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Hi, I'm Bobby Moynihan, and I wanted to be a
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comedian when I grew up.
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Okay, well, that worked. I read that your interest in
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comedy began as like a way to get attention or
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an attention ploy. Is that true?
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I mean, yeah, I think that's true for most comedy.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But yes, very, very much so. Well, yeah, I've just, yeah.
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They call, I've said this before, they Called me watch
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me as a kid because I would just say watch
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me and just do dumb shit all the time.
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I also heard that you worked at your father's liquor
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store when you were eight years old. I'm guessing you
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saw a lot of different types of characters there. Has
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that played at all into your comedy as an adult?
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That's funny. No, not in the sense of like, I
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don't remember anything that like directly correlates, but like, yeah,
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my father owned a liquor store my entire childhood. And like,
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and for as long as I could remember as a child,
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I worked, I learned how to drive when I was
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like 13 and I was doing like deliveries. Wow. Highly illegal.
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Just making deliveries of, of alcohol to churches at 14
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years old. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's like a sitcom in and of itself.
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It's a lawsuit. Yeah. A lot of things.
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So you and I actually have shared the screen before
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I was an extra in Mr. Mayor.
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Oh, I remember. I remember. I remember every moment of
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that television show I was on during the pandemic with
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Holly Hunter.
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I interviewed her recently and she was like, yeah. And
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she was like, that was a great show. Wasn't it?
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I was like, I really liked it.
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I loved it. Holly was the best. I still talk
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to her all the time. I talked to that whole
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cast all the time. They're the greatest.
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Yeah.
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That was like, it was so weird. It's so weird
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to me that that happened. Also the timing of it
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was just awful. It was like, Yeah. Black Lives Matter,
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all this stuff with the world was changing. And then
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they were like this, this rich white mayor just can't
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get it together.
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I guess that is true.
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Yeah, it was a it was a little bit bad.
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No one really felt bad for. Well, rightfully so.
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I mean, yeah, we shot the episode I did was
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at Dodger Stadium and it was like two days before
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everything shut down.
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That's no, that was that's I was going to say
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I thought, oh, well, you were probably there earlier. I
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was on the pitcher's mound at Dodger Stadium with Ted
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Danson and someone walked up to us. And I remember
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thinking from the look on their face, this doesn't look
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very good. And that's when I found out we were
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all going home. And I was like, what? Like, I
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will be back in the morning, whatever. But I found
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out on the pitcher's mound, I found out about COVID
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on the pitcher's mound at Dodgers Stadium with Ted Danson.
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It's a mad lib.
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I am currently in New Jersey. I've got my Giants
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gear on. Reggie, your dad was such a big Giants
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fan that he wore a Phil Simms jersey to your graduation.
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Graduation for high school and college maybe yeah I think
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he wanted to be buried in it he wore it
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constantly I still have them he he loved it.
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You could do a sitcom about growing up I do
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think with the amount of lore that's just been dropped
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in the first five minutes of this conversation he's.
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A big Giants fan I just went to the Giants
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game the other day with Tracy it was a blast
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it was a tough game I went to the Cardinals game.
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Okay. That was, that was better when they didn't realize,
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they didn't realize that they had a timeout left and
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they like, that was, that was pretty, that was pretty funny.
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I'm wondering if your relationship to comedy has changed moving
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from SNL to a sitcom environment, or if you've, you
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found the approach similar.
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I mean, SNL is its own thing it's completely different
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than anything this is a blast this is easy especially
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when you're surrounded by daniel radcliffe and erica and tracy
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and everybody everyone is so good but i think honestly
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my favorite part about it is what i'm realizing is
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like if i if i could just be on fake
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tv shows or fake documentaries that's all i want to
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do for the rest of my life like i want
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to be on i don't want to be on a
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reality show i want to be on a fake reality
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show And I want to do fake documentaries just for
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the rest of my life. I think that's... I really
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enjoy it. I just also enjoy the idea of also
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looking into the camera.
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Yes.
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Because it's just such a free extra joke.
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Like a documentary now type situation?
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I mean, yeah. I would do documentary now and that
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only for the rest of my life. Yes. Or just
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like any kind of one of those fake shows.
