RE-RELEASE - Andy Samberg

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Speaker 1 our

Speaker 2 show today is someone we talked to. Took a while to get him on, Andrew Samberg.

Speaker 1 andrew phineas is his middle name not many people know that sandberg samberg so he came on he's all you know he's just one of the all-time greats on snl he changed s nl you know with uh lazy sundays what was it called i think it was called lazy sunday was the first video short

Speaker 1 went crazy um and then i got to know him as he was playing um

Speaker 1 uh maya rudolph as kamala I was playing her husband Doug. So we got to hang out a lot, flew back and forth a couple times.
So

Speaker 1 he is one of the smartest people I've ever met. He's really and funny as hell.

Speaker 2 Good dude. I talked to him at the 50th a little bit.

Speaker 2 He's on TV a lot. He's all over the place.
Those digital shorts were just kind of a groundbreaking.

Speaker 1 And he's got animated shows and all kinds of stuff going on. And Hot Rod.

Speaker 2 We just had Isla Fisher, and she was in Hot Rod, his movie.

Speaker 2 He does tons of stuff. You know him.
You love him. He's got great hair.
Here he is, Andy Samber.

Speaker 2 You were on the show, and then you went to a sitcom pretty quickly. Was it right the next season?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I, I mean, I didn't want to. Yeah.
And then it was just Mike Scher asked, and I was like, oh, shit.

Speaker 1 I saw what he did with Polar, and I was like, it's good.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, if you, I sort of went in.

Speaker 1 Polar. Polar doesn't go down for anybody.
I love Amy Pohler.

Speaker 1 She doesn't what? She doesn't go down for anybody.

Speaker 2 What does that mean?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I just said it as a joke.
She's powerful.

Speaker 2 She's a great comedy. No, when you leave the show, it's very scary.

Speaker 2 And then they said, which I used to say was you get like one kind of free shot, you know, like if you jump off the show, they go, do you want to, back then it was a little more going on in that world.

Speaker 2 Like they said, do you want to do your own sitcom? Oh, yeah. Like Pauly Shore got one.
You know, you get one, but it's very hard. It's riskier.
And then Just Shoot Me was already shot.

Speaker 2 It was already at the upfronts. And they picked it.
And then Laura San Jacoma was out there to announce it. And the night before, they pulled her and said, it's just, we need one more thing to this.

Speaker 2 So it was so weird. So I got to see the whole pilot.
Oh, wow. And then the guy was from Larry Sanders, which I loved.
And

Speaker 2 the writer, Steve Levitan. And then

Speaker 2 he said, you want to add?

Speaker 1 And we just added. And I don't want to hear about him anymore.
That's wild. I had no idea about that.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So I said, I got to see it, which has helped. And I go, oh, I'm I'm coming from the most competitive, toughest, funniest people in the world.
Not that they weren't funny, but they were all actors.

Speaker 2 And I go, oh, there's no one like me here. You know, I had a Dana there and I had everyone better than me.

Speaker 1 Thank you, David. Yeah.
And so

Speaker 2 I'm saying, because he's great. And you go, wow, when I'm not in a room with Sandler, Rock, Farley, Mike Myers, Dana.

Speaker 2 And I go, these guys are just great actors and funny, but there's not one like me exactly. I could sort of jump out.
George Siegel said it's four actors in a cartoon.

Speaker 1 That's what he used to say about me. And I go, thanks.
You were the Fonz. You guys, it was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 It's an observation. Yeah.
Brooklyn, what was the name of yours again? Just shoot me. Just shoot me.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 You guys also went. You were the stars.
You were the Fonses, but you had an ensemble. Yeah, that's true.
And so that's not like hanging out in a movie. You can't do it.

Speaker 1 You can do it on live streaming now. If no one sees it, no one cares.
But in those days, like movies, you're hung out there. I thought you were going to be able to see it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, people would see it. And it was like you know, and your experience, I think I did know you wrong.
Is it the CBS Radford, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's where you shot it. Same stage.

Speaker 2 So, you got into it, and you somewhat hesitantly, but you jumped in, you did your best because once you say yes to something, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you got to try and make it good. Did you write on that? And

Speaker 1 you're going to be writing just casually, but yeah, no, I never, I never was like in the room or had my name on a stage.

Speaker 2 It's not great, though.

Speaker 1 But we're not going to be able to do it.

Speaker 1 That's the craziest feeling coming from SNL: is having someone hand you great jokes, and you're like, wait, I get to just have these? And then everyone thinks I thought of them?

Speaker 2 And then they go, how do we make these better for you?

Speaker 1 you?

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't know. We were both stand-ups.
That was a revolution for me. If Bonnie Turner gave me, the church lady can say this.
Wow. Awesome.
Yeah, it's a great true. It does happen at SNL.

Speaker 1 It takes a couple of years before someone gives you a great joke, though.

Speaker 2 Well, he came out of the gate huge. Thank you, David.

Speaker 1 That's true. I think this is my favorite podcast.

Speaker 2 I had to work a little bit.

Speaker 1 But you get on the show. No, he came out of the gate and

Speaker 1 revolutionized Saturday night live show. But we can get to that thing.
We'll get to that because that's true. And the live show, though, I did not come out of the gate strong.

Speaker 1 But you revolutionized the thing, right?

Speaker 1 youtube comes out snl is still going yes and then you came in with your buddies and it went ooh it went

Speaker 1 it was it was fortuitous timing i like to say with the youtube stuff because you know yeah yeah it started with like albert brooks doing short films and mckay did short films and it's it was like a long history of it at the show that we

Speaker 1 exactly shiller vision is great even like the eddie murphy stuff doing like white like me where he was like walking around town like there was always cool pre-tapes we just were like

Speaker 1 we're gonna do them every week

Speaker 1 it's hard snl digital he even got a name yeah it's like an exciting idea yeah and they uh it was the first one was lazy sunday if i'm correct it was the first one people liked do you think you

Speaker 1 blew up youtube or youtube blew you up i think i think we are responsible for youtube and they owe us a lot of debt

Speaker 1 i knew a guy who was trying to do youtube and he was like six months late he had all the technology the idea oh he's gonna do a YouTube thing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, YouTube.

Speaker 1 And then YouTube came out. And then I was with him and he was trying to think of a name.
He had Grouper,

Speaker 1 and then a friend of mine renamed it Crackle and Sony bottom. Oh, yeah, I remember those.
But YouTube is such a perfect name. Like DocuSign, you have to sign documents.

Speaker 1 I have to, I own DocuSign stuff.

Speaker 1 Sorry. I shouldn't be promoting my portfolio.
I mean, I interact with DocuSign a lot. I do too.
I think I love you.

Speaker 1 You know, Dana gets a penny.

Speaker 2 Eat a penny? What? Yeah, you get a penny every time someone signs something.

Speaker 1 Does an angel get his wings? No, I do.

Speaker 1 So YouTube was only out about six months, right? Or yeah,

Speaker 1 that sounds about right. I mean, we hadn't heard of it until someone told us they just watched Lazy Sunday on YouTube.
Oh, wow. And then we were like, what's that?

Speaker 1 And then we realized, oh, someone finally thought of an actual good layout for streaming videos because there had been tons of websites trying to do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And especially like comedy shorts and like that kind of thing. And we would submit to websites, our Lonely Island stuff that we were making.
Before SNO. Before SNO, yeah.

Speaker 1 And we had our own website that we like somehow finagled server space on, you know, to

Speaker 1 right around broadband was starting to come in, right? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Broadband, I heard, was starting to come in. So then YouTube was, yeah, it was perfect timing.
Yeah. And

Speaker 1 you got to keep, you know, they just eradicated measles. But

Speaker 1 we, you know, we heard of YouTube and then like the next week put all our videos on YouTube because we were like, oh, this is the best version. Shovel them on there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it finally worked. You found a spot.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You went, I just want to get the pronunciations right.

Speaker 2 It's Andy.

Speaker 1 By the way, I said it. Andy's name.
Your name was Dave. I want to say.

Speaker 2 Listen to this thing. This is what someone told me.

Speaker 1 Look, his name was Andy.

Speaker 2 Somebody told him that. And I called him David.
No, his name was David. And my brother's name is Andy.
And my name's David. You can't make this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't. You can make this.
You can't make it.

Speaker 1 Was the person who told you

Speaker 1 his name? Opedia.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it was Wikipedia.

Speaker 2 It was printed out.

Speaker 2 But I know about you. I just didn't know that.

Speaker 1 That's okay.

Speaker 1 Bandmates from eighth grade.

Speaker 1 Absolutely a little smaller than Akiva Schaefer and Yorma. And Yorma Tacone.

Speaker 2 Geez, talk about it. Akiva Schaefer.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Tacone.

Speaker 1 Tacone, yeah, with N's.

Speaker 1 But it's his fault for having that name. Like, people.

Speaker 1 Well, I was Dana Garney for years, and no one ever got it right. You were what? Dana Garney, Dan Agarney? No one got it right.

Speaker 1 Who's up next? The stand-up. Well, by the way,

Speaker 1 Dan Agarney. I've been.

Speaker 1 I'm Adam. Everyone thinks I'm Adam because of Sandler.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think Adam Sandberg? Oh, right.
This guy's Andy Sandler.

Speaker 1 One time I was doing stand-up before I got SNL, and someone literally introduced me as Adam Sandler.

Speaker 1 And everyone went,

Speaker 1 and then I walked out. I was like, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 That's not my name him. Is that it's Jim? I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 I also like him. No, I got introduced too.
This is David Bowie once. David?

Speaker 2 I got introduced. Here's my one they mess up.
David Bowie. I go to the improv a couple times a week just to give him a little treat, you know.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 give him a taste of the magic.

Speaker 2 And they go, what do you want to say? And they go, I go, just say, because the last movie on Netflix was the wrong Missy. I go, just say the wrong Missy and some other shit.
And they go, got it.

Speaker 1 And they go, this guy was in the right Matilda, the quiet.

Speaker 2 And I go, why is that one so hard? They say it wrong every single time. You say it wrong too.

Speaker 1 I came up during the rough and tumble club days. My biggest intro from Tony DePaul at the Holy City Zoo.
And I was a nervous stand-up. Here he is.
Dana Garney, the man who invented the blowjob.

Speaker 1 That was the first one.

Speaker 1 That was it. And you're like, I didn't ask him to say that.
That's a great one. Or he'd say, some people think he's funny.
I don't know about that. You know, it was rough and tumble.
Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 40 seeders.

Speaker 2 They're trying to nag you on the way.

Speaker 1 40 Cedar.

Speaker 1 40 Cedar. And then Rob Williams would come in.

