123: Sour Candy Hot Head with Bobby Moynihan | Soder Podcast | EP 121

Hey, I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. Murdles got her little B and she's sitting here, you know, upset that I'm podcasting. My dog is upset that my attention isn't on her. Awesome episode today with Bobby Moyan, who I've been a fan of for a long time. And I'm a bigger fan of after hanging out with him on my couch, the guy fucking rules and he's hilarious. I am on the road. The Golden Retriever of Comedy Tour still pushes on a couple more months before it's over. All the tickets are announced at dancoder.com this week, 9 o'clock show, Schubert, Boston, March 6th. There is a late show. Tickets are still available, dancoder.com. If you live in the Massachusetts area, Philadelphia, I believe you're sold out. There could be a couple loose tickets around. But go to dancoder.com also if you were going to be in Dallas, Houston and Oklahoma City soon, Charlotte and Durham, you're up soon, dancoder.com, go get tickets and I'll see you on tour. Myrtle will be there in Boston and Philadelphia, but not in Dallas, Houston and Oklahoma City. I'm sorry, it's too far to drive with her, but the other one, you know, you get it. We'll see you on the road. And enjoy the episode. I try not to talk over him too much. I really did try not to talk over him. I get excited. I just get really excited, dude. 30 Rocks, one of my favorite shows of all time. Amazing. I think I've probably watched it nine or ten times front to back. And the thing I've learned about being a stand-up comedian in New York City and bumping into Tracy Morgan is that they nailed, however they, Tracy Jordan. There's no difference. Yeah. And then the new show coming out, I was like, it was the same crew as 30 Rock and you. And I was like, this has got to be awesome. Very lucky boy. Yeah. It's nuts. And Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. Was there ever a moment where he was Tracy Morgan and you guys did like the look to each other like, oh, I have a file on my phone, a notes file on my phone with like 1500 different things. Tracy has just said. Yeah. That's incredible. Yeah. Me and Daniel. Me and Daniel just, like, he'll say something and I'll just see like a crowd of people and I'll just see Daniel going looking, he's just looking for me to see if I, if I am typing. Yeah. Because we, yeah, we have a vast, yeah, we have a vast, vast, uh, he doesn't stop a sound bites. No. I think one thing that Tracy knows about himself is that he, if he says something insane, it will get a laugh and that is like a super power of his. Like one of, like, he just, like, people want to see him say, create one, the very first thing when I saw him in person was he hosted SNL and Lauren's door opened because it was like a cartoon. Lauren's door opened and he was just standing in the middle of the room with his arms like this. And he went, the dark horse has returned. It's just that like it's just like no one in the, no one in the world gets away with that besides Tracy Morgan, like that kind of an entrance as a human. Yeah. There's, I don't, I don't think there is a person on earth who makes a crazier first impression with anybody. Well, you just, you just go like talking to Tracy, you immediately understand the sentence of, like, Lauren saw something and that something works and it absolutely works. It's hilarious. One of the, one of the first times I ever saw him in person was right when I moved to New York. There used to be a laugh factory in Times Square and I was doing check spots. So I was like, doing the shittiest spot on the show, not doing well, wanted to go outside and smoke a cigarette on eighth Avenue because I just bombed and I swear to God, this is 100% true. I'm standing eighth Avenue right by Port Authority. It's one of the busiest avenues in New York City. Smoking a cigarette that is here and it's a yellow Lamborghini and it pulls up and all I hear is y'all type of picture with you and it's Tracy Morgan and eighth Avenue gets it. And he gets out and takes, he's, he's still had his low jack on. So he wasn't driving and he goes, I can't drive because of the low jack but I'll take a picture with you and he's standing there on eighth Avenue and people are coming up just taking photos and then he just, he, and they went, are you doing a show up here? You didn't even realize he pulled over in front of a comedy club. I, he looked up. I know. Um, you'd be surprised how many people have stories about him hanging out of a car and screaming something at it. It's, it's truly like everyone is like, I was in a, I was on the street and he was hanging out of a car and it's always the same thing. It's always, he was always like in a vehicle hanging out of it. But also the best thing, like the only way to explain knowing Tracy Morgan is this shooting in Westchester County, my hometown, literally, literally my hometown. We're shooting in my hometown where I grew up. And a woman comes running over as we're shooting and goes, Tracy, Tracy, we're in the middle of a take. We're outside. We're at like a, like a deli in, in white planes. And I used to work at white planes. I worked at the Pizzeria Uno on Central Avenue. Go check it out. Go pick up a pizza and say, you know, Bobbi. Fantastic. Really messing up. And a woman comes running over in the middle of a take and goes, Tracy, Tracy and everyone's mad and goes, like, cut. And he goes, it's okay. This is Jerry Seinfeld's wife. It was not Jerry Seinfeld's wife. He just makes up credits for being a woman from Westchester. No, that's dumb. That's you. That's Jerry Seinfeld's wife. He gave her a hug. She was like, Tracy, he was like, it's so good to see you. She was like, it's, I don't know, like she was trying to explain to him that it wasn't, it wasn't her. It was, it's just perfect. That might be the most brilliant move of all time, which is to out crazy, someone who's crazy. So they come at you and you just go, there's her. She tried to explain to him that she was not in fact Jerry Seinfeld's wife. She was just a fan, but she even she bailed halfway through and was just like, everything's great. I'm just happy to meet you. He's leaving. Say hi to George Costanza. That's not a real, it's not a real person, Tracy. He came in and said, uh, he might want another great one was just standing there and he goes, you know, I used to date Michelle Obama back in high school. And this is why you guys are doing a test or like Tracy, do you know Morgan Freeman? He's like, yeah, no Morgan Freeman. And then his assistant goes, he doesn't. Do you, is that the most overworked assistant in Hollywood? Is that guy going around going, he actually devastated Michelle Obama? I often ask him, I'm like, so what was your last night like, yeah, like just out of curiosity, but he's the best. Tracy's insane, but in the best way, it's so fun, possible, it's like a gigantic beating heart who's just throwing out fun. It's never been not, it's the way to live. I've never witnessed his crazy and it hasn't been funny. I correct. And just, I saw this sentence this morning. It was either Robert or Tina, somebody asked Robert or Tina what, like what it was about Tracy. Yeah. And it was the best sentence. I went like, that's it. It was a, he's just so happy to be alive. And it's just, it's true. Everybody completely true. He's just like every moment is, he, he just, everything goes through the filter of like, well, what if I was also playing a boom box right now? He came in to the comedy seller on a Sunday night, probably around its Sunday nights, so it's dead. It's like 10 p.m. And he just comes in the olive tree cafe, takes his shirt off and goes, I'm buying everybody drinks. I just found out that Roberto Clement takes my biological father and then he slapped his belly. He's keen of the 1,500 things and with the things is my biological, a lot of people, a lot of people are his biological father, Barack Obama was his broad biological father, mathematically impossible. Tracy, couldn't have been your father, we're the same age. He often says, Flip Wilson is his biological father, you do a fantastic flip. I never know my flip. You queued me up for a flip. I know. I always do. I always do. But when that happened, when I was a little bit, he also claims he goes, "Flip Wilson died, but no money." And I don't know if that's true. To Wilson families like he was a very good investor. He actually invested in a boy. He's got a library. Can you look on Thomas Money? He's got a library. He's got a library. He's got a library. No, no, no, no, no. He's got a library. They based Scrooge McDuck on Flip Wilson, swimming through his money. Yeah, the biological father thing is just like a set up. He knows if he's great at being Tracy Morgan. Because the belly slapped him. He was what sold it for me, because he said it, but then no one was listening. He just said it for the room and then he just went, "Like that on his belly." Because that's what made his mom laugh when he was a kid. Yeah, just the belly slapped. And that's it. That's it. And he just knows it. And he just still does it because he's the best. That's why I always, one of my favorite 30 rock episodes is where they're doing the Boys and Girls Club commercial and they have to do the skateboarding and everything. And then they're like filming it all day because Tracy's like, "Oh, I'm supposed to go now." And the guy's like, "Ah!" It's just so perfect. I shouldn't admit this in a podcast like I kill people. No, I'm just kidding. (laughing) - I'm going to do something, I'm going to do something. I'm going out there, I'm going, "Bobby said something, "I'm going to propose." - No, I ever since the show has come out online, like the last