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Hey, Garrett Morris.
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Garrett Morris, it s really fun to talk to an OG gangster from the beginning of SNL.
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I mean, that s really where it all started.
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That s what we re all trying to copy.
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From our point of view, as soon as he popped up,
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He came to play.
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He had great, fun energy from the first second.
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Just something about him.
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He was into it.
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It s like bottled up, like he hasn t talked.
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I mean, he probably hasn t done an interview for a while.
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And also two guys that are super interested in it, and we have common ground.
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He was a chatterbox.
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He really was there and knows all about those first five years, which are seminal in SNL, of course.
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And he gets into grievances and people he maybe didn t like and drug use and anger and all.
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So it s very, very interesting.
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I love it when people don t really hold back like that.
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He doesn t give a shit.
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No, and then he fires up a joint halfway through.
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Well, I m not sure if it s halfway through, but make sure you re listening when it happens.
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You re going to love this one.
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That s trying to get it going.
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So yeah, a lot of fun, a lot of old stories, the stuff you would expect, and it s just great to hear from him, because you don t hear from him a lot.
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He s just funny.
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I grew up watching him.
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Yeah, I enjoyed this one.
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Funny!
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I enjoy all of them.
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Garrett Morris.
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My name is Garrett Morris.
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Hello.
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Garrett, my last name is Spade.
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Garmin is suited up by having an ex-convict on your show, okay?
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Whoa, let s get down to it.
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Did you serve time?
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That s my only question.
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I m not lying.
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I m not lying.
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I actually spent a year and a half
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at what is known as Greg Meadows Correctional Facilities.
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I was a teacher.
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Oh, I was at the Tim Meadows Correctional Facility.
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Now, Garrett, you were a teacher in there?
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You too.
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Go ahead.
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Go ahead, Garrett.
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Let s hear about that.
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Anyway, in like 1968, 69, I was a school teacher.
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I taught at Pier 71, over on the east side.
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And I also taught, they had a program for teaching convicts, and I was a part of it.
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They gave us a Volkswagen, right?
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Volkswagen, you guys say, it s really Volkswagen, okay?
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Yeah, everyone s saying it wrong, yeah.
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Anyway, and I didn t know, I was driving along the drug,
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And I used to get called on all the time by the cops, okay?
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Wait, you were running drugs in the Volkswagen and then you got pulled over?
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And you were also teaching kids and running drugs?
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I was teaching those murderers drama.
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Oh, OK.
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Yes.
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You have quite a resume.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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It s it s it s vast.
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You know, Garrett, I have to tell Garrett something just so we we have some common ground here.
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Garrett, I was in Arizona, you know, running the harsh streets of Scottsdale.
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And when I was about, you know, 18, 19, I was trying to flirt with this girl leaving a party at Arizona State.
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And
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I got pulled over immediately and they cuffed me and said, you have to go to jail.
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I don t think Dana, I didn t tell you this.
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So I go to jail and I say, hey, any reason for the jail?
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I didn t even ask because I just felt I m pretty guilty about a lot of things.
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And they said, yeah, you ve gotten too many tickets, speeding tickets and we have a warrant for your arrest.
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And I realized they didn t, so a couple hours in, I go, can I see those?
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And they showed me copies, and it was my brother s signature, saying he was me because he got pulled over so much, he would ve had to go into jail.
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So he goes, no, no, I don t have my license, I m David.
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And so then he signed them all, and then he still didn t pay him.
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And then I spent the night in the clink, and I had to have another comedian come bail me out.
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Oh, Chevy Chase bailed you out.
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I still speak with my brother, unfortunately, but he know I m such a pussy.
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I would never really give him any trouble about it.
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And I didn t.
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Is he out of jail?
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No, I was the one out.
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He never went.
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I had to do the time for him.
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I had three older brothers that would stuff stolen items down my pants because I was nine and they were 11, 12, 13, and they were all juvenile delinquents.
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We fought, we smoked, we stole, but they would stuff them down my pants because I looked so little and so innocent and I d walk out.
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But yeah, I stole a lot of stuff when I was nine.
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I m just putting it out there right now.
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I stole 10 yo-yos in one day.
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I had three weekends in the tank myself.
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Okay.
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See, we re all not soft.
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We re all from the fucking streets.
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Let s get that out of the way.
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Yeah.
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Got it.
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Yeah.
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I m not innocent at all.
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But one time it was because a traffic cop broke the law and used a Slim Jim right to go into my car under the mat in the front seat and found a bag of marijuana, which is illegal cop.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, I go to the impound to get my car and I see about four or five
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cops standing around my car.
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I m not stupid.
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So I wait, right, and they wait.
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And I wait for about 30 minutes, and I say, okay, let s go get my car.
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So I go to the car, and I don t go in, and they come, and they say, open this back door.
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I say, no, I m not opening it.
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Oh my God.
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They open it, right?
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And then I was doing my karate thing, right, so I had a gi in the back.
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Yeah.
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And they said, open that bag.
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I said, no, sir.
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They open it, and they had put the grass in the bag.
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Oh my God.
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The old frame.
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Yeah, they handcuffed me.
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But anyway, I go downtown and I m being booked.
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And sure enough, there was a cop there who was him.
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He says to me, see John Iannucci.
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Now, way back there, John Iannucci was a very progressive Italian lawyer who was hooked up, right?
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He would help you out.
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Sure enough, I went over there.
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John Iannucci figured out what it was about.
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He said, this see me Monday.
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I ll come in Monday.
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John whispers something in the judge s ear.
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And the judge says, Garrett Morris.
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I read my.
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He said, get out of here.
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I don t want to see you in here.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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He whispered you were framed.
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Right.
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That s crazy.
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Well, the the lawyer probably told him how the cop got the gray.
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Yeah.
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No body cams back then.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Man, I ve been doing.
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Me and Dana have been having fun.
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Look at my hair, it looks good today.
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I know, what happened?
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I filmed something this week.
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Are you and Dana an item?
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An item?
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Are you breaking a story?
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Listen, Garrett, what happens on Fly on the Wall stays on Fly on the Wall.
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Am I canceled now?
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I can t do that anymore.
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I m leading the cancel.
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Yeah, Dane and I are old buddies and we sort of emerged in the same person over time.
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I must say, you do look like you came from the same mom, you do.
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Same tribe, Irish, Irish.
