RE-RELEASE - Will Ferrell

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One of my favorites, Dana, all time, first Ballot Hall of Famer, Will Farrell.

Such a blast with him.

One of the greatest.

And actually, this one was fun because we did it live at the Largo.

Yep, such a crackup.

And Will is,

you know, just funny.

I mean, just listen to this, you'll laugh.

You know, there's a big audience there.

He's always upbeat.

He's game for anything.

He's the same as we are.

He comes.

He's not walking through it like when we had Sandler.

He's trying to get laughs.

He's cracking up.

We're all cracking up, making fun of each other.

These are the kind that I like.

The super fun.

Just goofy, stupid shit.

We talk about SNL, obviously, but it just

the crowd likes this, and we go a little long, but it's great, it's worth it, it's worth the ride.

Yeah, it was definitely fun.

He's very sweet.

The first thing he said when he got there goes, Hey, man, sorry, I've been really busy that I haven't been on your podcast till this long, or whatever it was.

I go, No, it's fine.

We're all we're just uh thrilled.

And that's night, he got smothered with autographed people out back signing shit.

Oh my goodness, I got mob because he had a system to get out, and then you drove by and

you guys.

I was the last celebrity with a small C there, and

cut it out, man.

I was in a miasma of young people like it was like a rave-off.

And I was in the center of it, and they were crushing each other.

Shut up, dude.

Fuck you, man.

Come on, sign up.

And the show is great, but that's not on the States podcast.

All right, here he is with no further ado.

And no notes.

We just winged it.

Will Farrell

David and Dana

Sit in a tree Damon Dave

were just a fly on the wall

down the hall of S and Let's freaking L

S N L

S N L Damon Day

They got it.

They know.

Thank you.

Hey, Dan Howard.

That was Jimmy Fallon on our podcast got an acoustic guitar and made up that Neil Young song as Neil Young.

Yeah.

Could we play it again?

Okay.

Listen, let's.

Thanks for coming.

Let's get our buddy out here.

We got a good crowd.

They know the show.

They know Largo.

And they've been waiting.

They just heard the Gettysburg address read to them.

So

they're excited.

There are a lot of rules.

Ready for some jokes.

I talked to this guy backstage, and he's not really on tonight.

But you know what?

Dane and I are going to cover for him.

He's going to come in the hot seat.

That's what I'm going to do.

One of the, I hate to say all-time greats, first ballot Hall of Famer, John Williams.

Here he is from SNO.

Woo-hoo!

Another side.

Yeah.

Another.

All right, a little more applause than we got, but who cares?

There he is.

I'm going to go a little sideways.

Chest.

One.

I'm kind of in front of you.

Check.

One.

Will this be

the sibilants?

Did you like they got my chair from a fucking yard sale?

I was like,

that chair was put together like 15 minutes ago.

I'm getting a better, I'm getting a worse.

Okay.

This is a good angle, too.

Yeah, I know.

It's weird.

To try to talk to you.

So, Will,

were you impressed when you first met me?

If I lay back enough, I can catch both of you guys.

Oh, God,

I can't even see you at that time.

I said, come on, he's not that tall.

Get him a 5'8 eight seat.

Now he's got a bad back.

Listen.

I remember the night I got Spinal Bifida.

I was at Largo.

Spinal who?

Oh, that was a great heavy metal band for the 70s.

So, listen, we got time for one more.

When was the last time you heard a

spinal bifida reference?

I don't know.

I just think, I just said it, and then I felt like it's mean because it's Larry Dennis Miller.

It's called Spinal Bifida, okay?

The starting linebacker for the Detroit Lions, all right?

Also, too, if anyone's worried, I brought my wallet.

I don't know why.

Look at how fat it is, you rich.

Yeah, that's a fatty.

That's a movie star wallet, right?

That's just from Al.

You carry cash.

You still carry cash.

You never know.

You still carry cash.

There's going to be a fun giveaway tonight.

Cash.

I'm just handing out cash.

I don't know there's an ATM here.

Spinal Bifida night in the world.

Would you like some gum?

Come and get some.

You don't have to have it.

I'm just.

Is it a trick?

Is it a trick?

No, it's nothing.

Dana, all kidding aside, let's get to the serious one.

Let's see.

Where I'd like to start.

Yeah.

Hold on.

I know, I can't see you at all, but it's going to do it.

Do you mind holding it?

Yeah, I don't mind.

Thank you.

I feel like, yeah, this is more Tony Bennett kind of.

The best is yet to come, and I feel fine.

Didn't you do Tony Bennett on the show?

I did not.

Oh, anyway, anyway, let's go to questions.

Robert Goulay, I did Robert Goulet.

Robert Goulet.

What did he sound like?

Alec Baldwin did Tony Bennett.

That's right.

You did great Tony Bennett.

Okay.

No, I did Robert Goulet.

Bob.

Bob Goulet.

Yeah.

And he just

had a very deep voice and

referenced his appearance in Camelot.

Camelot.

And we just write him in weird scenarios.

I think he did a rap album with Jay-Z.

We did a sketch with Jay-Z.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

And

we also did a

bit where it was Robert Goulet's musical called Red Ships of Spain,

where

he didn't realize he was making out with his daughter, his real-life daughter.

Anna Gastar played his daughter at.

Very Anna.

Played his love interest

in Red Ships of Spain, and it turns out, was his daughter the whole time.

You can't write this stuff.

Oh, you did write this stuff.

Okay.

Well, let's go back to the beginning.

Will.

Let's go back to the beginning.

Can I do a childhood chunk to get us all warmed up?

Oh.

Because I want to take Will to 10 years of age.

That's far back.

Okay.

Yeah, it's here.

Okay.

But hold on.

I just want to say,

it's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Great to be here, you guys.

Very nice.

Thank you.

Dana Carvey, one of my all-time favorites.

You can't tell me.

Great

sketch players of all time.

David, you did stuff too that was interesting.

But

thank you, Will.

You're on the Mount Rushmore.

Yes, we're going to the after party together.

Spade,

little train that could, you know.

I give

a Charlie Hustle Award every year at the banquet.

They give it to Spade.

And Charlie Brown, you always vote for him.

But in all honesty,

Dave was,

you were still with the show when we all got hired, and you were like a big brother to us.

You kind of showed us the ropes.

Yep.

And we had a year overlapping.

A year overlapping.

You were super cool to me, especially, to all of us.

Took me to dinner multiple times, hung out, gave us words of wisdom.

Do you remember one time I invited you over to the Upper West Side to have lunch, and then I ate before you got there?

Yeah.

Isn't that funny?

Isn't that funny why I remember that?

You always eat before you got there.

I know, but he wasn't even late.

It was not even his fault.

I just, it was I don't think I was late at all.

No, it wasn't.

It was my fault.

But that was just maybe I was nervous.

He was eating a meal when you walk in.

I guess.

I think I was finished.

And I used to

back.

Wait, sorry.

what no not at all okay

back in the days where i was thinking do i want to get into comedy can i even get into comedy do i even have the guts to even try this stuff i would go to open mic night at the irvine improv oh i love that place and uh

almost get the guts to sign up but sit in the back of the house okay and just watch the comedians and and go

oh i'm funnier than them yeah yeah yeah oh i'm funnier oh no not that guy that guy's really good but space you hosted one i watched you host open mic

and uh next i know you're on snl and you're like what the i was like really i guess i knew well then anyone could get on snlover i know but you were super funny and relaxed and i was like oh man you know uh when i saw you on snl and you guys farley sandler those kind of guys that whole team that i was with left one year i heard they got fired i did not know they got fired.

Did you hear that?

I heard they got fired.

I'm going to meet the guy who fired

Charlie and Adam Sam.

They got to go.

That's his name.

He's left in there.

No more gas in the tank.

Chris,

funny.

Get him out of my sight.

I don't see a track record.

I don't see.

Nothing there.

Lauren was like, Chris, come to my office and clean your locker.

But we, well, I stayed an extra year, which I don't know if that was good or bad, but I stayed.

And then I think maybe you and Sherry O'Terry and maybe Molly, they all came in.

And the first show that you did, because I felt like sort of went to college, but came back and sat on the wall in high school.

Like, I should have just left with everybody.

Right.

But I stayed and did, like, I had five minutes a week to do my own.

I did some more glory.

But I had a little bit.

I was milking it.

Yep.

Something to the kitty.

So then I said, okay, I think the first show you did that I remember, you did get off the shed.

Is that true?

The first show.

Yeah.

And that was one I didn't know.

I didn't know your audition.

I didn't know anything.

And I thought,

this guy's got some fucking game because it was such an oddball.

Didn't see it coming.

Didn't know where it was going sketch.

And then I think, did you think it's what I auditioned with, actually?

You did get off the shed in the audition because I saw, I saw a clip of you doing the cat.

Yeah.

And maybe that's sort of a viral clip.

Dead silence.

Am I crazy?

It was Sayat didn't do well.

No, it was

i was literally

just it was just a guy in his office who was like

you didn't give him much setup by the way there's no there's no setup i want to know what played the silence so lauren michaelson there you got anything else and you pull this out

well we've heard the shed thing but is there something else you're

in 8h yeah with a spotlight on you horrifying No one else in there except Lauren in the back smoking a cigarette, just his little ember of a cigarette.

Holding that little tipperilla on him.

Yeah, a tiparillo.

It's funnier when you say it.

And the premise literally was, I think there was a table and a chair and a phone, maybe a prop phone.

And it was like, please hold all my calls.

And then I just started playing with cat toys.

Like an adult on the ground, like hitting a toy like that.

And then the secretary would buzz again, and I'm like, yeah, tell him I'll call him back in 20 minutes.

And then I go back on the ground.

But it was to dead silence.

I was shocked.

And I remember thinking in my head, like, well, this is going to be a really good story when I go back to L.A.

And they're like, what happened?

I'm like, well,

I thought that would be funny to play with cat toys on the ground.

They're like, wait, you did that in your audition?

You're like, no, it was funny.

I thought.

Oh, the guy who fired Sandler and Farley loved it.

He loved it.

That's now that's comedy.

Because the guy doesn't play with cats.

I think

I'm walking a little bit.

Sorry.

It was cat toys.

He like lays on the ground and bats around like a piece of yarn and plays it like that.

And very funny.

And I was watching it because it was like, it was like on Yahoo News.

I'm like, they're like, Will Farrell's first audition.

I go, oh, I don't think I ever saw this.

And then you do that, and it was like crickets.

I go,

who's there?

Marcy and Ken Among, and that's it?

That's it.

Because no one, you're not required to go to auditions.

I don't think I only went went to Louis C.

was like

going, get him next time, guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Stage manager.

Nice strike, kid.

So you do that.

You do get off the shed.

Did anything do well?

No, because there were no laughter.

I think Lauren.

Did they tape it and watch it or something?

They would tape it and watch it.

It was being beamed back to like Burbank at the same time.

It was beamed.

He's at Hamburger Hamlet.

I watch it.

I'm using the technical term beamed.

Yeah.

It was beamed.

You're being beamed.

