Beck Bennett on booking SNL and Embodying Putin

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Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, no, I just realized I had some tissue paper on my chest.

Speaker 2 I made a note of it. That's cool.
Like I'm a real guy. I'm a real, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 No, that was so real.

Speaker 2 Premieres exist to make you feel bad about yourself. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I'll go, I'll be like, I bore it.
I put something on. I think it's pretty cute.
And then I take some photos.

Speaker 2 I'm like, oh, God.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. Yeah.
And in it, it's Kryptonite turns Superman into David Spade.

Speaker 2 You know, we know a lot of people, and

Speaker 2 our friends do a lot of different things. You know,

Speaker 2 sometimes they're in movies, like you and Joe Dirt. I'm sure it was 1997, but that thing's got legs.
I'm telling you. It wasn't that long ago.
Oh, 1994, but it has. It wasn't the 19s, you late 80s.

Speaker 1 Fucking 1974 came out with Star Wars.

Speaker 2 Fox 88. Boom.

Speaker 1 No, we have

Speaker 1 I Saw Superman,

Speaker 1 and it was sort of researched because we had this gentleman in the next day. Yes.
And I was like, wow, On SNL has a part in Superman. Yes.

Speaker 2 And, you know, an integral part, actually.

Speaker 1 And it's not crypto the dog. Crypto,

Speaker 1 by the way, someone should adopt crypto because just running around like Antarctica in the movie. I don't know what crypto's story is, but.

Speaker 1 Back to Beck Bennett.

Speaker 2 That's the guy. Yeah.
Oh, yes, Beck Bennett, which is obviously an amazing name, and it's his real name.

Speaker 1 Beck Bennett is a good show busy

Speaker 2 bam. Beck Bennett.

Speaker 1 Sidney Sweeney.

Speaker 2 Should be a king or something in medieval times. Yeah.
My lord, Beck Bennett.

Speaker 1 And he gives us a behind the scenes of Superman along with all the SNL stories. So great chat with this dude.
So Beck plays Steve Lombard. in Superman.
He's a sports reporter that kind of,

Speaker 1 you know, it's Clark Kent. So he's kind of in tough tough

Speaker 1 and bullying,

Speaker 1 which is a mistake. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's all right. It's always a mistake.
But he's

Speaker 2 part of the ecosystem now, you know?

Speaker 2 I would love to be in some kind of

Speaker 2 thing and be some kind of character that might come around again. So he's very excited about that and the possibilities of it.
And we go over, you know, he's a Hall of Famer on SNL.

Speaker 2 It's like 10 years there and he was everywhere. He's doing, he's a very versatile, almost Phil Hartman-esque talent.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Sarah Sherman says he's probably the nicest guy to work with. So he came off very nice to me during our interview.
So

Speaker 1 let you decide, folks.

Speaker 2 Let the folks decide, but please enjoy our guest.

Speaker 1 Beck Bennett.

Speaker 2 Well, you guys look fantastic, too, though. You guys look really good.
Yeah, don't look us up on Wikipedia. Just dream a little dream.

Speaker 2 Your filters are excellent. Oh, really? I see, I don't even know what my filters are.

Speaker 1 You have so many filters, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 So many filters.

Speaker 2 I got the under-eye filters, I got the cheek stuff, I got the hair. I'm bald, actually.

Speaker 1 I've got the one that gives me bags. Stoop the dumbest filter.

Speaker 2 Honestly, that is actually cool. That's like that's more like rock and roll.
You know, it's kind of like what Leonardo DiCaprio was looking for for a while. He wanted to lose that baby face.

Speaker 1 I look like Benicio. By the way, look at Dana dana to his right arm what's behind him

Speaker 2 that's me

Speaker 2 yeah that's yeah it's a it's a it's a motion picture that you're part of that's a motion

Speaker 2 yeah big hollywood film were you superman i i should watch it again but yeah i have not had the pleasure to see it yet but are you playing superman let's just get that out of the way you know i still don't even know uh i've seen it three times and i can't figure it out because i really thought i was and it doesn't seem to be the case because there's somebody else playing Superman.

Speaker 2 But I still believe that, you know, maybe later in the universe,

Speaker 2 it's a long, it's a long game.

Speaker 1 Those movies are so complex. Who knows?

Speaker 2 Exactly. Exactly.
I didn't get the script until I was there. Did you ever find yourself up in James Gunn's face a little bit going, seriously, dude? I mean,

Speaker 2 I could have done the man. You know, you put me in Steve Law.
Okay, I'll be the wacky. Yeah.
Yeah. I was like, yeah, I'll do this for you, but there are going to be other movies and let's

Speaker 2 show you.

Speaker 1 I would sit at Video Village and on Superman takes, I go,

Speaker 1 I think he lifted that building like it was too light. It doesn't match with the other one, but whatever.

Speaker 2 It doesn't look that cool.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I'm sure you guys will figure it out in post.

Speaker 2 Just totally, yeah. I would go to set on days when I wasn't called and sit in Video Village and just talk shit on all the people who had superpowers.
That's not a bad choice.

Speaker 2 And just go,

Speaker 2 I thought it was a good take. You know, whatever you guys want to do.
I thought it was a good take. Actually, Dana, this guy's all in Video Village.
It's not working.

Speaker 1 This guy got some laughs where there probably weren't laughs. So I will give you that.
That's good because he plays a guy in the newsroom. What is your guy's name in the movie?

Speaker 2 His name is Steve Lombard.

Speaker 2 He's been in the comics since the 70s, and he's

Speaker 2 sportswriter at the Daily Planet and sort of

Speaker 2 an office adversary for Clark Kent. He likes to picks on him and makes fun of him.

Speaker 2 He's, you know, there have been different versions of him throughout the decade since he was created, but he like he kind of thinks he's friends with Superman, you know, and he's like, they're buds.

Speaker 1 Does Clark let you act like you could beat him up?

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 absolutely. Because

Speaker 2 he can't show his strength.

Speaker 1 You're like, what's up, pussy? Right when he comes in the office, you say something to him.