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Irish, Scottish, Norwegian.
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What s your tribe?
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German?
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Really?
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I m Irish, Scottish, Norwegian.
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Yeah.
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Well, I m Cambodian, Nigerian, West Africa.
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And by the way, Ancestry.com says I have a little bit of Finnish in me.
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Can you believe that?
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That s interesting.
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It s down deep.
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Yeah.
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I can t see.
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My skin cries when it s sunny.
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By the way, tomorrow is my birthday.
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Tomorrow s your birthday.
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I read that your birthday s coming up.
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Is it the first?
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Is that what it is?
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Tomorrow s the very first, yes.
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Okay, we ll delete this because this is going to be airing in 2027.
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No, we don t, we don t know when.
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All right.
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What s your secret?
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I have to ask.
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What are you, what are you drinking?
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This here is green tea.
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Okay.
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That s it.
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That s the secret.
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It s actually glucose tea.
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It helps to reduce your glucose.
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Um,
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So blood sugar stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I have a type two diabetes.
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Your energy doesn t match your birth certificate.
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It s huge.
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I mean, you re just like on fire.
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You re just energetic.
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I can t tell you on here, man.
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This is recorded by cops.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They re always monitoring this.
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I will say, Garrett, you have sort of a very bright light and energy about you and a fun thing about you.
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And I see why in comedy you do well, because you always bring it.
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You re very vocal.
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You ve got a strong voice.
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You just have a fun vibe.
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And you re positive.
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Yeah, positive.
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People want to work with you.
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So when it comes to comedy, this is what I say.
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I m an actor who was in a comedy show many, many years ago, and I have been suffering ever since.
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Now, why have you been suffering?
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So are we.
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Because everywhere I go, people want me to be funny.
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And as my ex-wife would tell you, well, she used to tell me all the time, N-word, you ain t funny.
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Yeah.
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Fill in the blanks.
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I got it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, I think you re funny.
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And, you know, a lot of people have a funny vibe about them.
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Like people say when I date girls, I go, what do you look for?
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And I go, I like a girl that s funny, but I don t mean she needs to be Robin Williams.
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Some girls just have like a charm and fun thing about them.
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And that s funny to me.
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And it s a lightness and fun.
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They don t have to be like, you know, Henny Youngman.
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Yeah.
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So I like that.
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I ll take care of that part.
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Take my wife.
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That s what, exactly.
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Yes.
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By the way, Dana, Garrett has worked with Pryor and all these huge, huge stars, which I look over and I can t believe how cool that is.
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I got to work with Richard Pryor, but I want to hear your story first.
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Don t one-up him yet.
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I have a nice Richard story.
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I have a great Richard Pryor story, okay?
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I want to hear yours.
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It s got to be better.
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When Richard and I were cult fiends,
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That s the title of the book.
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I bet Dana s story doesn t start like that.
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Right.
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But Richard brought his own route because he had heard that I was Lorne.
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Nobody had heard about me except people on the East Coast.
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So Richard brought his own writers.
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Nobody knew I got this job, which I think in the 75 was a pretty good job for a black guy to get.
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They re thinking I m Lorne, Lorne
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Help me.
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Lorne Michaels.
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Lorne Michaels.
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Lorne Michaels.
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Lorne Michaels, inward.
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Can I say his name?
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Lorne Michaels.
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Like you were his main man.
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You can say anything you want, as far as I m concerned.
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I basically thought that was going on, that Lorne had gotten some guys.
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Well, at the time, I got to Saturday Night Live.
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I d already been in New York for like 17 years.
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I had written two plays.
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Two plays, yeah, I read that.
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I did at least 15 off-Broadway and Broadway shows.
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And so I paid my dues, right?
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And they didn t know that.
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So when Richard came, he brought his own group and he didn t use me.
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And I was really hurt by that because until this day, Richard is my favorite monologuist of all time, right?
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And at that time, I was really very hurt because I wanted to work with him.
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So he did the show, didn t use me.
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But later on, when I went to California, he was doing a movie called Critical Condition.
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And I got a call from my agent saying, Richard Pryor wants you to be in the show, be in the movie.
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And he said anything.
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I assume that was his way of saying, hey, you know,
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I m sorry.
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Something like I like.
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Yeah, that was very sweet.
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That s it.
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Well, you know, a lot of hosts do that.
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I mean, a lot of hosts still bring in writers just because they get scared.
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Like maybe Paul Mooney was with Richard.
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I don t know.
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Right.
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He was with that.
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He was a force of nature.
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Paul Mooney.
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I used to do stand up with him in the late 70s.
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And I would go, why is this guy in this little club?
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I mean, he was so charismatic and so good looking and so funny.
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It was like just everything.
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I love Paul Mooney.
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I m sure he was behind Richard doing what he did, because he was Richard s writer.
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But to this day, I see, because much of what Richard did was Paul Mooney.
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Right.
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And OK, what do you think?
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You know, when the idea of a monologist, you know, I think of that more voice orientated.
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But I think that with Richard, from what when I first saw him on The Ed Sullivan Show, he mimed for two minutes a guy reaching under his.
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underarm to see if he had BO.
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And it was like just a silent movie.
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So Richard had that capacity to paint a picture instantly, and he could do just a straight monologue.
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So I don t know.
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He could tell stories.
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Yeah.
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And play all the characters.
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Yeah.
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When you re talking about Mudbone, you wouldn t be laughing for like two or three minutes until he got to the punchline.
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Yeah.
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You were so engaged in Mudbone till this day again.
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How did you say the word?
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I said monologues.
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You say it again.
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A monologist.
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Anyway, sometimes I had trouble with English.
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I knew what you meant.
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I want to tell my Richard Pryor little story here.
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Go ahead.
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Tell me.
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Tell me.
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So I m working at the Hollywood Inn as a waiter.
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Yeah.
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And it was near the Circle Star Theater up near San Francisco.
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Richard s headlining there.
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So Richard s in the restaurant.
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So I got to go serve Richard.
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And I was really nervous.
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So I brought him a Denver omelet.
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OK.
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And then later on, I came back and I I took the plate and he looked up at me and said, quote, whoever made that omelet can suck my dick.
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And
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I never knew if it was a positive or negative review.
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Twelve years later, I m in a movie with Richard Pryor, which I ll tell you about.
