Andrew Santino: Pete Davidson Edged Him Out But Peyton Manning Put Him On

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21:41Dana Carvey:I don't really act anymore. Not anymore. That's my question. Lie one. You like being out there by yourself doing stand-up. I like stand-up way more than I like acting. I like acting just fine. The jobs aren't coming. Why was that? Another question. They're few and far between. It's tough out there. For acting. Yeah, just acting is a weird... Hollywood's so weird right now. I don't know. It's in a horrible recession. Yeah, but it's also like our... When did you see a comedy movie? other than the movie that Spade made with Theo that's going to come out. When's the last time somebody made a movie?

22:13Dana Carvey:The last one that was kind of big, funny, was his with the world. Oh, Wrong Missy. Wrong Missy. That was six years ago. Yeah, that was 11 years ago. And that was on Netflix. Yeah. When's the last time you saw a comedy in the theater for real? I have to say. Don't, haven't. A comedy or an R-rated comedy, either one is hard to find. No, but in the theater, I mean it. It's kind of weird to even think. I know. Tropic Gun, Hangover. Naked Gun was actually, I'm proud that, like I was happy to go see it and I was like, please go see it. You didn't like it, you hated it? Yeah. Well, I love Liam Neeson.

22:45Dana Carvey:I'm happy for her. But they pushed too hard. The timing of Leslie Nielsen. Yeah. It was hard to duplicate. And also Liam Neeson, who again is a great actor, but you're narrating talking like this. And we tried to go down to the pier to find the public. And it was just too much of that rough voice. I couldn't get out of the old Naked Gun. Of course, the Naked Originals was better. My point is I'm glad someone's making something. Yes, I'm glad. It's like we can't even get, nothing is getting made. Or shot here or anything, nothing. No, or shot here, but I did like, and I think Pam Anderson killed it.

23:23I think she was really good. They were all great. It's just the writing. No, but he's not, he's not. Yeah, he's not. He's a very interesting choice though because who's going to do it? Well, when he put his dress up,

23:31Dana Carvey:when he came in as a little girl, that was like something at Out of Masters, guys. I didn't see it. It was not a good movie. I was in it I made it but and then he put his crotch out like that and he's 73 no don't do that and then when they did the OJ joke it's a bit womp womp I mean that's a long time ago so that was leave OJ alone he's gone through enough welcome back to Movies Today with Andrew and David okay let me see what else is on here no I have stuff too January 6th why is that written on here I don't know it's written on every single one of these that's very good That was just me going, don't talk about January 6th.

24:11Dana Carvey:What was your alibi? That was a note to myself. Or were you there? You were just part of the crowd. I want to keep this because your handwriting needs to be studied. Yeah. And my brain. Wait, it's like half of the letters are in all caps and then half are in... That's a sign of a... Just my haiku kind of weird stuff, you know. He's very controlling. See how he's word processing. No, but see, David is very organized. yeah yes that's why i have war going on in here right now what's going on up there a girl said that's what a girl said to me i was on working on this thing and this girl i was eating lunch by myself yeah and she came over to me very politely and was like i see that you're eating alone do you want to join us and i was like no i'm good thank you so much but i wanted to say you think i'm alone you have no idea what's going on what like i am never alone fights are like that like okay you so you're six feet tall six one cool beard six one handsome most comedians are a little funny looking yeah but i'm funny looking in my own trust you enough to go do you want to join us or was that sort of like can i be your girlfriend no she was working with us she was like part of the thing i was working on but she noticed i was eating alone and she's like eat with us like what are you eating but i like eating alone what if she said i like doing a lot of stuff alone i just ate alone before i came here it was great well sorry say the joke again david we stepped No, I just said, what if she actually said, eat my ass?

25:35And that's why we stepped on it. You want to eat my ass?

25:37Dana Carvey:Hey, Scoob, what if she actually said, eat my ass? That's the best part. Did she say that? Because you should have taken her up on it if she said that. Dogs like asses. You don't care. Ooh. Don't start with the main course. Happy Gilmore 2. Because you're in it and you're in it. Well, he's actually in it. I'm not in it. You're not. You're in it. No, I saw Wikipedia. We did like a four second cameo. You did. Me and Bobby sat on. we shot it from our studio they came to us oh I remember yeah we're in there for three seconds you're in it twice god I gotta yeah they show our image twice yeah I gotta get a three second cameo you could get one dude I don't know I'll get you one Schneider had a shorter one I'm fine Schneider was shorter than us his cameo yeah really he was on short show no it's look how naughty he is someone texted me oh they're poison our water someone texted me they go I'm at Sandler's on the road with Sandler and Schneider's fucking making fun of you right now.

