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guys, we've got

1:36

the wonderful Amy Poehler, who we've

1:38

been talking about using on

1:41

here for a long time because she's so great and she's such

1:43

a part of comedy.

1:45

Obviously, SNL, but just comedy in general.

1:48

I think she's as good as anybody.

1:51

Sketch player in the last, I'm

1:53

going to say 70 years. She's up

1:55

there with anybody. That's a wide net.

1:58

Men and women.

1:59

go, Lucy of all Calvert at Gilda

2:02

Radner, I can also go Sid Caesar,

2:05

Peter Sellers. She's very talented.

2:07

She writes, she directs, she

2:10

sings and

2:12

she's a heck of a nice person.

2:15

She has a new podcast and

2:18

she's going to talk about that. We're going to talk

2:20

about her tour with Tina Fey. We

2:22

won't talk as much about

2:25

her unbelievably funny movies

2:27

and TV shows because of the side

2:29

strike which is happening as we speak.

2:32

We can't

2:33

mention that. So don't

2:35

get mad at us. We love to hear

2:37

about that stuff. But David, no offense or nothing but you

2:39

just mentioned it. I know I can just mention it

2:41

but that's it. You can mention that you're not supposed

2:44

to mention it. I didn't say which things though. I don't

2:46

think we can say what they are. Certain things we

2:48

can't mention. I can say the word TV. That's

2:50

all I can say.

2:51

I could say something

2:54

like I went bowling and I got a strike.

2:57

I wouldn't. I don't want any trouble. It's

3:00

a game show. That's

3:02

really, you're walking a thin line.

3:05

There's our game show. Can you say it or not? What's

3:09

going to get you cancelled? That

3:12

should be one. No, the contestants are already cancelled

3:15

and they have to fight their way out. Oh, that's

3:17

good. That is a good game show. Uncancelled.

3:21

Well, that's it. But Amy Poehler is,

3:23

I'm going to say it 1940 style. She's

3:26

a kick in the pants. She's a natural

3:29

performer. She's great in movies, great

3:31

film actor. I don't know. She

3:33

may be one of those, I might have to say, hmm,

3:36

what can't she do? That's

3:39

very true. We'll find out. I know what

3:41

we can't say. Anyway. But

3:44

we can say Amy Poehler, thank

3:46

goodness. That's not outlawed. All right, here

3:48

she is guys.

3:50

Amy Poehler.

3:55

Amy Poehler. Hi guys. Hello.

3:57

Can you hear me?

3:59

Okay, we can hear you and see you.

4:02

I love your glasses Oh,

4:05

yeah They're kind

4:07

of 60s or something something hip.

4:09

Yeah,

4:09

I get them off at um, amazon Mm-hmm.

4:13

So now I gotta I gotta use my reader

4:15

my readers my cheaters got your cheaters

4:17

Give me them cheaters. Look at dana

4:20

watch them go. Oh Change

4:22

the vibe of the interview It

4:25

makes you

4:25

it makes you feel more like conservative

4:27

like you're gonna drop some politics

4:29

Really sunglasses. Well,

4:32

yeah, interesting. Hmm. Would

4:34

you agree david? Yeah, I think I think

4:36

there's a vibe Are you guys forming an alliance?

4:38

Yeah, we are it's a little early

4:41

but I get it. She overlapped

4:43

or Did you overlap

4:46

I wish no, I mean but david

4:48

hosted. Oh, yeah, that's right Wait,

4:51

can we we can talk about snl right? Yeah. Yeah,

4:53

because we're not it's already been on. Um,

4:55

but amy did a funny one I just

4:58

thought of this amy Well,

5:00

oh you were my stunt double Yes,

5:02

we did a sketch where I played david's

5:04

stunt double because we could probably be brother

5:06

and sister like we have similar features So

5:09

I played your stunt double

5:11

Um, and then that's all I remember

5:14

of the premise No, I think

5:16

it was someone played the rock and I

5:18

was like the rock's buddy in a buddy comedy

5:21

And then when we got to like climbing on a building

5:24

they brought in Chris and I

5:26

think chris and that was you which

5:28

I thought would be a boy and it was you And

5:31

you're like, hey, we're gonna do this. We're all good. I'm like I

5:33

and seth I think was the director That's

5:36

right. I'm just remembering as I go and i'm like, hey

5:39

Is it is it weird that I you know, i'm

5:41

a guy and it's and he's like, oh it's all equal

5:43

and it's just stunt people And i'm like right

5:46

and i'm not loving it. And then when

5:48

she gets on she goes, oh no rock

5:51

It's so scary. I'm like, I don't think she should

5:53

talk if she's my you just keep you keep like crying

5:55

and Acting

5:57

like you're me and i'm like, that's not what i'd say No

6:00

one has any problem with it.

6:01

Nope. And I think when

6:03

I put on that wig, and I think we looked

6:05

a lot like.

6:06

It was pretty close. Yeah, it was pretty

6:08

close. I'm gonna say. Yeah, Dana, you blew

6:10

it. You missed out. British, Irish,

6:13

Scandinavian, German. French.

6:16

French. French. I don't know what

6:18

it is. British,

6:19

Irish, all the way. Right.

6:22

Mostly Irish. Mostly Irish.

6:24

My brother lives in Sweden, so sometimes

6:27

people assume there's some Scandinavian, but

6:29

no, none that we can find.

6:31

Lots of Norway, lots of Scottish,

6:34

and lots of Irish. I'm British,

6:36

American, and Southwest. I'm airlines.

6:39

Have

6:39

you guys done the, have you done

6:42

the 23andMe? Have you done any of that

6:44

stuff?

6:45

Terrified. My son

6:47

did, and he had a disproportionate

6:49

amount of Neanderthal, so

6:52

I don't know why. Maybe that

6:54

explains something, I don't know.

6:57

It's only half Neanderthal,

7:00

and my wife's half

7:02

Dutch. There was no Dutch. No,

7:04

no, his grandfather was 100% Dutch, and

7:07

there's no Dutch, and a

7:09

lot of cavemen. Anyway,

7:11

welcome, we're gonna do this for the

7:13

rest of the podcast. It's about genealogy

7:16

today with our expert, Dr. Sheila.

7:20

Oh my gosh, that's right, I'm here to promote

7:22

my podcast. Thank you for

7:24

reminding me. Do not forget about this. I

7:26

listened to it, and it's one of those things you go

7:28

like, God, what a

7:31

great thing to do right now. It's so

7:33

fun. Because everyone's in therapy.

7:36

Our therapist, we have a company that

7:38

we love, a sponsor that

7:40

does online therapy. So therapy's

7:42

big. I listen to the Chris

7:44

Parnell and a guest star, hysterical.

7:47

It's really funny, and they're so easy.

7:50

It's better than this podcast. Put it

7:52

that way, if you're listening, switch

7:55

over, it's not a competition,

7:58

but they're nice. They're like 22. two, 25 minutes,

8:02

Amy plays Megalomenaical,

8:05

but with so many, because I was in therapy

8:07

for five years, I still see or talk

8:10

to a therapist. Yeah, you're not done. You're capturing

8:12

a rhythm and a thing, especially

8:15

in that every time someone says something,

8:17

you just ask them another question, kind of. So

8:19

that makes me feel sad, and sad is

8:22

feeling bad about myself, and feeling bad about

8:24

myself. They do their own therapy, basically. So that's

8:27

all I have to say. Well, when you talk about it, do

8:29

you want to promote it or just say why you're doing it?

8:30

Well, it's super fun. We did it during the

8:33

strike, and we just improvised with a bunch

8:35

of our buddies, like Anna and Chris, and a

8:37

bunch of SNL people are on it. Rachel

8:39

Dratch, Paula Pell, Tina Fey.

8:43

We have couples, people

8:45

that are actual couples in real life, and people that are

8:48

comedy partners, like Abby and Alana from

8:50

Broad City. We have all these different people come in, and

8:53

I play a therapist named Dr.

8:55

Sheila, and it has to be said in the

8:57

form of a question, because she's not a doctor.

9:00

And it's just that fun game where I'm bad

9:02

at my job, and they have something

9:05

they want to work out, and we just improvise

9:07

and cut it down, and it's just been a blast.

9:09

Like it's just been very creatively fun,

9:12

because it's been a minute since I've, I

9:14

don't know, gotten to play

9:15

a character. The improv bones are

9:17

rusty. I mean, the one

9:19

I heard, and it was probably the first one, but

9:23

I don't know if it said who it was.

9:26

So I know your voice, your voice is very unique,

9:28

and then, and distinctive, but who

9:30

was the first couple that had

9:32

the mom problem?

9:34

Ah, that was out today,

9:36

and that is the three great

9:38

Chicago improvisers, Pete Gross, Gene

9:41

Dilla-Peek, and Stephanie Ware. And that

9:43

is, that was, the premise of that is super

9:46

fun, is basically a couple comes

9:48

in, and they're like, what's the problem? He's like, I don't know

9:50

what the problem is, and the wife is like, his

9:52

mom is really meddling in our

9:55

relationship. So

9:57

I, Dr. Sheila

9:59

encourages her to.

9:59

talk about

10:01

how much she hates her mother-in-law.

10:04

And then we reveal that she's been hiding under a

10:06

pile of blankets the whole time.