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Yeah.
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It's just so... That genre is... very i love it.
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What what do you find like the most appealing about.
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It many things uh it it's it seems more real
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it seems more fun it seems like you're doing it
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and also very selfishly when you're shooting it you shoot
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it and then you move on you if you're shooting
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something else you have to shoot this angle then you
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got to shoot a close-up then you got to shoot
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yeah the other thing turn it around you got to
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wait 45 minutes you know on the two hours like
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it like it's also like I think I just enjoy
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the pacing of it because you just shoot it and
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rehearse it, shoot it, and go. Just like SNL. I
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think that is appealing to me.
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How many cameras do they have rolling at one time?
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653,012, I heard. That's
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great deal of footage. Usually like two or three.
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Okay. Okay. But are they, so are the cameras that
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are in the shot actually rolling?
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Are those? Oh yeah. Yeah. Sometimes Daniel shoots stuff like
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as at what he's pretending to be the director shooting stuff.
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He's actually shooting the, the cameraman, all the cameramen are
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like in it. They have lines like, like they, like
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they are now part of it. Uh, yeah.
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Okay. Because watching it, I wasn't sure if they were
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doing the office when they would bring the camera people
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in on the office and it was an actor as
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a camera person or if it was an actual.
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A couple of the camera guys play themselves. There is
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one general cameraman that we now call Marty, who is
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not a real cameraman on the show. But he also is.
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He is a cameraman. It's hard to explain. But yeah,
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Marty is kind of like the fake made up. He's
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all of the cameramen smashed into one. Gotcha. And it's
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voiced by Chris Gethard whenever they do it.
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So when this idea for this show comes your way, I,
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like many other people, I saw Dan in Harry Potter
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and was like, you know, I went to go see
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him on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business.
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Me too.
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Simply because it was him, like not for any other
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reason than I wanted to be in his presence and
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then was shocked when he was funny. And oh, so good. Yeah.
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So did you know that about him before? I did.
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I had seen I mean, I had seen him on
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Broadway a bunch. I saw I saw him in Equus.
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I saw I saw him with him and him and
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John Larroquette. Uh, I, uh, yeah, big fan. So yes, I, uh, yes. But,
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but also he had hosted SNL, uh, uh, and just like,
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I'm just a huge fan of all the choices he
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makes of like what, what he does. Like he just,
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I'm a fan. He just does good. He always does weird,
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fun stuff that he enjoys. And I think it's because
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like he, what he, he has, uh, he has that
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unfortunate gift, which is like, here's your first job ever.
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And you're never going to beat it. Like here's, you
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know what I mean? Like he's, he's somebody who like
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started as Harry Potter, like for the rest of his life,
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he is the boy wizard. So like now he can, I, I, I,
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I love the fact that he's like, you know what
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I'm going to do? I'm going to play a dead body. Like,
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you know, like he just makes, because he doesn't, he
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already started. He's like a 50 year old, 20-year-old, if
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that makes sense. He's been in this business forever. No,
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I'm just a huge fan of what he does. And yes,
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I knew he was very funny.
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Some people have a hard time, though, when they're saddled
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with the pressure of being a Harry Potter. And he
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seems to be like, I don't know if you ever
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watched Miracle Workers.
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I was on it. Oh, yes, you were.
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Oh, my God. Again, I was like, wait, what? And
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so I think that it was such a good example
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of kind of. Yeah, he's so good. And then Mr.
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Ricochet is like my one of my favorite characters in television.
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When when he dresses up as Mr. Ricochet a week
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ago on set, he came out of the trailer and
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he was dressed as Mr. Ricochet. I I I work
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with him every day. I watch people freak out. with
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him every single day about harry potter i was not
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a big harry potter guy i saw him dressed as
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mr ricochet and i freaked out it's a do you
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know what i'm talking about that's a yes parkour character
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on the show it's my favorite thing in.
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The world was he surprised that you were fanning out
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over it i'd.
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Asked for a picture i was like i've never asked
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you for a picture can i get a picture with
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you mr ricochet i think i called him mr ricochet
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and he was genuinely entertained by it i hope.