26:30I'm like, on stage? Making fun of you? No, just he makes fun of you. Why does he tease you so much? Why does Rob Schneider tease you? Because he loves you. Because we're old buddies, yeah. Yeah, but he's mean about it because I've seen some of the stuff he's written online about you. His blog is insane. Are you in the chat rooms? Yeah, dude. And this also says Peyton Manning. I thought it was interesting

26:49Dana Carvey:that he produces white noise. Yeah, he produced my special. They're producing, Omaha Productions is producing a lot of, Peyton loves comedy. Okay. you've seen he does he did great on SNL I thought he I met him at one of the the 40th and I said I thought he was the funniest he was probably the funniest athlete they've had on that show I think so he was on the roast next to Joe Montana for me actually he was on that roast with Rob Lowe and he I think he wanted to get more into comedy so his production studio was like what if we start producing comedy and they reached out and I was like yeah and I think two of the executives were big fans so it just kind of was a natural of you no of you and they were like you're going to meet David Scott So they'd seen your stand-up special and then wanted to do another one with you?

27:32I just want to get clarity.

27:34Dana Carvey:There's no editorializing. You haven't seen you do stand-up. They actually saw you do stand-up and then pursued you to do... Tuscany Wine Festival, February 4th through the 19th. Please come see me. I'll be sticking on the show. The cheeseburger is off Netflix. Cheeseburger, Netflix took it out. We're about to put it back up. In fact, when this is out, it was my Netflix special. I tried to watch it. No, no, I don't know yours either. Don't be offended. I did actually start to watch your Amazon special Dandelion Is that what it was called? Whoops He actually called it special Dandelion Blow me That wasn't the dog No that's what the dandelion says You don't get to talk to me that way You don't say those words It looked aggressive but that was his pun It's number one with part of a bullet Did you no tell us more about we're on a commercial with your plugs no no no we don't need to I like this it sounds funny I want to talk about the special because that's your second one I shot it in Minneapolis it's my third one but it's yeah Netflix and then this one no I did one for Showtime years ago which I hated I've done Showtime Netflix and Hulu I'm trying to touch all the bases HBO you're next here's the thing that happens usually you've had sets coming up to the special, that it happens.

28:56Dana Carvey:Sometimes in the room it just happens. So you're getting so much back that you're just getting funnier and tighter and you're chasing things, you're extending things. And then you go to the taping and all the lights and it's really hard to capture that. And that's what's frustrating unless you do 10 tapings. Then you get lucky. I think there's only been about four or five specials that comics have done that transcend time. Almost every special. is it's you cannot did and tight eyes i just think you can't specials are good like david special was funny i hate to say that end of the mic he can't not be funny but it doesn't matter but you're funnier than your special every comic is funnier than their special every comic live is better than their special i don't care who it is the only people in recent years who have a special that will live on that i mean louis chapelle rocks earlier stuff but like but no one I was putting out anything that's better than life.

29:53Dana Carvey:Louis early on was doing five nights and I've talked to people with the crew and they go, after four nights it wasn't happening and then the fifth one he landed. but Louis is, Louis is a, you know, he's a Mount Rushmore cop. I think he's one of the greatest that ever touched him. Oh, he's redheaded. He's a redheaded man. He may be the best stand up ever. It's possible. He's probably. He's in the conversation only because anybody who can take a 27 year old movie, Good Will Hunting, and write a new joke about it. and make a great, brilliantly written so clean and clear and just such this crispy how about them apples you know it's like we know how hard that is to make that hilarious and he did he's the I think he's the best but there's only a few that transcend time like that but live is we're gonna play this clip for Louie he's coming on our podcast he'll be sitting where you are he would never come here and we're gonna play he would never he's unfortunately is he coming yeah he's coming he's doing this with you guys I'm gonna text him he's got a bad idea he's got a he's writing fictional novels now He's trying to turn in what he called fucking Hemingway.

30:51Who's this guy? Hemingway?

30:53Dana Carvey:What is this guy? Fucking Hemingway? Who's this guy? Tell some fucking things. Who's this guy? Edgar Allen Poe? No, honestly, he wrote an actual book of fiction, and he's coming here to publicize it. Dana, we need a camera there. On you guys? Yes. No, no, no. Right. It's really good to get a 70-year-old in profile. Where's your new camera? You're not 70? Yes, I am. Are you really? Get out of here. You know. You're a Wikipedia. I do our sub. you look so good man it's unbelievable thank you you also look good see that so comedy is misdirect you thought I was going to say you on the other what I did was people think I'm that was smart I thought you were going to go and then you went complimentary I can do this all day with a misdirect so watch this okay I'm really enjoying being here thank you am I am I what well the foot you're like a dog the foot is a dead giveaway that's giving everything away this is a giveaway this means I gotta go outside and pee you've got two guys He makes me pee outside when I come over here.

31:50I can't use the bathroom.

31:52Dana Carvey:Just not now. Okay. They're all broken? Yeah. My IQ with his IQ equals 170. I won't tell you the ratio where the IQ comes from. I could guess. Where the split is? Yeah, there's a split. You're 100. He's 70. That's not hard. You are sub. Neither of you are over 100. I'm 120 and he's 50, but it doesn't matter. I auditioned for Menzo. David and I both went to Arizona State. I was about to bring that up. That's not a school. That's a kegger with a class attached. It's a kegger with a class attached. Where did you go to college? Flika. I went to San Francisco State fucking universe. Not a real place.