10:07

And those three performers are

10:10

just like expert

10:10

improvisers. And

10:17

yeah,

10:17

you know, being, I've

10:19

done a little improv, but I don't really do it. And it was mostly

10:22

because it was so hard. And when you hear

10:24

it

10:24

so smooth like that, I guess there's editing,

10:27

but I was thinking it sounds so

10:29

conversational that

10:31

I was thinking, where are they cutting? Because it's

10:34

just boom, boom, boom, boom. And in so many

10:36

throwaway lines that are just like,

10:38

and he's like, well, I breakfast

10:40

my mom, she comes over the morning and makes me my cereal.

10:42

And

10:43

does that bother you? And the wife's like, well,

10:46

I do sleep in, you know, I usually get up at 9, 9, 30, 10, 10, 30. That's

10:48

such a funny answer. 9, 9, 30, 10, 10, 30. And, but there's so many

10:50

little,

10:56

little texture jokes like that to keep it going.

10:59

Aside from the overall feel that is a

11:01

funny idea of the who's the queen of the house.

11:05

And he suggests that his mom could be co mom

11:07

of their babies.

11:08

I think is that what they call it?

11:11

The laugh points just sneak up on you because

11:14

the rhythm you're using for the therapy

11:16

is so accurate. There's a there's

11:18

a kind of a, it's almost like a dialect

11:20

in a way. Yeah,

11:22

I think it's really,

11:23

I love therapy too, Dana. I

11:26

love it. I revere it. And I'm in a

11:28

lot of it. And I'm, I love watching

11:30

couples therapy and listening to couples therapy too.

11:33

I'm always fascinated by how vulnerable

11:35

people will be publicly.

11:38

Like it's like, whoa, I can't believe they're

11:40

sharing this with the whole world, but I

11:43

could listen to it forever. So, and I love

11:45

podcasts, by the way, I love your podcast.

11:47

I've listened to almost every episode.

11:49

You know, probably every single person

11:51

on the podcast. That's crazy.

11:52

So great that I get

11:55

getting a chance to do it. I'm so grateful.

11:56

You made my day. I

11:59

love it. And you know,

11:59

We all, SNL,

12:02

like you said many times, is kind of

12:04

the, it's like you were in

12:07

very specific, like special forces, and

12:09

you all just wanna kind of share stories about

12:12

the nightmares that you continue to have about

12:14

it for 20

12:15

years. It's all poor, poor rich

12:17

people. It is funny. We're like special ops.

12:20

We say war, then people say don't say that, so

12:22

we changed it. I know, you're right, I shouldn't say that. We changed

12:24

it to SWAT team. I said it once

12:26

here, it's like the Marine, and I

12:28

backed off of it. In 10 seconds

12:30

I said, please don't write me any

12:32

letters, because it's fun to say that. I did

12:35

not mean to equivocate it in that way. I

12:37

would just say if someone is unknown, maybe

12:41

in an improv group like yourself, and is suddenly

12:43

on national TV, and then we all, as

12:46

an audience, we, oh, what's

12:48

her name? Amy Poehler.

12:51

Oh, she's getting really good. It's like a reality

12:53

show. Oh, she's really confident.

12:56

Now she's right. Lots of opinions,

12:58

yeah.

12:59

Message boards,

13:01

like I started when message boards

13:03

came out, so it

13:05

wasn't, there wasn't any Twitter

13:07

or anything yet,

13:09

but it was these message boards that

13:11

used to spring up like the next day.

13:14

And I also started around, 2001, Tevo,

13:16

remember Tevo? Oh

13:18

yeah. Tevo came into play, so it was like, ooh,

13:20

I could fast forward SNL

13:23

for the first time. Like that was, what a

13:25

gift. What

13:27

a gift. What a million dollar idea. I'm

13:31

not so sure that's a good thing, Amy. No,

13:34

I talked to Tevo. We'd rather have them to like watch

13:36

the show, as opposed to, you know, that thing.

13:39

I mean, I'll go for a pause, but that's... You

13:41

record it, and then you like never

13:43

really watch it.

13:46

So Dana, on a weekend,

13:48

sometimes I go out to Malibu, and

13:51

you know, and just see how the other half lives. I

13:53

was walking around in the mall there. It's

13:56

not a mall, it's over like a

13:58

concourse de-elegance.

13:59

of shops, but

14:03

I walk by a Viorey before I knew what it was, I

14:05

go, oh, this looks cool in the window. And

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then I go, oh, these are our guys. So I went

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in there, I was like, what's up? So I

14:11

wound up getting

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more stuff than I already had. So that's

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good, right? If you were to describe how

14:18

comfortable they are, what word would you

14:20

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14:21

You know, I walk out of there on cloud 10.

14:23

They're insanely comfortable, Dana. Insanely

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versatile clothing? I'd say versatile.

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They can be used for almost any activity, running,

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yoga, me walking.

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I don't do much, so doing errands. Lounging

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and that's,

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it's not shorts, by the way, it's core short.

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short for every sport. Yeah, it's

15:02

always singular. Like when you wear it, I go,

15:04

that's a nice short. I don't say, hey, you have

15:06

some cool shorts. I say, that's a really

15:08

cool short. I see people walking out,

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Men's

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16:09

Everyone has a Lorne. You might as well do

16:12

your 10 seconds of Lorne because you have to

16:14

have a Lorne.

16:15

Oh my God. I love it. My Lorne

16:17

is not great, but yes,

16:18

it's very... There's

16:20

no... Yeah, it's

16:21

very... My Lorne is a little

16:23

more paternal, which is like when he comes on

16:25

the floor right before a sketch

16:28

and goes like, do you like these wine

16:30

glasses? Does this table

16:34

look right for you? And you're just so nervous. You're

16:36

about to do a sketch in a restaurant. You're like, what?

16:38

Are

16:40

you happy with the wine glasses? Okay.

16:43

Okay. You're like, I mean, on

16:45

the table in the sketch? Yeah.

16:47

Yeah. They're like five, four. Yeah.

16:50

Yeah. Yeah. My first season,

16:52

I don't know if he did that later. It was a glass of

16:54

Chardonnay and he would be outside because

16:56

then he went under the bleachers. Well, that was

16:58

for the dress show mostly, but during the live show, you're

17:01

so fucking terrified and Lorne's

17:04

pointing around with a glass of wine acting

17:07

so like there's not a live TV show going

17:09

on. It was just amazing to watch

17:12

him try to by osmosis

17:15

calm us down, I guess. Well, it's

17:17

really... Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I was saying

17:19

I'm waiting to get pushed out on updating that chair.

17:22

I'm in the dark and he's like, do you know who's

17:24

winning the Yankees? I'm

17:26

like, right now? I don't know. I

17:28

have to look at the cards. It's a mind trick, the non-tech

17:31

order to distract you from

17:33

the chair turns and there's 10

17:35

million people watching you. Go ahead,

17:38

Amy. No,

17:38

I was going to say, when you guys talk

17:41

about your experiences at the show too

17:43

on this podcast, it

17:45

kind of feels like the before time

17:47

because my first show

17:50

was two weeks after 9-11.

17:53

So for like the first three years

17:55

or so at the show, the Chardonnay

17:59

was gone. It was gone. very much like serious

18:02

business to keep comedy afloat.

18:04

You know, it was very like, will we ever laugh

18:06

again? And how can we do comedy?

18:09

And, you know, New York is

18:11

under attack. It was all just like, how do we

18:13

make fun of politics? Like, it was just this

18:15

like, slow build back

18:18

to get to Palin

18:20

and Hillary by the end of that run.

18:22

But it took so long to even,

18:26

you know, so I can just remember

18:28

starting that job and being like,

18:30

my dream job, I was 30 years old,

18:33

I started, I was like, here we go. And then,

18:35

and then all that happened.

18:37

And it was like, will we ever laugh

18:40

again? That was basically the headline. And

18:42

it was like, it was like, could we go

18:45

just a little bit because I'm because I'm here

18:47

now. Yeah,

18:48

it was

18:50

it was intense. Yeah, I tried. I've

18:52

been dreaming and working toward this for

18:54

my whole life. Could I do something

18:56

funny? How could you do such a stupid sketch when

18:59

what's going on in the world? And you're like, Oh, well,

19:01

this is the idea is to get away. But it went

19:03

on to your point went on for a long time

19:06

of the idea, when will the next attack come?

19:08

Yeah, really are we it wasn't

19:10

an awesome. So there was

19:13

a really anxious period.

19:15

I don't know when it finally we kind

19:17

of,

19:18

I guess, 2004. It felt like 2003

19:20

2004. But don't forget, you know, there

19:23

was like anthrax in the building when we were there.

19:25

It was like, you know, it was

19:28

wild. But I think it felt

19:31

around 2000. I had

19:34

one year of overlap with Will Ferrell.

19:36

And he did a sketch, I

19:40

guess it must have been 2001

19:42

2002. Like about a guy who was really patriotic. And he was

19:44

wearing like,

19:45

oh, yeah. Yeah,

19:48

he was wearing a speedo. He's going

19:50

to work. I think they I think it was Matt Piedmont

19:52

when I wrote. Yeah, I think you're right. And

19:55

he wears it. He has it. He's very patriotic.

