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And Dan Soder is a young man who has been kicking it in there for a while and, uh, tight with all the comedy greats. And maybe you've heard of, maybe you haven't, but it's time you have if you haven't.
HBO special, a Comedy Central special. He's part of the Netflix stand-up comedian special.
He did 30 minutes there and the self-produced special. And so he's been around and it was fun to hang out with him.
His stand-up is great and he has a great ear and he delights us with some of his off-kilter impressions and tells us the story it's kind of funny because yeah his youtube special he threw it on there about a year ago has three million views that's like a good trick and three million is very hard to come by people just throw numbers around but it's hard to get that much and a lot of comments about it they liked it and that's a good calling card he's going to start doing theaters and um he's announcing that pretty soon so uh look for that and uh you know he's buddies with shane he talks about all these guys nate all the ones we always talk about and good dude so i I'm excited. We had a lot of laughs with him.
He does a few impressions. He's not really an impressionist, but he's better at most impressions than an impressionist.
He's like Eddie Murphy or something, you know, he just does his regular sound is great, but he does this really some cool. Chappelle is probably the best one.
Yeah, that's awesome.

So super talented, nice guy.

And a lot of these famous comedians are his good buddies who open for him.

So now it's Dan's turn.

Yeah.

So here he is.

Check it out.

Dan Soder.

Dan, when you sleep, can you have the bedroom door open or unlocked no or do you lock yourself i lock myself in i shut it in oh yeah i barricade have you ever seen uh i've ever thought there was an intruder in your house actively um one time at yeah when i used to in queens i had uh like in the first two weeks i lived there the guy broke in through our we lived on the first floor on a very busy street a guy broke in through the back by pushing in the window and stole everything and then uh my landlord anthony put up put up bars on the inside of our window and we Like, why wouldn't you just put it on the outside he's like nah Dan that's not how that works we're gonna put them up on the inside so then my roommate just had bars on the inside of his room property value so he doesn't want to look like a prison yeah yeah it's more for function not for uh to look good have you ever had an active shooter in your house no but I am from colorado so all right you're from aurora yeah i'm from like all your buddies are in that gang now yeah everyone's venezuelan everyone's a school shooter there's a lot going on in aurora the second is it when you step foot in aurora right over the county line it starts shooting or is it you have to get in once you have to get you have to get registered as school and then i'd like to go to this

hi is there any seats available in the public

oh that's good let's go back and forth with laying down machine gun fire because

these sound effects

anyway it's a toddler in town.

Where do you live now?

Active shoes are funny, but we'll put a pin in that.

Come back to that one.

I live in New York.

Oh, I will tell you, Dan, quickly, I lock the door.

I lock the door when I take a shower because I had a break in once.

But yeah, I don't like to sleep with the door open. I put a big bolt on it because i'm scared now david yes aren't you worried about locking the door in the shower what if there's an accident in the shower well this is a good i'm glad you brought this up uh four to five times i'm in the shower there's an accident no actually when i'm on the road and you know how people put the little bar over the lock.
So it's like a hook lock and you see TikToks where people go, I bring these nine things to lock my block, the little hole. I put this, I put a chair against it.
I'm not that crazy, but I will say that when I do that lock, I always feel like what if something happens inside and they need to come get me and they can't get in. They can't get out.
Yeah. They're just going to take the door completely.
Right. Is that a real, is that a real thought? I mean, I don't know.
Am I the only one that thinks that's crazy? Let me, let me ask a neurotic question. Do you, when you get into the shower, is that it? Neurotic.
You get into the shower. Do you ever wonder as you're turning on the water, gee, I wonder if there'll be uh some seismic activity while i'm in here does that go through your mind um not for me because i'm not in california i think that's a very californian way of thinking you guys have fault line you guys have fault line brains yeah and we worry about buildings crumbling so i wonder if i'm in the building everything an airplane's gonna shower? Ours comes from terra firmer.
Yours comes from the sky. Yeah, but things fall down in both cities.
I'm worried about Delta 126 coming into my shower. I'm taking it.
I don't have to worry about the earth swallowing me like you two do. I'm even worried about the hologram airplanes.
If those are real, I don't want those hitting my shower either. I got that Pro Plus in my hair while a 7.6 comes in here.
That's why I got Per Plus. It's combo.
Not a toddle and jam. I don't want.
You better not go off on a rant here, Dennis. Christ sakes, Dan Soder.
All right. These kids coming up pretty strong.
Got a couple of specials out there.

Yeah.

A friend of all those, that posse.

That's the new rat pack.

These cats out there.

Okay.

You sound like Rodney.

Do you do Rodney?

Oh, yeah.

I like to do, my new one is Ben Rodney as a mass shooter.

He's like, hey, they're all going to pay.

I'm telling you.

You guys don't want to be friends with me. Well, now you're not going to have a school to go to.
See, I love that. I love the idea.
You saw Rodney and then you thought, what's the best scenario? And then you did it. Then you go, what's worse than that one? The language of Rodney.
Like, That's what's so funny. It's exactly if he was that guy.

How would you say it?

The one I used to do a lot was woke Rodney,

where he would be like,

you know who doesn't get any respect is women of color.

I'm telling you.

If they say that gender's fluid,

well, then I'm in love with a puddle.

I'm telling you.

I'm a white man.

I get all the respect.

Dan is actually touching his chest. Yeah, he's doing Rodney stuff.
Don't worry. He's doing Rodney stuff.
That's what Andrew said last week. Andrew Schultz said that impressions are coming back.
And then I was looking around and, you know, obviously Shane does his cadre, but you're kind of, you do a lot of voices, but you don't, I know, is that a word? Yeah. But you don't lean on it.
Your stand-up is just regular stand-up. It's great.
And then you have these impressions. It's kind of cool.
It's like a secret weapon. Well, I would honestly, you know, it's weird to be talking to both of you and not acknowledge how important both of your guys' HBO specials were in in my life specifically critics choice and take the hit um like two of the reasons i do comedy um my family's from the bay area so anyone from um the bay area was like a demigod in the house san carlos oh i know uh my father lived in uh he my dad's from the east bay but my parents got divorced when I was young and I would go live in Marin with him.

He lived in Greenbrae and Mill Valley.

Worked at a liquor store in Mill Valley

called Dan's Liquors.

Been there, have a house in Mill Valley.

Well, what's funny about that is

I thought he was working there because he loved me,

but it was because he was an alcoholic.