But Molly Shannon told us something about you very specific that I love.

She said that when you were in a sketch on SNL and it started to tank, we were all being

that you would triple down.

You would be harder at it, like commit.

I'd either commit or slow it down even.

Yeah.

And just

longer pauses in between to torture the lines to where the point Wally, the cue card, Wally, a cue card,

would be pointing.

You have more

sometimes

thought you weren't seeing your line, they would point at it at the line.

Frantically.

So I took like a 15-second pause before I delivered the next line.

Wally's.

Yeah.

You're in blue.

That's you.

But yeah, we would, we would,

it's, I don't, I had this perverse thing of like, okay, audience, you don't like it now, you're really not going to like it.

I'm going to punish you

for hating this sketch even more.

That's a good idea.

You didn't break out in a cold sweat.

You had some kind of confidence.

But I want to talk about when you, I first met you and I knew I would like you.

Because you did something.

Yeah.

I was coming back hosting, you know, hey, watch out.

Weekends.

I had a couple of nominations.

I was super nervous.

But you came up to me

and you had a shirt.

No, you had a shirt with a zipper, I think, and you just got really close to me, right in my space, unzipped it, and this massively hairy chest, and just leaned in with a smile.

Hi, I'm Will.

You know, it was just,

I didn't quite, in real time, I realized, okay, he's doing shtit.

But for a second, I thought, does this guy have spatial problems?

Yeah, you know,

just let him do his thing.

Just as he's leaning in, and that zipper came down a little more, a little more, and then the belly behind the hair.

He wants you to get his scent, and then he'll relax.

Musky.

But that was fun.

And that was when we did,

did I do Ross Perot and you did Larry King?

Because Lauren Michaels talked about that.

I did a fabulous Larry King.

Lauren Michaels called

that sketch was great and you were great as Larry King.

Oh, I was so terrible.

Was it you hosted, Dana?

You were like, don't worry about it.

I'm going to carry the whole thing.

Well, I have an ace in my pocket

by the name of Ross Perot.

So it's the easiest laugh I ever got in my life.

I was like, all I could do is like, I'm Larry King.

Here we are.

Ross Perot.

Ross Perot, what are you?

That's all I could do.

I think you carried it beautifully.

It was a precursor to Alex Trebek playing the sort of straight line.

That was good.

People know your cues.

But being funny with the straight line, you know.

But anyway, that was fun.

But I think we did Bush and bush jr with the i had the antlers i kept banging the antlers oh yeah yeah that's so i'm doing george sr who's six

four

and w's 5'11 so i had herman munster shoes like to hear and they patted me up he's coming in as my little baby son basically so at one point will

plops on my lap.

Yeah.

Here you are, son.

How are you?

And if you play it back on YouTube, you hear me go, we're on a deer hunt or something.

Oh, hunting.

I tried to, yeah, there was

rattling the antlers.

Another time we were out hunting, and I told you to go out.

So then I would get taken care of.

Yeah, it was clear.

Yeah,

keep going into the woods.

Keep walking.

And then Daddy.

It was of mice and men moment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right, right, right, right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I played Ross Pro in a rehearsal.

He was was in the wide shot.

I was in a wide shot as Ross Pro.

Do you remember playing Woody Allen?

Do you remember we did a sketch when you were doing it?

Was it the Woody Allen?

Yeah, you did Woody Allen.

Was it the Woody Allen

in a classroom scene with Seinfeld or Jason Alexander?

Or was I just playing him or something?

I think you were just playing him.

Did you do it?

I don't even mean to be didactic or facetious.

Andre Preven.

Yeah.

Because I was playing

the actor who was his buddy.

I forget which film.

it would just go, Max.

Max.

Max, you're crazy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Baby.

Some smigel sketch.

I did it once once, a cold opening where Rob Schneider was playing Soon Yee.

Yeah.

And I can't.

I know.

It was the early 90s.

Right.

So I come out.

I'm going to do a citizen's cancel.

I come out live,

and there's no Rob Schneider playing Soon Yee.

And the cue card guy's looking like this.

And I'm like, I can't even, you know, she's not even here.

You know, I don't know what I'm going to do, you know, because I can't.

So I had to just do that.

He said that there's makeup stage.

He was in the makeup chair.

Sorry, sorry about that.

Hey, no, Woody, I'm sorry.

I thought I was Daphirs.

Sorry.

Go ahead.

We do a lot of characters on the show.

Yeah.

No, but when I came back to host, Will.

No applause.

When I came.

No, I'm just saying.

No, no, no.

You picked your spots.

They're hanging on your episode.

When I came back.

That's why.

All I remember.

All I remember was, I think there was an Army sketch, and then you had a hard-brim hat.

Do you remember the idea of this sketch?

And then when you came up to me in air, you were poking me in the face with your hat brim.

Sensitive.

Stephen Cragg wrote that sketch.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

It was.

What was the story you were sensitive?

Sensitive

sergeants.

Yeah, okay.

But I barked out all the commands, but it was all loving

therapeutic advice.

And then when you got up to me, you hit me in the forehead with your,

and of course it threw me.

It was like an old, what Farley used to do, just start to make you laugh on air.

But it was really just fun being in a sketch with you because when I did my year where I stayed too long, is what we're calling it now.

But I had my own five minutes,

but I didn't do sketches.

So I felt a little weird because you guys were doing stuff.

So we weren't super connected, but I would like to see you guys and stuff.

But coming back to host, we were all part of it.

That was fun because the whole thing I remember hosting was that one sketch with him.

And because, you know, some work, some don't, obviously.

Right.

And

I think that one is where when I hosted, Sandler was going to be in my monologue.

Remember he did audience member?

Oh, what are you doing?

You're so mean.

He would stand up.

And so we had a whole monologue guy.

What are you doing?

No, he was like a very timid guy with glasses.

He called audience member.

And he had done it a few times.

And so he's doing it when I host.

And then that morning, Waterboy Open or something, he had to fly back to L.A.

And then they go, Lauren goes, well, it looks like Adam's out.

I go, out of the monologue?

Why out of the monologue?

And he goes, well,

aren't you a stand-up?

And I go, I mean, sort of.

I don't really do it anymore.

I work at this fucking dunk.

20,000 hours a week.

I haven't done a set in eight months.

And he goes, maybe just seven minutes.

That's all you need.

I go, yeah, but I need it polished.

I can't run to the comedy store.

I can't run anywhere.

So I put together, I don't know how we got.

Sounds like a fun challenge.

It was a challenge.

And it was,

I did a bit about a polar bear and I did a bit about something else, but it was kind of fun and terrifying.

And then I remember your sketch.

Thus.

That was great doing it with you.

That's all.

Every moment of SNL.

Fun and terrifying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very scary.

Do you remember, have you ever said no to a Tuesday dinner at Orso

with the host?

With host and

I think

I finally

over, because I remember you guys talking about this in one of your, one of the podcasts, that

you finally work up enough courage

to say no.

But I think it took

because I remember you saying,

Dana, you saying

five seasons before it felt like it was like your home gym or before you stopped.

Yeah, and I literally remember your words.

It literally took me five years before I didn't feel nervous every single second.

And you had the same experience.

Same experience.

And so by year six and seven, I think I was, I finally had the guts to be like, I'm not going on a Tuesday.

Usually it looks like the world.

There was a Tuesday.

By then, I think somewhere you went to this other gear.

I don't know when it happened, but you got good.

I think it was the last week.

The last week of my last, yeah, your last show.

My last show.

Cowbell, and then I think you left right after Cowbell, right?

Every

best of sketches in my last show of the seventh season.

I heard Cowbell.

You asked them.

So, weren't you nervous then?

Because Bill Hayter told us that he was having panic attacks the whole time.

I never was able to see it, like literally, panic attacks in the bathroom by himself, crying.

But you control it, but were you crying?

It never got that bad, but there were,

there was just,

you know, it got less and less with each year.

Yeah.

And it, but it would always surprise me,

especially after that first year where you're, you're like, okay, I think I've gone through everything you're going to go through where you potentially are going to get thrown.

Yeah.

It would just come out of the blue

where it would be, I don't know.

It wouldn't even be like the first show of the season.

It'd be something like the seventh show.

It's like, why do

I don't have a good feeling.

This is not going to be good.

It's an anxiety.

It would just

come out of nowhere.

Yeah.

And that'd be fine the rest of the year.

But it's inexplicable.

It's two things happen, I think.

There's people like Eddie Murphy who was a savant, basically, at 19.

But I think for most people, you get a little more confident, and then the audience starts to see you.

And then you get a little more confident.

And then finally, when the audience sees you come out, they're kind of excited.

And then it builds on it.

I've seen it happen with a lot of cast members over time.

That's why Lauren says, do,

you know, well, with me, I was newer, but like a feature player, but do a few lines here, a few lines there, just to get them to see your face and know you're part of the situation.

So then they know, okay, he's one of these guys, and then they will buy you when you do a full sketch.

But you came, you were one of the ones that, like Dana, where you came out and you had to be a full.

Were you a full cast member when you started?

Well,

we were really lucky because that year before

was when they got rid of the deadline.

Farley Sandler.

Farley Sandler.

Get rid of them.

Clean it out the dead wood.

Myers, this class.

Yeah, Myers Dana.

Yeah.

He's good.

Phil Artman.

I was hanging out of the door like Titanic.

John Lovett.

You know,

you migrate the place.

Start over.

So we had a brand new, we had eight brand new castors and a brand new writing staff.

Very weird.

So we we didn't know any better.

We, we were like, it wasn't that, because I've talked to past cast members who were added one at a time, like by themselves, and that's super or mid-season

to try to break through that way.

In fact, Molly was mid-season the year before I got there.

Oh, she was there.

And we were laughing because she was like,

What is this?

You guys get like cue card training and

you get shown where all the,

here's the wardrobe department.

Here's your quick quick change area.

I didn't get any of that.

My God.

Yeah.

And she was just laughing, going, she was like, I was a little mad, actually.

You guys got to, did you get trained on the Q?

Do you remember anything like that?

No one even talked to me.

Just terror.

I mean, my thing was freaky because in the first show, I was in the cold opening and I didn't know it was the cold opening.

I was just in it.

I knew it was my first time doing sketch comedy.

It was hard for me not to look at the audience like a stand-up.

And then the church lady popped and came in, and I had Sigourney Weaver and Phil and Jan.

And so then that took off.

Crazy.

So I was just boiled in water immediately.

And then chopping broccoli.

But no one,

no one.

Chopping broccoli.

Chopping broccoli.

Jeez.

Yeah.

Which that was in my first show.

That's your first show?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

The cutaway to Phil, by the way.

Oh, yeah.

Just him and Joe, everyone just going, this is the worst song ever.

And then Phil Hartman just going, yes.

Phil Hartman, I'll give you

as great a compliment as I can.

You remind me of a lot of people, Peter Sellers, and you also remind me of Phil.

Well, thanks.

Because

you were Alex Trebek.

That would have been what

Phil would have played that guy.

Phil Hartman and Dan Aykrud were like my guys I looked up to.

