Beck Bennett on booking SNL and Embodying Putin

0:00Yeah, yeah, no, I just realized I had some tissue paper on my chin. Yeah, I saw that.

0:04Dana Carvey:I made a note about that. That's cool, like I'm a real guy. I'm a real, you know what I mean? I know, that was vague. Premieres exist to make you feel bad about yourself. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I'll go, I'll be like, I put something on, I think it's pretty cute. And then I'll take some photos, I'm like, oh, God! Oh my God, yeah, and in it, kryptonite turns Superman into David Spade. You know, we know a lot of people, and our friends do a lot of different things, you know. Sometimes they're in movies, like you and Joe Dirt. I'm sure it was 1997, but that thing's got legs, I'm telling you.

0:40It wasn't that long ago.

0:41Dana Carvey:No, 1994, but it has legs. It wasn't the 19s, you... Late 80s. Fucking 1974, came out with Star Wars. uh no that was 77 88 boom no we have uh i saw superman and it was sort of research because we had this gentleman in the next day yes and i was like wow on snl has a part in superman yes you know an integral part actually and it's not crypto the dog crypto by the way someone should adopt crypto because it's just running around like antarctica in the movie i don't know what crypto's story is but back to beck bennett that's the guy yeah oh yes beck bennett which is obviously an amazing name and it's his real name but it is beck bennett is a good show busy bang to these it's sydney sweeney be a king or something in medieval times yeah my lord beck Bennett and he gives us the behind the scenes of Superman along with all the SNL stories so uh great chat with this dude so Beck plays uh Steve Lombard in uh Superman he's a sports reporter that kind of uh you know it's Clark Kent so he's kind of a tough tough guy kind of hassling Clark and bullying around that which is a mistake yeah yeah I'll tell you right now it's always a mistake but But he's part of the ecosystem now.

2:12Dana Carvey:I would love to be in some kind of Marvel thing and be some kind of character that might come around again. So he's very excited about that and the possibilities of it. And we go over, he's a Hall of Famer on SNL. It's like 10 years there and he was everywhere. He's a very versatile, almost Phil Hartman-esque talent. Yeah, Sarah Sherman says he's probably the nicest guy to work with. So he came off very nice to me. during our interview. So let's let you decide, folks. Let the folks decide. But please enjoy our guest, Beck Bennett. You guys look fantastic too, though. You guys look really good.

2:54Dana Carvey:Yeah, don't look us up on Wikipedia. Just dream a little dream. Your filters are excellent. Oh, really? See, I don't even know what my filters are. You have so many filters. It's great. So many filters. I got the under eye filters I got the cheek stuff I got the hair I'm bald actually I've got the one that gives me bags Stoop the dumbest filter Honestly that is actually cool That's like That's more like rock and roll You know It's kind of like What Leonardo DiCaprio Was looking for for a while He wanted to lose that baby face I look like Benicio By the way Look at Dana To his right arm What's behind me That's me yeah that's yeah it's a it's a it's a motion picture that you're part of yeah big hollywood film were you superman i i should watch it again but yeah i have not had the pleasure to see it yet but are you playing superman let's just get that out of the way you know i still don't even know uh i've seen it three times and i can't figure it out because i really thought i was and it doesn't seem to be the case because there's somebody else playing superman but I still believe that you know maybe later in the universe it's a long it's a long game those movies are so complex who knows exactly I didn't get the script until I was there did you ever find yourself up in James Gunn's face a little bit going seriously dude I mean I could have done the man you know you put me in Steve okay I'll be the wacky yeah I was like yeah I'll do this for you but there are going to be other movies and let's um that's a good idea i would sit at video village and on superman takes i go he i think he lifted that building like it was too light it doesn't match with the other one but whatever it doesn't look that cool um but yeah i'm sure you guys will figure it out in post just just totally yeah i would i would go to set on days when i wasn't called and sit in video village and just talk shit on all the people who had superpowers that's not a bad job yeah and just go i thought it was i thought it was a good take you know whatever you guys want to do i thought it was a good take actually dana this guy video village it's not working this guy got some laughs where there probably weren't laughs so i will give you that that's good because he plays a guy in the newsroom what is your guy's name in the movie his name is steve lombard he's uh he's been in the comics since the 70s and he's um sports writer at the daily planet and sort of a uh an office adversary for Clark Kent.