Speaker 2 And I go, I don't know. You know what I'm saying? I'm just like, hey, loser.
Yeah, loser.

Speaker 2 High school school bully right from the start. Yeah.
I read because I do a little research and a comment was very nice. It just said, every time you come on the screen, there's a big laugh.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's so sweet. Every time you land it, this was in the comments.
And then I looked down and it was my wife left it. I didn't even know what that, and she hadn't seen the movie.

Speaker 2 So I don't know what that was. She's been texting me constantly.
And, like, we don't have a relationship. Carpet bombing.

Speaker 2 Seriously. It's very nice.
So it's okay.

Speaker 1 So, you know, know, it's hard to get laughs on these movies where you're not the main guy, but you know, when you do those scenes, it's fun.

Speaker 1 Daily Planet, which everyone knows, you're part of that world, which is the most well-known Superman world, I would say, is that's that Daily Planet. And yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 So when they go there, I wonder if there's takes where you try to throw in a line or something just because

Speaker 1 you just like, or if you do something goofy or something, does everyone go, hey, maybe we just do one where yeah, like, yeah, this is not that that kind of movie. Yeah, I know.
It's hard.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, I did, I did the first day, like, at the Daily Planet, because that was like a long take, you know, like he walks in, he comes around, I'm yelling at him.

Speaker 2 We walk down the whole office, and he's like talking to his parents. And we would like reset and reset all the extras.
And James would like shout over this, not shout, but like talk, give direction.

Speaker 2 through this god mic, you know, and it's like bellowing through this whole train station. And I was nervous.
So I wasn't really like trying to mess with things too much. Sure.

Speaker 2 But he would be like, yeah, now do something crazy. And then I would do it.
And he'd be like, not that.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's horrible.

Speaker 2 But he was fun with it.

Speaker 2 He was creating a fun atmosphere. But towards the end, there's a scene where we're in Mr.
Terrific's T-Craft. And it wasn't.
Dana's like, what?

Speaker 1 I know what you mean. I saw it.

Speaker 2 I love anything, Mr. Anything.
So I love a guy. Mr.
Terrific. Mr.
Terrific. It's an original name.
You know, it was, it was many drafts that he came up with.

Speaker 2 That's funny. But

Speaker 2 it was basically like there was this opportunity where it was like, oh, we didn't plan on this happening. Just go.
And he let me like basically scream in the back of that T-craft for a while.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. And that one of the lines in the movie was improvised.
Oh, good.

Speaker 2 Can you say the line? It doesn't give away too much.

Speaker 2 I just screamed, why don't I have a seat?

Speaker 2 That was a good one. That got a lot.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 2 And it like, and I was just screaming back there, like, please, somebody help help me. Why don't I have a seat? What's happening?

Speaker 2 And I got that, they kept that, why don't I have a seat, which is just great because it's like in a movie like this, it's like, yeah, why doesn't he have a seat? He's in the back, just flying around.

Speaker 2 Um, you know, it was just a fun physical thing. You know,

Speaker 1 one thing Dana, he said that didn't really fit was he goes,

Speaker 1 Rachel, why are you flying this plane? You don't know what you're doing. And they go, call her Lois Lane, please, if you're going to make up stuff.

Speaker 2 Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, improv for I've called people their real name so many times in movies. I'm so unprofessional.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. No, it's, you know, it's easier that way.
You make it more personal.

Speaker 1 So much easier.

Speaker 2 I want to get it. It's so much easier.
Can't we just use our names? Yeah. Can't I just be back as every character?

Speaker 2 This is

Speaker 2 probably a very generic question. So the pinch factor of

Speaker 2 pinch factor.

Speaker 2 Pinch factor. I just made that up.
I like the fact where

Speaker 2 going into 8H for the first time, because it was creepy when I got there. It was 10 years into the show.
I was like, fuck, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then going on, I don't know, let's call it a $300 million giant historic franchise with probably the best current director of these kinds of movies. Huge movies.

Speaker 2 And walking on to the set the first day. It was both a little like, whoa, or, I mean, Superman is unknown and you're famous.
So that must have been interesting.

Speaker 2 He's not unknown anymore, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah, no.
I just realized I had some tissue paper on my chest.

Speaker 2 I made a note of that. That's cool.
Like, I'm a real guy. I'm a real, you know what I mean? I know.

Speaker 1 That was very

Speaker 2 that's what this is about. Lauren Michaels would say, Please, can we lose the tissue paper thing?

Speaker 2 Yeah, Beck, you're at age, you're not in the bathroom. Yeah,

Speaker 2 right.

Speaker 1 Look like a star.

Speaker 2 Every single person we've interviewed who's been on SNL has a Lauren, and I put yours. I'm putting yours.
Yes.

Speaker 2 I try to get

Speaker 2 a real gutteroll in that round.

Speaker 2 A gutter roll lord. Yeah, cool, cool, cool.

Speaker 1 I like when he goes high. He goes, do you like pesto?

Speaker 2 Floats it in right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He floats in a floater. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's kind of, cause usually it's down here.

Speaker 2 It's like that thing of like a really, really good show. Well, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 But to answer your question, the walking on that set, it was intimidating, but like, honestly, looking back at everything and with the experience of superman nothing really compares to snl it's snl is more intimidating for sure so it like it really prepared me for that but it was it was i mean i i was lucky that i got to get down to macon georgia a week before we started shooting i was on weather cover so like you know they had us there in case they needed to shoot inside that's tough

Speaker 1 For people that don't know, if there's an outside and inside scenes, even if you're not in a scene and you might want to sneak home or leave town or something, they go, You're weather cover.

Speaker 1 So, if there's a storm, we might have to shoot the inside of the daily planet or wherever.

Speaker 2 Exactly, yeah, yeah, stand by, be ready, yeah, be just be there. They had a whole train station just shut down, ready to be shot at.
It was just empty. Oh my gosh, it was crazy.