19:58

Yeah, that was a big one. It's very Will

20:00

the way he wore the speedo the way he's played

20:02

his legs. I mean he is He's brave

20:05

or whatever you want to call it. He's just out

20:08

there But so that yeah really broke the

20:10

seal a little bit Yeah And he had

20:12

you know, we had stopped doing any

20:14

Bush stuff any we we

20:16

didn't do any politics during that

20:18

time Interesting, but that was like a big

20:21

a big silly Stupid,

20:24

you know guy in a speedo sketch and

20:26

the audience really loved it and you're like, okay,

20:28

maybe

20:30

Maybe this is gonna be okay. Maybe so

20:32

but we did a bunch of dumb pop

20:34

culture stuff because you know, it was like Britney

20:37

Spears snake trainer

20:39

was like a character. I was trying to get on

20:41

because Because

20:44

no one wanted to talk about

20:46

news. Yeah So

20:48

it was weird, but I

20:50

kind of appreciate the big silly ones

20:52

more even later on big dump

20:55

Whatever word you want to apply to them Rod

20:57

really just balls out funny where you

20:59

get sort of you want to get that. I love Lucy kind

21:02

of Roll of a laugh if you

21:04

you know, I got it with the dog on

21:06

I wasn't me It was that sketch massive

21:09

head moon Harry just unleashed a

21:11

whole

21:12

I love Lucy type of laughter because

21:14

that was fighting with a dog over fake

21:17

fake

21:17

head But

21:19

it seems like you know Just as an overview

21:21

here for a second you came on the scene and then

21:24

by the time you left you were just as good as Anyone

21:27

had ever done that show. I mean you I

21:29

believe and I say this to people with all sincerity

21:32

I mean like the thing you did

21:34

with Maya that the Long Island ladies

21:38

You you were both brilliant and you

21:40

were just so in the pocket of that

21:42

character Rhythmic Lee like

21:44

I watched the immersion of that it was

21:47

just beautiful to watch that sketch I

21:49

mean,

21:50

oh, thanks Dana. That means a lot That's

21:52

good. That felt like we could have only

21:55

done it when we were like seniors like we

21:57

were we were relaxed enough to

21:59

do it We wrote

22:01

that with Emily Spivey, the great Emily Spivey.

22:03

Yeah, we hear about her a lot.

22:04

Yeah, you should have her on this. She would be

22:07

an incredible guest. And yeah,

22:09

we improvised a lot of that. Like it was just

22:11

a lot of overlap-y. The cards

22:13

were kind of loose and we kind of knew what

22:15

we were gonna say, but not really. And

22:17

I don't think we would have been able to do that in the first

22:20

couple of years. I know I wouldn't have, I would have

22:22

been too

22:23

resilient. Yeah, that's what I mean. I

22:25

find that a lot. There's maybe Eddie Murphy, the most

22:28

extreme the other way, like as confident

22:30

in day one, apparently. And then there's

22:33

people who have a pretty quick run-up, but

22:35

then something that just goes and goes and then the audience

22:37

discovers you. And then it's, you know, could

22:39

you, I mean, I don't want, but you don't have to do that

22:41

character for five seconds. But if you, what

22:43

would she say to David and I right now? I mean-

22:46

Well, like she's, you know,

22:46

it's a very important time because it's sweater weather. Like sweater

22:49

weather is coming. It's very, very, very, she's going

22:51

to having a lot of hot flashes and she enjoys the nip in

22:53

the air. But we, we based

22:55

those two ladies, we based those ladies

22:58

off of ladies that were in really

23:00

one woman who was in the hair department, Jodi

23:03

Mancuso, who was running the hair department.

23:05

She was like, Long Island, like, or

23:08

Staten Island. I forget, sorry, Jodi, if I forget.

23:10

And she had like, she was very like, I'm like, David,

23:13

she's straight. And just like, come sit, talk,

23:15

let's talk. Like she just had this

23:17

chatty, fun energy

23:20

that was kind of flirty, very

23:22

maternal. And Maya and I used to

23:24

just talk with her like

23:26

that and talk like her. And

23:29

mine was, my lady had a little bit, just

23:31

cause I'm not particularly great with accents.

23:33

My lady probably fell into like a little Boston

23:35

at times, just cause that's my hometown.

23:39

But so we played Betty and Jodi and they were

23:41

just, it was almost like those women

23:43

that happened to have a TV show, but they weren't,

23:45

they were just chatting anyway. So

23:48

we had a lot of fun where we would just, the

23:50

camera would just come up on us and we were already in

23:52

conversation and the camera would pull

23:55

away and we were still talking. So that was

23:57

the kind of vibe.

23:57

It was, Could

24:00

be in a wasp from California and

24:02

then when I started going to New York and meeting characters

24:05

in New York And they were recognizable in

24:07

that sense of come sit

24:09

have quite a

24:10

Please yeah, are you it's very

24:13

it's warm. It's extra better. Everything

24:15

is out in the open I feel spilled this I

24:17

this and that but you guys just nailed it beautifully

24:20

I don't know it just I see I just saw it on Instagram

24:23

Amy like, you know how they pull up old sketches they just

24:26

they

24:26

start traveling around because it is sweater

24:28

weather, so

24:29

They I saw clips of that and It's

24:33

kind of fun when things live on or they

24:35

make a meme or something pops out Oh,

24:37

it's the best it's so cool.

24:39

And then you go. Oh something mattered something

24:42

I did in the old days How many somewhere,

24:44

you know totally people

24:46

ask me this sometimes like what kind of compliments?

24:49

Do you like to get and I always say specific

24:51

ones, you know, I like that line and that

24:53

thing And so when you're out and about

24:56

in the world Just what

24:58

what do people come up and say to you? Maybe maybe they

25:00

talk about some of your movies or certain

25:02

sketches or it's

25:03

funny You know, you can kind of tell like

25:05

the Millennials love parks

25:08

and rec like that was their show and

25:11

That's a show that

25:13

like a lot of teenagers discovered during

25:16

the pandemic So there's a lot of millennial and

25:18

Gen Z love for parks and rec the

25:20

Gen Xers and above know me more from

25:22

SNL Or

25:25

you know more like movie or like

25:27

hosting stuff

25:30

Yeah, like they kind of know that more I think but

25:33

or like maybe they saw mean girls 25 years

25:35

ago or something but

25:37

But it kind of feels like I

25:39

get a lot of nice women That's

25:42

like my demo is nice,

25:44

you know Tina and I are on tour right now and

25:47

we're having a blast and like we it's just

25:49

like the nicest women I just Coming

25:54

with their friends or their daughters,

25:57

you know, so I get a lot of just

25:59

like frame So I'm lucky that I don't

26:01

get, you know, occasionally, and I

26:04

get and I get mistaken all the time

26:06

for other women, whether it's Tina

26:08

or Dratch or like

26:10

I you know, they kind of mush us all together, which is

26:13

which is fine with me. Really? But

26:15

that happens sometimes too, but it's okay.

26:17

Well, my wife is not a comedy

26:19

fanatic or anything, but she

26:22

I told her that you and Tina were

26:25

doing a show. She goes, Oh, I

26:27

would see that show. Yeah, we're making

26:28

we're doing that. We're making we're doing that show for your

26:30

wife.

26:30

I think that well, she's a

26:32

nice woman. I go back to that. But so it's, you know, the Golden Globes

26:35

kind of cemented it. And

26:39

we all we saw you do an update, you

26:41

know, this Tina and you guys have this connection. I'm

26:44

so really, truly, really good friends and

26:46

have the chemistry of Steve Martin and Martin Short. And

26:49

so seeing that is

26:51

like, well, this is going to be fun because

26:53

when I think of you to even though

26:56

you did satirical jokes on Golden Globes, it was still always fun. Yeah,

27:00

just I think that's a good brand to have.

27:02

You're going to have fun. It's underrated. I

27:05

think you're right. I think I don't know.

27:07

I am in no way an expert in hosting things. But

27:10

one thing I did learn really quick was from

27:12

SNL to like, if you don't look like you're

27:14

relaxed or having fun, the audience

27:16

gets very stressed. Yeah, they're worried

27:18

about it.

27:19

When I see hosts and they're

27:22

either nervous

27:25

or stressed or even

27:27

like coming in angry,

27:30

like I don't know why I'm here,

27:32

like that kind of thing. It's like,

27:35

oh, no, I get so stressed because you are

27:37

hosting a party. You're supposed to

27:39

look like you're having fun. Like it's a

27:41

party. Like who cares? It's an award show. Who cares?

27:43

You Maya,

27:45

it was you Maya and Tina. Was that at the

27:47

Academy Awards? We didn't host

27:49

it. We just like opened it. That was

27:51

a good trick of like less

27:54

pressure. They're not the host, but you're

27:56

on longer than you should be. And you're

27:58

just joke machine. And then everyone's

28:00

like, fuck, where are these? Let's why aren't they

28:02

here the whole time? It's so great. Yeah. You

28:05

don't have a month of lead up. Like, what are you going to do?

28:07

What's so funny?

28:08

Cause you know, those hosting gigs are a lot

28:10

of work. They're hard.

28:13

There

28:13

are a lot of jokes to write and

28:15

get through. And then also you can

28:19

get,

28:19

you can,

28:21

you know, now they're like, are kind of, you

28:23

can fall into traps and people can

28:26

get mad. Yeah. So

28:28

you're like, Oh my God,

28:29

forget it. Someone always has a problem

28:31

with it. No matter what. I know. It's okay.

28:33

It's like when Billy Bob Thornton got his Emmy,

28:35

I think he goes, uh, I'm

28:38

not going to say anything cause you can get in trouble.

