Hour 2: Jessica's Weekend Observations (feat. Kenan Thompson)

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The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. So that was great.
That was good. Killed it.
What an interview, guys. I don't think we're trailing.
I think we're all right. I think it's funny when you mess up, respectfully.
People enjoy that. I'm in the Jess camp.
Pull the curtain back. We didn't have home court.
Ultimately, the goal is to come back 1-1. So we're trailing right now.
The game's not over. Oh, you're giving up on the game.
A lot of game left. I think the best part of the game is still ahead of us.
Yeah. It's not over.
You think it was so bad that we can't come back? Series hasn't even started yet. No, I think we're in good shape.
It wasn't a great play to hit the button in the middle of his answer and also to play a sound bite that kind of felt like he needed to be quiet. I don't think it was the button pressing.
I think it was Dominique asking Steve if he was a better golfer than anyone currently on the PGA Tour, which has befuddled him. Interesting.
He didn't know. And even about the rugby stuff, there was a lot of moments where Steve was kind of like,

what are we doing here?

But I liked it, though, because it was a good setup.

When the button happened, though, that was the moment where I'm like.

That's where I think you can boil it down to one moment.

Now he feels disrespected.

Here's the moment, because it was all kind of bad.

It's never good when I'm the one that shines in an interview.

You were great, man.

That's just what no one wants.

You talk about carrying the squad in that interview? Way to be accountable, Chris. You were great.
I mean, I did get him to say that he would whoop Phil Mickelson's ass. That was a good one.
Leave it that one on the social. I got a bucket, and then I proceeded to turn the ball over for the rest of the corner.
We were leaning on you to take all the shots, so you're going to miss a couple.

Right?

It was,

which soundbite hit?

I don't think we're talking enough

about like,

in the middle of an answer.

Yeah, it wasn't the best one.

It was a bad one to go off too.

And he was like,

a little long in the answer,

which was like a good answer,

but it felt,

there was a moment

where you could see him thinking,

like, was that purposely done?

Are they like,

telling me to get off the stage because I'm speaking too long?

Hand up accountability.

I blew it.

I blew the interview.

I have an idea how we can get back out ahead.

Love to hear.

Which is by doing weekend observations.

Yeah, do it.

Well done.

It is time for Jessica's game notes.

No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my girl, Jess. Weekend observations.
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No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my girl Jess. Weekend Observations is presented by Miller Lite.
Dumb! It's one of the busiest times on the sports calendar. And we're one of the biggest podcasts in sports.
But inexplicably, our hosts left us. One went on an indefinite hiatus and one took his elegant swan on a work trip to LA.
But you know what they say, the show must go on. And this segment is still sponsored.
So just like that, make no mistake about it, Dominique, you and Charlie Kravitz are back. Charlie Kravitz, the vanilla snack.
Snack attack. For only the second time in men's NCAA tournament history, four one seeds are in the final four.
For context, the last time that happened, Stugatz still came to work every day. The L in Levitard stands for Los Angeles for the exclusive Sedano sit-down.
Jeff Conine inducted into the Marlins Hall of Fame, Mr. Marlin.
Put it on the poll. Can you be called Mr.
Marlin if you played more seasons not on the Marlins than on the Marlins? Anytime there's a stoppage in play, Stan Van Gundy has to let you know how disgusted he is by it. Nobody, and I mean nobody, hates to see a review coming like Stan Van Gundy.
SVG. Yankees, with nine home runs in one game.
The Bronx Bombers. WFAN taking calls all day about people wanting to talk bat size.

That's what New York sports radio is all about.

The Yankees.

Paying an MIT physicist instead of Juan Soto.

Chess, not checkers.

Also, Aaron Judge.

Do it in the playoffs.

BYU.

The rare team to score 88 points in a college basketball game, only to lose by 25. Alabama, live by the three.
Alabama, die by the three. Paige Beckers, bucket getter.
Dominique, do you know what the B in Becker stands for? I don't. Bucket getter.
You just told me. You did know.
I did. You don't listen.
Pete Crow Armstrong. Cannon.
PCA.

