Adam Sandler (LIVE SHOW)

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How sabathooey, sabathooey. That's so much fun to do that. Why is it fun to do Sandler's, whatever that sound that he makes? I know, we used to repeat it

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always at the office cause we'd walk in. Yeah, Sandler, one of our favorite persons to interview. He's just such a fun dude and such a good dude and been around him for years, a little bit before SNL and then since then, been a great pal to me. We've had a good run of just being buds and screwing off and golfing and whatever and Dana, we looked up to Dana when we got there, we all did.

Everybody

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likes Adam. He'd probably hate to hear that, but he's hard not to just really like. He's a genuinely, very sentimental person. Super funny, and, it was really fun just hanging out with him, and he's got some great stories. He takes his time, so, we all really enjoy it. The Sandman.

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Yeah, and it's live, can you believe it? So, pull over, listen, call in sick at work, and here, this one goes long.

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Yeah, there's a big old giant audience there giggling at our little throwaway, so it made me a little lighter in my step the next day. All right, Sandu. Sand, Sandman and Sandu. He, I think he nicknamed me Dana-Doo, right? Did anyone else call me Dana-Doo? They called you Doo-Doo. Well,

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they called,

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you were,

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you were Spudley, right? I was Spudley. They didn't call me Doo-Doo, I'm, I'm sad now. Spudnick, and, most of those are from Dennis. Cheers. But the, the shortest nickname I had was

it was spader, mcdater, potato, tomato, hangernator. Right. And I get that a lot.

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And Sandler just called me Dana Dew, but Farley and Rock always called me the lady, cause they're churchly. And Sandler was Dana Dew, cause he did it the other night, and I realized he just calls me Dana Dew. So then I call him, Sand Dew, and he goes, no, I ain't Sandman.

Anyway, we sing, we laugh, we cry. It's a really fun podcast, so please enjoy it, and, they're all great. Let's face it, we don't have any favorites, but we do love Adam.

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All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Yeah, that's how the fucking thing is about.

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That's right. That's what you gotta do. You gotta get to your seat. You gotta get your drink and you gotta get to your seat. You gotta get to your seat. You gotta get your drink. You gotta get to your seats. You gotta get to your seats and get your drink. In what order, David? Welcome

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to the Olsen twins show. Yes. It's clickbait. What has happened to the Olsen twins? Look at them now. Wow, it's, it's acute fast up front. You know, we played

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here in 1962, you know, it was a shitstorm then. Ringo couldn't even keep his beat. People are

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rushing in now. This is the show, by the way, I hope you are able to write off your ticket. You know, just send it to your account and hopefully it will give money a rebate.

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This guy's got a, a, a, a laugh and it gets him on all 350 shows from Netflix is a joke this week.

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I know, Netflix is a joke. Here's Joe Biden talking about the festival. Netflix is a joke. No joke. Good night.

You know, he says no joke all the time when it's not a joke. People are dying. I'm not kidding around here. My father died. No joke.

You can welcome, you can welcome

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to every joke.

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Hey, David, there's two of us. We're like the Everly Brothers. I mean, I'll just be on talking like this. We can just spread the stage. You go over there. What is this? I've never been part of a duo.

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Yeah, it's good. Let's get it going because, we got our, our bud here and we want to get things started. Fly on

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the wall. We got a lot of things coming. I'm telling you, many people are saying we got a lot of stuff coming for you today. Fly on the wall. That's Trump. Trump with a head cold. Thank you. You're tremendous. Many people are saying.

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Let's settle down. Yeah, we're going to settle in. This is our podcast. And by the way, all joking aside, thanks for coming. I've never done anything like this.

And we have our very, very, very, very good friend who we all adore as our guest. Which is very cool. Look at this. All right. Okay.

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Do that. All right. This next young man coming to the stage. Yeah. Dana, you can introduce.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our very dear friend from Saturday Night Live and about a hundred movies, the one and only Adam

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Sandler.

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The middleweight champion of the world. Hey, yo, Rocky, what are you doing? I,

I didn't even know it started. We don't, it, it hasn't started actually. What went on so far? Did you guys talk? We talked. I just got used to talking to a crowd. It's been the pandemic thing. Have you been in front of a crowd since the pandemic? No, it's the

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first

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time. It's going great. Yeah. It's going

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incredible. You got a good full one tonight. Yeah. You got a mic? You good? You know, honey, I wear a hoodie sometimes. It takes about a year and a half off my age, I feel. I think it's smart. It's good. Look at this yo-yo.

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What's

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this? I like it. I like the look. You could definitely

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be on skid row and be like, hey, what's up, bro? Dude, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with

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you. Adam, I have to tell you something, Danny, you can listen, but I,

this

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time,

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today, last time you made me go in the little boy place. Go ahead. Actually, today we did a,

memorial for Norm Macdonald today. And that was, that was great. We all love Norm. We all work with Norm. Yeah. And, When there was a break in the action, that's stupid, but I went to McDonald's just because I had a sick. You did? Yeah. What'd you order? What's your McDonald's order? That's a great question. then we're going to get to you in a minute, but I want to get to me.

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We, we like to talk about ourselves. Oh yeah, that's right. I like listening. Good God. You, I like listening to you. I can't fucking believe how much you talk.

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I know. No, Adam, it's not that.

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I have a

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lot to talk about. All right, go ahead. So, all right, back to David. Oh, the shirt, twelve grand. What did you ask me? Anyway, so. He's rich. No, here's what happened. I went to McDonald's and I got scared because I went in and people go, do you actually, they can't believe I go to McDonald's and they can't believe I go in. No one goes in anymore.

But I'm man of the people, you know? So I go in and I get filet-o-fish meal deal. That's okay. By the way, I go, what's your filet-o-fish of the day? Is it a brazino?

And then, oh, we laugh, and then, we laugh to the bulletproof glass, and then, I got, and then I get six-piece McNugget. I don't even know why I'm telling this fucking story right now, but Adam loves this kind of shit. This is real people stuff. So, I, I get my nuggets and my hot mustard, and I sit down, and I sit down in there. I get on the table, and I just want to make some fun, because I got to go back, and, I'm eating, bloop bloop, and naturally,

there, outside, there's someone who's acting a little crazy. At the McDonald's. Yeah, of course. It just comes with the deal. So, I'm like this, I'm getting nervous, because there's a line of cars, and he's banging on the windows, and I go, why the fuck did I come in? Because now I'm trapped. Starts heading toward the door, I go, there's no chance.

Bam, door opens, drenched in sweat, and he walks right up to me. And he walks right in. It was Ted Sarandos. No, it wasn't Ted Sarandos. No, it was, no, it was just a guy, and, and, and he was, kind of, I don't know what was going on, but he was a little crazy. So he goes, Hey, man. Whoa, I know, but you guys were... We're gonna take a short break.

Anyway, he goes, Give me some money for some food. I go, All right. And he's just talking to me. So I go, Okay, and I give him ten bucks, and then he goes, Give me, give me your McNuggets.

That's fucking nuts. And he's dropping sweat on, he's like And I go like this, but I know I don't have a lot of time, and I don't want to argue that he's going to kill me. So he goes, I go, I'll give you one. What?

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I gave him one. This is a fucking bit. I swear to God today, and I gave him. You worked this out at the store. This bit. I'll give you one nugget. Give me one rib. Chris Knight. I gave him

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a goddamn nugget.

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Chris Rock. Chris Rock.

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Anyway, this is a newer version of that. And then he goes, give me another one. And I gave him two. And then I go, that's it. I gave you ten bucks. Did he dip it in sauce? He didn't want any sauce. I wasn't going to let him. He goes, I'll just dip it in sweat. Boop, boop. So he had two, and then I go, just go buy some. And the people in the cash register were waving me off like, don't send them over here.

And so he went over there, and then I just, I got up and left, because I got scared. But that's all. Adam, our guest tonight. I'm just putting that guy out right now. Look at man, Daryl.

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Let's

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look at a clip. You met a crazy man in a big hall. That's pretty good, though, David. Anyway, maybe the crazy man you saw your first day in New York? Oh, you, you saw a man

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masturbating in the park? Yeah, we thought, yeah, he was masturbating in the park, and we're walking by, we just got to Manhattan, we're, hey, let's go to the park, walk in the park, and he's masturbating, and we're kind of trying not to look, and he goes, hey, have you got the time?

It's like. He's jacking off on a car bench, but he's really worried. And park bench, sorry. Anyway, yes, Adam, I don't, you have a memory like a steel trap.

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I loved it. We had some fucking crazy times. Me and you together was the best. The pavement would come by, we'd be like, all right, we gotta listen for a while. No,

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no, no. He'd have a McDonald's, or remember the Jack in the Box story, it was like 20 minutes, but he was great. But we, yeah, we had some crazy, we had that one crazy gig where we got lost. Yes.

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Me and Dana went on a great gig I opened for you, you were the king, and you let me do ten minutes before you.

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It was upstate New York, and there was no cell phones, and we started getting lost, and we just realized, wow, we're really, really lost. So we showed up like four hours late, and the students were just sitting up in a gym like this, dead silence, like a church. Yeah, they were pissed, right? So I go get her, go get her, madam. Yeah, you

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sent me out there. Did you have your guitar with you? No, I, I wasn't guit-guitaring then, but I just, Cajun Man just started. Oh. It was Cajun Man, so I said, on your own. And they gave me some sort of noise, and I was like, okay, this is the life I got, man. Find your own way. Find your own. But I did ten, fifteen minutes, I did fine. Yeah, you did fine.

You said I did great, but I probably did fine, but then you went up and annihilated. I

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don't remember it that way. Yes,

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yes. I

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thought we both had

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a rough start. Was your set

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eight minutes of Cajun, man? Anytime

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something didn't work,

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I'd go,

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find your own.

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And we got, we ate Cajun afterwards. We found a place in the Pocono Mountains or something, right? Yeah, we, we, we tipped back a few, drove back. No, we went crazy in the car, let's admit it. On the way back, Adam and I just got a case of the buckets, and the car was full of beer, and we started drinking it, and then you brought out cigars, or somewhere, so we had cigars.

So we're drinking beer and having cigars and playing Rod Stewart for like hours, and we went crazy, and we ran out of beer, and then we went to a liquor store, but you were with me, and you looked fifteen at the time. That's right. I had an ID, but he goes, I'm not selling it to you because of him, and he pointed at you. And then we got him on.