Speaker 1 I just wanted to play. And you do like three hours.

Speaker 2 I'm going back to Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 I want to go back.

Speaker 2 No, listen to this Brooklyn 99 thing because he got up for an Emmy. I think he won an Emmy.

Speaker 1 To Golden Globes, who does his homework. I got some Globies back when that meant something, you know? Sure.

Speaker 2 You want to hear people say, don't ever talk about yourself on the podcast, but guess what?

Speaker 1 So here's what's going to happen. All right.
So I'm in the audience and they go to Golden Globe.

Speaker 2 By the way, we're back in fucking Azusa. You know, they keep the people from TV.

Speaker 1 The Golden Globe's on TV.

Speaker 2 Tom Cruise is up front. I'm on the third deck where I have to take two elevators to get to the stage.
They know I'm not going to win.

Speaker 1 So, and a trial.

Speaker 2 So I'm back there, and they go, but it was a harder supporting category. It was against Don Cheadle.
It was against every supporting category on TV.

Speaker 1 Every category.

Speaker 2 Supporting in anything.

Speaker 1 For your show. Yeah, for just you.

Speaker 2 So I'm up against Gregory Peck,

Speaker 2 Don Cheadle.

Speaker 1 The guy from the ER. It's drama, comedy, everything.

Speaker 2 So I can't, I already won because I just got that far.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and so they go,

Speaker 1 no, but seriously, Gregory Peck, that's not a job. He beat me.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 He did 90 seconds in Moby Dick, and he goes, I can't believe I'm getting it.

Speaker 1 Award for 90 seconds. I'm like, no fucking shit.

Speaker 1 Gregory Peck.

Speaker 2 I slugged out 148 episodes. Anyway, and then at the Emmys, they go like this.

Speaker 1 David Spade, I'm Gregory Peck. Sorry.
I just spot on it.

Speaker 1 Nobody knows Peck? That sounds like

Speaker 1 everyone listening is going, it's not close enough to an old person. I've had him once, so what happened?

Speaker 2 So at the Emmys, they go like this.

Speaker 2 This is supporting in comedy. And they go, David, Hyde Pierce.
And if you saw the slow motion of my shoulders go up,

Speaker 2 and I went back down and then went for an applause. And I was like, did anyone fucking see that false start? Yes.
And it's like, everyone saw it.

Speaker 1 I do feel like, I like it when people react negatively when they don't win. It's real.
I feel like you can do it and everyone will think it's funny, but also you can just be honest about that.

Speaker 1 I would just mouth what the fuck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, it's not fun. At least you're doing something comedy.
How many times were you nominated? You won twice.

Speaker 1 I was for Brooklyn 99, that was the only nomination and win was the show and me that year, and then never again nominated.

Speaker 2 That's weird.

Speaker 1 Yes. Politics.

Speaker 2 Why were you bad after that?

Speaker 1 I just didn't care. As I poured.

Speaker 1 Your nickname was phoned in on the store. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just

Speaker 1 was. Yeah.
You won. You go, I don't know.

Speaker 1 You just turned into a paycheck. I was like, I like this and everything about it.

Speaker 2 Have you seen these shows like you notice the Emmys? Because they sort of lost a little bit over the years, but let's say it's still exciting. So

Speaker 2 they win something. And someone that wins on a show or a comedy, and then the next year they get canceled.
And you go, that's a mind fuck.

Speaker 2 Like, you just won, you go, at least we have a little job security here.

Speaker 1 You're talking about the show got canceled.

Speaker 2 Like the show, yeah. Like somebody wins or or the show wins and then the show gets canceled.
And you go, what happened in that?

Speaker 1 You're like, I guess it wasn't good. Right.

Speaker 2 You go, I'm not. Not only are we not up for one, now we're canceled one year later.

Speaker 1 Do you think that they like hide that Emmy in the closet and like shame, shame it? It's sad, yeah. I would take it out.
Yell at it. Oh, are you happy, Emmy?

Speaker 1 You happy? You ain't all that, Emmy. The Emmy curse.
Stay in there. There's a little Nicholas Cage sneaking in there for your fans.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. We can talk plenty about that.
We can talk about that. It's hard.
You have so much, but the cool thing is you did 152 episodes. Your first kind of thing.
I do my homework. I love it.

Speaker 1 You went to stay screwed. I didn't know that I did 152.
I'm a Bay Area guy like you. So

Speaker 1 I'm trimmed down for you.

Speaker 1 But not anymore. Do you still stay up there? I have a house up there.
In what area? We don't have to. Brin County.
Oh, I love Brin. That's stunning.
What's the address? My wife grew up there.

Speaker 1 We could do a little childhood stuff for a sec. So what town did you grow up in? In Berkeley.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Well, I feel so disappointed. I I love Berkeley.
Used to go to track meets there. My first stand-up set was on Telegraph Avenue at the La Salamandera Cafe.
Oh, that rolls. Hippie place.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm hating this. So were you kind of raised like a hippie or this?

Speaker 1 Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 1 A little bit.

Speaker 1 How many kids? Just you were the only one? I have two older sisters. Interesting.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Baby Andy.

Speaker 2 Samberg's got cool hair, which always infuriated me.

Speaker 1 Do you think I do right now?

Speaker 2 It's pretty cool still, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, you're good looking, dude.

Speaker 1 You have hair and you have a jaw. Yeah.
You guys are. I need a lot of work up here, and I, I, even Burt Lancaster told me, how can you be a movie star? You've got no chin.

Speaker 1 That was a quote from Burt Lancaster to me.

Speaker 1 What does he gain by saying that to you?

Speaker 1 Exactly. He got mad because

Speaker 1 I jumped out of my chair so he could sit in my chair. He was 73.
Yeah. And he's coming over.
I jumped out and he thought I patronized him. You motherfucker.

Speaker 1 Where was this? Jump out of a chair for me again.

Speaker 1 This was

Speaker 1 tough, guys. Year before I got SNL, I played the parole officer with Burt Lancaster and Kurt Thomas.

Speaker 1 Okay. But anyway.

Speaker 2 You know, when I beat Greta Thunberg at the Emmys, she goes, How dare you?

Speaker 1 Good one.

Speaker 2 How dare you. I swung back for that weak joke.

Speaker 1 Go ahead.

Speaker 1 It was a good

Speaker 1 one. Who's going to be married to that woman? How dare you not clean your plate? How dare you uh

Speaker 1 she doesn't have to get married to find happiness i just want to point that's true

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Speaker 1 Did you have it like an artistic childhood? Was there stuff going on in the house with your mom and dad? Or how did you and your eighth grade buddies get so into comedy? We just were. I don't know.

Speaker 1 You just met these guys like soulmates, right? Yeah, actually, I like just found a letter I wrote myself.

Speaker 1 It was like a third grade exercise when I was eight where they're like, you know, say, write a letter to yourself what you think you'll be in 20 years. My mom just sent this to me

Speaker 1 from the basement. And it was like, I'm going to be a famous comedian and I'll be married and I'm going to have two kids.
And I was just like, oh, shit, it's all exactly what happened. How cool.
Wow.

Speaker 1 How old were you? Eight. I don't know why.
Honestly, it started not to blow smoke, but I used to sneak into the TV room in our house and watch the Saturday night's main event. the WWF wrestling thing.

Speaker 1 And it was only on once a month.

Speaker 2 He wasn't on that.

Speaker 1 And every other time it wasn't on, it was SNL.

Speaker 1 So by accident, I started watching SNL because I was like, oh, it's not on, but what's this? And it was right when it was your first cast. And that's when I got into the show.

Speaker 1 So you were like, when I, what, 12 or something, or 10, 12?

Speaker 1 Honestly, I might have been like eight. Fucking shit.
Trying to think.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's cool. I'm 44.
I'm glad it did. Did they fuck up? So I didn't make you want to quit.
That guy's like, no, I was like, you can do this. This is allowed.

Speaker 1 I want to be like that guy. I'm pointing at you right now for people because you can't see us, but I'm pointing right at you, Dan.
We can never forget that.

Speaker 1 I mean, it'll hit me sometimes if you're up there in a costume on a stage somewhere doing something, you go,

Speaker 1 this is my job, really.

Speaker 1 Also, somebody is not working. I mean, you guys probably grew up watching SNL.
It probably wasn't

Speaker 1 different from how it was for me and myself for me to run into Dan Aykroyd at the show was just nerve-wracking. Yeah.
And then he talks to you about his vodka for like an hour and a half. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, you don't have to leave the show.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You talk about investing.
He was an investor early on.

Speaker 1 It's insane to bump in. Anyone from that original cast, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 When they went to the rock star, you ever seen walk around the offices? And Ackroyd came in, knock, knock. All right, sir.
Fair enough, sir.

Speaker 1 That's right. He's good about it, too.
Akroid's very like, I liked what you did. That was very funny.
And you're like, holy shit, this is crazy.

Speaker 1 Every time I run into him, it goes, you know, the church lady was kind of, you know, sir, it was sort of a perfect comic character.

Speaker 1 If I see him at the 50th, I'm waiting for it. I go, hey, Dan, what about the...

Speaker 2 Did you go to the 40th?

Speaker 1 I was at the 40th. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Fun, right?

Speaker 1 I did a video with Sandler. We did the thing about everyone breaking.
Oh, you did? Yeah, they put it in Shit Can Alley, but it played well online.

Speaker 1 Shitkin Alley.

Speaker 1 First of all,

Speaker 1 that should be your next musical video, Shit Can Alley.

Speaker 2 Do you mean you presented it from a bad spot on the stage?

Speaker 1 No, no.

Speaker 1 I did not make that up.

Speaker 1 People used to talk about it at the table read, if you were in the second half of the read, in the middle of the second half, that's Shitkin Alley where nothing plays because everyone's everyone's exhausted.

Speaker 1 And then once everyone knows there's one or two left, they laugh again.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's not bad to be the end of the day.

Speaker 1 And you have a chandler, it got on, right? Of course. It aired and it played well, but it was like people were partying already and drinking and walking away.

Speaker 1 I think Mike and I went on last, didn't we? Wayne's World. Were you dead last? I thought we were dead last.
That's crazy. Well, see, but that's a good spot.

Speaker 1 Then they're waking up when it's almost over. I said, would you be either really angry or really flattered? I said that to Mike right before he went out.
I think probably a little of both.

Speaker 1 It worked out. You know it was interesting.

Speaker 1 I probably shouldn't say this. Say anything you want to me or David.

Speaker 1 It was such a comedy room, and people are so fucking like SNL competitive that like the monologue opening thing was Timberlake and Fallon doing like SNL through the years.

