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Up next today, we ve got Fortune Feimster, who I have called Feimster, and one of them is wrong.
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I m not gonna tell you which one.
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Yeah, I know, and I ve called her Fartoon Feimster.
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I ve called her Fart-tion.
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I did it as your brother, Fartoon.
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Fartoon, our people worship you, Fartoon.
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She s really fun.
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We ve done a lot of stuff together.
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She was, as David would say, a blast.
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Yeah, she s a blast, she s light on her feet, laughs the whole time.
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We talk a lot about standup, we talk about closing bits, how you decide on a closer, that s sort of inside baseball when people like that.
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We talked about butt massages, I think.
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She told a very funny story about butt massages, and there s a twist ending, so stay tuned for that.
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Never see it coming, never.
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She was full of fun and joy.
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We talked about naming our comedy specials.
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We talked to each of us how to name a special and how the arduous process of a name that no one s gonna remember anyway, naming tours, all that.
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Yes, and the process of building a new hour.
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She s one of those people, again, that makes you a little bit like, whoa, just can really get kind of a new hour in a period of a few weeks.
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New hour of standup is very hard, very hard for most standups.
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She s very quick, she writes fast, and she grinds it.
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She s in the room grinding it like Nikki Glaser.
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They re all out there grinding.
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Nate, these people are doing like 100 dates a year.
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It s unreal.
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But anyway, here she is.
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I hope you enjoy.
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We had a really, really good time with her.
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Here s Fortune.
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She s she s adorable.
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Here she is.
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Fortune.
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Beamster.
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Is Fortune here?
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Yes.
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What was your nickname?
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We re going right at it.
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Because Fortune is such a great name.
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So nice to have you.
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And thanks for coming on.
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Hi Dana.
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We are not smartless.
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They re the Borg.
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We are the little engine that could.
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Nice to meet you.
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I m just curious, right, because I saw your name in print.
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Fortune, like, hey, fortune cookie.
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I mean, what was it?
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What did they do with that?
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Because that s such a cool name.
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Yes, my family was big on fortune cookies.
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That was, no.
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It s an old family name.
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My grandmother s mom, it s her maiden name.
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So there s a bunch of fortunes in my family with the last name Fortune.
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Oh, and is that French?
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I don t know.
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I don t know.
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It was kind of a nod to my grandmother.
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I am.
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It s technically my middle name, but it s what I started to go by.
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It s such a good showbiz name.
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And, you know, if you do a special, your next one, maybe you call it Fortune 500 minutes of comedy.
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That s what you call a fortune cookie.
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And you make cookies while you do your standup.
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That would be good.
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Although 500 minutes, I would need a lot more minutes.
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It feels long.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I might lose some viewers.
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People jump off after about eight minutes of a special.
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I think I read that.
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If someone says to me one more time, you got to drop into the algorithm.
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You got to make peace with the algorithm.
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I m so fucked about the algorithm.
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We re living with an algorithm and I don t know.
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How are you trending?
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What s your numbers like?
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Feeling good?
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Oh yeah, I m always trending.
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You re always shaking the tree.
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That s right.
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This tree right here.
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Is that an office that looks kind of like, you look sort of like you re on a patio and you re outside?
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No, it s just a corner of my office.
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It s kind of cool because you have like boards instead of just...
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Well, this is, I don t know, this is like the trend now in houses is to make a wall.
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I don t know, have to look outdoor.
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Oh, a textured wall.
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A textured wall.
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It s not like spades with the with the skateboards on the wall.
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If someone says texture, texture to me again, I m going to blow my top.
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No kidding.
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I m mad about, you hate that word.
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Algorithm is my number one hate hateful word.
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I don t really understand algorithms and why they... It s because you re not a computer.
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They re like, this is what we like.
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People like feed your algo.
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I go, I m trying, but I don t know what that means.
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The algo is mad.
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The algo is mad.
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Well, it s like don t post too much.
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It s not good for the algorithm.
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And then the other sites are like, you re not posting enough.
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The algorithm is mad.
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You re like, oh, my God.
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And don t delete one.
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If you delete one, the algo goes back to zero and you have to win it over again.
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Really?
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Oh, yeah.
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See, there s another one is people say to me is don t look thirsty.
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Don t look too thirsty.
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Don t do a byline on a clip that looks like you re kind of looking for clicks.
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It has to not look too thirsty.
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Is that the correct use of that, David?
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You say thirsty a lot.
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It looks a little thirsty.
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Don t look thirsty.
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I want to see Dana start posting thirst traps.
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Yeah, Dana with his shirt off working out in the woods.
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Give us what we want.
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Let s just put it this way.
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You saw the Golden Bachelorette.
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I lived it.
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That doesn t make sense, but it sounds funny.
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I m doing two thumbs pointing to me.
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No, I m in good shape for the shape I m in.
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Everything s fine.
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It s working.
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Don t Wikipedia my name, Fortune.
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Fortune, you have a professional microphone.
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Is that part of the podcast situation you have right now?
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Yes.
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You have your podcast.
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Do you want to promote it?
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Don t you have one?
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Yeah.
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I have a podcast called Handsome with Tig Notaro, myself, and me.
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Oh, yeah.
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That s right.
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I ve seen that in the top 10.
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I mean, you guys are a hit, right?
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Yeah, it s crazy.
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We re about six, six and a half months in, 8 million downloads.
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or just being silly and laughing.
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It s hard not to look at those charts.
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I know.
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You re looking at, what, six months, eight million downloads.
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Was that like $7.50 a month or what is that?
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What s the algorithm?
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I used to be a CPA.
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I just like numbers.
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I m not.
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Anyway.
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I m not good with numbers, but yeah, you re doing fine.
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Yeah, it s really fun.
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We have somebody ask us a question that kind of leads what the podcast is going to be about.
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And it s us just being ridiculous for an hour.
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Is that how it works that you have a question and you run off that?
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Yeah, do you mind if we borrow that idea for our other podcast?
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Because we re fresh out of bullets.
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So thank you.
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Let me write that down.
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You just changed my life.
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Listen, the clip s been empty for a while now, let s be honest.
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Take a question and do an hour of witty, funny talk.
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Give us an example of something.
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You guys are doing more than fine.
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This podcast is always up there on the charts, baby.
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Right.
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Jeez, I can t look because I m too sensitive.
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We are up there, huh?
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Yeah.
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I don t look at anything.
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I love you guys together.
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This is a great combo.
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Well, we love you.
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Give us an example of like a question that you could jump off on.
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Oh God.
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Is it just something vague or is it advice?
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Like Reese Witherspoon asked us like, what was your favorite holiday gift?
