Adam Friedland Joins the Old Boys Club

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18:01Adam Friedland:yeah come town is gone you like it usually i like the cum stain sounds so so cool that you

18:08Dana Carvey:you you know about nick it's so cool i had young people turn me on to it and say really you should go on this show and so you can riff with nick you know wow so he's great that's awesome to hear yeah yeah uh straight up as they say absolutely um no cap dude i don't say that kind of stuff

18:29Adam Friedland:i was 38. that's you and madani over there like no cap mandani no me and madani are we're we have we have plans we have plans we go to soviet style yeah soviet style plans yeah what kind of

18:45Dana Carvey:apartment like could I get as kind of a casual acquaintance of the mayor now through you if I wanted a one bedroom in the village nice you know um what could I get it for if we connected through

19:01Adam Friedland:Danny I don't think the mayor does real estate okay that's an answer I was just probing I was

19:09Dana Carvey:just probing in case we know Lorne Michaels here's a question I have it'd be funny if he had a side

19:15Adam Friedland:He had to get a side job. He still does open houses. He's a real estate agent. The mayor has been destroying himself as a cocktail waitress at night. So he's in trouble.

19:27Dana Carvey:Would you have aspirations for SNL or ever thought about that?

19:32Adam Friedland:As a kid, it was the coolest thing in the world. But I think I'm kind of too old probably now. I'm 38. I kind of have the thing going. But I'm very close with Sarah's and Sherman's. She's one of my good friends. That nerd spanked her. You guys are friends, right? Absolutely. That's so awesome. Yeah, yeah. Isn't that funny? All she does is yell at me and toss me around. Don't take that shit from her. What the fuck does she know? I can't help it. What has she done with her life? Fuck her, man. I'm like, why are you my boss? No, I mean, she's like one of – that's like – We love her.

20:07Dana Carvey:Can we talk about her special a little bit? I watched it the other night. I was there. I was there for the day. You were there? it's the wildest thing and it's only her could do it i was just her commitment to being bananas is so good yeah and attacking the audience go ahead yeah i think women can i think women can

20:25Adam Friedland:do it i think they could do comedy i for a long time we doubted it but i thought you know yeah

20:30Dana Carvey:this is just a recent thing yes male or female this is an x-rated haunted house how many of them

20:39Adam Friedland:a freak show what how many of them don't even get it oh women oh women a thousand million just kidding they're funnier than us of course they tell great stories well no no i'm just making fun of sarah

20:52Dana Carvey:no no we had to we had to give it up i we were in that mode back in the 80s for you know nor done didn't think they were represented and then all of a sudden sherry o'terry and tina fey and christine wig and you know that the women kind of took over the show Yeah, they did some rice.

21:10Adam Friedland:I'm just – I thought that it was the old boys club. I thought this was the kind of stuff you guys said. I don't even believe that. They do it during the lunch. I think women are fabulous and so funny. And they're stories. They really go somewhere and they're really interesting. And they went to CVS. Are you reading a lot? Where are you getting this point of view?

21:30Dana Carvey:No, this is his – he's just talking off the top of his head. I co-sign all that.

21:35Adam Friedland:I mean – I'm teasing. I don't believe that. No, I am too.

21:38Dana Carvey:I'm in your frequency right now. I get this.

21:40Adam Friedland:No, Sarah, but Sarah's special is disgusting and revolting. And it's so fun. And she's a singular voice and she's a lovely friend. When you're genuine, it's kind of sickening. I know. It's disgusting. Really? It sounds like I'm trying to molest you or something. Yeah, I'm molesting with compliments. You're like Sarah's mullet.