28:41

I'm substituting Bill Clinton as a bill

28:43

about Thorpe. I apologize. I'm not going to say

28:45

anything cause you can get in trouble for saying something these

28:47

days. So he just walked off, you know, but

28:49

to the fun part, you might find this

28:51

funny in a way because John Lovett's, I was the one who

28:53

kept saying, John, you got to do standups, so I was kind

28:56

of, I'm no expert, but I'm coaching him a little

28:58

bit. I go, John, the one thing you always

29:00

have to remember right before you go out. Cause you can

29:03

forget, just say to yourself,

29:05

have fun. And he goes, I did

29:07

it. I tried it. And then

29:09

I started having more fun. And then

29:11

I was getting bigger, laughs, you know,

29:15

it's an amazing thing, but sometimes you go, what is

29:17

going on? I'm not having fun. Well,

29:19

I, I forgot to have fun. It's

29:21

the

29:21

hardest. I think it's actually like the last piece.

29:24

It's the hardest piece to learn cause you're pushing

29:27

or you're nervous or your head somewhere

29:29

else and then it's yeah. And then when you

29:32

actually relax, the audience just relaxes

29:35

with you. I mean, I learned a

29:37

lot from Will Ferrell that way. And because

29:40

I would watch him perform and

29:42

he had this like mischievous

29:44

quality where he, him

29:46

and the audience were in on it together, you know,

29:48

it was kind of like this, this bemused

29:51

quality of like, can you believe we're all

29:53

here doing this stupid thing and

29:56

it would, you know,

29:58

just like the minute they. see you

30:00

sweat. It

30:03

gets so stress-free. They tighten up.

30:05

This goes to therapy or something, but try not

30:07

to try. Try not to push.

30:10

Try not to be desperate. Try

30:12

not to rush it. Take

30:14

your time, but be in the pocket.

30:16

And of course when that voice goes

30:19

silent, then you know you and Tina

30:21

are just on a roll.

30:22

Well what do you guys do when, you

30:24

let, this rarely

30:26

probably happens for you anymore, but like let's say you're

30:29

trying new material and it's not working. What

30:32

do you do? Do you pull

30:34

back? Do you pull back in that moment

30:36

or do you put like you push

30:39

because I'll tell you that what I have

30:41

to work on is pulling back too hard and like getting

30:44

sleepy.

30:44

Joke

30:49

isn't working and you go to sleep. I go to I

30:52

go right to sleep.

30:54

You recoil. You know

30:56

it's funny when I when something doesn't work,

30:58

there's I had it happen on the road

31:01

recently where the whole show is going well

31:03

and one joke doesn't click and I go I had

31:05

to stop and go literally no one bought

31:07

that. Not one person and it

31:09

wasn't a couple of you. Everyone said

31:11

no sale and I feel like you're

31:14

wrong on this one. I'm gonna give

31:16

you one freebie. Yeah. And then

31:18

they don't know what to make of that. They're like well you're mad at

31:20

us but it's like joke mad but when

31:22

something doesn't work in a regular set or if you're

31:24

doing a set on TV,

31:26

what happens to me is

31:27

you get spooked like a horse because my

31:30

brain goes what happened

31:32

and I can't think of my next joke because I'm

31:35

it's preoccupied with

31:36

what do I do? Why

31:38

wait should I even do the next one? What did

31:40

it just did I say it wrong?

31:43

And then you're like that throws you. If

31:46

you take one extra second, they

31:48

think something's up. It's got to be just

31:50

so smooth like a play. Boom boom boom.

31:53

I know I have a bit in my act.

31:55

I won't even say the bit but whatever. It's sort of

31:57

like two-thirds the way like you've tried to. bring

32:00

it to the barn, you know, and

32:02

the last two times not

32:05

landing. And I know Jerry Seinfeld,

32:08

who's this fangoli about this, check the

32:10

setup,

32:11

you know. The

32:12

setup is, God,

32:17

you know, I did this for Steve and Marvin.

32:19

Jerry's going to do a live album on vinyl,

32:22

and you're going to see a picture of him on the cover, and it's

32:24

called Paperclips, why? Just

32:28

like that. So Jerry, we love him. He's brilliant.

32:31

But I think sometimes

32:33

you, when you first say it in a joke, and you're

32:35

kind of connected to it, or a bit, and

32:37

then you can get a little bored, or you maybe drop just even

32:40

part of the setup, or stuff like that

32:42

kind of. Because you're doing, are

32:45

you actually out there solo in your show with

32:47

Tina as well?

32:47

Yeah, we do some sketch, we do

32:50

stand up, we do

32:52

stuff together, we do update, we

32:54

do, yeah.

32:55

Really? Oh, great. So what's your

32:57

first line? Ladies and gentlemen, here to do

32:59

some stand up for our show is

33:01

Amy Poehler. No way. I'm not

33:03

doing, I'm not doing with you. I

33:07

thought your first line

33:10

would be, you'd say, what's up,

33:12

and then the name of the town, what's up, Chicago?

33:15

Hey, what's up, Denver? That's

33:18

a good first line. Here's my opener. I'd

33:20

be like this. Hey, guys, Tina

33:22

will be out in a minute. Just

33:25

because I'm... Oh my God, it's

33:25

funny that you say that. I'm like, I'm going to

33:27

do a little stand up while Tina gets her IV drip.

33:30

Well,

33:33

I think, Dana and I were talking

33:35

before we brought you on, because we're

33:38

both on the road here and there. And there's

33:40

so many things about the

33:42

road that are so

33:44

tricky and icy that, you know, it

33:47

is true something about like, the

33:49

show is the fun part, obviously. And it's

33:51

so hard just to get to their city. You just want to

33:53

get high five. Like I got here. I'm in

33:56

the theater. I

33:58

feel like shit, but here I am. go let's do this because

34:01

you almost never feel great and you're almost never

34:03

like well that was easy it's like this

34:06

is problem problem in the hotel and getting

34:08

there and what's backstage there's so

34:10

many interesting questions we were thinking

34:12

of with you guys when do you go on oh

34:14

I know it's so fun

34:16

because you're right every different

34:18

theater and space has like

34:21

a vibe and it has

34:23

like the guy that's in charge

34:25

like the one that

34:27

character yeah there's

34:28

always a character it's like oh I can't

34:30

answer that you have to talk to Dan about that you're like okay

34:32

where's Dan like it's always

34:34

my

34:40

guys usually named Dan as well I don't know if he

34:42

can travel so you do a sound check we do

34:45

you got a montage of greatest hits or whatever

34:47

and you've got whatever

34:51

you have a piano player and stuff like that or no we

34:53

have some recorded music stuff we

34:56

don't have a live yeah and you sing

34:58

together live piano play but

34:59

it what's that do you sing

35:01

a song together maybe

35:04

you're a good boy stay there have you heard her sing

35:06

in the beginning of the party tonight before

35:08

I go to sleep I'm gonna try to figure out

35:10

what can't Amy Paul yeah

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36:03

What do you do to relax your

36:05

giant brain?

36:07

Well, I really like the

36:10

water that calms me down. I like

36:12

swimming and

36:13

going in water.

36:15

Ocean lake

36:17

and swimming. And can you swim?

36:20

No, I can't. I

36:23

go to a hotel pool and

36:25

I go freestyle and I go to the length

36:27

of the pool and I'm completely wiped out. I'm

36:30

sprinting but I don't know it. There

36:32

is a whole technique to it but you've learned it.

36:35

I think if

36:36

I need to get regulated, my nervous

36:38

system, water does help me, whether

36:40

even if it's a bath or just getting

36:43

in some water. But before a show,

36:45

I'm used to

36:47

it. It's funny. When I would do

36:50

shows as an improviser and

36:52

sketch comedian with standups, I was always

36:54

surprised that there

36:56

wasn't a lot of chitchat. Standups

36:59

were just walking around,

37:02

talking or with their headphones,

37:04

thinking about their set and frankly

37:07

trying to remember it, which is half

37:10

the battle. And with

37:13

improv and sketch, you

37:16

want to keep doing bits up

37:18

until you go on stage. You

37:20

want to make a connection with the people you're performing

37:22

with. I

37:25

tend to want to just chitchat

37:28

and talk and not overthink

37:30

things. But

37:32

now that I'm older, sometimes I just want

37:34

to do some light stretching.

37:38

Just some light stretching. I don't feel a hammy.

37:40

Oh definitely, you can't

37:42

go high and then your arms are like,

37:45

oh sorry. I try to do

37:47

a wide squat and make sure because I

37:49

might get in that position or move

37:51

around, stretch your calves. Have you ever

37:53

had any physical thing or cut yourself

37:55

on stage? Oh my God, yes. While

37:57

I'm just

37:58

getting over this thing, I talk about it a lot. on stage.

38:00

I'm just getting over this thing, which is it's so embarrassing.

38:02

It sounds like a it sounds like it

38:05

sounds like a bad cocktail. But I had this

38:07

thing this year called frozen shoulder.

38:09

No, I'm about it.

38:11

Yes.

38:12

I bet your wife. Like,

38:14

was it your wife that went through it? No, no,

38:16

it was our mutual manager,

38:18

I think.

38:19

Okay. Had a frozen

38:21

shoulder. Yeah, I feel what does it

38:23

do? It's the weirdest thing comes

38:25

out of nowhere. And it's like, from

38:27

my anecdotally, I find

38:29

it's mostly women of my age. But

38:32

it's just like inflammation. And suddenly, you

38:34

just like can't lift your arm all the way up.

38:37

And so it's this it just

38:39

feels like you're like, you just feel really

38:41

fucking old, you just realize, fucking

38:44

hell, what is this? And it'll

38:47

take about a year. And you're

38:49

just like, what a year and

38:51

it's proven to be about a year. So

38:54

yeah, it's, it's stopped.

38:56

And they're just making up names for old

38:58

things. Frozen shoulder sounds

39:01

good. And you're like, well, is it a real thing?