That kind of feels like a Norm joke where it's like, you know, I thought he was working there because he loved me, but it was because he was an alcoholic. That feels, that kind of feels like a norm joke where it's like, you know, I thought he loved me, but it turned out he was a raging.
I know. It's the way he would just slowly go.
Yeah. The guy thought he was a real good friend, right? We're talking about the game and everything like the giants could have won and everything.
And I realized only talking to me because he's a raging alcoholic. I'll just randomly do that now because I'm obviously a big Norm fan.
But yeah, explaining my father's drinking problem, it's because he had a raging drinking problem. Yeah, right.
He hits it. It's just a Normism.
But I used to do him as it never got a laugh. I would do Norm as an alarm clock.
Great. Hey, wake up.
There's a crack horn and a midget in your bed. Because I heard him say crack horn and midget.
He did it like 45 times on Conan. Yeah, 45.
You know when he would just work a phrase you're not supposed to say over and over again? Oh, yeah. Him on Conan but then uh dave david i uh went to college in tucson so i spent time in arizona in a very uncomfortable way right and there was a moment when i was in college when i was getting high with a guy and he did the let my tarantula crawl on you oh my god from the and it wasn't for shake it was for a legit bong hit oh and i was like i was trying to explain the joke your joke to him while a spider involved i go you have to watch this special because he does this as a giant it's like a boat crawling up me but that was like um yeah those two specials especially uh like when you're young and you watch you know i grew up with like cable i was like the first cable generation and there weren't many on so you could kind of watch them and know them yeah yeah just watch them over and over and over it wasn't mandatory now as it is yeah it wasn't in your face it wasn't like you know you weren't trying to dodge them yeah exactly he was like it was like you would find it and you would almost be like i feel like i wonder if musicians go through that with tiktok and stuff where it's all in your face now where it used to be fun to probably go to a record store and like dig around the way it was yeah like tape hbo specials and then watch them and be like oh these are awesome everything was slow and everything counted.
Now it's just a billion pieces coming at you.

But who's your best, who's your tightest friend comedian?

Is it Shane or a bunch of these guys?

You know, Shane and I'm real tight with Shane.

Nate Bargatze and I have known each other.

How's he doing?

He's doing fantastic. He's selling out the moon.

I think Nate's probably got those machines now where you count the money like in Scarface. That's all you hear when you call him.
And he goes, hi, man. Sorry, I'm going to need to get a different room because this one's filled with money.
And you're like, oh, cool, mate. It's topless girls counting money, but no cocaine.
Just, they have a face mask on. He's just a jerk.
That's sick. The kid's selling out so many tickets, he's playing the state of Nebraska.
It always makes me think of this line from a Bill Hicks album where he goes, I can't sell out a comedy club, and they're draining the ocean to build bleachers for Carrot Top was such a good line that i always think about that with like name my friend like schultz and shane and all these guys doing arenas and i'm like i'm at a funny bone in short pump virginia these guys are like yeah the king of england came and watched me do a set. What's it like to hear that?

You've got a friend playing clubs, and then it happens really fast these days, where first it's maybe a big, big theater. Whoa, dude, 3,000.
And then it's sort of an arena, like a 15 or 20. or you know it's what i like about it is i think stand-up comics specifically you know you know it's always in the rock bios that they get like carried away with it and they're like we owe this this is what we're owed comics i think in general are just like what the fuck is this this is crazy like shane i'm i'm opening for shane in uh he's doing arena shows in cleveland in dc and i did a couple with him a couple weeks ago and he jokingly walked up to me and he goes i just wanted to headline a thursday at helium in philly no shit got out of control that's how it starts if you can fill up a week yeah yeah so i mean i think it's awesome man i'm very uh happy for all those guys that are doing just you know i never thought stand-up would be as big as you know hair metal yeah do you think it's i mean i think those stadiums are the bigger the bigger gigs if i'm in them i'm not really filling them but when i do them it's with other people it's a different sort of pace it's a different sort of everything and i sort of miss just my type of jokes are a little and plus i'm kind of quiet and maybe i mumble i don't know but it's better for a little smaller uh area but you know when i go on tour it's not that big but i was i saw a picture on shane's instagram of uh which is depressing of uh it's like a slide of places filled arenas.

And I think I'm,

I think I'm like watching a UFC fight and I see dinky Shane in the middle.

I go,

Oh,

it's just stand up.

But it feels like sometimes when I'm up there,

I feel like my energy isn't enough to match how much is in the room.

And it's very odd.

Well,

that's why Nate is such an outlier there.

Yeah.

He plays it so intimate. I mean, what's his secret.
I mean, what is he doing that's so amazing? His jokes are just so good at stand-up. Quality jokes, yeah.
When we were coming up, I always called him the Basset Hound of comedy. He just seemed like a guy.
Yeah. Oh, he was a big fan of that.
He definitely. He did have a bit of a glow up.
What was the idea behind it? Yeah, I miss old Fat

Nate, dude. I want...
Yeah, where's Fatty?

Where's Fat Nate? He used to look

like Jared from Subway.

Fat Nate should be a cartoon on Netflix.

I would 100% watch that.

Old Fat Nate. Nate used

to look like a guy that fixed

Ferris wheels, and now

he looks

like the CEO of a blood company where you're like, I don't even know. You're wearing space pants.
It was wild. Yeah, he's something.
I see. But there's less clips now, I think, which is smart because I think the market was flooded.
There's Theo clips, there's Nate clips, and there's almost- Shane clips. Shane clips, yeah.
Shane clips are everywhere. I see more Shane is Trump clips yeah his Trump is perfect his Trump is it's a secret weapon Dana do when you rate other people's like uh when you go up to your chart and you put the rating when you when you do the rating who has been your because you know Baldwin obviously was the pick by SNL, but I would argue that Shane does the perfect Trump.
Well, I would say I go by funniness more than accuracy for my personal taste. I think that James Austin Johnson is like jazz with it.
You know, he's got so many hooks and so much. It's almost an over running shane first of all he's a little doughy like trump so he kind of can be trump he's tall that's gonna get him to punch a wall and when you see well he's not trump but you know i mean what am i gonna play trump at 145 pounds but he uh he makes me laugh the most when he does it So that's why i go by well he goes a lot more racy he does more stuff that's a little like when it's on kill tony or something edgier i think tyler fisher's is has some hooks that is are really really great as well really some interesting hooks i think shane's speed dating on gillian keeves that the his sketch show when he does trump spade you're right he like nails the dirtiness of it that you know trump kind of has so it's kind of funny to be kind of thinks and doesn't quite get there but he he's close yeah he's close he said a lot he is trump knows he's like a comedian and you know he goes for laughs like and i saw him in a thing the other he.
He was doing a press conference. He goes, we're Republicans for gays.
He's like, you don't look gay. And everyone laughs.
He's like, go ahead. What was the question? And everyone's like, everyone's fine with it.
Like, who says that? Obama never said that to anyone. That would be funny.
He goes, well, you don't look gay. You're not gay.
You don't look gay. Yeah, that's very, yeah, that's very shame.
I don't know. I do.
I do. Trump woke.
That's my only. If he was woke, how would it sound in his language? We're going to take care of trans women.
We're going to take care of what's happening to them is quite frankly a disgrace. They ought to be able to compete with the girls.
I don't care if they're six foot three with flippers for hands and feet. You got to put them in the pool.
Yeah, that is my favorite thing to do with a voice is to completely take it out of context and make it applicable. That was, you know, I screen tested twice for SNL.
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I want you to go through your voices. You guys wanted me, you wanted to hear about the failure.
Well, I'm just, after seeing your stuff today and seeing you on Billions, realizing you're an actor, you could play the game show guy, you could play the dad, you could do all that and then you also have all these yeah really cool takes and impressions so what happened you should still be on that show i got too nervous i got way too nervous when they i auditioned my my agent told me to do characters and voices even though i was doing not all you do yeah and i was like well why don't i do stand-up and then