22:07Dana Carvey:Stand up is kind of boring a lot of time. I don't know. You know, when you hate everybody. I hate it. I masturbated in front of my cat and the elbows on the mic. And Sarah never is boring. She walks out and goes to this guy. You act like you don't have a butthole. I'm like, okay, she's already got us. She's doing stuff that's very different. Very hard to find different. Well, I liked it. She took the Seinfeld riff and she would press a button, doodle. i didn't know you could do that like i thought i'm feeling go you can't have it no sorry she doesn't get in trouble for doing that right would you have to clear that adam

22:48Adam Friedland:i i had to talk to jerry yeah and i and this and uh netanyahu i had to talk to both them they're fine now did you hear my joke that i was saying that all my exes got a podcast now it's called Didn't Calm Down. Really? Don't say that. I'm sure they were flying back saying Yeah, I'm going to do the Seinfeld bass

23:12Dana Carvey:for the rest of the time we do the podcast.

23:14Adam Friedland:I saw a video recently of how they did it, and it was a synthesizer. I thought my entire life was a slap bass. Yeah. Okay. There's a YouTube video of the composer with the music. Yeah, it's all, yeah. And he's doing it live to the episode. No. Yeah. But it blew my mind. It was like, I thought, yeah. Dude, I'm so old. I was on the lot at CBS Radford when we were doing Just Shoot Me. Oh, a couple of people remember. And also they were doing Seinfeld. And I'd see him on his bike. It was the greatest lot. Of course, just filed for bankruptcy. The lot. Terrifying in LA. Thanks, Karen Bass. Thanks, Gavin.

23:58You're friends. I'm kidding. Whoops. Who? Who is that? I don't know. I'm just trying to put blame somewhere. The Hollywood industry is dying. He's on your show? Yeah, yeah. Tell him to beef up fucking Hollywood. Bring it back. Who's going on?

24:14Adam Friedland:Send me a list. I would say this is a great idea. I'll text you some ideas because we'll get this place back in track. It's Gavin. Is that who the guest is? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I have three next week.

24:26Dana Carvey:Three big ones.

24:27Adam Friedland:Yeah.

24:27Dana Carvey:The Hollywood studio system is dying. The amount of productions is dying. And so they have to do something. So more production comes back. And that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing, you know, the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania. Boston, Atlanta, Romania, Bulgaria, Zanzibar.

24:50Adam Friedland:So do you like put it in an email or maybe if you guys are saying it, you guys are legends. he might be like oh you should say we have a question from a couple of constituents and then i'll go hi i'm dan listen you already lost schneider you don't want to lose them

25:08Dana Carvey:what they're poisoning our water no you were saying his last joke isn't political

25:13Adam Friedland:the korean yeah the korean uh barbecue joke

25:22Adam Friedland:i go to one of these korean barbecues he's like would you believe it they make you cook your own food he's like i sure hate to go to one of them korean whorehouses wait oh why don't you come over here and suck your own dick why don't you come over here and your own ass yeah it's just like it's so stupid well i love you guys you ready for adam i love fake

25:45Dana Carvey:outrage is so great they make you suck your dick well no they don't he's like it's kind of lazy here's one of his jokes we just saw him on uh his first letterman we were all friends actually sandler me judd we were all friends right before we all got us we're doing stand-up in the valley and shit and and schneider was the first one to get letterman we all loved fucking letterman of course and uh the show and so he got it and i was on tick tock the other day and it was so he had such a funny unique look he looked like a little cowboy shirt and he had a big pompadour and he's like did he do elvis he did elvis on a fish hook and he did it elvis on a fish hook that got him snl i think yeah i think that was so weird he did how you say dude when you're in la there's different ways of saying it he had one where he goes my parents when When I, one time they spilled, I spilled like, no, no, he hit his knee on the coffee table and he was a little kid and his mom would hit the coffee table and go, bad coffee table, bad.

26:51And then he'd feel better because she goes, we make it even here. You were bad. And so he goes to bed and then his dad wakes him up at two in the morning. Hey, Rob, your mom just spilled some hot oil on the coffee table. Come on out here. We got to make it even.

