SUPERFLY #61 - Tommy Boy Turns 30!

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I could probably do it. It's something that people can do when they travel, they have extra space, or you're at a place not full-time.
You come in the winter, you leave in the summer, that's something you should think about. It's a way to get some extra money and it's a cool experience.

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Super fly.

I'm going to zhuzh up the background soon, everyone.

Just so you know, it's not going to be, it might be green, but I'm going to put some stuff up.

You know, I used to put a shelf, put some cool things.

Yeah.

Because when I watch a podcast, i'm really looking at the background we both have the literally worst ones but well i have the most benign it's like a it looks like a set of of nothingness there is it would be it would be better if it was a fake green screen of just that. Yeah.

At one point I just go like this and it's a part of a curtain.

We'll get to your Carvey sign to match my spade one back there.

And maybe I'll put my tour dates.

Oh yeah.

Tour dates,

tour dates,

DavidSpade.com.

Where am I going?

Are there yellow cities?

Boston,

New Jersey.

You don't do it because it's easy to do it because it's hard Boston, next Des Moines is almost sold out Des Moines Might have to add a show in Des Moines I don't know if we're going to add one I played the county fair there You know, I don't like adding shows I like to just do it, fill it up and then just come back on the next round and do it again Right, they add one and then you have that second show where it's a little sparse and it's kind of a... Yeah.
Sometimes it's like... So.
I'm doing ABQ Albuquerque. Albuquerque.
Okay. Portland have done a lot.
5,000 feet. And Portland has a lot of...
I've been there the most, but they always have a good crowd. They always show up.
What is it? The Albert Schneitzer Theater? I think it's the Albert Schneitzer Hall. I played that years ago.
Yeah. I never forgot the name.
I could never pronounce it, but the Albert Schneitzer. Arlene Schnitzer.
Arlene Schnitzer Theater. Something like that.
That's why the audiences are good, because their expectations are so low going in there. Schnitzer.
Oh, Omaha? Omaha. Gets a shout out.
Try to get some new insurance when you're out at Omaha. That's the health insurance capital of the world.
They must have been so stoked when Peyton Manning was like, Omaha, Omaha. Remember that? Peyton Manning, football player doing audibles.
Omaha, Omaha, Omaha. Give me some of your week before we get into the hard-hitting stories.
Went to LA, flew. My wife and I flew to Sun Valley.
I'm not the happiest flyer, but it was nice. it was one of those kind of smaller planes maybe a 40 seater i don't know how kevin neelan would have done in this thing i mean i hit my head constantly just oh you hit your head and kevin neelan i'm hitting my head i'm land of the giants in this thing and then if you come into sun valley i'm kind of like okay it's it's, it's kind of tight.
We're going to make a turn. I'm not really, I look out and it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what? I mean, it literally, I couldn't exaggerate how close the mountains were.
Have you ever flown in there? You could count. I always think, do you guys know what you're doing? Well, I found out later and I'm saying, I'm not saying the airline or whatever, the flight attend said, well, uh, just, they probably don't want me to tell you, but, uh, they have to have special training to be able to fly into sun Valley.

So you get extra training.

So they get in some simulator.

So we got shit box Hills on both sides.

We'll try to snake through.

That's right.

Clem pass.

Do terrifying.

It's like Aspen is a little scary. So it's 6,000 feet.
You feel a little funny, you know, unless you hydrate. Oh, you get sick.
Yeah, altitude. I do the gig.
I do three or four meet and greets. Mix and mingle is different than a meet and greet.
Grip it and rip it. What is it called? A grab and grip or something? A grip and grin.

Grip and grin.

It's fine.

It's part of the thing.

Everyone's incredibly nice.

Everyone is all ruddy faced

and they look like they're about to-

Ruddy faced.

Well, they're just sort of,

they're in puffer jackets and boots tucked in

and they're ready to ski.

It's like a nice area.

Am I crazy? It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous.
And we had the flight wasn't until five. We stay there.
We weren't really thinking about anything. So we'll pick you up at three, 15 minutes to noon.
They say, hello, this is the front desk. We need you out by noon.
We need you out in 15 minutes. We've got stuff out of your room.
Yeah. Get out.
I go, get out now. I mean, stuff was, we were ready to gathered up, but then our contact person bought us two hours so we could get out at two.
So we went down to have lunch and I don't want to exaggerate how mellow this waiter was, but he literally, he took our order and he's about seven feet away. So I'm about to fly.
So I'm like, could I have a beer? And he goes, uh, huh. He didn't even say yes.
He just, I don't know. Gummies are just so mellow it out to gummies he's like uh what kind i go i don't know stella trois uh i'll check so then 10 minutes later comes back we don't have that uh well i'll take anything what do you got you got this he goes let me go check so he's gone another 10 minutes he comes

back then he's like uh i go do you have like coars light or something i think so so anyway it took 40 minutes but he's a very nice guy but yeah he was he was mellow yeah i did uh i did a flight where two things that bother me now.

One is...

Good.

Do you ever get the window shade? It doesn't go down. You need a ball peen hammer.
I'm like, it's like, to put it up. This is my weakling neck.
I'm like, trying to military it straight up. And then deesh, deesh, deesh.
And then- Deesh, deesh, deesh. For that know because it just goes up like a quarter inch every time like i can't spend this much effort and energy just to be blinded by the glare and then the pilot does this bullshit i don't know if you notice this you get on and you're just sitting there and they, we got everybody on.
We're about to push off.

Just waiting for a little bit of paperwork from the flight attendant.

I'm like, paperwork?

Do you have a briefcase?

Who has physical paperwork?

He's like, we're just waiting for a Xerox copy of a couple things.

And then, is anyone out there have a printer?

I'm like, what are we talking about?

Does anyone email you anything? Yeah.

Jesus, you're going to be fuffling with envelopes when you're going to be getting on the joystick to get us vertical. Yeah, you got to collate some documents first.
I mean, I'll tell you. Yeah.
Who comes in like a mechanic? Like, if you could just initial here, press hard four copies. Oh, they do sometimes.
They have to sign off on the plane and the guys the technicians are coming in and out they got big orange jackets on they're coming out of the cockpit and they're shaking their heads and we got some technical issues and it is just that some idiot in the back couldn't get the window up it's usually like a tiny thing like it's a beverage card has a stray wheel but here's two things i didn't want to be a silly senior. During the flight, it's like, okay, you press a button, and then the thing comes over, the tray.
And so this particular plane I've never been on, you press the button, and it folds out from inside, and then you have a tray. So everything- Oh, that easy? No, but everything I tried, the tray didn't come out.
But I said, I didn't want to ask for help. Okay, I'll press down.

