like, all right, we got to listen for a while.
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No, no, no.
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He d have a McDonald s.
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Remember the Jack in the Box story?
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It was like 25, it was great.
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Yeah, we had some crazy... We had that one crazy gig where we got lost.
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Yes.
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Me and Dana went on a great gig.
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I opened for you.
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You were the king, and you let me do 10 minutes before you.
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It was upstate New York, and there was no cell phones, and we started getting lost.
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And we just realized, wow, we re really, really lost.
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So we showed up like four hours late, and the students were just sitting up in a gym like this, dead silence, like a church.
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Yeah, they were pissed, right?
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So I go, go get him, Adam.
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Yeah, you sent me out there.
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Did you have your guitar with you?
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No, I wasn t guitaring then, but I just, Cajun Man just started.
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It was Cajun Man, so I said, on yon.
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And they gave me some sort of noise and I was like, okay, this is a new life I got, man.
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But I did 10, 15 minutes.
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I did fine.
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You said I did great, but I probably did fine.
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But then you went up and annihilated it.
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I don t remember it that way.
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I thought we both had a rough set.
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Was your set eight minutes of Cajun, man?
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Anytime something didn t work, I d go, funny old... And we ate Cajun afterwards.
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We found a place in the Pocono Mountains or something, right?
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Yeah, we tipped back a few, drove back.
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No, we went crazy in the car, let s admit it.
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On the way back, Adam and I just got a case of the fuck-its.
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And the car was full of beer, and we started drinking it.
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And then you brought out cigars, or somewhere we had cigars.
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So we re drinking beer and having cigars and playing Rod Stewart for like hours.
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And we went crazy, and we ran out of beer, and then we went to a liquor store.
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But you were with me, and you looked 15 at the time.
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That s right.
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I had an ID, but he goes, I m not selling it to you because of him.
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And he pointed at you.
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And then we got him on the- I said, do you remember?
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I said, on your own?
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He goes, shut the fuck up.
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Usually that worked.
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They would just hand us a six-pack.
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Alcoholism.
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We went crazy.
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Let s get to when Adam started stand-up, because you started before me, but you were in New Hampshire.
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I did start before you?
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I think, no, no, maybe it s about the same time.
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I started when I was like 18 and a half.
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And then you, how old were you?
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I was 17.
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Oh, when you started stand-up, where did you go on?
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I went on senior year in high school.
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My brother told me, and my brother was going to Boston University, and then he said, remember I told you, somebody went to Boston University here?
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No?
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Hey!
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They re like, whatever you want, Adam, we ll move the shirt.
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It s a good school, congratulations.
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But anyways, my brother, we were at dinner,
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And he said, uh, Hey, I got you that lottery ticket.
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I told you, remember you had to wait online and get a ticket to go on stage.
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And I said, Oh yeah, God, you got that.
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And cause he mentioned it a couple of months earlier.
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And then I went, I, he said, it s tonight.
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So I put on a dress shirt.
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I remember I had a nice dress shirt with stripes.
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I folded... I didn t know how to button this.
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I was never good at buttoning my own... Oh, right here, yeah.
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This right here, so I rolled it up like Spade right there.
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Yeah.
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And then I... Because I still don t know how to do it.
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I don t know, is that happening still?
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It s a good look.
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You would think to wear the first time, because I wore a shirt and a tie.
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The first time you went on, really?
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That s nice.
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Also, I wanted to look older.
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I look very young and I had to go to a real bar to do it and the age was 19 in Arizona.
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What was the bar?
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There s one called Chuckles and then Anderson s Fifth Estate.
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Chuckles?
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I know, they all have goofy names, gut busters.
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Was that in Scottsdale?
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The loony bin.
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Yeah, Chuckles was the first place I went on.
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And let me stop your story.
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But where could you go on a bar when you re that young?
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I went on at a place called Stitches Comedy Club.
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See, Stitches.
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Stitches in Boston.
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You re 17.
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17, went on stage.
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No one gave a fuck.
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It s so funny.
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They let anyone go on young.
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I didn t even know what to talk about.
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I was driving down with my brother and he said, did you write anything?
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And I said, no, no, no.
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I ll wing it, man.
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Everything s gonna... Your brother was like your manager.
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Yeah, he 100% was just going, you gotta do something with your life.
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And so I... There s nothing else you could do.
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You really can handle nothing.
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So I went on.
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I went on.
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I did the five minutes.
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I had a retainer because I was still young.
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And I remember just total silence.
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I was saying stuff that, you know, that I thought they would love, that my family s loved for years.
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And they were just going.
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And then I remember hearing one guy go,
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He s got a retainer.
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And I was like, smiling.
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Do you remember any of your jokes?
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Didn t say anything that made sense.
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There s nothing to remember.
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I don t even know what happened.
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I used to get that blank mind, like the first two years, three years of comedy.
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All day long, I d be practicing and all the shit written down.
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And like, I m going to say this, then that, then this.
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And then I d get on stage.
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I d be like, well, I fucking hate it here.
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Why am I here right now?
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Space out.
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You guys space out, I m sure.
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I d blank out all the time.
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I would be nervous all day long.
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Just adrenalized, sweating, just a bright red neck, terrified, pacing.
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This was while I was sleeping.
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No, my point is this.
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No, it was stage fright.
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I mean, you had just basic... By the time... Well, I don t want to go forward, but by the time you got on SNL, it seemed like you had a lot of confidence pretty quickly then.
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I m just curious about a little bit about early Adam, just for a second.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You guys are curious about what made Adam Sandler.
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I just, I mean, you know, whatever you want to, I just, I do this sometimes with our guests, just, you know, a favorite toy or a favorite bike or your first guitar.
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Do you have memories about any of those?
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All of those.
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Okay, favorite toy.
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Favorite toy was probably the fucking Evel Knievel.
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Oh yeah, SSP.
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Evo Knievel.
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SSP making a jump off.
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So you wind it up and pull it.
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You create your own little jump.
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You put pillows and cardboard and fucking Evo Knievel would fly off of that.
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That was fun.
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I would scratch my mother s tile.
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She would yell at me for that.
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What was the second one you said?
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A bike.
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Stingrays were big when I was a kid.
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Did you have a bike that was a big chariot for you?
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Mongoose.
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I had a Mongoose.
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I had a monoshock.
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I used to do jumps.
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It was a little, it was very daredevil-y of me.
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I d love to see you doing jumps, that d be awesome.
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Oh yeah, now he s neck would hurt.
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I do a little cross-up, tabletop, don t worry about it.
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But I also had the Evel Knievel, that Evel Knievel thing was really good on the commercials about jumps.
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Yes.
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And then in person, it s fucking impossible to make do anything.
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To ram the wall and stuff, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I just go over and fall.
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But when did you be, when were you musical?
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Can I tell him about my fucking bicycle?
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No.
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Hey, we re new to this.
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He s going to hear from me right now.
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What are you moving on from my bicycle?
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You took over the whole bike thing.
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Oh no, I thought it was.
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I had this hurts.
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We re learning.
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We re learning tonight, which is great.
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Dana, you re fantastic.
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Thank you.
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But it s not true.
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But David, no.
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So I had, I always wanted a Huffy.
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I wanted a Huffy like everybody else.
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Now tell me about a Huffy, because that s... A Huffy has like a longer seat.
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So it s like a Stingray.
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Like a Stingray.
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Stingrays got... They have a banana seat, they call it.
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Banana seat, right.
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So the friend could ride in the back.
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Yes, yes.
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A Huffy had more of a cushiony seat.
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It was like a banana, but a little thicker for like dirt riding, right?
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Like if you ride...
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Was it sold at Sears?
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Was it from Sears?
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Well, here s the problem with the Adam Sandler Huffy.
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So I said to my family I d like a Huffy.
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Of course I didn t get the Huffy.
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I got something else.
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A green bike.
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They took the seat off.
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My father bought a Huffy seat.
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and put it on the fucking, on the bike.
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And I would go down to Webster s school, my elementary school, and everyone s popping wheelies and on their Huffies, and I showed up with my Huffy seat and the green bike.
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And I was like, hey, and they were like, get the fuck out of here with that fake Huffy shit.
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Is that a budgetary thing or teaching a lesson for your dad?
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There was a time when my dad, he didn t tell us he was so cool.
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Yeah.
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He didn t have a,
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a job for like a year and a half.
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And I remember he just kept it from us.
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I d be like, dad s always fucking home.
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This is incredible.
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And I would ask him, I d still ask for shit.
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I d be like, I saw this thing on TV.
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Let s go.
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And he was like, we ll get to that.
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And I was like, we ll get to that.
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What the fuck is happening?
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Wow.
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So it was out of love when he did the Huffy s.
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But I think, yeah, he had to kind of build that fake Huffy for me.
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Were you a daredevil at all?
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Did you get hurt as a kid?
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Did you fall off things, break things?
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I was definitely tougher as a kid.
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I was more fearless as a kid.
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Now, I was a good skier.
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I was a good skier.
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In New Hampshire?
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New Hampshire skier, yeah.
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So we skied all the time.
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You, Dana?
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You ski?
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No, I was for rich people.
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We would have a little, we d have a little inner tube.
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We d go to like, you know, snowball and just go down like that.