27:07Adam Friedland:you know our policy so was he the first like breakout of your of your crew did i say it wrong there's no wow um uh i've worked with him in san francisco i maybe no i mean like when you guys

27:22Dana Carvey:were all like yeah before i was like no guys no yeah spade and schneider came as like a duo somehow and we got hired together we were we auditioned at the same time got hired as writers adam i think doing remote control so i think he was sort of known a little bit in that world of mtv which is a big world back then yeah he was on mtv he was trying i am poor boy he struggled for i think it was like 13 weeks before when he got to new york and then he got a tv show so sandler had a lot of stuff going on undeniable yeah undeniable but yeah no way i knew rob and uh well from san francisco and then met spade in la so and dennis miller we both knew them and sort of helped tacitly how about these guys and then you only had like 10 minutes right at the time david or 15 yeah probably 15 i was not a headliner for shows maybe a middle they came in as writer features basically right yeah yeah wasn't a writer either it couldn't it was a we couldn't even get a right

28:29Adam Friedland:What did you do for your audition? Just stand up? You used to talk on me or Dana? Yeah, what did you guys do? I think I know. What did you do? Dana, I think, did characters. You did characters, right? Well, yeah, yeah.

28:42Dana Carvey:Basically, chatting in between. But I was seen in a club, which was lucky. Because I auditioned for SNL, the Comedy Store, in a cattle call. And followed Sam Kennison with no MC in between at midnight. And bombed epically. and the SNL people were there, but not Lorne. And then later on, Lorne was, the show was coming around. So I went to a small club on the West side and Lorne came with Cher and I got to do 40 minutes of standup with a regular audience. But I still had to audition again. Jim Carrey was there too. And Phil Hartman at a studio and stand in front of maybe five cast members, Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, Lorne Michaels, some assistants and do kind of chatty stand-up, you know, just doing characters.

29:28Dana Carvey:Did you get laughs? Like the thing is you get no laughs, right? Not in that one. Not with Lauren and everybody. You just have to really – It's so nerve-wracking. Well, I'd done chopping – I did something and then there was a fire alarm. So there was 10 minutes of nothing. What a bummer. I'm just standing there and then Lauren goes, oh, is that pretty much – do you have anything else? Is that it? Just a song. is that all reviews and i i thought later that his aloof coldness was trying to find out can you take live tv and not blow it because the tension was i think intentionally ratchets it up to make you nervous and see if you can handle it i said i got a lot more and then he went oh you're like i'm just waiting to see if there's a real fire can we leave well sarah actually speaking of our friend sarah jesus uh in the middle of her uh second show

30:28Adam Friedland:taping the uh the lights fucked up and she she was like she had a ton of momentum the lights fucked up and then she had to come back out cold and i it was giving me heart palpitations like as a comic because it's like it's a it's a special taping yeah and i was like i was like nauseous i She had to get the fucking momentum back. And I was like, I was so stressed out. I was a crazy guy. Yeah. I said, she's dressed as a goiter or some bitch she's doing. She's dressed as some sort of clown psycho. We were on the road and I go, this is literally a clown's outfit. She goes, I know. I go, do you have any normal?

31:09Do you have a fucking, you know, pencil dress?

31:13Dana Carvey:she's one of those people would be like you take one day to know her and 20 years to believe it you know because that's really that's really her yeah she's really she's not putting on a thing

31:25Adam Friedland:uh i mean on stage that's not really her she's an annoying jewish girl in real life but on stage but that's so her so her in the sense of what she wants to do it's it's so humor yeah

31:39Dana Carvey:you know but anyway that god david what did you what did you do oh i just uh much didn't really knock the richter scale i did supposed to be doing 20 i think catch rising star it was a light crowd probably half snl's that's right 10 people and then a half 10 other people and i did i did 12 minutes i think because it wasn't going that well and then um and then schneider went on snl from a bad sin yeah well they had seen me on the young comedian special so i was already foot in the door and we had the extra push of being with bernie brilstein and that that company had a lot of snl people lauren michaels was a client and they got dana like dana newest and a little bit and a dennis push so that'll help and then dennis was saying they're going to mostly look at your writing of the jokes not really if you're a polished road act.

32:35And so I think they just liked that it was like sort of a weird act. And I looked a little younger. He said it normal like that.