32:29What a dumpy piece of dog shit. No, it's not. It was a joke. There's no effing in school. It was a joke. Arizona State was a great school. Great. And you graduated. It's a party school.

32:37Dana Carvey:Come on. I did? Uh-uh. Do you know how to find the base of an isosceles triangle? Yeah, do you? Yeah, I do, actually. Do you know what a dangling participle is? No. I'll show it if I put my pants in. I'll show you what it looks like. Do you believe that under the pyramids in Giza, there's things that go straight down? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The tunnels? Tunnels and also it goes down another mile. 100%. How can you not believe that? I agree, too. You don't think under the pyramids that it's an interconnected system of tunnels and light refractors? It's all calculations. I don't believe that or I do believe that.

33:16calculations it's all perfect calculations for like antennas it's antennas well we can't the

33:20Dana Carvey:only thing about that is can't we get in there here's here's my question we don't want to ruin it here's my question for you guys we don't ruin the ruins do you believe you ever redone your bathroom you know how they just screw up everything while they're doing it we don't want to do that if we you know we could get you know um a guy down there with a boring drill and take video but do you believe we landed on the moon in 1969 no not in 69 okay here's what i do believe we subsequently landed on them. Of course, yeah, we have. So the first one was fake. We went back to prove that our lie wasn't that crazy.

33:50I think we went, we circled, they had filmed it in case you could see ships or aliens or anything on the dark side. And so they said, we see them run the clip from now on and we don't land. And we don't ever land. You think we never landed. So we did get there, didn't land, ran.

34:09Dana Carvey:Even the subsequent flights. I mean, the amount of proof that we have that that footage is not real is kind of chaotic at this point. I mean, the amount of proof that we have now to go, well, that was fake footage. Here's a possible theory. 200 people had to know the conspiracy. I was on a three-hour flight with Buzz Aldrin, so he was an award-winning actor talking about going to the moon, like a brilliant liar. So I say, if they didn't land on the moon, faking it was a greater achievement than actually landing on the moon. Yeah, I... That's it. Yeah, he was a good actor. Should we take a pause?

34:43No, no, no. Throw in an ad. No, no, don't put in an ad. Do you have ED? Then you need... Oh, no. You do a lot of boner pills. We do so many boner pill ads. That's all we do now. Yeah, we're more friendly. Is it because you guys are too rough on the edges? Yeah. No, we do boner pill ads because men need it. You know, a high percentage of men have erectile dysfunction, David, and there's nothing wrong with that. That's why there's HIMSS. Use code BADFRIENDS10. I have, but it's all boner pill ads the whole time. You can't get any other advertising. It's all boner pills. You get any regular advertising.

35:15It's just boner pills. Oh, we do boner pills and boner supplements, you know? It's all boner stuff, dude. Is it Bluetooth? Have you seen our show? It's all kids. What do you guys read ads for on the show?

35:25Dana Carvey:Oh, sophisticated company. Sophisticated company. Toyota and giant multinational multinational. Oh, you get big ads. Yeah, we bet MGM. Well, you guys are corporate sellouts. You're shills. Does that hurt? Did that hurt to hear it from the man? No, I was happy. But look what we've been doing so far. Look what we're getting away with. You guys are too obvious. I have a studio built for three shows a year. We can't afford a camera. We have to be in profile. I know. Because next week, though, maybe we'll have one there and we can just look at our guests and get straight on. This was like a Geek Squad deal, whatever these cameras were.

35:57They're doing the best they can with limited budgeting.

35:59Dana Carvey:Put it that way. Yeah. Because we have a budget. I bought the lights. You did? Yeah. And what about who paid for that? I bought that. David bought that. I bought your chair and I bought your mic. Right? You did? You bought this? I bought your mic. It's your mic. We're ragtag productions. I couldn't even get an SB7 like one of those. You had to give me like an old handheld. No, I have one of those shitpock ones. And how come you guys get the nice ones and I get this? I only get it when I'm here. No, it's not bad. It's just not my quality for what we should be doing here. It's not going to have a bassy, sexy thing.

36:27Dana Carvey:You're not going to get laid off that. Right. This one you can. Let's ask him about the firings at SNL. What do you know about them? About what? What do you think about, well, this is kind of our theme, but it's very loose. you probably did try for SNL because you can do I told you about this one I know but I tested for SNL yes and then I went back to New York and had lunch with Lorne and he said you didn't say it on this podcast no you're right I'm sorry that was on yours no I tested for Saturday Night Live maybe 11 years ago I don't remember what it was something like that because you do impressions and characters I did a bunch of characters yeah I would do characters and voices and it was the final three were me this is funny me dan soter one of my closest buddies and um and pete davidson and i think you know how that went was that that long ago pete got on it was almost 10 years 10 years ago yeah dan soter said that it was pete you me pete and sody and i tested and then they called uh and shook us called me and said lauren wants you to come back and say you got to go say hi to and you know that's a good thing he wants to fly back so i flew back to say hello this is this was crazy i flew to new york and i was like is this it am i like gonna move to new york like this is wild and then i got in the office and then he we talked for like an hour about nothing chicago no he loved talking about chicago because he knew i was from chicago about other than snl and he ate popcorn that means he likes you and then he said uh salt butter he was like oh we want to meet everybody and so i walked around and met all the writers and everybody like meeting the family of a girl that i remember this but then the and then he said and then he was like you can't use you now i think you're gonna be i think you're gonna have a great career i don't think you're the puzzle piece i'm looking for was i think the phrasing and i actually loved it and then people were like mad for me but i wasn't upset i was like i think no well and then when i realized it was pete i talked to soda and i was like yeah he's a decade younger than us we were we had all been on TV before or whatever.