couple days, I have watched it a couple times. But mostly because like, Tracey's just line readings are so like insane, there's only one person that can read them that way. Or like, he'll just add, he does this thing with Daniel. It's not in the script, I don't think it's in the script. I should Robert and Tina are brilliant. I don't think it's in the script. He does this thing with Daniel where Daniel will say something and he'll just, instead of saying like, "Come down, he'll go, "come down, dude." And he'll just call him "dude." But like every dude gets like a little bit longer and more silly, he'll be like, "Dude." And it's just, it's killing me. If you just, even the way he speaks, he just throws so much Tracey into it. I mean, to put together that team for the rise and fall of, and in what I love the best-- - It's fall and rise. - Okay, I have to remind myself. - The fall and rise. - It's the fall and rise of Reggie Dinkins. I have to keep reminding myself too. - Because when I heard they were making it, I think every 30 rock fan was like, "What, what?" And then adding you and Daniel Radcliffe and we're like, "What?" It was great. It's just like-- - It's nuts. - I haven't watched for a step of so because I want to watch the full season 30 rock style. - Interesting. - Yeah, I'll take that. - I'm a huge, I'm telling you. Like the way that I, 'cause 30 rock, I can't just play them and then leave the room right now. - I'm gonna do that six times. - Yeah, okay. I'm gonna stream it on my phone. You're gonna, if you came in here to be like a boiler room, there's no furniture, it's just a bunch of phones set up. - I have a, I have a Reggie Dinkins farm in my house. - Yeah. - Going on and-- - I have a bot farm. - Imagine setting that up and being like, go. - All right. - Season two, here we come. - We're getting green lit. We're gonna green lit for six. - You're not gonna believe this. We had 33 billion viewers. - We're getting like a Lucasfilm deal. They're buying a whole universe. There's a Reggie Dinkins universe. - Can you guys figure us coming out with a video game? - Was that like a, was that a cool moment where you're like, I get to play like his, you're playing essentially his best friend from the NFL? - Yes, we were teammates, I was the kicker. We've been best friends since childhood. Or no, no, no, since we were on the team together and I live in his basement now, yeah. - Has he? - And I run his social media. - Did Tracy ever call Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter? - Yeah. - I mean, I wonder, the reason I ask that question is, how do you curve that? How do you go? - Tracy, in this world is not Harry Potter. - It's so weird 'cause like, I come from a world where it's like, SN, we talk about SNL a lot, no matter what. I mean, it always comes back to SNL. But with him, it comes back to Harry Potter. Like, what I do is I like to count how much time I'm with Daniel before it comes up. - Oh yeah. - Like, 'cause like, sometimes it's like 10 seconds. - Sure. - Sometimes it's a day, but it's like, it always comes up. - Yeah, it's almost like a condition. - Really? - I love my Harry Potter's flaring up. - Well, like, yeah. - There's like, three people in the world, I feel like that have to deal with, he has to deal with. It's like him, Mark Hamill. - Yes. - Like, there's a couple people that are real life wizard super heroes. - Yeah, I would also probably-- - But like, Mark Hamill's face is not, I went to the mall recently with my daughter and every single store we went into, I saw his face on something. Yeah. - Daniel Radcliffe. - Yes. - Yeah, because-- - Mark Hamill. - Yeah, I'm not just gonna-- - You go, "Hamill is everywhere." - Well, I mean, like, it's "Hamill is" kind of is, but like, Harry Potter more so, like, we-- - Well, Harry Potter is a younger generation's Star Wars. - Correct. - Basically, Harry Potter, the entire franchise, took the page from Star Wars and was like, "Oh, we'll just do this with wizards." - I've never known this stuff before. - And they just go like, "Oh, yeah, put the merch." But there were no, there's a Harry Potter store. There was never like a store. - Yeah, there's a Harry Potter land. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like an amusement park, it's so much bigger. - You immediately realize how amazing his parents are or must be because he is just such a-- I go home like, "Man, he's just deals with everything, wonderfully, everything, wonderfully." - It really is amazing. It's almost like when you see these World War II veterans that you're like, "And you're just a normal guy." And they go, "Yep, came back, fought the Nazis, and then I started a family." - Nope, no PTSD. - Yeah, like none, you were in the-- - I want to grab him by the shoulders sometimes and go also, like, relax, and be a kid and have some fun. Like just go do something silly, please. - Just go run around. - Stop producing amazing things for one second. - Hold on the grass. Can you be kind of an asshole for a little bit? - Can you like spell a bottle of shampoo? - Can you do one thing off? Could you-- I mean, with you with the SNL stuff, when you left, was there a feeling of life? Like, I don't want to talk about it all the time, where people, like, bring you it up to you in a way that you're, like, uncomfortable. - There's still, you always want to navigate this amazingly cool thing that you wanted to be in your whole life, then you got to go there, it's like going to space camp, and then when you get done, you're like, "Okay, do I never talk about it again? It'd be cool." - You don't want me to talk about-- - We're going to talk about every second of it. - Like, you know what I mean? - You want to know what the food tastes like? - Yeah. It tastes so different. - But I really, I mean, I think you did, I think you're a guy who, like, came on, was, I mean, I knew about you at UCB, when I would go, like, see you do, like, ass cat and stuff, and you were phenomenal. - I think Katie was, like, one of the-- - She was so-- - Her best interviews I ever did. - She was very mad that she was not here. She's at work right now. - Oh, it's-- - You were on garbage time. - Yeah. - And she was, like, tell Bobby that he was the greatest interview I ever had. - But that was also, like, and I think about that, that was also, like, one of the first ones I ever did. Like, it was, like, I remember, like, she was brand new, and I remember going, like, me too. Like, and she was great. - Yeah. - Absolutely. - And she says that to this day. She was, like, one of my favorite interviews I've ever done. - Yeah, it was a blast. - And she brings that up. She was, like, garbage time was new. He didn't need to do it. But I don't think she realizes you were new at SNL, so there was, like, this-- - A brand new. - Yeah. - It was definite. I remember going home and being, like, that ain't so bad when you got to do those things. - Like, you know what's funny? She said it, like, an old friend. She had her keys in her hand today. She was leaving with her person. She goes, "Ask him if his head still gets hot for meeting Sour Candy." - She knows me well. - I went, "Okay." Almost as her fiancee go, "What?" - Like, she said that. - And she's, like, shuffling her keys in her hands. She goes, "Ask him if Sour Candy still makes his head hot." And he goes, "What is this?" - She believes the good of work. I'm going to work too well. - I say things. I shouldn't say immediately. - Yeah. - Meet people. If I eat anything, like, if I have Sour Patch Kids, love Sour Patch Kids. - They're great. - Blueberry Sour Patch Kids, specifically. - Very good. - But if I eat them, you sweat the top of my head down. Starts here. Just starts to, like, I can feel it. Like, I get hot. I start to get a little sweaty whenever I have Sour Candy. - Do you have to, like, eat it at a home? - My temperature rises from the top, starting down. I can't explain it. I can make it happen if you give me Sour Candy. - You can just go, "Here we go." - Yes. - And then, and you-- - It's probably some kind of medical condition. - There's a doctor right now that's, like, this is on in their office. - Don't eat them. - Well, it's probably, like, I'm allergic to some sort of red-dive, number, blank, or something. - Also, it's the blueberry ones that's specifically-- - No, it's Sour Candy. - Just in general. - Yeah, anything sour. I love Sour Candy. - But you do love it. - Yeah. - What a curse. - Yeah, it's, like, people who are lactose intolerant, but still drink milk anyway, because dessert's great. - It's great. My friend, Daniel K. Isaac, who I did billions with. - Not a real person. - He's a real person. Look him up. - I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. - He's a hurt. He's a hurt. - He's a hurt. - He's a hurt. - He's a hurt. Daniel's, Daniel's watch this, because he's a hurt. - I am real. - Don't you hurt. - Don't you run a day, cart me. I am a-- - Billiams does well. - I'm kidding. I'm just kidding. He's a-- - But you would get, uh, sometimes one of the bigger actors would get like, "Hey, I got a Van Lewin's truck to come by." And like, like a cyanide capsule. He would have always have a lactate bag. And he'd be like, "I'm ready for him." And drop it. And he'd be like, "Bring on the dairy." And you're like, "I get that. Loving something, but it gives you-- - Yeah. - Have you ever done Sour Patch Kids in popcorn at the movies? - I'm not an animal. - It's first-- - No, I'm just kidding. I have done-- - Well, no caps in popcorn. - That's fine. I saw this. I saw Sour Patch Kid ice cream at Target once, first of all, at Target. Buying any food at Target. - Yeah, I don't care that you're a grocery store now. That's where I had to buy my