I'll press here.

So flight attendant, 27, right out of Utah State.

All right, let me get that for you, sir.

Press the button.

Boom.

The other one that bugged me, now you remind me, is he goes,

well, we have, it's a one plane in, one plane out.

So we're going to have to wait a little bit.

Unless something happens.

It said, flight attendant, take your seats. We can go now.
You know, so everything was a little bit. Unless something happens.
It's a flight attendant. Take your seats.

We can go now.

Everything is a little intense.

There you go.

Just take a time.

Relax.

We got a window.

Let's go.

Everybody shut up.

Shut up.

Exactly.

We're fourth in the lineup here.

But if everybody seats.

So anyway.

Oh, fuck.

They moved us.

Go, go, go, go.

Scramble.

Go, go, go.

Yeah.

One guy goes, we were going to wait an hour. We get to go now.
I'm like, we we were gonna wait an hour we get to go now i'm like we were gonna wait an hour i didn't know that so i did my rodeo shtick to make because the flight of 10 i could shake her hand that's how small the plane was so i did my rodeo star i'll go back here on an airplane so i loosen the seat belt as far as i can i grab the edge of it and i say to her rodeo guy on an airplane and I go like this. And you zip it tighter though.
You zip it super tight as if he's got a horse. Yeah, that's good.
I saw that. Yeah.
So she loved it. I saw that live when we flew to our gig.
I did it. Yeah, I do.
I have plain shtick. You got some shtick.
We have some solid shtick uh i don't have any more great stories

but uh oh should we introduce pete we'll talk about tommy boy anniversary real quick um oh yeah the one last thing our car got robbed at lax oh wait a second this is a headline well we decided fuck it let's go old school we had a lot of time all right let's drive the let's drive the airport man God, what a horrible idea. LAX.
So first of all, it's like, is it fucking east, west, north, or south? So we're suddenly going around and roundabout. We're heading away from the airport.
Yeah, you stupid idiots. That's where the control tower is, and it's getting smaller.
So let's go with you. And then we get up get up on top we park the car and when we come back to the car we don't what the fuck so it looks like ramshackle inside so we open it up they did i had a mini ipad there they didn't take it what they did was they left a big red canvas bag in the front seat left it left it and i said just fucking clue we went down there for prints and we saw the two uh you know whatever airport police people there's no way they're gonna bust anyone they were smoking weed down by the machine yeah man i mean so anyway um we got rid of the red canvas bag.
We got out of there, but that was strange. And we know why it happened because it was my wife's car, my car.
If you walk away, it locks her car. You have to put your hand on the handle.
So I went back for something and long story short, we made it home safely. And now we're here now.
Well, I like these, you know, things that happen in real life. That's a tough one.
I would get so infuriated if that happened. It gets a weird feeling.
Like someone got into our car and was shuffling through it trying to get stuff. Someone fucked with you.
It feels like bullying. It feels like shit.
And of course, no one does anything. And then if you go to the police, they go to the police they go in la of course like you know what you should do is put a cage under your car so people can't get under and get your catalytic converter you know what else you should do is you should put more locks i'm like how about throw criminals in jail they're like no that's where we draw the line but we have a plan we're working on it but right now we don't really, that's not our thing.
line. We have a plan.
We're working on it. But right now, we don't really, that's not our thing.

Yeah.

We don't prosecute.

The criminals in jail, the fucking good guys being the victim.

It's like the good guys are the ones they go after.

I don't know.

Because I just saw in England, it was one of our stories coming up,

is like, you know it's bad when everyone's carrying a machete?

And now, you know they're carrying a lot of machetes. Now machetes are illegal to carry around the streets.
When were, when was that? Okay. If I saw someone with a machete, I'd shit my pants.
And so many people are walking with machetes to rob people and hack people and on the streets that they go, okay, It was fun for a while, but ixnay on the machetes. So isn't that crazy? The machete, the name of it and the strength of it, it's a fucking sword.
You're walking around with a sword. You can behead someone in a second.
I knew someone, Francis Cronin. He was in the Irish army, in the UN, in Africa.
And when when you would talk he'd go into the town you talked of townspeople most of the time the dudes had a machete just just in their hand just sort of just walking around make me um a little uh give me anxiety yeah because what are you doing with a machete even a knife is bad bad, but a machete means real biz. Like I'm up to really no good.
What I would do is have a fully loaded bazooka and just be holding that and just chat and like, you know, I don't know, partly cloudy tomorrow. I'm not sure what's up, but do the sound effects of a bazooka going off.
You rack it in there. No, it would be, it would be louder than that.
Slow motion. Just the reverb.
There you go. The kick.
And then it comes in. But dude, machete, you don't have to be a pro.

You just start swinging that thing and you're going to cause some damage.

I know.

So I'm glad that England's come to their senses. Okay.

When we come back from this Pete Siegel interview,

we're going to show the stories about machete just to show it's not made up.

Okay.

So Pete Siegel, my director from Tommy Boy.

It's the anniversary of Tommy Boy.

So we wanted to talk about it today.

Yep.

And I hear about it maybe every day of my life. Yeah.
And let's go to Pete. We chatted with him about all things trivia, Tommy Boy.
And we'll be right back with it. We'll come back after.
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Welcome to our special edition of Superfly with a spin on Tommy Boy, the anniversary, which I don't like to say what anniversary it is. But it's a while back.
But we have the director the direct i didn't take long the director of the movie is actually talking with us so yes this is pete siegel who had a huge hand in making tommy boy hit and uh thanks for coming on thank you for having me yes we are excited to have you um the funny thing about tommy boy is i keep reading um different stories it because you know, it's the anniversary. So more things pop out.
You and I probably are in charge of some of these stories, but there's just so many, I wanted you to tell Dana first and then we'll get into you just saying anything you want about it was when you got hired, the hiring process. Cause I remember it got a little sticky.
Well, I had worked with Farley twice before Tommy Boy, once on an HBO special I did with Judd Apatow, and then on a sitcom, The Jackie Thomas Show, which was sort of a loose spinoff of Roseanne. And so I just knew him from those things.
And I just thought, gosh, you know, if I ever got to direct a movie, I would love to do his first starring role. And then about a year later, I get this script on my desk.
I had then gone on to make my first movie, Naked Gun, the last one, and got this script called Billy the third, of Midwestern. And I didn't really know anything about the process.
I've learned a lot over the years since then, how that got to me. And I said to Lauren, I said, I've got a lot of notes because I love these guys, but the story is kind of wonky.
And he said, we're just, you know, go in and tell the Turners what you think. And I said, do I hold back? He goes, no, no, just go in.
Everything. Pretty good.
The writers, the Turners. So I went in and just, you know, guns a blazing, notes, notes, notes.
And they looked at me, blank expressions and it was bye-bye. And that was it.
And then I thought, okay, well, I guess I blew that one. Weeks went by, weeks and weeks.
And I get this, and I think I checked with my agent. Hey, have they hired anybody yet? Oh, they're still looking.
I'm like, okay, yeah, maybe some other people are feeling the same way.