38:31Pete's one of the youngest hires ever. He was like 19 or whatever. He was like Eddie Murphy. He was a kid. So I was like, yeah, they're going to pick this malleable cute kid whose dad died in 9-11 versus a vulnerable red-headed crackpot. What did your dad die in? My dads are still alive. I got two of them. I got a real dad and a stepdad. How about that? That's your problem. How about that?

38:49Dana Carvey:Okay, everything's making sense right now. I know. Like I'm connecting you. That's hurting you in the business just off the record. I know. I thought about getting rid of one of them. But what do you think of Saturday Night Live in the last you know people say oh they're too woke or whatever what do you think of snl uh i like you know it's so funny i don't even know how to phrase this but i mean the beavis and butthead sketches i think i think snl is oh i've always i've always been a fan of snl i'm not part of the the bullshit narrative it's such a bullshit narrative of like they're to this to that to that to dude you're on they only say that because snl is built you know when snl is at its best when it's built for its audience and its audience is usually younger than you.

39:30So when you're like, I don't like these sketches, it's like because it's not for you. What is true?

39:35Dana Carvey:If you're in junior high or high school and you're just coming on to SNL, that's your cast. That's your heroes. That's who you... Yeah. I just said this earlier. My entire youth build around watching SNL incessantly was watching you guys, which I hate to say. And when I say you guys, you know it's just you, Dana. It's not David. Wayne's World came out one in 91, I think. How old were you? About. You were like 10 or something, right? I was born in 83. So you were like nine. Yeah. Eight. But the zeitgeist of that was Wayne's World was one of like, that's, you know, I could quote every line from that movie.

40:13I couldn't quote one line from Joe Dirt. Go to commercial. David, it's a joke.

40:21Dana Carvey:I can't believe it, Daves. We won't have any commercials when you're leaving. Andy's making fun of. I'll give you a line to test you. Go ahead. What is this movie? Is this from? Oh, this is good. Here we go. Swing. Come on, dude. It's not even funny. What does this one say? Party on, Wayne? Or did he say, have a nice party, Wayne? Which one? Does he say, party on, Wayne? He said, where's the party, Wayne? You know what my mom says to me on the phone all the time? By the way, this is great. My mom, no, pinky down. my mom says my mom says all the time like to end a call she'll go she's okay she says that all the time do you know what that's from see how do you not know see he doesn't know I met a woman and her sister they're in their 40s and they go when we talk when I call her we never say hello we say we say John Bragalee John Bragalee so I think you must have that people go who's Anthony who's Anthony who's Anthony I say that all the time do you know what that is too You don't know these.

41:22That's from Apocalypse Now. Uh-huh. Who's Anthony? Who's Anthony? My drummer. You're not even mixing it up. How about Trump's Robert Duvall meme? I'm going to say all his movies. That's the bit, David. That's the bit. I'll do your movies. You ready? You want me to do your movies? You don't know any. Dickie Roberts. Really? I don't know any? Yeah.

41:39Dana Carvey:He's a super villain. Really? See, look at how vulnerable he's being right now. No, I light up. You're so cute when you get nervous. No, I'm trying to find the lens. David, this is what happened to me on the podcast. I'm turning my neck trying to find the camera. No, we're going to move that in. We have an extra camera. What do I think your best line is in any of your movies? Oh, that's a good question. Your best line or your best maybe delivery of a line. Okay. I like it. No, I'm trying to think of my favorite. Can you think of any? Top one? You can't think of one. You fucking... Don't you do this to me.

42:11You have just too many common scenes. You know, like you have scenes that are... You know, like you and the who's your favorite little rascal, that whole fucking thing with you and Farley, like that whole back and forth. How about this one? They're called doctors. A lot of people go to school for seven years. What's the context for that? I don't know. That was when Farley goes. You went to his, he goes, I graduated in just under seven years, right? Just a shade under seven years. He goes, a lot of people go to school for seven years. They're called doctors. Improv? that was by the plane. I don't know.

42:50That's gotta be you. Do you find your weird throwaways last longer?

42:55Dana Carvey:Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Or jokes that you really like, or a bit you really like. It never gets quite the response you want, but then people meet you 10 years later and go, oh, love that bit. Yeah, a stupid line, a throwaway line that you didn't. It's esoteric. Or something you didn't even like that much. The biggest, I get yelled, I'm Bobby Mom, and that's a thing we did on the show. people yell that at me in the airport in the airport people would be like I'm Bobby Mom but it was like a throwaway joke and people are obsessed I can't even find the humor in it because I'm like I think it's so fucking funny and is it Bobby Mother or Bobby Mom?