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But the big people out there could pay the money to go up the thing.
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There was no money.
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We had Huffy skis.
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They were fake.
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But in New Hampshire, your mountains were like 300 feet, right?
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We were up in Northern California.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So how did you get hurt a lot?
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Did you just fall down?
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I used to, I was pretty good.
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I used to do, back in the day, you did a helicopter.
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and oh yeah on the skis and that was like a big deal jesus now it s fucking i don t even think anyone does a helicopter anymore right that you look at no you never see these guys on tv pop pop out a helicopter they re always doing those flips and shit well they could do anything they want it s a
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They re unbelievable now.
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They re so cool.
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It doesn t even make sense.
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There s one guy in my hometown, Robitail is his last name, Jay Robitail.
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He used to do flips.
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He was at this place McIntyre.
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It was a little ski area in my hometown.
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They d build a jump for this guy and no one else could do it, but he would just come down, knock out a flip.
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Everybody like, what the fuck?
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Yeah.
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Well, wait a minute.
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You go down and then you go up.
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He leans forward.
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He gets in the air.
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He leans forward, does a full flip.
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Oh, a front flip?
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Front flip.
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Fuck.
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But you would go like a complete 360.
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I would do that.
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I could do it.
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And then land your skis.
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And then land.
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Yeah, it was cool.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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I was very good when I was like up to 15 and then I started getting scared.
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Okay.
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Not being as cool.
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So then when did the guitar come in?
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Like I got a drum set at 14.
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When did you get a guitar?
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And you re great on drums.
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We had some good jams back in the day.
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We had some good jams too.
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The best.
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Yes.
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My guitar happened, my dad had an acoustic.
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Okay.
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So he used to play, he d always sing Mariah.
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A way out west they got her.
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Right?
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A wind and smoke and fire.
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So, thank you.
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You didn t know that one?
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Do you guys know that one?
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I did.
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I knew when to be quiet.
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You beat me down so much I didn t join in.
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Even though I have the voice of an angel.
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Well, we ll get David in on one here.
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Yeah, get in on the rest, sorry.
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Okay.
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Favorite entertainment that you saw in your formative years, I d say five to 13, like TV show or movie that fucking blew your mind or a community.
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Blew my fucking mind.
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Wild Wild West?
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No, you re too young.
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I like that.
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Yeah?
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My favorite thing, I think the thing that knocked me out when I was, yeah, I love movies.
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I loved all the comedies.
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Like I m sure everybody up here, you know, the Mel Brooks and all that stuff, you know, yeah.
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Young Frankenstein and Silent Movie and Blazing Saddles and all that stuff got me.
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But I ll tell you what really got me.
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I look back at it.
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I think I was in Florida
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or Florida, as you would say, David.
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But I was in Florida.
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And so my parents took me to see Eddie Fisher.
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He sang.
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Oh, Eddie Fisher.
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And somebody went on before him.
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Oh, from from singing in the rain, Donald O Connor.
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My parents going, holy shit, that one guy, you go on stage, you can do that kind of thing.
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And I got it kind of like wanted to get into that.
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That s interesting.
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That sort of turned you on just to perform.
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They didn t know if you d even like it, and then you really liked it.
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I guess so.
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I mean, I don t think they were trying to talk me into it.
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They were just trying to have a nice night out in Florida.
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And then I was just kind of locked into... I used to sing a lot in the car.
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I used to sing a lot.
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My mother always said I sang good.
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My father would just stare like this.
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What would you sing, do you remember?
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Just songs off the radio?
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Oh my god, it was a pain in the ass because I sang a lot of Johnny Mathis for my mother.
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Oh really?
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She d always sing Chances Are.
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And I d be like, Chances are, cause I wear a cilic ring.
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Whatever I did.
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And it was fine, not great.
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Chances are you will.
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I used to see him.
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Yeah, big vibrato.
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And then I sang Maria from West Side Story.
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This is when I was little, like 10.
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But my mother always said I had a good voice.
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And my father was like, he s all right.
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Didn t your mom, who was such a cheerleader, that if Sinatra came on, she would say, you re better?
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Oh, yeah, you could do that.
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Oh, you know what s funny?
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My mother, speaking of that, my uncle worked at a clothing company.
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And when I went to NYU, I was a stand-up.
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There you go.
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I was a stand-up.
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I was making no money, like all of us.
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And my mother called my uncle and said, can I add a model for you?
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And my uncle was like,
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you know, I ll talk to them.
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And she s like, he really needs the work.
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And I m like, really, I m a model.
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She s like, you re gorgeous.
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And
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And then my uncle had to just go, he fucking looks terrible in a suit.
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There s not a good angle on him.
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You own a suit now, don t you?
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What?
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You own a suit now.
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I actually, because of my daughter s bat mitzvah, I had to get that fucking suit dry cleaned this morning.
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I don t think it s going to fit either.
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I ve been swelling up.
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No.
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What can you do?
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All right, so... Go ahead, Dana, you had so many questions.
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I know, well...
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Then you go to... That s your hero, Adam.
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He doesn t know anything.
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You re kind of up in that area.
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Toy, bike.
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Now, I got to have a roadmap.
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This is good, man.
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Studboy.
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The studboy, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Wilt joke.
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Now, Chris Rock called that one of the best pure jokes ever written.
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Thank you, Chris.
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And that was early stand-up.
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Yeah.
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I mean, David, you want to...because I m just thinking of Adam grows up, he goes to NYU and then he s in New York, he s 17.
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Within six years you re on Saturday Night Live.
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So what happened in those six years, David?
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Oh, well, Adam was a great stand-up, had a very unique perspective, interesting delivery, good, memorable joke.
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It was more like one joke, one joke, one joke, right?
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Yeah, not really stories, it was kind of like that.
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And I wasn t even, you know, we didn t have YouTube all that shit, so I didn t know you until I actually physically saw you.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that was in the Valley.
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It was at the Improv and the Avali Improv.
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Did you ever go to Avali Improv, Dana?
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Did you ever do that, Dana?
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Oh, yeah.
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I did that when I was living in New York in 1981 doing a sitcom with Nathan Lane and Mickey Rooney.
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Wow.
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Yeah, one of the boys.
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Check it out.
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And it was Scatman Carruthers as well.
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But you, like Jack Theribouto told me once that
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He was your partner for a long time, and he knew you back then.
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You would just do a bit.
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You d go to a club.
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It wouldn t quite work.
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And then you d keep going and going.
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And then you d come back like a week later, and you had it killing.
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So you were very tenacious about it, right?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I don t know why.
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I was not.
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Probably the same as you guys, you just, I don t know, I believed in it, I kept doing it, found a way to kind of phrase it right.
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Do it till it works.
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I used to tape mine and it was very excruciating to listen to your own voice, but you would think you killed and it was really just one person laughing loud.
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Or you think it was nothing, but then you said something you forgot in between the jokes that was good.
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So you d sort of like piece it together and then try it again and tape it.
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Yeah, I did the old, I did the same thing you do where you pull out of a hat, but it was more sickening because I drove off from Arizona and then they d have at the improv.
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amateur night and so I d sit there and they d pull a name and read it and you d come up so we re all waiting yeah and every time they pull it you get nervous and it s not you and I go oh and you almost don t want it to be you sometimes you re like good they re not gonna get to right then it was tough and then by the end of the night I m like it was but then I never it never worked that way and I think it was rigged I think they knew who s going up they had friends and friends but uh
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I finally got a few things, but then we wound up running into each other.
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How did you do your first night?
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How did I do?
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First night of stand-up?
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Yeah.
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That s a good question.
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When I started stand-up, I take the mic off.
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Can I get you anything, Adam?
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No, it s actually, anyone s first time is a good story.
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We were spoiled because when I got to Saturday Night Live, or I was in the Valley, and I was seeing comics, I was seeing guys like Drake Saylor was great, I saw Adam was great, Schneider was funny.
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Yeah, he was great.
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I just wound up seeing guys that, in a million years, how would we all get on SNL?
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It was so weird.
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that it would happen that way.
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When you came in, it was like a firestorm, but you guys really, you kind of like had 20 minutes, right?
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You weren t headlining on the road.
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You had a great 20.
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And then SNL people saw you in the clubs.
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That s right.
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And they liked your writing.
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You got hired as a writer.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Dennis hooked me up.
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Dennis Miller.
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Dennis was the one who saw you.
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That s true.
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Yeah.
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Dennis Miller saw me a few times.
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At the Santa Monica improv and he waited in the back after he I think you guys knew each other I knew day.
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He was my you probably introduced us that maybe yeah, and and he watched me and he and he said he liked some of my jokes and he was he was so nice to me and we loved him and we idolized him and He heard they were looking for Lauren was looking at new people and he said you should check out the Sandman
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Sandingo, yeah.
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He gave you that moniker?
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Yeah.
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Because Dennis never, he always has a name for somebody.
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Yeah, right, right, right.
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Christ sakes, you know, Sandman hitting it heavy down at the Prov in Santa Monica, okay?
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Tearing up the beach communities with his wilted stilt humor.
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Sorry, I love being Dennis.
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I love being in that attitude.
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But, um, thank you.
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So...
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What was your, do you remember your first bit that kind of became your rock, like even if the set was not going well, you had one that started to work?