i can do a couple like impressions at the end and they were like no they want you all they want you to do all characters and impressions and i was like okay great and the first one went well but then you know you get the call to come to 30 rock and go to 8h and it's like it as a fan as like a lifelong SNL fan, it's very

intimidating. And it also

at the, that it was

for season 40 it was before season 40 and um I wasn't planning on ever auditioning for SNL I just loved it I just loved it as a fan and then I was writing a cartoon for Comedy Central with Brian Tucker who at the time was the head writer and he was like you should audition man i was like i don't know and then i did and i got you know i got to do the screen test and it got in my head i just got like i i i wish i could have redone that because i think if i would have been more relaxed i would have done a lot i mean i watch everyone's dana i've watched your audition tape over a hundred times because of youtube you get to watch phil hartman's oh you know you can go find all crazy they have those yeah and they're just floating around yeah i never heard of that and i think that did me you know i used to open for colin quinn and colin would always go uh he go yeah you know he go that that's the problem

with your generation you guys know every damn thing that happened in comedy you can't even be surprised with anything so and i was always like i don't know if i believe that and then now i'm like oh he was absolutely right it was like the weight of knowing too much for sure i wouldn't know of anyone's audition you just hear about it yeah i've heard that story a few times from different people i think kyle dunnigan told a story of just feeling remorse but um you know it i got to do stand-up in front of lauren michaels in a club with a good crowd club with a good audience and got to do 40 minutes before i had to go do the kind of 8h but it was actually in burbank Jim Carrey was on that audition, too. Was he really? Yeah.
Putting his foot behind his head. And I thought, well, they got to hire this guy.
Put his balls in his mouth. I mean, it was tough.
That's before he auditioned. I don't even know.
That was in the green room. Orin's like, I don't know who the impression is, but it's funny.
I was on the way in. I've never seen balls in a mouth.
It's just funny. It doesn't need anything.
Something like testicles in an orifice is always a good one. Well, 30 Rock.
Eric Idle and I used to talk about it with Chevy and Danny and Billy. Can I tell you guys a character I've been doing on the road? Perfect.
So a lot of comics are very rich right now, and they suck. They're not good at stand-up.
And so I've been doing this character that is an African shaman that I pay to tell people the truth. So he just goes up to him and he goes, I do not like your comedy.
I do not think you are funny. I do not think you have a punchlines.
You are just saying bad words. You are not funny.
And then they go like, Oh, they go, Oh fuck man. That kind of hurts.
And then it like catches on in comedy where like, you know, people are buying. So you're at the cellar and there's like four shaman walking around being like, I think that you, you do bad jokes.
I do not like you. And then the punchline that I had in my opener was that it gets back to Lauren.
And he's like, um, Dana had a shaman in 89. It really, it really split the cast.
He was pretty mean to a couple of the feature players. For sure.
That is such a funny voice. David, the shaman wants to see you.
Yeah. David, Adam got a shaman.
He wants to talk to you. With me, he'd go, why are you gay? You do like the like the boys he sounds like why are you a gay guy yeah that's that's the whole that's where i got that impression why are you gay keep going with that man that's really funny and yeah and get really specific with maybe the cliches

like he gets into another 7-11 joke we do not need you know why are you counseling is not a thing i fought in the sudanese civil war i do not worry about being canceled I cut a bitch

is not a punchline

the audience answering for you is not a punchline. It just shock value.
Why do you make them do the work? And then he's like, he gets really out of date. Jerry Lewis is who you should be doing.
He's like, hey, I had a shaman come up to me and tell me. That's great.
But so the SNL thing. Yeah, it was it literally was like before.
The director's name was Dave. Dave.
Dave Wilson. Dave Wilson.
He was cool as fuck. He was great.

He goes, hey, man, I had my cowboy hat and other things that I was going to put on. A wagon full of shit.
Where do I put my wagons? Excuse me, I have my little streamers and poppers. But he was like, hey, man, just have fun or whatever.
And then I remember, this is the moment I remember where I tightened up. is I stepped onto 8-H and I went like,

man, fucking farley phil hartman velushi murray carvey too much too much it's just and it just was like just the weight was just like pressing me down and then i just don't feel like i did like the first year i think i had like better voices and stuff the second year is the one i broke lauren in the room and that was uh even though i didn't get it i was like i i like that because i did what made lauren break i did uh winnie the pooh addicted to honey where he was like i don't i don't know if you've ever woken up at a truck stop in just a red T-shirt,

being a man named Jimbo's lot lizard for a couple pots of honey.

And I just heard him go like that.

Lot lizard.

Yeah.

That's a good Winnie the Pooh.

I've never heard anybody do Winnie the Pooh.

Yeah.

I know.

A lot of people do Eeyore.

Adam Eager sounds like Eeyore.

He's like, oh, I got to book another. I don't know.
You can come in if you want. Joe's mad at me.
Took my tail again. Tim Dillon missed his flight.
I gotta go tell him. Jane's got another friend I have to watch.
How many comps do they get? Is there a number? Yeah.

Shit.

But when you go in there, how many people,

because first of all,

someone goes in there before you audition with a hose

and sucks all the fun out of the room.

It's like the most grossest time in a while.

You go, oh.

It's funny because all the standups were pacing.

Me, Andrew Santino, and Pete Davidson.

Oh, you guys are all doing it?