I just loved how they could swim.

They could be the main guy or be the background guy.

That's what I loved about.

ensemble comedy.

Yeah.

And, you know, everyone who knows them both just said they're kind of scientist comedians.

They would just, Phil would read you know books about Evan Rude motorboats on the set and then pick up his script kill it in the rehearsal come back and Ackroyd's the same way he's interested

in astronomy came to host when we were I don't know if it was that first year or the second year oh really he comes back to host and I'm in the room I think it was with Tom Janice and Adam McKay and Kechner

and I just can't I don't know what to say to him.

So I'm just sitting in the chair and I'm just like,

that's Phil Hartman.

And he finally picks up on it.

He's like, what gives with the Pharaoh kid?

Cat got your tongue?

It was like, do I walk out of the room?

I was like, I was just like, oh, no, I just, what these guys said.

Yeah, I mean,

I'm writing the thing that they're going to write for you, too.

But he was just, oh, what a great song.

Yeah, there was just something about him, and he was so effortless, and he didn't care, and he was so unassuming about it.

Yeah.

And that's why we nicknamed him the glue.

He was just somebody who was always there.

But God, he picked up on the fact that I just, I wouldn't,

I couldn't speak.

Yeah.

God, that's so interesting because now we have data of where you went and where you're still going.

And to hear this stuff, I feel like

stopped.

stopped

you remember when I stopped you remember when I know I returned you don't even say it

I see I hadn't seen you in a while I run into the Laker game you're like oh hey Will hey hey hey sorry about the career

oh I can't I can't even hide my jealous rage yeah you're like hey by the way I'm good to see you sorry about the career yeah sorry everything went up on a fucking rocket ship

no

because the first time I saw you was at Butterfield and Butterfield.

Oh, yeah, you heard me.

Oh, man.

He worked at an auction house that is Christie's now, I think, on Sunset.

And I was buying Elvis memorabilia.

And I took my

new money.

Yeah.

And I bought an Elvis set list.

Joey Esposito, who is Elvis is one of his buddies, was there authenticating stuff.

I got a set list that he wrote out his handwriting, and and I got a loved ellis.

I bought a one of his guns and then I bought a

watch

and I thought it was cool as shit.

And then you worked there.

Yeah.

And then you, I had my land cruiser, which I still have tonight.

And I, you walked me out and that's where I met you.

And then I, when I saw you at Esno, I think we remembered that you worked there, right?

You didn't work there.

Oh my God.

Yeah, no, I worked there and my

then

good friend.

And that was the last time I was funnier than later, my wife.

Oh, yeah, she worked there.

Oh, that's right.

She was the auctioneer.

Oh, hey, batter, hey, bada.

Yeah.

Exactly like that.

Hey, batter, hey, bada.

Can you yell out a number?

You keep saying, hey, batter, hey, better.

We can't follow the bidding.

But it was interesting seeing you there.

And then

obviously

we joke around, but

the monster movies after that.

I mean, we could talk about SNL because I was going to ask you before we get to all these movies,

What was your favorite commercial parody you were in?

Do you remember commercial parodies?

Did you do a lot or not?

Yeah, I didn't.

I was a little bit bumped.

When I first started, I wasn't in.

I don't think I was in any of those initial commercial parodies.

Usually it was sort of like jury duty because it takes you away from the show a little bit because you have to dedicate a full day to shooting it during the week.

And now they do a lot of pre-tapes during the week.

You see the host and a lot of, I mean, they beat the shit out of them.

But you'd come

sometime in September to start.

You can go do them early?

Oh, yeah.

We can do them early.

I don't know if we did that.

Before that first show,

it wasn't in many of them.

Knockout one.

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One thing I'm just quickly very interested in, because I, you know, you think everyone knows everything about you, but what was that transition from USC to being, to the ground lanes?

And then how long at the ground lanes until you got on SNL?

How fast did you get on SNL from from when you started

to be a comedian?

I graduated SC in 90,

moved home immediately, which was great.

Back to Orange County.

Back to Orange County.

Okay, good move.

Everyone was super sucked.

So that's in 1990?

Yeah.

That was 1990.

I'm back, Dad.

Yeah, I'm back.

Thanks for the education.

Yeah, thanks for the

degree.

And

I then was, I was going to try to be a sportscaster.

That's what I studied at SC.

I was going to go, but at the same time, I thought, ah,

I better try this comedy thing if I'm going to give a shot.

Because I was from a childhood sort of

prankster and all that.

Always liking it, but too afraid to try it.

And that's when I started taking classes at the Growlings,

trying some stand-up comedy.

pretty darn good.

Yeah,

do you ever play The Cannery down in Newport or the San Juan Depot where an actual train goes through

your set?

Well, I'd like

to official comedy.

I had that, yeah, okay.

But I don't think I was in

Shaky's, Nina was in Long Beach, an Italian restaurant.

I did not, yeah, all the big spots.

I had, I did, yeah, uh, Sir Laughs a lot in Glendale, Gutbusters, yeah,

uh, The Rib Tickler in Minneapolis, I play.

That's real.

But I was doing some stand-up.

I was doing

Groundlings, you have to work your way through this school.

Yeah.

But the courses are so booked up.

You'll finish one level and you got to wait six months before the next one opens up.

So then I was just back working odd jobs.

I was a bank teller.

And this is in 91, 99.

91, 92.

You're still doing odd jobs.

And then I think 93, I get into the main company

at, or the Sunday company at the Groundlings.

Did you have a character that you had developed at that point that got you to that?

Was Harry Carey around?

Harry Carey was in the main company.

Yeah.

So the Sunday show is like their B team, like their minor league team.

And then you get into the main company.

And

that's when

the Get Off the Shed sketch I had done.

And I started doing Harry Carey.

That was during the baseball strike one year inspired character and and I thought

oh baseball there's no baseball games right now I wonder what Harry Carey's doing with

his days

I thought it'd be funny I should set him in like an acting class doing a play reading of a super dramatic play perfect

and so I wrote this sketch about Harry in a community theater

rehearsal space

and

you know I was like okay okay let's take the scene from the top and you know right and then it was Harry Carey doing like

damn it Carol what happened to us

I look in your eyes and I don't see love anymore

and then

you disappear I literally your face from this angle funny I didn't see Will for a second that was I remember Maggie Baird who is she she played my wife but they the other act act, they had to play, I said, you guys have to play it really, like, if you can make yourself cry, do it.

So they're reading the lines like, I don't know, I just, we're distant.

And she's like getting herself to cry.

And then I'm playing off of that.

It was, it was madness.

But

the audience, I knew it was working when the audience was laughing at the, without any knowledge of who Harry Carey was.

They'd just be like, who's that crazy guy you do?

Yeah, yeah.

They just sounds funny.

But so I'd done that.

And by that spring of 95, that was when we had heard SNL's looking to recast.

Uh, so it was

pretty fast, it was like two years.

Did you have anybody in a position of authority, a mentor, or someone at the groundlings, or someone who pulled you aside at one point, said, I think we really can do this?

Or it was a really supportive

sort of giving you feedback.

Was it more supportive than SNL?

Well,

I would say typically yes, but we, the group we had at the show, you were kind of like we got kind of lucky.

We got lucky.

Who was in that group?

That was, that would have been Molly and myself.

Chris Katan.

Chris Katan came later.

Anna Gessner.

Anna came the next year.

Sherry.

Oh, Sherry.

Oh, Terry.

Where are you?

Norm was doing

Meadows.

Tim, Jim Brewer.

Wow.

So everyone went on from there.

Steve Carell's wife, Nancy Walls, who was on all of that.

And it was a lot of people who had done sketch comedy.

So everyone was just kind of like

pulling for each other in a very

non-SNL way because we knew like, ooh, the show's about to get canceled.

Not to mention,

everyone in network television

saw there was blood in the water.

So we had to go up.

Mad TV premiered.

Oh, yeah.

Howard Stern had a sketch comedy show.

Oh, really?

Your first year?

All that was

funny.

But I think, and you did your show?

In 96, yeah.

That first

prime time.

It made half an episode.

They pulled us out.

Were you guys doing it on a Friday night, maybe?

I didn't know.

It was right after Spin City or Home Improvement.

And there was a fourth.

There was four or five different sketch comedy shows in that whole year.

And then Living Color might have still been on it.

Maybe.

Yeah, the state, maybe.

So, anyway, so we were actually pulling for each sort of friendly uh was was cheerleaders that first year

it was that first year so you had a couple that really works there was no danger no no there was

don't ruin the flow you're getting it wrong

i say my stuff yeah

um no no no but cheerleaders must have i think it crushed from immediately and then you did it a few times that year so you were in no danger of feeling down deep you might get fired or anything you were doing well enough that first year to go.

I'm pretty sorry.

Except they did a thing where I think we were signed for the first nine shows and they were going to pick up

gross.

But then,

but then

that was a gross pickup.

I mean, it's just.

But then they, dare I say, they broke the contract and they said, nope, you're just picked up.

You're picked up for just five more shows.

Wow.

And then we'll see if you're picked up for the last five.

This is your first season.

Just getting these little pickups.

that's what happens when i date girls they pick me up for two more dates and then they go we'll see how it goes after that

i'm sorry you don't have to laugh no no you don't have to

it's all right they thought you said it so you started laughing yeah uh no he's being you uh so but it was still so it was still harrowing it's by the way i don't think you're ever relaxed there going i got it made here so i don't think that's ever a feeling if you're new even if you're new except those last couple seasons yeah really

right but you're But I did have a fantastic, so when my

arbitrarily, that my last year, when I just decided that would be my last year,

seventh season, whatever.

Just felt like the right amount of time.

Lauren took me to dinner to talk me into staying.

Chili's.

Houston, Houston's.

I can get us in.

I can do Hillstone.

Houston's at 9:30.

Does that work?

After the rush?

Yeah.

These dinners are very interesting.

So, Will, you're going to stay.

That's how he does it sometimes.

You'll stay another two years.

Oh, yeah.

Just tell you.

He'll tell you what's going to happen.

It was at Pastis.

Oh.

Yeah.

Okay.

But how awkward because you want to say no, you want to leave, right?

Well, you'd already filmed old school, but we'll get to that, right?

During the.

Yeah, that was in the can.

That was in the can.

That was in the can, but no one knew.

You didn't know where it was.

That was in the the can.

That's a term for

film.

It's edited, but they haven't shown it.

Because they used to have a cellular.

You do that in the summer, and then you came back and did that.

I think I did it partly through

the fall of that seventh season.

Okay.

So, how did Lauren pitch you?

Lauren said the most.

He said, so

I understand you're thinking about leaving.

And I would just suggest this.

You're at a high point, right?

But you want to start just to begin to dip

and then you should leave.

And I was like,

but Lauren, that seems counterintuitive.

Work for John Lovitt.

When Lauren doesn't really want to hear an answer, he always goes, just think about it.

Yeah.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just think about it.

Think about that trajectory.

I'm going to draw the chart on a napkin.

And

I'm going, yeah, let me just think about waiting for me to dip

and then leave.

I will think about that.