Speaker 1 And it was like a full-on crowd-pleasing showstopper. Yeah.
And half the room was kind of like arms crossed.

Speaker 1 And I was like, Jesus, I don't want anything I do to air in this room. We're all wounded little clowns.

Speaker 1 If he does good, then I don't do good.

Speaker 1 And everyone at home is like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 I was doing Bubba, and Jane Curtin was yelling, fuck you, to me from the front row.

Speaker 1 Yeah, take your own advice and skid out, Curtin.

Speaker 2 Of all nice people.

Speaker 1 Curtain was cool. She's wonderful.

Speaker 1 Will you be at the 50th? We ask everybody. If I'm invited, I gotta go, right? You're gonna be invited.
You never know.

Speaker 1 I heard there's no plus ones.

Speaker 2 That's always weird.

Speaker 1 So my wife's not coming? Wait, that won't go down well.

Speaker 1 You know, you weren't at vanity fair the other night right i didn't go because of the knee oh the knee that's just want you to know i was invited though oh yeah at dana this vanity fair thing i should have brought fucking dana oh i couldn't that's the point i couldn't bring anyone i was invited for 25 years never went so finally they stopped inviting me oh god for people

Speaker 2 they hear about that vanity fair party like the oscar party right yeah so there's one at guyo's after that which is really fun and that's At least I know him, so it's easier.

Speaker 2 But Vanity Fair, it's not an audition, but you just hear when it, oh, if you want to go to the Vanity Fair. I always thought I was always invited.

Speaker 2 And then one year I go, hey, I didn't hear about the Vanity Fair. I think I want to go to that and bring my buddy.
And they go, it's just so tricky this year. I'm like, oh, what does that mean?

Speaker 2 They're like, I can't go. And they're like,

Speaker 2 it's not that. It's just that you can't right now.
And I'm like, so it is that.

Speaker 2 And then, but they, for people listening, you know, you see pictures of the Vanity Fair party, but

Speaker 2 it's, it's a fun party, but they stagger you. Yes.
So you either go like Appetow. I didn't know anyone and I got no plus one.
And I said, I think I'm going to go. I get home for my shows.

Speaker 2 I just want to go at least do something. I can't stay all awake till a guy's party, but I go, I'll just go to this one.
Oh, wait, what's my time? Yes. And so it gets a little sweaty.

Speaker 2 I got 9.30, which is pretty good.

Speaker 1 9.30 is not bad.

Speaker 2 This is all embarrassing.

Speaker 1 It's a cool group.

Speaker 1 It's cool kids.

Speaker 2 And they go,

Speaker 2 you're right between JG Hadid and Harvey Weinstein.

Speaker 1 They let him out. Just they furloughed him.
He's there. I'm like, this is the only thing you get out.
It's cruel and unusual not to let that man go to that party. So I put him right back in.

Speaker 2 Embarrassingly.

Speaker 2 But 9.30 is not bad. One year

Speaker 2 I got Midnight and No Plus One. I didn't go.
Too embarrassing.

Speaker 1 And now you got Fly on the Wall, so it's a hit podcast.

Speaker 2 No, they know.

Speaker 1 It's intense.

Speaker 2 But back to our guest. No, I want to tell him

Speaker 2 that when you go... And you go to the, you know, you get out by yourself, and I say hit Appetow, and I say, are you there? And he goes, oh, I got here at five.
I go, five.

Speaker 1 He went to five.

Speaker 1 How does he sound doing a killer?

Speaker 1 You cop an attitude and just say that.

Speaker 1 I've got Apatow. How are you guys doing? I'm good.

Speaker 1 That's really funny what you live. Oh, yeah, that was really funny.

Speaker 1 He does say that. He does say that's funny a lot.
So anyway, very generous.

Speaker 2 I get there.

Speaker 1 I get the first sign.

Speaker 2 I hit right when all the models hit, and they're all 50 feet tall. And I go, can I just cut in front of you guys?

Speaker 2 And they're like, is someone talking? And so

Speaker 2 I go,

Speaker 2 I remember I went up to Jessica Alba. I go, oh, I thought you were Nancy Pelosi.
That was my joke to her.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And she goes, fuck you.

Speaker 1 And I go, no, she's right behind you.

Speaker 2 And I go, because it's funny, because one time she kicked me in the ass at the Golden Gloves and she said, hey, fats.

Speaker 2 And I turn around. I don't even know her.
Nancy Pelosi?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 that's funny.

Speaker 1 God, I fell for her. Hey, Fats.
Can I do my name?

Speaker 2 No, I saw Nancy Pelosi at Wendy's once. No.

Speaker 1 I tried to get you back. Nancy.

Speaker 1 Nancy Pelosi always looks like she just sat on something cold and wet. That's an idea.

Speaker 1 Sorry. That's my Nancy Pelosi joke.

Speaker 1 We'll finish this. No, there's no story.

Speaker 2 I was just saying it's embarrassing. And

Speaker 2 I went there and that was it, I guess.

Speaker 1 Wait, why did Alva call you fats?

Speaker 2 She did because she thought it was funny, and I thought it was funny.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. If you really were fat, that would be insensitive.
Yeah, I just, no, I didn't care.

Speaker 2 It was back back in the dark angel days.

Speaker 1 So we were talking. Oh, we're talking dark angel days? Well, that's when I used to get to go to the golden club.
Oh, yeah. So this, so this time,

Speaker 2 I was just getting her back because sometimes if I see her, she says something like that.

Speaker 1 So you guys have kind of like a

Speaker 1 carpet rapport.

Speaker 2 It was nothing mean. It was just being stupid.

Speaker 1 Carpet rapport.

Speaker 1 That is a thing that if you go to a lot of awards shows and award show parties, you do start having like award season friends that you only see at events. And it's a very strange phenomenon.

Speaker 1 You're like, hey, but then you like, and you'll never see them again. You're never like, we should exchange numbers.
You want to hear something weird for 10 seconds?

Speaker 1 Just see them at that. I went in 91, I think, because of Wayne's World.
So I look over, I see, I think it's Juliet Lewis.

Speaker 2 We'll put it in later.

Speaker 1 Thanks.

Speaker 1 I see Juliet Lewis and Brad Pitt. I think it was her.
Oh, and they were dating. I see them off the side, and I can see that they're talking to each other whether they should come over and talk to me.

Speaker 1 Oh, I think. Like, nervously coming over.
And do they?

Speaker 1 I go, We're just going to leave now. And he goes, That's a good plan.
Like that plan. Let's face it, man.
We're, I'm a god, Dan has been. Sorry, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Yeah, I've seen it.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. That was Brad Pitt.
11 times.

Speaker 1 Yeah, neither. No.
11 times. What I'm interested in right now.

Speaker 1 Stop this podcast. I'm interested in Andy and his buddies.
They make their thing, and then they come to SNL and your first boom. And then you did come up with Lazy Sunday at SNL.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, how to walk me through that process?

Speaker 1 You meet Lauren, you tell him, what was your first meeting with Lauren or the writers? What was that about? Well, we got the show actually because

Speaker 1 we were writing on the MTV Movie Awards, and Fallon hosted. So, I do owe a great deal to Fallon.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God, what's up, my man? I know, he's awesome. We love him.
I did him in my audition because I knew he did Sandler in his, and it was very winky. Oh, wow.
What was your take on Fallon?

Speaker 1 It was Jimmy Fallon at a funeral. It's like, oh, my God, it's so sad.
All right.

Speaker 1 I'm so sad.

Speaker 1 What a tragedy.

Speaker 1 Anyway, here's the next album.

Speaker 1 I just took him to the nth.

Speaker 1 But yeah, he's.

Speaker 1 Yes, he was great, and he was super great to us. And we got some stuff in the show.
And he and Higgins and Shoemaker were there for people who don't know. Steve Higgins.

Speaker 1 They were SNL producers and a bunch of of the writers. And we kind of hit it off with everybody.
So they were like, you guys should audition.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 how did you audition? What do you do? Were you Andy Samberg or with your buddies?

Speaker 1 I did a solo and I did, I had been doing stand-up for like

Speaker 1 five or six years, seven years. Really? On ID? I don't know that.
Yeah. Where were you playing mostly?

Speaker 1 Well, I started off, I was going to NYU for a couple of years and I started doing just bringer shows in New York.

Speaker 1 So like Cellar and Boston Comedy Club, and it was called that, and Gotham, all those kinds of places. And then I moved out here and

Speaker 1 like the best I ever got to was doing a couple of shows here and there at the improv.

Speaker 1 And then I did Premium Blend on Comedy Central. That was kind of the

Speaker 1 high watermark for me, a stand-up.

Speaker 1 Okay. But so I did some of that stuff.
And then they were like, but you need characters and impressions. And I was like, I don't have.

Speaker 1 You didn't really? Not really. We just made up a bunch of shit like the weeks leading up to it.

Speaker 1 And those guys helped me, Keeve and Yorm. And it went well.
So they said, you need to come back. And then they also had Yorm audition.

Speaker 1 And Keeve did a meeting with Lauren, and we all submitted a writing packet together. All three writing, and you got the featured performer, yeah, and then they got hired as writers.

Speaker 1 It was a crazy dream where all of a sudden we were like three you guys to get on this very well to come in with

Speaker 1 your buddies from eighth grade, and now we're all on Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 1 And we had already been, I mean, we'd known each other a long time, so we had shorthand and we trusted each other, but it was also like we had been we had spent the last five years in LA making stuff, so we had kind of a rhythm of what we were doing already.

Speaker 1 And a TV show on YouTube, basically.

Speaker 1 Kind of, yeah. I mean, it didn't, people didn't really know about it the same way they do now, but it was, it was the same thing in that we had gotten a lot of the

Speaker 1 bad stuff out of our system. Well, get to practice.
Well, the thing is, is that for young people today, it just, I say, well, just do a YouTube channel, do this and that.

Speaker 1 And then you get two views or five. And then you're reading about someone else with, you know, Rihanna has 500 million.

Speaker 1 And to keep yourself going, you guys obviously just loved it, even though it wasn't getting tremendous traction. No, it was also just a different time.

Speaker 1 Like YouTube really didn't exist yet when we were doing

Speaker 1 that compare and despair thing. For us, it was like, let's just make stuff until we feel like we're good and it'll, it'll work itself out one way or another.
But we never thought we'd get SNL.

Speaker 1 That was like my big only dream. It was just Fallon saw something.
I even went and like did the Groundlings intro audition for the classes and stuff and

Speaker 1 just tanked it.

Speaker 1 I just wanted it too bad. You know, I was like, my brain went a million different places.
Isn't that the tough part of show is try not to try?