5:30He like picks on him and makes fun of him. He's, you know, there've been different versions of him throughout the decades since he was created. But he like, he kind of thinks he's friends with Superman, you know, and he's like, they're buds. Does Clark let you act like you could beat him up? Yeah, absolutely. Because he's got, he can't show his strength. You're like, what's up, pussy? Right when he comes in the office, you say something to him. And I go, oh no. I was like, hey, loser. Just like a little high school bully right from the start.

6:01Dana Carvey:I read, because I do a little research, and a comment was very nice. It just said, every time you come on the screen, there's a big laugh. Oh, that's so sweet. Every time you landed, this was in the comments. And then I looked down, and it was my wife left it. I didn't even know what that, and she hadn't seen the movie, so I didn't know what that was. She's been texting me constantly. I'm like, we don't have a relationship. Carpet bombing me. but it's very nice so it's okay so you know it's hard to get laughs on these movies where you're not the main guy but you know when you do those scenes it's fun daily planet which everyone knows you're part of that world which is it's the most well-known superman world of i would say is that daily planet and yeah so when they go there i wonder if there's takes where you try to throw in a line or something just because yeah you just like or if you do something goofy or something does everyone go hey maybe we just do one where yeah like yeah this is not that kind of movie yeah i know it's hard yeah i mean i did i did the first day like at the daily planet because that was like a long take you know like he walks in he comes around i'm yelling at him we walk down the whole office and he's like talking to his parents and we would like reset and reset all the extras and james would like shout over this not shout but like talk give direction through this god mic you know and it's like bellowing through this old train station and i was nervous so i wasn't really like trying to mess with things too much sure but he would be like yeah now do something crazy and then i would do and he'd be like not that wow it's horrible but he was fun with it he like he was creating like a fun atmosphere but towards the end there's a scene where we're in mr terrific's tea craft and it wasn't dana's like what i know what you mean i I love anything, Mr.

7:50Dana Carvey:Anything. So I love a guy's name, Mr. Terrific. It's an original name. You know, it was, uh, it was many drafts that he came up with that name. Um, but, uh, it was, it was basically like, there was this opportunity where it was like, Oh, we didn't plan on this happening. Just, just go. And he let me like basically scream in the back of that tea craft for a while. Oh yeah. Um, and that, then one of the lines in the movie was improvised. Oh, good. Can you say, can you say the line? Doesn't give away too much. I just screamed, why don't I have a seat? That was a good one. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. And I was just screaming back there like, please, somebody help me.

8:30Why don't I have a seat? What's happening? They kept that, why don't I have a seat? Which is just great because it's like in a movie like this, it's like, yeah, why doesn't he have a seat? He's in the back just flying around. You know, it was just a fun physical. You know, one thing Dana, he said that didn't really fit was he goes, Rachel, why are you flying this plane? You don't know what you're doing. And they go, call her Lois Lane, please, if you're going to make up stuff. Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, improv. I've called people their real name so many times in movies.

9:01I'm so unprofessional. Oh, yeah. No, it's, you know, it's easier that way. You make them more personal. It's so much easier. It's so much easier. Can't we just use our names? Yeah. Can't I just be back as every character?

9:11Dana Carvey:It'd be easier. This is probably a very generic question. So the pinch factor of... Pinch factor. I like that. Pinch factor. I just made that up. I like it. Going into 8-H for the first time, because it was creepy when I got there. It was 10 years into the show. I was like, fuck, you know? Yeah. And then going on, I don't know, let's call it a$300 million giant historic franchise. was probably the best current director of these kinds of movies huge movies and walking on to the set the first day it was both a little like whoa or i mean that superman's unknown and you're famous so that must have been interesting right here he's not unknown anymore but go ahead yeah yeah no i just realized i had some tissue paper on my yeah i saw that yeah i made a note that's cool like i'm a real guy i'm a real you know what i mean i know that was very real that's what this is about.