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Yes, I had one that, I don t, I said, Vic s VapoRub.
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They used to say, remember Vic s VapoRub?
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When your mother would rub it on your chest.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And my mother would be rubbing her on my chest, and then we make eye contact.
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And I was like, I thought we were just friends, Ma.
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That was, that was like my, that was my big guarantee back then.
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Did you ever say this one when you go, I remember that joke very well.
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I thought that was a great one.
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And he said, when I was, people say, if you could live your life over, would you, would you change anything?
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You go, yeah.
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When I was walking down the, when I fell down the stairs, I might have grabbed the rail next time.
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Oh yeah, that s right.
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Is that something like that?
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Yeah, yeah, that was it.
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Geez, I forgot that.
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I mean, there s obviously Wilt Chamberlain, but you had so many good jokes and they were so different and odd and then Dennis got you on.
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Yeah, Dennis.
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But it s good to be different.
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It s very hard to be different.
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And so when you see... When I did it, when I auditioned that night, it was with Rock
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Dana Gould and three other good comedians.
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Where were you?
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I was in Chicago.
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Oh, that s right.
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Rock was Chicago.
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Rock did great.
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I did fine.
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Dana Gould destroyed.
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God damn, that s enough with me too.
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He was incredible.
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he should have got it.
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I don t know why.
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He wrote for The Simpsons.
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He did a lot of great stuff.
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But somehow I got hired as a writer like David did.
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And that would be David and Schneider, me, and who else was a writer?
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Anybody else?
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Just us three?
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Oh yeah, because Farley and Rock got hired that year and they were just straight feature cast members.
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Everybody wrote for themselves, like Dana wrote, but Dana was never credited as a writer.
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If you got on as a main player, you never got a writer s credit for some reason, but whatever, it s just part of the deal.
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That was good sneaky money though.
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I didn t want to be a writer, but you know, we didn t make much money, but you d get kicked a rerun.
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uh in perpetuity and that was nice even though it was two cents but it was nice to uh you get a you get a stack of checks and it s the host so it s like 18 cents Alec Baldwin 18 cents Tom Hank Glenn Close so that was kind of fun to rack that up the bricks
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You ve invested wisely.
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Yeah, invested wisely.
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And then, but we didn t make a ton.
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I m sure when you started, we didn t make shit.
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I don t think we even, we couldn t believe we were getting paid, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Who cares?
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Just a big deal to get money.
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Just maybe, yeah, like you net like maybe 20 grand for the whole season or something.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, just live in a Hubble.
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Yeah, it was really... I was...
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There I was with Phil, late great Phil, and Jen, Jen Hooks, God bless them, and Mike Myers, and Lovitz, and the show was really cooking, and then you guys came off like the mothership in Close Encounters, you know, becomes Rock and Sandler, and I remember the
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First time I saw you in the office, you were just kind of sitting at the big table on 17th floor, Saturday night live.
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And I was doing pretty well on the show, you know?
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But I liked you immediately.
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You just had this vibe about you that was really, really funny and likable, you know?
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And that s a big part of the DNA.
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You sensed the love we all had.
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Dana was the king.
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Dana, I ll tell you, remember, it was almost like at a stand-up club.
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If Dana had a skit,
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and your skit was going on after, you were just like, oh no.
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Oh no, because Dana would crush so hard.
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You got to follow Church Lady or something.
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Are you talking about read through or on the show?
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Read through was bad.
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But on the air, on the air was the biggest explosion in the place.
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And then your skit would do fine.
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But in your weird comedy brain, you re just like, how the fuck do I get those Dana laughs?
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Well, I had a lot of help.
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You know, make a talk show and then have Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks come on.
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So you come on, you get on the show, you re like... What was your first big... You probably did Update first, right?
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Or did you write Iraqi Pete or something?
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No, that was, Al Franken wrote that.
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Aren t you supposed to do the noise now?
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I d like to ask you a question.
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So, like in classic comedy,
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Sorry, David, you weren t finished.
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You re going to like this one.
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Because you didn t really lean on it much, but in the beginning, I remember in the classic comic sense of the idiot.
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So like there s Jerry Lewis is like the king.
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And then I remember you would do the hunched over guy and he would do that sound.
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Like, where did that guy come from?
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Because that instantly made me laugh so hard because you were so committed.
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I don t even know man.
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It s very musical.
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Can you do more of it?
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It always felt good in a microphone.
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I don t even know if that ever got on the air, if I ever did that.
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I just remember seeing that and really loving it, you know.
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But there s one character I want to break down, unless David has a question, because I m... Sure?
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Go ahead.
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We re really close friends.
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The Opera Man, the evolution of opera.
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I m mad.
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that then became the indestructible killer bit of all time.
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By the time you got it on the update desk, with the pictures, and you were mixing... Great wig.
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Good wig.
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Good luck.
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So, Adam, I ll let you... But talk about the origins of that and the way you did it, and then the way you ended up doing it.
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It evolved, right?
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Gotcha.
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Yes, it did.
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Right.
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Yes.
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That s my question.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, that s a good question.
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And I remember you, you knew the guy.
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So there was a man on the street who used to sing opera on the street.
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He used to hold the can up and you d be walking down the street and he d kind of come back to go.
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And he d sing really hot and he d charge.
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And you d be like, oh, you give money and didn t know that.
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That s kind of where I first started.
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I love that.
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I didn t know that.
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I met that guy at a McDonald s.
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He wasn t singing, though.
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He s in between sets.
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Adam, what would a guy like that be ordering at McDonald s?
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Hey, barbecue sauce.
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The thing that you can sound exactly opera is one more gift on SNL.
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If you can have a voice, if they write a singing sketch,
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Obviously, Adam wrote a lot of his own, but if they d write somewhere you sing, you can get in.
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If you can play an instrument, you can get in.
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There s so many things that you can do.
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Dance.
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I didn t do a lot of those things, which was kind of a drag, but Adam can sing so well and actually write songs, and actually write songs that are catchy, because a lot of those things you don t update were actually really catchy on top of just being funny.
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And so that combo is big.
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And that opera man was a fucking cruncher.
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That always kills.
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That was a gift from the turners.
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Didn t you do it off
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in on the stage next update initially no i first time i did it it was just gibberish it was like it was a theater thing and i think maybe you or was it phil that s what i remember i don t know if i remember this right you maybe you but i was in my office and adam used to go around the office
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on all fours.
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So then I hear a little knock, and I m in my office.
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So I open it up, and you re on all fours.
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You go, oh.
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And then you were asking me to do something, introduce Opera Man, right?
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So I did remember that.
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You were like a theater guy would say, tonight, the Opera Man is something like, goes from the emotion of trying to catch the bus,
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But unfortunately, he misses the bus.
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But then he sees his mother, you know, is behind the bus and picks him up.
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Let s watch the opera, man.
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And then I d see my mother and be like, are you sure?
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Something like that.
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And that was it.
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And it did good.
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It did good at the table.
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It did good.
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You know, Sandler, it s good if you, a trick on SNL is if Adam was probably slightly newer then, but if you anchor it with Dana, who they love, and then he brings you on and they go, Dana seems to like it.
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And then they start to like the new guy.
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It helps when you re new, it helps.
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No, Dana s the best at it, so that s what it was.
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But anyways, it did fine.
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At the table, it did well.
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Remember, after a while, they started liking us at the table.
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When David and I first were on us at the table and we tried to get on and we d do full skits for ourselves, everybody else was kind of like, calm down.
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That s enough, guys.
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Yeah, that s enough.
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Not yet.
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Not yet.
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Not yet.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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But then by this time, they were like, all right, give him a shot.
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And then we did that and it didn t do great.
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So Lauren didn t put it on.
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But then the Turners out of nowhere, Bonnie and Terry Turner.
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Great writers.
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Great writers.
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They wrote for the show for eight, nine years.
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Wayne s World.
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Wayne s World.
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You and Mike.
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They wrote the first Tommy Boy draft.
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What s that?
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They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy.
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That s right.
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Tommy Boy.
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That s right.
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They were, they were monsters.
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I don t even know why we don t hear about, talk about them more.
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They had some huge sketches.
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You guys should have them on this show.
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They ll be great.
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Yeah, I d love it.
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We d love to.
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Yeah, they re great.
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Hi, Bonnie.
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Hi, Terry.
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Hello, guys.
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In case they re listening to this when it s released.
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But they wrote what?
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What we said.
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And Lindsay.
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And Lindsay, their daughter.
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Their daughter, Lindsay.
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Yes.
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And, but, uh, but anyways, they wrote this thing and they talked to me.
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I was in my office.
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They were like, so remember that Opera Man thing you did?
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We came up with an idea for the news and they showed it to me and I m so
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I was just so dumb and young and whatever I was, and I was like, yeah, I guess.
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I guess we could try it that way.
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It was Opera Man on the news that he said?
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Opera Man on the news.
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Doing the news.
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Showing current events and then me singing about them and blah, blah, blah.
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And I didn t really... I was like, no, Opera Man speaks gibberish and that doesn t make any sense.
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You don t understand Opera Man.
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So then it became a divorce.
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So how about, you know, you would do current events with like Trumbo.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And it would just crush.
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That was all those guys wrote it.
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I got to be it.