39:03

Or I'm just

39:04

falling apart?

39:04

It's a real, real thing.

39:06

I was doing a podcast

39:08

with David, I never even said this before. We're doing

39:10

what we've done a few live. And

39:13

then my this

39:15

is my left foot, my toes splayed

39:18

out in a spasm. And we're

39:20

at work. I was in massive pain.

39:23

But I just was riding it out. Just

39:25

riding it out. We're interviewing someone's

39:28

pain taking. And I'm like,

39:30

this doesn't happen to me all the time. They just

39:33

the toes went out and got

39:35

really angry. As soon as it was over, I

39:37

just walked around and it's fine. But we have to

39:39

we're supposed to do all this freaking stuff all

39:41

day long pulling and stretching and

39:44

Pilates all this

39:44

stuff to keep us together. You know,

39:47

so

39:48

I know and I was so much younger when I was

39:50

on SNL and I think about how

39:52

much I just partied

39:56

just walk like I didn't do I didn't worry about

39:58

any of it. I just wasn't even thinking

40:00

about any of it. I wasn't thinking about

40:02

collagen. I wasn't thinking about

40:05

water. Nothing.

40:07

No, wasn't even thinking about water. Did

40:09

we know how do we do we I know

40:11

I look you see picture yourself because you're in showbiz

40:13

to go damn I

40:16

did I know how good I was. Yeah.

40:20

Did we know how young we were? It just is it

40:22

always it on young who said that cold porter?

40:24

I don't know. I didn't have a glass of water

40:27

during SNL. I was there six years. You

40:29

never had one. That just wasn't the thing that

40:31

everyone I didn't know what carbs right fucking pasta

40:33

every day. Wally and Joseph's I eat

40:35

pizza and I always felt shitty. I never

40:38

put anything together. I'm like what is it? What

40:40

is it?

40:41

I don't have the Rubik's Cube to figure this

40:43

out. I'll eat his carbs no water

40:45

and diet coke and my body is

40:47

so sore to me when I

40:49

every day it's like my shoulders

40:52

going I open a car door they're like what?

40:54

I'm like I do this every day and it's like oh

40:56

what are you doing? It forgets

40:58

overnight I'm doing basic things.

41:01

I know. Well you know

41:03

what I you know what is helping with this and I know this

41:05

is probably like people listening are like oh my

41:08

god be quiet. How

41:08

old are you guys? Yes

41:11

but you know what I've been doing is I've been doing

41:13

cold dips and they've

41:15

changed the game. For real? Yes.

41:18

I do cold dips and

41:20

it changed the game.

41:22

Because that's a big deal now. Do you do it in

41:24

a bathtub with ice in it? Or is it in a

41:26

pool or a lake?

41:28

Where are you getting

41:29

it? I have a cold dip tub.

41:32

Okay

41:32

cold dip tub. Like

41:34

a tub that I keep cold and

41:36

I have a

41:39

little hot sauna. So I do 15

41:41

minutes of the sauna and then I plunge in

41:44

the cold dip and it helps a lot.

41:46

I

41:46

think you and Tina

41:50

should do 10 minutes in a

41:52

cold plunge

41:54

doing update on stage. Just bring out

41:56

the ice.

41:56

I would love that. I think

41:59

our endorphins would

41:59

be flying sponsors

42:02

and undisclosed location, but I have a pool

42:04

for the first time in a long time and

42:07

don't heat it. I like it as

42:09

cold as I can get it now for that very reason.

42:12

You know, it's amazing if you get

42:14

into a cold lake because

42:16

I always look at it as a lake that's really

42:18

too warm, how you really suffer

42:21

for about 10 seconds. But

42:23

if you're moving, all of a sudden you're like, Oh, it's fine.

42:26

Yeah. That's the thing about getting older is

42:28

like forced austerity. Like what can I do to myself

42:30

that a doctor is not telling me to do, but that

42:33

I can do to torture myself? Like

42:36

I have the privilege of cold dipping or

42:38

like, I only eat apples after 5pm. And

42:40

it's like, well, I was like, just, that's what I'm doing now.

42:43

It's

42:46

gotta be good. I know. I'm trying

42:48

something. Yeah. Well,

42:50

it's always nice. You get a blood test and

42:52

stuff and you're wondering, well, did they find

42:54

something? The doctor's talking to you like, it's

42:56

fine. It's good. It's

42:59

okay. My guy looks at my blood test.

43:01

I sit there and he goes,

43:03

hmm. Then he

43:05

goes like this.

43:08

Don't love that. You know, the

43:10

worst thing about you hear from a doctor, I went to

43:12

a dentist because I had that tooth thing. This is

43:14

what we're going to

43:17

talk about. The guy comes in and he actually

43:19

said, wow. When

43:21

he looked at my mouth, he said,

43:23

wow. I said, wow.

43:25

I mean, wow. Wow. Wow.

43:29

He said it like, oh, he said it like walking.

43:32

He said it like walking. Wow. Wow.

43:34

Wow. Yeah.

43:38

I just said someone, were you in a walk-in family?

43:42

I never saw that. I just sent him a friend. I go, look

43:44

at this ridiculous. Oh, you all were walking in

43:46

the sketch, right?

43:46

Yes. And that was so fun because,

43:49

you know, I think I, I, um,

43:50

I benefited

43:53

from low expectations and I don't think anyone

43:56

expects me to pull out a good walk-in, but I was

43:58

playing a little kid like a little. who was doing

44:00

a walk-in. And

44:03

I had had a friend who had told

44:05

me a story about Christopher Walken

44:08

and that, you know, he

44:11

was on set one time and he was like, you know, are there

44:13

any ghosts here? You know, this

44:16

place is spooky. He kept saying

44:18

it's spooky. It

44:20

was such a funny word to say. So

44:22

I got to say ghost and spooky.

44:27

Yeah, that was enough to do.

44:29

He

44:31

was one of the most

44:33

interesting hosts because

44:37

he was really, you

44:39

know, no surprise, eccentric dude. So

44:41

he was really comfortable with silence.

44:44

So, you know, most people when

44:46

you're just waiting around to run the scene again,

44:48

you're just sitting on the floor, like you chit chat,

44:50

like, but he would want

44:52

to just sit quietly between

44:56

each, you know. So

44:59

he might've been the longest I've ever gone

45:03

seated next to someone and not talking with

45:06

five, six, seven minutes. It

45:08

would just be me and him and we wouldn't talk. And

45:11

it became like a contest in my

45:13

own mind to see how long we could go. And

45:15

he was fine with it. He was fine with it. Get

45:18

everyone shot up. Yeah, he

45:20

was super, super talented.

45:23

And very, very- I swear, he's

45:25

so interesting. He's riveting. The

45:28

first sketch, I don't know what it was. I maybe got a

45:30

church chat or something. Anyway, we

45:33

did it all. We rehearsed it, but on air, he

45:35

never looked at me. He just looked straight at the cue cards

45:38

and read it and it worked.

45:40

Yeah. And it was funnier, you know. I

45:44

heard a rumor that he takes

45:45

out, I don't know if this is true, but that

45:47

he takes out all the punctuation

45:50

in his scripts.

45:51

What surprised me, because

45:53

his rhythm is so specific that might

45:55

get him out of it. Get out of his

45:58

rhythm. Don't like to- Pause

46:01

in ways like that. I

46:03

mean John love it again my

46:05

friend John He's the kind of guy goes is

46:07

it you are you are you

46:10

making up that dialogue? Is that the way you really

46:12

talk and he said walk and just started laughing

46:15

you're making it up, right? Oh

46:18

Yeah, he seemed like he had a good sense

46:20

of humor about himself

46:22

Yeah And who knows you know there's certain actors

46:24

who just Extenuate their rhythms

46:26

as they become film stars over the years like Al

46:28

Pacino when he feels like it

46:32

And walk and to he was in that Woody

46:34

Allen movie as the psycho driver. It

46:36

was in this yeah first time I thought

46:39

yeah, you know and he goes sometimes

46:41

I like to turn the car. I think of turning

46:43

into the headlights Yeah, and he goes I

46:46

wouldn't on this trip. Maybe put

46:48

a pin in that well It's

46:50

like a crazy Just when

46:52

soon as you drop me off you can indulge your

46:54

piccadillos Get

46:58

some rhubarb and you know But

47:02

yeah, he said just one of the thrills of doing

47:04

sound right live is just doing sketch comedy

47:06

with someone like Christopher walking

47:08

and you know Seeing

47:10

him in the deer hunter. It's like, you know

47:12

growing up in the 70s. Like I just saw every movie

47:14

way too young I would So

47:16

many images

47:17

you saw that at what? Oh, I

47:20

can't even imagine I think I was seven

47:22

And it was like I learned

47:25

about yeah, I learned about Vietnam. I

47:27

learned about prisoners of war. I learned

47:29

about um You

47:31

know Roulette

47:34

I learned it all from Christopher Walken and it

47:36

was like, you know, and then I went to first

47:38

grade like that I'm gonna I'm gonna

47:40

guys I'm tired. I said the deer

47:42

hunter last night that they were getting slapped

47:45

in the face and The exorcist

47:48

in their course to play Russian Roulette and they would

47:50

slap them and say wow and slap

47:53

Yes, and I don't know what that word meant

47:55

in Vietnamese, but it's one of the most

47:57

riveting darkest scenes

47:59

film history.