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We re at lunch and I just wanted to know what he meant that day, but I didn t want to bring it up.
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People probably wouldn t remember.
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So I look at him, I take a bite of my cheeseburger and I said, this cheese, this this cheeseburger is really, really, really good.
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And he goes, wow, well, you must want to suck somebody s dick.
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He got it wrong.
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He used that suck dick metaphor a lot.
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Okay, so it wasn t just me.
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One of the funniest jokes I ever heard was when he said, this bitch was so fine, I want to suck her daddy s dick.
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I like that one, yeah.
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I just want to say I just had a root canal and a crown put in and I m kind of spaced out.
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So the end of the joke went like this, you know, OK, do it again.
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He goes, I like wait a minute.
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I m so I m so stoned for the dentist.
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The punch line, the punch line.
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You do it.
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Oh, I said.
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No, I can t, I really can t remember.
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I think you said this cheeseburger can suck my dick.
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No, it was, yeah, it was a reverse that I got the, the information by setting a trap, you know, and I will get to it before this podcast over, but I am so high right now.
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I mean, I m, I m just like, I m very spacey.
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What kind of marijuana?
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Marijuana?
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No, it was dental stuff.
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Oh, OK.
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But if I if I do smoke marijuana, my brand is my brand is Sledgehammer.
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That s my brand of cannabis.
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Oh, my God.
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Your brand of cannabis is what?
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Sledgehammer.
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Sledgehammer.
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From the Peter Gabriel collection?
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Yeah, I like that name.
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It sounds cool.
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Shovel to the face.
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I will be spoken again, okay?
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Hey, Garrett, I have a question for you.
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You can smoke a joint right now while I ask you if you want.
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Now, Garrett, when you- Okay, bring me a joint.
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Oh boy.
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So when you come on SNL, it must be like the dirty dozen.
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So you guys all get together.
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You probably don t know each other, right?
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Right.
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And then you are thrown together and you re sort of like, okay, let s see what works, what doesn t work.
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And you re a writer.
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You re a writer at the beginning, right?
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Yes, I was.
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Yes.
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OK, so you were not I don t think you re on camera till later.
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I think that was a decision that was made later.
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Correct.
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I actually was on camera the first show.
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Oh, shit.
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Let me check.
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Can I?
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Yeah.
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You re in the middle of a story.
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I don t want to cut you off.
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No way, it s about you.
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I was a playwright, right?
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So I brought Lorne my play.
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He read it and liked it because there s a couple of funny things in it.
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He hired me.
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I didn t know that just because you write a play that s about two hours doesn t mean you can write
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30 minutes, 30 seconds.
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Yeah, a little tiny sketch.
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Yeah, for sure.
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It took me about four or five months to realize I couldn t do it.
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And I was feeling really pissed off myself, till finally I realized I had an idea.
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because in my play, the Black Panther group that I have is called the Young Lions, makes a joke about how when they re collecting money at fundraising, they re gonna raise a lot of money when they have white, milky white liberals in the audience.
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Right, so I have to tell that idea, I m gonna call his name,
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to Schiller, who- Oh, Tom Schiller.
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Oh, Tommy Schiller, yeah.
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Right.
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Schiller goes over to the studio and tells it to another guy whose name I will not call.
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That guy then writes it down as his idea.
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Whoa, wait a minute.
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Right, when I come over, it s written down and he s not even giving me credit for even contributing, right?
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So anyway,
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Anyway, what happened?
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I ll tell you a story.
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Yeah, anyway, what happened was, it became a thing called a White Guilt Relief Fund.
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Yes, I remember the sketch.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And I don t know, when I started off,
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Help me, because I m eighty five.
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I may be.
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Oh, I m trying to ask people for donations out of guilt and make them an honorary Negro.
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You d send them a plaque.
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Anyway, that was the only thing that I did that I thought was worthwhile.
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And this guy who at that time was the second in command to end beats.
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Right now, here s what happened was
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I was so mad.
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I was so angry about that.
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Took me a couple of weeks to stool over that.
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And I was going to make a serious mistake.
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I was going to come in this particular day and let him know what s for.
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And even if it meant physically confronting him, I was going to do that.
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Although I knew he was a wrestling champ.
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Oh, I think I know who it is.
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I think I know who it is.
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I didn t care.
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I said, if I get a couple of licks in, after he whips my ass, he s still going to remember me, right?
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So I get off the elevator and somebody there says, Garrett, Lorne wants to see you in the green room.
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I go to the green room, and sure enough, John and Gilda and Jane had told Lorne Michaels, look, you ve got Gary bringing in black actors.
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He s one himself.
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And here s a movie he s done.
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They were looking at Cooley High.
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Oh, Cooley High.
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Right.
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So Lorne looks at Cooley High.
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He auditioned me with Gilda.
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And I was totally counterpunching because Gilda is like,
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Gilda was, to this day, I remember how she improvised.
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You didn t even know she was doing it, right?
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And I kind of punched throughout that.
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I was a taxi driver driving from JFK with her as my passenger, and I was cheating the hell out of her all the way, right?
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And so anyway, that s how I became a member of the group.
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So I was there the first time we did it from the beginning, but I didn t start off that way, no.
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But how about you turned your anger and you had to switch gears and... Look, I m a Buddhist, so I don t believe in necessarily in a personal God, but somebody really was in the works to stop that because I was gonna make a serious, serious mistake.
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Listen.
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Franken s got some ground game too.
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Did you have go-to moves, Garrett?
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I mean, as a fighter, would you do the kind of, hey, let s be friends, and then headbutt?
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Or would you work the body?
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Or what would be your kind of go-to moves?
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I would have gone to the sole effectors first, because that would have brought him down.
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Then I would have kicked him in the chin.
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Boom.
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He s going to get up, mad as hell, and do some kind of a hold and break my neck, OK?
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But look, if you re short like I am and don t weigh much, you got to go for what you got to get away.
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You hit fast and then you move.
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But be scrappy.
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That was no way to get one in.
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No, I could have won that fight.
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Yeah, I know the dude.
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And he would he s very tough when he gets in the ground game, I would say.
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I, listen, I got mad at him too, but I didn t, I didn t make a smart decision.
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Hey, before we go on, can I just do the Richard Pryor joke?
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We can cut it out, but it really bugged me.
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All right.
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I m so sorry about the dentist, but here it is.
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I waited.