And you just said, I'll think about it.

And then we never talked about it ever again.

But it seems like, you know, you did Molly's movie.

You did a lot of, you did the movie with Chris and you, you know, you were kind of, and then you'd done Cowbell and everything else.

It seemed like your timing was impeccable.

I mean, you were ready, but you could have killed for three more years on the show.

Yeah.

I mean, if,

no, if, if anyone had put a show biz gun to my head and said, this is all you get to do, I would have said, great.

Yeah.

It was the hardest, most fun job I've ever done.

Most exhilarating, bizarre.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, we.

I couldn't hear you.

Did someone put a gun to your head?

Someone put a gun, Elvis, one of Elvis' old guns.

Oh, goddamn.

Bought an auction to my head.

Don't use mine right back on.

Comes around around comes around.

This crowd does not know what to do because.

I think I was in a dark nightclub in Scottsdale.

Where I'm from.

Camelback in 54th.

Yeah.

When you did, so in the summers, you did, that's what we would try to do: is a movie in the summer.

So you did, what was the first one?

Was it Superstar?

Were you in Superstar?

I was in Superstar.

The first one was Superstar.

Or was it Roxbury?

I think the first one was Roxbury.

I heard the original title was called A Day at the Roxbury.

Then you go

maybe night.

Night.

We're doing Burry this month.

Is there any way you could still

shake your neck like that or no?

It's too hard.

I don't know if I can't.

I don't know if I remember

what the motion was.

It was

this love?

If I did it now, I would just hold my head still and go.

Try to trick the audience.

Like a little cardboard cut out.

Actually, that's a sketch Katana and I would do at the Growlings.

Oh, you brought it in?

So we brought that in.

But

I'm sorry to interrupt you, but for the audience, if they don't know, but we say it sometimes, when you come on, when I was there, you would

say what sketches you had when you came in or what characters.

Right.

And then you own them, even if you did them on the show.

I think Mike owned Wayne's World.

And then

I was just.

No, I don't know.

Well, they were pretty tricky about that.

I don't know.

We'll own it it even if we don't own it.

Maybe 50-50?

And then whatever you came up with in the writer's room, they own, right?

Is that how it works?

Yeah, so if you came in with

that,

and then I think it's more incentivizing if you would think if it was a sketch they owned, you know, because Lorne was doing a lot of sketches for a while.

Like, even Tommy Boy was sort of us at the office based on.

What was that movie?

You guys.

What was Tommy Boy about?

I get the top of the hand.

And then.

Woo!

And then Wayne's World.

Let's get some box office numbers out here.

Roxbury versus Tommy Burning.

No, Tommy Boy.

Tommy Boy was pulling coin down.

We weren't a big hit, though.

Roxboxbury maybe made 30.

We made probably 35.

We barely.

Really?

Yeah, Wayne's World was the big hit, yeah.

Tommy Boy made like 50.

No, it just made

Black Sheep.

What about what?

Black Sheep.

Black Sheep made about the same.

But they sort of did better

as it went on, like on video.

But

some movies like that,

in hindsight, you probably thought they made more, but it didn't.

It opened number one, and so did Black Sheep, but it wasn't like a huge killing, but it just sort of resonated over time, which helps because a lot of them do better and then they don't resonate.

You know how it is.

You got a lot of movies.

Actually, all his DVD and yours did well, but

to other people, not really.

DVDs are huge.

What was your DVDs are called, by the way?

Oh, yeah.

Live streaming is

the one that didn't work.

Let's get some hardware going.

I want to put it in a slot.

No, it was like, I remember Walmart said, every time people throw in Tommy Boy or Joe Dirt when they come by in the aisle, and it doesn't go down.

Every week they get the same amount of people.

They just go, I just throw in.

I just throw it in.

So that made money, I guess, for them.

But not really me.

But

I like those ones that kind of live on.

There's not that many.

But when you came out, so old school was such a monster.

Was your idea to be naked and streak because you did that before?

Or there's always seems to be a lot of people.

You wanted to treat America.

You got a comfort level of using your body, you know, in a very funny way.

I had a comfort level.

Yeah, I would streak in college, right?

Or is that made it?

I had.

Yeah, I I had.

My dad's in the audience tonight, Dad.

Oh, yeah, you're trying to overthink your answers.

I streaked in college, Dad.

Your dad is out there right here in our audience?

Mr.

But yeah, that.

Well, I was always,

that was the thing I loved about Chris Farley.

I just remember doing that.

I remember thinking, okay, I'm going to meet people that are just as funny as me and people that are much funnier than me, but the one, I'll just, they won't be able to out-commit me.

It was like my promise to myself.

You fulfilled that promise.

I don't think so.

Anyone committed harder?

I had no problem taking my shirt off during sketches and things like that.

But I do remember reading the

script for old school and reading that joke, reading, and there's sometimes a disconnect that you read it and you go, oh, that'll be funny until the day you actually have to

form it.

And you come out of your trailer.

What are are you wearing?

A robe or what do you come out of your trailer?

We'll shoot this.

And we marble bags.

Will, it's time for the run down the street.

Little marble sack.

Yeah.

As they say

in the industry.

Yeah.

And yeah, we shot it here in Montrose.

Anyone from Montrose here tonight?

I've only heard anyone who remembers the band Montrose.

But yeah, we shot that right out here near Altadena.

And And I just remember we were shooting

in front of a bunch of stores, storefronts, and there was like a local health club.

And there was all these yuppie people working out, getting their power walking in.

And I said to the PA, like,

has anyone told them what's about to happen?

Because I'm in the robe and I got the marble sack attached to the crucial area.

And

does anyone know I'm about to drop the robe?

And

do we want to tell, you know, some kid on a headset, like, what?

Huh?

Yeah.

I don't know.

We want to get real ready.

Okay, back to one.

I think we're going to film it now.

We're ready.

That first take.

I'm running.

And I'm trying to.

I'm like, hi, we're all going straight.

I'm hearing off in the distance through the window of the health club, oh my God.

So many pews.

And then

we shoot it, we cut, we reset.

Another take.

He's not going to be able to do that.

Another take.

There's like one old guy in there still power walking.

Extra.

By the third take, health club totally cleared out.

No one wanted to watch me run naked

down the street.

How many takes?

It was probably more than we needed.

Camera from behind and

crane.

Crane changed.

Got to bring in the Super 50 Techno.

Yeah.

Yeah, side shot.

Yeah.

And then camera in the car where I go in butt first to sit down.

So yeah, a bunch of shots.

Dana.

I know this is supposed to be all Will.

I remember that movie.

Dana, I mean, Will, can I tell you one embarrassing thing?

Just remind me of walk.

I have to move for this.

It's not worth it at all.

But we'll take it out later.

So this is embarrassing because one movie I did called Warning Shot, it was sort of of a drama, and there was gun.

Thank you.

Warning Shot.

That's when you played the kingpin, right?

Yeah, I was a bad guy.

He was a drug lord.

I was a drug lord.

Dana, I knew you'd see the trailer.

You sent it to me.

So there's,

Dana.

We're taking this all out anyway.

I got to watch Warning Shot.

So, well, watch it on the plane.

So put it in my notes.

Here I am.

You got it down for sure?

Warning Shot.

Warning Shot.

Okay.

And I don't want to give the whole thing away because everyone's going to run on my wrist.

I directed Warning Shot.

I don't know if we had a director.

I realized halfway through we were just all talking.

AI directed it.

So they said there's a part where I get squibs, lingo.

So there's a gunfight.

You're going to get shot.

So they have to ling me.

They have to

squid me up.

So they put like little, you know, Pepsi ACs on you that blow up.

You know what I mean?

Like whatever.

But they have to, I don't know if it's electronically, they have to tape it to you.

Right.

And they actually make,

it like makes a spark or something.

So they make a small explosion.

Right.

So they tape a couple here

to my bird chest.

And then, but I'm at lunch eating a burrito.

And then they go, hey,

shooting after lunch.

I go, Car.

And, but like you, I don't even think about it.

And then I go, oh, wait, I have to, this guy's coming in here.

So the special effects guy has got like a ponytail, you know, always.

He comes in, hey?

It's like, it's like a sound that's in his phone.

Yeah.

He goes,

we're going to do these.

And you might feel a spark.

And if there's a full fire, we'll, you know, we'll address it then.

And I go, okay.

Which means it's happening.

Yeah, which means which means it's his first day.

So he goes,

they just pulled me off this other thing.

Home Depot?

Yeah.

So

he goes, okay.

So he wires me up like shirt off.

And then they go, one, two, three, four, let's say.

And then they tape them down.

And now they stick them on.

And now they have to go down my pant leg.

And then, you know what I mean, like out the back, the wires.

And then the guy has like a little blow-up plunger.

Yep.

So

I have to put my pants on over that.

So these are on here.

And they go back like six feet to him and he's like, got it.

And then in my trailer, and then I delicately put put my shirt on.

They go, Ready for you.

So I start to walk out.

He's following me.

And then I start drifting off on the way to the set, going, What are my lines?

Blah, blah, blah.

Take that, Dag Nabit, or whatever I'm saying.

And you're playing like a macho back.

Yeah, like I'm a tough guy.

So I'm just, I'm drip.

This is the embarrassing.

I'm drifting off.

And then I go,

and then

three toots in a row, just to myself.

I don't care.

I'm just walking.

And then I hear behind me, hey, come on, man.

I forgot he was six feet and already leaning over.

Hey, come on, man.

Because I'm first team, the worst thing you can say is, come on, man.

He wanted to bust my fucking head open.

And

he goes, it's cool.

It's cool.

It's cool.

But it wasn't cool.

It was so horrible.

I couldn't apologize, but I had to laugh so hard first because it was so uncool.

And then he's walking through.

And then, guess what?

The squibs went wrong after that.

The squibs were a relief after that.

I just walk on the side, I go, Are we ready?

And he's like, BLAM!

And I'm like,

He's like, oh,

it's usually the indignant special effects person

who

they get mad at you, even though they didn't have it hooked up right.

And

so, filming a night at the Roxbury,

one of the gags was we're driving, we're doing the head thing.

Yeah.

And then Katan

does it so hard, he smashes his side.

His window?

His passenger side window with his head.

And it explodes.

But that's all squibbed up.

So that's supposed to.

Just crack, smash.

That's supposed to crack with the aid of technology.

Timing.

Whammy.

Time when he touches it, bam.

Special effect guy.

Same guy.

He's waiting by the console,

You know, going hot.

Going hot on effects.

Cool dialogue.

Coming in hot, yeah.

You're timing it out.

You're rehearsing how many heads.

Okay, we'll do it on the fifth one.

And on the fifth one, Chris will go like this.

So we're doing, you know, what Isla?

And we're doing our thing.

And Chris,

one,

two,

three,

four,

whack.

Side

does nothing.

The side went.

Doesn't break.

Doesn't break at all.

Guy comes in.

He's like, I don't, don't.

It's all checked out or something.

Wasn't plugged in.

As if we're supposed to go, oh, great.

No problem.

Ah, fuck.