knockoff jenko's in middle school. I saw Sour Patch Kid ice cream, and I got it just to see what it was. It was lemon flavored ice cream with Sour Patch Kids. The only way I can explain it is like Sour Patch Kid gel. Like a jelly swirl that felt like as if they had melted Sour Patch Kids and then squeezed them out. - Which does sound fun. - It was delicious. - Well, the gel was delicious, but the ice cream, I didn't love it. - So would you-- - But the animal thing and the box and the fork. - I wouldn't be a scientist unless I asked you this. Did the ice cream make you? Did the ice cream weren't-- - Make me sweat and it's up to no. - No, not as much. Now, come to think of it, no, but it might have been because the ice cream was pulling me down at the same time. I might have found the-- I might have found my-- - This is it. This is your eureka moment. - This is your eureka moment. - That's how I got to intake Sour stuff through ice cream. cool it, cool it at the greatest temperature we can. I just have a point of joy, my desserts, and I will walk in free space. Yeah. Where's Bobby? You go, well, the ride, the Fallen Rise. He's the real Udo he used to work at in the closet. The Fallen Rise of Regidic was so successful. He bought his own walk in cooler, strictly for sour stuff. He just eats it in there. But like SNL stuff, I feel like that- I also have to mention hoppers too. Oh, hoppers looks great. Go check out the new movie hoppers. If you put my mind inside of a beaver, I wouldn't build the damn. I wouldn't build the damn at all. But Bobby voices the character King George. So go check out hoppers in theaters now. Thank you for saying that. And watch the Fallen Rise of Regidincons on Peacock or NBC. Is it on both? It's on both. It's on both. You know how it is, everything. Watch it on a phone computer. Watch it right there on a plane, no headphones. Everybody listen to it. When you left SNL, because I think everybody who's ever been in comedy, whether you've done SNL or not, SNL gets brought up. Like when you when you started doing improv, did you have family that just went like, "Do you ever think about doing SNL?" I think I talked about it so much they already knew. I mean, I have used to make my mom make videos. I've like, I'm in a suit coming out of my bathroom going, "Bobbie, I'm right in here." And like turning around and doing my SNL opening. Was that? I was, I was a lot. What was that moment? Because you still had Don Parna. You did, I mean, Darryl Hamilton. I think this year, if I'm a big nerd, I think this year was the last one with Don Gosson. When he was getting shaky, when he was going, "Please, I can't do this anymore. Lauren, haven't I given you enough?" I have told this story before in interviews, but it's one of my favorite things in the world. He just passed me one day and he went, "That's all you want?" Really quietly to himself and he went, "That's a good one. Another good nightmare in the seam, Pedro." It's just like saying the seam's name. "Sorry, Don is in. He's sundowning right now." There he goes, he was, "I don't know." Man, one day. "FDR ruined the economy." A lot of hot tanks. You know what's funny? The studio times were about 17 hours because he can't get to the names without opinions. "You know who I don't like? The Polish." The Polish. What a fucking weird thing to eat. There another great one was we were rehearsing a sketch called "Rough Rugged in Roker," which was the whole premise of the sketch was, Keenan Thompson goes straight from, as Al Roker goes straight from the club, because he's so cool from party to doing the news in the world. That's great. But right before, he's the coolest dude in the world because he's been up all night partying, and it was absolutely hilarious, but there were a lot of dancers. Never saw Don Barton on the floor before of the studio, like he was just in his booth. Sure. And he was just standing there and I was like, "What are you doing, Don?" And he's, "The dancers!" Like he was just there to see the dancers. "Oh, they're in so much glitter." But he'd speak, like he would speak that way. He's like, "They're the dancers." Like, you know what it's like. He's like, "He's just like, remember the, um. " It was as if they were musical guests, he said. "Featuring the sexy dancers." "I'm here to look at women." "I'm gonna Hugo." You remember the homeless guy with the golden voice? Do you remember there was like a homeless guy on the thing? Oh, yes. I believe that. And it was a big, it was like one of the first viral things where he went. Like really viral, and they got him a job. Craft of macaroni and cheese, right? And then he'd be like, "This is coming in." And they'd be like, "Give him, like, you get a dollar and they'd be like, do it." And he'd be like, "Coming up on the. " And it was like. And then he got too much money when he'd go, "Oh, yeah." He was, I believe, homeless, again, shortly after, yeah. He made a lot of money and then he made a lot of bad decisions. Yeah. But I do wonder if Lauren just found Don Parto like that, like just walking around and he's like, "I don't think so." I think he was in the building when Lauren got when they built it, and he just said, "I can't believe!" He's like, "With him and Tuscanyne's a music stand, which was in a case right next to it." Like, he would be like, "I was here when they built it, like, no joke." Seriously, yeah, not doing a bit. He was like, "When they would do my show of shows." He's the phantom of the opera. Yeah, he's like, "Until they were playing me over there." He really was. It's crazy, he's like, "Yeah." 'Cause he did it until he was in his 90, like, late 90s. He was 6,700 pounds. I'm an Oracle! Yeah, no, he felt magical. He's Merlin. We find out that's who Merlin's based off of. I did get locked, it almost missed a cue on live television while I was dressed as Cogsworth from the clock, from Beauty and the Beast, because Dom Parto fell asleep in the booth and I couldn't get the door open 'cause I was like, "I was a clock." And he was in the way, and I didn't want to wake him up. Like, it was a, yeah, it was a, it was an only, an only SNL moment. That's a, what a fantastic story. And he's like, "If I move my clock too fast, I'm gonna wake up Dom Parto and miss my live television line." And then Jane Lynch is gonna be upset. It also sounds like it's to fall in line. We've got everything from sleeping Dom Parto. But you know who my new Dom Parto that I don't want to see go yet is Johnny Gilbert from "Jeopardy." Johnny Gilbert's the guy that goes, "This is Jeopardy!" And you see him with your voice. And you go, and you go, "Johnny, don't, don't move Johnny." Like he's like couching your grandma's, living room with his plastic on it. I just did Kelly and her husband. Yeah, Mark, Jesus Christy. Kelly and Mark, yes. Kelly, rip on Mark, close way lost. Yes, the sexy woman was there. And you're like, "Gelman!" "Gelman, what are you still doing here?" What's up, dog? Yeah, I remember them like, "Oh my gosh!" We're going back, we're just counting these days. Yeah, I was like, "How are you doing, Gelman?" Oh, gee, he's seeing him. I pretty much did that. He was like, "All right." No, no. That's enough. I get it. And like, when Katie did celebrity Jeopardy, I obviously, I'm a, we're huge Jepeads. And I really wanted to meet Ken Jennings, the greatest player of all time. And the only, who would you argue? Brother, I'm just kidding. I hate to tell you this. Go back and watch, I watch YouTube highlights of him, just absolutely body and nerds. Blu, blu, blu, blu, blu, blu, blu, blu. Jenny stayed on that thing. He kept the blicky on him. Blu, blu, blu. But I was super excited to meet him. And then I was like a little kid at Disney World, where they're like, "I want to meet Mickey." And they're like, "Mickey's not here today." And I was like, "Is Johnny Gilbert here?" And they're like, "No." Ken was like, "That's me all the time." Yeah, instantly. Also with this, I'm on the tour for Hoppers right now. And I'm like, "Is Meryl Streep gonna be?" No, she got, okay. Did you do a lot of that? When you, because I don't think people know this, with voiceover work, sometimes you're in a booth with other people if it's a scene. Yeah, but sometimes you just have to hear how they read it and then you point it out. And sometimes you don't. So with Hoppers, I mean, Hoppers was different. I mean, like, Hoppers has been years. This has been like a couple years of my life. So it's like, I've had different versions. I didn't record with anyone. The girl who plays the main lead, Piper Kerta, who plays Mable the main beaver. The girl who goes into the beaver. Yeah, I didn't meet her till after we finished recording. And we now have like spent more time with each other than other people I have worked with for many years because of just from promoting the movie. Sure. But yeah, we never, but like, I did Inside Out and Inside Out 2. Yeah, both great. Me and Paula Poundstone are like, forget her Bobby and forget her Paula. Yeah. We record it together for all of those. Like, we got to improvise. They were to flew us up to Emoryville, Pixar. And like, we, they were, you know, it was like this. Like, you know, they put us in a room with cameras. They recorded us. Like, you know, like, we got to do some stuff together. But this one, we, we didn't. But I would get to hear Piper throughout. When you go to a place like Pixar, are you kind of like lost in it of like, oh, wow, because you forget that Pixar is like God. Well, yes, the Toy Story. I was in, I was on SNL and I got just got an email. I think that was like from Dan Scanlon. That was like, saw this sketch on SNL. It was the, um, the jammy shuffle. Uh, the, uh, Andy's, uh, it was a SNL