I said to him, remember, I said, onion, he goes,

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shut up, Bart. Usually

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that worked. They would just hand us a six pack, onion. Alcohol

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is home. We went, we went crazy with those. So let's get to when Adam started stand up, because you started before me, but you were in New Hampshire. I did start before you? I think, no, no, maybe it's about the same time. I was, I started when I was like 18 and a half, and then you, what, what, how old were you? I was 17. Oh, you, you started stand up? Where did, where did you go on?

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I went on senior year in high school. My, my brother told me, my brother was going to Boston University, and then he said, remember I told you, oh, somebody went to Boston University here? No? Hey! They're like, whatever you want, Adam. That's a good, it's a good school, congratulations.

But anyways, my brother, we were at dinner, and he said, hey, I got you that lottery ticket. I told you, remember you had to wait in line and get a ticket to go on stage? And I said, oh yeah, God, you got that? And cause he mentioned it a couple of months earlier, and then I went, I, he said, it's tonight. So I put on a dress shirt. I remember I had a nice dress shirt with stripes.

I folded, I didn't know how to button this. I was never good at buttoning my own this right here, so I rolled it up like spade right there. Yeah. And then I... Because I still don't know how to do it.

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I don't know, is that happening

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still?

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It's funny that what you would think to wear the first time, because I wore a, I wore a, a shirt and a tie. The first time you went on? Really? That's nice. Because I wanted to look, also I wanted to look older, I look very young, and I, and I had to go to a real bar to do it, and the age was nineteen in Arizona, so. What, what was the bar? there's one called Chuckles, and then Anderson's Fifth Estate.

Chuckles? I know they all have goofy names, Gutbusters. Was that in Scottsdale? The, the Looney Bin. Yeah, Chuckles was the first place I went on. And, it means stop your story. So you, but where could you go on a bar when you're that young? I went on at a place called Stitch's

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Comedy Club. See, Stitch's, Stitch's in Boston. You're seventeen. Seventeen. Well, I don't give a fuck. It's so funny. They let anyone go on young. I didn't even know what to talk about. I was driving down with my brother and he said, did you write anything? And I said, no, no, no. I'll just, I'll wing it. Your brother was like

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your manager. He

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hundred percent was just going, you got to do something with your life. And so I, there's nothing else you could do. You really can handle nothing. So, I went on, I went on, I did the five minutes. I had a retainer, cause I was still young and I remember just total silence. I was saying stuff that, you know, that I thought they would love, that my family's loved for years and they were just going and then I remember hearing one guy go, he's got a retainer.

And I was like, smiling, and do you remember any of your jokes? Didn't say anything that made sense. There's nothing to remember. I used to get that blank mind, like the first two years, three years of comedy, I, all day long, I'd be practicing and all the shit written down and like, I'm going to, I'm going to say this, then that, then this, and then I'd get on stage and I'd be like, well, I fucking hate it here.

Why am I here right now? Space out, you guys space out, I'm sure. Back in the day. Blank out all the time. I would be

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nervous all day long. Just adrenalized, sweating, just, just a bright red neck, terrified pacing, you know, and this was while I was sleeping. No, my point is this. No, it was, stage fright. I mean, you had just basic, by the time, well, I don't want to go forward, but by the time you got on SNL, it seemed like you had a lot, a lot of confidence pretty quickly then.

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I don't know how, but yes.

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I'm just curious about, a little bit about early Adam, just for a second.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You guys are curious about what made Adam sound like? I just, I mean, you know, whatever you want to, I just, I do this sometimes with our guests, just, you know, a favorite toy or a favorite bike or your first guitar. What, do you have memories about any of those? All, all

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of those I have favorite. Okay, favorite

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toy.

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Favorite toy was, probably the, fucking Evil Knievel.

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Oh, yeah,

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SSP. Evil Knievel. SSP, making a jump. So you

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wind it up and pull it? You create

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your own little jump, you put pillows and cardboard and fucking Evil Knievel would fly off of that. That was fun, I would scratch my mother's tile. She would yell at, yell at me for that.

what was the second one you said?

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You're a, a bike. I had a, Stingrays were big when I was a

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kid. Did

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you have a bike that was a big chariot for you to maneuver?

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I had a mongoose. I had a mono shock. I used to do jumps. It was a little, it was very daredevil-y of me. Love to see you doing jumps, that'd be awesome. Oh yeah, now he's gonna put it on me. I do a cross up, table top, don't worry about it. But I also had the Evel Knievel, that Evel Knievel thing was really good on the commercials about jumps, and then in person it's fucking impossible to make do anything.

Yeah, yeah, I just go over and fall. but when did you get, when did you be mu, when were you musical?

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Can

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I tell them about

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my fucking bicycle? No. My fucking bicycle.

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Hey, we're new to this.

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He's gonna hear it from me right now. What are you moving on from my bicycle? You took over the whole bike thing. Oh, I thought it was... I had this huff. We're learning, we're learning tonight, which is great. David, you're fantastic. Thank you. But... It's not true. But, David, no, so I had, I always wanted a Huffy. I wanted a Huffy like everybody else.

Now, tell me about a Huffy, cause that's... A Huffy has like the, a longer seat. The long

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seat, so it was like a Stingray.

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Like a Stingray.

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Stingrays got... It'd have a banana seat thing. Banana seat, right. So the friend could ride in the back.

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Yes, yes. A Huffy, a Huffy, I had more of a cushiony seat, more, it was like a banana, but a little thicker for like dirt riding, right? Like if you ride...

Was it sold at Sears? Was it from Sears? Well, here's the problem with the Adam Sandler Huffy. So I said to my family, I'd like a Huffy. Of course, I didn't get the Huffy. I got something else, a green bike. They took the seat off. My father bought a, a Huffy seat

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and put it on my bike. On the bike,

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and I would go down to Webster School, my elementary school, and everyone's popping wheelies and on their Huffy's, and I showed up with my Huffy seat and the green bike, and I was like, hey, and they were like, get the fuck out of here with that fake Huffy shit.

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Was that a budgetary thing or teaching a lesson for your, for your

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dad? There was a time when my dad, I, he didn't tell us, he was so cool. Yeah. He didn't have a, a job for like a year and a half, and I remember I, he just kept it from us, and I'd be like, dad's always fucking home, this is incredible.

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I would ask him,

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I'd still ask for shit, I'd be like,

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I saw this thing on TV, let's go, get me that. That's good. And he was

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like, we'll get to that, and I was like, we'll get to that, what the fuck is happening? Wow, so it was out of love. Out of love. When he did the Huffy seat. But I think he, yeah, he, he had to kind of build that fake Huffy for me.

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Were you a daredevil at all? Did you get hurt as a kid? As a kid. Did you fall off

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things, break things? I mean. I was definitely. Tougher as a kid. I was more fearless as a kid. Now, I was a good skier.

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I was a good skier. In

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New Hampshire? New Hampshire skier, yeah. So we skied all the time. You, Dana? You ski? No, I was for rich people.

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We would have a little, we'd have a little inner tube. We'd go to like, you know, snowball and just go down like that. But the big people out there could pay the money to go up the thing. No, there

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was no money. We had Huffy skis. They were fake. But in New Hampshire,

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your mountains were like 300 feet, right? Two and a half stories. More than California. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how did you get hurt a lot? Did

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you just fall down? Oh, I used to, I was pretty good. I used to do, back in the day, you did a helicopter. Oh, yeah. On the skis? And that was like a big deal. Jesus. Now it's fucking, I don't even think anyone does a helicopter anymore, right? That you look at, you never see these guys on TV pop out a helicopter. They're always doing those flips and shit.

Well, they can do anything they want. It's insane. Unbelievable. It doesn't even make sense. There's one guy in my hometown, Robert His last name, J. Robitaille. He used to do flips. He'd fucking, was at this place McIntyre, it was a little, ski area in my hometown. They build, a jump for this guy, and no one else could do it, but he would just come down, knock out a flip, everybody like, what the fuck? Yeah.

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Well, wait a minute, you, you, you go down, and then you go up, and then you, he leans forward, he gets

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in the air, he leans forward, does a full flip, front flip, but you would go like a complete 360.

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I could do that. And then land your skis. And then

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land, yeah, it was cool. Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Thank you. I was very good when I was like up to 15, and then I started getting scared.

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Okay.

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Not being as cool.

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So then when did the guitar come in? Like, I got a drum set, 14. When did you get a guitar?

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Yeah, and you're great on drums. We had some good jams back then. We had some

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good jams, too. The best, yes.

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my guitar happened, my dad had an acoustic. Okay. So he used to play, he'd always sing Mariah, the, Away out west they

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gotta,

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right?

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Wind and smoke and fire, And they called the wind Mariah. So thank you. You didn't know that

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one? Do you guys know that one? I did, I knew when to be quiet.

You beat me down so much I didn't join in. Even though I have the voice of an angel. So you got,

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well we'll get David in on, yeah get in on the rest side. Okay. Favorite, favorite entertainment that you saw as a, in your formative years? I say five to thirteen, like TV show or movie that fucking blew your mind for a comedian. Well my

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fucking mind. Wild Wild

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West? No, you're too young.

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I like that. Yeah. I like, My favorite thing, I think, the thing that knocked me out when I was, yeah, I love movies, I love all the comedies, like I'm sure everybody up here, you know, the Mel Brooks and all that stuff. You know, yeah, Young Frankenstein and silent movie and Blazing Saddles and all that stuff got me. But I'll tell you what really got me.

I look back at it, I think I was in Florida, or Florida as you would say, David. But I was in Florida, Florida. And so, my parents took me to see,

Eddie Fisher, he sang. Oh. Eddie Fisher, and somebody went on before him. Oh, from, from, Singing in the Rain, Donald O'Connor, Donald O'Connor, Eddie Fisher. And they came out and gave Eddie Fisher, closed the show at

My parents going, holy shit, that one guy, you go on stage, you can do that kind of thing, and I got kind of like wanted to get into that.

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Oh, that's interesting. That, that sort of turned you on just to performing, like they didn't know if you'd even like it, and then you really liked it. I,

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I guess so. I mean, I don't think I, they were trying to talk me into it, they were just trying to have a nice night out in Florida, and then I was just kind of locked into, I used to sing a lot in the car. I used to sing a lot. My mother always said I sang good. My father would just stare like this.

what would you

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sing?

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You

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remember? Just songs off

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the

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radio. Oh my

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God, it was a pain in the ass, cause I sh, I, I sang a lot of Johnny Mathis for my mother. Oh, really? She'd, she'd always, sing, chances are, and I'd be like, chances

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are,

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cause I wear a silly grin, whatever I did, you know. And it was fine, not great.

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Chances

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are you were. I used to sing, I used to sing him. Yeah, big vibrato. And, I, I sang, I sang, oh, Maria from West Side Story. I sang, this is when I was little, you know, like ten. And, but my mother always said I had a good voice, and my father was like, he's all right. And, yeah.