10:08Dana Carvey:Lorne Michaels would say, please, can we lose the tissue paper thing? And yeah, Beck, you're at 8-H. You're not in the bathroom. Yeah. No, Beck, look like a star. All right, that every single person we've interviewed has been on SNL has a Lorne, and I put yours. I'm putting yours. I try to get real guttural. A guttural Lorne. Yeah, cool, cool, cool. I like when he goes high. He goes, do you like pesto he floats in a floater yeah yeah it's kind of because usually it's down here it's like that thing of like a really really good show well yeah yeah exactly um it uh but to answer your question the uh walking on that set it was intimidating but like honestly looking back at everything and with the experience of superman nothing really compares to snl it's snl is more intimidating for sure so it like it really prepared me for that but it was it was i mean i i was lucky that i got to get down to macon georgia a week before we started shooting i was on weather cover so like you know they had us there in case they needed to shoot inside that's tough yeah people that don't know if you there's an outside and inside scenes even if you're not in a scene and you might want to sneak home or leave town or something they go your weather cover so if there's a storm we might have to shoot the inside of the daily planet or wherever i'm exactly yeah yeah stand by be ready be just be there they had a whole train station just shut down ready to be shot it was just empty oh my god it was crazy like i was walking around making i was like is there another production here i was like no this is a huge movie you bought the town they just bought the town they're like just in case we want to shoot here it's all shut down everybody went home god oh so many movies are shooting here yeah wow it's crazy it's crazy all these sets whose spacecraft is that oh that's yours another space movie yeah it's really similar um but yeah i mean it was it was just like so i was there for a week and james was really fun he just like went out he like had dinners with everybody every night we were all staying at the same hotel so i got to know everybody really well um so it was really fun but it was it was shaky you know it was nerve-wracking for sure sure for sure yeah that that like the him shooting shouting direction in this huge hall and just going again and again and again and just you know it's that first day you're like i mean i auditioned for it so i know he liked what i did but it's still like is it working does he want more you know what i mean and you it's like i feel like i this happened at snl where it's like i want to look professional so act acts like you know it's going well you know what i mean like act like you know you've got it You don't want your name whispered at Video Village after the take.

12:55What are you guys talking about? They would be like, what are we doing with this guy? What did he do in the audition that we liked? Yeah, right. He's in his head. He's spiraling. Yeah, exactly. And if you hear a$300 or$200 million movie, it's just different to come on and be like, shit, it just seems like the same thing. There's a camera. There's three actors. But it's just weirder. You go, ugh. Oh, yeah. I was so nervous about it going into it. But I was like, is there, you know, like if I mess up one thing, are they going to be like, what are you doing? This is a$300 million movie. You just wasted$113 ,000.

13:28Exactly. Yeah. But no, it was great. And it's, you know, it's really all the same thing. It's just a little bit more nerve wracking at first.

13:36Dana Carvey:We're going to reset because Beck didn't know what he was doing. Act number one. Act one. Do it right this time. I'm not going to tell you what it is. I'm not going to tell you what to fix. Just do it right. Yeah. It's the big leagues. We're jumping around, but going back to SNL. So you get that straight out of a, you were in an improv group, right? Is that where they see you? Yeah, I did. Well, I did improv and sketch in a college group with Kyle and Nick. And then we were pretty much just doing sketch, our sketch group, Good Neighbor. They saw us doing that. Kyle auditioned for SNL the year before I did.

14:17but then I was doing these, uh, and so that, yeah, Kyle Mooney, um, my, my, my comedy partner and lover, um, dropping that now that, so I, um, sort of given, yeah. Um, but, uh, yeah, they, uh, I think they knew about us from that and the lonely Island was really sweet and they had like, they had kind of maybe shown some videos and, um, And then I was doing these AT &T spots with Yorma, who's a part of the Lonely Island as well. Was he directing? He was directing, yeah. Oh, what a great connection there. Yeah, it was so helpful because he was like, we had this meeting with Lauren at the Polo Lounge, one of his favorite spots.

15:02Dana Carvey:Polo Lounge. Yeah. I've had a couple of meetings there with him. Yeah. Sit, sit, sit. Order anything you want. Anything. I will take note of it. that that that is a new frequency i i haven't heard the gargley deeper one yeah yeah you know what i mean as he's looking at his menu yeah it's coming out as he's you know getting up there in age um but uh yeah so we had what was they saying so we had a meeting at the polo lunch is that what i was talking about yeah yeah um but yeah he met with our group there um and oh yeah wait why was no there was a specific thing about the polo lounge no and now he always you're going nowhere he always stays at the very little hotel yeah he does he does um but uh anyway i they saw they knew about good neighbor and then they saw the at &t stuff and yeah they they asked for me to audition everybody so many people were leaving uh like it was uh andy sandberg had already left but it was forte and fred armison and sedator hater yeah yeah um i think it was right around then okay that puts people in a 2013 kristen wig was just leaving or she had left the year before oh really that long ago yeah yeah and then um yeah when we and so that i was doing these commercials and oh right okay so this is why i knew i was talking about the polo house because because Jorma was super helpful.