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They would give me the melodies and Cheryl would write Cheryl on our
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Yeah, and they would just give me all the goods and I mean it was the greatest gift ever.
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That was a home run.
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Did you do it with Eddie Vedder or not?
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Did you sing like Eddie Vedder?
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I sang like Eddie Vedder.
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Was it as an opera man or was it something else?
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Opera man singing about Pearl Jam, yeah.
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And then, yeah, yeah.
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And remember when, I think they were even on the show, Pearl Jam, that night.
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Oh, that s right.
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But anyway, what would he say?
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I mean, you ve got the pipes, kid.
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You were going, hey, I made a concrete.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But you sound exactly like him.
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I can t do it now.
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I know any better.
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It s a certain thing he does.
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He s got a thicker, lower voice than any of us.
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His voice is unreal.
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Yeah, it s a juicy voice.
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We share an office, me and Farley, and then you walk through our office to get to Adam and Chris Rock.
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So when the door is closed, I hear,
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I m like, oh my god, he s got a killer cookin  in there.
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It s in the oven.
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We all got excited when we landed on a good impression, but I did one with Lovitz, an opera man with Lovitz.
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That was awesome.
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He can sing great.
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And that was a perfect, only other guy who could do it besides you, because he s got pipes and he s just a funny, so that was a killer.
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That was amazing.
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He played your brother or something?
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It was Glenn Close and Lovis, and maybe they were my parents.
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I don t remember.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Only on Saturday Night Live.
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Can we, I d like, I could go anywhere.
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It s so much fun.
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I want to ask about when he does bits when you get to bring in one of the musical stars.
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I think McCartney did Red Hood.
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Oh, that was the
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great god damn farley did something with him you did something with him i left just right before mccartney hosted you you weren t there then i missed it i was a fool you know he was upset you know because we d met at 86 in law at lauren s house he called me up you i don t know why you didn t stick around then you know
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We could have had a plunker.
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We d be plunking, looking at each other.
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I go, who is this?
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Nobody in Bolton.
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I miss that, but you got to do a thing.
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What did you do with Paul McCartney?
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It was right out of sweatshirt.
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I wrote it with Ian Maxstone Graham and I forget who else, somebody else.
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And we had, you know, I had dip, dip, dip, and shabba, shabba, ding, ding, and stuff like that.
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I say it.
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And then as it progressed, Kevin, maybe Kevin Nealon did it with me.
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And then I said, let s call out Paul and Linda and Paul and Linda McCartney.
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We wrote it for him and then.
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Lauren said, I said, will they do it?
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He goes, well, you have to talk to them.
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And so I went to Lauren s office, they were eating, I think.
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They were on the show or they were just visiting?
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They were, Paul was the guest.
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Okay.
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And Linda was with them.
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You walk in and you have to convince them.
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I just like had to come in with the dopey guitar and be like, my heart s pounding through my chest.
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Did you crawl in or did you walk?
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A little skip.
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That was when you were going to pitch it.
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Remember you d skip across?
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No, I m making that up.
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Sorry.
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Go ahead.
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So you walk in there.
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I mean, Lauren s eating Chun-Li Chinese.
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Chun-Li, I love it.
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And Paul and Linda there.
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And Linda s amazingly nice.
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And Paul s amazingly nice.
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And I sing him the little thing.
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And they laughed.
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And then I left.
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And then I was like, I don t know if that worked or not.
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But then they said yes.
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And forever, I got that.
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I sang with them, hung out with them after the show, hung out.
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Stella was there.
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Remember, Stella was a kid.
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She came to the show.
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Stella McCartney, the fashion designer.
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Yes.
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And she was such a nice kid.
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She was like our age then, you know, like whatever we were.
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And I yeah, let s keep the numbers out of it.
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I saw him Discipline his kids on Long Island went over to his house.
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And you know, I think James had a little toy sword a plaster He dropped it down in his sister and Paul goes you do that one more time.
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We re gonna have a problem Some comics said
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He was the first one with a billion dollars.
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And they go, you know, if he lost his wallet in a cab and there was 500 million in it, he d still have 500 million dollars.
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That was some kind of joke.
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But do you remember when Farley s brothers came to the show and McCartney was on that stupid story where Paul looked the same as Paul McCartney growing up, but he had a little bit of gray here.
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And so Farley s brothers were standing there with red cups.
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There was no security.
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So the music comes out of their dressing room, walks by the 8H,
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page desk you know that and they walk right into the show and they go Paul McCartney one minute till you re on live and so you see he comes out with a bodyguard on the front and back and he walks out with his guitar and it s fucking Paul McCartney I m there with Farley s idiot brothers and they re all drunk and he comes around and they go and one of them goes hey Paul and he looks over he goes getting a little gray and he goes
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I remember that, man.
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He walks out, and I go, are you an idiot?
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He goes, eh, he looked.
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And then he goes on the monitor, and they re like 15 seconds, and he looks in the monitor, and he goes like this.
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He got his head right before he went out.
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Oh, no.
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And you know, he s like, is mine?
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And then anyway, so I will say one of my proudest moments, because sometimes Adam and I would try to write together or we would all try to think of excuses to all be in the same sketch or whatever.
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And the one I like the best is the Gap Girls when we were.
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in the wall in the mall and then Farley says lay off me I m starving that is one of the funnest ones we ever did and Schneider was in it and Sarah Gilbert was a host oh yeah and uh we were all uh that was just the fun for me because
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we would all just rehearse.
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So you write it, and if it gets in, you laugh at read through, you laugh when we talk about who plays what parts and what we say, and then- You really wrote all that stuff though.
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I know, but then everyone adds jokes, whatever you want, and then we got to do it on... So you have to rehearse all week, or once or twice.
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Yeah, you get to be together rehearsing.
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And that s a good reason to hang out, is to rehearse.
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Yeah, that was amazing.
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Does everyone know about the Gap Girls?
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Because there s a young audience.
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Wow, okay.
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Because there s some younger people here.
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It was just a sketch where we all worked at the Gap, we played girls, and it was infuriating.
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And how did you talk?
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Whatever!
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That s right.
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Yeah.
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Oh my God, that s so right.
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Weren t you at the folding meeting?
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Yeah, and I went to the Gap and studied it, and they showed up, they put a clipboard in the sweaters and pulled them out and folded them up.
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Oh yeah.
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Mesmerized.
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And then they would actually, this is when you feel kind of like a big deal, because if you get a sketch on and you re just some doofus from Arizona, and it s like a dumb sketch about the Gap, and then when they bring, the sketch is written and it s put up on its feet,
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They talk to the Gap and brought a whole section of the Gap over.
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They had a security guard.
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It would cost so much.
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It was real pants, real sweaters, and it was just a chunk of the Gap.
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They moved in and the Gap liked it because it was free advertising, even though we made them all look like morons.
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It was still really fun.
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And then we all hung out there and would practice in there, rehearse, whatever it s called.
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And it was great.
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So we did a couple of those.
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We did Gapperty.
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It was Jeopardy.
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It was just a fun way for me, you, and Farley to be in sketches.
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Yeah.
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And that was... What was our names again?
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Say it again.
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What was our names?
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Christy.
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Lucy.
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He was Cindy and you might have been Lucy, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Does anyone know?
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Something like that.
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Do you remember the one that, because a lot of times you don t really get to rock and roll with somebody in a sketch.
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So you and I had a crazy sketch when I came back to guest host.
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Dogs?
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No.
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When you play drums, what?
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Pepper Boy.
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Oh, that was the best.
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Oh, let s talk about Pepper Boy.
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That was incredible.
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That was like, you and I were peaking on the show.
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Chris Farley was, Tim Meadows was.
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Farley crossed his eyes.
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Let s just talk about that for a second.
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Steve Korin started it.
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That s right.
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Wrote it.
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So, it s just two
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I was kind of the, he was my protege, I was the mentor.
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I was obsessed with how to do the pepper, the huge pepper mill.
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And Adam was kind of the underling and really eager.
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And we, I ll just set it up for a second.
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We did well in read through, pretty well in rehearsal, dress show, pretty good.
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Then Steve Korn comes to me and tells me something you want to do between shows.
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So at one point we had the, I was going to,
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You were going crazy, you were so nervous.
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Remember I slapped you?
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It s the comedy, it s always threes.
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And then I can t budge you, right?
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Yeah, with the sound effects.
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So between dress and air, Steve Korn, the writer, comes in and says, Adam s going to put the pepper shaker between his legs.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then we timed it great, but we really peaked on air.
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Yeah, that was amazing.
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That doesn t happen every time.
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We committed so hard.
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I mean, because Tim Meadows was sitting there and I was doing the pepper.
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You like a pepper, huh?
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I mean, it became way, I don t know if it was sexual or something, but we were just on another level.
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Every, I d say once, two weeks, if I m in a restaurant, a guy with the pepper thing will be like,
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Fresh pepper.
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Do you remember what happened?
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Farley was always the best at breaking people because he could be explosively funny.
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Do you remember his line and what he did on the air?
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I know what it is, too.
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We flew in from Tommy Boy for just the show, and then we had to fly back.
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And he goes, I have a line in Pepper Boy.
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And didn t he have a big beard?
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He had a big beard.
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Yeah, he looked ridiculous.
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He really hammed it up.