So I get a call then from Sherry.

She said, I want you to come back in and tell me everything that you told Terry and Bonnie.

I want to hear it myself.

The head of Paramount, sorry.

Wow, Sherry Lansing. So I thought, uh-oh, I feel like Bonnie on the causeway.

You know, I'm all alone.

So I went in.

I hit that hallway, that long hallway to her office, and the causeway. You know, I'm all alone.
So I went in, I hit that hallway, that long hallway to her office and the door opened. Like she knew I was coming and just arms out, honey.
And I, uh, she, you know, the hook, line and sinker, they were in, well, they were also desperate. They'd, you know, blown the hiatus.
They desperately needed someone to come on. So that's how I got it.
That was part one. This is a long story.
So I'll just stop. I like when it gets a little ugly.
The time frame is the hiatus because of, is the summer hiatus messing out? Yeah. So there's a time problem.
We have a window. Yeah.
And we blew that window. And what that means is now Dave and Chris are going to be having to fly back and forth doing Saturday Night Live and shooting a movie in Toronto at the same time.
Oh, right. They could do it.
You know, and it made the movie more expensive, too, because, you know, what could have taken, you know, 30 days was now going to take 45 days because we only shot three days a week with the guys.

And did you stay in Toronto and just chill and maybe try to pick up shots or anything you could without us? Yeah. I remember one time, you know, with Farley, especially no one could double him, you know, so all his own stunts because he was a better athlete than any of the stunt guys his size.
but one day I had to shoot a shot of Tommy Callahan walking away from the funeral down this row of beautiful fall foliage, and I used his double. Chris hated it because he said, that's not how I walk.
No more of that. I'm going to do every single shot.
I'm like, okay. Well, then we're just here and wait.
Who was this guy?

Danny?

What is it?

Remember his stuntman?

I think he used him a lot.

I don't remember.

No, mine was Danny.

His was-

Probably a great stuntman, by the way.

Yeah, great stuntman.

The walking is a good inside baseball thing to talk about because actors get very particular

about that.

Yeah.

Well, first time I went to, think chris was new to the show went

to an sno party we're out on the sidewalk hey lady whatever he does and then he just jumps up in the air and just flies on his back on the cement you know so this guy was a stunt i mean who's gonna show off for you he could really throw his body around obviously and he probably got hurt quite a Well Dave, you tell them about the 2x4

The 2x4 at the dinosaur place? Prehistoric forest? Yeah. Well, you know, I don't really remember this except remembering on the day of they take it, they score it, they take a 2x4.
Part of it's supposed to break easy and it's made of balsa wood, maybe? Yeah. With a little rubber padding on one edge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what it is, Dana.
But I'm supposed to hit him in the face. We start a fight, which is a funny scene.
We have this huge fight. But he sticks his head out to get hit.
And of course, it's not an exact science, science but i swing and i think i don't know if it didn't break or did break but p you might know more but i definitely hurt him a little bit on those because even if you get hit by an egg carton empty it still hurts if someone swing it at you try not to hurt the guy but it's almost impossible they didn't have it perfected you you finished that one no it uh i think you hit him with the hard part of the two by four and yes it broke and he went down and you know uh yeah that that must have stung he was he was yeah well he he he was very good at taking hits and also, no one else knows how hard he's getting hit.

You can't tell.

And that was obviously a problem.

But he just gets up.

So probably stage five concussion.

Should have been choppered out of there.

But he doesn't want to show any weakness.

And he wants to show he's a pro.

And he wants to always get hit and fall down and show that, look this doesn't bother me and that's a pro but it's also tough because these days there's probably more uh scrutiny on it but you know we're running sort of ragtag mission out there and we didn't really know i don't think pete knew we just it just you you go back and i think remember one time when the coat didn't doing Fat Kind of a Coat and he's going, he's screaming because I saw this on some outtakes lately. Yeah.
They made it too tight and he's trying to rip it. It's really hard to rip a regular coat without being scored and cut in the back.
So he's screaming and he gets mad because he's like putting everything into it. Every take.
That's the hard part. No rins.
Could I, I just have a question going back a little bit because i i want you as a director and just in the broad strokes without laying claim but just what was the besides whatever the story was the first draft because you got you know the first draft people just kind of throw it out there what was your your, besides the specific notes, what was missing

and what did you capture? Because obviously the movie is now a classic comedy. I mean, it's the movie.
And so can you remember like the core things you were trying to figure out with that script? Yes. Originally, I think Lauren had pitched the show.
Obviously this was a vehicle for Dave and Chris.

But the story had a lot of was a vehicle for Dave and Chris.

But the story had a lot of the Rob Lowe character in it.

And he was a lot more integral in that story.

And as a matter of fact, it was more about them being stepbrothers.

And I thought, I don't think that's the story.

I think the story is about the two guys who do not get along

at Callahan who have to work together and save the story is about the two guys who do not get along at Callahan, who have to

work together and save the factory and save the town. And I also thought that there was,

you know, another story between a father and son. And I knew that that was very important to Chris

because he had a very close relationship with his dad. And so those two things unraveled,

you know, what we had in the first draft from the Turners. And then- Who are great writers, by the way.
They're great writers. They're great writers.
I just had a different take. And then Lauren said, okay, I'm going to send you out, you know, some help.
And he sent out Jim Downey and Fred Wolf. And Downey came out.
He had apparently just fallen in some poison ivy and he was fallen into a vat of poison. His face was caked with calamine lotion, but like dried up kind of peeling.
And he came out and we talked for like a week. We had lunches and I heard stories.
And then after a week, I was starting to panic

because this was the week that the script was going to be saved.

You mean you're just talking but nothing's being written?

That's how down he writes.

He talks about everything else in the back of his giant brain.

Things are happening.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And then finally on Friday,

they were going to catch a plane to go back to New York.

I said, so what about this?

And I held up the script. He goes, oh, I can't help you with that.
I can't. He was there for a week.
Fucking Downey. I love it.
I remember walking, you know, in the parking lot at Paramount and I told Fred, I said, dude, you guys were my lifesaver. That was a swing and a miss.
I'm out.