Speaker 2 Like, I was walking around making, I was like, Is there another production here? I was like, No, this is a huge movie. You bought the town, they just bought the town.
They're like,

Speaker 2 Just in case we want to shoot here, it's all shut down. Everybody went home.
God, oh, so many movies are shooting here. yeah wow

Speaker 2 it's crazy all these sets whose spacecraft is that oh that's yours another space movie yeah it's really similar um but yeah i mean it was it was just like so i i was there for a week and james was really fun he just like went out he like had dinners with everybody every night we were all staying at the same hotel so i got to know everybody really well um so it was really fun but it was

Speaker 2 It was shaky, you know, it was nerve-wracking for sure. Sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that, that, like the, him shooting, shouting direction in this huge hall and just going again and again and again and just you know hope yeah it's that first day you're like i mean i auditioned for it so i know he liked what i did but it's still like is it working does he want more you know what i mean and you it's like i feel like i this happened at snl where it's like i want to look professional so act act like you know it's going well you know what i mean like act like you know you've got it you don't want your name whispered at video village like after the take like what are you guys talking about they would be like what are we doing with this guy what what did he do in the audition that we liked yeah right he's in his head he's spiraling yeah exactly and it's and if you hear 300 or 200 million dollar movie it's just different to come on and be like shit this just seems like the same thing there's a camera there's three actors but you go it's just weirder you go oh it's oh yeah i was so nervous about it going into it um i was like is there

Speaker 2 you know like are if i mess up one thing are they going to be like what are you doing? This is a 300 million.

Speaker 1 This wasted 113 grand.

Speaker 2 Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But no, it was great. And it's really all the same thing.
It's just a little bit more nerve-wracking at first.

Speaker 2 We're going to reset because Beck didn't know what he was doing. Acta number one.

Speaker 2 Actor one.

Speaker 2 Do it right this time. I'm not going to tell you what it is.
I'm not going to tell you what to fix. Just do it right.
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Speaker 1 We're jumping around, but going back to SNL. So you get that straight out of a, you were in an improv group, right? Is that where they see you?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I did. Well, I did improv and sketch with in a college group with Kyle and Nick.
And then we, we basically, we were pretty much just doing sketch, our sketch group, Good Neighbor.

Speaker 2 They saw us doing that. Kyle auditioned for SNL the year before I did.

Speaker 2 But then I was doing these. And so that, yeah, Kyle Mooney,

Speaker 2 my, my, my comedy partner and lover, um, dropping that now. That's so I

Speaker 2 see some headlines. Sort of given.
Yeah, we make everybody else

Speaker 2 for that.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 yeah, they, I think they knew about us from that. And The Lonely Island was really sweet.
And they had like, they had kind of maybe shown some videos. And

Speaker 2 then I was doing these ATT spots with Yorma, who's a part of The Lonely Island as well.

Speaker 1 Was he directing?

Speaker 2 He was directing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, what a great connection there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was so helpful because he was like, we had this meeting with Lauren at the Polo Lounge, one of his favorite spots. Polo Lounge.

Speaker 2 I've had a couple of meetings there with him. Yeah.
Sit, sit, sit.

Speaker 2 Order anything you want. Anything.

Speaker 2 I will take note of it.

Speaker 2 That is a new frequency I haven't heard. The gargly deeper one.
Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 As he's looking at his menu.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's coming out as he's getting up there in age.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 yeah, so we had, what was they saying?

Speaker 2 We had a meeting at the Polo Lounge. Is that what I was talking about? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But yeah, he met with our group there. Um,

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 oh, yeah, wait, why was no, there was a specific thing about the polo lounge, no, and now he always stays at the Perlisota. He always stays at the Perry Lowe's thing, yeah, he does, he does.
Um,

Speaker 2 but uh, anyway, I they saw they knew about Good Neighbor and then they saw the ATT stuff, and yeah, they asked for me to audition everybody. So many people were leaving.

Speaker 2 Uh, like it was uh, Andy Sandberg had already left, but it was Forte

Speaker 2 and Fred Armison and Hater. Sid Hater.

Speaker 2 Hater. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think

Speaker 1 it was right around then. Okay.
That puts people in a 2013.

Speaker 2 Kristen Wigg was just leaving.

Speaker 2 She there.

Speaker 2 Yeah. She had left the year before.
Oh, really? That long ago? Yeah. Yeah.
And then,

Speaker 2 yeah, when we,

Speaker 2 and so that I was doing these commercials and, oh, right. Okay.
So this is why I knew I was talking about the polar out because Yorma was super helpful.

Speaker 2 He was like, We had this meeting, and he was like, Don't try to be funny, he was like, Just be chill, just like hang out.

Speaker 2 He's seen everything, he's been surrounded by the funniest people in the world for his whole life. Just like he wants to know that he can hang out with you.
So, that was unfunny, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Be unfunny, just be born, be whatever, don't try. And that was super helpful.
But, um, yeah, I think um, Lindsay Schookas, who was the head of talent, was had like been seeing the um ATT commercials.

Speaker 2 She knew about Good Neighbor, and then and then, yeah, it all worked out. They had, uh, they had lost a lot of white guys, and so they were looking for white guys, which is great for me.
Hard to find.

Speaker 2 So, they got a lot of white guys left and they wanted to get more white guys. Okay, yeah, yeah, a lot of they wanted, they wanted to replace the white guys.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they the year I got in, it was me and Kyle, and I think

Speaker 2 uh

Speaker 2 three other white guys and one white girl.

Speaker 2 There was a little bit of a backlash. I don't think SNF has ever been short of white people.
No, no, they gotta have their whites,

Speaker 2 their whites whites to go to um so your audition was it nerve-wracking then or you felt like you kind of already had it oh no i was i was so nervous i was um i had like sent in a tape and gotten notes and i was like i

Speaker 2 i've always loved sketch comedy and i loved snl but with good neighbor we were kind of trying to make our own sketch show And I always loved like the state and Mr. Show so much.

Speaker 2 And we were kind of going that route.

Speaker 2 So I didn't really have like my impressions and everything, but um, I got all that stuff together for the show, uh, for the uh, you know, for the tape that I submitted.

Speaker 2 And then later in the summer, I was shooting a movie in Austin, Texas, and they were like, They want you to fly out to LA, meet with Lauren at the Polo Lounge, with the rest of Good Neighbor.