Speaker 1 Because whenever you push, it never works and yet you want to be present. It's trying to catch the wind.
It's always there, but isn't it great when you're in the pocket and you don't give a fuck?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like by year, I don't know what year did you kind of go, I'm not nervous on stage.
I'm relaxed. Was it right away or was it? It took me like, I think 80 shows.

Speaker 1 I think it was probably by like year four or five. Yeah.
It's once you feel like you're not going to get fired.

Speaker 1 yeah i think is truly it then you get genuinely loose and then people relax because you're relaxed did you get picked up every year where it was like pretty much on

Speaker 1 because i had to go home in may and he wouldn't decide yeah you guys had a crazy stretch i had to check out my apartment i had to get out and then well because the old guys my team didn't leave i stayed it until 93 yeah so you you overlapped and that was a reason but once we all cleared out i think david had a pretty hot two years yeah when you guys were all there at the same time, like the two different generations.

Speaker 1 We were. And you look at it, it's so rare in the history of the show where you look at both generations and it's fucking stacked in both.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's the craziest part to me about when you guys were on there. 90 to 93.

Speaker 1 I feel like that was the most loaded because we had David and Farley and Sandler and Chris Rock and they're coming up and doing stuff. Adam's getting the guitar.
He's going.

Speaker 1 And then we had Phil Hartman and myself and Mike Myers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a lot of people making shit that ended up on a t-shirt.

Speaker 1 Well, we talked with Lauren about that, and it was like,

Speaker 1 if it's a team, you've got this guy can start or this guy can start. So we had Toonses the Cat, even with Jack Henry.

Speaker 1 But even just like throwing deep thoughts,

Speaker 1 which was a constant on the show and super funny.

Speaker 2 That always was.

Speaker 1 And Mike would throw down a sprockets or and or Wayne's world. You know, Sandler would do Opera Man.
You know, it got greatest hits every show, practically. But anyway, enough about that era

Speaker 1 this is called dana and david no i love so i want to hear if we can tactically you go in to rockefeller center yes what are you feeling and do you have a private meeting with lauren or or with the three of you or what uh you mean when i got hired when you got hired first time you went and talked to lauren they had they had me and bill fly out

Speaker 1 Bill Hayter? Yes, sorry. Me and Bill Hayter to fly out to, I'm told, to meet with Lauren.
Like, you auditioned twice. They're interested.
They want you to come meet with Lauren.

Speaker 1 Me and Bill sit next to each other on a flight from LA to New York. Marcy Klein had already told him that me and him got the show.
Oh, wow. Cool.
No one told me.

Speaker 1 And Bill, bless his heart, pretended the entire flight that he didn't know. So he didn't be the one to tell me.
He wanted me to have like my moment where I got to actually find out. That's nice.

Speaker 1 So the whole, he makes fun of me now because we're, you know, we talk all the time. He's like, you were like, oh man, I wonder if we're going to get it, you fucking idiot.
And I knew.

Speaker 1 But so we get there. He goes in for his meeting, which is just saying hi to Lauren because he knows he's got the show.

Speaker 1 Then I go in and I talk to Lauren, you know, maybe 10 minutes, and it's Lauren, so he gives you nothing.

Speaker 2 Mentions nothing about anyone.

Speaker 1 Was there anyone in the room? No, just me and him. He never stands up and leans over the table and goes, Congratulations, you got the job.
Literally, I think. He's a cigar.

Speaker 1 Our heroes. It's not like a real chipper if you want.
Now, you must do a Lauren or a Lorne impression. It doesn't matter how good it is.

Speaker 1 It's not good, but it's basically him being like, so do you think you'd be willing to cut your hair? I'm like, willing to cut your hair? It was really crazy long.

Speaker 1 I was like, oh, yeah, I'll shave my head if you want, whatever you want. And I was like, on code.
But that's a very specific Lauren. And he goes,

Speaker 1 you think you could do this? You think you could live in New York? And I was like, oh, yeah, I've lived here before. I lived here for two years recently.

Speaker 1 He's like, okay, well, we're going to all go out to dinner, so you should come. And I was like, okay.

Speaker 1 And I walked out and I i looked around and it was like jen and shook us were there and i was like and they were like so and i was like i don't know

Speaker 1 it what happened and they're like you got it so they were the ones who they were the ones who told her official but lord never went like we're hiring you that those words never came out i never heard that either yeah yeah i don't think he ever does some lieutenant comes up and yes and i'm like

Speaker 1 i immediately like fell on the floor so where did you go to dinner dinner do you remember

Speaker 1 and how more how many people were in that dinner because that's that's kind of a it might have been a big thing to be invited I also was a big one for Tuesday night dinners when I was there.

Speaker 1 I remember wherever we went, it was in that theater district area.

Speaker 1 And it was me and Bill

Speaker 1 and a few other people. And Conan was there at a different table.

Speaker 1 And they were like, oh, Conan, you should meet. These are going to be two new cast members.
And I was just like,

Speaker 1 freaking the fuck out. We're like, my life just got so cool.
Yeah, it's a cool fact.

Speaker 2 We draw us and go, well, well, if it's not shitty, crappy, and cruddy.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, and being all tall, too. So tall.
So alpha dominated. It's an animated show.
It's a funny one. Shitty, crappy, and cutty.
Right after that.

Speaker 2 When you did impressions, like you said, I didn't really do impressions too many, but

Speaker 2 did they assign you one or say, hey, can you play this? Or did you do Marky Mark?

Speaker 1 That one, all my impressions happened on accident. Like, I think Emily Spivey and someone else were the first ones to be like, oh, we put you in this thing as Nick Cage.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I don't do Nick Cage. But so I just worked on it and it ended up being something I found out that I could kind of do.

Speaker 1 And Wahlberg I was doing some bit with Jonah Hill, actually. We were hanging out in the summertime, and he's like, You kind of sound like Mark Wahlberg right now.

Speaker 1 And I was like, Ooh, yeah, anything to get on the fucking show. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I tried, I tried that, and I wrote it with Steele. But say hello to a great hook

Speaker 2 is the funniest

Speaker 2 thing to say.

Speaker 1 Which character says that?

Speaker 2 He does Wahlberg.

Speaker 1 He talks to animals. Yeah, he talks to animals.
That was Steele's idea. But you found

Speaker 1 that rhythm, that hook, that hunt. Yeah.
It's funny, like,

Speaker 1 obviously you're one of the greatest of all time at the Impressions. And like, I'm close with people also who are, like Wig and Fred and Gil.
I mean,

Speaker 1 it's a whole other skill set.

Speaker 1 And I've never considered myself good at it, but there's like a few times in my life where I have found it, and I'm like, oh, this must be what it's like for them all the time.

Speaker 1 Like, it is really fun to do.

Speaker 1 And it becomes its own language, and it becomes its own character.

Speaker 1 Well, that's the thing. It becomes a character.
So I know many, many incredibly accurate impressionists that aren't intrinsically funny.

Speaker 1 But since you're a comedian, when you did it, it was funny. And also, it was accurate enough that it represented Mark Wahlberg.
Sure, sure. So it worked completely.
How many times did you do that?

Speaker 1 It was kind of a hit. I think only twice.
Really? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You did it to Mark Wahlberg. Well, he came on the show.
And to basically, he did a whole thing where he was like, I guess they had asked him about it and he said something negative.

Speaker 1 And then I think him and his team were like, oh, well, you don't want people thinking I'm being too much of a bummer about this.

Speaker 1 So they, he came on and like pretended like he was going to kick my ass. Yes.
And it was very pleasant. It was totally fine.
It was the, it was the episode that Palin was on too.

Speaker 1 It was a crazy episode.

Speaker 2 Oh, big one.

Speaker 1 That's a score. Yeah.
Your time was pretty heady, you know, yeah. That election, you're

Speaker 1 your bandmate, so to speak.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was interesting for us.
Every election, we were there for two election years, I think.

Speaker 1 And our joke was always like, oh, well, we're not going to have anything on the show this year because it became so political and we just didn't really engage with that.

Speaker 1 We just wanted to make goofy shit.

Speaker 1 But now I think for everyone who works there now, that's just every year.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's just non-stop.

Speaker 1 Politics, you mean?

Speaker 1 Like it always has to be like about something and saying something and addressing what's happening.

Speaker 1 I think they have less opportunity to just do kind of weird ideas. The world changed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And it's probably going to change back.
I mean, that's how it's historically happened. I like acid humor the best.
I like silliness the best, if I have to say madness.

Speaker 1 And coming full circle back to you.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 Lazy Sunday and the Princess of Narnia, like, are you writing that when it's coming together? I'm just curious, like, that's your first SNL?

Speaker 2 Is that the first one or not the first one?

Speaker 1 That was the first one.

Speaker 1 We had made one short that aired before that called Lettuce, which was.

Speaker 2 No, I'm kidding. Hey, come on.

Speaker 1 Hey, Davis, that's kind of me. He's the one that's.
He's our guest. What are you talking about? No, he said that.
That was as part of SNL, not a pre-SNL. No, it aired on SNL.

Speaker 1 It was a Will Forte idea that we did with him, and we shot it on like a home

Speaker 1 camera, and it aired. And we were like, holy shit, that aired.
And then Lazy Sunday was the second one that aired, but that wasn't until the Christmas episode of our first season.

Speaker 1 Did you show it to Lauren when you got it completely finished? No, No, I think the first time he saw it, I think, was at dress.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I assume you guys knew you had a hit with that. No, no.
It felt irresistible to me.

Speaker 1 Once it aired, we were like, oh, shit, this is, I think people really liked it. You know,

Speaker 1 the crowd liked it. Yeah.
Yeah. It was a new feeling.
And, you know,

Speaker 1 you came out real hot. I don't really remember your beginning part, but I just remember

Speaker 1 knowing that you were there and you were good.

Speaker 1 No, it was, it was worked in, wormed in over time we were we had been there up till christmas to that point you know and we hadn't we had gotten stuff on and we were getting along with everybody but we weren't like we're killing this you know yeah so for us it was still the mentality of oh it's gonna air like it was that yeah it was still that early yeah you know what

Speaker 1 they think they think it's gonna air and then The crazy thing that happened with Lazy Sunday was what you brought up was it all of a sudden became a news item because everyone was like, there's a website called YouTube, and then every article about it was a picture of me and Parnell.

Speaker 1 Yes, you kind of represented YouTube in a way.

Speaker 2 When you do this, do you say, Does Shoemaker or someone say you should put a cast member in it with you? Or is that your idea?