And so I quit.

So you quit.

Oh, listen to this.

Oh, yeah.

And this is Fred Wolf now.

Yo, I was telling Fred because, you know, he's my pal.

I knew him from before this.

You're really good.

That's really funny.

No, you're seriously.

I just want to tell you something, Pete.

I'm going to talk about Dana in a minute.

I want to talk to you.

No, seriously, Petey.

We love Fred. Go ahead.

So you quit.

I quit on a Friday and on a Sunday.

You want it ugly, Dave.

Yeah.

Thank you. No, seriously, Katie.
We love Fred. Go ahead.
So you quit. I quit on a Friday and on a Sunday.
You want it ugly, Dave. I'll give you ugly.
So I get phone rings and my wife answers it. And then she covers it and says, it's Sherry.
Sherry Lansing. And apparently this wasn't the first time that she used this method, but she said, I have a team of attorneys speeding to the studio right now to strategize how to sue you for tens of millions of dollars and to take your home from you.

And I said, have you been to my home?

Have you been to the home? It's on wheels. You can just pull it.
I said, checkmate. Fine.
I'll go. But this is going to be a disaster.
And she said, honey, I know you're going to make it great. And I have to say, all these years later, she was so responsible for helping us keep this thing together.
And here we are talking about it 30 years later. I credit her.
It seemed like it was a natural thing because of the history of like Laurel and Hardy and, you know, sort of Chris, which we can talk about more about being sort of quintessential as far as a big comedian and throwing his body around. And then David and them being at that very close friends, the chemistry, you know, it's the, it's the comedy team.
It's, it's Wayne and Garth, it's Abbott and Costello. So I think focusing on that make obviously worked beautifully and you had Rob Lowe and you had the other stuff, but yeah.
And Brian Dennehy got that in. Brian Dennehy's so solid.
Bo Derek, great in the movie. But, you know, the interesting thing is Chris was obviously hilarious on his own.
But, you know, Dave, you were the engine, you know, to that machine of the two of you. You had to be, you know, you would pitch and he would hit and he would knock it out of the park.
But those balls wouldn't be flying anywhere if it wasn't for you getting under his skin, you know, and getting that out of him, you know. Yeah, I appreciate that.
I mean, you know, those kind of movies, it is obviously could not be done without Chris. I think there's people that could have played my part, but it was I lucked into it.
And it was really fun to figure it out as we went and all of us up there and just taking a movie about brake pads, you know, trying to make it funny because that's the original, that's the movie. Two losers with a dream or it's just always a likable motif for a comedy film.
They're on their adventure. They're trying to make it, you know, and, but the likability I'm seeing it.
Dana, when, uh, you know, we're doing it out of sequence, obviously we're flying back and forth. I'm getting skinnier.
He's getting fatter. Uh, and we both feel sick and tired and the whole time.
And so when it's all over, we know that scenes are funny, but we don't know how the movie's going to be. You know's the problem with shooting out a sequence which if people know that's pretty much every single movie you could shoot the the finale the first day you don't really even know what your characters are like or you're not really gelled into it but that's the hard part so it's up to Pete to put it together and so Pete and also Bill Kerr the editor but Pete's putting together these driving shots, add some music, just makes it all make sense.
And the way he shot it, we can't tell because I don't know if we had playback back then. We did, but yeah.
Maybe we weren't the ones to watch playback. You know what I mean? It was sort of up to Pete, but the point is he made it all flow, added so much more.
So when you see it, yes, it's funny performances, but everybody cannot, there's so many people that cannot drop the ball. The editor can't, Pete can't, we can't.
And if you get it all right, you know, you've been in a couple of those that when it works, it's so hard to get it right. Director's medium and landing the pathos on the boat at the end.
That's unique where it doesn't come off forced. It really comes off like, whoa, that hits you.
Well, we had, when we started filming, only 66 pages. Oh, yeah, I think I remember that.
We started over. A little wispy.
A little light in loafers that's just so we can start we have a we have to have a fake reason to go exactly shoot something while they're writing or whatever yeah so the fact that you guys were at snl gave uh fred and me uh extra time to work on the script and so as we were going it was so exhausting because of this pressure of, you know,

laying the train tracks out in front of the locomotive every day that we did not know how the story was going to end. I had no idea.
And then Fred came up with a miracle scene, the scene where the guys are walking with Dan Aykroyd in the factory and the test dummies and all that. And that came in.
And suddenly I thought, oh, OK, I see how the story can end. But how can we wrap this up emotionally? And I always had this idea of Tommy talking to the spirit of his father up in this water tower that we built.
Never actually used in the movie. And it was kind of corny and it didn't work, you know, what I was thinking.
And so, we're kind of stuck and we called in this writer named Len Blum, who had written Stripes. Stripes.
And I said, dude, I don't know how to end this movie emotionally. And he said, let me take a look at the footage.
And he saw the sailboat scene earlier after the funeral. And he said, well, why don revisit that and that's where he can be talking to the spirit of his father and the answer will be the wind you know tear jerker no it landed that was that was it yeah well i just uh this inside baseball people would like it like when you first assembled and you do a test screening and you get cards back, what was the first test screening like? What was the range of the scores? I think the highest score we got was an 82.
So we started in the 70s. But one thing, you know, because I had just come from Naked Gun and the Zucker brothers learned from the Marx brothers who rehearsed all of their movies in dinner theaters so that by the time they got to the set, their material was tight and they knew what worked in front of a crowd and what didn't.
That saved them. What the Zuckers did is they started recording the audiences sound-wise so that if you say, well, that got a big laugh.
And then, you know, David, if you were there, said, It got kind of a medium. Well, let's go to the tape.
It was in period. But then what we did, I had just been given, you know, a Sony Handycam for Christmas.
And it had that night vision. And so I said, hey, I got an idea.
Why don't we hide this under the screen? And so we can see the crowd. And that'll help us shape the movie.
That was the first time night vision was ever used.

Interesting.

Okay.

So you see the crowd,

you see the laughs,

and then you're going to do a re-edit based on.

They don't laugh.

You cut it out,

you know? And then if you see them shifting in their seats,

they're bored.

Look at what are we doing?

That's going slowly here.

You know that.

What was David Spade's biggest laugh of the movie?

You know, Pete, I have to say that if I can remember back

to those old screenings, I think maybe the one that tested the highest

was the deer smashing the car and us watching.

Maybe.