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I ll set it up real fast.
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When Gabe, Richard Pryor, a Denver Roblin is the holiday in, I brought, got the plate up.
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And he said, whoever made that omelet can suck my dick.
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Twelve years later, true story, in a movie, wanted to know what he meant by suck my dick.
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Was it positive or negative?
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I m having lunch with him.
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I take a bite of the cheeseburger.
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I look at Richard and I say, well, whoever made this cheeseburger can suck my dick.
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And Richard said, you must love that cheeseburger.
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That s how you do it.
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Boom.
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Dana.
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I m making Garrett happy.
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That s what I love.
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I never knew I would say suck my dick on this podcast.
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Now I ve said it seven times.
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That s a mic drop.
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What do you have if you have a potato with a penis?
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Excuse me?
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A patinas.
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Yeah.
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You have a dictator, stupid.
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Oh my God.
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Why do you have to add the stupid part?
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Yeah, stupid.
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Yeah, it s just, it s a pretty good joke.
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No, because you didn t know what it was, stupid.
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Stupid, I like the stupid at the end, it was hilarious.
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That could have been a gag character.
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So you were part of that original Lexiconomy.
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Now, who was your hangout friend of the cast?
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These are just basic SNL questions.
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Yeah, who d you gravitate to?
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Was it Gilda, or just everybody, or did you have people?
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Gilda, Jane, and Chevy.
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But I didn t do what I should have done, because I should have also, after the show, after the show, the first couple of years, you go downtown to this bar, I think, Willie... Oh, yeah, you have the party.
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Yeah.
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that s equal to that golf game.
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Yeah.
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People talk about where you form alliances.
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Right.
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So I didn t do that.
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So I really had a lot of people not liking me thinking I was stuck up and all that.
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Well, yeah.
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Why didn t you go?
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I m one now I want to know because I, even to this day am an introvert working against that.
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All right.
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I ve really gotten over it to a lot, a lot, a large extent, but also I had at that time,
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OK, do you want to know the real truth?
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Go ahead.
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Probably a couple of girls at home waiting with some cocaine to do what we re going to do.
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So it was either the girls in the cocaine or having Lauren tell a story about how we ve met.
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Well, listen, that s a tough one, Dana, because his story sounds great, like all that fun stuff.
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But then you look back and you realize you ve got such huge, talented, cool people that you get to.
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Because I was going to say, Garrett, did you have an official after party?
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It sounds like you didn t.
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But we had Dana was on and then I was on with him for a while and we had they would walk out with a ticket, a secret, you know, during the show.
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Remember this, Dana?
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And they d hand you and you put it in your wardrobe or something.
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You go, here s where the party is.
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Don t tell anyone.
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And it was during the live show.
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So you go, okay.
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And then after the show, you d go straight there, but they want everyone to find out about it.
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And so we d have
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But you see, I m sure that the reason why that didn t happen to me, because at first I said I m not going in the first place.
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Right.
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So when that started happening.
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People probably said, well, you know, fuck him.
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You know, well, well, you had some responsibilities to get back.
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But I remember when I first got an SNL, Laura was telling me about, you know, Chevy and Danny and everybody in here.
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You said, Garrett, you know, do that again.
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Do that again.
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Danny, you know, Eddie and all the people, Paul, you know, you could never get Garrett to the party unless you brought some cocaine and some hookers.
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I know.
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Really?
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Right.
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I m sure.
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Right.
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They would have said that and they would have been correct.
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It s good bait.
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Well, the thing about it was coming in 86, you guys were badasses.
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Like to me, that original cast, you guys were, oh, it s a little, well, a little bit of a, okay, let s show a little power flower.
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Oh, you re going to blow your nose.
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A gentleman joins us.
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They don t sound like life from the original cash.
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A young man named Garrett Morris.
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But we thought of you guys as badass pirates.
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You would fight.
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There were drugs, you know, Chevy and Bill Murray would fight and blue.
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She was like a badass.
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And then we got in and people were having like Amstel lights.
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We d have a Bud Light at the party with me and Phil and just get around.
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We didn t party as though we didn t belong.
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Well, can I say that about John?
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Yeah.
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John.
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When he and I were both into the cocaine thing, he never really talked to me unless he needed cocaine.
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And I get a knock on the door.
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Hey, buddy.
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Come in, and I put my tin foil down there, and you know what he would do?
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Do 10 of them?
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By the time he got to, I had none left.
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So he would just go in, get a straw in his nose, go down on the desk.
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You were about to snort the coke and he would snort all of it?
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Oh my God.
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He would leave a little bit at the end.
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A little bit at the end.
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Nice guy.
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A brilliantly challenged man, but boy.
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I had mineral water and Nora Dunn would come in and just chug it.
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I m kidding.
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But what was it about, like, I tried cocaine.
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I ve talked about it.
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I just like you re saying you re fighting being introverted.
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Like when I did cocaine,
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Within 30 seconds.
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I was very sad.
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I just really it made me very anxious and very Paranoid I only tried it twice and I one time I did some cocaine Drove to the comedy club and I couldn t go in the club because I knew they all hated me in there.
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I
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And then I just drove back home.
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So how did it?
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But I knew people that cocaine spoke to them, that eventually they had it in a little thing and they just sniff it all day.
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Yeah.
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So what did it do to you?
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I mean, cocaine did the opposite to me.
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It livened me up.
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Yeah.
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Mm hmm.
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Oh, because you were an introvert.
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So it kind of opened you up.
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But then you need more cocaine, right?
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You re losing the high.
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You got to get more.
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Right.
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That s the trouble.
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That s the trouble, because I think that first high, you never get it again, David.
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You never get it again, David.
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After that, you re striving to get that first high.
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So even if you re on for like 35 years, which I was.
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35 years?
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Yeah.
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You definitely never get that again.
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Then you start smoking it.
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Right.
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And you get that, then smoking it, you re coming down.
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So you keep coming down for it.
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You never get that first time again.
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Okay.
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So doesn t make you stop chasing it.
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I was there.
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I did it for a while.
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Lynn bias is one.
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Do you remember Lynn bias?
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Oh yeah.
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What a mess.
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Yeah.
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And he, when that happened to him, I started thinking, Gary, you re way older than this guy.
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You re way older and you know, something s going, you know,
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You re lucky that didn t happen to you.