Speaker 1 This time, audition at the Polo Lounge, and audition at the Polo Lounge.

Speaker 2 Just get up whenever you feel ready,

Speaker 1 be funny this time, type five.

Speaker 2 Um, but then I had like the showcase at IO West, uh, which was which doesn't exist anymore, And then a week later,

Speaker 2 or, you know, the next day got asked to fly out to test. But I was, so I was doing this movie and I had never done these things live.
Like I don't do stand-up. So

Speaker 2 I'd only performed these characters and sketches with other people on stage, you know, and I had taken excerpts of them for the tape.

Speaker 2 But I knew that I had to do this showcase live and I had to test live. So I was going around to these open mics and trying these characters outside of the scene.
They weren't really working.

Speaker 2 So I had to come up with new characters. And I was just like, I don't know, this isn't hitting.

Speaker 2 And that's when a friend of mine, Nick Coacher, who ended up being a writer at SNL, was in the movie as well. He's a good friend of mine.
And I was like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I've been thinking of this character, like a

Speaker 2 CEO, like a boss, like a CEO with the body of a baby. And he was like, what do you mean? What does that look like? And I did it for the first time with him.
And he like cracked up. And I did that.

Speaker 2 And then I came up with two other characters which were like a supportive friend a jealous supportive friend who just found out his friend like got cast in a show and then like a bully genuinely trying to uh make a friend and those worked and I like I did them at these open mics and then went to LA did it rehearsed it you know incessantly so nervous and then uh and then it worked you know you're trying them on stage now iOS for the people at home is improv olympic i think yeah yeah okay and that is and could you go on there and do stand-up or did you have to go to somewhere else to do these?

Speaker 2 To do the, oh, well, I, I mean, I was just doing, yeah, it was in Austin where I was practicing

Speaker 1 because I got there. That's where the movie was.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's where the movie was. And that's what they were like, basically like, you have to do it.

Speaker 1 I just jumped on. So you did a movie in Austin.

Speaker 2 The movie in Austin. I was just going to these random clubs

Speaker 2 and trying them out there.

Speaker 1 But did they tell you also to do, sometimes like they just go, Lauren wants to look at you tomorrow in New York. So we'll work on your flights.

Speaker 1 And you're like, I'm actually on a movie set, and they're like, Yeah, so we'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 We'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 And you're like, Absolutely. Now, you worry about that.
And then you're like, So, I got to go to this movie and say, I got to take a day. That kind of stuff happened in the old days, I remember.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, and even like, and when I got on SNL, it was like doing these, they're still doing these ATT commercials, which was such a great gig. And he was like,

Speaker 2 You're not the ATT guy anymore,

Speaker 2 we want you to be known for SNL.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, and so you're the guy that orders the So, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 I mean, you can't keep doing the

Speaker 2 commercials? Yeah, because he was like, you know, we want you to be known for SNL. I was like, okay, cool.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So we're guaranteeing how many seasons? Yeah. No way.

Speaker 2 It was my first year and there were like

Speaker 2 cast members. And it was like, we're all staying? I don't think so.

Speaker 2 I did watch Baby Boss because I saw the comments. And then a lot of people just said, oh, man, baby boss, baby boss, baby boss.
Just about

Speaker 1 baby boss.

Speaker 2 Beck Bennett, SNL.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 it was hyper skilled. I would tell people

Speaker 2 on YouTube,

Speaker 2 Beck, yeah, you're up and every move is exactly like a toddler.

Speaker 2 Oh man, and it was so specific

Speaker 2 and so accurate that I guess you rehearsed the shit out of that. You'd never done it.

Speaker 2 I had never done it. Yeah.
I mean, I've always enjoyed like doing physical comedy.

Speaker 2 But, but yeah, I'd never done it.

Speaker 2 I sat next to a guy with a baby on his lap on a plane and watched this baby just like pull my headphones out of my computer, put the headphones in its mouth and throw them on the ground and then start crying.

Speaker 2 And like, it happened like three times. I was like, this is, this baby is so stupid.

Speaker 2 I got to figure out a way to like. But also the move, the first move that gets it, like you're, you're baby man, you're a full-grown man, but you're sliding down the banister and the stairs.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then you've got to get to a standing position. Yeah.
And that was so skilled that it was like, it was really like an incredible illusion.

Speaker 1 One sock hat off.

Speaker 2 Yeah. One sock flopping around.

Speaker 1 I feel like when you give him a plate, you bite a plate and sock on and hand it to him because babies always hand you shit. And then he takes it and bites it.
You go, why are you sick in your mouth?

Speaker 2 Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's weird, man.

Speaker 1 At Baby Boss, I'm with the Cameron Diaz is 1700 comments, Dana, about Baby Boss.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 1,700.

Speaker 1 First one, Bec is frighteningly good at acting like a baby.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's right there.

Speaker 2 There's, I don't know if you want to go. Thumbs down.

Speaker 2 Thumbs down. Thumbs up.
No, no, no. I'm on

Speaker 2 YouTube guy. I'm going to thumbs down that.
I'm going to... Thumbs up.
I'm going to be a little YouTube in this thing. Yeah.
Cameron Diaz was so awesome. She was so down for like.

Speaker 1 I love Cameron Diaz. So she was, that was 2014.

Speaker 1 Has she hosted since? I mean, you got her back when she was sort of taking a sabbatical, I think.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't even know what she was, what she was promoting then.

Speaker 1 She's such a favorite. Everyone grew up loving Cameron Diaz.
Yeah, absolutely. Funny, super cute.

Speaker 2 Like the funniest, the best.

Speaker 2 Mask.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Good God.

Speaker 1 The mask premiere, I told Dane, I was such a premiere whore. I was at all these premieres.

Speaker 2 Really?

Speaker 2 Well, you know,

Speaker 2 you had to have your finger on the pulse. Yeah.
You got to be everywhere.

Speaker 2 Everywhere. Breaking it all down.

Speaker 1 Well, you get an invite. You're like, oh, how fun.
And then you're like, oh, well, I've been to three this week. Maybe.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Maybe peel back, but it was fun.