But over time, it is not the number one thing that is brought up no and what is i mean there's a you know what happens over time when people see it five ten twenty times it's throwaway jokes yeah that they remember i mean from stripes from all these old movies you picture it's a cinderella story and caddyshack and just throwaway lines but i think there was um maybe fat guy in a little coat obviously people still are aware of um one of my favorites was yeah caught from you guys and and fred and i were just like desperate to write down anything that you guys did funny in your interaction uh farley comes out of a wardrobe test in his suit the the iconic Brown tweed. And he said, uh, David, does this suit make me look fat and you fire back? No, your face does.
I'm like, that's going in. Yeah.
That's going in. And that's how we just, we heard about this thing he would do at SNL, fat guy in a little coat.
Okay. We'll put that in.
But he, he never sung it, you know? Um, yeah, that was a good one. One one one thing that happened uh in the boredom of making a movie because you and chris were used to live tv one take three cameras done yeah suddenly we're doing multiple takes multiple angles and it would get boring but in that boredom so i shoot fat guy little coat i shoot chris.
Done. I turn around because we only had one camera.
We were low budget. Turn around, I'm getting Dave.
And I thought we were done. That night, Bill Kerr, our editor, calls me and he says, oh, my God, you got to go back and reshoot this.
I'm like, what are you talking about? You didn't hear Farley off camera. He started singing it and getting all goofy.
I'm like, you did? He goes, yeah, look at the dailies. So I looked at him and sure enough, we turned around the next day and reshot it.
Because Chris was talking and singing while David- He was bored. So he just starts fucking around.
The sound was messed up and he was just bored and didn't know how movies were made. Like his sound was- Got it.
Well, I think he was just doing it, not even to get just like bored. And then it sounded actually funnier.
I remember I saw an outtake recently that I don't remember, of course, where we're in bed at the hotel and he talks about Zelensky and I go. And then Chris starts hysterically laughing.
And I try to hold the take because maybe you use that one. But when people laugh, it's funny, but sometimes you can't use it.
But if you wait a hair longer, you can cut away after. But he laughs and he goes, what a fucking dick.
Because I don't know, I guess it was the same thing. Just giving it a different reading because of just, we've done it too many times, you know, that kind of thing.
Yeah. Sometimes things happen.
That is the thing about film is you're supposed to not the crew's not supposed to laugh and no one's supposed to laugh and so there's this dinner table tension at thanksgiving where you're not so where someone's saying the lord's prayer and so you're laughing so there's that tension there that does create kind of fun moments i remember seeing one of the another outtaketake I'd forgotten about was we shot most of what was Callahan in some abandoned post office and it had holes in the roof and birds would get in and birds would start chirping like crazy, having a fight in the middle of takes and Chris could not hold it together because he just came up at the birds did you know uh it was there i remember there was some scuttlebutt about bodere cutting her hair is that not true i don't remember that i just because she had long hair from obviously everyone knows from the movie 10 right and she was doing a different movie and she came right to the set and she had short hair. And I don't think anyone knew.
And we didn't know if, I don't know if it was an issue or not. I think everyone was just surprised.
I don't, yeah, it kind of rings a bell. And I just heard an interview she was doing just a couple of days ago where she said she was not even shooting another movie.
She was doing another business in Asia. And she came and was, got a phone call and was on the set the next day coming out of the pool in a bikini.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
I think I did hear that. And then she said, well, I must've been replacing someone.
And they were, and I said, I don't think we had anybody. I don't remember.
We were just so disorganized. Disorganized.
Yeah. We were just hiring someone the next day.
But so the first time I met her, she comes out and it's a, you know, they have to show the wardrobe to the director and she comes out in a robe and she goes, what is it? Yes, they do. So she opens up her robe and I'm, first thing I'm looking at is Derek from 10 showing me this bikini on her.
I just stared straight at her eyes and said, fine, that's fine. Fine.
Could not be more lovely. She was such a sweetheart.
And such a great – another addition. You don't really talk about it a lot, but she was so good to have in there because people loved her.
I think you said she was the biggest star in the movie, right? Well, you know. She had just come off of 10.
Yeah. And we had come off of nothing.
Also, was there, remember these old outtakes that I think Skippy had, that they are somewhere, maybe I have now. By the way, Pete gifted me with Skippy.
Um, we, uh, he, that when, when he comes to the door during housekeeping, and I think you said, do one with undies on one with maybe a robe and then one with nothing. Yes.
Right. Just to have it.
And then I didn't tell him and whatever you do, for the love of God, do not turn around. Well, of course, that's all Chris needed to hear.
So he turned around and started flailing around his wiener, just dancing straight into the camera. And I just said, this film will be burned.
He said, hi, Sherry. I think you mentioned that.
Hi, Sherry. Yeah, I don't think those ever got out any fun outtakes that I see on Instagram.
Do you feel, I tell you, I felt spoiled coming from SNL with Dana and these guys, just on a writing level and performing level. And then I go to Tommy boy and then I've done, you know, some things in life I really love and some things that are a little tougher, you know, but don't you feel spoiled when you get on a set and it's not like that? And you're like, oh my God, this is going to be tough.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you know, people say because that movie is so well remembered, you must have had a blast making it. It wasn't fun making it.
Wasn't that fun? Movies aren't fun to make generally. If you tell me it's a hit, I'll give you a hint.
This will be a big tip for everybody. If you tell me it's a huge hit ahead of time, it will help a lot.
Yeah. But the fact that you don't know and the bad ones are just as hard to make as the good ones.
Yeah. That's the unfair part.
Yes. You know, you worked all this, you did all this work and it, and it makes your career worse.
That doesn't make sense. No.
And sometimes when things are going too well, I start to not trust it. And then I get into a weird mood that, oh, everyone's so nice.
Everything's so great. Everything's so funny.
This movie's going to tank. Yeah.
You never know. Well, I don't know if people understand this.
Like, what was your longest day? Because on low budget film, sometimes you got to go with gold. Oh, I know that one.
All right. I mean, because people, that's why you don't even know if it's English.
It's 24 hours. How long? I think I just saw, I just saw Pete on the set of Busboys.
And I, I, did I ask you this? That the factory, I think we did almost 24 hours. Is that possible? Close.
It was definitely. Because we went day to night and then we shot overnight until like six.
In the high teens. Did you say? Yeah.
It had to be. Wayne's World had a couple of those where you're like I think we only had it for and we flew in on a weird thing like you know after the SNL after party and then we start Sunday morning and then we only have it for Sunday but we go late but they open Monday morning so I think it was one of those where we all remember things differently but I just remember that was I think we had a lot of cast and we had a couple stunts and all that stuff just slows everything down that was a long one but i think the most painful one was cow tipping because was what cow tipping because it was a night shoot oh in the cold uh the great north and i don't know was, my God, it must have been zero degrees.
And Chris had to, you know, dive in the mud under a cow. Who are you? Yeah.
And the sun was coming up. You know, if you look hard, you'll see right over his shoulder, when he comes up with the mud mask, that you see the sun starting starting to rise that we were just running out of time