November 8th.

Frank Reich.

Bill Belichick.

Go ahead and circle it.

Got the Stanford job.

Collision course.

It was breaking news like an hour ago.

Oh, wow.

Texas Tech.

Choked.

If I was a Texas Tech fan, I would never recover from that loss.

You know what the W in Walter Clayton Jr. stands for?

Winner. You know what the C in Walter Clayton Jr.
stands for? Winner. You know what the C in Walter Clayton Jr.
stands for? Championship? Closer. You know what the J in Walter Clayton Jr.
stands for? No. Just give him the ball and get the bleep out of the way.
Alex Ovechkin. Still doing it.
Fans will make him dance. Death.
Taxes. And Don Staley in a Final Four.
You tell Don Staley where the Final Four is, and she'll make sure she's there. The Jets GM announced that he believes Justin Fields will be the starter.
Buddy. That's what the $30 million guaranteed already told us.
Justin Verlander.

San Francisco Giant.

Hmm.

Miami Marlins.

Feisty.

Yeah.

Mr. Marlin.

Congratulations to the guy who really went out on a limb and picked all four one seats to make the final four.

Dan Lebitard.

In Los Angeles.

Asking comedians what's the worst part of the life.

Dan. The worst part of the life is listening to you interview comedians.
What happened there? Taylor. Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordan trolled the Atlanta Falcons with an Instagram post on 328.
When Bill Belichick won that Super Bowl against the Falcons, Jordan was 15, and Stugatz still came to work every day. Big Ten, with zero titles since 2000.
Hey, Big Ten, do it in the NCAA tournament. Haley Van Lith, the first player in history to take three different teams to the Elite Eight.
You know what they say. I don't.
If you have three Elite Eights, you don't have one.

Auburn's Denver Jones.

Clutch.

In honor of Denver Jones, top five athletes and celebrities named after a U.S. city.

OLI.

Houston Nutt.

Aaliyah Boston.

Austin Rivers. Memphis Depay Cal Raleigh Grover Cleveland John Stockton Number 5 Orlando Pace Number 4.
Number three, Joaquin Phoenix. Number two, Ron Washington.
Number one, Tiffany Pollard. New York.
Here come the blues. UCLA beating LSU to make the program's first Final Four.
You know what they say. First time for everything.
I'm not sure a coach has ever handled leaving a school worse than Kevin Willard. Leaving Maryland.
The Terps. Headline.
Steelers are considering Aaron Rodgers.

I hate them.

My personal hell would be watching Aaron Rodgers play for the Steelers.

Speaking of hell, Art Bryles, Dominique.

Those are the weekend observations.

Woo!

Excellent job.

Fight back.

Quickest weekend observations we've had here in quite some time. That was really good.
Thank you. We're back even, too.
DuGats has really been taking his time lately. That was a run that made us feel good about ourselves headed into game two.
Why are you giving up on game one? Game one's lost. Game one's lost.
We're fighting back. We lost it with the questions.
The follow-up's to Lucy. How's about two goals.
Everyone believes we're still in it. You don't want to be, hey, where's the penalty box button? We don't want anybody in here who is only willing to.
I'd like to see you find that button. I'll see if my microphone can pump into it.
We do have a big guest finishing the show here that we could have a nice little comeback here. Oh, yeah.
I'm great at interviews, guys. Agreed.
I got your back, bro. I appreciate it.
Sure. My favorite part is when you're like, go ahead, Chris.
Ask him what you want to ask him. Yeah.
And like the variations of that. That was great.
What did you get, Chris? You like try to sound cool with it so it seems natural. Chris, what you got over there? Oh, that's what I was doing? I was trying to sound cool.
I wasn't trying to sound cool. I just knew before the interview, you were like, hey, if you need me.

We're breaking down film right now.

There's just certain things in your game that

I don't like right now. We gotta work that out.