Speaker 1 What do you mean? Like it's you and Chris Parnell. Oh, yeah.
Well, in the beginning,

Speaker 1 we like Keevin Yorm shot one that was an idea that we all had when I was

Speaker 1 in LA for an off week taking generals. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Time well spent. Take those generals.

Speaker 2 Generals. General meeting.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Oh, you're just generals now? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I came back and they had made something and I was like, oh, shit, it's that idea. It's so funny.
And we showed it to Shoemaker and Higgins and they were like, you guys just went and made this?

Speaker 1 And we're like, yeah. And they're like, do stuff like this for the show, but put the cast in it.
That was literally what they said. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And so they'd say put the cast because you're too new.

Speaker 1 So did Parna, did you have to coach him at all? Because if someone casts me in that, I don't know how you're double tracking to get, because it sounds like real rap, all your stuff does to me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So do you, what do you double track? You put effects on it.
It just has this muscularity. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, we had been making songs for fun and we had shot a few music videos for them. That was like something we had sort of started doing before SNL.

Speaker 1 And we're like, oh, yeah, we could try a song here. That might be fun.
And we knew Parnell quote unquote rapped or framed. Frapped as we did.
Fake rapping because he used to do it on update.

Speaker 1 like he did a thing i think like britney spears one week was the musical guest and he like did a rap dedicated to britney spears i love it that we thought was super funny what a score for him to be in that though yeah but it was also awesome for us because he was hilarious yeah like as soon as it starts you're like oh my god parnell is so in he dedicates his brain to it like him and forte both have that weird like

Speaker 1 gene of a performer where like they will never break no matter what. Like they're so in it.
they're really

Speaker 1 like it there's like a slight psychosis to it that makes you laugh so hard because you can tell they're actually lunatics deep down and you love it

Speaker 1 there's something a little different yeah

Speaker 1 yes forte had his own lane he did some brilliant yes just only he could do i would say he probably of everyone and this is saying a lot because i loved almost everyone i worked with there

Speaker 1 At the table, he was the person I was always the most excited to see what he was going to do because it was always so weird. It was so weird.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, the potato chip one where potato chips in all time. I told him about that, and he goes, you saw the potato chip one? I just watched it one night on television.

Speaker 1 And I go, yeah, it was,

Speaker 1 I, you know, comedians, we know where all the tricks are. We, we know, but, you know, to get surprised by another comedian and the commitment, then you have to just commit.

Speaker 2 But, um, and you give Lauren credit for seeing a weird bit and it even bombs miserably. And he goes, put it on.
Yeah. And it takes balls to go, we're teaching the audience this is funny.

Speaker 2 We're not saying, oh, it didn't do as good. You know, you just go, no, this is what should be out there.

Speaker 1 It has that gear.

Speaker 1 Can I, Wayne's World story? Yeah. When I sometimes do stuff that I don't explain.
So anyway, I was doing Garth's making a mechanical hand. I hope you've seen the movie.
But

Speaker 1 in my mind, the mechanical hand is going to strangle Rob Lowe. Yes.
So Rob Lowe comes in before it's finished, so then I beat the shit out of it. So it's laying there at the previews.

Speaker 1 And I kind of liked it because it was my shtick. But I'm like, okay, I get it.

Speaker 1 You guys want to, and Lauren's like, it's one of those things, you know, like 20 years from now, you're like, glad it's there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So Lauren does have that quirky side to it. Isn't that we fear change? It's that moment, right? Yeah.
Yeah. We fear change.
I know the film. God, I love that.
What about that?

Speaker 1 How do you react to people coming up to you the way you would have come up to someone else? You know, like to come up to you guys.

Speaker 1 I can't believe I'm me and Andy and Samber, you know, at the airport or whatever, and they're usually very sweet and and stuff. It's, it's an out-of-body experience, isn't it? It's trippy.

Speaker 1 I mean, the first time it happens, you're like, fuck it, I did it, you know? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then, I don't know, I always just think about, and I truly, like, you guys are on this list. When I was a teenager or in my early 20s, if I saw someone from SNL in real life, I would lose my shit.

Speaker 1 So I try to always remember that I felt like that. And the idea that somebody could feel that way about me is super exciting.
I have

Speaker 2 speak to you the same way, though. Like when I see Ackroyd or I saw Dane or those guys, it's never the same as when people see me and I go, oh, that's not that exciting.

Speaker 1 When they saw me,

Speaker 1 I go, I see these guys.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you got to remember, like, when it's, it's whatever there's, everyone says this about SNL, right? It's like when, when kids and teens are a certain age, that cast

Speaker 1 is their cast, and it means way more to them than even the original cast, which feels impossible to us.

Speaker 2 Movies, too, when you're 12 and 13. Yeah.
You see an Ackroyd after Blues Brothers and shit and you go, oh my god,

Speaker 1 but dude, Wayne's World and Tommy Boy are those for me, way more than Blues Brothers. Nothing against Blues Brothers, it's just those were my

Speaker 1 years where I was like, Holy shit, I can't believe that they're getting to do this.

Speaker 1 And I, it makes me feel like I have a place on earth, like literally, because you want to do that stuff, yeah, and I still quote those movies like every week. Yeah, that's nice.

Speaker 1 I can move you remember we fear change.

Speaker 1 Uh, yeah, did Garth say that? Garth said that we fear change, we fear change,

Speaker 1 and then

Speaker 2 what about what about this pop star movie

Speaker 2 oh yeah i think i told that whole vanni fair story because but bieber was there i think that's what i was leading up to is that right and he was wearing a blanket remember that he's wearing a poncho did you see that i wasn't there let's look at a clip let's go to the phone

Speaker 1 but it wasn't really a bieber parody but they marketed it i like bieber parody uh i like bieber as well and we met him a bunch of times at snl I'll say this. Super talent.

Speaker 1 I mean, obviously, in that moment,

Speaker 1 it was like he was was one of the biggest pop stars of course he still is so we're making a movie about that world so there are definitely jokes in it that are inspired by him like sure and you exaggerate a situation like he's a big pop star what's the funniest version of everything doesn't mean it's about bieber correct it's about

Speaker 1 but there's also a lot of stuff about a lot of other people in it too and then a lot of stuff we just kind of made up yeah i will say this

Speaker 1 Judd, who

Speaker 1 bless his heart, is the reason we got to make that movie.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's right, Judd.

Speaker 1 Fully produced it, fully ushered it, told us, like, hey, if you guys wanted to make a movie like that, I'll produce it. And just gave us basically a free pass to make a movie.

Speaker 1 I think he was in line with Universal More about making the marketing feel a little more Bieber-leaning.

Speaker 1 And we were like, this is Judd. He doesn't fucking miss.
So whatever you guys want to do. And then we ate shit at the box office.

Speaker 1 Ate a whole big pile of shit.

Speaker 2 On a movie

Speaker 2 that is funny, though.

Speaker 1 That's a very colorful way to put it.

Speaker 1 I've been in a couple of stinkers. I'll tell you what.
It wasn't because

Speaker 1 of the marketing or the Bieber stuff. It was just like people didn't want to go to the theater for

Speaker 1 a while. Sorry, isn't it kind of a cult film in a way? Like the people who are going to love it are going to be quoting it and possessed by it.
I'm assuming.

Speaker 1 I mean, most of my favorite comedies didn't do well in theaters. Most.
Wayne's World obviously is an exception.

Speaker 1 And, you know, there's exceptions. There's Anchorman, which I'm is one of my all-time favorites

Speaker 1 that did really well. But generally speaking, you know, know like

Speaker 1 we were kind of like riding spinal taps coattails and when it came out i just kept reading stuff about how when spinal tap came out it was in like six theaters or something

Speaker 1 yeah there was like one hot american summer there's a bunch of went hot oh when i was in spinal tap and uh that's right geez you know my whole you were in spinal tap uh andy sandberg is interviewing me today we're having a i was in spinal tap the mime waiter with billy crisp that's right it's awesome oh wow how fun but to me that movie was to your point that was sort of like, God, they could make a movie like that.

Speaker 1 It's like the first mock documentary that I'd seen. It's like, this is so cool.
It's one Haya.

Speaker 1 Have you

Speaker 1 watched that movie anytime recently?

Speaker 1 Maybe not in the last couple of years. Crazy how well it holds up.
Like just the pace of it, and it doesn't seem like it's rushing at all.

Speaker 1 Pushing, yeah, yeah. But it doesn't waste a second of your time.
Like it's just like type it, type it, type it.

Speaker 1 Every joke is funny and they get out and it moves and the story makes sense and you actually actually kind of care in the end we did pollock and i talked like christopher guess for like three years every time we talked and we actually played blackjack at harrow as we were playing and we we just did it going we told like this well i'll give you i'll give you i'm supposed to take a call and you want me to take a call to try to do it is real enough that they maybe believe it when i did uh coneheads put the applause thank you

Speaker 2 i did michael mckeon i'd ask him about spinal tap and conads after you know it came out was probably better than spinal tap

Speaker 1 anyway

Speaker 1 Conad's was great.

Speaker 2 Conads had so many funny people in it that never just gelated.

Speaker 1 Well, I love anything where they're called Coneheads and their heads look like cones. That's perfect.
I always liked the nail on the head.

Speaker 2 Maybe it was too on the money.

Speaker 1 I auditioned for Spinal Tap. You might find this interesting.
I came into Rob Reiner and the whole cast. I'm auditioning.
You did? Yeah, to play the drummer or something. Great.

Speaker 1 And then I go, this is nerve-wracking. You guys are all friends, and I'm just walking in here.

Speaker 1 And so they all go, oh, we get that. They all just immediately left the room.

Speaker 1 They just got out of the room.

Speaker 1 I'm waiting there in five minutes and they come back in. They go, oh, we're a little nervous.

Speaker 1 How long have you been in here?

Speaker 1 But I think they felt sorry for me, so they gave me the mime thing.

Speaker 2 Oh, dude, this guy was in Grown Ups 2.

Speaker 1 Was I ever?

Speaker 2 That's a cheerleader scene, which is

Speaker 1 hysterical. That was a fun day.

Speaker 2 That was a great thing to use guys like you where not to waste your time. It's like one bit funny and get out.

Speaker 1 I mean, yeah, that's the thing, too, that I know you know about. Once Sandler likes you and puts you in stuff, he'll be like, just come do a thing.
You know, okay. We'll figure it out later.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I hate worth Dr. Orange on.
He also

Speaker 1 has a very sweet, whispery. So we're going to do a thing.

Speaker 1 And you'll be like, with a bunch of sides on you and stuff. You're going to be so funny.

Speaker 1 There he is. Adam has a lot of rhythms.
The best. Yeah, the best.
A lot of rhythms to him. And so we should.