32:44Adam Friedland:He didn't say like that. That was like Hannibal crossing the Alps chat. He didn't say it like that way. He said it normal. He said it normal. I go, I'm a little nervous now. He goes, well, don't worry. He goes, you don't want to kill too hard. They're going to think you're some polished road dog shit act. And I go, so don't do well and they're like and you're on i'm like wait don't get loud so i go on and uh and then i got off and i'm like oh fuck it and then schneider went on then tom kenney went on and then we got a call a couple days later on a pay phone old man alert and then they were like we were waiting for a call like in the matrix yeah and they go oh it was like someone from Brillstein saying Gervitz or someone saying, oh, the good news, they're going to hire you as feature player writers.

33:33I'm like, I don't want to write. I just want to be on this fucking show. And then they go, you got to write for everybody. Like Dana, everyone's better than us. I'm like, I don't know how to write for these guys. I don't know how to write a sketch. So it took a long time, especially for me. Rob picked up a little quicker. Sandler picked up very quick.

33:50Dana Carvey:And David would sit behind me in the read-through. We're all reading the scripts and there's like 50 - Die, die. And then Lauren would always say to me, just to mess with me david's ready whenever you fall david's right there because david you know we kind of look like we're from the same tribe or he's my little brother or whatever so it was a natural thing of like it was like being in the quarterback room with like brett farve and you're like hey so you're gonna stick around another year and he's like i think i got one more of me i'm like well that's great and they

34:27Adam Friedland:they're giving great massages here at the jets so i gotta stay around for another year remember his wiener yeah i remember yeah i still talk to his wiener sometimes no i'm kidding he's been his wiener around remember this one time he sent it to some sports reporter or yeah early dick pic drama uh-huh are you an artist not really yeah oh him oh i i didn't do this but i've no well on a side i put in adam freeland and then it went to it said tour this and that and then it showed these really cool paintings he is not oh yeah i'm not no during covet i just painted a little bit yeah you have there's a painting of

35:13Dana Carvey:george w bush getting the word about 9 11. yeah i think that was the best one i did you did do those

35:19Adam Friedland:too yeah and then you did the comedian yeah and you did the comedian crying or whatever which uh

35:27Dana Carvey:which one was i don't know uh you host uh oh yeah i did this steve harvey yeah the steve harvey uh okay so i thought where am i this is a weird site so okay all right hidden talents is that

35:39Adam Friedland:i don't even know that that's still up on the internet yeah yeah i did it i did it i should

35:46Dana Carvey:get rid of that um is epstein still alive five seconds go epstein's still alive you have five

35:54Adam Friedland:seconds well if he's still alive then he's he's quite rudely ghosting me quite rudely he's getting bad press lately have you noticed he's you know it's just his anti-semitism has gone out of control you know what it is if he's alive he's gonna need one of those crisis pr people i think he definitely will kind of definitely digging out of a hole as evil as possible yeah anti-semitism is out there man yeah well actually i i did a show it was like the worst show of my life recently um but it was like sorry um richard kai did my my talk show and then he asked me to co-host a charity event i i didn't know what it meant and then like 45 minutes before they were like it's a roast of richard kind hosted by the roast master general himself mr jeff ross and i was like a row i didn't like i didn't have a set i didn't like i'm like i'm freaking out so i fart out like a like some jokes and i get there and it's just 97 year old billionaire jewish grandparents and i'm like what is this for?

37:08Adam Friedland:I was like, I don't know where I am. And I was told that Jeff Ross is going to be the roast master. So I was like, I wrote some nasty crap. Real nasty blue crap. And so I go out and then I was like, guys, I don't know if I should say this. It was a little bit crude. And they're like, say that joke. And I was like, a lot of people, like Richard Kahn changed his name when he moved to Hollywood. Like John Stewart was once named John Lebowitz and Richard Kind was once named, and I was like Zalman the Rapist. And then it just crushes. The old people like love that joke. And I was like, I was like, how is this possible?