48:01

I saw the reefers with

48:03

Steve McQueen when I was 11. I saw Bonnie

48:05

and Clyde when I was

48:07

like 11. That's a little tamer. A little

48:09

tamer. That's a little tamer. But there was

48:12

a sex scene. But yeah, you've seen those

48:14

70s badass movies as a little

48:16

girl.

48:16

We, and you know, I was the generation

48:18

that got like HBO and MTV

48:21

like in our house and no one was paying

48:23

attention. So suddenly you just,

48:25

there are movies on that you should not, I

48:27

should not have been watching.

48:28

It's just that, yeah, no one knows. It's just the next

48:30

movie on and

48:32

everyone's gone. You're like, Oh, what's this?

48:34

Oh, uh, the Omen.

48:36

Yep. The Omen. Let's see what this is about. This

48:38

might be fun. Hopefully I

48:41

hope you both didn't see this movie

48:43

because it stayed with me and disturbed

48:45

me very much. And I think it's Dustin Hoffman.

48:48

I know it's Dustin Hoffman. It's the first

48:50

straw dogs. Look

48:52

it up, kids. I don't even want to talk about it. Everything Lovett

48:54

sent me that the other day. Are you, is that

48:56

crazy? He sent me a preview. Watch

48:59

this movie. Straw dogs with Dustin

49:01

Hoffman. Yes. Oh, is

49:03

that weird? But it is.

49:06

Oh, I was just watching

49:08

Midnight Cowboy the other day. They had a

49:10

showing of it. It's work. And I was like, Oh, I

49:13

love Midnight Cowboy. I love Dustin Hoffman. And I

49:15

love John Boyd. Then I'm like, Oh my God, I forgot

49:17

this giant horrible, you know,

49:20

assault scene. There's so many, you know, there's

49:23

so much assault in that movie, like flashbacks

49:27

of what happens to John Boyd's character

49:29

and his girlfriend. And I just like, I forget with 70s

49:31

movies, you just be cruising along

49:33

and then there'd be like a really violent

49:36

scene. They were just, Oh no. And

49:38

when now I'm the mother of teenagers and

49:40

I like, Oh, you should watch this movie. And then there's just

49:42

this scene. It's always, Oh, I forgot

49:45

to see what's in this movie. It's brutal.

49:47

I even got, I got scared at Tommy

49:50

Dana. I was young and

49:53

my brother took me and

49:55

the gypsy acid queen. And then she

49:57

threw like

49:58

acid in his face and there's fire at

50:00

the beginning and they burned his face and I was like

50:03

and I go I'm a stomachache and I went

50:05

to the lobby and then I never came back

50:08

because I got scared they go what's up I go no

50:10

I'm fine I just have some stuff to do out here literally

50:13

nothing to do. What's the first ever you

50:16

showed a movie to your to your kids

50:18

when it blew their mind it was kind of satisfying

50:20

because at one point I don't remember all the or

50:22

this is my example I put on Jaws

50:24

for them and maybe they were

50:27

sort of 12 14 whatever

50:29

okay see you later kids so I come back 10 minutes

50:32

later and they're not moving they're not

50:34

they're just staring whoa they

50:36

just hit him at the right you know like oh man

50:38

this is amazing so yeah that was yeah

50:41

that's I mean I have

50:43

two boys they really like a lot

50:45

of sci-fi you

50:47

know action adventure

50:50

stuff but they I remember when they were

50:52

really young I Willy

50:54

Wonka was the first one I

50:56

think you're gonna love this and they loved it and I felt

50:59

really and and as far as

51:01

comedy like it you know

51:03

what you don't love what your

51:05

mom likes like your mom is lame like

51:08

you don't want to like what your mom likes

51:11

but

51:11

so

51:13

I almost had to let them discover

51:15

SNL on their own and they're

51:18

at the age now they're 13 and 15 where

51:20

they're they're at that age where they're

51:23

like I wonder what SNL is gonna do about this

51:25

like that's what you know and you know definitely

51:27

their favorite anchors are just in che

51:30

and of course and they

51:32

just don't want to watch they barely want

51:34

to watch stuff I'm in it's like it's embarrassing like

51:37

it's their mom

51:37

like right do they want to watch their

51:39

mom on TV have you recommended comedies

51:42

that they give the thumbs down like it you

51:44

grew up with

51:44

oh yeah oh yeah there's been so

51:47

many things where I'm like that's funny now that

51:49

is

51:52

mom you gotta check this out

51:54

this is really funny mom yeah

51:57

and I'm always like turn that off is,

52:00

but I remember The Simpsons

52:02

was the first

52:04

crossover where we could all watch it

52:06

and they were kind of learning how to

52:08

structure a joke and, and they

52:11

and you know, I was laughing too. But um,

52:14

yeah, it's always that that group

52:16

on SNL, for example, when you're 12 or 13. And

52:19

you know, not to make you feel old Dana, but that

52:21

was you for me. Which

52:23

me too. I don't. I

52:25

feel terrific. I'm

52:28

the youngest I've ever been at this particular

52:31

age. Your toes are not spasming at

52:33

all. Everything is fine. No,

52:34

no, nothing is spasm during and if they were

52:36

spasming, I would cover for it. I would

52:38

just get kind of quiet on the zoom. He'd

52:40

go like this. I'd slunk down a little bit.

52:43

I'd be like in a frame. And Amy would go

52:46

to herself, is he spasming right now?

52:49

Yeah. Is he? No, I feel,

52:52

I feel good. I do a lot of countermeasures for

52:55

I hydrate a lot. Oh, congrats.

53:00

David, how are you feeling these days? It's

53:02

a real roller coaster, Danny, you go on the road,

53:05

you and I both go on the road, you can have your down

53:07

parts, you know, you're, you're in a hotel room, you're there

53:09

for a

53:10

day or two or three or a week. And it's just sometimes

53:13

things

53:14

get you down, affects your mood and

53:17

it's easier with therapy. Right?

53:20

Yeah. Therapy is basically just

53:22

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53:24

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53:27

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55:52

You know Dana, sometimes I think,

55:55

you know, because we all write and we

55:57

all write comedy and write this whatever and

55:59

sometimes...

56:00

Not just obviously comedies, but I'll

56:02

watch a show and I'll be like this is so

56:04

fucking complicated. I am not even in

56:06

the same Yeah genre I'm

56:09

not a writer because the fact they have so

56:11

many levels to these things

56:13

and I go what is this dog shit? I write

56:15

why am I called a writer? This is ridiculous.

56:17

I should even the guild. Well, we just do bite-sized

56:20

silly stuff I know excuse we don't

56:23

Comedians don't really get awards that generally

56:26

don't win Oscars and we have the American

56:28

Comedy Awards anymore

56:30

Oh, but you know what you guys will be the right people

56:32

to talk the right people to talk to you about this What

56:34

irritates me so much though is

56:36

that once a year at least there is

56:38

like someone that we would all consider genuinely

56:41

funny? Who gives a performance

56:43

that's really good, you know good acting for

56:46

and people are always like wow And

56:48

I'm like, are you do you like I

56:50

think acting and Connie

56:53

you're so combined. They're so close,

56:55

you know Like you one must

56:57

be a good actor to sell a bit tell

56:59

a joke To like there's I'm

57:02

just always surprised that people

57:04

are surprised that funny people

57:06

can be good actors Um, you

57:08

know so rarely are good actors

57:11

funny but right but

57:13

funny people are often very good actors

57:16

and I always think it's just I Think

57:19

it I don't think they get I don't think people

57:21

get I

57:22

don't think funny people It's such a rare commodity.

57:24

But if we were if comedy was outlawed

57:27

I would love to do drama or do do

57:30

kind of realistic acting but it's this is what

57:32

I do best I guess it's just a rare

57:34

rare thing and good comedy performances don't

57:37

really get the old Oscars and stuff You see

57:39

like somebody you're not saying us just saying other

57:41

people that are great at it and they do a great performance It's

57:44

not even considered. No,

57:46

you go. There's a reason they say

57:48

well who said this dying is easy

57:50

Comedy is hard. I know

57:53

that was like from the vaudeville or something

57:58

That's why I'm jealous of musicians because When

58:00

musicians have to play an event, they

58:02

just get up there and they play their song. They

58:04

play the song. Everybody wants it. They

58:07

play the same song over and over again that everybody

58:09

wants them to play. When

58:12

you're going up there trying to do something funny, people are like,

58:14

give us something new. We

58:16

don't want to hear your usual stuff. Yeah.

58:18

I'm like, how about this? It's old.

58:21

You can't repeat your bits and then you have

58:23

to create rapport. And

58:26

it sucks. I always want to plug in a

58:28

guitar and oh my God. After

58:30

every line you're judged. If they don't laugh,

58:33

even people that aren't listening are like, I guess

58:35

it's not going well. But with

58:37

musicians, here it is. Applause. Here's the next

58:39

one. Applause. But there's no like,

58:42

I guess we did good. Do they yell out for

58:45

you? Do you yell out for you, David? Or do

58:47

they yell out your hits? Or they

58:49

yell stuff. I get sort

58:51

of sometimes a rowdy or crowd. I

58:55

mean, Dana and I have done corporate stuff.

58:59

Have you and Tina ever done a corporate?

59:00

Oh yeah. I used to do a yes. Yes.

59:04

Oh really? I mean, I used to do

59:06

a lot of, we used to do a lot of corporates for Second City

59:08

back in the day. Like, you know, and this

59:10

is before anyone knew our

59:12

names, but we would have to go, we would

59:15

get paid, you know, to like, to

59:18

do jokes about, you know, old

59:20

John Miller. Yeah. And John

59:22

Miller, like he's got crazy hair and he loves

59:24

great, you know, wearing kooky ties

59:26

and everyone would be like, that's me.