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And so we did that at Christmas.
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Colbert asked us like, do you have any woo-woo beliefs?
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Oh, you re asking celebrities.
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Oh, yes.
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Oh, not just fans.
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You know, you know, just anyone asking the question.
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We don t want to get ahead of ourselves.
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But what question would you ask our podcast, The Superlight, if you were going to ask a question, not saying we re going to use this, but.
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Right.
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What would it be?
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Well, because you guys come from rarefied air, I would ask some sort of SNL question.
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I would be like, you know, what was your what was the hardest part of working on SNL or something like that?
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Some inside baseball thing.
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Oh, yeah.
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We get to inside, actually.
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We re talking about every meeting and every office in the 17th floor.
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dissected we have we have 150 hours of minutiae well the meetings are on monday with the host you know the rest of it did you ever have a thing about snl being a cast member oh yeah that was like my north star forever i i um grew up watching i watched both of you guys huge huge fan of both of you and well let s
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wasn t that special.
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I mean, come on.
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Church lady was a part, a big part of my childhood and doing, doing your dance.
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I mean, you know, superior dance with the elbows up.
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I don t know where it came from.
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I heard Steve Martin when he was on the show, when I was doing the read through, I heard him say under his breath, what kind of mind thinks of this?
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Cause it was like your bulbous buttocks are throbbing.
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You re not, you know, but, um, y all were my guys.
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I mean, Wayne s world.
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Spade telling people, buh-bye.
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I mean, it was all of it.
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So I m from a tiny town in North Carolina, so that was my only access to comedy.
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And I would watch the sketches, I would record them on my VCR, and then I would go to like softball or tennis practice and sort of recite these sketches for people.
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And then I ended up testing twice for SNL, 2009, 2010.
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Didn t test positive.
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It was a cool experience though.
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We get people on who have that experience.
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And then I always say, God, there s so many inputs to being at the right place, the right time.
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It s not an outright rejection at all.
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It s literally people in the room going,
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Fortune was really funny and your cards on the board.
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Also, Barbara was great or Bill, whatever it is.
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Did you feel hurt by not getting it?
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Were you close or what did you think?
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I mean, obviously, that had been the dream for so long that not getting it was so disappointing.
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But I just now that I m at the place I m at in my life, I can see why it didn t work out.
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And I ve weirdly enough gone on to work with so many SNL people, even doing Keenan.
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sitcom.
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I worked with Lorne.
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He was the producer for that.
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Well, that means they loved you from the audition and remembered you.
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I was pretty green.
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I mean, I was in advance at the Groundlings when my first audition happened.
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So I hadn t even gotten the experience yet of Sunday Company and doing sketches every week.
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I feel like I might have auditioned maybe two years before I was really… No hard feelings.
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Fist bump?
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I would say, because I saw your special, and I would say there s a likability thing that happens with certain performers.
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I mean, I can see it when I look at certain people like Steve Carell or whatever.
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Yeah.
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And you do have that.
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Oh, thank you.
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Big time.
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And it s very cool to see the audience so charmed by you in your special.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate that.
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You re essentially clean.
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I mean, you re 99% just clean.
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And you re doing stuff about dodgeball and stuff.
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It s just sort of, it s charming.
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But anyway, they blew it.
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You should go back now.
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I didn t even do stand-up in my audition, which is wild to me now, because I do feel like stand-up obviously is a strong point for me.
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My first audition was all characters, and then I felt like I gave them all my best characters.
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So my second summer, I was like, I don t know what I m going to do now.
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I should have just done stand-up.
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Well, can you share?
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Yeah, you do a few characters.
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But do you mind just telling us what the characters you auditioned with?
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Well, it s funny, the first audition, I only had like, I got called at like 3 p.m.
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on like a Wednesday and they re like, can you be on a plane tonight?
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They always do that.
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Yeah, it was crazy.
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They re like, can you be on a plane tonight?
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And you re going to audition at like noon tomorrow.
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So I was freaking out, but I almost like that better.
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I had less time to freak out.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Booty callback.
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My first audition, actually, I thought went pretty well.
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I did Richard Simmons, obviously.
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Obviously.
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Well, you look so much alike.
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I did a Hooters waitress that I was doing at the time.
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What was funny is that I layered my clothes.
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So I started with my regular outfit.
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Don t I can t remember what characters I did.
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And then I ended with taking that top layer off.
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And it was the Richard Simmons tank top.
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Then underneath, that was a Hooters tank top.
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By the end of the audition, I had a pile of clothes and I ended my audition and I did feel like a stripper that was like, okay, the lap dance is over.
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Because it is kind of quiet, no matter who you are.
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It s just a few people.
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Oh, good.
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Okay, you missed something.
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Your shoes are over there.
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Thank you very much.
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Yeah, there s like, you see those three lamps in the corner, like, and I m gathering my clothes, like, okay, thank you.
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Lauren, do you have any Tide Pods?
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So I ll never forget that part of it.
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Did you have a ripcord at all, or was it just sort of unbuttoned, get it off?
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It was just taking it off.
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No, but Elkro, you weren t on the show yet.
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When you get on the show, it s all about Elkro.
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Oh, and let me also add that I took my pants off because, of course, underneath my pants were short shorts.
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Because, hello, Hooters sweatshirts.
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Dedicated.
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So the pants didn t just come off, you had to get on a chair and get them off?
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I had to take my shoes off, pull my pants down.
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It was a whole... I mean, I was... Jeez.
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I was kind of sexy.
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Dana, I hate this.
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How did I not get that job?
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That s crazy.
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Listen, what I don t like, Dana, and this is not on the subject, when you re watching a porn, and I know you guys don t, but when you re watching a porn,
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Everything s going great.
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Boring.
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And they re about to do it.
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And then they both sit down and start taking off their pants.
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And the guy s got to pull his Levi s over his shoes.
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I m like, just take your shoes off.
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Yeah.
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And then I m like, God.
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And then it s all stuck.
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And he s got to sit down.
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And he lays on the floor.
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I go, can we just trim this part?
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I love that you re analyzing his notes.
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I write in the comments at the bottom.
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I go, I liked it.
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Yeah, it s crazy.
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I ll put this image in your head, Fortune, because OK, like Wayne s world.
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So Mike had one of the best reveals ever.
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He was touring with me and he would come out as as Wayne with the whole outfit on.
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Yeah.
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Do these jokes.
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It s killing anyway.
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And then sprockets would come on and he had a spring mechanism that he suddenly and then the wig comes off his hair, sit back.
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So he s the German.
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He s Dieter.
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And he s strutting around the music.