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Well you've worked with a lot of the same people
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do you enjoy that more than starting with a group
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of new people you have to find a rhythm.
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I had met Tracy before, I had met Daniel before,
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and I had never met Erica, but I was a fan. So, like,
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that was a blast. But, I mean, like, that's every job.
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It's like, well, that's not true. I don't know why.
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I don't know why. But if you get cast in
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a job and someone else from SNL gets cast in it,
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then there's six. It's never, like, one. It's either one
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or 12 people from SNL. It's never, like, two to three.
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There's always... So when it's just for some reason, it's
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like somebody knows somebody from SNL, so they'll put 12
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people in it. It just always happens. And I love
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that because I know them and it's fun and like whatever.
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It's just crazy to me that it always happens. If
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you see an animated movie and one SNL person is
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that you can guarantee that out of the next 20
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cast members, six of them are going to be from SNL.
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It's fascinating.
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Yeah, I do find a lot of times when you
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look at like movie trivia on IMDb, it'll start out
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sounding like a really rare fact. This is so-and-so's first
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time working with so-and-so, but then it'll be like since
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two years ago when they all worked with, and then
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you're like, oh, this is, everybody's traveling in a pack.
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Or you work with some, or I've met people that
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like I've been in three movies with and I've never
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met them before in my life.
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The amount of times I will interview people and I
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will talk to them about their scene with so-and-so, they'll
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be like, can I tell you, I've still never met them.
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I'm always like, oh, they're like, please don't tell anyone that.
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And I'm like, okay. How much of your time on
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the show filming is improv versus sticking to the scripts?
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I mean, not a lot. You would, I love improvising
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and they are very kind with letting me improvise, but it's, it's, it's,
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it's nice to be at a point in my career
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where I'm not like thirsty enough where I'm like, I
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got it. Improv. I got to get all my ideas
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out there. Cause like, I need to be a star.
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Like now it's very much like I trust Robert and Sam.
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And like, sometimes we get to the, third or fourth
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take and they're like, do you want to add anything?
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And I'm like, I'm good. Let's get out of here. But, but,
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but they are very generous about improvising and it's super
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fun because everyone like improvises wildly differently. Like I love,
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I kind of like go after Erica a lot, like
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because I'm trying to make her laugh, but Daniel is
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shockingly good at just everything. So like, that's fun. But like, there's,
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there's no one more fun. to improvise with than Tracy
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Morgan just because you it's when you're improvising you don't
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know what the person's gonna say but I don't think
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Tracy knows what he's gonna say sometimes so like it
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makes it even more insane and I love it and
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also every time we improvise we just end up hugging
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embracing for some reason.
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We just get real excited start screaming and then start
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hugging i don't that's how it's that's.
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A terrific uh quote to take uh completely out of
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context yeah do you ever have something that you did
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that you improvised that you thought was really great and
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didn't make it.
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In Oh, every single day of my life. No, I'm
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just kidding. I mean, like, yeah, there's always stuff that, or,
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you know, but a lot of the times they're right,
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or you're like, I'll do stuff, there'll be 10 takes,
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one time their way, and they'll use that one, and
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I go, oh, they were right. Like, you know, other jobs, yes.
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This one, I don't, they have, they're smarter. They know
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what they're doing. They have this figured out. I'm just there.
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I'm a puppet. I'm a very thankful puppet.
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That's another great quote. I was told that there's more
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of your character's background story in season two, but I'm
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wondering if prior to learning more information, if you had
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already come up with your own background. Always.
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They're, they're pretty good. Like I trust them pretty good.
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They're like, I know for a fact, I'm sure they
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won't care that I say this, that other cast members
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definitely go like, I think this should happen, or I
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would like to go in this direction with my character,
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or what if my character had a relationship with this
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kind of a person? There are very vocal cast members
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on this show about that, and I feel like I'm
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the opposite, where I just go like, I don't care,
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I can't wait to see what happens. But then like
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sometimes I'll get a piece like a tiny piece of
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like this is what's going to happen. And then I'm like, oh, no,
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can I do this? Or like I say weird stuff
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like Robert said, what do you want to do? And
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I said last season, I said it was like halfway
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through the pandemic. I was like, I want to shoot. Oh, no,
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my God. That was Mr. Mayor. It wasn't this show.