There's private comms. You're not comfortable with the private

comms because your microphone will hit them.

And that way, Chris can just go as opposed to,

go ahead, Chris, what you got? Or even a head nod to me.

You next. I gave you the head nod

and you, so. There was one time he was trying to get

your, like, waving back and forth.

That was when you wanted the ball back.

I'm blue. I appreciate it.
I appreciate it. I'll get better I appreciate it.
Jess came in and scored a flurry of buckets to get us back in the game, Michael Ruiz. Don't forget, Pablo confused everybody.
It's also Pablo's fault. Also, Taylor deserves credit for weekend observations because this is a place now where we lift each other up, right? You know what? I cannot wait until the show awards how many different ways you guys find a way to clown me for doing terrible interviews.'s got to be fun i'm looking forward to it look man you're over two but you have a pretty big star joining us a little bit later in the show and that's a great opportunity to get some positive mojo going as we try to steal game two on the road i'm gonna go call to knowing this because i had a big fan of our last yes so i'm just gonna go off the wing here and just oh not like in a good way I'm talking about at the end of the game in the Fresh Prince where Carlton steals the ball off a wheel and just heaves it at the hoop so I'm just telling you right now I have no strategy going into this I'm just I'm going to say open ended things and I love it I love it it's going to be hard to like kind of follow and track you are you're leading it now we.
I got a list of questions that I'm actually interested in with our final guest. No one said who it is.
Are we keeping it secret on purpose? I don't understand why we're doing that. It's Keenan Thompson.
You kept doing it. You started it.
So I was like, I'm not going to say it. Chris also said we have a pretty good guest coming.
I mean, not to nitpick, but you did cut him off there. I thought he was getting to the T's, but then he couldn't get to the T's.
But I like the idea of Hawk running it. We got to run the offense through something else.
Yeah, I think we should definitely run offense through Hawk. I refuse.
I have a question. This is me refusing to go in on punt return in the preseason game.
I did not prepare to return punts. And sorry, Coach, I respectfully decline.
I'll see you next game. Did you.
Did you play high school sports, Mike? No, not really. Like, I played spring football one time, and I wrestled briefly, but I don't know.
Did they have a real ball when you played? It wasn't like Tony's workout for FIU football. We played some real spring ball.
If you're not sure if you played high school sports, you probably did. No, it's not a kind type of situation.
PE doesn't count. I think I explained the context of it.
I went through spring, played the spring game, realized that the sport hurt. It's not like I lettered in it so I don't feel like I feel like if I say yes, it's stolen valor.
That's why you should have said no. It was a maybe though for a few weeks.
weeks. No, I wrestled for a little bit.
The idea of playing high school sport. Oh, well, if you want to get into it, my mom died.
I saw him doing that. Oh, there we go.
And then, you know, the football thing hurt. This is why a simple no would have been great.
I tried to. No would have put us where we needed the dream, Michael, in that one.
But look at all the great content that we got out of it again. It's much like the interview with Steve Williams.
We got a lot of great content out of it, so you can't look at it through just the lens of was the interview great or not. What's unfortunate is I brought my A game.
I had a game one winning effort today. That's being accountable.
So it was unfair of me to ask if you played high school sports because I knew the answer. By how you've been conducting yourself amongst this team now, it's like, yeah, that guy, not a team sport guy.
That's not why I don't consider myself a high school athlete. It's my lack of athleticism and effectiveness when I took the field.
No, there's a lot of high school athletes are not athletes. I also didn't like my coaches.
You call wrestling a team sport? Who likes their high school coaches? I liked all the other high school coaches. Man, I wish I would have played baseball.
Padron seemed so fun. Yeah.
I wasn't getting on that team, though. Tough? No, they were just juice to the gills.
Jeez, that's when baseball was fun. That's when baseball was baseball.
We got a baseball story that's about, well, it's not quite cheating yet. They might turn it into cheating real soon.
It feels like cheating, Dom. The torpedo bats? It feels like cheating.
How does it feel like cheating? There's more bat. And they'll argue.
They'll be like, well, it's actually the same amount of bat. I'm like, no.
Just shifting the weight. The part of the bat that was smaller is now bigger.
That's where most of the balls hit the bat. That feels like cheating.
It's a bowling pin now. To be clear, the Yankees are using a different type of bat called a torpedo bat.
Great name. Yeah, because it looks like a torpedo, that moves some of the weight and mass of the bat into a place where the ball more often hits, and it's allowed them to hit, what's the number? It's like 12 home runs in nine innings or something like that.
They're close. It's just ridiculous.
It's clear that it's a result of the bats, and it's not because they just all of a sudden became great baseball players. I read a story, and apparently an MIT scientist is behind all this, and we really needed to go MIT for the solution to be bigger bat? It's not a bigger bat, Mike.
It still falls within the rules of the... It's a bigger bat.
It's a certain formula that they followed to stay within the rules. It's kind of like the tush push.
This is baseball's tush push. That's actually a great comp, Pac.
You had a pretty good game one effort. Thank you.
Thank you. He was great.
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Don Lebertard. I took my son to the barbershop, get a haircut, and my man gave out some limp dap.
Oh no. Damn, damn, damn.
Stugatz. I disowned him.
I threw him right under the bus. I was like, whose kid is that out here dishing out limp dap? This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
We got our guest here, guys, so we can stop talking about baseball. Keaton Thompson is here to join us.
Thank you, sir. What's good with y'all? Good morning.
Chilling, chilling, chilling. We're having a good time.
I wanted to start with you with Morgan Wallen. I saw him walk off the set.
Who did he call the N-word and why didn't you punch him?