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Didn't your mom, who was such a cheerleader, that if Sinatra came on, she would say, you're better? Oh, yeah, you could do that.

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Supportive mom. Oh, you know what's funny? My mother, speaking of that, my uncle worked at a, at a clothing company, and when I went to NYU, I, I was a stand-up. There you go. And, and I went to, I did, I was a stand-up, I was making no money, like all of us, and, my mother called my uncle and said, can Adam model for you? And, And my uncle was like, you know, I'll talk to them,

and she's like, he really needs the work. Help his model. And I'm like, really? I'm a model? She's like, you're

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gorgeous. And

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then my uncle, her mom, she, you're wonderful. And then my uncle had to just go, he's fucking, looks terrible in a suit. He's not a great, there's not a good angle on him.

You own a suit now, don't you? What? You own a suit now. I, I actually, cause of the, my daughter's bar mitzvah, I had to get that fucking suit dry cleaned this morning. I don't think it's gonna fit either. I've been swelling up.

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What can you do? All right, so. Go ahead, Dana. You had so many questions. I, I know. Well.

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Then, then you go and... That's your hero, Adam. He doesn't know anything. Yeah, let's see. Oh, this... Yeah, tall, light bike. No, I gotta have a roadmap. This is good, man. Stud boy. The stud boy, yes. Oh, yes. Wilt joke. Now, Chris Rock called that one of the best pure jokes ever written. Thank you, Chris. And that was early stand-up. Yeah, yes.

I mean, David, you wanna... Cause I'm just thinking of Adam grows up, he goes to NYU, and then he's in New York, he's 17. Yes. Within six years, you're on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what happened in those six years, David?

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Oh, well, Adam was a great stand-up, had a very unique perspective, interesting delivery, good, memorable jokes. It was more like one joke, one joke, one joke, right? Yeah, not really stories, it was kind of like that. And I wasn't even, you know, we didn't have YouTube, all that shit, so I didn't know you till I actually physically saw you.

Yeah. Was, oh, that was in the Valley. It was at the Improv and the Valley Improv. You ever go to the Valley Improv, Dana?

Speaker 1

Did you ever do that, Dana? Oh, yeah, I did that when I was living in New York in 1981, doing a sitcom with Nathan Lane and Mickey Rooney. Wow. I worked a, yeah, one of the boys. See, check it out. and it was Scatman Carruthers as well. But you, you, like, Jack Terabuto told me once that He was your, you know, your partner for a long time, and he knew you back then.

You would just do a bit, you'd go to a club, wouldn't quite work, and then you'd keep going and going. Then you'd come back like a week later, and you had it killing.

Speaker 6

So

Speaker 1

you were very tenacious about it,

Speaker 6

right? Yes, yes. I don't know why. I was not, I was probably the same as you guys. You just, I don't know, I believed in it, I kept doing it, found a way to kind of phrase it right,

Speaker 2

do it till it works. Or you, do you ever, I used to tape mine, and it's very excruciating to listen to your own voice, but you would think you killed, and it was really just one person laughing loud.

Or you'd think it was nothing, but then you said something you forgot in between the jokes that was good, so you'd sort of like piece it together, and then try it again, and tape it. Yeah, I did the old, I did the same thing you do, where you pull out of a hat. But it was more sickening cause I drove off from Arizona and then they'd have at the improv amateur night.

And so I'd sit there and they'd pull a name and read it and you'd come up, so we're all waiting. And every time they pull it, you get nervous and it's not you and I go, oh. And then

Speaker 6

you almost don't want it to be you sometimes. You're like, oh good, they're not going to get to it. Right, then it was tough and then by the end of the night I'm like, I don't even need it now.

Speaker 2

It was, but then I never, it never worked that way. And I think it was rigged. I think they knew who was going up, they had friends of friends. But,

I finally got, got a few things, but then we wound up running into each other. How did you do your first night? I, how did I do? Yeah. First night of stand-up? Yeah. That's a good question.

When I started stand-up, I take the mic off. Can I get anything, Adam?

No, no, it's actually, I just remember, we were spoiled because when I got to Saturday Night Live, or I was in the Valley, and I was seeing comics, I was seeing guys like Drake Sather was great, I saw Adam was great, Schneider was funny, and I was wound up seeing guys that, in a million years, how would we all get on SNL? It was so weird.

That it would happen that way.

Speaker 1

When you came in, it was like a firestorm, but you guys really, you kind of like had twenty minutes, right? You weren't headlining on the road, you had to go twenty, and then SNL people saw you in the clubs. That's right. And they liked your writing, you got hired as a writer now. Yes, yes,

Speaker 6

yes, yes. Dennis, Dennis hooked me up. Dennis Miller. Dennis Miller. Dennis was the one who saw you, that's true. Yeah, Dennis Miller saw me a few times at the Santa Monica Improv, and he waited in the back after. I think you guys knew each other already. I knew Dennis, he was my favorite comic right there. You probably introduced us then.

Maybe, yeah. And, and he watched me, and he, and he said he, he liked some of my jokes, and he was, he was so nice to me, and we, we loved him, and we idolized him, and, he, he heard they were looking for, Lorne was looking at new people, and he said, you should check out the Sandman, and, and. Sandingo,

Speaker 1

yeah. He gave you that moniker? Yeah. I guess that Dennis never, he always has a name for somebody. Yeah, right, right, right. Okay, six, you know, Sandman hitting it heavy down at the prob in Santa Monica, okay? Cheering up the beach communities with his wilt of stilt humor, okay? Sorry, I love Bean Dennis, I love Bean in that attitude. But,

thank you. So, what was your, do you remember your first bit that kind of became your, your, your rock, like even if the, the set was not going well, you had one that started to work? Oh, yes,

Speaker 6

I had one that, I don't, I, I said, Vicks Vaporub. Now, used to say, remember Vicks Vaporub? when your mother would rub it on your chest. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and my mother would be rubbing it on my chest, and then we'd make eye contact, and I was like, I thought we were just friends, Ma. That was, that was like my, that was my big guarantee back then.

Speaker 2

Did you ever say, this one when you go, I remember that joke very well. I thought that was a great one, and he said, when I was, people say, if you could live your life over, would you, would you change anything? You go, yeah. when I was walking down the, when I fell down the stairs, I might have grabbed the rail next time. Oh, yeah, that's right.

Is that something like

Speaker 6

that? Yeah, yeah, that was it. Jeez, I forgot that.

Speaker 2

I mean, there's obviously Wilt Chamberlain, but you had so many good jokes, and they were so different and odd, and then, and then Dennis got you on. Yeah, Dennis. But it's good to be different. It's very hard to be different, and so when you see... When I did

Speaker 6

it, when I auditioned that night, it was with Rock. Dana Gould and, and, three other good comedians. Where were you? I was in Chicago. Flew to Chicago. Rock did great. I did fine. Dana Gould destroyed. God damn, that's enough for me too. He was incredible, so he, he should've got it. He's great. I don't know why. He, he wrote for the, he did a lot of great stuff, but somehow I, I got hired as a writer like David did, and that would be David Schneider, me, and who else was a writer? Anybody else? Just us three?

Speaker 2

me, oh yeah, cause Farley and Rock got hired that year, and they were, just straight feature customers, yes. everybody wrote for themselves, like Dana wrote, but Dana was never credited as a writer. If you got, if you

Speaker 1

got on as a main player, you never got a writer's credit for some reason, but whatever, it's just part of the deal. That was good

Speaker 2

sneaky money, though. I didn't want to be a writer, but, you know, we didn't make much money, but you'd get kicked to rerun, in perpetuity, and that was nice, even though it was two cents, but it was nice to, you get a, you get a stack of checks, and it's the host, so it's like, eighteen cents, Alec Baldwin, eighteen cents, Tom Hanks, not even close.

So that was kind of fun to rack that up, the bricks. You've invested wisely. Yeah, invested wisely. And then,

but we didn't make a ton. I'm sure when you started, you didn't make, we didn't make shit.

Speaker 6

I, I don't think we even, we couldn't believe we were getting paid, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, who cares? Just a big deal

Speaker 1

to be, get money. Just maybe, yeah, like you'd net, like maybe twenty grand for the whole season or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just live in a hubble. Yeah, it was really, but, you know, there I was with Phil, late great Phil, and Jen, Jen Hooks, God bless them. Yes, Phil. And Mike Myers, and Lovitz, and the show was really cooking.

And then you guys came off like the mothership in Close Encounters, you know, and it becomes Rock and Sandler. And I remember the First time I saw you in the office, you're just kind of sitting at the big table on 17th floor, Saturday Night Live, and I was doing pretty well on the show, you know, but I, I, I liked you immediately. You just, you just had this vibe about you that was really, really funny

Speaker 6

and, and,

Speaker 1

and likable, you know, and that's a big part of the DNA. Well, you sensed,

Speaker 6

sensed the, that, the love we all had. Dana was the, the king. Dana, I'll tell you, remember, it was almost like at a standup club. If Dana had a, a skit, and your skit was going on after, you were just like, oh, no. Oh, no, cause Dana would crush so hard.

Speaker 2

You gotta follow Church Lady or something. You're talking about read-through or on the show? Read-through is bad. But

Speaker 6

on the air, on the air was the biggest explosion in the place, and then your skit would, do fine, but in your weird comedy brain, you're just like, how the fuck do I get those Dana laughs? Well,

Speaker 1

I had a lot of help, you know, make a talk show, and then have Phil Hartman and Jan. Come on, you know, kind of sick stuff. But, so, so you come on, you get on the show, you're like,

Speaker 2

what's your first big, what was your first, you probably did Update first, right? Or did you do Iraqi Pete or something?

Speaker 6

No, that was, Al Franken wrote that.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 6

Aren't you supposed to do the noise now? You do that? All right.

Speaker 1

But, I'd, I'd, I'd like to ask you a question. Yeah. So, like, in classic comedy,

sorry, David, you weren't finished, sorry. You're gonna like this one.

You didn't really lean on it much, but in the beginning, I remember, in the classic comic sense of the idiot, so like there's Jerry Lewis is like the king, and then I remember you would do the hunched over guy, and he would do that sound. Like, where did that guy come from? Because that instantly made me laugh so hard, because you were so committed.

Speaker 6

I don't even know, man.

Speaker 1

It's very musical.

Speaker 6

Can you do more of it? It felt good in a microphone.

I don't even, I don't know if that ever got on the air, if I ever did that. I

Speaker 1

just remember seeing that and really loving it, you know, but there's one character I want to break down, unless David has a question, because I'm

Sure? Go ahead. We're really close friends.