yeah you remember the coldest day i'll tell you this dana dana's glazing over but here's the coldest day not at all i'm just cold right now this is a riveting uh reveal um i would say pete because it started getting cold and then it got cold fast spade from arizona was not ready and not loving it uh i would say probably in my estimation we're standing by a billboard yelling about the bees to the cops and then we're going oh my god it's a linsky and we're i don't think i think we looped some of it because i couldn't formulate the words because my jaw was frozen well what are we what are we looking at? I'll see your cold and raise

it on a movie I did. We only have

light clothes on. Were you in Canada or

Toronto? Toronto.

Okay. Yeah.
My movie took place

in Ontario or something like that. We were minus

30 Celsius and

me, Nicolas Cage, and John.

Oh, Paradise. Yeah.
Trapped in

Paradise with John. And we just

fell down in the snow. It was all night shoots, a lot of frostbite.
We were wrapped up like the mummy, and then they'd take it off, and they were fans for the snow, you know, so everything was going to be overdubbed. But, yeah, so you guys were definitely below zero probably at night.
Well, I think we were close to that because remember probably the same we can't keep shooting like and night shoots on top of that like every movie i do now we're like let's do splits or let's do some other way yeah no nights are the worst fucking nurse uh okay well go one more dane and then we gotta go to steve it's like how to put in context this movie you know one I was going to say, and this will be a compliment alert for my partner in crime, in comedy, is David can really he can do the cut. You know, he can like do a kind of little.
But it's always likable. It never comes with teeth.
And so all his little put downs of Chris just always never never went to the other level so that's the chemistry of the two of them and then with chris farley just thinking when you watch his you know guy down by the river and this movie and stuff i just don't think we've seen another chris farley there must be at one point we will um he's just a singularity in comedy in the last 30 years. And there's been brilliant people and brilliant movies, but there's something unique about him that is sort of irreplaceable right now.
I mean, right? Absolutely. At the 50th, SNL 50th, I bumped into Paul Walter Hauser, who's going to be playing Chris.
Oh. Chris Farley's story.
And I said, look, grab a lunch. You know, I'll tell you stories.
So that's going to be. Oh, he definitely should.
I talked to him at one of my shows. He came and we talked about it.
He's got an uphill battle. But I said, you know, good luck to you.
The guy's a good actor. Chris had that throaty, I'm just, you know, that thing.

That's really hard to duplicate.

He put so much into that, you know, that would be why I would try to advise that actor to try to get that tone and get that energy.

I says, I says, I says, I says.

I go, you're making that a full update, Pete? He goes, oh, yeah. You know, he goes, I says the guy.
I says the guy. I says, I says right to him.
I says, I says, I says. That's his whole bit.
I go, a fucking full update? He's like, yep, and it's going to kill. And it did.
Shit. That's so funny.
Well, Pete, thank you, bud. Thank you.
I will say to Dana's point quickly, when I'm on the bench, I don't know if it was your idea or whoever's idea, I'm kind of borderline mean to Chris the whole movie, but when I'm on the bench, I say he's my only friend. That erases it.
Dude, I just watched, there was a screening last night and exactly when that scene came up that was really nicely done the way you did it it was very genuine it was very real and it kind of made the whole uh arc of your relationship with tommy callahan work that scene yeah mates it helped it make sense put down the put down the put down the put down yeah because It's like a song and then he's my only friend. It's just filmmaking.

Well, congratulations. It helped it make sense.
The put down, the put down, the put down, the put down. Yeah, because he just feels sorry for me.
It's like a song, and then he's my only friend.

It's just filmmaking. Well, congratulations on being the director of one of our all-time classic comedies and everything else you've done.
Oh, nice. Appreciate it.
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So that was Pete Siegel. Great talking to him.
I do want to jump on that. We talked afterwards about a musical for Fat Guy in a Little Coat and the Tommy Boy musical.
Yeah, the Tommy Boy musical. I was serious.
And then on Broadway. And then we could do Richard, my character, who never had a friend.
And so I get to do a, your a song you sing a little song it'd be so funny i never had a friend i walk away from tommy on the bench and go sing yeah and maybe i thought this is interesting casting i get played by ariana grande and don't do anything to her just the way she just looks. Actually, she could pull her hair back.
She looks like her little sister. Just put little bangs on.
Yeah. I'll tell you one thing, doing that SNL in the fall when she was host, that gal is multi-talented.
I mean, she could do anything. Literally, she could probably work up an impression of you if she had to.
She's got an incredible ear. I have to say, I thought I was calling this early the last time she hosted that she, I wanted to get word to her.
It's so funny. And she's really good.
She did a Jennifer Lawrence that was funny. Yeah.
Then she goes in the thing where she sings all these different songs in the radio station. Different voices.
And she's so talented. And she's such a little twigig and she just rips it out with a great voice and she's cute funny i mean i don't know how she does it that's a tough that show is tough and i'm so tough and uh yeah it makes me crumble but she um i did jennifer coolidge with Oh, that's right.
And that was fun.

She had a blast.

I mean, I think that people don't do sketch comedy all the time.

When it's working, it's really fun, you know?

Right.

I almost want to see Wicked literally just for her because I just want to see, I know nothing about Wicked, but she's good and she sings well.

It's Wizard of Oz, basically.

Yeah, let's not.

Did you know that Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man? she's good and she sings well. Exquisite of Oz, basically.
Yeah, let's not.

Did you know that Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man?

Good reference.

That he didn't already have. Who is that?

I know what it is already.

I'm just saying for people listening,

I'm going to give you three seconds.

America.

That's the band America.

Yeah.

And that song is.

I never understood that as a kid.

Have you ever realized some words as a kid you don't understand

because you don't know what it means?

Like they say like a phrase or something you've never heard

and now you get older, you go, oh, now I get what that man is.

Right, because you remember the movie, you had nothing.

I didn't know he was saying Oz.

That was such a clever little thing to say.