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I said, I want to shoot the empty amusement park.
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I was like, I want to. I was like, anytime
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we can shoot in the empty amusement park because we
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were shooting at Universal. Uh, so then they, all of
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a sudden, all of a sudden my character loved minions
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and I was always at the minions ride and in universal.
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And like, we shot at universal when it was closed
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all the time and it was the funnest. Like they
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gave me, like I, I cashed in my, like, what
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is it like to be in an amusement park by
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yourself card instead of, instead of choosing a good acting choice. But, uh, Yeah, no.
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And this season, there's a lot of fun, crazy Rusty stuff.
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I'm very happy. It's an amazing character. It's also just
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like the best role. I live in Tracy's basement. I'm
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the luckiest man in television. I just get to show up.
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I just have to have a stupid mustache for a
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couple of months. That's the hardest part about it.
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Does Rusty have anybody that he would want to make
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a cameo in a like a celebrity cameo in the future?
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Oh, my God. Catherine Hahn is like my favorite. I
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would love to work with her. I would have said
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Catherine O'Hara. God rest her soul.
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Yeah.
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Gosh. Any one of the old SNL people, that's always fun. Oh, dude,
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I wish Amy would do the show or Dratch. You
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know what I mean? Who else? Who would be great?
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I mean, Megan, the stallion was surprised.
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Oh, so good. So good. I keep pitching. Oh, shouldn't
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I shouldn't say this because I want them to use
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it so bad. But I keep pitching that Daniel finally
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breaks down and calls her and she he hears her
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phone ringing in the basement and she's she's with Rusty.
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But it'll never happen. But I pitch it all the time.
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Jim Carrey. I want Jim Carrey to come do something. Oh, yeah.
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That would be fun. What is the best part of
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being famous and the biggest downside of being famous? I
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got to say the crazy left turn of a question.
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I feel like I just immediately went into therapy. That
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is in, in, it is insane. It is insane. Um,
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the best part.
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About it on, I mean, like the empty theme park.
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The empty thing, like that, that stuff, like, yeah, like,
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like it's like recently a lot of people, I think
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even you did it earlier. A lot of people have
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been saying like, I'll just tell stories about my normal
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life and, And people go, wow, man, like your stories
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are insane or like the lore you have is crazy.
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And I go like, yeah, yeah, you're right. A lot
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of weird stuff has been through a lot of weird stuff.
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And like at SNL, especially like it just like it's
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like a mad lib. Like, yeah, it's a crazy literally,
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literally like you're standing in a hallway with Barack Obama,
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a llama and Mark Wahlberg. And you're like, what the
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hell is happening? But it's it's happening. So, yes. Yes
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to all of it. What is it like? The best
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part about being famous is, like, yeah, that stuff. It
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invites in crazy weird. It's never boring. And what's the
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worst side about it? I mean, like, I don't have
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it that bad that, like, I can leave my house. Like,
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I'm sure there's people. You know what I mean? Like,
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there's people who can't. Like, that stinks. And then, like,
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I don't know. The worst part about it. is people
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coming up to you and asking you like, do you
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wish you were more famous? And then you go like,
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Oh God, what is that? I don't know. Or like,
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like when people run up to you and assume they
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go like, Hey, you're great on SNL, but tell this
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person they suck. And you're like, Oh my God. Like,
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why would you think that's okay to do? But it's
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all fine. It's all pretty good. I really don't have
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any big problems. Could be much worse.
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The assumption of people knowing other people and levels of
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fame is actually a common answer. Because I also ask people,
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what kind of questions do you love being asked? And
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what kind of questions do you really not like being asked?
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Because press is such a Or they'll say someone asking
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them what it's like to be around someone who they
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know is more famous.