The opera man, the evolution of opera man, that Then became the indestructible killer bit of all time. By the time you got it on the update desk, with the pictures, and you were mixing. So, Adam, I'll let you, but talk about the origins of that and the way you did it, and then the way you ended up doing it. It evolved, right? Okay, go

Speaker 6

ahead. That's my question. Thank you, yeah, that's a good question. And I remember you were, you knew the guy, so there was a man on the street who used to sing opera on the street, he used to hold the can up, and you'd be walking down the street, and he'd kind of come at you and go, and he'd sing really hot, and he'd charge you,

and you'd be like, oh, and you'd give him money. I didn't know that. That's kind of where I first started doing it. I love that,

Speaker 2

I didn't know that. I met that guy today at McDonald's.

He wasn't singing, though, he's in between sets. Adam, what would a guy like that be ordering like at McDonald's? How would he sound?

The thing that you can sound exactly opera is one more gift. On SNL, if you can, if they'd write a, a singing sketch, obviously Adam wrote a lot of his own, but if they'd write somewhere to sing, you can get in. If you can play an instrument, you can get in. There's so many things if you can do, dance. So if you, I didn't do a lot of those things, which was kind of a drag, but Adam can sing so well and actually write songs and actually write songs that are catchy, because a lot of the things you don't update were actually really catchy on top of just being funny.

And so that combo is big. And that opera man was a fucking cruncher. That always killed.

Speaker 1

Didn't you do it off

Speaker 2

in,

Speaker 1

on the stage next update

Speaker 6

initially? No, I, first time I did it, it was just gibberish. It was like, it was a theater thing. And I think maybe you, or was it Phil? That's what I remember. I

Speaker 1

don't know if I remember this right. Maybe you, maybe you. But I was in my office. Adam used to go around the office. On all fours.

So then I hear a little knock, and I'm in my office, so I open it up, and you're on all fours, you go, oh, and then you, you were asking me to do something, introduce us, you were, so I did remember that. You were like

Speaker 6

a theater guy would say, tonight the opera man, something like, goes from the emotion of, you know, like trying to catch the bus, but unfortunately he misses the bus, but then he sees

Speaker 5

his mother, you know, is behind the bus and picks him up. Let's watch the opera man, or something like that. And I'd walk, I'd be like, and then I'd see my mother, something like that. And that was it. And it did good. It did good after Dana. It did good.

Speaker 2

You know, Sandler, it's good if you, a trick on his nose, if, if Adam was probably slightly newer then, but if you anchor it with Dana, who they love, and then he brings you on, then they go, Dana seems to like it. And they, and then they start talking about the new guy. It helps when

Speaker 6

you're new, it helps. No, it was a Dana's the best at it, so that's what it was. But any, anyways, it did fine. I, it was up, at the table it did well. Everybody, remember, after a while they started liking us at the table. And when David and I first were on S&M and at the table and we tried to get on and we do full skits for ourselves, everybody else was kind of like calm down.

That's enough, guys. Yeah, that's enough. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Yeah. Right. But then by, this time they were like, all right, g-give him a shot. And then we did that and it didn't do great, so Lauren didn't put it on. But then the Turners, out of nowhere, Bonnie and Terry Turner. Great

Speaker 1

writers. Great writers. Love for the show for eight, nine years.

Speaker 6

Wayne's World. Wayne's World. They

Speaker 1

wrote,

Speaker 2

they wrote the first Tommy Boy draft too. What's that? They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy. They wrote, that's right. Tommy Boy, that's right. They were, they were monsters. I don't even know why we don't hear about, talk about them more. They had some huge sketches. You guys should have them on this show. They'll, they'd be great. We'd love to.

Hi, Bonnie.

Speaker 1

Hi, Terry. Hello, guys. Listening to this when it's released. But they wrote what? What were you saying? And Lindsay.

Speaker 6

And Lindsay, their daughter.

Speaker 1

Their

Speaker 6

daughter, Lindsay. Yes. And, but, but anyways, they wrote this thing, and they talked to me. I was in my office. They like, so remember that Opperman thing you did? We came up with an idea for the news, and they showed it to me, and I'm so, I was just so dumb and young and whatever I was, and I was like, yeah, I guess.

I guess we could try it that way. It was, it was Opperman on the news that you said? Opperman on the news showing, showing current events and then me singing about it. Oh, and I didn't really, I was like, no, Opperman speaks gibberish, and that doesn't make any sense. You don't understand Opperman.

Speaker 1

So then it became a divorso. How were, you know, you went to performances with like Trumpo. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 6

Just crushing. Yeah, it was all those guys wrote it. I got to be, they would give me the melodies, and Cheryl would, would write Cheryl hard. Yeah. And, and they would just give me all the goods, and I mean, it was the greatest gift ever. Yeah, I got to wear the, the. Did you do it with Eddie,

Speaker 2

Eddie Vedder or not? You sing like Eddie Vedder once? I sang like Eddie Vedder. Was it as Opperman or was it something else? Opperman

Speaker 6

singing about Pearl Jam, yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, yeah, and remember when, I think they were even on the show Pearl Jam that night. Yeah, that's right. But anyways. So what would

Speaker 1

he say? A better, what do you know? He ran. I

Speaker 2

mean, he's got the pipes, kid. No, you were going, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you sound exactly like him.

Speaker 6

I can't do it now. I know any better. It, it, he's, it's a certain, what he does. He's got a thicker, lower voice than everybody. His voice is unreal. Yeah, it's a juicy voice.

Speaker 2

We, we share an office, me and, Farley, and then you walk through our office to get to, Adam and Chris Rock. So when the door was closed, I'd hear, ho, ho, ho, ho. And I'm like, oh my god, he's got a killer cooking

Speaker 6

in the kitchen. It's

Speaker 1

in the oven. We all

Speaker 6

have, got excited when we landed on a good impression, but, I did one with Lovitz, an opera man with Lovitz. Yes, yes. Oh, that was a great one. He can sing great. And

Speaker 1

that was a perfect, only other guy who could do it besides you, because he's got pipes and he's just a funny. So that was a killer. That was amazing. He played your brother or something? I,

Speaker 6

it was Glenn Close and, and, and Lovis, and maybe they were my parents, I don't remember. Yeah, yeah. I remember they, the kids were singing.

Speaker 1

Only on Saturday Night Live. can we, I, I'd like, I, I could go anywhere, it's so

Speaker 2

much fun. I want to ask about when he does bits when he, you get to bring in one of the musical stars. I think McCartney did Red Hood and Sweatshirt. Oh, that was

Speaker 3

great.

Speaker 1

God

Speaker 2

damn, Farley did something with him, you did something with him. I left just right before

Speaker 1

McCartney hosted. You, you weren't there then? I missed, I missed it, I was a fool, you know, he was upset, you know, cause we'd met at 86 in Lor, at Lorne's house, he called me up, you, I don't know why you didn't stick around then, you know.

Speaker 4

We could have had a plunker, we'd be plunking, looking at each other. I go, who is this? Nobody important. No.

Speaker 1

He's Craig Paul. I missed that, but you, you got to do a, a thing, what did you do with Paul McCartney? It was, it

Speaker 6

was Red Hood and Sweatshirt, I wrote it. with Ian Maxton Graham and I forget who else, somebody else, and we, and we had dip, you know, I had dip, dip, dip, and dip, dip, shabalama, ding, dong, stuff like that, I say it. And then as it progressed, Kevin, maybe Kevin Nealon did it with me, and then I said, let's call out Paul and Linda, and, and Paul and Linda McCartney, we wrote it for them, and then Lorne said, I said, will they do it? He goes, well, you have to talk to them.

And so I went to Lorne's office, they, they were eating, I think. They were on the show, or they were just visiting? They were, they were, Paul was the guest. Okay. And Linda was with him. You walk in and you have to convince them. I just, like, had to come in with the dopey guitar and be like, oh, my heart's pumping through my chest. Did you crawl

Speaker 2

in, or did you walk?

Speaker 1

well.

Speaker 3

Hey. No.

Speaker 1

That was when you were going to pitch it. Remember you'd skip across. No, I'm making that up. Sorry. Go ahead. So you walk in there, I mean,

Speaker 6

and, and Paul and Linda there. And Linda's amazingly nice, and Paul's amazingly nice, and I sing him the little thing, and, and they laughed, and, then I left, and then I was like, I don't, I don't know if that worked or not, but then they said yes, and they, forever, I got that. I sang with them, hung out with them after the show, hung out.

Stella was there. Remember Stella was a kid? She came to the show. Oh, Stella

Speaker 1

McCartney, the fashion designer. Yes,

Speaker 6

and she was such a nice kid. She was like our age then,

Speaker 2

you

Speaker 6

know, like whatever we were. And,

Speaker 1

I, yeah, let's keep the

Speaker 2

numbers

Speaker 1

out of it. I saw him discipline his kids on Long Island, went over to his house, and, you know, I think James had a little toy sword, a plastic sword, he dropped it down on his sister, and Paul goes, you do that one more time, we're gonna have a problem. So

Speaker 4

he's, see him as a dad, yeah,

Speaker 2

see him as a dad.

Speaker 1

I remember

Speaker 2

some comics that he had a bil, he was the first one with a billion dollars, and they go, you know, if he lost his wallet and a cab, and there was five hundred million in it, he'd still have five hundred million dollars. That was some comic joke. But do you remember when Farley's brothers came to the show, when McCartney was on that stupid story, where Paul, Paul looked the same as Paul McCartney growing up, but he had a little bit of gray hair, and so Farley's brothers were standing there with red cups.

There was no security, so the music comes out of their dressing room, walks by the eight-H Page desk, you know that, and they walk right into the show, and they go, Paul McCartney, one minute till you're on live. And so you see he comes out with a bodyguard on the front and back, and he walks out with his guitar, and it's fucking Paul McCartney.

I'm there with Farley's, Idiot Brothers, and they're all drunk. And he comes around, and they go, and one of them goes, hey, Paul. And he looks over and he goes, getting a little gray. And he goes,

and then he walks out, and I go, are you an idiot? He goes, he looked. And then he goes on the monitor, and they're like fifteen seconds, and he looks in the monitor, and he goes like this. He got his head right before he went out. Oh, no. And you know, he's like, is my, and then, anyway. So I, I will say one of my proudest moments, cause sometimes Adam and I would try to write together, or, we would all try to think of excuses to all be in the same sketch or whatever.