But Katan's got like a shiner.

Well, yeah.

And he's like,

do we trust him?

Do we do it again?

He goes, are we doing it again?

But it's, they get so excited when they discover

their issue.

Yeah.

Yeah.

he's like it wasn't my fault it wasn't plugged in you're like that's still your fault yeah isn't it funny it wasn't plugged in can you believe it

wasn't plugged in

uh show business is difficult that's all we're saying it did so you i do love the guy like oh i love it come on man oh he just kind of come on man he did the the harshest he could go was hey come on man like

and then i was like oh my god he can't yell at me it's so it because he just but we always found that with the effects guys on SNL.

If you had a gag.

Like, please, we need so much blood.

It's supposed to be over the top amount of blood.

You got it.

It's going to be so much blood.

Dress virtual show.

Like one spot.

And you'd look over and the guy would be like, I don't know what happened.

Sorry.

I don't know.

You want more than that?

You're like, yes.

I want the funny version of the blood.

Funny version and like then add 100% to that.

We did it with Alec Baldwin and we were

in Jay Moore.

We were all like, every cop that came to us that goes, I think Phil comes up and he goes,

This is the sickest, most gruesome set, you know, I've ever seen car crash.

And he throws up.

And then he goes, Captain, Captain, what's going on?

Then he throws up.

And it was just a joke of we all throw up.

And like me and Jay, by the time we got there, we were newer and we had two lines, but the throw up wasn't working as well.

And it goes, it's the same thing.

Up your leg, up a hose.

And it got him back on,

and then at rehearsal, we're like, guys, more same thing.

Yeah, please.

Funny throw-up.

It goes everywhere, and it's too much.

No one's mad.

It's too much is better.

And I think by the time we did it, it was either a leaky faucet, you know, it just barely in your life.

And then it's funny because you're like, it's just a little because it's coming out of your arm, but you have to act like you're barfing, and it goes like that.

Right.

There's a spray my whole face.

Funny.

Anyway, that's not, that's neither here nor there right now.

No, no, no.

No, but, but, uh, do you have any other stories you'd like to share?

Did you do were you in Anchorman?

Because I didn't read everything.

I know you were in

I auditioned for

the guy Ron Flurgen.

Was Burgundy that wasn't something from SNL, right?

That was something you thought of after.

That was after.

Yeah.

That was after the show.

Was that one of your first your left SNL?

Was that one of your first

starring in movies?

Old school, old school.

Came out?

Came out after I left.

While we were filming.

Yeah, so I left and I didn't.

Is that the only old school

that they held on to it, which is usually a bad sign?

Right.

Didn't release it until later.

After Anchorman.

No, no.

Before.

So it was old school.

And then we were working on Elf, this script about an elf.

Oh, Elf was back then?

That was not

enough.

That needed a bunch of work.

So when I left the show, there wasn't, I didn't like have this stack of scripts waiting for me.

But holy shit, to come out with those three washed out.

Old school elf and anchorman were the first movies I did after I left the show.

That's unreal.

Old school, you go,

you're crazy.

Is that what you said?

After the train start, yeah, yeah, hysterical.

Yeah.

So many parts of old school are great.

When Vince Fawn goes, hey, you need some sand?

I got a sand guy.

Everything about old school was funny.

Love that one.

Elf obviously was such a huge home run hit and

still to this day.

But Elf was

that was that was a little scary only because

I'd come off of SNL and old school known probably for doing more PG-13

stuff on SNL.

And then you're in a

family thing.

That's risky.

Going,

this could be it.

I don't know.

I'm just sitting around

running around the streets of New York in yellow tights.

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your style, I guess I'd say, is you just you never wink and you commit like the dramatic actor.

Yeah.

And that's that's what kind of holds you up.

Well, Elf, all those things.

Thank you, Dana.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I say the same thing.

I said anything.

I said it before you sit here.

It's Dana.

You can do a trick that Kevin Nealing can do.

You can lower your IQ just 20 points

just with your eyes.

Very subtly.

And it's a genius.

But every time we were doing Hans and Franz, Cocky Idiots,

and we were talking and they go 5, 4, 3, I'd look at Kevin, and his eyes would just go really dumb.

Yeah.

He could lower his IQ like 40 points, but you have that skill set of being able to just take IQ off your with just something about your eyes.

Yeah, it is.

Kind of like a guy, what was his name?

Sounds

Sellers, Peter Sellers, Peter Sellers, kind of like that guy.

Pete Sell, I call him.

Pete Sellers.

Because you do have some symmetry with him.

A lot of comedians want to claim Peter Sellers, but I do think you have something in you know that cocky idiot character that

also is very dry, extremely bizarre word packages with a lot of physicality.

Anyway, I just have been researching you for the first time.

But that's

how I started thinking of the Ron Burgundy character because I was watching footage of this news anchor who'd been retired for 20 years, but he still talked like this.

Yeah.

And I walk through my local market and

I'll be ordering, you know,

buying my groceries.

And people will hear my voice and they'll know, they'll ask me, were you in news?

And I say, yes, I used to be.

And I thought, who talks like that?

Like, what?

You're not a news guy anymore.

And I thought, oh, that's funny.

Someone who never loses that affect.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But all the stuff writing that San Diego's funny,

casting it right.

There's so many ways to do a movie wrong, even if you have a funny character.

Like you got to get it directed well, written well, perform it well, edited.

There's so many ways to ruin it along the way.

And that's why sometimes you sign up for a movie, it just doesn't come out because there's so many ways to mess it up.

But to have all those work all the way through is very, very tough to do.

And Anchorman is one of those that has hit on all cylinders.

And then the sequel, I was watching the fight scene from the sequel today.

And it's so fucking funny where you're thinking of different ways.

to have different news people and uh and then everyone's playing it is funny and they all they keep coming in their different groups all that was funny and topping the first one was hard but you did that with that and then also a two days with kanye west i figured out that was kanye i'm like kanye made this cameo but he he filmed his thing and then he just hung out the next day

playing yeezus for us over and over oh yeah

yeah

whether you wanted to hear oh yeah yeah

That's demo jail.

Yeah, it was wild.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's funny.

I I used to be, yeah, whatever.

I had a guy like that, and he would play his album over and over

in the car.

And then you didn't want to say, no, you already played it for me.

But I'll listen to it again.

Give you another shot at it.

That was funny because I saw Kanye.

I was like, oh, my God, is that Kanye?

Like, was he around back then?

I guess he was.

He must have been pretty new.

No, he was.

Yeah, he was pretty old, I think.

Whatever it is, whatever the answer is.

So

also your bandmates on that, which you've worked with a lot.

Paul Rudd,

who's awesome, obviously.

Steve Corell.

Corell and Corell, so funny.

Corell got a great funny part, yeah.

Kechner, yeah, it was a great group.

Kechner

and McKay, who we'd met at SNL.

And so it was, it was a

you guys just really knew what you were doing.

We just felt like we were playing with the house's money.

And, you know, they had

DreamWorks had said no to it initially and then later came back.

Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah.

They had a bunch of people had passed on it.

I think we had 10 or 15 different financiers or studios pass on it

in one day.

It was a great.

It was a great day.

That's a horrible.

McKay and I call him.

Did you hear about this one?

Yeah, that's a pass.

Okay.

But you go excitedly pitch it to everyone and then you just hear pass, pass, pass, pass.

The call should be coming in.

Pass, pass, pass, pass.

Oh, my God.

That's sickening.

because it almost doesn't ever work after that.

If one passes, it gets like a stink to it.

Like the other one's here, and they go, oh, oh, something's bad about it.

Oh, we don't want it either.

So you do that.

Is it once Happen Else came out or something?

And they go,

Oh, well,

we'll risk it now.

No, it was old school.

Old school.

Came out, and they thought, oh, wait, we have this other script with him.

We should do something.

I like it.

Hey, that made money.

Let's do a chart.

And then we take it.

We take it back.

We take it back.

We like the thing about the newscasters.

They just couldn't wrap their heads around it that it'd be funny.

And I was trying to say it's kind of what Austin Powers will be to the spy, Jean.

But anyway, so when we finally got to make it,

we were like, let's just hurry.

Let's just shoot what because they may shut us down at any point.

When movies do the best, I feel like that's, and then it was one of those where I'm guessing, you know, the last couple takes, do whatever you want.

Just keep pushing it up.

Just act stupider and stupider.

And then someone's got to pick the one that you live with forever, but then you go, God, there were five other ones that were just as ridiculous.

Did you ride that way?

I mean, because were you on 35 millimeter film in the 90s?

And then you get on the Anchorman set or whatever, and you got digital for the first time or no?

When did digital come?

Not till Anchorman 2.

Yeah.

Oh, because then you could improvise for 20 minutes.

But we would do it anyway.

Anyway, run out of it.

Yeah.

Because it's expensive

yeah

okay

and uh uh but yeah we would just we would just go until we heard that film run out and and

go to the line producer and just say

you got to you know can you give us cover here we just need more film stock I don't know what else to say

and luckily they they the studios usually once you got going they were they were okay or they see the dailies they know something something's happening yeah and uh talladega nights Knights is another monster.

So

that one,

no questions.

Just wanted you to get the applause.

Yeah.

No.

And Blades of Glory.

Riley.

Was that one of the first with Riley?

Or he was also in.

I saw Anchor Man.

No, so

John did the table read for Anchorman, and we really wanted him to be in it.

And he was doing...

He had to go do Gangs of New York or something, you know, some bullshit.

Bullshit Scorsese thing.

And, yeah.

And

we're here priest.

So, but you know, it's good you guys wind up in that.

Oh, and stepbrothers.

So you guys round up in those.

Yeah.

So these are consistent,

successful comedies, which is an easy thing.

Very, very hard to do.

Yeah, it's been big hits.

It's been good, which is why it's just fun to use your guys' podcast to announce my retirement.

Yeah.

And

yeah.

Should we be honored?

Do you feel like you're hogging all the good movies or something?

Give someone else a chance.

Yeah, I want to let.

I want to do.

We should do a remake of

the Farty Blood.

The Warning Shart.

The Warning Shart.

Warning Shart.

Yeah.

Your joke.

I didn't.

Yeah.

Warning Shart?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Shot-for-shot remake of Warning Shark.

We could put a little more money, get a director.

Get that same effects guy there.

Yeah, the effects guy.

That guy's still around.

You ever have the sound guy get in your face?

Hey, man, we're just going to...

Why are you up here?

I'm like, sir, sir, I got it.

They're like, it's going to go right down your panel.

There's a lot of problems.

Go up your butthole.

Where does that need to go?

You want a waist?

Do you want an ankle?

What do you want?

What do you want?

What do you like?

Can I tape this to your chest?

Is that all right?

Do you want it up the B-hole?

You know what that is?

Do you mind holding

it on your phone?

Do you want to put it in your beard?

Bury it in your beard?

Do you mind swallowing this microphone?

It would help production.

I want to get the sound of your

sister juices.

Can you learn how to use this boom mic?

Take it home with you on the weekend.

Can you hold it just out of frame into your own room?