43:30I'm Bobby Mother I'm Bobby Mom because I was making he was making fun of my mom and his mom he was going soft at you and then you really fucking that's how we operate it's so unreal and his mom has a lazy eye and we don't talk about it and then I did an impression of a woman with a lazy eye I did this with a lazy eye and it just kind of the internet loved it but it was just him and I being mean to each other because that's like our entire relationship are you going to say that in Rahita Dodd in Chop Square in Chop Square I'll be saying but that is so clean and tight

44:06Dana Carvey:I'm Bobby Mom boom it's just like it's indelible I think people took to it because it's there's no set up well no one's doing that sort of race humor it's the context of you talking to Bobby and saying that. They like that we fight. There's a lot of energy around that. You get aware of stuff about him being Asian and most people can't touch that. So you get a lot of great jokes that are somehow baked in. Because they know you're friends. Yeah, I've always said this with comedy. And you guys know this. This is, I'm speaking, boring talk. No, the audience will love it. No, no, it's boring. No, but the thing about comedy that everyone, the truth about comedy is you can say, I don't like this.

44:44Like, what can you say? You can say anything. as long as there's no vitriol below it. Like if there's no like hatred or putrid, people can feel when something, but they know when I make fun of him or I say something that's like racial, it's because it's my best friend, but they can feel that it's the thing. They just know, America's smart enough to know the difference between when they're like -

45:04Dana Carvey:I didn't put this well enough to Bobby, but his reaction, his still face, which is a big part of the - Great, big deadpan. Big part of comedy was Stan Laurel, Jack Benny, you go forward. Johnny Carson had his one to the camera and Bobby Lee is in that Hall of Fame I'm Johnny, he's Ed McMahon is that what you're saying? Basically, but the way he'll react to you with such you know, there's intelligence behind it, it's just he goes very still and that's, there's this comic tension and so every time I see you guys clipping that I don't, I enjoy it every time because of the boom, boom, boom and then he's just totally still Yeah, he's a genius.

45:44He's a deliberate genius. I think people think it's like this big, dumb clown. It's all, and then sometimes off camera, we'll do bits. I know he knows better. A clip just went out the other day about, we had this guy who's trying to be on the show who's from Dominican Republic. And he's got this high voice. He's like, I'm from the Dominican. And we're already in on this guy. Like, I love this guy. And I said, where are you from, buddy? And he said, the Dominican Republic. and then Bobby goes have you ever been anywhere tropical he's born on a fucking island dude and it's just like us dying at each other then afterwards I was like that was really good and he knew but he knows how to play me making fun of him we give each other layups and then the audience can't feel it half the time which is great but it's funny how good he is sometimes at sneaking up

46:34Dana Carvey:the master of it in our generation was Don Rickles yeah well he was he could go so cutting but it never and he went with every racial group right you know he shot at everybody everybody but it was also because don did it with and i've said this before comedy matters how it looks coming out of your face so if don didn't look like he looked it would have like if if john ham says a bitey racial joke i bet you people go hmm that's true yeah don was too much don is like a shorter fat bald like a wide-faced eyed like yo and this guy and look Look at a Japanese guy. Let him have it. He had a turtley body.

47:11Yeah. But if you're like a handsome strapping, no one wants to. Yeah, imagine Brad Pitt doing crowd work and just shitting on some guy who can't get a date.

47:21Dana Carvey:Yeah. Brad Pitt. We don't want to see that. But Don Rickles is the funniest comedian of all time on some level when he wasn't doing that. Because he would just do rhythm jokes that made no sense. The show started. Put him in the corner. Get him a cookie. Right. You know, put him in the corner, give him a cookie. What the fuck is that? But it's a great... The rhythm and the idea. The show started 20 minutes ago. Pack him in ice, you know. So I don't know. I'm such a fan. Pack him in ice. But anyway... I loved him. I didn't like that people in the new generation think of him as an insult comedian.

47:56That bothers me. That people are like, he's the original insult. You're like, that's not what he... Insult comedy. But they do that because of what happens now. Because of crowd work. People are like... I will say roasts have gotten pretty fucking rough. If you look at the old Dean Martin roasts, they're all good friends, like John Wayne, Clark Gable, you know, Gary Grant.

48:12Dana Carvey:Jimmy Stewart. And they're all like, this guy, you know, and it was kind of like ribbing, but now it's like hired assassins that don't know the person. Yeah, they're just being mean. They've come in and fucking take your legs out to get their own career going. But that's also because the internet is, everyone is, there is no whimsy of Hollywood stardom anymore. There's no like, these famous people know each other. Now it's, everyone is. Everyone's scattered. Yeah, it's scattered. It doesn't mean anything anymore. I do. Hollywood's dead, baby. Summer is finally here. And honestly, completely changes the way I look at my closet.