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You know, Garrett, I was in it during Len Bias.
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Len Bias, for the listeners, is a basketball player that got recruited by the Celtics, I think.
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And I think he died after draft night or something from doing too much cocaine.
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Something, I think, before he played.
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And that was the first time I think I knew you could die from just doing straight cocaine.
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Like, I hadn t heard that.
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Excuse me, excuse me.
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Oh, he s he dropped his joint.
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His house is on fire.
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No, he s actually.
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Oh, is it OK to say that we think our friend Garrett Morris is enjoying some fine cannabis?
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To do so.
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Oh, so that s like what does that do?
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It s evens your energy out or what?
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It s not just mellow.
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It s a kind of marijuana that lets you stay awake.
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Oh, it s upper.
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OK.
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Yeah.
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It s an upper.
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If you get a hybrid, it s in between.
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If you get Indica, you re going to go to sleep.
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So a lot of times when I m working, I ll either do it- Is that weird?
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Well, I worked with Scatman Carruthers once in Rockefeller Center.
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Yeah.
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I envy you, OK?
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Oh, yeah, man.
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Angel from heaven.
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Oh, sweetest guy.
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Oh, wow.
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And always was.
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You d go in the bathroom and you d hear him and he d be smoking weed, you know, and.
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So one night it was the one year anniversary of John Lennon s death and my brother was visiting the show.
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It was a sitcom with Mickey Rooney, another crazy man.
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And Scatman gave us a joint.
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He rolled it in front of us and he had both ends were closed off.
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He did it without even looking, you know.
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And so then we tried it and it was terrible.
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It was really weak.
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So the next break I brought back some Colombian pot from Santa Cruz.
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Purple hair.
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I did.
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And the next day in the elevator.
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Now, Scatman was from the 30s when it was illicit.
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In the elevator, people around, he says to me, quote, the music was good.
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Might I get a pound?
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After the show was over, my brother and I got a huge bag of pot, grocery bag of pot, drove it down to Van Nuys, where Scatman lived, brought him the pot, played banjo, kept in touch with him, his guitar, yeah, and ukulele, still going strong.
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We d never met a character like Scatman, you know?
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You see that man there, he points to the janitor, he goes, that man s an artist.
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That man is an artist.
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You know, he was just taking us all these different places.
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But what a wonderful- He was in Blues Brothers, Dana.
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And that s the only reason I knew who he was, because I was young and I saw, I think he was in Blues Brothers.
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He sang Minnie the Moocher.
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Is that what I m thinking?
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Did you see Blues Brothers?
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I know who was in it, right?
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Yeah, Reid was in it, yeah.
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He was in The Shining.
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Oh, I don t know.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, that was him too?
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With Jack Nicholson.
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You know what?
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I have never seen that.
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It s scary.
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I love my man, but I hate... Scary movies.
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Yeah, I ain t scared of him.
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Yeah, so do I, dude.
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I m with you.
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I can t deal with it.
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Well, you said that Jack brought in a suitcase of pot into London.
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Yeah, by pot do you mean cocaine?
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No, this was cannabis.
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And he goes, and they go, and Jack goes, I m not going to sell it.
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It s just for my personal use.
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And they let him through.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Because he s a monster.
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Shoot.
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I have another thing.
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Did you have any favorite sketches back then, Garrett, when you were there that first year?
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The Colossal President.
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What was that?
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The Colossal President.
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Yeah, that was this thing at the Twelve Mile Island or something like that.
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Mm-hmm.
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Where the nuclear thing.
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Oh, Four Mile Island.
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Three Mile.
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Three Mile.
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Three Mile, I knew it was a place.
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5K, yeah.
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Everybody s big, and I m the wife of the president, and he s big and I m big, you know.
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Another one that was my favorite, not for any other reason, but I really think about it as a way in which somebody didn t get the message.
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It was with O.J.
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Simpson, where he was a mandingo who goes around raping all the black slaves, female slaves.
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And at the end, I was supposed to kiss.
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I don t want to kiss him, David.
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In the sketch?
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Simon is to kiss, you know, like this to kiss him and he backs away as if I really want to.
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Yeah, you were just acting, right?
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Oh, man.
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Another one is something that Alice Weibel did.
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The, um, um, um, baseball and, um, very, very good to go.
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Chico baseball.
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Very, very good for me.
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Yeah.
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Actually, Chico Esquila is really, um, Brando Murray s original concept, which he and his brother came up with.
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Then, um, Alan enlarged on it.
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Right.
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So we would do a piece like that all the time.
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And also, I can t throw out something that Chevy came up with for me, which is Hard of Hearing.
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Yeah, which became kind of a runner.
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Everyone knows that.
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That s a great honor.
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Are you sure?
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Yeah.
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And Swy Bell s a big writer there.
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Yeah, he was good, right?
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Oh, I love him.
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I love Swy Bell.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he s great.
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But Garrett, now, when you did, in the beginning, oh, first of all, now, that one, I don t know when Pryor hosted or what year it was when they did that sketch with Chevy.
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I think it must ve been the first year.
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Wasn t Chevy only one year?
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Yep.
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Chevy, no, Chevy came in after a year and a half.
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Oh, no, I thought there was Billy.
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I m sorry.
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No, no, he was in after.
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You re right.
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He was like a year.
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Right.
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And then Bill Murray came in.
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Right.
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Right.
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And Chevy Chevy blew up.
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What was that like when one cast member was like, was he on the cover of Time or something?
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And he just went, pew.
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Was he on the cover of Time?
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I didn t know.
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Or Newsweek.
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I mean, I know that Chevy just got so much.
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I sit right on it with Fletch.
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That was the name of Fletch.
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Yeah.
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He did a lot of movies.
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Yeah.
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I thought, however, he waited.
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He should have waited a little longer.
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Of course.
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I agree.
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He wishes he d never left.
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He wishes he d stayed at least five years.
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Right.
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Just like the guy who s on that cop show who later on did a CSI.
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David Caruso.
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Yeah, he left too soon.
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You know, that happens.
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And I get I sort of get it.
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But Chevy was a tall, great looking guy.
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And he s and he was really good in comedy.
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And then he was a movie star.
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Like, I don t even know what that would be like.
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But to leave when you know it s the best show, it s a cool show like you guys.
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I know Chevy blew up, but all you guys were huge.
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The Beatles.
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I mean, everyone like a rebel.