He's hilarious.

What happens when Dan

ain't on the show? This is just anything

goes, man. So I'll be

clear with you, Keaton. I had an interview

earlier where I interviewed

Steve Williams, Tiger's former

caddy, and I did an awful

thing. I asked him poor

questions and then I moved my microphone while he was answering a question. And I hit this button while he was answering a question.
It was a complete mistake. So I I'm reeling right now, Keenan I'm reeling.
And I'm like, you know what? I got a big star coming up at Keenan Thompson. I'm about to hell up, have a hell of an interview.
I'm going to start it off with a spicy question. That's right.
That's mad spicy. To answer your question, I don't know.
You know, it's how he's feeling, I guess. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't even realize.
I don't know if he realized what he was doing. Well, Keenan's here because he's teamed up with Phantom Pharmaceuticals to raise awareness about GERD.

We appreciate you, Kenan.

What's your connection?

You know what GERD is?

I know.

I know it is.

It's an intestinal, right?

Go ahead.

Yeah, it's a gastro.

It stands for gastroesophageal.

Reflux disease.

Reflux disease. Yeah, reflux disease yeah reflux disease good job everybody um but no i personally like was suffering with acid reflux and uh was prescribed for qesna and i've overcome it now so i just wanted to spread the word about that in case anybody else might be having similar symptoms and they don't know necessarily how to approach it you know if the over-the-counters aren't working for you so talk to your doctor and they might prescribe you with a quesna what are the symptoms how did how did you know that you were dealing with it uh you know the typicals like burping up acid late at night you know sleepless nights stomach discomforts stuff like, just an acid feeling in the throat.
And yeah, it was starting to, you know, affect my work and stuff like that. If I'm not rested, you know, that's just more stress on top of stress, or I, you know, would blow my voice out a lot easier.
And, you know, that's just not helpful, because I don't know if people really know. But before SNL comes on, I sing the warm-up song.
You know, we warm up the audience or whatever, but I sing like a full song out. And I do that twice a night and then have to do the show.
So sometimes, yeah, you can hear it. You know, you can hear that my voice is like a little hoarse or raspy or crackling.
And a lot of that was probably due to like you know an acid reflux situation

happening but is it always this side of that i'm sorry is it always the same song and what song is it it has been the same song for a while we've switched it up a couple times but we keep coming back to the songs give me some loving you know that song i don't know who sings that ever reading do do do spencer davis group okay i had that hearing you sing that reminded me of a question that we had from earlier in the show and I would like your ruling on this so we have a situation at this show when someone says something braggy we have a sounder that we play that here's one around we use that when someone says something braggy and then they introduced this for no particular reason but because they wanted to differentiate between certain type of braggers and I want to know is this okay or nah nah? Look at me, Leroy.