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50:53Comedy royalty, Kate McKinnon returns as Queen Mortuana in Heads Will Roll, Air Apparent, the highly anticipated sequel to Audible's fan-favorite original comedy series. She's flanked once more by co-star Emily Lynn and a new star-studded ensemble including Richard Kind, Laurie Metcalf, Jimmy Fallon, Megan Mullaly, Sam Richardson, and Carrie Coon, plus an extensive cast of comedy greats. Seriously extensive. This is wall-to-wall comedy at the highest level. When we last left our gloriously unhinged queen and her raven sidekick Jojo, the unlikely besties had fled to the woods for a simpler life.

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52:51Dana Carvey:old-timey impressions uh old-timey i do new timey old timey i do people more i can really just do people friends that was something they asked in the snl thing too they were like you can't do famous people i was like i can do more people that i know or people care based on people than i can do famous fun. You have an ear. Like my dad's, I did a character of this Southern Insecure high school football coach which they love. They told me to bring it back the second time I taped. That sounds funny. Because he's so, his voice, and this is one of my dad's real friends, but he'd be like, Andrew, Andrew, I bet you can't do 100 push-ups.

53:30They'll give you$100, boy. And that was like this booming voice. And so I can push that into something, but I can't. What state is that? That's a good voice. North Carolina. North Carolina. Yeah, North Carolina. He'd go, Andrew, come on, boy. You're going to run like that. I'm going to tell your daddy you run like that. And he had this guttural. He wasn't like a daunting figure. So I was like, it's funny if he was really insecure about sports. But he has this booming man voice. Yeah. So I can do those things with people. Yeah. Can I say my best test that I love? Don't save it for the next podcast.

54:07No, but it's funny. my favorite thing I did when I tested for SNL and I was afraid they were going to hate it well I was afraid they were going to hate it but it was the world's most claustrophobic elevator attendant anything the world's most is a nice start the world's most claustrophobic elevator attendant and I thought oh it's going to tank but it was fun to do well it's really physical it's like a stand up act out but it's me just in the elevator hi how are you oh good and 24 oh 24 and then getting prepared for it yeah and when i would hit 24 i'd go it's a good day weather is good 12 here we are almost almost up there and i would get more like a breathy and nervous and i would start screaming as it went up but when it hit 24 i go ah 24 here's your floor thank you and it was so dumb yeah but they liked it but i like it's original yeah i like that stuff i like little kind of nuggety weird more than me doing impressions i really wasn't good at impressions of famous people.

55:04How many people are there? Huh? How many people are in the room when you audition? Is it at 8H? Yeah, it was at 8H on the floor. It was, and the desk was, I think, Colin. Oh, wow. Well, because he was just about to get the... Had writing or update? Well, he was, I think he was like... Yeah, he was writing, but he was... About to do update and about to update. Exactly. I think he was, I don't know, they wanted his opinion about stand-ups because I think he knew a lot of stand-ups. Okay. Who else was there? I don't know. Whatever. There was like four or five people the table but it was at 8h in the dark and i forgot to slate that was like a why did you forget to say i have a trivia for you what i was at louis audition were you really yeah your precious louis did he bomb because he did stand up right what year was that that was late 90s mid 90s i ask bomb only because he's not right for snl let's wait and talk to i gave louis his first real job

55:57Dana Carvey:oh yeah this is true what on your show head writer on the dana carvey show it faded dana Carvey show it's a great show great writer and he really it got canceled he was the head writer everything good gets I'm bitter about it was meant for HBO I got talked out of it but it was meant for in because we didn't have Netflix it couldn't be you know following a home improvement and now the Dana Carvey root beer show or mug root beer show and it's like oh that's right but mostly we just started with Clinton teats and that took us down but the show was not really blue it was wasn't a prime time. But that's okay.

56:33Dana Carvey:You just keep moving in show. But if you had any big disappointments so far, like fuck and take a knee like besides being on this podcast. What if everything went wrong and you're on here again? I think you're doing really well. It's a strong C plus. It's funny that you say, it's funny that you say, I haven't had a lot. I mean, I haven't been on the, I did that show. Dave was kind of a hit, but outside of that, I haven't done anything big. What do you think about Shane and, and Bregazzi and this evolution of a lot of comedians doing kind of like arenas and maybe stadiums. And then how do we get Andrew Santino, this young man with a two— Cute face.

57:13Dana Carvey:What's the biggest rooms that you play currently? Or a city that you do well in? Well, I do pretty well on the road. I mean, when I do theaters, when I do a theater tour after I've warmed up, it's like 1 ,500 to 2 ,500. Chicago Theater is like$4 ,000 that's home for me so I can do those alright what makes it go to$10 ,000 or$12 ,000 the next jump to Field Houses $10 ,000 that's Burt Kreishner yeah just a level of awareness of fanship I don't know I don't really pine I'm being genuine I don't really care for that it's not fun it's more lucrative small rooms are more fun yeah but I mean like even a theater of$1 ,500 to$2 ,500 that realm that I'm in that's great I don't really care.