It's a good arm exercise.

It would help.

Yeah.

I used to feel sorry for those guys with the 40-foot boom

for like shaking

shaking like that.

And I'm like, I got another funny idea.

And they're like, motherfucker.

Yeah, keep it rolling.

Some guy's triceps.

And they'll cut and the guy's like,

lays down in convulsions.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We got it easy.

God damn it.

Oh, I have a question.

I know.

But don't you...

Don't you feel you'd be fired from every single job on a movie set except for the ones that we get to do.

Right?

Like a real movie?

That's what I feel like.

Well,

I mean, it seems like you were all most of the time working with like-minded spirits and stuff.

No, no, I mean, as an actor, all the other jobs are so much harder than just

goofing around.

Right.

Yeah.

I would rather just go around and have someone shoot it than.

I could never do a real job.

Is that coming?

No.

Wait.

I didn't know.

Doesn't my question make sense?

Yeah.

No, I'm just saying.

Between like camera, director, yeah.

Well, they say I didn't know these other jobs.

Yeah.

To be an actor, it's like that's the easiest one.

Well, that's why they all hate us.

Because they go look at you and they go, look at you coming in here, tra-la la.

Oh, do you have to memorize three lines?

Yeah.

And they're like, I'm like, give me a minute.

And they're like, he's coming.

You know, it's all that stuff.

And they're all waiting, and then you walk out.

Can I get a quick spritz of Final Net?

All right, ready.

Final net.

Final net.

That goes with.

Isn't that air straight?

Tell my mommy's dead.

Final net.

Is that one of your guys' sponsors?

Final net?

Yeah.

We have a lot of folks.

Hey, our sponsors are here, I think.

Show of hands.

Now, when you...

I'm going to jump around here.

I'm going to jump around here, Willie.

Jump around.

Rapid fire.

Norm was in Jeopardy with you a lot.

Yeah.

Any funny Norm stories or anything about Norm Reynolds?

Yeah, my God.

That was terrible.

Jeopardy, again, one of the big sketches that

huge.

Big sketches everyone remembers.

Always funny.

Daryl was funny at Norm's grave.

Yeah, the best Norm story was,

I think it's the one where he's wearing, he comes back, he's wearing a big foam cowboy hat.

He's like, that's funny, huh?

What?

Wearing a cowboy hat.

And anyway, there's some beat where I...

where I have to be super exasperated with him and I yell at him and we get out of the sketch.

And Norm comes running after me.

He's like, hey, well,

everything okay?

I go, yeah, why?

He's like, you seem kind of mad at me out there.

I'm like, no, Norm,

I'm acting.

We've done it.

This is like the fourth time we've done the sketch.

No, but that time it just seemed like you really were mad at me for some reason.

I was like, no, we're good.

It's very Norm right there.

That's his sense of humor.

Yeah, he seemed kind of mad there for a moment, right?

But he was not, I don't think he was doing a bad thing.

He might have been serious.

He was also

very sensitive in that way.

He was very shaken.

Yeah.

And then because you can commit hard, and you probably scared him.

Another norm, another great norm story has nothing to do with Quebec.

Was, and Katan told me about it.

They were on a flight together back LA to New York.

Chris had taken off his shoes

and he can't find his shoes.

They're about to land.

Can't find his shoes.

He's going to the flight attendant.

Have you seen my shoes?

I took them off.

He's like, I don't know.

He's like, Katan's like, Norm, come on.

You took my shoes.

No, I didn't.

I didn't take your shoes.

Why would I take your shoes?

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I've never taken.

He's like, come on, give me back my shoes.

I know you took them.

I know.

Norm's like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Katan has to walk through JFK

with no shoes.

With no shoes, just in his socks.

An entire season goes by,

and then Katan and Norm are jousting back and forth about something.

And then Norm finally goes, oh yeah, and one other thing, I did take your shoes.

That flight in November?

Flight in November?

I took them, I threw them in the trash can, just so you know.

Yeah, because I saw the shoes there, right?

I just kind of grabbed his shoes.

So, yeah, you were right.

He used to give Katan so much shit.

My God, yeah, he was tough.

Okay, let's see if we have anything else.

Well, before we let you go, oh, and the other, the other thing I was thinking about today,

Downey used to give me the great, I love Jim Downey, Jim Downey, sorry, Jim Downey,

legendary writer who came up with Strategery.

Oh, he did.

Strategy.

I had the A-Team too writing for me off with Al Franken and Jim down.

Totally.

But Downey, I loved being in Downey sketches for a number of different reasons, but the best was between dress and air, and he'd do it every single time.

And I would laugh hard every single time.

He'd go, great job.

Take it down about 1,000%.

And then I would just, yes, and I'd be like, yeah, okay.

And he's like, I don't know what happened.

You must have gotten into your your big juice or something.

But he would literally tell me to take it down a thousand percent.

Worst advice.

Yeah.

Did you?

Made me laugh every time.

And he would never say he's joking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I remember one time I did a joke on Hollywood Minute about

with jokes, you know, they had some, some had a little more of a, some were clever, some had a little mean streak, but I did a Jim Carrey one.

The funniest part is I liked 99% of the people.

Of course.

And Jim Carrey, I was just trying to get foot in the door at SNL and whatever it took but Jim was doing these you know the movies that I loved but I said and they would always prod me to go farther right because it was like through them I dare you you know so I said oh Jim's Carey after this one of his movies was rushed to the hospital after an overdose of uh

uh

over acting pills with Play It Too Big Juice and uh and the crowd just stared at me and it was it was too soon.

Don't don't mess with that fucking guy yeah yeah yeah jim carry and i was like no i will you know and anyway that was cut after dress but uh

but dress here so it was a good but that was those guys and they they would write me the roughest oh because they hollywood minute jokes at like the rewrite table they go jim would be like oh you would never

well no you're too much of a pussy and i go no i'm not what and then he'd tell me i go yeah i'm too much of a pussy you're i'm not saying that he goes of course because you're a pussy and i go why and but it was all whatever he wanted to say and get the anger out and get to be.

Well, then they hide behind the whole thing.

Oh, I know.

That's why it's so funny.

They get to say whatever they want, but I would have to sort of temper it.

But always funny.

I mean, they're always just, they're just fucking.

Wait, one last Norm McDonald story.

Sorry.

Love them.

Do you remember the Mama Celeste frozen pizza commercials?

No.

Yes.

No, I don't.

And it was this, and she would say, A bon danza.

Abondanza,

which is a made-up marketing word.

There's no

word in the Italian language.

I thought that was genuine Italian.

Yeah.

And one day we're sitting around in the writer's room having lunch, and we're doing a bit where I'm like, hey guys, this lunch is pretty good.

Abondanza, right?

And everyone goes, yeah, abondanza.

And Norm's sitting there like, Norm, come on, just say it.

Say abondanza.

Like, no, I'm not going to say it.

I'm like, come on, Norm.

Just say it.

Abondanza.

I won't do it.

I'm not going to say We get like 15 of us like, come on, Norm.

It'd be rude now.

We've all said Abundanza.

You should just say Abundanza.

No, I don't want to say it.

I'm not going to say it.

I won't say it.

He never would say it.

Anyway, that's the end of the story.

Yeah.

All right.

Well,

I think we're going to have a few people.

It's like a voice question.

Hey, a penny saved is a penny earned, they say, right?

That's like a 100% return.

You can't get that anywhere.

Is that what he said?

I was just talking on the phone with Norm, you know.

You know, you should bury some money, right?

Because then later on, your relatives will dig it up and they'll have money, right?

He just had the driest, funny thing.

I didn't have a TV the first year that was on the show because I just didn't buy one because I thought I'm never going to be in my apartment.

So I'd go and watch the NBC sports feed

on like a Sunday.

Norm, of course, is in there.

And

Norm enjoyed gambling on sports.

And we were watching some game, and I'm like, ooh, got to watch out.

You know, University of Cincinnati,

they're pretty good in the mud.

He's like, really?

And I go, yeah.

I think they're like...

750 winning percentage in rainy games.

Ah, I didn't know that.

Yeah, okay.

Logs it away.

I think we're doing a bit.

Right.

Right.

Right.

There's no way.

How do I know that stuff?

Yeah.

Week later, no one's like, you cost me 35 grand.

I'm like, doing what?

What do you mean?

Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati in a month.

What?

You said they were really good in rainy games.

I'm like, you bet on.

I was joking.

Can you bet that much?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why are you telling me that amount, too?

That's like when Norm asked Lovitz for, give me $200.

So they're playing a cassini.

That's funny.

You know, he's like, John's like, okay.

So the next day,

John, huh?

Lenny, Lennon.

And he goes, yeah, yeah.

And then Lovett's like, can I get my money back?

And he goes, no.

Oh, I lost it.

I lost all of it.

He goes, why are you mad?

I lost $8,000.

Yeah, he goes, you only lost $200.

You only lost 200.

We love Norm.

There was only one Norm and

a comedy genius.

So Will Farrell.

Dana, I think he wanted, they want to ask a few questions in the audience.

Yeah, yeah, I was.

And we'll get Will to his limo.

I was just going to butter up Will.

I was going to say to Will, because he loves sports.

Like, if I was going to do a sports team of SNL stars,

you know, I put you at the power forward.

Oh, okay.

And maybe an Ackroyd or Phil at the center.

Yeah.

Maybe Bill Hayter.

After that, I never try to pick SNL people because then I go, fuck Adam Sandberg.

I miss him.

But I would.

Lauren said that about you.

No.

He's a top two at least.

Top two.

Well, is he possibly one?

I'm not going to say it, but he's a top two.

Top three.

Top three.

Where in that three, I don't know.

We don't know.

I feel like the general consensus is me, Dana, Will.

In the history of SNL.

David Spade.

And sometimes it mixes up.

Dana.

Will.

Will, Dana, me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But we're up there, man.

It's lonely, but we're up there.

No, yeah.

Now, I was sort of an intern there for six years.

David Spade plays the little engine that could, but you've got an incredible career.

Who did World Missy?

800 million minutes.

Yeah.

800 million minutes.

That's how it goes now.

6 billion minutes.

That's a hit.

That feels good.

I don't know.

It sounds like a lot of minutes.

Yeah, six billion minutes.

Biggest film in Chile.

Oh, yeah.

They love you in Uruguay, kid.

I can't step foot in Bulgaria.

Lower Mongolia.

All right, Alan.

Go out there.

We're going to ask, we'll get four questions from the audience, and then, Will, you don't even have to answer if you don't want.

Just make them feel stupid.

All right, does anyone have a question?

And then he'll run out there.

And then, oh, we got one over there.

Let me see.

Oh, too late.

He was over there.

Oh, no, I'm over here.

Hello.

Do you guys have a favorite sketch that literally just never made it even past pitch?

Like, not something that got cut for time or cut from rehearsal, but you pitched it and you thought it was great and it just did not go over.

I had a sketch that

tops my list.

I had written a sketch about a guy who looks exactly like Gabe Kaplan from Welcome Back Cotter

and Colt.