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I go, fuck, I got to
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follow this yeah this is wow it would crush just the sadness of that is wild yeah hi mike if you re listening yeah hi mike i mean man you guys were the best that that was i mean you are the best but that was so that was just such a huge part of my childhood i told you dana fortune is likable so watch out
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I know.
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Better watch out.
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I told him, watch out.
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Don t fall for it.
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Yeah.
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Fortune and I have worked on a few things.
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And, you know, Fortune, you won t remember this, but we were on a show called After Party.
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I do remember that.
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OK, that was in the thick of COVID.
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Into the thick of it.
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Yeah, we were.
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You know, the funny thing about this was, Dana, you knew Lights Out because you did it and Fortune did it.
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I know that show is so good.
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I was.
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Yeah, that show should still be on the air.
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You know, I do hear more.
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I hear more about it after.
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But when we were doing that, our old buddy and your buddy, Ted Sarandos, would come sometimes.
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Right.
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He was just comedy guys.
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He would pop by.
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Netflix was close by.
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So anyway, he.
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So when we got
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Word fired is strong.
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When we got COVID fired, it was really a new boss.
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And they said, we re going to get rid of everything.
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Oh, the new regime.
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Yeah.
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So he called and said, Ted called and said, hey, would you is there a way we could do that over Netflix?
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Because we did like that, you know, I think the stipulation was.
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at the end if you could interview someone from one of the Netflix shows for eight to ten minutes after you do your panel.
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And I m like, well, yeah, because we were always looking for a fourth act, like the closing act anyway.
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So it d be like a monologue and then some comedians blabbing about shit and then maybe we d film something and then interview someone.
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I said, that s actually perfect.
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What happened was we got me, Fortune, and London in there, London Hughes, and we had Bill Burr on the first one, and what happens is Ted hands it off, and then it gets handed off, and by the time we start shooting, it s not that, it s not lights out anymore.
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And unfortunately, it just turned into,
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like an hour commercial for whatever show.
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Just for the people listening.
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So this was, Ted got you two together and then you were doing, you were doing like sort of a show that was about Netflix shows, loosely based, right?
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It was supposed to be the same thing as Lights Out.
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Oh yeah, supposed to be Lights Out, then it turns into Entertainment Tonight.
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Yeah, it was originally supposed to just be comics,
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Kind of do it.
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Yeah.
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It s like joking around, sitting around and doing what we do.
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And yeah, Bill.
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And the first one they said, let s do Bill Burr and then someone from Netflix.
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And I m like, oh, only one comment.
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OK, well, so it sort of just got changed.
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And, you know, all those things are well intentioned, like I was in charge, the English guy.
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And he said, well, we ll do this because it works here in England.
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And then and then the second show, how about no comic?
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And it s that fast for like, wait,
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This is really different.
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So it was odd because Spade s a very famous guy.
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You ve been around like you re suddenly interviewing like.
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Fate the weak sucks.
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Love is blind.
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Why is fate?
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You know what I mean?
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It was like, what s happening?
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And I didn t I didn t even claim to know enough about it.
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I go, maybe London should do this one because she s more into it.
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She knows things I don t know.
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And I m like, I don t even know what I m doing.
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And I m like, don t read the cue cards.
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I m like, I don t know what show this is.
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They would be like, so
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Ginny and Georgia, which one of you is Ginny?
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I go, I ve seen every episode.
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Now, which one s Ginny?
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I go, oh, you might figure that out after you ve watched seven seasons.
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But that s your first question.
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I really did like Ginny and Georgia.
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That was a fun one because I did watch it.
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Yeah.
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And she was a sweetheart.
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Yeah, but the farther it went along, I started and whatever.
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I mean, there s no real blame.
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You didn t need to be.
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You didn t need to be interviewing people.
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Well, I just turned to something else.
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And it was well-meaning.
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I still like lights out ish.
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I mean, maybe we ll do a panel show one day.
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It was fun to do, like because in that we got to hang in and laugh.
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And it was during the thick of the pandemic when people weren t working.
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Yeah, I think I think that first episode did so well.
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It was like the numbers were like insane that then they re like, whoa, wait, what?
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And then a bunch of cooks were in the kitchen.
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Yeah.
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If this worked, it would work even better if we changed it.
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It would work.
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It works so well.
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We should change it a lot.
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Are you?
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Telling me, wait a minute, are you guys telling me that the suits of the hierarchy will take something that s working and inject their clueless ego and destroy the souffle?
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Is that your premise?
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I m saying it happens on every show and sometimes it works, sometimes it makes the show better.
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In this scenario, it didn t play to anything I did well, so I m half to blame because I was half checked out going,
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I just don t I don t know what I m doing anymore.
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Like it wasn t it wasn t the show that you came in with that was working.
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And I didn t do a monologue for you.
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I didn t do any goofing on comedians anymore.
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So just, yeah.
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Hi, I m David Spade.
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And tonight we talk to the cast of mostly it s a new show.
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And you bet I have to go watch it because we re telling everyone who these people are.
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You know, no one knows.
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You were basically Mario Lopez.
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Yeah.
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And you were- Who we love.
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You and Maria Menounos.
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Who we love.
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You re great at interviewing people.
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We love them very much.
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You re tremendous, sorry.
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The Karate Kid one was fun, because we did a sketch about him.
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That was- With Ralph?
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With Ralph Macchio?
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Cobra Kai, yeah.
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Yeah, Cobra Kai.
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Well, it sounds like a great show.
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I m just gonna write down, reboot, what was the name of it?
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Oh, No Need.
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It was called, what was it called?
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No Need?
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No need for that.
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That s a horrible name for the algo.
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That was called After Party.
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After Party, yes.
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Fortune, if you had that experience, sorry, just based on what, taking David Spade, really, really funny, all time funny, and then making him kind of the straight interviewer.
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Have you had experiences where they take you, funny, funny, funny, and then somehow make you unfunny?
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I m sure.
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It happened to me a lot when I wasn t writing it.
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Yeah.
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But what was your worst experience in a show?
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And we want names.
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Gosh, I m trying to remember.
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Or has it been a golden career?
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No, I mean, there s definitely some misses.
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I mean, I definitely think, so I went from Mindy Project was my first series regular.
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I had just come off of Chelsea lately and loved it.
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And they wrote
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so well for me.
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I didn t have to think about anything.
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I literally just would show up.
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It was the best job.
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And then we went from that to a show called Champions that was on NBC and same group, similar group of people.
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But it was a new show, so it was trying to find its way.
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I definitely think
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that was a character I didn t really know what that character was and I was overacting and like intense and I was like, oh, this is this is not working.
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You mean like you re trying to go for the laughs a little harder?
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Yeah.