We're all pacing. And all the improv actors were just comfortably in the green room like going over their lines and then you're just hearing people kill oh that's gross people oh the worst just murder and then you're like and then when you're up there you're like i don't think mine got that big of a laugh but then it was you know i knew a couple of the bits and what's funny is i wrote a um michael che that was the year michael che was coming back from daily show to go do weekend update that was like his first year on weekend update and uh we're buddies and he was like well why don't i come over and go through your audition you know just to like give you notes or whatever and help and i was like yeah that'd be awesome so there i was like confident in a couple of the characters i just don't think i performed confidently or i just don't think i relaxed i think if i would have relaxed i would have done a lot better you know what she helps because if you're on the inside like when i was writing sketches starting out of course you don't even know how to write a sketch you you just got the audition and I was like a pretty good middle so I'm not even a headliner I mean and then they go here's a pad right and then if you have someone on the inside just walk you through because after a while I think what I write is funny and after a few weeks you can see something stand out at read through you oh this wouldn't work you can just read it ahead of time and go this room is not going to buy it and you don't know that when you're auditioning and so if someone can go i can't explain why i just know this is the kind of thing that's going to set off a red flag and that does help yeah because he was really i had like a couple different characters and one character he's like you should do that one was i did um i did the honest 1950s alabama football recruiter where he went you my i was like i had like one of those straw hats oh my friend you are one of the fastest men i've ever seen on the ground and you are gonna need those legs off campus they are not happy about us recruiting a black man and it was just like jay thought it was hilarious and i was like yeah all right i'll do that because there were a couple where i was like i don't know i did sam um sam elliot used to do these coors commercials and and this is in 2014 so this is like pretty much before the the trans thing became mainstream but you do these coors beer commercials and i grew up in you know my mom raised me in aurora colorado and in colorado there was a place called trinidad colorado where they used to perform the sex change operations like everyone in colorado knew it was like oh you go to trinidad to have a sex change was it bigger there than the rest of the country so was you yeah and i think that was i think but i tried to explain it in the setup of like everyone who grew up in colorado knew if you were going to trinidad it was for a sex change operation like turkey for a hair transplant exactly exactly uh or like brazil for a butt lift it was just like they knew it and then i did uh sam elliott a commercial for trinidad colorado where it was like if you were born with the wrong parts well there's a place in colorado that can take your audi and turn it into an inning i'm talking about trinidad colorado lopping off and i think it might have been been too.
But maybe it was the eight minute setup. Maybe you didn't need to read a whole epilogue.
You've got a chart. Here's a map of the US.
You could see in 1988, it's spiked. Sam Mellon talks about where to go to get a sex change operation.
There it is. You know what? I probably should have got, yeah, I would have loved to have gotten notes from you guys before I did it.
Well, one thing I could tell you is that then later on, there's people in a room, and there's a lot of great things being said about a lot of people, and probably for sure you. And the cards are going in and out.
All you need is one person doesn't like you, and you kill you like you know i don't know crazy and also he likes to cast like if you didn't get it who was close to you or they already have a you like we have a phil hartman and we that's when they had like maybe michael mckeon came and they're they're thinking about more than what i'm thinking you know what i mean they're just not just funny they're don't have a Jan Hooks. Who would be someone that's versatile, female, cute, you know, that kind of stuff.
The thing I was told was it was the year after Sudeikis left and they were like, we need a kind of an older white dude who can play a dad, who can play a teacher. Good looking.
Be kind of hulking if he needed to be. And so I think that's why i got far because you know it was it was nice like spade what you said about having someone that's like kind of on the inside that can tell you because brian tucker i was his guy you know like and he's the head writer i think i was like privy to the process more than anyone else that was going through it because brian was like they like you you're in like the top five i don't know if you're going to meet lorne you might get a call be prepared for a call at any moment then i didn't get that call and then he kind of you know tucker was there to be like i think they're going to go with pete davidson and he was my opener oh he was like opening for me he had been featuring me for me on the road I've known Pete since he was like 15.
And so it was funny listening to him be like, I don't even know if I want it. You know, like I would talk to him on the phone.
And he'd be like, I don't think I'm going to get it. Do you think I'm going to get it? And then he got it.
And he was like, I don't know. I think I'm going to do it.
And you're like. He's like, great.
So if if you said there was was it three auditioning just three dudes and then one got it no it was like 16 17 of us how many got it who else p one it was just p oh wow so that's such a different choice that you can't no women and michael no no women and michael j had the funniest you know because we're still good buddies and like it fucked me up because you know i took it as i wasn't funny i know everything you're saying now makes sense that they're casting what they're looking for but when you go and you do it you just go like i but if i would have been funnier i would have got it like that's what i kept thinking and then jay goes no man pete's cool you're like an older white dude he's like pete's like 19 his dad died in 9 11 i was like yeah that's a way better story yeah you blew it i blew it my dad died next to a lake outside of Ukiah. That's not very hooky.
Well, that is tough.

I agree that he does like someone you know he's got marcello now so it's like young cool good looking dude and there's just he's once one of everything i think and here's the thing about lauren he's right like look what pete blew up and maro's like incredible. So it's like he knows what he wants.

It's his show.

It's also why it's been around.

Then you get girls watching and, you know, he's got to cover all the bases.

But to say you lost is like going to the Olympics and going, they liked me, but I got 11th.

Yeah, that was exactly it.

Where they were like, oh, but you auditioned.

It's like, cool.

I'm not going to wear my Team USA jacket when I did.

I got close.

Yeah, you got to the Olympics. That's what you did.
You got to the end and you just,

that's the hard part is that you can't help. Mostly comics are insecure anyway.

So going into that room from me to you to Dana, you're just going, why would I be here? This is

not even what I even thought about. Like, and I, do I deserve it? Am I good enough? And if I'm not,

that makes more sense in a weird way. It really, um, you know, I think it, it, it made me

Thank you. Do I deserve it? Am I good enough? And if I'm not, that makes more sense in a weird way.

It really, you know, I think it made me focus on standup, which I appreciate a lot.

And it was a thing where, you know, I'm an alcoholic.

Like, I've been sober for 12 years.

Yeah, let's look at a clip.

You passed out in your Winnie the Pooh shirt.

It's just me crying on a subway. from shane bring up alcoholism shane shane's so mad because i quit drinking before i met shane and shane is like i just want to get you out there one more night and you're like brother just do a few reps so how does that relate to that i just feel like if i would have got snl it would have been a situation that i probably would have drank in that i think i would have gone it's such a high pressure yeah it's it's fun high pressure it's cool it's like everything that i would have been like well let me just have a drink whatever you would deserve it yeah i would go like i'm hanging out with bono from youtube i have a beer and you're at the after party and everyone's like don't be a P it.
Yeah, I would go like, I'm hanging out with Bono from YouTube. I'm going to have a beer.
And you're at the after party and everyone's like, don't be a pussy. Yeah.
And then they're like, you took the Edge's hat. And now YouTube hates me.
Remember when you wore the Edge's hat and he was so fucking mad? You're like, I did? Marcelo has hired me to tell you, you can no longer drink at the after party you are a problem that character can go anywhere it is interesting though i would i would almost want to be there just see because you know when you're if you're watching open micers and stuff uh you know for yourself if the room is dead or if you're following someone really blue and you got to deal with that energy but what was the energy the three four before you because i'm sure on a given night because i've seen your stuff you're out there you're going right now the vibe is i'm the best guy doing stand-up on planet earth right now i mean there is that vibe can happen to any really great stand-up and so i'd have to go back and see what it was in that moment. And it's, it's, uh, probably nothing to do with you, you know, you know, it's, I snuck in like two before me just to see what the energy was like.
And when you walk in, you know, through the back, like the main entrance of eight H and I like peek around and it was, I forget who it was, just like throwing confetti and being like, Oh my God little fucking piggy and i was like rinney taylor that's someone going on and auditioning you're saying i'm saying at

8h like i saw like props and stuff oh my god oh fuck oh fuck wrong and then i i also i i mean i

really should have just fought to do stand-up and impressions at the end because i think i would

have just gone out and been like they would have gotten a better idea. Gotten to know you.
Yeah. And also, you know, if they had, someone had just not told you we're going to audition.
Yeah. And you were just walking down the street.
Can you go up there? Yeah. In two minutes? That probably with no prep.
That's exactly right. You can do a set three days later.
I've done sets like that where I bomb,

and three days later I'm at some club doing great,

and I'm like, what's the difference?

Why is this working?

You were people in a room.

Now you're people in a room.

Yeah.

Why was that so painful?

How many were there?

I never know how many come to watch.

I don't know.

In the back, I can only see, you know,

they like stay out of the light.

Gross.

I know.

They just vampire you.