Speaker 2 Then I don't even go to premieres anymore at all. Yeah, I try not to.

Speaker 2 Many.

Speaker 1 Superman must have had a big mango one.

Speaker 2 It was a big mango one.

Speaker 2 And again, similar to the movie, I was like, what's this going to be like? You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 I feel like me and my wife, Jesse, have always like recently for a while been like, premieres exist to make you feel bad about yourself. Like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like, I'll go, I'll be like, I'm bored. I put something on.
I think it's pretty cute. And they like take some photos.
I'm like, oh, God. Some websites.
Somebody else here has a stylist and a groomer.

Speaker 2 They got makeup. They got like, you know, it's.

Speaker 1 What not to do at a premiere to show you?

Speaker 2 Exactly. Yeah.
That's, that's one.

Speaker 1 I'm sure Rachel took it very seriously.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, yeah.
She looked fantastic.

Speaker 1 She knows what she's doing.

Speaker 2 She knows how to do it.

Speaker 1 She's a sharp dresser.

Speaker 2 She really is.

Speaker 2 Does she have a team? Everyone seems to have a team. Where's your team?

Speaker 2 Do you have a team?

Speaker 2 I have a team.

Speaker 1 Team is the funniest new term that everyone says

Speaker 2 on this show.

Speaker 1 We talked to Beck's team. I'm like, let's see a picture of that team.

Speaker 2 Yeah. No, they're they only me and photos.
Yeah. Yeah.
No photos for my team.

Speaker 1 They don't get out. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 My team was really happy.

Speaker 1 Do you tag your Instagram photo, your whole team at the bottom?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you got it. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta

Speaker 2 tag those, the groomer and the stylist. You have to.

Speaker 1 Groomers. And then people are like, oh, someone picked those shoes.
That wasn't an accident.

Speaker 1 And you're like, yeah, here's the guy.

Speaker 2 It wasn't me. It was her.
It was definitely her. I had looked at the picture.
Yeah, exactly. You don't like it.

Speaker 2 Do you have Premier clothes? Do you have a go-to? Do you have like a go-to? Do you have a tuxedo? Do you have, you know, Hollywood clothes? Yeah. I mean, you know, actually, no, I don't know if I do.

Speaker 2 I do occasionally get something nice, but then I like, then I'll wear it to a premiere and I'm like, that looks like crap. Like, it looks too baggy and worn in.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 So that's one of the reasons why I think I don't go to premieres because I don't want to take my photo and do all that. But I do have a Silas now.

Speaker 2 She put me in something that I felt good about and liked.

Speaker 2 I,

Speaker 2 yeah, I mean, I, not really. I mean, I've gotten a couple nice things where I'm like, this is, this is like something I could wear and get my photo taken in.

Speaker 2 And it's not, it's so not specific that I could wear it again and again, but that's not really the case. You kind of don't want to wear the same thing again.

Speaker 1 It's odd when they say, what are you wearing to a guy? And you have to go, Tom Fard.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 1 you're like, oh, gross, you thought about this.

Speaker 2 As a guy, you got to be like, I don't know, man. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 Whatever. Mike Myers and I, sorry,

Speaker 2 named drop. Wayne's World, we're pretty green and we're getting suits free to go to the Oscars, you know?

Speaker 2 And I can't remember the name of it, Bachon Johnson.

Speaker 2 And it's like the most incredible thing. And Mike from Canada is very sincere and goes, yeah, these are pretty cool, but could you make these things smaller? He was telling the guy

Speaker 2 the lapels are kind of big, right?

Speaker 2 The guy's face dropped, you know. Yeah, these suits are already made, sir.
They're not, they're not in process. I'm not the same.

Speaker 1 You're actually, Dane, I got to tell you, you didn't see the movie, but he's pretty jacked. You can't tell.

Speaker 1 He's kind of yoked and jacked and obviously on something because he's like, that's why he's like, not too late to switch me over to Clark Kent.

Speaker 2 Right, exactly. Like, check this out.
Not too late, guys.

Speaker 2 I am the type of body that can look good in a shirt. Yeah.
Right now. You know what I mean? Like when I'm in shape, it's like I can look good in a shirt.
You take the shirt off. It's no good.

Speaker 2 That's a trick. That's a trick.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you

Speaker 2 are you going to go to more premiere? I mean, are they going all over the world? Is it over? Are you still going?

Speaker 2 Do you want to go to Tokyo, Beck? Because we're, I mean, is that still happening or no? You know, they, I think they already did the international press tour.

Speaker 2 Um, it was just David, Rachel, and Nicholas.

Speaker 1 Um, who's Nicholas?

Speaker 2 Nicholas Fultz. He played as

Speaker 2 Luther. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I didn't get that.

Speaker 2 David, who's kind of evil?

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's kind of evil.

Speaker 2 He's like the bad guy in the piece.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Lex Luther has gotten skinnier and better looking since Gene Hackman or whatever it was.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm really into Gene Hackman.

Speaker 1 He really does. Hey, wasn't that cool, that one, with Gene Hackman and Ned Beatty?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Well, by the way, I mean, I was going to ask you about that.

Speaker 1 Nicholas is good.

Speaker 2 I'm being facetious. The original Superman, what the critics are saying,

Speaker 2 they're saying that this is an optimistic Superman. And because when you think of James Gunn, you think of the challenge and how many times we've tried Superman.

Speaker 2 Batman, Chris Nolan, you know, broke film with that.

Speaker 2 And I guess they're saying that making this earnestness and positivity is sort of.

Speaker 2 They landed it. Is that the idea why it's a hit? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think so. I mean,

Speaker 2 I like so many aspects of it. I mean, it's so fun to watch.
The action is fun. It's funny.
And it's weird. Like, James really is just kind of weird.

Speaker 2 You know, like all his movies, like his characters are unique and stand out, but there's always just like there's a little bit of weirdness, like something sort of odd that you like haven't seen that's exciting to watch is sort of baked into the whole thing.