57:58Once you start getting into the 5, 6, 7 ,000 seats. It's a different sport. Well, it just feels different too. Like Bobby and I just did London and Dublin and it was 10 ,000 in London and like six in Dublin. And 10 ,000 is just kind of a lot. Like I just did San Jose with Shane. I popped in on his arena show. And I've done arenas. I did arenas with Rogan for years. And I don't, I like them because it's with your friends. Right. But as a performance, it's not. what the fuck is the guy in 48 f second football in the hallway what does he see yeah this well big screen this is what they're doing the whole show i mean they're up against the ceiling yeah and they're looking at him at you on a mega screen talking yeah i don't there's no energy back but i would rather like tight intimate venues where almost every seat is a good seat it might go

58:50Dana Carvey:back to that it's just not that i never if i was a fan in the early days and i went and saw steve Martin in Berkeley. I wasn't thinking, I hope it's a great show. I wasn't even thinking like that. I wasn't thinking, I hope I'm going to laugh my ass off. I was just like, it's Steve Martin. Well, that's, I think, a big piece of seeing someone famous now. Like Shane, you know, because he's all over YouTube. I'm seeing Shane, you know. That they're in your city. They're right there. Well, yeah, I mean, Shane's the most famous comic of our generation. He is a once-in-a-lifetime talent. So I get why people just go to see him just to see him, but as a fan of comedy, I would hate to not be able to see the comedy.

59:23Right. It would bug me. I'd be like what I can't even see the guy you have to have screens at a certain level of of room over like twenty five hundred three thousand you have to have a screen because you have to see what the fuck's going on. Plus you're doing smaller. I work smaller and throw you work very small. Very small. You are not even joke. No you're very good at working tiny little like tight your eye move a lot of throw. I'm being genuine. You're very good at like just very small contained comedy moments. That's why you make me laugh so hard when I see you live. but yes you in a big room is unless you've got a camera like that right that's tough i'm gonna jump on with adam for a few of his but his are always big rooms it's fun again fun people come on yeah it's your neil will be there uh schwartz and maybe how come adam doesn't invite you he does

1:00:07Dana Carvey:he does but you don't go i might i might jump on a couple to get dana to get off his duff i's not i don't really like big big shows like here's and then now here's nick schwartz and here's david I don't really like I'd rather to me the forgetting money would be like 500 seat theater 800 seat theater or a thousand right on top of you like what's the big the rooms in Minneapolis the one that has raking on three sides I used to play that a lot that's where I filmed my special in Minnesota too you did Pantages? yeah I think so you play off the crowd right my act is not set set If they like something I'm doing, I'll just keep doing it.

1:00:50More and more I've gotten more just jokes because of what's happened to people thinking that they're a part of the show. Yeah. And I don't like that. Oh, I don't get that. Once it starts. Well, just kind of like that. I think because the internet is like crowd work clips and clips and crowd work stuff and talking back. And like, I'm not interested in that. Like at the club, at the store, at a club when we're working out, yeah, I can have some fun. But when I'm doing the theater, it's like, dude, I build you an hour. That was the whole point of doing a theater tour. Otherwise, you see me in the club.

1:01:18You know what's funny?

1:01:19Dana Carvey:It's more like if they love Biden, I'll keep doing Biden. But that's different. That's you egging into what you do best. Well, doing what I would do with friends. But now there's people out in the crowds that are like. Yeah. Because they want to be on a clip of you going, what does this fucking idiot do? Oh, because they might be in a clip. You know Kirk Fox? I saw him this morning and he goes, do you ever avoid people in the crowd? I go, avoid. Yeah. First, I don't like to do eye contact because if you're looking, take you out of your head and someone's playing Wordle in the front. They're not even watching.

1:01:46No. So I don't like that. And then if someone walks by and I say something, like to your point earlier, I don't want to start that up. So when they come back kind of peacocking in, I kind of quietly go to this side of the room so I don't see them. So you don't see them anymore. And then they can't get my attention. And then people go, here he comes. Like, he's going to go into him. I'm not a go into him guy. No, you don't. So I do a little bit if something's very obvious. But when you open that up, you just start hearing, Joe, they're yelling stuff. I don't even know what to answer. Well, because they're fans.

1:02:16I think the guy that yells the loudest likes you the most. Yes. Ironically enough. They want to be noticed. He's the biggest fan.

1:02:21Dana Carvey:Sure. But people that don't like you are going to sit there and go, hmm. The worst is when you're just doing your acts going well, and you see someone who's standing up all of a sudden. Hey, I just wanted to tell you. You know, once they stand up, you're like, or they're at the side of the stage in the old days in the club. The guys at the side of the stage. Do you defend the stage? I leave. Some guys go, let's fight. No, I'm not going to fight somebody. I got to go home. Why don't you fight? I'm going back to the Holiday Inn, and I'm going to sleep. You got it. Yeah, you have it. Take it. Take it over.

1:02:50I'm going back to the Super 8. I'm going to relax. I'm going back to that Motel 6 against the highway. Yeah. I'm going to West Western and Bozeman, Montana.