37:54Adam Friedland:It was like, I was like, and then I'm like, you know, but relax guys. It's a family name. It's, it was Rapowitz. He was changed to ellis island and i was like in fact his grandfather moshe rapist was uh the uh the first rapist in hollywood he founded the creative artist agency and there have been uh rapists throughout the industry ever since and then it dies when i say that it's a weird crowd oh it went from a throw away to a theme oh you got a one shot you're a one-shot wonder crap i wrote in on the subway i was like, I'm freaking out. I was like, I have to get through this. And so then I'm like, you know, and then I was like, you know, it's going fine.

38:33Adam Friedland:I'm like, I'm surviving. Right. And it's actually I'm happy. I'm happy with how it's going. Yeah. I was like, I wrote a movie for Richard. Recently, I pitched him. It's called The First Jew Who Died in the Holocaust. And I was like, It's about a guy who's in line for the train to Auschwitz. And he was complaining about whether or not he could use his points for business class. Good. And, you know, they liked it. They liked it. Yeah. All the other Jews, like, take him. He's horrible. And so then the last joke's there. And then I was like, oh, I guess it's a roast. I got to go around the dais. No.

39:12Adam Friedland:So all I have left on the page. Right. I'm like, well, Jeff Garland's here from Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hey, fat fuck. and ha ha ha fat fuck then jeff ross is here like oh don't don't give me i forgot what i said we know i know what you did i had nothing right well then i look and look at the crowd and i'm like and jeff epstein's here where the hell have you been dead like dead like just the worst silence i've ever heard my entire life and horrible like you know what a joke bobs you hear a couple chuckles it's like it's like the air has left the room yeah and i'm like standing there it's the last thing i have to say and i'm like it's topical it's like that's your season the news i'm like it's not my clothes what are you talking about closer i mean that was the last thing on the page it was just the last thing on the page and i'm like and i'm like and then uh richard kind of like looks at me he's like adam i think it's because he's dead and i'm like oh i didn't mean his body is barely cold.

40:13Adam Friedland:I didn't mean to speak ill of the noted sex trafficker and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. And then my friend is in the crowd and this old guy turns to me and he's like, hey, I knew Jeffrey Epstein. To me, I didn't even...

40:28Dana Carvey:I got off the stage

40:31Adam Friedland:and someone was like, actually, I think he was a major donor to this organization. It's a charity that we're doing an event for right now. yeah and i was like i didn't know it was a real guy i thought it was like from the news when do they give up on this guy he's fucking they they got some data now it's it's a guy from dinner it wasn't it's just like it's a real person to them and so it's just i literally i ran away i like the idea of you on the subway going there going does anyone have rape jokes and everyone's trying to help you and something like a rom-com. Zalman the rapist they love. Yeah.

41:09You started with your closer and you - Well, Data the rapist.

41:12Adam Friedland:That's the rhythm of a great joke. Well, it just sounds like someone from like a small village in -

41:18Dana Carvey:Yeah, it's kind of quaint. You don't expect -

41:21Adam Friedland:There's like one guy that's the, yeah, the fool, the village idiot. Yeah. This guy's the rapist. Like a hunchback. He's the rapist.

41:29Dana Carvey:You know, the butcher, the rapist. Yeah, and the hunchback. a local rapist yeah standard is delicate i've done those events i neil young and ever the cry stills in ash were in the audience some kind of benefit in l.a somewhere and the same kind of thing just crickets bombs away yeah neil neil just sat there kind of stone face i mean he just he's probably waiting to go on you know but yeah neil is cool but it was just that situation you just triggered me and i know you can't he was busy searching for a heart of gold i've done so many so many uh corporate gigs where i bombed dana i don't i can't even imagine dana bombing but i guess it happens i have my tricks but i i could you know i try to levitate the room i have a sickness when i was in the clubs in the early days if you didn't kill you didn't move up and you didn't get rehired so there was just like dog eat dog must kill and must get a standing ovation must or I'm dead in the water.