And the, the one I like the best is the Gap Girls when we were, In the mall, in the mall, and then Farley says, lay off me, I'm starving. That is one of the funnest ones we ever did. And Schneider was in it, and Sarah Gilbert was the host. Oh, yeah. And, we were all, that was just the fun for me, because we would all just rehearse. So, you know, you write it, if it gets in, you laugh at read through, you laugh, you know, when we talk about what, who plays what parts and what we say, and then add jokes.

You, you really wrote all that stuff, though. I know, but then everyone adds jokes, whatever you want, and then we got to do it on, so you have to rehearse all week, or once or twice, and that's a good reason to hang out, is to rehearse. Does

Speaker 1

everyone know about the Gap Girls? Cause there's a young, cause there's some younger people

Speaker 2

here. It was just a sketch where we all, worked at the Gap, we played girls, and it was infuriating to everyone. And how did you talk? Whatever! That's right, yeah. Weren't you at the folding meeting? Yeah, and I went to the Gap and studied it, and they showed how they put a clipboard in the sweaters and pulled them out and fold them up, like mesmerized.

And then they would actually, this is when you feel kind of like a big deal, because if you get a sketch on and you're just some doofus from Arizona, and it's like a dumb sketch about the Gap, and then when they bring the sketches written in it and put up on his feet, they bring in, they talked to the Gap and brought a whole section of the Gap over.

So they had a security guard, because it would cost so much, it was real pants, real sweaters, and it was just a chunk of the Gap they moved in, and the Gap liked it because it was free advertising, even though we made them all look like morons. But it was still really fun, and then we all hung out there and would practice in there, rehearse, whatever it's called, and it was great.

So we did a couple of those, we did Gaperty, where it was Jeopardy, it was just a fun way for me, you, and Farley to be in sketches. And, that was, that was our

Speaker 6

names again? Say it

Speaker 2

again. What was our names? Christy, Lucy, he was Cindy, and you might have been Lucy, yeah.

Speaker 6

Yeah, yeah. And does anyone know? Something like that.

Speaker 1

do you remember the one that, because a lot of times you don't really get to rock and roll with somebody in a sketch. So you and I had, had a crazy sketch. When I came back to guest host,

Speaker 6

Dogs? No. You play drums? What? Pepper Boy. Oh,

Speaker 1

let's talk about Pepper Boy. So that Yeah. Yeah. That was incredible. That was like, you and I were peaking on the, on your show. Chris Farley was, Tim Meadows was. Farley crossed his eyes. Let's just talk about that for a second. There was Steve Korn started. That's right. Wrote it, wrote it. So did the, did, it's just too, I, I was kind of the, he was my protege.

I was the mentor. I was obsessed with how to do the pepper. The huge pepper

Speaker 2

mill.

Speaker 1

And, and Adam was kind of the, the underling and really eager. And we, we, it, I'll just set it up for a second. We did, we did well in read through.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Pretty well in rehearsal, dress show, pretty good. Yeah, yeah. Then Steve Korn comes to me and tells me something you want to do.

Between shows. Was it the. So at one point we had the, I was going to,

you were going crazy. You were so nervous. Remember I slapped you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedy, it's always threes.

That's right, right? Yeah, with the

Speaker 6

sound effects. So between

Speaker 1

dressing air, Steve Korn, the writer, comes in and says, Adam's going to put the pepper shaker between his legs.

Speaker 6

So you're going to do this. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we timed it great, but we really peaked on air. Yeah, that

Speaker 6

was amazing. That doesn't happen every time. We committed

Speaker 1

so hard. I mean, because Tim Meadows was sitting there, and I was doing the pepper unit. I go, Tim, I mean, it became way, I don't know if it was sexual or something, but we were just on another level. I every,

Speaker 6

I'd say once a, two weeks, if I'm in a restaurant, a guy with a pepper thing will be like. Fresh pepper.

Speaker 1

Yeah,

Speaker 6

yeah. And

Speaker 1

do you remember what hap- like Farley was always the best at breaking people cause he could be explosively funny. Do you remember his line and what he did on the air? I know what it

Speaker 2

is too. We were- we flew in from Tommy Boy for just the show and then we had to fly back. Oh. And he goes, I have a line in Pepper Boy. And didn't he have a big beard? Yeah, he looked ridiculous. He really hammed it up. He said, this is why thank you, Pepper Boy, right? He said, I'm gonna

Speaker 6

make you laugh. He goes, Etsy, I'm gonna make you laugh out there. I think he over- Oh, he taunted you? No, before it started, he goes, Etsy, I'm gonna make you laugh out there. And I go, all right, all right. And then- I think he leans back and goes,

Speaker 5

why

Speaker 1

thank you, Pepper Boy. I've never seen a human being transform like that. He had like twelve chins and perfect amount of pepper.

Speaker 2

But Huge beard for no reason,

Speaker 1

but he squinted for the air show. Yes,

Speaker 5

he crossed his eyes too. If

Speaker 1

Adam starts to turn purple, that's the stage. I'm over here. Adam's turning toward me and trying not to go. The sketch had gone so well that I stayed in character, but I said, I don't break.

Do you remember that? Of course. That's

Speaker 2

funny, man. Yeah, you were the

Speaker 6

pro.

Speaker 2

You were

Speaker 6

the

Speaker 2

pro. The funny thing is, Farley wasn't even supposed to say it that loud. It made no sense. He was going to say, oh, why, thank you, Pepper. But I

Speaker 5

said, I don't

Speaker 1

break. He lost his marbles there. Yeah, well, that's mine. But that was an electric sketch for a restaurant sketch. And then Il Cantinori, when we did that. Well, you guys wrote Il Cantinori. That was major. Was explosive.

Speaker 6

You, you, you would take the reins, murder, murder, murder. Then we'd have a little. Thing to do when we were like, let's jump on the Dana fucking Thunderstorm.

Speaker 1

Well, I don't quite, you guys kill too, you and Schneider came in

Speaker 2

and you're on.

Speaker 6

But you got them all ready. That was

Speaker 2

an Italian restaurant where every, all the waiters are too sexual with Christy Alley and all the, all the women that come in, they're like, oh, bellissima, bellissima, bellissima.

Speaker 1

Yeah. I start licking Christy Alley's face. I'm supposed to lick her face really hard. And remember in rehearsal, I go, is this okay? And she goes, oh yeah, go for it. She was.

Speaker 4

Bellissima, la, la.

Speaker 1

Oh, you like

Speaker 4

it, la.

Speaker 1

But you guys were just all, you know. Crusher. You and Schneider came in with, Schneider had no clothes on or something. I had no clothes

Speaker 6

on. That was the, I was the guy back then. I could take my fucking shirt off and feel okay. Now there's, there's a reason the sweatshirt's on at all

Speaker 2

times. He has another shirt in case that somehow falls off. You, you know what was another question was lunch lady land and a great song. I called Taylor about a year ago, I go, yes, it's on my iPod and it came in and I go, this is a good song when he goes, slappy joe, slap, slappy joe, yeah. I go, the way you write it and it's actually funny and then you do a sketch and it's funny and then you hear it again, you go, that's actually a good song.

Like you can, it's always catchy songs. I sang

Speaker 6

that, I sang that on my album before I sang it on Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah? Oh, you did it first on the album and Farley was at the taping of my album. And so when I'm singing on the album, slappy joe, I mean, I think I'm in Santa Barbara, I don't remember where I was, just a cool club. I, I'm sorry, I forgot the name of it, but it was a club, we were recording, Farley was in the crowd going nuts, and then You, he's, his crazy voice is so, when I'm going, slap-a-doo, slap-a, slap-a-doo, you hear Farley going,

Speaker 5

slap-a-doo, like, and he never even

Speaker 6

heard the song before, he just kind of said, all right, he's going to say slap-a-doo.

Speaker 1

Did it. Yeah, that was a crush. Was that on They're Gonna Laugh At You, which was... They're all gonna laugh at you, yeah. Two times platinum. That was a biggie. You're the last guy to really sell comedy albums, I think. I mean, I don't

Speaker 6

know if there's, there's been some after, but with that back in the day, that was, you were on it. Everybody was. Hey, buddy, hey, buddy. The buddy skit. We did buddy,

Speaker 2

dude, buddy,

Speaker 1

dude.

Speaker 2

Homie.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that was a great one. What the Hell Happened To You was another one. Yes, yes, yes. That was where your real acid-y humor came out on those albums.

Speaker 6

That was where I got to curse a lot for the first time, and, and David cursed with me, and we all, we were so excited. It was like being on Saturday Night Live. I just

Speaker 1

thought it was like jazz. I mean, I mean, the one about the announcer with the, the champion, you say? The champion. It's a golf announcer. You do it. You say the word champion like five hundred times. It's about

Speaker 6

a, a, a golfer who, has like a nine-stroke lead, and he's on the last hole, and he keeps missing putts. And you're the announcer. I'm the announcer going, the champion is, is feeling it today, and it's about to set the course record, and the champion, and then he, he putts it, and you hear the crowd go, oh, and well, the champion laughs that off.

Eight-stroke lead now. You know,

Speaker 5

all that kind of shit. And then he

Speaker 6

gets more and more, closer to being like, choking, and he's like, well, he's up three strokes. Hopefully, he can put this one in, and, and then it's Blake Clark is doing the voice of the champ, the champ, and he's going, god.

Speaker 2

But anyway, those albums were good because like they lay into the crowd of college kids in the summer and then you come back and you're even bigger on us now because they're like playing them over and over and over. Smart.

Speaker 6

Besides Saturday Night Live because like you said, I would go out on tour, the ki- kids who were coming to see me knew the albums, so they, they knew some of the songs, they knew some of the characters and that definitely rela- relaxed me on stage. Now, all of us We used to have fun.

Speaker 1

Well, let, let's just say, cause you've given me a lot of props that by the time you, you're after about two years in on SNL, you, you really were just like top notch. I mean, you were crushing consistently on that show. And the audience was falling in love with you because, you know, when you'd sing Hanukkah songs, when you would do your guitar, Thanksgiving song.

Right, right, right. First of all, you actually, you're, you're a really good acoustic player. Not bad. And you can hold a great melody, and then it's so silly and funny, and also watching you enjoy it, not breaking, but just the light in your eyes. Right, right. It's so

Speaker 6

infectious. It was exciting. Yeah. Yeah, man, I remember that. I remember singing that at the table, the turkey song, the Thanksgiving song for like Smigel and a couple other writers at the table going, you know. Saying it to him, and if they laughed, I was like, oh, fuck, okay, they think it's funny. It was a big deal. If those guys, the great writers on the show, when, when they would smile at what your idea was, like Jim Downey, if he said something was good, you would just like, even if it didn't get on, you were like, all right, I'm funny now.