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Still wasn t clicking.
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Yeah, because I think because the pressure of it being a new show and we re like, where s the funny?
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I was trying to, I was pushing too much.
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Yeah.
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It happens on stage with comics too, myself included, where when you re getting a tough crowd, you start to go bigger, you can t help, or you bring out the profanity.
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It s just so, or you speed it up.
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There s so many classic things you do that are wrong.
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Yeah the last one I did it was I only had one shot at it because the air conditioner went out the first night you know shooting a special.
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So then that wasn t usable because it was sweating people were leaving.
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So it s kind of like you work on something for six months you got you got one shot here he comes so
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Very hard not to kind of push a little bit, but full circle back to your special, totally relaxed, didn t feel like you were recording.
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Was that what I seen was real?
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I mean, you didn t look like you re pushing at all.
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That s good.
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I don t know what you felt.
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I don t get nervous, obviously, with live shows.
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I only get nervous when I m filming.
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So there is that pressure to be like, like you said, there s I got two shows to get this right.
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I ve been touring for so long with this material.
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I don t want it like tonight to be like the dud.
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I think once I get, I think I m a little stiffer on the first show.
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And then if I get that, at least the beats down, then I m like, oh, I have, I have the baseline there.
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Now I can just be.
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You can always focus.
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People at home don t know.
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You sort of usually combine the shows.
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Yeah.
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You do the same act twice.
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Then you go, that joke worked better in here.
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The one about the propeller worked better in the second show.
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And you kind of patch it together.
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But also,
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I think on mine, you know, my everyone had a mask on and I didn t know.
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So when I went out, the laughs were noticeably muffled.
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Yeah.
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And I m like, oh, my God, because the first thing you don t want to think when you after your first joke is, oh, my God, they re a tough crowd.
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It s my crowd and they re tough.
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I m having to win.
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I m having to win over the people that already like me.
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Yeah, I m winning over my own brother.
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That s a bad name.
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But after I got off, they go, God, it was tough because they were all muffled.
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I go, oh, they were with the N95, like super non-laugh muffler.
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Yeah, killer.
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And then I knew I couldn t see it from the stage that anyone.
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No, you re like, I don t want to look at anyone.
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And then I m like, why?
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And then I thought, God, why is this so tough?
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And yeah, but, you know, you can
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and fix and tweak, but you wanna just be loose and be like, the other night I went on in Santa Rosa, and I m like, this is such a fun show.
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I knew before I walked on, the crowd was good.
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I go, I wish I was taping tonight.
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It just, yeah.
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That s the best theater I ve ever played.
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Oh, really?
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That used to be the Luther Burbank, and now it s called Wells Fargo or something like that, right?
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I think Luther Burbank is still in the title.
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Oh, it s in Santa Rosa.
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Oh, you have to play that place because it s based on a church with a balcony, it s sort of a half cylinder.
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And if you talk about Feng Shui of rooms, right, David, it s sixteen hundred, but it plays like a club.
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It s really the balconies up on your sides.
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Also, it s not just in the back.
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And so everyone s on top of you.
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Kind of.
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It just has that quality.
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So, yeah, I m going to call my agent after I get off this and.
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What would be good for you to play a Saturday in Santa Rosa?
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Yeah, just let me know.
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Dude, you re watching grinds out the gig.
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You are.
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You are kicking it.
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I saw your schedule.
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You don t look tired.
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I mean, I am tired.
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I both these tours have been back to back and have been over 100 cities.
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Can a Richie Rich.
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Wow.
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And I film and I film FUBAR with Arnold in between the two tours.
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So I never had a break since the pandemic.
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We re going to put a hammock on the set.
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Let s go.
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Come on.
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Fortune.
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Yeah.
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Fortune.
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You know, she get that actress with the name and it brings good fortune.
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That s why we hired her.
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She s happy and smiling.
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And we do the shots and then we were ready for the premiere with Ted Sarandos.
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He brought up at one point Hans and Franz, and I was like, oh yeah.
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Oh yeah, no, he s hysterical.
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Yeah, so you re doing incredible.
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You ve got food bars, you ve got shows.
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Seems like you re on a roll for the last many years.
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I mean, congratulations.
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Oh, thank you.
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It doesn t always go perfectly, it s awesome.
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I just work.
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my butt off.
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I just, I don t ever stop.
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Cause you know, as all of us, you know, have that fear of like, what, what s going to happen that time when people don t want to come, you know, so.
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There s no real demand for us.
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That s the thing.
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I guess if I stopped, I wouldn t be like, okay.
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Yeah, people are just like, bye.
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So yeah, I just grind because, you know, I just I do enjoy it.
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And there is that fear of like, when will this stop?
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So let s go.
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You re young and yeah, go for it.
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I m just curious.
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Do you have a name?
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Because, David, what s the name of your tour?
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I think they re kind of funny.
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Well, this is a good question, because I was also going to say, when you do a hundred at Eclipse, do you split the whole hour or what?
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What is yours?
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When I said at the end of this tour?
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Yeah, like when you did your first hundred shows.
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Now, do you have to wait and then you start over and flip the whole hour or do you do a combo play?
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No, I do the tour, like 100 cities, however many shows, 150 shows, film a special.
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And some of those cities, not many, might be right after.
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And then I go off the road for a couple months, write, start doing local shows.
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Then the special comes out.
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Oh, OK.
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Then I do some clubs to work on that new stuff.
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And I tell people this, I m working, I m working it out.
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They love that.
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Yeah.
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You know, they love it.
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And then so say if the special came out in like October, I m working clubs, November, December, January, I m starting a new tour, new hour.
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That fast?
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You get an hour that fast?
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That s so hard.
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That s what I m doing.
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You re a machine.
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I did that.
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This will be my third hour in five years.
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It s so hard.
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People don t get how hard it is.
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They go, is it going to be stuff I know?
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And I go, well, some people go on Instagram, you didn t even do those three jokes.
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I know because half the people want new and half the people want old.
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I don t know.
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There are some jokes that people are like, will you tell that?
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That one thing.
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So I was doing that early on.
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I was doing a joke or two from my Sweet and Salty special.
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And then now that I m working, I m filming in April my next special.
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So now I m just doing what that hour is going to be.
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Where are you going to film it?
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In Seattle at the Moore.
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Oh, I m going to Seattle.
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Yeah, it s fun.
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It s a really beautiful theater.
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It s like 1900 seats and three levels, but all the levels are like right at the stage.
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So everything s very close.
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So the laughter is big and nice.
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So you ve done three.
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I saw one.
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I hope I saw the latest one.
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I have two that are out and I m filming the third one.
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OK, on Netflix.