That face, I feel like, tells a lot of it.

Did you hear it?

He put gravel in that voice, right?

He put gravel in it.

And then the name, thumbs up, thumbs down from Kenan Thompson.

Yeah.

That is what it is.

You know what I'm saying?

You can't act like there ain't no Leroy's out there.

You know what I'm saying?

You can't. There's Leroy's in the world.
But it definitely made me laugh. I feel like we're trying to put rules around it.
Cultures that brag, that's kind of interesting. I don't think you need it.
I think you're fine with the first one or whatever. Or one or the other.
I don't think you need to differentiate the two yeah it's been the general consensus uh what's the number one food that will send you to tummy ache city with your gird uh yeah back in those days uh it definitely was like you know late night pizzas and stuff like spicier marinara's or spicier kind of foods uh on top of sodas. Like, yeah, when I was in my bad, you know, health, you know, diet, making choices, decision making error or whatever.

Yeah, I was drinking a lot of sodas, you know, eating late.

And yeah, a lot of like tomato sauce, he kind of like high acid kind of foods basically for me.

So, yeah, those are all triggers that were not necessarily great without any sort of help or protection. What are the nights at SNL with the best spread? Is it after the main show? Is it the writing nights? What's the spread looking like around SNL? Oh, the spread is fantastic every single day, man.
SNL is just, oh, it's first class all the way. First class all the way, man um talk to me slow about it there's a lot of snacks out there you know um there's snacks during the table read you know there's meal breaks when we have rehearsal and stuff like that there's a whole commissary so you know you just gotta make better choices basically that's that was my kind of journey Just make better choices.
Of all the guests that you guys have had, who has been the most fun for you to work with? That's tough, you know, because, like, there's so many of them that are so great. You know what I mean? Like, any old cast member that comes back to do the show is always fantastic.
Tom Hanks is always incredibly delightful. Like like meryl streep was surprisingly

like insanely cool with everybody um dave chappelle has a good time like you know chris rock has a

good time like everybody look at me you earned that one yeah yeah it started that one's starting

to run me wrong so maybe go back to you. Because that's not my name.
Exactly. That's the point.
My cousin's name, but still. No, I thought your cousin was G-Roy.
G-Roy and Leroy are twins, man. Are you serious? I'm serious.
Yes. Still got your stride.
Still got your stride. That's what we're talking about kenan they just they're just playing about g-roll and leroy man yeah that's living life yes that i mean this is this is this is what the culture of of black people in america tell them the rest though tell them how they're standing on business i'm g-boy it that's a g.
Tell them how. That's standing on business.
I'm G-boy. That's a G, bro.
Tell them how everybody else in your family's name starts with A. I don't think that that's weird.
Okay, so, Kenan, I have a bunch of siblings and they all start with the letter A. And my parents start with A's and all of our kids start with A's.
And then some of their kids also all start with A's. And they think our family is strange for that.
No, I just think y'all are dedicated. That's all.
Y'all dedicated to the A. I'm dedicated to the A being from Atlanta, so I feel you.
Yeah, we both two up, two down, piece up, two down. Is that what it is? No, you're from Ohio.
My bad. I'm still learning.
Two up, two down. I got two down.
It was like a football call. All right, you are the longest-running cast member in SNL history.
Such a legendary show. I've been trying to hold him back, Keenan.
He was so excited. I was, man.
He was like, I'm going to take over the interview. I'm so excited.
I'm going to just tell you, big Keenan fans, he raised me in this comedy. All that, you don't know how many nights.
So how do you feel about you got a chance to speak to this guy that you

really respect and admire, and you just said, and he's from Atlanta,

and you just said to him, two down, two up, two up, A's.