59:28

I'm John Miller. And you just have to do

59:30

all these like specific jokes.

59:31

So hard. It's so hard. I

59:34

work with him. It's true. It's

59:36

so him. You're doing it. He's got

59:38

three balls and beats his wife. Say something

59:40

about it. I

59:43

go in my act, I don't know what to say. And

59:46

then one guy laughs in the back. Yeah. And

59:49

then everyone else like, was that true? That's one guy. Yeah.

59:52

I knew the meet and greet. I'm sure you've had this, but I don't

59:55

know if it's like alpha male stuff, but you're kind

59:57

of this little guy and I'm sort of the star of the

59:59

show. Greeting these guys just

1:00:01

really kind of fucking wailing on my

1:00:03

hand. I mean, and

1:00:05

maybe they've had a couple of cocktails. They show off.

1:00:08

I'm like, I had at one point, then I got tennis

1:00:11

elbows, more ailments. So

1:00:13

I had to do the fist bump or I had to kind of wave. And

1:00:15

they're like, I want to put my mitts in

1:00:17

twine with your mitts. Squeeze,

1:00:19

you know. I'll show you who's boss.

1:00:22

I'm like, you're boss. We don't even have to do this. Yeah,

1:00:24

you win, boss. I go, I have frozen hands

1:00:26

and Dana has frozen elbow. Amy

1:00:29

has frozen shoulder. But at least my screen

1:00:31

hasn't frozen. So Amy,

1:00:33

what do you... So you're going to therapy stuff. I mean, first

1:00:35

of all, just career. Why?

1:00:37

I mean, do you have any bug? Are you going to try

1:00:40

to do a dramatic film or you're directing,

1:00:42

you directed Wine Country. You're writing,

1:00:44

you're producing shit. I mean, what

1:00:47

doesn't she do? Yeah.

1:00:50

Don't be scared. You have new glasses. Don't

1:00:52

run away from it.

1:00:54

She doesn't pay

1:00:54

her taxes. You

1:00:57

just do a lot. Yeah,

1:01:00

I have this production company called

1:01:01

Paper Kite. So

1:01:03

we produce a lot of TV and film.

1:01:06

I like doing a lot of different things. That's

1:01:09

why, you

1:01:10

know, and trying to stay doing a

1:01:13

lot of different things. Because

1:01:16

I find this business is very, I mean,

1:01:19

the strike is a perfect example of it. Like, it's really

1:01:21

fickle. It's really, you have to stay,

1:01:23

you have to know how to pivot. So I

1:01:26

like acting and stuff and writing stuff

1:01:28

and directing stuff. And

1:01:30

so I try to kind of do, you

1:01:32

know, whatever is the next thing I

1:01:35

try to do is different from what I just did. And

1:01:37

what I haven't done, I've

1:01:39

been more into writing and directing than performing

1:01:42

lately. And the tour

1:01:44

has been really fun because it's gotten me back into

1:01:46

being excited. And this podcast has

1:01:49

been fun because it's good to play like a character. But

1:01:51

actually doing TV or doing

1:01:53

movies, it's so hard, so much time.

1:01:56

So hard being on set. It just picks

1:01:58

up as you guys know.

1:01:59

takes up your life. Movies in the heart are such

1:02:02

a chill beginning, middle, end of your

1:02:04

day.

1:02:05

And you know, I feel

1:02:08

so lucky like,

1:02:11

I couldn't imagine

1:02:14

going to do something else right away. And then,

1:02:16

you know, suddenly I'm looking at

1:02:19

whatever it is, like six, seven

1:02:21

years later. But so,

1:02:23

yeah, I'm just kind of doing whatever feels

1:02:26

right to do next. And I'm so lucky that he

1:02:28

brought up wine country. I have such a group of ladies. It's

1:02:30

kind of like you guys, it's you guys

1:02:33

with grownups, like, it's just like, I want to just keep

1:02:35

doing stuff with the women I love. And they're

1:02:38

so funny. And they're so much fun. I

1:02:40

mean, there's no better joy than doing stuff with your

1:02:42

friends. Like that's success. And you, who

1:02:44

was it? I like that. You know, I love,

1:02:46

I love this phrase. It's been used a few times in this podcast.

1:02:49

A murderer's row is such a funny,

1:02:52

but it was a murderer's row on

1:02:54

wine country. You know, obviously

1:02:57

my Rachel, Anna.

1:03:01

Yes, we had a murderer's row in that movie. Paula

1:03:03

Powell, Emily Spivey, Anna Gasteyer, Rachel

1:03:06

Dratch, Tina Fae, Maya Rudolph. But

1:03:08

then when I was at SNL, I was lucky I

1:03:10

was in this group of Will

1:03:13

Forte, Fred Armisen, Giselle Hader, Andy

1:03:15

Samberg, Seth Meyers, like,

1:03:18

Kristen Wiig. That all happened in my year

1:03:20

too. Kenan Thompson. Like,

1:03:23

it was just so that was so talented.

1:03:27

And when I look at those past

1:03:29

photos of who I got and

1:03:32

also the beginnings and endings of my

1:03:34

time there, my endings, it was like,

1:03:36

you know, Will Ferrell, Chris

1:03:39

Pardell. And then,

1:03:40

and that was being even when I was leaving, you

1:03:43

know, Kate McKinnon was coming in and like

1:03:45

all these people were coming in that were. So

1:03:48

that's

1:03:48

the cool thing is you just,

1:03:50

if you're lucky, you get some overlap

1:03:52

with people that you just love.

1:03:54

And

1:03:55

that's the best. I had one year with Will,

1:03:57

I got to watch him.

1:03:59

question from me and then Dana, whatever he wants, but you

1:04:02

you you did Hillary and then was it

1:04:04

Kate did it after you?

1:04:06

Yes. Yeah, and on I

1:04:08

think on a guess I did it before

1:04:10

me maybe didn't really before me Yeah,

1:04:13

there was a bunch of them and I

1:04:16

did it when When

1:04:19

down he was writing a lot of them and then

1:04:21

and then And

1:04:25

then we did when Palin that

1:04:27

was like first she was running it against

1:04:29

Barack You know for the tape to

1:04:32

win the thingy there and then Barack won

1:04:34

the thingy what you call it nomination

1:04:36

Yeah, well first

1:04:38

he won the nomination right he

1:04:40

beat Hillary and then Palin showed up so

1:04:42

it's so fun to be able to do those

1:04:45

two characters together because you don't get a lot of

1:04:47

like female

1:04:50

politicians Getting the even do

1:04:52

scenes together half the time Yeah So

1:04:55

that was super super fun to

1:04:57

do and it felt like it was everybody

1:04:59

was paying attention about election It was very

1:05:01

you know, I

1:05:03

played Dennis. I played Dennis Kucinich

1:05:05

one time and

1:05:07

Well,

1:05:13

then it became a lot which I you know, we asked

1:05:15

Keenan this question and I've referred

1:05:17

to a couple times you know about

1:05:20

great cast or great cast members and

1:05:23

and he just said the MVP

1:05:25

basically is the women of

1:05:27

since the 90 late

1:05:29

90s and we have Jan hooks and Nora done our

1:05:32

dinner, but there's been so many

1:05:34

dominant women and even in Later

1:05:36

years now the women play the male politicians.

1:05:39

There's all the rules are so that's

1:05:41

that's kind of cool. It's progress I suppose for

1:05:44

women

1:05:45

I was very very lucky

1:05:47

to be dropped into that show at a time when

1:05:50

Tina was a head writer and Molly

1:05:52

and Sherry and Anna

1:05:54

had just left like they had just done

1:05:57

so much great work And yeah, I

1:05:59

mean I was

1:05:59

going just kept going. Yeah, I think

1:06:02

that

1:06:02

wasn't always the case ever, you know, everyone

1:06:04

has their version of their experience there.

1:06:07

And I think there were stretches when

1:06:09

women did not feel

1:06:11

heard, supported, encouraged.

1:06:14

And I'm sure there still are

1:06:17

places and stretches now where,

1:06:19

like, everyone has a completely different

1:06:21

experience about their time there. But I

1:06:24

felt like I lucked out

1:06:26

in that there were these, like, just

1:06:28

pillars that were there, crushing

1:06:31

that I felt I was

1:06:33

part of that group. And I, you

1:06:36

know, I felt very lifted up by them. So

1:06:38

I

1:06:38

was very lucky. It feels like it's been wiped

1:06:40

out. If there was ever, you know, some

1:06:43

dude in the 70s, you know,

1:06:46

women aren't funny, not Lauren, but somebody,

1:06:48

you know, like, women are funny as men. Why

1:06:50

after Lucille Ball and others, they would say that

1:06:53

Carol Burnett, but it seems now it's like,

1:06:56

to me anyway, being a baby boomer,

1:06:58

it's obliterated. This is a funny person.

1:07:00

I don't think I'm watching a woman. I

1:07:03

just go, they're funny. They're funny.

1:07:05

So I guess I'm calling it progress

1:07:07

a little bit. And

1:07:09

I would even say to expand it less

1:07:11

about gender, like I find the more talented

1:07:13

you are, the less most unless

1:07:16

you're, yeah, you're just not, you're not

1:07:18

that insecure. Like the funniest

1:07:20

people I know love other funny people.