Speaker 2 He's an hotel chunk.

Speaker 1 we should talk about some of these as are you monster monster things

Speaker 1 dude were you you were in the fourth one right

Speaker 1 yes andy yeah were you yeah was selena yeah oh adam wasn't correct that's right yeah you were in fourth we've been in four together we've been in the uh i was in two trenches of hotel

Speaker 1 by the way that's a that is like the the true like business joy of when Sandler likes you. Oh my God.
He called me after

Speaker 1 we did. That's my boy.
And he called me after that. Was like, hey, we're doing this anime thing.
And there's a goofy guy. He's the only human.
You're going to be that guy.

Speaker 1 And I was like, okay, thanks, Ann-Man. And then, like, four movies later.
It pays off. Yeah.
I'm just like, okay. I have a story about that, Dana, but it involves Andy, unfortunately.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 You have the floor on Hotel Transylvania. So do you remember this? The first table read at Sony.
Yeah. And Amy Pascal was there.
Yeah. And it wasn't Selena.
Who was Mavis?

Speaker 2 I truly have no idea. Miley Cyrus.

Speaker 1 Whoa, really?

Speaker 2 And she was a half hour late.

Speaker 1 And it was me, Sam,

Speaker 1 you.

Speaker 2 Everyone was there waiting.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're like,

Speaker 2 and it was dead silent. Because, you know, Amy's the president of Sony.
Comes in.

Speaker 2 Okay, we got a call. She's on the 405.
She's getting off at Sautele.

Speaker 1 Everyone's like, oh, my God.

Speaker 1 She's still not here.

Speaker 2 And it was like, she comes in. Hey, sorry.

Speaker 1 And then I sits down rifles to the script.

Speaker 2 Like,

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's a cold read. I was like,

Speaker 2 first of all, I love Miley Sears.

Speaker 1 First of all, she's a great singer.

Speaker 2 She's unbelievable. I just saw her do a Like a Prayer Live with her cowboy on it.

Speaker 1 She's a great singer.

Speaker 2 This was just an off thing because she did the table read, and the movie obviously went fine, but they got Selena.

Speaker 1 I don't remember that.

Speaker 2 Right after. And that's so weird.
I don't know if Miley decided not to do it or it just was not a perfect fit, but Selena is obviously unbelievable and great. And she was.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I only met her twice along the way because we don't do that much. You know, we don't shoot them all.

Speaker 1 I mean, we've never, I've never been in the room with her for anything but press. We do all the

Speaker 1 press. Yeah.
We do all the press together. And it's like, hey, this is fun.
Yeah. This is

Speaker 1 a bunch of nice people.

Speaker 2 Ken Kuhn. Didn't we go somewhere before?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Dude, that was crazy, the Sony like retreat.

Speaker 1 That was nuts. And then my wife and I were like, oh, we're going to go to Tulum.
Yeah. We're already here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you're in Mexico. Go ahead, Dana.

Speaker 1 Oh, I just wanted to, because I know we have our producer, Craig Holtson,

Speaker 1 David Silis, list, a super fan, the huge, obviously dick in a box.

Speaker 1 We can't get through all of them, but you know, but dick in a box with Justin. Also, dancing with Beyonce.
Oh, yeah, single ladies. Bobby Moynihan.
Single ladies.

Speaker 1 So if you want to talk about those quickly, I mean, Dick in a Box.

Speaker 2 Do you have to go to Beyonce or does Marcy or does someone go to her?

Speaker 1 We wrote it.

Speaker 1 Me and Bobby, I think.

Speaker 1 I might be getting that wrong, but I think that was it. And I think we knew Justin was around and could do it.

Speaker 1 And then I think it was Justin that went and talked to Beyonce about it because we were like, well,

Speaker 1 he's very famous and she's very famous. So that would probably go best.

Speaker 2 I'll see his DM.

Speaker 1 And also, like, it's him being like, I'm going to be in a leotard. Like, we're celebrating you, whatever it is.
But she was delightful.

Speaker 1 She's such a sweet, wonderful person in my limited interaction with her.

Speaker 1 But that one was,

Speaker 1 that one was fun because we just were like, there's no way people are going to be mad at this. It's too funny.

Speaker 1 It's great.

Speaker 2 She rolls with it and it's all

Speaker 2 and having her in it. Yes.
And then that's probably a blow up on video.

Speaker 1 Also, her doing that song, like her performance of that song that night on the show is one of the most incredible performances. It's hard.

Speaker 1 Yes. And they're in like giant heels and just fucking destroying.
Like her and Prince, I think are the two people

Speaker 1 in my time there where I was like, I don't understand what's happening right now. It's so impressive.

Speaker 2 She seems like a very hard worker from like early age of like busting up and gives 100% in every performance.

Speaker 1 She's a killer.

Speaker 2 That song, Check on It, she has so many words in it.

Speaker 1 There's a couple songs where I go, how does she?

Speaker 2 I mean, to do a whole concert, she has so much to do and dance and sing and costumes.

Speaker 2 Her last album is incredible. And everyone's in love with her.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, Dick and a Bob. Beyonce, if you'd ever like to come on the podcast,

Speaker 1 you're always welcome.

Speaker 2 Obviously, everyone likes you here.

Speaker 2 Go ahead. Yeah, Dick in a Box.

Speaker 1 Dick in a Box, you know, was fine. We just kind of threw it together.

Speaker 2 Any problems with that?

Speaker 1 That was the first one that went kind of sexual or R, right? Or that hard. Because Dick in a Box was like on the edge, right? That censor

Speaker 1 with Natalie Portman at the end of the

Speaker 1 of the previous year, and it was filthy, but it was all bleeped. But that was all her.
Oh, it was all bleeped. That was all her.

Speaker 1 People really like that one. What was that one?

Speaker 1 It was just her rapping real filthy.

Speaker 1 Basically.

Speaker 1 She loved Lil' Kim and told us she wanted to do one.

Speaker 2 And we were like, okay, cool. How great.

Speaker 1 And you bleeped all the words out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, a lot of bleeps. I mean, that was the fun of getting to do so much pre-tape is we ended up...
There was not a lot of bleeps before us, I don't think.

Speaker 2 When you do dick in a box to the audience, it says dick in a box.

Speaker 1 No, I think it was bleeped in. Oh, no.
Really? Even if for the... Because it's live.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So what part is bleeped?

Speaker 2 The word dick. Yeah, Dana.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So you can't say dick, okay. You can say bleep.
Well, couldn't they have to be in the picture? It's interesting you bring this up, though.

Speaker 1 And you wouldn't know what it meant. It could be dick Wilson.

Speaker 2 Well, it could be dick in your pants like a medical thing. Two things.

Speaker 1 Two things about the bleeps.

Speaker 1 We were told that because it was bleeped, people thought it was cock.

Speaker 1 Cock and it was. Even dirtier, really, right? Yes, which and it sounds much worse musically.

Speaker 1 And then a few years later, we aired the the song Jizz in My Pants with no bleeps and no anything. But what's Jizz? I don't know.
I would have still don't know.

Speaker 1 I'm told someday I'll find out.

Speaker 1 But that one, it had to air after 12:15 or something. Like it was like at the very end of the show.

Speaker 1 And I think whoever was running NBC at the time, it was maybe like Jeff Zucker or somebody came down to the show and like they had a whole conversation about it. Interesting.

Speaker 1 Basically, we brought it in because we had already started doing albums at that point.

Speaker 1 It was from our first album, and we were like, Hey, we have this video, maybe we could just play it at dress and see how it goes.

Speaker 1 And then it was like, Oh, it went well. And Laura was like, So, we should air it.
And they're like, But can we? And we're like, We have a censored version,

Speaker 1 which does exist where instead of jizz, you just hear variations of us going,

Speaker 1 it's a lot sillier, but not as funny.

Speaker 2 You could have a dick in a box and also jizz in the box.

Speaker 1 You could with the dick. Say more about that.
Well,

Speaker 1 I'm going to show you a chart how that could work. You're on Spain.
Where would you hold the box?

Speaker 1 You know, the dry. It depends on your age.
Dick in a box

Speaker 1 was revolutionary, but also I'm on a boat is so dry and silly. It is dry as a boat.
I'm on a boat. There's nothing to it but that one idea.

Speaker 2 What are you doing on the boat?

Speaker 1 I'm on a boat.

Speaker 1 Just rich people being on boats.

Speaker 1 Being on boats.

Speaker 1 There were a lot of videos at that time where the concept of the video was just the thing.

Speaker 2 they were on a boat and they were doing their song on rich and they're doing good yeah yeah t pain was a great addition it's always fun when you just throw someone in that out of the blue i think you pan over to him at the beginning like you go yeah exactly it's that's a laugh and then yeah that's like an old like almost like marks brothers style reveal yeah it's hard to get people we were trying to get people for stuff back in the show and you know they don't know to last minute and unless it's gerald or rivera they're not coming oh my god i mean especially once you start going into the music world like they're on their own schedule.

Speaker 1 Everybody in music does whatever they feel like.

Speaker 2 I go, what about Steve Martin? And he goes, what about Geraldo Rivera? And I go, well, and he goes, he's circling the building.

Speaker 1 Anytime you say, would he do it?

Speaker 2 He's circling the building.

Speaker 1 That was Lauren's best joke.

Speaker 2 I'm still in that one.

Speaker 1 What about Geraldo? Well,

Speaker 2 Geraldo is the one that was always circling.

Speaker 1 Lauren will do that sometimes where he's just like, so-and-so is here, so put them in it. And you're like, ooh, Steve's coming.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We did a Lasercats, and it opens with him having dinner with Senator Dodd. Oh, wow.
And we were like, yeah, that was definitely who we were thinking for this. Senator Dodd.
Yeah, he was around.

Speaker 1 I think Chris Francisco

Speaker 1 picked him up and threw him around at a party.

Speaker 2 He had Steve come in a Hollywood minute and stand behind me and just listen to it and drink, sip a drink. Oh, my God.
And he goes, I want a drink and I want to sip it with a straw.

Speaker 2 And we're like, okay. Fuck, I love it.
And then he just stood behind me.

Speaker 1 Steve Martin, my fucking hero. Did he say anything after?

Speaker 2 At the end, he goes, I did a joke on him.

Speaker 2 I go, he's in a new movie where he thinks he's cool.

Speaker 1 Hey, I have my shirt open.

Speaker 2 I'm Matt Dylan. And then he's standing behind me, and then he taps me, and I go, oh.

Speaker 2 And then he tells me to leave. And then he sits down and does some jokes.