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I mean, there s just was nothing like it.
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I mean, I was in college and when it when it came on and I saw all you guys make me feel old fellows.
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OK, when I was one all the time, I know that you were.
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How were you?
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I was being born in the hospital and it was on TV.
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And I was like, this is pretty hard.
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Oh, my God.
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I was born in 1988, but when I when I got into Saturday Night Live, I had been in New York about 17 years.
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Right.
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And you were 38.
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I was asked to join Saturday Night Live.
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All those other excuse me, motherfuckers had just got out of high school.
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and college.
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I was about 10 years away from AARP.
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You did not look older than anyone.
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You didn t stand out as like- Phil Hartman, who I think was 38.
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I was 39 years old.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now, Garrett, this day and I just want to ask him that, which everyone might know this, but Chevy does.
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There s some sketches people remember, you know, and one of them is Chevy interviewing Richard Pryor when he was there for a job.
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And who wrote that?
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Huh?
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Who who wrote that one?
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I think Chevy and Richard together.
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Oh, cool.
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Yeah.
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That s like, I mean, when you look back on what you guys did, that s a classic.
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And then what you could what we call it now, since what we can get away with now, you know, it s just very,
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different at the time even at the time it was incendiary but now it would be like so go to a test pattern right it would just get canceled i mean lauren he did at the right time because in about 10 years we got into what we re into now
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Right?
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Which is where... Which is a softening.
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Yeah.
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I mean, with all due respect to the brilliant cast that Saturday Night Live has always had, you can t really write for them the way they wrote for us then.
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I mean,
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And I hate that.
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I hate that.
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It changed.
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It s a Rubik s Cube.
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You really have to cleverly get clever stuff in because it s almost like you re pulling from the same eight jokes that everyone s allowed to use now.
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Right.
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And that won t make people mad.
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But you guys, I think you re on for five years.
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that at least the standards and practices didn t even know what to say no to.
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They were like, this is so ridiculous.
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Like they had to learn and go, well, wait, we don t like that.
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We re getting a lot of complaints about that.
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We have to stop that.
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But it was like playing whack-a-mole because every week you think of a new way to offend people.
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And that was the greatest part of it.
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Well, no, no one cared initially.
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And then the show became a smash.
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At what point?
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I mean, two years in, you guys just blew up.
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But initially, probably they didn t.
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Yeah, no one s watching.
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We had a lot of people who were we thought were progressive.
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OK, look, in my opinion, the true progressive.
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Yeah.
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Without any sign of racism whatsoever.
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But I. So he s like so he s like me.
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I thought, for instance, that Michael O Donohue, because of his past, would be the same way.
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Michael Donahue, with all due respect, was an absolute racist motherfucker.
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You gotta add motherfucker to that, because it just completes the thought.
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At the very first show, there was a skit that was going to have a black doctor, right?
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Not a black doctor.
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And I wasn t in it at all.
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So I said, hey, Michael, why don t we have the doctor be black?
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You know what he tells me?
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Well, Gary,
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the audience might be thrown by a Black doctor.
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Now this is 1975, right?
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I m from New Orleans, where from the time I was 12 years old, I was surrounded not only by hordes of Black medical doctors, but Black PhDs as well.
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And I m wondering how a guy whose name is associated with National Lampoon doesn t fucking know this.
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Did he not see Guess Who s Coming to Dinner with Cindy Poitier, which I saw in the theater at age eight.
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And it infected me the rest of my life, and I got to do a lot of benefits with Sidney Poitier.
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He s another real gentleman.
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Sorry, I m still a little high and slurring.
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Well, that s tough, because, yeah, you re lighting the show, you say, hey, can I get thrown into a sketch?
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And he said, no, this one s not right for you.
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And it s like, oh, boy.
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You can t be a black doctor.
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What are you talking about, you know?
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But talking about Sidney Poitier, I remember being almost, you walk by, a person just walked by, and you,
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I m on 72nd Street and he s coming towards me and I, for like a half a block away, I say, that s where I m gonna take me for IPA, right?
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And I just pass him.
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Like to this day, I remember that day.
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Oh, yeah.
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He was so eloquent.
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I remember I did a bunch of benefits for Cedars-Sinai and he was always there.
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And then one time I got off stage and I was walking to the audience.
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He stopped me and I was able to do my.
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Yeah.
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And he gave me some praise.
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And I did my I said, they call me Mr. Tibbs.
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And he laughed so hard.
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It was Rod Steiger, I think.
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But.
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Yeah, for me, there were so many brilliant movies in the 60s and 70s and just a lot of my heroes were black.
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I mean, just Jimi Hendrix.
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My brother came in 1966.
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He came home.
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He was 13.
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He said, I just saw the best guitar player in the world.
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I said, what s his name?
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He goes, Jimi Hendrix.
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But we didn t, we weren t, we were kind of progressive in our own way back then because we just wanted to see Jimi.
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We didn t think
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You know, and I went to the first integrated, very, very well integrated high school with busing in 1969.
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So my Jimi Hendrix, you know what he did when he came back from England, where he d already become famous.
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He got on the corner of 125th Street and 17th Avenue and played the guitar for like
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18 hours or so, just to introduce people to him.
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He was really something else.
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He was.
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Like Neil Young has said about him, no one s ever played the guitar like Jimi Hendrix.
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Did Jimi Hendrix was never, did he die before SNL or he s somebody they would have on there?
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He was one of those caught up in.
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Yeah, he died.
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He was like 27, right?
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27.
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27, yeah.
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You know, Janis Joplin, around the same age.
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Oh, man.
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Kurt Cobain.
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I hated when that happened to Janis.
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I loved her ass, man.
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I mean, you know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Well, again, you know, there s just certain talents, like Janis s singing, and there s a word I use a lot, supernatural.
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I mean, that screaming, the intensity of it was just crazy.
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With all due respect, especially coming out of a white woman, okay?
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Sure.
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Yeah, she has such a talent and then it almost like they burn out quickly because it s so much talent and so that voice is so cool and everything and you hope it s around forever.
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Yeah.
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Well, it s also just the accidental playing with fire.
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You know, Jim Morrison, once you start playing with opioids and mixing that stuff in, you know, of course, you know, John Belushi, you know, it wasn t intentional, but you re playing with fire.
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It s just... Matter of fact, that s another thing that started me to straighten up.