Yeah, we had,

Speaker 1

we had the A-team there. It was Smigel, Genius, Downey, Brilliant, you know, we had some incredible writers. When was your first

Speaker 2

movie? That was when we did, the summer we did Tommy Boy, you did Billy Madison, right?

Speaker 6

Yes,

Speaker 2

yes. And then, and then the next summer, Happy Gilmore? Happy Gilmore. And then, and they, those movies kept making it more than the other ones, they give you another one, and then it was wedding singer, wedding singer, yeah.

Speaker 1

And then, and then Waterboy, I think that was where, it was the mic drop. At that point, you were a movie star. When you do Happy, you did, of course, Billy Madison, but you do Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, and Waterboy, within like 24 months or something. Then Big Daddy. Then Big Daddy. Another mega monster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too many, I can't even.

You know, when

Speaker 2

Waterboy came out, I was hosting, and you were there that weekend, and we were gonna do a bit in the monologue, and then you had to fly back. Waterboy was such a fucking, they told us, or they told you how much it made, and everyone's like, what the fuck? And then you, you had to get back, and I changed my monologue, and I just did stand-up.

I wasn't doing stand-up in monologue. You're

Speaker 5

kidding me,

Speaker 2

I was supposed to go out with you? Well, we were gonna do audience member, you know, when you go,

Speaker 5

oh, and

Speaker 2

you're gonna ruin my monologue with questions, and then they go, Lauren goes, well, I, you know, you said you had to go, and I go, all right, well, what do I do? And he goes, stand up. Oh, really? Aren't you a stand-up? I go, well, I fucking never do anymore. I go, tonight? So he goes, just throw some things together. I go, so you can't go practice or run to catch Rising Star.

So I put, some together, but it's so fucking terrifying to do a monologue anyway, and then a cordless mic, and then everyone's like...

Speaker 6

That is the worst when you're doing stand-up, and you're about to go out, and you look for the mic, and then the, the guy makes the decision for you, like, don't, don't use a hand mic, use this, and then you go, and you don't have a fucking mic in your hand, you're like, holy shit, what do I do with both my hands? I know,

Speaker 5

we're not

Speaker 6

used to it.

Speaker 2

Yeah, or a mic stand, I lean on a mic stand sometimes, it's not there yet.

Speaker 5

Yeah, yeah, looking for a mic stand to lean on.

Speaker 2

It's just like drowning,

Speaker 1

yeah. Yeah, when you first start in stand-up, you just hold the mic like this. Oh god, you're choking. Yeah.

Did

Speaker 2

you

Speaker 1

go with

Speaker 6

Billy, like we, I'm sorry. I remember shooting Billy. Yeah. Madison, and you guys were shooting Tommy Boy and hanging out, hanging out up in Toronto today. Yeah, we were in the

Speaker 2

same place, because we came over there, and that was the night. When you, remember when you did that thing called, there was like a crime scene, joke with everybody where they go in a room and you go walk in and it's a crime scene? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so, but, but, oh yeah, but Adam's movie was called Billy Madison, our movie was called Billy the Third.

Yeah, it was Billy the Third. And so we changed it and we just didn't have an, we didn't know what to call it. Of all things, we both have the same lead, has the same name, so we eventually changed ours, cause the name of the movie was Billy the Third. But fucking hanging out

Speaker 6

in Toronto with you and Farley. Oh, it was

Speaker 2

great.

Speaker 6

We had a couple weeks together, it was unbelievable. Nice, I didn't know

Speaker 2

that. And then, oh yeah, so then you do all those movies, that seemed to work out great. We did some

Speaker 1

movies, by the way, my wife and I watched Hustle last

Speaker 2

night. What'd you see? Hustle, loved it. Yeah? I think it's a great

Speaker 1

movie. Yeah, we had some. Hustle is a

Speaker 2

movie he's got coming out.

Speaker 1

I got a new movie, yes. It's on Netflix, and it's about, it's kind of like Hoosers meets Rocky. Yes. Moneyball.

Speaker 6

Yes, yes. And you're great in it. Thank you. I mean, really great. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1

I, it's, it's just a, it's a, it's just a really, you, you know, it really works as a movie. I got, I got teary-eyed. You got me. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know how much

Speaker 2

we can give away. Adam's a, basketball agent. Yeah. Oh, you were? I didn't see it all.

Adam works at Magic Mountain. I watched it twice. Now, Adam has your, no, your scout. Yeah, he's a scout, and then he's, wants to be a coach. I discover

Speaker 6

a guy in Spain. I want to be a coach. I can't get on the staff, and I've been working for the Sixers for many years, and I find that, yeah, you like the Sixers? I'm, I'm nervous about Joel there. I hope everything's... I'm ner, yeah. That is a good team, though. But, anyways, I discover a guy in Spain, Juancho Hernan Gomez. He's just a, a, he's an NBA player.

Who never acted a day in his life. Yeah. And he's so fucking good. It's great. You really

Speaker 1

believe he's just from this little village and really just has nothing going on. Beautiful jump shot. I knew it wasn't CJ. Yeah, you knew it wasn't. I mean, it's amazing.

Speaker 2

Yeah. All you think is how many times you got to do every scene he makes every basket. You go, is he making all these fucking baskets? Because I've been on sets where they're like, going again. I'm like, make it. Let's get the fuck out of here. But it's very hard to do that in all those scenes where it's pivotal. He has to make it in a crowd, with a crowd behind him.

And you got all these NBA players in it. It's very real. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Oh, Heidi Garner. Is it Heidi Garner? Heidi's in it. Oh, yeah. He's got an SNL role. Heidi Garner's in it. She, she, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Heidi Garner. She plays Robin. She did a nice job. Who,

Speaker 6

who, Robert Duvall owns in the movie, owns the Sixers. Yeah. And, he has, Ben Foster's his son and Heidi Garner's his daughter, and they all work for the organization. And Heidi's excellent in it.

Speaker 2

Yeah, and she's great. And, Duvall must have been huge to be, in the same movie. That was amazing,

Speaker 6

hanging out with Duvall.

Speaker 2

Must have been. What

Speaker 6

a, what a guy. She shot the shit with Robert Duvall for, we, we were together three, four days, did all our scenes together. We talked and talked and sat, I, I sat in a, he has a Rolls Royce in the movie. I fucking sat in the back of a Rolls Royce, just talked about The Godfather, talked about everything. Between,

Speaker 2

setups. And

Speaker 6

it wasn't like, he just was cool. He was just talking about everything. And, and he's, he's ninety-something years old, and he was just a sweetheart, and he was great, great, great stories. Really. James Caan, and he just fucking knows everybody. See, that

Speaker 1

would just, you'd be, you're a fly on the wall at that point. Yeah, yeah. And he's talking about The Godfather.

Speaker 2

Talking about The Godfather, just saying the first sentence. You try not to ask him about it, you're like, What other movies you do you like? And he's like, Sonny, the protection squad,

Speaker 1

Sonny, they're gonna help us. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Speaker 2

So, also, he uses, I think, cause, you know, the movie, I don't want to give anything away, but it kind of goes rollercoaster-y, but you have to get on the phone, and it was like very, like, Great acting, solid scene where I was like, oh my god, that must have been hard to do, but like a tearjerker. That was, there's a couple of scenes like that in there that are, really get you into the movie, into the movie, into the movie, and that guy was, the basketball player was great.

Actually, remember I ran into you, golfing? Yeah, we played golf with Juancho. And you were with him, and you know, yeah, this guy's in the movie, and then, he was super cool then.

Speaker 6

He's

Speaker 2

such,

Speaker 6

he's 6'9", he's from Spain, him and his brother are both are in the NBA, he plays for the Spanish national team, he's on the Utah Jazz now, and he just did it as a fucking joke cause of the pandemic. They were like, going around saying, we're looking for a basketball player, Adam Sandler's got some movie, LeBron James is producing, and his sister said, why don't you do it just for fun? And he did it, he auditioned, we were like, jeez, that guy's pretty damn good.

He is so good in it,

Speaker 1

it's amazing.

Speaker 6

He's such a stud. He did these scenes, like when you have to do a real crying scene. In a movie or something like that, I, I, I don't know about, you cry a lot, I've seen that, but, but in, in real life, I don't cry that much, but on a movie set, when you, when you have, when you have to cry in a scene, you're just like, oh my god, how the fuck is that gonna happen? And, whatever, you work hard.

This Wancho did like ten setups of different angles, blah, blah, blah, and he was just. Balling, crying, and saying his lines perfect. I'm like, this, and he's a handsome fucking guy. Yeah, he's a good

Speaker 2

looking dude. I was trying not to say that, but he is. Yeah.

Speaker 6

Oh, he's so good looking. He can cry. He's got it. He got it. Actually, he's got it all. It's, it's game over. Six, nine, crying, handsome motherfucker. Six, ten and a half,

Speaker 1

actually. Sobbs like a baby every

Speaker 2

day. Size thirteen. Dana, I'll give you guys a tip. If you're ever in a movie and you have to cry, and it's hard to, you fake it, then you go like this.

And get glassy. That was the end of the time. He's obviously crying. That's good. It does work. It's called great acting. But Adam,

Speaker 1

let me, I'm going to ask you a question. Yes. Do you feel like, cause you know, you had Uncut Gems, that was pretty good, right? Yes, thank you, Dana. So then I, then I saw that, and then I see this one. It seems like you're either, you're, I don't know, you're, and, and the, the murder mystery movie, I mean, you're on, on a roll. I mean, are you feeling like you're more comfortable acting now? Are you changing up stuff cause you seem to be at this other level? Or is it just from doing it so much?

Speaker 6

I think I'm getting older, more opportunities, guys like the Safdie brothers.

Speaker 2

Yes.

Speaker 6

the Safdie brothers, who your, your brother, he, he kind of did, worked with them as like, he helped them get going. Yeah, they were

Speaker 2

great friends with Andy, and, I met them, God, twelve years ago. They were talking about Uncut Gems then. Uncut Gems. They were trying to get

Speaker 6

that going, yeah, yeah,

Speaker 2

yeah. I was sort of amused for just that, cause I met him twelve years ago, Uncut Gems.

yeah. but those guys are super cool, very good. Yeah, they did, I think they did a Kate Spade commercial that Andy wrote. Is that how you guys met? Yeah, and I think Andy wrote an idea and they did it, and then it somehow went to the Cannes Film Festival, and then they did a movie called, I think, Daddy Long Legs after that, maybe? Yeah, incredible movie.

And then they just kept getting, they were just better and better and better, and, did yours, and, you know, maybe one day you'll do another one with them, you fucking great guys.