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His line was, why thank you, Pepper Boy.
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Why thank you.
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He said, I m going to make you laugh.
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He goes, Etsy, I m going to make you laugh out there.
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I think he over- Oh, he taunted you?
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Before it started, he goes, Edsy, I m going to make you laugh out there.
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And I go, all right, all right.
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And then I think he leans back and goes, why thank you, pepper boy!
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I ve never seen a human being transform like that.
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He had like 12 chins and perfect amount of pepper, but huge beard for no reason.
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But he screamed it for the air show.
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He crossed his eyes too.
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Adam starts to turn purple.
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That s the stage.
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I m over here.
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Adam s turning toward me and trying not to go.
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The sketch had gone so well that I stayed in character, but I said, don t break.
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that?
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Of course.
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That s funny, man.
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You were the pro.
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You were the pro.
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The funny thing is Farley wasn t even supposed to say it that loud.
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It made no sense.
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Thank you, Pepper.
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He lost his marbles.
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Yeah, well, that s his mind.
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But that was an electric sketch for a restaurant sketch.
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And then Il Cantore when we did that one.
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Well you guys wrote Il Cantore.
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That was major.
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It was explosive.
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But you would take the reins, murder, murder, murder.
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Then we d have a little
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Thing to do when we were like, let s jump on the Dana fucking Thunder.
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Yeah, well, I don t quite have you guys killed to you and Schneider That was an Italian restaurant where every all the waiters are too sexual with Christy alley and all yeah all the women that come in They re like, oh, but Lisa my police Yeah, I start licking Christy alley s face.
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I m supposed to lick her face really hard and remember in rehearsal I go is this okay?
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She goes.
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Oh, yeah, go for it.
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Whatever you want to do.
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I believe in my life
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Oh, you like it.
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But you guys were just, you know, Crusher, you and Schneider came in with Schneider had
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no clothes on or something?
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I had no clothes on.
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That was the, I was the guy back then
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I could take my fucking shirt off and feel okay.
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Now there s a reason the sweatshirt s on at all times.
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He has another shirt in case that somehow falls off.
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You know what s another crush?
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It was Lunch Ladyland and a great song.
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I called Sandler about a year ago.
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I go, it s on my iPod and it came in and I go, this is a good song when you go, sloppy Joe, slap, sloppy Joe, yeah.
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I go, the way you write it and it s actually funny and then you do a sketch.
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it s funny.
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And then you hear it again, you go, that s actually a good song.
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It s always catchy songs.
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It s ticklish.
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I sang that on my album before I sang it on Saturday Night Live.
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I did it first on the album and Farley was at the taping of my album.
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And so when I m singing on the album, I think I m in Santa Barbara.
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I don t remember where I was, just a cool club.
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I m sorry I forgot the name of it, but it was a club, we were recording, Farley was in the crowd going nuts, and then his crazy voice is so... When I m going... You hear Farley going...
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He didn t even hear the song before.
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He just kind of said, all right, he s going to sing.
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Wow.
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Did it?
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Yeah, that was a crush.
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Was that on?
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They re going to laugh at you, which was.
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They re all going to laugh at you.
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Two times platinum.
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That was a biggie.
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You re the last guy to really sell comedy albums, I think.
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I mean, I don t know if there s been some after, but with that back in the day, that was you were on it.
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Yeah.
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Everybody was.
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Hey, buddy.
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Hey, buddy.
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The buddy.
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We did buddy, dude.
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Buddy, dude.
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Homie.
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Yeah, that was a great one.
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What the Hell Happened to You was another one.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Thank you.
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That was where your real acidy humor came out on those albums.
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That was where I got to curse a lot for the first time.
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And David cursed with me and we all we were so excited.
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It was like being on Saturday Night Live.
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I just thought it was like jazz.
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I mean, I mean, the one about the announcer with the the champion, you say the word champion.
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It s a golf announcer.
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You do it.
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You say the word champion like 500 times.
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It s about a
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a golfer who has like a nine stroke lead and he s on the last hole and he keeps missing putts and you re the announcer going the champion is
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is feeling it today and he s about to set the course record and the champion and then he puts it and you hear the crowd go oh and well the champion laughs that off eight stroke lead now you know all that kind of shit and then it gets more and more uh just insane closer to being like choking and he s like well he s up three strokes hopefully he can put this one in and and then it s Blake Clark
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is doing the voice of the champ and he s going, God fucking damn.
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But anyways, those albums were good because like they lay into the crowd of college kids in the summer and then you come back and you re even bigger on us now because they re like playing them over and over and over.
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The albums were the biggest deal besides Saturday Night Live because like you said, I would go out on tour.
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The kids who were coming to see me knew the album, so they knew some of the songs, they knew some of the characters and that definitely relaxed me on stage.
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All of us.
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We used to have fun.
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Well, let s just say because you ve given me a lot of props that by the time you you re after about two years in on SNL, you really were just like top notch.
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I mean, you re crushing consistently on that show.
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And the audience was falling in love with you because.
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you know, when you d sing Hanukkah song, when you would do your guitar Thanksgiving song.
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Right, right.
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First of all, you actually, you re a really good acoustic player.
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Not bad.
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And you can hold a great melody.
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And then it s so silly and funny.
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And also watching you enjoy it, not breaking, but just the light in your eyes.
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It s so infectious.
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It was exciting.
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Yeah, man, I remember that.
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I remember singing that at the table, the turkey song, the Thanksgiving song for like,
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Smigel and a couple other writers at the table going, you know, singing it to them.
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And if they laughed, I was like, oh, fuck.
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Okay.
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They think it s funny.
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It was a big deal.
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If those guys, the great writers on the show, when they would smile at what your idea was, like Jim Downey, if he said something was good, you would just like, even if it didn t get on, you were like, all right.
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Yeah, we had the A-team there, Smuggle, Genius, Downy, Brilliant.
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We had some incredible writers helping us achieve our dreams.
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When was your first movie?
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That was when we did, the summer we did Tommy Boy, you did Billy Madison, right?
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Yes, yes.
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And then the next summer, Happy Gilmore?
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Happy Gilmore.
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And those movies kept making it more than the other ones.
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They d give you another one, and then it was,
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Wedding singer.
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Wedding singer.
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Yeah.
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And then, and then Waterboy.
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I think that was where, it was the mic drop.
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At that point you were a movie star.
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Yeah, it was too big.
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When you do Happy, you did, of course, Billy Madison, but you do Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer and Waterboy within like
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24 months or something.
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Then Big Daddy, another mega monster.
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Do you have too many?
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I can t even.
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You know, when Waterboy came out, I was hosting and you were there that weekend and we were going to do a bit in the monologue and then you had to fly back.
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Waterboy was such a fucking, they told us or they told you how much it made.
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And everyone s like, what the fuck?
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And then you, you had to get back.
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And I changed my monologue and I just did standup.
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I wasn t doing standup in the monologue.
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You re kidding me.
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I was supposed to go out with you.
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Well, we re going to do audience member, you know, when you go and you re going to run my monologue with questions and then they go, Lauren goes, well, I, you know, you said you had to go and I go, all right, well, what do I do?
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And he goes, stand up.
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Oh, really?
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Aren t you a stand-up? 
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I go, well, I fucking never do anymore.
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I go, tonight?
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So he goes, just throw some things together.
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I go, so you can t go practice or run to Catch a Rising Star.
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So I put some together, but it s so fucking terrifying to do a monologue anyway, and then out of cordless mic.
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Posting s hard.
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And then everyone s like,
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That is the worst when you re doing stand-up and you re about to go out and you look for the mic and then the guy makes the decision for you like, Joe, don t use a hand mic, use this.
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And then you go, and you don t have a fucking mic in your hand, you re like, holy shit, what do I do with both my hands?
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You don t know what to do.
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I know, we re not used to it.
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Or a mic stand.
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I lean on a mic stand sometimes.
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It s not there yet.
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Yeah, yeah, looking for a mic stand to lean on.
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It s just like drowning.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, when you first start to stand up, you just hold the mic like this.
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Oh God, you re choking.
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Yeah.
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Did you go with...
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bill like we uh i m sorry i remember shooting billy yeah madison and you guys are shooting tommy boy and hanging out with yeah up in toronto yeah we re in the same place because we came over there and that was the night
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When you, remember when you did that thing called, there was like a crime scene, a joke with everybody where they go in a room and you go walk in and it s a crime scene?
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Anyway.
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So, but, but, oh yeah, but Adam s movie was called Billy Madison.
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Our movie was called Billy the Third.
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Yeah, it was Billy the Third.
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And so we changed it and we just didn t have an, we didn t know what to call it.
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Of all things, we both have the same lead as the same name.
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So we eventually changed ours because the name of the movie was Billy the Third.
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But fucking hanging out in Toronto with you and Farley, that was great.
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We had a couple of weeks together.
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And then, oh yeah, so then you do all those movies that seem to work out.
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You did some movies.
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By the way, my wife and I watched Hustle last night.
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What d you see?
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Hustle.
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You loved it.
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Yeah.
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I think it s a great movie.
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Hustle is a movie he s got coming out.
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I got a new movie.
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Yes.
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It s on Netflix.
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It s about it s kind of like Hoosiers meets Rocky.
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Yes.