Speaker 1 And are they about you or just whatever? He made fun of me.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You got him. He was the deal.
Sense of humor about yourself. I was sort of embarrassed because I didn't love it.
Thanks, Andy.

Speaker 2 I wanted more for Steve, which I love him.

Speaker 1 We're big guys. We get it.

Speaker 2 Listen, Dana, if you're like me, you're like me a little bit.

Speaker 1 I think so.

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Speaker 1 all right give something else to him give another i know that you love i read that you especially had a fond heart for a great day

Speaker 1 i do i do love great day cool video it has pathos it's funny

Speaker 1 you know because you want to have a great day but he's got coke all over

Speaker 1 my own works thank you for bringing up my own works

Speaker 1 i do i am proud of that one it came together nice yeah i think It has a

Speaker 1 well, it's just, it steps outside all the other ones. It's just so different.
That one's a neighborhood and it's all beautiful. Yes.
And it's a different kind of song for us.

Speaker 1 It was more musical style. We shot down on Commerce, which is like my favorite street in Manhattan.
We made it utopian. Yes, in front of the Cherry Lane Theater.

Speaker 1 We've shot there a few times. We shot this Akhmadina Jod one with Fred down there, too.
I love that street. Anyway.

Speaker 2 Wait, I forget to ask about Digman.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that's my show.

Speaker 2 Digman is a show.

Speaker 1 By the way, I saw a billboard for it. I'm my way over there.
Already? Yeah, I saw it too. I was super, I was like, hey, it's real.

Speaker 2 I was thinking of the voice.

Speaker 1 I rolled down my window and said, interviewing him.

Speaker 1 Interviewing him.

Speaker 1 And me, I was like, please fucking let Dana have seen this. Dude, billboards are all about.

Speaker 1 Is it out already? Are we promoting it? March 22nd. Okay, and you think it comes out right then.
So yes, we'll be out. That's Digman.
It's available because it's so hard to find shit on

Speaker 1 it's today. No, but where do you get it? Oh, Comedy Central.
Comedy Central. I know.

Speaker 1 Old school. Hey, Samberg.
Samberg. Yeah.
90s call. But we're on after South Park, so it's the best slot you get.
Oh, the best slot in history. Is that your South Park? Yeah.
That's good. That's good.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is a South Park guy. Hi, how are you?

Speaker 1 I just shit my podcast. I'm three.
This kid just fucked me in the ass.

Speaker 2 I'm like, really?

Speaker 1 Is it a real show? I can't believe what they get away with.

Speaker 2 When I see those clips on Instagram, I go,

Speaker 2 this is from a real show, or is it just a clip they made?

Speaker 1 I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. A parody of a show.

Speaker 1 I like it in my eyes. Megan Michael.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they're in print.

Speaker 1 Hey, guys. South Park guys, Trey and Matt.
And Matt, if you guys ever want to come on the podcast.

Speaker 1 Beyonce is going to be here.

Speaker 1 What if they all want to come the same day then? Andy will come back.

Speaker 1 No, Digman.

Speaker 1 I just watched it last night. Did you? Oh, yeah.
Oh, awesome. They got it to me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Digman. He's an archie.
Yeah, he's an archaeologist. He's an archaeologist.
They call him Archies. It's a show set in a world where archaeologists are the biggest celebrities in the world.
So like

Speaker 1 there's like a Met Gala, but it's the Archie Gala.

Speaker 1 And everyone's wondering what museum they're going to be hired by.

Speaker 1 And it's super silly. I made it with my buddy Neil Campbell, who wrote on Brooklyn 99 and Comedy Bang Bang and stuff.
And

Speaker 1 I've been working on it for fucking two and a half years. It is funny because it takes so long.

Speaker 1 First season's eight, and we're hoping there'll be another one.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was funny. I just watched it last night, and uh, there's an assistant archaeologist, yes, Mitra Juhari, who's super funny.
Oh, okay, I was wondering who that was.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 do you need any if there's a season two? Do you need any guest voices? Are you in? Would you guys want to do it? Yeah, if it's we got motherfucking emperor's new groove right here, motherfucker.

Speaker 1 All right, remember that one? I can do two things.

Speaker 2 I can do a llama or an invisible man.

Speaker 1 Okay, first of all, I think that sounds simple. Let's hear the llama.
No, because they all are invisible man.

Speaker 2 The llama is look at me and my bad self.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Speaker 2 No No, touchy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That was one that was a pass.

Speaker 1 That's a funny movie.

Speaker 2 That was a great one.

Speaker 1 That was a great comment. Yeah.
You and Warburton.

Speaker 2 Come on.

Speaker 1 This one's solid mahogany.

Speaker 2 The poison. Goose goes poison.

Speaker 2 He and Goddamn Earth a kit playing Ezma were so hilarious.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Have you seen that movie?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Danny. It's genuinely, just like shockingly.
It's funny, isn't it?

Speaker 1 What year did it come out?

Speaker 2 It took me three years.

Speaker 1 90. What do you mean? Three years to shoot it.
Oh. It's so hard.
It was Mocap? Say it again. Motion capture.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it was Mocap.

Speaker 1 Did you get it through a general? Did you take it

Speaker 1 and you got it?

Speaker 1 Did he get it through Disney?

Speaker 1 I snagged it through a general. General Disney.

Speaker 2 General meetings are where you go in and they tell you you're good and then nothing ever happens.

Speaker 1 Correct. I had one a couple weeks ago.

Speaker 2 They want to meet. They just want to.

Speaker 1 They just want to have it. Did you like to play twins?

Speaker 1 You should be both guys. You should be a movie.
Guys in the scene.

Speaker 1 How would you like to clumps it?

Speaker 1 Clumps, but more clumps.

Speaker 1 Clumps it. That's like the Eddie Murphy movie.
It's called Clumps. Yeah, this is what we all call it.

Speaker 1 When you're more than one part, you're clumps it. See, what they do is they cut tape.
They let him do four hours of makeup change. And they start the camera.
It seems like magic.

Speaker 1 Yes, once he did it, it kind of should have been retired, I think, because that was the end. Like, you're just like, how is this possible? No one understood.
How can he possibly?

Speaker 2 One guy's our senior sometimes.

Speaker 1 That's true. I don't think that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 One of the movies is it just a picture. Tell me to America.

Speaker 2 Just came to me. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 So, Emperor's New Groove.

Speaker 2 I'll play llama. But the show, Digman, is

Speaker 2 it is funny as shit.

Speaker 1 I was just watching last time. Thank you.
Good job. It's Andy Sandberg.
Come on. So, yeah, Andy's.
Well, that's the, I mean, not everything.

Speaker 1 Not everything you ever do is like, we're going hard, funny, but this one isn't. It's just jokes.
We're trying to do as much. And it's a good story.

Speaker 2 So you followed.

Speaker 1 PG-13 or soft R. It was kind of.
It's a little.

Speaker 2 Do you have all that stuff on there?

Speaker 1 Everything's in, but when it airs on network, it'll be bleeped.

Speaker 1 the fucks will be bleeped and everything else can air what is that network mean comedy central yeah oh so because it's they've got a few in there but it's not overdone no no no we try to sort of parse them out no it's clever but there i a couple times i go oh yeah bad word yeah it's it's not soft

Speaker 1 nasty um

Speaker 1 but that was that was kind of the idea like we worked together you know on brooklyn thanks yeah and we loved making brooklyn but it's nbc so there were plenty of times we were like we were like just want to make a show where we don't have to.

Speaker 2 Just something borderline gets killed. I've done that before, and you go, oh, this isn't even, we got to compete out there.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 2 Exactly. It's very hard to argue because you're like, who's going to care?

Speaker 1 Yes. Our hope is that we made something that people in comedy will like it.
They say that the half-hour show, network show, is kind of the best. schedule for a human being.

Speaker 1 Well, yours was even harder. Mine was harder than his.
He did it live. With a straight sitcom.

Speaker 1 17 hours a week, right? About 16, 50.

Speaker 1 And and once it's like a hit and everyone knows their parts too and no one's stressed you just show up smash the audience is there to love it oh yeah i mean you were single camera so will and grace got down to a science uh four day weeks three day weeks you know i worked at radford as a pa oh i worked on spin city

Speaker 1 Oh, Spin City? I can't believe it. Get out of here, Sarge.
So he does fucking dog. Oh, you guys voted.
Hey, guys, what are we doing here? It's a soft Casey Kasim. Gotta give me a minute here, Sarge.

Speaker 1 Come on, Sarge. Give me a minute.
I'm Casey Kasem.

Speaker 1 Okay, fuck.

Speaker 1 what, Prisoners of War or something? Casualties of War.

Speaker 2 The worst one to do in President, no one's thought.

Speaker 1 But you're doing it with Sean Penn. Yeah.
He's

Speaker 1 going to get this VC gook horse. Get a tattoo.
Hey, come on, guys. Get a tattoo.
I know it all. Come on, guys.

Speaker 1 It's Casey Casey. Basically, is it really? It's a little bit more.

Speaker 1 No, it's different. But you're Casey's.
But you just take it back a little bit. Come on, Sarge.

Speaker 1 Don't make the audience think it's easy.

Speaker 1 Audience. It's not dissimilar.

Speaker 2 You got to go on your tiptoes, open your eyes.

Speaker 1 I'm, hey, doc, this is. Oh, my God.
I love it. I'm at home now.
By the way, when I was there, though, it was Charlie Sheen. It was actually very good.
It was Charlie Sheen. It was Charlie Sheen.

Speaker 1 It was post-Fox. So it was a different.

Speaker 2 Oh, Spin City. Yeah.
Yes. Did you do the sketch Hookers and Blow with Charlie Sheen? Did I do that? Yeah.
Were you in it?

Speaker 1 I don't think I was in that.

Speaker 2 That was Matt Piedmont who wrote that.

Speaker 2 It was a body shop called Hookers and Blow, spelled differently. And it was Charlie Sheen was the pitch man.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. And And it aired? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Who played Charlie Sheen? He did. Oh, he did it himself.
He posted. Yeah.
Got it. Got it.
Got it. Okay.
Well, good for him. Yeah.
By the way, hot shots, really good. Hot shots is funny.

Speaker 1 It's really funny. All right.

Speaker 1 Blizzard Man or Shy Ronnie. It's like a little girl.
Oh, Shy Ronnie.

Speaker 2 You got to do with Rihanna.

Speaker 1 That was the shit. Fuck.
She's the coolest. Yeah, that was kind of one of the sillier things I saw.
The cool thing about her character was so.

Speaker 2 And her doing it is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Her doing it, but now whenever I see her, which is not often, she sees me and she goes, Shirani! Oh, cute. Like, I don't know if she knows my name, but I'm happy with what I have.