digital short. Sure. Where we were all kids playing, like, on a kid show. And I was just like a little kid. But like, it ended up with like, all of us murdering each other. I think I'm coming. And, uh, um, he was just like, saw you in this. We have this character in Monsters University. And I thought you would be great for it. Like, do you want to do it? And I was like, what? Like, are you kidding me? Like a Pixar movie? Like, of course. And then they were like, great. We're going to fly out to Pixar. Like, and went there and like was definitely that boy was like, they gave me a tour of Pixar. Like, and like, that place is nuts. Like, it's, it's built for creativity. There's like a person walking. It's like a college campus. There's a guy walking around with a gelato cart just like around. Sick. And then they have rooms where you can get massages. And like, like, all this stuff. And everyone gets to decorate their own space. And they have like a plot of land, not an office, that they can do whatever they want. So someone has someone's desk is the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. And the person next to them is a Jurassic Park theme thing with working waterfalls. And like, they have like, Like that's someone has the Batman thing and they move it and there's a speakeasy behind their office. And like everything is it like that. And then they go, you want to see something really cool and they open up a vent, an actual vent in the wall and you crawl in it. And it is the vent they had. It's like just this gap in the wall that when Bill Gates and them were working there, they would like go in there and hang out and it's it's like just like a vent with like it's like air conditioning ducks and you hang out in there and it's but now it is signed by everyone that has they have shown it too. So it's like Barack Obama next to Anthony Daniel C3PO and then like they're like you want to sign it and I signed in between Barack Obama and Anthony Daniels and I remember thinking like that's a good spot in the Pixar building. Barack Obama, but they just show you like all this crazy stuff and this Pixar history. It's a beautiful I and now like this is my fourth Pixar movie and I go like I can't believe it's it's one of those things where thank God I don't work in that field because if they were like you could have your own desk. It's like well, I just want to back float all day and they go, I don't think we can do that. And you go, but I need the temperature and I want to chlorine. I don't want saltwater. I want to float chlorine and like I wonder if they would like figure that out. If you were good enough at your job, I go like I wonder like if they could it seems like the place where they would be like because the first guy in tech that tried real fast, you know. He's pretty good. He makes eight leaves today. He made it. He sing and dance, we're letting him go guy 46 hours an hour. Yes guy. Watch him work and also look at his desk. He recreated the Titanic to scale. Yeah. Every day to his desk splits in half. I was like that when I went to I did like with the WWE network. They had me up there and I was like walking around and then they did a thing where they're like at cool and you're like, no, I don't want that cool. Oh, don't take away from I get a movie with John Cena. Yeah, I mean, with John Cena, I wrestled John Cena in that movie and like the coolest and he was like, you want to come to WrestleMania? I don't think much of that. Yeah, I did. To your work. So me and Taryn Killam from SNL. One of my favorite cast members of all time and I would argue one of the most criminally underrated SNL cast members of all time easily, he was he was one of those guys where you watched and you went, what the fuck? He's like a Dan Aggroider or a Phil Hartman. Yes, John Hartman is exactly the, he did a Taco Bell commercial is Brad Pitt that people forget that makes me like, whoa, there you go. His impression is Rita, come on man and like the way he does it. Like Jay Farrell is a mimic. Jay Farrell. Jay Farrell is the best voice guy. Jay Farrell looks at you up and down and then goes like, all right, I'll do these four things. His Steven A Smith run on a weekend update was one of my favorites. Taryn is like the opposite. Taryn's like a painter, like he goes, these are the four things that prison does, but I noticed that he also goes like, and like he'll do that and you just go like, yeah, you're right. That thing that you're doing, Brad Pitt, I don't do impressions, but Taryn makes it easy for me to do impressions because he can find this like, it's the sound like that is, that's always what it is. He's great. He's great at that. It's once Jay Farrell. Not. I would say Jay Farrell is the greatest impersonator alive. Like I would, I would agree, man, that's also like, I'm so glad that they are both getting high praise now because they deserve it a great deal because people go like, Oh, you do voices and I go, I do sentences. These guys do like full impression. Jay would do this thing that like I've never seen with anyone else like it. I don't understand it. It was like a superpower. He would do like if he start like so like, Jay would write sketches that were crazy. Like Jay would write sketches where he's like, I'm the Pillsbury Doe boy, but I'm, I was burnt to a crisp. So now my name is Pilsie and I'm a gang banger and Lauren would be like, okay, I think we're going to get in that direction. That was a real one that I think he did. That was, you know, like he, he would be like, ah, this guy, Uncle Bear, you know, guy with a stick had a bear on the end of it named Uncle something. That's all I remember. He had a lot of crazy characters. We all did. But, but Jay had crazier characters, but then Jay would come into the room like the pitch room and like do his pitch as Hannibal Burris. That's so fun. And I don't understand how to explain this correctly. But he would like access Hannibal Burns, Hannibal Burrs' comedy brain for 10 minutes. Yeah. So he would be able to like improvise as Hannibal, if that makes sense. It's the thing that I'm the most that I know exactly what you're talking about. And I think that's the point I'm making with Jay Ferrell. Like it's almost like he walks outside for five minutes and he just becomes Hannibal and goes like, this is everything Hannibal's about. And then goes like, wasn't that nuts and you're like, how did you do that, man? Like what, like you just, it's my favorite thing about his concepts of comedy and executed them perfectly. Like, there's clips of him. There's a clip of him on a morning show while he's promoting a stand up gig. And he does Kevin Hart doing his New Year's resolutions. And it's Kevin Hart. It's like the way he does it where he goes, bam, this is what I'll do. I get me implants, some feet tall, bam, now I'm in the NBA. And he does it. He does it in a way with the hands and stuff and he goes, this is Kevin Hart, he's, that's just Kevin Hart. It's, it's, it's craze. It's like, there's someone on the X-Men, like if they touch, like, can't they touch you? They touch you. Oh, rogues. Roogues. They absorb your powers. That's what he has. That's funny. Lauren's like, shake hands with Jay. We're going to need him. We gave him velvet gloves. He's gentle. No. No. Jay has a white streak in his hair from now on. This is gloves on. And Lauren's head. Lauren is professor. Actually, we're really kidding. Yeah. 100% is. That is. That is a billion percent makes me beast or blob. No. I think, I would think your beast or Wolverine. Interesting. I'll take it. I would make a fantastic Wolverine. You would be great. It's like Wolverine. If, if you were just like, I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. If Wolverine was like, I don't like violence. Can you imagine what would happen? I just want to see, oh, there are so many people's face. I want to see where they go. Bobby. Hey, honey, Bobby Moynihan just got cast as Wolverine. I would pay billion for that. Someone's doing, someone's doing dishes and they're like, oh, you mean it in a new cartoon? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, a lot of action. Live action. Oh, no way. And you're going to, you're going to play Wolverine. What universe? I mean, Comic Con. There would just be the line to see you being like, what the hell? But what it really is? He really is professor X. He just shows up in a small Indiana town and he's like, I heard you can do a perfect impression. Show me your powers. I see promise. Yeah. The only, I will say that he's completely uncontrollable, but I know how to do it. I, I understand. He's going to turn dark and then he'll go to Magneto. That's mag TV. Magneto and the dark forces him. But he is, he's like, I mean, we call them the new mute. They work with the government to eradicate. Why me do you want to work with Mr. Sinister? I guess if you think that Juggernaut is good at physical comedy. Sure, sure, sure. If you think Juggernaut is cool. Yeah. Oh, this is my new favorite villain. I read your mind. You've got a lot of dad stuff. You're going to fit in perfect. We're thinking about pairing you with Nightcrawl after a movie. I don't know if it'll work, but you know what? It's a summer. A lot of people, you know, a lot of people thought Tina was my Jubilee and I proved their morale. I really proved their morale. They have no idea she was my story. Yeah. She could change the weather. Make it very icy. Oh, she could change the weather. Yeah. I'll tell you what's funny is sitting here and talking to you. How much I reference or quote the kings of catchphrase comedy is just jump to beat me and Big J used to think that was the sloppy papi weight. What is slapping papi of Dracula's chasing