Speaker 6

They're writing another one right now, but I lucked out. I'm getting to do all this great stuff. Noah Baumbach, PTA, they all hooked me up. They all wrote great stuff. They asked me to be in it. Jim Brooks. Paul Thomas Anderson. I lucked out. Yeah, Paul Thomas Anderson. And then you just

Speaker 1

get more relaxed over time, right?

Speaker 6

You get...

Speaker 1

Or more in the pocket. You

Speaker 6

get, I guess I'm getting, I just did a movie with, Johan Rank, and he did, Chernobyl. He did the series Chernobyl. Oh, the series, brilliant. Incredible, and I played an astronaut in it, and the guy is fucking crazy in the movie and going through a lot of pain, and then, and I went, yeah, just fucking do it and go and try your hardest. So that's all I do.

I try my best, and the ones that don't work, they go, all right, we got to cut around that. But, but I try to, try to get as good as I can, and they, they make it work.

Speaker 2

Is it ever scary, because these guys do great movies or great TV show, and PTA, obviously, one of the best, one of the best ever. Yes, yes. And then, but you know PTA a little bit, but if you get lucky enough, you know, you're, you're, you're paired up with some great director. And, and usually on sets, like grown-ups, those kind of movies you have more of a say, but it, you, you have to kind of keep quiet somewhat, not totally, but, and trust them, and do you ever get a feeling where you're like, I don't even know if this guy knows what the fuck's going, I mean, that must be scary.

These guys, cause they're so good, but you go, it's, it's gonna work, it's, they know what they're doing, that must be hard though. You

Speaker 6

just go, you just give yourself to them cause you know they're great, and, and you read the script, and you, you just don't want to let them down, and you jump in, their world, and it is neat, it's neat not, not, I always feel more comfortable doing comedy, I'm always, more at ease going, all right, we're gonna go make a movie and have a great time, and try to come up with the best jokes, and make everybody laugh.

Love that, I'll love that the rest of my life, just like you guys, we're addicted to that, but the other stuff I'm getting to do,

it's awesome, I know you both would crush at that also, it's just, it's just, it's It's just different. It's fun.

it's a different day in the trailer. You don't go, what the fuck? you know, let me come up with a joke. You're kind of sitting there going, oh, I got to get in this mood right now. Well, the

Speaker 2

jokes are kind of crutchy because you know how to do it, and you know, if you have a scene that's not working, you go, I think we can figure a way out of this if we think of a joke or a way out, which is what you do a lot on a comedy. But in these, you're like, this is just connecting. It's part of connecting the dots of the bigger picture.

So not a lot has to happen right here, and it's hard to trust that. That's true. So just do what it is. They'll figure, I mean, sometimes they add music or something, and you go, oh, I see what they did. It's perfect. Yeah, that's true. You don't know when you're doing it.

Speaker 6

And then when you're doing it and it's not right, those guys tell you. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And you go, oh, and he feels stupid for a second. You go, oh, I was, I was giving you a little extra. And they're like, calm

Speaker 1

down,

Speaker 6

calm down. Juice it up a bit.

Speaker 1

They're making it real good for the people. And they go, no, no, no. Believe

Speaker 6

me, they want to see.

Speaker 1

Those are the brothers, right?

Speaker 6

The safety

Speaker 1

brothers, their brothers. And,

Speaker 2

Ronnie, Dana, what

Speaker 1

else do you have for, Adam, we got to take a few questions. Oh, I don't know. I do think it's kind of cool that you did. There's so many movies, obviously. we talked to Drew Barrymore about fifty first dates. I heard that. That was sweet, sweet. Drew

Speaker 6

was great. Drew gave you answers that were incredible every time. Doesn't Drew automatically take even a half a question and she fucking goes? And she's

Speaker 1

poetically does a seven minute answer. Yeah, it's unbelievable. She goes,

Speaker 2

I'm going to guess your next three questions and here's the answers.

when I went to SNL, we were like, okay, made it easier. I was amazed at her

Speaker 6

talking

Speaker 2

about being a little kid on

Speaker 6

SNL. Oh, I know. Yeah, at age seven. By the way, I've listened to, I think, every episode of your show. You have? I fucking love this show. It's the best. Yeah. Jeez, I'm so

Speaker 1

happy for both of you. It's the greatest. Well, it's fun to do because, you know, like, we don't get to hang out with our friends that much, so this is our chance to, you know. the other one I wanted to ask you, did Anger Man, so you got to work with Jack Nicholson. Yes.

Speaker 2

Unreal.

Speaker 1

And really got to know him. Yes. And you told a funny story about peanut butter, just hanging out at his house.

Speaker 2

Oh, yeah,

Speaker 1

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, man.

Speaker 6

My first day over. Nicholson's, we, I got there, and we're in, and he keeps the house dim, and so I'm sitting in this chair, and Jack's sitting in this chair, we're facing each other about five feet away from each other, and we're talking and shit, and, and, I'm going, it's dark enough that I'm going in my head, this, I don't think this is Jack Nicholson.

I, I think like they brought out a, a fake one to talk to me and see if I'm okay to talk to the real one, so I'm just going like this, and he's like talking quietly, and it doesn't sound like the impression everybody does, you know, or whatever. Hey man, let me tell you something. It's not like that. It's kind of like, yeah, man, it's kind of quiet and cool, and I was saying, man, let me tell, I don't know, he just has a cooler voice, but I, I was not really believing it was him.

And then, I do like an hour of that, and then at the, at the end of he goes, you hungry? Or something like that. I said, I Yeah, I could eat. He goes, you want a sandwich? And I said, I said, yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man. And he's like, PB and J. And I go, that's fucking great. Then he gets up and walks away. Then he turns around, he looks at me, and he goes,

Speaker 5

Skippy or Jif? That sounds like

Speaker 1

me. I thought also that you went outside for a minute, and you were outside, and he came out and he held up the jars. He said, Skippy or Jif? That's right, man. Such a funny image, yeah. So I remember your stories, because that was a very funny.

Speaker 2

I ran into him with Lor, of course with Lorne, and, and, we had dinner, and he goes, and he's come, there's an empty seat. You know, is this stupid? No, no, no. Okay. So, Lauren, and Lauren goes, we're gonna have some spaghetti, and, and, and, I was with Rosie, she's over there, I was over here, there's an empty seat, and, and Lauren sits here, so there's an empty seat, and Jack sits next to Rosie, and he starts talking, and then he goes, one time, I went to the MTV Awards or something, or some, he goes, I ran out, and it was so dark, I got in the wrong limo, and I sat down, and, everyone just stared at me, and it was Nirvana, and he goes, and he goes, we're just, and,

and we were in the wrong limo, and I go, uh-oh, and then she goes, did they know who you, did they not know who you were? And he goes, well, that's never happened.

Speaker 1

Someone didn't know who he was. Could I tell Quentin Nicholson one? Yeah. Related to SNL. So Phil Hartman and John Lovitz and I are playing the par three in Studio City.

Speaker 6

W-Witsit. Yeah, Witsit. So we're

Speaker 1

on the green, we wave the guy on, and, he shoots it out of bounds, and he walks over, and we realize it's Nicholson. Right, right. You know, so he walks up, and Phil Hartman had dubbed his voice in the movie The Border, because they couldn't get a hold of Nicholson, and he feels very respectful, and he goes, Mr. Nicholson, I dubbed your voice in the movie The Border.

One beat, and he goes, no wonder it was my only stinker.

That's a

Speaker 5

good one, yeah, as a joke.

Speaker 2

All right, let's take some questions real quick. We'll get Adam out of here.

Speaker 6

By the way, just so you know, before Nicholson, did anger management, he called Lorne, he called Lorne to see if it, it was, he had Lorne read the script. Oh, really? He goes, I just, just gotta make sure, see if it was funny or something. Yeah, he goes, I think it makes me laugh, but let me just get Lorne, and he goes, he is the man, and Lorne...

I skimmed it. He, he, yeah, he went through it and gave, gave it the blessing, so I own Lorne for that, too.

Speaker 1

We owe Lorne a lot. Yes. And Lorne, you appreciate Lorne more and more every year you're away from the show. Yes. When he has to deal with the egos, the politics, keeping the sensibility in a certain frequency, because if he left, it could turn into hee-haw in a second. Oh, man. You're right. He likes smart, he likes big laughs, so there's a lot, a lot of respect for Lorne Michaels.

It's very true.

Speaker 2

All right, how are we gonna do a Q&A? How do we do it? Oh, they line up over there? Okay, line up with him if anybody has a question, we'll do a couple, and then we'll get this,

Speaker 1

we'll get you guys to the other three on the list tonight.

Speaker 2

Alright, here we go. Oh, we're starting. Okay, go ahead, new man. Hey, buddy.

Speaker 7

so I was wondering, you were talking about, like childhood things that you remember. What was the first, like, extravagant purchase you made when you sort of made it big?

Speaker 2

That's a good one. I got my leather jacket that you remember. I got a Blaze Academy movie and I bought a $400 leather jacket that was too heavy, but I couldn't give it up. It was like a motorcycle one, and it hurt my neck, but I wanted to wear it. And then I think I wore it to the improv when I first, I was around Adam. The first thing you ever said to me was, can you unzipper me?

Can you help me get it off when I have to lay down now? That was it. Mine was a leather jacket. Dana, what do you got? What'd you get?

Speaker 6

With my own money that I bought. I think I bought, I went out and my father had a green, dark green and light green, '78 Cadillac Fleetwood or some shit when I was in high school, and I, my first big move, I went out to an old Cadillac place. They didn't have that color, but I got that same Caddy and had them paint it that color. That was like my big first move.

Well, that's cool. That's better. How about you, David?

Speaker 2

Oh, can I change mine? You must have got more

Speaker 1

than to let a jacket based on your home sales recently.

Sorry, so he did well. David invested well. Yes. What was your, what'd you get? my, my wife and I did a silly thing. We walked in Encino, we walked into a Mercedes dealership and we bought Mercedes cars, like 100,000 dollar cars. I bought a convertible coupe and I drove it for like a week and it had a plastic windshield. Like, what the fuck? So I got, I took it back and got a sedan.

That was just during my German phase. I, I, I have a Volvo now. It's very, very sexy.

Speaker 2

What a loser. Go ahead, next one.

Speaker 8

Yeah, I was going to ask you about the origins of your trademark, you know, Adam Sandler voice, but you kind of already answered that. Yeah. But so my next question is, do your daughters do like an Adam Sandler impression? Like, do they ever go like, they're all a lot funnier or whatever?