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Moneyball.
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Yes.
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And you re great in it.
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Thank you.
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I mean, really great.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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It s it s just a it s it s just a really, you know, it really works as a movie.
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I can t.
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I got I got teary eyed.
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Yeah.
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That s so great, Dana.
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I mean, I don t know how much we can give away.
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Adam s a
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basketball agent yeah yeah you were a coach I didn t see it all like a
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Adam works at Magic Mountain.
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I watched it twice.
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I think it s a different movie.
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No, Adam s... No, you re a scout.
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A scout.
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Yeah, he s a scout, and then he wants to be a coach.
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I discover a guy in Spain.
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I want to be a coach.
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I can t get in the staff, and I ve been working for the Sixers for many years, and I find out... Yeah, you like the Sixers?
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I m nervous about Joel there.
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I hope everything s fine.
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I m nervous.
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Yeah, that is a good team though.
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But um Anyways, I discover a guy in spain wancho hernan gomez.
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He s just a he s an nba player Who never acted a day in his life?
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Yeah, and he s So fucking good.
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It s great.
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He was great.
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I really believe he s just from this little village Yes, and really just has nothing going on beautiful jump shot.
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I knew it wasn t c. Yeah, you knew it was like an amazing
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Yeah, all you think is how many times you gotta do every scene he makes every basket you go Is he making all these fucking baskets because I ve been on sets where they re like going again.
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I m like make it let s get the fuck out
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out of here.
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But it s very hard to do that.
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And all those scenes where it s pivotal, he has to make it in a crowd with a crowd behind him.
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And you got all these NBA players in it.
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It s very real.
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It s unbelievable.
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Unbelievable.
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Oh, Heidi Garner.
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Is it Heidi Garner?
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Heidi s in it.
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Oh, yeah.
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He s got an SNL on.
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Heidi Garner s in it.
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She s a cast member.
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Oh, that s right.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Heidi Garner.
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She did a nice job.
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She plays Robert Duvall s daughter, who Robert Duvall owns in the movie, owns the Sixers.
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And he has, Ben Foster s his son and Heidi Gardner s his daughter and they all work for the organization and Heidi s excellent in it.
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Yeah, and she s great in it and Duvall must have been huge to be in the same movie.
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That was amazing hanging out with Duvall.
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It must have been.
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What was that like?
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I just shot the shit with Robert Duvall.
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We were together three, four days, did all our scenes together.
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We talked and talked and sat.
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He has a Rolls Royce in the movie.
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I fucking sat in the back of a Rolls Royce, just talked about the Godfather, talked about everything.
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In between setups?
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he just was cool he was just talking about everything and he s uh he s 90 something years old and he was just yeah a sweetheart and he was great great great stories really james khan and he just fucking knows everybody see that would just uh you d be you re a fly on the wall at that point yeah yeah and he s talking about the godfather
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You talk about the Godfather, just saying the first name.
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You try not to ask him about it.
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You re like, what other movies did you do that you liked?
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And he s like, Sonny, The Protection Squad, Sonny, they re going to help us.
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You always have that mood.
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Yeah.
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I think because the movie, I don t want to give anything away, but it kind of goes rollercoaster-y, but you have to get on the phone.
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And it was very like,
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great acting, solid scene where I was like, Oh my God, that must have been hard to do.
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But like a tearjerker, that was, there s a couple scenes like that in there that are really get you into the movie, into the movie, into the movie.
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And that guy was the basketball player was great.
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Actually, we remember I ran into you.
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Yeah, we played golf with Mancho.
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And you were with him.
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And yeah, this guy s in the movie.
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And then he was super cool then.
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He s 6 9 .
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He s from Spain.
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Him and his brother, both are in the NBA.
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He plays for the Spanish national team.
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He s on the Utah Jazz now.
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And he just did it as a fucking joke because of the pandemic.
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They were like,
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going around saying, we re looking for a basketball player.
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Adam Sandler s got some movie LeBron James is producing.
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And his sister said, why don t you do it just for fun?
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And he did it.
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He auditioned.
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We were like, geez, that guy s pretty damn good.
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Who is that?
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It s amazing.
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He s done these scenes like when you have to do a real crying scene in a movie or something like that.
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I don t know about you.
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You cry a lot.
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I ve seen that.
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But but
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In real life, I don t cry that much, but on a movie set, when you have to cry in a scene, you re just like, oh my God, how the fuck is that going to happen?
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And whatever, you work hard.
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This wancho
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did like 10 setups of different angles, blah, blah, blah.
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And he was just bawling, crying, insane.
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His line s perfect.
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I m like this, and he s a handsome fucking guy.
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Yeah, he s a good looking dude.
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I was trying not to say that, but he is.
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Yeah.
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Oh, he s so good looking.
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He can cry.
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He s got everything.
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Actually, he s got it all.
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It s game over.
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Six, nine, crying, handsome motherfucker.
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I know.
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Ten and a half actually.
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Sobs like a baby every day.
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Size 13 feet.
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Dana, I will give you guys a tip.
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If you re ever in a movie and you have to cry and it s hard to, you fake it and then you go like this.
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And get glassy.
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That was the end of Tommy, boy.
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He s obviously crying.
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That s good.
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It does work.
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It s called great acting.
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But Adam, I m going to ask you a question.
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Yes.
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Do you feel like, because you had uncut gems, that was pretty good, right?
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Yes, thank you, Dana.
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So then I saw that, and then I see this one.
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It seems like you re either, I don t know, you re, and the murder mystery movie, I mean, you re on a roll.
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I mean, are you feeling like you re more comfortable acting now?
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Are you changing up stuff, because you seem to be at this other level?
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Or is it just from doing it so much?
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I think I m getting older, more opportunities, guys like the Safdie brothers.
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Yes.
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The Safdie brothers, your brother, he kind of worked with them.
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Helped them get going, yeah.
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They were great friends with Andy and I met them, God, 12 years ago.
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They were talking about Uncut Gems then.
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Uncle Jams.
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People were trying to get that going, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I was sort of the muse for Justin, because I met him four years ago.
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Uncle Jams.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, but those guys are super cool.
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Very good.
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Yeah, they did.
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I think they did a Kate Spade commercial.
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Is that how you guys met?
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Yeah.
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And I think Andy wrote an idea and they did it.
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And then it somehow went to the Cannes Film Festival.
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And then they did a movie called, I think, Daddy Long Legs after that.
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Yeah.
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Incredible.
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And then they just kept getting, they were just better and better and better.
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Yes.
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did yours, and maybe one day you ll do another one with us.
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Fucking great guys.
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They re writing another one right now, but I lucked out.
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I m getting to do all this great stuff.
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Noah Baumbach, PTA, they all hooked me up.
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They all wrote great stuff.
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They asked me to be in it.
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Jim Brooks.
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Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Yeah, Paul Thomas Anderson.
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And then you just get more relaxed over time, right?
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You get more in the pocket.
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I guess I m getting I just did a movie with Johan Rank and he did Chernobyl.
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He did the series.
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He s incredible.
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And I played an astronaut in it.
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And a guy is fucking crazy in the movie and going through a lot of pain.
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And then and I went, yeah, just fucking do it and go and try your hardest.
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So that s all I do.
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I try my best.
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And the ones that don t work, they go, all right, we got to cut around that.
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But
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But I try to get as good as I can and they make it work.
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Is it ever scary because these guys do great movies or great TV show and PTA obviously one of the best.
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Paul Thomas Anderson.
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One of the best ever.
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Yes.
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And then you know PTA a little bit but if you get
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lucky enough, you re paired up with some great director, and usually on sets, like growing up, so those kind of movies, you have more of a say, but you have to kind of keep quiet somewhat, not totally, and trust them.
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And do you ever get a feeling where you re like, I don t even know if this guy knows what the fuck s going on?
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I mean, that must be scary.
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Because they re so good, but you go, it s going to work.
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They know what they re doing.
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That must be hard, though.
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You just go, you just give yourself to them because you know they re great.
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And
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and you read the script, and you just don t want to let them down, and you jump in their world.
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And it is neat.
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It s neat.
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I always feel more comfortable doing comedy.
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I m always more at ease going, all right, we re going to go make a movie and have a great time and try to come up with the best jokes and make everybody laugh.
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I love that.
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I ll love that the rest of my life, just like you guys.
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We re addicted to that.
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But the other stuff I m getting to do,
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And it s awesome.
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I know you both would crush at that also.
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It s just different.
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It s fun.
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It s a different day in the trailer.
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You don t go, what the fuck?
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You know, let me come up with a joke.
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You re kind of sitting there going, oh, I got to get in this mood right now.
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Well, the jokes are kind of crutchy because you know how to do it.
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And you know, if you have a scene that s not working, you go, I think we can figure a way out of this if we think of a joke or way out, which is what you do a lot on a comedy.
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But in these,
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You re like, this is just connecting.
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It s part of connecting the dots of the bigger picture.
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So not a lot has to happen right here.
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And it s hard to trust that.
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That s true.
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Just do what it is.
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I mean, sometimes they add music or something and you go, oh, I see what they did.
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It s perfect.
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Yeah, that s true.
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You don t know when you re doing it.
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And then when you re doing it and it s not right, those guys tell you, whoa, and you go, oh, he feels stupid for a second.