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Yeah.
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And so do you have a name for your tour?
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Well, it really is hard to come up with those names.
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I did live, laugh, love, which is, you know, that classic sign in all your mom s, you know, kitchens or living rooms.
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I just think that sign is so funny.
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And I love that my mom s like, that s art.
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I m like, you got it, sis.
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It sure is.
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I ve done live, laugh, do crack.
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I m just embracing the corniness of it, I guess.
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So you did Sweet and Salty.
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No, I think it s nice.
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Sweet and Salty.
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Sweet and Salty was my... But see, I never... The name of my tours don t ever end up being the name of my special.
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Oh, is that different?
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Wait, I don t know.
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Mine s Catch Me Inside.
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Yeah.
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And my tour was called... I mean, my special was called...
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I don t fucking know.
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SPEAKER_00
What was it called?
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SPEAKER_00
I don t remember.
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SPEAKER_00
Heather, what is my Heather?
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SPEAKER_00
Oh.
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SPEAKER_00
What is it, something problems?
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some oh um this has been a running game it s hilarious two years that he carries nothing personal okay nothing personal it s so hard to remember because i do jokes about people yeah one about stallone i did one about all these people actually like and i do a joke i m like wasn t that funny and they re like
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Oh, I can mean I go, no, no, I was just having fun.
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It s funny for me because I was just fun.
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And I was just I was honestly just fun.
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And next time you re going to go get four or whatever.
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You re kind of from the south, maybe north.
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I m definitely from the north, North Carolina, North Carolina.
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I m going there.
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SPEAKER_00
How is that place?
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SPEAKER_00
I m going there.
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SPEAKER_00
You re going.
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When are you going?
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SPEAKER_00
What s it called?
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SPEAKER_00
The CPAC.
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SPEAKER_03
Deepak, that s in Durham.
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SPEAKER_03
Deepak?
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SPEAKER_03
I m going to be a Deepak in a couple weeks.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, you are?
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SPEAKER_00
That s gonna be great.
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SPEAKER_00
Did you really graduate summa cum laude?
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SPEAKER_00
This sounds like a lie.
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SPEAKER_00
I did.
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SPEAKER_02
No wonder you could do a new hour in eight weeks.
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SPEAKER_00
Fucking Stephen Hawking.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, right.
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SPEAKER_03
It was just, again, because I was an overachiever.
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SPEAKER_00
Did you have six people in your high school?
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SPEAKER_03
I m from a small town for sure.
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It s like 10,000 people.
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SPEAKER_03
And then my college was small too.
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Still, that s good on the resume.
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SPEAKER_03
Yeah, I mean, what the irony is, I was working so hard in college to have a resume and in LA, no one cares.
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SPEAKER_00
Shit, I know.
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SPEAKER_03
You went to college, okay.
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SPEAKER_00
What a loser.
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SPEAKER_03
Yeah, you re a loser.
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SPEAKER_00
You re not dedicated to comedy because you didn t quit school.
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SPEAKER_03
Unless you went to Harvard, no one cares in comedy that you went to college.
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SPEAKER_02
They were all ivy league at snl a lot of the writers from harvard or brown or well let s see dartmouth yeah and i went to san francisco state he went to scott yeah community or dumb comics it was great smart writers or dumb comics that would a good combo or it s just
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AA degrees from community colleges.
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SPEAKER_03
It s a trip.
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SPEAKER_03
I sold a pilot and Tina Fey and Robert Carlock were the producers.
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This was a while ago.
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That s big.
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And they had a lot of the 30 Rock writers because I co-wrote it with Matt Hubbard, who did 30 Rock and they re all Harvard.
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They re all Ivy League guys.
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And it is
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definitely like a different brain, the joke machine kind of thing.
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SPEAKER_03
I had not worked with people like that before.
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SPEAKER_02
Well, they know all the references.
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SPEAKER_02
They know French words.
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They know exactly what happened in the early part of the Civil War.
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They just have educated
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pedestal to stand on.
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Early part of the Civil War.
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Well, they would know what George Washington ate for breakfast.
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SPEAKER_02
These guys are educated.
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SPEAKER_02
Conan has a doctorate in comedy.
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SPEAKER_02
I m like, I loved Fun Dip growing up.
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Yeah.
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Funions, Fun Dip, anything with fun, I like.
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SPEAKER_00
Did you ever have a fun dip, Chunk?
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SPEAKER_00
What are your early stand-up?
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What are some of your... Would you look back now that you feel are cringy or still special?
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Oh, I had a fun dip in my Sweet and Salty special.
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Oh!
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And that one was about being on the swim team.
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I joined the swim team because I found out that the swimmers ate Fun Dip.
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And that was the only thing that got me to do it.
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SPEAKER_02
And then you were a champion?
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No, I didn t know how to swim.
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My parents signed me up for the swim team and I didn t know how to swim.
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You thought it was how to learn how to swim?
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I ran.
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I ran across the pool like Jesus.
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I ran across the pool like I was.
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I thought I could fool people into thinking I was doing the butterfly.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, OK.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, you ran across the bottom.
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The bottom.
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Yeah.
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So I was like running and doing the motion.
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Yeah.
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Like no one will know.
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And I beat everyone.
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I got there first.
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So they technically had to hand me a ribbon.
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That s not cheating.
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Well, then I was informed that I was disqualified.
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You get out of the pool and they just hand you a ribbon.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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There s no ceremony.
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No, you get a ribbon.
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But then someone has to tell me, like, actually, like, you got disqualified.
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They said DQ and you go, we re going to Dairy Queen.
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So that s one of the classics that I like to call them.
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But yeah, my earlier stuff.
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Yeah, sure.
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I watched my half hour from Comedy Central.
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There was, again, a lot of that pushing, a lot of that yelling punchlines.
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And I mean, my wife is like, can you lay off the yelling of punchlines?
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I ve done it.
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My old stand up.
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I m like, hey, everybody, you ve been to the DMV.
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It s crazy.
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They re like, all right.
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I had my brother say something to me that stuck with me.
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I m at the improv in the early 80s.
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Terrified.
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Yeah.
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Clock spot.
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And I just bought it.
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I mean, you know, dead silence.
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Someone goes, Norman Lear was seemed to like it.
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You know, it s like before he left.
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My brother just kind of said, hurry up and be funny.
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You know, rushing it, trying to just go really fast.
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Maybe that ll save me.
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Hurry up and be funny.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that when you re when you re bombing, it s it seems like such an instinct.
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And I I did it two weeks ago at the Comedy Store.
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I went on and I thought I was hot shit and I was fucking cold boogers.
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I went out there and
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You know, I start going and they re not buying it.