Speaker 2 You're real. Everyone loves me.

Speaker 1 You know, Rihanna. Yeah.
Damn.

Speaker 2 Good job.

Speaker 1 Jealous.

Speaker 1 All right. Wrap up.
Well, should we talk about the Oscars? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Fill in the blanks. It's a new game we have.
Yeah. Oh, shit.
And you can always say pass. Okay.
Lauren Michaels is

Speaker 1 my dad.

Speaker 1 We never got that.

Speaker 1 I thought that's what everyone would say.

Speaker 1 He is kind of everybody's dad. Go to your room.
He's 13 months older than me.

Speaker 1 One time

Speaker 1 I had been doing pretty well after a couple of years, and I did the bit. You know, where you like do, where you force it and you make your hands touch? Like, he was reaching for his popcorn.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. And you're like a meet-cute kind of thing.
And I was like, oh, look at that. He was like, slapped my hand.
He went,

Speaker 1 I am not your friend.

Speaker 1 That's right. And I was like, okay, yeah.
Sorry, sorry, Lawrence. Yeah, sorry, sorry.

Speaker 2 I like when even says anything like that.

Speaker 1 Do you remember any Mormonisms? And we always do this on the show. I mean, he does.

Speaker 1 The value of water. Everyone knows that one.
Yeah, I mean, he always starts things. It's that thing.
You know, because it's like that thing. And like.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's like, you know, it'd be better if it was like funny. It'd be like a really, really good show.

Speaker 2 It helps if my body will be.

Speaker 1 It would help if it was good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is last. We have two weeks off.
It would help if it was good. It was a quick note and rather a low note.
You know, I know that that's all designed to relax us.

Speaker 1 Emily Spivey, I don't know if you guys guys know her, she was a writer for a very long time on the show.

Speaker 1 She used to do a bit in the

Speaker 1 rewrite table where

Speaker 2 is it going to be R-rated now or rewritten? No, not R-rated,

Speaker 1 where

Speaker 1 the phone would ring, or she'd pretend the phone ring, and she'd pick it up and go, hello. Oh, hey, Lorne.
Oh, thank you. Oh, I know.
I worked really hard on it.

Speaker 1 I love you, too. Like, basically act like he was calling to give her tons of compliments because he never gives them anybody.

Speaker 1 He'll always compliment, not when you're really killing a big thing, but like some exit or when you have one line and some Cowboy sketch. I thought it was breathtaking.

Speaker 1 The one time he ever said something overtly nice about something I did in front of everybody was a great day. It was

Speaker 1 the meeting between dress and air.

Speaker 1 He was like, can we cut out of that a little faster? Very funny, by the way. And I was just like,

Speaker 1 melted to a puddle.

Speaker 1 And I was like, God, why does he have so much power over us? I know.

Speaker 1 He fucking let it. I'll never forget it.
Well, you know, he's seen everybody. Exactly.
Every American sketch player and every

Speaker 1 move.

Speaker 2 Somewhat equal to all those people that have been there before.

Speaker 1 Yes. And believe me, Andy Samberg was very, very,

Speaker 1 I gotta go.

Speaker 2 I can't answer any of my own questions anymore.

Speaker 2 About you that I answer.

Speaker 1 Okay, fair, fair, fair. Fill in the blank.
I'm really bugged by

Speaker 1 bugs.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's the right answer.

Speaker 1 My dream job is.

Speaker 1 I have it.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Positivity.

Speaker 1 It's not a bit.

Speaker 1 I can't believe it. It's like we were talking about.

Speaker 2 Finish this sentence. I did a Corona commercial with

Speaker 2 Snoop. Yeah.
Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you one thing about those commercials. When you do them, you're like, oh, it's fucking Snoop.
These are funny. This is going to be great.

Speaker 1 And then you don't realize they're going to air them seven

Speaker 1 billion times and like make people hate you, even if they like it the first hundred times. Yeah, but that's I guess that's what I should have known.
They're well known. What was your mom drawing?

Speaker 1 There was always a little thing right at the end, you're with him, and then there's something right at the end, you do a little eyebrow thing or something. I'm sure I've seen it.

Speaker 1 Well, I did a few of them. Yeah, there's more coming, by the way.

Speaker 2 I know, I know, I sold out.

Speaker 1 Gosh,

Speaker 1 I took the chance. Oh, Andy.

Speaker 1 I haven't freaking shit. I turned out so many commercials in the 90s.
I regret it to this day. Did you?

Speaker 1 Getting commerce now is cool. Ryan Reynolds just made 200 million off some gin product.
He makes so much money. Yeah, there's nothing.
He can't stop either. There's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 1 All that means is freedom to do what you want. It is annoying that he's making so much money and he's good.
Yeah. And seems really nice.
He's really funny.

Speaker 1 You wish he sucked a little bit. Yeah.
But instead, he's like, funny. He's an advertising company, a management company.

Speaker 2 He's kind of a phone company.

Speaker 1 And his movies are all big and you want to do it. He owns Northern California.
I know. He's good.
But

Speaker 1 he's the president of the universe. Oh, this will be.
You won't want to do

Speaker 1 want to do this one.

Speaker 1 Fred Armerson is.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. That's good.

Speaker 1 That gets too much, too much.

Speaker 1 My friend. Yeah.
But also so good, so funny. Just makes me smile every time I see him.
He's on last week, right?

Speaker 1 He's delightful. And by the way, speaking of no pushing.

Speaker 1 He never, ever is sweaty ever, and it's always funny and weird and interesting. Yeah.
I could get sweaty sometimes. Oh, me and you both.

Speaker 1 Spade never gets sweaty. I'm not too sweaty, right? No, you run it nice and cool and it's always sharp.
I like this. It's true.

Speaker 1 But you and me, we want it. You want it.
Yeah, we can get easy.

Speaker 1 We're like, I got a skill set. Let me show you my mirror.

Speaker 1 Kristen Wigg is also my friend.

Speaker 1 One of the greatest. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
One of the best.

Speaker 1 When I was doing Regis out there, I was guest hosting and just kind of rehearsing all week. And then she comes in as Kathy Lee with all this

Speaker 1 stuff. It was like, I was kind of almost starstruck by the meticulous business she had,

Speaker 1 her energy, she was hypnotizing this other rhythm. It was really interesting to be around that.

Speaker 1 She's kind of like Steph Curry of SNL, where you're like, she's super quiet and seems kind of just keeping to herself.

Speaker 1 And then all of a sudden you realize she's been fucking working hard and is an absolute beast. And ready to unleash.

Speaker 1 And like, as soon as that audience is there, you're like, oh, shit, I got to get out of the way. Oh, she has been thinking about this.
Is it okay to mention your wife is a famous musician? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love my wife. Gina Newsome.
Joanna. Joanna, sorry.
That's okay. Went to state school.
Joanna Newsome, singer-songwriter, harp player, piano, and vocals. I listen to some of it.

Speaker 1 So I think that's pretty hip. You're both artists.
Yeah. So she understands.

Speaker 1 I mean, she's much cooler than me, obviously.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she seemed incredibly cool. She's that.
We're just.

Speaker 1 What else? She says hi. She says hi.

Speaker 1 So now, just to wrap it up, so you're a dad now, and so that will, your world has changed, and now you and your wife are going to balance this thing with your work. Yes.
You have a plan?

Speaker 1 It's hard. It's very hard.
It is. It's interesting.
Like figuring out when to work, when not to, when, who works, when, where. Yeah.
Spade, what do you think?

Speaker 2 I think you're heading in the right direction.

Speaker 2 That's my general.

Speaker 1 Spade, you think you want kids? Yeah. What do you think?

Speaker 2 I have a daughter, and she's here. Not here in the house.
I kicked her out. Yeah.
But she's here, and she'll be, and we're going to go to the lunch right after this.

Speaker 1 How old is your daughter?

Speaker 2 She's 14.

Speaker 1 We're going to take her to Beverly Hills, you know, that little diner in the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Speaker 2 No, we're going to something more grimy.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Yeah. In and out for me.

Speaker 2 I don't want her to know that I have any money.

Speaker 1 Just keep it quiet.

Speaker 1 Well, this

Speaker 1 is a little bit of a giveaway. Oh, yeah.
In LA, kids just think that's what houses are.

Speaker 2 I know. This house.

Speaker 1 I'm just kidding.

Speaker 2 Andy Sandberg has been our guest, and he's been very nice, and his leg probably hurts at this point.

Speaker 1 No, I would do this for another seven hours. And you're going to give a good deep dive on that.
I'm going to go to how much fun it was to show Glazer cats. Oh, I do like Glazer Cats.

Speaker 1 When you see it, you're like, that's just kids' stuff. That's so much fun.
It was very fun.

Speaker 1 I like Charlotte.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 Our sum up.

Speaker 1 Andy Sandberg, one of the all-time greats, Saturday Night Live. What? Revolutionized Saturday Night Live with

Speaker 1 digital video probably has 200 to 300 million hits on YouTube. Between all those videos.
Money?

Speaker 1 Well, no. YouTube views silly.

Speaker 2 Definitely more than that. Also, one of the ones that I've got.

Speaker 1 55 million just for On a Boat. I think I'm On a Boat has well over 200 million.
Okay, so you're cool to see. You're the new bad baby.

Speaker 1 I'm kidding. If I knew this at the beginning of the podcast, I think of myself as the new Rebecca Black, but thank you.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I would have been nervous if I'd known that stat. But yeah, it's pretty monstrous.
All of them are from years ago, by the way. Doesn't matter.
Aggregate.

Speaker 1 I think we have over a billion views on our YouTube channel, which I know because what else am I going to do? And you get paid $2,900 to look at the views. Check those stats.

Speaker 1 But now there's

Speaker 1 single songs by pop stars that have like over two or three billion or something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Mr. Lizard has 7 billion hits on his latest song, Shabbatoo.
No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 What's funnier than Bad Bad Bunny, Mr.

Speaker 2 Lizard? We have been trying to get Andy for a while because people ask about like there's people they really want to hear from.

Speaker 1 So it's nice that you well your impact on the show is huge. You're part of the whole story of SNL.
And so we were very happy to have it.

Speaker 2 And there's a chunk of time. It's like good to have Andy.

Speaker 1 You had a lane that no one else had. Well, thanks.
I mean, it's very much with Akiva and Yorma, too. I always have to mention.

Speaker 1 And with your friends who are in a lot of the videos and are really great performers themselves. They always make me laugh.
They're great. Those are my butts.

Speaker 2 Let's take take our picture.

Speaker 1 All right. Thanks, Andy.

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