42:27Dana Carvey:So I've just carried that with me. So I go to these corporate dates. I still want to kill. And it's kind of hard when they've had dinner and it's like 11. You know, it's a good bit to do. Last night I was at the comedy store and I do my set and I get off. It was either Harlan Williams or Santino is next. And I, I go, I get my applause, which is just fine. It's not crazy, but I get off and I see them about to walk on. I go, Ooh, um, encore. and then i go right back behind the curtain they think i'm going to run back on stage and they're so pissed like no i but of course i was can we ask you about so funny yeah he is just

43:05Adam Friedland:like a couple years ago and i'm like he blew my mind harlan is underrated because one of the funniest he's one of the funniest constantly kills there and you don't hear that much bob this isn't negative thing it's just it's a positive thing meaning he gets good spots and there's a reason he gets these good juicy spots he does he does well was he the one who did this stand-up special

43:30Dana Carvey:there's somebody who did one just on a mountain by themselves with no audience was that harlan somebody did that someone did that during covet didn't they do it no audience yeah the camera just came in and i thought it was harley he was just in the alone in the desert on kind of a That's how you need a hook for a special. I would be able to get laughed. That would be easier.

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44:01Dana Carvey:Discover's accepted where I like to shop. Come on, baby.

44:04Adam Friedland:Get with the times. Right. So we shouldn't get the parachute pants? These are making a comeback. I think. Discover is accepted at 99 % of places that take credit cards nationwide. Based on the February 2025 Nielsen Report.

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46:17Dana Carvey:Adam, have you done a Netflix special yet? Yeah. I'm sorry that I don't know that.

46:21Adam Friedland:I kind of, I took the last year off the road to get the show up and running. because like yeah nick nick like nick uh left the show to do we were sick of podcasting and that's like how we were paying for the talk show so we both were like let's just stop doing the podcast uh and then i kind of went dark for four months hired a staff and now i'm kind of producing this talk show once a week but now i'm back on the road so i'm in philly this weekend and yeah have you had any confrontations on your podcast with big world leaders or important people uh being world leaders well i didn't have a conversation with him i got along with him really well yeah uh on the show i had this guy richie torres we had a thing that went sideways about politics you know it's just you don't want to be a major thing i i want to resist doing is like people think comedians are smart now like you know like oh yeah i don't want to speak from a position of authority in any way that i don't qualify like i could do the homework and then present that i know these things but it's a lie right instead i could rather like talk to someone and ask them ask them questions that i feel comfortable asking instead of like whenever i hear a comedian like spouting off about shit that they're trying to be smart it's like you become a blowhard right like so I don't want to do that I call it becoming a teacher

47:55Dana Carvey:like I am a stand up but I'm going to teach yeah talk about boner pills

48:02Adam Friedland:yeah exactly Norm had a really good quote once that was like they say comedians are modern day philosophers which is offensive to modern day philosophers you know like there are actual smart people in the world you know and he happened to be like one of the smartest guys you know but it's just like it's not really us we shouldn't be like uh the the thing is is like the platforms are so big now like 10 times more people are listening to rogan every day than watching cnn anything yeah so so there's like this uh you know just by virtue of the fact that the platforms are so big that they're getting a ton of attention.

48:44Adam Friedland:But for me personally, in my show, I have to make a conservative effort of like what I want to do, which is like, if so if I'm a politician, I'm not going to study up on like specific legislation, but instead I could be like, yo, like, you know, no one likes the government and everyone hates you. Like, why do you want to be in it?

49:04Dana Carvey:That's a question. Yeah.

49:06Adam Friedland:That's a question I feel comfortable asking. And then you get an interesting answer to it too, that they're not they don't have they don't have talking points they're not ready for that one yeah yeah and you do both sides when you do interviews what do you mean both sides like right left republican democrat yeah yeah yeah i've had right uh that guy scott from cnn from the argument yeah yeah yeah he's having so much fun on that show oh he is is he where he sits down and argues that he's like shut that what is that show it's just a live argument it's more people well it's

49:41Dana Carvey:kind of yeah it's like the united nations view or something yeah they get they're all agreeing with each other one after it's a circular thing yeah yeah yeah and then they come to scott oh wait a

49:52Adam Friedland:minute i mean it's kind of entertaining yeah scott's lucky because he gets half the lines Right? Yeah. There's one of him. He gets 50 % of the time. He's cooking on that show, but I had him on the show. And then I've had people on the line. I don't want to be partisan also. I have my own opinions. I'm not going to be of the left or of the right. I'm just a person. If someone says something that sounds like retard, if someone says something that sounds stupid.