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I m like, what the fuck?
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Then I start going, wait, what am I doing?
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, I should jump to that one.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, they don t like this.
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SPEAKER_01
They don t like that.
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And then you start, you re like a horse that got spooked.
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I don t, I mean, to be honest, and it s a good pro, it sounds self-congratulatory, but it feels like the audience is kind of waiting for either George Bush Senior or Garth or something.
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And I can do any kind of thing about me at 7-Eleven or a regular standup bit.
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But then if I hit a voice,
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That s what we want.
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SPEAKER_02
You know, that would be nice to have in your back pocket, though.
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You re like it s like playing a guitar.
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SPEAKER_02
You re like, you guys don t like this.
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SPEAKER_02
Are you going like this?
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
Here we go.
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Bow, bow, bow, bow.
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Say hello to the church lady.
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But see, you re so great at impressions.
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Impressions is not obviously my I can t even get rid of my southern accent.
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I ve been in L.A.
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21 years, so.
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You have a very cool voice.
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I ve just been starting to really listen to it.
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And it s tonally, and the accent, yeah, it s just kind of, I figure, I mean, I can t, I m not gonna try to do you, but there s something about all that.
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Please do.
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I did do, I did Daniel Craig in,
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Knives Out, that was called?
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Yeah.
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Because I did a cartoon for Robert Carlock and Tina Fey.
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And so they, I said, do kind of a South Carolina, you know?
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So I just watched Knives Out, and I just did that.
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I just did it over the top.
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Think about Fortune.
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It s kind of like Foghorn Leghorn.
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Basically, that s what I m trying to say.
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I guess it worked.
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I don t know.
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I don t know if I could pick one.
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I said,
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It s jarring even hearing it in Knives Out because you re like, it s so old school.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, I know.
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No one thinks that s real.
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They go, when you re in the Midwest, you go, that s not like a real thing.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, it doesn t feel like a real voice.
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SPEAKER_00
What kind of and who am I doing now?
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SPEAKER_00
There s a friend of mine.
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He s from the South and he kind of talks like this.
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SPEAKER_00
What y all fixing to do?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, that s like, um, he acts kind of dumber than he is.
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SPEAKER_00
I go, what are you doing?
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Saying you don t know what s going on.
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SPEAKER_00
It goes, I was just playing Paul.
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SPEAKER_00
Some Paul, Paul, I was his phone and I talked to him.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, go ahead.
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SPEAKER_02
Well, people do think all the, every seller is a dumb ass because of our accent.
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SPEAKER_00
Well, also this woman from Alabama who was a masseuse and she was a really good one.
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SPEAKER_00
She used to put her elbow on your ass and go, give it.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, I like that.
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SPEAKER_00
Elbow on the ass.
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SPEAKER_00
Give it.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
You had a whole.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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Butt massage.
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SPEAKER_00
That was funny.
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SPEAKER_02
And that was and that s very real.
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SPEAKER_02
I m I had a guy, a guy, a masseuse, a masseuse.
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He only wanted to give butt massages.
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SPEAKER_02
And I was like, I really was startled at first.
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SPEAKER_02
And then it was the greatest thing I d ever experienced.
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SPEAKER_02
And he would do it for like just the butt for like 30 minutes.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, my.
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Would not touch like feet, legs, anything else.
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SPEAKER_02
He would do shoulders for like 10 minutes and then that was the massage.
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And I kept going back because I was like, no one else is touching my butt like this guy.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, you re walking backwards.
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SPEAKER_02
yeah here we come and then he got fired and i was like oh yeah i think he was never supposed to do that probably at all that s he just i don t think he was he was just doing it hey do i owe anything no you don t owe me anything it s fine i just got off what and he would and he would make noises like
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Like, he was so into it.
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And I was like, I should be grossed out by this, but my butt has never been more relaxed.
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SPEAKER_00
Do you know that the glute muscle and all that stuff around there connects the lower body?
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It is the biggest muscle in your body, the most important.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, you must have felt incredible.
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SPEAKER_00
You must have walked with a bigger stride after that.
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SPEAKER_02
For sure.
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And I thought after doing that joke that like,
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Okay, now when I go to a massage place, they re going to be like, let s give her the old butt, you know, elbow.
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SPEAKER_02
Because they saw it in the special.
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SPEAKER_02
And not one has done it.
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SPEAKER_02
I m like, God dang it.
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SPEAKER_01
You know what?
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SPEAKER_01
They give you those code words like they really dress it up like gluteus medius and all this.
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SPEAKER_02
You re like, right.
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SPEAKER_01
And they re not just saying, I m into butts.
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SPEAKER_02
No, but no one s like, do you want me to?
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SPEAKER_02
They re not even giving me the option.
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SPEAKER_02
Like, would you like me to get in on that glute?
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SPEAKER_02
I m like, yes, please.
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SPEAKER_02
And I sometimes say I don t want to be a creep.
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SPEAKER_02
That s like, hey, what can you do?
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SPEAKER_02
I do.
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SPEAKER_02
I say get in there.
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But you don t have to get in there.
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SPEAKER_01
But look, I like time.
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SPEAKER_00
But I cannot lie.
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SPEAKER_00
Who sang that song?
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SPEAKER_00
Sir, mix a lot, sir.
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SPEAKER_00
Mix them all now.
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SPEAKER_00
Have you all had butt massages?
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SPEAKER_00
Oh my God, yes.
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SPEAKER_00
Can I do my favorite glute joke?
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SPEAKER_00
This is Hans in France.
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SPEAKER_00
My favorite put down.
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SPEAKER_00
Your buttocks are like marshmallows.
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SPEAKER_00
You re lucky I don t have a campfire here.
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SPEAKER_00
So the reason that s funny is like, what are they going to burn?
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SPEAKER_00
They re going to put his ass in a fire, right?
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SPEAKER_00
Because his ass is like marshmallows.
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SPEAKER_00
I ve gotten a lot of massages, but not lately.
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SPEAKER_00
I need a new I need a masseuse.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
Dana, what do you think is the character people most requests from you?
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SPEAKER_00
Hmm.
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SPEAKER_00
It s a pick, depending on age group, it would be the George Bush Senior or Garth.
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SPEAKER_00
George Bush Senior, Garth, Church Lady, Hans and Franz, or Ross Perot, probably.
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SPEAKER_01
What s your closer?
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My closer, I do like 50 micro impressions.
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SPEAKER_00
And you ever have a joke in your act, Fortune, that you don t feel is like the best bit, but it gets an oversized response?
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SPEAKER_00
You re like, really?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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Like I do George W. Bush as a standup with an old stock joke that Leno gave me once, and it kills so hard.