Yeah, instead of The Wizard of Oz. Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man.
Like the Tin Man didn't have a heart, right? Yeah. Yeah, but they said, but he didn't already have.
That he already had it the whole thing of the movie. I didn't get it, the whole movie.
Anyway, so- You were two. We'll quickly show the machete story just to show it's true, and then we'll move on.
This was it. Ninja swords.
Ninja swords, i.e. machetes.
Even worse. Ninjas are in the band.
Jeez. Goddamn.
Okay, enough of that one. What's the next one? Give us anything.
We will do anything. I read an article.
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The divorce rate of people in their 40s and 50s has quadrupled. Oh, okay.
Oh, okay. Well, this is, we'll go back to divorce rate, but Trump officials texted attack plans to a group chat.
Oh, everyone's heard of this story. From a secure app.
They don't want to say Signal, but I'm on Signal for a fantasy football chat uh but it's supposed to be airtight and uh this is a mess this is something when you hear it you kind of go what what what like how in the fire yeah does that happen and can you imagine the person that had to deliver the news to Trump. What are you saying?

I don't understand. What are you saying? What are you saying? What are you saying? Say it again.
They fucked up. They fucked up good.
They're fucking morons. I'm not going to fire them, but that's a fucking move you'd never fucking make.
I mean, you know, right? I will say, if somebody up Republican or Democrat, the first thing they say is you should quit. And they always go, guys, why are we even doing this? You think I'm ever going to quit? And there's no one on either side that's ever just going to quit.
They have to be literally pushed out with a bulldozer. So they don't do it.
But that thing's funny because I thought it'd be funny for you if they said that group chat was left over that Biden set it up.

And it would be funny if Biden was still on it.

And he was getting, he thought it was the lunch orders for the White House every day.

And he's like, Hamas.

Oh, do they have fish kebabs?

And they're like, I'm sorry, sir.

Who is this?

I like some Hamas with my egg salad sandwich.

Come on, folks.

I'm not kidding around here. Everybody get your orders in.
We're orders in We gotta do this thing Yeah I'll have a bomb burger A bomb burger He doesn't understand it He's reading it all And then he accidentally FaceTimes everyone They're like don't answer He thinks it's all His face is like this Yeah come on I'll have a snack attack Excuse me me, a sneak attack. The attack's under water now sandwich.
I kind of like snack attack, sneak attack. Sneak attack, a sandwich, and there's two people.
This sandwich is the bomb. Yeah.
Come on. Shit.
Come on, everyone. Look at my new emoji I found.
Guess what? We got the beef. Where's the beef? We got the beef.
We're no Arby's. We got the meat.
We got the beef. They changed that.
That's a little like Wendy's Where's the Beef. I hate this.
Yeah, they copy each other. Fuck these people.
Fucking copy. Who did what? What are you doing? Okay.
Okay. Oh, this is a oh, this is a story that came out last week, right?

When Superfly, I didn't know enough data. Now I have even less.
There's a vast underground city below Giza pyramids, which, um, yes, not to be confused with. I'm a geezer.
Uh, Egypt's pyramids, scientists, wild theory claims, experts debunk it. I will say it's a riveting story if it's close to true.
That they have these, you can't see, but in those infrared heat seeking, that photo above. Yeah.
It says, they're too specific. Now, if you can't see it and you're just going, there's a mass down there.
There's something down there and it goes down about three football fields. That's interesting enough, but they're like, oh, and it had sparklers on it and a Christmas tree light.
It's underground. You can't know all that.
Well, look, this is a provable thing. Right now, people said it's real.
It's debunked. So somebody go in there and- Yeah, dig them up.
Let's dig them up. Send Biden in there.
Go on there and check and see if it was a Patuma Paratactyl, the pharaoh. Look.
Paratactyl? What was it? Tubacu? I can't remember. The famous Tin Cup.
Just go with Tut. Tin Cup.
King Tut. Tutankhamen? Tutankhamen.
That guy. Remember in fourth grade, you'd study the Egyptians.
Yeah, we got a lot in common in common by the way they still don't know how the pyramids got built so fuck dude it's so it's so dialed in there's copper and there's things there that make them like electrical rods for some ufo shit i want i'm all in i want a secret alien city to be there i honestly do i really want a secret alien city under the pyramids i we can kind of relax and go, we're not alone. Does it really matter that we're not alone, but we may not be alone? I'm a little...
My conclusion is that we aren't alone, and I'm a little relaxed about it because they could kill us so fast that at least they're not doing it. But I had heard Roswell was lightning, knocked him out of the sky.
And then we, and then we, they were like, they don't feel so hot, you know, because they crashed. They're like, everyone just be cool.
Nothing to see here. And there's like, oh, there's a lot to see here, dude.
I know. That's them talking to the aliens.
They're like, there's a lot of shenanigans with the JFK report coming out. A lot of, let keep that quiet and don't let anyone know that.
So you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to kind of ask questions. Like, okay.
I think if any of that shit happened, even 9-11 right now, people would shoot so many holes through that so fast. Like back then, it was a world all through life.
This is what's in school.

This is what you're taught. But when people ask a few questions and it trips them up, you go, wait, it shouldn't be that hard.
Like, what's this? What's this? So it is fun to follow those stories. Some are true.
Some aren't, but. Oh yeah.
Steven Ace. there is no doubt that LeBron James is the second greatest basketball player of all time.
None. No doubt.
Never in question. Well, Stephen A.
Smith would take a swing at LeBron. This is where it goes a little haywire.
I don't think he should bring this up because when I saw him talking, he's like, obviously LeBron could pound me. Fine.
but lebron's like a physical specimen with the best doctors and trainers in the world sense of the word so yeah and one's a sports reporter so it's like let's take that out of the equation of who could win it up but anytime you get in a beef with someone there's always in the back of your mind, what if we get a fight? Because it gets tempers flare.

If LeBron put his... you're getting a beef with someone, there's always in the back of your mind, what if we get in a fight? Because it gets tempers flare.

If LeBron put his

weight behind it at his

size, he could really hurt

somebody.

Stephen A. Smith's kind of

slender. I mean, he's pretty tall,

but he's not LeBron.

And he knows, but it's just gotten

to playground stuff. LeBron did post

an image of him 10 years ago. He said he

had dislocated shoulders of him boxing

See you next time. but he's not LeBron and he knows, but it's just gotten to playground stuff.
LeBron did post an image of him 10 years ago. He said he had dislocated shoulders of him boxing and Stephen A.
Smith said it was, uh, it was a bad look. And then he came back today with a 15 minute, uh, uh, diatribe.
Yeah. Defending the whole thing.
He wasn't making fun of brawny. I mean, it just sort of, who was it,

Albert Brooks, that said life is like high school with money? You know, guys.