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You go, oh, I was giving you a little extra.
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And they re like,
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Calm down, calm down.
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I m juicing up a bit there.
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You re making it real good for the people.
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And they go, no, no, no, all right.
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Yeah, believe me, they want to see you.
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Those are the brothers, right?
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The Safdie brothers, their brothers, and Ronnie.
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Dana, what else do you have for Adam?
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We got to take a few questions.
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Oh, I don t know.
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I do think it s kind of cool that you did.
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There s so many movies, obviously.
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We talked to Drew Barrymore about 50 First Dates.
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I heard that.
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That was sweet.
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Drew was great.
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Drew gave you answers that were incredible every time.
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Doesn t Drew automatically take even a half a question, and she fucking goes... And she poetically does a seven-minute answer.
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It s unbelievable, beginning, middle, and end of every story.
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She goes, I m gonna guess your next three questions, and here s the answers.
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When I went to SNL, we were like, okay.
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Made it easier.
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I was amazed at her talking about being a little kid on SNL.
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Oh, I know.
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Yeah.
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At age seven.
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By the way, I ve listened to, I think,
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every episode of your show.
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I fucking love this show.
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It s the best.
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Yeah.
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I m so happy for both of you.
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It s the greatest.
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Well, it s fun to do because, you know,
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Like, we don t get to hang out with our friends that much, so this is our chance to, you know.
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The other one I wanted to ask, you did Anger Man, so you got to work with Jack Nicholson.
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Yes.
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Unreal.
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And really got to know him.
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Yes.
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And you told a funny story about Peanut Butter just hanging out at his house.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That s right, man.
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My first day over Nicholson s, I got there, and we re in, and he keeps the house dim.
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And so I m sitting in this chair and Jack s sitting in this chair.
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We re facing each other about five feet away from each other and we re talking and shit.
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And I m going, it s dark enough that I m going into my head.
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I don t think this is Jack Nicholson.
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I think, like, they brought out a fake one to talk to me and see if I m okay to talk to the real one.
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So I m just going like this.
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And he s, like, talking quietly.
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And it doesn t sound like the impression everybody does, you know, whatever.
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Let me tell you something.
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It s not like that.
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It s kind of like.
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Yeah, man, it s kind of quiet and cool and a little sand, man.
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I don t know.
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He just has a cooler voice.
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But I was not really believing it was him.
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And then I do like an hour of that.
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And then at the end of it, he goes, you hungry or something like that?
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I said, yeah, yeah, I could eat.
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He goes, you want a sandwich?
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And I said, yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man.
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And he s like, no.
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PB and J. And I go, that s fucking great.
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Then he gets up and walks away.
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Then he turns around and he looks at me and he goes, Skippy or Jif?
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That sounds like... I thought also that you went outside for a minute, and you were outside, he came out and he held up the jars.
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Oh, that s what it was?
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He said, skin-feared Jeff.
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That s right, man.
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Such a funny image, yeah.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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So I remember your stories, because that was a very good moment.
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You re better than me, man.
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I ran into him with Lauren, of course with Lauren, and we had dinner, and he goes, and he comes, there s an empty seat.
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You know, is this stupid?
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No, no, no.
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Okay.
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Lauren goes, we re going to have some spaghetti.
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And I was with Rosie.
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She s over there.
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I was over here.
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Tortellini.
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There s an empty seat.
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And Lauren sits here.
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So there s an empty seat.
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And Jack sits next to Rosie.
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And he starts talking.
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And then he goes, one time, I went to the MTV Awards or something.
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I ran out.
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And it was so dark, I got in the wrong limo.
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And I sat down.
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And everyone just stared at me.
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And it was Nirvana.
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And he goes, we re just in the wrong limo.
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And I go, uh-oh.
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And then she goes, did they not know who you were?
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And he goes, well, that s never happened.
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Someone didn t know who he was.
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Can I tell a quick Nicholson one?
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Yeah.
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Related to SNL.
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So Phil Hartman and John Lovitz and I are playing the par three in Studio City.
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Witsit.
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Yeah, Witsit.
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So we re on the green.
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We wave the guy on and he shoots it out of bounds and he walks over.
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We realize it s Nicholson.
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Right, right.
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So he walks up.
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And Phil Hartman had dubbed his voice in the movie The Border because they couldn t get a hold of Nicholson.
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Wow.
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Phil s very respectful.
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And he goes, Mr. Nicholson, I dubbed your voice in the movie The Border.
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One beat and he goes, no wonder it was my only stinker.
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That s a good one, yeah.
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As a joke.
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All right, let s take some questions real quick.
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We ll get Adam out of here.
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By the way, just so you know, before Nicholson did Anger Management, he called Lorne to see if it was... He had Lorne read the script.
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Oh, really?
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He goes, I ve just got to make sure.
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See if it was funny or something?
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Yeah, he goes, I like it.
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It makes me laugh, but let me just... Oh, that s cool.
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And he goes, he is the man.
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I skimmed it.
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He went through it and gave it the blessing.
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So I owe Lorne for that, too.
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We owe Lorne a lot.
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And Lorne, you appreciate Lorne more and more every year you re away from the show.
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What he has to deal with, the egos, the politics, keeping the sensibility in a certain frequency.
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Because if he left, it could turn into hee-haw in a second.
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Oh, man.
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I mean, he likes smart.
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He likes big laughs.
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So there s a lot of respect for Lorne Michaels.
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That s very true.
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All right.
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How are we going to do Q&A?
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How do we do it?
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Oh, they line up over there?
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Okay, line up with him if anybody has a question.
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We ll do a couple, and then we ll get this... Greg Holtzman.
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We ll get you guys to the other 300 shows tonight.
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Good job, yes.
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All right, here we go.
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Hi there.
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Oh, we re starting.
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Yeah.
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Okay, go ahead, young man.
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Hey, buddy.
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Hey, thank you.
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So I was wondering, you were talking about like childhood things that you remember.
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What was the first like extravagant purchase you made when you sort of made it big?
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That s a good one.
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I got my leather jacket, and you remember, I got a police academy movie and I bought a $400 leather jacket that was too heavy, but I couldn t give it up.
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It was like a motorcycle one, and it hurt my neck, but I wanted to wear it.
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And then I think I wore the improv when I first, I was around Adam.
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The first thing you ever said to me was, can you unzipper me?
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Can you help me get it off and I have to lay down now?
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That was it.
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Mine was leather jacket.
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Dana, what do you got?
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What d you get?
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With my own money that I bought.
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I think I went out and my father had that.
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uh green dark green and light green 78 Cadillac Fleetwood or some shit when I was in high school and my first big move I went out to an old Cadillac place they didn t have that color but I got that same caddy and had them paint it that color that was like my big first move.
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That s cool.
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Can I change mine?
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You must have got more than the leather jacket based on your home sales recently.
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Sorry.
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He did well.
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David invested well.
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Yes.
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What was your... What did you get?
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My wife and I did a silly thing.
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We walked in Encino, we walked into a Mercedes dealership and we bought Mercedes cars, like $100,000 cars.
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I bought a convertible coupe and I drove it for like a week and it had a plastic windshield, like what the fuck?
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So I took it back and got a sedan.
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That was just during my German phase.
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You had a Volvo.
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I have a Volvo now, it s very non-sexy.
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What a loser.
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Go ahead, next one.
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Yeah, I was gonna ask you about the origins of your trademark, you know, Adam Sandler voice, but you kind of already answered that.
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Yeah.
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But so my next question is, do your daughters do like an Adam Sandler impression?
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Like they do?
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They don t do that.
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They don t know that album yet.
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But they do both do the
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Every time I m trying to be funny and it doesn t work.
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That s funny.
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Yes, that.
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Thank you.
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Thanks, man.
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Sorry, I m I m shorter.
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Hi.
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Hi, guys.
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My name is Elise from Houston.
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Nice to see you, buddy.
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So my question is, what out of all the films you guys have, if you guys can go back and do a sequel to any of y all s previous films, what would it be?
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Uh, shit.
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Wayne s World 3.
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Wayne s World 3.
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Garth at 60.
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Wayne!
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I gotta get some Flomax.
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Flomax.
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I don t know if it would work.
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Go ahead, Adam.
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We ve done so many movies.
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What would be the sequel?
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What would you... What was the... I can t think of the name right now.
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You did with Cage and Lovitz.
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Oh, Trapped in Paradise.
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Oh, Trapped in Paradise.
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Yeah.
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That d be fun to just work with Nicholas Cates.
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That was a tough shoot.
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We fell down in the snow and yeah, we just... You were doing Brad Gray in that, right?
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I was doing Brad Gray and Mickey Roar.
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I don t know what you re doing, but I wouldn t do it, counselor.
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I was doing Mickey Roar.
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The studio flew in from L.A.
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We were in the middle of the woods in Canada and said, you got to stop doing that.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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But Nicholas Cates said, I would do it anyway.
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He was a great character.
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I guess that s it, right?
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I don t know.
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What would you do a sequel to?
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You have so many movies.
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No idea.
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There s too many.
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I liked them all.
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I liked doing Grown Ups with Davey because we all hung out.
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We all... We had an incredible time.
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Grown Ups could work.
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Yeah, three.
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Whatever it is, I like to do it.