you turn around and trip the bitch, which is a real Sinbad thing. You know Charlie Sanders, Charlie Sanders introduced me to this. I can't, I credit where credit is due. I think it was Sinbad who said of a Dracula is chasing you turn around and trip the bitch and we just thought that was the funniest thing in the world. And I've just. I did. Two more. Oh, yeah. I thought the story was that Charlie had a tape of like a VHS tape of stand up. And like, you know, when you would tape stuff and like then like there would be like something in the middle and then you would tape something. So there was just like one clip in between and it was just a clip of Sinbad going, if a Dracula is chasing you turn around and trip the bitch. And then like the next thing started and he told me about it and that always stuck with me. It's great. That shoe horned that in there. Just Brian Tucker was one of the best. I wrote a, I wrote a show with him. He was the one that would tell me J. Ferro stories because he would write the Stephen A. Smith things. Yeah. Yeah. We were writing the show while they were doing it. And he goes, he just turns in the Stephen A. Smith. Yeah. On the weekend update because there's ones where he goes, I know Dwayne Wade. He feeds me seedless fruits and I asked Tucker. I said, "Who came up with that?" He goes, "Jay, "Jay will say things while doing impressions that he would not say as Jay in real life. Does that make -- He like accesses a part of his brain that -- It's true, it's like, I know this, it's like when the matrix, when he's like, "I need to know Kung Fu real quick," and like, he downloads it, like, that's what it feels like. Like, he just goes, "Okay, I have every -- I can now be as equally funny as Hannibal Burris," and then all of a sudden, he's back to Jay going like, "What did I just say?" It's amazing. Brian Tucker is the man. Brian Tucker is the best. Brian helped me write those in "Christine Nangle," and I love "Christine Nangle," Jay Samansky. Yeah, "Christine Nangle," and I worked on a pilot together, and then I've been in writing hers with her, and she does Philly Girl, which is one of the funniest characters of all time. I was in one of those Philly Girl videos. Yeah. But she -- When she was the first person to get or something or something like that. She was the first person I watched in person, because she would do it in the writers room jokingly, as Philly Girl. And it was like, "Oh my God, this is every woman I've ever met from Philadelphia." She's hilarious. She can get down here. She runs with her like Simpsons now. Does she? That makes so much sense. Yes, it does. You get into a writers room with her, and you go like, "Oh, you're the funniest person I think I've ever met." She's a genius. She's one of those -- She's one of those people, like James Anderson and Paula Pell at SNL, where you're just, like, Brian Tucker. Brian Tucker, "Christine Nangle," Colin Jones, "Christine Nangle," Colin Jones, "Christine Nangle," but Tucker, you look back, "Christine Nangle," Chris Rockshow, and all this stuff. They just step in, and they go like, "We understand how to do this." It's like Harvey Kitell in Pulp Fiction. Yeah, they're just really good at it. She's in the world. She's in the world. She's in the nature of comedy, and like, she's a genius. But Tucker told me about Hamburger, or you ever see? And Jokes just going, "Hey, I'm burger." Well, that's why beef jelly, really. Well, that's what that was. Immediately, no. He is a black dude that was a cowboy. And, you know, Shucky Duckie? Yeah, Shucky Duckie was. That's what Slapy Pappy was. He told me about Shucky Duckie. Shucky Duckie was. Yeah, people wanted to be Simbad my whole life, so now that was where that came from. I don't think I've ever seen anyone kill harder than Simbad at Caroline's. You walked in the room, and you walked in, and you were like, he hurt this entire room with laughter. No cussing. Well, just went in, and it was like, "You ever go on a date?" How many hours do you think Simbad did comedy before we knew who Simbad was? I know what I mean. It's like that man probably just, how many hours of stand-up comedy has Simbad done in his life? Yeah, it is the 10,000 hours there you go. He's perfected it. He's just so good at it. He's more comfortable doing it than not. Yeah, but the, uh, it's like Keenan. That blows my mind that Keenan is just, I mean, if he's not on camera doing sketch comedy, he's relaxing. Yeah, and that is his entire life. Would you put him as, I think that I hope he is. With you worked with him, and we've seen his body of work on SNL, is he, I think he's a top three cast member of all time. If not the best cast member. I think, I think, I think, I think like, if you're not being romantic about SNL, and you're going like, "Guilda and John," like, you know, which like they have their spot, and you know what I mean? Like, also Lorraine Newman too. Lorraine Newman should be much higher up there, and then everybody puts her. Keenan is number one cast member of all time. Yeah, I would put that out. That's how other, there's no, he is Saturday Night Live. I mean, you think about Eddie Murphy obviously saved the show for maybe 85. I don't know the Edward. Is he Murphy? Yeah. He was in shrunk. When you do the SNL reunion shows. All the time. All the time. You guys all, but like 40 and 50 were big deals. I was at both. Yeah, well on the show for 40th came back for the 50th. When you go back for the 40th anniversary, and you're on the show, is it like homecoming week where you're like, "Hey, we got to give our spots. We're like, we're going to be kind of the kids." That's the show. I got on the show, and they were like, "You cast members aren't into it anymore." Alec Baldwin's doing everything. And it was like, "What's this down like?" Excuse me, I thought someone could do it. That's right, real hard to get here. I kind of did a kid in my whole life. Alec Baldwin got the Emmy nomination, great. Wait, that before him. No, no, no. It's just one punchable. Yeah, no, he's been here all bunch this week. Oh man, he was up for 97 hours too. Yeah, you guys are just like asleep. I love you Alec. I'm glad you got it. Yeah, good job. Man, I'll tell you what, I did a scene in a movie with Alec Baldwin, and I was going through a breakup. And it was the honest moment of my life because he was talking me through a brain. The singular human that he's always Alec Baldwin. I get 30 rock with him. And as an L, yeah, the best. But we sat down at a diner and he went, "We're going to do my coverage first." And you went, "Yeah, absolutely." And so, Fred Wolf was directing. And they do, he does the coverage, and then they're turning around. So we have a break, and I'm like depressed, because I'm going through his breakup. And Alec goes, "We start talking," and he stops, and he goes, "Can I get a plate of fries?" And they bring us a plate of fries. He's like, "Ketchup." And they bring the ketchup, and he was sitting there, and he's like, "What happened?" And we're sitting there eating french fries in a perfect way. And I'm telling him about the breakup, and I just remember, I was like, "You know, she was real into it, and then she went on vacation, and she completely like changed." And he tips him frying the ketchup, and he goes, "Someone got in her ear." And he took a bite of the french fry, and I was like, "This is in that moment I went, this is the weirdest shit I've ever been through in my life." Is Alec Baldwin coaching me through a break? That's so funny. It's just like, I know the answer. Yeah, and he goes, "You know, I went through a divorce in 2000, and I was, yeah, with Kim Basiny." My favorite thing he ever said, he did monologues at ASCAT one time, with the improv show at UCB. A legendary improv show. He was talking about being like when he first started, like being a male on a soap opera, in Hollywood, and like how these men would come after him essentially, and he just said this phrase one night, he talked about like some Italian man that approached him at a restaurant, and he went, "He approached me. He had a wallet, thick his hippo skin." You know, who thinks that? What are you? He had a wallet, thick his hippo skin. I'll never forget that. I'll never forget it. The confidence of that man. Yes. At most comedians, we can all agree or insecure. It's why we go after laughs. Why we are so desperate for laughs. It's why we just want to make people laugh. And having a man that confident around who's also very funny is. I feel comfortable telling this story. We were rehearsing at SNL, and I passed him in the hallway. He had his dinner. His dinner had just gotten there, and we were just done with dinner. We were about to start rehearsing again, and I noticed. I was like, I noticed his dinner. He had it in his hand. I could just go out there, and I remember thinking like me, it's starting on time. And he goes to Jenna, the stage manager. He's like, "Hey, I just need my dinner." Or she said, like, "Hey, Alec, five minutes." And he's like, "My dinner just got here." And he's like, "Five minutes, we're starting to rehearse." And I just saw him kind of look down and go, like, "Okay." And he just walked into the studio, and he was like, "Is this rehearsing next?" Yeah. And I was like, "The hotel scene?" Yeah. I've never seen a hotel with this kind of television before. Can we get one with the doors that open up? And he was like, "I don't think we have that, but sure, I'll go look for one." And he was like, "Great, how long will that take?" And the guy was like, "20 minutes." He was like, "Perfect." Oh my God, I'm genius. I'm not genius. Wow, what a genius. He's been in this business for a while. I was like, "That lighting scaffolding." I