It's like all that jazz. They like next should i start hello yeah it's like roy schneider i think i think that's what happened to kyle dunnigan he goes he walked out and the guy goes whatever you do don't do it until they say three two one and then he goes he went out and lauren goes are you gonna go and he goes no this went out and Lorne goes, are you going to go? And he goes, no, this guy said.
And then he goes, three, two, one. And he goes, uh.
And he's immediately off on the wrong foot. Didn't someone go out there? And then they had taken a break and didn't tell him.
And there was no one out there. It's like going to the electric chair.
And there's everyone's at lunch. You're not going to go to the electric chair in an hour.
Some guy fixing the bleachers goes like, hey, that's a pretty good Woody Harrelson. I liked it.
When they come back, they're going to like it. Oh, you're not here? Excuse me, sir.
Like, trying to get out of the light. Pitch black cabaret style.
You're getting your lavalier mic on and talking to you. Oh.
Yeah, you know. those things where immediately when i left i was like i could do that i could have done that so much better sickening feeling i could have done that so much better and and it is like uh and then the second year the next year i like kind of knew i you know i didn't do any of the preliminary auditions.
They just called me the week of screen tests,

and they were like-

That's at least nice.

Well, that's very complimentary.

Obviously, you were on their radar.

Go ahead.

Yeah, but they were like,

can you do a-

I think they wanted someone that could do a Jeb Bush.

They wanted someone that could do-

I can do Jed Clampett.

Yeah, but it was a thing where I was like-

No, nothing there.

I was like, I could try.

Jeb Bush is tough.

Yeah, I was like, I could try.

and they was like... No, nothing there.

I was like, I could try.

Yeah, I was like, I could try.

And they were like, and then just bring three new voices.

And that's when I did Winnie the Pooh and I think a couple other ones.

And they were like, okay. And then they were pretty quick back to me like, nah, not this year.

But it was nice.

Pete got it again.

Yeah, Pete goes, you know, you can get it twice. You can get it twice in back-to-back years.
He quit, and then they hired him back. We didn't see anybody good.
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David, I don't know if you know this about me, but I've always been a fan of exploring new places. Not like you kind of, you know, no, no offense.
And one of my best trips, listen up, is when I stayed at an Airbnb. Felt like I was living like a local with all the space.
You know, hotels can be a hassle room service. And then the housekeeper, it's a hassle.
So then you go to Airbnb and you can get whatever you want, a little cottage, this and that. It's fantastic.
You have your own separate space. So it's a great product for people who travel.
David? Yes, I have friends doing one of these right now. If you have a home, you can Airbnb it.
It's fantastic. I mean to to monetize your home when you're not there seems like a good idea i mean look i'm on the road a lot i could probably

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place not full-time you come in the winter you leave in the summer so that's something you should

think about it's a way to get some extra money and uh it's a cool experience your home might be worth more than you'd think yep find out how much at airbnb.com slash host the funniest was you know talking about how insecure comics are and how you know something like that is even though it is like a cool thing it's still a loss the first the season premiere of snl 40 um which by the way i think they did take one of my things in kind of which you signed the contract so i'm not like mad about it but one of the things i i did um one of the sketches i did was j's Edible Arrangements, where I was like, if you're proud of your family, send them a bouquet, but not of flowers, but of fruit made of fists. How about you kick them with some cantaloupe with Jason Statham's Edible Arrangements? And then one of the sketches that they cut was Jason Statham's Jason jason stakeums that was like that episode and i was like oh right after your audition whoops that's a little too close to the bone there that's but that's also in all fairness and people love to leave this part out whenever they they tell about sketches you sign a contract going like hey i'm giving you these ideas like when you audition there is a contract that's like whatever they see if they like it you know it's going to be theirs and i completely understood that so i wasn't mad about that but it says in the contract we will not hire you but we do love these ideas but good but good joke yeah um but the first snl snl 40 premiere i was at the stand here in new york at their old location and i was doing the eight to ten in the midnight and i was very excited to watch che on weekend update because you know i've known him since we were doing open mics together and uh eight and ten o'clock show were great midnight show i bombed so hard i had like flop sweat like it was through both shirts I was wearing and i went first on the show and just absolutely fucking bombed and then i go upstairs to where the restaurant is at the stand and they have it snl's on all the screens and it's che on weekend update which i'm excited about i'm like well i'm excited so i watched che a couple jokes, and then he does the thing where he's like, and now I'd like to introduce our newest cast member, our young people correspondent, Pete Davidson.
And Pete's got phenomenal stand-up jokes. And he comes out, and Pete fucking murdered on his first Weekend Update.
And I'm sitting there watching it with hot sweat drying on my forehead and he had a roommate at the time named derrick who's a comic uh black dude in new york he's a comic and pete's killing i'm watching and derrick is walking up and down the stand going he's the next eddie murphy he's the next eddie red i'm just fucking standing there watching this. It's still escalating to pain.
Of course, my dad's going to come back from the dead and be like, I'm proud of him, not you. He is the goat.
He is the goat. Ain't nobody funnier than this man.
And you're just like, oh, fuck. Oh, it's an emotionally violent i bomb horribly following sam kennison at midnight one at the comedy store the original room with no mc in between and just dead silent i mean just death what does sam bring all right this next young man I go what's up and then I saw a little painting lights up

I looked over, it had been lit up. And so, yeah, it took me a couple of months to get over that.
I thought SNL was out of there. You remember every bomb.
You remember every bomb so accurately that you're just like. It can have turned so fast.
You would have done better if they saw you. They saw me and rob schneider at the uh maybe catch rising star but we didn't do that well but dennis miller was saying they're just gonna look at the writing so that you don't even have to do well and they just want to see kind of what you're thinking and if it's a little weird or a little something and they don't they didn't have one of me they had dana but they they were like i was brought as a writer and schneiderider.
And they didn't have one who looked like Schneider, so he got on a little quicker. And then Sandler was unique and Farley was very unique.
So I'm just saying that when I walked off stage, I was kind of like, ah, tough. There's probably 25 people in that crowd that night.
Probably 10 SNL, 12 SNL, 12. Oh,l 12 so they were like about half of it yeah like comes in like they come in into a crowd it's not that full and then you see like you hear and it's like jim downey and law you know and then all these people that are and some cast members i think anyone's invited because i remember being there and Marcy Klein going, they're doing auditions.

If you guys want to stop by or like how horrible to see us all come in and

watch.

I just said,

dude,

if I would have walked in there and just Kristen Wiig would have been

staring at me.

I know.

Like what's this fucking chump got?

Just not even blinking.

Oh God.

Are you mad at me?