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You just saying that made me think of what was
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the worst experience. I can
pinpoint it. I can pinpoint
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the worst moment I've ever had of being a quote
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unquote famous person, which was somebody asked me to do
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comic-con and like i was like i love comic-con i
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go anyway they were like come to pittsburgh to do
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steel city comic-con and like sign autographs and i'd never
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done that before and i went and i could pinpoint
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the moment it is when a child from pittsburgh walks
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walks up to the line looks you dead in the
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eyes where he has cash in his hand and looks
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up and goes like nah And then walk and goes
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like not worth it and walks away. And then you
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go like, I want to take in a picture with
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you for free. Like, why did I do this to myself?
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I mean, you've just described what being on a press
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line is like, or at a red carpet where like,
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we're trying to get to talk to anybody and they're like,
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who are you with? And you tell them and they
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like turn to their client and they're like, you don't
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need to speak to her. And you're just like, cool. Yeah.
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I'm so glad I came in from New Jersey.
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Oh, great.
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Exactly. Yes.
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Well, also, or like, you know, not that I should
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ever complain, but like as a fat white man, you
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just like, or how many people come up to me
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and go like, Oh, I love you Horatio. Or like,
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they just assume I'm just some, like, I'm all like,
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they think I'm Horatio or like Sands or like, or
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a girl came up to me and asked me what
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Howard was like. And I was like, Howard, who? And
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they were like, Howard Stern. I was like, I'm not
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Artie Lang. Like, there's a lot of that. There's a
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lot of just, like, people assume you are the same shape.
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I was walking somewhere, and someone said something about Inside Out,
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and I'm in Inside Out. I'm in Inside Out, but
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I have, like, a couple lines, and I'm still 90%
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sure they thought I was Paul Walterhauser.
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Oh.
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And not me. And I'm in that movie.
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Yes, the kind of shirt you have on right now
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that says, Diana, you need to get one of yourself.
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Right? Yeah, this is my daughter.
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You can just point.
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Yeah, smart. I will do that. That's the logical next step.
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Do you have types of questions that you like being
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asked the most when you're doing press? Yes.
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I was in a movie called Hoppers for Pixar. That
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was the first time in my career that I've ever
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had to do a big big like press tour. I'm
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realizing like where it was like two weeks, like, you know,
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like of doing that. And that was a first for me.
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And it's an art. And like, like you said earlier,
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Piper Curta, the girl who played Mabel and I, every
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once in a while, I will just text her, Hey,
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just out of curiosity, if you could hop into any animal,
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what would it be? Because, because we spent three weeks
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answering that question.
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Oh my gosh.
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750,000 times a day. every single interview to the point
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and like when you and you literally do 70 interviews
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in a day and 68 of them start with and
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and every one of them thinks like so are you
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ready for this one if you can hop into the
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body of any and i think it's the same it's
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the same question that and like I think for the
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first six hours I answered it normally. And then like,
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I started trying to entertain myself and then I started
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entertaining Piper. And then like they stepped in and they
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were like, you have to start taking this seriously. They
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were like, you can't say insane stuff. You have, this
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is a Pixar movie. I was like, got it, got it.
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But like, I had a blast. I had a blast
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doing that tour, but some of those questions aren't seen.
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But as far as like, I would say the question
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I like to be asked the most is any kind
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of improv because it makes it fun it makes it
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fun for both of us like if you go like
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okay you're doing a move reggie dinkins football like you
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know like if you could kick a field goal like
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it's just like okay great but didn't interview this guy
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named jeffrey vega uh i think that was his name
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uh for ign and he was like a kind of
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stocky guy with a beard he looked like me and
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he printed up I was wearing a sweater that had
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an Uno card on it. That was what I was wearing.
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And he found the picture online, printed it up, and
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put it on his chest. And then was like, hey,
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can I ask you a favor? Can we switch spots?
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Will you interview us and I'll sit with the cast?
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And I'll pretend to be you and you pretend to
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be me? I was like, yeah, 100%. And it was
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like it was a it was a blast and like
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everyone had a good time and we did like a
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25 minute long video. It was it was a blast.
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I would say any kind of any kind of improv
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interaction is more fun or like when they want to
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know like weird any kind of like Muppet casting for
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the show or like any kind of like weird fan
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fiction about the show. I enjoy.
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Is there a question you get asked the most for
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Reggie Dinkins?