50:23Dana Carvey:I think secular trends are a way to talk about politics without being political. In what way? Okay, for better or for worse, we have a$38 trillion debt. What's that about? What are we going to do with homeless people, literally, in the big cities? Stuff that should be a problem for everybody, and then it's a matter of how you want to solve it.

50:48Adam Friedland:yeah sometimes you want to be like what like what's the food like at the cafeteria in congress or like you want to be like you know like yeah you know uh how yeah someone met trump they're like yeah what were like the weird things that he showed you right you know sometimes you you kind of want to get like a three-dimensional picture of who these guys are and then you kind of see how like normal or weird the people are that are in these positions and i think like actually seeing people for who they are is actually very helpful so if i'm like asking them about even just like you know their backgrounds like i had one politician on and i was like talking to his comms team and i was like you know does he like does he play guitar i was like i can't find anything and they were like he likes walking around and uh and hot dogs and i was like he sounds like the btk killer i was like you guys have to make something up everyone everyone's gonna get him a tattoo or a snake i mean this is walking around and hot dog yeah they don't know

51:55Dana Carvey:anything they are nothing and it's it's you give them power if you have a financial advisor they use all these funny terms to kind of ravis mitajou they're just dudes in a room they you know they're take taking a shit fuck these people yeah never give experts power you know especially with modern day information you know i don't know i think they we just they need to do a good job probably

52:19Adam Friedland:yeah it doesn't seem like they're doing a good good job a lot of them have they ever i don't know yeah i think they've done a good job a couple times maybe well maybe we are doing a better

52:30Dana Carvey:job like the civil rights act that was pretty good i guess yeah maybe this is the best it gets you because people go, no,

52:37Adam Friedland:it's very trashy. It's very, it's like they wear hoodies and stuff. Now I, we got to bring back the Yale guys that do like satanic blood rituals. Like it was, at least it was class. Did they ever really go away? At least it was classy. Yeah. You go on Facebook live and have a meltdown at a CVS and be in Congress like six months later. Yeah, it's a little white trash. It's like, yeah, they used to have class. They used to kill Kennedy. Hey, they had class. They'd kill the president. They'd kill the brother. But they had class. Yeah. All right. We're ending on that because that's a good uproar. I'm trying to get you a good closer.

53:18Are you on the way to the airport? Yeah. Oh, guys, I've been like a 10-year-old so nervous, and I hope you've enjoyed it.

53:28Adam Friedland:But genuinely speaking, my legends. I mean, genuinely. First of all, I don't take compliments well. I didn't react earlier. I really, really i want to say your dick when i if we meet i will go just on my knees and just fillate you in public in private done data okay you know we always say we're not gonna do these things but

53:48Dana Carvey:let's do it here's what we're gonna do here's what we're gonna do on may 9th netflix is a joke you're at the region theater yeah we're gonna get a ticket first one dave and i we're gonna be we're not to let you know but we're going to be sitting in the back and right before you go on they're going to go spade and carve you here they want to see what you got yeah some jokes might sound familiar

54:12Adam Friedland:from our act my chopping broccoli opener my chopping i love it when people do yeah yeah but the other broccoli called broccolina yeah i have a big joe dirt closer that i've been doing

54:29Dana Carvey:a dicky roberts chunk in full costume bandy formers yeah thank you for coming

54:36Adam Friedland:can i ask you a sincere question sure do you think grown-ups two is better than one that's a whole nother podcast um okay i will tell you in person two is one of the funniest movies of all time you like two better i like two better okay i'm a two With Tommy Boy and Black Sheep, it's 90 % Tommy Boy. With Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, it's almost 50-50. We'll get into it. Yeah, we'll.

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