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Yeah, John s death.
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Was John during when you were on SNL?
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When was it?
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I can t remember.
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He was 33.
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More like 83, I think, right?
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It was after SNL when he died.
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Yeah, and the thing is, John and I didn t really hang.
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Only when he needed cocaine did he hang.
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Yeah, right.
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Yeah.
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Sure.
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So how did that affect you?
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Did that get you off cocaine or you just started to slow down or what happened?
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I started to slow down and by the time I came here, it s not something you could just stop.
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um by 2005.
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I went to AA.
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Alcoholics Anonymous.
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And they do something that exacerbates you.
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They will call your ass, okay?
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And they will sponsor you over and over.
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And so to that, I really, I ve succeeded in getting rid of it, okay?
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Much different with cigarettes, which I still am struggling with, but I m glad that it s 2005, it s been nice that 2022.
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Yeah, here we are.
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Well, the body has a remarkable healing apparatus once you give it a break, you know, so you re, did you have a lot of people who lived a long time in your family tree?
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My grandfather lived to 92.
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Okay.
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So you got some longevity.
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Yeah.
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My grandmother got, I m sure got cancer when she was in her fifties.
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My mother lived to 80, but she didn t take care of herself.
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Okay.
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So there s a couple, you know, either I m going to
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look at my grandfather and, you know, stay for a minute.
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How do you deal with stress?
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Are you really Buddhist?
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Are you really Zen?
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Are you, are you relaxed in your brain all the time?
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Respect.
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I know you guys hear Buddhism and you think Zen, Zen, not, but it s not, it s only one part of Buddhist.
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There are 300, over 200,000 Buddhists worldwide and kill them are like me.
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They chant, which is not the same thing as,
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the Zen Buddhists, OK?
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Right.
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So you chant.
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They meditate.
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Domne arigato, domne arigato, domne arigato, domne arigato.
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No, it s Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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which means you don t believe in a personal God, but you do regard the law as being in the place that most other religious place God.
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It is the most sacred.
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Right.
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I did transcendental meditation and my mantra is dominant.
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I m a TM practitioner too.
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Yeah.
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My mantra dominantly, which I found out later was Native American for your shorts.
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We don t have much time.
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Are you telling people your mantra?
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No, I was kidding.
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I m just joking.
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I would never tell you my mantra.
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I like.
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Yeah, I don t tell my mantra is Garrett Garrett Garrett after SNL.
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First of all, there s too many cool people there.
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You had you had Danny Aykroyd, who we did.
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I did two movies with three actually.
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Great guy.
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Yes, he was beautiful, dude.
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I seem like.
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Did you hang with anyone after the the following years?
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You stay in touch to see him when you see him kind of thing.
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So I saw him when I saw him.
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When Jane was out here doing two rock, we used to talk on the phone.
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Oh, that s right.
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Jane was on a second rock from the sun, third rock from the sun, right?
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And now I had a big quality relationship with Lorraine.
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Yeah, Lorraine, yeah.
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And her daughter, Hannah, who is very, very talented.
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Yes, yes.
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Did you see her in Hacks?
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Oh, Hacks, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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She s a dynamite actor and also a very fine comedian.
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She did my show.
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Last year.
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Garrett, who was your head writer when you started?
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Was it Anne Beetz?
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Anne Beetz was, yes.
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She was.
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See, they had a girl head writer back then, which is probably- Yeah, right.
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That was unusual.
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... more rare than a black doctor.
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That other guy we mentioned, that was the assistant head writer.
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I know who you re talking about.
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And look, I was very sorry about what happened to him because I think that I m not gonna call their names.
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They should have backed him up when that thing happened.
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They should have backed him up and not let him go the way he did.
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It was a lot of politics.
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Oh, I know what you re talking about.
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A lot of politics.
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What he did was, he didn t have to leave because of that.
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Yeah, I tend to agree.
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It was a purge that had to happen, but some people got swept up into it that maybe in a more reasonable time would have.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he s done have been treated like that.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Yeah.
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Geez, I wonder if I m canceled right now.
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Do you think we could be canceled from this podcast?
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You re canceled because you agreed.
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We said, suck my dick.
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I said, Sidney Poitier, black man.
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First of all, he says, with all due respect to us, and then he says, with all due respect, motherfucker, to other people, so it really did.
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I got called a white motherfucker from Karen Morris, so I m just happy the rest of the day.
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Like, my day is a home run now, because it was with love.
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Do you have any kids?
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I ve got two sons, and they re in show business.
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Do you talk to your mother every day?
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Oh, Jesus.
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Are you high, motherfucker?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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I mean, he got you on a technicality, didn t he?
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Motherfucker is just a great word because of the rhythm of it.
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Motherfucker, you know, it s a great word.
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I mean, gosh darn it.
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That s not doesn t get in my community, gentlemen.
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You say it better.
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He s a bad motherfucker, meaning you, Dana, meaning a great guy.
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Yeah, I like that.
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I say of like, oh, Rachel Maddow, I say she s a bad bitch.
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Right?
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Rather than a motherfucker.
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Right.
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He s a bad bitch.
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Although I don t look at the news anymore because it depresses me.
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No, no, no.
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It s designed to get us all angry.
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When I was looking at Rachel all the time and what s the other lady, Joy Reed.
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Joy Reed, yeah.
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Yeah, you know.
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Ari Melber, you know.
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Yeah.
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Brian, yeah.
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Brian Williams.
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He was my thing until...
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until the news just started bringing me down.
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Garrett, before we let you go.
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Bust me out.
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Do you still sing?
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Dana said you re a good singer.
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I used to sing high Cs.
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Now I sing low Cs.
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I sing the blues now.
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I don t sing, you know... Oh, you do any Albert King or who are you singing?
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Muddy Waters and stuff like that.
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Muddy Waters?
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Yeah.
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My favorite blues singer is Muddy Waters.
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Oh, I loved Albert King blues power.
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Albert King was great.
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That baby, that baby in his baby head, a baby bed all fussing up.
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He s got the blues.
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He s got the good old fashioned country blues.
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Remember Albert?
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Wasn t he magic?
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And of course, Muddy Waters.
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I mean, you know, he s, that s another guy.
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Lay it on us.
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Don t be shy.
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What are you saying with the Harry Belafonte singer?