I was there for Louie's. I watched Louie's.
Oh, at the at caroline's right dana your boy louis i mean the guy me my head writer yeah yeah from the dana carvey show my head writer what okay okay dana carvey show let me tell you right now that affected me it did me too yeah you but as a as a uh a little boy that uh was was your biggest fan when they took off the dana carvey show that was a bad monday for everyone in my class i was i know we had murderers row boy you guys had the colbert fuck you guys had the fucking best that documentary was phenomenal it really was like it's funny because i would tell people about dana carvey the dana carvey show sketches and they would treat me like i was crazy like people that it was like a mandela effect yeah like i was misremembering something where i would do the the nauseous waiter was always one that i'd be like oh yeah that was a killer that was colbert and corral and when you guys would pay for stuff and drive away your bad pranks they still show those they show those on Instagram thought I was gonna lose Steve I mean he was so committed and and flipping out in that car and the veins were popping out of his head I said between texts we'll flip out but I mean you know it's okay chill out dude yeah but you know when you it's it's just getting the lens on people. Like it was just Colbert and Carell, just two guys.
We nicknamed the two Steves. And then as they emerge and they go on, you go, oh, it was Steve Carell.
So I would, you know, if I was your manager or agent, I would still float you around for SNL. I don't know.
I think I'll probably. I mean, just put it out there.
They'd have to come find you at this point. I think they could use your versatility and your impressions, your take on things.
I don't know. I think I may just put it out there.
I think they could use your versatility and your impressions, your take on things. I don't know.
I don't think there's any, you know, Phil Hartman got on at 38 or 39. I mean that audition, you want to see the perfect audition.
The guy first off just comes out, does the, the, the private eye, the perfect private eye voice. Chick hazard.
Chick hazard. Yeah.
I was, I was was i was dancing cheek to cheek with a bar and it's like it's perfect and then his impressions are in fucking german he does his impressions in german as the best german impressionist a legend at the groundlings already and didn't really even want to do the show it's funny he talks he uh he does a he does like a infomercial voice where he's like it's the stun gun the incredible stun gun and he does the he does the three different rays and he goes look there's bonnie bernstein and he like hits him with one and you hear people in the back laugh like you hear him break everyone there they go like that's good because he's just doing his he's doing the impression and then breaks to go like he would body brilstein you're frozen he would always be called in for the voiceover it's happy fun ball oh it's the best i mean happy fun ball is a top 10 commercial when we did church chat david and i the past fall phil they still use phil's oh yeah people bought it it's a little emotional yeah now it's time for church chat yeah but that's um you know you're you're you have a wide skill set I mean you're in the Phil Hartman territory as far as what I can tell you look like a carpenter and you tell they bring you up like that this next guy looks like a carpenter this guy's gonna can't fix stuff but he can do voices yeah so that's it he's gonna fix your funny bone that's what you should say oh before we let you go i gotta ask a quick question about you did you did say you're from arizona you went to dirt bags to drink maybe that bar and uh you were in what did you do in drunk parents oh i um i had a scene with alec baldwin in a diner i did a i mean this is pretty this was pretty awesome number one um when i went in to audition it was just like you know a regular old audition and then i walked dirty works one of my favorite movies of all time dirty it's yeah it's like uh love it it's like second didn't fred co-write dirty no that's why so i walk in and fred fred wolf is sitting there and i go oh shit fred wolf like i walk in and that was my first reaction i go you're fred wolf and he goes you know you know him he's like oh yeah oh yeah hey dan and i go norm you know normal that's really funny you're really good you're not so good but he goes um he goes yeah yeah and i go i was just quoting dirty work the other day or uh chevy chase's line where he goes you know the worst part of these bookies is they break your legs and they still expect you to pay you the money he goes yeah that and then i auditioned and it went like all right or whatever and then i left and then fred came out and he was like hey there's another role could you read for it if i gave you like 15 20 minutes could you like learn the sides and come in and do this other role and i was like yeah sure and so i just did it and i came back in and it was the role that i ended up getting which was rusty who's a guy who sells catalytic converters or is like trying to recruit alec baldwin to steal catalytic converters and so that was like uh we just filmed in this diner up in the bronx for like a morning but the best the thing i'll always remember is i went through a really tough breakup like right then like a girl just absolutely crushed me. And then I had to go film with Alec Baldwin.

And the night before I filmed, I was at the stand again and I saw Judah Friedlander and I was like, Hey, I'm going to see your buddy, Alec Baldwin. And Judah was like, tell him you're a standup comedian.
He loves standup comedians. And I was like, awesome.
So we're in the makeup trailer and he comes in and i introduced myself and i was like hey uh i'm my name's dan i'm a stand-up comedian i'm playing rusty or whatever and um judah friedlander i saw him last night he says hello and he did the tell the world champion i say hello and then he like sat down in his makeup chair and throughout the you know he's like he direct his he like kind of directed his own scene where he was like no put the camera right there no put the camera right there and then he like and then like i'm across a diner just like watching alec baldwin i mean 30 rock is my favorite television show of all time yeah i'm watching jack donaghy just fucking rip it in front of me yeah Yeah. And, you know, he always he is Jack Donaghy.

Like, I know he isn't, but he is in my head.

Of course.

Yeah. He's like, lemon.

That's not how that goes.

But yeah.

So we're filming and then we we break to, you know, move stuff around and to get my coverage.

And he's talking to me and we're like eating this plate of fries.

And I'm like, yeah, I went through a really bad breakup this weekend and he just talked to me and we're like eating this plate of fries and i'm like yeah i went through a really bad breakup this weekend and he just talked to me through it he was like what happened and i like tell him and he was like i just remember i go we were so hot and heavy before christmas and then she went away and it kind of changed and alec baldwin dips a fry and he goes someone got in her ear and then he eats that sounds like that and then we're like we're like talking and then he um he it's one point he goes you know i went through a tough breakup in 2000 and i went yeah kim basinger yeah kim basinger yeah he went yeah it was a tough breakup and then he like he was just giving me this like it was really sweet he was just giving me this like advice and uh it was it was a tough breakup. And then he was just giving me this, like, it was really sweet.

He was just giving me this, like, advice.

And it was awesome.

He loves to talk about stuff.

Everything.

Anything.

He would love that. He likes to be funny and you're funny.

He's very curious.

He'd be like, what happened?

But it just broke me when he dipped the fry and he went, someone got married.

It's funny, dude.

Yeah, dude.

I want you to do a couple impressions for us. But first of all, energy that is your podcast did i get that right oh no it's called soda it's just called soda it's just called soda and the episode okay yeah it's just called it's just my last name i'm not a podcast yeah okay front desk energy was the name of the episode with shane yeah yeah shane it was actually the day after what's funny about that that was the day after shane uh hosted snl the first time and i've you know you want you talk about like um you know you on the dana carvey show obviously helping correll and and um and colbert and all those and louis and stuff billcott yeah yeah shane uh used to be my opener i i i saw shane in Shane in Pennsylvania and I was like in Philly.

And I was like, you should come on the road with me.

And then me and a couple other friends got him to move up to New York.

And so that's why it's awesome now that I'm going to open for him at an arena.

And you're like, well, it looks like this investment paid off.

Well, let's try to get a tour together where you do headline.

It's called Secret Headliner.

And Pete Davidson and Shane open.