1:07:23

They that's what they love. They get

1:07:25

drawn to other people's work, regardless

1:07:27

of gender. Yeah,

1:07:29

they don't care. But if it's people

1:07:32

that like, have their own stuff, they're working

1:07:34

out. And here we are back to therapy. Dr.

1:07:37

Sheila would be able to get these people

1:07:39

in and talk and say, like, I know

1:07:41

you don't laugh at this

1:07:43

person. But really, what's the thing about

1:07:46

yourself that you're not, not

1:07:48

laughing at? What's

1:07:51

the part about you that isn't funny that you're mad

1:07:54

at the women that are mad

1:07:56

about? But I do think, you

1:07:58

know, kind of dovetailing

1:07:59

going back into the

1:08:01

quasi marine analogy or esprit de

1:08:03

corps. But when you see somebody who

1:08:05

makes you laugh, or me personally who does

1:08:07

this and knows how hard it is or

1:08:09

just some whimsical luck that something

1:08:12

hits you and the rhythms are right and it works, and

1:08:14

then watching other people do it and

1:08:16

then really in your own mind going, well, they're doing it,

1:08:18

they're doing it, I think, better than me. And

1:08:21

you kind of connect to them. And

1:08:24

if you meet them socially, places,

1:08:26

there's a frequency there or a shortcut.

1:08:30

It's a great way of communicating. And sense

1:08:32

of humor is

1:08:34

a good thing if you can have

1:08:36

it in friends and

1:08:39

relationships. It just cuts

1:08:41

across. And anywhere I would be in the world,

1:08:43

if a few comedians walked in, if it was any

1:08:45

social awkward thing,

1:08:48

even if I knew them or didn't know them, I would instantly

1:08:50

be a lot more comfortable. At

1:08:53

parties, I go up, even those big

1:08:55

Oscar type, you just zoom right over to the comedian.

1:08:57

Anybody in the comedy world sort of gravitates

1:09:00

together, feel like

1:09:01

your own little group.

1:09:03

Totally. Absolutely.

1:09:05

I really mean it. I

1:09:08

feel honored to be in a group

1:09:10

that you guys

1:09:12

feel like you're in too. I mean, I feel like

1:09:13

I would zoom right to you and Tina if I

1:09:16

saw you out, I'd be like, guys, save

1:09:18

me. I'm saving this for

1:09:20

them, but I am a licensed therapist. I just, it's

1:09:22

a casual thing I got. And why do you feel

1:09:25

that way about your peers, Amy?

1:09:28

Why do you feel the need to ask? Yeah.

1:09:31

Yeah. Check mate. She's

1:09:33

been practicing. My therapist

1:09:36

helped me. The one thing she said was, she

1:09:38

basically says, life is a shit show. Don't get involved

1:09:41

in this idea that these people are living these

1:09:43

dream lives on Instagram or

1:09:45

whatever. To

1:09:47

live is to suffer and to embrace

1:09:50

it. You're like, oh cool. Okay. It's

1:09:52

all

1:09:52

right. You

1:09:54

have to kind of believe that no one's

1:09:57

really thinking about you. Everyone's kind of thinking

1:09:59

about themselves. And if you take the pressure

1:10:01

off of yourself that everybody's

1:10:03

thinking about you, then you can have a good

1:10:05

time. But most people are just thinking about themselves.

1:10:08

Life is hard, everyone's in their own head.

1:10:10

The entire audience, yeah.

1:10:13

And we all know that we

1:10:15

watch really successful people who kind

1:10:17

of get what would

1:10:20

be the platonic version of all the stuff everyone

1:10:22

would want, and they're still not happy.

1:10:24

So.

1:10:25

Happy

1:10:27

is an elusive kind of concept,

1:10:30

you know? Because going for content

1:10:32

at this point. If you're striving,

1:10:34

because it's not, well, another

1:10:37

cliche. So is it about the shiny things

1:10:39

and the money or people talking

1:10:41

to you at an airport? Ultimately, it is.

1:10:44

But landing the bit, right? I mean, for me

1:10:46

anyway, well David's different. He's, ha,

1:10:49

coming up, listen, coming up with ideas

1:10:52

or something that makes me laugh is one of the

1:10:54

last joys of it's still,

1:10:56

something works in your brain.

1:10:58

You're like, oh, this is, you can crack a code

1:11:01

of a joke or an angle, you go, fuck

1:11:04

that. Little things like that really

1:11:06

mean a lot.

1:11:08

Yes,

1:11:08

agree. And hopefully we can still do it when

1:11:11

we're not

1:11:13

able to

1:11:14

stand up anymore. Lift our shoulders.

1:11:16

Well, do sit down. You guys will do sit

1:11:18

down. No matter what they say, if you use it or lose it, is

1:11:21

a concept. I

1:11:23

mean, I think trying to memorize your act,

1:11:26

like say of kind of a new act, I was shooting

1:11:28

a special

1:11:29

and just the exhaustion of

1:11:31

your brain, it must be some kind of workout

1:11:34

to keep you articulate or

1:11:37

all things being equal because you'll stay more

1:11:40

fluid longer and doing this. When

1:11:43

we started reading ads, I was dyslexic

1:11:45

or something. Remember David in the early

1:11:47

days, I was like, I couldn't really read them and now

1:11:49

I've liquefied my ancient brain I

1:11:52

heard Amy doing her ads

1:11:54

and I'm like, this is liquid IV.

1:11:57

I go, I'm drinking one now.

1:11:59

I go, this is liquid IV.

1:11:59

This is similar, but

1:12:02

it's-

1:12:02

I have to say it's fun to do podcasts

1:12:05

as a character though, because

1:12:06

you can- Yes, I told Data you didn't have.

1:12:08

Yeah, you can just say whatever stupid

1:12:10

stuff you want.

1:12:11

If it helps you, this is the way I

1:12:13

think about it. I just think of

1:12:15

these small companies that are our sponsors,

1:12:18

sometimes they're mom and pop and families,

1:12:20

I go, they're trying to live the American dream,

1:12:23

they're going all out.

1:12:26

With that attitude, I'm excited that

1:12:28

they're supporting our show. I turned

1:12:30

down every commercial, every gigantic, bring-in-the-brings

1:12:33

truck in the 90s because we're supposed

1:12:35

to be like Bob Dylan or something. We

1:12:37

don't have a catalog to sell. That's the problem.

1:12:40

You got to sell the catalog later. But

1:12:42

anyway- Dana, I'm going

1:12:44

to sum up, Amy, with- listen

1:12:48

to the summary, okay,

1:12:49

Dana? And you can jump in. He does

1:12:51

this every time. He lands it. Okay, okay.

1:12:53

Sheela, Dr. Sheela, podcast,

1:12:57

out now. And she's got

1:12:59

her head down listening very contently.

1:13:02

She is also- it was very fun

1:13:04

to talk to you because I don't see you a lot. It's

1:13:06

a great time to just shoot the shit with someone

1:13:09

that's funny. And Dana,

1:13:11

you were fine. And also-

1:13:14

oh, you were

1:13:16

in Baby Mama. We're not going to talk about that, but it's a great

1:13:18

movie also. Baby Mama.

1:13:20

A great movie. And she's in Mean Girls

1:13:23

along with memes of Mean

1:13:25

Girls, which she's in. That everyone loves

1:13:28

it. And Dana, continue to wrap

1:13:30

it up. You get half of this. That's an old star.

1:13:33

Just a little milestone. The first

1:13:35

All Girl Update feature. All women,

1:13:37

sorry. Her and Tina.

1:13:40

All funny, is what I call it. She

1:13:42

released, Yes, Please, about

1:13:44

her life.

1:13:46

The rest of this leg tour. I don't

1:13:48

think they need- Yeah, the tour. I forgot. Yeah,

1:13:51

the tour's going to be big. The tickets are going

1:13:53

fast. Yeah. Whoops.

1:13:56

I mean, we can add another show.

1:13:59

But it's hard. easy to go to add another

1:14:01

show then you go but it's still tough.

1:14:04

It's so fun the audience knows it's so

1:14:06

fun to perform for the audience everything

1:14:09

around it is so tough that's the only decision it's

1:14:11

like shit give me a good crowd I love it. Because

1:14:13

what are you gonna do you're in your room for like 14 hours

1:14:16

waiting for the show maybe

1:14:18

go to a matinee if it's easy to get to

1:14:20

a theater. Walk out front and sign

1:14:22

a bobblehead they're like

1:14:24

sign this but we're not complaining

1:14:27

to people listening we understand we're getting paid

1:14:29

to act like idiots. No, I

1:14:31

love it. We're getting

1:14:33

some money to act like idiots.

1:14:37

Thank you Amy. Very nice

1:14:39

of you to take the time we love it. We

1:14:42

love talking to you and the

1:14:44

best part of this podcast we just get to spend

1:14:46

like a focused hour

1:14:48

getting to know you in 20

1:14:51

whatever it is 23 at

1:14:53

the very boring time in

1:14:55

America nothing's going on.

1:14:58

We can figure out something

1:15:00

to talk about yeah

1:15:03

but anyway well we'll see I love

1:15:05

this is what I use because someone did it to me

1:15:08

see you around campus as this show

1:15:10

business is a high school or something. Oh

1:15:15

that's cute I love it. I love

1:15:17

spending time with you guys thanks so much

1:15:19

for asking me. I really

1:15:20

have so enjoyed listening to everybody

1:15:22

on this podcast and so thanks for letting me be part

1:15:25

of it. We

1:15:25

appreciate it. I'll see you inside class.

1:15:28

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