Hey, man, I ain't from the A's.

I feel like we should all understand that, you know, you try to fit in.

You try to find that commonality.

But Ushers, yeah, was pretty in a scale.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm just trying to get past that now.

My bad, my bad.

Apologies.

Peace up.

Anytime now.

All right.

Two up, two down.

Two up, two down.

My question, Kenan, what is your favorite sketch that you've done?

This is SNL or all that.

Like, what is your favorite sketch of all time that you've been a part of?

Man, that's tough. Like Jeopardy? That's tough.
Yeah. I'm really bad at favorites.
Okay. I'm going to go disclaim that.
What's your least favorite? Least favorite is any one of them that got cut, because that does not feel good. Yeah.
But there's a lot of good ones, that like it's it's hard to like put what's up with that over black jeopardy over scared straight over super dude over principal pimpel you know what i mean it's just like i have you know affinities for all of them you know what i mean because you know you're putting yourself out there you know what i'm saying and like you want people to receive it well so if it goes well it's like I'm gonna leave it there I don't necessarily need to pick favorites so many clients were there any sketches that you that got cut that you're like yo to this day that should

have been in the show I mean I had one but we definitely got our get back and it actually went into the show so that was good it was this sketch called active Jack where it was like a PBS kind show in the 70s about a guy that was like getting kids excited about working out. And it was like a long theme song, basically.
And I think the first time was Bruno Mars. So he was like, come on, kids, let's get active.
And he was singing a song about doing pushups or whatever. And then it was like the 50 year anniversary of that show.
So they were doing a reboot or something so then it was me as the active jack dude singing a song a lot more tired and less enthusiastic um but it got cut and then years later kevin hart came and it made it on the show so i got that that's dope that's dope my favorite sketch that i think got cut was the other cavaliersiers. This is a sports show.
So The Other Cavaliers was the sketch around all the other guys around LeBron when he was on that 2018 run. That might be my favorite sketch of all time.
And I think online it did something crazy, like 100 million views. So people also agree that that sketch was hilarious and mad that it didn't make the show.
It is. Like, I'm laughing right now.
Yeah, that was great. I think Dan has a question.
What is the worst part of the life? Of what life? Of my life? That is. That's just another thing we've been playing because Dan asked a terrible question to a NASCAR driver last week, and that was the question.
So we've been playing it for all our guests. What's part of the life? GERD? Life of being a famous person or the life of having GERD? I think they all apply.
Yeah, they all apply. The worst part, you know, I don't know.
It's hard to say. That makes you feel sad because you're actually pinpointing what the worst part of it is.
But yeah, I don't know. I don't I'm thankful for it all, honestly, because, you know, if it's, you know, something difficult, then it's a lesson.
You know what I mean? And if it's something great, then it's a blessing. So like, I don't know, just taking it all in stride as it comes up.
Just happy to be alive, man, because so many people aren't. Like, if you read the news, it's almost like every single day we losing a legend.

You know?

That's real.

I'm just glad to be here, dog.

That's real.

But you don't look any older than you did when you were in all that,

which is a blessing.

And that's pretty crazy.

Have you ever had a celebrity?

See, we back.

We back.

Me and my dog, we back.