You know who also Tim Dillon used to feature for me? And Nick Mullen. Yeah.
Nick Mullen. Oh, my God.
By the way, I remember a show where Tim Dillon buried me so bad that halfway through my set, I was like, in my head, you have that comic thought where you go, should I ask them if they want me to bring Tim back out because it was like oh he's too good yeah he just it was at um the vermont comedy club in burlington on like a show and tim just murdered for like 25 minutes and then i went out there and i was like well i mean what am i gonna fucking do that's a what the fuck am i gonna do but shane was like that shane would kill and you'd just be like ah don't get a go opener that's that good guys just get kind of a nice sweet opener doesn't do anything like you're kind of mellow i mean but this was like you know i was still in that like you need to be the best you're gonna be you're absolutely you both are absolutely right get a guy that's good but not fucking make you go crazy. Yeah.
Or a woman, somebody just different. So you self-produced, right? You did a Comedy Central special and then a Netflix.
You did 30 minutes, the stand-ups, which I think is cool. People are doing it.
And Shane did it on YouTube, right? That's called On the Road. Yeah, that was recent.
So I did an HBO Hour inbo hour in 2019 which was like i think i feel lucky i think i was one of the last people to do a real hbo special yeah yeah like like an actual on hbo it like debuted full hour it was the best experience of my life you know especially talking about your guys's hbo specials dana i got to perform at palace of the fine arts last month i headlined and i kept thinking about it a thousand seats yeah as a niner fan you know because my dad's from the bay i just kept wanting to go fucking 49ers you say that and they go crazy oh god yes but i did the hbo special and then hbo you know i think kind of fell off and uh netflix i have a good relationship with but i was just on the road so much my agent was like you should just record your hour right now because i didn't have any plans to and we i think that's what the difference of the business is now now you can just take a guy that can give you a four camera shoot you can do it um yeah on the fly and just put it on youtube and it got you know i think we're at like close to three million yeah three million like it was just like a thing where it was like this is exactly what i needed at this time of my career i i was jokingly calling it like a mixtape like just putting out a mixtape and being like it is like that yeah here's what i'm doing on the road right now come and see me on the road and it really helped you know i'm about to um about to kick off a theater tour the golden retriever of comedy tour um it's my first theater tour and i'm like excited and i think the youtube special really helped that you know so you've made the leap to theaters yeah i'm making the leap in the fall i'm still doing clubs through the summer but then I've done a couple theaters you know in certain cities like in San Francisco and San Diego at the Balboa and it was like you know I think it's a slow roll I'm not you know I'm friends with Nate and Shane and Tim and I see these guys go from being like I did a funny bone then i'm doing taj mahal yeah yeah

and uh and it's like i i'm like very slow and steady very slow well it is just it's adding up now all the specials and all the podcasts you're on a lot of podcasts they give you a good review and then you go back to city it's the same thing just building building building yeah exactly it's Just the slow route is very slow.

Yeah, no, this will kick it in.

Well, you're still're you're brand new trust me you got a long way to go you know i mean louis a lot of people sebastian yeah it was around early 40s when they really took off that's you know i say this i said this to my manager and they're like oh jesus but it is the truth uh White dudes hit their superpowers and stand up in their forties. Cause stuff starts hurting and you stop caring less about being cool.
And I think there's this kind of thing of like, you're comfortable. Like I feel more comfortable doing standup than I've ever felt.
Yeah. You want to have that next level of confidence.
Like, you know, get out of my way. You ain't ever, wait till they get a load of you.
Wait till they get a load of Dan. Yeah.
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Cause I, we've never had anyone do these on this show. Just a quick Chappelle and a quick, quick cat Williams.
Oh, well, cat Williams is cat Williams is reactionary. I don't even think it's that good because you just go high with it it's just i know i can't even i love

cat williams so much and hearing you do it makes me happy the funniest shit that he said on shannon sharp that no one talks about is when he goes chris tucker used to hang out with michael jackson michael jackson used to call him christmas and he goes would you ever let another man call you Christmas?

And Shannon Sharp goes, no, I wouldn't.

No, I do not believe I would. Skip.
Skip. Skip.
Skip bailiff. I ain't going to say that, but my Chappelle, my Chappelle is, Chappelle's my favorite comedian of all time.
Like I, I've like probably paid to see him live before I started doing standup.

I would like, like a deadhead.

I would follow him around.

And, um, then COVID hit.

This is the reason this is what I talk about on stage.

But when COVID hit, they shut down all the comedy clubs in New York.

We couldn't go inside.

That was like the big thing.

And then the stand was like, we're doing inside comedy.

We're going to do some inside shows.

And every comic in New York was like fighting.

Thank you. go inside that was like the big thing and then the stand was like we're doing inside comedy you're we're gonna do some inside shows and every comic in new york was like fighting to be like please let me go inside i want to do a regular set yeah and the day of the show we get a i get a text from patrick the booker and he goes hey the next three nights are canceled uh chapelle is just going to do shows and so then i walk in to the stand one night bitter sure bitter angry angry i want to go inside and then i'm watching dave my favorite comic of all time just do a five hour set where he was just staring at his cigarette and so i started making fun of it like uh he's just talking about like uh white people sports you know, he's like a lot of people don't know this, but Mark Messier was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers and he played with Wayne Gretzky, but no one gave Mark Messier the credit for it.
He's like, or I would also do like a lot of people don't know this, but the black man made up a lot of lawn games for white people for okay was invented by a black man named jamal croquet and he never got to play his game a lot of people don't know this is a very a lot of people don't know he never got to play his game and you just stare your cigarette wow cigarette. Wow, that's really good.
Yeah, he does. Don't take 12 minutes to light the cigarette.
Everyone's just going, what's going on? And then he lights it and he goes, I don't know if you guys ever saw the show Punky Brewster, but she lived with a man that was three times her age. That man was a pedophile.
I can't believe it. I said, Punky, that man is a pedophile.
That's great. Oh my God.
That is one of the best impressions I've heard in a long time. When he did the comedy store, he kind of did a quick, quick end run.
I was the first time I felt the confidence went through this whole other level. And it was like 15 minutes of no, not any.
And the audience was almost afraid of him. Yeah.
It was such a level of calm and confident. And then those kinds of rhythms.
It's just so I got to watch him at the cellar, you know, before he did Radio City. In fact, it was me, Schultz, Joe list and Mark Norman all sat at a table and watched Chappelle do like two hours.
And his improv is just funnier than anything I could ever write. There was a guy, there was a guy in the front row and Chappelle was smoking and he goes, uh, he goes, where, uh, where are you coming in from, that Singapore he goes I'm coming in from Singapore he goes oh that's crazy when you landed did you take all the gum and go I'm going to eat all the gum right now and he did this like chewing motion that I think it just made me laugh so hard he's just so quick and funny he's just the best yeah so who's the second best yeah yeah you go and who would round out your top five well it's funny because i mean spade your let's go to the clip thing is like one of my favorite i just did it i know that's why that wasn't a fake that really got me.
My fiance and I, that's one of our favorite bits is just go just to break the tension and go, let's go to the clip. It's just so.
Yeah, that is. Yeah.
And I'll tell you, uh, Spade, you got for me, you made me laugh the hardest on SNL 50 when they were doing the Mulaney thing. And then he goes,

and then he goes,

we're a spade.

It's just doing the thing.

And you go,

yeah, I got the beat.

That made me laugh.

I know every,

all the writers said the same thing.

Cause I talked to the producer about David's little moment and everybody

who's kind of in comedy.

It said so much.

Yeah.