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About my shirts. Everyone's like, where do we get rusty shirts?
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And I'm like, there's nothing better as a chubby gentleman
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than to be cast on a show where you are
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the freeloader of a very, very, very, very rich family.
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Because all my clothes are absolutely... comfortable fantastic expensive and
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handmade and like tailored but but i'm in like shorts
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a t-shirt and slides but they cost like eight thousand
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dollars it's insane i got very lucky.
476
00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:27.710
What about a common question for snl what's the question
477
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people ask you the most.
478
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Uh,
best hosts, uh, you know, they wanted a best host.
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00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:37.259
What was it? You know, uh, least favorite host. Uh,
480
00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:41.019
it's always that, or like, what was the scariest moment?
481
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.200
What was the weird, craziest thing that ever happened there?
482
00:26:43.220 --> 00:26:45.019
And like, it's like everything, everything was insane.
483
00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:52.009
So I have this thing that I do where I
484
00:26:52.049 --> 00:26:56.130
have my previous guests ask my next guest a question.
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00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:02.420
My previous guest was actually Mario Lopez, but.
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00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.839
Do you want to talk about even more random? It's
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not within... It's like 10 feet away. I have a
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00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:15.619
trading card of a topless Mario Lopez on the floor
489
00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:18.829
of my kitchen right now. I don't know why, but
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00:27:18.849 --> 00:27:21.630
there's a Saved by the Bell trading card. There's a
491
00:27:21.650 --> 00:27:22.450
couple right here.
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00:27:23.170 --> 00:27:25.819
You don't know why? Do you not collect....
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00:27:27.130 --> 00:27:29.049
No, I clearly collect. There's a lot of weird stuff.
494
00:27:29.069 --> 00:27:32.549
Okay, I was like, you don't know why they're there.
495
00:27:32.650 --> 00:27:36.450
I think my daughters got into a box and there
496
00:27:36.490 --> 00:27:38.769
was a pack of Saved by the Bell trading cards.
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00:27:38.849 --> 00:27:41.170
And I just happened to notice that there was a
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00:27:42.589 --> 00:27:46.980
topless Mario Lopez. Just a bathing suit in my kitchen
499
00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:49.160
on the ground. I said, I'll pick that up later.
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00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:52.559
But what does he have to say? Did he ask
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00:27:52.619 --> 00:27:53.039
about that?
502
00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:59.150
No. He wants to know... This is a very broad,
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00:27:59.349 --> 00:28:01.990
fun question. I was happy with this one. If your
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00:28:02.049 --> 00:28:06.829
life right now was a movie, would it be a comedy,
505
00:28:07.210 --> 00:28:09.839
a horror, a drama, or a thriller?
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00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:14.579
A comedy. I was about to say a biopic, but
507
00:28:14.619 --> 00:28:18.460
that's obvious i guess yeah i would say a comedy
508
00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:21.289
or just like yeah everything's great i have no complaints
509
00:28:21.349 --> 00:28:22.769
everything is wonderful right now.
510
00:28:23.549 --> 00:28:25.809
I then of course reflected that question back and i
511
00:28:25.829 --> 00:28:28.950
was so glad that the interview didn't make him say
512
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like tragedy or like something like.
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00:28:31.869 --> 00:28:34.609
That uh i would have to say no no no
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i got real real real dark very honest yeah so
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00:28:38.569 --> 00:28:41.910
many questions for mario lopez that i wasn't expecting.
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00:28:42.609 --> 00:28:45.349
Unfortunately, the chain doesn't go backwards.
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00:28:45.930 --> 00:28:47.519
You got to have them on again just to get
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00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:48.779
these questions answered.
519
00:28:49.460 --> 00:28:52.779
Well, it's funny. I had on Lamorne Morris recently.
520
00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:53.420
Oh, the greatest.
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00:28:54.319 --> 00:29:00.200
And he's amazing. And he like I was I knew
522
00:29:00.220 --> 00:29:02.690
a lot of times I won't know because of scheduling
523
00:29:02.730 --> 00:29:05.750
like who's next. But I knew specifically who was next.