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SPEAKER_00
I m always like, really?
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SPEAKER_00
George W. Bush as a standup.
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SPEAKER_00
Two Irishmen walk out of a bar.
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SPEAKER_00
It could happen.
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SPEAKER_00
I do like a hundred micro impressions in a row.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, that s cool.
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SPEAKER_00
Just a bludgeon them quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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Thousand.
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stabs with a knife and then they collapse at the end.
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The one that lately kills, I just brought it back because it made me laugh, was just a way to do George Bush Sr.
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that I, feels new, but anyway.
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Yeah.
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George Bush Sr.
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tries to go off a high dive.
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So I m like, I m crawling up to the front of the stage.
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SPEAKER_00
He s looking down, gotta do it, gotta do it.
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SPEAKER_00
Then it s like, he looks over, nah, gotta do it.
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SPEAKER_00
You know, it s just.
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That s fun, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
I love that.
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SPEAKER_00
Uh, thank you.
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SPEAKER_00
So what s your closer?
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SPEAKER_00
What s your don t give it away if you don t want to give away your clothes?
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SPEAKER_00
Well, you ve had different closures.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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What was your sweet and salty?
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SPEAKER_00
What s the one that you just wrote that you re going to do in your special?
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SPEAKER_00
Don t waste it.
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So I ll just say that this hour is I ve kind of fallen into the storytelling
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Rhythm of my stand up.
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SPEAKER_02
So every special has a beginning, middle and end.
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Like this, I m introducing a premise to you and here s kind of this is going to go on a journey.
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And then this is all going to tie in at the end.
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And then here we are going to come full circle.
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Damn, jeez.
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SPEAKER_02
So it s so this the closer is not necessarily like, oh, my God, this is going to like, you know, slap your titties.
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SPEAKER_00
So just beat yourself up and slap your titties.
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SPEAKER_02
Just slap your titties, this is good.
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SPEAKER_02
But it s a victory that involves what I set up in the beginning.
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SPEAKER_02
I introduced something early on.
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SPEAKER_02
Jesus, you re Christopher Nolan.
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SPEAKER_02
You re like, I do my act backwards once.
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SPEAKER_02
So the closer is the victory, and then I have the big clap for the victory, and I am tagging it with another thing that brings it full circle a second time.
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People gotta come watch it.
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SPEAKER_00
And then do you put your hands up and go, goodnight?
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SPEAKER_00
And then photos.
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SPEAKER_00
How do you do a photo?
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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Before I let you go, Fortune, you got to tell us, do you how do you do the photo at the end?
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Because I never do it.
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And I go, I got to do this.
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And I say, you ask me, you re like, how do you do that?
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Because it is kind of an awkward like you ve done.
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SPEAKER_02
You ve gotten your victory and then you have to be like, OK, now I m going to need a photo.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, I just kind of if people are so used to it now, I just finished the thing.
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And while they re clapping, I m like, thanks for coming.
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You guys are the best.
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SPEAKER_02
Let s get a photo for for the old Instagram or my scrapbook or whatever.
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SPEAKER_02
And some scrapbook.
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SPEAKER_02
And I just say, you know, I go on the count of three.
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SPEAKER_01
And they did.
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SPEAKER_01
Did the house lights know to go up?
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, they bring the house lights up, and I go on the count of three, just act like you had a good time, and I count to three, and everyone goes, and we get a picture.
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SPEAKER_01
When I do it, I m gonna go, and on three, stand up on two.
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SPEAKER_01
And on three, you look like a standing ovation.
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SPEAKER_00
What I do, which is an inside joke with my opening act sometimes, Larry Bubbles Brown is very funny because I tell him I m going to do it.
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SPEAKER_00
So I m doing a guitar thing, guitar thing, guitar thing.
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SPEAKER_00
Wham.
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SPEAKER_00
Then I take the neck of the guitar and I hold the whole guitar up slowly way over my head.
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So I m kind of like 12 feet tall.
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SPEAKER_00
And as I move the guitar up, the audience is hypnotized into standing up.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
And then he s always laughing so hard.
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SPEAKER_00
I like I m holding a head, a cut off head and I love it.
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SPEAKER_00
They re like, we re standing for this.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
Look at the guitar.
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SPEAKER_00
It s up in the sky.
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SPEAKER_00
I got to get on my feet.
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SPEAKER_01
Well, when I know it s over, it s like when a plane lands, they re like, I just want to stand up and get out of here.
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SPEAKER_01
I think it s I take it as a compliment.
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SPEAKER_01
But they re like, are you can you stamp this?
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SPEAKER_01
And I m like, no, I m leaving the stage.
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SPEAKER_02
Well, because all of us kind of set up the end for them, right?
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SPEAKER_02
We re like, and now, yeah, by closing, you know, you kind of sometimes I said before I go, here s one last thing.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, that helps.
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SPEAKER_01
Call the babysitter.
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SPEAKER_01
Say you re on the way.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
No, but yeah, it tips them off.
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Do you have nights where it s mayday, mayday, where you have to call an audible, you have to cut things or hurry it up, the audience is tired or drunk or they re just quiet and do you adjust or you just, it s not a problem.
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I mean, since you re telling stories, it s harder to like trim it on.
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Chop them, you know.
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Right, yeah, because there s definitely a specific set I m running right now.
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If the audience seems a little like my closer didn t get the punch I wanted, if it s feeling a little incomplete, I will then say, and as a cherry on top, let s do a classic.
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And I ll give them like the probably the most popular story I do is from Sweet and Salty about going to Hooters as a kid.
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And then
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My you know, it s a good one.
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It works.
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What s that?
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, it always works.
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So that doesn t work.
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You re like, fuck it.
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If that doesn t work, then it s not funny.
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But I got nothing for you.
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Could you just tell it?
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Tell us the first the first laugh line of that story.
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The first.
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Well, the
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So what it is is that I just say I ve been to Hooters my entire life because I have two older brothers.
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They loved Hooters.
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So it was never a big deal.
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And my mom started dating a very conservative man when I was in high school who, you know, everything was a sin.
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And I said we were trying to figure out where to eat.
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And my mom s I start playing my mom where she stiffens up and she looks at me and she s like, ah,
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have never been to Hooters.
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And it s because it s a long story.
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But now that people know this story and love the story, the whole audience wait for it.
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They say it with you.
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I have never.
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The whole audience is yelling.
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I have never been to Hooters as a whole crowd.
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It s pretty fun.
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That s like Beyonce, yeah.
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Yeah, I m just like Beyonce.
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Um, I just did the Chicago Theater, and that was 3,500 seats.
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It was sold out.