Have you ever had a celebrity upset at how you played them on SNL? Confronting you? Not necessarily confront me because they can't find me. They can't see me out here like that.
Okay, that's smart. But I definitely heard from people.
You know, Steve Harvey called me in the beginning. He was like, hey, slow that down.
Slow that down is such an old black man way to say, relax, little young man. I think Star Jones was mad about it back in the day, you know, and I understand it, you know, because when I was younger, I was definitely a little more dismissive of how people might take my impressions of them.
Just thinking that, you know, I'm just a kid. I'm just doing impressions, whatever.
It's no big deal. But I've grown to understand what would, you know, upset people about being impersonated, you know? So I try to do it in a much more, you know, positive version, even if I am poking fun at them.
Were any French people upset with Pierre Escargot back in the day? I don't think so. I think they just loved it because it was so silly.
You know what I mean? It's just a guy in his bathtub speaking fake French. That's all.
Yeah. There's definitely a couple characters from all that that you could not bring back in this day and age.
I think we all, there's a few of them. Yeah, I'm sure there's several things that haven't aged well.
You know what I mean? But in the moment, it is what it is. Part of the game.
I don't personally go out in malice. You know, I usually go out in fun, basically.
So in that fun, I feel like if we step on a toe, it's more so accidental than anything. Yeah, that's comedy.
I also love your Kendrick Perkins impersonation. I think that is the best in all of sports comedy.
And it actually baffles me that that's not Kendrick every time I hear it first before I see it on the screen.

Thank you. Shout out to Kendrick, man.
He's such a good dude. And yeah, he's been very supportive of the impression, you know, the whole time.
So it's just fun to have those people that have those audible things. So when I start doing it, you know, people know who it is right away.
It's just a lot of fun. I think the athletes and people in sports media aren't like Steve Harvey level celebrities.
So we excited. It's all good, baby.
Stephen A., I feel like, is excited when someone impersonated him. Kendrick, I'm sure, is also excited because it's like, oh, yeah it's always funny it's like oh shit they they actually do be watching this too yeah i start hating you i'm like damn kendrick got an impersonation now i gotta get my but you i feel like the keaton could probably help us with this when you're figuring out impersonations i i assume you're looking for something distinct but i feel like i'm looking at you hawk like i don don't know You don't think I got enough there? No, it's not that you don't got enough but Kendrick Perkins obviously has very distinct matters of speaking I was on with him a couple weeks ago and he was doing exactly, it took everything in me Kenan, not to laugh because my man was talking about what his grandmama told him and I was like like, now you're doing an impersonation of a man doing an impersonation.
A hundred percent. And I mean, it's a mixed bag of both of those things, like what I feel like I can do, like vocal wise.
And then also what's the immediate register for the audience to know who I'm doing and when and why. Can I add? So is there when you were going, figuring out Kendrick Perkins as a character? I guess I was wondering, how do you even determine that this is something that you want to caricature? Because it wasn't as if it was like, so he's so in the news that you like we got to do something about this.
When do you notice? Was you just watching SportsCenter or did someone, or even just watching ESPN or did someone mention it to you? How did it come to be? Yeah, no, I mean, I've been on Kendrick Perkins for years, you know what I'm saying? But it just takes a while for him to get onto the radar of everybody else. So, like, by the time I do it, people know who I'm doing.
Like, I remember I did see Harvey on SNL when he still had hair and the audience didn't really know who he was yet like that and he wasn't just like you know in the house you know he just wasn't in the living room necessarily on a daily basis like he is on Family Feud so once he got on Family Feud and everybody knew who he was and everybody could see what kind of a big character that he naturally is you know like I was I was able to do it you know there's just kind of like that perfect storm of awareness basically I'm gonna work on my hawk impersonation and we're yeah I don't know I already did it I did it earlier two up man no one Who knows where Dan is, man. Dan running around.
I decided to come here? Yeah, he in L.A. running around doing foolishness.
Stu gots not here either. We're not even sure if Stu is still alive.
We ain't seen Stu in forever. It's chaos out here, brother.
Kenan, I have a question. What would you have said? You're blessed to have this really long career in entertainment, but if I pulled you aside, uh, on the set of all that, and I said, you know, 25 years from now, you're going to be doing interview hits on behalf of GERD.
How do you think that worked out for you? Yeah. I mean, I would first ask you, why are you standing? Why do you feel like you need to be the one to stand up? But yeah, mean i'm out here speaking on gert to try to tell others so you know i would definitely be fine with that if my younger so would be like oh you're out on talk shows in the future talk about gert it's like why it's like well you actually had it and overcame it and you wanted to share your thoughts on that with other people that might be suffering as well and not No.
I'll oh okay that's cool incredible incredible dismount way to cross over off the backboard the pros do this is why he's one of the greats yeah thank you so much give it up kenan thompson one of my favorites of all time i would appreciate it thank you so much kenan for coming in and making at least one of my interviews go well thank Thank you, sir. Hey, man.
I hope that the rest of them do, but you never know. Two up, two down, Keenan.
Two up, two down, always. My boy.
Represent. Oh, man.
That was so much fun. I knew it would be.
You were great, man. Thank you.
I was excited, bro. This is like when Jason Tatum thinks he's going to be the MVP, but Jalen Brown like, no, bro.
I had came in here all hype. I was like, yeah, I'm going to cook today.
But really? Just rode the back of the 40 under 40, 50 under 40, all the lists of Andrew Hawkins. I don't know a lot, right? But I know what I know.
So there's no prep. When Kenan Thompson comes on, I don't know about it.
Everyone knows. Listen, I don't know everything.
And if I don't know, I have no problem telling you that. But when Kenan comes in, oh, I am a PhD level at Kenan Thompson sketches.
That was textbook on how not to start an interview. It was pretty bad.
But I also closed it poorly. Oh, the Morgan Wallet?