524
00:29:05.910 --> 00:29:12.180
And it's an actor who played Spartacus. And so lots
525
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:17.099
of like shirtless, like warrior stuff. And Lamorne was like,
526
00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:19.220
oh my God, how many questions do I get? And
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00:29:19.299 --> 00:29:22.440
I was like, what? Because I guess he was like
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00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:24.380
training to do a role where he had to have
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00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:26.470
his shirt off. So I was like writing down this
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00:29:26.509 --> 00:29:32.029
guy's regimen to give to Lamorne. So it can get
531
00:29:32.069 --> 00:29:34.450
pretty detailed, but yeah.
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00:29:34.509 --> 00:29:36.450
Am I allowed to know who the next guest is
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or do I not know?
534
00:29:37.650 --> 00:29:40.660
So it's up in the air. I don't have a
535
00:29:40.730 --> 00:29:44.000
specific name in this moment because I'm still trying to
536
00:29:44.099 --> 00:29:45.420
see who's going first.
537
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:50.019
If they could play anyone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
538
00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:50.640
who would it be?
539
00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:53.599
That's a great question. What is yours?
540
00:29:53.619 --> 00:29:55.599
I'm trying to get them a job. I want to
541
00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:57.720
play the blob really bad. I think that he's in
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00:29:57.779 --> 00:29:59.740
DC though, but I really want to play the blob.
543
00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:01.200
Oh my gosh.
544
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:06.640
Yeah. Oh yeah. That's great.
545
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.779
Do we, is there like a lot of backstory on
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00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:09.240
the blob?
547
00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:12.619
I think, yeah. Didn't he like grow up in a circus?
548
00:30:12.660 --> 00:30:18.309
He was just fat. Yeah. I always, I always just
549
00:30:18.369 --> 00:30:21.690
enjoy it. I think his name is Fred Dukes. Oh
550
00:30:21.710 --> 00:30:22.109
my gosh.
551
00:30:22.130 --> 00:30:23.910
I have to do some research on the blob.
552
00:30:24.089 --> 00:30:26.130
Yeah, man. He's great as a fun character, but he's
553
00:30:26.170 --> 00:30:28.509
just like, that's it. It's just the funny. It's just
554
00:30:28.549 --> 00:30:33.150
that you can just take it. Great.
555
00:30:33.369 --> 00:30:38.299
Okay. Well, I'll put that out there. Um, yeah, I
556
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:40.990
did a, I did something with, with Chris Pratt this
557
00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:42.940
week and he did the same thing where he like,
558
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:47.240
there's a commercial he specifically wanted. And so he was like, yeah.
559
00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:48.849
And if they still want me to be on the,
560
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.829
in the commercial, I was like, all right. Get somebody
561
00:30:52.849 --> 00:30:53.410
a job here.
562
00:30:53.430 --> 00:30:55.809
I love that he just can't call up and ask.
563
00:30:56.349 --> 00:30:58.809
He was wonderful when he hosted SNL. He was very funny.
564
00:30:59.349 --> 00:31:03.380
He was very nice. He said, unfortunately, like halfway through
565
00:31:03.390 --> 00:31:05.660
him saying this, the cameras cut off. But he was like,
566
00:31:05.779 --> 00:31:09.079
I only got five minutes at this junket in the
567
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:11.059
city on Monday. And they were like, we should have
568
00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:14.480
given you a lot more than five minutes. And only
569
00:31:14.539 --> 00:31:18.160
half of that sentence got recorded. And it's going to
570
00:31:18.220 --> 00:31:20.579
haunt me forever. For the rest of my life. I
571
00:31:20.579 --> 00:31:22.579
was going to make it my email signature, but.
572
00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:27.119
Unfortunately, it's... Someday.
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00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:28.079
Someday.
574
00:31:29.059 --> 00:31:33.259
I am wondering if you consider yourself to have made it.