don't think that's a problem. He just bought himself the 20 minutes he needed, not his problem, and then took his bag and winked at me. He did not wink at me, but he might as well have stuck in his dressing room with fingers like this. Yes. It was a perfect move. That is so cool. To watch him change the diagram. It was like, he's been at SNL longer than I have. Man, he's been here for a hundred years. He knew how to get six minutes. That is so cool. Another time we were there, so in someone asked where the bathroom was, and Tom Hanks was like, "It's right down there." And I remember, he was like, "Yeah, of course he's been here forever." He could probably tell me the rent. The quickness. The quickness where Tom Hanks was like, "It's right that way." And it just went on. It was a very. You forget that there's four or five famous people that are essentially cast members. Steve Martin can just walk in, and he goes, "Just a timber lake was like that." I have an apartment built onto this to 8-H. I think you're going to sleep. Do you guys want to go there? I still have. Under the bleachers. Yeah. You can go to Bergen's down there. You go, "What's in Brown? Candy B!" Where you been? My friend who I worked with on billions, and she still cuts my hair, but she was your. Katie, she did your hair, and she was like, "Is now my next door neighbor, I think?" Oh, I know where you live. You live? Let's tell them. Yeah. No, no. Go to this neighborhood. But I'll go to 30 Rock to get my hair cut when it's a show we, because she's like, "Hey, it's in the city. You don't have to come up all the way up there. Just come get my hair cut or whatever." And I will like stop when they were doing SNL 50 that had, because it's in the wig shop. That's where I get my hair cut. So you walk through and you see. Yeah. Oh, the floor is 8-H, yeah. Yeah, it's like costumes. And SNL 50. I stole everything. Dude, they had two boxes out, and I took pictures of this on my phone. It was next to each other, and I like stopped, and it was Dana's church lady. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And in a box. I have a lot of those pictures. But I also yeah was Matt Foley was the Matt Foley Chris Farley Matt Foley suit And they said when they pull them out they're all like kind of together so they and I was like This is what Farley wore and they were like yeah, and I was like and this is the Dana Carvee Churchley That was the one of the coolest parts as being a can S&L fan was like Being in the middle of a show in a quick change throwing on a suit and seeing Farley or Balushi like written in the Mass because it's the same pants or the same costumes or like Me and Chris Parnell have the same shoe size so a lot of my shoes were Parnell or Farley like it's like Oh my god like or like you're seeing a picture You're waiting to do a sketch and you're looking at a picture of Lothar of the Hill people and you're like Oh my god, I used to watch this sketch and then you're like wait a minute I'm wearing Chris Farley's I'm wearing those boots That's like and you would just be like I'm wearing those that happened with a suit I had a peach tuxedo on and I was like this has to be like the coolest thing I've ever wore and then you walk my picture and there's John Balushi and a peach tuxedo and you're like oh my god And you look inside and it says Jay Balushi and you're like oh my god, maybe Jim Balushi worth it No, that happened blue. I was like Balushi wore this might be Jim. That is Calm down, Bobby. Calm down. You got to sketch to the offense Jim Did him's of panic bag He's gonna he's wearing a heroes clothing put me and put me in cerebral we need to calm him down There's I'm gonna go to his thoughts. I'm going to make him think he's getting too grateful again. Yeah We can't have him happy I'm I'm making him think he was a fan of according to Jim But it is you know A lot of the times the where I fucked up was I was too much of a fan when I auditioned and when they called me in That's a that's a fantastic sentence for people auditioning for SNL So much of a fan. I let it because I was writing a cartoon with Tucker Mm-hmm, and we were writing it wow. I didn't know you knew him that well Yeah, and Tucker was like we got put together and we were writing this thing and I was you know I was a big fan of him and the first two weeks of us writing is just me asking questions about Chris Rockshow Chappelle show and SNL But we're writing it and then my agent was like hey do you want an audition from SNL and I was such a fan that I was like No like because I know I did the same thing because I would go watch you guys at UCB and I was like I need to wait I'm not ready yet. I'd also be like No, it's like I'm not that funny. These guys are unbelievable and Tucker and I were writing the show and Tucker was I was like hey, I think I'm gonna put myself on tape for SNL and he was like you should you know how he is He's like do it and so I did it and Keep why he's great is because he's he can be emotionless. Yeah, he's goes he can go like your emotions don't matter so like maybe don't Okay, yeah, and then I did it and They liked the tape and they came back and they watched me do you stand up and then I did the live Audition at UCB and I saw Frank Garcia Helds who I was oh amazing. I was like well, he's He's SNL. He was born to be on that I literally watched him. I'm not joking I watched him at that UCB showcase and I went to my agent and I went well, it's that guy He just did a perfect Dan Acroid. Yeah, and he did a perfect Jimmy Kimmel. I've never seen anybody do that. Give him SNL That helped me because then I went out there and I went fucking who cares I saw the guy was gonna get SNL and then Tucker was like hey, they liked you We're gonna bring you in to 8h to screen test and that's what fuck me up because I went in and I was like doing the thing in the hallway of like Oh, oh And then Dave the director, you know tells me brings me in and he goes day Don't think too much or whatever And I'm just waiting to go up on home base and I'm a fucking idiot and I went like Dana Carvey like Myers Chris Farley all my Phil Hartman my one of the favorites of all time and it fucked me up and I was like too tight I wasn't like funny. I wasn't loose interesting and I was like I got off stage And I remember walking out of 30 Rock and like just walking around that area and just sitting in front of a chase bank and being like I fucked up Everyone That chase bank yeah, I know exactly and by the way, it's a constitution from serious No, I know that chase bank has got the weird so many sad comedians. I Did a show across a street from my mom from that the vestibule of that chase bank going I think I got it What's funny is that ended up being Because for me was a place I called my agent. I was like I was too into it I was too tired. I didn't do well and then I ended up doing a serious XM show for eight years the bonfire Which I loved to death, but we would smoke a joint before every show and I would stare at that chase bank And I'd be like I remember failing and standing in front of that chase bank being like I fucked up And then they brought me back to next year, but they brought me back in a way where they're like I think it was shook us It was like I got brought back to you know, I had the same exact that well I auditioned Was told like was brought in yeah, it was like me Donald Glover and Jordan Peele went in together in literally sitting on the three of us sitting on the couch talking to Lauren And I had known both of them you know, I had known Donald since he was 15. Yeah doing Derek. Yeah, and The three of us sat on that couch and he went like well, I have decisions to make and you're just like, what are you doing with us in like? And then the writer's strike happened So it was like nine months of like I think I I think me and a couple of my friends are getting it But I'm not sure like it was like it was it was crazy and then like The second the strike ended I saw like it was like the strike ended like on the news Yeah, and then it was like SNL like literally like on my phone and I was like no Way fucking and it was like We can't hire you were what my Rudolph left during the strike and we we're gonna hire a woman instead and I was just like what and then it was gone Yeah, and it was gone So I mean people don't realize a couple months later it was like coming on Monday and by the next Monday I was I was in a sketch with Michael Phelps. That's crazy. Yeah, because people don't realize it really is the moment You know you're gonna get it if you meet Warren And I was I was writing that thing with Tucker and he was like I think you're the last guy to not meet Lauren. He's like I think you're the guy that gets cut off And that was the year that I didn't think I did well, so they was like I see he's like he's gonna talk to three people and I think it was I see what you mean I see what you mean, I see David's in Frank and Andrew Santino were the three guys wow that's good to hear yeah that went and talked and I was like Oh, I'm not getting it and then the next year they were like They called me up and they were like hey probably not gonna get it But we want to screen test them again and this time I went in and I I was way more loose Yeah, and it really helped I made Lauren crack during my audition and that was the thing where I was like I'm not gonna get it That's all you got it. It's but at least I got it like yeah, and I got him to laugh it when you the poo addicted to honey There's a thing where he went like like that which you would have written and I would have got cast as I would have loved that I would have loved that I just want to be Peter Dinklage who I believe played when he the