He's a super and he works in an insurance

he works the insurance company he works for he knows that

Gabe Kaplan is a client and it's the day that Gabe Kaplan came in to renew his insurance coverage, but no one told him.

No one told my character that Gabe Kaplan was there.

And

i was how did this not get on

are you sure this didn't get on it got on no it got on a dress but it was so silent at one point there's the smallest laugh in the world like kind of in the upper deck there you just hear

but it died so hard

so that was it it but it worked great at the table i have one quickie which was a guy i'm sorry buddy uh

he was obsessed with Kurt Cobain after his death, and I worked at Baskin-Robbins, and I wouldn't wash my hair.

And Bob Odenkirk and I wrote it, and it was

Kurt.

Every time I was trying to name ice creams after him, and then when people come in, they go, my manager goes, you got to wash your hair.

I go, no, Kurt, Kurt and Dirt, you can't wash him away.

And then, again, crickets, but that was crickets at read-through.

With Odenkirk, who's a great writer.

And it was a fully formed sketch.

worked.

On season two, we're doing a press conference, and they said, do you have any new catchphrases to me?

So I just said, my new catchphrase is, I got the, got the, got the go.

Right?

So I wrote a sketch called Funny Little Poopy Head.

And I was Mr.

Funny Little Poopy Head.

Jan Hooks was Miss Funny.

And it was really,

if it had gotten on, I would have enjoyed it.

But it was just to hear Lauren say Funny Little Poopy Head.

So there was so much stage direction.

and Lauren Michaels had to say that funny little poopy head.

Funny looks

shad.

Funny little poopy head walks across the room.

That kind of thing.

And then he goes, I got to, got to, got to go.

And then Jan hooks his hook was, and I'm going to go on with him.

Never made it to where he was only at the Largo.

Yeah.

Yep.

All right, next one, Greg.

Anybody?

They're slow to the

yeah.

Hey, you did a college game day in 2010 with Lee Corso.

What was he like?

Is that for me?

I don't think I did.

I don't remember I being in it, so.

Was that you?

Oh.

There was a film called College Game Day.

No, College Game Day.

Would that have been outside the Coliseum?

Yeah, that would have been outside the Coliseum.

Oh, before the SC Oregon game.

Yeah.

Oh, easy rain, man.

Are you wearing an N95?

yeah

or course

yeah yeah definitely outside the coliseum yeah yeah course course i'm an excellent driver i don't remember having much interaction with lee corporate i'm sure he is nothing but lovely

what about lee van cleef did you ever do anything about lee major cleef all right van cleef and i wait

this guy

this young man you've had your hand up for so long go ahead um yes i got

I think for the podcast.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, Will, Dana.

You guys were part of a video where you played the Bushes.

For all the presidents for Ron Howard.

Do you guys have any stories about that?

And David, will there be a

sequel to that movie?

Don't make up a question for me.

You love these two.

He's huge and chilly.

And David, are you taking it over?

First of all, that was with Funnier Die, for Funnier Die.

That was for Funnier Die about passing legislation.

Yeah, some

legislation.

And I remember we just did our characters one at a time.

We had everyone who'd played a president on SNL.

Yeah.

We even had Dan Aykroyd do Bob Dole, I think.

Or I know he was there.

Bob Dole.

Aykroyd.

Or was it Aykroy?

Aykroy did Jimmy.

Oh, Jimmy Carter?

Jimmy Carter?

Oh, yeah.

Probably Jimmy Carter.

Oh, did you do Nixon?

Oh, God, he did a lot.

Yeah.

I'll just do all

my man.

Chevy did Ford.

Chevy did Ford.

Fred did Obama.

Yes.

Wow.

Oh, wow.

Did you carry the wrong way?

I just remember when I was doing something, and you said you liked it afterwards.

I was just ad-living as George Bush Sr., and the phrase came out, he went full fecal.

I don't remember what it meant, but I remember it came out after him, like the full fecal part.

You just remember things.

Full fecal.

Full fecal.

Full fecal.

Got it that

fecal cation.

I'm getting more relaxed all the time.

I know.

We're finally relaxed.

We got one more question.

All right.

Hey, this is a furlough.

Whenever you were on SNL, you would often go on Conan as different characters.

You would never come on as yourself.

Was Conan aware of this?

Because I feel like he was not in on the bit and he was often surprised when you would do this.

No, he was just

very good at acting and playing along because they

that I mean did you ever try to surprise him with anything?

I forgot.

But then you would ad live and stuff way off.

It might have been because Conan and that whole stat, they were so into

please do whatever you want.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They that was like the greatest show to go on that early Conan because they would just embrace any sort of bit.

It was like, you know, I have an idea

where

I want to get in a drum off with a kid drummer and he's going to be much better than I am.

And then I'm going to chase him out of the state, you know.

And they're like, yep, let's do it.

Okay, I have another bit where I want,

can you set up a pull-up bar?

And

I want to do a setup where I'm going to do as many pull-ups as I can do, and I'll give $10,000 to charity, and I can't even get one pull-up.

For every pull-up you get, for every pull-up I give,

and I just struggle

for like 15 seconds.

You're like, I did 30 yesterday.

What's wrong?

Can't get one.

Oh, well, too bad, March of Dimes, you know, whatever.

But

they would go for everything.

It seems like you always had a gear where a lot of your stuff, if the sound broke, I call it funny with the sound off, it would still work, you know, just because like the cowbail guy, just the way you were dancing around,

just all that.

And Walking was good in that, too.

Oh my god.

Yeah, he's do people know, is this true that you tried it out with different hosts and it never got on until Walkam came on?

I tried it.

Well, it's funny.

It was the season before was Norm's last season because you guys were talking about it with Downey.

The whole Norm getting fired.

And then, strangely enough, he comes back the next year to host.

Oh, yeah.

And he says they fire.

But I tried it at the table with Norm as the record producer.

And it worked fine, but it just didn't get it picked.

And then I brought it back later going, oh, no, I'm going to rewrite this for Walking.

It's hard to do it twice.

It's hard.

Yeah.

I was there that night.

I was doing a guest spot of something.

Oh, okay.

And I remember that destroying.

Yeah, and we were way over.

And Will, where were you?

Yeah, I was about to say, you weren't dead center.

No, it was way in the corner.

Dead corner there.

Fuck, people don't know that song.

Do you remember?

What was the

just, I mean, how did that come out?

Just suddenly?

Because it's such a bizarre, incredibly inexplicable idea.

That's why it's just as funny now.

You could watch it 20 years later.

It looks funny.

It's a weird song.

Yeah, listening to Blue Oaster Cold on the radio.

Yeah, it was just that.

The faint cowboy going,

does that guy have any friends?

Is that the only song he ever got to play cowbell on?

And then I'd always, I'm like, I'm going to write that as a sketch.

It's nothing you can pitch.

Yeah.

And so I write it, and I rewrote it for

Walker.

And I was just like, oh, I know that if Christopher Watkins says, I have a fever,

and the only prescription is more cowbell, only he can get a laugh off of that.

You can't lose because the stiffer he does it, the more he's operated to the cue cards.

I have a fever.

Yeah.

And the all, and you're like, you see, you're like phonetically almost getting through it.

And it's so fucking funny.

And I remember, I remember.

Is Kevin Pollock here?

Could you do Christopher Walken?

I think he is he here.

Oh, is he here?

No.

Oh, Kevin Pollack.

This is the world's greatest Christopher Walken impressionist.

Oh, shit.

I have a fever.

Prescription is more cowbell.

Kevin Pollack.

You.

Kevin Pollock.

Kevin Pollack.

Kevin Pollack.

Happened to be here.

But you would say to Walkin, you go, hey, Chris, you're just killing it.

You're so funny and everything.

He'd be like, We should have Kevin do it.

Really?

Because I have.

Going to the party.

I have no idea.

I just say the lines.

He doesn't even get the sketch.

And I was like, well, you're doing great.

If you say so.

Okay.

And I got in trouble for Kavanaugh.

Keva.

Yeah.

For Cowbell.

I'm just doing Kevin now.

But yeah, there was something magic about that thing.

Anyway, that was something special.

I like those ones that live on forever.

Those are great.

Yeah.

So, Will Farrell, you are one of the all-time and you're still going strong.

I don't know what you're doing next, but I was going to ask you, what's the longest break you've had in the last 25 years from doing show business?

It seems like you've been, did you have six months off at one time?

Oh, sure.

You take breaks.

And what do you do during your breaks?

You ran three marathons.

Long time ago.

Yeah, you started.

That was just a passion?

Yeah, just wanted to run.

I retired in 03.

And

Lauren wouldn't take you back.

Right.

Are your kids all taller than me yet?

Oh, they're

my 13-year-old.

I'm like joking.

13-year-olds.

Dominate.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I know kids are 11 when they're taller than me.

I'm like, I just, they just hang out.

I love, I'm an Uber driver for my kids.

You know, I have a sophomore in high school, go to his bathroom.

It's kind of fun when they're like

10, 11, 12, and you're driving them to school, and I play a day in the life for them.

Right.

You know, and they play me hip-hop and stuff, which is a fair exchange.

But it's a lot of fun and cool bonding because I was noticing my kids weren't talking to me in the car

at a given age when I'm driving them to school.

And then I would put on AM news radio, and a man was killed today and shot, and blood was flying.

And they're like, dead, what was that?

What's going on?

So that really would open them up.

But you must have had experiences like that.

Maybe it was, but truly, you must have made them fans.

And we've made a concerted effort to just take the whole summer off, no matter what I'm working on.

So we go,

I did that too.

We go to Sweden, of all places, every summer.

So we have my wife's Swedish.

We have a place out there.

The boys all speak Swedish.

They hang out with their cousins.

Wow, that's too cool.

So they're just bonded with Sweden.

That's hip.

Isn't most of life just, I feel like even really busy people, most of life is hanging out and talking kind of stuff.

Absolutely.

Isn't that what we do most of the time?

I mean, we work and stuff.

You're just trying to watch something on TV with your wife.

I mean,

do you watch live streams?

Pleasures.

Yeah.

Do you watch all creatures, great and small?

If you want liquid Xanax, this is this brilliant show that's just so 1944.

The Beatles documentary was that, too, in a way.

Oh, my God.

We talked about that song.

It's called Get Back.

Yeah.

Unreal.

You know, it's nice of you to say that.

You know, I do.

I'm a bit older now.

You know,

we appreciate that you like it, you know.

But we were just lads plunking.

I don't know.

I don't know who that is.

Is that Billy Preston?

It's Billy Idol.

Did you meet McCartney, Will, when you were on SNL?

Did what?

Did you see McCartney?

Was he on when you were on?

I don't know if he was on.

I think he was 90.

He was my three.

He was on, I know, when I was there with.

He must have been.

I know Mick Jagger.

Oh.

Jimmy did that Mick Jagger.

Mick Jagger?

Oh, I came in Lauren's office.

This happened to you at Saturday Night Live once, Lauren's office in 8H just during the week, and I just walked in, and no one told me.

And then just Mick Jaggers is sitting there with a little sweater and corduroy pants on and combed hair.