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That was pretty awesome.
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That s hard to do.
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Yeah, it was definitely like a cool, like, holy cow.
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This is a milestone moment.
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I m doing anywhere from 1,500 seats to the 3,500 seats, and then sometimes I m selling out the 2,700 seat and adding a show, or sometimes I m selling out the 2,700 seats and that s that, or sometimes I m, you know, happy to have the 1,200.
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What city, sorry, this is inside baseball for our listeners, what city do you sell the tickets the easiest?
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You know, certain cities are like, oh, it s sold out already.
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What city loves you the most?
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Seattle?
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Because that s where you re going back to.
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Seattle s, yeah, we re at like 6,000 tickets there that weekend.
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It s pretty crazy.
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Seattle, Chicago.
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We almost added a second show, but I got too nervous to like not have the victory.
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Yeah.
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If you don t fill up the second one, it sometimes looks weird.
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I ve done that.
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Yeah.
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Why did I?
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I ll just come back.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah.
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Dallas, Charlotte.
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I mean, I have this I m in this weird spot where I m Southern, but I m also gay.
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So I do a lot.
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I do really well in red states that would surprise people.
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Um, because there are, you know, even though they re red States, there are people there that want to, they want to see.
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Yeah.
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They want to see people that don t come through as much.
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Um, and, um, so yeah, I, I do like, I sell better than like,
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Mobile, Alabama than I do San Francisco.
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It s wild.
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Because a lot of those folks are just starved for other voices that they don t get coming through there as much.
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Just some representation.
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In San Fran, it s every night somebody.
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There you re like, hey, this will be fun.
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Plus, you do just a great stand-up show anyway.
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Yeah, I mean, I try to do jokes and stories that are not geared towards one person or one voice or one experience.
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Even though I am gay, there s a lot to me that goes beyond that.
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So my stories are coming from a place of like,
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you know, being a kid in the 80s, having a quirky mom, you know, being married.
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So things that, you know, even in Good Fortune, my last special, proposing to my wife, that s something men could relate to, you know, being nervous, not getting it right.
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I try to throw out stories that different people can grab onto and relate to.
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Yeah, I think you have a very broad appeal to all kinds of people.
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Thank you.
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I try.
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I think so.
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I m going out on a limb.
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I m predicting good things.
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One is not only that you re talented, that you have a great work ethic.
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It s very impressive that you can turn an hour and treat it like a college assignment or something.
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I guess, are you recording?
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You go to the clubs, you record your set, and then writing, listening to the recording, making notes, writing, going back to the club.
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I mean, it s mentally hard.
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It is my least favorite process, the writing of The New Hour.
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I m sure you guys feel similar.
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It s tough.
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It s hard.
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I m like, what?
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I mean, at the end of this, I m like, what am I going to talk about?
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And you re like, I already I have a couple of things at work.
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I don t have a closer.
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I don t like something that kills every time.
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And you re like missing your old stuff going, fuck, I could put that in right here.
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I know it s hard.
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It s not a process that process.
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I enjoy it when it s on its feet and I m working it out.
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Yeah.
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I don t enjoy the like I don t know what stories to even start with.
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That s the hard part.
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You ve already racked your brain for three specials.
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Yeah.
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And we re all working all the time.
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So my wife s like, we got to like live some life, you know, stuff.
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Yeah.
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Do something different.
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I don t want to be talking about like rental cars and hotels in my next one.
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And gold bars that you bought.
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I m a gold member of Hertz.
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Well, thank you, Fortune.
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Thanks for coming on.
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So nice to meet you.
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I hope we run into each other and I ll go, hey, you re on our podcast.
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Hi, Fortune.
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Dana, it s such a treat to talk to you and meet you.
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My pleasure.
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I love me some spade, too.
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Spade and I went real quick.
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We went, happened to be at Craig s once at the same time.
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Oh, that s right.
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The place in L.A.
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to eat.
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Yeah.
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There s a booth between us that was empty.
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Yep.
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And so Spade was in one booth over here.
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We were in the other booth, an empty booth between us.
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And Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were maybe going to come and be between us.
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Yeah.
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And I was like, this would have been the greatest story.
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Oh, my God.
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Because they came up and whispered.
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They go, hey,
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Just so you know, we re not supposed to tell Meghan Markle Prince Harry going to sit right there.
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And I m like, oh, fuck, yeah.
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And I look over and I see Fortune.
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I go, oh, my God.
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We go over there.
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We re like inspiring.
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Like this is going to be so fun.
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You re going to get 10 new minutes.
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But then remember, we saw a couple like Secret Service guys.
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Yeah.
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Like checking the place out.
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I think they went back and said, there s two clowns on either side and I wouldn t go in there.
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And they re probably going to tick tock.
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Let s not have this happen.
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They went to the bungalows after.
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Oh, man.
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But I thought that would have been the greatest moment of fun.
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Like you, you and I sandwiching a royal.
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Would you have gone over?
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No, you know, I would probably you would.
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I wouldn t unless they came over.
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Yeah, at least.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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But I would I would just nod my head and go carrot top.
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Oh, it s Prince Harry.
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I love all your stuff.
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You re fabulous.
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My name s Dimitri.
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Nice to meet you.
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I would have ran away.
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I want them on this podcast.
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All right.
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Because I do think I m sure they re very funny people.
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I m sure they laugh a lot.
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They need to come on here.
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They need to loosen up.
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Just laugh.
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Let s tease out all the humor, get rid of the darkness, you know, and
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Pam, this is the Prince William beam in or whatever.
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Get these royals back together as a family.
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That s one of my goals this year in twenty twenty four.
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If anyone can bring the Royals back together, it s you two.
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Yeah, we won t go rough on them.
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There you go.
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No hard hitting questions right here.
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You heard it.
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No, no.
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Just fun.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Stay in touch and like me more than Dana.
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I mean, do what you can.
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It s hard.
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I know.
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I always wanted to get on the Fortune 500, and I feel like I kind of have.
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No, I have no closer.
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Of course you have.
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That was a great closer, Dana.
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Well, I ll just say goodbye as the church say.
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Well, well, well, Fortune, find the Meister Oyster.
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We don t know how to pronounce our last name, do we?
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But Jesus loves us, and we know that.
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We like to do our little comedy jokes and strut around the stage like a little scrumpet.
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Anyway, so it s all I got.
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Oh, my God.
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She she s mean.
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That just took me to a very wonderful place in my childhood.
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This has been a presentation of Odyssey.
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Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff.
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Smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss, Berman of Odyssey, Charlie Finan of Brillstein Entertainment, and Heather Santoro.
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The show s lead producer is Greg Holtzman.