16:39He was like, we had this meeting and he was like, don't try to be funny. He was like, just be chill. Just like hang out. He's seen everything. He's been surrounded by the funniest people in the world for his whole life. Just like he wants to know that he can hang out with you. Be unfunny. Yeah, be unfunny. Just be whatever. Don't try. And that was super helpful. But yeah, I think Lindsay Shookus, who was the head of talent, had been seeing the AT &T commercials. She knew about Good Neighbor. And then, yeah, it all worked out. They had lost a lot of white guys. So they were looking for white guys, which is great for me.

17:12Hard to find.

17:13Dana Carvey:So they got a lot of white guys left and they wanted to get more white guys. Okay. Yeah, they wanted to replace the white guys. Yeah. The year I got in, it was me and Kyle and I think three other white guys and one white girl. There was a little bit of a backlash. I don't think SNL has ever been short of white people. no no they gotta have their whites to go to um so your audition was it nerve-wracking then or you felt like you kind of already had it oh no i was i was so nervous i was um i like sent in a tape and gotten notes and i was like i i've always loved sketch comedy and i loved snl but with good neighbor we were kind of trying to make our own sketch show um and i always loved like the State and Mr.

18:03Show so much. And we were kind of going that route. So I didn't really have like my impressions and everything, but I got all that stuff together for the show, for the tape that I submitted. And then later in the summer, I was shooting a movie in Austin, Texas. And they were like, they want you to fly out to LA and meet with Lauren at the Polo Lounge with the rest of Good Neighbor. This time audition at the Polo Lounge. Audition at the Polo Lounge. Just get up whenever you feel ready. Be funny this time. You're tied five. But then I had like the showcase at IO West, which was, which doesn't exist anymore.

18:37And then a week later got the, or, you know, the next day got asked to fly out to test. But I was, so I was doing this movie and I had never done these things live. Like I don't do standup. So I had only performed these characters and sketches with other people on stage, you know? And I had taken excerpts of them for the tape, but I knew that I had to do the showcase live and I had to test live. So I was going around to these open mics and trying these characters outside of the scene and they weren't really working. So I had to come up with new characters. And I was just like, I don't know, this isn't hitting.

19:13And that's when a friend of mine, Nick Kocher, who ended up being a writer at SNL was in the movie as well. He's a good friend of mine. And I was like, I don't know. I've been thinking of this character, like a CEO, like a boss, like a CEO with the body of a baby. And he was like, what do you mean? What does that look like? And I did it for the first time with him and he like cracked up and I did that. And then I came up with two other characters, which were like a supportive friend, a jealous supportive friend who just found out his friend, like got cast in a show. And then like a bully genuinely trying to make a friend and those worked.

19:50And I like, I did them at these open mics and then went to LA, did it, rehearsed it, you know, incessantly, so nervous. And then, uh, and then it works, you know? So you're trying them on stage now. IOS for the people at home is an improv Olympic, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And that is, and could you go on there and do standup or did you have to go to, uh, somewhere else to do these? Um, to, to do the, oh, well, I, I mean, I was just doing, yeah, it was in Austin where I was practicing because I got the, that's where the movie was. Yeah, that's where the movie was. And that's what they were like, basically like you have - I just jumped on.

20:23So you did a movie in Austin. A movie in Austin. I was just going to these random clubs and trying them out there. But did they tell you also to do, sometimes like they just go, Lauren wants to look at you tomorrow in New York. So we'll work on your flights. And you're like, I'm actually on a movie set. And they're like, yeah, so we'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow. And you're like - Absolutely. Now you worry about that. And you're like, so I got to go to this movie and say, I got to take a day. that kind of stuff happened in the old days i remember oh yeah and even like and when i got on snl it was like doing these still doing these at &t commercials which was such a great gig and he was like you're not the at &t guy anymore we want you to be known for snl so yeah and so the guy that orders i mean you can't you can't keep he didn't want you to keep doing the commercials Yeah, because he was like, you know, we want to be known for SNL.

21:17I was like, okay, cool. Yeah, so we're guaranteeing how many seasons? Yeah, no way. It was my first year, and there were like six past members. And it was like, we're all staying? I don't think so.