Speaker 2 But, but yeah, there's um, it's really sweet and uplifting. Um, and everybody I talked to is like, I felt good leaving the theater.
I felt like inspired and like excited a little bit.

Speaker 2 What's your favorite kind of superhero from the comics? Is it Batman or Superman? You don't have to say because you're in the Superman. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's okay.

Speaker 2 Superman can handle it. I think growing up, it was like Batman and Wolverine.
Those are my guys. I really liked Wolverine.
I liked the naughty little, the nasty boy.

Speaker 1 You know, in the early script I read, Dana.

Speaker 2 I don't know if anybody's described Wolverine like that, but he's a nasty boy. He is a nasty boy.

Speaker 1 He's a troublemaker.

Speaker 2 He's a troublemaker.

Speaker 1 In Superman early drafts, when I got it,

Speaker 1 to make it a little different, he didn't fly.

Speaker 1 And he was just walking everywhere. And they're like, this is taking too long.

Speaker 2 And that, and they told you that that was the Superman draft?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they go, Superman, just to be different, he's not going to fly.

Speaker 2 Crazy.

Speaker 1 So he has to hit Chike walk. And then it was like, he had to walk to Antarctic every time to go to, you know, his house.

Speaker 2 His house.

Speaker 2 They brought Krypton closer. Yeah, and they made it a house instead of the fortress of Solomon.

Speaker 1 It's the ice fortress. It's the ice fortress.
By the way, Dana, I don't want to give it away, but that's where he hangs out.

Speaker 1 Just when he needs to think or when he's fighting with Lois Lane.

Speaker 2 I heard the actual title was going to be pretty much Superman. Yeah.
Yeah. And it was going to be totally new and original and different.
pretty much Superman.

Speaker 2 It was gonna be uh, David Spade as Superman,

Speaker 1 Superman on the back nine to his house, yeah.

Speaker 2 The whole movie was just the journey to his house.

Speaker 1 I've got a dirty cape on.

Speaker 2 I'm just well, actually, David was offered a part in Superman. Like, the kryptonite was going to really get to Superman.
He's going to be all shrunken down and old and kind of wasted.

Speaker 2 And David got offered that part.

Speaker 1 The part where they push in on him when he's got kryptonite against his face. Yeah, and it gets all wrinkled and smashed.
And then then they cut to me and they go

Speaker 2 is that spade is that

Speaker 2 yeah and in it it's kryptonite turns superman into david spade hey who played mr terrific i like that guy oh i love him uh eddie guthege

Speaker 1 great

Speaker 1 i think the uh he's incredible power team or whatever that what was that squad called the justice gang the justice gang uh was good because i don't think they were well known and i think that's kind of good it's less distracting in a weird way not to cut them down or any, by any means, but it's better because you sort of get to discover what they do.

Speaker 1 They don't have any hooks already that preconceived. And that guy was good.

Speaker 2 And there was a bird person. Yeah, Hawk Girl, Isabella.

Speaker 2 She's awesome.

Speaker 1 And there was a guy.

Speaker 2 Hey, guys, I'm still wanting to see the movie.

Speaker 1 Oh, that was Nathan Phillion.

Speaker 2 That was Nathan Phillian in the bulk cut. He's so funny.

Speaker 1 He is well known. I did not even put that together.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Good job. Yeah.
That was fun.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was it was a blast. Everybody was so so fun to work with.
It was a really great crew.

Speaker 2 James has this thing where he has like a no-assholes policy, so he like checks in on people to make sure they're not assholes before hiring them. And the set for that reason is just it's awesome.

Speaker 1 We didn't have that, obviously, Dana.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Dana would not be able to be hired on a James Gunn film.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 2 Um,

Speaker 2 the worst is when the director actively wants to sabotage you you and the film.

Speaker 2 Trust me. I won't say the movie.
I wasn't in a lot of movies for this reason, but

Speaker 2 that's the worst when the director actually is trying to crash the airplane, basically.

Speaker 1 Dana, I was watching a TikTok yesterday, Beck. You'll love this.

Speaker 1 You won't care, but I was watching a TikTok and it was a female, I think, wrestler. And they said, what's your favorite movie? She said, Master Disguise.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 I should have sent it in.

Speaker 2 I should have kept instead instead of deleting my tick tock i should have they said it couldn't be done and they had a point but a hundred million dollars later

Speaker 2 that i mean that my that just makes me think of something i've laughed at so much which i'm sure you get this a lot is in the the the dana carvey show documentary the the cut yeah oh yeah

Speaker 2 that is so funny i like i laugh at that multiple times what's that it's um it was like a very special episode of home improvement

Speaker 2 But two, it's like, it's, it's like, and right after the Dean Recovery,

Speaker 2 mug, root beer. Diet, mug, root beer, I think.
Diet mug root beer.

Speaker 2 A real promo

Speaker 2 about it, right?

Speaker 2 It was so funny. They showed that cold to Stephen Colbert, and he literally

Speaker 2 went

Speaker 2 apocalyptic, whatever the word is. But thank you for noticing that.
I just want to say

Speaker 2 that you and Kyle,

Speaker 2 that your sensibility on that show is its own special lane and I don't even really know how to describe it yeah yeah it's dry weird quirky but when I look at it and all my dancing for my donuts isn't that special jumping around I'm always so like that's the stuff I want to do

Speaker 2 because it's so it's so funny and so dry and weird and uh yeah

Speaker 2 I don't know how you've gotten that comment before I assume yeah yeah definitely. And I mean, you know, it's

Speaker 2 it, it's so fun to do. It really makes us laugh.
And then, you know, sometimes the audience catches on, but it is so weird.

Speaker 2 We like, yeah, like the house, the house with Chris Hemsworth, the way you did the shooting, and it was in black and white, and the sincerity and earnest awkwardness of that. I don't know.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That makes me laugh so much. I love that one.
The like the after school special ones, like beers that we did with

Speaker 2 David.

Speaker 2 And yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm so, so i'm i really appreciate that we got to do that on the show because it was just just odd and strange i mean we definitely did one did a couple where like they just were so flat like not we are like we did one with ryan gosling uh it was like a family matter like these very special episodes of these like classic sitcoms and we were laughing so hard editing it and then it like played a dress and it was just nothing

Speaker 2 it was nothing

Speaker 1 i like ryan gosling he's pretty funny was he fun on there oh he's the best.