Yeah. I mean, it's also like, there's people I don't like out there in showbiz and it's like high school.
You're not going to get along with everyone. And so it's okay to, uh, do you hear

that? What did Heather say? When I plug it now, when I plug in my phone, can you hear that funny what did heather say when i plug it now when i plug in my phone can you hear what it says it took a hair too long that mother fucking okay i'm gonna give everyone one more shot at it now that you cannot you cannot talk. Shake the phone up.
Look, there's Harper. What is that about? Okay, ready? Everybody quiet.
On the set, we're rolling. That's a good one.
Every time you plug it in and people aren't ready for it they go what is it that's something you you

say that's one of your it's something i say and heather told me that you can i think her says hey heather so if you plug it in it can say something very short and i was like and i go oh no it sounds too robotic so i go oh maybe it should say something robotic beep

beep

beep

beep

beep

beep

beep

okay so Stephen A. Smith started about LeBron

and Brawny

well Say something robotic. Beep, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.

Okay, so Stephen A. Smith started about LeBron and Bronny.

Well, Stephen A. Smith, I don't know the, I didn't listen to everything.

Just said that he- Confrontation on the court.

About that, and he was just saying that he did not believe that Bronny James,

who, by the way, dropped 39 this week in the G League, was ready for the NBA.

So that was, you know-

Thank you. that Bronny James, who by the way, dropped 39 this week in the G league was ready for the NBA.
So that was, you know, so yeah. So LeBron saw him at a game on the court and said, Hey, to the effect of don't shit on my son.
And so I get the emotionality of it and I get that side. I think this leads and we'll talk to our friend Ted Sar Sarandos.
One night only Stephen A. Smith and LeBron James sit down and talk it out.
Then LeBron James will put on a hundred pound weighted suit and they will go three rounds with David Spade as the referee. I'm the ref.
And Dana Florfo is announcing. We're both the announcers.
Now you open. I do a cute tan.
I do my whole thing. You do a few up front.
Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes. Just that part of your act.
And then, yeah, celebrity boxing should come back. I'm just on Team Brawny.
I think he's in the toughest position for any young athlete. I think he's brave to do what he's doing.
LeBron's being the and i hope in the end of the day brawny becomes a good nba player and his dad will um eventually retire he can't play to 50 in the nba can he you know let's look at a clip what a hot take i had there yeah that was a hot take there's a luke take. Mm-hmm.
All right, next story. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes. Oh, I thought this was interesting.
Oh. It's one of those where you have to listen to it.
Is it too boring? The studio wanted a comedian to, you know, that's what you do in big comedy movies. And Jim wanted an actor who would make him listen, who would react, who would get it buddy buddy in the studio i can't a comedian will just try to top me and then we're into that and that's not what this is this is there's a heart to this there's these two guys they're stupid as hell but there's a heart to them i got the role and i i was aware that that others wanted someone else but i knew that jim pete andrelly wanted me.
So we all went to Breckenridge, Colorado.

It's an interesting showbiz story.

And the first day, first morning, we shot the scooter.

Me and Jim driving down the mountain pass.

And I say, I got to pee.

And he says, I got this script ahead of time.

That was the first morning, first day, pulling into Aspen, supposedly.

And the snot coming down, getting off the scooter. That was morning.
Hilar that was more hilarious he stays on his back didn't work the rest of the week we went to the lodge we did the chairlift on the pole with the tongue on the pole didn't work the whole week why because he was broken we did the box sitting there getting i didn't figure it out either we did yeah going into the ski lodge crashing the skis funny physical comedy now do the snowball in the head. Now we get to Thursday and Friday and Jim hasn't worked yet.
And I may be in Dumb and Dumber, but I'm not stupid. The audition is still going on.
I come to find out they're going to assemble these scenes featuring me. And we're all somewhere going to look at them over the weekend.
And somebody is on call. Somebody who's a comedian is waiting to hear whether he's going to go do the movie or not.
Mr. James Carey.
But you could feel it. Maybe I'm just listening.
I don't know. Maybe I'm being paranoid.
I don't know. Okay.
I wait Sunday. I get the call.
See you Monday morning, 6 a.m. Huh.
Maybe I'm wrong. Going to make up Monday morning.
Cliffhanger. Now we're shooting a scene with me and Jim.
Jim walks into the makeup trailer, pats me on the shoulder, leans in and says, just keep doing what you're doing. They love you.
Kept walking. Jim Carrey's a friend to this day.
Okay. To this day.
That's what he said. All right.
That's cool. They offered me, or they reached out to me to play the sidekick.
For real? Yeah. That doesn't seem like a stretch.
Well, I think Jeff Daniels was great. And by the way, all those scenes that they showed were physical comedy physical comedy.
You know, that you would have been great. I didn't think of that.
The tongue throws the snowball because falls down. So there was a too hard, I think, but it worked.
It worked great. He played it.
You know, he's a serious actor and he hosted SNL incredibly, uh, down to earth guy lives in Michigan his whole life. And he played it.
He played funny. It really worked.
worked and and with jim carrey is such a supernova you wouldn't want anybody trying to you wanted something juxtaposed to him so it worked i mean it's a classic comedy it's great that's what he's saying the studio wants a comic he's jim wanted him and he's basically jim saying you got a tryout we can't have two jim carrey's We have to. And that's what would have happened.
And that was his tryout. I thought that was interesting that people don't know.
He had the whole week with no scenes with Jim and everyone just watching and going. And then they go, okay, keep him.
They're saying, can he be funny? Yeah. And he did a good job.
Okay. Yeah, he did.
He was absolutely hilarious in the movie. Well, Dana, you were perfectly pleasant today.
You were a lot of fun. I thought that Pete Siegel, he called you Dave, and you called him Pete.
I called him Peter, and I call you David. I thought that was kind of interesting.
But it was nice revisiting that movie, and we had fun talking about everything. T-Boy keeps, we had a lot of trivia in there.

I liked.

And I'm feeling more and more positive.

The more I hear information from other funny people and people in the industry, not to jinx it, but this movie, Busboys.

I just feel like it's the right timing for sort of what's coming out.

I'm just saying.

I'm going to look at it this weekend.

I'm going to look at it rough.

And then we get to start to needle it. So I'm thinking it might be good..
I'm just saying. I'm going to look at it this weekend.
I'm going to look at it rough and then we get to start to needle it.

So I'm thinking it might be good.

So I'm excited.

It felt funny and we did it.

So let's see.

This has been a presentation of Odyssey.

Superfly is executive produced

by Dana Carvey and David Spade,

Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey,

Heather Santoro and Greg Holtzman.