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I was with him for like nine years as a, my first job in the business was as a singer arranger with,
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Yeah, that s amazing.
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The Belafonte Singers.
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The Belafonte Singers.
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Yeah, as a 12 member group that he managed.
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Right.
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He sang periodically, but they used to sing without him.
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So who sang that thing?
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You put the lime in the coconut, you put it in.
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Right.
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That was Harry.
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OK.
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That was Harry Belafonte.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then it became a commercial, too.
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Yeah.
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Some product.
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♪ We wanna go home ♪ What about 7 Up is the uncola?
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So now you do have that raspy blues now.
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You can get laid with that.
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Hey, 85, that s all I can say.
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All day.
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85, still alive.
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86, you re in the mix.
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Now you got a cool voice.
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87, you re in heaven.
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88, don t be late.
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89, won t you be mine?
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90, holy heaven, honey.
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You can spit.
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Was this your SNL audition?
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That was a good one.
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I can spit.
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Baby, you can spit.
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I know.
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I ve had dinner with him.
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Uh, well, Garrett, thank you for coming on.
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It s been a delight.
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You re so much fun.
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I just feel happier hanging out with you for this hour.
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Thank you so much for even thinking about this old guy.
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Yeah, you re a good dude.
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And it s you know, we all got a job because of you and the squad up.
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Oh, my God.
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And Lauren and I just want to say a hundred episodes on Jamie Foxx here on The Martin Show.
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You re talented men.
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OK, thank you, bud.
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Extremely talented.
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And that s how you got your fucking job.
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We do the best we can.
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You re terrific.
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You re tremendous.
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Excuse me.
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Many people is who s better than Karen Moss.
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Nobody listened.
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Many people are saying never better.
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Nobody s ever done it like him.
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Come on.
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Let s get real, folks.
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No joke, I m not kidding around.
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Garrett Morris, here s the deal.
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Come on, we can do better.
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We will do better.
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You got Trump and Biden at the end.
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I love your impressions out of me, Aguilera.
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I love your impressions, man.
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Thank you, brother.
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Can we hang out sometime?
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Oh, yeah.
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You got my number.
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All right, Garrett.
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Miss you, bud.
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No, let me thank you guys for this.
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I appreciate it.
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We really, I just really enjoyed this.
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I know I m a little, I m a little fuzzy and my words aren t coming out as well as they normally do, but cause of the dental work, but I got the prior joke out.
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I completed it and that made my day.
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It was a three parter.
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Yeah.
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Now I m going to pack myself an ice, get a B12 shot and get a crack of course.
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We don t want to end the show with the words, suck my dick, okay?
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No, no.
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What would be the substitution?
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So instead of saying, suck my dick, you kind of say, how about a hand job, dear?
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I guess that s a little more benign, maybe not so dramatic.
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I got one.
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Good night, motherfuckers.
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Hey.
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Hey, what s up, flies?
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What s up, fleas?
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What s up, people that listen?
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We wanna hear from you and your dumb questions.
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Questions, ask us anything.
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Anything you want.
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You can email us at flyonthewallatcadence13.com.
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Folks, we got another AMA to cap it off.
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This is a Ask Us Anything.
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Question is, do you have a favorite SNL monologue?
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One of my all-time favorites is the one where Susan Lucci and the Emmys from 1990.
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Hey, everyone, Emmy fight.
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Nealon wearing an Emmy around his neck spade, using Emmy to eat corn on the cob.
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Oh, I was in that.
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Yeah, it was funny.
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Price says, thank you for the pod.
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Okay, well, Dana, do you remember this one?
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Because I was just a newbie on that one.
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I know.
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I wasn t in that one, I don t know what was going on, that was funny though.
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I was Dana not in something.
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I was probably changing in to do Bush Senior, I had the bald caps going and all that.
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You need that 12 minute chunk.
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Yeah, I would just put the bald cap on early and just drop all the wigs on top.
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Anyway, one that stood out for me during my time
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I don t know if you were there for this one, Steve Martin.
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I was gonna say fucking Steve Martin.
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Steve Martin sings a song and it becomes a Broadway musical where we run and dance the cast, all with Steve.
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The whole premise, he s done it so much at this point, hosting.
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He s not gonna phone it in.
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I m not gonna phone it in tonight.
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That one really stood out for me.
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One of the biggest laughs is yeah, he runs around he goes come on guys, and he picks up cast members along the way Yeah, I mean he goes like the Pied Piper Chris and Farley goes.
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I m not gonna get super drunk tonight Yeah, I won t have a drink till update is through.
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That s a promise to you, the viewer.
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Till update s through and he goes, pretty good Chris, good.
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Yeah, but he let everyone sing and wow, I just thought of that same time as you.
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I think it was Robert Smuggles, but probably a lot of people joined in on it, but that stood out.
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Always comedians have great ones.
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As we mentioned, Kim Kardashian had a great one when she was on.
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Not a comedian, but that s sometimes fun when people come out of nowhere and knock one out.
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low expectations, and then she delivered.
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And so there s, over the years, God, I can t pick one.
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I remember Emmy fight was funny.
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That was, Susan Lucci was, that was a great one.
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And we ve been a lot, you know, I like when they bring the cast into a monologue.
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Sometimes that s a trick though, if they don t really know what to do, they stack them or if they re too nervous, they want cast.
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Yeah, there s a lot of Q and A from the audience.
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That s a great device.
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Oh, what about Britney Spears and her boobs are moving around?
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Remember that one?
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She said, a lot of people think I have fake boobs, but the truth is, and they start going like this in her shirt, they had like some sort of trick.
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That got a big laugh.
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Oh, those were the days, my friend.
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So thank you for that question, but there s just too many to pick from, I think.
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But we mentioned some good ones.
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You picked a good one, though, Susan Lucci.
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We came back with Steve Martin.
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Whoops.
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When Steve s on, we gotta ask him.
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Sounds like ours was better.
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All right, thank you, bye, buh-bye.
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Thank you, David Rivera, I asked that question.
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And now I hate to say it, but buh-bye.
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This has been a podcast presentation of Cadence 13.
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Fly on the Wall has been a presentation of Cadence 13, executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Chris Corcoran of Cadence 13, and Charlie Finan of Brillstein Entertainment.
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The show s lead producer is Greg Holtzman with production and engineering support from Serena Regan and Chris Basil of Cadence 13.