poo and I was just I was in I might have by the way or in that. That was the same year. I that was the year I audition. Oh wait I think I know this story. Yeah, I think I've heard you talk about that well the first one was Jason I was in that sketch Jason Statham's Jason Statham's when I auditioned I did Jason Statham edible arrangements And I went oh you sick of getting a side mode fruit Send your love a kind of love shape like a fist and then they did Jason Statham Jason Statham's and I went that's much better That's way tighter way better. It's so crazy like Being on both sides like being a fan of SNL for many many years and still so since after and being there That whole thing like I've seen it a couple times where someone's like that's my idea. Yeah, and it's like seeing comedy like mines like right the same thing very close to each other has happened so many times and you go like One of those people that was angry about it because What I what I've said before and I've told the story is that when you audition they go hey You're giving us all this you ever read J more I was just gonna bring up that book a hundred times and he's cause of that you want to talk about One of the best voice guys of all time. Yeah J more is one of the greatest impressions like J Farrell Like doesn't get the respect that he deserves my favorite clip of opian Anthony one of my favorite clips is he calls in And he's doing voices and then he does reservoir dogs with Bobby Kelly and Colin Quinn And it's oh yeah, to this day that lie. He goes. I don't know. This guy's getting blood all over the back of my Backseat like Cadillac is on my LA sneakers and you're like it's a perfect Colin Quinn. Yeah, he's it's insane He's the best his Harvey Kitell is like I could listen to him do Colin Quinn like all day long. Do you know James Adomeans? Yes James Adomean is it's I would say it's criminal. He never got to be on SNL I don't know if I've ever said this out loud James Adomean. I don't know if you're going to hear me say this now on a podcast Sometimes when I'm sad I listen to James Adomean doing oh my god. I'm blanking on his name The LA radio host that was really mean to women. Oh God wait Don I miss no time oh my god. There was like a guy he had had like rules and he would blow Tom Likus, blow him up Tom, he would go, he would go like, you got to go to the school at top, top Likus, blow it up Tom, time to Likus.com. And he's just like, you know, like if a woman is marrying, she wants your money. Like, you know, like, and he's a piece of garbage this guy, but James Adomean is improvising as him is like something like, when I, when I need to relax, it's like Zach Alvenegh is live at the purple onion. Right. Um, him James Adomean doing doing Tom Likus or, or like, uh, uh, uh, Jimmie Glick. See my favorite Jimmy Glick is phenomenal. Like, that's what I listen to. My favorite thing of James Adomean that I bring up all the time on YouTube that I showed to people on my phone, like a proud parent I sit and I watch them watch it. I'm doing Lewis Black reading out of a girl's diary where he goes, today was the best day of my life. And he, I'm not even doing a justice where he goes, Timmy said I was cute, heart thing. And he's like, does the finger thing in a way that you're like, please watch. If you're watching this at home, pause this, go watch James Adomean doing Lewis Black. I can't wait to see. Reading out of a 13 year old girl's diary, um, I was in inside out and inside out too. Yeah. I got to see a screening with Lewis Black of inside out too, as anger never met him before my life. I don't, I still don't know if he knows who I am. I don't care. I walked past him and I said, it's a great movie. And he went, for a cartoon, you go, yeah, the guy from Pixar is like, ah, shit. Yeah. He's, he's in for a cartoon, for a cartoon, inside out, too, what do I, what do I say? I've never heard. He goes, uh, talking, that's just cartoons, that's a talking that's drawing to say that about up to be. Yeah. That is great. He, um, Adomean was one of the first person to do a perfect Jesse Ventura. And he would do those things. Wow. He does Mark Marin perfect. He does Jesse Ventura perfect. You know, you want to know how good I am at impressions. I played Jesse Ventura on SNL and what up with that? And I never said a word, but I tap dance to the hold. I tap dance across the age with a cobra with a giant snake on my neck. Yeah. That's a Tucker sketch. Yeah. What's up with that? Yeah. Yeah. One of my favorites. Yeah. What's up with the sedacus just hitting the running man every time? I love how silly Tucker is. I love how silly. Yeah. One of my favorite characters I ever got on. I wrote with Brian Tucker and John Solomon as this character called Janet Peck and Paul, the dumbest thing in the world. It was just this lady, who was just begging celebrities to have sex with her. And would say, just please, just throw what it may please. And I would, it was just, it was Brian Tucker. It was me and Brian Tucker as a woman and that should never happen. And I hope Tucker doesn't get mad that I'm saying this on a podcast, but when we were writing that thing, I was at the seller and Amy Schumer was filming a train wreck with Bill Hader who had just left SNL and Hader was like at the seller and he's like hanging out. He was in that too. Right? Yeah. He was in that too, right? Yeah. Yeah, he was in that too, right? Yeah, he's done it at the seller for 15 years, where if you walk in and you're not famous, he's like, yeah, he's like this guy and you're like, all right, we're co-workers though. The best advice I never listened to, I got from Chris Rock. If I could go back, if I had a time, a comedy time machine to go back in time and take something back, standing on stage, backstage at the BenefitCon, the Sandy, the 2020, the Sandy Hurricane BenefitCon. 2012, yeah. Kanye West and all those people, Kanye West is on stage, me and Seth Meyers are backstage, I'm dressed as drunk uncle and Chris Rock comes up to me, he goes, you're not going out there, are you? Dress like that? And I was like, yeah, he goes, don't go out there, man. Don't go out there. Like, he was like concerned for me. Wow. And I was like, what are you talking about, man? Like, relax, I'm going out to do this bit. We walked out on stage to complete silence, just like silence. Kanye West had just finished. He was in a guilt, screaming the N word and like dropping, like, like, three of you know what I, and then outcomes drunk uncle in our seven of this concert where they're waiting for Bruce Springsteen, Chris Christie's in the audience. And drunk uncle comes out and it was just Madison Square Garden as a whole turned to each other and went like, beers, we're all getting beers. And like the entire Madison Square Garden just stood up and left and we just, and Chris Rock was 100% right. He was like, don't go out there. And you're a defense. And I'm never so hard in my life. But you get Madison Square Garden. You can't. And no offense. I walked up. You can't change that lineup. No. No, I'm not going out there. Chris Rock. Also, he was supposed to be Stefan in the height of Stefan. And Bill was like, I'm not doing it. And I was like, okay. They were like, "Send my hand out there." Like, I was an idiot and was like, "I'll do it." Like, thinking like it was gonna benefit me somehow. - Like, the garden was gonna be like-- - Didn't think I would be walking home, crying, dressed as drunk uncle, because I just walked down the stairs of Madison Square Garden and out the front door. I didn't even go to my car that was waiting for me. I just went the way I knew how to get out of Madison Square Garden and walked home. And SNL was like, "Where's the costume?" I was like, "It's on my bathroom floor." - It looks like you got a vanperate man. There is not a, people don't understand bombing until you've walked out of the room in stage makeup. - Until you've called your mom and go like, "Do I just come home? Did I make a mistake?" - I did that. That's the story. I told about bombing on Mom's Night Out. When they filmed this stand-up show for moms, and I needed the money, it's like 2011. And they're like, "Hey, you kind of do some jokes." It's about my mom dating a bunch of dudes. (laughing) And they were like, "Hey, you should do those jokes." And I went and I did it and I bombed. - Yeah. - My bombed bad. And then they called, I was still a waiter. And they called me while I was waiting tables and they went, "Why don't you come back tonight? We'll do it again." Why don't you try softening the jokes? It was at 1515, Broadway. TRL students. - Wow. - So Times Square was out the window. - I used to work there. And I bombed so bad that I get off stage, grabbed my backpack out of the green room, full stage makeup, went downstairs, went to a bar, got a beer called my mom and was like, "Am I wrong?" - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - Am I wrong in doing this? - She was like, "I don't think so, but I wasn't there." And I was like, "Yeah, yeah, bombing, drunk." Someone in New York City saw you sad as drunk uncle, near the garden and was like, "Is that couldn't be?" "No, what do you think you walked around the costume?" And they were like, "I'm pretty sure." Someone, I hope someone saw that. - I always, that's the one. - You know what, someone gave me recently, which is crazy, which it's crazy, is someone gave me a photo. It's like, they took a, I used to work at Pizzeria Uno in Central Avenue in Yonkers and someone has, there's a photo of them at Pizzeria Uno and I'm in the background cleaning the bar, watching Saturday Night Live. - No way. - I would watch it every Saturday. I would like lost customers, 'cause they were