Speaker 6

They don't do that, they don't know that album yet, but, they do both do the, oh yeah, they do, they do, that's it, every time I'm trying to be funny and it, it doesn't work, they go, that's funny, yes, that. Thank you. Thanks, man.

Speaker 9

Sorry, I'm, I'm shorter. Hi. Hi, guys, big fan, my name is Elise, I'm from Houston. Nice to see you,

Speaker 6

buddy.

Speaker 9

So my question is, what, out of all the films you guys have, if you guys can go back and do a sequel to any of y'all's previous films, what would it be?

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shit.

Speaker 1

Wayne's World 3, Wayne's, Wayne's World 3. Guards at 60. Wayne. I gotta get some Flomax. Flomax. I don't know if it would work. Go ahead, Adam. We've done so

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many

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movies, what would be the sequel?

Speaker 6

What would you, what was the, I can't think of the name right now, with the, you did with the Cage and Lovitz. Oh, Trapped in Paradise. Oh, Trapped in Paradise,

Speaker 1

yeah. That'd be fun to just work with Nicolas Cage. That was a tough shoot, wasn't it? We fell down in the snow and yeah, we just. You were doing Brad Gray in that, right? I was

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doing Brad Gray and Mickey Rourke. I don't know what you're doing, but I wouldn't do it. Oh, yeah. I

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was doing Mickey Rourke, the studio flew in from LA, we were in the middle of the woods in Canada and said, you gotta stop doing that. Really? Yeah. But Nicolas Cage said, I would do it anyway.

He was a great character.

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I guess that's it, right? I don't know. What would you do a

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sequel to? You have, you have so many movies. No idea.

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I, I, I like them all. I like doing grown-ups with Davey because. Yeah, because of that one, grown-ups could,

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could work, you know, three, going, yeah, three.

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Well, whatever, whatever it is, I like to do with, it's always great when you're with your friends. Grown-ups, we, we literally got to do this every day. Sit in chairs, hang

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out, try to be funny, and, and cut around it. Yeah, that thing's been keeping the lights on at TBS for the last seven years. That's on, on heavy rotation. But I love it, I loved grown-ups. That was, that was rank great memories. Thank you for that question. Thank you.

Speaker 10

cheers, you guys are wonderful, this is amazing.

I, my question, I suppose you guys have written for so many different, like, wonderful projects in both film and TV, and of course, on Saturday Night Live, and my question was, do you think that to properly, like, kind of, well, like, master that sort of craft, do you think it's, like, Writing as much as you can, like every day is really the proper way to get to a point where you feel comfortable with your writing.

Or do you think also, I suppose, do you think it's also helpful to like try and collaborate with other people that you know you'd work well with?

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Sounds a little like John Mulaney, this guy.

I would say my, my, if I would take that, my first answer would be if it's stand-up, just get as much stage time as time, as you can, and if it's writing, I think it just more is better. Collaborating or writing by yourself, just anything you can do until something sticks, I would say.

Speaker 6

Right, right, right. I remember I lived with Apatow when I was young. Good, great writer. And Apatow, he was the first one of us that would write. Yeah, he was smart about it. He used to sit in his room and write. Skits all the time for, for Saturday. He wasn't on Saturday Night Live, but he would write kind of skits. And he would collaborate

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with people, and he was smart. He made himself like a producer, because that was a valuable thing to help someone do what they're doing, Jim Carrey or you. Well, I would say,

Speaker 10

what is your name? my name is Ambrose. Okay. All right, Ambrose. That's all right. It's a cool one. That's

Speaker 1

a great chardonnay. No, anyway. Ambrose, I would just say, initially, that seems like too much pressure to me to try to go in a room and stuff. If you're a comedy writer, just write everything down. That's what George Carlin said. So if you're out with your friends, a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something, make sure you either record it or write it down.

And just do it spontaneously all the time, and your headset gets into

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that. Yeah, it's hard to just sit and write and be funny. It happens all day, and if you just write it when it happens and don't say you'll remember it later, because you won't. So just write it, write it, write it, and then you collect it and go, is there anything here? Is there anything here? That stuff's Very valuable. You

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basically only need to write five good jokes your whole life, and then, like David, you use that the rest of your life. It's a,

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it's a spade roast. It's all right.

Speaker 10

Thank you guys so much. Good luck. All right. What do we got, boss? I'm

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bros. I'm bros. Hi, I have a favor to ask you guys. It's my nephew's 15th birthday, and I was a bros.

It was my nephew's 15th birthday today, and I was wondering if I could make a video of you guys saying happy birthday to him.

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Imagine if we said no and meant it. You know, you know when to ask.

What's his name? What's his name?

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Nicholas. Nicholas.

Speaker 6

And we're going to say, while I'm still filming, how about when the whole theater sings happy birthday to Nicholas? Happy birthday to

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you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Nicholas. Happy birthday to

you. Thank you. Trying to harmonize. And it's my niece.

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Oh.

Speaker 12

My name is Al, and I want to say that it's, my grandma's dying, and it's her birthday day, and if we can sing happy birthday to her, that would be a great.

Speaker 4

What

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is change, Nicholas? No, but for real, this is such a fucking treat. This is such a fucking treat for all of us, because you guys are all just such pillars of comedy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Here's my real question. How

You know, as, as when you're watching you guys, we pretend we're you, we see ourselves in you and shit like that. So when you did Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin, and then when you did that scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman, being you in those moments is like fucking incredible. So how was it being you in those moments?

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It was very cool. That

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too, you're funny as shit, by the way. Good job. My

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name's Al Manero. Manero, you call me Manero. You got a great name for a comedian.

Speaker 6

God, you're so psyched you followed Ambrose too.

Speaker 3

Like, he's

Speaker 1

gonna take it down. Ambrose is looking for pen

Speaker 6

and paper. David, did

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you tune out?

Speaker 6

David tuned out. So, Steve Martin, of course, all our heroes. Yeah, one of the greats of all time. Yeah. First

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time Hall of Famer, Steve Martin. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah. Probably the number one ballot for us, right? Say it again? He was probably the number one guy. Memorize his albums. His albums, Wild and Crazy Guy, all, all, all the shit Steve Martin did. So, of course, being in a movie with him, with him was just staring at him and waiting for like quiet moments to run over and say something and if, hopefully he'd respond and, so I love that and he was very nice to me.

And then, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Fucking great guy. Great tour de force that guy. He came, he was just a very good, funny man, took it serious, went, went hardcore and when we worked together. By the way, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I don't know if you guys know this, so we're doing Billy Madison.

I think We wrote, oh no, not Happy Gilmore. No, maybe Billy Madison. We wrote for Bob Odenkirk. Wrote that for Bob Odenkirk, the bad guy in the movie.

and the fucking studio wouldn't allow it. They were like, you can't just have your friends. And we were like, no, he's fucking great. And, and they said no, and Bob Odenkirk, he was a writer on SNL. So I think that's how, how it went. I think it's, okay, so we wanted Bob. They said no. They put out, you gotta audition, you know, audition people.

Philip Seymour Hoffman auditioned. And I was in Toronto getting ready to make the movie, and it still wasn't cast yet. I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman, I was laughing my ass off. I'm going, who the fuck is this guy? He's hilarious. So I tell the, people I show Universal, can we have this guy? Are you good with him? I mean, you fucking said no to Odenkirk.

Are we okay with this guy? And they were like, and it took some Talking into, and then they said, yes. Then we offered it to him, and we get this call back like, yeah, he's not, he doesn't want to do it. And we were like, he doesn't want to do it? What do you mean? He auditioned. And so I go, let me fucking talk to him, this guy, and tell him how great he is.

And I called him up, and I said, hey, it's Adam. And he's like, oh, hey, Adam, blah, blah, blah. And I said, hey, man, I saw your tape. You're so great, buddy. And they said, you don't want to do it. And he goes, oh, thanks, man. I go, do you, do you want to do it? Or, or, and he goes, oh, I can't. I go, oh, why not? He goes, I just don't want to.

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And I go,

Speaker 5

okay. You sure? We're going to have a great answer. Isn't that great? I don't want to. I go, I really love you, Adam. He goes, I know you do.

I swear to God, I... Wow, in my confidence. Yeah, yeah. I bought you help. That

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was

Speaker 12

good. Thank you guys. When you get bored and you want to go to YouTube, go to Crypto Junkies, easy, I'll make you rich.

All right, just hang on to that cardane, yo.

Speaker 5

Go to the moon. He's going to the moon. He's going to the moon.

Speaker 13

Hi, guys. My name is Denny. Just want to thank you guys. You guys are my comedy heroes. Moved out to LA for my pursuit of SNL. That's my dream, so I've been looking up to you guys my whole life. Oh, that's sweet. Are

Speaker 6

you doing stand-up and stuff like that?

Speaker 13

All over, all over. North Hollywood, I produce a show. Oh, really? What's your name? Denny Glasser. Denny Glasser. That's a great

Speaker 6

name. Is it a...

Speaker 13

I've got to pass out. Thank you. Dr. Denny. Dr. Denny's in the house. I'm just saying. Thank you. my only question I wanted to, ask is, what was the first impression or character that you guys did that you knew you could do this for a career?

Speaker 6

I could do Michael J. Fox real good. No, David, that was David, that was David. My first impression as a kid- You didn't give me any impressions, did you? I did, no, I used to do them around the house. I did the basic, I used to do, Rich Little stuff, you know? Yeah, yeah, me too. John, John Wayne and, John Wayne, yeah. Well, yeah, I used to wear a cowboy hat around the house.

Oh, really? Well, I'll say, yeah. I would do that like I would cook for my parents. Oh, watch bacon and eggs. Oh, gross. I don't know. So,

yeah, yeah, yeah. How about you? Who was your first?

Speaker 2

Casey Kasem? You guys do that. Checking in at number five, the boss. Bruce Springsteen, a man and his guitar. A man who likes to call his guitar his own.

Speaker 1

I was nine years old, the Beatles came on Ed Sullivan, the next day I was, I walked up to my mom and I said,

Speaker 4

Hey, do you think I could get me some pancakes?

Speaker 1

She screamed. She didn't know what I was doing, but that was my first time I knew I could alter my voice as doing a Liverpudlian accent.

Speaker 2

All right, well, good luck to you, buddy. Thank you for asking. Love you, buddy. Take care. Thanks again, Eddie. You gotta go. You gotta go. Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 3

Thank you.

Speaker 2

You're

Speaker 3

awesome. Thank you so much for coming out to the Wiltern. Take care. Hi, folks. Thanks, David. Love you, Jeff. How you doing? That was fun. Thank you so much.

Speaker 5

All right.

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