575
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:42.720
I mean... I mean... That's funny. When you say that,
576
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:45.819
my first inclination is to say yes, but not for
577
00:31:45.859 --> 00:31:51.430
the reason... that I originally thought it was. Mm-hmm. Like,
578
00:31:52.069 --> 00:31:55.029
I think getting SNL, like, I think getting SNL, like,
579
00:31:55.089 --> 00:31:58.670
I went, like, holy shit. Like, I did it. Like,
580
00:31:58.690 --> 00:32:00.039
you know what I mean? Like, it was like, there's
581
00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:05.039
part of me that understands that there's only a hundred
582
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.160
and something, 50 people that have ever been a cast
583
00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:10.660
member on SNL, and I'm one of them, and that
584
00:32:10.740 --> 00:32:13.759
sentence makes my brain hurt.
585
00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:16.559
Mm-hmm. And what is it now?
586
00:32:18.259 --> 00:32:21.099
But then like my parents passed away, I had kids
587
00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:24.849
and now I go like, now it's more like, even
588
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:28.369
though I would be when my parents died. Now the
589
00:32:28.410 --> 00:32:31.970
thought is like, even though the most horrible thing I
590
00:32:32.009 --> 00:32:36.569
could think of is leaving my children. If, if God
591
00:32:36.650 --> 00:32:40.759
forbid something happens, I look up and I go like,
592
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:45.359
I'm pretty happy. Like everything was great. Like everything's great.
593
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:48.140
My kids are great. Like, like, like, that's great. Like
594
00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:52.220
I made it like that, that, that, that, that contentness is,
595
00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:57.200
is a nice, is, is a fun to, to, to
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00:32:57.359 --> 00:32:59.920
go that way rather than anything else.
597
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:03.789
Absolutely. And that's a great realization to have.
598
00:33:03.809 --> 00:33:07.349
Yeah. I think, I think I used to think like
599
00:33:07.410 --> 00:33:09.769
the most important thing was like, Hey, can you believe
600
00:33:09.809 --> 00:33:11.529
I got this part and I did this and I
601
00:33:11.569 --> 00:33:13.869
got that. And now it's much more like, Hey, can
602
00:33:13.910 --> 00:33:19.650
you believe I'm around still? And I made it. And like, Yeah,
603
00:33:19.769 --> 00:33:21.769
there's other people I love and I want to take
604
00:33:21.789 --> 00:33:24.349
them with me and like that. Yeah. Do you ever
605
00:33:24.369 --> 00:33:25.049
watch Lost?
606
00:33:25.410 --> 00:33:28.210
Part of it and then it lost me.
607
00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:33.180
Understandable. It did not for me and I feel very
608
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:37.640
much that. I feel very much like Lost. You don't
609
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.789
necessarily have to understand it. You just have to enjoy it.
610
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.259
And that's where I'm at and I feel like I've
611
00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:46.119
enjoyed it. So yes, I'm good to go.
612
00:33:47.869 --> 00:33:53.250
That's lovely. My final question is, if your career was
613
00:33:53.289 --> 00:33:57.650
a book and this moment was a chapter, what would
614
00:33:57.690 --> 00:33:59.150
that chapter title be?
615
00:33:59.990 --> 00:34:04.490
Right now? Chapter 19. Love it.
616
00:34:04.990 --> 00:34:06.640
Any reason, particular reason?
617
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:10.019
Chapter 19, The Reckoning. Oh, yes.
618
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:12.980
Okay, great. Very dramatic.
619
00:34:13.260 --> 00:34:13.539
Yeah.
620
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:15.210
Ominous, dramatic.
621
00:34:15.550 --> 00:34:15.829
Yeah.
622
00:34:16.030 --> 00:34:17.289
I don't know what's coming next.
623
00:34:17.610 --> 00:34:21.070
Much like COVID-19, I have no idea what I'm in for. No,
624
00:34:21.090 --> 00:34:25.610
I'm just kidding. I don't know why. Sorry. Terrible improv. No,
625
00:34:25.699 --> 00:34:28.079
everything's great. That's what it would be called. Everything's great.
626
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:30.880
See, I was yes anding you.
627
00:34:30.940 --> 00:34:32.300
I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
628
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:35.219
You know, I took one class at UCB.
629
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:37.489
But that's all you need. That's all you really need.
630
00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:40.940
It was Zoom improv. It was a mess.
631
00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:42.340
The best kind of improv.
632
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:44.860
It's just complete chaos.