Lauren likes to blindside you with a big star.

Yeah.

He likes to collect china in different coffee cops.

Tell him about your stamp collection, Mick.

He's very, what you would call aerodynamic.

The dinner where Lauren tried to convince me to stay longer.

He kept saying, Mick may stop by.

I'm like, That's what I tell people, but he never stops by.

All right, and we keep talking.

He's like, So, Mick, you know, you could because they produced some movie together, right?

And uh, I'm like,

Yeah, fine, okay.

And then all of a sudden, Lauren's eyes go wide.

He's here, he's here, okay.

You you sit there, and I'll no, no, no, no, no, I'll sit here, I'll sit here, I'll sit like this, and you sit over there.

No, no, no, no, you sit, hi, Mick.

Hello.

Hi.

Yes.

And I said.

Well, he wants your seat.

Move.

Yeah, move.

Move.

Well, did you.

Don't be an idiot.

Did you always have to guess when he said Paul?

Because there were two Pauls, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney.

Paul's coming over.

Which one?

And some that'd be McCarthy.

I sat there awkwardly for 45 more minutes.

Waiting.

No.

Oh, with Mick.

He showed up.

And I didn't know what to say.

Once again, I didn't know what to say.

Yeah.

And then the next day at rehearsal, Lauren was like, wasn't that the greatest dinner?

I think he was just excited that he said a celebrity was going to show up and they actually showed up.

What was your most starstruck moment?

You know, for me, like meeting Charlene Heston was a big deal.

You know, like, whoa.

You know, because you meet these hosts and they're sitting down there and then they go, would you like to go say hello to Robert Mitchum?

Sure.

You know, it's like you're walking down the road.

Marcy would come in.

Get in there.

Sharon Stone.

No one's in there.

I'm like.

Okay.

And then you go and she's alone.

She needs help.

That's Marcy.

She's reading a magazine.

She's like, what?

And I'm like, I'm supposed to, I don't know.

You know what I mean?

You know, Marcy.

They introduced me with George W.

They called me.

He was in the studio because they were going to tape one of those election specials.

And they had Gore do his part.

Yes.

Clear the studio.

Then they bring W in there.

And they call me at home.

They're like, get down here.

W is a huge fan.

Wants to meet you.

And I just started doing the impression.

And I was like, okay, okay.

I go down to 8H.

There's 100 reporters, everything.

And it was like Ayala and Marcy.

Go, go up there.

Just go and talk to him.

And I'm like, even the cue card guy is going, hi, get up there, Wally.

Hi, I'm Will.

I could tell he has no idea that I'm the guy who plays him

because you hadn't done it during the debate.

Exactly.

Okay.

He hadn't even done it.

So he was fledgling.

He was fledgling.

And then

he doesn't know me from Adam.

He could care less.

And you got bamboozled.

Both just did this to each other.

You did Roxbury?

How did you?

Yeah, we did Roxbury.

Did you awkwardly say opposite the table?

I go,

thanks so much for doing this.

Yeah.

This is,

you got a lot of, is this a hectic work week for you?

Yeah, it's a busy week.

Seems like a lot.

But you could tell he was stressed to be there.

It was just like.

And Al Gore was there, too.

And Al Gore was there.

Yeah.

And commanding the room.

Oh, yeah.

He seemed.

We're going to put it in a log box.

He was like totally presidential.

And W was.

But then when they debated, it flipped.

Yeah.

Well, W,

yeah, well, whatever.

How did you, like,

was, did you have to study tapes or you just kind of got it just by watching him?

Watching.

Daryl.

Tightening the neck, right?

That and squinting.

Eyes squinting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you could, you did, you did kind of look like him when you got the whole gear on.

But I think it got better over time, but at first it wasn't.

Same with me.

I wasn't that great.

I was a little push senior at all.

Only Ross Perot was quick because it was such a cartoon right away.

Can I finish one time?

Can I finish one time?

Can I finish

one time?

That's all it needed.

Just that.

James Brown.

Basically, James Brown.

Can I do it on the one?

Great point.

Can I do it on the one?

Yeah.

Get on up, like a six machine.

Sorry.

Just shtick.

Phil Hartman playing Admiral What's his face or whatever he does?

Oh, look at that guy.

Which one?

No, Stockdale.

Is that it?

Stockdale.

I don't want to hear that.

Peru was driving him.

You guys did the driving stuff.

Yeah, and then.

Yeah, why don't you take a walk over there?

And he's just going,

yeah, who am I?

Who am I?

Where am I?

He was doing Scottdale, who was confused.

Politics is fun.

All right, we got to let Boill go.

You should let Boolean go.

We do.

He wants to go on.

What do you want to do?

All right.

Can we do three questions?

Favorite toy as a kid?

Don't think too hard.

Probably Legos.

Legos?

Yeah.

Wrong.

His was stretch arm strong.

Micronauts.

Did you have a micronuts?

Did you have a bicycle that you really liked?

Yeah, Schwinn.

Schwinn Stingray.

Stingray.

What was

that?

TV show or movie.

Why is that funny?

Because I think he said that he said, yeah, yeah, that one.

Yeah, yeah, that one.

Well, the Schwinn was famous.

I think there was only one bike in the world.

I had a Sears front loader.

My parents read on my seat.

You had to watch it.

When you're a little kid, you're like 8, 10, 11, and there's a TV show or a cartoon or a movie that just made you love show business or just blew your mind.

I'll give you an example.

Ben Stiller said it was the Poseidon Adventure.

Like that made him want to be a filmmaker.

That was a cool movie.

Gene Hackman.

Well, I always loved Shelly Winters.

Yeah.

She sure had a figure.

Yeah, I would say Poseidon Adventure, too.

Gene Hackman is unbelievable.

He was great.

It's up there.

Favorite.

That's how we'll live.

A bear.

One inch thinner.

Tried, Kevin.

I'll remember the real answer driving home after this.

But

I saw Jason and the Argonauts.

It could be, you know, I saw those, and Wild, Wild West was kind of my age group.

I like Land of the Lost.

Land of the Lost, I loved.

But that didn't make me want to go into showbiz.

Little House on the Prairie.

You made me want to go into.

No, no.

What made you want to go?

Well, I loved.

We're not leaving.

God.

No, this is.

We went past the two parter to a tree parter.

The pressure is building.

It's a nine-parter.

Okay, these are the shows I loved.

I loved Happy Days with Bern and Shirley.

Yep.

That block on Tuesday nights.

Yeah, Tuesday night.

By the way.

And then I loved Saturday night was Fantasy Out on a Love Boat.

Shit.

Me too.

Me too.

See, those are so relaxing.

We need shows like that.

But I wanted to live on the love boat.

I wanted to be

always happy, calm, and always calm.

Fun guests every week.

And Julie, the coked-up cruise director.

Yep.

She was great.

Yeah, I went to the same block.

Laverne Shirley.

Happy Days and Laverne Shirley.

Fonzie literally jumped the shark.

I remember watching that.

I made my mom watch it with us.

I was like, watch.

Isn't it funny to think that Henry Winkler, he was the coolest guy in America at that point in time.

I couldn't believe it.

It was so cool.

Yeah.

Playing it.

And the toughest guy.

I knew people thought he could beat up anyone.

Well, the Fons could beat up anyway.

He never really got in a fight, to be honest.

No, he just

snap his fingers and and he'd run or something.

I don't want to say myself sorry, but mine was Danny Kay.

He never could say he was sorry, right?

It was always a single thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I thought he couldn't say, yeah, he couldn't say something.

Maybe I love you.

Maybe sorry.

Let's call Hank Winkler.

I don't know.

He's great and berry.

You know what?

Let's look at a clip.

No clips?

What do you mean?

He almost got it.

Bifida.

You just just got a little touch of bifida.

I did.

Spinal bifida.

That's what we're going to name this episode.

That's going to be in the case.

It's like not funny.

I don't know why we keep saying it.

Hey, let me

take it down as Denny Miller.

Okay, Christ's sakes.

We heard from the Spud Man with the Spinal Bifida.

Raspberries in the

sound effects guy's face.

Feral bin.

He's going to give us both the ride home.

The Feral Cat brought it heavy today.

Yeah, you did bring it, man.

You're funny as shit.

My Lincoln Town car is waiting for me.

Yeah.

I always request a Lincoln Town car, a late model Lincoln Town car.

Did you buy something when you first got a million dollars?

You buy a crazy car or anything?

I bought a

something from the Elvis

set list.

I was thinking, sorry, I didn't want to jump in.

I don't want to be the joke of the thing.

It's all good fun, Dave.

Okay.

I bought one of Elvis' guns and I looked at the Providence and realized Spaded was the previous owner.

By the way, when he worked there, you were very polite.

You're very nice.

I don't think you said you were in comedy at all.

I don't think you told me that.

In fact, I still worked.

I got hired at SNL, but they don't pay you till you show up.

I had bills to pay.

I was still answering the phones for like a month and a half.

Did you have it transferred?

Do you answer the phones at where?

Here in LA.

Oh, okay.

At the auction house.

And my co-workers were like, didn't you get on Saturday night the last?

I was like, yeah, but I don't leave till August, so I'm here.

And they don't pay you anything.

I read, it said you were the highest paid cast member ever.

Is that true?

I don't think so.

They said it was, but Tor,

what was your starting salary?

Like when you first got on, do you remember?

Because there's per show.

It was a show.

Yeah.

I'm guessing

6,000.

It was something like that.

Okay.

It was 55 or 6,000.

4,500 times 20, 90 grand, keep 30, broke even.

Easily.

Star Center Night Life.

900 man.

Yeah.

I mean, 900 a week to write, 1,500 to bump if I got on update or something.

Yeah.

But the male prostitution paid the bills.

Yeah.

I ran a glory hole on that 18.

We don't want to go that specific.

It was just you were a friendly guy.

I never got that reference because

it'd be

ever scored.

They'd be like, oh, that was a real glory hole.

I'd be like, what does that mean?

But never mind.

Ask Spade.

All right, we're going to take a break and come back

with our guest today.

We'll

finish it.

The second half will be better.

Second half will be the second half of the show.

Let's give everyone a five.

Half will be better.

Take five.

See who stays.

I'm going to talk with the Swedish accent.

The wrist.

Is this offensive accent?

That is really authentic.

I'm Nor.

Is the Swedish chef?

I'm not a lot Norwegian.

We don't like the Swedes.

I know.

That's a bad rivalry.

Well,

is the Swedish chef get a lot of puntang in Sweden, to be honest.

The Muppet character?

Yeah.

Who else?

Erndis Erndiskernde.

You watched the Muppet Chief.

He lived with human hands.

Yeah.

That guy was talented.

I knew that when I watched him.

That guy was talented.

He could cook.

And he had a problem.

That made you want to be in show business.

That's the thing.

God, that's your answer.

I was trying to help you.

Sesame Street.

Yeah.

All right.

Good luck.

Well, they're turning the lights on.

Okay.

You guys, thank you, William.

Thank you so much for hanging with us, great audience.

The great little Feral.

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