21:31Dana Carvey:I did watch Baby Boss because I saw the comments, and then a lot of people just said, oh, man, Baby Boss, Baby Boss, Baby Boss. Just about maybe my baby boss. Back minute SNL. yeah and um it was hyper skilled i would tell people on youtube uh beck yeah you're up and every move is exactly like a toddler yeah oh man and it was so specific um and so accurate that i guess you rehearsed the shit out of that you'd never done it i had never done it yeah i mean i've always enjoyed like doing physical comedy um but uh but yeah i never done i sat next to a guy with a baby on his lap on a plane and watched this baby just like pull my headphones out of my computer put the headphones in its mouth and throw them on the ground and then start crying and like it happened like three times i was like this is this baby is so stupid yeah i gotta figure out a way to like also the move the first move that gets it like your your baby man you're a full-grown man but you're sliding down the banister and the stairs.

22:37Yeah.

22:37Dana Carvey:And then you've got to get to a standing position. Yeah. And that was so skilled that it was like, it was really like an incredible illusion. One sock half off. Yeah. One sock flopping around. I like when you give him a plate, you bite a plate and suck on and hand it to him. Cause baby's always hand you shit. And then he takes it and bites and you go, why are you sticking your mouth? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. That's weird, man. At Baby Boss, I'm with the Cameron Diaz's 1 ,700 comments, Dana, about Baby Boss. Wow. 1 ,700. First one, Beck is frighteningly good at acting like a baby. Yeah. My DNA.

23:18It's right there. There's, I don't know if you want to go over it. Thumbs down. Thumbs down. Thumbs down. I'm on YouTube. I'm YouTube guy. I'm going to thumbs down that. I'm going to thumbs up that. I'm not shooting this thing. Yeah. Cameron Diaz was so awesome. She was so down for like. I love Cameron Diaz. So she was, that was 2014. She, has she hosted since? I mean, you got her back when she was sort of taking a sabbatical, I think. Yeah. I don't even know what she was, what she was promoting then, but. She's such a favorite. Everyone like grew up loving Cameron Diaz. Yeah, absolutely. Funny, super cute.

23:57Like the funniest, the best. Mask. Oh yeah. Good God. The Mask premiere, I told Dana. I was such a premiere whore. I was at all these premieres. Really? Well, you know, you had to have your finger on the pulse. Yeah. You got to be everywhere. Everywhere. You're breaking it all down. Well, you get an invite. You're like, oh, how fun. And then you're like, oh, well, I've been to three this week. Maybe peel back. But it was fun then. I don't even go to premieres anymore at all. Yeah, I try not to. There aren't many. Superman must have had a big Mongo one. It was a big Mongo one. um and again similar to the movie i was like what's this gonna be like you know what i mean am i like i feel like me and my wife jesse have always like recently for a while been like premieres exist to make you feel bad about yourself like you know what i mean like i'll go i'll be like i've got more i put something on i think it's pretty cute and then like take some photos i'm like oh god some website else here has a stylist and a groomer they got makeup up they get like and you know it's uh what not to do at a premiere they show you exactly yeah that's that's one i'm sure rachel took it very seriously uh yeah oh yeah she she looked fantastic what she's doing she knows how to do it um she's a sharp dresser she really is um but she have a

25:16Dana Carvey:team everyone seems to have a team where's your team have a team do you have a team i i have a team team is the funniest new term that everyone says on this show we talked to beck's team i'm like let's see a picture of that team yeah no they're they only me in photos yeah yeah no photos for my team they don't get out yeah yeah my team was really happy my team tag your instagram photo your whole team at the bottom yeah you got it you gotta you gotta you gotta tag those the groomer and the stylist you have to groomers and then people like oh someone picked those shoes that wasn't an accident and you're like yeah here's the guy it was her it was definitely her i had exactly like it do you have premier clothes do you have a go-to do you have like what's the go-to have a tuxedo do you have you know hollywood clothes yeah i mean you know actually no i don't know if I do I I do occasionally get something nice but then I like then I'll wear it to a premiere and I'm like that looks like crap like it looks too baggy and worn in you know what I mean so that's one of the reasons why I think I don't go to premieres because I don't want to take my photo and do all that but I do have a stylist now she put me in something that I I felt good about and liked but I yeah I mean I not really I mean I've gotten a couple nice things where I'm Like this is, this is like something I could wear and get my photo taken in.

26:42And it's not, it's so not specific that I could wear it again and again, but that's not really the case. You kind of don't want to wear the same thing again. It's odd when they say, what are you wearing to a guy? And you have to go Tom Fard. So you're like, Oh, gross. You thought about this? Yeah. As a guy, you gotta be like, I don't know, man.