You gotta ease into Morgan Wallet.

I thought that was really funny.

Yeah, I thought so too.

It's funny, but it's just a little jarring

when that's the first words he hears.

I try to be too comfortable at the end too.

Like, I just wanted to say Gerd.

Like, it's just a funny thing to say.

Yeah, it's a funny word.

I understand it's an affliction,

and he went serious with it

and then called me out for standing.

Number one. She was right about, by the way.
Definitely standing. Hand up.
That's on me. We might get aggregated now since he, you know, you asked him about it.
Aggregating all the trades. Maybe they're going to pick up on his answer.
Yeah, it was a pretty smart question. I mean, the N-word thing, like, I was just, yeah,

very of the moment right now is how he walked

off the set. He came in hot at the gate.

What happened there? Then we might have been aggregated,

but then it became very clear that no one should listen to this.

We're trying to get our newsy clip, and it's just like,

well, thanks, Dominique.

Also, he was next to, like,

a very loud AC vent.

Or he was on an airplane.

That's a pretty boss move. To do an interview from an airplane? Yeah.
Or the AC vent. I said two up, two down.
Listen, we don't come out. Every shot you shoot isn't going to go in.
Do we find out the score now or in the postgame? Well, we gave up an empty net goal there. Wow.
Oh, we're playing hockey now. Oh, we definitely lost.
I thought we were playing hockey the whole time. We went down by names and everything.
We were down by two and now we gave up the empty netter. I thought we were playing baseball.
I think a big issue with how we're scoring this is because we're not even on the same sport. That was our issue the entire time.
I don't think the Keenan interview went bad, though. I thought that was a good interview.
No, by comparison to the earlier interviews, yes, that was one of the good ones, I guess. It also may just be me being excited to talk to Keenan Thompson.
I thought it was great. I was excited, too.
Obviously, I'll prepare better for interviews in the future. I apologize.
Hand up. I'm going to go serious right now in order to make Mike uncomfortable because no matter what, the best part was when he ducked on Mike and Mike was standing up, trying to smile like he felt good, but it was uncomfortable.
Yeah. I had my regrets there.
I was just trying to, you know. It was a funny question.
About Gerd. It was.
But also he had Gerd, so he was kind of like – He played it down the middle. But when you like in retrospect, after he started to answer you, I'm like, oh, okay, I can see where you're going to take that grade.
I wanted to ask, is it a double-edged sword to be afflicted with something so fun to say? Well, we got show awards coming up. We'll determine the final verdict on how things went today.
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