Speaker 2 He's so funny. And he beats up for it.
Yeah. And he was like, he comes in being like, I like that stuff.
I want to do that. And he like pushes for it.
And, you know,

Speaker 2 he's probably my favorite host all time because

Speaker 2 the episode where they had Beavis and Butthead, like, so the beginning of the show, he's not really breaking, but he's enjoying it so effusively.

Speaker 2 Every single thing, the monologue, he's kind of like just smiling and having so much fun. Maybe because he's a giant international movie star.

Speaker 2 it wasn't like he didn't care but right he just set up the whole party it was like the whole show was lifted by his attitude totally you can tell he's just having fun like he did i think the first time they did that kate mckinnon um

Speaker 2 alien abduction sketch i think he was

Speaker 2 just like breaking oh was he in that in the first one i think so i think it was the first one he was probably in was on the 50th

Speaker 2 was he in that or was it meryl streep no that was meryl streep but he had one of the famous breaks uh when kate landed that.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it was the first or second time where it was so fucking funny. And I was back, you know, in the under the bleachers with Lauren.
I said, is it okay that Ryan's breaking? Of course.

Speaker 2 He's Ryan fucking golf. Let him.

Speaker 2 Because

Speaker 2 back in your day, did he not like it when you guys broke? I'll tell you what,

Speaker 2 a million percent. From 86 until Adam Sandler got there, and he wasn't even breaking that much, but him and Farley would kind of, you know,

Speaker 2 it would deconstruct. Before that,

Speaker 2 really not supposed to break.

Speaker 2 It's so fucking Carol Burnett.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's not what we do here. You know, like, don't try to trick the crowd to laugh.

Speaker 2 What was it like when you first got there? You can't fake it.

Speaker 2 I mean, I think it was

Speaker 2 probably a similar thing, but I think it was like. The idea was also though, like, have fun.
Go up there and have fun if you take it too. Cause I also think like I have an acting background as well.

Speaker 2 So, I'm like, so sometimes I would try to take things too seriously. I mean, there was like that pride in not breaking and like staying here.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 But I would definitely be like, you don't need like lighten the grip a little bit. You know what I mean? Like, it took me a couple of years to just relax and be like,

Speaker 2 you want the audience to feel you having fun, not breaking on purpose by any means. But, like,

Speaker 1 do you remember what you broke in the first time, or did you ever?

Speaker 2 Whew.

Speaker 2 I think it was.

Speaker 1 Were you ever in a Debbie Downer?

Speaker 2 No, no, I wasn't. There was a sketch that Charles Barkley, when he hosted, and never made it,

Speaker 2 and I honestly forget everything. That's terrible.
That's just terrible, man. That's just terrible.
That's terrible. Oh, man.
Yeah, and he's just doing his. That's terrible.

Speaker 2 I think it's terrible. T-U-R-R.
It is terrible.

Speaker 2 Terrible.

Speaker 2 I can't remember his name. There's an impression as it does that brilliantly.

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Speaker 2 Did you, one thing about SNL, which I think is kind of interesting, is that they'll give you something you've never done before that's completely outside what you do, and you've got two days to get it.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I don't know. It's just a funny part of that show.
I think that's like

Speaker 2 maybe one of the things I

Speaker 2 am so glad that I don't have to do anymore.

Speaker 1 Oh, when they hand you something.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And it's like, I don't do this.
And I'm going to look for that. It's going to be bad.
And they're like, I don't care. You're the best we got.
It's happening tonight.

Speaker 1 Everyone else is used in the sketch. You got to play this guy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you got to do this impression of somebody you do not have the register for.

Speaker 2 You landed Mitch McConnell. You did a great Mitch McConnell.
Thank you. Thank you.
And was that an assignment that week or the first time you did it? Like, I think so. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I wasn't like, I have a Mitch McConnell. Let me do this.
Right.

Speaker 2 And then, I mean, the prosthetics, the, you know, the

Speaker 2 got so much better. I think it was maybe with like the silicone or something that they were in the three.

Speaker 1 They really get you halfway there, 90% there.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 They didn't have that back in the day.

Speaker 1 It's better when they know what you are. Like, I sort of miss also Chevy Chase going, I'm Gerald Ford.
There's nothing.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or Dan Aykroyd, I'm Nixon. Just nothing.

Speaker 2 He's got a mustache. He's He's got a mustache.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And just keeping it really loose.

Speaker 1 It's funny when hosts come in and they have a beard and a mustache and they go, I'm not shaving.

Speaker 2 And you go, oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 So it's going to be hard for you to play these six people, but all right.

Speaker 2 Right, right. All right.
Well, we'll cast you as that. We'll write to you as that, I guess.
I feel like they always end up shaving, but I mean, not always, actually. Put up a fight, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, trust me, they'll shave. Oh, good or not.
Trust me.

Speaker 2 That's Lauren's favorite part of the job is just getting celebrities to shave their faces. Yeah, trust me, I'll shave.

Speaker 2 When Lauren says, trust me, it normally he makes it come true.

Speaker 2 Trust me. I have a plan.
If I had a mustache, I'd be curling it right now.

Speaker 2 What I draw.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Daniel Craig, accent coach. I mean, there's a bunch.
I just think

Speaker 2 I liked

Speaker 1 white POTUS.

Speaker 2 White POTUS? I love that. Yes.
That was really fun.

Speaker 1 White POTUS was a big one. And

Speaker 2 brought Putin back for for that.