27:03Dana Carvey:Yeah. I don't know. Mike Myers and I, sorry. the name drop where wayne's world well we're pretty green and we're getting suits free to go to the oscars you know yeah and i can't remember the name of it and it's like the most incredible thing and mike from canada is very sincere and goes yeah these are pretty cool but uh could you make these things smaller he was telling the guy the lapels are kind of big right the guy's face dropped you know yeah his shoes are already made sir they're not they're not in process i'm not the suit is uh are you actually jadane i gotta tell you you didn't see the movie but he uh he's pretty jacked you can't tell he's kind of yoked and jacked and obviously on something because he's like that's why he's like not too late to switch me over to clark kent right exactly like check this out not too late guys i have the type of body that can look good in a shirt yeah right now you know what i mean like when i'm in shape it's like i can look good in a shirt you take the shirt off it's no good oh that's a that's a trick that's a trick yeah do you are you gonna go to more premiere i mean are they going all over the world is it over are you still going do you want to go to tokyo beck because yeah i mean is that still happening or no you know they i think they already did the international press tour um it was just david rachel and nicholas um who's nicholas nicholas folks he played luther oh yeah yeah i didn't i didn't get that far david who's kind of evil yeah he's kind of evil yeah he's like the bad guy in the piece yeah yeah lex luther has gotten skinnier and better looking since gene hackman or whatever it was yeah uh but he i'm i'm really into gene hackman he really does it wasn't that cool that one with gene hackman and ned baity oh yeah well by by the way i mean i was gonna ask you about that i'm being facetious the original superman what the what the critics are saying they're they're saying that this is an optimistic superman and because i when you think of james gun you think of the challenge and how many times we've tried superman batman chris nolan you know broke film with that uh yeah and i guess they're saying that making this earnestness and uh positivity is sort of they landed it is that the idea why it's a hit yeah i think so i mean um i like i like so many aspects of it i mean it's so fun to watch the action is fun it's funny and it's weird.

29:44Like James really is just kind of weird, you know, like all his movies, like his characters are unique and stand out, but there's always just like, there's a little bit of weirdness, like something sort of odd that you like haven't seen. That's exciting to watch. Um, it's sort of baked into the whole thing, but, but yeah, there's, um, it's really sweet and uplifting. Um, and everybody I talked to is like, I felt good leaving the theater. I felt like inspired and like excited a little bit.

30:12Dana Carvey:what's your what's your favorite um kind of superhero from the comics is it batman or superman you don't have to say because you're in the super yeah i mean you know it's okay they can superman can handle it um i think growing up it was like batman and wolverine those are my guys i really liked i like the you know the naughty little nasty boy you know in this in the early script i read dana i don't know if anybody described wolverine like that but he's a nasty boy he's a nasty boy he's a troublemaker he's a troublemaker uh when superman early drafts when i got it oh yeah he to make it a little different he he didn't fly and um he was just walking everywhere and they're like this is taking too long and that and they told you that that was the superman draft yeah they go superman just to be different he's not gonna fly crazy so he has to hitchhike walk and then it was like he had to walk to antarctic every time to go to you know, his house.

31:13They brought Krypton closer. Yeah. And they, they, they made it a house instead of the, the fortress of solitude. It's the ice fortress, by the way, Dana, I don't want to give it everyone away, but that's where he hangs out. That's when he needs to think or when he's fighting with Lois Lane.

31:30Dana Carvey:I heard the actual title was going to be pretty much Superman. Yeah. Yeah. And they were going to, It was going to be totally new and original and different. Pretty much Superman. It was going to be David Spade as Superman. Superman on the back nine. Walking to his house. Yeah. The whole movie was just the journey to his house. I've got a dirty cape on. I'm just. Well, actually, David was offered a part in Superman. Like the kryptonite was going to really get to Superman. He's going to be all shrunken down and old and kind of wasted. And David got offered that part. The part where they push in on him when he's got kryptonite against his face.

32:05Dana Carvey:Yeah. And it gets all wrinkled and smashed. And then they cut to me and they go, is that Spade? Is that David Spade? Yeah. And in it, Kryptonite turns Superman into David Spade. Hey, who played Mr. Terrific? I like that guy. Oh, I love him. Eddie Gathegi. Great. I think the power team or whatever that, what was that squad? Yeah. The Justice Gang. The Justice Gang was good because I don't think they were well known. And I think that's kind of good. It's less distracting in a weird way, not to cut them down by any means. But it's better because you sort of get to discover what they do. They don't have any hooks already that preconceived.