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It s always great when you re with your friends.
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Grown-ups, we literally got to do this every day.
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That was the funnest.
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Sit in chairs, hang out, try to be funny, and cut around it.
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Yeah, that thing s been keeping the lights on at TBS for the last seven years.
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It s on in heavy rotation.
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But I love it.
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I love grown-ups.
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That was a smash.
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Great memories.
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Thank you for that question.
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Thank you.
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Cheers you guys are wonderful.
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This is amazing.
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Hey, man.
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I my question.
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I suppose you guys have written for so many
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different like wonderful projects in both film and TV and of course on Saturday Night Live and my question was do you think that to properly like kind of well like master that sort of craft you think it s like
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Writing as much as you can, like, every day is really the proper way to get to a point where you feel comfortable with your writing.
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Or do you think also, I suppose, do you think it s also helpful to try and collaborate with other people that you know you d work well with?
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Sounds a little like John Mulaney, this guy.
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I would say my if I would take that my first answer be if it s stand-up Just get as much stage time as time as you can and if it s writing I think it just more is better collaborating or writing by yourself Just anything you can do until something sticks.
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I would say right right and right.
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I remember I lived with Apatow when I was
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Judd, great writer.
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And Apatow, he was the first one of us that would write.
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Yeah, he was smart about it.
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He used to sit in his room and write skits all the time for Saturday.
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He wasn t on Saturday Night Live, but he would write kind of skits for them.
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And he would collaborate with people and he was smart.
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He made himself like a producer because that was a valuable thing to help someone do what they re doing, Jim Carrey or you.
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Right, right, right.
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Well, I would say, what is your name?
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Uh, my name is Ambrose.
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Okay.
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All right, Ambrose.
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That s all right.
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It s a cool name.
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That s a great chardonnay.
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No, anyway.
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Ambrose, I would just say, initially, that seems like too much pressure to me to try to go in a room and stuff.
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If you re a comedy writer, just write everything down.
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That s what George Carlin said.
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So if you re out with your friends, a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something.
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Make sure you either record it or write it down.
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and just do it spontaneously all the time.
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And your headset gets into that.
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Yeah, it s hard to just sit and write and be funny.
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It happens all day.
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And if you just write it when it happens, it don t say you ll remember it later because you won t.
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So just write it, write it, write it.
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And then you collect it and go, is there anything here?
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Is anything here?
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That stuff s very valuable.
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You basically only need to write five good jokes your whole life.
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And then like David, you use that the rest of your life.
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In different ways.
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Yeah.
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It s a spade, bros.
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It s all right.
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Thank you guys so much.
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Good luck.
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Thank you, bros.
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All right.
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What do we got, boss?
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I m bros.
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I m bros.
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Hi.
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I have a favor to ask you guys.
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It s my nephew s 15th birthday, and I was born.
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Go ahead.
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It was my nephew s 15th birthday today, and I was wondering if I could make a video of you guys saying happy birthday to him.
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Imagine if we said no one meant it.
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Yeah.
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You know when to ask.
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What s his name?
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Roll it.
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What s his name?
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Nicholas.
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Nicholas.
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And we re going to say it.
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Or do you want us to film it and then send it to him?
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Have it all in the whole theater that sings happy birthday to Nicholas.
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OK.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday, dear Nicholas.
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Oh, yes.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Thank you.
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Sorry.
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Hey there, guys.
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My name s... Holy shit.
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It s testosterone, man.
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My name is Al, and I want to say that it s... My grandma s dying, and it s her birthday day, and if we could sing happy birthday to her, that would be incredible.
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All right.
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What is changing?
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What s her name?
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No, but for real, this is such a fucking treat.
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That s a good one.
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This is such a fucking treat for all of us, because you guys are all just such pillars of comedy.
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Yeah, awesome, man.
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Thank you.
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You too, David.
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He s rolling!
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Here s my real question.
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You know, when you re watching you guys, we pretend we re you, we see ourselves in you and shit like that.
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So when you did Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin, and then when you did that scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman, being you in those moments is like fucking incredible.
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So how was it being you in those moments?
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It was very cool.
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Co-stars.
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You re funny as shit, by the way.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Good job.
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I ll be here tomorrow night.
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You re so psyched you followed Ambrose too.
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Ambrose is looking for pen and paper.
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David tuned out.
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Steve Martin, of course, all our heroes.
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Yeah, we loved him.
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One of the greats of all time.
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First time Hall of Famer, Steve Martin.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Probably the number one ballad for us, right?
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Say it again?
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He was probably the number one guy.
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Memorized his albums.
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His albums, Wild and Crazy Guy, all the shit Steve Martin did.
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So, of course, being in a movie with him was just staring at him and waiting for like
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quiet moments to run over and say something and hopefully he d respond.
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And so I love that.
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And he was very nice to me.
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And then Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Fucking great guy.
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Great actor.
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Great tour de force that guy.
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He was just a very good, funny man.
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Took it serious.
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Went hardcore when we worked together.
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By the way, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I don t know if you guys know this, so we re doing Billy Madison.
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I think we wrote, oh no, that Happy Gilmore.
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No, maybe Billy Madison, we wrote for Bob Odenkirk.
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wrote that for Bob Odenkirk, the bad guy in the movie.
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And the fucking studio wouldn t allow it.
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They re like, you can t just have your friends.
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And we were like, no, he s fucking great.
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And they said, no, it s Bob Odenkirk.
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So I think that s how it went.
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I think it s OK.
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So we wanted Bob.
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They said no.
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They put out
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You got to audition, you know, audition people.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman auditioned.
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And I was in Toronto getting ready to make the movie, and it still wasn t cast yet.
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I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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I was laughing my ass off.
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I m going, who the fuck is this guy?
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He s hilarious.
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So I tell the people I show Universal, can we have this guy?
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Are you good with him?
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I mean, you fucking said no to Odenkirk.
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Are we OK with this guy?
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And they were like, and it took some,
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talking into and then they said yes then we offered it to him and we get this call back like he yeah he s not he doesn t want to do it and we were like he doesn t want to do what he mean he auditioned and so i go let me fucking talk to him this guy and tell him how great he is and i called him up
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And I said, hey, it s Adam.
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And he s like, oh, hey, Adam, blah, blah, blah.
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And I said, hey, man, I saw your tape.
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You re so great, buddy.
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And they said, you don t want to do it.
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And he goes, oh, thanks, man.
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I go, do you want to do it?
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And he goes, oh, I can t.
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I go, oh, why not?
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And he goes, I just don t want to.
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And I go, okay, you sure?
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We re gonna have fun.
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Isn t that great?
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He goes, I don t want to.
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I go, I really love you.
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And he goes, I know you do.
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I swear to God.
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Wow.
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A lot of confidence.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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That was cool.
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Thank you guys.
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When you get bored and you want to go to YouTube, go to Crypto Junkies EEZ.
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I ll make you rich.
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All right.
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Just hang on to that Cardano.
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Get that card, brother.
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Solana.
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It s going to the moon.
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He s a funny bastard.
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Hi guys, my name is Denny.
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I just want to just want to thank you guys You guys are my comedy heroes moved out to LA for my pursuit of SNL as my dream So I ve been looking up to you guys my whole life.
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Oh Are you doing stand-up and stuff like that?
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All over, all over.
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North Hollywood, I produce a show.
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No way.
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Oh, really?
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What s your name?
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Denny Glasser.
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Denny Glasser.
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That s a great name.
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I m going to pass out.
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Thank you.
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Is there a question with this or not?
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Dr. Denny would be a good moniker.
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Dr. Denny s in the house.
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I m just saying.
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Thank you.
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My only question I wanted to ask is, what was the first impression or character that you guys did that you knew you could do this for a career?
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Oh, I could do Michael J. Fox real good.
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That was David, that was David.
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Always yours.
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My first impression... You didn t have many impressions, did you?
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I did, no, I used to do them around the house.
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I did the basic, I used to do Rich Little stuff, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, me too.
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John Wayne and... John Wayne, yeah.
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Well, yeah, I used to wear a cowboy hat around the house.
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Oh, really?
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Well, I ll tell you.
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Oh, my God.
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Or do that like we would cook for my parents.
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Oh, watch Bacon and Eggs.
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Oh, gross.
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I know, I know.
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Yeah, how about you?
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Who was your first?
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Casey Kasem?
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You guys do that.
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Checking in at number five, the boss.
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Bruce Springsteen, a man and his guitar.
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A man who likes to call his guitar his own.
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I was nine years old, The Beatles came on Ed Sullivan, the next day I walked up to my mom and I said, Hey, do you think I could get me some pancakes?
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She screamed.
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She didn t know what I was doing.
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But that was my first time I knew I could alter my voice is doing a Liverpudlian accent.
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All right, well, good luck to you, buddy.
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Thank you for asking me.
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Love you, buddy.
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Danny, good luck.
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We gotta go.
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We gotta go.
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Thank you very much.
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Thanks to Adam Sandler.
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Sorry about your questions.
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Thank you, guys.
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You guys were awesome, and thank you so much for coming out to the Wheel Turn.
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Adam Sandler!
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Bye, folks.
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Thanks, Danny.
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I really enjoyed it.
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How you doing?
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That was fun.
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Thank you so much.
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