Cause the,

the,

the Broadway show thing was so energetic. And what was the exact thing you said though i know i gotta feel for it that's the name of your special so i just named my special that because it was the day i got home and i go hey i already that's funny i'll just call it that i gotta feel for it it was just perfectly spayed the way you were talking to someone else, and you went, yeah, I got to feel for it.
It made me laugh. Because it was like a 12-minute Broadway show.
It was like, this is more about the singing anyway. I'm glad this podcast didn't turn into me complimenting you too, because that almost is what it became, because I'm such a massive fan.
Like, Dana, I don't think you understand you saying I'd do a good Chappelle. uh that's gonna fuel me for years to come it's unreal

i'll add to that that's well because it's not just the uh the rhythm it's also some texture

in the tone of the voice and then it's the phrasing so the three things are sort of perfect

so it's like don't anyone else try to do chapelle if anyone wants to try just that's been kind of

checked off that's but your biden was something that i thought i i mean i'm not getting around

I don't know if you wanted to do that but like when I saw do it, I was like mad that it hadn't happened before. It was, they'd asked me before, but I felt like I'd done it on Colbert just real quickly.
And I felt like the audience in New York wasn't ready for it because of thinking it would make Trump happy. So, but the, but when he whispered and yelled is when it became a three-dimensional.
I read the bill because I don't want to write bills. I can write bills faster than he's ever better.
Bed, bath, and beyond. Then I knew I had an energetic impression, but I was happy to land it when I did.
Yeah, it was perfect. It was perfect.
And two fan questions that I'm going to kill myself because I don't know if I'll ever see you guys again and have to ask me. You can take the hit.
David, hey, that was my first question. Did your dad get mad about those jokes on take the hit? My real dad, Peewee, he had no say in it.
I would tell him, I said, I have to get he didn't love it. You know, there was one I did about my stepdad.
15 inches ago and and i would laugh at that on the road for fucking hours and i always wanted because i've done jokes about my mom and i've always wondered if your dad was like hey that's not that's not how that no he at that point i was sort of helping him out i'm like listen there's a few jokes but you don't worry about he. He was by no means any dad of the year.
So I said, I have to get something out of this. And then my stepdad shockingly didn't like one when I said about my mom when I was saying, oh, I don't know what it was, but it was something sort of dirty.
And I was like, you're right. Because you don't really think of that.
You're just trying to think what's the funniest thing you can think of. And someone steps in and says i can't i don't i can't hear that anymore and i was like oh shit i didn't even i just thought you'd be so excited that you were in a joke i had an ex-girlfriend uh whose parents were from the bronx and we were i was at their house having dinner one night and i was trying to i was telling her your joke the brad pitt, where you go, where you're doing your grandma.

And you go, where's my little David?

Where is, who's that kid?

I want to fuck that kid.

I'd fuck that dude.

You know him?

Why don't you drag him around the house?

I'm like, mom.

I can teach him a couple of lessons.

Fucking gnawing his balls.

I remember my ex-girlfriend's mom. Just, I love that joke, obviously.
And she goes, that's not funny. It's not.
She goes, you don't, you don't talk about, you don't talk about someone's grandmother like that. And I go, it was about his grandmother.
Yeah, it's my fictitious grandma and my lie of a joke. Everyone's like, I still see things that go, David Spade went to school, Brad Pitt.
i go oh and that joke so funny fictitious lie of a joke that yeah i mean my when i remember brad pitt when i saw him right after that he goes oh where's grandma i go what do you mean i go all right i just did that joke again it's like i don't even know what i'm talking about oh fuck that makes yeah that

makes me it's just a classic term yeah it's just such a davy oh what oh who's that kid i want to fuck that kid oh good change up yeah yeah but uh and then dana the question that i've wanted to know uh since 1994 since it came an hour ago why why did you guys take the ross perot stuff in Critics' Choice and put it during the credits

because

it was so funny because you cut it was ross bro talking about movies where he goes if you pay 5.99 to see a retard on a bench you're a retard get on a bench and then you did the water world this man drinks his own urine yummy. And it was all during the credits of your special.
For Critics' Choice, I forgot about that. I don't know why.
I don't know why. Did you do it in character? Did you have the makeup and stuff? No, I was just doing them.
Can I finish one time? Can I come in on the one? Can I come in on the one? You're not listening. Can I finish one time? Can I finish one time can i come in on the one can i come in on the one you're not listening can i finish one time can i finish one time yeah that was what a what a gift to have a guy like that walk onto the scene you know that was unbelievable no i love that it was that and i always quote your um i feel a temper tantrum coming on when you do the adopting oh yeah a two-year- two-year-old is like a hundred-year-old man with needs.
Where do you think you're going all dressed fancy? Yeah. I see your temper tantrum coming on.
Now buy me a toy. That's not Megator.
That's Megatea. You can tell because the index finger's crook slightly different.
Megator, Megatea. Now buy me a toy.
Or I think I

feel a tantrum coming on.

It's coming back. And the one where you go,

shut your ass down, we're

watching Pooh Bear. And then you shuffle up

and come back and you go, it's a good one too.

Piglet gets lost.

Well, you're my new best

friend. Because

I know people who appreciate

the weirdest, driest, throwaway lines are like in a frequency you're like oh i love this you know so i get it you don't really you hope people notice the weird dry throwaway lines but when they do it's very satisfying stuff i would probably say both of your guys is the thing that makes me love both of your guys's comedy so much is that it's the texture it's like the layers it's like you know i think like spade everything i've ever watched of yours it's there's all this this like duality of like top asshole and then this underlying belief and i love that i love watching like a guy that's a smart asshole and you're like in a fun way in a way that like man sometimes dude i know you'll never remember this david but there was a comedy musical in new york city called ah and kevin farley was in it with like a bunch of stand-up comedians and one of my friends was in it and he was he got me and my roommate who's a comic to go see him big j okerson was in. Okay.
And he was like, hey, you guys should come see it. We're doing this thing with Kevin Farley and a couple other comics.
And so we go to the matinee on the Upper West Side, because it's in the afternoon. And me and my roommate sit down.
And you and Dave Attell sit behind us. And it was one of the greatest experiences of my life, because you were in full spade mode.
Oh no. Was I commenting on it? But so quietly, but to the point that me and Becky own were fucking dying.
And then you got, you were doing it and it encouraged a tell to do it. So it like ramped up.
Cause there was a part where you're like they're like breaking

down stand-up comedy and they go and now here comes the tough female chick and you just hear spaggo and then kevin farley was doing a thing where he goes and then a heroin addicted jew named Lenny Bruce shows up and Atel goes

easy

and it was like

dude it was that we walked out and I was like, that was like one of the best afternoons of my life. I do remember that now.
Cause that was, I think his wife was directing that player. Yeah.
Yeah. His wife, Michelle was directing that.
And so it was so fun. I love that you saw that thing.
Good job. We should have hung out then.
Yeah. Well dude, hearing you and a tell talk about it, go out and see it was so funny i love that you saw that thing good job we should have hung out then yeah well dude hearing you and a tell talk about all right go out and see uh dan so on the road on the road playing theaters i think uh we'll have you back when you make the leap when you make the leap to your first arena yeah just come back it's so funny i'm just gonna be outside your guys's house going guys it didn't happen but i can still do guys remember chappelle what if Dave Spill came inside.
Don't do it. It's so funny.
I'm just going to be outside your guys' house going, guys, it didn't happen. But I can still do.
Guys, remember Chappelle? What if Dave Chappelle came inside? I'll do it. I'm playing a shed.
I'm playing a shed at Boston U. They got a shed.
They got a good shed. They're serving soda out the back of it.
So just let me in. Please let me in.
It's so cold out here, guys. All right, Dan.
We'll talk soon, buddy. Thank you for all the nice buddy thank you for hanging out with you and i'll

be see you around see you guys thanks so much this has been a presentation of odyssey please

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weiss berman of od Odyssey, and Heather Santoro.

The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.