like, "Can we watch the game?" And I was like, "No." - Yeah. - You know what I'm saying? - Saturday! - The Thomas TV is SNL. And they're like, "Bob, you have tables." And I'm like, "I don't care." - Like, I'm watching TV. - That's the good version of a bad employee story. There you go, he used to watch SNL all the time and would fight customers if they changed it. And you know where he ended up? SNL. - SNL, yeah. - Most of the time they go, he wouldn't change the channel. He'd fight customers. You know what happened to him? Prison. - It was in Westchester County where the X Mansion is. - Oh, more and new. - It's all coming together. - I'm bringing you back with my Cyclops. Crazy Morgan. - My Cyclops is Colin Jones. - Yeah, I don't know that. - And if he starts-- - By the way, I mentally cast Colin Jones as Cyclops. - Scott Sowers did you. - Because I was like, "No, Colin Jones is the Cyclops of SNL." Colin Jones, I'm gonna say this, 'cause it needs to be said, there are two people besides Keenan that are extremely important to Saturday night lives history. And I think Tina Fey is one of them and Colin Jones should be known as one of the top four people important for Saturday night lives ever. - Talk that thing together in a ways that people, they think he just does weekend update. And you're like, "Yeah, that's all I do." - And also just like, kind, a good, kind dude. - Yeah, 'cause like just like the best. - He was so nice, when I didn't get it, I saw him at the Comedy Cellar and he was so fucking nice about it. He goes, "Hey, you did a really good job." And you're like, "Hey." - He's that. - That was good at the bedside manner. - Yeah. - That's fantastic. - It was really good. You started you didn't get it, you know, 'cause and I was like, "Thanks man." - Look up his family, his family's amazing too. - Yeah, his brothers have phenomenal stories. - Colin's got comes from a great family. - Yeah. - His brother's KC zero hilarious writers. - Oh, great. - And his dad is like, their whole family. - Left for the 50. Got on the plane for the 50th, not knowing if I was in the show. My ego had died. I was just like, "I guess that's it." But I had also like entered this amazing phase where I was like, "Oh my God, I get to go see it for the first time as a fan." Like I never got to go. Like, you know what I mean? Like, "Oh, before you write a show." - Yeah, I never got to go. - And after you never went back to watch like anybody else. - No, I went back once and I didn't. I felt like it just, it's a lot. And you feel, I wish I didn't. I wish I could go back every weekend and not be a problem. But I think that's another reason why I wasn't. So great there was like, I wasn't my authentic self. Like, you know, that whole thing. I'm being serious, you know what I mean? Like, if I go there, I want to go and relax and I think I can do that now, but at that time, no. - That makes complete sense, Brian. - After the 50th, everything changed. But like, went to that 50th, going like, this isn't for you, this is for SNL. And by the time I landed, they were like, "Not only are you in the show, you're doing a drunk uncle, they didn't say this, but like, it's because of Colin and you should thank him." - Yeah. - And like, Colin changed a lot of people's lives that night by speaking up and going, we should give this person and this person and this person a moment for their brains, for the rest of time because like, just being involved in that and just feeling that sense of like, I put my time in there and it's the 50th. Colin gave me that and gave a lot of people, Colin looked out for a lot of people that night and-- - I love that. - Yeah. - And I think that's like a cool thing that people should know because I think a lot of the times people think, "Well, what is he worried about?" - That was one of the best nights of my life, one of the coolest experiences of my entire life. - Well, yeah, too, 'cause you're like, I sat down in that chair with Chris, the stage manager and I was like, "I'm sitting at Drunk Uncle at the 50th." Like, they gave me a minute. However long I have, during the 50th of Saturday Live, like I can't believe I'm lucky I am and then I turned and went like, "I'm home, I'm home again." Like, and it wasn't home. It was not the studio audience. It was Oprah and Conan and they're all right here. And it was very, very different. And that happened really quickly for me. Like, I went from like, "Man, I'm home again," to like, "Oh, no." - Look who's in my house. - You can see it. I ripped Colin's jacket. I ripped the buttons off his jacket. He goes, "You ripped my buttons during the 50th 'cause I was just like, (barking) It was like, "I can't explain to you." Those, I hate when actors talk about acting and all that stuff, but like, those two minutes, I can't, I'll never, was the pop? Did you take in the pop because watching SNL 50, it was a hard audience. - But that's a hard audience. - To make love. - To make love. - To make you got a huge pop. As a fan that watched it. - It did, it, it, it, it, it, it, it felt like, it felt like the audience went, like, we're sick of clips. There's someone performing for us. Let's laugh for him. It felt like they were grateful to not be watching clips and to see someone who was happy to perform for them and they felt, you got, Merrill, you're looking at Merrill Streep. - Yeah. - And, and she's laughing and you're like, it was a very, a chemical reaction in my body happened. You know, it's, when a studio audience laughs and you know you're doing well on SNL, you're happy that Lauren's happy. On the 50th, you're going, "Colonel Brian's laughing at me." - They're one of the greatest minds. - And I can see it and Jerry Seinfeld's laughing. You know what I mean? Like, next to him, and you're like, it, it just, something broke. And I just went like full drunk uncle with Colin and like, it was the, one of the best two and a half minutes of my life. - Well, I will tell you, you know, I think is someone that was watching at home that loves the show. I think you forget that the audience at SNL 50 is Oprah Cohn and Jerry Seinfeld's Steven Spielers. - Well, also the regular audience is that, and because it was the 50th, they have extra seats. So they was like the desk and then Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah and Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and every single famous person. Jack Nicholson and you're noticing this, you're waiting for, you're looking at cue cards and you're like, can Viola Davis get out of the way? So I can see, you know what I mean? Like, it's like, it's, it's, it's, it was, that has never happened to SNL. And yeah, that night. - But I would say, as someone that watched it at home, you forget that the audience is that famous. And I think everyone reacted at home the same way that's the regular fans that were like, "Trunk Uncle!" Like, we were way, we wanted to see. There are characters you wanna see when they know. - And that's two of the SNL fans too. Like, it's like, you wanna see characters. Like, it was like, the silliest thing in the world was like, and it weirdly meant a lot to me was like insinuating that Cossess Lee was pregnant, insinuating the drunk uncle and the girl departing now with a child. Like, my SNL nerd brain went like, back to like, you remember those Wayne's World? Like, when Wayne's World came out, the, like, the books, it was like those graphic books that was just like SNL writers. Now, being an adult, realizing that SNL writers just got like 50 grand to put a bunch of jokes in a book. - And like-- - I bought those books. - Yes, I still have them. - That was a mess with Wayne's World, so I know exactly. - But me too, they had a flip book of Wayne in the corner doing the dream sequence. It was my favorite book in the world. I don't remember why I started-- - No, I love it, but 'cause I think - But I think those books and those jokes, like-- - But SNL fans saw you, and I think it really was a moment of like, you know what it is? it's like when you're a real big fan of a band and they're at a Festival you go if you're a really big fan of him you go I'm not going to get the same concert I would have got if I just went saw them but sometimes they play a song and you go oh oh and other people now get to see And they when I feel like that was your moment of the festival to go like oh fuck. Oh, yeah I was nice. It was also nice to go like what people do know this yeah, I mean people love that you people I did You know you talk to yourself out of it. Yeah, well the come down is like I shouldn't get this. I'm a piece of shit That's why we're all comedians that we're better at that. That's why we're not out of Baldwin. Yeah, guys. I'm not going to go I need something why there's no handsome funny men. It's yeah. Well because they go John Ham's pretty funny John Ham is pretty funny But I think a lot of them need damage you need like damage on the inside to go. This isn't all things That's why I like Baldwin can do all that because there's something in him Which was crazy because you go like I was real big on like I didn't move you with him and then after that you go Well, it was a very safe movie, but you to hoppers in theaters right now That's that's another crazy thing. I was thinking about the test saying my wife It's like I'm in the lead in a Pixar movie and I'm gonna talk about SNL the whole time watch and it and it's It's that's the power we talked about the fallen rise of Reggie. Yeah, it's true I truly think you're one of the funniest human beings alive. I've enjoyed Being a fan ears and meeting you is even better and you're just a man and taking for being so hilarious. Yeah, same here, man. Yeah, do you rule? (upbeat music)