Speaker 1 Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 2 And Putin was uh, just a great uh notion. Well, he's not gonna ever have his shirt on,

Speaker 2 right? Right, it's like

Speaker 2 you know, and uh, well, how did you talk about

Speaker 2 it? Sort of, you know, visual sort of like you know, little missions, enjoying myself, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the funny take, like a Playboy super confident. Yeah,

Speaker 2 we have nooks, maybe we'll use them, yeah, I don't know, I'm in control yeah yeah it's it's good when you don't do an exact impression because it's too boring so you got to screw with it a little bit make it fake technically

Speaker 2 is more like it's more like this what it's like high pitch you know like it's like higher pitch quiet barely talks yeah

Speaker 2 always serious always serious yeah i mean white potus is the funniest name you had to do that sketch when someone thought of that it's like i know it was colin joes and i was like yes i will absolutely

Speaker 2 do white I was.

Speaker 2 It was so funny, so perfect. Um, but yeah, that was like the impression I feel like that I really did that thing with that they try to teach you.

Speaker 2 It's like, you know, you don't have to do an exact impression, just like capture the essence and have fun with it.

Speaker 2 Um, and it was it was wild how like I had been on the show for three years, maybe,

Speaker 2 and did that, and then it was like another, like

Speaker 2 you're, you know, just another level of recognition. You know,

Speaker 2 oh, yeah, you're all over those cold openings, Like, it was on Russian TV at one point. Oh, really?

Speaker 2 I was like, okay, cool.

Speaker 1 Like Russian on Russian?

Speaker 2 Were you scared they'd be

Speaker 2 on Russian, man? That's dangerous. Was I afraid that what? That he'd come out to you.
Yeah, come to Russia.

Speaker 1 I just want to talk to you.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I was, it was, I was like, he knows about it. So if he, if, yeah, I mean, like, at the same time, I'm like, it's, it's silly that I get, that would get nervous.

Speaker 2 I'm like, he would never come for me. That'd be stupid, even if he wanted to.
But there was definitely a couple moments of like, should I be doing this? Is this weird? Maybe hey, it's funny.

Speaker 2 I make him look like an asshole. Was that if I if I come to Moscow, will you hurt me? Of course, I'm a glad job.

Speaker 2 I love you. What a crazy

Speaker 2 sketching.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Now everyone's doing your impression.

Speaker 1 All right, Dana, what else we have for young back?

Speaker 2 I would just say, you know, because this show is a little bit cornball in the sense that here we are casually going over which is an intense, incredible part of anybody's life. It's just a fact.

Speaker 2 It's just an absolute fact. And so congratulations.
You know, you had a great run on that show. You're brilliant on that show.

Speaker 2 And everyone knows who you are. And

Speaker 1 I think you should have a host. Good luck with Superman soon.

Speaker 2 Thank you. I think I should host too.
Um, yeah, it's it's a really, it really is amazing. I mean, you guys have been out for a couple years now, um,

Speaker 2 but it is wild. It's like you leave everything that Lauren says is kind of true.
You know, he's like, this is kind of where you're going to be the funniest, and it's going to stick with you forever.

Speaker 2 Once you're a part of it, you're always a part of it. Things like that, where I leave, and I'm like, oh, yeah, like it really is like a version of home.

Speaker 2 And I like it is, it has informed kind of everything that I've done. You know, it's such a great training, and it is, it really stays with you.

Speaker 2 And even though, even though you're on from the show, like you're always a cast member and you have

Speaker 2 everybody else, is that a one card behind you? Oh, it is. Yeah, that was that was unintentional.
That is

Speaker 2 save your thank yous for later. Beck in.
We're back and live from New York. It's Saturday night.
The first time I saw

Speaker 2 Saturday night. David, because of what Beck just said, what did Chris Rock say to you about directing a movie and juxtaposing that with SNL?

Speaker 2 Didn't Chris say something like something to the effect of

Speaker 2 anybody can direct a movie. If you can do Saturday Night Live, you can direct a movie.
It's like, it's so crazy hard at times.

Speaker 1 Because I always think directing is too hard.

Speaker 2 He's like, nah, nah.

Speaker 1 You directed sketches.

Speaker 1 You don't even know it. You already did it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. It really, it really does apply to every other part of the business, I feel like.
So it's really.

Speaker 1 Well, thank you, brother.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Thank you guys so much for having me on.
Love you guys. Our pleasure.
I love you. The best.
We'll run into you one of these days.

Speaker 2 Well, that was Beck Bennett, everybody.

Speaker 1 Beck Bennett, who

Speaker 1 I forgot to ask him about, like he said,

Speaker 1 or I had read earlier that Steven Spielberg and Louis C.K. had seen him early on, his improv life.
Spielberg talked to him.

Speaker 2 Yeah. They loved that's kind of cool.
Good Neighbor was a big, one of the first YouTube hits, 2007.

Speaker 2 Sketch comedy on YouTube. So yeah, that's what got them going.

Speaker 1 And he was on Arrested Development.

Speaker 1 And also has a podcast coming out, and the name of it is

Speaker 2 What's Our Podcast?

Speaker 1 That's with Kyle Mooney.

Speaker 2 Kyle Mooney.

Speaker 2 Yeah, in August, produced by Head Gum.

Speaker 1 Head Gum. You know, I just saw Y2K, which is Kyle's movie he talked about when he was on here.
Anyway,

Speaker 1 that was fun talking about him doing Putin and White POTUS and

Speaker 1 Superman, of course. Superman, what a big, big thing to do.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's,

Speaker 2 you know, when we have people, SNL alums who did eight years and, you know, you want to touch on that and then the movie. So we...
I guess we kind of bounce

Speaker 1 back and forth the whole time.

Speaker 2 You know, well, you just, ideas pop in your head. Oh, I want to get to this one.
Then we'll go back to Superman. So,

Speaker 2 but it's an easy conversation yeah cool dude uh jacked in the movie looks ripped and uh

Speaker 1 hope everybody liked it

Speaker 2 and uh we'll see you next week i guess next time we'll see you twice this week we'll keep putting out two hours of uh television content uh each week yeah we really shove it down your gullet so love it

Speaker 2 if you miss an episode don't

Speaker 2 don't feel bad we'll be the ones who'll feel bad but we'll yeah it's okay go back.

Speaker 1 Go back and watch all of them from the beginning and catch up.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

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Speaker 2 We don't want anyone to listen or see one of our podcasts and go, you know what? That just burns my beans.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we don't need anyone unentertained.

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