1:02:58Dana Carvey:Been there. Have you? I've been there. Were the walls thin? Yeah. And the towels? And the soap small? What? Yeah. I'm from Montana, so. Bozeman. Bozeman. Bozeman's a nice town. And Montana. I'm from Bozeman, Montana. They don't have a cell. And there was a Pepsi machine outside of the window, and the hum was so loud, I couldn't go to bed. It was like. I know. we've had rock sewage in the room I mean yeah always Pepsi Pepsi's always winning out there Montana's beautiful stunning go there and you know in the summertime and go around Flathead and Whitefish yeah go to the whole area in Missoula where I was born yeah and Bozeman there's still a property there no why not we were just driving toward Whitefish to buy a lake house in like 95 would have been maybe 600 ,000 now it'd be 60 million and somehow we go let's have lunch so we didn't go buy it.

1:03:46Dana Carvey:Shoulda, woulda, coulda. How good was the lunch? Shoulda, woulda, coulda. You got 60 million. Go do it. Fried catfish and whitefish. No, they're not. I'm catching with - I'm hand fishing. That's out of Mississippi. What do they sound like in Montana? Montana? Hello, I'm from Montana. I don't really discern an accent. I have a Montana accent. Don't let us throw you off. Hello, I'm from Montana. I'm from Montana. This is how we talk in Montana. I gotta get him to that guy. All right, I have to go check out to the hotel i don't want to end this because it's a blast but no but andrew i do want to end it let me see um a couple quick things before you go i want to say let him have the floor i don't even think we got to say anything we didn't do anything white noise white noise on hulu it's on hulu you got to keep promoting so this would be yeah please watch it if you don't watch it literally nothing changes but i'd like you to one last question when you were on what singular thing or on the podcast Because move the needle the most where you felt a bump.

1:04:44In my career. Yeah. Is it on shows? Is it Dave? Dave felt a bump. I'm Dying Up Here was a little bump. But Bad Friends was a slow bump or just one time something clicked? I think when we started the show, we started the show after Bobby got out of rehab when his dad died. And then funny, funny, funny, funny. That's funny.

1:05:05Dana Carvey:I'm liking it so far. His dad died. He went to rehab. A great premise. I put him in rehab. because I was concerned about him. We were kind of like, you know, we were going through it a little bit. We, it was a big point of contention of our relationship being genuine because I was like, you got to get clean, dude. This is fucked up. And he was kind of holding it against me because he was like, you can't tell my girlfriend that I was using again. And I was like, well, this is going to ruin our entire friendship. And like, you're got to go, this is bad. So we had this conversation. We had the same thing.

1:05:33Yeah, I know. Go ahead. And then when he finally got clean, which was great, he got out and he was like, I think I'm ready to like start that show. that we had been talking about it because I had filled in for him on his show at Tiger Belly. The fans liked when we were together. And then we started the show. I found the studio. We started the show. And no joke, but like COVID thankfully hit and people were at home. And you were already doing it. Within the first three months of us doing that show, COVID hit and the show exploded because people were at home, sad, weird, and bored. And they were like, well, this is an escapism.

1:06:04But you could still go in and do it. We did it from our studio. So we had, and the biggest joke is, or the biggest inside thing is that little girl rudy who is his ex-girlfriend's niece this little girl that's on the show often she was sent by his ex-girlfriend to make sure bobby wouldn't go anywhere during covet so after we filmed it was like don't let him go eat somewhere or go somewhere or go track off and anywhere also because he was fresh out of rehab yeah so she was like make sure he's going to the meetings and to record the show and that was it and she became a fixture of the show and then became like a beloved figure of the it was just kind of everything organically slotted into place because we were we were just that show is just the most fun i've ever had super fun to watch great so stupid chemistry it's stupid it's dumb it's i know i love it it's stupid it's all fun i did it we had a blast you guys need to be a lot dumber yeah i see you on the charts we're too smart there you're our own conan numbers yeah no we're bigger than conan for sure you're bigger i think most weeks i've most weeks were number four four to six which chart do you check uh apple podcasts were number four to six every week spotify charts were sometimes higher

1:07:09Dana Carvey:but the only reason we're not any threatening rogan or call me daddy no no call me daddy you're around me daddy if they emphasize we're not going to threaten rogan i think the only reason we can't get any bigger is because we're still immature yeah there's an audience of people that are not going to listen to how immature the show is so we're not we're never going to like transcend this but if you if you guys are having fun that's pretty i couldn't that's a great app It's the most fun I've ever had. It's fucking killing it. It's money. It's fun. It's so much better than out there. It's better.

1:07:37It's better than anything I've ever done. It's the only thing I've ever done that I like. And if I get to keep doing it, great. Yeah. And if not, this guy's replaceable. Why are you pointing at this poor guy? Phil's not replaceable. Oh, you mean you want to make the chair go stop further? Phil hates that I made that joke about him, right? Now he's saying, he's saying. Phil's chin will be on that table. Phil's mad. He's fucking mad. Phil, I'm just dodging you. Well, because his name is Bill.

1:08:04Dana Carvey:Bill? No, his name is Phil. Thank you. And Ethan. Or Evan. He has no idea.

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